Other than that we: keep the a/c high and the heat low, use energystar ratings as one of our primary shopping factors, and generally don't use more energy than we need.
Computers rule for gaming on three fronts: FPSs, MMORPGs, and Flight simulators. At everything else, consoles beat the crap out of PCs for gaming. It's all determined by
Fighting, racing, sports, platform, etc. Check out your local Game Crazy (or GameStop...or...EB) and compare the plethora of console titles (for a single system even) to PC titles.
Try to play Ninja Gaiden on a PC, how about Soul Calibur, Monkey Ball, Burnout 3, any Mario game, Metriod, Legend of Zelda?
PCs and Consoles each have their strengths, "greatest variety" is certainly not of the PC's.
Because if you search for a currently playing movie it (correctly or incorrectly) assumes that you are more interested in showtimes than reviews. You can correct its behavior by adding "review" to the end of the movie search.
Damn beta units, they should stick to what they're good at: ineptly mimicking lifeforms that are away from their home planets battling Zur and the Kodan Armada.
Buy them...but make sure that the _physical_ store you buy them from will handle returns/exchanges.
But different retail stores within the same company will interpret the warranty policy differently so you might want to get a feel for that before you buy. The phone center of a company will always have the strictest interpretation because they have no vested interest in making you happy and upper management watches them very closely. So only use a 1-800 number when you absolutely have to and expect to have your claim denied in the fine print.
When you do buy an extended warranty make sure you get the name of the person who sold it to you. You r claim will have more weight if you drop the name of Mr. Foo who said that it would be ok to get an exchange if X happened.
If you don't buy an extended warranty and you have a sudden need for replacement, many stores will allow you to purchase a warranty after the fact and give you a brand new product in the bargin. In some cases you might have to buy two, one to serve as the "original" warranty (which has now been used) and one to cover the new product.
Remember that these warranties are essentially pure profit for retail companies because a very small fraction of buyers actually use them. Generally they are a ripoff so keep that in mind.
Perfectly reliable with OS X, but not right out of the box. You have to download and install the OS X driver from samsungprinters.com and then it is just plug and play.
I have switched from Windows/Linux to using OS X exclusively and my Samsung ML-1750 happily made the switch with me.
Definitely check out the Samsung ML-1750 (and the cheaper ML-1710 although I believe that is not a PCL printer). I have the 1750 and it plays well with Linux, OS X, and Windows. I have printed off thousands of pages and it has never smeared, and only had two or three paper jams.
However, it would -not- be an additive to what the numbers are now.
I would have bought HL2 if it weren't for steam. That's a big turnaround for me too, I bought HL the day it came out and was a huge fanboy of the HL2 development. Now I'm not even going to play it. Valve needs to learn that pissing off their fans does not encourage sales and does not discourage piracy.
Developing games is becoming harder and harder to do for small developers....instead of forcing independent game developers to fold or become hollywood schlockmongers....
One need only look at the success of Alien Hominid to counter this argument. Simple, fun games are still well within the grasp of the independent developer.
Good point. But I, for one, will wait for an XBox version because I want a game toned up in the sound department. Games + Dolby Digital Support + Awesome surround sound system = FUN
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You can click the movie's title and get a multi-paragraph explanation on what they thought was noteworthy about the DVD.
This doesn't need a new name. No more than computer animated movies needed a name to convey their...computer animatedness. Just call it game animation if you really have to distinguish it from typical movie making and be done with it.
Yes, yes it does. Not just horrible either, but so atrociously awful that it mangles the language center of your brain if you pronounce it more than three times in one day. I don't watch many of these videos simply because of that name. It's that bad.
As glad as I am to see a technological invention get a non i"blank" and non acronym based name, machinima has got to go. It sounds like paraphernalia for machines, like spinners on an arc welding robot.
But you are still using an arbitary definition of "weak". You don't know when a particular gene will come into play. But having more genes in the pool allows us to buffer against change. I'm not saying that we should select for "weakness" or select for "strength", but that it is beneficial for humanity to remain diverse.
They don't pick wheat with genetic defects, but wheat has become genetically uniform. That means that if a disease develops that affects wheat, it affects ALL wheat.
Read up on the relation between sickle cell anemia and malaria. I bet you'd classify those with sickle cell anemia as "weak" and their genes unfit to keep.
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Actually this technique explicitly helps those with Type I diabetes (i.e. insulin dependent).
It does nothing to help with Type II diabetes, which you get from a lifetime eating foods for the mouth, and not the body.
That reminds me of the reasoning one doctor gave as an answer to why there weren't many research studies of acupuncture:
"It's rather difficult to come up with a placebo for sticking needles into someone's skin."
Everyone must own this game of construction and destruction. It's somewhat like jenga, except someone wins.
Game of the year for Germany in 2002.
More info via wikipedia.
My wife and I drive a Jetta Wagon with the TDI (diesel) engine. We do our best to drive it smoothly with no hard acceleration or braking and are averaging 46 mpg. There are a few biodiesel stations in our area (NC Triangle) that offer 80/20 fuel. Here is a website with details on the benefits of biodiesel and the location of pumps in the triangle.
Other than that we: keep the a/c high and the heat low, use energystar ratings as one of our primary shopping factors, and generally don't use more energy than we need.
You should have bought that nifty pci fan from 3dfxcool.com. :-)
Greatest variety of games? Seriously?
Computers rule for gaming on three fronts: FPSs, MMORPGs, and Flight simulators. At everything else, consoles beat the crap out of PCs for gaming. It's all determined by
Fighting, racing, sports, platform, etc. Check out your local Game Crazy (or GameStop...or...EB) and compare the plethora of console titles (for a single system even) to PC titles.
Try to play Ninja Gaiden on a PC, how about Soul Calibur, Monkey Ball, Burnout 3, any Mario game, Metriod, Legend of Zelda?
PCs and Consoles each have their strengths, "greatest variety" is certainly not of the PC's.
Why not Tigon?
Because if you search for a currently playing movie it (correctly or incorrectly) assumes that you are more interested in showtimes than reviews. You can correct its behavior by adding "review" to the end of the movie search.
Damn beta units, they should stick to what they're good at: ineptly mimicking lifeforms that are away from their home planets battling Zur and the Kodan Armada.
Buy them...but make sure that the _physical_ store you buy them from will handle returns/exchanges.
But different retail stores within the same company will interpret the warranty policy differently so you might want to get a feel for that before you buy. The phone center of a company will always have the strictest interpretation because they have no vested interest in making you happy and upper management watches them very closely. So only use a 1-800 number when you absolutely have to and expect to have your claim denied in the fine print.
When you do buy an extended warranty make sure you get the name of the person who sold it to you. You r claim will have more weight if you drop the name of Mr. Foo who said that it would be ok to get an exchange if X happened.
If you don't buy an extended warranty and you have a sudden need for replacement, many stores will allow you to purchase a warranty after the fact and give you a brand new product in the bargin. In some cases you might have to buy two, one to serve as the "original" warranty (which has now been used) and one to cover the new product.
Remember that these warranties are essentially pure profit for retail companies because a very small fraction of buyers actually use them. Generally they are a ripoff so keep that in mind.
Perfectly reliable with OS X, but not right out of the box. You have to download and install the OS X driver from samsungprinters.com and then it is just plug and play.
I have switched from Windows/Linux to using OS X exclusively and my Samsung ML-1750 happily made the switch with me.
Definitely check out the Samsung ML-1750 (and the cheaper ML-1710 although I believe that is not a PCL printer). I have the 1750 and it plays well with Linux, OS X, and Windows. I have printed off thousands of pages and it has never smeared, and only had two or three paper jams.
And, it involves downloading multiple gigs of data. That alone has probably sent at least a few would-be pirates to the store.
And that has nothing to do with the steam authentication process. So the ultimate solution to piracy is to use Really Big textures?
However, it would -not- be an additive to what the numbers are now.
I would have bought HL2 if it weren't for steam. That's a big turnaround for me too, I bought HL the day it came out and was a huge fanboy of the HL2 development. Now I'm not even going to play it. Valve needs to learn that pissing off their fans does not encourage sales and does not discourage piracy.
Developing games is becoming harder and harder to do for small developers. ...instead of forcing independent game developers to fold or become hollywood schlockmongers....
One need only look at the success of Alien Hominid to counter this argument. Simple, fun games are still well within the grasp of the independent developer.
If the code is done correctly, adding a port to the XBox is much less work than the initial port to the PS2. Good return for the investment.
:-)
Mostly though, I just hope to hear zombies around me in 5.1.
Good point. But I, for one, will wait for an XBox version because I want a game toned up in the sound department. Games + Dolby Digital Support + Awesome surround sound system = FUN
You can click the movie's title and get a multi-paragraph explanation on what they thought was noteworthy about the DVD.
Cheers, savvy webuser!
Continuing my rant:
This doesn't need a new name. No more than computer animated movies needed a name to convey their...computer animatedness. Just call it game animation if you really have to distinguish it from typical movie making and be done with it.
Yes, yes it does. Not just horrible either, but so atrociously awful that it mangles the language center of your brain if you pronounce it more than three times in one day. I don't watch many of these videos simply because of that name. It's that bad.
As glad as I am to see a technological invention get a non i"blank" and non acronym based name, machinima has got to go. It sounds like paraphernalia for machines, like spinners on an arc welding robot.
That's why OSX makes the icon appear in the dock (if it isn't already) and hop up and down. No splash screen needed.
I'm not looking for approval. I'm analyzing individual reactions so I can improve my behavioral prediction subroutines.
But you are still using an arbitary definition of "weak". You don't know when a particular gene will come into play. But having more genes in the pool allows us to buffer against change. I'm not saying that we should select for "weakness" or select for "strength", but that it is beneficial for humanity to remain diverse.
They don't pick wheat with genetic defects, but wheat has become genetically uniform. That means that if a disease develops that affects wheat, it affects ALL wheat.
Read up on the relation between sickle cell anemia and malaria. I bet you'd classify those with sickle cell anemia as "weak" and their genes unfit to keep.
Unless you believe the lie is true, as many successful liars do.
What if the GUI installer was explaining things as you went along? Like having the Gentoo Install Guide on the screen.