So I pay a monthly fee and then I get what?.. -map packs: EA will have to sell map packs as a separate DLC as well. They'd be losing a ton of money if they didn't. Not everyone will subscribe. -Analysis Tools: Big woop, maybe some pro players care about that. -???? : HAS to be weapon mods of some kind. How else will this subscription make any sense? Take it, it'll piss off people who don't subscribe of course. And if you don't think EA would do something so dumb, just recall the battlefield 2 special forces expansion, which added weapons for only the expansion players in the original maps.
The other option is that the service offers so little difference that only a small minority of pro players buy it....what do you think is more likely?
Even T-mobile affiliates like iWireless (in Iowa) don't offer the G1 or myTouch. Google needs to stop relying on T-mobile and get Android phones as offerings from all national carriers. I'd love to get an android phone to replace my current sub-par MS 6.1 based HTC smartphone. Time to start flexing some muscle google!
For online purchases one-use card numbers already are available.
Bank of America has them, it's called 'Shopsafe' and it's a free feature if you have a card with them. I've used it for every web purchase now for years and it works great. You set your limit & expiration date, generate a number and your set. Easy and it limits your exposure.
(MBNA developed shopsafe and then Bank of America got it when they bought them out. Probably other companies have something similar)
If you use Vista as a Media Center it works great. That's the best feature of Vista over XP as far as I'm concerned.
yes, I'm well aware of all the Linux alternates. I wanted to use one of them but, I couldn't be confident in the hardware support for the various HD motherboards and tuner cards I was looking at. I looked through tons of guides and they were mostly for older SD stuff.
I'm no MS fan boy by any means but, Vista MCE really is nice and is easy to use. HD recording, radio(some free or online XM), free TV guide (unlike what I'm currently paying tivo for), photos, couple games you can play with your remote, weather(plugin) and all the normal DVR stuff of course. You can rip your CD's & DVD's and also, burn off recordings to a DVD(although very slowly). One neat feature that my tivo doesn't do is that it'll show you the movies coming up(sorted various ways) and download the movie DVD cover so it's like you're browsing Blockbuster. I thought it was neat at least. Blu-Ray drives are $120-$150, as soon as they come down a bit I'll add that in too.
I'm not saying various Linux MCE programs don't have the same or similar features. I just know that for $550 (including OS,remote & HTPC case ), I built a kick ass whisper quiet 1080i HD DVR with 1 install of Vista and a quick run through the setup guide.
The one feature missing is clear QAM decoding..which didn't matter since this was for my folks and they use an antenna. I have XP or Ubuntu running on all my PC's so I'm not saying Vista is the best but, it does have at least one compelling feature that's worth checking out.
If I'm planning on buying something already I'll watch them. I find myself rewinding to catch cell phone ads now since my plan is almost up. A couple months ago when it was time to buy a car I did the same thing.
If a commercial is funny or advertises something cool I've never seen before then I'll watch it, otherwise, only if I'm thinking about buying already. Because I have a DVR I probably watch more ads that matter to me. Otherwise, I'd be in the other room or, it'd mute the volume.
Because in theory they know who a lot of the bad guys are and can check their names against a database. Of course, most of the bad guys will know enough to have a fake ID.....
Because in theory they know who a lot of the dumb bad guys are and can check....
I've used yahoo for a while now and it's clear to me that they really didn't spend much time setting it up or trying it out. After configuring your genres and actually rating music for more than a couple minutes you can tune it to be anything you want.
First off, they have one of the largest libraries available so, already it was a clear winner for me because of the selection.
No community? I get recommendations from friends "influencers" all the time and I can listen other users customized stations. All mainstream music? Not unless you just signed up 10 minutes ago. Plus custom moods, ratings per artist, CD or individual songs, listening "moods" you can customize, custom radio stations either to genre or to any artist. Also, I use it a lot to find new music videos/reviews/band biographies(not just pictures). I like to keep my station with a mix of rated and unrated artists so I'm constantly finding someone new.
"Best radio player out there" and yet it gets 5 out 10. It's not perfect (infrequent commercials for the free version). For $3 a month you can get just the radio station w/ unlimited song skipping and a high quality stream, commercial free. Every other service has similar pay services so it's not exactly alone in that respect. It's a polished music service that works great for me at least.
Regrettably, many Americans view Europeans as uncompetitive.
Insightful? That's total flamebait! I don't know how you can claim to generally know what the American option is...it certainly is different than anything I've ever heard. Wouldn't it be better to simply state your own views instead of masking it in this way to make it appear more important?
That's it! I'm going to trademark the following words:
'copyright', 'patent', 'application', 'for', 'file', 'specification', 'US patent', 'office', 'trademark', 'law', and every other word used to fill out and contained on the patent and trademark filing forms. (this post obviously being the first and only ever use of these words;)
Hopefully I can sue companies the moment they apply for using my newly trademarked words and stop this madness.
The good thing about Eva is that the first 18 or so episodes are of such high quality that it can really demonstrate to the newbie animie watchers just how good it can be(and build an audience). When I was in college an animie club showed me Eva, Bebop and Macross 7 and I was hooked.
Sure Eva gets all weird and dumb at the end but there are a lot of good episodes before that happens:)
Hopefully they show the movie too but that would probably be a seperate deal....I don't think they've even shown the bebop movie yet?
I think that you're right on the mark. 2 years ago when I graduated college and the economy was poor, I still saw a large number of jobs that wanted 3-5+ years of development experience with some huge array of qualifications that no one could honostly have.
Mean while, the number of entry level jobs was virtually zero. It didn't make sense that you'd have 10 jobs at 90K a year and yet not a single one at 30-40k. I count myself forunate that I did find a good job SE job but I know a lot of good college grads that moved into management because the engineeering entry level jobs just weren't there (not just SE, EE too). Now that they economy is better, could they move out of management and into engineering? Probably not because most HR managers wouldn't consider someone who doesn't have experience.
Most companies just aren't willing to spend a dime training a new employee it seems or to hire someone who doesn't have a perfect match to the skills needed. ... better to just outsource I guess.
You'll know that anything shy of OpenBSD is crap because of Y number of issues, particularly security. He has some points but really misses the big picture when it comes to why people choose the OS that they do.
This is kind of a flamebait article. My BS O'meter pegged out after "Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft. We do what we do because we love Unix..."
That's another fun thing about Theo, he has about 20 quotes ready to go at a moments notice about how dumb something is. Theo's not anti-MS, he's anti-anything-but-openBSD.
Nothing stops a naked protest quite like crude oil
on
Nanotech Protests Begin
·
· Score: 3, Funny
Seriously, can we wait until the cool nano-tech stuff comes out before the protests start? This is like protesting the realistic violence in video games just after the release of Pac-Man.
I'm also a Linux fund CC holder (good cause and da women, they love the cute animals). The FSF sounds like a good alternative to me too. I'm just glad to hear that some of our money is actually going to someone.
On a side note, did anyone except me not get their plush Penguin? I always wondered about that. Can we vote out $2 so I can get my penguin?
2. a. To be the first, or the first of one's group or kind, to find, learn of, or observe.
I guess you could technically call it a discovery, it was "discovered" by a group outside of Laos, Thailand and probably the greater South East Asia region. Kind of like how Columbus "discovered" the Americas to everyone who wasn't already living there.
The whole purpose of long-term research isn't to bang out invention after invention. It's an investment in the future of the technology.
Inventioning things that aren't apparent and obvious but which are useful and ground breaking is all about funding ideas which usually don't pan out. If your not willing to spend money to try risky ideas then the technology that might have been 20 or 60 years off will NEVER come.
The article leaves me curious as to the number of testing stations they have for any given production line?
It seems like they can really pump out the boards at break neck speeds but once that's over, each individual board is tested for electrical connectivitiy, then later for complete functionality and finally, the 3D stress test in the chamber. I can only guess that they have an enormous number of test stations or maybe it's that they don't run the board production lines 24x7 but the testing stations are?
Slashdot Mirror
So I pay a monthly fee and then I get what?..
-map packs: EA will have to sell map packs as a separate DLC as well. They'd be losing a ton of money if they didn't. Not everyone will subscribe.
-Analysis Tools: Big woop, maybe some pro players care about that.
-???? : HAS to be weapon mods of some kind. How else will this subscription make any sense? Take it, it'll piss off people who don't subscribe of course. And if you don't think EA would do something so dumb, just recall the battlefield 2 special forces expansion, which added weapons for only the expansion players in the original maps.
The other option is that the service offers so little difference that only a small minority of pro players buy it....what do you think is more likely?
Even T-mobile affiliates like iWireless (in Iowa) don't offer the G1 or myTouch. Google needs to stop relying on T-mobile and get Android phones as offerings from all national carriers. I'd love to get an android phone to replace my current sub-par MS 6.1 based HTC smartphone. Time to start flexing some muscle google!
For online purchases one-use card numbers already are available.
Bank of America has them, it's called 'Shopsafe' and it's a free feature if you have a card with them. I've used it for every web purchase now for years and it works great. You set your limit & expiration date, generate a number and your set. Easy and it limits your exposure.
(MBNA developed shopsafe and then Bank of America got it when they bought them out. Probably other companies have something similar)
If you use Vista as a Media Center it works great. That's the best feature of Vista over XP as far as I'm concerned.
yes, I'm well aware of all the Linux alternates. I wanted to use one of them but, I couldn't be confident in the hardware support for the various HD motherboards and tuner cards I was looking at. I looked through tons of guides and they were mostly for older SD stuff.
I'm no MS fan boy by any means but, Vista MCE really is nice and is easy to use. HD recording, radio(some free or online XM), free TV guide (unlike what I'm currently paying tivo for), photos, couple games you can play with your remote, weather(plugin) and all the normal DVR stuff of course. You can rip your CD's & DVD's and also, burn off recordings to a DVD(although very slowly). One neat feature that my tivo doesn't do is that it'll show you the movies coming up(sorted various ways) and download the movie DVD cover so it's like you're browsing Blockbuster. I thought it was neat at least. Blu-Ray drives are $120-$150, as soon as they come down a bit I'll add that in too.
I'm not saying various Linux MCE programs don't have the same or similar features. I just know that for $550 (including OS,remote & HTPC case ), I built a kick ass whisper quiet 1080i HD DVR with 1 install of Vista and a quick run through the setup guide.
The one feature missing is clear QAM decoding..which didn't matter since this was for my folks and they use an antenna. I have XP or Ubuntu running on all my PC's so I'm not saying Vista is the best but, it does have at least one compelling feature that's worth checking out.
If I'm planning on buying something already I'll watch them. I find myself rewinding to catch cell phone ads now since my plan is almost up. A couple months ago when it was time to buy a car I did the same thing.
If a commercial is funny or advertises something cool I've never seen before then I'll watch it, otherwise, only if I'm thinking about buying already. Because I have a DVR I probably watch more ads that matter to me. Otherwise, I'd be in the other room or, it'd mute the volume.
Because in theory they know who a lot of the bad guys are and can check their names against a database. Of course, most of the bad guys will know enough to have a fake ID.....
Because in theory they know who a lot of the dumb bad guys are and can check....
I've used yahoo for a while now and it's clear to me that they really didn't spend much time setting it up or trying it out. After configuring your genres and actually rating music for more than a couple minutes you can tune it to be anything you want.
First off, they have one of the largest libraries available so, already it was a clear winner for me because of the selection.
No community? I get recommendations from friends "influencers" all the time and I can listen other users customized stations.
All mainstream music? Not unless you just signed up 10 minutes ago. Plus custom moods, ratings per artist, CD or individual songs, listening "moods" you can customize, custom radio stations either to genre or to any artist. Also, I use it a lot to find new music videos/reviews/band biographies(not just pictures). I like to keep my station with a mix of rated and unrated artists so I'm constantly finding someone new.
"Best radio player out there" and yet it gets 5 out 10. It's not perfect (infrequent commercials for the free version). For $3 a month you can get just the radio station w/ unlimited song skipping and a high quality stream, commercial free. Every other service has similar pay services so it's not exactly alone in that respect. It's a polished music service that works great for me at least.
Regrettably, many Americans view Europeans as uncompetitive.
Insightful? That's total flamebait! I don't know how you can claim to generally know what the American option is...it certainly is different than anything I've ever heard. Wouldn't it be better to simply state your own views instead of masking it in this way to make it appear more important?
That's it! I'm going to trademark the following words:
;)
'copyright', 'patent', 'application', 'for', 'file', 'specification', 'US patent', 'office', 'trademark', 'law', and every other word used to fill out and contained on the patent and trademark filing forms. (this post obviously being the first and only ever use of these words
Hopefully I can sue companies the moment they apply for using my newly trademarked words and stop this madness.
Sure Eva gets all weird and dumb at the end but there are a lot of good episodes before that happens :)
Hopefully they show the movie too but that would probably be a seperate deal....I don't think they've even shown the bebop movie yet?
The next time next the metal detector goes off after buying a CD I don't want to have my head pumped with Japanese coins.
We Can Rebuild Him
;)
We Have The Technology but,
we don't want to spend a lot of money.
Classic Family Guy
I think that you're right on the mark. 2 years ago when I graduated college and the economy was poor, I still saw a large number of jobs that wanted 3-5+ years of development experience with some huge array of qualifications that no one could honostly have.
... better to just outsource I guess.
Mean while, the number of entry level jobs was virtually zero. It didn't make sense that you'd have 10 jobs at 90K a year and yet not a single one at 30-40k. I count myself forunate that I did find a good job SE job but I know a lot of good college grads that moved into management because the engineeering entry level jobs just weren't there (not just SE, EE too). Now that they economy is better, could they move out of management and into engineering? Probably not because most HR managers wouldn't consider someone who doesn't have experience.
Most companies just aren't willing to spend a dime training a new employee it seems or to hire someone who doesn't have a perfect match to the skills needed.
You'll know that anything shy of OpenBSD is crap because of Y number of issues, particularly security. He has some points but really misses the big picture when it comes to why people choose the OS that they do.
This is kind of a flamebait article. My BS O'meter pegged out after "Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft. We do what we do because we love Unix..."
That's another fun thing about Theo, he has about 20 quotes ready to go at a moments notice about how dumb something is. Theo's not anti-MS, he's anti-anything-but-openBSD.
Seriously, can we wait until the cool nano-tech stuff comes out before the protests start? This is like protesting the realistic violence in video games just after the release of Pac-Man.
I did a double take when I first saw that fishing guy...
Space 1960, brought to you by BassPro.
I'm also a Linux fund CC holder (good cause and da women, they love the cute animals). The FSF sounds like a good alternative to me too. I'm just glad to hear that some of our money is actually going to someone.
On a side note, did anyone except me not get their plush Penguin? I always wondered about that. Can we vote out $2 so I can get my penguin?
At first I thought was some new type of laser weapon that military was researching...that or a secret update for your ship in "Super R Type"p hp
http://www.consoleclassix.com/gameinfo_rtype_smc.
discover ( P ) Pronunciation Key (d-skvr)
2. a. To be the first, or the first of one's group or kind, to find, learn of, or observe.
I guess you could technically call it a discovery, it was "discovered" by a group outside of Laos, Thailand and probably the greater South East Asia region. Kind of like how Columbus "discovered" the Americas to everyone who wasn't already living there.
1. To code in the sea.
2. To live in sea.
3. To live by the code of sea.
Rrrrr, it be a pirates life for thee
Evil will always triumph because 'good', is dumb! (Dark Helmet)
Why is it cheaper to produce shows in Canada? Does anyone know for sure?
if so, let the boycott begin! (who needs mail-in rebates that take 4 months to get?)
The whole purpose of long-term research isn't to bang out invention after invention. It's an investment in the future of the technology.
Inventioning things that aren't apparent and obvious but which are useful and ground breaking is all about funding ideas which usually don't pan out. If your not willing to spend money to try risky ideas then the technology that might have been 20 or 60 years off will NEVER come.
The article leaves me curious as to the number of testing stations they have for any given production line?
It seems like they can really pump out the boards at break neck speeds but once that's over, each individual board is tested for electrical connectivitiy, then later for complete functionality and finally, the 3D stress test in the chamber. I can only guess that they have an enormous number of test stations or maybe it's that they don't run the board production lines 24x7 but the testing stations are?