I can certainly sympathize with this, but I must point out one thing. Someone who is used to publishing papers in LaTeX wouldn't have that bad of a time with this. For a couple of semesters (as a com sci undergrad), I was taking notes in class in LaTeX, on the fly, and they'd publish with only a few minor corrections, that didn't require any knowledge of the content, just syntax. So for someone who has been doing it for more than a year and a half, I would imagine that just typing in the LaTeX format would be sufficient notes, provided you could easily transfer to a computer and process it into intelligible (for math, anyway) script.
This is so very true. I paid for my books each semester just by making and selling network cables. And that's with the campus IT support selling cables at $5 for 25 feet, I was still able to make enough.
BTW, getting your own video onto an iPod sucks big donkey balls.
The iTunes interface there is a total train wreck that clearly
seems engineered to discourage you from doing anything but buying
your stuff over again from the iTunes store.
What? All you have to do is run it through iSquint (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19769/isquint) with it set to iPod output. It'll take about 5-10 minutes for a TV episode, maybe 15-20 for a full length movie. Once that's done, just drag it into your iTunes library, and add it to your iPod sync list. If you're on Windows, try Videora (http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/)
With an active internet connection, log in to steam, and tell it to remember your login information. Then, exit steam, and disconnect from the internet. When you next launch steam, it will say it couldn't connect, would you like to try again, or start in offline mode.
No...it is quite accurate to say "Steam does not require an internet connection in order to play a game". It should be added that "however, Steam does require an internet connection to install/activate the game". You can still play the game without the internet after you've activated it.
Personally, I've never run into Steam being in offline mode for too long, and needing to report back in to the server, but that makes sense, to me. Otherwise, you could have 30 people all around the world log in to your steam account, activate 20 games, disconnect from the internet, and have access to games in offline mode. All 30, all at the same time. That's why there's measures in place to keep track of people who might be doing just that.
Lets play... - 8 core (dual quad) xenon at 3.2 ghz - 32gb PC6400 (800mhz) RAM -- buy upgrade ram from OtherWorldComputing, save money - hardware raid card (we don't want software raid to slow the monster down!) - 4 x 1tb SATA drives to feed to that raid card -- buy upgrade drives from Newegg, save money - NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 with 1.5GB VRAM -- overkill, but sure - dual 16x superdrives (or you can aftermarket a pair of BR drives from mcetech.com) -- buy upgrade drives from OtherWorldComputing, save money - pair of 30" cinema displays of course -- buy monitors from Newegg, save money - wireless keyboard and mouse (tho you'll need to find some $250 controller too I'm sure) -- controller? for what? bluetooth? yeah that's built in. $250? what are you smoking? besides, a gamer wouldn't want the unresponsive wireless technology! - may as well install server on it, you're going to be pushing game updates to your lan buddies right? -- mac os server? no justification for that on a gaming rig, since they'd likely be installing windows on it anyway to play said games - at this point the 2 yrs of added warranty is a great value since it doesn't price based on config -- for the price of a mac, the upgraded warranty is always worth it
$22,195. But that doesn't cover the controller.
My mods bring the price to $8,300 from Apple, $1,200 for the 32 GB RAM, $260 to add a BD burner, $330 to upgrade to 4x1 TB drives, $2000 for 2x 30" Samsung displays. Total is $12,090. Still not cheap, but much cheaper than your 22k.
That's not actually how the mighty mouse works. It's a single piece of plastic for the two buttons, yes, but there are two independent buttons inside that register the clicks. I've had to take mine apart to clean off the scroll ball.
Caring and noticing are two different things. You may not notice that your wife is cheating on you, but I bet you would care anyway.
Also, how would they get those numbers? Are the surveys (if they conducted any) accurate? "Do you care about DRM?" vs "Do you care that you have to punch in a 30 character key to install the game you just spend $50 on, and then have to put in the disc every time you want to play, or be online any time you want to play [a single player game]?"
Also, in resetting the password, he wouldn't have seen any notifications along the lines of "You assert that you are the owner of this account by clicking next". I just reset a password on an old yahoo account of mine, never saw anything like that. It does, however, ask for *YOUR* birthday, etc.
Playing chicken with another automobile is driving on a collision course with them, so why not this? [Usually] in chicken, you don't actually collide with the other object, but it's still a collision course.
I think the two comments above me aren't understanding what russotto said, or else I'm misunderstanding.
I'm pretty sure he's saying that Microsoft started releasing products when they should still be in beta (as in ones that still need a lot of work).
I'm not sure how someone could be mistaken for being an "Apple fanboi" by saying Apple did *that* first. Or how Vista was an exception to that.
Microsoft redefined "release" to be what "beta" used to be: Microsoft's release products are so buggy and untested that we now have a lower standard for what is in "beta". If you want a good definition of "beta" software, take a look at Google's GMail, or perhaps ANY Blizzard game. /Blizzard Fanboi off
Technically that isn't what Google is saying. Google said web software, ie. software that you get a consistent or third party client, that never needs to be updated, and Google updates everything on their end. Transparent updates, not click-to-download updates.
Download a song? Authorize up to 5 computers to play it. Burn it to a CD to listen to in your car or keep as a backup. Locate the file on your hard drive and make a back up from there.
Download a movie? Same thing. TV Show? Same thing.
Rent a movie? You can still authorize up to 5 computers to play it, and copy it to whichever of those you want.
How is Apple sell you a single copy of digital media, not let you back it up, not let you play it on any other devices, and not allow you to re-download it?
Or the crazy guy that just needs to go to the next floor to use the bathroom gets on. Can you imagine how much creative art would be on those elevator walls? Yeesh.
Man, AC, that's such a stupid idea. Imagine the economics of that - instead of having $9 movie tickets, we'd have to foot the bill for the extra cost on that. No one would go to the theater any more, we'd save money by buying it on Blu-ray.
Gawsh.
Also, theaters could no longer have parking lots around them, because they'd be EMPing your cars!
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I can certainly sympathize with this, but I must point out one thing. Someone who is used to publishing papers in LaTeX wouldn't have that bad of a time with this. For a couple of semesters (as a com sci undergrad), I was taking notes in class in LaTeX, on the fly, and they'd publish with only a few minor corrections, that didn't require any knowledge of the content, just syntax. So for someone who has been doing it for more than a year and a half, I would imagine that just typing in the LaTeX format would be sufficient notes, provided you could easily transfer to a computer and process it into intelligible (for math, anyway) script.
This is so very true. I paid for my books each semester just by making and selling network cables. And that's with the campus IT support selling cables at $5 for 25 feet, I was still able to make enough.
BTW, getting your own video onto an iPod sucks big donkey balls. The iTunes interface there is a total train wreck that clearly seems engineered to discourage you from doing anything but buying your stuff over again from the iTunes store.
What? All you have to do is run it through iSquint (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19769/isquint) with it set to iPod output. It'll take about 5-10 minutes for a TV episode, maybe 15-20 for a full length movie. Once that's done, just drag it into your iTunes library, and add it to your iPod sync list. If you're on Windows, try Videora (http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/)
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With an active internet connection, log in to steam, and tell it to remember your login information. Then, exit steam, and disconnect from the internet. When you next launch steam, it will say it couldn't connect, would you like to try again, or start in offline mode.
No...it is quite accurate to say "Steam does not require an internet connection in order to play a game". It should be added that "however, Steam does require an internet connection to install/activate the game". You can still play the game without the internet after you've activated it.
Personally, I've never run into Steam being in offline mode for too long, and needing to report back in to the server, but that makes sense, to me. Otherwise, you could have 30 people all around the world log in to your steam account, activate 20 games, disconnect from the internet, and have access to games in offline mode. All 30, all at the same time. That's why there's measures in place to keep track of people who might be doing just that.
The new iPod Touch has bluetooth? Since when? Not according to the Apple Store: http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_ipod/family/ipod_touch?mco=MTIxMTE AFAIK, the new features were a physical volume control, microphone, speaker, and new case design.
Lets play...
- 8 core (dual quad) xenon at 3.2 ghz
- 32gb PC6400 (800mhz) RAM -- buy upgrade ram from OtherWorldComputing, save money
- hardware raid card (we don't want software raid to slow the monster down!)
- 4 x 1tb SATA drives to feed to that raid card -- buy upgrade drives from Newegg, save money
- NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 with 1.5GB VRAM -- overkill, but sure
- dual 16x superdrives (or you can aftermarket a pair of BR drives from mcetech.com) -- buy upgrade drives from OtherWorldComputing, save money
- pair of 30" cinema displays of course -- buy monitors from Newegg, save money
- wireless keyboard and mouse (tho you'll need to find some $250 controller too I'm sure) -- controller? for what? bluetooth? yeah that's built in. $250? what are you smoking? besides, a gamer wouldn't want the unresponsive wireless technology!
- may as well install server on it, you're going to be pushing game updates to your lan buddies right? -- mac os server? no justification for that on a gaming rig, since they'd likely be installing windows on it anyway to play said games
- at this point the 2 yrs of added warranty is a great value since it doesn't price based on config -- for the price of a mac, the upgraded warranty is always worth it
$22,195. But that doesn't cover the controller.
My mods bring the price to $8,300 from Apple, $1,200 for the 32 GB RAM, $260 to add a BD burner, $330 to upgrade to 4x1 TB drives, $2000 for 2x 30" Samsung displays. Total is $12,090. Still not cheap, but much cheaper than your 22k.
That's not actually how the mighty mouse works. It's a single piece of plastic for the two buttons, yes, but there are two independent buttons inside that register the clicks. I've had to take mine apart to clean off the scroll ball.
Only if you stick it in the Outgoing jack.
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Summary: "99.8% of gamers won't notice.."
Caring and noticing are two different things. You may not notice that your wife is cheating on you, but I bet you would care anyway.
Also, how would they get those numbers? Are the surveys (if they conducted any) accurate? "Do you care about DRM?" vs "Do you care that you have to punch in a 30 character key to install the game you just spend $50 on, and then have to put in the disc every time you want to play, or be online any time you want to play [a single player game]?"
Also, in resetting the password, he wouldn't have seen any notifications along the lines of "You assert that you are the owner of this account by clicking next". I just reset a password on an old yahoo account of mine, never saw anything like that. It does, however, ask for *YOUR* birthday, etc.
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Playing chicken with another automobile is driving on a collision course with them, so why not this? [Usually] in chicken, you don't actually collide with the other object, but it's still a collision course.
I think the two comments above me aren't understanding what russotto said, or else I'm misunderstanding.
/Blizzard Fanboi off
I'm pretty sure he's saying that Microsoft started releasing products when they should still be in beta (as in ones that still need a lot of work).
I'm not sure how someone could be mistaken for being an "Apple fanboi" by saying Apple did *that* first. Or how Vista was an exception to that.
Microsoft redefined "release" to be what "beta" used to be: Microsoft's release products are so buggy and untested that we now have a lower standard for what is in "beta". If you want a good definition of "beta" software, take a look at Google's GMail, or perhaps ANY Blizzard game.
Technically that isn't what Google is saying. Google said web software, ie. software that you get a consistent or third party client, that never needs to be updated, and Google updates everything on their end. Transparent updates, not click-to-download updates.
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How does Apple do this same exact thing?
Download a song? Authorize up to 5 computers to play it. Burn it to a CD to listen to in your car or keep as a backup. Locate the file on your hard drive and make a back up from there.
Download a movie? Same thing. TV Show? Same thing.
Rent a movie? You can still authorize up to 5 computers to play it, and copy it to whichever of those you want.
How is Apple sell you a single copy of digital media, not let you back it up, not let you play it on any other devices, and not allow you to re-download it?
Or the crazy guy that just needs to go to the next floor to use the bathroom gets on. Can you imagine how much creative art would be on those elevator walls? Yeesh.
I believe he was confessing to the facts that he *was* getting off. If you know what I mean. Eh? Get it? Eh?
He was implying that the GP's "5318808!" spells "bobbies", not "boobies".
Man, AC, that's such a stupid idea. Imagine the economics of that - instead of having $9 movie tickets, we'd have to foot the bill for the extra cost on that. No one would go to the theater any more, we'd save money by buying it on Blu-ray.
Gawsh.
Also, theaters could no longer have parking lots around them, because they'd be EMPing your cars!
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For that matter, they showed Gordon's funeral....