Boeing is/was working on a UAV with a rotor blade for VTOL that locked into position for plane flight. However, I haven't heard anything of it since I read about it crashing on the Boeing news site.
The PSP has a release date of September 1 in Europe, This obviously skews the number of units sold in comparison to the DS that is available worldwide. Except that the article only used sales figures for Japan. AND the PS2 is more than half a decade old almost everyone who has ever wanted one has one now. Again, read the article. For the time periods referenced, the PS2 sold very closely to the PSP. Out of the three weeks they gave actual numbers for, PS2 outsold PSP on two of them. So, while it might have been better to summarize saying that the DS sold at more than twice the rate of the PSPs, mentioning the PS2 was very valid.
I have seen a GSOD on a Win2k system before. A system at work uses a piece of software that sits in the Windows HAL that lets you run very close to real-time on a Windows system. When we were getting it working, I saw a few GSODs, and *I think* I saw a RSOD once. This was most certainly without doing that hack that changes the colors on the standard BSOD.
Social contracts are highly dependant on reasonable behavior from both sides. If I bump into a stranger on the street on accident, I will be generally cordial and apologetic. However, if this bump triggers a murderous rage in him and he attempts to kill me, I am under no obligation to cordially accept the beating.
Likewise, if sites put up reasonable ads, I don't block them. When I start getting flash shit yelling in my ear and hogging my system to produce its shitty 200 pixel video, or spyware that destroys the functionality of my computer, that is when the advertisers have broken the social contract and I pull out the ad blockers. More reasonable advertisers should blame the sociopathic ones for the reduced effectiveness of ads.
Allow me to paraphrase what a wise forum-goer on the Shack observed about the players of these competing MMORPGs one day. "People bitch when they can't play WoW. People bitch when they CAN play EQ."
Note: From the quest, I got a recipe for Elixir of Frost Power from santa (I've got alchemy as my profession, so it worked out for me, but I don't know if it actually checks your profession or if it's somewhat random), and then maybe an hour later I got the snowman disguise in the mail.
If you know somebody with a Collector's Edition box, they got a 10-day trial pass that's supposed to be given to a friend. You can get someone online to get you the code, but finding the software might be a little difficult. You can just patch up the open beta client, but I don't know if anyone has that available for download anymore.
My first 2001 FP had 2 dead pixels and 5 stuck-on pixels. Fortunately, with that many, sending it back for a replacement wasn't difficult, but getting a swap on one or two pixel defects is allegedly like pulling teeth.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=62053&item=8143942614&rd=1 And "Halo 2: Limited Collector's Edition Xbox" doesn't mean it comes with an xbox, the game itself is the limited collector's edition.
I just made the jump to a Dell 2001 FP. Apart from a dead pixel and a dead subpixel (that I'm going to try to get a refund for, even though it's less than their official return mark), I have no complaints running UT2k4 at 1152x864 stretched to its native 1600x1200. Stretch quality was a serious worry for me, since I'm still running a Ti4200, but I'm happy.
I don't think it's true. On my recently purchased GM car, I got XM and it came with a free 3 month trial. Once, I parked in a spot that got an intermittant signal. I started up the car, the radio stalled for a few seconds, and came up "Locked" or something like that and switched to the XM "Hey, this is what you can get if you subscribe!" station. I pulled out of my spot, turned the radio off and then back on, and it worked fine.
Pity, I was rather interested in why the Green party (or many people for that matter) are so heavily against genetically modified foods. I was hoping for something a little more insightful than name-calling.
Any environment that can be booted to with a floppy can be booted to with a CD. That being said, it is currently significantly easier to create a bootable floppy than it is to create a bootable CDR/W.
It costs exactly nothing to preload. When the game is officially released, you pay Valve/VU (I think VU is their publisher anywayws) the same amount of money as you would for a box (blame the publishing contract), only you get it the second it's available instead of worrying about what store will have it when.
How about, instead of fighting over whose DRM is better or more open or whatever, you stop treating your customers like thieves and let them do what they want with their music? Real, shame on you for locking down your files and then complaining they won't play on someone else's hardware. Apple, shame on you for playing the savior of the little man and then selling out to the media cartels. Both of you, grow a pair and stand up for your customers for once.
How about the actual street address and/or phone number of this lawyer's house?
Re:RTFA, naturally the /. story is not quite corre
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The Saga of Katie.com
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Direct from Katie.com: To answer some questions that I've received today, firstly as far as I know the rather aggressive lawyer who contacted me yesterday is not part of Penguin Puttnam but is working with Katie Tarbox on future projects and trying to gain control of my domain name for these projects. She informed me that things would 'only get worse' for me from here if I didn't do something about it - i.e. give it to them.
The "only get worse" part is enough to qualify it as a demand in my book.
I think most people would be willing to purchase a game for the right price. $50 for a game you might only end up play for just a few hours is ALOT. It better be a damn good few hours. Saddly most games can only offer a mediocre few hours. In the same price vein, I'm not going to be buying Doom 3 any time soon. I pre-ordered UT2k4 that came with a collector's edition tin with a special features DVD and a Logitech headset/microphone for $40. This game has, what, 7 multiplayer modes out of the box? I couldn't even begin to count how many hours I've spent online playing it. Id wants me to spend $55 for an almost purely single player experience (and any single player experience is guaranteed to be limited). "But I want co-op, id!" "Well, I'm sure the mod community will help you out in a couple of months." I have a strong suspicion that the actual single-player content of Doom 3 will be equally dissapointing, but they can get away with it by riding the name and the pretty screenshots.
By cutting off subscriptions, they are imposing a punishment on the people who distribute the source code, but only the people who got it from them in the first place. It is no different than saying "If you distribute the code that we have given you, we will fine you $100". That is imposing restrictions on the right to distribute, specifically granted by the GPL.
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Boeing is/was working on a UAV with a rotor blade for VTOL that locked into position for plane flight. However, I haven't heard anything of it since I read about it crashing on the Boeing news site.
The PSP has a release date of September 1 in Europe, This obviously skews the number of units sold in comparison to the DS that is available worldwide.
Except that the article only used sales figures for Japan.
AND the PS2 is more than half a decade old almost everyone who has ever wanted one has one now.
Again, read the article. For the time periods referenced, the PS2 sold very closely to the PSP. Out of the three weeks they gave actual numbers for, PS2 outsold PSP on two of them. So, while it might have been better to summarize saying that the DS sold at more than twice the rate of the PSPs, mentioning the PS2 was very valid.
I have seen a GSOD on a Win2k system before. A system at work uses a piece of software that sits in the Windows HAL that lets you run very close to real-time on a Windows system. When we were getting it working, I saw a few GSODs, and *I think* I saw a RSOD once. This was most certainly without doing that hack that changes the colors on the standard BSOD.
Social contracts are highly dependant on reasonable behavior from both sides. If I bump into a stranger on the street on accident, I will be generally cordial and apologetic. However, if this bump triggers a murderous rage in him and he attempts to kill me, I am under no obligation to cordially accept the beating.
Likewise, if sites put up reasonable ads, I don't block them. When I start getting flash shit yelling in my ear and hogging my system to produce its shitty 200 pixel video, or spyware that destroys the functionality of my computer, that is when the advertisers have broken the social contract and I pull out the ad blockers. More reasonable advertisers should blame the sociopathic ones for the reduced effectiveness of ads.
Allow me to paraphrase what a wise forum-goer on the Shack observed about the players of these competing MMORPGs one day.
"People bitch when they can't play WoW. People bitch when they CAN play EQ."
Note: From the quest, I got a recipe for Elixir of Frost Power from santa (I've got alchemy as my profession, so it worked out for me, but I don't know if it actually checks your profession or if it's somewhat random), and then maybe an hour later I got the snowman disguise in the mail.
If you know somebody with a Collector's Edition box, they got a 10-day trial pass that's supposed to be given to a friend. You can get someone online to get you the code, but finding the software might be a little difficult. You can just patch up the open beta client, but I don't know if anyone has that available for download anymore.
It would appear that the first Delta IV launch was in 2002.1 120s.html
http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2002/q4/nr_02
Still late, but today was the first launch of a Delta IV heavy.
"Hey, your movie sucked! Here's a couple hundred thousand dollars for the effort."
Yeah, that'll teach 'em.
You may want to re-read that headline.
Japanese DS Game Substantially Different Than US?
TEMPEST dealie?
My first 2001 FP had 2 dead pixels and 5 stuck-on pixels. Fortunately, with that many, sending it back for a replacement wasn't difficult, but getting a swap on one or two pixel defects is allegedly like pulling teeth.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=62053&item=8143942614&rd=1
And "Halo 2: Limited Collector's Edition Xbox" doesn't mean it comes with an xbox, the game itself is the limited collector's edition.
I just made the jump to a Dell 2001 FP. Apart from a dead pixel and a dead subpixel (that I'm going to try to get a refund for, even though it's less than their official return mark), I have no complaints running UT2k4 at 1152x864 stretched to its native 1600x1200. Stretch quality was a serious worry for me, since I'm still running a Ti4200, but I'm happy.
I don't think it's true. On my recently purchased GM car, I got XM and it came with a free 3 month trial. Once, I parked in a spot that got an intermittant signal. I started up the car, the radio stalled for a few seconds, and came up "Locked" or something like that and switched to the XM "Hey, this is what you can get if you subscribe!" station. I pulled out of my spot, turned the radio off and then back on, and it worked fine.
Pity, I was rather interested in why the Green party (or many people for that matter) are so heavily against genetically modified foods. I was hoping for something a little more insightful than name-calling.
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Any environment that can be booted to with a floppy can be booted to with a CD. That being said, it is currently significantly easier to create a bootable floppy than it is to create a bootable CDR/W.
It costs exactly nothing to preload. When the game is officially released, you pay Valve/VU (I think VU is their publisher anywayws) the same amount of money as you would for a box (blame the publishing contract), only you get it the second it's available instead of worrying about what store will have it when.
Dear Apple and Real,
How about, instead of fighting over whose DRM is better or more open or whatever, you stop treating your customers like thieves and let them do what they want with their music? Real, shame on you for locking down your files and then complaining they won't play on someone else's hardware. Apple, shame on you for playing the savior of the little man and then selling out to the media cartels. Both of you, grow a pair and stand up for your customers for once.
How about the actual street address and/or phone number of this lawyer's house?
Direct from Katie.com:
To answer some questions that I've received today, firstly as far as I know the rather aggressive lawyer who contacted me yesterday is not part of Penguin Puttnam but is working with Katie Tarbox on future projects and trying to gain control of my domain name for these projects. She informed me that things would 'only get worse' for me from here if I didn't do something about it - i.e. give it to them.
The "only get worse" part is enough to qualify it as a demand in my book.
If we take Rose, and call it SCO, it's still a Rose? I don't get it.
I think most people would be willing to purchase a game for the right price. $50 for a game you might only end up play for just a few hours is ALOT. It better be a damn good few hours. Saddly most games can only offer a mediocre few hours.
In the same price vein, I'm not going to be buying Doom 3 any time soon. I pre-ordered UT2k4 that came with a collector's edition tin with a special features DVD and a Logitech headset/microphone for $40. This game has, what, 7 multiplayer modes out of the box? I couldn't even begin to count how many hours I've spent online playing it. Id wants me to spend $55 for an almost purely single player experience (and any single player experience is guaranteed to be limited). "But I want co-op, id!" "Well, I'm sure the mod community will help you out in a couple of months." I have a strong suspicion that the actual single-player content of Doom 3 will be equally dissapointing, but they can get away with it by riding the name and the pretty screenshots.
By cutting off subscriptions, they are imposing a punishment on the people who distribute the source code, but only the people who got it from them in the first place. It is no different than saying "If you distribute the code that we have given you, we will fine you $100". That is imposing restrictions on the right to distribute, specifically granted by the GPL.