However, this last summer I switched to AT&T because verizon's network was dropping my calls in my apartment
Let's face it, you switched to AT&T because you wanted an iPhone and didn't have a choice in the matter.
Not at all. I would rather have an Android phone. But Tmobile's coverage is worse than AT&T in this area.
I've actually looked into buying a Rodgers branded g1 android phone (from Canada). That phone will work with AT&T 3G here, but its an Android phone. But that requires a big outlay of cash to get the phone (though I may make it back from selling the iPhone).
I had Verizon for near 10 years. However, this last summer I switched to AT&T because verizon's network was dropping my calls in my apartment half the time or more. And this is just 2 miles outside of downtown Portland, Or. Haven't had a dropped call on my iPhone on AT&T yet.
So just remember that strength of network is not "national", because most people don't move around all the time. Find the network that is best in your area first, then pick a phone.
Instead of giving lots of money to Gamestop by selling your games for crap prices, try a game trading site like goozex.com. For the price of shipping (plus $1 each trade), I have traded about 10 titles this year. All goozex does is setup lists of wants and haves for people, and matches up people for trades.
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn was the hardest game I've played in years, out of Wii, PS3, and Windows games. As a Wii owner who plays through a game once every month or two, there are still too many other good games that I can't keep up with all of them.
I too worked at Webcom from 1997 to 2000. Thomas didn't throw all of his money away. He gave 10% of away to the old employees the day Webcom was sold to Verio. I still have the hand written letter he wrote to me thanking me, and my school loans were paid off that same day!
The story writer seems to have some pretty deep hatred for the interface changes to the dock, menu boxes, etc. Sure makes me want to skip upgrading my two 10.4 boxes.
I used to love Ars Magica, but it is a very hard game to get played in the way it was written for, that is, troupe style. The players take turns being the story teller, while their own player character mage is off doing research (or whatever). However, since there is no one person who knows all the secrets, it is kinda hard to do a long term story. And believe me, I have tried to make Ars Magica work this way multiple times.
It still is a great game! And the background for the game was some of the inspiration for the original white wolf games (especially mage and vampire) many years ago. Also, the original designer (Jonathan Tweet) later worked as the lead designer for 3rd edition D&D. And I could definitely see many aspects of Ars Magica in 3rd edition, like the way all stats are +/- in a progressive manner.
I have been playing GW games for close to 15 years. While 40k does still appeal mainly to teens, the fantasy game Warhammer has more appeal to older folks. Most of my opponents are above 20, with a good 30-40% above 30 (like me!).
Most of the people in my age range do appreciate the hobby side of the game alot more, with painted armies being our pride and joy. It's mostly teens that run around with unpainted (scoff and point) armies.
I am going to a tournament in just a few weeks where the entry fee is $89. This tournament will have 100+ 40k players and 80 warhammer players. There are other tournaments around the country where close to 200 players show up. And fly in from other states... don't tell me that 16 year olds have enough money to fly around the country to these events. Or their parents permission to hang out in another state without them.
"Even more ironic is that Half-Life used the Quake 2 licensed engine from id." That's wrong. The original Half-Life used a modified version of the Quake engine, not the Quake 2 engine.
I gave up on WoW a few days ago. The constant lag and random downtimes were disheartening. Great game, too bad about the crappy server architecture. Or whatever is causing the problem.
I've been a member of the ICC since 1995ish, when you used telnet, and quick typing skills to put your moves in. Leave my favorite work past time alone!! I don't want to have to doubt who I play... and I have played 8000+ games in the past three years on ICC
Hahah, I just sent a gmail invite to a friend, and their yahoo address marked the gmail invite as junk mail! What a crock, yahoo is trying so hard to not lose business. Make a better business model, and they wouldn't!
I have had a Yahoo address since the week Yahoo started offering email services back in the 90's. I have used it pretty consistently since then.
However, I just got my gmail account a couple of days ago. The text only advertisements make the page so much bigger (important on a laptop with a 12" screen), so I can actually see my emails. The way emails are grouped into threads is wonderful. I love the keyboard commands, as I have never been a big fan of using mice much. Immediate searching of all your email. And so on... Every single thing about gmail is better than yahoo mail. Even my login, as I have my first name and last initial as my login (thanks to getting in during beta).
I will never go back to yahoo.... it's not just the storage space.
I used to use Red Hat back in the 5.* and 6.* days, but switched to Debian after that time. Debian has been very good to me, as I love apt.
However, for my work desktop, I wanted good stability and some new features, without spending alot of time. So, as stable was getting old, and testing kept breaking my desktop printing the past month, I decided to try Fedora Core 2. I first installed Windows XP, and then just stuck the FC2 disk in and let it rip. I had a very easy setup for not using Red Hat in many years. I've had no problems with Grub, and it boots into Windows or FC2. I used Yum, though slower than Apt, to sucessfully get Flash and Xboard (got to have my chess club games, errr, on my work breaks;)
Still, I will say that when Debian finally gets the current testing to stable, I will go back for my workstation. The Debian installer in testing was wonderful, and I preferred it to FC2. And nothing compares to Apt. And yes, I know there are repositories for Fedora for Apt, perhaps I will mess around with that in between chess games, err, work.
Back in the silly days of 1999, I went to Linuxworld in San Jose. Most of the booths were neat, cool, etc... except the Caldera booth. They scared me.
Every once in a while, they would hand out free t-shirts (or something like that, I didn't get too close). However, they would hand out the free swag to the person in their crowd who yelled the loudest: "Caldera for BUSINESS!" Needless to say, every 15 minutes or so, every geek in the place would wince.
Makes me laugh now to see them still making the geeks wince.
This is absolutely true. For example, back in the late 80's and early 90's when apple did have a significant amount of marketshare, I would get viruses sometimes on my Mac 512 and Mac SE. They were no where near as destructive as they are now to others, but they could do nasty things to the computer that they infected.
Btw, I always seemed to get them through shared disks of games, etc.
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However, this last summer I switched to AT&T because verizon's network was dropping my calls in my apartment
Let's face it, you switched to AT&T because you wanted an iPhone and didn't have a choice in the matter.
Not at all. I would rather have an Android phone. But Tmobile's coverage is worse than AT&T in this area.
I've actually looked into buying a Rodgers branded g1 android phone (from Canada). That phone will work with AT&T 3G here, but its an Android phone. But that requires a big outlay of cash to get the phone (though I may make it back from selling the iPhone).
I had Verizon for near 10 years. However, this last summer I switched to AT&T because verizon's network was dropping my calls in my apartment half the time or more. And this is just 2 miles outside of downtown Portland, Or. Haven't had a dropped call on my iPhone on AT&T yet.
So just remember that strength of network is not "national", because most people don't move around all the time. Find the network that is best in your area first, then pick a phone.
Instead of giving lots of money to Gamestop by selling your games for crap prices, try a game trading site like goozex.com. For the price of shipping (plus $1 each trade), I have traded about 10 titles this year. All goozex does is setup lists of wants and haves for people, and matches up people for trades.
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn was the hardest game I've played in years, out of Wii, PS3, and Windows games. As a Wii owner who plays through a game once every month or two, there are still too many other good games that I can't keep up with all of them.
I too worked at Webcom from 1997 to 2000. Thomas didn't throw all of his money away. He gave 10% of away to the old employees the day Webcom was sold to Verio. I still have the hand written letter he wrote to me thanking me, and my school loans were paid off that same day!
Except Niko is not Russian, he's Serbian. Did you play the game and listen to the dialogue? If you had, this point was pretty well made.
The story writer seems to have some pretty deep hatred for the interface changes to the dock, menu boxes, etc. Sure makes me want to skip upgrading my two 10.4 boxes.
Can't wait to hear the puerile comments during puberty.
Oh wait.
Well, the prospective place of business would have more people loitering outside getting free wireless at least!
I used to love Ars Magica, but it is a very hard game to get played in the way it was written for, that is, troupe style. The players take turns being the story teller, while their own player character mage is off doing research (or whatever). However, since there is no one person who knows all the secrets, it is kinda hard to do a long term story. And believe me, I have tried to make Ars Magica work this way multiple times.
It still is a great game! And the background for the game was some of the inspiration for the original white wolf games (especially mage and vampire) many years ago. Also, the original designer (Jonathan Tweet) later worked as the lead designer for 3rd edition D&D. And I could definitely see many aspects of Ars Magica in 3rd edition, like the way all stats are +/- in a progressive manner.
...that is, if you want any part of your life back ;)
I have been playing GW games for close to 15 years. While 40k does still appeal mainly to teens, the fantasy game Warhammer has more appeal to older folks. Most of my opponents are above 20, with a good 30-40% above 30 (like me!).
Most of the people in my age range do appreciate the hobby side of the game alot more, with painted armies being our pride and joy. It's mostly teens that run around with unpainted (scoff and point) armies.
I am going to a tournament in just a few weeks where the entry fee is $89. This tournament will have 100+ 40k players and 80 warhammer players. There are other tournaments around the country where close to 200 players show up. And fly in from other states... don't tell me that 16 year olds have enough money to fly around the country to these events. Or their parents permission to hang out in another state without them.
In California remember they have the Governator... so that's Total Recall
"Even more ironic is that Half-Life used the Quake 2 licensed engine from id." That's wrong. The original Half-Life used a modified version of the Quake engine, not the Quake 2 engine.
Should I bother to finish the article?
I gave up less than a week ago. I have all this free time now, I don't think I will go back even if they get the servers fixed.
I gave up on WoW a few days ago. The constant lag and random downtimes were disheartening. Great game, too bad about the crappy server architecture. Or whatever is causing the problem.
I've been a member of the ICC since 1995ish, when you used telnet, and quick typing skills to put your moves in. Leave my favorite work past time alone!! I don't want to have to doubt who I play... and I have played 8000+ games in the past three years on ICC
Hahah, I just sent a gmail invite to a friend, and their yahoo address marked the gmail invite as junk mail! What a crock, yahoo is trying so hard to not lose business. Make a better business model, and they wouldn't!
I have had a Yahoo address since the week Yahoo started offering email services back in the 90's. I have used it pretty consistently since then.
However, I just got my gmail account a couple of days ago. The text only advertisements make the page so much bigger (important on a laptop with a 12" screen), so I can actually see my emails. The way emails are grouped into threads is wonderful. I love the keyboard commands, as I have never been a big fan of using mice much. Immediate searching of all your email. And so on... Every single thing about gmail is better than yahoo mail. Even my login, as I have my first name and last initial as my login (thanks to getting in during beta).
I will never go back to yahoo.... it's not just the storage space.
I used to use Red Hat back in the 5.* and 6.* days, but switched to Debian after that time. Debian has been very good to me, as I love apt.
;)
However, for my work desktop, I wanted good stability and some new features, without spending alot of time. So, as stable was getting old, and testing kept breaking my desktop printing the past month, I decided to try Fedora Core 2. I first installed Windows XP, and then just stuck the FC2 disk in and let it rip. I had a very easy setup for not using Red Hat in many years. I've had no problems with Grub, and it boots into Windows or FC2. I used Yum, though slower than Apt, to sucessfully get Flash and Xboard (got to have my chess club games, errr, on my work breaks
Still, I will say that when Debian finally gets the current testing to stable, I will go back for my workstation. The Debian installer in testing was wonderful, and I preferred it to FC2. And nothing compares to Apt. And yes, I know there are repositories for Fedora for Apt, perhaps I will mess around with that in between chess games, err, work.
Back in the silly days of 1999, I went to Linuxworld in San Jose. Most of the booths were neat, cool, etc... except the Caldera booth. They scared me.
Every once in a while, they would hand out free t-shirts (or something like that, I didn't get too close). However, they would hand out the free swag to the person in their crowd who yelled the loudest: "Caldera for BUSINESS!" Needless to say, every 15 minutes or so, every geek in the place would wince.
Makes me laugh now to see them still making the geeks wince.
I remember running Mac OS 2 through 4(!) on my Mac 512. Ah, back in the day when you could run your OS off of a floppy... and a 512k floppy no less ;)
This is absolutely true. For example, back in the late 80's and early 90's when apple did have a significant amount of marketshare, I would get viruses sometimes on my Mac 512 and Mac SE. They were no where near as destructive as they are now to others, but they could do nasty things to the computer that they infected.
Btw, I always seemed to get them through shared disks of games, etc.
Wow, me too... I thought it was mikerowesoft.com!!
My bet is SUSE will begin to fund the OSDL next, as they are a big European linux player.