Be nice if they made the recovery software on a thumb drive instead of a DVD/CD. Be a futuristic throw back to the floppy disk days where you could format a recovery floppy on the fly almost for Windows. Hell even Linux is doing it already.
The real story is the video remixing: "EFF also won a groundbreaking new protection for video remix artists currently thriving on Internet sites like YouTube. The new rule holds that amateur creators do not violate the DMCA when they use short excerpts from DVDs in order to create new, noncommercial works for purposes of criticism or comment if they believe that circumvention is necessary to fulfill that purpose. Hollywood has historically taken the view that "ripping" DVDs is always a violation of the DMCA, no matter the purpose."
Poor Hitler, he's going to be the butt of even more YouTube abuse. If only I could be a fly on the wall when he does hear about it.
I know cooling is important to keep things running smoothly but we've gone from video cards to video bricks. I swear I could take a bunch of those things and use them to lay as brick for a house. Next thing you know they're going to put enough cooling hardware on these things to have em the size of cinder blocks.
I'd love it if they could work on the cooling and/or materials to get it back down to a heat sink only, card sized, and still retain great performance.
Click on the posters name and you see a list of characters and what servers they're on. Now that level 1 anonymous troll isn't so anonymous while the rest of the populations privacy is still intact. Problem solved without as big an uproar, couple that with a new feature to ignore by account without actually giving out the account name to help ease any stalking fears and your set.
They may not care to go that route and bury it in something generic called a "Tech Fee". The public would be none the wiser since Universities are already dealing with budget issues and don't want to stir the waters to threaten any revenue sources.
The appeal to me has been being behind the screen and the view from there. Having them in the real world takes the appeal of the bikes away. Besides there is no real way they can build them to let me turn on the walls when someone is tailgating me good. >_>
"It seems that acting can lead to the highest offices in places other than California."
It's happened with more then Arnold.
President of United States. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan#Radio_and_film)
US Senate. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Bono#Entertainment_career)
Governor for Minnesota. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Ventura#Governor_of_Minnesota)
Mileage may vary with each person but entertainers have a good shot at doing politics just as much as anyone else. Heck just imagine one day waking up to President Gaga, it could happen if she really wanted to do it.
It's not just games like Doom and such. There are/were programs out there that let people build things in other worlds.
* Active Worlds (Since the 1990's) * Neverwinter Nights (All the custom modules and content) * Second Life * Etc.
That is just to name a few. Heck in Activeworlds I used some nice sized chunks of virtual land to build things like a full campus university, mountain hideaway, large gardens made from other materials like boulders and roof pieces, giant boulder trees, etc
Granted a lot of custom content looks like crap in these places but it's still peoples attempts to create things and use their imaginations. It's a lot of history really, granted dull every day stuff but still history.
I can only shake my head at someone who spent around 1000 euros, dollars, etc on some string of 1's and 0's in a database for virtual furniture and/or pets. At least my real dogs will have a shot at chewing up a thief before they get out of the house unlike the virtual counterparts.:)
Having a sane copyright and patent system in place would do better then no copyright or patents. They should have stuck with the 14 year/14 year setup originally for copyrights. However people do not want to work and only want to milk things for generations to come. Mickey Mouse would have been public domain if it weren't for Disney.
The mad rush to level is mostly instilled by WoW these days. Since a huge population of MMO players are cutting their teeth on WoW, the game heavily implies that you only start really playing after reaching max level. PvP, PvE, etc are all max level things with mid levels getting a bone tossed at them. The biggest part of the bone is XP these days so you can reach max level.
I hate that damn ribbon, half the time I can't find the things I want and when I do find them and try to go back again later I don't remember where I found them before. If I wasn't forced to use Office at work I would have wiped it off my drive long ago.
The biggest reason I haven't upgrade my eee 1000 40G is because there hasn't been anything spectacular to replace it. I'm looking for a SSD machine with a 10" screen above the 1024x600 resolution. It's also got to have at minimum of 6 hours battery life and process things a bit better then my current netbook (video, etc). There should be no heat either, till then I've yet to see a solid reason to upgrade.
"Boot speed improvements - meh who reboots anymore?"
I do, on my netbook when I'm done for the day and go home. That way all my files are closed and I don't have to have that nagging feeling that if I wake up out of hibernate/sleep/whatever I might not wake up at all and my data won't get messed up.
I played Dragon Age and it was a decent game, but after playing the campaign there wasn't much for me. I had no desire to purchase additional content from the on-line store. There was no multi-player like there was in NWN1. Also the toolset I couldn't get working for it unless I did some trickery with my SQL express install from Visual Studio.
Quite frankly I had more fun and incentive to buy NWN1 expansions then I have to buy Dragon Age expansions. The NWN1 expansions added more to the single player and more to the toolset which was way easier too install and use then the DA one. I got way more replay value out of that.
Torchlight gave me some great fun, though the limited number of installs will keep it from sticking around on my computer. I've switched to Vista and had a hard drive failure and had to reinstall the game twice. Now I'm eye'n up a SSD to replace the main one which means a reinstall there too. Same thing with Plants vs. Zombies, great game but the limited install options means it won't stick around on my machine too much longer either if I upgrade hardware any time soon.
I noticed there are a lot more nicer game options in my package manager these days on my Ubuntu machine. That and my older games with the less hassle installers go nicely under Wine.
I don't have this problem, I haven't been buying new games at all. They just aren't worth the price to me and yet I can't get enough of old games I can fire up under Wine or Dosbox.
The SSD drive on my netbook has been running great ever since I bought it. I'm really looking at buying a SSD drive and turning my newer SATA platter drive in to an external backup drive of sorts. Since I won't need to access it very regularly it'd make the perfect backup tape of sorts.
80 gigs for $224 ain't bad... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167023
A solar flare, natural disaster, or something more nefarious takes out the GPS system? Would the individual independent radars still remain operational in those situations? To someone like me who doesn't really fly much or know much about things it seems like we're replacing multiple independent systems with a system that has a central point of failure if someone or some natural event knocked out the satellites.
Not everyone has a good life or one they enjoy. Some people are bored and/or want something better. Virtual places and items offer an escape we may never have otherwise. When life's Skinner box doesn't give us enough pellets or pellets we like, we look elsewhere for pellets we can enjoy. Some people think outside the box and make a profit off our needs and the rest of us forever stay in the box.
I remember reading reviews of this when it first came out. I switched over to it and it's been really nice. I've had no alerts or notice anything going through but the product was advertised as basic, but gets the job done. For the most part it's been true to the advertising. Way better then OneCare used to be.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm actually more excited about Torchlight 2 then Diablo 3.
"LAN support"
*Cha-ching* There's a sale for me. To hell with Diablo 3. Hell I may even buy a new laptop and buy two copies. One for home and on the go.
Be nice if they made the recovery software on a thumb drive instead of a DVD/CD. Be a futuristic throw back to the floppy disk days where you could format a recovery floppy on the fly almost for Windows. Hell even Linux is doing it already.
The real story is the video remixing: "EFF also won a groundbreaking new protection for video remix artists currently thriving on Internet sites like YouTube. The new rule holds that amateur creators do not violate the DMCA when they use short excerpts from DVDs in order to create new, noncommercial works for purposes of criticism or comment if they believe that circumvention is necessary to fulfill that purpose. Hollywood has historically taken the view that "ripping" DVDs is always a violation of the DMCA, no matter the purpose."
Poor Hitler, he's going to be the butt of even more YouTube abuse. If only I could be a fly on the wall when he does hear about it.
I know cooling is important to keep things running smoothly but we've gone from video cards to video bricks. I swear I could take a bunch of those things and use them to lay as brick for a house. Next thing you know they're going to put enough cooling hardware on these things to have em the size of cinder blocks.
I'd love it if they could work on the cooling and/or materials to get it back down to a heat sink only, card sized, and still retain great performance.
Click on the posters name and you see a list of characters and what servers they're on. Now that level 1 anonymous troll isn't so anonymous while the rest of the populations privacy is still intact. Problem solved without as big an uproar, couple that with a new feature to ignore by account without actually giving out the account name to help ease any stalking fears and your set.
They may not care to go that route and bury it in something generic called a "Tech Fee". The public would be none the wiser since Universities are already dealing with budget issues and don't want to stir the waters to threaten any revenue sources.
The appeal to me has been being behind the screen and the view from there. Having them in the real world takes the appeal of the bikes away. Besides there is no real way they can build them to let me turn on the walls when someone is tailgating me good. >_>
"It seems that acting can lead to the highest offices in places other than California."
It's happened with more then Arnold.
President of United States. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan#Radio_and_film)
US Senate. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Bono#Entertainment_career)
Governor for Minnesota. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Ventura#Governor_of_Minnesota)
Mileage may vary with each person but entertainers have a good shot at doing politics just as much as anyone else. Heck just imagine one day waking up to President Gaga, it could happen if she really wanted to do it.
It's not just games like Doom and such. There are/were programs out there that let people build things in other worlds.
* Active Worlds (Since the 1990's)
* Neverwinter Nights (All the custom modules and content)
* Second Life
* Etc.
That is just to name a few. Heck in Activeworlds I used some nice sized chunks of virtual land to build things like a full campus university, mountain hideaway, large gardens made from other materials like boulders and roof pieces, giant boulder trees, etc
Granted a lot of custom content looks like crap in these places but it's still peoples attempts to create things and use their imaginations. It's a lot of history really, granted dull every day stuff but still history.
I can only shake my head at someone who spent around 1000 euros, dollars, etc on some string of 1's and 0's in a database for virtual furniture and/or pets. At least my real dogs will have a shot at chewing up a thief before they get out of the house unlike the virtual counterparts. :)
The up side to gamer dreams:
...
From Freddy Kruger: I'm going to get you! I'm going to.... what the hell is that? BFG? What the hell is a BFG?
*WrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrWHUMP!*
From Freddy Kruger:
*Splat*
The down side to gamer dreams:
From You: OMG! An Orion Slave Girl from Star Trek in a thong!
*She moves closer to you.*
From You: So uh? You frag here often?
*Wake up*
From You: DAMNIT!
Netbook Remix has been running like a dream since I upgrade to 10.4lts on my EEE 1000 40G.
Ubuntu 32bit 10.4 has been running like a champ on my fun Atom desktop PC.
Having a sane copyright and patent system in place would do better then no copyright or patents. They should have stuck with the 14 year/14 year setup originally for copyrights. However people do not want to work and only want to milk things for generations to come. Mickey Mouse would have been public domain if it weren't for Disney.
I didn't vote with a wallet per say but I did vote with an account delete on Facebook a few days ago. Assuming of course they honor my request.
How to do it if your curious:
http://www.wikihow.com/Permanently-Delete-a-Facebook-Account
The mad rush to level is mostly instilled by WoW these days. Since a huge population of MMO players are cutting their teeth on WoW, the game heavily implies that you only start really playing after reaching max level. PvP, PvE, etc are all max level things with mid levels getting a bone tossed at them. The biggest part of the bone is XP these days so you can reach max level.
I hate that damn ribbon, half the time I can't find the things I want and when I do find them and try to go back again later I don't remember where I found them before. If I wasn't forced to use Office at work I would have wiped it off my drive long ago.
The biggest reason I haven't upgrade my eee 1000 40G is because there hasn't been anything spectacular to replace it. I'm looking for a SSD machine with a 10" screen above the 1024x600 resolution. It's also got to have at minimum of 6 hours battery life and process things a bit better then my current netbook (video, etc). There should be no heat either, till then I've yet to see a solid reason to upgrade.
"Boot speed improvements - meh who reboots anymore?"
I do, on my netbook when I'm done for the day and go home. That way all my files are closed and I don't have to have that nagging feeling that if I wake up out of hibernate/sleep/whatever I might not wake up at all and my data won't get messed up.
I played Dragon Age and it was a decent game, but after playing the campaign there wasn't much for me. I had no desire to purchase additional content from the on-line store. There was no multi-player like there was in NWN1. Also the toolset I couldn't get working for it unless I did some trickery with my SQL express install from Visual Studio.
Quite frankly I had more fun and incentive to buy NWN1 expansions then I have to buy Dragon Age expansions. The NWN1 expansions added more to the single player and more to the toolset which was way easier too install and use then the DA one. I got way more replay value out of that.
Torchlight gave me some great fun, though the limited number of installs will keep it from sticking around on my computer. I've switched to Vista and had a hard drive failure and had to reinstall the game twice. Now I'm eye'n up a SSD to replace the main one which means a reinstall there too. Same thing with Plants vs. Zombies, great game but the limited install options means it won't stick around on my machine too much longer either if I upgrade hardware any time soon.
I noticed there are a lot more nicer game options in my package manager these days on my Ubuntu machine. That and my older games with the less hassle installers go nicely under Wine.
I don't have this problem, I haven't been buying new games at all. They just aren't worth the price to me and yet I can't get enough of old games I can fire up under Wine or Dosbox.
The SSD drive on my netbook has been running great ever since I bought it. I'm really looking at buying a SSD drive and turning my newer SATA platter drive in to an external backup drive of sorts. Since I won't need to access it very regularly it'd make the perfect backup tape of sorts.
80 gigs for $224 ain't bad...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167023
A solar flare, natural disaster, or something more nefarious takes out the GPS system? Would the individual independent radars still remain operational in those situations? To someone like me who doesn't really fly much or know much about things it seems like we're replacing multiple independent systems with a system that has a central point of failure if someone or some natural event knocked out the satellites.
When problems like this:
http://ask.slashdot.org/story/10/03/21/0849241/Need-Help-Salvaging-Data-From-an-Old-Xenix-System?art_pos=8
Don't exist anymore.
Not everyone has a good life or one they enjoy. Some people are bored and/or want something better. Virtual places and items offer an escape we may never have otherwise. When life's Skinner box doesn't give us enough pellets or pellets we like, we look elsewhere for pellets we can enjoy. Some people think outside the box and make a profit off our needs and the rest of us forever stay in the box.
I remember reading reviews of this when it first came out. I switched over to it and it's been really nice. I've had no alerts or notice anything going through but the product was advertised as basic, but gets the job done. For the most part it's been true to the advertising. Way better then OneCare used to be.