agreed, i'm seriously eyeing an SSD, and for my linux uses 40 gb should do just fine
now if only some mobo maker would produce a nice socket am3 mini-itx mobo with dual dimm slots and a pcie 16x slot (and amd 785g chipset please!) i could build my perfect little linux box
i feel your pain, i myself am an Alfa Romeo nut, and i just feel bad when i think of how many perfectly good and future classic Alfa's will be lost to the crusher in these schemes...
I have a company car as a daily driver, but i also have an old alfa to tinker with, and i will undoubtedly replace it at some point with another model, however, the cars i tend to want to tinker with are also rather likely to get scrapped this way..
luckily alfisti tend to take good care of their stuff, and most will actually take a financial hit if it means their old love will get taken care off by a fellow alfist, instead of sending it off to the crusher
if you played mario kart on the wii, you will know that the best way is with the good old analog stick, same thing goes for the ipod, motion control in driving games only works with an actual purpose built steering wheel (i LOVE Forza 3 with my wheel).
But yes, turn based strategy does work on the ipod, but anything requiring quick reaction fails because you can not feel the on screen buttons, which means no racing/FPS/platforming
oh and besides, with 3d games the ipod will suck its battery dry in ~2 hours, which makes my PSP look awesome (and my NGPC like it is powered by its own sheer awesomeness)
I'm right on it, just give me oh... say.. 20 years?
anyway, old school 1960s fission isnt all that interessting, these newer reactors which burn spent fuel from the old school reactors, is very very interesting. It reduces the amount of radioactive waste we have to store, and extracts energy in the process. Fusion, is off course the ultimate goal in nuclear technology, but optimising fission to the point where waste is kept to a minimum, and fuel cycles/reactor designs are far more efficient and safe is definitely a good thing
Unless you only count "Halo" as a good game, and in that case, good riddance.
i'm with you on that one, halo is a nice enough mediocre sci-fi FPS to single player blast through, but the online play is pretty much what drove me away from playing anything online...
anyway, yes, the Wii has its third party gems, but as you said, they are few and far between, So far every 3rd party wii game worth buying, i can probably name 10 on the xbox, and that is where nintendo loses the battle for my money.
You guys are all free to play what you want, and if you enjoy your wii, dont let me make you doubt it for even a nanosecond, but i realise that i am no longer nintendo's target market, and i personally no longer feel compelled to buy their stuff (save for the OOO new game console, must have!!! reflex)
good point, and that is something i miss in the MS line-up.
I have a GBA-micro, which, with some old school games (advance wars, golden sun, doom) is quite good for gaming on the go (took it with my to portugal, spent a good 20 hours lying by the pool playing golden sun). Sadly it is a tad outdated, and not the most ergonomical thing to play on
Then i also have a DS, for which i simply dont have any games that i care about, nintendo's gimmicky-ness didnt help this platform much. these days my GF uses it for her puzzle stuff / brain training.
I also bought a PSP last year, which is better in terms of games, but worse in usability (the analog sucks). I did enjoy final fantasy crisis core on it, but GTA just didnt work for me, so mostly this thing gathers dust
And then there is the ipod touch, excellent pda/browsing device, but the touch-screen only limit pretty much means no serious games...
all in all, if MS made an Xboy with Forza/PGR/Fable, i would be over that in a split second, since nothing out there right now really works for me in terms of handheld gaming (but to be honest, since i graduated, and got a car instead of going by train/bus, i dont have much time for it either anymore)
oh, i forgot to mention my Neo Geo Pocket Color, awesome little thing, color screen, 40 hours on two AAs, puzzle bobble, and the best 8-way d-stick ever!
it is 2010, my old athlon XP i bought in 2003 already has two sata ports, my GFs old Pentium 4 has SATA hard drives. I switched to only getting Sata drives in 2005. I really am curious where you found a 2006 machine with NO sata port...
besides, my fav computershop (actual shop with their own stock), lists 4 different IDE drives on their shelves (and in stock currently, the fifth type isnt), ranging from 80 to 320 GB.
Ram and VGA cards tend to be a bit more difficult, but if you dont mind paying a bit more per performance, AGP cards are still readily available, as is DDR ram.
I still agree with the GP though, restoring old machines (esp. servers) often isnt very economical once you need more then one or two spare parts, but for non-obscure hardware most parts are still available (come to think of it, i can still buy socket A mobo's new....)
we have the same thing in holland, and it disgusts me..
The first car to use this subsidy was a 12 year old honda civic, the kind that would have been PERFECT for a single mom / low wage family / recent graduate to drive for years without high costs. I wept inside when i read that news headline, that car could have lived on for a decade fullfilling its purpose, and providing less wealthy people with a good means of transport. Instead it was taken to the crusher.. The stupidity of that case also was, that the market value for that car was well above the 1000 euro subsidy the owners incurred when buying their new fiat panda...
Any car that still runs reliably (i.e. isnt a technical total loss), should not be allowed to be destroyed, especially if the government then decides to subsidise the purchase of a fricking prius or whatever, which has a much bigger environmental impact
bleh, never mind, i read the news on another site before i saw it here, where the launch window was framed as the end of FY10 for nintendo, in other words, dec-2010/march-2011. TFS just took the entirity of FY10 for nintendo as launch window, which would be pretty assinine
Nintendo doesn't release shovelware, except possibly the WarioWare franchise which is a well-executed satire of shovelware. As for third-party shovelware, the developer criteria are already significantly more restrictive than those for iPhone. If Nintendo does anything to rein in third parties' shovelware, it will draw criticism that its platform is too closed and that there is no way for a third party to make money from the platform.
You have a point, but the market nintendo targets (non-gamers) makes the wii/ds a very very attractive target for shovelware producers, and in consequence drives away the hardcore gamers, which makes it even less interesting for non-shovelware producers to target the wii/ds.
In that respect, i wouldnt be surprised if the only nintendo console i ever buy anymore will be for my girlfriend, i have moved on to the xbox. The wii just doesnt appeal to me anymore, and this goes for a lot of 'real gamers'. Right now just about the only titles worth buying on the wii for hardcore gamers are nintendo titles, and those are getting long in the tooth, sure zelda/metroid/mario are amazing, but there are plenty of good action RPGs on other platforms.. all that remains is the 3d platforming, which never really worked for me...
if you want quality gaming, buy an xbox (360 of course)
and in the aftermath, with the other party nuked, you still will be without GPS, good luck doing without any kind of airline untill the military puts up a new GPS network..
besides the obvious satelite dependence, isnt it generally a better practice in high-safety sectors to use active sensors instead of relying on everyone else to announce their position? This would be the equivalent of going out in the streets in your car, shutting your eyes and hoping everyone else on the road is kind enough to honk their horn to signal their position.
And if i can idiots advocate for a few lines, what about the terrorists? if they manage to hijack a plane, they just need to disable the GPS transponder and the plane dissapear of off the flight-control display?
She probably wouldnt mind that, she has said before that she wouldnt mind flying as long as she doesnt actually have to be awake for it. She isnt so much afraid of being in the plane, she just freaks out when she's in there..
(partially she hates the idea that if the plane should crash, she will be there for the few minutes the plane crashes to its death)
any source on those figures then? I realise quoting wikipedia is pretty much worthless, but still better then no source at all.
According to wikipedia, Greg Olsen estimates the total cost at 20 milion, Richard Gariot paid 30 milion
anyway, doesnt really matter, if you actually calculate the cost/experience, i'd say the soyuz trip is a much better deal, 30 milion for a full week in space, including a visit to the ISS, compared to 200k for 15 minutes of zero-g (150 times the expense for 672 times the time in Zero-g, and lots of other cool stuff)
i bought a lot of $5 floppies in the 90s, back then i didnt really know the difference, and those shareware floppies were sold in the toy-stores here, and i didnt have any idea where to find full-version games (didnt really start finding those till they came on CDs), and as i was 10-12, full games would have easily been to expensive for my savings.
That said, Fuck EA. I pretty much added them to my blacklist with the C&C4 always online DRM scheme already, but this shit wont fly for me either
(not that EA made any game in the last few years that i actually care about, the gradually killed of the C&C franchise, and BF2142 pretty much killed battlefield for me (and i still hate them for not giving BFV the support it deserved, that game ROCKED))
that's what i am hoping, although i dont know if the take-off mode (horizontal air launch) will work for achieving orbit. If it doesnt work, then SS3 would need to be a conventional straight up rocket, which will hamper R&D, since virgin has done zilch in that area
Let's get this all in perspective. I was born in the mid 1960's.
1960's - america put people into space and then put them around and then on the Moon. 1970's - america stopped bothering putting them on the Moon, but did put them in high orbit - Skylab 1980's - america dumped Skylab into the sea (and Western Australia) but brought in the shuttle 1990's - america used the Shuttle to get people into low earth orbit and started to build the International Space Station 2000's - america decides to retire Shuttle and considers retiring the ISS 2010's - america lifts people to the edge of the atmosphere.
At this rate by the time I'm retired, humankind will have set its sights for the top of the stairs. It may make it - but only if its risk-free.
fixed that for you, The soviets might not have won the race to the moon, but in a lot of other aspects they have outdone the USA in space, early exploration of the planets (Venus), their history with space-stations is far more impressive then Skylab, if it wasnt for them, the ISS would not exist. They have an actual working, reliable and practical man-rated launch system. In that respect the russians would have a far shorter ramp-up back to moon-shot capability then NASA (it would be a multi launch system, but they have the technology)
Hell, The russians have sent up 'tourists' with soyuz up to the ISS before, sure it costs 12 milion instead of 200k, but remember sub-orbital != orbital, and 15 minutes of zero-g != 1 week stay in space
Rutan makes wonderfull stuff, but a small jet/rocket combo that goes sub-orbital is something quite different then getting into LEO (Gemini went rather high beyond LEO too, including in-orbit docking/manouvering). Never mind actually going to the moon, or building a space-station
even if i end up puking my guts out in the zero-g part of the trip, just think of the thrill of getting launched -by rocket- from 10 to 110 miles high.
The part about normal airline travel i enjoy the most is the point where the engines go full throttle right at take-off, just imagine what a kick in the pants this thing will give
i wonder if virgin galactic is gonna schedule special 'adult' (even though minors probably wont be cleared for flight) flights for this purpose. I know i'd love this idea, although it would require my GF to get over her fear of flying (never mind going into frikin space..)
It's just a shame that the SS2 only gets you to zero-g for a small amount of time, i would love to do a couple or orbits (say 3 orbits, 5 hour flight time), but that requires much more Delta-v/money to achieve.
But really, i think this stuff is great, i really hope virgin galactic takes off big time, i'll bet you that if SS2 works very well, Branson will start developing SS3 pretty soon (seriously i think branson is SOOO cool, has his own F1 team, airline, spaceline.., oh if only i had the money to be an excentric bilionair)
completely different thing, this is charging the survivor, and not for the bullet, but for the kinetic energy, in fact, you could just license them the bullet.... and then sue anyone for picking up the bullet, and using it without a license.. maybe call them pirates...
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CMOS chips and high voltage work pretty well for data destruction too
agreed, i'm seriously eyeing an SSD, and for my linux uses 40 gb should do just fine
now if only some mobo maker would produce a nice socket am3 mini-itx mobo with dual dimm slots and a pcie 16x slot (and amd 785g chipset please!) i could build my perfect little linux box
i feel your pain, i myself am an Alfa Romeo nut, and i just feel bad when i think of how many perfectly good and future classic Alfa's will be lost to the crusher in these schemes...
I have a company car as a daily driver, but i also have an old alfa to tinker with, and i will undoubtedly replace it at some point with another model, however, the cars i tend to want to tinker with are also rather likely to get scrapped this way..
luckily alfisti tend to take good care of their stuff, and most will actually take a financial hit if it means their old love will get taken care off by a fellow alfist, instead of sending it off to the crusher
if you played mario kart on the wii, you will know that the best way is with the good old analog stick, same thing goes for the ipod, motion control in driving games only works with an actual purpose built steering wheel (i LOVE Forza 3 with my wheel).
But yes, turn based strategy does work on the ipod, but anything requiring quick reaction fails because you can not feel the on screen buttons, which means no racing/FPS/platforming
oh and besides, with 3d games the ipod will suck its battery dry in ~2 hours, which makes my PSP look awesome (and my NGPC like it is powered by its own sheer awesomeness)
I'm right on it, just give me oh... say.. 20 years?
anyway, old school 1960s fission isnt all that interessting, these newer reactors which burn spent fuel from the old school reactors, is very very interesting. It reduces the amount of radioactive waste we have to store, and extracts energy in the process. Fusion, is off course the ultimate goal in nuclear technology, but optimising fission to the point where waste is kept to a minimum, and fuel cycles/reactor designs are far more efficient and safe is definitely a good thing
isnt there some clause in the windows EULA that specificly prohibites using it in nuclear installation?
and damn, the MS-shills are out in force today, not a single post with a BSOD joke above the -1 level...
Unless you only count "Halo" as a good game, and in that case, good riddance.
i'm with you on that one, halo is a nice enough mediocre sci-fi FPS to single player blast through, but the online play is pretty much what drove me away from playing anything online...
anyway, yes, the Wii has its third party gems, but as you said, they are few and far between, So far every 3rd party wii game worth buying, i can probably name 10 on the xbox, and that is where nintendo loses the battle for my money.
You guys are all free to play what you want, and if you enjoy your wii, dont let me make you doubt it for even a nanosecond, but i realise that i am no longer nintendo's target market, and i personally no longer feel compelled to buy their stuff (save for the OOO new game console, must have!!! reflex)
good point, and that is something i miss in the MS line-up.
I have a GBA-micro, which, with some old school games (advance wars, golden sun, doom) is quite good for gaming on the go (took it with my to portugal, spent a good 20 hours lying by the pool playing golden sun). Sadly it is a tad outdated, and not the most ergonomical thing to play on
Then i also have a DS, for which i simply dont have any games that i care about, nintendo's gimmicky-ness didnt help this platform much. these days my GF uses it for her puzzle stuff / brain training.
I also bought a PSP last year, which is better in terms of games, but worse in usability (the analog sucks). I did enjoy final fantasy crisis core on it, but GTA just didnt work for me, so mostly this thing gathers dust
And then there is the ipod touch, excellent pda/browsing device, but the touch-screen only limit pretty much means no serious games...
all in all, if MS made an Xboy with Forza/PGR/Fable, i would be over that in a split second, since nothing out there right now really works for me in terms of handheld gaming (but to be honest, since i graduated, and got a car instead of going by train/bus, i dont have much time for it either anymore)
oh, i forgot to mention my Neo Geo Pocket Color, awesome little thing, color screen, 40 hours on two AAs, puzzle bobble, and the best 8-way d-stick ever!
it is 2010, my old athlon XP i bought in 2003 already has two sata ports, my GFs old Pentium 4 has SATA hard drives. I switched to only getting Sata drives in 2005. I really am curious where you found a 2006 machine with NO sata port...
besides, my fav computershop (actual shop with their own stock), lists 4 different IDE drives on their shelves (and in stock currently, the fifth type isnt), ranging from 80 to 320 GB.
Ram and VGA cards tend to be a bit more difficult, but if you dont mind paying a bit more per performance, AGP cards are still readily available, as is DDR ram.
I still agree with the GP though, restoring old machines (esp. servers) often isnt very economical once you need more then one or two spare parts, but for non-obscure hardware most parts are still available (come to think of it, i can still buy socket A mobo's new....)
we have the same thing in holland, and it disgusts me..
The first car to use this subsidy was a 12 year old honda civic, the kind that would have been PERFECT for a single mom / low wage family / recent graduate to drive for years without high costs. I wept inside when i read that news headline, that car could have lived on for a decade fullfilling its purpose, and providing less wealthy people with a good means of transport. Instead it was taken to the crusher.. The stupidity of that case also was, that the market value for that car was well above the 1000 euro subsidy the owners incurred when buying their new fiat panda...
Any car that still runs reliably (i.e. isnt a technical total loss), should not be allowed to be destroyed, especially if the government then decides to subsidise the purchase of a fricking prius or whatever, which has a much bigger environmental impact
bleh, never mind, i read the news on another site before i saw it here, where the launch window was framed as the end of FY10 for nintendo, in other words, dec-2010/march-2011. TFS just took the entirity of FY10 for nintendo as launch window, which would be pretty assinine
Nintendo doesn't release shovelware, except possibly the WarioWare franchise which is a well-executed satire of shovelware. As for third-party shovelware, the developer criteria are already significantly more restrictive than those for iPhone. If Nintendo does anything to rein in third parties' shovelware, it will draw criticism that its platform is too closed and that there is no way for a third party to make money from the platform.
You have a point, but the market nintendo targets (non-gamers) makes the wii/ds a very very attractive target for shovelware producers, and in consequence drives away the hardcore gamers, which makes it even less interesting for non-shovelware producers to target the wii/ds.
In that respect, i wouldnt be surprised if the only nintendo console i ever buy anymore will be for my girlfriend, i have moved on to the xbox. The wii just doesnt appeal to me anymore, and this goes for a lot of 'real gamers'. Right now just about the only titles worth buying on the wii for hardcore gamers are nintendo titles, and those are getting long in the tooth, sure zelda/metroid/mario are amazing, but there are plenty of good action RPGs on other platforms.. all that remains is the 3d platforming, which never really worked for me...
if you want quality gaming, buy an xbox (360 of course)
details to come THIS june, at E3...
reading, apparently, is hard
and in the aftermath, with the other party nuked, you still will be without GPS, good luck doing without any kind of airline untill the military puts up a new GPS network..
besides the obvious satelite dependence, isnt it generally a better practice in high-safety sectors to use active sensors instead of relying on everyone else to announce their position? This would be the equivalent of going out in the streets in your car, shutting your eyes and hoping everyone else on the road is kind enough to honk their horn to signal their position.
And if i can idiots advocate for a few lines, what about the terrorists? if they manage to hijack a plane, they just need to disable the GPS transponder and the plane dissapear of off the flight-control display?
and what the hell is wrong with radar anyway?
She probably wouldnt mind that, she has said before that she wouldnt mind flying as long as she doesnt actually have to be awake for it. She isnt so much afraid of being in the plane, she just freaks out when she's in there..
(partially she hates the idea that if the plane should crash, she will be there for the few minutes the plane crashes to its death)
oh, and haha to the inflation joke, good one...
any source on those figures then? I realise quoting wikipedia is pretty much worthless, but still better then no source at all.
According to wikipedia, Greg Olsen estimates the total cost at 20 milion, Richard Gariot paid 30 milion
anyway, doesnt really matter, if you actually calculate the cost/experience, i'd say the soyuz trip is a much better deal, 30 milion for a full week in space, including a visit to the ISS, compared to 200k for 15 minutes of zero-g (150 times the expense for 672 times the time in Zero-g, and lots of other cool stuff)
35? try 12 to 20 and that 20 might have been skewed downward in my head by the euro/dollar conversion at the time
i bought a lot of $5 floppies in the 90s, back then i didnt really know the difference, and those shareware floppies were sold in the toy-stores here, and i didnt have any idea where to find full-version games (didnt really start finding those till they came on CDs), and as i was 10-12, full games would have easily been to expensive for my savings.
That said, Fuck EA. I pretty much added them to my blacklist with the C&C4 always online DRM scheme already, but this shit wont fly for me either
(not that EA made any game in the last few years that i actually care about, the gradually killed of the C&C franchise, and BF2142 pretty much killed battlefield for me (and i still hate them for not giving BFV the support it deserved, that game ROCKED))
that's what i am hoping, although i dont know if the take-off mode (horizontal air launch) will work for achieving orbit. If it doesnt work, then SS3 would need to be a conventional straight up rocket, which will hamper R&D, since virgin has done zilch in that area
Let's get this all in perspective. I was born in the mid 1960's.
1960's - america put people into space and then put them around and then on the Moon.
1970's - america stopped bothering putting them on the Moon, but did put them in high orbit - Skylab
1980's - america dumped Skylab into the sea (and Western Australia) but brought in the shuttle
1990's - america used the Shuttle to get people into low earth orbit and started to build the International Space Station
2000's - america decides to retire Shuttle and considers retiring the ISS
2010's - america lifts people to the edge of the atmosphere.
At this rate by the time I'm retired, humankind will have set its sights for the top of the stairs. It may make it - but only if its risk-free.
fixed that for you, The soviets might not have won the race to the moon, but in a lot of other aspects they have outdone the USA in space, early exploration of the planets (Venus), their history with space-stations is far more impressive then Skylab, if it wasnt for them, the ISS would not exist. They have an actual working, reliable and practical man-rated launch system. In that respect the russians would have a far shorter ramp-up back to moon-shot capability then NASA (it would be a multi launch system, but they have the technology)
Hell, The russians have sent up 'tourists' with soyuz up to the ISS before, sure it costs 12 milion instead of 200k, but remember sub-orbital != orbital, and 15 minutes of zero-g != 1 week stay in space
Rutan makes wonderfull stuff, but a small jet/rocket combo that goes sub-orbital is something quite different then getting into LEO (Gemini went rather high beyond LEO too, including in-orbit docking/manouvering). Never mind actually going to the moon, or building a space-station
even if i end up puking my guts out in the zero-g part of the trip, just think of the thrill of getting launched -by rocket- from 10 to 110 miles high.
The part about normal airline travel i enjoy the most is the point where the engines go full throttle right at take-off, just imagine what a kick in the pants this thing will give
join the 100-mile high club?
i wonder if virgin galactic is gonna schedule special 'adult' (even though minors probably wont be cleared for flight) flights for this purpose. I know i'd love this idea, although it would require my GF to get over her fear of flying (never mind going into frikin space..)
It's just a shame that the SS2 only gets you to zero-g for a small amount of time, i would love to do a couple or orbits (say 3 orbits, 5 hour flight time), but that requires much more Delta-v/money to achieve.
But really, i think this stuff is great, i really hope virgin galactic takes off big time, i'll bet you that if SS2 works very well, Branson will start developing SS3 pretty soon (seriously i think branson is SOOO cool, has his own F1 team, airline, spaceline.., oh if only i had the money to be an excentric bilionair)
completely different thing, this is charging the survivor, and not for the bullet, but for the kinetic energy, in fact, you could just license them the bullet.... and then sue anyone for picking up the bullet, and using it without a license.. maybe call them pirates...