Actually, the LCD has the same specs as the Cinema displays. But of course the Cinema displays are much bigger...which is where their cost comes into play.
Check more into the 20" iMac and you'll see that they are a very high-quality display. Or just go into a Mac Store and see for yourself.
I'm a PC guy and I'm jazzed by these things. I'm going to get one.
Ok, I'll bite...for the same hardware that's in the 20" Intel iMac...with the x1800 and a 20" widescreen screen and a DVD-R and a 250 gig HD. Where are you going to buy two Intel x86 machines from scratch that both have a 20" widescreen LCD screens?
Or then again, I can buy 3 Mac Minis for the price of the new iMac too....if you're using lesser hardware you can use ANYTHING you want to make it seem cheaper. Now that it's all Intel, let's compare apples to apples now!
Come on...two systems with 20" widescreen screens that are cheaper than one iMac.
You're right, I didn't RTFA. I'll admit that now and I did screw up my reading of the words....I thought it meant he was "bitten" by the copy-protection love-bug that seems to be infecting many people nowadays.
Yes, mod my original post down...I was flying off the handle as usual.
But you must know that was all staged right? Even the banter in the beginning was just plain fake. "let me do some calculations...I give us a blah blah percent chance". I mean, what calculations are you frickin making there?
And besides, this is WoW...in which death means nothing except running back to your corpse.
Also, have you been where they were? did you see them all just like run around stepping on all the eggs and not even doing anything except letting themselves be killed?
Let's face it, if Leeroy had run in there by himself, my guild would have just stood there and let him die, then we'd rez him...that's it.
I mean, the voice talent alone. You have to get the people that do the voices of Philip J. Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Dr. Zoidberg, Zapp Brannigan, Leo Wong, and various other people. I mean that's 5 people right there you have to re-hire!
Can they find all these guys again? They could be anywhere! They may all have scheduling conflicts or something...
waiting for someone to state the obvious about this of course
Again, to be fair, this will be Blizzards first expansion to WoW and will offer many new things to many people....new and old....to the game.
I should warn you about EQ2 and D&DO. If you like seeing a loading screen every time you go into a new zone, then you may love these two games. D&DO is the worse though. I recently played the beta and a huge amount of the time was taken up just watching a loading screen. I mean, you hit a loading screen just entering a tavern!
I think Blizzard has been great though with WoW with much new content already added for free over the past year. You may want to check out Guild Wars also, since it's just a one time charge for the game and no monthly fees. They are always updating that game also, but for new content they will be coming out with expansions about one every 6 months or so. You don't HAVE to by the expansion of course. Even if you don't like PvP, Guild Wars has a TON of just PvE stuff in there that you can explore. And the game is simply gorgeous, one of the best looking games I've every played (and that's saying a lot since I've played video games since 1980).
From the article: "he added a final twist by adding naloxone, a drug that blocks the effects of morphine, to the saline. The shocking result? The pain-relieving power of saline solution disappeared."
If you read the orginal test report, the patients didn't know they were getting naloxone at all. they just thought they were getting their morphine shot...which wasn't a morphine shot but the placebo followed by the naloxone...which made the pain appear again. This is the inexplicable part. Neither the naloxone or the saline solution should have done anything...logically. Yet they both acted as if the saline solution was real morphine.
Nice! Also bring it up next year too for the end of 2006 foot-in-mouth awards. And the year after that.
Since this story was 2004 and you brought it up, (as I'm guessing to beat this very dead, rotting horse one more time) you seem to be wanting to make this an annual tradition!
Check the link you provided btw. Thursday, September 16, 2004.
RIAA Lawyers: "Wow, we were really losing there, there was no chance of us to win and we were actually about to drop the case...then her lawyer quit and said that she could defend herself. So we tripled the damages and we totally destroyed her life with our complete and utter victory over her case! WE CAN'T BE STOPPED! Oh, and by the way, don't forget to take 100,000 out of petty cash and give it to her ex lawyer per our agreement. Do the usual laundering of it so it can't come back to us...you know, our standard-operating-procedure. Just take it out of the payola fund."
Yes, 18000 people sure sounds like a lot, but since they just past 5 million subscriptions this is just a drop in the bucket.
And I'm sure it will only be days before the gold farmers they banned will be back up and running with fresh bought copies of the game. The draw of easy cash it just too alluring for these people to just stop. I'm not really sure how Blizzard is going to stop this.
Perhaps a better way is to ban the credit card that's being used to pay for the account. But that's not always easy as they can use a game card bought in a store.
Anyone have a solution to this problem? Or is it really a non-problem?
How does Stallman get paid? What does he do that he recieves a paycheck to you know...buy food, pay the bills...perhaps rent or a house payment? Where does his money come from?
Because it sounds like he doesn't accept money for any programming, and that's basically what he does all the time.
Does he work at a company that does something totally different than computers and computer related things? Does he work at Pier 1 or Dennys or where ever during the day and at night he programs and writes his manifestos?
I'm not trying to be a troll here, I honestly would like to know. He seems to be big on everything free as in beer AND free as in every other definition of the word. He seems to spend all his time working on free software and promoting GNU and all things GNU so how does he get compensated for all this?
That's a dumb reason to build PCs. It's not too damn hard to format and reinstall Windows on a new Dell.
Read again, I said it's ONE of the reasons why I build my own machines. Another is that I know exactly what is inside my machine so I'm not beholden to another company to try to figure out what is wrong (meaning sitting on the phone for 2 hours trying to get kicked up to a tier 2 customer service), then having to either ship it back (which is a pain), or having some strange person come to your house to look at it just to end up saying "yep, you need to send it back". I can fix a hardware problem in only a few moments usually, and if it's a component that's bad, NewEgg will cross ship the item back to me. Yes, it involves shipping which is a pain, but at least I'm the one in control.
And yes, I can build a high end machine/workstation cheaper than Dell/Gateway can. I'm not building machines that are low end where they would beat me at the price.
This is one of the reasons why I build my own machines.
People here and there write that "oh, you're a dinosaur, building your own machines...who has time for that? It's 2005, buy a system from Dell or Gateway and it will be cheaper".
WRONG. Everyone that writes and says their time is too valuable to build a machine (which let's face it, it takes only a couple of hours to assemble the parts) doesn't look at playing a game as wasting their valuable time. But how much time is lost trying to unload all the CRAP that Dell/Gateway/Compaq or whatever loads into the machine because they have special deals with all these companies? They even give you the system disk that is suppose to have Windows on it so you can reload it, yet even THAT loads on all the crap again and you're right back where you started.
It's BS. I'd rather just spend the money to buy Windows and load it and that's it. Then I load what I want on it. My sister-in-law just bought a Dell laptop and I looked at her processes and she had 28 user processes running on her machine! And she was wondering why it was running slow even though it was brand new. Know how many user processes I have running on this machine? 4....just 4.
Who had the most impact on peoples lives around the globe this year? Mother Nature.
The year started out with the Tsunami, went through the hurricane season and destroyed a whole city displacing what...about a million people? Not to mention the earthquakes and tornadoes through the year.
Nature had the most impact on people's lives this year. Much more so than Bono and the Gates'.
A pancake is a hotcake....so King Kong is selling like hotcakes! Cool, so this will be the biggest hit of the year then. AND it's a good movie to boot.
You know what? I would totally go back to playing the original EQ if they brought out a server that was everything pre Luclin.
I mean it. Just have the game that had content for the original game, and the first two expansions and THAT'S IT! No moon, no portals. Yes, have it still be a pain in the ass to get anywhere in the game. Have people in the tunnel in East Commonlands doing auctions. Have people gathered around the druid ring in West Commonlands looking for ports out of there.
I know, it was a huge pain in the ass...but you know what? It was fun! It was a huge community that totally died away when the portal stones came into being. The old world of EQ became a total ghost town.
It was an adventure if you were a barbarian in Halas having to fight and run your way to Freeport. I mean, the world of EQ seemed so much bigger back then! If you were in Qeynos, Freeport seemed to be SO far away and the only way of really getting there is to either find a kind Wizard to port you, or just run it.
Anyway, that's my take on it. Those days are gone forever and they will never ever return and now it's just not the game I remember at all. I haven't played EQ in about a year and a half now. It's dead as far as I'm concerned.
Well, doing the PnP version you could also do a form of this that drives the DM crazy.
DM: Ok, you're in a room with 3 barrels inside of it, what do you do?
Player1: My character does what is appropriate to find whatever clues are inside the room and discovers them if there are any.
DM: Um...what are you talking about?
Player1: Well, I'm role playing.
DM: what?
Player1: I'm role playing. I'm role playing a character that is smarter than I am. Since he would know what to do and I wouldn't, the only way I can say it is to tell you that he does the appropriate thing.
DM: Um, why don't you just tell me what he does.
Player1: Because I have no idea what he does. But that doesn't mean he wouldn't know what to do. Don't penalize my character just because the person playing him is dumber than he is.
Instead of making a 200 million dollar spectacular...just hire the guys at Rooster Teeth Productions to make a high-rez, full length Red vs. Blue movie using the Halo 2 engine...or perhaps even the Halo 3 engine.
There ya go, save some cash. Oh, I'll expect my consulting fee within the next few days.
Are you kidding? Bill Gates did a Frank Sinatra and just took a big wad of cash from his pocket and stripped off 32 million and an extra $50 and said "and here kid, get yourself a haircut".
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Actually, the LCD has the same specs as the Cinema displays. But of course the Cinema displays are much bigger...which is where their cost comes into play.
Check more into the 20" iMac and you'll see that they are a very high-quality display. Or just go into a Mac Store and see for yourself.
I'm a PC guy and I'm jazzed by these things. I'm going to get one.
Ok, I'll bite...for the same hardware that's in the 20" Intel iMac...with the x1800 and a 20" widescreen screen and a DVD-R and a 250 gig HD. Where are you going to buy two Intel x86 machines from scratch that both have a 20" widescreen LCD screens?
Or then again, I can buy 3 Mac Minis for the price of the new iMac too....if you're using lesser hardware you can use ANYTHING you want to make it seem cheaper. Now that it's all Intel, let's compare apples to apples now!
Come on...two systems with 20" widescreen screens that are cheaper than one iMac.
We'll wait...
You're right, I didn't RTFA. I'll admit that now and I did screw up my reading of the words....I thought it meant he was "bitten" by the copy-protection love-bug that seems to be infecting many people nowadays.
Yes, mod my original post down...I was flying off the handle as usual.
Continue on...
Oh come on...do you honestly think that it was Spielberg that sat down and said "ok, I want all these copy-protected with blah blah blah"?
Why didn't you all blame Neil Diamond when his new CD was one of the ones with the Sony rootkit fiasco tied into it?
Also, since Taco posted this...isn't this a dupe? I haven't checked but since he posted it I just assumed.
But you must know that was all staged right? Even the banter in the beginning was just plain fake. "let me do some calculations...I give us a blah blah percent chance". I mean, what calculations are you frickin making there?
And besides, this is WoW...in which death means nothing except running back to your corpse.
Also, have you been where they were? did you see them all just like run around stepping on all the eggs and not even doing anything except letting themselves be killed?
Let's face it, if Leeroy had run in there by himself, my guild would have just stood there and let him die, then we'd rez him...that's it.
I mean, it's a VERY funny video, but it's fake.
I mean, the voice talent alone. You have to get the people that do the voices of Philip J. Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Dr. Zoidberg, Zapp Brannigan, Leo Wong, and various other people. I mean that's 5 people right there you have to re-hire!
Can they find all these guys again? They could be anywhere! They may all have scheduling conflicts or something...
waiting for someone to state the obvious about this of course
Again, to be fair, this will be Blizzards first expansion to WoW and will offer many new things to many people....new and old....to the game.
I should warn you about EQ2 and D&DO. If you like seeing a loading screen every time you go into a new zone, then you may love these two games. D&DO is the worse though. I recently played the beta and a huge amount of the time was taken up just watching a loading screen. I mean, you hit a loading screen just entering a tavern!
I think Blizzard has been great though with WoW with much new content already added for free over the past year. You may want to check out Guild Wars also, since it's just a one time charge for the game and no monthly fees. They are always updating that game also, but for new content they will be coming out with expansions about one every 6 months or so. You don't HAVE to by the expansion of course. Even if you don't like PvP, Guild Wars has a TON of just PvE stuff in there that you can explore. And the game is simply gorgeous, one of the best looking games I've every played (and that's saying a lot since I've played video games since 1980).
If the canisters survived the crash...why not make the entire shuttle out of canisters!
Also, the black box survived so perhaps a shuttle made of the canisters INSIDE the material for the black box!
Why hasn't anyone else thought of this...do I have to do everything around here?
You're using logic...this isn't a logical thing.
From the article: "he added a final twist by adding naloxone, a drug that blocks the effects of morphine, to the saline. The shocking result? The pain-relieving power of saline solution disappeared."
If you read the orginal test report, the patients didn't know they were getting naloxone at all. they just thought they were getting their morphine shot...which wasn't a morphine shot but the placebo followed by the naloxone...which made the pain appear again. This is the inexplicable part. Neither the naloxone or the saline solution should have done anything...logically. Yet they both acted as if the saline solution was real morphine.
Sorry to see the contest ending. I was about to fire up Photoshop and make a cool logo for Gimp. Oh well, there's always the next contest.
Nice! Also bring it up next year too for the end of 2006 foot-in-mouth awards. And the year after that.
Since this story was 2004 and you brought it up, (as I'm guessing to beat this very dead, rotting horse one more time) you seem to be wanting to make this an annual tradition!
Check the link you provided btw. Thursday, September 16, 2004.
Really.
RIAA Lawyers: "Wow, we were really losing there, there was no chance of us to win and we were actually about to drop the case...then her lawyer quit and said that she could defend herself. So we tripled the damages and we totally destroyed her life with our complete and utter victory over her case! WE CAN'T BE STOPPED! Oh, and by the way, don't forget to take 100,000 out of petty cash and give it to her ex lawyer per our agreement. Do the usual laundering of it so it can't come back to us...you know, our standard-operating-procedure. Just take it out of the payola fund."
Yes, 18000 people sure sounds like a lot, but since they just past 5 million subscriptions this is just a drop in the bucket.
And I'm sure it will only be days before the gold farmers they banned will be back up and running with fresh bought copies of the game. The draw of easy cash it just too alluring for these people to just stop. I'm not really sure how Blizzard is going to stop this.
Perhaps a better way is to ban the credit card that's being used to pay for the account. But that's not always easy as they can use a game card bought in a store.
Anyone have a solution to this problem? Or is it really a non-problem?
I've heard about the Rosetta Stone system of learning on the radio...but has anyone tried it out? Any good?
Just wondering.
How does Stallman get paid? What does he do that he recieves a paycheck to you know...buy food, pay the bills...perhaps rent or a house payment? Where does his money come from?
Because it sounds like he doesn't accept money for any programming, and that's basically what he does all the time.
Does he work at a company that does something totally different than computers and computer related things? Does he work at Pier 1 or Dennys or where ever during the day and at night he programs and writes his manifestos?
I'm not trying to be a troll here, I honestly would like to know. He seems to be big on everything free as in beer AND free as in every other definition of the word. He seems to spend all his time working on free software and promoting GNU and all things GNU so how does he get compensated for all this?
That's a dumb reason to build PCs. It's not too damn hard to format and reinstall Windows on a new Dell.
Read again, I said it's ONE of the reasons why I build my own machines. Another is that I know exactly what is inside my machine so I'm not beholden to another company to try to figure out what is wrong (meaning sitting on the phone for 2 hours trying to get kicked up to a tier 2 customer service), then having to either ship it back (which is a pain), or having some strange person come to your house to look at it just to end up saying "yep, you need to send it back". I can fix a hardware problem in only a few moments usually, and if it's a component that's bad, NewEgg will cross ship the item back to me. Yes, it involves shipping which is a pain, but at least I'm the one in control.
And yes, I can build a high end machine/workstation cheaper than Dell/Gateway can. I'm not building machines that are low end where they would beat me at the price.
I DO like Dells widescreen monitors though.
This is one of the reasons why I build my own machines.
People here and there write that "oh, you're a dinosaur, building your own machines...who has time for that? It's 2005, buy a system from Dell or Gateway and it will be cheaper".
WRONG. Everyone that writes and says their time is too valuable to build a machine (which let's face it, it takes only a couple of hours to assemble the parts) doesn't look at playing a game as wasting their valuable time. But how much time is lost trying to unload all the CRAP that Dell/Gateway/Compaq or whatever loads into the machine because they have special deals with all these companies? They even give you the system disk that is suppose to have Windows on it so you can reload it, yet even THAT loads on all the crap again and you're right back where you started.
It's BS. I'd rather just spend the money to buy Windows and load it and that's it. Then I load what I want on it. My sister-in-law just bought a Dell laptop and I looked at her processes and she had 28 user processes running on her machine! And she was wondering why it was running slow even though it was brand new. Know how many user processes I have running on this machine? 4....just 4.
I'll build my own computers thank you.
Now if only they would end IE for Windows.
Yes, this is totally untrue and no they didn't spend a bunch of money to digitally take it out.
Sheesh EvilElf....nice how you actually go about researching a story. Heck, one google search on this would show you that this is totally made up.
And also kudos to CmdrTaco for posting this....you submit anything now?
Who had the most impact on peoples lives around the globe this year? Mother Nature.
The year started out with the Tsunami, went through the hurricane season and destroyed a whole city displacing what...about a million people? Not to mention the earthquakes and tornadoes through the year.
Nature had the most impact on people's lives this year. Much more so than Bono and the Gates'.
King Kong is flopping like a pancake...
A pancake is a hotcake....so King Kong is selling like hotcakes! Cool, so this will be the biggest hit of the year then. AND it's a good movie to boot.
Thanks for your insight.
You know what? I would totally go back to playing the original EQ if they brought out a server that was everything pre Luclin.
I mean it. Just have the game that had content for the original game, and the first two expansions and THAT'S IT! No moon, no portals. Yes, have it still be a pain in the ass to get anywhere in the game. Have people in the tunnel in East Commonlands doing auctions. Have people gathered around the druid ring in West Commonlands looking for ports out of there.
I know, it was a huge pain in the ass...but you know what? It was fun! It was a huge community that totally died away when the portal stones came into being. The old world of EQ became a total ghost town.
It was an adventure if you were a barbarian in Halas having to fight and run your way to Freeport. I mean, the world of EQ seemed so much bigger back then! If you were in Qeynos, Freeport seemed to be SO far away and the only way of really getting there is to either find a kind Wizard to port you, or just run it.
Anyway, that's my take on it. Those days are gone forever and they will never ever return and now it's just not the game I remember at all. I haven't played EQ in about a year and a half now. It's dead as far as I'm concerned.
Well, doing the PnP version you could also do a form of this that drives the DM crazy.
DM: Ok, you're in a room with 3 barrels inside of it, what do you do?
Player1: My character does what is appropriate to find whatever clues are inside the room and discovers them if there are any.
DM: Um...what are you talking about?
Player1: Well, I'm role playing.
DM: what?
Player1: I'm role playing. I'm role playing a character that is smarter than I am. Since he would know what to do and I wouldn't, the only way I can say it is to tell you that he does the appropriate thing.
DM: Um, why don't you just tell me what he does.
Player1: Because I have no idea what he does. But that doesn't mean he wouldn't know what to do. Don't penalize my character just because the person playing him is dumber than he is.
DM: Ok, I quit...is there any Mountain Dew left?
Instead of making a 200 million dollar spectacular...just hire the guys at Rooster Teeth Productions to make a high-rez, full length Red vs. Blue movie using the Halo 2 engine...or perhaps even the Halo 3 engine.
There ya go, save some cash. Oh, I'll expect my consulting fee within the next few days.
Are you kidding? Bill Gates did a Frank Sinatra and just took a big wad of cash from his pocket and stripped off 32 million and an extra $50 and said "and here kid, get yourself a haircut".