Hard drive on top of a PA speaker magnet (not mounted in anything - raw woofer) wiped the drive. 10 minutes on each side.. was unable to recover it. The drive was still recognized as physically attached by the bios, but the original ID strings (make/model/size/etc) were random characters. Partitioning/formatting/low level formatting.. none of it worked to get it usable again.
Still have it (no longer have any internal ide drive bays - laptop ftw!) - wonder if it'll blend?
I haven't picked up TP yet (too many games im playing now) but I intend to when the queue lessens a bit. I got the demo on XBL and thoroughly enjoyed it. Generally I purchase my games after playing the demo.
Schools are claiming the work not because the students are using the equipment, but because they learned the knowledge to design/create/whathaveyou because of the university itself - the teaching, classes, assignments, etc. If you do something while at school, there's no way it could not have been influenced by school resources, simply because you are part of a school.
See that's the thing.. it doesn't matter what you want Apple to sell you, you have to decide if what Apple will sell you is what you want. And since it apparently isn't something you're interested in, you in turn have to forgo OSX.
Hayes Smartmodem 2400 here! It made chrome and blank household appliances cool way before the kitchen style fad kicked in. Still have it some place too.. (/oldfart)
No way... with Doom 3, the lack of shotgun&&flashlight totally added to the immersion. You couldn't fire while seeing what was headed toward you - and the resulting firefight freak out panic fest totally made you crap your pants. And it did this because it got into your head, under your skin. A la immersion.
I really have a hard time believing people who claim Doom3 wasn't good/didn't scare/whatever. Yeah, it had exactly 0 replay value. And playing it a 2nd time sucked (unless you're a real fan).
But the first time it was played, it completely crushed. It scared the shit out of people. And it was able to do this because of people being immersed in it. The atmosphere created, the methods for fighting - it all set up the right suspension of disbelief.
Will an eWMD kill or physically harm anyone?
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If not, coining it as WMD just creates more fud and hysteria.
because there are no install limitations. The industry does have the right to protect against piracy, but not at the expense of making a legit owner purchase a 2nd time. This fixes it.
Photo editing (of the kind that graphics design people do) requires huge amounts of ram.. just fyi. HUGE.
Re:There are some things you don't ever touch.
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Nothing personal.. but don't go see it. If you don't think you can deal with the differences between what you expect/want and what you think will be delivered with this movie, don't see it. If you do decide see it, see it for what it is. Someone somewhere considered ST important enough (even if it was for financial gain) to have a stab at bringing the story to a new and younger audience.
Thinking and it's kind of philosophical and doubtless not make much sense. ST has been and always will be about the future and 'what could be'. All of the STs that we've all enjoyed have already happened. They are old news and while they mean a lot to us, they're done with. This new ST will be new, fresh and quite probably inspire our younger generations the way we all were by movies from our youth.
The original ST no doubt had an impact on you. For me, it was the movie Jurassic Park. There's Land of the Lost and all of those other early movies, but none of them grasped me the way JP did. It impacted me on some extremely personal level (and quite literally shaped my interests and focus as I grew) that could not have happened with something older and less relatable.
You don't have to see or enjoy the new ST. But you shouldn't dismiss that it will very likely have an impact - much like it did you - on future generations of/. readers for years to come.
The US as a single entity doesn't respect science like it used to.
There are a lot of factors involved.. some of them: rise of conservative/faith based (rather than reason based) thinking, the 'coolness' factor of technology (video games are finally cool, but that's about it). Also, there's a significant amount of apathy or malaise about tech now. The US pioneered or introduced so many things for so long that people have become complacent and don't really need or want to think beyond 'now'. Because we were once great there's the assumption we will always be great (hah there's faith based thinking again).
People who buy used games generally don't buy used when it's a new/recent release. People buy used when the game is 6 months old and goes for $15-20 less than a new copy.
Recent: Silent Hill 5 new $59.99 used $54.99 6+ months: Alone in the Dark new $39.99 used $19-24.99
I bought Silent Hill new in-spite of a potential savings of $5, but I bought AOTD used because I saved just under $20 new.
I'm not a hardcore MMO player.. but I've played WOW, Anarchy Online, Guild Wars and TR (picked it up at a firesale at Target). TR SUCKS. I played 3 days out of the free initial month before I canceled billing.
The interface was backwards and counter intuitive, the mechanics of the game didn't make much sense nor did the story. Not to mention the performance was pretty horrible (MBPro, 256mb video, etc).
I read a bunch of reviews explaining the game and I know that point was that it was intended to reinvent what an MMO game is - and maybe it did so. But in doing that, it had next to ZERO mass appeal. The things that it changed to 'be different' didn't make sense why they were changed - and what was put in place instead felt tacked on, confusing and backwards.
Honestly, I can't think of a single thing I experienced during my limited run with it that was superior, or even on par with other MMOs. YMMV.
Having worked for a school system in a high up, prominent and public position (I've since quit), I concur that schools are overprotective and do blow things out of proportion. But this happens only because the parents force it this way.
Parents sue teachers, principles, staff for giving their children detention. For attempting to break up a fights that their child took part in (reasoning that the staffer handled their child). Parents attempt to sue because of inclement weather (which is why schools are closed for ridiculous things like rain or haze) or weather related changes to the calendar causing vacation issues. Now factor in the fundamentalist who will sue over damn near anything that they personally disagree with (we actually had board members - who were voted in by like minded ideologues - who home schooled their children while attempting to reform/introduce dogma into the public schools). And school computer systems are locked down because some kid somewhere abused the system (racy pics on myspace, or something else equally PG-13 - that infuriated a standoff parent) and some staffer somewhere caught hell for it.
Seriously.. Yes. Schools aren't great. Yes. Schools should be doing a better job educating. But parents are by far the collective bigger screw-ups when it comes to school system policy than the school system itself.
Yeah.. frustrates me too. All the time now, we're seeing 'why..' or 'what's the point in...'
Nerds aren't nerds anymore.
Nerds played Doom/Quake/Duke/Keen before Halo made gaming (and talking about it) cool for everyone else. Nerds hacked together 10baseT networks (or lesser/older tech) at their homes, in dorms, etc long before. Nerds know what x/y/z/kermit protocols are (and wrote the software to pull it off). Nerds attended lan parties and got made fun of for it. All these everyone-else-types just like technology and see Slashdot as their spot to vocalize.
We DO THESE THINGS because we CAN and we WANT TO!! Now stop asking what's the point.
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The problem.. your dad's price won't go down in relation to how much bandwidth he does or doesn't use. The 250GB downloader's price will only go up.
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I've tried the magnet thing..
Hard drive on top of a PA speaker magnet (not mounted in anything - raw woofer) wiped the drive. 10 minutes on each side.. was unable to recover it. The drive was still recognized as physically attached by the bios, but the original ID strings (make/model/size/etc) were random characters. Partitioning/formatting/low level formatting.. none of it worked to get it usable again.
Still have it (no longer have any internal ide drive bays - laptop ftw!) - wonder if it'll blend?
I haven't picked up TP yet (too many games im playing now) but I intend to when the queue lessens a bit. I got the demo on XBL and thoroughly enjoyed it. Generally I purchase my games after playing the demo.
Their own bankruptcy?
Consumers are clearly using their purchase power to go where the deals are (online). BB will be the next to go if they don't compete.
That doesn't work.
Schools are claiming the work not because the students are using the equipment, but because they learned the knowledge to design/create/whathaveyou because of the university itself - the teaching, classes, assignments, etc. If you do something while at school, there's no way it could not have been influenced by school resources, simply because you are part of a school.
See that's the thing.. it doesn't matter what you want Apple to sell you, you have to decide if what Apple will sell you is what you want. And since it apparently isn't something you're interested in, you in turn have to forgo OSX.
I don't understand why this is hard to grasp.
Hayes Smartmodem 2400 here! It made chrome and blank household appliances cool way before the kitchen style fad kicked in. Still have it some place too.. (/oldfart)
You can't buy a good PC for $500 or less. You can buy a functional PC for $500 or less.
No way... with Doom 3, the lack of shotgun&&flashlight totally added to the immersion. You couldn't fire while seeing what was headed toward you - and the resulting firefight freak out panic fest totally made you crap your pants. And it did this because it got into your head, under your skin. A la immersion.
I really have a hard time believing people who claim Doom3 wasn't good/didn't scare/whatever. Yeah, it had exactly 0 replay value. And playing it a 2nd time sucked (unless you're a real fan).
But the first time it was played, it completely crushed. It scared the shit out of people. And it was able to do this because of people being immersed in it. The atmosphere created, the methods for fighting - it all set up the right suspension of disbelief.
If not, coining it as WMD just creates more fud and hysteria.
because there are no install limitations. The industry does have the right to protect against piracy, but not at the expense of making a legit owner purchase a 2nd time. This fixes it.
Photo editing (of the kind that graphics design people do) requires huge amounts of ram.. just fyi. HUGE.
Nothing personal.. but don't go see it. If you don't think you can deal with the differences between what you expect/want and what you think will be delivered with this movie, don't see it. If you do decide see it, see it for what it is. Someone somewhere considered ST important enough (even if it was for financial gain) to have a stab at bringing the story to a new and younger audience.
Thinking and it's kind of philosophical and doubtless not make much sense. ST has been and always will be about the future and 'what could be'. All of the STs that we've all enjoyed have already happened. They are old news and while they mean a lot to us, they're done with. This new ST will be new, fresh and quite probably inspire our younger generations the way we all were by movies from our youth.
The original ST no doubt had an impact on you. For me, it was the movie Jurassic Park. There's Land of the Lost and all of those other early movies, but none of them grasped me the way JP did. It impacted me on some extremely personal level (and quite literally shaped my interests and focus as I grew) that could not have happened with something older and less relatable.
You don't have to see or enjoy the new ST. But you shouldn't dismiss that it will very likely have an impact - much like it did you - on future generations of /. readers for years to come.
The US as a single entity doesn't respect science like it used to.
There are a lot of factors involved.. some of them: rise of conservative/faith based (rather than reason based) thinking, the 'coolness' factor of technology (video games are finally cool, but that's about it). Also, there's a significant amount of apathy or malaise about tech now. The US pioneered or introduced so many things for so long that people have become complacent and don't really need or want to think beyond 'now'. Because we were once great there's the assumption we will always be great (hah there's faith based thinking again).
People who buy used games generally don't buy used when it's a new/recent release. People buy used when the game is 6 months old and goes for $15-20 less than a new copy.
Recent: Silent Hill 5 new $59.99 used $54.99
6+ months: Alone in the Dark new $39.99 used $19-24.99
I bought Silent Hill new in-spite of a potential savings of $5, but I bought AOTD used because I saved just under $20 new.
I'm not a hardcore MMO player.. but I've played WOW, Anarchy Online, Guild Wars and TR (picked it up at a firesale at Target). TR SUCKS. I played 3 days out of the free initial month before I canceled billing.
The interface was backwards and counter intuitive, the mechanics of the game didn't make much sense nor did the story. Not to mention the performance was pretty horrible (MBPro, 256mb video, etc).
I read a bunch of reviews explaining the game and I know that point was that it was intended to reinvent what an MMO game is - and maybe it did so. But in doing that, it had next to ZERO mass appeal. The things that it changed to 'be different' didn't make sense why they were changed - and what was put in place instead felt tacked on, confusing and backwards.
Honestly, I can't think of a single thing I experienced during my limited run with it that was superior, or even on par with other MMOs. YMMV.
Windows 3, Win NT 4, Win [9]5/98, Win2k/xp/2k3/vista = 6, now Windows 7.
Afaict, they are naming by significantly changed kernels.
Man does not live by hand alone.
I thought Yahoo gave MS the finger a few months ago. MS offered $33/share for Yahoo, who is now worth $14. Epic phail for Yahoo.
Possibly.. but as it's Apple, it also works very well and very easily.
(I don't have an iphone, but do have a mac - and most things mac work very well and very easily).
Tabula Rasa wasn't worth the $4.98 + free month I bought it for on clearance at Target.
Alone In The Dark (new one) for $7.98 on the other hand... great game.
Most polls regard McCain-leaning non-committed voters as 'highly religious' and 'less well-educated'.
Kinda makes sense really..
Maybe it's just me, but I'm not sure when intellect and striving for something greater became bad things in the US..
Revoke your geek username and card immediately. If you have to ask why, you aren't /. 's original target audience.
Having worked for a school system in a high up, prominent and public position (I've since quit), I concur that schools are overprotective and do blow things out of proportion. But this happens only because the parents force it this way.
Parents sue teachers, principles, staff for giving their children detention. For attempting to break up a fights that their child took part in (reasoning that the staffer handled their child). Parents attempt to sue because of inclement weather (which is why schools are closed for ridiculous things like rain or haze) or weather related changes to the calendar causing vacation issues. Now factor in the fundamentalist who will sue over damn near anything that they personally disagree with (we actually had board members - who were voted in by like minded ideologues - who home schooled their children while attempting to reform/introduce dogma into the public schools). And school computer systems are locked down because some kid somewhere abused the system (racy pics on myspace, or something else equally PG-13 - that infuriated a standoff parent) and some staffer somewhere caught hell for it.
Seriously.. Yes. Schools aren't great. Yes. Schools should be doing a better job educating. But parents are by far the collective bigger screw-ups when it comes to school system policy than the school system itself.
Yeah.. frustrates me too. All the time now, we're seeing 'why..' or 'what's the point in...'
Nerds aren't nerds anymore.
Nerds played Doom/Quake/Duke/Keen before Halo made gaming (and talking about it) cool for everyone else. Nerds hacked together 10baseT networks (or lesser/older tech) at their homes, in dorms, etc long before. Nerds know what x/y/z/kermit protocols are (and wrote the software to pull it off). Nerds attended lan parties and got made fun of for it. All these everyone-else-types just like technology and see Slashdot as their spot to vocalize.
We DO THESE THINGS because we CAN and we WANT TO!! Now stop asking what's the point.
The problem.. your dad's price won't go down in relation to how much bandwidth he does or doesn't use. The 250GB downloader's price will only go up.