They're wankers. The thing was in the 80s they were so proud of their fans for promoting them and made sure to say how they weren't selling out and not an MTV band. Oh they only made a video of "One" because of the message of the song and the existing film footage from Johnny Got His Gun. And then the next album was full of MTV friendly 3 minutes songs with corresponding pointless videos. Metal lite for their new MTV fans. I don't really care, I'm sure that the lure of the money would have made me change just the same way had I been in their shoes. I just don't think you can say that they changed due to artistic reasons. They changed because all of a sudden they were able to make a fuckton of money. They had to change their style to create appeal to more fans. To become more commercial and make more money. The further insult of the Napster era was that in the old days Metallica gained fans through cassette tape bootlegs being passed around. They themselves made a big point of acknowledging that their early success came from the fans. The fans and methods that enabled them to have any career at all were now being condemned as taking money out of their pockets. You are right, Lars is a little bitch. A whiny little bitch.
Are you kidding? Amiga's were cheaper than PC clones. At the time there weren't PC clones in the under $1000 price range. Amiga always had a low cost model from the A500 to the A600 to the A1200. The only Amiga that would have cost $5000 would have been a top of the line Amiga 4000 WITH a Video Toaster thrown in. Now if you want to take about Macintosh costs - sure a color Mac II could easily set you back $5000.
Does philanthropy have to be a sacrifice? You could say that his sacrifice can in the risks he took during the early years of Microsoft to (by hook or by crook) create a company worth such a ridiculous amount of money. With that sacrifice in the past he can now afford to donate more than most people ever will in a lifetime in an hour and to him that amount is the financial equivalent of you buying a cheeseburger. He certainly could choose NOT to donate anything. Although I'm sure giving to charities pays off in terms of tax breaks.
The point in building a "colony" in a hostile environment ON Earth is to develop technologies to create enclosed self sustaining habitats. It would be infinitely cheaper I absolutely do not think you can compare the moon shots to the difficulty of a sustained colony. Despite increases in technology we have actually lost a lot of experience in rocket building due to the changes in the space program and aging engineers. I do think the moon would have to be a stepping stone but I don't think shouting "moon colony by the end of the decade" alone would get us there.
Huh. I've had no problems with Ubuntu on VMware Fusion. The video works fine straight through the install. I wonder if this is an issue with Parallels.
I don't think most people understand exactly how hostile every other planet in this solar system is to human life. You may as well build a "colony" on Antarctica or under the sea. It would certainly be easier. At least you wouldn't have to hurl your materials out of the planetary gravity well. You'd have an abundance of water to play with too.
It is pretty easy to get to 70 now if you do a lot of instances. The XP rewards from instance runs are huge. I hit 70 and had only quested through Hellfire, Zangarmarch and Nagrand. That's less than half the quest content in Outlands. The big issue is as a healer I constantly get requests for Heroic runs when I'm not geared for it. The act of gearing up post 70 seems to take as long as the leveling. Hitting 70 this late in the game means you are likely to well over geared by 95% of the level 70s around you. I've just learned to turn down runs I know I am obviously not geared for and am slowly working on the transition from 70 blues to epics. And forget SSC or BT, just run Kara with 70 quest reward blues and greens. It quickly illustrates how important gear is.
I think the opening scene of Temple of Doom is brilliantly done. The one, two punch of whining Willy and Short Round shouting "No time for love Dr. Jones!" I could have done without. I think Temple of Doom is much better than Last Crusade. Raiders on the other hand is probably a better overall story and movie but I agree with your point about Temple of Doom and multiple viewings.
Hell, I'd pay up to $1500 for a mini-tower with a 8800GTS Nvidia card, 4 DIMM slots, 2 PCIE slots and room for 2 internal hard drives. In particular if it supported an option for a single quad core CPU. I hate built in monitors. I hate integrated video cards. I want more than one internal hard drive. I would be HAPPY to pay for the flexibility over the iMac and don't care about not having it bundled with a monitor. The Mac Pro is ridiculously expensive. Xeons and fully buffered DIMMs are not necessary for most people using them. I've used them and they are nicely built computers but no way can I justify the cost especially when what you pay for does not give you additional performance in most situations (compare expensive DDR2 FBDIMMs to DD3 for example).
What you fail to understand is the Spielberg is in cahoots with the aliens. At the time they wished to conduct anal probing experiments on young children of the human species. E.T. was created using authentic alien spacecraft images. When children saw these craft coming for them in the middle of the night their parents dismissed it as the result of overactive imaginations and viewing E.T.
Actually before the unveiling of the F-117 there was MUCH speculation as to the existence of a secret stealth fighter. There was in fact a game released called F-19 Stealth Fighter. There was also the speculative Testor's model kit of a F-19 Stealth Fighter from the early 80s that caused much uproar on the US senate floor. The "stealth fighter" was much speculated before it was revealed. Designation was assumed to be F-19. Of course when the F-117 was revealed it looked nothing like the model designs .
The bird he was referring to was the SR-71. As he notes the B-52 had it's avionics upgraded in the 90s. The SR-71 was retired and never received upgrades.
So we can't spend $3 million on a game that might help foster scientific interest and education but we do spend tax dollars on a U.S. military recruiting and propaganda game? I guess that makes sense given the administration.
Nope. He's using two cards to drive three total monitors. He is not using two cards in SLI to render 3D to one display. You can plug more than one card in to independently drive multiple displays on a Mac. You can't use SLI however.
How would it make the game not get stale? Rerunning the same quests in lvl 1-20 zones over again because you accidentally ran into a couple bears you couldn't handle? Not too mention that many of WoW's encounters almost guarantee you will die the first try or second try until you get your strategy down (especially in instances and raiding).
I hear that. Basically if you getting experience from questing and especially soloing you will level very slowly. You get about 10,000xp per quest turn in. If you can afford a 1-3 hour session the better route is to run the instances. I mostly do pickup groups which of course can be painful but still generally worth it. With rested XP you should get over 1000xp per standard kill. I did 60-62 mostly through questing and it took me about the same time to lvl 62-66 mostly through instance runs. Some of the Outlands instances are pretty short too. Hellfire Ramparts only takes about an hour. You will generally get better items than from questing as well.
"A game console IS a computer. The C64 was a gaming platform. The revisionists stories always refer to the C64 as being a pull away from video games. It wasn't. It was simply the gaming platform that helped bury the Atari 2600."
There was a fundamental difference in perception. A computer could be justified as a purchase for your kid because they could use it for school. At the time of the video game "crash" anything branded as a video game did not sell. As an avid video gaming kid I recall Toys R Us actually dropping the word video games from their commercial jingle. It sure wasn't just the Atari that got hit. There were numerous systems on the market (over saturation in fact). Prior to the shift in interest by the public the Colecovision was doing well as a next gen "killer" system. I recall vast dumping into bargain bins of ANY console or console games. Atari 2600, 5200, Colecovision, Intellivision and lots of small players like the Vectrex, Odyssey and Arcadia systems. Not to mention many 3rd party companies that didn't make the shift to computers. Yes electronic gaming moved to computers until Nintendo reclaimed public opinion about video games but for many people of my generation (I was born in 72) video gaming stopped after Atari lost popularity.
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They're wankers. The thing was in the 80s they were so proud of their fans for promoting them and made sure to say how they weren't selling out and not an MTV band. Oh they only made a video of "One" because of the message of the song and the existing film footage from Johnny Got His Gun.
And then the next album was full of MTV friendly 3 minutes songs with corresponding pointless videos. Metal lite for their new MTV fans.
I don't really care, I'm sure that the lure of the money would have made me change just the same way had I been in their shoes. I just don't think you can say that they changed due to artistic reasons. They changed because all of a sudden they were able to make a fuckton of money.
They had to change their style to create appeal to more fans. To become more commercial and make more money.
The further insult of the Napster era was that in the old days Metallica gained fans through cassette tape bootlegs being passed around. They themselves made a big point of acknowledging that their early success came from the fans. The fans and methods that enabled them to have any career at all were now being condemned as taking money out of their pockets.
You are right, Lars is a little bitch. A whiny little bitch.
Except that large amounts of people live in apartment buildings where space is at a premium and loud noises are against the tenant rules.
Are you kidding? Amiga's were cheaper than PC clones. At the time there weren't PC clones in the under $1000 price range. Amiga always had a low cost model from the A500 to the A600 to the A1200.
The only Amiga that would have cost $5000 would have been a top of the line Amiga 4000 WITH a Video Toaster thrown in.
Now if you want to take about Macintosh costs - sure a color Mac II could easily set you back $5000.
Does philanthropy have to be a sacrifice?
You could say that his sacrifice can in the risks he took during the early years of Microsoft to (by hook or by crook) create a company worth such a ridiculous amount of money. With that sacrifice in the past he can now afford to donate more than most people ever will in a lifetime in an hour and to him that amount is the financial equivalent of you buying a cheeseburger.
He certainly could choose NOT to donate anything. Although I'm sure giving to charities pays off in terms of tax breaks.
Neither of these items is a requirement for an operating system. Nowadays for a MODERN OS sure. When Windows 3.1 was out:
1. Mac OS didn't have memory protection or preemptive multitasking
2. AmigaOS didn't have memory protection.
These were the common consumer operating systems at the time in addition to Windows.
The point in building a "colony" in a hostile environment ON Earth is to develop technologies to create enclosed self sustaining habitats. It would be infinitely cheaper
I absolutely do not think you can compare the moon shots to the difficulty of a sustained colony. Despite increases in technology we have actually lost a lot of experience in rocket building due to the changes in the space program and aging engineers.
I do think the moon would have to be a stepping stone but I don't think shouting "moon colony by the end of the decade" alone would get us there.
Huh. I've had no problems with Ubuntu on VMware Fusion. The video works fine straight through the install. I wonder if this is an issue with Parallels.
I don't think most people understand exactly how hostile every other planet in this solar system is to human life. You may as well build a "colony" on Antarctica or under the sea. It would certainly be easier. At least you wouldn't have to hurl your materials out of the planetary gravity well. You'd have an abundance of water to play with too.
Our personal favorite for Wikipedia is "Six degrees of anal sex". You'd be amazed how few steps it takes to go from Rush Limbaugh to butt piracy.
It is pretty easy to get to 70 now if you do a lot of instances. The XP rewards from instance runs are huge. I hit 70 and had only quested through Hellfire, Zangarmarch and Nagrand. That's less than half the quest content in Outlands.
The big issue is as a healer I constantly get requests for Heroic runs when I'm not geared for it. The act of gearing up post 70 seems to take as long as the leveling. Hitting 70 this late in the game means you are likely to well over geared by 95% of the level 70s around you.
I've just learned to turn down runs I know I am obviously not geared for and am slowly working on the transition from 70 blues to epics.
And forget SSC or BT, just run Kara with 70 quest reward blues and greens. It quickly illustrates how important gear is.
I think the opening scene of Temple of Doom is brilliantly done. The one, two punch of whining Willy and Short Round shouting "No time for love Dr. Jones!" I could have done without.
I think Temple of Doom is much better than Last Crusade. Raiders on the other hand is probably a better overall story and movie but I agree with your point about Temple of Doom and multiple viewings.
I don't know if you were serious or not but Rise of Nations has been out on Mac for a long time:
Rise of Nations for Mac
"or something else that demands all of the performance they can get."
Too bad the Mac Pro uses DDR2 FBDIMMs considering that performance wise they have been surpassed for quite some time.
Hell, I'd pay up to $1500 for a mini-tower with a 8800GTS Nvidia card, 4 DIMM slots, 2 PCIE slots and room for 2 internal hard drives. In particular if it supported an option for a single quad core CPU.
I hate built in monitors. I hate integrated video cards. I want more than one internal hard drive. I would be HAPPY to pay for the flexibility over the iMac and don't care about not having it bundled with a monitor.
The Mac Pro is ridiculously expensive. Xeons and fully buffered DIMMs are not necessary for most people using them. I've used them and they are nicely built computers but no way can I justify the cost especially when what you pay for does not give you additional performance in most situations (compare expensive DDR2 FBDIMMs to DD3 for example).
What you fail to understand is the Spielberg is in cahoots with the aliens. At the time they wished to conduct anal probing experiments on young children of the human species. E.T. was created using authentic alien spacecraft images. When children saw these craft coming for them in the middle of the night their parents dismissed it as the result of overactive imaginations and viewing E.T.
Best I ever did was:
Linux on the base hardware
Windows on VMWare
Winuae Amiga emulator on Windows
MAME arcade emulator on Amiga
Dig Dug on MAME
Well that's what happens when you take an application designed for making non-interactive 2D animations and turn it into a development platform.
"Someone in the group who WAS previously convicted of serial murder."
Sturgeon wasn't convicted of serial murder. He confessed to 8 murders but has not been convicted.
He's a nutjob and may just be lying about it.
Actually before the unveiling of the F-117 there was MUCH speculation as to the existence of a secret stealth fighter. There was in fact a game released called F-19 Stealth Fighter.
There was also the speculative Testor's model kit of a F-19 Stealth Fighter from the early 80s that caused much uproar on the US senate floor.
The "stealth fighter" was much speculated before it was revealed. Designation was assumed to be F-19. Of course when the F-117 was revealed it looked nothing like the model designs .
The bird he was referring to was the SR-71. As he notes the B-52 had it's avionics upgraded in the 90s. The SR-71 was retired and never received upgrades.
So we can't spend $3 million on a game that might help foster scientific interest and education but we do spend tax dollars on a U.S. military recruiting and propaganda game?
I guess that makes sense given the administration.
Nope. He's using two cards to drive three total monitors. He is not using two cards in SLI to render 3D to one display. You can plug more than one card in to independently drive multiple displays on a Mac. You can't use SLI however.
How would it make the game not get stale? Rerunning the same quests in lvl 1-20 zones over again because you accidentally ran into a couple bears you couldn't handle?
Not too mention that many of WoW's encounters almost guarantee you will die the first try or second try until you get your strategy down (especially in instances and raiding).
I hear that. Basically if you getting experience from questing and especially soloing you will level very slowly. You get about 10,000xp per quest turn in.
If you can afford a 1-3 hour session the better route is to run the instances. I mostly do pickup groups which of course can be painful but still generally worth it. With rested XP you should get over 1000xp per standard kill.
I did 60-62 mostly through questing and it took me about the same time to lvl 62-66 mostly through instance runs.
Some of the Outlands instances are pretty short too. Hellfire Ramparts only takes about an hour. You will generally get better items than from questing as well.
"A game console IS a computer. The C64 was a gaming platform. The revisionists stories always refer to the C64 as being a pull away from video games. It wasn't. It was simply the gaming platform that helped bury the Atari 2600."
There was a fundamental difference in perception. A computer could be justified as a purchase for your kid because they could use it for school. At the time of the video game "crash" anything branded as a video game did not sell. As an avid video gaming kid I recall Toys R Us actually dropping the word video games from their commercial jingle.
It sure wasn't just the Atari that got hit. There were numerous systems on the market (over saturation in fact). Prior to the shift in interest by the public the Colecovision was doing well as a next gen "killer" system. I recall vast dumping into bargain bins of ANY console or console games. Atari 2600, 5200, Colecovision, Intellivision and lots of small players like the Vectrex, Odyssey and Arcadia systems. Not to mention many 3rd party companies that didn't make the shift to computers.
Yes electronic gaming moved to computers until Nintendo reclaimed public opinion about video games but for many people of my generation (I was born in 72) video gaming stopped after Atari lost popularity.