But I don't see how downloading episodes of Lost for $1.99 a piece at 320x240 resolution beats what I've got on my cable box, which has thousands of TV shows available at any given moment for free. Easy - say you missed Lost last week. Didn't tape it? You're screwed. And since the story is continuing, you'd miss stuff. You might even stop watching (and then get the DVD later), rather than risk that loss. Networks have traditionally shown the show ONCE that week, until repeats.
This is a way, albeit expensive, around that. And it also leads the way for higher-res downloads. Personally, I'd like to see Amazon offer something like "order the DVD, and you can watch the episodes online!". They do that with pre-orders on some music.
(and yes, I know Lost is apparently shown on Saturdays as a rerun - but there's only a handful of shows "echoed" like that)
A lot of people I work with have their email set to check every five minutes...some every minute! And those of us who work in a MS environment have Outlook, which continually checks email. Although, yes, you can turn off the pop-up when you get mail.
"Developed at Xerox PARC, Electronic Paper will soon be in production at 3M, and by mid-2000 will be as much a fact of life, its developers say, as the dead-tree stuff. "
Yup, mid 2000. Now 2007. Um, sure. Wake me when it's out.
Everyone assumes it's an iPod. IMHO, they'll release a new Airport Express, one that has an S-video cable out, hooks up to your TV AND stereo, and plays movies off of your Mac directly.
In which case, you'll be watching your neighbor's home pr0n, which is probably a scarier proposition.
But "As Seen On TV" (long since vanished) mentioned it quite a while ago. It does seem a genius move, if they can pull it off - last I remember, he mentioned there being several technical hurdles to be overcome, mostly doing with the state of video-streamed-over-802.11.
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NPR played a couple 30 second snippets. Trust me - save your bandwidth. There's much better stuff. Dogs barking, glass breaking, nails on chalkboards...
Of my group of gaming f(r)iends, all save 1 have bought Guild Wars. There are several reason for it: 1) Linear Campaign - there's a complete story. Sure, go into the desert/shiverpeaks/jungle and kill random stuff. But for us it's more about getting from point A to B, explore, and continue the story, than farming. (And I have no idea what "sharding" is, so I'll pass on that for now)
2) "Instanced": basically, when I step outside the town, it's me and the people I went with. I'm honestly surprised there are other ways to do it. Sure, occasionally it'd be cool to hop on, and join my friends wherever they are, but the fact that we don't have to deal with all the other stuff the MMO people b*tch about is more than a fair trade.
3) No monthly fee. Hey, we've been playing Neverwinter since it came out. We have a Teamspeak server installed on the same linux box as our Neverwinter server. Almost none of us have any interest in spending 15$ a month on these games.
4) It's an RPG. Not just click click clickclickclick. You have your 8 skills and your stats, you have to think about where you're going and what you're doing, before you leave town. Hmmmm.... I'm going into an ice cave - better leave my "icy bow" behind. Maybe other MMOs have this, I don't know.
But overall, for a casual gamer, not an MMO fan, Guild Wars is great. Hop on and play - if your friends aren't on, find some people and go do stuff. I can see the addictive properties (as can my wife). But the hardcore MMO people don't seem to care for GW much, and that's fine. I'd never buy an MMO.
Oh. My. God. Well, we know who the target audience is for the thing - Icy Hot Stuntaz. Yeah, the iPod has no worries. Anyone buying it based on those ads isn't interested in style (UI or otherwise).
Wouldn't you rather be wrong about the fact there is global warming than be wrong about there not being global warming? That's what I don't understand.
You're missing one gigantic piece of it. If you're wrong, billions/trillions of dollars were spent with absolutely no benefit, aside from making certain people richer and more famous. What an _amazing_ waste of resources.
But that doesn't change the fact that I think that waiters should be paid a real wage, and not have this bullshit run around them where their employers can do this.
Pass. This is why service in Europe sucks - the wait staff are paid a set rate, regardless of their ability or the service you get. There's absolutely _NO_ reason to provide good service. This is America; while it may not be amazingly fair, it's capitalism to a T.
IIRC, totally written by one guy. And sold at least several hundred thousand units, spawned what seems like a dozen sequels and expansion packs. Chris Sawyer.
Seven years. There's some piece of law that says they have to support it for 7 years. I remember being affected by this when the Newton was discontinued.
This from Ebert's review of 40-year-old-virgin: 'His strategy for dealing with life is to surround himself with obsessions, including action figures, video games, high-tech equipment, and "collectibles," a word which, like "drinkable," never sounds like a glowing endorsement.'
Who said anything about letting the "sketches" influence your choice of seeing? My point is that if the comic book is as good as you say, there's pretty much no point in seeing the movie - you'll be disappointed. Why set yourself up for that? See the movie? Okay, it's good. Cool. Then you'll enjoy the comic book. Say it's bad. Still, cool. You'll read the comic book and that'll be good.
Then again, after seeing LXG, I went and bought The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen graphic novel - and was utterly disappointed. While the story was cool, IMHO the art style was awful. Same with the pr0n that he did, the one with Alice in Wonderland and the two others. Interesting premise, but the art. Ugh!
My advice to anyone who will go to watch the film is read the original first and let that blow you away
And my advice is to ignore that advice - see the movie first. Think it's cool. Enjoy, etc, etc. Then read the comic book. If it's truly all that, then you'll be blown away again. Do it the parent's way, and you'll probably be disappointed with the movie.
"It's rather strange that we would have such a tremendous response for the purchase of a laptop computer -- and laptop computers that probably have less-than- desirable attributes," said Paul Proto, director of general services for Henrico County.
Interesting. Not only are they switching away, but are slamming Apple on the way out. Or the guy's an idiot. Take your pick.
Maybe thresholds of gameplay (actual user input/interaction, not just sitting at a pause screen) over the last 8 hours, 24 hours, and 72 hours will trigger enforced breaks of progressively longer duration or just "have you eaten?"
Dungeon Keeper II had this, I believe. Around midnight it would mention the flat square thing in the corner being a bed, there were a couple others.
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They're already doing it the next day. Since most shows are only broadcast once during a given week (aka no reruns), what's the difference?
But I don't see how downloading episodes of Lost for $1.99 a piece at 320x240 resolution beats what I've got on my cable box, which has thousands of TV shows available at any given moment for free.
Easy - say you missed Lost last week. Didn't tape it? You're screwed. And since the story is continuing, you'd miss stuff. You might even stop watching (and then get the DVD later), rather than risk that loss. Networks have traditionally shown the show ONCE that week, until repeats.
This is a way, albeit expensive, around that. And it also leads the way for higher-res downloads. Personally, I'd like to see Amazon offer something like "order the DVD, and you can watch the episodes online!". They do that with pre-orders on some music.
(and yes, I know Lost is apparently shown on Saturdays as a rerun - but there's only a handful of shows "echoed" like that)
A lot of people I work with have their email set to check every five minutes...some every minute!
And those of us who work in a MS environment have Outlook, which continually checks email. Although, yes, you can turn off the pop-up when you get mail.
"Developed at Xerox PARC, Electronic Paper will soon be in production at 3M, and by mid-2000 will be as much a fact of life, its developers say, as the dead-tree stuff. "
Yup, mid 2000. Now 2007. Um, sure. Wake me when it's out.
Why does everyone assume it'll have internet access? All that'll do is drain the batteries faster, add to the list of electronics it needs, etc, etc.
Of course, if it does, then the "tin foil" book covers will become all the rage.
And I'm a spelling nazi. It's spelled "grammar".
And how can I thank you for giving me a link that includes the infamous "Puma BJ" poster?
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Everyone assumes it's an iPod. IMHO, they'll release a new Airport Express, one that has an S-video cable out, hooks up to your TV AND stereo, and plays movies off of your Mac directly.
In which case, you'll be watching your neighbor's home pr0n, which is probably a scarier proposition.
But "As Seen On TV" (long since vanished) mentioned it quite a while ago. It does seem a genius move, if they can pull it off - last I remember, he mentioned there being several technical hurdles to be overcome, mostly doing with the state of video-streamed-over-802.11.
NPR played a couple 30 second snippets. Trust me - save your bandwidth. There's much better stuff. Dogs barking, glass breaking, nails on chalkboards...
Of my group of gaming f(r)iends, all save 1 have bought Guild Wars. There are several reason for it:
1) Linear Campaign - there's a complete story. Sure, go into the desert/shiverpeaks/jungle and kill random stuff. But for us it's more about getting from point A to B, explore, and continue the story, than farming. (And I have no idea what "sharding" is, so I'll pass on that for now)
2) "Instanced": basically, when I step outside the town, it's me and the people I went with. I'm honestly surprised there are other ways to do it. Sure, occasionally it'd be cool to hop on, and join my friends wherever they are, but the fact that we don't have to deal with all the other stuff the MMO people b*tch about is more than a fair trade.
3) No monthly fee. Hey, we've been playing Neverwinter since it came out. We have a Teamspeak server installed on the same linux box as our Neverwinter server. Almost none of us have any interest in spending 15$ a month on these games.
4) It's an RPG. Not just click click clickclickclick. You have your 8 skills and your stats, you have to think about where you're going and what you're doing, before you leave town. Hmmmm.... I'm going into an ice cave - better leave my "icy bow" behind. Maybe other MMOs have this, I don't know.
But overall, for a casual gamer, not an MMO fan, Guild Wars is great. Hop on and play - if your friends aren't on, find some people and go do stuff. I can see the addictive properties (as can my wife). But the hardcore MMO people don't seem to care for GW much, and that's fine. I'd never buy an MMO.
Oh. My. God.
Well, we know who the target audience is for the thing - Icy Hot Stuntaz. Yeah, the iPod has no worries. Anyone buying it based on those ads isn't interested in style (UI or otherwise).
Wouldn't you rather be wrong about the fact there is global warming than be wrong about there not being global warming? That's what I don't understand.
You're missing one gigantic piece of it. If you're wrong, billions/trillions of dollars were spent with absolutely no benefit, aside from making certain people richer and more famous. What an _amazing_ waste of resources.
You forgot "Lame."
Cloak & Dagger
I loved this movie. Dabney Coleman and, um, that kid. The opening bit with the 20-sided dice - very sweet.
Dr. Strange
This is a remake too, I believe. I remember seeing something similar on late-late-night Showtime back in the 90's.
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Yeah, I remember this one, too. Not one of Hasselhoff's best roles - but maybe they'll have him sing in the new movie.
But that doesn't change the fact that I think that waiters should be paid a real wage, and not have this bullshit run around them where their employers can do this.
Pass. This is why service in Europe sucks - the wait staff are paid a set rate, regardless of their ability or the service you get. There's absolutely _NO_ reason to provide good service. This is America; while it may not be amazingly fair, it's capitalism to a T.
IIRC, totally written by one guy. And sold at least several hundred thousand units, spawned what seems like a dozen sequels and expansion packs. Chris Sawyer.
Seven years. There's some piece of law that says they have to support it for 7 years. I remember being affected by this when the Newton was discontinued.
Alternatively, you _could_ go buy it. Best Buy still carries it, for $5. Comes bundled with another game, IIRC.
This from Ebert's review of 40-year-old-virgin:
'His strategy for dealing with life is to surround himself with obsessions, including action figures, video games, high-tech equipment, and "collectibles," a word which, like "drinkable," never sounds like a glowing endorsement.'
Who said anything about letting the "sketches" influence your choice of seeing? My point is that if the comic book is as good as you say, there's pretty much no point in seeing the movie - you'll be disappointed. Why set yourself up for that? See the movie? Okay, it's good. Cool. Then you'll enjoy the comic book. Say it's bad. Still, cool. You'll read the comic book and that'll be good.
Then again, after seeing LXG, I went and bought The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen graphic novel - and was utterly disappointed. While the story was cool, IMHO the art style was awful. Same with the pr0n that he did, the one with Alice in Wonderland and the two others. Interesting premise, but the art. Ugh!
My advice to anyone who will go to watch the film is read the original first and let that blow you away
And my advice is to ignore that advice - see the movie first. Think it's cool. Enjoy, etc, etc. Then read the comic book. If it's truly all that, then you'll be blown away again. Do it the parent's way, and you'll probably be disappointed with the movie.
"It's rather strange that we would have such a tremendous response for the purchase of a laptop computer -- and laptop computers that probably have less-than- desirable attributes," said Paul Proto, director of general services for Henrico County.
Interesting. Not only are they switching away, but are slamming Apple on the way out. Or the guy's an idiot. Take your pick.
Works on my Matrox G450 Dual-head running drivers from Jan/Feb.
Maybe thresholds of gameplay (actual user input/interaction, not just sitting at a pause screen) over the last 8 hours, 24 hours, and 72 hours will trigger enforced breaks of progressively longer duration or just "have you eaten?"
Dungeon Keeper II had this, I believe. Around midnight it would mention the flat square thing in the corner being a bed, there were a couple others.
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