I'm grateful to Blizzard for the Mac version, since it required supporting an OpenGL version of the WoW client, which made getting it to run under Wine a far easier task for those who did so. I'm pretty sure it will run in DirectX mode under Wine, but not as well as the OpenGL version does.
when I was playing wow I used prepaid game cards exactly for this reason... or aren't prepaid cards available anymore?
They are still available. That is how I play the game. I don't want to go through the hassle of canceling the account if/when I decide to stop playing.
`Anyone else out there gaming with their four year old? Wii Play has finally found its perfect audience! My son will play it for hours if I let him (he's beaten me quite a few times on that cow riding game).
At times, I'll also let him run my orc shaman (usually in Ghost Wolf form) around Thunder Bluff in WoW. He loves to make him swim through the pond on the lower rise. He learned to spell his first word - "dance" - by making my orc dance. So if you're logged onto Trollbane and you see an orc dancing in the middle of Thunder Bluff, it's probably him. Feel free to say hi - I'm standing right next to him at all times.
I know you said "out of the box", but for those who are looking to add it (as I was a while ago for use at work), Ogg Vorbis support for Windows Media Player can be found here.
If the RIAA is suing Usenet.com, they obviously know that Usenet exists, and what's being posted on it. I suppose they hope that suing Usenet.com will have a "chilling effect" on the people who post and/or download files there now.
Since it prevents people from playing the movies it's obviously a playback protection mechanism.
Per your own sentence, it's a playback prevention mechanism. If I were a BD-player owner (and the way things are going I'm not planning on becoming one anytime soon) who couldn't play either disk, I wouldn't feel very "protected".
Circular slide rules use the same logarithmic principles and scales (A,B,C,D,K,S,T, etc) that the linear ones do, so if you know how to use a linear slide rule, you know how to use a circular one.
I can't help wondering when the first round of these appears on eBay. I suspect an American gadget hound who doesn't want to be fleeced will be able to pick one up there on the cheap shortly after they arrive in the collective hands of the Third World.
I've been playing WoW using Wine under Ubuntu Feisty (Linux) for about the last six months or so. Runs like a champ, sound works, smooth framerate on an nVidia 6600. It required surprisingly little tweaking to get running.
Thank you for the inside look at this. I still have fond memories of hammering out code in Turbo Pascal - I have yet to find a usable language as simple, elegant, and fun to code in.
Indeed. I bought a 360 because I spend the bulk of my time in free software land. Which is to say, instead of having a dual-booting gamer's PC or having to maintain a separate Windows PC, I have a 360 to game on and a linux PC to work on, hack on, stream media, act as a print/SSH server, etc. I no longer incur the time and expense cost related to keeping my gaming box "current", and my PC will remain linux-worthy much longer than my extra gaming PC ever stayed up-to-date. This becomes ever more important when you acquire a mortgage, spouse, and one or more children, which compete with gaming for your hard-earned dollars;-)
That having been said, I have no problem with MS banning modded boxes from Live. Nor do I have a problem with people who may someday be able to mod their 360 and turn it into a media center, although I'd rather just build a Myth-capable Shuttle box if I wanted to do that.
Game 3.0? I must have been asleep while 2.x came and went. Can someone please tell me what the first two iterations were (TFA didn't elaborate). Thanks.
There are some restaurants and/or cafes in the US that offer free WiFi. Two that spring immediately to mind are Panera and the McDonalds I occasionally frequent with my 3-year-old (not all MickeyD's offer free WiFi, but the number that do has risen signficantly). Many smaller cafe's also offer free WiFi. Starbuck's is a notable exception; this is part of the reason I don't frequent Starbucks. Many of those smaller cafes with free WiFi also serve superior coffee:-)
"the Court wonders why nobody objected to the enactment of this statute. In this court's view, the taxpayers deserve more from their elected officials."
No Louisiana official wants to go on public record as being against a video game restriction statute, as they believe this might hurt their chances of re-election.
From some other cases of people trying to get refunds on XP I've read, vendors will often try to refund the customer something on the order of $10, claiming that's all it's worth.
Then I would request that they send me ten licenses for XP and I'll pay $100 for them.
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I'm grateful to Blizzard for the Mac version, since it required supporting an OpenGL version of the WoW client, which made getting it to run under Wine a far easier task for those who did so. I'm pretty sure it will run in DirectX mode under Wine, but not as well as the OpenGL version does.
They are still available. That is how I play the game. I don't want to go through the hassle of canceling the account if/when I decide to stop playing.
It doesn't. I play under WINE under Ubuntu Gutsy. I got the update yesterday, and everything works fine for me.
`Anyone else out there gaming with their four year old? Wii Play has finally found its perfect audience! My son will play it for hours if I let him (he's beaten me quite a few times on that cow riding game).
At times, I'll also let him run my orc shaman (usually in Ghost Wolf form) around Thunder Bluff in WoW. He loves to make him swim through the pond on the lower rise. He learned to spell his first word - "dance" - by making my orc dance. So if you're logged onto Trollbane and you see an orc dancing in the middle of Thunder Bluff, it's probably him. Feel free to say hi - I'm standing right next to him at all times.
I know you said "out of the box", but for those who are looking to add it (as I was a while ago for use at work), Ogg Vorbis support for Windows Media Player can be found here.
If the RIAA is suing Usenet.com, they obviously know that Usenet exists, and what's being posted on it. I suppose they hope that suing Usenet.com will have a "chilling effect" on the people who post and/or download files there now.
I was going to post this, but you beat me to it. I was thrilled to find Morrowind finally added to the compatibility list.
Per your own sentence, it's a playback prevention mechanism. If I were a BD-player owner (and the way things are going I'm not planning on becoming one anytime soon) who couldn't play either disk, I wouldn't feel very "protected".
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77.1*850=65535
Just for haha's I got out my trusty old Concise circular No. 300 and checked this. You only get three sig fig's, so it actually comes out to ~65500.
Circular slide rules use the same logarithmic principles and scales (A,B,C,D,K,S,T, etc) that the linear ones do, so if you know how to use a linear slide rule, you know how to use a circular one.
I can't help wondering when the first round of these appears on eBay. I suspect an American gadget hound who doesn't want to be fleeced will be able to pick one up there on the cheap shortly after they arrive in the collective hands of the Third World.
I think you meant "realm". Freudian slip?
I've been playing WoW using Wine under Ubuntu Feisty (Linux) for about the last six months or so. Runs like a champ, sound works, smooth framerate on an nVidia 6600. It required surprisingly little tweaking to get running.
Thank you for the inside look at this. I still have fond memories of hammering out code in Turbo Pascal - I have yet to find a usable language as simple, elegant, and fun to code in.
Damn, where's my mod points when I really need them?
Last Christmas, CAG's members donated over $10,000 to Child's Play. We're not misers, we just want good deals on videogames.
That having been said, I have no problem with MS banning modded boxes from Live. Nor do I have a problem with people who may someday be able to mod their 360 and turn it into a media center, although I'd rather just build a Myth-capable Shuttle box if I wanted to do that.
Game 3.0? I must have been asleep while 2.x came and went. Can someone please tell me what the first two iterations were (TFA didn't elaborate). Thanks.
Sorry, dude. There's already prior art.
There are some restaurants and/or cafes in the US that offer free WiFi. Two that spring immediately to mind are Panera and the McDonalds I occasionally frequent with my 3-year-old (not all MickeyD's offer free WiFi, but the number that do has risen signficantly). Many smaller cafe's also offer free WiFi. Starbuck's is a notable exception; this is part of the reason I don't frequent Starbucks. Many of those smaller cafes with free WiFi also serve superior coffee :-)
"the Court wonders why nobody objected to the enactment of this statute. In this court's view, the taxpayers deserve more from their elected officials."
No Louisiana official wants to go on public record as being against a video game restriction statute, as they believe this might hurt their chances of re-election.
check it out.
Bittorrenting the Knoppix DVD would pretty much put you over the monthly allowance, even if you never seeded.
Then I would request that they send me ten licenses for XP and I'll pay $100 for them.