On the remote chance you're serious, there are plenty of people who'll help you with the CD burning thing.
Syncing with the iPod is gonna be a bitch with any kind of Linux, as there's no iTunes for Linux.
Once you've got Gentoo installed, it's no more difficult than any other Linux, and significantly easier than some of them. So I'd keep Gentoo if I were you.
I've been writing web pages since HTML 1.0. If you restrict yourself to the functionality that was in HTML 1.0, XHTML is just as easy as HTML 1.0. The only difference, in fact, is that for XHTML you need to close each element and write the element names in lower case. Big deal.
The "problem" is that the web has gained an enormous amount of functionality, ranging from Unicode to typographical symbols to ways to specify margins, padding and border colors of elements. That's why there's more complexity in the XHTML spec.
Once you've got a good style sheet or two, writing pretty web pages is trivial--it's just H1, P, UL, exactly like HTML 1.0 except you have to close the elements. There are sites out there with free style sheets you can use, so there's really no excuse.
No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings.
I loved my Nokia phone. But I wanted it to sync with my computer, and Nokia didn't have any Bluetooth phones for sale in the US. So, I got a Sony Ericsson.
The Sony Ericsson is slow and poor quality compared to my Nokia, but Nokia still only have one Bluetooth phone on the market, and have a ton of stupid designs--circular keyboards, keyboards with two buttons on each key, slanted keypads, and so on. Idiots.
Right, but MMORPGS aren't making much money right now. If they want to make money, they need to attract some of the people who are not currently playing MMORPGS.
Nobody (sane) disputes that MMORPGS are great value for the gamers who spend 40+ hours a month playing them; the point is, people with that much spare time as well as broadband represent a pretty small audience, and there are too many games fighting over it.
On the other hand, I can easily get over 30 hours of gameplay from a $20 video game that doesn't happen to be networked. Which makes MMORPGS look expensive, as I can't spare 30 hours a month to play them.
Actually, Puzzle Pirates is one of the few I've considered. $10 a month is about right, and if I recall correctly you can just download the client, there's no initial $50 sting. Plus it's cooperative, which is another big requirement for me, and runs on systems I actually have.
(I don't actually have a surplus of time right now, I expect to get back into gaming later in the year... My comments were from a while back.)
I'm a casual gamer. You know, one of the 80% of people who'll take up 20% of resources. I would have thought those would be the people you'd want to attract to make money, no?
Also, if you want to keep out griefers, require a certain amount of pre-payment for the hourly fee. I don't mind pre-paying for some game time, I just don't want to pay fixed monthly fees or huge markups for a CD in a box.
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There *do* exist people who would buy more CDs if they were cheaper, even though they can download MP3s for free. I'm one of them.
I could easily name a half dozen CDs I'd literally buy tomorrow if I could get them for $10 or less. All regular stuff I've seen for sale, but the stores want $16 or $18, and I won't pay that. I haven't pirated the tracks either; I just listen to other stuff. I check the discount racks regularly.
Mute records reduced a load of their back-catalog releases to $10 or less, and that very day I sent in an order for over $100.
If you think I'm lying, you're welcome to call my bluff. I'll name some CDs, you sell 'em to me for $10 each.
I made the same point to a local record store owner. The problem, from his point of view, is that the distributors charge him so much he can't afford to price things at a level the market will bear.
Either charge a subscription, or charge for the game, but don't ask me to pay twice.
If I need a subscription to play, I'm very unlikely to pay $50 for the game, because if I decide I don't like it I'm left with a $50 coaster. Games which are offline or online can get away with charging for the game itself, but it's still a bad idea if the main point is the multiplayer: A high up-front cost to join a subscription game screams "We don't think you'll stay a member for long so we'd better get some cash up front".
Monthly subscriptions don't work for me, unless they're really cheap.
Your market is people with broadband and significant disposable income. To me, that says adults with jobs. Like many adults with jobs, there are months when I don't really get any time to play video games at all.
It seems to me that it's not technically hard at all to have a "per hour" fee, capped at the cost of a monthly subscription. That would encourage casual gamers and people who aren't sure they will like the game enough to get really into it and spend hours on it every month.
Regarding Splinter Cell... The PS2 version had graphics which were more than sufficient to support the gameplay, and it's gameplay that counts. In addition, the PS2 version had an entire extra level, and it was one of the best maps in the entire game.
Even if I had an Xbox, I'd have played the PS2 version.
they're looking for the sensationalistic propaganda that tells them what they want to hear, or makes them feel 'smart' or 'special' or 'right' or whatever
If you think I want to hear that the leaders of the country I live in are supporting torture of innocent people, propping up dictatorships, lying to me, trashing constitutional rights and pumping my tax dollars to corporate crooks, then you've clearly been sucking on the Fox News crack pipe for way too long. I've had to stop reading some magazines, because it's just way too fucking depressing.
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On the remote chance you're serious, there are plenty of people who'll help you with the CD burning thing.
Syncing with the iPod is gonna be a bitch with any kind of Linux, as there's no iTunes for Linux.
Once you've got Gentoo installed, it's no more difficult than any other Linux, and significantly easier than some of them. So I'd keep Gentoo if I were you.
Damn right. I just checked and discovered I was already running 2004.2, cause I happened to do a sync and update last night...
Actually, OPEC is considering switching to Euro, 'cause the dollar is so unstable these days...
I've been writing web pages since HTML 1.0. If you restrict yourself to the functionality that was in HTML 1.0, XHTML is just as easy as HTML 1.0. The only difference, in fact, is that for XHTML you need to close each element and write the element names in lower case. Big deal.
The "problem" is that the web has gained an enormous amount of functionality, ranging from Unicode to typographical symbols to ways to specify margins, padding and border colors of elements. That's why there's more complexity in the XHTML spec.
Once you've got a good style sheet or two, writing pretty web pages is trivial--it's just H1, P, UL, exactly like HTML 1.0 except you have to close the elements. There are sites out there with free style sheets you can use, so there's really no excuse.
From: me@alumni.address.edu
Sender: alsome@yahoo.com
is perfectly legitimate. If SPF breaks that, SPF is broken.
It is perfectly legitimate to change the From: line, and put the mailbox being used to send the e-mail in the Sender: line.
If SPF breaks that, SPF is broken.
See Stanislaw Lem's novel "Fiasco" for further relevant discussion.
If you don't have any urine available, you can use American beer.
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No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings.
Broadmoor? They named a hotel after Britain's most famous maximum security hospital for the criminally insane?
With that kind of gift for marketing, no wonder they use Flash on their web site.
Maybe next they can start the Love Canal Motel and make it so you can only book if you have ActiveX turned on.
1. Use emerge rsync.
2. Turn down the verbosity, often my system would spend most of its time scrolling the screen...
You are absolutely right, and anyone who doesn't agree is an idiot.
I loved my Nokia phone. But I wanted it to sync with my computer, and Nokia didn't have any Bluetooth phones for sale in the US. So, I got a Sony Ericsson.
The Sony Ericsson is slow and poor quality compared to my Nokia, but Nokia still only have one Bluetooth phone on the market, and have a ton of stupid designs--circular keyboards, keyboards with two buttons on each key, slanted keypads, and so on. Idiots.
No wonder all those dinosaurs died out, if they were 2-dimensional. I mean, how would they eat 3D plants?
Right, but MMORPGS aren't making much money right now. If they want to make money, they need to attract some of the people who are not currently playing MMORPGS.
Nobody (sane) disputes that MMORPGS are great value for the gamers who spend 40+ hours a month playing them; the point is, people with that much spare time as well as broadband represent a pretty small audience, and there are too many games fighting over it.
On the other hand, I can easily get over 30 hours of gameplay from a $20 video game that doesn't happen to be networked. Which makes MMORPGS look expensive, as I can't spare 30 hours a month to play them.
Actually, Puzzle Pirates is one of the few I've considered. $10 a month is about right, and if I recall correctly you can just download the client, there's no initial $50 sting. Plus it's cooperative, which is another big requirement for me, and runs on systems I actually have.
(I don't actually have a surplus of time right now, I expect to get back into gaming later in the year... My comments were from a while back.)
I'm a casual gamer. You know, one of the 80% of people who'll take up 20% of resources. I would have thought those would be the people you'd want to attract to make money, no?
Also, if you want to keep out griefers, require a certain amount of pre-payment for the hourly fee. I don't mind pre-paying for some game time, I just don't want to pay fixed monthly fees or huge markups for a CD in a box.
There *do* exist people who would buy more CDs if they were cheaper, even though they can download MP3s for free. I'm one of them.
I could easily name a half dozen CDs I'd literally buy tomorrow if I could get them for $10 or less. All regular stuff I've seen for sale, but the stores want $16 or $18, and I won't pay that. I haven't pirated the tracks either; I just listen to other stuff. I check the discount racks regularly.
Mute records reduced a load of their back-catalog releases to $10 or less, and that very day I sent in an order for over $100.
If you think I'm lying, you're welcome to call my bluff. I'll name some CDs, you sell 'em to me for $10 each.
I made the same point to a local record store owner. The problem, from his point of view, is that the distributors charge him so much he can't afford to price things at a level the market will bear.
It's not the snow that's the issue for me, it's the -10...
You mean just like with my HMO, which is one of the top 10 US HMOs?
Well, to quote my own web site:
Either charge a subscription, or charge for the game, but don't ask me to pay twice.
If I need a subscription to play, I'm very unlikely to pay $50 for the game, because if I decide I don't like it I'm left with a $50 coaster. Games which are offline or online can get away with charging for the game itself, but it's still a bad idea if the main point is the multiplayer: A high up-front cost to join a subscription game screams "We don't think you'll stay a member for long so we'd better get some cash up front".
Monthly subscriptions don't work for me, unless they're really cheap.
Your market is people with broadband and significant disposable income. To me, that says adults with jobs. Like many adults with jobs, there are months when I don't really get any time to play video games at all.
It seems to me that it's not technically hard at all to have a "per hour" fee, capped at the cost of a monthly subscription. That would encourage casual gamers and people who aren't sure they will like the game enough to get really into it and spend hours on it every month.
Regarding Splinter Cell... The PS2 version had graphics which were more than sufficient to support the gameplay, and it's gameplay that counts. In addition, the PS2 version had an entire extra level, and it was one of the best maps in the entire game.
Even if I had an Xbox, I'd have played the PS2 version.
You're citing Fox News in your denunciation of bias at the New York Times? Hahahah! +5 funny!