the radio shacks by my house stopped stocking components years ago. If I wanted a soldering iron or 1/4" phono jacks, I would have to get them from the website.
Now, they stock plenty of cell phones and weather radios and television antennas, and other goofy consumer electronics.
as far as I can see, someone here is lying. The music industry may be hurting for profit, but it's due to their own management's inability to shift their business model to a more profitable one to align with the changing market.
This is mostly true. With the advent of no child left behind, they all are. Writing and cursive in general are no longer part of the curriculum. Though cursive is no longer a necessary skill unless you're planning on a career in the literary or graphic arts.
I'm more concerned about this generations' general inability to form complete sentences. They haven't learned their language mostly because it wasn't taught to them.
Children who have attended elementary in the last ten years are at the most disadvantaged. They haven't learned proper language skills. Their writing is being taught in template format. They will never be effective communicators. Educators all knew better and were silenced by the administration at every level. Now teachers just don't care. Children still aren't learning proper language skills.
Who should we blame when other children around the world have better second language skills in English than our childrens' first language skills?
The users of bing are more susceptible to Internet advertising. This generally means they are of lesser intelligence than others. I can only assume that's why they're using bing.
Apple will be sued for their app store discrimination.
This should be the point at which everyone realizes that If a google app gets rejected, there's no point investing time and money into an iphone app.
Business isn't going to make a product which can't be sold.
Just like mainstream movie production companies won't make a film that can't be shown in theaters. It's about money and Apple is trying to play favorites.
Even the Guild, which is free to the consumer, is supported by a corporate sponsor who wants to draw in those who like it.
so, Barry Diller is a dipshit. He might as well wipe his ass with his MBA, since he can't figure anything else out.
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Sure, you're right. But you know he was talking about the OS and so was I.
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I could have written that article and saved you all some trouble.
Instead I'll debunk some of his bullshit.]
Jason Cross knows his tech.
Bullshit.
And actually, the whole "branding the box with Games for Windows" thing has been pretty decent.
First, no game as benefited from this branding. If anything it has made the 6 games it has much harder to play. Your saves are tied to your live account. Any DLC you want to get is also deadlocked into the G4W live marketplace. Can't get them anywhere else. Why is this bad? If you're like me, the G4W Live client seems to be an afterthought. I bought my add-ons for Fallout 3 and then coudldn't download them due to some cryptic error message. It took no fewer than 13 calls to Microsoft before I got the right department and even then they had no clue what the G4W Live client was. The calls couldn't resolve the issue, only time did. I would label G4W Live as an abysmal failure that only hinders the title rather than boosting it.
It's just not the amazing total revolution in computing the marketing would have you believe.
If you're coming from XP as most gamers are, it is. The most annoying thing about it from a gamer's point of view is the handling of the audio system. Other than that, it's quite amazing. Speed is much better than XP. The ability to pop in an 8GB thumb drive and create a readyboost cache is quite amazing also. Do games run better or faster? No, but the OS does and that in-turn makes the games experience better.
You really shouldn't expect much of a change from Vista to Windows 7 in terms of old game compatibility.
Windows 7 has compatibility options for every MS OS from windows 95 through windows vista sp2. You probably won't need to use compatibility much if ever though. Some really old games run great in the windows 7 vdm. As for some more recent games, Arma 2 has severe performance issues with windows 7.
You're not stuck with that 2GB-maximum 32-bit [memory limit].
Ugh, fact checking? 32-bit has a 4GB memory limit, not 2GB. With your video ram, it sometimes came out to be 3GB or a little more.
I'd almost insist on it. Windows XP is old enough that running it is sort of a security risk, and you can't run DX10 or DX11.
Windows XP is less of a security risk than Windows 7 at this point. The bugs are mostly ironed out and the security suites all run on XP natively. Windows 7 still hasn't undergone much scrutiny for bugs and most security suites don't run properly on the OS. It's more of a real security risk than XP at this point.
sad, but it's true. There needs to be a way of sorting the chaff from the wheat with both concepts and developers.
I've got 5 or 6 concepts that developed properly could be hits, but I don't have all the skills necessary to develop them into games.
As well, there are plenty of developers who have the skills necessary, but have crappy concepts.
There needs to be a matchmaking lobby for developers and designers. Then once the concept is hammered out, the "investors" get to choose what they want to put money into.
Most projects will never get fully funded. They will likely die. But once the project receives funding, the developers must be under some sort of contract with the "investors"
I first thought it was a ton of barber hair dumped in the ocean that had become a bacterial colony. That's what it looked like. But I can see it being algae now.
There are no major game releases in summer. Why? They have to compete with summer movies for your hard-earned money.
Wait until Fall. That's when all the releases are. Starting in September, look for most of the major releases to trickle out until late november. Then the movie games come out to hit the Christmas season, though gamers don't work by that schedule.
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Then everything seems to make a lot more sense.
the radio shacks by my house stopped stocking components years ago. If I wanted a soldering iron or 1/4" phono jacks, I would have to get them from the website.
Now, they stock plenty of cell phones and weather radios and television antennas, and other goofy consumer electronics.
So much for the radio part of the name.
wasn't there just a story I read recently that the head of the UK's music indutry trade group reported profits for 2008?
http://www.bpi.co.uk/press-area/news-amp3b-press-release/article/7th-january-2009-bpi-press-release-7c-uk-reports-resilient-music-sales-in-2008.aspx
as far as I can see, someone here is lying. The music industry may be hurting for profit, but it's due to their own management's inability to shift their business model to a more profitable one to align with the changing market.
first, you can create a bootable thumb drive distro.
second, you can test your distro in a VM on the website. Though resources are limited.
pirate McCad.
the DMCA requires provisions for circumventing copyright for the purposes of classroom instruction.
It's not infringement if you're using it in the classroom. that's the law plain and simple.
I wasn't talking about cutting our fiber. Cut the undersea cables from africa or north korea. Then jam their satellites just for the hell of it.
space quest, system shock, syndicate, bloodnet, wing commander, duke nukem, sin and others I can't remember right now.
some jerkoff senator is scratching some corporate donor's back by bringing the massive contruction contract to his own back yard in BFE, Kansas.
This is the worst kind of politicking. Anyone with any kind of common sense knows that the only facility safe in tornado alley is built underground.
I don't need a nuclear weapon to fight against cyber-terrorism. All I need is my pocket knife.
Knife cuts fiber-optic cable. I win.
Seriously, the simple answer is to disable their ability to connect to our computers. That doesn't take bombs, though bombs work just fine.
Only a warmongering technophobe would resort to nuclear weapons.
they will switch their giant power-hungry 3.5" external drive models like the 2TB Mirror edition to this drive to conserve both power and space.
The mirror edition is a friggin' brick and a half!
copyright was invented for academia.
if anything, we need a new system for commercial works.
This is mostly true. With the advent of no child left behind, they all are. Writing and cursive in general are no longer part of the curriculum. Though cursive is no longer a necessary skill unless you're planning on a career in the literary or graphic arts.
I'm more concerned about this generations' general inability to form complete sentences. They haven't learned their language mostly because it wasn't taught to them.
Children who have attended elementary in the last ten years are at the most disadvantaged. They haven't learned proper language skills. Their writing is being taught in template format. They will never be effective communicators. Educators all knew better and were silenced by the administration at every level. Now teachers just don't care. Children still aren't learning proper language skills.
Who should we blame when other children around the world have better second language skills in English than our childrens' first language skills?
The users of bing are more susceptible to Internet advertising. This generally means they are of lesser intelligence than others. I can only assume that's why they're using bing.
One could posit that only morons use bing.
Apple will be sued for their app store discrimination.
This should be the point at which everyone realizes that If a google app gets rejected, there's no point investing time and money into an iphone app.
Business isn't going to make a product which can't be sold.
Just like mainstream movie production companies won't make a film that can't be shown in theaters. It's about money and Apple is trying to play favorites.
facebook has a history of bowing to user pressures.
They will reverse this within the week.
Free content means free for the consumer.
Even the Guild, which is free to the consumer, is supported by a corporate sponsor who wants to draw in those who like it.
so, Barry Diller is a dipshit. He might as well wipe his ass with his MBA, since he can't figure anything else out.
Sure, you're right. But you know he was talking about the OS and so was I.
I could have written that article and saved you all some trouble.
Instead I'll debunk some of his bullshit.]
Bullshit.
First, no game as benefited from this branding. If anything it has made the 6 games it has much harder to play. Your saves are tied to your live account. Any DLC you want to get is also deadlocked into the G4W live marketplace. Can't get them anywhere else. Why is this bad? If you're like me, the G4W Live client seems to be an afterthought. I bought my add-ons for Fallout 3 and then coudldn't download them due to some cryptic error message. It took no fewer than 13 calls to Microsoft before I got the right department and even then they had no clue what the G4W Live client was. The calls couldn't resolve the issue, only time did. I would label G4W Live as an abysmal failure that only hinders the title rather than boosting it.
If you're coming from XP as most gamers are, it is. The most annoying thing about it from a gamer's point of view is the handling of the audio system. Other than that, it's quite amazing. Speed is much better than XP. The ability to pop in an 8GB thumb drive and create a readyboost cache is quite amazing also. Do games run better or faster? No, but the OS does and that in-turn makes the games experience better.
Windows 7 has compatibility options for every MS OS from windows 95 through windows vista sp2. You probably won't need to use compatibility much if ever though. Some really old games run great in the windows 7 vdm. As for some more recent games, Arma 2 has severe performance issues with windows 7.
Ugh, fact checking? 32-bit has a 4GB memory limit, not 2GB. With your video ram, it sometimes came out to be 3GB or a little more.
Windows XP is less of a security risk than Windows 7 at this point. The bugs are mostly ironed out and the security suites all run on XP natively. Windows 7 still hasn't undergone much scrutiny for bugs and most security suites don't run properly on the OS. It's more of a real security risk than XP at this point.
CNN reported on this yesterday.
Senate voted out 1.75 billion dollars from the budget specifically slated for new F-22 Raptors.
This doesn't affect the more than 185 planes currently being built or on order.
sad, but it's true. There needs to be a way of sorting the chaff from the wheat with both concepts and developers.
I've got 5 or 6 concepts that developed properly could be hits, but I don't have all the skills necessary to develop them into games.
As well, there are plenty of developers who have the skills necessary, but have crappy concepts.
There needs to be a matchmaking lobby for developers and designers. Then once the concept is hammered out, the "investors" get to choose what they want to put money into.
Most projects will never get fully funded. They will likely die. But once the project receives funding, the developers must be under some sort of contract with the "investors"
If they had just used blood hounds or beagles instead of labrador retrievers, they would have a much higher percentage of passable dogs.
Everyone knows blood hounds and beagles have better noses than retrievers.
I first thought it was a ton of barber hair dumped in the ocean that had become a bacterial colony. That's what it looked like. But I can see it being algae now.
Did you find an ejection point or just an entrance point?
what a moron.
Here is what you all need to know:
There are no major game releases in summer. Why? They have to compete with summer movies for your hard-earned money.
Wait until Fall. That's when all the releases are. Starting in September, look for most of the major releases to trickle out until late november. Then the movie games come out to hit the Christmas season, though gamers don't work by that schedule.
It's simple business.
wow, I just spent the last twenty minutes typing up a poignant response to your ignorance of the phrase, but now I don't think you'd understand it.