I wouldn't mind seeing them make Halo into what they wanted it to be before Microsoft picked them up and it got retooled into a console shooter. I was hoping for more Marathon mythos... and I got "just shoot everything to get to the next level".
Look at their past titles - Mac games with some Windows ports. It's not really a stretch that they'd want to create a possible successor to Marathon as a Mac game. It probably would have been Mac exclusive at launch and then ported to Windows later, like Marathon 2.
Finally? They have created plenty of non-Halo titles. The Myth series, the Marathon series (best storyline ever, if you're into that kind of thing), Pathways into Darkness...
And what's with this acting like Bungie becoming separate from Microsoft is something new? They *were* and independent studio before Microsoft hired them to make Halo exclusive for the Xbox. Otherwise, maybe we would have seen some modern chapters to Marathon without being dumbed down. They've made games worlds better than the Halo series - this is not new. What's news is hopefully they're getting back to their roots.
Well, it's assumed that when you're peering the balance of traffic is roughly equal, so if they were charging each other for it, they'd be paying the other roughly the same thing, so there's no point in billing it out.
Are you sure you don't have any other choices for cell phone companies? Most all of them have data services. I'm pretty happy with Sprint's data service, although if you're in a non-EVDO area it would probably hurt like dialup.
People know this (obviously you do) and yet they *still* buy Apple stuff when it first comes out. It's always been this way and you know the fancy Apple thing you just bought is going to be way cheaper later. Some people want it right now and pay the premium. Others choose to wait because they know the price will come down like before. It's the customer's call, don't blame Apple.
Have they fixed the lack of replication problem yet? That's what kept me away years ago and towards MySQL. As I recall there was some kind of third-party replication tool, but it had a billion warnings and "if you don't do this in exactly the right steps yuo'll get raped" type documentation, which made it look like a backwards hack.
I'll happily convert, but I want a database with integrated replication.
The shuttle has less payload to orbit lifting capacity than the Saturn V. The shuttle can't even break orbit, the Saturn V launch vehicle could achieve lunar orbit. It seems like a step backwards to be stuck in LEO or GTO for under 9,000 pounds of payload at best.
Marathon was the first FPS I ever played on my Quadra 610 back in the day. I loved the story, reading the terminals, trying to find hidden terminals to put more pieces of the puzzle together. It was like reading a book, but more engaging due to the presentation. You'll hate Marathon if you just want to blow things up and be done with it, but if you love a good story, it's golden. Imagine the environment they could do with today's desktop processing power and the same story. Although I think by playing the Marathon series, FPS gaming was ruined for me because I expected much more. All the PC gamers who raved about how great Half-Life was are right - it was the best FPS with a story they had probably seen - but I'd already seen better. I still enjoyed Half-Life, but I always expected something better.
I love Deus Ex. Enough to buy it off Steam and I'm playing through it again right now. It's a long game, especially if you do every secondary mission and explore everything you can get to like I do, but it's worth it. Never played the second one because I didn't want to be disappointed. Halo was a mere shadow of what Marathon was, and I played it only because it was from the people that made Marathon. Is it a good console shooter? It's okay... but that's about it.
Except with Sprint, they don't. You get transfered from one fuckwit to another. Over and over and over again. Agents lie to you repeatedly, giving false contact information, forgetting about promised callbacks the moment the line goes dead, "losing" records of previous calls and promised changes. You call back again, hoping that you'll get them to fix their mistake, but instead get kicked in the balls over and over again by yet another agent hates their job and knows there is no such thing as accountability at Sprint.
Same problem with a broken Treo under Cingular/AT&T. The jackasses didn't get it that the stupid thing was physically broken and every person they "escalated" us to just wanted to hard reset it and somehow that would fix it. The then call got disconnected - after an hour - and on the return call, they claimed we never called before. They also liked to transfer us to a Palm rep who wouldn't do anything except claim we had to talk to Cingular and transfer us back. This was a corporate account, too.
Sorry, they all suck. I have also *never* ever had any CSR anywhere call me back if the line was dropped. I do get excellent service above and beyond what I expect from Sprint (not the phone division) and SAVVIS for my dedicated IP circuits, but then again, the bill reflects that privilege.
I don't see why they can't pring the receipt behind a piece of glass so that you can see/verify it, let you press ok and have the receipt drop into a locked box where it can no longer be seen.
That's exactly how it works in Nevada. (Washoe County, anyway.) The machine asks you to review the paper and press the button to confirm.
The Mits WS-55511 (which my parents have) is about 250 pounds. It's a 55" rear-projection CRT (3 tubes; red, blue, green) HDTV. It's on wheels, easy to move. CRT can be front or rear projection, in addition to direct view. Most projection CRT's have three tubes in the 7" to 9" range. All of these Mits projection sets are rear projection CRT:
BTW, the biggest fighters of the wind power occured back east on some rich island that is LOADED with republicans.
If I remember correctly, it was because wind farms that are large enough to generate a useful amount of electricity take up a lot of space and begin to become ugly or an eyesore - especially when rich people are involved.
iPod/iTunes has a lot of DRM? Have you ever used iTunes with an iPod? It's crazy simple and transparent. Remember, Apple *had* to include some kind of DRM to get the distribution rights they did; the record companies demanded it. Even then, it's very light DRM compared to other stuff out there. Easy to strip if you really wanted to. Burn it to CD if you like. As far as DRM goes, it's pretty damn lightweight. Don't like DRM? Rip CD's and just copy the files to the iPod. It's possible Apple gets away with this light DRM because it's tied to a single player, the iPod with iTunes.
If you had to use approved encrypted headphones to hear the music, like they want with HDTV, then I'd agree with you. Apple has to include DRM, so they do, but it's not hardcore DRM.
It works fine. I'm using the amd64 arch on a couple Dell PowerEdge servers with 8 gigs of RAM; obviously they're Xeons. Whether you call it amd64 or em64t, they're both x86_64.
I got a quote from Level3 a while back for fractional DS3 starting at 6MB/s for $2300/mo. Install was something in the same range. Didn't pursue it further, though.
I can get HDTV just fine with a set of rabbit ears where I'm located. (I only used them for testing, now I use an old roof VHF/UHF antenna that was stashed away in my parent's attic.) There is no such thing as an "HD antenna".
With Zip (and possibly with NetFlix?) you wait weeks for a new release.
I've noticed that I can usually get a new release one or two days before the release date through Netflix; as long as you added it to your queue before the release date. It seems that the "saved" titles put you up higher on some priority list when they actually start mailing them out.
In addition, Once you have many Cat6 cable, you are back to your original problem: Too many cables to clutter up your cabinet space, only this time you won't even know which cable is for. The only better solutions is to have a "common" bus system, but again there is not a solution exist today that has enough bandwidth to accomodate all kinds of signals and protocols
My Mitsubishi HDTV has a set of FireWire jacks on it. It's only plugged in to an old Mac which records and plays back HDTV, but FireWire 400 has plenty of bandwidth to handle HD video and DD5.1 audio. One cable; one small cable. Of course, the digital audio comes back out of the TV and into the preamp over a single coax cable. Sadly, there's pretty much nothing out there with FireWire on it. I had a Motorola cable set top box that had it; same deal, one cable and away you go.
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I wouldn't mind seeing them make Halo into what they wanted it to be before Microsoft picked them up and it got retooled into a console shooter. I was hoping for more Marathon mythos... and I got "just shoot everything to get to the next level".
Look at their past titles - Mac games with some Windows ports. It's not really a stretch that they'd want to create a possible successor to Marathon as a Mac game. It probably would have been Mac exclusive at launch and then ported to Windows later, like Marathon 2.
Finally? They have created plenty of non-Halo titles. The Myth series, the Marathon series (best storyline ever, if you're into that kind of thing), Pathways into Darkness...
And what's with this acting like Bungie becoming separate from Microsoft is something new? They *were* and independent studio before Microsoft hired them to make Halo exclusive for the Xbox. Otherwise, maybe we would have seen some modern chapters to Marathon without being dumbed down. They've made games worlds better than the Halo series - this is not new. What's news is hopefully they're getting back to their roots.
Well, it's assumed that when you're peering the balance of traffic is roughly equal, so if they were charging each other for it, they'd be paying the other roughly the same thing, so there's no point in billing it out.
Are you sure you don't have any other choices for cell phone companies? Most all of them have data services. I'm pretty happy with Sprint's data service, although if you're in a non-EVDO area it would probably hurt like dialup.
People know this (obviously you do) and yet they *still* buy Apple stuff when it first comes out. It's always been this way and you know the fancy Apple thing you just bought is going to be way cheaper later. Some people want it right now and pay the premium. Others choose to wait because they know the price will come down like before. It's the customer's call, don't blame Apple.
Have they fixed the lack of replication problem yet? That's what kept me away years ago and towards MySQL. As I recall there was some kind of third-party replication tool, but it had a billion warnings and "if you don't do this in exactly the right steps yuo'll get raped" type documentation, which made it look like a backwards hack.
I'll happily convert, but I want a database with integrated replication.
Imagine if a protest can be casually broken up by making everyone vomit or crap themselves uncontrollably.
Oh my, that's gonna give me some horrible nightmares now. Thanks.
I think this was in an episode of Stargate Atlantis.
The shuttle has less payload to orbit lifting capacity than the Saturn V. The shuttle can't even break orbit, the Saturn V launch vehicle could achieve lunar orbit. It seems like a step backwards to be stuck in LEO or GTO for under 9,000 pounds of payload at best.
Marathon was the first FPS I ever played on my Quadra 610 back in the day. I loved the story, reading the terminals, trying to find hidden terminals to put more pieces of the puzzle together. It was like reading a book, but more engaging due to the presentation. You'll hate Marathon if you just want to blow things up and be done with it, but if you love a good story, it's golden. Imagine the environment they could do with today's desktop processing power and the same story. Although I think by playing the Marathon series, FPS gaming was ruined for me because I expected much more. All the PC gamers who raved about how great Half-Life was are right - it was the best FPS with a story they had probably seen - but I'd already seen better. I still enjoyed Half-Life, but I always expected something better.
I love Deus Ex. Enough to buy it off Steam and I'm playing through it again right now. It's a long game, especially if you do every secondary mission and explore everything you can get to like I do, but it's worth it. Never played the second one because I didn't want to be disappointed. Halo was a mere shadow of what Marathon was, and I played it only because it was from the people that made Marathon. Is it a good console shooter? It's okay... but that's about it.
Except with Sprint, they don't.
You get transfered from one fuckwit to another. Over and over and over again. Agents lie to you repeatedly, giving false contact information, forgetting about promised callbacks the moment the line goes dead, "losing" records of previous calls and promised changes. You call back again, hoping that you'll get them to fix their mistake, but instead get kicked in the balls over and over again by yet another agent hates their job and knows there is no such thing as accountability at Sprint.
Same problem with a broken Treo under Cingular/AT&T. The jackasses didn't get it that the stupid thing was physically broken and every person they "escalated" us to just wanted to hard reset it and somehow that would fix it. The then call got disconnected - after an hour - and on the return call, they claimed we never called before. They also liked to transfer us to a Palm rep who wouldn't do anything except claim we had to talk to Cingular and transfer us back. This was a corporate account, too.
Sorry, they all suck. I have also *never* ever had any CSR anywhere call me back if the line was dropped. I do get excellent service above and beyond what I expect from Sprint (not the phone division) and SAVVIS for my dedicated IP circuits, but then again, the bill reflects that privilege.
I don't see why they can't pring the receipt behind a piece of glass so that you can see/verify it, let you press ok and have the receipt drop into a locked box where it can no longer be seen.
That's exactly how it works in Nevada. (Washoe County, anyway.) The machine asks you to review the paper and press the button to confirm.
The Mits WS-55511 (which my parents have) is about 250 pounds. It's a 55" rear-projection CRT (3 tubes; red, blue, green) HDTV. It's on wheels, easy to move. CRT can be front or rear projection, in addition to direct view. Most projection CRT's have three tubes in the 7" to 9" range. All of these Mits projection sets are rear projection CRT:
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BTW, the biggest fighters of the wind power occured back east on some rich island that is LOADED with republicans.
If I remember correctly, it was because wind farms that are large enough to generate a useful amount of electricity take up a lot of space and begin to become ugly or an eyesore - especially when rich people are involved.
Insuperable!
As I alluded, perhaps it's the lock in that allows them to get away with rather light DRM compared to other options.
iPod/iTunes has a lot of DRM? Have you ever used iTunes with an iPod? It's crazy simple and transparent. Remember, Apple *had* to include some kind of DRM to get the distribution rights they did; the record companies demanded it. Even then, it's very light DRM compared to other stuff out there. Easy to strip if you really wanted to. Burn it to CD if you like. As far as DRM goes, it's pretty damn lightweight. Don't like DRM? Rip CD's and just copy the files to the iPod. It's possible Apple gets away with this light DRM because it's tied to a single player, the iPod with iTunes.
If you had to use approved encrypted headphones to hear the music, like they want with HDTV, then I'd agree with you. Apple has to include DRM, so they do, but it's not hardcore DRM.
It works fine. I'm using the amd64 arch on a couple Dell PowerEdge servers with 8 gigs of RAM; obviously they're Xeons. Whether you call it amd64 or em64t, they're both x86_64.
Who the hell is Apple to tell me what I can and can't play my music with?
You don't have to buy their products, either.
I got a quote from Level3 a while back for fractional DS3 starting at 6MB/s for $2300/mo. Install was something in the same range. Didn't pursue it further, though.
I can get HDTV just fine with a set of rabbit ears where I'm located. (I only used them for testing, now I use an old roof VHF/UHF antenna that was stashed away in my parent's attic.) There is no such thing as an "HD antenna".
With Zip (and possibly with NetFlix?) you wait weeks for a new release.
I've noticed that I can usually get a new release one or two days before the release date through Netflix; as long as you added it to your queue before the release date. It seems that the "saved" titles put you up higher on some priority list when they actually start mailing them out.
For a little dose of reality, watch "The First 48" on A&E. Except the CSI's shown there usually use a shoebox to superglue prints off of objects.
http://www.aetv.com/tv/shows/first48/
In addition, Once you have many Cat6 cable, you are back to your original problem: Too many cables to clutter up your cabinet space, only this time you won't even know which cable is for. The only better solutions is to have a "common" bus system, but again there is not a solution exist today that has enough bandwidth to accomodate all kinds of signals and protocols
My Mitsubishi HDTV has a set of FireWire jacks on it. It's only plugged in to an old Mac which records and plays back HDTV, but FireWire 400 has plenty of bandwidth to handle HD video and DD5.1 audio. One cable; one small cable. Of course, the digital audio comes back out of the TV and into the preamp over a single coax cable. Sadly, there's pretty much nothing out there with FireWire on it. I had a Motorola cable set top box that had it; same deal, one cable and away you go.