I was expecting the raid to be somewhat cooler than that. Tell me, did you receive a cellular phone via FedEx before you got nailed? Or was the phone ringing on your desk per chance? You missed the way out if either of those things happened.
Exactly... Apple doesn't even bother with keys for Jaguar. Regardless of their motives, I perceive this to be a certain level of trust. I rewarded them for it by purchasing 10.2 instead of grabbing one of many copies online.
This is exactly what drove me to buy an iBook over a wintel notebook. I found it extremely offensive that I could not purchase a relatively decent laptop without purchasing Windows XP with it.
I was so not impressed with the Beta. Warcraft 2 came out in 1995. So basically they've had 7 years to come up with a third installment worthy of its predecessor. Instead they squander those 7 years, and at the last minute spit out what is basically Warcraft 2 with some new graphics and a couple new races. Most disappointing, there was huge potential for something so much more. GG Blizzard.
The all time best Real Time Strategy game is and continues to be Total Annihilation. Better luck next time Blizzard.
I also assume that this week we like Blizzard and next week we're back to hating them for wheeling the DMCA on Bnetd?
This is a retarded idea. Here's why. The more the government interferes with business, particularily online business the less of a free market it actually is. If in fact it is important that users see what is relevant before paid results then the marketplace will change to demand that from search engines. Consumers will flock to what they want to use. The fact that the majority of Internet Cattle are made up of stupid people shouldn't really factor into this at all. People should find out for themselves how search engines work, people shouldn't have to rely on the government to protect them. In the famous words of Jesse Ventura, "The government is not your mom!"
If a privately owned search engine wants to get money for prioritized links, more power to them, that's free enterprise, it is their perogative to do business that way! If users dislike it they will go elsewhere and that search engine will be out of business. That's how the market works, the government doesn't need to interfere at all, the government is not your mom!
Jaguar had such potential and like previous Atari systems it was ahead of its time. Unfortunately the developer support just wasn't there. I owned a system and I don't think I can even recall the names of 5 games available for it. Maybe one day they'll make their return as a console maker. For now though they've gone the way of Sega and produce/publish games. Not only for consoles but for PC.
Isn't that how it works with PC Gaming? The security of the game and ultimately the PC lies in the hands of the Game developers and things for the most part work out "O.K".
The same methodology for the PS2 will work. "Why Fix it if it ain't broke". If a PS2 Developer House wants their game to flourish online they know they will have to do their best to curb cheating and most certainly avoid security holes in their games at all costs.
I fail to see how having Microsoft hold all the cards for the security of the XBox is a good thing. That's how it is with their OS and well... look at it.
I disagree with all of these College loving guys. Straight out of high school in 1998 I started in the tech industry. Hell, I very nearly didn't finish high school because I was working online when I should have been at school.
Through 3.. yes 3 dot com failures I still have my job, the pay is good and I've not looked back and wished I had done something else with my time. Some day I may consider going to school if I have a complete career change in mind.
I know lots of people who are out on their duffs and have degrees. In today's world, it's all about who you know, not what you know. I'd say networking and making business contacts is as valuable or even more valuable than that degree.
Reliability and Liability are two different things.
The drives are just as reliable on their own as they are in a pair. The way I saw his post worded was that he was insinuating there's some kind of degraded reliability of the drives while in running a raid configuration.
A two-drive array can double your throughput, but halve your reliability since if one of the drives fails, you lose all your data;-)
How can you say it halves the reliability? Your reliability is not halved at all. Each drive is just as reliable as though it were in a single configuration.
What's changed is that now you've got twice the liability. Two drives instead of one. If you run in a single disk configuration and your single drive dies it's no different than if one dies in a two disk configuration.
That's right kids, your cable bill buys you.. spam! Not just any spam, but spam that talks to you and tells you how much you need their products.
I don't remember agreeing to anything about watching commercials and actually wanting to. Nowhere did I put my john hancock on a piece of paper saying, "I wanna see Billy Mays pimp more Oxi Clean to me!"
Someone explain to me PVR's are any different from VCR's with "VCR Plus!" which automatically mark commercials and skip over them when you watch a recorded tape. Same thing, except it's not instantaneous like a PVR. Why is one stealing and one is not?
AOL TW if you're reading. Wanna save some of that 45B mark down? Fire her ass, you'll save yourselves a whole lotta grief down the road.
Don't forget! When you're stealing TV (that you paid for), you're watching communism.:P
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If you read the Hypothermia article. He said he called -twice- and confirmed the price over the phone. Then they reject it?
Once is a typo, twice is a fluke, three times is intentional.
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Check out Steve's article. I think he makes reference to this not being the first time.
Also, if you have time on your hands, HardOCP brings its users the best bang for the buck deals on its page. More often than not, these end up being typos and are more than happy to get the referred traffic from Kyle at HardOCP. Not only best buy but other online computer e-tailers. Thank god for reseller ratings. It's a shame the search function doesn't work on his site. I'm too lazy to browse through his archives either. But.. it's all there.
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They seem to do this intentionally. This isn't the first time Best Buy has misguided customers on its website. They purposely mark a product with the wrong price to get everyone's pre-order dollars and then don't ship it and call it a "typo". They then proceed to either refund you or give you a "discounted price" for their "mistake" which is no where near the original price advertised on their website.
It is some kind of cheap ploy to get people to use their website for all of their purchases. This is all to common with e-tailers these days. I for one sincerely hope that Steve and Hypothermia take Best Buy to the cleaners over this one.
Xbox: We have a built in Ethernet port into the Xbox, so we'll be online out of the box instead of having to buy expensive peripherals, and we'll crush everybody online! Bwahahahaha!
The PS2 Ethernet Adapter will be $39.99. No more expensive than the DVD remote for XBox which isn't supported out of the box. Same Difference! PS2 isn't behind, it's ahead by a long shot as you indicated with FFXI, EQ, and Star Wars. Not only that but the Ethernet Adapter is already being play tested with games other than the aforementioned, has MS begun testing their online titles yet? Oh right, MS skips the whole testing process, I forgot.
That's a very good point, I can understand the privacy issue on children over the age of say 10. Chances are you wouldn't be able to get your child who's much older than that to wear it anyway, especially if they know what it is.
Child abduction or even your child getting lost isn't as uncommon as some people may think. It's probably more likely than getting a power surge on your PC, yet we all buy UPS's to protect our PC's in the event that the "unthinkable" should happen. Why not do the same for your kids?
What is wrong with this? There is absolutely nothing more important to a parent than the safety of their child. Of course you're not going to tag your child with it 24/7 but if you're going to say Disneyland, or the beach or some other large public venue, it would be an excellent idea to place this on your child.
Would you want to lose your child because you were too busy being a conspiracy theorist and trying to think up reasons as to why tagging your child is morally wrong? No.. I didn't think so.
Who honestly went to this movie to look for a storyline comparable to Lord of the Rings? Like come on, you went into it expecting WAY too much.
It's based on a comicbook, every comicbook movie sequel has been cheese. Why would you expect any different of Blade II? Did anyone else notice the appearance of Danny John Jules aka "The Cat" from Red Dwarf? He probably just used his same cat teeth from Red Dwarf heh. Anyway, the movie is meant to be entertainment just like the WWF and that's all it is plain & simple. The fight scenes were well done, it had some gore, some corny lines and a chick in leather.
It was entertaining, all in all an okay show to see. =)
Well.. the first time I tried it the tip wasn't submerged the whole way and the bulb exploded in the microwave. I'm not sure if that was the reason it happened but after fully submerging the threads it just gave me a pretty light show.
Take a non conductive container and fill it part way with water. Take your standard every day 60 Watt light bulb and submerge the threaded end into the water. Put the container into the microwave & turn it on.
Are you really gonna store all of these mame titles on CD or DVD though? Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a nice little gui to load your mame titles off the local HDD or off your local network shares somewhere. You can back them up your own way so that you'll have them forever.
As far as retail titles go, I share the same concerns, what do the manufacturers do if your CD ends up scratched or something else? Are you SOL? Are you able to send it back and get a new one?
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I guess I'll have to tough it out with my mere dual Athlon 2400+ workstation for now (heh heh heh).
I don't think anyone here cares how big your e-penis is, and no... I won't stroke it.
I was expecting the raid to be somewhat cooler than that. Tell me, did you receive a cellular phone via FedEx before you got nailed? Or was the phone ringing on your desk per chance? You missed the way out if either of those things happened.
Exactly...
Apple doesn't even bother with keys for Jaguar. Regardless of their motives, I perceive this to be a certain level of trust. I rewarded them for it by purchasing 10.2 instead of grabbing one of many copies online.
This is exactly what drove me to buy an iBook over a wintel notebook. I found it extremely offensive that I could not purchase a relatively decent laptop without purchasing Windows XP with it.
Ludicrous!
The current VLC is still broke with the final QT6. Maybe they'll release an updated one soon. They seem to blame Apple.
I was so not impressed with the Beta. Warcraft 2 came out in 1995. So basically they've had 7 years to come up with a third installment worthy of its predecessor. Instead they squander those 7 years, and at the last minute spit out what is basically Warcraft 2 with some new graphics and a couple new races. Most disappointing, there was huge potential for something so much more. GG Blizzard.
The all time best Real Time Strategy game is and continues to be Total Annihilation. Better luck next time Blizzard.
I also assume that this week we like Blizzard and next week we're back to hating them for wheeling the DMCA on Bnetd?
This is a retarded idea. Here's why. The more the government interferes with business, particularily online business the less of a free market it actually is. If in fact it is important that users see what is relevant before paid results then the marketplace will change to demand that from search engines. Consumers will flock to what they want to use. The fact that the majority of Internet Cattle are made up of stupid people shouldn't really factor into this at all. People should find out for themselves how search engines work, people shouldn't have to rely on the government to protect them. In the famous words of Jesse Ventura, "The government is not your mom!"
If a privately owned search engine wants to get money for prioritized links, more power to them, that's free enterprise, it is their perogative to do business that way! If users dislike it they will go elsewhere and that search engine will be out of business. That's how the market works, the government doesn't need to interfere at all, the government is not your mom!
Trudat, my bad.
Jaguar had such potential and like previous Atari systems it was ahead of its time. Unfortunately the developer support just wasn't there. I owned a system and I don't think I can even recall the names of 5 games available for it. Maybe one day they'll make their return as a console maker. For now though they've gone the way of Sega and produce/publish games. Not only for consoles but for PC.
Isn't that how it works with PC Gaming? The security of the game and ultimately the PC lies in the hands of the Game developers and things for the most part work out "O.K".
The same methodology for the PS2 will work. "Why Fix it if it ain't broke". If a PS2 Developer House wants their game to flourish online they know they will have to do their best to curb cheating and most certainly avoid security holes in their games at all costs.
I fail to see how having Microsoft hold all the cards for the security of the XBox is a good thing. That's how it is with their OS and well... look at it.
Power to the Third parties!
I disagree with all of these College loving guys. Straight out of high school in 1998 I started in the tech industry. Hell, I very nearly didn't finish high school because I was working online when I should have been at school.
Through 3.. yes 3 dot com failures I still have my job, the pay is good and I've not looked back and wished I had done something else with my time. Some day I may consider going to school if I have a complete career change in mind.
I know lots of people who are out on their duffs and have degrees. In today's world, it's all about who you know, not what you know. I'd say networking and making business contacts is as valuable or even more valuable than that degree.
Reliability and Liability are two different things.
The drives are just as reliable on their own as they are in a pair. The way I saw his post worded was that he was insinuating there's some kind of degraded reliability of the drives while in running a raid configuration.
A two-drive array can double your throughput, but halve your reliability since if one of the drives fails, you lose all your data ;-)
How can you say it halves the reliability? Your reliability is not halved at all. Each drive is just as reliable as though it were in a single configuration.
What's changed is that now you've got twice the liability. Two drives instead of one. If you run in a single disk configuration and your single drive dies it's no different than if one dies in a two disk configuration.
That's right kids, your cable bill buys you.. spam! Not just any spam, but spam that talks to you and tells you how much you need their products.
:P
I don't remember agreeing to anything about watching commercials and actually wanting to. Nowhere did I put my john hancock on a piece of paper saying, "I wanna see Billy Mays pimp more Oxi Clean to me!"
Someone explain to me PVR's are any different from VCR's with "VCR Plus!" which automatically mark commercials and skip over them when you watch a recorded tape. Same thing, except it's not instantaneous like a PVR. Why is one stealing and one is not?
AOL TW if you're reading. Wanna save some of that 45B mark down? Fire her ass, you'll save yourselves a whole lotta grief down the road.
Don't forget! When you're stealing TV (that you paid for), you're watching communism.
If you read the Hypothermia article. He said he called -twice- and confirmed the price over the phone. Then they reject it?
Once is a typo, twice is a fluke, three times is intentional.
Check out Steve's article. I think he makes reference to this not being the first time.
Also, if you have time on your hands, HardOCP brings its users the best bang for the buck deals on its page. More often than not, these end up being typos and are more than happy to get the referred traffic from Kyle at HardOCP. Not only best buy but other online computer e-tailers. Thank god for reseller ratings. It's a shame the search function doesn't work on his site. I'm too lazy to browse through his archives either. But.. it's all there.
They seem to do this intentionally. This isn't the first time Best Buy has misguided customers on its website. They purposely mark a product with the wrong price to get everyone's pre-order dollars and then don't ship it and call it a "typo". They then proceed to either refund you or give you a "discounted price" for their "mistake" which is no where near the original price advertised on their website.
It is some kind of cheap ploy to get people to use their website for all of their purchases. This is all to common with e-tailers these days. I for one sincerely hope that Steve and Hypothermia take Best Buy to the cleaners over this one.
Xbox: We have a built in Ethernet port into the Xbox, so we'll be online out of the box instead of having to buy expensive peripherals, and we'll crush everybody online! Bwahahahaha!
The PS2 Ethernet Adapter will be $39.99. No more expensive than the DVD remote for XBox which isn't supported out of the box. Same Difference! PS2 isn't behind, it's ahead by a long shot as you indicated with FFXI, EQ, and Star Wars. Not only that but the Ethernet Adapter is already being play tested with games other than the aforementioned, has MS begun testing their online titles yet? Oh right, MS skips the whole testing process, I forgot.
That's a very good point, I can understand the privacy issue on children over the age of say 10. Chances are you wouldn't be able to get your child who's much older than that to wear it anyway, especially if they know what it is.
Child abduction or even your child getting lost isn't as uncommon as some people may think. It's probably more likely than getting a power surge on your PC, yet we all buy UPS's to protect our PC's in the event that the "unthinkable" should happen. Why not do the same for your kids?
What is wrong with this? There is absolutely nothing more important to a parent than the safety of their child. Of course you're not going to tag your child with it 24/7 but if you're going to say Disneyland, or the beach or some other large public venue, it would be an excellent idea to place this on your child.
Would you want to lose your child because you were too busy being a conspiracy theorist and trying to think up reasons as to why tagging your child is morally wrong? No.. I didn't think so.
Who honestly went to this movie to look for a storyline comparable to Lord of the Rings? Like come on, you went into it expecting WAY too much.
It's based on a comicbook, every comicbook movie sequel has been cheese. Why would you expect any different of Blade II? Did anyone else notice the appearance of Danny John Jules aka "The Cat" from Red Dwarf? He probably just used his same cat teeth from Red Dwarf heh. Anyway, the movie is meant to be entertainment just like the WWF and that's all it is plain & simple. The fight scenes were well done, it had some gore, some corny lines and a chick in leather.
It was entertaining, all in all an okay show to see. =)
Well.. the first time I tried it the tip wasn't submerged the whole way and the bulb exploded in the microwave. I'm not sure if that was the reason it happened but after fully submerging the threads it just gave me a pretty light show.
If the threaded metallic end is not submerged the metal will spark in the microwave and you might blow up the whole works.
Take a non conductive container and fill it part way with water. Take your standard every day 60 Watt light bulb and submerge the threaded end into the water. Put the container into the microwave & turn it on.
Fun light show...wheee!
Are you really gonna store all of these mame titles on CD or DVD though? Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a nice little gui to load your mame titles off the local HDD or off your local network shares somewhere. You can back them up your own way so that you'll have them forever.
As far as retail titles go, I share the same concerns, what do the manufacturers do if your CD ends up scratched or something else? Are you SOL? Are you able to send it back and get a new one?