I think it's a cool idea, but could go beyond experimental games. What about including old classics along with the newer games?
I think it would be cool if id included the entire Commander Keen in the box with Doom 3 or something. It'd just be a little bonus to say "thanks for buying our game." Or if Epic put the original Unreal in with UT2k4.
Am I the only one who's opinion of this guy changed from "so-so" after RTFA to "what a fuckin' jerk!" after reading this post?
Yes. I happened to find his little mind exercise somewhat fun and interesting, which I gather is all he was going for.
The people above just completely missed the point, and started pointing out statistical and methodological holes in a "for the hell of it" fun project. He tried to explain as such.
I worked at NASA last semester. Judging by the URL, this isn't NASA's main cluster of servers (note that nasa.gov loads briskly). This is probably just some SGI in a server closet in whatever building this was made in at Ames.
No, they're not idiots. They either don't care, have better things to do with their time, or feel overwhelmed by it all. You know, like me and quantum physics. Doesn't mean I'm an idiot, just means that I don't know quantum physics.
Well, just to clarify, Sirius doesn't have commercials either. Your other points are well taken, but it sounded like you were saying XM has a leg up for being commercial-free.
A cool thing I discovered about Sirius: they offer (for a limited time) a $500 lifetime plan. Pay the dough, and you get Sirius for free till they go out of business.
It might not say "online music" to you, but their music store currently offers the highest-quality WMA encodings available (last time I checked): 160kbps for $0.99. They're really the only music store I've bought from.
1. Exceeding what is necessary or natural; superfluous.
2. Needlessly wordy or repetitive in expression: a student paper filled with redundant phrases.
3. Of or relating to linguistic redundancy.
4. Chiefly British. Dismissed or laid off from work, as for being no longer needed.
5. Electronics. Of or involving redundancy in electronic equipment.
6. Of or involving redundancy in the transmission of messages.
Wait, wait. SPF prevents you from sending an email from one domain with a different @domain.com?
I have a university e-mail address that ends with @msstate.edu. But I don't live on campus, I live in the surrounding town and so am not on the msstate.edu domain. My SMTP host is nctv.com.
Right now, I can just set up my mail client to use email_address@msstate.edu and send it through nctv.com. Will SPF prevent me from doing that and force me to use webmail or something equally inconvenient?
I agree that it takes a bit of learning to figure out how to use Word as it should be used (kind of like learning how to write proper HTML). But the parent specifically stated that he hasn't really used Word before. That was his entire point.
If a newbie tries to do something in Word and OpenOffice, and he/she finds it easier in OpenOffice, isn't that a good thing?
Right, look at Transgaming. They charge $5/month for Cedega, but you get the releases forever, even if you cancel your subscription. When you cancel, however, you miss out on support, new releases, voting rights, and the knowledge that you are helping to support its development.
Well, I guess I missed the joke here. Parent is right, e17 is the next-generation release that everyone's been salivating over for a few years.
IIRC, they're redoing all the base libraries from scratch and implementing a more complete and cohesive system, which probably explains all the rabid E fans out there.
I also purchased a 5150, but I got mine last fall for $2k (student discount):
3.06 Ghz Mobile Pentium 4
15" UXGA LCD
512 MB RAM
60 GB HD
64 MB nVidia GeForce FX Go5200
I enjoy using it, but I would not recommend it for a hardcore gaming system. The go5200 is essentially a "value" chip, and performs worse than the older ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 (although it has DX9 support). What they don't tell you is that the chip is 50% underclocked and hardcoded that way. Look on rojakpot.com for a review.
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Sean O'Keefe (NASA Administrator) even attended the launch (the first one, at least). They've also provided nice high-speed webcasts from their site.
Yeah, for some reason our local Wal-Mart carries Caffeine-Free Diet Mt. Dew. We go gaze upon the boxes for scares on dark stormy nights.
To save me from visiting the websites of all 78 entries...
Do any of these games work on Linux? Or WINE, even?
That's because "redundant" means "unnecessary" as well as "repeated". Look it up.
I think it's a cool idea, but could go beyond experimental games. What about including old classics along with the newer games?
I think it would be cool if id included the entire Commander Keen in the box with Doom 3 or something. It'd just be a little bonus to say "thanks for buying our game." Or if Epic put the original Unreal in with UT2k4.
Am I the only one who's opinion of this guy changed from "so-so" after RTFA to "what a fuckin' jerk!" after reading this post?
Yes. I happened to find his little mind exercise somewhat fun and interesting, which I gather is all he was going for.
The people above just completely missed the point, and started pointing out statistical and methodological holes in a "for the hell of it" fun project. He tried to explain as such.
I worked at NASA last semester. Judging by the URL, this isn't NASA's main cluster of servers (note that nasa.gov loads briskly). This is probably just some SGI in a server closet in whatever building this was made in at Ames.
No, they're not idiots. They either don't care, have better things to do with their time, or feel overwhelmed by it all. You know, like me and quantum physics. Doesn't mean I'm an idiot, just means that I don't know quantum physics.
I'm sure they're measuring whether the user has set Steam to use D3D or OpenGL. Not anything else on the user's computer.
These stats make me think that the numbers are automatically detected by Steam, not input by users.
So to fix the bad phrasing, all they need to do is correct the typo or resort the raw data or whatever. The data itself isn't effected by it.
I liked it too, but geeze... the physics just made me wince. I guess it's just a part of the 'atmosphere', though.
Looks to me like they're both saying the exact same thing, but in slightly different language.
Well, as long as we're talking NPR, Sirius has 2 channels of it. It's not the same as a local affiliate, but they have all the sindicated shows.
Well, just to clarify, Sirius doesn't have commercials either. Your other points are well taken, but it sounded like you were saying XM has a leg up for being commercial-free.
A cool thing I discovered about Sirius: they offer (for a limited time) a $500 lifetime plan. Pay the dough, and you get Sirius for free till they go out of business.
Sun JDS uses Gnome. They've made some big deals, so I'd put them in the 5-7 range somewhere.
It might not say "online music" to you, but their music store currently offers the highest-quality WMA encodings available (last time I checked): 160kbps for $0.99. They're really the only music store I've bought from.
Source for this? A Yahoo search for "Linux" shows 3 "sponsor results" blocks, each clearly delineated from the rest of the results.
Right, like the sorority-sister-with-a-Compaq is going to remember to open up a console, switch to root, and type 'yum update' with any regularity.
XP has it right with its auto-update stuff. Fortunately, so do most desktop distros (e.g. Linspire).
From Dictionary.com:
Where does it say that? I just read the Terms & Conditions, and saw nothing of the sort.
Wait, wait. SPF prevents you from sending an email from one domain with a different @domain.com?
I have a university e-mail address that ends with @msstate.edu. But I don't live on campus, I live in the surrounding town and so am not on the msstate.edu domain. My SMTP host is nctv.com.
Right now, I can just set up my mail client to use email_address@msstate.edu and send it through nctv.com. Will SPF prevent me from doing that and force me to use webmail or something equally inconvenient?
I agree that it takes a bit of learning to figure out how to use Word as it should be used (kind of like learning how to write proper HTML). But the parent specifically stated that he hasn't really used Word before. That was his entire point.
If a newbie tries to do something in Word and OpenOffice, and he/she finds it easier in OpenOffice, isn't that a good thing?
Right, look at Transgaming. They charge $5/month for Cedega, but you get the releases forever, even if you cancel your subscription. When you cancel, however, you miss out on support, new releases, voting rights, and the knowledge that you are helping to support its development.
Well, I guess I missed the joke here. Parent is right, e17 is the next-generation release that everyone's been salivating over for a few years.
IIRC, they're redoing all the base libraries from scratch and implementing a more complete and cohesive system, which probably explains all the rabid E fans out there.
I enjoy using it, but I would not recommend it for a hardcore gaming system. The go5200 is essentially a "value" chip, and performs worse than the older ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 (although it has DX9 support). What they don't tell you is that the chip is 50% underclocked and hardcoded that way. Look on rojakpot.com for a review.