2 years ago (here in Memphis), when getting cable net access, you also got TV cable as well. Well, not anymore. I asked why, and it was explained that back then, the local TimeWarner had no way of offering either net or TV signals by themselves, so they just bundled it. They eventually sorted out the techical problems, and now they can only let you have what you only order.
Your "trick" only applies in areas where they haven't gotten complete control of their system.
Lotsa money got wasted for research, and for buying the technology.
Here's a couple more.
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7-UP had their "Cool Spot" game for Genesis(?) back then. It essentially was one big advertisement for 7-UP. There a small sub-industry that caters to building niche games for companies who want their products placed in them, from the online based Flash games to full CD based installed versions.
Of course you also have my favorite gaming genre, racing simulations From open wheel (F1, CART, IRL) to fendered cars (NASCAR, Trans-Am, etc). the entire foundation of the real sport depends on advertising, from the car textures to the track graphics. The players of these games go to great lengths to make sure the correct advertising in in the game. There is almost no other genre where having advertising as part of the experience is important.
It's bad enough that you will be listening to a sampled version of your guitar, but 250 microseconds delay on your sound is the best case scenario? 1/4 second delay? As a mucisian, even one millisecond of delay is not accepable.
Why should you even need land line service at all?
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If I recall, the US is the only place that still has this. What if you're someone whose main phone is a cell phone, why should one have to get a redundant land line just to simply get DSL, whether it be the main carrier or an alternative? DSL is expensive as it is (contract, connection, no dissatisfaction guarantee), but one must also pay for deposit, connection fee and service on a land line as well? This is the main reason cable has more customers: the price is lower, they don't charge connection fees, they don't make you sign a contract, they don't make you buy the modem or NIC (hell the NIC is yours to keep after service is terminated), and you sure as hell don't have to pay for simply having a signal line to connect on.
SCB here in Memphis charges $50 a month for service. They make you buy the modem, they charge a connection fee, they require a contract. This on top of having to have a land line. All of a sudden this overpriced DSL now in reality costs $82, at the very least.
He was working help desk for the University computer labs. He installed Everquest and played all his time, in between helping people out. He then sold his items on eBay at the end of the summer and bought a car.
He did all sorts of things on the school's time, like fill out surveys for money, etc.
And PSP can be found even cheaper, if you look around. I love PSP. In fact PSP5 was the version I used most of all. Once in a while I'd throw in the evaluation version of PSP7 when someone had a newer.psd file that PSP5 couldn't open, just to convert it. Then one day I found PSP5's features starting to lack, and I switched over to PSP7.
I'm still an amatuer artist and have access to Photoshop, but I don't use it. My skills don't allow me took take full advantage of Photoshop, yet. But if I should ever get good enough, I don't mind forking over the money for it.
I tried The GIMP (Linux version), and it was so, so lacking. I'd rather pay $50 for PSP than use The GIMP for free.
Yes, anyone has the right to speak freely. But, that doesn't mean we have to listen to your message. You don't have the right to force your message on me, that is my decision. So go on and speak, but only to those who WANT to listen to you.
Every company that deals in graphics has done it. I've seen this on screens for SNES games, Sega consoles, 3Dfx cards, Intel CPUs, ad nauseum. nVidia didn't create this practice, they merely became the latest in a long series of companies to engage in marketing puffery.
...in a very general way: http://www.bmi.com/licensing/business/groupc/faq/b owling_answers.asp
Perhaps those cabbies should install a bowling lane, they'd get reduced rates.
In any case, the theory is that playing music in an establishment enhances the music making ability of the business, and it is not being used for strict personal enjoyment, and thus the business must pay up.
Any business establishment that plays music (retail stores especially) in earshot of all customers must pay royalties (figure unknown to me). Not everyone pays, it mostly is enforced against large retail and department store chains. The upshot of the law is a clerk can have a small radio at their station, but if you broadcast music over the store speaker system, then you must pay.
...when I do an image search on Google, I get less results when using Mozilla as opposed to using IE5 (using the same exact search terms)? I'm not trying to start something, just something I noticed and wondered if I had a setting wrong on Mozilla or something.
It just wasn't my cup of tea. I like SF shows, but this one just didn't do it for me. My reasons for not liking it shouldn't matter to you, so they won't be listed. If you liked it, more power to ya. In a perfect world, we'd all get to see the shows we like. Anyway, you guys should already know that "quality" in art is subjective. One man's treasure, etc.
A $44 attachment for a $70 unit to plug into your $150 console to play $35 games with the quality lesser than that of a 1990 era NES that sells for $20?
I scanned the component list, and nothing impressed me. But then my eyes fell on the free carnival quality t-shirt that is bundled with it, and I was hooked.
At present I use Windows, cause that's what 98% of the apps I use are written only for. But I do like learning about other OSes.
So on to my question (with a possible coda). I read in a BSD guide that "most" apps written for Linux will run under any of the BSDs. Is this true, or was this dude just plain misinformed? Only reason is I ask this is that most of the info I've seen regarding the Unix variants is that BSD is superior over Linux. If that's the case, why use Linux? Anyway, if anyone can answer this 2 part question in a quick, general way, it would be appreciated.
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2 years ago (here in Memphis), when getting cable net access, you also got TV cable as well. Well, not anymore. I asked why, and it was explained that back then, the local TimeWarner had no way of offering either net or TV signals by themselves, so they just bundled it. They eventually sorted out the techical problems, and now they can only let you have what you only order.
Your "trick" only applies in areas where they haven't gotten complete control of their system.
Lotsa money got wasted for research, and for buying the technology.
7-UP had their "Cool Spot" game for Genesis(?) back then. It essentially was one big advertisement for 7-UP. There a small sub-industry that caters to building niche games for companies who want their products placed in them, from the online based Flash games to full CD based installed versions.
Of course you also have my favorite gaming genre, racing simulations From open wheel (F1, CART, IRL) to fendered cars (NASCAR, Trans-Am, etc). the entire foundation of the real sport depends on advertising, from the car textures to the track graphics. The players of these games go to great lengths to make sure the correct advertising in in the game. There is almost no other genre where having advertising as part of the experience is important.
Some people have hacked some XP drivers together, since there are no official XP drivers (how could there be, 3Dfx folded before XP's release).
But I believe there are official Windows 2000 drivers.
I caught my mistake too late. Still, just the sampled output thing is enough to make me not interested.
It's bad enough that you will be listening to a sampled version of your guitar, but 250 microseconds delay on your sound is the best case scenario? 1/4 second delay? As a mucisian, even one millisecond of delay is not accepable.
I had no idea Bill was funding those now.
If I recall, the US is the only place that still has this. What if you're someone whose main phone is a cell phone, why should one have to get a redundant land line just to simply get DSL, whether it be the main carrier or an alternative? DSL is expensive as it is (contract, connection, no dissatisfaction guarantee), but one must also pay for deposit, connection fee and service on a land line as well? This is the main reason cable has more customers: the price is lower, they don't charge connection fees, they don't make you sign a contract, they don't make you buy the modem or NIC (hell the NIC is yours to keep after service is terminated), and you sure as hell don't have to pay for simply having a signal line to connect on.
SCB here in Memphis charges $50 a month for service. They make you buy the modem, they charge a connection fee, they require a contract. This on top of having to have a land line. All of a sudden this overpriced DSL now in reality costs $82, at the very least.
I'll stick to my $30 a month cable connection.
He was working help desk for the University computer labs. He installed Everquest and played all his time, in between helping people out. He then sold his items on eBay at the end of the summer and bought a car.
He did all sorts of things on the school's time, like fill out surveys for money, etc.
And PSP can be found even cheaper, if you look around. I love PSP. In fact PSP5 was the version I used most of all. Once in a while I'd throw in the evaluation version of PSP7 when someone had a newer .psd file that PSP5 couldn't open, just to convert it. Then one day I found PSP5's features starting to lack, and I switched over to PSP7.
I'm still an amatuer artist and have access to Photoshop, but I don't use it. My skills don't allow me took take full advantage of Photoshop, yet. But if I should ever get good enough, I don't mind forking over the money for it.
I tried The GIMP (Linux version), and it was so, so lacking. I'd rather pay $50 for PSP than use The GIMP for free.
...is almost done as well, we think. All that's left to do is the art, programming and game design.
37 years and running.
Yes, anyone has the right to speak freely. But, that doesn't mean we have to listen to your message. You don't have the right to force your message on me, that is my decision. So go on and speak, but only to those who WANT to listen to you.
Every company that deals in graphics has done it. I've seen this on screens for SNES games, Sega consoles, 3Dfx cards, Intel CPUs, ad nauseum. nVidia didn't create this practice, they merely became the latest in a long series of companies to engage in marketing puffery.
I coulda sworn MSNBC had run a story about such a device a while back.
...in a very general way: http://www.bmi.com/licensing/business/groupc/faq/b owling_answers.asp
Perhaps those cabbies should install a bowling lane, they'd get reduced rates.
In any case, the theory is that playing music in an establishment enhances the music making ability of the business, and it is not being used for strict personal enjoyment, and thus the business must pay up.
Any business establishment that plays music (retail stores especially) in earshot of all customers must pay royalties (figure unknown to me). Not everyone pays, it mostly is enforced against large retail and department store chains. The upshot of the law is a clerk can have a small radio at their station, but if you broadcast music over the store speaker system, then you must pay.
...when I do an image search on Google, I get less results when using Mozilla as opposed to using IE5 (using the same exact search terms)? I'm not trying to start something, just something I noticed and wondered if I had a setting wrong on Mozilla or something.
Oughta be good.
Please send me the scientific formula, method, or test for determining quality in subjective work.
It just wasn't my cup of tea. I like SF shows, but this one just didn't do it for me. My reasons for not liking it shouldn't matter to you, so they won't be listed. If you liked it, more power to ya. In a perfect world, we'd all get to see the shows we like. Anyway, you guys should already know that "quality" in art is subjective. One man's treasure, etc.
That should blow people's minds at LAN parties when I show up with a Soldam case, plug it in, and start pulling cooked food out of it!
A $44 attachment for a $70 unit to plug into your $150 console to play $35 games with the quality lesser than that of a 1990 era NES that sells for $20?
I scanned the component list, and nothing impressed me. But then my eyes fell on the free carnival quality t-shirt that is bundled with it, and I was hooked.
At present I use Windows, cause that's what 98% of the apps I use are written only for. But I do like learning about other OSes.
So on to my question (with a possible coda). I read in a BSD guide that "most" apps written for Linux will run under any of the BSDs. Is this true, or was this dude just plain misinformed? Only reason is I ask this is that most of the info I've seen regarding the Unix variants is that BSD is superior over Linux. If that's the case, why use Linux? Anyway, if anyone can answer this 2 part question in a quick, general way, it would be appreciated.