There's nothing wrong with heating up a metal in a microwave, that in itself will not ruin the unit. What is a big problem is the heated item melting the inside floor of the oven due to (drum roll, please), HEAT! The item gets hot, and melts a big hole in the floor, therefore ruining it. So go ahead and heat metals in your microwave, just don't let it touch the insides directly. That means using a plate, cover, etc.
Here in the Mid South, Road Runner essentially will cost you abut $58, after taxes. Each additional IP after that adds only $10 to the cost. You do have to provide your own modems for the additional IPs, but each IP get's full bandwidth.
They did so when they shelled out money for the right to do derivative D&D works. How about following their example, and either accept the term, or exercise your right to find some other venue?
And for those of you who claim you have the "right" to your own derivative Bioware work, where is your license to do so? Did you engage in negotiation and sign a contract? The answer most likely is no.
It works perfectly. We burned a Jenna Jameson VCD, threw it on the home DVD player, and watched some quality porn. Sounds like these guys solved a problem that never existed.
Buy the app yourself, but get your kid to install it for you. It's a double whammy on the company, since you yourself didn't "agree" to the EULA, you're not bound by it, and your kid can't be bound, since contracts with minors are non binding.
I'd take one for commercials.
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Since I technically didn't sign a licence to view/listen them, it would definitely like every instance of a commercial or advertisemnt I see/hear on electronic media or physically printed.
I am a guitarist, and if you want the prototypical guitar distortion that comes to mind, a tube preamp (at the very least) coupled with a tube amp is the ticket. Why tubes, you say? Well you are CREATING a sound, not recreating one. The original guitarists were actually trying to recreate a a certain sound, and when transistor amps strted becoming more widespread, they found that the new "superior" gear didn't give them that sound they had gotten used to. In fact, it sounded "bad". Now, I am also an audio engineer, and the first rule of engineering is "any sound is usable". That's not to say that transitor amps for guitar work are unusable. As a guitarist, you go with what you like, and if a transistor amp is it, then so be it. But like I said, that prototypical heavy guitar sound (and even clean and slightly dirty) is best created with tube equipment. Decades of attempts with transistor gear have proven this. To those who are not guitarists, it seems backwards, but you have to keep in mind, sound creation is the goal here. The "inferiority" of tubes actually produces a pleasing result in this particular area.
...the person who makes a product no longer has the right to set their own prices? Then what's the point of trying to make a profit? When one enters into commerce, the whole idea is to make money. One must find the and find the price that will bring you the most money overall. Sure, pleasing the customer is one aspect of the product, but at the end of the day, one tallies up the cash register, not the goodwill.
You have to be either incredibly naive or extremely stupid to think that the only costs a producer incurs in making a game is the simple cost of physically making the disk, packaging and literature. There is also the cost of paying the guys who created the game, which includes salary, and workplace. And at $45K plus per programmer, payroll adds up PRETTY QUICKLY. Then there's taxes. Did you know that a corpaoration, in addition to paying sales tax on any equipment it buys, must also pay a tax simply for having the equipment? And this is every year. Running a business entails way more expenses than you think, or I can list. Those usurious profits you think all businesses are making start to get whittled down pretty quickly when you start subtracting the other costs. You should try running your own business one day, and you will see that simply having a corporation is not a licence to print money.
...not a techie. When he messed with the stuff on Star Trek, he was PRETENDING. Yep, that's right, it was all an act. He really didn't know how to calibrate a plasma relay, etc.
Tommorow I'll let you know about Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny (warning: bad news).
I remember seeing the screenshots of the pixelated demons, then reading the reviews written by blind people raving about how it looked indistinguishable from reality and going "huh?". I always wanted to see their version of the game. It may have been state of the art at the time, but it was plainly clear that the art was pretty blocky. Even todays games, I can tell it's just that, a game, and not some television replay, despite the reviewers claiming otherwise.
There are currently 3 games that Vivendi/Sierra/Papyrus publishes that does exactly the same thing here: NASCAR Racing 4, NASCAR Racing 4 and NASCAR Racing 2002 Season. Each of these games has a built in matching server for listing player race servers, which is maintained by Papyrus, which does a CD check. BUT....one can also host a server through an IPX or a TCP/IP connection, and it never goes through a Papyrus server. Enter RaceServer, an Gamespy style app that not only lists Papyrus matching servers but helps facilitate IPX/TCP/IP connections. Should Papyrus pull their matching servers, players of these games could still find online raceing with RaceServer's client. It would (does) bypass the CD check that Vivendi is claiming so important in the Diablo case. Even without the RS client or a Papyrus matching server, TCP/IP races are still possible providing all the racers know the host's IP. Papyrus puts in official form the very thing their parent Vivendi is claiming foul against. There was also a 2nd client available for online racing specfically made for the NASCAR Racing 4 demo (yes the demo) called Internet Race Finder (IRF - mainly a NASCAR Heat GameSpy style app), since there was no online capability in that demo. I find this very ironic that it's "illegal" in Diablo to connect via IP with a 3rd party client, but yet it's sanctioned in the NASCAR games.
Ignore the NASCAR Racing 2002 observations.
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He used the demo, which is an old unoptimized build, and gives terrible performance in all aspects, which is nowhere simlilar to the retail release. The retail release is markedly better, and is a better testbed for benchmarking, and includes OpenGL.
Mr. Tweak "submitting" a story about his own site, and Hemos going "yeah, now this is TECH!!!!!!!!!!"? Or is Tweaktown allied with/. in some way? No one reads this site anymore for the info, the reader comments are the most entertaining now./. has become a joke regarding tech news.
It's nationwide. You can't get DSL without having a phone connceted. If you have DSL, you already have a phone.
Need a phone line for DSL in USA, crackhead
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Oh right, you're just a European ignorant.
So you have to have a phone anyway with this?
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I don't see where the deal is. You're shelling out $30, in addition to the $28 for the land line (which already comes with unlimited calling) you need to use your $30 service? VoIP over land line? What's the point?
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The musical was the point where Buffy jumped the shark. I thought I was watching Cop Rock all over again, except with vampires and bad singing.
There's nothing wrong with heating up a metal in a microwave, that in itself will not ruin the unit. What is a big problem is the heated item melting the inside floor of the oven due to (drum roll, please), HEAT! The item gets hot, and melts a big hole in the floor, therefore ruining it. So go ahead and heat metals in your microwave, just don't let it touch the insides directly. That means using a plate, cover, etc.
You should take a stroll in a grocery store one day, and you'll see it. It's in the frozen foods section, and has been sold for more than a decade.
Here in the Mid South, Road Runner essentially will cost you abut $58, after taxes. Each additional IP after that adds only $10 to the cost. You do have to provide your own modems for the additional IPs, but each IP get's full bandwidth.
Who's gonna sign off on it, the Max Headroom guy, or LaCroix from Forever Knight?
...which would you be, a bactrian or a dromedary camel, and why?
They did so when they shelled out money for the right to do derivative D&D works. How about following their example, and either accept the term, or exercise your right to find some other venue?
And for those of you who claim you have the "right" to your own derivative Bioware work, where is your license to do so? Did you engage in negotiation and sign a contract? The answer most likely is no.
It works perfectly. We burned a Jenna Jameson VCD, threw it on the home DVD player, and watched some quality porn. Sounds like these guys solved a problem that never existed.
Buy the app yourself, but get your kid to install it for you. It's a double whammy on the company, since you yourself didn't "agree" to the EULA, you're not bound by it, and your kid can't be bound, since contracts with minors are non binding.
Since I technically didn't sign a licence to view/listen them, it would definitely like every instance of a commercial or advertisemnt I see/hear on electronic media or physically printed.
I am a guitarist, and if you want the prototypical guitar distortion that comes to mind, a tube preamp (at the very least) coupled with a tube amp is the ticket. Why tubes, you say? Well you are CREATING a sound, not recreating one. The original guitarists were actually trying to recreate a a certain sound, and when transistor amps strted becoming more widespread, they found that the new "superior" gear didn't give them that sound they had gotten used to. In fact, it sounded "bad". Now, I am also an audio engineer, and the first rule of engineering is "any sound is usable". That's not to say that transitor amps for guitar work are unusable. As a guitarist, you go with what you like, and if a transistor amp is it, then so be it. But like I said, that prototypical heavy guitar sound (and even clean and slightly dirty) is best created with tube equipment. Decades of attempts with transistor gear have proven this. To those who are not guitarists, it seems backwards, but you have to keep in mind, sound creation is the goal here. The "inferiority" of tubes actually produces a pleasing result in this particular area.
Imagine that?
What's he gonna do, practice crashing into an Outback steakhouse?
...the person who makes a product no longer has the right to set their own prices? Then what's the point of trying to make a profit? When one enters into commerce, the whole idea is to make money. One must find the and find the price that will bring you the most money overall. Sure, pleasing the customer is one aspect of the product, but at the end of the day, one tallies up the cash register, not the goodwill.
You have to be either incredibly naive or extremely stupid to think that the only costs a producer incurs in making a game is the simple cost of physically making the disk, packaging and literature. There is also the cost of paying the guys who created the game, which includes salary, and workplace. And at $45K plus per programmer, payroll adds up PRETTY QUICKLY. Then there's taxes. Did you know that a corpaoration, in addition to paying sales tax on any equipment it buys, must also pay a tax simply for having the equipment? And this is every year. Running a business entails way more expenses than you think, or I can list. Those usurious profits you think all businesses are making start to get whittled down pretty quickly when you start subtracting the other costs. You should try running your own business one day, and you will see that simply having a corporation is not a licence to print money.
Would you be willing to be worked on by someone with an honarary degree in Surgery? Yeah, didn't think so.
...not a techie. When he messed with the stuff on Star Trek, he was PRETENDING. Yep, that's right, it was all an act. He really didn't know how to calibrate a plasma relay, etc.
Tommorow I'll let you know about Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny (warning: bad news).
I remember seeing the screenshots of the pixelated demons, then reading the reviews written by blind people raving about how it looked indistinguishable from reality and going "huh?". I always wanted to see their version of the game. It may have been state of the art at the time, but it was plainly clear that the art was pretty blocky. Even todays games, I can tell it's just that, a game, and not some television replay, despite the reviewers claiming otherwise.
There are currently 3 games that Vivendi/Sierra/Papyrus publishes that does exactly the same thing here: NASCAR Racing 4, NASCAR Racing 4 and NASCAR Racing 2002 Season. Each of these games has a built in matching server for listing player race servers, which is maintained by Papyrus, which does a CD check. BUT....one can also host a server through an IPX or a TCP/IP connection, and it never goes through a Papyrus server. Enter RaceServer, an Gamespy style app that not only lists Papyrus matching servers but helps facilitate IPX/TCP/IP connections. Should Papyrus pull their matching servers, players of these games could still find online raceing with RaceServer's client. It would (does) bypass the CD check that Vivendi is claiming so important in the Diablo case. Even without the RS client or a Papyrus matching server, TCP/IP races are still possible providing all the racers know the host's IP. Papyrus puts in official form the very thing their parent Vivendi is claiming foul against. There was also a 2nd client available for online racing specfically made for the NASCAR Racing 4 demo (yes the demo) called Internet Race Finder (IRF - mainly a NASCAR Heat GameSpy style app), since there was no online capability in that demo. I find this very ironic that it's "illegal" in Diablo to connect via IP with a 3rd party client, but yet it's sanctioned in the NASCAR games.
He used the demo, which is an old unoptimized build, and gives terrible performance in all aspects, which is nowhere simlilar to the retail release. The retail release is markedly better, and is a better testbed for benchmarking, and includes OpenGL.
Mr. Tweak "submitting" a story about his own site, and Hemos going "yeah, now this is TECH!!!!!!!!!!"? Or is Tweaktown allied with /. in some way? No one reads this site anymore for the info, the reader comments are the most entertaining now. /. has become a joke regarding tech news.
Money, man, money.
It's nationwide. You can't get DSL without having a phone connceted. If you have DSL, you already have a phone.
Oh right, you're just a European ignorant.
I don't see where the deal is. You're shelling out $30, in addition to the $28 for the land line (which already comes with unlimited calling) you need to use your $30 service? VoIP over land line? What's the point?