I have no us for a camera on my iPod, but I don't mind the idea of an iPod on my camera. I have used my iPod classic as a camera drive, I was disappointed when the new generation iPods lost that ability. I could see a camera with iPod interface. Clip it on for wifi, Geo-Tagging, Photo display, extra storage. With the software and the IPod App store possibilities are endless.
Dungeons and Dragons Online Is going free to play September the 9th. If you participated in the beta or are a subscriber you get to start the new Eberron expansion on the 1st of September. They plan to make money using the in game store, selling expansions, potions and other game enhancements. You can still pay and be a VIP member which allows you more privileges.
I believe Warhammer Online uses the chicken system. High level characters entering starting areas are turned into chickens, which can be ignored or killed by other players.
Code Weavers cross over games is based on wine but may produce results.
http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxgames/
I see Stracraft is only Bronze. WoW is silver but goes bronze on Lich King, I could see lag in Dalaran as a real problem. Dalaran sucks for me even with a normal install on Osx.
If you liked Elite which was amazing for it's size, (I was just a little binary file on an apple II floppy) you will enjoy Vedetta Online:
http://vendetta-online.com/ I didn't enjoy Eve either, economy trading type strategy doesn't turn my crank. Vendetta you can trade but you have to elude, fight or pay off the pirates. Vendetta is pvp centric and runs on all platforms that matter.
I have a similar experience. I kind of enjoyed the game casually leveling, and met some people along the way, but I really wanted to do raids. I got asked into a guild while questing in one of the newer areas of the Burning Crusade Expansion. Then things got interesting, it was a mature guild and the chat was ok but I didn't understand a lot of the chat and had to look up abbreviations in Wowwiki all the time. The Lich King expansion was just coming out and I ground like crazy to hit the level cap by release date. So I started raiding with the guild, I made some dumb mistakes and did ok at other times. Then the guild fell apart, so now I am almost geared for final Raids but not quite. I enjoyed raiding but don't want it to be a full time job. It seems like all the guilds around are either super elite, or quite lame. Hard to find a middle path. So I tried Warhammer Mac Beta, It has some nice graphics and some pretty good features, but it was pretty laggy for me. I thought the public quest idea was great where you just walk into an area and everyone that wanders in becomes grouped and can share in the loot which is rolled for automatically with extra chance for more participation. This game has potential. I also am involved in the Dungeons and Dragons Online beta test for their new expansion. This game is going free to play with an online store where you buy expansions, enhancements, and potions. Points for the store are also earned in some quests. Having played pen and paper D&D i clicked with the Dungeon Crawling experience right away. And found the chat to be usually mature and help-full. No hint of any lag, and the combat system is nice once you get used to it, as a rogue I could tumble away jump behind strike, and oh there is collision detection which makes combat more realistic. You aren't walking through a tank. The social interface works well which sucks in WoW, and you can find a group quickly. Once you are in there is a built in voice chat that you won't use much, cause as a group you move quickly through the instance and at the lower levels I was it with a group it was over quick where solo was a real problem. DDO is not as polished as WoW there is no search function in the auction house and it lacks some of the features of WoW but i think the core game has it where it counts in the combat system and full d&d rules. Free to play can't go wrong, have to run boot-camp for a while but I can fix that later with Codeweavers Crossover Games. Not sure if I will fully retire WoW I still enjoy the battle grounds and they are always expanding but I am going to see where DDO takes me. And as far as the Oriental Games go I was in Guild Wars beta it was fun as beta but when the actually game came out I became bored quickly, it was pretty, but the game play was not there.
Perhaps I am being paranoid but this is smelling like the new McArthyism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism A convenient way to make someone you don't like look bad. Exploiting children is very bad but just is bad is falsely accusing someone of this to make yourself look like a hero or to punish someone you don't like.
Exactly the point that should be made, DRM is the fault of the Publishers, as for Itunes music not playing on other machines, burn playlist, rip it back to whatever u want, lather rinse repeat.
I think Jobs is one of the worlds best presenters, it's too bad we won't be seeing him anymore at Macworld. Apple was doing poorly because of OS9 I think and the Next Step OS Jobs brought with him when he returned to Apple was what OSx is built on, that was a turning point. I would like to point out that some of Apples instability at that time was caused by Jobs himself and his bid to get control back of Apple, I believe he dumped some of his stock at a critical time to create a window for his return. He had some critical assets to bring with him though, Next Step Os and Display Postscript. Jobs is not the total creator of all these shiny new Apple devices, but what he does is inspire people to achieve more than they would normally, probably by fear and also setting an example. If jobs were to go all those people who make those achievements would still be there but probably would not work as hard.
For me the biggest problems were library dependencies and drivers. Installing something simple like midnight commander, could take hours because of dependencies depending on dependencies. I quit using Linux when I was unable to reliably use my usb wireless receiver. Xandros came close but didn't always work. When I saw that Osx included unix that I could use the terminal and also install linux software via fink, I have not looked back.
I have been in the Fitness Equipment repair business for 7 years so I have seen this sort of thing b4. I can tell you this it has been tried many times many ways, never popular. Try to sell the stuff used to a home equipment buyer perhaps, nope. People want to get on a treadmill or bike and just zone out for an hour or so. I have seen Life Cycles with nintendos built in with controllers on handlebars, Cybex Virtual Bike with tilt seat that lets you steer through a soccer game... there were others too can't remember their names but they all ended up scrap metal. It might go in China though, here we are petty jaded about that sort of thing. Gimme the machine, gimme a tv or newspaper / book and i'll wipe the thing down when I'm done. The video game fitness thing has been tried going back 10 years never hit.
I am working on building a Drenaenei Shaman and since I started there have been some changes made to the Shaman Class that have been referred to as nerfs. It takes time to build a talent tree up and can be expensive to edit, have you considered allowing a free edit to a tree after changes have been made. I am not complaining about changes I am sure they are made with fairness to all in mind, but it would be nice to be able to build a new tree around the new changes. Also as I rise in level the game becomes more social as one meets more friends and explores more 5 man instances. The Looking for Group Interface is a little disappointing, one often has to lfg a dungeon then toggle off autojoin and then use the lfg channerl and hope to be noticed. For example I missed a quest item in the Sunken Temple and because I am a higher level now, I can't get that dungeon to come up on the interface anymore. Are you planning on improving the LFG interface for Wrath?
I wonder how many independents there are on iTunes and if it is growing. What if after this stunt there are only independents on iTunes. Would the other artists start jumping ship, assuming they could get out of their contracts. It could motivate others to go independent too. I would like to see that. Those pigs would really start to squealing when no new artists want to sign with them anymore.
Yes I immediately added myself to the OSX mailing list to let them know I am waiting. I suppose I will have to fire up Boot Camp to try out Chrome. I haven't used Boot Camp for a long time but Chrome is tempting me.
I don't think touch screens are the answer it's been tried b4. But a touch pad with gestures like on the Mac Air is new technology and has a bright future I think.
I think it's instinct to add to the gene pool. Make a baby with the bad boy then settle down with a good man and nest. Good guys don't get laid you have to act like a real bastard. Later when they have two kids and have been through the mill they will look for someone to settle down after they have taken the wild seed.
Could this have anything to do with the introduction of iTunes movie rentals in Canada? Is this the sort of deal the movie publishers were looking for before allowing online movie rentals north of the 49? Did the already know this was going through because they had some kind of handshake deal with the Conservatives?
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I wonder if they used forth to control this telescope. Would do my heart good to know that forth is alive and well and still controlling telescopes.
I have no us for a camera on my iPod, but I don't mind the idea of an iPod on my camera. I have used my iPod classic as a camera drive, I was disappointed when the new generation iPods lost that ability. I could see a camera with iPod interface. Clip it on for wifi, Geo-Tagging, Photo display, extra storage. With the software and the IPod App store possibilities are endless.
Dungeons and Dragons Online Is going free to play September the 9th. If you participated in the beta or are a subscriber you get to start the new Eberron expansion on the 1st of September. They plan to make money using the in game store, selling expansions, potions and other game enhancements. You can still pay and be a VIP member which allows you more privileges.
I believe Warhammer Online uses the chicken system. High level characters entering starting areas are turned into chickens, which can be ignored or killed by other players.
You could play this http://www.warhammeronline.com/mac/ instead. It was a little laggy for me but has a lot of nice features. You can't use http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxgames/ as it is not working, perhaps due to game guard?
Code Weavers cross over games is based on wine but may produce results. http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxgames/ I see Stracraft is only Bronze. WoW is silver but goes bronze on Lich King, I could see lag in Dalaran as a real problem. Dalaran sucks for me even with a normal install on Osx.
Perhaps they expect the Mac community to jump on with the new OsX version, and free trial. http://www.warhammeronline.com/mac/
If you liked Elite which was amazing for it's size, (I was just a little binary file on an apple II floppy) you will enjoy Vedetta Online:
http://vendetta-online.com/ I didn't enjoy Eve either, economy trading type strategy doesn't turn my crank. Vendetta you can trade but you have to elude, fight or pay off the pirates. Vendetta is pvp centric and runs on all platforms that matter.
I have a similar experience. I kind of enjoyed the game casually leveling, and met some people along the way, but I really wanted to do raids. I got asked into a guild while questing in one of the newer areas of the Burning Crusade Expansion. Then things got interesting, it was a mature guild and the chat was ok but I didn't understand a lot of the chat and had to look up abbreviations in Wowwiki all the time. The Lich King expansion was just coming out and I ground like crazy to hit the level cap by release date. So I started raiding with the guild, I made some dumb mistakes and did ok at other times. Then the guild fell apart, so now I am almost geared for final Raids but not quite. I enjoyed raiding but don't want it to be a full time job. It seems like all the guilds around are either super elite, or quite lame. Hard to find a middle path. So I tried Warhammer Mac Beta, It has some nice graphics and some pretty good features, but it was pretty laggy for me. I thought the public quest idea was great where you just walk into an area and everyone that wanders in becomes grouped and can share in the loot which is rolled for automatically with extra chance for more participation. This game has potential. I also am involved in the Dungeons and Dragons Online beta test for their new expansion. This game is going free to play with an online store where you buy expansions, enhancements, and potions. Points for the store are also earned in some quests. Having played pen and paper D&D i clicked with the Dungeon Crawling experience right away. And found the chat to be usually mature and help-full. No hint of any lag, and the combat system is nice once you get used to it, as a rogue I could tumble away jump behind strike, and oh there is collision detection which makes combat more realistic. You aren't walking through a tank. The social interface works well which sucks in WoW, and you can find a group quickly. Once you are in there is a built in voice chat that you won't use much, cause as a group you move quickly through the instance and at the lower levels I was it with a group it was over quick where solo was a real problem. DDO is not as polished as WoW there is no search function in the auction house and it lacks some of the features of WoW but i think the core game has it where it counts in the combat system and full d&d rules. Free to play can't go wrong, have to run boot-camp for a while but I can fix that later with Codeweavers Crossover Games. Not sure if I will fully retire WoW I still enjoy the battle grounds and they are always expanding but I am going to see where DDO takes me. And as far as the Oriental Games go I was in Guild Wars beta it was fun as beta but when the actually game came out I became bored quickly, it was pretty, but the game play was not there.
You might have it backwards, what if they upgrade the Apple Tv into a game console / multimedia box.
I took a corrective exercise course and went looking for Grays Anatomy and discovered that most people now are using Frank Netter's Atlas http://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Human-Anatomy-Frank-Netter/dp/0914168819 I would say it is a classic, illustrations are drawn by hand. Some samples: http://www.netterimages.com/
Perhaps I am being paranoid but this is smelling like the new McArthyism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism A convenient way to make someone you don't like look bad. Exploiting children is very bad but just is bad is falsely accusing someone of this to make yourself look like a hero or to punish someone you don't like.
Exactly the point that should be made, DRM is the fault of the Publishers, as for Itunes music not playing on other machines, burn playlist, rip it back to whatever u want, lather rinse repeat.
I think Jobs is one of the worlds best presenters, it's too bad we won't be seeing him anymore at Macworld. Apple was doing poorly because of OS9 I think and the Next Step OS Jobs brought with him when he returned to Apple was what OSx is built on, that was a turning point. I would like to point out that some of Apples instability at that time was caused by Jobs himself and his bid to get control back of Apple, I believe he dumped some of his stock at a critical time to create a window for his return. He had some critical assets to bring with him though, Next Step Os and Display Postscript. Jobs is not the total creator of all these shiny new Apple devices, but what he does is inspire people to achieve more than they would normally, probably by fear and also setting an example. If jobs were to go all those people who make those achievements would still be there but probably would not work as hard.
For me the biggest problems were library dependencies and drivers. Installing something simple like midnight commander, could take hours because of dependencies depending on dependencies. I quit using Linux when I was unable to reliably use my usb wireless receiver. Xandros came close but didn't always work. When I saw that Osx included unix that I could use the terminal and also install linux software via fink, I have not looked back.
I have been in the Fitness Equipment repair business for 7 years so I have seen this sort of thing b4. I can tell you this it has been tried many times many ways, never popular. Try to sell the stuff used to a home equipment buyer perhaps, nope. People want to get on a treadmill or bike and just zone out for an hour or so. I have seen Life Cycles with nintendos built in with controllers on handlebars, Cybex Virtual Bike with tilt seat that lets you steer through a soccer game ... there were others too can't remember their names but they all ended up scrap metal. It might go in China though, here we are petty jaded about that sort of thing. Gimme the machine, gimme a tv or newspaper / book and i'll wipe the thing down when I'm done. The video game fitness thing has been tried going back 10 years never hit.
Mg chemicals are good products, really love their nu trol control cleaner/lube. http://www.mgchemicals.com/products/401b.html
I believe Fluorocarbon solvents are used often for this cleaning purpose, but are environmentaly unfriendly, Here is a website I found with a few options: http://www.computronics.com.au/electrolube/solclean/
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Yes, thank-you, I knew you got to rebuild your tree on the Wrath test server but if you can do that when it goes live that would be great.
I am working on building a Drenaenei Shaman and since I started there have been some changes made to the Shaman Class that have been referred to as nerfs. It takes time to build a talent tree up and can be expensive to edit, have you considered allowing a free edit to a tree after changes have been made. I am not complaining about changes I am sure they are made with fairness to all in mind, but it would be nice to be able to build a new tree around the new changes. Also as I rise in level the game becomes more social as one meets more friends and explores more 5 man instances. The Looking for Group Interface is a little disappointing, one often has to lfg a dungeon then toggle off autojoin and then use the lfg channerl and hope to be noticed. For example I missed a quest item in the Sunken Temple and because I am a higher level now, I can't get that dungeon to come up on the interface anymore. Are you planning on improving the LFG interface for Wrath?
I wonder how many independents there are on iTunes and if it is growing. What if after this stunt there are only independents on iTunes. Would the other artists start jumping ship, assuming they could get out of their contracts. It could motivate others to go independent too. I would like to see that. Those pigs would really start to squealing when no new artists want to sign with them anymore.
Yes I immediately added myself to the OSX mailing list to let them know I am waiting. I suppose I will have to fire up Boot Camp to try out Chrome. I haven't used Boot Camp for a long time but Chrome is tempting me.
I don't think touch screens are the answer it's been tried b4. But a touch pad with gestures like on the Mac Air is new technology and has a bright future I think.
"Another company to purposely avoid."
Agreed, but your going to have to carry a big list in your pocket.
http://www.viacom.com/ourbrands/Pages/default.aspx
I think it's instinct to add to the gene pool. Make a baby with the bad boy then settle down with a good man and nest. Good guys don't get laid you have to act like a real bastard. Later when they have two kids and have been through the mill they will look for someone to settle down after they have taken the wild seed.
Could this have anything to do with the introduction of iTunes movie rentals in Canada? Is this the sort of deal the movie publishers were looking for before allowing online movie rentals north of the 49? Did the already know this was going through because they had some kind of handshake deal with the Conservatives?