"I do plan on putting one in just by the telephone jack, however, just in case."
Use the cat5 for your phone lines also. Don't run (can't think of the cable name but the smaller phone cable) AND cat5e. Its a waste. In my house I have cat5e throughout. At least 1 drop in every room. Some have 2 the second supposedly being just for network but the wiring is all the same. In my wiring cabinet in a closet the phone and cable services lines to right to it along with all the other coax within the house as well as all the other cat5e lines. To switch a phone jack to a network jack I only have to disconnect the line from the phone board and plug it into my router. All cables and terminators are all the same and it works great!
I can't believe he won't just let you run the coax at the same time. Bundle it together and push the whole junk through all at once. Makes it a whole lot easier on everyone. Whatever you THINK of doing in the future you better have coax run to all the rooms. It will hurt resale in the future if all the rooms aren't "cable ready".
I don't care who is controlling it, how noisey it is or what tricks they are using. Thats one of the coolest things I've ever seen. Suspend your belief and think like a child for a few minutes then go back and watch the movies again. Wow.
You got the right number of ports. If you can put 2 on one wall and 2 on the opposite wall do it. I can't tell you how many times I've needed one of my cat5e drops to be on the opposite wall or needed a 2nd one. On the same covers put 2 coax lines also for digital cable/satellite. Put that on each plate that has the cat5e drops. Make everything run into a closet on the top floor of the house. Make sure you label the runs well also. Do this for each room. You may be able to cut down to just one drop of cat5e and coax for the kitchen and probably don't need it for the bathrooms. But where ever you put a cat5e drop you will be able to either have a phone on it or a network connection depending upon how you setup the other ends in your closet.
If you are really adventurous in whatever your main room is with the tv run speaker wire all over the room in the walls and end it with some nice posts. Enough to have a 7.1 system.
The thing that annoys me about this device (and most of the streaming music devices) is how they access your music library. You usually need to install some piece of software on your windows/linux box in order for the device to work. That is such a stupid way to do it. You should be able to use windows shares and the device should work off of those. No extra software to install for you or to support for them. It just works. This is one of the reasons the Audiotron is so awesome. But the Audiotron only has a 10mbit connection and doesn't have on screen control or support video.
The majority of people already have dvd players though, but they don't have streaming music/video players. I don't want my streaming device to also play dvd's. I'd rather have separate devices so I can upgrade items when I want to and not run the risk of losing functionality.
The way I look at it is that the tools and security ARE actually there. Some in the OS, others in external hardware (firewalls, etc). The problem is users. Microsoft is not in the business to handhold people and protect them. They are in the business to sell software. If the options are there and when things are found they are patched, there is nothing else MS can do. It is up to the users to install the patches and secure their systems.
How about those that got bit by it take a good long look at their systems and accept a little responsibility? Oh wait...we can't have that now can we. Always gotta blame someone else.
Knock it off with the stupid social commentary in your articles:
"With TV pervading deeper into our lives, nothing -- however personal it may be -- is off limits. Sadly, the idea isn't very far-fetched in the grim world of the 21st century. It's not far from the truth."
I don't give one little bit what you think of the real world around us. In fact I don't care what your opinion on anything is. Describe the game, stick to the facts and leave your opinions on everything out (unless its a review which this isn't). You are writing about a video game so how about sticking to the topic you are assigned to write about.
Other than stupid IGN writing ability it sounds like an interesting game.
People don't play games to learn things or get a better understanding of a situation. They play them to have fun. If the game is fun it'll sell no matter what the material. If the game sucks then it won't sell. Its as simple as that.
"For anyone wondering why interference due to power line broadband is considered a bad thing, well, there ya go"
Uhhh for the one time in 10 years or so that its Ham radio is actually needed? Oh and not to mention that when the power goes out so does the interference so its kind of a pointless arguement.
No. I enjoyed Wind Waker greatly because it was an excellent game and the graphics fit the game. But Advanced Wars with its attempt at being cutesy ruins it for me. A game like that needs to stay away from saturday morning cartoon type atmosphere. The gameplay is fine but the intermissions with the characters is very retarded. If they wanted to express some kind of story they should have done it without the stupid characters and their dumb personalities. Those dumb characters do not complement the gameplay at all and take away from an otherwise good game.
"One note - Advance Wars is actually a continuation of a previously Japan-only series of Game Boy games."
Advance Wars would have been so much better without the incredibly stupid anime crap. If they would have just stuck with strategy and units and left out all the stupid cutesy characters it would have been a much better game.
If you drop a totally different computer and totally different OS into an office that is normally used to windows you'll be causing more problems that solving. Maybe it would make sense for a company totally starting from scratch that hasn't bought any computers yet at all but there aren't any like that.
The modern mac with OS X is no easier to use and maintain than the modern windows XP.
This article is just more talk from apple zealots and doesn't really have any basis in reality.
So what if some current XBox games write directly to the hardware to edge out more speed. But if MS puts in backward compatibility into the XBox 2 those games might not work anymore because of the totally different graphics chip. Current PC games have slightly different drawing calls sometimes depending upon what graphics card it finds, I doubt XBox games contain the same logic.
Well if you are an admin of a group of machines and you can't find the time to install an important patch to secure your systems then maybe you shouldn't be administering the systems in the first place. Admins had a month to schedule some downtime to install and reboot the patch without causing anyone problems but they waited until it was too late. Then they complain about it? Yeah, you guys sure do run a tight ship. Sounds like there are more people out there that don't deserve the jobs they currently have.
I don't understand how its intruisive. It puts up a very small icon in the bottom that tells you when there is a new upgrade. It downloads when you ask it to and then installs when you tell it to all in the background. Its not like it pops up this huge box that takes up the whole screen with flashing text and no ignore button.
There are so many idiot users out there that it's not that easy to give good tech support to start with. The vast majority of the problems are defective end user problems. People think a piece of software functions in a certain way but they didn't bother to read the manual or built in help text to realize that it really works in a different way.
I can think of 3 reasons. Mario, Zelda, and Metroid. All excellent games and worth it. Not to mention Rogue Squadron 3 (coming soon), Eternal Darkness, Resident Evil games. A new Zelda next year as well as a new Mario and Metroid.
Obsolete hardware does not mean bad games. The gameboy sp is an almost perfect machine and sales of it have proved that.
Cell phone gaming is a fad, not a trend. Parents aren't going to buy little billy a $200 phone just so he can play games on it but they will buy billy a $99 gameboy sp to just play games.
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"I do plan on putting one in just by the telephone jack, however, just in case."
Use the cat5 for your phone lines also. Don't run (can't think of the cable name but the smaller phone cable) AND cat5e. Its a waste. In my house I have cat5e throughout. At least 1 drop in every room. Some have 2 the second supposedly being just for network but the wiring is all the same. In my wiring cabinet in a closet the phone and cable services lines to right to it along with all the other coax within the house as well as all the other cat5e lines. To switch a phone jack to a network jack I only have to disconnect the line from the phone board and plug it into my router. All cables and terminators are all the same and it works great!
I can't believe he won't just let you run the coax at the same time. Bundle it together and push the whole junk through all at once. Makes it a whole lot easier on everyone. Whatever you THINK of doing in the future you better have coax run to all the rooms. It will hurt resale in the future if all the rooms aren't "cable ready".
I don't care who is controlling it, how noisey it is or what tricks they are using. Thats one of the coolest things I've ever seen. Suspend your belief and think like a child for a few minutes then go back and watch the movies again. Wow.
You got the right number of ports. If you can put 2 on one wall and 2 on the opposite wall do it. I can't tell you how many times I've needed one of my cat5e drops to be on the opposite wall or needed a 2nd one. On the same covers put 2 coax lines also for digital cable/satellite. Put that on each plate that has the cat5e drops. Make everything run into a closet on the top floor of the house. Make sure you label the runs well also. Do this for each room. You may be able to cut down to just one drop of cat5e and coax for the kitchen and probably don't need it for the bathrooms. But where ever you put a cat5e drop you will be able to either have a phone on it or a network connection depending upon how you setup the other ends in your closet.
If you are really adventurous in whatever your main room is with the tv run speaker wire all over the room in the walls and end it with some nice posts. Enough to have a 7.1 system.
The thing that annoys me about this device (and most of the streaming music devices) is how they access your music library. You usually need to install some piece of software on your windows/linux box in order for the device to work. That is such a stupid way to do it. You should be able to use windows shares and the device should work off of those. No extra software to install for you or to support for them. It just works. This is one of the reasons the Audiotron is so awesome. But the Audiotron only has a 10mbit connection and doesn't have on screen control or support video.
The majority of people already have dvd players though, but they don't have streaming music/video players. I don't want my streaming device to also play dvd's. I'd rather have separate devices so I can upgrade items when I want to and not run the risk of losing functionality.
The way I look at it is that the tools and security ARE actually there. Some in the OS, others in external hardware (firewalls, etc). The problem is users. Microsoft is not in the business to handhold people and protect them. They are in the business to sell software. If the options are there and when things are found they are patched, there is nothing else MS can do. It is up to the users to install the patches and secure their systems.
How about those that got bit by it take a good long look at their systems and accept a little responsibility? Oh wait...we can't have that now can we. Always gotta blame someone else.
Knock it off with the stupid social commentary in your articles:
"With TV pervading deeper into our lives, nothing -- however personal it may be -- is off limits. Sadly, the idea isn't very far-fetched in the grim world of the 21st century. It's not far from the truth."
I don't give one little bit what you think of the real world around us. In fact I don't care what your opinion on anything is. Describe the game, stick to the facts and leave your opinions on everything out (unless its a review which this isn't). You are writing about a video game so how about sticking to the topic you are assigned to write about.
Other than stupid IGN writing ability it sounds like an interesting game.
Whatever...will not feed trolls.
People don't play games to learn things or get a better understanding of a situation. They play them to have fun. If the game is fun it'll sell no matter what the material. If the game sucks then it won't sell. Its as simple as that.
Nope of course not. But I assume you, being anonymous, did your anonymous duty to reply in the same way to the other "875 identically ignorant posts"?
No?
Point made.
"For anyone wondering why interference due to power line broadband is considered a bad thing, well, there ya go"
Uhhh for the one time in 10 years or so that its Ham radio is actually needed? Oh and not to mention that when the power goes out so does the interference so its kind of a pointless arguement.
No. I enjoyed Wind Waker greatly because it was an excellent game and the graphics fit the game. But Advanced Wars with its attempt at being cutesy ruins it for me. A game like that needs to stay away from saturday morning cartoon type atmosphere. The gameplay is fine but the intermissions with the characters is very retarded. If they wanted to express some kind of story they should have done it without the stupid characters and their dumb personalities. Those dumb characters do not complement the gameplay at all and take away from an otherwise good game.
"One note - Advance Wars is actually a continuation of a previously Japan-only series of Game Boy games."
Advance Wars would have been so much better without the incredibly stupid anime crap. If they would have just stuck with strategy and units and left out all the stupid cutesy characters it would have been a much better game.
If you drop a totally different computer and totally different OS into an office that is normally used to windows you'll be causing more problems that solving. Maybe it would make sense for a company totally starting from scratch that hasn't bought any computers yet at all but there aren't any like that.
The modern mac with OS X is no easier to use and maintain than the modern windows XP.
This article is just more talk from apple zealots and doesn't really have any basis in reality.
So what if some current XBox games write directly to the hardware to edge out more speed. But if MS puts in backward compatibility into the XBox 2 those games might not work anymore because of the totally different graphics chip. Current PC games have slightly different drawing calls sometimes depending upon what graphics card it finds, I doubt XBox games contain the same logic.
Well if you are an admin of a group of machines and you can't find the time to install an important patch to secure your systems then maybe you shouldn't be administering the systems in the first place. Admins had a month to schedule some downtime to install and reboot the patch without causing anyone problems but they waited until it was too late. Then they complain about it? Yeah, you guys sure do run a tight ship. Sounds like there are more people out there that don't deserve the jobs they currently have.
My PC notified me of a security patch to install when the patch was originally released. What more do you want?
I don't understand how its intruisive. It puts up a very small icon in the bottom that tells you when there is a new upgrade. It downloads when you ask it to and then installs when you tell it to all in the background. Its not like it pops up this huge box that takes up the whole screen with flashing text and no ignore button.
Everyone who gets bit by this deserves it.
How about instead of trying to patch together something stupid you just install the security patch that you KNOW will prevent it.
It works fine in my mozilla install.
You have to. The power requirements and even the shape of the mb power connecters are different for a P4.
There are so many idiot users out there that it's not that easy to give good tech support to start with. The vast majority of the problems are defective end user problems. People think a piece of software functions in a certain way but they didn't bother to read the manual or built in help text to realize that it really works in a different way.
"So what is so special about Nintendo systems?"
I can think of 3 reasons. Mario, Zelda, and Metroid. All excellent games and worth it. Not to mention Rogue Squadron 3 (coming soon), Eternal Darkness, Resident Evil games. A new Zelda next year as well as a new Mario and Metroid.
So does that mean your gamecube no longer works? Just go buy games for it and enjoy it.
Obsolete hardware does not mean bad games. The gameboy sp is an almost perfect machine and sales of it have proved that.
Cell phone gaming is a fad, not a trend. Parents aren't going to buy little billy a $200 phone just so he can play games on it but they will buy billy a $99 gameboy sp to just play games.
Nintendo isn't going anywhere.