Playing the game using HDLoader helps. I would estimate load times are only 5 seconds or so from the hard drive.
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I don't get great pay at the tiny business where I work, but I work with 2 other people that are very easy to get a along with. There are no ego or personality conflicts. My boss isn't an idiot, he used to be a programmer too. I make my own schedule. Plus when I look out my window I see 40 acres of rolling hills, have access to a 200 yard shooting range, and get plenty of hand-me-down hardware and goodies.
So pay isn't everything. Besides, a lot of the best things in life are free.
I think the best way to get pay and happiness is run your own (successful!) business.
If many shows start getting flagged Tivo is in trouble. I leave many shows on Tivo for weeks, months, even a year before I watch them. That's what I like about Tivo, if I decide I want to watch The Simpsons at any given time I have several episodes to choose from.
The biggest reason to have Tivo is to watch TV on your own terms. This is the sort of thing that would inspire me to build a MythTV box.
I do most of my listening in the car. I live out in the country and commute 60 minutes a day to work, and if I go to the nearest city, it's 40 minutes each way. I put over 20,000 miles on my car each year. So that's LOTS of time to listen to MP3s.
Hell, I've listened to most of my music so much that I'm tired of it. A 4GB player wouldn't keep me entertained for a week, I'd be having to constantly swap new music onto the player.
An in-car MP3 player was really nice driving down to Florida. 12 hours of driving each way and hardly heard the same song twice.
But 4 GB of storage will only hold about 6% of my MP3 collection. I guess there's a market for these small capacity players but I'm interested in a portable player that holds 80GB or more.
I didn't buy an Xbox and don't plan on buying a 360. But I would think that having to get a license to make perephrials for the 360 will defintely stifle what's available for it. When you're already an underdog maybe that's not the best move.
Exactly. In games like Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2, I like the point-to-point races better than the lap ones.
I've always wanted to create an "Interstate Driving Simulator (tm)" where you can drive hundreds of miles flat-out on an Interstate highway, dodging cars and maybe cops. Or drive the speed limit and just listen to some tunes.
Massive says it won't charge advertisers unless the full ad has been viewed.
Ok so I'm in some 3d environment in the presence of an ad. Does 100% of the ad have to be on the screen? What if I'm shooting/jumping/switching weapons? Does that still count?
And regardless of the criteria, how exactly will Massive know I've viewed an ad? Unless it's an online game it's not getting past my firewall.
If I could mod you up I would. I and probably a lot of other geeks do just what you did. I will not be presumed guilty by MS and have to keep proving my innocence over and over.
All the Honda Civics with coffee-can mufflers already have this technology, and you don't need to buy any special equipment to receive the music. Just listen. You'll hear the bass half a mile away.
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Can I get a version that has the letters on all the wrong keys, so I'm punished if I get weak and look at the keyboard?
My olde IBM keyboard's keycaps come off easily. I've moved the arrow keys so they're all mixed up, suppose I could do the rest of the keyboard too.
What was wrong with the first two prequels? People complain about Star Wars episodes not being highbrow enough, or adult enough, or complex enough, etc. Star Wars is supposed to be popcorn, not trout almondine. If you can follow the symbolism to see the film at another level, so much the better, but it's a mistake to look so hard for the deep meaning that you miss the fun at the surface.
Actually Episode 1 was TOO highbrow. Who cares about the "Trade Federation"? Nobody, that's who. There was no Han Solo character to bring things back down to the level of a common man. Obi Wan and Qui Quon are likable enough, but neither of them are much fun.
And the whole pod race thing took way too much of the movie.
Ok I'm done complaining about Ep 1. Ep 3 sounds great so far, I just have to quit reading reviews because there are too many spoilers in them.
Amazon.com makes it so easy to order stuff that it's dangerous to your credit card. Every once in a while I'll get on there and splurge. No filling out name, address, or credit card details. No logging in at all. They have a nice system.
I did 90% of my Christmas shopping there last year. Take that, parking lots! Take that, crowds of shoppers!
There is absolutely no way for Sony to stop people from selling items outside of their game universes. They can say it's prohibited, but people will still do it. So setting up a safe, professional trade system will not only keep players happy but also cut down on fraud and make Sony more money at the same time.
It's a little dream of mine to make a living selling online RPG items. I could then justify the monthly costs of the games.:)
IBM helped the Nazis, or at the very least their German branch was taken over to do so. It's ironic that they would now be participating in such an intrusive monitoring system. Yes, traffic fatalities are a terrible problem but that still shouldn't give a government the right to spy on everyone's driving.
The Transformers are divided into two groups of robots, one led by Optimus Prime, which believes in tolerance and the sanctity of life, the other by Megatron, which espouses survival of the fittest and the extermination of biological life.
Sure hope this movie happens, and that it doesn't suck. But I don't expect much.
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Playing the game using HDLoader helps. I would estimate load times are only 5 seconds or so from the hard drive.
I don't get great pay at the tiny business where I work, but I work with 2 other people that are very easy to get a along with. There are no ego or personality conflicts. My boss isn't an idiot, he used to be a programmer too. I make my own schedule. Plus when I look out my window I see 40 acres of rolling hills, have access to a 200 yard shooting range, and get plenty of hand-me-down hardware and goodies.
So pay isn't everything. Besides, a lot of the best things in life are free.
I think the best way to get pay and happiness is run your own (successful!) business.
If many shows start getting flagged Tivo is in trouble. I leave many shows on Tivo for weeks, months, even a year before I watch them. That's what I like about Tivo, if I decide I want to watch The Simpsons at any given time I have several episodes to choose from.
The biggest reason to have Tivo is to watch TV on your own terms. This is the sort of thing that would inspire me to build a MythTV box.
With platter densities as high as they currently are, merely breaking the platter does not ensure that significant amounts data cannot be recovered.
Yeah that's what I figured, but it would probably take a 3 letter agency to do it. My stuff ain't that secret.
A Romanian SAR-1 does a great job!
A shot or two will penetrate all the platters and leave them a twisted mess.
I do most of my listening in the car. I live out in the country and commute 60 minutes a day to work, and if I go to the nearest city, it's 40 minutes each way. I put over 20,000 miles on my car each year. So that's LOTS of time to listen to MP3s.
Hell, I've listened to most of my music so much that I'm tired of it. A 4GB player wouldn't keep me entertained for a week, I'd be having to constantly swap new music onto the player.
An in-car MP3 player was really nice driving down to Florida. 12 hours of driving each way and hardly heard the same song twice.
But 4 GB of storage will only hold about 6% of my MP3 collection. I guess there's a market for these small capacity players but I'm interested in a portable player that holds 80GB or more.
I didn't buy an Xbox and don't plan on buying a 360. But I would think that having to get a license to make perephrials for the 360 will defintely stifle what's available for it. When you're already an underdog maybe that's not the best move.
Exactly. In games like Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2, I like the point-to-point races better than the lap ones.
I've always wanted to create an "Interstate Driving Simulator (tm)" where you can drive hundreds of miles flat-out on an Interstate highway, dodging cars and maybe cops. Or drive the speed limit and just listen to some tunes.
Massive says it won't charge advertisers unless the full ad has been viewed.
Ok so I'm in some 3d environment in the presence of an ad. Does 100% of the ad have to be on the screen? What if I'm shooting/jumping/switching weapons? Does that still count?
And regardless of the criteria, how exactly will Massive know I've viewed an ad? Unless it's an online game it's not getting past my firewall.
Wow, just like George Carlin. Only not funny!
If I could mod you up I would. I and probably a lot of other geeks do just what you did. I will not be presumed guilty by MS and have to keep proving my innocence over and over.
I don't use TurboTax any more either.
All the Honda Civics with coffee-can mufflers already have this technology, and you don't need to buy any special equipment to receive the music. Just listen. You'll hear the bass half a mile away.
My olde IBM keyboard's keycaps come off easily. I've moved the arrow keys so they're all mixed up, suppose I could do the rest of the keyboard too.
That would be: http://www.newyorker.com/critics/cinema/
IBM's PCJr is a sales disappointment and Atari's Jaguar isn't exactly flying off the shelves.
The NES is selling well though.
I think the consoles really need to make and support something equivalent to a mouse or trackball for FPS games. I still go back to my PC for FPS.
What was wrong with the first two prequels? People complain about Star Wars episodes not being highbrow enough, or adult enough, or complex enough, etc. Star Wars is supposed to be popcorn, not trout almondine. If you can follow the symbolism to see the film at another level, so much the better, but it's a mistake to look so hard for the deep meaning that you miss the fun at the surface.
Actually Episode 1 was TOO highbrow. Who cares about the "Trade Federation"? Nobody, that's who. There was no Han Solo character to bring things back down to the level of a common man. Obi Wan and Qui Quon are likable enough, but neither of them are much fun.
And the whole pod race thing took way too much of the movie.
Ok I'm done complaining about Ep 1. Ep 3 sounds great so far, I just have to quit reading reviews because there are too many spoilers in them.
Amazon.com makes it so easy to order stuff that it's dangerous to your credit card. Every once in a while I'll get on there and splurge. No filling out name, address, or credit card details. No logging in at all. They have a nice system.
I did 90% of my Christmas shopping there last year. Take that, parking lots! Take that, crowds of shoppers!
There is absolutely no way for Sony to stop people from selling items outside of their game universes. They can say it's prohibited, but people will still do it. So setting up a safe, professional trade system will not only keep players happy but also cut down on fraud and make Sony more money at the same time.
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It's a little dream of mine to make a living selling online RPG items. I could then justify the monthly costs of the games.
IBM helped the Nazis, or at the very least their German branch was taken over to do so. It's ironic that they would now be participating in such an intrusive monitoring system. Yes, traffic fatalities are a terrible problem but that still shouldn't give a government the right to spy on everyone's driving.
AMD CPUs have been 100% compatible, usually cheaper, and often faster for 10 years or more. What took them so long to realize that?
Adelphia's service has been great here, but they're expensive. I pay $100 a month for basic digital cable and cable modem, that's too much for me.
Hope Comcast doesn't screw with the service and/or raise the rates more.
The Transformers are divided into two groups of robots, one led by Optimus Prime, which believes in tolerance and the sanctity of life, the other by Megatron, which espouses survival of the fittest and the extermination of biological life.
Sure hope this movie happens, and that it doesn't suck. But I don't expect much.
How exactly will you or your Tivo get program listings if you do that?