How can Namco get $2,772 for a machine that plays Space Invaders when an arcade operator could spend a little more and get the ArcadePC Deluxe and 50 games? (besides breaking the licensing).
The gratuitous "he takes off his shirt and shows off his muscles" scene. Sure, the ladies loved it, but come ON, that was, as I said, gratuitous. I don't mind taking off the shirt to show off the muscles to the ladies if its got a motivation...
Part of the reason they did that was to show the difference the spider bite did to his body. The muscles were real, Toby McGuire had been working out. When they showed him not muscular that was special effects.
Anyway, you missed my biggest beef of the film. The fact that he now creates the web material through his body instead of him creating his web shooters and the web stuff.
Take a look at the K12 Linux Terminal Server Project. With relatively new machines you can be up and going in 2 hours (not including plugging the machines in). I put this in our business lab at the high school and it's been a dream to run. I never have to worry about viruses, and updates/installations are done once. To install a new machine you plug it in, go to the BIOS and tell it to do a network boot. I don't have to worry about any license issues either. If you need Windows, you can also use RDestkop to access Windows Terminal Services.
K12LTSP also comes with squid and for filtering squidguard and Dan's Guardian.
One problem that I've seen with Deep Freeze is when the latest worm comes out. Sure you can reboot your machine and it is clean, but if there is just one machine on your network still infected, you'll become infected again.
if Apple ever decides to release it for the x86 architecture. Unless they do that, they've limited their mindshare to people who can afford to buy an Apple. Sure, it's easy to use - but it's also expensive to use.
IMHO, $800 for a 1GHz G4 and 17" monitor is not expensive. Spend another $50 for 256MB of memory from Crucial, and you'll have a machine that will satisfy 90% of home users for the next 5-6 years. Through Apple's loan program it's $19 a month. Five dollars a week... Seventy-two cents a day.
Can you build a cheaper machine? Yes. But how much is your time worth?
Feature films have to be cut to 120 minutes since that is the current maximum the platter can sustain. For number-minded trivia fans, the Episode II IMAX print is 58 inches in diameter and weighs 390 pounds! "It's the limit now," explains Bonnick. "We are actively developing a 150-minute solution that would be employed as an upgrade to the theaters in the future."
At almost 400 pounds, you can see why they can't just switch reels during the production. I wonder if that website mentioned above didn't just paste the normal running length of the movie onto the website (or they could've gotten the 150 minute upgrade).
I debated on that deal, but I chose to wait till the cube dropped to $99. Why? Because I could then pick up a cube and a couple of used games for the same $150. I got my GC, Metroid Prime, and Star Wars Rogue Squadron II for under $140.
I don't understand people paying $50 for games... I wait for used or for clearance. Metroid Prime is a fantastic game, and all I had to do was wait a year to pick it up for under $20. Now I'll play it until the next great game drops to under $20.
There was a revision of the G4 in August, 2000. The first ones off the line had power switch problems, giving almost the same symptoms. We had them all replaced under warranty.
One work around, find an older Mac USB keyboard that has a power button on it. Plug it in and see if the machine will start then. If so, you will need to get a replacement power switch.
I started poking around, and the closest I can see on on this page, which is Patrick Fitzsimmons page. On it he says he defied the first C/D e-mail and posted his maps anyway. Later on, a Tom Sarris posts in email and on the forum that Lucas Arts was never going to sue.
Nowhere do I see any sort of official e-mail or letter from LucasArts Legal giving them permission to continue. If it's there and I'm missing it, please let me know!
This is pretty common at least with iTunes. Most of the people will not change the default settings, so each cd rip will be identical, all using the same id3 tags.
As a technology coordinator in a 2,200 student school district, I feel that articles like this are important as I plan out the future. We have 700 workstations, 94% of them are Macintosh. K-5 run OS 9, 6-12 are now running OS X.
Some of the reasons we stay with the Mac:
Ease of administration: Mac OS X Server and Macintosh Manager/Workgroup Manager coupled with Apple Remote Desktop makes managing this setup possible by one person. Imaging of machines is taken care of by Apple Software Restore.
Price: A $723 eMac ($699 base + $24 for an additional 128MB of RAM). No additional license costs for: server client licenses, imaging software, and virus protection. For $500 I get an unlimited OS X server license.
Years of Service: We can usually get 6-7 years out of a Mac. The 5400s in service all have at least 32MB of RAM and G3 upgrade cards.
For our PC lab I made the decision to move to K12LTSP. These machines were aging PII with 32MB of RAM. a $2,500 dual xeon machine brought this lab back to life for around $100 a machine. I use IceWM as the window manager and installed a XP theme. They run OpenOffice.org. I had one student ask if it was Linux, the rest just blindly use it.:-)
Most of the administrative office uses Windows 2000.
On top of that, I don't particularly trust it. From a security perspective, I'm not at all sure about the quality of the design. Consider: the nidump utility dumps out *encrypted passwords* to ANY user on the box, even 'nobody'. In other words, OSX doesn't even have the equivalent of shadow passwords! That is just so overwhelmingly boneheaded that I wouldn't trust it with my critical data.
Open Directory on OS X server is very flexible, and you can choose to store your user lists in Password Server, Kerberos, or Active Directory. Then you don't have to worry about people getting your encrypted passwords.
Don't confuse OS X client capabilities with what's available in OS X Server.
While on the topic.. Why do we STILL have to pay extra for touch tone service?
Actually, in my area (Alltel, NW Ohio), you could tell them you didn't want touch tone service. Their equipment no longer supported pulse dialing though, so you would still get touch tone. I don't know if this is still true though.
This is a test from the labels on how safe their music is in the iTunes store. They will know that the only way this music will make it to the various P2P apps will be from some Apple user who buys the album, burns a CD, then rips it to MP3 to distribute.
They can then use this to show that the protection in the iTunes store is not enough, and try to force Apple to change it before iTunes comes out for Windows.
Moodle.org is an open source package that allows several features of what everyone has been mentioning here. A neat feature is the journal that allows the teacher to critique their writings privately. It also has forums, online quizes, etc.
I've brought this up with several teachers, and there are those teachers that need the structure that a textbook supplies. I've crunched the numbers in my school district, where it would be economically feasible to outfit all the students 6-12 with a laptop and pay some teachers to come in over the summer and create the coursework for the upcoming year. Not well received. This is too early... Maybe in 5 years, or with the production of a cheap ebook.
For this to be successful, it needs to be patterned after the Debian project. GPL the texts, and have hundreds or thousands of volunteers responsible for their own "package". The package could contain not only the text but graphics, software, movies, etc. Two problems to overcome: accuracy of the texts and getting the volunteers.
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How can Namco get $2,772 for a machine that plays Space Invaders when an arcade operator could spend a little more and get the ArcadePC Deluxe and 50 games? (besides breaking the licensing).
Part of the reason they did that was to show the difference the spider bite did to his body. The muscles were real, Toby McGuire had been working out. When they showed him not muscular that was special effects.
Anyway, you missed my biggest beef of the film. The fact that he now creates the web material through his body instead of him creating his web shooters and the web stuff.
Listen to the music of the news cast when they interview Dr. Baltar. They use a variation of the original music.
Is there a reason they have to run Windows?
Take a look at the K12 Linux Terminal Server Project. With relatively new machines you can be up and going in 2 hours (not including plugging the machines in). I put this in our business lab at the high school and it's been a dream to run. I never have to worry about viruses, and updates/installations are done once. To install a new machine you plug it in, go to the BIOS and tell it to do a network boot. I don't have to worry about any license issues either. If you need Windows, you can also use RDestkop to access Windows Terminal Services.
K12LTSP also comes with squid and for filtering squidguard and Dan's Guardian.
One problem that I've seen with Deep Freeze is when the latest worm comes out. Sure you can reboot your machine and it is clean, but if there is just one machine on your network still infected, you'll become infected again.
The eMac contains a 1GHz G4.
IMHO, $800 for a 1GHz G4 and 17" monitor is not expensive. Spend another $50 for 256MB of memory from Crucial, and you'll have a machine that will satisfy 90% of home users for the next 5-6 years. Through Apple's loan program it's $19 a month. Five dollars a week... Seventy-two cents a day.
Can you build a cheaper machine? Yes. But how much is your time worth?
I was going off the info from the Star Wars IMAX page:
At almost 400 pounds, you can see why they can't just switch reels during the production. I wonder if that website mentioned above didn't just paste the normal running length of the movie onto the website (or they could've gotten the 150 minute upgrade).
I doubt this will ever happen since the maximum length of an IMAX movie is 120 minutes.
They had to cut 20 minutes out of Star Wars Episode II when it was shown on IMAX.
I debated on that deal, but I chose to wait till the cube dropped to $99. Why? Because I could then pick up a cube and a couple of used games for the same $150. I got my GC, Metroid Prime, and Star Wars Rogue Squadron II for under $140.
I don't understand people paying $50 for games... I wait for used or for clearance. Metroid Prime is a fantastic game, and all I had to do was wait a year to pick it up for under $20. Now I'll play it until the next great game drops to under $20.
There was a revision of the G4 in August, 2000. The first ones off the line had power switch problems, giving almost the same symptoms. We had them all replaced under warranty.
One work around, find an older Mac USB keyboard that has a power button on it. Plug it in and see if the machine will start then. If so, you will need to get a replacement power switch.
More info available from ZDNet.
I was at the Apple Store (Easton, in Columbus, OH) this past weekend and all the machines there were running 10.2.7!
It's another option for the limited time you have available for entertainment. Instead of listening to music he/she will watch a movie instead.
Nowhere do I see any sort of official e-mail or letter from LucasArts Legal giving them permission to continue. If it's there and I'm missing it, please let me know!
This is pretty common at least with iTunes. Most of the people will not change the default settings, so each cd rip will be identical, all using the same id3 tags.
As a technology coordinator in a 2,200 student school district, I feel that articles like this are important as I plan out the future. We have 700 workstations, 94% of them are Macintosh. K-5 run OS 9, 6-12 are now running OS X.
Some of the reasons we stay with the Mac:
Ease of administration: Mac OS X Server and Macintosh Manager/Workgroup Manager coupled with Apple Remote Desktop makes managing this setup possible by one person. Imaging of machines is taken care of by Apple Software Restore.
Price: A $723 eMac ($699 base + $24 for an additional 128MB of RAM). No additional license costs for: server client licenses, imaging software, and virus protection. For $500 I get an unlimited OS X server license.
Years of Service: We can usually get 6-7 years out of a Mac. The 5400s in service all have at least 32MB of RAM and G3 upgrade cards.
For our PC lab I made the decision to move to K12LTSP. These machines were aging PII with 32MB of RAM. a $2,500 dual xeon machine brought this lab back to life for around $100 a machine. I use IceWM as the window manager and installed a XP theme. They run OpenOffice.org. I had one student ask if it was Linux, the rest just blindly use it. :-)
Most of the administrative office uses Windows 2000.
The best tool for the job.
Yes, but Open Directory can store usernames and passwords in the Password Server, so then no one can see password hashes.
:-)
Or if you're someone is really worried about the security of their password hashes, just put in Kerberos.
Open Directory on OS X server is very flexible, and you can choose to store your user lists in Password Server, Kerberos, or Active Directory. Then you don't have to worry about people getting your encrypted passwords.
Don't confuse OS X client capabilities with what's available in OS X Server.
MacWireless.com sells a cable setup to allow you to do this now with your base station.
At $30 a port it is a LOT cheaper than going with a Cisco POE solution for base stations.
It appears that the game was funded through grants from the National Institutes of Health. Why does the game cost money then?
And why can't I find grants to fund my own game creations? :-)
This is a test from the labels on how safe their music is in the iTunes store. They will know that the only way this music will make it to the various P2P apps will be from some Apple user who buys the album, burns a CD, then rips it to MP3 to distribute.
:-)
They can then use this to show that the protection in the iTunes store is not enough, and try to force Apple to change it before iTunes comes out for Windows.
All IMHO...
Moodle.org is an open source package that allows several features of what everyone has been mentioning here. A neat feature is the journal that allows the teacher to critique their writings privately. It also has forums, online quizes, etc.
I've brought this up with several teachers, and there are those teachers that need the structure that a textbook supplies. I've crunched the numbers in my school district, where it would be economically feasible to outfit all the students 6-12 with a laptop and pay some teachers to come in over the summer and create the coursework for the upcoming year. Not well received. This is too early... Maybe in 5 years, or with the production of a cheap ebook.
For this to be successful, it needs to be patterned after the Debian project. GPL the texts, and have hundreds or thousands of volunteers responsible for their own "package". The package could contain not only the text but graphics, software, movies, etc. Two problems to overcome: accuracy of the texts and getting the volunteers.
There is new research out dealing with ADHD and sleep:
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