The 1900 and 900 Mhz bands are Cellular in the US for CDMA not sure about canada but unless it's all GSM up there (STill the chance of those's freq's) not sure you could use them..
But down the pipe there is ultrawideband and 20km WAP devices on their way.. might want to look for them.
Blizzard has claimed that WoW will have more content than Asheron's Call (original) at launch than AC has today. I've played AC for 2 years and never touched on 10% of the content there was just that much.
Considering that AC vs Warcraft though you have to understand that Warcraft's world has been around since the late 90's and has plenty of lore and history to build on. AC they're still building the story on a monthly basis. This was one strenght of Galaxies also being that the story has been around in this case for ages and thus they can spend more time on content than working on the timelines.
More history always makes it easier to put in more content.
Still have to see what content they do put in vs what should be there already.
Trust me in a few weeks SWG is going to have a Imperial Crackdown and us Rebels will be in a bit of a hurt... Do I care? Not really gives me more imps to kill. And there has been no uproar from the Rebel playerbase or neutrals about it as it's really a part of the game.
GameSpy needs to understand that irresponsible reviews like this really are not helpful to the players or the company. I would not expect a alpha build (I have played alphas and betas of many MMO's) to have much in the way of custom modifications of characters becuase alpha's are focused on gameplay which is far harder to debug than putting a beard on a dwarf.
Futhermore if anyone reads books about Dwarves and Elf's then they might understand that the two races that once were welcome as friends are much more wary of eachother in many of those books. Even Legolas and Gimli were not overly fond of eachother at their first meeting.
And Blizzard please keep up the hard work. If you want a proper review of your game there are a few dozen of us that are waiting over at Wow Warcry.
Lewt Warcry News Network http://www.warcry.com http://wow.warcry. com
Yes 5 years ago this would of been nice with all the games that required to have the CD inserted to play but nowdays that's just not the case anymore. Most games nowdays install completely to your hard drive and then you just stuff it back in the box and put it on a bookshelf.
On the flipside it is also much harder to just copy a game and give it to a friend. With keys and internet play and phone home features those who share their keys risk getting their keys disabled.
I saw on WinCE device that would control your stove and other devices in your house and even your computer. I'm sorry but I'll be damned before I let MS anything controll my house in that manner. What happens to me when a virus hits my pc and turns everything on the stove on catching whatever may be on or in it on fire not to mention the danger to my kids if they didnt know the stove had been turned on.
Explain to them that your cable company is imposing limits and threatening to terminate service without disclosing such limits. Be sure to have names of employees and managers from the cable company and better yet a written explanation from said company saying why they cannot give you such information.
Present it to the PUC and they should sort it out for you.
Yeah our HR applicatons would fail on logins every once and awhile.. Course our IT support people are idgits and I only figured out the issue when I came home to get some messages from friends about their website SSL certs failing and then looked at my RSS bar and Slashdot gave me the answer!
I mean how the hell are they going to get all the copies of the latest into the product to prevent it.. Unless the PS owner is a bigger player than Hefner.
The Company that bought the company that bought the company that bought beta and it's patents is now sueing TiVO for infringing on their device that did timeshifting.
Everyone can compare numbers until pigs fly but what about user perception? Yes it's great X component makes X application run faster. But as a whole who's out there using these applications on a daily basis? What about from power on to usability (of which many users just leave the pc running) or how long it takes from click until your email application fires up and starts accessing email?
It's really these things that users care about not the 1% that may be using specialized applications that were complied to take advantage of these processors.
The G5 will obviously have a advantage due to the OS being tweaked for it and the Opteron will have a advantage if the applications are compiled 64bit. Of which were any of these applications full 64bit or recompiles.
There is also a world of difference in the applications depending on which compiler you run. Intel compilers are vastly superior to many run of the mill compilers and will generally run better on Intel systems. AMD and Apple probably have their own compilers and more than likely encourage the use of them. Now since application developers will use what's cheapest and is most stable across platforms you'll probably see the differences you're seeing. Any native Apple application will obviously be done with a apple compiler. Photoshop may have been done with a generic thus better performance on x86/64 vs it compiled for a G5 processor which Apple may or may not release all specs for proper compilation with a generic.
Either way comparing them in this manner is nothing but a mess of varibles unless you're using everything the same across the board.
Better to compare bandwidth and other functions of the processors and not varible application performance where you're not sure of the breeding of code.
Now we'll see sexual predators that use the game to play tag with their victims.. with more and more kids being given cell phones by their parents to keep tabs on them the some sick bastards are probably learning they can do the same.
This instanced versions of worlds sound almost exactly like Mythica technology. Course nobody at MS had even thought of Mythica in 2001 either. This will be interesting to watch.
While you cannot turn off the E911 tracking in your cell phone it's actually only active when you dial the digits 911 and most phones will say "I'm in emergency mode" and you will have to tell it to exit that mode after the call. Irritating if you're reporting a wreck but it can be a lifesaver.
Location tracking (Where your phone has the gps chip active all the time) in every phone I've seen you have to activate it before it will work.
Lets all get together and sue MS for websites that dont give us any choice but to use WMP as the player of any content on the site due to DRM restrictions thus locking out MAC and Linux users.
Despite the crappiness of RealPlayer and their mess of websites that are RP only they do the same crap but at least try to support underdog OS's along with MS Os's.
And I agree with RN about WMP being installed by default on Windows but not about OEM's being forced to install it.. IIRC HP uses MusicMatch Jukebox on system installs.
Many companies still have yet to forgive MS for not sufficiently fixing bugs and they suffer from all the virii that have been criscrossing the internet. It's not enough to take any and all precautions becuase there's still the human element that can always get a virus past the best firewalls. Code red and friends have cost businesses millions and if I'm a IT consultant I would be quick to point out that Linux is free and the virii have cost us more than the license fees.
It's defeatest statements like these that allow those same companies to get away with what they do. Trust me congressmen are more scared of the individual voter and not the companies.
I just realised that if you people would get off your collective arses and write your represenatives maybe someone would finally look into this. Esp if you live in Texas it might take 3 months but they will get back to with a ton of paperwork of what they dig up and what they intend to do.
Taco! Why not just pull dupes when they're found? Our home grown CMS allows us to do it on our network so I have to assume you can do it on yours. Only difference is that your forums if you call it that are not hard linked to the story like slashcode does. I guess it's a matter of not pissing off the 200 posts of OMG it's a dupe hehe..
A suggestion would to be move all +2 and above topics to the original and merge it into there and let the original go away.. Or better yet just hide the dupe posting and then nobody can access that thread it generated.
OR when you post it does a quick search through that topic at least and tells you if it's like another article and shows you.
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The 1900 and 900 Mhz bands are Cellular in the US for CDMA not sure about canada but unless it's all GSM up there (STill the chance of those's freq's) not sure you could use them..
But down the pipe there is ultrawideband and 20km WAP devices on their way.. might want to look for them.
Blizzard has claimed that WoW will have more content than Asheron's Call (original) at launch than AC has today. I've played AC for 2 years and never touched on 10% of the content there was just that much.
Considering that AC vs Warcraft though you have to understand that Warcraft's world has been around since the late 90's and has plenty of lore and history to build on. AC they're still building the story on a monthly basis. This was one strenght of Galaxies also being that the story has been around in this case for ages and thus they can spend more time on content than working on the timelines.
More history always makes it easier to put in more content.
Still have to see what content they do put in vs what should be there already.
Trust me in a few weeks SWG is going to have a Imperial Crackdown and us Rebels will be in a bit of a hurt... Do I care? Not really gives me more imps to kill. And there has been no uproar from the Rebel playerbase or neutrals about it as it's really a part of the game.
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GameSpy needs to understand that irresponsible reviews like this really are not helpful to the players or the company. I would not expect a alpha build (I have played alphas and betas of many MMO's) to have much in the way of custom modifications of characters becuase alpha's are focused on gameplay which is far harder to debug than putting a beard on a dwarf.
Futhermore if anyone reads books about Dwarves and Elf's then they might understand that the two races that once were welcome as friends are much more wary of eachother in many of those books. Even Legolas and Gimli were not overly fond of eachother at their first meeting.
And Blizzard please keep up the hard work. If you want a proper review of your game there are a few dozen of us that are waiting over at Wow Warcry.
Lewt
Warcry News Network
http://www.warcry.com
http://wow.warcry
Yes 5 years ago this would of been nice with all the games that required to have the CD inserted to play but nowdays that's just not the case anymore. Most games nowdays install completely to your hard drive and then you just stuff it back in the box and put it on a bookshelf.
On the flipside it is also much harder to just copy a game and give it to a friend. With keys and internet play and phone home features those who share their keys risk getting their keys disabled.
I saw on WinCE device that would control your stove and other devices in your house and even your computer. I'm sorry but I'll be damned before I let MS anything controll my house in that manner. What happens to me when a virus hits my pc and turns everything on the stove on catching whatever may be on or in it on fire not to mention the danger to my kids if they didnt know the stove had been turned on.
Yeah and he's also secured deals to put WinCE into many tv's for some home media center.
Frankly I'm pissed becuase the last thing I want to do is have to buy antivirus for my Tv.
Explain to them that your cable company is imposing limits and threatening to terminate service without disclosing such limits. Be sure to have names of employees and managers from the cable company and better yet a written explanation from said company saying why they cannot give you such information.
Present it to the PUC and they should sort it out for you.
Your taxes at work.
Yeah our HR applicatons would fail on logins every once and awhile.. Course our IT support people are idgits and I only figured out the issue when I came home to get some messages from friends about their website SSL certs failing and then looked at my RSS bar and Slashdot gave me the answer!
*(#$ Verisign.. Nuff said.
I mean how the hell are they going to get all the copies of the latest into the product to prevent it.. Unless the PS owner is a bigger player than Hefner.
The Company that bought the company that bought the company that bought beta and it's patents is now sueing TiVO for infringing on their device that did timeshifting.
Commander: What's That hissing Noise
Crew: We hear nothing sir!
Commander: You're all deaf I tell ya!
Crew: Puzzled
Crew: Sir we just got a message from mission control seems were deaf.. were leaking air.
Commander: Got any copies of spaceballs? I need to find out where they purchase those cans from.
I dont see the Lindows CEO stepping up on this one though hehe...
But if you could run Linux on it you would be able to run all ALL your games on it.. From the Atari to the Xbox..
I'm definately interested..
Would be nice if companies worked to create a console standard (Powerful and simple) and then made profits selling games.
For less than 100 Dollars a Samsung ML-1710 should do the trick for you.. Sold at most compusa's, best buy's, or Fry's.
I've had one for almost a year and it's still running great.. Even under Linux using the foomatic Samsung 4500 drivers.
Everyone can compare numbers until pigs fly but what about user perception? Yes it's great X component makes X application run faster. But as a whole who's out there using these applications on a daily basis? What about from power on to usability (of which many users just leave the pc running) or how long it takes from click until your email application fires up and starts accessing email?
It's really these things that users care about not the 1% that may be using specialized applications that were complied to take advantage of these processors.
The G5 will obviously have a advantage due to the OS being tweaked for it and the Opteron will have a advantage if the applications are compiled 64bit. Of which were any of these applications full 64bit or recompiles.
There is also a world of difference in the applications depending on which compiler you run. Intel compilers are vastly superior to many run of the mill compilers and will generally run better on Intel systems. AMD and Apple probably have their own compilers and more than likely encourage the use of them. Now since application developers will use what's cheapest and is most stable across platforms you'll probably see the differences you're seeing. Any native Apple application will obviously be done with a apple compiler. Photoshop may have been done with a generic thus better performance on x86/64 vs it compiled for a G5 processor which Apple may or may not release all specs for proper compilation with a generic.
Either way comparing them in this manner is nothing but a mess of varibles unless you're using everything the same across the board.
Better to compare bandwidth and other functions of the processors and not varible application performance where you're not sure of the breeding of code.
Now we'll see sexual predators that use the game to play tag with their victims.. with more and more kids being given cell phones by their parents to keep tabs on them the some sick bastards are probably learning they can do the same.
Time for CellNanny..
This instanced versions of worlds sound almost exactly like Mythica technology. Course nobody at MS had even thought of Mythica in 2001 either. This will be interesting to watch.
"Sir it would be cheaper to buy a new model than replace the battery"
Or
"Would you like to buy the battery replacement plan for 99 dollars sir?"
That they're filing suit against MYSQL for violating their IP on code quality.
Welcome back S3..
Maybe it'll drive the prices down a bit.
While you cannot turn off the E911 tracking in your cell phone it's actually only active when you dial the digits 911 and most phones will say "I'm in emergency mode" and you will have to tell it to exit that mode after the call. Irritating if you're reporting a wreck but it can be a lifesaver.
Location tracking (Where your phone has the gps chip active all the time) in every phone I've seen you have to activate it before it will work.
Lets all get together and sue MS for websites that dont give us any choice but to use WMP as the player of any content on the site due to DRM restrictions thus locking out MAC and Linux users.
Despite the crappiness of RealPlayer and their mess of websites that are RP only they do the same crap but at least try to support underdog OS's along with MS Os's.
And I agree with RN about WMP being installed by default on Windows but not about OEM's being forced to install it.. IIRC HP uses MusicMatch Jukebox on system installs.
Many companies still have yet to forgive MS for not sufficiently fixing bugs and they suffer from all the virii that have been criscrossing the internet. It's not enough to take any and all precautions becuase there's still the human element that can always get a virus past the best firewalls. Code red and friends have cost businesses millions and if I'm a IT consultant I would be quick to point out that Linux is free and the virii have cost us more than the license fees.
It's defeatest statements like these that allow those same companies to get away with what they do. Trust me congressmen are more scared of the individual voter and not the companies.
I just realised that if you people would get off your collective arses and write your represenatives maybe someone would finally look into this. Esp if you live in Texas it might take 3 months but they will get back to with a ton of paperwork of what they dig up and what they intend to do.
Taco! Why not just pull dupes when they're found? Our home grown CMS allows us to do it on our network so I have to assume you can do it on yours. Only difference is that your forums if you call it that are not hard linked to the story like slashcode does. I guess it's a matter of not pissing off the 200 posts of OMG it's a dupe hehe..
A suggestion would to be move all +2 and above topics to the original and merge it into there and let the original go away.. Or better yet just hide the dupe posting and then nobody can access that thread it generated.
OR when you post it does a quick search through that topic at least and tells you if it's like another article and shows you.