well, maybe there's one more thing you can do, if you have no qualms about it.....you can also get a metal detector, probe the walls, find the central HVAC ductwork from the people next door running their AC, tap into it, suck in cool airbandwith, PROFIT!!!!1!
I'm glad this story didn't make the front page, or you might start a debate on whether your neighbor's cool air wants to be free.
New PowerMacs running Mac OS X Jaguar (version 10.2) does this, to an extent. If you have an approved 3d card, a GeForce 3, GeForce 4 or ant Radeon, the OS offloads a large portion of the graphic rendering to the GPU. If you have a G4 chip, applications take advantage of the Altivec SIMD processor for vector calculations, making rendering and encryption processes significantly faster.
What kind of gameservers can't you do with MSN DSL? I can see (to an extent) not allowing hosting gameservers, but with XBox Live they have an interest in seeing people play games online.
...because I thought the Logitech Wingman would be one of those big ass flight sticks. I just naturally assumed that he replaced the shifter with it. Still cool though.
Yeah, but how much money did AOL/Time-warner lose last year. IFRC, it was like $99 billion dollars. They only did that because they wanted everyone to have an AOL disk. Now AOL's software is more advanced than anything I'm likely to program soon, but it really doesn't hold a candle to what these games are. That must have cost a whole lot to develop, and I bet that the $40+ dollars a box they bring in at launch helps significantly with the bottom line.
Now if you'll excuse me, I just realized I'm reading a message board about a game I have no chance in hell of every playing (unless it's going to be for Mac OS X, and I think we know the chances of that) so I'm going to go do something productive.
This is very true, but on the other side of the coin I like a little dating. Carrie Fisher not wearing a bra (and to a lesser extent being coked off her ass) gives the geek of 2003 a better perspective of life in the 70s than any history book.
Q: But people are conditioned to big Mac releases coming out every three years or so, no? A: Actually, McDonalds restaurants around the world release millions of Big Macs every day.
Seriously dude, the average person on the street isn't like us. They talk about the war, and reality TV, and 401ks and the like. They don't care when a developer's beta release program gets cancelled. For God's sake, I just read this whole message board and I could care less.
I think this is something we're going to start seeing a lot of in coming years. Right now, the Internet in general is going through growing pains, and the pressure is starting to show in these "free services" type sites ( i.e. Mapquest )
I don't know about these site in particular, but many of the big sites around today were built with the failed dot-com business model of delivering free content and selling advertising that ran on the page (or popped up behind it.) This, of course, is dependant on people viewing the site in a browser. If people get the information without using a browser, therefore never seeing the ads, the advertisers won't want to spend any money on the site.
Another problem is, most companies don't want to take the risks associated with innovation, so instead they seek legal action to maintain the good thing they have going. While this is a quick fix, and in the company's best interests, we need companies to present a new business model to the public and see how it gets adopted. I would pay an annual subscription fee for things like Mapquest.com, tvguide.com and maybe even/. I believe others would as well.
Porn sites, Ebay auctions, games such as Everquest and services such as Apple's dot-mac are online services that subscribers happily pay for because more than anything, they are quality products(well, some of the porn is). If the company's revenue is coming from its users, they would be a lot less concerned about how the information is being distributed.
This isn't such a radical change, as they could add a premium subscription service, and slowly transition the focus of their business towards it. Wouldn't it be cool if I could write my own mapping application ( or download a pre-made one from the site ) and have it connect to xml.mapquest.com, give my username and password, and retrieve the data I requested.
But why do we still hiccup 370 million years after our ancestors began hauling themselves onto land?
Ok, correct me if my understanding of natural selection is wrong, but why wouldn't we still have this. At an early stage in human development, we are remarkably similar to tadpoles ( as an embryo, I'm not trying to make any semen jokes ).
So, as a population, we get hiccups. But primitive traits don't just dissapear because we don't know it. Only if we decide not to breed with those who exhibit that trait. I know I'm picky, but I've never said "I can't do it with her, she gets hiccups"
Either I'm horribly confused, or to many people learned about evolution from Pokemon.
Likewise, after I saw how the VW new Beetle handled in GTA3's Beetle Cup, I vowed to never buy one. Probably not what VW had hoped for, but at least it helped me narrow down the car choices a little.
I went to Taco Bell today and I got a large drink, which has an game piece on the side of the cup to win an X-box. Did anyone else notice that you have to not only peel of the game piece from the cup, but scratch it off as well? Far too complicated, but leave it to Microsoft....
I started checking into this when I got a rack-mount sound card. Most good corporate/professional racks are so expensive because of locking doors and other security measures. I found that the 19" racks guitar stores sell for amplifiers work great. Some of the less sturdy ones start at $45 and go up from there. Works fine with my G4 minitower.
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well, maybe there's one more thing you can do, if you have no qualms about it.....you can also get a metal detector, probe the walls, find the central HVAC ductwork from the people next door running their AC, tap into it, suck in cool airbandwith, PROFIT!!!!1!
I'm glad this story didn't make the front page, or you might start a debate on whether your neighbor's cool air wants to be free.
New PowerMacs running Mac OS X Jaguar (version 10.2) does this, to an extent. If you have an approved 3d card, a GeForce 3, GeForce 4 or ant Radeon, the OS offloads a large portion of the graphic rendering to the GPU. If you have a G4 chip, applications take advantage of the Altivec SIMD processor for vector calculations, making rendering and encryption processes significantly faster.
What kind of gameservers can't you do with MSN DSL? I can see (to an extent) not allowing hosting gameservers, but with XBox Live they have an interest in seeing people play games online.
...because I thought the Logitech Wingman would be one of those big ass flight sticks. I just naturally assumed that he replaced the shifter with it. Still cool though.
Yeah, but how much money did AOL/Time-warner lose last year. IFRC, it was like $99 billion dollars. They only did that because they wanted everyone to have an AOL disk. Now AOL's software is more advanced than anything I'm likely to program soon, but it really doesn't hold a candle to what these games are. That must have cost a whole lot to develop, and I bet that the $40+ dollars a box they bring in at launch helps significantly with the bottom line.
Now if you'll excuse me, I just realized I'm reading a message board about a game I have no chance in hell of every playing (unless it's going to be for Mac OS X, and I think we know the chances of that) so I'm going to go do something productive.
I thought the same thing, and God knows after reading the mind-numbingly stupid comments in the ProTools article(see earlier today), I could use some.
NO WAR FOR WATER!
You could always use your remote as a controller though.
Either you have that backwards, or I just found the worst way to play Gran Turismo.
This is very true, but on the other side of the coin I like a little dating. Carrie Fisher not wearing a bra (and to a lesser extent being coked off her ass) gives the geek of 2003 a better perspective of life in the 70s than any history book.
From google.com : Search took 0.21 seconds.
a simple request that takes two seconds to look up on Google.
A little less, actually.
Q: But people are conditioned to big Mac releases coming out every three years or so, no?
A: Actually, McDonalds restaurants around the world release millions of Big Macs every day.
Got $129 bucks, you're in luck.
Seriously dude, the average person on the street isn't like us. They talk about the war, and reality TV, and 401ks and the like. They don't care when a developer's beta release program gets cancelled. For God's sake, I just read this whole message board and I could care less.
What do you expect, the UN gave the dinosaurs 1 last chance to clean up their act too many times.
Whoa, you're a hippie and a geek. Cool, I wish you were my dad.
it's called iSCSI and it's on every platform but Apple's? It seems a bit like Apple naming rendezvous GnuIPdetect.
I think this is something we're going to start seeing a lot of in coming years. Right now, the Internet in general is going through growing pains, and the pressure is starting to show in these "free services" type sites ( i.e. Mapquest )
/. I believe others would as well.
I don't know about these site in particular, but many of the big sites around today were built with the failed dot-com business model of delivering free content and selling advertising that ran on the page (or popped up behind it.) This, of course, is dependant on people viewing the site in a browser. If people get the information without using a browser, therefore never seeing the ads, the advertisers won't want to spend any money on the site.
Another problem is, most companies don't want to take the risks associated with innovation, so instead they seek legal action to maintain the good thing they have going. While this is a quick fix, and in the company's best interests, we need companies to present a new business model to the public and see how it gets adopted. I would pay an annual subscription fee for things like Mapquest.com, tvguide.com and maybe even
Porn sites, Ebay auctions, games such as Everquest and services such as Apple's dot-mac are online services that subscribers happily pay for because more than anything, they are quality products(well, some of the porn is). If the company's revenue is coming from its users, they would be a lot less concerned about how the information is being distributed.
This isn't such a radical change, as they could add a premium subscription service, and slowly transition the focus of their business towards it. Wouldn't it be cool if I could write my own mapping application ( or download a pre-made one from the site ) and have it connect to xml.mapquest.com, give my username and password, and retrieve the data I requested.
If this high school is anything like the one I went to, I'm pretty sure that being in the Linux club is a sure fire way to get your ass kicked.
But why do we still hiccup 370 million years after our ancestors began hauling themselves onto land?
Ok, correct me if my understanding of natural selection is wrong, but why wouldn't we still have this. At an early stage in human development, we are remarkably similar to tadpoles ( as an embryo, I'm not trying to make any semen jokes ).
So, as a population, we get hiccups. But primitive traits don't just dissapear because we don't know it. Only if we decide not to breed with those who exhibit that trait. I know I'm picky, but I've never said "I can't do it with her, she gets hiccups"
Either I'm horribly confused, or to many people learned about evolution from Pokemon.
Some have already been tested in senior centers. It's still in the early stages of development, but such a system isn't entirely a fantasy
Speak for yourself, lady, but my fantasy isn't monitoring seniors all day.
Likewise, after I saw how the VW new Beetle handled in GTA3's Beetle Cup, I vowed to never buy one. Probably not what VW had hoped for, but at least it helped me narrow down the car choices a little.
SOHO Strikes Back was my favorite part of the trilogy.
I went to Taco Bell today and I got a large drink, which has an game piece on the side of the cup to win an X-box. Did anyone else notice that you have to not only peel of the game piece from the cup, but scratch it off as well? Far too complicated, but leave it to Microsoft....
I started checking into this when I got a rack-mount sound card. Most good corporate/professional racks are so expensive because of locking doors and other security measures. I found that the 19" racks guitar stores sell for amplifiers work great. Some of the less sturdy ones start at $45 and go up from there. Works fine with my G4 minitower.