Eight?? Seriously? There is nothing better to play online? I like small fps matches now and then (mostly for games with realistic damage models), but small IMO is 16 players. Didn't old IPX based DOS games support more than eight players? Maybe GoW's maps are tiny.
The definition of wiki at wikipedia.org: "A wiki is a collaborative website which can be directly edited by anyone with access to it."
Never mind who or how they edit the website, they're trying to pass off unsubstantiated garbage as the truth. Your freedom of speech doesn't make it true, and anyone is right to question what they have to say. Where did you get the B.S. notion that you can opt out of supplying evidence for what you claim is true? Oh you're with the executive branch? Damn!
I don't think enemies are fundamental to good gameplay at all; a majority of good games (video and otherwise) do have opponents. I also think a lot of games without opponents would greatly benefit from them if the game mechanics allow.
There's plenty of reasons to have a wireless console. Cat5 isn't very attractive looking anywhere in the living room, and many people have PCs outside the living room. I generally agree with you though, console accessories are so heavily marked up, it's easy to justify DIY workarounds like you suggested.
How about reading the damned article or the patent filling? It doesn't suggest any of those things, you did. Probably because... nevermind, I've already lost you at the "reading" part.
Nothing but the summary says "indefinitely", and gosh, do you suppose this security feature might be a configurable OPTION? You know, like car alarms, home security alarms, and... almost any other "theft deterrent" system ever made? Damn, be realistic. "indefinitely", really, where in hell did that come from? Think for yourself sometime.
What part of "It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty." do wary business users not understand then? It's all up front. Not all open source projects are created equal, for sure, and many have a great deal of commercial support. To say businesses should be wary of relying the unpaid work of complete strangers with no contractual support is a big DUH isn't it? That goes for ANYTHING. That's why the Red Hats and Novells of the world exist.
My favorites were Bullfrog's Hi-Octane and Dungeon Keeper, Maxis's Sim Ant for the SNES, and Kesmai's sweet modem friendly internet games like MultiPlayer Battletech (fps), Aliens Online (fps), Starship Troopers, and Godzilla. Kesmai's were the only 'good' movie-games I'd ever played (probably still are). All the ones I mentioned were online with ranking systems, rewards, clans, integrated chatrooms etc, and played well over modems!
Man... how did gaming get so bad for so long? If any of those games were re-done with todays graphics standards and the exact same features, they'd all be seen as 'innovative' or this new trend of 'casual'. Oooooohhh.. that burns me too, everything outside of MMOGs are 'casual games'. I wish people would stop overusing it and instead refer to the other smaller set of games as 'timesinks'.
This didn't happen overnight dude. Video games have been tied to their discs long before dvd's were. Software has been restricted by serial numbers for ages. Full-software downloads are restricted/counted/registered. Consumers just aren't trusted to maintain license compliance on their own, and haven't been since.. what, pretty near the dawn of commercial software? It's hard to blame anyone for not trying to protect their stuff. I understand why only crackable software appeals to you, but did you really expect anything different from these new formats? The way I see it, we can either have more policing (like RIAA's stunts) or more technical measures restricting you. There is NO WAY the whole software & media industries are going to start implicitly trusting millions of Joe Computer Users with their products. Not until there is some other method of sucking money from you first, like services or tangible product tie-ins.
I think I understand your point, but learning memory management, shared libraries, and... system databases through the problems present in Windows (or anything you have to use frequently) is hardly an efficient way to learn anything.
The ability to learn those things wont go away anytime soon, you just don't have to deal with them on a daily basis. That's a good thing.
I've heard the same sorts of arguments as yours in regards to modern cars. Thank god you don't HAVE to get under the hood often, but if you really WANT to learn about small engines, what's keeping you from buying an old motorcycle, tractor, lawnmower, etc.
P.S.
I'll trade you all my old winmodem, active desktop, fun with early 3D cards, rebooting two-three times a day, viral infection experiences for all your old Mac ones. I'll throw in windows laptop hibernation issues to boot. I wouldn't care to remember ANY of those.
Probably open systems vendors/integrators. One mainframe down could sell a boatload of new servers. It'd be like a Kia salesman talking a trucking company into upgrading a big rig to a fleet of Rios.
Dude, I have to nitpick on one thing, you're not going to get any form of speed boost out of that 64-bit processor. Any work that could possibly be sped up by 64-bit instructions is most likely already being done by your video card. If you don't have more than 4GB of ram in your box, you generally wont gain anything at all from a 64-bit desktop system.
Like your ear and face are any less greasy. Take out your cell right now and tell me it doesn't have ear crud on it or a face print. Do it! Now wipe your finger across it and tell me it got WORSE. Morons.
Here's their CURRENT pricing, iPhone's will surely be different, but I doubt it'll be any worse than what they charge now. I'm guesstimating the unlimited data for iPhone will be $19.99-$34.99
I love it, but I think it's a great example of the instability Apple is afraid of.
so far, I've had a -1 message count requiring a reset, I've gotten this funky duplicate message problem several times requiring a reset, it's just plain locked up at least a dozen times.
Now, those might not have ALL been problems cause by third party apps (only have google maps and talk installed), and granted, talk is beta, but I'm glad Apple is providing a more reliable interface for applications.
And for the "What can you do without EDGE access with only webapps?" people, what exactly do you do with a blackberry without an EDGE signal? The only thing I'm curious about is games. There's got to be a JVM on that sucker somewhere.
You're getting SMP support for applications and multithreaded kernels mixed up. For example, MS just recently added an upgrade pack to Server 2003 that includes a somewhat multithreaded TCP/network stack, with the right (Intel only at the moment) drivers. It's supposed to be included with Longhorn. As other posters have said, many important parts of modern OS kernels are still not multithreaded in an ideal way. I suspect Windows will need a lot more work done to it than other kernels. What MS is announcing wont be a part of Longhorn and will probably not see the light of day for many years to come.
That monster you describe would be a few thousand dollars in hardware costs, then office licenses. Windows needs what.. 1GB per user in that kind of environment.. It's not like there are junk workstations with 8gb of ram floating around (or stable versions of windows to use that much memory). If he wanted students to hot swap around one workstation anyway, he'd be better off with one login and a seperate little fileserver with per-user logins for data. That should work quite fine in a school environment.
Who DOES stick with a crappy IT job that requires you to be on call frequently? I think in general, men work some of the cruddier jobs in the world. Does anyone ENJOY their 24 hour on call IT job? This isn't very surprising, but the headline is crazy.. "Women Fleeing IT Job"s != "Women Leaving IT Jobs That Require On 24hr On-Call Support" I.T. is HUGE.
Maybe other smartphones are better, but viewing any office documents on my BB 8700 sucks badly enough that I wait to get to a computer. I doubt anyone has a strong desire to work with office docs on any phone. No matter how you cut it, it's small and inconvenient. Everyone knows this, and nobody really expects anyone to view an office doc on the road and view/edit it instantly. If they need a quick response, put it into an email or just call.
Ung.. office on a phone makes me shiver... mobile webapps, please! Build something for the screen your working with, and to hell with scrunching documents formatted for a 21" display or sheet a paper into a phone size hack. Even if you intend to use office docs solely for personal use (say a typical personal expense tracking spreadsheet many people have), how fscking useful is a spreadsheet with only four legible columns??? Short of a purpose built application or a mobile formated webapp, I have everything I need... MemoPad...
General purpose office apps are dead on phones, and probably on desktops in the not too distant future.
Hold on a minute, most of you don't know how resellers or VARS work... this applies to federal and commercial. Company B in your example almost ALWAYS gives a discount to Company A, the size of which is determined by their channel partner programs or volume sold. Of that whole list of vendors, there are thousands of products from each that for the most part do the same job as their competitors. Very often it comes down to personal preference or the discount a reseller gets. What do you think the deciding factor between low end PC servers is? Let's say Dell and HP for example. Do you think anyone really sits down with a HP DLXXX and an equivilant PowerEdge to do a side by side comparison? Or how about FC HBA vendors? It's the strength of the relationship between the VAR and the vendor that determines these things.
If VARS didn't get discounts, they wouldn't exist. The income doesn't come entirely from the VA part... The Govt still pays roughly what they would if they bought direct from a vendor. The issue isn't really with the discount you morons think the end customer should be getting, it's with the type of incentives the vendors are offering resellers and whether they are legal or not. This is about competitivness. This news is probably WAY too overhyped, it isn't what you all think it is.
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Eight?? Seriously? There is nothing better to play online? I like small fps matches now and then (mostly for games with realistic damage models), but small IMO is 16 players. Didn't old IPX based DOS games support more than eight players? Maybe GoW's maps are tiny.
The definition of wiki at wikipedia.org: "A wiki is a collaborative website which can be directly edited by anyone with access to it."
Never mind who or how they edit the website, they're trying to pass off unsubstantiated garbage as the truth. Your freedom of speech doesn't make it true, and anyone is right to question what they have to say.
Where did you get the B.S. notion that you can opt out of supplying evidence for what you claim is true? Oh you're with the executive branch? Damn!
I don't think enemies are fundamental to good gameplay at all; a majority of good games (video and otherwise) do have opponents. I also think a lot of games without opponents would greatly benefit from them if the game mechanics allow.
There's plenty of reasons to have a wireless console. Cat5 isn't very attractive looking anywhere in the living room, and many people have PCs outside the living room. I generally agree with you though, console accessories are so heavily marked up, it's easy to justify DIY workarounds like you suggested.
How about reading the damned article or the patent filling? It doesn't suggest any of those things, you did. Probably because... nevermind, I've already lost you at the "reading" part.
Nothing but the summary says "indefinitely", and gosh, do you suppose this security feature might be a configurable OPTION? You know, like car alarms, home security alarms, and... almost any other "theft deterrent" system ever made? Damn, be realistic. "indefinitely", really, where in hell did that come from? Think for yourself sometime.
What part of "It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty." do wary business users not understand then? It's all up front. Not all open source projects are created equal, for sure, and many have a great deal of commercial support. To say businesses should be wary of relying the unpaid work of complete strangers with no contractual support is a big DUH isn't it? That goes for ANYTHING. That's why the Red Hats and Novells of the world exist.
Viva Pinata is a child's game. But don't take my word for it. review
By the way, Halo is 'just' a bunch of polygons with pretty graphics and the same "game mechanics" Doom had in 1993.
Are you even old enough to have PLAYED Excitebike or did it just show up in your googling? You couldn't share those tracks buddy.
Wow, I wondered what happened to these companies.
My favorites were Bullfrog's Hi-Octane and Dungeon Keeper, Maxis's Sim Ant for the SNES, and Kesmai's sweet modem friendly internet games like MultiPlayer Battletech (fps), Aliens Online (fps), Starship Troopers, and Godzilla. Kesmai's were the only 'good' movie-games I'd ever played (probably still are). All the ones I mentioned were online with ranking systems, rewards, clans, integrated chatrooms etc, and played well over modems!
Man... how did gaming get so bad for so long? If any of those games were re-done with todays graphics standards and the exact same features, they'd all be seen as 'innovative' or this new trend of 'casual'. Oooooohhh.. that burns me too, everything outside of MMOGs are 'casual games'. I wish people would stop overusing it and instead refer to the other smaller set of games as 'timesinks'.
This didn't happen overnight dude. Video games have been tied to their discs long before dvd's were. Software has been restricted by serial numbers for ages. Full-software downloads are restricted/counted/registered. Consumers just aren't trusted to maintain license compliance on their own, and haven't been since.. what, pretty near the dawn of commercial software? It's hard to blame anyone for not trying to protect their stuff. I understand why only crackable software appeals to you, but did you really expect anything different from these new formats? The way I see it, we can either have more policing (like RIAA's stunts) or more technical measures restricting you. There is NO WAY the whole software & media industries are going to start implicitly trusting millions of Joe Computer Users with their products. Not until there is some other method of sucking money from you first, like services or tangible product tie-ins.
I think I understand your point, but learning memory management, shared libraries, and... system databases through the problems present in Windows (or anything you have to use frequently) is hardly an efficient way to learn anything.
The ability to learn those things wont go away anytime soon, you just don't have to deal with them on a daily basis. That's a good thing.
I've heard the same sorts of arguments as yours in regards to modern cars. Thank god you don't HAVE to get under the hood often, but if you really WANT to learn about small engines, what's keeping you from buying an old motorcycle, tractor, lawnmower, etc.
P.S.
I'll trade you all my old winmodem, active desktop, fun with early 3D cards, rebooting two-three times a day, viral infection experiences for all your old Mac ones. I'll throw in windows laptop hibernation issues to boot. I wouldn't care to remember ANY of those.
Probably open systems vendors/integrators. One mainframe down could sell a boatload of new servers. It'd be like a Kia salesman talking a trucking company into upgrading a big rig to a fleet of Rios.
Score:-1, Car Analogy
Dude, I have to nitpick on one thing, you're not going to get any form of speed boost out of that 64-bit processor. Any work that could possibly be sped up by 64-bit instructions is most likely already being done by your video card. If you don't have more than 4GB of ram in your box, you generally wont gain anything at all from a 64-bit desktop system.
Why is the parent modded insightful?
Like your ear and face are any less greasy. Take out your cell right now and tell me it doesn't have ear crud on it or a face print. Do it! Now wipe your finger across it and tell me it got WORSE. Morons.
So... for 450 minutes and unlimited data,
ATT is $39.99 + $19.99
and Verizon is $79.99
ATT Data
ATT Voice
Verizon Bundle
How sure are you the iPhone data plans will cost more than a Treo now?
Bomb carpetly?
Anyway, listen kid. Just because you don't have the money to get one doesn't mean it has to suck.
Here's their CURRENT pricing, iPhone's will surely be different, but I doubt it'll be any worse than what they charge now. I'm guesstimating the unlimited data for iPhone will be $19.99-$34.99
IE7 doesn't even render the other two languages in the title bar correctly. I get
BBCHindi.com | [][]... | [][]... - Windows Internet Explorer
I'm downloading Safari for my XP vm to see what all this fuss is about..
damn lameness filter...
Try google talk for BB's
I love it, but I think it's a great example of the instability Apple is afraid of.
so far, I've had a -1 message count requiring a reset, I've gotten this funky duplicate message problem several times requiring a reset, it's just plain locked up at least a dozen times.
Now, those might not have ALL been problems cause by third party apps (only have google maps and talk installed), and granted, talk is beta, but I'm glad Apple is providing a more reliable interface for applications.
And for the "What can you do without EDGE access with only webapps?" people, what exactly do you do with a blackberry without an EDGE signal? The only thing I'm curious about is games. There's got to be a JVM on that sucker somewhere.
I've seen the list of key Vista features
Vista
I'd say Microsoft's list doesn't have much substance.
Leopard
... I don't know a single person who owns a Sansa ...
You're getting SMP support for applications and multithreaded kernels mixed up. For example, MS just recently added an upgrade pack to Server 2003 that includes a somewhat multithreaded TCP/network stack, with the right (Intel only at the moment) drivers. It's supposed to be included with Longhorn. As other posters have said, many important parts of modern OS kernels are still not multithreaded in an ideal way. I suspect Windows will need a lot more work done to it than other kernels. What MS is announcing wont be a part of Longhorn and will probably not see the light of day for many years to come.
That monster you describe would be a few thousand dollars in hardware costs, then office licenses. Windows needs what.. 1GB per user in that kind of environment.. It's not like there are junk workstations with 8gb of ram floating around (or stable versions of windows to use that much memory). If he wanted students to hot swap around one workstation anyway, he'd be better off with one login and a seperate little fileserver with per-user logins for data. That should work quite fine in a school environment.
Who DOES stick with a crappy IT job that requires you to be on call frequently? I think in general, men work some of the cruddier jobs in the world. Does anyone ENJOY their 24 hour on call IT job? This isn't very surprising, but the headline is crazy.. "Women Fleeing IT Job"s != "Women Leaving IT Jobs That Require On 24hr On-Call Support" I.T. is HUGE.
Maybe other smartphones are better, but viewing any office documents on my BB 8700 sucks badly enough that I wait to get to a computer. I doubt anyone has a strong desire to work with office docs on any phone. No matter how you cut it, it's small and inconvenient. Everyone knows this, and nobody really expects anyone to view an office doc on the road and view/edit it instantly. If they need a quick response, put it into an email or just call.
Ung.. office on a phone makes me shiver... mobile webapps, please! Build something for the screen your working with, and to hell with scrunching documents formatted for a 21" display or sheet a paper into a phone size hack. Even if you intend to use office docs solely for personal use (say a typical personal expense tracking spreadsheet many people have), how fscking useful is a spreadsheet with only four legible columns??? Short of a purpose built application or a mobile formated webapp, I have everything I need... MemoPad...
General purpose office apps are dead on phones, and probably on desktops in the not too distant future.
Hold on a minute, most of you don't know how resellers or VARS work... this applies to federal and commercial. Company B in your example almost ALWAYS gives a discount to Company A, the size of which is determined by their channel partner programs or volume sold. Of that whole list of vendors, there are thousands of products from each that for the most part do the same job as their competitors. Very often it comes down to personal preference or the discount a reseller gets. What do you think the deciding factor between low end PC servers is? Let's say Dell and HP for example. Do you think anyone really sits down with a HP DLXXX and an equivilant PowerEdge to do a side by side comparison? Or how about FC HBA vendors? It's the strength of the relationship between the VAR and the vendor that determines these things.
If VARS didn't get discounts, they wouldn't exist. The income doesn't come entirely from the VA part... The Govt still pays roughly what they would if they bought direct from a vendor.
The issue isn't really with the discount you morons think the end customer should be getting, it's with the type of incentives the vendors are offering resellers and whether they are legal or not. This is about competitivness. This news is probably WAY too overhyped, it isn't what you all think it is.