"I mean, if the cable goes out, and they don't fix it within a few days, can I have the FBI raid the cable company for breaching their end of the contract?"
If you look closely, most service providers, cable, internet, mobile phone, explicitly state in their contracts that they are not responsible for the quality or availability of the service.
For instance, here is a quote from my BellSouth FastAccess DSL Service Agreement, "No minimum level of speed is guaranteed."
I am not advocating any OS with this question, but I feel the need to ask it any how.
Why do you say, "And of course the only real option for this is Linux."???
I know it would be easier for a seprate party to do a Linux "Grid" since the OS is open and easier to tweak. But I am sure if it becomes a thriving market it won't be too long until we see MS.grid or something. I am sure the IBM will want to use Linux, since Linux is their marketing baby these days. But why is Linux the only "real" option?
They should ditch the macrovision crap too. It really sucks for those of us with cheap TVs, you can either watch it with that brilliant surround sound, but the picture wavers from crap to worse, or use a co-ax connector and lose all that great sound. Hmmm, who the fsck would record a dvd to vhs anyways.
Get a better TV you say??? I'd love too, but I am still working my way through college. Wanna donate a k-rad HDTV??? My email is at the top...
Maybe it is just me, but maybe Sony should be worried about getting a good bit of the PS2 user base to embraced the wired network model first. Historically console video game networks haven't exactly succeeded. I'm sure with the ammount of money they are throwing at it it will do better than Sega's middle 90's attempts, but still with the American market's resistance to console gaming peripherals is this such a smart idea?
Most DVD players are actually region free when you buy them. Usually the fifth DVD played in them sets the region encoding. Unfortunatly playing a regionless DVD the fifth time does not set your DVD player to region free...
You're forgetting games. There has to be a good collection of games for a console to be worth it. N64 = great hardware, hardly any games worth note. Zelda was kind of cool, Golden Eye was very popular, but I personally don't do console FPS (hence no XBOX for me, but I am eyeing Jet Set Radio Future and Yakuza Missions). And Super Smash Brothers, which is way over shadowed by it's sequal. I'm not going to address the cartridge based format/space problem, it has been talked to death. I am getting away from my point.
The Playstation and the PS2 both had something the other's didn't, and that is a large library of games that matter to the mass market. That's where your going to make your money. XBOX appeals to graphics junkies and hardware l337 freaks, the GC to children, Nintendo Fanboys, and the both of them appeal to hardcore gamers. The casual gamer is not going to spend $300 on a console just because they might miss that one or maybe two games for that system that appeal to them, they are going to write it up as a shame and move on.
As far the four port thing goes, well lets just call it my wishlist. I am not really expecting Sony to read my post on/. and say, "Holy Shit, this guy is right, we need to re-design the PS3 ASAP."
Maybe I didn't see it anywhere in the realm of video gaming news, but they should really consider dropping the price of the PS2 here in America before they try getting people hyped for the next thing that is probably 3 years down the road anyways. Sure I shelled out $300 for the thing, but a lot of my friends who are not as "Hard core" a gamer as I have frequently complained about the price. They are just not willing the shell out that kind of cash, and rightly so.
Also maybe Sony should take their time and develope a quality console that will meet the needs of the gaming public, even if it takes a few extra months to a year. They have already demonstrated their market dominence over the superior (hardware wise) machines of their competition. Points to consider, make it easier to program, anti-aliasing (!!!), ditch the 2 controller model (multi taps suck, four controller ports on board is great), for that matter peripherals on a console suck.
I look forward to the PS3, but please, take you time and give me something remotely worth the ammount money I am going to have to drop on this thing (and the ammount of time I am going to have to spend in line to get the damn thing on launch day)...
You obviously didn't use back oriface since it is a remote admin tool and not a password sinffer, huh?
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Civil liberties are being oppressed the world over, and us techies are pissed!
This article tells us of some of the horrible things going on in the world and all, but it is nothing we didn't know was going on.
Hackers collaborate over the web to fight oppression and close mindedness!
Sound at all like a certain upstart OS?
I really did like this article, don't get me wrong but it is very lite on the important information like what they are actually doing about it. I doubt making it easier for a Chinese person to rip music off of the internet is going to bring them to the enlightened western thinking necessary to invoke social change.
What apps are you creating to further this change, where can I get the source (since you sited open source as being the obvious choice among hacktivist coders)? What can I do to help? This article, while being interesting, served no real purpose.
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Maybe we should have a DDR cowboy neal^2 mix, it can have Beatles or Aerosmith songs.
But it would prolly attract nasty titles like Linux party mix 2go or RMS stomp...
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At least it isn't Revolution X,
I never played a worse shooter, and the musical tie ins were laughable at best...
Not only that, my big thing is content. I found a hell of a lot more obscure stuff on Napster than I ever do on Morpheus. That is what I meant by "not being as good as napster in it's day"
Yeah and all the spyware and crashing sucks too!!!
There are tons of free p2p services out there, admittedly none as good as Napster was in it's day, but free none the less. Maybe you don't get support, but again free. On top of that no limits to how much you download. Most of them offer IM to discuss choices and new music. I am sorry to say it, I was a Huge fan of Napster, but too little way too late.
Here is a link to some info regarding Final Fantasy XII, supposedly to be a return to single player format, not much info as it is still early in development, and I know some screen shots/promos that were presumed to be leaked were actually faked, so please take this info with a grain of salt.
The GIA
I wanted to link to Gamespot.com info, but that site is blocked from works proxy, dah, someone else please search and post:o)
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Tsugunai has been released here. Here is a review of it at The GIA.
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Yes!!!, I'm not going to touch it until I can put it on my GameCube...
If you look closely, most service providers, cable, internet, mobile phone, explicitly state in their contracts that they are not responsible for the quality or availability of the service. For instance, here is a quote from my BellSouth FastAccess DSL Service Agreement, "No minimum level of speed is guaranteed."
I am not advocating any OS with this question, but I feel the need to ask it any how.
.grid or something. I am sure the IBM will want to use Linux, since Linux is their marketing baby these days. But why is Linux the only "real" option?
Why do you say, "And of course the only real option for this is Linux."???
I know it would be easier for a seprate party to do a Linux "Grid" since the OS is open and easier to tweak. But I am sure if it becomes a thriving market it won't be too long until we see MS
damn, troll? glad I didn't use my +2 bonus for this JOKE!!!
Most GamEz R Ava!lAblE For DowNLoAdZ if Jo0 N0 waR3z 2 Luk!!!
They should ditch the macrovision crap too. It really sucks for those of us with cheap TVs, you can either watch it with that brilliant surround sound, but the picture wavers from crap to worse, or use a co-ax connector and lose all that great sound. Hmmm, who the fsck would record a dvd to vhs anyways.
Get a better TV you say??? I'd love too, but I am still working my way through college. Wanna donate a k-rad HDTV??? My email is at the top...
Did you read the article? They are not complaining about clockspeeds...
Most DVD players are actually region free when you buy them. Usually the fifth DVD played in them sets the region encoding. Unfortunatly playing a regionless DVD the fifth time does not set your DVD player to region free...
The Playstation and the PS2 both had something the other's didn't, and that is a large library of games that matter to the mass market. That's where your going to make your money. XBOX appeals to graphics junkies and hardware l337 freaks, the GC to children, Nintendo Fanboys, and the both of them appeal to hardcore gamers. The casual gamer is not going to spend $300 on a console just because they might miss that one or maybe two games for that system that appeal to them, they are going to write it up as a shame and move on.
As far the four port thing goes, well lets just call it my wishlist. I am not really expecting Sony to read my post on /. and say, "Holy Shit, this guy is right, we need to re-design the PS3 ASAP."
Also maybe Sony should take their time and develope a quality console that will meet the needs of the gaming public, even if it takes a few extra months to a year. They have already demonstrated their market dominence over the superior (hardware wise) machines of their competition. Points to consider, make it easier to program, anti-aliasing (!!!), ditch the 2 controller model (multi taps suck, four controller ports on board is great), for that matter peripherals on a console suck.
I look forward to the PS3, but please, take you time and give me something remotely worth the ammount money I am going to have to drop on this thing (and the ammount of time I am going to have to spend in line to get the damn thing on launch day)...
If you have a remote admin tool installed on someone's computer you don't need their password. duh!
You obviously didn't use back oriface since it is a remote admin tool and not a password sinffer, huh?
This article tells us of some of the horrible things going on in the world and all, but it is nothing we didn't know was going on.
Hackers collaborate over the web to fight oppression and close mindedness!
Sound at all like a certain upstart OS?
I really did like this article, don't get me wrong but it is very lite on the important information like what they are actually doing about it. I doubt making it easier for a Chinese person to rip music off of the internet is going to bring them to the enlightened western thinking necessary to invoke social change.
What apps are you creating to further this change, where can I get the source (since you sited open source as being the obvious choice among hacktivist coders)? What can I do to help? This article, while being interesting, served no real purpose.
Maybe we should have a DDR cowboy neal^2 mix, it can have Beatles or Aerosmith songs. But it would prolly attract nasty titles like Linux party mix 2go or RMS stomp...
At least it isn't Revolution X,
I never played a worse shooter, and the musical tie ins were laughable at best...
How is SuSE support for the Alcatel Speedtouch USB DSL modem.
That is the one reason I am looking to Mandrake now, I started learning Linux on a SuSE machine, and I liked everything about it.
Please don't call me lame for the USB DSL modem, it was free and I am poor...
Not only that, my big thing is content. I found a hell of a lot more obscure stuff on Napster than I ever do on Morpheus. That is what I meant by "not being as good as napster in it's day"
Yeah and all the spyware and crashing sucks too!!!
There are tons of free p2p services out there, admittedly none as good as Napster was in it's day, but free none the less. Maybe you don't get support, but again free. On top of that no limits to how much you download. Most of them offer IM to discuss choices and new music. I am sorry to say it, I was a Huge fan of Napster, but too little way too late.
Here is a link to some info regarding Final Fantasy XII, supposedly to be a return to single player format, not much info as it is still early in development, and I know some screen shots/promos that were presumed to be leaked were actually faked, so please take this info with a grain of salt. The GIA I wanted to link to Gamespot.com info, but that site is blocked from works proxy, dah, someone else please search and post :o)
Tsugunai has been released here. Here is a review of it at The GIA.
B-2s and B-52s serve entirly different strategic purposes, they are not exactly swappable, so you idea is moot.
--Not trying to be a smart ass, just pointing out the facts.
if only I could ammend my post to say in recent years