Let me cite the link for the less click-happy of the readership.
P4 2.4 GHZ 512 Megs Ram DDR-333 80 gig HD DVD 16X CDRW 48X
without shipping its $779 With its $838 little less that a thousand, but we can still see that it costs leaps and bounds more than a console.
But I would rather play new demos for free than have to save up for a new game (dont start with Blockbuster, I will never pay to try a game)
Of course, I love computers more as a MP3/DVD/ONLINE GAMING machine because the options are so much better for the PC. Thats why it costs a freaking huge amount.
..Spirited away is written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, which is the same person who made Nausacaa Valley of the wind, and more recently (1997) Princess Mononoke.
It seems to be even more captivating than Princess Mononoke, yet somewhat disney oriented as it focuses on the adventures of a ten year old named chihiro who gets "spirited away" to a magical land; separated from her parents, she struggles to find a way home.(trailer)
Whoah, that was a mouthful. But it seems to be a really good movie, if your looking for something more than Treasure Planet.
Has anyone with a PS2 playing with a 56k modem or ISDN had a good experience playing online? Cause it just doesnt seem like they would, seeing as how it causes ping times between 350 - 500 ms and thats just not acceptable for any kind of action game. perhaps a card game? or a sports game, ala Madden or Tony Hawk
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"If you have a USB broadband connection, fuck off. If you have proprietory broadband software (AOL?), fuck off. If you have ISDN, fuck off. If you have dialup, fuck off." Considering the effect on gaming that those particular groups have, I would whole-heartedly agree.
You may be a god at madden with your 56k on AOL, but on my side, its like waiting for christmas.
Side Note: USB broadband connections are seldom USB only. Most modems have ethernet and USB, and USB is not the best of the two. if your gonna spend the cash on x-box live, go get a 5 dollar Ethernet CAT5 cable. If you're still sour, just think of most computers that dont have broadband USB connectors on the back. USB for broadband is the exception, not the rule.
wow, so many words, so little meaning. PHEAR MY BAD SPEWLLING!
I use NOTEPAD for all my coding needs! HTML JAVA..
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If this thing pans out, I can cut my cable subscription from 500+ channels to 50! Think of the savings! Awesome! I could finally afford a TV to watch it on! Right Now Im just listening through my stereo, and let me tell you, Leslie Neilson should not be on the air...
Games nowadays take up about 500 to 1.5 gigabytes of harddisk space (Diablo 2; Sims; etc..) not to mention having the webpage backed up (those are hi-rez images, thank you) a music server (yes I own the CD's, no I do not want to get a 200 disk CD changer, but yes I do want them encoded at the highest kbps for my enjoyment) Also have tons of editing software with picture libraries on here and God forbid we have school software (Mathlab, Adobe Acrobat Office XP ) But thats just the stuff I can think of. Imagine all the people out there with motion picture software that are editing movies and adding graphics... Thats a harddrive hog if I ever saw one..
Dont they already make these? They are called "COMPUTERS" and they can watch dvd's and save divx to HD and play games also. If you want to watch on a big screen tv, I would recommend a Radeon 8500 All in wonder Pro with TV In/Out along with something from Creative Labs to hook into your stereo system. Works wonders for parties.
Taxing oil will not push oil consumption down, it will just stop people from purchasing things beside oil, because you have to be able to get to work. Oil is a pretty inflexable resource, I'd say more than Insulin.
What do you think would happen if you taxed insulin 200%? People would be almost as mad as if you taxed Oil 10-20%.
IF you think for one second that 9.5 million dollars is NOT A HUGE SUM of money, I would be happy to see you carry it FOR A MILE!
Sorry knee jerk reaction, politically speaking, you're right, 9.5 is not a lot, but damn, I'd sure love to have that kinda money just to push MY idealogies.
It seems paypal equates to a warehouse with lots of lockboxes full of money. Money comes in or moves from lockbox to lockbox, and then goes out. However, there's no attendant, so the only thing between your money and a thief is just a key (bare with me on the bank info part, it just makes things more complicated) and a lockbox number. When a thief breaks into a lockbox, in a warehouse, normally we would call the police. But this warehouse is electronic, the lockboxes are electronic, the money, well, you get the idea.
Hell, I would probably feel safer giving my money to a backwoods county fair carney. Least I can try to kick his ass if he loses it, and would have some knowlege of who stole it from him, if he were robbed.
They are throwing PC cases , and I didn't see anything inside. Of course, They could have already thrown them a few times, so maybe there were mobos inside, but the ones I saw were just cases. Old cases are pretty fun to throw around actually, and can make good weapons in a pinch!
So take it from me, use your computer to fight crime in Amsterdam!
Im sure Im not the only one typing on this site using MSN. I heard of other companies such as IBM or AT&T doing things like this a while back, anyone here remember better?
This take it or leave it attitude is exactly why most people are not switching to broadband even though they have cable and phone access in their homes. I find it very irritating to shop for rates on service just to find out that there is only one person in my area and they will do everything in their power to keep it that way.
I may have misconstrued notions of cable broadband, but for rural and suburban areas, There is usually a single option with inflated prices. Woohoo, I can choose Screwyou broadband or nothing at all... hmmmm...
And lets not get into customer service! You might as well send a letter to the company. It will probably arrive there before you get off of hold.
This is just my experience.. Your mileage will vary.
And yet somewhere, somehow, people manage to do it at no cost to the users. Thats just insane! I mean, with all the costs associated with running BATTLE.NET, I'm surprised that Blizzard is not bankrupt...
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Merry Christmas Sir.
Here's something so much better.
Let me cite the link for the less click-happy of the readership.
P4 2.4 GHZ
512 Megs Ram DDR-333
80 gig HD
DVD 16X
CDRW 48X
without shipping its $779
With its $838
little less that a thousand, but we can still see that it costs leaps and bounds more than a console.
But I would rather play new demos for free than have to save up for a new game (dont start with Blockbuster, I will never pay to try a game)
Of course, I love computers more as a MP3/DVD/ONLINE GAMING machine because the options are so much better for the PC. Thats why it costs a freaking huge amount.
I always thought it they used a video camera for movies.... Im going to use linux to create my next movie! DAMN the MPAA!
..Spirited away is written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, which is the same person who made Nausacaa Valley of the wind, and more recently (1997) Princess Mononoke.
It seems to be even more captivating than Princess Mononoke, yet somewhat disney oriented as it focuses on the adventures of a ten year old named chihiro who gets "spirited away" to a magical land; separated from her parents, she struggles to find a way home.(trailer)
Whoah, that was a mouthful. But it seems to be a really good movie, if your looking for something more than Treasure Planet.
Has anyone with a PS2 playing with a 56k modem or ISDN had a good experience playing online? Cause it just doesnt seem like they would, seeing as how it causes ping times between 350 - 500 ms and thats just not acceptable for any kind of action game. perhaps a card game? or a sports game, ala Madden or Tony Hawk
"If you have a USB broadband connection, fuck off.
If you have proprietory broadband software (AOL?), fuck off.
If you have ISDN, fuck off.
If you have dialup, fuck off."
Considering the effect on gaming that those particular groups have, I would whole-heartedly agree.
You may be a god at madden with your 56k on AOL, but on my side, its like waiting for christmas.
Side Note: USB broadband connections are seldom USB only. Most modems have ethernet and USB, and USB is not the best of the two. if your gonna spend the cash on x-box live, go get a 5 dollar Ethernet CAT5 cable. If you're still sour, just think of most computers that dont have broadband USB connectors on the back. USB for broadband is the exception, not the rule.
wow, so many words, so little meaning.
PHEAR MY BAD SPEWLLING!
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I do believe the term you were looking for is "Talking out his other hole, since thats obviously where his head is located"
If this thing pans out, I can cut my cable subscription from 500+ channels to 50! Think of the savings! Awesome! I could finally afford a TV to watch it on! Right Now Im just listening through my stereo, and let me tell you, Leslie Neilson should not be on the air...
Games nowadays take up about 500 to 1.5 gigabytes of harddisk space (Diablo 2; Sims; etc..) not to mention having the webpage backed up (those are hi-rez images, thank you) a music server (yes I own the CD's, no I do not want to get a 200 disk CD changer, but yes I do want them encoded at the highest kbps for my enjoyment) Also have tons of editing software with picture libraries on here and God forbid we have school software (Mathlab, Adobe Acrobat Office XP ) But thats just the stuff I can think of. Imagine all the people out there with motion picture software that are editing movies and adding graphics... Thats a harddrive hog if I ever saw one..
Dont they already make these? They are called "COMPUTERS" and they can watch dvd's and save divx to HD and play games also. If you want to watch on a big screen tv, I would recommend a Radeon 8500 All in wonder Pro with TV In/Out along with something from Creative Labs to hook into your stereo system. Works wonders for parties.
Now just to hit previwe..
"This pushes oil consumption down"
Taxing oil will not push oil consumption down, it will just stop people from purchasing things beside oil, because you have to be able to get to work. Oil is a pretty inflexable resource, I'd say more than Insulin.
What do you think would happen if you taxed insulin 200%? People would be almost as mad as if you taxed Oil 10-20%.
IF you think for one second that 9.5 million dollars is NOT A HUGE SUM of money, I would be happy to see you carry it FOR A MILE!
Sorry knee jerk reaction, politically speaking, you're right, 9.5 is not a lot, but damn, I'd sure love to have that kinda money just to push MY idealogies.
DAMN THAT CAPSLOCK KEY!
Slashdot Math!
cause we all know 50 + 1 - 1 = 49!
Ok, that was lame, go ahead and mod me down...
It seems paypal equates to a warehouse with lots of lockboxes full of money. Money comes in or moves from lockbox to lockbox, and then goes out. However, there's no attendant, so the only thing between your money and a thief is just a key (bare with me on the bank info part, it just makes things more complicated) and a lockbox number. When a thief breaks into a lockbox, in a warehouse, normally we would call the police. But this warehouse is electronic, the lockboxes are electronic, the money, well, you get the idea.
Hell, I would probably feel safer giving my money to a backwoods county fair carney. Least I can try to kick his ass if he loses it, and would have some knowlege of who stole it from him, if he were robbed.
They are throwing PC cases , and I didn't see anything inside. Of course, They could have already thrown them a few times, so maybe there were mobos inside, but the ones I saw were just cases. Old cases are pretty fun to throw around actually, and can make good weapons in a pinch!
So take it from me, use your computer to fight crime in Amsterdam!
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So I should try before I buy... I have ways..
Im sure Im not the only one typing on this site using MSN. I heard of other companies such as IBM or AT&T doing things like this a while back, anyone here remember better?
This take it or leave it attitude is exactly why most people are not switching to broadband even though they have cable and phone access in their homes. I find it very irritating to shop for rates on service just to find out that there is only one person in my area and they will do everything in their power to keep it that way.
I may have misconstrued notions of cable broadband, but for rural and suburban areas, There is usually a single option with inflated prices. Woohoo, I can choose Screwyou broadband or nothing at all... hmmmm...
And lets not get into customer service! You might as well send a letter to the company. It will probably arrive there before you get off of hold.
This is just my experience.. Your mileage will vary.
And yet somewhere, somehow, people manage to do it at no cost to the users. Thats just insane! I mean, with all the costs associated with running BATTLE.NET, I'm surprised that Blizzard is not bankrupt...
While CNN provides How-to instructions on making a dirty bomb.
Ok time to move.
Won't someone think of the Nigerians!
Darth.., I mean Ralph Nader of Course!
What is this "dignity" you speak of? I have not heard of such a concept. Is it some sort of powerup shield for D&D?
I'd start a collection. Then put the site link on google! Heck, I'd even opt for a commercial!
in my gas guzzling SUV!
Yes, I am a hypocrite, and I can't spell either!
Now to hit previe