How about because Microsoft wants to control everything the way they usually do as being the reason they are doing this. User data restored on request? I'm sure the admins will love having someone go "I just got my 30th level char. killed and I need to restore him from yesterday's tape."
...that people actually gave a shit about the XFiles whereas no one does about this...That's besides the fact (and it's already been pointed out many times so go ahead and mod me down for being redundant) that the results had been released already for a number of days...
Schools have budgets for extra curricular activities. Couldn't they work something out with the manufacturer to get a site license for a certain game? Give the schools a price break so they could afford to do this. Then again a lot of game makers are pricks when it comes to protecting their IP. How about games that are open source like Quake I and Descent?
This is a really great idea and hopefully more schools will realize that computer games are good for kids. Eye-hand coordination, problem solving, teamwork, etc. can all be developed by having LAN parties. I know it's far-fetched but wouldn't it be cool if they had teams for computer games like they do for sports? But I guess that would make it harder to seperate the nerds from the jocks wouldn't it and we couldn't have that or it would eliminate the need for movies like Revenge Of The Nerds and Weird Science.
Hollywood won't force this but they might make it attractive for the big theater chains to do this. This will put the squeeze on the smaller theaters who a) can't afford to do it b) aren't bringing in the revenue of the big chains but are important to the consumer nonetheless.
What's going to happen when the movie isn't making enough money to justify $5-10 ticket and wants to move into the bargain theaters?
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Actually it did have teenage boobs - they just weren't alive.
Bill Wong, of New York, who after hearing about the compromised registration server was then asked for bank account details, became suspicious. "At this point," said Wong, "I don't know whether to provide them with that information and, if in fact, whether I actually did win anything. I'm beginning to suspect that this could be a spam or a hoax (perhaps, even from the start)."
Gosh Bill, ya think?
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In a way, you have determined the cable company that will crack down on you first. We will now test the power of this fully armed and operational cable provider on your hacked subscriber box.
The only market I can see for this thing is the people who want to take notes in meetings and be able to upload them to their PC. Didn't the CrossPad try this already and fail? The only way people might use this is if they could detach their laptop screen and use it as such. It won't sell on it's own. Bittersweet for Transmeta because they got the business but too bad it's going to be a flop. Not even mentioning that MS is writing the software.
I remember when I had my Amiga (1986) it seemed like such a waste to dedicate such a powerful machine to such a mundane task. Apple II's and IBM-PC's were good for that shit not the awesome Amiga 1000.
Back in the day, there were BBS people, and there were D-Dial people. D-Dials were a freak of nature. They weren't right.
I totally disagree with this statement. Where I was, people used both and it wasn't a case of us vs. them as this author implies in his article. Most people that I knew had accounts on both.
The BBS was a place to hold a discussion about the latest new music out, hold flame wars about which computer was best, etc. Of course, BBS was the only option for downloads unless you had CompuServe. I remember some people who ran BBS' that only were up at certain hours so the sysop's mom wouldn't get mad at them tying up the phone line.
The D-Dial was a place to just kick back and chat about things. There were groups on the D-Dial that liked to get together and do stuff and there were those that didn't. Some people liked to lurk and others were active chatters. It was much better than the chat rooms of today because you generally knew these people. The operator of the D-Dial didn't charge a lot and had two systems in different locations that were linked together. This was done so they could service more prefixes as a local call.
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I noticed that too! Kind of reminded me of that part in The Fly where Brundle tore off his fingernails and there was green ooze under them.
Silly rabbit. In any other line of work, if 8 out of 10 products fail, they might actually rethink their business model. But no, Hollywood has the slash and burn mentality which states that they can just keep releasing crap and still make money. I like what Eastwood said about the merits of using the "home box office" to further a movie's earning potential but I don't like the fact that he was a stooge for the cause of the MPAA and their ilk.
She could have spent the past three years lying on the beach in the Bahamas, drinking pina coladas and putting on sunscreen. Instead, she schlepped around Boston's financial district, asking jaded venture capitalists how an unknown entrepreneur could increase her chances of obtaining venture capital financing.
If she could have then why didn't she? Obviously because she'd rather write a book and make more money.
Why is this flamebait? I'm just restating what Carmack has already admitted to. Sucks for most of the gamers who are still using SDRAM based GeForce cards.
First it comes out that multiplayer will be de-emphasized in D3. Then it's basically said that in order to display it properly you need to shell out $300 on a video card. I'll be more interested in Unreal 2. At least they actually care about what the PC gamer wants.
Why is this such a shock? Who needs another x86-based Unix at this point? The only thing that kept SCO alive was the system vendors who needed to be able to run on cheap hardware but didn't want to use a "free" OS.
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How about because Microsoft wants to control everything the way they usually do as being the reason they are doing this. User data restored on request? I'm sure the admins will love having someone go "I just got my 30th level char. killed and I need to restore him from yesterday's tape."
...that people actually gave a shit about the XFiles whereas no one does about this...That's besides the fact (and it's already been pointed out many times so go ahead and mod me down for being redundant) that the results had been released already for a number of days...
Schools have budgets for extra curricular activities. Couldn't they work something out with the manufacturer to get a site license for a certain game? Give the schools a price break so they could afford to do this. Then again a lot of game makers are pricks when it comes to protecting their IP. How about games that are open source like Quake I and Descent?
This is a really great idea and hopefully more schools will realize that computer games are good for kids. Eye-hand coordination, problem solving, teamwork, etc. can all be developed by having LAN parties. I know it's far-fetched but wouldn't it be cool if they had teams for computer games like they do for sports? But I guess that would make it harder to seperate the nerds from the jocks wouldn't it and we couldn't have that or it would eliminate the need for movies like Revenge Of The Nerds and Weird Science.
Hollywood won't force this but they might make it attractive for the big theater chains to do this. This will put the squeeze on the smaller theaters who a) can't afford to do it b) aren't bringing in the revenue of the big chains but are important to the consumer nonetheless. What's going to happen when the movie isn't making enough money to justify $5-10 ticket and wants to move into the bargain theaters?
Actually it did have teenage boobs - they just weren't alive.
Gosh Bill, ya think?
In a way, you have determined the cable company that will crack down on you first. We will now test the power of this fully armed and operational cable provider on your hacked subscriber box.
The only market I can see for this thing is the people who want to take notes in meetings and be able to upload them to their PC. Didn't the CrossPad try this already and fail? The only way people might use this is if they could detach their laptop screen and use it as such. It won't sell on it's own. Bittersweet for Transmeta because they got the business but too bad it's going to be a flop. Not even mentioning that MS is writing the software.
I remember when I had my Amiga (1986) it seemed like such a waste to dedicate such a powerful machine to such a mundane task. Apple II's and IBM-PC's were good for that shit not the awesome Amiga 1000.
I totally disagree with this statement. Where I was, people used both and it wasn't a case of us vs. them as this author implies in his article. Most people that I knew had accounts on both.
The BBS was a place to hold a discussion about the latest new music out, hold flame wars about which computer was best, etc. Of course, BBS was the only option for downloads unless you had CompuServe. I remember some people who ran BBS' that only were up at certain hours so the sysop's mom wouldn't get mad at them tying up the phone line.
The D-Dial was a place to just kick back and chat about things. There were groups on the D-Dial that liked to get together and do stuff and there were those that didn't. Some people liked to lurk and others were active chatters. It was much better than the chat rooms of today because you generally knew these people. The operator of the D-Dial didn't charge a lot and had two systems in different locations that were linked together. This was done so they could service more prefixes as a local call.
I noticed that too! Kind of reminded me of that part in The Fly where Brundle tore off his fingernails and there was green ooze under them.
Silly rabbit. In any other line of work, if 8 out of 10 products fail, they might actually rethink their business model. But no, Hollywood has the slash and burn mentality which states that they can just keep releasing crap and still make money. I like what Eastwood said about the merits of using the "home box office" to further a movie's earning potential but I don't like the fact that he was a stooge for the cause of the MPAA and their ilk.
If she could have then why didn't she? Obviously because she'd rather write a book and make more money.
Katz filtering project setback by CIPA ruling
...a Beowulf cluster of 256 bit CPU's.
Carmack has Ferraris (plural). There was a contest a few years back sponsored by MPlayer where you could win one of them.
Why is this flamebait? I'm just restating what Carmack has already admitted to. Sucks for most of the gamers who are still using SDRAM based GeForce cards.
First it comes out that multiplayer will be de-emphasized in D3. Then it's basically said that in order to display it properly you need to shell out $300 on a video card. I'll be more interested in Unreal 2. At least they actually care about what the PC gamer wants.
What is it doing on these $35,000 workstations? Why does the application require SCO vs. Solaris, Irix, etc.?
Why is this such a shock? Who needs another x86-based Unix at this point? The only thing that kept SCO alive was the system vendors who needed to be able to run on cheap hardware but didn't want to use a "free" OS.
Since when did the Boy Scouts become software police?
Whoever modded this up let me know what you are smoking - I want some too.
Now the Trade Association will be able to use the FireWire technology in their Battle Droids.
Would that be because Kali is spoofing IPX over TCP/IP and therefore the game thinks the game is being played on a LAN?