Virgin mobile! If you can put up with their small phone selection, plans with unlimited data/sms/mms start at $25. I switched from T-mobile, while I miss my Treo, it was just too cheap to pass up.
I just recently got the chance to watch T2 on bluray, I'm still amazed at the CGI in the film. I'm not certain if it's because it's comparatively "simple" effects or if it was just more tasteful use of the tool but it stands up a hell of a lot better than many more expensive/elaborate CG used in recent films. Some of the traditional FX appliances look like appliances but they did back then, too. OTOH, some are amazingly seamless, like the chest appliance for the bar scene. Is it waxing romantic or did they just put more effort into FX back when they had to, and now they just throw money at ILM?
"The network is the computer" wasn't wrong it was just too early. I'm not sure Google isn't too early themselves, but they've certainly got the brains for it.
I grabbed a 10-day trial just for the hell of it. Hadn't played since the first year. Mounts at Level 20? That's freaking awesome. Half the annoyance I had with the game was walking all over hell and creation. There's a lot of stuff that the old players that have stuck with it bitch about, saying it's noobifying the game. As someone who played back then but quit, I'd say they just took a lot of the plodding dredge out of it.
I was going to post that cyberpunk's been dead a few times but then I remembered that Asus' cyberdeck FINALLY launched. And I, for one, welcome our console cowboy overlords.
I figure it would be a cool way to keep track of players who weren't douchebags when playing board games on idevices. The problem is, there aren't that many classic board games that actually allow for free/random play online, most tie-in with facebook. On top of that, the list of gamecenter-enabled games is pretty crappy, a whole hell of a lot of press-button-receive-cookie games.:(
How about bluetooth controller support ffs. No controller support is the real reason why Nintendo shouldn't worry about iOS competing with their handhelds seriously.
CoreMIDI is exciting, I'm hoping that someone releases an actual hardware interface that supports it soon. As much as I've had like with wifi solutions at home, I'd rather have a set of cables. I know there's the Line6 adapter but it's their own thing.
I've been through a few filesystem war^Wdramas and stuck with ext?fs the whole time. I liked the addition of journaling but I'm not sure that I've noticed any of the other "backstage" improvements in day to day functioning. Is there really a reason to jump ship as a single-workstation user?
I haven't seen it in a while but in the last few weeks here at the shop, there's been five or six machines with one. MbrFix makes the job a little bit easier.
That's pretty much the biggest issue it had. After the peripheral, really, printer manufacturers ramped up support, vista was fine. Especially after SP1. What vista had was the diesel-in-america problem. Everyone remembers the horrible GM diesels or smokey semi diesels and now it's almost impossible to sell a consumer car in the states equipped with one. An oem install of vista sp1 is as stable as anything but I still had people banging down my door to pay extra for a machine with XP downgrade license.
I'm completely indifferent about GMO food, but even before GMO corn, they were using cultivars that you would never use to eat for HFCS. It's not anything new and if there is a correlation I'd wager it with the HFCS, not the fact that it was sourced from GMO corn. Look at the refining process, the "corn" becomes not very quickly.
Not until apple pulls their head out their ass and gives us some hardware controls, or bluetooth compatibility with controllers or something. Trying to play DUCK NUCKAM on the ipad is a joke. Most games I've tried seem to be unless it's press to play or point and drag casual game.
We've been saving money. You can get a non-value tier quad core for under a hundred now, that's ridiculous. I paid well over that for every other CPU I've had. Even prebuilt machines are cheap, it's a wonderful time. This intel thing is for computer illiterate people to get an easy performance boost postsale. The only people who should be bitching are sales guys who will be missing out on spiffs for selling slightly higher-end machines to grandma.
I use a tmobile prepaid card in my Treo most of the time anyway, this would work out to be a better deal if I used the phone more often. Anyone know if these are GSM phones and if the SIM card can be pulled out?
Preaching to the choir. The drop in quality for the new HP calcs is disheartening though. I haven't played with 50 yet but the 49G/+es I've had were dogs.:(
They're test-legal and a de facto standard in schools. It's ridiculous but it's kept prices high as hell. The casio graphers are speedy, work well and are cheap. Unless you expect to be taking a placement test anytime soon, there's no reason to stick with TI.
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Virgin mobile! If you can put up with their small phone selection, plans with unlimited data/sms/mms start at $25. I switched from T-mobile, while I miss my Treo, it was just too cheap to pass up.
Points well taken, but I meant in the context of the consumer market. Something I should've made clear given the coiner of the phrase, I suppose.
Still slated for springtime 2011 release last I heard. I'm fairly excited about it, for all of Palm's faults, WebOS really was something.
I just recently got the chance to watch T2 on bluray, I'm still amazed at the CGI in the film. I'm not certain if it's because it's comparatively "simple" effects or if it was just more tasteful use of the tool but it stands up a hell of a lot better than many more expensive/elaborate CG used in recent films. Some of the traditional FX appliances look like appliances but they did back then, too. OTOH, some are amazingly seamless, like the chest appliance for the bar scene.
Is it waxing romantic or did they just put more effort into FX back when they had to, and now they just throw money at ILM?
"The network is the computer" wasn't wrong it was just too early. I'm not sure Google isn't too early themselves, but they've certainly got the brains for it.
I grabbed a 10-day trial just for the hell of it. Hadn't played since the first year. Mounts at Level 20? That's freaking awesome. Half the annoyance I had with the game was walking all over hell and creation. There's a lot of stuff that the old players that have stuck with it bitch about, saying it's noobifying the game. As someone who played back then but quit, I'd say they just took a lot of the plodding dredge out of it.
We're not sniffing every connection and logging every packet, honest!
I was going to post that cyberpunk's been dead a few times but then I remembered that Asus' cyberdeck FINALLY launched. And I, for one, welcome our console cowboy overlords.
Meanwhile, Comcast's purchasing majority ownership in NBC Universal will probably go through by the end of the year~
I figure it would be a cool way to keep track of players who weren't douchebags when playing board games on idevices. The problem is, there aren't that many classic board games that actually allow for free/random play online, most tie-in with facebook. On top of that, the list of gamecenter-enabled games is pretty crappy, a whole hell of a lot of press-button-receive-cookie games. :(
How about bluetooth controller support ffs.
No controller support is the real reason why Nintendo shouldn't worry about iOS competing with their handhelds seriously.
Film is dead, Netcraft confirmed it!
CoreMIDI is exciting, I'm hoping that someone releases an actual hardware interface that supports it soon. As much as I've had like with wifi solutions at home, I'd rather have a set of cables. I know there's the Line6 adapter but it's their own thing.
I've been through a few filesystem war^Wdramas and stuck with ext?fs the whole time. I liked the addition of journaling but I'm not sure that I've noticed any of the other "backstage" improvements in day to day functioning.
Is there really a reason to jump ship as a single-workstation user?
I haven't seen it in a while but in the last few weeks here at the shop, there's been five or six machines with one. MbrFix makes the job a little bit easier.
That's pretty much the biggest issue it had. After the peripheral, really, printer manufacturers ramped up support, vista was fine. Especially after SP1.
What vista had was the diesel-in-america problem. Everyone remembers the horrible GM diesels or smokey semi diesels and now it's almost impossible to sell a consumer car in the states equipped with one. An oem install of vista sp1 is as stable as anything but I still had people banging down my door to pay extra for a machine with XP downgrade license.
While I agree with you on XP- Cheap desktops, and most (all?) current windows netbooks are running 32-bit Win7. It's not going away any time soon.
Clearly!
I'm completely indifferent about GMO food, but even before GMO corn, they were using cultivars that you would never use to eat for HFCS. It's not anything new and if there is a correlation I'd wager it with the HFCS, not the fact that it was sourced from GMO corn. Look at the refining process, the "corn" becomes not very quickly.
Not until apple pulls their head out their ass and gives us some hardware controls, or bluetooth compatibility with controllers or something. Trying to play DUCK NUCKAM on the ipad is a joke. Most games I've tried seem to be unless it's press to play or point and drag casual game.
Wasn't the original micropayment idea like 2-10 cents? Where's this multiple dollar being a "micro"payment bull coming from?
We've been saving money. You can get a non-value tier quad core for under a hundred now, that's ridiculous. I paid well over that for every other CPU I've had. Even prebuilt machines are cheap, it's a wonderful time. This intel thing is for computer illiterate people to get an easy performance boost postsale. The only people who should be bitching are sales guys who will be missing out on spiffs for selling slightly higher-end machines to grandma.
I use a tmobile prepaid card in my Treo most of the time anyway, this would work out to be a better deal if I used the phone more often. Anyone know if these are GSM phones and if the SIM card can be pulled out?
Preaching to the choir. The drop in quality for the new HP calcs is disheartening though. I haven't played with 50 yet but the 49G/+es I've had were dogs. :(
They're test-legal and a de facto standard in schools. It's ridiculous but it's kept prices high as hell. The casio graphers are speedy, work well and are cheap. Unless you expect to be taking a placement test anytime soon, there's no reason to stick with TI.