I'm sorry, I think Code Red is OK but no way in hell is it even better than original Mt. Dew. It just isn't as refreshing. And Amp is better than some of the energy drinks out there. Whoop ass? Thats just carbonated paint thinner.
Eh, after seeing how good they did with Heretic 2, SoF 1 and 2, and the Star Trek Voyager game (wassit.....Elite Force if memory serves) I say let em try at making Quake 4. They're obviously competent people, so I dont think they can bugger it up THAT much. And if they go back to the Quake 2 style of scenery and story. I'd love it. The futuristic cold steel feel Quake 2 had was great. The medieval castle feel in Quake 1 and the "organic" feel of Quake 3 just DIDNT sit well with me. Eh, you may disagree with me, but thats the beauty of opinions, right?
I believe it comes down to the "Theory of Context" by Gladwell. Pretty much it's the small things that matter. GTA3 is highly realistic. Thus you still have a sense of reality when playing it and so will most kids (they're smarter than you think). Joe Camel was a cartoon character modeled like many a cartoon character at his time.
So long as it looks like a muppet or a ink drawn character, kids will gravitate towards it and worship it. If there was a "Tickle me Hitler" I can ASSURE you, anti-semetism would rise when those kids hit the real world. Yes, kids are smart. If things are portrayed realisticly, they'll know it. But they're still children and if it's delivered by a cartoon character or in a childish manner.(anyone else dive off their furnature after seeing the live action peter pan movie when they were little, I know I did) Yes, I've been playing video games since I was 4 (an Atari 2600 and an NES). I played Mario but I never tried to jump on someones head. Thats where my raising comes in. My parents raised me so I instinctively knew doing that would hurt someone, so I didn't)
Again, all the small things matter. Attacking "violence" in general will solve nothing. But taking care of the small details. How that violence is marketed and represented, and how the parents raise their children are the key factors. And I'm not advocation that V-Chip "Please government, babysit my children for me" crap either. REAL parenting. Like I got. I ever have kids and raise them like that, expecting the government to step in and completely remove all violence so I can go back to sipping my Starbuck grande knowing TV will make my kids "normal" (which is a BAD thing in my eyes), I'll kick my own ass.
Anyways, I hope someone sees this and agrees with me. I did a research project on this exact subject at Rutgers and I'm simply using my findings to add discussion.
There is NO difference between the $129 commercial edition and the $69 dollar educational version. Both are the same with the same licences etc. It's just Apples way of saying "Have some more money for beer you poor poor enlightened college student":)
Anyone know where I can find a T68i for under $250? I see ppl talking about getting one for $150 (I would assume American $'s, thus they're in the country) and what service would support it. Would voicestream (or T-Mobile, whatever) allow me to just get a SIM card from them that'll work with any GSM phone I can buy?
Bury a landmine in a playground. Pin pieces of paper with numbers writen on them to the shirts of a group of kids. (more kids = more random) Proceed to feed them Cocoa Puffs, Pixie Stix, Mountain Dew, Jolt Cola, Bawls, Starbucks Espresso for several hours. Unleash their fury onto the playground. The number of the kid to find said landmine first, is your random number. Enjoy!
Doesn't that pic look like a rendering more than a actual picture. And the OS screen looks EXACTLY like an iPod's, even the battery gauge in the upper right corner. Some the the accents on the chrome and the reflections on the surroundings don't exactly look "natural" if you catch my drift. Or maybe it's a blur from caffiene withdrawal.....*chugs can of Mountain Dew* Nope. I still think it's a rendering.
Correction. Good games don't die, they just get old.
And as for Bungie being "defunct" It's not true. They are still alive and kicking, but they're owned by Microsoft, so it's more of a "Weekend at Bernies" effect.
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Silly me. I meant to say 500k miles, not fifty. I forgot a zero. So sue me. It's been a long day at work:)
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1972 VW Super Beetle with 52318 miles (you do the conversion I'm lazy right now). Oh, and for those of you laughing. It's got a Porsche 911 Turbo engine. I have 350 HP comming off the WHEELS and I beat corvettes at the track. I win!:-D
I have a Powerbook G4 550Mhz with 256MB RAM. I'm not noticing much increases in performance, (a la: bounces on loading, altho iTunes seemed to pop right up, but maybe it's just my perception) but the boot up seemed to take a shorter time, and the login screen looked crisp as hell. Just little touches as far as I can tell. Oh, and I just fired up MS Entourage. (Did not update it to the newest version, as I have a "grey area" copy of it) and the email inbox window seems nice and smoothe with the text, but the actuall message bodies are still jagged.
I must say tho, that I can always count on looking foward to Apple updates. They always add stuff while fixing things. Never just a fix/patch up holes release. They always sweeten the deal just enough to keep ya comming back for more. Unlike MS updates, which we all dread and regret in some cases....
Oh, and my friend that has a 700Mhz G3 (yes THREE) iMac is reporting huge performance increases (iTunes loads in one bounce) and says it's friggin awesome. Maybe cause they optimized for the Rage Pro and not the Radeon like my PBook has. Oh well, WHENS JAGUAR GETTING HERE! I want it now, dammit!
Oh, and I almost forgot (its summer break, let the mental breakdown begin!)
A small tupperware container containing:
-Q-tips
-Tylonol (good for cold/flu)
-Tylonol Cold (even better)
-Advil (GREAT for migraines)
-Nyquil
-Sudafed
-Robetussin
-Bandaids
-Tweezers
-Nail clippers
-PEPTO BISMOL (I dunno about other colleges but RU's dining hall (specifically Tillet Hall, which is nick-named toilet hall because the toilet is where you'll be within an hour of eating there) dining hall food is some of the most abrassive, laxitive like substance known to man. It'll be appreciated.
-A water bottle (yes, possible for toting around alcohol, but also saves you cash by filling it up with your favorite beverage at the taps at the dining hall (milk is not recommended for this, it never stays good)
-photon light (or similar) comes in handy from searching for shit under the bed to checking out those dark creepy areas outside at night
-blank CD-Rs are a must
-"stash cash" before leaving my dad handed me a $50 in case of emergency. I slid it into a little corner of my wallet and forgot about it. We went adventuring into the city one night and missed the last train. The $50 got us a taxi home. Thank god.
-A sprint cell phone. Coverage is decent in most urban areas, and free national long distance. Came in handy for calling home.
-Cases of Mountain Dew, Bawls, and Jolt for those "late nights/mornings"
-a good LOUD alarm clock. The whole floor may hate you, but you'll never be late for class dammit. One with two seperate alarms is nice. I set it to beep, and by the third snooze the radio came on full blast with the mexican music station.
-a small TV with a VCR built in. you'll be popular with everyone (kinda expensive, but someone said an iBook....gotta love "realistic answers")
-Minidisc player/recorder About the same cost as an MP3 player, USB to computer to record MP3s, discs are cheap and can hold up to 5 hours. With a rechargeable battery it's a sweet little thing for walking to class. Skip-proof too.
As a Comp Sci major, and a drummer in a band, my wrists were killing me.
So I got one of them Microsoft Natural Elite Pro keyboards (built in USB hub!) and a MS Trackball optical (still the most comfortable trackball I've ever used) Within 2 weeks to get used to the new setup, I was pain free, and have been for the past 2 years or so.
While MS makes crappy software, I can honestly admit they make nice input devices and the new wireless Intellimouse Explorer is making me consider going back to a mouse....
I think the vast majority of their audience will be viewing this site using IE on 2K, XP or OSX. Those users (90+ percent of users on servers I manage) will be presented with an extremely cool website.
You'd like to think that, but I'm viewing it with IE 5.1 on OS X and it looks like unclickable crap.
Anyone know if you can use a wireless card (such as Airport or that WirelessDriver with another card) and use IPSec? I refuse to use wireless unless it's over IPSec. Oh, and since the Airport card is an Orinoco Silver card relabeled, can I just buy one and plug it into the Powerbook's internal airport slot and it will work? I can get a Orinoco card for cheaper than an Airport card and I dont want the external antenna, preferably.
we'd all have "certificates of authenticity" genetically grafted to our chest, over our heart. when doctors cut you open for surgery, warnings engraved into your ribs would say "Warranty void if seal broken"
I wasn't aware that the middle class was "bourgeois" as you put it. I thought that was the rich people. Middle class is elements of both the bourgeois and the proletariot.
Rutgers has a fairly fast connection (it's faster than my cable modem at home) but their system, in my opinion sucks. Everyone has a static IP but we're behind NAT with no way to directly connect to other people except through SSH tunnels and the like. They placed a limit on our bandwidth usage (we can download 2GB and upload 512MB over a 7 day period). If you go over, you're baned for a week. The plus side? They ban your MAC address. Replace the NIC or plug in my laptop and I'm back in business. We're not allowed to "extend Resnet to other people" (ie: Routers) but I have a router/AP box where I made my own WAP. However, It runs FreeBSD and uses ipsec to encyrpt packets and by changing the keys need to connect to it often, I have a fairly secure wireless system for my laptop. If RU has a problem with it, I'll raise hell. But I'm sure if you make a similar set up, they wont give you as much problems. Or, since we have static IPs, other people that have WAPs turn off NAT so anyone with an RU IP can connect thru it (he's on the 5th floor of the quad, so the entire quad has wireless)
Dammit, meanwhile Rutgers is gouging us with "Academic Pricing". A kid in my dorm building set up a Direct Connect hub and between the two hubs (they span Rutgers Newark, Camden and New Brunswick) and currently contains close to 8 terrabytes of stuff all on 10Mbit switched campus ethernet. Only bad thing is that they capped our internet activity to 2GB down and 512MB up over a 7 day period. So DC makes it more than bearable.
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I'm sorry, I think Code Red is OK but no way in hell is it even better than original Mt. Dew. It just isn't as refreshing. And Amp is better than some of the energy drinks out there. Whoop ass? Thats just carbonated paint thinner.
Eh, after seeing how good they did with Heretic 2, SoF 1 and 2, and the Star Trek Voyager game (wassit.....Elite Force if memory serves) I say let em try at making Quake 4. They're obviously competent people, so I dont think they can bugger it up THAT much. And if they go back to the Quake 2 style of scenery and story. I'd love it. The futuristic cold steel feel Quake 2 had was great. The medieval castle feel in Quake 1 and the "organic" feel of Quake 3 just DIDNT sit well with me. Eh, you may disagree with me, but thats the beauty of opinions, right?
I believe it comes down to the "Theory of Context" by Gladwell. Pretty much it's the small things that matter. GTA3 is highly realistic. Thus you still have a sense of reality when playing it and so will most kids (they're smarter than you think). Joe Camel was a cartoon character modeled like many a cartoon character at his time.
So long as it looks like a muppet or a ink drawn character, kids will gravitate towards it and worship it. If there was a "Tickle me Hitler" I can ASSURE you, anti-semetism would rise when those kids hit the real world. Yes, kids are smart. If things are portrayed realisticly, they'll know it. But they're still children and if it's delivered by a cartoon character or in a childish manner.(anyone else dive off their furnature after seeing the live action peter pan movie when they were little, I know I did) Yes, I've been playing video games since I was 4 (an Atari 2600 and an NES). I played Mario but I never tried to jump on someones head. Thats where my raising comes in. My parents raised me so I instinctively knew doing that would hurt someone, so I didn't)
Again, all the small things matter. Attacking "violence" in general will solve nothing. But taking care of the small details. How that violence is marketed and represented, and how the parents raise their children are the key factors. And I'm not advocation that V-Chip "Please government, babysit my children for me" crap either. REAL parenting. Like I got. I ever have kids and raise them like that, expecting the government to step in and completely remove all violence so I can go back to sipping my Starbuck grande knowing TV will make my kids "normal" (which is a BAD thing in my eyes), I'll kick my own ass.
Anyways, I hope someone sees this and agrees with me. I did a research project on this exact subject at Rutgers and I'm simply using my findings to add discussion.
yes, but dont forget that the XServe has a redesigned northbridge and bus, it also has DDR memmory which helps things.
There is NO difference between the $129 commercial edition and the $69 dollar educational version. Both are the same with the same licences etc. It's just Apples way of saying "Have some more money for beer you poor poor enlightened college student" :)
Anyone know where I can find a T68i for under $250? I see ppl talking about getting one for $150 (I would assume American $'s, thus they're in the country) and what service would support it. Would voicestream (or T-Mobile, whatever) allow me to just get a SIM card from them that'll work with any GSM phone I can buy?
Bury a landmine in a playground. Pin pieces of paper with numbers writen on them to the shirts of a group of kids. (more kids = more random) Proceed to feed them Cocoa Puffs, Pixie Stix, Mountain Dew, Jolt Cola, Bawls, Starbucks Espresso for several hours. Unleash their fury onto the playground. The number of the kid to find said landmine first, is your random number. Enjoy!
Doesn't that pic look like a rendering more than a actual picture. And the OS screen looks EXACTLY like an iPod's, even the battery gauge in the upper right corner. Some the the accents on the chrome and the reflections on the surroundings don't exactly look "natural" if you catch my drift. Or maybe it's a blur from caffiene withdrawal.....*chugs can of Mountain Dew* Nope. I still think it's a rendering.
And as for Bungie being "defunct" It's not true. They are still alive and kicking, but they're owned by Microsoft, so it's more of a "Weekend at Bernies" effect.
Silly me. I meant to say 500k miles, not fifty. I forgot a zero. So sue me. It's been a long day at work :)
1972 VW Super Beetle with 52318 miles (you do the conversion I'm lazy right now). Oh, and for those of you laughing. It's got a Porsche 911 Turbo engine. I have 350 HP comming off the WHEELS and I beat corvettes at the track. I win! :-D
I have a Powerbook G4 550Mhz with 256MB RAM. I'm not noticing much increases in performance, (a la: bounces on loading, altho iTunes seemed to pop right up, but maybe it's just my perception) but the boot up seemed to take a shorter time, and the login screen looked crisp as hell. Just little touches as far as I can tell. Oh, and I just fired up MS Entourage. (Did not update it to the newest version, as I have a "grey area" copy of it) and the email inbox window seems nice and smoothe with the text, but the actuall message bodies are still jagged.
I must say tho, that I can always count on looking foward to Apple updates. They always add stuff while fixing things. Never just a fix/patch up holes release. They always sweeten the deal just enough to keep ya comming back for more. Unlike MS updates, which we all dread and regret in some cases....
Oh, and my friend that has a 700Mhz G3 (yes THREE) iMac is reporting huge performance increases (iTunes loads in one bounce) and says it's friggin awesome. Maybe cause they optimized for the Rage Pro and not the Radeon like my PBook has. Oh well, WHENS JAGUAR GETTING HERE! I want it now, dammit!
Oh, and I almost forgot (its summer break, let the mental breakdown begin!)
A small tupperware container containing:
-Q-tips
-Tylonol (good for cold/flu)
-Tylonol Cold (even better)
-Advil (GREAT for migraines)
-Nyquil
-Sudafed
-Robetussin
-Bandaids
-Tweezers
-Nail clippers
-PEPTO BISMOL (I dunno about other colleges but RU's dining hall (specifically Tillet Hall, which is nick-named toilet hall because the toilet is where you'll be within an hour of eating there) dining hall food is some of the most abrassive, laxitive like substance known to man. It'll be appreciated.
I can say the following things come in handy:
-A water bottle (yes, possible for toting around alcohol, but also saves you cash by filling it up with your favorite beverage at the taps at the dining hall (milk is not recommended for this, it never stays good)
-photon light (or similar) comes in handy from searching for shit under the bed to checking out those dark creepy areas outside at night
-blank CD-Rs are a must
-"stash cash" before leaving my dad handed me a $50 in case of emergency. I slid it into a little corner of my wallet and forgot about it. We went adventuring into the city one night and missed the last train. The $50 got us a taxi home. Thank god.
-A sprint cell phone. Coverage is decent in most urban areas, and free national long distance. Came in handy for calling home.
-Cases of Mountain Dew, Bawls, and Jolt for those "late nights/mornings"
-a good LOUD alarm clock. The whole floor may hate you, but you'll never be late for class dammit. One with two seperate alarms is nice. I set it to beep, and by the third snooze the radio came on full blast with the mexican music station.
-a small TV with a VCR built in. you'll be popular with everyone (kinda expensive, but someone said an iBook....gotta love "realistic answers")
-Minidisc player/recorder About the same cost as an MP3 player, USB to computer to record MP3s, discs are cheap and can hold up to 5 hours. With a rechargeable battery it's a sweet little thing for walking to class. Skip-proof too.
Steve Jobs flips the iBird
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As a Comp Sci major, and a drummer in a band, my wrists were killing me.
So I got one of them Microsoft Natural Elite Pro keyboards (built in USB hub!) and a MS Trackball optical (still the most comfortable trackball I've ever used) Within 2 weeks to get used to the new setup, I was pain free, and have been for the past 2 years or so.
While MS makes crappy software, I can honestly admit they make nice input devices and the new wireless Intellimouse Explorer is making me consider going back to a mouse....
Just my two cents....
I think the vast majority of their audience will be viewing this site using IE on 2K, XP or OSX. Those users (90+ percent of users on servers I manage) will be presented with an extremely cool website.
You'd like to think that, but I'm viewing it with IE 5.1 on OS X and it looks like unclickable crap.
Anyone know if you can use a wireless card (such as Airport or that WirelessDriver with another card) and use IPSec? I refuse to use wireless unless it's over IPSec. Oh, and since the Airport card is an Orinoco Silver card relabeled, can I just buy one and plug it into the Powerbook's internal airport slot and it will work? I can get a Orinoco card for cheaper than an Airport card and I dont want the external antenna, preferably.
we'd all have "certificates of authenticity" genetically grafted to our chest, over our heart. when doctors cut you open for surgery, warnings engraved into your ribs would say "Warranty void if seal broken"
I wasn't aware that the middle class was "bourgeois" as you put it. I thought that was the rich people. Middle class is elements of both the bourgeois and the proletariot.
MACs *can* be spoofed, ya know? Good for secondary security, but it should not be relied upon to keep a WAP secure.
Rutgers has a fairly fast connection (it's faster than my cable modem at home) but their system, in my opinion sucks. Everyone has a static IP but we're behind NAT with no way to directly connect to other people except through SSH tunnels and the like. They placed a limit on our bandwidth usage (we can download 2GB and upload 512MB over a 7 day period). If you go over, you're baned for a week. The plus side? They ban your MAC address. Replace the NIC or plug in my laptop and I'm back in business. We're not allowed to "extend Resnet to other people" (ie: Routers) but I have a router/AP box where I made my own WAP. However, It runs FreeBSD and uses ipsec to encyrpt packets and by changing the keys need to connect to it often, I have a fairly secure wireless system for my laptop. If RU has a problem with it, I'll raise hell. But I'm sure if you make a similar set up, they wont give you as much problems. Or, since we have static IPs, other people that have WAPs turn off NAT so anyone with an RU IP can connect thru it (he's on the 5th floor of the quad, so the entire quad has wireless)
Dammit, meanwhile Rutgers is gouging us with "Academic Pricing". A kid in my dorm building set up a Direct Connect hub and between the two hubs (they span Rutgers Newark, Camden and New Brunswick) and currently contains close to 8 terrabytes of stuff all on 10Mbit switched campus ethernet. Only bad thing is that they capped our internet activity to 2GB down and 512MB up over a 7 day period. So DC makes it more than bearable.
Norton Antivirus. Frequent updates, good intergration with windows (from 95 to XP) and easy to find from "alternative sources" ;)
As a CS major at Rutgers University, I can say reading shit like this makes me wonder if I'd be able to take on such agrivations.....