"Research from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, U.K. shows that the 20th century was the warmest for the northern hemisphere since approximately 800AD"... "global warming as a result of human interference rather than natural climate change"
Since it was the same temperature in 800AD doesn't that mean it could be natural? Personally I highly doubt it is a coincidence, but scientifically this statement proves nothing.
One thing is for sure, nothing will change until people are forced to do so, and that involves people dying, having no power for a very long time, etc. This is already going on in isolated places, but I'm talking about on a huge scale in the USA, which is a very long time from now.
"The only PC games to do this are MMORPG's. Other online games give you a huge list of servers having you do all the work."
so by 'all the work' you mean clicking 'sort desc' on the PING column? yah what am i thinking, its time to get xbox live...
BTW I have played many MMORPGs and they work the same way, when you create a new char they give you list of servers and their ping times, and you must manually select a server, just as in an FPS,RTS game.
If any user honestly uses linux/unix only for increased security they should simply use a mac. Its a whole lot easier, has user friendly software, and fits your argument for case (a).
From a home user standpoint there is only one reason to use linux/unix when mac is available, if you want a free OS, but if you're coming from windows, you should be used to paying for your os.
(yes i know mac runs linux whatever underneath, but from a home user standpoint, this is irrelevant)
A huge reason linux doesn't crash as much as windows is its users are far more knowledgable about computing. Another huge reason is not 1% of the malware that exists for windows is on linux, if linux had to endure all of what windows does it would be just as faulty if not moreso. I have used a windows 2000 server for webserver/filesharing/printing and it hasn't crashed once in the last 4 years, my average uptime between reboots for patches is probably 2-6 weeks i'm guessing. Once windows doesn't have to reboot for patches (maybe with vista) uptime will be just as good.
I have been in the beta since the beginning and I must say I am very unimpressed. I have played AC2, EQ2, WOW, and several other RPGs, this is by far the worst of them all, not because its really terrible in any aspect, it just isn't great in any either. When first playing I was seriously lost in an MMO for the first time, there are hardly any instructions, tutorials, and the dialog is very boring and uninspired, granted it is a beta.
I thought this game would be awesome as I absolutely loved AC2 and still hold it in high regard, the same team making a D&D game, now this can't miss, well it did. I don't know if its just the fact that I've been spoiled by WOW and EQ2, but this game seems like a step backward from AC2 even.
If you are thinking of taking your first plunge into the MMO world, I would highly suggest you do it with WOW instead of this game, as you will probably be lost. Pretty much every aspect of this game is sub-par when compared to EQ2 and WOW, graphics, gameplay, features, sound, music, quests, weapons, armor.
There are a few features and things that are very cool about it, like the way you move your character around, climbing ladders, hanging on to cliffs, etc. Also the games community will probably be better than any of the others, because only hardcore D&D fans will put up with all of the games shortcomings, so that could be a huge bonus.
It is improbable to be a leader in everything you do, but if you don't at least have the ambition of doing so, then you might as well not waste your time.
"That said, I personally aim for mediocrity."
That is sad, I hope I never work with or around anyone who shares such an opinion. Sure we all have our moments of not pushing to be the best, but overall if everyone had your opinion, the world would be a far worse place.
Why is this even posted and how is this news or stuff that matters? Every companies ambition is to be the leader in everything they do. This just in, water is wet!
there is a huge excuse, its called $$$. wiring all the people in wyoming would cost magnitudes more than wiring the same amount in NY,NY, thus if you are in the boonies you don't get no fast internet.
the OP is right on, the reason the US is lacking in internet speed is because of our landsize, it takes a hell of a lot longer for us to upgrade our system than a puny euro country which is the size of rhode island.
I hope you have a better goal in life than to not use MS products simply for the sake of not using them or hating MS. Use what works and what is easy, and concentrate on the things you find which are interesting and meaningful.
If windows is so craptastic then why the hell is everyone using it? Because its the easiest and best OS out there, sure it has an assload of problems, but if your software was as complicated and widely run as windows it would as well.
On the notion of charging for patches, they must be joking, if they seriously think it will make them any money in the long run they are nuts. My guess is this is some new service which got totally blown out of proportion.
"People won't buy something that is crippled" false, ex. itunes, DVDs (region coded) etc... what I think you meant to say is that people on./ won't buy crippled crap, and as everyone knows we are by far the minority and don't matter as consumers.
"They will probably invest millions of dollars into this project, money that could be better spent on cutting the price of their products by $1-2" is this a joke? fact: the studios already spend several MILLION on DRM research and have for several years. even spending 10s of millions isn't going to cut the price of a DVD by 1cent, do you have any idea of how much money is in the movie industry? BILLIONS, hell maybe even TRILLIONS.
"a medium like the internet where the costs of the content itself is litterally the cost of the bandwidth used to download/stream, just about any price is greedy" so the 200 MILLION they spent on making the movie and paying a AAA greedy actor doesn't count in your cost analysis? or the 100 MILLION on spewing out advertising? granted the price will be greedy, but you should remember they don't make movies for you for free.
"there are too few households that do not have the capability to download a movie or even watch a video stream over the internet " perhaps in the sense in the article, but 20-50% of households already have this, and have been using it for years, its called video on demand, it comes over an internet connection, is already hooked to your TV, and is very consumer friendly.
$5 is _assuming_ the studios actually want to offer the consumer a fair price. But as you know they want to get the best ROI possible, which means charging the most consumers will pay, and since everyone on/. isn't a normal consumer, it will be too much for us. They will probably charge the same if not more than a DVD price, much like music CDs as you mention. _If_ they were smart they would hire a 100k/year webguy and setup their own online shop in a matter of weeks, but hey this is the studio we are talking about here, they will use a service from some online store for megabucks, then have to pay royalties for MS DRM, and Intel on chip DRM, etc etc, passing the price onto us of course.
Even if all the things in the news post come true, why would there not be people who lie, steal, cheat, murder, etc? Things will only get worse IMO as all of the natural selection that has made us such a fine species has gone to the wayside, now we save every cripple and psycho (and politician;) Whereas 1000 years ago they would have most likely been killed extrememly quickly for their sins, or died from disease and suffering. Our races only hope is genetic refinement as the natural kind is all but gone, and in fact working in reverse, since the worst candidates of people are the ones reproducing faster.
Any money lost by Lucas to pirates is a drop in the bucket compared to the amount he lost in his divorce. Not to mention that funding was lost at a crippling time in his creative life. It just goes to show you, don't get married!
Once the novelty of the iPod wears off, then where will Apple be? Sure they can release gee-whiz-bang new iPods probably another 2-3 times if they are lucky, but there is only so much you can do.
Also the article leaves a lot out, such as wholesale price and advertising, which as most know, is probably 50%+ of their revenue (well in MS's case 200%:) I would guess Apple is barely scraping by that so called 20% mark mentioned in the article.
"Still amazing that in 2005 nobody has figured out a way to make it simple to charge a penny on-line."
charging and keeping track of if the balance was paid is the easy and cheap part, the hard/expensive part is actually collecting the penny. you can thank our countries monopolistic scam of a credit card system for that, which everyday rapes and pillages our economy with millions of tiny plastic cards...
Hm, lets see you build a telecom infrastructure that can handle 100% of its customers usage at the same time, oh wait, subscription plans will cost $1000/month, do you see the problem?
Internet, phone, etc all carry WAY more subscribers than they can handle at one time for a good reason, ECONOMICS and they all don't use their services 100% of the time. If they did then you would be complaining about $1000/month cell phone bills, so I guess no matter what we would still get hear you whine... arg.
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"Research from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, U.K. shows that the 20th century was the warmest for the northern hemisphere since approximately 800AD" ... "global warming as a result of human interference rather than natural climate change"
Since it was the same temperature in 800AD doesn't that mean it could be natural? Personally I highly doubt it is a coincidence, but scientifically this statement proves nothing.
One thing is for sure, nothing will change until people are forced to do so, and that involves people dying, having no power for a very long time, etc. This is already going on in isolated places, but I'm talking about on a huge scale in the USA, which is a very long time from now.
"is 56 percent more than the $14.99 it costs to buy a new DVD of Hitch from BestBuy.com"
thats no big deal as no one should be buying that movie
"The only PC games to do this are MMORPG's. Other online games give you a huge list of servers having you do all the work."
so by 'all the work' you mean clicking 'sort desc' on the PING column? yah what am i thinking, its time to get xbox live...
BTW I have played many MMORPGs and they work the same way, when you create a new char they give you list of servers and their ping times, and you must manually select a server, just as in an FPS,RTS game.
If any user honestly uses linux/unix only for increased security they should simply use a mac. Its a whole lot easier, has user friendly software, and fits your argument for case (a).
From a home user standpoint there is only one reason to use linux/unix when mac is available, if you want a free OS, but if you're coming from windows, you should be used to paying for your os.
(yes i know mac runs linux whatever underneath, but from a home user standpoint, this is irrelevant)
"but no one stepped forward and said, 'Stop this train until it's fixed.'"
And if anyone had, we would have never known about it, and they probably would have been fired.
A huge reason linux doesn't crash as much as windows is its users are far more knowledgable about computing. Another huge reason is not 1% of the malware that exists for windows is on linux, if linux had to endure all of what windows does it would be just as faulty if not moreso. I have used a windows 2000 server for webserver/filesharing/printing and it hasn't crashed once in the last 4 years, my average uptime between reboots for patches is probably 2-6 weeks i'm guessing. Once windows doesn't have to reboot for patches (maybe with vista) uptime will be just as good.
I have been in the beta since the beginning and I must say I am very unimpressed. I have played AC2, EQ2, WOW, and several other RPGs, this is by far the worst of them all, not because its really terrible in any aspect, it just isn't great in any either. When first playing I was seriously lost in an MMO for the first time, there are hardly any instructions, tutorials, and the dialog is very boring and uninspired, granted it is a beta.
I thought this game would be awesome as I absolutely loved AC2 and still hold it in high regard, the same team making a D&D game, now this can't miss, well it did. I don't know if its just the fact that I've been spoiled by WOW and EQ2, but this game seems like a step backward from AC2 even.
If you are thinking of taking your first plunge into the MMO world, I would highly suggest you do it with WOW instead of this game, as you will probably be lost. Pretty much every aspect of this game is sub-par when compared to EQ2 and WOW, graphics, gameplay, features, sound, music, quests, weapons, armor.
There are a few features and things that are very cool about it, like the way you move your character around, climbing ladders, hanging on to cliffs, etc. Also the games community will probably be better than any of the others, because only hardcore D&D fans will put up with all of the games shortcomings, so that could be a huge bonus.
response 1) It should a have a tertiary kerner driver layer!
response 2) Kernerls should never drive, they are too highly ranked, make the corporal drive!
It is improbable to be a leader in everything you do, but if you don't at least have the ambition of doing so, then you might as well not waste your time. "That said, I personally aim for mediocrity." That is sad, I hope I never work with or around anyone who shares such an opinion. Sure we all have our moments of not pushing to be the best, but overall if everyone had your opinion, the world would be a far worse place.
Why is this even posted and how is this news or stuff that matters? Every companies ambition is to be the leader in everything they do. This just in, water is wet!
there is a huge excuse, its called $$$. wiring all the people in wyoming would cost magnitudes more than wiring the same amount in NY,NY, thus if you are in the boonies you don't get no fast internet. the OP is right on, the reason the US is lacking in internet speed is because of our landsize, it takes a hell of a lot longer for us to upgrade our system than a puny euro country which is the size of rhode island.
yes, yes it is, darn tootin.
I hope you have a better goal in life than to not use MS products simply for the sake of not using them or hating MS. Use what works and what is easy, and concentrate on the things you find which are interesting and meaningful.
If windows is so craptastic then why the hell is everyone using it? Because its the easiest and best OS out there, sure it has an assload of problems, but if your software was as complicated and widely run as windows it would as well.
On the notion of charging for patches, they must be joking, if they seriously think it will make them any money in the long run they are nuts. My guess is this is some new service which got totally blown out of proportion.
5. not sell a single movie because all chinese movies suck
"People won't buy something that is crippled" ./ won't buy crippled crap, and as everyone knows we are by far the minority and don't matter as consumers.
false, ex. itunes, DVDs (region coded) etc... what I think you meant to say is that people on
"They will probably invest millions of dollars into this project, money that could be better spent on cutting the price of their products by $1-2"
is this a joke? fact: the studios already spend several MILLION on DRM research and have for several years. even spending 10s of millions isn't going to cut the price of a DVD by 1cent, do you have any idea of how much money is in the movie industry? BILLIONS, hell maybe even TRILLIONS.
"a medium like the internet where the costs of the content itself is litterally the cost of the bandwidth used to download/stream, just about any price is greedy"
so the 200 MILLION they spent on making the movie and paying a AAA greedy actor doesn't count in your cost analysis? or the 100 MILLION on spewing out advertising? granted the price will be greedy, but you should remember they don't make movies for you for free.
"there are too few households that do not have the capability to download a movie or even watch a video stream over the internet "
perhaps in the sense in the article, but 20-50% of households already have this, and have been using it for years, its called video on demand, it comes over an internet connection, is already hooked to your TV, and is very consumer friendly.
$5 is _assuming_ the studios actually want to offer the consumer a fair price. But as you know they want to get the best ROI possible, which means charging the most consumers will pay, and since everyone on /. isn't a normal consumer, it will be too much for us. They will probably charge the same if not more than a DVD price, much like music CDs as you mention. _If_ they were smart they would hire a 100k/year webguy and setup their own online shop in a matter of weeks, but hey this is the studio we are talking about here, they will use a service from some online store for megabucks, then have to pay royalties for MS DRM, and Intel on chip DRM, etc etc, passing the price onto us of course.
Even if all the things in the news post come true, why would there not be people who lie, steal, cheat, murder, etc? Things will only get worse IMO as all of the natural selection that has made us such a fine species has gone to the wayside, now we save every cripple and psycho (and politician ;) Whereas 1000 years ago they would have most likely been killed extrememly quickly for their sins, or died from disease and suffering. Our races only hope is genetic refinement as the natural kind is all but gone, and in fact working in reverse, since the worst candidates of people are the ones reproducing faster.
Any money lost by Lucas to pirates is a drop in the bucket compared to the amount he lost in his divorce. Not to mention that funding was lost at a crippling time in his creative life. It just goes to show you, don't get married!
Would anyone have guessed differently? Since MS and Sony are pitted against each other the consol wars their choice was made up for them.
ok lets put one show per page, how fracking stupid can they be, just show us the lamo list you retards!
Once the novelty of the iPod wears off, then where will Apple be? Sure they can release gee-whiz-bang new iPods probably another 2-3 times if they are lucky, but there is only so much you can do.
:) I would guess Apple is barely scraping by that so called 20% mark mentioned in the article.
Also the article leaves a lot out, such as wholesale price and advertising, which as most know, is probably 50%+ of their revenue (well in MS's case 200%
"Still amazing that in 2005 nobody has figured out a way to make it simple to charge a penny on-line."
charging and keeping track of if the balance was paid is the easy and cheap part, the hard/expensive part is actually collecting the penny. you can thank our countries monopolistic scam of a credit card system for that, which everyday rapes and pillages our economy with millions of tiny plastic cards...
Hm, lets see you build a telecom infrastructure that can handle 100% of its customers usage at the same time, oh wait, subscription plans will cost $1000/month, do you see the problem?
Internet, phone, etc all carry WAY more subscribers than they can handle at one time for a good reason, ECONOMICS and they all don't use their services 100% of the time. If they did then you would be complaining about $1000/month cell phone bills, so I guess no matter what we would still get hear you whine... arg.