I'm in on the AC2 beta test (it's a free, open download at fileplanet), and they've taken the player economy to the next level - there are NO NPCs involved. You either get items from monsters you kill, or from ones you craft. And crafting is open to everyone - it doesn't require you to use skill points that could otherwise be spent in combat skills. This could be very interesting; it's a much more hands-off economic structure as far as the developers go.
They WERE an attractive storage medium, until we found out that they weren't re-writable, and cost alot more than blank CD-Rs. There was some other crippling DRM technology on them as well, but i can't remember what it was exactly.
Exactly. This also ties in with the belief that there HAS to be water for there to be life, and that water means life. For all we know there are things living on Pluto that enjoy solid nitrogen popsicles on a daily basis.
According to the site, pre-orders have closed. Bummer, right? Well, i mailed them about this a week or so ago, and was told:
Hello, the production will proceed and we will update our website and customers once we have more news on the ship date. Thanks.
If this means that there will be plenty to go around, i do not know - but i hope so, seeing as i didn't get a pre-order in on time. I'm betting that major resalers ordered quite a few, though.
There are other ways to date stuff than just Carbon dating. Ignoring all the other ways to "date" things based on radioactive decay, scientists know that certain minerals build up over a certain ammount of time. Therefore the minerals in fossil A might show that the animal died 100 million years ago, but there may be less of those minerals in fossil B - meaning it died later.
Now what about the poor sysadmin that has to deal with all this? I mean really, this isn't like calling the record exec's houses at 2:00am every morning. Hmm... now THERE'S an idea...
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SGI owns the source.
http://nvidia.netexplorer.org/faq.html
Do you expect every single Mac user to sign up for satelite service? Really, sat net service sucks. I'd be surprised if they got.001% of Mac users to use their service.
That, and arcades are freakin EXPENSIVE now. It costs at least a dollar a play on most of today's systems, what happened to the one quarter for one (or even three) credits days? I don't want to blow $20 every time i go to the arcade, but if i don't, i'm only there for about 20 or 30 minutes. These days i can spend $50 on a couple arcade ports for my Dreamcast that i can play whenever i want, and for as long as i want; an overpriced arcade can't hold a candle to that.
The companies have realized that they can sell many more games if they just focus on the "average joes" who buy a game because it looks cool. Games with great gameplay are few and far between, IMHO, and with an increased focus on graphics-this and lighting-that, the gameplay department of newer titles is sure to suffer.
Not that i dislike high-end graphics- they can REALLY add to a game- but they shouldn't be the main focus of game development. Unfortunately, until Joe Average wises up and decides not to buy a game based on just some screenshots on the back of the box, things own't get any better.
Well, in terms of removing bottlenecks, Apple is behind everyone; they have only just begun to support DDR memory in their top of the line machines. I'd say that bus speed and memory i/o are where Apple is limited the most.
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I think it's less about making tons of money from Rare's games than just having the games on their console. Example:
1) Rare makes another Goldeneye. 2) Rare's new game makes MS $5 million 3) 10,000 people buy X-Boxes just to play this game. Conversely, these people DON'T buy PS2s and Gamecubes because those systems don't have this cool new game. 4) MS increases user base. 5) ??? 6) Profit!
Poor choice of words describes my post well. I would consider the 20 grams of carbs/day almost no carb. But, i was being too vague - bad idea on my part - and should have said "very low carb". The ketosis part of the diet is hard on the kidneys.
All of you points on low-carb diets are correct. I myself follow one, and it has worked wonders (20lbs in a month and a half). While i didn't bother to RTFA (stupid NYTimes reg), i know people who have encountered problems on the diet - both during and after the super-low-carb part.
Atkins himself says that staying on the diet for a long period of time is bad. It is very hard on your kidneys, and he recommends slowly easing back onto a low-carb (not no-carb) diet after you've been no-carbing it for a while.
I don't think one single PVR manufact has attempted to lobby against DRM requirements. Intel and AMD were certainly opposed to the SSSCA for a while, but now that they see a chance to make tons of cash on it, why should they? Remember, they've both signed on for MS's palladium, and they're two of the biggest forces in the tech industry. Everyone else seems to just not care.
Um...
Case: $50.
Logic Board: $125-$150
CPU: $200
PSU: $70
RAM: $50
Graphics Card: $90
Drives and stuff: $100-$150
OS X: $120
That doesn't add up to more than the $1000+ G4 systems Apple is selling. Sure it isn't cheap, but it beats buying one from the Apple monopoly. Of course, the speed probably doesn't compare unless you get a nice 1ghz CPU...
Apple typically lowers prices drasticly on the items they will be upgrading at a macworld expo a few weeks before the expo starts. After the expo, Apple will either phase out that hardware, or drop it's price even more. Example for the former: old iMacs. Example of the latter: upgrades to the professional G4 line.
Apple is very predictable about when it lowers prices and introduces new hardware. I say wait for an expo to role around and see what's new.
Well, if people heard and believed that MS products were insecure, what would they do? Move to linux or BSD. In all honesty i don't think anyone believes that the Windows that comes on HP computers is any less secure than the Windows that comes with Dell machines, or the version you buy on the shelf.
I can see how MS bashing could push linux sales. You need a new machine, but you hear that MS products are full of holes. So what do you do? Well, lookie here, HP has this nice Linux machine all ready for you. It's alot more secure and stable than that MS Windows, i think i'll get it!
A friend of mine works in a dedicated IT building for one of the larger banks in the US (can't think of the name right now, but i know it's located in Ferndale, south west of Detroit, MI). He took me around the place, and showed me all the security stuff they had set up. You need a card, finger print, and key-code to even get into the building (yes, the janitor's entrance is like this too). You need those to get into the elevator, and to go into any of the areas with actual machines. I was only allowed to see their huge terabyte server cluster through very dark tinted glass: nobody but the head IT people are allowed in there.
I guess that if someone decided to walk into the place with guns a blazing he could, but that's not exactly the most subtle way to steal credit card and bank account information.
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I'm in on the AC2 beta test (it's a free, open download at fileplanet), and they've taken the player economy to the next level - there are NO NPCs involved. You either get items from monsters you kill, or from ones you craft. And crafting is open to everyone - it doesn't require you to use skill points that could otherwise be spent in combat skills. This could be very interesting; it's a much more hands-off economic structure as far as the developers go.
Of course, then they just leave the PDA in their car once they've parked.
I really wish someone would make an Airborne! clone for OS X. That game was just too cool.
They WERE an attractive storage medium, until we found out that they weren't re-writable, and cost alot more than blank CD-Rs. There was some other crippling DRM technology on them as well, but i can't remember what it was exactly.
Exactly. This also ties in with the belief that there HAS to be water for there to be life, and that water means life. For all we know there are things living on Pluto that enjoy solid nitrogen popsicles on a daily basis.
It uses WinCE for it's web stuff, so yes, it is a WinModem.
According to the site, pre-orders have closed. Bummer, right? Well, i mailed them about this a week or so ago, and was told:
Hello, the production will proceed and we will update our website and customers once we have more news on the ship date. Thanks.
If this means that there will be plenty to go around, i do not know - but i hope so, seeing as i didn't get a pre-order in on time. I'm betting that major resalers ordered quite a few, though.
There are other ways to date stuff than just Carbon dating. Ignoring all the other ways to "date" things based on radioactive decay, scientists know that certain minerals build up over a certain ammount of time. Therefore the minerals in fossil A might show that the animal died 100 million years ago, but there may be less of those minerals in fossil B - meaning it died later.
Now what about the poor sysadmin that has to deal with all this? I mean really, this isn't like calling the record exec's houses at 2:00am every morning. Hmm... now THERE'S an idea...
SGI owns the source. http://nvidia.netexplorer.org/faq.html
So what prevents a more corrupt administration from creating more legisltation that repeals this bill, and others like it?
Do you expect every single Mac user to sign up for satelite service? Really, sat net service sucks. I'd be surprised if they got .001% of Mac users to use their service.
That, and arcades are freakin EXPENSIVE now. It costs at least a dollar a play on most of today's systems, what happened to the one quarter for one (or even three) credits days? I don't want to blow $20 every time i go to the arcade, but if i don't, i'm only there for about 20 or 30 minutes. These days i can spend $50 on a couple arcade ports for my Dreamcast that i can play whenever i want, and for as long as i want; an overpriced arcade can't hold a candle to that.
The companies have realized that they can sell many more games if they just focus on the "average joes" who buy a game because it looks cool. Games with great gameplay are few and far between, IMHO, and with an increased focus on graphics-this and lighting-that, the gameplay department of newer titles is sure to suffer.
Not that i dislike high-end graphics- they can REALLY add to a game- but they shouldn't be the main focus of game development. Unfortunately, until Joe Average wises up and decides not to buy a game based on just some screenshots on the back of the box, things own't get any better.
Well, in terms of removing bottlenecks, Apple is behind everyone; they have only just begun to support DDR memory in their top of the line machines. I'd say that bus speed and memory i/o are where Apple is limited the most.
I think it's less about making tons of money from Rare's games than just having the games on their console. Example:
1) Rare makes another Goldeneye.
2) Rare's new game makes MS $5 million
3) 10,000 people buy X-Boxes just to play this game. Conversely, these people DON'T buy PS2s and Gamecubes because those systems don't have this cool new game.
4) MS increases user base.
5) ???
6) Profit!
Poor choice of words describes my post well. I would consider the 20 grams of carbs/day almost no carb. But, i was being too vague - bad idea on my part - and should have said "very low carb". The ketosis part of the diet is hard on the kidneys.
All of you points on low-carb diets are correct. I myself follow one, and it has worked wonders (20lbs in a month and a half). While i didn't bother to RTFA (stupid NYTimes reg), i know people who have encountered problems on the diet - both during and after the super-low-carb part.
Atkins himself says that staying on the diet for a long period of time is bad. It is very hard on your kidneys, and he recommends slowly easing back onto a low-carb (not no-carb) diet after you've been no-carbing it for a while.
I don't think one single PVR manufact has attempted to lobby against DRM requirements. Intel and AMD were certainly opposed to the SSSCA for a while, but now that they see a chance to make tons of cash on it, why should they? Remember, they've both signed on for MS's palladium, and they're two of the biggest forces in the tech industry. Everyone else seems to just not care.
Apple's least expensive G4 Tower is $1700. Dig it.
Um... Case: $50. Logic Board: $125-$150 CPU: $200 PSU: $70 RAM: $50 Graphics Card: $90 Drives and stuff: $100-$150 OS X: $120 That doesn't add up to more than the $1000+ G4 systems Apple is selling. Sure it isn't cheap, but it beats buying one from the Apple monopoly. Of course, the speed probably doesn't compare unless you get a nice 1ghz CPU...
Apple typically lowers prices drasticly on the items they will be upgrading at a macworld expo a few weeks before the expo starts. After the expo, Apple will either phase out that hardware, or drop it's price even more. Example for the former: old iMacs. Example of the latter: upgrades to the professional G4 line.
Apple is very predictable about when it lowers prices and introduces new hardware. I say wait for an expo to role around and see what's new.
Well, if people heard and believed that MS products were insecure, what would they do? Move to linux or BSD. In all honesty i don't think anyone believes that the Windows that comes on HP computers is any less secure than the Windows that comes with Dell machines, or the version you buy on the shelf.
I can see how MS bashing could push linux sales. You need a new machine, but you hear that MS products are full of holes. So what do you do? Well, lookie here, HP has this nice Linux machine all ready for you. It's alot more secure and stable than that MS Windows, i think i'll get it!
That's all well and dandy until my code with a well-obfuscated backdoor is put into use, and i root the ISS.
A friend of mine works in a dedicated IT building for one of the larger banks in the US (can't think of the name right now, but i know it's located in Ferndale, south west of Detroit, MI). He took me around the place, and showed me all the security stuff they had set up. You need a card, finger print, and key-code to even get into the building (yes, the janitor's entrance is like this too). You need those to get into the elevator, and to go into any of the areas with actual machines. I was only allowed to see their huge terabyte server cluster through very dark tinted glass: nobody but the head IT people are allowed in there.
I guess that if someone decided to walk into the place with guns a blazing he could, but that's not exactly the most subtle way to steal credit card and bank account information.