And that's why Kenwood doesn't own the CD-ROM market. Some of the drives worked fine, and some were damn crappy (like yours). My father had one that would read every CD my Toshiba and Teac drives could read, but a friend of mine's wouldn't read a brand new Tribes CD. And they were damn expensive.
The kenwood 72x used either 5 or 7 lasers (i can't remember which) to read really fast but spin at a lower speed. I wouldn't be surprised if the same multi-laser tech is applied in future CD- and DVD-ROMs.
They've had tutorials on how to build your own Teddy Borg, among other things. I do wish they'd give credit to the originators of the design on the show and the website, instead of just the site, though.
Some? I'd say the majority. Very few kids who are targeted by this (not all of them, however) know what's "up" with internet advertising - they see a banner that proclaims they're a winner of something, and *clicky*clicky*!
My younger brother, who is 14, insists on clicking on those banners because he wants his "prize." What does he use most on the internet? Instant messengers. It won't be that hard to trick him into buying something by just claiming its "really cool" or "really good, the next big thing."
Example
SmarterChild: Hi, what's your name? StupidBrother: Ryan SmarterChild: Hi Ryan, what do you like to do? StupidBrother: Skateboard, mountain bike, play soccer (i'm good at that) SmarterChild: Wow! You know what i heard? There's this great deal on skateboard trucks and wheels at www.skateboardingrulez.com! Go check it out! ::StupidBrother then procedes to beg for said trucks and wheels at www.skateboardingrulez.com, parents immediately cave, everyone is happy::
As long as there are different distros, that isn't a huge concern.
Yes, the larger, commercial distros (read: Red Hat) are catching flak for becoming more and more bloated, but so what? It seems that the big OSS afficiandos run Debian, Slackware, Mandrake, or some other distro - no "true geek" runs Red Hat. Of course, i have absolutely no facts to back that up, but hey, this is Slashdot.
Its not that i don't want to see Red Hat succede, its just that in order to attract the average yuppie, you need the bells and wistles that make people go "wow..." and those features inevitably bloat the OS. Of course, it'll still be a cold day in hell before Red Hat, let alone all Linux distros, is even close to being as bloated as Windows.
More like more great fantasy and scifi books turned horrible movies. Pretty soon everyone will be trying to ride the (much deserved) succes of LotR and the crap will start to show up.
I sure hope that isn't the case with Martian Tales, but i wouldn't be surprised if it was.
Somehow i doubt that most 14 year old girls know that IRC exists, let alone what it is and how to use it. AOL's chat rooms are a much better place to find them.
Have you ever talked to an "average" x-box user? Not just the RPG-humping nerds, but the jocks and stoners who have realized that video games are cool? They LOVE the game.
Sure, call yourself a video game purist, but ya know what? The casual gamers far outnumber the "purists." MS and Sony are selling to the "weekend fragger," if you will.
Also, you make no mention of the multiplayer, which with the internet play hack (if you want to call it that) can more than make up for the faults you list.
Does it really require more engineers and sysadmins to watch over the same fiber lines as their bandwidth use increases? If the costs of operating the network go up, you either raise the prices out of greed, or take the hit and keep your customers happy (assuming the prices don't double or triple). But i don't think it takes two nerds, instead of one, to watch my Quake packets zoom over the cables. The engineers are STILL maintaining the SAME network. Whether there's one person sending an e-mail on it, or 100 playing Unreal, the network has to function - how much data it has to transmit while functioning doesn't matter.
Of course, none of that logic matters either - Time Warner is trying to set an overall cap on how much we can use in a month. I wouldn't be surprised if they want to lower the bandwidth they use, and in turn lower costs, and this is a scare tactic to allow them to do it.
I understand the net access limiting in college dorms - most people in college don't give a shit about bandwidth, so they just let kazaa/morpheus run unrestricted all they want - it isn't their money. They just end up fucking the people who really need the bandwidth. These people NEED bandwidth limits.
However, excedding bandwidth limits on a cable modem is not supposed to happen. That's what the 12k/sec cap on uploads is there for, right? If they want to charge me for the extra bandwidth i use, why not allow me to take all my alloted bandwidth in one lump sum? If i upload the latest release of my Linux distro once a month, i'll be using, say, 600 megs of "bandwidth" that month. What difference does it make to them if i spend 10 hours uploading it, or 2 minutes? I still use the same ammount, and still have to pay extra when i go over.
I don't think its fair that they implement upload caps to limit our bandwidth usage, and then say how much we can use what little sending speed we have. Of cours, this is corporate America, and nothing is fair from the consumer's point of view.
I love it when a moderator mods down a perfeclty logical post and doesn't even give a reason for the modding. Guess there isn't a choice for "YOU USE DELL AND DISAGREE WITH ME I FUCK YOUR KARMA NOW"
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Yes, every implementation of TCP/IP is perfectly unique. Nothing similar AT ALL between the TCP/IP my Mac box and my FreeBSD box use. Nope, all completely unique, nothing uniform about this so-called "TCP/IP standard".
What?! I thought every guy except me had a 10 inch wang and could get with any girl with a shaved crotch that came into his house/office/hospital room!
The main components of Windows are modular. Meaning, you can upgrade IE, WMP, and MSN Messenger just fine. But take them out and MS claims that the OS becomes neutered. I don't believe it.
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And that's why Kenwood doesn't own the CD-ROM market. Some of the drives worked fine, and some were damn crappy (like yours). My father had one that would read every CD my Toshiba and Teac drives could read, but a friend of mine's wouldn't read a brand new Tribes CD. And they were damn expensive.
The kenwood 72x used either 5 or 7 lasers (i can't remember which) to read really fast but spin at a lower speed. I wouldn't be surprised if the same multi-laser tech is applied in future CD- and DVD-ROMs.
They've had tutorials on how to build your own Teddy Borg, among other things. I do wish they'd give credit to the originators of the design on the show and the website, instead of just the site, though.
Some? I'd say the majority. Very few kids who are targeted by this (not all of them, however) know what's "up" with internet advertising - they see a banner that proclaims they're a winner of something, and *clicky*clicky*!
My younger brother, who is 14, insists on clicking on those banners because he wants his "prize." What does he use most on the internet? Instant messengers. It won't be that hard to trick him into buying something by just claiming its "really cool" or "really good, the next big thing."
Example
SmarterChild: Hi, what's your name?
StupidBrother: Ryan
SmarterChild: Hi Ryan, what do you like to do?
StupidBrother: Skateboard, mountain bike, play soccer (i'm good at that)
SmarterChild: Wow! You know what i heard? There's this great deal on skateboard trucks and wheels at www.skateboardingrulez.com! Go check it out!
::StupidBrother then procedes to beg for said trucks and wheels at www.skateboardingrulez.com, parents immediately cave, everyone is happy::
I thought EpicWare's Fire did a great job.
What, you can't close the IM app or hit the "ignore" button for SmarterChild's account?
Yes, you use the game source to make mods. Guess what aimbots and wallhacks are? Yup, they're mods.
At least iD is working with the punkbuster people to try and prevent the cheaters.
Just make the goofiest face you can when they take the pic.
As long as there are different distros, that isn't a huge concern.
Yes, the larger, commercial distros (read: Red Hat) are catching flak for becoming more and more bloated, but so what? It seems that the big OSS afficiandos run Debian, Slackware, Mandrake, or some other distro - no "true geek" runs Red Hat. Of course, i have absolutely no facts to back that up, but hey, this is Slashdot.
Its not that i don't want to see Red Hat succede, its just that in order to attract the average yuppie, you need the bells and wistles that make people go "wow..." and those features inevitably bloat the OS. Of course, it'll still be a cold day in hell before Red Hat, let alone all Linux distros, is even close to being as bloated as Windows.
More like more great fantasy and scifi books turned horrible movies. Pretty soon everyone will be trying to ride the (much deserved) succes of LotR and the crap will start to show up.
I sure hope that isn't the case with Martian Tales, but i wouldn't be surprised if it was.
I thought you meant this.
Somehow i doubt that most 14 year old girls know that IRC exists, let alone what it is and how to use it. AOL's chat rooms are a much better place to find them.
If you want to run emulated games on a console, buy a Dreamcast and check out this site.
Have you ever talked to an "average" x-box user? Not just the RPG-humping nerds, but the jocks and stoners who have realized that video games are cool? They LOVE the game.
Sure, call yourself a video game purist, but ya know what? The casual gamers far outnumber the "purists." MS and Sony are selling to the "weekend fragger," if you will.
Also, you make no mention of the multiplayer, which with the internet play hack (if you want to call it that) can more than make up for the faults you list.
Does it really require more engineers and sysadmins to watch over the same fiber lines as their bandwidth use increases? If the costs of operating the network go up, you either raise the prices out of greed, or take the hit and keep your customers happy (assuming the prices don't double or triple). But i don't think it takes two nerds, instead of one, to watch my Quake packets zoom over the cables. The engineers are STILL maintaining the SAME network. Whether there's one person sending an e-mail on it, or 100 playing Unreal, the network has to function - how much data it has to transmit while functioning doesn't matter.
Of course, none of that logic matters either - Time Warner is trying to set an overall cap on how much we can use in a month. I wouldn't be surprised if they want to lower the bandwidth they use, and in turn lower costs, and this is a scare tactic to allow them to do it.
I understand the net access limiting in college dorms - most people in college don't give a shit about bandwidth, so they just let kazaa/morpheus run unrestricted all they want - it isn't their money. They just end up fucking the people who really need the bandwidth. These people NEED bandwidth limits.
However, excedding bandwidth limits on a cable modem is not supposed to happen. That's what the 12k/sec cap on uploads is there for, right? If they want to charge me for the extra bandwidth i use, why not allow me to take all my alloted bandwidth in one lump sum? If i upload the latest release of my Linux distro once a month, i'll be using, say, 600 megs of "bandwidth" that month. What difference does it make to them if i spend 10 hours uploading it, or 2 minutes? I still use the same ammount, and still have to pay extra when i go over.
I don't think its fair that they implement upload caps to limit our bandwidth usage, and then say how much we can use what little sending speed we have. Of cours, this is corporate America, and nothing is fair from the consumer's point of view.
Looks like a very clean, well thought out mod. It looks like it would work as your normal computer, instead of just a toy box.
I love it when a moderator mods down a perfeclty logical post and doesn't even give a reason for the modding. Guess there isn't a choice for "YOU USE DELL AND DISAGREE WITH ME I FUCK YOUR KARMA NOW"
Yes, every implementation of TCP/IP is perfectly unique. Nothing similar AT ALL between the TCP/IP my Mac box and my FreeBSD box use. Nope, all completely unique, nothing uniform about this so-called "TCP/IP standard".
Exactly. Realism should ADD to the gameplay, not BE the gameplay.
What?! I thought every guy except me had a 10 inch wang and could get with any girl with a shaved crotch that came into his house/office/hospital room!
Seeing as how the GameCube is already $100 cheaper than the PS2 and XBox, i wonder if it'd really matter if Nintendo dropped their prices.
But is Windows crashing your computer intentionally?
The main components of Windows are modular. Meaning, you can upgrade IE, WMP, and MSN Messenger just fine. But take them out and MS claims that the OS becomes neutered. I don't believe it.
Anyone who uses a yahoo (or hotmail) account for important stuff almost deserves to have that account deleted.