Actually, they are authorized to burn the DVDs. The DVD CAA had a press releaseyesterday about it. It is now legal for Retailers (Circuit City, etc) to rip DVDs.
When did Diablo II come out? Three or four years ago? Is there still a market for this game such that they need to be spending a lot of time and development effort on developing an installer for another OS?
I'm all for being able to play games on multiple platforms, but this seems like too little too late. There are much better games on the market now!
A buddy of mine owns and X-box... We are getting together with others to play multi-player all the time, but it's starting to get old...
But imagine a game like Halo merged with the BioWare model. You buy "Halo X" for half of the cost of a regular new X-Box game... But all you have is the single player game and one multi-player map.
Now when you log on to play online, you can either only join games with that one free map, or you can connect to MS and for the low-low price of $? you can download the "New, Improved Fantastic Multi-Player Map Y"...
Each month, MS releases a new map... The game keeps changing, old players continue to be challenged, new players can come into a new map on (somewhat) equal footing...
I'd pay a couple of bucks for a new map. Maybe in LAN games, only one person would need to have the map, that way you could 'preview it' in a LAN game and decide if you wanted to purchase it...
I own a Lexar JumpDrive and love it. Mine is the older 128M, USB 1.1 version, but they now have the 1G, USB 2.0 version now as well. It's stylish and compact, plus you don't need any additional hardware to read from it, just plug it in the port. I love mine. I don't use my Iomega Zip drive at all anymore.
I've not had any experience trying to boot off of USB as my BIOS doesn't support it, but Linux sees the drive itself and it works terrific. I'd imagine that if you can find a BIOS that boots USB, the 1G version would be perfect for carrying around a portable version of linux.
A friend of mine pointed out that this bill passed the Arkansas Senate and House with nearly 100% in favor. Check out bill HB2361 at the Arkansas Legislative site.
It really seems that the standard keyboard is an antiquated input device. Hopefully it will be replaced in the near future.
Along those lines, there was a thread here on Slashdot a few months ago about the chordlite one-handed keyboard. Has anyone tried to build one of these? Are there any other 'fit to your hand' type of keyboards out there?
I'd love to build and try one... But Radio Shack scares me.
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Actually, they are authorized to burn the DVDs. The DVD CAA had a press releaseyesterday about it. It is now legal for Retailers (Circuit City, etc) to rip DVDs.
Will the boxed set include a version of 'Revolutions' worth watching?
When did Diablo II come out? Three or four years ago? Is there still a market for this game such that they need to be spending a lot of time and development effort on developing an installer for another OS? I'm all for being able to play games on multiple platforms, but this seems like too little too late. There are much better games on the market now!
A buddy of mine owns and X-box... We are getting together with others to play multi-player all the time, but it's starting to get old... But imagine a game like Halo merged with the BioWare model. You buy "Halo X" for half of the cost of a regular new X-Box game... But all you have is the single player game and one multi-player map. Now when you log on to play online, you can either only join games with that one free map, or you can connect to MS and for the low-low price of $? you can download the "New, Improved Fantastic Multi-Player Map Y"... Each month, MS releases a new map... The game keeps changing, old players continue to be challenged, new players can come into a new map on (somewhat) equal footing... I'd pay a couple of bucks for a new map. Maybe in LAN games, only one person would need to have the map, that way you could 'preview it' in a LAN game and decide if you wanted to purchase it...
"Peer to Peer Killed the CD Store" ;-)
I own a Lexar JumpDrive and love it. Mine is the older 128M, USB 1.1 version, but they now have the 1G, USB 2.0 version now as well. It's stylish and compact, plus you don't need any additional hardware to read from it, just plug it in the port. I love mine. I don't use my Iomega Zip drive at all anymore. I've not had any experience trying to boot off of USB as my BIOS doesn't support it, but Linux sees the drive itself and it works terrific. I'd imagine that if you can find a BIOS that boots USB, the 1G version would be perfect for carrying around a portable version of linux.
A friend of mine pointed out that this bill passed the Arkansas Senate and House with nearly 100% in favor. Check out bill HB2361 at the Arkansas Legislative site.
I know you can get GCC for Solaris on i386, but do you get Sun's Workshop compiler? A native compiler is always nice.
It really seems that the standard keyboard is an antiquated input device. Hopefully it will be replaced in the near future. Along those lines, there was a thread here on Slashdot a few months ago about the chordlite one-handed keyboard. Has anyone tried to build one of these? Are there any other 'fit to your hand' type of keyboards out there? I'd love to build and try one... But Radio Shack scares me.
Wouldn't the proper label be "the GNU Operating System using the Linux (TM) kernel"?