You couldn't put a hacked XBox (with the chip on) on to Live before, and you won't now. Most people that wanted to play on Live ended up with two XBoxes. I had one for Live and one for things like XBMC. Some people just disabled their chip when they went online..but mine got banned on the first wave.
I've seen this mentioned elsewhere. My 360 sits in a closed cabinet with little airflow and the power brick is behind the home theater under a pile of cables like all the others. No problems or crashes yet and I've been playing it a lot.
Bugs, or a manufacturing defect? Mine plays fine. Same game. Same OS. Same hardware. There will be units that ship with a defect. It happens on any product. Now with the Internet every 12 year old that feels personally wronged can jump from forum to forum to complain.
How many units did they ship? How many have problems? What's the percentage of failure? Please, let's not give in to the 12 year olds freaking out on forums when they got a bad one. The squeeky wheel gets the oil, remember. There isn't a problem that affects all XBoxes. You have to expect a number of defective units.
Mine plays fine. I played it for probably 6 hours last night. I had no problems in PGR3, CoD2, or Kameo. Mine sits in a closed component rack that isn't good for airflow.
Agreed. We use all Thinkpad notebooks but for TabletPCs we use the TC4200. It's just a more complete system. I see the X41 as a complement to someone that already has another primary system.
We're having problems with it. doscan.exe is taking a LOT of CPU on some systems. We haven't been able to reproduce it in our lab but it hit some developers. Symantec has a reg key to disable that. doscan also crashes, but it seems to be on systems with a lot of Adware so it shows up which systems to scan.
The biggest problem we've hit is that it's causing errors with ClearCase. I haven't dug in to it very much but on Friday we removed the AV from a test system and the new errors in ClearCase stopped.
Heavy? The X series is 2.7lbs. That's not heavy. The IBM screens are great. My T42P is 14" and does 1400x1050 and is clearer than any other I've seen. They offer 15" screens now on most models if you want the extra size and weight.
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The Belkin reader SUCKS. It's really, really slow...like 15 minutes for a 512MB card slow. A photographer friend bought one to dump pics during halftime at basketball games. It wouldn't finish before the end of halftime.
If they'd put a CF slot in the iPod Photo I'd buy one today. That's a perfect setup. Let me carry my iPod, that I'll have anyway, with me on vacation instead of a notebook to dump pictures.
It works. My Thinkpad T42P has it. If you move it too much you'll see the icon in the tasktray change and sometimes hear the drive park the heads. It is configurable so you can turn it off. If you more it a lot, say when I grab it off the coffee table quickly, some things slow down. Video will skip if it's not buffered enough, etc.
It also adjusts to constant steady motion, like a car or train. It's pretty neat and I think a very worthwhile feature. I use my PB around the office going from place to place in the data center a lot. I'd like it on that.
This game is really fun. To me this is what console gaming is all about. Fast, great looking arcade action. Add in the great infrastructure of Live with a bunch of good players and you can't beat it.
Too bad the masses of Live have probably moved on. You'll find with many of the online console games that when two or three newer Live games hit people move to them. So, if you get an older (6 months) Live game you may have trouble getting bigger games going.
I'm not speaking as Joe User, I'm speaking as IT staff. We're tired of the patch cycle and the odd problems that we have. We'd like to move to something more stable and easier to manage that costs the company less in the long run.
It definately will pave the way. Many people want to move off Windows but can't just make that huge leap all at once. Give us apps to help get the users ready for the move and then we can take care of the underlying OS when they are ready. I know 10 people that now use FireFox..none on Linux. They all use Windows and now see that good software can be free.
They just killed all the competition. Good for them, bad for us. Sega's football this year was $30 cheaper and as good or better. It was nice to finally see some real competition in that market. Just shows what competition will do. I'm sure they paid a LOT for this deal.
We're using it right now. We got stuck in a lease which kept us from changing. For the most part it works fine, but I don't think we use a lot of the capability.
Avaya has a very strong presence in the VoIP world. They offer training all over so check them out. Will it carry over? It depends. All of the management and software is different between vendors. Sure, some of the underlying stuff is the same, but anything you usually mess with is different.
We'll do it when others do it. Get India and China on the list and we'll talk. If we have restrictions and they don't, guess where manufacturing will go even faster? I bet they won't ratify it after that either.
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You couldn't put a hacked XBox (with the chip on) on to Live before, and you won't now. Most people that wanted to play on Live ended up with two XBoxes. I had one for Live and one for things like XBMC. Some people just disabled their chip when they went online..but mine got banned on the first wave.
Dial backup. A lot of people, me included, still use ISDN to back up their T1 lines.
I've seen this mentioned elsewhere. My 360 sits in a closed cabinet with little airflow and the power brick is behind the home theater under a pile of cables like all the others. No problems or crashes yet and I've been playing it a lot.
That's not correct. The PS2 had a large number of defects on their CD/DVD drives. That is well known. Mine didn't, but lots of others did.
Anything you buy, appliance or electronics or whatever, is SUPPOSED to work out of the box. Sometimes people get a defective item.
Bugs, or a manufacturing defect? Mine plays fine. Same game. Same OS. Same hardware. There will be units that ship with a defect. It happens on any product. Now with the Internet every 12 year old that feels personally wronged can jump from forum to forum to complain.
I've gotten defective stereos and appliances. Defects happen. No manufacturing process is 100%.
How many units did they ship? How many have problems? What's the percentage of failure? Please, let's not give in to the 12 year olds freaking out on forums when they got a bad one. The squeeky wheel gets the oil, remember. There isn't a problem that affects all XBoxes. You have to expect a number of defective units.
Mine plays fine. I played it for probably 6 hours last night. I had no problems in PGR3, CoD2, or Kameo. Mine sits in a closed component rack that isn't good for airflow.
Agreed. We use all Thinkpad notebooks but for TabletPCs we use the TC4200. It's just a more complete system. I see the X41 as a complement to someone that already has another primary system.
Some of us are still around. :) I'll say hey to biggles for ya....
It won't install on XP 64-bit edition.
We're having problems with it. doscan.exe is taking a LOT of CPU on some systems. We haven't been able to reproduce it in our lab but it hit some developers. Symantec has a reg key to disable that. doscan also crashes, but it seems to be on systems with a lot of Adware so it shows up which systems to scan.
The biggest problem we've hit is that it's causing errors with ClearCase. I haven't dug in to it very much but on Friday we removed the AV from a test system and the new errors in ClearCase stopped.
Heavy? The X series is 2.7lbs. That's not heavy. The IBM screens are great. My T42P is 14" and does 1400x1050 and is clearer than any other I've seen. They offer 15" screens now on most models if you want the extra size and weight.
The Belkin reader SUCKS. It's really, really slow...like 15 minutes for a 512MB card slow. A photographer friend bought one to dump pics during halftime at basketball games. It wouldn't finish before the end of halftime.
If they'd put a CF slot in the iPod Photo I'd buy one today. That's a perfect setup. Let me carry my iPod, that I'll have anyway, with me on vacation instead of a notebook to dump pictures.
I mis-typed. Rythmic motion. Like in a train or subway. Clunk..clunk..clunk... Or on a joined section of highway...that sort of thing.
It knows about this so it doesn't keep parking the heads on the disk your whole trip.
It works. My Thinkpad T42P has it. If you move it too much you'll see the icon in the tasktray change and sometimes hear the drive park the heads. It is configurable so you can turn it off. If you more it a lot, say when I grab it off the coffee table quickly, some things slow down. Video will skip if it's not buffered enough, etc.
It also adjusts to constant steady motion, like a car or train. It's pretty neat and I think a very worthwhile feature. I use my PB around the office going from place to place in the data center a lot. I'd like it on that.
This game is really fun. To me this is what console gaming is all about. Fast, great looking arcade action. Add in the great infrastructure of Live with a bunch of good players and you can't beat it.
Too bad the masses of Live have probably moved on. You'll find with many of the online console games that when two or three newer Live games hit people move to them. So, if you get an older (6 months) Live game you may have trouble getting bigger games going.
I'm not speaking as Joe User, I'm speaking as IT staff. We're tired of the patch cycle and the odd problems that we have. We'd like to move to something more stable and easier to manage that costs the company less in the long run.
It definately will pave the way. Many people want to move off Windows but can't just make that huge leap all at once. Give us apps to help get the users ready for the move and then we can take care of the underlying OS when they are ready. I know 10 people that now use FireFox..none on Linux. They all use Windows and now see that good software can be free.
They just killed all the competition. Good for them, bad for us. Sega's football this year was $30 cheaper and as good or better. It was nice to finally see some real competition in that market. Just shows what competition will do. I'm sure they paid a LOT for this deal.
I didn't say I'd recommend it. :)
We're using it right now. We got stuck in a lease which kept us from changing. For the most part it works fine, but I don't think we use a lot of the capability.
Avaya has a very strong presence in the VoIP world. They offer training all over so check them out. Will it carry over? It depends. All of the management and software is different between vendors. Sure, some of the underlying stuff is the same, but anything you usually mess with is different.
Yes, and from the India article, "India is not required to reduce emission of Green House Gases under the Protocol".
But they aren't bound to the limits. They are on it as developing countries, correct?
We'll do it when others do it. Get India and China on the list and we'll talk. If we have restrictions and they don't, guess where manufacturing will go even faster? I bet they won't ratify it after that either.