I will take a stab at the reason. Civs tech tree is complicated and having some prior knowledge to what each does helps a lot. What will happen if I discover say masonry, I can build walls that makes sense. Many people have a basic understanding of history this helps immensly in understanding an already complex game. The units are the same thing. Most people relatively educated will understand that pikemen were designed to take down people on horses, so the fact that it has a bonus against horses in civ makes sense. Each technology does as one would expect in a game of civ, and each unit acts as one would expect from real world knowledge. The same can be said about the strategic resources. I discover oil and I instantly know that it is going to help power vehicles of some sort.
Concepts work the same as well. Missionaries spread religion, but why would I want to spread religion? In civ countries with the same religion as you like you more. You also get money from these countries. The wonders in the game for the most part are what the player would expect if they know anything of that time period.
The point is, prior knowledge helps take a significant edge off of the game. Imagine a game where you research something that is completely foreign to most players. Is a unicorn a good unit? What can I use to counter magic spells? What research should I go for when my options are mana power and fairy farming? The game would require a lot more figuring out of what is in the game to be playable. Most players would need to learn brand new concepts that the player has little to no prior knowledge of.
Civ is a complex game, no one would argue that. The fact that everything acts as the player expects helps take the learning curve very far down.
Another benefit is that players learn some history while playing.
I live near a gaming cafe and I have gone there all of one time. The problem with this gaming cafe is they didn't think at all when they bought the building. The computers are crammed in a very small area so that people have to squeeze by to get through. To make matters worst, a lot of computers in a small area = heat (Especially when they are Prescotts... ehh). The other problem with their setup was they had some weird program installed that was like a game launcher and it prevented you from getting into the main Windows desktop. The launcher wasn't too bad, but I think that it made the games run like crap. The systems, at the time I went there were very high end, and yet on UT2004 they would get around 15-30 fps on low settings. I am not sure why as I had a "crappier" system and UT would never dip below 50 on high settings.
Anyway, make sure there is a decent amount of cooling in the building and make sure the games run alright.
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Is the minute I quit. I have a rule when playing video games. As soon as I am frustrated, I put the mouse/controller down and go do something else. I used to play UT a lot and would find that I started to get frustrated when I died and flip out at the computer. I still play UT, but not quite as much and I find that I have a lot more fun in doing so. Games are meant to be FUN, not a chore. I refuse to ever "practice" in a video game, I just play it and have fun, if I get better as a side effect, oh well.
I am not an expert, but here is my best guess. There really is no OS for Nintendo DS. All that Nintendo DS has is a "launcher" that gives you options on how to start the game. The meat and potatoes of the DS is actually in the games. If Nintendo wants to do something like add handwriting recognition to the DS, all they need to do is update future games that will need that feature. They add it to their API and then it is only added if it is needed. The software that is included with the DS is pretty boring, it doesn't do a lot other than let you input your birthday and display a calender, there is not a lot you can do with that.
I would like to see Nintendo change a few things with the DS, but I don't think it would be possible as I think it is too late to add the functionality. I wish that Nintendo had a buddy lists that displayed all the games you friends are playing. I also wish that friends codes were stored on the unit as opposed to on the game cartridge. This way it would be possible to find what game your friend is playing and insert the appropriate cartridge.
This is coming from a huge Nintendo fan that sold his soul to get a DS lite (ok fine worked a few hours).
I have researched this for a while and cannot seem to find the answer. What is the licensing fees for the three big console makers? How much do I need to pay the console maker per game I sell? I have been looking for this answer for a very long time.
PERFECTLY? Let me count the problems that I have had with steam. Buy the game first day, I am instantly excited. Run home and install the game (I took off of work that day). It installs and then when I need to "verify the game w/ steam" or something like that it wont work, their servers are too busy.
I rarely play the game after I beat HL2, but I have had at least two times where it won't play when it verifies my game.
I went to a lan party, this lan party didnt have the internet. When they wanted to play CS Source for some reason the two of us with a legal copy could not play the game, it needed to verify something with a server or something like that. I ended having to get a CRACKED copy off of someone, even though I legally own the game.
Their is also the problem that steam uses 20 megs of ram to run in the background, if you want to "autoupdate". While 20 megs isnt a ton for someone with 1 gig of RAM I dont want to see a day where Epic wants 20 megs, EA wants 20 megs, Blizzard.............. I wont have any memory left to USE my computer by the time all the companies are done.
Their are numerous problems with Steam and Steam like systems, they are a poor idea. When owners of the game are finding it easier to use cracked versions of a game, you know that their are issues with the system that they are using. And it is not just me that has had this problem, I have numerous friends that have had similiar problems.
Finally, you are correct HL2 was amazing, if it wasnt for Steam I would love it a lot more.
I have two things for you to think about that may possibly allow you to understand why Hell exists. First of all the Bible makes it very clear why we were created, God got bored and wanted toys. He also realized that boring toys that do whatever they are told are boring and he wanted to be loved, think a wind up toy with a button that you push saying I love you every time. Now making toys that have a mind of their own has a consequence, they must be given choice, and this choice means they may make a poor choice (look at real life if you don't believe me). Now free choice is a very important thing and quite frankly our lives would suck without that freedom of choice. But it also has a lot of consequences like Hell. So my point is that God cares for us, but he wants to give us freedom of choice, and he can't have both.
Now for another food of thought on another line, what if God is not in control apart from outside this universe. We are never told whether or not God has rules to abide by in his own little universe, but I think he may (though these rules are obviously much broader than ours). What if God has no direct control of his angels, which I believe he may not as look at the fall of Satan. And what if the rules of the game are that you can try and win souls, but you cant steal one anothers souls.
Now the first argument is clearly true and can be backed up by numerous verses and also makes sense you can't have humans who choose to love you and then only give them the choice to love you. The second one is off the wall and I always wondered it myself but I have no reason to believe it other then a thought I came up with.
Now back to the topic I also think that this article doesn't prove macro evolution, which never has been proven. Micro evolution has time and time again. Most creationist will agree that this butterfly "anomaly" when the butterfly becomes a bird or a new species now you have something. http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/LifeScie nces.html
My problem w/ people outsourcing to foreign countries does not have to do with the fact that they are foreign. That is great that you have pepsi, coke, pizza hut whatever, but imagine if the associates were all Americans. You walk in and they speak broken Indian that is very hard to understand, and what makes it worst is that there is a ton of static when they talk to you. The pizza hut you go to I am sure has all Indians running it. Not only that their is probably a corporate office that allows Pizza hut to be more in touch with Indians. An American company is not just ran by Americans.
I don't think that outsourcing is inherently bad so long as the customer doesn't need to know the difference. Unfortuneately w/ outsourcing tech support this is far from the case. I am sick and tired of going to work at a large retailer where I work and having people call me for tech support for a product like a Dell computer or AOL (neither of which we carry) because they couldn't understand the person on the other line.
I once had an elderly lady come in almost in tears b/c she couldn't get her Dell computer working. She handed me an email from a guy in India that looked something like this:
"Sorry I havent goten back to u. I been sick. U wil ned to replace the motherbord. I snt u a pdf file detaling how to do it."
They wanted this older lady to replace a freaking motherboard. That is ridiculous, not to mention the english was horrible and the whole email was unprofessional. My problem with tech support is that they are having tech support agents supporting people in other countries. So many users that are non techies need to fight two language barriers, the language of the tech support agent and the technical jargon inherent with technology.
Hating outsourcing to tech support has nothing to do with racism, it has everything to do with the experiences that we in America, and probably other countries have had to deal with. I feel that many of these global companies need to support Indians in India, and American's in America. Not only this, they need to get better tech support reps regardless of the country.
The reason companies are outsourcing tech support first is simple. The customer doesn't deal with it until after they bought the product. I have to this day called a sales dept. of a company and gotten someone who I couldn't understand.
Last time I checked Mcdonalds is hiring at $7 bucks an hour...... That is $1.85 over minimum wage. I have yet to see a job that is minimum wage in a very long time. Minimum wage is a bad idea to begin with (though the time it was created it was a good idea). It has two major flaws:
1. People in different areas need different amounts of money to survive. I.E. my cousin lives in an affluent area right on the border of philly. McDonalds pays about 9 bucks an hour there... It is insane, until you see the price of food/gas/housing. I live about 2 hours from philly, McDonalds pays about $7 an hour. The point: If you live in a really low cost of living area, then $5.15 may be more then enough. And if McDonalds can't afford to pay their employees $5.15 an hour they will be forced to hire less employees, this is the whole supply and demand of labor concept.
2. Minimum wage tends to help inflation which is never a good thing.
I am currently enrolled at PSU, and they should probably switch to firefox on the public computers that the University provides before they start telling its students to. When I first attended the university they had both IE 6 and Netscape 4 installed. I used netscape 4 which was heck, but it wasn't IE heck. This semester I was surprised to see that they got rid of it in all the computers. So when are they going to install another browser?
Very interesting perspective. I feel that the GPL works well for software because to reproduce software is relatively cheap. With physical devices, this is not cheap, and a cost is associated w/ building the product. While I understand that with the GPL you could charge for the "service (which is relatively cheap to software in comparison to physical products)". The cost of the service becomes very vague, and I feel that the ideas should be usable by both free and commercial developers.
But, on the other hand, their is defineately merit to your idea with the GPL. Your idea is to abolish the software patent when really good products are not being developed, the government will see the error in its ways. But the problem is, in order to license the actual product, you need to apply for a patent, which isn't free, far from it in fact.
By using a BSD style license I feel that it would not abolish the patent process but rather make it less relevant. If this website hosted hundreds if not thousands of ideas, that were vague, like patents are. Then prior art would become an issue when filing for patents. It would be a lot harder to apply for a patent on an idea that doesn't infringe on something from this database, of course this is assuming that the database got large enough.
I have long thought up the same idea. I was thinking of some sort of website, done in PHP and MySQL or something. It would allow for people to file ideas, any ideas that they can think of. These would of course get stored in a database, which would then be available to the public. People could then comment on the ideas, come up with better ideas, etc. I don't agree with the GPL license idea, but would rather prefer something similiar to BSD, and yes I use Linux... I think that the GPL would be a little to restrictive on physical items, and how would you "open source" and idea, write it down on a napkin and scan it in? Just something along the lines of come up with an idea and people need to give you credit. Who knows, maybe it would be a great way for people to get hired. Imagine, a company likes an idea and hires that person to actually carry it out, doesn't sound too far off to me.
I have the technical expertise to do it (probably, I am an amatuer web developer that is pretty comfortable w/ manipulating a databse.), but as of now haven't gotten the ambition to spear head a project myself, I would be interested in helping if I could get someone with a little more experience to help out.
My other problem is a business model would need to be made, bandwidth aint free, and I am a poor college student. So I need a way to at least cover the cost of bandwidth and storage space.
If anyone has more ideas drop me an email ddl132:psu,edu
replace : w/ @ and , with .
I get so much junk mail in that email box, I am not sure it really matters anyway.
After about 5 hours of playing, I must say I love it. Personally I couldn't stand FAr Cry, not that exciting to me. But Doom 3 single player is amazing, their have been at least 3 times where I got so scared. Now what I do not like is the multiplayer, b/c frankly it sucks.
Very easy way around this. Use Kismet, capture one of the mac addys. Then what you want to do is wait til they leave. The next step is to change your Mac address with ifconfig hw . Easy enough. Walla you can now get on. FEEL SAFE NOW?
The thing is if someone wants to go through all the problems of a)breaking wep, b)changing their mac addy, c) hacking through Iptables on linux, I say let them. They obviously know of some really important data on my machine that I do not know about, maybe they can show it to me. If I were setting up a network for a client that security is an issue, I would not at all reccomend Wireless, but for home users including myself, it is convenient. I have WEP set up, the MAc address filtering set up and firewall on all my machines. More than enough, because no one would have the need to break in.
Anyway. I used to have a cool little program that gets loaded on a windows DHCP server that would load a virus to any other windows machine that would come on the network that didn't have the "antidote", cool idea, but my friend was pissed when he came over to my house to play some games on the LAN:-).
does this really work, because if it does I will be in like ohh something.. I will try it and see what they do.. So just say that I want the basic cable service and they will cancel the extended service, but I wont lose any channels.
That is also possible with apt-get. If the developer includes the necessarry dependancy then their is no need to go out to the internet. Your argument makes NO sense at all. If anything dial up users should rejoice. If you d/l a game for windows you are often d/ling the game + directx and a bunch of other dependancies, even if you already have the newest directX and don't need it. It is a waste of your broadband. It always amazes me that SuSE can install a TON of apps in a little over 1 gig. SuSE out of the box does more than windows does and it takes almost the same amount of space, start installing programs and you realize your windows partition takes a lot more space to accomplish the same thing.
Personally I apt-get everything, and it is never that painful, 20 megs to update KDE to 3.2, that is acceptable on dial up. I used to d/l 650 meg ISOs on dialup.
What is this CLI you speak of? I am interested, I am a proud owner of SUSE 9.0. I currently use apt-get for most of my updates, including kde 3.2 which rocks, get it, it is so much faster. Anyway.. I did some preliminary googling and came up with nothing so a link, anything would be appreciated.
It is worth at least 30 bucks to me, to get off this "beta" windows ce, oh wait it isn't a beta. I owned a sharp Zaurus, and the thing had poor battery life and was large, never had problems with its stability though, I got an ipaq. Great battery life, beautiful screen, extremely small. Crashes constantly. Please let me have the best of both worlds lycoris!
In my household their are 6 machines. A server, which is running Samba and Apache, running SuSE 9.0 and a desktop running the same thing. Combined cost: 80 bucks. My laptop is running Mepis Linux, and yes I was forced to pay the M$ tax on the laptop my other machines were built. I donated 30 bucks b/c I thought it was a great project. Total: 110 bucks.
Now on the windows side: Windows XP home for my parents machine, 200 bucks, this machine was also built. My dads laptop came w/ windows pre installed, so discounting the markup placed on the laptop, it was free. Time to fix the viruses that hit both windows machine twice and yes I had norton antivirus, and yes it was up to date, 6 hours, assuming my time is worth only 20 bucks an hour, 80 bucks. Now windows is up to 280. The cost for anti virus for both machines is 80 bucks, so 340. My dad needed an office suite which came included w/ suse so 400 bucks on top of that.
I have proven that Linux is signicantly cheaper than windows in the long run. Windows cost 740 bucks and Linux cost 110 and the cost could have been brought down by not donating. And let us not forget that if I was using windows on my server the cost wold be significantly higher, after I bought all those CALs and everything. So in closing this study was paid for by no one but my self in time.
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I will take a stab at the reason. Civs tech tree is complicated and having some prior knowledge to what each does helps a lot. What will happen if I discover say masonry, I can build walls that makes sense. Many people have a basic understanding of history this helps immensly in understanding an already complex game. The units are the same thing. Most people relatively educated will understand that pikemen were designed to take down people on horses, so the fact that it has a bonus against horses in civ makes sense. Each technology does as one would expect in a game of civ, and each unit acts as one would expect from real world knowledge. The same can be said about the strategic resources. I discover oil and I instantly know that it is going to help power vehicles of some sort.
Concepts work the same as well. Missionaries spread religion, but why would I want to spread religion? In civ countries with the same religion as you like you more. You also get money from these countries. The wonders in the game for the most part are what the player would expect if they know anything of that time period.
The point is, prior knowledge helps take a significant edge off of the game. Imagine a game where you research something that is completely foreign to most players. Is a unicorn a good unit? What can I use to counter magic spells? What research should I go for when my options are mana power and fairy farming? The game would require a lot more figuring out of what is in the game to be playable. Most players would need to learn brand new concepts that the player has little to no prior knowledge of.
Civ is a complex game, no one would argue that. The fact that everything acts as the player expects helps take the learning curve very far down.
Another benefit is that players learn some history while playing.
Anyway, make sure there is a decent amount of cooling in the building and make sure the games run alright.
Is the minute I quit. I have a rule when playing video games. As soon as I am frustrated, I put the mouse/controller down and go do something else. I used to play UT a lot and would find that I started to get frustrated when I died and flip out at the computer. I still play UT, but not quite as much and I find that I have a lot more fun in doing so. Games are meant to be FUN, not a chore. I refuse to ever "practice" in a video game, I just play it and have fun, if I get better as a side effect, oh well.
I am not an expert, but here is my best guess. There really is no OS for Nintendo DS. All that Nintendo DS has is a "launcher" that gives you options on how to start the game. The meat and potatoes of the DS is actually in the games. If Nintendo wants to do something like add handwriting recognition to the DS, all they need to do is update future games that will need that feature. They add it to their API and then it is only added if it is needed. The software that is included with the DS is pretty boring, it doesn't do a lot other than let you input your birthday and display a calender, there is not a lot you can do with that. I would like to see Nintendo change a few things with the DS, but I don't think it would be possible as I think it is too late to add the functionality. I wish that Nintendo had a buddy lists that displayed all the games you friends are playing. I also wish that friends codes were stored on the unit as opposed to on the game cartridge. This way it would be possible to find what game your friend is playing and insert the appropriate cartridge. This is coming from a huge Nintendo fan that sold his soul to get a DS lite (ok fine worked a few hours).
I have researched this for a while and cannot seem to find the answer. What is the licensing fees for the three big console makers? How much do I need to pay the console maker per game I sell? I have been looking for this answer for a very long time.
It looks similiar to Intel's new design with the pins, hopefully it isn't as easy to damage.
I rarely play the game after I beat HL2, but I have had at least two times where it won't play when it verifies my game.
I went to a lan party, this lan party didnt have the internet. When they wanted to play CS Source for some reason the two of us with a legal copy could not play the game, it needed to verify something with a server or something like that. I ended having to get a CRACKED copy off of someone, even though I legally own the game.
Their is also the problem that steam uses 20 megs of ram to run in the background, if you want to "autoupdate". While 20 megs isnt a ton for someone with 1 gig of RAM I dont want to see a day where Epic wants 20 megs, EA wants 20 megs, Blizzard.............. I wont have any memory left to USE my computer by the time all the companies are done.
Their are numerous problems with Steam and Steam like systems, they are a poor idea. When owners of the game are finding it easier to use cracked versions of a game, you know that their are issues with the system that they are using. And it is not just me that has had this problem, I have numerous friends that have had similiar problems.
Finally, you are correct HL2 was amazing, if it wasnt for Steam I would love it a lot more.
I have two things for you to think about that may possibly allow you to understand why Hell exists. First of all the Bible makes it very clear why we were created, God got bored and wanted toys. He also realized that boring toys that do whatever they are told are boring and he wanted to be loved, think a wind up toy with a button that you push saying I love you every time. Now making toys that have a mind of their own has a consequence, they must be given choice, and this choice means they may make a poor choice (look at real life if you don't believe me). Now free choice is a very important thing and quite frankly our lives would suck without that freedom of choice. But it also has a lot of consequences like Hell. So my point is that God cares for us, but he wants to give us freedom of choice, and he can't have both. Now for another food of thought on another line, what if God is not in control apart from outside this universe. We are never told whether or not God has rules to abide by in his own little universe, but I think he may (though these rules are obviously much broader than ours). What if God has no direct control of his angels, which I believe he may not as look at the fall of Satan. And what if the rules of the game are that you can try and win souls, but you cant steal one anothers souls. Now the first argument is clearly true and can be backed up by numerous verses and also makes sense you can't have humans who choose to love you and then only give them the choice to love you. The second one is off the wall and I always wondered it myself but I have no reason to believe it other then a thought I came up with. Now back to the topic I also think that this article doesn't prove macro evolution, which never has been proven. Micro evolution has time and time again. Most creationist will agree that this butterfly "anomaly" when the butterfly becomes a bird or a new species now you have something. http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/LifeScie nces.html
My problem w/ people outsourcing to foreign countries does not have to do with the fact that they are foreign. That is great that you have pepsi, coke, pizza hut whatever, but imagine if the associates were all Americans. You walk in and they speak broken Indian that is very hard to understand, and what makes it worst is that there is a ton of static when they talk to you. The pizza hut you go to I am sure has all Indians running it. Not only that their is probably a corporate office that allows Pizza hut to be more in touch with Indians. An American company is not just ran by Americans.
I don't think that outsourcing is inherently bad so long as the customer doesn't need to know the difference. Unfortuneately w/ outsourcing tech support this is far from the case. I am sick and tired of going to work at a large retailer where I work and having people call me for tech support for a product like a Dell computer or AOL (neither of which we carry) because they couldn't understand the person on the other line.
I once had an elderly lady come in almost in tears b/c she couldn't get her Dell computer working. She handed me an email from a guy in India that looked something like this:
"Sorry I havent goten back to u. I been sick. U wil ned to replace the motherbord. I snt u a pdf file detaling how to do it."
They wanted this older lady to replace a freaking motherboard. That is ridiculous, not to mention the english was horrible and the whole email was unprofessional. My problem with tech support is that they are having tech support agents supporting people in other countries. So many users that are non techies need to fight two language barriers, the language of the tech support agent and the technical jargon inherent with technology.
Hating outsourcing to tech support has nothing to do with racism, it has everything to do with the experiences that we in America, and probably other countries have had to deal with. I feel that many of these global companies need to support Indians in India, and American's in America. Not only this, they need to get better tech support reps regardless of the country.
The reason companies are outsourcing tech support first is simple. The customer doesn't deal with it until after they bought the product. I have to this day called a sales dept. of a company and gotten someone who I couldn't understand.
Last time I checked Mcdonalds is hiring at $7 bucks an hour...... That is $1.85 over minimum wage. I have yet to see a job that is minimum wage in a very long time. Minimum wage is a bad idea to begin with (though the time it was created it was a good idea). It has two major flaws:
1. People in different areas need different amounts of money to survive. I.E. my cousin lives in an affluent area right on the border of philly. McDonalds pays about 9 bucks an hour there... It is insane, until you see the price of food/gas/housing. I live about 2 hours from philly, McDonalds pays about $7 an hour. The point: If you live in a really low cost of living area, then $5.15 may be more then enough. And if McDonalds can't afford to pay their employees $5.15 an hour they will be forced to hire less employees, this is the whole supply and demand of labor concept.
2. Minimum wage tends to help inflation which is never a good thing.
I am currently enrolled at PSU, and they should probably switch to firefox on the public computers that the University provides before they start telling its students to. When I first attended the university they had both IE 6 and Netscape 4 installed. I used netscape 4 which was heck, but it wasn't IE heck. This semester I was surprised to see that they got rid of it in all the computers. So when are they going to install another browser?
"if you.... interested in a good software, leave this page!" Its from Microsoft what should I have expected
Very interesting perspective. I feel that the GPL works well for software because to reproduce software is relatively cheap. With physical devices, this is not cheap, and a cost is associated w/ building the product. While I understand that with the GPL you could charge for the "service (which is relatively cheap to software in comparison to physical products)". The cost of the service becomes very vague, and I feel that the ideas should be usable by both free and commercial developers.
But, on the other hand, their is defineately merit to your idea with the GPL. Your idea is to abolish the software patent when really good products are not being developed, the government will see the error in its ways. But the problem is, in order to license the actual product, you need to apply for a patent, which isn't free, far from it in fact.
By using a BSD style license I feel that it would not abolish the patent process but rather make it less relevant. If this website hosted hundreds if not thousands of ideas, that were vague, like patents are. Then prior art would become an issue when filing for patents. It would be a lot harder to apply for a patent on an idea that doesn't infringe on something from this database, of course this is assuming that the database got large enough.
That is just my 2 cents.
I have long thought up the same idea. I was thinking of some sort of website, done in PHP and MySQL or something. It would allow for people to file ideas, any ideas that they can think of. These would of course get stored in a database, which would then be available to the public. People could then comment on the ideas, come up with better ideas, etc. I don't agree with the GPL license idea, but would rather prefer something similiar to BSD, and yes I use Linux... I think that the GPL would be a little to restrictive on physical items, and how would you "open source" and idea, write it down on a napkin and scan it in? Just something along the lines of come up with an idea and people need to give you credit. Who knows, maybe it would be a great way for people to get hired. Imagine, a company likes an idea and hires that person to actually carry it out, doesn't sound too far off to me. I have the technical expertise to do it (probably, I am an amatuer web developer that is pretty comfortable w/ manipulating a databse.), but as of now haven't gotten the ambition to spear head a project myself, I would be interested in helping if I could get someone with a little more experience to help out. My other problem is a business model would need to be made, bandwidth aint free, and I am a poor college student. So I need a way to at least cover the cost of bandwidth and storage space. If anyone has more ideas drop me an email ddl132:psu,edu replace : w/ @ and , with . I get so much junk mail in that email box, I am not sure it really matters anyway.
So, then just don't go on the airplane. Being a planeaholic is no excuse ;-).
I wish that is the only problem I had, my pc wouldn't start after I installed sp2. Well at least the uninstaller in safe mode worked well.
After about 5 hours of playing, I must say I love it. Personally I couldn't stand FAr Cry, not that exciting to me. But Doom 3 single player is amazing, their have been at least 3 times where I got so scared. Now what I do not like is the multiplayer, b/c frankly it sucks.
Very easy way around this. Use Kismet, capture one of the mac addys. Then what you want to do is wait til they leave. The next step is to change your Mac address with ifconfig hw . Easy enough. Walla you can now get on. FEEL SAFE NOW?
:-).
The thing is if someone wants to go through all the problems of a)breaking wep, b)changing their mac addy, c) hacking through Iptables on linux, I say let them. They obviously know of some really important data on my machine that I do not know about, maybe they can show it to me. If I were setting up a network for a client that security is an issue, I would not at all reccomend Wireless, but for home users including myself, it is convenient. I have WEP set up, the MAc address filtering set up and firewall on all my machines. More than enough, because no one would have the need to break in.
Anyway. I used to have a cool little program that gets loaded on a windows DHCP server that would load a virus to any other windows machine that would come on the network that didn't have the "antidote", cool idea, but my friend was pissed when he came over to my house to play some games on the LAN
does this really work, because if it does I will be in like ohh something.. I will try it and see what they do.. So just say that I want the basic cable service and they will cancel the extended service, but I wont lose any channels.
That is also possible with apt-get. If the developer includes the necessarry dependancy then their is no need to go out to the internet. Your argument makes NO sense at all. If anything dial up users should rejoice. If you d/l a game for windows you are often d/ling the game + directx and a bunch of other dependancies, even if you already have the newest directX and don't need it. It is a waste of your broadband. It always amazes me that SuSE can install a TON of apps in a little over 1 gig. SuSE out of the box does more than windows does and it takes almost the same amount of space, start installing programs and you realize your windows partition takes a lot more space to accomplish the same thing.
Personally I apt-get everything, and it is never that painful, 20 megs to update KDE to 3.2, that is acceptable on dial up. I used to d/l 650 meg ISOs on dialup.
p.s. The test 5 doesnt count, is their an rpm of the official 2.6
What is this CLI you speak of? I am interested, I am a proud owner of SUSE 9.0. I currently use apt-get for most of my updates, including kde 3.2 which rocks, get it, it is so much faster. Anyway.. I did some preliminary googling and came up with nothing so a link, anything would be appreciated.
Does sound like a good idea though
It is worth at least 30 bucks to me, to get off this "beta" windows ce, oh wait it isn't a beta. I owned a sharp Zaurus, and the thing had poor battery life and was large, never had problems with its stability though, I got an ipaq. Great battery life, beautiful screen, extremely small. Crashes constantly. Please let me have the best of both worlds lycoris!
In my household their are 6 machines. A server, which is running Samba and Apache, running SuSE 9.0 and a desktop running the same thing. Combined cost: 80 bucks. My laptop is running Mepis Linux, and yes I was forced to pay the M$ tax on the laptop my other machines were built. I donated 30 bucks b/c I thought it was a great project. Total: 110 bucks. Now on the windows side: Windows XP home for my parents machine, 200 bucks, this machine was also built. My dads laptop came w/ windows pre installed, so discounting the markup placed on the laptop, it was free. Time to fix the viruses that hit both windows machine twice and yes I had norton antivirus, and yes it was up to date, 6 hours, assuming my time is worth only 20 bucks an hour, 80 bucks. Now windows is up to 280. The cost for anti virus for both machines is 80 bucks, so 340. My dad needed an office suite which came included w/ suse so 400 bucks on top of that. I have proven that Linux is signicantly cheaper than windows in the long run. Windows cost 740 bucks and Linux cost 110 and the cost could have been brought down by not donating. And let us not forget that if I was using windows on my server the cost wold be significantly higher, after I bought all those CALs and everything. So in closing this study was paid for by no one but my self in time.