Update: on a whim, I uninstalled Firefox 0.9RC (or Firefox 0.8, as it likes to call itself), and re-installed Firefox 0.8, and all of my settings and bookmarks have returned. PHEW! That'll learn me... if this putrid piece of shit is a release candidate, I think I'll be sticking with 0.8 for the foreseeable future.
I downloaded and installed Firefox.9 and I am quite impressed. All of my settings, bookmarks, popup exceptions, etc. ported over perfectly and automatically.
I guess you got lucky (or I'm cursed), because all of my bookmarks and settings have disappeared completely. The installer said it was installing Firefox 0.8, but I just figured they hadn't updated it to say Firefox 0.9RC. Installation seemed to go fine. I used the download link in the summary. Any ideas?
That's exactly what I'm thinking. American Idol is one of the most popular shows on TV (if not THE most popular), so not putting Enterprise head-to-head with it would probably be a pretty smart move. Even if Trekkers aren't likely to watch American Idol instead of Enterprise, more casual [potential] viewers might not even know it's on because they're too busy watching American Idol (or their kids are, etc.).
How many people can ONE person kill with ONE weapon? It seems that the further we go down your timeline, the number of potential casualties from each weapon increases. Before nanotechnology, you list nuclear weapons, which are clearly very dangerous and can wipe out huge numbers of people (both initially and with the after-effects). Nanotechnology has the potential to be significantly more lethal, and readily available, than nuclear weapons.
All it takes is one person to get ahold of the technology to be dangerous, and nanotechnology looks like it's going to be a lot more feasible to acquire than nuclear weapons.
Thank God I'm not a taxpayer living in Texas, else I'd have to hurt someone over this. What an incredible waste of money that could definitely be spent on more educationally-profitable resources (such as teachers or educational assistants). I can't help but think whoever authorized this is hoping to make the school/board look high-tech and trailblazing. In actuality, they're assaulting education by wasting money, and these kids are going to pay for it (both monitarily and educationally).
Can anyone recommend a good place to buy gaming laptops in Canada? PCTorque and PowerNotebooks look nice, but they're in the U.S. and I don't want to get broadsided with massive customs fees.
Wright's idea actually seemed kind of interesting to me, and I'm not convinced it was "basically a joke." I'm curious to see what he'd do with the idea if given the resources. A game that combines real-life match-making with a virtual world with some sort of story or gameplay objective could make a lot of money if done right, I think. Koster's idea sounded really boring to me, though... I think Wright would've won even without the humourous presentation.
Paying people to pretend to be other characters is a horrible idea. First off, you're gonna be paying a LOT more money for that experience than if characters are pre-programmed. Second, we're talking about one-on-one, real-time interaction. The characters would likely be FAR less interesting, thought-out, deep, funny, and integrated into the game.
And finally, if you're playing a game at different times of the day/week/month, the person pretending to be a character you've already met could be different each time, making the experience inconsistant and frustrating (unless they've read up on your game experience up to that point, which would take forever on a larger scale, thus making such an experience even more expensive). It's just an awful, awful idea that will never work. It's hard to believe that anyone would ever seriously consider it as an option.
The future of the current gaming industry is online gaming and LAN parties. No AI is more fun than playing a human.
I think it depends on what type of game experience you're looking for. If you're looking to shoot at things in a crosshair in a first-person view without a pesky story to get in the way, I might agree with you. Otherwise, I think your view is perhaps the most ridiculous and over-used sentiments in the gaming community.
Maybe I'm wrong, but looking back at amazing gaming experiences such as Fallout, Deus Ex, Half-Life, Splinter Cell, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (to name a few), I can't imagine how any these games could've been made better with human characters, rather than AI characters. Heck, I can't imagine how these games wouldn't be total shit if the characters were human-controlled. And where are you going to find all of these humans to play these characters for you in a manner which is the slightest bit as interesting as the AI characters?
In environments where games are designed to focus on the hero of the story, AI characters offer the best available experience. In a human-only gaming environment, you're just another name, and with only a few exceptions (ie. the most talented players), no one else in the game world could give a rat's ass who you are. That works great for some games, like Unreal Tournament and Counter-Strike, but games in that vain will never, ever replace great single-player experiences. Don't get me wrong; I enjoy both types of games. But I predict that the future of gaming to be much like it is now, as far as the relative number of single-player games vs. multi-player games on the market is concerned.
Are you talking about "disks" or "discs"? Either way, I had thought there was a blank-CD tax, and floppies aren't big enough to copy music with (unless you have a lot of patience, very short songs, or low-quality-encoded songs).
We may have a graphical-niceties plateau, at some point. We're not there quite yet.
We're not quite there yet? We're decades away from being there, in my estimation. Until we're playing games where we can't notice any differences between the game and the real world, graphically, video game graphics (or "graphical-niceties") haven't plateaued.
I'm sure Nintendo has much better things to do rather than chase after a black-and-white emulator which emulates a console that was made almost 20 years ago, and is no longer in production (along with its games). There are approximately 2.47 billion NES emulators already available on various platforms.
Not all speech is A-OK... no "fire!" in a crowded theatre... no talking about killing the president... and no talking about the torture/molestation/imprisonment of children.
The problem is, that's only YOUR opinion that it's not okay. Some other people might share that opinion, but not everyone does. Now I'll agree that yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theatre should be against the law, because in that scenario, there is serious, immediate and predictable danger to many lives. It's not merely speech; it's an invisible weapon.
But as for talking about killing the president or about doing disgusting things to children, regardless of what I think about actually doing those things... it's not okay for you to be able to decide that people should be punished for talking about them. It's not even okay for a democratic government to be able to decide that people should be punished for talking about them. Now that's just my opinion of course, but it seems to me that people should only be punished for violating other people's rights, and I can't see how anyone's rights are being violated by speech here.
You do have a very good point, and if this was typical of OCZ, I would absolutely not give them my business. I find the situation they're claiming is quite plausable. Were they irresponsible to not test every shipment? Every tube? Perhaps, but there's a line of reasonable expectation there somewhere.
Their accepting of responsibility (I'm probably jaded... it seems awfully rare that anyone takes responsibility for anything anymore), and the way in which they're making it up to those affected, cause me to buy their sincerety. Maybe this once, the PR machine fooled me, but at this point I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Oh come on. If they're advertising silver in the paste, there ought to be silver in it, and in the proper quantity. No, this isn't the biggest scam in the history of the world, but it's a matter of principle. False advertising is bad, regardless of what the product is or its value.
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Update: on a whim, I uninstalled Firefox 0.9RC (or Firefox 0.8, as it likes to call itself), and re-installed Firefox 0.8, and all of my settings and bookmarks have returned. PHEW! That'll learn me... if this putrid piece of shit is a release candidate, I think I'll be sticking with 0.8 for the foreseeable future.
That's exactly what I'm thinking. American Idol is one of the most popular shows on TV (if not THE most popular), so not putting Enterprise head-to-head with it would probably be a pretty smart move. Even if Trekkers aren't likely to watch American Idol instead of Enterprise, more casual [potential] viewers might not even know it's on because they're too busy watching American Idol (or their kids are, etc.).
All it takes is one person to get ahold of the technology to be dangerous, and nanotechnology looks like it's going to be a lot more feasible to acquire than nuclear weapons.
Thank God I'm not a taxpayer living in Texas, else I'd have to hurt someone over this. What an incredible waste of money that could definitely be spent on more educationally-profitable resources (such as teachers or educational assistants). I can't help but think whoever authorized this is hoping to make the school/board look high-tech and trailblazing. In actuality, they're assaulting education by wasting money, and these kids are going to pay for it (both monitarily and educationally).
If the dude doesn't have the smarts to put up a .torrent for the movie, I have no pity for him.
Can anyone recommend a good place to buy gaming laptops in Canada? PCTorque and PowerNotebooks look nice, but they're in the U.S. and I don't want to get broadsided with massive customs fees.
How easy/difficult is it to build a custom laptop from scratch?
Parent got modded up? Man, they're giving those points out like candy these days!
Wright's idea actually seemed kind of interesting to me, and I'm not convinced it was "basically a joke." I'm curious to see what he'd do with the idea if given the resources. A game that combines real-life match-making with a virtual world with some sort of story or gameplay objective could make a lot of money if done right, I think. Koster's idea sounded really boring to me, though... I think Wright would've won even without the humourous presentation.
And finally, if you're playing a game at different times of the day/week/month, the person pretending to be a character you've already met could be different each time, making the experience inconsistant and frustrating (unless they've read up on your game experience up to that point, which would take forever on a larger scale, thus making such an experience even more expensive). It's just an awful, awful idea that will never work. It's hard to believe that anyone would ever seriously consider it as an option.
I think it depends on what type of game experience you're looking for. If you're looking to shoot at things in a crosshair in a first-person view without a pesky story to get in the way, I might agree with you. Otherwise, I think your view is perhaps the most ridiculous and over-used sentiments in the gaming community.
Maybe I'm wrong, but looking back at amazing gaming experiences such as Fallout, Deus Ex, Half-Life, Splinter Cell, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (to name a few), I can't imagine how any these games could've been made better with human characters, rather than AI characters. Heck, I can't imagine how these games wouldn't be total shit if the characters were human-controlled. And where are you going to find all of these humans to play these characters for you in a manner which is the slightest bit as interesting as the AI characters?
In environments where games are designed to focus on the hero of the story, AI characters offer the best available experience. In a human-only gaming environment, you're just another name, and with only a few exceptions (ie. the most talented players), no one else in the game world could give a rat's ass who you are. That works great for some games, like Unreal Tournament and Counter-Strike, but games in that vain will never, ever replace great single-player experiences. Don't get me wrong; I enjoy both types of games. But I predict that the future of gaming to be much like it is now, as far as the relative number of single-player games vs. multi-player games on the market is concerned.
Are you talking about "disks" or "discs"? Either way, I had thought there was a blank-CD tax, and floppies aren't big enough to copy music with (unless you have a lot of patience, very short songs, or low-quality-encoded songs).
We're not quite there yet? We're decades away from being there, in my estimation. Until we're playing games where we can't notice any differences between the game and the real world, graphically, video game graphics (or "graphical-niceties") haven't plateaued.
Looks like someone needs to learn how to spell "ridiculous" with their eyes open.
I'm sure Nintendo has much better things to do rather than chase after a black-and-white emulator which emulates a console that was made almost 20 years ago, and is no longer in production (along with its games). There are approximately 2.47 billion NES emulators already available on various platforms.
But as for talking about killing the president or about doing disgusting things to children, regardless of what I think about actually doing those things... it's not okay for you to be able to decide that people should be punished for talking about them. It's not even okay for a democratic government to be able to decide that people should be punished for talking about them. Now that's just my opinion of course, but it seems to me that people should only be punished for violating other people's rights, and I can't see how anyone's rights are being violated by speech here.
Offtopic?!? And you call yourself a geek... for shame.
I'm willing to bet it's just SkyNet doing a preliminary test.
"I hate to point this out but should should do the whole backup thing. I mean even a high reliability HD occasionally fails."
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I can see you're a big fan of redundancy.
Yes, because the government having complete control over what we do with our own bodies is a very good thing.
Their accepting of responsibility (I'm probably jaded... it seems awfully rare that anyone takes responsibility for anything anymore), and the way in which they're making it up to those affected, cause me to buy their sincerety. Maybe this once, the PR machine fooled me, but at this point I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Sounds cool, but how many people will have saved a receipt? And how many people will learn to hold on to their receipts in the future?
Oh come on. If they're advertising silver in the paste, there ought to be silver in it, and in the proper quantity. No, this isn't the biggest scam in the history of the world, but it's a matter of principle. False advertising is bad, regardless of what the product is or its value.
Major props to OCZ. What an admirable and classy move. They can look forward to my business in the future.