Preferring Western Digital drives (for no particular reason) I have a pair of 1TB My Book Essential Edition external USB drives as well as a 2TB My Book World Edition network drive (which I got form a guy for like half the price). Anyway, the World Edition has a USB port that allows me to connect the other two drives to it using a USB hub and it shows them as network shares in addition to its own folders. Another nice thing about the World Edition is that it runs Linux so there's neat stuff you can do with it, mine is currently running a torrent client called Transmission which has a Windows (only a wannabe Linux geek) front end I can use to control it remotely.
Personally I stopped reading after a few lines because I recognized it to be a take on the Leave Britney Alone speech but also because it's an unbroken wall of text (alright, more like a fence), point being that after a certain length of text I need line breaks and paragraph breaks for the eyes to rest.
Easily solved, go to the local mall, stick your complementary thumb drive of +5 Epic DRM into the local licensed content distribution station, swipe your credit card and watch exciting commercials for new and upcoming content while your game/movie transfers.
I believe Starcraft 2 does have some gameplay mechanics changes like variable mission order and being able to unlock various units depending on which missions you've done or how many resources you have. But in general once a game franchise is established there's not much innovation being done, it's mostly polishing and evolutionary improvement. (at this point I feel compelled to mention the abomination that is C&C 4)
Personally I'm most interested in the narrative in a game and innovation is pretty far down on the list, you might want to look into some indie games if that's what floats your boat.
Not really that bizarre, Avatar had all that 3D stuff and for Titanic he got underwater footage of the actual ship deep underwater which are both more related to the subject than Aliens or Terminator.
Also they payed the guy who found it and apparently disassembled it to look at the components. Sounds like something along the lines of corporate espionage to me.
I guess we'll know whether or not it was an intentional leak by how vigorously Apple sues them.
I've been using Adobe software for a while now and I've only found the UI somewhat inconsistent and uncomfortable when it comes to manipulating vector art, I can see how coming from using Macromedia software that might affect you. On the whole though it seems pretty consistent and simple to me. If you want to see a real UI clusterfuck take a look at Autodesk Maya, it's like a makeshift rusty skeleton covered with cruft sticking out every which way.
Disregarding the various moral, philosophical, first-sale doctrine stuff for a moment. This thing makes absolutely no practical sense for EA. The one thing DRM has going for it, from the publisher's point of view, is preventing some guy who bought the game from putting it in the drive and making a few copies for his friends, in the hope that they might buy when that option is unavailable. Now there's been DRM that's been able to do that for years. Once someone is committed enough to install something like Alcohol 120% or look for the cracked game online the game is over for DRM.
All a publisher can gain from more draconian DRM is maybe buy themselves a few more days, at the cost of dissatisfaction from customers and now apparently upkeep for servers. Once the crackers have access to the files it's a matter of personal pride to prove how clever they are, and there will be someone motivated enough and clever enough to break this thing that the publisher spent developers, time, money on, and will have to do so again next time.
So I really don't see an economic reason they would do this. Am I missing something or are they just misinformed or just wanting to appear as if they're doing something to keep the stockholders at bay?
I really don't see the point of detachable screen, detachable keyboard thing. The swivel lid tablet laptops seem to work fine if you just want the screen and If weight is the issue I wouldn't want to leave the keyboard at home and then regret it later.
What did impress me was the DR-900 reader. I've been waiting for a paperback replacement for a while and this seems like it for me. The specs I found are 10,000 pages turns, 1024 x 768 resolution, 4GB internal storage plus an SD slot,PDF/TXT/ePUB/HTML. Now if they can only sell it for $200 or less.
I have very little reason to doubt that assertion but they are only the intermediary, I meant to say that they themselves do not engage in content production.
It's all about how seriously you take your doucheness. Say if you're a moderate douche you've moved on to something like Facebook or Twitter, but if you're a hardcore oldschool douche accept no substitute to MySpace.
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Preferring Western Digital drives (for no particular reason) I have a pair of 1TB My Book Essential Edition external USB drives as well as a 2TB My Book World Edition network drive (which I got form a guy for like half the price).
Anyway, the World Edition has a USB port that allows me to connect the other two drives to it using a USB hub and it shows them as network shares in addition to its own folders.
Another nice thing about the World Edition is that it runs Linux so there's neat stuff you can do with it, mine is currently running a torrent client called Transmission which has a Windows (only a wannabe Linux geek) front end I can use to control it remotely.
I think it's more about formatting than length.
Personally I stopped reading after a few lines because I recognized it to be a take on the Leave Britney Alone speech but also because it's an unbroken wall of text (alright, more like a fence), point being that after a certain length of text I need line breaks and paragraph breaks for the eyes to rest.
Easily solved, go to the local mall, stick your complementary thumb drive of +5 Epic DRM into the local licensed content distribution station, swipe your credit card and watch exciting commercials for new and upcoming content while your game/movie transfers.
Storyline?
Art design?
I believe Starcraft 2 does have some gameplay mechanics changes like variable mission order and being able to unlock various units depending on which missions you've done or how many resources you have.
But in general once a game franchise is established there's not much innovation being done, it's mostly polishing and evolutionary improvement. (at this point I feel compelled to mention the abomination that is C&C 4)
Personally I'm most interested in the narrative in a game and innovation is pretty far down on the list, you might want to look into some indie games if that's what floats your boat.
Geeze, what a terribly mangled misquote, the actual saying goes "Fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again.".
Not really that bizarre, Avatar had all that 3D stuff and for Titanic he got underwater footage of the actual ship deep underwater which are both more related to the subject than Aliens or Terminator.
So, hmm, basically we'd have a cache hierarchy like this?
CPU Registers - CPU Cache - RAM - PCM SSD - NAND Flash SSD - HDD
That's a whole lot of steps.
Also they payed the guy who found it and apparently disassembled it to look at the components.
Sounds like something along the lines of corporate espionage to me.
I guess we'll know whether or not it was an intentional leak by how vigorously Apple sues them.
Don't forget to get an extra water chip.
I've been using Adobe software for a while now and I've only found the UI somewhat inconsistent and uncomfortable when it comes to manipulating vector art, I can see how coming from using Macromedia software that might affect you.
On the whole though it seems pretty consistent and simple to me.
If you want to see a real UI clusterfuck take a look at Autodesk Maya, it's like a makeshift rusty skeleton covered with cruft sticking out every which way.
...commend your commitment to teaching your kids how to avoid and circumvent computer restrictions.
...a Beowulf cluster of engineers awkwardly reading marketing information from a teleprompter?
Disregarding the various moral, philosophical, first-sale doctrine stuff for a moment.
This thing makes absolutely no practical sense for EA.
The one thing DRM has going for it, from the publisher's point of view, is preventing some guy who bought the game from putting it in the drive and making a few copies for his friends, in the hope that they might buy when that option is unavailable.
Now there's been DRM that's been able to do that for years.
Once someone is committed enough to install something like Alcohol 120% or look for the cracked game online the game is over for DRM.
All a publisher can gain from more draconian DRM is maybe buy themselves a few more days, at the cost of dissatisfaction from customers and now apparently upkeep for servers.
Once the crackers have access to the files it's a matter of personal pride to prove how clever they are, and there will be someone motivated enough and clever enough to break this thing that the publisher spent developers, time, money on, and will have to do so again next time.
So I really don't see an economic reason they would do this.
Am I missing something or are they just misinformed or just wanting to appear as if they're doing something to keep the stockholders at bay?
I'd like one too and while not quite as minimal as you've outlined and pricing is not available yet, This seems pretty close to what I want.
I really don't see the point of detachable screen, detachable keyboard thing.
The swivel lid tablet laptops seem to work fine if you just want the screen and If weight is the issue I wouldn't want to leave the keyboard at home and then regret it later.
What did impress me was the DR-900 reader.
I've been waiting for a paperback replacement for a while and this seems like it for me.
The specs I found are 10,000 pages turns, 1024 x 768 resolution, 4GB internal storage plus an SD slot,PDF/TXT/ePUB/HTML.
Now if they can only sell it for $200 or less.
Sort of looks like it's the other way around.
I have very little reason to doubt that assertion but they are only the intermediary, I meant to say that they themselves do not engage in content production.
Also, Porn.
Or ostrich farming porn for that matter. (Googles "ostrich farming porn").
When do they gain satellite launch capability?
I thought they just kept her in storage, with the power source removed, between films.
They're liquidating their assets and moving to their moonbase!
Heh, my brain parsed that as "Where possible, it's seen as safer for the patient to use only lolcats".
Heh, not exactly brain surgery, is it?
Sorry for the offtopic, I was just reminded of this.
It's all about how seriously you take your doucheness.
Say if you're a moderate douche you've moved on to something like Facebook or Twitter, but if you're a hardcore oldschool douche accept no substitute to MySpace.
Seems to work out just fine for the catholic church.