Fallout WITHOUT mod tools. How will i get my unofficial addon that makes it a Mad Max. I needs me some thunderdome.
[and a clonedome You know, 1 will enter 2 will leave]
This doesn't even include the fact that Trent Reznor of Nine Nich Nails Fame gave them like $5000 for his copy. Just on the premise that he hates (with a passion) the RIAA and their current screw the artist model. Oh, and for those of you who think that the artists make more than that $1-2, that is actually on the high side. Marketing is usually part of their fees, and NIN picks up their packaging also.
It said in the TOS for Virtual Console when I got mine that you can only have 1 Authorized console available, that seems to me that you can. How to do that, I have no clue. The only caveat is that it has to be joined to your nintendo.com username.
Screw MicroCenter. I have been there twice and gotten nothing but HORRIBLE service. I even wrote their corporate about it. They are commissioned based sales, which means that service should be most important, but they value price more. Then when they see you walking to the door, they try to get you to place one of their stickers on the device so that they get the commission.
The second time the person who yelled at us (my friend and I) to leave was the manager(hopefully former), who not even 1 minute after announcing that the store was closing re-"informed" (in a forceful manner) us that the store was closing, we were less then 10 feet from the register. I just dropped my shit on the floor and left, she had No reason to act that way: first, we were walking to the register, and second she was the manager, I have worked in retail my whole life, and ask any of my customers what kind of service they get from me and they will usually tell you that the come to the store for my friendly and informative personality, even though they dislike my fellow coworkers, and our product selection.
Sorry, that doesn't fly with me. I don't know about other ones, but the one in the Detroit metro area, I won't be giving my business, it is like 50+ miles, and if I wanted bad service, I would just go to a Walmart and ask about computers.
Yes, this is the calculator to use. BUT it won't be allowed in ANY college classes that are below Calculus 2 for most colleges, or their placement testing. Most professors don't care, but at a community college, it is not allowed for testing, so if you go to the testing center, you won't have a calculator that you can use.
I have a good old TI-83 that I got 10 years ago, and the only problem I have is that it has been fazed-out, so I have geek envy since some games/programs for the 83+(storage)/84(processor speed/storage) won't work on it.
Personally though, my favorite was my brother's TI-92, but that isn't allowed since it has a full qwerty keyboard on it, which is retarded since I could still program just as quickly from a computer. I always wanted the new version of it the Voyage 2000, but no one carries them.
As far as it being fragile, my brother's TI-92 lasted until the graph-link port was destroyed in an accident, but still functioned. Then he bought a TI-89 and he has been using that since they first released (1999?). Except for when a professor required him to turn in a MatLab program, he preferred to use it, with the large function library built in, and the massive quantities of programs on http://www.ticalc.org/ he never needed anything else.
Look at metroPCS if they are in your area. My buddy loves them. They are just starting in the Detroit area, use PCS (sorry not TDMA), but they only cost $40 for everything unlimited (text, web, voice, etc), and it is just $20 for a second phone with the same.
I can beat you though, I was playing it on a TV that had the CRT failing, so not only was the game screwing with my head, but the Screen was Randomly Moving the picture on the x and y axis... I thought it was the game, GO figure it was doing it when the TV was dying... Actually, it took us around a month to figure out it was the TV. My brother was playing conqure's bad fur day on the N64 and noticed that either the TV was bad, or the Eternal Darkness had infected all of our games. (I am still not sure that it wasn't the latter j/k)
I work in a video store, we are running Dumb terminals in a Tolken ring Topology, that connects to the Internet on X10... There are 8 stores with 4 terminals each, plus one main frame. The terminals we use are OLD (like the same age as me 25) and they are wired to a MUX that has the abity to work with 8 Different Devices!!!
But the DAMN things are SLOW, and they are very tempermental (i.e. to fix them, we normally just replace the guns, and if a terminal is not working, we just switch it's location on the MUX, but that only makes it work everyonce in a while.)
To top it off though, the stupid planner for the small network placed all of the cables under a pallet below the counter area, the pallet is Affixed to the floor, and has NO removable Panels to allow for the changing of the cables. So even though I know one of the cables is grounding at times (hince the need to change the terminals everyonce in a while since it stops working), I couldn't even convince them to replace it without requireing a remodel.
Please, don't weep for those computers, weep for us workers who have to work in a System 5 system that is run by a IT "pro" (the quotes are to signify that he thinks he can do it) who can't bother to look at how to update the system while we are friggin' closed.
WTF, it is UNIX, you can at the very least make a script to update your files! I mean I have mentioned certain commands that I can reccomend to help his tasks, but he has no clue what they are, when I was talking about cat, he had no clue what it was used for!?!?!?!?
I have been using this nick name for over 10 years, and NOW some retarted company is using it... I made this entire nickname up while on the john. I was planning on buying zentu.com, but WHENEVER I had the money to buy the domain some marketing group had it, and being a poor college student doesn't allow me to pay $300+ to register it.
I am pissed off now. First this stupid company trys to repackage OSS products to profit, and now they steal my damn nickname.
Let us also not forget that, barring a caddy of old CD Fame, there is very little ability to scratch before you get to a data track and fsck a disk beyond use... I personally agree with a blog post from about a year ago that said "I hope they both fail". If you ask me IMHO, we need to lose the optical storage that we are currently using until someone can get a better grasp of how it is to be used. We should switch to either a Flash Medium, (hell it can go to a different planet and it still works, so if we made it cheap enough and with a big enough capacity it would exceed ANY previous standard) or a Hard drive Medium.
Be honest, where would you rather store data for you own backup, a hard drive (external of internal, your choice), A Thumb Drive, a tape backup, or a CD/DVD (your choice, or choose a new variant if you like).
Most will choose the options in that order, baring space constraints. Why? Magneto or Flash based storage is far superior to optical storage, the technology is not anywhere near as tested, nor well designed. Optical storage has been around since the eighties if I remember correctly, Flash medium is an advancement of Transistors and IC's. Hard drives have been around so long that most people have no clue that they started out with massive platters that you could add or change, not to mention that it is basically an advancement of the Tape storage device. I am not saying to give up on Optical storage, far from it, send it back to the drawing boards work out the kinks then bring it back as a viable alternative when it has matured past the point of being as much of a nuscence as an improvement.
I work at a video store (rental, small chain), and I can tell you that people like DVDS for quality, not for ease of use, and I get more people that wish that the things were not so finicky, since people don't take care of things that are not theirs, but don't need to take care of a tape.
I can tell you stories of people that didn't think that "since the disk doesn't touch the laser" that the thing "doesn't need cleaning". But these same people understand that a tape touches the head of a VCR or BETA so they need to be cleaned.
Acctually, You are wrong, less than 3 of the top 10 games a year are M rated on average (and the precentage has actually been decreasing slightly since the creation of that Category of Ranking).
Infact, less then 30% of all games released a year (I believe it is 24% but not certain) are M rated, compared to more than 50% of all movies (belive that is 54%) are R, the equivlent to the M rated games in the movies.
Actually, I personally know of more complaints with the MPAA ratings then the ESRB ratings, I work at a Local Video store, and I discourage parents from renting out games to minors that are out of their age range, but I can't enforce it, I can't tell you how many parents allow their kids to rent M Rated games only to go and not let them watch PG-13. I had a friggin' seven year old talking to a friend about how cool Manhunt was, I told his mother that he was trying to rent a very mature game, only to be shrugged off. I then proceded to tell the mother that I personally was discusted with the game and that it is like watching a Faces of Death video, only then did she seem to get my point. Thinking it was over, I walked away, only to be confronted by my boss 10 minutes later on why that customer was upset with me, she thought I had called her parenting into question. My boss then said that she would have given me a warning had she not heard about 2/3 of the five minute conversation.
So if you belive that a store is just likely to stop selling Mature games you are insane, but to say that Mature games are the biggest profit margin, let me ask you what sold more Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, or Madden 2006. Burnout 3 or Punisher. I will tell you that Madden wins hands down, as does Burnout 3. My store manager even told me once "If it has EA as the Publisher I get at least 2 copies if not more, we usually end up making 10 times what we pay on all of their titles." (That was after I reccomended he get some more copies of games that I knew that dorks like me would be into, like Rez, Kotor 2, or even some games that I knew would rent well in my area Juiced, Flat out, MX vs ATV Unleashed.)
Seriously, He won't be moving his laptop. My buddy, Aaron, who went just got a $700 Laptop, He didn't move it from the Air conditioned Dorms the entire time he was there, They have no reason to do anything out side of the complex, so he doesn't need anything 'ruggigized' it is just an extreem waste of money. Spend the money on a backup drive (teach him how to use it, and not to leave it plugged in) and a warranty just in case. Preference is one of those no questions asked, break me in three years to make sure you get your *free* upgrade.
Aaron had only one problem, he got a cheap referb, and 3 days after his 90 day warranty was up (and only like 10 days in the harsh environment), it died, the IDE controller died, and fried the HDD, there went all of his work on his book. So he went and bought another one, a $1000 Avaratech (that was twice the machine) but adding a $150 warranty upgrade.
When his brother, Nathaniel, got told he was going 3 weeks after Aaron got the new one, to join his MI National Guard Unit that was already over there, we asked what he needed, and Aaron said, "Decent power, a charger (with internatinal just in case), and an ethernet jack, you won't be wireless or moving it. Period."
When Nathaniel went he had no problems beyond the crap that was installed on the laptop when he bought it (a new model [cheap Toshiba with out wireless] from Ebay that had been gotten from BestBuy 2 weeks before school started that was cheap at the time [$650 after rebates] and gotten 1.5 months later for $700 with no rebates).
Nathaniel has returned with no problems, exept now that he is on a college campus, he wants WiFi, and Aaron, who is still over there for another 4 months at least, has had no problems (beyond Adware and the ilk, even war doesn't get you away from that crap).
Now, maybe I can play the second best shooter of all time in HL2, the first is already there (HL1), If this keeps going on, Valve could have every good shooter Ported over to their engine.
Now, if we could only get some good RTS engine developer to allow easy modding *cough* Westwood (I know they are 'part' of EA now, but I don't like EA, so I just let them stay with the good name)*cough* Big Huge Games *cough*
Here here, I like the fact that the camps are fighting.
I know too many people (I work in a video store (small chain)) that don't even own DVD's since they are too fragile, but that is what you get when people don't take care of the products that they are renting. I personally want either a flash based medium, or a Hard Drive Based medium.
I mean it has a better ability to survive. We have had more improvements in transistors and magnetic storage than all of the optical storage mediums combined. If you really wanted me to support one, I would want a harddrive technology, why, we could still have a vast ability for improvement, it would require a case (imagine not having to do much packaging on shipping and opening up 245 cases in one week (on your busiest nights (video clerks know what I mean) with a minimal effort, who really cares what the damn case looks like, you only see it about 3 times, (when you bought it, when you open it, and when you store it)). Plus you could place the heads in either the case or in the player, not to mention that you could allow for Limitless upgrades by just putting a few wires on the system that are unused. OH! and I forget that you would have a better seek time (then any optical product), and an ability to record, so you could even market them as a HD Tivo Like device. (hey Tivo should be the one striving for this, visualize people being able to not only store things in the Temporary storage of a TIVO, but being able to make your own archival copy of your favorite TV shows to hold over until they are released on a format without the Station Bugs and with the comments of the cast and crew)
I feel that by having a bunch of people using different products, I have less stress. I know how to use them before I reccomend them, I also know that by having multiple platforms that anyone who has melicious intent (sorry, can't spell/don't care) must at least be more compitent than a standard Script kiddy.
Plus, I am a cheap bastard and I know that most people are also, so if they had to choose between buying an expensive peice of software and cracking it, the people that I know would have the BSA on their A-S-S. I have also seen many cracks that contain viruses, so by having them use Open Source software, I don't get a call at 4 AM in a panic saying that they have an F'ing paper due, but their system won't work since they got that new version of WORD... OH, and Can you possible recover the F'ing Document, i can't seem to find it since the computer started making the dings...
For those who don't realize, windows has the stupidest setup for data, namely on one damn partition with the operating system, so when it has to be reinstalled, the lusers who don't do backups are screwed (97% or so by my estimate),
Sorry for all of you hoping for some Standard, but in one of the professional Home Video (sorry, should say commercial Home video Rental magazines, don't remember which one, my work gets them.) had a talk with Sony head of BluRay Development and had a quote that said
'the only Reconcilement that would be fesible is to have the HD DVD camp Join the BluRay Camp...'
Which I find rather annoying, since I feel that Both Opticle mediums suck, give me flash or some hybridized HDD that would store data.
Power is also an issue, I know that I have dirtier power where I live now, then where I use to live, and we are in a brand new house. The lines that we have are one of the last lines turned on in the event of power failure, since we are not as important, so the same is true for our power, we lose power here when the wind blows the wrong way, and all of the power in the area is below ground, so don't say that it is a bad Line. I also have gone through 3 ANTEC branded power supplies for my primary PC, and that is through normal use. (Why do I keep buying Antecs if I have killed so many, they last at least 2.5 years longer than a crappy DEAR or LiteON Branded one in my house).
Damn, I want Line conditioning, it is really sad that we are in a recession, and we are on a 3 world power grid, but we don't have any public service groups out to replace lines. (oh, and I am not anti-bush for that comment, I just know that The Great Depression was helped by The TVA, so why don't we try it again, it can't seem to hurt.)
Actually We have 500 GB Drive available from Hitachi Right Now, So, you could have 5 TB (roughly, remember it is not technically 5 TB since they consider the next incrument as 1000 not 2 to the 10 (1024))
Acctually, Cracking shouldn't be an idea of ethics versus legality. You buy the right to use your copy how you want, I should be able to install software on any machine I want, and as long as only one is using the software at one time, not break the law.
Personally, I have used cracks on my laptop to avoid bring the media. I have also used cracks to avoid the crap lag that you gain by trying to run it off a disk, or through some form of encription (like safedisk or securerom).
Hell, I have personally seen 10% to 20% perfermance increases on avarage due to using a crack that bypasses the encryption.
The problem shoud be fixed by not spending money on a crappy form of encryption that adds cost to the product, but by going after the stupid rings of warez groups.
Heck, I even personally like Valve's little gambit of requiring you to verify it with the vender first, now hopefully they don't require me to have the disk inserted when I play the game, that way I don't get the performance lags that I can't handle otherwise, I would upgrade my machine, but I have to decide between college/food and computer parts.
There was a guy who did this very thing in MaximumPC like 2 or 3 years ago (at most) (can be certain, the mags only have a 4 month shelf life in my house since I loan them to my brother to read and then they vanish complete to me unless I nag my Bro). But he did a case out of wood and made it into a brief case that could have the top (holding a 15 or 17 inch lcd) removed and turned around to be used standing up, with the PS/2 connectors on one side to play games).
Yes you can rent some high end cameras from various local metropolitan areas, and even at decent costs, then see what you like. Just go to the local college (even community) that have Digital Video classes, or contact one via email with some questions.
The most important things to rember are
1. get a Tripod (and use it god damnit)
2. read the manual of the camera you want to use (get it offline before hand)
3. reserve the camera
4.pick up the camera
5. pick up film
6. DON'T leave ANYTHING for the editing room, you can't make it better, just make it different, so get the best you can.
Actually, a car has a default 14V altenator, but a 12V battery (you need to be able to charge it, and since you are rectifing an AC current to DC with Diodes, you lose some voltage with conversion.)
That is supposed to change in the next 10 years for all cars to a 42V altenator, and a 36V battery (three times the power)(10 years is the estimate until all the cheap POS that people by new will conform to this standard, it is supposed to start in luxary cars in the next 2 or 3).
I know of many projects (like TransGaming's WineX) that are commercial and made for the idea of running windows games on Linux. My quesions are this do you feel that this is the correct way to get a developers to slowly switch over to Linux, or do you belive that it would make more sense to make complier and library that is more 'friendly' for game development?
Also, what do you feel is the largest factor that slows the production of games for linux?
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Fallout WITHOUT mod tools. How will i get my unofficial addon that makes it a Mad Max. I needs me some thunderdome. [and a clonedome You know, 1 will enter 2 will leave]
This doesn't even include the fact that Trent Reznor of Nine Nich Nails Fame gave them like $5000 for his copy. Just on the premise that he hates (with a passion) the RIAA and their current screw the artist model. Oh, and for those of you who think that the artists make more than that $1-2, that is actually on the high side. Marketing is usually part of their fees, and NIN picks up their packaging also.
No, I thought that he was referring to BDSM... wait, you don't mean that kind of Gimp do you...
-Oh no, I have been found out what was my safety word...
It said in the TOS for Virtual Console when I got mine that you can only have 1 Authorized console available, that seems to me that you can. How to do that, I have no clue. The only caveat is that it has to be joined to your nintendo.com username.
The second time the person who yelled at us (my friend and I) to leave was the manager(hopefully former), who not even 1 minute after announcing that the store was closing re-"informed" (in a forceful manner) us that the store was closing, we were less then 10 feet from the register. I just dropped my shit on the floor and left, she had No reason to act that way: first, we were walking to the register, and second she was the manager, I have worked in retail my whole life, and ask any of my customers what kind of service they get from me and they will usually tell you that the come to the store for my friendly and informative personality, even though they dislike my fellow coworkers, and our product selection.
Sorry, that doesn't fly with me. I don't know about other ones, but the one in the Detroit metro area, I won't be giving my business, it is like 50+ miles, and if I wanted bad service, I would just go to a Walmart and ask about computers.
I have a good old TI-83 that I got 10 years ago, and the only problem I have is that it has been fazed-out, so I have geek envy since some games/programs for the 83+(storage)/84(processor speed/storage) won't work on it.
Personally though, my favorite was my brother's TI-92, but that isn't allowed since it has a full qwerty keyboard on it, which is retarded since I could still program just as quickly from a computer. I always wanted the new version of it the Voyage 2000, but no one carries them.
As far as it being fragile, my brother's TI-92 lasted until the graph-link port was destroyed in an accident, but still functioned. Then he bought a TI-89 and he has been using that since they first released (1999?). Except for when a professor required him to turn in a MatLab program, he preferred to use it, with the large function library built in, and the massive quantities of programs on http://www.ticalc.org/ he never needed anything else.
Look at metroPCS if they are in your area. My buddy loves them. They are just starting in the Detroit area, use PCS (sorry not TDMA), but they only cost $40 for everything unlimited (text, web, voice, etc), and it is just $20 for a second phone with the same.
I can beat you though, I was playing it on a TV that had the CRT failing, so not only was the game screwing with my head, but the Screen was Randomly Moving the picture on the x and y axis... I thought it was the game, GO figure it was doing it when the TV was dying... Actually, it took us around a month to figure out it was the TV. My brother was playing conqure's bad fur day on the N64 and noticed that either the TV was bad, or the Eternal Darkness had infected all of our games. (I am still not sure that it wasn't the latter j/k)
I work in a video store, we are running Dumb terminals in a Tolken ring Topology, that connects to the Internet on X10... There are 8 stores with 4 terminals each, plus one main frame. The terminals we use are OLD (like the same age as me 25) and they are wired to a MUX that has the abity to work with 8 Different Devices!!!
But the DAMN things are SLOW, and they are very tempermental (i.e. to fix them, we normally just replace the guns, and if a terminal is not working, we just switch it's location on the MUX, but that only makes it work everyonce in a while.)
To top it off though, the stupid planner for the small network placed all of the cables under a pallet below the counter area, the pallet is Affixed to the floor, and has NO removable Panels to allow for the changing of the cables. So even though I know one of the cables is grounding at times (hince the need to change the terminals everyonce in a while since it stops working), I couldn't even convince them to replace it without requireing a remodel.
Please, don't weep for those computers, weep for us workers who have to work in a System 5 system that is run by a IT "pro" (the quotes are to signify that he thinks he can do it) who can't bother to look at how to update the system while we are friggin' closed.
WTF, it is UNIX, you can at the very least make a script to update your files! I mean I have mentioned certain commands that I can reccomend to help his tasks, but he has no clue what they are, when I was talking about cat, he had no clue what it was used for!?!?!?!?
I have been using this nick name for over 10 years, and NOW some retarted company is using it... I made this entire nickname up while on the john. I was planning on buying zentu.com, but WHENEVER I had the money to buy the domain some marketing group had it, and being a poor college student doesn't allow me to pay $300+ to register it.
I am pissed off now. First this stupid company trys to repackage OSS products to profit, and now they steal my damn nickname.
Be honest, where would you rather store data for you own backup, a hard drive (external of internal, your choice), A Thumb Drive, a tape backup, or a CD/DVD (your choice, or choose a new variant if you like).
Most will choose the options in that order, baring space constraints. Why? Magneto or Flash based storage is far superior to optical storage, the technology is not anywhere near as tested, nor well designed. Optical storage has been around since the eighties if I remember correctly, Flash medium is an advancement of Transistors and IC's. Hard drives have been around so long that most people have no clue that they started out with massive platters that you could add or change, not to mention that it is basically an advancement of the Tape storage device. I am not saying to give up on Optical storage, far from it, send it back to the drawing boards work out the kinks then bring it back as a viable alternative when it has matured past the point of being as much of a nuscence as an improvement.
I work at a video store (rental, small chain), and I can tell you that people like DVDS for quality, not for ease of use, and I get more people that wish that the things were not so finicky, since people don't take care of things that are not theirs, but don't need to take care of a tape.
I can tell you stories of people that didn't think that "since the disk doesn't touch the laser" that the thing "doesn't need cleaning". But these same people understand that a tape touches the head of a VCR or BETA so they need to be cleaned.
Infact, less then 30% of all games released a year (I believe it is 24% but not certain) are M rated, compared to more than 50% of all movies (belive that is 54%) are R, the equivlent to the M rated games in the movies.
Actually, I personally know of more complaints with the MPAA ratings then the ESRB ratings, I work at a Local Video store, and I discourage parents from renting out games to minors that are out of their age range, but I can't enforce it, I can't tell you how many parents allow their kids to rent M Rated games only to go and not let them watch PG-13. I had a friggin' seven year old talking to a friend about how cool Manhunt was, I told his mother that he was trying to rent a very mature game, only to be shrugged off. I then proceded to tell the mother that I personally was discusted with the game and that it is like watching a Faces of Death video, only then did she seem to get my point. Thinking it was over, I walked away, only to be confronted by my boss 10 minutes later on why that customer was upset with me, she thought I had called her parenting into question. My boss then said that she would have given me a warning had she not heard about 2/3 of the five minute conversation.
So if you belive that a store is just likely to stop selling Mature games you are insane, but to say that Mature games are the biggest profit margin, let me ask you what sold more Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, or Madden 2006. Burnout 3 or Punisher. I will tell you that Madden wins hands down, as does Burnout 3. My store manager even told me once "If it has EA as the Publisher I get at least 2 copies if not more, we usually end up making 10 times what we pay on all of their titles." (That was after I reccomended he get some more copies of games that I knew that dorks like me would be into, like Rez, Kotor 2, or even some games that I knew would rent well in my area Juiced, Flat out, MX vs ATV Unleashed.)
Aaron had only one problem, he got a cheap referb, and 3 days after his 90 day warranty was up (and only like 10 days in the harsh environment), it died, the IDE controller died, and fried the HDD, there went all of his work on his book. So he went and bought another one, a $1000 Avaratech (that was twice the machine) but adding a $150 warranty upgrade.
When his brother, Nathaniel, got told he was going 3 weeks after Aaron got the new one, to join his MI National Guard Unit that was already over there, we asked what he needed, and Aaron said, "Decent power, a charger (with internatinal just in case), and an ethernet jack, you won't be wireless or moving it. Period."
When Nathaniel went he had no problems beyond the crap that was installed on the laptop when he bought it (a new model [cheap Toshiba with out wireless] from Ebay that had been gotten from BestBuy 2 weeks before school started that was cheap at the time [$650 after rebates] and gotten 1.5 months later for $700 with no rebates).
Nathaniel has returned with no problems, exept now that he is on a college campus, he wants WiFi, and Aaron, who is still over there for another 4 months at least, has had no problems (beyond Adware and the ilk, even war doesn't get you away from that crap).
Now, maybe I can play the second best shooter of all time in HL2, the first is already there (HL1), If this keeps going on, Valve could have every good shooter Ported over to their engine. Now, if we could only get some good RTS engine developer to allow easy modding *cough* Westwood (I know they are 'part' of EA now, but I don't like EA, so I just let them stay with the good name)*cough* Big Huge Games *cough*
I know too many people (I work in a video store (small chain)) that don't even own DVD's since they are too fragile, but that is what you get when people don't take care of the products that they are renting. I personally want either a flash based medium, or a Hard Drive Based medium.
I mean it has a better ability to survive. We have had more improvements in transistors and magnetic storage than all of the optical storage mediums combined. If you really wanted me to support one, I would want a harddrive technology, why, we could still have a vast ability for improvement, it would require a case (imagine not having to do much packaging on shipping and opening up 245 cases in one week (on your busiest nights (video clerks know what I mean) with a minimal effort, who really cares what the damn case looks like, you only see it about 3 times, (when you bought it, when you open it, and when you store it)). Plus you could place the heads in either the case or in the player, not to mention that you could allow for Limitless upgrades by just putting a few wires on the system that are unused. OH! and I forget that you would have a better seek time (then any optical product), and an ability to record, so you could even market them as a HD Tivo Like device. (hey Tivo should be the one striving for this, visualize people being able to not only store things in the Temporary storage of a TIVO, but being able to make your own archival copy of your favorite TV shows to hold over until they are released on a format without the Station Bugs and with the comments of the cast and crew)
Plus, I am a cheap bastard and I know that most people are also, so if they had to choose between buying an expensive peice of software and cracking it, the people that I know would have the BSA on their A-S-S. I have also seen many cracks that contain viruses, so by having them use Open Source software, I don't get a call at 4 AM in a panic saying that they have an F'ing paper due, but their system won't work since they got that new version of WORD... OH, and Can you possible recover the F'ing Document, i can't seem to find it since the computer started making the dings...
For those who don't realize, windows has the stupidest setup for data, namely on one damn partition with the operating system, so when it has to be reinstalled, the lusers who don't do backups are screwed (97% or so by my estimate),
'the only Reconcilement that would be fesible is to have the HD DVD camp Join the BluRay Camp...'
Which I find rather annoying, since I feel that Both Opticle mediums suck, give me flash or some hybridized HDD that would store data.
Damn, I want Line conditioning, it is really sad that we are in a recession, and we are on a 3 world power grid, but we don't have any public service groups out to replace lines. (oh, and I am not anti-bush for that comment, I just know that The Great Depression was helped by The TVA, so why don't we try it again, it can't seem to hurt.)
Actually We have 500 GB Drive available from Hitachi Right Now, So, you could have 5 TB (roughly, remember it is not technically 5 TB since they consider the next incrument as 1000 not 2 to the 10 (1024))
Personally, I have used cracks on my laptop to avoid bring the media. I have also used cracks to avoid the crap lag that you gain by trying to run it off a disk, or through some form of encription (like safedisk or securerom).
Hell, I have personally seen 10% to 20% perfermance increases on avarage due to using a crack that bypasses the encryption.
The problem shoud be fixed by not spending money on a crappy form of encryption that adds cost to the product, but by going after the stupid rings of warez groups.
Heck, I even personally like Valve's little gambit of requiring you to verify it with the vender first, now hopefully they don't require me to have the disk inserted when I play the game, that way I don't get the performance lags that I can't handle otherwise, I would upgrade my machine, but I have to decide between college/food and computer parts.
Sumitting your "wife's" website address in a /. link, without having the deciency to use a sevice such as coral.
There was a guy who did this very thing in MaximumPC like 2 or 3 years ago (at most) (can be certain, the mags only have a 4 month shelf life in my house since I loan them to my brother to read and then they vanish complete to me unless I nag my Bro). But he did a case out of wood and made it into a brief case that could have the top (holding a 15 or 17 inch lcd) removed and turned around to be used standing up, with the PS/2 connectors on one side to play games).
The most important things to rember are
1. get a Tripod (and use it god damnit)
2. read the manual of the camera you want to use (get it offline before hand)
3. reserve the camera
4.pick up the camera
5. pick up film
6. DON'T leave ANYTHING for the editing room, you can't make it better, just make it different, so get the best you can.
That is supposed to change in the next 10 years for all cars to a 42V altenator, and a 36V battery (three times the power)(10 years is the estimate until all the cheap POS that people by new will conform to this standard, it is supposed to start in luxary cars in the next 2 or 3).
I know of many projects (like TransGaming's WineX) that are commercial and made for the idea of running windows games on Linux. My quesions are this do you feel that this is the correct way to get a developers to slowly switch over to Linux, or do you belive that it would make more sense to make complier and library that is more 'friendly' for game development? Also, what do you feel is the largest factor that slows the production of games for linux?