The hell is actually WPA+AES. I couldn't find a way to support it at all. TiVo, the 360, the Wii, and my PCs all had no problem connecting with WPA+AES. The mac couldn't.
I had the opposite experience, my PowerBook G4 17" works perfectly with WAP+AES. A former roommate of mine had an XP laptop which didn't. I had to switch our wireless network to TKIP for his laptop (now it's back to AES).
I have to point out that Half-Life has levels just like HL 2. It just depends on how modern a system you play it on. Since HL has such small levels/textures compared with a modern system the load time is minuscule.
I remember waiting a minute or two to load levels on my old 166 MHz system with a Voodoo 1, and 32mb RAM back in the day.
Probably but it was part of a deal the two companies made when they bought out Adelphia. Part of that deal involved trading some areas to "consolidate" service to bring more "value" to customers.
The city has been getting so many complaints about the price hikes that they have an FAQ on the city website saying they don't regulate price and cannot do anything about the price changes.
Perhaps Verizon will, in my parent's case they are served by Quest and cannot even get DSL despite living in the largest metro area in the state. Quest also doesn't appear to have any plans to ever upgrade their service to fiber so there's no competition there. Apparently, a neighborhood in a city of 86,000+ isn't worth Quest's time.
Ending these exclusive contracts is a good idea and I'm glad the FTC is doing this. The only problem is I don't see this really having an impact on Cable prices. The problem is a vast majority of people still won't have a choice since cable companies already divide up local areas.
For example the apartment I live in doesn't have an exclusive contract but the ONLY company I can get cable with is Comcast. Same thing is true at my Parent's house and they live 2000 miles away in another state. We won't see cable prices decrease until we start to see multiple cable companies competing for business in the same city. The large cable operators would rather just divide up the country into local monopolies than actually compete on price.
My parents service is another good example of how these companies work. Their cable company Time Warner decided to trade their city for another city with Comcast. Out went their former internet service and in came Comcast with the exact same package only $20 more, with P2P throttling. Their city doesn't have an exclusive franchise agreement with any cable company, and any company would be welcome to come in and establish a second franchise. No one wants to bother since they can all make more being little local monopolies sucking their customers dry.
You're talking about Netflix correct? I've watched several streamed films/shows on my Windows XP Pro x64 machine. You just need to use the 32 bit IE to watch the movies. I just wish it worked in Firefox.
Except that after 8 years of development they basically released the exact same game as before but with updated graphics. They even recreated the popular 2fort map. It's a nice update to a classic game, but not exactly what I'd expect after 9 years of development time.
In the end I think they must have scrapped and rewritten the game several times. Anyone remember the old 1999 screenshots/preview of TF 2 when it went for realism?
Because Netflix actually offers TV shows I want to watch. Ohh wait, no they don't.
The selection for streaming TV is still very limited on Netflix, and for the few TV series I'd want to stream they usually only have every other episode available online to watch.
I would love to see an online archive of Babylon 5, Star Trek:TNG, Law & Order, 24, or any of the other TV shows that I watch. If I could go back and watch my favorite episode at the click of a button and the only downside was a few ads (that I'd see on TV anyway) how am I losing?
I see you haven't heard of AOL's In2TV which just happens to let you watch and stream every episode of Babylon 5, along with some other classic shows (you can even download high quality episodes of some shows). Check it out at http://television.aol.com/in2tv. (This is probably the only good thing I've ever seen come out of AOL.)
Odd that Sony's making this claim since the good backwards compatibility is on of the primary reason's I bought a PS 3. Having owned an Xbox this last console generation I've missed out on a bunch of great PS 2 games. I've played through God of War, Shadow of the Colossus, Odin's Sphere, GT 4, Katamri Damacy 1&2, FF12 and more since getting my PS 3.
As far as PS 3 gaming goes I've played Resistance. So I've played 1 ps 3 game, and 20 or so ps 2 games on my PS 3 since I've gotten it. If the ps 3 didn't have the backwards compatibility I wouldn't have purchased it when I did. I would have held off much longer (if ever).
That said, I've probably spent more time using the PS 3 as a Blu-ray/DVD player than as a gaming machine, especially recently (I blame this on some RL friends getting me back into WoW). I did the same thing with my Xbox despite owning a ton of games it spent a majority of it's time being used to play movies with Xbox Media Center.
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If only Gmail supported IMAP, then your advise might be helpful.
The Blu-Ray release of Weeds Season 1 and Season 2 are priced identically to their DVD counterparts. So it appears at least one company isn't gouging next generation adopters.
You're pretty much right about the Mac Pro, but that's because you're buying a workstation not a gaming system. Apple's selling you dual Xeons, and FBDIMMS rather that the standard consumer configuration. It's competitively priced with the Dell workstation line.
While I love my Powerbook Apple insists on ignoring the game market and so I must ignore their Desktops. Before Apple "embraces" gaming they need to allow graphics upgrades in their tower cases beyond the 2 Apple approved upgrades. Gamers don't want to buy an entirely new system when the next big graphics card comes out in six months to a year, when their old CPU is still plenty fast. Plus I wouldn't call a 7300, X1900, and a QUADRO really a good set of choices for gaming.
As for the iMac line, they're nice, well designed, functional systems but do not have the flexibility required to be a good game machine. For gaming I don't want a giant all in one monitor/PC I want a tower I can upgrade, and a nice big independent monitor. Maybe they might useful for those people buy those huge Dell gaming "laptops" as an alternative to haul to lan parties. (Of course they lack the overdone and garish lights everywhere so true "gamers" won't like them.)
Sure the local bookstore won't carry a flop but usually they are willing to order one for me from the publisher. All I need to do is ask. It might take awhile but I'll still be able to get a copy.
I can't do this with video games from a place like Gamestop. If Gamestop won't stock it they aren't willing to contact the publisher and order a single copy. This leaves someone with the only option of trying to buy from the publisher directly. In some cases you might be able to buy something from their website, but not always.
What irritates me most about Gamestop is that their selection can be limited at times, and games get dumped real fast from online and stores. Sometimes this works out for the consumer, because if you're lucky you can pick good stuff out of the clearance bins. Contrast this with a bookstore where even unpopular books may be available, but they'll only stock a few at a time.
This makes Gamestops more like Airport bookstores that only stock the latest NYT best sellers than a real bookstore.
Or you might notice that they plan to support those with the legacy driver which can be upgraded to compile against newer kernels. They just aren't adding features or fixing bugs for those older cards.
Actually from the article it sounds like Apple would be fine with the removal of the meters and making the spaces a no parking zone. In this case the city would receive both the revenue from the meters AND a reduction in downtown parking.
It seems someone at the city has missed a way to make a buck, and fix their traffic problem.
No it's not a complete exclusive but it does ship exclusive to PS3 and PC in November with the 360 release pushed out to sometime in 2008. That and the PS3 version will also support the same 3rd party mods and maps the PC one does.
I'm sure people pirate stuff, but I (soft)modded my xbox solely to play snes, genesis, mame, and XBMC. Of those I probably use XBMC the most to play legitimate movies and TV I purchased and ripped to my computer. Just because some people do the modding to pirate stuff doesn't mean there are legitimate uses. Heck if I hadn't modded my xbox I'd probably have given up on it long ago.
In fact I'm really disappointed the new crop of consoles don't offer the same features I get with my modded XBMC system. I can come close with Linux on a PS 3 but that lacks video driver support. Maybe 99% of the people mod their system to pirate stuff. I bet 99% of the broadband connections in the US are used to pirate movies and music. Should internet access be illegal then?
Would I rather run Linux? Yes. Vista thrashes the disk around like crazy the whole time the machine is on, and it can only see 2.5 gigs of the 4gigs of RAM I have installed. I suppose I could shell out a few hundred for 64but Vista, but who knows what drivers will and won't work in that.
Well if you purchased the retail version of Vista you can go to http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsv ista/editions/64bit.mspx to get a free dvd of the 64 bit version. It also appears that you don't get a new product key so if you have access to the 64 bit media you can just use your 32 bit key to install 64 bit vista. Though I have no idea if this works or is allowed with an OEM copy of Vista.
This might work for you until there's an update to Ubuntu which allows your 8800 GTX to be fully supported.
I went to Madison too, and the IS classes and degree is a joke compared with EE, CS, or CMPE. You're correct that the Actuarial Science majors need exceptional skills but they're the exception, not the rule in the business school.
You're right that there no way to outfit yourself with a home built Mac, but that's exactly what Apple wants. They consider themselves a hardware company that just happens to bring you very nice software. (Frankly I wish I could buy OS X for my PC hardware.)
Anyways, it's actually pretty easy to do some upgrades. All their systems open up pretty easily if you want to do some small upgrades. Memory is easy to upgrade from their laptops to their Mac Pro Workstations. Graphics cards are only really upgradeable in the Mac Pro but at least it's easy to get into the Tower and swap the cards. Harddrives are also upgradeable but it's a bit more scary to do. The Mac Pro upgrade is once again like upgrading a PC tower, upgrading your other drives involve a bit more work.
things like games, freeware utilities, software from media providers, drivers, etc.
The only thing I've found my mac lacking is commercial games. There is a ton of freeware/shareware and such for the mac, and I've had no problems with drivers for any device I own (no I didn't go out and pick up special mac compatible devices). So while my laptop doesn't have a port of Oblivion I can run WoW, UT 2k4, War 3, Civilization (3 or 4) and several other games that I do want to occasionally play on the go. That's with my limited Power PC system. If I had a new MacBook Pro I could dual-boot with windows, or run some virtualization software or Darwine if I really want to pick up some new PC game for my laptop.
I prefer the "press down with your middle finger" method of right-clicking, not using two hands or two fingers or doing a traditional bavarian dance or any other method.
Of course that only applies if you are using a mouse not a laptop trackpad. In that case hook whatever mouse you want up to OS X and watch all you buttons work. The wheel will scroll, your right button will right click, and if you have extra buttons they will work too.
I was a die hard mac hater for years but when I went pricing laptops a couple years ago I realized for the power I wanted Apple was actually less expensive than all the other manufacturers. Now I have a PowerBook G4 and I wouldn't trade it for anything but maybe a new MacBook Pro.
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I had the opposite experience, my PowerBook G4 17" works perfectly with WAP+AES. A former roommate of mine had an XP laptop which didn't. I had to switch our wireless network to TKIP for his laptop (now it's back to AES).
I think you need to try setting up WPA+AES again.
I have to point out that Half-Life has levels just like HL 2. It just depends on how modern a system you play it on. Since HL has such small levels/textures compared with a modern system the load time is minuscule.
I remember waiting a minute or two to load levels on my old 166 MHz system with a Voodoo 1, and 32mb RAM back in the day.
Probably but it was part of a deal the two companies made when they bought out Adelphia. Part of that deal involved trading some areas to "consolidate" service to bring more "value" to customers.
The city has been getting so many complaints about the price hikes that they have an FAQ on the city website saying they don't regulate price and cannot do anything about the price changes.
Perhaps Verizon will, in my parent's case they are served by Quest and cannot even get DSL despite living in the largest metro area in the state. Quest also doesn't appear to have any plans to ever upgrade their service to fiber so there's no competition there. Apparently, a neighborhood in a city of 86,000+ isn't worth Quest's time.
Oops, I meant FCC not FTC. I need to remember to use preview.
Ending these exclusive contracts is a good idea and I'm glad the FTC is doing this. The only problem is I don't see this really having an impact on Cable prices. The problem is a vast majority of people still won't have a choice since cable companies already divide up local areas.
For example the apartment I live in doesn't have an exclusive contract but the ONLY company I can get cable with is Comcast. Same thing is true at my Parent's house and they live 2000 miles away in another state. We won't see cable prices decrease until we start to see multiple cable companies competing for business in the same city. The large cable operators would rather just divide up the country into local monopolies than actually compete on price.
My parents service is another good example of how these companies work. Their cable company Time Warner decided to trade their city for another city with Comcast. Out went their former internet service and in came Comcast with the exact same package only $20 more, with P2P throttling. Their city doesn't have an exclusive franchise agreement with any cable company, and any company would be welcome to come in and establish a second franchise. No one wants to bother since they can all make more being little local monopolies sucking their customers dry.
You can get instantaneous velocity by taking the derivative of a position function. IE dx/dt = v. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity.
You're talking about Netflix correct? I've watched several streamed films/shows on my Windows XP Pro x64 machine. You just need to use the 32 bit IE to watch the movies. I just wish it worked in Firefox.
Except that after 8 years of development they basically released the exact same game as before but with updated graphics. They even recreated the popular 2fort map. It's a nice update to a classic game, but not exactly what I'd expect after 9 years of development time.
In the end I think they must have scrapped and rewritten the game several times. Anyone remember the old 1999 screenshots/preview of TF 2 when it went for realism?
True, but UT 3 supports keyboard/mouse on the PS 3. Maybe this is the beginning of the end?
Because Netflix actually offers TV shows I want to watch. Ohh wait, no they don't.
The selection for streaming TV is still very limited on Netflix, and for the few TV series I'd want to stream they usually only have every other episode available online to watch.
I see you haven't heard of AOL's In2TV which just happens to let you watch and stream every episode of Babylon 5, along with some other classic shows (you can even download high quality episodes of some shows). Check it out at http://television.aol.com/in2tv. (This is probably the only good thing I've ever seen come out of AOL.)
Odd that Sony's making this claim since the good backwards compatibility is on of the primary reason's I bought a PS 3. Having owned an Xbox this last console generation I've missed out on a bunch of great PS 2 games. I've played through God of War, Shadow of the Colossus, Odin's Sphere, GT 4, Katamri Damacy 1&2, FF12 and more since getting my PS 3.
As far as PS 3 gaming goes I've played Resistance. So I've played 1 ps 3 game, and 20 or so ps 2 games on my PS 3 since I've gotten it. If the ps 3 didn't have the backwards compatibility I wouldn't have purchased it when I did. I would have held off much longer (if ever).
That said, I've probably spent more time using the PS 3 as a Blu-ray/DVD player than as a gaming machine, especially recently (I blame this on some RL friends getting me back into WoW). I did the same thing with my Xbox despite owning a ton of games it spent a majority of it's time being used to play movies with Xbox Media Center.
If only Gmail supported IMAP, then your advise might be helpful.
The Blu-Ray release of Weeds Season 1 and Season 2 are priced identically to their DVD counterparts. So it appears at least one company isn't gouging next generation adopters.
You're pretty much right about the Mac Pro, but that's because you're buying a workstation not a gaming system. Apple's selling you dual Xeons, and FBDIMMS rather that the standard consumer configuration. It's competitively priced with the Dell workstation line.
While I love my Powerbook Apple insists on ignoring the game market and so I must ignore their Desktops. Before Apple "embraces" gaming they need to allow graphics upgrades in their tower cases beyond the 2 Apple approved upgrades. Gamers don't want to buy an entirely new system when the next big graphics card comes out in six months to a year, when their old CPU is still plenty fast. Plus I wouldn't call a 7300, X1900, and a QUADRO really a good set of choices for gaming.
As for the iMac line, they're nice, well designed, functional systems but do not have the flexibility required to be a good game machine. For gaming I don't want a giant all in one monitor/PC I want a tower I can upgrade, and a nice big independent monitor. Maybe they might useful for those people buy those huge Dell gaming "laptops" as an alternative to haul to lan parties. (Of course they lack the overdone and garish lights everywhere so true "gamers" won't like them.)
Sure the local bookstore won't carry a flop but usually they are willing to order one for me from the publisher. All I need to do is ask. It might take awhile but I'll still be able to get a copy.
I can't do this with video games from a place like Gamestop. If Gamestop won't stock it they aren't willing to contact the publisher and order a single copy. This leaves someone with the only option of trying to buy from the publisher directly. In some cases you might be able to buy something from their website, but not always.
What irritates me most about Gamestop is that their selection can be limited at times, and games get dumped real fast from online and stores. Sometimes this works out for the consumer, because if you're lucky you can pick good stuff out of the clearance bins. Contrast this with a bookstore where even unpopular books may be available, but they'll only stock a few at a time.
This makes Gamestops more like Airport bookstores that only stock the latest NYT best sellers than a real bookstore.
Or you might notice that they plan to support those with the legacy driver which can be upgraded to compile against newer kernels. They just aren't adding features or fixing bugs for those older cards.
Actually from the article it sounds like Apple would be fine with the removal of the meters and making the spaces a no parking zone. In this case the city would receive both the revenue from the meters AND a reduction in downtown parking.
It seems someone at the city has missed a way to make a buck, and fix their traffic problem.
No it's not a complete exclusive but it does ship exclusive to PS3 and PC in November with the 360 release pushed out to sometime in 2008. That and the PS3 version will also support the same 3rd party mods and maps the PC one does.
I'm sure people pirate stuff, but I (soft)modded my xbox solely to play snes, genesis, mame, and XBMC. Of those I probably use XBMC the most to play legitimate movies and TV I purchased and ripped to my computer. Just because some people do the modding to pirate stuff doesn't mean there are legitimate uses. Heck if I hadn't modded my xbox I'd probably have given up on it long ago.
In fact I'm really disappointed the new crop of consoles don't offer the same features I get with my modded XBMC system. I can come close with Linux on a PS 3 but that lacks video driver support. Maybe 99% of the people mod their system to pirate stuff. I bet 99% of the broadband connections in the US are used to pirate movies and music. Should internet access be illegal then?
Well if you purchased the retail version of Vista you can go to http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsv ista/editions/64bit.mspx to get a free dvd of the 64 bit version. It also appears that you don't get a new product key so if you have access to the 64 bit media you can just use your 32 bit key to install 64 bit vista. Though I have no idea if this works or is allowed with an OEM copy of Vista.
This might work for you until there's an update to Ubuntu which allows your 8800 GTX to be fully supported.
I went to Madison too, and the IS classes and degree is a joke compared with EE, CS, or CMPE. You're correct that the Actuarial Science majors need exceptional skills but they're the exception, not the rule in the business school.
You're right that there no way to outfit yourself with a home built Mac, but that's exactly what Apple wants. They consider themselves a hardware company that just happens to bring you very nice software. (Frankly I wish I could buy OS X for my PC hardware.)
Anyways, it's actually pretty easy to do some upgrades. All their systems open up pretty easily if you want to do some small upgrades. Memory is easy to upgrade from their laptops to their Mac Pro Workstations. Graphics cards are only really upgradeable in the Mac Pro but at least it's easy to get into the Tower and swap the cards. Harddrives are also upgradeable but it's a bit more scary to do. The Mac Pro upgrade is once again like upgrading a PC tower, upgrading your other drives involve a bit more work.
The only thing I've found my mac lacking is commercial games. There is a ton of freeware/shareware and such for the mac, and I've had no problems with drivers for any device I own (no I didn't go out and pick up special mac compatible devices). So while my laptop doesn't have a port of Oblivion I can run WoW, UT 2k4, War 3, Civilization (3 or 4) and several other games that I do want to occasionally play on the go. That's with my limited Power PC system. If I had a new MacBook Pro I could dual-boot with windows, or run some virtualization software or Darwine if I really want to pick up some new PC game for my laptop.
I prefer the "press down with your middle finger" method of right-clicking, not using two hands or two fingers or doing a traditional bavarian dance or any other method.Of course that only applies if you are using a mouse not a laptop trackpad. In that case hook whatever mouse you want up to OS X and watch all you buttons work. The wheel will scroll, your right button will right click, and if you have extra buttons they will work too.
I was a die hard mac hater for years but when I went pricing laptops a couple years ago I realized for the power I wanted Apple was actually less expensive than all the other manufacturers. Now I have a PowerBook G4 and I wouldn't trade it for anything but maybe a new MacBook Pro.