There will probably be programs that will replace the textures, images, and video that contain the ads with other stuff. Unless they're going to show streaming ads, which may make it a little more difficult. Although, you could just make a hack to bypass the streaming altogether and get data from the local disk. Even if you can get My advice is to just not buy the game. If you buy the game, then they assume you are seeing the adverts, and will continue to produce more trash like this. If nobody buys the games, then hopefully they will get a clue, and stop doing stuff like this.
While I don't have any experience with the newer 3G wireless internet services and other such things, using my CDMA phone with 1X internet is painfully slow, even for playing the online "who wants to be a millionaire" game, or even load up the google mobile search page. Not only that the batter gets drained pretty fast if you're doing any kind of prolonged surfing. I imagine that anything faster would just draw more battery power. I'm not sure whether mobile internet will ever be a good thing. Even if you had 802.11x, most laptops have severely reduced battery life if you're using the WiFi chip.
Think of it like treating cancer with chemotherapy. If you don't treat the person they will die. However, using this technique, if you catch it early enough, you can kill all the infected cells without killing the host. If you wait too long, the number of cells you have to kill becomes higher, and the risk of death to the host becomes higher. This is basically how chemotherapy and radiation treatment work. You kill all the cells in the affected area, and hope you don't kill the host in the process.
Why not just have a trackball? Then you can just rest it on your leg or whatever, you don't need a flat surface, and you don't need any fancy new stuff. I use a trackball all the time, it's really great. I got it because I don't have a lot of desk space, and was tired of having to devote so much space to a mouse.
Does it, or does it debunk the second report? It was my understanding that the first report included absolutely everything available for the distro, while the second report included less stuff, but still tons of stuff that isn't included in a base "windows" install.
First, I find 3% to be quite high. Having a 1:30 chance of a product you buy breaking isn't very good odds. Also, A lot of the time the stuff you get as replacements will be refurbs, an shipped by UPS who takes less care with the packages then the people who ship products for the retailers. Also, they probably aren't counting replacements on the replacements, just on replacements of original sales.
Although it's not "over"heating, and I haven't had any actual problems yet, does anybody else find that their Wii gets quite hot when you leave it in standby mode, with WiiConnect 24 turned on. I've only had my Wii about a month, but I really think sometimes that I should turn off the WiiConnect 24 because of how hot it gets, and I don't want the heat to get to it after a year and a half, meaning I'll have to buy another one. I really think they should leave the fan on. Or at least have it run intermittently. It's not like it's actually loud enough to hear.
It seems like the entire US government is completely bought. Microsoft, RIAA/MPAA, Health Insurance companies, and all the other lobbyists have basically got the entire governemnt wrapped around their little finger. Don't the American people want to put a stop to this. It isn't good that corporations can just give unlimited amounts of money (or any at all) to politicians just to get their way. Corporations aren't a voting entity, they shouldn't be allowed to sponsor politicians.
I guess I'm just into different games, but what's the point of advancement just for advancement. So what if you're level 70 if all you ever do is kill boars in the forest. If it's all just for bragging rights, then I don't see why they are so popular. I think it would be much more fulfilling to say I beat quest A when I was only at level X, then to say I got to level 70. Anybody can get to a certain level if they just play long enough, it doesn't say anything about how good you are at a game.
I was a little confused when I first read the headline, and the I saw the word Radeon and I remembered that AMD bought ATI. However, aren't they still using the ATI name when selling these cards? Wouldn't it be a little less confusing to say "ATI Finally Launches Low-Price DX10 Cards"? Anyway, if they have dropped the ATI name, I think it's a bad move. ATI had a pretty good reputation. Changing to a different name seems like a bold move.
I guess things work a little differently south of the border (I'm in Canada), but I thought the whole criminal/non-criminal offense thing worked the same way. When you're caught for speeding, you don't get a criminal record, because it's not a criminal offense. Also, breaking a contract, while not against criminal law, is against civil law. Civil law is part of the law, just as traffic offenses and city bylaws are included in the law. There is also quite a bit of moral stigma with breaking contracts. Try becoming a contractor (like a plumber), and then break all your contracts, when the job is only half done, and see how much business you get.
Seriously. It's not a good idea for MS to mess with their distribution channel. With Dell starting to see Ubuntu, it's not a good idea to give the vendors and more reason to push Linux on their customers.
But then they have to make lots of quests with varying difficulty. When you're playing these kinds of games, there's only 2 things you can do. That is, complete a quest, or kill boars in the forest. Make the game have enough quests at each difficultly level such that you don't have walk in circles killing the same enemy over and over again just to have enough experience. Make it interesting to obtain the experience, and the game will be fun. If you look at just about any other RPG out there, they are all very linear. So all Zelda does is provide the same kind of game without "the grind". I haven't played any MMORPGs, but what about them makes them so "open ended"? Is there still not quests you have to complete, and you have to do them in increasing difficulty? Maybe there's more side quests and stuff, but I still don't see why they couldn't completely get rid of "the grind".
Well, it's still illegal. It's not a criminal offence, but it is illegal. Just like speeding isn't a criminal offence, but you can still be ticketed for speeding. The law consists of many thing, including the criminal code, highway traffic act, and many other things. Otherwise, why do you think so many "law"yers get involved in making contracts.
I would like to see an MMORPG where the creators of the game encouraged selling and trading of items. Build the payment system into the game. It wouldn't be that hard to implement the system, and would get rid of a lot of the fraud, and other problems. There wouldn't be a need for a trust rating, because the purchase would be able to see exactly what they are buying, and they would always have it transfered to their character. Also, the sell would always receive their money. Why don't the game creators do this. There obviously a market for it. Although I would suggest against any portion of the sales going to the game company, as that would just encourage people to go around the system, which would defeat the whole purpose.
Put the quests in a proper increasing difficulty such that the experience you gain from doing one quest is enough to let you move onto the next quest. Think about it this way. Compare Dragon Warrior 1, with Zelda 1 (just for simplicity's sake). In DW, you have to spend hours killing slimes and other lame enemies (aka killing boards in the woods) in order to get your character to be good enough to actually complete the quest part of the game (finding weapons, items, and killing boss characters). On the other hand, in Zelda, the Items you get from completing the first dungeon, is usually all you need when you move onto the second dungeon. The fun part is going through the levels, and beating the boss characters. Not spending hours killing the exact same enemies over and over again. Make it so that you don't have to kill the enemies over and over again.
No, there was no war with Vietnam, it was a "police action". The Americans never actually declared war. I agree, though, the whole embargo is stupid. If Cuba had a bigger population, and more serious things to export than cigars, then the embargo would have been lifted a long time ago.
Couldn't Cuba just export no-label cigars to Mexico, and then people could be buying "mexican" cigars? Seems like it would be difficult to determine the origin of a cigar if there was no identifiable markings on it.
Transfering a live server could be useful at time I guess, although like you said, probably not necessary for the home user. Also, I was aware of the "bare metal hypervisor", which I guess probably has quite a few advantages, since just the host OS can eat up a lot of the machine resources. How bare of a Linux machine can you run VMWare server anyway? You can run Linux itself with very little resources, It should be possible to create a distro that's cut down to just the stuff necessary to run VMWare.
I just can't wait till KDE4 is ready. Then I can have Amarok, Kopete, and most importantly Digikam running on windows. Hopefully it's stable, and runs well.
People are your most important asset, that's why it's probably better to spend an extra $5000 and get a good employee than to spend that $5000 on software that you think will help turn a bad employee into a good one. All the software in the world can't help you if you don't have good employees.
I live in Ontario and my wife worked in daycare. That's standard policy (maybe even law, I can't remember). $10 charge for being late, and if your late more than a certain number of times in a set period than you have to find a new place for your child. I think she even said something about parents being charged for neglect of their children if they were too late too often. Really that's an extreme, but completely understandable for people who would show up an hour or more late, a couple times a week. The other reason stuff like this works is that finding a new daycare can take months. Especially if you want it to be a quality daycare.
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There will probably be programs that will replace the textures, images, and video that contain the ads with other stuff. Unless they're going to show streaming ads, which may make it a little more difficult. Although, you could just make a hack to bypass the streaming altogether and get data from the local disk. Even if you can get My advice is to just not buy the game. If you buy the game, then they assume you are seeing the adverts, and will continue to produce more trash like this. If nobody buys the games, then hopefully they will get a clue, and stop doing stuff like this.
While I don't have any experience with the newer 3G wireless internet services and other such things, using my CDMA phone with 1X internet is painfully slow, even for playing the online "who wants to be a millionaire" game, or even load up the google mobile search page. Not only that the batter gets drained pretty fast if you're doing any kind of prolonged surfing. I imagine that anything faster would just draw more battery power. I'm not sure whether mobile internet will ever be a good thing. Even if you had 802.11x, most laptops have severely reduced battery life if you're using the WiFi chip.
Think of it like treating cancer with chemotherapy. If you don't treat the person they will die. However, using this technique, if you catch it early enough, you can kill all the infected cells without killing the host. If you wait too long, the number of cells you have to kill becomes higher, and the risk of death to the host becomes higher. This is basically how chemotherapy and radiation treatment work. You kill all the cells in the affected area, and hope you don't kill the host in the process.
Maybe they should rename the comic to Cancel/Allow.
Why not just have a trackball? Then you can just rest it on your leg or whatever, you don't need a flat surface, and you don't need any fancy new stuff. I use a trackball all the time, it's really great. I got it because I don't have a lot of desk space, and was tired of having to devote so much space to a mouse.
Does it, or does it debunk the second report? It was my understanding that the first report included absolutely everything available for the distro, while the second report included less stuff, but still tons of stuff that isn't included in a base "windows" install.
Do you have a pacemaker or something like that?
First, I find 3% to be quite high. Having a 1:30 chance of a product you buy breaking isn't very good odds. Also, A lot of the time the stuff you get as replacements will be refurbs, an shipped by UPS who takes less care with the packages then the people who ship products for the retailers. Also, they probably aren't counting replacements on the replacements, just on replacements of original sales.
Although it's not "over"heating, and I haven't had any actual problems yet, does anybody else find that their Wii gets quite hot when you leave it in standby mode, with WiiConnect 24 turned on. I've only had my Wii about a month, but I really think sometimes that I should turn off the WiiConnect 24 because of how hot it gets, and I don't want the heat to get to it after a year and a half, meaning I'll have to buy another one. I really think they should leave the fan on. Or at least have it run intermittently. It's not like it's actually loud enough to hear.
It seems like the entire US government is completely bought. Microsoft, RIAA/MPAA, Health Insurance companies, and all the other lobbyists have basically got the entire governemnt wrapped around their little finger. Don't the American people want to put a stop to this. It isn't good that corporations can just give unlimited amounts of money (or any at all) to politicians just to get their way. Corporations aren't a voting entity, they shouldn't be allowed to sponsor politicians.
I guess I'm just into different games, but what's the point of advancement just for advancement. So what if you're level 70 if all you ever do is kill boars in the forest. If it's all just for bragging rights, then I don't see why they are so popular. I think it would be much more fulfilling to say I beat quest A when I was only at level X, then to say I got to level 70. Anybody can get to a certain level if they just play long enough, it doesn't say anything about how good you are at a game.
I was a little confused when I first read the headline, and the I saw the word Radeon and I remembered that AMD bought ATI. However, aren't they still using the ATI name when selling these cards? Wouldn't it be a little less confusing to say "ATI Finally Launches Low-Price DX10 Cards"? Anyway, if they have dropped the ATI name, I think it's a bad move. ATI had a pretty good reputation. Changing to a different name seems like a bold move.
I guess things work a little differently south of the border (I'm in Canada), but I thought the whole criminal/non-criminal offense thing worked the same way. When you're caught for speeding, you don't get a criminal record, because it's not a criminal offense. Also, breaking a contract, while not against criminal law, is against civil law. Civil law is part of the law, just as traffic offenses and city bylaws are included in the law. There is also quite a bit of moral stigma with breaking contracts. Try becoming a contractor (like a plumber), and then break all your contracts, when the job is only half done, and see how much business you get.
Seriously. It's not a good idea for MS to mess with their distribution channel. With Dell starting to see Ubuntu, it's not a good idea to give the vendors and more reason to push Linux on their customers.
But then they have to make lots of quests with varying difficulty. When you're playing these kinds of games, there's only 2 things you can do. That is, complete a quest, or kill boars in the forest. Make the game have enough quests at each difficultly level such that you don't have walk in circles killing the same enemy over and over again just to have enough experience. Make it interesting to obtain the experience, and the game will be fun. If you look at just about any other RPG out there, they are all very linear. So all Zelda does is provide the same kind of game without "the grind". I haven't played any MMORPGs, but what about them makes them so "open ended"? Is there still not quests you have to complete, and you have to do them in increasing difficulty? Maybe there's more side quests and stuff, but I still don't see why they couldn't completely get rid of "the grind".
Well, it's still illegal. It's not a criminal offence, but it is illegal. Just like speeding isn't a criminal offence, but you can still be ticketed for speeding. The law consists of many thing, including the criminal code, highway traffic act, and many other things. Otherwise, why do you think so many "law"yers get involved in making contracts.
I would like to see an MMORPG where the creators of the game encouraged selling and trading of items. Build the payment system into the game. It wouldn't be that hard to implement the system, and would get rid of a lot of the fraud, and other problems. There wouldn't be a need for a trust rating, because the purchase would be able to see exactly what they are buying, and they would always have it transfered to their character. Also, the sell would always receive their money. Why don't the game creators do this. There obviously a market for it. Although I would suggest against any portion of the sales going to the game company, as that would just encourage people to go around the system, which would defeat the whole purpose.
Put the quests in a proper increasing difficulty such that the experience you gain from doing one quest is enough to let you move onto the next quest. Think about it this way. Compare Dragon Warrior 1, with Zelda 1 (just for simplicity's sake). In DW, you have to spend hours killing slimes and other lame enemies (aka killing boards in the woods) in order to get your character to be good enough to actually complete the quest part of the game (finding weapons, items, and killing boss characters). On the other hand, in Zelda, the Items you get from completing the first dungeon, is usually all you need when you move onto the second dungeon. The fun part is going through the levels, and beating the boss characters. Not spending hours killing the exact same enemies over and over again. Make it so that you don't have to kill the enemies over and over again.
No, there was no war with Vietnam, it was a "police action". The Americans never actually declared war. I agree, though, the whole embargo is stupid. If Cuba had a bigger population, and more serious things to export than cigars, then the embargo would have been lifted a long time ago.
Couldn't Cuba just export no-label cigars to Mexico, and then people could be buying "mexican" cigars? Seems like it would be difficult to determine the origin of a cigar if there was no identifiable markings on it.
Transfering a live server could be useful at time I guess, although like you said, probably not necessary for the home user. Also, I was aware of the "bare metal hypervisor", which I guess probably has quite a few advantages, since just the host OS can eat up a lot of the machine resources. How bare of a Linux machine can you run VMWare server anyway? You can run Linux itself with very little resources, It should be possible to create a distro that's cut down to just the stuff necessary to run VMWare.
I just can't wait till KDE4 is ready. Then I can have Amarok, Kopete, and most importantly Digikam running on windows. Hopefully it's stable, and runs well.
Could you outline some of the features on ESX that you find really attractive? As a home user, I find that VMWare server fits just about all my needs.
People are your most important asset, that's why it's probably better to spend an extra $5000 and get a good employee than to spend that $5000 on software that you think will help turn a bad employee into a good one. All the software in the world can't help you if you don't have good employees.
I live in Ontario and my wife worked in daycare. That's standard policy (maybe even law, I can't remember). $10 charge for being late, and if your late more than a certain number of times in a set period than you have to find a new place for your child. I think she even said something about parents being charged for neglect of their children if they were too late too often. Really that's an extreme, but completely understandable for people who would show up an hour or more late, a couple times a week. The other reason stuff like this works is that finding a new daycare can take months. Especially if you want it to be a quality daycare.