Frankly, I'm amazed at how many poeple recieve these. While I know a lot of computer illterate people, and recieve on the border of 10 to 15 pieces of spam each day on my ISP email adress, I never recieved a single email containing the "I love You", SoBig or any other virus from poeple I know or don'y. And I'm not a social recluse either, so my email is in a lot of adress book. Funny thing is, I have always been wondering why I never received these viruses by email. After all, I'm a pretty easy target. I run Outlook Express and when I started roaming the web 8 years ago, people didn't really mind giving their ISP email adress for anything from Amazon.com to Real Media to Microsoft back then, and I didn't mind either. Since then I've been burned by some of these companies and must have sold my email adress to some penis enlargment company or porn site.
So just to be sure, I have Norton Antivirus fully updated, and it has flagged only one or two pieces of mail in the past month as having a virus in them and while I try to keep up with the recent virus outbreaks, the name didn't ring a bell, so it must have been pretty benign or rare.
So, the question is, what did you people do to get these? I should be the one receiving them, and I never got a single one high-profile virus. As for the obvious answer how NOT to recieve these, well there is none, since even if you do run Linux, you'll still receive them, even tough they won't affect you at all.
Don't worry, I think it has been established now that most if not all innovative features in UI these days are done by Apple, and the mimicked by OSS and Microsoft.
ABC's Alias second season toyed with that idea. I'm not through season two yet, but in it the Russian government was using a special test in the 80s with question that don't seem appropriate for the normal 6-8 year old. Then based on the results they flag certain kids as potential spy material and recruit them years later. The thing is the test was given to AMERICAN students in the United States (someone must have been working as a double agent in the minitry of education or something to pull this out). So basically, Russia was recruting american kids and used them as spies against their own country. Well, that's what I got from the show's first 7 episode. I'll be watching the rest of the tapes pretty soon.
Not sure about that, since it's a few months off. Project Gotham 2 could be a killer app before that. There's a good chance that Sudeki and Halo 2 might come out before this game too, and, especially in the case of Halo 2, there is no doubt in my mind these games will be killer apps.
Universal Studios owns the rights to make movies of the LotR works No they don't. New Line Cinema does. And Alliance Atlantis does the distribution I think.
What was best about the ending about this RPG is that you got a sense of where everybody was going to be after the story ended. Something you don't always get in RPGs.
The first time I said cheap as in price. But the problem is that when a component is cheap(as in price) in the computer world it oftens also means cheap in a physical way. That's why I gave the example of my CPU fan. It was really cheap (pun intended).
People have accepted paying 2000$CAN dollars for a computer, but if you're going to raise it another 150$ or 200$ for a water cooler, then a lot of people are going to buy cheap parts in order to get the water cooler.
It would be like when the first 1000$ 2Ghz P4s came out. Very fast CPU (well, they wanted you to think that, but that's beside the point), and to meet their 1500$ price tag, they had to give you PC133 ram, integrated audio/video or a TNT2 with SB16 Pro, no USB, etc.
So even if this water cooler thingy becomes good enough, I think it'll always cost much more than a CPU fan+heat sink so the consumer will have to trade quality elsewhere to get the price "right".
And then, what's the use of having a super CPU that is water cooled if it's always waiting for every other peripherals. (well, I know that it is ALWAYS waiting for other peripherals, but you probably get my point)
To have mass public acceptance, it has to be pretty cheap to buy. And by being cheap to buy, it may also be cheap material, or sub-par, so it may have more chances to leak. I've been burned (more exactly my CPU) twice by a cheap CPU fan and an AMD CPU fan. The last thing I need now if being "flooded" by a cheap watercooler. Especially since a burned CPU breaks the CPU and the motherboard most of the time, but water spilled on a running motherboard, that's gonna do a LOT of damage.
1) The price of movies and condiments are just ludicrous. Prices have triped and quadrupled in the last 15 years. While the price of the tickets is too much, the MPAA doesn't control the price of the food. That's the movie theaters fault. If you want cheaper condiments, then they have to make the tickets cost more because about 50% of the money a movie theater makes is from food. Another percentage of that is the arcades. So profit of movies are very low on the movie tickets for the movie theater. Of course, if movie studios asked less for a showing of a movie, maybe the ticket prices would get lower, but not the food. That's where the real money is.
2) Second run movie houses have become more popular. Why spend $15.00 to see a movie when you can wait 6 weeks and see the same flick for $6.00? 3) Home theatre systems have improved to the point where picture quality and sound are really, really good. As for these two points, well, it's all a matter of taste. I'm a big movie fan. We have a home projector with a 80 inch screen, Dolby Digital 6.1 setup and nicely cushionned chairs. The windows are perfectly draped so it's as dark as in a movie theater when you watch a movie at my house. The thing is, I still go to the movies about 2 or 3 times a month. While not all theaters are the same, were I live in Canada my local movie theater is really good. The sound and picture are both state of the art. So it's all of question of size and quality. Personnally, I prefer going to the movies because the screen is so much bigger than at my house and I feel more immersed. Also, some movies like Lord of the Rings are meant to be played in a movie theater. Seeing them only on DVD or video should be a crime;). Also, it's great going out of your house for a few hours and be surrounded by people who share the same love of movies as you and react when something big happens on screen.
Huh, Xbox has a programmable vertex shader. It's not as advanced as a GeForce FX or ATI 9700, but don't forget that vertex and pixel shaders have been around since the GeForce 3 and that the Xbox has something like a GeForce 3.5.
There is an unlimited supply of power in the Universe A few people have tried to prove you wrong with flashy theories of themodynamics and such. I don't know nothing of them, and I don't care if they're right or wrong. Even if there was unlimited power in the universe, there ISN'T unlimited power and resource of earth. So yeah, there ought to be better ways to produce energy.
In 2000, there was a huge blackout in Quebec, Canada. It was in winter tough. There was a huge storm and ice was everywhere. Thousands of trees, old of young broke under the weight of the ice that accumulated on the branches.
But worst, the gigantic power towers also crumbled under the overwhelming weight of the ice. And when the towers weren't collapsing, it was the power lines who broke.
We were lucky and didn't have electricity only for 3 days (I felt cheated since if it had happened one week later I would have missed school.) But other people who were less lucky lost electricity for 3 whole weeks. It's pretty hard to warm up when you don't have a fireplace and there's no electricity.
You had to keep the water all day long otherwise the pipes were so cold that water turned to to ice inside them and many people were devastated because pipes ruptured and had to have their pipes repaired.
Can you tell me what these sources are? I'd really like to read about that. Have they given any hints to what may be used instead? Power 64? Motorola, SPARCS?
If you ever played on a Xbox connected with a 5.1 optical out, you'd be amazed to hear it. Since the audio in the Xbox must not be too different than the audio in the nForce, I'd say that the audio on the nForce must be pretty good. Nothing seems better of course than a Creative card at consumer level, but the Xbox audio is solid.
I would have thought that Microsoft might partner with AMD to get an Athlon 64 or something like that in there instead. It would help reduce the cost of an Xbox. I just hope this wouldn't cripple AMD in any way or cost them a bundle of money. They could always pull an nVidia tough and keep their share of money. That would help them make a few extra bucks at MS expense.
... people tend to forget that nVidia was not only supplying the video solution for the Xbox, but also the networking and audio components. So with nVidia out of the picture, who is going to do the audio and networking? Does ATI have any GOOD audio and network chipsets? I know they have some sort of motherboard chipset "a la nForce", but does it feature decent 5.1 audio and networking?
Yeah but in some way, we'd all like to play another film noir game like Max Payne since the first one was so good. So if the game looks like Max Payne, play's like Max Payne and is written like Max Payne, then why the hell not call it Max Payne 2? It's not as if you're going to fool anyone if you call it something else. It's the same company who does the game.
But I agree with you tough on one point, the ending was really nice, and I can't really see a way for him to get out of his relatively unscathed. I mean, this isn't some Hollywood ending story. They better come up with something good to explain how he got out of this. But even if the explanation is bad, that won't certainly not prevent me from at least renting it when it comes out.
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Frankly, I'm amazed at how many poeple recieve these. While I know a lot of computer illterate people, and recieve on the border of 10 to 15 pieces of spam each day on my ISP email adress, I never recieved a single email containing the "I love You", SoBig or any other virus from poeple I know or don'y. And I'm not a social recluse either, so my email is in a lot of adress book. Funny thing is, I have always been wondering why I never received these viruses by email. After all, I'm a pretty easy target. I run Outlook Express and when I started roaming the web 8 years ago, people didn't really mind giving their ISP email adress for anything from Amazon.com to Real Media to Microsoft back then, and I didn't mind either. Since then I've been burned by some of these companies and must have sold my email adress to some penis enlargment company or porn site.
So just to be sure, I have Norton Antivirus fully updated, and it has flagged only one or two pieces of mail in the past month as having a virus in them and while I try to keep up with the recent virus outbreaks, the name didn't ring a bell, so it must have been pretty benign or rare.
So, the question is, what did you people do to get these? I should be the one receiving them, and I never got a single one high-profile virus. As for the obvious answer how NOT to recieve these, well there is none, since even if you do run Linux, you'll still receive them, even tough they won't affect you at all.
Don't worry, I think it has been established now that most if not all innovative features in UI these days are done by Apple, and the mimicked by OSS and Microsoft.
ABC's Alias second season toyed with that idea. I'm not through season two yet, but in it the Russian government was using a special test in the 80s with question that don't seem appropriate for the normal 6-8 year old. Then based on the results they flag certain kids as potential spy material and recruit them years later. The thing is the test was given to AMERICAN students in the United States (someone must have been working as a double agent in the minitry of education or something to pull this out). So basically, Russia was recruting american kids and used them as spies against their own country. Well, that's what I got from the show's first 7 episode. I'll be watching the rest of the tapes pretty soon.
You know the worst part? It DOES exists : http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/917899.asp
It's coming out this year on september 23.
Not sure about that, since it's a few months off. Project Gotham 2 could be a killer app before that. There's a good chance that Sudeki and Halo 2 might come out before this game too, and, especially in the case of Halo 2, there is no doubt in my mind these games will be killer apps.
Universal Studios owns the rights to make movies of the LotR works
No they don't. New Line Cinema does. And Alliance Atlantis does the distribution I think.
... and it did. Damn that was a great game!
What was best about the ending about this RPG is that you got a sense of where everybody was going to be after the story ended. Something you don't always get in RPGs.
The first time I said cheap as in price. But the problem is that when a component is cheap(as in price) in the computer world it oftens also means cheap in a physical way. That's why I gave the example of my CPU fan. It was really cheap (pun intended).
People have accepted paying 2000$CAN dollars for a computer, but if you're going to raise it another 150$ or 200$ for a water cooler, then a lot of people are going to buy cheap parts in order to get the water cooler.
It would be like when the first 1000$ 2Ghz P4s came out. Very fast CPU (well, they wanted you to think that, but that's beside the point), and to meet their 1500$ price tag, they had to give you PC133 ram, integrated audio/video or a TNT2 with SB16 Pro, no USB, etc.
So even if this water cooler thingy becomes good enough, I think it'll always cost much more than a CPU fan+heat sink so the consumer will have to trade quality elsewhere to get the price "right".
And then, what's the use of having a super CPU that is water cooled if it's always waiting for every other peripherals. (well, I know that it is ALWAYS waiting for other peripherals, but you probably get my point)
To have mass public acceptance, it has to be pretty cheap to buy. And by being cheap to buy, it may also be cheap material, or sub-par, so it may have more chances to leak. I've been burned (more exactly my CPU) twice by a cheap CPU fan and an AMD CPU fan. The last thing I need now if being "flooded" by a cheap watercooler. Especially since a burned CPU breaks the CPU and the motherboard most of the time, but water spilled on a running motherboard, that's gonna do a LOT of damage.
I think the real next computing challenge would be to make Windows virus-free. :p
You're totally right. I've just responded more or less the same thing then you did to the poster, but you said it in less word than me. Kudos! :p
1) The price of movies and condiments are just ludicrous. Prices have triped and quadrupled in the last 15 years.
;). Also, it's great going out of your house for a few hours and be surrounded by people who share the same love of movies as you and react when something big happens on screen.
While the price of the tickets is too much, the MPAA doesn't control the price of the food. That's the movie theaters fault. If you want cheaper condiments, then they have to make the tickets cost more because about 50% of the money a movie theater makes is from food. Another percentage of that is the arcades. So profit of movies are very low on the movie tickets for the movie theater. Of course, if movie studios asked less for a showing of a movie, maybe the ticket prices would get lower, but not the food. That's where the real money is.
2) Second run movie houses have become more popular. Why spend $15.00 to see a movie when you can wait 6 weeks and see the same flick for $6.00?
3) Home theatre systems have improved to the point where picture quality and sound are really, really good.
As for these two points, well, it's all a matter of taste. I'm a big movie fan. We have a home projector with a 80 inch screen, Dolby Digital 6.1 setup and nicely cushionned chairs. The windows are perfectly draped so it's as dark as in a movie theater when you watch a movie at my house. The thing is, I still go to the movies about 2 or 3 times a month. While not all theaters are the same, were I live in Canada my local movie theater is really good. The sound and picture are both state of the art. So it's all of question of size and quality. Personnally, I prefer going to the movies because the screen is so much bigger than at my house and I feel more immersed. Also, some movies like Lord of the Rings are meant to be played in a movie theater. Seeing them only on DVD or video should be a crime
Then they better start by fixing the video stream links first if they want us to buy into their idea.
... and never bought a single game, they'll have to finally BUY a game if they want to hack their PS2. :p
Huh, Xbox has a programmable vertex shader. It's not as advanced as a GeForce FX or ATI 9700, but don't forget that vertex and pixel shaders have been around since the GeForce 3 and that the Xbox has something like a GeForce 3.5.
Sure, I've heard this name before. But the geek factor made me thing of evangelions first. :p
What, so now they've got rendering backends in Evangelions?
There is an unlimited supply of power in the Universe
A few people have tried to prove you wrong with flashy theories of themodynamics and such. I don't know nothing of them, and I don't care if they're right or wrong. Even if there was unlimited power in the universe, there ISN'T unlimited power and resource of earth. So yeah, there ought to be better ways to produce energy.
In 2000, there was a huge blackout in Quebec, Canada. It was in winter tough. There was a huge storm and ice was everywhere. Thousands of trees, old of young broke under the weight of the ice that accumulated on the branches.
But worst, the gigantic power towers also crumbled under the overwhelming weight of the ice. And when the towers weren't collapsing, it was the power lines who broke.
We were lucky and didn't have electricity only for 3 days (I felt cheated since if it had happened one week later I would have missed school.) But other people who were less lucky lost electricity for 3 whole weeks. It's pretty hard to warm up when you don't have a fireplace and there's no electricity.
You had to keep the water all day long otherwise the pipes were so cold that water turned to to ice inside them and many people were devastated because pipes ruptured and had to have their pipes repaired.
controllers are wireless (with inductive charging base stations),
I've got even better : Controllers are powered by the heat dissipated by the sweaty palms of the player as he or she plays a game.*
*Disclaimer : Product may not work as intended with zen people.
Can you tell me what these sources are? I'd really like to read about that. Have they given any hints to what may be used instead? Power 64? Motorola, SPARCS?
If you ever played on a Xbox connected with a 5.1 optical out, you'd be amazed to hear it. Since the audio in the Xbox must not be too different than the audio in the nForce, I'd say that the audio on the nForce must be pretty good. Nothing seems better of course than a Creative card at consumer level, but the Xbox audio is solid.
I would have thought that Microsoft might partner with AMD to get an Athlon 64 or something like that in there instead. It would help reduce the cost of an Xbox. I just hope this wouldn't cripple AMD in any way or cost them a bundle of money. They could always pull an nVidia tough and keep their share of money. That would help them make a few extra bucks at MS expense.
... people tend to forget that nVidia was not only supplying the video solution for the Xbox, but also the networking and audio components. So with nVidia out of the picture, who is going to do the audio and networking? Does ATI have any GOOD audio and network chipsets? I know they have some sort of motherboard chipset "a la nForce", but does it feature decent 5.1 audio and networking?
Yeah but in some way, we'd all like to play another film noir game like Max Payne since the first one was so good. So if the game looks like Max Payne, play's like Max Payne and is written like Max Payne, then why the hell not call it Max Payne 2? It's not as if you're going to fool anyone if you call it something else. It's the same company who does the game.
But I agree with you tough on one point, the ending was really nice, and I can't really see a way for him to get out of his relatively unscathed. I mean, this isn't some Hollywood ending story. They better come up with something good to explain how he got out of this. But even if the explanation is bad, that won't certainly not prevent me from at least renting it when it comes out.