...which is always Madden. I know the quality will be good, and know the gameplay. I bought NFL2k a few years ago, and while good, I still preferred Madden.
Why buy 4 different versions of the Madden when all they do is update the player list? EA must love you.
Were I am at the cable company is switching channels to digital cable one by one and you cannot get them unless you rent their box. BTW, digital cable here is nearly $100/month (it's the top package).
I feel sorry for you. Where I live I have digital cable, but only on channels above 100. All channels below 100 (basically 98% of the TV I watch) is analog so I just need a cable ready TV.
If he lives in place where you have to take one car train to get, then yes. If you live in Tokyo or Osaka you can get 100Mbps optical directly into your unit for $50 a month. Though, optical isn't as widely available as the 26Mbps Yahoo! Japan ADSL BB service which is around $30.
OK, so you're comparing high speed Internet access in a single city in Tokyo to broadband speeds on average over 9 million square kilometers of the United States? That seems unfair. New York City could undergo the same kind of implementation if they wanted and push 100Mbit service to your dwelling, but to expect it in sparsely populated areas of the US is ridiculous. I'm absolutely thrilled I get 6Mbps/768Kbps ADSL service in my suburban Ohio home.
I just moved into a new home less than two weeks ago. The house didn't have any telephone service coming into it, so I had to order it from the local telephone company (Bell Canada).
When you say "new home", do you mean just recently built or do you mean it's a new home to you but it's actually 85 years old on a farm somewhere? If you just had a new home constructed and didn't bother to have the contractor run cabling for telephones (and even ethernet, cable TV, etc.) before the drywall went in you're nuts.
Next thing you know these bastards are going to find a way to stick automated speed traps throughout the state and just mail you a ticket if you're caught speeding. Welcome to John Ashcroft's Amerika. Why not just implant a microchip under our skin and mail us a ticket anytime we do anything wrong?
Why would they want to take such a risk by running Internet Explorer?
Because many web based applications require it. Our SAP system for procurement for instance requires IE 6 on a Windows box. Our Mac users must use a Citrix server to access Windows to access the system. It's very stupid to come up with such a broken system, but that's the way the cookie crumbles.
Our time card program is another app that simply doesn't work on anything other than IE 6 on Windows.
I was going to suggest a spoiler, but after looking at the case I notice it already has 2. That keeps it from floating away and gives the G5 better traction for those hard core photoshop sessions.
Want a better hardware implementation of TiVo? Take the software and port it to your toaster. Quit whining that they're not doing what YOU want them to do. DIY.
I swear to Christ some of you people must be getting free TiVos or something. I've never advocated ANYTHING as rabidly as TiVo fanboys do. They rival Mac and Amiga fanboys in the blind faith they have in their devices. I've used a TiVo and find it absolutely crippled compared to my MythTV box.
So why don't you (for example) charge your mother 1/5 of what the TiVo subscription fees to maintain her xmltv software via ssh.
I'd charge his mother 1/10th of what the TiVo subscription is and just fill out the silly survey for her every 3 months. It's 3 friggin questions the last time I took it. It literally took me 5 seconds and I was set until September. Why would they charge for the data? Cheapass people would just go back to screen scraping which uses 100 times more bandwidth than this does. It's in their best interest to provide it free as long as they provide the listings via the web free at all.
I'm using freevo, but I believe that MythTV uses xmltv also.
I wish more companies would follow Zap2It's lead here in the U.S. and provide listings as direct downloads. You can go into labs.zap2it.com and prepare your North American listings and when you go to connect you just download the channels you setup. It's 100 times better than screen scraping the old web site and all you have to do is fill out a 2 or 3 question survey every 3 months to maintain your free membership. All my problems with MythTV in the past were not really mythtv, but xmltv breaking. All zap2it had to do was change a single character in their website display and xmltv would break requiring a new release which usually meant a new release of MythTV was needed. It was fscking ridiculous. As a North American user I'm glad I won't have to worry about that anymore.
They provide source code, under the GPL, for all GPL licensed software that they use. You can get this from their website. Doesn't that meet all the GPL's requirements?
No. They lock you out of modifying your machine in any way, or at least they attempt to. That's not in the spirit of open source software. If TiVo actually cared about the community instead of just using them for cheap labor to build a royalty free base OS they'd put a serial console port and an ethernet NIC on it and provide instructions on how you can ssh into the TiVo and start hacking away at it to do other things like MP3 playing or streaming movies from a PC ala ReplayTV's DVarchive project. I will never, ever understand supposedly open source advocates using and promoting TiVos, possibly the most closed PVR system available.
And before the TiVo fanboy moderators mod me down as a troll, I'd like to point out that I run a *real* open source Linux PVR system using MythTV on the backend w/Debian GNU/Linux as the base OS and an Via Epia M10000 as a frontend system using Minimyth (www.linpvr.org). Both these projects have made making a Linux PVR a snap.
City of Heroes is pretty fun. I've never bought a MMORPG before and I was hesitent to plunk down a monthly fee for an online game (I'm used to playing FPS's where the servers are free), but I've enjoyed this for the 3 days I've been playing it.
The only oddity I find with this genre is that it seems to take a lot of time and dedication to sit and build up a character. I played for about 16 hours since Saturday and only built up a level 9 blaster character, but in the meantime I ended up seriously pissing off my wife because I've been ignoring her.
Is zoning out of reality a normal side effect of playing MMORPGs or am I just weird? I seem to recall people referring to Everquest as "Evercrack" so I'm worried I may have stumbled down a slippery slope. Perhaps I should flee back to Desert Combat and FPS games before it's too late.
I had Windows2000 running just fine on a Celeron 466MHz box with 128 megs of RAM. My old desktop was a PIII-500 w/512 MB of RAM running Windows2000 and it ran wonderfully, but I wanted to play better games than Counter-Strike which required more CPU power so I had to upgrade to an Athlon.
You pay for pre-installed windows. (assuming it's a brand-name vendor and not an home-brew)
Not really. They buy them in such bulk that you're only paying less than $50 for Windows. That's less than the cost of the old "free" Red Hat 9 and Mandrake 10. I don't mind paying a few bucks extra to get a decent operating system I can use to play games.
Because we have all kinds of time to keep up with Windows updates. In fact, I find myself scanning windowsupdate.com, forlornly pining for new patches, because my life is so bitter and empty, and downloading patches is the only bright spot in my dreary existance.
Oh quit giving that stupid excuse for your laziness. Windows Automatic Updates works just fine. Set it to download patches and inform you when they're ready to install and just click the damn ok button once in awhile. If you're even more lazy then just set it to automatically download and apply in the middle of the night. You guys make it seem like it's a full time job to keep your home system up to date. I use my Windows box only on the weekends to play games and it's ALWAYS patched.
Not letting people patch isn't motivation for somebody to spend hundreds on software they already have, but blatant disregard of the infastructure of the internet as a whole. They allow these machines to stay online and keep the spam flowing.
Nope, the software pirates allow the machines to stay online. Microsoft should make a deal with all software vendors to require them to put in code that checks to make sure all the latest updates are applied to the Windows box before you're allowed to install the software. Make the pirates cry in their beer over their stolen copy. If you're too fscking cheap to buy it legitimately then go use a free operating system! Microsoft has just as much right to profit as anyone else does.
Questions like this article poses remind me of when I ask the question "Should I buy a blue or a gray flying car?" A normal person standing back from the situation would think you absolutely daft for even asking. Of course it should be abolished IF there was some other way to regulate the airwaves, but there's not. I sure as hell don't want corporations choosing who, what, when, and how we get to use the airwaves. Government is perfect for situations like this, if only they couldn't be corrupted by those same evil corporations I fear would be horrible overseers of our national public airwaves.
Apple is primarily a consumer oriented company. It is argued here that by spinning off the enterprise side of Apple, each part would be stronger and freer to pursue what each does best.
You cannot compete in the marketplace if you ignore the enterprise. Your desktop systems could be the best ever imagined, but if the server side is dominated by Microsoft and it's incompatible protocols and system you will be doomed to be relegated to the homes of a few die-hard fanatics who still clutch their 7 year old PowerMacs and claim they are just as fast as the newest Pentium 4's.
You sound like a college student with $500 burning a hole in your pocket. Cash reserves shouldn't be squandered on crap. Apple will need that cash to stay afloat in the coming years. It's already quite clear they're a dying company. Their recent hardware lines have been abysmal failures and people are starting to wake up from their OS X induced fantasies and realize that for $3000 they could get a kickass AMD Athlon 64 desktop system running Linux that would trounce a G5 and for a mere $1500 they can get an AMD Athlon 64 laptop that puts all the Powerbooks to shame in terms of speed. Mark my words today, Apple will be bankrupt in 5 years.
I'd second that recommendation for Netgear. My MR814 (802.11b) wireless router has been great. It replaced a dead D-Link DWL-1000AP access point and since then I've had MUCH higher signals throughout the house with it in the exact same location. It's the best $30 after rebate I've ever spent on wireless.:-) I suppose soon I should consider upgrading to 802.11g, but my iBook's airport card only supports 802.11b so it's kind of pointless until I get a Powerbook.
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Why buy 4 different versions of the Madden when all they do is update the player list? EA must love you.
I feel sorry for you. Where I live I have digital cable, but only on channels above 100. All channels below 100 (basically 98% of the TV I watch) is analog so I just need a cable ready TV.
OK, so you're comparing high speed Internet access in a single city in Tokyo to broadband speeds on average over 9 million square kilometers of the United States? That seems unfair. New York City could undergo the same kind of implementation if they wanted and push 100Mbit service to your dwelling, but to expect it in sparsely populated areas of the US is ridiculous. I'm absolutely thrilled I get 6Mbps/768Kbps ADSL service in my suburban Ohio home.
When you say "new home", do you mean just recently built or do you mean it's a new home to you but it's actually 85 years old on a farm somewhere? If you just had a new home constructed and didn't bother to have the contractor run cabling for telephones (and even ethernet, cable TV, etc.) before the drywall went in you're nuts.
Next thing you know these bastards are going to find a way to stick automated speed traps throughout the state and just mail you a ticket if you're caught speeding. Welcome to John Ashcroft's Amerika. Why not just implant a microchip under our skin and mail us a ticket anytime we do anything wrong?
Holy crap that's useful. I never knew you could do that. Thanks. That's easier than finding the config file and editing it by hand.
Because many web based applications require it. Our SAP system for procurement for instance requires IE 6 on a Windows box. Our Mac users must use a Citrix server to access Windows to access the system. It's very stupid to come up with such a broken system, but that's the way the cookie crumbles.
Our time card program is another app that simply doesn't work on anything other than IE 6 on Windows.
The machine senses the loss of the pump, alerts you and shuts down before it overheats? What if a fan (or in the G5's case, all 9 fans) failed?
I was going to suggest a spoiler, but after looking at the case I notice it already has 2. That keeps it from floating away and gives the G5 better traction for those hard core photoshop sessions.
I don't. I rent them at the local video store or buy the DVD if I really like it. Quit beeing a leech.
I swear to Christ some of you people must be getting free TiVos or something. I've never advocated ANYTHING as rabidly as TiVo fanboys do. They rival Mac and Amiga fanboys in the blind faith they have in their devices. I've used a TiVo and find it absolutely crippled compared to my MythTV box.
I'd charge his mother 1/10th of what the TiVo subscription is and just fill out the silly survey for her every 3 months. It's 3 friggin questions the last time I took it. It literally took me 5 seconds and I was set until September. Why would they charge for the data? Cheapass people would just go back to screen scraping which uses 100 times more bandwidth than this does. It's in their best interest to provide it free as long as they provide the listings via the web free at all.
I wish more companies would follow Zap2It's lead here in the U.S. and provide listings as direct downloads. You can go into labs.zap2it.com and prepare your North American listings and when you go to connect you just download the channels you setup. It's 100 times better than screen scraping the old web site and all you have to do is fill out a 2 or 3 question survey every 3 months to maintain your free membership. All my problems with MythTV in the past were not really mythtv, but xmltv breaking. All zap2it had to do was change a single character in their website display and xmltv would break requiring a new release which usually meant a new release of MythTV was needed. It was fscking ridiculous. As a North American user I'm glad I won't have to worry about that anymore.
No. They lock you out of modifying your machine in any way, or at least they attempt to. That's not in the spirit of open source software. If TiVo actually cared about the community instead of just using them for cheap labor to build a royalty free base OS they'd put a serial console port and an ethernet NIC on it and provide instructions on how you can ssh into the TiVo and start hacking away at it to do other things like MP3 playing or streaming movies from a PC ala ReplayTV's DVarchive project. I will never, ever understand supposedly open source advocates using and promoting TiVos, possibly the most closed PVR system available.
And before the TiVo fanboy moderators mod me down as a troll, I'd like to point out that I run a *real* open source Linux PVR system using MythTV on the backend w/Debian GNU/Linux as the base OS and an Via Epia M10000 as a frontend system using Minimyth (www.linpvr.org). Both these projects have made making a Linux PVR a snap.
The only oddity I find with this genre is that it seems to take a lot of time and dedication to sit and build up a character. I played for about 16 hours since Saturday and only built up a level 9 blaster character, but in the meantime I ended up seriously pissing off my wife because I've been ignoring her.
Is zoning out of reality a normal side effect of playing MMORPGs or am I just weird? I seem to recall people referring to Everquest as "Evercrack" so I'm worried I may have stumbled down a slippery slope. Perhaps I should flee back to Desert Combat and FPS games before it's too late.
I had Windows2000 running just fine on a Celeron 466MHz box with 128 megs of RAM. My old desktop was a PIII-500 w/512 MB of RAM running Windows2000 and it ran wonderfully, but I wanted to play better games than Counter-Strike which required more CPU power so I had to upgrade to an Athlon.
Not really. They buy them in such bulk that you're only paying less than $50 for Windows. That's less than the cost of the old "free" Red Hat 9 and Mandrake 10. I don't mind paying a few bucks extra to get a decent operating system I can use to play games.
Oh quit giving that stupid excuse for your laziness. Windows Automatic Updates works just fine. Set it to download patches and inform you when they're ready to install and just click the damn ok button once in awhile. If you're even more lazy then just set it to automatically download and apply in the middle of the night. You guys make it seem like it's a full time job to keep your home system up to date. I use my Windows box only on the weekends to play games and it's ALWAYS patched.
Nope, the software pirates allow the machines to stay online. Microsoft should make a deal with all software vendors to require them to put in code that checks to make sure all the latest updates are applied to the Windows box before you're allowed to install the software. Make the pirates cry in their beer over their stolen copy. If you're too fscking cheap to buy it legitimately then go use a free operating system! Microsoft has just as much right to profit as anyone else does.
2600 baud huh? You must've done a little too much LDS during the late 80's to remember having a 2600 baud modem.
If his computer can't handle the 5 simultaneous connections IIS Personal Web Server allows then he should really reconsider running Windows period.
Questions like this article poses remind me of when I ask the question "Should I buy a blue or a gray flying car?" A normal person standing back from the situation would think you absolutely daft for even asking. Of course it should be abolished IF there was some other way to regulate the airwaves, but there's not. I sure as hell don't want corporations choosing who, what, when, and how we get to use the airwaves. Government is perfect for situations like this, if only they couldn't be corrupted by those same evil corporations I fear would be horrible overseers of our national public airwaves.
You cannot compete in the marketplace if you ignore the enterprise. Your desktop systems could be the best ever imagined, but if the server side is dominated by Microsoft and it's incompatible protocols and system you will be doomed to be relegated to the homes of a few die-hard fanatics who still clutch their 7 year old PowerMacs and claim they are just as fast as the newest Pentium 4's.
You sound like a college student with $500 burning a hole in your pocket. Cash reserves shouldn't be squandered on crap. Apple will need that cash to stay afloat in the coming years. It's already quite clear they're a dying company. Their recent hardware lines have been abysmal failures and people are starting to wake up from their OS X induced fantasies and realize that for $3000 they could get a kickass AMD Athlon 64 desktop system running Linux that would trounce a G5 and for a mere $1500 they can get an AMD Athlon 64 laptop that puts all the Powerbooks to shame in terms of speed. Mark my words today, Apple will be bankrupt in 5 years.
I'd second that recommendation for Netgear. My MR814 (802.11b) wireless router has been great. It replaced a dead D-Link DWL-1000AP access point and since then I've had MUCH higher signals throughout the house with it in the exact same location. It's the best $30 after rebate I've ever spent on wireless. :-) I suppose soon I should consider upgrading to 802.11g, but my iBook's airport card only supports 802.11b so it's kind of pointless until I get a Powerbook.