Remember, at the outset of these Terms of Use, where we discussed how you were "licensed" the right to use World of Warcraft, and that your license was "limited"? Well, here is one of the more important areas where these license limitations come into effect. Note that Blizzard Entertainment either owns, or has exclusively licensed, all of the content which appears in World of Warcraft. Therefore, no one has the right to "sell" Blizzard Entertainment's content, except Blizzard Entertainment! So Blizzard Entertainment does not recognize any property claims outside of World of Warcraft of the purported "sale" in the "real world" of anything related to World of Warcraft. Accordingly, you may not sell items for "real" money or trade items for things of value outside of World of Warcraft.
Safari, on the other hand, will take you to http://www.cat.com by default. But typing in "barnes and noble" will only try "http://www.barnes%20and%20noble.com".
Other options: using the "Eject" button on the keyboard. Or the "Eject" buttons in iTunes for iPods or Audio CDs. And let's not forget the contextual menu's "Eject" option for mounted devices. I guess you could probably use "umount", for that matter.
And I really don't remember seeing Mountain Dew in THPS2.
Well, I can't find a good screenshot of it, but Google for "thps mountain dew downhill jam", and you'll see that many a walkthrough mentions the "Mountain Dew billboard" on the Downhill Jam level, looks like THPS1.
I've played through a lot of THUG2 by this point, for the PS2; the PC version appears to be what they're targeting this gimmick towards, though.
But isn't it already a walking ad for skateboarding companies (volcom, girl, etc.) and all of their clothing/boards/other gear/skate videos, plus an ad for all of the musicians on the soundtracks... and there's been product placement bits in these games forever. Weren't there Mountain Dew ads in THPS1 or THPS2?
My guess is this will be more about product placement than "sit and wait" ads, anyway. Plus, if you see an ad you don't like, you can hop off your board and go paste your graffiti tags over it!
I like to think I could tell the difference- and, thinking of the NES in particular, most of my favorites are games that still seem quite playable to me - Super Mario Bros, Kung Fu, etc.
But then I think of how much time I spent playing Commando.... I actually beat it, repeatedly! I try to play it now, and it's impossible, and doesn't seem terribly fun. But I think that it may well have been a decent game, at the time, in the context of what was available.
I think that some genres stand the test of time better. Tetris will always be Tetris, and will always be fun to people who enjoy Tetris. But then there are some games that just destroy a genre; after playing Burnout 3, no other racing game is nearly as fun (or as fast), and if you've played it, you know what I mean. How can you go back to Pole Position after that?!?
If we didn't have these gaming addicts, who would write all the free game guides and walkthroughs? Waitaminit... are these studies funded by Brady Games?
Companies would most likely need to port their applications before OSX-x86 would be useful.
As someone who frequents multiple hardware platforms, judging by how quickly many applications have been ported over from the BSD and Linux world over to OS X, I don't think this would be a major obstacle. Especially since many of the most useful applications on OS X are open source or provided by Apple themselves. Most Linux enthusiasts I know are really rather fond of OS X itself, if not the price of the hardware, and just wish they would put out an x86 version of it.
Rumor has it that Apple does keep an up-to-date x86 build of OS X in house, probably because, as someone mentioned above, staying reliant on the PowerPC might be folly. On the other hand, the X-Box 2 is reportedly going to be using a PowerPC G5, and one would think that Microsoft would be sticking with some sort of Windows-based kernel on their own gaming platform, so we'll see which way the chipset pendulum swings.
Yeah! I'm glad I'm not the only one scratching my head over that comment. Why compare a store with a media player?
It's like they're comparing apples to... uh...
Keeping in mind: "chaos" != randomness. Chaos is data that appears to have randomness, but discernible patterns can be found in the data; chaos doesn't really come into play with dice rolls, but is found in animal populations, the stock market, weather patterns, and many other seemingly "random" systems.
I would argue that perhaps chaos exists as a fundamental result of the laws of nature, but true randomness can be difficult to find on a macroscopic scale.
Friends have been telling me about these games for years. I just picked them up, and they are (even now) really impressive, fun, funny games.
I would also have to rank Starcraft and Ms. Pac-Man up there. Super Mario Brothers, SMB3, Super Mario World, and the first 3 Sonic games are also standouts in my mind.
I was running Norton Utilities to defrag my (then fairly new) PPC 6100/60 when the power went out. Five minutes later, power was restored, and five hours later, I had about a third of the data back. But it still makes me shudder.
Does anyone ever know what happened to the PPC distro of SuSE? I was looking for it a couple of weeks ago, and it has just sort of "vanished into the ether"... There is absolutely no mention of it on the website, and, although there is a PPC folder on their FTP, I can't seem to download from it without it timing out.
Just curious, because I really liked SuSE when I was using it a couple of years ago. Guess I'll be using YellowDog...
Student C: I'm going to buy that album they put out last year.
Student D: Ooh! I'll throw in a couple bucks if you let me rip a copy!
Seriously, though, it's the big labels that are being hurt more any way. Independent labels have been showing much larger profits, and their artists get a better cut of the profits anyway!
either they took a lot of time and care with the photos, or they're very nice renderings. either way, it looks nifty. but, somehow, unreal.
it'd be nice if it didn't light up, too, and you could just tuck its nice small case away to do be a file/print server. good size for that sort of thing.
Agreed, CCC works very well! It also makes use of psync... or is it rsync?... to allow incremental backups. It will preserve permissions, etc., it's a very elegant program.
L.A. County will testify to that. There's a new @#$%^ strip mall built every week down there. But these guys built a whole world, and it's not made of ugly stucco!
Personally, I am trying to figure out how to get internet connect and CheckPoint to play nice together (L2TP over IPSec). Does anyone know what exactly you have to set up on CP to make this happen? (Or a good resource for this information?)
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I avoided it at all costs, until it was the only place left in town with a copy of World of Warcraft.
Sure, but the sellers might well be banned, too:
From the "Terms Of Use" for WoW:
Section 7. Selling of Items
Remember, at the outset of these Terms of Use, where we discussed how you were "licensed" the right to use World of Warcraft, and that your license was "limited"? Well, here is one of the more important areas where these license limitations come into effect. Note that Blizzard Entertainment either owns, or has exclusively licensed, all of the content which appears in World of Warcraft. Therefore, no one has the right to "sell" Blizzard Entertainment's content, except Blizzard Entertainment! So Blizzard Entertainment does not recognize any property claims outside of World of Warcraft of the purported "sale" in the "real world" of anything related to World of Warcraft. Accordingly, you may not sell items for "real" money or trade items for things of value outside of World of Warcraft.
(Yeah, I read my EULAs.)
Safari, on the other hand, will take you to http://www.cat.com by default. But typing in "barnes and noble" will only try "http://www.barnes%20and%20noble.com".
Other options: using the "Eject" button on the keyboard. Or the "Eject" buttons in iTunes for iPods or Audio CDs. And let's not forget the contextual menu's "Eject" option for mounted devices. I guess you could probably use "umount", for that matter.
And I really don't remember seeing Mountain Dew in THPS2.
Well, I can't find a good screenshot of it, but Google for "thps mountain dew downhill jam", and you'll see that many a walkthrough mentions the "Mountain Dew billboard" on the Downhill Jam level, looks like THPS1.
I've played through a lot of THUG2 by this point, for the PS2; the PC version appears to be what they're targeting this gimmick towards, though.
But isn't it already a walking ad for skateboarding companies (volcom, girl, etc.) and all of their clothing/boards/other gear/skate videos, plus an ad for all of the musicians on the soundtracks... and there's been product placement bits in these games forever. Weren't there Mountain Dew ads in THPS1 or THPS2?
My guess is this will be more about product placement than "sit and wait" ads, anyway. Plus, if you see an ad you don't like, you can hop off your board and go paste your graffiti tags over it!
Will this make the headaches better or worse?
I like to think I could tell the difference- and, thinking of the NES in particular, most of my favorites are games that still seem quite playable to me - Super Mario Bros, Kung Fu, etc.
But then I think of how much time I spent playing Commando.... I actually beat it, repeatedly! I try to play it now, and it's impossible, and doesn't seem terribly fun. But I think that it may well have been a decent game, at the time, in the context of what was available.
I think that some genres stand the test of time better. Tetris will always be Tetris, and will always be fun to people who enjoy Tetris. But then there are some games that just destroy a genre; after playing Burnout 3, no other racing game is nearly as fun (or as fast), and if you've played it, you know what I mean. How can you go back to Pole Position after that?!?
If we didn't have these gaming addicts, who would write all the free game guides and walkthroughs? Waitaminit... are these studies funded by Brady Games?
As someone who frequents multiple hardware platforms, judging by how quickly many applications have been ported over from the BSD and Linux world over to OS X, I don't think this would be a major obstacle. Especially since many of the most useful applications on OS X are open source or provided by Apple themselves. Most Linux enthusiasts I know are really rather fond of OS X itself, if not the price of the hardware, and just wish they would put out an x86 version of it.
Rumor has it that Apple does keep an up-to-date x86 build of OS X in house, probably because, as someone mentioned above, staying reliant on the PowerPC might be folly. On the other hand, the X-Box 2 is reportedly going to be using a PowerPC G5, and one would think that Microsoft would be sticking with some sort of Windows-based kernel on their own gaming platform, so we'll see which way the chipset pendulum swings.
Yeah! I'm glad I'm not the only one scratching my head over that comment. Why compare a store with a media player? It's like they're comparing apples to... uh...
Thanks for that clarification!
Keeping in mind: "chaos" != randomness. Chaos is data that appears to have randomness, but discernible patterns can be found in the data; chaos doesn't really come into play with dice rolls, but is found in animal populations, the stock market, weather patterns, and many other seemingly "random" systems.
I would argue that perhaps chaos exists as a fundamental result of the laws of nature, but true randomness can be difficult to find on a macroscopic scale.
...probably any other standards compliant browser.
Q: How many Microsoft engineers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They just redefine the standards for "light".
But web designers should realize that there are more browsers out there than the almighty IE.
Friends have been telling me about these games for years. I just picked them up, and they are (even now) really impressive, fun, funny games.
I would also have to rank Starcraft and Ms. Pac-Man up there. Super Mario Brothers, SMB3, Super Mario World, and the first 3 Sonic games are also standouts in my mind.
I was running Norton Utilities to defrag my (then fairly new) PPC 6100/60 when the power went out. Five minutes later, power was restored, and five hours later, I had about a third of the data back. But it still makes me shudder.
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Slashdotted, or smited by the almighty Linuxian pantheon?
Does anyone ever know what happened to the PPC distro of SuSE? I was looking for it a couple of weeks ago, and it has just sort of "vanished into the ether"... There is absolutely no mention of it on the website, and, although there is a PPC folder on their FTP, I can't seem to download from it without it timing out.
Just curious, because I really liked SuSE when I was using it a couple of years ago. Guess I'll be using YellowDog...
Student C: I'm going to buy that album they put out last year.
Student D: Ooh! I'll throw in a couple bucks if you let me rip a copy!
Seriously, though, it's the big labels that are being hurt more any way. Independent labels have been showing much larger profits, and their artists get a better cut of the profits anyway!
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either they took a lot of time and care with the photos, or they're very nice renderings. either way, it looks nifty. but, somehow, unreal.
it'd be nice if it didn't light up, too, and you could just tuck its nice small case away to do be a file/print server. good size for that sort of thing.
Acer is bound to succeed! Historical precedent shows us the Osborne-1 was.... ah...
never mind.
Agreed, CCC works very well! It also makes use of psync... or is it rsync?... to allow incremental backups. It will preserve permissions, etc., it's a very elegant program.
...is that this is one of the top links on both Slashdot AND Fark right now... AND... I can still get to it.
As Darth Vader would say: "Impressive. Most impressive."
L.A. County will testify to that. There's a new @#$%^ strip mall built every week down there. But these guys built a whole world, and it's not made of ugly stucco!
Personally, I am trying to figure out how to get internet connect and CheckPoint to play nice together (L2TP over IPSec). Does anyone know what exactly you have to set up on CP to make this happen? (Or a good resource for this information?)
Counting the months until we put in a PIX...