I just got my Wii yesterday with a pre-order bundle from gamestop. I've yet to see one in stores. They're always sold out so I broke down and pre-ordered the bundle. I have played on over a friend's house they're a blast to play. I'm thinking Nintendo hit a home run with this one, but only time will tell. I would like to see more online games.
I was thinking the same thing. A lot of runs take over 3 hours. And just the time to get all your prep stuff for a raid can take some time. It would get frustrating being almost done in an instance when 1/4 of the group has too leave because they're hitting the 3 hour time limit.
I don't find this hard to believe at all. I have 4 brothers, 3 of them have iPods including myself. None of them are technically savvy at all, and have no problems using them (loading songs, and vids, etc). They really are great little devices, easy to use.
Reading the article, it sounded more like another "mom and pop" type business going down to Walmart and the like and less with the RIAA. I will say though, I haven't purchased a CD since the RIAA took down Napster. I used to like sampling music. If I liked it, I would purchase the CD. I found some groups that way - music I wouldn't never listened to otherwise. I've purchased 1000s of CDs over the years but no more.
I have two friends that work at HP and yes, Linux is widely used there. Their whole shop uses Linux for desktops.
I think Linux makes perfect sense in the corporate world for a desktop OS. Mostly from a computer security standpoint. And secondly cost.
Yeah, I think they cover their bases pretty good with so many disclaimers in your contract. Ever listen to a 30 second radio spot, 20 seconds for advertisement - 10 seconds for disclaimers. OK, exaggerating there but you get the gist of it.
One of the disclaimers I don't like is speeds may vary and not responsible for speeds. I you buy DSL advertised at 3MB/768mb and only get half that speed, you should get some kind of a monthly discount.
I agree completely. This is nothing but FUD. Balmer is doing his best to convince people that if they run Linux they may run into serious future issues so best to play it safe and stay on Windows platforms.
I've worked with *many* H1-Bs and never seen them make more than 50K. It's like an unwritten deal, cheap labor in exchange for US Citizenship. The one thing that hurt them in this area (Washington DC) is after 9/11 many jobs required security clearances and they are not eligible. I'm sure there are exceptions but that's my experience.
Ditto with the choice options. Plus Netscape's history with browsers, nice to see them still trying. I haven't downloaded a Netscape browser since version 6. I absolutely hated it and started liking Opera and Firefox. I'll probably download the latest version just to check it out, but realize very few (percentage wise) others will do the same.
Funny thing is I remember they were the only option for a while unless you wanted to stick with Mosaic. And it was on almost every major platform then, including DEC OSF/1 (which is mostly what our shop had at the time).
I agree. If they made a deal with Viacom, it would open the flood gates for all the other copyright holders. It would be impossible to negotiate all the deals.
I've only ever used consoles for gaming but do know a lot of people that have a PS2 and use it primarily as a DVD player. They have less then 3 games and one of them is always GTA VC. I definitely DO NOT fall into that category having at least 40-50 games for each console I've owned and using the console for nothing but games. (Can't wait for Wii now.) However, I do think the addons are attractive for casual gamers.
I agree. I still can't get one and EB Games will only let you pre-order them online in the big bundle - and they sell out of those almost immediately. I'm guessing it will be around March/April before I can walk into a store and just buy one. Still, I'll be as happy as hell when I finally get one but not going to shell out $600 for the bundle and games I don't want.
The second I get home from work, I'll be working on Leveling to 60. Just thinking of all the XP I could have had at 60 running instances, at least now we'll get XP for them.. My rest bar better be blue all the way to 61.
Yeah, I agree sad news indeed. Back in the early-mid 90's I managed many SGI workstations and servers when I worked at NASA (GSFC). The scientists loved them. Unlike the other Unix boxes (DEC OSF/ULTRIX and SUN SunOS) they could easily use the SGIs as their personal workstations. And they did. Most all scientists had an SGI as their primary workstation. Around this time, MS Office was becoming the defacto standard in documents and an increasing problem for SGI users was the inability to read attachments in their E-mail. About a year later, these scientists needed two computers, a PC for E-mail and such, and an SGI for work. About a year after that (95/96) the PC workstations were able to do some of the same graphics work as the SGIs at about a quarter of the price. Doesn't take long to see how this progresses.
In an attempt to stop the bleeding SGI partnered with Microsoft to sell NT on SGIs. I could see the writing on the wall right then. Since then, they've been barely staying afloat. Now they've hit an iceberg and are getting ready for the final sink.
Sad thing. They were great machines to manage. The only issues I remember were their internal IBM disk drives that used to freeze up. Remember the glue issue? We'd take them out of the machine and slam them on the desk, put them back in and they'd spin up. Make a backup and have the drive replaced.
Users like them too as we gave them some admin rights like the ability to back up their server, reboot their server, etc.. And the interface was awesome. I'll take the Irix interface over any other Unix interface, except the latest MACs that just look insanely great.
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I just got my Wii yesterday with a pre-order bundle from gamestop. I've yet to see one in stores. They're always sold out so I broke down and pre-ordered the bundle. I have played on over a friend's house they're a blast to play. I'm thinking Nintendo hit a home run with this one, but only time will tell. I would like to see more online games.
I was thinking the same thing. A lot of runs take over 3 hours. And just the time to get all your prep stuff for a raid can take some time. It would get frustrating being almost done in an instance when 1/4 of the group has too leave because they're hitting the 3 hour time limit.
I don't find this hard to believe at all. I have 4 brothers, 3 of them have iPods including myself. None of them are technically savvy at all, and have no problems using them (loading songs, and vids, etc). They really are great little devices, easy to use.
Reading the article, it sounded more like another "mom and pop" type business going down to Walmart and the like and less with the RIAA. I will say though, I haven't purchased a CD since the RIAA took down Napster. I used to like sampling music. If I liked it, I would purchase the CD. I found some groups that way - music I wouldn't never listened to otherwise. I've purchased 1000s of CDs over the years but no more.
I have two friends that work at HP and yes, Linux is widely used there. Their whole shop uses Linux for desktops. I think Linux makes perfect sense in the corporate world for a desktop OS. Mostly from a computer security standpoint. And secondly cost.
Yeah, I think they cover their bases pretty good with so many disclaimers in your contract. Ever listen to a 30 second radio spot, 20 seconds for advertisement - 10 seconds for disclaimers. OK, exaggerating there but you get the gist of it. One of the disclaimers I don't like is speeds may vary and not responsible for speeds. I you buy DSL advertised at 3MB/768mb and only get half that speed, you should get some kind of a monthly discount.
I agree completely. This is nothing but FUD. Balmer is doing his best to convince people that if they run Linux they may run into serious future issues so best to play it safe and stay on Windows platforms.
I've worked with *many* H1-Bs and never seen them make more than 50K. It's like an unwritten deal, cheap labor in exchange for US Citizenship. The one thing that hurt them in this area (Washington DC) is after 9/11 many jobs required security clearances and they are not eligible. I'm sure there are exceptions but that's my experience.
Ditto with the choice options. Plus Netscape's history with browsers, nice to see them still trying. I haven't downloaded a Netscape browser since version 6. I absolutely hated it and started liking Opera and Firefox. I'll probably download the latest version just to check it out, but realize very few (percentage wise) others will do the same. Funny thing is I remember they were the only option for a while unless you wanted to stick with Mosaic. And it was on almost every major platform then, including DEC OSF/1 (which is mostly what our shop had at the time).
I agree. If they made a deal with Viacom, it would open the flood gates for all the other copyright holders. It would be impossible to negotiate all the deals.
Was thinking the same exact thing. Family Guy seasons 0ne through three were awesome. Complete crap since then.
I've only ever used consoles for gaming but do know a lot of people that have a PS2 and use it primarily as a DVD player. They have less then 3 games and one of them is always GTA VC. I definitely DO NOT fall into that category having at least 40-50 games for each console I've owned and using the console for nothing but games. (Can't wait for Wii now.) However, I do think the addons are attractive for casual gamers.
I agree. I still can't get one and EB Games will only let you pre-order them online in the big bundle - and they sell out of those almost immediately. I'm guessing it will be around March/April before I can walk into a store and just buy one. Still, I'll be as happy as hell when I finally get one but not going to shell out $600 for the bundle and games I don't want.
The second I get home from work, I'll be working on Leveling to 60. Just thinking of all the XP I could have had at 60 running instances, at least now we'll get XP for them.. My rest bar better be blue all the way to 61.
Yeah, I agree sad news indeed. Back in the early-mid 90's I managed many SGI workstations and servers when I worked at NASA (GSFC). The scientists loved them. Unlike the other Unix boxes (DEC OSF/ULTRIX and SUN SunOS) they could easily use the SGIs as their personal workstations. And they did. Most all scientists had an SGI as their primary workstation. Around this time, MS Office was becoming the defacto standard in documents and an increasing problem for SGI users was the inability to read attachments in their E-mail. About a year later, these scientists needed two computers, a PC for E-mail and such, and an SGI for work. About a year after that (95/96) the PC workstations were able to do some of the same graphics work as the SGIs at about a quarter of the price. Doesn't take long to see how this progresses.
In an attempt to stop the bleeding SGI partnered with Microsoft to sell NT on SGIs. I could see the writing on the wall right then. Since then, they've been barely staying afloat. Now they've hit an iceberg and are getting ready for the final sink.
Sad thing. They were great machines to manage. The only issues I remember were their internal IBM disk drives that used to freeze up. Remember the glue issue? We'd take them out of the machine and slam them on the desk, put them back in and they'd spin up. Make a backup and have the drive replaced.
Users like them too as we gave them some admin rights like the ability to back up their server, reboot their server, etc.. And the interface was awesome. I'll take the Irix interface over any other Unix interface, except the latest MACs that just look insanely great.