I'm in closed beta, and the NDA was just lifted: The scale of the cities and the depth of tier 4 (highest RvR tier) is huge. Far, FAR bigger than the endgame content released with WoW (Western Plaguelands and MC, still took most guilds many many months to even attempt MC).
I'm having a blast playing. My biggest problem right now is that I'm spending too much time in it. Seriously though, play the game before you make any judgments (but I suspect you are just looking for reasons to dump on it regardless).
Most (if not all) movies in the US and UK are made for a 1.85/1 aspect ratio. HD is 1.78/1 (16x9), and SD is 1.33/1 (4x3). "Correct" aspect ratio is quite relative (watching a movie that was originally 1.85 in 1.33 but on a tv that can display 1.78 seems silly to me).
Prime example here: Call of Duty 4. Its in my and the vast majority of reviewers and players opinion an absolutely great game. I really don't think they're crying wolf when you look at the huge amount of torrents going even now, over a year after release. How can people say it doesn't hurt sales? Sure, a percentage of people downloading wouldn't buy it anyway, but MANY of them would were it not available freely.
While we wrangle over what (if any) type of protection should be used, you can bet that the suits at Activision (owners of Infinity Ward) are taking a good long look at the profitability of releasing these sorts of games only on consoles. PC gaming isn't going to die, but it WILL drive developers (especially smaller unproven ones) away from the platform when they look at all the lost potential revenue.
An Ex Post Facto law does the opposite of what you are thinking. If congress passes a law making something illegal, its unconstitutional to prosecute someone for "breaking" that law before it took effect.
All he talked about with regards to the PC was the processor and video card. What power supply was he using? A super efficient one or a super stable one? How many peripherals were hooked in? Hard drives? Fans?
To be fair, its a different system. I believe the average commute in the US is ~25-30 miles, while in the UK its around 8.5. The US is spread across a far far bigger chunk of land, and for the majority of areas outside of the big cities (and even within some cities) public transportation isn't economical, even at were gas at $9 a gallon.
I'd be willing to bet the median household income is quite increased 8 years later. You can find a 2 bedroom apartment in the $1800/mo range in San Mateo right now, which after taxes ends up being a little more than a third of that $70k/yr.
Pretty much. To stay out of the slums (by that I mean Alum Rock/east san jose), you're looking at around $3000 rent for a 4 bedroom house. Nothing pretty, nothing new, and not a great location. I personally am hoping for a second housing bubble to burst in the bay, because home values in general are on cocaine here.
I think its sort of like an online magazine that you access through a PS3, with the benefit of more media attached than like a normal demo disk. Seems a good idea, if only to get into the confrontation beta.
About 2 seconds after I start U-torrent, refreshing google times out. I can't do ANYTHING else if I'm torrenting, at any speed (usual speeds are 40KB up, which is far far less than I have available). I live in San Jose.
No, they said "Theres hundreds of thousands of records in there, its not easily searchable (I.E. you have to go through each and every case opening jpgs for the information) to find an a clerical error that may give you somebody's SSN (these are also public records that you can go down to a courthouse and look up as well). There are ways that are several orders of magnitude easier to get even more of the same information, including like my above post, a dumpster.
Maybe I still have more faith in humanity that most people, but I really don't see this as either a big deal or something anyone could have prevented given the time and effort involved to prevent it.
The court put up their public files online. Some clerks forgot to blank out or scanned in the wrong papers just a few times out of the hundreds of thousands of records, and a few social security numbers got accidently released. Why isn't this expected just as a part of human error, when companies are leaking thousands at a time due to the acts of rogue database operators looking to make a buck?
I'll bet I can find more social security numbers and bank account numbers from my apartment dumpster than is on that website.
Both Trillian and Meebo.com have the same general functionality (all IM clients, etc). Actually both of those have better full support of clients such as sending files and webcam support. Pidgin has the advantage of being lightweight and expandable through plugins.
Hi. I'm under 30, and I'm concerned with being happy. I don't care if the USA will exist in 50 to 100 years. Life IS all about being happy, unless you have a religious conviction that tells you otherwise (and most people find happiness in the conviction as hard as they try not to).
To start, I have a question for you: what ever happened to you that you think happiness is not a goal to strive for? At the very end of your post, you say
so if we are facing regressions why should the young listen to their parents when their parents tell them it's all about being happy?
If I remember my childhood at all, I remember my parents and elders constantly trying to put into my head that the world sucks, and I've got to work hard my whole life, and maybe I'll eventually be happy when I'm 60 and I work hard enough to be able to retire. I can be happy right now where I am. I'm getting paid a decent amount to do something I enjoy with people I enjoy being around. I could work my ass off or take another job that would be something I hate, and get more money if I so chose. I choose right now to be happy where I am, and be less concerned with material things. And I am. Does that piss you off?
Now I'm going to nitpick you:
Let's be blunt. You're generation (I am guessing you are in your 30s,40s, or 50s), the happiness generation, was also the greed is good generation. Your generation brought us Iran Contra. Your generation or generations before, had the Vietnam war. Why should the young follow the same outdated hippy philosophy that allowed the world to deteriorate into the current mess that it is in? Those hippies. Reagan, Nixon, LBJ (sworn in in '63 iirc, before most baby boomers came of age), Ford. When I think hippies, I think of them.
When Hitler took over Germany
Godwin also? Sir, I applaud you.
Though I can't HTFA as I'm at work, I'm sure it raises some insightful points. When I create an avatar or online persona, I tend to imbue the characteristics into it that I wish my RL self was stronger in (in this case mostly social awareness and assertiveness). Giant penis jokes aside, does anyone else try to use their alter-ego as a role model?
Or perhaps instead of saying "I'm X race" just say "This is my speciality and these are my accomplishments!" Once you get to a certain average prosperity level worldwide, it eventually stops mattering.
When I was in middle school (private, christian middle school), my science teacher loved to take stories like this and adapt it to the bible. He spent a whole lot of time trying to disprove the age of the earth, and after that it wouldn't be much of as jump to just say "Oh, that 70,000 years was actually only 5,000, and the population went down so much because of the flood!"
Would having dual monitors cause the live CD not to work with ubuntu? I had to install it through the alt CD, and had to completely reconfigure X, and now GTK won't start up.
When I tried to install 7.10, the live CD wouldn't work for some reason (I have pretty up to date hardware), and I had to use the alt CD to install. Then X wouldn't configure, and after reconfiguring it whenever I logged in GTK would boot me right back out saying it couldn't write something.
Any idea whats going on, and is any error like that fixed in 8.04?
Slashdot Mirror
I'm in closed beta, and the NDA was just lifted: The scale of the cities and the depth of tier 4 (highest RvR tier) is huge. Far, FAR bigger than the endgame content released with WoW (Western Plaguelands and MC, still took most guilds many many months to even attempt MC).
I'm having a blast playing. My biggest problem right now is that I'm spending too much time in it. Seriously though, play the game before you make any judgments (but I suspect you are just looking for reasons to dump on it regardless).
Most (if not all) movies in the US and UK are made for a 1.85/1 aspect ratio. HD is 1.78/1 (16x9), and SD is 1.33/1 (4x3). "Correct" aspect ratio is quite relative (watching a movie that was originally 1.85 in 1.33 but on a tv that can display 1.78 seems silly to me).
I'm fairly sure they haven't stopped yet...
*opens Utorrent, starts seeding @10KB/s up, google homepage times out* Yup.
Prime example here: Call of Duty 4. Its in my and the vast majority of reviewers and players opinion an absolutely great game. I really don't think they're crying wolf when you look at the huge amount of torrents going even now, over a year after release. How can people say it doesn't hurt sales? Sure, a percentage of people downloading wouldn't buy it anyway, but MANY of them would were it not available freely.
While we wrangle over what (if any) type of protection should be used, you can bet that the suits at Activision (owners of Infinity Ward) are taking a good long look at the profitability of releasing these sorts of games only on consoles. PC gaming isn't going to die, but it WILL drive developers (especially smaller unproven ones) away from the platform when they look at all the lost potential revenue.
An Ex Post Facto law does the opposite of what you are thinking. If congress passes a law making something illegal, its unconstitutional to prosecute someone for "breaking" that law before it took effect.
More like: "What kind of person goes for a CS degree that hates programming?"
Seems like he got the degree for all the wrong reasons.
All he talked about with regards to the PC was the processor and video card. What power supply was he using? A super efficient one or a super stable one? How many peripherals were hooked in? Hard drives? Fans?
To be fair, its a different system. I believe the average commute in the US is ~25-30 miles, while in the UK its around 8.5. The US is spread across a far far bigger chunk of land, and for the majority of areas outside of the big cities (and even within some cities) public transportation isn't economical, even at were gas at $9 a gallon.
I'd be willing to bet the median household income is quite increased 8 years later. You can find a 2 bedroom apartment in the $1800/mo range in San Mateo right now, which after taxes ends up being a little more than a third of that $70k/yr.
Pretty much. To stay out of the slums (by that I mean Alum Rock/east san jose), you're looking at around $3000 rent for a 4 bedroom house. Nothing pretty, nothing new, and not a great location. I personally am hoping for a second housing bubble to burst in the bay, because home values in general are on cocaine here.
http://downloadcounter.sj.mozilla.com/ As of this post ~1.15 million downloads, at ~7550 per minute. I'd say their goal well in hand.
I think its sort of like an online magazine that you access through a PS3, with the benefit of more media attached than like a normal demo disk. Seems a good idea, if only to get into the confrontation beta.
About 2 seconds after I start U-torrent, refreshing google times out. I can't do ANYTHING else if I'm torrenting, at any speed (usual speeds are 40KB up, which is far far less than I have available). I live in San Jose.
3/4s of a companies total assets is not pocket change, for any company.
No, they said "Theres hundreds of thousands of records in there, its not easily searchable (I.E. you have to go through each and every case opening jpgs for the information) to find an a clerical error that may give you somebody's SSN (these are also public records that you can go down to a courthouse and look up as well). There are ways that are several orders of magnitude easier to get even more of the same information, including like my above post, a dumpster.
Maybe I still have more faith in humanity that most people, but I really don't see this as either a big deal or something anyone could have prevented given the time and effort involved to prevent it.
The court put up their public files online. Some clerks forgot to blank out or scanned in the wrong papers just a few times out of the hundreds of thousands of records, and a few social security numbers got accidently released. Why isn't this expected just as a part of human error, when companies are leaking thousands at a time due to the acts of rogue database operators looking to make a buck?
I'll bet I can find more social security numbers and bank account numbers from my apartment dumpster than is on that website.
Both Trillian and Meebo.com have the same general functionality (all IM clients, etc). Actually both of those have better full support of clients such as sending files and webcam support. Pidgin has the advantage of being lightweight and expandable through plugins.
To start, I have a question for you: what ever happened to you that you think happiness is not a goal to strive for? At the very end of your post, you say so if we are facing regressions why should the young listen to their parents when their parents tell them it's all about being happy?
If I remember my childhood at all, I remember my parents and elders constantly trying to put into my head that the world sucks, and I've got to work hard my whole life, and maybe I'll eventually be happy when I'm 60 and I work hard enough to be able to retire. I can be happy right now where I am. I'm getting paid a decent amount to do something I enjoy with people I enjoy being around. I could work my ass off or take another job that would be something I hate, and get more money if I so chose. I choose right now to be happy where I am, and be less concerned with material things. And I am. Does that piss you off?
Now I'm going to nitpick you: Let's be blunt. You're generation (I am guessing you are in your 30s,40s, or 50s), the happiness generation, was also the greed is good generation. Your generation brought us Iran Contra. Your generation or generations before, had the Vietnam war. Why should the young follow the same outdated hippy philosophy that allowed the world to deteriorate into the current mess that it is in?
Those hippies. Reagan, Nixon, LBJ (sworn in in '63 iirc, before most baby boomers came of age), Ford. When I think hippies, I think of them.
When Hitler took over Germany
Godwin also? Sir, I applaud you.
Though I can't HTFA as I'm at work, I'm sure it raises some insightful points. When I create an avatar or online persona, I tend to imbue the characteristics into it that I wish my RL self was stronger in (in this case mostly social awareness and assertiveness). Giant penis jokes aside, does anyone else try to use their alter-ego as a role model?
Or perhaps instead of saying "I'm X race" just say "This is my speciality and these are my accomplishments!" Once you get to a certain average prosperity level worldwide, it eventually stops mattering.
When I was in middle school (private, christian middle school), my science teacher loved to take stories like this and adapt it to the bible. He spent a whole lot of time trying to disprove the age of the earth, and after that it wouldn't be much of as jump to just say "Oh, that 70,000 years was actually only 5,000, and the population went down so much because of the flood!"
Wow, I'm pretty glad I got out of there.
Would having dual monitors cause the live CD not to work with ubuntu? I had to install it through the alt CD, and had to completely reconfigure X, and now GTK won't start up.
Mod parent up. In order to make a real usable (to the general populace) OS, you have to make the install process easy.
When I tried to install 7.10, the live CD wouldn't work for some reason (I have pretty up to date hardware), and I had to use the alt CD to install. Then X wouldn't configure, and after reconfiguring it whenever I logged in GTK would boot me right back out saying it couldn't write something.
Any idea whats going on, and is any error like that fixed in 8.04?
I can think of at least 10 countries or regions where "freedom" needed to be defended far far more than in Iraq.