"Oh HDMI is overkill component is just fine!" Yes component is just fine for some people but I don't want 5 cables hooked into my reciever I want 1. I want everything centralized and instead of running tons of wires everywhere I want 1 cables that does 1 thing and can plug into all my devices and not require a bajillion cables to do it. Simplicity at it's finest.
"120 GB is ridiculously big! Why do you need it?" HD shows which you can now download are peaking over 4GB each for 30-45min. Now that you can download HD content right to your box AND use your xbox as a soon to be DVR you will be filling up that XBOX's meager HD in no time. I for one want to watch 6 episodes of 24 in HD with maybe a few movies stored on it with all the details all on my XBOX. If you haven't seen what HD does to your storage capacity then you don't understand why more is better.
"HD-DVD is a waste! my regular DVD is just fine" Regular DVD's don't do 1080p, regular dvd's don't have features that I think are neat and interesting like skinning or frame replacing that HD-DVD offers. I want something for the future that is coming out NOW rather than be limited by something my old xbox does well i.e. play regular dvd's.
Hi definition content is NOW, not tommorow, not next year, it's here NOW. IF Microsoft wants my money, wants me to own a piece of their equipment they need to move to the future and not the analog past. 1 Device, 1 Plug, 1 single setup to run all my HD-Content. The only thing holding me back is MS.
"Oh HDMI is overkill component is just fine!"
Yes component is just fine for some people but I don't want 5 cables hooked into my reciever I want 1. I want everything centralized and instead of running tons of wires everywhere I want 1 cables that does 1 thing and can plug into all my devices and not require a bajillion cables to do it. Simplicity at it's finest.
"120 GB is ridiculously big! Why do you need it?"
HD shows which you can now download are peaking over 4GB each for 30-45min. Now that you can download HD content right to your box AND use your xbox as a soon to be DVR you will be filling up that XBOX's meager HD in no time. I for one want to watch 6 episodes of 24 in HD with maybe a few movies stored on it with all the details all on my XBOX. If you haven't seen what HD does to your storage capacity then you don't understand why more is better.
"HD-DVD is a waste! my regular DVD is just fine"
Regular DVD's don't do 1080p, regular dvd's don't have features that I think are neat and interesting like skinning or frame replacing that HD-DVD offers. I want something for the future that is coming out NOW rather than be limited by something my old xbox does well i.e. play regular dvd's.
Hi definition content is NOW, not tommorow, not next year, it's here NOW. IF Microsoft wants my money, wants me to own a piece of their equipment they need to move to the future and not the analog past.
1 Device, 1 Plug, 1 single setup to run all my HD-Content. The only thing holding me back is MS.
Did a search for Skaven. Nothing. No mention of the ratmen. How can you have a game without ratmen and still call it Warhammer?
They call themselves evil? Break out the deathmaster, start throwing in some epic underground areas in which players are fighting tooth and nail trying to get through places intead of wide open areas. Cut off movement, bring back stealth and light effects, and make it count.
That's the issue I have with WoW. Everything is so vast and huge and open. I like the challenge and difficulty that is running up the tunnel in WSG carrying the flag and that total chaos that erupts from 10v10 in a small area and having the victor roll out with the flag and carry it home.
Warhammer has a rich underground history with the dwarves and skaven. Use it to their advantage. Build on it, deploy the ratmen with the goblins and you'll see my money flow from WoW to WAR in a heartbeat.
If any person buys this for 'gaming performance wondermint!' they are usually (work with me here) rather tech savy.
What do I mean by this? They know their way around the computer itself. They full well know that have Windows Media Center 2k6 is the worst OS out there for gaming performance, having bloatware installed on your computer keeps the HD running constantly slowing down gaming, and the wretched drivers that come with it are like running an indy car on doughnuts.
I bought a brand new dell E1705. I turned it on, download 3dMark05, took some benchmarks, wiped it clean. I then installed it with WinXP Pro, latest drivers for the NVIDIA system, and then Norton Antivirus Corp Edition, Ace's Mega Codec pack for movies, and then benchmarked it again. It was night and day comparison.
I got nearly 25% more performance by doing a clean wipe than going with the buggy shit that Dell bundels in there for the unwashed heathen masses. I convinced a buddy of mine to buy one (we both do WoW) and he stuck with the core OS and updated the drivers and ripped everything out. Still he can't get anywhere near my benchmarks.
I would compare this operation to buying a brand new sports car and having the interior and electronics of the car be designed by a schizophrenic woman on menopause. Sure it looks and drives ok and some of the WONDER gadgets may be functional, but I need to do 0-60 in less than 3seconds and I don't give a shit that my seats are the latest in designer leather, I need seats, that's it.
I for one could care less about ham radio people being 'blocked' or have other problems with their lil hobby. So we are talking about tens of thousands of people at max figuring out that they can't talk to their buddies in Singapore from their basement in Colorado anymore? Watch me cry a big fucking river over it.
On the other hand we can rollout broadband and provide access to millions of homes that the local carriers won't touch becuase they are too remote for cable and DSL just sucks ass. Let's not forget Fiber coming out sometime soon, but who the hell thinks it's going to hit the rural areas of say Montana? I don't think so.
BPL is a cost effective solution for gov'ts to use as well as for it's citizens. Provides faster response times for it's electrical grid as well as monitoring AND gives citizens a way to cruise the net at faster speeds than their shitty 56k modems from AoHell.
The greater good is being served here, sorry Hammy's find a way to tweak your signals' y'all have been doing it long enough I'm sure you'll just add another sat dish to your home to keep the aliens from beaming down into your basement.
I saw in the infomercial there are a helluva lot of huge fans and the HD unit in this thing is on the side, but what I want to see is the CPU board and such. Anyone got pictures of those things? It would be useful to look at the architecture of this unit in comparison to PS3/XBOX as they are planned for today/are today.
the fight between these 2 guys fighting like in Napolean Dynamite. They are sitting there slapping each other going "NAUGHTY BAD! HATES YOU! MEANIE!!!"
Now I know you are lying. There is no way a 40 something yr old that posts on slashdot dates a 25yr old and makes her watch Starwars all evening for FREE?!?!?!
"Its because Windows and Linux tickle the RAM in different ways."
I can't believe you used the word "tickle" and "RAM" in the same sentence. WE KNOW WHERE YOUR MIND IS BUDDY AND NO JENNA JAMESON WILL STILL NOT GO OUT WITH YOU!!!!!1111oneone!
The firm expects Microsoft to ship about 3 million units of the Xbox 2 worldwide in the December quarter.
That's what was said in the article. This means that the quarter can range from NOV to JAN and beyond. So this is not saying that DEC it will sell 3 million units alone but over a 3 month period.
I SERIOUSLY think this is an insane notion but at least they are keeping the price right at $249-299. That's about the breaking point for most consumers nowadays.
Me? I won't buy one until the modders got it and I can pick it up for $150 at the pawn shop where I got my last 3.
Such as it's impossible as he's dead.
BUT! They are going to be bringing back the voice of Megatron. No NOT Galvatron from the movie, the ORIGINAL Megatron.
That's still in the works too.
Why do I say it's been around for months? Because they have already secured the voice of the ORIGINAL Optimus Prime! Not that crappy one on the new cartoons, the ORIGNAL voice. The TRUE voice of Prime !
I'm with an admin group that runs CentOS a clone of RHEL and a competitor with WB. We found that noone was updating the packages fast enough, only one guy who sat in his computer and did it, rathere than a HUGE community that was hacking and working away at it.
If you want a RHEL clone go with CentOS, we've deployed it here on over 500 boxes from desktops, to laptops, to servers and it works like a champ. Can't fault that.
I think that the original poster may not have any serious power so the Attila method is out, and it is not really any good anyway, in the long term.
I don't know if this in in reference to me or not but it's true, I didn't have 'real' power to hire or fire these guys at my whim, hence it caused me to use a more relaxed approach for management style. I could recommend to fire or hire someone but the power of that was not up to me.
If you as management have this ability then you can pull off your Attila the Hun approach which is great to strike fear into the hearts of your employees and can really get shit done but they will hate you for it and can unite to make your life hell.
Treat others as you wish to be treated. Don't be all chummy with them, toe the line, and leave them to their work but if they need your for ANYTHING you come in like an avenging angel from heaven and do it and you will gain their respect which will allow you to do wonders with them.
I've found that you can be social with your employees but not be friends with them. That close bond is resereved for coworkers.
Trust in your employees that they will do right by you as you will do right by them. If you can develop this symbiotic relationship between you and your employees then you will go far.
Trust that they will be doing their work, don't harp over their shoulders.
Trust that they will show up on time, not standing by their cube with stopwatch.
Trust that they will be responsible with their actions, don't be another mother to them.
If you can build the levels of trust that coexist between employee and management your life will be easier, but not easy, and your employees will be more productive.
As management of past jobs, I've managed to piss off my employees and them hate me, but on others I followed the above laws and they became one of the must functional and useful teams on the job site.
A chemical plant, making pesticides blows up and DOW pays out. How or what does this exactly have to do with slashdot and it's readers? Am I missing the change over to CNN now?
only way to view some stuff like this as there is no way I'm paying $50 for a freaking Almanac of D&D.
And Vin Diesel can rot in hell for churning out the Chronicles of Riddick movie. I can't believe I wasted my 3hrs downloading that movie! I should charge for storage space!
based on ST is a fucking joke. They fucked that book over 6 ways to sunday. Comeone, it was a play on fascist society and the way it works and runs and who has a voice in the gov't. The movie turned it into a bug hunt/shoot out at the OK corral and with only a plug as to the role of the naziesque gov't.
The book focused on the role of the citizen, his duty to his country, the way a solider goes into battle, the training, the sacrfice. You get a feel for Johnny as he goes through all this and you get to see his reaction on new tasks, seeing his dad signing up when he cursed Johnny for joining, and Johnny commanding troops. It's an all around good read for people who like the genre of social commentary involving military forces.
I really loved the movie for what it was: A beer and popcorn watching shit blow up with some hotties movie. Not that it was based on ST. Maybe based on the back cover but nothing more. And they made a sequal to it! ARRGGGHH!!!
I really liked the Bourne Supremecy, it matched up nicely with the first one: action, suspense, Jason Bourne trying to figure out what the hell his past is all about. I can't really say anything negative about it.
Now the Watchmen is all about acting. It will take some damn good castyping to get down the roles of these 'heros'.
Roushank (sp it's been years) is a kind of mixed bad good and bad guy he does allot of shit that most people would find vile but he still goes through with it. Bruce willis comes to mind.
The Owl: You'll have to get someone here who is in his late prime and muscular/fat AND geeky to pull that off. Can't think of someone for this guy.
Blonde Hero/Smart guy: (again forgive me, this is all remembering vaguely their names) Finding someone who can speak well and command power and respect and come off feeling like a 'good' guy while really being a powerhouse is not something any tom,dick, or harry actor can portray. I wish there was a younger version of jeremy irons. I was thinking of that guy from that jousting movie he's blonde and has charisma. If not get Christan Bale!
Blue man: I nominate Kevin Spacey for this role! Brillant, out of touch with reality, and totally self absorbed.
I hope they keep the sex, drugs, and rock n'roll in. That really set the tone for the comic and gave the reader something more than you're typical Spandex wearing chix with big tits and guys with muscles that make Conan look like a twig deal. These were all 'average' people who developed powers and really didn't move too far from being your typical human being.
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"Oh HDMI is overkill component is just fine!"
Yes component is just fine for some people but I don't want 5 cables hooked into my reciever I want 1. I want everything centralized and instead of running tons of wires everywhere I want 1 cables that does 1 thing and can plug into all my devices and not require a bajillion cables to do it. Simplicity at it's finest.
"120 GB is ridiculously big! Why do you need it?"
HD shows which you can now download are peaking over 4GB each for 30-45min. Now that you can download HD content right to your box AND use your xbox as a soon to be DVR you will be filling up that XBOX's meager HD in no time. I for one want to watch 6 episodes of 24 in HD with maybe a few movies stored on it with all the details all on my XBOX. If you haven't seen what HD does to your storage capacity then you don't understand why more is better.
"HD-DVD is a waste! my regular DVD is just fine" Regular DVD's don't do 1080p, regular dvd's don't have features that I think are neat and interesting like skinning or frame replacing that HD-DVD offers. I want something for the future that is coming out NOW rather than be limited by something my old xbox does well i.e. play regular dvd's.
Hi definition content is NOW, not tommorow, not next year, it's here NOW. IF Microsoft wants my money, wants me to own a piece of their equipment they need to move to the future and not the analog past. 1 Device, 1 Plug, 1 single setup to run all my HD-Content. The only thing holding me back is MS.
"Oh HDMI is overkill component is just fine!" Yes component is just fine for some people but I don't want 5 cables hooked into my reciever I want 1. I want everything centralized and instead of running tons of wires everywhere I want 1 cables that does 1 thing and can plug into all my devices and not require a bajillion cables to do it. Simplicity at it's finest. "120 GB is ridiculously big! Why do you need it?" HD shows which you can now download are peaking over 4GB each for 30-45min. Now that you can download HD content right to your box AND use your xbox as a soon to be DVR you will be filling up that XBOX's meager HD in no time. I for one want to watch 6 episodes of 24 in HD with maybe a few movies stored on it with all the details all on my XBOX. If you haven't seen what HD does to your storage capacity then you don't understand why more is better. "HD-DVD is a waste! my regular DVD is just fine" Regular DVD's don't do 1080p, regular dvd's don't have features that I think are neat and interesting like skinning or frame replacing that HD-DVD offers. I want something for the future that is coming out NOW rather than be limited by something my old xbox does well i.e. play regular dvd's. Hi definition content is NOW, not tommorow, not next year, it's here NOW. IF Microsoft wants my money, wants me to own a piece of their equipment they need to move to the future and not the analog past. 1 Device, 1 Plug, 1 single setup to run all my HD-Content. The only thing holding me back is MS.
Anyone else read this and go "When did Metal Gear Solid crash a spaceship?"
Did a search for Skaven. Nothing. No mention of the ratmen. How can you have a game without ratmen and still call it Warhammer?
They call themselves evil? Break out the deathmaster, start throwing in some epic underground areas in which players are fighting tooth and nail trying to get through places intead of wide open areas. Cut off movement, bring back stealth and light effects, and make it count.
That's the issue I have with WoW. Everything is so vast and huge and open. I like the challenge and difficulty that is running up the tunnel in WSG carrying the flag and that total chaos that erupts from 10v10 in a small area and having the victor roll out with the flag and carry it home.
Warhammer has a rich underground history with the dwarves and skaven. Use it to their advantage. Build on it, deploy the ratmen with the goblins and you'll see my money flow from WoW to WAR in a heartbeat.
If any person buys this for 'gaming performance wondermint!' they are usually (work with me here) rather tech savy.
What do I mean by this? They know their way around the computer itself. They full well know that have Windows Media Center 2k6 is the worst OS out there for gaming performance, having bloatware installed on your computer keeps the HD running constantly slowing down gaming, and the wretched drivers that come with it are like running an indy car on doughnuts.
I bought a brand new dell E1705. I turned it on, download 3dMark05, took some benchmarks, wiped it clean. I then installed it with WinXP Pro, latest drivers for the NVIDIA system, and then Norton Antivirus Corp Edition, Ace's Mega Codec pack for movies, and then benchmarked it again. It was night and day comparison.
I got nearly 25% more performance by doing a clean wipe than going with the buggy shit that Dell bundels in there for the unwashed heathen masses. I convinced a buddy of mine to buy one (we both do WoW) and he stuck with the core OS and updated the drivers and ripped everything out. Still he can't get anywhere near my benchmarks.
I would compare this operation to buying a brand new sports car and having the interior and electronics of the car be designed by a schizophrenic woman on menopause. Sure it looks and drives ok and some of the WONDER gadgets may be functional, but I need to do 0-60 in less than 3seconds and I don't give a shit that my seats are the latest in designer leather, I need seats, that's it.
I for one could care less about ham radio people being 'blocked' or have other problems with their lil hobby. So we are talking about tens of thousands of people at max figuring out that they can't talk to their buddies in Singapore from their basement in Colorado anymore? Watch me cry a big fucking river over it.
On the other hand we can rollout broadband and provide access to millions of homes that the local carriers won't touch becuase they are too remote for cable and DSL just sucks ass. Let's not forget Fiber coming out sometime soon, but who the hell thinks it's going to hit the rural areas of say Montana? I don't think so.
BPL is a cost effective solution for gov'ts to use as well as for it's citizens. Provides faster response times for it's electrical grid as well as monitoring AND gives citizens a way to cruise the net at faster speeds than their shitty 56k modems from AoHell.
The greater good is being served here, sorry Hammy's find a way to tweak your signals' y'all have been doing it long enough I'm sure you'll just add another sat dish to your home to keep the aliens from beaming down into your basement.
Look what it did to the webpage! Unable to connect to DB - Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using password: NO) OMG DOD IS COMING RUNNZER!
512b of space. NExT ON SLASHDOT!
I saw in the infomercial there are a helluva lot of huge fans and the HD unit in this thing is on the side, but what I want to see is the CPU board and such. Anyone got pictures of those things? It would be useful to look at the architecture of this unit in comparison to PS3/XBOX as they are planned for today/are today.
the fight between these 2 guys fighting like in Napolean Dynamite. They are sitting there slapping each other going "NAUGHTY BAD! HATES YOU! MEANIE!!!"
Does this make me a bad person?
Hell no. Her chin is too big, her tits are too small, and her legs are not thick enough.
If only wonder woman were still 20 something ish...
Now I know you are lying. There is no way a 40 something yr old that posts on slashdot dates a 25yr old and makes her watch Starwars all evening for FREE?!?!?!
"Its because Windows and Linux tickle the RAM in different ways."
I can't believe you used the word "tickle" and "RAM" in the same sentence. WE KNOW WHERE YOUR MIND IS BUDDY AND NO JENNA JAMESON WILL STILL NOT GO OUT WITH YOU!!!!!1111oneone!
The firm expects Microsoft to ship about 3 million units of the Xbox 2 worldwide in the December quarter.
That's what was said in the article. This means that the quarter can range from NOV to JAN and beyond. So this is not saying that DEC it will sell 3 million units alone but over a 3 month period.
I SERIOUSLY think this is an insane notion but at least they are keeping the price right at $249-299. That's about the breaking point for most consumers nowadays.
Me? I won't buy one until the modders got it and I can pick it up for $150 at the pawn shop where I got my last 3.
Such as it's impossible as he's dead. BUT! They are going to be bringing back the voice of Megatron. No NOT Galvatron from the movie, the ORIGINAL Megatron. That's still in the works too.
This has been circulating the net for MONTHS. If you visit any of the transformer sites you can see that they've known about this for a while.
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http://www.transformerland.com/transformers-the-m
Why do I say it's been around for months? Because they have already secured the voice of the ORIGINAL Optimus Prime! Not that crappy one on the new cartoons, the ORIGNAL voice. The TRUE voice of Prime !
I'm with an admin group that runs CentOS a clone of RHEL and a competitor with WB. We found that noone was updating the packages fast enough, only one guy who sat in his computer and did it, rathere than a HUGE community that was hacking and working away at it.
If you want a RHEL clone go with CentOS, we've deployed it here on over 500 boxes from desktops, to laptops, to servers and it works like a champ. Can't fault that.
It's like Redhat, without paying for it.
I think that the original poster may not have any serious power so the Attila method is out, and it is not really any good anyway, in the long term.
I don't know if this in in reference to me or not but it's true, I didn't have 'real' power to hire or fire these guys at my whim, hence it caused me to use a more relaxed approach for management style. I could recommend to fire or hire someone but the power of that was not up to me.
If you as management have this ability then you can pull off your Attila the Hun approach which is great to strike fear into the hearts of your employees and can really get shit done but they will hate you for it and can unite to make your life hell.
Treat others as you wish to be treated. Don't be all chummy with them, toe the line, and leave them to their work but if they need your for ANYTHING you come in like an avenging angel from heaven and do it and you will gain their respect which will allow you to do wonders with them.
I've found that you can be social with your employees but not be friends with them. That close bond is resereved for coworkers.
Trust in your employees that they will do right by you as you will do right by them. If you can develop this symbiotic relationship between you and your employees then you will go far.
Trust that they will be doing their work, don't harp over their shoulders.
Trust that they will show up on time, not standing by their cube with stopwatch.
Trust that they will be responsible with their actions, don't be another mother to them.
If you can build the levels of trust that coexist between employee and management your life will be easier, but not easy, and your employees will be more productive.
As management of past jobs, I've managed to piss off my employees and them hate me, but on others I followed the above laws and they became one of the must functional and useful teams on the job site.
A chemical plant, making pesticides blows up and DOW pays out. How or what does this exactly have to do with slashdot and it's readers? Am I missing the change over to CNN now?
Operation Mayhem Drone1: "BUILD A HOUSE!"
OPMD2: "PAINT A PICTURE!"
only way to view some stuff like this as there is no way I'm paying $50 for a freaking Almanac of D&D.
And Vin Diesel can rot in hell for churning out the Chronicles of Riddick movie. I can't believe I wasted my 3hrs downloading that movie! I should charge for storage space!
The Renraku corporation welcomes you to your new living corporation. Ignore the people with bands around their arms, they are supposed to be there.
based on ST is a fucking joke. They fucked that book over 6 ways to sunday. Comeone, it was a play on fascist society and the way it works and runs and who has a voice in the gov't. The movie turned it into a bug hunt/shoot out at the OK corral and with only a plug as to the role of the naziesque gov't.
The book focused on the role of the citizen, his duty to his country, the way a solider goes into battle, the training, the sacrfice. You get a feel for Johnny as he goes through all this and you get to see his reaction on new tasks, seeing his dad signing up when he cursed Johnny for joining, and Johnny commanding troops. It's an all around good read for people who like the genre of social commentary involving military forces.
I really loved the movie for what it was: A beer and popcorn watching shit blow up with some hotties movie. Not that it was based on ST. Maybe based on the back cover but nothing more. And they made a sequal to it! ARRGGGHH!!!
I really liked the Bourne Supremecy, it matched up nicely with the first one: action, suspense, Jason Bourne trying to figure out what the hell his past is all about. I can't really say anything negative about it.
Now the Watchmen is all about acting. It will take some damn good castyping to get down the roles of these 'heros'.
Roushank (sp it's been years) is a kind of mixed bad good and bad guy he does allot of shit that most people would find vile but he still goes through with it. Bruce willis comes to mind.
The Owl: You'll have to get someone here who is in his late prime and muscular/fat AND geeky to pull that off. Can't think of someone for this guy.
Blonde Hero/Smart guy: (again forgive me, this is all remembering vaguely their names) Finding someone who can speak well and command power and respect and come off feeling like a 'good' guy while really being a powerhouse is not something any tom,dick, or harry actor can portray. I wish there was a younger version of jeremy irons. I was thinking of that guy from that jousting movie he's blonde and has charisma. If not get Christan Bale!
Blue man: I nominate Kevin Spacey for this role! Brillant, out of touch with reality, and totally self absorbed.
I hope they keep the sex, drugs, and rock n'roll in. That really set the tone for the comic and gave the reader something more than you're typical Spandex wearing chix with big tits and guys with muscles that make Conan look like a twig deal. These were all 'average' people who developed powers and really didn't move too far from being your typical human being.