(I'm not trying to sound like I have a big ego but here goes)
First we need a protocol somewhere between Bluetooth & 802.11b (I'm sure it exists, I am just to lazy to look for a link), that offers low-bandwidth + medium range (50m) and ultra-low battry usage (1 week of usage).
Next we can embed network aware sensors that WE can program. (level of detail to provide and/or services offered)
(You are a middle-aged computer geek who loves Thai food, hockey, and biking) You can program the device to "broadcast" your likes & dislikes this can also help when looking for a job, post your resume and be alerted whenever a company is hiring. Meanwhile companies that want to sell to your demographic can advertise to you when you get near (50m) the shop. (Like Minority report but less invasive because you can turn all of this off if you want.)
It can store all of your personal media to be displayed whenever/wherever you are.
Devices like this
with an LCD in the glasses combined with something like this
and a terrabyte storage in a form-factor the size of a deck of cards.
It can help with meeting other individuals that share your same tastes, AND store vital data about people you meet (incase your memory is so bad that you can't remember information ie. wifes's name, kids birthdays, etc..)
But most importantly, it's up to YOU to decide how much or how little you provide.
I use the suite and have for a long time. I wish I didn't have to though. I only use the browser, I have never touched the IRC, Mail, Composer, or Addy book. BUT I have found firebird to be slower, more crash prone and quite unreliable compared to Moz.
My second issue is the skins. I am using this on a 1024x768 14" LCD and the default skin uses 25% of the real-estate. Under Moz I can use Micro, Little, or Tiny and they all work correctly. The skins say they support Firebird (most of the time) but when I install them it doesn't work correctly.
After spending all my money on computers, I have to leave _something_ to my kids in the will....To my wife, I leave all the Celine Dion mp3's...To my kids, I leave all the games....To my brother I leave all the p0rn.
If you just stop buying the "protected" items then the companies will only know that slaes have slumped. If they see that a particular song has been downloaded by a million people, but they have only sold 2 copies, it might provide some insight as to why that happens.
People will always try to get something for nothing. But consider how many CD's are still selling despite all the piracy.
I think our biggest problem isn't the amount of SP*M (hehe it is a 4 letter word you know) we get, or the unrelenting advertising that we get bombarded with. I think 90% of our discontent arises from not being able to weed out the content that we do want.
I would give my left kidney if I could do a google search for an item and exclude all places that try to sell me the widget.
Google search: widget -sale
then I would gladly wade through the 5,000 sites that had INFORMATION on the widget.
I think we might have similar opinions on this idea.
Am I the only person who doesn't watch (or care) about the extras? I only got involved in DVD's for the enhanced video/sound quality. I bought my player back in ~1995 and there were only ~5 movies available on DVD (hehe and I bought 3 of them at $40 a pop).
Now that HD-DVD might start to become popular I can consider upgrading my Marantz DVD player.
My ideal home theather setup: 3-chip DLP front Projector (1080i of course) HTPC 7.1 A/V receiver
I just figured that since so many/. visitors are smart, educated, and generally well informed that I could get a decent answer here. Besides I had the opinion that my email would be one of hundreds that would be ignored and dismissed.
Can anybody tell me why the OO team decided not to use the Win-Print.api that MS has available in the SDK?
I work for a printer company and I would _LOVE_ to use and show OO in our showroom but OO does not allow access to the WIN-print.api (therefore not allowing us to use the extra features/functionality that our devices offer).
OO is great if you have a 1-tray laser/inkjet printer. I could convert our office (and probably our corporation (still using Office97)), and my customers; by showing the cost savings that OO will provide, but dammit the drivers don't work.
Starbuck: D- (could have been B) I enjoyed her acting, I was embarassed for her when she tried to mimic the original (cigar & attitude when playing cards)
Special Effects: A- I enjoyed all of the effects but felt nausia when the jerky-camera would Zoom in during combat.
Plot: A Father-Son tension: good good vs evil: good general acting: excellent (*except starbuck)
This show is exciting, and I look forward to seeing the rest of them.
I live in Canada and cannot get these shows. Thank you very much BitTorrent.
About the TAT-14 Cable Network This transatlantic cable system is in full service, connecting the United States to the United Kingdom, France, The Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark.
The cable system is a dual, bi-directional ring configuration using DWDM multiplexing with 16 wavelengths of STM-64 per fiber pair. The system also utilizes reverse direction protection switching in the event of failure of the service fiber.
It has a dual route, transatlantic capacity of 640 Gbits on 2 service fiber pairs backed up by 2 protection fiber pairs. This configuration provides a capability of transporting 4,096 STM-1's or approximately 9,700,000 circuits across the ocean.
This is a comparison/complaint/request for insight.
I am a long time fan and player of the D&D table-top series, and a long time AD&D compter gamer (C64 titles like Pools of Radience, etc.).
I have played NWN, Baulders Gate, Dungeon Siege, and others but I am still waiting for a satisfying experience.
***** Experience
NWN & BG: Excellent XP model, great feel for character building.
DS : Excellent reward model (kill something and get a prize)
NWN & BG: Takes a long time to level-up (and some rewards a very minimal when you do)
DS: I LOVE the concept of increasing your skills based on what you do. (Hack with a sword = increase in strength) very realistic.
******* Quests
NWN: easy to get lost/stuck in missions. The game is very scripted (the side-adventures dont' progress the game), if you don't finish the main quests then the game will not continue. This is very frustrating to clear a map and get everything done but talk to one person (who you can't find now) and are unable to continue on with the adventure.
BG: Same problem as NWN
DS: is VERY scripted too (the world is so small you have no choice but to find and finish every map)
******** Playablity
NWN & BG: there is little feel of team that your PC's have for one another. (A bag guy could be pounding the life out of your mage while your other guys can just stand there and watch. I find these games to be unplayable in some battles because even though I can pause the action and issue new orders, it usually happens to fast to do much about it.
DS: You can assign `personality` to each of your characters. The healers can stand back and auto-heal, your archers can stay at a distance and attack safely, the warriors can run into battle at the first sign of a bad guy. But most of all, they all react if one of the team is getting attacked.
********* Summary: NWN & BG are both cut from the same cloth. They both feel like multi-player games area requirement not an option. A single-player game is tedious, boring and much-like work.
DS: very playable as single-player game and very multi-play is a huge bonus. downside: It's too much like Diablo.
I would love to hear other peoples thoughts on these games. Am I missing something? Did I forget to click on a "stupid user" button? I want to enjoy all of these games.
I agree with everything you said but I do want to make this one side note:
In P2 you can see an Alien skull+spine in the Predator ship.
Let's completely ignore the AvP games and follow this premise:
Predator's are hunters after trophies. Aliens are very buff "prey". What is the only species that we know of that can kill an Alien (besides Predators)? Humans.
Use whatever space/time/wormhole/time-travel special FX you want to get all these parties together.
Aliens vs Predators in concept is still an awesome idea. I would love the see the Animatrix folks take a stab at that story line.
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hehe yeah, it might be in the standards, but goo dluck getting it to work that far. The best 'distace' always seems to be won by RF devices.
(I'm not trying to sound like I have a big ego but here goes)
First we need a protocol somewhere between Bluetooth & 802.11b (I'm sure it exists, I am just to lazy to look for a link), that offers low-bandwidth + medium range (50m) and ultra-low battry usage (1 week of usage).
Next we can embed network aware sensors that WE can program. (level of detail to provide and/or services offered)
(You are a middle-aged computer geek who loves Thai food, hockey, and biking) You can program the device to "broadcast" your likes & dislikes this can also help when looking for a job, post your resume and be alerted whenever a company is hiring. Meanwhile companies that want to sell to your demographic can advertise to you when you get near (50m) the shop. (Like Minority report but less invasive because you can turn all of this off if you want.)
It can store all of your personal media to be displayed whenever/wherever you are.
Devices like this with an LCD in the glasses combined with something like this and a terrabyte storage in a form-factor the size of a deck of cards.
It can help with meeting other individuals that share your same tastes, AND store vital data about people you meet (incase your memory is so bad that you can't remember information ie. wifes's name, kids birthdays, etc..)
But most importantly, it's up to YOU to decide how much or how little you provide.
I use the suite and have for a long time. I wish I didn't have to though.
I only use the browser, I have never touched the IRC, Mail, Composer, or Addy book. BUT I have found firebird to be slower, more crash prone and quite unreliable compared to Moz.
My second issue is the skins. I am using this on a 1024x768 14" LCD and the default skin uses 25% of the real-estate. Under Moz I can use Micro, Little, or Tiny and they all work correctly. The skins say they support Firebird (most of the time) but when I install them it doesn't work correctly.
After spending all my money on computers, I have to leave _something_ to my kids in the will. ...To my wife, I leave all the Celine Dion mp3's ...To my kids, I leave all the games. ...To my brother I leave all the p0rn.
Of course.
=)
Yeah, I am in the same ball-park.
16hrs per day (sitting in front of a PC)
= 112hrs/week
I wonder if that includes all the remote boxes I have going at once.
4 SSH sessions to other servers running 24x7
2-3 ftp sessions d'loading shareware ~ 12 hrs/day
NewsBin D'loading newsgroups = 24x7
BitTorrent = 24x7 (x 3 computers)
email client is running 24x7
various coding and design stuff = 4hrs/day
All total I am responsible for 232Hrs/day of computer use. Man, I need a nap. =)
Hackers
Even though you posted AC, I still think this is a funny post, good movie reference too.
If you just stop buying the "protected" items then the companies will only know that slaes have slumped. If they see that a particular song has been downloaded by a million people, but they have only sold 2 copies, it might provide some insight as to why that happens.
People will always try to get something for nothing. But consider how many CD's are still selling despite all the piracy.
"...That is equivalent to about one-quarter of a pound per square inch, said NASA spokesman James Hartsfield..."
;-) Sorry I couldn't resist.
But aren't this near-weightless in space?
How can it be 1/4 of a pound?
Does anybody know if the extensive cross-licensing agreements that exist between AMD & Intel cover the x86-64 additions?
Would that not be the cats meow if Intel had to pay AMD royalties for each chip they sold?
AMD fan or Intel fan; we are damn lucky that there is competition.
#1) New cards are faster then old cards
#2) Old cards are cheaper then new cards
#3) Best bang for your buck = older cards
I think our biggest problem isn't the amount of SP*M (hehe it is a 4 letter word you know) we get, or the unrelenting advertising that we get bombarded with. I think 90% of our discontent arises from not being able to weed out the content that we do want.
I would give my left kidney if I could do a google search for an item and exclude all places that try to sell me the widget.
Google search: widget -sale
then I would gladly wade through the 5,000 sites that had INFORMATION on the widget.
I must have read this book (LW&W)25+ years ago; and I can't remember a damned thing about it (getting old does suck).
Can somebody just refresh my memory and tell me what it was about?
I think we might have similar opinions on this idea.
Am I the only person who doesn't watch (or care) about the extras? I only got involved in DVD's for the enhanced video/sound quality. I bought my player back in ~1995 and there were only ~5 movies available on DVD (hehe and I bought 3 of them at $40 a pop).
Now that HD-DVD might start to become popular I can consider upgrading my Marantz DVD player.
My ideal home theather setup:
3-chip DLP front Projector (1080i of course)
HTPC
7.1 A/V receiver
I just figured that since so many
Can anybody tell me why the OO team decided not to use the Win-Print.api that MS has available in the SDK?
I work for a printer company and I would _LOVE_ to use and show OO in our showroom but OO does not allow access to the WIN-print.api (therefore not allowing us to use the extra features/functionality that our devices offer).
OO is great if you have a 1-tray laser/inkjet printer. I could convert our office (and probably our corporation (still using Office97)), and my customers; by showing the cost savings that OO will provide, but dammit the drivers don't work.
Does the SQL Server mean MS-SQL?
I would have liked to see SQL vs non-SQL ranking too.
Starbuck: D- (could have been B)
I enjoyed her acting, I was embarassed for her when she tried to mimic the original (cigar & attitude when playing cards)
Special Effects: A-
I enjoyed all of the effects but felt nausia when the jerky-camera would Zoom in during combat.
Plot: A
Father-Son tension: good
good vs evil: good
general acting: excellent (*except starbuck)
This show is exciting, and I look forward to seeing the rest of them.
I live in Canada and cannot get these shows. Thank you very much BitTorrent.
December 1986 this was done with fuel
Why can't this now be done with solar cells and high-density batteries?
I would have more faith in this project if it was being done by somebody else.
Stay aloft for weeks at a time? sure why not. Just expand on this idea
About the TAT-14 Cable Network
This transatlantic cable system is in full service, connecting the United States to the United Kingdom, France, The Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark.
The cable system is a dual, bi-directional ring configuration using DWDM multiplexing with 16 wavelengths of STM-64 per fiber pair. The system also utilizes reverse direction protection switching in the event of failure of the service fiber.
It has a dual route, transatlantic capacity of 640 Gbits on 2 service fiber pairs backed up by 2 protection fiber pairs. This configuration provides a capability of transporting 4,096 STM-1's or approximately 9,700,000 circuits across the ocean.
Excellent thank-you.
Like I said I have not ever played NWN with other people so I only had the single player campaign to base my opinion on.
I will gladly reinstall and search from some online fun.
This is a comparison/complaint/request for insight.
.
I am a long time fan and player of the D&D table-top series, and a long time AD&D compter gamer (C64 titles like Pools of Radience, etc.).
I have played NWN, Baulders Gate, Dungeon Siege, and others but I am still waiting for a satisfying experience.
*****
Experience
NWN & BG: Excellent XP model, great feel for character building.
DS : Excellent reward model (kill something and get a prize)
NWN & BG: Takes a long time to level-up (and some rewards a very minimal when you do)
DS: I LOVE the concept of increasing your skills based on what you do. (Hack with a sword = increase in strength) very realistic
*******
Quests
NWN: easy to get lost/stuck in missions. The game is very scripted (the side-adventures dont' progress the game), if you don't finish the main quests then the game will not continue. This is very frustrating to clear a map and get everything done but talk to one person (who you can't find now) and are unable to continue on with the adventure.
BG: Same problem as NWN
DS: is VERY scripted too (the world is so small you have no choice but to find and finish every map)
********
Playablity
NWN & BG: there is little feel of team that your PC's have for one another. (A bag guy could be pounding the life out of your mage while your other guys can just stand there and watch. I find these games to be unplayable in some battles because even though I can pause the action and issue new orders, it usually happens to fast to do much about it.
DS: You can assign `personality` to each of your characters. The healers can stand back and auto-heal, your archers can stay at a distance and attack safely, the warriors can run into battle at the first sign of a bad guy. But most of all, they all react if one of the team is getting attacked.
*********
Summary:
NWN & BG are both cut from the same cloth. They both feel like multi-player games area requirement not an option. A single-player game is tedious, boring and much-like work.
DS: very playable as single-player game and very multi-play is a huge bonus. downside: It's too much like Diablo.
I would love to hear other peoples thoughts on these games. Am I missing something? Did I forget to click on a "stupid user" button?
I want to enjoy all of these games.
Sounds a lot like Ministry of Truth type stuff.
I agree with everything you said but I do want to make this one side note:
In P2 you can see an Alien skull+spine in the Predator ship.
Let's completely ignore the AvP games and follow this premise:
Predator's are hunters after trophies.
Aliens are very buff "prey".
What is the only species that we know of that can kill an Alien (besides Predators)? Humans.
Use whatever space/time/wormhole/time-travel special FX you want to get all these parties together.
Aliens vs Predators in concept is still an awesome idea. I would love the see the Animatrix folks take a stab at that story line.