Early adopters of the 360 will welcome the chance to continue to play their faves on newer hardware. Over time, of course, as upgraded games appear, the older games will sit on the shelf.
Maybe MS hasn't said anything definitive one way or the other means they're still working on the emulator and won't know much until later? Maybe that's just wishful thinking on my part.
Late night, guy surfing, withthe only illumination coming from the screen. Moaning noises coming from the computer (pr0n implied). Closes with 'touch the difference'
Bathroom
Woman, seated, gets this bug-eye expression while scribbling with her stylus. Ends with 'smell the difference'
If it's the Star Wars we've been waiting for, many of us will return to the theater again and again, and thus make up for the loss of kiddie ticket sales.
I lost count after seeing A New Hope more than 10 times back in the day (when HAN SHOT FIRST, dammit!).
Sorry to disappoint, but no. I controlled the old nameservers, and they were updated with the new info after the cutover. Beforehand, their TTLs were also dropped to 2 hours well in advance of the changeover. I even killed and restarted nscd on them (Solaris 8 boxen), after the cutover, too.
BTW, AOL wasn't the worst offender - some other semi-national ISP was.
There are enough places (ISPs, like AOL), where TTL is completely ignored.
Case in point. A former high-traffic client (in the million hits per day range) did an 'inverse outsource' and reclaimed their site and corresponding domains. To prep for the move, the client migrated their DNS service to their new servers and changed the NS records with NetSol, several weeks in advance. They dropped their TTL down to two hours around that time. Early on the day of the cutover, changed the DNS records to point to the new location/IP range. That should've been enough, yes?
Well, they got a lot of complaints on the first few days that the site wasn't working. We ended up having to put create some URL redirection, ising the new IPs, on their old servers, and it took over two weeks for the traffic to die down. It took that long for some companies to flush their cache completely.
Companies are breaking the 'rules' and there's really not much you can do about it.
I hear ya. I'm sure someone knows the answer, but I'm convinced that the most recent episode was written AFTER the cancellation announcement. I think that gave the writers the freedom to try writing a TOS-style ending, right down to the the forced "oooo, the Vulcan made a funny. No I didn't!" epilogue.
That people insist movies must be direct adaptations of subject matter (aka books in this case) and nothing else will suffice, and anything that doesn't is just trash. The LOTR Trilogy was about as close as you're gonna get, and yet people were furious that they left out a lot of material (Tom Bombadil, purging of the Shire).
The ones that bug me are the ones who haven't figured out that a hands free set, either a headset or speakerphone setup. People with crooked necks have to devote extra brainpower to reorient their vision, and can't see as completely as others on the road. Those people need to be shot.
You're probably the exception, but there are a lot of people who can't walk and chew gum simultaneously, let alone drive and speak on a phone.
The best parody of the Dallas one was from Family Guy, at the end of the Y2K episode, where Victoria Principal (the real her, not an animated one) wakes up, finds Patrick Duffy (not sure if he was animated or not;) in the shower, complains about this horrible dream recanting what happened to Stewie the FG episode, to which Patrick Duffy replies, "Who's Stewie?"
I think she'd be up for it. She was looking pretty good as "Governer Fsckhead" in "Super Troopers", and apparently, she's going to be in the "Dukes of Hazzard" movie.
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TrunkMonkeys to Microsoft to make some sense of all this.
Oddly enough, many of the planned events involve Adam Sandler.
Yeah, I agree, but just to point out, I'm not voting with my brain :)
Early adopters of the 360 will welcome the chance to continue to play their faves on newer hardware. Over time, of course, as upgraded games appear, the older games will sit on the shelf.
Maybe MS hasn't said anything definitive one way or the other means they're still working on the emulator and won't know much until later? Maybe that's just wishful thinking on my part.
The most important thing to note here is that unlike Han Solo, Mal will always shoot first.
These were deemed too unsavory
Bedroom
Late night, guy surfing, withthe only illumination coming from the screen. Moaning noises coming from the computer (pr0n implied). Closes with 'touch the difference'
Bathroom
Woman, seated, gets this bug-eye expression while scribbling with her stylus. Ends with 'smell the difference'
You haven't seen many Broadway shows, have you? There were a lot of jabs in there that some of my friends had to point out to me regarding Broadway.
I guess there's no satisfying everyone.
I saw the show, which was GREAT. It matters to me.
Ye not worthy (squee-dum squee-dum squee-dum)
Technically, there wasn't an Internet before then. It was the ARPAnet :)
If it's the Star Wars we've been waiting for, many of us will return to the theater again and again, and thus make up for the loss of kiddie ticket sales.
I lost count after seeing A New Hope more than 10 times back in the day (when HAN SHOT FIRST, dammit!).
How could you leave out the best one:
"Don't be roadkill on the information superhighway!"
Sorry to disappoint, but no. I controlled the old nameservers, and they were updated with the new info after the cutover. Beforehand, their TTLs were also dropped to 2 hours well in advance of the changeover. I even killed and restarted nscd on them (Solaris 8 boxen), after the cutover, too.
BTW, AOL wasn't the worst offender - some other semi-national ISP was.
There are enough places (ISPs, like AOL), where TTL is completely ignored.
Case in point. A former high-traffic client (in the million hits per day range) did an 'inverse outsource' and reclaimed their site and corresponding domains. To prep for the move, the client migrated their DNS service to their new servers and changed the NS records with NetSol, several weeks in advance. They dropped their TTL down to two hours around that time. Early on the day of the cutover, changed the DNS records to point to the new location/IP range. That should've been enough, yes?
Well, they got a lot of complaints on the first few days that the site wasn't working. We ended up having to put create some URL redirection, ising the new IPs, on their old servers, and it took over two weeks for the traffic to die down. It took that long for some companies to flush their cache completely.
Companies are breaking the 'rules' and there's really not much you can do about it.
I hear ya. I'm sure someone knows the answer, but I'm convinced that the most recent episode was written AFTER the cancellation announcement. I think that gave the writers the freedom to try writing a TOS-style ending, right down to the the forced "oooo, the Vulcan made a funny. No I didn't!" epilogue.
OY!
That people insist movies must be direct adaptations of subject matter (aka books in this case) and nothing else will suffice, and anything that doesn't is just trash. The LOTR Trilogy was about as close as you're gonna get, and yet people were furious that they left out a lot of material (Tom Bombadil, purging of the Shire).
Quite frankly, I welcome the new material.
The ones that bug me are the ones who haven't figured out that a hands free set, either a headset or speakerphone setup. People with crooked necks have to devote extra brainpower to reorient their vision, and can't see as completely as others on the road. Those people need to be shot.
You're probably the exception, but there are a lot of people who can't walk and chew gum simultaneously, let alone drive and speak on a phone.
So THAT's why people download so much porn!
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Hopefully, the first release won't be "The Sheep Look Up"
What's the fifth one?
;) in the shower, complains about this horrible dream recanting what happened to Stewie the FG episode, to which Patrick Duffy replies, "Who's Stewie?"
The best parody of the Dallas one was from Family Guy, at the end of the Y2K episode, where Victoria Principal (the real her, not an animated one) wakes up, finds Patrick Duffy (not sure if he was animated or not
is a BFH.
If we could get the PC game manufacturers to port their stuff more quickly to the Mac, That'd be enough for me.
Actually, I haven't checked - are the Windoze emulators getting better at handling FPSses and the like?
I think she'd be up for it. She was looking pretty good as "Governer Fsckhead" in "Super Troopers", and apparently, she's going to be in the "Dukes of Hazzard" movie.
buy the dongle for headsets seperately (I've never seen it offered). What is it made of, MS Patentium or something?