Pedometers do not cut it for distance measurement. Almost everyone uses a GPS unit these days. Interestingly enough, the only company still pushing a pedometer-driven system these days is Nike. At SOME point they are going to get on the GPS bandwagon but I'm uncertain why they are taking so long to get 'cutting edge in this area.'
OT - That banner ad for Crystal Reports just brought my computer to a crawl.
If you had the choice between two services with the same functionality but one gave you the ability to burn the music - even if you do have to pay more to do so - which would you choose?
Depends on how much more. And if you even listen to music on CDs. I listen either on my comp or through my MP3 player or the mp3 player + fm transmitter in my car.
I download more new songs a month than would cost to buy through Itunes rather than 'rent.'
Another minor detail on the PlaysForSure - you can buy to burn the songs, but they are only $0.79 each, not $0.99.
Boy are you stupid. Napster and Yahoo Unlimited and Rhapshody aren't going out of business - they are in the same biz as Urge. What is going down is the MSN Music Store - which is not part of those other services at all.
The writer probably was unfamiliar with the other services that have been out for over a year that have the same offering - Napster, Yahoo Unlimited, and several others.
What Urge is missing - and what I was looking forward to - was a low low intro price for the first year. I got the first year of Yahoo - including to go - for $60.
Also, Urge is more expenensive than Yahoo as you can get the non-to-go version for only $5 at Yahoo rather than $10 at Urge.
All the other complaints in the article - old news. Either the PlayforSure thing is for you or it isn't.
You fail to understand, but your not even trying. I guess when you are so deep in the mud it's really hard to see anything else.
There are two forces in the universe - life and anti-life. Two directions. Every action either moves a person closer to one or the other.
And there are many kinds of death - not just physical, but emotional, psychological, and depending on your religious persuasion, spiritual (for lack of a better word).
And clearly, based on your emotional response, I have clearly hit a nerve and I believe you know I am right, else you would just have scrolled past my post like you would any other 'real' troll.
The athletic smartshirt is inferior to other products on the market that provide more useful information - namely the Timex Bodylink with HRM and GPS, and the Garmin Forerunner 305 with GPS.
Apparently it does not unify GPS data with the heart rate, and other things like body temperature/caloric burn/respiration rate/etc either can be derived from the HRM/GPS or are just not that useful.
Also, while in the midst of training, the last thing you want to do is have your coach have to haul a laptop out - a simple stop watch and asking you about your own HRM readout will do the job.
In theory, there are some better products out there that can be developed, but this is not one of them.
In the last 120 days, the value of the dollar has gone from about 120 yen to under 110. If this trend continues, it could give the 360 a pretty decent home-field advantage. Granted, all components are made outside the US (and possibly outside of Japan), but demonimating the wealth in dollars is probably much easier than doing so in Yen.
The problem with that is the people who wind up running unions are socialist politicians who expect the truly productive to be their slaves and will irrationally try to squeeze blood from a stone.
Part of the problem with cover in another game that uses it this way (Ghost Recon: Advanced War Fighter) is that you can only take cover in places where the system has already decided as being cover.
This was even more pronounced in another incredibly fun game, Star Wars: Republican Commando.
Another issue I noticed in GRAW was that getting in and out of cover was sluggish and that your agility to aim while in cover was much different from when you were not in cover.
FASA tries to make the game interesting to people other than the microscopic demographics of Nerds playing table-top roleplaying games.
Nerds are angry having their elitist niche invaded by normal, good looking people.
End of story.
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You apparently can't follow your own advice - giving clearification that no one asked for.
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I asked it in my mind. I appreciate not having to ask it in a post. So STFU.
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I'll step in and provide a half-way defense of Hamilton. Night's Dawn trilogy were excellent, as was Fallen Dragon. His other stuff (I'm looking at you Misspent Youth) was pretty awful.
Before I start with that, have you ever noticed that movie theaters charge the same price for all movies, whether they are Steven Spielberg blockbusters or crappy John Travolta religious quackery disguised as science fiction that nobody in their right mind would want to see?
I thoroughly enjoyed Battlefield Earth. There was absolutly nothing about this movie that tried to advocate Scientology. I thought Travolta was great and the story was great and it was much more enjoyable than many Spielberg films I've sat through (like ET).
Theoretically, when a super-duper-blockbuster comes out, like, say, Lord of the Rings, there's so much demand that the movie theaters just end up turning people away. Econ 101 says that they should raise the price on these ultra-popular movies. As long as the movie is sold out, why not jack up the price and make more money?
They control it on the supply-side by limited the number of screenings for the film. People have an expectation of a ticket price. By changing the ticket price with the timing of the film, they will make people do something other than want to go see it on opening weekend - and as film releases are now making more and more of their % in the first weekend (the releases are more EVENT based), they want to keep people coming on the openings.
So just show it on more screens. Awful movies will get many fewer screenings.
Maybe you should be ticked not at valve but at the linux devs who haven't made a driver for you to handle it?
You should buy the game and enjoy it. You may find it cost prohititive to buy a PC just for this game - sort of just like a PC gamer not being able to afford a Vid card to take advantage of the same feature you are missing.
And really, if a game is ruined for you because of a minor graphical feature, then it can't be so hot a game.
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Yeah, because your treamill can't tell you exactly how far/fast you are going.
OT - That banner ad for Crystal Reports just brought my computer to a crawl.
Depends on how much more. And if you even listen to music on CDs. I listen either on my comp or through my MP3 player or the mp3 player + fm transmitter in my car.
I download more new songs a month than would cost to buy through Itunes rather than 'rent.'
Another minor detail on the PlaysForSure - you can buy to burn the songs, but they are only $0.79 each, not $0.99.
Boy are you stupid. Napster and Yahoo Unlimited and Rhapshody aren't going out of business - they are in the same biz as Urge. What is going down is the MSN Music Store - which is not part of those other services at all.
What Urge is missing - and what I was looking forward to - was a low low intro price for the first year. I got the first year of Yahoo - including to go - for $60.
Also, Urge is more expenensive than Yahoo as you can get the non-to-go version for only $5 at Yahoo rather than $10 at Urge.
All the other complaints in the article - old news. Either the PlayforSure thing is for you or it isn't.
There are two forces in the universe - life and anti-life. Two directions. Every action either moves a person closer to one or the other.
And there are many kinds of death - not just physical, but emotional, psychological, and depending on your religious persuasion, spiritual (for lack of a better word).
And clearly, based on your emotional response, I have clearly hit a nerve and I believe you know I am right, else you would just have scrolled past my post like you would any other 'real' troll.
Think about that.
That is an inescapable natural moral precept that nothing and no one can outrun.
Apparently it does not unify GPS data with the heart rate, and other things like body temperature/caloric burn/respiration rate/etc either can be derived from the HRM/GPS or are just not that useful.
Also, while in the midst of training, the last thing you want to do is have your coach have to haul a laptop out - a simple stop watch and asking you about your own HRM readout will do the job.
In theory, there are some better products out there that can be developed, but this is not one of them.
Er. You could have gone in person to your local Unemployment Accounts Office.
You're a regular Bill Buckley, sending me scrambling for a dictionary. Cromulent is a cromulent word.
In the last 120 days, the value of the dollar has gone from about 120 yen to under 110. If this trend continues, it could give the 360 a pretty decent home-field advantage. Granted, all components are made outside the US (and possibly outside of Japan), but demonimating the wealth in dollars is probably much easier than doing so in Yen.
No, actually, having done it in real life, I assure you it is not.
The problem with that is the people who wind up running unions are socialist politicians who expect the truly productive to be their slaves and will irrationally try to squeeze blood from a stone.
It was actually a low-grade troll. Thanks for the snack.
Maybe the employee should buy some shares.
Angry nerds who use rp words like 'drek' mod my original comment down and post typical elitist response.
No, really. Moving your gun ten degrees to the left should not take twice as long just because you are in cover.
This was even more pronounced in another incredibly fun game, Star Wars: Republican Commando.
Another issue I noticed in GRAW was that getting in and out of cover was sluggish and that your agility to aim while in cover was much different from when you were not in cover.
Nerds are angry having their elitist niche invaded by normal, good looking people.
End of story.
You apparently can't follow your own advice - giving clearification that no one asked for.
I asked it in my mind. I appreciate not having to ask it in a post. So STFU.
I'll step in and provide a half-way defense of Hamilton. Night's Dawn trilogy were excellent, as was Fallen Dragon. His other stuff (I'm looking at you Misspent Youth) was pretty awful.
Not just no background DLs, but no queing or simultaneous downloading. Very primative.
Before I start with that, have you ever noticed that movie theaters charge the same price for all movies, whether they are Steven Spielberg blockbusters or crappy John Travolta religious quackery disguised as science fiction that nobody in their right mind would want to see?
I thoroughly enjoyed Battlefield Earth. There was absolutly nothing about this movie that tried to advocate Scientology. I thought Travolta was great and the story was great and it was much more enjoyable than many Spielberg films I've sat through (like ET).
Theoretically, when a super-duper-blockbuster comes out, like, say, Lord of the Rings, there's so much demand that the movie theaters just end up turning people away. Econ 101 says that they should raise the price on these ultra-popular movies. As long as the movie is sold out, why not jack up the price and make more money?
They control it on the supply-side by limited the number of screenings for the film. People have an expectation of a ticket price. By changing the ticket price with the timing of the film, they will make people do something other than want to go see it on opening weekend - and as film releases are now making more and more of their % in the first weekend (the releases are more EVENT based), they want to keep people coming on the openings.
So just show it on more screens. Awful movies will get many fewer screenings.
You should buy the game and enjoy it. You may find it cost prohititive to buy a PC just for this game - sort of just like a PC gamer not being able to afford a Vid card to take advantage of the same feature you are missing.
And really, if a game is ruined for you because of a minor graphical feature, then it can't be so hot a game.