It's a free add-in to their service. For every buck per month you spend you get an hour of streaming. It may not be cheap, but since their standard mail service is already worth the money I spend, the Watch Now is a pleasant bonus.
Unless you're on the $8.99/mo. plan, in which case you only seem to get two (2) hours per month of streaming. I still haven't quite worked out the math they used to figure that one out, when their own F.A.Q.s and help pages state exactly what is commented above.
Also, the last time I checked, the service is not usable outside of a Windows system. At least, I haven't fiddled about enough since getting my new MacPro to see if it can be worked around.
VLC plays the stream just fine. There's even a handy "Listen using stand-alone Real Player" link; you don't have to muck through HTML or anything. Real Audio wouldn't be my first choice, but the quality is pretty good, all things considered.
Every expansion will mean less new players because the investment required to 'catch up' to the rest of the game is growing at a rapid pace. This is likely exactly why the next content patch for WoW, patch 2.3, includes an adjustment to the leveling scheme for levels 0 through 60. Experience to level is being lowered while experience awards for quests is being increased.
This should offset the growing gap between character creation and end game.
Maybe most people just don't need to uninstall anything, ever, so it's too much work to include yet another feature that may confuse grandma, even if it makes us geeks grind our teeth at the mere thought.. This might be exactly why something like this doesn't exist in Mas OS X. In my own case, I've never installed and then had to uninstall an application where this might matter. Ever application I've downloaded or found, I've kept, which is a pretty amazing crap considering how much crap I've installed and subsequently uninstalled while running Windows.
It's worth mentioning that I'm generally very leery about installing any application that isn't just a drag-and-drop into my Applications folder, and this might be the reason why. At least I know that if it doesn't work out, I can just trash it and no harm done.
One of the longest running text-based role playing games, GemStone IV by Simutronics, is still active with a fairly dedicated user base. Wikipedia has a pretty good overview.
It's not as popular as it used to be, no doubt due in part to the explosion of graphical MMOs. However, it still provides the environment for some of the best role playing available on the intertube and still shines with the hands-on attentions its GameMasters give to the player community.
It's not free, but I'd suggest anyone with interests in role playing games to give it a look and take the trial for a run.
When Ocarina of Time was released, and I first played it, I always through that having the camera swing up to an overhead/isometric view for combat would have been interesting. Have the control scheme mimic that of older Zelda titles for combat, but stick to the true 3D for the rest of the game.
The major issue I could think of at the time is that it'd get pretty annoying jumping in and out of 'combat perspective', and that it wouldn't lend itself too well to most of the dungeons since they were designed with a true 3D world in mind.
I was wondering the same thing. I'm guessing it was meant to say "do not".
Though, it could be emphasis that the issue is more prevalent with newer generation iPods, and noting that despite their popularity the effects hadn't been observed before. I don't think it'd be note-worthy to say "We didn't notice because people with pacemakers just never used iPods."
I can't think of any situation where a password stored plaintext or encrypted would be a better option than some type of stored hash. If you're storing a hash that is useful in some way (i.e. for logging in), then it really isn't any better of an option than storing a plaintext password. Since a hash isn't (or, at least, shouldn't be) reversible, storing it doesn't help you UNLESS it itself is useful information.
The point of a hash, at least when considering security and passwords and the like, is to create a secure representation of some piece of data that can be safely stored. If you can use that data to actively DO something, then it's not secure.
At least encryption requires decryption before you have useful information, and regardless of how trivial the effort to decrypt might be, that is often enough to discourage people from looking further.
It is wierd how they don't stop pushing the propaganda even once you've already begun the install. Every install of Windows is like sitting through a Powerpoint presentation telling you how great Windows is. Like they are still trying to convince you... as if it wasn't something you'd notice otherwise. Brainwashing? I was always a fan of the "Windows Just Got Better" 'slide' of the Windows 98 installer.
Every time I wiped and installed I considered repeating the process just to see that slide a few more times, in hopes that it'd help to see that this wipe would be the last one.
I was sad to see no such message while installing 2k, for it would have finally be true.:(
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It's a free add-in to their service. For every buck per month you spend you get an hour of streaming. It may not be cheap, but since their standard mail service is already worth the money I spend, the Watch Now is a pleasant bonus.
Unless you're on the $8.99/mo. plan, in which case you only seem to get two (2) hours per month of streaming. I still haven't quite worked out the math they used to figure that one out, when their own F.A.Q.s and help pages state exactly what is commented above.
Also, the last time I checked, the service is not usable outside of a Windows system. At least, I haven't fiddled about enough since getting my new MacPro to see if it can be worked around.
VLC plays the stream just fine. There's even a handy "Listen using stand-alone Real Player" link; you don't have to muck through HTML or anything. Real Audio wouldn't be my first choice, but the quality is pretty good, all things considered.
It's worth mentioning that I'm generally very leery about installing any application that isn't just a drag-and-drop into my Applications folder, and this might be the reason why. At least I know that if it doesn't work out, I can just trash it and no harm done.
One of the longest running text-based role playing games, GemStone IV by Simutronics, is still active with a fairly dedicated user base. Wikipedia has a pretty good overview.
It's not as popular as it used to be, no doubt due in part to the explosion of graphical MMOs. However, it still provides the environment for some of the best role playing available on the intertube and still shines with the hands-on attentions its GameMasters give to the player community.
It's not free, but I'd suggest anyone with interests in role playing games to give it a look and take the trial for a run.
When Ocarina of Time was released, and I first played it, I always through that having the camera swing up to an overhead/isometric view for combat would have been interesting. Have the control scheme mimic that of older Zelda titles for combat, but stick to the true 3D for the rest of the game. The major issue I could think of at the time is that it'd get pretty annoying jumping in and out of 'combat perspective', and that it wouldn't lend itself too well to most of the dungeons since they were designed with a true 3D world in mind.
I was wondering the same thing. I'm guessing it was meant to say "do not".
Though, it could be emphasis that the issue is more prevalent with newer generation iPods, and noting that despite their popularity the effects hadn't been observed before. I don't think it'd be note-worthy to say "We didn't notice because people with pacemakers just never used iPods."
The point of a hash, at least when considering security and passwords and the like, is to create a secure representation of some piece of data that can be safely stored. If you can use that data to actively DO something, then it's not secure.
At least encryption requires decryption before you have useful information, and regardless of how trivial the effort to decrypt might be, that is often enough to discourage people from looking further.
Every time I wiped and installed I considered repeating the process just to see that slide a few more times, in hopes that it'd help to see that this wipe would be the last one.
I was sad to see no such message while installing 2k, for it would have finally be true.