Fantasy RPGs are so boring. I can't handle the whole elves and goblins and swinging swords thing. I'm not saying other settings are automatically more interesting but fantasy just seems to tired, kind of like WW2 FPS games. Futuristic settings at least seem to offer more possibilities (even if they're not always used) and what about a modern day RPG? Persona did it with a J-RPG series.
Swinging a sword with a leather clad character versus some dumb goblin makes me want to retch.
Except you can only play it on high fidelity for a relatively short window of time compared to consoles. That's why people get consoles - because while you "only" get the resolution of HD, you never have to worry about upgrading anything.
After you get to a certain age, you care more about having fun and playing the game rather than higher pixel counts and running on the upgrade treadmill.
I mean if you're travelling, you either have something built in, a plug-in card, bluetooth tethering (I find this very convenient), and usb tethering. I've never been in a situation where I need to share internet access while travelling to multiple devices, and while I can see it being a possible need, it doesn't seem to be much more than a niche thing? Also, it's not TOO difficult to share a mobile internet connection provided you know the ins and outs of such things (though yes, this device would make it dead simple).
MySpace may suck, but please don't pigeon-hole hip-hop into the same generalization. Just like any other genre there's plenty of crap and plenty of good stuff that has nothing to do with being loud, unfriendly, or unintelligent; generalizations just reflect badly on the poster.
Lame. The point of SIP is open connectivity and/or choice of providers. Why should I beholden to one provider to access GV? That and if you decide to go whole-hog with SIP, you can gain all the functionality of GV without... using Google.
I never do. I set up DHCP with static addresses for the known computers, and dynamic for the guests. So much easier to ssh between machines with proper ip addresses and names.
And... what's stopping you from doing that with ipv6?
...and your point is? Read my post again. The point is that the allure of working for the military for interesting tech or powerful computers is a gigantic myth; most of the military stuff is NOT interesting and is nothing out of the ordinary in terms of probing for weaknesses (which is what most of these civilians at the con would be hired for). For the most part, the interesting stuff lies in the private sector
Uh, 99% of most military computing systems are terrible in terms of computing power. Any of the big projects (of which there are not that many that are even interesting) will have maybe a handful of people that can do anything outside of a set working template of "fill in the blanks for your query" type interfaces. The military portrayed in movies does not exist.
It's got ease of use, but Skype and its proprietary nature, the closed factor, and the overwhelming way they try and obscure everything the program does... I can't trust it and would rather go with something SIP based. At least with SIP you know what's going on and its interoperable with different vendors.
I agree with your post and was going to mod you up, but I really had to stop reading - please use asterisks sparingly, otherwise your post becomes unreadable and cloying.
$5/meg?!? Yeah, if you committed to something like a full gigabit. Sorry, $5000/month is not competitive.
The closest you can get in a datacenter is probably around $50/95th with a burstable 1 meg commit, on a so-so network. This is still oodles faster than most consumer level connections.
Note to people that don't know what a 1 meg commit is: it has nothing to do with a bandwidth cap of 1 meg/sec.
Laughable at best. Tell me, how do you listen to all the songs you haven't heard in four months but you like (you've rated more than 3 stars) and have the words 'puke' in the title? Oh that's right, you can't, unless you write some insane script that no normal person could ever hope of doing. Meanwhile, the iPod user can do it in less than a minute.
Let me tell you something - the iPod was not the first media player, nor is it the only media player. Why does it dominate? Sure, Apple has a good marketing campaign, but more than that, if the usability was crap, these things wouldn't be practically throwing themselves off the shelves. Meanwhile other hardware manufacturers spit out great media players with better specs and cooler features... yet they go nowhere because for all of them (yes ALL), their interfaces and way of managing large music libraries is crap.
Oh and the difference between mass storage and library management? Instead of dragging the music to the drive, you drag it to... get this... THE LIBRARY. Oh my god, it's so hard to understand! Just like you people and your complete stubbornness in looking objectively at library management and realizing that a flat, non-relational file based structure is primitive at best.
Except... most people don't want cut and paste. They WANT iTunes to manage their music for them. They WANT their stuff to be automatically transferred to their Shuffle without thinking about playlists or what to transfer or anything like that.
This is the reason people like you don't "get" the iPod, or other products that seem to sell well despite a perceived wall of difficulties. Most people want things to work without much fuss; they couldn't care less what "mass storage" is or how that might be better (or worse!).
So far, there have been no reports in change of customer service since the buyout. None of their terms of service have changed in as much as that it affects someone using their service heavily, including running servers.
So yeah. Speakeasy's still a great ISP.
Well the whole list is a terrible generalization, but I have to at least point out that the PPC vs Intel and eventual switch to Core had only developed a lag in raw computing power near the end of the PPC line in Apple machines. The G3, G4, and G5 pretty much kept up with their Intel counterparts. The problem was that the G5 (and what would've been the G6) was unable to be squeezed into the form factors that Apple requested, namely laptops and future iMacs.
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I did like Mass Effect, just wish there were more like it.
but I have to yell anyway :)
Fantasy RPGs are so boring. I can't handle the whole elves and goblins and swinging swords thing. I'm not saying other settings are automatically more interesting but fantasy just seems to tired, kind of like WW2 FPS games. Futuristic settings at least seem to offer more possibilities (even if they're not always used) and what about a modern day RPG? Persona did it with a J-RPG series.
Swinging a sword with a leather clad character versus some dumb goblin makes me want to retch.
Except you can only play it on high fidelity for a relatively short window of time compared to consoles. That's why people get consoles - because while you "only" get the resolution of HD, you never have to worry about upgrading anything.
After you get to a certain age, you care more about having fun and playing the game rather than higher pixel counts and running on the upgrade treadmill.
I mean if you're travelling, you either have something built in, a plug-in card, bluetooth tethering (I find this very convenient), and usb tethering. I've never been in a situation where I need to share internet access while travelling to multiple devices, and while I can see it being a possible need, it doesn't seem to be much more than a niche thing? Also, it's not TOO difficult to share a mobile internet connection provided you know the ins and outs of such things (though yes, this device would make it dead simple).
Maybe someone can enlighten me.
MySpace may suck, but please don't pigeon-hole hip-hop into the same generalization. Just like any other genre there's plenty of crap and plenty of good stuff that has nothing to do with being loud, unfriendly, or unintelligent; generalizations just reflect badly on the poster.
Yeah, like when you bench press twice as much as you can do safely, that's ok because you're working harder.
I like how this is modded informative when it's completely wrong, while the correction below isn't even modded.
Nice try "kid", but the point still stands. Not to mention that it's not totally free with SIP + Gizmo5 + GV either.
Lame. The point of SIP is open connectivity and/or choice of providers. Why should I beholden to one provider to access GV? That and if you decide to go whole-hog with SIP, you can gain all the functionality of GV without... using Google.
PLEASE, for the love of God, learn to use an apostrophe.
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I never do. I set up DHCP with static addresses for the known computers, and dynamic for the guests. So much easier to ssh between machines with proper ip addresses and names.
And... what's stopping you from doing that with ipv6?
...and your point is? Read my post again. The point is that the allure of working for the military for interesting tech or powerful computers is a gigantic myth; most of the military stuff is NOT interesting and is nothing out of the ordinary in terms of probing for weaknesses (which is what most of these civilians at the con would be hired for). For the most part, the interesting stuff lies in the private sector
Uh, 99% of most military computing systems are terrible in terms of computing power. Any of the big projects (of which there are not that many that are even interesting) will have maybe a handful of people that can do anything outside of a set working template of "fill in the blanks for your query" type interfaces. The military portrayed in movies does not exist.
It's got ease of use, but Skype and its proprietary nature, the closed factor, and the overwhelming way they try and obscure everything the program does... I can't trust it and would rather go with something SIP based. At least with SIP you know what's going on and its interoperable with different vendors.
It's not really free; Gizmo's outbound service is only limited to a certain amount of free time, after which you pay.
Why the heck do you have a SAN in your house? Are you booting every single machine off it? Wouldn't a NAS make more sense?!?
I agree with your post and was going to mod you up, but I really had to stop reading - please use asterisks sparingly, otherwise your post becomes unreadable and cloying.
I think you don't know what a smart host is.
You should be using aptitude, not apt-get.
$5/meg?!? Yeah, if you committed to something like a full gigabit. Sorry, $5000/month is not competitive.
The closest you can get in a datacenter is probably around $50/95th with a burstable 1 meg commit, on a so-so network. This is still oodles faster than most consumer level connections.
Note to people that don't know what a 1 meg commit is: it has nothing to do with a bandwidth cap of 1 meg/sec.
You should probably be concerned about your general health if you participate in NO athletic endeavors...
Laughable at best. Tell me, how do you listen to all the songs you haven't heard in four months but you like (you've rated more than 3 stars) and have the words 'puke' in the title? Oh that's right, you can't, unless you write some insane script that no normal person could ever hope of doing. Meanwhile, the iPod user can do it in less than a minute.
Let me tell you something - the iPod was not the first media player, nor is it the only media player. Why does it dominate? Sure, Apple has a good marketing campaign, but more than that, if the usability was crap, these things wouldn't be practically throwing themselves off the shelves. Meanwhile other hardware manufacturers spit out great media players with better specs and cooler features... yet they go nowhere because for all of them (yes ALL), their interfaces and way of managing large music libraries is crap.
Oh and the difference between mass storage and library management? Instead of dragging the music to the drive, you drag it to... get this... THE LIBRARY. Oh my god, it's so hard to understand! Just like you people and your complete stubbornness in looking objectively at library management and realizing that a flat, non-relational file based structure is primitive at best.
Except... most people don't want cut and paste. They WANT iTunes to manage their music for them. They WANT their stuff to be automatically transferred to their Shuffle without thinking about playlists or what to transfer or anything like that.
This is the reason people like you don't "get" the iPod, or other products that seem to sell well despite a perceived wall of difficulties. Most people want things to work without much fuss; they couldn't care less what "mass storage" is or how that might be better (or worse!).
So far, there have been no reports in change of customer service since the buyout. None of their terms of service have changed in as much as that it affects someone using their service heavily, including running servers. So yeah. Speakeasy's still a great ISP.
Well the whole list is a terrible generalization, but I have to at least point out that the PPC vs Intel and eventual switch to Core had only developed a lag in raw computing power near the end of the PPC line in Apple machines. The G3, G4, and G5 pretty much kept up with their Intel counterparts. The problem was that the G5 (and what would've been the G6) was unable to be squeezed into the form factors that Apple requested, namely laptops and future iMacs.