There is no way Final Fantasy XI can play WITHOUT a hard drive. It's really simple, MMORPG will always have patches and update contents. So unless M$ is dropping FFXI, or J. Allard isn't aware that FFXI will be ported to Xbox360, his statement is simply not true.
well, the squawk wasn't exactly at 7500, more like 7524 (should be 5524) or something, but the code did briefly pass 7500 while I was setting it, (I normally set the transponder from last digitl to first while changing to or from 1200 to others, however, sometimes I'm stupid/slow/busy).
but ATC did almost immediate want a confirmation on the transponder..
the code to signal ground controller that there's a hijack is to set 7500 on your normal transponder(there's no seperate trasponder). after you set it, you probably want to hit ident couple times to make sure people notice it. and They'll confirm with you that you are indeed want to set it at 7500. I've accidentally set it at 75xx a few times by mistake when I want to set 55xx, but those mistake were caught easily and early (duh)
This action assumes that the pilot is still at the control and have access to transponder and radio. (in the event like 9/11, hijackers know how to fly the airplane, thus bypass the security measurement)
the game plays a lot more like Diablo2 then Original Dungeon Siege. Although Dungeon Siege 1 copied some element from D2, Dungeon Siege 2 took A LOT MORE from D2.
Skill points, even the graphics and description looks like D2.
Teleporter system
Magical, Rare, Set, and Unique items
Town stash
game difficulty system
if you are D2 fan, you'll spot a lot of similarities..
of course, the game has put a lot more then just copying D2, the party fighting, enchantment system, summoning, and special powers are all pretty good.
Graphics is pretty good, but I like the , and I have decent framerate with my AMD 1700+ with ATI 9600XT. so hardware requirement isn't too bad.
the game do have a lot of bugs though, hopefully the next patch will solve the majority of the problem, such as adding party members and various scripting bug.
my most disappointment is the network play, which only allow maximum of 4 players to join a single game(I have more friends). and there's no way to play IP based game (to prevent pirated copy going online?). however LAN based game is possible, and I know you can trick the game to use Hamachi to play LAN over internet.
what he meant, is there's a buttom price for HDD. the cheapest/lowest capacity model of HDD always cost about the same, which is roughly $50 or so for the 3.5" models, probably $60-70 for the 2.5" models. and since console ships with those lowest capacity drives, over time your cost is always the same.. it won't go down much, if at all.
20GB 2.5" HD cost ~$65 right now, but in 3 years, you won't be able to buy 20GB HD at a cheaper price, rather you can buy a 60GB HD at $65.
I have not had any dead Maxtor for quite a while, (and I'm averaging having one dead HD every 2-3 month for a few years now). I currently own 8 Maxtor HDs range from 80GB-300GB in capacity, I also own Seagate, Western Digital, and Fujitsu HDs
I do tend to abuse (as in usage, but not in physical means) HDs alot, and I've burn out more Deathstars(IDE) and Cheetahs(SCSI) then anyone I can remember. and I've seen my fair share of dead Seagates and WDs too.
from my experience talking to people dealing about dead HD, they tend to saying XXX brand is bad for them, and YYY brand is good. and to me a lot of those problem were came from a single bad batch instead of bad brand. and every brand suffer those problems.. (unless, you are talking about deathstar, they have at least 3 bad GENERATIONS)
a 7600 might be a good idea, since it'll draw even less power and have comparable performan to 6800, however, the price is still a big problem. unless Nvidia kill off the entire 6000 series fast, the price will not drop to the $200 mark.
I'm in a similar bind, need to get to PCI Express, and unwilling to pay $$$ for such a high performance card. and I do have thermal/power restraint, so I don't think 6800 fits my bill.. (probably going to settle for 6600.. *sigh*)
seriously, the impact for US market won't matter much, since most stores only carry name brands, even the *generic* accessories they carry is still big names.
the international market, and internet resellers will probably take a hit because of this. but I'm sure those company who didn't pay the license fee can come up with some ways to defeat it..
I doubt this one will be completely silent.. the only way to see how silent the computer *can* be is to turn it off..
the HD will still generate noise, the fan will still generate noise. unless you completely elimite those.. the noise will always be there. some people just have less sensitive ears then others.
but one factor you need to figure in is everyone is in a different environment that has different levels of ambient noise.. so your difinition of silent and my version of silent can differ a lot.
the technology is not a scam, however, the printer maker are trying to spin on inkjet printers so it'll bring in lots of money. (selling ink catridges at astronomically high price)
the biggest problem is that not many people will have multiple printers at their disposal everyday. most of the time, you see 1 printer per computer, or 1 printer per household/location/LAN.
so it's fairly common for people trying to buy one printer that does all job, and of course, that's why the printer maker is trying to sell you. a printer that does them all. (of course they only do a few jobs good and others bad).
Inkjet offer the convinience at hand of printnig most documents and pictures decently. so it's a matter of knowning what to do (ok to print a few pictures, waste of money to print large batch... )
IMHO, for *normal* consumers (assuming you don't print a lot of them, which regular people doesn't), inkjet is still superiour then other printing technology, simply because it's a combination of price, versatility, and accessibility.
actually, space is already heavily utilized by military. Communication, Navigation, and Intelligence gathering are all satellite based now. it just there's only a few country has access to all of them.
but most of everyone has access and rely to GPS navigation. people forgot that GPS is own by US. and a lot of things rely on GPS.. imagine one day US announce it'll turn off GPS unless people cough up money...
IGE is not the only one, it is probably the largest and most visible, but it is certainly not the only one that does it. plus, there are many others that is working to *supply* the currency to IGE and other online trading sites.
it's not worthless, just like collectable items, although it might be worthless in some people's eye, for the *collector*, the collectable items (cards, stamps, whatever) has it's market value based on those who want such items.
it's the same for virtual property, and now there are countless sweatshops in third world countries that actually hire people to work in MMORPG to farm in game currencies.. it's a virtual economy turn into real world economy.
hydrogen is a better source? maybe in the future, as of now, we are wasting more energey trying to generate hydrogen, since we lack of infrastructure to tap into large amount of renewable energey to convert water -> hydrogen.
once we have enough solar, wind, tide, or whatever form of energy at hand, we can massively produce hydrogen and use that instead of fossil fuel/coal/nuclear that we rely heavily on.. but until then, from the efficiency point of view.. hydrogen isn't there yet. I'm really eager to see some nation/state that start a movement to use renewable energy to replace fossil fuel.. but I dunno if we'll see it soon enough.
hmm... did you actually read TFA? it has a good and simple explanation complete with illustration to show you what NCQ is about, and it's the very first part of the article.....
the problem of going really fast in a reallly short span of time, is you'll need to use a large quantity of propellant to achieve it, and you'll also need to equal amount of propellant to slow you down once you reach the destination.. all those translate to huge amount of weight.
and weight is probably the single most costly factor that limit space exploration right now >.>
the gamedevs are very slow to react to issues occured in the game, and they are really slow in putting in the contents that's promised in the last expansion. issues that should need addressing last year are still not resolved this year. GMs are equally slow to react problems occurs in the game, or simply ignoring it.
the game has reach it's maturety, but the end game contents are still way too scarce.
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not just in Bittornado, Bitcomet and Azureus also auto ban IPs that give you bad data.
There is no way Final Fantasy XI can play WITHOUT a hard drive. It's really simple, MMORPG will always have patches and update contents. So unless M$ is dropping FFXI, or J. Allard isn't aware that FFXI will be ported to Xbox360, his statement is simply not true.
Opteron EE will be a good candidate.. 1.4Ghz tops out at 30W
well, the squawk wasn't exactly at 7500, more like 7524 (should be 5524) or something, but the code did briefly pass 7500 while I was setting it, (I normally set the transponder from last digitl to first while changing to or from 1200 to others, however, sometimes I'm stupid/slow/busy).
but ATC did almost immediate want a confirmation on the transponder..
the code to signal ground controller that there's a hijack is to set 7500 on your normal transponder(there's no seperate trasponder). after you set it, you probably want to hit ident couple times to make sure people notice it. and They'll confirm with you that you are indeed want to set it at 7500. I've accidentally set it at 75xx a few times by mistake when I want to set 55xx, but those mistake were caught easily and early (duh)
This action assumes that the pilot is still at the control and have access to transponder and radio. (in the event like 9/11, hijackers know how to fly the airplane, thus bypass the security measurement)
Wondering how long does it take to load 2GB worth of songs, since nano use flash memory instead of HD.
the game plays a lot more like Diablo2 then Original Dungeon Siege. Although Dungeon Siege 1 copied some element from D2, Dungeon Siege 2 took A LOT MORE from D2.
Skill points, even the graphics and description looks like D2.
Teleporter system
Magical, Rare, Set, and Unique items
Town stash
game difficulty system
if you are D2 fan, you'll spot a lot of similarities..
of course, the game has put a lot more then just copying D2, the party fighting, enchantment system, summoning, and special powers are all pretty good.
Graphics is pretty good, but I like the , and I have decent framerate with my AMD 1700+ with ATI 9600XT. so hardware requirement isn't too bad.
the game do have a lot of bugs though, hopefully the next patch will solve the majority of the problem, such as adding party members and various scripting bug.
my most disappointment is the network play, which only allow maximum of 4 players to join a single game(I have more friends). and there's no way to play IP based game (to prevent pirated copy going online?). however LAN based game is possible, and I know you can trick the game to use Hamachi to play LAN over internet.
actually, 400W will be enough for those, provide that the rating is true 400W
I'm really disturbed that the none-profit has to pay $200 *ANNUALLY*
and the impact of this is that other FOSS organization might as well start copying Linux..
for some people.. BSD is looking a lot more attractive now
what he meant, is there's a buttom price for HDD. the cheapest/lowest capacity model of HDD always cost about the same, which is roughly $50 or so for the 3.5" models, probably $60-70 for the 2.5" models. and since console ships with those lowest capacity drives, over time your cost is always the same.. it won't go down much, if at all.
20GB 2.5" HD cost ~$65 right now, but in 3 years, you won't be able to buy 20GB HD at a cheaper price, rather you can buy a 60GB HD at $65.
I have not had any dead Maxtor for quite a while, (and I'm averaging having one dead HD every 2-3 month for a few years now). I currently own 8 Maxtor HDs range from 80GB-300GB in capacity, I also own Seagate, Western Digital, and Fujitsu HDs
I do tend to abuse (as in usage, but not in physical means) HDs alot, and I've burn out more Deathstars(IDE) and Cheetahs(SCSI) then anyone I can remember. and I've seen my fair share of dead Seagates and WDs too.
from my experience talking to people dealing about dead HD, they tend to saying XXX brand is bad for them, and YYY brand is good. and to me a lot of those problem were came from a single bad batch instead of bad brand. and every brand suffer those problems.. (unless, you are talking about deathstar, they have at least 3 bad GENERATIONS)
my last 2 casualty were dead 1200JB and 1600JD..
a 7600 might be a good idea, since it'll draw even less power and have comparable performan to 6800, however, the price is still a big problem. unless Nvidia kill off the entire 6000 series fast, the price will not drop to the $200 mark.
I'm in a similar bind, need to get to PCI Express, and unwilling to pay $$$ for such a high performance card. and I do have thermal/power restraint, so I don't think 6800 fits my bill.. (probably going to settle for 6600.. *sigh*)
seriously, the impact for US market won't matter much, since most stores only carry name brands, even the *generic* accessories they carry is still big names.
the international market, and internet resellers will probably take a hit because of this. but I'm sure those company who didn't pay the license fee can come up with some ways to defeat it..
I doubt this one will be completely silent.. the only way to see how silent the computer *can* be is to turn it off..
the HD will still generate noise, the fan will still generate noise. unless you completely elimite those.. the noise will always be there. some people just have less sensitive ears then others.
but one factor you need to figure in is everyone is in a different environment that has different levels of ambient noise.. so your difinition of silent and my version of silent can differ a lot.
the technology is not a scam, however, the printer maker are trying to spin on inkjet printers so it'll bring in lots of money. (selling ink catridges at astronomically high price)
the biggest problem is that not many people will have multiple printers at their disposal everyday. most of the time, you see 1 printer per computer, or 1 printer per household/location/LAN.
so it's fairly common for people trying to buy one printer that does all job, and of course, that's why the printer maker is trying to sell you. a printer that does them all. (of course they only do a few jobs good and others bad).
Inkjet offer the convinience at hand of printnig most documents and pictures decently. so it's a matter of knowning what to do (ok to print a few pictures, waste of money to print large batch... )
IMHO, for *normal* consumers (assuming you don't print a lot of them, which regular people doesn't), inkjet is still superiour then other printing technology, simply because it's a combination of price, versatility, and accessibility.
actually, space is already heavily utilized by military. Communication, Navigation, and Intelligence gathering are all satellite based now. it just there's only a few country has access to all of them.
but most of everyone has access and rely to GPS navigation. people forgot that GPS is own by US. and a lot of things rely on GPS.. imagine one day US announce it'll turn off GPS unless people cough up money...
it's only matter of time when another similar service from a non-us company enter the market, and it will not feature those censors on white house..
IGE is not the only one, it is probably the largest and most visible, but it is certainly not the only one that does it. plus, there are many others that is working to *supply* the currency to IGE and other online trading sites.
it's not worthless, just like collectable items, although it might be worthless in some people's eye, for the *collector*, the collectable items (cards, stamps, whatever) has it's market value based on those who want such items.
it's the same for virtual property, and now there are countless sweatshops in third world countries that actually hire people to work in MMORPG to farm in game currencies.. it's a virtual economy turn into real world economy.
http://www.419eater.com/ is a nice place to see the successful story against 419 scammers
maybe someone will even write a worm/virus to exploit the backdoor, which will cause even more problem..
I seriously wonder who dream up the stupid idea...
hydrogen is a better source? maybe in the future, as of now, we are wasting more energey trying to generate hydrogen, since we lack of infrastructure to tap into large amount of renewable energey to convert water -> hydrogen.
once we have enough solar, wind, tide, or whatever form of energy at hand, we can massively produce hydrogen and use that instead of fossil fuel/coal/nuclear that we rely heavily on.. but until then, from the efficiency point of view.. hydrogen isn't there yet. I'm really eager to see some nation/state that start a movement to use renewable energy to replace fossil fuel.. but I dunno if we'll see it soon enough.
hmm... did you actually read TFA? it has a good and simple explanation complete with illustration to show you what NCQ is about, and it's the very first part of the article.....
the problem of going really fast in a reallly short span of time, is you'll need to use a large quantity of propellant to achieve it, and you'll also need to equal amount of propellant to slow you down once you reach the destination.. all those translate to huge amount of weight.
and weight is probably the single most costly factor that limit space exploration right now >.>
the gamedevs are very slow to react to issues occured in the game, and they are really slow in putting in the contents that's promised in the last expansion. issues that should need addressing last year are still not resolved this year. GMs are equally slow to react problems occurs in the game, or simply ignoring it.
the game has reach it's maturety, but the end game contents are still way too scarce.