Pay full price for the terran campaign, pay full price again for the zerg campaign, pay full price for the zerg, then pay full price again for the protoss.
Probably toss a lan extender campaign in there somewhere for full price (again) and you're paying $200+ for what originally was going to be a $50 game.
He is speaking of the Nintendo Fun Club Newsletter (a free precursor to the subscription magazine Nintendo Power) which was a very small (40-50 pages if I remember correctly)magazine that featured fan letters, short previews for upcoming games, and a few advertisements for varied nintendo games.
The point behind streaming isn't "they can measure how much it gets watched" or anything of the like, the point is control over distribution.
They think that we can't get a copy of it (which we can) and therefore they can control the release of the video by taking it away whenever they feel like it (yes, it's a fallacy, but that's how people think, they want control over you, and this is the one way they comfortably feel like they have it)
Yep, but flashblock stops all flash content from loading until I choose to load it whereas adblock will block the flash after the fact (you can start getting screams out of your speakers before you get a chance to stop it) whereas I choose when to load any flash content I might want to see when I want to see it with flashblock.
I use flashblock as well as adblock. I'm not big on having talking flash advertisements sneaking up on me and when I want to view a flash I'll click on the flashplay button.
Thanks for posting that information as the site has dumped from the slashdot effect.
It should be noted, however, that all of the janus based cards (hauppage, myhd, accessdtv) I tried didn't work worth a damn in windows2000 (and no one seems concerned enough to fix it) and the ATi card ONLY works in windows xp (and apparently won't let you rip transport streams making it much less useful than the other mentioned cards)
This fusion hdtv III card looks to be the most promising of the lot. The fact that it does most of its work through software is even better: it's more easily hackable.:)
Exactly. The very nature of stock trading is that no money is created, it's only moved.
People that bought yahoo cheap and watched it become 100x as valuable and sold $100 of stock for $10000 didn't create money or value, all they did was tricked other people out of their money. That's why the stockmarket is a poor representation of economy today, the valuation of the stock isn't very closely tied to the long term dividends companies pay out.
In short, I agree with you. If everyone knew everything about the stock market then everyone would end up leaving the market because there'd be a distinct lack of rubes begging to give away their money for practically worthless pieces of stock paper which were about to take dives. (which is what happened to all the people that bought yahoo at the climax of its value)
Dslreports.com has gotten some pretty ill responses for this ISP. Major problems seem to be very low speeds and very high latency when you're more than about a mile from their comm tower.
Here's the comments from the story they ran just a few days ago on clearwire.
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/news,45033~mode= fu ll
I keep hearing wifi is the savior for small communities, but it seems that it's as bad as dsl when it comes to distance from the "co". =(
Actually judo is very much Japanese, and means passive way. (or letting your opponent beat himself. It was adapted from jujitsu (another Japanese martial art)
Remember, kung fu != karate, just like chinese != japanese.
Heat isn't what bothers me about this set up. It's the power supply. 300 watts is NOT enough for two opterons and the rest of the system (hard drive, cdrom/dvd, peripherals) reliably. What's worse is that most power supplies are vastly overrated when it comes to real power output, and that the power generated usually scales in an inverse linear relationship with the heat of the unit. My guess is that anyone that tries to really run dual opterons on a setup like this won't have a good time with it. Crashes and spontaneous reboots will be par for the course.
Somethingawful.com is the mastermind site behind all of this (couldn't find it mentioned in the pdf) but the address to their forum is forums.somethingawful.com and the original thread on their forum was here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s= &threadid=1016390
It's a rather hilarious site and if you haven't explored all of their comedy goldmines and photoshop phridays you probably ought to give those a rundown, too.
You are absolutely right, but also missing something. Regime toppling requires organization. Something that requires communications the regime cannot monitor. The Internet by design is not the ideal system for this. If the Internet were designed for truely anonymous information transferral between all points it would be a tool that does help against injustice, but as it is, it's just a glorified chat loop for everyone to talk about Britney Spears on. Being a revolutionary is dangerous business. If the government you oppose finds you you pretty much just get carted off in the middle of the night to be shot in the back of the head for being a dissident. This is why regimes like Saddam's last so long, just pick off the leaders, and let the others suffer without anyone to organize them.
The upshot is, guns win revolutions, but it's the people organizing the people with guns that make sure the guns have the oppurtunity to win revolutions. Uprisings generally don't just happen all at once with no instigation.
People don't share because of the enormous constrains on upload bandwidth that broadband providers have made. My DSL line only has 256kbps up, with it only realistically transferring about 200kbps. Quite a bit better than dialup, but still pathetic when you're trying to transfer hundreds of megs of data.
As a prior post mentioned, prosecution is another problem. The RIAA is attempting to quench the problem at the source, which is definitely the easier way to go.
I'm not a big fan of neo-modus/direct connect, mainly because of DC++. It's made the sharing requirements for Direct Connect irrelevant. People get on as many networks as they want, and share 2-3 slots with about 15KB of upload between them all between about 10 different networks, making them effectively just leeches.
Plus the requirements for DC servers have gotten so bloated that they basically require some amount of spoofing to even get on. I haven't used DC in more than a year, and the last time I did, most servers were requiring you to share 30-50 gigs of media, bigger than many casual file sharers actual hard drive.
Any surprise that the state that the Bush family currently runs would be the one that's getting this off the ground?
The FL legislature has been battling all year about medical malpractice suit caps on awards from juries, with the senate holding strong (so far) against them. However, at this point, no matter how anti-common-man the proposal's coming through this state I remain unamazed, I just chalk another one up to the Bush family. Was FL the head of the serpent that Nostradamus predicted?
Anandtech already covered what seems to be in this article last week here: http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1841
The best PSU in the roundup as far as voltages being steady and closest to the advertised spec was the PC power and cooling supply that was tested, and it was only $65, falling far below some of the other PSU's in price.
I'd say the fact that the president is a complete stooge makes it even more convincing to me. Bush may be a puppet, but those that would be pulling his marionette strings aren't, and you can be sure someone would be pulling them.
When 9/11 took place, I wasn't scared of living in the USA like I am now.
This is just my opinion, but I think you seriously underestimate the potential sinister motives behind such policy.
I know it's been said that one should never attribute to malice what stupidity can explain, but I really don't think stupidity explains the goings on in the USA during the last ~2 years.
Bad bad analogy? When are people going to stop comparing 1's and 0's on a silver platter to stuff in a store? If I could go in a store, buy a candy bar, take it outside, and put it in a machine that made infinite copies of it for free, the only people that would call it a crime were those that would stand to lose profits because of the world no longer having ANY shortage of food.
No one is deprived of anything by sharing files, but lots of people stand to gain from the removal of artificial scarcity. As supply approaches infinity, price approaches 0. There are of course other variables, quality, loyalty, etc, but that's what the IP business is coming down to, practically infinite supply attempting to bolt down the market to ratchet up price.
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Um, Turrican came out long after the original Metroid.
Starcraft2... in installments.
Pay full price for the terran campaign, pay full price again for the zerg campaign, pay full price for the zerg, then pay full price again for the protoss.
Probably toss a lan extender campaign in there somewhere for full price (again) and you're paying $200+ for what originally was going to be a $50 game.
If you think EA is bad you ought to take a look at what Activision has been doing to the still warm corpse of Blizzard.
EA isn't nearly as bad from a games offering standpoint as people make them out to be (working for them is another matter entirely, of course)
He is speaking of the Nintendo Fun Club Newsletter (a free precursor to the subscription magazine Nintendo Power) which was a very small (40-50 pages if I remember correctly)magazine that featured fan letters, short previews for upcoming games, and a few advertisements for varied nintendo games.
The point behind streaming isn't "they can measure how much it gets watched" or anything of the like, the point is control over distribution.
They think that we can't get a copy of it (which we can) and therefore they can control the release of the video by taking it away whenever they feel like it (yes, it's a fallacy, but that's how people think, they want control over you, and this is the one way they comfortably feel like they have it)
So that you can put two of them together in SLI mode.
Yep, but flashblock stops all flash content from loading until I choose to load it whereas adblock will block the flash after the fact (you can start getting screams out of your speakers before you get a chance to stop it) whereas I choose when to load any flash content I might want to see when I want to see it with flashblock.
They make a great team.
The joke is on you, buddy. Circuit city and Best buy are the same company.
If you really want to piss them off I suggest you start buying your stuff from the internet.
Thanks for posting that information as the site has dumped from the slashdot effect.
:)
It should be noted, however, that all of the janus based cards (hauppage, myhd, accessdtv) I tried didn't work worth a damn in windows2000 (and no one seems concerned enough to fix it) and the ATi card ONLY works in windows xp (and apparently won't let you rip transport streams making it much less useful than the other mentioned cards)
This fusion hdtv III card looks to be the most promising of the lot. The fact that it does most of its work through software is even better: it's more easily hackable.
Exactly. The very nature of stock trading is that no money is created, it's only moved.
People that bought yahoo cheap and watched it become 100x as valuable and sold $100 of stock for $10000 didn't create money or value, all they did was tricked other people out of their money. That's why the stockmarket is a poor representation of economy today, the valuation of the stock isn't very closely tied to the long term dividends companies pay out.
In short, I agree with you. If everyone knew everything about the stock market then everyone would end up leaving the market because there'd be a distinct lack of rubes begging to give away their money for practically worthless pieces of stock paper which were about to take dives. (which is what happened to all the people that bought yahoo at the climax of its value)
Dslreports.com has gotten some pretty ill responses for this ISP. Major problems seem to be very low speeds and very high latency when you're more than about a mile from their comm tower.
= fu ll
Here's the comments from the story they ran just a few days ago on clearwire.
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/news,45033~mode
I keep hearing wifi is the savior for small communities, but it seems that it's as bad as dsl when it comes to distance from the "co". =(
Actually judo is very much Japanese, and means passive way. (or letting your opponent beat himself. It was adapted from jujitsu (another Japanese martial art)
Remember, kung fu != karate, just like chinese != japanese.
Heat isn't what bothers me about this set up. It's the power supply. 300 watts is NOT enough for two opterons and the rest of the system (hard drive, cdrom/dvd, peripherals) reliably. What's worse is that most power supplies are vastly overrated when it comes to real power output, and that the power generated usually scales in an inverse linear relationship with the heat of the unit. My guess is that anyone that tries to really run dual opterons on a setup like this won't have a good time with it. Crashes and spontaneous reboots will be par for the course.
Somethingawful.com is the mastermind site behind all of this (couldn't find it mentioned in the pdf) but the address to their forum is forums.somethingawful.com and the original thread on their forum was here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s= &threadid=1016390
It's a rather hilarious site and if you haven't explored all of their comedy goldmines and photoshop phridays you probably ought to give those a rundown, too.
Enjoy!
You are absolutely right, but also missing something. Regime toppling requires organization. Something that requires communications the regime cannot monitor. The Internet by design is not the ideal system for this. If the Internet were designed for truely anonymous information transferral between all points it would be a tool that does help against injustice, but as it is, it's just a glorified chat loop for everyone to talk about Britney Spears on. Being a revolutionary is dangerous business. If the government you oppose finds you you pretty much just get carted off in the middle of the night to be shot in the back of the head for being a dissident. This is why regimes like Saddam's last so long, just pick off the leaders, and let the others suffer without anyone to organize them.
The upshot is, guns win revolutions, but it's the people organizing the people with guns that make sure the guns have the oppurtunity to win revolutions. Uprisings generally don't just happen all at once with no instigation.
People don't share because of the enormous constrains on upload bandwidth that broadband providers have made. My DSL line only has 256kbps up, with it only realistically transferring about 200kbps. Quite a bit better than dialup, but still pathetic when you're trying to transfer hundreds of megs of data.
As a prior post mentioned, prosecution is another problem. The RIAA is attempting to quench the problem at the source, which is definitely the easier way to go.
I'm not a big fan of neo-modus/direct connect, mainly because of DC++. It's made the sharing requirements for Direct Connect irrelevant. People get on as many networks as they want, and share 2-3 slots with about 15KB of upload between them all between about 10 different networks, making them effectively just leeches.
Plus the requirements for DC servers have gotten so bloated that they basically require some amount of spoofing to even get on. I haven't used DC in more than a year, and the last time I did, most servers were requiring you to share 30-50 gigs of media, bigger than many casual file sharers actual hard drive.
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength
Open is closed
More like why were such uptime critical systems running windows at all?
Any surprise that the state that the Bush family currently runs would be the one that's getting this off the ground?
The FL legislature has been battling all year about medical malpractice suit caps on awards from juries, with the senate holding strong (so far) against them. However, at this point, no matter how anti-common-man the proposal's coming through this state I remain unamazed, I just chalk another one up to the Bush family. Was FL the head of the serpent that Nostradamus predicted?
"you get what you pay for."
And some men are created more equal than others.
Anandtech already covered what seems to be in this article last week here: http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1841
The best PSU in the roundup as far as voltages being steady and closest to the advertised spec was the PC power and cooling supply that was tested, and it was only $65, falling far below some of the other PSU's in price.
When 9/11 took place, I wasn't scared of living in the USA like I am now.
This is just my opinion, but I think you seriously underestimate the potential sinister motives behind such policy.
I know it's been said that one should never attribute to malice what stupidity can explain, but I really don't think stupidity explains the goings on in the USA during the last ~2 years.
How does this help the people running the actual mp3 fservs? If you can find em, so can the RIAA.
Bad bad analogy? When are people going to stop comparing 1's and 0's on a silver platter to stuff in a store? If I could go in a store, buy a candy bar, take it outside, and put it in a machine that made infinite copies of it for free, the only people that would call it a crime were those that would stand to lose profits because of the world no longer having ANY shortage of food.
No one is deprived of anything by sharing files, but lots of people stand to gain from the removal of artificial scarcity. As supply approaches infinity, price approaches 0. There are of course other variables, quality, loyalty, etc, but that's what the IP business is coming down to, practically infinite supply attempting to bolt down the market to ratchet up price.