As someone who plays FFXI, I can attest to the fact that you are way off on this. Sys requirements for FFXI are a lot steeper than you think, so that $200 eMachine won't cut it. Even if you build a machine yourself, which is cheaper, IMO, you're still looking at at least $500 just to meet minimum requirements. As for buying it for PS2, you can get a USB keyboard for $20 or less if you look around, and here in the next month or so, a PS2 with the network adapter will be dropping to $150, then $100 for the game, and $13 a month. On top of that, the PS2 version runs at somewhere in between lo Res and hi Res, and at a much smoother framerate than my 2 GhZ Athlon with over half a gig of ram.
Oh, and for the record, I have pretty much all the graphic options turned down as far as I can get them, and I don't have anything running in the background, either.
Ahh.. Linux, it truly is the best thing you can possibly install on a Windows box... with one exception. I really really really want to put Fedora on my Windows box, but FFXI won't let me.;_;
Yes, but think of every time that Harry saw the Goblin.. without the mask, we would have had this problem; he gets to act all stupid and not realize that the Goblin looks exactly like his father. Put a mask on him, and hey! It's a whole other person, and he can be none the wiser, which leads into the Hobgoblin bit, as he seeks revenge against Spidey. Granted, the mask looked cheesy as all get out, but even in the comics he wore a mask.
Apparently, you have absoulutely no idea of what I was saying. The actual throttling is done by the client, not the server. While some trackers will set a maximum limit on upload speeds to ensure that it doesn't utilize all of your upload, as blizzard's apparently does; 99% don't. As far as your download bandwidth goes, it's really no different than a normal download. It will simply take it as fast as it can, and is in no way different than a direct download. In both cases, the only limit is the amount of available bandwidth from your source.
While BT can monopolize all of your available bandwidth, most newer clients such as Azureus, Shadows, and TorrentStorm allow you to throttle both your upload and download speeds by setting a limit on the maximum amount used on active torrents.
John Smedley, President of Sony Online Entertainment, has mailed us with official comment: "Star Wars Galaxies has much more than double the number of subscribers quoted on GameSpy. For the record, the title is doing very, very well and is the second largest MMO in the North American market.
So, according to this, it's doing better than FFXI, which just cleared 1 million users, right? I'm sure that they are including all of their european users on US servers. I'm just kinda curious as to how he can make that claim when even DAoC is doing better than SWG, or it was the last time I checked.
You are 100% wrong on that. As another member of the USAF, who does work in a 3C career field, which deals entirely with Communications, Command and Control Systems, their is no issue with enlistees signing on for 4 years(which is the minimum term of enlistment, btw), and choosing not to extend. As a matter of fact, this is actually expected for a large part, as there are several fields where the attrition rate is enormous, again, it is expected.
The Draft is instituted at a point in time where there is a shortfall in bodies; not necesarily in a particular career field. Oh, and for the record, personnel in my AFSC, Computer Programming, are being denied early retirement, as well as those in most other Computer Fields.
Insofar as a targeted draft goes, I think it's a bunch of bunk. The United States military is an all-volunteer force for a reason; and as such has remained highly motivated, and will continue to be that way as long as it remains an all volunteer force. I'd expect to see more force shaping, possibly in the form of reassignments done on a voluntary basis first; and if that fails to bring numbers to an acceptable level, then non-vols will be selected for retraining. If both of those measures fail to bring numbers then you finally get to a decent likely hood of a draft; but I wouldn't bet on seeing one prior to that.
Well, if you are on Comcast@Home, you don't get a router; all you get is a modem. If you sign up for Comcast Business, you do get a router, and it is configured to act as a firewall. However, the catch is that the routers they used cost about $50 each, and generally suck at everything they do, and have a host of their own problems. Comcast Business Communications recommends that you use a seperate hardware firewall, or a software firewall on any machines utilizing the connection.
FWIW, I was a subcontracter for CBC up until about a year ago.
It's all well and good that there are groups out there that will crusade night and day to get games pulled because they are violent and graphic and will scar their children for life.
I want to know where the groups are to get games pulled for being absoulute pieces of garbage, and leave deep mental scars simply by existing.
Well, since as of right now, we have nothing to go by on flash memory based drives insofar as longevity is concerned, I can really only talk about HDDs. I've worked with them from just about every manufacturer, and have actually seen some that were older than I am. I'm sure you'll remember the gigantic 20mb drives that would fill 2 5.25" bays, right? I've seen several of those, perfectly functioning, complete with data on them. I'd rather have a cheaper component to replace, than a more expensive one any day of the week. Like I said in my previous comment; If a component such as your HDD is going to fail, it will be within the first year. After that so called break-in period, they will generally run for 100 years with no faults.
Statistically speaking, if a HDD is going to fail, it will be while under warranty. The same thing generally goes with any major PC component. Once you get through that, *most* hardware will keep on ticking quite fine for 10x longer, and in some cases more than that.
Yes, they do. They also stopped being limited Edition last year, during that time when you couldn't find one anywhere. Those boxes are rereleased overstock, and eventually will cease to exist.
For someone who works in a games store, you appear to be way out of the loop. The platinum color of the GC was reissued as a standard color around Christmas.
I think you are failing to realize that those products are aimed at two different markets. The regular iPod we all know and love is not being marketed at the demographic interested in a minature MP3 player, along the lines of the RCA Lyra, or other products along those lines. In that same vein, the iPod Mini is not being marketed towards the folks out there who are interested in a MP3 player with anywhere from 15GB all the way up to 40GB.
I think that once you take that into account, you'll find that the iPod Mini is about the best deal on the market, from a formfactor v price standpoint, as well as the fact that it's the cheapest player in that market.
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Oh, and for the record, I have pretty much all the graphic options turned down as far as I can get them, and I don't have anything running in the background, either.
30 GOTO 10
I really should start hitting the preview button more often >
10 PRINT "Not haiku" 20 PRINT "Instead, Senryu" 30 PRINT GOTO 10
Ahh.. Linux, it truly is the best thing you can possibly install on a Windows box... with one exception. I really really really want to put Fedora on my Windows box, but FFXI won't let me. ;_;
Yes, but think of every time that Harry saw the Goblin.. without the mask, we would have had this problem; he gets to act all stupid and not realize that the Goblin looks exactly like his father. Put a mask on him, and hey! It's a whole other person, and he can be none the wiser, which leads into the Hobgoblin bit, as he seeks revenge against Spidey. Granted, the mask looked cheesy as all get out, but even in the comics he wore a mask.
go here.
Apparently, you have absoulutely no idea of what I was saying. The actual throttling is done by the client, not the server. While some trackers will set a maximum limit on upload speeds to ensure that it doesn't utilize all of your upload, as blizzard's apparently does; 99% don't. As far as your download bandwidth goes, it's really no different than a normal download. It will simply take it as fast as it can, and is in no way different than a direct download. In both cases, the only limit is the amount of available bandwidth from your source.
While BT can monopolize all of your available bandwidth, most newer clients such as Azureus, Shadows, and TorrentStorm allow you to throttle both your upload and download speeds by setting a limit on the maximum amount used on active torrents.
I'll trade you the Tokyo Tower for it.
So, according to this, it's doing better than FFXI, which just cleared 1 million users, right? I'm sure that they are including all of their european users on US servers. I'm just kinda curious as to how he can make that claim when even DAoC is doing better than SWG, or it was the last time I checked.
The Draft is instituted at a point in time where there is a shortfall in bodies; not necesarily in a particular career field. Oh, and for the record, personnel in my AFSC, Computer Programming, are being denied early retirement, as well as those in most other Computer Fields.
Insofar as a targeted draft goes, I think it's a bunch of bunk. The United States military is an all-volunteer force for a reason; and as such has remained highly motivated, and will continue to be that way as long as it remains an all volunteer force. I'd expect to see more force shaping, possibly in the form of reassignments done on a voluntary basis first; and if that fails to bring numbers to an acceptable level, then non-vols will be selected for retraining. If both of those measures fail to bring numbers then you finally get to a decent likely hood of a draft; but I wouldn't bet on seeing one prior to that.
FWIW, I was a subcontracter for CBC up until about a year ago.
I want to know where the groups are to get games pulled for being absoulute pieces of garbage, and leave deep mental scars simply by existing.
go here for a translated version of the trailer. You'll need a bittorrent client.
Well, since as of right now, we have nothing to go by on flash memory based drives insofar as longevity is concerned, I can really only talk about HDDs. I've worked with them from just about every manufacturer, and have actually seen some that were older than I am. I'm sure you'll remember the gigantic 20mb drives that would fill 2 5.25" bays, right? I've seen several of those, perfectly functioning, complete with data on them. I'd rather have a cheaper component to replace, than a more expensive one any day of the week. Like I said in my previous comment; If a component such as your HDD is going to fail, it will be within the first year. After that so called break-in period, they will generally run for 100 years with no faults.
Statistically speaking, if a HDD is going to fail, it will be while under warranty. The same thing generally goes with any major PC component. Once you get through that, *most* hardware will keep on ticking quite fine for 10x longer, and in some cases more than that.
see AFI 10-248 for the details.
As you can see from this, USAF takes its fitness quite seriously.
/bow You are totally my hero.
Well, I suppose /. really wouldn't be /. if you thought first tho, would it?
Thanks for playing, son.
which is why the spelling is identical to that in the reply, right?
Hmmm... Before you try to be a spelling nazi, how about you actually make sure they misspelled the terms first?
For someone who works in a games store, you appear to be way out of the loop. The platinum color of the GC was reissued as a standard color around Christmas.
I think that once you take that into account, you'll find that the iPod Mini is about the best deal on the market, from a formfactor v price standpoint, as well as the fact that it's the cheapest player in that market.
Thanks to the live action DBZ released 10 years ago, we know that it did, really, really suck.