I would agree. With the game console, DVD player and PVR as separate units you can replace/retire one when it breaks or you get tired of it. With the combo units if one part breaks you need to replace the whole unit. So they have to offer lifetime warranties that are good for 5 years or more. Still I would not want to wait the 2-3 weeks it will take to ship the unit and get it fixed, since in doing so I lose PVR, DVD and Game functionality all at once.
Also they have to price the entire package at or close to the price of the most expensive component. You can get a $90 DVD player, Tivo's are at $100-$200, that leaves the game console portion. However you can build/buy a PC for $300-$500 that will do the same thing this will.
Orrin G. Hatch
Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont
Bill Frist
Tom Daschle
Lindsey Graham
Barbara Boxer
If Ms Boxer is up for relection, I am voting for anyone that has a chance to replace her now.
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This bill is so obvious that I wonder what they are trying to hide. ie Send this one up as a ballon to get shot down while they sneak some other laws thru underneath the "noise" generated by this bill.
This could actually be cheaper to operate than missiles or conventional cannon. Destroying a building 250 miles inland with rail gun slugs instead of a cruise missile is definately cheaper. The directed energy weapons only consume electricity. They can gain more space/weight by dispensing with an armored ships magazine.
What I would really like to know is whether this has 64-bit support. If run a Linux64 on an Athlon can I get a 64-version of Cedega? Can it run with the CD-protection stuff in 32-bit and the rest in 64-bit? Do they have a 64-bit version that can be downloaded? When the 64-bit version of FarCry comes out will it be able to run on Linux64? It would be truly amazing if it could and that version of the game comes out before 64-bit Windows. It means M$'s tardiness in coming out with their 64-bit Windoze with cost them the migration of the high end gamers to the Linux platform. Note: Most high end gamers are the ones who set up and/or advise everyone else what to buy for gaming rigs and home systems. Lose them and you start losing your market.
Hmmm, by that logic. ie need to stop child pornography / pedophelia they are going to have to ban Churches given the number of "Proven" cases of priests abusing children.
Since TV cards can be used in PC's to aid in recording TV programs, they would be illegal. That would also make home PC's illegal since they can be used in the transfer of copyrighted material. The same with any iPod, diskette, any storage medium that does not have CRM on it.
The 3D displays work. I have a DTI2018XLQ at home. It works by creating sepearate "zones". You place your head so that each eye is in a different zone. What happens is that each eye sees a diffrent image. I have only used the monitor for 2 games (MC2 & NWN) as I am not into FPS games.
http://www.dti3d.com/Products/dti_2018xlq.htm
Raid 5 is basically A+B+C+D=E for a five disk group. You can rearrange the letters for figure out the data from the missing disk. So the minimum would be a 3 disk set. The write penalty for Raid 5 is significant as it requires reading the data from 4 disks combining it with the new data and writing it out to 5 disks.
Personally I used to have high performance SCSI drives in my home PC's along with tons of fans. However the noise levels were rediculous. I have since switched to a quieter SATA raid 0 stripe and water cooling so I can enjoy the game without what sounds like a jet plane under my desk.
Physics Ph.D's may not be able to build or maintain a car but they can give you a complete description of the theory behind every component. Engineers build it, the Physicists develop the theories which supplies the foundations that the Engineers use.
I get my ebooks from Baen books. I read them on my Clie PEG-UX50/U using mobibook. It is easier to read an ebook on your PDA during a blackout. (I hooked it up to my PC's UPS) I could probably read a normal book now since I got myself a LED flashlight but I prefer reading the ebook over trying to hold a flashlight over a normal book. Maybe I should get one of those clip on LED lights for books.
Andromeda I liked, probably because I think Lexa Doig is really hot.:) As a series, it seems a little split brained. The story arc seems haphazard and unfocused.
20%? The Macintosh has 2-4% market share and there are games written exclusively for it. There are also ports to that platform. Usually about a year behind the PC platform releases.
It all depends on the game model you choose to play. Choice in Massively multiplayer games can be
RPG's where no PvP's are allowed.
(Gather a group and go on a bug hunt in the new MMORPG's each group once they leave the "town's" initiates a new quest line. Each quest line is basically an entire world for that party of player for the duration of their playing together. So no monster/treasure denuded areas from too many parties)
Tactical games where its all PvP.
( Gather groups of players together and go hunt other groups of players. Matchups can be done by lvl*number of players. Low levels and large numbers vs high lvls and small numbers, too many high levels are not allowed into the party)
There are lots of other games and game types out there.
For military uses, the moon can be utilized as a base for offensive purposes. There is no need for nukes. Earth's gravity well will work just as well. Build a large electromagnetic rail gun and fire off large chunks of moon rock at the earth. You can destroy large cities and have minimal radioactive fallout. (I would say none except that a some things have a little radioactivity especially military targets). For the grunt in the street the moon can be used to build smart crowbars cannister sattelites that are shot into LEO from the moon. Basically its a hunk of finned metal with a guidance chip. Grunt calls in a target sattelite drops a crowbar on it. Inert non-explosive but with enough power to take out a tank or small city block depending on its size.
If a country is seeded with sonic detectors, sort of like the web of detectors the US has underwater around the US for subs, then they can use it to detect supersonic flight as well as plot its path. The missiles may be fast but sonic detectors will still enable computer systems to predict its trajectory/position and target it.
I think its so that SONY can use it as a marketing research tool. With the trailer distributed all over the map they cannot get an accurate assessmet of the film's potential. With a larger more accurate forecast they can hit up McDonalds or Burger King or whatever franchise that sells movie tie ins for more $$$.
I am not surprised. What is amusing is that when my friends come over to visit they tie into one of my neighbors wireless LAN instead of coding in my SSID and WEP key into their wireless devices. I can see about 4 now, 3 private one that belongs to a hotel chain. I think of all these open wireless LAN's as targets for the RIAA since anyone can latch on to them & run P2P sftw.
I loved the Fallout series of games. I have purchased them since the original Fallout. Actually if I remember correctly there was a game prior to Fallout that I had on floppies a few generations of computers ago. I have played thru each Fallout game at least 5-6 times. As games go they have the best repeat playability.
Kinda simple really. Vote they way you feel. I always voted for Democrats in the past because I felt they had less influence from the religious right. However now I am so pissed off at Boxer & Feinstien and their support of these Hollywood extortionists that I will vote for whoever has the best chance of kicking them out of office.
Nuke Mars? I think the best course of action is to steer as many comets as possible into collisions with Mars. We then destroy all Martians and increase the amount of water/ice to make it habitable for us at the same time.:)
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This would the equivalent of paying $3000 for a flight on NASA's "vomit comet".
I would agree. With the game console, DVD player and PVR as separate units you can replace/retire one when it breaks or you get tired of it. With the combo units if one part breaks you need to replace the whole unit. So they have to offer lifetime warranties that are good for 5 years or more. Still I would not want to wait the 2-3 weeks it will take to ship the unit and get it fixed, since in doing so I lose PVR, DVD and Game functionality all at once.
Also they have to price the entire package at or close to the price of the most expensive component. You can get a $90 DVD player, Tivo's are at $100-$200, that leaves the game console portion. However you can build/buy a PC for $300-$500 that will do the same thing this will.
Sponsers/supporters of the Bill
Orrin G. Hatch
Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont
Bill Frist
Tom Daschle
Lindsey Graham
Barbara Boxer
If Ms Boxer is up for relection, I am voting for anyone that has a chance to replace her now.
This bill is so obvious that I wonder what they are trying to hide. ie Send this one up as a ballon to get shot down while they sneak some other laws thru underneath the "noise" generated by this bill.
This could actually be cheaper to operate than missiles or conventional cannon. Destroying a building 250 miles inland with rail gun slugs instead of a cruise missile is definately cheaper. The directed energy weapons only consume electricity. They can gain more space/weight by dispensing with an armored ships magazine.
What I would really like to know is whether this has 64-bit support. If run a Linux64 on an Athlon can I get a 64-version of Cedega? Can it run with the CD-protection stuff in 32-bit and the rest in 64-bit? Do they have a 64-bit version that can be downloaded? When the 64-bit version of FarCry comes out will it be able to run on Linux64? It would be truly amazing if it could and that version of the game comes out before 64-bit Windows. It means M$'s tardiness in coming out with their 64-bit Windoze with cost them the migration of the high end gamers to the Linux platform.
Note: Most high end gamers are the ones who set up and/or advise everyone else what to buy for gaming rigs and home systems. Lose them and you start losing your market.
Hmmm, by that logic. ie need to stop child pornography / pedophelia they are going to have to ban Churches given the number of "Proven" cases of priests abusing children.
Since TV cards can be used in PC's to aid in recording TV programs, they would be illegal. That would also make home PC's illegal since they can be used in the transfer of copyrighted material. The same with any iPod, diskette, any storage medium that does not have CRM on it.
The 3D displays work. I have a DTI2018XLQ at home. It works by creating sepearate "zones". You place your head so that each eye is in a different zone. What happens is that each eye sees a diffrent image. I have only used the monitor for 2 games (MC2 & NWN) as I am not into FPS games. http://www.dti3d.com/Products/dti_2018xlq.htm
Raid 5 is basically A+B+C+D=E for a five disk group. You can rearrange the letters for figure out the data from the missing disk. So the minimum would be a 3 disk set. The write penalty for Raid 5 is significant as it requires reading the data from 4 disks combining it with the new data and writing it out to 5 disks.
Personally I used to have high performance SCSI drives in my home PC's along with tons of fans. However the noise levels were rediculous. I have since switched to a quieter SATA raid 0 stripe and water cooling so I can enjoy the game without what sounds like a jet plane under my desk.
Physics Ph.D's may not be able to build or maintain a car but they can give you a complete description of the theory behind every component. Engineers build it, the Physicists develop the theories which supplies the foundations that the Engineers use.
One big problem they may literally run into is all the orbiting junk we have up there. That is huge LEO lifter is just one big target for space junk.
That is what the ion engine is for. They calculate it will take 9 days to acclerate the craft to 8km/s.
I get my ebooks from Baen books. I read them on my Clie PEG-UX50/U using mobibook. It is easier to read an ebook on your PDA during a blackout. (I hooked it up to my PC's UPS) I could probably read a normal book now since I got myself a LED flashlight but I prefer reading the ebook over trying to hold a flashlight over a normal book. Maybe I should get one of those clip on LED lights for books.
Andromeda I liked, probably because I think Lexa Doig is really hot. :) As a series, it seems a little split brained. The story arc seems haphazard and unfocused.
20%? The Macintosh has 2-4% market share and there are games written exclusively for it. There are also ports to that platform. Usually about a year behind the PC platform releases.
It all depends on the game model you choose to play. Choice in Massively multiplayer games can be RPG's where no PvP's are allowed. (Gather a group and go on a bug hunt in the new MMORPG's each group once they leave the "town's" initiates a new quest line. Each quest line is basically an entire world for that party of player for the duration of their playing together. So no monster/treasure denuded areas from too many parties) Tactical games where its all PvP. ( Gather groups of players together and go hunt other groups of players. Matchups can be done by lvl*number of players. Low levels and large numbers vs high lvls and small numbers, too many high levels are not allowed into the party) There are lots of other games and game types out there.
I saw the same thing demonstrated to my by a "private" company. In this case it was a debt collection agency.
For military uses, the moon can be utilized as a base for offensive purposes. There is no need for nukes. Earth's gravity well will work just as well. Build a large electromagnetic rail gun and fire off large chunks of moon rock at the earth. You can destroy large cities and have minimal radioactive fallout. (I would say none except that a some things have a little radioactivity especially military targets). For the grunt in the street the moon can be used to build smart crowbars cannister sattelites that are shot into LEO from the moon. Basically its a hunk of finned metal with a guidance chip. Grunt calls in a target sattelite drops a crowbar on it. Inert non-explosive but with enough power to take out a tank or small city block depending on its size.
If a country is seeded with sonic detectors, sort of like the web of detectors the US has underwater around the US for subs, then they can use it to detect supersonic flight as well as plot its path. The missiles may be fast but sonic detectors will still enable computer systems to predict its trajectory/position and target it.
I think its so that SONY can use it as a marketing research tool. With the trailer distributed all over the map they cannot get an accurate assessmet of the film's potential. With a larger more accurate forecast they can hit up McDonalds or Burger King or whatever franchise that sells movie tie ins for more $$$.
I am not surprised. What is amusing is that when my friends come over to visit they tie into one of my neighbors wireless LAN instead of coding in my SSID and WEP key into their wireless devices. I can see about 4 now, 3 private one that belongs to a hotel chain. I think of all these open wireless LAN's as targets for the RIAA since anyone can latch on to them & run P2P sftw.
I loved the Fallout series of games. I have purchased them since the original Fallout. Actually if I remember correctly there was a game prior to Fallout that I had on floppies a few generations of computers ago. I have played thru each Fallout game at least 5-6 times. As games go they have the best repeat playability.
Kinda simple really. Vote they way you feel. I always voted for Democrats in the past because I felt they had less influence from the religious right. However now I am so pissed off at Boxer & Feinstien and their support of these Hollywood extortionists that I will vote for whoever has the best chance of kicking them out of office.
Nuke Mars? I think the best course of action is to steer as many comets as possible into collisions with Mars. We then destroy all Martians and increase the amount of water/ice to make it habitable for us at the same time. :)