I just wish the stats were shared across all systems. I don't want to have separate player stats for when I play on my PC versus when I play on my 360 or PS3.
Not only that, but it's simple logistics (I can't even believe this question was submitted).
See, a company may use a single linux distro for their purposes. They can get support from said vendor or from internal sources for this one distro. If they support customers using linux, they might be supporting a dozen distros or more.
Yeah, but as far as I understand, it's the same engine with a side game (Team Fortress) and a mini-game (Portal) and a few nwe chapters (Episode Two). I'm a huge Half Life fan, but . . . I'm entirely undecided as to whether I should be excited about this or not. I'm moving a lot of my gaming off of the PC and onto the consoles these days (after two decades of PC-only gaming), so maybe I'll wait and see how people enjoy the console-treatment of this title before dishing out the cash.
Why? The role of the police department is not to prevent or stop crimes that are in progress. If someone breaks into your house and you don't have a weapon, you are likely fucked. Unless you can convince the burgler to sit nicely in a chair until the police come before he does anything to you. The role of the police department is to clean up and investigate AFTER a crime has been committed.
While these cameras might give you a little faster response, they're still not much more useful than providing post-incident records for court cases.
And frankly . . . while I hate the whole fucking big brother aspect that our society is taking since 9/11 . . . I'm getting too old to give a shit. Just bring on the inevitable and get it over with.
I thought about buying this for the console a few weeks back. But then, I realized, I should I dish out $65 for games that I already played on the PC several years ago?
Not really. Demonoid was a tremendous private tracker. There aren't a whole lot of those (much less ones that are huge and always have fully seeded content) around like Demonoid. Pirate Bay is fine, if you want to have your machine hammered from all the public trackers you'll continue to be listed as a seeder/peer on for weeks after you've stopped seeding/downloading the file. Not to mention, the crap you have to pour through to find something worthwhile.
The funny thing is, I used Demonoid a lot. But I mostly downloaded content that had nothing to do with the MPAA or RIAA. It was a great place to find seeded open source ISOs. It was a great place to download doctor who episodes as they came out in the UK instead of waiting 18 months to watch them in America. It was a great place to get very old BBC Radio content. It was a great place to get original Doctor Who episodes, as far back as the show goes (1961-1963).
I don't understand why the ISP shut their site down. Since when is the CRIA a legal authority? They aren't part of law-enforcement. Why is an ISP taking marching orders from a private company or organization, rather than a court?
And really, I don't want someone telling me that I as a salaried tech industry employee must be paid overtime. As if there aren't enough excuses to justify offshoring and outsourcing, all they really need is one more massive expense to move everything overseas.
Why is he allowed to keep doing this? He should be punished for his endless series of nuisance lawsuits and then he should be held accountable for damaging reputations and businesses with his slanderous, ridiculous, attention-seeking, self-serving accusations. That he is given endless court and television time is highly offensive.
Actually, from what I understood over the last year "THERE IS NO MEMORY PROBLEM".
Every time someone mentions memory issues, the responses are either that it's supposed to consume a gigabyte of ram so that it speeds up the back button or that "there is no memory issue".
Strange, now, that there are suddenly people paying attention to specifically attacking memory use issues that supposedly don't exist.
This whole thing seemed like a non-story from the beginning. What idiots really ever thought that it brought some space illness with it? Any idiot should have realized immediately that the impact simply stirred up something terrestrial and launched it into the surrounding air for the population to breathe in. I wouldn't have guessed arsenic, but it was obviously *something*.
Yes, I understand that he might not have a 56k modem. So he should spend five dollars on one and double his speed. If he's able to get 26kbps on his 28kbps modem, he'll probably get 56k speeds as well. Given clean, quality lines, a modem is not subject to quite the loss-over-distance that DSL is (though I'm not a telco engineer, so this is based on a couple decades of anecdotal evidence and not hard facts).
No, I read it. I just don't see how it is relevant. It's not like a house is attached to you at the umbilical cord. As romantic as the Grizzly Adams thing might be to some, no home on earth is worth having little or no network access. And if it is... well, then suffer the dial-up. Or call Comcast or Cox up and tell them you have a couple billion you'd like to give them earmarked for building a pipe to your door.
I mean, I understand it sucks. But the world changes.
As I said -- it's like living in a remote cabin on the top of a mountain in the middle of nowhere and complaining that there aren't a lot of high-paying high-tech jobs available to you from your location. If sentiment is more important than broadband, those are the terms you've accepted. You have the obvious options of satelite, cable, cell and dial-up -- as is available (or not) in said given area.
I sympathize with the situation as having a lack of options can suck, but what kind of "magic" are they expecting people to conjure up?
Yeah, no kidding. Even if you're on dial-up, why would you use 28.8kbps!? You could buy 56kbps modems in retail stores at least a decade ago, for under $100 and they sell for about $6, right now.
Why don't you just move to a place that offers broadband? That is the first requirement I look for whenever I'm looking for a place to live. Whatever great aspects there may be about a region or a home, I disregard it entirely if I can't get high quality, reliable broadband there.
Otherwise, it's a bit like saying "I want to for a top tech company from San Francisco and pull in a top tech salary, but while working from a remote mountain top cabin in the snowy Cascade".
Since Branson and Virgin have spent millions of dollars to invest in their planned orbital trips and space hotels (in the very near future), I would presume they have done a great deal of such market research. Personally, I would not take such a space trip, because - like evolution - gravity is "only a theory". I wouldn't want to be up there in my space hotel and have it plummet back down to the earth! Not to mention, since the earth is flat, I would be worried we'd miss the edge of it on our return and be lost forever!
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I just wish the stats were shared across all systems. I don't want to have separate player stats for when I play on my PC versus when I play on my 360 or PS3.
RFID implants and relays.
Not only that, but it's simple logistics (I can't even believe this question was submitted).
See, a company may use a single linux distro for their purposes. They can get support from said vendor or from internal sources for this one distro. If they support customers using linux, they might be supporting a dozen distros or more.
Yeah, but as far as I understand, it's the same engine with a side game (Team Fortress) and a mini-game (Portal) and a few nwe chapters (Episode Two). I'm a huge Half Life fan, but . . . I'm entirely undecided as to whether I should be excited about this or not. I'm moving a lot of my gaming off of the PC and onto the consoles these days (after two decades of PC-only gaming), so maybe I'll wait and see how people enjoy the console-treatment of this title before dishing out the cash.
Why? The role of the police department is not to prevent or stop crimes that are in progress. If someone breaks into your house and you don't have a weapon, you are likely fucked. Unless you can convince the burgler to sit nicely in a chair until the police come before he does anything to you. The role of the police department is to clean up and investigate AFTER a crime has been committed.
While these cameras might give you a little faster response, they're still not much more useful than providing post-incident records for court cases.
And frankly . . . while I hate the whole fucking big brother aspect that our society is taking since 9/11 . . . I'm getting too old to give a shit. Just bring on the inevitable and get it over with.
I thought about buying this for the console a few weeks back. But then, I realized, I should I dish out $65 for games that I already played on the PC several years ago?
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Not really. Demonoid was a tremendous private tracker. There aren't a whole lot of those (much less ones that are huge and always have fully seeded content) around like Demonoid. Pirate Bay is fine, if you want to have your machine hammered from all the public trackers you'll continue to be listed as a seeder/peer on for weeks after you've stopped seeding/downloading the file. Not to mention, the crap you have to pour through to find something worthwhile.
The funny thing is, I used Demonoid a lot. But I mostly downloaded content that had nothing to do with the MPAA or RIAA. It was a great place to find seeded open source ISOs. It was a great place to download doctor who episodes as they came out in the UK instead of waiting 18 months to watch them in America. It was a great place to get very old BBC Radio content. It was a great place to get original Doctor Who episodes, as far back as the show goes (1961-1963).
I don't understand why the ISP shut their site down. Since when is the CRIA a legal authority? They aren't part of law-enforcement. Why is an ISP taking marching orders from a private company or organization, rather than a court?
This whole story has already been discounted, according to Joystiq. Slashdot is a couple days behind.
So we have an "anti-cyber-bullying" group... but who is going to form a group to teach kids not to be such pussies?
Or a solution could just require downloading a database on a regular basis and then comparing the uRL to that database locally on your own machine.
Aside from the privacy issue, I simply wouldn't want to double the web traffic on my system.
Because you're a SALARIED employee.
And really, I don't want someone telling me that I as a salaried tech industry employee must be paid overtime. As if there aren't enough excuses to justify offshoring and outsourcing, all they really need is one more massive expense to move everything overseas.
I think Jack Thompson misunderstood the tagline - "FINISH THE FIGHT".
Why is he allowed to keep doing this? He should be punished for his endless series of nuisance lawsuits and then he should be held accountable for damaging reputations and businesses with his slanderous, ridiculous, attention-seeking, self-serving accusations. That he is given endless court and television time is highly offensive.
Actually, from what I understood over the last year "THERE IS NO MEMORY PROBLEM".
Every time someone mentions memory issues, the responses are either that it's supposed to consume a gigabyte of ram so that it speeds up the back button or that "there is no memory issue".
Strange, now, that there are suddenly people paying attention to specifically attacking memory use issues that supposedly don't exist.
Except mine wasn't really an analogy. It was a precise description of the actual event without any analogies. :)
This whole thing seemed like a non-story from the beginning. What idiots really ever thought that it brought some space illness with it? Any idiot should have realized immediately that the impact simply stirred up something terrestrial and launched it into the surrounding air for the population to breathe in. I wouldn't have guessed arsenic, but it was obviously *something*.
Yes, I understand that he might not have a 56k modem. So he should spend five dollars on one and double his speed. If he's able to get 26kbps on his 28kbps modem, he'll probably get 56k speeds as well. Given clean, quality lines, a modem is not subject to quite the loss-over-distance that DSL is (though I'm not a telco engineer, so this is based on a couple decades of anecdotal evidence and not hard facts).
No, I read it. I just don't see how it is relevant. It's not like a house is attached to you at the umbilical cord. As romantic as the Grizzly Adams thing might be to some, no home on earth is worth having little or no network access. And if it is... well, then suffer the dial-up. Or call Comcast or Cox up and tell them you have a couple billion you'd like to give them earmarked for building a pipe to your door.
I mean, I understand it sucks. But the world changes.
As I said -- it's like living in a remote cabin on the top of a mountain in the middle of nowhere and complaining that there aren't a lot of high-paying high-tech jobs available to you from your location. If sentiment is more important than broadband, those are the terms you've accepted. You have the obvious options of satelite, cable, cell and dial-up -- as is available (or not) in said given area.
I sympathize with the situation as having a lack of options can suck, but what kind of "magic" are they expecting people to conjure up?
Yeah, no kidding. Even if you're on dial-up, why would you use 28.8kbps!? You could buy 56kbps modems in retail stores at least a decade ago, for under $100 and they sell for about $6, right now.
Why don't you just move to a place that offers broadband? That is the first requirement I look for whenever I'm looking for a place to live. Whatever great aspects there may be about a region or a home, I disregard it entirely if I can't get high quality, reliable broadband there.
Otherwise, it's a bit like saying "I want to for a top tech company from San Francisco and pull in a top tech salary, but while working from a remote mountain top cabin in the snowy Cascade".
By your calculation? How so? It has been almost 40 years and we still haven't gone back.
Since Branson and Virgin have spent millions of dollars to invest in their planned orbital trips and space hotels (in the very near future), I would presume they have done a great deal of such market research. Personally, I would not take such a space trip, because - like evolution - gravity is "only a theory". I wouldn't want to be up there in my space hotel and have it plummet back down to the earth! Not to mention, since the earth is flat, I would be worried we'd miss the edge of it on our return and be lost forever!