I played COD for a long time, then moved on to COD:UO. I loved the addition of vehicles and other added aspects. I have since been playing Battlefield 2 exclusively and was thinking of moving to COD2, since the expansion for Battlefield 2 isn't quite my taste.
But then I started actually reading people's opinions of COD2, and I am probably not going to get it now. I play games almost exclusively online, so single player campaigns mean nothing to me.
How is the online play of COD2 compared to Battlefield 2?
For fluids, you really can't beat Overflow and its associated tools. Written by some of the guys at AMES, its open source and comes with decent grid generation tools.
I am not a structures guy, but isn't NASTRAN an industry standard NASA FEA tool?
I personally have the SA-8300 from Time Warner Cable. Its not that bad. It messes up occasionaly, but overall it does what it needs to. I go to a show in the guide, hit record and that's about it. The average person doesn't need to search through the next month's tv listings for a particular actor in a particular genre, like Tivo can do. Its just over kill.
That is the problem. They already have implemented the broadcast flag on their systems. The broadcast flag everyone is up in arms about is for OTA digital transmissions only. There are no regulations against cable and satellite providers from implementing their own version of it.
As long as it stays on their hardware, I don't think they really care. They are against possible avenues of distribution. So they don't let you get the content off the box. Like I said previously, the firewire enabled boxes only dump to devices that respect their implementation of the broadcast flag already. PPV content is flaged do not copy.
Check out the boards at avsforum.com. There are many discussions of the problems associated with firewire capture, the only way to record high def content.
The standard offerings by cable companies are pretty good. Cost $5 a month for standard definition PVRs or $10 a month for the HD PVRs.
That $10 a month for the HD PVR is practically untouchable. There just isn't any HD PVR solutions that are comparable. I am talking about more than just the over the air HD content that MythTV, et. all. can record. HBO-HD, InHD, TnTHD, Discovery HD, etc.
You can get cable boxes that output HD over firewire for recording purposes, but those firewire devices must respect the "Broadcast Flag" like signal the cable companies have implented. IE, you don't control the content coming from that port.
I am coming from an HD centric view point. SD centric viewers obviously have more choices and options available to them.
Along with the rest of the world. The world needs us and we need them. Its a stale mate that everyone tries to skew to their favor. But in the end its all talk.
There are many more INDEPENDENT surveys that state that the music buying rate of music downloaders is higher that the general population's music buying rate. No "correlation does not imply causation" BS.
Its pure statistics. These studies are not trying to state one thing or the other. Make your own judgements but don't ignore or write of the statistics on moral or other dubious grounds.
Also, people are more likely to answer in a survey that they download music if they buy the music afterwards.
And how do you know this to be fact? You can't write off study after study by saying "correlation does not imply causation." Groups that survey people for the most part know thier trade pretty well, at least the studies that are put up for peer review. Not everyone surveying people out there are big buisness lackies.
There is no way updating Linux is as easy as updating Windows.
Kernel updates? That is not point and click. It has failed several times on me.
Once, the update was not compatible with my nForce chipset. Another, and this happened a lot to me, the boot loader was not updated to the correct image.
You can say, oh, you need to run this or that after the update, but then it is no longer as easy as Windows, now is it?
What about modules for the kernel, like support for different parts of my motherboard. You don't need to know what you have in your computer with Windows. It finds it every time.
Don't sit there and say updating KDE or GNOME is point and click either.
I am not a Microsoft apologist, but they have some things down pretty good.
What people are charged with doesn't matter. Groups like the EFF, and the ACLU especially, catch alot of grief for the people they defend.
You need to realize they are not fighting for the defendents in these cases. They are fighting to ensure due process is followed IN ALL CASES.
If you can't follow the rules when it comes to prosecuting people who are truly guilty of crimes, how much are the authorities willing to bend the rules when the case isn't so cut and dry.
How is this garbage modded insightful? Virgin Galactic? They haven't even stated LEO as a long term goal, let alone come up with some concept as to how to achieve LEO.
No one seems to remember this flight was specifically called out as a TEST FLIGHT. They made major modifications to the external tank and oberserved the improvement. And its looking like this flight shed 80% less debris.
That is a remarkable improvement. Zero foam loss was never stated as a goal, and nor does it need to be. There was one major anomaly and guess what. Its going to be fixed.
Don't try apply today's expectation of what war is to WWII. Its a totally different ball game now. Back in WWII, everyone was fighting for thier survival.
Industry was producing the machines of war and they were valid targets. Its just that no one had bombed or attacked the continental US and killed civilians here.
During WWII, everyone was a valid target. And righfully so. Women working in factories producing airplanes are soldiers, just as much as those who were being butchered in the pacific conflict.
They sell orders and orders of magnitude more XP boxes than Free DOS. The margins on computers that cheap is so small, ANY change or disruption to the supply / manufacturing chain costs Dell money.
They could put nothing on the drive and it would cost more than the XP install because that is additional time and effort in tracking these low volume machines through the factory.
I am not sure how to address all the points you bring up, but he doesn't appear to be using clearcoats to get the glossy finish. He links to http://www.eti-usa.com/consum/envtex/envlite.htm. It appears to be some type of polymer coating, aka plastic.
Isn't "Full Metal Alchemist" being shown on Cartoon Network right now? Also "Ghost in the Shell:Stand Alone Complex" is currently in the rotation. "Cowboy Bebop" was shown on CN a little while ago.
Or is Adult Swim not considered Cartoon Network?
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They have their own private internet for video services and a separate internet for normal IP traffic flow.
This allows them to send massive amounts of video with fairly reliable QOS.
Please mod them up... That NY Times article tells it all.
But then I started actually reading people's opinions of COD2, and I am probably not going to get it now. I play games almost exclusively online, so single player campaigns mean nothing to me.
How is the online play of COD2 compared to Battlefield 2?
For fluids, you really can't beat Overflow and its associated tools. Written by some of the guys at AMES, its open source and comes with decent grid generation tools. I am not a structures guy, but isn't NASTRAN an industry standard NASA FEA tool?
I wish I has some mod points for you.
I personally have the SA-8300 from Time Warner Cable. Its not that bad. It messes up occasionaly, but overall it does what it needs to. I go to a show in the guide, hit record and that's about it. The average person doesn't need to search through the next month's tv listings for a particular actor in a particular genre, like Tivo can do. Its just over kill.
As long as it stays on their hardware, I don't think they really care. They are against possible avenues of distribution. So they don't let you get the content off the box. Like I said previously, the firewire enabled boxes only dump to devices that respect their implementation of the broadcast flag already. PPV content is flaged do not copy.
Check out the boards at avsforum.com. There are many discussions of the problems associated with firewire capture, the only way to record high def content.
The standard offerings by cable companies are pretty good. Cost $5 a month for standard definition PVRs or $10 a month for the HD PVRs.
That $10 a month for the HD PVR is practically untouchable. There just isn't any HD PVR solutions that are comparable. I am talking about more than just the over the air HD content that MythTV, et. all. can record. HBO-HD, InHD, TnTHD, Discovery HD, etc.
You can get cable boxes that output HD over firewire for recording purposes, but those firewire devices must respect the "Broadcast Flag" like signal the cable companies have implented. IE, you don't control the content coming from that port.
I am coming from an HD centric view point. SD centric viewers obviously have more choices and options available to them.
And probably supporting terrorists too...
Along with the rest of the world. The world needs us and we need them. Its a stale mate that everyone tries to skew to their favor. But in the end its all talk.
Its pure statistics. These studies are not trying to state one thing or the other. Make your own judgements but don't ignore or write of the statistics on moral or other dubious grounds.
And how do you know this to be fact? You can't write off study after study by saying "correlation does not imply causation." Groups that survey people for the most part know thier trade pretty well, at least the studies that are put up for peer review. Not everyone surveying people out there are big buisness lackies.
From the Washington Post
From the Harvard Buisness School
From New Scientist
There are tons more out there.
There are no real affordable do it yourself HDTV PVR solutions.
Kernel updates? That is not point and click. It has failed several times on me.
Once, the update was not compatible with my nForce chipset. Another, and this happened a lot to me, the boot loader was not updated to the correct image.
You can say, oh, you need to run this or that after the update, but then it is no longer as easy as Windows, now is it?
What about modules for the kernel, like support for different parts of my motherboard. You don't need to know what you have in your computer with Windows. It finds it every time.
Don't sit there and say updating KDE or GNOME is point and click either.
I am not a Microsoft apologist, but they have some things down pretty good.
You need to realize they are not fighting for the defendents in these cases. They are fighting to ensure due process is followed IN ALL CASES.
If you can't follow the rules when it comes to prosecuting people who are truly guilty of crimes, how much are the authorities willing to bend the rules when the case isn't so cut and dry.
New emissions standards are never imposed on older vehicles. That 86 metro only has to pass the standards that were in place in 1986.
No one seems to remember this flight was specifically called out as a TEST FLIGHT. They made major modifications to the external tank and oberserved the improvement. And its looking like this flight shed 80% less debris.
That is a remarkable improvement. Zero foam loss was never stated as a goal, and nor does it need to be. There was one major anomaly and guess what. Its going to be fixed.
Industry was producing the machines of war and they were valid targets. Its just that no one had bombed or attacked the continental US and killed civilians here.
During WWII, everyone was a valid target. And righfully so. Women working in factories producing airplanes are soldiers, just as much as those who were being butchered in the pacific conflict.
They could put nothing on the drive and it would cost more than the XP install because that is additional time and effort in tracking these low volume machines through the factory.
It's really not that hard to understand.
Well, Battlefield 2 does come in a DVD edition.
Its the first DVD game I have purchased and installation was a breeze.
I am not sure how to address all the points you bring up, but he doesn't appear to be using clearcoats to get the glossy finish. He links to http://www.eti-usa.com/consum/envtex/envlite.htm. It appears to be some type of polymer coating, aka plastic.
Isn't "Full Metal Alchemist" being shown on Cartoon Network right now? Also "Ghost in the Shell:Stand Alone Complex" is currently in the rotation. "Cowboy Bebop" was shown on CN a little while ago. Or is Adult Swim not considered Cartoon Network?
There just isn't any other vehicle that can do it atm.
That should be the difference between AEROSPACE ENGINEERS and civil engineers...