In my case it depends on the music. First, it has to be some I know really well. Listening to unfamiliar music requires too much attention. Some kind of music, even if familiar, still tend to require more than I can afford. I cannot hear Chopin in the background without giving it proper attention for example. Ideal case is an energetic, upbeat series of tunes I know really well and appreciate at a low level of sound, until I need my full concentration on a tough task. By then I stop the music to concentrate entirely on it.
You have to keep up with times though, we are in the X360 era. If you want use your X360 for something else than M$ approved software, you cannot use Xbox Live. It is due to the regular and remote bios modifications done by Xbox live to your console so it is up to date for countering any software exploitation.
The convenience of using XBMC or emulators, then switching off the modchip to play on xbox live are a thing of the past as far as the X360 is concerned. A real pity.
I am sorry to break this to you.. but the bugatti Veyron you link to runs FASTER than F1 cars. And the reason it needs those 1,001 horsepower is specifically because of its top cruising speed of 407km/h that no F1 car can achieve.
Claiming to make an MMO PvP study when taking into account only two (2) games, including one that just started and is still evolving and experimenting with what its PvP rules will be (AoC), is not serious at all.
How about first putting out elaborated arguments as to why getting into the Vietnam war was 'pointless' ? You can't use that as an assertion without justification.
Unfortunately, Granado Espada Japan (aka Sword of the new world) has recently been banning foreign IP. Same thing for Soul of Ultimate Nation (ie. SUN) japan.
Having played a number of MMO betas in chinese language, due to the fact they were the only versions available on the planet besides korean, I do recommend such option for players looking forward to learn the language. Even more helpful would be to play a chinese version of a game you already know in english version, so you have a working knowledge which would make your first steps easier.
Examples : RF Online, Granado Espada (aka sword of the new world), etc..
A ceveat though, would be the recent and very annoying trend from companies to dictate that all other licencee companies exploiting a particular MMO restict their player's access by country IP. Even though the MMO maker itself never intended so. This is very annoying and should not be allowed to be, it may force you to look for a proxy service in the country where the servers are located.
Asking from a neutral, foreign point of view, what makes you hate Obama ? What has he done, said, or voted for, that generates such a negative feeling towards him ?
Spoken japanese is a piece of cake. No new sound to learn, no intonation to give (unlike english or chinese have), simple grammar. There is no excuse if you don't get more proficient in it while living there.
Written japanese is hard. Each kanji has 2-3 different pronounciations, depending if found alone or in combination with other Kanjis. Now, this is what takes efforts and time to learn.
Insightful post, I would just argue about the non-obviousness comment.
It seems non-obvious for people accustomed to the PC (for games), and mostly Windows' (for the OS) tendancy to lag when under load.
A console game will usually have a solid 60 fps throughout the experience. A PC MMO will stutter and break responsiveness when loading data, even on dual core machines.
Windows will just freeze, stutter, lose focus, be unresponsive as soon as it feels you're doing a bit too much or too quick, while BeOS will still be 100% responsive to you, the user.
Being unresponsive is the 'norm' and accepted behaviour of Windows/PC users, and as such, PC programmers are making no efforts to correct it.
That doesn't mean other programmers don't resent that and strive to do what should rightfully be : responsivity to the user at all times.
Legitimate claim ??? Invading a country to use it as a nuclear missile platform is a legitimate claim ? China invading Taiwan would be a legitimate claim too ?
Do you remember in what language games/applications were programmed on ATARI800XL/C64/ATARI ST/AMIGA ? In assembler.
1/ That means pure and unfettered access to the very ressources of the machine (BIOS/XBIOS) and Os functions.
2/ Yes there was free software then , it was called the demo scene, and you could download 68k assembly listings of those demos and learn a lot about your own machine, the ropes and tricks used, and then make them your own.
I can write C# code (or code in most languages), copy and paste it, or make significant edits, and then simply tell the IDE to reformat it. Which IDE do you use ? I have nothing like you describe when working with C++ under Visual Studio.
We have martian rocks on Earth, and so there surely are a lot of earth rocks on Mars. Both are due to asteroid impacts projecting debris all around the place, including a few reaching neighbouring planets.
Those rock were not sterilized either, so.. although it is good practice to think about germ contamination, it may not be that important to be certain to achieve 100% decontamination on gear sent on other planets.
2nd Step : At around 11.30 pm and until 7 am (or so), you pay less for your electricity. That means every one sets their tank based water heater to automatically use only night hours power. (you can still switch to manual if you run out of hot water). That way, all those heaters are off from peak hours usage.
You should buy whatever has a good price and good quality. I disagree in the sense that your comment is incomplete.
The moral behaviour of the company making the product is to be taken into account, at least it is in my case.
If company A has tried to screw me over several times (defective products), kept lying about it, and engages in generally anti-competitive behaviour, then I will buy products from company B instead. Even if B's product are less competitive by a certain margin left to my appreciation.
Some will say that I am acting against how the market is supposed to work, that is not true. Business honesty and customer consideration IS valuable to my eyes, and I factor it in the final price of the product.
How about using mplayer ? I remember being able to watch high resolutions movie formats with it, that no other windows based player would display on my previous machine.
They don't care if their games are rotten with farmers and trading of game assets/currency.
All they will do is buy external software like GameGard, whose primary function is to hob resources of the customer's PC and make it less stable.
Thus, the low-end PHB will be able to claim to his boss he is actively fighting the problem, with GameGard's monthly invoice in hand for proof.
Meanwhile the players will lament about the enormous parasitic-like farmer population, detrimental to the game itself, and in plain view of anyone who actually logs in the game.
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In my case it depends on the music.
First, it has to be some I know really well. Listening to unfamiliar music requires too much attention.
Some kind of music, even if familiar, still tend to require more than I can afford. I cannot hear Chopin in the background without giving it proper attention for example.
Ideal case is an energetic, upbeat series of tunes I know really well and appreciate at a low level of sound, until I need my full concentration on a tough task. By then I stop the music to concentrate entirely on it.
You have to keep up with times though, we are in the X360 era.
If you want use your X360 for something else than M$ approved software, you cannot use Xbox Live.
It is due to the regular and remote bios modifications done by Xbox live to your console so it is up to date for countering any software exploitation.
The convenience of using XBMC or emulators, then switching off the modchip to play on xbox live are a thing of the past as far as the X360 is concerned. A real pity.
I am sorry to break this to you .. but the bugatti Veyron you link to runs FASTER than F1 cars.
And the reason it needs those 1,001 horsepower is specifically because of its top cruising speed of 407km/h that no F1 car can achieve.
Claiming to make an MMO PvP study when taking into account only two (2) games, including one that just started and is still evolving and experimenting with what its PvP rules will be (AoC), is not serious at all.
How about first putting out elaborated arguments as to why getting into the Vietnam war was 'pointless' ?
You can't use that as an assertion without justification.
Unfortunately, Granado Espada Japan (aka Sword of the new world) has recently been banning foreign IP.
Same thing for Soul of Ultimate Nation (ie. SUN) japan.
Maybe Lineage 2 japan is still reachable ?
Seriously.
..
Having played a number of MMO betas in chinese language, due to the fact they were the only versions available on the planet besides korean, I do recommend such option for players looking forward to learn the language.
Even more helpful would be to play a chinese version of a game you already know in english version, so you have a working knowledge which would make your first steps easier.
Examples : RF Online, Granado Espada (aka sword of the new world), etc
A ceveat though, would be the recent and very annoying trend from companies to dictate that all other licencee companies exploiting a particular MMO restict their player's access by country IP. Even though the MMO maker itself never intended so.
This is very annoying and should not be allowed to be, it may force you to look for a proxy service in the country where the servers are located.
Asking from a neutral, foreign point of view, what makes you hate Obama ?
What has he done, said, or voted for, that generates such a negative feeling towards him ?
Having capped internet access in any developped country in 2008 is a shame.
Not it is not.
Spoken japanese is a piece of cake.
No new sound to learn, no intonation to give (unlike english or chinese have), simple grammar.
There is no excuse if you don't get more proficient in it while living there.
Written japanese is hard.
Each kanji has 2-3 different pronounciations, depending if found alone or in combination with other Kanjis.
Now, this is what takes efforts and time to learn.
Insightful post, I would just argue about the non-obviousness comment.
It seems non-obvious for people accustomed to the PC (for games), and mostly Windows' (for the OS) tendancy to lag when under load.
A console game will usually have a solid 60 fps throughout the experience.
A PC MMO will stutter and break responsiveness when loading data, even on dual core machines.
Windows will just freeze, stutter, lose focus, be unresponsive as soon as it feels you're doing a bit too much or too quick, while BeOS will still be 100% responsive to you, the user.
Being unresponsive is the 'norm' and accepted behaviour of Windows/PC users, and as such, PC programmers are making no efforts to correct it.
That doesn't mean other programmers don't resent that and strive to do what should rightfully be : responsivity to the user at all times.
Legitimate claim ???
Invading a country to use it as a nuclear missile platform is a legitimate claim ?
China invading Taiwan would be a legitimate claim too ?
I clearly disagree with that opinion.
There is proprietary and proprietary.
Do you remember in what language games/applications were programmed on ATARI800XL/C64/ATARI ST/AMIGA ?
In assembler.
1/ That means pure and unfettered access to the very ressources of the machine (BIOS/XBIOS) and Os functions.
2/ Yes there was free software then , it was called the demo scene, and you could download 68k assembly listings of those demos and learn a lot about your own machine, the ropes and tricks used, and then make them your own.
I have nothing like you describe when working with C++ under Visual Studio.
We have martian rocks on Earth, and so there surely are a lot of earth rocks on Mars.
.. although it is good practice to think about germ contamination, it may not be that important to be certain to achieve 100% decontamination on gear sent on other planets.
Both are due to asteroid impacts projecting debris all around the place, including a few reaching neighbouring planets.
Those rock were not sterilized either, so
1st Step :
~75% of power is nuclear generated
2nd Step :
At around 11.30 pm and until 7 am (or so), you pay less for your electricity.
That means every one sets their tank based water heater to automatically use only night hours power.
(you can still switch to manual if you run out of hot water).
That way, all those heaters are off from peak hours usage.
.. when I didn't have my glasses handy and still wanted to look at something in particular.
I would form a small hole by curling my index then look through it for visual correction to my myopea.
The moral behaviour of the company making the product is to be taken into account, at least it is in my case.
If company A has tried to screw me over several times (defective products), kept lying about it, and engages in generally anti-competitive behaviour, then I will buy products from company B instead.
Even if B's product are less competitive by a certain margin left to my appreciation.
Some will say that I am acting against how the market is supposed to work, that is not true.
Business honesty and customer consideration IS valuable to my eyes, and I factor it in the final price of the product.
Hence, I will pay more to buy B's product.
Lots of interesting information in the parent's post, worthy to be shared with everyone.
Please mod it up ~
The law should be the same for all.
Whether a small company or a megacorporation.
Should MSFT be barred, they would think twice before engaging again in illegal activities in the EU.
Which is the intent of the law.
How about using mplayer ?
I remember being able to watch high resolutions movie formats with it, that no other windows based player would display on my previous machine.
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I can't understand what were thinking the Commodore engineers, really.
By comparison :
How to start floppy on an ATARI 800 XL ?
-Just hold the start function key at Power On.
No instruction to type
No funky parameter "*" to remember
No obscure sequence of number 8,1 to remember
Not to mention the god-awful speed (lack of) of the commodore disk drives
I am French, you insensitive Clod !
Ariane is a satellite launcher technology.
That means it is designed/built to be cheaper than a rocket safe enough to launch people.
The two are different goals : cheap and price competitive for commercial payload or safer for passengers.
They don't care if their games are rotten with farmers and trading of game assets/currency.
All they will do is buy external software like GameGard, whose primary function is to hob resources of the customer's PC and make it less stable.
Thus, the low-end PHB will be able to claim to his boss he is actively fighting the problem, with GameGard's monthly invoice in hand for proof.
Meanwhile the players will lament about the enormous parasitic-like farmer population, detrimental to the game itself, and in plain view of anyone who actually logs in the game.