I'm looking forward to this, because they actuall did a good job with the Xbox port (even though it's only really worth a rent there). I'm not going to have a computer that can run Half Life 2 or any of it's variants any time soon, but I will have an Xbox360.
My only gripe is that they didn't have the Legacy stick control scheme, only Default and Default Southpaw was available.
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What backlash? A lot of the (moderate!) Republicans that got voted out were on their 4th, 6th, or even in one case, 12th term. As one commentator on NBC said, about every 14 years voters have changed the dominate party due to being tired out from the other party.
There's also the fact that the Democrats, who needed 1 or 2 extra seats badly, blew their chances in Nebraska. Because the Democratic candidate here, Jim Esch, didn't want to take special interest money and didn't "ask" to be able to run (his own words), they didn't get behind him and campaign for him. I'm a registered Republican and I voted for him, because I'm tired of Lee Terry, who spent around 7 million dollars against a guy who spent about 70,000$ (it was a very low number). And is also a tool. Esch had the lead early on but Terry came back late in the race after the hardcore Republicans probably freaked out and all ran out to vote, while most Democrats stayed at home (a majority of Esch's votes were mail-in/absentee).
It is for this reason alone, that I think the Democrats didn't really get in on any "backlash", they just happened to be at the right place at the right time. Hell, a Republican (Pete Ricketts) ran against the incumbent Democrat senator here (Ben Nelson) and lost, even though he also spent a bajillion dollars. Half the reason is because Ben Nelson was more Republican than the Republican running against him. (I also think Pete blew it after he aired an ad that smacked of anti-hunter, where Nebraska is a very pro-hunter state). Hell, a week before the election the Democratic Party announced that it was sending all of it's staff to Iowa and gave up on Nebraska. Bad move, they could have used that extra seat.
Here's the thing. They don't even need to modify packets. They just download an auto-aim mod to instantly lock on to your head all the way across the map with a sniper rifle that shoots 1000 rounds a second.
As much as the cheaters suck, half the blame goes to Bungie for not validating DLC, like 98% of other Xbox games do. Heck, even KotOR validates it's content, and you can't even play that with other people on Live!
Standbying is near unavoidable given halo 2's setup (ie, not dedicated servers at all). This makes me hope they are considering dedicated servers for ranked games for Halo 3.
And let people cheat even -more- on Halo 2 than they already are?
I prefer it stays closed. People unable to cheat (for the most part) is worth the 5$ a month, or the use-and-canceling of 2 month trials, for me.
If only Bungie had actually locked down their DLC like every other Xbox game does.....
Slightly unrelated, but here in Omaha, Nebraska, Cox Cable is in fact a telco. I had great phone service with them before I kinda owed them a lot of money. Perhaps some of the experience in their phone department leaked over to the ISP side.
What!?!? I seem to remember a big browser war between IE and Netscape. IE kept getting better and better to compete, and Netscape started to update slower and become more crash prone, and have less features. IE didn't win 'by default', they won by being a better competitor.
Plenty of pre-built computers (not only Dell and like like - small prefab companies too) and motherboards still in fact use ISA for integrated 56k modems. That's what my last mobo with integrated 56K told me, anyway.
Now, I haven't read the PDF (it keeps 404ing), but how does the phone exactly work? Is it basically a mobile version of your iTunes service?
Does it also allow you to hook the phone up to your iPod and transfer your purchased music to it? Even though I do not own an iPod (or cellphone) that would be an awesome idea. Listen to your music on the go AND buy it and transfer to your iPod while away from the computer.
I'm pretty sure you don't need battle.net though. As in, to live, breath, and/or maintain your current standard of living. You are not being robbed of any personal liberty or freedom when you have to use Blizzard's servers to play Blizzard's games. Blizzard does have rights, and they should be able to control their own creation.
Starfox Adventures also had some pretty good self-lighting. The first boss fight against the lizard.... thingy still holds up to Halo 2's (but not quite RE4's) graphics
What you didn't see was the "IBM saga" where a new IBM engineer finds the remains of Cell, and brings him back to the design room..
Next time, on IBM Z!
Are Linux distros allowed to include media players (XMMS) and browsers (Konqueror, Firefox, Mozilla), but Microsoft is not? If Microsoft should not be allowed to include Windows Media Player on WindowsXP, neither should any other operating system be allowed to include their media player by default - and neither should OTHER media players be included by default. In short, the better solution would be to have the most popular media players all available in a default install - IE, install Windows, and it gives you a menu of which player you want installed. Same with Linux.
I'm all for justice, but it's not justice if it's a double standard.
Because there will always be people in poverty or poor. Even if you make them richer, then you just reset the amount of money at which you are considered poor. By the way, the current poverty line is pretty high - my stepdad made enough money to support a house, 4 kids, internet, cable tv, regular big dinners and a new van, but we were considered in poverty by the state, and qualified for free lunch, etc
Actually, I wonder if they do any checking for that, or else:
*inbox retrieves feeds of inbox
*gmail sends update that you recieved an update
*inbox retrieves this update
*the update of the update is sent to the update
*Google's servers melt down due to Slashdot users intentionally making Googles' code do an infinite loop.
I have found that people I leave feedback on for screaming/cheating etc, I usually never see again. Except in clan matches.
Also I WISH they would make it so you never go against the same team in a row! One time we went up against level 25s (we're ~12-14s) 4 times in a row. Needless to say, by the 4th match we just resorted to spinning around in circles.
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I'm looking forward to this, because they actuall did a good job with the Xbox port (even though it's only really worth a rent there). I'm not going to have a computer that can run Half Life 2 or any of it's variants any time soon, but I will have an Xbox360. My only gripe is that they didn't have the Legacy stick control scheme, only Default and Default Southpaw was available.
What backlash? A lot of the (moderate!) Republicans that got voted out were on their 4th, 6th, or even in one case, 12th term. As one commentator on NBC said, about every 14 years voters have changed the dominate party due to being tired out from the other party.
There's also the fact that the Democrats, who needed 1 or 2 extra seats badly, blew their chances in Nebraska. Because the Democratic candidate here, Jim Esch, didn't want to take special interest money and didn't "ask" to be able to run (his own words), they didn't get behind him and campaign for him. I'm a registered Republican and I voted for him, because I'm tired of Lee Terry, who spent around 7 million dollars against a guy who spent about 70,000$ (it was a very low number). And is also a tool. Esch had the lead early on but Terry came back late in the race after the hardcore Republicans probably freaked out and all ran out to vote, while most Democrats stayed at home (a majority of Esch's votes were mail-in/absentee).
It is for this reason alone, that I think the Democrats didn't really get in on any "backlash", they just happened to be at the right place at the right time. Hell, a Republican (Pete Ricketts) ran against the incumbent Democrat senator here (Ben Nelson) and lost, even though he also spent a bajillion dollars. Half the reason is because Ben Nelson was more Republican than the Republican running against him. (I also think Pete blew it after he aired an ad that smacked of anti-hunter, where Nebraska is a very pro-hunter state). Hell, a week before the election the Democratic Party announced that it was sending all of it's staff to Iowa and gave up on Nebraska. Bad move, they could have used that extra seat.
Because the actual spelling is "googol"
Here's the thing. They don't even need to modify packets. They just download an auto-aim mod to instantly lock on to your head all the way across the map with a sniper rifle that shoots 1000 rounds a second. As much as the cheaters suck, half the blame goes to Bungie for not validating DLC, like 98% of other Xbox games do. Heck, even KotOR validates it's content, and you can't even play that with other people on Live! Standbying is near unavoidable given halo 2's setup (ie, not dedicated servers at all). This makes me hope they are considering dedicated servers for ranked games for Halo 3.
Xbox? Allow homebrew? you're kidding, right?
And let people cheat even -more- on Halo 2 than they already are? I prefer it stays closed. People unable to cheat (for the most part) is worth the 5$ a month, or the use-and-canceling of 2 month trials, for me. If only Bungie had actually locked down their DLC like every other Xbox game does.....
Slightly unrelated, but here in Omaha, Nebraska, Cox Cable is in fact a telco. I had great phone service with them before I kinda owed them a lot of money. Perhaps some of the experience in their phone department leaked over to the ISP side.
What!?!? I seem to remember a big browser war between IE and Netscape. IE kept getting better and better to compete, and Netscape started to update slower and become more crash prone, and have less features. IE didn't win 'by default', they won by being a better competitor.
A footstitute?
Plenty of pre-built computers (not only Dell and like like - small prefab companies too) and motherboards still in fact use ISA for integrated 56k modems. That's what my last mobo with integrated 56K told me, anyway.
Now, I haven't read the PDF (it keeps 404ing), but how does the phone exactly work? Is it basically a mobile version of your iTunes service? Does it also allow you to hook the phone up to your iPod and transfer your purchased music to it? Even though I do not own an iPod (or cellphone) that would be an awesome idea. Listen to your music on the go AND buy it and transfer to your iPod while away from the computer.
I'm pretty sure you don't need battle.net though. As in, to live, breath, and/or maintain your current standard of living. You are not being robbed of any personal liberty or freedom when you have to use Blizzard's servers to play Blizzard's games. Blizzard does have rights, and they should be able to control their own creation.
If you keep typing like that, Slashdot will run out of letters, and eventually stop posting dupes. Oh wai-
Technically, IE5 Mac has CSS3 (I think? someone correct me if I'm wrong). But you know, it's uh... IE mac.
Windows Update will scan all of your third-party drivers for updates.
Starfox Adventures also had some pretty good self-lighting. The first boss fight against the lizard.... thingy still holds up to Halo 2's (but not quite RE4's) graphics
What you didn't see was the "IBM saga" where a new IBM engineer finds the remains of Cell, and brings him back to the design room.. Next time, on IBM Z!
The Atari 7200 was backwards compatible with the 2600.
Can you get a Apple G5 with Internet Explorer 5 and Windows Media Player instead of Safari and Quicktime?
Are Linux distros allowed to include media players (XMMS) and browsers (Konqueror, Firefox, Mozilla), but Microsoft is not? If Microsoft should not be allowed to include Windows Media Player on WindowsXP, neither should any other operating system be allowed to include their media player by default - and neither should OTHER media players be included by default. In short, the better solution would be to have the most popular media players all available in a default install - IE, install Windows, and it gives you a menu of which player you want installed. Same with Linux. I'm all for justice, but it's not justice if it's a double standard.
Hopefully you'll be able to disable them completely - I for one don't use them in Firefox because they just don't jive with me.
A new computer I bought in 2001 had an ISA 56k modem..
Because there will always be people in poverty or poor. Even if you make them richer, then you just reset the amount of money at which you are considered poor. By the way, the current poverty line is pretty high - my stepdad made enough money to support a house, 4 kids, internet, cable tv, regular big dinners and a new van, but we were considered in poverty by the state, and qualified for free lunch, etc
Actually, I wonder if they do any checking for that, or else: *inbox retrieves feeds of inbox *gmail sends update that you recieved an update *inbox retrieves this update *the update of the update is sent to the update *Google's servers melt down due to Slashdot users intentionally making Googles' code do an infinite loop.
I have found that people I leave feedback on for screaming/cheating etc, I usually never see again. Except in clan matches. Also I WISH they would make it so you never go against the same team in a row! One time we went up against level 25s (we're ~12-14s) 4 times in a row. Needless to say, by the 4th match we just resorted to spinning around in circles.