Sony had the right idea, they had to revamp the game. But they took the wrong approach and instead has hastened SWG's death. No one is going to go play a game when all the current players are leaving and ranting how much it sucks. That is repelling all the potential players that Sony is expecting to replace all the players leaving.
SWG has been such a disaster and it's fate is now sealed. The developers seem to actually be going in the right direction now but it is much to late and the plug will be pulled soon.
The complexity of a computer system (in this case a video game system) is far higher than plastic injected into a mold.
How complex is it to make sure your machine doesn't ruin the media it runs? Testing should involve inserting a disk and reading it for a few minutes. Most QA today involves pressing the on button and seeing the power light go on.
But, like all devices, a cooling system just moves the heat somewhere else, in this case ouside the case. So if you put it in a confied area or block the vents, it will be unable to cool itself. There is NOTHING MS can do about this.
Yes there is something Microsoft can do, design the unit with the consumer in mind. Every power brick I have sits on the floor near the plug with all the wires with virtually no air cirulation, not in front of my air conditioner. If the power brick needs more cooling then can be provided in "normal" operation for a power brick, then it should have been built into the Xbox. But that could not happen because Microsoft wanted the Xbox to be as small as possible.
I can't rememher the last time a power supply told me it needed room for ventaliation units. Clearly Microsoft cut corners, which is why the power supply is overheating. A power brick that large should have been built into the Xbox. Microsoft wanting to shed the image of having a huge machine, so now the consumer must pay. Soon someone will be paying when their house burns down.
They probably have a method to track submissions. If you preform poorly (get 1 out of 10 projects correct) they will probably disable your account. There is no good way to automate this.
You have to buy cards and top up the phone and stuff. I never use a phone so I thought this would be the best way to go instead of paying $40 a month for a phone that I will spend a total of 10 minutes on per month.
Where exactly are you buying your 1GB laptop ram that cheap? It would cost me $400 for 2GB of ram and I only have 2 slots of ram. 4GB flash drives are much cheaper, and if Intel ties it directly to the CPU it will go really fast. Thus, loading the page file, operating system, and other frequently used files into this flash should cause the hard drive to spin a lot less.
I read the artical, but I still have no idea if this affects me. Can anyone tell me if this affects Virgin Mobile phones in Massachusetts? I just got the phone about a week ago, so if this affects it I will just return it.
The biggest application for this will probably be laptops. If the computer has 1GB of space for a page file and other stuff, then it will spend a lot less time accessing the hard drive. Less hard drive spinning means longer battery life.
It seems like MMORPG sequels have a rough time. Ultima Online's sequel died in the womb,
That is not true. Both UO2 (known as Origin) and UX:O were not meant to be sequals to UO. UO2 was canceled because they finally realized it would canbalize the current playerbase of UO, potentially causing both games to go under. UX:O fell apart after most of the developers working on it did not move to California when their studio was moved. EA decided it would have been too costly to and time consuming to hire and train enough to work on the engine.
The best possible example I can think of is Google allows you to find people who stupidly post credit card numbers in unsecure locations. Just because you can find these numbers and other highly personal information, does that give you the right to use it? No. If Cnet did an artical about a personal and posted their credit card number that they found through Google, how is that different from what they did about all the personal information. Where is the line crossed?
This artical is a joke. It has almost no details on hardware and just a couple tweeks for windows XP. If you want to build a real system from scratch, whether your a newbie or expert, check out MySuperPC.com. It has complete details on the latest tech on all computer parts and even links you to some of the best prices for each part. I always reference this site when looking for a specific part or building a computer.
Maybe you should wake up a little? I don't know of a school which currently allows pornography to be viewed on their system. It should also be up to the town (which has the library) on what they wish to show, just as they can decide which books to have stocked.
The ISP's would only filter the content at the request of the consumer. I don't see what is wrong with this, as it give parent's complete control over what their children see. We all know how tech savy kids can easily get around most types of filtering software. By having the ISP doing the filtering it would become next to impossible.
My boss just sent out a warning memo after reading this post on slashdot, telling all employees to uninstall firefox until the security vulnerabilites can be analyzed. I worked so hard to champion the use of firefox in our company, and one stupid story on slashdot completely set back everything. Way to go idiots, getting them to use firefox again is all but impossible now.
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Sony had the right idea, they had to revamp the game. But they took the wrong approach and instead has hastened SWG's death. No one is going to go play a game when all the current players are leaving and ranting how much it sucks. That is repelling all the potential players that Sony is expecting to replace all the players leaving. SWG has been such a disaster and it's fate is now sealed. The developers seem to actually be going in the right direction now but it is much to late and the plug will be pulled soon.
I don't think you can get 5GB space and 250GB transfer for $4 per month at GoDaddy. If you can, please link it.
So Windows is never used in any life or death situations? That is hard to believe.
The complexity of a computer system (in this case a video game system) is far higher than plastic injected into a mold.
How complex is it to make sure your machine doesn't ruin the media it runs? Testing should involve inserting a disk and reading it for a few minutes. Most QA today involves pressing the on button and seeing the power light go on.
But, like all devices, a cooling system just moves the heat somewhere else, in this case ouside the case. So if you put it in a confied area or block the vents, it will be unable to cool itself. There is NOTHING MS can do about this.
Yes there is something Microsoft can do, design the unit with the consumer in mind. Every power brick I have sits on the floor near the plug with all the wires with virtually no air cirulation, not in front of my air conditioner. If the power brick needs more cooling then can be provided in "normal" operation for a power brick, then it should have been built into the Xbox. But that could not happen because Microsoft wanted the Xbox to be as small as possible.
I can't rememher the last time a power supply told me it needed room for ventaliation units. Clearly Microsoft cut corners, which is why the power supply is overheating. A power brick that large should have been built into the Xbox. Microsoft wanting to shed the image of having a huge machine, so now the consumer must pay. Soon someone will be paying when their house burns down.
PC World is a printed magazine, so articals may be several weeks old by the time they get posted online.
If the SWG forums are any indication how the upgrade is going, it looks like SWG will be completely dead in 2 months tops:
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http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board?board.id
They probably have a method to track submissions. If you preform poorly (get 1 out of 10 projects correct) they will probably disable your account. There is no good way to automate this.
You have to buy cards and top up the phone and stuff. I never use a phone so I thought this would be the best way to go instead of paying $40 a month for a phone that I will spend a total of 10 minutes on per month.
Where exactly are you buying your 1GB laptop ram that cheap? It would cost me $400 for 2GB of ram and I only have 2 slots of ram. 4GB flash drives are much cheaper, and if Intel ties it directly to the CPU it will go really fast. Thus, loading the page file, operating system, and other frequently used files into this flash should cause the hard drive to spin a lot less.
I read the artical, but I still have no idea if this affects me. Can anyone tell me if this affects Virgin Mobile phones in Massachusetts? I just got the phone about a week ago, so if this affects it I will just return it.
The biggest application for this will probably be laptops. If the computer has 1GB of space for a page file and other stuff, then it will spend a lot less time accessing the hard drive. Less hard drive spinning means longer battery life.
It seems like MMORPG sequels have a rough time. Ultima Online's sequel died in the womb,
That is not true. Both UO2 (known as Origin) and UX:O were not meant to be sequals to UO. UO2 was canceled because they finally realized it would canbalize the current playerbase of UO, potentially causing both games to go under. UX:O fell apart after most of the developers working on it did not move to California when their studio was moved. EA decided it would have been too costly to and time consuming to hire and train enough to work on the engine.
The best possible example I can think of is Google allows you to find people who stupidly post credit card numbers in unsecure locations. Just because you can find these numbers and other highly personal information, does that give you the right to use it? No. If Cnet did an artical about a personal and posted their credit card number that they found through Google, how is that different from what they did about all the personal information. Where is the line crossed?
If it took 20 years for the internet to become popular, then starting work on the next one today is a good idea to have it ready for tomorrow.
Ummm yeah, well let me introduce you to .NET, which basically makes your entire "point" moot.
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Yeah, and Microsoft is so into
Nintendo should get in bed with Sega and get their games before someone else does.
Instead of simply shutting down everything why don't they take a couple years to hammer out a real script/plot for the next show?
How about not being able to play DVDs from other areas of the world because of the stupid Region limitations? It is basically the same thing.
This artical is a joke. It has almost no details on hardware and just a couple tweeks for windows XP. If you want to build a real system from scratch, whether your a newbie or expert, check out MySuperPC.com. It has complete details on the latest tech on all computer parts and even links you to some of the best prices for each part. I always reference this site when looking for a specific part or building a computer.
Maybe you should wake up a little? I don't know of a school which currently allows pornography to be viewed on their system. It should also be up to the town (which has the library) on what they wish to show, just as they can decide which books to have stocked.
The ISP's would only filter the content at the request of the consumer. I don't see what is wrong with this, as it give parent's complete control over what their children see. We all know how tech savy kids can easily get around most types of filtering software. By having the ISP doing the filtering it would become next to impossible.
Arn't they all?
My boss just sent out a warning memo after reading this post on slashdot, telling all employees to uninstall firefox until the security vulnerabilites can be analyzed. I worked so hard to champion the use of firefox in our company, and one stupid story on slashdot completely set back everything. Way to go idiots, getting them to use firefox again is all but impossible now.