Would you pay $60 for a single player game? For me, SWTOR is the first MMO that can be played like a single player game, and can provide a similar feel/experience as a single player game, if chosen to play that way. This is due to the depth and quality of the questing and leveling experience. With other MMOs, the single player portion is pretty repetitive and grindy (questing, leveling, farming, etc.). With SWTOR, the single player portion feels like KOTOR or Mass Effect.
I feel that I can get my money's worth just by playing it for the free month and not subscribing. Other MMOs depend heavily on playing with other people and playing over an extended period of time for an enjoyable experience, so you need to pay the subscription fee to enjoy the game.
This brings a lot of convenience to people who use SD cards, but I think this may also bring better market share to Sandisk.
People who use SD cards no longer need card readers, but what happens when they need more SD cards? Do they go out and buy an SD card from a different brand? Probably not, since then they'll need an SD card reader (which they don't have already, or are too lazy to use). So they'll go out and buy the Sandisk SD card which they've gotten used to.
I have legit uses for wifi. I don't wardrive, but I have a laptop and as a student that's moving around, I like to know what APs are available to me. If I find an open AP, must I always assume that it was an accident as a result of their ignorance?
Question for you: Why are you assuming that I abuse open APs? Are there no legitimate uses for wifi? Let's all go back to the stone age and be happy.
Many places offer wifi internet access for free, legitimately.
If wardriving is a crime, how are people supposed to know which AP is the place offering free wifi and which is an ignorant home user? (other than the ESSID, which if the home user knows how to change, will probably be able to prevent it in the first place)
This seems to me to be another case of the naive shifting responsibility to others...
Would Ford sue you for removing the rev limiter from your Focus?
Not that I agree with this law, but lawmakers probably see mod chips as analogous to mounting guns on your car. There are many legitimate uses for mod chips, but since they don't want to deal with the exceptions, they probably want to completely illegalize the usage.
Earlier this year, the Italian court ruled that mod chips are legal on the basis that it's up to the user, not Sony, how they use their PS2. It even went so far as to name mod chips as crucial tools to "avoid monopolistic positions".
Instead of recycling electronics, it would be much better if they could send them to less-developed countries where high-tech is more or less non-existant.
Recycling is better than throwing out, but I recall it only usually saving 20% energy. Reusing, on the other hand, is much more efficient.
NVIDIA Corporation, the worldwide leader in graphics processing, is putting up a combined purse of $150,000 in cash and prizes for the three QuakeCon tournaments.
This is going to be a great way for NVidia to show off their latest video card playing Doom3. But what would be better is if they have some footage of Doom3 being played on a Linux machine with an NVidia card.
(I recall Doom3 is going to be released natively for Linux, although without official support?)
Maybe it would help push ATI to develop better Linux drivers!
VCDs aren't as space-efficient as Xvid encodes, but they're a lot more convenient. 352x240, 1120 kbps isn't horrible to look at.
How many DVD players will allow you to stick in an ISO9660 CD with an Xvid file burned on it and play it directly?
MOST DVD players will allow you to play VCDs without any hassle. While I've gotten used to viewing video files on my computer, I don't need TV-out this way..
This sounds about right, actually. 0.16% of 720,000 is 1152 non-spam e-mails in a month, which turns out to be roughly 37-38 in a day. That's a reasonable number for a 6-employee company...
btdownloadcurses.py is great. I also use btlaunchmany.py and btlaunchmanycurses.py..
Both these scripts take an argument of where your.torrent files are located, and will continually check the directory to add/drop torrents... they both list all the torrents that you're downloading, which is more convenient than opening many windows, IMO...
The usefulness is that I can run one of these scripts from home, ssh to my home machine from work, and download.torrent files directly to the directory, where they'll be picked up by the script...
The btlaunchmany.py script can be set up as a background process so that once you kill your ssh session, the process won't terminate...
Actually, UW Engineering also has Wordperfect.. I've seen it around in the Helix labs...
As I mentioned in another post, not everybody likes using OpenOffice.org since they feel more secure using Office... this especially goes for the non-technical students...
At my university in Ontario, we are using three office suites: Microsoft Office, Corel Wordperfect, and OpenOffice.org..
I was talking to one of the admins on why we don't just go with OO.o, and he agreed with me. Except that a few of the profs were big endorsers of already-popular standards and wanted everybody to use Office. Some other profs preferred Wordperfect, so we had to have that installed on the machines as well...
Recently, our student union had opted to use open-source software wherever reasonable, but this caused a bit of backlash from the non-technical students that wanted to keep using Office and thought that using open-source would give them less freedom of choice. (which I find to be ironic)
It's hard to keep with one method of doing things when everybody's opinion is different. I'm not sure if this will affect my university, but it'll be interesting to see what happens...
HP isn't the only company that is recommending Windows:
"IBM recommends Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional." (taken from their website)
Although IBM is working towards Linux, they cannot cut all ties with Microsoft right now, or many of their clients are going to be looking elsewhere... they will have to keep supporting Microsoft until they can get Linux to a level where they don't need to care about Windows anymore...
IANAL, but how would you prove that you had the CD prior to downloading the song?
What is preventing you from going out and buying the CD as soon as you know that you're in legal trouble with the RIAA?
Even if they ask you to provide the receipt, could you simply say that you lost it, or give a friends' receipt and say that they gave the CD to you? I don't think that receipts are incredibly solid evidence...
If you preload Konqueror, it loads fairly fast as both a file manager and a web browser. And the ability to split Konqueror up into a browser in one pane and a file manager in another is quite useful (not to also mention terminal integration).
Actually, there is an application called CheckInstall. Once you run make install, CheckInstall takes over and keep tracks of all the modified files.
Not only that, but it will create a Slackware, RedHat or Debian package so that you can re-install it, view the modified files, or remove it. This is useful if there's no 'make uninstall' rule in the Makefile.
I don't really agree to this. In your comment, you are stating situations where the owner is aware of problems but fails to do something about it due to negligence and not incompetence.
If you are talking about cars, I would more liken it to having your car stolen and you being responsible because someone was run over because of it.
With regards to Witty, I am pretty sure that users would have taken measures had they known how and were aware of the existence of the problem. In this case, I don't think you can call it deliberate negligence...
Not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but SCO says that the memo is real, yet a "misunderstanding"...
I doubt their damage control is very credible, as clearly Microsoft is involved:
SCO's blanket dismissal of the leaked memo as the mistaken assumptions of an independent contractor doesn't explain several parts of the letter which seem to indicate knowledge of Microsoft's involvement in SCO's investment search, however.
For example, the memo states that Microsoft apparently wanted to use private investments in public companies to help fund SCO.
Acer has teamed up with Ferrari to create a new breakthrough laptop. This laptop weighs a revolutionary 2500 lbs, and comes with both a P4-3.06GHz w/ HT processor and a 300HP engine.
Advantages are that it makes engine noises upon bootup, and it's flexible in that the user can use it for both doing work and getting to and back from work.
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Would you pay $60 for a single player game? For me, SWTOR is the first MMO that can be played like a single player game, and can provide a similar feel/experience as a single player game, if chosen to play that way. This is due to the depth and quality of the questing and leveling experience. With other MMOs, the single player portion is pretty repetitive and grindy (questing, leveling, farming, etc.). With SWTOR, the single player portion feels like KOTOR or Mass Effect.
I feel that I can get my money's worth just by playing it for the free month and not subscribing. Other MMOs depend heavily on playing with other people and playing over an extended period of time for an enjoyable experience, so you need to pay the subscription fee to enjoy the game.
This brings a lot of convenience to people who use SD cards, but I think this may also bring better market share to Sandisk.
People who use SD cards no longer need card readers, but what happens when they need more SD cards? Do they go out and buy an SD card from a different brand? Probably not, since then they'll need an SD card reader (which they don't have already, or are too lazy to use). So they'll go out and buy the Sandisk SD card which they've gotten used to.
A good move from Sandisk.
She's better now, but those first few hours were pretty harrowing.
I, for one, welcome our new undead overlords.
Question for you: Why are you assuming that I abuse open APs? Are there no legitimate uses for wifi? Let's all go back to the stone age and be happy.
If wardriving is a crime, how are people supposed to know which AP is the place offering free wifi and which is an ignorant home user? (other than the ESSID, which if the home user knows how to change, will probably be able to prevent it in the first place)
This seems to me to be another case of the naive shifting responsibility to others...
Not that I agree with this law, but lawmakers probably see mod chips as analogous to mounting guns on your car. There are many legitimate uses for mod chips, but since they don't want to deal with the exceptions, they probably want to completely illegalize the usage.
Earlier this year, the Italian court ruled that mod chips are legal on the basis that it's up to the user, not Sony, how they use their PS2. It even went so far as to name mod chips as crucial tools to "avoid monopolistic positions".
Thumbs up to the Italians, though :)
Recycling is better than throwing out, but I recall it only usually saving 20% energy. Reusing, on the other hand, is much more efficient.
This is going to be a great way for NVidia to show off their latest video card playing Doom3. But what would be better is if they have some footage of Doom3 being played on a Linux machine with an NVidia card.
(I recall Doom3 is going to be released natively for Linux, although without official support?)
Maybe it would help push ATI to develop better Linux drivers!
You mean that I'm the only one here that lives in their parents' basement and is allergic to socializing??
I've been lied to for years!
How many DVD players will allow you to stick in an ISO9660 CD with an Xvid file burned on it and play it directly?
MOST DVD players will allow you to play VCDs without any hassle. While I've gotten used to viewing video files on my computer, I don't need TV-out this way..
This sounds about right, actually. 0.16% of 720,000 is 1152 non-spam e-mails in a month, which turns out to be roughly 37-38 in a day. That's a reasonable number for a 6-employee company...
Both these scripts take an argument of where your .torrent files are located, and will continually check the directory to add/drop torrents... they both list all the torrents that you're downloading, which is more convenient than opening many windows, IMO...
The usefulness is that I can run one of these scripts from home, ssh to my home machine from work, and download .torrent files directly to the directory, where they'll be picked up by the script...
The btlaunchmany.py script can be set up as a background process so that once you kill your ssh session, the process won't terminate...
You mean like how Windows jumped from 3.11 to 95? ;) Quite a difference there..
As I mentioned in another post, not everybody likes using OpenOffice.org since they feel more secure using Office... this especially goes for the non-technical students...
I was talking to one of the admins on why we don't just go with OO.o, and he agreed with me. Except that a few of the profs were big endorsers of already-popular standards and wanted everybody to use Office. Some other profs preferred Wordperfect, so we had to have that installed on the machines as well...
Recently, our student union had opted to use open-source software wherever reasonable, but this caused a bit of backlash from the non-technical students that wanted to keep using Office and thought that using open-source would give them less freedom of choice. (which I find to be ironic)
It's hard to keep with one method of doing things when everybody's opinion is different. I'm not sure if this will affect my university, but it'll be interesting to see what happens...
"IBM recommends Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional." (taken from their website)
Although IBM is working towards Linux, they cannot cut all ties with Microsoft right now, or many of their clients are going to be looking elsewhere... they will have to keep supporting Microsoft until they can get Linux to a level where they don't need to care about Windows anymore...
IANAL, but how would you prove that you had the CD prior to downloading the song? What is preventing you from going out and buying the CD as soon as you know that you're in legal trouble with the RIAA? Even if they ask you to provide the receipt, could you simply say that you lost it, or give a friends' receipt and say that they gave the CD to you? I don't think that receipts are incredibly solid evidence...
You know you're obsessed with /. when you take this offer :)
Gmail/Karma swap
I would be more concerned with what's wrong if I were frying salads and tossing chickens...
If you preload Konqueror, it loads fairly fast as both a file manager and a web browser. And the ability to split Konqueror up into a browser in one pane and a file manager in another is quite useful (not to also mention terminal integration).
Not only that, but it will create a Slackware, RedHat or Debian package so that you can re-install it, view the modified files, or remove it. This is useful if there's no 'make uninstall' rule in the Makefile.
http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkins tall/
I don't really agree to this. In your comment, you are stating situations where the owner is aware of problems but fails to do something about it due to negligence and not incompetence. If you are talking about cars, I would more liken it to having your car stolen and you being responsible because someone was run over because of it. With regards to Witty, I am pretty sure that users would have taken measures had they known how and were aware of the existence of the problem. In this case, I don't think you can call it deliberate negligence...
Does .cx also count?
I doubt their damage control is very credible, as clearly Microsoft is involved:
SCO's blanket dismissal of the leaked memo as the mistaken assumptions of an independent contractor doesn't explain several parts of the letter which seem to indicate knowledge of Microsoft's involvement in SCO's investment search, however.
For example, the memo states that Microsoft apparently wanted to use private investments in public companies to help fund SCO.
Acer has teamed up with Ferrari to create a new breakthrough laptop. This laptop weighs a revolutionary 2500 lbs, and comes with both a P4-3.06GHz w/ HT processor and a 300HP engine.
Advantages are that it makes engine noises upon bootup, and it's flexible in that the user can use it for both doing work and getting to and back from work.
Prices start at $149,999.