Add to that, AOL's business model was falling apart. They could no longer charge per hour. Content on the wild Interwebs was catching up to AOL, yet AOL continued to charge premium prices to content providers (using keywords and such). Those content providers figured out it was much cheaper to slap a webpage up using their own servers (which is what they had to do anyway with AOL) without paying the AOL cost.
Yes, it was a sad day when nullsoft sold out to AOL. Winamp was a great program. Shoutcast servers are awesome. They still are compared to Real, QuickTime, Windows Media Player, and Yahoo!'s MusicMatch Jukebox and music streaming service. And I think Winamp has dumped a lot of bloat since their ill-fated version around the turn of the century... that is, if you disable the bloat during install.
Have you never noticed how badly discs get scratched during normal use in the disc player? The spin up/down of a disc causes that cushion of air to decrease, thus causing the disc to spin down on the plastic disc tray, thus causing scratches to the disc.
What do we do with all the nuclear waste produced from fission? The waste products have a half-life of 4.5 billion years and there is no permanent storage location.
I say blast the waste to the sun, but that's rather permanent if we find we can actually do something with the waste.
It's only biased because you're so far left. As a right-winger, I see FoxNews slightly right, but the mainstream media (CNN, AP, etc) as far left. Of course, we have the All Barack Channel, now.
If anything, games have been getting more and more buggy as time goes on.
You can't be serious. There were tons of bugs in the old games. And they were even more of a nuisance if you didn't have access to a BBS system or friends who had friends who had friends who had access to these BBS's or a subscription to PC Gamer, CGW, or the like.
In any case, a lot of these bugs were DOS related and the fixes were DOS hacks, but I remember wearing out my CTRL-ALT-DEL key with some games.
And once LAN play has been implemented by the hackers (or crackers, depending on the side you are on) make sure to download it and never patch up your SC2 install, because Bliz... I mean, Activision will release a patch to disable the crack.
This is true, but there are blurbs underneath each choice. Granted, they claim IE is the fastest and safest web browsing experience, while firefox's blurb touts making the web experience better. I would argue that I've not had to worry about the crap on the internet since I've started using firefox (plus a couple of add-ons which IE does not have).
During the 1990s, a program was started... (emphases mine)
On a less politically charged argument: the real questions are: "Is global warming caused by humans?" and "Can humans reduce the global warming?"
I would contend that humans have a minor impact on the globe's warming trend. There are plenty of other things putting out CO2: cows, volcanoes, fissures in the ocean, earthquakes, just to name a few.
I would also contend that if humans try to reduce the global warming trend, we could be seriously impacting the environment in a very negative way. One in which would be equally detrimental. The Earth is in a constant state of flux. Granted, the theory is that it is trying to maintain equilibrium, but there are so many things going on that it is not meant to truly be equal.
On a more political note: Why are the liberals and/or environmental wackos so interested in trying to make things equal and alive? Let an industry die, and like the phoenix, be reborn into something better? Let the earth take care of itself, let us humans do what is right and treat nature and all things with respect (and that goes for the industry execs who may be hiding facts as much as the enviro-wackos preventing legitimate business and research.)
I think you did. Instead of spending $500+ dollars on a repair of an old computer, you spend $500 on a new computer and have me transfer personal files for $50 (and I'll throw in the installation of free software for no extra labor cost).
Yeah, tell me about it. I bought 10 of GH:WT full band kits (for Nintendo Wii) at Christmas to sell. None of them sold (well one, but I don't count myself.) I finally sold my first in late January and had to travel to make the sale. I still have 8 boxes lining my storage unit.:^( If I can sell these, I'll be taking about a $50 hit (maybe more if I have to drop the price more). Having said that, I am fully enjoying the game. It really was worth the purchase of one.
On a slightly different topic, I think these items have hit critical mass. Those that want to be faux drummers and want an easy, fun way to learn have gotten these items. The guitar thing is still just an over-sized button masher.
In that case, buy new computer, plug in old hard drive. In my case, I'll do that for $50 labor instead $500+ in total cost of repair to a basic computer.
Or running an external RAID 1 setup. If one external backup drive fails, the other will have all the data. But, certainly, if you are going to have two drives of the same size, then alternating backups to each drive is the best. If you are really concerned, get 4 drives. Have two sets of RAID 1 drives, alternate each set every week. Don't forget to test your backups and your restoration procedure.
Every dial-up service and PC mfg that pulled this trick made it to my "never-buy-from-them" list. Aren't all the dial-up services that tried this trick now dead or mostly dead?
Norton Internet Security was so completely terrible
And this is it. NIS was so completely terrible that when they did come out with a better, faster product, no one listened. The damage had been done, Grisoft AVG, Comodo and a host of others had already made inroads.
Hey, I'm glad it's working out for you. A lot of times I do go with the little guys, because the price is better. Sometimes, though, I don't know how Amazon got the price they give and make a profit. (Such is the case with my current inventory of Guitar Hero: World Tour Complete Band Kit boxes, of which only 1 has sold:(
Comparing WoW to Starcraft is like comparing a cow to a horse or comparing a semi to a racecar, sure they're similar, but not nearly the same.
As has probably been mentioned before, WoW is an MMORPG which requires a lot of interaction with a lot of other people where the world retains its state whether everyone logs off or not.. Starcraft is a single instance game with a maximum of 8 players, does not retain its state if everyone logs off. Starcraft can be played single player. WoW cannot be played single player (get Oblivion if you want a single player RPG.)
Now, if you want to compare Warcraft III to Starcraft II, then you will have a legitimate point. Thing is, I believe that there is a majority of LAN playing Warcraft III users.
Sure Blizzard may have had a majority stake in the merger with Activision, but it was Activision's cancerous policy that has taken over (IMO).
I have a game that requires only online or only LAN. You can't have it both ways because if I tried to setup a dedicated server that talked to the Gamespy servers to register (so my friends could play), I could not because my computer would try to connect to my public IP address and the router couldn't handle that.
I suppose I could have finagled the networking to make it work (edit the hosts file)... but really, why?
Will a person who wants to setup a private server have this same issue in Starcraft? Will they not be able to connect to their own dedicated server? Will the idea of a dedicated server be thrown out?
I REALLY hope they don't pull this with Diablo III. Otherwise, I will not buy it. battle.net was truly annoying. I don't want to have to deal with a bunch of immature chat just to find my friends... especially when they're sitting next to me.
Unfortunately, the "no sales tax" only works for those who don't live in a state that houses an Amazon warehouse. Fortunately, for me, the Amazon orders arrive very quickly without having to pay the premium shipping costs.
Louisville, KY is a great place to live. Biggest little town around, or is it littlest big town around. Either way, it feels like a small town, but has all the amenities and culture, great weather, decent cable provider that hasn't screwed me over like other providers I read about, etc. IT jobs are not hard to come by, but the city does need a vast increase of industries other than food services and health services. (more restaurants per capita than anywhere, has top notch hospitals and university.)
If you have to pay to use the bluetooth capabilities to interface with a $5.00 bluetooth USB adapter on your desktop or laptop, then you have the wrong phone.
Similarly, I have a phone with an adequate camera, bluetooth, Internet capabilities and Java, but I only use the phone, text messaging and camera. The data plan is still too expensive.
I believe the issue is that, even though Ogg Theora has a better license, the codec was really bad compared to other, similar codecs. At least, that has been the going concern. Given a choice between a better user experience or a better license *most* users will choose experience.
The need to prove Ogg Theora is better is to attempt to counter this concern.
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I'm sure the New York Country Lawyer would disagree that "we don't hear about good lawyers ever."
It's an example of lets not market this thing and let's also make it very un-shiny.
Add to that, AOL's business model was falling apart. They could no longer charge per hour. Content on the wild Interwebs was catching up to AOL, yet AOL continued to charge premium prices to content providers (using keywords and such). Those content providers figured out it was much cheaper to slap a webpage up using their own servers (which is what they had to do anyway with AOL) without paying the AOL cost.
Yes, it was a sad day when nullsoft sold out to AOL. Winamp was a great program. Shoutcast servers are awesome. They still are compared to Real, QuickTime, Windows Media Player, and Yahoo!'s MusicMatch Jukebox and music streaming service. And I think Winamp has dumped a lot of bloat since their ill-fated version around the turn of the century... that is, if you disable the bloat during install.
Have you never noticed how badly discs get scratched during normal use in the disc player? The spin up/down of a disc causes that cushion of air to decrease, thus causing the disc to spin down on the plastic disc tray, thus causing scratches to the disc.
What do we do with all the nuclear waste produced from fission? The waste products have a half-life of 4.5 billion years and there is no permanent storage location.
I say blast the waste to the sun, but that's rather permanent if we find we can actually do something with the waste.
It's only biased because you're so far left. As a right-winger, I see FoxNews slightly right, but the mainstream media (CNN, AP, etc) as far left. Of course, we have the All Barack Channel, now.
You can't be serious. There were tons of bugs in the old games. And they were even more of a nuisance if you didn't have access to a BBS system or friends who had friends who had friends who had access to these BBS's or a subscription to PC Gamer, CGW, or the like.
In any case, a lot of these bugs were DOS related and the fixes were DOS hacks, but I remember wearing out my CTRL-ALT-DEL key with some games.
And once LAN play has been implemented by the hackers (or crackers, depending on the side you are on) make sure to download it and never patch up your SC2 install, because Bliz... I mean, Activision will release a patch to disable the crack.
That's flippin' awesome! Good Job. Here's one vote for the new Microsoft icon. Of course, I like the BillGatesBorg icon, too.
This is true, but there are blurbs underneath each choice. Granted, they claim IE is the fastest and safest web browsing experience, while firefox's blurb touts making the web experience better. I would argue that I've not had to worry about the crap on the internet since I've started using firefox (plus a couple of add-ons which IE does not have).
On a less politically charged argument: the real questions are: "Is global warming caused by humans?" and "Can humans reduce the global warming?"
I would contend that humans have a minor impact on the globe's warming trend. There are plenty of other things putting out CO2: cows, volcanoes, fissures in the ocean, earthquakes, just to name a few.
I would also contend that if humans try to reduce the global warming trend, we could be seriously impacting the environment in a very negative way. One in which would be equally detrimental. The Earth is in a constant state of flux. Granted, the theory is that it is trying to maintain equilibrium, but there are so many things going on that it is not meant to truly be equal.
On a more political note: Why are the liberals and/or environmental wackos so interested in trying to make things equal and alive? Let an industry die, and like the phoenix, be reborn into something better? Let the earth take care of itself, let us humans do what is right and treat nature and all things with respect (and that goes for the industry execs who may be hiding facts as much as the enviro-wackos preventing legitimate business and research.)
I think you did. Instead of spending $500+ dollars on a repair of an old computer, you spend $500 on a new computer and have me transfer personal files for $50 (and I'll throw in the installation of free software for no extra labor cost).
Yeah, tell me about it. I bought 10 of GH:WT full band kits (for Nintendo Wii) at Christmas to sell. None of them sold (well one, but I don't count myself.) I finally sold my first in late January and had to travel to make the sale. I still have 8 boxes lining my storage unit. :^( If I can sell these, I'll be taking about a $50 hit (maybe more if I have to drop the price more). Having said that, I am fully enjoying the game. It really was worth the purchase of one.
On a slightly different topic, I think these items have hit critical mass. Those that want to be faux drummers and want an easy, fun way to learn have gotten these items. The guitar thing is still just an over-sized button masher.
Here's hoping that The Beatles Rock Band pulls a few more hardware purchasers.
In that case, buy new computer, plug in old hard drive. In my case, I'll do that for $50 labor instead $500+ in total cost of repair to a basic computer.
Or running an external RAID 1 setup. If one external backup drive fails, the other will have all the data. But, certainly, if you are going to have two drives of the same size, then alternating backups to each drive is the best. If you are really concerned, get 4 drives. Have two sets of RAID 1 drives, alternate each set every week. Don't forget to test your backups and your restoration procedure.
Every dial-up service and PC mfg that pulled this trick made it to my "never-buy-from-them" list. Aren't all the dial-up services that tried this trick now dead or mostly dead?
Norton Internet Security was so completely terrible
And this is it. NIS was so completely terrible that when they did come out with a better, faster product, no one listened. The damage had been done, Grisoft AVG, Comodo and a host of others had already made inroads.
Hey, I'm glad it's working out for you. A lot of times I do go with the little guys, because the price is better. Sometimes, though, I don't know how Amazon got the price they give and make a profit. (Such is the case with my current inventory of Guitar Hero: World Tour Complete Band Kit boxes, of which only 1 has sold :(
Comparing WoW to Starcraft is like comparing a cow to a horse or comparing a semi to a racecar, sure they're similar, but not nearly the same.
As has probably been mentioned before, WoW is an MMORPG which requires a lot of interaction with a lot of other people where the world retains its state whether everyone logs off or not.. Starcraft is a single instance game with a maximum of 8 players, does not retain its state if everyone logs off. Starcraft can be played single player. WoW cannot be played single player (get Oblivion if you want a single player RPG.)
Now, if you want to compare Warcraft III to Starcraft II, then you will have a legitimate point. Thing is, I believe that there is a majority of LAN playing Warcraft III users.
Sure Blizzard may have had a majority stake in the merger with Activision, but it was Activision's cancerous policy that has taken over (IMO).
I have a game that requires only online or only LAN. You can't have it both ways because if I tried to setup a dedicated server that talked to the Gamespy servers to register (so my friends could play), I could not because my computer would try to connect to my public IP address and the router couldn't handle that. I suppose I could have finagled the networking to make it work (edit the hosts file)... but really, why?
Will a person who wants to setup a private server have this same issue in Starcraft? Will they not be able to connect to their own dedicated server? Will the idea of a dedicated server be thrown out?
I REALLY hope they don't pull this with Diablo III. Otherwise, I will not buy it. battle.net was truly annoying. I don't want to have to deal with a bunch of immature chat just to find my friends... especially when they're sitting next to me.
Unfortunately, the "no sales tax" only works for those who don't live in a state that houses an Amazon warehouse. Fortunately, for me, the Amazon orders arrive very quickly without having to pay the premium shipping costs.
Louisville, KY is a great place to live. Biggest little town around, or is it littlest big town around. Either way, it feels like a small town, but has all the amenities and culture, great weather, decent cable provider that hasn't screwed me over like other providers I read about, etc. IT jobs are not hard to come by, but the city does need a vast increase of industries other than food services and health services. (more restaurants per capita than anywhere, has top notch hospitals and university.)
If you have to pay to use the bluetooth capabilities to interface with a $5.00 bluetooth USB adapter on your desktop or laptop, then you have the wrong phone.
Similarly, I have a phone with an adequate camera, bluetooth, Internet capabilities and Java, but I only use the phone, text messaging and camera. The data plan is still too expensive.
I believe the issue is that, even though Ogg Theora has a better license, the codec was really bad compared to other, similar codecs. At least, that has been the going concern. Given a choice between a better user experience or a better license *most* users will choose experience.
The need to prove Ogg Theora is better is to attempt to counter this concern.