Need to be careful with this when it comes to warranty claims though, sometime you'll find some sort of 'warranty breaker' either on the case, or on the slot which allows you to remove the drive (I found one on the INSIDE of my laptop which ripped as soon as I pulled the drive), so if you change it, and take it back, they can say "It's been opened", and give you no choice of repair.
I found the 'Who shot Mr. Burns' episodes much more entertaining than the movie. Although when I watched it, there was absolutely no one laughing at any point during the movie.. So either us Londoners are humourless, or in fact, the movie really did suck:p
They came up with some crazy advertising which resulted in a massive box office hit, but how many people actually came away satisfied?
I guess at the end of the day, most adults have a firm grasp of the laws of physics, It's easier to say to a child "You can move a cup with your mind!" and have the child believe and try doing it, than saying it to an adult and not having them laughing at you because they know it's physically not possible.
I guess this is quite an important point though, this guy has had the benifit of 19months worth of incremental updates, it's much easier to adapt to things if they are changing slowly, than chucking something complete at someone and expecting them to know where everything is and how it works.
As stupid as that may sound, it seems to be the only way in which SG1 can continue. Due to their contract with SciFi, they can't resume the show on another network / channel after they got axed.
One of the problems they have, is that Stargate still has an impressive fanbase, which really can't just be told "No more for you", so rather than finishing the SG1 storyline, they have opted to move it to TV (or Direct to DVD) Movies.
I personally think it's a shame it ended up this way, although it wont stop me watching, It's a great show with a great cast.
Since then, MGM have confirmed that they hope to continuing SG1 as Ongoing Movies instead of a season 11. Hopefully this means the ongoing success of Stargate, and the cast.
Simply put, OEM distributors should provide the software on CDs as optional installs. Every time someone I've known has bought a new PC, they have asked me to 'clean it up', because 90% of the shit which gets pre-loaded isn't wanted.
By providing the original installation media without installing it, Microsoft is happy that the software doesn't come pre-loaded, the end user is happy that they don't have to remove stuff once they buy their computer, and the OEM distributor should be happy because they will get more customers from it. Everyone is happy, so why is it so difficult?
Having rushed out and bought GH2 for xmas for my little brother and sis (the grown ups play it more unfortunately) on the PS2, I'm going to question whether that was a good plan. The 10 additional tracks for the 360 version are shaping up to be pretty decent (two words, Iron Maiden.), along with the apparently better guitar, and downloadable tracks, should make this a top game for a random birthday.
I don't understand.. I buy the hardware, I buy my HD-DVD / Blu-ray disk, after kitting my computer out with an expensive player, just to be told that I have to watch the video in a crap resolution. I personally consider this inexcusable. If they could at least guarantee that legal copies will work, then I couldn't care less what DRM protection they have, but to be told that my hardware, designed for playing high definition disks wont play high definition disks, is just absurd.
Although the 'titbits' are nice, I'm still waiting for some full screen shots go as far as eye candy goes, but I get the feeling that along with the eye candy comes overcomplexity, I hate that 'Start Menu' design, it lacks intuitiveness, and seemingly ease of use. (It also has the SuSE logo all over it).
I don't care about how the internals of my GUI work, all I care is that it's fast, intuitive and easy to use. It looks like KDE are finally working on the 'Fast', but as far as the others, I'm going to reserve judgement at this point.
Ok, I read the article, and it essentially says.. "Do something intensive, the clock slows down marginally, then use the differences potentially created to find which machine it was".
In his TOR network test, he apparently found the machine, but.. How many of them were receiving "Normal Day to Day" use? On how many of those machines were people playing first person shooter or real time strats? even once the TOR request is complete, if people are still gaming, in the time it takes to find the IP, that skew more than likely would have increased more.
In a real life situation, the time it would take to find a tor server, would be easily long enough for a different skew to have developed.
Apparently it's difficult to defend against it, but it's also difficult to actually PROVE it.
I for one welcome our new milk drinking overlords..
Dunno if it's a slow news day or not, but this striking piece of news really is quite dull. Although admittedly, if true, it's fascinating to speculate as to what other evolutionary changes have occurred only in the last few thousand years, but ultimately evolution is something which happens over millions of years, so it's unlikely to see any other real notes / changes in my lifetime.
It seems that Azureus intend on using P2P for the file 'Downloads'. One of the advantages that YouTube has currently is that you hit the 'Go' Button and the video streams straight from a persistent data source. As far as P2P goes, availability becomes an important issue, it's all well and good uploading a HD video, but you wont be able to stream it, and will have to wait for it to download and eat your bandwidth whilst you share to others.
I can't see this taking off in the same way that YouTube did, some of us just don't have the bandwidth
I dunno, if cost of creating a game is 'Crazy', is that why there are so many bugs? I mean, it's not like EA don't currently make billions of dollars selling games, but the games all feel half-complete, or are full of critical bugs. Do they push out games early to drop some of the cost? Or do they just not bother hiring QA guys to, again, reduce the cost? Either way, they can get away with it because people continue to buy.
It's one thing to say 'We have (to pay for) NHL licensing' it's another to use it to ship out a piece of crap and 'fix it later'.
If by 'a large portion' he is referring to one in several thousand, then maybe. I play a lot of games, of varying genre and pace it's what I spend a lot of my time doing. Outside of that, I have a job, I have real life friends and I also keep myself informed of world events. A lot of the gaming people I know are also in the same situation.
Making generalizations based on what a person wants to do with their free time is only going to lead to oppression, and i personally consider remarks like this, directed at me or not, insulting.
I got a useful piece of info as well.. Apparently i was wrong all this time, and when I power on my linux box, it COMPILES the kernel.. I thought i wasted over an hour doing that months ago..
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Need to be careful with this when it comes to warranty claims though, sometime you'll find some sort of 'warranty breaker' either on the case, or on the slot which allows you to remove the drive (I found one on the INSIDE of my laptop which ripped as soon as I pulled the drive), so if you change it, and take it back, they can say "It's been opened", and give you no choice of repair.
I found the 'Who shot Mr. Burns' episodes much more entertaining than the movie. Although when I watched it, there was absolutely no one laughing at any point during the movie.. So either us Londoners are humourless, or in fact, the movie really did suck :p
They came up with some crazy advertising which resulted in a massive box office hit, but how many people actually came away satisfied?
I think that's the point, this law can't really be enforced.
I guess at the end of the day, most adults have a firm grasp of the laws of physics, It's easier to say to a child "You can move a cup with your mind!" and have the child believe and try doing it, than saying it to an adult and not having them laughing at you because they know it's physically not possible.
I guess this is quite an important point though, this guy has had the benifit of 19months worth of incremental updates, it's much easier to adapt to things if they are changing slowly, than chucking something complete at someone and expecting them to know where everything is and how it works.
You wont get good performance until the Wine team have finished implementing all the windows bugs... could be waiting a while.
In preparation to get them melted and make a small fortune?
As stupid as that may sound, it seems to be the only way in which SG1 can continue. Due to their contract with SciFi, they can't resume the show on another network / channel after they got axed.
One of the problems they have, is that Stargate still has an impressive fanbase, which really can't just be told "No more for you", so rather than finishing the SG1 storyline, they have opted to move it to TV (or Direct to DVD) Movies.
I personally think it's a shame it ended up this way, although it wont stop me watching, It's a great show with a great cast.
Since then, MGM have confirmed that they hope to continuing SG1 as Ongoing Movies instead of a season 11. Hopefully this means the ongoing success of Stargate, and the cast.
What they failed to tell you, was that flash version 723 is being released for windows next week.
Simply put, OEM distributors should provide the software on CDs as optional installs. Every time someone I've known has bought a new PC, they have asked me to 'clean it up', because 90% of the shit which gets pre-loaded isn't wanted.
By providing the original installation media without installing it, Microsoft is happy that the software doesn't come pre-loaded, the end user is happy that they don't have to remove stuff once they buy their computer, and the OEM distributor should be happy because they will get more customers from it. Everyone is happy, so why is it so difficult?
Having rushed out and bought GH2 for xmas for my little brother and sis (the grown ups play it more unfortunately) on the PS2, I'm going to question whether that was a good plan. The 10 additional tracks for the 360 version are shaping up to be pretty decent (two words, Iron Maiden.), along with the apparently better guitar, and downloadable tracks, should make this a top game for a random birthday.
When I find a bug in my apple, I throw it away..
several TB of porn.
I don't understand.. I buy the hardware, I buy my HD-DVD / Blu-ray disk, after kitting my computer out with an expensive player, just to be told that I have to watch the video in a crap resolution. I personally consider this inexcusable. If they could at least guarantee that legal copies will work, then I couldn't care less what DRM protection they have, but to be told that my hardware, designed for playing high definition disks wont play high definition disks, is just absurd.
Yes, but blu-ray just sounds so much cooler.
Although the 'titbits' are nice, I'm still waiting for some full screen shots go as far as eye candy goes, but I get the feeling that along with the eye candy comes overcomplexity, I hate that 'Start Menu' design, it lacks intuitiveness, and seemingly ease of use. (It also has the SuSE logo all over it).
I don't care about how the internals of my GUI work, all I care is that it's fast, intuitive and easy to use. It looks like KDE are finally working on the 'Fast', but as far as the others, I'm going to reserve judgement at this point.
Ok, I read the article, and it essentially says.. "Do something intensive, the clock slows down marginally, then use the differences potentially created to find which machine it was".
In his TOR network test, he apparently found the machine, but.. How many of them were receiving "Normal Day to Day" use? On how many of those machines were people playing first person shooter or real time strats? even once the TOR request is complete, if people are still gaming, in the time it takes to find the IP, that skew more than likely would have increased more.
In a real life situation, the time it would take to find a tor server, would be easily long enough for a different skew to have developed.
Apparently it's difficult to defend against it, but it's also difficult to actually PROVE it.
I for one welcome our new milk drinking overlords.. Dunno if it's a slow news day or not, but this striking piece of news really is quite dull. Although admittedly, if true, it's fascinating to speculate as to what other evolutionary changes have occurred only in the last few thousand years, but ultimately evolution is something which happens over millions of years, so it's unlikely to see any other real notes / changes in my lifetime.
It seems that Azureus intend on using P2P for the file 'Downloads'. One of the advantages that YouTube has currently is that you hit the 'Go' Button and the video streams straight from a persistent data source. As far as P2P goes, availability becomes an important issue, it's all well and good uploading a HD video, but you wont be able to stream it, and will have to wait for it to download and eat your bandwidth whilst you share to others.
I can't see this taking off in the same way that YouTube did, some of us just don't have the bandwidth
I dunno, if cost of creating a game is 'Crazy', is that why there are so many bugs? I mean, it's not like EA don't currently make billions of dollars selling games, but the games all feel half-complete, or are full of critical bugs. Do they push out games early to drop some of the cost? Or do they just not bother hiring QA guys to, again, reduce the cost? Either way, they can get away with it because people continue to buy.
It's one thing to say 'We have (to pay for) NHL licensing' it's another to use it to ship out a piece of crap and 'fix it later'.
and how memories are held while synapses still fire.
It's called threading..
If by 'a large portion' he is referring to one in several thousand, then maybe. I play a lot of games, of varying genre and pace it's what I spend a lot of my time doing. Outside of that, I have a job, I have real life friends and I also keep myself informed of world events. A lot of the gaming people I know are also in the same situation. Making generalizations based on what a person wants to do with their free time is only going to lead to oppression, and i personally consider remarks like this, directed at me or not, insulting.
I got a useful piece of info as well.. Apparently i was wrong all this time, and when I power on my linux box, it COMPILES the kernel.. I thought i wasted over an hour doing that months ago..
... Welcome our 'not really a hero' hero overlord
Had to be said.