1Ghz processor (thats 1000 times faster than the apollo CPU) in a netbook is not enough for poor Windows 7 to run more than 3 applications at a time.
A bit like comparing an apple to a Ferrari. The only real-time graphical display that the LM had was the window, and they weren't surfing bloated flash-enabled websites while typing up a damage per second spreadsheet in OpenOffice. The uses for computers have changed dramatically in 40 years, and even though the 3 application limit is horseshit, you cannot compare the 8 "tasks" that the AGC could handle to 3 applications in Windows 7. The thread count on my windows 7 test PC (which admittedly is not a netbook) currently stands at 221 while idlely sitting there with no applications open...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_PATRIOT_Act/The Patriot Act was supported 98-1 in it's senate vote at the time it was passed. The only senator who voted against it was Russ Feingold - D (Wis). It was vastly inferior to what the Bush administration had asked for, and this pissed Bush off. As I keep saying to all the people blasting Obama for making the economy worse (and trust me I did not vote for him)the president signs the bills into law, but the 535 members of congress draft them, ratify them, and present them for signature. If you are so upset with it, I'd suggest that you blame them.
I agree. In games where immersion is part of the gameplay, cut-scenes give the player imformation as to their purpose for doing a certain task, or backgound on a historical event that gives a basis for all future actions. World of Warcraft does a good job of this with several of the boss encounters in instances and raids. Some are slightly annoying in their length (Culling of Stratholme) but they all tell a part of the story that would otherwise be missed if you were forced to just read it in-game, and it helps to immerse the player in the experience. And especially with WoW, the vast majority of cutscenes are rendered by the game engine, and are somewhat interactive, in that I can/gasp at Arthas as he condemns an entire city to death...
You are headed in the right direction, but to rid yourself of the dandruff problem once and for all you'll need to move out of the basement and into a loft, start shopping at the Gap, and flip up your collar. And if you're shirts don't have a collar to flip, start over at step 1...
Great you just gave WoTC a new business model. Whenever you buy one of their books you must buy the installation package which will have a WoTC technician come out and nail the book down into the folding table in your mom's basement.
I am no lover of Microsoft, but I fail to see how they are at fault here. If I went to the Chrysler dealership and leased a fleet of cars for my company, and then the company went belly up, I'd still owe for those cars. They wouldn't care that the company was gone; they'd want their money from whoever leased the cars. Or at the very least they'd want their cars back plus the contract breaking fees. It's hard to give software back...
Also, at least in my neighborhood (South Carolina,) diesel is still over $1 more per gallon than gasoline, negating the marginal BTU advantage that it has over gas. While it gets more miles/gallon, it'll cost me close to $60 more per month, on top of the price of the new car...
As a representative of Universal Pictures, a member in good standing with the MPAA, and owner of the copyright and trademark for the motion picture "The Chronicles of Riddick," I hereby demand that you pay a fine of $1 BILLION USD for willful, malicious, and deliberate copyright infringement.
I have to completely disagree with you.
I bought it at midnight on release night and by Friday I was lvl 73. On Friday I spun up WoWMatrix and updated QuestHelper and finally had some guidance as to where I was going, but up until then, the quest descriptions in the quest log never steered me wrong. As for mispellings, that is going to happen. The only one I even noticed was on a poison, and "the" was spelled "teh," which I go a kick out of rather than being annoyed.
Overall this is a great update. After hitting 80 I've been steadily gearing up to raid, and I'm actually enjoying it this time around. The new instances are the perfect length for a casual gamer, being about an hour each, so I can run several on weekends and 1 or 2 on nights where I just want to sit and play for a little bit. So after getting burnt out with BC, WotLK has sucked me back in.
Not having owned an iPhone, and not being an Apple Fanboy, I am reading this discussion objectively.
For Apple, I can see where they do not want certain apps on their phones, as the apple store probably doesn't want to have to fix your iPhone after you install mplayer and xvid codecs, and then iTunes stops working. The same goes for Java hijacking the OS on the iPhone and hooking into the iPhone's browser. It would be a support nightmare having to troubleshoot all of those apps. Stick to their SDK and you won't have to worry about a shoddily written program that could cause havok, because they approve it, sponsor it, and host it. That way they can be sure their hardware won't behave badly.
I look at it like the game console modchips war. People will bitch about buying the hardware and owning it, and therefore they say they *should* have the right to mod it as they see fit, but when it breaks and they want it fixed, they expect the manufacturer to fix it. Usually for free. It'd be like converting your Mustang to run on bio-diesel and then bitching at Ford when your car has a heart-attack and dies from the trans fat.
If you are THAT freaking worried about running Java, mplayer, skype, wine, World of Warcraft, whatever, on your phone, and having the ability to choose your carrier, save yourself $150 and buy the openmoko SDK. They actually encourage people to innovate on their platform. However, if you jack the openmoko up by installing XP-lite on it, don't expect simpathy from the dev team. Just like it shouldn't be expected from Apple when you crash your iPhone...
Seriously, November 1 can't come soon enough. The way things are going we're looking for a showdown between Clinton and McCain. For a change, we may have a win-win choice this fall. Neither's perfect, but I think either will result in a return to sanity and pragmatism, and result in a massive improvement over the current administration.
Election Day is November 4th this year, not the 1st. November 1st will be the day of sweeping pardons for all of the Bush croanies...
I own the original Final Fantasy for every console it was released on (NES, GBA, and Playstation.) I also have the MAME rom. I still play it on of of the consoles anytime I have a few hours to burn. I recently flew to the Middle East and drained the battery of me DS playing FF Origins the entire flight. When I can get my hands on a Wii, it will be the first game I download. It is also on of the main reasons I am going to buy a Wii. So your argument is wrong. There are some of us who see the ability to return to some of our childhood favorites as a huge selling point...
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1Ghz processor (thats 1000 times faster than the apollo CPU) in a netbook is not enough for poor Windows 7 to run more than 3 applications at a time.
A bit like comparing an apple to a Ferrari. The only real-time graphical display that the LM had was the window, and they weren't surfing bloated flash-enabled websites while typing up a damage per second spreadsheet in OpenOffice. The uses for computers have changed dramatically in 40 years, and even though the 3 application limit is horseshit, you cannot compare the 8 "tasks" that the AGC could handle to 3 applications in Windows 7. The thread count on my windows 7 test PC (which admittedly is not a netbook) currently stands at 221 while idlely sitting there with no applications open...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_PATRIOT_Act/The Patriot Act was supported 98-1 in it's senate vote at the time it was passed. The only senator who voted against it was Russ Feingold - D (Wis). It was vastly inferior to what the Bush administration had asked for, and this pissed Bush off. As I keep saying to all the people blasting Obama for making the economy worse (and trust me I did not vote for him)the president signs the bills into law, but the 535 members of congress draft them, ratify them, and present them for signature. If you are so upset with it, I'd suggest that you blame them.
I'll withhold the Simpson's quote, and instead marvel at your rediculously low member number. Good to see your still around :)
I agree. In games where immersion is part of the gameplay, cut-scenes give the player imformation as to their purpose for doing a certain task, or backgound on a historical event that gives a basis for all future actions. World of Warcraft does a good job of this with several of the boss encounters in instances and raids. Some are slightly annoying in their length (Culling of Stratholme) but they all tell a part of the story that would otherwise be missed if you were forced to just read it in-game, and it helps to immerse the player in the experience. And especially with WoW, the vast majority of cutscenes are rendered by the game engine, and are somewhat interactive, in that I can /gasp at Arthas as he condemns an entire city to death...
You are headed in the right direction, but to rid yourself of the dandruff problem once and for all you'll need to move out of the basement and into a loft, start shopping at the Gap, and flip up your collar. And if you're shirts don't have a collar to flip, start over at step 1...
Great you just gave WoTC a new business model. Whenever you buy one of their books you must buy the installation package which will have a WoTC technician come out and nail the book down into the folding table in your mom's basement.
Fixed that for you...
Great list. Starting to work on this batch of achievements now...
I am no lover of Microsoft, but I fail to see how they are at fault here. If I went to the Chrysler dealership and leased a fleet of cars for my company, and then the company went belly up, I'd still owe for those cars. They wouldn't care that the company was gone; they'd want their money from whoever leased the cars. Or at the very least they'd want their cars back plus the contract breaking fees. It's hard to give software back...
Also, at least in my neighborhood (South Carolina,) diesel is still over $1 more per gallon than gasoline, negating the marginal BTU advantage that it has over gas. While it gets more miles/gallon, it'll cost me close to $60 more per month, on top of the price of the new car...
As a representative of Universal Pictures, a member in good standing with the MPAA, and owner of the copyright and trademark for the motion picture "The Chronicles of Riddick," I hereby demand that you pay a fine of $1 BILLION USD for willful, malicious, and deliberate copyright infringement.
I have to completely disagree with you. I bought it at midnight on release night and by Friday I was lvl 73. On Friday I spun up WoWMatrix and updated QuestHelper and finally had some guidance as to where I was going, but up until then, the quest descriptions in the quest log never steered me wrong. As for mispellings, that is going to happen. The only one I even noticed was on a poison, and "the" was spelled "teh," which I go a kick out of rather than being annoyed. Overall this is a great update. After hitting 80 I've been steadily gearing up to raid, and I'm actually enjoying it this time around. The new instances are the perfect length for a casual gamer, being about an hour each, so I can run several on weekends and 1 or 2 on nights where I just want to sit and play for a little bit. So after getting burnt out with BC, WotLK has sucked me back in.
Is the birth of Skynet, and will be the death of us all. (and scratch the ladies in the subject; forgot for a second what site this was...)
You have to think that by now Apple would have their SDK in order concerning 64bit apps. The 64 bit achitecture has only been around for 10+ years...
Not having owned an iPhone, and not being an Apple Fanboy, I am reading this discussion objectively. For Apple, I can see where they do not want certain apps on their phones, as the apple store probably doesn't want to have to fix your iPhone after you install mplayer and xvid codecs, and then iTunes stops working. The same goes for Java hijacking the OS on the iPhone and hooking into the iPhone's browser. It would be a support nightmare having to troubleshoot all of those apps. Stick to their SDK and you won't have to worry about a shoddily written program that could cause havok, because they approve it, sponsor it, and host it. That way they can be sure their hardware won't behave badly. I look at it like the game console modchips war. People will bitch about buying the hardware and owning it, and therefore they say they *should* have the right to mod it as they see fit, but when it breaks and they want it fixed, they expect the manufacturer to fix it. Usually for free. It'd be like converting your Mustang to run on bio-diesel and then bitching at Ford when your car has a heart-attack and dies from the trans fat. If you are THAT freaking worried about running Java, mplayer, skype, wine, World of Warcraft, whatever, on your phone, and having the ability to choose your carrier, save yourself $150 and buy the openmoko SDK. They actually encourage people to innovate on their platform. However, if you jack the openmoko up by installing XP-lite on it, don't expect simpathy from the dev team. Just like it shouldn't be expected from Apple when you crash your iPhone...
Seriously, November 1 can't come soon enough. The way things are going we're looking for a showdown between Clinton and McCain. For a change, we may have a win-win choice this fall. Neither's perfect, but I think either will result in a return to sanity and pragmatism, and result in a massive improvement over the current administration.
Election Day is November 4th this year, not the 1st. November 1st will be the day of sweeping pardons for all of the Bush croanies...
They should have bought that island
As the double ring they found around Uranus
Also, the chinese version plays mp3s, can be used to incapacitate small children, and is a hell of a lot cheaper...
This is why I refuse to set the time on my VCR...
I noticed that the description for that controller says "extremely flaccid red-knobbed joystick." It was a kinder gentler world back then...
I own the original Final Fantasy for every console it was released on (NES, GBA, and Playstation.) I also have the MAME rom. I still play it on of of the consoles anytime I have a few hours to burn. I recently flew to the Middle East and drained the battery of me DS playing FF Origins the entire flight. When I can get my hands on a Wii, it will be the first game I download. It is also on of the main reasons I am going to buy a Wii. So your argument is wrong. There are some of us who see the ability to return to some of our childhood favorites as a huge selling point...
I figure if Shapiro can get O.J. Simpson off, he has to know something...
Everyone knows that asian's have sideways beavers...