...so there's no more carrot for them to keep chasing. If Apple's going to be selling iPhones through Verizon, and possibly even Sprint, then what's AT&T's reason for keeping this sweetheart data plan?
There isn't a lot of mention in this review of sandbox activities, but there actually are a hell of a lot of them.
I don't think I've ever finished a GTA game, but I've put well over 50-60 hours into each of them. I don't play them for the missions, I find missions mostly boring, but a pleasant diversion from the sandbox on occasion. Kind of the opposite of what's expected by the developer, I guess.
But there *are* a lot of non-mission sandbox things to do in this one. Hunting and skinning for extra cash is kinda fun, and readily abundant, there are random people all over the place that need help/saving/shooting...
Having tried everything I could get my hands on with Windows, Mac and Linux, I have to say that Plex beats everything else out there hands down.
It's by far the most stable media center I've used, it's slick, and it supports TONS of content that the others can't touch. I loved XBMC, but it just can't handle Netflix, Hulu or Pandora, which are the Big 3 IMHO.
I've been using XBMC since.... well, since it first came out for the original XBox. It didn't stream web content though, and to this day it's still a PITA to stream through the modern XBMC, even in Windows.
If you've got a spare Mac (which would be pretty rare), I would highly recommend Plex. Using the Apple remote works beautifully, and it handles Hulu, Netflix, YouTube and anything else you could throw at it. It also does Pandora, which is awesome, since the system is already hooked up to the stereo.
If you're using Linux or Windows, I would go with Boxee. It does all of the Hulu/Netflix/Pandora/ESPN360/etc. content, and has finally become genuinely stable enough for everyday use, even for my mildly non-technical wife, who has to keep TV rolling for 2 kids on demand.
I keep the actual box that does the streaming in the basement to avoid any sort of fan noise, and just run an HDMI cable and a digital audio cable(I use SPDIF, simply because it was the simplest to run and I had stacks of long RCA cables) coming up through the floor and hooked to the flat screen in the living room.
If you also run a long USB cable, you can hook up all kinds of stuff, especially joysticks for emulation:]
Let's see any of the hardware HTPC options out there run ColecoVision:]
Yes, it's a Microsoft product, but they bought it after it was already kickass, and have done very little to promote it, which sucks because it's an amazing product.
You can record audio of lectures, then text search for keywords later. That alone makes it the best thing I've seen for dealing with lectures, but throw in all of its prodigious abilities to organize and reorganize notes, bring in links, images, video, etc from other sources....
Sadly, it's not a Mac/Linux product, but if you're carrying a Windows laptop to class with you, I don't think you could do much better.
1) A solid, well-defined subversion structure 2) Ant 3) SSH keys that Ant can use
Done and done. I work for a major broadcast network, pushing out hundreds of Java,.Net and Oracle Forms applications day in and day out to some number of servers I haven't bothered to count.
90% of them can be pushed out from a single shell script with just a couple of command line switches. Most of this is done through identifying environments and destination paths for each of them in a build.properties file, then specifying the target server/environment at build time.
Ant (or Nant) works for pretty much any programming technology. It's primarily used for Java, but is very straightforward to adapt to everything else, and handing over an XML-formatted build script can be a *lot* cleaner than most of the perl, shell or python scripts I've dealt with in the past.
Well, that would *sort of* make the name make sense. Bagheera was a black panther in Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book (read it if you haven't, to yourself or to your kids), who was most definitely carnivorous. I can understand taking your possibly only chance to name a spider to honor (or honour, I guess) Kipling, but it seems odd to name a vegetarian spider after an accomplished hunter.
We don't need doublespeak. It's a good idea, don't hide it behind some useless term like "brownfield."
Call it a "contaminated site," people can get behind that. Don't create more battles for yourselves, and don't give your "opponents" words they can throw back at you.
It's like Advance Wars, or Military Madness, or even Perfect General if you go back that far. Turn-based strategy at its finest, in a browser.
Very addictive, and quick turns that you can play in a minute or two however often you want to. Most games are played with a 1d limit for turns, but people are usually cool if you have to go away for a weekend or whatever.
I loved XBMC on my original XBox, and still run it in the playroom. Now that it's been ported everywhere, I just installed it on the server that runs in the basement (and is full of all my big hard drives), and ran an HDMI cable up through the floor to the LCD TV in the living room.
I had an "old" gyro mouse and keyboard set in the basement (thanks woot!), and that was it, I was done. Full XBMC experience, a great HTPC with no fans spinning in the living room, and all of my downloaded video content available without transcoding.
I've tried Plex on the Mac, and Boxee on both Mac and Linux, and I still screw around with other HTPC software, but nothing can touch XBMC imho.
There's a project underway right now to bring Webkit to XBMC, at which point even Hulu and Pandora will be available. Of course, they already are through a browser, since you basically have a whole Linux box displayed on your living room wall, but doing it all in a single app rocks.
Humor: 3 a : that quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous b : the mental faculty of discovering, expressing, or appreciating the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous c : something that is or is designed to be comical or amusing
The only technology that blankets the planet is satellite. No other signal has the reach. It's that simple.
It isn't just HughesNet anymore, there are other companies in the space (get it?) now too, like WildBlue, Skycasters and some others.
I would highly recommend picking up a portable satellite setup like you'll find by clicking on my signature. I'm not really shilling for it, it's my father-in-law's hobby business, but he has come up with some pretty cool stuff.
...that the quote "that's a hundred players" sounds almost weak to me.
There are nights when you gather over a hundred people into a single gang, and it's still not enough to fight the bigger gang of opponents. 4-500 people per side in a fight is normal these days.
'If you imagine Civilization where you invent your stuff or build new stuff, imagine playing one of those characters on the ground doing that. And being able to do something minute in your world and see that impact in the major world,' Eskil explains, when asked what his game will be like. 'I want to scare people in a direction that is different from this sort of "me-centric" style of games. It feels that pretty much all games are going into that Diablo direction of collecting and building up my characters, and it's all very egocentric about creating your own powerful character,'
People are bitching up a storm about this, because it is basically an exploit of game mechanics. It takes you 24 hours to leave a corporation that you're in, it takes 24 hours for a vote and then 24 hours of notification before you can go to war, but you can apparently disband an entire alliance in an instant.
At the same time, one of the many sub-games in Eve is spying. A lot of people call it meta-gaming, in that a lot of it takes place outside the Eve client. It's a fact of life when playing the game, and to almost everyone it adds another whole element to the political structure.
Basically, Mittani is considered to be Eve's premier spy, and this just proves it. While not really an end-game move, since there is no end-game in Eve, it's about as close as you can get.
So really, this is the boldest use of in-game spy networks ever. People complain that it just took a disgruntled director to bring it down, but at the same time, consider this:
Mittani's spy network had enough knowledge of the upper echelons of BoB's structure to know exactly *who* to contact. If they had just made a blanket offer to BoB's leaders, they would have been discovered and failed. But they didn't, they knew who their targets were, they identified the weakest link, and went after it.
That's no simple task. So while it's weak that a game mechanic allowed this to happen, it's also a really impressive feat. I can't settle on one side or the other.
(And also, for some context, a Goonswarm director defected last week as well, stealing piles of assets as well as a Titan, and a coupel of weeks before that another Goonswarm director was contacted and defected in a very similar manner, but in that case they only gave up sovereignty of a single solar system, not an entire alliance's holdings)
Now if only someone was allowed to present such a sane argument about music piracy on Slashdot, I would think people might have finally actually grown up.
My Paternal grandfather had died, and my grandmother was still kicking around 5 or 6 years later. I was dreaming one night that I was hanging out in the woods behind their house, when my grandfather came walking out of the woods and said to me, "It's time to call your grandmother."
Normal dream fare, but for some reason it woke me up and I stored that I should call her. So, the next day, I woke up, went about my day, and called my grandmother and had a nice conversattion with her, which was fortunate because she died that night.
I still have that walking stick in my office.
Being certain that such things are impossible is just as stupid as believing in them, imho. We are just a bunch of monkeys. There's far stuff more going on that we don't understand than there is stuff we've scratched the surface of.
You can smile and nod at me and think I'm a looney toon for thinking that the deceased may linger. I would be just as much in the right to smile and nod at you for thinking otherwise.
Slashdot Mirror
...so there's no more carrot for them to keep chasing. If Apple's going to be selling iPhones through Verizon, and possibly even Sprint, then what's AT&T's reason for keeping this sweetheart data plan?
There isn't a lot of mention in this review of sandbox activities, but there actually are a hell of a lot of them.
I don't think I've ever finished a GTA game, but I've put well over 50-60 hours into each of them. I don't play them for the missions, I find missions mostly boring, but a pleasant diversion from the sandbox on occasion. Kind of the opposite of what's expected by the developer, I guess.
But there *are* a lot of non-mission sandbox things to do in this one. Hunting and skinning for extra cash is kinda fun, and readily abundant, there are random people all over the place that need help/saving/shooting...
I agree.
There are many possible futures, this is just one of them, and IMHO not very likely.
Well written, interesting arguments, but I wouldn't buy stock in it.
Having tried everything I could get my hands on with Windows, Mac and Linux, I have to say that Plex beats everything else out there hands down.
It's by far the most stable media center I've used, it's slick, and it supports TONS of content that the others can't touch. I loved XBMC, but it just can't handle Netflix, Hulu or Pandora, which are the Big 3 IMHO.
I've been using XBMC since.... well, since it first came out for the original XBox. It didn't stream web content though, and to this day it's still a PITA to stream through the modern XBMC, even in Windows.
If you've got a spare Mac (which would be pretty rare), I would highly recommend Plex. Using the Apple remote works beautifully, and it handles Hulu, Netflix, YouTube and anything else you could throw at it. It also does Pandora, which is awesome, since the system is already hooked up to the stereo.
If you're using Linux or Windows, I would go with Boxee. It does all of the Hulu/Netflix/Pandora/ESPN360/etc. content, and has finally become genuinely stable enough for everyday use, even for my mildly non-technical wife, who has to keep TV rolling for 2 kids on demand.
I keep the actual box that does the streaming in the basement to avoid any sort of fan noise, and just run an HDMI cable and a digital audio cable(I use SPDIF, simply because it was the simplest to run and I had stacks of long RCA cables) coming up through the floor and hooked to the flat screen in the living room.
If you also run a long USB cable, you can hook up all kinds of stuff, especially joysticks for emulation :]
Let's see any of the hardware HTPC options out there run ColecoVision :]
...has since been sacked.
Seriously, WTF is this person thinking?
...however, Kevin Smith has been spotted acting very giddily today.
Yes, it's a Microsoft product, but they bought it after it was already kickass, and have done very little to promote it, which sucks because it's an amazing product.
You can record audio of lectures, then text search for keywords later. That alone makes it the best thing I've seen for dealing with lectures, but throw in all of its prodigious abilities to organize and reorganize notes, bring in links, images, video, etc from other sources....
Sadly, it's not a Mac/Linux product, but if you're carrying a Windows laptop to class with you, I don't think you could do much better.
1) A solid, well-defined subversion structure
2) Ant
3) SSH keys that Ant can use
Done and done. I work for a major broadcast network, pushing out hundreds of Java, .Net and Oracle Forms applications day in and day out to some number of servers I haven't bothered to count.
90% of them can be pushed out from a single shell script with just a couple of command line switches. Most of this is done through identifying environments and destination paths for each of them in a build.properties file, then specifying the target server/environment at build time.
Ant (or Nant) works for pretty much any programming technology. It's primarily used for Java, but is very straightforward to adapt to everything else, and handing over an XML-formatted build script can be a *lot* cleaner than most of the perl, shell or python scripts I've dealt with in the past.
Well, that would *sort of* make the name make sense. Bagheera was a black panther in Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book (read it if you haven't, to yourself or to your kids), who was most definitely carnivorous. I can understand taking your possibly only chance to name a spider to honor (or honour, I guess) Kipling, but it seems odd to name a vegetarian spider after an accomplished hunter.
Being a technical term, even a recognized one, doesn't mean it isn't doublespeak. If a million people use a euphemism, it's still a euphemism.
But my point is more that they'd be better off saying they're doing this to "contaminated sites" than "brownfields."
I'm simultaneously very curious and very, very scared. You're on /. and from Wisconsin. That's perfectly normal.
1) Yes, it's a great idea.
2) PLEASE do not call it "brownfields."
We don't need doublespeak. It's a good idea, don't hide it behind some useless term like "brownfield."
Call it a "contaminated site," people can get behind that. Don't create more battles for yourselves, and don't give your "opponents" words they can throw back at you.
But most definitely, do it.
I can believe noone has mentioned weewar yet.
It's like Advance Wars, or Military Madness, or even Perfect General if you go back that far. Turn-based strategy at its finest, in a browser.
Very addictive, and quick turns that you can play in a minute or two however often you want to. Most games are played with a 1d limit for turns, but people are usually cool if you have to go away for a weekend or whatever.
That Randy is such a rebel boat rocker.
I loved XBMC on my original XBox, and still run it in the playroom. Now that it's been ported everywhere, I just installed it on the server that runs in the basement (and is full of all my big hard drives), and ran an HDMI cable up through the floor to the LCD TV in the living room.
I had an "old" gyro mouse and keyboard set in the basement (thanks woot!), and that was it, I was done. Full XBMC experience, a great HTPC with no fans spinning in the living room, and all of my downloaded video content available without transcoding.
I've tried Plex on the Mac, and Boxee on both Mac and Linux, and I still screw around with other HTPC software, but nothing can touch XBMC imho.
There's a project underway right now to bring Webkit to XBMC, at which point even Hulu and Pandora will be available. Of course, they already are through a browser, since you basically have a whole Linux box displayed on your living room wall, but doing it all in a single app rocks.
Humor: 3 a : that quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous b : the mental faculty of discovering, expressing, or appreciating the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous c : something that is or is designed to be comical or amusing
Not that it justifies the use, but were the protesters doing anything illegal?
One would expect this to be part of the story, but for some reason that one "dynamic" isn't being reported.
The only technology that blankets the planet is satellite. No other signal has the reach. It's that simple.
It isn't just HughesNet anymore, there are other companies in the space (get it?) now too, like WildBlue, Skycasters and some others.
I would highly recommend picking up a portable satellite setup like you'll find by clicking on my signature. I'm not really shilling for it, it's my father-in-law's hobby business, but he has come up with some pretty cool stuff.
...that the quote "that's a hundred players" sounds almost weak to me.
There are nights when you gather over a hundred people into a single gang, and it's still not enough to fight the bigger gang of opponents. 4-500 people per side in a fight is normal these days.
Still, APB sounds like fun.
'If you imagine Civilization where you invent your stuff or build new stuff, imagine playing one of those characters on the ground doing that. And being able to do something minute in your world and see that impact in the major world,' Eskil explains, when asked what his game will be like. 'I want to scare people in a direction that is different from this sort of "me-centric" style of games. It feels that pretty much all games are going into that Diablo direction of collecting and building up my characters, and it's all very egocentric about creating your own powerful character,'
Obviously he hasn't played A Tale in the Desert.
...or at least its modern equivalent.
People are bitching up a storm about this, because it is basically an exploit of game mechanics. It takes you 24 hours to leave a corporation that you're in, it takes 24 hours for a vote and then 24 hours of notification before you can go to war, but you can apparently disband an entire alliance in an instant.
At the same time, one of the many sub-games in Eve is spying. A lot of people call it meta-gaming, in that a lot of it takes place outside the Eve client. It's a fact of life when playing the game, and to almost everyone it adds another whole element to the political structure.
Basically, Mittani is considered to be Eve's premier spy, and this just proves it. While not really an end-game move, since there is no end-game in Eve, it's about as close as you can get.
So really, this is the boldest use of in-game spy networks ever. People complain that it just took a disgruntled director to bring it down, but at the same time, consider this:
Mittani's spy network had enough knowledge of the upper echelons of BoB's structure to know exactly *who* to contact. If they had just made a blanket offer to BoB's leaders, they would have been discovered and failed. But they didn't, they knew who their targets were, they identified the weakest link, and went after it.
That's no simple task. So while it's weak that a game mechanic allowed this to happen, it's also a really impressive feat. I can't settle on one side or the other.
(And also, for some context, a Goonswarm director defected last week as well, stealing piles of assets as well as a Titan, and a coupel of weeks before that another Goonswarm director was contacted and defected in a very similar manner, but in that case they only gave up sovereignty of a single solar system, not an entire alliance's holdings)
Now if only someone was allowed to present such a sane argument about music piracy on Slashdot, I would think people might have finally actually grown up.
Fat chance, tho.
My Paternal grandfather had died, and my grandmother was still kicking around 5 or 6 years later. I was dreaming one night that I was hanging out in the woods behind their house, when my grandfather came walking out of the woods and said to me, "It's time to call your grandmother."
Normal dream fare, but for some reason it woke me up and I stored that I should call her. So, the next day, I woke up, went about my day, and called my grandmother and had a nice conversattion with her, which was fortunate because she died that night.
I still have that walking stick in my office.
Being certain that such things are impossible is just as stupid as believing in them, imho. We are just a bunch of monkeys. There's far stuff more going on that we don't understand than there is stuff we've scratched the surface of.
You can smile and nod at me and think I'm a looney toon for thinking that the deceased may linger. I would be just as much in the right to smile and nod at you for thinking otherwise.
Neither of us knows.