Considering that the original starcraft is one of the best selling games of all time AND is on most of the top 10 lists for games of all time. I would say their projections of comparison are gonna be accurate. Being a starcraft fanboy myself I will buy the game even though they have crippled it with this 'feature'
You probably can't argue the inherent superiority of one over the other
Actually you can to a degree. I enjoy playing with both, however for a long time I couldn't put my finger on why keyboard and mouse was better, I thought it was just preference. But then I started looking at it objectively. The mouse responds to a larger variety of inputs than my sticks do. I can gesture, and based on the speed and motion of my wrist I can control how fast I move. With the digital sticks, while fast, I cannot take full advantage of twitch muscles. As for the keyboard, well that one is pretty easy to objectively define. While the remote has buttons very well laid out, there aren't any controllers yet that put 101 buttons right next to you. So it has always been my contention that if you take 2 similarly skilled players and put them against each other, the keyboard and mouse player will win the majority of the time just because of the physical advantage.
However, enjoyment wise? makes no difference to me. playing is playing:)
yes I was being sarcastic:) In a situation where someone could procure an old computer, I can guarantee you that you would find a box of disketts right next to it. Some people just dont think things through, it is something that comes with experience, the person I was replying to is probably too young or too new to the field to think in situational terms rather than finite terms (sorry best way I could think of it).
Ya, because places running pcs that old have no need for removable media obviously...no one has any floppies lying around. Take 5 seconds and consider that anyone who has access to sugar and a USB drive will also have access to a plethora of other material.
Good lord people, do none of you actually run linux? Sugar on a stick is just a conceptual item, it is to show the versatility of the OS they built. A CD-DVD-hard Disk-Flash port would be trivial from here.
Ya we were considering windmills but it really isn't that windy in Nebraska and we do get a lot of sun. I am betting on the solar cells being efficient enough by the time we build our house. Water pond heat pumps are fairly efficient here but I haven't gathered enough data, I know with the air heat pumps the number of days that you need a heater average 20, so I am certain that the water heat pumps should allow for year round. The neighborhood I am looking at was designed around the concept but being the geek I am, will be doing some market research:) As for the conduits, ya, definitely absolutely....for those of us (I'm guessing you as well) who ran the million miles of wiring in the 90s it is a definite must even though it adds cost...
It is just an odd feeling though, a gut instinct, I am not an alarmist or anything or a survivalist, but I just have this feeling that I will be thanking myself in 30 years if I have a self sufficient home paid off...
Well look me up, I should be independent by then (wife pharmacist) and will be looking for an interesting company. adamatadamandreadotcom let me know what you are thinking.
My wife and I are looking at building our house to be Solar in about 5 years. We are in the planning phases right now, found a good neighborhood built around ponds for heat pumps. But, not everything can be measured by the ROE (although your point is taken). The intangable benefits really work for you. Also considering the advances in solar cells this last year and the fact that I live in Nebraska, I should be able to get a really good system by the time we build.
Ya I wouldn't mind moving up to Omaha, but every other job up there is Consulting or Tech center. Blech...booooorrrriiiiinnnngggg. I like the startup smaller business, get my hands in several pots, do what I do well. I had my fill of corporate years ago, I'll take the smaller salary and the interesting projects any day.
Ya the problem is, the Gorgeous areas of nebraska are the north and south sides. Nebraska is actually a very very diverse state of river valleys, foothills, desert, Forest, and Plains. However, I80 shows you basically the plains and that is it. It is actually very pretty, just depends on what you like. I really like it out here, but that is a matter of taste. I dont expect someone from the northeast or from a city to understand what WY,KS,NE,SD,OK people love about the true midwest.
Lincoln Omaha is terrible, little over a million people in the area and a dice search pulled up 112 jobs, mostly consulting companies...and our unemployment fell last year...But it is a good place to live though. I blame the local gov't for not attracting tech companies, we are a prime location for tech support (accent neutral, centrally located). We should see more corporations moving TO here not away.
Man who backs up to disk drives and LTO anyway....that is yesterday's backup. Today just throw your pictures up to Carbonite or Mozy, hell for true redundant backup head for Picasa and let it get indexed and flung across the web. Digital Photos have a lot more versatility than analog photos. Sure they aren't perfect but are eons past film in most cases. I have photos from my digital camera a decade ago, backed up and in multiple locations, slideshows readily available on my media PC for entertainment during house parties.
Ya the winters here can be a bit brutal, but the spring and fall more than make up for it. This winter was a rather strange one in fact. I am in Lincoln myself. I have contemplated moving elsewhere for some sunnier weather but just cant bring myself to do it. Things are good out here. The drivers are not good, I have driven all over the US, and it isnt that the drivers are mean...just flat out dumb, in defense of lincolnites, most of the dumb drivers I have come across have been the college kids and HS kids. Politics are pretty stable though, they could do a lot better at encouraging commercial businesses to come into town. Otherwise things are run decently...now at the state level, that is another story.
However for a good view, head north of Seward about 5 miles will do, preferably 2nd-3rd week of august when it is drier.
I am still heading down to cabo next week for some fishing....I plan on imbibing enough sterilizing fluid to kill any rouge viruses coming into my system. Those that survive my Digestive system wont survive my bloodstream.
In Nebraska here, you can get a spectacular view just 30 miles out of Omaha or Lincoln. If you want to be absolutely stunned you can go to Valentine (north central Nebraska) and that is where they have amateur astronomy conventions. In august the meteor showers are breathtaking. You know it is a good view when a falling meteor burns the retinas a bit.
Even just outside Lincoln, not only can you see the Milky Way, but many college kids would ask me what the haze was amidst it...I would just reply, those are the rest of the stars...they always were stunned.
Perhaps this is why kids now adays have such big egos, they don't have to look up and see how insignificant they really are.
Ya I hear ya, but I think you may be a little off with the hooking computers to the TV. Consider the number of TIVO users, XBOX users, and whatnot around the globe. Networks could make a ton of money here. It is a race to the provider to do it first. Information consolodation is the key, there are billions of dollars out there worldwide that people have invested in media, hell just in my collection (very small by american standards) I have over $3000 dollars in CDs and DVDs. Not to mention the irreplacable Digital photos. If someone like hulu, youtube, or Turner Broadcasting were to come up with a set top box to organize that? Holy hell...money galore. But why do that when you can be a hulu and charge $20 a month which 90% goes straight to the networks for people to use their own devices. You just cut out the middle man and having a massive infrastructure to support. Let the ISPs take care of it. Just like VOIP is killing phone companies residential business...so will the internet with traditional Cable.
Gotcha, much clearer. In my experience with Media Center users they just want to watch their channels easily. They are more than happy to look at ads. Even if Hulu were to allow a plugin to media center to their App, it wouldn't change our desire to cancel cable. Hell most of us would even pay a subscription fee for this ability. There are a lot of third parties that already allow plugins, check netflix for a prime example.
In short, most of us who hook our PCs up and have this in depth knowledge of media management are just chomping at the bit for the first provider to integrate into our setup so we can offload our files on the Hard Drive to Hulu. Right now I have all my movies, Music, Pictures, and cable recorded onto one hard drive backed up, even at a terabyte it doesn't leave much space left. Hulu would be a welcome addition. There is a ton of money to be made there. Not just wishful thinking.
Im just a little confused by your post. "I think explains why Hulu has been forced to block media center apps:" But then you say "I suspect the thinking is the full-screen app isn't going to be used by technically sophisticated users who are capable of setting up and running one of the Hulu-supporting media centers"
Which is it that you are referring to? If Hulu blocks media center apps, but wont allow media centers...or are you thinking eventually Hulu will designate certain apps to be "hulu supported"? Personally I will be miffed at Hulu until I can control my entire media center with one remote. I am more than happy to use their application but I need to be able to link to it from my existing media center without whipping out a mouse to open the second app. MyMovies does this very well, Now if I can have a Hulu plugin that launches the other software within media center I will be happy.
there is also a large absence of any references or fact to any part of your post. i was just reading down this thread and was offended by your original post which I also interpreted as you saying that home schools are largely made up of bigots "the vast majority of home schooled students are taught so because their parents don't want them picking up "incorrect ideas" such as "evolution," "all races are equal," and more"
Parent at least cited one example to refute, you just cite opinion and your own bigotry when you state "whackjobs period who do the majority of homeschooling, which you conveniently left out. Wonderful thing about/. you cant edit your own idiot statements, they are there for all to see forever, giving asswipes like myself reason to point and laugh at you.
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Considering that the original starcraft is one of the best selling games of all time AND is on most of the top 10 lists for games of all time. I would say their projections of comparison are gonna be accurate. Being a starcraft fanboy myself I will buy the game even though they have crippled it with this 'feature'
What ever happened to good ol toll roads? If you use the hwy it gets taken care of, if you dont, then by by.
Good lord, at first I thought you were being serious, the funny part was, I was not suprised that someone would say something like that.
Actually you can to a degree. I enjoy playing with both, however for a long time I couldn't put my finger on why keyboard and mouse was better, I thought it was just preference. But then I started looking at it objectively. The mouse responds to a larger variety of inputs than my sticks do. I can gesture, and based on the speed and motion of my wrist I can control how fast I move. With the digital sticks, while fast, I cannot take full advantage of twitch muscles. As for the keyboard, well that one is pretty easy to objectively define. While the remote has buttons very well laid out, there aren't any controllers yet that put 101 buttons right next to you. So it has always been my contention that if you take 2 similarly skilled players and put them against each other, the keyboard and mouse player will win the majority of the time just because of the physical advantage.
However, enjoyment wise? makes no difference to me. playing is playing :)
yes I was being sarcastic :) In a situation where someone could procure an old computer, I can guarantee you that you would find a box of disketts right next to it. Some people just dont think things through, it is something that comes with experience, the person I was replying to is probably too young or too new to the field to think in situational terms rather than finite terms (sorry best way I could think of it).
Not necessarily, you could still write to a floppy or USB, you would just be running the OS from an alternative location.
Ya, because places running pcs that old have no need for removable media obviously...no one has any floppies lying around. Take 5 seconds and consider that anyone who has access to sugar and a USB drive will also have access to a plethora of other material.
heaven forbid you have to use a floppy or CD boot loader...that would be a MONUMENTAL effort...
Good lord people, do none of you actually run linux? Sugar on a stick is just a conceptual item, it is to show the versatility of the OS they built. A CD-DVD-hard Disk-Flash port would be trivial from here.
It is just an odd feeling though, a gut instinct, I am not an alarmist or anything or a survivalist, but I just have this feeling that I will be thanking myself in 30 years if I have a self sufficient home paid off...
Well look me up, I should be independent by then (wife pharmacist) and will be looking for an interesting company. adamatadamandreadotcom let me know what you are thinking.
My wife and I are looking at building our house to be Solar in about 5 years. We are in the planning phases right now, found a good neighborhood built around ponds for heat pumps. But, not everything can be measured by the ROE (although your point is taken). The intangable benefits really work for you. Also considering the advances in solar cells this last year and the fact that I live in Nebraska, I should be able to get a really good system by the time we build.
Ya I wouldn't mind moving up to Omaha, but every other job up there is Consulting or Tech center. Blech...booooorrrriiiiinnnngggg. I like the startup smaller business, get my hands in several pots, do what I do well. I had my fill of corporate years ago, I'll take the smaller salary and the interesting projects any day.
Ya the problem is, the Gorgeous areas of nebraska are the north and south sides. Nebraska is actually a very very diverse state of river valleys, foothills, desert, Forest, and Plains. However, I80 shows you basically the plains and that is it. It is actually very pretty, just depends on what you like. I really like it out here, but that is a matter of taste. I dont expect someone from the northeast or from a city to understand what WY,KS,NE,SD,OK people love about the true midwest.
Lincoln Omaha is terrible, little over a million people in the area and a dice search pulled up 112 jobs, mostly consulting companies...and our unemployment fell last year...But it is a good place to live though. I blame the local gov't for not attracting tech companies, we are a prime location for tech support (accent neutral, centrally located). We should see more corporations moving TO here not away.
Man who backs up to disk drives and LTO anyway....that is yesterday's backup. Today just throw your pictures up to Carbonite or Mozy, hell for true redundant backup head for Picasa and let it get indexed and flung across the web. Digital Photos have a lot more versatility than analog photos. Sure they aren't perfect but are eons past film in most cases. I have photos from my digital camera a decade ago, backed up and in multiple locations, slideshows readily available on my media PC for entertainment during house parties.
So I have been building up my tolerance today...I can spell however I want ;)
However for a good view, head north of Seward about 5 miles will do, preferably 2nd-3rd week of august when it is drier.
I am still heading down to cabo next week for some fishing....I plan on imbibing enough sterilizing fluid to kill any rouge viruses coming into my system. Those that survive my Digestive system wont survive my bloodstream.
Even just outside Lincoln, not only can you see the Milky Way, but many college kids would ask me what the haze was amidst it...I would just reply, those are the rest of the stars...they always were stunned.
Perhaps this is why kids now adays have such big egos, they don't have to look up and see how insignificant they really are.
Ya I hear ya, but I think you may be a little off with the hooking computers to the TV. Consider the number of TIVO users, XBOX users, and whatnot around the globe. Networks could make a ton of money here. It is a race to the provider to do it first. Information consolodation is the key, there are billions of dollars out there worldwide that people have invested in media, hell just in my collection (very small by american standards) I have over $3000 dollars in CDs and DVDs. Not to mention the irreplacable Digital photos. If someone like hulu, youtube, or Turner Broadcasting were to come up with a set top box to organize that? Holy hell...money galore. But why do that when you can be a hulu and charge $20 a month which 90% goes straight to the networks for people to use their own devices. You just cut out the middle man and having a massive infrastructure to support. Let the ISPs take care of it. Just like VOIP is killing phone companies residential business...so will the internet with traditional Cable.
In short, most of us who hook our PCs up and have this in depth knowledge of media management are just chomping at the bit for the first provider to integrate into our setup so we can offload our files on the Hard Drive to Hulu. Right now I have all my movies, Music, Pictures, and cable recorded onto one hard drive backed up, even at a terabyte it doesn't leave much space left. Hulu would be a welcome addition. There is a ton of money to be made there. Not just wishful thinking.
Which is it that you are referring to? If Hulu blocks media center apps, but wont allow media centers...or are you thinking eventually Hulu will designate certain apps to be "hulu supported"? Personally I will be miffed at Hulu until I can control my entire media center with one remote. I am more than happy to use their application but I need to be able to link to it from my existing media center without whipping out a mouse to open the second app. MyMovies does this very well, Now if I can have a Hulu plugin that launches the other software within media center I will be happy.
Parent at least cited one example to refute, you just cite opinion and your own bigotry when you state "whackjobs period who do the majority of homeschooling, which you conveniently left out. Wonderful thing about /. you cant edit your own idiot statements, they are there for all to see forever, giving asswipes like myself reason to point and laugh at you.
I beg to differ, although it did make my daydreams much more interesting...