Whether he was joking or not is beside the point. As it relates to this article the comment was not relevent, therefore not insightful. My problem is not with the comment (I actually agree that the Bush administration is a danger in the world environment we live in).
And you can conclude whatever you want but jumping to conclusions before you have all the facts makes you just as guilty as the Bush administration is for their actions.
Who modded this insightful? Flaimbait is probably closer to the mark. I don't particularly care for the guy myself but that's just silly. I believe the parent was only half serious but the mod needs to take his/her tinfoil hat off.
I tried the program and maybe I missed something but it ran like crap on my machine. Its not a supercompter but a 1.7 Pentium M with a gig of ram and 64m Radeon 9000 should be able to run it fine. I mean, I could play WoW on this laptop without to much of a fuss. What gives?
You have got to be kidding me!!! The bonsai shit is horrible. If that is real I demand the owner of the site to put his own kid in the third set of pictures in a similar enclosure and see what comes of that. Where's my gun!!
Arggghh....I swear I hit reply to zerocool's message...ohh well, I already tried again and it still didn't work. I'm such a noob. Hopefully he'll get the message as I don't want to make more of an idiot of myself.
Ha, I meant to respond to this post....sorry parent.
As for you complaints about the Lifestyles system, you're obviously not the target audience. Take for example my Mother. She thinks they're cute and really likes that she can hide the speakers amongst all her nic-nacs. To be honest, I don't blame her. I'm not to familiar with all the available "micro" systems but Bose is the one of the few manufacturers that I've seen in brick and mortar stores. On a side note, I have a pair of my Dad's old 901's and they still kick ass after all these years (almost 20!!). Pair them with a sub and I have been perfectly happy. Although, IAMNAAudiophile.
As for you complaints about the Lifestyles system, you're obviously not the target audience. Take for example my Mother. She thinks they're cute and really likes that she can hide the speakers amongst all her nic-nacs. To be honest, I don't blame her. I'm not to familiar with all the available "micro" systems but Bose is the one of the few manufacturers that I've seen in brick and mortar stores.
On a side note, I have a pair of my Dad's old 901's and they still kick ass after all these years (almost 20!!). Pair them with a sub and I have been perfectly happy. Although, IAMNAAudiophile.
IIRC, HP inkjet printers have the heads located within the cartridge itself so in replacing the cartridge, you're replacing the heads as well. That's what made me get an HP inkjet as I don't print that often myself.
Actually, quite a few games on XBOX live don't use a "centralized" server. Take Halo 2 for example, it picks a random host before each game. As far as I know the only dedicated server you're going to get is an XBOX that someone as hooked up to live acting as a server, but you can't play on that same XBOX.
With that being said I think MS's online model is WAY better than what Sony offered simply becuase you can view friends across ALL XBOX live games. And to all those people who claim online is not the new thing, I've had a lot friends starting to play video games again once they experienced an online game. You can't tell me that an FPS or racing game is better playing some silly AI. Granted some humans (kids) will make you think otherwise, if you create a good friends list with good players than you rarely have an issue of playing with inexperienced players. I for one will never buy another single player game, rent maybe.
Well, you may be in the stoneage when it comes to broadband but considering your cell services can offer faster speeds than a majority of the American public can get to their house, I would say you guys are doing pretty good. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
Uhhh....who's the fanboy here? I have no preference either way but it s hard to make a post being "anti-fanboy" when you're obviously one yourself, or just a troll...not sure which is worse.
If they implement auto-aim I most definitely won't buy it. Hopefully they give you the ability to turn it off. Starwars: Battlefront was horrible multiplayer for this reason. While there were rooms that had it disabled, a majority of the servers had it enabled...GAY!!!!
Honestly, are people that poor at gaming that they have to include something like this? Might as well make it an RPG!! I understand the whole mouse vs. controller issue but man, give me a break, the controller is not THAT big of hinderance (sp?). K I'm done.
"b.) It's not all that popular. Only a small fraction of PS2 or XBOX users actually pay for the service."
I'm speaking for myself here but......I won't buy a game for my Xbox if it doesn't have no online component. I don't mean stupid leaderboards and downloadable content crap, I mean true onine PvP action. Until AI is comparable to another human player, I have no interest. I gladly pay $50 a year to have friends list across all "live" enabled games and a pool of close to 1.5 million players to share the fun with. If you ask me, not making room for online capability is suicide. Despite all the great games for Gamecube, I haven't bought it for that one reason alone. My money is going to Microsoft (and Sony but their method is not quite as user friendly).
"a.) It's not all that profitable, especially considering the maintenance involved."
How do you know? My understanding is, all Microsoft does is maintain friends lists and the Live gui, approve content and patches, and....I think thats it. The consoles ARE the servers, no cost on Microsofts part there.
"c.) Quality of service issues making charging for it that much more difficult"
While I do experience lag occasionally, its usually the games fault. I can' tell you how many times lag has been fixed just by optimizing the network code. With the Xbox, if its lagging, its not Microsoft's fault....
If you had you would have read were he explained running at the same clock won't help but you CAN see a slight difference in efficiency when running at cooler temperatures. Go to the next page and he DID overclock the machine. So dumbass, there you go.
It's not quite that easy....Perhaps if your company is cut off from the rest of the world and doesn't have to worry about conforming to "standards" (meaning a Windows based platform) or sharing information with outside entities. Let me give an example. I work as a helpdesk/network adminstrator for a particular government contractor whom supports the Marine Corps. While I would love to switch platforms that could possibly be cheaper and more secure its not like flipping a light switch to migrate 22,000 employees to a completely new OS. They (USMC) just spent billions and billions to have their network completely overhauled to one "standard" (Windows). This means all WinXP and Office 2003. So in order for us as a contractor to keep our jobs we MUST stay within those standards, heck, it's bad enough that you can't read most Office2k3 files with prior versions of Office let alone some **nix version of a "compatible office suite". So for us to be able to communicate with our customer efficiently and remain employed, we HAVE to remain "compatible" with our customer otherwise another company will come along and take our jobs.
Just my.02
Anyone have a link to the screenshots?!?
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Of course I'm joking, kind of.....
What about us people that read the RSS feeds from work. My company has tens of thousands of employees.....all leaving on a couple IP addresses. I'm replying becuase I sent an email already and have had no response. Additionally, I have been banned from my computer at home as well (using the Firefox RSS). So something is not right.
Are you crazy man!!!! Don't let the secret out. Before we know it we'll be scrounging for good jobs like the rest of the suckers around the country!!;-)
Best Buy was selling copies of StarWars: Battlefront almost a week early. I purchase mine on Saturday when the game wasn't due to be released until the following Tuesday. I went straight home and started playing Live. They had some MAJOR network performance issues but I was expecting that. Why would Micrsoft punish the user when it is obiously the retailers fault for releasing the game early (a little short-sighted on your part)
sorry
I'm not sure who that comment was directed toward but if that is indeed true, it is a shame that America and THE REST OF THE WOLRD have not done anything to stop that. Unfortunately, most people in America, and I'm sure other parts of the world, the media tells us what it wants to tell us. And Americans are so blasted with media content most don't take the time to read anything put "front page" news or primtime network news.
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I'm curious what you meant by this. The rest of your comment made sense but this threw me off.
That was my point, I guess, I forget now. Sounds like we're on the same page. Same shit different smell.
And you can conclude whatever you want but jumping to conclusions before you have all the facts makes you just as guilty as the Bush administration is for their actions.
Who modded this insightful? Flaimbait is probably closer to the mark. I don't particularly care for the guy myself but that's just silly. I believe the parent was only half serious but the mod needs to take his/her tinfoil hat off.
Let me guess, you're rich? C'mon admit it, no one will hurt you. ;)
I tried the program and maybe I missed something but it ran like crap on my machine. Its not a supercompter but a 1.7 Pentium M with a gig of ram and 64m Radeon 9000 should be able to run it fine. I mean, I could play WoW on this laptop without to much of a fuss. What gives?
You have got to be kidding me!!! The bonsai shit is horrible. If that is real I demand the owner of the site to put his own kid in the third set of pictures in a similar enclosure and see what comes of that. Where's my gun!!
Arggghh....I swear I hit reply to zerocool's message...ohh well, I already tried again and it still didn't work. I'm such a noob. Hopefully he'll get the message as I don't want to make more of an idiot of myself.
Ha, I meant to respond to this post....sorry parent. As for you complaints about the Lifestyles system, you're obviously not the target audience. Take for example my Mother. She thinks they're cute and really likes that she can hide the speakers amongst all her nic-nacs. To be honest, I don't blame her. I'm not to familiar with all the available "micro" systems but Bose is the one of the few manufacturers that I've seen in brick and mortar stores. On a side note, I have a pair of my Dad's old 901's and they still kick ass after all these years (almost 20!!). Pair them with a sub and I have been perfectly happy. Although, IAMNAAudiophile.
As for you complaints about the Lifestyles system, you're obviously not the target audience. Take for example my Mother. She thinks they're cute and really likes that she can hide the speakers amongst all her nic-nacs. To be honest, I don't blame her. I'm not to familiar with all the available "micro" systems but Bose is the one of the few manufacturers that I've seen in brick and mortar stores. On a side note, I have a pair of my Dad's old 901's and they still kick ass after all these years (almost 20!!). Pair them with a sub and I have been perfectly happy. Although, IAMNAAudiophile.
IIRC, HP inkjet printers have the heads located within the cartridge itself so in replacing the cartridge, you're replacing the heads as well. That's what made me get an HP inkjet as I don't print that often myself.
Actually, quite a few games on XBOX live don't use a "centralized" server. Take Halo 2 for example, it picks a random host before each game. As far as I know the only dedicated server you're going to get is an XBOX that someone as hooked up to live acting as a server, but you can't play on that same XBOX. With that being said I think MS's online model is WAY better than what Sony offered simply becuase you can view friends across ALL XBOX live games. And to all those people who claim online is not the new thing, I've had a lot friends starting to play video games again once they experienced an online game. You can't tell me that an FPS or racing game is better playing some silly AI. Granted some humans (kids) will make you think otherwise, if you create a good friends list with good players than you rarely have an issue of playing with inexperienced players. I for one will never buy another single player game, rent maybe.
Well, you may be in the stoneage when it comes to broadband but considering your cell services can offer faster speeds than a majority of the American public can get to their house, I would say you guys are doing pretty good. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
Uhhh....who's the fanboy here? I have no preference either way but it s hard to make a post being "anti-fanboy" when you're obviously one yourself, or just a troll...not sure which is worse.
Honestly, are people that poor at gaming that they have to include something like this? Might as well make it an RPG!! I understand the whole mouse vs. controller issue but man, give me a break, the controller is not THAT big of hinderance (sp?). K I'm done.
"b.) It's not all that popular. Only a small fraction of PS2 or XBOX users actually pay for the service." I'm speaking for myself here but......I won't buy a game for my Xbox if it doesn't have no online component. I don't mean stupid leaderboards and downloadable content crap, I mean true onine PvP action. Until AI is comparable to another human player, I have no interest. I gladly pay $50 a year to have friends list across all "live" enabled games and a pool of close to 1.5 million players to share the fun with. If you ask me, not making room for online capability is suicide. Despite all the great games for Gamecube, I haven't bought it for that one reason alone. My money is going to Microsoft (and Sony but their method is not quite as user friendly). "a.) It's not all that profitable, especially considering the maintenance involved." How do you know? My understanding is, all Microsoft does is maintain friends lists and the Live gui, approve content and patches, and....I think thats it. The consoles ARE the servers, no cost on Microsofts part there. "c.) Quality of service issues making charging for it that much more difficult" While I do experience lag occasionally, its usually the games fault. I can' tell you how many times lag has been fixed just by optimizing the network code. With the Xbox, if its lagging, its not Microsoft's fault....
If you had you would have read were he explained running at the same clock won't help but you CAN see a slight difference in efficiency when running at cooler temperatures. Go to the next page and he DID overclock the machine. So dumbass, there you go.
It's not quite that easy....Perhaps if your company is cut off from the rest of the world and doesn't have to worry about conforming to "standards" (meaning a Windows based platform) or sharing information with outside entities. Let me give an example. I work as a helpdesk/network adminstrator for a particular government contractor whom supports the Marine Corps. While I would love to switch platforms that could possibly be cheaper and more secure its not like flipping a light switch to migrate 22,000 employees to a completely new OS. They (USMC) just spent billions and billions to have their network completely overhauled to one "standard" (Windows). This means all WinXP and Office 2003. So in order for us as a contractor to keep our jobs we MUST stay within those standards, heck, it's bad enough that you can't read most Office2k3 files with prior versions of Office let alone some **nix version of a "compatible office suite". So for us to be able to communicate with our customer efficiently and remain employed, we HAVE to remain "compatible" with our customer otherwise another company will come along and take our jobs. Just my .02
Anyone have a link to the screenshots?!? This reply was computer generated and no humans were involved in processing this request Of course I'm joking, kind of.....
How was this modded flamebait? If anything the parent post should be considered flamebait fo jumping to conclusions about Valve "banning" users.
What about us people that read the RSS feeds from work. My company has tens of thousands of employees.....all leaving on a couple IP addresses. I'm replying becuase I sent an email already and have had no response. Additionally, I have been banned from my computer at home as well (using the Firefox RSS). So something is not right.
Who modified this insightful? You're beating a dead horse as the parent of the parent!?! just explained the comparison being made. RTFPost!!
Are you crazy man!!!! Don't let the secret out. Before we know it we'll be scrounging for good jobs like the rest of the suckers around the country!! ;-)
Best Buy was selling copies of StarWars: Battlefront almost a week early. I purchase mine on Saturday when the game wasn't due to be released until the following Tuesday. I went straight home and started playing Live. They had some MAJOR network performance issues but I was expecting that. Why would Micrsoft punish the user when it is obiously the retailers fault for releasing the game early (a little short-sighted on your part)
sorry I'm not sure who that comment was directed toward but if that is indeed true, it is a shame that America and THE REST OF THE WOLRD have not done anything to stop that. Unfortunately, most people in America, and I'm sure other parts of the world, the media tells us what it wants to tell us. And Americans are so blasted with media content most don't take the time to read anything put "front page" news or primtime network news.