Why stop at the game maker, lets include the gun maker, probably ebay or amazon who he bought the game from, Hanes since his underwear must not have been giving the right support, and then lets sue the maker of the TV that he played the game on because it did not make the game real enough so he had to go try it out for real.
I hate lawyers that do this. They make American look like idiots. Wait, I guess most of us are...(shaking head)
This is awesome. THe motion picture industry is just whining about it and going through the courts which can take forever so fight fire with fire. Not that I am against Bittorrent. It is a great program/tool and I have used it countless times, but I do pay for HBO and respect their rights.
200GB is not good enough. Get a seperate server that you can set up a RAID with some hotswap capabilities. Then in the server get a backup tape or external SCSI tape device to handle daily incremental and weekly full backups. This will cost you about $9K for a minimum setup using name brand hardware and software.
Not that I recommend Dell, but it is easy to configure and price a system like a poweredge 1800 with RAID 5, and 5 146GB drives with 2GB of RAM will give you a very good redundant system and then add a PowerVault 110 with 400/800GB tape backup.
This will give you almost 600GB of reliable data storage and then the tape backup will keep it safe. Last thing you need is a Media Safe that will be fireproof. Don't look at the cheap models at Office Max because those are just document safes and will not prevent your media from melting.
Using this as a guide you can start to price things out with other vendors, but you better be prepared so spend some bucks for your professional setup
Your right...most likely I will not change mcuh of what he does wth Neopets because it was bought because it is a successfull revenue stream. If they mess it up, then there goes the revenue.
I don't let my son watch MTV because of all the losers that are on it. He gets enough of that at school so now I need to worry what MTV is going to do with this site.
He has been on Neopets early on and now at 13, he is very proficient at the site. It has addictive qualities to it and I must say that it is one of the most successful sites I know of and that includes the ebays of the world. It does not have that Slashdot effect because it does not influence other site, but it does have a major influence on those who are on it. I can always track back whatever my son asks for to things that I see in his history on the computer.
That is why some of these old classics are making a come back to some degree. The joystick consoles that you can plug into your tv to pla pacman, digdug and joust are simple no brainer games that are somewhat successful products.
Helo??? Line printers have been around forever and are still in use at a lot of places, why did it take so long to figure this one out. Is there some missing technology that was the real key to making this happen for ink jets?
The only bad thing is the price. Dot matrix line printers are REALLY fast, but the are also REALLY expensive. Will it also be the case with this? Maybe that is the reason by this is only getting press now.
There is only so far that gaming can go on their own to keep kids using what they learn. Teachers do not have the time to be concerned about games when they are getting pressed to meet academic goals that are unreachable with the idiots that are in schools. THe middle school my son goes to purposely teaches only what is necessary to meet the lowest acceptable level for Math for the state because most of the students could not pass anything higher and the teacher may need to work harder to teach it.
Back on subject...Games can be education if the parents are also involved. I place CC Generals with my son and teach him how to work together and develop tactics. Since I have my own computer room for the kids that has 4 computers in there he brings over friends and they develop alliances and communicate both verbally and non-verbal using the computer and pen and paper (if they want to be discreet) to team up against opponents.
Things like this also got my son into history because much of our history is based on wars of some sort. He wants to know why China is considered a bad guy in the game. Now he is searching out those answers and reports back to me when he has exciting news.
Parents must be involved, and unfortunately some parents can not help because of time, money or lack of ability. My wife could never do what I do with him on the computer.
My son definately would choose a computer to reading a book. So now he is reading HTML instead of ink-on-paper.
Is that horrendous red page really using almost 300 lines of HTML code? And what is with all of the microsoft links in there?? Is using Frontpage and making the page red supposed to make us not want to use Bittorrent? I guess I will uninstall my client right away! NOT
I have found that when the free version is loaded, it will not detect and correct all of the problems. Then when I try and load a complete version, it does not install correctly and need to clean the free version out first, then reload the complete version. If the spyware is bad enough sometimes the uninstall feature will not work correctly. It really comes down to taking extra time that if I can avoid is really nice.
That is exactly right. I am a an accountant for a medium sized company that makes beer kits and during the evenings I help people out with their computers. 90% of my extra business comes from spyware and virus removal. I collect $50 per hour and a lot of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. The trick is to stay up on which programs take of the crap the best, I do not have a lot of luck with just one, SpyBot, SpySweeper, and AdAware work best for me together. As long as the person did not put on the free Adaware I have pretty good luck. The never listen to me and still go to a bunch of porn sites and I see them again in 3 months.....I have not had to buy beer for months!
This is yet another example of a big retailer trying to satisfy the corporate goal of more, more, more. I work for a supplier to retailers such as Target, Dillards, Ace Hardware, WalMart, and many others. Our product does well, but we are required by some that if the consumer returns the product, we must take it back and give the retailer all of their money back.
Bed Bath Beyond is the biggest culprit of this. So they give us a forecast of what they want for Christmas and if they are wrong, they make us take back all of our product that did not sell. Last year we had to cut an employee because Bed Bath over estimated their sales. Just because they did not want to look bad on Wall Street.
This year we are not selling to Bed Bath. We are one of the few vendors that have refused to sell to Bed Bath Beyond...according to them. This will hurt you in the long run because of higher prices and if you work for one of the vendors to a big retailer, you are living by their marketing scheme. If it is bad, watch out for your job.
Do we really think that Google was the one that thought this up? They are just the ones to make it free. This desktop search has been around for quite a long time. We are seeing an uproar now because a public company is now putting it out there for all to see.
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3 generations at most. We will end up killing ourselves (war or environmental) or virus will wipe us out.
Why stop at the game maker, lets include the gun maker, probably ebay or amazon who he bought the game from, Hanes since his underwear must not have been giving the right support, and then lets sue the maker of the TV that he played the game on because it did not make the game real enough so he had to go try it out for real. I hate lawyers that do this. They make American look like idiots. Wait, I guess most of us are...(shaking head)
This is awesome. THe motion picture industry is just whining about it and going through the courts which can take forever so fight fire with fire. Not that I am against Bittorrent. It is a great program/tool and I have used it countless times, but I do pay for HBO and respect their rights.
OFF TOPIC, DeBeers just opened their first US store....
200GB is not good enough. Get a seperate server that you can set up a RAID with some hotswap capabilities. Then in the server get a backup tape or external SCSI tape device to handle daily incremental and weekly full backups. This will cost you about $9K for a minimum setup using name brand hardware and software.
Not that I recommend Dell, but it is easy to configure and price a system like a poweredge 1800 with RAID 5, and 5 146GB drives with 2GB of RAM will give you a very good redundant system and then add a PowerVault 110 with 400/800GB tape backup.
This will give you almost 600GB of reliable data storage and then the tape backup will keep it safe. Last thing you need is a Media Safe that will be fireproof. Don't look at the cheap models at Office Max because those are just document safes and will not prevent your media from melting.
Using this as a guide you can start to price things out with other vendors, but you better be prepared so spend some bucks for your professional setup
Your right...most likely I will not change mcuh of what he does wth Neopets because it was bought because it is a successfull revenue stream. If they mess it up, then there goes the revenue.
I don't let my son watch MTV because of all the losers that are on it. He gets enough of that at school so now I need to worry what MTV is going to do with this site.
He has been on Neopets early on and now at 13, he is very proficient at the site. It has addictive qualities to it and I must say that it is one of the most successful sites I know of and that includes the ebays of the world. It does not have that Slashdot effect because it does not influence other site, but it does have a major influence on those who are on it. I can always track back whatever my son asks for to things that I see in his history on the computer.
This is a big deal.
That is why some of these old classics are making a come back to some degree. The joystick consoles that you can plug into your tv to pla pacman, digdug and joust are simple no brainer games that are somewhat successful products.
Helo??? Line printers have been around forever and are still in use at a lot of places, why did it take so long to figure this one out. Is there some missing technology that was the real key to making this happen for ink jets?
The only bad thing is the price. Dot matrix line printers are REALLY fast, but the are also REALLY expensive. Will it also be the case with this? Maybe that is the reason by this is only getting press now.
There is only so far that gaming can go on their own to keep kids using what they learn. Teachers do not have the time to be concerned about games when they are getting pressed to meet academic goals that are unreachable with the idiots that are in schools. THe middle school my son goes to purposely teaches only what is necessary to meet the lowest acceptable level for Math for the state because most of the students could not pass anything higher and the teacher may need to work harder to teach it. Back on subject...Games can be education if the parents are also involved. I place CC Generals with my son and teach him how to work together and develop tactics. Since I have my own computer room for the kids that has 4 computers in there he brings over friends and they develop alliances and communicate both verbally and non-verbal using the computer and pen and paper (if they want to be discreet) to team up against opponents. Things like this also got my son into history because much of our history is based on wars of some sort. He wants to know why China is considered a bad guy in the game. Now he is searching out those answers and reports back to me when he has exciting news. Parents must be involved, and unfortunately some parents can not help because of time, money or lack of ability. My wife could never do what I do with him on the computer. My son definately would choose a computer to reading a book. So now he is reading HTML instead of ink-on-paper.
Is that horrendous red page really using almost 300 lines of HTML code? And what is with all of the microsoft links in there?? Is using Frontpage and making the page red supposed to make us not want to use Bittorrent? I guess I will uninstall my client right away! NOT
Granted, they most likely did not want it to work correctly, but the drop down box is higher than the rest of the items. Anyone else get the same?
I have found that when the free version is loaded, it will not detect and correct all of the problems. Then when I try and load a complete version, it does not install correctly and need to clean the free version out first, then reload the complete version. If the spyware is bad enough sometimes the uninstall feature will not work correctly. It really comes down to taking extra time that if I can avoid is really nice.
That is exactly right. I am a an accountant for a medium sized company that makes beer kits and during the evenings I help people out with their computers. 90% of my extra business comes from spyware and virus removal. I collect $50 per hour and a lot of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. The trick is to stay up on which programs take of the crap the best, I do not have a lot of luck with just one, SpyBot, SpySweeper, and AdAware work best for me together. As long as the person did not put on the free Adaware I have pretty good luck. The never listen to me and still go to a bunch of porn sites and I see them again in 3 months.....I have not had to buy beer for months!
This is yet another example of a big retailer trying to satisfy the corporate goal of more, more, more. I work for a supplier to retailers such as Target, Dillards, Ace Hardware, WalMart, and many others. Our product does well, but we are required by some that if the consumer returns the product, we must take it back and give the retailer all of their money back.
Bed Bath Beyond is the biggest culprit of this. So they give us a forecast of what they want for Christmas and if they are wrong, they make us take back all of our product that did not sell. Last year we had to cut an employee because Bed Bath over estimated their sales. Just because they did not want to look bad on Wall Street.
This year we are not selling to Bed Bath. We are one of the few vendors that have refused to sell to Bed Bath Beyond...according to them. This will hurt you in the long run because of higher prices and if you work for one of the vendors to a big retailer, you are living by their marketing scheme. If it is bad, watch out for your job.
Do we really think that Google was the one that thought this up? They are just the ones to make it free. This desktop search has been around for quite a long time. We are seeing an uproar now because a public company is now putting it out there for all to see.