I have the Gear 2, and absolutely love it. The only way someone is getting physical control of it is if they chop my wrist off. At that point stopping bleeding will supersede my need for privacy.
I drive 36,000+ miles a year on average - I would have killed for a VW Diesel GTI but they were not selling them in 2008. I was getting around 15-18MPG in a van with no AC or heating and I had my break-even threshold set at $2.37 a gallon. My plan has always been to drive the Prius until the wheels fall off and the battery stops charging, and even then I might do an after-market mod to make it plug-in. I get tired of people making me defend my purchase all the time. TFA based the miles driven at 20,000km - I drive 3x that. Plus I paid just $28k for the car not $40k as in TFA (might be a difference in USD/loonies there though).
With the initial Vista UAC people were trained to just click yes to everything or they would turn off the function entirely. With Windows 7 it is far less frustrating but the User part of the UAC is what is broken, there is no substitution for actually educating users. That is something that is far out of MS's reach IMHO.
The IYA project 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast has been excellent so far as well - for when you are stuck commuting in a light-polluted city this year.
http://365daysofastronomy.org/
When we were snowed in last week my daughter and I played some Wii tennis. She's 3.5 years old, bowling was a bit much for her and she lacked the eye-hand coordination for the baseball game. She also likes to hop around on Dance Dance Revolution mats, but is pretty far from being able to line up steps with the screen.
I know I was a Pac-man player around age 5-6, but with the Wii being so engaging I can see kids taking off using it sooner. Plus in areas with terrible weather it is a nice way to keep kids moving when outdoor play is not available.
The games in question are almost always rated M for mature and most chains require ID to buy them anyway. So Illonois spent $1,000,000 trying to protect 17 year old children from exposed breasts. There is far more titilation (pun intended) to be had in a no-age-limit Maxim/Stuff/etc. magazine than in nearly all of these video games. Heck the kids could just go to the art museum for far more nudity, and read Genesis and Leviticus for rape/murder/genocide/incest.
I'm willing to look like a fool and ask these questions, but I hear about dark matter/energy vs string theory and interesting events like gamma ray bursts and I wonder things but have no one to ask.
- How do they know that the matter is not accounted for?
- Given the absolute vastness of the universe could matter have collapsed into pre-big bang sized chunks very far from each other and things like gamma ray bursts are mini big bangs occuring far away?
This fall I'm going to be taking a physics course and an astronomy course and a decade after dropping out of college I'm actually motivated to learn this time.
I worked for WildTangent until I was drummed out the door in 2001. The product always "called home" for updates (something the core of the company was 50/50 on) and if you joined the game channel it would stream in games and adds that were in-game (like on billboards of a race game, etc). To my knowledge that has not changed, even though Spybot picks it up as Spyware. I does call home though, which always annoyed the security sensitive folks (and rightfully so).
Now it has been 4 years, so they may have changed, but I just installed it as a test and so far no popups, XP SP2/IE/Netscape/Opera. On the Xbox 360 I'm sure that MS isn't about to have popups etc.
Aside from FFVII I really had not played a ton of RPGs. I saw KoTR for $20 as a greatest hits title, and fired it up without reading reviews/previews/faqs.
If you know a twist is coming, ala M. Knight Shamalan movies, you are prepared and looking towards it. Me it caught me off guard, I wasn't expecting the situation at all. I was pleasantly surprised.
The whole Cloud is a clone thing in FFVII just kind of irked me, the KoTR twist was much more fufilling for me I guess.
Since beating KoTR (light side) I got into other RPGs, and ripped through Sudeki, Fable etc. I love the combat system of KoTR so I guess I'm in danger of becoming a fanboy, but it was such a great buy for $20.
But the plot twist in KoTR made my jaw drop. I had not been so wrapped up in a plot in a game for ages. I loved the combat system and the good/evil path in it.
Here's crossing my fingers the plot is as good this time around, too bad my wife is impervious to the old Jedi mind trick when it comes to liberating the $50 bucks for a game.
Spending $30 on those devices that let you backup save games to your PC is money well spent. It could save you from losing a few hundred hours of gameplay. I have one for the PSX, DC, but for my xbox, I just use a std memory card since it already has the HD.
I adopted that philosopy after losing my save right on the damn crater on FFVII.
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I work at an all girl private college, and we put in a Perfigo box. Many of the students had a tough time getting windows patches and spyware was wreaking havok.
So I modified the startup html of Knoppix to tell them how to get GAIM going and do internet browsing. Tons of these girls are happy linux users, and have gone on to 'the hard stuff' like gentoo.
The disk is indespensible as a system rescue as well.
The community cartoon project, it was hilarious and I remember you guys doing at least the starter strip. Maybe even a few of the others. It just seemed to fade away.
Sorry I know I'm coming in WAAAAAY late on this one but I loved that project.
For gaming I usually use Windows, it came with the PC and I don't have to fiddle with the settings to get anything to work.
I work in Linux though, and its great having fun time wasters that don't require a reboot to run. I'm tempted by Transgamings WineX, but I can't justify the $60/year for it to the board (wife).
Portable games are more than just Windows/Mac/Linux, by going with Python or Java you also can be on phones, PDA's etc. The biggest battery killer for my old phone was Gemmaster.
I find it fascinating that MS would comment on the battle at all, and after reading the article I wonder if we'll see Halo for Nintendo DS.
Sony has vast amounts of IP to throw at its new handheld, its not just a game system, it can play movies and cartoons. Parents (myself included) love the idea of a 'keep em quiet in the car' device, and I see Sony being able to position themselves in that market strongly.
Small colleges like the one I work at do not have the bandwith/resources to weather a huge worm/virus/ddos hit so we evaluated Bradford, Perfigo, StillSecure and Cisco's products. Cisco was ~100,000 and we'd have to put in end to end switches, we're a all-girl liberal arts private college so that is out of the question money wise.
Bradford didn't understand the impact of firewalls on the market (at the time, they've changed their tune recently). StillSecure has a great roadmap, but a 5 year old could get around the security.
Perfigo was the best of what was out there, and we did have the disconnect problems described by the previous poster, but we worked with Perfigo and got everything fixed, no issues at all since the last (and did not have to re-image like the previous poster said) 10-minute patch.
My fear is this: Perfigo's reporting engine was/is terrible, Cisco is not known for UI improvements, hell not even known for a UI. Plus, we got a great deal from Perfigo, they were understanding to our situation and worked on the price, Cisco could give a rats ass about our business, so I fear we'll not be able to afford Perfigo in the future.
Perfigo has amazing support, and most people that I talk to that complain about their installation have never called Perfigo to work with them on the problem.
Three months into the school year, we've had 0 worms hit us, 0 DDoS attacks going outbound, and we know that no rouge access points are connected to our tiny internet pipe (ok there is one was to get one set up, but this is a liberal arts college, kismet shows nothing out there).
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I have the Gear 2, and absolutely love it. The only way someone is getting physical control of it is if they chop my wrist off. At that point stopping bleeding will supersede my need for privacy.
I drive 36,000+ miles a year on average - I would have killed for a VW Diesel GTI but they were not selling them in 2008. I was getting around 15-18MPG in a van with no AC or heating and I had my break-even threshold set at $2.37 a gallon. My plan has always been to drive the Prius until the wheels fall off and the battery stops charging, and even then I might do an after-market mod to make it plug-in. I get tired of people making me defend my purchase all the time. TFA based the miles driven at 20,000km - I drive 3x that. Plus I paid just $28k for the car not $40k as in TFA (might be a difference in USD/loonies there though).
With the initial Vista UAC people were trained to just click yes to everything or they would turn off the function entirely. With Windows 7 it is far less frustrating but the User part of the UAC is what is broken, there is no substitution for actually educating users. That is something that is far out of MS's reach IMHO.
The IYA project 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast has been excellent so far as well - for when you are stuck commuting in a light-polluted city this year. http://365daysofastronomy.org/
When we were snowed in last week my daughter and I played some Wii tennis. She's 3.5 years old, bowling was a bit much for her and she lacked the eye-hand coordination for the baseball game. She also likes to hop around on Dance Dance Revolution mats, but is pretty far from being able to line up steps with the screen.
I know I was a Pac-man player around age 5-6, but with the Wii being so engaging I can see kids taking off using it sooner. Plus in areas with terrible weather it is a nice way to keep kids moving when outdoor play is not available.
The games in question are almost always rated M for mature and most chains require ID to buy them anyway. So Illonois spent $1,000,000 trying to protect 17 year old children from exposed breasts. There is far more titilation (pun intended) to be had in a no-age-limit Maxim/Stuff/etc. magazine than in nearly all of these video games. Heck the kids could just go to the art museum for far more nudity, and read Genesis and Leviticus for rape/murder/genocide/incest.
I'm willing to look like a fool and ask these questions, but I hear about dark matter/energy vs string theory and interesting events like gamma ray bursts and I wonder things but have no one to ask.
- How do they know that the matter is not accounted for?
- Given the absolute vastness of the universe could matter have collapsed into pre-big bang sized chunks very far from each other and things like gamma ray bursts are mini big bangs occuring far away?
This fall I'm going to be taking a physics course and an astronomy course and a decade after dropping out of college I'm actually motivated to learn this time.
I worked for WildTangent until I was drummed out the door in 2001. The product always "called home" for updates (something the core of the company was 50/50 on) and if you joined the game channel it would stream in games and adds that were in-game (like on billboards of a race game, etc). To my knowledge that has not changed, even though Spybot picks it up as Spyware. I does call home though, which always annoyed the security sensitive folks (and rightfully so).
Now it has been 4 years, so they may have changed, but I just installed it as a test and so far no popups, XP SP2/IE/Netscape/Opera. On the Xbox 360 I'm sure that MS isn't about to have popups etc.
Aside from FFVII I really had not played a ton of RPGs. I saw KoTR for $20 as a greatest hits title, and fired it up without reading reviews/previews/faqs. If you know a twist is coming, ala M. Knight Shamalan movies, you are prepared and looking towards it. Me it caught me off guard, I wasn't expecting the situation at all. I was pleasantly surprised. The whole Cloud is a clone thing in FFVII just kind of irked me, the KoTR twist was much more fufilling for me I guess. Since beating KoTR (light side) I got into other RPGs, and ripped through Sudeki, Fable etc. I love the combat system of KoTR so I guess I'm in danger of becoming a fanboy, but it was such a great buy for $20.
But the plot twist in KoTR made my jaw drop. I had not been so wrapped up in a plot in a game for ages. I loved the combat system and the good/evil path in it.
Here's crossing my fingers the plot is as good this time around, too bad my wife is impervious to the old Jedi mind trick when it comes to liberating the $50 bucks for a game.
Spending $30 on those devices that let you backup save games to your PC is money well spent. It could save you from losing a few hundred hours of gameplay. I have one for the PSX, DC, but for my xbox, I just use a std memory card since it already has the HD.
I adopted that philosopy after losing my save right on the damn crater on FFVII.
I work at an all girl private college, and we put in a Perfigo box. Many of the students had a tough time getting windows patches and spyware was wreaking havok.
So I modified the startup html of Knoppix to tell them how to get GAIM going and do internet browsing. Tons of these girls are happy linux users, and have gone on to 'the hard stuff' like gentoo.
The disk is indespensible as a system rescue as well.
The community cartoon project, it was hilarious and I remember you guys doing at least the starter strip. Maybe even a few of the others. It just seemed to fade away.
Sorry I know I'm coming in WAAAAAY late on this one but I loved that project.
For gaming I usually use Windows, it came with the PC and I don't have to fiddle with the settings to get anything to work.
I work in Linux though, and its great having fun time wasters that don't require a reboot to run. I'm tempted by Transgamings WineX, but I can't justify the $60/year for it to the board (wife).
Portable games are more than just Windows/Mac/Linux, by going with Python or Java you also can be on phones, PDA's etc. The biggest battery killer for my old phone was Gemmaster.
I find it fascinating that MS would comment on the battle at all, and after reading the article I wonder if we'll see Halo for Nintendo DS.
Sony has vast amounts of IP to throw at its new handheld, its not just a game system, it can play movies and cartoons. Parents (myself included) love the idea of a 'keep em quiet in the car' device, and I see Sony being able to position themselves in that market strongly.
Small colleges like the one I work at do not have the bandwith/resources to weather a huge worm/virus/ddos hit so we evaluated Bradford, Perfigo, StillSecure and Cisco's products. Cisco was ~100,000 and we'd have to put in end to end switches, we're a all-girl liberal arts private college so that is out of the question money wise. Bradford didn't understand the impact of firewalls on the market (at the time, they've changed their tune recently). StillSecure has a great roadmap, but a 5 year old could get around the security. Perfigo was the best of what was out there, and we did have the disconnect problems described by the previous poster, but we worked with Perfigo and got everything fixed, no issues at all since the last (and did not have to re-image like the previous poster said) 10-minute patch. My fear is this: Perfigo's reporting engine was/is terrible, Cisco is not known for UI improvements, hell not even known for a UI. Plus, we got a great deal from Perfigo, they were understanding to our situation and worked on the price, Cisco could give a rats ass about our business, so I fear we'll not be able to afford Perfigo in the future. Perfigo has amazing support, and most people that I talk to that complain about their installation have never called Perfigo to work with them on the problem. Three months into the school year, we've had 0 worms hit us, 0 DDoS attacks going outbound, and we know that no rouge access points are connected to our tiny internet pipe (ok there is one was to get one set up, but this is a liberal arts college, kismet shows nothing out there).