Amazingly, I read the article the whole way through. I took it to mean that if you have a load of information on your slides while you're speaking, it's not going to get through. So you eliminate one of the sources of information; you reduce your slides to key words. Then, people are only getting information from you instead of trying to get it from both sources. Did you bother to read past the first line in my post? Because I clearly explained that.
I didn't realize there was a lot of custom content...never played it before. Maybe I should say that with the exception of patch day, most MMOs should be fine over dialup.
Steve Jobs' job is to sell his company, and people want to hear him speak. For whatever reason people don't get as excited about my information on EMI test results and software benchmarks as they do about Apple's newest offerings. I still can't figure out why!
Is it PowerPoint's fault, or the fault of the Powerpoint creator? I always hate it when someone dumps all the information onto the slide, because it does make it hard to follow along. Whenever I do a presentation, the bullets on my slides are extremely brief, usually no more than 4-5 words. I want people to look at the bullet, see I'm going to be talking about Topic X, and then listen to what I have to say. This allows people to take notes as necessary and it allows them to pay attention to what I'm saying.
I thought it was common knowledge that creating a presentation with brief bullets was the "proper" way to do it. There's no point in even doing a presentation if you're just going to read off the slides, you may as well email it out and not waste people's time.
That's the page for their "tethering" service, which requires a data plan. Their data plan page is more deceiving, but in the same section as what I quoted above it does say it's limited to 5GB. However, you have to assume that people are only downloading those 5 GB to their phone, since if they were using their phone to tether they would have seen the disclaimer on the above linked page. Who needs to download that much information to their phone?! I've got an HTC Hermes with an unlimited plan. I'd like to think I download fair share to it but I barely make it to 1GB a month.
Just a bunch of FUD if you ask me. I suppose these are the same people who complain when they get thrown out of a buffet after 7 hours of gorging themselves.
Good work on reading the data plan information posted on the same page as their data plans.
Unlimited PDA/smartphone and BlackBerry® Plans: These VZEmail plans cannot be used:...(2) for any applications that tether your device to laptops or personal computers other than for use of the Wireless Sync or the BlackBerry solution, unless you subscribe to BroadbandAccess Connect.
Or you know, if you actually searched for "tether" on their website. Which actually hilariously includes a footnote specifically saying they limit it to 5GB. Fine print my ass.
MMOs don't consume a whole lot of bandwidth, they're more dependent on low latency. You should be able to run second life fine on a 28.8k dialup connection. Unless it's patch day of course. Or the day after patch day.
1) I fully took into account the value of the time I spend commuting. Refer to the last sentence in my post above. Commuting for me is the exact opposite of stressful, so there is no financial impact there.
On the way to work I get a chance to fully "wake my brain up". If I didn't have that time during my commute I'd be spending that time at home staring at a cup of coffee before leaving. Either way, it takes me about an hour to fully wake up. No actual loss there.
The ride home gives me time to settle my thoughts for the day. It gives me time to relax after work, and allows me to focus on what needs to be done the next day. It lets me blast some really loud, angry rock to relieve stress. Heck, I might even sing a few bars, which is definitely something neither my coworkers or my wife would appreciate!
2) Putting a price on "free time" is really pretty asinine. I do not get paid for the amount of free time I have. I cannot work that extra hour as I am salaried. I would never pay $20 an hour to do nothing.
those same people don't realize that it is actually far more complicated
Welcome to life. Nice to see you here. I'm pretty sure I haven't spent the last few years going OMG IT'S CHEAPER LETS DO IT. If I wanted to save even more money, I wouldn't have moved to the location I did 6 months ago. I've lived 5 minutes away from work before (at the small price of $2800 a month...thanks San Diego). I know what it's like to have the extra free time, and to me it's not worth that much more. So yes, I have thought about it. Thank you for implying that I'm a simple minded boob. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to stop thinking for the evening. I have important life decisions to make.
I remember reading the specs of the computer they used to create the screenshots they sent out for PR materials...it was basically the best consumer level computer you could buy at the time. So if you had the $5000 computer (Alienware being proof that people actually do), you could play at the settings shown in the screenshots. The masses probably couldn't though. To me it makes sense for game makers (and getting back on topic, Microsoft with Vista) to show off everything that can be done with their product. There are "required" and "recommended" specs on software packages for a reason.
It's even easier actually. That list is so long you don't even have to hit the board to pick your distro! A rousing game of lawn darts might be more appropriate.
The EQ2 graphics engine was designed to grow with technology so that several years down the road the game didn't look like complete crap. See EQ1 for an example. As odd as it seemed, one of their selling points was that you couldn't max out the graphics with most computers during that era. As you pointed out, upgrading the graphics engine in an MMO isn't a terribly convenient thing to do. The EQ2 graphics engine was made to be scalable to avoid blocking out customers later on.
When EQ2 was released I was running a Geforce 6800 vanilla, 1GB ram, and an athlon64 3000+...by no means a very beefy system. I still ran all the graphics settings on medium though. The game looked great and it rarely got choppy. During the beta I ran it on a 1.8GHz Pentium M, 512MB ram, and a radeon 9200 w/32MB shared video memory...way below minimum specs. It didn't run the greatest, but on the lowest settings it was very playable and didn't look that bad.
That probably came out a little fanboyish...as an added disclaimer I stopped playing EQ2 not long after release.
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Honestly, gas would have to cost much more than 7 dollars a gallon to get me to move that close to work. I pay $650 for an apartment roughly 30 minutes from work. That same apartment within a few minutes of work would cost around $1100. My average commute consumes ~1.5 gallons of gas which costs me about 4 dollars a day, or about $3.50 more than driving for a few minutes. I drive an average of 23 days a month to work, which costs ~$83 more than driving a few minutes to work. Since I usually car pool, that cuts that number in half.
I realize there is wear and tear on the car to take into account, but we're talking gas usage here. Plus you could say that carpooling would negate the added cost. But by my (basic) calculations, gas would have to cost more than $13.50 per gallon to make the cost of living difference worth it. And frankly, that half an hour each way to/from work gives me the perfect amount of time to wake up with a cup of coffee, or release some post-work stress and crank the volume.
I can't believe how many people don't realize that yet. You would think that after seeing so many SUVs/Trucks in the ditch on a snowy day that they'd catch on. Oh well, seeing them in the ditch 5 miles down the road really brightens my morning commute!
My laptop wont play them without skipping (drive is too slow? not enough RAM?)
might want to check if your dvd-rom is set to DMA mode...choppy dvd playback on computers can be caused by the ide channel being stuck in PIO mode. After doing help desk for a while that seemed to be the most common problem, assuming there aren't other major errors with the system. Fix here.
Questionable data for sure, thanks for pointing that out. In my above post I was primarily questioning the parent's assertion that Mac Desktop marketshare will only go up, and could never go down.
Ohhh no, kids are much sneakier than that! I just started deleting system files until Windows stopped booting. Then you yell "Daddd!!! Computer's broken!", followed by an inquery on how to install an OS. Parent hands off the project of reinstalling to the kid, and voila~
Umm, isn't that your job? Shouldn't you have started out with "My studio recently shipped the greatest PSP game ever"? I could be wrong, but I thought it was the game studios that were supposed to release kick ass games. If you put out a decent game for the PSP, instead of the countless ports I see laying around, I'll buy it. If there's 20 million of us sitting around with PSPs, you'll sell quite a few.
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Amazingly, I read the article the whole way through. I took it to mean that if you have a load of information on your slides while you're speaking, it's not going to get through. So you eliminate one of the sources of information; you reduce your slides to key words. Then, people are only getting information from you instead of trying to get it from both sources. Did you bother to read past the first line in my post? Because I clearly explained that.
I didn't realize there was a lot of custom content...never played it before. Maybe I should say that with the exception of patch day, most MMOs should be fine over dialup.
Watch Steve Jobs give a presentation sometime.
Steve Jobs' job is to sell his company, and people want to hear him speak. For whatever reason people don't get as excited about my information on EMI test results and software benchmarks as they do about Apple's newest offerings. I still can't figure out why!
Is it PowerPoint's fault, or the fault of the Powerpoint creator? I always hate it when someone dumps all the information onto the slide, because it does make it hard to follow along. Whenever I do a presentation, the bullets on my slides are extremely brief, usually no more than 4-5 words. I want people to look at the bullet, see I'm going to be talking about Topic X, and then listen to what I have to say. This allows people to take notes as necessary and it allows them to pay attention to what I'm saying.
I thought it was common knowledge that creating a presentation with brief bullets was the "proper" way to do it. There's no point in even doing a presentation if you're just going to read off the slides, you may as well email it out and not waste people's time.
That's the page for their "tethering" service, which requires a data plan. Their data plan page is more deceiving, but in the same section as what I quoted above it does say it's limited to 5GB. However, you have to assume that people are only downloading those 5 GB to their phone, since if they were using their phone to tether they would have seen the disclaimer on the above linked page. Who needs to download that much information to their phone?! I've got an HTC Hermes with an unlimited plan. I'd like to think I download fair share to it but I barely make it to 1GB a month.
Just a bunch of FUD if you ask me. I suppose these are the same people who complain when they get thrown out of a buffet after 7 hours of gorging themselves.
Don't forget Blizzard does you the favor of using your upload for patches! Not sure if uploading counts toward the 5GB limit for VZW.
Good work on reading the data plan information posted on the same page as their data plans.
...(2) for any applications that tether your device to laptops or personal computers other than for use of the Wireless Sync or the BlackBerry solution, unless you subscribe to BroadbandAccess Connect.
Unlimited PDA/smartphone and BlackBerry® Plans: These VZEmail plans cannot be used:
Or you know, if you actually searched for "tether" on their website. Which actually hilariously includes a footnote specifically saying they limit it to 5GB. Fine print my ass.
What is the upload limit like, or is that grouped together with download limits?
MMOs don't consume a whole lot of bandwidth, they're more dependent on low latency. You should be able to run second life fine on a 28.8k dialup connection. Unless it's patch day of course. Or the day after patch day.
Your analysis fails for two reasons.
1) I fully took into account the value of the time I spend commuting. Refer to the last sentence in my post above. Commuting for me is the exact opposite of stressful, so there is no financial impact there.
On the way to work I get a chance to fully "wake my brain up". If I didn't have that time during my commute I'd be spending that time at home staring at a cup of coffee before leaving. Either way, it takes me about an hour to fully wake up. No actual loss there.
The ride home gives me time to settle my thoughts for the day. It gives me time to relax after work, and allows me to focus on what needs to be done the next day. It lets me blast some really loud, angry rock to relieve stress. Heck, I might even sing a few bars, which is definitely something neither my coworkers or my wife would appreciate!
2) Putting a price on "free time" is really pretty asinine. I do not get paid for the amount of free time I have. I cannot work that extra hour as I am salaried. I would never pay $20 an hour to do nothing.
those same people don't realize that it is actually far more complicated
Welcome to life. Nice to see you here. I'm pretty sure I haven't spent the last few years going OMG IT'S CHEAPER LETS DO IT. If I wanted to save even more money, I wouldn't have moved to the location I did 6 months ago. I've lived 5 minutes away from work before (at the small price of $2800 a month...thanks San Diego). I know what it's like to have the extra free time, and to me it's not worth that much more. So yes, I have thought about it. Thank you for implying that I'm a simple minded boob. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to stop thinking for the evening. I have important life decisions to make.
I remember reading the specs of the computer they used to create the screenshots they sent out for PR materials...it was basically the best consumer level computer you could buy at the time. So if you had the $5000 computer (Alienware being proof that people actually do), you could play at the settings shown in the screenshots. The masses probably couldn't though. To me it makes sense for game makers (and getting back on topic, Microsoft with Vista) to show off everything that can be done with their product. There are "required" and "recommended" specs on software packages for a reason.
So then why are people suing the oven manufacturer instead of the electrician?
It's even easier actually. That list is so long you don't even have to hit the board to pick your distro! A rousing game of lawn darts might be more appropriate.
The EQ2 graphics engine was designed to grow with technology so that several years down the road the game didn't look like complete crap. See EQ1 for an example. As odd as it seemed, one of their selling points was that you couldn't max out the graphics with most computers during that era. As you pointed out, upgrading the graphics engine in an MMO isn't a terribly convenient thing to do. The EQ2 graphics engine was made to be scalable to avoid blocking out customers later on.
When EQ2 was released I was running a Geforce 6800 vanilla, 1GB ram, and an athlon64 3000+...by no means a very beefy system. I still ran all the graphics settings on medium though. The game looked great and it rarely got choppy. During the beta I ran it on a 1.8GHz Pentium M, 512MB ram, and a radeon 9200 w/32MB shared video memory...way below minimum specs. It didn't run the greatest, but on the lowest settings it was very playable and didn't look that bad.
That probably came out a little fanboyish...as an added disclaimer I stopped playing EQ2 not long after release.
Yes, indeed it does! Just pick one and go for it!
Honestly, gas would have to cost much more than 7 dollars a gallon to get me to move that close to work. I pay $650 for an apartment roughly 30 minutes from work. That same apartment within a few minutes of work would cost around $1100. My average commute consumes ~1.5 gallons of gas which costs me about 4 dollars a day, or about $3.50 more than driving for a few minutes. I drive an average of 23 days a month to work, which costs ~$83 more than driving a few minutes to work. Since I usually car pool, that cuts that number in half.
I realize there is wear and tear on the car to take into account, but we're talking gas usage here. Plus you could say that carpooling would negate the added cost. But by my (basic) calculations, gas would have to cost more than $13.50 per gallon to make the cost of living difference worth it. And frankly, that half an hour each way to/from work gives me the perfect amount of time to wake up with a cup of coffee, or release some post-work stress and crank the volume.
because stopping power is no better than 2wd
I can't believe how many people don't realize that yet. You would think that after seeing so many SUVs/Trucks in the ditch on a snowy day that they'd catch on. Oh well, seeing them in the ditch 5 miles down the road really brightens my morning commute!
I'd like to think that such criticisms transcend national boundaries.
My laptop wont play them without skipping (drive is too slow? not enough RAM?)
might want to check if your dvd-rom is set to DMA mode...choppy dvd playback on computers can be caused by the ide channel being stuck in PIO mode. After doing help desk for a while that seemed to be the most common problem, assuming there aren't other major errors with the system. Fix here.
You might want to check out Final Fantasy 11, playable (on the same servers) on the PC, Xbox 360, and PS2.
Questionable data for sure, thanks for pointing that out. In my above post I was primarily questioning the parent's assertion that Mac Desktop marketshare will only go up, and could never go down.
...the percentage of Mac desktops can only go up.
Really? Because their notebooks aren't doing so hot. I'm pretty sure the same principle could apply to Apple's line of desktops as well.
Ohhh no, kids are much sneakier than that! I just started deleting system files until Windows stopped booting. Then you yell "Daddd!!! Computer's broken!", followed by an inquery on how to install an OS. Parent hands off the project of reinstalling to the kid, and voila~
You sir, were the primary motivation for me to learn how to format a hard drive and reinstall Windows when I was younger!
AAA game that everyone has to have
Umm, isn't that your job? Shouldn't you have started out with "My studio recently shipped the greatest PSP game ever"? I could be wrong, but I thought it was the game studios that were supposed to release kick ass games. If you put out a decent game for the PSP, instead of the countless ports I see laying around, I'll buy it. If there's 20 million of us sitting around with PSPs, you'll sell quite a few.