...it would take a staggering number of cell phones and an unrealistic continuous exposer time.
Don't you see how relevant that is to this story though?! With unlimited plans, I'll be able to finally afford that fifth cell phone I've been looking at! I'll never have to put any of them down!
I took the GP's post to be more in the manner that when you type in Bob, it checks your address book. If you have Bob in there, it automatically calls up Wii# XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX. Basically an alias.
There will no doubt be a successor to the PSP some day, but they better not be adding features and calling it the same thing. Making it lighter or other cosmetic changes (ala DS Lite) is fine, but I already have to deal with a crap selection of games. If they add new features such as a touch screen, developers will start catering to that system, and then I'm really SOL.
Umm, multicast doesn't really do anything at all for you if your users are pulling random content off the Internet. Multicast only works if your end users are streaming the same content at the same time, like a live webcast. I know youtube is uber awesome, but as far as networking goes it looks just like regular web traffic.
This is nothing new from Apple, at least in the area of smartphones / pdas (which the iPhone definitely falls under). I receive software updates from HTC, not from Cingular. Cingular's own support page points directly to HTC's. Microsoft provides the OS to HTC, HTC gets it to work on their devices, and Cingular creates their own customizations to be added seperately from the OS. Cingular's customizations can easily be removed from the update too, so you can pick and chopse what to add.
Nokia smartphones / pdas operate in a similar manner. I would guess Treo and others are the same. The only ground Apple is breaking with their iPhone is that it's completely closed to 3rd party development.
From the sounds of it they just have to fund a college radio station for 25 weeks. The details of the 8400 segments are pretty lacking so far...just kind of sounds like they need to give them some radio waves. I'm betting radio isn't really going to change at all as a result of this.
Nope. Toontown online did this years ago. They've got some safety features built in as well. Mainly there's no open chat. Also, in order to chat with another player you have to do sort of a secret handshake. Friends lists can be monitored by parents.
However, kids will be kids. Who here can honestly say they didn't build a few select body parts with LEGOs as a kid?
Toontown Online did this years ago, and if you've spent much time in WoW's general chat channels, you've seen that they've moved on already. God bless the ignore command!
Tell that to my Outlook calendar. In two weeks when I host my telecon involving people from several states around the US, how many do you think are going to call on time, an hour early, or an hour late? I'm not looking forward to repeating myself over and over. Besides, 4k is chump change when you're talking about the time wasted when dozens of meetings get screwed up (mainly due to PEBKAC errors, but still.)
Can you get a call timer on that phone so you can see if your bill bears any relationship to your actual usage? Can you un-lock all the bluetooth capability to transfer files with your PC (I mean without violating a EULA)?
Yes, and yes. The phone you use just needs to support it. My crappy free LG 1400i I got from Cingular way back when has a running timer for call durations. The HTC tytn I just picked up has full bluetooth capabilities and thanks to the help of xda devs, I can do damn near anything with it. You aren't breaking the EULA by not using their phone. Just put in your SIM card and go to town. Sounds like you have a beef with a specific provider (verizon?). Free market dictates that you have the choice to switch providers that don't lock down bluetooth.
I wouldn't say I'm exactly proud of it really...immediately after finishing my four year degree in networking I got hired on to a company to test *nix distros on various hardware. It was just one of the dumbest things I had heard all day, like hearing someone say they've never heard of C++ programmers. I just had to get my $.02 in!
I've never even heard of a degree in "network engineering,"
Cisco Academy. Do an advanced search for 4 year institution. Or, I can point you to where I went, a 4 year degree in essentially, network engineering (name changed since I graduated). Or you could google it. 1.2 million hits...not bad. My company employs hundreds of network engineers. How have you not heard of us? The Internet didn't configure itself!
10 to 20 years? The CCNP classes I took a 2 years ago aren't valid anymore! I looked into taking the last certification of the 4 for the CCNP before my other three certs expire, and the curriculum has changed completely!
After you get your first job, it's very unlikely that basic certs like the CCNA will help you much at all. Advanced certs like the CCIE or the CISSP can help out quite a bit, but having experience with a degree is better. I got hired on to a company with a lot of guys I graduated college with, and just about all of us have let our certs expire. Those that have their resume posted to monster/careerbuilder still get plenty of job offers.
You're right, you won't be my google. That article has absolutely no content relating to the industry admitting that DRM has nothing to do with piracy. And a google search just shows a bunch of articles linking back to that one. As much as I like reading ars, their journalists aren't exactly mpaa/riaa insiders.
So asking again, this time non-AC style: Source, please?
I don't think it's in your credit report. However, everytime I've filled out a loan application, insurance application, housing application, etc, it has asked how long I've been at my current job. So somewhere in there they take that into account.
Every,/every/, DVD player manual says not to connect it to a VCR. If you can't RTFM, that's your own fault. Play your VCR through antenna output, and your dvd player through the composite output. Even the cheapest of TVs have at least a single composite in.
I realize this is an article about how WoW does instances, but the definition is a little more broad than that. An instance in an MMOG really goes by the definition: a case or occurrence of anything. Anything in the case of MMOGs referring to a zone or area of the world. It isn't necessarily restricted to you or your party. In Everquest 2 they had the major zones automatically create another instance of themselves, so if the low level grounds of Antonica had more than 100 players or so in it, a new one would be created, and anyone entering the zone after that would have the choice of entering the first instance with 100 random players in it, or entering the newer instance that had less people in it.
It really just boils down to if the zone is static (there will only be one), or if more than one "instance" of the zone can be created. Usually it is done so that there is enough content for everyone, as having only static zones tends to get cramped.
I don't have a link to show exactly how many games with problems, but I know that in late January Sony released a firmware update that fixed a large portion of the non-peripheral related issues compat issues.
I can't get to it from work, so I can't double check...but this link should allow you to search for specific games. I don't think you can do much searching beyond the title, but it will allow you to check your current library.
The walmart I picked mine up had gotten in 18 that day. I got the last one at ~8:30 am on a Sunday morning. This was about three weeks ago in a town of 5000 people in rural Wisconsin. So they're definitely shipping them out, they just can't keep them in stock.
It certainly wasn't considered so when Microsoft was being raked over the coals for their early 360 shortage...
Except during the 360 shortage days, there were widespread rumors that everyones 360 was going to explode. Even if the hardware failures were few and far between (and over exagerated), it still stuck in peoples minds that Microsoft was releasing low quality hardware just to meet demand.
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Not trying to sound like a fanyboy, but just pointing this out: You realize that hybrid disks have been developed for Blu Ray as well, right?
...it would take a staggering number of cell phones and an unrealistic continuous exposer time.
Don't you see how relevant that is to this story though?! With unlimited plans, I'll be able to finally afford that fifth cell phone I've been looking at! I'll never have to put any of them down!
I took the GP's post to be more in the manner that when you type in Bob, it checks your address book. If you have Bob in there, it automatically calls up Wii# XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX. Basically an alias.
There will no doubt be a successor to the PSP some day, but they better not be adding features and calling it the same thing. Making it lighter or other cosmetic changes (ala DS Lite) is fine, but I already have to deal with a crap selection of games. If they add new features such as a touch screen, developers will start catering to that system, and then I'm really SOL.
Umm, multicast doesn't really do anything at all for you if your users are pulling random content off the Internet. Multicast only works if your end users are streaming the same content at the same time, like a live webcast. I know youtube is uber awesome, but as far as networking goes it looks just like regular web traffic.
This is nothing new from Apple, at least in the area of smartphones / pdas (which the iPhone definitely falls under). I receive software updates from HTC, not from Cingular. Cingular's own support page points directly to HTC's. Microsoft provides the OS to HTC, HTC gets it to work on their devices, and Cingular creates their own customizations to be added seperately from the OS. Cingular's customizations can easily be removed from the update too, so you can pick and chopse what to add.
Nokia smartphones / pdas operate in a similar manner. I would guess Treo and others are the same. The only ground Apple is breaking with their iPhone is that it's completely closed to 3rd party development.
Blasting exhaust vents in 5...4...3...
From the sounds of it they just have to fund a college radio station for 25 weeks. The details of the 8400 segments are pretty lacking so far...just kind of sounds like they need to give them some radio waves. I'm betting radio isn't really going to change at all as a result of this.
Nope. Toontown online did this years ago. They've got some safety features built in as well. Mainly there's no open chat. Also, in order to chat with another player you have to do sort of a secret handshake. Friends lists can be monitored by parents.
However, kids will be kids. Who here can honestly say they didn't build a few select body parts with LEGOs as a kid?
Don't forget Squeenix!
Toontown Online did this years ago, and if you've spent much time in WoW's general chat channels, you've seen that they've moved on already. God bless the ignore command!
Come on pople its not a big deal.
Tell that to my Outlook calendar. In two weeks when I host my telecon involving people from several states around the US, how many do you think are going to call on time, an hour early, or an hour late? I'm not looking forward to repeating myself over and over. Besides, 4k is chump change when you're talking about the time wasted when dozens of meetings get screwed up (mainly due to PEBKAC errors, but still.)
Can you get a call timer on that phone so you can see if your bill bears any relationship to your actual usage? Can you un-lock all the bluetooth capability to transfer files with your PC (I mean without violating a EULA)?
Yes, and yes. The phone you use just needs to support it. My crappy free LG 1400i I got from Cingular way back when has a running timer for call durations. The HTC tytn I just picked up has full bluetooth capabilities and thanks to the help of xda devs, I can do damn near anything with it. You aren't breaking the EULA by not using their phone. Just put in your SIM card and go to town. Sounds like you have a beef with a specific provider (verizon?). Free market dictates that you have the choice to switch providers that don't lock down bluetooth.
I wouldn't say I'm exactly proud of it really...immediately after finishing my four year degree in networking I got hired on to a company to test *nix distros on various hardware. It was just one of the dumbest things I had heard all day, like hearing someone say they've never heard of C++ programmers. I just had to get my $.02 in!
I've never even heard of a degree in "network engineering,"
Cisco Academy. Do an advanced search for 4 year institution. Or, I can point you to where I went, a 4 year degree in essentially, network engineering (name changed since I graduated). Or you could google it. 1.2 million hits...not bad. My company employs hundreds of network engineers. How have you not heard of us? The Internet didn't configure itself!
10 to 20 years? The CCNP classes I took a 2 years ago aren't valid anymore! I looked into taking the last certification of the 4 for the CCNP before my other three certs expire, and the curriculum has changed completely!
After you get your first job, it's very unlikely that basic certs like the CCNA will help you much at all. Advanced certs like the CCIE or the CISSP can help out quite a bit, but having experience with a degree is better. I got hired on to a company with a lot of guys I graduated college with, and just about all of us have let our certs expire. Those that have their resume posted to monster/careerbuilder still get plenty of job offers.
You're right, you won't be my google. That article has absolutely no content relating to the industry admitting that DRM has nothing to do with piracy. And a google search just shows a bunch of articles linking back to that one. As much as I like reading ars, their journalists aren't exactly mpaa/riaa insiders.
So asking again, this time non-AC style: Source, please?
I don't think it's in your credit report. However, everytime I've filled out a loan application, insurance application, housing application, etc, it has asked how long I've been at my current job. So somewhere in there they take that into account.
Every, /every/, DVD player manual says not to connect it to a VCR. If you can't RTFM, that's your own fault. Play your VCR through antenna output, and your dvd player through the composite output. Even the cheapest of TVs have at least a single composite in.
I realize this is an article about how WoW does instances, but the definition is a little more broad than that. An instance in an MMOG really goes by the definition: a case or occurrence of anything. Anything in the case of MMOGs referring to a zone or area of the world. It isn't necessarily restricted to you or your party. In Everquest 2 they had the major zones automatically create another instance of themselves, so if the low level grounds of Antonica had more than 100 players or so in it, a new one would be created, and anyone entering the zone after that would have the choice of entering the first instance with 100 random players in it, or entering the newer instance that had less people in it.
It really just boils down to if the zone is static (there will only be one), or if more than one "instance" of the zone can be created. Usually it is done so that there is enough content for everyone, as having only static zones tends to get cramped.
I'll take a stab at answering for the AC...
I don't have a link to show exactly how many games with problems, but I know that in late January Sony released a firmware update that fixed a large portion of the non-peripheral related issues compat issues.
I can't get to it from work, so I can't double check...but this link should allow you to search for specific games. I don't think you can do much searching beyond the title, but it will allow you to check your current library.
The walmart I picked mine up had gotten in 18 that day. I got the last one at ~8:30 am on a Sunday morning. This was about three weeks ago in a town of 5000 people in rural Wisconsin. So they're definitely shipping them out, they just can't keep them in stock.
It certainly wasn't considered so when Microsoft was being raked over the coals for their early 360 shortage...
Except during the 360 shortage days, there were widespread rumors that everyones 360 was going to explode. Even if the hardware failures were few and far between (and over exagerated), it still stuck in peoples minds that Microsoft was releasing low quality hardware just to meet demand.
I'd add Max Payne into that list too. Definitely one of better "storyline in gaming" shooters I've played.