My Saturn L300 has a photosensor that turns on its main headlights (rather than just the low-power lights) when it gets dark enough. I would hope such vehicles would be equipped with that in other markets.
Wikipedia is not collecting money for Wikipedia. Wikipedia has enough money.
Wikimedia is collecting money to build up Wikipedia's sister projects...
"It's absolutely not clear to me (and I don't think anyone) that a focused investment in, say, textbook development is actually going to result in predictable payoff in a transformatively larger number of sustainable content contributors. That doesn't mean that there isn't a potential for such an investment to be successful, and it doesn't mean that it's not a risk worth taking." -- Erik Moeller, Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
Windows Update issued an update to the Malicious Software Removal Tool which cleaned computers infected by the Storm Worm. Citation here.
So, you've got malware that sends out spam and DDoSes PCs, and "malware" that may install a desktop search update depending on the configuration of WSUS. I personally see the former as the bigger problem.
"He did'n said that visualization is not useful. It can be, but it's still just a tool."
He says it's not hard to visualize a shot mentally, given experience looking at shots in real life. He also says computer animation is "fake" and "doesn't matter". Finally, he calls it a "toy" that "isn't going to make your movies any better"
At least to me, he made a pretty big inference that it is not useful.
One is a big blue button, one is plain text that is pretty unremarkable and not even close to that button. You completely ignored his point about the unbundled version intentionally being made harder to find and instead decided to insult him personally. Your lack of consideration and attitude says a great deal about your mental age.
You may also want to look into what accessories come with those players when comparing prices. I seem to remember people complaining about Apple discontinuing its inclusion of an accessory that allows you to charge your iPod without a computer. So, if the competitors include such a device while it would cost you additional money to get a similar device for the iPod, that would need to be taken into account as well. I know that when I purchased my Dell DJ, it even came with a dock for the computer and a case at no extra charge, which increased the value to me over alternatives. Maybe you did take that into account, but your statements did not address that issue, so I felt I would point it out.
Considering that Bethesda is finishing up Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, it's no surprise that their next project, Fallout 3, is not going to be at E3. In fact, last time I checked, it was still in pre-production. It is hard to make a demo booth if you don't even have an alpha build.
Dell's retail prices are about as firm as a new car's price is before you negotiate on the trade-in value of your old car, find out about manufacturer's rebates/incentives, and badger the salesperson into lowering the price.
Just today I got an email from them because I am on their mailing list offering me 34% off select computers. Similar specials can often be found on the website itself. Given Dell's success in a market where margins are slim, those deals are not likely to be cutting into their costs.
No offense, but how easy or hard it is to get to 60 is not relevant to the game after you have reached 60, the end game, which is what the parent is discussing.
From the parent: "Make some 'end game' content that doesn't require a huge guild to complete, please."
With BitComet getting banned from an increasing number of private torrent trackers, it may not be a feasible option for many people for long if changes are not made to it. That would make it less desirable as one to review if they only had a certain amount of time to test clients.
Lucky you. I happen to have made the extreme mistake of purchasing a Dell three years ago which uses the expensive RDRAM variety because they chose the wrong side in the RDRAM versus DDR2 battle at the time. Cost me $200 for two 256 MB sticks when I wanted to upgrade recently. I was lucky to find anyone that still sold it.
So I suppose my point is that not everyone has the luxury of being able to upgrade their RAM so inexpensively.
That's called "estate planning" through the implementation of a trust and is actually quite viable if he wants to make sure Uncle Sam doesn't take a major chunk out of his beneficiaries' earnings.
Personally I believe his foundation would use the money more wisely than our government would.
"World of Warcraft has this solved - you can still solo meaningfully at even the higest level, letting you enjoy yourself whist a group slowly comes together. If the group doesnt pan out, well, that isnt the end of the world."
I would agree that the soloing to 60 is quite enjoyable, but I have to say that with all the instances for the end game that are available at 60, a proper feature to search for people who could tag themselves as looking for a group is long overdue to avoid having to huddle in Orgrimmar or Ironforge scanning the LookingForGroup channel while doing nothing or trying to keep track of guild chat comments while farming reputation or gold. It's one of the features I sorely missed when moving from FFXI.
Personally, I feel that first person shooters are more suited to PCs, at least ones that would incorporate the aspect of aiming precisely with some sort of peripheral. It's hard to do that with a joystick. So, I'd have to disagree with you and say that Valve has focused specifically on the platform in which its games will have the most success.
Take the Civilization series, for example. It is a member of the strategy genre, one that also is more suitable for the PC, and it is one of the best-selling series ever.
As for multithreading, if you had not noticed, both Intel and AMD have come out with dual-core processors recently. Games for the PC will catch up to console games in taking advantage of that capability once the processors penetrate the market enough that developers feel it worthy to take the time to code it into the games. Consoles have the advantage in that respect in that developers have a standard hardware configuration to work with and can implement all the advanced features they include, but given that the advantage exists right now does not mean that it will continue to exist in the future.
PC gaming has been around for more than a decade even as consoles have been in existence and I don't see it dying any time soon.
I'm still hoping they'll make a sequel to SimTower once they've milked The Sims cash cow extensively. It would fill in the gap between the broad-level SimCity series and the close-up The Sims series. SimTower strikes a nice balance between not micromanaging your sims as in The Sims and not being able to relate to them at all in SimCity.
Up to, oh, about 14,000 now. Imagine how much advertising money any other site would have to pay Google, DoubleClick, etc, to get 10,000 hits in one day off of one advertising campaign.
I recently started getting that when I go to reply to a post. I also recently started running a Tor server, so maybe Slashdot is simply trying to prevent abuse by people using anonymous proxies to access the site.
I get a visual confirmation image and box. In trying to submit a post while logged in and not as an AC, I get
"Wrong image text, try again
You failed to confirm you are a human. Please double-check the 7-letter image and make sure you typed in what it says."
Not likely. Consumer's Union's Consumer Reports tells it like it is and has gotten taken to court several times by companies seeking to protect their reputations. However, in every case, Consumer's Union has won and continued to serve as a voice for the people.
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My Saturn L300 has a photosensor that turns on its main headlights (rather than just the low-power lights) when it gets dark enough. I would hope such vehicles would be equipped with that in other markets.
Try downloading the 64-bit drivers from Tages' website. I had this problem with a different game in the past where only 32-bit were bundled.
http://www.tagesprotection.com/main.htm?page=minimum.htm
At least then you can play the game you paid for.
Wikipedia is not collecting money for Wikipedia. Wikipedia has enough money. Wikimedia is collecting money to build up Wikipedia's sister projects...
"It's absolutely not clear to me (and I don't think anyone) that a focused investment in, say, textbook development is actually going to result in predictable payoff in a transformatively larger number of sustainable content contributors. That doesn't mean that there isn't a potential for such an investment to be successful, and it doesn't mean that it's not a risk worth taking." -- Erik Moeller, Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-October/061608.html
Windows Update issued an update to the Malicious Software Removal Tool which cleaned computers infected by the Storm Worm. Citation here. So, you've got malware that sends out spam and DDoSes PCs, and "malware" that may install a desktop search update depending on the configuration of WSUS. I personally see the former as the bigger problem.
You must be talking about the Internet Content Ratings Association?
They indemnify you, so they are the ones legally liable, not you. You are still protected against patent troubles like this...
"He did'n said that visualization is not useful. It can be, but it's still just a tool."
He says it's not hard to visualize a shot mentally, given experience looking at shots in real life. He also says computer animation is "fake" and "doesn't matter". Finally, he calls it a "toy" that "isn't going to make your movies any better"
At least to me, he made a pretty big inference that it is not useful.
One is a big blue button, one is plain text that is pretty unremarkable and not even close to that button. You completely ignored his point about the unbundled version intentionally being made harder to find and instead decided to insult him personally. Your lack of consideration and attitude says a great deal about your mental age.
You may also want to look into what accessories come with those players when comparing prices. I seem to remember people complaining about Apple discontinuing its inclusion of an accessory that allows you to charge your iPod without a computer. So, if the competitors include such a device while it would cost you additional money to get a similar device for the iPod, that would need to be taken into account as well. I know that when I purchased my Dell DJ, it even came with a dock for the computer and a case at no extra charge, which increased the value to me over alternatives. Maybe you did take that into account, but your statements did not address that issue, so I felt I would point it out.
Considering that Bethesda is finishing up Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, it's no surprise that their next project, Fallout 3, is not going to be at E3. In fact, last time I checked, it was still in pre-production. It is hard to make a demo booth if you don't even have an alpha build.
Dell's retail prices are about as firm as a new car's price is before you negotiate on the trade-in value of your old car, find out about manufacturer's rebates/incentives, and badger the salesperson into lowering the price.
Just today I got an email from them because I am on their mailing list offering me 34% off select computers. Similar specials can often be found on the website itself. Given Dell's success in a market where margins are slim, those deals are not likely to be cutting into their costs.
I guess now we know who is "new here". :P
Good advice, yet if my eyes do not deceive me, the Boing Boing fiasco is listed under IT and not YRO...
No offense, but how easy or hard it is to get to 60 is not relevant to the game after you have reached 60, the end game, which is what the parent is discussing.
From the parent: "Make some 'end game' content that doesn't require a huge guild to complete, please."
With BitComet getting banned from an increasing number of private torrent trackers, it may not be a feasible option for many people for long if changes are not made to it. That would make it less desirable as one to review if they only had a certain amount of time to test clients.
Lucky you. I happen to have made the extreme mistake of purchasing a Dell three years ago which uses the expensive RDRAM variety because they chose the wrong side in the RDRAM versus DDR2 battle at the time. Cost me $200 for two 256 MB sticks when I wanted to upgrade recently. I was lucky to find anyone that still sold it.
So I suppose my point is that not everyone has the luxury of being able to upgrade their RAM so inexpensively.
That's called "estate planning" through the implementation of a trust and is actually quite viable if he wants to make sure Uncle Sam doesn't take a major chunk out of his beneficiaries' earnings.
Personally I believe his foundation would use the money more wisely than our government would.
"World of Warcraft has this solved - you can still solo meaningfully at even the higest level, letting you enjoy yourself whist a group slowly comes together. If the group doesnt pan out, well, that isnt the end of the world."
I would agree that the soloing to 60 is quite enjoyable, but I have to say that with all the instances for the end game that are available at 60, a proper feature to search for people who could tag themselves as looking for a group is long overdue to avoid having to huddle in Orgrimmar or Ironforge scanning the LookingForGroup channel while doing nothing or trying to keep track of guild chat comments while farming reputation or gold. It's one of the features I sorely missed when moving from FFXI.
Personally, I feel that first person shooters are more suited to PCs, at least ones that would incorporate the aspect of aiming precisely with some sort of peripheral. It's hard to do that with a joystick. So, I'd have to disagree with you and say that Valve has focused specifically on the platform in which its games will have the most success.
Take the Civilization series, for example. It is a member of the strategy genre, one that also is more suitable for the PC, and it is one of the best-selling series ever.
As for multithreading, if you had not noticed, both Intel and AMD have come out with dual-core processors recently. Games for the PC will catch up to console games in taking advantage of that capability once the processors penetrate the market enough that developers feel it worthy to take the time to code it into the games. Consoles have the advantage in that respect in that developers have a standard hardware configuration to work with and can implement all the advanced features they include, but given that the advantage exists right now does not mean that it will continue to exist in the future.
PC gaming has been around for more than a decade even as consoles have been in existence and I don't see it dying any time soon.
I'm still hoping they'll make a sequel to SimTower once they've milked The Sims cash cow extensively. It would fill in the gap between the broad-level SimCity series and the close-up The Sims series. SimTower strikes a nice balance between not micromanaging your sims as in The Sims and not being able to relate to them at all in SimCity.
Up to, oh, about 14,000 now.
Imagine how much advertising money any other site would have to pay Google, DoubleClick, etc, to get 10,000 hits in one day off of one advertising campaign.
I recently started getting that when I go to reply to a post. I also recently started running a Tor server, so maybe Slashdot is simply trying to prevent abuse by people using anonymous proxies to access the site.
I get a visual confirmation image and box. In trying to submit a post while logged in and not as an AC, I get "Wrong image text, try again You failed to confirm you are a human. Please double-check the 7-letter image and make sure you typed in what it says."
I take offense to that for obvious reasons.
Not likely. Consumer's Union's Consumer Reports tells it like it is and has gotten taken to court several times by companies seeking to protect their reputations. However, in every case, Consumer's Union has won and continued to serve as a voice for the people.