And that's still 900,000,000 peasants out of 1.3 billion total. Add in a massively corrupt Party and military structure and you have a recipie for an economy that isn't going anywhere.
I've played MMLan's RTCW server
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And it's usually a good one. Pity I can't make it to LA for some live LANtastic fragging.
Single-player RTCW isn't all that hot. The meat of the game, and the more-than-your-money's-worth part, is the multiplayer. Which rocks. Hard. And has high replay value. I nuked my SP saves by mistake, but the reinstall fixed MP so i'm happy.p
The beach map (in the demo) is like being an extra in the beginning of Saving Private Ryan, crossing a beach under intensive fire. Against a good defensive team, expect to spawn 2-3 times just getting off the beach. Between snipers and artillery the beach is a deadly place to be, with death finding you without warning and only the slightest clue as to what got you.
Respawning isn't a damning factor, as a few have said with reference to CS. It makes it worthwhile being the first man through a door, even if you get nailed it isn't a 3 minute wait to play again. And with medics being able to revive casualties (that haven't been completely gibbed), it can be worth waiting so you don't start over all the way back at the spawn point.
And don't get me started on the teamplay. The four classes are all vital (don't forget the Engineer has EIGHT grenades plus an SMG) and must play well together for success. The TK problem sorted itself out fairly quickly, and its safe to play with FF on again.
The heck with this, I'm gonna go play ! [same ID in RTCW] Frag you later !
I don't have DoD, but I am beta-testing CounterStrike 1.4. Maybe I'm mising something in CS due to the people I've played with in the beta so far. But, while CS has its points, RTCW beats it for intensity of action and sheer unmitigated carnage and destruction. Part of the RTCW advantage is the pawnign system, which gets players back into the game faster (4 minute waits to play CS again really burn me).
the CRT iMac does "disappear". The widest point of the curve is at the front. When you're sitting in front of it, all you can see is the display framed in whatever color plastic. It's kinda nice, from the side they look pretty beig, and they are fairly deep. The new one is just a 10" blob under your monitor.
You never had to fix an executive's Vaio, did you ? Vaios are paind to troubleshoot, had no drivers available, tech support just wanted you to run the restore disk and reinstall the apps. Pain in the neck. And adding non-Sony USB devices (keyboard, mouse, Epson printer, hub, Palmpilot, etc.) was problematic.
Skip 'em, especially if the gadget-happy computer-illiterate are going to be using them. Go with the Powerbooks.
Sure thing I remember 'talk'. Bored students scanning 'who', 2400 baud modem, Mac Plus, SFSU shell account, gopher (finding Chiba University in gopherspace), archie, zmodem...
Gee, since WU is a big feature of XP (even if MS is still breaking things with new patches) d'you think consumers have an action claim if WU fails to get them a known patch ? Lost data due to a known error could leave MS liable in today's lawsuit-happy world.
Add in a Gartner analyst casting doubts on MS and raising the trust issue in terms of.NET, and you have some long-term sales issues for Microsoft. The analyst said that if you don't trust Microsoft, you don't use.NET. Then the article reminds us that MS is betting the company on.NET.
A failure to execute (on security) could get Microsoft executed.
Oh yes. And, if you can manage to get the rights to the ROM, I highly recommend Discs of Tron. In arcade format, it had a paddle with a Z-axis for targetting your discs; it's barely playable with mouse and keyboard, and I haven't tried it with the gamepad yet.
Another advantage of a one-button mouse is that you'll never have to take the support calls I've had for clueless Windows users: "What do you mean, right-click ?".
That was a 20-minute call. Fortunately, the manager really appreciated my work AND got a kick out of clueless users from her time on the phone.
It could be worse, at my last job we had to quarantine HR's computers because of the massive quantity of virus-infected Word-format resumes they received. At another, we had a candidate for IT Director send a virus in his/her resume. I cleaned HR's computer and advised her that this candidate was blatantly unqualified for any IT position.
It is if you don't use the "Send resumes to..." address. It is if you have NO IDEA if the person you mailed has anything at all to do with hiring contract techs.
The biggest perceived flaw with the whole OS X user experience is the lack of refinement in the system. OS 9's Finder and UI in general are the linear decendants of the very first Mac OS from way back in 1984.
OS X is a new beginning from a clean slate UI. A lot of the little subtleties from OS 9 haven't been implemented yet, and refinement of the new features in OS X has barely begun.
But with 17 years of experience in making aesthetic UI's, Apple should hit their stride with the whole Aqua thing in the next year. Then OS 9 will look as dated, clumsy and primitive as System 6 does now.
The Intellimouse has a design flaw. There are hard plastic edges surrounding the join between cord and mouse. This will eventually cause breaks in the cord and the mouse starts acting erratic. When wiggling the mouse around turns the red light back on, it's time for a new one.
I called MS to bitch, and their program is: fax in a photocopy of the bottom of the mouse (with serial number legible) and they'll replace 'em. I had a half dozen replaced last year, that costs MS for shipping, customer service time, and of course the cost for the replacement meeses,
Scotch tape carefully inserted as padding around the cord entry point (tuck it inside the joint) will also extend the life of the mouse and may repair the damage in some cases.
And OS X recognizes the Intellimouse out of the box, with all buttons and the wheel working. Heck, OS X DP3 supported the Intellimouse.
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And that's still 900,000,000 peasants out of 1.3 billion total. Add in a massively corrupt Party and military structure and you have a recipie for an economy that isn't going anywhere.
And it's usually a good one. Pity I can't make it to LA for some live LANtastic fragging.
The beach map (in the demo) is like being an extra in the beginning of Saving Private Ryan, crossing a beach under intensive fire. Against a good defensive team, expect to spawn 2-3 times just getting off the beach. Between snipers and artillery the beach is a deadly place to be, with death finding you without warning and only the slightest clue as to what got you.
Respawning isn't a damning factor, as a few have said with reference to CS. It makes it worthwhile being the first man through a door, even if you get nailed it isn't a 3 minute wait to play again. And with medics being able to revive casualties (that haven't been completely gibbed), it can be worth waiting so you don't start over all the way back at the spawn point.
And don't get me started on the teamplay. The four classes are all vital (don't forget the Engineer has EIGHT grenades plus an SMG) and must play well together for success. The TK problem sorted itself out fairly quickly, and its safe to play with FF on again.
The heck with this, I'm gonna go play ! [same ID in RTCW] Frag you later !
I don't have DoD, but I am beta-testing CounterStrike 1.4. Maybe I'm mising something in CS due to the people I've played with in the beta so far. But, while CS has its points, RTCW beats it for intensity of action and sheer unmitigated carnage and destruction. Part of the RTCW advantage is the pawnign system, which gets players back into the game faster (4 minute waits to play CS again really burn me).
By PDA I hope you're talking about a Palm unit, 'cause I must have a link to that right now.
the CRT iMac does "disappear". The widest point of the curve is at the front. When you're sitting in front of it, all you can see is the display framed in whatever color plastic. It's kinda nice, from the side they look pretty beig, and they are fairly deep. The new one is just a 10" blob under your monitor.
and make sure that cheaper 22" widescreen is digital.
I'm going to try Clean LimeWire in the hopes of a non-crashy (Gnucleus) Free gnutella client.
Skip 'em, especially if the gadget-happy computer-illiterate are going to be using them. Go with the Powerbooks.
Those were the days.
Add in a Gartner analyst casting doubts on MS and raising the trust issue in terms of
A failure to execute (on security) could get Microsoft executed.
Oh yes. And, if you can manage to get the rights to the ROM, I highly recommend Discs of Tron. In arcade format, it had a paddle with a Z-axis for targetting your discs; it's barely playable with mouse and keyboard, and I haven't tried it with the gamepad yet.
That's probably more binding than a click-through license. Or it should be.
No they don't look, but it's a good technical point to make anyway.
That was a 20-minute call. Fortunately, the manager really appreciated my work AND got a kick out of clueless users from her time on the phone.
uce@ftc.gov
they're particularly interested in fraud, pyramid schemes and the like.
See their press release.
It could be worse, at my last job we had to quarantine HR's computers because of the massive quantity of virus-infected Word-format resumes they received. At another, we had a candidate for IT Director send a virus in his/her resume. I cleaned HR's computer and advised her that this candidate was blatantly unqualified for any IT position.
It is if you don't use the "Send resumes to..." address. It is if you have NO IDEA if the person you mailed has anything at all to do with hiring contract techs.
When I signed up for ICQ I got a porn spam message less than a minute after I signed on for the first time.
OS X is a new beginning from a clean slate UI. A lot of the little subtleties from OS 9 haven't been implemented yet, and refinement of the new features in OS X has barely begun.
But with 17 years of experience in making aesthetic UI's, Apple should hit their stride with the whole Aqua thing in the next year. Then OS 9 will look as dated, clumsy and primitive as System 6 does now.
As a Wildcat, this sounds about right from an ASU grad.
About the only thing VirtualPC won't run is Windows versions before 95.
USB hubs are dirt cheap these days.
You'll also want a 2GB video card or you'll be running it in 640x480 @ 4-bit color.
I called MS to bitch, and their program is: fax in a photocopy of the bottom of the mouse (with serial number legible) and they'll replace 'em. I had a half dozen replaced last year, that costs MS for shipping, customer service time, and of course the cost for the replacement meeses,
Scotch tape carefully inserted as padding around the cord entry point (tuck it inside the joint) will also extend the life of the mouse and may repair the damage in some cases.
And OS X recognizes the Intellimouse out of the box, with all buttons and the wheel working. Heck, OS X DP3 supported the Intellimouse.