Its pretty much a given they Microsoft will be hacked on no matter what they do, frankly. I suppose if Bill's charities do the impossible and solve world poverty and hunger, people will be complaining that he has put World Vision out of business... embrace and extend baby!
How to DJ Right by Frank Broughton and Bill Brewster is easily the best text I have read about DJing. I had been DJing for quite a few years when I read this book and there was a lot of information which I found very useful.
My advice would be that if you are serious about learning, buy yourself some good second-hand technics decks. They have excellent re-sale value because they are built to last for years. I have some old second-hand 1200 Mk2s which I bought when I was living in England, and they have been moved around countless times and still are as good as the day I bought them. Even if you buy a cheaper mixer to start with, get the turntables right.
I'd also advise to get in with an online community of people that play the same sort of music as you want to. Not only is it handy for finding gems which you might not know about, when you get confident enough to start hosting your mixes online you will get some useful advise and criticism of your mixes.
But violence is a-ok. Cop shows can show murders and beatings because "that sort of thing happens all the time" or "that's the way it is." It's gritty, "life on the street" sorts of things. Drug abuse, murder, beatings, that's cool. That happens all the time, but God forbid we show a boobie. Because people don't have sex.
The reason for this is very simple. Showing violence on TV breeds fear and paranoia, and afraid paranoid people are easy to control and buy things to try and distract themselves from what is bothering them. People having sex just lock themselves in a room and forget about any of the crap which the modern world tries to fill our heads with. Content people don't consume.
Remember it? It's still going strong, nearly 4 years after release (IIRC). There is still plenty of servers floating around even with the likes of WoW here in great force. The main reasons I can think of is a) a lot of people are against pay-to-play games, and b) NWN has so much scope for customisation, in regards to both the look of your character and also your character "build" when compared to the MMORPG games.
Surely not all the hardware and software vendors are going to collude on this, though. Surely a company, for example AMD, would see that people really don't like being tied to this sort of racket (because thats what its like, a mafia protection racket) and would see they stand to make a lot of money selling hardware which *isn't* trusted. Surely if such product was available, people would move to it in droves. Surely those would be the more computer literate people who are the ones who their less-literate friends go to advice when they have computer problems, like this would end up being for them. And surely, the profit margins of the companies that try this shit would get fucked in the ass like it deserves to be.
... when the first time you boot up a game your jaw hits the floor at how much better the game is than the ones you currently play. As far as FPS games go (which have the most instant visceral effect) Doom did that to me, so did Quake 1, the next one to do that was Half-Life during the sequence where the portal opens into the alien world and everything goes to shit. Far-Cry was probably the next one that did that to me when you come out of the caves and see that massive view distance for the first time. I have a feeling that Oblivion will be the next one that has that effect on me.
Instead of passing around a "normal" mp3 of Metallica, they're now sharing a "watermarked" version that allegedly can't be discerned by mere humans. How does this help?
Seems a bit strange to me to do a current comparison by using a version of 3d Mark that is 5 years old. If you were going to test out a 6800 on Windows alone you would use 2003 or 2005, the fact they didn't use that one in their Wine comparison suggests to me it couldn't run the later versions at all. The fact that 2000 ran better than under XP, but 2001 ran considerably worse suggests this as well.
If this is the case, the results in regard to game performance are out-dated at best.
It's what they are saying they would like to encourage, but its not really. Instead they would rather a new market FOX and CNN and all the other good little "independant" news channels that might as well be state sponsored.
If you ask me the whole premise of the article is the 3rd point, "Trumpet your Credibility". It seems to be based on the assumption that the reviewers opinion is much more important than any of the other reviews being aggregated.
Personally, I would prefer to get an overall picture of whether a group of reviewers liked a product rather than the individual opinion of a reviewer who may or may not be carried away with his own sense of hubris. I may not hold the same opinion on the subject of the review as him, just like I may not hold the same opinion on the reviewer.
I find keeping our Windows machines secure and up-to-date quite easy, due to setting up a Windows Software Update Services server. It took a few hours to set up and configure so any windows machine I plug into the domain will automatically pick up the correct settings to download updates from my update server rather than from the Microsoft update server. The server then looks at each of the machines and they report back which updates they need and do not have. Each week I look at the list of new updates and download just the ones that machines on my network need. As far as the users see, it works just like Windows Update does for a single PC on the internet, except we download the updates only once. I hardly think it is difficult for anyone with reasonable computer skills.
Both are consumption items; money spent on welfare or the military is just gone, consumed. It can't be used for investment or research. And it's no longer in the taxpayers' pocketbooks for them to use themselves. Our taxes, in essence, is organized theft of the population at gunpoint.... to make more guns.
There is a great quote by Eisenhower on that very subject.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron."
To me it seems like a sad indictment on our modern world that it has become so right-wing that a Republican president from the 50s now sounds like a "bleeding-heart liberal".
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If thats his pizza, I'm IC Whatever!
I want to discover the first 12 hours of the game myself, not let some game media bozo do it for me.
I wonder if prospective employers realise its possible for someone to have the same name as you? It's not like its a primary key...
Maybe the government translators are too busy writing the documents to translate them? ;)
I would have thought that Open-Source also implies the Iraqi documents can be compiled into some sort of program.
Its pretty much a given they Microsoft will be hacked on no matter what they do, frankly. I suppose if Bill's charities do the impossible and solve world poverty and hunger, people will be complaining that he has put World Vision out of business... embrace and extend baby!
How to DJ Right by Frank Broughton and Bill Brewster is easily the best text I have read about DJing. I had been DJing for quite a few years when I read this book and there was a lot of information which I found very useful.
My advice would be that if you are serious about learning, buy yourself some good second-hand technics decks. They have excellent re-sale value because they are built to last for years. I have some old second-hand 1200 Mk2s which I bought when I was living in England, and they have been moved around countless times and still are as good as the day I bought them. Even if you buy a cheaper mixer to start with, get the turntables right.
I'd also advise to get in with an online community of people that play the same sort of music as you want to. Not only is it handy for finding gems which you might not know about, when you get confident enough to start hosting your mixes online you will get some useful advise and criticism of your mixes.
I think it desensitizes people to it happening to others, but makes them more paranoid about it happening to them, personally.
But violence is a-ok. Cop shows can show murders and beatings because "that sort of thing happens all the time" or "that's the way it is." It's gritty, "life on the street" sorts of things. Drug abuse, murder, beatings, that's cool. That happens all the time, but God forbid we show a boobie. Because people don't have sex.
The reason for this is very simple. Showing violence on TV breeds fear and paranoia, and afraid paranoid people are easy to control and buy things to try and distract themselves from what is bothering them. People having sex just lock themselves in a room and forget about any of the crap which the modern world tries to fill our heads with. Content people don't consume.
Does this mean the X-ists will finally come and take us away in their pleasure saucers as Bob predicted?
Remember Neverwinter Nights?
Remember it? It's still going strong, nearly 4 years after release (IIRC). There is still plenty of servers floating around even with the likes of WoW here in great force. The main reasons I can think of is a) a lot of people are against pay-to-play games, and b) NWN has so much scope for customisation, in regards to both the look of your character and also your character "build" when compared to the MMORPG games.
Welcome to Sony PS3 - Press play on tape
Surely not all the hardware and software vendors are going to collude on this, though. Surely a company, for example AMD, would see that people really don't like being tied to this sort of racket (because thats what its like, a mafia protection racket) and would see they stand to make a lot of money selling hardware which *isn't* trusted. Surely if such product was available, people would move to it in droves. Surely those would be the more computer literate people who are the ones who their less-literate friends go to advice when they have computer problems, like this would end up being for them. And surely, the profit margins of the companies that try this shit would get fucked in the ass like it deserves to be.
... when the first time you boot up a game your jaw hits the floor at how much better the game is than the ones you currently play. As far as FPS games go (which have the most instant visceral effect) Doom did that to me, so did Quake 1, the next one to do that was Half-Life during the sequence where the portal opens into the alien world and everything goes to shit. Far-Cry was probably the next one that did that to me when you come out of the caves and see that massive view distance for the first time. I have a feeling that Oblivion will be the next one that has that effect on me.
The world needs a movie version of the Illuminatus! trilogy.
Instead of passing around a "normal" mp3 of Metallica, they're now sharing a "watermarked" version that allegedly can't be discerned by mere humans. How does this help?
Well, at least Lars would know who to sue.
After all, why would I want to spend all those countless hours of gaming staring at a guy's ass as I'm running around killing things?
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I guess you would have to ask the members of said guilds
Seems a bit strange to me to do a current comparison by using a version of 3d Mark that is 5 years old. If you were going to test out a 6800 on Windows alone you would use 2003 or 2005, the fact they didn't use that one in their Wine comparison suggests to me it couldn't run the later versions at all. The fact that 2000 ran better than under XP, but 2001 ran considerably worse suggests this as well.
If this is the case, the results in regard to game performance are out-dated at best.
Oprah has credibility? What a world we live in...
It's what they are saying they would like to encourage, but its not really. Instead they would rather a new market FOX and CNN and all the other good little "independant" news channels that might as well be state sponsored.
If you ask me the whole premise of the article is the 3rd point, "Trumpet your Credibility". It seems to be based on the assumption that the reviewers opinion is much more important than any of the other reviews being aggregated.
Personally, I would prefer to get an overall picture of whether a group of reviewers liked a product rather than the individual opinion of a reviewer who may or may not be carried away with his own sense of hubris. I may not hold the same opinion on the subject of the review as him, just like I may not hold the same opinion on the reviewer.
I find keeping our Windows machines secure and up-to-date quite easy, due to setting up a Windows Software Update Services server. It took a few hours to set up and configure so any windows machine I plug into the domain will automatically pick up the correct settings to download updates from my update server rather than from the Microsoft update server. The server then looks at each of the machines and they report back which updates they need and do not have. Each week I look at the list of new updates and download just the ones that machines on my network need. As far as the users see, it works just like Windows Update does for a single PC on the internet, except we download the updates only once. I hardly think it is difficult for anyone with reasonable computer skills.
They are just preparing for when their IT job is outsourced to India ;)
Any game that keeps any sort of number of perverted, griefing, wanna-be rapists out of my chosen game is definately a good thing.
Both are consumption items; money spent on welfare or the military is just gone, consumed. It can't be used for investment or research. And it's no longer in the taxpayers' pocketbooks for them to use themselves. Our taxes, in essence, is organized theft of the population at gunpoint.... to make more guns.
There is a great quote by Eisenhower on that very subject.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron."
To me it seems like a sad indictment on our modern world that it has become so right-wing that a Republican president from the 50s now sounds like a "bleeding-heart liberal".