It may be their intent, but this is Slashdot. He poses to us an intriguing and difficult problem and we solve it through various obtuse and technical solutions.
Well, there's no reason he can't do both. If he's going to at sea for a week at a time between ports, why not have the article you want emailed to you right then? I'd rather do more interesting stuff when docked, like actually explore the city we're at. Save the internet stuff for the boring boat ride, in my opinion.
Surf the RMS way: set up some kind of server at home that you can email a link to and it will wget it and return the content back to you via email. Since you have seemingly unlimited email access, this might be the most efficient way to surf.
You can also encode images into base64, don't know how big an image it would take before you hit the 1MB limit, but it's possible.
You enjoyed Guitar Hero 2 and Rock Band more because they were made by the same developer, Harmonix. Also the creators of Frequency and Amplitude, music games early on in the PS2 lifecycle.
You probably liked the guitar better from Guitar Hero 3 than Rock Band because it was still created by the core Red Octane team, who had experience making the Guitar Hero 1 and 2 guitars with Harmonix.
I think we're all well aware of that, doesn't mean that the game as a whole didn't sell $1 billion total. And since when should a multi-platform release mean sales numbers are worthless?
Except unless it was a private plane, that plane still takes off with or without you guys on it. Now I know if you're not on the plane, you can't attribute that back to your own carbon footprint, just pointing out that the comparison doesn't really hold up as strongly as you believe.
Though I would also have teleconferenced. Seems like a no brainer.
So basically let your life become a tool of the system? I own a house, I have friends at work, I'm married, I have a young baby, I even have two pets, and I would consider myself a successful IT employee. You may want to be an IT gypsy but it is certainly not a requirement to being "successful". Sounds to me you're just scared to actually connect with anything or anyone more than anything else.
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Funny you should say that because the other day I was talking with a friend about our involvements with open source communities (he's on the Debian project) and I mentioned I was getting into DROOpal and he's like "you know, it's actually DRApal." He pointed out it was based off the Dutch word druppel for rain drop.
I've been a long time reader of EGM, and many other gaming magazines. My parents recently dumped off all of them and I've been going through and sorting them, planning some stuff for my site. There's really nothing like reading a magazine if you ask me.
I think I had an interesting gaming news cycle. When I was younger, all my news would come from magazines, Nintendo Power, Game Players, etc. Then I actually saw an add for N64.com in a magazine back in 1996, which lead me to getting all my news from them, while still receiving magazines for perusal. A few years into college, I pretty much stopped going to gaming sites and once I graduated, I was too busy even consider it. Magazines became one of my only sources of gaming news again. The info was old, but I didn't care.
Now that EGM is gone, that pretty much leaves Game Informer as the only popular multi platform magazine, which is really sad.
If the US government decided all of a sudden to change from driving on the right hand side to the left hand side of the road, don't you think people would be rightfully pissed about having to buy a new car, or get theirs converted? (Look! A car analogy that works!!)
Unfortunately, your car analogy does not work. For one, all left hand drive cars can be driven on the left side of the road without modification. Secondly, cable TV penetration was at 58% in 2006, and everyone with cable does not have to be concerned about this.
So before you get all excited, car analogies never work.
It will be felt, but they'll forget about it after they sit in front of their brand new TV.
I mentor a 11 year old girl who's the second youngest of five children (brother, sister, half sister, step sister), these kids are fed McDonalds or delivered pizza every night. Her mom/step-mom/not-any-of-the-above-because-they're-not-married sits at home and plays MMOs all day. Her dad works 12 hours a day at an auto-shop. They recently (over the summer) had their electricity turned off because they hadn't paid the bills...
but, they bought a 42 inch plamsa TV which is connected to their high definition DVR from the cable company. The last thing the lower class will give up is their TV and cable, I've seen this first hand.
We actually only paid like 18 or 19 bucks a month for 2 discs at a time with unlimited exchanges, though we may have been grandfathered into the program. But seriously, now that we have a baby, we don't have time to run to the store to max out our movies. We barely find time to watch the DVDs that are mailed to us. But it's very convenient to have when we find time.
or the Xbox 360. My wife and I have using Blockbuster the last two years for our movies and our switching to Netflix because of the streaming service (just got a 360 for Christmas). The only thing we're losing is the ability to trade our mailed DVDs in at the store for real rentals. Though we didn't do that often, what's the point of going to the store when they're mailed to us anyway?
Soon it will be what's the point of going to the mailbox when I can stream it. Though the current selection is not that great, I will admit.
Not sure if I buy that. I have something like 50 SNES games and 40 N64 games, but only 15 DS games, but I play my DS more than anything. I think the translation is that people play newer systems more, but that they take a few years to reach the point where enough gamers have them to play.
I recently installed Ubuntu 8.10 on my in-law's HP DV9000 laptop. Every time we would visit them, I would be stuck in their upstairs bedroom fixing their computer for at least an hour, and would often spend an afternoon reformatting and reinstalling Windows XP. I finally gave up and installed Linux.
My boss told me I was brave for giving them Linux because they won't know how to use it, and I replied: "They don't even know how to use Windows! It won't matter." I gave them the laptop and showed them how to get their mail with Evolution, they already are familiar with Firefox. After working through some of Evolution's quirks, I pretty much got it to work like their old Outlook Express install, and they were happy.
I was there over Christmas and I asked them if they were having any problems, they said it was perfectly fine. Now maybe one day I'll get that dreaded call where something really bad happened and I won't know how to help them over the phone, but I have a feeling it won't happen.
The OS does not matter to people who barely use a computer.
My game of the year is Mother 3 for the GBA. The game was released in 2006 but an unofficial English translation was released in October of this year. I loved the game, great story and classic gameplay.
For my complete list of game of the year winners, check out my site. I unfortunately didn't get to play a lot of games this year... having a baby and buying a house can really dig into your free time. Also having an old PC and no next gen systems doesn't help... Though I did finally get an Xbox 360 (and the first thing I'm doing is replaying Mass Effect...:)
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It may be their intent, but this is Slashdot. He poses to us an intriguing and difficult problem and we solve it through various obtuse and technical solutions.
Well, there's no reason he can't do both. If he's going to at sea for a week at a time between ports, why not have the article you want emailed to you right then? I'd rather do more interesting stuff when docked, like actually explore the city we're at. Save the internet stuff for the boring boat ride, in my opinion.
"stop" may block them, but texting "stop. hammer time" actually destroys their soul in the process.
Surf the RMS way: set up some kind of server at home that you can email a link to and it will wget it and return the content back to you via email. Since you have seemingly unlimited email access, this might be the most efficient way to surf.
You can also encode images into base64, don't know how big an image it would take before you hit the 1MB limit, but it's possible.
He's the reason I stopped listening to Twit years ago. So obnoxiously annoying.
You enjoyed Guitar Hero 2 and Rock Band more because they were made by the same developer, Harmonix. Also the creators of Frequency and Amplitude, music games early on in the PS2 lifecycle.
You probably liked the guitar better from Guitar Hero 3 than Rock Band because it was still created by the core Red Octane team, who had experience making the Guitar Hero 1 and 2 guitars with Harmonix.
I think we're all well aware of that, doesn't mean that the game as a whole didn't sell $1 billion total. And since when should a multi-platform release mean sales numbers are worthless?
Except unless it was a private plane, that plane still takes off with or without you guys on it. Now I know if you're not on the plane, you can't attribute that back to your own carbon footprint, just pointing out that the comparison doesn't really hold up as strongly as you believe.
Though I would also have teleconferenced. Seems like a no brainer.
So basically let your life become a tool of the system? I own a house, I have friends at work, I'm married, I have a young baby, I even have two pets, and I would consider myself a successful IT employee. You may want to be an IT gypsy but it is certainly not a requirement to being "successful". Sounds to me you're just scared to actually connect with anything or anyone more than anything else.
Funny you should say that because the other day I was talking with a friend about our involvements with open source communities (he's on the Debian project) and I mentioned I was getting into DROOpal and he's like "you know, it's actually DRApal." He pointed out it was based off the Dutch word druppel for rain drop.
http://slashdot.org/tags/ohnoitsroland
What a sad, sad story. Check out Woz's site for more $2 idiocracy.
http://www.woz.org/letters/general/78.html
I've been a long time reader of EGM, and many other gaming magazines. My parents recently dumped off all of them and I've been going through and sorting them, planning some stuff for my site. There's really nothing like reading a magazine if you ask me.
I think I had an interesting gaming news cycle. When I was younger, all my news would come from magazines, Nintendo Power, Game Players, etc. Then I actually saw an add for N64.com in a magazine back in 1996, which lead me to getting all my news from them, while still receiving magazines for perusal. A few years into college, I pretty much stopped going to gaming sites and once I graduated, I was too busy even consider it. Magazines became one of my only sources of gaming news again. The info was old, but I didn't care.
Now that EGM is gone, that pretty much leaves Game Informer as the only popular multi platform magazine, which is really sad.
Their electricity was on a day or two later, but just the fact that it was off when I picked her up once was really messed up.
If the US government decided all of a sudden to change from driving on the right hand side to the left hand side of the road, don't you think people would be rightfully pissed about having to buy a new car, or get theirs converted?
(Look! A car analogy that works!!)
Unfortunately, your car analogy does not work. For one, all left hand drive cars can be driven on the left side of the road without modification. Secondly, cable TV penetration was at 58% in 2006, and everyone with cable does not have to be concerned about this.
So before you get all excited, car analogies never work.
http://www.marketingcharts.com/television/snl-kagan-cable-subscription-data-contradicts-fcc-chairman-kevin-martin-2634/snl-kagan-cable-summary-data-2006jpg/
It will be felt, but they'll forget about it after they sit in front of their brand new TV.
I mentor a 11 year old girl who's the second youngest of five children (brother, sister, half sister, step sister), these kids are fed McDonalds or delivered pizza every night. Her mom/step-mom/not-any-of-the-above-because-they're-not-married sits at home and plays MMOs all day. Her dad works 12 hours a day at an auto-shop. They recently (over the summer) had their electricity turned off because they hadn't paid the bills...
but, they bought a 42 inch plamsa TV which is connected to their high definition DVR from the cable company. The last thing the lower class will give up is their TV and cable, I've seen this first hand.
with Macbook Wheel
You would have gotten first post if you had typed that on something other than the Macbook Wheel.
We actually only paid like 18 or 19 bucks a month for 2 discs at a time with unlimited exchanges, though we may have been grandfathered into the program. But seriously, now that we have a baby, we don't have time to run to the store to max out our movies. We barely find time to watch the DVDs that are mailed to us. But it's very convenient to have when we find time.
The comments are always much more interesting than the summary or article will ever be. I always skip right to the meat.
or the Xbox 360. My wife and I have using Blockbuster the last two years for our movies and our switching to Netflix because of the streaming service (just got a 360 for Christmas). The only thing we're losing is the ability to trade our mailed DVDs in at the store for real rentals. Though we didn't do that often, what's the point of going to the store when they're mailed to us anyway?
Soon it will be what's the point of going to the mailbox when I can stream it. Though the current selection is not that great, I will admit.
Not sure if I buy that. I have something like 50 SNES games and 40 N64 games, but only 15 DS games, but I play my DS more than anything. I think the translation is that people play newer systems more, but that they take a few years to reach the point where enough gamers have them to play.
I recently installed Ubuntu 8.10 on my in-law's HP DV9000 laptop. Every time we would visit them, I would be stuck in their upstairs bedroom fixing their computer for at least an hour, and would often spend an afternoon reformatting and reinstalling Windows XP. I finally gave up and installed Linux.
My boss told me I was brave for giving them Linux because they won't know how to use it, and I replied: "They don't even know how to use Windows! It won't matter." I gave them the laptop and showed them how to get their mail with Evolution, they already are familiar with Firefox. After working through some of Evolution's quirks, I pretty much got it to work like their old Outlook Express install, and they were happy.
I was there over Christmas and I asked them if they were having any problems, they said it was perfectly fine. Now maybe one day I'll get that dreaded call where something really bad happened and I won't know how to help them over the phone, but I have a feeling it won't happen.
The OS does not matter to people who barely use a computer.
My game of the year is Mother 3 for the GBA. The game was released in 2006 but an unofficial English translation was released in October of this year. I loved the game, great story and classic gameplay.
For my complete list of game of the year winners, check out my site. I unfortunately didn't get to play a lot of games this year... having a baby and buying a house can really dig into your free time. Also having an old PC and no next gen systems doesn't help... Though I did finally get an Xbox 360 (and the first thing I'm doing is replaying Mass Effect... :)
http://firsthour.net/goty/2008-game-of-the-year-awards
Because the summary probably won't be fixed.