Who else can see all consoles going this way? Part of the appeal to content producers and the console makers themselves is having consistent and complete control over the platform. It's things like this that will hopefully keep the PC relevant as a gaming and entertainment platform
Article: "Though it will be turned on by default for Windows 7 and Vista users, they will be able to toggle between the old and new interface by holding the Alt key."
With the option to revert i don't see the big deal. Firefox if it's anything is the most configurable of the big 4 browsers so i welcome interface updates. Ribbon or no ribbon having Aero Glass is a nice touch though.
A bigger deal would be enabling Aero Peek for tabs in Windows 7.
I am not a programmer myself, but i know a bunch, and just about every one I know or have talked languages with systematically abhor Java (the words slow and bloated come up often) and most apps written in Java I have used have felt half-hearted. Other then the cross-platform capability are there real advantages to it?
Unlike most custom shops they dont totally rape you on component upgrades and they have a wide selection of form factors and options, and anything they dont offer on the site they're pretty open about customizing. And everything if very cleanly laid out and tied down, very professional and its all standard form factor parts. And theyll preload many flavors of linux at minimal cost.
No i don't work for them, but they've done me right.
I work for a signage company that uses about 70+ Verizon Broadband devices (as well as about having 15+ employees laptops equipped with them) so i can speak more to reliability then data speed.
In general the experience with Verizon has been very good. Coverage is excellent for the most part across in country in any major to mid major city. We have very very rarely not been able to grab data signal and we put them in some odd places like subway systems. Also i am noticing most places i sign onto now personally shows RevA coverage. The 5Gb limit has been harder to hit then i thought it would (only one bit-torrenting former employee pushed it)
What my Verizon rep told me is that when you breach the limit you get flagged, and then they have a closer look at your traffic pattern. Creepy, but it was all the torrent traffic that caused them to cut his card off for the month. I have gone over it with heavy use just browsing and haven't run into an issue.
For anyone looking for reliable remote access i can highly recommend Serra Wireless Raven, or anything from Digi International. They cost but they get online and stay online. Very low dropped call frequency.
XM has offered streaming radio for almost a year now. I know for sure it's included in the monthly standard plan price (12.95) but i do believe they have a cheaper streaming only price as well.
XM also has the far funnier Opie and Anthony as well.
With that many units on the shelf they have more then cover the holiday buyig system, and enough left on the shelves for the post holiday market. Lines up very nicely with a price drop in the late spring summer time frame.
Its almost creepy how everything Sony has gotten wrong (supply, timing, innovation, buzz) Nintendo has gotten dead on right this time around.
Obviously the Wii is something that could be improved upon over the years, and just might become the senior's console of choice.
As Nintendo has already stated older gamers is one of their targeted demographics with the Wii, I believe we'll see less dependence on buttons and a stronger focus on immersion in games as motion control and "VR" type systems get better and cheaper. The gaming system in 20-40 years may have no buttons whatsoever.
Trying to predict anything about life in 20 years, much less technology, is a total crapshoot.
Is if Dell offers truly customized machines. AMD is big in the gaming/enthusiast market and thats only in its infancy if that much. Another aspect is the fact that most boutique vendors like Alienware was didnt have the capacity to manufacture their own OEM parts like Dell does and was composed of more off-the shelf stuff just assembled and tweak meticulously.
Basically, if i want an Athlon FX Dual Core SLI rig with an Asus/Gigabyte motherboard, WD Raptor etc etc machine, will dell provide that, or will i get (high end for what it is, it may be) Intel based mobo and whatever compnents dell usually provides.
The whole success of boutique is that they can offer custom stuff of any configuration for the mere fact that they are boutique, small and can handle it as part of their business, not a disruption of.
I myself defitely find the Fallout series to have some of the best questing, especially Fallout 2. What other series has a quest where you can infiltrate a mob casino, sleep with the bosses wife (or daughter) and take over the place on your way out (if you could survive) as well as the other numerous side quests and traits you could uncover. I think its best aspect was as the game went on you could see your character evolve and people reacted to your character differently to reflect that. A great series and game.
I myself am usually a pretty good defender of Microsoft as i find Windows to do everything i need with a bit of tweaking, but this is what bothers me most about them..... They seem to be trying to be all things to all people and losing focus on their prime objectives.
As we hear about Microsofts AV software, Graphics software, Google threats, etc etc we hear about features that keep getting sliced out of Vista to the point that its beginning to sound like XP SP3. IMHO they need to focus on a solid, secure OS core that will run this type of software in a stable, usable environment and let companies like Adobe and Macromedia (oops, one in the same now!) worry about specialized programs like this.
Anyone else agree that if any section of NASA should be getting more money it's the JPL. Much of the increased interest in space and the last few really excellent displays of space technology (Rovers, Cassini, Deep Space 1) while the shuttle division languished in time. JIMO, one of the most fascnating and ambitious missions has had its budget sliced as well. I say we go with the most science for the buck and unmanned is the best way to get that outside of our own orbit at this point.
Who elsewould like to see 10 billion taken out of that moon landing money and put towards a few swarms probes to Titan to confirm this.
Something to researhc this, and the JIMO mission are what i'd really pushed up schedule. Life outside our planet is the type of scientific and philisophical question that we should make all strides to answering. Jupites moons and Titan are the only places we essentially have left in our immediate solar system that might contain life. We really owe it to ourselves to research these to their final conclusion. I'd be happy to expand humanity into the solar system once we know we're not the only thing on it.
I hope Wifi is an option but they don't neglect an RJ-45 jack. Wifi is great, but i personally don't completely trust it for gaming yet. Anyone have details on that front?
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Who else can see all consoles going this way? Part of the appeal to content producers and the console makers themselves is having consistent and complete control over the platform. It's things like this that will hopefully keep the PC relevant as a gaming and entertainment platform
Article: "Though it will be turned on by default for Windows 7 and Vista users, they will be able to toggle between the old and new interface by holding the Alt key."
With the option to revert i don't see the big deal. Firefox if it's anything is the most configurable of the big 4 browsers so i welcome interface updates. Ribbon or no ribbon having Aero Glass is a nice touch though.
A bigger deal would be enabling Aero Peek for tabs in Windows 7.
I am not a programmer myself, but i know a bunch, and just about every one I know or have talked languages with systematically abhor Java (the words slow and bloated come up often) and most apps written in Java I have used have felt half-hearted. Other then the cross-platform capability are there real advantages to it?
For rackmounts, after searching for a place for decent custom rackmounts i finally found this shop:
ABMX.com
Unlike most custom shops they dont totally rape you on component upgrades and they have a wide selection of form factors and options, and anything they dont offer on the site they're pretty open about customizing. And everything if very cleanly laid out and tied down, very professional and its all standard form factor parts. And theyll preload many flavors of linux at minimal cost. No i don't work for them, but they've done me right.
I work for a signage company that uses about 70+ Verizon Broadband devices (as well as about having 15+ employees laptops equipped with them) so i can speak more to reliability then data speed.
In general the experience with Verizon has been very good. Coverage is excellent for the most part across in country in any major to mid major city. We have very very rarely not been able to grab data signal and we put them in some odd places like subway systems. Also i am noticing most places i sign onto now personally shows RevA coverage. The 5Gb limit has been harder to hit then i thought it would (only one bit-torrenting former employee pushed it)
What my Verizon rep told me is that when you breach the limit you get flagged, and then they have a closer look at your traffic pattern. Creepy, but it was all the torrent traffic that caused them to cut his card off for the month. I have gone over it with heavy use just browsing and haven't run into an issue.
For anyone looking for reliable remote access i can highly recommend Serra Wireless Raven, or anything from Digi International. They cost but they get online and stay online. Very low dropped call frequency.
To patent this... and patent the part of the virus in question.
The Pfizer receptor!!!
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0027271/
... aka Alien vs. Predator (Germany) (USA: short title)
... aka AVP (USA: promotional abbreviation)
... aka Resident Evil (France) (Germany)
Director - filmography
(In Production) (2000s) (1990s)
1. Deathrace 3000 (2008) (announced)
2. Man with the Football (2008) (announced)
3. Castlevania (2007) (announced)
4. AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004)
5. Resident Evil (2002)
6. The Sight (2000) (TV)
7. Soldier (1998/I) (as Paul Anderson)
8. Event Horizon (1997) (as Paul Anderson)
9. Mortal Kombat (1995) (as Paul Anderson)
10. Mortal Kombat: Behind the Scenes (1995) (V)
11. Shopping (1994) (as Paul Anderson)
Based on this either you will be really really excited, or really really pissed off. I am the latter.
XM has offered streaming radio for almost a year now. I know for sure it's included in the monthly standard plan price (12.95) but i do believe they have a cheaper streaming only price as well.
XM also has the far funnier Opie and Anthony as well.
With that many units on the shelf they have more then cover the holiday buyig system, and enough left on the shelves for the post holiday market. Lines up very nicely with a price drop in the late spring summer time frame. Its almost creepy how everything Sony has gotten wrong (supply, timing, innovation, buzz) Nintendo has gotten dead on right this time around.
From TFA:
Obviously the Wii is something that could be improved upon over the years, and just might become the senior's console of choice.
As Nintendo has already stated older gamers is one of their targeted demographics with the Wii, I believe we'll see less dependence on buttons and a stronger focus on immersion in games as motion control and "VR" type systems get better and cheaper. The gaming system in 20-40 years may have no buttons whatsoever.
Trying to predict anything about life in 20 years, much less technology, is a total crapshoot.
The real problem is with the IRS and the tax system itself....
http://www.fairtax.org/
This abolishes the IRS and thus gives Americans and businesses alike no advantage to storing money overseas so it brings it back into the economy...
It's not a perfect system, but its far better then the convoluted and counterproductive tax system we have now.
Is if Dell offers truly customized machines. AMD is big in the gaming/enthusiast market and thats only in its infancy if that much. Another aspect is the fact that most boutique vendors like Alienware was didnt have the capacity to manufacture their own OEM parts like Dell does and was composed of more off-the shelf stuff just assembled and tweak meticulously. Basically, if i want an Athlon FX Dual Core SLI rig with an Asus/Gigabyte motherboard, WD Raptor etc etc machine, will dell provide that, or will i get (high end for what it is, it may be) Intel based mobo and whatever compnents dell usually provides. The whole success of boutique is that they can offer custom stuff of any configuration for the mere fact that they are boutique, small and can handle it as part of their business, not a disruption of.
Doubles as a toothpick.
I myself defitely find the Fallout series to have some of the best questing, especially Fallout 2. What other series has a quest where you can infiltrate a mob casino, sleep with the bosses wife (or daughter) and take over the place on your way out (if you could survive) as well as the other numerous side quests and traits you could uncover. I think its best aspect was as the game went on you could see your character evolve and people reacted to your character differently to reflect that. A great series and game.
I myself am usually a pretty good defender of Microsoft as i find Windows to do everything i need with a bit of tweaking, but this is what bothers me most about them..... They seem to be trying to be all things to all people and losing focus on their prime objectives. As we hear about Microsofts AV software, Graphics software, Google threats, etc etc we hear about features that keep getting sliced out of Vista to the point that its beginning to sound like XP SP3. IMHO they need to focus on a solid, secure OS core that will run this type of software in a stable, usable environment and let companies like Adobe and Macromedia (oops, one in the same now!) worry about specialized programs like this.
Anyone else agree that if any section of NASA should be getting more money it's the JPL. Much of the increased interest in space and the last few really excellent displays of space technology (Rovers, Cassini, Deep Space 1) while the shuttle division languished in time. JIMO, one of the most fascnating and ambitious missions has had its budget sliced as well. I say we go with the most science for the buck and unmanned is the best way to get that outside of our own orbit at this point.
Who elsewould like to see 10 billion taken out of that moon landing money and put towards a few swarms probes to Titan to confirm this. Something to researhc this, and the JIMO mission are what i'd really pushed up schedule. Life outside our planet is the type of scientific and philisophical question that we should make all strides to answering. Jupites moons and Titan are the only places we essentially have left in our immediate solar system that might contain life. We really owe it to ourselves to research these to their final conclusion. I'd be happy to expand humanity into the solar system once we know we're not the only thing on it.
I hope Wifi is an option but they don't neglect an RJ-45 jack. Wifi is great, but i personally don't completely trust it for gaming yet. Anyone have details on that front?