Rather than the typically expensive SSD, go with a usb or ide flash drive. You don't need much space, even a 512mb one would be more than enough. Less heat, and quite a bit cheaper.
The new Company of Heroes has a similar copy protection scheme, although even worse. It actually requires you to create an account on their servers, and then login to it every time you play. If you don't have internet access, it'll spend 30 seconds trying to figure that out, ask for the cd, and then spend another 30 seconds reading from the cd to verify you really have it. So you either have to have an internet connection every time you play (and get auto-patched every time you play as well), or you have to spend a full minute waiting on the game to allow you to play. I suppose the one good thing about it is that you can play without internet access, even as onerous as it is.
If I hadn't liked the first Company of Heroes game, and didn't care about THQ, I would've just pirated the second game, and used a no-cd/no-internet patch on it. Stupid copy protection measures like Spore, Mass Effect and Company of Heroes drive people to piracy, just to get around them.
MOM isn't SMS, and SMS isn't MOM. MOM (Microsoft Operations Manager) is a monitoring product like Openview and Tivoli. SMS is for application deployment and patching.
Cisco claiming a piece of software they make is hardened is absurd. In the past, they've used Redhat 7.1 as the base for their appliances, shipping security software with 5 year old versions of openssh and Apache, and then tried to claim they were "hardened". After breaking in, they turn out to be off the shelf RH 7.1, just without cups running.
Cisco and software do not get along. They make ok hardware (overpriced, but it works), but they have never once made a good piece of software.
Except the Apple laptops have the worst keyboard known to man. And a distinct lack of external ports, especially on the Air. And are expensive. And are difficult to upgrade. And don't have dual-battery support. And don't have port-replicators/docking stations. Etc...
While a Macbook is useful as a status symbol, or for someone who *needs* to run OSX, it's a pretty poor choice for everyone else.
I tried going to that site, but it forces me to accept cookies and refuses to work without them, so I closed the tab. Perhaps it's a good site, perhaps it isn't, but forcing a viewer to accept cookies to visit the site is really shitty design.
My dad showed me the Doom demo, and not only was it the coolest looking thing I had ever seen, but it made me interested in computers. Before that, I didn't know what they were, nor did I care.
Actually, the vertical resolution is too low for most games too. Especially the ones where you'd actually be able to use that nice horizontal resolution, like Eve.
Yes, I understand you're just trolling, but I thought I'd reply to this for the benefit of anyone else reading. There is far more to Eve than what you've listed. If that's all you happen to be doing, ask around in the newbie help channel, and see if you can join a player run corp. Ally with or join a space-holding alliance, and get out to 0.0. Participate in roaming gangs, defense ops, and logistics runs. Go on the offensive, and take some other alliance's space. War dec a high-sec farmer corp, and get cheap ganks. Do highsec suicide ganking of auto-pilot shuttles. Do exploration and make billions a night.
My point is that there is far more to Eve than you've mentioned, as all you've done is highlighted one very small part of the game, which you don't even have to do unless you want to.
I went in one over Christmas to get an itunes card for my girlfriend, and it definitely had a cultish feel to it. Everyone in there was in classic emo dress with combed over black hair, they had generic dance music playing in the background, they had the ac cranked way up to make it cold, and people standing around everywhere with ipods converted into nametags trying to sell you something. If she didn't love spending money on itunes so much I wouldn't have gone in, but sometimes you need to make a sacrifice. I definitely won't be going back any time soon, never if I can help it.
I'm coming late to the party, but you may want to take a look at one of the recent vista patches. It solved the problem I was having with hibernation taking minutes, and now it takes ~15 seconds, unless I have gigs of ram in use, in which case it understandably takes longer to write it all to disk. STR is fast, 1-2 seconds to sleep, 2-3 to resume.
Your Gamestop has a PC section? The one near me hasn't for years, the entire thing is PS/Xbox/Wii only. The only PC game they carry is wow, locked up behind the counter. If you want anything else, you have to pre-order it.
In Eve, griefing is encouraged, but there are some limitations. Certain activites, such as taking a big battleship, sitting outside one of the starting stations, and nuking the hell out of the 2minute old noobs, is grounds for banning. Then there is about 30% of the universe that is called "high sec", where shooting someone without reason gets the cops on you within seconds, and they shoot to kill. Everywhere else is a lawless land, controlled by alliances, or roaming pirate gangs. In other words, fun stuff:)
For Guild Wars, it's disabled in town, but enabled in instances and pvp (which is the main area it's useful). Bodyblocking is an absolutely fantastic tactic in pvp; I've lost count of the number of matches I've been in that were won or lost by timely bodyblocking.
4. Make it possible to play the entire game in cooperative mode. I have zero interest in deathmatches.
The Roleplaying servers on wow are fully cooperative, if you ignore the noobs (which you can since the game mechanics require you to specifically enable pvp). That made me laugh. PvP is far from consentual in WoW, and in fact is worse than Eve, which usually is considered as one of the most non-consentual pvp games out there. I don't play wow, but I've watched my girlfriend play a few times. All the time she'll have some griefer purposefully stand in between her and her target, so they get hit by the arrows and then are free to attack her. In eve, at least you know when you head into low security/no security space, you're going into a free for all area. In wow, you get random assholes running around wherever, griefing whenever they can.
So yes, theoretically wow is consensual pvp. In reality, it's far from it. If you really want consentual pvp, play Guild Wars.
I've run Evolution on Linux, Solaris and Windows, so it's definitely not Linux only. All it needs is the Gnome framework to run, so anything you can build gnome-libs on, you can run Evolution on. Also, according to Gentoo, the Exchange Connector is GPL2.
I know Firefox lets you do that anyway, but the difference is that Cookiesafe lets you do it easily. How could it be any easier? FF makes it so simple, my entire family does selective white/grey/black listing of cookies.
Set your preferences to ask, and then when you visit a site, either allow it forever, allow it for the session (the common choice for broken sites that require cookies to browse them), or deny them. You also choose whether FF should remember your choice or not, and you're done. After a couple days of hitting your usual sites, almost no work is needed.
I do like the idea of bundling it by default. Though, I'd be a fan of Firefox Extension bundles in general, and making extensions powerful enough that the Firefox core becomes a bit more like Eclipse. Gentoo allows this:
$> grep noscript/usr/portage/profiles/use*/usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc:www-client/mo zilla-firefox:restrict-javascript - Pull in noscript extension to disable javascript globally, putting user fully in control of the sites he/she visits
For those not familiar with Gentoo, what this flag allows you to do is have NoScript automatically installed when you're building Firefox, making it a core extension like DOM Inspector and Talkback.
An added benefit is that the French are extremely polite about cell phone usage on the trains. I ride Amtrak between Seattle & Portland every 2 weeks, and have never had anyone ever talk on the phone at their seats. Everyone who uses a phone always gets up, and heads to the vestibule between cars to talk (myself included). I'm not sure how you could get more polite than that as you're implying.
The food is good, and they have good beer too. I typically grab a hot dog and a pair of Black Butte Porters on the trip, and having a power outlet at every seat makes using a laptop nice and easy.
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Rather than the typically expensive SSD, go with a usb or ide flash drive. You don't need much space, even a 512mb one would be more than enough. Less heat, and quite a bit cheaper.
The new Company of Heroes has a similar copy protection scheme, although even worse. It actually requires you to create an account on their servers, and then login to it every time you play. If you don't have internet access, it'll spend 30 seconds trying to figure that out, ask for the cd, and then spend another 30 seconds reading from the cd to verify you really have it. So you either have to have an internet connection every time you play (and get auto-patched every time you play as well), or you have to spend a full minute waiting on the game to allow you to play. I suppose the one good thing about it is that you can play without internet access, even as onerous as it is.
If I hadn't liked the first Company of Heroes game, and didn't care about THQ, I would've just pirated the second game, and used a no-cd/no-internet patch on it. Stupid copy protection measures like Spore, Mass Effect and Company of Heroes drive people to piracy, just to get around them.
MOM isn't SMS, and SMS isn't MOM. MOM (Microsoft Operations Manager) is a monitoring product like Openview and Tivoli. SMS is for application deployment and patching.
Cisco claiming a piece of software they make is hardened is absurd. In the past, they've used Redhat 7.1 as the base for their appliances, shipping security software with 5 year old versions of openssh and Apache, and then tried to claim they were "hardened". After breaking in, they turn out to be off the shelf RH 7.1, just without cups running.
Cisco and software do not get along. They make ok hardware (overpriced, but it works), but they have never once made a good piece of software.
Except the Apple laptops have the worst keyboard known to man. And a distinct lack of external ports, especially on the Air. And are expensive. And are difficult to upgrade. And don't have dual-battery support. And don't have port-replicators/docking stations. Etc...
While a Macbook is useful as a status symbol, or for someone who *needs* to run OSX, it's a pretty poor choice for everyone else.
I tried going to that site, but it forces me to accept cookies and refuses to work without them, so I closed the tab. Perhaps it's a good site, perhaps it isn't, but forcing a viewer to accept cookies to visit the site is really shitty design.
My dad showed me the Doom demo, and not only was it the coolest looking thing I had ever seen, but it made me interested in computers. Before that, I didn't know what they were, nor did I care.
We say the same thing about Bud/Coors/Miller, etc, but sadly some of it doesn't get exported, and stays here.
Actually, the vertical resolution is too low for most games too. Especially the ones where you'd actually be able to use that nice horizontal resolution, like Eve.
Yes, I understand you're just trolling, but I thought I'd reply to this for the benefit of anyone else reading. There is far more to Eve than what you've listed. If that's all you happen to be doing, ask around in the newbie help channel, and see if you can join a player run corp. Ally with or join a space-holding alliance, and get out to 0.0. Participate in roaming gangs, defense ops, and logistics runs. Go on the offensive, and take some other alliance's space. War dec a high-sec farmer corp, and get cheap ganks. Do highsec suicide ganking of auto-pilot shuttles. Do exploration and make billions a night.
My point is that there is far more to Eve than you've mentioned, as all you've done is highlighted one very small part of the game, which you don't even have to do unless you want to.
I went in one over Christmas to get an itunes card for my girlfriend, and it definitely had a cultish feel to it. Everyone in there was in classic emo dress with combed over black hair, they had generic dance music playing in the background, they had the ac cranked way up to make it cold, and people standing around everywhere with ipods converted into nametags trying to sell you something. If she didn't love spending money on itunes so much I wouldn't have gone in, but sometimes you need to make a sacrifice. I definitely won't be going back any time soon, never if I can help it.
I'm coming late to the party, but you may want to take a look at one of the recent vista patches. It solved the problem I was having with hibernation taking minutes, and now it takes ~15 seconds, unless I have gigs of ram in use, in which case it understandably takes longer to write it all to disk. STR is fast, 1-2 seconds to sleep, 2-3 to resume.
HC will be subscriptions only? What about single player, will they be able to do HC? Or is it just to do online HC mode that requires a subscription?
Your Gamestop has a PC section? The one near me hasn't for years, the entire thing is PS/Xbox/Wii only. The only PC game they carry is wow, locked up behind the counter. If you want anything else, you have to pre-order it.
It's already been nuked, so thanks for the cache.
ITYM, I'm in your head, stealing your talents.
/wave
:)
How's ZoS going these days? I don't play GW anymore, but good to see old faces. Stop by the AB forums some time
In Eve, griefing is encouraged, but there are some limitations. Certain activites, such as taking a big battleship, sitting outside one of the starting stations, and nuking the hell out of the 2minute old noobs, is grounds for banning. Then there is about 30% of the universe that is called "high sec", where shooting someone without reason gets the cops on you within seconds, and they shoot to kill. Everywhere else is a lawless land, controlled by alliances, or roaming pirate gangs. In other words, fun stuff :)
For Guild Wars, it's disabled in town, but enabled in instances and pvp (which is the main area it's useful). Bodyblocking is an absolutely fantastic tactic in pvp; I've lost count of the number of matches I've been in that were won or lost by timely bodyblocking.
The Roleplaying servers on wow are fully cooperative, if you ignore the noobs (which you can since the game mechanics require you to specifically enable pvp). That made me laugh. PvP is far from consentual in WoW, and in fact is worse than Eve, which usually is considered as one of the most non-consentual pvp games out there. I don't play wow, but I've watched my girlfriend play a few times. All the time she'll have some griefer purposefully stand in between her and her target, so they get hit by the arrows and then are free to attack her. In eve, at least you know when you head into low security/no security space, you're going into a free for all area. In wow, you get random assholes running around wherever, griefing whenever they can.
So yes, theoretically wow is consensual pvp. In reality, it's far from it. If you really want consentual pvp, play Guild Wars.
I've run Evolution on Linux, Solaris and Windows, so it's definitely not Linux only. All it needs is the Gnome framework to run, so anything you can build gnome-libs on, you can run Evolution on. Also, according to Gentoo, the Exchange Connector is GPL2.
/usr/portage/gnome-extra/evolution-exchange/evolut ion-exchange-2.10.1.ebuild
$ grep LICENSE
LICENSE="GPL-2"
Set your preferences to ask, and then when you visit a site, either allow it forever, allow it for the session (the common choice for broken sites that require cookies to browse them), or deny them. You also choose whether FF should remember your choice or not, and you're done. After a couple days of hitting your usual sites, almost no work is needed.
I've never seen the local flash storage on by default, and I've installed it a dozen times or so on various platforms.
$> grep noscript
For those not familiar with Gentoo, what this flag allows you to do is have NoScript automatically installed when you're building Firefox, making it a core extension like DOM Inspector and Talkback.
The food is good, and they have good beer too. I typically grab a hot dog and a pair of Black Butte Porters on the trip, and having a power outlet at every seat makes using a laptop nice and easy.