If they want to give me incentive to view a movie in a theater all they have to do is charge normal prices for everything. I'll pay the 8.00 to see a movie. I will not pay 25.00 for 2 cokes and a bucket of popcorn.
bleh.
The last two movies I seen in a theater were Chipmunks and Superman returns. One of those was paid for me.
Beyond that. The 3d stuff they have at sea-world, Disneyland etc is absolutely top-notch. I'd possibly go see one with the caveat that i'd sneak popcorn and soda's in my wifes purse.
You mention smaller cities.. Dude I'm in Fresno. While it's no million man metropolis it has probably 1 million people within 5 miles of the city limits.
We don't have anything either.. Nothing in this town compares for the price. We have Comcast or perhaps if you are within 30 feet of the colo you might get good dsl. I was 11,000 feet and I got 40K.
Well DSL to my house was 40-50KB per sec. Comcast is 1000KB. Even though I'm perfectly happy with the service "I do some torrents and I use the crap out of the connection"
There isn't an alternative for many of us. If there was a FIOS or FTTH service where I live I'd jump on it. Until then I'll stick with the fastest available. If I fell into the lower usage group something else would be an option.
You've got my vote. Feist and a few others have some great stories.
Enders Game from OSC, That would make a cool movie.
Lots of good things to choose from. Not that Dune isn't good. I just agree that something new could be made. Well done CGI makes the unbelievable believable.
Quote: That is meaningless since no one ever gets anywhere near the supposed bandwidth, but hey maybe you'll be able to get close to that previous allotment.
Well that's an awfully broad statement, As it happens I'm an 8mbit user. I get AT LEAST 8mbit day in day out. and my uploads are exactly what they say. I max them too at 768. I use the no-no word "starts with USE ends with NET" and I could start now and get 16mbit and in a few minutes it'd drop to 8.. and it will ride 8mbit the rest of the day."yes.. I've tested this.."
An upgrade to 2mbit upload would tickle the crap out of me and make it nicer to serve something other than smaller files between my family and friends.
I've said it on here before. As much as I hate their support. The speeds from Comcast have been outstanding for me. I know not everyone has the same experience as me.. but I'm certain not every area is oversold and overused either.
Unfortunately as these things go.. Comcast starts somewhere else.. and upgrades here MUCH MUCH MUCH later.
One of the things that seems to be missing from ID is the ability to make a truly immersive game. There's little doubt at least in my mind they certainly know how to make awesome environments. "Note that as soon as you shine a light on an item in Doom 3 it does light up nicely and looks good."
What I think is that John is one hell of an engine developer and he's putting in his 2 pence as well. He may not be 100% correct but in the past he's been fairly accurate with some of his predictions "who's perfect?" and he'll likely be validated in some of this. As another user mentioned, When I drop a bomb on a building or blow it up internally that sucker better fall. This is what we've come to expect. Destructible environments, moving objects "I love plinking tin cans in HL2's engine" natural physics and the list goes on. However all of that must give way to the actual gameplay. All that glitters is not gold etc.
Crysis is friggin badass looking but it's limited in depth. Call of duty 4 mixed with crysis engine would have me in fits. "don't get me wrong COD4 is good just not quite as good as others graphically"
Carmack has the ability to do the environment but they seem to be resting on their laurels as far as game making goes. "ooo dark scary environment with random jumping demons/robots/aliens blah.."
I played quake 4 for 2-3 hours.. and haven't went back. It held no surprises or new things to explore.
I really hope to see a mix of the new technologies that make it easier for the storyteller to give us a great game.
Well I'll put it this way in 1999 on dialup I was probably doing 2gb a month. I was on 24/7 and always had irc or usenet always doing something. So it's not even 1999 I had unlimited connections back then and I expect to have it now.
Part of the problem stems from them not building infrastructure to support people like me who are heavy users. Right now my daughter who is 10 probably uses more than a gig a month. She watches videos all the time. My generation which is in it's 40's may not be taking advantage of instant delivery. I can damn sure bet you the kids coming up are and they will continue to expect it without being raped on the pricing. "personally I'm more of a 90-100gb user"
We've already spent 200b to have the backbone upgraded. It's time to see something for what we spent. I believe we need a place for geeks to get together and submit stories with factual information to new outlets until they start making it mainstream. How politicians would scatter if light was shed upon their practices. When is the last time you watched the nightly news and a discussion about how the government took the people for any amount of money was shown? I think 200b would raise some eyebrows. Maybe not.
You have sites like ABC which have their shows online and for what it is it's not bad quality. You have netflix streaming movies, Apple TV coming up "Divx part2 wtf?" Youtube and many many others all providing much more content everyday. And TW and Comcast believe they can CAP this. How will these sites survive? There are not enough FIOS users to provide a revenue stream for youtube. Ad-blocking is something I have done since 1997 or so and it was a noticeable improvement on dialup. Adblocking to reduce your amount downloaded will become more rampant as every damn site you go to now has flash this and flash that and there ain't no f'in way that flash takes up less space than those ol jpg banners.
Ahh well that's my.02 probably worth less than that though.
Oh. Like the overfill prevention devices the Propane industry forced upon us? I tried for 4 days to find statistical evidence of an explosion or incidence surrounding an overfilled propane tank. In Texas over a 20 year reporting period one incident was filed. Now I'm sure there were more than that in the USA but it stands to reason that it was not a real problem. It was a solution that could make people money and it needed a problem.
Sounds to me like NY doesn't have enough to do already so some fuckwit bureaucrat wants another law that is unneeded and does nothing for public safety.
I'll be the first to say I agree IE6 is old and outdated. But compared to Firefox IE7 is a fat brown stinky turd.
Actions and uses I can do in firefox cannot be duplicated in IE7. It fails far more than it succeeds as a browser replacement for IE6. I use Firefox for most of my surfing and it's my default. I'm well aware it's not perfect but as for security and functionality it performs well.
I have used IE7 at work but out of 24 IT people I am the only one with it and we cannot upgrade until a BUNCH of backend stuff is upgraded. It would probably not be so bad for most of our users as they have been using a non-tabbed browser but anyone who's used Firefox and are used to shortcuts being where they should be IE7 makes you shake your head at how much they got wrong.
MS copies,steals or buys never do they innovate and rarely do they copy well.
I remember it being sold at a radio shack. I had seen it on the way to and from school for a few weeks. I think it was 19.95 for the system. We quickly progressed to an atari 2600 when it made it's debut a few years later.
Whatever happened to hypersonic sound?
I know the company still exists.. but I see no product in the last 4-5 years.. and how would it work with this? Beamed directly at this stuff..
Umm, Exactly how do you figure the cost to be too much?
Less than 5 a generic years ago a 32inch crt would run you 500ish a 42inch lcd new runs 899.00 "1080p" A 32" Sony WEGA at that time would have cost about the same as the 42inch.
I'm in the HD court I like the content but as many have said it's really the standard content that looks like shit on them. 480p 720p 1080i etc all look great. There is a MARKED difference in 480i wii and 480p.
Today you can get a 32inch widescreen for 499.00 I really don't see price as a factor. The simple fact they take up 1/4th the area of a CRT is enough to spend a little more if indeed there is that much difference.
I'm with you on COD4, I've played nearly every demo or full game that is an FPS this year.. and I keep coming back to COD4.
I've played various levels on Arcade. And I struggled through the 3rd difficulty setting. I really dig how many ways you can do each level."without really moving very far off the path"
It's not the most glorious looking game but it certainly is fun to play.
I've got to find the time to start unlocking on the multiplayer.
There are many places online that have availability or stock locators. Target for instance will have Wii's next weekend. "the target I bought my wii at in June had 9 I should think it'd be similar stocking or better"
2 Weeks ago I showed up at TRU at 5:30am and was first in line. I got a voucher for the wii at 6:30am took a break got some food came back at 7:45am and they STILL had 2 more vouchers left."they did sell out by 8am" 24 wii's in that store. My friend across town did the same thing. I was very tempted to get more than one and I know some people buy them strictly to resale. I have read on a few forums that I visit of people getting 4-5 a day just to sell.
I have nothing against it. But my point is. If you want one you can probably get it by finding the deal sites that have extensive memberships and looking for wii availability. Someone in the chain of supply always KNOW where the wii's are.
Places like TRU who only allow one per person per day are great.
I think you summed it up. Not terribly new gameplay. but an excellent environment. It tops my list of military games and i've played the whole series. The Ac-130 level was real enough that I got a bit squeamish playing it!
As they say if a game feels too short it's usually because you had a lot of fun playing it.
I have that Xmas special I found it somewhere. It's not dvd quality but it's very watchable.. Well at least as far as visually. As for watching the whole thing.. I'm not sure I could stomach it.
Maybe i'm missing a point or two here. But it seems to me in order for anyone including the RIAA to define the content of Usenet they would have to decode the binary "and probably have to have a special reader for text" messages. UUencode YENC and MIME seem to be the major encoding types and seeing as the servers store purely code in an unidentifiable format there is no way they could actually SEE what is posted without downloading it and re-encoding it back to a compiled file. Movies/audio etc are all converted TO ascii and then back.
You cannot watch a stream coming into a usenet server and say it's an MP3 or MPEG or AVI If memory serves me. It's possible the subject line would be clear/plain text but more than that is encoding.
Correct me if I am wrong.. I've been using Usenet since 97 but it's been since like 98 since I investigated what made it work.
Dude.. I'd totally use that in a commercial for Mac.. If I had a mac or was in a position to advertise for them.
That's just DAMN funny.
Vista is OS by Committee. Lots of people going OooOOooo that would be so nice to have in the OS lets put that in.. Oh and that too and damn the performance to hell. Don't get me wrong. I'm a MS user. Nix will not do what I need in an OS for home use "games games and more damn games"
I do support and imaging etc for XP all day long. NOTHING really pushes me to have Vista as a workstation. There is no benefit to having it at work.
I have Novell,Virusscan up and running at work on the Vista 64bit version.. but nothing compels me to use it. It's not a NEEDED upgrade. With XP I could immediately see the need to ugprade at RC1.I liked it then and I like it now.
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If they want to give me incentive to view a movie in a theater all they have to do is charge normal prices for everything. I'll pay the 8.00 to see a movie. I will not pay 25.00 for 2 cokes and a bucket of popcorn.
bleh.
The last two movies I seen in a theater were Chipmunks and Superman returns. One of those was paid for me.
Beyond that. The 3d stuff they have at sea-world, Disneyland etc is absolutely top-notch. I'd possibly go see one with the caveat that i'd sneak popcorn and soda's in my wifes purse.
You mention smaller cities.. Dude I'm in Fresno. While it's no million man metropolis it has probably 1 million people within 5 miles of the city limits.
We don't have anything either.. Nothing in this town compares for the price. We have Comcast or perhaps if you are within 30 feet of the colo you might get good dsl.
I was 11,000 feet and I got 40K.
Well DSL to my house was 40-50KB per sec. Comcast is 1000KB. Even though I'm perfectly happy with the service "I do some torrents and I use the crap out of the connection"
There isn't an alternative for many of us. If there was a FIOS or FTTH service where I live I'd jump on it. Until then I'll stick with the fastest available. If I fell into the lower usage group something else would be an option.
You've got my vote. Feist and a few others have some great stories.
Enders Game from OSC, That would make a cool movie.
Lots of good things to choose from. Not that Dune isn't good. I just agree that something new could be made. Well done CGI makes the unbelievable believable.
Quote: That is meaningless since no one ever gets anywhere near the supposed bandwidth, but hey maybe you'll be able to get close to that previous allotment. Well that's an awfully broad statement, As it happens I'm an 8mbit user. I get AT LEAST 8mbit day in day out. and my uploads are exactly what they say. I max them too at 768. I use the no-no word "starts with USE ends with NET" and I could start now and get 16mbit and in a few minutes it'd drop to 8.. and it will ride 8mbit the rest of the day."yes.. I've tested this.." An upgrade to 2mbit upload would tickle the crap out of me and make it nicer to serve something other than smaller files between my family and friends. I've said it on here before. As much as I hate their support. The speeds from Comcast have been outstanding for me. I know not everyone has the same experience as me.. but I'm certain not every area is oversold and overused either. Unfortunately as these things go.. Comcast starts somewhere else.. and upgrades here MUCH MUCH MUCH later.
Well according to that one vid I seen it was eels up the wazoo.. but then again they put all sorts of things IN ..
Of the points made here. I'll toss in my 2 pence.
One of the things that seems to be missing from ID is the ability to make a truly immersive game. There's little doubt at least in my mind they certainly know how to make awesome environments. "Note that as soon as you shine a light on an item in Doom 3 it does light up nicely and looks good."
What I think is that John is one hell of an engine developer and he's putting in his 2 pence as well. He may not be 100% correct but in the past he's been fairly accurate with some of his predictions "who's perfect?" and he'll likely be validated in some of this. As another user mentioned, When I drop a bomb on a building or blow it up internally that sucker better fall. This is what we've come to expect. Destructible environments, moving objects "I love plinking tin cans in HL2's engine" natural physics and the list goes on. However all of that must give way to the actual gameplay. All that glitters is not gold etc.
Crysis is friggin badass looking but it's limited in depth. Call of duty 4 mixed with crysis engine would have me in fits. "don't get me wrong COD4 is good just not quite as good as others graphically"
Carmack has the ability to do the environment but they seem to be resting on their laurels as far as game making goes. "ooo dark scary environment with random jumping demons/robots/aliens blah.."
I played quake 4 for 2-3 hours.. and haven't went back. It held no surprises or new things to explore.
I really hope to see a mix of the new technologies that make it easier for the storyteller to give us a great game.
Well I'll put it this way in 1999 on dialup I was probably doing 2gb a month. I was on 24/7 and always had irc or usenet always doing something. So it's not even 1999 I had unlimited connections back then and I expect to have it now.
.02 probably worth less than that though.
Part of the problem stems from them not building infrastructure to support people like me who are heavy users. Right now my daughter who is 10 probably uses more than a gig a month. She watches videos all the time. My generation which is in it's 40's may not be taking advantage of instant delivery. I can damn sure bet you the kids coming up are and they will continue to expect it without being raped on the pricing. "personally I'm more of a 90-100gb user"
We've already spent 200b to have the backbone upgraded. It's time to see something for what we spent. I believe we need a place for geeks to get together and submit stories with factual information to new outlets until they start making it mainstream. How politicians would scatter if light was shed upon their practices. When is the last time you watched the nightly news and a discussion about how the government took the people for any amount of money was shown? I think 200b would raise some eyebrows. Maybe not.
You have sites like ABC which have their shows online and for what it is it's not bad quality. You have netflix streaming movies, Apple TV coming up "Divx part2 wtf?"
Youtube and many many others all providing much more content everyday. And TW and Comcast believe they can CAP this. How will these sites survive? There are not enough FIOS users to provide a revenue stream for youtube. Ad-blocking is something I have done since 1997 or so and it was a noticeable improvement on dialup. Adblocking to reduce your amount downloaded will become more rampant as every damn site you go to now has flash this and flash that and there ain't no f'in way that flash takes up less space than those ol jpg banners.
Ahh well that's my
Oh. Like the overfill prevention devices the Propane industry forced upon us? I tried for 4 days to find statistical evidence of an explosion or incidence surrounding an overfilled propane tank. In Texas over a 20 year reporting period one incident was filed. Now I'm sure there were more than that in the USA but it stands to reason that it was not a real problem. It was a solution that could make people money and it needed a problem.
Sounds to me like NY doesn't have enough to do already so some fuckwit bureaucrat wants another law that is unneeded and does nothing for public safety.
I do and let me further quantify it by stating I'm in California and it was 97c at the pump in 2001.. my how we've bent over since then.
I'll be the first to say I agree IE6 is old and outdated. But compared to Firefox IE7 is a fat brown stinky turd.
,steals or buys never do they innovate and rarely do they copy well.
Actions and uses I can do in firefox cannot be duplicated in IE7. It fails far more than it succeeds as a browser replacement for IE6. I use Firefox for most of my surfing and it's my default. I'm well aware it's not perfect but as for security and functionality it performs well.
I have used IE7 at work but out of 24 IT people I am the only one with it and we cannot upgrade until a BUNCH of backend stuff is upgraded. It would probably not be so bad for most of our users as they have been using a non-tabbed browser but anyone who's used Firefox and are used to shortcuts being where they should be IE7 makes you shake your head at how much they got wrong.
MS copies
I remember it being sold at a radio shack. I had seen it on the way to and from school for a few weeks. I think it was 19.95 for the system. We quickly progressed to an atari 2600 when it made it's debut a few years later.
Whatever happened to hypersonic sound? I know the company still exists.. but I see no product in the last 4-5 years.. and how would it work with this? Beamed directly at this stuff..
Umm, Exactly how do you figure the cost to be too much? Less than 5 a generic years ago a 32inch crt would run you 500ish a 42inch lcd new runs 899.00 "1080p" A 32" Sony WEGA at that time would have cost about the same as the 42inch. I'm in the HD court I like the content but as many have said it's really the standard content that looks like shit on them. 480p 720p 1080i etc all look great. There is a MARKED difference in 480i wii and 480p. Today you can get a 32inch widescreen for 499.00 I really don't see price as a factor. The simple fact they take up 1/4th the area of a CRT is enough to spend a little more if indeed there is that much difference.
I'm with you on COD4, I've played nearly every demo or full game that is an FPS this year.. and I keep coming back to COD4.
I've played various levels on Arcade. And I struggled through the 3rd difficulty setting.
I really dig how many ways you can do each level."without really moving very far off the path"
It's not the most glorious looking game but it certainly is fun to play.
I've got to find the time to start unlocking on the multiplayer.
There are many places online that have availability or stock locators. Target for instance will have Wii's next weekend. "the target I bought my wii at in June had 9 I should think it'd be similar stocking or better"
2 Weeks ago I showed up at TRU at 5:30am and was first in line. I got a voucher for the wii at 6:30am took a break got some food came back at 7:45am and they STILL had 2 more vouchers left."they did sell out by 8am" 24 wii's in that store. My friend across town did the same thing. I was very tempted to get more than one and I know some people buy them strictly to resale. I have read on a few forums that I visit of people getting 4-5 a day just to sell.
I have nothing against it. But my point is. If you want one you can probably get it by finding the deal sites that have extensive memberships and looking for wii availability. Someone in the chain of supply always KNOW where the wii's are.
Places like TRU who only allow one per person per day are great.
I think you summed it up. Not terribly new gameplay. but an excellent environment. It tops my list of military games and i've played the whole series. The Ac-130 level was real enough that I got a bit squeamish playing it! As they say if a game feels too short it's usually because you had a lot of fun playing it.
Hey... Can someone insert a friggin car analogy here! I mean they even use the word vehicle!
I have that Xmas special I found it somewhere. It's not dvd quality but it's very watchable.. Well at least as far as visually. As for watching the whole thing.. I'm not sure I could stomach it.
Am I mistaken?
Maybe i'm missing a point or two here. But it seems to me in order for anyone including the RIAA to define the content of Usenet they would have to decode the binary "and probably have to have a special reader for text" messages. UUencode YENC and MIME seem to be the major encoding types and seeing as the servers store purely code in an unidentifiable format there is no way they could actually SEE what is posted without downloading it and re-encoding it back to a compiled file. Movies/audio etc are all converted TO ascii and then back.
You cannot watch a stream coming into a usenet server and say it's an MP3 or MPEG or AVI If memory serves me. It's possible the subject line would be clear/plain text but more than that is encoding.
Correct me if I am wrong.. I've been using Usenet since 97 but it's been since like 98 since I investigated what made it work.
if I've told you once I've told you a million times. Stick those fucking TPS reports up your Administrative-Ass.
I can see that getting me fired.
Read your sig?
Are they going to use that new Neurotic Silver Ceramic for the heatsink paste?
Dude.. I'd totally use that in a commercial for Mac.. If I had a mac or was in a position to advertise for them.
That's just DAMN funny.
Vista is OS by Committee. Lots of people going OooOOooo that would be so nice to have in the OS lets put that in.. Oh and that too and damn the performance to hell.
Don't get me wrong. I'm a MS user. Nix will not do what I need in an OS for home use "games games and more damn games"
I do support and imaging etc for XP all day long. NOTHING really pushes me to have Vista as a workstation. There is no benefit to having it at work.
I have Novell,Virusscan up and running at work on the Vista 64bit version.. but nothing compels me to use it. It's not a NEEDED upgrade. With XP I could immediately see the need to ugprade at RC1.I liked it then and I like it now.
Try the folks over at 2cpu.com I'm sure they list their benchmarking software.
http://www.2cpu.com/