Password support - I can't tell you how many times I've been requested to have password-protected PDFs. As far as I know, Foxit doesn't support password-protected PDFs yet.
The only HD-DVD I ever purchased was Transformers. According to my personal taste, nothing was ever compelling enough to warrant purchase over a Netflix rental.
Personally, I blame Microsoft for not including HD-DVD as a built-in option for the 360 Elite. The new drive could have trickled down to the other versions, expanded the storage capacity of new 360 games, and became a new standard for 360 games going forward.
I think the infrastructure is a little bigger than FedEx/UPS really want, plus suddenly they would be faced with hiring a lot more "drivers" for a lower per-item profit. Drivers are already paid substantially (like everything else, much higher w/more years of svc), and now you would need even more to deliver the much larger amount of mail (a bulk of which would potentially be low profit to them). Have a larger force of newer drivers would drive down wages for the drivers, and the unions would try to force wages to go up, thus lowering the profit even more for the carrier. So I would think, why would they bother?
I actually appreciate that they are going to an XML-based format versus the binary format. That should actually help OpenOffice when converting documents versus the weird problems that occur with tables, fonts, placement, etc. I also don't have any problems opening older versions of documents. Perhaps you meant opening newer versions of documents with an older version of Office (for which MS has converters available). Finally, upgrades aren't forced down your throat - you have to buy them. Many people still run quite well with Office 97 today (like I do at home).
I've worked at trade shows, and what the parent said is true. The exhibitors have a big say in how the expo is structured. If several say they won't be buying their multi-$ booth space, then the show company has to make decisions. If the focus was for the industry, restricting access to the industry isn't a bad idea. They may have to lower exhibit space costs in order for more companies to justify purchasing a booth, but it could be a way to slowly build up the expo to becoming THE show for game companies to network together.
"I found a much better dealership for service, and I love my Toyota, but I will not buy another one."
Well, you did the right thing by switching service locations, but leaving Toyota? Have fun with the other less-reliable alternatives...
Anyone who owns a projector or a large screen will tell you that HD is great for a quality picture, especially at 90"+. So what I really hope for is that the studios will release in both formats, not the hodgepodge that we have currently. I got enough gift cards to purchase the 360 HD-DVD player for a reasonable price, but I don't want to purchase the PS3 until the price comes down. So having both formats available for a given movie is beneficial for me; having either BB or Netflix "standardize" on one format is not good for as there is no incentive for studios to release on both formats.
On the other hand, one format would also be nice...
I agree that a RAM-based drive would be a great aid. Back in the day, I remember creating a RAM drive, copying some game/program to it, and working off it instead of my 1.44MB floppy. I would love to see the creation of a drive that can accept ECC-capable memory (perhaps 8 slots that can handle up to a 4GB stick each), utilizes the SATA-2 (3.0Gb/s) interface, and has a series of rechargeable batteries as a backup when power is completely out. The amount of memory will be whatever you can afford as long as they are all matched pairs. You could easily run XP/Vista/whatever since it would be seen as just another hard drive, and you could have a separate normal drive for mass storage. Then you could almost have an "instant-on" experience.
Try Video Storm (http://www.video-storm.com); good stuff, including amplified units with multiple in/outs. They have two low end products that, although not auto-sensing, can be programmed to work with the same signal you use to turn on your TV, amp, etc.
From the article's end: "On Sunday afternoon, the CESA (Computer Entertainment Supplier's Association) announced their eleven favored games of the show. The list circulated to the press was arranged in Japanese alphabetical order, and featured on television news programs all over Japan. The list included Gran Turismo HD, The Eye of Judgment, the 3D remake of Tales of Destiny for PlayStation 2, Elebits for Nintendo Wii, Seiken Densetsu 4 for PlayStation 2, Monster Hunter 2 for PSP, Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops for PSP, and Gyakuten Saiban (Phoenix Wright) 4 for Nintendo DS."
Lost Odyssey & Blue Dragon both look very good; if MS wants to achieve some measure of success in Japan, why don't they direct a part of its massive marketing machine into generating a little noise about its best titles? Are they relying on the underground/guerilla/grass-roots type of hype-generation?
In virtually all MB reviews with the same chipset, they are usually all within 5-7% of each other in the benchmarks. This usually doesn't translate into meaningful "sitting in front of the keyboard" performance differences. It's like horsepower in cars - it's hard to tell 195hp from 205hp when you're behind the wheel. (and yes, I like to compare apples to oranges...)
Nostalgia aside, SF2 really introduced one of the most balanced (character-wise)games to date, and became the touchstone against which other PvP fighting games had to measure up. Having the analog stick controls will also simply things greatly. I've been waiting for the release of SF2:HF on Live for quite a while; Geometry Wars, while quite entertaining, doesn't give you any PvP goodness. It will also be nice to have the HD graphical update for those with larger screens.
I've long since stopped buying games that are "beat the game, try to trade for some miserable percentage of original price". I use GameFly for all of those types of games, and if Netflix would add games, then I would drop GameFly. The only games I buy now are ones that I'll play many times in the future against other people.
... and yet none of the Arcade games that were demo'ed at E3 were released, even SF2:HF that other reviewers are saying is fully ported over and working well. Sheesh, give some stuff that I want, and I'll finally redeem my 15000 pts card.
"Condemming Mr McKinnon has nothing to do with how you feel about the trial. The article says the hacker community condems the *trial*. Being a "nutter" should have no bearing on how your trial is carried out."
Being a nutter does help with the mentally incompetent/criminally insane defense, however.
A solution to start making serious money would be to port the games available in MAME32 to run on the XBox. This would involve offering a nominal fee to every owner of each old ROM, setting up a good team to write the emulator code, and figure out the pricing scheme (hint: make it really low). I still have fun with Elevator Action, Double Dragon, and the like, so I think there's definitely a market; I also wouldn't think twice about investing $20-50 in a collection of the oldies that I liked. I've already purchased SmashTV in the "Coin-Op Classics" section, and I'm waiting for SF2:Hyper to finally get released. More of these games would make me happy, especially if some were graphically updated to be shown in full HD glory.
A project maintained by "thousands of intelligent people devoted to its cause" (TFA) should not be intentionally skewed. I propose, therefore, that any people desiring to make edits should first be evaluated as to their "intelligence" - that should stop the lobbyists! Of course, it won't stop the mad scientists, but they'll be too bent on world domination to care about a little 'pedia.
As has been previously noted, one of the reasons for the 360's failure in Japan was due to the marketing of it as an "aggressive, powerful console" for "hardcore" gamers. It seems that Nintendo is probably right in line with Japanese thinking by not naming it the Revolution. However, there seems to be quite a number of Japanese games that are named differently from their North American counterparts - why not do the same with Revolution? Keep the name in North America as it will be (and already is) heartily embraced, and call it the Wii in Japan (or whatever else you want to name it).
In looking at the numbers, both of the organizations that went back to Windows had over 1,000 employees, and the other example listed had a little over 100. Both "back-to-Windows" orgs cited complexity as one of the reasons for the return to Windows. Is it possible that Linux developers have been too focused on each individual app rather than how the apps interact with each other? Who is responsible for the overall vision?
"The problem was that just one or two people in the group [out of 15 IT staff] could do that, and it was hard finding people who understood that [open source] isn't just about playing with these tools, but delivering something. The moment we switched to Microsoft, the field opened up."
I've seen this happen before when sometimes people are led to believe that OSS is the panacea for all their ills. However, you need people with a wide breadth of knowledge of different OSS applications in order to fulfill expectations. Then they need to have a good track record of actually implementing solutions versus theorizing about them, especially if they will be a "new hire." Many times it simply is difficult to find a Linux person with that wide range of exposure and commensurate experience in delivering solutions; often it is easier to find someone with the same broad range but in Windows apps (even w/consultants). Can you blame them for going with the easier path, especially if it would save them time (which means $)?
Why? What makes TrueImage that much better than Ghost? I've been using Ghost for years, but it would be nice to hear how I could give a little less to Symantec's ample coffers.
Big corporations usually standardize on hardware deployments. The bigger you are, the more you need to support only a few platforms versus many. The same principle can even help out smaller installations. I love white box, but if I have to support them, then I would begin to transition over to a HP/Dell/? platform with your favorite flavor of OS. Keep Ghost images of what you have currently; Ghost partitions are helpful for quickly getting a PC re-setup for a new user.
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Password support - I can't tell you how many times I've been requested to have password-protected PDFs. As far as I know, Foxit doesn't support password-protected PDFs yet.
The only HD-DVD I ever purchased was Transformers. According to my personal taste, nothing was ever compelling enough to warrant purchase over a Netflix rental. Personally, I blame Microsoft for not including HD-DVD as a built-in option for the 360 Elite. The new drive could have trickled down to the other versions, expanded the storage capacity of new 360 games, and became a new standard for 360 games going forward.
...barring the legal profession, does anyone use WordPerfect anymore?
I think the infrastructure is a little bigger than FedEx/UPS really want, plus suddenly they would be faced with hiring a lot more "drivers" for a lower per-item profit. Drivers are already paid substantially (like everything else, much higher w/more years of svc), and now you would need even more to deliver the much larger amount of mail (a bulk of which would potentially be low profit to them). Have a larger force of newer drivers would drive down wages for the drivers, and the unions would try to force wages to go up, thus lowering the profit even more for the carrier. So I would think, why would they bother?
I actually appreciate that they are going to an XML-based format versus the binary format. That should actually help OpenOffice when converting documents versus the weird problems that occur with tables, fonts, placement, etc. I also don't have any problems opening older versions of documents. Perhaps you meant opening newer versions of documents with an older version of Office (for which MS has converters available). Finally, upgrades aren't forced down your throat - you have to buy them. Many people still run quite well with Office 97 today (like I do at home).
I've worked at trade shows, and what the parent said is true. The exhibitors have a big say in how the expo is structured. If several say they won't be buying their multi-$ booth space, then the show company has to make decisions. If the focus was for the industry, restricting access to the industry isn't a bad idea. They may have to lower exhibit space costs in order for more companies to justify purchasing a booth, but it could be a way to slowly build up the expo to becoming THE show for game companies to network together.
"I found a much better dealership for service, and I love my Toyota, but I will not buy another one." Well, you did the right thing by switching service locations, but leaving Toyota? Have fun with the other less-reliable alternatives...
Anyone who owns a projector or a large screen will tell you that HD is great for a quality picture, especially at 90"+. So what I really hope for is that the studios will release in both formats, not the hodgepodge that we have currently. I got enough gift cards to purchase the 360 HD-DVD player for a reasonable price, but I don't want to purchase the PS3 until the price comes down. So having both formats available for a given movie is beneficial for me; having either BB or Netflix "standardize" on one format is not good for as there is no incentive for studios to release on both formats. On the other hand, one format would also be nice...
I agree that a RAM-based drive would be a great aid. Back in the day, I remember creating a RAM drive, copying some game/program to it, and working off it instead of my 1.44MB floppy. I would love to see the creation of a drive that can accept ECC-capable memory (perhaps 8 slots that can handle up to a 4GB stick each), utilizes the SATA-2 (3.0Gb/s) interface, and has a series of rechargeable batteries as a backup when power is completely out. The amount of memory will be whatever you can afford as long as they are all matched pairs. You could easily run XP/Vista/whatever since it would be seen as just another hard drive, and you could have a separate normal drive for mass storage. Then you could almost have an "instant-on" experience.
Try Video Storm (http://www.video-storm.com); good stuff, including amplified units with multiple in/outs. They have two low end products that, although not auto-sensing, can be programmed to work with the same signal you use to turn on your TV, amp, etc.
From the article's end: "On Sunday afternoon, the CESA (Computer Entertainment Supplier's Association) announced their eleven favored games of the show. The list circulated to the press was arranged in Japanese alphabetical order, and featured on television news programs all over Japan. The list included Gran Turismo HD, The Eye of Judgment, the 3D remake of Tales of Destiny for PlayStation 2, Elebits for Nintendo Wii, Seiken Densetsu 4 for PlayStation 2, Monster Hunter 2 for PSP, Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops for PSP, and Gyakuten Saiban (Phoenix Wright) 4 for Nintendo DS."
Lost Odyssey & Blue Dragon both look very good; if MS wants to achieve some measure of success in Japan, why don't they direct a part of its massive marketing machine into generating a little noise about its best titles? Are they relying on the underground/guerilla/grass-roots type of hype-generation?
In virtually all MB reviews with the same chipset, they are usually all within 5-7% of each other in the benchmarks. This usually doesn't translate into meaningful "sitting in front of the keyboard" performance differences. It's like horsepower in cars - it's hard to tell 195hp from 205hp when you're behind the wheel. (and yes, I like to compare apples to oranges...)
Nostalgia aside, SF2 really introduced one of the most balanced (character-wise)games to date, and became the touchstone against which other PvP fighting games had to measure up. Having the analog stick controls will also simply things greatly. I've been waiting for the release of SF2:HF on Live for quite a while; Geometry Wars, while quite entertaining, doesn't give you any PvP goodness. It will also be nice to have the HD graphical update for those with larger screens.
I've long since stopped buying games that are "beat the game, try to trade for some miserable percentage of original price". I use GameFly for all of those types of games, and if Netflix would add games, then I would drop GameFly. The only games I buy now are ones that I'll play many times in the future against other people.
... and yet none of the Arcade games that were demo'ed at E3 were released, even SF2:HF that other reviewers are saying is fully ported over and working well. Sheesh, give some stuff that I want, and I'll finally redeem my 15000 pts card.
"Condemming Mr McKinnon has nothing to do with how you feel about the trial. The article says the hacker community condems the *trial*. Being a "nutter" should have no bearing on how your trial is carried out."
Being a nutter does help with the mentally incompetent/criminally insane defense, however.
A solution to start making serious money would be to port the games available in MAME32 to run on the XBox. This would involve offering a nominal fee to every owner of each old ROM, setting up a good team to write the emulator code, and figure out the pricing scheme (hint: make it really low). I still have fun with Elevator Action, Double Dragon, and the like, so I think there's definitely a market; I also wouldn't think twice about investing $20-50 in a collection of the oldies that I liked. I've already purchased SmashTV in the "Coin-Op Classics" section, and I'm waiting for SF2:Hyper to finally get released. More of these games would make me happy, especially if some were graphically updated to be shown in full HD glory.
A project maintained by "thousands of intelligent people devoted to its cause" (TFA) should not be intentionally skewed. I propose, therefore, that any people desiring to make edits should first be evaluated as to their "intelligence" - that should stop the lobbyists! Of course, it won't stop the mad scientists, but they'll be too bent on world domination to care about a little 'pedia.
I don't think an "F shooting up" is how Nintendo should be marketing to kids; remember, drug prevention starts with the parents first!
As has been previously noted, one of the reasons for the 360's failure in Japan was due to the marketing of it as an "aggressive, powerful console" for "hardcore" gamers. It seems that Nintendo is probably right in line with Japanese thinking by not naming it the Revolution. However, there seems to be quite a number of Japanese games that are named differently from their North American counterparts - why not do the same with Revolution? Keep the name in North America as it will be (and already is) heartily embraced, and call it the Wii in Japan (or whatever else you want to name it).
In looking at the numbers, both of the organizations that went back to Windows had over 1,000 employees, and the other example listed had a little over 100. Both "back-to-Windows" orgs cited complexity as one of the reasons for the return to Windows. Is it possible that Linux developers have been too focused on each individual app rather than how the apps interact with each other? Who is responsible for the overall vision?
"The problem was that just one or two people in the group [out of 15 IT staff] could do that, and it was hard finding people who understood that [open source] isn't just about playing with these tools, but delivering something. The moment we switched to Microsoft, the field opened up." I've seen this happen before when sometimes people are led to believe that OSS is the panacea for all their ills. However, you need people with a wide breadth of knowledge of different OSS applications in order to fulfill expectations. Then they need to have a good track record of actually implementing solutions versus theorizing about them, especially if they will be a "new hire." Many times it simply is difficult to find a Linux person with that wide range of exposure and commensurate experience in delivering solutions; often it is easier to find someone with the same broad range but in Windows apps (even w/consultants). Can you blame them for going with the easier path, especially if it would save them time (which means $)?
Why? What makes TrueImage that much better than Ghost? I've been using Ghost for years, but it would be nice to hear how I could give a little less to Symantec's ample coffers.
Big corporations usually standardize on hardware deployments. The bigger you are, the more you need to support only a few platforms versus many. The same principle can even help out smaller installations. I love white box, but if I have to support them, then I would begin to transition over to a HP/Dell/? platform with your favorite flavor of OS. Keep Ghost images of what you have currently; Ghost partitions are helpful for quickly getting a PC re-setup for a new user.