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« on: July 27, 2007, 01:37 PM »
Here is a Cody sighting in Suburban Pittsburgh (North Hills).
Nudone - I thought you kept him near you?
Nudone - I thought you kept him near you?
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steeladept, last time I checked, WoW and Everquest needed to be installed on a real computer, not a server. So the main system is doing all the number crunching, the server only functions as a "house". Not even SecondLife (if you consider that a game) can work like that, and it has awful graphics for this time. And if MMOs are the gaming future, I'll stick with Diablo II thenThey need to be installed on both as it stands now. The client side loads the files into memory while the server provides the interactions that makeup the game. If you just load those files into memory during a download, then it would be pretty much the same. Another route would be to essentially turn them into game consoles where you have to load the CD/DVD to have access to the files. They don't "load" the program into memory until you want to play. However, I agree with you on the Diablo II-Lashiec (July 24, 2007, 11:26 AM)
steeladept: isn't the "bare-bones" VMWare ESX/GSX server (I forget which) linux-based, though?That I can't be sure of, since I haven't installed it and they don't say so on their site, they only state that it requires no OS and runs all the VM's. However, that is sort of my point. Regardless of what the underlying technology is as an OS, it boots the system and the browser/VM software and that becomes your OS - so to speak. No fiddling with setup and no installation to install useable software. It is just install and run. (Well in this case you still need to load your VM's, but you don't need to load the software to run the VM's.)
Also, I don't see everything moving to web-based apps... just won't happen for games and that kind of multimedia, even when everybody has 10/10 1ms latency fiber connections (although at that time, streaming HDTV content should be doable). Same goes for a lot of "heavy" tasks.
But sure, trivial things like the office suite and other productivity items can easily be moved.-f0dder (July 24, 2007, 10:22 AM)
Great plugin, i'm trying it right now...
edit> TestedI'm wondering, is there a way (in a future release maybe) to automatically paste selected item instead of recopying it ?
-ak_ (July 23, 2007, 04:09 AM)
Man, I gotta get that mouse sometime. Aren't there any third party applications that allow you to assign mouse buttons? Or does it have to be done by the manufacturer's drivers?I haven't found any software for it, but I haven't looked real hard either. I just use it plain as you stated.
I'm using a combo Logitech mouse+keyboard, and I remember getting annoyed by the software in the beginning. I think what pissed me off was that everything reacted so slowly. So I removed the drivers, and now I just use it plain. I can't assign all the little buttons on the keyboard, but I'm not annoyed anymore. That really is bad of logitech to do that since they are the #1 mouse+keyboard people.
I gotta disagree with you there SteeladeptI am very confused by the example you showed, as that has no bearing (that I can see) on the moral values the market places on the corporation. Perhaps I am just not acquainted enough with the subject of your example. I tend to ignore most "organic foods" information as a bunch of high priced examples of an otherwise commodity item.
Look at food -
Nestle who has always been one of the big bad corporations is now producing a lot of organic food - it's quite possible they're paying paltry wages etc., but the fact is when people want something, the big corporations (& everyone else) go and produce it or grow it.
Likewise, using your example, the less people who want something, the less companies produce that article.
Or, the less people accept the conditions under which something is produced, the more the companies will be willing to change work conditions etc.
Basically, corporations, politicians, etc. (individuals too!) do what they reckon they will get away with - I think they are a good reflection of what we accept as a society. In times when politicians are very corrupt, it's usually the case that people are fairly "corrupt" themselves - even though they might complain bitterly about the very same politicians...-tomos (July 17, 2007, 09:16 AM)
I am not put off by the screening company making money because Michael Moore is well known as a producer of propaganda. His movies usually have a particular viewpoint that they advance fairly ruthlessly. Nobody considers them neutral or unbiased sources of information.
Back to the regularly scheduled programming.... Jimdoria claims that there's no counterbalance to corporate power. On the contrary, the consumers hold far more power than the corporations. Imagine that the next edition of 60 minutes or 20/20 showed hidden camera footage of Nike sneakers being assembled from, say, the skin of babies purchased from their parents in India and Africa. Even ignoring legal issues, how long do you think Nike would survive? Contrast this with the political solution in a democracy, where you have to wait years for the next election, and then run afoul of laws preventing you from even a truthful ad exposing how Senator X has done some evil deed. The comparison is clear: free-market justice can be swift and complete, when it's dealing with something that the consumers care about.I think part of what you missed here is that you speak in terms of the entire consumer market. In the aggregate, you are correct that the market holds sway over the corporations. However, if you are to assume that the consumer market is working via their moral values as posted earlier in the same discussion, then you must also understand that the aggregate value is all that matters, and not any subset of those values.-CWuestefeld (July 16, 2007, 04:15 PM)
I haven't tried the newest logitech mouse with the fancy button wheelI had that mouse (the MX-Revolution) for about a month. Then I got a little pissed that the frigging Logitech drivers kept losing my custom button assignments and dropped it from a little too high, it broke.
The hardware is awesome! A HUGE improvement. But the software sucks. I've found with Logitech, you better be happy with what you get in the box because there'll only be like, 3 updates, ever.-Hirudin (July 16, 2007, 09:23 PM)
