If gamers are divorced from reality? Unlike other means of reality distortion (drugs, and the subsequent gangs and violence associated with drugs), gaming hardly has any negative contribution to society. A gamer that engulfed in a gaming world takes very little from society other than bandwidth. I don't really see it being a bad thing for anyone other than the individual. And that if that individual chooses to live that way, no one really has the right judge it.
Whether you were playing MTG or out partying until dawn, the result would have been the same. Blaming the medium upon which you devote a lot of your time for failing out of university is a scape goat. As stated many times, the medium is irrelivant; you're either the kind of person who can balance both, or you end up working at a resturant.
MMO's have a huge opportunity here, as they could probably get away with selling you the game at $50 and then giving you the option of paying a monthy fee or playing the game with a ton of ads in it. It'll be interesting, though, to see how they try to seamlessly integrate ads for Nike into a game like WoW.
This thread really highlights the importance of quality IT consulting. The fact that no one can agree on the actual cost of upgrading (ranging from the low thousands to the low hundreds) shows that at least some of you IT guys don't know what you're talking about. Sucks for the companies that employ the people that are wrong. Contracting someone who knows what they're talking about could end up saving you a few thousand dollars per user.
I've been using an FM transmitter every day of my commute since last Christmas, and have never experienced any interference. And, since I play my music at a reasonable level, I don't ever experience any noticable quality loss either. I don't know why FM transmitters get such a bad rap - They are easy and work well for their price. The only downside is having to use the click-wheel instead of integrated controls on the stearing wheel.
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Rockbox is a good open source solution that allows you to manage your iPod on any machine without using iTunes.
If gamers are divorced from reality? Unlike other means of reality distortion (drugs, and the subsequent gangs and violence associated with drugs), gaming hardly has any negative contribution to society. A gamer that engulfed in a gaming world takes very little from society other than bandwidth. I don't really see it being a bad thing for anyone other than the individual. And that if that individual chooses to live that way, no one really has the right judge it.
It's a controller designed to withstand being thrown, not being hit full-force by an aluminum bat.
Whether you were playing MTG or out partying until dawn, the result would have been the same. Blaming the medium upon which you devote a lot of your time for failing out of university is a scape goat. As stated many times, the medium is irrelivant; you're either the kind of person who can balance both, or you end up working at a resturant.
MMO's have a huge opportunity here, as they could probably get away with selling you the game at $50 and then giving you the option of paying a monthy fee or playing the game with a ton of ads in it. It'll be interesting, though, to see how they try to seamlessly integrate ads for Nike into a game like WoW.
This thread really highlights the importance of quality IT consulting. The fact that no one can agree on the actual cost of upgrading (ranging from the low thousands to the low hundreds) shows that at least some of you IT guys don't know what you're talking about. Sucks for the companies that employ the people that are wrong. Contracting someone who knows what they're talking about could end up saving you a few thousand dollars per user.
I've been using an FM transmitter every day of my commute since last Christmas, and have never experienced any interference. And, since I play my music at a reasonable level, I don't ever experience any noticable quality loss either. I don't know why FM transmitters get such a bad rap - They are easy and work well for their price. The only downside is having to use the click-wheel instead of integrated controls on the stearing wheel.