All MS has done is to package their various Live services into one installer that works on Vista or XP.
They're not tying it to Vista in any way. I don't see what the big deal is.
I was really excited about this keyboard back when they first announced it and they posited that it would cost approxmiately $100. Now that it's finally becoming a reality several years behind schedule, and is going to cost approximately $1500, I don't know how anybody can really still be looking foward to it.
but probably so that they only have to test for one browser's compatibility. Each browser has its own quirks (incorrectness?) in dealing with things like CSS transparency, and DIVs, etc. and the lowest common denominator for the vast majority of people browsing the web is, Internet Explorer. It's bundled into Windows. Knowledgeable people seek out others like Firefox or Opera, but your average person setting up their phat myspace profile.
Videogames are far and away more detailed and realistic than games were back when we were kids. I mean I was playing Doom when I was a kid and my parents had no problems with it. The graphics of Doom are basically cartoony. I don't recall it being particularly scary as a kid, except maybe when all the lights would go out and 10 imps would jump me. Games back then were all fantastical stories like that, aliens invading, an elf battling evil forces, etc. None of this "go down the block, get a ho in your car, and stab a policeman and get away with it." I think it's the violent games that are firmly cemented in the real world that I wouldn't let my children play.
It didn't hurt anything? My "automatic" clock that I bought a few years ago is now worthless. It's supposed to automatically change based on the old DST schedule. Now, I have to manually turn it ahead myself, then a few weeks later, remember to manually turn it back because it automatically went forward on the old scehdule. Ditto for the fall. It's obnoxious. The government owes me a new automatic clock.
This is the magazine that got me started reading video game magazines when I was a kid. I first received a complimentary issue as part of an order from Chips & Bits, since my brother and I had to order our PC games from there being that our small town had no computer store. It's consistently been the highest quality magazine over the past 10 years that I've had a subscription, with the best articles, the reviews I trusted most, and some of the most interesting columns I've read. While I've picked up and dropped subs to other magazines, mine to CGM has been constant. Now, I'm very sad.:(
I hope to see the mag's staff pop up elsewhere.
Tomb Raider Legend was made by Crystal Dynamics, located right down here in Mountain View, CA. Previous Tomb Raider games were made by Core Design in the UK, but Eidos took the franchise away after they mishandled it so poorly for the past several years (Angel of Darkness anyone?). Crystal Dynamics take on Tomb Raider was almost nothing like the Core games. The only thing in common with past games was Lara (in some ways good, in some bad). A sizeable contingent of fans complained that the game had turned into nothing but an extremely linear Prince of Persia: Sands of Time rip-off crossed with a James Bond movie. There are never branching paths. You have two guys on an earpiece that always tell you exactly what to do. How this guy could be completely stuck is beyond me.
Also, I don't know where these 40 hour claims for Tomb Raider Legend are coming from. Take a look at a few reviews and they all deride the game for being less than 10 hours long. I purchased it myself, and even getting all the secrets in the game, I only have 15 hours of game time logged. Of course that doesn't include deaths, but I certainly don't believe that those deaths added double my logged time to the final count. It'd probably be more like 20 hours.
40 hours to beat Tomb Raider Legend? I call shenanigans.
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All MS has done is to package their various Live services into one installer that works on Vista or XP. They're not tying it to Vista in any way. I don't see what the big deal is.
I was really excited about this keyboard back when they first announced it and they posited that it would cost approxmiately $100. Now that it's finally becoming a reality several years behind schedule, and is going to cost approximately $1500, I don't know how anybody can really still be looking foward to it.
I wouldn't use this as an excuse either, but there are a lot of lazy people out there.
but probably so that they only have to test for one browser's compatibility. Each browser has its own quirks (incorrectness?) in dealing with things like CSS transparency, and DIVs, etc. and the lowest common denominator for the vast majority of people browsing the web is, Internet Explorer. It's bundled into Windows. Knowledgeable people seek out others like Firefox or Opera, but your average person setting up their phat myspace profile.
Videogames are far and away more detailed and realistic than games were back when we were kids. I mean I was playing Doom when I was a kid and my parents had no problems with it. The graphics of Doom are basically cartoony. I don't recall it being particularly scary as a kid, except maybe when all the lights would go out and 10 imps would jump me. Games back then were all fantastical stories like that, aliens invading, an elf battling evil forces, etc. None of this "go down the block, get a ho in your car, and stab a policeman and get away with it." I think it's the violent games that are firmly cemented in the real world that I wouldn't let my children play.
It didn't hurt anything? My "automatic" clock that I bought a few years ago is now worthless. It's supposed to automatically change based on the old DST schedule. Now, I have to manually turn it ahead myself, then a few weeks later, remember to manually turn it back because it automatically went forward on the old scehdule. Ditto for the fall. It's obnoxious. The government owes me a new automatic clock.
This is the magazine that got me started reading video game magazines when I was a kid. I first received a complimentary issue as part of an order from Chips & Bits, since my brother and I had to order our PC games from there being that our small town had no computer store. It's consistently been the highest quality magazine over the past 10 years that I've had a subscription, with the best articles, the reviews I trusted most, and some of the most interesting columns I've read. While I've picked up and dropped subs to other magazines, mine to CGM has been constant. Now, I'm very sad. :(
I hope to see the mag's staff pop up elsewhere.
Tomb Raider Legend was made by Crystal Dynamics, located right down here in Mountain View, CA. Previous Tomb Raider games were made by Core Design in the UK, but Eidos took the franchise away after they mishandled it so poorly for the past several years (Angel of Darkness anyone?). Crystal Dynamics take on Tomb Raider was almost nothing like the Core games. The only thing in common with past games was Lara (in some ways good, in some bad). A sizeable contingent of fans complained that the game had turned into nothing but an extremely linear Prince of Persia: Sands of Time rip-off crossed with a James Bond movie. There are never branching paths. You have two guys on an earpiece that always tell you exactly what to do. How this guy could be completely stuck is beyond me.
Also, I don't know where these 40 hour claims for Tomb Raider Legend are coming from. Take a look at a few reviews and they all deride the game for being less than 10 hours long. I purchased it myself, and even getting all the secrets in the game, I only have 15 hours of game time logged. Of course that doesn't include deaths, but I certainly don't believe that those deaths added double my logged time to the final count. It'd probably be more like 20 hours.
40 hours to beat Tomb Raider Legend? I call shenanigans.