I submitted this two days ago, before they unveiled it so everyone could watch, but/. rejected it. Then, I posted this yesterday, after the fact, so people could get a jump on looking at it, before all the press announcements, but I got "Flamebait". Fuck you/.! You don't give a shit about your readers!
oops... guess that was "live" and the link no longer refers to video feed, it just goes to pictures of the Xbox and its controller. Guess it would have been helpful for eveyone to know about it ahead of time... someone should have posted to/.... oh wait, I did!
Actually the reason East Africans tend to dominate marathons and not all footraces is because their native countries are comparatively far above sea level and the air is thinner. Not Mt. Everest thinner, but a fair amount more than say Boston or NY. Thus their lungs are used to coping with lower amounts of oxygen (even though you only use about 20% of the oxygen you take in). When they come to America to run marathons they have an advantage becuase their lungs are more effecient than say Joe Bob Bostonian who also is running in the marathon. In marathons this matters because of the distance covered. In the 100 and 200 meter dashes lung efficiency does play as big a part as all out speed does.
yeah, but why would the editors bother reading their user's comments? They don'y check the submissions for spelling and grammar mistakes, they don't check their own site to see if the story they're about to post has already been posted... why does this post surprise you?
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If the author is worried about obsolescing the document format, isn't the whole DTD discussion moot? XML is moving towards schemas now... most books suggest you use schemas over DTD since schemas are mosre powerful. DTD's arer already on the way out.
Now that 3dfx is sunk, does it make sense to still buy one of their cards? I'd like to set up the whole dual headed monster thing and 3dfx seems to be the only company really supporting PCI still. Should I go out and pick up a Voodoo5 5500 once the price drops a little? I can't give up my TNT2 Ultra just yet in the AGP, and when I do, it'll be to the next line of NVDA's, but if I want to set up dual monitors, is a 3dfx card still a viable, if not the best, PCI solution? Or am I begging for a tech support black hole?
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PS I dual boot into Windows... gotta have my games...
PPS unless I can start running UT and so forth under linux w/ a Voodoo.:-)
PPPS Yeah, yeah, I know I can do it with the TNT, but a) I'm a newbie still and b) I have other Linux related prorities.
Bah! CS is for the TFC addicts that weren't addicted enough! Sitting in the bathroom, rubber band around my mouse wrist... thinking about conc'ing that soldier... ouch... then comes the sweet oblivion... capping...
It's all a conspiracy to sell more Palm PDAs and oragnizers and keep us geeks from procreating. [talking to hot girl] "Sure I can remember 516-123-4...ACK! Short term memory buffer overflow! Let me write it down" [hot girl leaves] "wait! wait!"... of course everyone can easily remember 1-900-etc-etc.;-)
Simple. I needed a Perl reference for both home and work. I keep the 2nd edition I bought a while ago at home (my hobby work rarely calls for unicode support) and my 3rd edition copy at work.
"I realize that in Britain you have "wit" while we Americans just have coarse rancor..." -John Stewart to Posh Spice on why she doesn't think he is funny
That's f**ked up though. You shouldn't have to use gender neutral aliases. If anything a girl playing a game should be welcomed, not harassed. Oh well.
Gamesville.com (a division of Lycos) often touts this statistic (50/50 guys/girls) but equates it with its games (games like bingo).
Don't get me wrong: I think any girl hardcore gamer deserves respect and a football-style slap on the ass (kidding). Seriously, I'm not a girl, but the hardcore gamer market does seem to be 90% guys and is probably not a "fun" place to be for a gilrl. There are a lot of lamers out there that _I_ get sick of, I can't imagine how annoying they would be if they knew someone was a girl. For that, any girl gamer has my respect. That being said, I view any survey stating there's a 50/50 gender split among gamers is most likely including yahoo! games and such in that "video game" category.
Of course I recognized the code before I even read the story. What guy my age (24) wouldn't? That being said, I think it's ironic that Katz talks about how games are becoming more and more prevalent in American's (and the world's) lives when lately I've been thinking of quitting gaming all together. After seeing the auction on eBay top $70K for the guy's entire game library, I've begun to question why I have 10+ systems sitting around my room. I have been playing games since the Intellivision and though it's been fun, what has it really done for me? TFC has brought me into a new circle of friends (my clanmates), but other than that, I begin to wonder if the _years_ I've spent staring a TV or PC screen playing games have been a waste. Entertaining, but not fulfilling.
Over the Thanksgiving weekend I brought a book (Ender's Game. I am still a geek after all) to read and realized: I haven't read or enjoyed a book that wasn't a computer book in about a year and a half. Why? Because I play games till all hours of the morning, go to sleep, wake up, go to work, come home, hang out with the girlfriend a bit, play games, repeat. Obviously I can't give up work or eating or sleeping, and I certainly don't want to give up my gf, but is gaming really that important to me? When I read a book, I feel educated. When I've beaten a game, I feel entertained, yet I don't feel improved.
Last year about this time I passed up a position at Daily Radar as a webmaster for the very same reason: Would I really want to be surrounded by games all the time? They're just _games_. They're not people, I don't learn new things really when I interact with them, and if I looked back on my life 50 years from now, what would I say? I've played a lot of video games? It just seems kinda empty.
This is not a "get a life st00pid gamerz!" rant, but more of a "What have I been doing with MY life and is this really what I want to remember about my time on earth?"
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Ironically that originally stood for Playstation Nintendo Dreamcast
New games are either clones of great ideas from the past or lame adaptations from computer games. They don't cut it and probably never will
One word: Shenmue.
You obviously haven't played it.
One word: SSX
You obviously haven't played it
You can say anything is a clone of anything if you step back far enough. "The original Legend of Zelda sucked because it was a clone of Adventure for the Atari 2600." C'mon. Yes, ideas will be rehashed. Look at English Literature. Shakespeare pretty much covered all the possible scenarios. Star Crossed Lovers. Tragic Hero. Etc. Does that mean no one whould ever write another story or we should quit reading them?
Kinda fuzzy on why you're post was rated a 2 and mine a 3 when yours is clearly more informative than mine... Thanks for the feedback. My experience with punkbuster is only poking around the site. Thanks for taking the time to point out some of the ways they come up short.
They claim to have developed a server monitor (only for half-life so far) that detects when people are cheating. Not going to summarize the entire site for ya, just go check it out.
Actually, I've toyed with the idea of programming it to represent every key. With 72 buttons (6 buttons, 4 states (open, shift1, shift2, shift3), and three profiles (=72) you could get upper and lower case letters (52) numbers (10) and key punctuation. I think you can even map the +- button on it too, so throw another 24 buttons onto that and you could do it.
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I could never get my karma above 20... lets see if I can get it below -20
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PS Do you have any of their products? How is there support? etc, etc.
PPS Tried to find your e-mail and saw your "How to buy DVD's if you hate the MPAA" post. Good idea!
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PS I dual boot into Windows... gotta have my games...
PPS unless I can start running UT and so forth under linux w/ a Voodoo. :-)
PPPS Yeah, yeah, I know I can do it with the TNT, but a) I'm a newbie still and b) I have other Linux related prorities.
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"I realize that in Britain you have "wit" while we Americans just have coarse rancor..." -John Stewart to Posh Spice on why she doesn't think he is funny
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Don't get me wrong: I think any girl hardcore gamer deserves respect and a football-style slap on the ass (kidding). Seriously, I'm not a girl, but the hardcore gamer market does seem to be 90% guys and is probably not a "fun" place to be for a gilrl. There are a lot of lamers out there that _I_ get sick of, I can't imagine how annoying they would be if they knew someone was a girl. For that, any girl gamer has my respect. That being said, I view any survey stating there's a 50/50 gender split among gamers is most likely including yahoo! games and such in that "video game" category.
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Over the Thanksgiving weekend I brought a book (Ender's Game. I am still a geek after all) to read and realized: I haven't read or enjoyed a book that wasn't a computer book in about a year and a half. Why? Because I play games till all hours of the morning, go to sleep, wake up, go to work, come home, hang out with the girlfriend a bit, play games, repeat. Obviously I can't give up work or eating or sleeping, and I certainly don't want to give up my gf, but is gaming really that important to me? When I read a book, I feel educated. When I've beaten a game, I feel entertained, yet I don't feel improved.
Last year about this time I passed up a position at Daily Radar as a webmaster for the very same reason: Would I really want to be surrounded by games all the time? They're just _games_. They're not people, I don't learn new things really when I interact with them, and if I looked back on my life 50 years from now, what would I say? I've played a lot of video games? It just seems kinda empty.
This is not a "get a life st00pid gamerz!" rant, but more of a "What have I been doing with MY life and is this really what I want to remember about my time on earth?"
psxndc
Ironically that originally stood for Playstation Nintendo Dreamcast
One word: Shenmue.
You obviously haven't played it.
One word: SSX
You obviously haven't played it
You can say anything is a clone of anything if you step back far enough. "The original Legend of Zelda sucked because it was a clone of Adventure for the Atari 2600." C'mon. Yes, ideas will be rehashed. Look at English Literature. Shakespeare pretty much covered all the possible scenarios. Star Crossed Lovers. Tragic Hero. Etc. Does that mean no one whould ever write another story or we should quit reading them?
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They claim to have developed a server monitor (only for half-life so far) that detects when people are cheating. Not going to summarize the entire site for ya, just go check it out.
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