I'm pretty excited. Don't think I'll get one right at launch, but I'd be surprised if I don't have one by the end of the year. I've never bought a regular console, I've generally always been a PC gamer (though I did have the original Gameboy), but I think I am convinced. $199 would have been great, but $250 is still ok.
Shit, if the US got more "liberal" in the way the word is currently used, I'd imagine the list would be even longer. Modern leftist liberalism is all about controlling what others say and think.
Now, if we're talking real, classical liberalism, well, we haven't been anywhere near it for probably a century.
You're welcome. Great books. Coincidentally, I just finished rereading the last in the series yesterday afternoon. So that was the first thing that came to mind when seeing this article.
Why is this suddenly an issue now? Frankly I distrust this because it's trying to get Congress to pass more laws, which is almost always a bad idea. If "there oughta be a law" to protect this 'net neutrality' thing, why has the Internet gotten along fine without such a law for 25 years now?
When I think about things that are efficient, unbiased, and good for everyone, I rarely think "US government regulations".
The first I heard of "Steam" was when Half-Life 2 came out. I never bought HL2 (not into FPS), and so my association with Steam was "something that came with HL2 that nobody liked". Now I'm reading about various games "coming out on Steam" or something, and so I've been trying to figure out what it is. Apparently you download games on it, which sounds pretty good (although in the old days we used something called "FTP" to download things), and then whenever you want to play your game that you purchased, you have to connect to Steam? How is this a good idea? What if you don't have net access when you want to play? Am I misunderstanding it?
Except everyone who has a PC bought in the past 7 years or so has a monitor that can do 1024x768, and most likely much higher. *Maybe* 5% of the population has HDTVs, and I'd be surprised if it was that many. (No, people on Slashdot don't count, and your friends probably don't either. Think normal people.) Unless you're going to include the $2000 for a new super-duper-resolution HDTV in the price of console gaming, which blows your "PC gaming is more expensive!" argument out of the water.
Used to have a computer setup that would totally freeze at random times if the CPU was idle. As long as I was running seti@home or something else, no freezes. Let the CPU idle, it'd freeze within a half-hour. Never figured out if it was hardware or software or both; I seem to remember it happening on multiple versions/installs of Windows, but not in FreeBSD. And when I replaced the mobo/CPU, it stopped happening, even when I still had the samw Windows install.
Except that most people really don't "xerox" things anymore. I used to hear it, sure, but nowadays it's just "copying". I'd say Xerox Corp. won that war.
Best gaming magazine around for a long long time (they started in the early 1980's.. 81? 83?), but from what I hear it's declined a lot in the past few years. It's really too bad.
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let's see..
nuclear scientists say this works and can happen, and have done experiments.
but Slashdot user swchrad (312009) disagrees! Well shit, guess we can abandon that idea then.
Sorry, ignorance is not linguistic drift. "Begs the question" has a meaning, and that's not it -- just because people don't know that doesn't mean that's not the meaning.
You must read a different Slashdot than I do. The one I read goes from "M$ is evil!" to "OMG XBOX IS SO SHINY" so fast and so often it gives me whiplash.
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I'm pretty excited. Don't think I'll get one right at launch, but I'd be surprised if I don't have one by the end of the year. I've never bought a regular console, I've generally always been a PC gamer (though I did have the original Gameboy), but I think I am convinced. $199 would have been great, but $250 is still ok.
viva la wii.
Chariot of the Gods would be a good start.
Why? It's a very creative work of fiction.
Shit, if the US got more "liberal" in the way the word is currently used, I'd imagine the list would be even longer. Modern leftist liberalism is all about controlling what others say and think.
:P
Now, if we're talking real, classical liberalism, well, we haven't been anywhere near it for probably a century.
Man, now I'm depressed.
Notable omission: Super Mario Bros. 3.
Nonetheless, it's still an exciting list.
You're welcome. Great books. Coincidentally, I just finished rereading the last in the series yesterday afternoon. So that was the first thing that came to mind when seeing this article.
Watch out if you let the Technocore help. Can we farcast off of Old Earth yet?
(see "Old Earth": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_Cantos)
I do a lot of work for the government, so possibly it went to my paycheck.
:P
Thanks!
uh, who in the 1980's had component video?!? Shit, I don't have a TV that supports component video now.
You put on the +4 Bloody Sock. You throw the fastball.
but seriously. Kind of a weird group of people, but it'll be interesting to see what they come up with.
As far as using this new cultural background idea, it sounds more like a way to block people out based off of race (that's racism folks).
Oh really? Which biological characteristics, exactly, cause someone to know who Britney Spears is?
Calling that "racist" is absurd. It's a stupid idea, certainly, but it has nothing to do with "racism".
Why is this suddenly an issue now? Frankly I distrust this because it's trying to get Congress to pass more laws, which is almost always a bad idea. If "there oughta be a law" to protect this 'net neutrality' thing, why has the Internet gotten along fine without such a law for 25 years now?
When I think about things that are efficient, unbiased, and good for everyone, I rarely think "US government regulations".
The first I heard of "Steam" was when Half-Life 2 came out. I never bought HL2 (not into FPS), and so my association with Steam was "something that came with HL2 that nobody liked". Now I'm reading about various games "coming out on Steam" or something, and so I've been trying to figure out what it is. Apparently you download games on it, which sounds pretty good (although in the old days we used something called "FTP" to download things), and then whenever you want to play your game that you purchased, you have to connect to Steam? How is this a good idea? What if you don't have net access when you want to play? Am I misunderstanding it?
Except everyone who has a PC bought in the past 7 years or so has a monitor that can do 1024x768, and most likely much higher. *Maybe* 5% of the population has HDTVs, and I'd be surprised if it was that many. (No, people on Slashdot don't count, and your friends probably don't either. Think normal people.) Unless you're going to include the $2000 for a new super-duper-resolution HDTV in the price of console gaming, which blows your "PC gaming is more expensive!" argument out of the water.
The mean surface temperature on 2003 UB313 is about 30 Kelvin.
I'd say that's well beyond 'cool' and into 'cold'.
there would be loads of insightful comments
You must be new here.
Used to have a computer setup that would totally freeze at random times if the CPU was idle. As long as I was running seti@home or something else, no freezes. Let the CPU idle, it'd freeze within a half-hour. Never figured out if it was hardware or software or both; I seem to remember it happening on multiple versions/installs of Windows, but not in FreeBSD. And when I replaced the mobo/CPU, it stopped happening, even when I still had the samw Windows install.
I'm not totally up on everything either, but I believe:
1. October-ish.
2. $200-$250.
3. $50-$60 I think for new games, no one's really sure about the Virtual Console stuff.
Except that most people really don't "xerox" things anymore. I used to hear it, sure, but nowadays it's just "copying". I'd say Xerox Corp. won that war.
I wrote a script right here. It will programatically generate all of Wikipedia. Eventually.
Evolution of unanswerable questions:
Middle ages: How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
1960's: How many roads must a man walk down?
2006: How do I make sense of Microsoft Access?
Best gaming magazine around for a long long time (they started in the early 1980's.. 81? 83?), but from what I hear it's declined a lot in the past few years. It's really too bad.
let's see..
nuclear scientists say this works and can happen, and have done experiments.
but Slashdot user swchrad (312009) disagrees! Well shit, guess we can abandon that idea then.
I love the "informative" mod, btw. Nice touch.
Sorry, ignorance is not linguistic drift. "Begs the question" has a meaning, and that's not it -- just because people don't know that doesn't mean that's not the meaning.
You must read a different Slashdot than I do. The one I read goes from "M$ is evil!" to "OMG XBOX IS SO SHINY" so fast and so often it gives me whiplash.
I've used only AMD CPUs and ATI graphics cards for 5-6 years now. This can only be good news.