I'm annoyed when people call games like Tomb Raider, Indiana Jones, and such "First Person Shooters" - they're third person games, for one, and they don't even emphesise the shooting, it's mostly autoaim based. They're "Third Person Action/Adventure" or "Tomb-Raider-Style" titles, not First Person Shooters. ----
Okay, umm, is it just me or is there some "-1 flamebait" happy moderator reading this? I've seen 3 instances where even slightly anti-ms messages in this discussion got 'flamebait' - mine wasn't even that anti-ms, just about the misleading 'windows password' system. ----
I've never understood the fascination with Opera. They charge for a web browser that does LESS then what their competition (Netscape, IE, Mozilla, etc) does for free. ----
Unfortunately, the way things are going, some group like the MPAA and RIAA will probably make it illegal to write an open source program at all in order to 'protect the author's intellectual property, and oh, did I mention, you owe me 20,000 bucks for the service'
Plus, if you're protesting eating meat, you don't do it at a vegetarian cooking class. Marching through there would just annoy the people who are ALREADY ON YOUR SIDE. Mass Posting DeCSS to comp.* groups has a net effect of being seen by next to none of the people your protesting to. ----
"We have just received a small platter from the year 2000! I wonder what it's for? Hmm, It could be for storing information, but that's silly! Who would ever store information on easily scratched or broken plastic disks? It must be some kind of coaster, or ornament..." ----
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Interestingly enough, Metal Gear Solid is being ported to the PC, and will be released under the monkier of..
Yes, Microsoft. Click here for the offical MGS-PC website, and at the bottom it's copyright "Konami and Microsoft Corporation" so considering Microsoft is bringing out MGS for the PC, why not MGS2 for the X-Box? ----
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the X-Box is nothing- it's impressive, hard-ware wise, but it lacks where other systems in this market flourish- japanese developer support. Sure, PC games are fine without them, but set-top consoles is a japanese market, where all the best games come out of Japanese developers, or at least overseas. Take a look at the top games on all the systems out right now? How many can you count that were developed in America?
the X-Box is not a good thing. It's another console, when we already have 3 great consoles going at once. Or, to look at it in the 'other' direction, it's a PC without upgradability which isn't what Sony, Nintendo, or Sega are currently 'focused' on... not replacing the PC, but do other things.
the Console/PC war is rather silly... both systems have their own good points. PC's have incredible customizabily, fan-driven content, and incredible control for First Person Shooters and Real Time Strategy. However, a Console is much better for a Final-Fantasy-Style RPG, a platformer, a Zelda-style adventure game, a 3rd person shooter, or a Metal Gear style action game.
Why? A keyboard/mouse is good for absoulte movement and direction control (Go here, aim at this point) while the gamepads (which are superior in consoles) are excellent at RELATIVE control (move THIS WAY, aim in THAT direction) - plus, certian things just look better on a TV and some on a monitor.
This 'hybridisation' is really going to bastardise the industry- if you ahve two things, that are excellent at two different things, why combine them into something that's medocre in everything? ----
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I'd like some fiber to my apartment, but it's rather far from Japan right now ...
You don't need to go to Japan, silly! Just go to your local grocery store and pick up a box of Bran Flakes. They're an excellent source of fiber!
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Becker's drivers were open source, but Sun is distrubiting them- in binary form, with no source- without his permission.
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He wasn't just selling the domain, but the SITE itself.
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You know Chernoble? Well the marines in Russia are over FIFTY FEET TALL!
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I'm annoyed when people call games like Tomb Raider, Indiana Jones, and such "First Person Shooters" - they're third person games, for one, and they don't even emphesise the shooting, it's mostly autoaim based. They're "Third Person Action/Adventure" or "Tomb-Raider-Style" titles, not First Person Shooters.
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Okay, umm, is it just me or is there some "-1 flamebait" happy moderator reading this? I've seen 3 instances where even slightly anti-ms messages in this discussion got 'flamebait' - mine wasn't even that anti-ms, just about the misleading 'windows password' system.
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If it just warns the user, it's probably something like "Are You Sure?" - 99% of net flames are on purpose anyway, so what does this solve?
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I've never understood the fascination with Opera. They charge for a web browser that does LESS then what their competition (Netscape, IE, Mozilla, etc) does for free.
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Unfortunately, the way things are going, some group like the MPAA and RIAA will probably make it illegal to write an open source program at all in order to 'protect the author's intellectual property, and oh, did I mention, you owe me 20,000 bucks for the service'
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In spelling class D stands for "You Suck"
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Current bid: $500,000 bucks, 59 bids, reserve met. I guess that puts to rest the idea of it being too high to reach?
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It's probably closer to forcing people with VCRs and VHS tapes to HAVE to watch it on a magnavox television or it's illegal.
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Plus, if you're protesting eating meat, you don't do it at a vegetarian cooking class. Marching through there would just annoy the people who are ALREADY ON YOUR SIDE. Mass Posting DeCSS to comp.* groups has a net effect of being seen by next to none of the people your protesting to.
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Establishmentarianism is fine, but what about Antidisestablishmentarianism?
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Or, if you prefer, Riven, the sequel to the Mystery of faith.
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If you ever have to get work done on a Windows machine you need to have faith that it might just actually stay going for two minutes.
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"... and the ARMSTECH president Kenneth Baker..."
Is this where Hideo Kojima got the name?
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Two words.
Final Fantasy
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"We have just received a small platter from the year 2000! I wonder what it's for? Hmm, It could be for storing information, but that's silly! Who would ever store information on easily scratched or broken plastic disks? It must be some kind of coaster, or ornament..."
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Oh my god, Bear is driving! How can this be?
Interestingly enough, Metal Gear Solid is being ported to the PC, and will be released under the monkier of..
Yes, Microsoft. Click here for the offical MGS-PC website, and at the bottom it's copyright "Konami and Microsoft Corporation" so considering Microsoft is bringing out MGS for the PC, why not MGS2 for the X-Box?
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Microsoft: "ME TOO!"
the X-Box is nothing- it's impressive, hard-ware wise, but it lacks where other systems in this market flourish- japanese developer support. Sure, PC games are fine without them, but set-top consoles is a japanese market, where all the best games come out of Japanese developers, or at least overseas. Take a look at the top games on all the systems out right now? How many can you count that were developed in America?
the X-Box is not a good thing. It's another console, when we already have 3 great consoles going at once. Or, to look at it in the 'other' direction, it's a PC without upgradability which isn't what Sony, Nintendo, or Sega are currently 'focused' on... not replacing the PC, but do other things.
the Console/PC war is rather silly... both systems have their own good points. PC's have incredible customizabily, fan-driven content, and incredible control for First Person Shooters and Real Time Strategy. However, a Console is much better for a Final-Fantasy-Style RPG, a platformer, a Zelda-style adventure game, a 3rd person shooter, or a Metal Gear style action game.
Why? A keyboard/mouse is good for absoulte movement and direction control (Go here, aim at this point) while the gamepads (which are superior in consoles) are excellent at RELATIVE control (move THIS WAY, aim in THAT direction) - plus, certian things just look better on a TV and some on a monitor.
This 'hybridisation' is really going to bastardise the industry- if you ahve two things, that are excellent at two different things, why combine them into something that's medocre in everything?
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Oh my god, Bear is driving! How can this be?
The ATI Radeon beats the GeForce 2 in high resolulution benchmarks, if that means anything.
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Which also means that this IS in fact, year 1999, so regardless what NUMBER you start at, the millenium doesn't hit until this coming new years.
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They might find out Canadian military secrets, like how our submarines can go underwater!
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It's better then having a GUESS that there MIGHT be something at all on Europa.
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