Introducing the iRack! It holds all your iItems, the iPod, the iPhone, the iMac, it can even carry an iTune. Of course it gets unstable when you place all those things in it. No worries, clearly the solution is to add more iItems to the iRack.
If the iRack should fail to hold your iItem surge, just use the iRan to escape the falling iRack.
Maybe when gaming gets more cinematic I might consider playing a spiderman game but for now, I'd rather not be disappointed again.
I'll agree with this, and go further. When the gaming industry is seen as a valid outlet for franchise media (IE:a true grown up media powerhouse), we may see games released instead of movies.
Right now, games are secondary to movies and TV shows, but soon (hopefully) digital media, including video games will increase in importance beyond currently available media formats. Someday, I hope to see the release of a Spiderman game get the kind of response that a Spiderman movie gets, and makes the kind of money WoW, CS, or EQ make. People nay-say corporate intrusions in games, but it's a necessity. Without funding, you can't make any games.
So Spiderman is the only big name franchise to produce crap games?
A lot of crap movie tie in games were pushed on us (on the NES) as kids. Spiderman/X-man was a minor incident compared to "Darkman" (god bless Sam Rami, he tried to make a great movie out of it) "Batman", "The Rocketeer", anything with "Robocop". Video game were considered promo-media, or tie in cash, not a genuine media format.
What we are today (as an entertainment format) is so different from what we were then, you cant really blame the old school code crunchers and game designers. They were trying to bring us a new media form, which they loved, any way they could.
I notice oil companies are heavily involved in solar energy, are they securing their future and/or slowing solar tech down?
They speed it up. Peak oil works like this: Let us say petrol-company "A" can make X.XX dollars per gallon of refined gas. This is because crude oil is cheap, it only costs =~.75 USD per barrel of crude oil. Now lets say Iraq/Kuwait runs out of liquid hydrocarbon (pump-able crude oil) (not projected for another 20 years). And lets say petrol-company "A" makes a deal with Canada for Tar sands Hydrocarbons, to make crude oil, it will cost 1.18 USD per barrel of crude oil, because tar sands require additional refining to make it basic liquid crude.
Who pays the cost?
The consumer?
LoL, Not if there is a cheaper way to get energy.
Companies will help, only as long as they can make a profit, or project a future profit from there activities. It pays to invest now, and patent now, for profit when hydrocarbons are to expensive too mine.
If you are a gamer, XP is an upgrade from Vista.
True. I have Vista. I've ordered XPSP2 to replace it.
Vista is beautiful and stable, but severely lacking in backward compatibility and functionality with open source programs. If you must upgrade, wait until Vista SP1, by then the functionality should be there.
I too recently purchased a new PC (Desktop). I had no choice in the mater, 512 ram and 1.2 processor just didn't have the balls to run anymore. I was screwed over for an OS, since almost no one in my price range would release anything but Vista home or Business.
I'll have to go out and pay more money for Windows XP now, just to get back some of the speed I had on my gimp ass-ed rig.
The only really bad part of Vista is it's ram consumption. It's just horifically huge bloatware for anyone that has less than 2 gigs of ram and lacks a dual core. It's pretty, and the rendering is fantastic, but the hardware needed to run it simply is not commonplace.
Had Vista been released 2 years from now, it would run great for the average PC owner.
Thank god my laptop runs Ubuntu. It's impractical for most programs, but it runs like a champ.
Enough people with your attitude and Capitalism would turn into a kleptocratic dog-eat-dog anyting-goes nightmare where top 1% owns 90% of everything ..and your point is?
Communism is dead, it died because the will of the people is not enough to out way the desire for extraordinary success. I agree that sheer "caveat emptor" is silly, you however, seem to be shooting for extreme moderation in self made success. A theory that should never be accepted on the net.
Can you really compare Pong or Pools of Radiance to something like WoW or CoD?
Most early video games relied on your imagination for graphics, and a bit of hand eye coordination. Most modern games rely heavily on hand eye coordination and less on imagination. Dose this make one better than the other? Hell no. You just can't compare the two.
I'm blessed enough to have seen the beginnings of this form media (the Internet and video games).
Games evolve in lots of ways, eye candy, more adult plots, rudimentary response time. You can take my word for it, games don't get better or worse, they just look better, or play more intuitively. You really can't compare the two.
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Introducing the iRack! It holds all your iItems, the iPod, the iPhone, the iMac, it can even carry an iTune. Of course it gets unstable when you place all those things in it. No worries, clearly the solution is to add more iItems to the iRack.
If the iRack should fail to hold your iItem surge, just use the iRan to escape the falling iRack.
The phrase "unwavering obtuse" comes to mind. Also an old English word, which sounds like a very bad word, so I'll not utter it here.
I'll agree with this, and go further. When the gaming industry is seen as a valid outlet for franchise media (IE:a true grown up media powerhouse), we may see games released instead of movies.
Right now, games are secondary to movies and TV shows, but soon (hopefully) digital media, including video games will increase in importance beyond currently available media formats. Someday, I hope to see the release of a Spiderman game get the kind of response that a Spiderman movie gets, and makes the kind of money WoW, CS, or EQ make. People nay-say corporate intrusions in games, but it's a necessity. Without funding, you can't make any games.
So Spiderman is the only big name franchise to produce crap games?
A lot of crap movie tie in games were pushed on us (on the NES) as kids. Spiderman/X-man was a minor incident compared to "Darkman" (god bless Sam Rami, he tried to make a great movie out of it) "Batman", "The Rocketeer", anything with "Robocop". Video game were considered promo-media, or tie in cash, not a genuine media format.
What we are today (as an entertainment format) is so different from what we were then, you cant really blame the old school code crunchers and game designers. They were trying to bring us a new media form, which they loved, any way they could.
They speed it up. Peak oil works like this: Let us say petrol-company "A" can make X.XX dollars per gallon of refined gas. This is because crude oil is cheap, it only costs =~.75 USD per barrel of crude oil. Now lets say Iraq/Kuwait runs out of liquid hydrocarbon (pump-able crude oil) (not projected for another 20 years). And lets say petrol-company "A" makes a deal with Canada for Tar sands Hydrocarbons, to make crude oil, it will cost 1.18 USD per barrel of crude oil, because tar sands require additional refining to make it basic liquid crude.
Who pays the cost?
The consumer?
LoL, Not if there is a cheaper way to get energy.
Companies will help, only as long as they can make a profit, or project a future profit from there activities. It pays to invest now, and patent now, for profit when hydrocarbons are to expensive too mine.
True. I have Vista. I've ordered XPSP2 to replace it.
Vista is beautiful and stable, but severely lacking in backward compatibility and functionality with open source programs. If you must upgrade, wait until Vista SP1, by then the functionality should be there.
I too recently purchased a new PC (Desktop). I had no choice in the mater, 512 ram and 1.2 processor just didn't have the balls to run anymore. I was screwed over for an OS, since almost no one in my price range would release anything but Vista home or Business.
I'll have to go out and pay more money for Windows XP now, just to get back some of the speed I had on my gimp ass-ed rig.
The only really bad part of Vista is it's ram consumption. It's just horifically huge bloatware for anyone that has less than 2 gigs of ram and lacks a dual core. It's pretty, and the rendering is fantastic, but the hardware needed to run it simply is not commonplace.
Had Vista been released 2 years from now, it would run great for the average PC owner.
Thank god my laptop runs Ubuntu. It's impractical for most programs, but it runs like a champ.
Communism is dead, it died because the will of the people is not enough to out way the desire for extraordinary success. I agree that sheer "caveat emptor" is silly, you however, seem to be shooting for extreme moderation in self made success. A theory that should never be accepted on the net.
Can you really compare Pong or Pools of Radiance to something like WoW or CoD? Most early video games relied on your imagination for graphics, and a bit of hand eye coordination. Most modern games rely heavily on hand eye coordination and less on imagination. Dose this make one better than the other? Hell no. You just can't compare the two. I'm blessed enough to have seen the beginnings of this form media (the Internet and video games). Games evolve in lots of ways, eye candy, more adult plots, rudimentary response time. You can take my word for it, games don't get better or worse, they just look better, or play more intuitively. You really can't compare the two.