so WTF are you going to do with this stuff? put it in your closet, keep it in "mint" condition, kill anyone who dares to touch it and think how worth it everything was?
Well, if I were to have all those games, I'd open a museum. Buy as many consoles + TVs as possible (old CRTs, if possible, for max realism), pop in as many games as possible. Put up a little placard next to each, describing the history and historical importance of the game. Keep the most popular ones on constantly, but rotate out all the rest. Supplement it with other material - old game magazines, videos, etc. Do some proper archival work as well - have all the games backed up militantly, so the games will never truly be "lost" (maybe do the playing on the duplicated copies, if cost-effective).
Charge $5 to $25 to come in and play the games all day. Run some special events, maybe have the Minibosses or the Protomen do a promotional concert every so often.
I actually saw something similar to this in an arcade in Nashville, TN. It was an arcade with a bunch of pinball on the left, older arcade games on the right. In the middle was a large screen tv and a smaller screen tv. They had older systems and a very large shelf of games. You could pay to play by the hour and get to use any of the games in the library.
I wouldn't say it buried at all the package is there and is clearly labeled on the price list in the same font/size as the other packages. It might be on fine print on advertisements nobody ever said a company has to advertise every service they offer they could choose not to mention it at all. There is nothing you need to find just call and ask about them nobody will proactively offer you the cheaper packages but if you ask they will tell you.
What is interesting about this is that I checked and some of the cable companies say that broadband only packages don't exist. They certainly don't like it when you do only broadband from everything I've seen.
Just went into my profile to try to remove / disable this POS and you are not even given the option to do so...
I am so close to closing my Facebook account it is not even funny anymore.
Join the rest of us that left several months ago because of the increasing number of times that fb thought their views on privacy/settings/defaults was better than yours. At this point I only have a fb id so that I can be invited to events by others. Hopefully some sort of good event system will show up in one of the other social network sites.
I would say that you should visit other countries. And I am not talking about Canada or Mexico. I mean seriously travel.
My experience is that people who have traveled and seen other countries are better able to handle unexpected situations and stress. Things that will be helpful when you are in a working environment and other situations later in life.
And it is so much fun at the same time. If possible take a year and work in another country at any odd job for a few weeks before going on the road again.
Maybe not right before college but certainly try to study abroad while in college. Either for a foreign language or your major, it is certainly worth it. Those were some of the best experiences I had during college.
I really can't stand 3D in general, but it was very well done in Coraline, and I continue to hold that film up as an exemplar of how 3D can be used effectively to create an immersive film.
The pirates did their 3d the same way and I have seen both and can say that it was also well done. Very different types of films but both well done as far as animation is concerned.
Reformatting and using all of the usual software to try to remove the virus didn't help at all!
Wow! Must be one of those magic virus that hides itself somewhere in the computer that survives wiping the hard drive. Either that or you are the most incompetent tech ever. I wouldn't take a recommendation for scam PC clean-up software from the world's most incompetent computer tech.
Actually they do exist, mostly as bios viruses. Here is a toms hardware article about just such a case. I do tend to agree with you that he doesn't seem like the most competent tech, just thought I would point that out.
Another non gimicky 3d is "The Pirates! Band of Misfits", which is surprisingly good in that you don't really notice the 3d except for it just looking much nicer.
It is films that don't film with 3d equipment that make 3d look bad (like avengers).
facebook is growing PROFITS at almost 100% every year. Revenue is up 5X over the last 3 years. they are about at the same point in revenue/profits as when google went public.
the only people i know who still use email are my mom and my kid's baseball team. everyone else i know uses facebook. gmail is mostly for spam and crap email
openID is dead. most legit websites with a login will let you use your facebook account. Facebook is the identity of the internet going forward.
I will say right now that that is only a portion of the population. It may be all that you know of but there are people that avoid Facebook because of one reason or another. Assuming that everyone has an id there, or even uses it regularly is similar to assuming everyone has an iPhone. It may be popular but there will just be people that wish to not use it.
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Just checked it out, Torchlight looks pretty sweet. Diablo III is out? Time to buy Torchlight!
Oh and you get a free copy of Torchlight if you pre-order torchlight 2. Another reason to get it over Diablo 3.
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I've had a general policy of not buying games for any platform if their PC version requires an always-on connection (aside from MMOs, which it would be unfair to penalise, as "always on" is the very nature of the game there). This means I've missed out on every Assassin's Creed game since the original and a few other titles to boot.
I agonised about Diablo 3. It did look, at face value, like a straightforward case of Ubisoft-style DRM. However, Blizzard did push quite hard the line that the game had integral features that meant they couldn't have done it without the always-on without making serious compromises to the game. I was... unconvinced. So I decided to wait and see how things went at launch.
As it happens, Blizzard then wheeled out that "subscribe to WoW for a year get Diablo 3 free" thing at just about the time when I was in the market to get back into an MMO. On balance, I decided that I might as well go for that.
Now that I've had a few hours with Diablo 3, I can conclude that if it hadn't been for the WoW special offer, this would still have been firmly in the "boycott" camp. I've yet to see any online features that could not have been made 100% optional at no expense to the player (though possibly at some expense to Blizzard through lost real-money auction house fees). If you're in the "undecided" camp on D3 over its DRM, my advice would be to avoid it.
This is exactly the kind of reasons, along with price, that I'm going into the Torchlight 2 camp.
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Indeed. I will not be playing this one. Even pirated. Torchlight II will get my money, time, and affection. Blizzard can FOAD.
I agree, for a third of the price (1/4 if you find 3 friends) you can get Torchlight 2. I've already bought the 4 pack and am eagerly waiting for torchlight 2 to go live. They are doing beta testing now so hopefully it won't be too much longer.
I'm not trying to be rude, but do people actually buy an Xbox and not have a Gold membership? It equates to something like $5 per month for access to demos, weekly arcade games, an indie game market, promo videos, media streaming, a stable staging environment for multiplayer gaming across games, etc.
Not to burst your bubble, but you'll probably need a Gold membership to use the IE browser anyways. Hopefully they launch Skype soon. That's my only real complaint.
Well I'm guessing that people that have more than one console are MUCH less likely to pay for Gold membership. All the things you mentioned you can do for free on the wii or ps3. The only part that would be worth the gold would be multiplayer in a game you couldn't get on another platform. Which does happen, just not often.
"Good enough" means the particle board interior starts falling apart in 3 months.
Have you actually owned IKEA furniture? I've had a set of shelves from there that have lasted me at least 6 years and two moves. They may have a lot of particle board furniture but it is well made for the materials involved.
The only beer that merits consumption at anything close to "cold" are the thin, watery excuses produced by the Big 3 breweries in the USA (Larry, Moe and Curly, AKA Miller, Bud and Coors) Real beer needs to be chilled nicely but served in the 45-55 degree range for the flavors to be enjoyed.
This is mostly true. There is actually a Guinness extra cold that is meant to be served cold. They even have special taps that serve it through a super cooler at 3.5C. So I would say that unless a beer is brewed to be enjoyed cold it probably is best served at the 45-55 range as stated.
I would consider Kirin to be real beer. They do also make a Happoshu but the actual beer they make isn't bad. Beer is a very diverse drink and there are many kinds and types. I wouldn't ever consider one type to be more 'real' than others. Regardless it would still be interesting to try this technique for frozen beer foam on all of the different types of beers.
I think I know why North American readers may never heard of it. (USA and Canada represent well over two-thirds of the population of industrialized anglophone countries.) From the article:
in Saarbrücken, Germany
For some reason they never have demo parties like this in North America. Why is that?
In Atlanta, Ga a friend of mine did a cheese and demo party every year and showed a bunch of demoscene stuff from the past year. There was also a bunch of cheese tasting involved. That is the closest to a demoscene I've experienced in the states.
IE may be "cheapest" until you realize that Chrome makes the computer seem so much faster that you can skip an upgrade cycle. IE is dog slow, so are Firefox and Safari.
Well after a quick search online "dog slow" doesn't seem to be true.
fastest browser tests
According to that, which was done recently, IE9 is fastest on windows, with chrome/firefox tied. If you go by mac speeds then yes chrome wins out. At this point it is much more the UI experience and the particular plugins that get me to like one browser over another. So I stick with firefox.
Blizzard is actually the one company that I feel I can trust to keep the servers running for a lon gperiod of time, becuase they tend to stick with and support their games. They seem to have a corporate mindset that looks and plans in the long term, as opposed to most other publishers that just look to the next game and leave just a token force to maintain a previous game. That being said, I really enjoyed Diablo II, but after being disappointed with SC2, I do not expect to buy D3 any time soon.
I agree with this, but the problem now is that it isn't just Blizzard. Activision is in the picture and my trust in them is much lower. I somewhat want to play Diablo 3 but I doubt I will because of this.
I was curious if the sites that the sharing button has will be expanded? I specifically was not seeing google+ in there, but I'm sure there are other sites that might be wanted. I'm sure that as a tech site there is a bit more g+ users here than on a normal site. Slashdot tv looks like a neat site and I'll have to check it out when I'm not at work.
Slashdot Mirror
so WTF are you going to do with this stuff? put it in your closet, keep it in "mint" condition, kill anyone who dares to touch it and think how worth it everything was?
Well, if I were to have all those games, I'd open a museum. Buy as many consoles + TVs as possible (old CRTs, if possible, for max realism), pop in as many games as possible. Put up a little placard next to each, describing the history and historical importance of the game. Keep the most popular ones on constantly, but rotate out all the rest. Supplement it with other material - old game magazines, videos, etc. Do some proper archival work as well - have all the games backed up militantly, so the games will never truly be "lost" (maybe do the playing on the duplicated copies, if cost-effective).
Charge $5 to $25 to come in and play the games all day. Run some special events, maybe have the Minibosses or the Protomen do a promotional concert every so often.
I actually saw something similar to this in an arcade in Nashville, TN. It was an arcade with a bunch of pinball on the left, older arcade games on the right. In the middle was a large screen tv and a smaller screen tv. They had older systems and a very large shelf of games. You could pay to play by the hour and get to use any of the games in the library.
Just in case you were living under a rock in fantasyland with the cyber fairies where the robot unicorns roam free unhampered by criminals...
You leave my robot unicorns out of this!
I wouldn't say it buried at all the package is there and is clearly labeled on the price list in the same font/size as the other packages. It might be on fine print on advertisements nobody ever said a company has to advertise every service they offer they could choose not to mention it at all. There is nothing you need to find just call and ask about them nobody will proactively offer you the cheaper packages but if you ask they will tell you.
What is interesting about this is that I checked and some of the cable companies say that broadband only packages don't exist. They certainly don't like it when you do only broadband from everything I've seen.
Just went into my profile to try to remove / disable this POS and you are not even given the option to do so...
I am so close to closing my Facebook account it is not even funny anymore.
Join the rest of us that left several months ago because of the increasing number of times that fb thought their views on privacy/settings/defaults was better than yours. At this point I only have a fb id so that I can be invited to events by others. Hopefully some sort of good event system will show up in one of the other social network sites.
So there is the Facebook icon but it isn't mentioned in the summary at all. Is it a game that was targeting Facebook?
I would say that you should visit other countries. And I am not talking about Canada or Mexico. I mean seriously travel.
My experience is that people who have traveled and seen other countries are better able to handle unexpected situations and stress. Things that will be helpful when you are in a working environment and other situations later in life.
And it is so much fun at the same time. If possible take a year and work in another country at any odd job for a few weeks before going on the road again.
Maybe not right before college but certainly try to study abroad while in college. Either for a foreign language or your major, it is certainly worth it. Those were some of the best experiences I had during college.
This reminds me of linux.fm, which is the kernal as a radio station. Maybe a bit off topic but there you go.
Coraline.
I really can't stand 3D in general, but it was very well done in Coraline, and I continue to hold that film up as an exemplar of how 3D can be used effectively to create an immersive film.
The pirates did their 3d the same way and I have seen both and can say that it was also well done. Very different types of films but both well done as far as animation is concerned.
Reformatting and using all of the usual software to try to remove the virus didn't help at all!
Wow! Must be one of those magic virus that hides itself somewhere in the computer that survives wiping the hard drive. Either that or you are the most incompetent tech ever. I wouldn't take a recommendation for scam PC clean-up software from the world's most incompetent computer tech.
Actually they do exist, mostly as bios viruses. Here is a toms hardware article about just such a case. I do tend to agree with you that he doesn't seem like the most competent tech, just thought I would point that out.
How much was the 3D popcorn?
Probably some form of 2D currency.
You can see non gimicky 3D right now: Prometheus.
Another non gimicky 3d is "The Pirates! Band of Misfits", which is surprisingly good in that you don't really notice the 3d except for it just looking much nicer. It is films that don't film with 3d equipment that make 3d look bad (like avengers).
Time-traveler, are you?
hopefully...
Do tell! Did you use a blue police box or was it a modified delorean, or some other method? Any stock tips?
WTF are you talking about?
facebook is growing PROFITS at almost 100% every year. Revenue is up 5X over the last 3 years. they are about at the same point in revenue/profits as when google went public.
the only people i know who still use email are my mom and my kid's baseball team. everyone else i know uses facebook. gmail is mostly for spam and crap email
openID is dead. most legit websites with a login will let you use your facebook account. Facebook is the identity of the internet going forward.
I will say right now that that is only a portion of the population. It may be all that you know of but there are people that avoid Facebook because of one reason or another. Assuming that everyone has an id there, or even uses it regularly is similar to assuming everyone has an iPhone. It may be popular but there will just be people that wish to not use it.
Just checked it out, Torchlight looks pretty sweet. Diablo III is out? Time to buy Torchlight!
Oh and you get a free copy of Torchlight if you pre-order torchlight 2. Another reason to get it over Diablo 3.
I've had a general policy of not buying games for any platform if their PC version requires an always-on connection (aside from MMOs, which it would be unfair to penalise, as "always on" is the very nature of the game there). This means I've missed out on every Assassin's Creed game since the original and a few other titles to boot.
I agonised about Diablo 3. It did look, at face value, like a straightforward case of Ubisoft-style DRM. However, Blizzard did push quite hard the line that the game had integral features that meant they couldn't have done it without the always-on without making serious compromises to the game. I was... unconvinced. So I decided to wait and see how things went at launch.
As it happens, Blizzard then wheeled out that "subscribe to WoW for a year get Diablo 3 free" thing at just about the time when I was in the market to get back into an MMO. On balance, I decided that I might as well go for that.
Now that I've had a few hours with Diablo 3, I can conclude that if it hadn't been for the WoW special offer, this would still have been firmly in the "boycott" camp. I've yet to see any online features that could not have been made 100% optional at no expense to the player (though possibly at some expense to Blizzard through lost real-money auction house fees). If you're in the "undecided" camp on D3 over its DRM, my advice would be to avoid it.
This is exactly the kind of reasons, along with price, that I'm going into the Torchlight 2 camp.
Indeed. I will not be playing this one. Even pirated. Torchlight II will get my money, time, and affection. Blizzard can FOAD.
I agree, for a third of the price (1/4 if you find 3 friends) you can get Torchlight 2. I've already bought the 4 pack and am eagerly waiting for torchlight 2 to go live. They are doing beta testing now so hopefully it won't be too much longer.
Not sure how well it does with multimedia sites, since I've only dabbled with it a little bit.
It works fine with at least some media sites. I've tested it with pandora and youtube and they seem to work fine.
I'm not trying to be rude, but do people actually buy an Xbox and not have a Gold membership? It equates to something like $5 per month for access to demos, weekly arcade games, an indie game market, promo videos, media streaming, a stable staging environment for multiplayer gaming across games, etc. Not to burst your bubble, but you'll probably need a Gold membership to use the IE browser anyways. Hopefully they launch Skype soon. That's my only real complaint.
Well I'm guessing that people that have more than one console are MUCH less likely to pay for Gold membership. All the things you mentioned you can do for free on the wii or ps3. The only part that would be worth the gold would be multiplayer in a game you couldn't get on another platform. Which does happen, just not often.
This is IKEA "furniture" we're talking about.
"Good enough" means the particle board interior starts falling apart in 3 months.
Have you actually owned IKEA furniture? I've had a set of shelves from there that have lasted me at least 6 years and two moves. They may have a lot of particle board furniture but it is well made for the materials involved.
The only beer that merits consumption at anything close to "cold" are the thin, watery excuses produced by the Big 3 breweries in the USA (Larry, Moe and Curly, AKA Miller, Bud and Coors) Real beer needs to be chilled nicely but served in the 45-55 degree range for the flavors to be enjoyed.
This is mostly true. There is actually a Guinness extra cold that is meant to be served cold. They even have special taps that serve it through a super cooler at 3.5C. So I would say that unless a beer is brewed to be enjoyed cold it probably is best served at the 45-55 range as stated.
I would consider Kirin to be real beer. They do also make a Happoshu but the actual beer they make isn't bad. Beer is a very diverse drink and there are many kinds and types. I wouldn't ever consider one type to be more 'real' than others. Regardless it would still be interesting to try this technique for frozen beer foam on all of the different types of beers.
I think I know why North American readers may never heard of it. (USA and Canada represent well over two-thirds of the population of industrialized anglophone countries.) From the article:
in Saarbrücken, Germany
For some reason they never have demo parties like this in North America. Why is that?
In Atlanta, Ga a friend of mine did a cheese and demo party every year and showed a bunch of demoscene stuff from the past year. There was also a bunch of cheese tasting involved. That is the closest to a demoscene I've experienced in the states.
IE may be "cheapest" until you realize that Chrome makes the computer seem so much faster that you can skip an upgrade cycle. IE is dog slow, so are Firefox and Safari.
Well after a quick search online "dog slow" doesn't seem to be true. fastest browser tests According to that, which was done recently, IE9 is fastest on windows, with chrome/firefox tied. If you go by mac speeds then yes chrome wins out. At this point it is much more the UI experience and the particular plugins that get me to like one browser over another. So I stick with firefox.
Blizzard is actually the one company that I feel I can trust to keep the servers running for a lon gperiod of time, becuase they tend to stick with and support their games. They seem to have a corporate mindset that looks and plans in the long term, as opposed to most other publishers that just look to the next game and leave just a token force to maintain a previous game. That being said, I really enjoyed Diablo II, but after being disappointed with SC2, I do not expect to buy D3 any time soon.
I agree with this, but the problem now is that it isn't just Blizzard. Activision is in the picture and my trust in them is much lower. I somewhat want to play Diablo 3 but I doubt I will because of this.
I was curious if the sites that the sharing button has will be expanded? I specifically was not seeing google+ in there, but I'm sure there are other sites that might be wanted. I'm sure that as a tech site there is a bit more g+ users here than on a normal site. Slashdot tv looks like a neat site and I'll have to check it out when I'm not at work.