There is one game I have played numerous times and I could play it several times again: Fallout*. Despite the graphics having got old quite badly, it's still awesome: it's full of humour; your actions have an impact on the world that surrounds you, and last but not least, you are free to go wherever it pleases you.** Besides, I think that Arcanum, even though not necessarily a masterpiece, is still a pretty good game: for instance, the characters that join your "party" are not just sidekicks and each of them have a more or less interesting background that you may learn about during the game. Secondly, the music just rocks. Sometimes I would stop playing altogether and listen to the violins. Plus you can join the villains. And that's not all: in both of these, completing a quest can usually be done in at least two different ways.
All right, both of these were RPG's. Well, in the FPS category, there's Deus Ex. What's cool about this game? You choose if you wanna go Rambo on the enemy or if you wanna sneak behind the enemy lines and complete the objectives without killing anyone -- yes, I can see you're starting to notice a pattern. The music is pretty good as well, especially the main theme.
Now you will ask me, what do you learn in these videogames? In Fallout, there are many books explaining how and why humans were turned into super mutants. Plus the different cliques give you an insight into what could happen if a nuclear war occurred. In Arcanum, different points of view (at least on for each race) are given on technology, and this really made me think about it in a different way. In Deus Ex, you learn that the terrorists are not always the ones you might think.
These three games were released quite some time ago, yet they are still fun and relevant in nowadays issues. They could still be in a decade, I think.
*I haven't played Fallout 2 enough to give my opinion on it, but I heard it was a very good sequel.
**I've always hated those linear games that suffer from tunnel syndrome, in which any attempts at wandering off path will result in your character slipping off a twenty-five degrees slope.
Actually, it depends on what type of videogame you're into. I am quite an eclectic player, meaning I play almost any kind of videogames, but I have to admit that the NeoGeo AES was a damn good console for people who were into fighting games. Its only drawback was its expensive games, due to the high price of memory back then -- the "ROM size was up to 330 megabits."
In fact, this platform has been a good choice for anybody who was keen on arcade games generally speaking: for instance, shooters or run 'n gun games (and perhaps quizzes if you can understand Japanese).
I know for a fact that it costs about two or three cents -- I'm talking about euros here -- for a server to send a text message. Still, most operators will make you pay around 0.15 euros for an SMS (I have friends who pay as low as 0.09 euros though).
The thing is, most people rely too much on this technology already to ask the operators to lower their prices. Besides, there are already plans that give you huge advantages for text messages price-wise: for example, I don't pay for any SMS that I send as long as the person whom I'm sending it to is using the same operator as well. Now I don't have many friends who have subscribed with Orange, but that's another problem.
Plus, using your mobile phone while driving isn't forbidden by law in the USA (or so I think). Here (I live in Réunion), you may only do so if you are using a headset; otherwise the police can fine you.
That's still 256 bit memory; if (when?) nVidia releases a dual GPU with the 8800 series, ATI will get beaten for sure. And I'm not saying this because I own an nVidia videocard; the tests just made it obvious.
Exactly my thoughts on it upon seeing the title. I was once explaining to a friend how to configure port forwarding on his computer, and he had Norton Internet Security. Needless to say I didn't manage to make any rule work in that damn firewall.
It sounds like either your co-workers don't know what etiquette is (or don't want to use it). Anyhow, maybe a forum would be the solution. Anything real time like IRC would be very hard to moderate (bots might not do everything you need), but a forum wouldn't.
Plus if you do create a forum, you guys will be able to post rules and whatnot, which could lead to some of employees to follow them and if they don't, well... They should have read 'em.
Well, I've always updated my motherboard BIOS from under Windows and never had a single problem during the flashing process (as well as whatever other device I could flash, exception made for a Voodoo Banshee once). I prefer to do things like that in DOS mode, but the DOS utility I had my on old motherboard was a pain in the neck.
Of course, I would always be extremely and close any non-essential process in the task manager when flashing under Windows.
Q: When using the dash as a separator for an unordered list, should you place a space character between the dash and the first character of the list item?
A: Yes. It's nice to give little grammar lessons to people, but you need to learn to make the distinction between a hyphen and a dash.
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There is one game I have played numerous times and I could play it several times again: Fallout*. Despite the graphics having got old quite badly, it's still awesome: it's full of humour; your actions have an impact on the world that surrounds you, and last but not least, you are free to go wherever it pleases you.** Besides, I think that Arcanum, even though not necessarily a masterpiece, is still a pretty good game: for instance, the characters that join your "party" are not just sidekicks and each of them have a more or less interesting background that you may learn about during the game. Secondly, the music just rocks. Sometimes I would stop playing altogether and listen to the violins. Plus you can join the villains. And that's not all: in both of these, completing a quest can usually be done in at least two different ways.
All right, both of these were RPG's. Well, in the FPS category, there's Deus Ex. What's cool about this game? You choose if you wanna go Rambo on the enemy or if you wanna sneak behind the enemy lines and complete the objectives without killing anyone -- yes, I can see you're starting to notice a pattern. The music is pretty good as well, especially the main theme.
Now you will ask me, what do you learn in these videogames? In Fallout, there are many books explaining how and why humans were turned into super mutants. Plus the different cliques give you an insight into what could happen if a nuclear war occurred. In Arcanum, different points of view (at least on for each race) are given on technology, and this really made me think about it in a different way. In Deus Ex, you learn that the terrorists are not always the ones you might think.
These three games were released quite some time ago, yet they are still fun and relevant in nowadays issues. They could still be in a decade, I think.
*I haven't played Fallout 2 enough to give my opinion on it, but I heard it was a very good sequel.
**I've always hated those linear games that suffer from tunnel syndrome, in which any attempts at wandering off path will result in your character slipping off a twenty-five degrees slope.
You don't need to have the government fix prices; you just need laws against selling below cost.
To share information about people who, like me, are living overseas.
Even better: buy a gaming card, then change its PCI deviceID and unlock the professional capabilities. Ta-dah!
Bah, it's the same story all the time: "Computer sales are soaring; this is the demise of paper, the digital era!"
Next thing you know is everybody and their dog is printing like it's going outa fashion.
Psst, that's Société Générale. But yes, you're probably right.
Actually, it depends on what type of videogame you're into. I am quite an eclectic player, meaning I play almost any kind of videogames, but I have to admit that the NeoGeo AES was a damn good console for people who were into fighting games. Its only drawback was its expensive games, due to the high price of memory back then -- the "ROM size was up to 330 megabits."
In fact, this platform has been a good choice for anybody who was keen on arcade games generally speaking: for instance, shooters or run 'n gun games (and perhaps quizzes if you can understand Japanese).
I know for a fact that it costs about two or three cents -- I'm talking about euros here -- for a server to send a text message. Still, most operators will make you pay around 0.15 euros for an SMS (I have friends who pay as low as 0.09 euros though).
The thing is, most people rely too much on this technology already to ask the operators to lower their prices. Besides, there are already plans that give you huge advantages for text messages price-wise: for example, I don't pay for any SMS that I send as long as the person whom I'm sending it to is using the same operator as well. Now I don't have many friends who have subscribed with Orange, but that's another problem.
Plus, using your mobile phone while driving isn't forbidden by law in the USA (or so I think). Here (I live in Réunion), you may only do so if you are using a headset; otherwise the police can fine you.
That's still 256 bit memory; if (when?) nVidia releases a dual GPU with the 8800 series, ATI will get beaten for sure. And I'm not saying this because I own an nVidia videocard; the tests just made it obvious.
Exactly my thoughts on it upon seeing the title. I was once explaining to a friend how to configure port forwarding on his computer, and he had Norton Internet Security. Needless to say I didn't manage to make any rule work in that damn firewall.
It sounds like either your co-workers don't know what etiquette is (or don't want to use it). Anyhow, maybe a forum would be the solution. Anything real time like IRC would be very hard to moderate (bots might not do everything you need), but a forum wouldn't.
Plus if you do create a forum, you guys will be able to post rules and whatnot, which could lead to some of employees to follow them and if they don't, well... They should have read 'em.
Next thing you know is the US government accusing Pakistan and Saudi Arabia of possessing weapons of mass destruction.
Security concerns? At least M$ could have come up with a better pretext, say transparency support for png's.
Well, I've always updated my motherboard BIOS from under Windows and never had a single problem during the flashing process (as well as whatever other device I could flash, exception made for a Voodoo Banshee once). I prefer to do things like that in DOS mode, but the DOS utility I had my on old motherboard was a pain in the neck.
Of course, I would always be extremely and close any non-essential process in the task manager when flashing under Windows.
SI only seems to exist outside the UK and the US -- talking about the ordinary people.
A: Yes.
It's nice to give little grammar lessons to people, but you need to learn to make the distinction between a hyphen and a dash.