While it is true that Apple sells the hardware for more than the sum of the parts; Apple hardware costs more because it goes through more quality control and has better design. Neither of those comes cheap, and they are appreciated by people who appreciate such things.
Regards to markup being your major opposition to buying Apple: what's wrong with the mini? Dirt cheap as far as computing goes and a very capable system to boot. It is actually your lust to possess the latest and greatest that prevents you from buying a cheap and good Mac? Perhaps you feel that you are something of a "top dog" with computing equipment and you don't want to loose that edge by going to the cheaper Macs and can't afford the uber-Tower G5's (which are really for professional work)?
While there are many reasons to skip Apple, price is no longer one of them!
NATs are not designed to created "protected" "zones" although most have this feature, that feature is called a firewall. Firewalls will always have a place in our security strategies, but network address translation (hopefully) won't.
This extension is specifically designed to eliminate that hassle:
"Don't you wish you could just copy the text itself, without having to copy it, paste it into notepad, then copy it again? This extension gives you an option to copy text without the formatting. You can even set it to trim extra space in and around the copied text!"
I liked it in theory. The tale of the Avatar who must break every one of the virtues to escape is quite interesting. Does it show that the Guardian is more powerful than the Avatar and can bend him to his will? Does it imply that the virtues are 'optional' and can be superceded for a higher purpose (the ends vs. the means)? Or does it mean that even the Avatar is, after all, a flawed human and the virtues are ideal goals but unattainable in the real world?
Very very cool. Unfortunately the implementation of the story left a great, great deal to be desired.
They are presented with a EULA, but the EULA is incorrect. This is second-hand so I don't have the source but It states that the software installed will be easily removable (it isn't) and is only to play the music (and also to report to Sony what music you listen to).
Holy Avatar, you're last RPG fling was Ultima 9? I'm so sorry.
My brother and I actually downgraded our gaming machine from a modern (at the time) video card to two 3DFx cards in SLI (it was designed for Glide) so we could play U9 without it crashing every 5 minutes. Then it only crashed every 20 minutes.
Not to mention being so incredibly awful that it actually made us yearn for the days of cheap sprite graphics and dungeon running in Ultima 5/6/7. Or even Ultima 4. Almost Ultima 3. Not "Avatars in Space" Ultima 2, and not "Glorified Nethack" Ultima though. And I don't think anything will ever make me yearn for the spell casting atrocity of Ultima 8 (and the sad fall of Dupre).
None of my brothers and I are exactly small, all of us are over six feet. You'd have to be a lot larger than I for your hands to not fit the S controller. My brothers and I use it for hours at a stretch and never even notice the controller, it's as if our hands have forged some kind of electronic mind meld with the videogame character. It's that good.
Second to the S controller is the Gamecube controller, very sweet. Then the Dreamcast controller.
Any of the playstation controllers are horribly atrocious for us to use. They feel clunky, awkward, and annoying. Hand cramping, finger strain, and wrist pain abound.
Been there, done that since the 1980s, love my text games to death. Unfortunately they don't work as well for two person playing.
Although I have to say Photopia's storytelling is amazing, and the puzzle (if you've played it you know the one) in Spider and Web is so awesome that it's awesomeness can not be explained, it must be experienced. And Zork III is utterly epic: sword, lamp, dungeon, and the mythology of itself. Hello sailor!
Hmm...now that I think on this perhaps once I someday get my HDTV projector (hello 7' screen) computer text would be quite legible from across the room. Hook up a laptop to the projector and enjoy retro gaming heaven.:-)
Open mailbox. get it. read it. drop it. se. ne. open window. w. get all. open sack. get lunch. eat it. open bottle. drink water. drop bottle. w. get all. e. u. turn on lamp. get all. d. turn off lamp. w. move rug. open trap. d. turn on lamp. win.;-)
re: 2. I did play Splinter Cell 2 at a friends house for an afternoon. We never had a slowdown or dropped game, I was mightily impressed.
re: 3. But my younger brother lives 400 miles away, it would be more fun to play against him online than against an AI in the game.
re: 4. I tremendously loved the microphone in my play of Splinter Cell 2. My team and I plotted tactics ("You head right, I'll climb up here, at the count of five I throw a flash bomb and then you slide out and take him down." etc etc etc.) Extremely cool being voice-based, we'd have never been able to keep our tactics organized if we'd had to type and play at the same time. In Quake my chatting was done after I was killed (nice shot, etc.) or badly while on the run. With the voice chat I can play and talk, no problems.
re: 5. So you'd want the subscription to guarantee players or something?
My wife and I love to play adventure games (I guess we call them storied games now?) because one can play and the other can watch and both have an enjoyable experience. We are currently in the midst of Indigo Prophecy and recently completed Still Life, Grim Fandango (she had never played it), Resident Evil 4 (more action than adventure but tremendously exciting for player and watcher), etc.
The better the story the better, the better the voice acting the better, the better the music the better. Graphics have little to do with it, so perhaps these games will make a huge comeback when the videogame graphics orgasm is over. I.e once all games look really good, other thinks like acting, plot, music will differentiate.
What made Live stupid? I'm not a Live subscriber but one fee to enable connectivity for all games seems like a good idea to me. Better than the server hunting I used to do for Quake.
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Then every kid out there is wrong.
While it is true that Apple sells the hardware for more than the sum of the parts; Apple hardware costs more because it goes through more quality control and has better design. Neither of those comes cheap, and they are appreciated by people who appreciate such things.
Regards to markup being your major opposition to buying Apple: what's wrong with the mini? Dirt cheap as far as computing goes and a very capable system to boot. It is actually your lust to possess the latest and greatest that prevents you from buying a cheap and good Mac? Perhaps you feel that you are something of a "top dog" with computing equipment and you don't want to loose that edge by going to the cheaper Macs and can't afford the uber-Tower G5's (which are really for professional work)?
While there are many reasons to skip Apple, price is no longer one of them!
Also, everybody knows that employees are the biggest shoplifters.
Oh really. Everybody knows that you say?
You realize that you're wrong about that, right?
10^79 is MUCH larger than 3.402 * 10^38 (which is roughly 2^128).
Better to overengineer now, then go through the hassle of expanding later.
NATs are not designed to created "protected" "zones" although most have this feature, that feature is called a firewall. Firewalls will always have a place in our security strategies, but network address translation (hopefully) won't.
This extension is specifically designed to eliminate that hassle:
"Don't you wish you could just copy the text itself, without having to copy it, paste it into notepad, then copy it again? This extension gives you an option to copy text without the formatting. You can even set it to trim extra space in and around the copied text!"
I liked it in theory. The tale of the Avatar who must break every one of the virtues to escape is quite interesting. Does it show that the Guardian is more powerful than the Avatar and can bend him to his will? Does it imply that the virtues are 'optional' and can be superceded for a higher purpose (the ends vs. the means)? Or does it mean that even the Avatar is, after all, a flawed human and the virtues are ideal goals but unattainable in the real world?
Very very cool. Unfortunately the implementation of the story left a great, great deal to be desired.
No, $1.50.
Then they would be terrorist attacks, not riots.
Riots =~ emotional reaction.
Terrorism =~ planned reaction.
Wow, one of the mod insightful posts I've read on slashdot and it's modded 'interesting'.
o_O
"Wait 'til I get going!"
They are presented with a EULA, but the EULA is incorrect. This is second-hand so I don't have the source but It states that the software installed will be easily removable (it isn't) and is only to play the music (and also to report to Sony what music you listen to).
Maybe to stop a huge asteroid from impacting on the Earth's surface the cost would be quite reasonable.
I.e. I don't think that world leaders would look at the figures and go "Hrmmmmm...when you say extinct...how extinct?"
From what I've read on Gamespot the XBox 360 will graphically match the PC version*
* - Only for those with HDTV of course.
Holy Avatar, you're last RPG fling was Ultima 9? I'm so sorry.
My brother and I actually downgraded our gaming machine from a modern (at the time) video card to two 3DFx cards in SLI (it was designed for Glide) so we could play U9 without it crashing every 5 minutes. Then it only crashed every 20 minutes.
Not to mention being so incredibly awful that it actually made us yearn for the days of cheap sprite graphics and dungeon running in Ultima 5/6/7. Or even Ultima 4. Almost Ultima 3. Not "Avatars in Space" Ultima 2, and not "Glorified Nethack" Ultima though. And I don't think anything will ever make me yearn for the spell casting atrocity of Ultima 8 (and the sad fall of Dupre).
None of my brothers and I are exactly small, all of us are over six feet. You'd have to be a lot larger than I for your hands to not fit the S controller. My brothers and I use it for hours at a stretch and never even notice the controller, it's as if our hands have forged some kind of electronic mind meld with the videogame character. It's that good.
Second to the S controller is the Gamecube controller, very sweet. Then the Dreamcast controller.
Any of the playstation controllers are horribly atrocious for us to use. They feel clunky, awkward, and annoying. Hand cramping, finger strain, and wrist pain abound.
Syberia is available for the XBox. But seriously, can you really play through that thing?
Check out Still Life or Indigo Prophecy.
Sure, but then if everyone downloads how will the daily show get to step 3? (profit)
Been there, done that since the 1980s, love my text games to death. Unfortunately they don't work as well for two person playing.
:-)
;-)
Although I have to say Photopia's storytelling is amazing, and the puzzle (if you've played it you know the one) in Spider and Web is so awesome that it's awesomeness can not be explained, it must be experienced. And Zork III is utterly epic: sword, lamp, dungeon, and the mythology of itself. Hello sailor!
Hmm...now that I think on this perhaps once I someday get my HDTV projector (hello 7' screen) computer text would be quite legible from across the room. Hook up a laptop to the projector and enjoy retro gaming heaven.
Open mailbox. get it. read it. drop it. se. ne. open window. w. get all. open sack. get lunch. eat it. open bottle. drink water. drop bottle. w. get all. e. u. turn on lamp. get all. d. turn off lamp. w. move rug. open trap. d. turn on lamp. win.
The modern jazz with Mexican/Aztec/Mayan influences is amazing in Grim Fandango. It's possible to find it in a few versions 'round the net.
The Daily Show/Colbert Report is the big stumbling block for me.
*dramatically shakes fist* Damn you Jon Stewart!
re: 2. I did play Splinter Cell 2 at a friends house for an afternoon. We never had a slowdown or dropped game, I was mightily impressed.
re: 3. But my younger brother lives 400 miles away, it would be more fun to play against him online than against an AI in the game.
re: 4. I tremendously loved the microphone in my play of Splinter Cell 2. My team and I plotted tactics ("You head right, I'll climb up here, at the count of five I throw a flash bomb and then you slide out and take him down." etc etc etc.) Extremely cool being voice-based, we'd have never been able to keep our tactics organized if we'd had to type and play at the same time. In Quake my chatting was done after I was killed (nice shot, etc.) or badly while on the run. With the voice chat I can play and talk, no problems.
re: 5. So you'd want the subscription to guarantee players or something?
My wife and I love to play adventure games (I guess we call them storied games now?) because one can play and the other can watch and both have an enjoyable experience. We are currently in the midst of Indigo Prophecy and recently completed Still Life, Grim Fandango (she had never played it), Resident Evil 4 (more action than adventure but tremendously exciting for player and watcher), etc.
The better the story the better, the better the voice acting the better, the better the music the better. Graphics have little to do with it, so perhaps these games will make a huge comeback when the videogame graphics orgasm is over. I.e once all games look really good, other thinks like acting, plot, music will differentiate.
I guess you've never played Grim Fandango or Outlaws.
Then consider web-based comic Dank and Scud, which was both machina (of Quake) and a web-based comic in 1996.
http://riad.usk.pk.edu.pl/~pmj/quakecomics/
What made Live stupid? I'm not a Live subscriber but one fee to enable connectivity for all games seems like a good idea to me. Better than the server hunting I used to do for Quake.