What? Your response doesn't even make sense. Bethesda made the game in all cases, and it was a Bethesda rep who made that statement, how are they "spinning it their way"? If Sony had said it that would be one thing, but they didn't, Bethesda did.
Ever consider the possibility that they guys behind the counter were just like slashdotters (i.e. telling you what they wish was the truth whether it is or not)?
Everyone thought the Nintendo DS was dumb. Everyone thought it was going to fail. Sony officially said that the PSP wasn't competing with the DS because the DS was just a "gimmick". The DS is the fastest selling handheld game console in history. Nearly 20 million so far, 35.5 million predicted by march. It's selling at a rate comparable only to the PS2 (which, of course is the best selling game console ever). Everyone seems to be convinced that someone is going to fail. All of the companies competing here have shown themselves to be more than capable of surviving (if you can call "making billions of dollars" surviving).
The PS3 isn't so different from the PS2 in those respects. The PS2 used a DVD drive, while DVD's were just beginning to become popular (just as the PS3 uses a Blu-Ray drive just as Blu-Ray starts to become popular (which is the truth, Blu-Ray sales are increasing at a ridiculous rate, more than 700% since the release of the PS3 and now outselling HD-DVDs)). The PS2 was by far the most difficult console to develop for. It was downright painful. The gamecube and xbox were far easier to develop for, and yet the PS2 still came out on top. Sony has sold more PS2's than almost all previous consoles combined (not counting the PS1, which sold nearly as many as the PS2). They easily outsold the xbox and gamecube by more than 10 to 1. Based on Sony's history with game consoles, Nintendo and Microsoft need all the advantages they can get, and they still might lose, by a lot. In terms of games, the PS3 is far behind at the moment. As far as I am concerned, there are no good games for the PS3 yet. I've got a 360, a Wii, and a PS3 (as well as an xbox, gamecube, ps2, dreamcast, ps1,..., atari 2600) I have about 20 games for the 360, most of which I like, I have every game that has come out for the Wii, most of which I like, and I have 2 games for the PS3 (resistance and dark kingdom) both of which suck. I bought the PS3 as an inexpensive blu-ray player, and I have about 20 blu-ray movies. But. I have more PS2 and PS1 games than all other games for all other consoles I own combined. And every one of those PS2 and PS1 games works in the PS3 (with the glaring exception of guitar hero until the adapter comes out). I only have one TV, and I can only have so many consoles hooked up at once without making a mess, so the PS3 has successfully taken the PS2's place beneath my TV as well as adding a blu-ray player to my setup.....There was a point I was getting to here... O yes, the point is, that even though the PS3 sucks as a next gen gaming console (in terms of currently available games), it is still a sound investment (as far as electronics can ever be considered a "sound investment") for many people because you're getting a PS2 and a blu-ray player in one unit with the possibility of good next gen games in the future. Sony can probably sell the number their aiming for (6 million by march) based on that alone. (Also, a Note on DRM: 95% of the people who will buy these first 6 million PS3s probably don't know what DRM is.)
I paid $400 for my treo (with contract), and fork over about $100/month to verizon to use it, and it sucks. But, I need the functionality, so that's that. There isn't anything that is better enough at the moment to cause me to drop the treo and buy something else, but I might go for the iPhone. As for the GPS, the Treo is also lacking there, my Fiancee's $200 LG V has a spectacular GPS navigation system that we use literally all the time. But, the Treo is far more useful for email, IM, ssh, and occasionally using the web. The LG V is also usable as a Bluetooth modem right out of the box, another feature we use all the time. I still haven't been able to get the Treo to do that, and it's much newer and much more expensive. Also, my Treo's battery lasts about 18 hours, doing absolutely nothing, the LG V lasts about a week. If I actually use the Treo, the battery life is much shorter, just using IM can kill it in 3 or 4 hours. Also, the Treo is a terrible phone. I have internet access (EvDO where I live) 100% of the time, but I often cannot make calls, miss a lot of calls, and drop calls. There are always trade offs, the iPhone is no different, but it does seem to be pretty awesome.
Nevermind the svideo, you can go right from the hdmi port into a dvi monitor. It's got an nVidia 7800 series video chip and what amounts to DVI out. That plus USB, harddrive, and blu-ray drive, gives you a pretty decent machine. A little low on RAM though.
You start off your reply with a gross exaggeration, so meaningful discussion is out of the question. I will say the following about my position and if you actually care, you can look into it yourself. First of all, I am an Apple fanboy. I absolutely love what Apple does with hardware and software. That said, I've been an administrator of many systems as well as owning many systems personally. I've been using Linux for about 9-10 years now. I used redhat as a desktop for 2 years (exclusively, nothing else installed on my machine, no dual booting). I had yellowdog on a beige G3 as my primary desktop for a bit, followed by OS X on a blue and white G3, and then a Sun Ultra2 running solaris (which is now one of my gentoo servers at home). I've been using gentoo for about 4 years now. I run several Sun servers, some running solaris, some running gentoo. I've got a few FreeBSD machines around, and I ran netBSD for a bit, I've administered RS6000's running AIX, and Octanes and Indigos running IRIX. Honestly the only major platform I have no experience with is HP-UX on PA-RISC. At my current job, I maintain a network of 50 Athlon64 machines running XP, 9 Intel Macs, a server running gentoo, a (soon to be replaced) server running Debian, and a Windows 2003 server. At home I run two gentoo servers, a Sun Ultra2 and a custom built athlon64 machine with an Areca PCIe RAID controller and a 12 disk RAID 5 array. I've got two desktops running Windows x64, one running gentoo, one running windows 2000, a Mac Mini G4 (hooked up to my tv via hdmi), 2 macbook pro C2Ds, a toshiba tablet running xp tablet edition, a thinkpad with xp and mandrake dual booting, an an athlon64 DTR laptop dual booting gentoo and xp. I prowl ebay looking for interesting machines to play with, I buy them, mess with them for a while, sometimes I keep them (I've kept most of the Sun systems I've bought), and sometimes I resell them. I also remotely administer 8 gentoo servers for other people who are between 150 and 400 miles from me. These are regular people who have no interest in Linux and who use them as home servers to back their desktops up on, share files on, and store media on. Those machines are between 3 years old and 3 months old, and no one has ever had a problem with them. So I have a bit of experience with various package management systems. Portage is by far my favorite package management system, its fast, and easy to use as long as you're ok using a command line. Ports is my second favorite, and I use it on OS X as well. I really have never had a problem with portage, it generally protects you from breaking your system, and it lets you get "unstable" things at your option. I've only ever had one problem with ports, and it was because I had the same package installed not using ports which was a dependency of another package I was trying to install. I have also only ever seen one problem with windows installer, and it was caused by a Norton Systemworks install on a windows 2000 machine that somehow went wrong. As for RPM, I have rarely had an RPM install go smoothly. Way back when I chalked it up to the difficulty of using a Unix system, but I eventually learned that that is not the case, and it was all because of RPM's flawed design. Fedora does do a lot of hand holding, so RPM may seem easy to use, and portage does tend to build things from source (unless you tell it not to), but if you're using a modern system that shouldn't even be a consideration. When I installed gentoo for the first time ever, it took me about a week, and that was on a slow machine, and I was able to use the machine enough to do two programming projects (one in java, one in perl, neither trivial) while it was installing. But on a modern computer (ie, a dual core processor, a couple GB of ram, a fast SATA harddrive, and a broadband connection), it takes about the same time to install gentoo (building entirely from source) as it does to install windows xp (assuming you're doing a complete NTFS format). It takes at most a few minutes to install most package
"I'm not sure what you mean by a better package management system than say fedora...."
Haha, wow... If you seriously think fedora's package management is anywhere near the same level as portage...
RPMs are pretty much the worst thing ever in terms of modern package management. Even windows xp does a better job there.
There are plenty of great package management systems out there, there are plenty of good ones, and there are plenty of really awful ones. Fedora falls under the last category.
I mean, if you really like Fedora for some reason, I can see tolerating RPM, but seriously.
I don't care much about DRM since 1) I don't buy many movies (not because I steal them, just because I have no interest) and 2) When I do buy movies, I put them in a player, and watch them, and that's it. I want blu-ray to win because it's technically superior. It can store more data, and is more scratch resistant. That's enough for me to support it.
Also worth nothing: Even with all the settings turned all the way up (standing still so as not to notice the choppiness) the game just doesn't look all that good... Oblivion looks way better (once again excusing the god-awful character animations...). For such a high profile game coming out at the end of 2006 the game should not only look way better, but also run smoothly on decent hardware while doing so.
Athlon64 X2 4600 4gb Corsair DDR400 (4x1GB) BFG GeForce 7950GX2 SB Audigy Elite Pro Windows XP x64
The box is 11 months old. The video card was upgraded in July and the Sound card in September. I've been running windows x64/gentoo from the start (each on it's own 250GB WD drive, 0 reinstalls since I built the machine).
I have not had any problems with the machine. I use it very heavily for gaming. I've played everything from Star Wars Rebellion and Drakan: Order of the Flame, to BattleField 2142, Prey, and Oblivion, on this machine in it's current configuration. I own almost every PC game that has come out in the past year and most major ones before that. I had a small issue with Star Wars BattleFront II and processor affinity, but that was a result of the game having issues with more than one processor core. That was it for my issues with games on this machine.
To add to the sadness...I was the one who convinced a bunch of my friends to get NWN2 on launch and play through it together as a lan game...nothing but problems. We managed two four hour sessions, during which most of the time was spent waiting for loading, or one person or another to reconnect after their machine died, or needed to be restarted because the game had slowed to a crawl. This is a group of people with very nice machines, mine is not nearly the fastest of the bunch, as well as a mix of Windows XP Pro and x64. The only thing that was the same is that we all had nVidia cards...but the opening screen assures me that that is "the way it's meant to be played"
From my experience, I'd say something is wrong with the game. I could be wrong, but it's unlikely.
I'm really sad about NWN2. I was really excited about it. I pre-ordered the collectors edition, and went to get it on launch...and there was already an 87MB patch out for it... I expected the actual game to be pretty average (in terms of story), which it is; but I also expected the engine and toolset to be really spectacular (which they are not). The 1.02 patch entirely broke the game for me, such that it would not even load, the 1.03 patch has made it playable again, but the engine has not gotten much better. My system is well beyond decent, it's almost brand new, high end, designed specifically for gaming...I spent a good deal of time and money putting it together...and NWN2 is sluggish, at best. I tend to run games with maxed settings at 1600x1200, and have never had a problem before. My system doesn't struggle with any other games. I can run HL2, Civ 4, and WoW with all settings maxed at the same time and swap between them...I stop every unnecessary process on my machine when I'm playing NWN2...and I still have to turn the settings down...and it's still sluggish. Oblivion doesn't have these problems. Sure it doesn't run too well on the 360 (and excusing their god-awful character animation), but on my machine it runs just fine with everything maxed, I never drop below 60FPS....With NWN2 I tend to get around 16. Something is very wrong with the engine. It's like they didn't profile it at all. Building for machines that don't exist yet is one thing...this is far worse. The toolset is pretty bad too. I had to go online and find a bunch of plugins just to get it to be as functional as the NWN toolset. With the NWN toolset, I just sat down and started making things, it was pretty intuitive and it made sense. There is NOTHING intuitive about the NWN2 toolset. I had so much hope for this game, but unless they really make some changes in future patches I don't see it getting much better. I'm still hoping though. And I did actually play through the entire game despite my irritation. Please Obsidian, fix this thing.
If you really want to hurt sony, go out and purchase the expensive version of the PS3! If you do that, and then don't buy any of their games, movies, cd's, etc, they might actually go out of business. (I admit I will have a hard time not buying games... but Sony has made me sad, and I see now that they really do need to be taken down a few notches)
Everything but sports games. To be completely honest though, I don't personally pre-order every game, my fiancee pre-orders at least half of them. Our friends at gamestop are continually reminding us that one or the other of us already has "that game" pre-ordered.
Well...I pretty much have all of those "old" games because I bought them all when they were new... I usually pre-order every game and go get them on the release date. If they have a collectors,limited,or in any other way "special" edition, I get that. Sometimes I even play them within a week of release, but most often I get around to playing them about a year later, if at all. Usually it's when somebody says "hey, you have to try x" that I go home and dig it out and play it.
It's probably some mild form of insanity, but despite the fact that I could just wait until I'm actually going to play a game and then buy it (most likely for a far reduced price) I can't stop myself from going through that pre-order rack and pre-ordering any game (or console) on it, sometimes multiple times (unintentionally, those are the games I'm actually specifically interested in). I also never sell or trade in anything, I still have every game and console I've ever bought.
The only exception I have to this is sports games. I have less than no interest in them. The newest sports game I have is Blades of Steel for the NES. (Although, maybe the Wii will renew my interest in sports games somewhat).
Personally I thought it was an excellent movie, I enjoyed literally every minute of it, not just Mr. L. Jackson's one-liner. That is a lot more than I can say for most movies.
This is westchester we're talking about. Laws are ALWAYS the first resort. After they fail, then the broadcasts and the fliers start. These laws will not be regularly enforced. If they are ever enforced, they will only be enforced upon the people least able to afford it.
AGP isn't entirely a one-way bus. Plenty of AGP video cards were able to do video capture without using any other bus to grab the data. At the very least the ATI All-in-Wonder cards have been doing it almost since AGP first existed.
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What? Your response doesn't even make sense. Bethesda made the game in all cases, and it was a Bethesda rep who made that statement, how are they "spinning it their way"? If Sony had said it that would be one thing, but they didn't, Bethesda did.
? The MacBook is perfect in every way.
...and by "they guys" I meant "the guys". Why can't I ever bring myself to take the extra step and use that preview button?!
Ever consider the possibility that they guys behind the counter were just like slashdotters (i.e. telling you what they wish was the truth whether it is or not)?
The CD was developed by a partnership between phillips and sony (just like Blu-Ray!)
Everyone thought the Nintendo DS was dumb. Everyone thought it was going to fail. Sony officially said that the PSP wasn't competing with the DS because the DS was just a "gimmick". The DS is the fastest selling handheld game console in history. Nearly 20 million so far, 35.5 million predicted by march. It's selling at a rate comparable only to the PS2 (which, of course is the best selling game console ever). Everyone seems to be convinced that someone is going to fail. All of the companies competing here have shown themselves to be more than capable of surviving (if you can call "making billions of dollars" surviving).
The PS3 isn't so different from the PS2 in those respects. The PS2 used a DVD drive, while DVD's were just beginning to become popular (just as the PS3 uses a Blu-Ray drive just as Blu-Ray starts to become popular (which is the truth, Blu-Ray sales are increasing at a ridiculous rate, more than 700% since the release of the PS3 and now outselling HD-DVDs)). The PS2 was by far the most difficult console to develop for. It was downright painful. The gamecube and xbox were far easier to develop for, and yet the PS2 still came out on top. Sony has sold more PS2's than almost all previous consoles combined (not counting the PS1, which sold nearly as many as the PS2). They easily outsold the xbox and gamecube by more than 10 to 1. Based on Sony's history with game consoles, Nintendo and Microsoft need all the advantages they can get, and they still might lose, by a lot. In terms of games, the PS3 is far behind at the moment. As far as I am concerned, there are no good games for the PS3 yet. I've got a 360, a Wii, and a PS3 (as well as an xbox, gamecube, ps2, dreamcast, ps1, ..., atari 2600) ....There was a point I was getting to here... O yes, the point is, that even though the PS3 sucks as a next gen gaming console (in terms of currently available games), it is still a sound investment (as far as electronics can ever be considered a "sound investment") for many people because you're getting a PS2 and a blu-ray player in one unit with the possibility of good next gen games in the future. Sony can probably sell the number their aiming for (6 million by march) based on that alone. (Also, a Note on DRM: 95% of the people who will buy these first 6 million PS3s probably don't know what DRM is.)
I have about 20 games for the 360, most of which I like, I have every game that has come out for the Wii, most of which I like, and I have 2 games for the PS3 (resistance and dark kingdom) both of which suck. I bought the PS3 as an inexpensive blu-ray player, and I have about 20 blu-ray movies. But. I have more PS2 and PS1 games than all other games for all other consoles I own combined. And every one of those PS2 and PS1 games works in the PS3 (with the glaring exception of guitar hero until the adapter comes out). I only have one TV, and I can only have so many consoles hooked up at once without making a mess, so the PS3 has successfully taken the PS2's place beneath my TV as well as adding a blu-ray player to my setup.
Why? The PS3 is not a gaming console, it's an inexpensive blu-ray player. Sure, it can play games, but that's not what you buy it for.
I paid $400 for my treo (with contract), and fork over about $100/month to verizon to use it, and it sucks. But, I need the functionality, so that's that. There isn't anything that is better enough at the moment to cause me to drop the treo and buy something else, but I might go for the iPhone. As for the GPS, the Treo is also lacking there, my Fiancee's $200 LG V has a spectacular GPS navigation system that we use literally all the time. But, the Treo is far more useful for email, IM, ssh, and occasionally using the web. The LG V is also usable as a Bluetooth modem right out of the box, another feature we use all the time. I still haven't been able to get the Treo to do that, and it's much newer and much more expensive. Also, my Treo's battery lasts about 18 hours, doing absolutely nothing, the LG V lasts about a week. If I actually use the Treo, the battery life is much shorter, just using IM can kill it in 3 or 4 hours. Also, the Treo is a terrible phone. I have internet access (EvDO where I live) 100% of the time, but I often cannot make calls, miss a lot of calls, and drop calls. There are always trade offs, the iPhone is no different, but it does seem to be pretty awesome.
Nevermind the svideo, you can go right from the hdmi port into a dvi monitor. It's got an nVidia 7800 series video chip and what amounts to DVI out. That plus USB, harddrive, and blu-ray drive, gives you a pretty decent machine. A little low on RAM though.
You start off your reply with a gross exaggeration, so meaningful discussion is out of the question. I will say the following about my position and if you actually care, you can look into it yourself. First of all, I am an Apple fanboy. I absolutely love what Apple does with hardware and software. That said, I've been an administrator of many systems as well as owning many systems personally. I've been using Linux for about 9-10 years now. I used redhat as a desktop for 2 years (exclusively, nothing else installed on my machine, no dual booting). I had yellowdog on a beige G3 as my primary desktop for a bit, followed by OS X on a blue and white G3, and then a Sun Ultra2 running solaris (which is now one of my gentoo servers at home). I've been using gentoo for about 4 years now. I run several Sun servers, some running solaris, some running gentoo. I've got a few FreeBSD machines around, and I ran netBSD for a bit, I've administered RS6000's running AIX, and Octanes and Indigos running IRIX. Honestly the only major platform I have no experience with is HP-UX on PA-RISC. At my current job, I maintain a network of 50 Athlon64 machines running XP, 9 Intel Macs, a server running gentoo, a (soon to be replaced) server running Debian, and a Windows 2003 server. At home I run two gentoo servers, a Sun Ultra2 and a custom built athlon64 machine with an Areca PCIe RAID controller and a 12 disk RAID 5 array. I've got two desktops running Windows x64, one running gentoo, one running windows 2000, a Mac Mini G4 (hooked up to my tv via hdmi), 2 macbook pro C2Ds, a toshiba tablet running xp tablet edition, a thinkpad with xp and mandrake dual booting, an an athlon64 DTR laptop dual booting gentoo and xp. I prowl ebay looking for interesting machines to play with, I buy them, mess with them for a while, sometimes I keep them (I've kept most of the Sun systems I've bought), and sometimes I resell them. I also remotely administer 8 gentoo servers for other people who are between 150 and 400 miles from me. These are regular people who have no interest in Linux and who use them as home servers to back their desktops up on, share files on, and store media on. Those machines are between 3 years old and 3 months old, and no one has ever had a problem with them. So I have a bit of experience with various package management systems. Portage is by far my favorite package management system, its fast, and easy to use as long as you're ok using a command line. Ports is my second favorite, and I use it on OS X as well. I really have never had a problem with portage, it generally protects you from breaking your system, and it lets you get "unstable" things at your option. I've only ever had one problem with ports, and it was because I had the same package installed not using ports which was a dependency of another package I was trying to install. I have also only ever seen one problem with windows installer, and it was caused by a Norton Systemworks install on a windows 2000 machine that somehow went wrong. As for RPM, I have rarely had an RPM install go smoothly. Way back when I chalked it up to the difficulty of using a Unix system, but I eventually learned that that is not the case, and it was all because of RPM's flawed design. Fedora does do a lot of hand holding, so RPM may seem easy to use, and portage does tend to build things from source (unless you tell it not to), but if you're using a modern system that shouldn't even be a consideration. When I installed gentoo for the first time ever, it took me about a week, and that was on a slow machine, and I was able to use the machine enough to do two programming projects (one in java, one in perl, neither trivial) while it was installing. But on a modern computer (ie, a dual core processor, a couple GB of ram, a fast SATA harddrive, and a broadband connection), it takes about the same time to install gentoo (building entirely from source) as it does to install windows xp (assuming you're doing a complete NTFS format). It takes at most a few minutes to install most package
"I'm not sure what you mean by a better package management system than say fedora...."
Haha, wow... If you seriously think fedora's package management is anywhere near the same level as portage...
RPMs are pretty much the worst thing ever in terms of modern package management. Even windows xp does a better job there.
There are plenty of great package management systems out there, there are plenty of good ones, and there are plenty of really awful ones. Fedora falls under the last category.
I mean, if you really like Fedora for some reason, I can see tolerating RPM, but seriously.
I don't care much about DRM since 1) I don't buy many movies (not because I steal them, just because I have no interest) and 2) When I do buy movies, I put them in a player, and watch them, and that's it. I want blu-ray to win because it's technically superior. It can store more data, and is more scratch resistant. That's enough for me to support it.
Neverwinter Nights 2
Also worth nothing: Even with all the settings turned all the way up (standing still so as not to notice the choppiness) the game just doesn't look all that good... Oblivion looks way better (once again excusing the god-awful character animations...). For such a high profile game coming out at the end of 2006 the game should not only look way better, but also run smoothly on decent hardware while doing so.
For reference my machine is:
Athlon64 X2 4600
4gb Corsair DDR400 (4x1GB)
BFG GeForce 7950GX2
SB Audigy Elite Pro
Windows XP x64
The box is 11 months old. The video card was upgraded in July and the Sound card in September.
I've been running windows x64/gentoo from the start (each on it's own 250GB WD drive, 0 reinstalls since I built the machine).
I have not had any problems with the machine. I use it very heavily for gaming.
I've played everything from Star Wars Rebellion and Drakan: Order of the Flame, to BattleField 2142, Prey, and Oblivion, on this machine in it's current configuration.
I own almost every PC game that has come out in the past year and most major ones before that. I had a small issue with Star Wars BattleFront II and processor affinity, but that was a result of the game having issues with more than one processor core. That was it for my issues with games on this machine.
To add to the sadness...I was the one who convinced a bunch of my friends to get NWN2 on launch and play through it together as a lan game...nothing but problems. We managed two four hour sessions, during which most of the time was spent waiting for loading, or one person or another to reconnect after their machine died, or needed to be restarted because the game had slowed to a crawl. This is a group of people with very nice machines, mine is not nearly the fastest of the bunch, as well as a mix of Windows XP Pro and x64. The only thing that was the same is that we all had nVidia cards...but the opening screen assures me that that is "the way it's meant to be played"
From my experience, I'd say something is wrong with the game. I could be wrong, but it's unlikely.
I'm really sad about NWN2. I was really excited about it. I pre-ordered the collectors edition, and went to get it on launch...and there was already an 87MB patch out for it... I expected the actual game to be pretty average (in terms of story), which it is; but I also expected the engine and toolset to be really spectacular (which they are not). The 1.02 patch entirely broke the game for me, such that it would not even load, the 1.03 patch has made it playable again, but the engine has not gotten much better. My system is well beyond decent, it's almost brand new, high end, designed specifically for gaming...I spent a good deal of time and money putting it together...and NWN2 is sluggish, at best. I tend to run games with maxed settings at 1600x1200, and have never had a problem before. My system doesn't struggle with any other games. I can run HL2, Civ 4, and WoW with all settings maxed at the same time and swap between them...I stop every unnecessary process on my machine when I'm playing NWN2...and I still have to turn the settings down...and it's still sluggish. Oblivion doesn't have these problems. Sure it doesn't run too well on the 360 (and excusing their god-awful character animation), but on my machine it runs just fine with everything maxed, I never drop below 60FPS....With NWN2 I tend to get around 16. Something is very wrong with the engine. It's like they didn't profile it at all. Building for machines that don't exist yet is one thing...this is far worse. The toolset is pretty bad too. I had to go online and find a bunch of plugins just to get it to be as functional as the NWN toolset. With the NWN toolset, I just sat down and started making things, it was pretty intuitive and it made sense. There is NOTHING intuitive about the NWN2 toolset. I had so much hope for this game, but unless they really make some changes in future patches I don't see it getting much better. I'm still hoping though. And I did actually play through the entire game despite my irritation. Please Obsidian, fix this thing.
Write the test first, then write the code. You shouldn't be changing the tests to fit the code.
If you really want to hurt sony, go out and purchase the expensive version of the PS3! If you do that, and then don't buy any of their games, movies, cd's, etc, they might actually go out of business. (I admit I will have a hard time not buying games... but Sony has made me sad, and I see now that they really do need to be taken down a few notches)
Everything but sports games. To be completely honest though, I don't personally pre-order every game, my fiancee pre-orders at least half of them. Our friends at gamestop are continually reminding us that one or the other of us already has "that game" pre-ordered.
Well...I pretty much have all of those "old" games because I bought them all when they were new... I usually pre-order every game and go get them on the release date. If they have a collectors,limited,or in any other way "special" edition, I get that. Sometimes I even play them within a week of release, but most often I get around to playing them about a year later, if at all. Usually it's when somebody says "hey, you have to try x" that I go home and dig it out and play it.
It's probably some mild form of insanity, but despite the fact that I could just wait until I'm actually going to play a game and then buy it (most likely for a far reduced price) I can't stop myself from going through that pre-order rack and pre-ordering any game (or console) on it, sometimes multiple times (unintentionally, those are the games I'm actually specifically interested in). I also never sell or trade in anything, I still have every game and console I've ever bought.
The only exception I have to this is sports games. I have less than no interest in them. The newest sports game I have is Blades of Steel for the NES. (Although, maybe the Wii will renew my interest in sports games somewhat).
I am a programmer in the games industry. I buy games new, though I rarely have time to ever play them.
Personally I thought it was an excellent movie, I enjoyed literally every minute of it, not just Mr. L. Jackson's one-liner. That is a lot more than I can say for most movies.
This is westchester we're talking about. Laws are ALWAYS the first resort. After they fail, then the broadcasts and the fliers start. These laws will not be regularly enforced. If they are ever enforced, they will only be enforced upon the people least able to afford it.
AGP isn't entirely a one-way bus. Plenty of AGP video cards were able to do video capture without using any other bus to grab the data. At the very least the ATI All-in-Wonder cards have been doing it almost since AGP first existed.