Then it's officially cheaper to play PC games than console games. It's almost the same price now anyways. And considering 50%+ of the best next gen games for 360 are just ported from PC (or ported to) that are inferior to their PC counterpart, what would be the point?
The only games I play right now on 360 are Halo 3 (occasionally) and Guitar Hero, everything else I would otherwise play has a better version that I just played on PC (Fallout 3, L4D, Call of Duty). Oh wait, I played Braid, but I could probably run that game on a PSX (and it's available on Steam, I just wanted to use a big HDTV and it felt right to play it on a console).
No way a new gen is released anytime soon... I mean, there hasn't even been ONE final fantasy release on the next gen consoles... PS2 had 3.
I can't comment on the other stuff, but Vista is actually pretty good and I've heard nothing but good stuff from Windows 7 which has all the features and fixes a lot of the Vista drawbacks (like speed).
I think that both Linux and Windows are good OS's, and I don't like OSX at all really. Does that make me a M$ fanboi? Or does it just make me an educated customer and engineer who selects desktop OS's based on what I'm looking to do with them?
My opinion on search engines is that Yahoo, Google and Bing all differ by about 5% (made up numbers but meh, there may be subtle differences but I'd really have to look hard to notice). The search results for yahoo look almost the same as google and the top 10 searches are almost always the same regardless of the search. Google used to be head and shoulders above everything else, but from my usage recently they are all on pretty equal ground. Google does clutter their results up with quite a few ads now too. Their advantage is what, a calculator? That's honestly trivial.
Google has some other cool online apps you can use, but that's not the search engine.
I concur, not to cause 2 cases of trying to disseminate internet beliefs, but a quick search lead me to this article on a site about meteorite collection...
It agrees with what you said, it was probably traveling that 30k when it entered the atmosphere and slowed down to 100 or 200 when it hit. The author also seems to believe that unless it's a massive meteor (much greater than the size of that pea) then it's going to fall dark and all you'll hear is a whoosh and a thud.
The story almost sounds like someone pole vaulted over him and shot a gun down.
This isn't a generational thing. I know people in their 70's with big screen HDTV's who have had cable the past 15 years. They don't understand anything about it, but they know how to plug a blue connector into a blue hole and press a few fucking buttons. It's probably easier to use cable than it is to use analog anyways.
My take is that if they care enough to watch TV, then they can care enough to make it work or get someone to help them make it work when they're told that it soon won't work.
FALSE - My Xbox live account does not auto-renew. I only know it expired when I can't login to ranked Halo 3 games anymore because it says my account is invalid.
Anyways, that's my largely opinionated two cents about a show I knew nothing about when it was airing and found it immensely enjoyable years after it was canceled. That's the only show I can say that about. The movies were ok but nothing like the TV formatted shows. Here's to hoping it's just as good as when it left off Season Four!
I agree completely! I watched this for the first time on Cartoon Network and got hooked and watched every episode that aired religiously until I had seen them all several times.
At the end of the day, Cartoon Network deserves a lot of credit for (yet again) resurrecting a once, but clearly undeservedly and prematurely, dead comedy cartoon. I'm more excited about Futurama than I was about Family Guy though!
Inability to play steam backups without installing and updating steam, which requires that steam be there, and a working internet connection. No modem connections either; Steam updates are often large, and there is no resume on the file downloads.
Those aren't corresponding problems, they are mutually exclusive features. It's the response I expected though.
Steam and disc's each have mutually exclusive benefits and drawbacks that should be weighed by the individual. Steam is the only medium that could potentially encompass all of the benefits of both though, with some changes.
I buy games on both Steam and Disc still but have found, through experience, that for my needs Steam works best and its drawbacks are almost inconsequential.
Plus firewall, 'nuf said. The problem is when people break into the back of a machine and physically install malware on it... if you have people breaking in or social engineering their way into the back of a physically locked machine then you are going to have problems. I don't care if it's running some logic flow on an EEPROM, it's still going to be hacked.
Yea, at home I just use a mass distro copy of XP anyways.
Plus I don't really have a need to run virtual machines of Vista at home, and if I did I wouldn't bother reading the EULA to figure out if I was technically allowed to.
It may be poorly worded, but my interpretation is that those versions of Vista require a separate license for each installation, whether it's a virtual machine or actual machine doesn't matter. Installing on a VM is legit but you need another license. I have also been lead to believe that other versions of Vista allow you to install on both a virtual and actual machine.
I agree that, given my interpretation, even this restriction is silly. As long as you're running the virtual image of Vista on a machine that's running Vista, why should you have to have another license? It's still running on the same hardware.
This still has nothing to do with your assertion that you can't install Vista on a system that uses some processor other than an x86 with some lower level x86 emulation. Because, within the constraints of the EULA, you can. In fact, even modern x86 processors aren't "x86" at a hardware level, they remain this way at the assembler level to maintain backwards compatibility but they really only emulate an x86.
I'm not a processor guru though, so I can't say if they've broken away from some of this emulation and eliminated some backwards compatibility. In many cases, maintaining backwards compatibility can stifle progress, but that's way off topic.
Your counter argument is false and his original statement is true.
Microsoft has no restrictions in their EULA on what hardware you can run it on, whereas Apple does.
The EULA quote in question is referring to their lower end versions of Vista which forbid using your Windows license within both a virtual environment and a hardware environment. If you chose to buy another Vista license then I believe you could run Vista in a virtual environment without violating the EULA. I'm also under the impression that the upper end versions of Vista allow both.
Apple, on the other hand, I guess explicitly forbids you to use OSX in a virtual environment or on any other hardware other than what they want you to run it on. I haven't actually read their agreement, but this is what I've been told from people.
So uhmm yea.. pretty much the OP was correct in saying that Microsoft doesn't care where, or on what, you have your OS installed, whereas Apple does. Microsoft does care that you have a proper license for the OS wherever you install it though (as, of course, does Apple and pretty much every other retail software maker on the planet).
Modup IMO, I read the same thing as you. Of course, the guy who mis-interpreted gets slashdot points for going against the article.
He's not lamenting that a democracy can't make ethics and political philosophy the exclusive province of cloistered academics; He's stating that a democracy shouldn't make ethics and political philosophy the exclusive province of cloistered academics.
It's part of his comparison of Journalism (cloistered academics) to Blogging (the people).
Well, Microsoft is trying to get a leg up on Google (which is a play on the word googol) with Bing. Calling it Googleplex would be like playing on the world googolplex, which is 10^10^100. Connecting the dots now, oftentimes the adjectives "larger" and "bigger" are associated with being "better." Or, quite literally in this situation, the more searches and profit, the better.
Bing actually looks pretty good, it's like a clean wrapper for live search with some nice features.
Slashdot Mirror
Short game, but it's really good.
http://www.gamespot.com/search.html?qs=braid&om_act=convert&om_clk=search
Then it's officially cheaper to play PC games than console games. It's almost the same price now anyways. And considering 50%+ of the best next gen games for 360 are just ported from PC (or ported to) that are inferior to their PC counterpart, what would be the point?
The only games I play right now on 360 are Halo 3 (occasionally) and Guitar Hero, everything else I would otherwise play has a better version that I just played on PC (Fallout 3, L4D, Call of Duty). Oh wait, I played Braid, but I could probably run that game on a PSX (and it's available on Steam, I just wanted to use a big HDTV and it felt right to play it on a console).
No way a new gen is released anytime soon... I mean, there hasn't even been ONE final fantasy release on the next gen consoles... PS2 had 3.
I can't comment on the other stuff, but Vista is actually pretty good and I've heard nothing but good stuff from Windows 7 which has all the features and fixes a lot of the Vista drawbacks (like speed).
I think that both Linux and Windows are good OS's, and I don't like OSX at all really. Does that make me a M$ fanboi? Or does it just make me an educated customer and engineer who selects desktop OS's based on what I'm looking to do with them?
My opinion on search engines is that Yahoo, Google and Bing all differ by about 5% (made up numbers but meh, there may be subtle differences but I'd really have to look hard to notice). The search results for yahoo look almost the same as google and the top 10 searches are almost always the same regardless of the search. Google used to be head and shoulders above everything else, but from my usage recently they are all on pretty equal ground. Google does clutter their results up with quite a few ads now too. Their advantage is what, a calculator? That's honestly trivial.
Google has some other cool online apps you can use, but that's not the search engine.
I concur, not to cause 2 cases of trying to disseminate internet beliefs, but a quick search lead me to this article on a site about meteorite collection...
http://www.meteoritemarket.com/metid2.htm
It agrees with what you said, it was probably traveling that 30k when it entered the atmosphere and slowed down to 100 or 200 when it hit. The author also seems to believe that unless it's a massive meteor (much greater than the size of that pea) then it's going to fall dark and all you'll hear is a whoosh and a thud.
The story almost sounds like someone pole vaulted over him and shot a gun down.
I'm inclined to agree with the bullshit call.
This isn't a generational thing. I know people in their 70's with big screen HDTV's who have had cable the past 15 years. They don't understand anything about it, but they know how to plug a blue connector into a blue hole and press a few fucking buttons. It's probably easier to use cable than it is to use analog anyways.
My take is that if they care enough to watch TV, then they can care enough to make it work or get someone to help them make it work when they're told that it soon won't work.
Sorry, I was born after 1950, what's analog TV?
http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Dragoon
FALSE - My Xbox live account does not auto-renew. I only know it expired when I can't login to ranked Halo 3 games anymore because it says my account is invalid.
I think I cried at the end of Jurassic Bark.
Anyways, that's my largely opinionated two cents about a show I knew nothing about when it was airing and found it immensely enjoyable years after it was canceled. That's the only show I can say that about. The movies were ok but nothing like the TV formatted shows. Here's to hoping it's just as good as when it left off Season Four!
I agree completely! I watched this for the first time on Cartoon Network and got hooked and watched every episode that aired religiously until I had seen them all several times.
At the end of the day, Cartoon Network deserves a lot of credit for (yet again) resurrecting a once, but clearly undeservedly and prematurely, dead comedy cartoon. I'm more excited about Futurama than I was about Family Guy though!
Loss of or damage to the physical disc.
Inability to play steam backups without installing and updating steam, which requires that steam be there, and a working internet connection. No modem connections either; Steam updates are often large, and there is no resume on the file downloads.
Those aren't corresponding problems, they are mutually exclusive features. It's the response I expected though.
Steam and disc's each have mutually exclusive benefits and drawbacks that should be weighed by the individual. Steam is the only medium that could potentially encompass all of the benefits of both though, with some changes.
I buy games on both Steam and Disc still but have found, through experience, that for my needs Steam works best and its drawbacks are almost inconsequential.
Except owning a disc sucks and has inherent risks that Steam does not~
Name one, and I'll name a bigger corresponding problem with Steam.
Loss of or damage to the physical disc.
Plus firewall, 'nuf said. The problem is when people break into the back of a machine and physically install malware on it... if you have people breaking in or social engineering their way into the back of a physically locked machine then you are going to have problems. I don't care if it's running some logic flow on an EEPROM, it's still going to be hacked.
Yea, at home I just use a mass distro copy of XP anyways.
Plus I don't really have a need to run virtual machines of Vista at home, and if I did I wouldn't bother reading the EULA to figure out if I was technically allowed to.
And if you're a Catholic and a Pedo, even better because you believe in heaven and will probably go there! badam *CH*
It may be poorly worded, but my interpretation is that those versions of Vista require a separate license for each installation, whether it's a virtual machine or actual machine doesn't matter. Installing on a VM is legit but you need another license. I have also been lead to believe that other versions of Vista allow you to install on both a virtual and actual machine.
I agree that, given my interpretation, even this restriction is silly. As long as you're running the virtual image of Vista on a machine that's running Vista, why should you have to have another license? It's still running on the same hardware.
This still has nothing to do with your assertion that you can't install Vista on a system that uses some processor other than an x86 with some lower level x86 emulation. Because, within the constraints of the EULA, you can. In fact, even modern x86 processors aren't "x86" at a hardware level, they remain this way at the assembler level to maintain backwards compatibility but they really only emulate an x86.
I'm not a processor guru though, so I can't say if they've broken away from some of this emulation and eliminated some backwards compatibility. In many cases, maintaining backwards compatibility can stifle progress, but that's way off topic.
Taking it a step further even, if you use emulation, you could potentially run windows on any CPU you can dream of without violating the EULA.
Your counter argument is false and his original statement is true.
Microsoft has no restrictions in their EULA on what hardware you can run it on, whereas Apple does.
The EULA quote in question is referring to their lower end versions of Vista which forbid using your Windows license within both a virtual environment and a hardware environment. If you chose to buy another Vista license then I believe you could run Vista in a virtual environment without violating the EULA. I'm also under the impression that the upper end versions of Vista allow both.
Apple, on the other hand, I guess explicitly forbids you to use OSX in a virtual environment or on any other hardware other than what they want you to run it on. I haven't actually read their agreement, but this is what I've been told from people.
So uhmm yea.. pretty much the OP was correct in saying that Microsoft doesn't care where, or on what, you have your OS installed, whereas Apple does. Microsoft does care that you have a proper license for the OS wherever you install it though (as, of course, does Apple and pretty much every other retail software maker on the planet).
Modup IMO, I read the same thing as you. Of course, the guy who mis-interpreted gets slashdot points for going against the article.
He's not lamenting that a democracy can't make ethics and political philosophy the exclusive province of cloistered academics; He's stating that a democracy shouldn't make ethics and political philosophy the exclusive province of cloistered academics.
It's part of his comparison of Journalism (cloistered academics) to Blogging (the people).
I actually did the search for "linux" on both engines and compared... and I liked the results I got from bing.com over google.com =X.
Related Searches and Search History are very neatly placed and are far more useful than Google's ads.
It would be nice to add a calculator to Bing, but that seems trivial.
They DO have maps as well O_O bing.com/maps/
This could be a very legit competitor to Google. Competition is good.
Pretty much, this is the first good FPS game (to me) since BF2.
Just gotta fix matchmaking! (plug)
As long as they fix matchmaking as promised to reduce rage-quitters and allow us to match up 4v4 teams, I'm on board!
A matchmaking system like Halo 3 would make me cry tears of joy, but I'd settle for something close.
This is the one thing holding this game back IMHO.
Well, Microsoft is trying to get a leg up on Google (which is a play on the word googol) with Bing. Calling it Googleplex would be like playing on the world googolplex, which is 10^10^100. Connecting the dots now, oftentimes the adjectives "larger" and "bigger" are associated with being "better." Or, quite literally in this situation, the more searches and profit, the better.
Bing actually looks pretty good, it's like a clean wrapper for live search with some nice features.
or even.. tenduotrigintillionle
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