They missed out on the old Amigas, Spectrum and Commodore era. I remember picking games up for under £3. We're definitely not better off, price-wise, from that era. Graphically, and gameplay wise, yes, and I wouldn't want to go back to those days (except through an emulator)
I've been looking for a new ISP (in the UK) and I've found that most of them, and all of the big ones, offer some kind of package that gives you a free Anti-virus and/or Anti Spyware (usually Macafee or Kaspersky). Whether or not people actually use it and install it is another thing.
What people really need is a basic course in the perils of the Internet. Stuff like malicious downloads, suspicious sites, PORN DIALERS. Numerous times I've had to clean out a mates PC only to find a malicious porn dialer software that pops up all kinds of adverts, atleast the dialer never works and cost him a fortune (because he's on broadband, and dialers only work on dialup modems)
Most of all, it should be drummed into people JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE ANTI VIRUS DOESNT MEAN YOU CANT BE INFECTED.
Pretty much this for me too. I've made loads of friends in WoW that I'd begrudge just upping and leaving. I have stopped playing a number of times, ie, stopped paying (not just "log on once a week or so") for various reasons throughout the years, always hanging around the guild forums, but eventually, it keeps bringing me back.
"Kind of Babylon 5-ish." They both came out about the same time, and I seem to remember reading somewhere that the guy who created B5, pitched it to CBS (I think, the network that owns ST) who rejected it. There's alot of bad blood between B5 and DS9 fans because of it. Also, Series 1 of DS9 aparentlly mirrors series 1 of B5
yeah, of all these browser-based MMO's coming out I wonder what engine they're using. It is an off-the-peg one like Unity, is it a converted-to-plugin like QuakeLive, or are they all building their own from scratch? I develop browser-based e-Learning (don't snigger) and we've seriously been looking into Unity.
ST:O was a solid game. It had fun moments, and I found it to be quite entertaining. Mainly the space combat though, the ground combat was horrific mainly due to the dumb as shit AI.
Apart from the dumb AI it suffered mainly from lack of variety. Once you'd hit max level (which you would do after about a month of casual play) there was bugger all to do. I hear it's changed a bit now and there is actual end-game content, but I've not gone back to play it since then.
So yes, it is possible to be worse than Star Trek Online.
You could have been APB. (Note: I played that and had fun with it too, but it only had the basic game mechanics and sod all else, asking us to pay a fee for what is essentially counter strike with cars was what caused it's failure imo)
I read the article and it doesn't explain anywhere how someone without a mobile can text anyone. I mean, maybe they're using an online text messaging service, but that seems unlikely, as you might as well send them an email
I use C#.net at work, and with MS Visual Studio's code-completion it practically writes itself. Not only that but you can use the built in UI to build windows forms.
Granted, you will be tied down to Windows platform, which for some is too great a problem to overcome. In that case, try out Python with the Pygame lib. Works rather well on all platforms (even some mobile ones)
I can't fault Virgin's service I can fault Virgin's Customer Service though. It's all scripted and unwavering, the CSMs know nothing about the subjects and are powerless to do anything than tell you to wait and see if it fixes itself.
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They missed out on the old Amigas, Spectrum and Commodore era. I remember picking games up for under £3.
We're definitely not better off, price-wise, from that era. Graphically, and gameplay wise, yes, and I wouldn't want to go back to those days (except through an emulator)
I've been looking for a new ISP (in the UK) and I've found that most of them, and all of the big ones, offer some kind of package that gives you a free Anti-virus and/or Anti Spyware (usually Macafee or Kaspersky). Whether or not people actually use it and install it is another thing.
What people really need is a basic course in the perils of the Internet. Stuff like malicious downloads, suspicious sites, PORN DIALERS. Numerous times I've had to clean out a mates PC only to find a malicious porn dialer software that pops up all kinds of adverts, atleast the dialer never works and cost him a fortune (because he's on broadband, and dialers only work on dialup modems)
Most of all, it should be drummed into people JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE ANTI VIRUS DOESNT MEAN YOU CANT BE INFECTED.
ebaumsworld?
that thing's still going?
Pretty much this for me too. I've made loads of friends in WoW that I'd begrudge just upping and leaving. I have stopped playing a number of times, ie, stopped paying (not just "log on once a week or so") for various reasons throughout the years, always hanging around the guild forums, but eventually, it keeps bringing me back.
if it was just you, it isn't now
*bana wah wah. wah. wowadah wowa da wah wah*
"Kind of Babylon 5-ish."
They both came out about the same time, and I seem to remember reading somewhere that the guy who created B5, pitched it to CBS (I think, the network that owns ST) who rejected it. There's alot of bad blood between B5 and DS9 fans because of it. Also, Series 1 of DS9 aparentlly mirrors series 1 of B5
yeah, of all these browser-based MMO's coming out I wonder what engine they're using.
It is an off-the-peg one like Unity, is it a converted-to-plugin like QuakeLive, or are they all building their own from scratch?
I develop browser-based e-Learning (don't snigger) and we've seriously been looking into Unity.
ST:O was a solid game. It had fun moments, and I found it to be quite entertaining. Mainly the space combat though, the ground combat was horrific mainly due to the dumb as shit AI.
Apart from the dumb AI it suffered mainly from lack of variety. Once you'd hit max level (which you would do after about a month of casual play) there was bugger all to do. I hear it's changed a bit now and there is actual end-game content, but I've not gone back to play it since then.
So yes, it is possible to be worse than Star Trek Online.
You could have been APB. (Note: I played that and had fun with it too, but it only had the basic game mechanics and sod all else, asking us to pay a fee for what is essentially counter strike with cars was what caused it's failure imo)
Melt it down and turn it into gold rings.
Simple... if you can get a hold of a furnace.
who says it's water
my research says it's Raspberry Schnapps
This is where I type "DOUBLE RAINBOWS!" in a vain attempt to jump on a bandwagon I barely understand and am slightly fearful of
I always give a little chuckle when I hear the word "Cosmeg"...
hehe, smeg.
they weren't "down". everything we posted is here, just we've got people saying "First" about 20 messages down.
I read the article and it doesn't explain anywhere how someone without a mobile can text anyone.
I mean, maybe they're using an online text messaging service, but that seems unlikely, as you might as well send them an email
funnilly enough it's almost ironic
Punth like thith give me a thor head.
*points*
Geeeeeek
It's not 10, it's Binary, you're still good.
right, you, into the corner and think about what you've just done...
she's wearing a shirt, it looks like propellers because she's semi-transparent
it was probably 35 CPUs running for a Year. or 70 running for 6 months. article is BS
that's when the psycho killer attacked and accidentally the whole thing?
I use C#.net at work, and with MS Visual Studio's code-completion it practically writes itself. Not only that but you can use the built in UI to build windows forms.
Granted, you will be tied down to Windows platform, which for some is too great a problem to overcome. In that case, try out Python with the Pygame lib. Works rather well on all platforms (even some mobile ones)
I can't fault Virgin's service
I can fault Virgin's Customer Service though.
It's all scripted and unwavering, the CSMs know nothing about the subjects and are powerless to do anything than tell you to wait and see if it fixes itself.
However, they're a damn site better than Opal.
we need to be using the INTERROBAAAANAGGGGGNGNGNGGNGNGN http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrobang