Though to be honest I'm ranting more about tuition here than loans. My loans are actually pretty damn low; like in the 2-3% range. The ones outside of the feds go into 8%.
Fuck off, Department of Education spokesperson (and the quoted Republican party stance in the story too). I saved up three years of minimum wage for my college fund and I didn't do it just to hear how I'm an ungrateful child when I ask why I'm forced to pay a ridiculous amount of extra money on top of what is turning into an endeavor that is beyond the concept of "costly." Give me a break. Even with that hard work through high school I'm still forced into penny pinching.
\Most consoles games run at sup 720P resolutions and are upscaled to fit a 1080p screen, view distance in console games is terrible, textures are blurry messes, and frame rates suck
I agree with that (not the Nintendo stuff, however), but also in the whole idea that there's really no big reason to upgrade and push games forward. Today's beautiful games already cost so much to make and are just barely finding the limits of their systems (Uncharted 2, for example) that it's simply not worth the significant burden of new consoles. And will the consumer care for a console that's not that noticeably nicer looking or doesn't contain any new features? Is there any technology barrier that games can break in the next few years?
Considering the consoles are now at the prices that their predecessors launched at eight to nine years ago, I simply can't see why anyone would care about a new console. This sounds like Captain Obvious stuff when you think about it for a moment, but the market is just fine with what's already there.
The problem with the Wii is that it's a fad. It's doomed to fail pretty quickly - the console sales are dropping, slowly but surely. The major reason why they made so many sales was the price factor, and even that's not a determining point any longer. Nintendo will find themselves treading water while Sony and Microsoft are out chugging their machines along and making a more and more stable platform that they can slap more doodads and whizdoos on for extra profit.
And Apple laughed and said, "Sure, we'll take that money of yours, thanks!" Threats? This is iTunes. The program that sells more digital music than anything else. The music companies have very little power over what Apple does.
Three Awesomes for the Red Hat/Fedoras under the sky,
Seven for the Slackware users in their halls of stone,
Nine for Ubuntu rip-offs doomed to die,
One for the Debian on his deb-packaged throne
In the Land of apt-get where the repositories lie.
One Distro to rule them all, One Distro to find them,
One Distro to bring them all and in the kernel bind them
In the Land of apt-get where the repositories lie.
I bought it for $50 when they allowed people to preorder it on the cheap. Then they let the students have it for $30, and I was a bit miffed. Then they let me download it for free.
I'll probably end up selling my preorder to a non-CS-major Vista hater, but it's the suffering that matters here!
I agree. On the dial-up our neighbors have next door, it would take a good month to download Windows 7. I may be a biased Linux user at times, but blasting Microsoft for the OEMs that are sending out DVD's seems a bit backwards. Perhaps that price is a bit high, but hey, look on the bright side - an OEM is giving you a disc of Windows for once, and they're not charging full price for it.
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The description of ubuntu-desktop says that it can be removed without issues. I don't know why everyone gets their undies in a bundle over that.
Since the invention of the server?
If you want financial aid or even some scholarships, you have no choice but to take whatever loan they offer you.
Though to be honest I'm ranting more about tuition here than loans. My loans are actually pretty damn low; like in the 2-3% range. The ones outside of the feds go into 8%.
Fuck off, Department of Education spokesperson (and the quoted Republican party stance in the story too). I saved up three years of minimum wage for my college fund and I didn't do it just to hear how I'm an ungrateful child when I ask why I'm forced to pay a ridiculous amount of extra money on top of what is turning into an endeavor that is beyond the concept of "costly." Give me a break. Even with that hard work through high school I'm still forced into penny pinching.
*Splat*
"You have egg on your face."
"I'll have just coffee, thanks."
\Most consoles games run at sup 720P resolutions and are upscaled to fit a 1080p screen, view distance in console games is terrible, textures are blurry messes, and frame rates suck
Citation needed.
I shouldn't feed the trolls, but sometimes...
I agree with that (not the Nintendo stuff, however), but also in the whole idea that there's really no big reason to upgrade and push games forward. Today's beautiful games already cost so much to make and are just barely finding the limits of their systems (Uncharted 2, for example) that it's simply not worth the significant burden of new consoles. And will the consumer care for a console that's not that noticeably nicer looking or doesn't contain any new features? Is there any technology barrier that games can break in the next few years?
Considering the consoles are now at the prices that their predecessors launched at eight to nine years ago, I simply can't see why anyone would care about a new console. This sounds like Captain Obvious stuff when you think about it for a moment, but the market is just fine with what's already there.
The problem with the Wii is that it's a fad. It's doomed to fail pretty quickly - the console sales are dropping, slowly but surely. The major reason why they made so many sales was the price factor, and even that's not a determining point any longer. Nintendo will find themselves treading water while Sony and Microsoft are out chugging their machines along and making a more and more stable platform that they can slap more doodads and whizdoos on for extra profit.
Wizard needs food...badly! Can I have the other cookie?
And Apple laughed and said, "Sure, we'll take that money of yours, thanks!" Threats? This is iTunes. The program that sells more digital music than anything else. The music companies have very little power over what Apple does.
Wait...where did $1500 go out of my bank account? What the hell?
Cube, OpenArena, Nexuiz are all fair FPS games. Not amazing, but fun diversions. Aside from that BZFlag, Battle for Wesnoth, and FreeCiv.
A word of advice: Never play Frozen Bubble. I've lost days thanks to that bastard.
Now we can see Nicholas Cage yelling "Not the bees! AHHHHHHH They're ROBOTS!"
Three Awesomes for the Red Hat/Fedoras under the sky,
Seven for the Slackware users in their halls of stone,
Nine for Ubuntu rip-offs doomed to die,
One for the Debian on his deb-packaged throne
In the Land of apt-get where the repositories lie.
One Distro to rule them all, One Distro to find them,
One Distro to bring them all and in the kernel bind them
In the Land of apt-get where the repositories lie.
I mean, really, you have no problem with Sony refusing to allow people to play the games they already bought on the PSPgo?
You seriously misinterpreted that comment. What, do you point "astroturfing" at every pro-whatever-you-don't-like poster out there?
I'd far prefer competition between some evil companies than a monopoly of the game industry, though.
They're not going to do that forever, now are they? What are you going to do then?
Maybe if we tell social services that it was a Windows ME computer they're track down this bastard faster.
Then somebody will bring up Card himself, and then you'll never get the kids to stop yelling at each other.
Mod parent +5 Gross But Probably True.
I bought it for $50 when they allowed people to preorder it on the cheap. Then they let the students have it for $30, and I was a bit miffed. Then they let me download it for free.
I'll probably end up selling my preorder to a non-CS-major Vista hater, but it's the suffering that matters here!
Ubuntu is part of a non-profit organization, funded by an extremely rich man. Windows-based OEM's don't quite have that benefit.
You arrived too late and missed a few trolls.
I agree. On the dial-up our neighbors have next door, it would take a good month to download Windows 7. I may be a biased Linux user at times, but blasting Microsoft for the OEMs that are sending out DVD's seems a bit backwards. Perhaps that price is a bit high, but hey, look on the bright side - an OEM is giving you a disc of Windows for once, and they're not charging full price for it.
Apple is all about choice as long as you choose their products. Sony just wants you to laugh at them.