You know I bet Dryads would be a high possibility. A very unique race for the alliance that is totally doable. Yeah they're all about nature but so are the Taurens, it would take nothing to add a bit to the story where Dryads are "called into battle the Horde" or whatever.
Console setups in stores always secure the controllers in some way, with a harness or something. Likely these kiosks were using the wireless controllers, and they were just secured in a similar fasion.
Perhaps Microsoft has just made sure to license to only the highest quality game manufacturers, confident in those game companies ability to deliver high quality, bug free game experiences well in anticipation of the console launch?
Heh, whew, OK I needed a good laugh. Seriously, I'm sure Rare or somebody has a couple of demo levels at this point that only require the 360 rebooted every 10 minutes or so. It'll be fine.
"...shareholders have suggested that Novell divest itself of its consulting group and GroupWise division..."
In other news, shareholders have also suggested that Microsoft needs to dump Office, and Apple should just stop with the iPod thing already.
You know, eDirectory is nice and all, but I promise you there are more than a few Netware shops out there who continue to be Netware shops primarly because of Groupwise.
Re:What's with all the Apu comments?
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Heh.
Rev. Lovejoy: The lesson is that all of God's children can come together and help their fellow man, whether they be (motions to Flanders) Christian, (motions to Krusty), Jewish, or (motions to Apu).....Miscellaneous!
Apu (annoyed): Hindu. HINDU! There are 600 million of us, you know.
Rev. Lovejoy: Oh, that's super!
"I guess Jay Leno is going to be there (at the ESA convention, where their friend Robert will be presenting the $10k check)".
Dear God and Jesus,
My name is Jayhawk88, but then you already know that. I know I haven't been the best person in the world, and I don't go to church very much, but if you could see to it that this Jack Thompson v. PA feud receives national media attention, I promise to be a good Christian from now on. I will give to the needy, love my fellow man, and praise your name if you will give me Jerry Holkins debating Jack Thompson on The O'Reilly Factor.
There was more to DOS 6.2 than a fix of the DoubleSpace app. 6.2 was the first DOS version to introduce Scandisk, the F8 step-through feature, and a lot of improvments to things like Defrag, HIMEM, and various utilites. And interestingly enough, according to http://www.zisman.ca/Articles/1993/DOS62.html">thi s old article, DOS 6.2 was available for free if you subscribed to CompuServe. Now granted that's not exactly totally free, and perhaps MS never did/pulled the download after that article was published, but if they did indeed offer it as a CompuServe download that was pretty forward thinking for 1993.
Why? I know you were going for the +5 Funny here, but seriously, how does this affect any of us in any way, shape, or form?
Longhorn comes with some bastardized version of MSN/AOL preinstalled instead of just MSN? Microsoft starts getting monthly checks from several million people who's idea of the Internet is "downloading their email" and playing Bejeweled?
I mean I guess Earthlink and NetZero are maybe sweating this, but so what?
You know given the flux that FEMA has been in the past few years, it's not suprising and, in fact, perhaps even understandable, that some tech hasn't yet got to the "Redesign online application form" on his ToDo list yet. I mean lets be honest people: How many of us have projects that have been sitting on our desk for 6 months, 12 months, hell 5 years, that we "just never get around to starting". The difference is that most of us don't work with FEMA and get our prioritizing mistakes posted to the front page of Slashdot when the shit hits the fan.
And just as a side note, if I'm ever in a disaster the size and scope of which requires me to contact FEMA, my first thought is not going to be "Oh gee I better check their website". I know it's 2005 and all but in that situation I'm still going to want to talk to a live person.
Marvel has what the call the Ultimate Universe, which is essentially relaunches of their flagship titles in a universe totally seperate from the traditional Marvel "616" universe that has been in existance for the past 30-odd years. The Ultimate Universe takes place as if these characters are being born/created/mutated in modern times, without the 30 years of backstory.
The stories are essentially the same, Spiderman still loses his Uncle Ben and learns the whole "Great Power/Responsibility" thing, the Fantastic Four still get their powers and battle Doom, the X-Men are still hated and feared by humankind and battle Magneto, but there are some differences. Nick Fury being black is one, and in fact is drawn to very much resemble Samuel Jackson; I think the character actually jokes about SJ playing him in a movie at one point in the book. Ultimate Nick also is a much younger man than 616 Nick, and I don't believe he has any WW2 exploits. He's still the head of SHIELD, but takes a much more active role, and seems to have a lot more cooler gadgets to play with.
Captain America
Didn't they do this one and it sucked?
They also did Spiderman and FF movies that by all accounts were horrible before the "big" releases. It's not like anyone is not going to go see a summer blockbuster movie because that one time some independant film company in the 70's lucked into a license and the movie sucked.
The Avengers
A facless hero clan. I can't even name a single hero in this group.
Captain America, Thor, Ironman, Hawkeye, Giant Man, The Wasp...Hell if they go really old school Hulk will make an appearance. Yes the Avengers don't have the kind of name recognition the X-Men, FF, or Justice League has, but that's what pre-movie hype is for.
Nick Fury
I guess because the Punisher movie worked so well...
If they go for a Marvel Ultimates Universe style with this movie (which is pretty much what they did with FF), Nick Fury is a black, eye-patch-wearing James Bond ass-kicking character with a suit that allows him to fly and turn invisible. I guarentee you Sam Jackson's publicist is already pimping him for this role.
Black Panther
Ah, a hero named after a hyper-racist group. I don't see anything wrong with that.
Are you posting this from the 1950's? Did someone invent timetravel:// and not tell me? Please, that argument isn't even worth responding to.
Ant-Man
Honey, I shrunk the superhero!
Yeah, and? Those movies did pretty well if I recall; there is a huge movie market aimed at kids these days. I'll admit Ant-Man as serious comic-book movie doesn't sound too appealing, but Marvel has and obviously would love to continue to hit the 8-14 demographic or whatever, perhaps this is part of that?
Cloak & Dagger
Not that Cloak was a completely contrived character, or that Dagger wore far too little clothing, but how could this movie possibly be interesting?
Hmmm...dark, brooding character who is in constant pain, running around fighting crime with an ultra-hottie. Nope, can't think of any demographic that would appeal to!
Again, this probably isn't the type of movie that you take that seriously, but there is obviously a male teenage demographic to hit with this flick.
Dr. Strange
Who?
Think of Gandalf battling the Balrog in Fellowship, except the Balrog is Dormammu, Lord of all Hell, and Gandalf is Dr. Strange, who can fly around and cast all kinds of CGI-friendly magic spells. And then take it times 10. Strange is all about magic in the MU, and this perhaps has the chance to be the best of the titles if done properly.
Hawkeye
Ah, Daredevil without charisma, but empowered with a ridiculous costume.
Again, if they go the Ultimate Universe route, Hawkey basically looks like Brad Pitt; a super soldier who can use a bow like guys in John Woo movies use pistols. Hardcore action flick potential.
Power Pack
Never heard of them.
Probably another kiddie flick, they were basically a bunch of kid superheros back in the 80's. Honestly this does seem like a strange choice to me, I would guess Marvel is seeing a Spy Kids type thing.
Shang-Chi
Is this like the token Asian guy?
Yeah, because martial arts pictures aren't popular or anything.
Look, I know most of these movies will probably turn out to be on the level of Elektra or Punisher, but the point is that there is material to work with here. These characters/teams are not as well known to the general public as a Spiderman, Hulk, X-Men or FF, but they do have interesting characters and stories to tell.
Sony: Say, Random HD-DVD Manufacturer, how much would we be paying for some HD-DVD drives for the PS3?
Random HD-DVD Manufacturer: For the PS3? Well, since you're going to be buying about 6 quintillion of them, I'd say about $25 a drive. Hell, make it $15 if you put our logo somewhere on the case.
Sony: Let me rephrase that. How much would we be "paying" for some HD-DVD drives if we wanted to justify an insane price-point for the first 12 months of the PS3 release?
Random HD-DVD Manufacturer: Oh, then it's $100 per drive. But if the first batch would turn out to be "bad" for some reason, we would of course be obligated to ship you 5.9 quintillion drives at a vastly reduced price - Say about $25 - to make up for our error, if it would help ensure future business with you.
C. Montgomery Burns: Excellent!
Yeah yeah, I know, new technology, blah blah blah. All I know is that this 4th gen console war is quickly making me want to dust off the Dreamcast.
See the pattern here? I play games to do things I couldn't do otherwise.
You know I don't even own a DS, let alone Nintendogs, but you'll forgive me if I don't sink into a deep depression worrying about what games I play that you approve of.
However, I also know that a large percentage of Nintendog users do so because they simply can't be bothered with the hassle of an actual pet, and I find that very sad.
Why? You'd rather those people go out and get real pets then neglect them?
That was my first thought too. I mean seriously, somewhere right now there's a guy getting a freaking HP calculator to host his website. It'll take about 10 minutes for this to get cracked.
That's nice that you have the time to play Screwdriver Monkey all day long, but some of us have work to do that is just a bit higher on the priority list than running to CompUSSR for power supplies and searching for the latest Detanator drivers.
PA gets a lot of play on Slashdot for two reasons:
1. It's fucking huge
2. Tyco's newsposts
Tyco's newsposts obviously often deal with a gaming topic of somekind, which is also obviously good fodder for the same topic appearing over here at Slashdot. Other big webcomic sites like PvP, Sluggy, Megatokyo, Goats, and many others don't offer written content as regularly. As for the smaller webcomics that might, well that's just it: They are smaller, and perhaps do not get recognized as much because of it.
Don't get me wrong, Halo was a great game, but way back in the day when Bungie was first talking about Halo, it was going to be this massive multi-genre game, having elements of an FPS, RTS, space sim, and possibly even RPG (though that was probably just hype admitedly). I can remember Battlecruiser3000-esqe usenet threads (minus Derek Smart of course) talking about how this game was going to revolutionize gaming as we know it, immerse you in a fully realized game world, make you toast in the morning and walk the dog.
Then all of the sudden, it was just another FPS. Well that turned out to not be quite true as Halo was anything but run of the mill, but you can't help but wonder what kind of game Halo would have been had the Bungie guys not got bored of Starcraft.
Others have already mentioned it, but yes certs are useful for:
- getting past HR filters
- impressing bosses, or more importantly sometimes, giving your boss ammo to impress others higher up the food chain
- survivability? If the axe is threatening to come down, all other factors being relatively equal, who do you think will get hit: You with all your undocumented knowledge, or your buddy whom the company invested $5k in for an MCSE or whatever?
Yes, it's unfair and it sucks. Yes, we all know people who go drop $5k with Global Knowledge or someone like that, get locked in a room for 5 days in Dallas, and come out with an MCSE and a bunch of crib notes about MMC. It's the way of the business world, and not likely to change anytime soon, even if Redmond were to drop into the Pacific tomorrow. If anything this sort of thing will only get worse, as IT departments continue to become more integrated and ubiquitous into companies.
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You know I bet Dryads would be a high possibility. A very unique race for the alliance that is totally doable. Yeah they're all about nature but so are the Taurens, it would take nothing to add a bit to the story where Dryads are "called into battle the Horde" or whatever.
Console setups in stores always secure the controllers in some way, with a harness or something. Likely these kiosks were using the wireless controllers, and they were just secured in a similar fasion.
When dealing with a satirical website, you want to give them ammunition and a reason to use it.
Alert your friends: The Onion might actually start getting funny again.
Perhaps Microsoft has just made sure to license to only the highest quality game manufacturers, confident in those game companies ability to deliver high quality, bug free game experiences well in anticipation of the console launch?
Heh, whew, OK I needed a good laugh. Seriously, I'm sure Rare or somebody has a couple of demo levels at this point that only require the 360 rebooted every 10 minutes or so. It'll be fine.
"...shareholders have suggested that Novell divest itself of its consulting group and GroupWise division..."
In other news, shareholders have also suggested that Microsoft needs to dump Office, and Apple should just stop with the iPod thing already.
You know, eDirectory is nice and all, but I promise you there are more than a few Netware shops out there who continue to be Netware shops primarly because of Groupwise.
Heh.
Rev. Lovejoy: The lesson is that all of God's children can come together and help their fellow man, whether they be (motions to Flanders) Christian, (motions to Krusty), Jewish, or (motions to Apu).....Miscellaneous!
Apu (annoyed): Hindu. HINDU! There are 600 million of us, you know.
Rev. Lovejoy: Oh, that's super!
Paraphrased, but you get the idea.
The reality, of course, is that students learn how to fend of an archer rush, but not much else.
"I guess Jay Leno is going to be there (at the ESA convention, where their friend Robert will be presenting the $10k check)".
Dear God and Jesus,
My name is Jayhawk88, but then you already know that. I know I haven't been the best person in the world, and I don't go to church very much, but if you could see to it that this Jack Thompson v. PA feud receives national media attention, I promise to be a good Christian from now on. I will give to the needy, love my fellow man, and praise your name if you will give me Jerry Holkins debating Jack Thompson on The O'Reilly Factor.
...the P990 looks like it will be a shot in the arm for the Symbian camp.
Unless they're shooting that thing out of a 50 calibur, I'm not exactly holding my breath for the triumphant Symbian comeback.
There was more to DOS 6.2 than a fix of the DoubleSpace app. 6.2 was the first DOS version to introduce Scandisk, the F8 step-through feature, and a lot of improvments to things like Defrag, HIMEM, and various utilites. And interestingly enough, according to http://www.zisman.ca/Articles/1993/DOS62.html">thi s old article, DOS 6.2 was available for free if you subscribed to CompuServe. Now granted that's not exactly totally free, and perhaps MS never did/pulled the download after that article was published, but if they did indeed offer it as a CompuServe download that was pretty forward thinking for 1993.
Why not? Just because you refuse to use IE for silly and pointless reasons doesn't mean the rest of us can't enjoy it.
Why? I know you were going for the +5 Funny here, but seriously, how does this affect any of us in any way, shape, or form?
Longhorn comes with some bastardized version of MSN/AOL preinstalled instead of just MSN? Microsoft starts getting monthly checks from several million people who's idea of the Internet is "downloading their email" and playing Bejeweled?
I mean I guess Earthlink and NetZero are maybe sweating this, but so what?
It's OK, Vista will be dumping all the graphic heavy lifting onto the GPU, so as long as you have a 2056 Meg video card you should be fine.
You know given the flux that FEMA has been in the past few years, it's not suprising and, in fact, perhaps even understandable, that some tech hasn't yet got to the "Redesign online application form" on his ToDo list yet. I mean lets be honest people: How many of us have projects that have been sitting on our desk for 6 months, 12 months, hell 5 years, that we "just never get around to starting". The difference is that most of us don't work with FEMA and get our prioritizing mistakes posted to the front page of Slashdot when the shit hits the fan.
And just as a side note, if I'm ever in a disaster the size and scope of which requires me to contact FEMA, my first thought is not going to be "Oh gee I better check their website". I know it's 2005 and all but in that situation I'm still going to want to talk to a live person.
Marvel has what the call the Ultimate Universe, which is essentially relaunches of their flagship titles in a universe totally seperate from the traditional Marvel "616" universe that has been in existance for the past 30-odd years. The Ultimate Universe takes place as if these characters are being born/created/mutated in modern times, without the 30 years of backstory.
The stories are essentially the same, Spiderman still loses his Uncle Ben and learns the whole "Great Power/Responsibility" thing, the Fantastic Four still get their powers and battle Doom, the X-Men are still hated and feared by humankind and battle Magneto, but there are some differences. Nick Fury being black is one, and in fact is drawn to very much resemble Samuel Jackson; I think the character actually jokes about SJ playing him in a movie at one point in the book. Ultimate Nick also is a much younger man than 616 Nick, and I don't believe he has any WW2 exploits. He's still the head of SHIELD, but takes a much more active role, and seems to have a lot more cooler gadgets to play with.
Captain America
Didn't they do this one and it sucked?
They also did Spiderman and FF movies that by all accounts were horrible before the "big" releases. It's not like anyone is not going to go see a summer blockbuster movie because that one time some independant film company in the 70's lucked into a license and the movie sucked.
The Avengers
A facless hero clan. I can't even name a single hero in this group.
Captain America, Thor, Ironman, Hawkeye, Giant Man, The Wasp...Hell if they go really old school Hulk will make an appearance. Yes the Avengers don't have the kind of name recognition the X-Men, FF, or Justice League has, but that's what pre-movie hype is for.
Nick Fury
I guess because the Punisher movie worked so well...
If they go for a Marvel Ultimates Universe style with this movie (which is pretty much what they did with FF), Nick Fury is a black, eye-patch-wearing James Bond ass-kicking character with a suit that allows him to fly and turn invisible. I guarentee you Sam Jackson's publicist is already pimping him for this role.
Black Panther
Ah, a hero named after a hyper-racist group. I don't see anything wrong with that.
Are you posting this from the 1950's? Did someone invent timetravel:// and not tell me? Please, that argument isn't even worth responding to.
Ant-Man
Honey, I shrunk the superhero!
Yeah, and? Those movies did pretty well if I recall; there is a huge movie market aimed at kids these days. I'll admit Ant-Man as serious comic-book movie doesn't sound too appealing, but Marvel has and obviously would love to continue to hit the 8-14 demographic or whatever, perhaps this is part of that?
Cloak & Dagger
Not that Cloak was a completely contrived character, or that Dagger wore far too little clothing, but how could this movie possibly be interesting?
Hmmm...dark, brooding character who is in constant pain, running around fighting crime with an ultra-hottie. Nope, can't think of any demographic that would appeal to!
Again, this probably isn't the type of movie that you take that seriously, but there is obviously a male teenage demographic to hit with this flick.
Dr. Strange
Who?
Think of Gandalf battling the Balrog in Fellowship, except the Balrog is Dormammu, Lord of all Hell, and Gandalf is Dr. Strange, who can fly around and cast all kinds of CGI-friendly magic spells. And then take it times 10. Strange is all about magic in the MU, and this perhaps has the chance to be the best of the titles if done properly.
Hawkeye
Ah, Daredevil without charisma, but empowered with a ridiculous costume.
Again, if they go the Ultimate Universe route, Hawkey basically looks like Brad Pitt; a super soldier who can use a bow like guys in John Woo movies use pistols. Hardcore action flick potential.
Power Pack
Never heard of them.
Probably another kiddie flick, they were basically a bunch of kid superheros back in the 80's. Honestly this does seem like a strange choice to me, I would guess Marvel is seeing a Spy Kids type thing.
Shang-Chi
Is this like the token Asian guy?
Yeah, because martial arts pictures aren't popular or anything.
Look, I know most of these movies will probably turn out to be on the level of Elektra or Punisher, but the point is that there is material to work with here. These characters/teams are not as well known to the general public as a Spiderman, Hulk, X-Men or FF, but they do have interesting characters and stories to tell.
Sony: Say, Random HD-DVD Manufacturer, how much would we be paying for some HD-DVD drives for the PS3?
Random HD-DVD Manufacturer: For the PS3? Well, since you're going to be buying about 6 quintillion of them, I'd say about $25 a drive. Hell, make it $15 if you put our logo somewhere on the case.
Sony: Let me rephrase that. How much would we be "paying" for some HD-DVD drives if we wanted to justify an insane price-point for the first 12 months of the PS3 release?
Random HD-DVD Manufacturer: Oh, then it's $100 per drive. But if the first batch would turn out to be "bad" for some reason, we would of course be obligated to ship you 5.9 quintillion drives at a vastly reduced price - Say about $25 - to make up for our error, if it would help ensure future business with you.
C. Montgomery Burns: Excellent!
Yeah yeah, I know, new technology, blah blah blah. All I know is that this 4th gen console war is quickly making me want to dust off the Dreamcast.
True but Diablo was the first game in this genre to bring it "to the masses", so to speak, let alone integrate all the graphics and sounds and such.
See the pattern here? I play games to do things I couldn't do otherwise.
You know I don't even own a DS, let alone Nintendogs, but you'll forgive me if I don't sink into a deep depression worrying about what games I play that you approve of.
However, I also know that a large percentage of Nintendog users do so because they simply can't be bothered with the hassle of an actual pet, and I find that very sad.
Why? You'd rather those people go out and get real pets then neglect them?
That was my first thought too. I mean seriously, somewhere right now there's a guy getting a freaking HP calculator to host his website. It'll take about 10 minutes for this to get cracked.
That's nice that you have the time to play Screwdriver Monkey all day long, but some of us have work to do that is just a bit higher on the priority list than running to CompUSSR for power supplies and searching for the latest Detanator drivers.
PA gets a lot of play on Slashdot for two reasons:
1. It's fucking huge
2. Tyco's newsposts
Tyco's newsposts obviously often deal with a gaming topic of somekind, which is also obviously good fodder for the same topic appearing over here at Slashdot. Other big webcomic sites like PvP, Sluggy, Megatokyo, Goats, and many others don't offer written content as regularly. As for the smaller webcomics that might, well that's just it: They are smaller, and perhaps do not get recognized as much because of it.
I read it fine, I was just trying to stir up some discussion.
Don't get me wrong, Halo was a great game, but way back in the day when Bungie was first talking about Halo, it was going to be this massive multi-genre game, having elements of an FPS, RTS, space sim, and possibly even RPG (though that was probably just hype admitedly). I can remember Battlecruiser3000-esqe usenet threads (minus Derek Smart of course) talking about how this game was going to revolutionize gaming as we know it, immerse you in a fully realized game world, make you toast in the morning and walk the dog.
Then all of the sudden, it was just another FPS. Well that turned out to not be quite true as Halo was anything but run of the mill, but you can't help but wonder what kind of game Halo would have been had the Bungie guys not got bored of Starcraft.
Others have already mentioned it, but yes certs are useful for:
- getting past HR filters
- impressing bosses, or more importantly sometimes, giving your boss ammo to impress others higher up the food chain
- survivability? If the axe is threatening to come down, all other factors being relatively equal, who do you think will get hit: You with all your undocumented knowledge, or your buddy whom the company invested $5k in for an MCSE or whatever?
Yes, it's unfair and it sucks. Yes, we all know people who go drop $5k with Global Knowledge or someone like that, get locked in a room for 5 days in Dallas, and come out with an MCSE and a bunch of crib notes about MMC. It's the way of the business world, and not likely to change anytime soon, even if Redmond were to drop into the Pacific tomorrow. If anything this sort of thing will only get worse, as IT departments continue to become more integrated and ubiquitous into companies.
It's worth it to bite the bullet in this case.