I'll take that as an indication that you have never played this game before. It can bring the fastest video card money can buy to it's knees and easily too.
They are getting there... you can bomb/C4 bridges in BF2 which offers you some tactical control over the map, blocking off vechicles from certain areas.
They haven't reached the level of complexity where you can level any building. That would certainly be cool though.
The V stands for Virus. You want to debate whether a virus spread through genital contact is an STD or not?
Most people with HPV do not have any visible symptoms, therefore your suggestion that people just have symptoms similar to HPV but are being misdiagnosed does not make sense.
It's unhealthy to hold that sort of thing inside, best to just let it fly.
Sure it just screams "run me over with your car please!" or "if we run out of food, eat me first!" but it's unhealthy to suppress these feelings no matter how socially distasteful they are.
They aren't "stuck in the past", they just don't care about having the latest and greatest gadgetry. Either that or they can't afford it so they make due with older technology. In either case, they aren't going to have a brand spanking new console.
And for the record, wireless routers go for less than $50 nowadays. I just took a look on newegg and you can get a netgear 802.11b for $15.99 after mail-in rebate. So much for "$100 - $200".
The luddites you describe are not going to buy the latest console for the same reason they don't buy any other bleeding edge gadgets. They will be happily playing their PSX or dreamcast without a care in the world.
No I'm talking about future prices. You're dreaming if you think they will be anywhere near that close to dell in terms of price.
First of all you are assuming that any savings seen by apple will be directly passed down to the consumer. That is not the way the corporate world works. They will charge as much as the market will bear. Their costs go down, their profits go up, and in turn they offer _some_ of those savings to their customers in the form of cheaper systems while keeping a nice fat piece of the pie for themselves.
Now will macs be cheaper overall in the long run? Probably. But nowhere near as cheap as this poster is claiming.
You could be daydreaming about boning that cute blonde from accounting as you go to queue up a few more movies in your BT client but as long as you keep those legs moving all your boss thinks is "Wow there's Smith busting ass again, I wish more of my employees showed that kind of hustle!".
Nah my nephew has been working on a pleistocene park for a while now. He's got the swings, sandbox, and slide done (he had the see-saws done too but he accidentally stepped on them). If you want to pitch in he could use some help with the merri-go-round I'm sure.
He was originally using playdough but I caught him eating it one too many times so I switched him over to pleistocene.
NCIX has a nice site, lots of inventory but their prices are not that great. Given the choice I would much rather order from one of these guys...
Don't forget Tiger direct has a canadian site and you won't get dinged for duty/border fees if you order from there.
One of my favs has always been PC Canada. They are almost always cheaper than NCIX and they have always been fast with my orders. I had to return some RAM once upon a time and had no hassles at all. The only real strike against them is they don't carry as broad of an inventory as a place like NCIX does (take a look at their vid card selection, you will see what I mean).
If you want the absolute cheapest, it's hard to beat Canada Computers. I can not vouch for online ordering since anything I've bought from them has been in person but they usually have the cheapest price around. I've heard some people say they are pretty unforgiving when it comes to returns so be aware of this.
lol I was thinking the same thing. I don't even want to know how much his cabling cost and the funny/sad part is you can get vastly superior cables for less $$$.
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Sign me up too. I'd buy an Apple ultraportable in an instant if there was one available.
It doesnt push any kind of graphical limits?
I'll take that as an indication that you have never played this game before. It can bring the fastest video card money can buy to it's knees and easily too.
They are getting there... you can bomb/C4 bridges in BF2 which offers you some tactical control over the map, blocking off vechicles from certain areas.
They haven't reached the level of complexity where you can level any building. That would certainly be cool though.
That's EA for you...
Any time I pick up a new EA game I just assume it's a beta product.
Not nearly as much as they suck for FPS games.
2 patches in first 2 weeks?
Exaggerate much? It's been a hell of a lot longer than 2 weeks.
Hell people were begging for a patch for quite a while after release and EA/Dice were playing it tight lipped.
I'm impressed you can make out the letters with it sliding in and out of your mouth so fast...
Does slashdot get a flat fee for each dvorak article they flog on here or is it % based or hit based or what?
What in gods name are you talking about???
HPV is spread via genital contact.
The V stands for Virus. You want to debate whether a virus spread through genital contact is an STD or not?
Most people with HPV do not have any visible symptoms, therefore your suggestion that people just have symptoms similar to HPV but are being misdiagnosed does not make sense.
Can you imagine what kind of society we would live in if people were exposed to naked breasts at a very young age?!?
It's unhealthy to hold that sort of thing inside, best to just let it fly.
Sure it just screams "run me over with your car please!" or "if we run out of food, eat me first!" but it's unhealthy to suppress these feelings no matter how socially distasteful they are.
I had a great reply written up and saved to floppy, just as I was about to post it my floppy died.
They aren't "stuck in the past", they just don't care about having the latest and greatest gadgetry. Either that or they can't afford it so they make due with older technology. In either case, they aren't going to have a brand spanking new console.
And for the record, wireless routers go for less than $50 nowadays. I just took a look on newegg and you can get a netgear 802.11b for $15.99 after mail-in rebate. So much for "$100 - $200".
The luddites you describe are not going to buy the latest console for the same reason they don't buy any other bleeding edge gadgets. They will be happily playing their PSX or dreamcast without a care in the world.
Wait wait wait, somehow they are able to catapault bits and bites through mid air???
What manner of sorcery is this nintendo?!?
No I'm talking about future prices. You're dreaming if you think they will be anywhere near that close to dell in terms of price.
First of all you are assuming that any savings seen by apple will be directly passed down to the consumer. That is not the way the corporate world works. They will charge as much as the market will bear. Their costs go down, their profits go up, and in turn they offer _some_ of those savings to their customers in the form of cheaper systems while keeping a nice fat piece of the pie for themselves.
Now will macs be cheaper overall in the long run? Probably. But nowhere near as cheap as this poster is claiming.
"If the Apple hardware is $100-$200 more than a Dell..."
You're joking right? $200 difference? In your (and my) dreams maybe.
"How did people ever look busy before computers?"
1. Carry a clipboard.
2. Walk fast. Everywhere you go.
You could be daydreaming about boning that cute blonde from accounting as you go to queue up a few more movies in your BT client but as long as you keep those legs moving all your boss thinks is "Wow there's Smith busting ass again, I wish more of my employees showed that kind of hustle!".
"Could this be the start of a Pleistocene park?"
Nah my nephew has been working on a pleistocene park for a while now. He's got the swings, sandbox, and slide done (he had the see-saws done too but he accidentally stepped on them). If you want to pitch in he could use some help with the merri-go-round I'm sure.
He was originally using playdough but I caught him eating it one too many times so I switched him over to pleistocene.
above should read "half decent BT client".
When is the last time you used a half decent BT torrent?
I own a "fricken router" and I have multiple machines running behind it all running BT and yes, all connectable. I just use a diff port for each one.
I can't get a good DL speed for the WoW patch therefore blizzard "broke" bittorrent.
I smashed my foot on my coffee table by accident this morning therefore my coffee table "tripped me".
Both are cases of displaced blame stemming from user incompetence.
Try forwarding the ports/watching where you are walking next time.
NCIX has a nice site, lots of inventory but their prices are not that great. Given the choice I would much rather order from one of these guys...
Don't forget Tiger direct has a canadian site and you won't get dinged for duty/border fees if you order from there.
One of my favs has always been PC Canada. They are almost always cheaper than NCIX and they have always been fast with my orders. I had to return some RAM once upon a time and had no hassles at all. The only real strike against them is they don't carry as broad of an inventory as a place like NCIX does (take a look at their vid card selection, you will see what I mean).
If you want the absolute cheapest, it's hard to beat Canada Computers. I can not vouch for online ordering since anything I've bought from them has been in person but they usually have the cheapest price around. I've heard some people say they are pretty unforgiving when it comes to returns so be aware of this.
...that the greatest threat to Intel's market domination in the future is not going to come from AMD but from a company such as Nvidia.
Take a look at what they are doing with their GPUs right now and you can understand why someone would suggest this.
lol I was thinking the same thing. I don't even want to know how much his cabling cost and the funny/sad part is you can get vastly superior cables for less $$$.