ESRB has already had content descriptors for quite some time. In fact, I believe they had them *before* the MPAA. All they're doing now is adding four more content descriptors.
Why do I use Windows? 1. Games. People say that lots of newer games run on Linux. Yes, but not all of them. And I play a lot of older games that you just can't play on Linux.
2. Don't like the interface. I found the interfaces of GNOME and KDE to be much more cumbersome and difficult to use than Windows.
3. Everything just works. When I upgrade Windows, or install Windows on a computer, everything works. No need to worry about bizarre configuration settings to get my devices to work. The past three times I have tried to install Linux, only once could I get everything to work.
4. Happy applications. I have a lot of custom-made applications, and other things that are ONLY for Windows. I don't want to take the time to find equivalents for Linux, if there are any.
5. Why would I switch? I have absolutely NO reason to go through the trouble of switching to Linux! All of my hardware and software works with Linux, Windows is fairly stable (one crash in the past 2 weeks - big deal!)
6. Evil community. When I have gone to chat rooms or message boards for Linux help, I am met with vague requests to check the FAQs or something. Well, surprise, I already did! NOBODY wants to help! It's very annoying. With Windows, I have always received an answer fast. And when I have a support problem with the OS, who do I go to for Linux? If I downloaded the thing for free I am not getting any support! But I have found Microsoft support to be fast and helpful.
I own a Dreamcast and PlayStation 2, and multiple games for both of those systems that I own do not always run at a consistant framerate. It's just about like a computer game.
Certainly there are many PC games too. The day I bought my PC it could play almost any PC game made since the playstation launch.
Anyway, quantity does not necessarily equal quality.
Something is seriously wrong if your *network card* *needs* driver updates.
You can get 0 screws with USB PC components.
You say that used/greatest hits games keep costs down. Well, PC "greatest hits" (best sellers, GotY winners) usually come out with extra features and a much lower price about a year after initial release - just like those console "greatest hits". But, as you say, the used PC game market is not exactly huge, although Half.com, eBay, and Amazon can get you some damn good deals.
$400 is unnecessary for a video card. So is a $2000 PC.
No surprise with the console/PC market share thing. Not that I don't believe you, but a cite for the 1/10th statistic would be nice.
PC vs. console game quality is extremely subjective at best. I'll make up some of my own PC-only favorites: Grim Fandango, Black and White, Battlefield 1942, Homeworld, the Freespace series, the System Shock series, the Thief series... I could go on. And certainly there are comparable lists for consoles.
Of COURSE people play Sunshine and GTA on a console without worrying about cheating. THEY'RE SINGLE PLAYER GAMES! But I see what you're getting at. Unfortunately, you're wrong. Online console games do have cheaters. (See: GameShark). And with the new XBox and PS2 hard drives, online gamers can cheat even more, downloading hacks, etc.
Rez and Frequency are great games. But they were NOT rewarded with high sales, especially Rez. And the PC has it's fair share of innovation.
BTW, not every PC gamer thinks that Carmack is some gaming god. Despite your accusation, I have never bought a Doom or Quake game. If someone wants to *waste* $400 on a video card for the game, it's their own choice. Despite what you may think, Mr. Carmack is not representative of the entire PC gaming world.
Better controllers? That's pretty subjective. Not all games work better with a console controller. In my opinion, FPS games are a good example of this. Many people prefer a PC for FPS games because of the ease of a mouse/keyboard combo.
I just got a new computer (Really - just came yesterday) and I had to connect: *Monitor to outlet - compare to plugging in TV *PC to outlet - compare to plugging in console *Keyboard and mouse plugin - compare to connecting 2 controllers (pretty standard, I'd say) *Speakers to PC - Compare to connecting console sound to your system (optional...) *Monitor to PC - compare to plugging console into TV Not much of a difference, is there?
Unless ATI/nVidia/whoever shipped the competitor's drivers with your card (or the OEM made a HUGE mistake setting up your system), you can't have the "wrong" drivers. Drivers are generally used to correct game issues AND improve performance. Neither of these *good* things can be done on consoles. And when console HD use is more widespread, THEY WILL.
Most, if not all, modern PC video cards include TV out standard. The PC monitor has a better quality display, anyway.
Memory? Unless you bought your system more than about 3 years ago (console life cycle anyone?), your memory is probably just fine.
But fine, take the console. I can see reasons you'd want one (really, and they're not sarcastic ones either).
I guess closed-source is just the scourge of the planet isn't it. If they had used open source, there is absolutely NO possibility that any problems could occur! Open source always has been and always will be absolutely perfect. If only Florida knew that!
The RIAA does not like file sharing because people DO use it to download music when they know they have no intent of EVER paying for that music. File sharing does have some legitimate uses, but the major use of it today is for downloading copyrighted music without paying for it. And that is illegal.
I think Wal-Mart is an evil corporation. So I'm going to go take a few hundred dollars of goods from them. It's civil disobedience. Sticking it to the man.
send something like this to them. it won't have any effect, but it'd use up some time. try info@rcarecords.com to start off, then look around for the rest.
I have just read at Yahoo! News that your company is involved in suing the AT&T Broadband Corp., Cable & Wireless USA, Sprint Corp, Advanced Network Services, and UUNET Technologies. I find such conduct by your company unacceptable. Instead of attempting to shut down the offending website, you instead use an industry coalition (RIAA) and deep pockets to bully the previously mentioned corporations into giving in to your demand: block content at listen4ever.com from travelling through their servers.
This suit is as ridiculous as suing the United States Government because people carrying pirated music use it to transport their illegal CDs. It sounds crazy, but this is exactly what you are doing to the bandwidth providers mentioned above. They did not publish or produce the content you want them to block. And they are not required by law to block such content.
This suit is another step in taking away the rights that U.S. citizens enjoy. Because of your corporation's involvement in this suit, I will no longer be purchasing music produced by any of the artists you represent until you withdraw from this inappropriate suit. I urge you to reconsider your decision.
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He said cunt!
Know how much that matters? Not at all. The microwave is thousands of times more powerful than a Wi-Fi device.
the only reason I bought it was because my wife had several gift certificates for Borders
Excuses, excuses.
FUKKA YOU you are the sons of a mother fucker all of you. I will kill all of your babies and you will fucking burn shitfaces.
ESRB has already had content descriptors for quite some time. In fact, I believe they had them *before* the MPAA. All they're doing now is adding four more content descriptors.
ESRB and MPAA are independent from the government...
Why do I use Windows?
1. Games. People say that lots of newer games run on Linux. Yes, but not all of them. And I play a lot of older games that you just can't play on Linux.
2. Don't like the interface. I found the interfaces of GNOME and KDE to be much more cumbersome and difficult to use than Windows.
3. Everything just works. When I upgrade Windows, or install Windows on a computer, everything works. No need to worry about bizarre configuration settings to get my devices to work. The past three times I have tried to install Linux, only once could I get everything to work.
4. Happy applications. I have a lot of custom-made applications, and other things that are ONLY for Windows. I don't want to take the time to find equivalents for Linux, if there are any.
5. Why would I switch? I have absolutely NO reason to go through the trouble of switching to Linux! All of my hardware and software works with Linux, Windows is fairly stable (one crash in the past 2 weeks - big deal!)
6. Evil community. When I have gone to chat rooms or message boards for Linux help, I am met with vague requests to check the FAQs or something. Well, surprise, I already did! NOBODY wants to help! It's very annoying. With Windows, I have always received an answer fast. And when I have a support problem with the OS, who do I go to for Linux? If I downloaded the thing for free I am not getting any support! But I have found Microsoft support to be fast and helpful.
So I guess I am keeping myself on Windows.
$3000?! The excessively high price estimates keep rising.
I own a Dreamcast and PlayStation 2, and multiple games for both of those systems that I own do not always run at a consistant framerate. It's just about like a computer game.
You're playing the wrong games on the wrong system if you need to reconfigure to play games, and your games need an hour of patching on a daily basis.
Which is almost completely unrelated to this.
Certainly there are many PC games too. The day I bought my PC it could play almost any PC game made since the playstation launch.
Anyway, quantity does not necessarily equal quality.
Something is seriously wrong if your *network card* *needs* driver updates.
You can get 0 screws with USB PC components.
You say that used/greatest hits games keep costs down. Well, PC "greatest hits" (best sellers, GotY winners) usually come out with extra features and a much lower price about a year after initial release - just like those console "greatest hits". But, as you say, the used PC game market is not exactly huge, although Half.com, eBay, and Amazon can get you some damn good deals.
$400 is unnecessary for a video card. So is a $2000 PC.
Most consoles do not last as long as the PlayStation 1.
No surprise with the console/PC market share thing. Not that I don't believe you, but a cite for the 1/10th statistic would be nice.
PC vs. console game quality is extremely subjective at best. I'll make up some of my own PC-only favorites: Grim Fandango, Black and White, Battlefield 1942, Homeworld, the Freespace series, the System Shock series, the Thief series... I could go on. And certainly there are comparable lists for consoles.
Of COURSE people play Sunshine and GTA on a console without worrying about cheating. THEY'RE SINGLE PLAYER GAMES! But I see what you're getting at. Unfortunately, you're wrong. Online console games do have cheaters. (See: GameShark). And with the new XBox and PS2 hard drives, online gamers can cheat even more, downloading hacks, etc.
Rez and Frequency are great games. But they were NOT rewarded with high sales, especially Rez. And the PC has it's fair share of innovation.
BTW, not every PC gamer thinks that Carmack is some gaming god. Despite your accusation, I have never bought a Doom or Quake game. If someone wants to *waste* $400 on a video card for the game, it's their own choice. Despite what you may think, Mr. Carmack is not representative of the entire PC gaming world.
The PC is much more versatile than the console. Consoles play games, and occasionally DVDs. That's it. You're making an inappropriate comparison.
Better controllers? That's pretty subjective. Not all games work better with a console controller. In my opinion, FPS games are a good example of this. Many people prefer a PC for FPS games because of the ease of a mouse/keyboard combo.
I just got a new computer (Really - just came yesterday) and I had to connect:
*Monitor to outlet - compare to plugging in TV
*PC to outlet - compare to plugging in console
*Keyboard and mouse plugin - compare to connecting 2 controllers (pretty standard, I'd say)
*Speakers to PC - Compare to connecting console sound to your system (optional...)
*Monitor to PC - compare to plugging console into TV
Not much of a difference, is there?
Unless ATI/nVidia/whoever shipped the competitor's drivers with your card (or the OEM made a HUGE mistake setting up your system), you can't have the "wrong" drivers. Drivers are generally used to correct game issues AND improve performance. Neither of these *good* things can be done on consoles. And when console HD use is more widespread, THEY WILL.
Most, if not all, modern PC video cards include TV out standard. The PC monitor has a better quality display, anyway.
Memory? Unless you bought your system more than about 3 years ago (console life cycle anyone?), your memory is probably just fine.
But fine, take the console. I can see reasons you'd want one (really, and they're not sarcastic ones either).
I guess closed-source is just the scourge of the planet isn't it. If they had used open source, there is absolutely NO possibility that any problems could occur! Open source always has been and always will be absolutely perfect. If only Florida knew that!
-1 Sterotypical Slashdot Post
It wasted a total of 1 second of my life scrolling past pointless stories about the subject on Slashdot.
That's about it...
Conspiracy mode started a little too late...
The RIAA does not like file sharing because people DO use it to download music when they know they have no intent of EVER paying for that music. File sharing does have some legitimate uses, but the major use of it today is for downloading copyrighted music without paying for it. And that is illegal.
I think Wal-Mart is an evil corporation. So I'm going to go take a few hundred dollars of goods from them. It's civil disobedience. Sticking it to the man.
send something like this to them. it won't have any effect, but it'd use up some time. try info@rcarecords.com to start off, then look around for the rest.
I have just read at Yahoo! News that your company is involved in
suing the AT&T Broadband Corp., Cable & Wireless USA, Sprint Corp,
Advanced Network Services, and UUNET Technologies. I find such
conduct by your company unacceptable. Instead of attempting to shut
down the offending website, you instead use an industry coalition
(RIAA) and deep pockets to bully the previously mentioned corporations
into giving in to your demand: block content at listen4ever.com from
travelling through their servers.
This suit is as ridiculous as suing the United States Government
because people carrying pirated music use it to transport their
illegal CDs. It sounds crazy, but this is exactly what you are doing
to the bandwidth providers mentioned above. They did not publish or
produce the content you want them to block. And they are not required
by law to block such content.
This suit is another step in taking away the rights that U.S.
citizens enjoy. Because of your corporation's involvement in this
suit, I will no longer be purchasing music produced by any of the
artists you represent until you withdraw from this inappropriate
suit. I urge you to reconsider your decision.
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http://www.coasterbuzz.com/editorial/editorial.
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http://www.coasterbuzz.com/editorial/edit
But at least the G-forces listing on that page is 100% accurate and up to date. I guarantee it.