NOW come back and tell me you've actually studied it, in depth, before declaring it a "religion of peace." Because it is most definitively not one, unless you believe that slavery, definitive tiers of haves and have-nots based on who's a member of the official state religion, definitive tiers of haves and have-nots based on which genitalia you were born with, and an admonition to subjugate, enslave, or otherwise wipe out anyone who doesn't believe in the state-sponsored religion can actually be a "religion of peace."/quote.
Hey now, hey now -- we're discussing Islam here, not Christianity.
That will be solved with the new (still in beta) Google Navy, where if you'd like you can join their private military service for one year, and in return get access to special 'Friend of Google' restriction-lifting on disk space and bandwidth.
You see, Neal was born in 2014, he was only allowed to come back in time if he wrote some 'science fiction' novels that would cover up the fact he was a time traveller by just making him look like he made some lucky guesses.
I had a game like that for my Treo 650 called Arcade Reality. It was a FPS (First-Person Space) game, like Star Raiders (god, I just dated myself, didn't I) that used the camera as a) a backdrop for the ships flying at you that you needed to shoot and b) to determine what direction you were moving in, since the phone didn't have one of those new-fangled accelerometers which are all the rage with you kids these days. Nifty bit of coding, that camera-used-to-sense-motion bit.
Developers are also a very small portion of the laptop market.
This is like saying, "Why does Bose spend their R&D budget on better speakers? Don't they know that deaf people don't care about sound quality?"
Personally, I prefer widescreen laptops. Widescreen video looks better, games give me that 'peripheral vision' effect that comes in handy in WoW and FPSs, and I can just hold my laptop sideways for reading e-books and comics and have them be roughly the same dimensions as they would be in real life.
It should be able to handle running 3D games at low resolutions... 1024x768, say, or a widescreen version of that. It shouldn't be able to handle Crisis at 1900x1200 without a flicker, but at least let me putter about on World of Warcraft and Sims 2 without feeling like I'm working on something from five years ago.
Beyond that... storage isn't an issue if you've got memsticks or cards. Give it wireless, a decent CPU, and a gig or two of RAM (one if Linux/XP, two if Vista) and WiFi and I'd be happy. And, for the love of god, don't let it burn my lap...
Why'd ya have to sell out Will? Sold out? Yeah, Will sold out. He sold out Best Buy, he sold out Gamestop, he sold out WalMart, he sold out Circuit City...
The reason EA focuses more on The Sims than SimCity is that IT MAKES THEM MORE MONEY. Convince ten to twenty million people to buy Sim City 5 when it comes out and maybe they'll start paying it more attention.
Some of those answers are obviously 'cleaned up' and somewhat evasive... but some are actually quite nice, and the man actually used 'text speak' in an answer... I'd say the questions and answers came across rather well, given that they had to be combed over. I'd love to hear more candid, off-the-cuff answers but I know that's not really an option when dealing with something of this nature.
Looks like the housing crisis in the US is even causing problems for UK banks... sorry about that, mates...
Geek version of a measuring contest?
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I've always wondered... isn't this the geek version of a measuring contest? Microsoft creates IE. Geeks create FireFox. Microsoft marketing says IE is better. Geeks create another piece of test software that says FireFox is better. When it comes right down to it... aren't both sides insisting they measure their digital dinkus with their own ruler and not the other guy's, just to show theirs is bigger?
(I know, I know, the analogy breaks down somewhat when you realize each ruler only works for one side... fine, they're special quantum rulers...)
"All you 'free software' freak who made clones of my game and called them different things, or made it multiplayer and then didn't charge anything so there's no royalties to be paid to me, are assholes! Charge for your rip-offs of my game so that I can get money from you!"
Gotta admit, the man has a point... not much of one, but he has it.
Why the hell aren't we celebrating this, people? Okay, for DNS, it sucks... but look at it this way...
It doesn't matter if you set up your system to 'automaticly' share the files you just downloaded... people who accessed them did so without authorization. It can't be considered 'sharing' if you didn't authorize people to download them from you... could this ruling be a tool agaisnt the MAFIAA?
Dammit, nobody told me we were supposed to be having a backlash against this game! I actually liked it and felt it was a fine bit of storytelling in a fun FPS, myself... next time, -tell me- when I'm not supposed to like a game! Next you'll tell me I was supposed to hate Kane & Lynch!
I mean, seriously, I can understand that books had chapters back when they had to hand-set every letter in a printing press and had to have some way of designating where to stop printing and bind the pages into a book, but we have things called 'printers' nowadays that can handle collation, printing, etc, much faster and more reliably. Why the heck do books need chapters? Personally, I enjoy books that go n and on and on and don't give me any indication that I've moved on to the next significant chunk of the storyline; it makes saving my progress with a bookmark so much more fun when I don't know if I'm past the good stuff or not yet...
Let's take Super Mario Brothers. Now let's improve the graphics, the sound, tweak the controls to better fit today's control schemes, and what do you get?
Super Mario Brothers 3. Or Super Mario World. Or Mario 64. Or... you get the point.
Unlike movies, where sequels usually just continue the storyline from what came before, video game sequels (should, at least) add new stuff, improvements, updates, etc. If you want the 'Tomb Raider' experience, you play the most recent one. If you want the 'Civilization' experience, you play Civ 4. If you want a good FPS on your X-Box 360, you play the latest remake of Halo... they call it Halo 3.
And it should be obvious to anyone who knows the company... upgrade to Vista, and you won't have to worry about repairing your XP installation anymore!
Can we please start ignoring Jack Thompson and not posting anything about him anymore? All you're doing is showing that someone cares about what he does. Ignore him and he'll wither and die, deprived of attention like a flower deprived of light and water.
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"So, you can read books for free -- as long as you're the first person to get to your public library's computer room in the morning."
Or, y'know, if you... check out a copy of the book. 'cause that's what libraries are for.
NOW come back and tell me you've actually studied it, in depth, before declaring it a "religion of peace." Because it is most definitively not one, unless you believe that slavery, definitive tiers of haves and have-nots based on who's a member of the official state religion, definitive tiers of haves and have-nots based on which genitalia you were born with, and an admonition to subjugate, enslave, or otherwise wipe out anyone who doesn't believe in the state-sponsored religion can actually be a "religion of peace."/quote.
Hey now, hey now -- we're discussing Islam here, not Christianity.
That will be solved with the new (still in beta) Google Navy, where if you'd like you can join their private military service for one year, and in return get access to special 'Friend of Google' restriction-lifting on disk space and bandwidth.
You see, Neal was born in 2014, he was only allowed to come back in time if he wrote some 'science fiction' novels that would cover up the fact he was a time traveller by just making him look like he made some lucky guesses.
The website is down.
Seriously, people, was there anyting really worth discussing in that article?
I had a game like that for my Treo 650 called Arcade Reality. It was a FPS (First-Person Space) game, like Star Raiders (god, I just dated myself, didn't I) that used the camera as a) a backdrop for the ships flying at you that you needed to shoot and b) to determine what direction you were moving in, since the phone didn't have one of those new-fangled accelerometers which are all the rage with you kids these days. Nifty bit of coding, that camera-used-to-sense-motion bit.
Fun game, too. Got me some funny looks tho.
More like a problem with society as a whole, really.
Car's making funny noises? You could take it to one of those corrupt auto dealers... nah, better to sell it and buy a new one.
Don't like where you live? You could invest time and money into fixing it up... but why not just move?
OS not running right? You could try to fix it... but wouldn't it take less time just to reinstall?
Don't like your job? You could learn to accept it and work to better yourself there... or quit and find a new one.
Human beings, as a generla rule, prefer the path with the least work for the most reward... or least pain.
Okay, so, developers need vertical space.
Developers are also a very small portion of the laptop market.
This is like saying, "Why does Bose spend their R&D budget on better speakers? Don't they know that deaf people don't care about sound quality?"
Personally, I prefer widescreen laptops. Widescreen video looks better, games give me that 'peripheral vision' effect that comes in handy in WoW and FPSs, and I can just hold my laptop sideways for reading e-books and comics and have them be roughly the same dimensions as they would be in real life.
Not only did they etch this out of a larger piece of material, but even the larger piece of material was too small to see with the naked eye.
Of course, someday they'll find a material where a single atom is, like, an inch wide, and then we won't be impressed by atoms anymore...
My god, it's so simple! Why didn't anyone think of doing this earlier?
Let's hope the perverts and cirminals out there aren't as smart as he is, they may try changing filenames...
It should be able to handle running 3D games at low resolutions... 1024x768, say, or a widescreen version of that. It shouldn't be able to handle Crisis at 1900x1200 without a flicker, but at least let me putter about on World of Warcraft and Sims 2 without feeling like I'm working on something from five years ago.
Beyond that... storage isn't an issue if you've got memsticks or cards. Give it wireless, a decent CPU, and a gig or two of RAM (one if Linux/XP, two if Vista) and WiFi and I'd be happy. And, for the love of god, don't let it burn my lap...
Some of those answers are obviously 'cleaned up' and somewhat evasive... but some are actually quite nice, and the man actually used 'text speak' in an answer... I'd say the questions and answers came across rather well, given that they had to be combed over. I'd love to hear more candid, off-the-cuff answers but I know that's not really an option when dealing with something of this nature.
Looks like the housing crisis in the US is even causing problems for UK banks... sorry about that, mates...
I've always wondered... isn't this the geek version of a measuring contest? Microsoft creates IE. Geeks create FireFox. Microsoft marketing says IE is better. Geeks create another piece of test software that says FireFox is better. When it comes right down to it... aren't both sides insisting they measure their digital dinkus with their own ruler and not the other guy's, just to show theirs is bigger?
(I know, I know, the analogy breaks down somewhat when you realize each ruler only works for one side... fine, they're special quantum rulers...)
"All you 'free software' freak who made clones of my game and called them different things, or made it multiplayer and then didn't charge anything so there's no royalties to be paid to me, are assholes! Charge for your rip-offs of my game so that I can get money from you!"
Gotta admit, the man has a point... not much of one, but he has it.
Why the hell aren't we celebrating this, people? Okay, for DNS, it sucks... but look at it this way...
It doesn't matter if you set up your system to 'automaticly' share the files you just downloaded... people who accessed them did so without authorization. It can't be considered 'sharing' if you didn't authorize people to download them from you... could this ruling be a tool agaisnt the MAFIAA?
No, I think you had it right the first time.
Dammit, nobody told me we were supposed to be having a backlash against this game! I actually liked it and felt it was a fine bit of storytelling in a fun FPS, myself... next time, -tell me- when I'm not supposed to like a game! Next you'll tell me I was supposed to hate Kane & Lynch!
I mean, seriously, I can understand that books had chapters back when they had to hand-set every letter in a printing press and had to have some way of designating where to stop printing and bind the pages into a book, but we have things called 'printers' nowadays that can handle collation, printing, etc, much faster and more reliably. Why the heck do books need chapters? Personally, I enjoy books that go n and on and on and don't give me any indication that I've moved on to the next significant chunk of the storyline; it makes saving my progress with a bookmark so much more fun when I don't know if I'm past the good stuff or not yet...
Video Games don't need to get remade.
Let's take Super Mario Brothers. Now let's improve the graphics, the sound, tweak the controls to better fit today's control schemes, and what do you get?
Super Mario Brothers 3. Or Super Mario World. Or Mario 64. Or... you get the point.
Unlike movies, where sequels usually just continue the storyline from what came before, video game sequels (should, at least) add new stuff, improvements, updates, etc. If you want the 'Tomb Raider' experience, you play the most recent one. If you want the 'Civilization' experience, you play Civ 4. If you want a good FPS on your X-Box 360, you play the latest remake of Halo... they call it Halo 3.
And so on and so forth.
And it should be obvious to anyone who knows the company... upgrade to Vista, and you won't have to worry about repairing your XP installation anymore!
Who says this is an -unintended- side effect?
Can we please start ignoring Jack Thompson and not posting anything about him anymore? All you're doing is showing that someone cares about what he does. Ignore him and he'll wither and die, deprived of attention like a flower deprived of light and water.
Can you imagine a Beowulf of rack-mounted PS3s?