I read this on another site. Apparently they were asking if you would move to a Zune, but if you would _consider_ moving. That casts it in an entirely different light. Hell, I'm a pretty big Mac fan, and I'd consider moving to the Zune.... if it played movies I downloaded off the internet, had 50 hours of battery life, a 100gb drive and cost $80. And I'm sure a lot of owners don't know the speicifics of the Zune, they were just asked "would you consider getting a Microsoft MP3 player". And most of them said "yeah, why not". This is far from the slam dunk that it seems.
Try again. The reason Y2K originally existed was a combination of several factors: 1) I won't be here in 30 years 2) Neither will this application, OS, CPU, architecture, etc
and that's all most non-technies every think of. However, the reality for a lot of this was 3) If I leave off the two bytes, that's a lot (relatively speaking) of space I'm saving.
I remember reading an article at one point that said that if the money saved on disk space, memory, tape, etc had been compounded at x% interest, the resulting money would've far outstripped the amount of money paid to fix the problem. However, companies didn't save the money, and so all the squawking when 1998 came about.
You make it seem as if this was deliberate. YES. It was deliberately done to save money on computer hardware. Now, there are exceptions that fall into #1 & #2 above, but you're talking about the old systems.
Since, for us RPG folk (and yes, GW does count) NWN and GW:N are coming out 4 days apart. Followed by Gothic 3 sometime in the fall, as well as Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. (Oh, and can't forget Sam & Max, but that's not an RPG)
Me? I'm getting NWN2 the day it comes out, and when I finish it (and start waiting for mods from Stefan Gagne (Penultima, Penultima Rerolled), Adam Miller [Shadowlords, Dreamcatcher], etc ) I'll get GW:N, which ought to have the "opening day" bugs worked out. It's a good time to be an RPG fan.
I think thats where alot of the hot coffee trouble started. If it was actually a mod, like CS, then they would be attacking the people who made the mod, rather than going after the software designers who created the game.
Not so. See Oblivion, which got changed to M even though they took the 3-D models and replaced the skins. The "nudity" was never in the game, but the ESRB still forced it to be pulled and relabeled.
There is going to be a great deal of consumer confusion and backlash when people find out that the Microsoft-DRM music they have purchased won't play back on their Microsoft Zune device.
And, if Microsoft is willing to ditch their own standard, who's to say they won't ditch the Zune standard in 5 years, making whatever music you buy unplayable once your Zune dies?
"Widgets" didn't originate in Mac OSX. I was using Konfabulator (now owned by Yahoo) Widgets in both Windows and OSX before 'Widgets" were part of the OS in either.
The first place I saw widgets were in the NeXTStep OS, circa 1993. Mac OS X was not the originator, but it's what popularized it.
There's this nifty thing on the blackberry. It's called a PASSWORD. When I pull mine out, it asks for a password. The holster already has a sensor - it's what allows two different modes of rings, one behavior in-holster, one out-of-holster. (default behavior - buzz if in the holster, ring if out)
And, like someone else mentioned, you CAN disable them remotely. Found _that_ out the hard way.:(
Anyhow, a total non-starter. All they need is some sort of setting (maybe it already exists) that if you drop your blackberry in the holster, it auto-locks.
Besides - they don't care about the data, 99% of the time. They just want to pawn the device.
Serious question - was telling my wife about these, and she mentioned how they still hum (which I'm sensitive to), they cause/worsen her migraines, and that some people (not us) are sensitive to flicker.
Mostly I respond to posts like the GGP because it's a common insurance myth In one of the videos on bumping that's floating around (the TV news report, fwiw), they interview a German locksmith. He says that because there's no sign of entry, (German) insurance companies wouldn't pay.
Tracking said it would do roughly what it did - average for a mid-August-horror-release. It's simply that we all thought it would do well, because everyone we know knew about it. Watch the Daily Show's interview - everyone there probably went to see it. Guess what - they were the demographic anyhow. I think the name may have alienated some viewers, but it wouldn't have gotten people like me - I hate horror films, I went solely to participate. It was gorier than I would have liked, but a fun time was had by all 10 of us in the theater.
I think this counts as the "Howard Dean effect". Prior to one of the primaries, everyone thought he'd come in first, because he had this huge internet buzz. Turns out it didn't matter. Even if it's all of us techno-geeks, we're still a small percentage of the populace.
Not to be a sh*t, but your grammar/spelling needs work. If you're a non-native speaker, it's pretty good, but if you are a native English-speaker, you really should work on it.
incorrect: "would half to be spam" correct: "would have to be spam" incorrect: "build of a real time black list" correct: "build off a real-time blacklist" incorrect: "if anyone has ever do that" correct: "if anyone has ever done that"
Gee, how nice that they're going to offer WiMax. Meanwhile, my window-facing cube in an office building downtown gets 1 bar, if I'm lucky. Sprint's ability to manage the calls it already has is horrific - how does this help? New frequency, same crappy coverage?
"Developer Silicon Knights' psychological thriller Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem [...]travels gamers through the depths of time and challenges them to complete quests using a dozen different characters[...]GameCube"
It's apparently some sort of Alone In The Dark survival horror thing, on the Gamecube.
USA networks (ugh) puts huge "Monk" or "The Closer" banner ads right over the bottom right corner of the program you're watching. Don't watch the first showing - last time I looked, they only do it for the prime time showing - the late night ones are fine.
Wow. 130k a year, and you still missed the point of what he's talking about
1) Why do you need a new engine? 8-10 people? Cripes. Network code? It's a frickin adventure game. License the SCUMM engine or something similar.
2) Yes, the assets are the biggest expense. No, they're still not 500k. We're talking a pretty basic game - especially if you have a old engine, support should be minimal (game help lines don't count). Assets are pretty simple - you're not doing 2d/3d modelling, you're doing old SCUMM 2D graphics. Audio, soundtrack - these can be outsourced. Honestly, I'd say you need 3-5 people, 1 year development time. And not all of them need to be paid 130k a year. I'd be surprised if any did, really.
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if Shadowrun's going to suck as much as all of us anticipate?
I read this on another site. Apparently they were asking if you would move to a Zune, but if you would _consider_ moving. That casts it in an entirely different light. Hell, I'm a pretty big Mac fan, and I'd consider moving to the Zune.... if it played movies I downloaded off the internet, had 50 hours of battery life, a 100gb drive and cost $80. And I'm sure a lot of owners don't know the speicifics of the Zune, they were just asked "would you consider getting a Microsoft MP3 player". And most of them said "yeah, why not". This is far from the slam dunk that it seems.
Try again. The reason Y2K originally existed was a combination of several factors:
1) I won't be here in 30 years
2) Neither will this application, OS, CPU, architecture, etc
and that's all most non-technies every think of. However, the reality for a lot of this was
3) If I leave off the two bytes, that's a lot (relatively speaking) of space I'm saving.
I remember reading an article at one point that said that if the money saved on disk space, memory, tape, etc had been compounded at x% interest, the resulting money would've far outstripped the amount of money paid to fix the problem. However, companies didn't save the money, and so all the squawking when 1998 came about.
You make it seem as if this was deliberate. YES. It was deliberately done to save money on computer hardware. Now, there are exceptions that fall into #1 & #2 above, but you're talking about the old systems.
Hey, I haven't seen anything that funny on Bash in a while. So that's not fair to bash. ;)
Hell - if MS is going to CHARGE you to WATCH an advertisement, then the following quote seems even more apt than before:
"The American public knows what it wants. And it deserves to get it....good and hard." - H.L.Mencken
As for me - if I have to PAY to get interested in your product? Then keep your ad, keep your product, and choke on it.
Since, for us RPG folk (and yes, GW does count) NWN and GW:N are coming out 4 days apart. Followed by Gothic 3 sometime in the fall, as well as Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. (Oh, and can't forget Sam & Max, but that's not an RPG)
Me? I'm getting NWN2 the day it comes out, and when I finish it (and start waiting for mods from Stefan Gagne (Penultima, Penultima Rerolled), Adam Miller [Shadowlords, Dreamcatcher], etc ) I'll get GW:N, which ought to have the "opening day" bugs worked out. It's a good time to be an RPG fan.
I think thats where alot of the hot coffee trouble started. If it was actually a mod, like CS, then they would be attacking the people who made the mod, rather than going after the software designers who created the game.
Not so. See Oblivion, which got changed to M even though they took the 3-D models and replaced the skins. The "nudity" was never in the game, but the ESRB still forced it to be pulled and relabeled.
Here's the reference (parts of it are on bash.org, but this had several others I hadn't read):http://www.adamchance.com/funny.htm
Yes, but technically the first word is "okay". "Okay.....Houston, Tranquility Base here[...]"
There is going to be a great deal of consumer confusion and backlash when people find out that the Microsoft-DRM music they have purchased won't play back on their Microsoft Zune device.
And, if Microsoft is willing to ditch their own standard, who's to say they won't ditch the Zune standard in 5 years, making whatever music you buy unplayable once your Zune dies?
and just buy a Wii? I already have a games machine (my PC), I'm at least somewhat interested in getting a console. Why the hell would I want 2?
"Widgets" didn't originate in Mac OSX. I was using Konfabulator (now owned by Yahoo) Widgets in both Windows and OSX before 'Widgets" were part of the OS in either.
The first place I saw widgets were in the NeXTStep OS, circa 1993. Mac OS X was not the originator, but it's what popularized it.
Indeed! Thanks.
There's this nifty thing on the blackberry. It's called a PASSWORD. When I pull mine out, it asks for a password. The holster already has a sensor - it's what allows two different modes of rings, one behavior in-holster, one out-of-holster. (default behavior - buzz if in the holster, ring if out)
:(
And, like someone else mentioned, you CAN disable them remotely. Found _that_ out the hard way.
Anyhow, a total non-starter. All they need is some sort of setting (maybe it already exists) that if you drop your blackberry in the holster, it auto-locks.
Besides - they don't care about the data, 99% of the time. They just want to pawn the device.
Serious question - was telling my wife about these, and she mentioned how they still hum (which I'm sensitive to), they cause/worsen her migraines, and that some people (not us) are sensitive to flicker.
Are these better now?
Mostly I respond to posts like the GGP because it's a common insurance myth
In one of the videos on bumping that's floating around (the TV news report, fwiw), they interview a German locksmith. He says that because there's no sign of entry, (German) insurance companies wouldn't pay.
love your sig.
Be seeing you...
Tracking said it would do roughly what it did - average for a mid-August-horror-release. It's simply that we all thought it would do well, because everyone we know knew about it. Watch the Daily Show's interview - everyone there probably went to see it. Guess what - they were the demographic anyhow. I think the name may have alienated some viewers, but it wouldn't have gotten people like me - I hate horror films, I went solely to participate. It was gorier than I would have liked, but a fun time was had by all 10 of us in the theater.
I think this counts as the "Howard Dean effect". Prior to one of the primaries, everyone thought he'd come in first, because he had this huge internet buzz. Turns out it didn't matter. Even if it's all of us techno-geeks, we're still a small percentage of the populace.
Not to be a sh*t, but your grammar/spelling needs work. If you're a non-native speaker, it's pretty good, but if you are a native English-speaker, you really should work on it.
incorrect: "would half to be spam"
correct: "would have to be spam"
incorrect: "build of a real time black list"
correct: "build off a real-time blacklist"
incorrect: "if anyone has ever do that"
correct: "if anyone has ever done that"
Go watch the video. Then say it doesn't look that bad. I'd say don't watch, since it's pretty damn bad, but what the hell. You earned it. Go wild.
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http://xbox360movies.ign.com/xbox360/video/articl
Gee, how nice that they're going to offer WiMax. Meanwhile, my window-facing cube in an office building downtown gets 1 bar, if I'm lucky. Sprint's ability to manage the calls it already has is horrific - how does this help? New frequency, same crappy coverage?
Argo? Not.
Ya know, it helps if people are familiar with whatever the heck you're talking about, when you mention some sort of sequel.
http://cube.ign.com/articles/363/363071p1.html
"Developer Silicon Knights' psychological thriller Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem [...]travels gamers through the depths of time and challenges them to complete quests using a dozen different characters[...]GameCube"
It's apparently some sort of Alone In The Dark survival horror thing, on the Gamecube.
USA networks (ugh) puts huge "Monk" or "The Closer" banner ads right over the bottom right corner of the program you're watching.
Don't watch the first showing - last time I looked, they only do it for the prime time showing - the late night ones are fine.
Wow. 130k a year, and you still missed the point of what he's talking about
1) Why do you need a new engine? 8-10 people? Cripes. Network code? It's a frickin adventure game. License the SCUMM engine or something similar.
2) Yes, the assets are the biggest expense. No, they're still not 500k. We're talking a pretty basic game - especially if you have a old engine, support should be minimal (game help lines don't count). Assets are pretty simple - you're not doing 2d/3d modelling, you're doing old SCUMM 2D graphics. Audio, soundtrack - these can be outsourced. Honestly, I'd say you need 3-5 people, 1 year development time. And not all of them need to be paid 130k a year. I'd be surprised if any did, really.