This is from a gamer point of view, so, take it for what it's worth(eg: xbox fanboys complaining about the development difficulty when they've never even seen an IDE).
No built in harddrive? No HDDVD/BluRay drive? Godawful game pads? No built in WiFi? ADVERTISING EVERYFUCKING WHERE!? (When the new Xbox360 dashboard drops and it's not trying to sell me Axe body spray when I'm pulling out the DVD for something else, I'll drop this fucking point. Nothing pisses me off like selling products to stinky people that only makes them stinkier.)
PS3 isn't perfect, it's horribly expensive, huge, and the BDROM is pretty slow for the amount of data on the disc, but it comes with WiFi, an HDD, an optical drive with capacities not from the 90's, and no advertising on the XMB. Some people don't like the DS3/SIXAXIS either, but that's a matter of personal taste.
While it does come down to games, when it comes to multiplatform titles like Street Fighter IV and Mirror's Edge, there's absolutely nothing that makes me think that the 360 version is superior.
Although when it comes down to SF4, atleast on the PS3, I can use any of the 3 USB arcade style joystick situations and not feel like i'm left in the cold.
it's not that I stuck with the PS3 because I "thought it would win." I bought a PS3 because I wanted to play Metal Gear Solid 4. I haven't had the urge to buy a 360 because there just aren't many games on it I really am dying to play save Guilty Gear Overture or maybe Ace Combat 6.
(Sorry, Gamer doesn't always mean frothing at the mouth Halo retard, WoW playing shut in, or Starcraft loony. Sometimes, some gamers want to play all of those annoying games on the shelf that aren't FPSes, MMOs, or Rock Band/GH. I even bought the US Beatmania bundle for god's sake).
Too bad the console isn't actually worth a damn. Between a DVD-only drive, locked down interface, limited support for USB devices, and optional harddrive, it's hard to imagine that the thing's worth developing for.
Yes, but Portal as released by Valve software wouldn't be the same Portal that came out with The Orange Box, particularly if GLaDOS was a text box instead of a fucked up voice in your head trying to kill you.
While MGS is primitive, MGS2, 3, 4, and the remake The Twin Snakes did use three dimensions to great effect.
Or more importantly funneled through legal methods of purchase. Why else do many guns used for crimes have to have their serial#s filed off? If they came from places like the eastern bloc or asia, they wouldn't *need* this.
The fed fixing the price of money isn't the problem, the problem is that the price of money is fixed on the idea that the market is going to do whatever is in the best interest of itself and those who work to prop it up, an idea Alan Greenspan got absolutely ridiculously wrong and idea he got from Ayn Rand.
Ayn Rand seems to think that Greed isn't really what most social commentators says it is, which is a driving personal selfish motivator to gather as much wealth power and resources out of some sort of odd paranoid desire to control everything, and is instead just simply self motivation and ignoring all of that crap about people who just want every damn thing they can get their hands on.
The problem here is greed and conservatism. Plain and simple. Cue the dot com bubble. Markets took a dive, housing was one of the last few hot investments, banks were selling homes like crazy and eventually got the go ahead to start selling loans to people who may not normally be able to make good on their loan agreements prompting banks packaging mortgages together that wouldn't normally pass the smell test as the "security" part of a group of credit derived securities. Since the housing market was hot, everyone assumed that these securities would be secure. They weren't, the rug got pulled out underneath a lot of people who were told to get this kind of loan, then it rippled through the financial sector. The SEC should've stepped in, stopped this bullshit and moved on. Regulators should've stopped the subprime mortage trend back when they were in full swing and people were buying homes they needed but thanks to an artificial housing bubble, couldn't necessarily afford. The problem was was that there wasn't anyone at the high levels of the SEC or HUD who were even remotely concerned about regulation. If the housing bubble wasn't even allowed to start in the first place, we wouldn't have this kind of catastrophic meltdown.
When you put a bunch of people in charge of Government who aren't entirely enthusiastic about Government, it takes a shit in it's own pants and blames everyone it can.
The Fed's credit policy sure did influence things, because it was run by a Randian idiot like Alan Greenspan(seeing as how most of the loans that tanked this nation were done during his watch, he's partially to blame), not because of the general concept of the fed itself. The reason why we even have a fed is that banking crises like the one we went through happened all the damn time and there was nothing to keep the currency flow sane. The Fed only works when there's someone operating the Federal Banking system who actually believes in a Federally regulated banking institution.
Credit exists for a reason. It's not just money that's thought up out of thin air, it's a promise to produce back into the market system that which you have taken, and a little more with the end result being that you get what you want, and the creditor gets what it wants and that's made through your own work and effort. It's turning kinetic and mental energy into cold, hard, cash. Like short term business loans. You're selling widgets, and Part A costs you $7 per unit, and you get a very large order in. Your widget makes a nice profit, and while you're not able to afford enough of Part A right now, if you could build and fulfill your order of widgets then you would be able to easily, and you take out a loan to cover that operating cost you can't cover from cold hard cash in your own reserves. You fulfill your order, you pay back your loan and everything is nice.
The real destruction of money is the stopping of this credit cycle. Being greedy and trying to make it impossible to pay back any sort of credit is what destroys the system, but in a regulated market, you DO get your money back AND a profit, but just not as much profit as you could've gotten if you strung along consumers trying to get as much out of them as you could have. Like ARMs, Adjustable Rate Mortgages. They don't think you can pay back the loan, but if yo
look at the sheer number of games released in the 80's and 90's, and you'll find that a lot of the ground breaking stuff was released pretty sporatically. Games NEEDED realism, or atleast, better graphics. Comparing the boss fights from Mega Man 1-6 to MegaMan 7 and 8? Or From 1-6 to X, Z, and ZX? Bigger screen real estate, better sprites, and 3D graphics *did* something for gaming. Portal wouldn't be Portal if it was a 2D platformer, Mirror's Edge would be no fun if it was top down. Metal Gear would be no fun if it started with:
"You are on Shadow Moses Island, you are being lifted up to the surface by a cargo elevator. You see several guards and you are armed with a SOCOM Mk.23 pistol."
> Use gun on man"
there is unique flavor with 2D gaming, and while it's gone, it's not gone forever. Braid, LBP, and any number of platformers, fighters, shooters or puzzle games that have come out in the last 12 years since the original PlayStation was launched really prove that. I mean, Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix is slated for this month! Street Fighter 4! King of Fighters 12, Raiden 4, Mushihime-sama, and god knows how many other "old school" style games are being released with with modern twists. SSF2THDR is getting a 1080p make over, KOFXII is 1080p and so is SF4(which is also 3D rendered on a 2D plane with 2D game mechanics), etc.
Constitution: Main body: President of senate breaks ties in the senate, 14th Amendment: President of senate counts electoral college votes. Main body: VP is president of senate unless incapacitated.
We're not talking about *historically* which was the case until the late 19th century, but now the rules of the senate have stripped all power from the VP in the senate to basically "counts electoral votes" (14th Amendment) and "breaks ties in senate." The day to day duties Joe's going to do in the senate if he wins? Break ties in the senate. Atleast officially. He's got immense influence over other senators and him being a senator himself...
When asked what the VP does, Sarah Palin got it wrong(Leads the senate), Joe Biden got it right in ONE SENTENCE(He breaks ties in the senate). Which, I'll admit, is rare for him.
Joe biden's a gaffe machine but he's also CORRECT WHEN ASKED DIRECT QUESTIONS. It's not that I started watching the general election thinking Palin was an idiot, but really, c'mon? I'll take Crazy over stupid any day of the week.
Even better is when I hear right wing christians complain about not being able to be compete on the world stage in math and science then out the other side of their mouths yell about intelligent design.
You forget, these tend to be the same kinds of people who claim that homeopathic remedies beat out modern "allopathy" and insist that accupuncture actually does something. Oh, and autism is caused by vaccines.
Wii: About 250 bucks and not a hassle to set up. Running twilight princess hacks versus running install and updates of a general OS, either Linux or Windows, that you have to take care of with constant tweaks, upgrades and OS patches? NO thanks. I'll just hack the Wii.
I agree with the recall, not because of the fact that it's Arabic, and from the Quran, but because I really don't think that a game like LBP should have music about death and infidels. Kind of puts a weird spin on the whole console "war" thing doesn't it?
yeah but the scene from the future where he's interacting with present Peter? I mean that scene was fantastic. I really dont' care when shows copy other movies or shows, this is clearly a copy of The Fly or god knows whatever comic book storyline, but it's compelling to me due to the character interactions.
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This is from a gamer point of view, so, take it for what it's worth(eg: xbox fanboys complaining about the development difficulty when they've never even seen an IDE).
No built in harddrive? No HDDVD/BluRay drive? Godawful game pads? No built in WiFi? ADVERTISING EVERYFUCKING WHERE!? (When the new Xbox360 dashboard drops and it's not trying to sell me Axe body spray when I'm pulling out the DVD for something else, I'll drop this fucking point. Nothing pisses me off like selling products to stinky people that only makes them stinkier.)
PS3 isn't perfect, it's horribly expensive, huge, and the BDROM is pretty slow for the amount of data on the disc, but it comes with WiFi, an HDD, an optical drive with capacities not from the 90's, and no advertising on the XMB. Some people don't like the DS3/SIXAXIS either, but that's a matter of personal taste.
While it does come down to games, when it comes to multiplatform titles like Street Fighter IV and Mirror's Edge, there's absolutely nothing that makes me think that the 360 version is superior.
Although when it comes down to SF4, atleast on the PS3, I can use any of the 3 USB arcade style joystick situations and not feel like i'm left in the cold.
it's not that I stuck with the PS3 because I "thought it would win." I bought a PS3 because I wanted to play Metal Gear Solid 4. I haven't had the urge to buy a 360 because there just aren't many games on it I really am dying to play save Guilty Gear Overture or maybe Ace Combat 6.
(Sorry, Gamer doesn't always mean frothing at the mouth Halo retard, WoW playing shut in, or Starcraft loony. Sometimes, some gamers want to play all of those annoying games on the shelf that aren't FPSes, MMOs, or Rock Band/GH. I even bought the US Beatmania bundle for god's sake).
Am I the only one who reads this and thinks that even with microsoft strictly controlling this, this is a possible spawning ground for malware?
"no more open?"
Darwin's source is out in the wild thanks to Apple.
Too bad the console isn't actually worth a damn. Between a DVD-only drive, locked down interface, limited support for USB devices, and optional harddrive, it's hard to imagine that the thing's worth developing for.
Had Valve released that with The Orange Box, gamers would've strung Gabe Newell by his toes and hung him out to dry.
Yes, but Portal as released by Valve software wouldn't be the same Portal that came out with The Orange Box, particularly if GLaDOS was a text box instead of a fucked up voice in your head trying to kill you.
While MGS is primitive, MGS2, 3, 4, and the remake The Twin Snakes did use three dimensions to great effect.
Or more importantly funneled through legal methods of purchase. Why else do many guns used for crimes have to have their serial#s filed off? If they came from places like the eastern bloc or asia, they wouldn't *need* this.
The fed fixing the price of money isn't the problem, the problem is that the price of money is fixed on the idea that the market is going to do whatever is in the best interest of itself and those who work to prop it up, an idea Alan Greenspan got absolutely ridiculously wrong and idea he got from Ayn Rand.
Ayn Rand seems to think that Greed isn't really what most social commentators says it is, which is a driving personal selfish motivator to gather as much wealth power and resources out of some sort of odd paranoid desire to control everything, and is instead just simply self motivation and ignoring all of that crap about people who just want every damn thing they can get their hands on.
The problem here is greed and conservatism. Plain and simple. Cue the dot com bubble. Markets took a dive, housing was one of the last few hot investments, banks were selling homes like crazy and eventually got the go ahead to start selling loans to people who may not normally be able to make good on their loan agreements prompting banks packaging mortgages together that wouldn't normally pass the smell test as the "security" part of a group of credit derived securities. Since the housing market was hot, everyone assumed that these securities would be secure. They weren't, the rug got pulled out underneath a lot of people who were told to get this kind of loan, then it rippled through the financial sector. The SEC should've stepped in, stopped this bullshit and moved on. Regulators should've stopped the subprime mortage trend back when they were in full swing and people were buying homes they needed but thanks to an artificial housing bubble, couldn't necessarily afford. The problem was was that there wasn't anyone at the high levels of the SEC or HUD who were even remotely concerned about regulation. If the housing bubble wasn't even allowed to start in the first place, we wouldn't have this kind of catastrophic meltdown.
When you put a bunch of people in charge of Government who aren't entirely enthusiastic about Government, it takes a shit in it's own pants and blames everyone it can.
The Fed's credit policy sure did influence things, because it was run by a Randian idiot like Alan Greenspan(seeing as how most of the loans that tanked this nation were done during his watch, he's partially to blame), not because of the general concept of the fed itself. The reason why we even have a fed is that banking crises like the one we went through happened all the damn time and there was nothing to keep the currency flow sane. The Fed only works when there's someone operating the Federal Banking system who actually believes in a Federally regulated banking institution.
Credit exists for a reason. It's not just money that's thought up out of thin air, it's a promise to produce back into the market system that which you have taken, and a little more with the end result being that you get what you want, and the creditor gets what it wants and that's made through your own work and effort. It's turning kinetic and mental energy into cold, hard, cash. Like short term business loans. You're selling widgets, and Part A costs you $7 per unit, and you get a very large order in. Your widget makes a nice profit, and while you're not able to afford enough of Part A right now, if you could build and fulfill your order of widgets then you would be able to easily, and you take out a loan to cover that operating cost you can't cover from cold hard cash in your own reserves. You fulfill your order, you pay back your loan and everything is nice.
The real destruction of money is the stopping of this credit cycle. Being greedy and trying to make it impossible to pay back any sort of credit is what destroys the system, but in a regulated market, you DO get your money back AND a profit, but just not as much profit as you could've gotten if you strung along consumers trying to get as much out of them as you could have. Like ARMs, Adjustable Rate Mortgages. They don't think you can pay back the loan, but if yo
look at the sheer number of games released in the 80's and 90's, and you'll find that a lot of the ground breaking stuff was released pretty sporatically. Games NEEDED realism, or atleast, better graphics. Comparing the boss fights from Mega Man 1-6 to MegaMan 7 and 8? Or From 1-6 to X, Z, and ZX? Bigger screen real estate, better sprites, and 3D graphics *did* something for gaming. Portal wouldn't be Portal if it was a 2D platformer, Mirror's Edge would be no fun if it was top down. Metal Gear would be no fun if it started with:
"You are on Shadow Moses Island, you are being lifted up to the surface by a cargo elevator. You see several guards and you are armed with a SOCOM Mk.23 pistol."
> Use gun on man"
there is unique flavor with 2D gaming, and while it's gone, it's not gone forever. Braid, LBP, and any number of platformers, fighters, shooters or puzzle games that have come out in the last 12 years since the original PlayStation was launched really prove that. I mean, Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix is slated for this month! Street Fighter 4! King of Fighters 12, Raiden 4, Mushihime-sama, and god knows how many other "old school" style games are being released with with modern twists. SSF2THDR is getting a 1080p make over, KOFXII is 1080p and so is SF4(which is also 3D rendered on a 2D plane with 2D game mechanics), etc.
uhm, wages have stayed flatter than the growth of inflation and that IS bad.
you mean like when Colin Powell said that?
Picking Biden was his first decent act. Out of all the people he *could* have chosen from the party...
Constitution: Main body: President of senate breaks ties in the senate, 14th Amendment: President of senate counts electoral college votes. Main body: VP is president of senate unless incapacitated.
We're not talking about *historically* which was the case until the late 19th century, but now the rules of the senate have stripped all power from the VP in the senate to basically "counts electoral votes" (14th Amendment) and "breaks ties in senate." The day to day duties Joe's going to do in the senate if he wins? Break ties in the senate. Atleast officially. He's got immense influence over other senators and him being a senator himself...
When asked what the VP does, Sarah Palin got it wrong(Leads the senate), Joe Biden got it right in ONE SENTENCE(He breaks ties in the senate). Which, I'll admit, is rare for him.
Joe biden's a gaffe machine but he's also CORRECT WHEN ASKED DIRECT QUESTIONS. It's not that I started watching the general election thinking Palin was an idiot, but really, c'mon? I'll take Crazy over stupid any day of the week.
Even better is when I hear right wing christians complain about not being able to be compete on the world stage in math and science then out the other side of their mouths yell about intelligent design.
what.
You forget, these tend to be the same kinds of people who claim that homeopathic remedies beat out modern "allopathy" and insist that accupuncture actually does something. Oh, and autism is caused by vaccines.
But not like a truck?
cheap PC: Maybe 200 bucks and a hassle to set up
Wii: About 250 bucks and not a hassle to set up. Running twilight princess hacks versus running install and updates of a general OS, either Linux or Windows, that you have to take care of with constant tweaks, upgrades and OS patches? NO thanks. I'll just hack the Wii.
Most people who buy macbooks are people who are buying machines they can do notes and IM from school or other trivial non techie tasks.
I'd say if a portable mac was mission critical anyway, why are you skimping on costs? Get something loads more CPU and RAM.
i guess I'm not just as funny as i thought I was.
I agree with the recall, not because of the fact that it's Arabic, and from the Quran, but because I really don't think that a game like LBP should have music about death and infidels. Kind of puts a weird spin on the whole console "war" thing doesn't it?
yeah but the scene from the future where he's interacting with present Peter? I mean that scene was fantastic. I really dont' care when shows copy other movies or shows, this is clearly a copy of The Fly or god knows whatever comic book storyline, but it's compelling to me due to the character interactions.
but considering that Kumar is spending his time now helping Dr. house do diagnostic medicine... Yeah, I can see it.