Please point out what FEDGOV agency is doing this promoting? In the USA, it's mainly the corps doing the promoting and isn't most of the promotion in English?
And besides, if we are as bad as you think we are why does your country keep allowing us to enter to visit those tourist sites?
If I go to a foreign country, to a site that is promoted by the tourism boards of that country in the USA, then I damn well expect them to be able to understand basic english. If that pisses you off, please have your goverments stop advertizing/promoting your country in English, in the USA. But you like the money us BAD Americans bring in so you will just keep bitching.
So what? Most of the people on the net today can read at least some English. I fail to see what language 400,000,000 chinese farmers with out net access speak in has any bearing on this.
A large % of the people who buy these things don't take all the precautions that you mentioned. I am worried about the idiots who think turning it into a fish tank is a GOOD IDEA.
Oh yeah, one last thing, the collent system in your car is a closed loop system, this is an open loop system.
Micron makes their own RAM. Here is ONE of their fabs, go to micron.com for a complet list.
Manassas, Virginia
Micron's state-of-the-art semiconductor manufacturing facility in Manassas, Virginia, is located approximately 35 miles from Washington D.C. The Virginia plant, Fab 6, is Micron's flagship 300mm manufacturing facility and is representative of the future of Micron semiconductor manufacturing. Currently, Fab 6 is going through qualification and aggressively ramping production.
IOW, you can't respond to what I say so you just block it. It's cowardly, but then again it's your right to be a coward.
I just find it funny/sad that that our elected officials think that games are more of a threat to kids than kids, with out having to notify their parents or a judge, having their babies killed.
Games = BAD Abortion = GOOD
Now if you will excuse me, I have to get back to the D&D maps I am working on and turn up the metal I am listing to. Hell, later tonight I think I will have a drink. (Opps, there goes what you thought about me right out the window);->
Please tell the urban stations in my area that they are 'closet racists' because they use the word thug (you might want to tell the artists they play also).
Let me know when you wish to go, I want to get it on film.
No, it's about how to sell lots of CD's, clothing, cars, and other high margin items to a 'new' demographic. THAT is what hip-hop is about, it didn't start out that way, but that is what it is now.
What happens when this thing fails? Bye bye computer? I fail to see why people are so interested in liquid cooling or is it just the overclockers who use open loop liquid cooling like this?
They can't collect data in the USA, they do have data sharing agreements with other countries so, if they need to, they just 'review' the other countries take.
The next fool to attempt a thread hijacking with something that has *nothing* to do with the subject - even if its just one line - will be banned without warning.
I don't effing care if you buy the game, today, tomorrow, next week, one year later or ever. Just don't tell me about it. What you do with your gaming dollars is your goddamn problem; not mine.
The discrepancies on the BCM Gold sales stands at at staggering 62% shortfall. Once the legal briefing is filed in Canadian courts, I will ensure that they are not sealed and urge my attorneys to make the game deal points, LOI, LOI extension, contract drafts, final contract, royalty statements and indeed the projected corrected one they sent back in December, a matter of record. This will permit me to post them online verbatim.
No, I can't talk about it because like most issues such as this, the settlement terms are highly confidential (a DC requirement). Outside of our attorneys, the company primaries and the judge, nobody knows - or will know - the details.
If DC is district court, isn't he lying? It would be up to both parties involved as to the release of the terms of the settlement/agreement, would it not?
When Battlecruiser 3000 A.D. is dead and gone (and within a week of release it was on a fast track to oblivion), one question will linger: Could it have been a good game?
Was its creator's dreams and promises of a realistic, dynamic game universe where you could roam at will in a large ship, finding adventure, managing a complex crew, conducting ground warfare, and engaging in space combat, ever for real? Or were they just wishes sculpted in Jell-o?
We will probably never know. Battlecruiser 3000 A.D. is now out, and as one of the games with the longest development periods in computer history (seven years), it will go down in legend as the most bug-ridden, unstable, unplayable pieces of software ever released. (And, yes, I'm counting Falcon 3.0 and Patriot.) Who exactly is to blame is a subject for another time and place, but it is sufficient to point out that Dr. Derek Smart said a year ago that the game was "done except for the manual" and turned in his code to Take 2, who were supposed to test and refine this code graphically and then publish it. Neither of them is immune from culpability in this farce. Maybe they deserve each other.
Battlecruiser 3000 A.D. was planned as a universe simulator, without any real gameplay in the conventional sense, just a world to explore in a large starship that carried several smaller, faster fighter craft. Realizing that this was an unfulfilling structure for a game, the developers added a mission-based campaign, so that you actually have objectives and some sort of narrative. In the end, BC3K shipped with three modes of play: "Xtreme Carnage" is a jump-in action mode, Advanced Campaign Mode is a series of linked missions, and Free Flight is the free-range storyless mode in which you wander the galaxy looking for trouble.
According to the hype, BC3K offers an exciting array of new features. With a set of systems - including a bridge view, a tacops screen, a navigation mode, and various screens which process and provide information - you can travel to different star systems, scan planet surfaces, send out shuttles and fighter craft, interact with aliens and distant empires, and conduct landing missions and ground combat with jet-pack-equipped space marines.
Well, that was the plan. Little of it actually works, however. First, the game crashes constantly, more than any game I have ever played. Almost any action you perform will cause the program to go south. I didn't know what half the functions were or how to use them. Most of them don't work: going into orbit around a planet, using jump points, navigating to distant star systems, docking, and so on; the list is long. Objects pass through other objects. Ships don't do what they're told. Equipment won't work. I won't even go into the alleged ground combat mode because I couldn't make heads or tails of it, never got it to work, and haven't been able to find anyone who can even tell me if it's even in the game or not. Best of all, the campaign can't be played past the second mission, which is structured in such a way that it cannot possibly ever end.
All of this is made a thousand times worse by a manual that is more like an un-manual. If I fed my dog a set of Scrabble tiles he could have crapped a better manual. Online information only clouds the issue, with a long, rambling set of designer notes from Derek Smart that make him look like a charter member of the Jodie Foster Fan Club (John Hinkley Chapter). Take 2 is promising a replacement manual (as well as extensive bug fixes) for all registered users some time soon, but by then it will be too late. Right out of the box BC3K is the single most impenetrable game since Patriot.
The whole debacle is only aggravated by a core design that, even if properly documented and tested, was flawed from the outset. There is too much going on in too many places, and none of it is well-crafted. A messy network of screens, pop-up boxes, and function keys make managing even the most rudimentary functions a chore. Nothing is smoothly integrated or in
I didn't think it was possible, but he is worse than Theo (OpenBSD).
My goodness, he appears to have a chip on his sholder about 1000 miles wide and IIRC didn't it take years for BC 3000 AD to be patched enough to have the features listed on the back of the box?
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If you used a few more caps and periods I would think I was talking to 'dr' smart.
Damn, you caught me! I was trying to be sneaky, what gave me away? Was it the URL at the bottom of the post showing were it came from?
Please point out what FEDGOV agency is doing this promoting? In the USA, it's mainly the corps doing the promoting and isn't most of the promotion in English?
And besides, if we are as bad as you think we are why does your country keep allowing us to enter to visit those tourist sites?
If I go to a foreign country, to a site that is promoted by the tourism boards of that country in the USA, then I damn well expect them to be able to understand basic english. If that pisses you off, please have your goverments stop advertizing/promoting your country in English, in the USA. But you like the money us BAD Americans bring in so you will just keep bitching.
So what? Most of the people on the net today can read at least some English. I fail to see what language 400,000,000 chinese farmers with out net access speak in has any bearing on this.
What type of uplink do they have? Could the be used as part of an xgrid setup?
A large % of the people who buy these things don't take all the precautions that you mentioned. I am worried about the idiots who think turning it into a fish tank is a GOOD IDEA.
Oh yeah, one last thing, the collent system in your car is a closed loop system, this is an open loop system.
Something tells me the number of students with systems that run windows is much higher than the number of students with an ipod.
Micron makes their own RAM. Here is ONE of their fabs, go to micron.com for a complet list.
Manassas, Virginia
Micron's state-of-the-art semiconductor manufacturing facility in Manassas, Virginia, is located approximately 35 miles from Washington D.C. The Virginia plant, Fab 6, is Micron's flagship 300mm manufacturing facility and is representative of the future of Micron semiconductor manufacturing. Currently, Fab 6 is going through qualification and aggressively ramping production.
Nah, they will tune if if something happens but that will not help. The nets don't show ads during terror attack coverage.
IOW, you can't respond to what I say so you just block it. It's cowardly, but then again it's your right to be a coward.
;->
I just find it funny/sad that that our elected officials think that games are more of a threat to kids than kids, with out having to notify their parents or a judge, having their babies killed.
Games = BAD
Abortion = GOOD
Now if you will excuse me, I have to get back to the D&D maps I am working on and turn up the metal I am listing to. Hell, later tonight I think I will have a drink. (Opps, there goes what you thought about me right out the window)
Please tell the urban stations in my area that they are 'closet racists' because they use the word thug (you might want to tell the artists they play also).
Let me know when you wish to go, I want to get it on film.
No, it's about how to sell lots of CD's, clothing, cars, and other high margin items to a 'new' demographic. THAT is what hip-hop is about, it didn't start out that way, but that is what it is now.
That isn't H2O, it is Flurinert, and it is rather expensive.
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No, my motherboard shuts off the system to save the processor. It doesn't leak water over the CPU(s) and motherboard.
One is just a LITTLE worse than the other.
What happens when this thing fails? Bye bye computer? I fail to see why people are so interested in liquid cooling or is it just the overclockers who use open loop liquid cooling like this?
They can't collect data in the USA, they do have data sharing agreements with other countries so, if they need to, they just 'review' the other countries take.
That I was mistaken. Opps.
The next fool to attempt a thread hijacking with something that has *nothing* to do with the subject - even if its just one line - will be banned without warning.
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I don't effing care if you buy the game, today, tomorrow, next week, one year later or ever. Just don't tell me about it. What you do with your gaming dollars is your goddamn problem; not mine.
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The discrepancies on the BCM Gold sales stands at at staggering 62% shortfall. Once the legal briefing is filed in Canadian courts, I will ensure that they are not sealed and urge my attorneys to make the game deal points, LOI, LOI extension, contract drafts, final contract, royalty statements and indeed the projected corrected one they sent back in December, a matter of record. This will permit me to post them online verbatim.
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No, I can't talk about it because like most issues such as this, the settlement terms are highly confidential (a DC requirement). Outside of our attorneys, the company primaries and the judge, nobody knows - or will know - the details.
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If DC is district court, isn't he lying? It would be up to both parties involved as to the release of the terms of the settlement/agreement, would it not?
When Battlecruiser 3000 A.D. is dead and gone (and within a week of release it was on a fast track to oblivion), one question will linger: Could it have been a good game?
Was its creator's dreams and promises of a realistic, dynamic game universe where you could roam at will in a large ship, finding adventure, managing a complex crew, conducting ground warfare, and engaging in space combat, ever for real? Or were they just wishes sculpted in Jell-o?
We will probably never know. Battlecruiser 3000 A.D. is now out, and as one of the games with the longest development periods in computer history (seven years), it will go down in legend as the most bug-ridden, unstable, unplayable pieces of software ever released. (And, yes, I'm counting Falcon 3.0 and Patriot.) Who exactly is to blame is a subject for another time and place, but it is sufficient to point out that Dr. Derek Smart said a year ago that the game was "done except for the manual" and turned in his code to Take 2, who were supposed to test and refine this code graphically and then publish it. Neither of them is immune from culpability in this farce. Maybe they deserve each other.
Battlecruiser 3000 A.D. was planned as a universe simulator, without any real gameplay in the conventional sense, just a world to explore in a large starship that carried several smaller, faster fighter craft. Realizing that this was an unfulfilling structure for a game, the developers added a mission-based campaign, so that you actually have objectives and some sort of narrative. In the end, BC3K shipped with three modes of play: "Xtreme Carnage" is a jump-in action mode, Advanced Campaign Mode is a series of linked missions, and Free Flight is the free-range storyless mode in which you wander the galaxy looking for trouble.
According to the hype, BC3K offers an exciting array of new features. With a set of systems - including a bridge view, a tacops screen, a navigation mode, and various screens which process and provide information - you can travel to different star systems, scan planet surfaces, send out shuttles and fighter craft, interact with aliens and distant empires, and conduct landing missions and ground combat with jet-pack-equipped space marines.
Well, that was the plan. Little of it actually works, however. First, the game crashes constantly, more than any game I have ever played. Almost any action you perform will cause the program to go south. I didn't know what half the functions were or how to use them. Most of them don't work: going into orbit around a planet, using jump points, navigating to distant star systems, docking, and so on; the list is long. Objects pass through other objects. Ships don't do what they're told. Equipment won't work. I won't even go into the alleged ground combat mode because I couldn't make heads or tails of it, never got it to work, and haven't been able to find anyone who can even tell me if it's even in the game or not. Best of all, the campaign can't be played past the second mission, which is structured in such a way that it cannot possibly ever end.
All of this is made a thousand times worse by a manual that is more like an un-manual. If I fed my dog a set of Scrabble tiles he could have crapped a better manual. Online information only clouds the issue, with a long, rambling set of designer notes from Derek Smart that make him look like a charter member of the Jodie Foster Fan Club (John Hinkley Chapter). Take 2 is promising a replacement manual (as well as extensive bug fixes) for all registered users some time soon, but by then it will be too late. Right out of the box BC3K is the single most impenetrable game since Patriot.
The whole debacle is only aggravated by a core design that, even if properly documented and tested, was flawed from the outset. There is too much going on in too many places, and none of it is well-crafted. A messy network of screens, pop-up boxes, and function keys make managing even the most rudimentary functions a chore. Nothing is smoothly integrated or in
I didn't think it was possible, but he is worse than Theo (OpenBSD).
My goodness, he appears to have a chip on his sholder about 1000 miles wide and IIRC didn't it take years for BC 3000 AD to be patched enough to have the features listed on the back of the box?
Cool! Have you ever thought about selling /. or subscriptions or having ads to pay for work like this? ;->
They can't even add in a fscking spell checker, don't expect any major changes till they need to sell /. to another corp.