So people here on/. are outraged. That's nothing new. What is anyone going to do about it? Write a letter to a congressman? The governor? Run for office to get things changed yourself? Drive less and carpool more?
If you fill up at a BP normally, will you stop doing that? Or will you do what's easier, more convenient?
I live in central Indiana, and I really don't like the idea of more waste being dumped in Lake Michigan. It's fould as it stands. I wouldn't go swimming in it unless I wanted a few layers of flesh stripped off and loss of ability to reproduce. I may write a letter (that will be looked over, glossed over, and discared by aides) to congressman, senators, and the governor. I probably won't. I'm under no illusions it will do any good. I'm not going to drive less. I don't really go many places other than work and I, sadly, can't quit my job yet. I walk to the grocery store, same as I've done for two years. And I won't stop filling up at BP either. It's directly on my way home from work. It's too convenient to not drive 2 blocks out of the way to put the same gas in my car, but at a "Speedway."
Other than bitch and moan, what is anyone here willing to do, to change in their own lives because of this? The answer is probably nothing.
How simple would it have been to replace that "Tomorrow" with a [Today]? I was panicing. I thought, for a moment, it was still Thursday. That's a shock you don't want on a Friday before coffee.
I think that this is the main reason the Wii could work for adventure games. IMO, adventure games need some sort of pointing device. I'm talking old school adventure games, where you would point and click on things on the screen. Kings Quest, Quest for Glory, Space Quest, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max, Police Quest, etc... I know it can be done differently, but that's how I remember (and like) my adventure games.
Then you don't remember the old school days of adventure games. The original graphical adventure games used a command line typing interface, like Zork. King's Quest was, initially, a game where you typed out things like "take book" or "eat soup" or "put bridle on unicorn[KQ4]." Granted, I think that a mouse interface, like the Lucasarts Adventures using the SCUMM engine (Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Monkey Island) or the later Sierra games (KQ5-7) were more enjoyable because it wasn't a race to see if you would die before you typed a command.
Anyway, my point was just that the old style is fine, and you didn't need a pointing device for the original adventure games. However, they are much more fun and a bit easier with a mouse.
Related: The Longest Journey was amazing, the second one plays too much like a big cutscene. No game, just one big plot. It's a good plot, really, there's just no game with it.
I hate "Secret questions." I'd rather keep track of my passwords. I've only once lost an account due to a forgotten username/password combo. And that wasn't an important account. I always fill the secret answer with pure giberish. Hitting 30+ random keys is a great workaround for me. Especially the stupid new sites that require not one but two secret questions.
Go read the Millionaire next door. Millionaires don't borrow money. The middle class borrows money.
For those of us who aren't millionaires, borrowing money is perfectly acceptable and a good way to get things done.
Point 1: Rent an apartment or buy a home?
You might pay slightly more on a mortgage than on rent, and you'll have more expenses (maintenance is your responsibility, not a landlord's). But, when push comes to shove and you're ready to move on, you can sell the home. All that money you've paid to the mortgage is money that you effectively keep. Anything that pays the principal down goes towards your ownership of the home. Any interest on the mortgage is tax deductable. Again, you might pay more but you'll see a great return from that over an apartment where you're flushing 500-2000 away per month(depends on the area). Loans are the way that most people have to get things done. If I could buy my $100K home outright, I would. Most people can't do that.
Point 2:
Student loans are not bad debt! Especially federal student loans. Based on when you consolidate and who with you can get a better interest rate from a basic savings account than the interest rate you'd be paying on. I'm paying the minimum on a.65% rate right now. That's not something you're misreading. I'm at 65 hundredths of a percent. And, again, even the interest from private loans is tax deductable.
Yes, I own my home and have mortgages. Yes, I've got student loan debt. However, I'm going to get a huge amount of money back from my taxes this year. It's a little bit if suckage having the debt, but well made up for based on what I got for it and what I get from it.
The only time snakes really scare me is when I'm over the Pacific Ocean, halfway between LA and Hawaii and some nutcase release snakes... while I'm on the plane.
Snakes on a Plane 2: Snakes Furthering Human Evolution.
I'm working at a startup and I got my girlfriend an internship. Well, I mentioned to my boss that she was a good programmer and wanted a job near campus for the summer. So, interview, hire, etc.
Well, we're going to have some very bad team dynamics here in a few days since I'm breaking up with her tonight since I found out she's been cheating on me. Thankfully not with anyone else in the office. But there's only 10 people in the company total, including the 3 interns of which she is one. So, yeah, it's going to be interesting. I have to work with her on a daily basis. My guess is she'll just quit, which sucks. She quits everything though. Oh well. Romance + office - romance = unhappy office.
I'm a gamer. I have a folder full of games, all purchased legally. I support publishers that make good games. For me it just feels like there aren't that many new games worth my money. I've also got less time to play since I joined the workforce last year. I don't like MMORPGS in general so I don't play them. But I don't buy 3-4 games per month. I can't imagine that many decent games even coming out in a month, much less every month. The last games I bought were Oblivion on release day and Hitman: Contracts last week. I'. That's over 4 months between buying games, not just new releases. I have been gaming less over the last year, yes, but more often I've been going back to older games that value gameplay over graphics. X-COM has been installed on one HD or another for years. I recently played through HL and HL:2 again. The Max Payne series is an enjoyable way to while away a weekend every so often. Heck, even classic Wolf 3D is a nice use of 10 minutes.
Really, I want a game I can finish. One I don't have to go online for. One where I don't have to deal with other people if I don't want to. It seems that more and more developers are focusing on MMORPGS. With their rampant success and the money they can bring in (initial cost + monthly fees) it's not surprising. But the time spent on those is time spent on making a game I won't buy. And they are very good games, I'm not debating that. I just see Blizzard, for instance, working only on WoW anymore. There won't be a StarCraft 2, which I would definetly get. There won't be another Diablo, which I would probably get. They've got WoW, it's making them huge numbers of dollars and I respect that. But I'm not going to buy it, and they're not going to make anything else for me. I wouldn't play a World of StarCraft if they made it either.
I would seriously encourage everyone who likes good single player games to go look up older ones, that are of excellent quality, and play those for awhile. Buy them on half.com, check to make sure they'll work on your Windows XP box at ntcompatible.com. Adventure games should pick up The Curse of Monkey Island and The Dig. Strategy fans should take a look at X-COM 1 & 2. The old Sim City, SC2K, Civ II, and Alpha Centauri are classics. Thief 1 & 2. Deus Ex. There are plenty of great games that are out there for under $10 simply due to age. Grab one or two of those and enjoy it them month instead of spending $200 on 4 new releases that don't compare to even one classic or $20 on a monthly fee for WoW.
Personally, I prefer the Gigabyte Aurora for a case. It's freaking spectacular.
Other than that, I'd have said that if you ever planned on overclocking then a dual core Opteron 170 will easily trump a 4400 X2. Without overclocking, go with the 4400+. If you're OCing, Opteron can go above an beyond most chips. I've gotten my 170 blazing nearly as fast as the FX-60. On air cooling. And it doesn't get that hot either thanks in part to Opteron's additional heat pipes. Getting them for OC purposes can be a crapshoot, however. You should always be able to get them faster than the more expensive 4400 though.
Oh, and the HDs are the exact right drives. The only thing I could recommend over them would be the WD Raptor series. But then you sacrifice both money and space for speed. Overall, I pick the larger space and cache size at the much lower cost.
Sir, your math makes no sense. 70 employees and a revenue of $70 million does not equal "$10mil per employee." 70 / 70 = 1. That's $1 million per employee. Still impressive, granted, but not quite so impressive as your strange math makes it out to be.
As others have commented, it will be released for both PS3 and 360 at the same time.
What no one is mentioning is the PC release. Rockstar tends to wait for a few months after console release before releasing the PC version. They're not being jerks. They're retooling it for the purpose of bringing it over to PC. That's why the GTA series hasn't suffered from consolitis, by and large. I'll be looking forward to GTA IV on the PC, even if I have to wait half a year.
Now we're going to confuse people using poor grammar! Let's lake a plural, first person pronoun, "we," and make it into a singular, proper noun for an object! Sentences such as "Wii is good" or "Wii is bad" would make anyone saying them sound like an utter moron.
What will companies do next to destroy our already fragile grammar? The Sony Yu? Microsoft's next venture, the Ai (Pronounced as "I")? The Mi?
Yep. It premiered on Showtime, which was the only place it could show full frontal nudity (and yes, there was some in the first episode). After Showtime didn't think it was doing well enough, they dropped it. Unlike FOX, however, they were willing to let the rights go. UPN then picked it up and it did well for a few seasons until it wasn't doing well enough. Then they, again, sold the rights. It's been on Sci-Fi and sucessful ever since.
They're already involved. All major communications, planetwide, are routed through the Aquinas Hub at Area 51. The government, along with the Illuminati and Majestic 12, have been in control for a long time.
(Sorry, I've been playing through Deus Ex [again] recently)
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So people here on /. are outraged. That's nothing new. What is anyone going to do about it? Write a letter to a congressman? The governor? Run for office to get things changed yourself? Drive less and carpool more?
If you fill up at a BP normally, will you stop doing that? Or will you do what's easier, more convenient?
I live in central Indiana, and I really don't like the idea of more waste being dumped in Lake Michigan. It's fould as it stands. I wouldn't go swimming in it unless I wanted a few layers of flesh stripped off and loss of ability to reproduce. I may write a letter (that will be looked over, glossed over, and discared by aides) to congressman, senators, and the governor. I probably won't. I'm under no illusions it will do any good. I'm not going to drive less. I don't really go many places other than work and I, sadly, can't quit my job yet. I walk to the grocery store, same as I've done for two years. And I won't stop filling up at BP either. It's directly on my way home from work. It's too convenient to not drive 2 blocks out of the way to put the same gas in my car, but at a "Speedway."
Other than bitch and moan, what is anyone here willing to do, to change in their own lives because of this? The answer is probably nothing.
As Kurt Vonnegut might have said, "So it goes."
Articles like these are why I'll once again be staying away from the internet on April Fools Day.
-signing off until 0001, 04-02-07
"Tomorrow, Friday October 13th"
How simple would it have been to replace that "Tomorrow" with a [Today]? I was panicing. I thought, for a moment, it was still Thursday. That's a shock you don't want on a Friday before coffee.
Gordon Freeman, in the flesh. Or, should I say, in the hazard suit?
"the NSA budged is estimated at $8 Billion"
It costs $8 billion dollars to get the NSA to budge? Give me half that and I'll poke them with a stick until they move.
I think that this is the main reason the Wii could work for adventure games. IMO, adventure games need some sort of pointing device. I'm talking old school adventure games, where you would point and click on things on the screen. Kings Quest, Quest for Glory, Space Quest, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max, Police Quest, etc... I know it can be done differently, but that's how I remember (and like) my adventure games.
Then you don't remember the old school days of adventure games. The original graphical adventure games used a command line typing interface, like Zork. King's Quest was, initially, a game where you typed out things like "take book" or "eat soup" or "put bridle on unicorn[KQ4]." Granted, I think that a mouse interface, like the Lucasarts Adventures using the SCUMM engine (Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Monkey Island) or the later Sierra games (KQ5-7) were more enjoyable because it wasn't a race to see if you would die before you typed a command.
Anyway, my point was just that the old style is fine, and you didn't need a pointing device for the original adventure games. However, they are much more fun and a bit easier with a mouse.
Related: The Longest Journey was amazing, the second one plays too much like a big cutscene. No game, just one big plot. It's a good plot, really, there's just no game with it.
I hate "Secret questions." I'd rather keep track of my passwords. I've only once lost an account due to a forgotten username/password combo. And that wasn't an important account. I always fill the secret answer with pure giberish. Hitting 30+ random keys is a great workaround for me. Especially the stupid new sites that require not one but two secret questions.
Go read the Millionaire next door. Millionaires don't borrow money. The middle class borrows money.
.65% rate right now. That's not something you're misreading. I'm at 65 hundredths of a percent. And, again, even the interest from private loans is tax deductable.
For those of us who aren't millionaires, borrowing money is perfectly acceptable and a good way to get things done.
Point 1: Rent an apartment or buy a home?
You might pay slightly more on a mortgage than on rent, and you'll have more expenses (maintenance is your responsibility, not a landlord's). But, when push comes to shove and you're ready to move on, you can sell the home. All that money you've paid to the mortgage is money that you effectively keep. Anything that pays the principal down goes towards your ownership of the home. Any interest on the mortgage is tax deductable. Again, you might pay more but you'll see a great return from that over an apartment where you're flushing 500-2000 away per month(depends on the area). Loans are the way that most people have to get things done. If I could buy my $100K home outright, I would. Most people can't do that.
Point 2:
Student loans are not bad debt! Especially federal student loans. Based on when you consolidate and who with you can get a better interest rate from a basic savings account than the interest rate you'd be paying on. I'm paying the minimum on a
Yes, I own my home and have mortgages. Yes, I've got student loan debt. However, I'm going to get a huge amount of money back from my taxes this year. It's a little bit if suckage having the debt, but well made up for based on what I got for it and what I get from it.
The only time snakes really scare me is when I'm over the Pacific Ocean, halfway between LA and Hawaii and some nutcase release snakes... while I'm on the plane.
Snakes on a Plane 2: Snakes Furthering Human Evolution.
I'm working at a startup and I got my girlfriend an internship. Well, I mentioned to my boss that she was a good programmer and wanted a job near campus for the summer. So, interview, hire, etc.
Well, we're going to have some very bad team dynamics here in a few days since I'm breaking up with her tonight since I found out she's been cheating on me. Thankfully not with anyone else in the office. But there's only 10 people in the company total, including the 3 interns of which she is one. So, yeah, it's going to be interesting. I have to work with her on a daily basis. My guess is she'll just quit, which sucks. She quits everything though. Oh well. Romance + office - romance = unhappy office.
I'm a gamer. I have a folder full of games, all purchased legally. I support publishers that make good games. For me it just feels like there aren't that many new games worth my money. I've also got less time to play since I joined the workforce last year. I don't like MMORPGS in general so I don't play them. But I don't buy 3-4 games per month. I can't imagine that many decent games even coming out in a month, much less every month. The last games I bought were Oblivion on release day and Hitman: Contracts last week. I'. That's over 4 months between buying games, not just new releases. I have been gaming less over the last year, yes, but more often I've been going back to older games that value gameplay over graphics. X-COM has been installed on one HD or another for years. I recently played through HL and HL:2 again. The Max Payne series is an enjoyable way to while away a weekend every so often. Heck, even classic Wolf 3D is a nice use of 10 minutes.
Really, I want a game I can finish. One I don't have to go online for. One where I don't have to deal with other people if I don't want to. It seems that more and more developers are focusing on MMORPGS. With their rampant success and the money they can bring in (initial cost + monthly fees) it's not surprising. But the time spent on those is time spent on making a game I won't buy. And they are very good games, I'm not debating that. I just see Blizzard, for instance, working only on WoW anymore. There won't be a StarCraft 2, which I would definetly get. There won't be another Diablo, which I would probably get. They've got WoW, it's making them huge numbers of dollars and I respect that. But I'm not going to buy it, and they're not going to make anything else for me. I wouldn't play a World of StarCraft if they made it either.
I would seriously encourage everyone who likes good single player games to go look up older ones, that are of excellent quality, and play those for awhile. Buy them on half.com, check to make sure they'll work on your Windows XP box at ntcompatible.com. Adventure games should pick up The Curse of Monkey Island and The Dig. Strategy fans should take a look at X-COM 1 & 2. The old Sim City, SC2K, Civ II, and Alpha Centauri are classics. Thief 1 & 2. Deus Ex. There are plenty of great games that are out there for under $10 simply due to age. Grab one or two of those and enjoy it them month instead of spending $200 on 4 new releases that don't compare to even one classic or $20 on a monthly fee for WoW.
I thought that, by the title, this was in response to the article about Jack Thompson's video game bill being passed.
Doesn't he provide more than enough grief for all gamers?
Personally, I prefer the Gigabyte Aurora for a case. It's freaking spectacular.
Other than that, I'd have said that if you ever planned on overclocking then a dual core Opteron 170 will easily trump a 4400 X2. Without overclocking, go with the 4400+. If you're OCing, Opteron can go above an beyond most chips. I've gotten my 170 blazing nearly as fast as the FX-60. On air cooling. And it doesn't get that hot either thanks in part to Opteron's additional heat pipes. Getting them for OC purposes can be a crapshoot, however. You should always be able to get them faster than the more expensive 4400 though.
Oh, and the HDs are the exact right drives. The only thing I could recommend over them would be the WD Raptor series. But then you sacrifice both money and space for speed. Overall, I pick the larger space and cache size at the much lower cost.
Just thoughts for your next system.
I prefer Homsar myself.
Sir, your math makes no sense. 70 employees and a revenue of $70 million does not equal "$10mil per employee." 70 / 70 = 1. That's $1 million per employee. Still impressive, granted, but not quite so impressive as your strange math makes it out to be.
I thought that Rockstar had given up numbering the GTA series.
GTA I, II and III were normal. Then we got Vice City and San Andreas, which would be IV and V respectively.
They're now suddenly going back to using normal numerical systems? What are VC and SA then? III.III and III.VII?
As others have commented, it will be released for both PS3 and 360 at the same time.
What no one is mentioning is the PC release. Rockstar tends to wait for a few months after console release before releasing the PC version. They're not being jerks. They're retooling it for the purpose of bringing it over to PC. That's why the GTA series hasn't suffered from consolitis, by and large. I'll be looking forward to GTA IV on the PC, even if I have to wait half a year.
Contrary to popular belief it is James Earl Jones voicing Vader in the strangely sounding scene where he calls to ready his Star Destroyer.
Link!
(scroll down to the audio changes)
However, it was 20 years since he did Empire at that point. Plus, who knows what kind of shoddy job was done editing the sound in.
Now we're going to confuse people using poor grammar! Let's lake a plural, first person pronoun, "we," and make it into a singular, proper noun for an object! Sentences such as "Wii is good" or "Wii is bad" would make anyone saying them sound like an utter moron.
What will companies do next to destroy our already fragile grammar? The Sony Yu? Microsoft's next venture, the Ai (Pronounced as "I")? The Mi?
Yep. It premiered on Showtime, which was the only place it could show full frontal nudity (and yes, there was some in the first episode). After Showtime didn't think it was doing well enough, they dropped it. Unlike FOX, however, they were willing to let the rights go. UPN then picked it up and it did well for a few seasons until it wasn't doing well enough. Then they, again, sold the rights. It's been on Sci-Fi and sucessful ever since.
I think I speak for everyone here when I say "That's the worst idea I've ever heard, and I don't want to play."
Hobbit's scampering about on the stage in a chorus line?
The deadly dance of the orcs?
Sam's love ballad to Frodo?
I can just envision Gandalf dancing, tossing away his hat and staff for a top hat and cane.
There are so many reasons this needs to NOT happen.
None of us want auto PC users to end up in the same category as annoying cell phone users.
You mean dead?
If you don't know Java, get head.
Ladies, for the geek in your life, give them head.
Too... many... bad puns!
There's a RealLife game now?
Bah. Government not involved? That's a load.
They're already involved. All major communications, planetwide, are routed through the Aquinas Hub at Area 51. The government, along with the Illuminati and Majestic 12, have been in control for a long time.
(Sorry, I've been playing through Deus Ex [again] recently)