So if you weren't "forced to", you would have what, exactly?
Gone out and bought a PS2 at or near launch, paid full price for it, and bought no games until later? So you could do what with it, exactly?
Why buy a console if not for games?
I agree being forced to buy more than one game with the system stinks if you don't want more than one / can't afford it, but you need at least one, right? Otherwise, why are you spending your money? In the hopes that maybe good games will come out for it some day, but maybe the price of the console will go up rather than down? I don't get it.
I realize it's a joke, but the first CapCom was Deke Slayton.
Slayton was one of the origional Mercury 7 Astronauts. He's also the one that never flew (on Mercury) due to a heart condition which was discovered after his selection. He would later pilot the Apollo Soyuz docking mission at the end of the Apollo Program.
This is incorrect. Microsoft does write drivers in some cases. They have a lot of clout with hardware vendors in some cases, and can get detailed info on hardware, and / or source code to previous driver versions.
Case in point though, I have an old Aureal Vortex 2 sound card. Aureal no longer exists, they were swallowed up by Creative Labs years ago, and Creative never supported their products, because they were compitition with the Sound Blaster series. The latest release official driver from Aureal was for Windows 2000. It's got some minor incompatibility issues with XP (I forget what, it's been too many years) The only existing "official" driver that's 100% XP compatible ships on the CD with Windows XP. Microsoft wrote it.
This is probably a rare example, due to the fact that the company simply dissappeared overnight, but with other companies, MS may not write the drivers, but they at least include them with the OS.
By the way, this sound card is circa 1997, so if it's not "obselete" I'm not sure what you'd call it.
Most places have what is called "Theft of services". Which can be used for all manor of thigs, and usually makes sense. For instance, if you take your trash to the local office park and dump it in their dumpsters, well, they pay a trash disposal company to remove their trash. You don't. That's theft of services.
I recall one case where some sleezy landlord had installed hidden cameras in a woman tennant's apartment she was renting from him. She found out, sued. IIRC, there was nothing on the books they could make stick to the video taping (no audio, so easedropping didn't stick, for some reason) so they got him on theft of services, since he wired the cameras to use the power she was paying for.
I don't see any reason using someone else's wifi, (or hard wire) connection wouldn't be prosecutable under theft of services also.
As for how you tell betwrrn a "legal" open network and one that's not intended to be shared / has a EULA against sharing, I don't have a good answer for you there.
I know that. That's fairly common knowlege as far as I know. What I asked was if there was any data to suggest that paint keeps the foam from peeling away. I would doubt it, but I'm not going off of any real data here, just an arm chair guess.
I know that they used to paint the ET, and why they stopped. But is there any evidence at all that paint kept the foam, or would keep the foam from peeling? Any data at all?
Here is the ESRB's list of all games that have recieved an AO rating. (I don't know how complete it is, but I Can think of no better source than the ESRB itself).
As many have noted, a game called "singles" is on there. One thing I think is noteworthy though is that you're kind of correct, there are 18 games on the list. But none of them are for a major console. Most are PC games, with one DVD game and one for CDi.
Either the likes of Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sega don't want AO games on their consoles, (possible, IMHO) or publishers simply feel that nobody will buy AO titles for a console (also possible IMHO).
No, however slashdot is primarily a site for computer nerds. Especially the further back in it's history you go. There is a definate indirect corelation between low/. UID and computer nerd-dom.
At first I agreed with you. That was my gut reaction. Now I'm not so sure.
Emminent domain exists to take into account the benefit of the many, and weigh that against the harm to a few.
If a new office tower will benefit the community, why should that be treated diffrently than a new roadway or school benefiting the community.
Come to think of it, that's a better example. Why should a private college be treated diffrently than a public school as far as emminent domain goes. One's publicly owned, the other privatly. Both benefit the community.
This is not as clear cut as it appears initially. That's why the split was 5 to 4. I'm still not sure I've changed my mind. But I can definatly see both sides now.
It's true a programmer is not nessisarily a computer scientist.
However that doesn't mean you can't get computer scientists (good ones too) in India for pennies on the dollar. India has plenty of BSs, MSs, and PhDs too.
Okay, so by your argument the world didn't create itself. So where did god come from? Did it create itself? If it did create itself or always existed, why is this a more reasonable, logical argument than the world creating itelf, or always existing?
I really can't believe you're the only other one that picked up on that and posted to the effect. First thing I thought of.
- Listen, - said Ford, who was still engrossed in the sales brochure, - they make a big thing of the ship's cybernetics. A new generation of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation robots and computers, with the new GPP feature.
- GPP feature? - said Arthur. - What's that?
- Oh, it says Genuine People Personalities.
- Oh, - said Arthur, - sounds ghastly.
A voice behind them said,
- It is. - The voice was low and hopeless and accompanied by a slight clanking sound. They span round and saw an abject steel man standing hunched in the doorway.
- What? - they said.
- Ghastly, - continued Marvin, - it all is. Absolutely ghastly. Just don't even talk about it. Look at this door, - he said, stepping through it. The irony circuits cut into his voice modulator as he mimicked the style of the sales brochure. - All the doors in this spaceship have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done.
As the door closed behind them it became apparent that it did indeed have a satisfied sigh-like quality to it.
- Hummmmmmmyummmmmmm ah! - it said.
Marvin regarded it with cold loathing whilst his logic circuits chattered with disgust and tinkered with the concept of directing physical violence against it Further circuits cut in saying, Why bother? What's the point? Nothing is worth getting involved in. Further circuits amused themselves by analysing the molecular components of the door, and of the humanoids' brain cells. For a quick encore they measured the level of hydrogen emissions in the surrounding cubic parsec of space and then shut down again in boredom. A spasm of despair shook the robot's body as he turned.
- Come on, - he droned, - I've been ordered to take you down to the bridge. Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they ask me to take you down to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction? 'Cos I don't.
That was by total revenue, not units sold. The average cost per unit is lower with desktops than notebooks by several hundred dollars. So it's natural that they would outpace desktops in revenue before they did so in units sold.
This is simply the first time they're doing it with units sold too.
I run adult sites. I'll be first in line for this.
What do I care if netnanny, etc filter it. So kids, who shoudln't be viewing my sites in the first place, who can't buy memberships, who if they try to buy memberships will result in chargebacks for me, will be filtered.
That's a good thing.
If someone's not able to access a TLD because it's filtered for adult content, they shoudl't be accessing it any way, and it makes them high risk for chargebacks anyway.
As for who's going to force a move. You're right on that point. Nobody. I won't be shutting down my.com domains any time soon either.
Games didn't used to save at all, you know. Remember Super Mario Bros? You had to beat that without powering off, because there were no saves, and no way of continuing once the power was turned off. There is something to be said for that kind of gameplay. It's not for every game by any means, but it has it's place.
That said, there is annother problem with savepoints. They ruin any semblance of challenge in a game. Let's say you reach a challenging jumping platform section in a game. You save at the begining. Jump, land. Save again. Jump, die, reload. Jump, land, save again, etc... You eventually use up 5 or 10 save points to get through one section. You're not playing the game, you're playing around it.
When Nintendo rereleased Dragon Warrior I & II for the Gameboy Color, they added in a instant save feature. The origionals had savepoints, you needed to go to a castle and speak to the king to "Record thy deeds in The Imperial Scrolls of Honor". You could do this at any time, but it ment that you had to venture back to save. When they rereleased the titles for the GBC, the added in a neat feature for instant save that didn't break the challenge of the game, and still kept you from having to hunt for several minutes to find a savepoint when you wanted to turn the thing off. Just pause, select save & quit, and it would save to a "Field Journal". When you powered up again, the game would ask you if you wanted to resume from your "Field Journal". If you selected yes, then you would resume where you left off, exactly, but it would then delete the savepoint. You couldn't use it to keep from getting killed.
I'd like to see more games use this technique, and if people want the other way, where you can save anywhere, fine. But just put it on an "easy mode" setting, or something.
Car shows aren't like that either. Unless you count the ones that aren't trade shows at all.
Ever been to the New York Auto Show? It's just like E3. Some stuff they showed when I went in 2000 never mad it to become production vehicles (K5 Blazer concept based on the old school full size, but built on a Tahoe platform), other things did (Chevy SSR). Neither of those could be purchased at the show. Or immediatly after for that matter.
"Car shows", the things that are organized at your local soccer field, or race track, are an entirly diffrent animal. No comparison to E3, and no tie-in with the industry either.
I don't own an x-box nor a PS2. I own a couple PS2 games, because, well, I had to play Katamari Damacy and a couple others. For the most part, I game on the 'Cube and PC.
Thanks for the info, but the numbers still don't jive. What Sony's offering for $400 vs what IBM's offering now... Night and Day.
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So if you weren't "forced to", you would have what, exactly?
Gone out and bought a PS2 at or near launch, paid full price for it, and bought no games until later? So you could do what with it, exactly?
Why buy a console if not for games?
I agree being forced to buy more than one game with the system stinks if you don't want more than one / can't afford it, but you need at least one, right? Otherwise, why are you spending your money? In the hopes that maybe good games will come out for it some day, but maybe the price of the console will go up rather than down? I don't get it.
I realize it's a joke, but the first CapCom was Deke Slayton.
Slayton was one of the origional Mercury 7 Astronauts. He's also the one that never flew (on Mercury) due to a heart condition which was discovered after his selection. He would later pilot the Apollo Soyuz docking mission at the end of the Apollo Program.
This is incorrect. Microsoft does write drivers in some cases. They have a lot of clout with hardware vendors in some cases, and can get detailed info on hardware, and / or source code to previous driver versions.
Case in point though, I have an old Aureal Vortex 2 sound card. Aureal no longer exists, they were swallowed up by Creative Labs years ago, and Creative never supported their products, because they were compitition with the Sound Blaster series. The latest release official driver from Aureal was for Windows 2000. It's got some minor incompatibility issues with XP (I forget what, it's been too many years) The only existing "official" driver that's 100% XP compatible ships on the CD with Windows XP. Microsoft wrote it.
This is probably a rare example, due to the fact that the company simply dissappeared overnight, but with other companies, MS may not write the drivers, but they at least include them with the OS.
By the way, this sound card is circa 1997, so if it's not "obselete" I'm not sure what you'd call it.
Most places have what is called "Theft of services". Which can be used for all manor of thigs, and usually makes sense. For instance, if you take your trash to the local office park and dump it in their dumpsters, well, they pay a trash disposal company to remove their trash. You don't. That's theft of services.
I recall one case where some sleezy landlord had installed hidden cameras in a woman tennant's apartment she was renting from him. She found out, sued. IIRC, there was nothing on the books they could make stick to the video taping (no audio, so easedropping didn't stick, for some reason) so they got him on theft of services, since he wired the cameras to use the power she was paying for.
I don't see any reason using someone else's wifi, (or hard wire) connection wouldn't be prosecutable under theft of services also.
As for how you tell betwrrn a "legal" open network and one that's not intended to be shared / has a EULA against sharing, I don't have a good answer for you there.
I know that. That's fairly common knowlege as far as I know. What I asked was if there was any data to suggest that paint keeps the foam from peeling away. I would doubt it, but I'm not going off of any real data here, just an arm chair guess.
I know that they used to paint the ET, and why they stopped. But is there any evidence at all that paint kept the foam, or would keep the foam from peeling? Any data at all?
Here is the ESRB's list of all games that have recieved an AO rating. (I don't know how complete it is, but I Can think of no better source than the ESRB itself).
As many have noted, a game called "singles" is on there. One thing I think is noteworthy though is that you're kind of correct, there are 18 games on the list. But none of them are for a major console. Most are PC games, with one DVD game and one for CDi.
Either the likes of Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sega don't want AO games on their consoles, (possible, IMHO) or publishers simply feel that nobody will buy AO titles for a console (also possible IMHO).
No, however slashdot is primarily a site for computer nerds. Especially the further back in it's history you go. There is a definate indirect corelation between low /. UID and computer nerd-dom.
Nobody cares.
No, really.
See also: Hanger 1 at Lakehurst Naval Air Engeneering Station. (Where the Hindenberg docked, and where it eventually was destroyed). More info here.
At first I agreed with you. That was my gut reaction. Now I'm not so sure.
Emminent domain exists to take into account the benefit of the many, and weigh that against the harm to a few.
If a new office tower will benefit the community, why should that be treated diffrently than a new roadway or school benefiting the community.
Come to think of it, that's a better example. Why should a private college be treated diffrently than a public school as far as emminent domain goes. One's publicly owned, the other privatly. Both benefit the community.
This is not as clear cut as it appears initially. That's why the split was 5 to 4. I'm still not sure I've changed my mind. But I can definatly see both sides now.
It's true a programmer is not nessisarily a computer scientist.
However that doesn't mean you can't get computer scientists (good ones too) in India for pennies on the dollar. India has plenty of BSs, MSs, and PhDs too.
Yeah, they bundle that too. They should be stopped. Think or the people at ipswitch and globalscape!
The driver is downloadable on microsoft.com here. It took me about a minute and a half to find it.
Okay, so by your argument the world didn't create itself. So where did god come from? Did it create itself? If it did create itself or always existed, why is this a more reasonable, logical argument than the world creating itelf, or always existing?
Because it's fun?
I really can't believe you're the only other one that picked up on that and posted to the effect. First thing I thought of.
- Listen, - said Ford, who was still engrossed in the sales brochure,
- they make a big thing of the ship's cybernetics. A new generation of
Sirius Cybernetics Corporation robots and computers, with the new GPP
feature.
- GPP feature? - said Arthur. - What's that?
- Oh, it says Genuine People Personalities.
- Oh, - said Arthur, - sounds ghastly.
A voice behind them said,
- It is. - The voice was low and hopeless and accompanied by a slight
clanking sound. They span round and saw an abject steel man standing
hunched in the doorway.
- What? - they said.
- Ghastly, - continued Marvin, - it all is. Absolutely ghastly. Just
don't even talk about it. Look at this door, - he said, stepping through
it. The irony circuits cut into his voice modulator as he mimicked the
style of the sales brochure. - All the doors in this spaceship have a
cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and
their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done.
As the door closed behind them it became apparent that it did indeed
have a satisfied sigh-like quality to it.
- Hummmmmmmyummmmmmm ah! - it said.
Marvin regarded it with cold loathing whilst his logic circuits
chattered with disgust and tinkered with the concept of directing physical
violence against it Further circuits cut in saying, Why bother? What's the
point? Nothing is worth getting involved in. Further circuits amused
themselves by analysing the molecular components of the door, and of the
humanoids' brain cells. For a quick encore they measured the level of
hydrogen emissions in the surrounding cubic parsec of space and then shut
down again in boredom. A spasm of despair shook the robot's body as he
turned.
- Come on, - he droned, - I've been ordered to take you down to the
bridge. Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they ask me to take you
down to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction? 'Cos I don't.
That was by total revenue, not units sold. The average cost per unit is lower with desktops than notebooks by several hundred dollars. So it's natural that they would outpace desktops in revenue before they did so in units sold.
This is simply the first time they're doing it with units sold too.
You don't need a "doube" LCD. Just get a widescreen LCD.
They do exist.
Says who?
.com domains any time soon either.
I run adult sites. I'll be first in line for this.
What do I care if netnanny, etc filter it. So kids, who shoudln't be viewing my sites in the first place, who can't buy memberships, who if they try to buy memberships will result in chargebacks for me, will be filtered.
That's a good thing.
If someone's not able to access a TLD because it's filtered for adult content, they shoudl't be accessing it any way, and it makes them high risk for chargebacks anyway.
As for who's going to force a move. You're right on that point. Nobody. I won't be shutting down my
What do you think they run, pixie dust?
Well, actually... yes.
Games didn't used to save at all, you know. Remember Super Mario Bros? You had to beat that without powering off, because there were no saves, and no way of continuing once the power was turned off. There is something to be said for that kind of gameplay. It's not for every game by any means, but it has it's place.
That said, there is annother problem with savepoints. They ruin any semblance of challenge in a game. Let's say you reach a challenging jumping platform section in a game. You save at the begining. Jump, land. Save again. Jump, die, reload. Jump, land, save again, etc...
You eventually use up 5 or 10 save points to get through one section. You're not playing the game, you're playing around it.
When Nintendo rereleased Dragon Warrior I & II for the Gameboy Color, they added in a instant save feature. The origionals had savepoints, you needed to go to a castle and speak to the king to "Record thy deeds in The Imperial Scrolls of Honor". You could do this at any time, but it ment that you had to venture back to save. When they rereleased the titles for the GBC, the added in a neat feature for instant save that didn't break the challenge of the game, and still kept you from having to hunt for several minutes to find a savepoint when you wanted to turn the thing off. Just pause, select save & quit, and it would save to a "Field Journal". When you powered up again, the game would ask you if you wanted to resume from your "Field Journal". If you selected yes, then you would resume where you left off, exactly, but it would then delete the savepoint. You couldn't use it to keep from getting killed.
I'd like to see more games use this technique, and if people want the other way, where you can save anywhere, fine. But just put it on an "easy mode" setting, or something.
Car shows aren't like that either. Unless you count the ones that aren't trade shows at all.
Ever been to the New York Auto Show? It's just like E3. Some stuff they showed when I went in 2000 never mad it to become production vehicles (K5 Blazer concept based on the old school full size, but built on a Tahoe platform), other things did (Chevy SSR). Neither of those could be purchased at the show. Or immediatly after for that matter.
"Car shows", the things that are organized at your local soccer field, or race track, are an entirly diffrent animal. No comparison to E3, and no tie-in with the industry either.
There's an $80 "official" kit that turns the X-Box into a Windows Media Extender. This is on top of it's built in digital music playback features.
Actually, if anything, I'm a Nintendo "Fanboy".
I don't own an x-box nor a PS2. I own a couple PS2 games, because, well, I had to play Katamari Damacy and a couple others. For the most part, I game on the 'Cube and PC.
Thanks for the info, but the numbers still don't jive. What Sony's offering for $400 vs what IBM's offering now... Night and Day.