Just finished a couple hours of Civ 5. Honestly, it's disappointing. The new no-stacking concept has solved the stacks-of-death problem, but just created serious roadblocks in the game itself. And I do mean roadblocks - movement is a major hassle. Cities and the effects of what you do with them are more opaque than ever. In an attempt to simplify, they ended up just glossing over the gameplay. Same with diplomacy. They didn't actually make things simpler, they just stopped giving you the numbers involved.
I can get behind a number of the new mechanics - embarking land units is a great idea, the hexes are swell, the game is very pretty. But if feels more like a cheap rip-off of Civ than an advancement.
The pull-back strategic view is great in concept, but poor in execution.
I hope it will grow on me, but for now, Civ5 is one step forward, two steps back from Civ 4 (which itself had serious issues).
I did this when I was about 8 years old; swapped the price tag for one thing that I could afford (that was like $1) over another which I wanted (which was like $5). The sales drone didn't notice, but the guilt was enough to keep me from doing it again.
Fancier bells and whistles, but this is the same thing. It'll be interesting to see how they pulled off bilking one of the defining features of UPC codes which I didn't have to deal with: When scanned, the register should display a description of the product. The answer was probably lazy/unmotivated register drones. Some things never change.
JohnQ, are you some kind of idiot? If you READ the article, you'd see that ATI is releasing dual chipsets of identical performance, one each for PCIe and AGP.
I can't wait to get my hands on some SATA devices. However, we're still stuck with PCI, here on the desktop end. WHEN will we finally start seeing the old original PCI spec phased out on the desktop end? Not until then will new technologies like SATA be able to shine. Bus bandwidth is everything these days.
With the insane ammounts of cost overruns and mismanagement in the ISS project, who thinks that a jaded congress is going to vote a new space station [no matter how much MORE useful than the ISS it may be] any funds whatsoever?
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Somehow, I doubt all of this happened in the last two hours. Especially as crunched as Apple's update servers are right now.
And in other news, the sky is falling.
Just finished a couple hours of Civ 5. Honestly, it's disappointing. The new no-stacking concept has solved the stacks-of-death problem, but just created serious roadblocks in the game itself. And I do mean roadblocks - movement is a major hassle. Cities and the effects of what you do with them are more opaque than ever. In an attempt to simplify, they ended up just glossing over the gameplay. Same with diplomacy. They didn't actually make things simpler, they just stopped giving you the numbers involved.
I can get behind a number of the new mechanics - embarking land units is a great idea, the hexes are swell, the game is very pretty. But if feels more like a cheap rip-off of Civ than an advancement.
The pull-back strategic view is great in concept, but poor in execution.
I hope it will grow on me, but for now, Civ5 is one step forward, two steps back from Civ 4 (which itself had serious issues).
He's invented analog?
Settings -> General -> Network -> Enable 3g [off]
What's the problem here?
While it's sad to see universal USENET access go, it's been out of the mainstream for about a decade.
If you wanted to beat someone over the head, wouldn't you want to use a stick made of something easy to beat?
"Firefox prevented this site from opening a popup window."
Whenever I see that on a website, right there I think to myself, "This is an annoying, and/or low quality website with suspect information on it."
Funny, I see that every time I go to cnn.com...
Abraham Lincoln Still Dead!
Movie at 11.
...by blatantly copying a commercial product.
:)
Not that I'm not on the edge of my seat for FreeOrion, though.
I did this when I was about 8 years old; swapped the price tag for one thing that I could afford (that was like $1) over another which I wanted (which was like $5). The sales drone didn't notice, but the guilt was enough to keep me from doing it again.
Fancier bells and whistles, but this is the same thing. It'll be interesting to see how they pulled off bilking one of the defining features of UPC codes which I didn't have to deal with: When scanned, the register should display a description of the product. The answer was probably lazy/unmotivated register drones. Some things never change.
JohnQ, are you some kind of idiot? If you READ the article, you'd see that ATI is releasing dual chipsets of identical performance, one each for PCIe and AGP.
I've seen Fleet ATMs displaying IE Javascript errors. THAT inspires confidence.
"Here, let me mount this $400 piece of highly-desirable electronics behind my back, in an open mesh pocket, behind sturdy feeling-insulation."
I'm actually looking forward to this. By the time the next guy on the street turns around... I'll finally have an iPod!
Look at the specs again. It has redundant power supplies. The IO speeds on the xServe RAID are AMAZING.
Well, if you could aim to a high degree of accuracy, you could use lasers to communicate between VAST distances.
I can't wait to get my hands on some SATA devices. However, we're still stuck with PCI, here on the desktop end. WHEN will we finally start seeing the old original PCI spec phased out on the desktop end? Not until then will new technologies like SATA be able to shine. Bus bandwidth is everything these days.
With the insane ammounts of cost overruns and mismanagement in the ISS project, who thinks that a jaded congress is going to vote a new space station [no matter how much MORE useful than the ISS it may be] any funds whatsoever?
In case you didn't know, Firewire is in fact an implementation of SCSI-3
-1, doesn't understand sarcasm.
I believe that this "study" was later found to be a hoax.
All I can really say to this is... YES! YESYESYESYESYES! My life is now complete! Hoorah for reverse engineering!
How many PDAs do you know with 1 GIG of storage?
Why do you say 'Bambi', in particular?
Come on, didn't you live through the 80s? Bad is good!