Well now, I would have to say that this has to do with having an addictive personality.
I played MUD all though college, but was able to drop it at will. I played 2 years worth of UO, and just upped and stoped playing. As I get older it takes more and more to keep me interested in a game...and that damn wakeboard boat just keeps calling my name......
I know first hand how much fun they are and if you get in with the right group it can take on a life of it's own. It is all about finding something and being good at it. I have seen people get addicted to almost anything they are good at. Golf, tennis, wakeboard, surfing, computer games, hell even learning. It is all about rewards and these games are built around levels and rewards. The only time that these games ever had a real hold on me was when there was nothing better for me to do. Once there is something you would rather do other than the game it becomes very easy to just drop them.
That is the key I think. Rewards system, level building, and nothing better to do. Something with that wide a swath of people can do together, do well and have fun. Fun, socialization, and a crack like rewards system. It is the same with anything else. All sports are based on rewards systems, they are just harder in many ways and less rewarding in the now.
Human nature is to continue doing something that is fun, or stimulating. They are prefecting the art of addiction...is this really bad or just anouther form of entertainment that needs to be taken in moderation?
If you could get the computer world to agree to change one fundamental thing in computer security on all OSs across the board what would it be?
Re:You will eat your RAM and like it!
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Good point, and it has merit. Although if you have been watching the memory market as of late there have been huge jumps in tech around this area. Crazy jumps really. So, it seems that dram will have a short live future anyway. Just like everything else if you price yourself out of the market someone eats your lunch.
Although I understand where you are coming from and agree with you, I don't think you will have to wait much longer.
You will eat your RAM and like it!
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Big deal, happens to everything. Sooner or later one of them breaks down with money issues and that bottom falls out or some upstart comes along and cleans house. With memory prices as low as they are right now this is like getting bent about a "price fixing" problem with paper clips. How about they figure out how to get gas down from 2.50 a pop...
I have often wondered what would happen if someone put a FPS out that had amazing error correction, cheat protection to the hilt, great game play, and crappy graphics. Sometimes I really think that the above would do much better, then I see something like DoomIII and I go into a trance and mutter "ewwwww, ahhhh" for about 30 minutes and can't remember what I was talking about....
Stop pushing the limits until the limits come to you. Intersting, don't set sail across the Atlantic until you know you can make it. How do you ever find out you can make it?
I realize that maybe the answer is no more manned spaced flights until the odds are brought into a safer level. The only question is if this can be done remote from start to finish to perfect the art of space travel?
Things are a bit more complex now. So given that you like the shootem up, and you want an RPD also, lets get down to the nitty gritty.
Rent and X-box from block buster:
Rent:
Halo: (3 days no stop should get you done with that one. Best game on the x-box)
Splinter Cell(Tom Clancey): Best damn sneak around as a spy, shooting people, wacking them on the head, neato fun game on the market. Ghost Recon is very hot right now as well.
Wreckless: Will give you your driving jones a little run for it's money. Although not that best game in the world.
Not D&D but Knights of the Old Republic is a very fun StarWars game, and if your like anyone else our age nothing is better than beer and StarWars...well ok there are a couple things..but hell we are talking games here!
Only real D&d one is Reign of Fire, and it really is just a simple hack and slash, although very enjoyable.
If I had a week to play, X-box with Halo and Splinter Cell.....get ready to loose a couple shades of tan your going to be hooked.
The first person shooter that was modeled after the books.
The first time you got up next to a trollic running at your grunting was freaky, then you get the the first castle deal and a lighting strike flashes everything like a strobe and one is standin in front of you. The damn trollic, and the sound made me almost shit myself. Then the wind of souls chasin you though the way(the machin I think it was called)...the creeping death, the damn things with the claws...it was all just a spooky ass game that was well made. Good stuff...
.02 cent, come on it is really nothing...and you already pay next to nothing.
.04 cent, we can really do some damage to those evil spamers.
.10 cent, you really need us to keep this going. Without it, the internet will turn back into child pron and a bunch of terror posts.
.32 cent, you don't use snail mail anymore and we invented the internet, and police it. It is only fair you buck up and pay for what you are using.
.50 cent, we can use the "internet tax" to pay for [insert pork belly here].
--> Extream, yes. Untrue, well do you really want to find out? Lets tax something you pay to use already. Lets tax something to solve a problem that should be addressed with the right kind of legislation. Lets tax, then pay the very people that are spamming us to find the other people that spam us. Better yet, lets give them special powers.... I really love the idea that a "tax" will fix the problem. It would be a tax on just the US to pay to controll something that is world wide and rest of the world and 99% of the US does not even want controlled.
"I have an idea, lets tax e-mail!!! - Bring it up now, then 3 years down the road make it happen. They will scream, piss, and moan now but when we bring it up again in 3 years it will not seem so extream because they heard it once already. Yea, don't forget to say it will kill spam, child porn, and Ben Ladin...."
I heard someone say one time that EULAs should be 100 words or less. If you can't tell someone how not to use your product in 100 words or less then you either have not made a good product, did not secure it well enough against misuse, or are trying to slid something by the end user that you don't want the end user to have a good handle on.
I suddenly heard millions of Star Wars geeks cry out, then silenced when they found out it was in the land down under. Seriously, I really can see them now trying to do the Jedi mind trick on the cast pickers, "Those others are not the extras you are looking for."
Who would not love to see Robert Jordan's "Eye of the World" Series, if he ever finishes the damned thing, put on the big screen in CGI or film + massive CGI.
Just pan visual of "The Waste" would be worth the price of the ticket...maybe the tel'aran'rhiod would end up pretty slick. I could go on for a good bit about what would be nice. I am sure others have ideas on the series they would like to see put to the big screen. Eitherway I see a bunch of really nice stuff coming down that pipe with the kind of proc power we have now.
Correct me if I am wrong, but the only time that it starts to write to your page file is the moment that the amount of data passes the amount of RAM you have. At which point it starts writing information from the ass end of your RAM to the pagefile. While this is not as fast as your RAM data pull it is faster than finding it on the disk, and parsing it back into usable info. It knows where it is already and drops it back to the front of your RAM storage.
This is just my limited view of what I kind of figured happened. Please correct me if I am wrong but if you turned off your page file you would be slowing yourself down a bit.
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Well now, I would have to say that this has to do with having an addictive personality.
I played MUD all though college, but was able to drop it at will. I played 2 years worth of UO, and just upped and stoped playing. As I get older it takes more and more to keep me interested in a game...and that damn wakeboard boat just keeps calling my name......
I know first hand how much fun they are and if you get in with the right group it can take on a life of it's own. It is all about finding something and being good at it. I have seen people get addicted to almost anything they are good at. Golf, tennis, wakeboard, surfing, computer games, hell even learning. It is all about rewards and these games are built around levels and rewards. The only time that these games ever had a real hold on me was when there was nothing better for me to do. Once there is something you would rather do other than the game it becomes very easy to just drop them.
That is the key I think. Rewards system, level building, and nothing better to do. Something with that wide a swath of people can do together, do well and have fun. Fun, socialization, and a crack like rewards system. It is the same with anything else. All sports are based on rewards systems, they are just harder in many ways and less rewarding in the now.
Human nature is to continue doing something that is fun, or stimulating. They are prefecting the art of addiction...is this really bad or just anouther form of entertainment that needs to be taken in moderation?
Hard call.
How many times do I have to tell you, turn off the network when you leave the room!
If you could get the computer world to agree to change one fundamental thing in computer security on all OSs across the board what would it be?
Good point, and it has merit. Although if you have been watching the memory market as of late there have been huge jumps in tech around this area. Crazy jumps really. So, it seems that dram will have a short live future anyway. Just like everything else if you price yourself out of the market someone eats your lunch.
Although I understand where you are coming from and agree with you, I don't think you will have to wait much longer.
Big deal, happens to everything. Sooner or later one of them breaks down with money issues and that bottom falls out or some upstart comes along and cleans house. With memory prices as low as they are right now this is like getting bent about a "price fixing" problem with paper clips. How about they figure out how to get gas down from 2.50 a pop...
I have often wondered what would happen if someone put a FPS out that had amazing error correction, cheat protection to the hilt, great game play, and crappy graphics. Sometimes I really think that the above would do much better, then I see something like DoomIII and I go into a trance and mutter "ewwwww, ahhhh" for about 30 minutes and can't remember what I was talking about....
Stop pushing the limits until the limits come to you. Intersting, don't set sail across the Atlantic until you know you can make it. How do you ever find out you can make it?
I realize that maybe the answer is no more manned spaced flights until the odds are brought into a safer level. The only question is if this can be done remote from start to finish to perfect the art of space travel?
I find my writing on my hand works almost as well and it is free! Kind of like Linux...in a couple of different ways.
-1 Troll, maybe until you really give it some brain power.
I always was under the impressions that "Cod" or "Cods" was anouther name for my boys downstairs.
IE, dude she tried to wing my cods, but only clipped the left one. Either way I was down for the count.
> Hey man could you get your dog to stop licking his cods...?
I don't think it means that same thing in Europe, but in the deep south you have to give up a little , if nothing else we have some great lingo.
My software is free and that makes it better..NEENER NEENER NEENER!!!
Things are a bit more complex now. So given that you like the shootem up, and you want an RPD also, lets get down to the nitty gritty.
Rent and X-box from block buster:
Rent:
Halo: (3 days no stop should get you done with that one. Best game on the x-box)
Splinter Cell(Tom Clancey): Best damn sneak around as a spy, shooting people, wacking them on the head, neato fun game on the market. Ghost Recon is very hot right now as well.
Wreckless: Will give you your driving jones a little run for it's money. Although not that best game in the world.
Not D&D but Knights of the Old Republic is a very fun StarWars game, and if your like anyone else our age nothing is better than beer and StarWars...well ok there are a couple things..but hell we are talking games here!
Only real D&d one is Reign of Fire, and it really is just a simple hack and slash, although very enjoyable.
If I had a week to play, X-box with Halo and Splinter Cell.....get ready to loose a couple shades of tan your going to be hooked.
have fun,
D&d Joes
The first person shooter that was modeled after the books.
The first time you got up next to a trollic running at your grunting was freaky, then you get the the first castle deal and a lighting strike flashes everything like a strobe and one is standin in front of you. The damn trollic, and the sound made me almost shit myself. Then the wind of souls chasin you though the way(the machin I think it was called)...the creeping death, the damn things with the claws...it was all just a spooky ass game that was well made. Good stuff...
Most of the time in the old days, the puzzle was trying to get conventional memory high enough to run one of these SOBs.
Because it is the easy solution that reaps the largest power grab.
Nice..... .01 cent, it is really nothing.
.02 cent, come on it is really nothing...and you already pay next to nothing.
.04 cent, we can really do some damage to those evil spamers.
.10 cent, you really need us to keep this going. Without it, the internet will turn back into child pron and a bunch of terror posts.
.32 cent, you don't use snail mail anymore and we invented the internet, and police it. It is only fair you buck up and pay for what you are using.
.50 cent, we can use the "internet tax" to pay for [insert pork belly here].
--> Extream, yes. Untrue, well do you really want to find out? Lets tax something you pay to use already. Lets tax something to solve a problem that should be addressed with the right kind of legislation. Lets tax, then pay the very people that are spamming us to find the other people that spam us. Better yet, lets give them special powers.... I really love the idea that a "tax" will fix the problem. It would be a tax on just the US to pay to controll something that is world wide and rest of the world and 99% of the US does not even want controlled.
"I have an idea, lets tax e-mail!!! - Bring it up now, then 3 years down the road make it happen. They will scream, piss, and moan now but when we bring it up again in 3 years it will not seem so extream because they heard it once already. Yea, don't forget to say it will kill spam, child porn, and Ben Ladin...."
Could someone explain the who Anti-Quark, Naked Quark, Bio-Polar Quark, Spring Break Quark, and Got my head up my ass CIO Quark please?
I heard someone say one time that EULAs should be 100 words or less. If you can't tell someone how not to use your product in 100 words or less then you either have not made a good product, did not secure it well enough against misuse, or are trying to slid something by the end user that you don't want the end user to have a good handle on.
I found that idea very interesting..
get all your shit working. Cut the lan/wan/internet lines, brick it in with now doors and spray the outside with teflon.
Hire a muscle head with a 8th level Edu to guard the brick box with a baseball bat.
Other than that your just playing the odds like the rest of us.
I suddenly heard millions of Star Wars geeks cry out, then silenced when they found out it was in the land down under. Seriously, I really can see them now trying to do the Jedi mind trick on the cast pickers, "Those others are not the extras you are looking for."
> I posted my matrix joke 12 minutes before you did :p
Deja vu....must have been a glich in the Matrix.
BUT, if I cut my land line, how would I get in and out of the Matrix!
I am hung like a nat, you think they will keep me out of porn if I get that fixed?
Who would not love to see Robert Jordan's "Eye of the World" Series, if he ever finishes the damned thing, put on the big screen in CGI or film + massive CGI.
Just pan visual of "The Waste" would be worth the price of the ticket...maybe the tel'aran'rhiod would end up pretty slick. I could go on for a good bit about what would be nice. I am sure others have ideas on the series they would like to see put to the big screen. Eitherway I see a bunch of really nice stuff coming down that pipe with the kind of proc power we have now.
Good googleemooglee we are going to have every man this side of the Hudson trying to squeeze a H2 into a space the size of a honda....
Correct me if I am wrong, but the only time that it starts to write to your page file is the moment that the amount of data passes the amount of RAM you have. At which point it starts writing information from the ass end of your RAM to the pagefile. While this is not as fast as your RAM data pull it is faster than finding it on the disk, and parsing it back into usable info. It knows where it is already and drops it back to the front of your RAM storage.
This is just my limited view of what I kind of figured happened. Please correct me if I am wrong but if you turned off your page file you would be slowing yourself down a bit.