Bad because it will make it tight for them financially. Bad because of all the whiners (see posts below mine) and conspiracy theorists who have nothing better to do with their lives except assume that whenever something happens its always the company trying to hide something. Bad because we will all have to keep hearing the whiners complain over and over again about a GAME! Bad for hardware makers because there are tons of people waiting for this game before they upgrade their machines or buy new computers.
This is good for those of us who are waiting to buy new computers. It gives us even more time to save up and wait. There is always some new video card or cpu just on the horizon. The money I would have spent today will be able to buy something better for the same price in April.
Yeah I guess. It all depends upon how you define portable then. I look at it as a portable because you didn't need a separate TV or anything except an outlet of some kind.
"So they should be allowed to crank up their stereos as loud as they want?"
Sure, this is college
"How about smoking in the hallways?"
If its a smoking floor then why not.
"Why not let them crap in the sinks when they feel like it?"
Now your just being stupid for the sake of being stupid, although shitting in the sinks among other gross things tend to happen. Thats why there are cleaning people.
"No, it's not. It's the collective home of everyone living in the dorm. As such, the residence of said dorm should behave in ways that do not unfairly infringe on the comfort and livability of other students."
So in other words if some student were to get the permission of everyone on the floor it would be ok. Sorry, this is college. Shit happens, things get crazy, its not a perfect world. Did you go to a same sex college or not go at all?
Do universities really force their students to run university sponsered software on the own student bought and owned pc's (aka the students own private property)? I'd be screaming bloody murder if when I was in college some university network admin tried to install something on my computer without me being able to refuse. Thats the equivelent of the university coming into my room and searching my backpack.
No matter what anyone says you have already made up your mind that they can't be wrong. So why ask the question?
Its called entertainment. Like watching DVD's or playing video games. College is not just all about going to class and getting the grades.
Forget the whole college thing. The students that go there and live in the dorm have chosen that location as their home for 4 or 5 years. In doing so they should be given the ability to act like its their home.
Just because you think P2P applications have no legit use for you doesn't mean some student somewhere doesn't consider their entertainment as a legit use.
Uhhh...these aren't grad students working on thesis papers or conducting research. These are college kids in their rooms with their computers on their off time relaxing.
It may be lame but its a valid response. Keep your software updated and you won't have problems. Don't install security patches in a timely matter and you have noone to blame but yourself.
Everyone can bitch and moan all they want about MS and its inability to write secure code, but the facts still remain that people need to use this stuff. Buggy and insecure or not.
Wasn't there just an article earlier this week about how Japanese style games not making the best sellers lists in the US very often?
This game will sell in Japan because those people are crazy, but it won't sell in the US. It will be a very very small group of people who buy it and then will spout off about how such a great "game" it is and they don't understand why people don't like it.
I wouldn't call Japanese RPG's epic. Not a lot of play, a lot of CGI filler, a lot of blue and purple hair, and a lot of really stupid dialog. Just because its a "large" game doesn't mean its an "epic" game.
I'm just guessing here but I'm assuming they were immediately disqualified because the job seekers weren't looking for anything specific. They were just looking for something. Usually people who write their resumes that way aren't going to be dedicated to the work. They aren't looking to work at the company, they instead are just looking to work anywhere. While they are there they will use the opportunity to make a little money then job search elsewhere at the same time. Its much easier to look for a job while you still have one.
"Assuming, of course, that there are any cardboard boxes in the game. =)"
Oh I'm sure there will be boxes. You'll probably be able to break into them for ammo and such like every other game does. Its the game within the game, breaking boxes for loot.
"The team won't be implementing any sort of penetration model"
So that means I could be on the other side of a cardboard box with the bad guy on the other side behind the box. Both of us facing each other unloading clip after clip into the box to kill each other yet noone will get hit or die because the developers were lazy?
I didn't like the first max payne and it looks like this one will just be more of the same. Bullet time was just a gimick, it got old very quickly. In the end its just a soldier of fortune type game. Ultra violent but no substance.
I asked Valve to delay it so I can put off purchasing a new PC until after Intel drops the CPU prices. Sorry to all those looking forward to HL2, but this is really all just because of me.
So when are the cable companies going to start treating cable modem access as a utility? You give me a pipe that can support a certain bandwidth. Then you advertise it as always on and x times as fast as dial up. Then you encourage me to sign up and use the service. Your commercials advertise downloading music and movies. So I do use it and I use it 24/7. Then provider complains that I use the service too much, yet all I'm doing is using what you sold me.
I wish they'd make up their minds. Either charge everyone like its electricity or water or give everyone true unlimited access for a set fee. They can't have it both ways and expect to keep customers.
Do you not realize how many other kinds of chips Intel makes besides the main CPU's? Intel chips are in just about everything. So I guess you are just going to shun technology entirely? Oh well, your loss.
Yes but people tend to play portables more hours than it would take to watch a dvd. So if this thing can't last the amount of time for a 2 hour flight and 2 more hours of sitting around waiting for the flight its not gonna fly. If you have to constantly plug it in to keep it charged and are walking around an airport looking for an empty outlet to charge your portable it ends up not being very portable.
If it requires the network adapator also we are talking $99+$34. So $133 just to get the ability to play FF online. Thats quite an expensive game to only get 1 month of free play time. Isn't that almost what the PS2 is costing now just for the hardware?
I refuse to pay to play a game online that I've already paid to buy.
Ok, did they give their design department the day off with these? The keyboard is butt ugly. There is no border an no base for proper ergonomics. At least include a small removable base that attaches to the bottom. The almost zero boarder around the keyboard is very wierd looking. At least the mouse should have included a rechargable battery pack. I have the logitech cordless elite duo that has the MX 700 mouse and their cordless keyboard. They are absolutely wonderful. I never thought I would like a wireless optical mouse and keyboard but they work great and are very comfortable.
The best keyboard apple ever made was the really large one from a decade or so ago that went for $100 (can't remember the name but I own it). Ever since then they have missed the boat.
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I already have a gamecube, but I just want the first zelda game. They better make this available for those of us who have already have a GC.
Bad because it will make it tight for them financially. Bad because of all the whiners (see posts below mine) and conspiracy theorists who have nothing better to do with their lives except assume that whenever something happens its always the company trying to hide something. Bad because we will all have to keep hearing the whiners complain over and over again about a GAME! Bad for hardware makers because there are tons of people waiting for this game before they upgrade their machines or buy new computers.
This is good for those of us who are waiting to buy new computers. It gives us even more time to save up and wait. There is always some new video card or cpu just on the horizon. The money I would have spent today will be able to buy something better for the same price in April.
Yeah I guess. It all depends upon how you define portable then. I look at it as a portable because you didn't need a separate TV or anything except an outlet of some kind.
I think thats how its spelled. I would consider it to be one of the first portables. It had a carrying handle and was all in one self contained.
It was pretty cool and I almost got one when I was little until my dad found out that the company that made them was going bankrupt or something.
"So they should be allowed to crank up their stereos as loud as they want?"
Sure, this is college
"How about smoking in the hallways?"
If its a smoking floor then why not.
"Why not let them crap in the sinks when they feel like it?"
Now your just being stupid for the sake of being stupid, although shitting in the sinks among other gross things tend to happen. Thats why there are cleaning people.
"No, it's not. It's the collective home of everyone living in the dorm. As such, the residence of said dorm should behave in ways that do not unfairly infringe on the comfort and livability of other students."
So in other words if some student were to get the permission of everyone on the floor it would be ok. Sorry, this is college. Shit happens, things get crazy, its not a perfect world. Did you go to a same sex college or not go at all?
Do universities really force their students to run university sponsered software on the own student bought and owned pc's (aka the students own private property)? I'd be screaming bloody murder if when I was in college some university network admin tried to install something on my computer without me being able to refuse. Thats the equivelent of the university coming into my room and searching my backpack.
No matter what anyone says you have already made up your mind that they can't be wrong. So why ask the question?
Its called entertainment. Like watching DVD's or playing video games. College is not just all about going to class and getting the grades.
Forget the whole college thing. The students that go there and live in the dorm have chosen that location as their home for 4 or 5 years. In doing so they should be given the ability to act like its their home.
Just because you think P2P applications have no legit use for you doesn't mean some student somewhere doesn't consider their entertainment as a legit use.
Uhhh...these aren't grad students working on thesis papers or conducting research. These are college kids in their rooms with their computers on their off time relaxing.
It may be lame but its a valid response. Keep your software updated and you won't have problems. Don't install security patches in a timely matter and you have noone to blame but yourself.
Everyone can bitch and moan all they want about MS and its inability to write secure code, but the facts still remain that people need to use this stuff. Buggy and insecure or not.
Wasn't there just an article earlier this week about how Japanese style games not making the best sellers lists in the US very often?
This game will sell in Japan because those people are crazy, but it won't sell in the US. It will be a very very small group of people who buy it and then will spout off about how such a great "game" it is and they don't understand why people don't like it.
I wouldn't call Japanese RPG's epic. Not a lot of play, a lot of CGI filler, a lot of blue and purple hair, and a lot of really stupid dialog. Just because its a "large" game doesn't mean its an "epic" game.
I'm just guessing here but I'm assuming they were immediately disqualified because the job seekers weren't looking for anything specific. They were just looking for something. Usually people who write their resumes that way aren't going to be dedicated to the work. They aren't looking to work at the company, they instead are just looking to work anywhere. While they are there they will use the opportunity to make a little money then job search elsewhere at the same time. Its much easier to look for a job while you still have one.
The key word being QUALIFIED. You might also want to put in there the word GOOD. There aren't many good ones.
"Assuming, of course, that there are any cardboard boxes in the game. =)"
Oh I'm sure there will be boxes. You'll probably be able to break into them for ammo and such like every other game does. Its the game within the game, breaking boxes for loot.
Stupid:
"The team won't be implementing any sort of penetration model"
So that means I could be on the other side of a cardboard box with the bad guy on the other side behind the box. Both of us facing each other unloading clip after clip into the box to kill each other yet noone will get hit or die because the developers were lazy?
I didn't like the first max payne and it looks like this one will just be more of the same. Bullet time was just a gimick, it got old very quickly. In the end its just a soldier of fortune type game. Ultra violent but no substance.
It says right in the article. With prejudice means they can't sue her again for anything.
I asked Valve to delay it so I can put off purchasing a new PC until after Intel drops the CPU prices. Sorry to all those looking forward to HL2, but this is really all just because of me.
Or so I keep telling myself.
That allow returns on games just because you don't like them? I thought all those disappeared about a decade or so ago.
So when are the cable companies going to start treating cable modem access as a utility? You give me a pipe that can support a certain bandwidth. Then you advertise it as always on and x times as fast as dial up. Then you encourage me to sign up and use the service. Your commercials advertise downloading music and movies. So I do use it and I use it 24/7. Then provider complains that I use the service too much, yet all I'm doing is using what you sold me.
I wish they'd make up their minds. Either charge everyone like its electricity or water or give everyone true unlimited access for a set fee. They can't have it both ways and expect to keep customers.
Do you not realize how many other kinds of chips Intel makes besides the main CPU's? Intel chips are in just about everything. So I guess you are just going to shun technology entirely? Oh well, your loss.
Unfortunatley the G5 case has so many fans and so much space taken up by cooling that there is no room for adding more hard drives or optical drives.
Now you know how mac users felt for all those years. Welcome to a niche platform.
Yes but people tend to play portables more hours than it would take to watch a dvd. So if this thing can't last the amount of time for a 2 hour flight and 2 more hours of sitting around waiting for the flight its not gonna fly. If you have to constantly plug it in to keep it charged and are walking around an airport looking for an empty outlet to charge your portable it ends up not being very portable.
If it requires the network adapator also we are talking $99+$34. So $133 just to get the ability to play FF online. Thats quite an expensive game to only get 1 month of free play time. Isn't that almost what the PS2 is costing now just for the hardware?
I refuse to pay to play a game online that I've already paid to buy.
Ok, did they give their design department the day off with these? The keyboard is butt ugly. There is no border an no base for proper ergonomics. At least include a small removable base that attaches to the bottom. The almost zero boarder around the keyboard is very wierd looking. At least the mouse should have included a rechargable battery pack. I have the logitech cordless elite duo that has the MX 700 mouse and their cordless keyboard. They are absolutely wonderful. I never thought I would like a wireless optical mouse and keyboard but they work great and are very comfortable.
The best keyboard apple ever made was the really large one from a decade or so ago that went for $100 (can't remember the name but I own it). Ever since then they have missed the boat.