What? judging from your sig I assume your american and you may be interested to know that the enemies in the european version was made _harder_ because the american version was judged to easy. I don't think I tried a single area or boss more than twice before getting to the two last bosses (I played the european version and I'm not the kind to usually beat games easily).
We will be sending you your Ivan Drago "I beat you puny americans mwahaha!" trophy in the mail.
To be honest P-Frank, I'm pretty sure I'd rather spend my two hours playing *not* getting killed and looted by players like you. While you may enjoy the playstyle, I doubt the ones at the other end of the gank attack enjoy it as much.
It's been my experience that people trying to convince others about the virtue of full-on pvp ("risk vs. reward!") are people trying to get more targets to play their games so they can have more fun.
Sorry buddy, but when your fun starts, mine ends. And the point of the article was that if a company makes games for people like me, they will get our money. The fact that you even mentionned perma-death as a good thing is an atrocity when it comes to rpgs. I won't pay money to amuse you my friend.
Right-on max. I also think the money I pay for FFXI is worth just as much as the money that the people with no jobs/lives. I play with 2 other RL friends that also work full time jobs and have lives (babies, hobbies, etc).
We're kinda pissed right now that we have to farm money for ~100 hours to be able to buy our high level equipment, and that levelling past the point we're at will take us dozens and dozens of hours (killing the monsters ourselves is impossible at the level you can use the equipment). If they made a server where you couldn't play more then 20 hours a week but everything was way faster (money, experience, downtimes), I'd be on there in a second and never look back.
Never mind that having 10 000 guys like me that will play 1-2 nights and hopefully one day on the weekend makes your server much easier to maintain then having 5000 people that play 60 hours a week, so my money is actually worth more.
So, your cell phones and dvd players have PCI slots? The original poster made a stab at the pc industry implying that they used non-compatible hardware for expansion cards. You think it makes sense to *exclude* electronic devices that don't have any PCI slots in the argument? Thought so. Mainframes and servers, yes. Consumer electronics no, you're off-base.
You just don't get it. You're just simply, totally retarded. I just told you I'd switched my mobo already. You make no sense, and you obviously never built a computer from parts. Right now, to increase performance, I could:
- Go from my 9800 pro to a X800 pro, something like 400$ to upgrade. - Go from my 2600+ CPU to a 3200+ CPU, which would cost me ~180.
So tell me how "getting a new computer man" would be better then just upgrading those two parts for 500$ and wind up with:
- 1 gig of ram (done) - Asus A7N8X (always been an Asus fan) - Ati X800 pro - Athlon 3200+
I have a very spiffy antec case and an Antec True Blue 480 watts power supply. I doubt my "new computer man" would get me this kind of quality for 500$. You know nothing about building computer from parts, keep ordering from catalogues but please spare me your ignorance.
This isn't flamebait, this is insightful, in a brutal sort of way. I trade in my parts at 90% of their current value when I upgrade. Right now I have a radeon 9800 pro, if I want an X800 pro, I'd get back 281.70$CAN for my current card, and the new X800 would be 659$CAN. So i'd be looking at 370$ to go from high end to bleeding edge. The main selling point would be the 256 meg of textures (I have a 128meg 9800 pro).
So far, I went from an Athlon XP 2200+ to a 2600+, upgraded my ram, switched my motherboard, went from a radeon 9000 to a 9600 to a 9800pro.
Allright then, they didn't remove anything, they just bumped up the base model to 20 gigs. But why does the article say it's 299$ down from 399$ then? You have to pick one:
1) Price has been reduced from 399$ to 299$. 2) They did not remove the dock or carry case.
You're aware you're setting a dangerous precedent by requiring slashdot posters to know what they're talking about, right? If this concept catches on, this place will be a ghost town, with only four posts per topic, all rated +5, informative.
connect your Mac to the box with a quality firewire cable
Did the salesman tell you the bits would sound better, or that the 0's and 1' would have more warmth to it? Any firewire cable will do, paying more for it won't make it better.
However I pretty much expect trolls to bring back "they didn't fix a bug for 2 years" for quite a while now. However, like someone pointed out already in another comment of the same discussion, the bug was theoritically there but the actual application of it was one day before the fix, which prompted the fix.
The original poster was right, and your uninformed bash at his comment caused the truth to be modded down. Maybe he doesn't like Microsoft, but even paranoid people get it right sometimes.
You may want to read this interesting article. In it, you'll find that this "shell bug" he's talking about is exactly what the mozilla bug was, and that it also affects word and MSN messenger.
Sorry to burst your bubble. And technically MS didn't fix it yet, they just disabled ADODB.Stream until they do.
Keep in mind that charging for your time can have two goals:
1) Income 2) Moderation
If I'm a busy person and have only a limited number of time to spend visiting special events, I'll set the price at the point where the demand (for that price point) will not exceed the time I have available for that activity.
This is similar to computer geeks charging people to go fix their computers once they have a real job. It's not to make more money, it's so you don't spend every single hour of your free time fixing other people's computer, and only the people that REALLY needs your help will take your time.
If Michael Moore only charged 1000$ to go and do those events, he would be booked every single day out of the year, and that would keep him from doing what he really wants to do.
I've had many fights about this. The one that comes to mind is a middle-aged lady that works in another office of my company. She drives an Acura EL, which is a canada-only model, basically a more luxurious civic (under the hood it's exactly like a civic of the same year, 1.7L non-vtec for this particular year).
No matter how hard I tried to explain about compression ratios and why higher compression can cause low-octane fuel to ignite before the spark (but not for her car), it was no use. In her head the more expensive gas HAD to be better, and since she wanted to take care of her car she used it. I even showed her that Acura/Honda recommended regular gas for her car, no go. It just wouldn't register.
I love your shoe analogy, I'll make sure to remember it. I'll see if that can make her understand that she's wasting money.
However, don't bitch about the price. You WILL pay more for less storage, that's the cost of reliability.
You do know that the I stands for inexpensive? The whole point of having redundant drives is that the drives can be much cheaper and you still have much more reliability then very expensive standalone drives, because both drives that are mirrored must fail at the same exact time to lose everything.
Quick canadian price check: Maxtor Atlas 10K IV 143 Gb : 934 CAN$ Maxtor SATA 200Gb, 8 mb cache : 205 CAN$
My advice is buy a nice motherboard that support RAID 0+1 with 4 SATA connectors. Buy 4 of those drives for 820 CAN$, and you'll have 400Gb of mirrored HD space for 114$ less then a single 143Gb SCSI drive. Or follow Sycraft's advice, get a RAED (expensive) and spend thousands of dollards for less HD space. Add more $$$ if your motherboard doesn't have onboard SCSI.
Most "deluxe" boards from asus come with onboard SATA RAID nowadays, haven't seen any recent one with onboard SCSI. If you aren't running a server, you shouldn't even be thinking about SCSI imho, altough this was not true 4-5 years ago for bleeding edge enthusiasts.
What long term bugs are you talking about? The only annoyance I have with firefox 0.8 is the "Your downloads have finished" that looks like a link, but isn't one. I'm still clicking on it months after installing Firefox.
I think he meant the F-16, which took three years for the final design to be accepted after the release of the specs requirement. A boat is a much larger structure, but like the F-16, they were constructing the boat using different technologies already available and tailoring a production model to the swedish army's specs.
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What? judging from your sig I assume your american and you may be interested to know that the enemies in the european version was made _harder_ because the american version was judged to easy. I don't think I tried a single area or boss more than twice before getting to the two last bosses (I played the european version and I'm not the kind to usually beat games easily).
We will be sending you your Ivan Drago "I beat you puny americans mwahaha!" trophy in the mail.
To be honest P-Frank, I'm pretty sure I'd rather spend my two hours playing *not* getting killed and looted by players like you. While you may enjoy the playstyle, I doubt the ones at the other end of the gank attack enjoy it as much.
It's been my experience that people trying to convince others about the virtue of full-on pvp ("risk vs. reward!") are people trying to get more targets to play their games so they can have more fun.
Sorry buddy, but when your fun starts, mine ends. And the point of the article was that if a company makes games for people like me, they will get our money. The fact that you even mentionned perma-death as a good thing is an atrocity when it comes to rpgs. I won't pay money to amuse you my friend.
Right-on max. I also think the money I pay for FFXI is worth just as much as the money that the people with no jobs/lives. I play with 2 other RL friends that also work full time jobs and have lives (babies, hobbies, etc).
We're kinda pissed right now that we have to farm money for ~100 hours to be able to buy our high level equipment, and that levelling past the point we're at will take us dozens and dozens of hours (killing the monsters ourselves is impossible at the level you can use the equipment). If they made a server where you couldn't play more then 20 hours a week but everything was way faster (money, experience, downtimes), I'd be on there in a second and never look back.
Never mind that having 10 000 guys like me that will play 1-2 nights and hopefully one day on the weekend makes your server much easier to maintain then having 5000 people that play 60 hours a week, so my money is actually worth more.
So you're telling me Marco is gonna use FreeBSD?
So a lasik Vasectomy would be twice as dangerous then, heh? I'll stick to contact lenses and condoms then.
So, your cell phones and dvd players have PCI slots? The original poster made a stab at the pc industry implying that they used non-compatible hardware for expansion cards. You think it makes sense to *exclude* electronic devices that don't have any PCI slots in the argument? Thought so. Mainframes and servers, yes. Consumer electronics no, you're off-base.
Suddenly, your point looks pretty puny.
When you say the rest of the world, you're referring to the 3-5% of the market that aren't PCs?
Nice attemp to distort reality.
You just don't get it. You're just simply, totally retarded. I just told you I'd switched my mobo already. You make no sense, and you obviously never built a computer from parts. Right now, to increase performance, I could :
:
- Go from my 9800 pro to a X800 pro, something like 400$ to upgrade.
- Go from my 2600+ CPU to a 3200+ CPU, which would cost me ~180.
So tell me how "getting a new computer man" would be better then just upgrading those two parts for 500$ and wind up with
- 1 gig of ram (done)
- Asus A7N8X (always been an Asus fan)
- Ati X800 pro
- Athlon 3200+
I have a very spiffy antec case and an Antec True Blue 480 watts power supply. I doubt my "new computer man" would get me this kind of quality for 500$. You know nothing about building computer from parts, keep ordering from catalogues but please spare me your ignorance.
This isn't flamebait, this is insightful, in a brutal sort of way. I trade in my parts at 90% of their current value when I upgrade. Right now I have a radeon 9800 pro, if I want an X800 pro, I'd get back 281.70$CAN for my current card, and the new X800 would be 659$CAN. So i'd be looking at 370$ to go from high end to bleeding edge. The main selling point would be the 256 meg of textures (I have a 128meg 9800 pro).
So far, I went from an Athlon XP 2200+ to a 2600+, upgraded my ram, switched my motherboard, went from a radeon 9000 to a 9600 to a 9800pro.
Upgrading is a way of life for some PC users.
Allright then, they didn't remove anything, they just bumped up the base model to 20 gigs. But why does the article say it's 299$ down from 399$ then? You have to pick one :
1) Price has been reduced from 399$ to 299$.
2) They did not remove the dock or carry case.
One or the others, you can't have it both ways.
You're aware you're setting a dangerous precedent by requiring slashdot posters to know what they're talking about, right? If this concept catches on, this place will be a ghost town, with only four posts per topic, all rated +5, informative.
Bruce Willis and and Sylvester Stallone were unavailable for comment.
Jennifer Lopez however made a statement to illegal P2P users : "It's turkey time. Come on, gobble gobble."
One would also be foolish to compare a word processor with console hardware.
Buy 'dolphin-safe' tuna?
No, but I buy "Tuna-Safe" Dolphin though.
connect your Mac to the box with a quality firewire cable
Did the salesman tell you the bits would sound better, or that the 0's and 1' would have more warmth to it? Any firewire cable will do, paying more for it won't make it better.
Read my post in another thread and follow the link in it to know why you're wrong.
However I pretty much expect trolls to bring back "they didn't fix a bug for 2 years" for quite a while now. However, like someone pointed out already in another comment of the same discussion, the bug was theoritically there but the actual application of it was one day before the fix, which prompted the fix.
Want to know what the best part is?
The original poster was right, and your uninformed bash at his comment caused the truth to be modded down. Maybe he doesn't like Microsoft, but even paranoid people get it right sometimes.
You may want to read this interesting article. In it, you'll find that this "shell bug" he's talking about is exactly what the mozilla bug was, and that it also affects word and MSN messenger.
Sorry to burst your bubble. And technically MS didn't fix it yet, they just disabled ADODB.Stream until they do.
Keep in mind that charging for your time can have two goals :
1) Income
2) Moderation
If I'm a busy person and have only a limited number of time to spend visiting special events, I'll set the price at the point where the demand (for that price point) will not exceed the time I have available for that activity.
This is similar to computer geeks charging people to go fix their computers once they have a real job. It's not to make more money, it's so you don't spend every single hour of your free time fixing other people's computer, and only the people that REALLY needs your help will take your time.
If Michael Moore only charged 1000$ to go and do those events, he would be booked every single day out of the year, and that would keep him from doing what he really wants to do.
I've had many fights about this. The one that comes to mind is a middle-aged lady that works in another office of my company. She drives an Acura EL, which is a canada-only model, basically a more luxurious civic (under the hood it's exactly like a civic of the same year, 1.7L non-vtec for this particular year).
No matter how hard I tried to explain about compression ratios and why higher compression can cause low-octane fuel to ignite before the spark (but not for her car), it was no use. In her head the more expensive gas HAD to be better, and since she wanted to take care of her car she used it. I even showed her that Acura/Honda recommended regular gas for her car, no go. It just wouldn't register.
I love your shoe analogy, I'll make sure to remember it. I'll see if that can make her understand that she's wasting money.
GET OFF YOUR ASS and VOTE
Don't look at me, I voted for Kodos!
However, don't bitch about the price. You WILL pay more for less storage, that's the cost of reliability.
:
You do know that the I stands for inexpensive? The whole point of having redundant drives is that the drives can be much cheaper and you still have much more reliability then very expensive standalone drives, because both drives that are mirrored must fail at the same exact time to lose everything.
Quick canadian price check
Maxtor Atlas 10K IV 143 Gb : 934 CAN$
Maxtor SATA 200Gb, 8 mb cache : 205 CAN$
My advice is buy a nice motherboard that support RAID 0+1 with 4 SATA connectors. Buy 4 of those drives for 820 CAN$, and you'll have 400Gb of mirrored HD space for 114$ less then a single 143Gb SCSI drive. Or follow Sycraft's advice, get a RAED (expensive) and spend thousands of dollards for less HD space. Add more $$$ if your motherboard doesn't have onboard SCSI.
Most "deluxe" boards from asus come with onboard SATA RAID nowadays, haven't seen any recent one with onboard SCSI. If you aren't running a server, you shouldn't even be thinking about SCSI imho, altough this was not true 4-5 years ago for bleeding edge enthusiasts.
Try RI?? or RI*
That should work.
What long term bugs are you talking about? The only annoyance I have with firefox 0.8 is the "Your downloads have finished" that looks like a link, but isn't one. I'm still clicking on it months after installing Firefox.
Keep your friends close, and your ennemies even closer.
I think he meant the F-16, which took three years for the final design to be accepted after the release of the specs requirement. A boat is a much larger structure, but like the F-16, they were constructing the boat using different technologies already available and tailoring a production model to the swedish army's specs.