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Speak for yourself. There's nothing better than sitting down with a few of your mates for the day, parking a large supply of beer next to you and watching a good international Cricket match.
And the Formula 1! Man, talk about technology. It's a geek's dream sport. Fast cars, cutting edge technology, stuff blowing up now and then, things being measured in thousandths of a second.
Not all geeks hate sport. Not all countires have the same jock/geek class seperation at school that US movie makers love screaming and dancing about, either.
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Single player WCIII is a little boring, but multi-player is fantastic. Warcraft II's multi-player was nothing more than who could perform a grunt rush first.
This expansion will introduce a slew of new units, which will only make multi-player better. If you go about judging Blizzard simply on their single player efforts, then you're not looking at the whole picture.
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.pl (perl), is executed server side. it's cgi.
Java, javascript and activex scripts are executed on your local machine, which is why they can be so dangerous.
Cookies... well, to secure your cookies, the best policy is to turn all the aforementioned capabilities of your browser off. I for one prefer a little more security while browsing as opposed to seeing stupid sites with badly written/unnessesary scripting.
Not so. Microsoft make Office for Mac, why would they stop a revenue flow like that? They're in the business of making money, I'm sure there will still be Mac versions of SC/WC/Diablo in the future (if not, Transgaming has another market to sell WineX in ; )
What I'm worried about in terms of Blizzard is the prospect of Microsoft trying to force them into releasing games before they're done, or perhaps cutting the fantastic support Blizzard gives it's games. I'm also worried that this may see an exclusive deal for Starcraft:Ghost, which I'm really looking forward to playing on my GameCube.
Anyone who complains about the control is misinterpreting the game, Metroid Prime IS NOT a FPS, it's Metroid in 3D. Simple as that. Go play a classic Metroid, see the type of game it is? Prime is all that in 3D.
If you're going to approach it as a "Halo killer" or and Quake rip-off, then of course the controls are going to suck for you, but approach it as a 3D Metroid, and the controls are blissful.
Don't get me wrong, I thought the controls sucked too, but once I actually played the game for an hour or so, they started to feel right. Anyone who's missing strafing and freelook, has clearly missed the target lock-on feature - the controls are right for the job.
Man has been changing his environment since the first day he learned to walk (picking berries from bushes means less food for some animals, killing animals for food means less food for the natural predators of those animals, the development of farming causes vast tracts of land to be deforested, etc).
Dont't you see? Man isn't part of nature, we're seperate from it, we only seek to destroy it. Seriously though, I would say that human cultural and technological evolution can be seen as part of a natural process. We are, after all, creatures of the earth, we've got just as much right to use the land as any other animal, we're just hundreds of thousands of times more efficiant at doing it (stupid baboons, let's see you develop a written language!).
Why should anyone use any kind of technology at all? We got far enough without it. I mean, why don't I just stop taking my daily insulin shots - it's technology after all. It's opinions like that which belong on an Amish farm.
I agree that the it's cheaper, easier and more "natural" to let the weather do it's own thing, but think of the people who could be helped with technology like this. You'd be able to increase the amount of arable farm land in places like Australia or the Middle East/Africa - allowing more food to be grown more easily.
Yes, it'll be playing around with the weather and I'm pretty sure we won't fully understand the earth's meterological patterns before we're able to change them, but if we're careful, it shouldn't be a problem.
"And this explains why XBox costs more than PS2. Oh wait no, XBox comes with a harddrive and the hardware is a year ahead of PS2. And whaddya know, they both cost the same amount. Research before you post such "shite.""
Yeah. 'cause ya know, I've never actually looked at the prices of console and low, I have no idea what I'm talking about as far as the console industry goes.
The Xbox is obviously the same price as far as the consumer is concerned, but as far as production goes, MS is losing more money on each Xbox than Sony or Nintendo. In fact, the GameCube is the first console Nintendo had produced where it has made a loss on selling the hardware, and then they've only been losing a few dollars on each, so saying "Besides, everyone knows that consoles start at a large loss and profit later on through games", is, what's the word? Oh yes, incorrect. (perhaps you should do a little research, yourself)
The only reason the Xbox is even going is because of Microsoft's endless cash stokepile. It just shows they're less concerned with making money, and more with controlling another market.
"XBox comes with a harddrive and the hardware is a year ahead of PS2"
Wow. Who would have thought that a piece of hardware released a year after another would be about a year's worth of development better? If you have any other impressively insightful commentry such as that, please share it. I'm sure people are far too stupid to figure that kind of thing out.
"It's one of the few parts of MS that I think is doing a fine job.".
That's nice. The Xbox lost MS $117 million last quater.
The review was shite, it tried to put forward that since the Xbox's ethernet port is built in, that the Xbox is far superior to the GC and PS2 in terms of connectivity. It doesn't make a shit bit of difference; let's see anyone play online without buying a Live kit first. Having ethernet built in simply ups the price of the overall console.
Microsoft propoganda dressed as an objective review. It's total bollocks.
I agree. The overall tone was nothing more than a extended, high profile moan.
I have been playing games for the better part of 2 decades (right from when I was but a wee boy), and though I've been addicted to my fair share of games, there's never been a point where I've not been able to put down the controller so I can go and do other stuff.
Though I have no basis for the following claim, as I've never played EQ (though I have played other open ended higly competitive online games), I seriously doubt that people are actually addicted to this as badly as they claim they are. I would suggest that anyone who does consider themselves addicted to EQ, or any other game take a step back and think "is it worth my time?". If you honestly consider the answer to be "yes", then keep playing, otherwise stop. There's heaps of better games out there ; )
On another note, I personally got a kick out of this quote: "Playing EQ is a lot like playing in a casino; you can see your winnings vanish in the blink of an eye out of sheer bad luck." - So what you're saying is playing EQ is EXACTLY the same as playing in a casino...... he's obviously never been to a casino.
Few credit out $100 note gacing Ernest Rutherford for splitting the atom first either, but what ya gonna do?
Come to think of it, why isn't Pearce on one of our notes? Edmund Hillary and Rutherford are. I think we should kick the queen off our 20s and put a right nutter in her place. That'll learn 'em.
We sure as hell weren't living in industrial countires 1 million years ago. I'm sure we'll notice ths, but I doubt there'll be any mass extinction (of course, I am making assumptions here).
I'm as worried about this as I am about the sun exploding. It's not likely to happen in my life, so I'll leave the problem to the/. crowd of the future to solve.
It's like a playground spat: "We don't want you bringing your friends to our treehouse, it's for members only!"
Of course, the reason Russia can afford to keep contributing to the ISS, is because of those "jackasses". The US needs to stop whining. Russia obviously has a huge interest in the ISS, or they wouldn't bother selling rides to finance their parts of the project.
Launching a trip to Mars, for example, from L1 would require much less energy than from either the surface of the Earth, or low Earth orbit, or the surface of the moon.
That's all well and good, but you have to get TO L1 FROM the Earth or low Earth Orbit, or the Moon before you can enjoy the benefits of a low energy launch.
Wouldn't getting your launch ship there in the first place, nullify any benefits of relaunching from there?
Hey, I'm a Kiwi, I'm just trying to make a point. The only reason I can think of for them completely avoiding reporting on our media's freedom, is because they don't consider us important enough.
Mind you, with the amount of cuddly animal stories on the evening news, it's probably not worth reporting on anyway.
Well, they are environmentalists, what do they care for scientific procedure? I still disagree with the figure.
Eariler this year I was in a plane flying over Siberia. We were flying at ~1000KM/H and it took a good 8 hours to get across Russia. What could I see from 30,000 feet up? Nothing but pine forest to the horizon. Tiny farms only started appearing when we started getting close to the Western Russia border.
Then of course there's Antartica, Northern Canada, Greenland, Australia and other such places where to population is so low, and the land mass so great, that this figure starts bordering on the edge of stupidity.
If you look at their map, you'll notice their scale is complete bollocks. It's not labeled, it just a useless legend with numbers like 0-1 next to particular colours. 0-1 what?
No, first you will complain about the fact that they wont sell it, despite the fact that you have little knowledge of the situation (have you played the game or heard from the ESRB?)
Quit bitching. No I haven't played it, but I imagine it'll play like any other Acclaim BMX game. I'm not judging the game, nor am I saying I don't care about the situation. I'm not complaining that they won't sell it, I'm saying their attitude is childish.
I know plenty about the situation. Wal-Mart are being a bunch of babies. It's just a game.
Oh, and XXXL shirts are porn shirts. Or so I hear. I also hear that XXX chilli sauce is hugely popular in the porn industry. XXXX is an Australian beer, obviously because XXX isn't enough to portray the vast amount of nudity involved in the brewing process.
Finally, 24cxxx is an opensource project for programming EPROMs (obviously with library support for pumping out porn).
Yeah, that XXX movie was full of hard-core sex and such. Oh no, wait, it wasn't. It's just a name.
Let's be realistic here, the game will be rated M. Simple as that. If you sell or rent an M rated game/video to a minor, at least here in New Zealand, you get fined. Simple. That's why the ratings exist.
If Wal-Mart et al are too immature to carry this title, and feel it nessesary to release a whiney, pathetic "so there" statement to the media ("We're not going to carry any software with any vulgarity or nudity -- we're just not going to do it," Wal-Mart spokesman Tom Williams told Reuters." - what? Is he going to cry now? Grow up.), then I'll simply spend my money elsewhere.
On the other hand you could look at it like brakes: they keep you alive and need regular fluids and servicing that doesn't come free
That's the equivalent of keeping your apps up to date. The fact the brakes are there free of addition charge to the car's initial cost is the point. Maintenance of safety features != existance of safety features.
Why go to Australia? It's horribly hot and has a billion deadly poisonous snakes. New Zealand is much nicer and cheaper.
All in all, New Zealand has 1 poisonous animal, a spider. If it bites you, you'll feel a bit ill. But that's all.
Sure we don't do as well in the sporting world, but we split the atom, climbed Everest and gave women the vote first, so there are some saving graces. Plus, you'll be just 3 hours flight from Sydney.
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And the Formula 1! Man, talk about technology. It's a geek's dream sport. Fast cars, cutting edge technology, stuff blowing up now and then, things being measured in thousandths of a second.
Not all geeks hate sport. Not all countires have the same jock/geek class seperation at school that US movie makers love screaming and dancing about, either.
The ball will be the winner on the day.
This expansion will introduce a slew of new units, which will only make multi-player better. If you go about judging Blizzard simply on their single player efforts, then you're not looking at the whole picture.
Cookies... well, to secure your cookies, the best policy is to turn all the aforementioned capabilities of your browser off. I for one prefer a little more security while browsing as opposed to seeing stupid sites with badly written/unnessesary scripting.
What I'm worried about in terms of Blizzard is the prospect of Microsoft trying to force them into releasing games before they're done, or perhaps cutting the fantastic support Blizzard gives it's games. I'm also worried that this may see an exclusive deal for Starcraft:Ghost, which I'm really looking forward to playing on my GameCube.
If you're going to approach it as a "Halo killer" or and Quake rip-off, then of course the controls are going to suck for you, but approach it as a 3D Metroid, and the controls are blissful.
Don't get me wrong, I thought the controls sucked too, but once I actually played the game for an hour or so, they started to feel right. Anyone who's missing strafing and freelook, has clearly missed the target lock-on feature - the controls are right for the job.
Dont't you see? Man isn't part of nature, we're seperate from it, we only seek to destroy it. Seriously though, I would say that human cultural and technological evolution can be seen as part of a natural process. We are, after all, creatures of the earth, we've got just as much right to use the land as any other animal, we're just hundreds of thousands of times more efficiant at doing it (stupid baboons, let's see you develop a written language!).
I agree that the it's cheaper, easier and more "natural" to let the weather do it's own thing, but think of the people who could be helped with technology like this. You'd be able to increase the amount of arable farm land in places like Australia or the Middle East/Africa - allowing more food to be grown more easily.
Yes, it'll be playing around with the weather and I'm pretty sure we won't fully understand the earth's meterological patterns before we're able to change them, but if we're careful, it shouldn't be a problem.
Yeah. 'cause ya know, I've never actually looked at the prices of console and low, I have no idea what I'm talking about as far as the console industry goes.
The Xbox is obviously the same price as far as the consumer is concerned, but as far as production goes, MS is losing more money on each Xbox than Sony or Nintendo. In fact, the GameCube is the first console Nintendo had produced where it has made a loss on selling the hardware, and then they've only been losing a few dollars on each, so saying "Besides, everyone knows that consoles start at a large loss and profit later on through games", is, what's the word? Oh yes, incorrect. (perhaps you should do a little research, yourself)
The only reason the Xbox is even going is because of Microsoft's endless cash stokepile. It just shows they're less concerned with making money, and more with controlling another market.
"XBox comes with a harddrive and the hardware is a year ahead of PS2"
Wow. Who would have thought that a piece of hardware released a year after another would be about a year's worth of development better? If you have any other impressively insightful commentry such as that, please share it. I'm sure people are far too stupid to figure that kind of thing out.
But what about their fantastic ninja skills and the ability to fight crime and the forces of evil?
That's nice. The Xbox lost MS $117 million last quater.
The review was shite, it tried to put forward that since the Xbox's ethernet port is built in, that the Xbox is far superior to the GC and PS2 in terms of connectivity. It doesn't make a shit bit of difference; let's see anyone play online without buying a Live kit first. Having ethernet built in simply ups the price of the overall console.
Microsoft propoganda dressed as an objective review. It's total bollocks.
I have been playing games for the better part of 2 decades (right from when I was but a wee boy), and though I've been addicted to my fair share of games, there's never been a point where I've not been able to put down the controller so I can go and do other stuff.
Though I have no basis for the following claim, as I've never played EQ (though I have played other open ended higly competitive online games), I seriously doubt that people are actually addicted to this as badly as they claim they are. I would suggest that anyone who does consider themselves addicted to EQ, or any other game take a step back and think "is it worth my time?". If you honestly consider the answer to be "yes", then keep playing, otherwise stop. There's heaps of better games out there ; )
On another note, I personally got a kick out of this quote: "Playing EQ is a lot like playing in a casino; you can see your winnings vanish in the blink of an eye out of sheer bad luck." - So what you're saying is playing EQ is EXACTLY the same as playing in a casino...... he's obviously never been to a casino.
Your right. I shouldn't be putting my banknote creativity into /. posts, but instead, direct it towards fighting crime and the forces of evil!
Come to think of it, why isn't Pearce on one of our notes? Edmund Hillary and Rutherford are. I think we should kick the queen off our 20s and put a right nutter in her place. That'll learn 'em.
I'm as worried about this as I am about the sun exploding. It's not likely to happen in my life, so I'll leave the problem to the /. crowd of the future to solve.
It's like a playground spat: "We don't want you bringing your friends to our treehouse, it's for members only!"
Of course, the reason Russia can afford to keep contributing to the ISS, is because of those "jackasses". The US needs to stop whining. Russia obviously has a huge interest in the ISS, or they wouldn't bother selling rides to finance their parts of the project.
That's all well and good, but you have to get TO L1 FROM the Earth or low Earth Orbit, or the Moon before you can enjoy the benefits of a low energy launch.
Wouldn't getting your launch ship there in the first place, nullify any benefits of relaunching from there?
Mind you, with the amount of cuddly animal stories on the evening news, it's probably not worth reporting on anyway.
Guess the few savages who live in those countires can't read anyway... so what the hey.
Eariler this year I was in a plane flying over Siberia. We were flying at ~1000KM/H and it took a good 8 hours to get across Russia. What could I see from 30,000 feet up? Nothing but pine forest to the horizon. Tiny farms only started appearing when we started getting close to the Western Russia border.
Then of course there's Antartica, Northern Canada, Greenland, Australia and other such places where to population is so low, and the land mass so great, that this figure starts bordering on the edge of stupidity.
If you look at their map, you'll notice their scale is complete bollocks. It's not labeled, it just a useless legend with numbers like 0-1 next to particular colours. 0-1 what?
Quit bitching. No I haven't played it, but I imagine it'll play like any other Acclaim BMX game. I'm not judging the game, nor am I saying I don't care about the situation. I'm not complaining that they won't sell it, I'm saying their attitude is childish.
I know plenty about the situation. Wal-Mart are being a bunch of babies. It's just a game.
Oh, and XXXL shirts are porn shirts. Or so I hear. I also hear that XXX chilli sauce is hugely popular in the porn industry. XXXX is an Australian beer, obviously because XXX isn't enough to portray the vast amount of nudity involved in the brewing process.
Finally, 24cxxx is an opensource project for programming EPROMs (obviously with library support for pumping out porn).
Grow up.
Let's be realistic here, the game will be rated M. Simple as that. If you sell or rent an M rated game/video to a minor, at least here in New Zealand, you get fined. Simple. That's why the ratings exist.
If Wal-Mart et al are too immature to carry this title, and feel it nessesary to release a whiney, pathetic "so there" statement to the media ("We're not going to carry any software with any vulgarity or nudity -- we're just not going to do it," Wal-Mart spokesman Tom Williams told Reuters." - what? Is he going to cry now? Grow up.), then I'll simply spend my money elsewhere.
This is the same reason the proposed live action movie of Samurai Jack scares me.
That's the equivalent of keeping your apps up to date. The fact the brakes are there free of addition charge to the car's initial cost is the point. Maintenance of safety features != existance of safety features.
All in all, New Zealand has 1 poisonous animal, a spider. If it bites you, you'll feel a bit ill. But that's all.
Sure we don't do as well in the sporting world, but we split the atom, climbed Everest and gave women the vote first, so there are some saving graces. Plus, you'll be just 3 hours flight from Sydney.