The brick-and-mortar shopping experience is still worth it if I want something now or doing what to worry about paying for shipping (usually I buy *more* than I need at Amazon for small purchases to qualify for free shipping).
They are also taking the time to curate the collection of media that they're sharing.
If one were to volunteer at their local brick and mortar library, would they not be acting altruistically? Was Andrew Carnegie a thief for helping fund the creation of 2,509 public libraries? I’m sure that many publishers would prefer that their media not be freely available at these libraries.
I recently had the privilege of serving as a juror in a DUI trial. I was quite pleased to discover that the Judge appeared unbiased, if not slightly more lenient towards the defense.
Also, the defense attorney poked so many holes in the prosecutor's argument: that the jury only had to deliberate for about ten minutes. I was absolutely shocked to learn that he was a public defender.
On top of that, the defendant was a black male from the city while the jury was entirely white suburbanites.
Going into the trail, I expected that the system was going to screw the defendant, but the Judge showed no bias, the Public Defender was competent, and the Jury presumed the defendant to be innocent. Now I feel like the media is full of shit.
I know how fun it can be to get your hands dirty, and its amazing how empowering it feels once you realize that you can build your own circuts, but if you're on a tight budget, why not turn to simulated circuts. There are plenty of flash apps and games like Gate out there.
Whats the big deal, are you going to get pissed off the next time you visit a web site that shows your locat temperature even though the server is located in india?
I really don't see what the problem is, its not like the station is trying to scam its listeners.
I'ts fan art. If the mod went retail then I would object to it, but right now, telling me that I can not create a starwars modifictaion is like telling a child that he can not draw a storm trooper.
If its anything like the movies then NASA will send Pauly Shore and Sean Astin to go dig a hole on mars. After digging for several months they will find a little green man (played by Brendan Fraser.)
Astin and Shore will dress it up in a space suit, in order to trick NASA officials into beliving that its the forign exchange cosmonaught.
According to Raph Koster the Art Vs. Entertainment arguement is inherently flawed. I could sumarise the essay for you but I am lazy. Go read "The Case for Art" before you start arguing about being a puppet in a game designers show. http://www.legendmud.org/raph/gaming/casefo rart.ht ml
It would seem to me that the vast majority of the AMD overclocking community is interested in overclocking older chips that have been significantly reduced in price. So how is it that selling off your old chips at a discounted price (to reduce overhead) is a good buisness model?
While consoles may be less expencive, they lack the flexibility of a PC. And we are just talking about computers here, one is just more expencive then the other... But in my experience, you get what you pay for.
If numbers are all that people care about, let them open the spill gates for the console games. IMHO, the console games just suck. GTA3 is the best console game that I have played, yet it lacked the strong story line that you woould expect from a bioware title, the fast pace that you would demand from an ID title, and the beutiful graphics that you would find in almost any recent PC title.
My point is that sure there may be some good games. There may even be some great ones (anything squaresoft touches turns to gold) but what does all that show about the state of the art? Nothing. Standard, yet ghetto hardware is never going to take over.
So untill ID releases quake 4 on the XBox, and bioware develops BG3 for the ps2 I won't give a shit. If the day comes that I can get a better experience by playing on a console, I will switch. But if anyone thinks that some BS propaganda is going to make consoles look any better, they have annother thing comming.
This sort of thing has been happening for years in online worlds. Interesting how games that supposedly degrade a person's civility can harbor such a beutiful testament of pure respect.
So is there a way that I can prevent myself from being scanned? Having one of these chips could *in the long run* make life more convenient. Imagine going to the bar and not having to provide the bar tender with your ID, just swipe your hand across the scanner and you get your beer.
What makes me uncomfortable about this whole thing though, is that *provided there is a popular demand for these things* Big brother could stick high powered scanners up all over the place and track me. Quite frankly, that would suck. Would I be able to wear a special glove that produced feedback and would thus thwart any scanning attempts?
BTW, is it just me, or are we getting one step closer to the Weyland Yutani Corp. building an Atmospheric Processing Center on LV-426?
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With the recent entrance of the seccond generation MMORPG on the gaming front, processors that were considered decent no more then six months agao are now not even worthy of the title 'decrepit'. Games like Anarchy Online, Starwars Galaxies, and Dark Age of Camelot, only to name a few, are pushing the benchmark higher and higher for gamer.
If MMORPGs dont suit your taste, take a look at a few new less eppic games such as Giant: Citizen Kabuto from early last year, people couldnt run that with all the widgets and gizmos cranked up to the maximum level, I could barely even play it on my PIII 500, and that was almost a year agao. Now-a-days we have we have to look out for games like Civ3, and Aliens Vs. Predator 2, recent titles that managed to make a bitch out of a 1GHZ box. Sure these games arn't exactly the crem de la creme of efficient software, but they are what we have. Rather then praying for a revolution where we hold developers by the neck and tell them to slow down their development I say that we should support them. All though new games are beutiful, they don't compare to the Enterprise's Holodeck.
Now unless you can show me a cost effective meathod that will speed up games and make them run on my old P2, I suguest that you quit your bitching. I for one want a system that will allow me to crank up the realism and not come to a screaching halt.
Now if you hate your bloated software, don't use it. You can get by without any of it, throw linux on your 486, surf the net with w3m, write your efficient code in vi, and use pine to send me a letter telling me how wonderful the world was before the evil corparation forced you to buy you a faster computer.
Untill you are prepared to throw away all of your nifty little gadgets that showed up with faster processors, don't complain. Play your old games, listen to your.midis and don't try to stop inovation.
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The brick-and-mortar shopping experience is still worth it if I want something now or doing what to worry about paying for shipping (usually I buy *more* than I need at Amazon for small purchases to qualify for free shipping).
Its easy to spend exactly what you need for free shipping with tools like
Amazon Filler Item Finder and Slick Fillers
This isn't the Scott Lowe you're looking for. Move along, move along.
They are also taking the time to curate the collection of media that they're sharing.
If one were to volunteer at their local brick and mortar library, would they not be acting altruistically? Was Andrew Carnegie a thief for helping fund the creation of 2,509 public libraries? I’m sure that many publishers would prefer that their media not be freely available at these libraries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_library
Is it an African Strike, or European?
I recently had the privilege of serving as a juror in a DUI trial. I was quite pleased to discover that the Judge appeared unbiased, if not slightly more lenient towards the defense.
Also, the defense attorney poked so many holes in the prosecutor's argument: that the jury only had to deliberate for about ten minutes. I was absolutely shocked to learn that he was a public defender.
On top of that, the defendant was a black male from the city while the jury was entirely white suburbanites.
Going into the trail, I expected that the system was going to screw the defendant, but the Judge showed no bias, the Public Defender was competent, and the Jury presumed the defendant to be innocent. Now I feel like the media is full of shit.
I know how fun it can be to get your hands dirty, and its amazing how empowering it feels once you realize that you can build your own circuts, but if you're on a tight budget, why not turn to simulated circuts. There are plenty of flash apps and games like Gate out there.
I've never heard of you or your game before, but perhaps now I'll download it and have a look. If its worth $20, I may even buy it.
Whats the big deal, are you going to get pissed off the next time you visit a web site that shows your locat temperature even though the server is located in india?
I really don't see what the problem is, its not like the station is trying to scam its listeners.
A system is only as secure as its most insecure user / service.
You can get the kit for this mod at Think Geek: http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/cases/6151/
Not just pictures. Naked pictures....
Mmmm naked female game developers, I'd buy that playboy.
I'ts fan art. If the mod went retail then I would object to it, but right now, telling me that I can not create a starwars modifictaion is like telling a child that he can not draw a storm trooper.
Now we will be able to detect the terrorists at they attempt to crash Zeplins into our buildings!
If its anything like the movies then NASA will send Pauly Shore and Sean Astin to go dig a hole on mars. After digging for several months they will find a little green man (played by Brendan Fraser.)
Astin and Shore will dress it up in a space suit, in order to trick NASA officials into beliving that its the forign exchange cosmonaught.
According to Raph Koster the Art Vs. Entertainment arguement is inherently flawed. I could sumarise the essay for you but I am lazy.o rart.ht ml
Go read "The Case for Art" before you start arguing about being a puppet in a game designers show.
http://www.legendmud.org/raph/gaming/casef
Wow, these wind tunnels have a lot of uptime... They must run linux.
Yeah I know its lame but im tired, and there are wolves chasing after me.
According to the Engrish .pdf These gizmos only fire an IR beamh /manual/cd.pdf
http://www.konami.co.jp/th/micro_ir/combat/englis
It would seem to me that the vast majority of the AMD overclocking community is interested in overclocking older chips that have been significantly reduced in price. So how is it that selling off your old chips at a discounted price (to reduce overhead) is a good buisness model?
While consoles may be less expencive, they lack the flexibility of a PC. And we are just talking about computers here, one is just more expencive then the other... But in my experience, you get what you pay for.
If numbers are all that people care about, let them open the spill gates for the console games. IMHO, the console games just suck. GTA3 is the best console game that I have played, yet it lacked the strong story line that you woould expect from a bioware title, the fast pace that you would demand from an ID title, and the beutiful graphics that you would find in almost any recent PC title.
My point is that sure there may be some good games. There may even be some great ones (anything squaresoft touches turns to gold) but what does all that show about the state of the art? Nothing. Standard, yet ghetto hardware is never going to take over.
So untill ID releases quake 4 on the XBox, and bioware develops BG3 for the ps2 I won't give a shit. If the day comes that I can get a better experience by playing on a console, I will switch. But if anyone thinks that some BS propaganda is going to make consoles look any better, they have annother thing comming.
What mistake did you make? I think the best thing to come out of this would be for others to learn from your mistake.
If we are going to traffic IP, we may as well be safe about it.
This sort of thing has been happening for years in online worlds. Interesting how games that supposedly degrade a person's civility can harbor such a beutiful testament of pure respect.
So is there a way that I can prevent myself from being scanned? Having one of these chips could *in the long run* make life more convenient. Imagine going to the bar and not having to provide the bar tender with your ID, just swipe your hand across the scanner and you get your beer.
What makes me uncomfortable about this whole thing though, is that *provided there is a popular demand for these things* Big brother could stick high powered scanners up all over the place and track me. Quite frankly, that would suck. Would I be able to wear a special glove that produced feedback and would thus thwart any scanning attempts?
BTW, is it just me, or are we getting one step closer to the Weyland Yutani Corp. building an Atmospheric Processing Center on LV-426?
"Weyland Yutani, Building Better Worlds."
and some of us get a thrill and get laid.
With the recent entrance of the seccond generation MMORPG on the gaming front, processors that were considered decent no more then six months agao are now not even worthy of the title 'decrepit'. Games like Anarchy Online, Starwars Galaxies, and Dark Age of Camelot, only to name a few, are pushing the benchmark higher and higher for gamer.
.midis and don't try to stop inovation.
If MMORPGs dont suit your taste, take a look at a few new less eppic games such as Giant: Citizen Kabuto from early last year, people couldnt run that with all the widgets and gizmos cranked up to the maximum level, I could barely even play it on my PIII 500, and that was almost a year agao. Now-a-days we have we have to look out for games like Civ3, and Aliens Vs. Predator 2, recent titles that managed to make a bitch out of a 1GHZ box. Sure these games arn't exactly the crem de la creme of efficient software, but they are what we have. Rather then praying for a revolution where we hold developers by the neck and tell them to slow down their development I say that we should support them. All though new games are beutiful, they don't compare to the Enterprise's Holodeck.
Now unless you can show me a cost effective meathod that will speed up games and make them run on my old P2, I suguest that you quit your bitching. I for one want a system that will allow me to crank up the realism and not come to a screaching halt.
Now if you hate your bloated software, don't use it. You can get by without any of it, throw linux on your 486, surf the net with w3m, write your efficient code in vi, and use pine to send me a letter telling me how wonderful the world was before the evil corparation forced you to buy you a faster computer.
Untill you are prepared to throw away all of your nifty little gadgets that showed up with faster processors, don't complain. Play your old games, listen to your