But you should be able to return it directly to Blizzard.
Boycott Howto:
*Get a lot of money (or indignated consumers) *Buy Latest Blizzard game in droves. *Open the box. Copy the game. Copy the CD-Key. Scratch the cds a little. *Return all the package to Blizzard, arguing you don't agree with the EULA. *Post Cd-keys somewhere on the net. *Repeat (since you got the money back, why not?)
(assuming no need to emulate nvidia chips as the direct x / 3d layer should mean ATI would work as well - assuming game developers behaved themselves)
I don't think all developers have respected directX. Yeah, all those PC ports probably do, but some exclusive titles most probably try to get all the juice from the nvidia chip, doing things that will be very hard to emulate on the ATI. If you want an example, take Halo. The PC version needs a computer WAY more powerful than a Xbox, probably due to the fact that Bungie fine tuned Halo for the Xbox. I guess that most of the killer apps for the Xbox are in the same situation (Ninja Gaiden, etc).
On the other hand, I don't think Microsoft would go to all the trouble to provide backwards compatibility, just to have to exclude the most popular title for their console.
Question is how cheap are 700mhz x86 chips these days?
Not much cheaper, unless you buy them used. Moore Law says that you can make a processor twice as powerful as the one you did 18 months ago. But doesn't say that you can make a processor of half the power at half the cost.
We ditch on them because they have a nebolous business plans that smells fishy to many. And ignorante people are investing money on them, and when they find out they were robed blind, they will blame the videogame industry, and the industry will be hurt.
That money invested on the phantom could have been better invested on small indie developers to bring them to the big arena. (like the guys that made pontifex, instead of having them supporting the phantom, and thus just gaining ridicule and a stain on their resume)
And because of the whole HardOCP debacle. They are innovative yes, but they are scamming people.
All I want are battery life figures that aren't coming from the manufacturer. From some game mag or game site that actually has the thing in hand and has been playing games with lots of bells and whistles, not some basic settings with the backlights off in some crappy "battery save" mode or something.
Why? Nintendo historically has said the truth; They said the SP would have 16-20 hours of battery life with the backlight off, and half that with the light on. It does that. They said the gamecube would move 7-12 millions of polys for second. In fact it moves more.
If Nintendo said that the DS will allow you to fly between countries, I would start making the paperwork to get a passport.
On the other hand, Sony and Microsoft, well, they aren't very reliable about their numbers. PS2 would move hundreds of millions of pollys. Yeah f&cking right...If they say the PSP will have a decent battery life, it means "you will be able to walk from one plug to another, and your battery will last just that".
Sony has screwed you not one, not two, but three times! and you still think on going back to them!
People like you has made Microsoft the monster it is today. It was not Bill Gates, nor Ballmer, nor some bad decision at IBM. Just uneducated customers.
Well, if they trust the system to provide the app the date, you just give the app another library; your system can still use the right lib, so your dates are okay.
If the app phones home to get the date, you just study the packets and eventually, you get to find out the right message.
It has a handle, just like the one on the gamecube which has been the target of many jokes. If MS does something right, is marketing, and they will know better than put something like that on their console.
If I say "John Smith has not beat his wife in the past eight months" it implies that at some point in the past he abused her. The statement may be true, but very deceptive. Moore used the same tactics in Fahrenheir 9/11.
You are slightly wrong here.
"John Smith has not beat his wife in the past eight months" only implies that JS' wife has not been beaten in the past months. It is not certain if she was beaten in other periods.
The false implication generally is sneaked in a question:
"Why did JS stop beating his wife in the past 8 months?" or "When did...", etc.
-Both of them never had any real family. -Sephiroth got to know about his origins in a shocking way and went mad. Kefka was mad since the begining, but he killed the Emperor, so maybe he also had some hate for what they did to him (yeah, I'm extrapolating)
Sephiroth gets an advantage for having the "karma" of his crazy dad experimenting in his mom. Kefka doesn't have a family. But, Sephy didn't know this, so that can't be called a motive.
Think. If you had played FF6 first, THEN ff7, you may have experimented a LOT of deja vu on the story. Again, I say that Sephy is a better Kefka, but Kefka was more original.
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That is very cool, but, could you give me a link to free beer?
Please?
But you should be able to return it directly to Blizzard.
Boycott Howto:
*Get a lot of money (or indignated consumers)
*Buy Latest Blizzard game in droves.
*Open the box. Copy the game. Copy the CD-Key. Scratch the cds a little.
*Return all the package to Blizzard, arguing you don't agree with the EULA.
*Post Cd-keys somewhere on the net.
*Repeat (since you got the money back, why not?)
I find the TOS gameplay very compeling. It is a nice mix between the 80s and 90s beat'em ups, and a standard RPG.
The history has some nice turns and twists, and there is a lot of extra things to see. I was not a fan of Namco until this game. yay!
What's next? A free OS made by hippies on their free time?
It would never achieve the stability and security of one made by microsoft!
In other news, the Gartner Group and the Alexis de Tocqueville anounce a new joint venture!!
It is a lot of money. Maybe Sony will lower it a bit in the upcoming weeks, or before the release.
Metal Gear Acid is a turn based card game. You may enjoy it a lot if you are into yugioh and such things.
Not to say it is gonna be a bad game. It is just not the Metal Gear you expect.
In fact, the CPL is not inherently evil (but MS is :).
The FSF uses the GPL for their projects, but they actually suggest that contributors give copyrights back to them. Well, the CPL enforces this.
a) include an x86 processor
(assuming no need to emulate nvidia chips as the direct x / 3d layer should mean ATI would work as well - assuming game developers behaved themselves)
I don't think all developers have respected directX. Yeah, all those PC ports probably do, but some exclusive titles most probably try to get all the juice from the nvidia chip, doing things that will be very hard to emulate on the ATI. If you want an example, take Halo. The PC version needs a computer WAY more powerful than a Xbox, probably due to the fact that Bungie fine tuned Halo for the Xbox. I guess that most of the killer apps for the Xbox are in the same situation (Ninja Gaiden, etc).
On the other hand, I don't think Microsoft would go to all the trouble to provide backwards compatibility, just to have to exclude the most popular title for their console.
Question is how cheap are 700mhz x86 chips these days?
Not much cheaper, unless you buy them used. Moore Law says that you can make a processor twice as powerful as the one you did 18 months ago. But doesn't say that you can make a processor of half the power at half the cost.
Yeah, and the Fable players are also funny.
(Fable is a single player game)
We ditch on them because they have a nebolous business plans that smells fishy to many. And ignorante people are investing money on them, and when they find out they were robed blind, they will blame the videogame industry, and the industry will be hurt.
That money invested on the phantom could have been better invested on small indie developers to bring them to the big arena. (like the guys that made pontifex, instead of having them supporting the phantom, and thus just gaining ridicule and a stain on their resume)
And because of the whole HardOCP debacle. They are innovative yes, but they are scamming people.
Maybe the guy who wrote the book wants to actually MAKE MONEY from it!
How greedy!
All I want are battery life figures that aren't coming from the manufacturer. From some game mag or game site that actually has the thing in hand and has been playing games with lots of bells and whistles, not some basic settings with the backlights off in some crappy "battery save" mode or something.
Why? Nintendo historically has said the truth; They said the SP would have 16-20 hours of battery life with the backlight off, and half that with the light on. It does that. They said the gamecube would move 7-12 millions of polys for second. In fact it moves more.
If Nintendo said that the DS will allow you to fly between countries, I would start making the paperwork to get a passport.
On the other hand, Sony and Microsoft, well, they aren't very reliable about their numbers. PS2 would move hundreds of millions of pollys. Yeah f&cking right...If they say the PSP will have a decent battery life, it means "you will be able to walk from one plug to another, and your battery will last just that".
We, the people of Mars, reclaim this building for us!
We are tired of the metanacs controlling our lives!
We must control the entrance into our world!
Give us back what is rightfully ours!
(Red/Green/Blue Mars are cool)
Yeah, but it can't be the only reason. Nintendo DS will be launched this year on America and Japan, but only in the first quarter of 2005 in Europe.
Some people in Japan don't like Europeans, it seems.
The price is the right one, and the bunmdle is perfect!
Nintendo has played his cards very well this time.
Sony has screwed you not one, not two, but three times! and you still think on going back to them!
People like you has made Microsoft the monster it is today. It was not Bill Gates, nor Ballmer, nor some bad decision at IBM. Just uneducated customers.
The aforementioned term springs from the same mindset from which the term "World Series" is applied to a US-only baseball league.
Nobody else in the world bothers with beisbol. Too boring. (Yeah cubans also care. And some wacko Japanese)
It's just like the Miss Universe Contest. You can be sure there are not other girl in the Universe as pretty as ours.
Well, if they trust the system to provide the app the date, you just give the app another library; your system can still use the right lib, so your dates are okay.
If the app phones home to get the date, you just study the packets and eventually, you get to find out the right message.
Yeah, and then pirates just need to alter the date te software thinks it is really, and away they go.
Yeah I like it too, but most idiots who think they are l33t make fun of it.
It has a handle, just like the one on the gamecube which has been the target of many jokes. If MS does something right, is marketing, and they will know better than put something like that on their console.
>>Michael Moore appropriated the title of his classic book Fahrenheit 411 for his documentary Fahrenheit 9/11
>Bradbury must be getting old if he can't remember the titles of his own books.
Bah, The fact is, that modern paper is easier to burn...
If I say "John Smith has not beat his wife in the past eight months" it implies that at some point in the past he abused her. The statement may be true, but very deceptive. Moore used the same tactics in Fahrenheir 9/11.
You are slightly wrong here.
"John Smith has not beat his wife in the past eight months" only implies that JS' wife has not been beaten in the past months. It is not certain if she was beaten in other periods.
The false implication generally is sneaked in a question:
"Why did JS stop beating his wife in the past 8 months?" or "When did...", etc.
Yeah maybe, but, what motives?
-Both of them never had any real family.
-Sephiroth got to know about his origins in a shocking way and went mad. Kefka was mad since the begining, but he killed the Emperor, so maybe he also had some hate for what they did to him (yeah, I'm extrapolating)
Sephiroth gets an advantage for having the "karma" of his crazy dad experimenting in his mom. Kefka doesn't have a family. But, Sephy didn't know this, so that can't be called a motive.
Think. If you had played FF6 first, THEN ff7, you may have experimented a LOT of deja vu on the story. Again, I say that Sephy is a better Kefka, but Kefka was more original.