Pretty sure the games I have will continue to run on XP, and that XP will run just peachy on the x86 Mac I intend to buy in a year or so...
I was wondering how I could get rid of my XP boxes and still manage to play the games I haven't finished... I'd lost all interest in Longhorn even before Apple announced the move to x86 hardware. I've literally only been using my XP box for gaming since I got an iBook so I could cover Mac OS X in a book.
This is, of course, what They want. You're stealing American jobs... or didn't the Customs officials hassle you enough when you were entering the US originally?
My son is 4.5 and has been playing (or watching me play) video games since, oh, he was born. Naturally, when he was tiny, he just saw cool moving shapes and loud noises... used to sit on my lap when he was six months old, randomly slapping the keyboard while I tried to play Unreal Tournament. Luckily, they don't pick up swearing at that age.;-)
The biggest thing preventing him from playing games like Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (which he loves) by himself is the complete lack of voice-over. It's unusual for kids this age to be able to read. He gets on just fine with games that don't rely on text, or if someone's there to tell him what's going on.
For gaming diversity, he's lucky enough to have a dad who grew up in the golden age of arcades, and who has quite a MAME collection to draw from.
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There's a City of Heroes character on the Victory server named "Stinking Badger"...
We randomly get spam text messages on our cell phone. We don't have text messaging enabled on the phone. Doesn't seem to stop our carrier (Rogers in Ontario) from doing it.
My decision to ignore XP (except for running City of Heroes and my backlog of games) and switch to Mac OS X as soon as possible is looking better and better every day.
Before we even get that far, I'd seriously love to see a simulation of the orbits in this system... I can't figure out how it'd end up being stable (granted my astronomy and physics knowledge aren't at the PhD level).
I don't understand the folks who buy the farmed items/gold and have thus created this "industry". Games are fun, you don't "win" by having huge piles of crap you didn't actually earn in-game, why are people spending real money on this stuff?
I've recently started playing City of Heroes (check the news archive for a free 14-day trial if you're interested) and I wouldn't pay for in-game items even if they were offered to me... I'm playing for fun, not to "beat" some other nerds.
I did appreciate the Influence (that's $$$ in CoH terms) some friends and one totally random player gave me, but I wouldn't have hated the game without it.
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If you want to keep the hardware simplicity and non-beige-box design, you can get a Mac Mini for $500 US.
I did something like that at work one afternoon.
rm -rf * ~ instead of rm -rf *~ to clean out editor backup files.
In preparation for running a backup.
Homo-erotic male ballet?
I was really hoping that gnu.org link went to this sort of thing.
Disappointed again. *sigh*
Until they annex Canada to stop the "flood" of "terrorists" coming over the border into the US. One secure, United States of North America...
Pretty sure the games I have will continue to run on XP, and that XP will run just peachy on the x86 Mac I intend to buy in a year or so...
I was wondering how I could get rid of my XP boxes and still manage to play the games I haven't finished... I'd lost all interest in Longhorn even before Apple announced the move to x86 hardware. I've literally only been using my XP box for gaming since I got an iBook so I could cover Mac OS X in a book.
This is, of course, what They want. You're stealing American jobs... or didn't the Customs officials hassle you enough when you were entering the US originally?
-1, you didn't mention 9/11, "axis of evil", "weapons of mass destruction", etc.
My son is 4.5 and has been playing (or watching me play) video games since, oh, he was born. Naturally, when he was tiny, he just saw cool moving shapes and loud noises... used to sit on my lap when he was six months old, randomly slapping the keyboard while I tried to play Unreal Tournament. Luckily, they don't pick up swearing at that age. ;-)
The biggest thing preventing him from playing games like Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (which he loves) by himself is the complete lack of voice-over. It's unusual for kids this age to be able to read. He gets on just fine with games that don't rely on text, or if someone's there to tell him what's going on.
For gaming diversity, he's lucky enough to have a dad who grew up in the golden age of arcades, and who has quite a MAME collection to draw from.
There's a City of Heroes character on the Victory server named "Stinking Badger"...
We randomly get spam text messages on our cell phone. We don't have text messaging enabled on the phone. Doesn't seem to stop our carrier (Rogers in Ontario) from doing it.
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Yes, yes he is. Have you seen how "fast" pot-heads move? It'd be like getting beaten up by Urkel.
That's it, Citizen, you just earned yourself a trip to the Freedom Zone!
My decision to ignore XP (except for running City of Heroes and my backlog of games) and switch to Mac OS X as soon as possible is looking better and better every day.
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos!
Seriously, every single Marvel hero, villain, character, etc. will already be present in the game as an NPC.
They'll probably offer events that tie-in with issues of the comics.
Before we even get that far, I'd seriously love to see a simulation of the orbits in this system... I can't figure out how it'd end up being stable (granted my astronomy and physics knowledge aren't at the PhD level).
Possibly because it ended up being so bloody stupid compared to Pitch Black?
Har har, looking at the article, I see: Firefox prevented the site from opening a popup.
Wonder if it installs any tracking cookies.
I was interning at Starbucks, you insensitive clod!
I don't understand the folks who buy the farmed items/gold and have thus created this "industry". Games are fun, you don't "win" by having huge piles of crap you didn't actually earn in-game, why are people spending real money on this stuff?
I've recently started playing City of Heroes (check the news archive for a free 14-day trial if you're interested) and I wouldn't pay for in-game items even if they were offered to me... I'm playing for fun, not to "beat" some other nerds.
I did appreciate the Influence (that's $$$ in CoH terms) some friends and one totally random player gave me, but I wouldn't have hated the game without it.
Isn't that generally how company executives are chosen?
But comets generate an atmosphere as the approach the sun, don't they? Isn't that what makes the coma glow (solar wind hitting the atmosphere)?