Depends on the book. War and Peace will certainly give you more hours of reading than Catcher in the Rye. It will also cost more. But either way it's still far below dollars per hour for video games. "Catcher" cost me $10 and I finished it in about four hours. "Disgaea" cost $50 and I have over 100 hours clocked.
Big difference here though. Even though it was Windows flawed security which allowed for the propogation of Melissa and other worms/viruses, it was not Microsoft that created/implemented and distributed Melissa.
Why would Microsoft want to do that? They would lose the sale of a Windows license. More likely is they will get Virtual PC ported over so you still have to buy Windows.
You know the problem with playing DDR or any other music/rhythm based game at an arcade is? It's so frigging loud at the arcade that you can't hear the game, making it very difficult to get a feel for the rhythm.
That's not entirely true. For instance, AFIAK arcade gaming is still very popular in Japan, despite access to equally powered machines at home. I think it's because arcade games offer gameplay that isn't available on home machines, at least not without purchasing expensive and space consuming accessories. Also I believe arcades can be a social outlet. Why play with a stranger you can't see or hear over the internet when you can play with a stranger standing right next to you:)
I think TFA's assumption is correct. American gamers aren't interesting in dancing or playing drums or sticking fingers in people's butts (real game!). They just wanna kick some ass, and they can do that at home.
It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have allowed themselves
to be so swiftly deluded by a fraudulent fabrication of such ridiculous
proportions. The very idea that not one, but two jumbo jets would crash
themselves into a famous New York skyscraper -- in broad daylight with vigilant
air-traffic controllers and tight airport security watching every move of every
craft in the air -- is laughable. Furthermore, it is a horrendous affront to
the world-renowned intellect and common sense of the American people. The fact
that anyone could actually believe this is evidence that the Liberals -- after
decades of waging war against intellectual integrity and honesty -- have
finally ripped the few remaining, tenuous strands of control of our educational
system from full-blooded, hard-working, God-fearing Americans.
As such wonderful documentaries as The Siege have so articulately exposed, the
Liberal masterminds in Berkeley and their toadies throughout the nation have
been silently waging war against the American people and their God-given rights
to protect themselves, their worship, their family values, and their hard work.
Much of this has been conducted under the guise of preventing "terrorism", a
meaningless word engineered by radical left-wingers specifically to bring fear
into the heart of honest Americans. Think about it -- can you remember any
reference to so-called "terrorism" that occurred before Liberals invaded our
government offices in the last decade? Of course you can't, because despite
whatever the revisionist histories may tell you, there is no mention of any
"terrorism" in classic literature before 1980. Only then did the neo-Marxists
invent such absurd figures as Timothy McVeigh and Osama Bin Laden in order to
legitimize their anti-freedom agenda, drowning the spirit of the American
people in a blatantly-engineered machine of fear and mourning for "victims" of
these "terrorist attacks".
In fact, it should be incredibly obvious that the concept of a 110-story
building even being built, much less two, is a clear and obvious fraud. No
documentation of these "twin towers" existed before a "terrorist attack"
occured on the previously-nonexistent pair of skyscrapers on September the
11th. Due to this hoax being perpetrated by the Liberal-controlled media,
suddenly people all over the world mourned the loss of thousands of people who
had not existed before. Innocent men and women, brainwashed by the left-wing
education institutions, gave firsthand accounts of losing relatives they never
had until the "attack" happened.
But the most outrageous aspect of this hoax is the "Pentagon" -- a government
office fabricated especially for this purpose. Liberal media claims this
imaginary building to be "the center of America's defense system", although
obviously an organization as proud and God-fearing as the United States
Military would never think to station themselves in a building of five sides,
so obviously close to the pentagram, mark of Lucifer himself. It is insulting
to the nation's intelligence that eight hundred members of the world's proudest
institution would be made to meet their Lord by something as graceful,
efficient, and secure as our country's fine aviation system.
Don't let the devious tricks of the Liberals allow you, a citizen of the
greatest nation this Earth has ever or will ever know, to surrender your
freedoms. Any lesser nation would have succumbed to their wills long ago, and
indeed the socialist states in Europe already have. It is only the superior
resilience, pride, and intellect of America that has allowed it to withstand
the constant threat of Liberal control.
" In the near future don't be surprised to see ISPs and cell phone companies start to merge."
It's a little late for that, don't you think? Who are the biggest ISPs in the country? Probably SBC, Verizon, and Comcast. Who are the biggest cell service providers? Cingular (SBC) and Verizon.
That's nothing new. They do that in the US with DAT tapes (probably the reason it never caught on), and in Canada with CD-Rs and HD based players, I believe.
But one euro?! Each? Or for a 10 pack? I can't imagine paying one euro per blank DVD.
Starbucks coffee isn't bad in and of itself. It's the way they make it at Starbucks that makes it taste like crap. Those huge commercial drip coffee machines are incapable of making good coffee. I buy Starbucks beans and make it at home (using a coffee press) and it tastes pretty damn good. Granted, it's not Jamaica Blue Mountain, but I can't justify spending $40/lb for coffee.
American spellings of those words are as such to be more phonetic. You can thank/blame Noah Webster for that idea. Think about it though. "Theatre"? Phonetically, it would be pronounced thee-tree. The spelling "Theater" is truer to how the word is pronounced.
The only reason anyone watches broadcast networks anymore is because cable and satellite companies make them available on their systems. Very, very few homes have an antenna for receiving over the air broadcasts, and if cable/satellite didn't provide them, people probably wouldn't bother.
And why couldn't you get local news/traffic/sports/etc over satellite radio? If satellite TV can provide local feeds for certain channels, why not satellite radio?
"Metal Gear Solid gets the extra cultural bonus of being mostly radio plays, where you don't actually get to see anything, and instead listen to two talking head portraits talk to each other for hours!"
They fixed that problem in Metal Gear Solid 3. Very few of the cutscenes are just radio conversations. Metal Gear Solid has the most "solid" plot in the series too. Sure it's a little cheesy with the supernatural villians and whatnot, but it's far more deep and sophisticated than its predacesors by leaps and bounds. If any game could be called a work of art, it would be MGS3.
What I can't believe is that a lot of help desk jobs list 4 year CS degrees as a requirement. It's a fucking help desk! A trained monkey could do that job. I know because I used to work help desk along with a lot of other trained monkeys. I find it unreasonable that companies are demanding that you waste four years of your life and rack up tens of thousands in debt just to be able to answer phones, talk to idiots, and reset their forgotten passwords. Not to mention a CS program would probably teach you nothing relavent to PC troubleshooting.
Are you talking about Trauma Center? Cuz if you are it has been done on the PC before. Way back when in 1988 there was a game called Life and Death where you performed surgery. It doesn't play the same as Trauma Center, but it's a similar concept.
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Depends on the book. War and Peace will certainly give you more hours of reading than Catcher in the Rye. It will also cost more. But either way it's still far below dollars per hour for video games. "Catcher" cost me $10 and I finished it in about four hours. "Disgaea" cost $50 and I have over 100 hours clocked.
Big difference here though. Even though it was Windows flawed security which allowed for the propogation of Melissa and other worms/viruses, it was not Microsoft that created/implemented and distributed Melissa.
Why would Microsoft want to do that? They would lose the sale of a Windows license. More likely is they will get Virtual PC ported over so you still have to buy Windows.
Don't worry. They'll fix this as soon as Apple releases a EM64T system.
LPs are also very much alive in the hip-hop scene. And to a lesser extent the indie rock scene. I still buy them anyway
That's my excuse anyway :)
I think TFA's assumption is correct. American gamers aren't interesting in dancing or playing drums or sticking fingers in people's butts (real game!). They just wanna kick some ass, and they can do that at home.
What Vista terms? Please enlighten me. Is there something in there that sayeth that thou shalt not make Bluray drivers for Vista or something?
When you have to fill two networks with 24 hours worth of programming every day, everything qualifies as a "sport"
It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have allowed themselves to be so swiftly deluded by a fraudulent fabrication of such ridiculous proportions. The very idea that not one, but two jumbo jets would crash themselves into a famous New York skyscraper -- in broad daylight with vigilant air-traffic controllers and tight airport security watching every move of every craft in the air -- is laughable. Furthermore, it is a horrendous affront to the world-renowned intellect and common sense of the American people. The fact that anyone could actually believe this is evidence that the Liberals -- after decades of waging war against intellectual integrity and honesty -- have finally ripped the few remaining, tenuous strands of control of our educational system from full-blooded, hard-working, God-fearing Americans. As such wonderful documentaries as The Siege have so articulately exposed, the Liberal masterminds in Berkeley and their toadies throughout the nation have been silently waging war against the American people and their God-given rights to protect themselves, their worship, their family values, and their hard work. Much of this has been conducted under the guise of preventing "terrorism", a meaningless word engineered by radical left-wingers specifically to bring fear into the heart of honest Americans. Think about it -- can you remember any reference to so-called "terrorism" that occurred before Liberals invaded our government offices in the last decade? Of course you can't, because despite whatever the revisionist histories may tell you, there is no mention of any "terrorism" in classic literature before 1980. Only then did the neo-Marxists invent such absurd figures as Timothy McVeigh and Osama Bin Laden in order to legitimize their anti-freedom agenda, drowning the spirit of the American people in a blatantly-engineered machine of fear and mourning for "victims" of these "terrorist attacks". In fact, it should be incredibly obvious that the concept of a 110-story building even being built, much less two, is a clear and obvious fraud. No documentation of these "twin towers" existed before a "terrorist attack" occured on the previously-nonexistent pair of skyscrapers on September the 11th. Due to this hoax being perpetrated by the Liberal-controlled media, suddenly people all over the world mourned the loss of thousands of people who had not existed before. Innocent men and women, brainwashed by the left-wing education institutions, gave firsthand accounts of losing relatives they never had until the "attack" happened. But the most outrageous aspect of this hoax is the "Pentagon" -- a government office fabricated especially for this purpose. Liberal media claims this imaginary building to be "the center of America's defense system", although obviously an organization as proud and God-fearing as the United States Military would never think to station themselves in a building of five sides, so obviously close to the pentagram, mark of Lucifer himself. It is insulting to the nation's intelligence that eight hundred members of the world's proudest institution would be made to meet their Lord by something as graceful, efficient, and secure as our country's fine aviation system. Don't let the devious tricks of the Liberals allow you, a citizen of the greatest nation this Earth has ever or will ever know, to surrender your freedoms. Any lesser nation would have succumbed to their wills long ago, and indeed the socialist states in Europe already have. It is only the superior resilience, pride, and intellect of America that has allowed it to withstand the constant threat of Liberal control.
FWIW, Greencine, another DVD-by-mail service has porn in addition to everything else. Hasn't helped them capture the market.
It's a little late for that, don't you think? Who are the biggest ISPs in the country? Probably SBC, Verizon, and Comcast. Who are the biggest cell service providers? Cingular (SBC) and Verizon.
But one euro?! Each? Or for a 10 pack? I can't imagine paying one euro per blank DVD.
I use BitComet and I've not experienced anything like that on private trackers like BoxTorrents. It seems to be able to log my UL/DL ratio accurately.
Starbucks coffee isn't bad in and of itself. It's the way they make it at Starbucks that makes it taste like crap. Those huge commercial drip coffee machines are incapable of making good coffee. I buy Starbucks beans and make it at home (using a coffee press) and it tastes pretty damn good. Granted, it's not Jamaica Blue Mountain, but I can't justify spending $40/lb for coffee.
American spellings of those words are as such to be more phonetic. You can thank/blame Noah Webster for that idea. Think about it though. "Theatre"? Phonetically, it would be pronounced thee-tree. The spelling "Theater" is truer to how the word is pronounced.
(also, the fact that you said "San Fran" makes me skeptical as to whether or not you are actually from San Francisco)
Yes, Creative made a card called the 3DO Blaster that let you play 3DO games on your PC. More info here
And why couldn't you get local news/traffic/sports/etc over satellite radio? If satellite TV can provide local feeds for certain channels, why not satellite radio?
They fixed that problem in Metal Gear Solid 3. Very few of the cutscenes are just radio conversations. Metal Gear Solid has the most "solid" plot in the series too. Sure it's a little cheesy with the supernatural villians and whatnot, but it's far more deep and sophisticated than its predacesors by leaps and bounds. If any game could be called a work of art, it would be MGS3.
Or, my personal favorite, assign it to the mouse wheel
What I can't believe is that a lot of help desk jobs list 4 year CS degrees as a requirement. It's a fucking help desk! A trained monkey could do that job. I know because I used to work help desk along with a lot of other trained monkeys. I find it unreasonable that companies are demanding that you waste four years of your life and rack up tens of thousands in debt just to be able to answer phones, talk to idiots, and reset their forgotten passwords. Not to mention a CS program would probably teach you nothing relavent to PC troubleshooting.
AFAIK, nVidia has discontinued production of the original Xbox's GPU. So once existing stocks run out, they won't be able to produce any more Xboxes.
Are you talking about Trauma Center? Cuz if you are it has been done on the PC before. Way back when in 1988 there was a game called Life and Death where you performed surgery. It doesn't play the same as Trauma Center, but it's a similar concept.
Sure they do