GTA3 (PS2) was a top seller in every country you could get a PS2 in. For many people (Including me) it was a large reason for buying the PS2.
Then GTA3 (PC) was released; again a top seller (although not as much as the PS2 version).
Then GTA3:Vice City, solely on the strnegth of GTA3, outsold the original GTA3.
Both games achieved game of the year awards from almost every public reviewer.
GTA3 is vastly superior to pretty much every game released at the same time as it. Although the graphics weren't as good as they could be, nobody cared, because the gameplay, plot, and freedom you have as a player far outweigh the graphics. The fact that the younger gamers are finally realizing this, at least for a brief moment, is, I feel, a Good Thing(tm).
I have many games that Rockstar Games has distributed. They distribute amazing games, plain and simple.
Has anyone here ever played State of Emergency? If you want a game to go on a mindless killing spree to clear your mind, throw away GTA3 and GTA3:VC and get this game, its fantastic; much more fast paced and the music gets you more pumped.
There are only two things I've ever bought the extended warranty from.
Both I bought from Future Shop (which I think has one of the best warranty plans)
I bought the warranty for my PS2, a 2 year over-the-counter replacement, no questions asked, for about $30. I figured this may come in handy as my last PS2 died in under a year, and the 90day warranty from Sony was long overdue.
The other thing was my Sony FD WEGA TV.
It was listed @ $999, but I since I got the display model (they were out of stock at the store) the price was $899. Because I told them I couldn't afford more than $1100, they dropped the price of the 6 year warranty to $75 (as opposed to $150). Every 6 months I have techs from Future Shop come to my house, open up, and properly clean my TV as part of the warranty.
I must say I am very pleased, however I would never buy extended warranty from any other store, and I would never buy extended warranty on any computer parts. Both for much the same reasons many others have posted here.
Missing, unreadable, or best yet incorrect, comments in your code go a long way to assure job security. Don't make it too easy for them to replace you.
Alternatively, do what I do.
Although my code is not very well documented, I keep my bosses very close in the loop, moreso towards the end of develpment of a module, but still close enough that they know exactly what the code does and how long it took me to write it.
I do this at a high level, of course, but I make sure they understand my logic in solving a given problem.
This way they know that I can write code that's far cleaner and more efficient than anything they can write in less time than and equivalent would take them to write.
In this way, they are very happy with me (as I have redeveloped many of their processes in favor of efficiency), as well they have time to deal with the many clients.
Personally I don't think I have much to worry about in terms of job security.
the internet is much bigger than 2 DVDs, more like tera or exabytes
Add to that the warezpups on IRC, the web, all the file archives, all the mirrors of those file archives, all the datawarehouses, achives of datawarehouses, etc... and I think you're going way over exabytes (1000 PB I'm assuming?)
(4.7G on a SSSD (single sided, single density - not that anybody remembers those)
Actually when talking about DVDs, the density of each layer cannot change.
I believe you are referring to SSSL (Single-Sided, Single-Layer) DVDs, as each since on a regular red-ray DVD disc can have two layers of data.
I'm not sure if that's the same for the famed blu-ray discs or not, I would appreciate it if someone could enlighten me.
Here in Canada, at least, if you drop your number (whether switching companies or wahtever) it goes in a 3 month 'recycling' phase, during which it is not given to another customer.
Just like I have the last 4 versions. Slackware is the only way to run Gnu/Linux.
Except, of course, that slack is not GNU/linux.
Technically only Debian is GNU/Linux.
I know RMS tries to put the GNU/ name on everything, but i didn't think he had extended it to other distros yet...
BTW, this isn't a flame... I'm a slacker myself (I think my potato-peeling, woody-sqeezing friend is on crack for liking Debian, but to each their own right?)
Does anyone know a SAFE way to work Gnome 1.4 back into this (assuming a fresh slack 9.0 install) so as to get legacy GNOME apps like Galeon and Evolution working?
Look on Google for a package archive:
Here is one that I use.
I have Evolution 1.2.1 running on Dropline Gnome-2.2/X4.3.0, Slackware 8.1 (Soon to b 9)
I, on the other hand, have exactly the opposite story.
Back in 1996 A friend of mine who owned an ISP (Didn't everyone back then?) gave me a SUSE cd set, coz he was busy with his RH disk. I installed it, not knowing anything about unix/linux, and couldn't figure out how to get anything at all to work.
Within a week I had wiped my linux partition and didn't touch linux again until 1999 when i got into slack.
I haven't looked back.
The first part of your sentece is something you said: I never said that we shouldn't use what cows we have
In other words, we should use what cows we have.
So, we should use what cows we have, but we should get rid of what cows we have? how is that not contradictory?
Think about what you want to say before you type, and especially before you reiterate, albeit incorrectly, by denying the validity of my resonse
...you followed that question up with telling me that those are dairy products
No, he said they come from cows. He said nothing about dairy products. Last time I checked, beef is not a dairy product.
The farmer was talking about implementing this as a solution for the future, basically increasing the amount of cows in usage.
Are YU a total fucking moron? Don't paraphrase unless you can get it right. The farmer said nothing about increaing the number of cows, just doing something productive with the cow's waste, which was being created anyways.
I never said that we shouldn't use what cows we have, but I AM saying that we should get rid of the cows we have.
Now you're just proving you have the intelligence of a 14 year old by contradicting yourself. Not in separate paragraphs, but in following senenct fragments.
At least the shit the cows make is useful... yours, however, I'm not sure anyone will ever find a use for.
The internet is not stupid; it is...
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'The Internet isn't complicated. The Internet isn't a thing...'
'The internet is a place where people the world over gather to bitch about movies and share pronography'
Why is it that it seems these days every new distro is based upon Slackware?!?!
Because it's the best? Just kidding...
You do know that asking that question will just get every fellow slacker posting that as a response?
Seriously though, it is a very good base, although its update cycle is long. Many packages are old and sometimes deprecated.
Slack8.1 still comes with Gnome 1.4 (although dropline Gnome is beautiful).
Maybe people got sick of waiting for things to become 'officially' supported by slack, so rolled out their own pseudo-distro.
Somebody can't move your arms and legs and force you to take a sledgehammer to the hot water heater. If you are running Unix as root, any code that you run could make you do just that. It's worth protecting yourself against virii by not running as root.
Not only that, but in your own house you know better than to hit your water heater with a sledge hammer, unless you know what you are doing.
On computers, the people who this guide is written for do not know better, and as such, shouldn't do it
It was Joey (Dr. Doom, Ultra-Laser) who originally hacked the Gibson...
Ld. Nikon was one of the first ones booted in the hack-a-thon at the end of the movie...
'The technology will be integrated into the Windows code, sources said."
Ok... so I can run one instance of linux under the buggy WXP VPC code, requiring a $2000 PC and a $500 license, or I can grab one of the 486s out of the dumpster that I've seen a lot of people throw out and run one instance of linux under that at the same speed...
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Result? Top seller in Norway that year.
GTA3 (PS2) was a top seller in every country you could get a PS2 in. For many people (Including me) it was a large reason for buying the PS2.
Then GTA3 (PC) was released; again a top seller (although not as much as the PS2 version).
Then GTA3:Vice City, solely on the strnegth of GTA3, outsold the original GTA3.
Both games achieved game of the year awards from almost every public reviewer.
GTA3 is vastly superior to pretty much every game released at the same time as it. Although the graphics weren't as good as they could be, nobody cared, because the gameplay, plot, and freedom you have as a player far outweigh the graphics. The fact that the younger gamers are finally realizing this, at least for a brief moment, is, I feel, a Good Thing(tm).
I have many games that Rockstar Games has distributed. They distribute amazing games, plain and simple.
Has anyone here ever played State of Emergency? If you want a game to go on a mindless killing spree to clear your mind, throw away GTA3 and GTA3:VC and get this game, its fantastic; much more fast paced and the music gets you more pumped.
N+1 Cheers for Rockstar!
And I read state of the eniac...
Aren't those things dead yet?
There are only two things I've ever bought the extended warranty from.
Both I bought from Future Shop (which I think has one of the best warranty plans)
I bought the warranty for my PS2, a 2 year over-the-counter replacement, no questions asked, for about $30. I figured this may come in handy as my last PS2 died in under a year, and the 90day warranty from Sony was long overdue.
The other thing was my Sony FD WEGA TV.
It was listed @ $999, but I since I got the display model (they were out of stock at the store) the price was $899. Because I told them I couldn't afford more than $1100, they dropped the price of the 6 year warranty to $75 (as opposed to $150). Every 6 months I have techs from Future Shop come to my house, open up, and properly clean my TV as part of the warranty.
I must say I am very pleased, however I would never buy extended warranty from any other store, and I would never buy extended warranty on any computer parts. Both for much the same reasons many others have posted here.
Missing, unreadable, or best yet incorrect, comments in your code go a long way to assure job security. Don't make it too easy for them to replace you.
Alternatively, do what I do.
Although my code is not very well documented, I keep my bosses very close in the loop, moreso towards the end of develpment of a module, but still close enough that they know exactly what the code does and how long it took me to write it.
I do this at a high level, of course, but I make sure they understand my logic in solving a given problem.
This way they know that I can write code that's far cleaner and more efficient than anything they can write in less time than and equivalent would take them to write.
In this way, they are very happy with me (as I have redeveloped many of their processes in favor of efficiency), as well they have time to deal with the many clients.
Personally I don't think I have much to worry about in terms of job security.
the internet is much bigger than 2 DVDs, more like tera or exabytes Add to that the warezpups on IRC, the web, all the file archives, all the mirrors of those file archives, all the datawarehouses, achives of datawarehouses, etc... and I think you're going way over exabytes (1000 PB I'm assuming?)
(4.7G on a SSSD (single sided, single density - not that anybody remembers those)
Actually when talking about DVDs, the density of each layer cannot change.
I believe you are referring to SSSL (Single-Sided, Single-Layer) DVDs, as each since on a regular red-ray DVD disc can have two layers of data.
I'm not sure if that's the same for the famed blu-ray discs or not, I would appreciate it if someone could enlighten me.
Here in Canada, at least, if you drop your number (whether switching companies or wahtever) it goes in a 3 month 'recycling' phase, during which it is not given to another customer.
It's not that simple
If you disagree, send $1 to 'Arguing Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace'
Just like I have the last 4 versions. Slackware is the only way to run Gnu/Linux.
Except, of course, that slack is not GNU/linux.
Technically only Debian is GNU/Linux.
I know RMS tries to put the GNU/ name on everything, but i didn't think he had extended it to other distros yet...
BTW, this isn't a flame... I'm a slacker myself (I think my potato-peeling, woody-sqeezing friend is on crack for liking Debian, but to each their own right?)
Does anyone know a SAFE way to work Gnome 1.4 back into this (assuming a fresh slack 9.0 install) so as to get legacy GNOME apps like Galeon and Evolution working?
Look on Google for a package archive:
Here is one that I use. I have Evolution 1.2.1 running on Dropline Gnome-2.2/X4.3.0, Slackware 8.1 (Soon to b 9)
As others have said, to upgrade ur version:
rsync slackware-current (from any of the mirrors) upgradepkg *
I, on the other hand, have exactly the opposite story.
Back in 1996 A friend of mine who owned an ISP (Didn't everyone back then?) gave me a SUSE cd set, coz he was busy with his RH disk. I installed it, not knowing anything about unix/linux, and couldn't figure out how to get anything at all to work.
Within a week I had wiped my linux partition and didn't touch linux again until 1999 when i got into slack.
I haven't looked back.
Small Computer Storage Interface, I believe...
The first part of your sentece is something you said:
I never said that we shouldn't use what cows we have
In other words, we should use what cows we have. So, we should use what cows we have, but we should get rid of what cows we have? how is that not contradictory?
Think about what you want to say before you type, and especially before you reiterate, albeit incorrectly, by denying the validity of my resonse
...you followed that question up with telling me that those are dairy products
No, he said they come from cows. He said nothing about dairy products. Last time I checked, beef is not a dairy product.
The farmer was talking about implementing this as a solution for the future, basically increasing the amount of cows in usage.
Are YU a total fucking moron? Don't paraphrase unless you can get it right. The farmer said nothing about increaing the number of cows, just doing something productive with the cow's waste, which was being created anyways.
I never said that we shouldn't use what cows we have, but I AM saying that we should get rid of the cows we have.
Now you're just proving you have the intelligence of a 14 year old by contradicting yourself. Not in separate paragraphs, but in following senenct fragments.
At least the shit the cows make is useful... yours, however, I'm not sure anyone will ever find a use for.
'The Internet isn't complicated. The Internet isn't a thing...'
'The internet is a place where people the world over gather to bitch about movies and share pronography'
Holden McNeil, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back
Would You Like to Play a Game?
the dialogue was better too. ;)
Zug-zug
Why is it that it seems these days every new distro is based upon Slackware?!?!
Because it's the best? Just kidding...
You do know that asking that question will just get every fellow slacker posting that as a response?
Seriously though, it is a very good base, although its update cycle is long. Many packages are old and sometimes deprecated.
Slack8.1 still comes with Gnome 1.4 (although dropline Gnome is beautiful).
Maybe people got sick of waiting for things to become 'officially' supported by slack, so rolled out their own pseudo-distro.
Somebody can't move your arms and legs and force you to take a sledgehammer to the hot water heater. If you are running Unix as root, any code that you run could make you do just that. It's worth protecting yourself against virii by not running as root.
Not only that, but in your own house you know better than to hit your water heater with a sledge hammer, unless you know what you are doing.
On computers, the people who this guide is written for do not know better, and as such, shouldn't do it
It was Joey (Dr. Doom, Ultra-Laser) who originally hacked the Gibson...
Ld. Nikon was one of the first ones booted in the hack-a-thon at the end of the movie...
"Statistics can be used to prove anything that's even remotely true"
Also Homer J. Simpson
...throwing the dice at each other ... dealt a handfulD4 damage to each other...
Literally... As well as a handfulD6, handfulD8... etc...
12yroldme: What the hell is the internet?
"The internet is a place where people the world over come together to bitch about movies and share pornography" -- Holden MacNeil (sp?)
'The technology will be integrated into the Windows code, sources said."
Ok... so I can run one instance of linux under the buggy WXP VPC code, requiring a $2000 PC and a $500 license, or I can grab one of the 486s out of the dumpster that I've seen a lot of people throw out and run one instance of linux under that at the same speed...
Hmm... I wonder which I'd rather do?