Logitech G15. I have one. I got it mainly for the illuminated keyboard since my keyboard is in a poorly lit area. The macros are nice but only if the program you are using isn't too gui dependent.
Most of these resource hog games are all FPS's anyway. Not only will they price themselves out of the market from hardware demands but people won't keep spending big $ on new hardware just to play the same old shoot-em-ups. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a backlash and people go for retro games that were played on 8-bit systems. I'm seeing some of that now to be honest. The bigger the game demands doesn't mean it is better, look at chess.
You forgot to include the 8-10 cups of water he drinks in addition to the tea, plus water that in the food we eat (a major source). So the 1.5-2 liters of tea he drinks is only at best half of the total. He is drinking at least twice the norm.
You are missing a fundamental part of capitalism yourself. You can either say "Who will pay $1000 for this?" and get 5 people or say "Who will pay $100 for this?" and get 50. His point is that why can't they sell it for less and sell it to more people? It sounds more like they play on the psychology of lack for some reason instead of selling in volume.
I remember getting into arcade games later in college in the mid 80s. There was a section of the student center you walked through on your way across campus that had 10-15 games. I got into some of them, sometimes too much making me late for class!
Xybots: Fun maze games that was great with a partner for teamwork due to the split screen
Xenophobe: Fun cartoonish graphics and with good controls. One of my favs!
Smash TV: One of my all time favs. Great with a partner. Sort of like Bezerk meets The Running Man. "Total Carnage!"
Road Blasters: Got boring after a while but a good fast shoot-em up
Black Tiger: I didn't get into this until MAME came along because it was a real quarter eater. Lots of guys I saw were obsessed with it. Closest thing to arcade D&D we had.
Gondomania: Fun shootem up with nice graphics and lots of cool weapons.
Gauntlet: A quarter eater that could get annoying fast. I still find myself saying "Warrior needs food, badly" under my breath when I'm hungry like a total nerd.
APB: A real blast driving all over the place while the Sergeant chews you out in his "grumble grumble" talk
Heavy Barrel: Scrolling top-down shootem up that was fun just because of the big fat bullets your guy shot and the shrapnel from the grenades.
???: I can't remember the name of this tank game for the life of me. You had the two stick style tank controller with a top down angled view and a rotating turret for Doom-like strafing. I became VERY good at this and finished it a few times on one quarter each time. It may have been an Atari game because it used some of the Atari fonts and sounds.
Since we're on the topic of arcades, anyone in New England should check out the arcade on Old Orchard Beach Maine. It is like a big refuge for pinball, classic arcade games, and carnival type games (i.e. skee ball). Loads o' fun.
Judging from the rate that sharks are being fished to their limit I'd say the most likely thing the DOD will get data on is a fishing net. Once again when April 15 passes it will be with a sense that my government is pissing away my money.
"General, we have reason to believe that Al-Queda is recruiting lobsters!"
"Well, thanks to the LSMDPI there was clearly some serious file sharing going on here. Just look at the massive damage those copyrights have suffered!"
They should require by law that the person hiring the spammer needs to be provided with reasonable proof that all of the addresses have valid opt-ins. If this data is bogus it can later be prosicuted as fraud in addition to spamming.
Easy, send them a spam for V1gr@ that contains a virus that prevents them from connecting to the internet again. If they click on the link in the letter then Uncle Darwin solves your problem!
I'd prefer to see them go after the businesses that hire them. Paying someone to break the law is also a crime. Cut off their cash flow. It is a lot harder to hide a business with a product and a credit card contract vs a box connected to the net.
It will very unlikely stay well within the ISS's orbit. It will likely drift due to the initial trajectory. Sure the odds of a hit are low and it has a transmitter that might still be working but why should a satellite or manned object have to change orbit just to avoid some promotional stunt?
By the way, not all satellites orbit in the same direction, many are in "polar" orbits, i.e. surveillance sats, Iridium sats, etc. A collision would not be low speed in these cases.
Isn't it nice to know that the government can use something intended for the public benefit (taxation) and turn it into a profit generator for private interests. What next, a tax on visiting the capital building that gets passed onto Disneyworld, since if you are visiting the capital instead of Disneyland then you are stealing POTENTIAL profits from the Disney Corp. The assumption is that you absolutely would've bought something from them otherwise, therefore it is a certainty that you are stealing by default. People used to bitch about "welfare moms", where is the outcry against welfare corporations?
How about a tax on bank accounts that gets passed on to banks to cover robberies? Why do we have law enforcement of economic crimes then? Just pass another tax!
Playing a FPS game and hearing sounds behind you adds a tremedous amount to the game. It can literally make you jump to hear something sneaking up behind you.
I bought a pair of LTB 5.1 headphones and they actually work pretty well. They really do give you a sense of things being behind or next to you. Clarity-wise they are very good as far as my non-audiophile ears can tell. They are really comfortable which is rare for headphones. The only knocks I can give them is that they use that very damage prone thin cabling that seems to be norm nowadays, they also use a USB port for power which creates a lot of noise unless you purchase an adaptor that allows you to power them directly from the wall.
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Because sponsorship and ads lower prices for everyone!...ahhh...ummmm...actually everything still costs the frigg'n same. Forget I said that.
God help them when they see what their customers look like and that they usually play naked.
Logitech G15. I have one. I got it mainly for the illuminated keyboard since my keyboard is in a poorly lit area. The macros are nice but only if the program you are using isn't too gui dependent.
Good analogy. Business has lots of grinding, low level mobs, and elitist guilds.
Most of these resource hog games are all FPS's anyway. Not only will they price themselves out of the market from hardware demands but people won't keep spending big $ on new hardware just to play the same old shoot-em-ups. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a backlash and people go for retro games that were played on 8-bit systems. I'm seeing some of that now to be honest. The bigger the game demands doesn't mean it is better, look at chess.
Keep going...
Since a top of the line card costs about $500, then in today's dollars that would mean you'd have to have $1,048,576,000 lying around.
I'm sure there is someone at NVidia making that business case.
It is obviously a clever plot to destroyed pirated software by forcing people to go back to registered original installs.
You forgot to include the 8-10 cups of water he drinks in addition to the tea, plus water that in the food we eat (a major source). So the 1.5-2 liters of tea he drinks is only at best half of the total. He is drinking at least twice the norm.
I assume his bladder is the size of a watermelon.
"eight to 10 glasses of alkaline water and 10 cups of green tea....Adjustments are made as needed."
I think it is safe to say that one of those "adjustments" is going to the bathroom every 5 minutes.
You are missing a fundamental part of capitalism yourself. You can either say "Who will pay $1000 for this?" and get 5 people or say "Who will pay $100 for this?" and get 50. His point is that why can't they sell it for less and sell it to more people? It sounds more like they play on the psychology of lack for some reason instead of selling in volume.
I am proposing that eating a Whoopie Pie a day is part of a healthy diet. Prove me wrong and give me a pie!
I always knew I was driving a shitbox, this just proves it.
I remember getting into arcade games later in college in the mid 80s. There was a section of the student center you walked through on your way across campus that had 10-15 games. I got into some of them, sometimes too much making me late for class!
Xybots: Fun maze games that was great with a partner for teamwork due to the split screen
Xenophobe: Fun cartoonish graphics and with good controls. One of my favs!
Smash TV: One of my all time favs. Great with a partner. Sort of like Bezerk meets The Running Man. "Total Carnage!"
Road Blasters: Got boring after a while but a good fast shoot-em up
Black Tiger: I didn't get into this until MAME came along because it was a real quarter eater. Lots of guys I saw were obsessed with it. Closest thing to arcade D&D we had.
Gondomania: Fun shootem up with nice graphics and lots of cool weapons.
Gauntlet: A quarter eater that could get annoying fast. I still find myself saying "Warrior needs food, badly" under my breath when I'm hungry like a total nerd.
APB: A real blast driving all over the place while the Sergeant chews you out in his "grumble grumble" talk
Heavy Barrel: Scrolling top-down shootem up that was fun just because of the big fat bullets your guy shot and the shrapnel from the grenades.
???: I can't remember the name of this tank game for the life of me. You had the two stick style tank controller with a top down angled view and a rotating turret for Doom-like strafing. I became VERY good at this and finished it a few times on one quarter each time. It may have been an Atari game because it used some of the Atari fonts and sounds.
Since we're on the topic of arcades, anyone in New England should check out the arcade on Old Orchard Beach Maine. It is like a big refuge for pinball, classic arcade games, and carnival type games (i.e. skee ball). Loads o' fun.
As Zippy the Pinhead once said "Utopia isn't all it is cracked up to be, there isn't anything to complain about."
Judging from the rate that sharks are being fished to their limit I'd say the most likely thing the DOD will get data on is a fishing net. Once again when April 15 passes it will be with a sense that my government is pissing away my money.
"General, we have reason to believe that Al-Queda is recruiting lobsters!"
"Well, thanks to the LSMDPI there was clearly some serious file sharing going on here. Just look at the massive damage those copyrights have suffered!"
They should require by law that the person hiring the spammer needs to be provided with reasonable proof that all of the addresses have valid opt-ins. If this data is bogus it can later be prosicuted as fraud in addition to spamming.
"Wouldn't it be nice to outlaw stupid people?"
Easy, send them a spam for V1gr@ that contains a virus that prevents them from connecting to the internet again. If they click on the link in the letter then Uncle Darwin solves your problem!
I'd prefer to see them go after the businesses that hire them. Paying someone to break the law is also a crime. Cut off their cash flow. It is a lot harder to hide a business with a product and a credit card contract vs a box connected to the net.
Here are his email addresses:
vxgtrey@yahoo.com
gherjso@gmail.com
jtiwekw@hotmail.com
riwqoqop@yahoo.com
cheapmeds@gmail.com
sexysamantha@hotmail.com
etc...
It will very unlikely stay well within the ISS's orbit. It will likely drift due to the initial trajectory. Sure the odds of a hit are low and it has a transmitter that might still be working but why should a satellite or manned object have to change orbit just to avoid some promotional stunt?
By the way, not all satellites orbit in the same direction, many are in "polar" orbits, i.e. surveillance sats, Iridium sats, etc. A collision would not be low speed in these cases.
Isn't it nice to know that the government can use something intended for the public benefit (taxation) and turn it into a profit generator for private interests. What next, a tax on visiting the capital building that gets passed onto Disneyworld, since if you are visiting the capital instead of Disneyland then you are stealing POTENTIAL profits from the Disney Corp. The assumption is that you absolutely would've bought something from them otherwise, therefore it is a certainty that you are stealing by default. People used to bitch about "welfare moms", where is the outcry against welfare corporations?
How about a tax on bank accounts that gets passed on to banks to cover robberies? Why do we have law enforcement of economic crimes then? Just pass another tax!
Playing a FPS game and hearing sounds behind you adds a tremedous amount to the game. It can literally make you jump to hear something sneaking up behind you.
I bought a pair of LTB 5.1 headphones and they actually work pretty well. They really do give you a sense of things being behind or next to you. Clarity-wise they are very good as far as my non-audiophile ears can tell. They are really comfortable which is rare for headphones. The only knocks I can give them is that they use that very damage prone thin cabling that seems to be norm nowadays, they also use a USB port for power which creates a lot of noise unless you purchase an adaptor that allows you to power them directly from the wall.