IMO ppl are more and more only getting games magazines for the cover DVDs and the stuff they contain. I cant remember the last time I read an article about a game online or in a magazine and was sold on it.
GAME (UK games store, not sure the US has them) takes everytheing out of the casing and 'wrap' them up with a sticker holding the CD within the manual. The number of times I got a game where the CD is already marked on the data side because the asshats stickied the CD to the manual.
Actually interviewed there for a programmer job. Very good place, I wished I got the job:( Im surprised they are never mentioned in the blurb for their porting of Grand Theft Auto 1 to the Playstation 1.
They never follow you up ropes. They do see you and they do stand at the bottom going 'Come down Taffer!' and shake their fists. Its not shitty AI, its prob the shitty graphics that prevents them from climbing ropes.
If the levels are smaller (no loads needed) than Thief 2's brilliant level 'Life of the Party' the game is going to suck shit. Fuck you and your load mist.
Nah, he was being fucked with, by both. One minute his name wasnt going to be released to the press, the next minute he it was. The press actually played 20 questions with the govt (absolutely true!) to guess his name.
They are going to have to report the facts anyway no matter how they turn out, all they are trying to do is make sure they get the top link.
And I think they are betting that the Hutton report would be favorable to them (which it seems it isnt) and blames Tony Blair for Dr Kellys death (which it seems it isnt too).
Yeah I can see how thatll happen. You buy a relatively new bands song/album, they make it big, the companies greedily wants more as theres more demand.
Runs terrible obviously. Soon going to wipe it and put on win2k to see if that fares better. I dont mind how slow XP is when using it (only use it for word), its how slow it starts up that gets me fuming. Even when stripped to its barest services and startups, it still takes 3 minutes to get to the splash screen.
CS was on punkbuster. Then Valve said FU to its makers and made its own version.
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For more profit returns. Its cheaper to buy in crapy generic wall clocks, print out some ST guff, stick it on the clock and charge a shitload for it then to make digital versions.
1. If the screener doesnt come with its own screen, then what stops you from hooking up a video to its TV socket. If it does come with a screen, what stops you from pointing a camera at it and recording it? And the screen size will have to be huge, as having a movie played on a laptop sized screen will have an affect if someone likes it or not. Imagine trying to watch LOTR on a crappy laptop screen!
2. There are how many films nominated each year? And hundreds of screeners. Try to work out the logicistics of that! And the screeners wont be able to review any of the movies at their leisure.
3. Already listed above but compression destroys watermarks.
Parent is right. I did a google to refute his claim and up pops a couple of articles. Its from a month ago, not last week. Jesus, Nelson Mandela? Thats fucked up.
And the rollout of broadband here is a farse. I also worked for a local council (who shall remain nameless) who had a run in with British Telecom (BT) in trying out broadband in the area for a six month trial. First BT wanted the council to share the costs equally. That was fine. Then BT wanted only businesses to register and use it for the six months. Then they wanted over 300 businesses to sign up for it before they install. Thing is there are not even 10 businesses in the area who would find broadband useful enough to operate.
The kick in the teeth is that the council made the signup for both public and businesses. There are over 200 interested non-business homes wanting broadband. Yet BT ignores them. Probably because they can charge businesses ten times as much for the same lines. End result? No broadband, BT sitting on their asses waiting for 290 non-existant businesses to sign up, and hundreds of the public cursing them. Fuck you BT.
PS. a department within the council uses BT satellite broadband. It cost something like 1000 to install and 90 a month to keep. One day we connected the computers there over the standard phonelines to the web server 2 miles away at the main council site. We found out it was many times faster than the damn satellite!!! Double fuck you BT.
PPS. BT spent 30 million on an ad campaign for broadband last year. How many exchanges could they have upgraded for that amount of money?
Most trailers are the same. A gravelly voiceover saying crap like "IT WAS A DAY LIKE NO OTHER!" and then clips spoiling some of its major jokes/frights.
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IMO ppl are more and more only getting games magazines for the cover DVDs and the stuff they contain.
I cant remember the last time I read an article about a game online or in a magazine and was sold on it.
GAME (UK games store, not sure the US has them) takes everytheing out of the casing and 'wrap' them up with a sticker holding the CD within the manual. The number of times I got a game where the CD is already marked on the data side because the asshats stickied the CD to the manual.
Thank you for the link.
Actually interviewed there for a programmer job. Very good place, I wished I got the job :(
Im surprised they are never mentioned in the blurb for their porting of Grand Theft Auto 1 to the Playstation 1.
They never follow you up ropes. They do see you and they do stand at the bottom going 'Come down Taffer!' and shake their fists.
Its not shitty AI, its prob the shitty graphics that prevents them from climbing ropes.
If the levels are smaller (no loads needed) than Thief 2's brilliant level 'Life of the Party' the game is going to suck shit. Fuck you and your load mist.
like not knowing which units are good against the enemies units and getting blamed for losing.
Even Newsnight, the BBC2 news program critised the BBC on a number of occasions.
Nah, he was being fucked with, by both. One minute his name wasnt going to be released to the press, the next minute he it was. The press actually played 20 questions with the govt (absolutely true!) to guess his name.
And I think they are betting that the Hutton report would be favorable to them (which it seems it isnt) and blames Tony Blair for Dr Kellys death (which it seems it isnt too).
Yeah I can see how thatll happen.
You buy a relatively new bands song/album, they make it big, the companies greedily wants more as theres more demand.
Runs terrible obviously. Soon going to wipe it and put on win2k to see if that fares better. I dont mind how slow XP is when using it (only use it for word), its how slow it starts up that gets me fuming. Even when stripped to its barest services and startups, it still takes 3 minutes to get to the splash screen.
Funny, I got XP to install on a 266Mhz with 32Mb RAM laptop.
must be the only person on earth who wished that sucker hit us.
CS was on punkbuster. Then Valve said FU to its makers and made its own version.
For more profit returns. Its cheaper to buy in crapy generic wall clocks, print out some ST guff, stick it on the clock and charge a shitload for it then to make digital versions.
2. There are how many films nominated each year? And hundreds of screeners. Try to work out the logicistics of that! And the screeners wont be able to review any of the movies at their leisure.
3. Already listed above but compression destroys watermarks.
Parent is right. I did a google to refute his claim and up pops a couple of articles. Its from a month ago, not last week.
Jesus, Nelson Mandela? Thats fucked up.
But you have to laugh 'THIS PRODUCT WAS NOT MADE OR USED BY A TERRORIST!'
KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNN!
One less satellite to gain intelligence and come back looking for its creator.
I also worked for a local council (who shall remain nameless) who had a run in with British Telecom (BT) in trying out broadband in the area for a six month trial. First BT wanted the council to share the costs equally. That was fine.
Then BT wanted only businesses to register and use it for the six months. Then they wanted over 300 businesses to sign up for it before they install. Thing is there are not even 10 businesses in the area who would find broadband useful enough to operate.
The kick in the teeth is that the council made the signup for both public and businesses. There are over 200 interested non-business homes wanting broadband. Yet BT ignores them. Probably because they can charge businesses ten times as much for the same lines.
End result? No broadband, BT sitting on their asses waiting for 290 non-existant businesses to sign up, and hundreds of the public cursing them. Fuck you BT.
PS. a department within the council uses BT satellite broadband. It cost something like 1000 to install and 90 a month to keep. One day we connected the computers there over the standard phonelines to the web server 2 miles away at the main council site. We found out it was many times faster than the damn satellite!!! Double fuck you BT.
PPS. BT spent 30 million on an ad campaign for broadband last year. How many exchanges could they have upgraded for that amount of money?
Not the trying to make things smaller, but trying to get it to cost less than the $3 billion quoted in the article for current processes.
Most trailers are the same. A gravelly voiceover saying crap like "IT WAS A DAY LIKE NO OTHER!" and then clips spoiling some of its major jokes/frights.
Modest mouse! Cool bastard :)