I agree with the sentiment... I enjoy UT a lot, and the hefty requirements for UT2K3 are frustrating.
But it's not worth getting upset about. These games will still be around, and they'll still be great in 2 years, when the hardware needed to run them is cheap as dirt.
Waste a lot of money now, or wait a little. No shame in being a generation behind on the games. It's smart.
I mean if you're going to be superstitious to the point of worrying about code diversity or eyeballs-per-source-file, I think this is an issue that needs to be addressed.
Reducing the cost of new CDs would cost the industry a fortune, too. What they want is cake, and, moreover, the eating of same.
And with Republicans "on the offensive" again (Lott's words, not mine!), looks like America will continue to be rigged against common sense and in favor of foolish business for years to come.
Vector-based icons were cool. And the little wheel that you could drag up and down to make them bigger... and smaller... and bigger... and smaller... and bigger... and smaller... and bigger... and smaller...
Second thought, I lost so much productivity to IRIX. Good riddance.
You assert that there's no point to modchips, but there are some cases where it's a real no-brainer. Compare the cost of a Saturn mod chip (around $30) with the insane collector prices of the morenotablegames. You do the math.
And you only have to solder one wire in this case. A chimp could almost do it.
DISCLAIMER: I do not support or condone the above actions which make perfect economic sense.
One might argue that the best test of any new protection technology is to put it in a game console, where if there is even the slightest weakness, it will get cracked in short order.
Doom modem deathmatches with a friend in the same area code. That is "old skool".
No, Quake marks the beginning of the "new school"... when single-player totally fell by the wayside, and the boring, sparse level design and turd-colored texture motif not only permeated Quake, but everything that followed.
On the bright side, Quake got me off the PC and playing console games again, something I hadn't done since the SNES' heyday.
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Teach your kids to be good, upstanding, homophobic Americans! Just like the good old days!
Now that's what I call Fair and Balanced!
...The rest of this Dr. Seuss book is left as an exercise for the reader.
It's depressing when the only computer in the house that needs a fsck on power failure is the OpenBSD one.
Sure. All the time.
Imagine how many soj I'll have amassed by then!
While I'm waiting for this to load, I think I'll create Broken Links, a website devoted to all the websites destroyed by slashdotting.
But it's not worth getting upset about. These games will still be around, and they'll still be great in 2 years, when the hardware needed to run them is cheap as dirt.
Waste a lot of money now, or wait a little. No shame in being a generation behind on the games. It's smart.
I think it's worst to actually want to watch PPV in the first place.
I mean if you're going to be superstitious to the point of worrying about code diversity or eyeballs-per-source-file, I think this is an issue that needs to be addressed.
Someday I am going to program my own JEFFKeyboard.
"all but"?
you don't see much GameCube warez or modchips floating about
"much"?
So you admit they exist? What was the point of your technology, then?
You do it, and it's a 5.
You suck.
I think that was just a "spare parts" kid.
Point is, this is nothing new, nothing special, and certainly nothing to raise this big a fuss about.
My Linux experience ranged from cumbersome, to frustrating, to impossible. And I was no unix n00b either - I'd been using IRIX at work for 2 years.
I gave Red Hat 7 a try later, and while the work that's been done with Gnome/GTK impressed me, it still didn't convert me.
The world expects me to use Windows, IE, Word, etc., anyway. Why should I cripple my PC just for idealism and geekery's sake?
- SACDs are better than regular CDs due to an extra layer of sound data, 2.8MHz delta-sigma modulation.
- Yet the discs themselves are playable in regular CD players, as they include standard 44.1KHz PCM data as a legacy fallback.
- And the SACD players themselves are closed, proprietary, with no digital outputs.
From this I conclude that the entire SACD standard is a hoax! ;)
And with Republicans "on the offensive" again (Lott's words, not mine!), looks like America will continue to be rigged against common sense and in favor of foolish business for years to come.
Second thought, I lost so much productivity to IRIX. Good riddance.
You assert that there's no point to modchips, but there are some cases where it's a real no-brainer. Compare the cost of a Saturn mod chip (around $30) with the insane collector prices of the more notable games. You do the math.
And you only have to solder one wire in this case. A chimp could almost do it.
DISCLAIMER: I do not support or condone the above actions which make perfect economic sense.
One might argue that the best test of any new protection technology is to put it in a game console, where if there is even the slightest weakness, it will get cracked in short order.
Maybe this was their intent.
They're both getting Ikaruga. Who cares? ;)
Doom modem deathmatches with a friend in the same area code. That is "old skool".
No, Quake marks the beginning of the "new school"... when single-player totally fell by the wayside, and the boring, sparse level design and turd-colored texture motif not only permeated Quake, but everything that followed.
On the bright side, Quake got me off the PC and playing console games again, something I hadn't done since the SNES' heyday.
Let's hope the simulation doesn't go haywire and start to distribute real anthrax samples!
It's so bad.