Every long train ride I've been in has either had a socket by every seat, or a seperate car with sockets for people with laptops.
I'm not talking an NJ Transit train the runs from the various cities in NJ to New York. I'm talking about the trains that run for 4+ hours to go from Virginia to NJ to Boston.
But I agree, it's kind of annoying that it only lasts that long.
I think it's odd that they're saying that Apple isn't signed up on the PowerPC "consortia."
I was under the assumption that IBM was going to provide the G5's, as Motorola proved to be inadequate for the task; since Motorola was having trouble making enough G4's or whatever.
Well, that would be interesting. I mean, personally, I think IBM and Apple make the best laptops around. Both are sturdy and reliable; they both just work.
The Education version of Office is $149 USD. It can be bought over the counter without any ID. It's also a great port, in my opinion. It's better than the Windows versions.
Granted, that's a lot more expenive than a free or Open Source application. But's it's a nice app.
Also, why bother doing this in an engine, when you still have to texture, rig, and animate the characters? Save for render time, I don't see any benefit.
To help show that this is really what the game would look like, and not some pre-rendered video.
I've seen clips that have looked amazing, but impossible to have in real-time on even the fastest PC of the era.
Face it, the game isn't anywhere near complete. They could say "we're not done yet, but here's what it's going to look like" and show some video. Most of us would shrug it off as hype or avertising. However, using the engine, they can say "Here, experience the engine for yourselves. As you can see, this is what it's going to run like."
Think of it as a car you want to buy. You can watch a video clip of some professional diver flying across a closed course doing amazing things. Or you can test-drive the car and see how it really handles.
You're the problem with DRM. You don't see anything wrong until something goes wrong. You most likely would rather keep purchasing SUVs, when your part of the world haven't been flooded or experienced severe weather changes, yet, etc.
Can you safely say you can still play HL2 in the next 5+ years, if your CDs or copy of the game isn't damaged? Or, how about no ads in the games you purchase at full price in the future?
Actually, I've decided my first new car is going to be a Hybrid, and I'm targetting Summer 2005 for that.
I'd ASSUME Valve will release a patch to allow the Steam games to run without needing to connect/authenticate if they decide to drop Steam or go out of business.
As for 5 years in the future, I can't think of too many games that are 5 years old that I play now. Either I've lost the CD's, the CD key, or they don't work right in Windows XP. On top of that, I really haven't wanted to do that (though I can foresee wanting to).
So, in short, stop whining, finish your homework, and go to sleep; you have a big day in middle school tomorrow. At least, I'd assume so since you're talking like a spoiled adolescent.
I purchased my copy from Steam, after cancelling my pre-ordered boxed copy from ebgames. I had every preloaded about 2 weeks ago.
On Tuesday morning I started up my PC and Steam before I went into the shower. 12 minutes later, when I got back, everything was done and Half-Life 2 was ready. I even played a little bit before heading to the office.
I realize some people had major problems; and while it sounds like a LOT of people, I don't know how high the percentage is.
Steam was a success in MY view, but I'm sure others disagree. Personally, I think Steam's a great idea so long as it's not a springboard to something sinister; like mandatory "renting" of the game.
There was talk on a forum about perhaps they'd offer the ability to rent the game for a month or 2 if you want for dirt cheap (after all, how often do you just play a game for a few weeks and forget about it), but it would be optional and you could still fully buy the game. But I don't know if this was just shooting the breeze or something that Valve touched on.
My Steam experience was quite positive, I'd use it again to buy software if the situation arises.
I agree (with the first part). This guy deserved what he had coming. Ruining a career is major. I can't understand why some people are saying it's "outrageous." It's not like it was a stupid prank or he was just being annoying, this was an extreme act.
As for the last part, that's "assets." A nice decent house can easily clear $150k. Sure, he's not poor, but that doesn't make him rich. But, then again, after paying this off he's probably not that well off anymore.
I'll agree about the "CD must be in the drive" thing, and raise you an "unable to backup CD without doing something suspicious." Those 2 things combined drive me crazy.
Firt of all, I 2 huge friggin Hard Drives, why can't I just play it off of them. Second, because I MUST use the CD all of the time, the chances of it getting damaged increase. Backing it up would be nice in this case.
As for Steam, I don't mind it. I was against it from it's conception, but I've recently warmed up to it. I cancelled my box pre-order and purchased it via Steam. I have the new Verizon 3MBit DSL connection, so downloading it all didn't take that long.
Now, I don't need a CD in the drive, and Steam lets me back up the files into compressed DVD sized chunks (or CD sized). As for protection, I don't mind it that much. Sure, I think it's stupid to force an Internet connection for Single player, but it allows less people to play it pirated online.
After a while, someone generated my Half-Life 1 CD key when they were still using WON servers, and I often could not get on. Now, my HL-1 CD-key is tied to my account and nobody else's.
If they detect user's with "Hulk" in their name, they will often reset that character's name to "Generic Hero x" and give them a day or so to pick a new one. This is even if the character looks nothing like the Hulk.
I mean, please. Some characters are just so friggin easy to copy. The Hulk is a big green (or grey) buy with torn shorts. Is it Cryptic's fault that Marvel isn't very original in their design?
Sure, a character like "The Punisher" or "Wolverine" would also be easy to duplicate in the game, but who cares! People aer building the character they want. They want someone with sharp metal claws and a ever-familar beard, then so be it. If they want to be big and green, so be it. If they want a red and gold armor suit of battle armor, let them.
Personally, I think DC would have more of a leg to stand on. They have tons of heros with pretty generic looking costumes (solid-color tights with an emblem). Many of Marvel's characters have hard to copy designs.
Shame on Marvel, or at least on their legal department.
Oh well, I stopped playing a few weeks ago anyway. It just stopped being fun.
The 9700 absolutely CRUSHED Nvidia's GeForce 4 cards
Depends on what you call the Geforce 4. No, this isn't a Clinton joke.
The Geforce 4: Ti 4600 was a wonderful card. It performed about as well as the ATI 9700 did. Maybe it did a little worse, but not by much. They were pretty comparable (so CRUSHED is not a valid comparison).
The GF4 4200 wasn't that bad, but it wasn't top of the line, so wasn't as good as the 9700. It was to compete with the ATI 9500, as a medium range video card.
However, then they had the Geforce 4MX's. To this day, nobody can figure out what kind of crack nvidia was smoking. The 4MX's were essentially Geforce 2's! Yes, they were slightly modded GeForce 2's. A GeForce 3 trounced on these poor cards. Heck, the ATI 9500 trounced on this as well. They were supposedly released so consumers could get a really cheap video card that was able to play the current games (though not well).
Yes, the nVidia 5x00 series of cards were horrible, and as such I went with ATI during that period. But the GF Ti 4600 was a wonderful card.
I thought the big thing with Sony was that they made pretty much everything in the PS2, so they didn't have to rely on other companies and suppliers, and thus got it at cost.
Going with the same CPU and the XBox 2 (with similar components) is going to mean that Sony is going to have to rely on external suppliers.
Because people are lemmings. The only people I can understand buying large SUV's are people with big families that want something that handles a little better on snow (not ice) than a minivan, and people like myself.
Personally, I wouldn't mind buying an SUV, but then I see the MPG's they get and I cringe.
I'm a big guy (really big), so a Metro or Civic isn't really going to cut it for me. At times I consider getting a small or average sized SUV (or a truck) so I can sit and ride comfortably (and have 4WD). I find the front seats of small or medium SUVs (or nice trucks) to fit me just fine.
But, again, I look back at the MPG's and shake my head. If they had it at something reasonable, I'd consider it more. But currently, they're just too big of gas hogs for me to get.
Well, I was on the test server and got to experience their trial of halloween.
You can click on each mission door (assuming it's not unlocking YOUR mission), and get either a trick or a treat.
Tricks involve witches, werewolves, or pumpkin heads attacking you.
Treats involve inspirations, some enhancements, and the almighty ROCK!
It was interesting, but nothing to write home about.
I wish they'd start doing more events. Supposedly the latest incursion of eye-balls was just sort of a "recon" thing, with speculation that a large scale invasion is down the pipe.
I've stopped playing recently. It's going to take something massive (like the original Ritki invasion) to get me to fire up the game again.
I rmeember when I was looking for a college, the New Jersey Institute of Technology was ranked #1 Most Wired University by Yahoo!
They milked that thing for all it was worth. There were banners and posters everywhere.
In their defense, they were pretty wired for the time. Every single classroom and dorm room was wired for 10Mb ethernet; this was before wireless was popular or cheap, but I was surprised there was not 100Mb ethernet. And they had a partial T3 connection to the 'net. Also, you could register for courses online, which was a big deal back then. Most of my friends at other universities had to wait in line the old fassion way.
They lost that placing pretty quickly. Things had gotten a little better after I graduated, but still. I can easily see these things fluxuate very quickly.
What I find odd is that the current computer/student ratio is really really low. When I was going there, they'd outfit each student with a piece of garbage computer, but at least everyone had one. Maybe things have changed since?
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Personally, I think how Lex portrayed in Smallville is awesome. Rosenbaum does an excellent job.
At this point in Smallville, Lex hasn't gone completely Dark-Side yet. But he's still portrayed as dark and suave. Meanwhile, Lyonel Luthor is as evil as they come.
I've been waiting for VIEWS since forever. It's supposedly in the 5.0.1 Alpha, but I don't install MySQL on my development box unless it's Gamma or higher.
MySQL may lack a lot, but just about the only thing I need that it doesn't have is views.
Doesn't apple charge 109 for each point upgrade and don't those upgrades come out every 12-14 months?
That is more than Windows costs.
As someone else mentioned, your "point" upgrade term is wrong.
OS X currently comes in different versions: 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, etc. They're all OS X at the core, but new versions. We're not talking about bug fixes, but new features and redesigns to certain aspects (new file browser, database-based file system soon, etc).
So, here you're paying for an enhanced version of the OS. Think Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Both are similar at the core, but 1 has more hardware compatibility and newer features. Maybe you don't want to upgrade from Windows 2000 to Windows XP, and I know a few people that chose to stay with OS x 10.2 and not take 10.3. It depends if you think the new features warrant shelling out $100 for a new OS. Sometimes the difference is really major.
The point release 10.3.1, 10.3.2, 10.3.3 are essentially service packs. They're a culminatation of bug fixes, new hardware support, and some new features. These are available for free using the OS update feature.
Think of Windows XP SP1 and SP2. You can download the service pack for free. With it, you'll get better security, bug fixes, and a some new features.
Yeh, staying completely current with OSX is slightly more expensive than staying current with Windows, but only slightly. The standard consumer price of OSX is less than the standard consumer price of XP.
You can buy the full version of OS X for $129 USD at the normal over-the-shelf price. A value pack for $199 USD lets you legally install the OS on up to 5 PC's! But a new version comes out more often.
Windows XP Pro FULL Install is about $320 USD, with the upgrade version around $226 USD. But a new MS OS comes out less fequently (2 years between Win2000 and Win2k).
OSX = $129 every 1-2 years (if you want) or MS Windows = $220 to $320 every 2-3 years (if you want)
Cellphone ringing is annoying, but it's not that bad. As you said, it's like coughing or sneezing.
What's a real pain is when some jerk is getting calls, answering them, and having full-length phone conversations with them. Meanwhile, they "have to talk loud" because the movie is blaring.
If a phone rings, it's no big deal. I just hope it's not during an important part.
But if you know you're going to need to have conversation-after-conversation during the evening, then maybe you shouldn't go to a movie.
I mean, if it's THAT important, you shouldn't be there. If if it's not important, it can wait 2 hours.
I actually stoppled playing after 2 months. It was just "arrest bad guys, lvl up, buy enhancements, arrest bad guys, lvl up, etc." It grew tiring quickly, plus my character sucked. It looked like adult Trunks from Dragon Ball GT and had poor powers.
But then release 2 came out, so I figured I'd try one more month. After all, what's $15 USD. Anyway, I started a new character, and before long I had a cape (ooooh, cape).
However, I'm currently going to continue my subscription, not so much because of the level grind, but because I've hooked up with a friendly super group. It's kind of like a "clan" in FPS game. You're part of the group, and you guys go off and do missions together when you're online (if you feel like it).
Now, while it might sound lame, consider this. My biggest pet-peeve about online games is the sheer number of jerks out there: be it FPS games, MMORPG games, or RTS games. Normally you have inconsiderate b@stards or complete idiots ruining your day. But now, I I'm pretty much gauranteed to be able to play with a set of people that: a) are not jerks b) are decent players c) are willing to lend a hand if I'm in a tight spot or give advice. d) did I mention they're not jerks
This alone makes the game a lot more fun and bearable.
I'll probably stop playing again in a few weeks; but for now I'm having some fun.
I don't care that much about PCI-E. I already have an AGP nVidia 6800GT (upgraded from a Ti4600).
My problem is my PC is a loud space heater: P4 2.8GHz. I know that's pretty good for a gaming rig and overkill for just about everything else. But I don't want to deal with a hot/warm room and I'd like to have some quiet in there as well.
I'd just like to get an AMD 64, turn on cool n quiet, have fewer fans blasting away in there, and just have a nicer experience in general.
My 2.8GHz components (CPU, motherboard, RAM) I'll sell to my brother for dirt cheap. He says he doesn't mind the noise or heat, so he can deal with it.
Our server room is kept chillingly cold, probably in the realm of 69 def F.
The offices and cubicles are mid or upper-mid 70's.
Personally, 80 to 85 deg F is just unacceptable. I don't even turn it up that high in the winter, even if I have to go outside and shovel the driveway and want to come back to a warm house. It's sickening to have it that high.
Personally, I like to stay cool. In the winter I usually have the thermostat turned down a ways. I don't mind feeling chilly, and if it goes overboard I'd rather put on some fuzzy slippers and a long sleeve shirt than turn up the heat.
Summers though, they suck. I have the A/C cranked to like 75 or 74 deg F.
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Every long train ride I've been in has either had a socket by every seat, or a seperate car with sockets for people with laptops.
I'm not talking an NJ Transit train the runs from the various cities in NJ to New York. I'm talking about the trains that run for 4+ hours to go from Virginia to NJ to Boston.
But I agree, it's kind of annoying that it only lasts that long.
I think it's odd that they're saying that Apple isn't signed up on the PowerPC "consortia." I was under the assumption that IBM was going to provide the G5's, as Motorola proved to be inadequate for the task; since Motorola was having trouble making enough G4's or whatever. Well, that would be interesting. I mean, personally, I think IBM and Apple make the best laptops around. Both are sturdy and reliable; they both just work.
The Education version of Office is $149 USD. It can be bought over the counter without any ID. It's also a great port, in my opinion. It's better than the Windows versions.
Granted, that's a lot more expenive than a free or Open Source application. But's it's a nice app.
To help show that this is really what the game would look like, and not some pre-rendered video.
I've seen clips that have looked amazing, but impossible to have in real-time on even the fastest PC of the era.
Face it, the game isn't anywhere near complete. They could say "we're not done yet, but here's what it's going to look like" and show some video. Most of us would shrug it off as hype or avertising. However, using the engine, they can say "Here, experience the engine for yourselves. As you can see, this is what it's going to run like."
Think of it as a car you want to buy. You can watch a video clip of some professional diver flying across a closed course doing amazing things. Or you can test-drive the car and see how it really handles.
Actually, I've decided my first new car is going to be a Hybrid, and I'm targetting Summer 2005 for that.
I'd ASSUME Valve will release a patch to allow the Steam games to run without needing to connect/authenticate if they decide to drop Steam or go out of business.
As for 5 years in the future, I can't think of too many games that are 5 years old that I play now. Either I've lost the CD's, the CD key, or they don't work right in Windows XP. On top of that, I really haven't wanted to do that (though I can foresee wanting to).
So, in short, stop whining, finish your homework, and go to sleep; you have a big day in middle school tomorrow. At least, I'd assume so since you're talking like a spoiled adolescent.
Had to get ready for work, and so far 12 minutes is as fast as I can take a shower and get dressed.
I purchased my copy from Steam, after cancelling my pre-ordered boxed copy from ebgames. I had every preloaded about 2 weeks ago.
On Tuesday morning I started up my PC and Steam before I went into the shower. 12 minutes later, when I got back, everything was done and Half-Life 2 was ready. I even played a little bit before heading to the office.
I realize some people had major problems; and while it sounds like a LOT of people, I don't know how high the percentage is.
Steam was a success in MY view, but I'm sure others disagree. Personally, I think Steam's a great idea so long as it's not a springboard to something sinister; like mandatory "renting" of the game.
There was talk on a forum about perhaps they'd offer the ability to rent the game for a month or 2 if you want for dirt cheap (after all, how often do you just play a game for a few weeks and forget about it), but it would be optional and you could still fully buy the game. But I don't know if this was just shooting the breeze or something that Valve touched on.
My Steam experience was quite positive, I'd use it again to buy software if the situation arises.
I agree (with the first part). This guy deserved what he had coming. Ruining a career is major. I can't understand why some people are saying it's "outrageous." It's not like it was a stupid prank or he was just being annoying, this was an extreme act.
As for the last part, that's "assets." A nice decent house can easily clear $150k. Sure, he's not poor, but that doesn't make him rich. But, then again, after paying this off he's probably not that well off anymore.
I'll agree about the "CD must be in the drive" thing, and raise you an "unable to backup CD without doing something suspicious." Those 2 things combined drive me crazy.
Firt of all, I 2 huge friggin Hard Drives, why can't I just play it off of them. Second, because I MUST use the CD all of the time, the chances of it getting damaged increase. Backing it up would be nice in this case.
As for Steam, I don't mind it. I was against it from it's conception, but I've recently warmed up to it. I cancelled my box pre-order and purchased it via Steam. I have the new Verizon 3MBit DSL connection, so downloading it all didn't take that long.
Now, I don't need a CD in the drive, and Steam lets me back up the files into compressed DVD sized chunks (or CD sized). As for protection, I don't mind it that much. Sure, I think it's stupid to force an Internet connection for Single player, but it allows less people to play it pirated online.
After a while, someone generated my Half-Life 1 CD key when they were still using WON servers, and I often could not get on. Now, my HL-1 CD-key is tied to my account and nobody else's.
I know they've ben trying for months now.
If they detect user's with "Hulk" in their name, they will often reset that character's name to "Generic Hero x" and give them a day or so to pick a new one. This is even if the character looks nothing like the Hulk.
I mean, please. Some characters are just so friggin easy to copy. The Hulk is a big green (or grey) buy with torn shorts. Is it Cryptic's fault that Marvel isn't very original in their design?
Sure, a character like "The Punisher" or "Wolverine" would also be easy to duplicate in the game, but who cares! People aer building the character they want. They want someone with sharp metal claws and a ever-familar beard, then so be it. If they want to be big and green, so be it. If they want a red and gold armor suit of battle armor, let them.
Personally, I think DC would have more of a leg to stand on. They have tons of heros with pretty generic looking costumes (solid-color tights with an emblem). Many of Marvel's characters have hard to copy designs.
Shame on Marvel, or at least on their legal department.
Oh well, I stopped playing a few weeks ago anyway. It just stopped being fun.
Like always, it's a choice between a doosh and a turd sandwhich.
Depends on what you call the Geforce 4. No, this isn't a Clinton joke.
The Geforce 4: Ti 4600 was a wonderful card. It performed about as well as the ATI 9700 did. Maybe it did a little worse, but not by much. They were pretty comparable (so CRUSHED is not a valid comparison).
The GF4 4200 wasn't that bad, but it wasn't top of the line, so wasn't as good as the 9700. It was to compete with the ATI 9500, as a medium range video card.
However, then they had the Geforce 4MX's. To this day, nobody can figure out what kind of crack nvidia was smoking. The 4MX's were essentially Geforce 2's! Yes, they were slightly modded GeForce 2's. A GeForce 3 trounced on these poor cards. Heck, the ATI 9500 trounced on this as well. They were supposedly released so consumers could get a really cheap video card that was able to play the current games (though not well).
Yes, the nVidia 5x00 series of cards were horrible, and as such I went with ATI during that period. But the GF Ti 4600 was a wonderful card.
I assume you mean the Beatle. Still, height is only half my problem; girth is most of it.
I thought the big thing with Sony was that they made pretty much everything in the PS2, so they didn't have to rely on other companies and suppliers, and thus got it at cost.
Going with the same CPU and the XBox 2 (with similar components) is going to mean that Sony is going to have to rely on external suppliers.
Why do you think SUVs are so prevalent?
Because people are lemmings. The only people I can understand buying large SUV's are people with big families that want something that handles a little better on snow (not ice) than a minivan, and people like myself.
Personally, I wouldn't mind buying an SUV, but then I see the MPG's they get and I cringe.
I'm a big guy (really big), so a Metro or Civic isn't really going to cut it for me. At times I consider getting a small or average sized SUV (or a truck) so I can sit and ride comfortably (and have 4WD). I find the front seats of small or medium SUVs (or nice trucks) to fit me just fine.
But, again, I look back at the MPG's and shake my head. If they had it at something reasonable, I'd consider it more. But currently, they're just too big of gas hogs for me to get.
Well, I was on the test server and got to experience their trial of halloween.
You can click on each mission door (assuming it's not unlocking YOUR mission), and get either a trick or a treat.
Tricks involve witches, werewolves, or pumpkin heads attacking you.
Treats involve inspirations, some enhancements, and the almighty ROCK!
It was interesting, but nothing to write home about.
I wish they'd start doing more events. Supposedly the latest incursion of eye-balls was just sort of a "recon" thing, with speculation that a large scale invasion is down the pipe.
I've stopped playing recently. It's going to take something massive (like the original Ritki invasion) to get me to fire up the game again.
I rmeember when I was looking for a college, the New Jersey Institute of Technology was ranked #1 Most Wired University by Yahoo!
They milked that thing for all it was worth. There were banners and posters everywhere.
In their defense, they were pretty wired for the time. Every single classroom and dorm room was wired for 10Mb ethernet; this was before wireless was popular or cheap, but I was surprised there was not 100Mb ethernet. And they had a partial T3 connection to the 'net. Also, you could register for courses online, which was a big deal back then. Most of my friends at other universities had to wait in line the old fassion way.
They lost that placing pretty quickly. Things had gotten a little better after I graduated, but still. I can easily see these things fluxuate very quickly.
What I find odd is that the current computer/student ratio is really really low. When I was going there, they'd outfit each student with a piece of garbage computer, but at least everyone had one. Maybe things have changed since?
Personally, I think how Lex portrayed in Smallville is awesome. Rosenbaum does an excellent job.
At this point in Smallville, Lex hasn't gone completely Dark-Side yet. But he's still portrayed as dark and suave. Meanwhile, Lyonel Luthor is as evil as they come.
Yeh,
I've been waiting for VIEWS since forever. It's supposedly in the 5.0.1 Alpha, but I don't install MySQL on my development box unless it's Gamma or higher.
MySQL may lack a lot, but just about the only thing I need that it doesn't have is views.
As someone else mentioned, your "point" upgrade term is wrong.
OS X currently comes in different versions: 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, etc. They're all OS X at the core, but new versions. We're not talking about bug fixes, but new features and redesigns to certain aspects (new file browser, database-based file system soon, etc).
So, here you're paying for an enhanced version of the OS. Think Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Both are similar at the core, but 1 has more hardware compatibility and newer features. Maybe you don't want to upgrade from Windows 2000 to Windows XP, and I know a few people that chose to stay with OS x 10.2 and not take 10.3. It depends if you think the new features warrant shelling out $100 for a new OS. Sometimes the difference is really major.
The point release 10.3.1, 10.3.2, 10.3.3 are essentially service packs. They're a culminatation of bug fixes, new hardware support, and some new features. These are available for free using the OS update feature.
Think of Windows XP SP1 and SP2. You can download the service pack for free. With it, you'll get better security, bug fixes, and a some new features.
Yeh, staying completely current with OSX is slightly more expensive than staying current with Windows, but only slightly. The standard consumer price of OSX is less than the standard consumer price of XP.
You can buy the full version of OS X for $129 USD at the normal over-the-shelf price. A value pack for $199 USD lets you legally install the OS on up to 5 PC's! But a new version comes out more often.
Windows XP Pro FULL Install is about $320 USD, with the upgrade version around $226 USD. But a new MS OS comes out less fequently (2 years between Win2000 and Win2k).
OSX = $129 every 1-2 years (if you want)
or
MS Windows = $220 to $320 every 2-3 years (if you want)
NOTE: I'm not covering OEM or Student pricing.
Cellphone ringing is annoying, but it's not that bad. As you said, it's like coughing or sneezing.
What's a real pain is when some jerk is getting calls, answering them, and having full-length phone conversations with them. Meanwhile, they "have to talk loud" because the movie is blaring.
If a phone rings, it's no big deal. I just hope it's not during an important part.
But if you know you're going to need to have conversation-after-conversation during the evening, then maybe you shouldn't go to a movie.
I mean, if it's THAT important, you shouldn't be there. If if it's not important, it can wait 2 hours.
Yeh.
I actually stoppled playing after 2 months. It was just "arrest bad guys, lvl up, buy enhancements, arrest bad guys, lvl up, etc." It grew tiring quickly, plus my character sucked. It looked like adult Trunks from Dragon Ball GT and had poor powers.
But then release 2 came out, so I figured I'd try one more month. After all, what's $15 USD. Anyway, I started a new character, and before long I had a cape (ooooh, cape).
However, I'm currently going to continue my subscription, not so much because of the level grind, but because I've hooked up with a friendly super group. It's kind of like a "clan" in FPS game. You're part of the group, and you guys go off and do missions together when you're online (if you feel like it).
Now, while it might sound lame, consider this. My biggest pet-peeve about online games is the sheer number of jerks out there: be it FPS games, MMORPG games, or RTS games. Normally you have inconsiderate b@stards or complete idiots ruining your day. But now, I I'm pretty much gauranteed to be able to play with a set of people that:
a) are not jerks
b) are decent players
c) are willing to lend a hand if I'm in a tight spot or give advice.
d) did I mention they're not jerks
This alone makes the game a lot more fun and bearable.
I'll probably stop playing again in a few weeks; but for now I'm having some fun.
Thanks.
I don't care that much about PCI-E. I already have an AGP nVidia 6800GT (upgraded from a Ti4600).
My problem is my PC is a loud space heater: P4 2.8GHz. I know that's pretty good for a gaming rig and overkill for just about everything else. But I don't want to deal with a hot/warm room and I'd like to have some quiet in there as well.
I'd just like to get an AMD 64, turn on cool n quiet, have fewer fans blasting away in there, and just have a nicer experience in general.
My 2.8GHz components (CPU, motherboard, RAM) I'll sell to my brother for dirt cheap. He says he doesn't mind the noise or heat, so he can deal with it.
Question...
Can any somewhat-modern Socket 939 motherboard run these new chips?
I"m looking at getting the MSI Neo 2 Platinum, but I'd like to get a 90nm A64. I've been waiting for a while.
Our server room is kept chillingly cold, probably in the realm of 69 def F.
The offices and cubicles are mid or upper-mid 70's.
Personally, 80 to 85 deg F is just unacceptable. I don't even turn it up that high in the winter, even if I have to go outside and shovel the driveway and want to come back to a warm house. It's sickening to have it that high.
Personally, I like to stay cool. In the winter I usually have the thermostat turned down a ways. I don't mind feeling chilly, and if it goes overboard I'd rather put on some fuzzy slippers and a long sleeve shirt than turn up the heat.
Summers though, they suck. I have the A/C cranked to like 75 or 74 deg F.