If the cost keeps going up everytime a worm appears, this will push windows to an unaffordable price. At that point, it'll become a no brainer for IT folks to just deploy linux hopefully. Cost of windows nowadays is just ludicrous.
I don't know if anyone goes on a rental spree before buying like me. But without a shadow of a doubt, Sega sports games are superior compared to EA.
Don't get me wrong EA would eat 989 studios alive. But with the exception of really really deep franchise statistics, sega espn basketball, football and hockey was so much more advanced than EA sports games IMHO.
People are actually mocking PSP with the failures of N-Gage. That's like saying Sega Saturn failed for a 32-bit console, so will playstation.
PSP WILL cause several hundred dollars. But don't forget gameboy, black and white handheld, debuted at $100 if I am correct. There were a cazillion debates over its pricing at the time, cause a colored system like SNES sold for $70 by then.
I came from the same CS/MIS disipline, and honestly math and CS do NOT go hand in hand.
For some reason people think CS needs calculus and differential equations and a whole lot more to get by. Listen to me.... you use calculus to find the derivitives of a curve. If you're a CS major you don't need freaking calculus, your typical windows box can solve it for you. And if you can't figure how to calculate numbers with a computer, you shouldn't even be a CS in the first place. Go ahead gimme the -5 troll for being upfront and honest with my 4 year experience.
I dunno what the fuss is all about the free downloads. Now that unreal 2004 is out in the market, it is definitely a superior game in all shape way or form than tribes 1 + 2.
Gimme that troll -5 flamebait, but considering how much I used to play tribes... this publicity stunt is a little late.
It's sad but true. The worst part about sequels is that they DON'T necessarily get better. Remember back in the NES days, mario 2 was better than 1. Link was better than Zelda.
Nowadays, sequels are actually debatable with their predecessors. Not to mention online games (especially EA online games) are useless without 10 patches out of the box.
We are at a crossroad where technology growth is far superior to the pace lawyers and court cases are used to it. Our constitution, though flexible, can't possibly deal with every new tech version and innovation.
I wouldn't wave comcast goodbye since it actually provides pretty good service. Original mediaone is still the best IMHO.
For a song to become a super mp3, tracking P2P users and multi channel sound.... wouldn't this be naturally much bigger than 5MB? If so wouldn't it be easy for the P2P user to just recognize that and avoid downloading it right away.
Not to mention this is probably going to create a new P2P feature to flag an mp3 as "super" or "regular" before downloading.
If you want to be upfront about it, piracy is illegal according to a piece of paper.
Years ago the pilgrims lifestyle were restricted by law in a thousand ways. Years from now, people will realize laws against piracy is completely useless.
I am not saying developers should not be paid. I am just saying if the government really want anti-piracy initative, they would have to force M$ to create an OS where games literally run off centralized servers on a $$ basis.
I totally agree. NO ONE will take over windows in the next 10 years. For every great feature that comes out of the competitor OS, M$ will just steal it. They got bigger and fatter lawyers.
Linux will never come close unless it can find that directX alternative.
No offense but as soon as LucasArt steps out of the starwars zone, they are plain aweful.
Which brings back to the original statistics. What percentage of gamers nowadays are devoted starwars fan that'll buy anything starwars related. It's a much smaller percentage, now that the market is saturated with starwars garbage.
This stock is going to fly straight up for the first few months.
Then it's going to tank.
Then everyone will buy it at $1 a share.
It'll repeat this cycle for a while before stabilizing. In the meantime expect Ads to start flooding google.com as they try to meet their new quarter numbers as expected by share holders.
Why do I got a feeling providing hi-tech toys in an elementary school in texas will sound good for Bush. Who is now literally synonmous with the the president responsible for the tech bust. This is a start for reversing the curse.
This will out-do Kerry and his ribbon shotputting for a day.
That's total BS. I know more people unemployed with a EE and CS degree nowadays.
Every MIS major I know is employed and doing better financially, that's no coincidence. The days of hard core programming degree no longer flys. Do you really think C/C++ from your school will give you an edge. Hells, everyone know the same shit as you by the time you graduate.
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If the cost keeps going up everytime a worm appears, this will push windows to an unaffordable price. At that point, it'll become a no brainer for IT folks to just deploy linux hopefully. Cost of windows nowadays is just ludicrous.
I don't know if anyone goes on a rental spree before buying like me. But without a shadow of a doubt, Sega sports games are superior compared to EA.
Don't get me wrong EA would eat 989 studios alive. But with the exception of really really deep franchise statistics, sega espn basketball, football and hockey was so much more advanced than EA sports games IMHO.
Yep. Circuit City and Bestbuy have these 1 week ridiculous deals. So keep an eye on the flyers.
Nearly a couple weeks after release, I pulled off...
unreal tournament 2004 - $29
wolfenstein - $29
Rainbow Six 3 Raven Shield - $25
Delta Force BHD - $19
My robot is doggy-style. Oh wait, I meant female.
I thought that's what patches and hotfixes are for in M$ land.
Ooo you can't be serious. CS is not math when it comes down to it. At a low level, yes. High level, no.
To say CS IS math is like saying physical education is biology.
People are actually mocking PSP with the failures of N-Gage. That's like saying Sega Saturn failed for a 32-bit console, so will playstation.
PSP WILL cause several hundred dollars. But don't forget gameboy, black and white handheld, debuted at $100 if I am correct. There were a cazillion debates over its pricing at the time, cause a colored system like SNES sold for $70 by then.
I came from the same CS/MIS disipline, and honestly math and CS do NOT go hand in hand.
For some reason people think CS needs calculus and differential equations and a whole lot more to get by. Listen to me.... you use calculus to find the derivitives of a curve. If you're a CS major you don't need freaking calculus, your typical windows box can solve it for you. And if you can't figure how to calculate numbers with a computer, you shouldn't even be a CS in the first place. Go ahead gimme the -5 troll for being upfront and honest with my 4 year experience.
Just look at the title! Projected 'Average' Longhorn System Is A Whopper.
You need to replace your new computer because longhorn only run on burgers.
I dunno what the fuss is all about the free downloads. Now that unreal 2004 is out in the market, it is definitely a superior game in all shape way or form than tribes 1 + 2.
Gimme that troll -5 flamebait, but considering how much I used to play tribes... this publicity stunt is a little late.
It's sad but true. The worst part about sequels is that they DON'T necessarily get better. Remember back in the NES days, mario 2 was better than 1. Link was better than Zelda.
Nowadays, sequels are actually debatable with their predecessors. Not to mention online games (especially EA online games) are useless without 10 patches out of the box.
I wasn't really robbing the bank. I was just testing the security. Here's my business card.
Now you can pay us to do it all over again thru our security break-in firm.... blah blah.
People have got to let go of the law a bit.
We are at a crossroad where technology growth is far superior to the pace lawyers and court cases are used to it. Our constitution, though flexible, can't possibly deal with every new tech version and innovation.
I wouldn't wave comcast goodbye since it actually provides pretty good service. Original mediaone is still the best IMHO.
Ok, you have a typical 5MB mp3 song.
For a song to become a super mp3, tracking P2P users and multi channel sound.... wouldn't this be naturally much bigger than 5MB? If so wouldn't it be easy for the P2P user to just recognize that and avoid downloading it right away.
Not to mention this is probably going to create a new P2P feature to flag an mp3 as "super" or "regular" before downloading.
If you want to be upfront about it, piracy is illegal according to a piece of paper.
Years ago the pilgrims lifestyle were restricted by law in a thousand ways. Years from now, people will realize laws against piracy is completely useless.
I am not saying developers should not be paid. I am just saying if the government really want anti-piracy initative, they would have to force M$ to create an OS where games literally run off centralized servers on a $$ basis.
I totally agree. NO ONE will take over windows in the next 10 years. For every great feature that comes out of the competitor OS, M$ will just steal it. They got bigger and fatter lawyers.
Linux will never come close unless it can find that directX alternative.
No offense but as soon as LucasArt steps out of the starwars zone, they are plain aweful.
Which brings back to the original statistics. What percentage of gamers nowadays are devoted starwars fan that'll buy anything starwars related. It's a much smaller percentage, now that the market is saturated with starwars garbage.
This stock is going to fly straight up for the first few months.
Then it's going to tank.
Then everyone will buy it at $1 a share.
It'll repeat this cycle for a while before stabilizing. In the meantime expect Ads to start flooding google.com as they try to meet their new quarter numbers as expected by share holders.
All sun has to do is the following.... and they'll be back in full swing
1.) Abandon sun sparc hardware and manufacturing. It's too overpriced and everything's available on ebay for 1/2 anyways.
2.) Abandon linux
3.) Pick up Solaris x86 as main platform and improve on PC hardware specs.
4.) Move out of California. Get your headquarter to a cheaper state.
5.) Start selling some killer apps.
Oh that's no problem. In today's society we'll just download a patch after releasing a market-rushed, extremely flawed, half ass version 1.0.
M$ has it all wrong.
M$ formula
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sell more xbox exclusive games = sell more xbox consoles
Sony's formula
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sell any ps2 games + ps2 exclusive games to Japan = sell more ps2 consoles
If SCO and RIAA got together, they'd have the highest expense of lawyers while offering no service or product to the public.
I thought M$ had good lawyers, man these two companies can sue any one of any status.
Why do I got a feeling providing hi-tech toys in an elementary school in texas will sound good for Bush. Who is now literally synonmous with the the president responsible for the tech bust. This is a start for reversing the curse.
This will out-do Kerry and his ribbon shotputting for a day.
But after the radiation those features might come with 4 extra vagina and no a closed asshole.
That's total BS. I know more people unemployed with a EE and CS degree nowadays.
Every MIS major I know is employed and doing better financially, that's no coincidence. The days of hard core programming degree no longer flys. Do you really think C/C++ from your school will give you an edge. Hells, everyone know the same shit as you by the time you graduate.