... would proclaim that this is a tablet PC. Or Slashdot editors. Long live Allah, for those who do not worship him will burn in the fiery pit of his stomach.
Of course, if the infidels throught to bring some pepto bismal, they might just sit in his stomach, rather than burn. I go to look at dirt now, while the American's flee like dogs away from our Airport. Maybe I will go look at one of the fine statutues of our leader Saddam. Ahh, what beautiful statues.
What, they've been taken down? You lie! I saw them yesterday while walking my llama down the peaceful streets of Baghdad! Just the other day I told Saddam that it would be nice if the American's would put up more of a fight, as our Jihad against them is starting to bore the Iraqi troops back into staring at dirt to pass the time!
I am pulling a Mohammed! Ha! That means I am pulling myself!
Oh please. If you put something on the web, then you are inviting people to come see it. If you put something out there that MANY people want to see, then dont get upset when MANY people come to see it. That would be like putting up a sign in a busy city stating you had free donuts and then yelling at the customers for coming to eat them.
If I stuck something on my website that people wanted to see, then I would expect them to come see it. If I wanted to stick something up for just a few people, I'd either put it up in such a way so as only they could get to it, else I'd send the file/image/information only to them.
So slashdot "slashdots" people. They made the choice to put the information on the web, pardon us for wanting to look at it.
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... the world is in for it..
from the wireframe-world dept:
(taken from a January 2002 SA.com article entitled, How you Know You're in the Future or something...)
Wireframe models. Everything in the future is represented by wireframe models on computers. Everything. If you're looking for a particular person, their face will appear as a wireframe model accompanied by 500-point flashing text displaying their name. If you're looking for a file, it will appear as a wireframe model of a folder. If you're looking for a wireframe model, it will appear as a wireframe model composed of really tiny wireframe models that make up each wire.
Its more fun to actually "talk" to friends while playing, and at times I have used GameVoice (pretty good) and Roger Wilco (also, pretty good), but right now prefer MCI's The Neighborhood plan to speak with friends while playing online games. Circuit City (as well as other retailers) sell inexpensive headsets that work really well (I use the Jensen model, 19.99 very nice).
Still, the voice communication software is better than typing, especially with RTS games or FPS games.
I hate replying to myself, but another problem with arcades is that alot of them (and this isnt really new) went from quarters to tokens. At the start, it was 4 quarters = 4 tokens, and if you bought like, 10 dollars worth they gave you extra. Then it went 4 quarters = 3 tokens, and they upped the amount of tokens needed to play. Now they have "credit cards" that you "buy" and add money to, and games are like,.35 or.65 cents a credit (which means that you'll almost ALWAYS have a balance leftover, so you put more money in to recharge it)...
Now, I can understand that they want to keep their customers, and if you can only spend the "money" in one establishment well you're not going to "hop ship", but there are many times that I've decided not to spend a few bucks in arcades, simply because I wasnt sure how much time I had, and I wasnt going to get stuck with useless tokens (think, at a mall or whatever that is not close to home that you go to maybe 1 time a year if that, or possibly the first and last time you go there for whatever reason)...
... when the "good" games were.50 to start and.25 to continue, and the really really good games were.75 to start. Nowadays games are.75 (average) and not really any different/more enjoyable than the run of the mill PC/console game.
I used to spend alot of time (and money) going to arcades, but now I'd rather spend 40-50 bucks and buy a game than 1.00 to play one for 3 minutes.
Amsterdam Vallon (639622) is a troll... watch, he'll post again about ten lines down with the opposite viewpoint, and one of these will get modded... hey mods, lets get this one down to -1...
Of course a game like this is going to get mixed reviews. First, the games feature list has changed numerous times, note that isnt necessarily a bad thing, but you say one thing will be in there, and then it isnt, well, thats not very good. Two, the release date got pushed back several times, which can have a negative effect on the reviewer. Third, its COMPLICATED... Pick up Diablo and you can play it in about 5 mins (if that) and after an hour or three you can have a pretty good feel of the game to review. MoO3 is long and complicated (Civ3 took me about 6-7 games before I started realizing how everything worked, and what I needed to do and when, which was about 25+ hours) and a reviewer with a deadline probably doesnt have that kind of time to sit with every game, so the ones that liked MoO2 probably got into it faster, and rated it better than the more casual gamer.
Of course, I am not a reviewer, but I was expecting (on my own personal scale) a 7.5/10 star game. The graphics arent that great, which weakens the rating, and if its like Civ, enduring long hours to play one game is not always a bonus, so it loses points there.
With that said, I cant wait to get my hands on it!
What a waste of an X-Box... the next jackass that wants to mod-chip/ruin theirs, please send it to me instead, I'd love to play Mechassault on X-Box Live. In return I'll send you a slightly used AMD 333, which you can stick a HDD in and use it to serve your files.
I suppose that means that the X-Box is MS's way of trying to stay "hip" and "with it", even though its "hips" are about to need replacing and the only time it gets "it" anymore it needs Viagra.
Okay, you (the vocal part of the/. community anyway) bitch bitch bitch about how Linux needs games and how companies need to make games for linux and how if there was a killer game for Linux, people would stop using windows.
Now someone wants to publish a linux only game made in ths spirit of linux (i.e., the COMMUNITY does the work) and you bitch and moan.
I for one am going to be playing WC3 on my Windows box, happy that I dont lie to myself everytime I look at my computer, the lie being that I am somehow "l33t" because I wholeheartedly advocate the linux movement, unless its not convienient.
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I'm going to interrogate this one. With my breasts.
Bizzaro I love you Bizzaro!
I'm helping!! I'm helping!! I'm helping you!!
in the end, there can be only one.
Unles of course, there's Magic involved.
Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week.
"...international co-operation wrt spam..."
excuse me, exactly what is "wrt spam"? Is that the canned meat variety, or junk mail?
... would proclaim that this is a tablet PC. Or Slashdot editors. Long live Allah, for those who do not worship him will burn in the fiery pit of his stomach.
Of course, if the infidels throught to bring some pepto bismal, they might just sit in his stomach, rather than burn. I go to look at dirt now, while the American's flee like dogs away from our Airport. Maybe I will go look at one of the fine statutues of our leader Saddam. Ahh, what beautiful statues.
What, they've been taken down? You lie! I saw them yesterday while walking my llama down the peaceful streets of Baghdad! Just the other day I told Saddam that it would be nice if the American's would put up more of a fight, as our Jihad against them is starting to bore the Iraqi troops back into staring at dirt to pass the time!
I am pulling a Mohammed! Ha! That means I am pulling myself!
Bow before Allah! I go look at dirt now.
"...in the hope that someone explains it in a manner I can understand"
You're new here, arent you?
The Solution: Yes, I do have Grey Poupon.
Oh please. If you put something on the web, then you are inviting people to come see it. If you put something out there that MANY people want to see, then dont get upset when MANY people come to see it. That would be like putting up a sign in a busy city stating you had free donuts and then yelling at the customers for coming to eat them.
If I stuck something on my website that people wanted to see, then I would expect them to come see it. If I wanted to stick something up for just a few people, I'd either put it up in such a way so as only they could get to it, else I'd send the file/image/information only to them.
So slashdot "slashdots" people. They made the choice to put the information on the web, pardon us for wanting to look at it.
... the world is in for it..
from the wireframe-world dept:
(taken from a January 2002 SA.com article entitled, How you Know You're in the Future or something...)
Wireframe models. Everything in the future is represented by wireframe models on computers. Everything. If you're looking for a particular person, their face will appear as a wireframe model accompanied by 500-point flashing text displaying their name. If you're looking for a file, it will appear as a wireframe model of a folder. If you're looking for a wireframe model, it will appear as a wireframe model composed of really tiny wireframe models that make up each wire.
Its more fun to actually "talk" to friends while playing, and at times I have used GameVoice (pretty good) and Roger Wilco (also, pretty good), but right now prefer MCI's The Neighborhood plan to speak with friends while playing online games. Circuit City (as well as other retailers) sell inexpensive headsets that work really well (I use the Jensen model, 19.99 very nice).
Still, the voice communication software is better than typing, especially with RTS games or FPS games.
"Does anyone know of a company that is planning to move to Office XP once it's out of beta? I don't."
I have the answer!
Microsoft!
"... I still buy CDs, for crying out loud."
Oh, so you're the idiot keeping them in business?
The Real Doll. That thing goes WAY beyond expectations!
Oh, wait, I dont think thats what you mean, was it...
hmm...
Religions only need two rules regarding science:
Rule one, you do not ask questions about Science.
Rule two, you do not ask questions about Science!
I hate replying to myself, but another problem with arcades is that alot of them (and this isnt really new) went from quarters to tokens. At the start, it was 4 quarters = 4 tokens, and if you bought like, 10 dollars worth they gave you extra. Then it went 4 quarters = 3 tokens, and they upped the amount of tokens needed to play. Now they have "credit cards" that you "buy" and add money to, and games are like, .35 or .65 cents a credit (which means that you'll almost ALWAYS have a balance leftover, so you put more money in to recharge it)...
Now, I can understand that they want to keep their customers, and if you can only spend the "money" in one establishment well you're not going to "hop ship", but there are many times that I've decided not to spend a few bucks in arcades, simply because I wasnt sure how much time I had, and I wasnt going to get stuck with useless tokens (think, at a mall or whatever that is not close to home that you go to maybe 1 time a year if that, or possibly the first and last time you go there for whatever reason)...
... when the "good" games were .50 to start and .25 to continue, and the really really good games were .75 to start. Nowadays games are .75 (average) and not really any different/more enjoyable than the run of the mill PC/console game.
I used to spend alot of time (and money) going to arcades, but now I'd rather spend 40-50 bucks and buy a game than 1.00 to play one for 3 minutes.
gathering of [...] most powerful people in the world
Well why the hell wasnt I invited???
Amsterdam Vallon (639622) is a troll... watch, he'll post again about ten lines down with the opposite viewpoint, and one of these will get modded... hey mods, lets get this one down to -1...
Oh god no... you just hop onto Kazaa and download it like everyone else... and you get a KILLER intro music from the folks who cracked it!
Of course a game like this is going to get mixed reviews. First, the games feature list has changed numerous times, note that isnt necessarily a bad thing, but you say one thing will be in there, and then it isnt, well, thats not very good. Two, the release date got pushed back several times, which can have a negative effect on the reviewer. Third, its COMPLICATED... Pick up Diablo and you can play it in about 5 mins (if that) and after an hour or three you can have a pretty good feel of the game to review. MoO3 is long and complicated (Civ3 took me about 6-7 games before I started realizing how everything worked, and what I needed to do and when, which was about 25+ hours) and a reviewer with a deadline probably doesnt have that kind of time to sit with every game, so the ones that liked MoO2 probably got into it faster, and rated it better than the more casual gamer.
Of course, I am not a reviewer, but I was expecting (on my own personal scale) a 7.5/10 star game. The graphics arent that great, which weakens the rating, and if its like Civ, enduring long hours to play one game is not always a bonus, so it loses points there.
With that said, I cant wait to get my hands on it!
What a waste of an X-Box... the next jackass that wants to mod-chip/ruin theirs, please send it to me instead, I'd love to play Mechassault on X-Box Live. In return I'll send you a slightly used AMD 333, which you can stick a HDD in and use it to serve your files.
Good Riddance to Bad Legislation... I think any, I didnt read the post! =)
btw, frost pist?
I suppose that means that the X-Box is MS's way of trying to stay "hip" and "with it", even though its "hips" are about to need replacing and the only time it gets "it" anymore it needs Viagra.
=)
Okay, you (the vocal part of the /. community anyway) bitch bitch bitch about how Linux needs games and how companies need to make games for linux and how if there was a killer game for Linux, people would stop using windows.
Now someone wants to publish a linux only game made in ths spirit of linux (i.e., the COMMUNITY does the work) and you bitch and moan.
I for one am going to be playing WC3 on my Windows box, happy that I dont lie to myself everytime I look at my computer, the lie being that I am somehow "l33t" because I wholeheartedly advocate the linux movement, unless its not convienient.
microBSD is finally dead??
But then how the fsck are we supposed to get to the '@' symbol?? The future of email is doomed!!!
oh, wait, you meant the magazine that hardly anyone read because most of us didnt know it existed.
In other news that doesnt change your life, Borka-Morka.com shut down 7 years ago and I spilt some milk this morning.