I bought Halo for PC with the expectation that it would kill the Xbox version in terms of resolution and picture quality... how wrong I was!
I suspect that they did this on purpose, so that if you wanted to have the proper Halo experience, you have to buy and Xbox.
I was seriously underwhelmed by the whole experience... my Xbox owning friends trumpeted this game as if it were the best thing ever to happen to video gaming. I know understand that their manic promotion of this game was infact a side effect of their underwhelming experience with it. They didn't have to face the reality that they wasted their money on the MS console, and were suckered in by the marketing hype surrounding Halo. I mean, it's not a bad game, but it's not anything cutting edge or new, and definatly not worth buying a whole new console for.
What I want to know is: what kind of moronic lawyers pick up cases like this?
Win or lose, they get paid... you don't have to be a good lawyer to get paid. Some lawyers find it hard to get a case at all, so they will jump through hoops on command if someone offers them enough money to do it.
step 1: build mansion in Salt Lake valley hills step 2: "advise" failing software company step 3: place pinkie finger on bottom lip and laugh in maniacal fashion step 4: ??? step 5: profit!
I can hear the wailing of their rapidly falling stock and it makes me giddy, but really I just can't wait for the sound it will make at the end of its vertical journey;-P
I have no doubt of that... but in terms of storage, how much is there going to be? Some games use swap space (though I'm not sure of the amount they utilize in terms of MB) I would expect that regardless of the hardware interface, they latency compared to an acctual hard drive will make them unplayable... In my experience, flash memory is *MUCH* slower than a fully fledged plater HD. Not to mention alot more expensive... The upside is, no moving parts to eventually wear down and fail...
So i guess this rules out any question of backward compatibility for Xbox games that make use of the hard drive... That is unless of course they stock the XB2 with 10G of flash memory, in which case, it's price tag is going to be astronomical... and what about the touted "Media Center" functionality of the Xbox? How will you rip your songs to the HDD if there isn't one?
I've never understood how the metric system can be thought of as fancy or tricky by most Americans. It's all base 10. 10 millimetres equals a centimetre, 100 centimetres equals a metre, therefore 1000 millimetres in a meter (milli meaning 1000), and 1000 meters in a kilometre. Simple. Imperial units are all over the damn place... 12 inches in a foot, 3 feet in a yard, 1760 yards in a mile... conversions between different sized metric units is extremely easy compared to imperial.
Now my question is this.. how can the metric systems be seen as complicated when compared to the in consistent imperial system?
Who's accountable? Names and phone numbers are what most businesses expect. Not a handle in an IRC channel. Not Usenet posts.
what if there was someone to hold accountable? someone who knew about the software because they installed it themselves? Names and phone numbers covered.
Do you seriously think, that if you ever sued a Microsoft due to a software bug leading to a massive security breach, you'd ever see a red cent? No, there is terms in their EULA's that absovle them of any resonsibility. How is this different from the terms stated in GPL/BSD licenses? What accountability are you refering to?
You should reserve judgement on a game until you've seen more than just a couple of screenshots... From my understanding, this game will be a bit more like Messiah, in that you are infact a ghost of sorts, and the object of the game is to complete certain objectives by possesing the in game inhabitants.. the difference lies in the fact the in Geist, you have to scare the bejezus out of your potential flesh vessel before you can take them over...
Halo clone? I think not... except maybe that they're both from a first person perspective... but if that were case, wouldn't HL2 just be a Catacombs3D clone?
I know it's one of the games I'm looking for, and it's certainly not because it's a Halo clone (if it was, I prolly wouldn't even know it's name)
No... you could still sleep (or get head) with them, but instead of being able to kill them and get your money back once the deed was done and they were out of the car, they simply vanished before any killing was possible
I don't sell sick stuff like Marilyn Manson or cop-killer rap
Maybe you ought to get off your moral high horse, and start selling things that people want to buy, not just the stuff that you'd want to buy... why limit your potential market?
So that's my idea - a national blacklist of pirates
And so you would leave them with no other way of listening to their favoured music but to pirate... if you really believe this would make a difference, you're living in a dream land... Your parallels between the black list for drug dealers and black lists for pirates is just wrong... A blick list for dealers can achieve some level of effect, because the goods they are proitecting are tangible, real objects, and therefore cannot be duplicated ad infinitum. Pirates on the other hand only require a single copy of their chosen contraband to propagate iot all other the world. This is why a black list for pirates will not work... it only takes one weak link in the chain and the desired effect is lost. Infact, I would go so far to say that a law trying to create a black list of pirates would increase piracy more than anything, because there would be ALOT of people who would have no other way to get music except through piracy...
I know I'm probably going to be accused of being a pirate... and i guess to a certain extent thats true, but I always buy CD's of bands who I think are truly worthy, and I don't distribute tracks... I make my decision on whether a band/group is truly worthy based on MP3's i find on the internet, or radio/tv... I don't know why, but people seem to think that music sharing is a new thing, it's not... has every body already forgotten about cassette tapes and how easy they were to copy? Add cassette tapes easy copying and a radio, and you have yourself a new unlimited source of recordable music (though 90% is crap)... Internet music sharing is not far different from this.
That'd be Australia. We have this great thing called Medicare, which is a public healthcare system. Well it was good, until the current government started to disassemble it, and is currently in the process of converting the Australian medical system to be more like the American one... from all accounts, the old way (socialist) was much better.
Thats because most of SCO's products contain alot of OSS... Windows, on the other hand, is completly proprietary, and has a huge installed base, and therefore the best yardstick to measure this statment by.
The post this responds to shows in utter clarity how eaten up with socialist thought slashdot and its moderators are.
Thats not necessarily a bad thing... Linux is based on socialist concepts. Not only Linux, but public schools and hospitals... and to decry these things as 'evil', simply because they are socialist in theory, is to overlook their true worth.
(note: I'm not saying you said these things were evil... just pointing out that socialism is not as bad/evil as it is made out to be. Totalitarianism on the other hand...)
Ahh but they do... the thing is, they leave it to the viewer to connect the dots, which it seems you are incapable of... If you didn't read the last couple of lines in my previous post, I gave my interpretation (my connecting of the dots) of why Neo had these powers... but in your rush to hurl personal insults, you ommited them from your response... you my friend are the troll...
They did not explain why neo has powers outside the Matrix.
Oh thats right, you didn't read my post...
They did not explain lots of things. That is why I didn't like the 3rd movie: because they did not awnsers the questions that they had opened. They said it was a planned trilogy, they filmed the last 2 movies all in one go, and the 3rd movie ends with questions opened in #2 left unawnsered. That is bad storytelling.
No, this is GENIUS story telling... They give you, the viewer, the oportunity to draw your own conclusions based on the information they provide. Obviously, people like yourself don't enjoy this kind of narrative, because it makes their heads hurt from all the thinking it requires. I didn't want this to drop to the level of personal insults, but since you've bought it down, I'm inclined to follow...
You are obviously one of those people who enjoys having things handed to him on a silver platter with a 600 page instruction manual, written in bold 32pt Arial... you didn't get the answers you were looking for from the movies, because you were unwilling to draw your own conclusions based on what they were saying...
I find it ironic that a couple of posts above, you were berating another user for calling you ignorant.. then when presented with a rational discussion, you fell to the same level and said "I demonstrated that you are an ignorant poser with the attention span of a gnat"... a tactic you claim is employed only by fanatics who can't stand people disagreeing with them.
Get over it dude... I respect the fact you didn't like these movies, all I'm doing is presenting you with MHO, and you can't seem to reciprocate that... thus this conversation is over.
I guess, Godwins law gets invoked right about now...
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I bought Halo for PC with the expectation that it would kill the Xbox version in terms of resolution and picture quality... how wrong I was!
I suspect that they did this on purpose, so that if you wanted to have the proper Halo experience, you have to buy and Xbox.
I was seriously underwhelmed by the whole experience... my Xbox owning friends trumpeted this game as if it were the best thing ever to happen to video gaming. I know understand that their manic promotion of this game was infact a side effect of their underwhelming experience with it. They didn't have to face the reality that they wasted their money on the MS console, and were suckered in by the marketing hype surrounding Halo. I mean, it's not a bad game, but it's not anything cutting edge or new, and definatly not worth buying a whole new console for.
What I want to know is: what kind of moronic lawyers pick up cases like this?
Win or lose, they get paid... you don't have to be a good lawyer to get paid. Some lawyers find it hard to get a case at all, so they will jump through hoops on command if someone offers them enough money to do it.
step 1: build mansion in Salt Lake valley hills
step 2: "advise" failing software company
step 3: place pinkie finger on bottom lip and laugh in maniacal fashion
step 4: ???
step 5: profit!
I can hear the wailing of their rapidly falling stock and it makes me giddy, but really I just can't wait for the sound it will make at the end of its vertical journey ;-P
I have no doubt of that... but in terms of storage, how much is there going to be? Some games use swap space (though I'm not sure of the amount they utilize in terms of MB) I would expect that regardless of the hardware interface, they latency compared to an acctual hard drive will make them unplayable... In my experience, flash memory is *MUCH* slower than a fully fledged plater HD. Not to mention alot more expensive... The upside is, no moving parts to eventually wear down and fail...
/rant
So i guess this rules out any question of backward compatibility for Xbox games that make use of the hard drive... That is unless of course they stock the XB2 with 10G of flash memory, in which case, it's price tag is going to be astronomical... and what about the touted "Media Center" functionality of the Xbox? How will you rip your songs to the HDD if there isn't one?
You may be onto something... it is my experience that australian kegs come in 2 standard sizes: 9 gallon and 18 gallon.
I will make an allowance for Imperial measurements if they refer to a large amount of aussie amber goodness
fancy metric system
OT but anyway...
I've never understood how the metric system can be thought of as fancy or tricky by most Americans. It's all base 10. 10 millimetres equals a centimetre, 100 centimetres equals a metre, therefore 1000 millimetres in a meter (milli meaning 1000), and 1000 meters in a kilometre. Simple. Imperial units are all over the damn place... 12 inches in a foot, 3 feet in a yard, 1760 yards in a mile... conversions between different sized metric units is extremely easy compared to imperial.
Now my question is this.. how can the metric systems be seen as complicated when compared to the in consistent imperial system?
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Crystal Chronicles is not a port
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Who's accountable? Names and phone numbers are what most businesses expect. Not a handle in an IRC channel. Not Usenet posts.
what if there was someone to hold accountable? someone who knew about the software because they installed it themselves? Names and phone numbers covered.
Do you seriously think, that if you ever sued a Microsoft due to a software bug leading to a massive security breach, you'd ever see a red cent? No, there is terms in their EULA's that absovle them of any resonsibility. How is this different from the terms stated in GPL/BSD licenses? What accountability are you refering to?
I like it.. it has a ring to it that definatly evokes the emotions I feel when thinking about SCO...
;-)
The SCO-DO-CO: when you really need to punch a donut
Think about it:
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Geist (Halo clone)
You should reserve judgement on a game until you've seen more than just a couple of screenshots... From my understanding, this game will be a bit more like Messiah, in that you are infact a ghost of sorts, and the object of the game is to complete certain objectives by possesing the in game inhabitants.. the difference lies in the fact the in Geist, you have to scare the bejezus out of your potential flesh vessel before you can take them over...
Halo clone? I think not... except maybe that they're both from a first person perspective... but if that were case, wouldn't HL2 just be a Catacombs3D clone?
I know it's one of the games I'm looking for, and it's certainly not because it's a Halo clone (if it was, I prolly wouldn't even know it's name)
Is this really news? Or is this an attempt to summon the collective UNIX/Linux knowledge of /.
Either way, I hope this kicks some asSCOles inside out...
There definatly seems to be a collective tightening of assholes when it comes to jokes that concern technology...
Step 1: Make joke about console running server sofware
Step 2: Get modded down to 7th level of hell
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Lose faith in slashdot
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You had me, right up until you spelt circumvented as cercomvented... then i was lost in a fog of laughter...
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No... you could still sleep (or get head) with them, but instead of being able to kill them and get your money back once the deed was done and they were out of the car, they simply vanished before any killing was possible
I don't sell sick stuff like Marilyn Manson or cop-killer rap
Maybe you ought to get off your moral high horse, and start selling things that people want to buy, not just the stuff that you'd want to buy... why limit your potential market?
So that's my idea - a national blacklist of pirates
And so you would leave them with no other way of listening to their favoured music but to pirate... if you really believe this would make a difference, you're living in a dream land... Your parallels between the black list for drug dealers and black lists for pirates is just wrong... A blick list for dealers can achieve some level of effect, because the goods they are proitecting are tangible, real objects, and therefore cannot be duplicated ad infinitum. Pirates on the other hand only require a single copy of their chosen contraband to propagate iot all other the world. This is why a black list for pirates will not work... it only takes one weak link in the chain and the desired effect is lost. Infact, I would go so far to say that a law trying to create a black list of pirates would increase piracy more than anything, because there would be ALOT of people who would have no other way to get music except through piracy...
I know I'm probably going to be accused of being a pirate... and i guess to a certain extent thats true, but I always buy CD's of bands who I think are truly worthy, and I don't distribute tracks... I make my decision on whether a band/group is truly worthy based on MP3's i find on the internet, or radio/tv... I don't know why, but people seem to think that music sharing is a new thing, it's not... has every body already forgotten about cassette tapes and how easy they were to copy? Add cassette tapes easy copying and a radio, and you have yourself a new unlimited source of recordable music (though 90% is crap)... Internet music sharing is not far different from this.
Paying taxes at gunpoint does not.
Oh, so you wont go to jail at gunpoint if you don't pay your taxes in a capitalist system? Thats nice to know...
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I'd be interested to know, since i don't live in Canadia, how does this levy effect the price of blank CDRs in a monetary value?
I don't know about where YOU come from
That'd be Australia. We have this great thing called Medicare, which is a public healthcare system. Well it was good, until the current government started to disassemble it, and is currently in the process of converting the Australian medical system to be more like the American one... from all accounts, the old way (socialist) was much better.
Thats because most of SCO's products contain alot of OSS... Windows, on the other hand, is completly proprietary, and has a huge installed base, and therefore the best yardstick to measure this statment by.
The post this responds to shows in utter clarity how eaten up with socialist thought slashdot and its moderators are.
Thats not necessarily a bad thing... Linux is based on socialist concepts. Not only Linux, but public schools and hospitals... and to decry these things as 'evil', simply because they are socialist in theory, is to overlook their true worth.
(note: I'm not saying you said these things were evil... just pointing out that socialism is not as bad/evil as it is made out to be. Totalitarianism on the other hand...)
They never explain that.
Ahh but they do... the thing is, they leave it to the viewer to connect the dots, which it seems you are incapable of... If you didn't read the last couple of lines in my previous post, I gave my interpretation (my connecting of the dots) of why Neo had these powers... but in your rush to hurl personal insults, you ommited them from your response... you my friend are the troll...
They did not explain why neo has powers outside the Matrix.
Oh thats right, you didn't read my post...
They did not explain lots of things. That is why I didn't like the 3rd movie: because they did not awnsers the questions that they had opened. They said it was a planned trilogy, they filmed the last 2 movies all in one go, and the 3rd movie ends with questions opened in #2 left unawnsered. That is bad storytelling.
No, this is GENIUS story telling... They give you, the viewer, the oportunity to draw your own conclusions based on the information they provide. Obviously, people like yourself don't enjoy this kind of narrative, because it makes their heads hurt from all the thinking it requires. I didn't want this to drop to the level of personal insults, but since you've bought it down, I'm inclined to follow...
You are obviously one of those people who enjoys having things handed to him on a silver platter with a 600 page instruction manual, written in bold 32pt Arial... you didn't get the answers you were looking for from the movies, because you were unwilling to draw your own conclusions based on what they were saying...
I find it ironic that a couple of posts above, you were berating another user for calling you ignorant.. then when presented with a rational discussion, you fell to the same level and said "I demonstrated that you are an ignorant poser with the attention span of a gnat"... a tactic you claim is employed only by fanatics who can't stand people disagreeing with them.
Get over it dude... I respect the fact you didn't like these movies, all I'm doing is presenting you with MHO, and you can't seem to reciprocate that... thus this conversation is over.
I guess, Godwins law gets invoked right about now...