And there are 360 sitting unsold on store shelves in every major US retailer for over a month now.
Someone send those unsold consoles down here to San Antonio so we can get all the customers off our backs! Every major and minor retailer here hasn't been able to keep them in stock more than a day. We got 18 of them the other day and sold out within 4 hours. I'm wondering if that 190K number is because the areas that need more consoles don't have them and the ones that have them in abundance have already sold to all the customers that wanted them.
Except he didn't configure it to do the macros automatically so he couldn't just walk away. Looking at the article, he was watching TV on his other monitor which is situated right next to the one displaying WoW. He was keeping an eye on his character in WoW to determine when to hit the next macro key while watching TV. Unfortunately it looks like he probably didn't keep an eye on his chat box and missed an IM to check if he was actually there or not. I have to admit, when I was doing some mindless task in an MMO I usually didn't notice the chat box either because I was watching TV or reading a book too.
Looks like either he just got caught not paying enough attention to the game and he missed the message, or the admins just saw that he was doing the same thing over and over and the abilities were being used in the same order with the same delay between them and decided to suspend him without checking with a message to the player.
Early color TVs? Try a lot of current TVs too. Don't forget CRT monitors. Some days it was hell working in the electronics department. If the customers weren't making enough background noise or it was a slow day the sound would nearly drive me nuts. I'm over 20 now but I can still hear most of this stuff because I'm not a big fan of loude music or loud noises.
You forgot the fourth.. but not many people use it well.
The almighty.50 cal sniper rifle. It's tough as nails to get a good shot lined up on a heli pilot, but when you get one it's like heaven shined down on you for a moment. I always love watching a fairly noob pilot (I say fairly because they have to learn how to hover first) hover over a spawn point. They always act surprised when suddenly they're slumping over the controls and the heli drops like a rock into the awaiting defense force.
The OP actually said $15/1, meaning $15 for 1 time playing Madden online. Of course that means the OP only plays 3.333 repeating times per year, but you get the gist of what he meant.
So why are they dropping it just for the GameCube? By their logic they should be dropping the PS2 version also since all it has is an internet adapter. X-Box is the only console with an online service.
Scary is when you get to the level in the game you're usualy wisecracking, confident character gets a tinge of terror in his voice. It's also when you spend the entire first half of the level creeping around, scared out of your wits because you KNOW there's something there to get you.. so you hide in the shadows like the thief you are.. atmosphere so thick it's dripping down the walls. You finally figure out that there's nothing there.. nothing around the corner.. nothing behind the next door. That's when you realized that you have to go through the rusted prisonlike gate and to do that.. you have to turn the lights on.. and when you get through the door.. that's where the real monsters are..
Seriously though.. the Cradle in Thief: Deadly Shadows is one of the scariest places I've been in my gaming life. The guy who designed it spent most of the project developing it in his spare time, making sure every little detail was perfectly honed to scare the living crap out of you. I heard he some day wants to make an entire game like that one level.. FSM help us. Very interesting stuff he did with it too, putting little details in writing here and there, and objects around that just give you the creeps. Nothing really blatantly "scary" like blood splashes on the walls and other ridiculous stuff like that. The fact alone that you find out it wasn't an insane asylum then an orphanage, but both at the same time which got set on fire gives you the heebie jeebies.
Yeah no kidding. What is it with Sonics now all pumping out pop instead of oldies? It really screws up the feel of the place. My girlfriend and I really hate it.
"1905? Horse & buggy... yup, know how that works... Coal fired boiler... yup, know how that works... Gas stove, yup... Kerosene Lamp, yup... Pen & inkwell, yup... Water pump, yup......"
How was the buggy assembled, piece by piece? What metals did the boiler use and now was it smithed? Where did the gas feed come from and how was it processed? Where does kerosene come from? What is the formula for the ink in the inkwell? What is actually going on in the water pump to make it pull water up from the ground?
What you're answering is how to operate. What the question was is how exactly does it work. That usually includes how to make it, where the materials come from and what they do. I can use a ballpoint pen, and I have a vague idea of how it gets the ink on the page, but I have no idea how the ink is made that completes the device and makes it work. Without that type of ink the pen doesn't work right, but does that matter to me?
I never quite understood why generations of tehnological developers get so upset when the fruits of their labor are available to regular folks while the whole time they're developing it most of them are thinking how they can make things that do more and are easier to use. The computing industry seems to be the worst of it all.
I wish I had a gyro mouse when I was still playing DBTS. Mouse and/or keyboard controls with that game were so horrible, but if you got things just right you could do some awesome moves. I wish more games came out that had as much control over your character as that one did. Maybe they will if the Revolution catches on like I hope it will.
There was one called Inner Space too I think it was. It used a file explorer like interface on one side that showed you where the virus had spread. You had to go in and kill the virus while managing your relationship with the other ships that reside on your computer.
Hard but can be done. I did it by literally going past the HR monkey and speaking directly to the manager. Given I still don't have the job yet but that's just because they're not done with the interviews. Of course it helps if you have someone who knows you in the job already. But like I said, the way to do it is go above the head of HR if you can and impress the super/manager with your knowledge. I might end up getting this network security job without a BS or even an AAS and no certs in anything.
What you talkin bout Willis?
My little '94 4Runner (well, little compared to most SUVs) fits 5 comfortably and hauls a hella lot of weight. We just moved 1500 miles with three people, backend loaded, luggage rack full, towing a car crammed with stuff with just a 6 Cyl and it still got decent mileage. Remember that a 3-4 person family is average for the US and you are the exception that MIGHT need an SUV of that size.
Besides, once I've repaired and registered it, the 4Runner will stay at home most of the time and we'll be driving our little 4 banger Hyundai.
Want to know a secret though? The companies producing these browsers have 100% control of what is and isn't implemented in them. I'm not making a point that all browsers should be absolutely 100% WC3 compatible. I'm making a point that all browsers should try to make themselves as compatible as possible with WC3 rather than one ubercompany makes a browser and everyone should be making browsers compatible with THEIRS and not the standards the company ignores.
Oh and to me it's always seemed that a browser should be 100% compatible to WC3, not to a company that arbitrarily decides that set standards don't need to be paid any attention.
Webmasters that have a clue and know how to make a site compatible with all browsers aren't the problem. Webmasters and companies that have no clue and make pages that will only render to a browser that identifies itself as IE are the problem even if the code would render perfectly in Opera, Firefox, Konquerer, et al.
Yup it's that old. It includes all the episodes including the unaired ones.
And don't worry, a friend of mine didn't like it when it was on TV, but finally checked it out in the REAL order after donwloading it. He watched three episodes and liked it so much he bought the DVD set.
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Someone send those unsold consoles down here to San Antonio so we can get all the customers off our backs! Every major and minor retailer here hasn't been able to keep them in stock more than a day. We got 18 of them the other day and sold out within 4 hours. I'm wondering if that 190K number is because the areas that need more consoles don't have them and the ones that have them in abundance have already sold to all the customers that wanted them.
Yeah no kidding. Everytime I think about going back Blizzard does something to make me stay away again.
Except he didn't configure it to do the macros automatically so he couldn't just walk away. Looking at the article, he was watching TV on his other monitor which is situated right next to the one displaying WoW. He was keeping an eye on his character in WoW to determine when to hit the next macro key while watching TV. Unfortunately it looks like he probably didn't keep an eye on his chat box and missed an IM to check if he was actually there or not. I have to admit, when I was doing some mindless task in an MMO I usually didn't notice the chat box either because I was watching TV or reading a book too. Looks like either he just got caught not paying enough attention to the game and he missed the message, or the admins just saw that he was doing the same thing over and over and the abilities were being used in the same order with the same delay between them and decided to suspend him without checking with a message to the player.
Early color TVs? Try a lot of current TVs too. Don't forget CRT monitors. Some days it was hell working in the electronics department. If the customers weren't making enough background noise or it was a slow day the sound would nearly drive me nuts. I'm over 20 now but I can still hear most of this stuff because I'm not a big fan of loude music or loud noises.
The almighty .50 cal sniper rifle. It's tough as nails to get a good shot lined up on a heli pilot, but when you get one it's like heaven shined down on you for a moment. I always love watching a fairly noob pilot (I say fairly because they have to learn how to hover first) hover over a spawn point. They always act surprised when suddenly they're slumping over the controls and the heli drops like a rock into the awaiting defense force.
The OP actually said $15/1, meaning $15 for 1 time playing Madden online. Of course that means the OP only plays 3.333 repeating times per year, but you get the gist of what he meant.
So why are they dropping it just for the GameCube? By their logic they should be dropping the PS2 version also since all it has is an internet adapter. X-Box is the only console with an online service.
Ah yes Dotslash.. Slashdots evil twin.
Mod this down if this gives away too much
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Scary is when you get to the level in the game you're usualy wisecracking, confident character gets a tinge of terror in his voice. It's also when you spend the entire first half of the level creeping around, scared out of your wits because you KNOW there's something there to get you.. so you hide in the shadows like the thief you are.. atmosphere so thick it's dripping down the walls. You finally figure out that there's nothing there.. nothing around the corner.. nothing behind the next door. That's when you realized that you have to go through the rusted prisonlike gate and to do that.. you have to turn the lights on.. and when you get through the door.. that's where the real monsters are..
Seriously though.. the Cradle in Thief: Deadly Shadows is one of the scariest places I've been in my gaming life. The guy who designed it spent most of the project developing it in his spare time, making sure every little detail was perfectly honed to scare the living crap out of you. I heard he some day wants to make an entire game like that one level.. FSM help us. Very interesting stuff he did with it too, putting little details in writing here and there, and objects around that just give you the creeps. Nothing really blatantly "scary" like blood splashes on the walls and other ridiculous stuff like that. The fact alone that you find out it wasn't an insane asylum then an orphanage, but both at the same time which got set on fire gives you the heebie jeebies.
Yeah no kidding. What is it with Sonics now all pumping out pop instead of oldies? It really screws up the feel of the place. My girlfriend and I really hate it.
How was the buggy assembled, piece by piece? What metals did the boiler use and now was it smithed? Where did the gas feed come from and how was it processed? Where does kerosene come from? What is the formula for the ink in the inkwell? What is actually going on in the water pump to make it pull water up from the ground?
What you're answering is how to operate. What the question was is how exactly does it work. That usually includes how to make it, where the materials come from and what they do. I can use a ballpoint pen, and I have a vague idea of how it gets the ink on the page, but I have no idea how the ink is made that completes the device and makes it work. Without that type of ink the pen doesn't work right, but does that matter to me?
I never quite understood why generations of tehnological developers get so upset when the fruits of their labor are available to regular folks while the whole time they're developing it most of them are thinking how they can make things that do more and are easier to use. The computing industry seems to be the worst of it all.
I wish I had a gyro mouse when I was still playing DBTS. Mouse and/or keyboard controls with that game were so horrible, but if you got things just right you could do some awesome moves. I wish more games came out that had as much control over your character as that one did. Maybe they will if the Revolution catches on like I hope it will.
There was one called Inner Space too I think it was. It used a file explorer like interface on one side that showed you where the virus had spread. You had to go in and kill the virus while managing your relationship with the other ships that reside on your computer.
Hard but can be done. I did it by literally going past the HR monkey and speaking directly to the manager. Given I still don't have the job yet but that's just because they're not done with the interviews. Of course it helps if you have someone who knows you in the job already. But like I said, the way to do it is go above the head of HR if you can and impress the super/manager with your knowledge. I might end up getting this network security job without a BS or even an AAS and no certs in anything.
Oh I'm sorry, but that's not the answer we were looking for!
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Thanks for playing though!
My little '94 4Runner (well, little compared to most SUVs) fits 5 comfortably and hauls a hella lot of weight. We just moved 1500 miles with three people, backend loaded, luggage rack full, towing a car crammed with stuff with just a 6 Cyl and it still got decent mileage. Remember that a 3-4 person family is average for the US and you are the exception that MIGHT need an SUV of that size.
Besides, once I've repaired and registered it, the 4Runner will stay at home most of the time and we'll be driving our little 4 banger Hyundai.
One of these days I'll remember to type W3C.
Want to know a secret though? The companies producing these browsers have 100% control of what is and isn't implemented in them. I'm not making a point that all browsers should be absolutely 100% WC3 compatible. I'm making a point that all browsers should try to make themselves as compatible as possible with WC3 rather than one ubercompany makes a browser and everyone should be making browsers compatible with THEIRS and not the standards the company ignores.
Oh and to me it's always seemed that a browser should be 100% compatible to WC3, not to a company that arbitrarily decides that set standards don't need to be paid any attention.
Webmasters that have a clue and know how to make a site compatible with all browsers aren't the problem. Webmasters and companies that have no clue and make pages that will only render to a browser that identifies itself as IE are the problem even if the code would render perfectly in Opera, Firefox, Konquerer, et al.
"You! Invaders! Get you the hot bullets of shotgun to die!"
Thank you! I hate when clueless people mod something offtopc without looking it up.
I agree you spoony bard!
Except Dr Who isn't a remake. It's a continuation of the series in a new style. And Battlestar Galactica is actually pretty damn good.
Yup it's that old. It includes all the episodes including the unaired ones.
And don't worry, a friend of mine didn't like it when it was on TV, but finally checked it out in the REAL order after donwloading it. He watched three episodes and liked it so much he bought the DVD set.