There's the problem right there for most of us. A comparable CRT monitor usually costs less than half that much. I'll be getting an LCD when they have comparable response to a CRT at the same price.
You're right. Classic lit is the answer to life, the universe, and everything! How dare those upstarts try to create new stories that capture hearts and get people to think!
Not everything on television is The Simple Life 7: Paris Goes Grocery Shopping or Star Trek: Flogging the Dead Horse (I love good Trek but yeesh, someome shoot these people). I love to read classic and new lit, listen to good music, and I'm a musician. While I think 95% of the stuff on TV is crap, I can tell what the good stuff is and tend to watch just that thanks to my TiVo. Have you even seen a good episode of Firefly? Go download the pilot episode also called Serenity and get back to me.
One thing I really liked about the show and that I hope they do in the movie too is the camera movements when showing something in space. It had all the feel of a guy looking out the window with a handheld camera. Nothing was perfectly centered in frame, zoom was used liberally, and there was a delayed focus when something was zoomed in on. It gave it more of a 'real' feel to me.
The battles last from about a week to four weeks IIRC. Your units continue to gather resources and build queued objects while you're logged off. You can even setup email notification and automated responses to keep your empire running while you're dealing with real life. Been around a couple years at least. Tried it myself for awhile and found it to be pretty fun.
You can still say "under God" if you want to. Only now those who don't believe in "God" can say the pledge without going against what they believe. The courts are telling the schools don't FORCE them to say "under God".
Very well put. People buy what they want, when they want, at a price they think is fair. If Blizzard was overcharging for WoW I don't think over half a million people would have bought it. I've played many an MMO and I can honestly say WoW is one of the best and well worth the price. Especially considering a new game is $50 and I used to buy one every month or so. The first month of WoW was $50 which is normal for a game in my case (I usually don't play them more than a month). After that it's $15 a month to play. Think about it. If WoW is good enough that you want to keep playing it instead of buying a new game, then you can stretch that $50 you would have spent on a new game of the month into three months of enjoyment.
And it's definitely not like paying EA for the same football game on the same console using the same engine just with a few numbers and names changed or Sony selling you a television for $700 when nearly the same exact TV from Toshiba or Panasonic would cost you $400.
If you want clusterfuck launch, just go look at Anarchy Online's launch. It felt like you were playing an alpha version the first couple months, and a beta for a few months after that.
I hope you know that "mod" is short for "modification." Meaning that the person doing it is taking the original hardware and modifying it into a new function or form. What you're describing is more of a hack.
I think this is mainly because more ignorant (not meant as an insult, meant as lack of knowledge in the area) are buying computers and not learning what they can do. There's a bit of a reason for that too. Even just a few years ago the price difference between a low end computer with a cd-rom (and later, cd-r/rw) and one that has a dvd-rom is enormous! Less people could afford the price so they tended to check it out first, they wanted to know what they were spending their money on and what it could do, plus a good deal of them were computer geeks anyways.
Nowadays Joe Sixpack doesn't even have to spend half his paycheck to buy a computer, so he does. Even though he has absolutely no clue what he can do with it! He just buys it because "everybody has one" and "cause I 'need' to get on the intarweb".
Before Hello Kitty 40K, the holy wars were just beginning. The Bishops of Batz rebelled against the overlords of Hello Kitty World and it's evil dictator, Hello Kitty herself. Welcome to.... Hello Jihad!
Time has somewhat. The company is at least a year or two old now considering one of my friends bought the HD-2000 awhile back. From what I've heard it's a really good card and he enjoys it.
RTFA. They did this in 1999 when they were planning the 64DD. It has nothing to do with the GameCube. I just hope they don't go lawyer crazy like everyone and their neighbors dog when they get patents on current tech.
None. At least not as far as consoles go. This patent was made when they planned for the 64DD, the disk drive for the N64. That predates the Dreamcast certainly. I'm not sure what other consoles before DC had online capability, but I do know that Super Famicom/Nintendo was able to go online with an addon cartridge.
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Firefly on DVD
There's the problem right there for most of us. A comparable CRT monitor usually costs less than half that much. I'll be getting an LCD when they have comparable response to a CRT at the same price.
You're right. Classic lit is the answer to life, the universe, and everything! How dare those upstarts try to create new stories that capture hearts and get people to think! Not everything on television is The Simple Life 7: Paris Goes Grocery Shopping or Star Trek: Flogging the Dead Horse (I love good Trek but yeesh, someome shoot these people). I love to read classic and new lit, listen to good music, and I'm a musician. While I think 95% of the stuff on TV is crap, I can tell what the good stuff is and tend to watch just that thanks to my TiVo. Have you even seen a good episode of Firefly? Go download the pilot episode also called Serenity and get back to me.
One thing I really liked about the show and that I hope they do in the movie too is the camera movements when showing something in space. It had all the feel of a guy looking out the window with a handheld camera. Nothing was perfectly centered in frame, zoom was used liberally, and there was a delayed focus when something was zoomed in on. It gave it more of a 'real' feel to me.
Watch the trailer again, the second head isn't where you'd expect (and not there either you sick bastages out there =p)
The battles last from about a week to four weeks IIRC. Your units continue to gather resources and build queued objects while you're logged off. You can even setup email notification and automated responses to keep your empire running while you're dealing with real life. Been around a couple years at least. Tried it myself for awhile and found it to be pretty fun.
You can still say "under God" if you want to. Only now those who don't believe in "God" can say the pledge without going against what they believe. The courts are telling the schools don't FORCE them to say "under God".
Very well put. People buy what they want, when they want, at a price they think is fair. If Blizzard was overcharging for WoW I don't think over half a million people would have bought it. I've played many an MMO and I can honestly say WoW is one of the best and well worth the price. Especially considering a new game is $50 and I used to buy one every month or so. The first month of WoW was $50 which is normal for a game in my case (I usually don't play them more than a month). After that it's $15 a month to play. Think about it. If WoW is good enough that you want to keep playing it instead of buying a new game, then you can stretch that $50 you would have spent on a new game of the month into three months of enjoyment.
And it's definitely not like paying EA for the same football game on the same console using the same engine just with a few numbers and names changed or Sony selling you a television for $700 when nearly the same exact TV from Toshiba or Panasonic would cost you $400.
If you want clusterfuck launch, just go look at Anarchy Online's launch. It felt like you were playing an alpha version the first couple months, and a beta for a few months after that.
Ahh interesting, I didn't know that's how it was configured. But you could just "skip bagging" on the one item you tagged with the lower price.
Not to mention a lot of these have a "Skip Bagging" button on the screen that you can use and just stick the item back in the cart after you scan it.
I was instantly reminded of the Hong Kong level in Deus Ex. They had the gunshot detection pods up on top of the poles.
Little over two weeks old. Was /. actually ahead this time?
Does anyone else find it rather sad that he can hack together a portable PS2 system with equal or better battery life than Sony's official PSP?
I hope you know that "mod" is short for "modification." Meaning that the person doing it is taking the original hardware and modifying it into a new function or form. What you're describing is more of a hack.
Nowadays Joe Sixpack doesn't even have to spend half his paycheck to buy a computer, so he does. Even though he has absolutely no clue what he can do with it! He just buys it because "everybody has one" and "cause I 'need' to get on the intarweb".
Before Hello Kitty 40K, the holy wars were just beginning. The Bishops of Batz rebelled against the overlords of Hello Kitty World and it's evil dictator, Hello Kitty herself. Welcome to.... Hello Jihad!
Great, now I'm gonna get that stupid bit in Office Space about a game called "Jump to Conclusions" stuck in my head all day!
For some reason that comment and this thread just made me crack up..
But still no cure for cancer
Time has somewhat. The company is at least a year or two old now considering one of my friends bought the HD-2000 awhile back. From what I've heard it's a really good card and he enjoys it.
Not really, and hell, I was surprised the other day when my Sims paid the bills while I wasn't paying attention.
First good laugh of the day heheh.
RTFA. They did this in 1999 when they were planning the 64DD. It has nothing to do with the GameCube. I just hope they don't go lawyer crazy like everyone and their neighbors dog when they get patents on current tech.
None. At least not as far as consoles go. This patent was made when they planned for the 64DD, the disk drive for the N64. That predates the Dreamcast certainly. I'm not sure what other consoles before DC had online capability, but I do know that Super Famicom/Nintendo was able to go online with an addon cartridge.