why the hell critical military information would be widely (and easily) accessible over an insecure media like the internet? It's kinda like those nitwits who worry about our power grid getting hacked: we don't hook up the power grid controls to the Internet! Geez, as if there aren't enough Americans running scared from terrorists we get more of this crap. Anyway, I like to think the US military isn't gonna put the plans for our latest military tech on an unpatched IIS server.
for copying the look and feel of the original Nintendo, even if they don't get hit for copying the hardware. Still cool through, since real NES' are getting so scarce that this may be cheaper.
to make the game? Sega produced an excellent _licensed_ football game, sold it cheap and still got their asses handed to them. Who'd put up money making a niche game when established players fail so spectacularly against EA? You might see a crappy budget title or two, maybe even a few decent ones. But you won't see anything with polish, that take big money no one's gonna risk.
Now we can waste even more of society's dwindling resources on the dead! Seriously, don't these screens burn out after 4 or 5 years. Of course, I suppose by then people have stopped visting the graves....
buy an Xbox. Seriously, for the money it would take to get a mac gaming PC, you can easily buy a lower end mac, an Xbox and a bunch of games. Heck, for the money I'd blow on a mac gaming pc I could buy a mac mini and a Windows gaming PC (at least one that'd play Half-Life 2 and Doom 3)
deal with the problem of these auctions adding value to the 'vitual' items? i.e. if I buy $100 dollars worth of EQ gold and Sony causes it to devalue to $1 dollar, how do they avoid liablity?
they will hit your CC as a test though, but it gets refunded. There are limits to what you can order (they'll cut you off eventually unless you're a big shipper), but they're pretty loose with supplies.
and if your comps too old for that, get a new one! Seriously, you can get a 600mhz PIII, 256mb ram, dvd and a 20 gig harddrive for a little over $100 dollars shipped from retrobox.com. No OS, but that's obviouly not a problem if you're loading Slack. And a little more searching and you can get stuff in the 2ghz range with fast graphics cards for under $200 shipped.
There are too many variables involved. Connection speed, security software, spyware, network outtages (at multiple ends), web browser versions and types, etc, etc. Worse, things will work ok on unsupported platforms (firefox/opera/safari) but not completely, and your customers will whine 'but it always worked before' at your tech support department when some change you made breaks things (or when the customer tries to go beyond the basics and can't understand why advanced features don't work on an untested/unsupported platform).
At least right now, it's just too hard to control the development platform for web based apps. Now remember none of this counts when you're in a controled environment (where you can drop a shortcut to the web based app that runs a specific version of the browser and plugins if you want). But as of right now, web based apps for the masses are an unreliable mess only good for low volume or minimal use.
a lot of bad reviews are result of nitwits who don't know how to install computer hardware but tried to anyway. I've got a local shop here that sells used computer hardware, and they'll often put stuff back on the shelf that comes back 'broken' because there's nothing wrong with the hardware, the customer just doesn't know what they're doing.
bad programming saves money now. Good managers save money now, and use this success when moving on to a better job. In this day and age of lateral movement and massive layoffs, where odds are you're not gonna be at that job long enough for hiring good programmers to pay off, why bother?
they'll just include both versions for the few games that'll actually use 30+ gigs. A dual layer dvd is 9 gigs after all, 3 or 4 extra 20 cent dvds aren't that big a deal, kinda like the good old days when games came on 3 1/2 and 5 1/4 floppies.
and you're not seeing all those genres in force. This isn't going to marginalize anything, it's just one more controller on the market. You're not seeing Tekken 4 for your PC because it's too small a market, a niche in a niche in a niche (pc gamers who like fighting games who won't buy the console version). If you're an American you're in even worse shape, nobody bothers with niche markets here.
I likes to make me users suffer. I set my pages to refersh 60 times/sec and when the call and complain I tells 'em to upgrade their computers. Bwah ha ha ha!
since 90% of what Windows has on Linux happens before the two are fully configured. What Microsoft brings to the table is an OS that can be admined by $12 dollar/hr employees instead of $50 dollar/hr ones. With hardware so cheap (and with value added upgrade cycles so short) this makes perfect sense.
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Why, that's crazy!
why the hell critical military information would be widely (and easily) accessible over an insecure media like the internet? It's kinda like those nitwits who worry about our power grid getting hacked: we don't hook up the power grid controls to the Internet! Geez, as if there aren't enough Americans running scared from terrorists we get more of this crap. Anyway, I like to think the US military isn't gonna put the plans for our latest military tech on an unpatched IIS server.
Can't you just call AMEX and ask them to deny AOL?
for copying the look and feel of the original Nintendo, even if they don't get hit for copying the hardware. Still cool through, since real NES' are getting so scarce that this may be cheaper.
to make the game? Sega produced an excellent _licensed_ football game, sold it cheap and still got their asses handed to them. Who'd put up money making a niche game when established players fail so spectacularly against EA? You might see a crappy budget title or two, maybe even a few decent ones. But you won't see anything with polish, that take big money no one's gonna risk.
What matters is the review text, which wasn't exactly glowing. Seriously, does anyone pay attention to scores these days?
Now we can waste even more of society's dwindling resources on the dead! Seriously, don't these screens burn out after 4 or 5 years. Of course, I suppose by then people have stopped visting the graves....
buy an Xbox. Seriously, for the money it would take to get a mac gaming PC, you can easily buy a lower end mac, an Xbox and a bunch of games. Heck, for the money I'd blow on a mac gaming pc I could buy a mac mini and a Windows gaming PC (at least one that'd play Half-Life 2 and Doom 3)
deal with the problem of these auctions adding value to the 'vitual' items? i.e. if I buy $100 dollars worth of EQ gold and Sony causes it to devalue to $1 dollar, how do they avoid liablity?
Anyone who bought the last Britney Spears album should be shot.
they will hit your CC as a test though, but it gets refunded. There are limits to what you can order (they'll cut you off eventually unless you're a big shipper), but they're pretty loose with supplies.
and if your comps too old for that, get a new one! Seriously, you can get a 600mhz PIII, 256mb ram, dvd and a 20 gig harddrive for a little over $100 dollars shipped from retrobox.com. No OS, but that's obviouly not a problem if you're loading Slack. And a little more searching and you can get stuff in the 2ghz range with fast graphics cards for under $200 shipped.
There are too many variables involved. Connection speed, security software, spyware, network outtages (at multiple ends), web browser versions and types, etc, etc. Worse, things will work ok on unsupported platforms (firefox/opera/safari) but not completely, and your customers will whine 'but it always worked before' at your tech support department when some change you made breaks things (or when the customer tries to go beyond the basics and can't understand why advanced features don't work on an untested/unsupported platform).
At least right now, it's just too hard to control the development platform for web based apps. Now remember none of this counts when you're in a controled environment (where you can drop a shortcut to the web based app that runs a specific version of the browser and plugins if you want). But as of right now, web based apps for the masses are an unreliable mess only good for low volume or minimal use.
boring.
a lot of bad reviews are result of nitwits who don't know how to install computer hardware but tried to anyway. I've got a local shop here that sells used computer hardware, and they'll often put stuff back on the shelf that comes back 'broken' because there's nothing wrong with the hardware, the customer just doesn't know what they're doing.
bad programming saves money now. Good managers save money now, and use this success when moving on to a better job. In this day and age of lateral movement and massive layoffs, where odds are you're not gonna be at that job long enough for hiring good programmers to pay off, why bother?
a prototype boba fett action figure goes for 13 grand, and Luke Skywalkers lightsaber goes for a measly $200,000! I say again, WTF?
They patented a shell script.
they'll just include both versions for the few games that'll actually use 30+ gigs. A dual layer dvd is 9 gigs after all, 3 or 4 extra 20 cent dvds aren't that big a deal, kinda like the good old days when games came on 3 1/2 and 5 1/4 floppies.
we all know the profits of oil companies are _way_ more important. Priorities man, priorities!.
and you're not seeing all those genres in force. This isn't going to marginalize anything, it's just one more controller on the market. You're not seeing Tekken 4 for your PC because it's too small a market, a niche in a niche in a niche (pc gamers who like fighting games who won't buy the console version). If you're an American you're in even worse shape, nobody bothers with niche markets here.
I likes to make me users suffer. I set my pages to refersh 60 times/sec and when the call and complain I tells 'em to upgrade their computers. Bwah ha ha ha!
is the stuff that grows at the bottom of your mainframe after you spill a Coke in there.
since 90% of what Windows has on Linux happens before the two are fully configured. What Microsoft brings to the table is an OS that can be admined by $12 dollar/hr employees instead of $50 dollar/hr ones. With hardware so cheap (and with value added upgrade cycles so short) this makes perfect sense.