Anyone play the demo that is currently accessible to the consoles?
I recognize buildings and striped down neighborhoods but this has to be one of the worst recreations of San Francisco in video game history. It just feels completely wrong. The tiered street do not tier at intersections. The streets are ridiculously wide with some strange diamond pattern in the middle. What little of the city available in the demo feels flatter than the real SF. Did any of the developers ever drive in San Francisco? Too bad really, even striped down in size for a video game there are some excellent passages through the city that would be fun to drive in video game form.
I'm on a console, so the DRM thing is accepted, but I won't be buying the game because of the piss poor job they did recreating SF.
I find with frame and component quality, $500 - $600 is absolute minimum for a bike that will hold up. My next bike will probably run $1000 - $1200. A Trek Madone, which you will see quite often in packs of serious cyclists, range from $2000 - $11,000. Go to a good bike shop and lift a 14 pound race bike. Then lift a $300 - $500 bike. You will see the difference. If you were to ride both you would feel an even bigger difference...
10x? What crappy bikes have you been buying? $2700 is middle high for bikes. It would get you a very good steel or aluminum frame with top of the line components or a lower end carbon fiber frame with medium components...
I played Donkey Kong in the arcades as a kid. That was just about enough Mario for one gaming lifetime. There are many great old games, I just don't find the Mario titles included in that group.
I've been curious about this. It seems like Facebook took off because as you say "it's not Myspace". What happens when the next generation wants to post their teenage/college sex/drinking exploits? I can't picture them doing so on the same service Grandma uses.
Is social networking going to become an alternating generational cycle where each upcoming generation must move to a new service to get away from their family? Or will people adopt multiple networks? I expect a geek to do so naturally but the average person?
The other problem with EVERY attempt to legalize pot in California is it's never on the ballot in November during a year that we are electing the president. It's always some off year cycle that generally has a higher proportion of conservative voters. Makes me think these people are stoned or something...
It is good for a really nice arcade racer. The only knock against it is the painfully long load times entering AND exiting a race. There is just not much on the market that directly competes. The GT5/Forza are too sim for a lot of people and other franchises have some sort of gimmick. I haven't played it in a long time due to the fore mentioned load times though. Online will not be missed by me.
I usually buy a new appliance because something mechanical breaks and with commodity manufacturing it's cheaper than calling a repair man. If it has a faster chip great. If it's doesn't, who cares. In the case of a refrigerator I'm buying cold not smart...
I agree. Avatar was quite long and I had no ill effects from the 3D. My Sega Master system I had back in the day, holy crap did those 3D glasses suck. I was good for twenty minutes on a good day before eye strain and head ache city...
As I neither stated my political convictions nor gave a value judgment on compromise, I must ask: who is this imaginary person you seem to be arguing with?
Single payer works. See Canada, the UK or just about every other first world medical system. Mandatory national insurance also works in theory, and it keeps the health insurance companies in business as well. There were also other ideas on the table that would have probably worked as well. You accuse others of being ideologically entrenched. Look in the mirror. There is usually more than one working answer, compromise chooses which one is used.
It is one way of doing it. I believe the single payer system was another and a few other ideas were on the table as well. The mandatory insurance was the only one that the insurance companies would support and the only one that would get enough votes.
Break a leg and see if you can get insurance before it falls off...
The "lefts" crown jewels was single payer and it failed.
Mandatory national insurance was the sweetener to get the congress critters who were in the pockets of the health insurance lobbyists to vote for the bill. I don't think either side was enthusiastic about it but it was necessary to get the whole thing passed.
"What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?" -Plato
"This is a hybrid. This is a cross, ah, of Bluegrass, Kentucky Bluegrass, Featherbed Bent, and Northern California Sensemilia. The amazing stuff about this is, that you can play 36 holes on it in the afternoon, take it home and just get stoned to the bejeezus-belt that night on this stuff."
I work with a bunch of G5 dual 2.+ GHz machines. I do large format printing and design for trade shows and crunch huge files. Those machine have kept their usefulness a surprisingly long time.
And I have no idea what all this "wind tunnel" crap is, I work on Gig + files consistently and they are as quiet as a mouse...
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Anyone play the demo that is currently accessible to the consoles?
I recognize buildings and striped down neighborhoods but this has to be one of the worst recreations of San Francisco in video game history. It just feels completely wrong. The tiered street do not tier at intersections. The streets are ridiculously wide with some strange diamond pattern in the middle. What little of the city available in the demo feels flatter than the real SF. Did any of the developers ever drive in San Francisco? Too bad really, even striped down in size for a video game there are some excellent passages through the city that would be fun to drive in video game form.
I'm on a console, so the DRM thing is accepted, but I won't be buying the game because of the piss poor job they did recreating SF.
Trustafarians don't need jobs. Lives possibly but not jobs.
I find with frame and component quality, $500 - $600 is absolute minimum for a bike that will hold up. My next bike will probably run $1000 - $1200. A Trek Madone, which you will see quite often in packs of serious cyclists, range from $2000 - $11,000. Go to a good bike shop and lift a 14 pound race bike. Then lift a $300 - $500 bike. You will see the difference. If you were to ride both you would feel an even bigger difference...
10x? What crappy bikes have you been buying? $2700 is middle high for bikes. It would get you a very good steel or aluminum frame with top of the line components or a lower end carbon fiber frame with medium components...
I played Donkey Kong in the arcades as a kid. That was just about enough Mario for one gaming lifetime. There are many great old games, I just don't find the Mario titles included in that group.
"So enjoy paying for graphics, I'll pay for fun."
Some reason I can't have both?
Except Panetta used to represent Santa Cruz, California when he was in the house. I think he knows better as far as the war on drugs go...
I've been curious about this. It seems like Facebook took off because as you say "it's not Myspace". What happens when the next generation wants to post their teenage/college sex/drinking exploits? I can't picture them doing so on the same service Grandma uses.
Is social networking going to become an alternating generational cycle where each upcoming generation must move to a new service to get away from their family? Or will people adopt multiple networks? I expect a geek to do so naturally but the average person?
Translation:
You wanted a specific breed rather than a good healthy mutt.
We know what Soylent Green is. Does that make dogs and other pets Soylent Red? Or maybe Yellow?
The other problem with EVERY attempt to legalize pot in California is it's never on the ballot in November during a year that we are electing the president. It's always some off year cycle that generally has a higher proportion of conservative voters. Makes me think these people are stoned or something...
It is good for a really nice arcade racer. The only knock against it is the painfully long load times entering AND exiting a race. There is just not much on the market that directly competes. The GT5/Forza are too sim for a lot of people and other franchises have some sort of gimmick. I haven't played it in a long time due to the fore mentioned load times though. Online will not be missed by me.
I usually buy a new appliance because something mechanical breaks and with commodity manufacturing it's cheaper than calling a repair man. If it has a faster chip great. If it's doesn't, who cares. In the case of a refrigerator I'm buying cold not smart...
I agree. Avatar was quite long and I had no ill effects from the 3D. My Sega Master system I had back in the day, holy crap did those 3D glasses suck. I was good for twenty minutes on a good day before eye strain and head ache city...
Have you considered that Amazon might be using it's price control to undercut the competition?
As I neither stated my political convictions nor gave a value judgment on compromise, I must ask: who is this imaginary person you seem to be arguing with?
Single payer works. See Canada, the UK or just about every other first world medical system. Mandatory national insurance also works in theory, and it keeps the health insurance companies in business as well. There were also other ideas on the table that would have probably worked as well. You accuse others of being ideologically entrenched. Look in the mirror. There is usually more than one working answer, compromise chooses which one is used.
It is one way of doing it. I believe the single payer system was another and a few other ideas were on the table as well. The mandatory insurance was the only one that the insurance companies would support and the only one that would get enough votes.
Break a leg and see if you can get insurance before it falls off...
The "lefts" crown jewels was single payer and it failed.
Mandatory national insurance was the sweetener to get the congress critters who were in the pockets of the health insurance lobbyists to vote for the bill. I don't think either side was enthusiastic about it but it was necessary to get the whole thing passed.
Isn't compromise fun?
Many of the schools with division 1 teams also have top rated law schools. Looks like they all have a project for the spring...
and not enough thrust.
"What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?" -Plato
Not exactly a new problem...
I want to know about the science of:
"This is a hybrid. This is a cross, ah, of Bluegrass, Kentucky Bluegrass, Featherbed Bent, and Northern California Sensemilia. The amazing stuff about this is, that you can play 36 holes on it in the afternoon, take it home and just get stoned to the bejeezus-belt that night on this stuff."
I work with a bunch of G5 dual 2.+ GHz machines. I do large format printing and design for trade shows and crunch huge files. Those machine have kept their usefulness a surprisingly long time.
And I have no idea what all this "wind tunnel" crap is, I work on Gig + files consistently and they are as quiet as a mouse...
I wonder how long before someone designs an iphone case that makes it look just like a common Windows phone 7 model?
Or so the apple haters would have you believe...
2009 apple advertising was 1.37% of revenue or $500 million
Microsoft the same year: 2.4% of revenue or 1.4 billion
Dell: 1.3% and 811 million.
RIM: 2.4% and 337 million
Sounds to me like they are less of a "Marketing" company and more of a hardware company putting out better selling products...