The fact that the indoctrination of their people continues to this day with the myth of Mao as a great man of the people etc scares the crap out of me to be honest.
I'm in the midst of reading 'Mao The Unknown Story' by Jung Chang, and its a hell of an eye-opener.
How widely regarded is he as a great man in China by the general populace?
"OpenRPG is an Internet application that allows people to play Role Playing Games in real-time over the Internet. OpenRPG is free, open source, software, distributed under GNU/GPL license."
As far as autologin/frontrow etc, the same setup (including enabling remote desktop & setting passwords) can be done from within the media center app via the remote.
If I'm going to using it as a media center then I'll take the Dell with MediaCenterXP. It can sit under the stairs out of sight, record TV and wirelessly stream video & music to my XBox360. Ipod & itunes & front row is nice but as far as all-round living room entertainment MS has a very good setup.
I don't think there is any point but its still funny.
'A priest is walking along a beach one day & meets a fisherman who is about to go out fishing. They get to talking & the fisherman invites him out on his boat. After a while the fisherman reels in this huge fish & says, 'wow! look at that great Fucker!'.
The priest is somewhat taken back, 'please sir, you really shouldnt' use such language in the presence of a man of the cloth.'
The fisherman says, 'oh I'm sorry father, this type of fish is called a Fucker. That is the name of this sort of fish.'
To which the priest replies, 'oh well that is different then. And in that case, I agree that yes it is indeed a very fine Fucker.'
They continue fishing & at the end of the day the fisherman gives the priest the Fucker to take with him.
Upon returning back to the monastary, the priest encounters the Bishops & says to him, 'Look at this excellent Fucker that the fisherman gave me.'
The Bishop chatises the priest for using such language and priest has to explain, "It's not like that Bishop, this type of fish is called a Fucker, that is the type of fish that it is."
"Oh", says the Bishop. "In that case it is a fine Fucker. We should take this to one of the nuns in the kitchens to have her cook this Fucker."
So they go down to kitchens & find the head nun and the Bishop tells her "The priest met a fisherman who gave him this fine Fucker & we would like you to cook the Fucker for us."
Seeing the confusion & embarassment on the face of the nun the Bishop explains, "Oh I'm sorry, this type of fish is called a Fucker. That is the sort of fish that it is."
Somewhat releived, the nun says "I would only be too happy to cook that Fucker then."
So the nun cooks the Fucker, and that Fucker comes out really nice. It is indeed a well cooked Fucker. So the three of them agree that they should take it to the Pope, because the Pope likes fish.
So they go to the Pope's Office & he asks them what they want. So the nun tells the story of how the priest went fishing with the fisherman & they could this great Fucker, and when the Bishop was shown the Fucker he though that one of the nuns should cook the Fucker and so they gave it to her & she did cook the Fucker and it came out so well that they thought that he, being the Pope, might like to try this well cooker Fucker.
The Pope looks at each of them in turn very suspiciously... then laughs, pulls out a bottle of bourbon & a joint & says "yeah I thought you cunts were alright!"'
The same people who have an xbox now will probably get a 360 once something new comes out that they really want, like SC:Ghost, since they can play a lot of their old titles on it. This includes the Halo fans who will buy it simply to have Halo3 when it comes out. Lots of americans will buy it. Will sell really bad in asian countries. Girlfriends will play the arcade games on their boyfriends Live accounts.
The PS3 comes out. Japan will lap it up. It will be an anime/RPG wet-dream, FinalFantasy ad-nauseum.
The Revolution comes out at some point with its entourage of Zelda/Mario/Yoshi/Wario/Samus etc. Plus funky new controller & probably something cute like Nintendogs or something to pull in (female) non-gamer audience. Xbox & PS3 owners will dismiss it as being too kiddy & not a serious games machine. Nintendo will ignore this & continue to sell them by the truckload.
In summary: faster hardware, newer increments of existing games/genres, existing demographics will not change.
No-one makes PC games. They make Windows games. That OS just happens to run on 'PC hardware' (x86 processor & BIOS firmware) and MS does own that, hence they do own the PC as far as gaming goes.
Yes PC's are more 'cutting edge' but that cutting edge is very sharp. It costs top dollar, has unstable drivers etc & lots of screwing around. I think I speak for most people when I say I don't want to spend $500 on a new graphics card & have to mess about with drivers etc so I can play the latest games. I just want to stick the disc in & stretch out on the lounge with a controller.
Desktop PCs tend to get incrementally upgraded overtime, especially gaming machines, and one day you go to install a game from 5 years ago which you really want to play again and guess what it doesn't work. Tried running SyndicateWars on XP recently? Of course Halo still plays just fine on my XBox... cause the platform is stable & unchanging. And that is a much bigger advantage.
Although there are still companies producing 'classic graphical adventures', the adventure game genre has largely evolved into 3rd person action adventure, eg TombRaider, Beyond Good & Evil, Zelda:Yet Again, Kameo etc.
Most FPS games are crap. It depends what you like. Halo/2 didn't have a particularly involved story but it did have a pretty cool backstory & characters.
I don't know why people assume that intelligent design means a supreme being. Can anyone suggest any good books with the hypothesis of aliens meddling with earth's ecology?
A year or so ago I would have said that something was as likely as being able to play DN:Forever on an Intel Mac with an Apple made multi-button mouse...
Seriously I think Lucifer may have left the air-con on high.
There are plenty of tools & materials on the net for programming the Gameboy Advance. As a plus it is a pretty simple platform, as is probably good for starting out. You can compile to a rom file & run on an emulator & You don't need the actual SDK, which is probably pretty pricey.
If you come up with something cool its easy to just send a demo rom to a dev house.
Blizzard had probably deployed most of their hardware when they announced that server selection would be locked by geography. People cried on the forums & they backed down. So the first couple of days is studying the population distribution & deploying more hardware in the right places to deal.
I got a laptop at start of this year & thought "great now I can use those hours I was losing on the ferry and the bus between classes, home & work". So I enrolled for a full study load as well as working 34 hours a week. 1/2 a semester later I have to drop half the subjects & take some time off work cause I was starting to lose it. I was getting snappy with friends & customers, not sleeping & trying to do much more than I could handle.
The scary thing for me was realising how much I was denying that it was a problem.
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The fact that the indoctrination of their people continues to this day with the myth of Mao as a great man of the people etc scares the crap out of me to be honest.
I'm in the midst of reading 'Mao The Unknown Story' by Jung Chang, and its a hell of an eye-opener.
How widely regarded is he as a great man in China by the general populace?
One of you will end up playing more than the other... one will level faster...
"can you help me kill these wolves?"
"but honey I'm needed in this raid"
"you don't love me anymore!"
etc
I know of one couple who broke up because she lost interest in playing after 3 month hardcore period & he kept playing in his every spare moment.
MMORPG's are not healthy for anyone's relationships.
And also insightful gems like: "User requests are what computers are for"
Don't worry about the Japanese, they will have to sit through a 20 minute cutscene for every 15 minutes of invasion.
Or more to the point they won't be able to attack anyway because Sony still won't have delivered their war-machine.
My money is on the South-Korean zerg rush
"OpenRPG is an Internet application that allows people to play Role Playing Games in real-time over the Internet. OpenRPG is free, open source, software, distributed under GNU/GPL license."
http://www.openrpg.com/
"Why are you a troll priest? and can you melt faces in PvP?" asks Jean-Luc Picard of the the Starship Enterprise.
So does this mean I can look forward to:
...
Spore 2007
Spore 2008
Spore 2009
Spore 2010
As far as autologin/frontrow etc, the same setup (including enabling remote desktop & setting passwords) can be done from within the media center app via the remote.
I'm sorry but our business's secret internal planning & development documents are where exactly?
I don't see too many businesses jumping on the online office suite bandwagon.
I did a search for linux & the top result in the googlesque ad side-bar was "Get the Facts on Windows and Linux" at http://www.microsoft.com/australia/windowsserversy stem/getthefacts/default.aspx
http://curmudgeongamer.com/article.php?story=20021 022212750878&mode=print
If I'm going to using it as a media center then I'll take the Dell with MediaCenterXP. It can sit under the stairs out of sight, record TV and wirelessly stream video & music to my XBox360. Ipod & itunes & front row is nice but as far as all-round living room entertainment MS has a very good setup.
"Besides that most sequels generally suck?"
not always, except the microsoft server kind.
I don't think there is any point but its still funny.
'A priest is walking along a beach one day & meets a fisherman who is about to go out fishing. They get to talking & the fisherman invites him out on his boat. After a while the fisherman reels in this huge fish & says, 'wow! look at that great Fucker!'.
The priest is somewhat taken back, 'please sir, you really shouldnt' use such language in the presence of a man of the cloth.'
The fisherman says, 'oh I'm sorry father, this type of fish is called a Fucker. That is the name of this sort of fish.'
To which the priest replies, 'oh well that is different then. And in that case, I agree that yes it is indeed a very fine Fucker.'
They continue fishing & at the end of the day the fisherman gives the priest the Fucker to take with him.
Upon returning back to the monastary, the priest encounters the Bishops & says to him, 'Look at this excellent Fucker that the fisherman gave me.'
The Bishop chatises the priest for using such language and priest has to explain, "It's not like that Bishop, this type of fish is called a Fucker, that is the type of fish that it is."
"Oh", says the Bishop. "In that case it is a fine Fucker. We should take this to one of the nuns in the kitchens to have her cook this Fucker."
So they go down to kitchens & find the head nun and the Bishop tells her "The priest met a fisherman who gave him this fine Fucker & we would like you to cook the Fucker for us."
Seeing the confusion & embarassment on the face of the nun the Bishop explains, "Oh I'm sorry, this type of fish is called a Fucker. That is the sort of fish that it is."
Somewhat releived, the nun says "I would only be too happy to cook that Fucker then."
So the nun cooks the Fucker, and that Fucker comes out really nice. It is indeed a well cooked Fucker. So the three of them agree that they should take it to the Pope, because the Pope likes fish.
So they go to the Pope's Office & he asks them what they want. So the nun tells the story of how the priest went fishing with the fisherman & they could this great Fucker, and when the Bishop was shown the Fucker he though that one of the nuns should cook the Fucker and so they gave it to her & she did cook the Fucker and it came out so well that they thought that he, being the Pope, might like to try this well cooker Fucker.
The Pope looks at each of them in turn very suspiciously... then laughs, pulls out a bottle of bourbon & a joint & says "yeah I thought you cunts were alright!"'
Here is how it's going to go down:
The same people who have an xbox now will probably get a 360 once something new comes out that they really want, like SC:Ghost, since they can play a lot of their old titles on it. This includes the Halo fans who will buy it simply to have Halo3 when it comes out. Lots of americans will buy it. Will sell really bad in asian countries. Girlfriends will play the arcade games on their boyfriends Live accounts.
The PS3 comes out. Japan will lap it up. It will be an anime/RPG wet-dream, FinalFantasy ad-nauseum.
The Revolution comes out at some point with its entourage of Zelda/Mario/Yoshi/Wario/Samus etc. Plus funky new controller & probably something cute like Nintendogs or something to pull in (female) non-gamer audience. Xbox & PS3 owners will dismiss it as being too kiddy & not a serious games machine. Nintendo will ignore this & continue to sell them by the truckload.
In summary: faster hardware, newer increments of existing games/genres, existing demographics will not change.
No-one makes PC games. They make Windows games. That OS just happens to run on 'PC hardware' (x86 processor & BIOS firmware) and MS does own that, hence they do own the PC as far as gaming goes.
Yes PC's are more 'cutting edge' but that cutting edge is very sharp. It costs top dollar, has unstable drivers etc & lots of screwing around. I think I speak for most people when I say I don't want to spend $500 on a new graphics card & have to mess about with drivers etc so I can play the latest games. I just want to stick the disc in & stretch out on the lounge with a controller.
Desktop PCs tend to get incrementally upgraded overtime, especially gaming machines, and one day you go to install a game from 5 years ago which you really want to play again and guess what it doesn't work. Tried running SyndicateWars on XP recently? Of course Halo still plays just fine on my XBox... cause the platform is stable & unchanging. And that is a much bigger advantage.
I'm sorry Mr Bond but you are too late. ha ha ha ha ha *hack*cough* furball...i mages/cat.jpg
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/hottopics/jamesbond/
Although there are still companies producing 'classic graphical adventures', the adventure game genre has largely evolved into 3rd person action adventure, eg TombRaider, Beyond Good & Evil, Zelda:Yet Again, Kameo etc.
Most FPS games are crap. It depends what you like. Halo/2 didn't have a particularly involved story but it did have a pretty cool backstory & characters.
I don't know why people assume that intelligent design means a supreme being. Can anyone suggest any good books with the hypothesis of aliens meddling with earth's ecology?
A year or so ago I would have said that something was as likely as being able to play DN:Forever on an Intel Mac with an Apple made multi-button mouse...
Seriously I think Lucifer may have left the air-con on high.
Lockheed-Martin is the worlds largest manufacturer of tinfoil hats too.
There are plenty of tools & materials on the net for programming the Gameboy Advance. As a plus it is a pretty simple platform, as is probably good for starting out. You can compile to a rom file & run on an emulator & You don't need the actual SDK, which is probably pretty pricey.
If you come up with something cool its easy to just send a demo rom to a dev house.
Blizzard had probably deployed most of their hardware when they announced that server selection would be locked by geography. People cried on the forums & they backed down. So the first couple of days is studying the population distribution & deploying more hardware in the right places to deal.
Free demo? Huh, I bought the demo months ago for $100AU. Oh you mean that was supposed to be a game?
This story was a bit of a wakeup call for me.
I got a laptop at start of this year & thought "great now I can use those hours I was losing on the ferry and the bus between classes, home & work". So I enrolled for a full study load as well as working 34 hours a week. 1/2 a semester later I have to drop half the subjects & take some time off work cause I was starting to lose it. I was getting snappy with friends & customers, not sleeping & trying to do much more than I could handle.
The scary thing for me was realising how much I was denying that it was a problem.