Mine owns the limited edition Lancer and relegated me to sniper duty as she tears through the grub-mess in a fury of blood and imulsion.
I am not kidding you.
I am no big 'Lost' fan, but was forced to watch the last recap/season finale by my fiance'. It occurs to me that the 'device' on the island is a giant electromagnet of some sort and seeing the Steorn site I am reminded of the viral ad sites they have built to referance the show. Same shadey archive (non)listings, odd registrar info and many pointers to an ad/publishing company rather than a tech company.
What do you think?
One should only want to run software one needs, where need is defined and regulated, apparently, by Anonymous Coward
Recognizing that both of these implications are flawed in the same way a comment lurker posting a 1337 j4b about lifelessness several hours after a news post on a 'news for nerds' website is, I have no choice but to see your ignorance and raise you a STFU, IMO.
I assume you've never built anything for which you need to write drivers.
The idea of paying for a cert for my TG-16 to serial connector is absurd. Freedoms are being removed.
Granted, they are being removed legally and from a software I choose to use. Legality and right doesn't always imply ideal or freedom.
This may be a question flung into the fray from a perspective left of center, but I think it deserves to be asked: Why is this, or any sort of civil data aquisition for that matter, such a threat to the average joe?
I, personally, am happy to be recorded at the ATM. At a recent visit to Indianapolis, IN, I was given a tour of the police control station benieth one of the war monuments and the whole downtown area of the city is observed 24-7. This didn't frighten me, it made me feel safe.
The same goes for the road. If I am speeding and am caught, I offer no plea to the officer - I was speeding.
I suppose I just don't understand what civil rights are being fiddled with. If I am not in my own home, I don't expect to have any viable level of privacy. Maybe that is a generational thing, but I have always felt this way.
This isn't to say that privacy should ever be compromised; I think the phone-tapping hub-ub of recent note is an invasion, but I don't think the city tracking what I do in public is.
"Do higher frame rates really let you shoot more bad guys or see the enemy coming quicker?"
No. If I want to shoot more bad guys I load up DOOM or ROTT on my bitch-box and let fly. DOOM3, HL2, FC/FC2 - hell, even Serious Sam 2 - all tout a *stunning* graphical element that must be considered part of their appeal.
UT2004 runs *brilliantly* on the minimum requirements. It is a pretty game, to be sure, but flaunts its gameplay far more than mood or cinematic feel.
It is a matter of game type, I should think. The above are all FPS, to fit your question, but there are many other genres of games that provide a great deal of quality on the visual end that often add a great deal to the gaming experience.
Though it is a loose analogy, how many times have you heard "the story rocked but the effects just sucked" about a film? Though not as strictly visual a medium as film, the visual aspect of modern gaming is a *large* aspect.
I owned & played both HL2 and DOOM3 on an older card. I completed both and was quite satisfied with the game mechanics, the stories, the sound. Recently I was able to upgrade my vidcard and have run through both again and the difference was striking. I *enjoyed* the games more when there was more to see. When the shadows were able to be used effectivly in DOOM3, for instance, or the textures representative of their realistic activity in HL2.
Sure, not a single shot was made more accurate, not a single boss lost his life by looking cooler - but it was a much more fun experience. Games are for fun.
Zork was fun, and it had no graphics (well, the *original* original). Games don't NEED graphics - but those that incorporate graphics as a definate and important element should be served and experienced as such.
Though I agree that the IM client market is over-saturated I also feel that if Google were to take on a client for itself there would be something unique about it.
This Meetro IM client (http://www.meetro.com/ does posess something that sets it apart from all of the other clients/metaclients: Location based contacts. If you are in Sandusky OH and want to meet up with other people who share the same interests as you do for a day at Cedar Point, go to a wi-fi connected spot in town and find someone local or visiting who wants to go.
Actually, check out http://www.meetro.com/ . This client is location based. It auto-populates your buddy list with people around you based on criteria.
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Mine owns the limited edition Lancer and relegated me to sniper duty as she tears through the grub-mess in a fury of blood and imulsion. I am not kidding you.
The article below seems to, quite insultingly, imply that Bach may, in fact, be an idiot.
http://videolamer.com/index.php/2018
TCF charges $10 for a new ATM card, sir.
I am no big 'Lost' fan, but was forced to watch the last recap/season finale by my fiance'. It occurs to me that the 'device' on the island is a giant electromagnet of some sort and seeing the Steorn site I am reminded of the viral ad sites they have built to referance the show. Same shadey archive (non)listings, odd registrar info and many pointers to an ad/publishing company rather than a tech company. What do you think?
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/6c82/
If you've removed the Q key, how did you type that?? Alt 081?
Recognizing that both of these implications are flawed in the same way a comment lurker posting a 1337 j4b about lifelessness several hours after a news post on a 'news for nerds' website is, I have no choice but to see your ignorance and raise you a STFU, IMO.
If this is the case, then hell yes.
I assume you've never built anything for which you need to write drivers.
The idea of paying for a cert for my TG-16 to serial connector is absurd. Freedoms are being removed.
Granted, they are being removed legally and from a software I choose to use. Legality and right doesn't always imply ideal or freedom.
Agreed. I can think of, maybe, 2 or 3 pieces of harware I run that didn't pop the 'warning, your shiz aint signed' warning.
If I can't 'continue anyway' I may not continue at all...
"You may think you need Windows for this app or that."
This is not so easy when 'this app or that' is HL2...
Right. That's why we have so many Muslim chinese...
This may be a question flung into the fray from a perspective left of center, but I think it deserves to be asked: Why is this, or any sort of civil data aquisition for that matter, such a threat to the average joe? I, personally, am happy to be recorded at the ATM. At a recent visit to Indianapolis, IN, I was given a tour of the police control station benieth one of the war monuments and the whole downtown area of the city is observed 24-7. This didn't frighten me, it made me feel safe. The same goes for the road. If I am speeding and am caught, I offer no plea to the officer - I was speeding. I suppose I just don't understand what civil rights are being fiddled with. If I am not in my own home, I don't expect to have any viable level of privacy. Maybe that is a generational thing, but I have always felt this way. This isn't to say that privacy should ever be compromised; I think the phone-tapping hub-ub of recent note is an invasion, but I don't think the city tracking what I do in public is.
"Do higher frame rates really let you shoot more bad guys or see the enemy coming quicker?"
No. If I want to shoot more bad guys I load up DOOM or ROTT on my bitch-box and let fly. DOOM3, HL2, FC/FC2 - hell, even Serious Sam 2 - all tout a *stunning* graphical element that must be considered part of their appeal.
UT2004 runs *brilliantly* on the minimum requirements. It is a pretty game, to be sure, but flaunts its gameplay far more than mood or cinematic feel.
It is a matter of game type, I should think. The above are all FPS, to fit your question, but there are many other genres of games that provide a great deal of quality on the visual end that often add a great deal to the gaming experience.
Though it is a loose analogy, how many times have you heard "the story rocked but the effects just sucked" about a film? Though not as strictly visual a medium as film, the visual aspect of modern gaming is a *large* aspect.
I owned & played both HL2 and DOOM3 on an older card. I completed both and was quite satisfied with the game mechanics, the stories, the sound. Recently I was able to upgrade my vidcard and have run through both again and the difference was striking. I *enjoyed* the games more when there was more to see. When the shadows were able to be used effectivly in DOOM3, for instance, or the textures representative of their realistic activity in HL2.
Sure, not a single shot was made more accurate, not a single boss lost his life by looking cooler - but it was a much more fun experience. Games are for fun.
Zork was fun, and it had no graphics (well, the *original* original). Games don't NEED graphics - but those that incorporate graphics as a definate and important element should be served and experienced as such.
Though I agree that the IM client market is over-saturated I also feel that if Google were to take on a client for itself there would be something unique about it.
This Meetro IM client (http://www.meetro.com/ does posess something that sets it apart from all of the other clients/metaclients: Location based contacts. If you are in Sandusky OH and want to meet up with other people who share the same interests as you do for a day at Cedar Point, go to a wi-fi connected spot in town and find someone local or visiting who wants to go.
Give it a peek.
Actually, check out http://www.meetro.com/ . This client is location based. It auto-populates your buddy list with people around you based on criteria.
grrrr - it is: "bah weep granna weep ninny bahn" "get it right or pay the price" - that kid from the Never Ending Story"