The PSP had a piss-poor game selection on launch, in my opinion. The list I saw at my local EB contained something like 10 or 11 sports games out of the 20 available at launch. No thanks. If I want a sports game, I'll put down the portasystem, and go play with a ball. Funny, no?
The only game that looks promising is Grand Theft Auto, and that's not due out for another two months. Now, if that had come out at launch, I'd have spent 300$ on it (at the extreme behest of my significant other - so what, I wanna buy myself a birthday gift...). But no; there was absolutely nothing appealing about the launch.
Please note, the above statement completely disregards the fact that I barely have time to read slashdot, anymore, let alone play video games. World of Warcraft barely gets touched anymore. Thank you, schoolwork, you're destroying my livelyhood...
...message, on an already well known-format, shouldn't it be possible for service providers to block the messages through the MMS MX handlers? And/or simply not bill the customer for the sum of messages sent with that format. Of course, isolate them from the network if possible (remove their permission to emit MMS messages at the MX) until the malware can be removed from their device. Just a thought. Doesn't really seem right to charge users for something like that, espicially the less savvy who might not know-any-better.
Couldn't have said it better myself. I'm glad someone else did, I wasn't quite sure how to word it.
Adding keywords like 'traffic monitor' and such to a page about traffic monitoring is very different than stuffing 'PARIS-HILTON-XXX-TAPE-FULL' into a page about home equity loans.
Google doing this in-house also gives them tighter control over what is stuffed where. Of course, this could be used to ensure quality hits, or simply elevate pages THEY want to the tops of the ranks. Searchola anyone?
Anyone else notice how there seems to be alternating instances of Google-scandal articles and Google-innovations every single day? Tomorrow we'll find out that they've made the internet obsolete, and in doing so, they've skewered a number of kittens on spikes. Oh the horror!
I don't understand why everyone totes FarCry. Sure, the game LOOKS great, but a game that looks great and doesn't have a storyline to speak if is worthless.
I traveled a few times over the summer for work, which was strange being an IT intern, but, hey, I'm not complaining. Twice I got lumped into this little Holiday Inn dealie with no internet connection. Fine. Whipped out the laptop and blasted away at some Battlefield. Great fun.
Now, when playing mutliplayer games, given, ok, you need an internet connection, but when you're playing by yourself and/or an internet connection is not available to you, it's a really really shitty situation to need one to play offline, by yourself.
It doesn't work at all. I couldn't even get it to open the installer on my PowerBook. I mean, really, what good is software that you can't even install? I had to fight with Safari just to get the microsoft webpage to load. Sheesh, you think they'd know SOMETHING about Information Technology by now.
The MMORPG chart lists WoW at having 350,000 users, while more than 600,000 copies of the game were sold during the holiday season alone (not including retail during the initial week).
The difference is that you are an educated, savvy user. That is laudable. The problem lies in the fact that some people simply do not know any better, and honestly, don't care to. My XP machine has also had a very limited number of spyware or virus infections; the few that I have had were from either someone else using my machine for 'five minutes to check their email', or that one wonderful time at the LAN party when some dork cabled my machine for me, and didn't put it through the firewall first. Thank you, w32.nachi.
The point remains, I do still worry about the latest DCOM exploit or whatever that may be lurking in the shadows, ready to unleash only god-knows-what on my box. Well, atleast when I use my Windows box, anyway.
The flat things on either side of the cockpit in the normal TIE/ln aren't engines, either. They're solar panels; the engines are located horizontally across the back of the cockpit ball, one on the left and the other on the right.
Not if my laptop (bagged or unbagged; ever seen The Italian Job?) is in one of them. Then we're going to have words, and not a single one is going to be happy.
So you need to have an income, of domations, in the thousands-of-dollars range per quarter, in order to qualify for 'not-for-profit' status?
*clears throat* WHY?!
I would think that their lack of monetary influx sort of makes the point for them; not-for-profit. Do they qualify for not-going-to-break-even status, atleast?
We're not worried about where the volcano/mountain might be going. We're moreso worried about everyone who (perhaps stupidly, albeit) lives on , around, or near it.
...will it fix my battery? After installing 10.3.5, my battery took a huge hit. Lasted about five minutes. Then came 10.3.6. Increased to maybe 20 minutes, where it stays now. Just yesterday I did a clean install on the OS, so I've got no idle bullplop in the background.
They carded me when I wanted to purchase UT2004, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and Doom 3. I don't mind submitting to it.
I can just imagine, though, that some producers might turn around and say that games that are harder to buy in the store simply encourage people to download them as warez. And that is partially true.
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The PSP had a piss-poor game selection on launch, in my opinion. The list I saw at my local EB contained something like 10 or 11 sports games out of the 20 available at launch. No thanks. If I want a sports game, I'll put down the portasystem, and go play with a ball. Funny, no?
The only game that looks promising is Grand Theft Auto, and that's not due out for another two months. Now, if that had come out at launch, I'd have spent 300$ on it (at the extreme behest of my significant other - so what, I wanna buy myself a birthday gift...). But no; there was absolutely nothing appealing about the launch.
Please note, the above statement completely disregards the fact that I barely have time to read slashdot, anymore, let alone play video games. World of Warcraft barely gets touched anymore. Thank you, school work, you're destroying my livelyhood...
So does this mean there'll be another month delay in getting patches to consumers?
Scenario: - [zerohour] Exploit gains recognition
- [+1 month] Microsoft releases patch to USAF
- [+2 month] Microsoft releases patch to US Consumers
Greeaaaat...
...message, on an already well known-format, shouldn't it be possible for service providers to block the messages through the MMS MX handlers? And/or simply not bill the customer for the sum of messages sent with that format. Of course, isolate them from the network if possible (remove their permission to emit MMS messages at the MX) until the malware can be removed from their device. Just a thought. Doesn't really seem right to charge users for something like that, espicially the less savvy who might not know-any-better.
Couldn't have said it better myself. I'm glad someone else did, I wasn't quite sure how to word it.
Adding keywords like 'traffic monitor' and such to a page about traffic monitoring is very different than stuffing 'PARIS-HILTON-XXX-TAPE-FULL' into a page about home equity loans.
Google doing this in-house also gives them tighter control over what is stuffed where. Of course, this could be used to ensure quality hits, or simply elevate pages THEY want to the tops of the ranks. Searchola anyone?
Anyone else notice how there seems to be alternating instances of Google-scandal articles and Google-innovations every single day? Tomorrow we'll find out that they've made the internet obsolete, and in doing so, they've skewered a number of kittens on spikes. Oh the horror!
Visual Studio is a damn sight better tool than a spatula and a grill.
Would you like fries with your decision?
I don't understand why everyone totes FarCry. Sure, the game LOOKS great, but a game that looks great and doesn't have a storyline to speak if is worthless.
Did that guy find behind the copy machine?
And it's a stupid requirement.
I traveled a few times over the summer for work, which was strange being an IT intern, but, hey, I'm not complaining. Twice I got lumped into this little Holiday Inn dealie with no internet connection. Fine. Whipped out the laptop and blasted away at some Battlefield. Great fun.
Now, when playing mutliplayer games, given, ok, you need an internet connection, but when you're playing by yourself and/or an internet connection is not available to you, it's a really really shitty situation to need one to play offline, by yourself.
1 byte being made up of 8 bits.
It doesn't work at all. I couldn't even get it to open the installer on my PowerBook. I mean, really, what good is software that you can't even install? I had to fight with Safari just to get the microsoft webpage to load. Sheesh, you think they'd know SOMETHING about Information Technology by now.
I don't think he was 'skipping', per se.... what with the chair...
A search for the "Sony PSP" on amazon.com reveals the Nintendo DS and even the 1GB iPod Shuffle just released by Apple.
No expectant release date in the US? Or can I simply not find it at all on Amazon's website?
The MMORPG chart lists WoW at having 350,000 users, while more than 600,000 copies of the game were sold during the holiday season alone (not including retail during the initial week).
Save for the fact that I don't drink. I would absolutely love to use this sort of technology for a water-cooled desktop.
The difference is that you are an educated, savvy user. That is laudable. The problem lies in the fact that some people simply do not know any better, and honestly, don't care to. My XP machine has also had a very limited number of spyware or virus infections; the few that I have had were from either someone else using my machine for 'five minutes to check their email', or that one wonderful time at the LAN party when some dork cabled my machine for me, and didn't put it through the firewall first. Thank you, w32.nachi.
The point remains, I do still worry about the latest DCOM exploit or whatever that may be lurking in the shadows, ready to unleash only god-knows-what on my box. Well, atleast when I use my Windows box, anyway.
The flat things on either side of the cockpit in the normal TIE/ln aren't engines, either. They're solar panels; the engines are located horizontally across the back of the cockpit ball, one on the left and the other on the right.
Not if my laptop (bagged or unbagged; ever seen The Italian Job?) is in one of them. Then we're going to have words, and not a single one is going to be happy.
from the ejection-seats-are-cooler-though dept.
Only in helicopters!
Our friends at Penny Arcade have explored this facet of gaming a few times.
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http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2004-0
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2004-0
So you need to have an income, of domations, in the thousands-of-dollars range per quarter, in order to qualify for 'not-for-profit' status?
*clears throat* WHY?!
I would think that their lack of monetary influx sort of makes the point for them; not-for-profit. Do they qualify for not-going-to-break-even status, atleast?
We're not worried about where the volcano/mountain might be going. We're moreso worried about everyone who (perhaps stupidly, albeit) lives on , around, or near it.
PMU. VRAM. PRAM. Been there, done it. Repeatedly. Good suggestion, though.
...will it fix my battery? After installing 10.3.5, my battery took a huge hit. Lasted about five minutes. Then came 10.3.6. Increased to maybe 20 minutes, where it stays now. Just yesterday I did a clean install on the OS, so I've got no idle bullplop in the background.
:-D
And, yay. World of Warcraft!
...for the thirty people still playing MMORPGs that aren't World of Warcraft.
They carded me when I wanted to purchase UT2004, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and Doom 3. I don't mind submitting to it.
I can just imagine, though, that some producers might turn around and say that games that are harder to buy in the store simply encourage people to download them as warez. And that is partially true.