I live 15 minutes from BWI too. The difference is we didn't watch 2 airliners crash into our neighbors house.
Even so, I'd still be a little nervous to see a commercial airliner being trailed by fighter jets. It's not exactly an everyday occurrence.
is MikeRoweSoft.com selling operating systems, or selling anything for that matter?
This is a serious question, It's been slashdotted mercilessly. If not he can probably hide under the parady umbrella that protects Saturday Night Live, MAD magazine, etc from lawsuits brought by over-sensitive mega-corporations.
It also helps that FF:XI is really, really good. The name probably moved a lot of boxes, but the game play will keep the massess paying $13/month for years to come.
Uhh, you do know that dubya is from Conneticut, right?
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There's plenty of kids in the U.S that are sick and dying because of lack of food or healthcare, but that doesn't stop the priveleged from buying video games with their spare money. People are all the same, regardless of the country. This article was just an attempt to highlight that aspect of Iraqi life and show they aren't much different than us, except for the whole no alcohol thing.
My USB Ports mysteriously stopped working immediately following a patch I applied to Windows XP about a month ago. Then I installed Steam, which basically destroyed my Windows installation (choppy sound, extended periods of no system response, etc..) so I reformatted the partition and reinstalled XP with all the patches..this time my USB ports kept working with the patches.
Just goes to show how touch-n-go a windows patch can be..sometimes it borks your system, sometimes it doesn't. There's really no logic behind why their patches do some of the things they do.
as I stated, I was a little fuzzy on the actual post levels but the system is still as described and posts do drop below the default viewing level. I know this because I've seen Q answer over a dozen "OMG WTF YOU DELETED MY POST" posts with the explanation...I imagine he's probably sick of them now and he should just thow a "RTFM" in a post next time some mouth breath starts crying about his missing post.
People crying about deleted posts on the SWG boards are usually not the brightest. The SWG boards have a peer moderation system sort of like here on slashdot
All new posts start at 1 star, and the default viewing level is 1 star. If you post a whine or other useless thread, you'll usually get peer moderated down to 0 starts so in affect it appears your "valuable contribution to the community" was deleted by a mod when in reality your fellow players have deemed your post worthless. Of course, you can read at 0 starts if you want to see the "OMG I AM QUITTING AND TAKING MY 300 GUILD MEMBERS WITH ME!!!!" posts.
Oh, I believe it's 1 star, might be two with the default threshold at two star as well..I stopped reading the official boards about 2 days after release because the people there made my brain bleed so I'm going by memory on the little details, but the system is as described..
Most people only get one or two consoles, very few buy more than two active consoles. I used to have a N64, then bought a PS1 back in the day, now I own a PS2 and just picked up a GC last week as my second console. What Nintendo has done as put themselves in the position to become the second console in most people's home. If Microsoft dropped the Xbox to $100 first, theres a good chance many of the recent GC purchasers would have went the the Xbox as their second console. Now that Nintendo has virtually established themselves as the 2nd Console of choice, Microsoft just lost that entire market..again.
On a side note, I picked up Legend of Zelda, Metroid Prime and Eternal Darkness with my cube and have been playing Zelda non stop for the past week. Great fun, totally justified the Console purchase. The other 2 games are still in the shrink wrap..greatly underappreciated system.
Maybe, but t.v. is infinitely better than the Internet when it comes to zoning out after work
I agree, the internet is best left to zoning out during work
Step away from the keyboard and head outside for a good healthy dose of reality. There's a big difference behind the reasoning for killing newbies in UO than there are in for Muslims killing Jews in Israel.
Nintendo has been cranking out some high quality games for the Cube lately and looking at the fall lineup things are just going to get better. Screw the 3rd party support, all they seem capable of putting out nowadays is GTA3 clones anyways. Nintendo may have a smaller library, but I honestly believe that they have a better lineup than the PS2 (and definately the Xbox) with that smaller library.
Yeah, it's pretty damn expensive. Especially when you realize that you can't use the HD for anything BUT FFXI.
Not true.
Granted at release there is only going to be one game available that fully utilizes the Hard Drive but many more will follow down the road. You'll be able to save games to the harddrive. Last time I checked a 8MB memory card cost $20US, so for the same price as 40MB of storage using the cards you are going to get 40Gigs of save space.
Plus, ripping CDs to the drive and creating custom play lists for games will be pretty cool as well.
So the way I see it, they are selling a hard drive and giving away the game for free.
ohhh please, you can get an athalon 2000 for like 80 bux now, PC's are dirt cheap! I would say 800 - 1000 for a nice PC with tons of ram and a Geforce4 128 meg card!
But an Xbox is only $180 brand new..making his "PC Gaming is too expensive" accurate. I've just about come to the same conclusion after spending $400 on a Radeon 9800Pro so I can play HL2 at a decent framerate. PC Gaming is just getting too damn expensive...Plus if I move gaming to the console I can finally wipe out that Windows Partion once and for all.
Smaller than Expected? The games been out 2 months and they've already had over 275k accounts..making it the second largest MMOG in the United States..Second only to SOE's flagship product Everquest.
That is a hell of a lot of people, making this game a far cry from disapointing.
I understand the need for the English language to evolve, but we already have a perfectly accecptable word for this, Messaging or more accurately instant messaging. There is no reason to take a noun and make it a verb for no apparent reason other than being trendy..in fact I actually had to read the damn article to figure out what the hell "texting" was.
What next? Changing the dictionary to include "ur" as a valid spelling of "your"?
Dude, You could disarm your rifle and smack a leet to death. But I guess not reading the instructions and spending three hours stumbling around a game makes you more than qualified to review a game these days.
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I live 15 minutes from BWI too. The difference is we didn't watch 2 airliners crash into our neighbors house. Even so, I'd still be a little nervous to see a commercial airliner being trailed by fighter jets. It's not exactly an everyday occurrence.
"So long and thanks for all the fish!"
is MikeRoweSoft.com selling operating systems, or selling anything for that matter?
This is a serious question, It's been slashdotted mercilessly. If not he can probably hide under the parady umbrella that protects Saturday Night Live, MAD magazine, etc from lawsuits brought by over-sensitive mega-corporations.
This is what happens when you take a already bad game and make a clone of it. Everyone who has seen Multiplicity should know this by now =)
Who said innovation in the game industry is dead...why just look at all those original titles.
I forsee the gaming market bottoming out in '04....again.
What's really funny is that in that entire string of text, the work "Pornography" is the first word my brain grabbed focus on.
There is already one being made based on Middle Earth.
Milk that cow for all it's worth, baby.
but if its on the innernet, it must be true!1!!12!
It also helps that FF:XI is really, really good. The name probably moved a lot of boxes, but the game play will keep the massess paying $13/month for years to come.
to not be confused with Casscading Style Sheets perhaps?
It must be a southern accent thing.
Uhh, you do know that dubya is from Conneticut, right?
There's plenty of kids in the U.S that are sick and dying because of lack of food or healthcare, but that doesn't stop the priveleged from buying video games with their spare money. People are all the same, regardless of the country. This article was just an attempt to highlight that aspect of Iraqi life and show they aren't much different than us, except for the whole no alcohol thing.
sweet, sweet alcohol
My USB Ports mysteriously stopped working immediately following a patch I applied to Windows XP about a month ago. Then I installed Steam, which basically destroyed my Windows installation (choppy sound, extended periods of no system response, etc..) so I reformatted the partition and reinstalled XP with all the patches..this time my USB ports kept working with the patches.
Just goes to show how touch-n-go a windows patch can be..sometimes it borks your system, sometimes it doesn't. There's really no logic behind why their patches do some of the things they do.
as I stated, I was a little fuzzy on the actual post levels but the system is still as described and posts do drop below the default viewing level. I know this because I've seen Q answer over a dozen "OMG WTF YOU DELETED MY POST" posts with the explanation...I imagine he's probably sick of them now and he should just thow a "RTFM" in a post next time some mouth breath starts crying about his missing post.
People crying about deleted posts on the SWG boards are usually not the brightest. The SWG boards have a peer moderation system sort of like here on slashdot
All new posts start at 1 star, and the default viewing level is 1 star. If you post a whine or other useless thread, you'll usually get peer moderated down to 0 starts so in affect it appears your "valuable contribution to the community" was deleted by a mod when in reality your fellow players have deemed your post worthless. Of course, you can read at 0 starts if you want to see the "OMG I AM QUITTING AND TAKING MY 300 GUILD MEMBERS WITH ME!!!!" posts.
Oh, I believe it's 1 star, might be two with the default threshold at two star as well..I stopped reading the official boards about 2 days after release because the people there made my brain bleed so I'm going by memory on the little details, but the system is as described..
Most people only get one or two consoles, very few buy more than two active consoles. I used to have a N64, then bought a PS1 back in the day, now I own a PS2 and just picked up a GC last week as my second console. What Nintendo has done as put themselves in the position to become the second console in most people's home. If Microsoft dropped the Xbox to $100 first, theres a good chance many of the recent GC purchasers would have went the the Xbox as their second console. Now that Nintendo has virtually established themselves as the 2nd Console of choice, Microsoft just lost that entire market..again.
On a side note, I picked up Legend of Zelda, Metroid Prime and Eternal Darkness with my cube and have been playing Zelda non stop for the past week. Great fun, totally justified the Console purchase. The other 2 games are still in the shrink wrap..greatly underappreciated system.
Maybe, but t.v. is infinitely better than the Internet when it comes to zoning out after work
I agree, the internet is best left to zoning out during work
Step away from the keyboard and head outside for a good healthy dose of reality. There's a big difference behind the reasoning for killing newbies in UO than there are in for Muslims killing Jews in Israel.
Make that two, picking one up tonight.
Nintendo has been cranking out some high quality games for the Cube lately and looking at the fall lineup things are just going to get better. Screw the 3rd party support, all they seem capable of putting out nowadays is GTA3 clones anyways. Nintendo may have a smaller library, but I honestly believe that they have a better lineup than the PS2 (and definately the Xbox) with that smaller library.
Yeah, it's pretty damn expensive. Especially when you realize that you can't use the HD for anything BUT FFXI. Not true.
Granted at release there is only going to be one game available that fully utilizes the Hard Drive but many more will follow down the road. You'll be able to save games to the harddrive. Last time I checked a 8MB memory card cost $20US, so for the same price as 40MB of storage using the cards you are going to get 40Gigs of save space.
Plus, ripping CDs to the drive and creating custom play lists for games will be pretty cool as well.
So the way I see it, they are selling a hard drive and giving away the game for free.
ohhh please, you can get an athalon 2000 for like 80 bux now, PC's are dirt cheap! I would say 800 - 1000 for a nice PC with tons of ram and a Geforce4 128 meg card!
But an Xbox is only $180 brand new..making his "PC Gaming is too expensive" accurate. I've just about come to the same conclusion after spending $400 on a Radeon 9800Pro so I can play HL2 at a decent framerate. PC Gaming is just getting too damn expensive...Plus if I move gaming to the console I can finally wipe out that Windows Partion once and for all.
Smaller than Expected? The games been out 2 months and they've already had over 275k accounts..making it the second largest MMOG in the United States..Second only to SOE's flagship product Everquest.
That is a hell of a lot of people, making this game a far cry from disapointing.
Did you look though the types of threads he had to deal with on a consistent basis? That entire forum would be rated -1 Troll under /. moderation.
I understand the need for the English language to evolve, but we already have a perfectly accecptable word for this, Messaging or more accurately instant messaging. There is no reason to take a noun and make it a verb for no apparent reason other than being trendy..in fact I actually had to read the damn article to figure out what the hell "texting" was.
What next? Changing the dictionary to include "ur" as a valid spelling of "your"?
Dude, You could disarm your rifle and smack a leet to death. But I guess not reading the instructions and spending three hours stumbling around a game makes you more than qualified to review a game these days.