I never got that part. Why would anybody want to stay in touch with people you have nothing in common, just because a computer assigned the same classroom to them for some time, umpteen years ago.
I understand part of that but I also made friends in class as well, and I wasn't the only one.
Correct! It would appear that in my excitement to post something relevant I didn't let the facts get in the way. I stumbled across this link about a month ago and my awesome memory did the rest.
Maybe the poster lives in one of those places that survives off of $1/€1/£1 a day or less? Or still living at home... to which I would recommend: chores.
Also WoW patches can be downloaded in the background while playing. In addition to the Blizzard P2P patcher/updater file sharing websites like FilePlanet and XFIRE also host files for download.
It was about 10 years in development, and at release it was about 1/3rd of the cost of a full game.
Initially Team Fortress 2 was part of the Orange Box which retailed for $49.95 and individual games were not available for purchase seperately. The $20 price was recntly introduced (down from $30). I agree about Steam being superior to a serial in many ways however VAC is worth mentioning.
Instant updates to all your users at exactly the same time. No more worrying about if your users are using old, insecure, incompatible versions.
I agree in principle but what you're stating exists only in an ideal world. Realistically not everyone upgrades and patches; otherwise we wouldn't still be seeing IE6, bugs exploited from patches that were released 6 months ago etc.
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.
Who do you mean by "they"? Fundamentalists or just Muslims in general? Did you actually read any of my post just the bits that appealed to your intrinsic racism?
Way to paint someone with the racist brush by implying that Muslims are a race. I agree with a lot of what you're saying but not this part.
But overall, yes, the relative lack of helium in future could pose serious problems. Wasting it on party balloons is destroying a potentially very useful product.
I agree with you about the lack of helium potentially posing a problem in the future. However your statement about wasting Helium reminds me of water conservation efforts. Lets take California for example, do you know how much water is used in industry vs residential? Agriculture eats up most of it but residents use about 15%. I find it difficult to believe that balloons are the largest cause of depletion. How much Helium is bled out of natural gas and other wells simply because it's not cost effective enough to capture? The industrial consumption far outweighs that of the squeeky voiced unwashed mass of balloon fillers.
If a german asks the way, I point them in the wrong direction. It is how I was raised. I might be silly after so many decades, but it is better then forgetting.
Both France and Germany do. In the past there have been issues raised by French courts about the listing of Nazi relics in Yahoo searches as well as Ebay. FYI.
I love driving cars, but I think the biggest weakness right now is the confusion created by car manufacturers that makes it a major research project to decipher what codename/model number is actually good. If they would adopt a simple system of making their cars according to their actual capabilities, like CPUs do for the most part, they could eliminate the confusion. But I think they actually like the confusion they create. The latest Cadillac cars have a wide range, with numbers and names ending in CTS, STS, DTS...the biggest sellers now are the Escalade series, but there are also DeVille, and Sixty Sepcial series cars out with CTS and STS versions, and some other random letter codes. They've been doing this a long long time. They should get their act together and stop trying to mislead consumers with confusing model names before some regulatory agency forces them to do it.
we can be grouped together because we constitute a market.... and i know that PC piraters most often wouldn't have bought the game even if piracy weren't an option
There is no market for people who do not buy.
PC users pirate too many games and developing for them doesn't generate enough sales
Just to name a few: World of Warcraft, Battlefield franchise, StarCraft, Diablo, The Sims, Facebook apps?
IMHO the greatest thing Valve have done with Steam is make it easier and a lot less effort to buy a game than it is to pirate it. Something the clowns selling films really should try understanding sometime.
I think a more concise way of phrasing that would be convenience. Also I'd be very curious to see how well sales on Steam perform (how many more units are sold etc.). I recently purchased Dead Space on a Steam sale; the game is much more enjoyable with a gamepad.
Which is why we have more PC games than we've ever had before? Not to mention there are more PCs out there than consoles and your broad usage of PC (this includes Macs, Linux, Laptops, Desktops etc.).
As a former game pirater, I completely understand if a studio wants to abandon the PC platform entirely.
Honestly you have yourself to thank for "the PC market stinking" then.
us PC users growing the F up and acquiring games legally.
Way to group the PC users together. Not all of us are immature thieving twats. This is a great description for the type of players on console game networks. Looks like piracy isn't just on the PC and I'm sure you owned a Playstation and I'm sure you know what made that console popular.
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When a monitor dies, I need a replacement now, not some time next week.
Why not have two monitors...?
"Keeping in contact with old classmates,..."
I never got that part. Why would anybody want to stay in touch with people you have nothing in common, just because a computer assigned the same classroom to them for some time, umpteen years ago.
I understand part of that but I also made friends in class as well, and I wasn't the only one.
The Dark Knight. Granted it's better than quoting Star Wars (The tighter you squeeze your fingers the....) so we're making progress!
I shudder to think what he would have done if he could have gone to a deep-search web site and gotten their home addresses and phone numbers.
Yeah, let's see what their boyfriends/husbands do to the stalker...
Do they have elections for these positions? I check /. when I wake up and I was on autopilot. You should be pleased the link works ;)
Correct! It would appear that in my excitement to post something relevant I didn't let the facts get in the way. I stumbled across this link about a month ago and my awesome memory did the rest.
I don't know how I stumbled across this but here is an interesting theory about Tom Bombadil being Sauron. It's from a Usenet posting circa 1996.
Maybe the poster lives in one of those places that survives off of $1/€1/£1 a day or less? Or still living at home... to which I would recommend: chores.
Also WoW patches can be downloaded in the background while playing. In addition to the Blizzard P2P patcher/updater file sharing websites like FilePlanet and XFIRE also host files for download.
It was about 10 years in development, and at release it was about 1/3rd of the cost of a full game.
Initially Team Fortress 2 was part of the Orange Box which retailed for $49.95 and individual games were not available for purchase seperately. The $20 price was recntly introduced (down from $30). I agree about Steam being superior to a serial in many ways however VAC is worth mentioning.
The Realm is from the mid 90s and still going.
Chewbacca lives on Endor wihout any Linux or Windows computers ....
Lies, deceit! Wookies come from Kashyyyk. :)
Instant updates to all your users at exactly the same time. No more worrying about if your users are using old, insecure, incompatible versions.
I agree in principle but what you're stating exists only in an ideal world. Realistically not everyone upgrades and patches; otherwise we wouldn't still be seeing IE6, bugs exploited from patches that were released 6 months ago etc.
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.
Who do you mean by "they"? Fundamentalists or just Muslims in general? Did you actually read any of my post just the bits that appealed to your intrinsic racism?
Way to paint someone with the racist brush by implying that Muslims are a race. I agree with a lot of what you're saying but not this part.
But overall, yes, the relative lack of helium in future could pose serious problems. Wasting it on party balloons is destroying a potentially very useful product.
I agree with you about the lack of helium potentially posing a problem in the future. However your statement about wasting Helium reminds me of water conservation efforts. Lets take California for example, do you know how much water is used in industry vs residential? Agriculture eats up most of it but residents use about 15%. I find it difficult to believe that balloons are the largest cause of depletion. How much Helium is bled out of natural gas and other wells simply because it's not cost effective enough to capture? The industrial consumption far outweighs that of the squeeky voiced unwashed mass of balloon fillers.
If a german asks the way, I point them in the wrong direction. It is how I was raised. I might be silly after so many decades, but it is better then forgetting.
Wow.
Fail. Feburary 2000 for Windows 2000. Oops.
NT 3.1 (1993) -> NT 3.5 (1994) [1 year] -> NT 4.0 (1996) [2 years] -> Win 2000 (2000) [4 years] -> XP (2001) [1 year] -> Vista (2006) [5 years] -> Win 7 (2009) [3 years]
Nearly spot on. However Windows 2000 was released in 1999. =)
Wasn't that how the image hacks started? A specially crafted BMP. There are more but this is one I recall off of the top of my head.
Youtube is a great place to start. High Quality WW2 Color Footage
Both France and Germany do. In the past there have been issues raised by French courts about the listing of Nazi relics in Yahoo searches as well as Ebay. FYI.
I love driving cars, but I think the biggest weakness right now is the confusion created by car manufacturers that makes it a major research project to decipher what codename/model number is actually good. If they would adopt a simple system of making their cars according to their actual capabilities, like CPUs do for the most part, they could eliminate the confusion. But I think they actually like the confusion they create. The latest Cadillac cars have a wide range, with numbers and names ending in CTS, STS, DTS...the biggest sellers now are the Escalade series, but there are also DeVille, and Sixty Sepcial series cars out with CTS and STS versions, and some other random letter codes. They've been doing this a long long time. They should get their act together and stop trying to mislead consumers with confusing model names before some regulatory agency forces them to do it.
we can be grouped together because we constitute a market. ... and i know that PC piraters most often wouldn't have bought the game even if piracy weren't an option
There is no market for people who do not buy.
PC users pirate too many games and developing for them doesn't generate enough sales
Just to name a few: World of Warcraft, Battlefield franchise, StarCraft, Diablo, The Sims, Facebook apps?
IMHO the greatest thing Valve have done with Steam is make it easier and a lot less effort to buy a game than it is to pirate it. Something the clowns selling films really should try understanding sometime.
I think a more concise way of phrasing that would be convenience. Also I'd be very curious to see how well sales on Steam perform (how many more units are sold etc.). I recently purchased Dead Space on a Steam sale; the game is much more enjoyable with a gamepad.
The PC market stinks right now
Which is why we have more PC games than we've ever had before? Not to mention there are more PCs out there than consoles and your broad usage of PC (this includes Macs, Linux, Laptops, Desktops etc.).
As a former game pirater, I completely understand if a studio wants to abandon the PC platform entirely.
Honestly you have yourself to thank for "the PC market stinking" then.
us PC users growing the F up and acquiring games legally.
Way to group the PC users together. Not all of us are immature thieving twats. This is a great description for the type of players on console game networks. Looks like piracy isn't just on the PC and I'm sure you owned a Playstation and I'm sure you know what made that console popular.