and I certainly won't start now. I'll stick with Steam, Valve doesn't have to stoop to such underhanded practices to gain popularity or even commercial viability. Never mind the fact that Steam will be around long after GOG is nothing but a footnote in gamer history.
The military shows some intelligence.
Instead of doing jumping jacks and other inane calisthenics for 30 minutes (or however long) every morning, why not make exercise fun. Get people to want to do it! I didn't lift weights like the football team in high school, but I did go to the arcade almost everyday and played nothing but DDR 3rd and 4th mix. I never thought of it as exercise, it was always fun... even when my legs were on fire. Tell you what, I could do as many squats at whatever weight with the best of them when I was forced to take gym class. I also noticed I could run better, went from an 8min mile to a 6:30 over the course of a couple months of DDR. Sure got expensive though.
I really don't understand where you're coming from when you say there need to be other viable options of digital distribution services. There are. Most notably Direct2Drive. Now maybe D2D doesn't offer a "community" portion like Steam does, but who's stopping them? Honestly, the most viable option for them would be to buy out or cooperate with X-Fire and integrate its buddy messaging services with a D2D storefront and then add on some unique features.
I made my Steam account on Sept 12, 2003. I hated it in beta and I hated it then. But Valve made a huge amount of changes. Many of them coming from community suggestions. About a year after launch it took on a new face and _really_ caught on. So let's face it. Valve came up with something truly original and molded it into exactly what the consumer wanted. Anyone else is free to do the same. But the question remains, who has ever done better than Valve in Valve's field of operations? Good luck.
To be honest, ill still take FiOS 15/15. Because what could you be downloading that needs a 50mb down line? The UPLOAD speeds that FiOS offers still beats the hell out of the stingy bastards at Comcast. May they die in a burning pit of old cable modems.
Not to mention, FiOS is much cheaper.
I most certainly agree. For the past decade I've slept in a room with 2 running computers. I spend plenty of time here even if I'm not sleeping... When I do go to sleep in a place without the background fans (or some low tone monotonous noise) I find it takes me at least an extra hour to get to sleep. Noise pollution has become a part of me! AHH!!1
Maybe you should ask yourself why you suck at chess. It's all in the ability to read ahead, not only for your own moves but for your opponent's as well. And when playing a human who is very good at that the computations that must be made in order to win or draw can be quite extensive. After the first couple of moves in reading ahead the possibility chain usually grows exponentially. While a human doesn't always have to read these trees out, a computer has to. Not to mention the crazy amount of coding which must be created to allow a computer to use it's CPU to "play chess".
Go simply has too many possible moves. I know of no programs made thus far that can even approach Go playing capacity. And I doubt there will be any time soon.
eh, he didnt hack before i took a break from the ns scene, when i came back, all that drama had started up.. pretty much just kept myself contained in Oss and we went on to win some pretty big games. no props to nitro of course
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and I certainly won't start now. I'll stick with Steam, Valve doesn't have to stoop to such underhanded practices to gain popularity or even commercial viability. Never mind the fact that Steam will be around long after GOG is nothing but a footnote in gamer history.
The military shows some intelligence. Instead of doing jumping jacks and other inane calisthenics for 30 minutes (or however long) every morning, why not make exercise fun. Get people to want to do it! I didn't lift weights like the football team in high school, but I did go to the arcade almost everyday and played nothing but DDR 3rd and 4th mix. I never thought of it as exercise, it was always fun... even when my legs were on fire. Tell you what, I could do as many squats at whatever weight with the best of them when I was forced to take gym class. I also noticed I could run better, went from an 8min mile to a 6:30 over the course of a couple months of DDR. Sure got expensive though.
I really don't understand where you're coming from when you say there need to be other viable options of digital distribution services. There are. Most notably Direct2Drive. Now maybe D2D doesn't offer a "community" portion like Steam does, but who's stopping them? Honestly, the most viable option for them would be to buy out or cooperate with X-Fire and integrate its buddy messaging services with a D2D storefront and then add on some unique features. I made my Steam account on Sept 12, 2003. I hated it in beta and I hated it then. But Valve made a huge amount of changes. Many of them coming from community suggestions. About a year after launch it took on a new face and _really_ caught on. So let's face it. Valve came up with something truly original and molded it into exactly what the consumer wanted. Anyone else is free to do the same. But the question remains, who has ever done better than Valve in Valve's field of operations? Good luck.
This show was never all that gre-ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!
April Fools!
Why I want FiOS. Verizon when are you coming?!
biometrics
they have crappy ratios too
u know if that actually became a problem they would ban by MAC address. lol
If they are retired hard drives from a business they _should_ have been zeroed out. I'd sell 'em for sure.
Audiosurf on Steam is amazing! I would also suggest FIFA 2008 (great for 2 player head-to-head) and the Need for Speed series is great too.
To be honest, ill still take FiOS 15/15. Because what could you be downloading that needs a 50mb down line? The UPLOAD speeds that FiOS offers still beats the hell out of the stingy bastards at Comcast. May they die in a burning pit of old cable modems. Not to mention, FiOS is much cheaper.
I most certainly agree. For the past decade I've slept in a room with 2 running computers. I spend plenty of time here even if I'm not sleeping... When I do go to sleep in a place without the background fans (or some low tone monotonous noise) I find it takes me at least an extra hour to get to sleep. Noise pollution has become a part of me! AHH!!1
Hmm, well as least this'll help me wait for the advent of a nanofusion battery. :P
Maybe you should ask yourself why you suck at chess. It's all in the ability to read ahead, not only for your own moves but for your opponent's as well. And when playing a human who is very good at that the computations that must be made in order to win or draw can be quite extensive. After the first couple of moves in reading ahead the possibility chain usually grows exponentially. While a human doesn't always have to read these trees out, a computer has to. Not to mention the crazy amount of coding which must be created to allow a computer to use it's CPU to "play chess".
Go simply has too many possible moves. I know of no programs made thus far that can even approach Go playing capacity. And I doubt there will be any time soon.
Of course Half-life As of right now.. MMORPG - World of Warcraft
Or is this going a little overboard
the difference is the game CONTENT QUALITY -- not the "server uptime" grats to blizzard for making the best MMO yet
eh, he didnt hack before i took a break from the ns scene, when i came back, all that drama had started up.. pretty much just kept myself contained in Oss and we went on to win some pretty big games. no props to nitro of course
Indeed I played it for a couple years myself. K9black from OSS. :D