Anachronox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anachronox I feel like the only person that liked this game, but I'm TOLD there's a small but fiercely loyal cult following... somewhere...
I have to agree. It doesn't even take 10 minutes. The argument about whether or not I should HAVE to put my own number on an opt-out list aside, the actual process is incredibly simple and takes almost no time.
I thought that was in Duke Nukem? I distinctly remember a cave high up on a wall somewhere, only accessible by jetpack, which you didn't have at that moment in the game. So if you were up there, you were obviously cheating.
Maybe it was in both games, and I just don't remember it in RotT. That was actually a pretty fun game, IIRC.
Well, while we're going back that far, how much mercury does the plant that MANUFACTURES the CFL emit, divided by the number of bulbs it produces, on top of the bulb itself?
I have this battle with my wife all the time, except she's the slob. You know why it's always the messy person's fault? Because the credit card bill logically goes in a FILE FOLDER, not in the REFRIGERATOR.
I find it hard to believe that messy people can't adapt to finding something in a file folder, for example - and yet somehow this month's credit card bill being under the lamp in the living room when last month it was in the sideboard is seen as "logical". If it goes in the file folder, it's ALWAYS THERE. Every month. With my wife's system? Could be anywhere.
Seems to me that she should adapt to the system that is the most efficient, rather than me having to adapt to the system that CONSTANTLY CHANGES EVERY SINGLE DAY. Because at the end of the day? She usually CAN'T tell me where something is, but if I move a pile, all hell breaks loose because she allegedly knew RIGHT where something was before I moved the pile.
I wonder how much of this is in response to the seemingly inevitable situation where the private agencies will "git r done" faster and cheaper than the ponderous organizations like NASA who are now so mired in red tape and bureaucracy they can barely fling spitballs into the air.
I'm currently running HoTTProxy on my main PC behind my Linksys WRT54GS (which currently has the latest HyperWRT firmware), so that I can get "free" Internet access for my Verizon phones. It works just fine, but I'd love to offload that task to the router, because it seems like a logical thing for it to be doing, rather than the PC. I haven't successfully found any way of doing that. I've checked both the HyperWRT and DD-WRT forums. I see lots of references to Squid transparent proxy, but it doesn't sound like that's the solution to my problem. I also see TONS of stuff about VOIP, which I wish I had known before I sold my soul to Vonage, but that isn't what I'm looking for either.
Anyone have any knowledge if this is possible or not? I did see one post that said something about HTTP proxy servers being fairly memory intensive (at least for a router with a measly 16 MB RAM), and that it isn't worth doing it on a router, but I find it hard to believe that with all the crazy things they're doing with these Linux-based firmwares, that someone hasn't figured out how to do exactly that, for specifically that purpose.
We do it fairly regularly, but we've never used enough to go over the $24.99/month cost even once, let alone regularly (to justify switching to the unlimited plan). Our phone bill is usually in the $19 a month range, and I admit that we don't really worry about where we're at, minutes-wise.
You... you don't use the Intarweb to order pizza? And you call yourself a/.er!;-)
Seriously, I haven't talked to a pizza person on the phone in YEARS. Yes, it does mean that I can only order from the "Big 2" (Papa Johns & Pizza Hut - I don't touch Dominos due to some scary corporate ideals they have), but it also means that I don't have to deal at ALL with the minimum-wage-making till-monkey on the other end of the line who will screw up my order 95% of the time. This way, what I want is there in WRITING, plain as day.
Oh, and there's a $50 rebate on the Connect3D card at Newegg - $119.99 vs. $413.99? I think that can justify the SLIGHT offset in core clock speed - as if most people buying from Newegg don't know how to fix that anyway.
They are only good when I desperately need something RIGHT NOW. Otherwise, they can't REMOTELY compete with the likes of Newegg. Right this moment, there is a $29 difference on the Intel E6400 processor, not including tax (which I don't pay to Newegg since I'm not in their state). There is no shipping charge at either place. So unless I burn out my processor and I HAVE to be up and running, who am I going to buy from?
An ATI branded X1900GT is $413.99 at CompUSA - Newegg has a Connect3D version of the SAME CARD (ok,the core/memory clock speeds are a little different - one is higher on the ATI, the other is higher on the Connect3D) for $169.99. It's a no-brainer.
It's really the age-old comparison of online (needs really only a warehouse, warehouse employees, and a corporate office in which all marketing, website management, customer service, inventory tracking/purchasing, etc. is handled) vs. bricks and mortar, which have to maintain all that PLUS retail locations with employees who may or may not be presenting the best possible face for your company - see above arguments about clueless employees making barely minimum wage.
To be perfectly honest, I don't know why anybody shops there anymore, unless they HAVE to have an item immediately. I've been in that boat, but not frequently, certainly not enough for them to consider me as any kind of regular or repeat customer to the point where I can depend on them for business.
I guess I can see them being useful for people who want to buy a complete system locally, and want the local support of being able to bring it in for repair or servicing - but I can't believe that they base their entire business model off such people, can they?
Seriously. I just bought an Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 processor for $221 at Newegg. It'll overclock EASILY to 3.0 or more Ghz (base speed is 2.13 Ghz). If you know what you're looking for, you can get great deals on seriously kickass processors. Bleeding edge? No. Bleeding edge minus 1? Absolutely. Yes, the new Intel quad core just came out at something ridiculous like $900 or something like that. IMO, that is NOT a consumer CPU. Is some gamer with more money than brains going to buy one to play WoW with? Of course. But for the most part, that bleeding edge stuff is best left to companies with renderfarms or virtual earth simulators or things like that. Joe Sixpack shouldn't feel like they're being "left behind" just because AMD and Intel debut crazy processors at $1000. Those AREN'T for you, trust me.
I think it's a good step. I know I'm going to get flamed to hell and back, and before you decide you know what kind of parent I am, hear me out.
My kid is just over a year old, so it's going to be a little while before I even have to REALLY concern myself with this. Of course I, as a gamer, am already thinking about this. I don't play games in front of him at all, let alone any games with "questionable" content. You bet your a$$ I'm going to try my best to instill a sense of right and wrong, appropriate vs. inappropriate, etc. However, I also know about all the crap that *I* got away with as an adolescent/teenager, and I'd say that my parents were actually involved in my life WAY more than the average kid. So I appreciate Gamestop stepping up and being one more hurdle between my kid and some questionable content - content that I'm happy to discuss with him when I feel the age is appropriate. Might be before the "age limits" set forth in the ESRB, might be after, upon which time I can't do much about it other than hope that I've taught him well. Short of eliminating a source of funds to buy such games, going WITH him to friends' houses where they might have such games, or otherwise putting him in some kind of concentration camp scenario, I'm not sure how to prevent exposure to such things. For cryin' out loud, I watch episodes of ST:TNG in the morning that I've recorded off G4 TV while I sit with him and feed him his breakfast. EVERY break - I'm not kidding - EVERY commercial break has a commercial about p3n15 pills. Sometimes it's two, back to back (Extenze and Enzyte - you know the ones I'm talking about). It's funny how you don't even think about that stuff until you have a kid. Is it raunchy? No. Is it inappropriate? Probably not, the kid's barely a year old and hasn't shown much interest in TV yet (thankfully). But is it something I think about? Sure I do.
So I guess what I'm getting at is, I like that there is another layer of control (even though I oppose mandatory government restriction in most cases) between myself, my kid, and the "Great Unknown", we'll call it.
Also, I'd say that the "walk a mile in a man's shoes" applies here as well. All of you without kids - I used to think like you. Thought it was so easy and I'd be the best parent ever, how the hell hard can it be? I can tell you, harder than you think. You are constantly adapting to every situation, even at this young of an age. Consistency IS key, but it's always harder than you think it will be to be so. Just keep that in mind as you get ready to fire off your "Parents are the problem these days" responses. That's true in a LOT of circumstances, but there are those of us out there trying like hell to do the best possible job that there is NO training manual for.
I guess I don't understand your point. I don't "tinker" either. I don't think I indicated that I did, anywhere. I bought a good machine (did a lot of research and spent money where it counted and not where it didn't), it's set up and running, I don't worry about it. If I need it to do something more than it already does, I install the appropriate software. Done and done. It currently does everything that I can throw at it, from sending e-mail to playing Oblivion at maximum resolution to helping me with work so I can draft at home instead of in my awful office with the horrible fluorescent lighting.
The situation you describe actually sounds more "tinkery" than mine - you have multiple machines for multiple tasks, which is also multiple points of failure. Granted, if one of your gaming machines goes down, your music PC doesn't suffer, but at the same time now you're maintaining - 2? 3? 5? machines where I maintain one (ok, I have a laptop as well, but that's just for portability purposes and it can't do half what the desktop can).
Getting back on track, I'm underwhelmed that the PS3 version of Oblivion looks great. That's what it's supposed to do, and as others have pointed out, they've had a year extra to develop that version. It SHOULD look better, otherwise I'd be hacked if I spent $600 on a machine that looked as good as the $400 machine.
Yeah. Work would love that. "Yeah, um, I need a PS3. To do work. Yes I'm serious. Why are you laughing?"
I do grant you that for $600, getting a machine that will run Linux, with a decent GPU, AND with a Blu-Ray player in it is attractive. But it's also rather akin to the fanbois who buy a POS Honda Civic and spend $1000 at Pep Boys or Autozone to make it run half as well as a Lamborghini.
It also brings up the old saw about Linux vs. Windows (or even Mac for that matter). AutoCAD doesn't run on Linux. Work uses AutoCAD. VariCAD runs on Linux. Work doesn't use VariCAD. VariCAD isn't AutoCAD, I can tell you. I swear I'm not trying to sound like an elitist snob, but there's a reason why AutoCAD is around $4,000 and VariCAD is $500, and yet AutoCAD is the industry standard, while VariCAD isn't.
I see your point, but unfortunately it isn't really as simple as that. Besides, I'd rather spend the $1400 on a top-end machine, built to my specs, and be done with it, than "tinker" (to quote the other reply to my original post) and mess around with Linux on a console, any day of the week. I've been "playing" with Linux since the Redhat 5.x days, and I have never been comfortable committing to it as a full-time OS. That includes up through the Ubuntu install I just wiped off my laptop a couple of weeks ago.
About $800 more than that. But I can also do AutoCAD, Vectorworks, Sketchup, Photoshop, e-mail, spreadsheeting, word processing, burn a CD/DVD, balance my checkbook, order a pizza, buy my wife a Valentine's Day present (gotta do that still) and surf the Intarweb with my PC. And it can do all those things (many of them at the same time!) really, *really* well.
Last I checked, I can do none of those things with a PS3 (or Xbox360 or Wii, for that matter).
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Umm... http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/zeropunctuation/1394-Zero-Punctuation-BioShock
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Anachronox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anachronox I feel like the only person that liked this game, but I'm TOLD there's a small but fiercely loyal cult following... somewhere...
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System Shock 2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Shock_2 - oh wait, they already did that - it's called Bioshock.
We should be surprised at this, coming from McNewspaper?
I have to agree. It doesn't even take 10 minutes. The argument about whether or not I should HAVE to put my own number on an opt-out list aside, the actual process is incredibly simple and takes almost no time.
I thought that was in Duke Nukem? I distinctly remember a cave high up on a wall somewhere, only accessible by jetpack, which you didn't have at that moment in the game. So if you were up there, you were obviously cheating.
Maybe it was in both games, and I just don't remember it in RotT. That was actually a pretty fun game, IIRC.
That was immediately the event I thought of when I saw the headline.
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Well, while we're going back that far, how much mercury does the plant that MANUFACTURES the CFL emit, divided by the number of bulbs it produces, on top of the bulb itself?
Umm... when was the last time you were in a high school? The whole THING is a jail.
I have this battle with my wife all the time, except she's the slob. You know why it's always the messy person's fault? Because the credit card bill logically goes in a FILE FOLDER, not in the REFRIGERATOR.
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I find it hard to believe that messy people can't adapt to finding something in a file folder, for example - and yet somehow this month's credit card bill being under the lamp in the living room when last month it was in the sideboard is seen as "logical". If it goes in the file folder, it's ALWAYS THERE. Every month. With my wife's system? Could be anywhere.
Seems to me that she should adapt to the system that is the most efficient, rather than me having to adapt to the system that CONSTANTLY CHANGES EVERY SINGLE DAY. Because at the end of the day? She usually CAN'T tell me where something is, but if I move a pile, all hell breaks loose because she allegedly knew RIGHT where something was before I moved the pile.
Sorry, got off on a bit of a rant.
I wonder how much of this is in response to the seemingly inevitable situation where the private agencies will "git r done" faster and cheaper than the ponderous organizations like NASA who are now so mired in red tape and bureaucracy they can barely fling spitballs into the air.
Brilliant, I hadn't even considered that - I was looking for something already built in to some firmware somewhere. Thanks for the tip.
I'm currently running HoTTProxy on my main PC behind my Linksys WRT54GS (which currently has the latest HyperWRT firmware), so that I can get "free" Internet access for my Verizon phones. It works just fine, but I'd love to offload that task to the router, because it seems like a logical thing for it to be doing, rather than the PC. I haven't successfully found any way of doing that. I've checked both the HyperWRT and DD-WRT forums. I see lots of references to Squid transparent proxy, but it doesn't sound like that's the solution to my problem. I also see TONS of stuff about VOIP, which I wish I had known before I sold my soul to Vonage, but that isn't what I'm looking for either.
Anyone have any knowledge if this is possible or not? I did see one post that said something about HTTP proxy servers being fairly memory intensive (at least for a router with a measly 16 MB RAM), and that it isn't worth doing it on a router, but I find it hard to believe that with all the crazy things they're doing with these Linux-based firmwares, that someone hasn't figured out how to do exactly that, for specifically that purpose.
We do it fairly regularly, but we've never used enough to go over the $24.99/month cost even once, let alone regularly (to justify switching to the unlimited plan). Our phone bill is usually in the $19 a month range, and I admit that we don't really worry about where we're at, minutes-wise.
You... you don't use the Intarweb to order pizza? And you call yourself a /.er! ;-)
Seriously, I haven't talked to a pizza person on the phone in YEARS. Yes, it does mean that I can only order from the "Big 2" (Papa Johns & Pizza Hut - I don't touch Dominos due to some scary corporate ideals they have), but it also means that I don't have to deal at ALL with the minimum-wage-making till-monkey on the other end of the line who will screw up my order 95% of the time. This way, what I want is there in WRITING, plain as day.
Oh, and there's a $50 rebate on the Connect3D card at Newegg - $119.99 vs. $413.99? I think that can justify the SLIGHT offset in core clock speed - as if most people buying from Newegg don't know how to fix that anyway.
They are only good when I desperately need something RIGHT NOW. Otherwise, they can't REMOTELY compete with the likes of Newegg. Right this moment, there is a $29 difference on the Intel E6400 processor, not including tax (which I don't pay to Newegg since I'm not in their state). There is no shipping charge at either place. So unless I burn out my processor and I HAVE to be up and running, who am I going to buy from?
An ATI branded X1900GT is $413.99 at CompUSA - Newegg has a Connect3D version of the SAME CARD (ok,the core/memory clock speeds are a little different - one is higher on the ATI, the other is higher on the Connect3D) for $169.99. It's a no-brainer.
It's really the age-old comparison of online (needs really only a warehouse, warehouse employees, and a corporate office in which all marketing, website management, customer service, inventory tracking/purchasing, etc. is handled) vs. bricks and mortar, which have to maintain all that PLUS retail locations with employees who may or may not be presenting the best possible face for your company - see above arguments about clueless employees making barely minimum wage.
To be perfectly honest, I don't know why anybody shops there anymore, unless they HAVE to have an item immediately. I've been in that boat, but not frequently, certainly not enough for them to consider me as any kind of regular or repeat customer to the point where I can depend on them for business.
I guess I can see them being useful for people who want to buy a complete system locally, and want the local support of being able to bring it in for repair or servicing - but I can't believe that they base their entire business model off such people, can they?
Argh, I knew I should have changed my "read level" before posting... :)
http://despair.com/meetings.html
"Meetings: None of us is as dumb as all of us"
You completely missed the sarcasm. Read the rest of the post.
Seriously. I just bought an Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 processor for $221 at Newegg. It'll overclock EASILY to 3.0 or more Ghz (base speed is 2.13 Ghz). If you know what you're looking for, you can get great deals on seriously kickass processors. Bleeding edge? No. Bleeding edge minus 1? Absolutely. Yes, the new Intel quad core just came out at something ridiculous like $900 or something like that. IMO, that is NOT a consumer CPU. Is some gamer with more money than brains going to buy one to play WoW with? Of course. But for the most part, that bleeding edge stuff is best left to companies with renderfarms or virtual earth simulators or things like that. Joe Sixpack shouldn't feel like they're being "left behind" just because AMD and Intel debut crazy processors at $1000. Those AREN'T for you, trust me.
I think it's a good step. I know I'm going to get flamed to hell and back, and before you decide you know what kind of parent I am, hear me out.
My kid is just over a year old, so it's going to be a little while before I even have to REALLY concern myself with this. Of course I, as a gamer, am already thinking about this. I don't play games in front of him at all, let alone any games with "questionable" content. You bet your a$$ I'm going to try my best to instill a sense of right and wrong, appropriate vs. inappropriate, etc. However, I also know about all the crap that *I* got away with as an adolescent/teenager, and I'd say that my parents were actually involved in my life WAY more than the average kid. So I appreciate Gamestop stepping up and being one more hurdle between my kid and some questionable content - content that I'm happy to discuss with him when I feel the age is appropriate. Might be before the "age limits" set forth in the ESRB, might be after, upon which time I can't do much about it other than hope that I've taught him well. Short of eliminating a source of funds to buy such games, going WITH him to friends' houses where they might have such games, or otherwise putting him in some kind of concentration camp scenario, I'm not sure how to prevent exposure to such things. For cryin' out loud, I watch episodes of ST:TNG in the morning that I've recorded off G4 TV while I sit with him and feed him his breakfast. EVERY break - I'm not kidding - EVERY commercial break has a commercial about p3n15 pills. Sometimes it's two, back to back (Extenze and Enzyte - you know the ones I'm talking about). It's funny how you don't even think about that stuff until you have a kid. Is it raunchy? No. Is it inappropriate? Probably not, the kid's barely a year old and hasn't shown much interest in TV yet (thankfully). But is it something I think about? Sure I do.
So I guess what I'm getting at is, I like that there is another layer of control (even though I oppose mandatory government restriction in most cases) between myself, my kid, and the "Great Unknown", we'll call it.
Also, I'd say that the "walk a mile in a man's shoes" applies here as well. All of you without kids - I used to think like you. Thought it was so easy and I'd be the best parent ever, how the hell hard can it be? I can tell you, harder than you think. You are constantly adapting to every situation, even at this young of an age. Consistency IS key, but it's always harder than you think it will be to be so. Just keep that in mind as you get ready to fire off your "Parents are the problem these days" responses. That's true in a LOT of circumstances, but there are those of us out there trying like hell to do the best possible job that there is NO training manual for.
I guess I don't understand your point. I don't "tinker" either. I don't think I indicated that I did, anywhere. I bought a good machine (did a lot of research and spent money where it counted and not where it didn't), it's set up and running, I don't worry about it. If I need it to do something more than it already does, I install the appropriate software. Done and done. It currently does everything that I can throw at it, from sending e-mail to playing Oblivion at maximum resolution to helping me with work so I can draft at home instead of in my awful office with the horrible fluorescent lighting.
The situation you describe actually sounds more "tinkery" than mine - you have multiple machines for multiple tasks, which is also multiple points of failure. Granted, if one of your gaming machines goes down, your music PC doesn't suffer, but at the same time now you're maintaining - 2? 3? 5? machines where I maintain one (ok, I have a laptop as well, but that's just for portability purposes and it can't do half what the desktop can).
Getting back on track, I'm underwhelmed that the PS3 version of Oblivion looks great. That's what it's supposed to do, and as others have pointed out, they've had a year extra to develop that version. It SHOULD look better, otherwise I'd be hacked if I spent $600 on a machine that looked as good as the $400 machine.
Yeah. Work would love that. "Yeah, um, I need a PS3. To do work. Yes I'm serious. Why are you laughing?"
I do grant you that for $600, getting a machine that will run Linux, with a decent GPU, AND with a Blu-Ray player in it is attractive. But it's also rather akin to the fanbois who buy a POS Honda Civic and spend $1000 at Pep Boys or Autozone to make it run half as well as a Lamborghini.
It also brings up the old saw about Linux vs. Windows (or even Mac for that matter). AutoCAD doesn't run on Linux. Work uses AutoCAD. VariCAD runs on Linux. Work doesn't use VariCAD. VariCAD isn't AutoCAD, I can tell you. I swear I'm not trying to sound like an elitist snob, but there's a reason why AutoCAD is around $4,000 and VariCAD is $500, and yet AutoCAD is the industry standard, while VariCAD isn't.
I see your point, but unfortunately it isn't really as simple as that. Besides, I'd rather spend the $1400 on a top-end machine, built to my specs, and be done with it, than "tinker" (to quote the other reply to my original post) and mess around with Linux on a console, any day of the week. I've been "playing" with Linux since the Redhat 5.x days, and I have never been comfortable committing to it as a full-time OS. That includes up through the Ubuntu install I just wiped off my laptop a couple of weeks ago.
About $800 more than that. But I can also do AutoCAD, Vectorworks, Sketchup, Photoshop, e-mail, spreadsheeting, word processing, burn a CD/DVD, balance my checkbook, order a pizza, buy my wife a Valentine's Day present (gotta do that still) and surf the Intarweb with my PC. And it can do all those things (many of them at the same time!) really, *really* well.
Last I checked, I can do none of those things with a PS3 (or Xbox360 or Wii, for that matter).