KOTOR and Halo are both on the PC. I play them both at 1280x1024 with AA and AF on, on a 19" monitor running off my Radeon 9800XT. Frankly, I see no reason to purchase an Xbox. I have a PS2 for all those cutsey Japanese RPG's that never come out for PC.
I've always found the Xbox to be a joke, the only people I know that have them, do so because their PC's suck and they want to play the multiplayer sports games. Then again, they have those on PS2 as well. Not to mention the PS2 is a lot older than the Xbox. We'll wait and see, but PS2 and Gambecube have a captive audience. If you want their games, you have to buy their system, they won't release them on PC. You can't play Metroid or Eternal Darkness on PC, and you can't play Final Fantasy X on PC either. But there isn't anything exciting on Xbox I can't get on PC.
You should be able to, I've already gotten a free Steam account through the purchase of my Radeon 9800XT which was supposed to come bundled with HL2. Instead they gave me a steam acccount and said, when HL2 is ready, it will be downloaded and you can play the day it releases.
I think Valve is just young. I'm not about to get upset over release dates, if it's not out, it's not out. There is really nothing to be upset about. Life will go on without HL2 people, and it will come out when it's ready, and we shouldn't expect it any sooner.
As for the code theft, who knows what really happened, but I for one won't dwell on it, and won't let it diminish the great game I saw working at E3.
A lot of us played it at E3, it's quite scary. =)
Doom3 has a much stronger horror story feel to it, it's almost like playing through a movie. I can only say it's like the perfect wedding between the story based aspects of Resident Evil, and the fast paced action of Doom.
Umm, that's rediculous. People have played HL2. To even think that it is Vaporware is simply ignorant. Yes, it has a very delayed launch, I personally spoke with some of the lead designers at valve last may at E3. I also attented the sneak peak conference which showed off Half Life 2. let's just say they've spent a lot of their time on that physics engine, which was absolutely amazing. I won't be the only one who will spend entirely too much time playing with the gravity gun.
What this really boils down to is that Valve has all the money in the world. Just like ID. They can take their sweet time making games. They don't have to meet deadlines, because they get to set them. They are concerned with making the best game they can and getting it to us when it's finished. I will take that ANYDAY over a rushed to market product that is riddled with bugs and the ending chopped and nice features left off for "expansion packs". If you'll notice well funded companies that actually finish their games rarely need "expansion packs" every 6 months, which is the industries new way of making you pay for a beta test, and then pay again for the finished product.
Thank god Blizzard is taking this same stance with WoW. I'm in Beta, they don't have all the classes even finished yet, there's no way they are releasing in August, and they won't. Every blizzard game has been delayed, and everyone complains, yet how many copies did Diablo 2 sell? Yeaaah...
I'm incompetent? Wow, nice flaming there.
Did I mention action playback anywhere? No. I simply made a few clicks, and bam I have a backup regimen created for me. The wonders of modern GUI backup utilities. Sure I could go write a script by hand to do the same thing, but IMO, its nicer to see a list of drives and folders and simply check the ones I want instead of trying to remember off the top of my head and manually type in the names of every folder and drive I want backed up.
GUI's can be scriped, and can be used to make scripts. I'm stunned that you are so stubborn in your ways, and I'm glad I don't work with you. Knowing you'd waste your time with a command line when I could hire a desk monkey and pay him $5 an hour to do as much with a few clicks. Please, run along now console troll, your days are numbered.
You're assuming you can't combine scripting and GUI's, which is something a lot of *nix admins have a horrible habit of thinking.
It is NOT impossible. I'm a big command line fan too, I use it every day. But when I rolled out Server 2003 at a branch office, I sure as hell didn't set up active directory by command line. There's a wonderful SCRIPTED GUI that does it for me. It asks me what I want, writes the script for me, and executes it all the while giving me graphical feedback.
I just installed SuSU 9.0 Professional the other day to run a mail server. Even though I could have rolled out Debian my favorite distro by hand, and I let SuSE do its thing, and I had a fully functional out of the box mail server in almost no time. Of course, I went back and by hand installed qmail, but that's not the point. =)
GUI's ARE powerful tools. You're just as bad of a sysadmin if you won't use GUI's when they are helpful than a sysadmin who can't use command line at all.
"But they fall down when it comes to "do this, a thousand times" kinds of jobs."
They Don't have to. GUI's need better built in macro support. If I can just set a macro to record, push a few buttons that will run an entire backup for me, with all the options I want. And then just set that macro to run once a day. That's a helluva lot faster than typing out a backup script. IMO, the future of automating tasks is GUI's with very nicely built in scripting and macros.
You're comparing 1970-1980 revenue numbers to Y2k revenue numbers. That's absurd. Not just because of inflation. Compare this, how much did the first 3 movies cost? I'm willing to bet less than Phantom alone. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Furthermore, according to IMDB Empire brought in 16 million more than the first movie. For a sequel that was much darker and had very little kid content, thats very telling.
I would hate to try and judge sucess on these monetary values alone. Remember that many kid based disney movies outsell these numbers.
I'm confused, I'm currently holding 3-4 IM conversations at the same time. They are all 1-1 conversations, and no one else is reading them. I think you're mixing up IM with an IRC Chat room. They are very very different beasts.
I guess I'd hate to have 1000's of emails go in and out of my box each day, to me, that is far more frantic than using IM.
In a given conversation I might send 50+ messages. That would be 50+ emails for a single conversation! That's getting out of hand. There is a level of interactivity and connectivity that exists with IM that is simply not there with email. To me, there is a huge difference between millisecond delays between short messages, and second delays between long ones.
In fact, it seems to me that it would be much harder to follow a conversation if I had to reopen "old" emails from 30 mins back in the conversation than to simply use the mouse wheel to scroll up to the message. Add that to the excellent logging features of Trillian and IM is simply more versatile than email.
Now here is my big beef. AIM doesn't allow you to leave messages with offline contacts (like ICQ/Yahoo do). To me, that is the one benefit of email. You can send information to offline users that they recieve when they log back on. Which always made me wonder why so many people chose AIM over ICQ/Yahoo when it simply is an inferior application run by an inferior ISP. =)
I guess when you have a conversation with people you speak in lengthy thought out paragraphs eh?
IM is much closer to actual conversation than email. Email is just as the name suggests, electronic mail. You wouldn't want to have a conversation through snail mail either.
IM allows for interjection and quick response, email does not.
Personally, players who run around with the awp by aiming with the desert eagle, switching over to their awp in air while strafing and turning in a 360 and magically head shotting 3 people on the way down... well... to me thats almost cheating.;p
CS put a lot of time into realism (gun info, kickback, accuracy of guns, taking damage, etc etc) but then they let pople run full speed while holding an awp which is a heavy ass gun that you can't rung around and use... I dare someone to try. IF these are used in the field, its from a secure location, far far away from the field, and the shooter is VERY stationary, as you really can't aim one steadily like you can in CS.
LOL. You better watch out. If Armstrong is reading this he might be trying to hunt you down as we speak. We all know what happened the last time someone questioned him about actually being on the moon. =)
And personally, good for him, I'd beat that reporteres ass too!
What some people are missing is how much profit could be generated from a trip to mars. We go there, discover a bunch of stuff, NASA finds way to colonize mars, earth runs out of natural resources, who saves the day and is ultimately in the place of power? The USA. That is the long term investment to space exploration. The US has been in debt forever and a day, and the problem is that due to the structure of our government and the laziness of our people, who are never satisfied with the amount of government spending they get, we will NEVER lower the debt at this rate.
We have the republicans who constantly lower taxes on the national level (bush) while at the same time liberally controlled states are creating millions more in costs which is why many states, like Arizona where I live for example, are completely out of money. It's a messed up system, and frankly, we need to cut costs to retarded programs that do more harm than good AND increase taxes. In short, Republicans and Democrats are both wrong... and retarded.
No, after trying to rationally argue with him about Affirmative action below, I've realized he's one of those half breed trolls that you should never try to feed. Better to leave him alone and let him rot away.
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KOTOR and Halo are both on the PC. I play them both at 1280x1024 with AA and AF on, on a 19" monitor running off my Radeon 9800XT. Frankly, I see no reason to purchase an Xbox. I have a PS2 for all those cutsey Japanese RPG's that never come out for PC.
I've always found the Xbox to be a joke, the only people I know that have them, do so because their PC's suck and they want to play the multiplayer sports games. Then again, they have those on PS2 as well. Not to mention the PS2 is a lot older than the Xbox. We'll wait and see, but PS2 and Gambecube have a captive audience. If you want their games, you have to buy their system, they won't release them on PC. You can't play Metroid or Eternal Darkness on PC, and you can't play Final Fantasy X on PC either. But there isn't anything exciting on Xbox I can't get on PC.
You should be able to, I've already gotten a free Steam account through the purchase of my Radeon 9800XT which was supposed to come bundled with HL2. Instead they gave me a steam acccount and said, when HL2 is ready, it will be downloaded and you can play the day it releases.
I think Valve is just young. I'm not about to get upset over release dates, if it's not out, it's not out. There is really nothing to be upset about. Life will go on without HL2 people, and it will come out when it's ready, and we shouldn't expect it any sooner.
As for the code theft, who knows what really happened, but I for one won't dwell on it, and won't let it diminish the great game I saw working at E3.
A lot of us played it at E3, it's quite scary. =) Doom3 has a much stronger horror story feel to it, it's almost like playing through a movie. I can only say it's like the perfect wedding between the story based aspects of Resident Evil, and the fast paced action of Doom.
Umm, that's rediculous. People have played HL2. To even think that it is Vaporware is simply ignorant. Yes, it has a very delayed launch, I personally spoke with some of the lead designers at valve last may at E3. I also attented the sneak peak conference which showed off Half Life 2. let's just say they've spent a lot of their time on that physics engine, which was absolutely amazing. I won't be the only one who will spend entirely too much time playing with the gravity gun.
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What this really boils down to is that Valve has all the money in the world. Just like ID. They can take their sweet time making games. They don't have to meet deadlines, because they get to set them. They are concerned with making the best game they can and getting it to us when it's finished. I will take that ANYDAY over a rushed to market product that is riddled with bugs and the ending chopped and nice features left off for "expansion packs". If you'll notice well funded companies that actually finish their games rarely need "expansion packs" every 6 months, which is the industries new way of making you pay for a beta test, and then pay again for the finished product.
Thank god Blizzard is taking this same stance with WoW. I'm in Beta, they don't have all the classes even finished yet, there's no way they are releasing in August, and they won't. Every blizzard game has been delayed, and everyone complains, yet how many copies did Diablo 2 sell? Yeaaah
I'm incompetent? Wow, nice flaming there. Did I mention action playback anywhere? No. I simply made a few clicks, and bam I have a backup regimen created for me. The wonders of modern GUI backup utilities. Sure I could go write a script by hand to do the same thing, but IMO, its nicer to see a list of drives and folders and simply check the ones I want instead of trying to remember off the top of my head and manually type in the names of every folder and drive I want backed up. GUI's can be scriped, and can be used to make scripts. I'm stunned that you are so stubborn in your ways, and I'm glad I don't work with you. Knowing you'd waste your time with a command line when I could hire a desk monkey and pay him $5 an hour to do as much with a few clicks. Please, run along now console troll, your days are numbered.
You're assuming you can't combine scripting and GUI's, which is something a lot of *nix admins have a horrible habit of thinking. It is NOT impossible. I'm a big command line fan too, I use it every day. But when I rolled out Server 2003 at a branch office, I sure as hell didn't set up active directory by command line. There's a wonderful SCRIPTED GUI that does it for me. It asks me what I want, writes the script for me, and executes it all the while giving me graphical feedback. I just installed SuSU 9.0 Professional the other day to run a mail server. Even though I could have rolled out Debian my favorite distro by hand, and I let SuSE do its thing, and I had a fully functional out of the box mail server in almost no time. Of course, I went back and by hand installed qmail, but that's not the point. =) GUI's ARE powerful tools. You're just as bad of a sysadmin if you won't use GUI's when they are helpful than a sysadmin who can't use command line at all. "But they fall down when it comes to "do this, a thousand times" kinds of jobs." They Don't have to. GUI's need better built in macro support. If I can just set a macro to record, push a few buttons that will run an entire backup for me, with all the options I want. And then just set that macro to run once a day. That's a helluva lot faster than typing out a backup script. IMO, the future of automating tasks is GUI's with very nicely built in scripting and macros.
You're comparing 1970-1980 revenue numbers to Y2k revenue numbers. That's absurd. Not just because of inflation. Compare this, how much did the first 3 movies cost? I'm willing to bet less than Phantom alone. Correct me if I'm wrong. Furthermore, according to IMDB Empire brought in 16 million more than the first movie. For a sequel that was much darker and had very little kid content, thats very telling. I would hate to try and judge sucess on these monetary values alone. Remember that many kid based disney movies outsell these numbers.
I'm confused, I'm currently holding 3-4 IM conversations at the same time. They are all 1-1 conversations, and no one else is reading them. I think you're mixing up IM with an IRC Chat room. They are very very different beasts.
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I guess I'd hate to have 1000's of emails go in and out of my box each day, to me, that is far more frantic than using IM.
In a given conversation I might send 50+ messages. That would be 50+ emails for a single conversation! That's getting out of hand. There is a level of interactivity and connectivity that exists with IM that is simply not there with email. To me, there is a huge difference between millisecond delays between short messages, and second delays between long ones.
In fact, it seems to me that it would be much harder to follow a conversation if I had to reopen "old" emails from 30 mins back in the conversation than to simply use the mouse wheel to scroll up to the message. Add that to the excellent logging features of Trillian and IM is simply more versatile than email.
Now here is my big beef. AIM doesn't allow you to leave messages with offline contacts (like ICQ/Yahoo do). To me, that is the one benefit of email. You can send information to offline users that they recieve when they log back on. Which always made me wonder why so many people chose AIM over ICQ/Yahoo when it simply is an inferior application run by an inferior ISP. =)
But thats another flame war entirely
I guess when you have a conversation with people you speak in lengthy thought out paragraphs eh? IM is much closer to actual conversation than email. Email is just as the name suggests, electronic mail. You wouldn't want to have a conversation through snail mail either. IM allows for interjection and quick response, email does not.
Depends on what you consider cheating as well.
... well ... to me thats almost cheating. ;p
... I dare someone to try. IF these are used in the field, its from a secure location, far far away from the field, and the shooter is VERY stationary, as you really can't aim one steadily like you can in CS.
... ban awp, hehe.
Personally, players who run around with the awp by aiming with the desert eagle, switching over to their awp in air while strafing and turning in a 360 and magically head shotting 3 people on the way down
CS put a lot of time into realism (gun info, kickback, accuracy of guns, taking damage, etc etc) but then they let pople run full speed while holding an awp which is a heavy ass gun that you can't rung around and use
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LOL. You better watch out. If Armstrong is reading this he might be trying to hunt you down as we speak. We all know what happened the last time someone questioned him about actually being on the moon. =) And personally, good for him, I'd beat that reporteres ass too!
What some people are missing is how much profit could be generated from a trip to mars. We go there, discover a bunch of stuff, NASA finds way to colonize mars, earth runs out of natural resources, who saves the day and is ultimately in the place of power? The USA. That is the long term investment to space exploration. The US has been in debt forever and a day, and the problem is that due to the structure of our government and the laziness of our people, who are never satisfied with the amount of government spending they get, we will NEVER lower the debt at this rate.
... and retarded.
We have the republicans who constantly lower taxes on the national level (bush) while at the same time liberally controlled states are creating millions more in costs which is why many states, like Arizona where I live for example, are completely out of money. It's a messed up system, and frankly, we need to cut costs to retarded programs that do more harm than good AND increase taxes. In short, Republicans and Democrats are both wrong
No, after trying to rationally argue with him about Affirmative action below, I've realized he's one of those half breed trolls that you should never try to feed. Better to leave him alone and let him rot away.