For those interested in seeing the list... There are some good, some bad, some awful. Personal fav was Elite Force - not much of a ST game though other than being in the ST universe. Klingon Acadamy was worth the FMV alone.
I figured someone might miss my point if I didn't quote more completely, but they actually said that BECAUSE of not using GSM, you can't get good coverage in the US.
U.S. cell phones sputter and fail in an apartment near the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, a U.S. agency created to set consistent standards, and in ranch houses in the Los Angeles suburbs. A land line is a necessity...
Europeans can skip fixed lines altogether. Why bother? A GSM works nearly everywhere..."
This has absolutly nothing to do with GSM versus other networks but with network coverages.
Americans have made voicemail a way of life, where it often replaces the busy signal. A conversation can be supplanted by voice mail exchanges. Europeans often skip voicemail, although they have sophisticated versions. Their mobiles automatically send a note saying "1 missed call," and tell them who called. People call back even without a message.
Funny, I've had a cell phone in the US going back to 1997 and this feature was on the first one I owned with AT&T. It was also on the second and third one I owned with Sprint, and the fourth one I owned with T-Mobile.
--Americans traditionally have paid to receive mobile phone calls and tend to be less free about giving out cell phone numbers.
This has less to do with the regulatory environment than with call screening and the consideration that if you are calling me on business, I'd rather you talk to my receptionist first.
Overall, this article featured a few stats that could have barely populated the bottom right graphic of the USA Today Money section and stretched it out into a three page article. Fluff journalism strikes again.
Your sig suggests that I could find more reality in a Lewis Carrol novel than in your worldview, but I'll bite anyway.
The problem with your description is that it will inevitably lead to false positives - someone who spends a lot of time getting gold and trading it to other players. It would also miss a lot of folks - the result of making tasks more difficult is that they simply challenge the macro writers even more. Known a good deal about what in-game macros are capable of - I can assure you that it will make it harder for lesser programmers to access them - at first - and enhance the profits of the skilled programmers - at least until the script kiddies get ahold of the code and they inevitably will.
The solution is to ensure that in-game activities require a human brain to engage in them. It may be as simple as having to interpret text in a very complicated image file (like when you create a new account on certain gaming forums).
Dude, I don't even understand why he owns a Mac at all. Mind you, this is sitting right next to his new G5 thingy (whatever it is - it's like the whole computer is in the flat screen monitor and it's a pretty white color.)
The press - "Not going into the night" - is based on statements of Nokia marketers. This is not a valid base to believe that N-Gage will be with us much longer. Investments in new titles/developers would be - but just statements? I don't buy it.
To suggest MS needs to get out of the gaming market is lunacy - they - yes, MS Game Studios, have an impressive catalog that they not only published but developed. Probably my favorite game (that never made it) - Allegiance - was done by them.
No, he was never making 30 mil. He actually lost 30 mil + a 35 mil warship + a few mill on a trading vessel. And that's what set him on this course.
He said it would take him 30 minutes to earn 500,000.
Besides, this was an incredibly good piece of writing. It's not journalism - it's short fiction that is better than 95% of what you read in the years best Sci Fi anthologies. It was EXCELLENT. Some of the lines in there are ones I will remember forever - "They came like the Persions into thermopylea."
This thing is really nothing more than a re-packaged series 60 phone. While the Series 60 phone (based on Symbiam OS) is excellent, and I intend to replace my Nokia 3650 with another series 60 phone, to make a good gaming deck/cell phone combo, they need to completely repackage it as a portable gaming tool and then slip a phone in there- not the other way around.
Or at least bring back the original model's bestfeature.
The other series weren't canceled anymore than Sex in the City or Seinfeld were "canceled." The natural and expected run of a ST series is 7 seasons. When they were recruiting actors for ENT, they specifically said they needed them around for seven seasons.
Why isn't Sony or Nintendo going after these guys? Or are they and did they get out-bid?
Note that these are individuals that were lured or companies that were wholly the support staff of an individual.
Also, it isn't clear what is meant by 'aligned' or 'teamed up.' Are they now on staff of MS Games? Are they agreeing to exclusive titles? Or are they just agreeing that anything they make will come out on Xbox along with PS2/3/Nintendo R?
The only thing to conclude from this is that MS is serious about knocking down the paper door to the Japanese market.
There has to be some constituency for it out there that is disconnected from the reast of the gaming public. Game reviewers tastes match mine - and while it has a decent rating, it ain't so high and certainly not worthy of nomination for best much less best.
There was rocketry development going on previous to the founding of the VfR by America, Russia, Austria and Briton. While Braun and his colleagues work may have made breakthroughs that were useful to space programs, so did others in the field.
MS games ditched this and it was widely assumed because they wanted to lure EA into XBL. EA had probably watched as MS vigorously promoted it's own sports games over Segas for XBL in the last season or two and did not want to be at a disadvantage.
So what happened to the people working on the sub-par but not 989 bad games for MS? Will this mean that Ubi may re-hire some of them?
And is this even a good investment considering the recent move by some leagues to go exclusively with one developer (specifically EA using this to kill a superior title at 40% of the cost in SegaSports/Visual Concepts's ESPN NFL 2k5)?
Sounds like you are one of those dirty hippies. Demand like that is more reason to INCREASE the price.
So maybe get a job that pays more than what you make serving coffee at Starbucks (4 years of college for that!) and you might be able to afford the extra $3. And take a bath.
If you complete the referral for me in my link, I'll reciprocate. I got the Xbox and the Ipod free - it really does work and it comes pretty quickly (hardly the 4-6 weeks).
You can email me at mattatbraynarddotcom. Good luck.
If you complete the referral for me in my link, I'll reciprocate. I got the Xbox and the Ipod free - it really does work and it comes pretty quickly (hardly the 4-6 weeks).
You can email me at mattatbraynarddotcom. Good luck.
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I figured someone might miss my point if I didn't quote more completely, but they actually said that BECAUSE of not using GSM, you can't get good coverage in the US.
This has absolutly nothing to do with GSM versus other networks but with network coverages.
Americans have made voicemail a way of life, where it often replaces the busy signal. A conversation can be supplanted by voice mail exchanges. Europeans often skip voicemail, although they have sophisticated versions. Their mobiles automatically send a note saying "1 missed call," and tell them who called. People call back even without a message.
Funny, I've had a cell phone in the US going back to 1997 and this feature was on the first one I owned with AT&T. It was also on the second and third one I owned with Sprint, and the fourth one I owned with T-Mobile.
--Americans traditionally have paid to receive mobile phone calls and tend to be less free about giving out cell phone numbers.
This has less to do with the regulatory environment than with call screening and the consideration that if you are calling me on business, I'd rather you talk to my receptionist first.
Overall, this article featured a few stats that could have barely populated the bottom right graphic of the USA Today Money section and stretched it out into a three page article. Fluff journalism strikes again.
The problem with your description is that it will inevitably lead to false positives - someone who spends a lot of time getting gold and trading it to other players. It would also miss a lot of folks - the result of making tasks more difficult is that they simply challenge the macro writers even more. Known a good deal about what in-game macros are capable of - I can assure you that it will make it harder for lesser programmers to access them - at first - and enhance the profits of the skilled programmers - at least until the script kiddies get ahold of the code and they inevitably will.
The solution is to ensure that in-game activities require a human brain to engage in them. It may be as simple as having to interpret text in a very complicated image file (like when you create a new account on certain gaming forums).
Dude, I don't even understand why he owns a Mac at all. Mind you, this is sitting right next to his new G5 thingy (whatever it is - it's like the whole computer is in the flat screen monitor and it's a pretty white color.)
My flatmates powerbook blew out the harddrive. In order to do it on the cheap and still make the machine useful, he is running OSX from his Ipod.
The press - "Not going into the night" - is based on statements of Nokia marketers. This is not a valid base to believe that N-Gage will be with us much longer. Investments in new titles/developers would be - but just statements? I don't buy it.
To suggest MS needs to get out of the gaming market is lunacy - they - yes, MS Game Studios, have an impressive catalog that they not only published but developed. Probably my favorite game (that never made it) - Allegiance - was done by them.
I guess the Lunatic fringe is in a tizzy - either your ATM is a Diebold machine or runs Windows.
Remembering != spelling.
He said it would take him 30 minutes to earn 500,000.
Besides, this was an incredibly good piece of writing. It's not journalism - it's short fiction that is better than 95% of what you read in the years best Sci Fi anthologies. It was EXCELLENT. Some of the lines in there are ones I will remember forever - "They came like the Persions into thermopylea."
Oh... so that was the shortcut through the North Atlantic.
So he spends his Xmas holiday playing Second Life? The title kind of predicates that you had a first life to begin with.
What you are talking about here is, basically, TV on demand. It is coming and in some markets it is already here.
Or at least bring back the original model's best feature.
The other series weren't canceled anymore than Sex in the City or Seinfeld were "canceled." The natural and expected run of a ST series is 7 seasons. When they were recruiting actors for ENT, they specifically said they needed them around for seven seasons.
Note that these are individuals that were lured or companies that were wholly the support staff of an individual.
Also, it isn't clear what is meant by 'aligned' or 'teamed up.' Are they now on staff of MS Games? Are they agreeing to exclusive titles? Or are they just agreeing that anything they make will come out on Xbox along with PS2/3/Nintendo R?
The only thing to conclude from this is that MS is serious about knocking down the paper door to the Japanese market.
However, sometimes these tastes do diverge - I LOVED MTG: Battlegrounds.
There was rocketry development going on previous to the founding of the VfR by America, Russia, Austria and Briton. While Braun and his colleagues work may have made breakthroughs that were useful to space programs, so did others in the field.
So I suppose you'd like to see a Swatstika (however it is spelt) on the UFP logo?
I totally do not get your signature. Can you please explain it?
So what happened to the people working on the sub-par but not 989 bad games for MS? Will this mean that Ubi may re-hire some of them?
And is this even a good investment considering the recent move by some leagues to go exclusively with one developer (specifically EA using this to kill a superior title at 40% of the cost in SegaSports/Visual Concepts's ESPN NFL 2k5)?
So maybe get a job that pays more than what you make serving coffee at Starbucks (4 years of college for that!) and you might be able to afford the extra $3. And take a bath.
If you complete the referral for me in my link, I'll reciprocate. I got the Xbox and the Ipod free - it really does work and it comes pretty quickly (hardly the 4-6 weeks).
You can email me at mattatbraynarddotcom. Good luck.
Matt
If you complete the referral for me in my link, I'll reciprocate. I got the Xbox and the Ipod free - it really does work and it comes pretty quickly (hardly the 4-6 weeks).
You can email me at mattatbraynarddotcom. Good luck.
Matt