I bought two 7800GTX video cards five years ago for the same price as two GTX480s will cost. Mass Effect 2 still runs fine on them at high settings. (Though the loading screens murder my single-core.)
Spending $1000 back then was way better than spending $200 on a brand new video card every year. If I did that, I'd only have a GTX260 right now... Wait a second.
PS3 Slim
- Only two USB ports. I guess you'll need to pick up a USB splitter if you want to play Rock Band.
- Still can't stack it. I guess you probably shouldn't anyway, but it's required for some setups. I've seen more than one PS3 perched atop a 360.
- I never owned a PS2 of my own, so I'm one of the people who really miss the full, hardware backward compatibility.
Price Cut
- The price cut has made me reconsider buying a PS3. It was always too expensive for me to justify considering how few quality exclusives it had. At least one of those issues has been resolved.
- Why do the hard drives keep getting bigger? Some models had only 20 GB to begin with. It seems that anything less than 120 GB models will be discontinued soon.
Home Improvement
-...
- Well, at least Trophies are viewable by your friends through your profile now. Yay Sony.
The roping community from Worms: Armageddon and World Party abuse the ninja rope in ways the developers certainly never anticipated. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQeNMD95lrE
I was going to make some sort of comment about their data gatherers systematically mistaking stylized Japanese as white people (eg. Naruto isn't white.), but then I saw the bar graph on page 12.
Black people in games: 10.74%
Black people in US census: 12.3%
Wait... A 1.6% difference? Am I the only one who finds this to be surprisingly representative? I was expecting a much more embarassing number.
Such as the number of hispanics. X-(
The caffeine levels in Coke or Pepsi are very low compared to coffee; approximately 10%.
Canada Health recommends no more than 400 mg of caffeine a day. To exceed this, you'd have to drink 12 L of Coke. On the other hand, only two extra large Double Doubles will bring you to that limit.
18% of all Canadian aged 31 through 50 exceed this limit, and it's not from drinking cola. The typical Canadian coffee drinker aged 31 through 50 averages over 600 mg a day.[1]
To be clear, the article is not just talking about blisters. It's Recurrent Palmoplantar Hidradenitis, but on the hands from video games rather than across the body from physical activity. Who would have guessed that playing too many video games could give a child a skin condition traditionally linked to physical activity?:)
A swab of my laptop tested positive for nitrogen on my way back from the Dominican Republic. This delayed the flight for 20 minutes as they reportedly poked and prodded it inside a blast container. Incidentally, they never asked about the TrueCrypt partition.
If you run the same test on roller coaster passengers, I suspect that many might show a similar response at the end of the ride. At that point, you might reflect on your total experience. If you had a good time, you might smile desire to go again. If you're disappointed, your face might sag into a "What? That's it?" expression.
When I played Counter-Strike, I'd be very pleased upon my death if I managed to take down more than two opponents per round. Death is just the end of the ride and getting upset by it every time seems rather childish to me.
I can understand the disappointment from a poor death, though. Fsking AWPs. ^_^
Would it have been too expensive to print unique IDs on every card? Card copying is only an issue for online play, after all. Make the UID a hash that gets sent back to the servers, then you could have stopped all casual piracy.
To further reduce the problem, simply track hash failures and duplicate UIDs, then wait a bit for the cheaters to get confident before banning all rampant cheaters for a month, sending angry messages to all moderate cheaters and deleting all offending cards from the database.
Combined technical hurdles and fear tactics would wipe out practically all significant cheating, leaving only the soldering gun / hex editor crowd who you're not going to stop anyway. For them, as TFA says, there's only so far a hacked deck can take you.
I want to get an arcade stick for this game. I have troubles tapping in the right direction for the smash attacks on thumbsticks because of my useless PC gamer thumbs. I see there is one coming out for the Wii this November. A GameCube stick might be better, but they seem hard to find.
Oh, yeah, let me imagine that... given this concrete example.:)
"Sharingan no hontou no chikara ga...kono Uchiha Madara no chikara ga."
Assuming you have a RAW of suitable quality for the machine to accurately read the furigana, the babelfish-esque translation for this would be:
"True power of copying wheel eye... among these the power of variegation."
Yeah... Anyway, there are literally pages of discussion on Wikipedia regarding this line because some human beings accidentally mistranslated this for the speed scanlations. For the record, the best translation I've seen is:
"The Sharingan's true power. My, Uchiha Madara's power."
Referring to himself in third-person sounds much less awkward in the original Japanese.
When I struggle with the 80 character limit, it's due to whitespace. When you have a method in a sub-class creating anonymous objects with methods containing loops and exception handling... That's an entirely reasonable seven tabulations under typical styles of coding. At 4 spaces per tab, you've already consumed 35% of your space.
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I bought two 7800GTX video cards five years ago for the same price as two GTX480s will cost. Mass Effect 2 still runs fine on them at high settings. (Though the loading screens murder my single-core.)
Spending $1000 back then was way better than spending $200 on a brand new video card every year. If I did that, I'd only have a GTX260 right now... Wait a second.
PS3 Slim - Only two USB ports. I guess you'll need to pick up a USB splitter if you want to play Rock Band. - Still can't stack it. I guess you probably shouldn't anyway, but it's required for some setups. I've seen more than one PS3 perched atop a 360. - I never owned a PS2 of my own, so I'm one of the people who really miss the full, hardware backward compatibility. Price Cut - The price cut has made me reconsider buying a PS3. It was always too expensive for me to justify considering how few quality exclusives it had. At least one of those issues has been resolved. - Why do the hard drives keep getting bigger? Some models had only 20 GB to begin with. It seems that anything less than 120 GB models will be discontinued soon. Home Improvement - ...
- Well, at least Trophies are viewable by your friends through your profile now. Yay Sony.
The roping community from Worms: Armageddon and World Party abuse the ninja rope in ways the developers certainly never anticipated.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQeNMD95lrE
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/msg xOaPxJacky wiptistean
PACK: !Piles, AFR, CBA, KTC
gl+hf
I was going to make some sort of comment about their data gatherers systematically mistaking stylized Japanese as white people (eg. Naruto isn't white.), but then I saw the bar graph on page 12. Black people in games: 10.74% Black people in US census: 12.3% Wait... A 1.6% difference? Am I the only one who finds this to be surprisingly representative? I was expecting a much more embarassing number. Such as the number of hispanics. X-(
QWERTY was developed in 1874 for use with mechanical typewriters.
Next time you're near Megaton, fly up to the inaccessible catwalk over the gate to see what the guard has to say.
The caffeine levels in Coke or Pepsi are very low compared to coffee; approximately 10%.
Canada Health recommends no more than 400 mg of caffeine a day. To exceed this, you'd have to drink 12 L of Coke. On the other hand, only two extra large Double Doubles will bring you to that limit.
18% of all Canadian aged 31 through 50 exceed this limit, and it's not from drinking cola. The typical Canadian coffee drinker aged 31 through 50 averages over 600 mg a day.[1]
My hardcovers were significantly out of date within a month of 4e's release due to Errata and possess surprisingly poor TOCs, glossaries.
The pirated OEFs I downloaded have been edited to transparently account for the most recent Errata and allow full text searching. I'll miss them.
(Or at least I would if my group hadn't since switched to Pathfinder.)
To be clear, the article is not just talking about blisters. It's Recurrent Palmoplantar Hidradenitis, but on the hands from video games rather than across the body from physical activity. Who would have guessed that playing too many video games could give a child a skin condition traditionally linked to physical activity? :)
Did ticket prices drop with the introduction of in-theater ads?
Would you mock someone for playing Tomb Raider in lieu of earning a doctorate in archeology and physically raiding lost tombs themselves?
A swab of my laptop tested positive for nitrogen on my way back from the Dominican Republic. This delayed the flight for 20 minutes as they reportedly poked and prodded it inside a blast container. Incidentally, they never asked about the TrueCrypt partition.
If you run the same test on roller coaster passengers, I suspect that many might show a similar response at the end of the ride. At that point, you might reflect on your total experience. If you had a good time, you might smile desire to go again. If you're disappointed, your face might sag into a "What? That's it?" expression.
When I played Counter-Strike, I'd be very pleased upon my death if I managed to take down more than two opponents per round. Death is just the end of the ride and getting upset by it every time seems rather childish to me.
I can understand the disappointment from a poor death, though. Fsking AWPs. ^_^
Actiblizz! Like Squeenix, it'll likely be unofficial, but it'll be cute and fit nicely into a headline.
If only there was a way for Firefox users to be automatically notified of new patches.
Would it have been too expensive to print unique IDs on every card? Card copying is only an issue for online play, after all. Make the UID a hash that gets sent back to the servers, then you could have stopped all casual piracy.
To further reduce the problem, simply track hash failures and duplicate UIDs, then wait a bit for the cheaters to get confident before banning all rampant cheaters for a month, sending angry messages to all moderate cheaters and deleting all offending cards from the database.
Combined technical hurdles and fear tactics would wipe out practically all significant cheating, leaving only the soldering gun / hex editor crowd who you're not going to stop anyway. For them, as TFA says, there's only so far a hacked deck can take you.
I want to get an arcade stick for this game. I have troubles tapping in the right direction for the smash attacks on thumbsticks because of my useless PC gamer thumbs. I see there is one coming out for the Wii this November. A GameCube stick might be better, but they seem hard to find.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=o0kWgcIlWn0
Oh, yeah, let me imagine that... given this concrete example. :)
"Sharingan no hontou no chikara ga...kono Uchiha Madara no chikara ga."
Assuming you have a RAW of suitable quality for the machine to accurately read the furigana, the babelfish-esque translation for this would be:
"True power of copying wheel eye... among these the power of variegation."
Yeah... Anyway, there are literally pages of discussion on Wikipedia regarding this line because some human beings accidentally mistranslated this for the speed scanlations. For the record, the best translation I've seen is:
"The Sharingan's true power. My, Uchiha Madara's power."
Referring to himself in third-person sounds much less awkward in the original Japanese.
mitochondria =/= midi-chlorians
When I struggle with the 80 character limit, it's due to whitespace. When you have a method in a sub-class creating anonymous objects with methods containing loops and exception handling... That's an entirely reasonable seven tabulations under typical styles of coding. At 4 spaces per tab, you've already consumed 35% of your space.
Saitek FTW.
Around 9.5 million Xbox 360s have been sold, and around 6.2 million Wiis.
According to TFA, Nintendo is only selling 60 thousand monthly compared to Microsoft. At this rate, it will take 55 months to close the gap.
There's no confirmation from other sources, but we know this much:
Sony: FFXIII PS3 exclusivity under discussion