It probably had a magnetic field in the long distant past. I am no geologist, but assume many of the same elements are on Mars as Earth; however Earth is much denser. Olympus Mons is about 14 miles high. Something was hot liquid billions of years ago, and if there were metallic ores, would have generated a magnetic field for at least a little while.
Being in print for 25 years means it's got most single-platform computer magazines beat. The Chicago Cubs have been around since circa 1876, and last won a world series in 1908.... guess that makes them the single best baseball team ever.
PC World started in 83, Byte in the mid 70s, CGW in 81, and countless others on this list, let alone those local published underground ones for BBS's
Well said! I pretty much stopped playing them after VII. VIII didn't play for more than an hour either, and then watched my brother with IX periodically. Have found myself playing the NES original as well as the SNES 2, 3/6 over on the emulator though again. VII deserved a true sequel, or could have ended on the first CD and continued from there. Not some CGI movie sequel or some off shoot Vincent game.
What "precedence" did WoW set for MMO's except make getting to max level easy, and raid content an almost given win even if a few people couldn't play their way out of a tin can?
EQ, UO set precedences, WoW dumbed things down, but has better graphics and youtube rage videos.
Excessive users consume so much data that their data usage could negatively impact the service for other customers. In order to clarify excessive use, Comcast established a 250 GB monthly data usage cap for residential Comcast Internet access accounts. Based on its analysis of customer data usage, Comcast determined that more than 99% of their residential customers would not be impacted by this Usage Cap.
So 99% of customers are penalized without knowing it, however most won't come near this cap. But what about customers who play online games left and right, watch youtube, have shit like Steam constantly downloading updates for their games (if they don't turn that off). Staying in the gaming realm for a second, when Steam did the first CoD:MW2 free weekend, it was a cluster fuck of preloading, then having to re-download again. Compared to 250gb, the reloads would be a small % but some people on the Steam/Valve forums did complain about Comcast caps on trying to reload the game again,
EarthLink initiated the 250 GB monthly Usage Cap on July 1, 2010.
Guess they have Dr. Emmett Brown in a DeLorean.
The customer service representative on this telephone call will (i) tell you how much data per month the account has used, (ii) help you identify the source of excessive use, (iii) explain ways to moderate and reduce your data usage
I also didn't bother to buy it because of non dedicated servers. My view won't change either, there are other games to play, even though I really did want to play it.
Hasn't this been the trend for the past 10 years? I live in NJ, and had been working in NYC before the stimulus kicked in... However even before taking the train each morning, I would access the local newspaper in my area online for free, read what I wanted to, and then drive over to the train station. I would buy myself a NY Daily News, mostly for the sports section and that was that. During a few quick breaks in the office, going over to the web sites of the same publications, I wouldn't need an evening edition to read.
Almost without RSS feeds, I wouldnt need to click on/. , dailytech, or others. So isn't RSS kinda doing the same thing?
Thanks didnt know there was a mod for that. I'll check it out.... hoping its similar where you were all of a sudden smack in a camp of smugglers, or a bunch of mole rats etc....
True it was sci-fi nerd stuff, but was entertaining too. The most you got out of anyone you talked to in Fallout 3 was an over abundance of F bombs. Granted I like seeing cursing in games and all, but it was way over done.
Also little side things were missing such as being a boxer, joining the various mafia crews in New Reno (or whatever city it was I cant think off the top of my head). Banging not only the one guy's wife but his daughter and if caught had the shotgun wedding.
Sure in 3 you could join the vampires, smugglers etc, but at a cost. Like I said I think after 10 years part 3 was enjoyable, outside of my issues of lock ups before using nHancer to help (and I run a rather high end rig). Alaska was fun too, and I will be checking out Pitt soon.
I guess what it comes down to is I miss the older games. Whether it is the 2 Fallouts, or even Lucasart's adventure games such as Grim Fandango, Full Throttle, etc, and even the old Tex Murphy games.
I totally agree, although I sort of liked Fallout 3 , I still felt like I was playing Oblivion or FPS games. The quests were ok for the most part, but lacked the obscure humor that made Fallout and F2 so much fun.
Also the original two seemed more like being in a bleak unforgiving world, Fallout 3 didnt give me that at all. You sometimes could run around for 5+ minutes and not encounter an enemy. At least the travel menu in the originals you would encounter enemies. The companions did not impress me.... I hope with some of the original team, they can make a modernized game which pays homage to the originals much better this time around.
I had played EQ a long time before skipping off that train for Dark Age of Camelot since I loved the Realm vs. Realm for a time. When WoW came out, I bought it, and it was fun, however eventhough the graphics were awesome, I didnt like the cartoonish look of the toons. That alone didnt turn me off, the fact it was rather easy to race to 60, and when questing people wanted to do green quests more than trying for the red quests for a challenge.
I went back to EQ 2 years ago when they opened the progression server and outdated graphics aside I don't know how I ever left, gameplay and challenges still meet my needs there.
But to be more on point, theres always room for a new comer, if they fail, they fail. How many have come and gone already? Many.
"Egghead was hurt by a December of 2000 revelation that hackers had accessed its systems and potentially compromised customer credit card data. The company filed for bankruptcy in August of 2001. After a deal to sell the company to Fry's Electronics for $10 million fell through, its assets were acquired by Amazon.com for $6.1 million."
Ok sure its unethical, but what is this knockoff being sold as? What is its name, and ffs, anyone with half a brain knows the Wii is a bigger box, and the wiimote is just the damn controller. I have no sympathy for people who are willing to spend 250-600 bux on one of these new consoles and think they are getting a full functioning Wii in a screen on a lookalike wiimote for whatever price and then are pissed to find out its not a Wii. Morons, and the Wal-Mart employees are equally dumb but it isnt their fault they are there to push the Mart's agenda like Best Buy employees have to force Monster Cables on you.
It doesnt cost me $2500 every year. It's called staggered upgrading. Ram is dirt cheap for 2gigs (newegg.com)... A processor every year or so not a bad investment or high priced AMD which doesnt have to be the highest end either mind you. A graphics card, I usually upgrade maybe once a year if that. I was running my 7800gtx just fine and that card still would run Unreal Tourny 3 great, however I did upgrade to 8800gts just recently which that component is always the most expensive.
Bottom line, who buys $2500+ comp every year when one doesn't need it for high end gaming unless you have money to piss away then thats fine.
It still is a better investment over a console which the life cycle is limited.
The one thing about Dark Age of Camelot that kept me playing for a few years was RvR.... Sure I would level up in PvE areas, and sometimes use the Battlegrounds. But the adrenaline rush of being in the RvR areas even to xp off npc mobs was fun since you didnt know you were being hunted until too late. You would know the risks, and if you didnt like it, you didnt need to go into those areas and then could stay in the PvE zones. Had a little bit of everything for everyone. The sieges were especially fun as well.
Agreed, I too have a "disposable" income, but I am waiting out the HD/BR wars and dont even know where to begin with what HD TV I would want to buy.... Plasma/LCD, different resolution modes... ffs, I like selection but I'll just wait. Its not like I am missing out anyway, since I really don't care as long as my PC is a nifty gaming rig.
Rapid development happens all the time.... it puts QA in a crunch along with development. How about someone do a study on the other browsers, im sure the stats are the similar or higher. Of course more time helps, no one doubts that. At least this isnt EA Games with their retail releases are full of holes... this application is free you can choose not to use it.
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It probably had a magnetic field in the long distant past. I am no geologist, but assume many of the same elements are on Mars as Earth; however Earth is much denser. Olympus Mons is about 14 miles high. Something was hot liquid billions of years ago, and if there were metallic ores, would have generated a magnetic field for at least a little while.
wtf is twatter anyway?
Being in print for 25 years means it's got most single-platform computer magazines beat.
The Chicago Cubs have been around since circa 1876, and last won a world series in 1908.... guess that makes them the single best baseball team ever.
PC World started in 83, Byte in the mid 70s, CGW in 81, and countless others on this list, let alone those local published underground ones for BBS's
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_magazine
Total Recall time!
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/total_recall_skeleton-scanner.jpg
Well said! I pretty much stopped playing them after VII. VIII didn't play for more than an hour either, and then watched my brother with IX periodically. Have found myself playing the NES original as well as the SNES 2, 3/6 over on the emulator though again. VII deserved a true sequel, or could have ended on the first CD and continued from there. Not some CGI movie sequel or some off shoot Vincent game.
What "precedence" did WoW set for MMO's except make getting to max level easy, and raid content an almost given win even if a few people couldn't play their way out of a tin can?
EQ, UO set precedences, WoW dumbed things down, but has better graphics and youtube rage videos.
From Eathlink's own site:
http://support.earthlink.net/articles/cable/earthlink-powered-by-comcast-usage-cap.php
Excessive users consume so much data that their data usage could negatively impact the service for other customers. In order to clarify excessive use, Comcast established a 250 GB monthly data usage cap for residential Comcast Internet access accounts. Based on its analysis of customer data usage, Comcast determined that more than 99% of their residential customers would not be impacted by this Usage Cap.
So 99% of customers are penalized without knowing it, however most won't come near this cap. But what about customers who play online games left and right, watch youtube, have shit like Steam constantly downloading updates for their games (if they don't turn that off). Staying in the gaming realm for a second, when Steam did the first CoD:MW2 free weekend, it was a cluster fuck of preloading, then having to re-download again. Compared to 250gb, the reloads would be a small % but some people on the Steam/Valve forums did complain about Comcast caps on trying to reload the game again,
EarthLink initiated the 250 GB monthly Usage Cap on July 1, 2010.
Guess they have Dr. Emmett Brown in a DeLorean.
The customer service representative on this telephone call will (i) tell you how much data per month the account has used, (ii) help you identify the source of excessive use, (iii) explain ways to moderate and reduce your data usage
No more 2girls1cup replays!
it isn't efficient.
I also didn't bother to buy it because of non dedicated servers. My view won't change either, there are other games to play, even though I really did want to play it.
Exactly.....
Hasn't this been the trend for the past 10 years? I live in NJ, and had been working in NYC before the stimulus kicked in... However even before taking the train each morning, I would access the local newspaper in my area online for free, read what I wanted to, and then drive over to the train station. I would buy myself a NY Daily News, mostly for the sports section and that was that. During a few quick breaks in the office, going over to the web sites of the same publications, I wouldn't need an evening edition to read.
Almost without RSS feeds, I wouldnt need to click on /. , dailytech, or others. So isn't RSS kinda doing the same thing?
Just make sure my wife's on board.
Put my PoS ex on that ship along with her family, leave my daughter behind....
Thanks didnt know there was a mod for that. I'll check it out.... hoping its similar where you were all of a sudden smack in a camp of smugglers, or a bunch of mole rats etc....
True it was sci-fi nerd stuff, but was entertaining too. The most you got out of anyone you talked to in Fallout 3 was an over abundance of F bombs. Granted I like seeing cursing in games and all, but it was way over done.
Also little side things were missing such as being a boxer, joining the various mafia crews in New Reno (or whatever city it was I cant think off the top of my head). Banging not only the one guy's wife but his daughter and if caught had the shotgun wedding.
Sure in 3 you could join the vampires, smugglers etc, but at a cost. Like I said I think after 10 years part 3 was enjoyable, outside of my issues of lock ups before using nHancer to help (and I run a rather high end rig). Alaska was fun too, and I will be checking out Pitt soon.
I guess what it comes down to is I miss the older games. Whether it is the 2 Fallouts, or even Lucasart's adventure games such as Grim Fandango, Full Throttle, etc, and even the old Tex Murphy games.
I totally agree, although I sort of liked Fallout 3 , I still felt like I was playing Oblivion or FPS games. The quests were ok for the most part, but lacked the obscure humor that made Fallout and F2 so much fun.
Also the original two seemed more like being in a bleak unforgiving world, Fallout 3 didnt give me that at all. You sometimes could run around for 5+ minutes and not encounter an enemy. At least the travel menu in the originals you would encounter enemies. The companions did not impress me.... I hope with some of the original team, they can make a modernized game which pays homage to the originals much better this time around.
I had played EQ a long time before skipping off that train for Dark Age of Camelot since I loved the Realm vs. Realm for a time. When WoW came out, I bought it, and it was fun, however eventhough the graphics were awesome, I didnt like the cartoonish look of the toons. That alone didnt turn me off, the fact it was rather easy to race to 60, and when questing people wanted to do green quests more than trying for the red quests for a challenge.
I went back to EQ 2 years ago when they opened the progression server and outdated graphics aside I don't know how I ever left, gameplay and challenges still meet my needs there.
But to be more on point, theres always room for a new comer, if they fail, they fail. How many have come and gone already? Many.
You are correct:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egghead_Software
"Egghead was hurt by a December of 2000 revelation that hackers had accessed its systems and potentially compromised customer credit card data. The company filed for bankruptcy in August of 2001. After a deal to sell the company to Fry's Electronics for $10 million fell through, its assets were acquired by Amazon.com for $6.1 million."
Exactly! Anyone who is dumb enough to use Youtube as their medical journal should receive whatever they reap or contract.
I agree, Psychonauts level design is amazing and very well planned out for the storyline at the time you are in them.
Ok sure its unethical, but what is this knockoff being sold as? What is its name, and ffs, anyone with half a brain knows the Wii is a bigger box, and the wiimote is just the damn controller. I have no sympathy for people who are willing to spend 250-600 bux on one of these new consoles and think they are getting a full functioning Wii in a screen on a lookalike wiimote for whatever price and then are pissed to find out its not a Wii. Morons, and the Wal-Mart employees are equally dumb but it isnt their fault they are there to push the Mart's agenda like Best Buy employees have to force Monster Cables on you.
It doesnt cost me $2500 every year. It's called staggered upgrading. Ram is dirt cheap for 2gigs (newegg.com)... A processor every year or so not a bad investment or high priced AMD which doesnt have to be the highest end either mind you. A graphics card, I usually upgrade maybe once a year if that. I was running my 7800gtx just fine and that card still would run Unreal Tourny 3 great, however I did upgrade to 8800gts just recently which that component is always the most expensive.
Bottom line, who buys $2500+ comp every year when one doesn't need it for high end gaming unless you have money to piss away then thats fine.
It still is a better investment over a console which the life cycle is limited.
"When 900 years you reach, look this good you will not!" - Yoda
The one thing about Dark Age of Camelot that kept me playing for a few years was RvR.... Sure I would level up in PvE areas, and sometimes use the Battlegrounds. But the adrenaline rush of being in the RvR areas even to xp off npc mobs was fun since you didnt know you were being hunted until too late. You would know the risks, and if you didnt like it, you didnt need to go into those areas and then could stay in the PvE zones. Had a little bit of everything for everyone. The sieges were especially fun as well.
Agreed, I too have a "disposable" income, but I am waiting out the HD/BR wars and dont even know where to begin with what HD TV I would want to buy.... Plasma/LCD, different resolution modes... ffs, I like selection but I'll just wait. Its not like I am missing out anyway, since I really don't care as long as my PC is a nifty gaming rig.
Im all for it! Eventhough the pricing isnt bad to begin with!
Rapid development happens all the time.... it puts QA in a crunch along with development. How about someone do a study on the other browsers, im sure the stats are the similar or higher. Of course more time helps, no one doubts that. At least this isnt EA Games with their retail releases are full of holes... this application is free you can choose not to use it.