What is everyone's opinion about aftermarket hardware that allows a user to use keyboard/mouse in their console FPS online? Is it fair? Does it unbalance gameplay? Should it be allowed by XBOX Live? (Assuming it could be detected.) A buddy and I were just debating this. I am against them. Opinions?
(Yah when I posted there were no comments. After I posted there was a slew and I saw yours stating basically the same thing.)
Basically this is another case of looking at one individually meaningless facet of a situation instead of looking at the whole picture.
I wonder how much of this is due to outsourcing. Get rid of a bunch of the lower-than-average wages from the equation and you will get a perceived increase in average, which could then be misconstrued as a good thing. For example...
30K 40K 50K 60K = average of 45K
Now outsource the jobs of the 30K and 40K guys so they go work at McDs and you have...
50K 60K = average of 55K
Oooh were all making 10K more. WRONG.
Yah I bet a small nature reserve island in the middle of the Pacific has a sweet broadband connection and population to facilitate such a business. Perhaps they are training monkeys to sort your spam. That would explain the price.
register the domain MyEmailAddress-IsCopyrightProtected-DoNotSendMeSpa m.com and provide email addresses. The more people that sign up, the more potential spams to come in and violate the copyright. Therefore the bigger the lawsuit. Step 3: profit.
How about I make my email address...
HaikuIsAnArt.SuchAsThisEmailAddress.DoNotSendMeSpa m@MyDomain.com and therefore they couldn't use my email address without my permission which means they can't email me?
Just get canned from SCO/Enron or the like? Every employer avoiding you like the plague? Why not go work for the Next Big Evil Thing? Surely there are other companies that want a team player like yourself. Perhaps Dr. Evil or Lex Luthor is in need of your unique skills. If all else fails, there's always politics.
A flying car is just a personal aircraft. Commercial aircrafts already have sophisticated auto-pilot systems and diagnostic systems. Personal aircraft would logically have the same. Also, nobody wants aircraft flying over their home all day. Therefore it makes sense that flight paths would also be established. Let's call them "air roads." Would probably make sense to just have these virtual air roads be above existing ground roads. The nice thing about air roads though is that air cars can travel at different altitudes, thus making traffic congestion a nonissue. Add auto-pilot and this should make accidents extremely rare, save for the occasional running into a large bird or an air pedestrian not using a transmitter on his jet pack.
I've owned a gamecube for a little over a year and love it. I've wanted an xbox but could never justify buying a second console. About a month and a half ago my Sony DVD player decided it no longer wanted to play certain DVDs. (POS!) So it was time to buy a new one. Well I could spend $150 on a new player or i could spend that extra $50 and get the xbox (+dvd accessory) that would do the same thing. Sweet. Now I can justify buying an xbox. Since then I've already bought 9 xbox games. Microsoft gets richer.
Man this is disappointing. The Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse game had serious potentional. I'd imagine the game will still get released because it was pretty far along but now I got this feeling they're gonna cut corners to get it out cheaper.:/
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I was expecting this story to link to http://www.spamusement.com/ ... "Poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines!"
Perhaps this is something that new Netscape browser that mashes IE and Firefox together could offer.
What is everyone's opinion about aftermarket hardware that allows a user to use keyboard/mouse in their console FPS online? Is it fair? Does it unbalance gameplay? Should it be allowed by XBOX Live? (Assuming it could be detected.) A buddy and I were just debating this. I am against them. Opinions?
What if they distributed an installer that checks your processor architecture then downloads and installs the appropriate executables?
... as the internet is not a public place but just a glorified hard drive full of porn.
(Yah when I posted there were no comments. After I posted there was a slew and I saw yours stating basically the same thing.) Basically this is another case of looking at one individually meaningless facet of a situation instead of looking at the whole picture.
I wonder how much of this is due to outsourcing. Get rid of a bunch of the lower-than-average wages from the equation and you will get a perceived increase in average, which could then be misconstrued as a good thing. For example... 30K 40K 50K 60K = average of 45K Now outsource the jobs of the 30K and 40K guys so they go work at McDs and you have... 50K 60K = average of 55K Oooh were all making 10K more. WRONG.
Yah I bet a small nature reserve island in the middle of the Pacific has a sweet broadband connection and population to facilitate such a business. Perhaps they are training monkeys to sort your spam. That would explain the price.
register the domain MyEmailAddress-IsCopyrightProtected-DoNotSendMeSpa m.com and provide email addresses. The more people that sign up, the more potential spams to come in and violate the copyright. Therefore the bigger the lawsuit. Step 3: profit.
How about I make my email address... HaikuIsAnArt.SuchAsThisEmailAddress.DoNotSendMeSpa m@MyDomain.com and therefore they couldn't use my email address without my permission which means they can't email me?
Start a KFC franchise in Altamont Pass, California .
Just get canned from SCO/Enron or the like? Every employer avoiding you like the plague? Why not go work for the Next Big Evil Thing? Surely there are other companies that want a team player like yourself. Perhaps Dr. Evil or Lex Luthor is in need of your unique skills. If all else fails, there's always politics.
A flying car is just a personal aircraft. Commercial aircrafts already have sophisticated auto-pilot systems and diagnostic systems. Personal aircraft would logically have the same. Also, nobody wants aircraft flying over their home all day. Therefore it makes sense that flight paths would also be established. Let's call them "air roads." Would probably make sense to just have these virtual air roads be above existing ground roads. The nice thing about air roads though is that air cars can travel at different altitudes, thus making traffic congestion a nonissue. Add auto-pilot and this should make accidents extremely rare, save for the occasional running into a large bird or an air pedestrian not using a transmitter on his jet pack.
I've owned a gamecube for a little over a year and love it. I've wanted an xbox but could never justify buying a second console. About a month and a half ago my Sony DVD player decided it no longer wanted to play certain DVDs. (POS!) So it was time to buy a new one. Well I could spend $150 on a new player or i could spend that extra $50 and get the xbox (+dvd accessory) that would do the same thing. Sweet. Now I can justify buying an xbox. Since then I've already bought 9 xbox games. Microsoft gets richer.
so a game running on system it wasn't intended to play on isn't showing you text in a language you can't read? and this is news?
Man this is disappointing. The Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse game had serious potentional. I'd imagine the game will still get released because it was pretty far along but now I got this feeling they're gonna cut corners to get it out cheaper. :/
Sounds like a good idea. Mensa would be all over www.high.iq