If the underlying UI & Hardware weren't up to the task, the ipod would have fallen flat when the first generation of users didn't like them.
Look, it's Apple we're talking about here. The RDF here is as strong as the one that allowed W get reelected. The hardware was/is nothing special, from sucky to non-replaceable batteries, to sound quality, to HD capacity, not to mention the price all this comes at.
This is ridiculous, why use language like "average person" "contemporary community standards" "morbid interest in violence" to define what is against the law? Oh wait, I know, so that they can ban as many games (and fine as many people) as possible, without setting any standards beforehand. A "good" law would just enforce the official ratings. And by "good" I mean "also unacceptable".
I don't know why everybody's so pissed at ATI. I hear about the horrible drivers all the time, but I've had many more BSODs with my current 6600 than I ever had with the 9600Pro before that. The only BSOD I remember with the 9600 was in Kreed (crappy game anyway), but it was clearly not graphics-related, as it only happened when I quicksaved. The 6600 bluescreened so far in in anything from HL(1!) to Serious Sam 2, usually with clear references to some nv*.dll.
Oh, and when the drivers were outdated by one release, I couldn't see anything in one level in Call of Cthulhu, as the whole screen was filled with some ugly shade of brown that flickered to black at an annoying frequency. The shadows in Hitman:BM are all fucked up if AA > 2x. In Splinter Cell CT (w latest update, drivers) the skyboxes disappear for no reason.
Yeah, the settings in the control panel aren't as pretty for ATI cards and CCC is a bloated piece of shit, but there's really no reason to go there for more than basic AA/AS settings. For everything else, there's RivaTuner.
All this is irrelevant though, because chipsets =! graphics.
>"wow, this thing is very dependant on technology just to be safe!"
You should be hiding under your bed now, shaking, because this isn't very different from the modern lithium-ion batteries:
The rechargable lithium-ion battery required nearly 20 years of development before it was safe enough to be used on a mass market level
and
Since the lithium metal [...] is very reactive and might cause explosion, Li-ion cells usually have built-in protective electronics and/or fuses to prevent polarity reversal, over-voltage and over-heating.
>Now what the fuck was that "protected area"? A diplomatic zone???
Someone's house/appt? You know, cops can't just walk into any building and take what they want. Unless, of course, they don't like the person who lives there.
I wanted to post some screenshots (see last paragraph), but instead I'll write a few sentences about the game to make this post at least somewhat useful.
Boobies! Here's the attractive woman from the first scene. They have realistic shake physics, that's probably what Zonk meant by "fun with physics". There are some other fun aspects, like the warning signs which say "When all else fails, use crate" or com-stations (basically phone booths) where you can dial a number you see on ads.
Shooting stuff is, I'd say, quite satisfying, although there are only 3 weapons. A very accurate and powerful piston, a shotgun, and an assault rifle. They all have alternative fire which you often have to use to kill off tougher enemies. The ones at the beginning go down with a headshot, or a shotgun blast from a close distance will send body parts flying, so that's always fun to watch. Some heavily armored fuckers at the end require a good portion of the AR mag.
To the whole episodic concept, well I didn't find it too unreasonable. Not unlike HL2, it leaves the story hanging, but it's not much (if at all) shorter than Max Payne. Considering it's not full price, that's not very bad, although of course cheaper would be even better.
I have a screenshot gallery with over 60 shots in it, but I decided not to post it here for two reasons: 1) I host it on my DSL line 2) I wrote the gallery perl script myself, so it's probably quite dangerous. I'll try to get a static version online, though.
I just wish they made high-quality cases with that many [8?] drive bays
You're not looking very carefully then, here's one Chieftec case with 8 3.5" bays, here's another with 6. Based on personal experience, they're quality stuff.
No, I will not admit that because it's not true. But, since I won't lose any sleep if somebody out there thinks I write before thinking (or at least reading), I'll just leave it as it is.
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I guess "WOOSH" is on you guys, I got it before you even clicked Read More... on this thread;) I was trying to continue the role-playing, imagine this conversation:
President of Iran: "where I can find detailed information about that new method?" Technology Adviser: "Fuckinggoogleit"
Of course, explaining it ruined it to those few chosen ones capable of detecting my subtle humor
i'm much happier having 60 gig of music with me. and when necessary, i can always take my generic mp3 player with me, and run it off AAAs. i don't see this as a good argument for not liking ipods.
And I can just take an extra battery for my Zen. And keep my 60 gigs.
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Ah, 100% Flamebait... I see someone disagrees with my post
>"Hey, boss! Let's insult the hell out of our target market!"
The iPod owners aren't their target market. Those people are a lost cause.
If the underlying UI & Hardware weren't up to the task, the ipod would have fallen flat when the first generation of users didn't like them.
Look, it's Apple we're talking about here. The RDF here is as strong as the one that allowed W get reelected. The hardware was/is nothing special, from sucky to non-replaceable batteries, to sound quality, to HD capacity, not to mention the price all this comes at.
That makes me double plus glad I never touched any of the Tony Hawk games. Did they use a crappy cover version, or what?
specify that in the contract, and leave everyone else alone.
And people related to them disappear?
That's why it clearly says "Desktop Replacement form factor" in the summary.
repeatedly hit the asshole in the head with a huge purple dildo.
This is ridiculous, why use language like "average person" "contemporary community standards" "morbid interest in violence" to define what is against the law? Oh wait, I know, so that they can ban as many games (and fine as many people) as possible, without setting any standards beforehand. A "good" law would just enforce the official ratings. And by "good" I mean "also unacceptable".
as long as tentacles aren't outlawed.
Then, of course, only outlaws will have tentacles.
I don't know why everybody's so pissed at ATI. I hear about the horrible drivers all the time, but I've had many more BSODs with my current 6600 than I ever had with the 9600Pro before that. The only BSOD I remember with the 9600 was in Kreed (crappy game anyway), but it was clearly not graphics-related, as it only happened when I quicksaved. The 6600 bluescreened so far in in anything from HL(1!) to Serious Sam 2, usually with clear references to some nv*.dll.
Oh, and when the drivers were outdated by one release, I couldn't see anything in one level in Call of Cthulhu, as the whole screen was filled with some ugly shade of brown that flickered to black at an annoying frequency. The shadows in Hitman:BM are all fucked up if AA > 2x. In Splinter Cell CT (w latest update, drivers) the skyboxes disappear for no reason.
Yeah, the settings in the control panel aren't as pretty for ATI cards and CCC is a bloated piece of shit, but there's really no reason to go there for more than basic AA/AS settings. For everything else, there's RivaTuner.
All this is irrelevant though, because chipsets =! graphics.
not completely impossible or baseless, considering that ATI makes some AMD-compatible chipsets.
Most of those are lame-ass* console games, here are some real ones:
Giants: Citizen Kabuto
Armed And Dangerous
Serious Sam
SiN Episode 1
Splinter Cell (CT?)
Max Payne
I wouldn't call all of them comedies, but the conversations the enemies have are often hilarious.
*Just kidding, ha ha.
>"wow, this thing is very dependant on technology just to be safe!"
You should be hiding under your bed now, shaking, because this isn't very different from the modern lithium-ion batteries:
The rechargable lithium-ion battery required nearly 20 years of development before it was safe enough to be used on a mass market level
and
Since the lithium metal [...] is very reactive and might cause explosion, Li-ion cells usually have built-in protective electronics and/or fuses to prevent polarity reversal, over-voltage and over-heating.
Read the rest of the article here
I guess the hydraulic system is not user-replaceable. Besides, it's probably some Taiwanese OEM's fault anyway.
>Now what the fuck was that "protected area"? A diplomatic zone???
Someone's house/appt? You know, cops can't just walk into any building and take what they want. Unless, of course, they don't like the person who lives there.
>Without any protection, anyone could take GPL code, bake it into their own and refuse to share any alterations.
Sounds fine to me, free will remain free, without copyrights no one can "close" the source.
The primary advantage of Linux is that it has a cooler name than BSD.
Really?
$_ = "BSD";
s/B/L/;
Hey, where's the rating!?
I wanted to post some screenshots (see last paragraph), but instead I'll write a few sentences about the game to make this post at least somewhat useful.
Boobies! Here's the attractive woman from the first scene. They have realistic shake physics, that's probably what Zonk meant by "fun with physics". There are some other fun aspects, like the warning signs which say "When all else fails, use crate" or com-stations (basically phone booths) where you can dial a number you see on ads.
Shooting stuff is, I'd say, quite satisfying, although there are only 3 weapons. A very accurate and powerful piston, a shotgun, and an assault rifle. They all have alternative fire which you often have to use to kill off tougher enemies. The ones at the beginning go down with a headshot, or a shotgun blast from a close distance will send body parts flying, so that's always fun to watch. Some heavily armored fuckers at the end require a good portion of the AR mag.
To the whole episodic concept, well I didn't find it too unreasonable. Not unlike HL2, it leaves the story hanging, but it's not much (if at all) shorter than Max Payne. Considering it's not full price, that's not very bad, although of course cheaper would be even better.
I have a screenshot gallery with over 60 shots in it, but I decided not to post it here for two reasons: 1) I host it on my DSL line 2) I wrote the gallery perl script myself, so it's probably quite dangerous. I'll try to get a static version online, though.
I just wish they made high-quality cases with that many [8?] drive bays
You're not looking very carefully then, here's one Chieftec case with 8 3.5" bays, here's another with 6. Based on personal experience, they're quality stuff.
No, I will not admit that because it's not true. But, since I won't lose any sleep if somebody out there thinks I write before thinking (or at least reading), I'll just leave it as it is.
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I guess "WOOSH" is on you guys, I got it before you even clicked Read More... on this thread ;)
I was trying to continue the role-playing, imagine this conversation:
President of Iran: "where I can find detailed information about that new method?"
Technology Adviser: "Fuckinggoogleit"
Of course, explaining it ruined it to those few chosen ones capable of detecting my subtle humor
>Do you know where I can find detailed information about that new method?
Right here, my friend.
Fuck 'em!
It took them forever to get H1 to PC, so by the time H2 arrives, Vista would already be the only OS to support such ancient hardware.
i'm much happier having 60 gig of music with me.
and when necessary, i can always take my generic mp3 player with me, and run it off AAAs. i don't see this as a good argument for not liking ipods.
And I can just take an extra battery for my Zen. And keep my 60 gigs.