Hm... you know, he did say short sightedness... and thats pretty much what I see in your post. Goal this election - get bush out. Goal next year... well the republicans are obviously going to put up some horrendous evil, and your goal will be to keep Kerry in office. That, or Kerry will prove himself to be Bush-Lite, and your primary goal will be to get him out of office... and so the cycle continues.
Wake up dude. Me, or anyone else voting for a third party does not contribute to Bush staying in office. The 50% or so of all voters that VOTE FOR BUSH are the ones that put/are keeping him in office. Go talk to them instead of redirecting your frustration at people who obviously also believe that Bush shouldn't be in office.
Yeah, but unlike MMORPGs, this you pay a flat fee for. It doesn't matter how many games you get, if they are live compatable and dont have a seperate fee ( like MMORPGs ), you are good to go. Currently I only own two live enabled games. If I were to go buy a third, my fee would not increase, and the game would just work.
Who is this "they" that you speak of? The question I answered was simply pertaining to the usefullness of the windows firewall, not to the administrative talents of whatever network you are on. Up here in Wisconsin, we have a few public wifi hotspots that are free to access. With the windows firewall, I dont have to worry about intrusions even when cruising on these open networks.
Actually you dont need to go on live to use the ethernet jack. You can use tunneling software, and any game which has LAN play capabilities to play with anyone for free.
XBOX's advantage is Live. I have all 3 consoles, and I can say without a doubt that they have the online thing down. PS2 is in second, and a somewhat distant second at that. Nintendo is barely a blip on the radar - which is unfortunate. It is also unfortunate that Nintendo doesn't seem to see reason to persue online play for future games/consoles, since its a great way for people like me without a lot of local opponents to actually get some enjoyment out of primarily multiplayer games like fighters.
Not really. The firewall is enabled by default now, but you can turn it off - and its pretty darn easy to do so. In addition, the extra security IS what people have wanted.
The microsoft knowledge base is also pretty good at letting you know what ports you need to open to get things to work. I just randomly checked what ports Outlook wants open, for instance, and the microsoft support article was the #1 hit on google.
Or just cheap. You get less functionality if you pay less - thats the bottom line. Dont want to pay the full price for windows? Fine, here is a less functional version as an option. As someone else mentioned, this might be a good thing for people who only use their windows boxes for gaming - as you are only running one application then.
I dont know about this one. I used to think this way, but Halo on the XBOX is pretty darn good as far as the control schema goes. It took me a few hours worth of gameplay to get used to, but once the break in period was over I was convinced it was pretty much just as good as the keyboard and mouse - well for Halo anyway.
Yet somehow these same gamer kids can afford the hardware needed to run Doom 3. There is a difference between not having the money, and simply not being willing to spend it.
If Id and Activision would sell it for $29.95, their sales would probably increase 500 to 700 percent. Overpricing because of greed will be the kiss of death.
And this gets modded up as insightful somehow... please tell me where you get these numbers from. One of your own orifices will not suffice as a source, btw. The argument goes both ways as well... if more people would buy the game then companies wouldn't have to hike the price up to maintain their profit margins. Additionally - assuming the price derives from greed is just that, an assumption. Have you considered the long development cycle, and that perhaps paying their programmers and support staff for the extra year or two ( in comparison to other games ) might be the reason for the increased price, in addition to the need to compensate for piracy?
No, he said it would be dumb for someone to specifically NOT want the graphical installer. Like, you wouldnt use the distro because of the fact that it has a graphical installer.
I dont see how you cant keep up with the gaming industry... I have a GeForce4 MX440 and I haven't noticed much of any kind of slowdown. Haven't tried Halo yet, but I would imagine it would work just fine. Pretty much the only thing I have had to do to keep up with the gaming industry is buy one of NVidia's second tier cards ( $50-$70 ) every two years or so. Very do-able.
Yeah, you are so right - because the copy protection that sony tried to use for their PS games was so darn effective in locking up their content.... wait... darn sharpies.
For every attempt at preventing piracy, there will be an exploit. Its not as if these companies could completely prevent their games from being pirated, nor should they be required to. That would raise the cost of games, something I dont want to see happen. Besides, I get most of my game info/press from online review sites and gaming magazines.
I keep a little text file on my desktop of games which I monitor. Every few weeks I go check amazon or some other online retailers and get their prices. So far I have been able to find everything on my list. Its usually just the big chains that stop carrying large amounts of the discount titles, online stores still keep them in stock. If nothing else, ebay probably has what you are looking for.
The one reason I have actually found to possibly justify upgrading is moving massive amounts of files around. Like moving hard drives worth of mp3s or ISOs and the like... or just doing large backup images/tar archives. Those things zip across the network. Doesn't happen often, but when it does - the gigabit is appreciated.
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Cant say that I have - anyone tried this?
Hm ... you know, he did say short sightedness ... and thats pretty much what I see in your post. Goal this election - get bush out. Goal next year ... well the republicans are obviously going to put up some horrendous evil, and your goal will be to keep Kerry in office. That, or Kerry will prove himself to be Bush-Lite, and your primary goal will be to get him out of office ... and so the cycle continues.
Wake up dude. Me, or anyone else voting for a third party does not contribute to Bush staying in office. The 50% or so of all voters that VOTE FOR BUSH are the ones that put/are keeping him in office. Go talk to them instead of redirecting your frustration at people who obviously also believe that Bush shouldn't be in office.
You, sir, rock.
I have been running DX9 pretty much since the update was available. My XP box is stable as a rock.
Yeah, but unlike MMORPGs, this you pay a flat fee for. It doesn't matter how many games you get, if they are live compatable and dont have a seperate fee ( like MMORPGs ), you are good to go. Currently I only own two live enabled games. If I were to go buy a third, my fee would not increase, and the game would just work.
So, not quite the same. Far better, in fact.
Who is this "they" that you speak of? The question I answered was simply pertaining to the usefullness of the windows firewall, not to the administrative talents of whatever network you are on. Up here in Wisconsin, we have a few public wifi hotspots that are free to access. With the windows firewall, I dont have to worry about intrusions even when cruising on these open networks.
Actually you dont need to go on live to use the ethernet jack. You can use tunneling software, and any game which has LAN play capabilities to play with anyone for free.
Google for "xbox connect" and see what you get.
XBOX's advantage is Live. I have all 3 consoles, and I can say without a doubt that they have the online thing down. PS2 is in second, and a somewhat distant second at that. Nintendo is barely a blip on the radar - which is unfortunate. It is also unfortunate that Nintendo doesn't seem to see reason to persue online play for future games/consoles, since its a great way for people like me without a lot of local opponents to actually get some enjoyment out of primarily multiplayer games like fighters.
Most users wont be affected by this. And anyone who actually uses IIS and/or remote desktop probably knows enough to play with the firewall.
Not really. The firewall is enabled by default now, but you can turn it off - and its pretty darn easy to do so. In addition, the extra security IS what people have wanted.
The microsoft knowledge base is also pretty good at letting you know what ports you need to open to get things to work. I just randomly checked what ports Outlook wants open, for instance, and the microsoft support article was the #1 hit on google.
Yep - wifi laptop. Handy for when you are crusing a random network you found.
Or just cheap. You get less functionality if you pay less - thats the bottom line. Dont want to pay the full price for windows? Fine, here is a less functional version as an option. As someone else mentioned, this might be a good thing for people who only use their windows boxes for gaming - as you are only running one application then.
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If this is the case, then how do you explain the kuiper belt?
I dont know about this one. I used to think this way, but Halo on the XBOX is pretty darn good as far as the control schema goes. It took me a few hours worth of gameplay to get used to, but once the break in period was over I was convinced it was pretty much just as good as the keyboard and mouse - well for Halo anyway.
Heh, I suppose not ... but if not, then whatever source (parents or whatever) that got them that hardware should get them Doom 3 as well.
most gamer kids just don't have that
... please tell me where you get these numbers from. One of your own orifices will not suffice as a source, btw. The argument goes both ways as well ... if more people would buy the game then companies wouldn't have to hike the price up to maintain their profit margins. Additionally - assuming the price derives from greed is just that, an assumption. Have you considered the long development cycle, and that perhaps paying their programmers and support staff for the extra year or two ( in comparison to other games ) might be the reason for the increased price, in addition to the need to compensate for piracy?
Yet somehow these same gamer kids can afford the hardware needed to run Doom 3. There is a difference between not having the money, and simply not being willing to spend it.
If Id and Activision would sell it for $29.95, their sales would probably increase 500 to 700 percent. Overpricing because of greed will be the kiss of death.
And this gets modded up as insightful somehow
You can do that with an XBOX too, just requires a bit more effort to get linux on it. For the price, its a pretty cheap fileserver.
No, he said it would be dumb for someone to specifically NOT want the graphical installer. Like, you wouldnt use the distro because of the fact that it has a graphical installer.
Nope, not yet ... but it has been about 2 years since I last bought one ... its an MX440, definitly been thinking about replacing it.
This is assuming google wont delete all the beta accounts when the testing is over ...
I dont see how you cant keep up with the gaming industry ... I have a GeForce4 MX440 and I haven't noticed much of any kind of slowdown. Haven't tried Halo yet, but I would imagine it would work just fine. Pretty much the only thing I have had to do to keep up with the gaming industry is buy one of NVidia's second tier cards ( $50-$70 ) every two years or so. Very do-able.
Yeah, you are so right - because the copy protection that sony tried to use for their PS games was so darn effective in locking up their content .... wait ... darn sharpies.
For every attempt at preventing piracy, there will be an exploit. Its not as if these companies could completely prevent their games from being pirated, nor should they be required to. That would raise the cost of games, something I dont want to see happen. Besides, I get most of my game info/press from online review sites and gaming magazines.
I keep a little text file on my desktop of games which I monitor. Every few weeks I go check amazon or some other online retailers and get their prices. So far I have been able to find everything on my list. Its usually just the big chains that stop carrying large amounts of the discount titles, online stores still keep them in stock. If nothing else, ebay probably has what you are looking for.
The one reason I have actually found to possibly justify upgrading is moving massive amounts of files around. Like moving hard drives worth of mp3s or ISOs and the like ... or just doing large backup images/tar archives. Those things zip across the network. Doesn't happen often, but when it does - the gigabit is appreciated.