You apparantly have forgotten the NES, Original Gameboy, SNES, Playstation, and Dreamcast. Each time a system ruled a market segment without challengers, that system was white.
This sounds like a Woody Paige stat from Around the Horn.
Anyways, I think the white could work nicely. And if you want to rack it with your system, just buy a black or carbon style faceplate for it. The cool thing is that with the wireless controllers, you can finally leave your little glass cabinet shut if you have one. (assuming this thing doesn't throw off like 2000 BTUs)
You know, I hear different things about hard drive brands all the time. I think I have a WD and a Maxtor and they've both been going strong for like 4 years. Let's hear your recommendation for a good HD brand.
I dunno. I run IT at a mid-sized software company, and I find Symantec Security Console relatively intuitive. Moreso than Veritas's backup suite which we use for our servers. Not that Veritas' is totally terrible, but it would be great if we got a better GUI for Veritas out of this.
I disagree entirely - I think that FFIX was a deliberate and attempt to bring the series back to the "wacky japanese fantasy" feeling of the SNES entries, after the overly serious tone of VII and VIII.
and found Fedora Core 4 (the beta is the one I installed this past weekend) about 10 times easier to install than Windows XP
Wah, wah, wah. Installing XP consists of making a single partition (as opposed to at least two for linux), setting the time and the time zone, and that's pretty much it as long as you are using semi-modern hardware. I don't know about FC4, but FC 2 and 3 have at least the same number, if not more, of steps to install, and it constantly threatens you with the facrt that you are doing something of serious and dire consequence and if you don't know what you are doing, the world will explode.
I think you need to take some macro or microeconomics classes. There is no "win" or "lose," there's only the laws of supply and demand.
I came up with a pretty good scheme for economically justifying game purchases. Let's say as an example I make, after taxes, approximately $10 an hour. I usually then figure that if I buy a $50 game, I should enjoy it for at least 5 hours, since I spent 5 hours working in order to afford it. You can then add in the time I worked to buy the console or any other peripherals associated with it.
I usually feel that this shows the value of entertainment purchases such as in the case of my PS2 for which I only own around 5 games. but since I played FFX and FFX2 on it as well as some PS1 RPGs, gran turismo, etc for probably a combined 300ish hours. Hence, even though I own a lot more Xbox games (cross-platform ones and of course Halo 1/2), I feel that I got my value's worth out of the PS2 since I "only" spent $200 for the console at the time and maybe 5*50 = $250 (grand total $450) for 300*10= $3000 worth of entertainment.
The videogame economy would be a good topic for anyone doing high-level Economics research.
Wow, bring back memories. For christmas in what must have been about 1992, my aunt gave me and my brother two hardbound collections of these comics. I thought they were pretty amusing at the time. I'll have to dig them up, but yes, the plotlines were by no means memorable, except I do remember one of the Game Boy comics where a young girl somehow ends up accidentally boarding the space shuttle and releasing the hordes of enemies from Super Mario land into it.
Is it me or is Starcraft: Ghost quickly becoming superseded by Halo 2? Basically everything I was looking forward to in Ghost (IE Cloaking and wielding gigantic plasma swords) has been covered. Plus, Halo 2 has online multiplayer. The vaporware threshhold is also quickly approaching.
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Yes. I think the shield dynamic may actually be what makes halo so fun and innovative. You have to establish a rythm and put constant force on your opponents in order to come out with more kills than them. Almost like a good game of basketball.
(Adding the shield to the FPS formula is like adding Antoine Walker to the Celtics!)
Anyone play the SNES Shadowrun game? Actually it was wicked good.. had the best conversation engine of probably any RPG i've played to date. Combat encounters were random but not on a different screen - a paradigm the FF series is only now adapting. Unfortunately it was a bit short.. it felt like there were a lot of stats and things built into the game that were unused.. too bad there never was a sequel. Also, too bad the battery in my cartridge of it died so I can't trust the save game to stay extant.
Nope, same here. It's not that I'm not interested, I just haven't had the time to pick it up and play it yet due to college and all that. Don't the slashdot editors have any kind of editorial process to weed out problems like this? Argh.
You forgot that the first 10 minutes of each episode will recap the prior episode, and the last 10 minutes of each episode will be a preview of the next episode.
It's really not that big a deal. I have had IE installed alongside Firefox since last summer, and I think windows update has been the only reason i've needed to pop open IE. Other than that, it works fine, and the only time i've even used it besides that is when I first installed PartyPoker, but that's obviously not the greatest software anyway, since otherwise it would open my default browser.
Cool stuff, in fact it would be very nice to have a totally custom-sized case. But wouldn't there be issues with grounding, since the case isn't metal?
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This sounds like a Woody Paige stat from Around the Horn.
Anyways, I think the white could work nicely. And if you want to rack it with your system, just buy a black or carbon style faceplate for it. The cool thing is that with the wireless controllers, you can finally leave your little glass cabinet shut if you have one. (assuming this thing doesn't throw off like 2000 BTUs)
What a surreal thread!
Way to bring it back to the actual topic at hand! :) MPU!
You know, I hear different things about hard drive brands all the time. I think I have a WD and a Maxtor and they've both been going strong for like 4 years. Let's hear your recommendation for a good HD brand.
I dunno. I run IT at a mid-sized software company, and I find Symantec Security Console relatively intuitive. Moreso than Veritas's backup suite which we use for our servers. Not that Veritas' is totally terrible, but it would be great if we got a better GUI for Veritas out of this.
I disagree entirely - I think that FFIX was a deliberate and attempt to bring the series back to the "wacky japanese fantasy" feeling of the SNES entries, after the overly serious tone of VII and VIII.
Good thing A-Rod isn't an EQ fan or I'd probably go on it just to be a griefer.
Wah, wah, wah. Installing XP consists of making a single partition (as opposed to at least two for linux), setting the time and the time zone, and that's pretty much it as long as you are using semi-modern hardware. I don't know about FC4, but FC 2 and 3 have at least the same number, if not more, of steps to install, and it constantly threatens you with the facrt that you are doing something of serious and dire consequence and if you don't know what you are doing, the world will explode.
I came up with a pretty good scheme for economically justifying game purchases. Let's say as an example I make, after taxes, approximately $10 an hour. I usually then figure that if I buy a $50 game, I should enjoy it for at least 5 hours, since I spent 5 hours working in order to afford it. You can then add in the time I worked to buy the console or any other peripherals associated with it.
I usually feel that this shows the value of entertainment purchases such as in the case of my PS2 for which I only own around 5 games. but since I played FFX and FFX2 on it as well as some PS1 RPGs, gran turismo, etc for probably a combined 300ish hours. Hence, even though I own a lot more Xbox games (cross-platform ones and of course Halo 1/2), I feel that I got my value's worth out of the PS2 since I "only" spent $200 for the console at the time and maybe 5*50 = $250 (grand total $450) for 300*10= $3000 worth of entertainment.
The videogame economy would be a good topic for anyone doing high-level Economics research.
Wow, bring back memories. For christmas in what must have been about 1992, my aunt gave me and my brother two hardbound collections of these comics. I thought they were pretty amusing at the time. I'll have to dig them up, but yes, the plotlines were by no means memorable, except I do remember one of the Game Boy comics where a young girl somehow ends up accidentally boarding the space shuttle and releasing the hordes of enemies from Super Mario land into it.
Prove me wrong, Blizzard!
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Rock it!
Do the chickens have large salons?
Exosquad totally ruled!
(Adding the shield to the FPS formula is like adding Antoine Walker to the Celtics!)
Anyone play the SNES Shadowrun game? Actually it was wicked good.. had the best conversation engine of probably any RPG i've played to date. Combat encounters were random but not on a different screen - a paradigm the FF series is only now adapting. Unfortunately it was a bit short.. it felt like there were a lot of stats and things built into the game that were unused.. too bad there never was a sequel. Also, too bad the battery in my cartridge of it died so I can't trust the save game to stay extant.
"I can't! It's a GEO!!!" -Ned Flanders
KHAAAAAAAAAAAAN!
Nope, same here. It's not that I'm not interested, I just haven't had the time to pick it up and play it yet due to college and all that. Don't the slashdot editors have any kind of editorial process to weed out problems like this? Argh.
Yeah, the engine noise really drowns out Phil Collins' terrific drumming.
Inuyasha? KAGOME!
Sorry, we're already there. Khan Noonian Singh and the gang were genetically engineered circa 1997.
It's really not that big a deal. I have had IE installed alongside Firefox since last summer, and I think windows update has been the only reason i've needed to pop open IE. Other than that, it works fine, and the only time i've even used it besides that is when I first installed PartyPoker, but that's obviously not the greatest software anyway, since otherwise it would open my default browser.
Cool stuff, in fact it would be very nice to have a totally custom-sized case. But wouldn't there be issues with grounding, since the case isn't metal?