But if we didn't build roads and cities, then Google Maps could not exist. So therefore Google owes us for that? Pretty slippery slope there.
It's a mutually beneficial relationship (humanity and Google) and quibbling over who owes who what and how much is pointless. The same argument could be targeted at any entity.
Can't forget that video when O'Reilly was reporting on the Nintendo revolution, back in '88. Granted, it's probably someone else's words in his mouth, but still effin' funny.
There seems to be some exception with Yahoo. yahoo.cm takes you to a Yahoo 404 redirect page, but www.yahoo.cm isn't found at all. Any other major site I've tried with.cm takes you to the ad page.
Or you could just be a weiner and use the vertical auto-aim, kind of like Doom. I think it was on by default and the N64 controller was not completely ideal for FPS's, so you weren't much of a lamer. Using the radar, however, is out of the question. Just being able to see the other players' screens was bad enough. My friends and I went so far as to split the signal to four different TVs and cover up the other player's windows on their respective TVs with poster board. It did make the config menu a bitch.
Since I'm already rambling about GE multiplayer, we invented a couple totally sweet game types for it. First was timed mine suicide, where each player had 10 minutes to get the lowest score possible. The other players would thwart them by trying to die in the explosion, giving them a kill. Using the delayed timer mines made each death a nail-biter, and covering the screens changed the dynamic quite a bit. The other was Crossfire, like the boardgame. Turn on infinite ammo and invincibility, shoot an ammo box into the middle of a room. Then begin shooting it to other player's side, while he does the same.
And yes, we also played way too much GE.
As far as the trouble of dealing with EA, is it really worth it to MS to get it re-released if EA's gonna give them headaches?
Your Madden example is probably the only type of game your theory applies to, sports games. It's probably unbearable to have outdated rosters and all that, especially when your friends have the newest version, but this is why EA has to be making money hand over fist when it comes to these games. The bottom drops out of the market for the older versions, but it doesn't matter because people are just replacing it with the new one. Not many franchises can guarantee a bestselling sequel every year. Meanwhile, the used previous iterations of the game sell for nothing because no one buys them.
Fortunately there are other games on the used market, which is what grandparent was talking about. So instead of buying a sequel with a couple new features and a monster budget that went entirely into graphics and comical ragdoll physics for full price, you can find a perfectly good, unrelated used game for a third of the price. If you need good graphics I pity you.
Plate tectonics is just a theory. Widely accepted and probably only limited to theory status due to an inability to properly test the theory, but a theory nonetheless.
I believe Comcast didn't like a network with TechTV's content to be on the air, so they bought it with intent to kill it.
Then they could've just not carried the network on their cable service.
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I think you're forgetting about (for example) Perfect Dark and Timesplitters 2, along with (as you mentioned) Goldeneye. There may not be many good console FPS's out there, but they do exist.
All of those games were made by the same developers. Granted they're all great games, but it's easier when you've already got a winning formula.
I sincerely doubt that the Source engine is an upgraded HL1 engine. The HL1 engine is based off the Quake and Quake 2 engines, which are eight years old. At this point there probably needs to be some major changes in the core architecture of the engine to take advantage of all the new graphical technologies since 1996.
Both Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst did their own voices for the game, and Tobey Maguire is just awful. No emotion whatsoever, just lame wooden jokes for your grandmother.
The game also features the voice of Reno 911!'s Niecy Nash which is pretty neat for anyone who gives a crap.
Can you imagine if this game does actually get released ?, either no one will believe it or no one will notice cause everyone will have forgotten about it.
...as evident by the discussion for this article. Every/. article related to first person shooters inevitably turns into the Duke Nukem Forever Discussion Hour. So, people do seem to still care, and that's understandable. It's like the ET for this generation, living on in infamy.
So the media and engineers plan on subverting our minds with major league baseball highlights. Maybe the Simpsons writers were on to something with that MLB satellite conspiracy.
For anyone interested, here is what is widely considered the best method for making "accessible" images in CSS.
div#something { padding-top: 100px;// height of the image width: 250px;// width of the image height: 0px; overflow: hidden; background: url("image.gif") no-repeat; }
<div id="something">This text is only visible to browsers that do not support CSS.</div>
Creates a 250x100 block with the padding pushing the text into the hidden overflow. image.gif is the image you want to display. This is more accessible than other methods using display: none; and visibility: hidden; (and the whole point of this is accessibility), which typically causes screen readers to ignore the text.
i noticed a couple links with the specific text "litigious bastards" linking to the sco site turned up in the results, which would seem to indicate that they give keywords to sites based on the text that links to them, this may not be entirely true but it would be pretty damn stupid if it was
it's either that or someone at msn forced it to the top, i don't think ms is terribly concerned about sco though so why bother
I remember some football game used to do that for create-a-players, except they said your first name for some insane reason. "Elway throws a long pass, caught by Bob, Bob avoids a tackle from Mike and runs it in for the touchdown." Yeah, that sounds normal. I hope they've added a library of last names for the newer sports games.
And it would be a hell of a lot easier to do it in sports games, since you only hear maybe three different people talking ever, the announcers. For a game like Half-Life, you'd have to have quite a few people record all the different names.
I look forward to when voice synthesis starts to actually sound decent. Mmm, dynamically generated dialogue. NPCs that say the same thing every time you talk to them are definitely not good for the immersion factor.
IGN is offering a free subscription to EGM when you subscribe to their Insider member service thing. So, uh, yeah, why would anyone subscribe to EGM instead of IGN?
Well, just ignorance I guess. Or lack of internet access.
So these people will register with the US government, give them all their contact information including exact geographical location of their operation, and then illegally spam people on the list. Seems unlikely. There's more inconspicuous ways to go about acquiring email addresses.
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But if we didn't build roads and cities, then Google Maps could not exist. So therefore Google owes us for that? Pretty slippery slope there.
It's a mutually beneficial relationship (humanity and Google) and quibbling over who owes who what and how much is pointless. The same argument could be targeted at any entity.
Can't forget that video when O'Reilly was reporting on the Nintendo revolution, back in '88. Granted, it's probably someone else's words in his mouth, but still effin' funny.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=yGFRi_ueq-M
But Bill, I thought Mario and Luigi were made up of the best things inside each and every one of us.
There seems to be some exception with Yahoo. yahoo.cm takes you to a Yahoo 404 redirect page, but www.yahoo.cm isn't found at all. Any other major site I've tried with .cm takes you to the ad page.
But I usually assume it's just my computer.
Or you could just be a weiner and use the vertical auto-aim, kind of like Doom. I think it was on by default and the N64 controller was not completely ideal for FPS's, so you weren't much of a lamer. Using the radar, however, is out of the question. Just being able to see the other players' screens was bad enough. My friends and I went so far as to split the signal to four different TVs and cover up the other player's windows on their respective TVs with poster board. It did make the config menu a bitch.
Since I'm already rambling about GE multiplayer, we invented a couple totally sweet game types for it. First was timed mine suicide, where each player had 10 minutes to get the lowest score possible. The other players would thwart them by trying to die in the explosion, giving them a kill. Using the delayed timer mines made each death a nail-biter, and covering the screens changed the dynamic quite a bit. The other was Crossfire, like the boardgame. Turn on infinite ammo and invincibility, shoot an ammo box into the middle of a room. Then begin shooting it to other player's side, while he does the same.
And yes, we also played way too much GE.
As far as the trouble of dealing with EA, is it really worth it to MS to get it re-released if EA's gonna give them headaches?
Your Madden example is probably the only type of game your theory applies to, sports games. It's probably unbearable to have outdated rosters and all that, especially when your friends have the newest version, but this is why EA has to be making money hand over fist when it comes to these games. The bottom drops out of the market for the older versions, but it doesn't matter because people are just replacing it with the new one. Not many franchises can guarantee a bestselling sequel every year. Meanwhile, the used previous iterations of the game sell for nothing because no one buys them.
Fortunately there are other games on the used market, which is what grandparent was talking about. So instead of buying a sequel with a couple new features and a monster budget that went entirely into graphics and comical ragdoll physics for full price, you can find a perfectly good, unrelated used game for a third of the price. If you need good graphics I pity you.
Plate tectonics is just a theory. Widely accepted and probably only limited to theory status due to an inability to properly test the theory, but a theory nonetheless.
Since some people's unclothed bodies are best left unseen, perhaps we could weigh them before the match, and then after. Smallest difference wins.
You expect the Slashdot crowd to get your baseball jokes?
All of those games were made by the same developers. Granted they're all great games, but it's easier when you've already got a winning formula.
I sincerely doubt that the Source engine is an upgraded HL1 engine. The HL1 engine is based off the Quake and Quake 2 engines, which are eight years old. At this point there probably needs to be some major changes in the core architecture of the engine to take advantage of all the new graphical technologies since 1996.
Sounds cool, but would it be legal?
And who can forget that logo, the lima bean?
Both Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst did their own voices for the game, and Tobey Maguire is just awful. No emotion whatsoever, just lame wooden jokes for your grandmother.
The game also features the voice of Reno 911!'s Niecy Nash which is pretty neat for anyone who gives a crap.
So the media and engineers plan on subverting our minds with major league baseball highlights. Maybe the Simpsons writers were on to something with that MLB satellite conspiracy.
Maybe they want more money they're already pulling in.
Nah, couldn't be.
For anyone interested, here is what is widely considered the best method for making "accessible" images in CSS.
<div id="something">This text is only visible to browsers that do not support CSS.</div>
Creates a 250x100 block with the padding pushing the text into the hidden overflow. image.gif is the image you want to display. This is more accessible than other methods using display: none; and visibility: hidden; (and the whole point of this is accessibility), which typically causes screen readers to ignore the text.
get gaim, uses one tabbed, IM-sized window for all your conversations
Since when were Toyota and Hyundai based out of China?
i noticed a couple links with the specific text "litigious bastards" linking to the sco site turned up in the results, which would seem to indicate that they give keywords to sites based on the text that links to them, this may not be entirely true but it would be pretty damn stupid if it was
it's either that or someone at msn forced it to the top, i don't think ms is terribly concerned about sco though so why bother
I remember some football game used to do that for create-a-players, except they said your first name for some insane reason. "Elway throws a long pass, caught by Bob, Bob avoids a tackle from Mike and runs it in for the touchdown." Yeah, that sounds normal. I hope they've added a library of last names for the newer sports games.
And it would be a hell of a lot easier to do it in sports games, since you only hear maybe three different people talking ever, the announcers. For a game like Half-Life, you'd have to have quite a few people record all the different names.
I look forward to when voice synthesis starts to actually sound decent. Mmm, dynamically generated dialogue. NPCs that say the same thing every time you talk to them are definitely not good for the immersion factor.
Dude, he's talking about the graphics engine.
IGN is offering a free subscription to EGM when you subscribe to their Insider member service thing. So, uh, yeah, why would anyone subscribe to EGM instead of IGN?
Well, just ignorance I guess. Or lack of internet access.
So these people will register with the US government, give them all their contact information including exact geographical location of their operation, and then illegally spam people on the list. Seems unlikely. There's more inconspicuous ways to go about acquiring email addresses.