Sadly, all the polygons and horizontal lines in the world won't make up for having a really shitty (for FPS or strategy gaming) interface and controller.
Sit and play Battlefield2 or Counterstrike or Quake at a computer. Now sit at a console with one of those fugly hand controller stick things and play Halo. Notice the difference? That difference is the sucking in control.
This is already done. See a recent federal court ruling and most city and community laws. If business can somehow be developed through the use of your property, you can be forced to relenquish said property to the city/businessmen who wish to do something with it.
By now you've already heard how Xbox 360 puts you at the center of the most powerful games on the planet--hence the "360," as in 360 degrees (geometry students will recognize that as the number of degrees in a circle).
So that's who this is being marketed to? People who are so stupid and ignorant and uneducated that you have to explain to them what the "360" refers to? What, did we just fall out of the sky? (Meteorological students will recognize that as the big blue thing above our head when we're outside).
Again, the starwars movies might have seemed amazing back in 1977, but how can you watch them with a straight face today? It's difficult. It's similar to trying to watch Buck Rogers or Battle Star Galactica (the original) with a straight face. The only thing remotely good about the original three was Harrison Ford, because he played that role just perfect (and with a hinted edge of Iniana Jones to come).
And I can't even comment on the most recent films, except that I hope they improved after the first one... which... was just attrocious.
I'm not saying Star Wars isn't good for a boring saturday afternoon. But to watch it more than once? Or repeatedly? Or obsessively? Hell, RHPS folks make even more sense than that. RHPS is a crappy film, too - but at least they indulge in the campiness. Star Wars folks actually believe that Star Wars is the ultimate cinematic masterpiece and that it's such a great and unique (though ripped off) story.
So if you wouldn't call watcdhing all six films simultaneously "thoughtless" what WOULD you call it?
You also notice that anyone who doesn't swear their ultimate loyalty to this mediocre waste of time franchise is labeled a "flamebait" and a "troll"? After all, nobody in the world could possibly not think the movies are the best cinema EVER and actually mean it, huh?
What if the XBOX 360 was intended as the main gaming platform for a company for the next five years and they touted it to be incredibly powerful and include high definition support and then they couldn't even manage to make games run on that "high end" hardware today at more than 30fps without toning down the quality?
I know I'm out of date here and all what with having only watched the first three original films (which I was not particularly impressed by) int he late 1990s, when I was about 20 and having only seen one of the three new films.
However, what on earth draws this kind of thoughtless, stupified devotion to such a mediocre franchise? I'm not saying the movies sucked - but they're only great in the way that Knight Rider seemed like a great TV show when you were five years old and doesn't hold up today, when you're 30.
It's because of dicks like that, that I end up having to pay $60 for Battlefield2 (since when did PC games start selling for $55 and $60 for NON-special-edition packages?!). And because of dicks like that, I have to pay $50 for a MMORPG box just for the privelege of paying $15/mo. And on top of that, $30 to $50 for each expansion pack to enable me to continue playing for $15/mo.
With a game like Battlefield2, I'll get my $60 out of it before it goes away. But for a game where I'm paying $60 up front just to then pay $15/mo... well... screw that. Which is it? Am I purchasing a game or paying for the monthly content/play/time? It's like selling you the DVD boxed set of The Simpsons and then charging you every time you watch it. If I have to pay each time I watch it, why buy the physical contents in the first place?
When a game is downloadable online, I'm more likely to play it. Even if it's an MMORPG (which usually bores me, since they're level treadmills). Even if they sell it at retail price.
Since I'm not an IT dreg, I wouldn't really care either way. However, the best IT groups I've seen in action weren't ivory-towered. They may have an "office" segregated from the rest of the population, but they still worked together. The ones that were the least responsive, productive and prepared were the ones where each member of the IT group had their own separate "office". It just doesn't work.
I can get away with working, separated from my coworkers, because of the nature of my work. It allows for seamless collaboration in other ways. But I've never seen a successful IT department work in the same way, because a good IT department is arranged like a good firehouse. You don't see every fireman in a firehouse sleeping in his own "apartment" at the firehouse, do you?
The Presidental Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian honor for heroism and blah blah blah. Ironically, it's been given to mostly a bunch of cronies and hollywood/sports types. Yes, Julia Child really deserves the highest civilian honor allowed, huh? And that Arnold Palmer. Great heroism in swinging a golf club. And Charlton Heston. And George Tenet. *laugh. What a bunch of bullshit.
Well, I don't know what bloglines is, but it sounds like it's blog oriented. So... if you're not into blogs, then I would say bloglines might not be what you want?
I have abbout 80 RSS feeds in my reader. Only two are blogs. Only one is a blog about or by an individual.
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I like RSS readers. I've only been using them for awhile. It works really well for many sites. I don't have to hit up each site individually and I can get my listing of new books at O'Reilly's online service, JWZ's latest lazyweb postings, the latest gadget stuff from gizmodo and stuff from boingoing, the one or two blogs I actually read (one is about cooking for engineers), Slashdot and a bunch of other stuff. And it makes it all uniform and easily accessible and quick to read/skim/inform myself without going to each site one by one and going through their advertisements and menuing systems and all that crap.
The only thing I'd really like to see at this point is a way to filter out certain people or topics or other grep-able elements. Even better - a way to deal with redundant feeds. So much content is inbred that I don't need to see it in my feed from Gizmodo, boingboing, engadget, slashdot, and three or four other sites. Just consolidate it or automagically keep one and get rid of the others.
If I didn't use my RSS reader, there'd be a lot of information I'd just go without having. EVen if it's not very important information.
75gb is not that big in an age where a new videogame is more than 6gb. When you've become used to buying several gigabytes for a dollar, spending several dollars for a gigabyte becomes absurd.
But I do still remember the first time I bought a 1gb drive for $200. Hell, I remember my first 20mb hard drive, which was about the same price.;)
Who said anything about menial labor? There are plenty of people with white-collar-type jobs that don't make near $50,000. However, you don't typically get rich by wasting your time playing videogames, watching television and engaging in cosplay. I don't think they tend to be extremely into sports, either (unless it's a sport that involves spending a lot of time with other rich guys, networking - like a skybox at a basketball game or golf memberships).
Seriously, the only rich people you see at basketball games tend to be actors, musicians and directors. When was the last time you saw a CEO (of the level that has 20 million spare bucks to go to space with) attend lots of laker's games?
And yes, I do think anime fans are somehow mentally deficient. Though I do like me some cowboy bebop (begrudgingly).
My comments aren't featured as content on the front page of Slashdot on a regular basis nor is Slashdot all about me (as a blog is).
I'm sure he's a decent guy. But he doesn't need to have every article he ever writes on his site featured on Slashdot. I mean, aside from his blog, who the hell even knows "Joel"?!
Just submit a story (or even just a link to a blog entry or a usenet post!) about how unfair women are treated and how there's such a huge gap in attention to women in gaming, IT, education, the computer industry, geekdom, math, etc.
And the money goes to microsoft, which pays their employees, who then buy stuff and invest in stuff. Or it goes to Microsoft's coffers to buy more companies and found more ventures in more industries to employ more people who then buy stuff and invest in stuff.
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Sadly, all the polygons and horizontal lines in the world won't make up for having a really shitty (for FPS or strategy gaming) interface and controller.
Sit and play Battlefield2 or Counterstrike or Quake at a computer. Now sit at a console with one of those fugly hand controller stick things and play Halo. Notice the difference? That difference is the sucking in control.
This is already done. See a recent federal court ruling and most city and community laws. If business can somehow be developed through the use of your property, you can be forced to relenquish said property to the city/businessmen who wish to do something with it.
By now you've already heard how Xbox 360 puts you at the center of the most powerful games on the planet--hence the "360," as in 360 degrees (geometry students will recognize that as the number of degrees in a circle).
So that's who this is being marketed to? People who are so stupid and ignorant and uneducated that you have to explain to them what the "360" refers to? What, did we just fall out of the sky? (Meteorological students will recognize that as the big blue thing above our head when we're outside).
My point, exactly.
If you're touting how awesome your hardware and developer kits are, why would you allow your developers (in-house or contracted) to half-ass it?
Again, the starwars movies might have seemed amazing back in 1977, but how can you watch them with a straight face today? It's difficult. It's similar to trying to watch Buck Rogers or Battle Star Galactica (the original) with a straight face. The only thing remotely good about the original three was Harrison Ford, because he played that role just perfect (and with a hinted edge of Iniana Jones to come).
And I can't even comment on the most recent films, except that I hope they improved after the first one... which... was just attrocious.
I'm not saying Star Wars isn't good for a boring saturday afternoon. But to watch it more than once? Or repeatedly? Or obsessively? Hell, RHPS folks make even more sense than that. RHPS is a crappy film, too - but at least they indulge in the campiness. Star Wars folks actually believe that Star Wars is the ultimate cinematic masterpiece and that it's such a great and unique (though ripped off) story.
So if you wouldn't call watcdhing all six films simultaneously "thoughtless" what WOULD you call it?
You also notice that anyone who doesn't swear their ultimate loyalty to this mediocre waste of time franchise is labeled a "flamebait" and a "troll"? After all, nobody in the world could possibly not think the movies are the best cinema EVER and actually mean it, huh?
Bunch of narrowminded idiots.
What if the XBOX 360 was intended as the main gaming platform for a company for the next five years and they touted it to be incredibly powerful and include high definition support and then they couldn't even manage to make games run on that "high end" hardware today at more than 30fps without toning down the quality?
Oh wait. That's exactly what is happening.
I know I'm out of date here and all what with having only watched the first three original films (which I was not particularly impressed by) int he late 1990s, when I was about 20 and having only seen one of the three new films.
However, what on earth draws this kind of thoughtless, stupified devotion to such a mediocre franchise? I'm not saying the movies sucked - but they're only great in the way that Knight Rider seemed like a great TV show when you were five years old and doesn't hold up today, when you're 30.
It's because of dicks like that, that I end up having to pay $60 for Battlefield2 (since when did PC games start selling for $55 and $60 for NON-special-edition packages?!). And because of dicks like that, I have to pay $50 for a MMORPG box just for the privelege of paying $15/mo. And on top of that, $30 to $50 for each expansion pack to enable me to continue playing for $15/mo.
With a game like Battlefield2, I'll get my $60 out of it before it goes away. But for a game where I'm paying $60 up front just to then pay $15/mo... well... screw that. Which is it? Am I purchasing a game or paying for the monthly content/play/time? It's like selling you the DVD boxed set of The Simpsons and then charging you every time you watch it. If I have to pay each time I watch it, why buy the physical contents in the first place?
When a game is downloadable online, I'm more likely to play it. Even if it's an MMORPG (which usually bores me, since they're level treadmills). Even if they sell it at retail price.
Since I'm not an IT dreg, I wouldn't really care either way. However, the best IT groups I've seen in action weren't ivory-towered. They may have an "office" segregated from the rest of the population, but they still worked together. The ones that were the least responsive, productive and prepared were the ones where each member of the IT group had their own separate "office". It just doesn't work.
I can get away with working, separated from my coworkers, because of the nature of my work. It allows for seamless collaboration in other ways. But I've never seen a successful IT department work in the same way, because a good IT department is arranged like a good firehouse. You don't see every fireman in a firehouse sleeping in his own "apartment" at the firehouse, do you?
The Presidental Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian honor for heroism and blah blah blah. Ironically, it's been given to mostly a bunch of cronies and hollywood/sports types. Yes, Julia Child really deserves the highest civilian honor allowed, huh? And that Arnold Palmer. Great heroism in swinging a golf club. And Charlton Heston. And George Tenet. *laugh. What a bunch of bullshit.
You must work for relatively tiny companies.
You must be new here . . . *chirp chirp chirp* . . . .
We folks barely can be bothered to RTFA much less RTFP!
I dunno. I like to think of windows as "number two".
*cough*
Well, I don't know what bloglines is, but it sounds like it's blog oriented. So... if you're not into blogs, then I would say bloglines might not be what you want?
I have abbout 80 RSS feeds in my reader. Only two are blogs. Only one is a blog about or by an individual.
I like RSS readers. I've only been using them for awhile. It works really well for many sites. I don't have to hit up each site individually and I can get my listing of new books at O'Reilly's online service, JWZ's latest lazyweb postings, the latest gadget stuff from gizmodo and stuff from boingoing, the one or two blogs I actually read (one is about cooking for engineers), Slashdot and a bunch of other stuff. And it makes it all uniform and easily accessible and quick to read/skim/inform myself without going to each site one by one and going through their advertisements and menuing systems and all that crap.
The only thing I'd really like to see at this point is a way to filter out certain people or topics or other grep-able elements. Even better - a way to deal with redundant feeds. So much content is inbred that I don't need to see it in my feed from Gizmodo, boingboing, engadget, slashdot, and three or four other sites. Just consolidate it or automagically keep one and get rid of the others.
If I didn't use my RSS reader, there'd be a lot of information I'd just go without having. EVen if it's not very important information.
75gb is not that big in an age where a new videogame is more than 6gb. When you've become used to buying several gigabytes for a dollar, spending several dollars for a gigabyte becomes absurd.
;)
But I do still remember the first time I bought a 1gb drive for $200. Hell, I remember my first 20mb hard drive, which was about the same price.
Who said anything about menial labor? There are plenty of people with white-collar-type jobs that don't make near $50,000. However, you don't typically get rich by wasting your time playing videogames, watching television and engaging in cosplay. I don't think they tend to be extremely into sports, either (unless it's a sport that involves spending a lot of time with other rich guys, networking - like a skybox at a basketball game or golf memberships).
Seriously, the only rich people you see at basketball games tend to be actors, musicians and directors. When was the last time you saw a CEO (of the level that has 20 million spare bucks to go to space with) attend lots of laker's games?
And yes, I do think anime fans are somehow mentally deficient. Though I do like me some cowboy bebop (begrudgingly).
My comments aren't featured as content on the front page of Slashdot on a regular basis nor is Slashdot all about me (as a blog is).
I'm sure he's a decent guy. But he doesn't need to have every article he ever writes on his site featured on Slashdot. I mean, aside from his blog, who the hell even knows "Joel"?!
I'd rather read more AutoDesk employee blogs.
Just submit a story (or even just a link to a blog entry or a usenet post!) about how unfair women are treated and how there's such a huge gap in attention to women in gaming, IT, education, the computer industry, geekdom, math, etc.
Trust me, it'll get accepted.
Content isn't created. It evolves over millions of years.
I only have 3 TB.
However, it's ALL porn.
Yes, I'm serious.
Yes, I'm single.
Yes, my right hand is very agile and strong.
Shut up.
And the money goes to microsoft, which pays their employees, who then buy stuff and invest in stuff. Or it goes to Microsoft's coffers to buy more companies and found more ventures in more industries to employ more people who then buy stuff and invest in stuff.
Not a Microsoft fan. Just sayin'...
VoucherWare? :P
Poor Bastards? The Economist?
Am I the onlny one who got the pun?