Its pretty easy to figure out, each soldier that doesn't come home from Iraq is one less person hunting for a job in this country. So Bush is actually creating jobs with his bullshit war.
stay the same... Thats exactly how people see treaties like these. They're based off of cornucopian ideals that if we put stock in innovation and education our future engineers and think-tanks can create new technology that is aimed to eliminate our dependence on the lesser evil. Maybe if we stopped looking at the jobs immediately as "lost" and put more focus on alternate energy we could someday accept a treaty like this, but with the oil industry running our country this isn't happening anytime soon. Someday someone is going to have to break our comfy little shell.
EVE Online was cool I played it from release until September of last year. It got dull quickly like every MMORPG, the grind exists in every game I believe. From what I know of EVE and have seen from JTL its(EVE's) combat is not that interactive where JTL is a flight sim. I'd get JTL if it were a standalone product without all of the grind to get there. Its hard to be a casual player with these games.
One, this is never going to be adopted by teachers that don't know how or won't learn themselves how to adopt new technology or ideas. I know that teachers that are within 5 even 10 years of retiring won't put in the effort to do this.
Two, you need a computer for every child, either at a computer lab where visits will be less frequent or have a computer at every child's desk, which public schools can't afford, unless they slash art, gym, and music which are all important.
For about $200 I was able to upgrade my current system (built in 2001) to play Doom3. Thats less than buying a new console (PS3, Xbox2) and much more satisifying. But then again maybe I'm just bitter that Microsoft robbed Halo from the PC cradle.
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Has anyone mentioned trying to overclock the hardware to make a cheaper processor perform better? I've never found it to be much CHEAPER with all of the thermal compounds, extra heat sinks, and fans one needs to keep an OC'd PC cool.
In The in-game benchmark for CS:Source I get an average framerate of 63 FPS and I have a GeForce FX 5200. If I'm staring into a corner with no models just walls I can get that in Doom 3. Granted CS: Source probably doesn't push the bar graphically and with in game physics as single player HL2 will but the engine itself runs beautifully with a crappy video card. So I don't think you'll have that problem. HL2 looks more processor driving and Doom3 is more GPU driven.
Well if you remember correctly, Nvidia bought 3DFX out so that explains their SLI setup on the new 6200 PCI-e cards, and their excessive eneed to have all games display their logo on the box and startup.
now i might be a little too drunk to post on slashdot but isnt the sims just porn for people that dont want ot got that far i mean honestly i mean honestly all your doing is trying out those relatioships you cant have... suck it whatever i dont care.. play cs: source
Hey man I played 1.5 till they shut it down because I didn't want to play 1.6 but I'm not mad at them for it. It costs good money to keep the WON servers up and running its not like the game changes all that much, if anything its for the better on Steam. I didn't want to change but then I did and I've realized that change is good. You can't fight change, if you want to however there are plenty of respectable amish 1.5 servers still running. However the guns l33t has been replaced with Gospel, hostages with cows, terrorists with electricity, and weapons with good old hardwork and faith. Fun however is no longer an option.
Now first I have to take the companies gold. Make sure no one follows me out to where the cows sit around. Then I drop all but one gold piece on the ground. I run away. I click on the gold from 100 feet away and start moving towards it. I open up my inventory and hover my mouse over the 1 gold piece. Just as I'm about the pick up the all the gold on the ground, I click on the one gold piece in my inventory and miraculously it turns into the same amount that is on the ground. Yet everything that was on the ground is now in my backpack. Oddly enough I have duplicated my company's gold. Thanks Diablo! (maybe I'm too old for this joke)
...a good thing for gaming when it comes along? Valve has done nothing (aside from the cyber cafe nonsense) but try to preserve PC gaming. Granted they're doing some of it for profit but I wonder how much the creators of CS and DOD got for Valve to buy up their mods? I wonder what incentive that puts in the minds of mod-makers to work on mods for HL2. If its good, Valve might buy yours and release it for $10-20 to the public via retail for those that might not have been mod savvy enough to find and download new mods. If Valve was evil there would only have been retail versions of Counter-Strike. Attracting mod-makers is good business. Hell Epic and Nvidia have a million dollar prize ready for the winner of the Make Something Unreal contest.
And I am sick of hearing whining about buying products through steam and how its gonna be a monthly charge. Either they're gonna charge once for a product or monthly. Pay-to-play gaming outside of the MMO arena is dead. Heat, TEN, Mplayer, Engage, Kali any of them still around? Multiplayer via the net has to be played through steam so that they can ensure you didn't pirate the game. If you're careful with your CD-key you shouldn't have a problem unless of course you want to play the game for free.
Steam doesn't abuse your rights by simply not working or forcing you to disable or uninstall burning / emulation software so you can run it like newer game releases. It doesn't have annoying cd-checks that you're better off cracking than dealing with. Honestly I prefer not having a cd for the games I own or multiple for all the add ons and patches. When I preordered HL2 I don't recall steam even giving me a cd-key to write down and remember. It shot me an email and flagged my account to be able access HL2, how fool proof is that? (Please no Newell password jokes:) heh) I opened a few gmail accounts just to store game patches and content packs for other games, its easy to reinstall steam after a format. No finding the case for the key, then digging for the cd for the install.
Meh, I've ranted enough. I honestly don't see why people are legitmately upset with Steam, I rode 1.5 till WON servers were shutoff and just switched over and I don't see what the huge fuss was about. I think people just don't want to change. Paraphrasing what Tycho said in Penny Arcade about Valve and Vivendi. You used to have to go to the well for water and then someone figured out a way to get it from your house.
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Now that was a good Lucas Arts game.
Its pretty easy to figure out, each soldier that doesn't come home from Iraq is one less person hunting for a job in this country. So Bush is actually creating jobs with his bullshit war.
Could some store chain out there do this with Half-Life 2 so it gets insta-released on Steam ?
stay the same... Thats exactly how people see treaties like these. They're based off of cornucopian ideals that if we put stock in innovation and education our future engineers and think-tanks can create new technology that is aimed to eliminate our dependence on the lesser evil. Maybe if we stopped looking at the jobs immediately as "lost" and put more focus on alternate energy we could someday accept a treaty like this, but with the oil industry running our country this isn't happening anytime soon. Someday someone is going to have to break our comfy little shell.
EVE Online was cool I played it from release until September of last year. It got dull quickly like every MMORPG, the grind exists in every game I believe. From what I know of EVE and have seen from JTL its(EVE's) combat is not that interactive where JTL is a flight sim. I'd get JTL if it were a standalone product without all of the grind to get there. Its hard to be a casual player with these games.
I dont know half-life 1 ran pretty well on a 166 Mhz AMD K6, with 64 mb ram and a voodoo2 upon release.
God has a use for me? I thought he gave us free will... Excuse while I go back to shooting CT's in CS Source.
terrorists win!
Duke Nukem Forever has been a work in progress for 7 years LOL!
1993 called and it wants its news back.
One, this is never going to be adopted by teachers that don't know how or won't learn themselves how to adopt new technology or ideas. I know that teachers that are within 5 even 10 years of retiring won't put in the effort to do this. Two, you need a computer for every child, either at a computer lab where visits will be less frequent or have a computer at every child's desk, which public schools can't afford, unless they slash art, gym, and music which are all important.
For about $200 I was able to upgrade my current system (built in 2001) to play Doom3. Thats less than buying a new console (PS3, Xbox2) and much more satisifying. But then again maybe I'm just bitter that Microsoft robbed Halo from the PC cradle.
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Has anyone mentioned trying to overclock the hardware to make a cheaper processor perform better? I've never found it to be much CHEAPER with all of the thermal compounds, extra heat sinks, and fans one needs to keep an OC'd PC cool.
When playing Everquest always remember to take a break once a day for 15 minutes and bathe regularly. A clean body is a healthy body.
In The in-game benchmark for CS:Source I get an average framerate of 63 FPS and I have a GeForce FX 5200. If I'm staring into a corner with no models just walls I can get that in Doom 3. Granted CS: Source probably doesn't push the bar graphically and with in game physics as single player HL2 will but the engine itself runs beautifully with a crappy video card. So I don't think you'll have that problem. HL2 looks more processor driving and Doom3 is more GPU driven.
Counter-Counterpoing Mind you that Halo 2 has gone gold as well...
Well if you remember correctly, Nvidia bought 3DFX out so that explains their SLI setup on the new 6200 PCI-e cards, and their excessive eneed to have all games display their logo on the box and startup.
You could give them each $100 and they'd be crying because it wasn't 5 twenty dollar bills.
You obviously have never played Half-Life.
now i might be a little too drunk to post on slashdot but isnt the sims just porn for people that dont want ot got that far i mean honestly i mean honestly all your doing is trying out those relatioships you cant have... suck it whatever i dont care.. play cs: source
Just curious where your interests lie. What hobbies do you have that make you a geek?
Hey man I played 1.5 till they shut it down because I didn't want to play 1.6 but I'm not mad at them for it. It costs good money to keep the WON servers up and running its not like the game changes all that much, if anything its for the better on Steam. I didn't want to change but then I did and I've realized that change is good. You can't fight change, if you want to however there are plenty of respectable amish 1.5 servers still running. However the guns l33t has been replaced with Gospel, hostages with cows, terrorists with electricity, and weapons with good old hardwork and faith. Fun however is no longer an option.
Now first I have to take the companies gold. Make sure no one follows me out to where the cows sit around. Then I drop all but one gold piece on the ground. I run away. I click on the gold from 100 feet away and start moving towards it. I open up my inventory and hover my mouse over the 1 gold piece. Just as I'm about the pick up the all the gold on the ground, I click on the one gold piece in my inventory and miraculously it turns into the same amount that is on the ground. Yet everything that was on the ground is now in my backpack. Oddly enough I have duplicated my company's gold. Thanks Diablo! (maybe I'm too old for this joke)
...a good thing for gaming when it comes along? Valve has done nothing (aside from the cyber cafe nonsense) but try to preserve PC gaming. Granted they're doing some of it for profit but I wonder how much the creators of CS and DOD got for Valve to buy up their mods? I wonder what incentive that puts in the minds of mod-makers to work on mods for HL2. If its good, Valve might buy yours and release it for $10-20 to the public via retail for those that might not have been mod savvy enough to find and download new mods. If Valve was evil there would only have been retail versions of Counter-Strike. Attracting mod-makers is good business. Hell Epic and Nvidia have a million dollar prize ready for the winner of the Make Something Unreal contest.
:) heh) I opened a few gmail accounts just to store game patches and content packs for other games, its easy to reinstall steam after a format. No finding the case for the key, then digging for the cd for the install.
And I am sick of hearing whining about buying products through steam and how its gonna be a monthly charge. Either they're gonna charge once for a product or monthly. Pay-to-play gaming outside of the MMO arena is dead. Heat, TEN, Mplayer, Engage, Kali any of them still around? Multiplayer via the net has to be played through steam so that they can ensure you didn't pirate the game. If you're careful with your CD-key you shouldn't have a problem unless of course you want to play the game for free.
Steam doesn't abuse your rights by simply not working or forcing you to disable or uninstall burning / emulation software so you can run it like newer game releases. It doesn't have annoying cd-checks that you're better off cracking than dealing with. Honestly I prefer not having a cd for the games I own or multiple for all the add ons and patches. When I preordered HL2 I don't recall steam even giving me a cd-key to write down and remember. It shot me an email and flagged my account to be able access HL2, how fool proof is that? (Please no Newell password jokes
Meh, I've ranted enough. I honestly don't see why people are legitmately upset with Steam, I rode 1.5 till WON servers were shutoff and just switched over and I don't see what the huge fuss was about. I think people just don't want to change. Paraphrasing what Tycho said in Penny Arcade about Valve and Vivendi. You used to have to go to the well for water and then someone figured out a way to get it from your house.