If you proclaimed you had 100 online friends you would've been branded a nerd and outcast.
Now if you have 100 online friends you're a 'cool' person. The mentality of computers certainly has changed.
Anyone remember Skool Daze on the c64? http://www.mobygames.com/game/c64/skool-daze
The objective, to steal back your awful school paper from the headmaster's office. Common activities include: Beating up fellow classmates, fighting with the school bully, shooting anyone you like with your slingshot and hoping someone else gets blamed, skipping classes, writing obscenities on the blackboard and more.
Why are the school's piping up now? This type of game has been done before, granted with not as much exposure until now.
I've worked for a few very large companies that refuse to adopt UNIX because it's free.
Substitute UNIX = Linux my mind must be failing in my old age.;P
I don't feel that Unix will ever "die" as you state, despite all the Oracle propaganda Linux is the still the new kid on the block in the *nix sector and has a long way to go in terms of enterprise features which commercial UNIX variants have. Not to mention, some business managers only feel safe with a product if they've paid good money for it (the whole you get what you pay for philosophy and having a vendor to point the finger at) I know that sounds odd but its often true as I've worked for a few very large companies that refuse to adopt UNIX because it's free.
There's nothing wrong with using commercial closed business model's, it all depends on your particular situation, you need to use whichever philosophy and technology is best in your situation. Sometimes having something that is open to the world can be a bad thing.
Hey thats actually a great idea! You need to subtract how many bullets you use up. Add how many shots it takes to blow off that demons head. Determine what percentage of armor you have left. Calculate the blast radius of your grenades and the trajectory of how you throw them etc etc etc...
Nintendo thinks its perfectly acceptable for kids to play a game with short, fat Italians run and jump around a hallucinogenic fantasy world eating MAGIC mushrooms to aquire bizzare super powers. But kids calling a toothless old hag for a "good time" is wrong compared to gross rampant drug use in the Mario franchise?
Time to come clean Nintendo or all these kids will send their Betty Ford clinic bills to you!
I remember my boss having power concern issues with our equipment at our co-lo facility. We had a bunch of low end RS\6000 kit that had 800W power supplies in them, thats almost 7 amps which is half the usage of most vaccum cleaners! It didn't seem right, these were older machines and not very powerful they couldn't possibly use that much power, so we grabbed a multi-meter to check the usage. On boot up (the most expected), the usage spiked up to just above 1amp (filling the capacitors I imagine) then dropped quickly down to about.5 amps thats the equivalent usage of an average light bulb 60Watts.
Unless your friend is running a server with lots of SCSI hardware and doing very CPU and disk intensive activity all the time, I'd imagine that his power usage would sit around that ammount.
Published by Atari, not only are you hacking up wandering monsters but you slaughter Humans (and demi-humans) too. Your character also has the choice to be good or murdereously evil, so I suppose that renders his (don't harm humans) a rather moot point.
Is truely adventuring...thats what made D&D and other pen and paper RPG's fun. Getting out and exploring the realm, going into new area's, fighting new enemies, solving new puzzles and completing an adventure....one of the people in the article is right...its not about 'leveling' its the adventure that made RPG's fun and unfortuneately every MMORPG that I've played is nothing more than a hack n' slash repeditive game. Ultima Online was an exception for me for a short while, despite all its numerous faults it's the only game I've played that actually encompased the thrill of simply exploring the land and discovering new and hidden things....that lasted about a week until I was sick of being PK'd once an hour.
Especially before PDF format, before CDROM's, before the internet really took off this was really true. I miss the good old days of buying some really cool CRPG like an Ultima game, getting a highly detailed manual with subtle hints withing, a cool cloth map, a reference sheet with all the key commands and other cool goodies within.
To tell you the truth I had a harder time going from windows 200 to xp then going from gnome to kde.
Windows 200, I've never heard of that version before. Would that be 200 BC or 200 AD that it was released? What hardware archetecture does it run on an abacus?
But seriously, I had a hard time with XP too. The screen is just too vibrant and busy, everything's hidden away I loathe that OS and not because its a Microsoft product all that graphical 'fluff' is such an eyesore. Even when turning it into the classic mode I have a few problems with it, I reverted back to W2k almost immediately.
If Microsoft developers are overlooking these issues intentionally, all in the name of "job security" but then again it could have the opposite result too....too many bugs in your code and you get axed.
Does that card still even exist? With it's poor performance ratings I thought it was DOA....to bad for Matrox they used to own the 2D video card market many years ago.
I agree and even IF all of this came true, we'd still need people to design, build, manage, install and maintain these automated systems...unless of course you automated that too and then automated the automated maintenance machines....damn it just keeps going!
Yep, looked into the motherboard chipset drivers too...we all have different motherboard's and different archetecture's. I've even tried two different machines with different motherboards, still have problems. I'm currently running an Asus A7M266 with the actual AMD 761 chipset, I've grabbed all the latest drivers etc...tinkered with all the bios setting config's that might help. Nothing's solved these issues yet, ATI support tries to help but unfortunately haven't come up with a fix its sad partially because I like buying my card from the vendor (like ATI) that manufactures it too...unlike Nvidia that licenses their chipset out to the Taiwanese hardware companies (Whose support is often questionable).
Nvidia cards have their share of problems but from what I've seen they're not as crippling as my ATI issues I've had.
I'm using a current Radeon card, along with two other friends too, and I frequently experience the blue screen of death or system freezes while playing almost ALL games to the point where they're barely playable. Even tuning down the settings to the lowest quality doesn't help, and frankly why should I have to do that as I bought a powerful card like this so I CAN max it out. It's not just me, my friends with ATI card's do too, and I suspect poor drivers as we've tried everything. While our friends with Nvidia cards have very little in the way of issues and almost no system lockups/blue screen.
Hearing about one game that has issues with Nvidia doesn't bother me compared to the umpteen other games I have problems with using my ATI card.
I'd love to support the Canadian IT industry here and buy ATI again but until the problems stop I'll be picking up a Nvidia card soon. I'd rather have a select few games malfunction with an Nvidia card, then 9 out of every 10 games crash frequently crash my system when I use my ATI.
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Why not!?! That big ditch needs to be filled sometime, and what better purpose than our IT waste!;P
Seems like Microshaft's way of trying to prove that they're more proven from a legal stand point and trying to prey upon all the SCO FUD lately and gain more marketshare on Linux.
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If you proclaimed you had 100 online friends you would've been branded a nerd and outcast. Now if you have 100 online friends you're a 'cool' person. The mentality of computers certainly has changed.
See subject, nuff said.
Anyone remember Skool Daze on the c64? http://www.mobygames.com/game/c64/skool-daze The objective, to steal back your awful school paper from the headmaster's office. Common activities include: Beating up fellow classmates, fighting with the school bully, shooting anyone you like with your slingshot and hoping someone else gets blamed, skipping classes, writing obscenities on the blackboard and more. Why are the school's piping up now? This type of game has been done before, granted with not as much exposure until now.
I've worked for a few very large companies that refuse to adopt UNIX because it's free. ;P
Substitute UNIX = Linux my mind must be failing in my old age.
I don't feel that Unix will ever "die" as you state, despite all the Oracle propaganda Linux is the still the new kid on the block in the *nix sector and has a long way to go in terms of enterprise features which commercial UNIX variants have. Not to mention, some business managers only feel safe with a product if they've paid good money for it (the whole you get what you pay for philosophy and having a vendor to point the finger at) I know that sounds odd but its often true as I've worked for a few very large companies that refuse to adopt UNIX because it's free.
There's nothing wrong with using commercial closed business model's, it all depends on your particular situation, you need to use whichever philosophy and technology is best in your situation. Sometimes having something that is open to the world can be a bad thing.
Hey thats actually a great idea! You need to subtract how many bullets you use up. Add how many shots it takes to blow off that demons head. Determine what percentage of armor you have left. Calculate the blast radius of your grenades and the trajectory of how you throw them etc etc etc...
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I could actually see this happening!
Nintendo thinks its perfectly acceptable for kids to play a game with short, fat Italians run and jump around a hallucinogenic fantasy world eating MAGIC mushrooms to aquire bizzare super powers. But kids calling a toothless old hag for a "good time" is wrong compared to gross rampant drug use in the Mario franchise?
Time to come clean Nintendo or all these kids will send their Betty Ford clinic bills to you!
I remember my boss having power concern issues with our equipment at our co-lo facility. We had a bunch of low end RS\6000 kit that had 800W power supplies in them, thats almost 7 amps which is half the usage of most vaccum cleaners! It didn't seem right, these were older machines and not very powerful they couldn't possibly use that much power, so we grabbed a multi-meter to check the usage. On boot up (the most expected), the usage spiked up to just above 1amp (filling the capacitors I imagine) then dropped quickly down to about .5 amps thats the equivalent usage of an average light bulb 60Watts.
Unless your friend is running a server with lots of SCSI hardware and doing very CPU and disk intensive activity all the time, I'd imagine that his power usage would sit around that ammount.
Published by Atari, not only are you hacking up wandering monsters but you slaughter Humans (and demi-humans) too. Your character also has the choice to be good or murdereously evil, so I suppose that renders his (don't harm humans) a rather moot point.
Is truely adventuring...thats what made D&D and other pen and paper RPG's fun. Getting out and exploring the realm, going into new area's, fighting new enemies, solving new puzzles and completing an adventure....one of the people in the article is right...its not about 'leveling' its the adventure that made RPG's fun and unfortuneately every MMORPG that I've played is nothing more than a hack n' slash repeditive game. Ultima Online was an exception for me for a short while, despite all its numerous faults it's the only game I've played that actually encompased the thrill of simply exploring the land and discovering new and hidden things....that lasted about a week until I was sick of being PK'd once an hour.
Especially before PDF format, before CDROM's, before the internet really took off this was really true. I miss the good old days of buying some really cool CRPG like an Ultima game, getting a highly detailed manual with subtle hints withing, a cool cloth map, a reference sheet with all the key commands and other cool goodies within.
To tell you the truth I had a harder time going from windows 200 to xp then going from gnome to kde.
Windows 200, I've never heard of that version before. Would that be 200 BC or 200 AD that it was released? What hardware archetecture does it run on an abacus?
But seriously, I had a hard time with XP too. The screen is just too vibrant and busy, everything's hidden away I loathe that OS and not because its a Microsoft product all that graphical 'fluff' is such an eyesore. Even when turning it into the classic mode I have a few problems with it, I reverted back to W2k almost immediately.
Lets face it, lots of IT workers don't exactly put that much effort into their appearance. Ever met a hot female Unix admin? They're a rare breed.
I thought cutting off oxygen to the brain was standard policy for all managers.
That's about all the interest the films have for most people....nuff said.
Some of my fellow IT co-workers are so hideous I'd almost PREFER to go blind, bring on the ties!
If Microsoft developers are overlooking these issues intentionally, all in the name of "job security" but then again it could have the opposite result too....too many bugs in your code and you get axed.
Does that card still even exist? With it's poor performance ratings I thought it was DOA....to bad for Matrox they used to own the 2D video card market many years ago.
I agree and even IF all of this came true, we'd still need people to design, build, manage, install and maintain these automated systems...unless of course you automated that too and then automated the automated maintenance machines....damn it just keeps going!
Yep, looked into the motherboard chipset drivers too...we all have different motherboard's and different archetecture's. I've even tried two different machines with different motherboards, still have problems. I'm currently running an Asus A7M266 with the actual AMD 761 chipset, I've grabbed all the latest drivers etc...tinkered with all the bios setting config's that might help. Nothing's solved these issues yet, ATI support tries to help but unfortunately haven't come up with a fix its sad partially because I like buying my card from the vendor (like ATI) that manufactures it too...unlike Nvidia that licenses their chipset out to the Taiwanese hardware companies (Whose support is often questionable).
Nvidia cards have their share of problems but from what I've seen they're not as crippling as my ATI issues I've had.
I'm using a current Radeon card, along with two other friends too, and I frequently experience the blue screen of death or system freezes while playing almost ALL games to the point where they're barely playable. Even tuning down the settings to the lowest quality doesn't help, and frankly why should I have to do that as I bought a powerful card like this so I CAN max it out. It's not just me, my friends with ATI card's do too, and I suspect poor drivers as we've tried everything. While our friends with Nvidia cards have very little in the way of issues and almost no system lockups/blue screen.
Hearing about one game that has issues with Nvidia doesn't bother me compared to the umpteen other games I have problems with using my ATI card.
I'd love to support the Canadian IT industry here and buy ATI again but until the problems stop I'll be picking up a Nvidia card soon. I'd rather have a select few games malfunction with an Nvidia card, then 9 out of every 10 games crash frequently crash my system when I use my ATI.
Why not!?! That big ditch needs to be filled sometime, and what better purpose than our IT waste! ;P
Oddly enough, most Pocky is now made in Vancouver. So much for a Japanese treat.
Seems like Microshaft's way of trying to prove that they're more proven from a legal stand point and trying to prey upon all the SCO FUD lately and gain more marketshare on Linux.