"Does 1 person who wants to see that content have the right to tell 1,000,000 other people to put up with his crap"
That is why we have free will. So when someone make a site with content I don't like, I don't visit that site. It doesn't mean that I would like to see both him and his site dead. Just as I might like something a millino other people don't.
I know this is hard to grasp, but please try.
"USA where the communities want old fashioned values" Like the opportunity to marry 12 year old girls? You know, that was something they did back in the old days. Or have slaves... Yeah! Those old fashioned values sure were GREAT!
So what you are saying is that Microsoft didn't acknowledge the server downtime following a patch? Hello!!! They even had text on the login screen, home page and the dev. home page that said people should be careful about playing A LOT the first day after patchday. Not that it happened often. Just a few times did we have any rollback to talk about (because of a bug which allowed almost unlimited platinum scarabs and one duplication bug) and those times everyone recieved some form of compensation. At least you didn't have to wait in line for several hours to play. Or having the devs. suggest you play on another server than where all your friends are playing.
Reading your post give me the mental image of someone running a server saying it's 'up' when it's clearly having problems, which was -NOT- the case with AC.
Funny you should mention AC because that game had one of the best launces of any mmorpg to date. I know because I played it since late 1999.
And wtf do you mean be 'reset the server'? I can't imagine.... Do you mean resetting it to day one. Everyone is level 1? What? Or do you mean that they maybe turned off and on the server after making a HUGE patch to it? Now that's shocking! Really...
Just keep on bashing MS, but don't drag the excellent game Asheron's Call into it. To this date Asheron's Call is still the only original mmorpg where player skill mattered just as much as your character skills. So level 100 fighting a level 80 would be certain victory to the level 100.
So often that the extra electronics in your gun will seriously lower your chance of survival for the next 50 years?
Maybe -I- should start by locking my door....
But then again, what do I do if my brother comes along, after a late trip to town, and wants to stay over? Nah.. I'll let the door be unlocked.
Maybe he'll stumble upon the intruder and scare him off.
It's so funny reading all these 'what if'-posts when it comes to guns. You people are fuunay! -HAHA
By the way... What if the gun-wielding maniac intruder of death came wearing bulletproof vest?
Why settle for a puny firearm when you can get the REAL STUFF: XM 109
If a small firearm can defend you against dorks, why not opt for the more high power stuff. With that gun you could hunt down bad guys driving armored cars. Now! That sounds like something.
Why must the 'what if' stop?
How can this be modded Flamebait, when people are posting so much crap around here.
The only reason this disaster is getting so much media cover is because we have people there who filmed the waves and corpses. If not, no one would have even heard about it.
It's not a question of how many people died. It's how they died and what causes were behind.
I read something about the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea only a year or two ago. The larges battle in history since the second world war (measured in humans participating) was supposed to have been between those two contries. Rumors have it that over 100.000 people got killed in that battle. The death toll was so extremely high because one of the armies used unarmed groups of people to run through mine fields, just to get them cleared.
Did we hear/read/see anything from that disaster? Nope. No western people involved and probably nothing important to fight about...
This doesn't dwarf 9/11. 9/11 was something extraordinary. Something evil and cunning. Something the world had never seen before. It was spectacular! Although in a vicious way.
This is just another natural disaster. Not even comparable to floods/droughts in China which have had millions of people killed in the last century. Soon it will be forgotten by most of us.
This brings up memories about some new system for scanning luggage at airports I read about. The system found 100% of all decoys placed in the luggage. Which the people in charge thought was pretty good. Reading a bit farther down the article you found an interview with one of the security people working with the system. He said that the system did find every decoy, but it also found 100+ false positives for every decoy. In reality the system was 100% useless.
"Logically, file sharing will eventually destroy the CD and DVD market."
-How?! The latest movies that have been popular and also been downloaded most are also the movies that have sold most copies... How do you explain that?!
I think my three LotR Extended Edition boxes do very well at their current placment in my living room. Same with the huge BBC WW-2 documentary (16DVDs). I've also downloaded those films, adn several more that I also own. Why? Because I think they are worth it and it's also nice to impress people with a great DVD collection.
I think Babylon 5 is without a doubt the best sci-fi series I've seen. And the last time I watched it through, I had located some of the best sites (IMO) on the net with references/story/background/everything for each B5 episode and read everything before watching an episode. Especially reading the Lurker's Episode Guide added a lot to the series.
The People's Republic of California has publicly declared sniper/hunter/target shooter types unwelcome here, and come Jan 1st, 2005, rifles chambering.50 BMG here will be classified as "assault weapons" and subject to ban/registration/confiscation/destruction, thanks to our overzealous Citizen's Protection Committee in Sacramento.
So for them to be of any 'good', would they allow small nuclear devices? Or MRLS? What about small anti aircraft rockets?
I mean... Come on. Who knows what the thieves will think of next, better put a minefield in your garden. Why go for some crappy.50 cal rifle when you could be packing one of these: Needed for home defence
"Is it worth paying an extra $2k to save a few kilograms and a few centimeters on a fixed display?"
I think so. The price of space is getting higher and higher every month.
The square meter price of my apartment is around 34,000 NOK or around $5000 USD. A large 42" plasma display would save me money if I compared it to say a regular TV of comparable size on the floor/a small table. You get pretty decent plasma screens for around $2500-3000 USD now so I think that's a good deal.
What about those who paid a lot of money and ordered it over steam, to get it "before people buying it from retail stores"?
IF you pay for a premium service you should also get it. In this case everyone got it at the same time. I would be pretty pissed right now. I know people who paid $75 for it, with the promise they would get it before everyone else.
What about playerkilling?! Are there anything even remotely resembles 'oldschool' UO or the Asheron's Call Darktide server?
It was actually bad to get hooked on AC because of the "one of it's kind" type of game. Now every other mmorpg look so boring and ordinary that I wouldn't play them even if I got paid to.:-/
I've bought 4 portable mp3 players the last 18 months. All in the range of 1200-1800NOK or around $180-270. I just need to have some music when run/walk/do workout and these small gadgets to get worn out, fast. And they are easy to lose:-/ But that doesn't stop me from buying them and not some old walkman for $15. Because I want the music player to me small, very small and not prone to skipping when it get bumped around. The smaller they are the more they costs. That's a tradeoff. I bet the same thing goes for PSP. Maybe it's not as small as GBA, and not as cheap but it might be 100-times better for watching video, playing kickass games (I hate Nintendo and their flyffy-looking-games) and just has a higher coolness factor. If so it's easily worth $200.
As for people making comments about being rich or what-not, $200 is not much. At least not here in Norway. Maybe some of you spend more money on other things? *shrug* -I like gadgets.
My mobile phone costs A LOT more. My sunglasses costs more. My wrist watch costs more. My ring.
If it's worth it I buy it. I don't buy a rocks because they are not so expensive to lose. Even tho it could be fun, in a retarded way, to have two rocks and bang them together, or fling them at people. If PSP is a great toy with great games $200 would be next to nothing.
Off topic: But... I Just bought an x-box with an Xecuter3 chip and a 160GB harddrive. And it's the singel best 'geek purchase' I've ever done. I just put away my DVD and VHS player. Even my girlfriend thinks that the x-box is 'a nice thing' (She is really anti-geek). It's the 'crystal version', not the ugly black and green one.
"The major disadvantage of any "Sony" or "Panasonic" or "Tommy Hilfiger" branded store is that you're limited to just that store's brands."
-Also. Being limited to one brand also mean you are mostly limited to -one- product of a type in each market segment. Say for example, you have a 29" TV made for the low-end market and another 29" for the high-end market. Now, how could a Sony only store 'lure' customers to their store if they wanted to sell low-end targeted TVs? At Best Buy or some other megastore they could just lower the price on low-end TV of brand Z, and when people rush to the store they'll either get the message "we're sold out! But please take a look at our other TV here, just $50 more but 10 times better...." or "Why would you buy that cheap-ass TV when you can get nice shiny Sony TV for $50 more?!"
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"You might want to wait till you can get a used copy of the games/DVDs you want. That's the honest way to get them if you don't want to pay full price"
I thought a lot of software/movie EULAs didn't allow for resales. Wouldn't that be just as illegal as copying it?
We run a few online webshops, and average 50 queries per second. That makes almost 200mill queriers in 45 days, on a singel processor system (AMD 1.2ghz, 2gb memory, fast IDE disks). And we still have 'room to spare'.:)
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I really really enjoyed Far Cry. It was everything HL-2 and D3 was + much more.
Vehicle physics in HL-2 was so bad I almost cried. Levels where small with lots of loading.
D3 was just not a good game in my eyes. *shrug*
"Does 1 person who wants to see that content have the right to tell 1,000,000 other people to put up with his crap"
That is why we have free will. So when someone make a site with content I don't like, I don't visit that site. It doesn't mean that I would like to see both him and his site dead.
Just as I might like something a millino other people don't.
I know this is hard to grasp, but please try.
"USA where the communities want old fashioned values"
Like the opportunity to marry 12 year old girls? You know, that was something they did back in the old days. Or have slaves... Yeah! Those old fashioned values sure were GREAT!
So you think it's the complete opposite of serverhosting providers?
Where you can rent space or a virtual server, using their software and programs, but any data you choose to put there is your own responsibility.
If I buy a game to play, I'll consider anything belong to that game account to be my property. anything else will make me mad.
What a flamebaiting moronic post!
So what you are saying is that Microsoft didn't acknowledge the server downtime following a patch?
Hello!!! They even had text on the login screen, home page and the dev. home page that said people should be careful about playing A LOT the first day after patchday. Not that it happened often. Just a few times did we have any rollback to talk about (because of a bug which allowed almost unlimited platinum scarabs and one duplication bug) and those times everyone recieved some form of compensation.
At least you didn't have to wait in line for several hours to play. Or having the devs. suggest you play on another server than where all your friends are playing.
Reading your post give me the mental image of someone running a server saying it's 'up' when it's clearly having problems, which was -NOT- the case with AC.
Funny you should mention AC because that game had one of the best launces of any mmorpg to date. I know because I played it since late 1999.
And wtf do you mean be 'reset the server'? I can't imagine.... Do you mean resetting it to day one. Everyone is level 1? What?
Or do you mean that they maybe turned off and on the server after making a HUGE patch to it? Now that's shocking! Really...
Just keep on bashing MS, but don't drag the excellent game Asheron's Call into it. To this date Asheron's Call is still the only original mmorpg where player skill mattered just as much as your character skills. So level 100 fighting a level 80 would be certain victory to the level 100.
Does it happen often?
That gun-wielding intruders enters your bedroom?
So often that the extra electronics in your gun will seriously lower your chance of survival for the next 50 years?
Maybe -I- should start by locking my door.... But then again, what do I do if my brother comes along, after a late trip to town, and wants to stay over? Nah.. I'll let the door be unlocked. Maybe he'll stumble upon the intruder and scare him off.
It's so funny reading all these 'what if'-posts when it comes to guns. You people are fuunay! -HAHA
By the way... What if the gun-wielding maniac intruder of death came wearing bulletproof vest? Why settle for a puny firearm when you can get the REAL STUFF:
XM 109
If a small firearm can defend you against dorks, why not opt for the more high power stuff. With that gun you could hunt down bad guys driving armored cars. Now! That sounds like something.
Why must the 'what if' stop?
Uhhh.... D3 and HL-2 are maybe the worst let downs ever.
Far Cry was the only game which really stood out this year.
How can this be modded Flamebait, when people are posting so much crap around here.
The only reason this disaster is getting so much media cover is because we have people there who filmed the waves and corpses. If not, no one would have even heard about it.
It's not a question of how many people died. It's how they died and what causes were behind.
I read something about the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea only a year or two ago.
The larges battle in history since the second world war (measured in humans participating) was supposed to have been between those two contries. Rumors have it that over 100.000 people got killed in that battle.
The death toll was so extremely high because one of the armies used unarmed groups of people to run through mine fields, just to get them cleared.
Did we hear/read/see anything from that disaster? Nope. No western people involved and probably nothing important to fight about...
This doesn't dwarf 9/11.
9/11 was something extraordinary.
Something evil and cunning.
Something the world had never seen before.
It was spectacular! Although in a vicious way.
This is just another natural disaster. Not even comparable to floods/droughts in China which have had millions of people killed in the last century.
Soon it will be forgotten by most of us.
".. was 100% effective."
This brings up memories about some new system for scanning luggage at airports I read about.
The system found 100% of all decoys placed in the luggage. Which the people in charge thought was pretty good.
Reading a bit farther down the article you found an interview with one of the security people working with the system. He said that the system did find every decoy, but it also found 100+ false positives for every decoy. In reality the system was 100% useless.
Damn... I forgot.
"Logically, file sharing will eventually destroy the CD and DVD market."
-How?! The latest movies that have been popular and also been downloaded most are also the movies that have sold most copies... How do you explain that?!
That's just plain stupid!
I think my three LotR Extended Edition boxes do very well at their current placment in my living room.
Same with the huge BBC WW-2 documentary (16DVDs).
I've also downloaded those films, adn several more that I also own.
Why?
Because I think they are worth it and it's also nice to impress people with a great DVD collection.
-My first thought when reading this :)
I think Babylon 5 is without a doubt the best sci-fi series I've seen. And the last time I watched it through, I had located some of the best sites (IMO) on the net with references/story/background/everything for each B5 episode and read everything before watching an episode.
Especially reading the Lurker's Episode Guide added a lot to the series.
Lurker's Guide.
Timeline from Babylon 5 History Page
The People's Republic of California has publicly declared sniper/hunter/target shooter types unwelcome here, and come Jan 1st, 2005, rifles chambering .50 BMG here will be classified as "assault weapons" and subject to ban/registration/confiscation/destruction, thanks to our overzealous Citizen's Protection Committee in Sacramento.
.50 cal rifle when you could be packing one of these:
So for them to be of any 'good', would they allow small nuclear devices?
Or MRLS?
What about small anti aircraft rockets?
I mean... Come on. Who knows what the thieves will think of next, better put a minefield in your garden. Why go for some crappy
Needed for home defence
the fact that you can't give away or sell used copies of Half-life 2 if you want to keep your Steam Account?!
This just set the precedence that anything you buy you must keep for ever.
What if they start doing this with cars?!
"Is it worth paying an extra $2k to save a few kilograms and a few centimeters on a fixed display?"
I think so. The price of space is getting higher and higher every month.
The square meter price of my apartment is around 34,000 NOK or around $5000 USD.
A large 42" plasma display would save me money if I compared it to say a regular TV of comparable size on the floor/a small table.
You get pretty decent plasma screens for around $2500-3000 USD now so I think that's a good deal.
I really like Wired. :)
-Well, that was all. Just wanted to say that.
PS.
Absolute, isn't that a Swedish brand?
What about those who paid a lot of money and ordered it over steam, to get it "before people buying it from retail stores"?
IF you pay for a premium service you should also get it. In this case everyone got it at the same time. I would be pretty pissed right now.
I know people who paid $75 for it, with the promise they would get it before everyone else.
What about playerkilling?!
:-/
Are there anything even remotely resembles 'oldschool' UO or the Asheron's Call Darktide server?
It was actually bad to get hooked on AC because of the "one of it's kind" type of game. Now every other mmorpg look so boring and ordinary that I wouldn't play them even if I got paid to.
Can I have that script?...
For evaluation only, nothing else *cough*
Damn.. Forgot to mention that.
:-/
I've bought 4 portable mp3 players the last 18 months. All in the range of 1200-1800NOK or around $180-270.
I just need to have some music when run/walk/do workout and these small gadgets to get worn out, fast. And they are easy to lose
But that doesn't stop me from buying them and not some old walkman for $15. Because I want the music player to me small, very small and not prone to skipping when it get bumped around.
The smaller they are the more they costs. That's a tradeoff. I bet the same thing goes for PSP.
Maybe it's not as small as GBA, and not as cheap but it might be 100-times better for watching video, playing kickass games (I hate Nintendo and their flyffy-looking-games) and just has a higher coolness factor. If so it's easily worth $200.
As for people making comments about being rich or what-not, $200 is not much. At least not here in Norway.
Maybe some of you spend more money on other things? *shrug* -I like gadgets.
Uhhh.. Are you serious?
My mobile phone costs A LOT more. My sunglasses costs more. My wrist watch costs more. My ring.
If it's worth it I buy it. I don't buy a rocks because they are not so expensive to lose. Even tho it could be fun, in a retarded way, to have two rocks and bang them together, or fling them at people.
If PSP is a great toy with great games $200 would be next to nothing.
Off topic:
But... I Just bought an x-box with an Xecuter3 chip and a 160GB harddrive. And it's the singel best 'geek purchase' I've ever done. I just put away my DVD and VHS player.
Even my girlfriend thinks that the x-box is 'a nice thing' (She is really anti-geek). It's the 'crystal version', not the ugly black and green one.
"The major disadvantage of any "Sony" or "Panasonic" or "Tommy Hilfiger" branded store is that you're limited to just that store's brands."
-Also. Being limited to one brand also mean you are mostly limited to -one- product of a type in each market segment. Say for example, you have a 29" TV made for the low-end market and another 29" for the high-end market.
Now, how could a Sony only store 'lure' customers to their store if they wanted to sell low-end targeted TVs?
At Best Buy or some other megastore they could just lower the price on low-end TV of brand Z, and when people rush to the store they'll either get the message "we're sold out! But please take a look at our other TV here, just $50 more but 10 times better...." or "Why would you buy that cheap-ass TV when you can get nice shiny Sony TV for $50 more?!"
"You might want to wait till you can get a used copy of the games/DVDs you want. That's the honest way to get them if you don't want to pay full price"
I thought a lot of software/movie EULAs didn't allow for resales.
Wouldn't that be just as illegal as copying it?
Agree with you.
:)
We run a few online webshops, and average 50 queries per second. That makes almost 200mill queriers in 45 days, on a singel processor system (AMD 1.2ghz, 2gb memory, fast IDE disks).
And we still have 'room to spare'.