It's more like $20,000/year. And the idea is that the cost of living is so low... $2,000 goes a long way. Besides, $2,000/year is better than $0, which is what I'd make if I DIDN'T HAVE A JOB...
[FunnyAccent] I have learned that in order to make a decent living as a programmer in my lifetime, I should have been born in India. Maybe it's bad Karma... but no! My Karma is positive![/FunnyAccent]
Generals may feel a little different from the old C&C, but I think it lived up to its lineage. I haven't played the expansions yet... but the basic game is very, very good. The only thing we seem to still be missing is a good air-to-air battle system... and I was a bit upset that they took the seafaring units out of the game. Bring them back!
I don't think that it's such a big deal. I mean, who in America actually believes that politicians tell the truth? I'm not freaked out at all... I'm content to let the fat old men in Washington screw each other over and then cry "foul!" when it gets done to them... my life is more important to me than politics... so if they wanna read each other's mail, let 'em do it.
I guess I can't imagine a life where all I really wanted to do was get involved in politics... I have no faith in any of them anyway. I essentially vote for the lesser of the n evils.
Cheaters are. By a long shot (no pun). I sniped on NovaWorld in Delta Force 2 for a year or so... and I don't claim to be awesome or anything. I probably died about half as much as I killed. I especially enjoyed the challenge of going 1 on 1 with another sniper... it made it more like a battle than the typical deathmatch. The only time we ever seemed to have problems in our games was when someone would come in with codes, and ruin the whole match for the rest of us. I think that these games need a way to completely disable cheats in Multiplayer. If they do that, the players will balance themselves out.
I started watching TNG re-runs shortly after Voyager started. That grew into an addiction. I became a hard-core Trekker pretty quick, and I followed DS9 and Voyager pretty closely. For the first half of DS9, I was totally unimpressed. It was a huge soap opera. I was much more interested in Voyager. Then the war with the Dominion started, and DS9 got really good... but Voyager was getting boring. The only reason I stayed with it was Seven of Nine... and I KNOW no nerd will disagree with me on that one.
I never even really got into Enterprise. From the start, it didn't seem like it had the magic I was used to in the other series.
I want to see them take a few years off. Then make a miniseries that leads to a really well-planned TV Series. Use the old, familiar characters (e.g. Klingons & Romulans; we don't need anything more than occasional cameos from the old crews). Stay away from a perfectly continuous storyline, too... TNG's episodes could stand alone, or they could be grouped together; and I think that's what made them so good.
...come up with this crap? Somewhere in the world, someone took home a paycheck because they created a game where you break pieces of plastic.
I can't figure out if this person is brilliant or a complete idiot.
He's saying that in a game like Tetris, you're being reactive: computer gives you a block of a certain shape and you have to react in the best possible way to put the piece where it goes.
In a game like The Sims, there's more proactive play... your goal is not clearly defined for you. I can play with the eventual goal of starting a family and working to the top of the food chain, or I can make my avatar drunk and passed out in a pool of his own urine. The game just sets boundaries for me, and I choose my own adventure.
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What's the target market for this thing?
Find the person who keeps the penis enlargement spammers in business... then find someone dumber.
It's more like $20,000/year. And the idea is that the cost of living is so low... $2,000 goes a long way. Besides, $2,000/year is better than $0, which is what I'd make if I DIDN'T HAVE A JOB...
[FunnyAccent] I have learned that in order to make a decent living as a programmer in my lifetime, I should have been born in India. Maybe it's bad Karma... but no! My Karma is positive![/FunnyAccent]
Are they sure it was 88 feet? Could've been meters...
This is Slashdot. Gotta be Linus.
How do they deliver it?
The last reader's reaction?
"We lost it?"
You takin' applications?
Google for "Windows RG"... someone actually made a parody of Windows (sorta recursive, I know, but hey... it was pretty accurate)
Can we pass a law that stupid people aren't allowed near this stuff? We've got too many of them already.
Generals may feel a little different from the old C&C, but I think it lived up to its lineage. I haven't played the expansions yet... but the basic game is very, very good. The only thing we seem to still be missing is a good air-to-air battle system... and I was a bit upset that they took the seafaring units out of the game. Bring them back!
I wish I had his attention span... but unfortunately I can't even finish a
I vote for the little green men with the expensive Tonka Truck... let's hear it for the aliens who play with toy cars!
I don't think that it's such a big deal. I mean, who in America actually believes that politicians tell the truth? I'm not freaked out at all... I'm content to let the fat old men in Washington screw each other over and then cry "foul!" when it gets done to them... my life is more important to me than politics... so if they wanna read each other's mail, let 'em do it.
I guess I can't imagine a life where all I really wanted to do was get involved in politics... I have no faith in any of them anyway. I essentially vote for the lesser of the n evils.
Just in case I ever wanted to know how to take a picture of exploding fruit... just the kind of thing I've always wondered how to do.
Seriously, it IS pretty cool though.
Cheaters are. By a long shot (no pun). I sniped on NovaWorld in Delta Force 2 for a year or so... and I don't claim to be awesome or anything. I probably died about half as much as I killed. I especially enjoyed the challenge of going 1 on 1 with another sniper... it made it more like a battle than the typical deathmatch. The only time we ever seemed to have problems in our games was when someone would come in with codes, and ruin the whole match for the rest of us. I think that these games need a way to completely disable cheats in Multiplayer. If they do that, the players will balance themselves out.
I started watching TNG re-runs shortly after Voyager started. That grew into an addiction. I became a hard-core Trekker pretty quick, and I followed DS9 and Voyager pretty closely. For the first half of DS9, I was totally unimpressed. It was a huge soap opera. I was much more interested in Voyager. Then the war with the Dominion started, and DS9 got really good... but Voyager was getting boring. The only reason I stayed with it was Seven of Nine... and I KNOW no nerd will disagree with me on that one.
I never even really got into Enterprise. From the start, it didn't seem like it had the magic I was used to in the other series.
I want to see them take a few years off. Then make a miniseries that leads to a really well-planned TV Series. Use the old, familiar characters (e.g. Klingons & Romulans; we don't need anything more than occasional cameos from the old crews). Stay away from a perfectly continuous storyline, too... TNG's episodes could stand alone, or they could be grouped together; and I think that's what made them so good.
Imagine how much worse it is now that all the prisoners have responded to those enlargement ads...
Isn't getting his site /.'ed bad enough?
Aw, give 'em a break. They're nerds. Nerds have... eclectic tastes. That, and their sleep schedules are fouled up by those darned 40 minutes...
I wish I could get paid to aim lasers at blocks of cheese all day...
She wants you to do *more*, and you're sighing?
...come up with this crap? Somewhere in the world, someone took home a paycheck because they created a game where you break pieces of plastic. I can't figure out if this person is brilliant or a complete idiot.
He's saying that in a game like Tetris, you're being reactive: computer gives you a block of a certain shape and you have to react in the best possible way to put the piece where it goes. In a game like The Sims, there's more proactive play... your goal is not clearly defined for you. I can play with the eventual goal of starting a family and working to the top of the food chain, or I can make my avatar drunk and passed out in a pool of his own urine. The game just sets boundaries for me, and I choose my own adventure.
No no no no NO!!! NEVER let the Vogons recite poetry to you!