I actually found oblivion to make more sense on the console. I played it on the PC first and re bought it for my 360. I found the gameplay better on the 360.
Mainly because I would have no place to set a keyboard and mouse and would not be able to play laying down on my side like I do with my 360. I have tried my computer downstairs by my tv and it just turns out to be more trouble then it was worth.
I buy new video games. I do not like used because I have had a few problems with gamestop and their return policy (I don't always play the games I buy within a month or two and they wont take a return on a used game a few months later.)
When I am done with the game I sell it and then use that money to help offset the cost of my new game. If you kill the used gaming market I will buy less games because I simply will not put out that much money as frequently.
I was in your boat, then I bought a xbox 360. It basically gets all the good windows games anyways, and it looks much better then my computer ever has. Even with my 8800GTS games just don't look as good on a 20 inch monitor as they do on a 50+ inch LCD at 1080p.
It's not the rendering or graphics (obviously the pc is better), its the shear magnitude of size and comfort.
I realized I stop buying pc games, and they ones I did want to buy all had mac versions (starcraft 2, spore, etc). So I bought a macbook pro and i can say it is the greatest notebook I've ever owned.
I liked the shareware approach. Worked for Id right? Download doom or wolf3d shareware and get to play a single level or two. You want the full game you buy it. Simple enough and no limits as to how long you can replay that same level.
I live in Indiana in a county that had no daylight savings. I would get up and the sun would be just rising. I would shower and drive to work in the morning sun. I would work all day and come home and the sun would still be up. I would do my house work and eat dinner and the sun would be setting. During the winter I would get home just a hour or so before dusk and nothing else would much change.
Now I get up and it is dark. I turn on lights, take a shower and because it is dark out I just feel more tired. This means I actually take longer to take my shower and get ready to go to work. On top of this I find myself drinking coffee to stay awake. I get home and it is still daylight, but it still feels like it gets dark just as quickly.
Worse then that is the period leading up to the time change. It was dark when I woke up and dark when I got home. This was the previous month before we switched times again. Daylight savings is a stupid premise imho.
I had to give root access to someone the other day who I know for a fact WILL fuck up the machine he is using. The guy has no unix training at all and even asked me where the desktop was.
But I am not the boss, however I can prove it was not my fault when he tries (oh and he will) to blame me for his fuckups.
They could also take the long hard road. Realize this next version of windows will take a hit and force all drivers to be signed to be installed. Do the signing for free, but be very selective on what passes as quality.
My employer recently standardized on truecrypt for all notebooks. Lately I have had a lot of employees ask me how to use truecrypt on their personal computers. I have even done some full disk encryption for their personal notebooks. Most have simply wanted to protect usb drives, but for 'dumb users' they are learning very fast.
I have an encrypted disk that is full of encrypted disks. They are labeled backup_date and important_documents_date, etc. I have a special one named long_term_storage that is for 'special' files I do not want the rest of the world to have access to but do not belong in a category I set up.
So not only do you need my encryption password to boot my notebook, but then you need to know the password of the individual containers to see what is inside them. That is of course assuming I don't have any hidden containers or keyfiles.
Are you sure about that? With the growing trend of business being in 'malls' it seems to be the case. I've had a few times where I've pulled into a empty parking lot to have a security car drive by a few seconds later to check up on me. How did they know I was there? My guess is the camera in front of the stores.
My comment though was targeted at the cameras in stores. They are not there to stop night time after hours theft. They are meant to stop theft during operation hours where their threat is that someone might be monitoring them.
I would have no fear of a camera on a house. It is quite useless. I'd have a lot more fear of stealing a dvd from best buy during normal operating hours.
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That is odd, in the last 3 versions of ubuntu I have not needed to touch my xorg. I always do a fresh install each version.
This is an nvidia 8800GTS.
I was the same. I love moo2, never got that much into moo1 (started with moo2) and I installed moo3, played it for about 3 hours and gave up.
I actually found oblivion to make more sense on the console. I played it on the PC first and re bought it for my 360. I found the gameplay better on the 360.
Mainly because I would have no place to set a keyboard and mouse and would not be able to play laying down on my side like I do with my 360. I have tried my computer downstairs by my tv and it just turns out to be more trouble then it was worth.
I buy new video games. I do not like used because I have had a few problems with gamestop and their return policy (I don't always play the games I buy within a month or two and they wont take a return on a used game a few months later.)
When I am done with the game I sell it and then use that money to help offset the cost of my new game. If you kill the used gaming market I will buy less games because I simply will not put out that much money as frequently.
I was in your boat, then I bought a xbox 360. It basically gets all the good windows games anyways, and it looks much better then my computer ever has. Even with my 8800GTS games just don't look as good on a 20 inch monitor as they do on a 50+ inch LCD at 1080p.
It's not the rendering or graphics (obviously the pc is better), its the shear magnitude of size and comfort.
I realized I stop buying pc games, and they ones I did want to buy all had mac versions (starcraft 2, spore, etc). So I bought a macbook pro and i can say it is the greatest notebook I've ever owned.
Didn't you know, kids are not suppose to play video games.
I submitted too soon. I also work 7:30 - 4:30. So that should give you some idea about how I am annoyed by the fact time is now changing.
Look it up, until this year South Bend, IN did not EVER change its time in the fall or spring. It was constant time year round.
I liked the shareware approach. Worked for Id right? Download doom or wolf3d shareware and get to play a single level or two. You want the full game you buy it. Simple enough and no limits as to how long you can replay that same level.
I live in Indiana in a county that had no daylight savings. I would get up and the sun would be just rising. I would shower and drive to work in the morning sun. I would work all day and come home and the sun would still be up. I would do my house work and eat dinner and the sun would be setting. During the winter I would get home just a hour or so before dusk and nothing else would much change.
Now I get up and it is dark. I turn on lights, take a shower and because it is dark out I just feel more tired. This means I actually take longer to take my shower and get ready to go to work. On top of this I find myself drinking coffee to stay awake. I get home and it is still daylight, but it still feels like it gets dark just as quickly.
Worse then that is the period leading up to the time change. It was dark when I woke up and dark when I got home. This was the previous month before we switched times again. Daylight savings is a stupid premise imho.
Sometimes you don't have a choice.
I had to give root access to someone the other day who I know for a fact WILL fuck up the machine he is using. The guy has no unix training at all and even asked me where the desktop was.
But I am not the boss, however I can prove it was not my fault when he tries (oh and he will) to blame me for his fuckups.
Thanks, I figured if I explained why it wouldn't be as funny to those who know why.
I've done it twice at a walmart without anyone even questioning me.
Here we have 5 people with root access on our web server. Who do you blame if root deletes /var/www?
With sudo I know exactly who to blame.
here was my recent o'shit moment.
at midnight `shutdown -r now`
That was bad LOL.
Dear language buff,
Language changes over time. 99.9% of everyone who read my post understood what I said. That makes it fine.
So suck it.
Damn it, I posted in this article before I saw this post. I should of waited and modded you up.
They could also take the long hard road. Realize this next version of windows will take a hit and force all drivers to be signed to be installed. Do the signing for free, but be very selective on what passes as quality.
My employer recently standardized on truecrypt for all notebooks. Lately I have had a lot of employees ask me how to use truecrypt on their personal computers. I have even done some full disk encryption for their personal notebooks. Most have simply wanted to protect usb drives, but for 'dumb users' they are learning very fast.
I have an encrypted disk that is full of encrypted disks. They are labeled backup_date and important_documents_date, etc. I have a special one named long_term_storage that is for 'special' files I do not want the rest of the world to have access to but do not belong in a category I set up.
So not only do you need my encryption password to boot my notebook, but then you need to know the password of the individual containers to see what is inside them. That is of course assuming I don't have any hidden containers or keyfiles.
As far as I can tell, there is nothing for me to see there.
Are you sure about that? With the growing trend of business being in 'malls' it seems to be the case. I've had a few times where I've pulled into a empty parking lot to have a security car drive by a few seconds later to check up on me. How did they know I was there? My guess is the camera in front of the stores.
My comment though was targeted at the cameras in stores. They are not there to stop night time after hours theft. They are meant to stop theft during operation hours where their threat is that someone might be monitoring them.
I would have no fear of a camera on a house. It is quite useless. I'd have a lot more fear of stealing a dvd from best buy during normal operating hours.
I'm not sure I put my money on a system that can be beaten with a simple ski mask.
They work in business because the crook doesn't know if the camera is being monitored. The chances of 24 hour monitoring at a house is next to none.
I don't want to hit you baby! But you just piss me off sometimes! Now I'm going to ask one more time, where is my god damn dinner! *SMACK**SMACK*