In my opinion the PC port of Halo 1 was clunky, slow, and generally not right for playing on the PC. I mean, whatever it is you want in Halo 2 you can get in another PC game. Like the vehicles? Try out UT2k4s Onslaught gametype. Like the swords? Try one of those crazy Jedi Academy games. Like Xbox Live? Get TeamSpeak/Ventrilo and Xfire and find a clan.
That's a bunch of rubbish. Think of the millions of hits Google get's a day. Now, just pop a little thing on there saying "New! Google IM!" and boom: the majority of Slashdot and the internet tech crowd downloads it. It goes into the paper the next day generating more downloads. I don't think they would even need to do a gaim type thing and crossover to AIM and whatnot.
Think of the possibilities though. The ability to google any text someone sends you. Online and offline chat (ala ICQ) via Gmail (maybe set it up so that if you're offline and someone tries to send you a message its forwarded to your Gmail account or something). They could do all sorts of fun stuff.
For most of the people I know, the majority of the movies they download are movies that are just in theaters. I don't think its good enough for them to release it "before it comes out on DVD". Sure, it will be nice not having to go pick up the DVD but I think they're missing the "point". People don't want to have to sit in theaters with annoying brats and stale popcorn. If they can hook it up to release them when (or very shortly after) they hit theaters I think a huge majority of movie pirates would be willing to cough up the dough.
Some people need to use a bit more common sense. Sure, you *can* download legal things from Kazaa and what-have-you. But come on people, its OBVIOUS that legal downloading is not the purpose for which Kazaa was built or intended.
Stop with the comparisons. The legal uses of Xerox machines and web browsers far out number their illegal uses. Just because you *can* copy a book with a copy machine doesn't mean that copying books was the intended purpose. Take the time to step back from the picture and view the situation with the Lens of Common Sense for a moment before crying bloody murder.
Ahhhhh. I myself have been stuck on a problem a good while only to plug it into a calculator. And then it all "makes sense".
Further, I have many times played around and found something neat that made my think for a while. Just because you get an answer and don't know why doesn't make you a bad person. What does is not trying to find out why afterwards.
I would have to disagree. People are driven by excitement which comes from conflict and competition. What fun would video games be if you didn't compete against yourself or others? There would *be* no video games without it. Violence is merly a realistic extension of that craving for conflict.
Furthermore, a distincition must be made. Games can be violent and not promote violence. For example: think of all the sad movies you've seen with violence. Now compare those to the crazy gang movies and whatnot that promote it. Its a HUGE jump. Does a book like To Kill a Mockingbird, for example, by showing racism encourage and promote it?
It would be great to have it integrate with Firefox (or anything else for that matter).
Think of this: you're surfing the web and you see that your favorite band is having a concert next month. Just highlight the date (ie "4/1/05: New York at Rockafeller") and then right click and hit Send to Sunbird (or a hotkey like ctrl-s or something) and it would automatically pop up with a box and fill in as much information as possible (what time, what date, etc etc). It might take some tinkering with at first to make sure it fills in everything correctly but once it got working you'd be set.
Along with this; date specific alerts. For example, if on 3/25 you wanted to be reminded to buy tickets, you could schedule an alert to pop up on the 25th. This is much like Thunderbirds "New Email" alert.
If Mozilla can be creative and get stuff like this happening, they've got it made.
It seems AA is simply trying to protect themselves. If there is another story like 9/11 where either terrorists hijack a plane or it gets out that terrorists were using AA planes, it could mean bad, bad news for AA as well as the other airline companies which are already doing terrible. I'm not exactly sure if they are legally able to ask for this but I really see no problem with them making sure you have a reason for being in the country if only to protect themselves. They're providing a service under conditions and if you don't like them then you can fly somewhere else (and probably should).
" "The Settlement Agreement provides to the General Public of California, amongst other things, the right of consumers to return applicable Symantec, Adobe and Microsoft software for full monetary refunds even if the shrink-wrap has been opened... In addition, Symantec, Adobe, and Microsoft agreed to provide EULAs for the applicable software products on their web site and notices on their respective software packaging of the web addresses to such EULAs so consumers can review such EULAs prior to purchase of the software." CompUSA, Best Buy and Staples "agreed to provide such EULAS to consumers upon request prior to sale of the above software at their retail stores in California and to provide notices to consumers in such stores to effectuate the above.""
What's to stop someone from taking it home, copying the cds onto their harddrive along with the cd key and then taking the product back and saying they don't agree with the EULA? I don't think it's perfectly legal (at least, once returning it you need to delete your backup) but what's to stop people from doing that? You'd be telling the truth to Best Buy ("I don't agree to the EULA.") so they have to give you a refund don't they?
People that compare gaming entertainment to other entertainment, while bringing up a valid comparison, are missing the point. Gamers don't really care how much they pay to see a movie or game. Instead, they compare the price they are getting comparitivly. For example, people don't generally complain about movie tickets costing $5. Now, if every movie but one start selling tickets for, let's say, $3 then they would start complaining. The issue here is that they are able to get a great experience from free MMORPGs or single/multiplayer games at a generally lower cost. You can't really play HL2 with 5,000 people at once but does that detract from its story? No, its still a supurb game. Why pay $50 and then $15/month when you can shell out $50 and play HL2 and have just as good of a time?
Part of the problem is that most people that spell baddly *could* spell rightly. I'm willing to be that if you took 10 of them and taught them all to type at least 8 would start writing with more clarity, spelling, etc.
Mascots are very closely equated with "sequel" these days. "Sequel" means "more of the same that you love, plus some." It doesn't detract from the game, unless you HATED the previous game.
That's not always the case though. And if you like a game are you going to be interested in That Game on Tennis (tm)? Not nessasarily.
Gamers don't want rehashes for the most part. A mascot is used over and over... and over... and over.
Everyone has been waiting for games like Half Life 2 and Halo 2 to come out; why? Because they hadn't really seen anything like them before and wanted more. Now when we get on down to Half Life 23 and Halo 42, gamers won't be excited. Why? Well, just look at the Tony Hawk games. The first was pretty sweet so we waited for the second. Now that the 6th or 7th is out (depending how you count) it's no longer such a big deal.
Will stores carry games not rated by the ESRB? If a company just said "We'll make this however we want and we're not going to submit it blah blah blah" would stores carry them or is it an outright ban?
The story might be all the great (the ending is supposed to be "bad", I'm about 2 chapters away so I can't judge it yet). But that's not really the beauty of the game.
You load it up, get set, and start playing. But its more than playing. It is like you're in that world; you're in _a_ world. And its not that dissimilar from ours.
Everything responds so realisitically. You go up to a combine soldier in the beginning and get into his face. He'll grab you by the collar and gave you a smack with his shockstickthinger. If we were in City 17 and you did that I guarentee you that'd they do the exact same thing. Shoot a barrel in the game from x angle and it will roll/move in y direction. Do it in real life and you have the same result. Put people (NPCs) in the situations they're put in the game and you'll get the emotions they display; anger, humor, hopelessness. You have NPCs that shrug, people who arch their eyebrows. You have hand guesture- someone pointing to someone else or laying their hand on their chest saying something sarcastic.
You have AI that is supurb. Enemies that act as if they're who they are. Fighting a solider and a zombie are two completly different tasks. Brains vs brawn. Even breaking it down futher; zombies that will lunge slowly towards you trying to corner you so they can get you vs zombies that blitzkreig you with their friends as fast as they can.
Its an amazing game. The plot might not be "good" but it is believable enough. but the biggest part is the enviroment, it is _right_.
... steal!
They say don't buy Doom 3 but they recommend Sly 2; a game that emphasizes stealing from others and then pawning the goods. And they use cartoon animals which kids can identify with as opposed to scary demons that kids wouldn't like.
So in summary, kids are more likely to shoot hordes of demons than steal and thus must not play violent video games.
Is the whole world available in high resolution? I can't seem to get a sharp picture of my neighborhood at all. I see a little NASA icon in the top right sometimes and sometimes theres a red box it doesn't seem to want to update. Am I doing something wrong or can I just not see my house?
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Didn't RTFA but I mean come on. What kind of car theif steals computer tapes? What the hell is that?!
Why?
In my opinion the PC port of Halo 1 was clunky, slow, and generally not right for playing on the PC. I mean, whatever it is you want in Halo 2 you can get in another PC game. Like the vehicles? Try out UT2k4s Onslaught gametype. Like the swords? Try one of those crazy Jedi Academy games. Like Xbox Live? Get TeamSpeak/Ventrilo and Xfire and find a clan.
That's a bunch of rubbish. Think of the millions of hits Google get's a day. Now, just pop a little thing on there saying "New! Google IM!" and boom: the majority of Slashdot and the internet tech crowd downloads it. It goes into the paper the next day generating more downloads. I don't think they would even need to do a gaim type thing and crossover to AIM and whatnot.
Think of the possibilities though. The ability to google any text someone sends you. Online and offline chat (ala ICQ) via Gmail (maybe set it up so that if you're offline and someone tries to send you a message its forwarded to your Gmail account or something). They could do all sorts of fun stuff.
For most of the people I know, the majority of the movies they download are movies that are just in theaters. I don't think its good enough for them to release it "before it comes out on DVD". Sure, it will be nice not having to go pick up the DVD but I think they're missing the "point". People don't want to have to sit in theaters with annoying brats and stale popcorn. If they can hook it up to release them when (or very shortly after) they hit theaters I think a huge majority of movie pirates would be willing to cough up the dough.
What kind of ridiculous talk is that? No one is forcing you to use the Microsoft operating system or even own a computer at all!
Sure its partially their fault for having a buggy OS but don't fool yourself into thinking that having a perfect OS is a god-given right.
"Do hackers and geeks just not care about communicating effectively?"
No.
Some people need to use a bit more common sense. Sure, you *can* download legal things from Kazaa and what-have-you. But come on people, its OBVIOUS that legal downloading is not the purpose for which Kazaa was built or intended.
Stop with the comparisons. The legal uses of Xerox machines and web browsers far out number their illegal uses. Just because you *can* copy a book with a copy machine doesn't mean that copying books was the intended purpose. Take the time to step back from the picture and view the situation with the Lens of Common Sense for a moment before crying bloody murder.
Ahhhhh. I myself have been stuck on a problem a good while only to plug it into a calculator. And then it all "makes sense".
Further, I have many times played around and found something neat that made my think for a while. Just because you get an answer and don't know why doesn't make you a bad person. What does is not trying to find out why afterwards.
Maybe it's because Bush isn't Hitler?
I would have to disagree. People are driven by excitement which comes from conflict and competition. What fun would video games be if you didn't compete against yourself or others? There would *be* no video games without it. Violence is merly a realistic extension of that craving for conflict.
Furthermore, a distincition must be made. Games can be violent and not promote violence. For example: think of all the sad movies you've seen with violence. Now compare those to the crazy gang movies and whatnot that promote it. Its a HUGE jump. Does a book like To Kill a Mockingbird, for example, by showing racism encourage and promote it?
Run a server from international waters! Watch out for pirates though!
It would be great to have it integrate with Firefox (or anything else for that matter).
Think of this: you're surfing the web and you see that your favorite band is having a concert next month. Just highlight the date (ie "4/1/05: New York at Rockafeller") and then right click and hit Send to Sunbird (or a hotkey like ctrl-s or something) and it would automatically pop up with a box and fill in as much information as possible (what time, what date, etc etc). It might take some tinkering with at first to make sure it fills in everything correctly but once it got working you'd be set.
Along with this; date specific alerts. For example, if on 3/25 you wanted to be reminded to buy tickets, you could schedule an alert to pop up on the 25th. This is much like Thunderbirds "New Email" alert.
If Mozilla can be creative and get stuff like this happening, they've got it made.
Old Computer: $300
Linux: ~$.10 (cd and internet)
Throwing out your computer because Linux drives you insane: -$300.10
Some people can use Linux, for everyone else there's Macintosh.
Don't you mean AMD65?
It seems AA is simply trying to protect themselves. If there is another story like 9/11 where either terrorists hijack a plane or it gets out that terrorists were using AA planes, it could mean bad, bad news for AA as well as the other airline companies which are already doing terrible. I'm not exactly sure if they are legally able to ask for this but I really see no problem with them making sure you have a reason for being in the country if only to protect themselves. They're providing a service under conditions and if you don't like them then you can fly somewhere else (and probably should).
" "The Settlement Agreement provides to the General Public of California, amongst other things, the right of consumers to return applicable Symantec, Adobe and Microsoft software for full monetary refunds even if the shrink-wrap has been opened ... In addition, Symantec, Adobe, and Microsoft agreed to provide EULAs for the applicable software products on their web site and notices on their respective software packaging of the web addresses to such EULAs so consumers can review such EULAs prior to purchase of the software." CompUSA, Best Buy and Staples "agreed to provide such EULAS to consumers upon request prior to sale of the above software at their retail stores in California and to provide notices to consumers in such stores to effectuate the above.""
What's to stop someone from taking it home, copying the cds onto their harddrive along with the cd key and then taking the product back and saying they don't agree with the EULA? I don't think it's perfectly legal (at least, once returning it you need to delete your backup) but what's to stop people from doing that? You'd be telling the truth to Best Buy ("I don't agree to the EULA.") so they have to give you a refund don't they?
People that compare gaming entertainment to other entertainment, while bringing up a valid comparison, are missing the point. Gamers don't really care how much they pay to see a movie or game. Instead, they compare the price they are getting comparitivly. For example, people don't generally complain about movie tickets costing $5. Now, if every movie but one start selling tickets for, let's say, $3 then they would start complaining. The issue here is that they are able to get a great experience from free MMORPGs or single/multiplayer games at a generally lower cost. You can't really play HL2 with 5,000 people at once but does that detract from its story? No, its still a supurb game. Why pay $50 and then $15/month when you can shell out $50 and play HL2 and have just as good of a time?
So when is George Lucas releasing the special edition?
Part of the problem is that most people that spell baddly *could* spell rightly. I'm willing to be that if you took 10 of them and taught them all to type at least 8 would start writing with more clarity, spelling, etc.
Mascots are very closely equated with "sequel" these days. "Sequel" means "more of the same that you love, plus some." It doesn't detract from the game, unless you HATED the previous game.
That's not always the case though. And if you like a game are you going to be interested in That Game on Tennis (tm)? Not nessasarily.
Gamers don't want rehashes for the most part. A mascot is used over and over... and over... and over.
Everyone has been waiting for games like Half Life 2 and Halo 2 to come out; why? Because they hadn't really seen anything like them before and wanted more. Now when we get on down to Half Life 23 and Halo 42, gamers won't be excited. Why? Well, just look at the Tony Hawk games. The first was pretty sweet so we waited for the second. Now that the 6th or 7th is out (depending how you count) it's no longer such a big deal.
Will stores carry games not rated by the ESRB? If a company just said "We'll make this however we want and we're not going to submit it blah blah blah" would stores carry them or is it an outright ban?
The story might be all the great (the ending is supposed to be "bad", I'm about 2 chapters away so I can't judge it yet). But that's not really the beauty of the game. You load it up, get set, and start playing. But its more than playing. It is like you're in that world; you're in _a_ world. And its not that dissimilar from ours. Everything responds so realisitically. You go up to a combine soldier in the beginning and get into his face. He'll grab you by the collar and gave you a smack with his shockstickthinger. If we were in City 17 and you did that I guarentee you that'd they do the exact same thing. Shoot a barrel in the game from x angle and it will roll/move in y direction. Do it in real life and you have the same result. Put people (NPCs) in the situations they're put in the game and you'll get the emotions they display; anger, humor, hopelessness. You have NPCs that shrug, people who arch their eyebrows. You have hand guesture- someone pointing to someone else or laying their hand on their chest saying something sarcastic. You have AI that is supurb. Enemies that act as if they're who they are. Fighting a solider and a zombie are two completly different tasks. Brains vs brawn. Even breaking it down futher; zombies that will lunge slowly towards you trying to corner you so they can get you vs zombies that blitzkreig you with their friends as fast as they can. Its an amazing game. The plot might not be "good" but it is believable enough. but the biggest part is the enviroment, it is _right_.
... steal! They say don't buy Doom 3 but they recommend Sly 2; a game that emphasizes stealing from others and then pawning the goods. And they use cartoon animals which kids can identify with as opposed to scary demons that kids wouldn't like. So in summary, kids are more likely to shoot hordes of demons than steal and thus must not play violent video games.
Is the whole world available in high resolution? I can't seem to get a sharp picture of my neighborhood at all. I see a little NASA icon in the top right sometimes and sometimes theres a red box it doesn't seem to want to update. Am I doing something wrong or can I just not see my house?