What is the advantage of a Chromebook over, say, a tablet with a keyboard? I'm curious, as it sounds like the latter would cover your use case there... I don't use either so I don't know.
Reminds me a lot of the terraform Mars scenario in SimEarth.
Step 1: Hit Mars with a couple of comets (brings in water and stirs up dust) Step 2:... Step 3: Prof-... er, I mean watch the forests of Mars burn because you left your oxygen generators on for too long
Are you sure they don't? Are you sure it isn't just snagged up 10 seconds after someone trades it in? (That is, if you believe anyone would trade it in!)
You're missing the fact that adults and most teens of 16+ age, drive.
This point seems kind of irrelevant these days. With the fact that GPUs have greatly outpaced graphical development (and many games are just console ports anyway), a lot of laptops will run many decent LAN-party-friendly games. Throw a laptop in your backpack, along with a mouse and maybe a separate keyboard, and you're almost always ready for a LAN party and you can even bike there.
You're probably right if you're considering the 80's. PC hardware was pretty awful... but in the 90's things really changed. Sure, your SMB, Zelda, Contra, etc type games were better on the SNES... but what about Sim City (and 2000), Civilization, Command and Conquer, Warcraft 1&2, Star Control 2, Ultima 6-8, Wing Commander, X-wing and Tie Fighter? All of these were amazing DOS games, and either didn't have console versions, or if there were, they weren't quite the same (the SimCity,Civilization and Wing Commander for SNES come to mind) Anyway, my point is there were many more games for DOS than just DOOM and Descent in the 90's. Maybe you didn't experience them, but there was a lot of good stuff.
I actually felt the opposite from you those days. I felt a lot of the SNES games were pretty much just rehashes of old stuff, maybe with a slightly better gameplay, but there really wasn't much original going on there, and I was generally bored pretty quick. Then again, I was a teenager, so take this with a grain of salt:)
I seem to remember in the late 90's or very early 2000's you could use SMS for free (I forget the carrier I used... one of those that eventually became part of Verizon). Nobody seemed to care about it...then the teenagers found it and suddenly it was $0.20 a message.
I thought you send a team of oil rig workers (the only people on earth who know how to use a drill) instead of astronauts up to the object, drill inside, sacrifice themselves to detonate the thing "manually", split the object in two so that each piece falls into the ocean, and then outrun the resulting tsunami by running up a hill.
Man... just when you start trusting Hollywood.
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Now I'm imagining the Nostromo painted brown with gold lettering...
You, sir, are no Spartacus... ...because I'M SPARTACUS!
What is the advantage of a Chromebook over, say, a tablet with a keyboard? I'm curious, as it sounds like the latter would cover your use case there... I don't use either so I don't know.
I feel like Futurama had the right idea with Nixon's head being president... just the wrong crazy old president.
Physicists do it with inertia
How did you afford a +2 mace as an ox cart driver?
So you *can* get a raise by wearing more flair?
That is literally what I was just about to say. Words mean whatever we want, whenever we want! This is also why I pay all my debts in U.S. dollhairs.
Ha! These dollhairs were made in China!
I don't know... 30 years ago life was awesome. Barely a care in the world... no bills, no responsibilities other than cleaning my room!
(I was 6.)
Hey... all of those letters you've used here have been used before. 100% unoriginal.
Reminds me a lot of the terraform Mars scenario in SimEarth.
Step 1: Hit Mars with a couple of comets (brings in water and stirs up dust) ...
Step 2:
Step 3: Prof-... er, I mean watch the forests of Mars burn because you left your oxygen generators on for too long
As much as I loved my C64, this is absolutely true. They tried to fix it by copying PC designs with the 128D, but ... too little too late?
Are you sure they don't? Are you sure it isn't just snagged up 10 seconds after someone trades it in? (That is, if you believe anyone would trade it in!)
Hey, it seems to work for Hot Topic!
Why does gravity exist?
I wouldn't be surprised... the Windows 10 BSOD is already silly enough
http://www.tenforums.com/attac...
Good luck hauling that behind your bike.
Are you 12? (Yes I know you're not 12.)
Or what am I missing?
You're missing the fact that adults and most teens of 16+ age, drive.
This point seems kind of irrelevant these days. With the fact that GPUs have greatly outpaced graphical development (and many games are just console ports anyway), a lot of laptops will run many decent LAN-party-friendly games. Throw a laptop in your backpack, along with a mouse and maybe a separate keyboard, and you're almost always ready for a LAN party and you can even bike there.
I like your black & white world; mine has fifty shades of gray.
You're welcome.
It's stress; be it from the hard work in raising a family or a single person pushing 60+ hours a day with 5 hours of sleep or less.
That is a long freaking day.
You're probably right if you're considering the 80's. PC hardware was pretty awful... but in the 90's things really changed. Sure, your SMB, Zelda, Contra, etc type games were better on the SNES... but what about Sim City (and 2000), Civilization, Command and Conquer, Warcraft 1&2, Star Control 2, Ultima 6-8, Wing Commander, X-wing and Tie Fighter? All of these were amazing DOS games, and either didn't have console versions, or if there were, they weren't quite the same (the SimCity,Civilization and Wing Commander for SNES come to mind) Anyway, my point is there were many more games for DOS than just DOOM and Descent in the 90's. Maybe you didn't experience them, but there was a lot of good stuff.
I actually felt the opposite from you those days. I felt a lot of the SNES games were pretty much just rehashes of old stuff, maybe with a slightly better gameplay, but there really wasn't much original going on there, and I was generally bored pretty quick. Then again, I was a teenager, so take this with a grain of salt :)
I seem to remember in the late 90's or very early 2000's you could use SMS for free (I forget the carrier I used... one of those that eventually became part of Verizon). Nobody seemed to care about it...then the teenagers found it and suddenly it was $0.20 a message.
Whether or not it's going to be useful remains to be seen
Useful or not, it will probably look pretty cool in a summer blockbuster in a couple of years.
Is his real name Valentine Michael Smith?
I thought you send a team of oil rig workers (the only people on earth who know how to use a drill) instead of astronauts up to the object, drill inside, sacrifice themselves to detonate the thing "manually", split the object in two so that each piece falls into the ocean, and then outrun the resulting tsunami by running up a hill.
Man... just when you start trusting Hollywood.
Are you advocating one giant content-monopoly?