Doom, C&C, Total Annhialation were all big ones for me. UT was pretty huge. Oh and Starcraft should be pretty close to the top. C&C I think was one of the big games that brought the RTS to the world. And TA is an RTS which I still don't think is matched to this day.
While those were all good games, none of them were even decent on consoles, so why on earth should they make it on a list of best console games?
Go play Starcraft with a D-Pad and tell me how fun that is...
if thats the case I would put Halo and WOW up there. its not that they are important (even if Halo is high on the list) its that there is a HUGE community based around the game and therefor very fun
Except WoW isn't a console game, which disqualifies it completely.
For this list not to put DOOM on the #1 most influential spot - insane. Maybe the editors at Guinness are a little too young to remember life before first person shooters, but such a life existed (and you were likely to be eaten by a Grue!) Doom was the shot that started a revolution in gaming - in other words, the grandfather of most of the games we play today.
Mario Kart. It's too early in the morning to come up with a response to that. Bah.
Let's see what the article is about...
Super Mario Kart has the longest legacy and the biggest impact on video games in history, according to Guinness World Records which compiled a list of the top 50 consoles games of all time.
Oh, it's about console games. While I do recall DOOM being a great PC game that played well with a keyboard and mouse, I also remember that the console versions, played with a controller, sucked, hard.
Wanting to put a first person shooter played with a D-Pad on the top spot of most influential games of all time is insane of you.
The iPhone will auto-correct for fat fingering, but it takes a while to get used to it
It will auto-correct only if you are writing in human language form. When using some applications, such as a SSH terminal, and typing either commands or filename, auto-correction is useless.
If you make quality people will buy it, if you make shit they won't.
Yet, even with the shitty movies, people feel the urge to download it for free and watch it anyway. If it really was shit, people wouldn't watch it.
If you know such and such movie is shit, then don't download it and just don't watch it. Don't try to justify your piracy by the quality of what you pirate.
If everyone released code under the GPL, all we'd have to do is find different ways of being remunerated for it (probably in support and maintenance licences [snip]
I've always thought that if you provide support and maintenance enough that you can make a living off of it (and let a whole company survive), then your code is horribly hard to support and maintain. A good application needs little support or maintenance.
you use mouse gestures, why do you need to use the keyboard to change tabs? Set up next/previous/close/unclose after a week you'll never reach for the keyboard again, unless you're typing.
Because there are things for which the keyboard is more efficient than a mouse gesture.
Opening the third tab from the current is much faster with Ctrl+Tab+Tab+Tab than with MouseGesture+MouseGesture+MouseGesture.
Ctrl+PgUp/PgDn requires the use of my right hand (either both hands with left on left-Ctrl and right on PgUp, or just the right with thumb on right-Ctrl). I still need to move my right hand from my mouse to the keyboard and back.
Ctrl+Tab, right next to Alt-Tab, lets me keep a hand on the mouse (which is very much in use during a browsing session, especially with mouse gestures), without the additional movement needed to click on tabs. Ctrl+Tab is a much better use of both hands than Ctrl+PgUp/PgDn will ever be.
$1/gigabyte is just too prohibitive in a market where netflix and others are offering pseudo-HDTV movie downloads to anyone with a game console, the time is coming.
What's the screen pixels? An Eee 700 is usable at 800x480; this can't go much below that and be usable on the modern Web. Even if the resulting text is Flyspeck 3, at least it'll be detailed Flyspeck 3 rather than pixelated.
Looking at the specs, it has a 2.8 inch QVGA display, meaning 320x240 resolution.
Ahh, so special classes of people have special rights and responsiblities? In other words, all men are not created equal?
All men are indeed created equal. However, no man is created lawyer. One must choose to become lawyer, and therefore accept all the rights and responsibilities that comes with the title.
Generally, the idea behind these things is, if you own the actual cartridge, you're allowed to make a backup. How you store that backup might be a gray area, but I would hate to see this get shot down for the very reason you mentioned. DS cartridges are small and transportable, but easily lost.
That's not to say the R4 helps prevent piracy, exactly, but then again, not many things do. Aside from crappy games, anyway.
True, you can make a backup. However, downloading a ROM from a random website is not making a backup. Making a backup is dumping your own cartridge into a file, not someone else's cartridge.
Here's my guess: the web, TV, movies, games, and other forms of "entertainment" will be riddled with product placements, product storylines, and an overall commercialized experience. The line between "feature" and "commercial" will blur and blur until it ceases to exist. Sometimes this will be well done and the entertainment value will be preserved. Sometimes it will come off as transparent shit, exposing both the "feature" and the advertised product(s) to public ridicule or boycott.
... but that's just my guess
In a couple of decades, it'll end up like this.... Only then will I truly appreciate ads.
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Not if the couple is married!
I've wondered if there could be a market for "Christian porn" that addresses all the issues they have with it.
1) Depict married couples in racey and stimulating scenes.
2) Provide a system that ensures that the actors are not exploited.
3) ???
4) Profit!!!
That still wouldn't do it. Watching the married couples in racey and stimulating scenes would break the "do not covet" commandment.
So in other words, America just stole 550 metric tons of uranium from Iraq.
See? It wasn't JUST about the oil!
Heck of a job, Bushie.
*sigh* Tried to read the article yet? Iraq sold the Uranium to a canadian company. Nobody stole anything. It was sold at marked price and taken out of an instable country, to be used in a stable country.
Why do they need to put it on the ISS any way? Isn't there another side to the planet that we could work on? Or is it just easier to go to space than try and do science in China?
It has to do with special relativity and they need to perform the experiment with a high relative speed, not just distance. At this moment, the place to perform this experiment that moves the fastest happens to be the ISS.
Wiki and Google can be your friend and enemy at the same time.
It wasn't so bad when it was just Wiki and Google, because those two required reading, and people with very short attention span would not reach the end of the misinformation before getting bored. Unfortunately, YouTube now makes it very easy for random Joe to spread utter bullshit and misinformation that can make people a little dumber every time.
Depending on where you are there are alternatives, such a cable internet. There are issues there too, such as the maximum amount of data you are allowed to download. Videotron, for example limits to 20GB download and 10GB upload on most packages - you have to look at the small print to find this out.
You just can't stop complaining, can you? How big does the print have to be for you to be happy? They state very clearly, and with the same font size as the rest of the page, what the download caps are. Heck, on their All our Internet offers at a glance document (PDF warning), not only are the download caps stated in regular sized font, they're in bold.
What's the actual difference in energy costs, though? Not saying you're stupid or selfish for not donating, just interested in the real figures, if you've got any.
My computer, sporting a Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 (4 core), is plugged into a UPS that displays the current load. Between idle CPU and 100% usage by BOINC, there is a 75W difference. So for me, the cost is more or less the same as leaving a light bulb lit up all day long.
0.075kW * 24h/day = 1.8kWh/day
1.8kWh/day * 365days/year = 657kWh per year
Depending on your electricity cost, the price can vary. Over here, it amounts to about $50 a year.
What? I hate ISP traffic shaping as much as anybody, but if you agreed to the contract, you agreed that you didn't care if they shaped your bandwidth. If you didn't like the product they were selling, why did you buy it? Nobody likes traffic shaping, and if people would stop being idiots and start refusing to agree to these contracts, one of the big ISPs would start offering non-shaped bandwidth.
Ok, I'm gonna take a wild guess here and say that you have no idea what you are talking about, and no idea what this whole matter is about. Here's what happened:
People who didn't want Bell's throttling read Bell's contract and decided they didn't want it. Instead, they went and got their internet service from a competitor. Unfortunately, since Bell owns the wires, every competitor in the DSL business has to rent bandwidth wholesale from Bell. At first, Bell didn't throttle the wholesale bandwidth, and the competitors could then offer contracts that had no throttling to their customers. Then, without notice, Bell throttles the wholesalers. So even though people read the contracts and refused to agree with throttling, they still get fucked by Bell even though they get their service from a competitor. Reference here.
This "I don't like this, but I'll just buy it now and sue later" bullshit is out of control Don't people take any responsibility for their actions any more?
Repeat after me: People read their contracts, refused the throttling, went with a provider that didn't throttle, and got fucked anyway. Please... stop talking out of your ass now.
I was checking out providers in Montreal recently, and it looks like you actually *gasp* get a choice of who to get broadband from! If one company is slowing things down, you might actually be able to get comparable service from another company!
Yeah, it's nice that you got that impression, but that's not how it goes... We do indeed have a choice of multiple DSL providers, but they all buy their bandwidth wholesale from Bell, and Bell controls the infrastructure. So when Bell decides they throttle, all the competitors are screwed.
Personally, I could care less that the game is checking for activation and updates once every 10 days. As long as I can play it where there's no internet connection, and I don't need a CD (or a crack I have to replace every time it updates the game) I'm happy.
So you'll be unhappy when you go 11 days without an internet connection, and the game doesn't play anymore. Say I'm on a tight budget for a couple of months, and decide to cut the internet connection at home to save money. It would truly suck if I were to lose access to my offline single-player games as well.
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Like an iPod? They don't require special software, Apple just deliberately make it difficult to use with other software.
In conclusion, fuck off retard.
Please tell me... How can I load my iPod touch with mp3s without being forced to use iTunes?
Hello neighbor, I'm in Canada too, and will ya look at that... I just bought a nice Linux EeePC right here.
Doom, C&C, Total Annhialation were all big ones for me. UT was pretty huge. Oh and Starcraft should be pretty close to the top. C&C I think was one of the big games that brought the RTS to the world. And TA is an RTS which I still don't think is matched to this day.
While those were all good games, none of them were even decent on consoles, so why on earth should they make it on a list of best console games?
Go play Starcraft with a D-Pad and tell me how fun that is...
if thats the case I would put Halo and WOW up there. its not that they are important (even if Halo is high on the list) its that there is a HUGE community based around the game and therefor very fun
Except WoW isn't a console game, which disqualifies it completely.
For this list not to put DOOM on the #1 most influential spot - insane. Maybe the editors at Guinness are a little too young to remember life before first person shooters, but such a life existed (and you were likely to be eaten by a Grue!) Doom was the shot that started a revolution in gaming - in other words, the grandfather of most of the games we play today.
Mario Kart. It's too early in the morning to come up with a response to that. Bah.
Let's see what the article is about...
Super Mario Kart has the longest legacy and the biggest impact on video games in history, according to Guinness World Records which compiled a list of the top 50 consoles games of all time.
Oh, it's about console games. While I do recall DOOM being a great PC game that played well with a keyboard and mouse, I also remember that the console versions, played with a controller, sucked, hard.
Wanting to put a first person shooter played with a D-Pad on the top spot of most influential games of all time is insane of you.
The iPhone will auto-correct for fat fingering, but it takes a while to get used to it
It will auto-correct only if you are writing in human language form. When using some applications, such as a SSH terminal, and typing either commands or filename, auto-correction is useless.
If you make quality people will buy it, if you make shit they won't.
Yet, even with the shitty movies, people feel the urge to download it for free and watch it anyway. If it really was shit, people wouldn't watch it. If you know such and such movie is shit, then don't download it and just don't watch it. Don't try to justify your piracy by the quality of what you pirate.
If everyone released code under the GPL, all we'd have to do is find different ways of being remunerated for it (probably in support and maintenance licences [snip]
I've always thought that if you provide support and maintenance enough that you can make a living off of it (and let a whole company survive), then your code is horribly hard to support and maintain. A good application needs little support or maintenance.
you use mouse gestures, why do you need to use the keyboard to change tabs? Set up next/previous/close/unclose after a week you'll never reach for the keyboard again, unless you're typing.
Because there are things for which the keyboard is more efficient than a mouse gesture.
Opening the third tab from the current is much faster with Ctrl+Tab+Tab+Tab than with MouseGesture+MouseGesture+MouseGesture.
Ctrl + Page Up/Page Down navigates through tabs.
Ctrl+PgUp/PgDn requires the use of my right hand (either both hands with left on left-Ctrl and right on PgUp, or just the right with thumb on right-Ctrl). I still need to move my right hand from my mouse to the keyboard and back.
Ctrl+Tab, right next to Alt-Tab, lets me keep a hand on the mouse (which is very much in use during a browsing session, especially with mouse gestures), without the additional movement needed to click on tabs. Ctrl+Tab is a much better use of both hands than Ctrl+PgUp/PgDn will ever be.
$1/gigabyte is just too prohibitive in a market where netflix and others are offering pseudo-HDTV movie downloads to anyone with a game console, the time is coming.
What the hell are you complaining about? Up here in Canada, we get our high-speed cable internet at $60 a month, it's capped at 20Gb a month, and exceeding usage is billed at $7.95 per gigabyte. Ref.: http://www.videotron.com/services/en/internet/caracteristiques-ihv.jsp
I would gladly pay for high-speed at $1/Gb.
What's the screen pixels? An Eee 700 is usable at 800x480; this can't go much below that and be usable on the modern Web. Even if the resulting text is Flyspeck 3, at least it'll be detailed Flyspeck 3 rather than pixelated.
Looking at the specs, it has a 2.8 inch QVGA display, meaning 320x240 resolution.
All men are indeed created equal. However, no man is created lawyer. One must choose to become lawyer, and therefore accept all the rights and responsibilities that comes with the title.
Generally, the idea behind these things is, if you own the actual cartridge, you're allowed to make a backup. How you store that backup might be a gray area, but I would hate to see this get shot down for the very reason you mentioned. DS cartridges are small and transportable, but easily lost.
That's not to say the R4 helps prevent piracy, exactly, but then again, not many things do. Aside from crappy games, anyway.
True, you can make a backup. However, downloading a ROM from a random website is not making a backup. Making a backup is dumping your own cartridge into a file, not someone else's cartridge.
Here's my guess: the web, TV, movies, games, and other forms of "entertainment" will be riddled with product placements, product storylines, and an overall commercialized experience. The line between "feature" and "commercial" will blur and blur until it ceases to exist. Sometimes this will be well done and the entertainment value will be preserved. Sometimes it will come off as transparent shit, exposing both the "feature" and the advertised product(s) to public ridicule or boycott.
... but that's just my guess
In a couple of decades, it'll end up like this.... Only then will I truly appreciate ads.
Not if the couple is married!
I've wondered if there could be a market for "Christian porn" that addresses all the issues they have with it.
1) Depict married couples in racey and stimulating scenes.
2) Provide a system that ensures that the actors are not exploited.
3) ???
4) Profit!!!
That still wouldn't do it. Watching the married couples in racey and stimulating scenes would break the "do not covet" commandment.
So in other words, America just stole 550 metric tons of uranium from Iraq.
See? It wasn't JUST about the oil!
Heck of a job, Bushie.
*sigh* Tried to read the article yet? Iraq sold the Uranium to a canadian company. Nobody stole anything. It was sold at marked price and taken out of an instable country, to be used in a stable country.
It has to do with special relativity and they need to perform the experiment with a high relative speed, not just distance. At this moment, the place to perform this experiment that moves the fastest happens to be the ISS.
It wasn't so bad when it was just Wiki and Google, because those two required reading, and people with very short attention span would not reach the end of the misinformation before getting bored. Unfortunately, YouTube now makes it very easy for random Joe to spread utter bullshit and misinformation that can make people a little dumber every time.
You just can't stop complaining, can you? How big does the print have to be for you to be happy? They state very clearly, and with the same font size as the rest of the page, what the download caps are. Heck, on their All our Internet offers at a glance document (PDF warning), not only are the download caps stated in regular sized font, they're in bold.
My computer, sporting a Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 (4 core), is plugged into a UPS that displays the current load. Between idle CPU and 100% usage by BOINC, there is a 75W difference. So for me, the cost is more or less the same as leaving a light bulb lit up all day long.
0.075kW * 24h/day = 1.8kWh/day
1.8kWh/day * 365days/year = 657kWh per year
Depending on your electricity cost, the price can vary. Over here, it amounts to about $50 a year.
YMMV depending on your CPU and electricity cost.
Either I didn't get your trying to trick others, or you got tricked yourself... but check the date of the announce.
Ok, I'm gonna take a wild guess here and say that you have no idea what you are talking about, and no idea what this whole matter is about. Here's what happened:
People who didn't want Bell's throttling read Bell's contract and decided they didn't want it. Instead, they went and got their internet service from a competitor. Unfortunately, since Bell owns the wires, every competitor in the DSL business has to rent bandwidth wholesale from Bell. At first, Bell didn't throttle the wholesale bandwidth, and the competitors could then offer contracts that had no throttling to their customers. Then, without notice, Bell throttles the wholesalers. So even though people read the contracts and refused to agree with throttling, they still get fucked by Bell even though they get their service from a competitor. Reference here.
Repeat after me: People read their contracts, refused the throttling, went with a provider that didn't throttle, and got fucked anyway. Please... stop talking out of your ass now.
Yeah, it's nice that you got that impression, but that's not how it goes... We do indeed have a choice of multiple DSL providers, but they all buy their bandwidth wholesale from Bell, and Bell controls the infrastructure. So when Bell decides they throttle, all the competitors are screwed.
So you'll be unhappy when you go 11 days without an internet connection, and the game doesn't play anymore. Say I'm on a tight budget for a couple of months, and decide to cut the internet connection at home to save money. It would truly suck if I were to lose access to my offline single-player games as well.