Ignoring the joking tone with which that was written...
What I don't understand is why the religious right can't make the logical jump to this conclussion: "we are intelligently designed to evolve". Then, we could teach evolution without all the 'controversy' and noone would need to be offended...
A method that might ease the testing phase of this would be to use a hosted virtualization platform. That way, you can generate the ISO and attach it to a VM as a CD (cutting out the burn/reburn process) and install it onto a virtual machine. Another benefit to this strategy is that you aren't wiping out your system several times a day until everything is right - you can keep your system intact and repeatedly reinstall the virtual machine until you're happy with a build that you'll want to move to your machine.
Unfortunately, this technique won't work too well for driver preparation (virtual machines are typically presented with generic virtual hardware), but it will help you to iron out any kinks as far as Apps are concerned (like the parent mentions with Windows Media Player).
I used to work at a GameStop (which is now the same company as EBGames). Those datse are bullocks.
Now, this is unconfirmed, mind you... but I'm fairly certain that they get those numbers by rolling a D6 for every "a", a D8 pre "e", a D10 per "i", a D12 per "o" and then finally a D20 per "u" in the game's title. They then add together the total until they get the excel decimal equivelent of a date that's somewhere near the anticipated release window.
It goes without saying that the release of "BMX XXX" really threw them for a loop. It was like Y2K for them.
"Listen, the next time your daddy tells you his computer isn't working? I want you to tell him it's broken. Okay? And tell him to give it to you to play with, and send him back to the store to buy an iMac, okay? It's a computer especially built for idi... ummm... for, you know, mommies and daddies."
The real problem with that analogy is that you can easily go out and *buy* a new PS2 that is in fine working order. Even assuming minimum wage, it's probably cheaper to just buy a new one than it would be to spend hours repairing the broken one.
In this situation though, there are no new PS2s available, and you and all of your friends could play on *one* PS2 if you could only get it working right.
My understanding of it was that they accomplished it by replacing the default female torso texture with some other undressed torso texture that was supposedly hidden. Seeing as how they admit that the nipples don't look quite right, is there any chance that they simply replaced the femal torso textures with the male torso textures? Not too many games have males that wear bras, so it would cause nipples to be displayed. And, if the wrong texture was being applied to the model, that could explain the mishapen nipples that have been mentioned.
If this is the case, it brings up all sorts of interesting questions about the nature of nudity, since the texture, on one model, is perfectly acceptable but the same texture, on a different model, is obscene.
No decent RPGs for almost a year... cause you know, Oblivion isn't decent.
I hate it when people consider these story-heavy action adventure games "RPGs", especially when they discount the rare real RPG that is occasionally released! The point of an RPG, for those who have forgotten the meaning of those three letters, is to play a role. You make meaningful choices that define, at least to some extent, who your character is, and then enjoy the story that unfolds around your character. Sora is not your character, and you have no choice in how he develops as a character. You never do in Final Fantasy games (or in Japanese "RPGs" at all, as a rule), yet they still epitomize an "RPG" for what seems like an entire generation!
I think you really hit on another problem that the tabletop RPG industry has, with that statement. People learn a system and they like the system. After playing it for many years, eventually the publisher releases a new edition... and some people love it and update, others hate it for changing their precious ruleset/world and stop buying new content.
Speaking from experience, I played a lot of World of Darkness games when I was younger, back in the glorious days of 2nd Ed. White Wolf released their 3rd edition and we all (my roleplaying group) decided that it was mostly crap. We didn't like how they "advanced" the world or took a lot of the creative freedom that we had grown used to away from us. We didn't like their clunky additional rules, like tacking a *third* damage type onto their system. So, we all kept our 2nd Edition libraries and never bought another new White Wolf book again. I believe that they're on their 4th edition now, and have completely bastardized the WoD that I knew and loved.
Now adays, we've all moved away from the "setting heavy" White Wolf series into a more light-weight system (Guardians of Order's BESM Tri-Stat system), where we just have fun making up the stories that we want to tell. We use a total of 1 book (although, to be fair, there are 3 copies of that 1 book, amongst the 6 players) in our games, and I see no need to get another any time in the near future... despite their immanent 3e release.
So, we're dealing with quantum mathematics here, right? The archtypal example of quantum physics, as far as I as a layman know, is Schrodinger's Cat. The theory is that reality exists in multiple states until we observe it, at which point it crystalizes into a static state. The logical progression being that thought and expectations can influence the reality that is presented to us.
Ever since 1979, we've all been expecting the number 42 to be discovered as an important number in reality. So, dealing with the world of quantum mechanics as we are now, was the third number 42 because we made it be 42, or was it naturally 42? Or, is there even a difference?
I'd imagine that the goal is to label the shelves and use the computerized database to record the proper location for each book (as well as other vital info, such as title, genre, author, publisher, state ("loaned to on ")). With a scanner, it sounds to me like all you really need is a small database for storing/organizing your information.
It would be nice to have all of this info on hand, in an organized manner. Make it nice and easy to figure out exactly how many of your possessions aren't in your possession.
Pretty much, other people are stupid and don't even know what's best for them, so I'm not going to make any efforts to help them at all until they start to get smart. The poor don't need help. They need a backbone.
What a remarkably American thing to say! Can you build the computer that you used to type that post from components? Can you build those components? Sure, you paid for those components, but is your measly $1k comparable to the years of man-hours that have gone into creating them? It sure does look like someone helped you out by designing those components for you to use in your computer, someone willing to make make efforts to help other people.
Were you to be stranded on a deserted island, the natives would see some pitiable wretch in you. Someone who doesn't even know how to fish or weave a basket. Does that mean that you are suddenly stupid? No, it means that you are inexperienced and need a teacher to enlighten you. You need some charity in order to learn to take care of yourself. And, maybe once your survival is assured, your technical mind will be able to improve that tribe's hunting mechanics and you will be able to contribute to their society. All because someone took pity on you and helped you out.
I know that repeating themes are fantastic for bubblegum pop music and advertising, but poetry that says the same thing over and over should be left in the third grade classroom where it was written.
"Quoth the Raven, Nevermore"
While I have heard many critiques of "The Raven," I don't believe that anyone has ever said that it came from the third grade classroom before. Dealing in absolutes absolutely sets you up to be proven wrong. It is possible to use repetition without falling victim to a simple homogenous existence, and finding the common threads that exist throughout nature only serves to remind us that everything is connected, at some basic level.
As the man in black explains to Roland in the first book of Stephen King's Dark Tower series, "The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but size. Size encompasses life, and the Tower encompasses size...... For the fish, the lake in which he lives is the universe. What does the fish think when he is jerked up by the mouth through the silver limits of existence and into a new universe..?"
What great poetry in the universe, that we should gaze out into the infinite deep of space, only to see the same elegent beauty that we see when we probe the mysteries deep within ourselves.
We know how bad Dell support is, and they will likely move their alienware support devision to india too.
Well, I've got good news for you, and I've got some bad news for you. The good news is, I can guarantee you that Dell won't move the Alienware support division to India. The bad news? It's already there.
Alienware has the worst technical support that I've ever worked with, and after working the help desk for a year, I've worked with many companies' technicians.
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That said, I find it kind of sad that game companies are still willing to okay this thin-mint of a plot; Titles like Half-Life 2 and Halo have more than proven the value of frosting with your wheat.
What does that even mean? Frosting with your wheat? Is he talking about some twisted yet seductive frosting sandwich, the likes of which can only be safely handled via robot? I can't even tell what kind of value judgement he is trying to levy against (for?) Half-Life 2 and Halo!
Meanwhile, the corpse he leaves behind stands up, and becomes the first minion in the Zombie Lord's horde.
While being a cool idea and an excellent direction for a single player game (where a linear progression from weak to powerful is expected), that logic doesn't work too well in an MMO space. Letting players use their power against other players to build more power will lead to high stratification of the power levels in your player base. You will have several "power players" running around with 100+ zombie hordes, that none of the human players have a chance of killing, and many weak zombies who are unable to ever really build up a horde (they could only kill so many newbies before someone comes along and stops them from gowing into another zombie super-power) because all of the humans are struggling to compete on the level of the few power zombies.
Start paranoia...
Are you a marketing plant from Bethesda? It's a known advertising method to plant people on popular forums and have them ask questions that are designed to solicit positive answers from other forum goers. Seeing as how one of the *major* features that they've been advertising for Oblivion is their "Radiant AI" system... should we just repeat their main marketing release for you?
Of course, I've already got my collector's edition on reserve, so perhaps their insidious marketing is working...
I'd disagree - the most important question to ask when you've hopped into your time machine to zip off into tomorrow is: how long did it take me to get there? If it takes you a full day (perceptually) to get to tomorrow, you haven't really accomplished much, have you?
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All that I can say to this news is, "Matt Damon!"
but spending $20 on an innovative title, a revisioned old game and an expansion to a new game is a bad deal?
What I don't understand is why the religious right can't make the logical jump to this conclussion: "we are intelligently designed to evolve". Then, we could teach evolution without all the 'controversy' and noone would need to be offended...
A method that might ease the testing phase of this would be to use a hosted virtualization platform. That way, you can generate the ISO and attach it to a VM as a CD (cutting out the burn/reburn process) and install it onto a virtual machine. Another benefit to this strategy is that you aren't wiping out your system several times a day until everything is right - you can keep your system intact and repeatedly reinstall the virtual machine until you're happy with a build that you'll want to move to your machine.
Unfortunately, this technique won't work too well for driver preparation (virtual machines are typically presented with generic virtual hardware), but it will help you to iron out any kinks as far as Apps are concerned (like the parent mentions with Windows Media Player).
I used to work at a GameStop (which is now the same company as EBGames). Those datse are bullocks.
Now, this is unconfirmed, mind you... but I'm fairly certain that they get those numbers by rolling a D6 for every "a", a D8 pre "e", a D10 per "i", a D12 per "o" and then finally a D20 per "u" in the game's title. They then add together the total until they get the excel decimal equivelent of a date that's somewhere near the anticipated release window.
It goes without saying that the release of "BMX XXX" really threw them for a loop. It was like Y2K for them.
Welcome! To the world of... tomorrow!
"Listen, the next time your daddy tells you his computer isn't working? I want you to tell him it's broken. Okay? And tell him to give it to you to play with, and send him back to the store to buy an iMac, okay? It's a computer especially built for idi... ummm... for, you know, mommies and daddies."
The Internet Help Desk is divine comedy.
In this situation though, there are no new PS2s available, and you and all of your friends could play on *one* PS2 if you could only get it working right.
If this is the case, it brings up all sorts of interesting questions about the nature of nudity, since the texture, on one model, is perfectly acceptable but the same texture, on a different model, is obscene.
I hate it when people consider these story-heavy action adventure games "RPGs", especially when they discount the rare real RPG that is occasionally released! The point of an RPG, for those who have forgotten the meaning of those three letters, is to play a role. You make meaningful choices that define, at least to some extent, who your character is, and then enjoy the story that unfolds around your character. Sora is not your character, and you have no choice in how he develops as a character. You never do in Final Fantasy games (or in Japanese "RPGs" at all, as a rule), yet they still epitomize an "RPG" for what seems like an entire generation!
I think you really hit on another problem that the tabletop RPG industry has, with that statement. People learn a system and they like the system. After playing it for many years, eventually the publisher releases a new edition... and some people love it and update, others hate it for changing their precious ruleset/world and stop buying new content.
Speaking from experience, I played a lot of World of Darkness games when I was younger, back in the glorious days of 2nd Ed. White Wolf released their 3rd edition and we all (my roleplaying group) decided that it was mostly crap. We didn't like how they "advanced" the world or took a lot of the creative freedom that we had grown used to away from us. We didn't like their clunky additional rules, like tacking a *third* damage type onto their system. So, we all kept our 2nd Edition libraries and never bought another new White Wolf book again. I believe that they're on their 4th edition now, and have completely bastardized the WoD that I knew and loved.
Now adays, we've all moved away from the "setting heavy" White Wolf series into a more light-weight system (Guardians of Order's BESM Tri-Stat system), where we just have fun making up the stories that we want to tell. We use a total of 1 book (although, to be fair, there are 3 copies of that 1 book, amongst the 6 players) in our games, and I see no need to get another any time in the near future... despite their immanent 3e release.
Ever since 1979, we've all been expecting the number 42 to be discovered as an important number in reality. So, dealing with the world of quantum mechanics as we are now, was the third number 42 because we made it be 42, or was it naturally 42? Or, is there even a difference?
It would be nice to have all of this info on hand, in an organized manner. Make it nice and easy to figure out exactly how many of your possessions aren't in your possession.
What a remarkably American thing to say! Can you build the computer that you used to type that post from components? Can you build those components? Sure, you paid for those components, but is your measly $1k comparable to the years of man-hours that have gone into creating them? It sure does look like someone helped you out by designing those components for you to use in your computer, someone willing to make make efforts to help other people.
Were you to be stranded on a deserted island, the natives would see some pitiable wretch in you. Someone who doesn't even know how to fish or weave a basket. Does that mean that you are suddenly stupid? No, it means that you are inexperienced and need a teacher to enlighten you. You need some charity in order to learn to take care of yourself. And, maybe once your survival is assured, your technical mind will be able to improve that tribe's hunting mechanics and you will be able to contribute to their society. All because someone took pity on you and helped you out.
"Quoth the Raven, Nevermore"
While I have heard many critiques of "The Raven," I don't believe that anyone has ever said that it came from the third grade classroom before. Dealing in absolutes absolutely sets you up to be proven wrong. It is possible to use repetition without falling victim to a simple homogenous existence, and finding the common threads that exist throughout nature only serves to remind us that everything is connected, at some basic level.
As the man in black explains to Roland in the first book of Stephen King's Dark Tower series, "The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but size. Size encompasses life, and the Tower encompasses size... ... For the fish, the lake in which he lives is the universe. What does the fish think when he is jerked up by the mouth through the silver limits of existence and into a new universe..?"
What great poetry in the universe, that we should gaze out into the infinite deep of space, only to see the same elegent beauty that we see when we probe the mysteries deep within ourselves.
The point of the article wasn't that copy protection software, as a technology, encourages pirates... it was that StarForce, as a company, *does*
See the (censored) screencap that is hosted on the GalCiv site, showing a StarForce employee linking to a pirated copy of the game.
Well, I've got good news for you, and I've got some bad news for you. The good news is, I can guarantee you that Dell won't move the Alienware support division to India. The bad news? It's already there.
Alienware has the worst technical support that I've ever worked with, and after working the help desk for a year, I've worked with many companies' technicians.
What does that even mean? Frosting with your wheat? Is he talking about some twisted yet seductive frosting sandwich, the likes of which can only be safely handled via robot? I can't even tell what kind of value judgement he is trying to levy against (for?) Half-Life 2 and Halo!
While being a cool idea and an excellent direction for a single player game (where a linear progression from weak to powerful is expected), that logic doesn't work too well in an MMO space. Letting players use their power against other players to build more power will lead to high stratification of the power levels in your player base. You will have several "power players" running around with 100+ zombie hordes, that none of the human players have a chance of killing, and many weak zombies who are unable to ever really build up a horde (they could only kill so many newbies before someone comes along and stops them from gowing into another zombie super-power) because all of the humans are struggling to compete on the level of the few power zombies.
... I, for one, welcome our newly reunited Ma Bell overlords.
Are you a marketing plant from Bethesda? It's a known advertising method to plant people on popular forums and have them ask questions that are designed to solicit positive answers from other forum goers. Seeing as how one of the *major* features that they've been advertising for Oblivion is their "Radiant AI" system... should we just repeat their main marketing release for you?
Of course, I've already got my collector's edition on reserve, so perhaps their insidious marketing is working...
Unfortunately (obviously), that's because he had absolutely nothing to do with it.
10 times a negative score means that he promises his movies will only get worse.
I'd disagree - the most important question to ask when you've hopped into your time machine to zip off into tomorrow is: how long did it take me to get there? If it takes you a full day (perceptually) to get to tomorrow, you haven't really accomplished much, have you?