Is anyone actually going to be playing this instead of Half-Life 2? It will hardly get any media attention due to everybody focusing on HL2 so many people may just miss the release. One of my friends is a rabid MGS fan and I haven't even heard anything from him about it.
Wouldn't it be better if they just released it next week?
Any regulation like that would be completely unenforceable. They have tried to ban camera phones at my school but everyone just ignores the rule. Soon almost all phones will have a camera in them so people won't even be able to go along with the rule if they want to.
Yes, but nothing has been presented to prove that global warming IS part of a a natural cycle. We dont know nearly enough about the weather to say anything 100%. Even the best computer models have yet to come close to the real complexity of the weather patterns. They could be many other effects that we know nothing about which could cause disaster.
Right now we're running into a dark cave and hoping there isn't a bear in it. Not a very good strategy for survival.
Prehaps this is nature's way of telling America, the worlds biggest polluter by far to take global warming seriously.
If this doesn't do it nothing will. It is the equivilant of being hit on the back of the head and not bothering to turn round to stop whatever hit you from hitting you again.
The bacteria were definitely not introduced from above
Which contrasts with NASA not bothering to sterilize its rovers before sending them off. So even if we do find bacteria on mars we wont know for certain they originated there.
I agree. I would never call any game "from the street" because whatever its trying to be, it's probably been made by a load of geeks who as far away from "the street" as you can be.
No; the radio industry (particularly the American radio industry) cares about making money.
Yes but the BBC is not funded by adverts. It is funded by a licence fee of about 110 per year from anybody with a TV.
However radio 1 still sounds the same as any other station during the day. Its only during the evening when they have specialist shows that they are any differant.
Since it is 'fan written' where did they get all this information on source from? There's not a lot of detailed info but there's quite a lot I haven't seen before.
I just want a small simple phone that does phone calls and text messages. MP3 playback is good but my MP3 player does that better and cheaper. While the N-Gage looks quite cool its not going to fit in your pocket that easily. I'm going to keep my gaming to PC's for now. When they can invent a phone with a 19" screen, 3D accelleration, a mouse and a keyboard that fits in your pocket easily, I'll buy it.
Ali G is hilarious. Coming from the UK I dont see how anyone could fail to realise he isn't being serious, maybe Americans dont get that kind of humour. Buzz Aldrin should have spotted that something was up when he asked him about the conspiricy theorys of the moon being fake.
I'm pretty sure one of the people he interviewed threatened to sue if the interview was shown.
Not necessarily, in some parts of the world pirated software is easily available on the street. You dont have to be very tech savvy to buy a copy of XP off a dodgy looking person at a market stall for 10$.
I'm not saying that all DOS games have good gameplay. Nor am I saying that all modern games (good graphics or not) have crap gameplay. I'm just trying to say that I'm not like some people who see a game and immediately dismiss it because it has bad graphics.
Generally I think that games have improved in quality greatly over the years which is why I still buy new games. It's good to occasionally play an old classic though to see how things have moved on.
I was think of getting a P5 after I heard that Black & White supported it. Since you only have a hand to control the world with (no menus) being able to do it with your real hand would be cool. Couple that with a VR helmet and it would be totally immersive.
Unfortunatly the actual gameplay of B&W wasn't that good but it had some great ideas and I'm looking forward to the sequel.
I don't know whether they count as 'vintage' or not but I love downloading and playing old abandonware DOS. Even though it's old and the graphics are normally incredibly blocky, its still fun. I believe firmly in gameplay over graphics.
Getting some of them running can be quite hard though, sometimes a modern machine is just too fast for them.
They definetly should continue to maintain hubble, the amazing pictures it sends back are well worth it.
If a robot can do it just as well as a human then there is no point in risking astronauts lives for no reason. If however it can't be then I think it is worth a small risk to send a few astronauts up there. If NASA are too concerned with risks and tiny chances of things going wrong then they will never be able to do anything worthwhile with people in space.
I gave up getting the updates around about v1.5 . I'm all for updates but not when you have to download a couple of hundred meg every couple of weeks just to be able to play the game.
I live in a tiny village in which I doubt anyone outside of my family has even heard of wireless let alone got a laptop with it. The chance of someone coming within range of my wireless AP is absolutly minute. I am paranoid though so I do have WEP on.
Unfortunatly living where I do also means I can't get broadband.
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Technically it does have something to do with spam because IIRC spam was named after said Monty Python sketch?
Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam;
Here is an expample of how powerfull those lasers can be:http://www.flickr.com/photos/pmtorrone/2622866/
Burning through a plastic cup is a lot differant from taking down a plane though. IMO it shows how security paranoid people are nowerdays.
If reports like this keep on coming out the idiots who refuse to believe in global warming have got to take notice sometime.
Throw enough bricks at them and they might just learn something.
Is anyone actually going to be playing this instead of Half-Life 2? It will hardly get any media attention due to everybody focusing on HL2 so many people may just miss the release. One of my friends is a rabid MGS fan and I haven't even heard anything from him about it. Wouldn't it be better if they just released it next week?
Any regulation like that would be completely unenforceable. They have tried to ban camera phones at my school but everyone just ignores the rule. Soon almost all phones will have a camera in them so people won't even be able to go along with the rule if they want to.
What about the thousands who have dl/d the leaked version off the net and played that? Do they get to join?
That club doesn't sound so exclusive any more.
Yes, but nothing has been presented to prove that global warming IS part of a a natural cycle. We dont know nearly enough about the weather to say anything 100%. Even the best computer models have yet to come close to the real complexity of the weather patterns. They could be many other effects that we know nothing about which could cause disaster.
Right now we're running into a dark cave and hoping there isn't a bear in it. Not a very good strategy for survival.
Prehaps this is nature's way of telling America, the worlds biggest polluter by far to take global warming seriously.
If this doesn't do it nothing will. It is the equivilant of being hit on the back of the head and not bothering to turn round to stop whatever hit you from hitting you again.
I doubt it as this would prevent M$ from being able to sell normal XBox controllers at a ripoff price and remove its monopoly.
The bacteria were definitely not introduced from above Which contrasts with NASA not bothering to sterilize its rovers before sending them off. So even if we do find bacteria on mars we wont know for certain they originated there.
I agree. I would never call any game "from the street" because whatever its trying to be, it's probably been made by a load of geeks who as far away from "the street" as you can be.
No; the radio industry (particularly the American radio industry) cares about making money. Yes but the BBC is not funded by adverts. It is funded by a licence fee of about 110 per year from anybody with a TV. However radio 1 still sounds the same as any other station during the day. Its only during the evening when they have specialist shows that they are any differant.
Since it is 'fan written' where did they get all this information on source from? There's not a lot of detailed info but there's quite a lot I haven't seen before.
Could this be something do with a certain hack?
Or am I just paranoid? - probably
I just want a small simple phone that does phone calls and text messages. MP3 playback is good but my MP3 player does that better and cheaper. While the N-Gage looks quite cool its not going to fit in your pocket that easily. I'm going to keep my gaming to PC's for now. When they can invent a phone with a 19" screen, 3D accelleration, a mouse and a keyboard that fits in your pocket easily, I'll buy it.
Ali G is hilarious. Coming from the UK I dont see how anyone could fail to realise he isn't being serious, maybe Americans dont get that kind of humour. Buzz Aldrin should have spotted that something was up when he asked him about the conspiricy theorys of the moon being fake.
I'm pretty sure one of the people he interviewed threatened to sue if the interview was shown.
This sounds very similar to the stories of the ban of aircraft travel in the few days after 11 sept affecting the climate.
This just proves how much of a huge differance we are making to the planet. One more reason to take global warming seriously.
Not necessarily, in some parts of the world pirated software is easily available on the street. You dont have to be very tech savvy to buy a copy of XP off a dodgy looking person at a market stall for 10$.
I'm not saying that all DOS games have good gameplay. Nor am I saying that all modern games (good graphics or not) have crap gameplay. I'm just trying to say that I'm not like some people who see a game and immediately dismiss it because it has bad graphics.
Generally I think that games have improved in quality greatly over the years which is why I still buy new games. It's good to occasionally play an old classic though to see how things have moved on.
I agree. When I first saw the title I thought it was written by AI. Now that would be a film I would pay to see. Not for many years yet though.
I was think of getting a P5 after I heard that Black & White supported it. Since you only have a hand to control the world with (no menus) being able to do it with your real hand would be cool. Couple that with a VR helmet and it would be totally immersive.
Unfortunatly the actual gameplay of B&W wasn't that good but it had some great ideas and I'm looking forward to the sequel.
I don't know whether they count as 'vintage' or not but I love downloading and playing old abandonware DOS. Even though it's old and the graphics are normally incredibly blocky, its still fun. I believe firmly in gameplay over graphics. Getting some of them running can be quite hard though, sometimes a modern machine is just too fast for them.
They definetly should continue to maintain hubble, the amazing pictures it sends back are well worth it. If a robot can do it just as well as a human then there is no point in risking astronauts lives for no reason. If however it can't be then I think it is worth a small risk to send a few astronauts up there. If NASA are too concerned with risks and tiny chances of things going wrong then they will never be able to do anything worthwhile with people in space.
I gave up getting the updates around about v1.5 . I'm all for updates but not when you have to download a couple of hundred meg every couple of weeks just to be able to play the game.
Live in the middle of nowhere.
I live in a tiny village in which I doubt anyone outside of my family has even heard of wireless let alone got a laptop with it. The chance of someone coming within range of my wireless AP is absolutly minute. I am paranoid though so I do have WEP on.
Unfortunatly living where I do also means I can't get broadband.