Using a device that is suited for gaming with games that are actually fun to play and not just low res rehash games chopped down far enough to allow the Java engine o' the day to play it on a screen the size of my watch.
This is simply one more way for a cell phone company to sell you one more "service" or "improved phone".
Oh I don't know about that - Maxis seems to rebound after the pathetic SimCity3000... SimCity 4 with it's expansion pack Rush Hour is good for many hours of sleepless micromanagement and zoning cities.
But then again... Medal of Honor: Allied Assault has enough security holes it could be considered the "Los Alamos Lab" of FPS games.
They say: Make it legal files, all you smart and shifty peeps for an RIAA lawsuit will leave you on the streets. Sure they're suing young and old people for sharing the tunes but they're alienating their market - the stupid buffoons
Tomorrow are you sure you would buy from them? The pricks just scored ten grand from mom of ten! In the 90's when CD price-fixing was raging full on I paid over $30 per disc, RIAA you stupid greedy moron
And now that I have the simple, easy, anonymous way to score free music from you - go blow me, you selfish whore Music industry, I find your ethics a royal joke You'd rather pay millions to a pop singer stoned on coke
Keep going down the evil road you travel I enjoy watching your business model unravel Your death grip of online tune sources will get weak Then iTunes, Napster, and the bands will then speak
They'll market directly to the fans that gladly pay while keeping your greedy lawyers at bay you'll see, mark my words I am here to say, I will enjoy that one, beautiful, precious day
I owned an XBox for 23 hours. Sold it on ebay for $600 on the day it was released.
Bought a second one a few months later when they released a game for it. Still wasn't impressed - ebay in 3 weeks.
I'm still playing N64 games and emulating the NES classics. Back when consoles were a decade apart and they gave time for game artists to work their magic and tweak the consoles to their limits.
Now with a 6 month development cycle most consoles are lucky to get two years of the sports titles out before the developers have to start learning a whole new box of crap.
Or even worse, they just recompile the old game with new shit from the manufactures to make more triangles and 18.876 channel sound and vibra-wireless-eighty button controllers.
When I got married, my soon to be wife and her father made up a contract that specifically stated that we will pay the photog for services, purchase all film used and will retain all said rights to the film and photos.
We went to a few photogs before one agreed, then kept the negatives after the wedding. Needless to say - he signed the contract and we got our negatives. Which we promptly had scanned, archived on CDs, and uploaded to shutterfly.com to allow anyone to purchase any photos they want without having to go through us.
Stupid stupid stupid business model. Enjoy the $1500 you made for one nights work.
I've never met the people that share our server face to face - but I know their kids names, birthdays, and a lot of other stuff I would normally only remember of friends. Some are from Canada, some are from the states. All of us have a great time playing the game as a team. We share a stronger bond that the anonymous players do - we're friends.
I didn't miss your argument - I was simply replying with my version of online gaming and what I've found works for me and my new friends.
We're planning a group meeting sometime next year - it's tough to find a middle grown when you have 2,000 miles between the farthest people.
No, not for a major office or site. But for branch offices or smaller setups a DSL line would be a decent backup for a T1. Or even DSL and Cable as a backup. This is only the considering the cost though.
Having redundant T1's from different providers is always going to be the best option, but may be more expensive that many are willing to pay for.
Redundant should be designed as 100% redundant - count on your ISP or local telco getting bombed off the face of the planet - then plan around that.
If you don't have a CLEC or ISP - then turn to DSS sat.
For those of you who have a T1 and want a cheap backup - think about ISDN, DSL, or even a Cable internet account - it doesn't have to equal a T1 but would do in a pinch for routing mail and basic traffic.
If your boss doesn't think your company needs a redundant line - go unplug the csu/dsu for an hour and then ask again.
Get on a PC with broadband. Grab a game that allows for FREE online play. Grab Teamspeak and a Headset. Get some friends with the same setup - and you're now doing the same thing... without paying a monthly fee.
Most games out there have multiplayer - heck, even grab some old multiplayer game like quake, Tribes2, Half Life, and all them - you can talk smack to your friends when you whap them upside the head with the crowbar for free.
Then again the 26 seat MOHAA server we rent costs $100 a month... but split among our group it's much less than any monthly charge EA or Sony will ever get from me.
Arcades are dying because one reason - the games suck.
All the U.S. arcade game makers have shifted to console - because they can make a lot more.
Our local arcade has a smattering of what I would call real honest to whatever god you like" arcade games. The rest are those quarter sucking ticket spewing light boxes that suck in every 4 year old from all four corners of the mall. And that makes the whole trip to the arcade even worse.
queue flashback music
I remember when an arcade was a place. A dark room, jumping with sounds and lights. It had rows and rows of arcade games. Some were single or two player stand up machines you could lose yourself in a game for an hour or two with nobody messing with you. Or maybe ask if they could challenge you and jump in.
It was also a place you could meet gamer chicks. You know, girls who also enjoyed (and often kicked my arse) at the very games I enjoyed.
It had rows of pinball games. Really real pinball. Made by the best pinball manufacturers. A true art under glass and yours for the playing.
Some upscale arcades even had consession stands where you could buy sodas and snacks. And you could rent the place for an hour or two for a birthday party with a group of teens and be thought of as the coolest.
A trip to a large city wasn't complete until you checked out a major arcade. Because those were the "test markets" for new and never before seen video games. And they also would keep around old classics that the smaller arcades couldn't. So it was a trip for old and new!
True - fast and far wireless technology is just on the horizon. Turning rural communities into ad-hoc high speed wireless networks would be simple with this technology - a power company would be prime to allow these devices to be powered and mounted on the utility poles.
I'm shocked they went this far knowing it caused these problems in the first place...
>From Intels point of view the most damaging >part is the marketing boost AMD get from this.
I disagree.
From my viewpoint as a consumer, Intel has gained respect in my eyes for recalling their chips and righting a wrong swiftly. Not screwing the board makers or the end-users with ongoing denials until it's too late. I think Intel gained a bit of good karma for this, not AMD.
Apple (back in the hayday of the Apple II) refused to sell computers to the military - Steve and Steve actually had a conscience about their company and its effect on the world.
The military obtained them from a third party anyway - and they operated in silos of multi-megaton missles.
How a few decades and a few millions will change people.
I was in the same possition - ISP call center - light boards went solid, call volume trippled, management was going apeshit, and the clueless masses demanded to know why we were rebooting their machines.
Ah, it was hell until Microsoft posted the 1-866-PC SAFETY phone number for toll free Virus assistance... yeah baby - you can talk to your OEM now, it ain't our problem you got infuckted.
Your ISP may be a bit smarter than most and blocking the most offensive ports... I wish mine was, but it's only blocking port 25 system wide - to slow down the spam zombies. But this prevents me from using my own domain's smtp server instead of my ISP's shitty one.:-(
A cheap 486 and a couple of NICs... go download yourself the free smoothwall express install and have yourself a rockhard firewall with the heart of linux protecting your Windows machine.
Smoothwall
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Thanks Godaddy.com, registrar extraordinaire, for give up $100,000 for ICANN's legal fees.
I'm proud to be a customer.
Mobile gaming to me equals = GBA
Using a device that is suited for gaming with games that are actually fun to play and not just low res rehash games chopped down far enough to allow the Java engine o' the day to play it on a screen the size of my watch.
This is simply one more way for a cell phone company to sell you one more "service" or "improved phone".
I'm not buying.
Steve Job's Distortion Field must be losing its power... he would have spun this cancer into "an unscheduled upgrade."
Get well Steve, I'm still saving my coin for a powerbook.
Oh I don't know about that - Maxis seems to rebound after the pathetic SimCity3000... SimCity 4 with it's expansion pack Rush Hour is good for many hours of sleepless micromanagement and zoning cities.
But then again... Medal of Honor: Allied Assault has enough security holes it could be considered the "Los Alamos Lab" of FPS games.
Punk Buster anyone?
They say: Make it legal files, all you smart and shifty peeps
for an RIAA lawsuit will leave you on the streets.
Sure they're suing young and old people for sharing the tunes
but they're alienating their market - the stupid buffoons
Tomorrow are you sure you would buy from them?
The pricks just scored ten grand from mom of ten!
In the 90's when CD price-fixing was raging full on
I paid over $30 per disc, RIAA you stupid greedy moron
And now that I have the simple, easy, anonymous way to score
free music from you - go blow me, you selfish whore
Music industry, I find your ethics a royal joke
You'd rather pay millions to a pop singer stoned on coke
Keep going down the evil road you travel
I enjoy watching your business model unravel
Your death grip of online tune sources will get weak
Then iTunes, Napster, and the bands will then speak
They'll market directly to the fans that gladly pay
while keeping your greedy lawyers at bay
you'll see, mark my words I am here to say,
I will enjoy that one, beautiful, precious day
This would imply that I actually paid for my applications and operating system.
Psshh-yeah right. And monkeys my fly out of my butt.
Preach on brotha Carl...
I owned an XBox for 23 hours. Sold it on ebay for $600 on the day it was released.
Bought a second one a few months later when they released a game for it. Still wasn't impressed - ebay in 3 weeks.
I'm still playing N64 games and emulating the NES classics. Back when consoles were a decade apart and they gave time for game artists to work their magic and tweak the consoles to their limits.
Now with a 6 month development cycle most consoles are lucky to get two years of the sports titles out before the developers have to start learning a whole new box of crap.
Or even worse, they just recompile the old game with new shit from the manufactures to make more triangles and 18.876 channel sound and vibra-wireless-eighty button controllers.
I agree, PE Builder does the trick - but it's damn slow.
Bump that request for a live CD to save IT people forced at gunpoint to save Windows.
When I got married, my soon to be wife and her father made up a contract that specifically stated that we will pay the photog for services, purchase all film used and will retain all said rights to the film and photos.
We went to a few photogs before one agreed, then kept the negatives after the wedding. Needless to say - he signed the contract and we got our negatives. Which we promptly had scanned, archived on CDs, and uploaded to shutterfly.com to allow anyone to purchase any photos they want without having to go through us.
Stupid stupid stupid business model. Enjoy the $1500 you made for one nights work.
I've never met the people that share our server face to face - but I know their kids names, birthdays, and a lot of other stuff I would normally only remember of friends. Some are from Canada, some are from the states. All of us have a great time playing the game as a team. We share a stronger bond that the anonymous players do - we're friends.
I didn't miss your argument - I was simply replying with my version of online gaming and what I've found works for me and my new friends.
We're planning a group meeting sometime next year - it's tough to find a middle grown when you have 2,000 miles between the farthest people.
No, not for a major office or site. But for branch offices or smaller setups a DSL line would be a decent backup for a T1. Or even DSL and Cable as a backup. This is only the considering the cost though.
Having redundant T1's from different providers is always going to be the best option, but may be more expensive that many are willing to pay for.
Redundant should be designed as 100% redundant - count on your ISP or local telco getting bombed off the face of the planet - then plan around that.
If you don't have a CLEC or ISP - then turn to DSS sat.
For those of you who have a T1 and want a cheap backup - think about ISDN, DSL, or even a Cable internet account - it doesn't have to equal a T1 but would do in a pinch for routing mail and basic traffic.
If your boss doesn't think your company needs a redundant line - go unplug the csu/dsu for an hour and then ask again.
Get on a PC with broadband. Grab a game that allows for FREE online play. Grab Teamspeak and a Headset. Get some friends with the same setup - and you're now doing the same thing... without paying a monthly fee.
Most games out there have multiplayer - heck, even grab some old multiplayer game like quake, Tribes2, Half Life, and all them - you can talk smack to your friends when you whap them upside the head with the crowbar for free.
Then again the 26 seat MOHAA server we rent costs $100 a month... but split among our group it's much less than any monthly charge EA or Sony will ever get from me.
Arcades are dying because one reason - the games suck.
All the U.S. arcade game makers have shifted to console - because they can make a lot more.
Our local arcade has a smattering of what I would call real honest to whatever god you like" arcade games. The rest are those quarter sucking ticket spewing light boxes that suck in every 4 year old from all four corners of the mall. And that makes the whole trip to the arcade even worse.
queue flashback music
I remember when an arcade was a place. A dark room, jumping with sounds and lights. It had rows and rows of arcade games. Some were single or two player stand up machines you could lose yourself in a game for an hour or two with nobody messing with you. Or maybe ask if they could challenge you and jump in.
It was also a place you could meet gamer chicks. You know, girls who also enjoyed (and often kicked my arse) at the very games I enjoyed.
It had rows of pinball games. Really real pinball. Made by the best pinball manufacturers. A true art under glass and yours for the playing.
Some upscale arcades even had consession stands where you could buy sodas and snacks. And you could rent the place for an hour or two for a birthday party with a group of teens and be thought of as the coolest.
A trip to a large city wasn't complete until you checked out a major arcade. Because those were the "test markets" for new and never before seen video games. And they also would keep around old classics that the smaller arcades couldn't. So it was a trip for old and new!
Ah, those were arcades... I miss those arcades.
>Now get out there and enjoy the power-snails people!
four cylinder with a hairdryer, to you 1983 Mustang SVO owners...
(oh god what a horrible Fordism that was...)
True - fast and far wireless technology is just on the horizon. Turning rural communities into ad-hoc high speed wireless networks would be simple with this technology - a power company would be prime to allow these devices to be powered and mounted on the utility poles.
I'm shocked they went this far knowing it caused these problems in the first place...
>From Intels point of view the most damaging
>part is the marketing boost AMD get from this.
I disagree.
From my viewpoint as a consumer, Intel has gained respect in my eyes for recalling their chips and righting a wrong swiftly. Not screwing the board makers or the end-users with ongoing denials until it's too late. I think Intel gained a bit of good karma for this, not AMD.
Apple (back in the hayday of the Apple II) refused to sell computers to the military - Steve and Steve actually had a conscience about their company and its effect on the world.
The military obtained them from a third party anyway - and they operated in silos of multi-megaton missles.
How a few decades and a few millions will change people.
Smoothwall.org - for the easiest to configure - Smoothwall Express v2.0
I was in the same possition - ISP call center - light boards went solid, call volume trippled, management was going apeshit, and the clueless masses demanded to know why we were rebooting their machines.
Ah, it was hell until Microsoft posted the 1-866-PC SAFETY phone number for toll free Virus assistance... yeah baby - you can talk to your OEM now, it ain't our problem you got infuckted.
Your ISP may be a bit smarter than most and blocking the most offensive ports... I wish mine was, but it's only blocking port 25 system wide - to slow down the spam zombies. But this prevents me from using my own domain's smtp server instead of my ISP's shitty one. :-(
A cheap 486 and a couple of NICs... go download yourself the free smoothwall express install and have yourself a rockhard firewall with the heart of linux protecting your Windows machine.
Smoothwall
Benna, you're ignorant if you think it's bullshit - infected zombie machines are common and infect people quickly.
Want proof these worms are targeting every IP out there - go visit dshield.org, and you'll see what the Internet is dealing with.
My firewall logs a regular blip of hits on port 445, 25, 135, 3127, 1434, 1433.
All of these are various worms looking for an unprotected host. Until then... keep using linux, you're much better off.
It's almost common for a fresh install to be infected on the first few minutes of connection to the Internet - Microsoft made it far to easy.
screw that, I'd much rather have a Home button.
I had to switch local carriers to get the DSL product from them - it was required by my ISP/Phone company.
I see why - Internet and Phone service is so competitive that many CLECs lose money on the DSL product but make up for it on the voice services.
SBC blows - I was glad to dump them for my current ISP. But I wonder if the CLECs are held to the same ruling if we'll see naked DSL prices skyrocket?