Its the same bull that you get when you type in a domain name in your browser to see if its taken and find a cybersquatted site with search engine material on it to appear that the page actually has some original content.
I also see this sort of thing everytime I do a search on a search engine like Google or Yahoo. I will get a result with the descriptor blurb appearing to have info that I am looking for. When I click on the link, I get sent to some cybersquatted 3rd party search results page that is full of ads that have my search term (which the ads usually aren't relevant to) highlighted in their descriptions.
Somehow I pictured a variation of Kramer's coffee table book where the tablet had little legs that popped out of the bottom to turn into a coffee table.:P
Sounds a lot like the minigames/modes in the Timesplitters series. You find yourself trying to complete all these little tasks just to see what you will unlock, be it more minigames/modes/some weird cheat/new playable characters/etc.
The reason I ask this is if the power machine can handle human dung, you could hook the machines up to a toilet/sewage system and build a system as follows: Waste flushes from toilet to water cleaning system to retrieve water for reuse and then sends the waste extracted to the power machine to produce some power for the lighting.:)
Now that they are on the Intel platform, if they switched to Windows, they would become just another Dell, HP/Compaq, etc. Also, all of their loyal customers and developers would probably just bail on them for doing so. Not a very good business plan.
Why rebuy something that already works just fine? In fact, I find that Office 97 runs faster/better than any of the newer versions I've used at work.
Each time I upgrade to a faster machine, I move my installation over to it. I noticed with Windows XP, the Office 97 installer crashes. After reading some boards online, I noticed that most people concluded that it wouldn't run/install on XP but after experimenting with the 'custom' install, I discovered that all you need to do uncheck the web import/export for Word and everything else will install just fine. Besides, who the heck uses Word to edit/create webpages anyway.:P
Old light guns made the targets white and the gun would sense that reflectivity, you'd hold the gun right next to the screen and never miss.
It was even more effective if you were using a black & white tv that had manual brightness and contrast controls. If you adjusted things just right, you could aim at one target and due to a bug, you would hit all of the targets with one shot. I loved playing Gumshoe doing this as normally the game was near impossible. If you shot Stevenson to make him jump, all of the baddies on the screen would explode and it wouldn't use up any bullets either. It really helped fighting Zulie (the final boss).
Time loops in on itself and everything occurs over and over again. That is why some people keep getting that "Deja Vu" feeling because they HAVE already done whatever it is they're doing and have been whereever they are before.
At the end of the loop, all matter decays on the atomic level and drifts about in space. The particles then get pulled into the nearest black holes. Those black holes all drift towards each other and form bigger black holes upon contract until the entire universe becomes condensed into a singularity which causes a BIG BANG and the loop that is time begins again.
IT'S THE ALIENS THAT ARE DOING IT!
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They're fattening up their cattle a.k.a. us!
I hear "Armageddon" means "Great Feast" in Gray.;)
Those skinny little bastards must be hungry! Look at 'em!
For years, I have been trying to explain this phenomenon to family members (republicans) and friends (mostly democrats). Yet, none of them believed me and would usually just ignore the facts themselves. I haven't liked a presidential candidate in decades. I think of myself as a independent thinker and yet the republicans in my life call me a liberal and the democrats in my life call me a closet republican. This may get me modded flamebait but I think both major parties are one in the same....a bunch of lying crooks. Unfortunately, most idie candidates are similar or just want to be on a soapbox looking for fame and aren't a serious contender. *Sigh*
Surely if your heart is stopped and your brain dead then your soul leaves your body and you go to heaven (or hell) depending on how good you lived your life
I remember back in the 80s seeing a movie on TV (so the movie was probably made in the 70s) about a guy who was put in suspended animation because he has some incurable disease. Years later, there was some accident/malfunction that caused his chamber to revive him unexpectedly. Doctors were able to bring him back without a hitch or so they thought. He came back without a soul and became a serial killer. Only his christian mother and her priest suspected the truth.
I am looking forward to getting one of these bad boys when they come out. But what bothers me is Nintendo's secrecy about specs. They seem to downplay any inprovements in graphical performance and they say that it will have complete backwards compatability with the GameCube on top of having an amazingly low price. This made me wonder how will they achieve this. My thought is that the Revolution will really just be a GameCube with some extra hardware added and put in a different case.
I found it digging through some old stuff of mine stored in my parent's attic. It was pretty beat up though.
That magazine used to be great. The 1st issue was probably the best one published by Nintendo. It had the most info about upcoming games, the most tips, tricks, and strategies. However, with each issue after that one, there was less and less of that kind of content. Nowadays, I think its more ads than anything.
What also made that issue great was the fact that it was free. If you were a member of the Nintendo Fun Club (which was also free), you recieved the first issue free. However, creating Nintendo Power was Nintendo's way of saying that they wanted you to pay for those tips, tricks, etc. Before Nintendo Power, you could just join the Nintnedo Fun Club for free and get a monthly newsletter with this sort of information. I wish I still had some of those newsletters, they'd probably be worth something in the collector's market.
Developers need to focus more on the gameplay being fun and relevant to the characters when making these kind of games. There have been too many bad games that sell because they use a franchise be it from a movie, comic book, or a cartoon show that will make kids hound their parents until they buy it for them. Every once in a while we get a nice game that actually makes sense but IMHO I feel that they are too few and far between.
Oh, and Best Buy will now have to have two lines of people waiting at 3am, one for the Revolution, and one for the PS3. I can just hear the almost religious wars being waged between those lines-- So yeah, it could be an interesting time.
What would have me chuckling is when one fanboy finds out that they are out of the console he was waiting for and ends up wandering over to the end of the other line. Talk about having to eat some crow.:P
While I am up for seeing an improvement of the design myself.
As someone who already has a DS, I have to ask those of you out there that have one too, would you actually rebuy your DS if a better one came out?
I, personally, can't justify buying another one based on ergonomics. I stuck with my 1st gen GBA until the price of the DS dropped. I was tempted from time to time to get one of the GBA SPs because of the lit screen to avert those headaches recieved by my old GBA. But I couldn't justify the cost when mine played the same games just fine.
If I didn't already have one and a newer one with a better form factor came out, then I could see buying the better one. But then, if the old one dropped significantly in price, I could see people buying up the older one instead.
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I could have sworn that Amiga was working something just like this around the time they went bankrupt for the second time and were aquired by Gateway.
Anyone else remember those prototype sketches / vaporware?
Its the same bull that you get when you type in a domain name in your browser to see if its taken and find a cybersquatted site with search engine material on it to appear that the page actually has some original content.
I also see this sort of thing everytime I do a search on a search engine like Google or Yahoo. I will get a result with the descriptor blurb appearing to have info that I am looking for. When I click on the link, I get sent to some cybersquatted 3rd party search results page that is full of ads that have my search term (which the ads usually aren't relevant to) highlighted in their descriptions.
Just add a strobe light and watch them dance!
As much as I hate to say it, this is the pattern I have seen for the last 2 decades:
1. Revolutionary breakthrough game arrives
2. Everyone else clones said game
3. Profit
4. Stagnation while everyone waits for #1 to happen again.
Somehow I pictured a variation of Kramer's coffee table book where the tablet had little legs that popped out of the bottom to turn into a coffee table. :P
Suddenly the Bill of Rights and the Constitution become "classified" too!
</tinfoil hat>
Sounds a lot like the minigames/modes in the Timesplitters series. You find yourself trying to complete all these little tasks just to see what you will unlock, be it more minigames/modes/some weird cheat/new playable characters/etc.
The reason I ask this is if the power machine can handle human dung, you could hook the machines up to a toilet/sewage system and build a system as follows: Waste flushes from toilet to water cleaning system to retrieve water for reuse and then sends the waste extracted to the power machine to produce some power for the lighting. :)
Now that they are on the Intel platform, if they switched to Windows, they would become just another Dell, HP/Compaq, etc. Also, all of their loyal customers and developers would probably just bail on them for doing so. Not a very good business plan.
Why rebuy something that already works just fine? In fact, I find that Office 97 runs faster/better than any of the newer versions I've used at work.
:P
Each time I upgrade to a faster machine, I move my installation over to it. I noticed with Windows XP, the Office 97 installer crashes. After reading some boards online, I noticed that most people concluded that it wouldn't run/install on XP but after experimenting with the 'custom' install, I discovered that all you need to do uncheck the web import/export for Word and everything else will install just fine. Besides, who the heck uses Word to edit/create webpages anyway.
Run over the pimps instead. They are the true filth on the street.
Old light guns made the targets white and the gun would sense that reflectivity, you'd hold the gun right next to the screen and never miss.
It was even more effective if you were using a black & white tv that had manual brightness and contrast controls. If you adjusted things just right, you could aim at one target and due to a bug, you would hit all of the targets with one shot. I loved playing Gumshoe doing this as normally the game was near impossible. If you shot Stevenson to make him jump, all of the baddies on the screen would explode and it wouldn't use up any bullets either. It really helped fighting Zulie (the final boss).
Unfortunately, it also determined that goatse is real, shortly before self-destructing...
Time loops in on itself and everything occurs over and over again. That is why some people keep getting that "Deja Vu" feeling because they HAVE already done whatever it is they're doing and have been whereever they are before.
At the end of the loop, all matter decays on the atomic level and drifts about in space. The particles then get pulled into the nearest black holes. Those black holes all drift towards each other and form bigger black holes upon contract until the entire universe becomes condensed into a singularity which causes a BIG BANG and the loop that is time begins again.
They're fattening up their cattle a.k.a. us!
I hear "Armageddon" means "Great Feast" in Gray.
Those skinny little bastards must be hungry! Look at 'em!
</conspiracy theory>
They help my divining rod point in the right direction... :)
Acronyms? L33t speak?
I'm sure if they tried it most people would just LOL or say WTFE!
For years, I have been trying to explain this phenomenon to family members (republicans) and friends (mostly democrats). Yet, none of them believed me and would usually just ignore the facts themselves. I haven't liked a presidential candidate in decades. I think of myself as a independent thinker and yet the republicans in my life call me a liberal and the democrats in my life call me a closet republican. This may get me modded flamebait but I think both major parties are one in the same....a bunch of lying crooks. Unfortunately, most idie candidates are similar or just want to be on a soapbox looking for fame and aren't a serious contender. *Sigh*
The ladies can be covered up as long as its with one or more of the following skintight materials/fabrics: spandex, latex/rubber, leather, or vinyl. :)
:D
Bodypaint is also an acceptable option.
Surely if your heart is stopped and your brain dead then your soul leaves your body and you go to heaven (or hell) depending on how good you lived your life
I remember back in the 80s seeing a movie on TV (so the movie was probably made in the 70s) about a guy who was put in suspended animation because he has some incurable disease. Years later, there was some accident/malfunction that caused his chamber to revive him unexpectedly. Doctors were able to bring him back without a hitch or so they thought. He came back without a soul and became a serial killer. Only his christian mother and her priest suspected the truth.
Anyone out there know what this movie was called?
I am looking forward to getting one of these bad boys when they come out.
But what bothers me is Nintendo's secrecy about specs. They seem to downplay any inprovements in graphical performance and they say that it will have complete backwards compatability with the GameCube on top of having an amazingly low price. This made me wonder how will they achieve this. My thought is that the Revolution will really just be a GameCube with some extra hardware added and put in a different case.
Anyone else get this vibe?
I found it digging through some old stuff of mine stored in my parent's attic. It was pretty beat up though.
That magazine used to be great. The 1st issue was probably the best one published by Nintendo. It had the most info about upcoming games, the most tips, tricks, and strategies. However, with each issue after that one, there was less and less of that kind of content. Nowadays, I think its more ads than anything.
What also made that issue great was the fact that it was free. If you were a member of the Nintendo Fun Club (which was also free), you recieved the first issue free. However, creating Nintendo Power was Nintendo's way of saying that they wanted you to pay for those tips, tricks, etc. Before Nintendo Power, you could just join the Nintnedo Fun Club for free and get a monthly newsletter with this sort of information. I wish I still had some of those newsletters, they'd probably be worth something in the collector's market.
Oh well...
Developers need to focus more on the gameplay being fun and relevant to the characters when making these kind of games. There have been too many bad games that sell because they use a franchise be it from a movie, comic book, or a cartoon show that will make kids hound their parents until they buy it for them. Every once in a while we get a nice game that actually makes sense but IMHO I feel that they are too few and far between.
Oh, and Best Buy will now have to have two lines of people waiting at 3am, one for the Revolution, and one for the PS3. I can just hear the almost religious wars being waged between those lines-- So yeah, it could be an interesting time.
:P
What would have me chuckling is when one fanboy finds out that they are out of the console he was waiting for and ends up wandering over to the end of the other line. Talk about having to eat some crow.
While I am up for seeing an improvement of the design myself.
As someone who already has a DS, I have to ask those of you out there that have one too, would you actually rebuy your DS if a better one came out?
I, personally, can't justify buying another one based on ergonomics. I stuck with my 1st gen GBA until the price of the DS dropped. I was tempted from time to time to get one of the GBA SPs because of the lit screen to avert those headaches recieved by my old GBA. But I couldn't justify the cost when mine played the same games just fine.
If I didn't already have one and a newer one with a better form factor came out, then I could see buying the better one. But then, if the old one dropped significantly in price, I could see people buying up the older one instead.