I think it all depends on the amount of time you play. I played GTA:SA for four days straight over the holidays - after staring at the screen for that long without taking breaks to re-adjust to the 'real' world, San Andreas starts to look normal. I experienced the same sensation you get when you drive on the highway at top speed for hours and you lose your sensitivity to speed, except that I wasn't really driving.
I could close my eyes and it felt like everything was flying past me.
If they are a loud, rude person then they will be loud and rude no matter what technology you limit them to. - Is it just me or are the shouters also the same people who will find any excuse to use their cellphones, mainly as an excuse to exercise their loud voices.
hardly ever use my mobile, but on a plane I imagine it would be really useful - if you consider the typical cell phone conversation "useful", as in "Yeah... I'm on the (insert mode of transportation here)... We just left the (station, terminal, hotel)... should be arriving in about an hour..." Most of the conversations I overhear (mostly because the loud cellphone user makes it otherwise impossible) is trivial, annoying travelogue that could be eliminated by avoiding using the phone during travel, and calling when you arrive at your destination, as in: "I'm here, where the hell are you?"
Or just wait until the first cellphone explodes mid-flight, making all those box cutters seem soooo benign. "They're going to start the movie in 10 minutes, i think on westbound filghts it's iRobot *BOOM*...."
But they need to upgrade. Their Microsoft OS is like a radioactive isotope, slowly losing support in favor of newer products. By the time MS pulls support for the OS, there's no way on earth your old computer has the specs required to upgrade-install the latest version of Windows.
So even if people manage to ignore Dell & Co. hawking their new machines every 18 months, MS will definitely get them after 4 years, if not sooner. Meanwhile, the machine is probably in good working condition, plus or minus some malware, and is still up to the task as an email machine.
When Emma protested, Joseph came forward with a revelation from god advocating plural marriage, which addresses her directly. http://scriptures.lds.org/dc/132/51-57#51 (scriptures.lds.org)
He went on to marry at least a dozen women, some say many, many more.
It was the men (particularly Joseph Smith) marrying more than one non-widowed and not-so-extra single ladies that turned Missouri citizens against mormon settlers.
Plural marriage, and the advocation of its practice, came first. Killing came later.
My favorite new feature in SP2 is the WiFi interface. I can now tell Windows to ignore my neighbor's unsecured network (although it's tempting to hop on when I think they're on vacation).
The popup killer is also better than the one I was using previously.
It's a match made in fanboy heaven. Anybody who wants to see this is going to have to get the PSP. Perhaps swapping out the battery in the middle of the movie lets you see the ending where Aeris is resurrected!
It would seem that Square is very savvy to cater to its fans, and when potential buyers go nuts over one of their properties, they produce the goods. FFX sold like crazy, so they produced a sequel, and guess what - it sold like crazy too. Why wouldn't the same be true for FFVII, which seems to have been better appreciated.
As for which is the driver - they get positive response to the film, so they queue up another game for development, or whether they planned it that way all along? Doesn't matter much to me. I would buy the movie with or without the game and vice versa, and that's the behaviour Square has cultivated from anyone who plays and enjoys their crack... I mean games.
I would fix the blame squarely on David Beckham and English footballers. If allegations are correct, he really is a Loos-er. Flash forward 50 years, you'll find loose in the Wiktionary as an accepted alternative spelling, complete with etymological reference to Becks.
But how exciting to see the english language degrade during your lifetime!!
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I could close my eyes and it felt like everything was flying past me.
that's exactly what they do here in Europe. even the PC stuff is in a DVD case. Purrrrfect.
Any relation to a turdburgler?
hardly ever use my mobile, but on a plane I imagine it would be really useful - if you consider the typical cell phone conversation "useful", as in "Yeah... I'm on the (insert mode of transportation here)... We just left the (station, terminal, hotel)... should be arriving in about an hour..." Most of the conversations I overhear (mostly because the loud cellphone user makes it otherwise impossible) is trivial, annoying travelogue that could be eliminated by avoiding using the phone during travel, and calling when you arrive at your destination, as in: "I'm here, where the hell are you?"
Or just wait until the first cellphone explodes mid-flight, making all those box cutters seem soooo benign. "They're going to start the movie in 10 minutes, i think on westbound filghts it's iRobot *BOOM*...."
So even if people manage to ignore Dell & Co. hawking their new machines every 18 months, MS will definitely get them after 4 years, if not sooner. Meanwhile, the machine is probably in good working condition, plus or minus some malware, and is still up to the task as an email machine.
When Emma protested, Joseph came forward with a revelation from god advocating plural marriage, which addresses her directly. http://scriptures.lds.org/dc/132/51-57#51 (scriptures.lds.org)
He went on to marry at least a dozen women, some say many, many more.
Plural marriage, and the advocation of its practice, came first. Killing came later.
The popup killer is also better than the one I was using previously.
I'll give SP2 one thumb up.
It's a match made in fanboy heaven. Anybody who wants to see this is going to have to get the PSP. Perhaps swapping out the battery in the middle of the movie lets you see the ending where Aeris is resurrected!
Sad to think that this yummy goodness is only available in Japan and North America. Has anyone heard of a possible release in Europe?
As for which is the driver - they get positive response to the film, so they queue up another game for development, or whether they planned it that way all along? Doesn't matter much to me. I would buy the movie with or without the game and vice versa, and that's the behaviour Square has cultivated from anyone who plays and enjoys their crack... I mean games.
I would fix the blame squarely on David Beckham and English footballers. If allegations are correct, he really is a Loos-er. Flash forward 50 years, you'll find loose in the Wiktionary as an accepted alternative spelling, complete with etymological reference to Becks. But how exciting to see the english language degrade during your lifetime!!
and because Slashdot does have editors, you can lose the comma: "Wouldn't it be great if Slashdot had editors who could..."