I would disagree. My PS2 became cursed with the Disc Read Error after nearly two years. My Xbox is still going hard and I've been playing it more or less every day since I got it three years ago. So, given this, the XBox has clearly been the better deal - not only has it lasted longer, but it has also kept my interest longer.
The only thing I want a PS2 for now is DMC3, but I can live without it.
Prepared properly? I just buy a bag at the store, and while I'm at home, I grab one from the bag and eat it. No preperation. It's the only way a man should ever eat his carrots.:P
Windows doesn't randomly create viruses and ad-/spy-ware for your computer - at the very least, this isn't the issue in the article.
The comparison should be if that car were sideswiped by someone that was pissed off by someone else. Damage to your car caused by someone who didn't know you but decided they needed to hurt as many people as possible. Maybe the angsty person targets Fords because Ford refused to recall a certain model of vehicle?
Still, that side-swipe could have been avoided with a defensive driving course, but most people don't know about those or don't have the time/money to learn.
I assume they'll modify it into a new standard and call it Windows Media Disc. Pretty soon, civilians around the globe will have untold numbers of WMDs.
Well, my server (unnamed to protect it's stability) hasn't suffered any problems. It's a low-medium population server and I don't think we've hit the cap, yet. At least, I've never had to wait in line to log in and I play all the time.
So, I do believe they forsaw that a great many people would flock to their game, but they didn't forsee that record-breaking numbers of people would flock to certain servers. Perhaps, their server-placement protocol wasn't as spread out as it should have been?
All I have to say is that if it's in the food I eat and the water I drink, and I haven't gotten sick for more than five years, then it can't be that bad for me.
Actually, I don't think that video games should be held to a higher standard than movies. I think the standard for both should be raised.
But really, who am I to complain? I mean, really, it's not my children getting the M-rated video games because "responsibility" is a word I don't try to avoid at every step.
Not like many who reply to me are going to see this but, I must apologize for my rash assumption that movie-ratings are enforced by Law. I assumed it would fall under corrupting minors, but I guess I would be wrong.
Anyway, the older generation grew up with movies not meant for kids, so they know what movies to not allow children in to see. It's far from the same with video games, however. My parents grew up in a time when video games _were_ meant just for kids. That's not so, now. That is why children are being granted access to insuitable material.
However, I still believe it should be regulated, not for the parents, but to punish the businesses who willfully provide these inappropriate material s to children just to make a buck.
What ever happened to honour? What ever happened to morality and ethics? Have the mere mention of these words drawn so much religious debate that people are afraid to refer to them, anymore?
It keeps those "R-rated" and "Mature" games out of the hands of children who shouldn't be playing them.
We've seen examples in the news, such as the GTA-graffiti and that really bad manhunt-connection where the victim was the kid with the game but it was still unsuitable for him. Also, consider Halo and Halo 2. Both of those games are M-rated, but there were still between thousands to millions of kids playing those games. Sure, it's only Microsoft's, but the games are still unsuitable for children. If they weren't unsuitable, they wouldn't have been given the M-rating, right?
Falling back to the argument that parents should be responsible hasn't worked so far because the parents grew up with video games being for kids, so many assume all video games are still for kids. That's just not true anymore. The games aren't all meant for kids, but the kids are still getting them. Why is this?
If you think all of this is bogus, then turn your attention to movie- and film-ratings. I mean, if a kid should be allowed to play any video game, he should be allowed to watch any movie, right? At least with movies, he's a passanger as opposed to the driver, right? Am I wrong?
Actually, it's easier for them to remove the spyware than to track down every instance of vague exploits in their code to prevent unwanted spyware.
Even so, say it were easier for them to fix the bugs, what about the spyware that people agree to? When they download a program, a great number of users don't read what's being installed because they assume it's just what they wanted or that it won't ruin their system. These don't occur because of bugs, so how do you fix that in code? As above, Anti-spyware tools are the most efficient method of removal/prevention.
Forgive me. in the second sentence, I meant to write "Yes, it was pirated before it hit the shelves." I should read my whole message more clearly when I preview.
I must say, my legally purchased copy was nothing like your pirated copy. Yes, it was before it hit the shelves. Are you sure you got the whole final release code? I mean, for my system, default gamma correction made the environment seem like a science lab in an alien environment.
The lighting was bright enough to see all of the details except in the (admittedly many) dark areas, but there were only a comparable handful of pitch-black areas where I had to whip out my flashlight to see, and only twice was I attacked when I had it out.
Sure, the game lacked a lot of story, but it seemed like a damned good horror to me. If the marine was scripted, it could have done well as a horror movie. Seems to me that your response is just an overreaction to something you expected to hate.
It's just like any collectible card game. $ = power.
That's basically why I stopped playing M:TG. Not enough power.
This looks similar to an equation I was shown in High School:
In Physics, we have the equation "Work = Power * Time". We can rearrange the formula for Time to get "Time = Work / Power". Now, if Time is Money ($$) and Knowledge (IQ) is Power, then we get the equivalent formula "$$ = Work / IQ". If everyone does the same work (Work = 1), then more IQ leads to less $$. If the colloquialisms are true, then the equation is supported by science.
This equation makes it pretty clear that the idiots are the ones with the money, so it will be the idiots who try to force the extra economy into the game. It seems to follow observations pretty well to me.
It's an advantage not built into the game. It's circumventing the balance of the game because you feel it's not worth the time to kill and loot.
Let's assume you work 40+ hours a week, anyways. If you weren't playing WoW, would you quit your job because it was only a means to advance your character? No, you wouldn't. You'd be working your job and spending the money elsewhere. You can call it hard work when referring to outfitting your character in the game, but then you're probably obsessed with addiction and behavioral problems.
The majority of players don't have the option of using RL (real life) money to outfit their IG (in-game) characters, and the game was built with that in mind. By using RL money, the balance is broken because someone didn't have to put time and effort into the game to get equal rewards - they put in far less time and effort to reap equal rewards. When referring to balance, this is often called "broken". It is something that should be nerfed... oh, wait. They did nerf it; they said we aren't allowed to use RL money to advance IG factors. Thus, it is cheating.
Perhaps they mean "Powerful" in terms of magnification? It would seem normal to me to refer to a powerful telescope if it can magnify an image that much considering how powerful the magnification of the human eye is when compared to binoculars.
some people don't have to study to get good grades. I can count the number of times I did homework in K-12 on both hands. I wasn't valedictorian, but that was because on the classes that did have the "homework requirement", I just ate the 10% loss and got an 85 instead of a 95 because I couldn't be bothered to spend that much time doing shit I already knew.
Still got a full scholarship for college too.
I did this too, right up to the scholarship. However, there was this one physics class where the homework was worth 40% of the final grade... I ate the 40% loss and got a 48 instead of 88. Well, next semester, I switched an optional class out so I could retake physics. Best thing I ever did with my grade 11 year; I brought my mark up to 84 with more (but not all) of the homework done.
However, this is an example. Not all classes score homework at 10%. There is a very good point to homework more than ingraining the knowledge. It also helps us learn to focus on work, even if we don't enjoy doing it, which is valuable in the job market.
I'm actually DMing a PbEM using 3.5E rules. It's more time consuming than I thought it would be, but that's okay because no one is on a specific schedule for it.
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I don't know. If I circulated flyers around my workplace that said it sucked, do you think I would be able to keep my job?
I would disagree. My PS2 became cursed with the Disc Read Error after nearly two years. My Xbox is still going hard and I've been playing it more or less every day since I got it three years ago. So, given this, the XBox has clearly been the better deal - not only has it lasted longer, but it has also kept my interest longer.
The only thing I want a PS2 for now is DMC3, but I can live without it.
Prepared properly? I just buy a bag at the store, and while I'm at home, I grab one from the bag and eat it. No preperation. It's the only way a man should ever eat his carrots. :P
You just need a better comparison.
Windows doesn't randomly create viruses and ad-/spy-ware for your computer - at the very least, this isn't the issue in the article.
The comparison should be if that car were sideswiped by someone that was pissed off by someone else. Damage to your car caused by someone who didn't know you but decided they needed to hurt as many people as possible. Maybe the angsty person targets Fords because Ford refused to recall a certain model of vehicle?
Still, that side-swipe could have been avoided with a defensive driving course, but most people don't know about those or don't have the time/money to learn.
I assume they'll modify it into a new standard and call it Windows Media Disc. Pretty soon, civilians around the globe will have untold numbers of WMDs.
I think they foresaw that their game would be popular. I mean, they have a lot of servers, right? They have about 90 servers, I think. If each could hold 2000 players, and be stable, that's 180k players at the same time. They shattered records by having 200k players online at the same time, didn't they?
Well, my server (unnamed to protect it's stability) hasn't suffered any problems. It's a low-medium population server and I don't think we've hit the cap, yet. At least, I've never had to wait in line to log in and I play all the time.
So, I do believe they forsaw that a great many people would flock to their game, but they didn't forsee that record-breaking numbers of people would flock to certain servers. Perhaps, their server-placement protocol wasn't as spread out as it should have been?
All I have to say is that if it's in the food I eat and the water I drink, and I haven't gotten sick for more than five years, then it can't be that bad for me.
Actually, I don't think that video games should be held to a higher standard than movies. I think the standard for both should be raised.
But really, who am I to complain? I mean, really, it's not my children getting the M-rated video games because "responsibility" is a word I don't try to avoid at every step.
Not like many who reply to me are going to see this but, I must apologize for my rash assumption that movie-ratings are enforced by Law. I assumed it would fall under corrupting minors, but I guess I would be wrong.
Anyway, the older generation grew up with movies not meant for kids, so they know what movies to not allow children in to see. It's far from the same with video games, however. My parents grew up in a time when video games _were_ meant just for kids. That's not so, now. That is why children are being granted access to insuitable material.
However, I still believe it should be regulated, not for the parents, but to punish the businesses who willfully provide these inappropriate material s to children just to make a buck.
What ever happened to honour? What ever happened to morality and ethics? Have the mere mention of these words drawn so much religious debate that people are afraid to refer to them, anymore?
They did it for movies. Why not for video games?
It keeps those "R-rated" and "Mature" games out of the hands of children who shouldn't be playing them.
We've seen examples in the news, such as the GTA-graffiti and that really bad manhunt-connection where the victim was the kid with the game but it was still unsuitable for him. Also, consider Halo and Halo 2. Both of those games are M-rated, but there were still between thousands to millions of kids playing those games. Sure, it's only Microsoft's, but the games are still unsuitable for children. If they weren't unsuitable, they wouldn't have been given the M-rating, right?
Falling back to the argument that parents should be responsible hasn't worked so far because the parents grew up with video games being for kids, so many assume all video games are still for kids. That's just not true anymore. The games aren't all meant for kids, but the kids are still getting them. Why is this?
If you think all of this is bogus, then turn your attention to movie- and film-ratings. I mean, if a kid should be allowed to play any video game, he should be allowed to watch any movie, right? At least with movies, he's a passanger as opposed to the driver, right? Am I wrong?
Actually, it's easier for them to remove the spyware than to track down every instance of vague exploits in their code to prevent unwanted spyware.
Even so, say it were easier for them to fix the bugs, what about the spyware that people agree to? When they download a program, a great number of users don't read what's being installed because they assume it's just what they wanted or that it won't ruin their system. These don't occur because of bugs, so how do you fix that in code? As above, Anti-spyware tools are the most efficient method of removal/prevention.
Forgive me. in the second sentence, I meant to write "Yes, it was pirated before it hit the shelves." I should read my whole message more clearly when I preview.
I must say, my legally purchased copy was nothing like your pirated copy. Yes, it was before it hit the shelves. Are you sure you got the whole final release code? I mean, for my system, default gamma correction made the environment seem like a science lab in an alien environment.
The lighting was bright enough to see all of the details except in the (admittedly many) dark areas, but there were only a comparable handful of pitch-black areas where I had to whip out my flashlight to see, and only twice was I attacked when I had it out.
Sure, the game lacked a lot of story, but it seemed like a damned good horror to me. If the marine was scripted, it could have done well as a horror movie. Seems to me that your response is just an overreaction to something you expected to hate.
Different people have different schedules for their religions. ;)
It's just like any collectible card game. $ = power.
That's basically why I stopped playing M:TG. Not enough power.
This looks similar to an equation I was shown in High School:
In Physics, we have the equation "Work = Power * Time". We can rearrange the formula for Time to get "Time = Work / Power". Now, if Time is Money ($$) and Knowledge (IQ) is Power, then we get the equivalent formula "$$ = Work / IQ". If everyone does the same work (Work = 1), then more IQ leads to less $$. If the colloquialisms are true, then the equation is supported by science.
This equation makes it pretty clear that the idiots are the ones with the money, so it will be the idiots who try to force the extra economy into the game. It seems to follow observations pretty well to me.
It's an advantage not built into the game. It's circumventing the balance of the game because you feel it's not worth the time to kill and loot.
Let's assume you work 40+ hours a week, anyways. If you weren't playing WoW, would you quit your job because it was only a means to advance your character? No, you wouldn't. You'd be working your job and spending the money elsewhere. You can call it hard work when referring to outfitting your character in the game, but then you're probably obsessed with addiction and behavioral problems.
The majority of players don't have the option of using RL (real life) money to outfit their IG (in-game) characters, and the game was built with that in mind. By using RL money, the balance is broken because someone didn't have to put time and effort into the game to get equal rewards - they put in far less time and effort to reap equal rewards. When referring to balance, this is often called "broken". It is something that should be nerfed... oh, wait. They did nerf it; they said we aren't allowed to use RL money to advance IG factors. Thus, it is cheating.
Perhaps they mean "Powerful" in terms of magnification? It would seem normal to me to refer to a powerful telescope if it can magnify an image that much considering how powerful the magnification of the human eye is when compared to binoculars.
To be fair, a period after the second and fourt lines might have been nice, but it's still a nice rhyme. ^_^
This is just another reason for the authorities to monitor your computer.
You must not have used XP. Mine's been up continuously since I bought it on Labour Day weekend.
Every single one of you will be dead by 2152.
I'm gonna live forever! Don't believe me? Prove me wrong.
It's topics like this that make me wonder just how many /.ers are spammers, too.
some people don't have to study to get good grades. I can count the number of times I did homework in K-12 on both hands. I wasn't valedictorian, but that was because on the classes that did have the "homework requirement", I just ate the 10% loss and got an 85 instead of a 95 because I couldn't be bothered to spend that much time doing shit I already knew.
Still got a full scholarship for college too.
I did this too, right up to the scholarship. However, there was this one physics class where the homework was worth 40% of the final grade... I ate the 40% loss and got a 48 instead of 88. Well, next semester, I switched an optional class out so I could retake physics. Best thing I ever did with my grade 11 year; I brought my mark up to 84 with more (but not all) of the homework done.
However, this is an example. Not all classes score homework at 10%. There is a very good point to homework more than ingraining the knowledge. It also helps us learn to focus on work, even if we don't enjoy doing it, which is valuable in the job market.
I'm actually DMing a PbEM using 3.5E rules. It's more time consuming than I thought it would be, but that's okay because no one is on a specific schedule for it.