It seems like bit of a convenient coincidence that this happened just before they replaced their ID numbers with something other than Social Security numbers. Someone has obviously been paying attention in their Computer Science classes.
I was surprised to recently read a few favourable reviews of several N-Gage games, the authors set out biased against them and actually ended up admitting they are quite good. Shame the overall product sucks as the games are very enjoyable seemed to be the summary.
Will anyone own up to actually having one comment?
Its probably part of his grieving, he realises his son is dead and wants to try to keep as many memories of him alive as he can. In all honesty he probably wouldn't be interested in whats inside his sons yahoo account and doesn't really care, all he is thinking about is that his son is dead and he wants to see his emails to remember him. You hear similar stories of people with recently deseased family members who go on these mini crusades to occupy their time and help them cope.
Thats a fair comment, I was meaning more I don't particularly think about it, don't go to church. I believe in a higher power but not nessecarily the bible etc, and in that regards you could say I lead a christian life, or a islamic life, or bhuddist or anything other religion that basically says don't be a dick, and try to help others if possible.
My wife would quite like to play world of warcraft along with me, as well as be able to browse websites etc while I'm hogging the pc as I often do. I was thinking of picking up a cheap HP or similar, the kind that have a few hundreds worth of rebates at bestbuy etc. Does anyone know if this is powerful enough to play WOW and are macs able to be connected to the same router as a pc? If so then this would be the perfect solution and I've always fancied playing about on a mac. Someone enlighten me and my apple ignorance:)
I was raised christian but don't practice, make your own preach joke:) Anyway, to be fair I don't think it was the church who started producing chocolate and making easter synonymous with gorging yourself with candy.
I think they meant more to the lay person its hard to imagine, to scientists and geeks it possibly conjures up images of this huge brown planet with swirling gases around the atmosphere, and how amazing it is that something thats trillions of miles, more distance than can be imagined can still be snapped by this man made telescope in space. But to people like me who are interested in science but have no real background or knowledge of just whats involved, it does just appear like a small blob and its hard to imagine it as anything else. And this is from someone who's father worked in hubble (a very minor part of it) and several ESA projects.
Verizon is doing a huge rollout of its fiber network, generally at least a few test towns in each state, which once the initial infrastructure is laid will grow extremely quickly I would think. I believe it had something like 15m down and 3m up, I'm currently on 1.5 down so I don't think this is going to be a problem soon, just wait until they starting doing their "5x faster than cable!!!" advertisments and watch the competition rush to respond.
I completely agree, despite my dislike of their high prices, I really am happy with comcasts 'OnDemand' feature, being able to start any program when I want and fast forward/rewind etc. The selection is still quite sparse but its slowly growing, and I suspect its the networks and cable channels hampering the selection choices rather than comcast for reasons other people have stated, like no longer being able to promise huge viewing figures for primetime slots.
So will it not be able to access your HD at all? I was under the impression that it could still read your NTFS drives or whatever windows formats it as? I last played around with Linux five years ago with Mandrake as dual boot but had no real need for it, but would like to play around with it again, was thinking about one of these live CD's but if it can't save to your HD (i know it boots off the cd) then I'll probably not bother. I vaguely remember mandrake was able to still mount your dos partitions, but then they were FAT and it wasn't booting from cd. Any info appreciated.
ding ding ding ding, we have a winner!
When I used to have a website a few years ago I would design most of the pages in notepad, get the all the css styles done, then I would use dreamweaver to actually do the rest of the site, once you got a design scheme down, its dead easy to just write your content, drop it into dreamweaver and have it do all the hard work for you. It also made managing the site very easy, got to replace that changed link in over 200 pages? Click a button and its done. Sure there's tools that do that for you but the fact they are all integrated into one package is what makes Dreamweaver great. The grandparent was exactly what he said, an elitist prick.
In EB I don't ever see 75 games for the GC. That may be a fault of the retailor etc but if the games aren't available in the shops then I can't be expected to of heard of them.
I rely on word of mouth and gamespot for my game news, the last 10 quality games I liked for the PS2 last year that I personally have played and like are:
Shadow Hearts 2
Xenosage
GTA:VC that might not be last year but when i first played it
Tony Hawk Underground, also enjoyed a lot
Star Ocean
Prince of Persia sands of time
Getaway:Black monday
Jak 3
LOTR: 3rd age
X-men legends
Some of those are possibly dual platform or not 2004 but all games I liked. On the other hand, games I personally enjoyed on the GC:
The latest mario kart one, argh name escapes me, Mario dash?
Tales of Symphonia
Paper Mario
I've never enjoyed the F-zero games, my wife is enjoying paper mario but not into it myself, she also owns harvest moon which havent yet tried.
Conversly I probably bought more pc games last year than any other before, but though my opinion my be subjective to games that I like, and one mans trash is anothers treasure, the fact still remains that I see more games out on other platforms that I like the look of than the GC. Also so much hype is put about the GC games that are made by nintendo that others tend to get pushed out, I didnt like Metroid 2 probably because I am too used to FPS on the pc (did enjoy halo 2 though at a mates), and zelda just wasnt how i remember zelda. But I don't hear about GCN games only from TV, I really don't see many good games coming out on the GC.
You seemed to take it quite personally that I said there were not many games coming out for the GC and only 5-10 good ones a year, why did that bother you so much?
And in Europe and the US the GC hasn't been selling as much. Your point? You have to admit that while microsoft might not be making money on the Xbox, its still a nice machine and has some great games if you're into those types (team/sports games etc). I own a gamecube and enjoy it, but fact is only about 5-10 quality games come out for it a year, of which only half will vaguely interest me and that I will finish way before another comes out to replace it and the gamecube just doesnt have many good games, Why can't "fanboys" just accept that?
Agreed. I own a GC, PS2 and a PC. I have purchased only three games for the GC in the last year, Mario sunshine which i never play now, Paper Mario which my wife is currently playing through, and Tales of Symphonia which i havent touched yet. It doesn't matter if they have 10 amazing games a year, as only three or four of them will appeal to me and I will lose interest or finish them way before another is released.
I realise there has to be profits, but part of the point of mmorpgs originally was that as well as playing with many people at the same time, the world would be constantly evolving with new content and refinements. That hasn't really happened in many but myself and I suspect many other people are happy to pay a monthly fee because of the promise of new content etc, otherwise whats the point of playing once you've seen everything or got to the highest levels, it just turns into irc chat with a pretty engine. This happened to me in SWG, I enjoyed it buy after a while I had done pretty much everything and used to just hop on to chat to my guild mates. JTL while not interesting me, I feel was a fair expansion to charge for because it was a big engine add-on, but whats most new content? A few new models and a new dungeon.
I agree with you on pay the fee you think its worth though. I personally think this is gouging and if wow did it I wouldn't pay and would probably stop playing but others might be salivating at the idea.
I am not an EQ2 subscriber, prefer wow myself, but it seems the game price covered the development, adn the subscription price covers the bandwith and bug fixes, csr's etc, but to then say hey if you want new content you have to pay sort of negates the purpose of paying a monthly fee to me. 200 bucks a year for one game is a lot but people can justify it saying well i get as much entertainment as I would buying a full price game every month. If they want you to pay subscription fee, plus game price, PLUS the price of new content then you may as well just buy a new game every month and not have the subscription fee.
I know server bandwith and maintenance isn't cheap, but if you are already paying $15 a month then just what is this money going towards? Anyone got any sort of idea of stats or breakdown of what it costs to run a game like this per person?
I felt the same about Firefly, very little effects in the great scheme of things apart from the odd cgi ship take off/landing bit, but the lowkey FX worked extremely well and added to the series, shame it was cancelled.
He is griefing because he would always target me, and would actually try to follow me whereever I went. Spending 20 minutes waiting to kill a specific person repeatedly even though you got barely any experience for it?
In swg you had to run faction missions to really get anywhere, you could convert faction points to regular experience on top of the exp you received from the missions plus 75% of the content was faction based, which was the main reason I quit. I can understand someone saying hey thats an easy kill, I'll do that, but its another when you repeatedly target someone for no other reason than pure satisfaction from killing someone many times lower stats thatn yourself.
One problem with mmorpgs is that people can grief while still playing "fair". In SWG, if I was trying to run low level faction missions from the city I lived in, there was always one guy who had far more combat skills than I who would actually lie in wait to kill me daily (in swg you become pvp-able when you run a faction mission). Yes I could of gone to another city or run non faction missions but I would of got a fraction of the experience and money for them. So I would constantly be attacked, killed and taunted by one individual who was playing within the rules of the game and until I finally had a character to match his, there was nothing I could do about it and it really sucked, it made me consider quitting many a time.
Mostly true, but I find firefox is slow loading any site with Java, which while the fault of the page, not firefox, I do wish they could somehow make the java plugin for firefox load quicker, or on startup or somtehing.
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It seems like bit of a convenient coincidence that this happened just before they replaced their ID numbers with something other than Social Security numbers. Someone has obviously been paying attention in their Computer Science classes.
I was surprised to recently read a few favourable reviews of several N-Gage games, the authors set out biased against them and actually ended up admitting they are quite good. Shame the overall product sucks as the games are very enjoyable seemed to be the summary. Will anyone own up to actually having one comment?
Its probably part of his grieving, he realises his son is dead and wants to try to keep as many memories of him alive as he can. In all honesty he probably wouldn't be interested in whats inside his sons yahoo account and doesn't really care, all he is thinking about is that his son is dead and he wants to see his emails to remember him. You hear similar stories of people with recently deseased family members who go on these mini crusades to occupy their time and help them cope.
Thats a fair comment, I was meaning more I don't particularly think about it, don't go to church. I believe in a higher power but not nessecarily the bible etc, and in that regards you could say I lead a christian life, or a islamic life, or bhuddist or anything other religion that basically says don't be a dick, and try to help others if possible.
My wife would quite like to play world of warcraft along with me, as well as be able to browse websites etc while I'm hogging the pc as I often do. I was thinking of picking up a cheap HP or similar, the kind that have a few hundreds worth of rebates at bestbuy etc. Does anyone know if this is powerful enough to play WOW and are macs able to be connected to the same router as a pc? If so then this would be the perfect solution and I've always fancied playing about on a mac. Someone enlighten me and my apple ignorance :)
I was raised christian but don't practice, make your own preach joke :) Anyway, to be fair I don't think it was the church who started producing chocolate and making easter synonymous with gorging yourself with candy.
I think they meant more to the lay person its hard to imagine, to scientists and geeks it possibly conjures up images of this huge brown planet with swirling gases around the atmosphere, and how amazing it is that something thats trillions of miles, more distance than can be imagined can still be snapped by this man made telescope in space. But to people like me who are interested in science but have no real background or knowledge of just whats involved, it does just appear like a small blob and its hard to imagine it as anything else. And this is from someone who's father worked in hubble (a very minor part of it) and several ESA projects.
Thanks for the info!
Verizon is doing a huge rollout of its fiber network, generally at least a few test towns in each state, which once the initial infrastructure is laid will grow extremely quickly I would think. I believe it had something like 15m down and 3m up, I'm currently on 1.5 down so I don't think this is going to be a problem soon, just wait until they starting doing their "5x faster than cable!!!" advertisments and watch the competition rush to respond.
I completely agree, despite my dislike of their high prices, I really am happy with comcasts 'OnDemand' feature, being able to start any program when I want and fast forward/rewind etc. The selection is still quite sparse but its slowly growing, and I suspect its the networks and cable channels hampering the selection choices rather than comcast for reasons other people have stated, like no longer being able to promise huge viewing figures for primetime slots.
So will it not be able to access your HD at all? I was under the impression that it could still read your NTFS drives or whatever windows formats it as? I last played around with Linux five years ago with Mandrake as dual boot but had no real need for it, but would like to play around with it again, was thinking about one of these live CD's but if it can't save to your HD (i know it boots off the cd) then I'll probably not bother. I vaguely remember mandrake was able to still mount your dos partitions, but then they were FAT and it wasn't booting from cd. Any info appreciated.
ding ding ding ding, we have a winner! When I used to have a website a few years ago I would design most of the pages in notepad, get the all the css styles done, then I would use dreamweaver to actually do the rest of the site, once you got a design scheme down, its dead easy to just write your content, drop it into dreamweaver and have it do all the hard work for you. It also made managing the site very easy, got to replace that changed link in over 200 pages? Click a button and its done. Sure there's tools that do that for you but the fact they are all integrated into one package is what makes Dreamweaver great. The grandparent was exactly what he said, an elitist prick.
In EB I don't ever see 75 games for the GC. That may be a fault of the retailor etc but if the games aren't available in the shops then I can't be expected to of heard of them. I rely on word of mouth and gamespot for my game news, the last 10 quality games I liked for the PS2 last year that I personally have played and like are: Shadow Hearts 2 Xenosage GTA:VC that might not be last year but when i first played it Tony Hawk Underground, also enjoyed a lot Star Ocean Prince of Persia sands of time Getaway:Black monday Jak 3 LOTR: 3rd age X-men legends Some of those are possibly dual platform or not 2004 but all games I liked. On the other hand, games I personally enjoyed on the GC: The latest mario kart one, argh name escapes me, Mario dash? Tales of Symphonia Paper Mario I've never enjoyed the F-zero games, my wife is enjoying paper mario but not into it myself, she also owns harvest moon which havent yet tried. Conversly I probably bought more pc games last year than any other before, but though my opinion my be subjective to games that I like, and one mans trash is anothers treasure, the fact still remains that I see more games out on other platforms that I like the look of than the GC. Also so much hype is put about the GC games that are made by nintendo that others tend to get pushed out, I didnt like Metroid 2 probably because I am too used to FPS on the pc (did enjoy halo 2 though at a mates), and zelda just wasnt how i remember zelda. But I don't hear about GCN games only from TV, I really don't see many good games coming out on the GC. You seemed to take it quite personally that I said there were not many games coming out for the GC and only 5-10 good ones a year, why did that bother you so much?
And in Europe and the US the GC hasn't been selling as much. Your point? You have to admit that while microsoft might not be making money on the Xbox, its still a nice machine and has some great games if you're into those types (team/sports games etc). I own a gamecube and enjoy it, but fact is only about 5-10 quality games come out for it a year, of which only half will vaguely interest me and that I will finish way before another comes out to replace it and the gamecube just doesnt have many good games, Why can't "fanboys" just accept that?
Agreed. I own a GC, PS2 and a PC. I have purchased only three games for the GC in the last year, Mario sunshine which i never play now, Paper Mario which my wife is currently playing through, and Tales of Symphonia which i havent touched yet. It doesn't matter if they have 10 amazing games a year, as only three or four of them will appeal to me and I will lose interest or finish them way before another is released.
I realise there has to be profits, but part of the point of mmorpgs originally was that as well as playing with many people at the same time, the world would be constantly evolving with new content and refinements. That hasn't really happened in many but myself and I suspect many other people are happy to pay a monthly fee because of the promise of new content etc, otherwise whats the point of playing once you've seen everything or got to the highest levels, it just turns into irc chat with a pretty engine. This happened to me in SWG, I enjoyed it buy after a while I had done pretty much everything and used to just hop on to chat to my guild mates. JTL while not interesting me, I feel was a fair expansion to charge for because it was a big engine add-on, but whats most new content? A few new models and a new dungeon. I agree with you on pay the fee you think its worth though. I personally think this is gouging and if wow did it I wouldn't pay and would probably stop playing but others might be salivating at the idea.
I am not an EQ2 subscriber, prefer wow myself, but it seems the game price covered the development, adn the subscription price covers the bandwith and bug fixes, csr's etc, but to then say hey if you want new content you have to pay sort of negates the purpose of paying a monthly fee to me. 200 bucks a year for one game is a lot but people can justify it saying well i get as much entertainment as I would buying a full price game every month. If they want you to pay subscription fee, plus game price, PLUS the price of new content then you may as well just buy a new game every month and not have the subscription fee.
I know server bandwith and maintenance isn't cheap, but if you are already paying $15 a month then just what is this money going towards? Anyone got any sort of idea of stats or breakdown of what it costs to run a game like this per person?
Technically its both because the LJ servers run on linux?
Funny you should mention that, my father still uses Windows 98 and netscape 3, and never runs into any problems. So much for progress eh?
I felt the same about Firefly, very little effects in the great scheme of things apart from the odd cgi ship take off/landing bit, but the lowkey FX worked extremely well and added to the series, shame it was cancelled.
He is griefing because he would always target me, and would actually try to follow me whereever I went. Spending 20 minutes waiting to kill a specific person repeatedly even though you got barely any experience for it? In swg you had to run faction missions to really get anywhere, you could convert faction points to regular experience on top of the exp you received from the missions plus 75% of the content was faction based, which was the main reason I quit. I can understand someone saying hey thats an easy kill, I'll do that, but its another when you repeatedly target someone for no other reason than pure satisfaction from killing someone many times lower stats thatn yourself.
One problem with mmorpgs is that people can grief while still playing "fair". In SWG, if I was trying to run low level faction missions from the city I lived in, there was always one guy who had far more combat skills than I who would actually lie in wait to kill me daily (in swg you become pvp-able when you run a faction mission). Yes I could of gone to another city or run non faction missions but I would of got a fraction of the experience and money for them. So I would constantly be attacked, killed and taunted by one individual who was playing within the rules of the game and until I finally had a character to match his, there was nothing I could do about it and it really sucked, it made me consider quitting many a time.
Mostly true, but I find firefox is slow loading any site with Java, which while the fault of the page, not firefox, I do wish they could somehow make the java plugin for firefox load quicker, or on startup or somtehing.