Mostly because I don't ever buy the bleeding edge one, so I am already a year behind while I wait for the price to fall a little.
My philosophy differs than you. When I bought my PC back in September of 2002, I bought the bleeding edge graphcis card (the Radeon 9700 Pro), and I haven't had a problem since. I can still play today's bleeding edge games like HL2 and Doom 3 with no slowdown (albeit at 1024x768, but thats fine for me) and I haven't replaced my card (or any other parts in my computer save for HD space) since. And it seems quite capabable of handling anything coming out within the next year when I hope to buy a new PC (or whenever Longhorn comes out:P). Just pointing this out; not sure how much you're buying your year-old cards for, but it might be worth considering since it might be cheaper than replacing your card twice in 3 years.
Wow. Way to go over-assuming! For your information I attend university, not this college thing, and yes, I do have a job that pays $15/hour. Guess what? It's still not enough to cover $24,500 (canadian) a year and that's only tuition and rent, not food/books/expenses.
So yes, I do have my parents helping me out. And no, I didn't take a loan. Because guess what? A loan puts you in debt, and if I take a loan and pay for an iPod, I'm using money that not only I do not have, it's money that could be covering up my loans.
Almost everyone could scrape up $200, or afford to give $200 iPods as gifts.
almost everyone? Who's this ''everyone'' you speak of? Most people I know can't afford an iPod for themselves, let alone give it out as gifts. University students tend to be broke...
I heard that they were intending to be the EA of FPS games. They wanted to release a new version of Unreal every year. But 2004-2007 is three years, so . . . I guess they nixed that idea?
Let me be the first to say...Thank God! Im really glad they didnt up and release a new UT game this year. One year between a game isn't anywhere near enough for an online FPS to mature with new levels, mods and such. I love UT2k4 and I shuddered when I heard them say they were going to release one every year. Thishis game will be released in 2006, although my best guess is towards the christmas season, so that's a 2.5 year period between UT2k4, which is a decent period. It's one of the few games I actually bought for my pc, and really am looking forward to the next installment!
The story's told, but those worlds (Star Wars, Matrix and Lord of the Rings) are so captivating in and of themselves that people want to experience living their own lives in those universes, which is where the attraction of those MMORPGs comes in. Granted, SWG and MO sucked, so hopefuly MEO does a good job of it.
They do have this for something around the price you listed. They also have a more expensive membership that gets you access to fileplanet and all of the other gamespy services.
Frankly I switched to gamespot complete last year. Its $29 a year, and you get absolutely no ads (not even within the site), which is quite nice really, especially since their ads regularly take up half the main page. Also, their video streaming system is nice and way more organized than IGN's, and it's easy to download 'em too. Also, the complete only "ice" skin for the site is really nice.
And what did Pariah get?
To quote: "The Xbox has certainly done better than Pariah, so there's no need to spend time trudging through its uninteresting adventure."
The review was quite critical. It scored a 5.9. That's 59%. Its listed as "mediocre". In fact, they quite clearly recommend not bothering with the game. How exactly does that prove your point?
What's exactly wrong with GameSpot? They don't spread rumours. They report on real news. And their reviews of games get to the point and tend to be on the lower scale of scores.
Just because you don't agree with a review doesn't automatically mean that it was "sponsored by EA". I get tired about people complaining about these things when they have absolutely no justifiable proof of any such thing happening. Stop wearing your tinfoil hats for once
hmm. what's interesting is the wording of that threat pretty much seems to legitimize trading of officially released Apple products. They keep on mensioning that Apple protects its trade secrets and unreleased software, and I haven't heard em suing people for hosting torrents of Panther...
You compare RSS to Usenet...why? They're not the same thing, and aren't meant to be. Usenet runs on a different protocol; requires a different method of viewing it. And the main point of Usenet is discussion and communication, not content syndication. Its a tool for people to discuss and communicate with each other, and not for content providers to syndicate their content.
You mention that RSS has no means of viewing older content, and again I'd say its not meant for that. It's meant to be used to show what's the latest thing out there on the site, and if archival systems were implemented it'd likely take out the 'simple' from the name.
Here's how I use RSS. That site is set as my homepage, and uses the wonderful Magpie RSS PHP script to parse the RSS feeds. Instead of having to check all of those sites to check for updates a few times a day, all I do is go to my homepage (from any browser, not just my machine), and voila! I can instantly keep up to date with my favourite sites!
Simple: Opera is fast. Takes less resources. Try having multiple tabs open and switching between them in Firefox, you'll notice a lag. In opera, there's absolutely no lag. You switch, its there. Also, the built-in mail client is a real boon, and once you get used to the way it sorts mail out, is really really good. Not to mention that it also is friggin' fast. Oh, and its way more customizable than Firefox as a standalone produce in terms of the interface.
All he's saying is that just like IE and other programs, Firefox has security flaws and bugs. And that just switching to it because "its more secure" without knowing how or why is a bit foolish. He says that Firefox isn't a magic cure; I could run a perfectly secure system using Maxthon (IE) with a combination of a firewall and anti-spyware. Firefox doesn't automatically make your system more secure, you're browsing habits do. And he goes out of his way to state that Firefox is good: "Firefox is free, open source, cross-platform, and multilingual; and it also brings some much-needed competition to the browser market." Also, he also brings up the security bulletins by the US-CERT office, and not just Symantic as the poster mentioned. Isn't that Bias on the end of the poster?
Cooperative play is one of the most interesting aspects of modern gaming, and I would have liked to see a more developed co-op aspect for this title.
Excuse me? If I recall I was playing games co-op with my friends back in the NES and SNES days. In fact, a heck of a lot of games back then had some form of co-op. Only in 'modern gaming' has co-op taken a backseat to lots of run of the mill style deathmatch. So no, co-op isn't an aspect of modern gaming; modern gaming is finally reintroducting the co-op back into the game.
With that said, I find the co-op enjoyable. Two issues: needs a save function (there is one, but only while youre playing; if you quit and come back you have to restart the level). Could use more levels, oh, and less slowdown. Sometimes it gets downright awful.
They seriously want royalties for coming to work one or two days for a few hours, reading lines from a script and then never hearing about the thing again?
NO!
I hope the games industry fights back. If anyone should be getting any royalties, its the people who actually worked on the games like programmers, designers, animators etc. Sure, thats not gonna happen any time soon. Hopefully, the big evil that is EA can do some good here. They probably dont want to pay these actors any royalties, and arguably they provide the SAG with the biggest amount of work (heck, can't recall any recent EA game without big name actors), so hopefully they'll have some influence in the matter.
Wasn't the lack of physical distribution supposed to lower the price of this game? Why was it the same price when purchased online?
Just pointing out an answer to this, even though I hate Steam anyway. The price of the game if bought through Steam is the same as retail because of the deal Valve has with Vivendi, in which Valve was not allowed to undercut the retail value of Half-Life 2 as opposed to the Steam version of it.
However, since I'm now trying to make it an extension of my PC by integrating both computer togheter via networking stuff like VNC, DAVE et al. so they look like one machine to me, I've been rebooting it alot...
Can you please expand on that? What do you mean by they "look like one machine to me". I'm intrigued.
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The question is, if you aren't making money with it, do you actually need to be using Photoshop. If your work is so good that you absolutely need photoshop, then you really should be selling it, and you really should be paying to use it. Otherwise, GIMP will probably fulfill all your needs.
Your logic is a bit flawed. No design company would request "Experience with GIMP". Most expect/require you to know how to use Photoshop. Hence your work doesn't have to be 'good' to justify the use of Photoshop; you can think of it as training;).
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Ya, but for the same price, you can get a far more powerful PC.
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My philosophy differs than you. When I bought my PC back in September of 2002, I bought the bleeding edge graphcis card (the Radeon 9700 Pro), and I haven't had a problem since. I can still play today's bleeding edge games like HL2 and Doom 3 with no slowdown (albeit at 1024x768, but thats fine for me) and I haven't replaced my card (or any other parts in my computer save for HD space) since. And it seems quite capabable of handling anything coming out within the next year when I hope to buy a new PC (or whenever Longhorn comes out:P). Just pointing this out; not sure how much you're buying your year-old cards for, but it might be worth considering since it might be cheaper than replacing your card twice in 3 years.
Hmm. My receiver is behind my monitor, and i never had a problem.
This is also the case in OS X
So yes, I do have my parents helping me out. And no, I didn't take a loan. Because guess what? A loan puts you in debt, and if I take a loan and pay for an iPod, I'm using money that not only I do not have, it's money that could be covering up my loans.
almost everyone? Who's this ''everyone'' you speak of? Most people I know can't afford an iPod for themselves, let alone give it out as gifts. University students tend to be broke...
Yet you're on Slashdot? :p
I heard that they were intending to be the EA of FPS games. They wanted to release a new version of Unreal every year. But 2004-2007 is three years, so . . . I guess they nixed that idea? Let me be the first to say...Thank God! Im really glad they didnt up and release a new UT game this year. One year between a game isn't anywhere near enough for an online FPS to mature with new levels, mods and such. I love UT2k4 and I shuddered when I heard them say they were going to release one every year. Thishis game will be released in 2006, although my best guess is towards the christmas season, so that's a 2.5 year period between UT2k4, which is a decent period. It's one of the few games I actually bought for my pc, and really am looking forward to the next installment!
The story's told, but those worlds (Star Wars, Matrix and Lord of the Rings) are so captivating in and of themselves that people want to experience living their own lives in those universes, which is where the attraction of those MMORPGs comes in. Granted, SWG and MO sucked, so hopefuly MEO does a good job of it.
Probably related to his drug abuse....*rimshot!*
As opposed to the typical PS2 user?
Frankly I switched to gamespot complete last year. Its $29 a year, and you get absolutely no ads (not even within the site), which is quite nice really, especially since their ads regularly take up half the main page. Also, their video streaming system is nice and way more organized than IGN's, and it's easy to download 'em too. Also, the complete only "ice" skin for the site is really nice.
The review was quite critical. It scored a 5.9. That's 59%. Its listed as "mediocre". In fact, they quite clearly recommend not bothering with the game. How exactly does that prove your point?
Just because you don't agree with a review doesn't automatically mean that it was "sponsored by EA". I get tired about people complaining about these things when they have absolutely no justifiable proof of any such thing happening. Stop wearing your tinfoil hats for once
All of which come from Opera, and are present in other browsers. How's that unique?
hmm. what's interesting is the wording of that threat pretty much seems to legitimize trading of officially released Apple products. They keep on mensioning that Apple protects its trade secrets and unreleased software, and I haven't heard em suing people for hosting torrents of Panther...
You mention that RSS has no means of viewing older content, and again I'd say its not meant for that. It's meant to be used to show what's the latest thing out there on the site, and if archival systems were implemented it'd likely take out the 'simple' from the name.
Here's how I use RSS. That site is set as my homepage, and uses the wonderful Magpie RSS PHP script to parse the RSS feeds. Instead of having to check all of those sites to check for updates a few times a day, all I do is go to my homepage (from any browser, not just my machine), and voila! I can instantly keep up to date with my favourite sites!
Simple: Opera is fast. Takes less resources. Try having multiple tabs open and switching between them in Firefox, you'll notice a lag. In opera, there's absolutely no lag. You switch, its there. Also, the built-in mail client is a real boon, and once you get used to the way it sorts mail out, is really really good. Not to mention that it also is friggin' fast. Oh, and its way more customizable than Firefox as a standalone produce in terms of the interface.
All he's saying is that just like IE and other programs, Firefox has security flaws and bugs. And that just switching to it because "its more secure" without knowing how or why is a bit foolish. He says that Firefox isn't a magic cure; I could run a perfectly secure system using Maxthon (IE) with a combination of a firewall and anti-spyware. Firefox doesn't automatically make your system more secure, you're browsing habits do. And he goes out of his way to state that Firefox is good: "Firefox is free, open source, cross-platform, and multilingual; and it also brings some much-needed competition to the browser market." Also, he also brings up the security bulletins by the US-CERT office, and not just Symantic as the poster mentioned. Isn't that Bias on the end of the poster?
Excuse me? If I recall I was playing games co-op with my friends back in the NES and SNES days. In fact, a heck of a lot of games back then had some form of co-op. Only in 'modern gaming' has co-op taken a backseat to lots of run of the mill style deathmatch. So no, co-op isn't an aspect of modern gaming; modern gaming is finally reintroducting the co-op back into the game.
With that said, I find the co-op enjoyable. Two issues: needs a save function (there is one, but only while youre playing; if you quit and come back you have to restart the level). Could use more levels, oh, and less slowdown. Sometimes it gets downright awful.
NO!
I hope the games industry fights back. If anyone should be getting any royalties, its the people who actually worked on the games like programmers, designers, animators etc. Sure, thats not gonna happen any time soon. Hopefully, the big evil that is EA can do some good here. They probably dont want to pay these actors any royalties, and arguably they provide the SAG with the biggest amount of work (heck, can't recall any recent EA game without big name actors), so hopefully they'll have some influence in the matter.Just pointing out an answer to this, even though I hate Steam anyway. The price of the game if bought through Steam is the same as retail because of the deal Valve has with Vivendi, in which Valve was not allowed to undercut the retail value of Half-Life 2 as opposed to the Steam version of it.
Can you please expand on that? What do you mean by they "look like one machine to me". I'm intrigued.
Your logic is a bit flawed. No design company would request "Experience with GIMP". Most expect/require you to know how to use Photoshop. Hence your work doesn't have to be 'good' to justify the use of Photoshop; you can think of it as training ;).
Ya, but for the same price, you can get a far more powerful PC.
I think they'd be more along the lines: "Yo ma dizzle! I'm 13 bi4tch 4nD pl4y sh|t lik3 urz 4ll t3h tim3!"