That was after they bought out Westwood, who was making quality products until EA ruined them with deadlines. Westwood was a fairly respected game developer, who was then crushed (like so many) under EA games "management" practices.
At the time, Curtis was of the opinion that the program was to be used for preventing fraud in the in the 2002 election in Palm Beach County, Florida.
So much for that idea. He was two years off.
His mind was changed, however, when the true intentions of Feeney became clear: the computer program was going to be used to suppress the Democratic vote in counties with large Democratic registrations. Did he get that idea after seeing Fahrenheit 9/11?
I dont think that this will replace 3dmark anytime soon. Nor will it replace the new HL2, Doom3 or Far-Cry benchmarks. Maybe it will add onto them, but, never replace it.
In November 2004, to commemorate Byrd's landmark flight, an LC-130 cargo plane, flown by the New York Air National Guard, traced Byrd's route from the coast to the Pole and back.
Why not use a replica of his original plane? Still sort-of cool. More exciting for the scientists down there as there was something to do besides watch ice move and worry about the potential effects of missing a supply plane.
You should remember that they tried to force everyone to use their own anti-spam standard, and it didnt work. It looks like yahoo's is going to become predominent. Not Micro$ofts.
They only help in their own self interest. If it costs less money to run Bill Gates email address by having less spam being sent, then its in their own best interest. Saves them money, hassle, etc.
Helping internet standards is not something that MS likes doing, willingly at least.
They might be eventually compatible if a program like hotmail popper or yahoopops is invented for it. Im sure it wont take that long as there are tons of gmail hacks already (firefox extention, virtual drives, etc.)
Im surprised that it took so long after firefox to be released in 1.0 that thunderbird went preview. Though i can understand why they did, I always thought that they would go 1.0 together.
I use thunderbird for all my mail, and it is much better then Outlook on windows. Good job Mozilla.
Yes, but you will spend millions of years in court first before you recieve a several billion year prison sentence. After spending several million light years being deported back to the original galaxy of departure.
In response to PCGamer, I need to say that they are the best magazine out there in terms of accurate reviews. Graphics dont make a game, and they dont break reviews into "graphics score, sound score, fun score, etc.". The score is the average reflection of how a reviewer feels about the game overall.
Ive seen them give games 5% (mad dog mcrae), 12% (armored moon). Or give a game 98% (half-life 2), 97% (half-life 1), 94% (far cry). C&C Tiberian Sun got a 77. Its on the high end of the "good" scale, recomemded for fans of that particular genre.
In Dawn of War they gave it an 88(87), in the lows section near the % said "no strategy at all in single player needed". This was mentioned in the review. Right after it was mentioned how the multiplayer alone could last for months.
Some magazines (like X-Box magazine, and the now defunct PC Accelerator just suck (quake did not deserve a 10/10). PC gamer gave it an 80, and UT a 90. Why? Cause UT was a better game. Not all reviews are bad. Though the gamespot HL-2 one sucked (bash hl2 all the time, then give it a 96, wtf?)
All they are really is highly clocked x800 pro pe's with a more impressive cooling. You could probaby get clocks just as high as that one with 3rd party coolers and ramsinks. All it is is an ATI oc'd card instead of ocing it yourself.
To say that Google is co-operating with china's net police is an overstatement. They just dont list sites that chineese people cant get to. The Chineese blocked news.google.com, not the other way around. Its like how china blocked blogger.com and blogspot.com because some blogs were listing proxy servers to get around the "great firewall".
You can certainly blame google for censorship. Does china block news.yahoo.com and drudgereport.com? Its quite likely. If you live in china, and cant get to reuters news reports, then why bother having them be listed at all? 403 forbidden and 404 file not found errors are rather fun to ge getting at almost every site you visit. Not to mention a waste of productivity
Almost every MMORPG has launch problems. Star Wars Galaxies was even worse then this one. Im surprised that they added new servers so quickly though. Anyone remember Diablo II on launch week? Random disconnects, timeouts, etc. Blizzard underestimated their popularity again.
A more interesting thing to not would be whether this would even be successful. Everyone i know has pirated copies of XP. This is unlikely to change anything.
...person to survive rabies.
first known survivor of a rabies infection
when the article states:
But only three people in the world are known to have survived after the onset of rabies symptoms, according to state health officials.
A dual-core gpu card would offer much more performance then just videocards in SLI mode. They would use nasty amounts of power (and would certainly need to be in PCIX setups), but they would offer a much higer performance then SLI mode cards. Of any type.
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That was after they bought out Westwood, who was making quality products until EA ruined them with deadlines. Westwood was a fairly respected game developer, who was then crushed (like so many) under EA games "management" practices.
Elsewhere in the story he says that
At the time, Curtis was of the opinion that the program was to be used for preventing fraud in the in the 2002 election in Palm Beach County, Florida.
So much for that idea. He was two years off.
His mind was changed, however, when the true intentions of Feeney became clear: the computer program was going to be used to suppress the Democratic vote in counties with large Democratic registrations.
Did he get that idea after seeing Fahrenheit 9/11?
The Christian lobby should have WANTED the monsters to be demons from hell cause then people could watch the Doom guy kick Satan's ass.
Thats a bet im willing to take up, along with a couple other million people who are faithful PBS watchers.
Not just stem cells, but embryonic stem cells specifically, as umbilical chord ones are not good enough.
I dont think that this will replace 3dmark anytime soon. Nor will it replace the new HL2, Doom3 or Far-Cry benchmarks. Maybe it will add onto them, but, never replace it.
In November 2004, to commemorate Byrd's landmark flight, an LC-130 cargo plane, flown by the New York Air National Guard, traced Byrd's route from the coast to the Pole and back.
Why not use a replica of his original plane? Still sort-of cool. More exciting for the scientists down there as there was something to do besides watch ice move and worry about the potential effects of missing a supply plane.
You should remember that they tried to force everyone to use their own anti-spam standard, and it didnt work. It looks like yahoo's is going to become predominent. Not Micro$ofts.
They only help in their own self interest. If it costs less money to run Bill Gates email address by having less spam being sent, then its in their own best interest. Saves them money, hassle, etc.
Helping internet standards is not something that MS likes doing, willingly at least.
They might be eventually compatible if a program like hotmail popper or yahoopops is invented for it. Im sure it wont take that long as there are tons of gmail hacks already (firefox extention, virtual drives, etc.)
Im surprised that it took so long after firefox to be released in 1.0 that thunderbird went preview. Though i can understand why they did, I always thought that they would go 1.0 together.
I use thunderbird for all my mail, and it is much better then Outlook on windows. Good job Mozilla.
Yes, but you will spend millions of years in court first before you recieve a several billion year prison sentence. After spending several million light years being deported back to the original galaxy of departure.
Im sure if it was mentioned on mozillazine and once the protocall was discovered/published, it would be available rather soon.
(oh, and the plot looked terrible)
Its a game made for an x-box. Its supposed to have bad plot. Even the microsoft CFO acknowldeged that xbox will never be profitable.
In response to PCGamer, I need to say that they are the best magazine out there in terms of accurate reviews. Graphics dont make a game, and they dont break reviews into "graphics score, sound score, fun score, etc.". The score is the average reflection of how a reviewer feels about the game overall.
Ive seen them give games 5% (mad dog mcrae), 12% (armored moon). Or give a game 98% (half-life 2), 97% (half-life 1), 94% (far cry). C&C Tiberian Sun got a 77. Its on the high end of the "good" scale, recomemded for fans of that particular genre.
In Dawn of War they gave it an 88(87), in the lows section near the % said "no strategy at all in single player needed". This was mentioned in the review. Right after it was mentioned how the multiplayer alone could last for months.
Some magazines (like X-Box magazine, and the now defunct PC Accelerator just suck (quake did not deserve a 10/10). PC gamer gave it an 80, and UT a 90. Why? Cause UT was a better game. Not all reviews are bad. Though the gamespot HL-2 one sucked (bash hl2 all the time, then give it a 96, wtf?)
All they are really is highly clocked x800 pro pe's with a more impressive cooling. You could probaby get clocks just as high as that one with 3rd party coolers and ramsinks. All it is is an ATI oc'd card instead of ocing it yourself.
To say that Google is co-operating with china's net police is an overstatement. They just dont list sites that chineese people cant get to. The Chineese blocked news.google.com, not the other way around. Its like how china blocked blogger.com and blogspot.com because some blogs were listing proxy servers to get around the "great firewall".
You can certainly blame google for censorship. Does china block news.yahoo.com and drudgereport.com? Its quite likely. If you live in china, and cant get to reuters news reports, then why bother having them be listed at all? 403 forbidden and 404 file not found errors are rather fun to ge getting at almost every site you visit. Not to mention a waste of productivity
Almost every MMORPG has launch problems. Star Wars Galaxies was even worse then this one. Im surprised that they added new servers so quickly though. Anyone remember Diablo II on launch week? Random disconnects, timeouts, etc. Blizzard underestimated their popularity again.
Ubisoft, those frenchies oppose the was in Iraq, but then churn out games like Splinter Cell and Rainbow 6: 3.
More to the point, what gameing company is NOT owned in some way by the french? Aside from a few lone developing houses, almost everyone.
A more interesting thing to not would be whether this would even be successful. Everyone i know has pirated copies of XP. This is unlikely to change anything.
You know it says Favorite Game/Character not Favourite Character.
I don't see any Monkey Island characters on that list. They are much more deserving then Halo/MasterChief.
...person to survive rabies. first known survivor of a rabies infection when the article states: But only three people in the world are known to have survived after the onset of rabies symptoms, according to state health officials.
A dual-core gpu card would offer much more performance then just videocards in SLI mode. They would use nasty amounts of power (and would certainly need to be in PCIX setups), but they would offer a much higer performance then SLI mode cards. Of any type.