or you could change the first year assembly course from your typical Motorolla HC* microprossor to the roboticsillything microprocessor. That way you actually get taught the assembly stuff and you get the cool robot that will eventually be relegated to holding your beer on last class. . .
I don't know about other colleges and universities, but at mine the first year sees over half of their enrolled dissappear after christmas, most of them either hate the first year content, or just plain suck. I could imagine a program like that to be pretty popular around here though.
The only problem I could foresee is maybe some of the background theory might be neglected, If memory serves me correctly it's that background theory that saved my ass when it came down to midterms and exams, I wasn't about to cram opcodes into my brain afterall.
I think the news isn't that microsoft is not willing to abide by laws, the news is that they can actually be punished on them. It will be interesting to see how they react to this. Personally, I think a law abiding microsoft is better than a non-law abiding microsoft. We'll see if they can maintain their current market dominance by good practice and service, which is what every anti-microsoft activist has really always wanted right?
I know some just want microsoft dead, but I bet the vast majority would be happy if microsoft was on top by being the best there is, and not by pushy, questionable, and morally bankrupt tactics.
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wow. . . I can understand your position on Halo but TES4? Did you even play it? You're right about the graphics, but the rest of the game IMHO is neither short, sucky, nor a hack and slash.
If you want to judge it on the main arc alone then you might be able to stretch that ~25 hours is short. Add one guild and then it's probably closer to 50 hours. . . and that's IF you don't actually play the game, just grinding through it.
To be fair though, the leveling of the enemies in the game is completely retarded. Easily knocks 20% off of my score for it. I mean, since when do kobolds have like full set of dwarven plate armor and daedric daikatanas anyway? Luckily there exists a masterfully done mod that fixes the leveling problem in a way that doesn't feel like a trainer. Also the alcohol mod is interesting too.
to answer your question about halo, it was definitely the best co-op FPS I've ever played. I would like to know though, what your favourite FPS game is. Your question made me think of that and to be honest there really aren't that many good FPS games. I think we value many of them simply because of the nostalgia value that we attach to them. I mean, Wolf3d was an awesome game to me when I first played it. Now if we don't attach the nostalgia, it really isn't that good. Niether are doom, duke 3d, or heretic.
were they revolutionary games? yes.
but can you honestly say they're better than games of this generation? And can we honestly say that the games of this generation are better than the ones of the next?
Even if the gameplay stays exactly the same, the graphics, level design, and soundplay will follow the technology, increasing with each generation. How can one argue that the games won't be better?
I mean, quake, half-life, and unreal all blow them out of the water. But what happens when we make new games based almost entirely on the nostalgia factor of the old? Doom 3 happens! I mean, its got squeeky clean (for dirty muddy mars) graphics but its almost a step down on the game play level.
Also it is unfair to qualify mods when we're talking about FPS in a context of comparing PC to Console. Sure some of the mods for half-life, quake, and UT2kx have been amazing as far as gameplay goes but it is unfair to compare them to the static console world.
So with that said if I absolutely had to pick one FPS as my favourite it might be Halo or it might not be, I suppose it will depend on when FPS games are no longer made, it would probably be one of the last couple dozen that come out.
ha ha, we can only hope that it is Deus Ex:P
Oh well, everyone's entitled to their opinion so I say we should just hope in a {insert latest fps game name here} match and blast each other until the next one comes out.
One last thing, I hope I don't get ModerRAPED for probably grinding a lot of fps'ers gears.
being a diehard PC gamer and all, I do have to admit that I really enjoyed Halo and Halo 2.
On top of that, I'm really starting to get sick of all the high and mighty "I'm a PC gamer and I know everything, if a FPS doesn't have mouse+keyboard it sucks"
Bottom line is the game sold xboxes for a reason.
I mean, this generation is making me feel more and more like retiring from 'hardcore gaming' entirely. Maybe I could get some extra work done, or force my transcript to be less ugly. . .
arg I have to train myself to use html breaks instead of returns, easy way to make my somewhat intelligent response into utter garbage. . .
I guess it's the/. pie in the face for not previewing.
Sounds like someone is actually a Dell shill:P
That was my first reaction to your post, but to be fair I know you used Dell simply because that seems to be the norm for people who are in those 3 catagories.
I think though, that you are only considering basic desktop users. I'd bet good money that it is an entirely different scenario if you're considering corporate machines. I'd say case 2 is a good corporate case. I know at my job we run just about 'every' OS. everything from Slack to Suse, from win98 to winXP, and from OS2 to VAX.
It is interesting to see how frustrated people get with having to deal with so many OSes and more interesting to see how they've (the higher ups I mean) given consideration to virtualization.
But bottom line, I think the healthiest user migration won't be win98 to linux or mac. . . It will be win98 to winXP or vista, definitely depending on how vendors like Dell set their price ranges.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but later on they take away the pads?
A friend of mine has something like 4th level black belt in Tae Kwon Do, and when he was growing up it was all pads and gloves, then slowly as they matured (think age 18-20) they removed all the padding.
It definitely made the matches more fun to watch. Where the fighters would have to consider what they were doing or risk hurting themselves or each other (unfortunately, no ear biting or neck breaking is allowed, Mike Tyson and Chuck Norris wouldn't be pleased)
So let me get this straight, Canada's CT Intel busts like half a dozen terrorists before they do anything bad and America tells us our borders aren't secure enough and that we suck.
America's CT intel klines a chat group and are commended for a job well done.
Dare I ask, WTF?
easily circumvented by firing the guy and then hiring a private firm to develop it (that private firm would just so happen to have just picked up the guy that gets fired)
Come on, didn't everyone know that? I hate macs but I will concede that they are more secure than windows, but they've been that way since the dawn of time. I mean, you can open windows easily with your hands but you need to use your teeth, a knife, or a big rock to open an apple!
. . . anyone who builds a custom PC would NOT be willing to shell out $99 for WinXP Home. Anyone in their right mind would either wait the 2 days before the "killswitch" was broken, and then pirate it again OR they'd buy winXP Pro. Anyone who knows anything about computers would probably sooner buy Win ME over the shitty, useless Home edition.
On top of that you're saying the majority of pirates are "Grandma", "Mom", and "starving college kids". Sure College kids, but Mom and Grandma??? they bought the packaged dell computer in the first place with the legal copy of windows.
I hate to say it, but I'd say you're more out of touch on computer issues than Dvorak is!
in addition to your argument, you could also reccommend to spend 1/3 the price and have a machine equal to or 10 to 20 fps faster than them. I mean, toss a 7600GT or a 7900GT (sorry ATI fans, I don't know ATI's enough to reccommend a competing card ): and that's a more than decent gaming machine.
Either that or go with 1/5 the price, cut the hdd back a bit, and pirate the XP and that's like $250-$300 savings which is oddly enough, the price of a decent video card.
Also if one is so inclined they could make a creative/unique case to put their pc in. I mean, cubes are sooo 1990s. If your kid's a star wars fan, put it in a deathstar. If he's a star trek fan you could put it in a borg. . . err if your kid's a car fan, put it in a model porsche or something.
What better way to enjoy left over Halloween candy than by digging into an epic RPG adventure?
How about having friends or something? Shouldn't you spend halloween either::: Age is less than 16 going out and trick or treating with friends to get some candy Age is less than 19 (21 in US) going out to egg houses or procuring liquor and/or illegal substances and stealing kid's candy with your friends Age is less than 30 going out to a bar or staying home and getting plastered with your friends Age is less than 55 staying home handing out candy wishing it was the good old days when you used to have friends to spend time with Age is greater than 55 complaining about the weather, the kids, the candy, and the war (that you think happened) while wishing you weren't so mean to your kids when bringing them up so that they'd be around to change your adult diaper more than twice a year.
Okay #1, how do they expect to break the copies of windows anyway? are they going to send a command over the internet? what if you're not connected to the internet?
#2, If they've hidden a piece of code to do it to any machine which has update X, are they expecting to have it go by the date on your computer clock? What's to stop you from setting your calendar back 10 years or something funky like that? Wasn't that a common solution back from the Y2K panic days?
On another note I remember sitting there in front of my 486 on New Years Eve 1999 hoping to watch my machine burst into flames sending laser beams searing through my eyes. I was disappointed when my machine continued doing what it was doing, the same way it had been doing for the previous 6 years.
I say that this is more than likely BS scare tactic, to try and get people to panic and go and buy windows before hand. Hell it might not even be perpetrated by Microsoft at all!
I feel the same after work as after a lan, but I really like my job. . .
well I'm new so I'm still eager to do things, give me a few months before my eyes glaze over, having to answer to 8 bosses after I make a mistake on my TPS reports. I'll soon feel like every day is worse than the one before, so that every day that you see me, that's the worst day of my life.
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I wish I could mod you funny because I laughed hard enough for my boss to hear (had he actually been in the adjacent office)
Personally, I'd much rather have a rootbeer. Or maybe just a regular beer.
I don't know what variety of crack they sell in your location, but the 6 or 7 games sitting on my coffee table beg to differ.
or you could change the first year assembly course from your typical Motorolla HC* microprossor to the roboticsillything microprocessor. That way you actually get taught the assembly stuff and you get the cool robot that will eventually be relegated to holding your beer on last class. . . I don't know about other colleges and universities, but at mine the first year sees over half of their enrolled dissappear after christmas, most of them either hate the first year content, or just plain suck. I could imagine a program like that to be pretty popular around here though. The only problem I could foresee is maybe some of the background theory might be neglected, If memory serves me correctly it's that background theory that saved my ass when it came down to midterms and exams, I wasn't about to cram opcodes into my brain afterall.
I think the news isn't that microsoft is not willing to abide by laws, the news is that they can actually be punished on them. It will be interesting to see how they react to this. Personally, I think a law abiding microsoft is better than a non-law abiding microsoft. We'll see if they can maintain their current market dominance by good practice and service, which is what every anti-microsoft activist has really always wanted right?
I know some just want microsoft dead, but I bet the vast majority would be happy if microsoft was on top by being the best there is, and not by pushy, questionable, and morally bankrupt tactics.
. . . to defrag one of these :P
Approximate time remaining? All of it.
wow. . . I can understand your position on Halo but TES4? Did you even play it? You're right about the graphics, but the rest of the game IMHO is neither short, sucky, nor a hack and slash.
:P
If you want to judge it on the main arc alone then you might be able to stretch that ~25 hours is short. Add one guild and then it's probably closer to 50 hours. . . and that's IF you don't actually play the game, just grinding through it.
To be fair though, the leveling of the enemies in the game is completely retarded. Easily knocks 20% off of my score for it. I mean, since when do kobolds have like full set of dwarven plate armor and daedric daikatanas anyway?
Luckily there exists a masterfully done mod that fixes the leveling problem in a way that doesn't feel like a trainer. Also the alcohol mod is interesting too.
to answer your question about halo, it was definitely the best co-op FPS I've ever played. I would like to know though, what your favourite FPS game is. Your question made me think of that and to be honest there really aren't that many good FPS games. I think we value many of them simply because of the nostalgia value that we attach to them. I mean, Wolf3d was an awesome game to me when I first played it. Now if we don't attach the nostalgia, it really isn't that good. Niether are doom, duke 3d, or heretic.
were they revolutionary games? yes.
but can you honestly say they're better than games of this generation? And can we honestly say that the games of this generation are better than the ones of the next?
Even if the gameplay stays exactly the same, the graphics, level design, and soundplay will follow the technology, increasing with each generation. How can one argue that the games won't be better?
I mean, quake, half-life, and unreal all blow them out of the water. But what happens when we make new games based almost entirely on the nostalgia factor of the old? Doom 3 happens! I mean, its got squeeky clean (for dirty muddy mars) graphics but its almost a step down on the game play level.
Also it is unfair to qualify mods when we're talking about FPS in a context of comparing PC to Console. Sure some of the mods for half-life, quake, and UT2kx have been amazing as far as gameplay goes but it is unfair to compare them to the static console world.
So with that said if I absolutely had to pick one FPS as my favourite it might be Halo or it might not be, I suppose it will depend on when FPS games are no longer made, it would probably be one of the last couple dozen that come out.
ha ha, we can only hope that it is Deus Ex
Oh well, everyone's entitled to their opinion so I say we should just hope in a {insert latest fps game name here} match and blast each other until the next one comes out.
One last thing, I hope I don't get ModerRAPED for probably grinding a lot of fps'ers gears.
being a diehard PC gamer and all, I do have to admit that I really enjoyed Halo and Halo 2.
On top of that, I'm really starting to get sick of all the high and mighty "I'm a PC gamer and I know everything, if a FPS doesn't have mouse+keyboard it sucks"
Bottom line is the game sold xboxes for a reason.
I mean, this generation is making me feel more and more like retiring from 'hardcore gaming' entirely. Maybe I could get some extra work done, or force my transcript to be less ugly. . .
arg I have to train myself to use html breaks instead of returns, easy way to make my somewhat intelligent response into utter garbage. . . /. pie in the face for not previewing.
I guess it's the
Sounds like someone is actually a Dell shill :P
That was my first reaction to your post, but to be fair I know you used Dell simply because that seems to be the norm for people who are in those 3 catagories.
I think though, that you are only considering basic desktop users. I'd bet good money that it is an entirely different scenario if you're considering corporate machines. I'd say case 2 is a good corporate case. I know at my job we run just about 'every' OS. everything from Slack to Suse, from win98 to winXP, and from OS2 to VAX.
It is interesting to see how frustrated people get with having to deal with so many OSes and more interesting to see how they've (the higher ups I mean) given consideration to virtualization.
But bottom line, I think the healthiest user migration won't be win98 to linux or mac. . . It will be win98 to winXP or vista, definitely depending on how vendors like Dell set their price ranges.
I don't know, but I'm sure that as long as they're turning teenager's brains into worthless paste they'll be in the clear.
correct me if I'm wrong but I think the hacking scene doesn't really exist for the DS because Nintendo pays attention to its customers. . .
Thought not to be a nintendo fanboy or anything, I have considered picking up a PSP just for the modscene. Also I don't own a DS.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but later on they take away the pads? A friend of mine has something like 4th level black belt in Tae Kwon Do, and when he was growing up it was all pads and gloves, then slowly as they matured (think age 18-20) they removed all the padding. It definitely made the matches more fun to watch. Where the fighters would have to consider what they were doing or risk hurting themselves or each other (unfortunately, no ear biting or neck breaking is allowed, Mike Tyson and Chuck Norris wouldn't be pleased)
So let me get this straight, Canada's CT Intel busts like half a dozen terrorists before they do anything bad and America tells us our borders aren't secure enough and that we suck. America's CT intel klines a chat group and are commended for a job well done. Dare I ask, WTF?
easily circumvented by firing the guy and then hiring a private firm to develop it (that private firm would just so happen to have just picked up the guy that gets fired)
I don't know about anyone else but I think Dictionary is far easier to spell than dikshunery. Also, dikshunery sounds like a deep south accent.
Come on, didn't everyone know that? I hate macs but I will concede that they are more secure than windows, but they've been that way since the dawn of time.
I mean, you can open windows easily with your hands but you need to use your teeth, a knife, or a big rock to open an apple!
. . . anyone who builds a custom PC would NOT be willing to shell out $99 for WinXP Home. Anyone in their right mind would either wait the 2 days before the "killswitch" was broken, and then pirate it again OR they'd buy winXP Pro. Anyone who knows anything about computers would probably sooner buy Win ME over the shitty, useless Home edition.
On top of that you're saying the majority of pirates are "Grandma", "Mom", and "starving college kids". Sure College kids, but Mom and Grandma??? they bought the packaged dell computer in the first place with the legal copy of windows.
I hate to say it, but I'd say you're more out of touch on computer issues than Dvorak is!
to be fair you got me pretty good with that one.
on another note is it just me or is my first post missing?
in addition to your argument, you could also reccommend to spend 1/3 the price and have a machine equal to or 10 to 20 fps faster than them. I mean, toss a 7600GT or a 7900GT (sorry ATI fans, I don't know ATI's enough to reccommend a competing card ): and that's a more than decent gaming machine.
Either that or go with 1/5 the price, cut the hdd back a bit, and pirate the XP and that's like $250-$300 savings which is oddly enough, the price of a decent video card.
Also if one is so inclined they could make a creative/unique case to put their pc in. I mean, cubes are sooo 1990s. If your kid's a star wars fan, put it in a deathstar. If he's a star trek fan you could put it in a borg. . . err if your kid's a car fan, put it in a model porsche or something.
well actually, the course is Reading Comprehension 1023.
but you're implying that said person hasn't gone to the mall and waited in line the entire night to get his copy.
What better way to enjoy left over Halloween candy than by digging into an epic RPG adventure?
How about having friends or something? Shouldn't you spend halloween either:::
Age is less than 16 going out and trick or treating with friends to get some candy
Age is less than 19 (21 in US) going out to egg houses or procuring liquor and/or illegal substances and stealing kid's candy with your friends
Age is less than 30 going out to a bar or staying home and getting plastered with your friends
Age is less than 55 staying home handing out candy wishing it was the good old days when you used to have friends to spend time with
Age is greater than 55 complaining about the weather, the kids, the candy, and the war (that you think happened) while wishing you weren't so mean to your kids when bringing them up so that they'd be around to change your adult diaper more than twice a year.
first off, remember Y2K? (I'll come back to this)
Okay #1, how do they expect to break the copies of windows anyway? are they going to send a command over the internet? what if you're not connected to the internet?
#2, If they've hidden a piece of code to do it to any machine which has update X, are they expecting to have it go by the date on your computer clock?
What's to stop you from setting your calendar back 10 years or something funky like that? Wasn't that a common solution back from the Y2K panic days?
On another note I remember sitting there in front of my 486 on New Years Eve 1999 hoping to watch my machine burst into flames sending laser beams searing through my eyes. I was disappointed when my machine continued doing what it was doing, the same way it had been doing for the previous 6 years.
I say that this is more than likely BS scare tactic, to try and get people to panic and go and buy windows before hand. Hell it might not even be perpetrated by Microsoft at all!
why would he need that Plantronics CS50-USB:: what does he need one touch control for?
*ducks*
Thanks, I'll be here all week!
I feel the same after work as after a lan, but I really like my job. . .
:P
well I'm new so I'm still eager to do things, give me a few months before my eyes glaze over, having to answer to 8 bosses after I make a mistake on my TPS reports.
I'll soon feel like every day is worse than the one before, so that every day that you see me, that's the worst day of my life.
But until then life is good