I don't know about anyone else but I feel I have the best password creation system. . . I go and look at half a dozen other employee's sticky notes then I bolt them up like Voltron to form my own superpassword.
please don't complain. . . I recently bought an ACER notebook with a 120gb drive and they partitioned it with two 50gb FAT32 partitions, one with OS and DATA, the other just for DATA. There's a third partition, hidden from windows that's got some system recovery junk or something on it. On turning it on the first time it asked me to burn 2 DVD-Rs worth of recovery junk, because they didn't give me a recovery disc or windows install. . . absolute bull, I'd rather one partition.
My PS2 plays PS2 games and my PS1 plays PS1 games. I have a computer. I am only missing two features from the bunch, but I don't have an HDTV so one of those features is moot. $600 for one of those features seems a little steep in my books...
okay... it does seem to make a little more sense this way. I still doubt that ipods will remain the same size as they are now AND contain possibly hundreds of TiBs within 10 years. Knowing Jobbs though, he'll make me eat my words.
now the question is how much disc space is your repo? I imagine that between the two of you (based on my brother's and my collections) it could easily take a couple hundred gigs, people with really large collections could easily span thousands of gigs. Even at thousands of gigs I bet they're not even close to 1% of all the world's videos. A couple million terrabytes later and you might be spanning 50% of the world's videos. I think it is foolish for Google to think iPods will hold all of the worlds videos in a decade. Hell, I won't even talk about the fact that the pool of world videos is not static.
amen to that. Honestly, if Microsoft announced a Battletech game that was based more on a sim style approach like Mechwarrior 2, or even slightly more arcadey like Mechwarrior 3 for PC or/and Xbox360 I'd probably sploodge my pantalones.
Not to burst your bubble or anything but the Street Fighter movie was so successful that I hear they're planning another!
Okay so I couldn't type that out with a straight face, but with how horrible the first street fighter I am excited about the new one on the basis on it being physically impossible to make a worse movie. . . To add my two cents to the discussion I think that video game movies could be done far better than they have been historically, but it seems like the production studios are more interested in cramming X sequences from the game into the movie than they are with using whatever (game universe) history or plot development to make an interesting story. For instance, there is plenty of interesting backstory in the street fighter universe (developed more in alpha, third strike, and the comics and animes) from which they could have pulled only a few elements to elaborate on. Instead of forming a cohesive story arc they tried to include every element from the entire established (at the time it was Street Fighter 2 Turbo I believe) universe. Combining that with the use of god-awful actors such as Kylie Minogue and Jean Claude Van-Damme they came out with a convoluted underdeveloped plot that had a few action packed sequences that may or may not have appealed to fans of the game. Had they chosen maybe one or two characters to really flesh out and developed a meaningful plot based on those characters alone it would have ended up with a little more respect, Hell, maybe even success.
In the case of Halo there are plenty of 'historical battles' or sequences of events that could be made into decent movies if and only if they decide not to gimp the story line, hire shitty actors, directors, and writers, all in an effort to do more hardcore fan appealing.
my vacations come at near random, I tell no one at work where I'm going, when I'm going, and if I'm even coming back. See, my objective is to keep work worrying about me, not the other way around. Someday maybe I'll leave at an odd hour on a tuesday morning and leave a note from "the competitors" (whoever they may be at the time) stating that if they ever want to see their valuable R&D guy again to wire X amount of dollars into Y swiss bank account. Just maybe.
I'm surprised there aren't a million "Zomg! Microsoft is teh sux, x rullzz" (where x is the name of their console of choice) comments already. The troubling thing is that Nintendo seems to have the same problem, and I bet once Sony has stuff to sell in their online PS3 stores they'll suffer from it as well. It is obvious that there is a demand for online movie/ television sales, but this raises a damn fine question, are ISPs really able to dish out enough bandwidth? I think that while we are entirely ready to receive these services it is evident that our ISPs and Microsoft's/Nintendo's/Sony's server farms are not ready to provide us. I see in the news all the time that in the UK and Japan 10MBit/S connections are fairly common, but here in the US and Canada a 1 to 3 MBit/S connection is fairly uncommon. (Keep in mind I'm talking about home connections, not business or corporate)
It's like our ISPs are keeping their services low, their profits high, and their pockets lined. . . But that's a whole other ballgame. . .
I think it's more a question of when were you people born. I can imagine that the average gamer now will look at you funny when you mention 'shareware'
. . . You better hope she's expecting one, because if she wakes up christmas morning with a wii in her grasp I think you'll have some explaining to do.
I do agree that even considering bringing your used games to EB/Gamestop should warrant a few bullet holes in your kneecaps, but there have been occasions where I'll find a gem of a game in the used area for like $5.00. This is why I frequent EB/Gamestops in my area. I don't know about that 15% stat, but around my neck of the woods Walmart is the cheapest retailer, but only by about $0.30.
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I don't know about anyone else but I feel I have the best password creation system. . . I go and look at half a dozen other employee's sticky notes then I bolt them up like Voltron to form my own superpassword.
please don't complain. . . I recently bought an ACER notebook with a 120gb drive and they partitioned it with two 50gb FAT32 partitions, one with OS and DATA, the other just for DATA. There's a third partition, hidden from windows that's got some system recovery junk or something on it. On turning it on the first time it asked me to burn 2 DVD-Rs worth of recovery junk, because they didn't give me a recovery disc or windows install. . . absolute bull, I'd rather one partition.
I thought Ramzi was too busy warezing software to have a slashdot account!
yeah sorry, I kinda jumped the gun there when I saw all the extra stuff in the link address, my bad!
that's because you live only a few city blocks away from a privileged neighborhood who always seem to be missing their luxury items. . .
glad to see I'm not the only one with GI Joe on the mind... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Joe:_Sigma_6
My PS2 plays PS2 games and my PS1 plays PS1 games. I have a computer. I am only missing two features from the bunch, but I don't have an HDTV so one of those features is moot. $600 for one of those features seems a little steep in my books...
okay... it does seem to make a little more sense this way. I still doubt that ipods will remain the same size as they are now AND contain possibly hundreds of TiBs within 10 years. Knowing Jobbs though, he'll make me eat my words.
now the question is how much disc space is your repo? I imagine that between the two of you (based on my brother's and my collections) it could easily take a couple hundred gigs, people with really large collections could easily span thousands of gigs. Even at thousands of gigs I bet they're not even close to 1% of all the world's videos. A couple million terrabytes later and you might be spanning 50% of the world's videos. I think it is foolish for Google to think iPods will hold all of the worlds videos in a decade. Hell, I won't even talk about the fact that the pool of world videos is not static.
amen to that. Honestly, if Microsoft announced a Battletech game that was based more on a sim style approach like Mechwarrior 2, or even slightly more arcadey like Mechwarrior 3 for PC or/and Xbox360 I'd probably sploodge my pantalones.
Not to burst your bubble or anything but the Street Fighter movie was so successful that I hear they're planning another!
Okay so I couldn't type that out with a straight face, but with how horrible the first street fighter I am excited about the new one on the basis on it being physically impossible to make a worse movie. . . To add my two cents to the discussion I think that video game movies could be done far better than they have been historically, but it seems like the production studios are more interested in cramming X sequences from the game into the movie than they are with using whatever (game universe) history or plot development to make an interesting story.
For instance, there is plenty of interesting backstory in the street fighter universe (developed more in alpha, third strike, and the comics and animes) from which they could have pulled only a few elements to elaborate on. Instead of forming a cohesive story arc they tried to include every element from the entire established (at the time it was Street Fighter 2 Turbo I believe) universe. Combining that with the use of god-awful actors such as Kylie Minogue and Jean Claude Van-Damme they came out with a convoluted underdeveloped plot that had a few action packed sequences that may or may not have appealed to fans of the game.
Had they chosen maybe one or two characters to really flesh out and developed a meaningful plot based on those characters alone it would have ended up with a little more respect, Hell, maybe even success.
In the case of Halo there are plenty of 'historical battles' or sequences of events that could be made into decent movies if and only if they decide not to gimp the story line, hire shitty actors, directors, and writers, all in an effort to do more hardcore fan appealing.
you mean you make her lady parts dry up and fall off?
my vacations come at near random, I tell no one at work where I'm going, when I'm going, and if I'm even coming back. See, my objective is to keep work worrying about me, not the other way around.
Someday maybe I'll leave at an odd hour on a tuesday morning and leave a note from "the competitors" (whoever they may be at the time) stating that if they ever want to see their valuable R&D guy again to wire X amount of dollars into Y swiss bank account. Just maybe.
I'm surprised there aren't a million "Zomg! Microsoft is teh sux, x rullzz" (where x is the name of their console of choice) comments already. The troubling thing is that Nintendo seems to have the same problem, and I bet once Sony has stuff to sell in their online PS3 stores they'll suffer from it as well. It is obvious that there is a demand for online movie/ television sales, but this raises a damn fine question, are ISPs really able to dish out enough bandwidth? I think that while we are entirely ready to receive these services it is evident that our ISPs and Microsoft's/Nintendo's/Sony's server farms are not ready to provide us. I see in the news all the time that in the UK and Japan 10MBit/S connections are fairly common, but here in the US and Canada a 1 to 3 MBit/S connection is fairly uncommon. (Keep in mind I'm talking about home connections, not business or corporate)
It's like our ISPs are keeping their services low, their profits high, and their pockets lined. . . But that's a whole other ballgame. . .
Where I'm from "wee" is the pet name for "to take a piss" whereas wee-wee is the pet name for "penis"
I think it's more a question of when were you people born. I can imagine that the average gamer now will look at you funny when you mention 'shareware'
see they considered that but now they're planning on auctioning that off at PAX for phat lewt.
Oh. Well thanks for the correction. Embarrassing.
. . . You better hope she's expecting one, because if she wakes up christmas morning with a wii in her grasp I think you'll have some explaining to do.
I do agree that even considering bringing your used games to EB/Gamestop should warrant a few bullet holes in your kneecaps, but there have been occasions where I'll find a gem of a game in the used area for like $5.00. This is why I frequent EB/Gamestops in my area. I don't know about that 15% stat, but around my neck of the woods Walmart is the cheapest retailer, but only by about $0.30.
Oh boo hoo, you're going to have to wait an extra 3 weeks to 6 months to not pay for their software.