Fast shipping. Great customer service. Better prices. And most importantly there are better/quality reviews on Amazon. Sorry Walmart... and btw even locally I would go to Target instead of Walmart.
I've always liked the reviews coming out of Nintendo Power for Nintendo games. Anything that ranks 7.5 or above is pretty decent. I agree that the numbers don't mean that much but at least I can identify a lower bar (7.5) that I look for.
I catch episodes of X-Play for the rest of my game reviews. They seem to have a good grasp on what is crap and why its crap as well as what's good.
I never realized this but the Mighty Mouse that ships with the desktops does have a left and right click point. In the Mouse preference pane there is a choice to assign what the right side does and you can set it to right-click.:)
In our corporate environment we use Samba to share resources that reside in our AIX environment. It has been in use for 4+ years and 500+ developers that are baning away at it all day long. We have not had a single issue with the software. And to boot it is supported by IBM from both a hardware and software support perspective. Your VIP is simply wrong or misinformed.
I'm glad that Fallen Earth is on the list with its post-apoc world. But I wish someone would do a Wasteland off-shoot, that still ranks as one of the king turn-based RPGs.
VPN connectivity over a broadband line to the office should be a requirement. Not some half-a** solution, something tokened and secured.
VMware Player and an Image built/controlled and managed by your IT department. By controlled I mean locked down where controll what's on it.
But their PC doesn't have enough RAM or doesn't have enough DISK or blah blah blah! If they want to use a home PC to connect to your network then these are the requirements.
But how do we support them? Forget their home PCs, you support the image.
Pee-Wee Herman rides by on his bike and crashes! Pee-Wee stands up and says "I meant to do that!"
Give me a break, everyone was hyping it plays games, it plays movies, it makes julienne fries. Now that it falls flat you say it was bought just for gaming. All the while ripping on the DS saying it doesn't do anything but games.
DS owners bought their DS because it does what is supposed to do very well. It plays games!
"... and here the race is neck and neck..."
Of course it is, we buy a lot of hype. An article was in the Wall Street Journal yesterday stating that UMD sales are so dissapointing that stores like Walmart are not going to sell them anymore. Also, movie studios (MGM, etc) are not releasing on UMD.
BTW: I own a DS and it rocks!
You asserted in your reply that I was a Machead/Zealot/blah blah blah... Truth be told I run primarly on SuSE Linux. I have a couple of older macs around (68K units) for nostalgia and I have a PM8150 for graphic works for my website. I use that not because I'm a Machead, I use that because the machine cost me $35.00 used and I'm using older titles like Photoshop 6.0 and so on.
You spend all that money on a game system not to play games? Ok. I'm off to the car dealer to by a new car because it's great to store my clothes in it. Whatever floats you boat, I'm glad you found a great way to justify your ridiculous purchase.
I don't have an Xbox and never will. I never even laid hands on any Xbox controller and never will. So yes, I am very anti-MS.
What makes me sick to my stomach is that I was playing Crystal Quest on my Macintosh Classic last week. And now to see it exist on this platform makes me want to hurl!
Great, now I can have an exploitable and virus infected operating system running on my Mac! The only place I want to see Windows running is on someone else's machine.
I have contacted each of the cooling device manuafacturers and they are on this already. There is a new water cooling solution being produced specifically for the X-360 power supply and it will be at the affordable rate of $199.99.
That is an opinion and you state it as though it is fact. The same goes for TV shows with strong sexual content. Every market has up and down swings, a pendulum is often used to describe it. Your opinion implies that the center point for the pendulum in both the TV and Video Game industry is constant.
The problem with you opinion is that the center point does exist but it constantly moving. Our comfort, tolerance and acceptance of content changes. For instance, it was ground breaking in the show "All in the Family" in the episode where Edith was coping with menopause. This was something that just wasn't talked about in public forums like television. Now that very topic with references to "hot-flashes" and what not is quite acceptable.
While I can understand your opinion, it is not fact. All your opinion indicates is that the center of the pendulum is moving toward areas you personally do not like. I do not like sexual content or violence for no reason. I did and do appreciate series like Sex and the City, it has depth that can only be explained with sexual content. As for video games, I don't mind violence as long as there is a good story behind it. I'm playing Quake 4 and I like the story underneath it. But that's just me.
The problem with laws is this sensistive areas is that they, by their nature, are tools to draw a discrete and rigid line between right and wrong. The whole idea of a shifting center point for the pendulum concept runs contrary to this. The idea of line is good but it is line that has to be continually moved and unfortunately our legal system is not equipped to handle this in a reasonable manner.
This is why there are three iPods in my house:
I originally bought my wife an iPod and we have been using it for 3 years. It still works and is in use today. This was a first gen iPod. After three years I decided I wanted an iPod for myself so I did bought my wife a new one and took her old one. She nows has a 4th gen.
I was looking at the shuffle because I bike, skateboard and snowboard. All three are very tough to do with a non-flash based player. I just treated myself to one for those reasons, I can afford and I'm sorry if you think that's weird but it's my choice.
iPod, iTune, iTunes Music Store, and MP3 is your best bet - period!
The player is both Windows and Mac compatible.
It allows you access to largest and well known music stores in existence.
It allows you to access music, video and TV episodes.
It allows you to use MP3 from CDs you own or from other sources - wink..wink..
My wife has her iPod with all of our music and she loves it. We have the airport express with air tunes and play all our music to our stereo system, very cool!
I have my iPod, my wifes old iPod and I use it for the office and the car. I have a 1gb iPod Shuttle that I use when walking around, snow boarding and any other time I want to be portable.
If the execs really want to see what drives people toward digital downloads then they should look at iTunes. iTunes is what makes this all so easy so let's give the execs %100 of the profit from iTunes.
You can get a download of Ultima Online for free. It's a trial version which means its the full software plus a 15 day subscription.
Now go to runuo.com or sphereserver.com and you can use that client on player run, free servers. I'm a 7yr vet of UO and I gave up paying them money and now play for free on a lot better servers!
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Seriously, let me see how many suckers pony up for this crap in 3D.
Fast shipping. Great customer service. Better prices. And most importantly there are better/quality reviews on Amazon. Sorry Walmart... and btw even locally I would go to Target instead of Walmart.
I've always liked the reviews coming out of Nintendo Power for Nintendo games. Anything that ranks 7.5 or above is pretty decent. I agree that the numbers don't mean that much but at least I can identify a lower bar (7.5) that I look for.
I catch episodes of X-Play for the rest of my game reviews. They seem to have a good grasp on what is crap and why its crap as well as what's good.
I never realized this but the Mighty Mouse that ships with the desktops does have a left and right click point. In the Mouse preference pane there is a choice to assign what the right side does and you can set it to right-click. :)
*Corp Por*
In our corporate environment we use Samba to share resources that reside in our AIX environment. It has been in use for 4+ years and 500+ developers that are baning away at it all day long. We have not had a single issue with the software. And to boot it is supported by IBM from both a hardware and software support perspective. Your VIP is simply wrong or misinformed.
Ultima (all versions!)
Wasteland
Times of Lore
I'm getting the Wii regardless but I'm crossing my fingers for these!
I'm glad that Fallen Earth is on the list with its post-apoc world. But I wish someone would do a Wasteland off-shoot, that still ranks as one of the king turn-based RPGs.
VPN connectivity over a broadband line to the office should be a requirement. Not some half-a** solution, something tokened and secured.
VMware Player and an Image built/controlled and managed by your IT department. By controlled I mean locked down where controll what's on it.
But their PC doesn't have enough RAM or doesn't have enough DISK or blah blah blah! If they want to use a home PC to connect to your network then these are the requirements.
But how do we support them? Forget their home PCs, you support the image.
"At first I was also dubious about the dual-screen thing, but now I think of it as a great idea."
:)
Especially when you get blinded by the ink and can't see where you going. I look down to the lower screen map and drive off of it.
Pee-Wee Herman rides by on his bike and crashes! Pee-Wee stands up and says "I meant to do that!"
Give me a break, everyone was hyping it plays games, it plays movies, it makes julienne fries. Now that it falls flat you say it was bought just for gaming. All the while ripping on the DS saying it doesn't do anything but games.
DS owners bought their DS because it does what is supposed to do very well. It plays games!
"... and here the race is neck and neck ..."
Of course it is, we buy a lot of hype. An article was in the Wall Street Journal yesterday stating that UMD sales are so dissapointing that stores like Walmart are not going to sell them anymore. Also, movie studios (MGM, etc) are not releasing on UMD.
BTW: I own a DS and it rocks!
Okay Mr. Drinkypoo,
You asserted in your reply that I was a Machead/Zealot/blah blah blah... Truth be told I run primarly on SuSE Linux. I have a couple of older macs around (68K units) for nostalgia and I have a PM8150 for graphic works for my website. I use that not because I'm a Machead, I use that because the machine cost me $35.00 used and I'm using older titles like Photoshop 6.0 and so on.
You spend all that money on a game system not to play games? Ok. I'm off to the car dealer to by a new car because it's great to store my clothes in it. Whatever floats you boat, I'm glad you found a great way to justify your ridiculous purchase.
I don't have an Xbox and never will. I never even laid hands on any Xbox controller and never will. So yes, I am very anti-MS. What makes me sick to my stomach is that I was playing Crystal Quest on my Macintosh Classic last week. And now to see it exist on this platform makes me want to hurl!
The article is right; there is no FW800 port. There IS a FW400 port but no FW800.
Great, now I can have an exploitable and virus infected operating system running on my Mac! The only place I want to see Windows running is on someone else's machine.
The only urge Bill should have is to pee his pants and the ass-whooping iTunes is giving him!
I have contacted each of the cooling device manuafacturers and they are on this already. There is a new water cooling solution being produced specifically for the X-360 power supply and it will be at the affordable rate of $199.99.
That is an opinion and you state it as though it is fact. The same goes for TV shows with strong sexual content. Every market has up and down swings, a pendulum is often used to describe it. Your opinion implies that the center point for the pendulum in both the TV and Video Game industry is constant.
The problem with you opinion is that the center point does exist but it constantly moving. Our comfort, tolerance and acceptance of content changes. For instance, it was ground breaking in the show "All in the Family" in the episode where Edith was coping with menopause. This was something that just wasn't talked about in public forums like television. Now that very topic with references to "hot-flashes" and what not is quite acceptable.
While I can understand your opinion, it is not fact. All your opinion indicates is that the center of the pendulum is moving toward areas you personally do not like. I do not like sexual content or violence for no reason. I did and do appreciate series like Sex and the City, it has depth that can only be explained with sexual content. As for video games, I don't mind violence as long as there is a good story behind it. I'm playing Quake 4 and I like the story underneath it. But that's just me.
The problem with laws is this sensistive areas is that they, by their nature, are tools to draw a discrete and rigid line between right and wrong. The whole idea of a shifting center point for the pendulum concept runs contrary to this. The idea of line is good but it is line that has to be continually moved and unfortunately our legal system is not equipped to handle this in a reasonable manner.
This is why there are three iPods in my house: I originally bought my wife an iPod and we have been using it for 3 years. It still works and is in use today. This was a first gen iPod. After three years I decided I wanted an iPod for myself so I did bought my wife a new one and took her old one. She nows has a 4th gen. I was looking at the shuffle because I bike, skateboard and snowboard. All three are very tough to do with a non-flash based player. I just treated myself to one for those reasons, I can afford and I'm sorry if you think that's weird but it's my choice.
iPod, iTune, iTunes Music Store, and MP3 is your best bet - period!
The player is both Windows and Mac compatible. It allows you access to largest and well known music stores in existence. It allows you to access music, video and TV episodes. It allows you to use MP3 from CDs you own or from other sources - wink..wink..
My wife has her iPod with all of our music and she loves it. We have the airport express with air tunes and play all our music to our stereo system, very cool!
I have my iPod, my wifes old iPod and I use it for the office and the car. I have a 1gb iPod Shuttle that I use when walking around, snow boarding and any other time I want to be portable.
Apple's doing it, in fact they are doing quite well. This guy is just another "Pay attention to me... I'm important..." monkey-boy!
If the execs really want to see what drives people toward digital downloads then they should look at iTunes. iTunes is what makes this all so easy so let's give the execs %100 of the profit from iTunes.
Oh! That's right... iTunes is FREE!
You can get a download of Ultima Online for free. It's a trial version which means its the full software plus a 15 day subscription.
Now go to runuo.com or sphereserver.com and you can use that client on player run, free servers. I'm a 7yr vet of UO and I gave up paying them money and now play for free on a lot better servers!
AOL still blows and we are amazed people still use it.
I know, I know... probably a flamebait rating but come on, you know you giggled!