...yes yes, its all ther nasty consumers fault! You bundle crapware drm and we don't buy it, uhuh, thats my fault. You release the game for £50-60 quid, and somehow, especially in the current economic crisis, I find that I'd rather pay for food and shelter over GENERICFIFASPORTGAME-2009. Im even more evil for thinking that second hand at £20-30, I might just be able to afford it without sending you more money after its first sale.
Oh, I also apologize when i decide not to buy your £50 game, because you decided you could, infact, split it into 3 seperate games and sell it that way for more than £100, for pure greed (Hi Starcraft2!). Im so very sorry. Also, do forgive me when i refuse to buy your game at all, because you decided that buying the game second hand means im njot entitled to the full game, because I also decided you weren't worthy to survive as a games company anymore (GOW2).
And "Five years ago, a great game would have sold for a longer period of time than for a bad game-- which was essentially our incentive to make great games. But no longer. Now publishers and developers just see revenue the initial few weeks regardless of the game's quality and then gamers start buying used copies which generates money that goes into GameStop's pocket, nobody else's."
No Im sorry, games just aren't as good as they were, because I recall buying and trading in games for second hand games more than 5 years ago. So that hasn't changed, must be the games eh?
Judge: Uh, I hate to interrupt your fun, boys, but I got a few complaints this case is crooked. Ballmer: [laughs] And how. Judge: Gee, I'd hate to close you down. Maybe we can reach a little, uh, understanding here. [Holds out the palm of his hand and motions his fingers so as to suggest that this is a bribe] Ballmer: I understand. Bill: Um, hey, Ballmer, I-- I think he wants-- Ballmer: Not right now, Bill. Monkey Boy is talking to a Judge. Judge: Uh, let me put it this way. I'm looking for my friend Bill. [nods as he says Bill] Have you seen any Bills around here? [nods] Ballmer: Yes. [points at Bill] He's Bill. Judge: [groans] I-- Listen carefully, and watch me wink as I speak, okay? Ballmer: Okay. Judge: The guy I'm really looking for--wink--is Mr. Bribe--wink, wink. [holds out hand again] Ballmer: It's a lightweight operating system. Jusge: All right, that's it, I'm shutting this shit down.
The thing you don't know is the US army has secretly perfected the art of robotics, and has done for sometime. Well, android would be a better term, as they look just like regular human marines. However Ai is somewhat lacking, hence the need for human operators to control them. This is where america's army comes in...
(Im not mad you know).
What if its a shared flat/house, or it goes to the wrong address, or somehow gets openned by anyone but the intended reciever? And does a libel case ever need anyone else to find out, if a company starts sending letters to you that are making blatent lies about yourself I'd say its libel wether anyone else sees it or not.
Its certainly entertaining, but then after you play space age for about an hour it gets old. However the cell stage, with more body parts, and more evolution stages, would make a fantasticly fun mini game.
"If you (by you I mean Comcast) don't do it, your competitors will."
Thats just it though isn't it? I gather in many places comcast have no direct competitors (Satellite doesn't cut it), hence no infrastructure development.
I've been assault by chavs in the local area more times than I care to remember, most times you can get rid of them, a few times have involved knives (And then hopelessly the police), I could easily point out to whole gangs of them and tell you what each one has been convicted of, and they'd be proud they'd got there asbo in it, they want the whole set. When the police are involved they are useless, they turn up to take a statement 4 days too late, and leave it at that, should they get them they are likely under 16, so get sent to a youth offenders prison, were they basically get there choice of either a xbox360 or PS3 for 2 weeks, and if by chance any are over 16, they get community hours, which they don't do. Nothing happens unless someone gets killed.
But of course in your opinion Im still wrong, but some of us have no choice but to live near these areas and can't afford elsewhere.
Hmmm, where I live theres alot of Chavs, and they certainly aren't working class, maybe "living off benefits after having got a 13 year old knocked up" class.
""Sega is way better than Nintendo!" or "Nu-uh, Sega beats the pants off Nintendo!""
It would be fair to say that the majority of the animosity has gone because Nintendo more or less won, or atleast beat Sega as far as consoles went, it doesn't seem like so long ago some people either owned the Megadrive (or Genesis) or a SNES, or even the NES or the Master System, and stuck fiercely to there guns about it.
No, I just don't like it, you may, I don't, some people like watching opera, I don't, I like watching things like scrapheap challenge (Think it was junk yard wars in america). But I'm not going to say thats going to move any soul, because it isn't, its not for everyone, a 15 meter catapult may not be art, but I can't help but admire how it collapses under the forces involved when it tries to throw a car.
Using CAD will result in more accurate models, though. A handmade master is hard to make completely symmetrical, for instance.
I believe Games-Workshop uses some CAD now for there models, though I gather this uses some sort of milling machine to make a mold or similar, rather than 3D printing.
I don't think they'll get it, there are no mentions of "Think of the children", "Child Pornography", "Terrorism" or "For The Great And Glorious Freedom(TM) Of The USA!" within the study...
You could open up the source for the engine etc. and just provide place holder info for quests, as an example of how they may be made, and just keep the actual quest code from the releases.
I always wondered that if all human knowledge/evidence was lost, books, video clips etc. (With one exception) and a handful of humans survived, with no prior knowledge of anything before themselves except a grasp of English, and these people were to find the only surviving books, a complete works of J. R. R. Tolkien, what the hell religion would be like then.
If memory serves some helicopters do have ejection seats, upon them activating charges placed on the base of the blades go off to ensure your not shredded. As for solar powered flashlights, well very nearly there are solar powered garden lights that charge up in the day and turn on at night. Also the Squba is an amphibious convertible, though only one working prototype exists costing 1.5 million to build. Internal windshield wipers? Hmmmm, afraid not, though Im sure someone will find some.
You error was underestimating the amount of insane people out there with buckets of money, well atleast were the Squba is involved.
Hmmm, you do realise that no cpu/ram/HDD/generally any electronic device are rarely made to specifically be a substandard device?
For example AMD undoubtidly make all there CPUs with the intention of them being the top of the line CPU technology currently allows for, however alot are unstable, but run stable at a lower speed. So when they put an 8GB drive in the original xbox, it was likely a much higher value that failed to meet the grade and was sold off cheaply, as a year or two, passed HDD manufacturing techniques would have been improved, so were a "Failed" cheap HDD might have once ended up at 8GB, it was now 10, or 20 GB. M$ simply partitioned them smaller as to 8GB to simplify the process of installing them, no point rebuilding software/firmware to handle a higher capacity when there isn't any real benefit (To those who ran them unmodded of course:)).
The current 20GB hard drives were likely the cheap failed end of sata drives when they first started mass production of the 360, likely now no HDD makers go that small (cheaply) so the new line of "failed" HDDs are 80GB or whatever they are going to bundle. As for not letting you use your own, well M$ want you to buy there stuff, and only theres, why else should someone else get payed, its the same with memory cards, controllers, etc. on the 360, unlike the various 3rd party stuff for the original. M$==Vendor lock in.
I considered this system using good old pigeons, packets could potentially be sent very quickly, and as there is a great number of pigeons available, the bandwidth could be quite massive, however the system was just too unreliable. Many packets were lost, but not due to pigeons getting lost, but mainly by hawks eating the pigeons, causing packets to be dropped.
Then my friend had a great idea, use hawks as the transmission medium. Nothing hunts these hawks, and once trained hardly ever get lost, making a very reliable medium. However in practice the system under performed compared to our expectations. There were few hawks to be trained which limited our bandwidth somewhat, and the hawk flew slower on average increasing our ping times. Not only this but we soon discovered that after releasing all our pigeons (As we no longer needed them) they took to flying between our clients. Not a problem I hear you say, well the hawks would stop to catch the buggers and eat them, making the latency unbearable.
Now we have this idea of encoding our messages using different colours of fish, the sewer system (downstream) and the water pipes (upstream), but its still a work in progress.
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...yes yes, its all ther nasty consumers fault! You bundle crapware drm and we don't buy it, uhuh, thats my fault. You release the game for £50-60 quid, and somehow, especially in the current economic crisis, I find that I'd rather pay for food and shelter over GENERICFIFASPORTGAME-2009. Im even more evil for thinking that second hand at £20-30, I might just be able to afford it without sending you more money after its first sale.
Oh, I also apologize when i decide not to buy your £50 game, because you decided you could, infact, split it into 3 seperate games and sell it that way for more than £100, for pure greed (Hi Starcraft2!). Im so very sorry. Also, do forgive me when i refuse to buy your game at all, because you decided that buying the game second hand means im njot entitled to the full game, because I also decided you weren't worthy to survive as a games company anymore (GOW2).
And "Five years ago, a great game would have sold for a longer period of time than for a bad game-- which was essentially our incentive to make great games. But no longer. Now publishers and developers just see revenue the initial few weeks regardless of the game's quality and then gamers start buying used copies which generates money that goes into GameStop's pocket, nobody else's."
No Im sorry, games just aren't as good as they were, because I recall buying and trading in games for second hand games more than 5 years ago. So that hasn't changed, must be the games eh?
Judge: Uh, I hate to interrupt your fun, boys, but I got a few complaints this case is crooked.
Ballmer: [laughs] And how.
Judge: Gee, I'd hate to close you down. Maybe we can reach a little, uh, understanding here. [Holds out the palm of his hand and motions his fingers so as to suggest that this is a bribe]
Ballmer: I understand.
Bill: Um, hey, Ballmer, I-- I think he wants--
Ballmer: Not right now, Bill. Monkey Boy is talking to a Judge.
Judge: Uh, let me put it this way. I'm looking for my friend Bill. [nods as he says Bill] Have you seen any Bills around here? [nods]
Ballmer: Yes. [points at Bill] He's Bill.
Judge: [groans] I-- Listen carefully, and watch me wink as I speak, okay?
Ballmer: Okay.
Judge: The guy I'm really looking for--wink--is Mr. Bribe--wink, wink. [holds out hand again]
Ballmer: It's a lightweight operating system.
Jusge: All right, that's it, I'm shutting this shit down.
The thing you don't know is the US army has secretly perfected the art of robotics, and has done for sometime. Well, android would be a better term, as they look just like regular human marines. However Ai is somewhat lacking, hence the need for human operators to control them. This is where america's army comes in... (Im not mad you know).
What if its a shared flat/house, or it goes to the wrong address, or somehow gets openned by anyone but the intended reciever? And does a libel case ever need anyone else to find out, if a company starts sending letters to you that are making blatent lies about yourself I'd say its libel wether anyone else sees it or not.
Its slashdot, theres a boob joke everywhere.
A fight to the death, with choice of either a flintlock pistol, sword, or smiths hammer.
Surely translation would be "Lyrics are unimportant, rock out".
Its certainly entertaining, but then after you play space age for about an hour it gets old. However the cell stage, with more body parts, and more evolution stages, would make a fantasticly fun mini game.
Even at that, they'd just mention he "hacked" military computers and that is terrorism. Nearly everything is these days.
Thats just it though isn't it? I gather in many places comcast have no direct competitors (Satellite doesn't cut it), hence no infrastructure development.
But of course in your opinion Im still wrong, but some of us have no choice but to live near these areas and can't afford elsewhere.
Hmmm, where I live theres alot of Chavs, and they certainly aren't working class, maybe "living off benefits after having got a 13 year old knocked up" class.
It would be fair to say that the majority of the animosity has gone because Nintendo more or less won, or atleast beat Sega as far as consoles went, it doesn't seem like so long ago some people either owned the Megadrive (or Genesis) or a SNES, or even the NES or the Master System, and stuck fiercely to there guns about it.
Maybe this will be a boon for women in air traffic control, most can type a sms out faster than most people could speak it.
BRB, cnt talk, crshing.
No, I just don't like it, you may, I don't, some people like watching opera, I don't, I like watching things like scrapheap challenge (Think it was junk yard wars in america). But I'm not going to say thats going to move any soul, because it isn't, its not for everyone, a 15 meter catapult may not be art, but I can't help but admire how it collapses under the forces involved when it tries to throw a car.
I believe Games-Workshop uses some CAD now for there models, though I gather this uses some sort of milling machine to make a mold or similar, rather than 3D printing.
I don't think they'll get it, there are no mentions of "Think of the children", "Child Pornography", "Terrorism" or "For The Great And Glorious Freedom(TM) Of The USA!" within the study...
You could open up the source for the engine etc. and just provide place holder info for quests, as an example of how they may be made, and just keep the actual quest code from the releases.
I always wondered that if all human knowledge/evidence was lost, books, video clips etc. (With one exception) and a handful of humans survived, with no prior knowledge of anything before themselves except a grasp of English, and these people were to find the only surviving books, a complete works of J. R. R. Tolkien, what the hell religion would be like then.
You error was underestimating the amount of insane people out there with buckets of money, well atleast were the Squba is involved.
For example AMD undoubtidly make all there CPUs with the intention of them being the top of the line CPU technology currently allows for, however alot are unstable, but run stable at a lower speed. So when they put an 8GB drive in the original xbox, it was likely a much higher value that failed to meet the grade and was sold off cheaply, as a year or two, passed HDD manufacturing techniques would have been improved, so were a "Failed" cheap HDD might have once ended up at 8GB, it was now 10, or 20 GB. M$ simply partitioned them smaller as to 8GB to simplify the process of installing them, no point rebuilding software/firmware to handle a higher capacity when there isn't any real benefit (To those who ran them unmodded of course:)).
The current 20GB hard drives were likely the cheap failed end of sata drives when they first started mass production of the 360, likely now no HDD makers go that small (cheaply) so the new line of "failed" HDDs are 80GB or whatever they are going to bundle. As for not letting you use your own, well M$ want you to buy there stuff, and only theres, why else should someone else get payed, its the same with memory cards, controllers, etc. on the 360, unlike the various 3rd party stuff for the original. M$==Vendor lock in.
How about making a high MPG gar that is road legal, and not liable to outright try and murder you at any chance it gets in the real world?
And as you post on slashdot (yes, yes, I'm postin too) fail on all parts?
Then my friend had a great idea, use hawks as the transmission medium. Nothing hunts these hawks, and once trained hardly ever get lost, making a very reliable medium. However in practice the system under performed compared to our expectations. There were few hawks to be trained which limited our bandwidth somewhat, and the hawk flew slower on average increasing our ping times. Not only this but we soon discovered that after releasing all our pigeons (As we no longer needed them) they took to flying between our clients. Not a problem I hear you say, well the hawks would stop to catch the buggers and eat them, making the latency unbearable.
Now we have this idea of encoding our messages using different colours of fish, the sewer system (downstream) and the water pipes (upstream), but its still a work in progress.