When you system running 90fps starts to choke it is less likely to drop below 30fps which is where most humans start to see flicker or at least get sea sick.
"You kids, stop having fun, think of the big picture"
If people like these games and want to buy them then that is what EA is going to make.
It's not that the consumer has no choices (well they don't now... other than not playing a football game)... it's that the consumer has choosen to buy this game on a yearly basis so that is what EA is going to make. If it had no redeaming quality it would not sell.
Another question is what kind of age diffrences are we talking about here? That could make a big diffrence.
I think you will find most people don't try to exclude others, but are most cofortable with people they already know or share similar intrests with. If it doesn't affect your ability to work effectivly I would say don't worry about it... coworkers should respect hard work and dedication, and if they don't find a more proffesonal work place.
"So this is the reason I shouldn't [read the games section of slashdot]? What a trite [post]. Maybe you should [read the games section of slashdot for entertanment], not because you [are trying to pick a college].
The article is not about higher education... it is about exspensive goofing off. There are plenty of people who find extra curicular activity and fitting in at a college important, these kind of metrics may be of value to them.
There is one thing that can be done; peer review.
I am not talking about college proffesors in tweed jackets (but I am sure they would be welcome).
The problem I see in Wikipedia is that the "rules" the comunity has developed seem more important to the registered users than presenting nutral, correct and well referenced content.
I would say Informative...
But then again we need a "+1 Actualy Provided Useful Information" so we can tell it from the automated "this popular peice of technology sucks 'cause the internets say so... and I'm a troll" posts that get modded +1 Informative.
it's funny but I have come to think that OS/2 may have been (continues to be) one of the best little Embedded OS out there (not a bad desktop eather)... it's to bad that it was basicaly doomed from the start.
Even if you have people in there with 4 or 5 PS2s that is a metric butt load of households with PS2s.
The name Playstation is always going to be associated with gaming by non gamers... and parents will buy there children a PS3 to replace/upgrade a PS2 because it makes sense from a non informed consumers perspective.
The only thing that could realy hurt Sony is snooty EB clerks regurgitating things they read on the internet and I am sure consumers will just go to Best Buy (once someone wants to buy something it is best not to argue or try to change there mind... if you want the sale.).
Will it be another PS2... I doubt it. Did people bitch on the internet leading up to the PS2 launch and after... Yes, we have such short memories.
Errr... Last I checked it wasn't a bad thing...
I won't likey buy any console at launch... my fun budget is a bit tied up at the moment (the Core 2 Duo calls to me) but I am almost 100% sure Microsoft won't fool me again.
Fell free to use this post as an excuse to spread irrational Wii love (not that the Wii is good or bad... just some people are irrational about it.)
I think he means that most people have eather a DS or a PSP and the last portable they bought was likely a GBA. Implying that while a PSP is more tecnologicaly advanced than a GBA it isn't at this point more fun.
I am half expecting the PS3 to be a smshing sucess at this point.
I would like to call this the inverse internet expert principal or IIEP (in short the louder and more athoritative the armchair expert is the less accurate they become) but not only is the acronym probably taken... I don't think it is a new idea.
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Amen...
Unfortunatly no one outside of IT gets this. They want to use one utility to do everything and I mean everything even if it doesn't do anything particularly well.
Take AOL... there biggest selling point is that by paying for the service you get the program suite which does a number of things and provides a number of services that could be had free or for little cost. Non technical people see this as presenting value.
IF you want to market to the computer illiterate public you need to tell them about all the neat stuff you can do to justify taking the risk of downloading something (it's funny users will download spyware at the drop of a hat but get nervous around legit software). Firefox is fine the ay it is but it's biggest selling point is that it is a plain jane browser that can be customised... and that isn't very sexy.
I wouldn't diminish the importance of public works like these.
But if we are talking conteporary entertanment... yeah... some one is always making money, even if it does not come out of the consumers pocket.
What esspecaly angers me is the trend to charge for a good or service and then present ads to the consumer... if I buy somthing I expect it to be unencumbered, on the other hand if I get it for free I have a lower standard.
It does have a longish tutorial... but not that long (it took me about an hour). If it is taking you a long time to complete then perhaps you will need the skills that it is trying to teach you in playing the game.
I don't understand this backlash on tutorials recently... must we all prove our "leetness" by playing games with no fundimental understanding of how to do so(a big problem with MMOs right now)?
I tried AO and frankly it wasn't for me... I guess I had trouble with the fact that it is a standard Fantasy MMO with a thin Sci-Fi coating or at least that is how it felt to me.
I would like to see a MMO that is not an EQ clone or a WoW clone with a unique engaging Sci-Fi story (it doesn't have to be wierd... just not a carbon copy), but I don't think anyone would take the chance right now with WoW messing up the market.
Ads are only a minor issue, I have seen ads all my life I know how to ignore them.
The proponets of free content will whine... but this way the record company gets what they want (money) and the consumer gets free (of cost) music.
Nothing ever has been truely free, if you aren't buying (or stealing) something someone else is paying to put it in your hands for there own reasons. That is the way the world has worked for a long time.
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Think of it as breathing space.
When you system running 90fps starts to choke it is less likely to drop below 30fps which is where most humans start to see flicker or at least get sea sick.
You learn something new every day I guess...
I learned I have even less reason to try playing Final Fantasy XI today.
I honestly hope you didn't uninstall without first canceling your account payments.
Just think of what you could do with $15 a month...
P.S. I have never seen an MMO delete inactive charecters, I think you would be safe.
"You kids, stop having fun, think of the big picture"
If people like these games and want to buy them then that is what EA is going to make.
It's not that the consumer has no choices (well they don't now... other than not playing a football game)... it's that the consumer has choosen to buy this game on a yearly basis so that is what EA is going to make. If it had no redeaming quality it would not sell.
Another question is what kind of age diffrences are we talking about here? That could make a big diffrence.
I think you will find most people don't try to exclude others, but are most cofortable with people they already know or share similar intrests with. If it doesn't affect your ability to work effectivly I would say don't worry about it... coworkers should respect hard work and dedication, and if they don't find a more proffesonal work place.
[A rant about how everything sucks.]
"So this is the reason I shouldn't [read the games section of slashdot]? What a trite [post]. Maybe you should [read the games section of slashdot for entertanment], not because you [are trying to pick a college].
The article is not about higher education... it is about exspensive goofing off. There are plenty of people who find extra curicular activity and fitting in at a college important, these kind of metrics may be of value to them.
Lose the stick, it makes you walk funny.
There is one thing that can be done; peer review. I am not talking about college proffesors in tweed jackets (but I am sure they would be welcome). The problem I see in Wikipedia is that the "rules" the comunity has developed seem more important to the registered users than presenting nutral, correct and well referenced content.
I would say Informative... But then again we need a "+1 Actualy Provided Useful Information" so we can tell it from the automated "this popular peice of technology sucks 'cause the internets say so... and I'm a troll" posts that get modded +1 Informative.
And people wonder why Bush and ecologists don't get along...
it's funny but I have come to think that OS/2 may have been (continues to be) one of the best little Embedded OS out there (not a bad desktop eather)... it's to bad that it was basicaly doomed from the start.
Even if you have people in there with 4 or 5 PS2s that is a metric butt load of households with PS2s.
The name Playstation is always going to be associated with gaming by non gamers... and parents will buy there children a PS3 to replace/upgrade a PS2 because it makes sense from a non informed consumers perspective.
The only thing that could realy hurt Sony is snooty EB clerks regurgitating things they read on the internet and I am sure consumers will just go to Best Buy (once someone wants to buy something it is best not to argue or try to change there mind... if you want the sale.).
Will it be another PS2... I doubt it.
Did people bitch on the internet leading up to the PS2 launch and after... Yes, we have such short memories.
Errr... Last I checked it wasn't a bad thing... I won't likey buy any console at launch... my fun budget is a bit tied up at the moment (the Core 2 Duo calls to me) but I am almost 100% sure Microsoft won't fool me again. Fell free to use this post as an excuse to spread irrational Wii love (not that the Wii is good or bad... just some people are irrational about it.)
I think he means that most people have eather a DS or a PSP and the last portable they bought was likely a GBA. Implying that while a PSP is more tecnologicaly advanced than a GBA it isn't at this point more fun.
I am half expecting the PS3 to be a smshing sucess at this point.
I would like to call this the inverse internet expert principal or IIEP (in short the louder and more athoritative the armchair expert is the less accurate they become) but not only is the acronym probably taken... I don't think it is a new idea.
Blah... Why do I care? I'm mostly a PC gamer.
That is a great idea.
Would it work along side a system like the one Firefox has now or replace it?
Bank of America ATMs didn't lock up... they ran out of money or had hardware falures but they never used to lock up.
Now they run on Windows and they do... the touch screen is (seemingly) required for operation and they stop working all the time.
IF my life depended on Windows... really depended on it... I'd be long dead by now.
Michael Jane, does he play for Orlando?
Amen...
Unfortunatly no one outside of IT gets this. They want to use one utility to do everything and I mean everything even if it doesn't do anything particularly well.
Take AOL... there biggest selling point is that by paying for the service you get the program suite which does a number of things and provides a number of services that could be had free or for little cost. Non technical people see this as presenting value.
IF you want to market to the computer illiterate public you need to tell them about all the neat stuff you can do to justify taking the risk of downloading something (it's funny users will download spyware at the drop of a hat but get nervous around legit software). Firefox is fine the ay it is but it's biggest selling point is that it is a plain jane browser that can be customised... and that isn't very sexy.
I wouldn't diminish the importance of public works like these. But if we are talking conteporary entertanment... yeah... some one is always making money, even if it does not come out of the consumers pocket. What esspecaly angers me is the trend to charge for a good or service and then present ads to the consumer... if I buy somthing I expect it to be unencumbered, on the other hand if I get it for free I have a lower standard.
It does have a longish tutorial... but not that long (it took me about an hour). If it is taking you a long time to complete then perhaps you will need the skills that it is trying to teach you in playing the game. I don't understand this backlash on tutorials recently... must we all prove our "leetness" by playing games with no fundimental understanding of how to do so(a big problem with MMOs right now)?
What does this have to do with bat boy, Is he there corperate mascot?
Um... www.newegg.com Smartass. :)
I tried AO and frankly it wasn't for me... I guess I had trouble with the fact that it is a standard Fantasy MMO with a thin Sci-Fi coating or at least that is how it felt to me.
I would like to see a MMO that is not an EQ clone or a WoW clone with a unique engaging Sci-Fi story (it doesn't have to be wierd... just not a carbon copy), but I don't think anyone would take the chance right now with WoW messing up the market.
Yes.
Ads are only a minor issue, I have seen ads all my life I know how to ignore them.
The proponets of free content will whine... but this way the record company gets what they want (money) and the consumer gets free (of cost) music.
Nothing ever has been truely free, if you aren't buying (or stealing) something someone else is paying to put it in your hands for there own reasons. That is the way the world has worked for a long time.