1. It could "unbalance" clan matchs. If Clan X plays Clan Y one week when the M4 is expensive then they'll have a very different game than when they play Clan Z when the M4 is cheaper. While each game is fair I think any comparison of games (we beat Clan Z, how come we lost to Clan Y?) will be skewed.
I agree, but there are also two sides to the story. This could make it more like 'real life' where weapon prices and availabilty affect battles. I don't know which side of the fence I'm on, but I think I'm going to like it. It adds diversity. Gameplay changes over time. Could be interesting.
2. Weapons that are available to both sides will always have more spent on them than weapons unique to one team. For example, the M4 and the CK are only available to the one side, while the AWP and the P90 are available to both sides. That presumably will mean the AWP and P90 have more spent on them in any one week, pushing them into the top 50% half where prices increase. I hope Valve have thought about that, I'd hate all the shared weapons to increase while the unique weapons fall. Not just coz I'm a P90 spray'n'pray player of course..:)
Good point. I think this should be simple to take care of. The M4 and AK/CK aer basically the same gun, correct? Well, instead of comparing the purchases of (P90:AWP:M4:AK), compare them as (P90:AWP:M4+AK). Theoretically, if all weapons were purchased in same amounts by everyone, this would make it 1:1:1. (I think my wording could be better, but you understand.)
And as a final note, P90 FOR LIFE! =D I use it for sniping in bursts too. Really pisses people off to get sniped by a P90, of all guns.
what did you want the box to look like? Was it NOT supposed to say guitar on it? Also, of course the actual controller is REALLY close to the same. They're made to play the same game. What the hell did they want, a controller that didn't look like a guitar?
Disclaimer: I haven't seen either of the boxes.
If you aren't an audiophile or a gamer, there is very little reason to need anything past a Live! card. I have been the owner of two Sound Blasters, an Audigy, and more recently, an X-Fi. I love my X-Fi. However, I play tons of games and listen to a lot of music. Now, I have been very satisfied with the XP drivers. They work great, have great adjustment options, etc. I recently tried out Vista RC1 and was very disappointed. For one, the drivers had no EAX support. EAX does wonders in games, and now I didn't have that. Strike one. Next, the interface had been jacked up. It is no longer easy to use or friendly, but it does have this nice feature of not saving my settings. Strike two. Finally, CMSS-3D wasn't functional. This basically up-mixes all sound to 5.1 so I actually feel 'surrounded' by my music. I listen to music whenever I'm not gaming, so that about killed it for me. So far, I have had pretty good luck with Creative's drivers, but this is an exception. I will give a little credit, as the OS isn't completely supported by much of anyone yet. All that aside, I think they need to re-work their driver system. There are so many different varieties of the Live! card it can be impossible to find your drivers. I think they would do better to have a base 'control panel' and allow you to download a 'unified driver' package like nVIDIA does. This way, there would be no confusion and this single 'Live! Unified Driver' package would have everything you need, no matter which card you have.
Since one of my friends plays Halo and explained it to me one day, I'll try to explain this. I believe modding is done by using a PC as a proxy between the Xbox and the internet. The PC detects values and changes them at your whim, based on what you want. It works almost like a gameshark for Xbox live. IIRC, the trick is that you have to host the game.
I think it's completely feasible. Think about it. If this can put out 78CFM@2000RPM, why is it so hard to imagine? For our purposes, let's say we can fit 6 fans (go with me) on the back of this case. that is 468CFM, with the fans on silent. Imagine if you sped them up. Take the same concept, make it use ions to move the air instead, and call it a day. These ionic devices have been shown to move air, however minimal. I think it can be done, unless someone else has something to show me otherwise.
Spot on. I've taken to recommending the mid-range cards over anything. I have had a 6600GT for a little over a year and I couldnt be anything but satisfied. It even OCs well. I wasn't able to drop 500 bucks on a GPU, so I went with the 150 dollar solution: Mid-Range. I think this is where most of the market is (for anything but OEMs anyway) because people don't want to spend an assload on a video card, but they want bang for the buck. It's my belief that the market is concentrated around the mid-range, and it's going to stay that way.
Today I started playing Episode 1. Let me rephrase that. Today I finished playing Episode 1.
No, really. I found it to be an altogether enjoyable experience. It was much more fun to work with others (namely Alyx) throughout the duration of the game. Speaking of, I clocked in at just under 4 Hours, including a 30 minute dinner break. The length was kinda disappointing, but such is life. as a side note, I am an avid FPSer, and it will likely take most people much more time, such as the 6 hours the parent post mentioned. I play to play through again tomorrow with the commentary on, seeing as how much good I've heard spoken of it.
Funniest thing: I'm about 30 miles from there right now. It's really cool when you can find someone close by on Slashdot, especially when they have something useful to say.
Something tells me I've seen this comment before... Oh yeah, and good job making an ass out of yourself too. I was going to thank you for reposting something I thought at least made my day better, but nevermind. I would like to thank the OP for contributing something worth stealing.
Where are you getting this from? I have worked as an electrician and have messed around with a lot of DC electronics (high power motors, low power motors, computers, etc.). The normal wiring for a house (at least here in the US) has wires running through it in sleeves. within these sleeves are at least 3 wires, per sleeve. There are even more if a switchleg is needed, such as for multiple lightswitches to a single light. IIRC, DC power just has a 'hot' wire and a ground. AC=3 or more, DC=2.
I wasn't really trying to be racist, if that's what you're getting at. The only people who should take offense to my comment are those stealing stereos. I just figure everyone could use a good laugh every now and then, and I'm sure I could find plenty of people of all races who would find that funny. I'm rather sure even those stealing the stereos would find it funny. On that note, I think it's kinda sad when I get modded insightful instead of funny. I don't think it was remotely close to insightful.
I understand where you are coming from, but I think your view is too far on the extreme side. Extensions are not always bad. Sure, they can be a developer's nightmare sometimes, but I think it's worth it.
Case in point: I use Firefox. I love some of the extensions. Two examples of these are the GMail notifier and ForecastFox. The Gmail notifier checks my email FOR ME, so I don't have to waste my time looking at it if I have nothing new. The developers of Opera may not be willing to implement this feature, as not everyone uses GMail. However, I don't know what I would do without it. It is definitely one of my main reasons for using Firefox. Secondly, ForecastFox checks the weather for me. It will tell me about severe weather alerts without me having to watch the news for 10 minutes to actually get to the weather. Also, a final extension that _could_ cause issues, but saves me great trouble: IE Tab. It allows me to view pages inside the Firefox browser using IE's engine. All of these extensions help ME, which is why I use them.
For some reason, I can't see all of these useful extensions being added to Opera 10. It just won't happen. This leaves many of us with other browsers such as Firefox for our browsing needs as they can be expanded out past the 'stock' browser configuration. Until Opera has extension capabilities, I won't even think about switching.
I believe it was in reference to running both HDR and AA at the same time. I don't know if this has been resolved since last I checked, but that was the advantage to having ATI as far as I could tell.
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And as a final note, P90 FOR LIFE! =D I use it for sniping in bursts too. Really pisses people off to get sniped by a P90, of all guns.
what did you want the box to look like? Was it NOT supposed to say guitar on it? Also, of course the actual controller is REALLY close to the same. They're made to play the same game. What the hell did they want, a controller that didn't look like a guitar? Disclaimer: I haven't seen either of the boxes.
Could you identify my items?
If you aren't an audiophile or a gamer, there is very little reason to need anything past a Live! card. I have been the owner of two Sound Blasters, an Audigy, and more recently, an X-Fi. I love my X-Fi. However, I play tons of games and listen to a lot of music. Now, I have been very satisfied with the XP drivers. They work great, have great adjustment options, etc. I recently tried out Vista RC1 and was very disappointed. For one, the drivers had no EAX support. EAX does wonders in games, and now I didn't have that. Strike one. Next, the interface had been jacked up. It is no longer easy to use or friendly, but it does have this nice feature of not saving my settings. Strike two. Finally, CMSS-3D wasn't functional. This basically up-mixes all sound to 5.1 so I actually feel 'surrounded' by my music. I listen to music whenever I'm not gaming, so that about killed it for me. So far, I have had pretty good luck with Creative's drivers, but this is an exception. I will give a little credit, as the OS isn't completely supported by much of anyone yet. All that aside, I think they need to re-work their driver system. There are so many different varieties of the Live! card it can be impossible to find your drivers. I think they would do better to have a base 'control panel' and allow you to download a 'unified driver' package like nVIDIA does. This way, there would be no confusion and this single 'Live! Unified Driver' package would have everything you need, no matter which card you have.
Since one of my friends plays Halo and explained it to me one day, I'll try to explain this. I believe modding is done by using a PC as a proxy between the Xbox and the internet. The PC detects values and changes them at your whim, based on what you want. It works almost like a gameshark for Xbox live. IIRC, the trick is that you have to host the game.
I think it's completely feasible. Think about it. If this can put out 78CFM@2000RPM, why is it so hard to imagine? For our purposes, let's say we can fit 6 fans (go with me) on the back of this case. that is 468CFM, with the fans on silent. Imagine if you sped them up. Take the same concept, make it use ions to move the air instead, and call it a day. These ionic devices have been shown to move air, however minimal. I think it can be done, unless someone else has something to show me otherwise.
Spot on. I've taken to recommending the mid-range cards over anything. I have had a 6600GT for a little over a year and I couldnt be anything but satisfied. It even OCs well. I wasn't able to drop 500 bucks on a GPU, so I went with the 150 dollar solution: Mid-Range. I think this is where most of the market is (for anything but OEMs anyway) because people don't want to spend an assload on a video card, but they want bang for the buck. It's my belief that the market is concentrated around the mid-range, and it's going to stay that way.
Today I started playing Episode 1. Let me rephrase that. Today I finished playing Episode 1.
No, really. I found it to be an altogether enjoyable experience. It was much more fun to work with others (namely Alyx) throughout the duration of the game. Speaking of, I clocked in at just under 4 Hours, including a 30 minute dinner break. The length was kinda disappointing, but such is life. as a side note, I am an avid FPSer, and it will likely take most people much more time, such as the 6 hours the parent post mentioned. I play to play through again tomorrow with the commentary on, seeing as how much good I've heard spoken of it.
I believe things like that are infinitely impossible.
Did it go anything like this?
Sorry. Had to post this.
Funniest thing: I'm about 30 miles from there right now. It's really cool when you can find someone close by on Slashdot, especially when they have something useful to say.
Something tells me I've seen this comment before... Oh yeah, and good job making an ass out of yourself too. I was going to thank you for reposting something I thought at least made my day better, but nevermind. I would like to thank the OP for contributing something worth stealing.
"- DC requires twice as many wires"
Where are you getting this from? I have worked as an electrician and have messed around with a lot of DC electronics (high power motors, low power motors, computers, etc.). The normal wiring for a house (at least here in the US) has wires running through it in sleeves. within these sleeves are at least 3 wires, per sleeve. There are even more if a switchleg is needed, such as for multiple lightswitches to a single light. IIRC, DC power just has a 'hot' wire and a ground. AC=3 or more, DC=2.
Awesome! Now I can kill the gaming industry faster!
I wasn't really trying to be racist, if that's what you're getting at. The only people who should take offense to my comment are those stealing stereos. I just figure everyone could use a good laugh every now and then, and I'm sure I could find plenty of people of all races who would find that funny. I'm rather sure even those stealing the stereos would find it funny. On that note, I think it's kinda sad when I get modded insightful instead of funny. I don't think it was remotely close to insightful.
GTunes? Isn't that like a stolen stereo in a Cadillac?
Rocket ammo? You don't have the BFG yet? It was in a secret cave along the north route.
Well over time knives get dull from use. unless I'm mistaken, this one atom could easily break off, right? Wouldn't it be instantly dull?
I understand where you are coming from, but I think your view is too far on the extreme side. Extensions are not always bad. Sure, they can be a developer's nightmare sometimes, but I think it's worth it.
Case in point: I use Firefox. I love some of the extensions. Two examples of these are the GMail notifier and ForecastFox. The Gmail notifier checks my email FOR ME, so I don't have to waste my time looking at it if I have nothing new. The developers of Opera may not be willing to implement this feature, as not everyone uses GMail. However, I don't know what I would do without it. It is definitely one of my main reasons for using Firefox. Secondly, ForecastFox checks the weather for me. It will tell me about severe weather alerts without me having to watch the news for 10 minutes to actually get to the weather. Also, a final extension that _could_ cause issues, but saves me great trouble: IE Tab. It allows me to view pages inside the Firefox browser using IE's engine. All of these extensions help ME, which is why I use them.
For some reason, I can't see all of these useful extensions being added to Opera 10. It just won't happen. This leaves many of us with other browsers such as Firefox for our browsing needs as they can be expanded out past the 'stock' browser configuration. Until Opera has extension capabilities, I won't even think about switching.
I believe it was in reference to running both HDR and AA at the same time. I don't know if this has been resolved since last I checked, but that was the advantage to having ATI as far as I could tell.
You forgot one -- Duke Nukem Forever.
Boobs've
Well that's one I haven't heard before. Let's see if I learned contractions right...
Boobs've nipples.
MicroSoft
So why are we talking about their 'tools?'