1) Sprays, at their maximum, take up less area than that. There is a pixel limit, so the largest a spray can be is about 3 in-game 'feet' wide. Those ads are about 7 or 8 in-game 'feet'.
2) Read the article I linked to in my reply. The company that offers this service definitely exists.
Too bad my school's IT dept requires all of us to have SP2, or else they disconnect us from the network. My girlfriend's laptop lagged like a 2-legged dog stuck in mud after installing SP2, so she uninstalled it. She got away with it for ~4-5 months till they noticed, and kicked her off. They told her they would 'repair' the laptop (for about $150-200) so that it would properly run SP2. She refused.
If she (or I) had the money, I'd build her a desktop, and use the windows license on that, and install a linux distro on the laptop. Sadly, we're both poor college students...:(
"These people are still running fast ethernet NICs? Don't they know gigabit is the standard now?" "Who the hell uses CRT monitors anymore?" "It works with 1/2 a gig of RAM, right? Alright, ship it out, everybody has at least that much nowadays."
Plus you also have to consider the average person's equipment that they buy. Whereas real AV enthusiasts may buy a $300+ DVD player even now, and hook it up to their $3000 TV with Monster S-video and component audio cables, there are plenty of people who hook up a $75 TV to a $75 DVD player using $5 cables (RCA, or worse, coax) they got at Wally World.
Nowadays the work ethic is present much more among women than men, mostly because of the system under communism. If you're registered to work, then you're not a "parasite of the state." If you have a job, you get paid. If you actually do your work to the fullest extent, you're just stupid.
Meanwhile, Stalin encouraged women to stay at home and raise families, so they were not really a part of the work force during that time. Because of that, they never really picked up on the aforementioned work ethic, and they tend to work harder than most of the men. I believe at least 60% of new businesses now are started by women, and that doesn't even include the sucess rate of new ventures. I'd bet that figure would be higher.
However, your average American fares far better under Democratic presidents than they do under Republican presidents.
To paraphrase a statement I once heard: The Republican Party is sometimes called the 'party of the rich.' Following that logic, in order to get voters on their side, their aim should be to make all of the voters rich. The Democratic Party claims themselves as the 'party of the downtrodden and poor.' In order to keep voters on their side, what must they do?
Honestly, I've played WoW, and while I love it, I'm too poor to play it (I played for about 3 weeks on a friend's account, and got to about Lv.24 with my Troll Shammie). The $15/month held me from getting an account of my own. I liked the idea of Guild Wars (MMO without a monthly fee, so it has the same costs as any other online game), but I held off until I read reviews. A level cap of 20 kinda sucks in the first place, and having an instanced world definitely turned me away from it. I like being able to meet up with people at random when I'm outside of cities, especially if they're going for the same quest as I am. Forming groups ad-hoc is more like a real adventure would be, anyway. You WILL meet people in the wilderness on occasion, even though you see many more in towns and cities. So my point with this paragraph is that although WoW nearly has a monopoly on MMOs right now, it kinda deserves to have one. It's one of the best implementations out there, and many people like it as a whole much more than EQ, DAOC, or GW.
I'm not looking for a free game, what I'd like to see is a no-monthly-fee MMO that is as well-made as WoW is. I would buy such a game if one existed.
Why wouldn't it cost under $400? According to the site of this project, the screens on these things cost $35. That's the biggest cost in the average laptop. Other than that, it's all really simple. Go on Newegg and put parts in your cart that make the cheapest desktop you can. For $158, you can get a mobo with an 800MHz processor (60% increase over this laptop), onboard video and sound, 512MB of RAM (probably substantially more than the laptop, though no figure is given), a 40GB HD, a mid-tower case, and a PSU. Nothing amazing, but certainly good enough for web browsing, schoolwork collaboration, and other such low-intensity applications. Hell, I might build one of those to run as a webserver!
Exactly. My GeForce 4 MX 440 (go go DX7) was good enough to play HL2, even though I had the settings most of the way down... the only thing that makes that card lag is smoke. I ended up getting an FX5200 for $50 just as a temporary fix (so I could have DX9, and no smoke-lag) until I get a whole new system this fall. At that point I'll get a PCI-X board, and probably get a 6600GT, and then upgrade the card a few years down the road. Video cards really can last a long time if you don't mind playing with low settings as you plan out your new purchase.:)
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Couple things about that:
1) Sprays, at their maximum, take up less area than that. There is a pixel limit, so the largest a spray can be is about 3 in-game 'feet' wide. Those ads are about 7 or 8 in-game 'feet'.
2) Read the article I linked to in my reply. The company that offers this service definitely exists.
Just some clarification and citing: I originally read this story here.
And this advertising is being implemented on multiplayer servers by server admins, not by users or Valve.
Here are some examples of advertising in-game. This is inside Valve-made maps, not custom maps.
Too bad my school's IT dept requires all of us to have SP2, or else they disconnect us from the network. My girlfriend's laptop lagged like a 2-legged dog stuck in mud after installing SP2, so she uninstalled it. She got away with it for ~4-5 months till they noticed, and kicked her off. They told her they would 'repair' the laptop (for about $150-200) so that it would properly run SP2. She refused.
:(
If she (or I) had the money, I'd build her a desktop, and use the windows license on that, and install a linux distro on the laptop. Sadly, we're both poor college students...
The problem is what MS considers 'legacy.'
"These people are still running fast ethernet NICs? Don't they know gigabit is the standard now?"
"Who the hell uses CRT monitors anymore?"
"It works with 1/2 a gig of RAM, right? Alright, ship it out, everybody has at least that much nowadays."
Personally, I'm more impressed by a "God" that can design the rules to the universe
;-)
His name is Gabe Newell.
I was able to drop my driving restriction and I pass every eye test I've taken for the past few years
:-O
You weren't supposed to know about that!
The black helicopters are coming...
Plus you also have to consider the average person's equipment that they buy. Whereas real AV enthusiasts may buy a $300+ DVD player even now, and hook it up to their $3000 TV with Monster S-video and component audio cables, there are plenty of people who hook up a $75 TV to a $75 DVD player using $5 cables (RCA, or worse, coax) they got at Wally World.
So why exactly was this modded "insightful" and not something like "funny"?
And it's also trivial to disable the screensaver manually before playing a game.
After doing a course on Russian culture...
Nowadays the work ethic is present much more among women than men, mostly because of the system under communism. If you're registered to work, then you're not a "parasite of the state." If you have a job, you get paid. If you actually do your work to the fullest extent, you're just stupid.
Meanwhile, Stalin encouraged women to stay at home and raise families, so they were not really a part of the work force during that time. Because of that, they never really picked up on the aforementioned work ethic, and they tend to work harder than most of the men. I believe at least 60% of new businesses now are started by women, and that doesn't even include the sucess rate of new ventures. I'd bet that figure would be higher.
However, your average American fares far better under Democratic presidents than they do under Republican presidents.
To paraphrase a statement I once heard:
The Republican Party is sometimes called the 'party of the rich.' Following that logic, in order to get voters on their side, their aim should be to make all of the voters rich.
The Democratic Party claims themselves as the 'party of the downtrodden and poor.' In order to keep voters on their side, what must they do?
Honestly, I've played WoW, and while I love it, I'm too poor to play it (I played for about 3 weeks on a friend's account, and got to about Lv.24 with my Troll Shammie). The $15/month held me from getting an account of my own. I liked the idea of Guild Wars (MMO without a monthly fee, so it has the same costs as any other online game), but I held off until I read reviews. A level cap of 20 kinda sucks in the first place, and having an instanced world definitely turned me away from it. I like being able to meet up with people at random when I'm outside of cities, especially if they're going for the same quest as I am. Forming groups ad-hoc is more like a real adventure would be, anyway. You WILL meet people in the wilderness on occasion, even though you see many more in towns and cities. So my point with this paragraph is that although WoW nearly has a monopoly on MMOs right now, it kinda deserves to have one. It's one of the best implementations out there, and many people like it as a whole much more than EQ, DAOC, or GW. I'm not looking for a free game, what I'd like to see is a no-monthly-fee MMO that is as well-made as WoW is. I would buy such a game if one existed.
Speaking of Pizza Hut, everyone remember Ninja Turtles?
Their favorite food? Pizza from Pizza Hut. That cartoon/game series was one of the top reasons I loved Pizza Hut as a kid.
Why wouldn't it cost under $400? According to the site of this project, the screens on these things cost $35. That's the biggest cost in the average laptop. Other than that, it's all really simple. Go on Newegg and put parts in your cart that make the cheapest desktop you can. For $158, you can get a mobo with an 800MHz processor (60% increase over this laptop), onboard video and sound, 512MB of RAM (probably substantially more than the laptop, though no figure is given), a 40GB HD, a mid-tower case, and a PSU. Nothing amazing, but certainly good enough for web browsing, schoolwork collaboration, and other such low-intensity applications. Hell, I might build one of those to run as a webserver!
Exactly. My GeForce 4 MX 440 (go go DX7) was good enough to play HL2, even though I had the settings most of the way down... the only thing that makes that card lag is smoke. I ended up getting an FX5200 for $50 just as a temporary fix (so I could have DX9, and no smoke-lag) until I get a whole new system this fall. At that point I'll get a PCI-X board, and probably get a 6600GT, and then upgrade the card a few years down the road. Video cards really can last a long time if you don't mind playing with low settings as you plan out your new purchase. :)
I'm sure someone could make a mod of HL2 incorporating that feature... anyone up to the challenge?