FYI, IIRC, there's a company just outside of Denver that has one of the (if not the) largest MSSQL dbs anywhere, and they clock in at 20TB. Don't remember the name offhand.
And yes, I've gotten some good mileage out of my MCDBA as well.
PIN number?
Don't you mean PIN number number number number number (repeating ad infinitum)?
To use at the ATM machine? Outside the CIA agency? Funny to see this in YRO online.
I can't vouch for the veracity of the parent, but I did work in a riverboat casino in Kansas City when they first opened there.
The law at the time in Missouri was that games of chance were illegal, but games of skill were not. So while they could have video poker machines, they could not have slot machines.
I'll second Gulthek's response.
My XBox has never crashed, I've played Halo and, god forbid, I didn't like it.
And the one program I use most on it is XBox Media Center.
I'm not a huge fan of MMO's, but I've played a couple (EQ & CoH). How hard would it be to package the world and soloable quests into a single player, non-online game?
Why don't MMO's offer this as an introductory experience? If people like the single player, they could upgrade to the online, monthly-fee system.
And those of us with severely limited gaming time could play offline, alone, at our own pace. All while making Blizzard money off an already-developed product.
B&W had hands down the worst, most non-intuitive control scheme I've ever attempted to use. The game looked neat, but I couldn't past the jackass control setup.
Hmmm...
C was created in the early 70's, right?
IE came out in 1995 or so.
So it should have been EI all along?
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For Cadigan, if you can find them, I rather enjoyed Fools as well as Synners. Her short story collection, Patterns, has some gems, and Tea From an Empty Cup and Dervish is Digital are also worth reading, although I do enjoy her earlier work more.
FWIW, she did the novelization of the Lost In Space movie as well, but I've not read it.
As far as geek cred goes, don't forget her appearance in Escape From L.A.
She's been in a lot of things, you can see the list here.
One of the best, IMO, is Swimming With Sharks
There's got to be another name for this behavior driven by a low barrier to entry, because it's not just specific to videogames. Two examples:
1. Working phone tech support for software that was being given away free, or selling for $7 or so, we had an inordinately large number of "generic asshats" wanting support. For more expensive products, significantly less asshattery.
2. I worked in a bar, and on the nights that there was no cover or cheapo drinks, general asshattery increased exponentially. And no, this wasn't simply booze-related. Sober asshats did abound.
The barrier to entry doesn't have to be monetary. Linux's barrier to entry is time and knowledge. Not trolling here, but it would be hard to find an example of Joe Clueless User running a Linux box.
Damn you, tverbeek. It's hot and sunny outside and now all I want is a pasty. Though I've always had them with turnips rather than potatoes. Time to scrounge up a recipe.
I'll echo your comment. Do let them perfect the genre.
However, there's one facet of FPS games that has been sorely neglected recently. Co-op multiplayer. Duke 3d, Unreal, and more recently Serious Sam all did well with this, and for me it was the most enjoyable aspect of those games.
I certainly hope Q4 bucks the trend and includes this kind of multiplay.
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FYI, IIRC, there's a company just outside of Denver that has one of the (if not the) largest MSSQL dbs anywhere, and they clock in at 20TB. Don't remember the name offhand.
And yes, I've gotten some good mileage out of my MCDBA as well.
Harmonica? You don't have a printer, you've got an origami machine.
Unless, of course, you meant accordion.
Just ribbing a little for PIN number. Hence CIA agency, YRO online, ATM machine. Same thing. Sarcasm.
I understand the reasoning for its placement. YRO was just a handy 3-letter acronym I could make redundant.
PIN number?
Don't you mean PIN number number number number number (repeating ad infinitum)?
To use at the ATM machine? Outside the CIA agency? Funny to see this in YRO online.
Meh. In the future there will be robots.
I can't vouch for the veracity of the parent, but I did work in a riverboat casino in Kansas City when they first opened there.
The law at the time in Missouri was that games of chance were illegal, but games of skill were not. So while they could have video poker machines, they could not have slot machines.
I'll second Gulthek's response.
My XBox has never crashed, I've played Halo and, god forbid, I didn't like it.
And the one program I use most on it is XBox Media Center.
Sounds odd, but hear me out:
I'm not a huge fan of MMO's, but I've played a couple (EQ & CoH). How hard would it be to package the world and soloable quests into a single player, non-online game?
Why don't MMO's offer this as an introductory experience? If people like the single player, they could upgrade to the online, monthly-fee system.
And those of us with severely limited gaming time could play offline, alone, at our own pace. All while making Blizzard money off an already-developed product.
It actually said: "For every person you forward this mail to, Bill Gates gets a dollar."
WTF is an SMOF?
I heartily agree.
B&W had hands down the worst, most non-intuitive control scheme I've ever attempted to use. The game looked neat, but I couldn't past the jackass control setup.
Upper right?
Are you reading this through the back of the monitor?
I before E except after C
Hmmm...
C was created in the early 70's, right?
IE came out in 1995 or so.
So it should have been EI all along?
For Cadigan, if you can find them, I rather enjoyed Fools as well as Synners. Her short story collection, Patterns, has some gems, and Tea From an Empty Cup and Dervish is Digital are also worth reading, although I do enjoy her earlier work more.
FWIW, she did the novelization of the Lost In Space movie as well, but I've not read it.
So to hyperextend this analogy:
ESR = Tupac
RMS = The Notorious B.I.G.
As far as geek cred goes, don't forget her appearance in Escape From L.A.
She's been in a lot of things, you can see the list here.
One of the best, IMO, is Swimming With Sharks
Sounds like my two-year-old:
Ogg! Ogg ogg! Ogg oggity ogg ogg!
Smurfs, Shortcake, who knows what's next?
Obligatory PA link here.
There's got to be another name for this behavior driven by a low barrier to entry, because it's not just specific to videogames. Two examples:
1. Working phone tech support for software that was being given away free, or selling for $7 or so, we had an inordinately large number of "generic asshats" wanting support. For more expensive products, significantly less asshattery.
2. I worked in a bar, and on the nights that there was no cover or cheapo drinks, general asshattery increased exponentially. And no, this wasn't simply booze-related. Sober asshats did abound.
The barrier to entry doesn't have to be monetary. Linux's barrier to entry is time and knowledge. Not trolling here, but it would be hard to find an example of Joe Clueless User running a Linux box.
the mirrordot of this is here.
Damn you, tverbeek.
It's hot and sunny outside and now all I want is a pasty.
Though I've always had them with turnips rather than potatoes. Time to scrounge up a recipe.
Silly?
Strawberry Shortcake wins hands down.
I guess G.I. Joe is for girls then?
What's your favorite Linux game?
I'll echo your comment. Do let them perfect the genre.
However, there's one facet of FPS games that has been sorely neglected recently. Co-op multiplayer.
Duke 3d, Unreal, and more recently Serious Sam all did well with this, and for me it was the most enjoyable aspect of those games.
I certainly hope Q4 bucks the trend and includes this kind of multiplay.
Jay McInerney also did one, Bright Lights Big City, which is much better as a book than the Michael J. Fox movie they made from it.
It's a charming story of a coke-addled businessman in 1980's New York, with the reader as the main character.