As far as myspace goes, to each his own. At the very least it has a positive social function in the exchange of ideas and networking, albeit for a certain demographic. Just because you aren't a teen anymore doesn't mean that suddenly all teens suck or that things were 'better' before.
Well, I'm a student (Read: teenager) at a major metropolitan high school, and myspace is everywhere. I think it is almost entirely stupid. I've looked around on it on occasion, and I sometimes wonder if my peers have complete keyboards, or even eyes. The majority or backgrounds are so garish ad horribly unobserveable that I can't read or stand to look at them. Then, we get to the typing.
I entirely understand the use of greatly shortened words in instant messaging, or text messaging, but when you have plenty of time to type and don't have to write quickly enough that you get interrupted, there is no excuse for not using grammar or spelling.
Now, I'm not an entirely ordinary person, i.e. I read slashdot, play tabletop RPGs on messageboards, am the editor of the paper. But people who by all stanards would be just as intelligent, well-spoken and grammatically correct as myself still write like that. I think it's horrible.
No, they didn't write it, but they were in the right place at the right time to put it on the Altair. Had they not written it, then events most surely would have happened differently. Sure, it (or something similar) would have happened...eventually. But, you can't deny that they played a major role in bringing the Altair, and personal computers, into a larger role than they had been before.
Ok. No Microsoft. Scratch Paul Allen and Bill Gate's BASIC. The Altair is now harder to write for. It gains only half the popularity it did with BASIC. Computers aren't nearly as easy to use, or as popular. It takes another ten years to get the popularity to where it would have been with the Altair. Time flies, 2005, Windows 3.1 is a massive hit.
Get what I'm saying. MS might be big, bad, and bloated now, but they had a very important role to play in the development of computers. Think of it like "It's a Wonderful Life." Sure, it seems to not be that important, but when you get rid of it, bad things happen.
Besides that, all I can say of Microsoft is that at least they let you choose what hardware to run it on.
Even if they add HD, it would only support half or so of the base, so developers wouldn't want the smaller market, so they would continue releasing on DVD.
I think that it would probably end up like the PC gaming market now, with games released on either multiple DVDs or a single HD-DVD.
Honestly, who reads Slashdot for the stories? A paragraph and a link is barely enough to garner almost a million members. It's the comments that people come back for, and the rating system does a pretty good job of leading you to the good ones. Sure, there's problems, but there's enough lively discussion for it be be ignored.
Judging by how great Splinter Cell looked on a standard XB on an SDTV, I'd love to see what it's like all nice and upscaled with that fancy AA and other improvements. It must be a very pretty game.
Frankly, I think most terror threats aren't credible. My philosophy is that in most cases, if you're on the ball enough to understand a threat, it's not threatening. The real terrorism are the attacks (cyber and...um...Analog?) that come from behind.
I mean WOW. That's possibly the coldest, worst thing that I've ever heard a company to do. I mean Sony sucks because of the rootkit, and M$ is the spawn of satan, but never would they do something like that.
They may as well just strangle puppies in front of orphans. I'll never use thier services.
You can now jump into the last generation, which still has negligibly different graphics, great games (with more to come; think Twilight Princess), and fast declining prices.
I heard that in 2004, American colleges graduated but 40,000 engineers while Pacific Rim ones graduated 450,000. Not only that, when you consider that 1/3 to 1/2 of American students are actually forigners, the picture looks even bleaker!
Ugh. I often see those numbers blown out of proportion. You have to look at it in Context. China alone has more than four times as many people in it as the US. When you consider the rest of the far east, it becomes far better to comprehend.
Nintendo continues to make great games in all those series (discounting the sports ones). Sure, it's still just a sequel, but a lot of Nintendo Sequels were a hell of a lot better this generation than "original" games for other consoles.
There are three doors: one has a brand new car behind it, and the other two have goats behind them. You pick one door, which is then marked, but not opened.
Now, one of the unmarked doors is opened to reveal a goat. You are given the choice of switching your first pick to the remaining unmarked, unopened door. Should you switch?
Like my subject says, it's a bit confusing to me. I'm using a zv6000 (not on the list) with a battery starting with GC (on the list), which came with the computer a couple weeks ago.
I'm a bit disappointed that all I've seen is the bright white apple-ish look. I really liked the black rev/blue light mock-up that was shown at e3. I'm sure that they'll sell multiple colors, but I'd like to see the black one just to be sure.
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Well, I'm a student (Read: teenager) at a major metropolitan high school, and myspace is everywhere. I think it is almost entirely stupid. I've looked around on it on occasion, and I sometimes wonder if my peers have complete keyboards, or even eyes. The majority or backgrounds are so garish ad horribly unobserveable that I can't read or stand to look at them. Then, we get to the typing.
I entirely understand the use of greatly shortened words in instant messaging, or text messaging, but when you have plenty of time to type and don't have to write quickly enough that you get interrupted, there is no excuse for not using grammar or spelling.
Now, I'm not an entirely ordinary person, i.e. I read slashdot, play tabletop RPGs on messageboards, am the editor of the paper. But people who by all stanards would be just as intelligent, well-spoken and grammatically correct as myself still write like that. I think it's horrible.
No, they didn't write it, but they were in the right place at the right time to put it on the Altair. Had they not written it, then events most surely would have happened differently. Sure, it (or something similar) would have happened...eventually. But, you can't deny that they played a major role in bringing the Altair, and personal computers, into a larger role than they had been before.
Get what I'm saying. MS might be big, bad, and bloated now, but they had a very important role to play in the development of computers. Think of it like "It's a Wonderful Life." Sure, it seems to not be that important, but when you get rid of it, bad things happen.
Besides that, all I can say of Microsoft is that at least they let you choose what hardware to run it on.
I think that it would probably end up like the PC gaming market now, with games released on either multiple DVDs or a single HD-DVD.
Damn. And I just bought my Gamestation 252... Still good to the Max my ass.
Otherwise, your point is sound.
Honestly, who reads Slashdot for the stories? A paragraph and a link is barely enough to garner almost a million members. It's the comments that people come back for, and the rating system does a pretty good job of leading you to the good ones. Sure, there's problems, but there's enough lively discussion for it be be ignored.
Judging by how great Splinter Cell looked on a standard XB on an SDTV, I'd love to see what it's like all nice and upscaled with that fancy AA and other improvements. It must be a very pretty game.
but does it block transmissions as well as tinfoil?
Chicken, obviously
Frankly, I think most terror threats aren't credible. My philosophy is that in most cases, if you're on the ball enough to understand a threat, it's not threatening. The real terrorism are the attacks (cyber and...um...Analog?) that come from behind.
I seem to recall that Voyager had sacks of neural computers onboard. Holographic doc's shouldn't be too far away then.
Until they start filling those 36 gigs with AI, Physics, Ginormous dynamic levels, or dare I say it, Gameplay, I'm not biting.
They may as well just strangle puppies in front of orphans. I'll never use thier services.
The newest things aren't necessarily the best.
Ugh. I often see those numbers blown out of proportion. You have to look at it in Context. China alone has more than four times as many people in it as the US. When you consider the rest of the far east, it becomes far better to comprehend.
Time to break out the fire and acid!
March? I read you won't be able to get one anyway 'till april.
I think it would be pretty hard to teach that lesson without taking off her suit...
Nintendo continues to make great games in all those series (discounting the sports ones). Sure, it's still just a sequel, but a lot of Nintendo Sequels were a hell of a lot better this generation than "original" games for other consoles.
I think you misunderstand. GS associates a game with each article, so Bully (JT's recent target) was connected with the article.
There are three doors: one has a brand new car behind it, and the other two have goats behind them. You pick one door, which is then marked, but not opened.
Now, one of the unmarked doors is opened to reveal a goat. You are given the choice of switching your first pick to the remaining unmarked, unopened door. Should you switch?
anyone know anything about this?
Good. I'm glad he doesn't waste his Sci-Fi luck before he makes the third Star Wars trilogy. (*wink wink nudge nudge*)
I'm a bit disappointed that all I've seen is the bright white apple-ish look. I really liked the black rev/blue light mock-up that was shown at e3. I'm sure that they'll sell multiple colors, but I'd like to see the black one just to be sure.