I started to question how much I was spending on games, and realized how much I was spending on *crappy* games. It had nothing to do with MMORPG's, as I would still go out and buy a game for a break from the level grinding. This is what has kept me from keeping up my previous purchasing habits, the quality of the games that are being released.
If the game industry would stop pumping out such shite titles, and actually take some time to create some games that would interest a person, they could get out of this 'sales slump'. MMORPG's can keep a persons interest in a game for a long time, where they aren't ready to go out and buy another game, true. But, if you go out and buy a crappy game, chances are you aren't going to turn around and buy another one, your going to stick with your current games that are fun.
Actually everything I was using was included in the kit or, in the case of the VGA blocks, still thermaltake and made for the watercooling system. Same setup, push the hose over the nipple and tighten down a nut to hold the hose in place. I honestly could never really tell where the leak was, but my guess was from the connection of the nipple to the actual block.
I don't know much about in a rack system, but I had been running a Big Water system in my gaming rig for about a year, and it developed a slow leak. Mind you, they recommend that you check the fittings every so often for leaks, which is something that I didn't do as religiously as I should have. I had modified it by including 2 VGA coolers, and a leak developed on one of the VGA coolers and a smaller leak on the CPU block.
The leak from the CPU block was such a small leak that it dripped sludge, as the water evaporated before it could actually drip, and the residues built up. Unfortunately, the sludge landed right on the back of one of the video cards, on the GPU connections. Crossfire didn't much appreciate the signals that the video card was sending, and pretty much fried both cards and the PCI-e slots on the motherboard.
The leak from the VGA block dripped on my audio card, and fried that. In the end, I ended up having to replace 2 video cards, an audio card, motherboard, and a 1 gig stick of ram (fried as well, but can't be sure that it was caused by the water.) I can imagine that a leak in a rack would be even more catastrophic.
Thank you!... you'd think that being a programmer I would have tried regular HTML, but got caught up trying everything that I could think of with the URL: tag.
The game was called "Time Traveler" and was made by Sega... I would link to it, but for the life of my I can't figure out how to post a link without causing the whole dang URL to show... anyone want to enlighten me on how to link properly? Not in the FAQ =/
While holding the joystick up and to the left, hold down the sword button while inserting your quarter. This will give you lives until you finish the game... really use to piss people off when I would do it and die 50 times in the same spot...
Thank you for a little more comprehensible reply then Format see left... heaven forbid I voice an opinion on the PS3 not having the same success as the PS2 (BTW, Format, I was out of my parents basement making 6 figures and starting a family by the time you were just moving in with your ragged copy of Club magazine and a half full jar of Vasaline.... boi)
Anyhow, more to the point was a quick google of the titles you mentioned show that Tekken and Unreal Tournament are possibly going to be released for the 360 as well as the PS3, and MGS and Final Fantasy will not debut on the 360, but will be released at a later date. The Wii, on the other hand, seems to be getting the scraps of 3rd party developers for the time being. (Not a 360 fanboi, but just trying to show that very few titles are going to be 'exclusive' this time around)
Hehe... trolling here, but did you really just use the words 'refined and polished' in the same post as the word Sony?
Really, though, I don't see Sony having the same success as they did with the PS2. The PS2 was the much anticipated follow-up to the PS1, and while MS attempted to get into the console business at the same time, and spent ALOT of cash to achieve that, the developers flocked to the PS2 because it was a 'given' that it would be successful. This time around, though, the cards are up in the air, and I don't see any console really getting 'killer' exclusives.
Is it just me, or did $ony (oh, cmon, if we can do it for Microsoft, why not for Sony, especially given the huge price tag of the PS3, and the evil of the rootkits?) throw innovation out the door this time around? Sure, they threw in the Blu-Ray, but copying the Wii-mote functionality, and now following up on the Live service? It seems to me that they are just following on the innovation of the other 2 consoles, maybe hoping that people will think 'Well, the Wii has this controller, and the Xbox has a great online service... but look! The P$3 (okay, I might be pushing the $ sign now) has both!!" In my mind, it might have both, but a substandard rendition of both...
With the way the Nintendo is marketing the Wii, they just might win the console war as well. Now mind you, I am not a Nintendo fan, haven't owned a system by them since the N64. I was one of those people standing out in line in the bitter cold when the 360 launched so I could have a chance to buy one. Now it sits in my entertainment system to occasionally be turned on to watch a DVD or smack down my wife/friends in a friendly game of DOA.
It is all speculation on my part, but I will be buying a Wii as soon as I can, and can see it being used often, definitely more often then the 360. It is something that my 2 year old can play, my wife can play, my friends can play, and something that I would want to play. Throw in all the back catalog titles, and it might be used more then the cable box.
¥1 is ~$0.12 on the exchange for China. So that worker that is making $50 is making ~¥410, x 12 is about ¥4920. Doing some research on salaries in the 2 cities that Foxconn has plants in, this is on the low side, but would be akin to working at McDonalds here. *shrug* I remember when I first moved out of the house and worked for close to minimum wage, I would spend close to half my salary on room and board. Have to love how taking something so out of context can sensationalize it.
While I do agree with most of your points, I believe that 'I have heard people say 12 million illigal come into the country every year. ' actually was quoted as how many illegals are in the country total, not every year.
From just a rough guess estimate, I find it hard to believe that it would cost more to keep them out then it cost to deal with the problems of having them here. While the initial cost might be high, once the border is set up as 'secure', the ongoing costs should drop.
I normally don't reply to AC's, but saying that illegals are contributing by paying sales tax is absurd. According to a Pew Hispanic Center and Inter-American Development Bank report, Mexicans in the United States will send $13 billion this year to relatives in Mexico. I don't think that any sales tax is coming out of that... matter of fact, it's taking it out of the local economy, which is not going to help lower prices on anything.
Taken from the article I linked to:
"U.S. households headed by illegal aliens used $26.3 billion in government services during 2002 but paid only $16 billion in taxes, an annual cost to taxpayers of $10 billion, says a report issued yesterday by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS). "
That's how much they put into the system(16 billion), and the 10 billion is how much it is costing us. My point is: Don't just look at one data point to determine something, RTFA!
I live in Arizona, and the illegal immigrant problem is reaching epic proportions. My wife works for the state health department, and the numbers that she mentions on how much it costs the taxpayers to subsidize these illegal aliens in just Arizona is mind blowing.
Just looking at a report on the Center for Immigrant Studies website http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalcoverage.ht ml/ mentions that it cost the US more the $10 billion in government services for households headed by illegal aliens. Good to know that my tax dollars are hard at work.
I grew up on a farm. If there's one thing that pisses me off, it's people who walk around with their noses in the air. Yuppies, politicians, etc. are prone to this behavior.
Maybe it's just me, but there sure seems to be a whole lot of complaining about specs from a group of people whom I would have thought would keep an up-to-date system. If you have attempted to play a 'purty' game within the last couple of years, 1 gig was pretty much standard fare for memory. 128 meg for a video card is on the low end of the spectrum as well. I really can't even remember the last time I had below a 1GHz processor, and I don't consider myself a 'hardcore' gamer as such.
The 40gig drive, on the other hand... time to prioritize my pr0n and clean some space up;) Really, though... whats 40 gigs when you can buy 500 gig drives pretty cheap anymore?
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I use to buy a new game every week or so, retail.
I started to question how much I was spending on games, and realized how much I was spending on *crappy* games. It had nothing to do with MMORPG's, as I would still go out and buy a game for a break from the level grinding. This is what has kept me from keeping up my previous purchasing habits, the quality of the games that are being released.
If the game industry would stop pumping out such shite titles, and actually take some time to create some games that would interest a person, they could get out of this 'sales slump'. MMORPG's can keep a persons interest in a game for a long time, where they aren't ready to go out and buy another game, true. But, if you go out and buy a crappy game, chances are you aren't going to turn around and buy another one, your going to stick with your current games that are fun.
You wouldn't happen to have GTA on there would ya?
Man, can you imagine a beowulf cluster of these?
Actually everything I was using was included in the kit or, in the case of the VGA blocks, still thermaltake and made for the watercooling system. Same setup, push the hose over the nipple and tighten down a nut to hold the hose in place. I honestly could never really tell where the leak was, but my guess was from the connection of the nipple to the actual block.
I don't know much about in a rack system, but I had been running a Big Water system in my gaming rig for about a year, and it developed a slow leak. Mind you, they recommend that you check the fittings every so often for leaks, which is something that I didn't do as religiously as I should have. I had modified it by including 2 VGA coolers, and a leak developed on one of the VGA coolers and a smaller leak on the CPU block.
The leak from the CPU block was such a small leak that it dripped sludge, as the water evaporated before it could actually drip, and the residues built up. Unfortunately, the sludge landed right on the back of one of the video cards, on the GPU connections. Crossfire didn't much appreciate the signals that the video card was sending, and pretty much fried both cards and the PCI-e slots on the motherboard.
The leak from the VGA block dripped on my audio card, and fried that. In the end, I ended up having to replace 2 video cards, an audio card, motherboard, and a 1 gig stick of ram (fried as well, but can't be sure that it was caused by the water.) I can imagine that a leak in a rack would be even more catastrophic.
Really? I thought the last one was 3. Well, they were all so bad that I stopped keeping track.
There, fixed that for ya.
Thank you!... you'd think that being a programmer I would have tried regular HTML, but got caught up trying everything that I could think of with the URL: tag.
The game was called "Time Traveler" and was made by Sega... I would link to it, but for the life of my I can't figure out how to post a link without causing the whole dang URL to show... anyone want to enlighten me on how to link properly? Not in the FAQ =/
While holding the joystick up and to the left, hold down the sword button while inserting your quarter. This will give you lives until you finish the game... really use to piss people off when I would do it and die 50 times in the same spot...
Thank you for a little more comprehensible reply then Format see left... heaven forbid I voice an opinion on the PS3 not having the same success as the PS2 (BTW, Format, I was out of my parents basement making 6 figures and starting a family by the time you were just moving in with your ragged copy of Club magazine and a half full jar of Vasaline.... boi)
Anyhow, more to the point was a quick google of the titles you mentioned show that Tekken and Unreal Tournament are possibly going to be released for the 360 as well as the PS3, and MGS and Final Fantasy will not debut on the 360, but will be released at a later date. The Wii, on the other hand, seems to be getting the scraps of 3rd party developers for the time being. (Not a 360 fanboi, but just trying to show that very few titles are going to be 'exclusive' this time around)
Hehe... trolling here, but did you really just use the words 'refined and polished' in the same post as the word Sony? Really, though, I don't see Sony having the same success as they did with the PS2. The PS2 was the much anticipated follow-up to the PS1, and while MS attempted to get into the console business at the same time, and spent ALOT of cash to achieve that, the developers flocked to the PS2 because it was a 'given' that it would be successful. This time around, though, the cards are up in the air, and I don't see any console really getting 'killer' exclusives.
Is it just me, or did $ony (oh, cmon, if we can do it for Microsoft, why not for Sony, especially given the huge price tag of the PS3, and the evil of the rootkits?) throw innovation out the door this time around? Sure, they threw in the Blu-Ray, but copying the Wii-mote functionality, and now following up on the Live service? It seems to me that they are just following on the innovation of the other 2 consoles, maybe hoping that people will think 'Well, the Wii has this controller, and the Xbox has a great online service... but look! The P$3 (okay, I might be pushing the $ sign now) has both!!" In my mind, it might have both, but a substandard rendition of both...
With the way the Nintendo is marketing the Wii, they just might win the console war as well. Now mind you, I am not a Nintendo fan, haven't owned a system by them since the N64. I was one of those people standing out in line in the bitter cold when the 360 launched so I could have a chance to buy one. Now it sits in my entertainment system to occasionally be turned on to watch a DVD or smack down my wife/friends in a friendly game of DOA. It is all speculation on my part, but I will be buying a Wii as soon as I can, and can see it being used often, definitely more often then the 360. It is something that my 2 year old can play, my wife can play, my friends can play, and something that I would want to play. Throw in all the back catalog titles, and it might be used more then the cable box.
¥1 is ~$0.12 on the exchange for China. So that worker that is making $50 is making ~¥410, x 12 is about ¥4920. Doing some research on salaries in the 2 cities that Foxconn has plants in, this is on the low side, but would be akin to working at McDonalds here. *shrug* I remember when I first moved out of the house and worked for close to minimum wage, I would spend close to half my salary on room and board. Have to love how taking something so out of context can sensationalize it.
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'nuff said
Actually, my attempt at humor was more meant as a remark on the fact that I had run out of memory....*shrug*
Exception of type System.OutOfMemoryException was thrown. Is it just me, or is this the perfect error for an article about 1983 gaming?
While I do agree with most of your points, I believe that 'I have heard people say 12 million illigal come into the country every year. ' actually was quoted as how many illegals are in the country total, not every year.
From just a rough guess estimate, I find it hard to believe that it would cost more to keep them out then it cost to deal with the problems of having them here. While the initial cost might be high, once the border is set up as 'secure', the ongoing costs should drop.
I normally don't reply to AC's, but saying that illegals are contributing by paying sales tax is absurd. According to a Pew Hispanic Center and Inter-American Development Bank report, Mexicans in the United States will send $13 billion this year to relatives in Mexico. I don't think that any sales tax is coming out of that... matter of fact, it's taking it out of the local economy, which is not going to help lower prices on anything.
Taken from the article I linked to: "U.S. households headed by illegal aliens used $26.3 billion in government services during 2002 but paid only $16 billion in taxes, an annual cost to taxpayers of $10 billion, says a report issued yesterday by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS). " That's how much they put into the system(16 billion), and the 10 billion is how much it is costing us. My point is: Don't just look at one data point to determine something, RTFA!
I live in Arizona, and the illegal immigrant problem is reaching epic proportions. My wife works for the state health department, and the numbers that she mentions on how much it costs the taxpayers to subsidize these illegal aliens in just Arizona is mind blowing.
t ml/ mentions that it cost the US more the $10 billion in government services for households headed by illegal aliens. Good to know that my tax dollars are hard at work.
Just looking at a report on the Center for Immigrant Studies website http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalcoverage.h
But let's not get ahead of ourselves and shoot first. Why not wait until the console releases and see what happens? Then we can fire away if need be.
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I grew up on a farm. If there's one thing that pisses me off, it's people who walk around with their noses in the air. Yuppies, politicians, etc. are prone to this behavior.
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I would think that growing up on a farm, the one thing that would piss you off is when the local fire chief screws your sheep
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0307062sheep
Maybe it's just me, but there sure seems to be a whole lot of complaining about specs from a group of people whom I would have thought would keep an up-to-date system. If you have attempted to play a 'purty' game within the last couple of years, 1 gig was pretty much standard fare for memory. 128 meg for a video card is on the low end of the spectrum as well. I really can't even remember the last time I had below a 1GHz processor, and I don't consider myself a 'hardcore' gamer as such.
;) Really, though... whats 40 gigs when you can buy 500 gig drives pretty cheap anymore?
The 40gig drive, on the other hand... time to prioritize my pr0n and clean some space up
According to my wife, it happened just last night...