though I haven't read the article, it sounds like its saying that the viruses (whats the plural for that?) themselves evolved, but I wonder (again, I haven't read it - yet) if mentions the possibility that the existence of viruses forcing the single cell organisms into having to evolve to be able to survive...
I suppose I came a little bit strong there, I dont know. I know slashdot is also meant for the moral side of technology, such as you said, Bombula, stem cell research and things like that, I was simply trying to save him/her from making future irrelevant posts causing him/her to be flamed on to a crispy chicken point about "great they just spent another few billion when they coulda fed the homeless" or any post of the sort criticizing the government about its "choice of spending" that always pop up in something like this submission...
I'm going to say to you what other/.ers told me when I tried voicing my opinions on Slashdot
Whether I people have the same opinions or not that you do, they don't care - Slashdot is a refuge from the rest of the politically biased world, where people can just read about tech or whatever else Slashdot has (granted it does have a politics section, but thats where these kinds of things go)...
When gaming *really* went mainstream...
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I love my PS2, but the PS2 and XBox did nothing to make gaming mainstream compared to what the Atari and NES did, considering that most any gaming was done on kit ordered PCs
Personally Halo has become one of those franchise product lines that are the flagship representing a systems, which is why because of all the hype it gets, M$ will continue to make Halo games until the everybody runs out of hype. I'll admit that, yes, Halo was probly a good game (never really played it myself, except a few multiplayer sessions) - but now M$ is simply making Halo games because they know that people loved the previous one, and will hype the hell out of a new one and everybody will go buy it.
"It depends. If it's the game that everyone is expecting then, yes."
Personally, I see this as proof of my statement on how people will buy it if it is hyped up. If it gets enough hype as Halo 2 did to make people buy it, M$ will make the game, whether it has good gameplay, graphics, and story, or IMAO more likely it will be a POS - as I said, all they want is for people to buy it due to hype, and wont give a damn whether or not it sucks and people will hate M$ for it...
I am all for the PS3 and the capabilities it will have, but first off, wasnt there a/. article a week or 2 ago saying the PS3 online networking system was being called "HUB" or something to the effect?
2nd off, from what I've read (quite a bit, mind you...) no the PS3 is not going to have a hard-drive included, it's supposed to be a seperate add-on from what I understand... I think the download service the article refers to was supposed to put the games on BDs when you bought the content online through terminals in stores... but thats just what I understood from past articles, so I could always be wrong...
/* begin sarcasm */ I was starting to worry about M$ for a bit there, they hadn't had any/. articles questioning something M$ related or other for a few weeks here - nice to know they haven't decided to do the proper thing and become a company that at least *tries* to stay out of lawsuits.../* end sarcasm */
This is great, because for years now, all you saw on a lot of video game commercials was the pre-rendered movies, so now we'll have to get to see more of the in game rendering
even so, I still want to see a few parts of pre-rendered cut-scenes - games Namco's Ace Combat series are totally awesome, but that style of gameplay just generally doesnt allow for much ingame story telling (sure theres radio chatter, but I like to see people talking to each other and get punched/bitch slapped every now and then) - which is why when I'm playing games, I look forward to pre-rendered cut-scenes, it lets you take a break from the game and watch something nice, and not have to worry about a low polygon count if you have graphics turned down for your system (or if the console version has em turned down because it cant handle the average PC level of graphics)
1) they dont really have to have a HD tv to play the new generation of consoles - ya it makes it look extra nice n purty (more than it would be otherwise), but no, its not necessary - hell, I'd be just as happy on my pos 19 inch crt standard definition (OH no!, something thats not high def!?! the console manufacturers will hate me for it!)
2) I hate sports games, the major improvements stopped years ago, now its just the graphics, but aside from that, even if I did like sports games, I sure as hell wouldnt buy a HD tv or next/new generation console just to play fucking madden, I'd buy it so that Warhawk, Killzone 2, and all the other shitloads of sweet ass graphics games look even better... (but for now, I'll stick to my PC)
"the computer would sometimes get an answer out of the computer"
I know its just a typo, but if its not, does that make *any* sense? It's getting answers from itself? I know programs query about conditions, but the end result is an answer of some sort to the user, not itself...
Who wants to bet the Japanese govt people behind this planned it out as a big April fools joke - I'm not saying its the kind of joke where they go "haha just joking" and stop whatever would have happened. They'll go through with it, it'll just be the kind of joke like "haha, we fucked you over goood!" to all the Japanese citizens that like old electronics (dont know how many there is, but gotta be at least some...)
God it would kill me if I knew it was that close, and couldnt have it - is the company that runs the line playing with his mind or something taking bets on how long the guy can go before he looses it?
Good god man! Do you know what you've just said!?! I sure hope you were joking... If you weren't joking, here's my arguement:
Superior? I'm lucky enough to have a cable line, which I send through my router/firewall, and then of course have Windows's built-in firewall on (I'm sure it sucks, but hell, even you are probly using it), and I run Avast 4 (Home edition is free to, well, home users), Spybot, and Microsoft Anti-spyware (I know they suck, and they're gonna shaft the anti-spyware "beta" once they re-release it as "Windows Defender" with OneCare (they strong armed the "Defender" name offa another product, but thats another story))
You know why I use that stuff? cus it works AND its free (as in free beer) - and you know what else? I dont get hit with jack shit. For all the claims AOL makes about broadband being *more* dangerous/* chuckles to self - what a bunch of nut jobs */ I find their claims a bunch of bullshit, but thats just me anyway - if you seriously meant what you said "AOL has a better security suite", you have 2.5 choices
1.A) Go right on ahead and let em keep screwing you in the ass
1.B) Get yourself into a mental ward
2) Even if you stick with dial-up, switch to some other ISP
If you noticed it, great, otherwise - the guy that submitted it IS the one asking, not pointing/.ers to some blog or other - he wanted to know for himself, not letting us know about Joe Psychologist's newest theory on how to raise your kids...
with or without tech, that away they wont be screwed if they dont have their favorite tech, but make sure they are plenty exposed to tech so they arent screwed in the job market later in life...
I'm suprised nobody else has mentioned it, so let me be the first - will their planets be able to play DVDs (or maybe BDROMs?) and can the planets run Linux???
After all, aren't those the really important things in the universe?
All the kick ass features like tabbed browsing, making RSS popular (which is why I'm confused they say RSS isnt popular, but maybe thats just because MS doesnt support it so IE users dont even have a clue about it) that Firefox and Opera have made necessities for a browser anymore - ALL of that ruined when IE 7 "makes it popular" because all the "Click the E", "IE is the greatest" people that have never even heard of Firefox or Opera or hate it because the idiots think its all about killing off M$, will go and say "Oh, look at all this great shit M$ is copying off the other browsers and trying to make its users think M$ is the one that invented tabbed browsing, ect"...
which is exaclty the reason to avoid using IE 7 for at least a year after the release date of the completed version - after all those years IE 5.5 and ver 6 started getting half decent compared to what they used to be (security wise), why would you wanna trash your system with all the new exploits availabe exclusively to IE7
my Sniper Rifle (the yellow/black striped one) and YK42B pulse rifle - blowing hole in peoples sides and turning em to crispy chicken was fun, cept for all the reloading I did just to get a critical hit...
one of the really annoying things about Fallout 2 is it allways seemed to crash more towards the end of the game, kinda like it didnt want me to beat it, maybe thats just bad karma for all that reloading from different saves to get critical hits...
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last I heard, Sony fully intends to keep putting out PS2 games for like another 3 or 4 years after the PS3 release...
though I haven't read the article, it sounds like its saying that the viruses (whats the plural for that?) themselves evolved, but I wonder (again, I haven't read it - yet) if mentions the possibility that the existence of viruses forcing the single cell organisms into having to evolve to be able to survive...
I suppose I came a little bit strong there, I dont know. I know slashdot is also meant for the moral side of technology, such as you said, Bombula, stem cell research and things like that, I was simply trying to save him/her from making future irrelevant posts causing him/her to be flamed on to a crispy chicken point about "great they just spent another few billion when they coulda fed the homeless" or any post of the sort criticizing the government about its "choice of spending" that always pop up in something like this submission...
Whether I people have the same opinions or not that you do, they don't care - Slashdot is a refuge from the rest of the politically biased world, where people can just read about tech or whatever else Slashdot has (granted it does have a politics section, but thats where these kinds of things go)...
I love my PS2, but the PS2 and XBox did nothing to make gaming mainstream compared to what the Atari and NES did, considering that most any gaming was done on kit ordered PCs
"It depends. If it's the game that everyone is expecting then, yes."
Personally, I see this as proof of my statement on how people will buy it if it is hyped up. If it gets enough hype as Halo 2 did to make people buy it, M$ will make the game, whether it has good gameplay, graphics, and story, or IMAO more likely it will be a POS - as I said, all they want is for people to buy it due to hype, and wont give a damn whether or not it sucks and people will hate M$ for it...
2nd off, from what I've read (quite a bit, mind you...) no the PS3 is not going to have a hard-drive included, it's supposed to be a seperate add-on from what I understand... I think the download service the article refers to was supposed to put the games on BDs when you bought the content online through terminals in stores... but thats just what I understood from past articles, so I could always be wrong...
My point exactly... :(
/* begin sarcasm */ I was starting to worry about M$ for a bit there, they hadn't had any /. articles questioning something M$ related or other for a few weeks here - nice to know they haven't decided to do the proper thing and become a company that at least *tries* to stay out of lawsuits... /* end sarcasm */
even so, I still want to see a few parts of pre-rendered cut-scenes - games Namco's Ace Combat series are totally awesome, but that style of gameplay just generally doesnt allow for much ingame story telling (sure theres radio chatter, but I like to see people talking to each other and get punched/bitch slapped every now and then) - which is why when I'm playing games, I look forward to pre-rendered cut-scenes, it lets you take a break from the game and watch something nice, and not have to worry about a low polygon count if you have graphics turned down for your system (or if the console version has em turned down because it cant handle the average PC level of graphics)
2) I hate sports games, the major improvements stopped years ago, now its just the graphics, but aside from that, even if I did like sports games, I sure as hell wouldnt buy a HD tv or next/new generation console just to play fucking madden, I'd buy it so that Warhawk, Killzone 2, and all the other shitloads of sweet ass graphics games look even better... (but for now, I'll stick to my PC)
I can dump my geocities account that I use for forum sig img hosting...
I know its just a typo, but if its not, does that make *any* sense? It's getting answers from itself? I know programs query about conditions, but the end result is an answer of some sort to the user, not itself...
Who wants to bet the Japanese govt people behind this planned it out as a big April fools joke - I'm not saying its the kind of joke where they go "haha just joking" and stop whatever would have happened. They'll go through with it, it'll just be the kind of joke like "haha, we fucked you over goood!" to all the Japanese citizens that like old electronics (dont know how many there is, but gotta be at least some...)
God it would kill me if I knew it was that close, and couldnt have it - is the company that runs the line playing with his mind or something taking bets on how long the guy can go before he looses it?
Superior? I'm lucky enough to have a cable line, which I send through my router/firewall, and then of course have Windows's built-in firewall on (I'm sure it sucks, but hell, even you are probly using it), and I run Avast 4 (Home edition is free to, well, home users), Spybot, and Microsoft Anti-spyware (I know they suck, and they're gonna shaft the anti-spyware "beta" once they re-release it as "Windows Defender" with OneCare (they strong armed the "Defender" name offa another product, but thats another story))
You know why I use that stuff? cus it works AND its free (as in free beer) - and you know what else? I dont get hit with jack shit. For all the claims AOL makes about broadband being *more* dangerous /* chuckles to self - what a bunch of nut jobs */ I find their claims a bunch of bullshit, but thats just me anyway - if you seriously meant what you said "AOL has a better security suite", you have 2.5 choices
1.A) Go right on ahead and let em keep screwing you in the ass
1.B) Get yourself into a mental ward
2) Even if you stick with dial-up, switch to some other ISP
If you noticed it, great, otherwise - the guy that submitted it IS the one asking, not pointing /.ers to some blog or other - he wanted to know for himself, not letting us know about Joe Psychologist's newest theory on how to raise your kids...
with or without tech, that away they wont be screwed if they dont have their favorite tech, but make sure they are plenty exposed to tech so they arent screwed in the job market later in life...
And isnt the Chinese govt horribly repressive against video games and foreign influences? so is it really a suprise that there wasnt much there?
After all, aren't those the really important things in the universe?
All the kick ass features like tabbed browsing, making RSS popular (which is why I'm confused they say RSS isnt popular, but maybe thats just because MS doesnt support it so IE users dont even have a clue about it) that Firefox and Opera have made necessities for a browser anymore - ALL of that ruined when IE 7 "makes it popular" because all the "Click the E", "IE is the greatest" people that have never even heard of Firefox or Opera or hate it because the idiots think its all about killing off M$, will go and say "Oh, look at all this great shit M$ is copying off the other browsers and trying to make its users think M$ is the one that invented tabbed browsing, ect"...
which is exaclty the reason to avoid using IE 7 for at least a year after the release date of the completed version - after all those years IE 5.5 and ver 6 started getting half decent compared to what they used to be (security wise), why would you wanna trash your system with all the new exploits availabe exclusively to IE7
hmm damn uncle tryin to pull his stuff off as better just cuz I was a little kid lol...
It'll start out PERFECTLY FINE until ESRB goes and "suggests" things to em...
one of the really annoying things about Fallout 2 is it allways seemed to crash more towards the end of the game, kinda like it didnt want me to beat it, maybe thats just bad karma for all that reloading from different saves to get critical hits...