As someone who played his fair share of GT1 through 4, Forza 2 did it for me the most. It was challenging, the physics are great, the tracks are very detailed, there is a great assortment of cars; it's only missing rally. Add that and it would be all I'd want in a racing sim on a console. Now Microsoft would have to also address the issue with the terrible steering wheel. The ps3 gets the Logitech G25, and the 360 is stuck with crap. I must say that one difference is causing me to consider a PS3 when GT5 is launched.
I've been looking into them recently since the Wind was released, I may have to give them a shot based on your testimony. The specs are certainly to my desires!
Sorry to prod at you again, but, HP fails in this regards too. Seen many a business grade HP chew through HDD's faster than necessary, suffer from crap batteries, and overheat while making a pile of fan noise just the same as my consumer grade ones. I do have an HP business class machine from 1998/1999, and if I could find a drive adapter for it, I'd still use it. When I finally retired it a couple summers ago it was -still- getting 1.5h from the original battery, and ran debian fantastically. Somewhere between then and now, HP screwed up bad. I will never buy another one of their laptops.
Zsnes took everything I ever threw at it. Every rom I tried to play -worked-, even the StarFox II beta was fully playable, and really, really fun. Snes9x choked on it, but zsnes came through. The only SNES games I've had trouble with were using an emulator on my DS, and I believe it's largely because the emulator is still under development. Kirby's superstar doesn't work at all, Link to the Past is playable but has sprite layering issues. Aerobiz Supersonic works awesome, and I wish Koei would pump out a modern version for the ds; given the hours I've put into it recently because I can now take it with me very easily, they'd have my 40 bucks.
You must be a wuss, in highschool I biked a half hour to school, then up to my after school job, and then 45 minutes back home after my shift. I had my work uniform, school texts, binders loaded with paper, and a wallstreet G3. One of the heaviest laptops I've owned. That's an hour and a half daily on a bike with that load, and I never once had a problem. Tightened the straps and hauled ass.
I live in Alberta, and we have tons of imported cars that are right hand drive and they didn't need headlights replaced if they passed DOT certification. A friend of mine changed the beam focus himself with minor adjustments on his import mitsubishi, not full replacements. So you wouldn't need to convert anything.
Most new GM's I've driven/ridden in govern out around 140km/h. My 97 Stratus governed out at 180km/h, scared the crap out of me the first time it did it. While yes, that is plenty fast for day to day driving, like you, I feel the need to push the limits given the opportunity to do so safely.
I've never owned a serious performance car, but what I do own I've always appreciated the power it can make and used it to my advantage. A '90 Legacy wagon (N/A, AWD, 5spd) is surprisingly powerful and a whole lot of fun in Canadian winters.
Yeah, I'm also a Canadian, and the ABS in my car is disabled purely for that reason. I consider myself an excellent driver, no accidents yet, and nothing annoys me more than ABS in winter. I'd even rather drive an automatic than a car with ABS:|.
Yes, the scan tool will tell you more, but the quick easy free route gives you great information to get started on repairs without spending any more money. Fixing the problem successfully results in the CEL turning itself off.
Yes, when living with younger siblings it was a wise choice to purchase the replacement plan. I've had many a disc go bad due to my little brother, and his friends, leaving them out of their cases, stepping on them. I remember the day Diablo II met the fate of one of his friends misplaced feet. Both the install AND play disc in a double disc jewel case.
I like the insurance of, if -anything- happened to my discs, I could go back and replace them. Now that I'm older, and live on my own, I only purchase it from time to time on games I value a little more than the rest of the games I purchase. 3 dollars beats waiting for canada post to get off their asses and perhaps ship me a package within less than a week.
The replacement plan covers -any- damage do the disc. Be it liquid damage, flinging it in anger, smashing it with a hammer, stepping on it, it being melted in some way, so long as they can tell it was the game your receipt shows, they will replace it.
Is shipping less than five dollars? I doubt it.
EB games, which is the same company as Gamestop, offers a replacement plan for 3 dollars for -life-. So long as you have that crappy receipt, you can replace your game -that- day, for the low low cost of 3 dollars. Even if the disc is in multiple pieces, say, someone stepped on it.
Yeah, I'm sure you're lugging your xbox around the same way you lug around a LAPTOP, a PORTABLE DEVICE.
I don't know about you guys, but my xbox stays firmly planted IN A VERTICAL POSITION, beside my tv, where it has never once scratched a disc in its 2 years of use.
my 1001 is still fine, though the mod chip seems to be flaky now, even still I use it primarily for RPG's that I legitimately own so no worries there. My old ps2, on the other hand, was a release model, built like total crap, and refused to play games unless it was upside down after just a year and a half of owning it. Worked like that for many years, eventually retired it to my little brother in favour of my xbox and kept the 1001 around to play old RPG's.
Know what's awesome? Most vehicles have a system in place for you to get the basic codes yourself. Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep/Plymouth use a keyon/off sequence. Flick your key from 'off' to 'run' three times if you have a CEL light on, leaving the key in the 'run' position the third time. Your CEL will now flash a number of times, stop for a short moment, flash another number of times, stop for a slightly longer period, flash a number of times, stop for a short period, flas another number of times, etc.
So, five flashes, then pause, then three flashes means Code 53, the long pause is the break between codes. All you need is a list of codes, freely available via google or your trusty haynes manual, and you've saved yourself 200 bucks.
I still see piles of first gen neons (1995-1999), and just as many second and third gens (sx2.0 produced up until 2005). They are pieces of shit for the most part, seems to be the mexican plants idea of QA, but the american built cars still seem to be kicking around and going strong. I'm a Canadian, so not trying to push the 'built in america for americans' feeling, just something i've personally noticed.
That all depends on what factory your car came out of. The mexican ones are -terrible-. Mine was built in Illinois in 1996, and I found it to be relatively decent for a subcompact, spacious, lots of trunk space, handles very well when going sideways at 80km/h on ice and parts are really inexpensive and easy to find. While it has nothing on my subaru now, it was a fun little car that took every beating I threw at it. My parents drive it now and they put 150/200km on it every week day commuting to work, the 35+mpg really helps out there.
The neon remained largely unchanged from 1995 to 2005 in terms of efficiency. This is because the A588 SOHC 2.0L engine was used for the whole decade they were produced, with the 420a DOHC version being an alternative option between 1995 and 1999. I have a 96 with an engine from an 01, that maintains 35+mpg, even with the crappy 3spd automatic transmission. Besides, I think 10 years of a model run, only ending three years ago, is pretty amazing. They also did replace it with the Caliber, another efficient subcompact style vehicle. Albeit ugly, it gets 40+mpg highway and 33 in the city with the 1.8L engine. So while they do produce gas guzzling massive SUV's that are proud to get 25mpg, they do produce a vehicle that still maintains the efficiency of the old k cars from the late 80s and early 90s
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I'd already much rather have a PS3 with the Emotion Engine hardware and not software emulated; there is already a market for exactly that ;D.
As someone who played his fair share of GT1 through 4, Forza 2 did it for me the most. It was challenging, the physics are great, the tracks are very detailed, there is a great assortment of cars; it's only missing rally. Add that and it would be all I'd want in a racing sim on a console. Now Microsoft would have to also address the issue with the terrible steering wheel. The ps3 gets the Logitech G25, and the 360 is stuck with crap. I must say that one difference is causing me to consider a PS3 when GT5 is launched.
I've been looking into them recently since the Wind was released, I may have to give them a shot based on your testimony. The specs are certainly to my desires!
Sorry to prod at you again, but, HP fails in this regards too. Seen many a business grade HP chew through HDD's faster than necessary, suffer from crap batteries, and overheat while making a pile of fan noise just the same as my consumer grade ones. I do have an HP business class machine from 1998/1999, and if I could find a drive adapter for it, I'd still use it. When I finally retired it a couple summers ago it was -still- getting 1.5h from the original battery, and ran debian fantastically. Somewhere between then and now, HP screwed up bad. I will never buy another one of their laptops.
pfffft, we can't even rely on laptop manufactures to get that right. My HP's are a testament to this fact.
And -you- forgot the 'Cult of Make an Effort to Keep the Chain Going'
And let's not forget The Cult of Those Who Need to Correct Failure, but Fail Hard Themselves.
Zsnes took everything I ever threw at it. Every rom I tried to play -worked-, even the StarFox II beta was fully playable, and really, really fun. Snes9x choked on it, but zsnes came through. The only SNES games I've had trouble with were using an emulator on my DS, and I believe it's largely because the emulator is still under development. Kirby's superstar doesn't work at all, Link to the Past is playable but has sprite layering issues. Aerobiz Supersonic works awesome, and I wish Koei would pump out a modern version for the ds; given the hours I've put into it recently because I can now take it with me very easily, they'd have my 40 bucks.
You must be a wuss, in highschool I biked a half hour to school, then up to my after school job, and then 45 minutes back home after my shift. I had my work uniform, school texts, binders loaded with paper, and a wallstreet G3. One of the heaviest laptops I've owned. That's an hour and a half daily on a bike with that load, and I never once had a problem. Tightened the straps and hauled ass.
The internet is a peripheral now?
I live in Alberta, and we have tons of imported cars that are right hand drive and they didn't need headlights replaced if they passed DOT certification. A friend of mine changed the beam focus himself with minor adjustments on his import mitsubishi, not full replacements. So you wouldn't need to convert anything.
Most new GM's I've driven/ridden in govern out around 140km/h. My 97 Stratus governed out at 180km/h, scared the crap out of me the first time it did it. While yes, that is plenty fast for day to day driving, like you, I feel the need to push the limits given the opportunity to do so safely. I've never owned a serious performance car, but what I do own I've always appreciated the power it can make and used it to my advantage. A '90 Legacy wagon (N/A, AWD, 5spd) is surprisingly powerful and a whole lot of fun in Canadian winters.
Yeah, I'm also a Canadian, and the ABS in my car is disabled purely for that reason. I consider myself an excellent driver, no accidents yet, and nothing annoys me more than ABS in winter. I'd even rather drive an automatic than a car with ABS :|.
Actually that was "Buffering....."
Yes, the scan tool will tell you more, but the quick easy free route gives you great information to get started on repairs without spending any more money. Fixing the problem successfully results in the CEL turning itself off.
Yes, when living with younger siblings it was a wise choice to purchase the replacement plan. I've had many a disc go bad due to my little brother, and his friends, leaving them out of their cases, stepping on them. I remember the day Diablo II met the fate of one of his friends misplaced feet. Both the install AND play disc in a double disc jewel case. I like the insurance of, if -anything- happened to my discs, I could go back and replace them. Now that I'm older, and live on my own, I only purchase it from time to time on games I value a little more than the rest of the games I purchase. 3 dollars beats waiting for canada post to get off their asses and perhaps ship me a package within less than a week.
The replacement plan covers -any- damage do the disc. Be it liquid damage, flinging it in anger, smashing it with a hammer, stepping on it, it being melted in some way, so long as they can tell it was the game your receipt shows, they will replace it.
Is shipping less than five dollars? I doubt it. EB games, which is the same company as Gamestop, offers a replacement plan for 3 dollars for -life-. So long as you have that crappy receipt, you can replace your game -that- day, for the low low cost of 3 dollars. Even if the disc is in multiple pieces, say, someone stepped on it.
Yeah, I'm sure you're lugging your xbox around the same way you lug around a LAPTOP, a PORTABLE DEVICE. I don't know about you guys, but my xbox stays firmly planted IN A VERTICAL POSITION, beside my tv, where it has never once scratched a disc in its 2 years of use.
my 1001 is still fine, though the mod chip seems to be flaky now, even still I use it primarily for RPG's that I legitimately own so no worries there. My old ps2, on the other hand, was a release model, built like total crap, and refused to play games unless it was upside down after just a year and a half of owning it. Worked like that for many years, eventually retired it to my little brother in favour of my xbox and kept the 1001 around to play old RPG's.
Know what's awesome? Most vehicles have a system in place for you to get the basic codes yourself. Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep/Plymouth use a keyon/off sequence. Flick your key from 'off' to 'run' three times if you have a CEL light on, leaving the key in the 'run' position the third time. Your CEL will now flash a number of times, stop for a short moment, flash another number of times, stop for a slightly longer period, flash a number of times, stop for a short period, flas another number of times, etc. So, five flashes, then pause, then three flashes means Code 53, the long pause is the break between codes. All you need is a list of codes, freely available via google or your trusty haynes manual, and you've saved yourself 200 bucks.
I still see piles of first gen neons (1995-1999), and just as many second and third gens (sx2.0 produced up until 2005). They are pieces of shit for the most part, seems to be the mexican plants idea of QA, but the american built cars still seem to be kicking around and going strong. I'm a Canadian, so not trying to push the 'built in america for americans' feeling, just something i've personally noticed.
That all depends on what factory your car came out of. The mexican ones are -terrible-. Mine was built in Illinois in 1996, and I found it to be relatively decent for a subcompact, spacious, lots of trunk space, handles very well when going sideways at 80km/h on ice and parts are really inexpensive and easy to find. While it has nothing on my subaru now, it was a fun little car that took every beating I threw at it. My parents drive it now and they put 150/200km on it every week day commuting to work, the 35+mpg really helps out there.
The neon remained largely unchanged from 1995 to 2005 in terms of efficiency. This is because the A588 SOHC 2.0L engine was used for the whole decade they were produced, with the 420a DOHC version being an alternative option between 1995 and 1999. I have a 96 with an engine from an 01, that maintains 35+mpg, even with the crappy 3spd automatic transmission. Besides, I think 10 years of a model run, only ending three years ago, is pretty amazing. They also did replace it with the Caliber, another efficient subcompact style vehicle. Albeit ugly, it gets 40+mpg highway and 33 in the city with the 1.8L engine. So while they do produce gas guzzling massive SUV's that are proud to get 25mpg, they do produce a vehicle that still maintains the efficiency of the old k cars from the late 80s and early 90s
Actually, I think Bioware is already owned by EA. And since I cannot support EA, I won't be able to play the new star wars MMO :|