I would say the national highway system has fared pretty well.... At least in the 48 continental anyway. Sure its aging and it needs some upkeep but it has been there since the days of Eisenhower.
I am also pretty partial to the library system. More state and county admittedly, but there is no need or additional benefit to making it a federal system.
Perhaps the solution is for states to institute their own governmental health care. Maybe not. Point being, what we have right now doesn't work.
You bring up a very good point, but there are canon related issues when such a huge change to things are made. Playing Spartan-3s would be very appealing and interesting, but when put into context of the rest of the universe it becomes harder and harder to hide that many secret people. I would love to see it done correctly, but I have doubts that it will ever exsist due to market saturation and gameplay balancing. On the whole MMOs are moving to be more PvP based because PvP content creates itself if you give it a framework. It is cheaper and easier to balance PvP and code a place for it to happen than it is to create a never-ending series of quests. And with PvP making such an impact it seems very out of place for one group of Spartans to be fighting another, and if you make a Covenent equal to them you run face first into the canon/continuity wall again.
And as a sidenote, I apologize for insinuating that most Halo players are mindless zombies. They are zombies that routinely wipe my bleeding crying ass all over "Pit" and "Guardian".:)
I wouldn't think a Halo MMO would be feasible. Its FPS. Hellgate failure anyone? (And i had high hopes for that one) with an EPIC main character which CAN be done, Conan does a half decent job of it but you can't let everyone play a spartan.
In Conan you are a warrior just like everyone else. You are better than common warriors in theory but everyone has the same potential that you do. The halo universe is extremely unbalanced. There are only X number of spartans, certainly not enough to populate an MMO. And playing Halo MMO as a marine would be more of a Team Fortress with experience and items type game. Not a bad idea for a game, but an idea that doesn't fit the Halo universe at all.
I also can't see the fans of the Halo gameplay appreciating roll-to-hit combat, nor do I see typical MMO players taking to the twitch and adrenalin style of play that would cater to the FPS gamers. You will end up alienating one full half of the group a Halo MMO appeal to.
There are exceptions to each rule (I like both styles of play myself and I really enjoy the story to Halo) but you have to appeal to a very large group of people to keep an MMO going. It was a smart decision to cancel the project and I appreciate the fact that they were willing to forgo some quick easy cash in order to work on something else.
Well, hindsight is 20/20 with these kinds of things and everything will be examined later. Of more immediate concern is how long it will take to restore the system. IANADSD (I am not a deep sea diver) but if it is an underwater cable problem I seriously doubt that this will be a "pull a bit more slack out of the wall and splice it with electrical tape" kind of solution.
Also, who actually has the responsibility for the cable? No telling how long the accountant types on each end will bicker. I just hope that it gets restored quicker than electricity in Bhagdad.
I had the same problem, and what you might want to try (if you're not too invested in Etch at this point) is checking what X thinks your video pci channel is. There are several cases where the port is automisconfigured as either one lower or higher than what you really want. This is especially comman with SLI cards where in theory both channels -DO- lead to a video card but only one is going to interpret the data.
You can use the LSPCI command to check to see where the video data should be going, and you can use
Well, I have a generic laptop that gets reselled by many different companies under a brand name (An M59K if anyone cares) and my keyboard got egg drop soup spilled in it. Popped the bugger out, dishwashed it, let it dry for three days and it works perfectly. The tricky part for most laptops would be getting the keyboard out. (Mine has tiny catch releases on the top of it. Nice and easy)
Oops. I didn't really mean that although my previous statement sounded so. I just think that games are the end of a long road in the development of an OS. There are several issues that need to be worked out with linux before mass marketing games for the OS is feasable. It can be done, but it will be very difficult to do so at this time due to the fact that linux is by its very nature a changing operating system. What we have now for developers to work with will be very different from what we have next year to play the finished product on. As people around the world have proven with their efforts, the best games for linux are the "small" ones. the simple addictive innovative games that do not require a whole lot from the operating system. I would think that liquid wars is a perfect example of this.
Last I checked, Unreal Tournament ran under linux... And so do most Infogrames games. most notable being Darwinia and Uplink. (Yes I like Uplink, cheesy as it may be)
The problem isn't no games, it's that linux is a FUNCTIONAL operating system. It is meant for office use and for stable, spyware-free home connectivity. Much like Mac OS. You want awesome easy to use graphics and video editing/processing? I'd go Mac. You want a super stable server or a secure way to go online? Linux may be your answer.
Windows? Easy for games. Very easy. Not many flavors of Windows really, just different layers all stacked on one another. Companies have a lot of practice making Windows games, and thats cool. But just like I don't expect or demand Windows to be secure, I do not demand Linux and Mac to be vigilant about plug and play, which many games rely on.
A thousand dollars (pounds actually but it is too early to convert stuff) is a ridiculus price to pay for a terabyte of space.
I just got an external 500 gig from newegg. Price? 230 real dollars. Yeah its USB, but you know what? I paid about 50 cents for a gig. THATS a good deal.
God knows the Big Mac doesn't look good unless it is on TV, so do you think they wil give you the real smell?
I find most intrusions in my home annoying and this will go on the list as well. Limited applications? Sure. But please, PLEASE do not assault my sense of smell with what market research shows to be your grandma's fresh baked cookie scent.
I don't even like scented candles for God's sake.
Well, off the top of my head I would say that shelf space is directly proportional to profit. Used console games generate a TON of profit so they are going to be displayed prominantly. With (comparitively) little profit coming from PC games and the non-exsistance of used PC games at stores, it just wouldn't make sense from their perspective to devote alot of valuble eye level shelf space to them. Also, you can walk into EB games and GameStop and buy a console game and the hardware you need to play it on at the same time. You walk in see the display model of the Xbox 360 say "WOW cool graphics" and buy the system and game right there. For a PC game you have to rely on the screenshots the size of your thumb on the back of the box. The companies know this and they allocate shelf space accordingly.
As a U.S. Sailor I take quite a bit of offense to your claim that the U.S. exports rapists and killers. I would like to see your evidence that American service members have a higher concentration of rapists and killers (besides the obvious fact that you kill people in a war) than American civilians. I don't ever recall attending the "Rape and Pillage" briefing.
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I would say the national highway system has fared pretty well.... At least in the 48 continental anyway. Sure its aging and it needs some upkeep but it has been there since the days of Eisenhower. I am also pretty partial to the library system. More state and county admittedly, but there is no need or additional benefit to making it a federal system. Perhaps the solution is for states to institute their own governmental health care. Maybe not. Point being, what we have right now doesn't work.
You bring up a very good point, but there are canon related issues when such a huge change to things are made. Playing Spartan-3s would be very appealing and interesting, but when put into context of the rest of the universe it becomes harder and harder to hide that many secret people. I would love to see it done correctly, but I have doubts that it will ever exsist due to market saturation and gameplay balancing. On the whole MMOs are moving to be more PvP based because PvP content creates itself if you give it a framework. It is cheaper and easier to balance PvP and code a place for it to happen than it is to create a never-ending series of quests. And with PvP making such an impact it seems very out of place for one group of Spartans to be fighting another, and if you make a Covenent equal to them you run face first into the canon/continuity wall again. And as a sidenote, I apologize for insinuating that most Halo players are mindless zombies. They are zombies that routinely wipe my bleeding crying ass all over "Pit" and "Guardian". :)
I wouldn't think a Halo MMO would be feasible. Its FPS. Hellgate failure anyone? (And i had high hopes for that one) with an EPIC main character which CAN be done, Conan does a half decent job of it but you can't let everyone play a spartan.
In Conan you are a warrior just like everyone else. You are better than common warriors in theory but everyone has the same potential that you do. The halo universe is extremely unbalanced. There are only X number of spartans, certainly not enough to populate an MMO. And playing Halo MMO as a marine would be more of a Team Fortress with experience and items type game. Not a bad idea for a game, but an idea that doesn't fit the Halo universe at all.
I also can't see the fans of the Halo gameplay appreciating roll-to-hit combat, nor do I see typical MMO players taking to the twitch and adrenalin style of play that would cater to the FPS gamers. You will end up alienating one full half of the group a Halo MMO appeal to.
There are exceptions to each rule (I like both styles of play myself and I really enjoy the story to Halo) but you have to appeal to a very large group of people to keep an MMO going. It was a smart decision to cancel the project and I appreciate the fact that they were willing to forgo some quick easy cash in order to work on something else.
Well, hindsight is 20/20 with these kinds of things and everything will be examined later. Of more immediate concern is how long it will take to restore the system. IANADSD (I am not a deep sea diver) but if it is an underwater cable problem I seriously doubt that this will be a "pull a bit more slack out of the wall and splice it with electrical tape" kind of solution.
Also, who actually has the responsibility for the cable? No telling how long the accountant types on each end will bicker. I just hope that it gets restored quicker than electricity in Bhagdad.
I had the same problem, and what you might want to try (if you're not too invested in Etch at this point) is checking what X thinks your video pci channel is. There are several cases where the port is automisconfigured as either one lower or higher than what you really want. This is especially comman with SLI cards where in theory both channels -DO- lead to a video card but only one is going to interpret the data.
/etc/init.d/gdm restart
You can use the LSPCI command to check to see where the video data should be going, and you can use
Sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg-plow
to change your settings, and then
Sudo
to restart the interface.
Hope that works for you!
Well, I have a generic laptop that gets reselled by many different companies under a brand name (An M59K if anyone cares) and my keyboard got egg drop soup spilled in it. Popped the bugger out, dishwashed it, let it dry for three days and it works perfectly. The tricky part for most laptops would be getting the keyboard out. (Mine has tiny catch releases on the top of it. Nice and easy)
Oops. I didn't really mean that although my previous statement sounded so. I just think that games are the end of a long road in the development of an OS. There are several issues that need to be worked out with linux before mass marketing games for the OS is feasable. It can be done, but it will be very difficult to do so at this time due to the fact that linux is by its very nature a changing operating system. What we have now for developers to work with will be very different from what we have next year to play the finished product on. As people around the world have proven with their efforts, the best games for linux are the "small" ones. the simple addictive innovative games that do not require a whole lot from the operating system. I would think that liquid wars is a perfect example of this.
Last I checked, Unreal Tournament ran under linux... And so do most Infogrames games. most notable being Darwinia and Uplink. (Yes I like Uplink, cheesy as it may be) The problem isn't no games, it's that linux is a FUNCTIONAL operating system. It is meant for office use and for stable, spyware-free home connectivity. Much like Mac OS. You want awesome easy to use graphics and video editing/processing? I'd go Mac. You want a super stable server or a secure way to go online? Linux may be your answer. Windows? Easy for games. Very easy. Not many flavors of Windows really, just different layers all stacked on one another. Companies have a lot of practice making Windows games, and thats cool. But just like I don't expect or demand Windows to be secure, I do not demand Linux and Mac to be vigilant about plug and play, which many games rely on.
Awesome. Thanks man. You learn something new every day.
A thousand dollars (pounds actually but it is too early to convert stuff) is a ridiculus price to pay for a terabyte of space. I just got an external 500 gig from newegg. Price? 230 real dollars. Yeah its USB, but you know what? I paid about 50 cents for a gig. THATS a good deal.
God knows the Big Mac doesn't look good unless it is on TV, so do you think they wil give you the real smell? I find most intrusions in my home annoying and this will go on the list as well. Limited applications? Sure. But please, PLEASE do not assault my sense of smell with what market research shows to be your grandma's fresh baked cookie scent. I don't even like scented candles for God's sake.
Well, off the top of my head I would say that shelf space is directly proportional to profit. Used console games generate a TON of profit so they are going to be displayed prominantly. With (comparitively) little profit coming from PC games and the non-exsistance of used PC games at stores, it just wouldn't make sense from their perspective to devote alot of valuble eye level shelf space to them. Also, you can walk into EB games and GameStop and buy a console game and the hardware you need to play it on at the same time. You walk in see the display model of the Xbox 360 say "WOW cool graphics" and buy the system and game right there. For a PC game you have to rely on the screenshots the size of your thumb on the back of the box. The companies know this and they allocate shelf space accordingly.
As a U.S. Sailor I take quite a bit of offense to your claim that the U.S. exports rapists and killers. I would like to see your evidence that American service members have a higher concentration of rapists and killers (besides the obvious fact that you kill people in a war) than American civilians. I don't ever recall attending the "Rape and Pillage" briefing.