With the number of patches it takes to get any game to "playable" nowadays, they're pretty much all released when they're still beta. If DNF got that far, we would be able to buy it already.
Come to think of it, that describes most retail software.
My 2k4 Infiniti G35 did. I didn't spring for the brand new one, but they had tape decks as well. It's Bose, so it sucks, but at least I can plug in my iPod without having to use an iTrip. Sirius is pretty nice too:)
It'll do until I decide to really rip the thing apart and put in a new receiver.
Of course they're not concerned about IP rights when they're infringing on the rights of RIAA/MPAA members. That's not the same as their work being added to this database without their consent. While they download music to enjoy themselves, turnitin.com is a profit-making enterprise that uses their work to make money.
Oh, and it really gets on my nerves every time I see theft from a billion dollar corporation compared to theft from an individual. Despite what the pathologically stupid law of the United States says, these two things are never the same. The fact that we treat them as such is one of the biggest problems with the world today.
I was taking a playful jab at the fact that everybody buys the same 4 (and a half) guns. No need to get your pretty pink panties all in a bunch. I haven't played that game in over a year, and as far as I'm concerned they can fuck it up all they want.
Are you that excited to show off what you're learning in high school economics?
Well, the only real downside to the deagle is the limited number of shots. It does assault-rifle damage, is accurate enough to snipe somebody from all the way across aztec, costs barely more than a USP or P228, and penetrates walls/boxes/body armor like they're paper.
Why wouldn't it be the dominant choice? The only people who shouldn't take it over any other pistol are people who can't shoot for crap.
The in-memory representation of your desktop background is going to take up the same amount of space no matter what format it's in. Compressing your wallpaper only saves space on disk, because ultimately the image has to be decompressed and rendered into the equivalent of a bitmap for it to be displayed on the screen.
I doubt the dead, were they asked about it before they died, would want us to dwell on how we described their death. Rather, I think they'd prefer to have us remember who they were and what they did in life.
I'm an atheist, but I have no problem with death being described as "passing". Losing someone you care about can be a lot to deal with emotionally. If using euphemisms helps with the process of coping, then I'm all for it.
(If this was a deliberate troll, it was in pretty poor taste, but I guess IHBT.)
They should make the victims pay. Seriously, the only thing that's going to cause people to educate themselves is a little bit of accountability. Why should it be the bank's responsibility when they have no involvement in the phishing transaction at all? Because they don't send an employee over to hold your hand every time you want to browse the web?
Besides, if banks establish that they will always take care of these kinds of losses it becomes very tempting to just say you had your identity stolen every time you withdraw a large amount of money:)
It lists messages in the order they come in. Any replies to those messages are kept in a "conversation" with the original message. Threaded view in Thunderbird or mutt does basically the exact same thing.
See, you're saying the same thing the article is, "Yahoo! Mail Beta behaves like a desktop mail client. OooOoooOOo it does menus and you can CTRL+Click to select stuff..."
What I'm saying is, if you can implement a mail client that works just as effectively that doesn't need CTRL/SHIFT+Click selecting, drag & drop, or right click menus, why should you care if it's missing?
Seriously, what advantage does a desktop-style mail client -- especially one that's just simulated in a browser -- have over Gmail's simple, intuitive, fast interface with great integrated search capabilities? Maybe it's easier for an Outlook user to make the transition, but Gmail is so simple I don't see that being much of a factor.
Gmail got me to give up mutt. It's pretty damn good.
Yeah, I guess I shouldn't have used that as an example. A Link to the Past is my favorite Zelda game, and I think I'm more amazed that some of the lesser titles on that list were included (X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter?) rather than Ocarina, which is a worthy title. They included two Star Wars games (and not even the best ones!), but only one each of Mario and Zelda? No Metroid?
I can't think of any way Jedi Knight stands out other than being a good Star Wars game. I used KotOR as an example, and it's my personal favorite, but TIE Fighter is another better game. If I had to rank my favorite Star Wars games, I'd probably put KotOR 2 and Rogue Leader ahead of Jedi Knight as well.
Ultimately none of the spawns of Star Wars are in the top 5 best games ever. There are some great ones to pick from, but nothing that's truly earth-shattering like Marios and Zeldas are. I just thought it was silly to pick a Star Wars game and not even pick the best one. They actually picked the sequel to TIE Figher, as well, and it wasn't nearly as good as TIE Fighter itself.
Mario 64 instead of Super Mario Bros. 3 or Super Mario World? Ocarina of Time instead of Zelda or A Link to the Past? Jedi Knight instead of KotOR? Formula 1 GP instead of Gran Turismo? Unreal Tournament instead of Quake? No Starcraft? No Final Fantasy (take your pick) or, at the very least, Chrono Trigger? No Grand Theft Auto?
I'm missing a bunch I know, but I've only been thinking about this for a few minutes.
Nobody even went oldschool and mentioned a true classic like Donkey Kong, Pit Fall, Pac Man, or Space Invaders.
Which video games are the "best" is ultimately pretty subjective, but they've picked sequels that undeniably weren't the best in their series even. Everyone's got their "out there" pick for an obscure game that they happened to get hooked on, but how can you put those in a "top 5 games of all time" list when there are absolute masterpieces that are basically the same game done better?
Glad I didn't bother to RTF this A and just skimmed the list of games.
Pointing out a flaw in a system doesn't absolve people who exploit that flaw.
(Of course, I don't really "get" this thread anyway. The motivation to do unscrupulous things for the advancement of one's own agenda exists in any system. The only thing capitalism may have provided was a healthy supply of unscrupulous private investigators.)
From golf, to Madden on the Xbox, to Counter-Strike, at certain levels there are people who associate and form deep bonds with each other around any given activity. The crap about getting married in-game and such; I've been playing since day 1 and I've never seen it in WoW. I know it happens, sure, but it's a small fraction of the players who go in for it. Most just play to have a bit of fun and don't really let the game go any further than that (though the amount of time they spend playing may indicate they're completely addicted).
Even among the hardcore this is true. I spent a while in a WoW raiding guild and basically they only knew me from when I signed on until I signed off again. We didn't converse outside the game, I didn't e-marry any of them, and we didn't get together in real life. OTOH, there are some people who go in for that stuff. A former coworker spent half his vacation every year going to party with his EQ guild. He met his fiance (his real fiance) in-game, and didn't meet her until after it had already gotten "serious".
MMOs are only really unique as electronic diversions go because they build in fairly robust chat systems, give you an avatar that has a greater range of expression than a CS model, and give you places to just stand around and chit-chat. If you count the interaction that goes on outside of the game, but in IRC channels related to a given game, between people who only know each other because of that game, you'd see basically the same levels of virtual interaction in any popular video game going way back.
Video games, like any other hobby, make it easy to lose yourself if you want. MMOs are nothing special save that they a) integrate all the pieces of the "virtual world" into one seamless environment, and b) most of them are designed specifically to reward you for spending more time in the game (not just as a result of getting better because you play a lot, as in other games, but with gear rewards and such).
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With the number of patches it takes to get any game to "playable" nowadays, they're pretty much all released when they're still beta. If DNF got that far, we would be able to buy it already.
Come to think of it, that describes most retail software.
At least Google's honest about it.
Just take your time with X. X-2 is a terrible sequel.
My 2k4 Infiniti G35 did. I didn't spring for the brand new one, but they had tape decks as well. It's Bose, so it sucks, but at least I can plug in my iPod without having to use an iTrip. Sirius is pretty nice too :)
It'll do until I decide to really rip the thing apart and put in a new receiver.
Of course they're not concerned about IP rights when they're infringing on the rights of RIAA/MPAA members. That's not the same as their work being added to this database without their consent. While they download music to enjoy themselves, turnitin.com is a profit-making enterprise that uses their work to make money.
Oh, and it really gets on my nerves every time I see theft from a billion dollar corporation compared to theft from an individual. Despite what the pathologically stupid law of the United States says, these two things are never the same. The fact that we treat them as such is one of the biggest problems with the world today.
I was taking a playful jab at the fact that everybody buys the same 4 (and a half) guns. No need to get your pretty pink panties all in a bunch. I haven't played that game in over a year, and as far as I'm concerned they can fuck it up all they want.
Are you that excited to show off what you're learning in high school economics?
Well, the only real downside to the deagle is the limited number of shots. It does assault-rifle damage, is accurate enough to snipe somebody from all the way across aztec, costs barely more than a USP or P228, and penetrates walls/boxes/body armor like they're paper.
Why wouldn't it be the dominant choice? The only people who shouldn't take it over any other pistol are people who can't shoot for crap.
AK-47: $16000
M4: $16000
AWP: $16000
MP5: $5000
Everything else (since the deagle is apparently excluded to "preserve the pistol round"): $1
Apparently you care, since you brought it up.
The in-memory representation of your desktop background is going to take up the same amount of space no matter what format it's in. Compressing your wallpaper only saves space on disk, because ultimately the image has to be decompressed and rendered into the equivalent of a bitmap for it to be displayed on the screen.
Baby, my lap is high voltage.
Oh yeah? C'mere a minute!
I doubt the dead, were they asked about it before they died, would want us to dwell on how we described their death. Rather, I think they'd prefer to have us remember who they were and what they did in life.
I'm an atheist, but I have no problem with death being described as "passing". Losing someone you care about can be a lot to deal with emotionally. If using euphemisms helps with the process of coping, then I'm all for it.
(If this was a deliberate troll, it was in pretty poor taste, but I guess IHBT.)
They should make the victims pay. Seriously, the only thing that's going to cause people to educate themselves is a little bit of accountability. Why should it be the bank's responsibility when they have no involvement in the phishing transaction at all? Because they don't send an employee over to hold your hand every time you want to browse the web?
:)
Besides, if banks establish that they will always take care of these kinds of losses it becomes very tempting to just say you had your identity stolen every time you withdraw a large amount of money
It lists messages in the order they come in. Any replies to those messages are kept in a "conversation" with the original message. Threaded view in Thunderbird or mutt does basically the exact same thing.
See, you're saying the same thing the article is, "Yahoo! Mail Beta behaves like a desktop mail client. OooOoooOOo it does menus and you can CTRL+Click to select stuff..."
What I'm saying is, if you can implement a mail client that works just as effectively that doesn't need CTRL/SHIFT+Click selecting, drag & drop, or right click menus, why should you care if it's missing?
This is the true story
...start getting real
Of 137 students
Picked to live in some cubicles for a summer
And have their lives... what lives?
To find out what happens
When people stop being polite
And...
(the four who survived our reeducation facilities)
I might die a little inside, yes.
:P)
(Support your text mode readers. They're the wackos Slashdot is all about.
Seriously, what advantage does a desktop-style mail client -- especially one that's just simulated in a browser -- have over Gmail's simple, intuitive, fast interface with great integrated search capabilities? Maybe it's easier for an Outlook user to make the transition, but Gmail is so simple I don't see that being much of a factor.
Gmail got me to give up mutt. It's pretty damn good.
Yeah, I guess I shouldn't have used that as an example. A Link to the Past is my favorite Zelda game, and I think I'm more amazed that some of the lesser titles on that list were included (X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter?) rather than Ocarina, which is a worthy title. They included two Star Wars games (and not even the best ones!), but only one each of Mario and Zelda? No Metroid?
I can't think of any way Jedi Knight stands out other than being a good Star Wars game. I used KotOR as an example, and it's my personal favorite, but TIE Fighter is another better game. If I had to rank my favorite Star Wars games, I'd probably put KotOR 2 and Rogue Leader ahead of Jedi Knight as well.
Ultimately none of the spawns of Star Wars are in the top 5 best games ever. There are some great ones to pick from, but nothing that's truly earth-shattering like Marios and Zeldas are. I just thought it was silly to pick a Star Wars game and not even pick the best one. They actually picked the sequel to TIE Figher, as well, and it wasn't nearly as good as TIE Fighter itself.
Informative. To the GP, at least.
Shoulda thrown my own list in there:
1) Chrono Trigger
2) Doom
3) Super Mario Bros. 3
4) Starcraft
5) Tetris (mainly because of Tetrinet... so addictive)
Mario 64 instead of Super Mario Bros. 3 or Super Mario World?
Ocarina of Time instead of Zelda or A Link to the Past?
Jedi Knight instead of KotOR?
Formula 1 GP instead of Gran Turismo?
Unreal Tournament instead of Quake?
No Starcraft?
No Final Fantasy (take your pick) or, at the very least, Chrono Trigger?
No Grand Theft Auto?
I'm missing a bunch I know, but I've only been thinking about this for a few minutes.
Nobody even went oldschool and mentioned a true classic like Donkey Kong, Pit Fall, Pac Man, or Space Invaders.
Which video games are the "best" is ultimately pretty subjective, but they've picked sequels that undeniably weren't the best in their series even. Everyone's got their "out there" pick for an obscure game that they happened to get hooked on, but how can you put those in a "top 5 games of all time" list when there are absolute masterpieces that are basically the same game done better?
Glad I didn't bother to RTF this A and just skimmed the list of games.
Because this one was easy.
Pointing out a flaw in a system doesn't absolve people who exploit that flaw.
(Of course, I don't really "get" this thread anyway. The motivation to do unscrupulous things for the advancement of one's own agenda exists in any system. The only thing capitalism may have provided was a healthy supply of unscrupulous private investigators.)
From golf, to Madden on the Xbox, to Counter-Strike, at certain levels there are people who associate and form deep bonds with each other around any given activity. The crap about getting married in-game and such; I've been playing since day 1 and I've never seen it in WoW. I know it happens, sure, but it's a small fraction of the players who go in for it. Most just play to have a bit of fun and don't really let the game go any further than that (though the amount of time they spend playing may indicate they're completely addicted).
Even among the hardcore this is true. I spent a while in a WoW raiding guild and basically they only knew me from when I signed on until I signed off again. We didn't converse outside the game, I didn't e-marry any of them, and we didn't get together in real life. OTOH, there are some people who go in for that stuff. A former coworker spent half his vacation every year going to party with his EQ guild. He met his fiance (his real fiance) in-game, and didn't meet her until after it had already gotten "serious".
MMOs are only really unique as electronic diversions go because they build in fairly robust chat systems, give you an avatar that has a greater range of expression than a CS model, and give you places to just stand around and chit-chat. If you count the interaction that goes on outside of the game, but in IRC channels related to a given game, between people who only know each other because of that game, you'd see basically the same levels of virtual interaction in any popular video game going way back.
Video games, like any other hobby, make it easy to lose yourself if you want. MMOs are nothing special save that they a) integrate all the pieces of the "virtual world" into one seamless environment, and b) most of them are designed specifically to reward you for spending more time in the game (not just as a result of getting better because you play a lot, as in other games, but with gear rewards and such).