hmm, ok, so you never chat with people you're playing with, or everybody you play with has a headset and nobody in the room with them?
My friends, they can't stay on headsets all the time. Text chat is quiet and unobtrusive to initiate, and readable if the sound's turned off.
Borderlands may be 1080p on the consoles, but since I don't own a 1080p television the resolution on my PC is significantly better - and it's on a 17 inch screen, which is far easier to put at a distance that both fits in my field of vision and yet is close enough to benefit from that extra detail.
As for controls, it's tedious seeing PC games with crap control setups because they're crippled console ports. I hate playing games that need you to hit 3 buttons at once while moving a joystick in the right direction. Just give me a different button to hit, I'll hit it - I'm playing a computer game here, not performing a dexterity test. Oddly enough I have real sports for those.
Hell, I suspect even Borderlands is easier to manage on the PC. In fact, the PC version is also compromised by the control defaults left in from the console port - you have to go into the ini files and alter the game configuration to make it play properly.
Aim assist? Mouse smoothing? Double-tap a key to get another function (which happens to be mapped to the next key on the keyboard)? Buggered up field of view? Why, 'tis a console game.
Nonetheless, ten minutes in the ini files and it plays nicely and is excellent fun in co-op mode. As games should be. And with TV in the background. And with partner able to talk to you. And with in-game communication.
Gluttonous? How many meals have you had today? Hint: Any more than 1 and you've eaten more than me.
How many snacks have you had today? Hint: Any more than 0 and you've eaten more than me.
I am however lazy. Which is why I walk a mile to work - it's easier than finding somewhere to park.
Nonetheless, what's your point? That you're a cunt? Proven superbly. That fat people are all gluttonous, lazy and full of excuses? Sorry, that wont fly in fat camp.
I disagree. I tried many diets, and they all didn't work - no real weight loss, no sustained weight loss.
So I stopped eating. 7 meals a week, no snacks. That's a lot of skipped meals.
57lb (20% of starting weight) lost in 4 months. 7 weeks after finishing the diet, I've lost a further 5lb, and that's despite eating 9-15 meals a week, alcohol and chocolate.
Feel pretty good from it all too. And the medical professionals I consulted/chatted with (formally and informally - I know a few) all said "well done" and none said "shit, that's bad".
So I'd say skipping meals is an excellent plan for losing weight.
If people want to lose weight long term, they should look at cutting their calorie intake to around 15% of the amount of calories they need to maintain their weight.
So you're advocating eating 3 slices of bread a day as a long term strategy?
I suspect you meant 15% fewer calories than the weight maintenance level.
Except in the UK, where she would be effectively banned from doing anything involving children or vulnerable adults (including working, sports, driving them to the theatre once a month, etc) for pretty much the rest of her life.
It's a shitty system, but apparently we have to think of the children.
(I do. I think about how nice it would be to kill them all and end this stupidity.)
On the flipside, as you get older you can afford the upgrades, and you care more about having fun than about learning the complex and finger-breaking control system on the controller to play the game that uses your tv preventing your partner from watching it while you play.
Not to mention the riotous joy of 4 person Borderlands in full 1920x1200 beauty with mouse aiming and in-game text chat.
My 40yo house only has two plug sockets in the main bedroom and one in the third bedroom. I have approximately 16 devices permanently plugged into those three sockets.
Sure, no individual appliance is drawing 13A, but add them all together...
I have surge protectors on my computers. I have a fuse in each plug. I have circuit breakers on each circuit (one lights, one downstairs circuit, one upstairs circuit, one kitchen/heating circuit). I have a tripswitch on the feed in from the outside world.
Maybe you think that's overkill, but it works pretty well for me. Other than the surge protectors (and possibly number of circuits) that's pretty standard for UK houses.
It is not a bad device. You quoted me stating that it is a very nice device, so I'm very confused that you think I've assumed it's a bad device.
It is a very nice device, but that doesn't stop it being over-hyped or over-marketed. And having used one more than once, I still don't want one.
I want Flash support because I use websites that have embedded flash in them. Not all of them use it for streaming video, and none of them use it for games.
However, Flash was only an example of the type of application that you can't use on the iPhone because Apple wont let you.
Incidentally, I'm impressed - you have a mouse attached to your iPhone?
I have to update my android device using its touch screen or its hardware keyboard. Although maybe I could get a mouse to work with it - I haven't tried.
You do realise that Android comes with a 'market' application built in, that provides a wide selection of free and to-buy applications that can be downloaded to the device?
Oh, and that you don't have to use a PC (Windows, Mac or otherwise) to do this, or to update the OS, or to find and install applications that aren't on the market?
And that nobody prevents applications appearing in the market because they may impact on the profitability of the device manufacturer?
Apple has the apps at the moment, but it's a transitory advantage at best.
The HTC Magic is however frankly a crap device. On paper it has good specs, but it's a generation too slow for the OS and it's not really that nice.
Disclaimer: I own one.
Android was never going to compete on the first generation devices. The new generation - starting with the Motorola Droid - will be the ones that start to demonstrate the platform to its full potential.
It'll be interesting to see how well it does. Me, I'm skipping Android for a generation and going n900..
Some of these are made by very trusted names in the business, like TomTom.
Is it true that receiving a call will force the TomTom app to close, losing your navigation, and that when you re-open it you have to re-enter your destination?
Multitasking would be useful.
The 100k apps are a massive factor, but I personally taunt any iPhone fanboy that quotes, "there's an app for that" at me. Because frankly, sometimes, there isn't.
Sometimes because the hardware wont support it, sometimes because Apple refuse to allow it.
Flash, anybody?
The iPhone is a very nice device, and ideal for many phone users, and has had a very positive effect on the smartphone market. It's also over-hyped, over-marketed and I don't want one.
The thing is, there's room in the market for devices with comparable specifications, identical software, and differentiated primarily by whether or not they have a physical keyboard.
Some users prefer keyboards. Some don't. It is possible to meet both sets of preferences. HTC manage it, Nokia manage it, Motorola manage it, Sony Ericsson manage it.
While there is demand for devices with keyboards, the manufacturers will continue to meet that demand. I'm confused that you seem to think otherwise.
As the devices get more complex and capable, I expect the input options to increase. There's a reason even netbooks come with hardware keyboards, why laptops have existed for decades and still have them, why you can buy a keyboard to go with your games console.
Keyboards wont necessarily be around forever, but losing half your screen real-estate to badly mimic one isn't an attractive option to a sizeable number of users.
Shame Steve's such a twat and has such poor taste in phones.
The original iPhone was behind the curve on hardware, ahead on software.
The 3GS has caught up on hardware, but it still lacks features some users consider essential - hardware keyboard being one.
Meanwhile the other platforms have at least caught up on software, and have the very strong advantage that the users can decide which software to install.
The iPhone will start to lose market share unless Apple step back from their excessively restrictie practices.
Amazed nobody's suggested the obvious thing to do: Skip the lecture, hit the bar, play pool, flirt with the attractive students of your preferred sex and get a copy of the lecture notes from someone else.
University is where you get an education, so skip the lectures and get one.
In addition to Burning1's insightful post, your sarcasm is not only misplaced but also wrong. On the whole, it was better not to kill the conquered population. More profitable to enslave them or tax them.
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hmm, ok, so you never chat with people you're playing with, or everybody you play with has a headset and nobody in the room with them?
My friends, they can't stay on headsets all the time. Text chat is quiet and unobtrusive to initiate, and readable if the sound's turned off.
Borderlands may be 1080p on the consoles, but since I don't own a 1080p television the resolution on my PC is significantly better - and it's on a 17 inch screen, which is far easier to put at a distance that both fits in my field of vision and yet is close enough to benefit from that extra detail.
As for controls, it's tedious seeing PC games with crap control setups because they're crippled console ports. I hate playing games that need you to hit 3 buttons at once while moving a joystick in the right direction. Just give me a different button to hit, I'll hit it - I'm playing a computer game here, not performing a dexterity test. Oddly enough I have real sports for those.
Hell, I suspect even Borderlands is easier to manage on the PC. In fact, the PC version is also compromised by the control defaults left in from the console port - you have to go into the ini files and alter the game configuration to make it play properly.
Aim assist? Mouse smoothing? Double-tap a key to get another function (which happens to be mapped to the next key on the keyboard)? Buggered up field of view? Why, 'tis a console game.
Nonetheless, ten minutes in the ini files and it plays nicely and is excellent fun in co-op mode. As games should be. And with TV in the background. And with partner able to talk to you. And with in-game communication.
You are lazy and gluttonous.
Gluttonous? How many meals have you had today? Hint: Any more than 1 and you've eaten more than me.
How many snacks have you had today? Hint: Any more than 0 and you've eaten more than me.
I am however lazy. Which is why I walk a mile to work - it's easier than finding somewhere to park.
Nonetheless, what's your point? That you're a cunt? Proven superbly. That fat people are all gluttonous, lazy and full of excuses? Sorry, that wont fly in fat camp.
Two people can eat identical diets, and do comparable amounts of exercise.
One gains weight. One loses weight.
Now throw in psychological issues. Now add in lifestyle pressures (e.g. working 14h days).
Thin people that think fat people are always full of excuses are themselves full of shit.
Vegetables don't taste as nice as chocolate trifle.
Eat food that tastes nice. Just don't eat as much of it.
That's sustainable. Eating stuff you hate is not.
Speak for yourself. I'm 65lb lighter than I was in May, and I lost the first 12lb in the first week and it was very noticeable.
Then I was losing 4-5lb a week for a couple of weeks, then 3-4lb a week, then it all started to slow down.
Then again, I don't do much exercise - only 2-10 hours of sport a week.
Skipping meals is a bad plan for loosing weight.
I disagree. I tried many diets, and they all didn't work - no real weight loss, no sustained weight loss.
So I stopped eating. 7 meals a week, no snacks. That's a lot of skipped meals.
57lb (20% of starting weight) lost in 4 months. 7 weeks after finishing the diet, I've lost a further 5lb, and that's despite eating 9-15 meals a week, alcohol and chocolate.
Feel pretty good from it all too. And the medical professionals I consulted/chatted with (formally and informally - I know a few) all said "well done" and none said "shit, that's bad".
So I'd say skipping meals is an excellent plan for losing weight.
If people want to lose weight long term, they should look at cutting their calorie intake to around 15% of the amount of calories they need to maintain their weight.
So you're advocating eating 3 slices of bread a day as a long term strategy?
I suspect you meant 15% fewer calories than the weight maintenance level.
People told me to lose weight to help my knees. I lost 60lb.
My knees still hurt.
Fucked knees are still fucked, no matter your weight.
What if the girl lies about her age to you?
What if she has fake ID?
People have been locked up for shagging girls that look 20, say they're 18, and are in fact 15.
Except in the UK, where she would be effectively banned from doing anything involving children or vulnerable adults (including working, sports, driving them to the theatre once a month, etc) for pretty much the rest of her life.
It's a shitty system, but apparently we have to think of the children.
(I do. I think about how nice it would be to kill them all and end this stupidity.)
On the flipside, as you get older you can afford the upgrades, and you care more about having fun than about learning the complex and finger-breaking control system on the controller to play the game that uses your tv preventing your partner from watching it while you play.
Not to mention the riotous joy of 4 person Borderlands in full 1920x1200 beauty with mouse aiming and in-game text chat.
Fuck me. You ask what Brits are plugging in, I answer and you ask 'so what?'
Go away.
My 40yo house only has two plug sockets in the main bedroom and one in the third bedroom. I have approximately 16 devices permanently plugged into those three sockets.
Sure, no individual appliance is drawing 13A, but add them all together...
I have surge protectors on my computers.
I have a fuse in each plug.
I have circuit breakers on each circuit (one lights, one downstairs circuit, one upstairs circuit, one kitchen/heating circuit).
I have a tripswitch on the feed in from the outside world.
Maybe you think that's overkill, but it works pretty well for me. Other than the surge protectors (and possibly number of circuits) that's pretty standard for UK houses.
It is not a bad device. You quoted me stating that it is a very nice device, so I'm very confused that you think I've assumed it's a bad device.
It is a very nice device, but that doesn't stop it being over-hyped or over-marketed. And having used one more than once, I still don't want one.
I want Flash support because I use websites that have embedded flash in them. Not all of them use it for streaming video, and none of them use it for games.
However, Flash was only an example of the type of application that you can't use on the iPhone because Apple wont let you.
Apple
Wont
Let
You
Clearly you're happy with that. I'm not.
with just a mouse click
Incidentally, I'm impressed - you have a mouse attached to your iPhone?
I have to update my android device using its touch screen or its hardware keyboard. Although maybe I could get a mouse to work with it - I haven't tried.
My android phone has upgraded itself (it did check with me first) from 1.4 to 1.5 to 1.6. New features, new functionality, free. Happy?
Incidentally, it wont update to 2.0 because frankly I think the device isn't capable. If the device was capable then it would update, yes.
I suspect you'll find the iPhone hardware starts to lack support for new OS versions before very long too.
You do realise that Android comes with a 'market' application built in, that provides a wide selection of free and to-buy applications that can be downloaded to the device?
Oh, and that you don't have to use a PC (Windows, Mac or otherwise) to do this, or to update the OS, or to find and install applications that aren't on the market?
And that nobody prevents applications appearing in the market because they may impact on the profitability of the device manufacturer?
Apple has the apps at the moment, but it's a transitory advantage at best.
The HTC Magic is however frankly a crap device. On paper it has good specs, but it's a generation too slow for the OS and it's not really that nice.
Disclaimer: I own one.
Android was never going to compete on the first generation devices. The new generation - starting with the Motorola Droid - will be the ones that start to demonstrate the platform to its full potential.
It'll be interesting to see how well it does. Me, I'm skipping Android for a generation and going n900..
Some of these are made by very trusted names in the business, like TomTom.
Is it true that receiving a call will force the TomTom app to close, losing your navigation, and that when you re-open it you have to re-enter your destination?
Multitasking would be useful.
The 100k apps are a massive factor, but I personally taunt any iPhone fanboy that quotes, "there's an app for that" at me. Because frankly, sometimes, there isn't.
Sometimes because the hardware wont support it, sometimes because Apple refuse to allow it.
Flash, anybody?
The iPhone is a very nice device, and ideal for many phone users, and has had a very positive effect on the smartphone market. It's also over-hyped, over-marketed and I don't want one.
The thing is, there's room in the market for devices with comparable specifications, identical software, and differentiated primarily by whether or not they have a physical keyboard.
Some users prefer keyboards. Some don't. It is possible to meet both sets of preferences. HTC manage it, Nokia manage it, Motorola manage it, Sony Ericsson manage it.
While there is demand for devices with keyboards, the manufacturers will continue to meet that demand. I'm confused that you seem to think otherwise.
As the devices get more complex and capable, I expect the input options to increase. There's a reason even netbooks come with hardware keyboards, why laptops have existed for decades and still have them, why you can buy a keyboard to go with your games console.
Keyboards wont necessarily be around forever, but losing half your screen real-estate to badly mimic one isn't an attractive option to a sizeable number of users.
Shame Steve's such a twat and has such poor taste in phones.
The original iPhone was behind the curve on hardware, ahead on software.
The 3GS has caught up on hardware, but it still lacks features some users consider essential - hardware keyboard being one.
Meanwhile the other platforms have at least caught up on software, and have the very strong advantage that the users can decide which software to install.
The iPhone will start to lose market share unless Apple step back from their excessively restrictie practices.
Amazed nobody's suggested the obvious thing to do: Skip the lecture, hit the bar, play pool, flirt with the attractive students of your preferred sex and get a copy of the lecture notes from someone else.
University is where you get an education, so skip the lectures and get one.
Yeah, saw that one linked elsewhere in this discussion, had a play of the demo last night.
As a strategy game it's fine, but it's a little too clinical in its depiction of mass murder.
"Hong Kong 5.4m dead" just doesn't quite have the same visceral impact.
In addition to Burning1's insightful post, your sarcasm is not only misplaced but also wrong. On the whole, it was better not to kill the conquered population. More profitable to enslave them or tax them.