that's kinda iffy, at best, indie developers could easily spoof certain aspects of the libraries to make it NOT show up that way, without ever really hiding the fact the software is INDEED using such libs.
I thought any game could be installed on the system, just the ones that do not implement Vista's programming interface for their "game browser thingy" just gets installed like a normal app? Still can run it like a regular program, and play it like any other game.
Maybe this game has a more "profound" effect on people that one would think. if certain people have to stop and think whether they can push "that" button and go on with a re-enacted set of killings (albeit very SNES/16-bit like)... maybe the game has pulled off the intended effect the author was looking for? (that is besides, getting some sort of media attention... pre-meditated or not)
MGS4 = franchise - but probably a good game ultimately. Heavenly sword... looks awesome, doesn't it? Not much else we know about it. Also, the pr0n industry has chosen HD-DVD, which EVERYONE knows, of course, that BluRay has lost now;-)
I fail a bit to see what this has to do with BluRay vs. HD-DVD that much. Yeah, the system allow playing the two different media (360 = HD-DVD w/available add-on; PS3 = out of the box), but I'm not convinced that the reason people bought one of these system was the ability (or potential ability) to play certain new types of HD Optical Media (I'm sure it was on some consumer's lists of reasons, but how many really?).
Why is Sony a better console? I mean I'm sure it is a fine console and performs it's job well, once developers get a feel for it development kit and wrangling the power of the Cell... but still, what makes it better than a 360? (I would also ask the 360 crowd the same question... FIGHT!)
If all you got is MGS4 (yes, I would love to play it, but CERTAINLY NOT for 560-650 dollars!), this Heavenly Sword thingy (yes, I have seen video, *looks* very nice... that's all *I* know about it), and BluRay making it "better", then I would say, at best, and perhaps subjectively, it would be *marginally* better, if at all.
Amen, magic_quotes is the worst damn thing i have ever seen in PHP. I expect exactly what the put/get sent in my $_POST/$_GET/$_REQUEST arrays. I always use parametric binding when I can (which can be done with Oracle easily, as a lot of my PHP contracts use PHP/Oracle) and htmlencode() for all of my varchar-like output. If I need to "escape" my input, I will call a routine manually, or write my own.
I think people who were not really watching what they were doing broker their TV and want someone else to pay for it. While a handful of the owners may be completely deserving of some compensation, I bet a good portion of those in the class action are in it for the "i'm a tard and i want someone else to fix my dumbiness" - whether it's true or not, i have no idea.
like what? Wii vs. PS3? Linux better than Microsoft? Microsoft bashing? book reviews on programming subject we have seen 100s of times? more crap about Stallman? your right and net neutrality or some other "web [VIRTUAL] atrocity" etc... etc...
None of it really matters, it's all just interesting to read. Not all of it, but there is something for all nerds here. Also, If I had mod points and this was not an AC post (as I just realized as I get to this point in my response), I would mod down.
invest that million wisely and it is equivalent of decent years salary. buy a treasury bill at about 4.25-4.5 percent rate, (not a lot, but a *fixed* rate at least) and get about 40-45K a year *tax free* (IIRC, dividends from treasury bills are non-taxable).
I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map.....
I'M THE MAP!
*proceeds to play Russian roulette with a fully loaded revolver*
I think the costs into 3D modeling and increased texture amounts at the VERY least offsets (or, maybe, MORE than offsets) the cost and effort into do much simpler 2D animation.
Wow... 5 million vs. 8 million vs. 200K - you are even more of a moron. The ratio of Sony vs. MS online player base is still pretty freaking small. Splitting hairs is making you sound like an idiot.... no really... it is.
Classic XBox uses an Intel architecture - XBox 360 Uses a custom IBM-Designed "Xenon" processor (appraently, IIRC, Microsoft bought the manufacturing rights to the processor) - so the CPUs are basically incompatible. The "backwards compatibility" is a slow process of evolving the emulator needed to run classic Xbox games
The sequels to both of those games were also done by Obsidian. I love the crew at Obsidian, I really do. Unfortunately, if they don't watch out, they are going to end up like Troika.... great minds, great ideas, under-par execution.
IIRC, Bioware has relinquished development of most titles that aren't their own IP these days. Hence, why the only new Bioware games anyone has seen developed (or to be developed) directly by them are: Jade Empire and the soon to be Dragon Age and Mass Effect.
[...and now we resume our showing of "Mouse Dating Game", currently in progress]
Hello Mouse # 2: If you were a flavor of ice cream, what flavor would you be?
Which one can store more features about a document? which one is more flexible? Would that warrant the difference in the size of specifications? (besides a bad specification, if that being the case).
It's that or.... um... IBM used like a 6 pt. font for it's entire document!;)
Look into Cricket (look up Cricket Communications on the web) if it is in you area. They offer an unlimited dialing plan for calling anyone in your local area + like 500 long distance minutes a month (you can buy more if you run out) and unlimited incoming calls - all for around $50 a month. The catch is, however, if you leave your local Cricket dialing area, the phone becomes unusable (until you re-enter your local area).
If you require national coverage, I'd use a Go Phone (Cingular), $70 or so dollars a month give you 650 minutes a month a good amount of features. If you run out of minutes, it simply does not allow more calls unless you pump some extra minutes into it (or wait 'til the next monthly billing period). No contract, so after a month, if you don't like, cancel it.
I mean people already have trouble with memories that actually happened or not ALREADY, without virtual reality. Anything that can create a memory or distort it can make our perception of past-events unique and not always what they really seem to be.
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that's kinda iffy, at best, indie developers could easily spoof certain aspects of the libraries to make it NOT show up that way, without ever really hiding the fact the software is INDEED using such libs.
I thought any game could be installed on the system, just the ones that do not implement Vista's programming interface for their "game browser thingy" just gets installed like a normal app? Still can run it like a regular program, and play it like any other game.
Maybe this game has a more "profound" effect on people that one would think. if certain people have to stop and think whether they can push "that" button and go on with a re-enacted set of killings (albeit very SNES/16-bit like)... maybe the game has pulled off the intended effect the author was looking for? (that is besides, getting some sort of media attention... pre-meditated or not)
MGS4 = franchise - but probably a good game ultimately. Heavenly sword... looks awesome, doesn't it? Not much else we know about it. Also, the pr0n industry has chosen HD-DVD, which EVERYONE knows, of course, that BluRay has lost now ;-)
I fail a bit to see what this has to do with BluRay vs. HD-DVD that much. Yeah, the system allow playing the two different media (360 = HD-DVD w/available add-on; PS3 = out of the box), but I'm not convinced that the reason people bought one of these system was the ability (or potential ability) to play certain new types of HD Optical Media (I'm sure it was on some consumer's lists of reasons, but how many really?).
Why is Sony a better console? I mean I'm sure it is a fine console and performs it's job well, once developers get a feel for it development kit and wrangling the power of the Cell... but still, what makes it better than a 360? (I would also ask the 360 crowd the same question... FIGHT!)
If all you got is MGS4 (yes, I would love to play it, but CERTAINLY NOT for 560-650 dollars!), this Heavenly Sword thingy (yes, I have seen video, *looks* very nice... that's all *I* know about it), and BluRay making it "better", then I would say, at best, and perhaps subjectively, it would be *marginally* better, if at all.
Amen, magic_quotes is the worst damn thing i have ever seen in PHP. I expect exactly what the put/get sent in my $_POST/$_GET/$_REQUEST arrays. I always use parametric binding when I can (which can be done with Oracle easily, as a lot of my PHP contracts use PHP/Oracle) and htmlencode() for all of my varchar-like output. If I need to "escape" my input, I will call a routine manually, or write my own.
I think people who were not really watching what they were doing broker their TV and want someone else to pay for it. While a handful of the owners may be completely deserving of some compensation, I bet a good portion of those in the class action are in it for the "i'm a tard and i want someone else to fix my dumbiness" - whether it's true or not, i have no idea.
like what? Wii vs. PS3? Linux better than Microsoft? Microsoft bashing? book reviews on programming subject we have seen 100s of times? more crap about Stallman? your right and net neutrality or some other "web [VIRTUAL] atrocity" etc... etc...
None of it really matters, it's all just interesting to read. Not all of it, but there is something for all nerds here. Also, If I had mod points and this was not an AC post (as I just realized as I get to this point in my response), I would mod down.
...but not busy enough to NOT post on slashdot *thumbs up*
...or posting on slashdot.... all glory to the HYPNOTOAD
invest that million wisely and it is equivalent of decent years salary. buy a treasury bill at about 4.25-4.5 percent rate, (not a lot, but a *fixed* rate at least) and get about 40-45K a year *tax free* (IIRC, dividends from treasury bills are non-taxable).
I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map.....
I'M THE MAP!
*proceeds to play Russian roulette with a fully loaded revolver*
I think the costs into 3D modeling and increased texture amounts at the VERY least offsets (or, maybe, MORE than offsets) the cost and effort into do much simpler 2D animation.
Wow... 5 million vs. 8 million vs. 200K - you are even more of a moron. The ratio of Sony vs. MS online player base is still pretty freaking small. Splitting hairs is making you sound like an idiot.... no really... it is.
Classic XBox uses an Intel architecture - XBox 360 Uses a custom IBM-Designed "Xenon" processor (appraently, IIRC, Microsoft bought the manufacturing rights to the processor) - so the CPUs are basically incompatible. The "backwards compatibility" is a slow process of evolving the emulator needed to run classic Xbox games
The sequels to both of those games were also done by Obsidian. I love the crew at Obsidian, I really do. Unfortunately, if they don't watch out, they are going to end up like Troika.... great minds, great ideas, under-par execution.
IIRC, Bioware has relinquished development of most titles that aren't their own IP these days. Hence, why the only new Bioware games anyone has seen developed (or to be developed) directly by them are: Jade Empire and the soon to be Dragon Age and Mass Effect.
[...and now we resume our showing of "Mouse Dating Game", currently in progress]
Hello Mouse # 2: If you were a flavor of ice cream, what flavor would you be?
Mouse 1: Only runs into walls 30% of the time; thinks poop are like legos; enjoys the "Macarena"
Mouse 2: Like expensive cheeses; chases own tail; finds Conan O'Brian Funny
Mouse 3: Got out of the maze; presumed missing; my tuna salad sandwich is missing
Results: Use rats next time? Republicans?
THAT what must be clogging the tubes. Not porn... GRASS!
arrgh, i meant ".. vs. OpenXML"
:-p
another post down the drain
Which one can store more features about a document? which one is more flexible? Would that warrant the difference in the size of specifications? (besides a bad specification, if that being the case).
;)
It's that or.... um... IBM used like a 6 pt. font for it's entire document!
Look into Cricket (look up Cricket Communications on the web) if it is in you area. They offer an unlimited dialing plan for calling anyone in your local area + like 500 long distance minutes a month (you can buy more if you run out) and unlimited incoming calls - all for around $50 a month. The catch is, however, if you leave your local Cricket dialing area, the phone becomes unusable (until you re-enter your local area).
If you require national coverage, I'd use a Go Phone (Cingular), $70 or so dollars a month give you 650 minutes a month a good amount of features. If you run out of minutes, it simply does not allow more calls unless you pump some extra minutes into it (or wait 'til the next monthly billing period). No contract, so after a month, if you don't like, cancel it.
I mean people already have trouble with memories that actually happened or not ALREADY, without virtual reality. Anything that can create a memory or distort it can make our perception of past-events unique and not always what they really seem to be.
So.... you are saying that Microsoft is Google's daddy??
MICROSOFT: No. I am your father.
[Shocked, Google looks at Microsoft in utter disbelief.]
GOOGLE: No. No. That's not true! That's impossible!
I did too, however, I didn't necessarily have the time I had available before college.