It is a damn good game, I just hope they can keep upgrading hardware fast enough to accommodate the rapid growth of players. Most of which are leaving other games like WoW.
Amen, to that brother. Just adding content that allows scaling between hardcore player and the casual player would be a great boon to ANY online multiplayer game. You know, give a little something to all the players making it worth their time to play and pay for your game. Casual players pay the same amount as the hardcore players and don't use as many resources.
But I also think that when you looking at raw numbers casual players are much more likely to dump your product for the next big thing. Those Hardcore 16-hour a day guys are much more likely to keep paying long-term because they've already invested a lot of time getting that ultra-super-pimp-smack-yo-ass-elite gear. So even if they do decide to try another game, they are less likely to discontinue their subscription due to all the work they put into it. I'm just not sure if Blizzard has enough of those uber-gamers to maintain all those servers when the casual players start dropping in droves for lack of content.
Of course some casuals just re-roll and start a new character. I did twice but never felt like playing the new characters, I was just re-doing pretty much everything I did with the other character just in a slightly different play-style. SO I walked.
Too bad they didn't get the other plant fitted before the dismal Holiday Season launch. May have missed a lot of possible hype sales because of the lack of availability. That being said, if a premium box does become available around the time my Tax return comes back, I'll probably buy one. Barring that there aren't a lot more product failure reports and such. The problems that are out there now (rumored or not) got me kind of iffy and tempted to just wait out till all 3 consoles are out. Pick a definate winner and pick the other 2 up after a few price drops and decent must have games come out for them.
And fuck anyone who mentions Ebay. I am not interested in supporting scalping and artificial creation of demand by money grubbing mongrals who buy up every system in the store to resell. I hope MS can push the manufacturing up enough that these bastards get stuck with an ass-load of systems they can't sell for more than the MRSP.
Because of all the damn raids. I do not want to sit and try to get a 15 man raid together to go to UBRS much less the time it takes to get a 40 Man together for one of the big dungeons.
Blizzard lost me as a customer as soon as I finished the last 5 man casual quest. Enough with the dungeons that take 8 hours to complete. I don't have that kind of time, I have a job and a wife. All i see coming down the line is patches adding more RAID content. SO I moved on.
Playing EVE now. What I like most about it, other than it being completely different than WOW, is that the play experience is dictated by me. I can be as indepth as I want, sinking hours upon hours into it at my leisure, or just login every now and then to check my skill training. Which makes it much more accessable to me during the week while I work, just login for a quick 30 minute to an hour fix and actually still come away feeling like I accomplished something.
Its also a game that involves some patience and time-management too, since all skills are learned in real time (even while not playing). The end result is as long as I choose carefully what skills to advance there is no way to literally be left behind training wise. Money still takes some grinding but not like it does in WoW.
Those are drivers for PC systems that have to take into account the 50 different motherboard chipsets and have to compete with resources with any other device with drivers you have in there that are assigned IRQs and DMAs at bootup. Not to mention you are more than likely refering to a windows system which isn't know to be the most stable to begin with. Drivers like these are written and designed for non-static systems where hardware can change.
Consoles are a whole different ball game. You have a very definative list of specs and hardware and an absolute UNCHANGING API to the hardware layer. No other background programs running middle men OS's. Consoles for the most part don't have drivers in the same sense that PCs do simply because the hardware is static. Changing the hardware has a strong possibility of breaking the game compatibility, which makes it a PC.
That sounds like a serious pitfall. I have never even seen a 360 system, crap load of games on the shelves though. I probably would have bought the system if I could have found it. Christmas has come and gone and my budget has shrunk back to reasonable levels; I won't be getting one till after the first price drop or more than likely next christmas, if then. Between here and there, there is a PS3 and a Nintendo coming out to compete with. Now they get to compete with which system has the most games I am interested in.
I think the shortage over the holidays was a VERY bad move on Microsoft's part, if they wanted to get a big install base. They should have risked losing a christmas launch in a less popular/critical region (Europe?) and sending more to sure markets than having such lack-luster results due to shortages in all regions. Now they just have a very unimpressive user-base in all regions launched. But that's Microsofts problem.
TakeTwo's problem; if I had a 360, NONE of those games would be one I would buy. I would own PGR3, and DOA. I'd buy Oblivion, but they keep pushing it back.
IMHO everything after Civ2 just got too convoluted and a pain in the ass to play. Also I realize I am a minority, but I can't stand the GTA games. They bore me to tears and offer me nothing I can relate with. "Steal this car, deal some drugs, shoot some cops, join gang X..." Honestly I've never felt the drive to do any of those things and just can't for the life of me have fun doing them in a game. Oh and I like some dark subject material for my games; vampires, demons, dragons, aliens, genocide, mayhem... I guess I just like games that offer me the ability to do things I could NEVER do in real life, like annihilate demons from hell, or be a space pirate.
I have an authentic Super NES cartridge of On the Ball by Taito on my lap as I submit this. Please link to an online store where I can buy the GBA re-release of the same title.
The point wasn't that EVERY game was re-released. Obviously not every title that EVER came out is going to get a re-release. If you are one of the 10 people who actully only have the roms for the games you own, then good for you. You are a MINORITY.
After searching and failing to find the links I asked for, now you know one reason why people turn to emulation: their favorite titles have not been officially re-released for any handheld system.
PS most people don't turn to emulation for that one game they own for their atari 2600 that they have to now play on the way to work or school in a bus. They turn to it cause is a great way to get a lot of free games from the internet without buying them. Also I'm willing to bet the number of people who actually use emulators use them on their home PCs which offer a lot more flexibility for emulating newer hardware, not on portable systems. Its hard to get real numbers based on its illegal, under the counter nature, but I'll never bet on the good nature of man to do the right thing if he thinks he can get away with doing the wrong.
If you buy a copier, then private space-shifting of ROMs is certainly covered under existing fair use exemptions, which the United States, many European countries, and now Australia have recognized in statute and/or judicially.
Last time I checked ROM copiers cost a lot and weren't particularly available down at radio shack. Also I do believe I've already addressed this issue in the previous post. In fact read the second paragraph of my previous post again. NOw again. NOW again. Now tell me that I didn't just say the same thing you ranted about?
I'm not attacking your right to use emulators, buddy. I just stated my opinion that I want a portable game machine that "Just works", not have to dick around with settings and incompatibilities. And I was posting as an "OWNER" (yes that's right I have experience with the previous machine) about my dislike of always having to mess with it to get it to run. Things run slow or choppy, just don't run, or crash the unit for a hard reset without notice. I'm sorry things like that tend to piss me off while I am playing a game.
If you feel dealing with all that so you can play Pong, ET, and your "friend's" copy of Maniac Mansion, then by all means this is the machine for YOU! For those of us who like to enjoy their free time because it seems everyone else where you work wants to make your life living hell, then this is not the machine for you.
No, I can't take my SNES with me, but I can take all the re-releases on GBA. they usually run smoother, have a little nicer graphics and most importantly they are "LEGAL" for me to have/use in every sense of the word (no gray area risk of prosecution) and I like showing my vote with cash about what games I like so they can make more games of a similar type. I like 2D adventure games a lot more than those damn 3d ones that everyone is touting now, what better way to show support for a genre than "BUY" it rather than "scab" it?
Yeah I know the whole media transfer issue, if I own the original i can emulate just fine legally... but c'mon who the hell uses roms/emus and OWNS a hard copy of the games they are playing? I'd wager VERY VERY few. Just another example of click-thru piracy for most people ( no insult to the 10 people who do it legally).
I have one, I used it maybe 3 or four times with a NES emulator, and some game I bought called "Little Wizards" or something like that. Nothing ever came out that was any fun for it. Which is why I won't be getting the GPX2,I like playing nice games on my portables. I save all my technical dicking around for my PCs at home. Besides, just about every game I am interested in emulating I have on original hardware already.:) Nintendo also seems to like pushing out classics for their new systems, milking a premium from them, which is fine by me, I can get classics at a much lower price that way. Every re-release drops the ass-end out of prices on Ebay.
Try being in the American Armed Forces stationed over seas.
I stopped learning german for that very reason, I got to where I understood enough to really know they despise me for being forced to live in their country and spend my money to live here.
I was never interested in living here anyway, but to find so much blantant hate and complete inequal treatment of anyone who isn't explicitly german is absolutely astonishing.
(I will not generalize and say all of them are this way, My landlady is the sweetest old lady, who I bring brownies to and help shovel snow for, and I've easily spent hours with a german english dictionary with her hammering out a conversation that is usually quite informative on their lifestyles. I have just had a whole lot of bad experiences at the hands of locals.)
I grew up in a particularly red-neck oriented area, that I take great pride in escaping and dis-associating all of the backwards and moronic beliefs, but I will tell you and anyone else who says racism is a horrible problem for America or Region X is full of the stinkiest kind of Bull manure. Racism is a problem for every damn nation on this planet, and while we're at it, lets add Blind Nationalism, and Blind Political Party support.
It all boils down to the same damn thing, pre-concieved notions of what something/someone is without any damn proof or thought, because it so much easier to agree with what fear-mongerer 'A' says than to actually think about the issue and make your own damn opinion on a per case basis.
Grow an opinion based on your own home grown experiences and not what you are told.
its a joke. perhaps you should read the context of the article. Its basically trying to list gaming in with the likes of drug addiction and the lot, which goes the "Save the Children" people find abhorent. No moral high horse here, but I guess I can't rely on the intelligence of the slashdot reader to pick up on sarcasm without the use of the infamous "" tag.
You gave out blowjobs and the ass-secks (or some other morally reprehensible behavoir) so you could get an Xbox360? Okay I stand corrected. Gaming addiction "IS" obviously a serious problem.
Well if you define addictions by what generates a positive response in the brain, just about anything that is fun can/will become an addiction. On the other hand I'd like to quote a line from Bob Sagat in the Movie half-baked.
"Have you ever sucked cock for pot!? You don't have an addiction."
^substitute games for pot. Serious addictions can cause a serious breakdown in self-image to the point where anything is acceptable to get the next fix. When I start seeing offers for people to give the ass-secks and other such non-social openly acceptable behavior then I'll deem "game" addiction as a serious threat to the youth of the world. But honestly I don't think that will happen anytime soon.
"Hey man I'll give you head for an hour with your Xbox360...."
Never said I had a good opinion of it in the first place. The comment was more along the lines of, blind leading the blind, etc.
Only time i ever even boot windows is to play games. I sure as hell don't browse the web with it. That would be like having sex with a million 2-dollar whores with no protection. You're bound to catch something.
Shouldn't be a problem since you have to have "Windows" to get the rootkit installed anyway. So unless you've done some serious hacking... you have Internet Explorer, even if it is not your default browser. Remember that little anti-trust suit?
Mentioning the "Evil" Empire's ActiveX abomination doesn't always get you positive Karma on slashdot. And seeing how this problem only plagues windows machines, I find it oddly appropriate/ironic that a windows IE only webpage fixes it.
I'd try a MAC out if I could even come close to getting the hardware performance I can get with a PC at even 20% more than cost. As it is, they simply cost too much. I can build a pretty posh PC myself for $800 and throw linux on it and watch it run like a top.
Tout os performance all you like, but really it boils down to a specialty OS for specialty hardware. I used to hae a SGI machine that was awesome back in 94-96 (indigo2 Xtreme graphics) but I finally got rid of it because there was nothing i could really do with it that wasn't specifically designed for it.
I've come very close to buying a Mac Laptop, I've used one and it's pretty nice and actually quite competitive in the market for features and price.
I have no brand loyalty at all, it's whatever hardware I can use to get the job done, and if its not the best tool but costs me half as much, well I'll use the cheaper tool. I'm not rich.
I only survived because of the DigiPen Dumbell (64 oz bladder buster sized cup of Mountain Dew from the 7eleven on the corner). Although I will contest that my sanity has never been quite the same.
about where and how they come up with these 'odds'?
Would this be one of those instances of '95% of all statistics are made up'?
I mean, it seeams if he could get a somewhat reasonable graps at the trajectory and distance of the asteroid thy could get a fair guess about probability of impact and location of impact, but how do they arbitrarily convert a guess into a number ratio?
I guess I'd just like to see the math on how they come up with these numbers.
I'm not going to try to defend the intelligence of the human race here, but have you tried watching the news lately? It's all scare-tactics, and sensationalist drama. Maybe people, like myself, are just pretty damn tired of seeing and hearing the same damn thing everytime they turn on the TV. I've been living outside the US for 2 years now with no American TV (or any TV for that matter) and I don't miss it a bit. When I get on the internet, I have a routine. CNN.COM -> SLASHDOT -> BLOG -> Google searches (usually games, or other entertainment venues). If I feel the overage on CNN is lacking something I'll swing by FOX see their take on it, but I ALWAYS read the news with a big chunk of salt in hand.
Point is I think it would be very easy for the top search terms to be entertainment related. People want to get away from the endless monotony of their lives and the broadcasting of all the worlds sorrows on the news.
I was thinking the USB port would be used for A Mouse or a Keyboard. Especially for someone who though this would be great for editing docs on the go.
Of course the other half of me thought immediately, i could use it for a game controller and slap mame or another emulator on this bad boy... 600+ MGhz should be plenty enough to run a SNES emu.
I mean it has built in wireless networking and anyone who would buy this would fork over $50 for a wireless AP right? File Transfer problems solved.
A suspected terrorist was arrested in California today. He was reportedly gathering military intelligence and distributing it to terrorist cells via the internet.
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It is a damn good game, I just hope they can keep upgrading hardware fast enough to accommodate the rapid growth of players. Most of which are leaving other games like WoW.
Amen, to that brother. Just adding content that allows scaling between hardcore player and the casual player would be a great boon to ANY online multiplayer game. You know, give a little something to all the players making it worth their time to play and pay for your game. Casual players pay the same amount as the hardcore players and don't use as many resources.
But I also think that when you looking at raw numbers casual players are much more likely to dump your product for the next big thing. Those Hardcore 16-hour a day guys are much more likely to keep paying long-term because they've already invested a lot of time getting that ultra-super-pimp-smack-yo-ass-elite gear. So even if they do decide to try another game, they are less likely to discontinue their subscription due to all the work they put into it. I'm just not sure if Blizzard has enough of those uber-gamers to maintain all those servers when the casual players start dropping in droves for lack of content.
Of course some casuals just re-roll and start a new character. I did twice but never felt like playing the new characters, I was just re-doing pretty much everything I did with the other character just in a slightly different play-style. SO I walked.
Too bad they didn't get the other plant fitted before the dismal Holiday Season launch. May have missed a lot of possible hype sales because of the lack of availability. That being said, if a premium box does become available around the time my Tax return comes back, I'll probably buy one. Barring that there aren't a lot more product failure reports and such. The problems that are out there now (rumored or not) got me kind of iffy and tempted to just wait out till all 3 consoles are out. Pick a definate winner and pick the other 2 up after a few price drops and decent must have games come out for them.
And fuck anyone who mentions Ebay. I am not interested in supporting scalping and artificial creation of demand by money grubbing mongrals who buy up every system in the store to resell. I hope MS can push the manufacturing up enough that these bastards get stuck with an ass-load of systems they can't sell for more than the MRSP.
Because of all the damn raids. I do not want to sit and try to get a 15 man raid together to go to UBRS much less the time it takes to get a 40 Man together for one of the big dungeons.
Blizzard lost me as a customer as soon as I finished the last 5 man casual quest. Enough with the dungeons that take 8 hours to complete. I don't have that kind of time, I have a job and a wife. All i see coming down the line is patches adding more RAID content. SO I moved on.
Playing EVE now. What I like most about it, other than it being completely different than WOW, is that the play experience is dictated by me. I can be as indepth as I want, sinking hours upon hours into it at my leisure, or just login every now and then to check my skill training. Which makes it much more accessable to me during the week while I work, just login for a quick 30 minute to an hour fix and actually still come away feeling like I accomplished something.
Its also a game that involves some patience and time-management too, since all skills are learned in real time (even while not playing). The end result is as long as I choose carefully what skills to advance there is no way to literally be left behind training wise. Money still takes some grinding but not like it does in WoW.
A fun MMORPG without so much tedious upkeep.
Let me know when that color model comes out for sub $500. That looks promising and more flexible.
Those are drivers for PC systems that have to take into account the 50 different motherboard chipsets and have to compete with resources with any other device with drivers you have in there that are assigned IRQs and DMAs at bootup. Not to mention you are more than likely refering to a windows system which isn't know to be the most stable to begin with.
Drivers like these are written and designed for non-static systems where hardware can change.
Consoles are a whole different ball game. You have a very definative list of specs and hardware and an absolute UNCHANGING API to the hardware layer. No other background programs running middle men OS's. Consoles for the most part don't have drivers in the same sense that PCs do simply because the hardware is static. Changing the hardware has a strong possibility of breaking the game compatibility, which makes it a PC.
That sounds like a serious pitfall. I have never even seen a 360 system, crap load of games on the shelves though. I probably would have bought the system if I could have found it. Christmas has come and gone and my budget has shrunk back to reasonable levels; I won't be getting one till after the first price drop or more than likely next christmas, if then. Between here and there, there is a PS3 and a Nintendo coming out to compete with. Now they get to compete with which system has the most games I am interested in.
I think the shortage over the holidays was a VERY bad move on Microsoft's part, if they wanted to get a big install base. They should have risked losing a christmas launch in a less popular/critical region (Europe?) and sending more to sure markets than having such lack-luster results due to shortages in all regions. Now they just have a very unimpressive user-base in all regions launched. But that's Microsofts problem.
TakeTwo's problem; if I had a 360, NONE of those games would be one I would buy. I would own PGR3, and DOA. I'd buy Oblivion, but they keep pushing it back.
IMHO everything after Civ2 just got too convoluted and a pain in the ass to play. Also I realize I am a minority, but I can't stand the GTA games. They bore me to tears and offer me nothing I can relate with. "Steal this car, deal some drugs, shoot some cops, join gang X..." Honestly I've never felt the drive to do any of those things and just can't for the life of me have fun doing them in a game. Oh and I like some dark subject material for my games; vampires, demons, dragons, aliens, genocide, mayhem... I guess I just like games that offer me the ability to do things I could NEVER do in real life, like annihilate demons from hell, or be a space pirate.
Am I the only one that dislikes the GTA series?
The point wasn't that EVERY game was re-released. Obviously not every title that EVER came out is going to get a re-release. If you are one of the 10 people who actully only have the roms for the games you own, then good for you. You are a MINORITY.
PS most people don't turn to emulation for that one game they own for their atari 2600 that they have to now play on the way to work or school in a bus. They turn to it cause is a great way to get a lot of free games from the internet without buying them. Also I'm willing to bet the number of people who actually use emulators use them on their home PCs which offer a lot more flexibility for emulating newer hardware, not on portable systems. Its hard to get real numbers based on its illegal, under the counter nature, but I'll never bet on the good nature of man to do the right thing if he thinks he can get away with doing the wrong.
Last time I checked ROM copiers cost a lot and weren't particularly available down at radio shack. Also I do believe I've already addressed this issue in the previous post. In fact read the second paragraph of my previous post again. NOw again. NOW again. Now tell me that I didn't just say the same thing you ranted about?
I'm not attacking your right to use emulators, buddy. I just stated my opinion that I want a portable game machine that "Just works", not have to dick around with settings and incompatibilities. And I was posting as an "OWNER" (yes that's right I have experience with the previous machine) about my dislike of always having to mess with it to get it to run. Things run slow or choppy, just don't run, or crash the unit for a hard reset without notice. I'm sorry things like that tend to piss me off while I am playing a game.
If you feel dealing with all that so you can play Pong, ET, and your "friend's" copy of Maniac Mansion, then by all means this is the machine for YOU! For those of us who like to enjoy their free time because it seems everyone else where you work wants to make your life living hell, then this is not the machine for you.
No, I can't take my SNES with me, but I can take all the re-releases on GBA. they usually run smoother, have a little nicer graphics and most importantly they are "LEGAL" for me to have/use in every sense of the word (no gray area risk of prosecution) and I like showing my vote with cash about what games I like so they can make more games of a similar type. I like 2D adventure games a lot more than those damn 3d ones that everyone is touting now, what better way to show support for a genre than "BUY" it rather than "scab" it?
Yeah I know the whole media transfer issue, if I own the original i can emulate just fine legally... but c'mon who the hell uses roms/emus and OWNS a hard copy of the games they are playing? I'd wager VERY VERY few. Just another example of click-thru piracy for most people ( no insult to the 10 people who do it legally).
I have one, I used it maybe 3 or four times with a NES emulator, and some game I bought called "Little Wizards" or something like that. Nothing ever came out that was any fun for it. Which is why I won't be getting the GPX2,I like playing nice games on my portables. I save all my technical dicking around for my PCs at home. Besides, just about every game I am interested in emulating I have on original hardware already. :) Nintendo also seems to like pushing out classics for their new systems, milking a premium from them, which is fine by me, I can get classics at a much lower price that way. Every re-release drops the ass-end out of prices on Ebay.
It is soo true.
Try being in the American Armed Forces stationed over seas.
I stopped learning german for that very reason, I got to where I understood enough to really know they despise me for being forced to live in their country and spend my money to live here.
I was never interested in living here anyway, but to find so much blantant hate and complete inequal treatment of anyone who isn't explicitly german is absolutely astonishing.
(I will not generalize and say all of them are this way, My landlady is the sweetest old lady, who I bring brownies to and help shovel snow for, and I've easily spent hours with a german english dictionary with her hammering out a conversation that is usually quite informative on their lifestyles. I have just had a whole lot of bad experiences at the hands of locals.)
I grew up in a particularly red-neck oriented area, that I take great pride in escaping and dis-associating all of the backwards and moronic beliefs, but I will tell you and anyone else who says racism is a horrible problem for America or Region X is full of the stinkiest kind of Bull manure. Racism is a problem for every damn nation on this planet, and while we're at it, lets add Blind Nationalism, and Blind Political Party support.
It all boils down to the same damn thing, pre-concieved notions of what something/someone is without any damn proof or thought, because it so much easier to agree with what fear-mongerer 'A' says than to actually think about the issue and make your own damn opinion on a per case basis.
Grow an opinion based on your own home grown experiences and not what you are told.
what's 4chan. seriously never heard of it. ass-secks is just some bad vernacular I picked up on a forum somewhere, think it was NeoGeo.com flame room.
its a joke. perhaps you should read the context of the article. Its basically trying to list gaming in with the likes of drug addiction and the lot, which goes the "Save the Children" people find abhorent. No moral high horse here, but I guess I can't rely on the intelligence of the slashdot reader to pick up on sarcasm without the use of the infamous "" tag.
You gave out blowjobs and the ass-secks (or some other morally reprehensible behavoir) so you could get an Xbox360? Okay I stand corrected. Gaming addiction "IS" obviously a serious problem.
lol
Well if you define addictions by what generates a positive response in the brain, just about anything that is fun can/will become an addiction. On the other hand I'd like to quote a line from Bob Sagat in the Movie half-baked.
"Have you ever sucked cock for pot!? You don't have an addiction."
^substitute games for pot. Serious addictions can cause a serious breakdown in self-image to the point where anything is acceptable to get the next fix. When I start seeing offers for people to give the ass-secks and other such non-social openly acceptable behavior then I'll deem "game" addiction as a serious threat to the youth of the world. But honestly I don't think that will happen anytime soon.
"Hey man I'll give you head for an hour with your Xbox360...."
Never said I had a good opinion of it in the first place. The comment was more along the lines of, blind leading the blind, etc.
Only time i ever even boot windows is to play games. I sure as hell don't browse the web with it. That would be like having sex with a million 2-dollar whores with no protection. You're bound to catch something.
Shouldn't be a problem since you have to have "Windows" to get the rootkit installed anyway. So unless you've done some serious hacking... you have Internet Explorer, even if it is not your default browser. Remember that little anti-trust suit?
Mentioning the "Evil" Empire's ActiveX abomination doesn't always get you positive Karma on slashdot. And seeing how this problem only plagues windows machines, I find it oddly appropriate/ironic that a windows IE only webpage fixes it.
I'd try a MAC out if I could even come close to getting the hardware performance I can get with a PC at even 20% more than cost. As it is, they simply cost too much. I can build a pretty posh PC myself for $800 and throw linux on it and watch it run like a top.
Tout os performance all you like, but really it boils down to a specialty OS for specialty hardware. I used to hae a SGI machine that was awesome back in 94-96 (indigo2 Xtreme graphics) but I finally got rid of it because there was nothing i could really do with it that wasn't specifically designed for it.
I've come very close to buying a Mac Laptop, I've used one and it's pretty nice and actually quite competitive in the market for features and price.
I have no brand loyalty at all, it's whatever hardware I can use to get the job done, and if its not the best tool but costs me half as much, well I'll use the cheaper tool. I'm not rich.
I took it one step further, now maybe all those dating scam sites will quit emailing me.
Yup, digipen kicked my ass hardcore.
I only survived because of the DigiPen Dumbell (64 oz bladder buster sized cup of Mountain Dew from the 7eleven on the corner). Although I will contest that my sanity has never been quite the same.
about where and how they come up with these 'odds'?
Would this be one of those instances of '95% of all statistics are made up'?
I mean, it seeams if he could get a somewhat reasonable graps at the trajectory and distance of the asteroid thy could get a fair guess about probability of impact and location of impact, but how do they arbitrarily convert a guess into a number ratio?
I guess I'd just like to see the math on how they come up with these numbers.
I'm not going to try to defend the intelligence of the human race here, but have you tried watching the news lately? It's all scare-tactics, and sensationalist drama. Maybe people, like myself, are just pretty damn tired of seeing and hearing the same damn thing everytime they turn on the TV. I've been living outside the US for 2 years now with no American TV (or any TV for that matter) and I don't miss it a bit. When I get on the internet, I have a routine. CNN.COM -> SLASHDOT -> BLOG -> Google searches (usually games, or other entertainment venues).
If I feel the overage on CNN is lacking something I'll swing by FOX see their take on it, but I ALWAYS read the news with a big chunk of salt in hand.
Point is I think it would be very easy for the top search terms to be entertainment related. People want to get away from the endless monotony of their lives and the broadcasting of all the worlds sorrows on the news.
Just a thought.
Do you have to have a permit for that?
.Fish do you think you could catch with a .net?
.fish are in the the boston harbor... are they .edible?
How many
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I was thinking the USB port would be used for A Mouse or a Keyboard. Especially for someone who though this would be great for editing docs on the go.
Of course the other half of me thought immediately, i could use it for a game controller and slap mame or another emulator on this bad boy... 600+ MGhz should be plenty enough to run a SNES emu.
I mean it has built in wireless networking and anyone who would buy this would fork over $50 for a wireless AP right? File Transfer problems solved.
A suspected terrorist was arrested in California today. He was reportedly gathering military intelligence and distributing it to terrorist cells via the internet.
Now for the weather....