Comment Re:Ill be sure and send mine right back! (Score 2) 417
Well, I haven't seen Michael Kristopeit lately...
Comment Now, if only iPod Touch support... (Score 3, Interesting) 147
I'm wondering why they restrict it to iPhone only...
Comment Crysis? (Score 0, Offtopic) 62
Is anybody working on a GB port of Crysis?
College To Save Money By Switching Email Font
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The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay has come up with an unusual way of saving money: changing their email font. The school expects to use 30% less ink by switching from Arial to Century Gothic. From the article: "Diane Blohowiak is the school's director of computing. She says the new font uses about 30 percent less ink than the previous one. That could add up to real savings, since the cost of printer ink works out to about $10,000 per gallon. Blohowiak says the decision is part of the school's five-year plan to go green. She tells Wisconsin Public Radio it's great that a change that's eco-friendly also saves money."
Comment Why 32? (Score 5, Insightful) 198
24 is plausible, too; an arithmetic not geometric progression.
Comment Re:Wrong summary (Score 5, Funny) 177
2. Couldn't this say $40,000,000 USD (FORTY MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS) to be more dramatic?
It's European, not Nigerian.
Comment Re:You lose, I win! (Score 1) 520
Obviously, I was referring to Flawless there. Try again.
Comment Re:You lose, I win! (Score 1) 520
And a ~200k UID not taking every opportunity to crow about it would be even neater.
Plus, I'd think that a 5 year-old would be able to realize that not all Anonymous Cowards are the same person. My first post in this discussion was 29606017. I am, and have been, perfectly aware of the fact that the Wii isn't sold for a loss. Oh, and calling people asshats? Mature.
Plus, I'd think that a 5 year-old would be able to realize that not all Anonymous Cowards are the same person. My first post in this discussion was 29606017. I am, and have been, perfectly aware of the fact that the Wii isn't sold for a loss. Oh, and calling people asshats? Mature.
Comment Re:You lose, I win! (Score 1) 520
You remind me of Flawless at the Rock Band forums; a huge dickhead who manages to stay enough within the rules to avoid a ban.
And now that The Price Is Right is over, I'm going to go accomplish something today. Have fun finding someone else to argue with.
Comment Re:Why is that legal? (Score 1) 520
You know what happens when you thought? You make an ass out of you and... well, mostly you.
Comment Great... (Score 5, Insightful) 259
So now I'll just have to Safari to look up the meanings of dirty words.
Comment Re:Too much cost... (Score 1) 225
I clicked on this article, saw GP, logged in, and saw parent.
Just what I was going to say. At 60 bucks for 80+ songs, that's about* as good as you're likely to find.
*You can get 55 songs off the original Rock Band disc for $5
Comment Re:That's a nice budget you got there (Score 1) 418
I call the right arm. Maybe I'll get a mouse to go with the deal.
(I'm a 3rd-year CS major at UW-Madison)
Comment Re:Ah, solar puberty . . . (Score 4, Funny) 99
Boy, I wish there was a "-1, Disgusting" (or +1) mod.
Comment Re:I'm not surprised (Score 1) 326
Agreed. Console ships without a game, one controller. So when you buy an Xbox it's: $350 for the box (depending on when you bought it)
The "standard" model (wireless controller + 60 gig drive) is $300
$75 for wireless ethernet card that wasn't built-in
What, because an unreliable wireless connection is so much better than sticking with wires? Actual price of it is $100, but it's hardly a requirement
$60 for additional controller
More like $50 if you need a wireless, less for a wired controller (which also works with your PC). These go on sale fairly often, and can be had for more like the $35 range
$30 for the recharager battery pack designed to work with the controllers but doesn't leaving you stuck with conventional batteries
$20 for a battery and charging cable, and I have no idea what you're smoking that they don't work. Only one I've ever had a problem with was a used third-party battery pack I got off ebay.
$x for cabling if you need hdmi or whatever.
Why stop there? What if you need a TV to play on? How about $1000 for that?
Wireless headphones are required in a household larger than one but I won't label that as equipment that should have come with the unit. Would be another $120 or something? Not required if you're pc-gaming at your desk but if the PC is a media center unit, you'd be spending the money anyway.
Required? Pish tosh. Turn the volume down, or get an extender cable for headphones. I see 25' for $1.62 at monoprice.
And as you mentioned, the default 20gb HD is small and you want to buy a bigger one for all the DLC and shit but wait, it has to be MS-branded, you can't save your stuff onto a conventional usb drive. And you'll have to buy a flash-based card to serve as backup to your HDD because you know the HDD could crash at any time. Don't want to lose a hundred hours worth of gaming to a dead disk.
Boy, this is fun. Default drive size nowadays is 60 gigs. 20 gigs was the old usual (and is what I have), and has been plenty big for me. Newsflash: you don't need DLC, and even if you get it, you don't need a huge drive. I'm not totally knowledgeable about this process, but I guess you can get the 120 gig platter that MS uses and install it yourself, run ya $50 or something.
And the worst part of all this is you know the peripherals will all change with the next system that comes out.
So... you're still doing computer games on the same hardware setup that you were using in '05?
Consoles were supposed to be for budget gaming and pc's for people with deep pockets. Console gaming remains extremely expensive.
[citation needed] By my count, it's somewhere in the $500 games for a full setup, including games. Good luck getting a decent computer for that much.
