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[QUOTE="Masenkoe"]Compatibility with non-gaming apps/drivers (drivers probably being the biggie for some)? Or do people forget that people would have to spend up to a ton of money to get a 64-bit machine? (Mobo, CPU, and new copy of Windows) 64 bit isn't new technology. If this were still 2005 then yes, you'd have a point about compatibility issues, but 64 bit compatibility hasn't been a problem since Vista launched. Virtually every driver and program these days comes in a 64 bit version too, and 32 bit drivers are only very, very rarely incompatible. If you have a device that doesn't support 64 bit at this point, it's time to upgrade that antique anyway. And if its a program then you need to find a new program that's actually being supported by the developer. Also, it doesn't cost money to upgrade beyond buying the OS. You don't need a new mobo and you don't need a new CPU unless you're using a pentium 4 or something even older than that in which case it's way past time to upgrade.I have no sympathy for anybody using 32 bit Windows still.
Especially gaming on it... why? Just why?
tjoeb123
[QUOTE="gameguy6700"][QUOTE="seanmcloughlin"] That isn't true and it never has been for any 1-10 rating scale ever. People see percentages and they immediately view them in the context of school grades, where 70-79 is a "C", 80-89 is a "B", 90+ is an "A", and everything below 70 is failing.seanmcloughlin
70 or 7.0 on GS is considered average and people who hear that these days associate it with being bad. No one wants to spend money on average products unless they really like certain aspects of the game. Everyone wants really hugh quality
Uh, yeah...generally speaking most people do want high quality in their products and services. I can't really recall any ads that ever said "Buy our stuff! It's AVERAGE!" or "Hire our services, they're acceptable!".Companies holding back all their big announcements until E3 isn't anything new, I don't know where you got that idea from. And it's not because of whiny gamers, it's because E3 is the industry's biggest trade show and thus the best place and time to hype your new stuff, especially since now that everyone can watch live coverage of E3 unlike in the past where the only way to see the announcements was to actually be at E3 or buy fan-made VHS tapes that would be released months afterward. It's the same reason why electronics companies wait until CES to show off their biggest upcoming gadgets. Also, the fan outrage over ME3 was 100% deserved. There's a difference between making a bad ending and making no ending at all. Even the BBB agreed that EA engaged in false advertising by promoting the game's ending as impressive, it was that bad.Yes and its detrimental to how much developers are willing to show their games now. They're all holding back till E3 and the alike because of negative publicity. A decent Far Cry 3 video showing off some cool lighting stuff was ripped apart on Youtube recently for example. Developers like Rockstar and Valve are in stealth mode. Look at the early reception of L4D2 for one. There's a lot of gamers out there who need to stick their heads out of the window occasionally. They live in fantasy land where they think they can get what they want. Just look at the Bioware forums. They were going to sue the company over that ending! I'm not joking!
biggest_loser
That isn't true and it never has been for any 1-10 rating scale ever. People see percentages and they immediately view them in the context of school grades, where 70-79 is a "C", 80-89 is a "B", 90+ is an "A", and everything below 70 is failing.All gamers these days think they're a critic and know everything about everything got to do with games. and it's all the internet's fault. I think gaming would almost be better off without forums telling people what to think and influencing them. Not directly but a long time ago if a game got a score of about 75% it was considered a great game. These days if people see that they think it's bad
seanmcloughlin
The issue is that there was insider trading. Although you are right, anyone with a brain should have realized that Facebook was immensely over-valued. However, people are dumb and will believe the hype about things they know nothing about, hence why we have console makers trying to copy the Wii (despite the fact the Wii's demographic stopped buying games years ago) and god only knows how many start-ups trying to make Facebook and smartphone games because they think Farmville and Angry Birds are the norm.The negative assesment was completely just. The value of the stocks are completely out of proportion compared to the revenue they make. I believe it was nearly 100 times as much. It's the 'bubble' thing all over again, there are simply too many idiot buyers out there who blindly buy stuff without actually looking at the viablity of a company.
rastotm
A thesis is different from a typical paper you do for a class. Typically you spend at least a year writing a thesis, and it's on work you've been doing for awhile. Keep in mind too that a thesis is essentially a term paper for your entire academic career up to that point, so it's going to be a bit more hardcore than the average paper. Another thing to keep in mind is that by the time you get to that point you're ready for it. It's like how high school classes seemed impossibly difficult when you were in elementary school, but by the time you got to high school they didn't seem any more difficult than anything you had already done before.I've noticed that some people in this topic thread they say they've had 100 pages for a thesis.
Wow really? Hope you're telling the truth or just BSing. I would rather kill myself than try to do a 100 page essay/report on a person or an event that happened in the past.
20 pages would be my limit if I wanted to challenge myself. But a 100 page essay? Hell no LOL.
Let's say that I wanted to do an essay/report/research history assignment, I would come up with 2 to 3 pages of my own words while the other pages I'll probably have to use the internet to find more info on the thing that I want to write about.
slamminjammin69
You've either never been in an upper level writing-intensive class, or you went to a shlt-tier university. If the professor who's reading your paper actually holds you to some kind of standard they'll tear you apart for any unsupported or illogical claims you make. I remember I took a writing intensive neuroscience class where a lot of the kids tried to do the same stuff they did to pass their freshman writing classes and damn near failed the class as a result because spouting BS in a paper was no longer tolerated.[QUOTE="gameguy6700"][QUOTE="Serraph105"] :roll: or you could do the intelligent thing and make it a careful balance of BS and evidence supported fact so that the BS part doesn't stick out like a sore thumb when read by a professor.Serraph105
I never said make illogical statements.
That's what BS'ing implies: Making stuff up and not really worrying about the internal consistency of the argument. It's just throwing words on the page to fill a quota.
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