@Scummer Haha - now you're just showing off!! I think the best thing about rugby though is that even though it is so physical, it's still played at all levels, from primary school to club, pro and veteran levels. American football is basically played in full at school, and then (only if good enough) college, and then pro. Or in the garden. There's no wider community aspect.
If only rugby challenge could include the appropriate drinking games after a heavy victory/draw/loss/any-time-the-ball-is-touched.
You've clearly never watched or played proper rugby. It's incredibly violent - in the best sort of sporting way. Just like a linebacker lining up a quarterback for a massive hit, there are few things more satisfying in rugby than a massive tackle (ooo er!). Don't get me wrong, I also love NFL. But the reason they wear body armour (contrary to all silly ppl saying 'its cos their pussies') is not because it's somehow more violent, its because the nature of the game means you can get hit from all sides, at any time - so you often have no way of preparing for the biggest hits. In rugby, you know what's in front of you - but that doesn't make the tackles any less hard. And then we haven't even come to rucking!! Lineman and Guards in NFL weigh hundreds of pounds and essentially sumo wrestle. The big guys ('Front row') in rugby are smaller in stature, but are 100% muscle, relatively quick by comparison and literally kick the living crap out of each other for the fun of it - often when the ref isn't looking.
Also, I'd like to see the likes of Dan Morino or Tom Brady put the same hits in that rugby's equivalent quater back position - fly half - does. Just look up Jonny Wilkinson on Youtube. Or 'rugby big hits' for that matter.
I just bought one over a month ago at the old price. I've waited, literally since the the actually-quite-affordable-£349 version from 2005 for a good value mini, and even now I'm not too sure I've got it.
Every year I've thought to myself 'I'll just wait until they bump the RAM by double and make the superdrive standard - but for the same price' and nearly every year I've been disappointed.
In a typical Steve-Jobs-Think-Speak way of rationalising I finally managed to convince myself to get one because '£649 sounds like a lot but it will be £800 in two years time, so really its a good deal'.
And then they drop the price! I have to say though, for anyone with an aeging G4 and a thirst for Snow Leopard, my Mini really purrs along. Go finance and take the hit I say. It will always be more expensive next year.
This could well be a solid shooter and some impressive vistas (Lost Planet similarities??) but in the end, I can't see the revolution they're talking about. 'Interact with the world around you' - aka - shoot everything to see how it explodes. The technology behind the film is seriously impressive but I doubt the universe they are creating will have any of he believability or hook of HR Geiger's Aliens vision. The whole theme of environment and exploitation is hardly that original either. Anyway, I've got all fingers crossed for both the film and game!
'Now, I'm not suggesting that hardware specs don't matter at all in the Mac universe' ...
You know what though, I'm running a Powermac G4 (circa 1999) that I bought for next to nothing and upgraded for about £250 (at a time when I knew nothing about how to work the insides of a machine, or install a hardrive), and today it runs Tiger fantastically and CS3 at a far better pace and stability than both my Universitiy's 'new' design computer suite (XP run) or my gf's 16 month old Dell which has all these 'next gen' specs stats all over the box. I mean seriously, how many PCs can do that, or even boot up in 20 seconds?
That's the key to apple - every now and again if you want to boost your mac, you upgrade your iLife or OSX and it works almost seamlessly. The only issue I have is that barely anything new works on PPC architecture anymore, but that's my fault for not adopting intel machines. Can you imagine a powerhouse pc still working 10 years on?
Rugby World Cup 2011 demo now on Xbox Live, tomorrow on Euro PSN
Aug 3rd 2011 7:58AM (Joystiq)Haha - now you're just showing off!! I think the best thing about rugby though is that even though it is so physical, it's still played at all levels, from primary school to club, pro and veteran levels. American football is basically played in full at school, and then (only if good enough) college, and then pro. Or in the garden. There's no wider community aspect.
If only rugby challenge could include the appropriate drinking games after a heavy victory/draw/loss/any-time-the-ball-is-touched.
Rugby World Cup 2011 demo now on Xbox Live, tomorrow on Euro PSN
Aug 3rd 2011 5:25AM (Joystiq)You've clearly never watched or played proper rugby. It's incredibly violent - in the best sort of sporting way. Just like a linebacker lining up a quarterback for a massive hit, there are few things more satisfying in rugby than a massive tackle (ooo er!). Don't get me wrong, I also love NFL. But the reason they wear body armour (contrary to all silly ppl saying 'its cos their pussies') is not because it's somehow more violent, its because the nature of the game means you can get hit from all sides, at any time - so you often have no way of preparing for the biggest hits. In rugby, you know what's in front of you - but that doesn't make the tackles any less hard. And then we haven't even come to rucking!! Lineman and Guards in NFL weigh hundreds of pounds and essentially sumo wrestle. The big guys ('Front row') in rugby are smaller in stature, but are 100% muscle, relatively quick by comparison and literally kick the living crap out of each other for the fun of it - often when the ref isn't looking.
Also, I'd like to see the likes of Dan Morino or Tom Brady put the same hits in that rugby's equivalent quater back position - fly half - does. Just look up Jonny Wilkinson on Youtube. Or 'rugby big hits' for that matter.
Mac mini prices drop outside the US
Nov 4th 2010 1:38PM (TUAW.com)I just bought one over a month ago at the old price. I've waited, literally since the the actually-quite-affordable-£349 version from 2005 for a good value mini, and even now I'm not too sure I've got it.
Every year I've thought to myself 'I'll just wait until they bump the RAM by double and make the superdrive standard - but for the same price' and nearly every year I've been disappointed.
In a typical Steve-Jobs-Think-Speak way of rationalising I finally managed to convince myself to get one because '£649 sounds like a lot but it will be £800 in two years time, so really its a good deal'.
And then they drop the price! I have to say though, for anyone with an aeging G4 and a thirst for Snow Leopard, my Mini really purrs along. Go finance and take the hit I say. It will always be more expensive next year.
Avatar: The Game: The Developer Diary
Sep 22nd 2009 3:45AM (Joystiq)This could well be a solid shooter and some impressive vistas (Lost Planet similarities??) but in the end, I can't see the revolution they're talking about. 'Interact with the world around you' - aka - shoot everything to see how it explodes. The technology behind the film is seriously impressive but I doubt the universe they are creating will have any of he believability or hook of HR Geiger's Aliens vision. The whole theme of environment and exploitation is hardly that original either. Anyway, I've got all fingers crossed for both the film and game!
Think different? You bet I do!
Sep 9th 2009 9:55AM (TUAW.com)You know what though, I'm running a Powermac G4 (circa 1999) that I bought for next to nothing and upgraded for about £250 (at a time when I knew nothing about how to work the insides of a machine, or install a hardrive), and today it runs Tiger fantastically and CS3 at a far better pace and stability than both my Universitiy's 'new' design computer suite (XP run) or my gf's 16 month old Dell which has all these 'next gen' specs stats all over the box. I mean seriously, how many PCs can do that, or even boot up in 20 seconds?
That's the key to apple - every now and again if you want to boost your mac, you upgrade your iLife or OSX and it works almost seamlessly. The only issue I have is that barely anything new works on PPC architecture anymore, but that's my fault for not adopting intel machines. Can you imagine a powerhouse pc still working 10 years on?