A "forty" refers to a forty ounce beer which is a little more than a liter. It just tastes like normal beer. Sometimes I'll get a forty of Budweiser or Yuengling.
A forty is not exactly beer, and doesn't taste much like beer either. A forty is 40 ounces of malt liquor (basically cheap beer with a high alcohol content) like Mickey's, Old English, Colt 45, etc. It tastes like shitty beer with more of an alcohol bite to it.
Edit: Just saw you mentioned Carlsberg special brew, it is really similar to that, but in a 40 oz bottle.
Fair enough points. I agree with what you are saying.
I guess my point is that we don't know many facts about Microsoft's policy or platform for the One yet, and the 360's policy/platform was developed in 2005. Games were distributed and consumed very differently 7 years ago, so hopefully Microsoft will have learned something since then, and been influenced by the direction of Steam. If they don't open up their platform this time around they are going to have a lot of problems, especially with Sony putting emphasis on how open and developer friendly the PS4 will supposedly be.
If all of the rumors about the One's DRM are true it will be bad for the industry, and I will have no problem admitting that the people warning about it were right. We'll see what happens.
How come when Valve pioneers this digital distribution model it is the greatest thing ever, but when Microsoft tries to adjust their distribution model to catch up they are an evil corporation trying to limit consumer rights.
You can't resell games on Steam, and Steam games are tied to the account they were purchased on. Most major releases on Steam are 50-60 dollars and don't go on sale for months.
I don't really see what the big deal is here. We don't even know how the system will work yet. I would be very surprised if both the Playstation 4 and Xbox One don't have sales similar to Steam. Hell with Playstation Plus you get sales and free games already. Seems like this is just a bunch of people coming to conclusions before the facts are even known.
You should be fine. Generally the higher up you go, the less crime and the wealthier the area. You are right on the border of Oakland Hills, which is good. Just stay out of Richmond.
At first I assumed this was a horrible attempt at trolling, but then I saw you had 5000 posts and was floored.
I grew up in Palatine, Illinois until I was 18 and then left Chicago to go to Los Angeles for college, and live in SF now. It may amaze you, but most people outside of the midwest (especially on the west coast) have no idea what Chicago is about. For you to complain about someone repping their hometown on a podcast that has mostly listeners that know nothing about that town is fucking insane. This is the worst kind of trolling.
If you want to criticize Patrick legitimately that's fine, but this shit has gotten way out of hand.
It's all about costs. The console needs to cost somewhere between 300-500 dollars total to manufacture. That means that the CPU, GPU, RAM, hard disk, case, controller, etc. needs to cost total between 300-500 dollars to manufacture (I suppose it could cost a little more since consoles are historically sold at a loss). It would be difficult to meet this number if the machine has 16 GB of RAM considering that a decent GPU and ample hard disk space will be necessary this generation. Since the console manufacturers know that the machine will have a limited OS and limited applications, and this means that much less memory will be used due to OS overhead compared to a PC, it is easier for them to cut costs by including less memory because it would be hard to justify cutting the GPU or hard drive on a dedicated gaming/media machine. Basically the console manufacturers would rather have GPU memory and hard disk space than more RAM since the console will mostly be used for gaming and media consumption.
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