heh.. ok, you do have a point, but aside from about 5 seconds of jubbly goodness, the movie was horrendous. Everytime anyone said or did anything computer-related, I wanted to bang my head into the wall because it would probably be less painful than listening to them. Worst hacker movie evar.**
A paper copy of a document is in a standardized open format. Further, it is known to be readable for millenia if kept under the correct conditions. We're still able to read legal correspondence written 3500 years ago. Ok, that was written on papyrus but there really isn't all that much difference between papyrus and modern paper.
Nice sidestep there. Now address what I was talking about, which was the legacy systems.
Every law firm worth its salt has double-redundancy: old systems are kept and paper copies of all documents.
I can't tell if you're trying to say they're smart for keeping all these old systems around, or dumb for not using a standardized open format so that they wouldn't have to.
If you like console games, then ditching the pc in favor of a console is fine. For me, I mostly enjoy FPSs, RPGs, and RTSs. So since the consoles basically suck at all of those, I don't have a problem with bi-annually upgrading my PC. If I ever get into sports games, platformers, or start to enjoy games based on movies, then maybe I'll get a console.
Reminds me of the old Divx players that they tried to foist on us several years back, when DVD players were just starting to become popular. They had to be connected to a phone jack so they could phone home and let their masters know what you were up to. Ok, they didn't self-destruct, but the potential was there. I was elated to see that crappy technology flop. I remember a Circuit City sales guy trying to sell me one. He failed miserably when trying to explain how it was better for me to have discs that would expire and a player that would inform on me.
Well, those people are playing the game as warriors, wizards, rogues, etc. They may not speak or act like they should, but to them, they are playing the part of the character they created. The problem with MMOs is that everyone wants something different from the game, and those wants are usually not very compatible.
After failing to fight their way off the ship for about ten minutes, they declare the game "brainless" and never play it again, choosing instead to mock those who do.
Sorry, but it all came down to driving around and shooting stuff and nothing more really. There was no real puzzle, no mystery to solve, no one to talk to, and no way to influence anything besides blowing stuff up. That's what they mean by brainless.
I'm usually one of those "no fantasy in my science-fiction, and no science-fiction in my fantasy thankyou" types, but shadowrun is the exception.
I felt the same way when I first read about Shadowrun, way back. It sounded ridiculous to me. But once I checked it out, read a few books and stuff, I realized how well they really pulled it off. It's great setting for a game.
If you (or my parent poster) think that copyright law is flawed, then feel free to make that argument. Just don't make the argument that "people will do it anyway" because it's not a valid argument against any law or enforcement of any law.
Good point. Copyright law is dramatically flawed, which is why people don't see it as wrong, and why they will do it anyway.
That being said, if this guy wasn't doing anything criminal, I really don't think there should be any criminal charges laid. Maybe pursue a civil case.
Or maybe just accept that you were stupid to leave your network wide open to any and all computers that care to connect to it and leave the poor schmuck alone. I really hate people sometimes.
It seems that one of the slippery slopes from this decision is that any homeowner could be evicted if someone decides to outbid them and pay more property taxes than the current owner... for the good of the local community, of course.
Sad thing is, half the time, the city is giving major tax breaks to the developers and then it's totally up in the air whether the city will actually gain anything from the deal at all. The developers know that a little money put in the right hands can grease the wheels and earn them a windfall.
Still doesn't negate the fact that you have no right to the content in question.
I would change that statement to say "Still doesn't negate the fact that you probably have no legal right to the content in question, but that depends on the laws in your own country.." Let us not forget that copyright is not a natural right, and in fact is quite counter to how things naturally work. It is but a legal construct that was originally intended to allow the creators of useful works to profit from them for a limited time. The fact that that original intent has been so dramatically perverted by the copyright industry is the reason we're having the problems we see today.
Not exactly responsive: I saw both Matrix movies in the theater (Reloaded at Grauman's), but because of the reviews, and what friends said, I, to this day, have not seen Revolutions. I'd rather just pretend that the Matrix was a one-shot movie and try to forget that I saw the sequel.
Same here. I own the original on DVD, but after seeing the second one, I don't know how anyone could bring themselves to watch the third. So, after quite a bit of therapy, I've managed to block out my memories of the second movie and I'm now content with simply watching the first and drawing my own conclusions as to where the story went from there. I could hardly do any worse than the tards that wrote the others.
I never really played regular weapons in UT. Instagib is just so much more fun. Instagib CTF was the most fun I've had with any shooter, ever. I still enjoy Q3 and UT2004. They're different, but both are still fun to play.
No, don't do that, otherwise, you'll be spreading the image of free software advocates as harrassing nutcases. What would this accomplish?
Well, I know that I go out of my way to avoid annoying or otherwise provoking nutcases in general, let alone a whole mess of them like OSS has backing it. So maybe it might accomplish something...
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-Game creators and especially marketers create disincentives for women to play through sexist or oversexualized portrayals of females. Examples: Hijacking Lara Croft's image from female Indy to Drips-With-Sex-Balloon-Boobs; Bloodrayne; too many to list.
It's not like women don't oversexualize men too. I'm guessing you haven't run across any romance novels lately.
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P.S. I'd love to be a game designer! What do I need to do to become one?
A good start would be to design a mod for an existing game and have it achieve popularity.
The next generation wafer fab lines will cost ~$10B. All of which has to be paid off out of the sales of RAM chips. Since memory is a commodity part, buyers will always go to the cheapest source, so whoever is willing to accept the lowest margins wins. Unless everyone agrees to a minimum price.
This isn't a cost/benefit argument, its a life or death decision to the manufacturers.
Well, if not everyone is buying a new fab, then some memory will be better than others, and therefore fetch a premium price. If they want to just sell the same old stuff, then they don't need a new fab, right?
This bill is just as well thought out. They don't define obscene, and it is impossible to filter out obscene materials.
Actually, it does reference section 43.21 of the Texas penal code, which defines obscenity, but I do agree that even if they have a definition, there's nothing out there that can accurately filter it out.
It is important to protect truckers from adult content. You know how sensitive they can be! The last thing that I would want to see after a long drive, at the end of the day, would be a naked woman doing something sexual. Instead, it would be far better for me to read Slashdot, or something of that nature.
Yes! Won't somebody please think of the truckers?!
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heh.. ok, you do have a point, but aside from about 5 seconds of jubbly goodness, the movie was horrendous. Everytime anyone said or did anything computer-related, I wanted to bang my head into the wall because it would probably be less painful than listening to them. Worst hacker movie evar.**
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**With the exception of those 5 seconds
That movie was one of the dumbest I've ever seen...
That must be because you've never seen Swordfish, you lucky bastard...
A paper copy of a document is in a standardized open format. Further, it is known to be readable for millenia if kept under the correct conditions. We're still able to read legal correspondence written 3500 years ago. Ok, that was written on papyrus but there really isn't all that much difference between papyrus and modern paper.
Nice sidestep there. Now address what I was talking about, which was the legacy systems.
Every law firm worth its salt has double-redundancy: old systems are kept and paper copies of all documents.
I can't tell if you're trying to say they're smart for keeping all these old systems around, or dumb for not using a standardized open format so that they wouldn't have to.
If you like console games, then ditching the pc in favor of a console is fine. For me, I mostly enjoy FPSs, RPGs, and RTSs. So since the consoles basically suck at all of those, I don't have a problem with bi-annually upgrading my PC. If I ever get into sports games, platformers, or start to enjoy games based on movies, then maybe I'll get a console.
The new engine being used in F.E.A.R. for example, looks pretty good, but runs like crap.
Runs like crap? Seemed fine to me, and I only have a Radeon 9800 pro. Granted, I was running at 1024x768 and most things set at medium.
Reminds me of the old Divx players that they tried to foist on us several years back, when DVD players were just starting to become popular. They had to be connected to a phone jack so they could phone home and let their masters know what you were up to. Ok, they didn't self-destruct, but the potential was there. I was elated to see that crappy technology flop. I remember a Circuit City sales guy trying to sell me one. He failed miserably when trying to explain how it was better for me to have discs that would expire and a player that would inform on me.
Well, those people are playing the game as warriors, wizards, rogues, etc. They may not speak or act like they should, but to them, they are playing the part of the character they created. The problem with MMOs is that everyone wants something different from the game, and those wants are usually not very compatible.
According to another post, they were working on a title called Shadowrun: Assassins around that time, but it got canned.
After failing to fight their way off the ship for about ten minutes, they declare the game "brainless" and never play it again, choosing instead to mock those who do.
Sorry, but it all came down to driving around and shooting stuff and nothing more really. There was no real puzzle, no mystery to solve, no one to talk to, and no way to influence anything besides blowing stuff up. That's what they mean by brainless.
I'm usually one of those "no fantasy in my science-fiction, and no science-fiction in my fantasy thankyou" types, but shadowrun is the exception.
I felt the same way when I first read about Shadowrun, way back. It sounded ridiculous to me. But once I checked it out, read a few books and stuff, I realized how well they really pulled it off. It's great setting for a game.
If you (or my parent poster) think that copyright law is flawed, then feel free to make that argument. Just don't make the argument that "people will do it anyway" because it's not a valid argument against any law or enforcement of any law.
Good point. Copyright law is dramatically flawed, which is why people don't see it as wrong, and why they will do it anyway.
That being said, if this guy wasn't doing anything criminal, I really don't think there should be any criminal charges laid. Maybe pursue a civil case.
Or maybe just accept that you were stupid to leave your network wide open to any and all computers that care to connect to it and leave the poor schmuck alone. I really hate people sometimes.
It seems that one of the slippery slopes from this decision is that any homeowner could be evicted if someone decides to outbid them and pay more property taxes than the current owner ... for the good of the local community, of course.
Sad thing is, half the time, the city is giving major tax breaks to the developers and then it's totally up in the air whether the city will actually gain anything from the deal at all. The developers know that a little money put in the right hands can grease the wheels and earn them a windfall.
We'd be hammering lines like that if they had appeared in Ep I-III and the delivery wasn't any better either.
You try delivering crap lines like that and see how well you do. I thought Carrie Fisher did pretty well, considering how horrible the writing was.
Still doesn't negate the fact that you have no right to the content in question.
." Let us not forget that copyright is not a natural right, and in fact is quite counter to how things naturally work. It is but a legal construct that was originally intended to allow the creators of useful works to profit from them for a limited time. The fact that that original intent has been so dramatically perverted by the copyright industry is the reason we're having the problems we see today.
I would change that statement to say "Still doesn't negate the fact that you probably have no legal right to the content in question, but that depends on the laws in your own country.
Not exactly responsive: I saw both Matrix movies in the theater (Reloaded at Grauman's), but because of the reviews, and what friends said, I, to this day, have not seen Revolutions. I'd rather just pretend that the Matrix was a one-shot movie and try to forget that I saw the sequel.
Same here. I own the original on DVD, but after seeing the second one, I don't know how anyone could bring themselves to watch the third. So, after quite a bit of therapy, I've managed to block out my memories of the second movie and I'm now content with simply watching the first and drawing my own conclusions as to where the story went from there. I could hardly do any worse than the tards that wrote the others.
Out of curiosity, did Obsidian ever comment on the ending? What the hell were they thinking?
I never really played regular weapons in UT. Instagib is just so much more fun. Instagib CTF was the most fun I've had with any shooter, ever. I still enjoy Q3 and UT2004. They're different, but both are still fun to play.
No, don't do that, otherwise, you'll be spreading the image of free software advocates as harrassing nutcases. What would this accomplish?
Well, I know that I go out of my way to avoid annoying or otherwise provoking nutcases in general, let alone a whole mess of them like OSS has backing it. So maybe it might accomplish something...
-Game creators and especially marketers create disincentives for women to play through sexist or oversexualized portrayals of females. Examples: Hijacking Lara Croft's image from female Indy to Drips-With-Sex-Balloon-Boobs; Bloodrayne; too many to list.
It's not like women don't oversexualize men too. I'm guessing you haven't run across any romance novels lately.
P.S. I'd love to be a game designer! What do I need to do to become one?
A good start would be to design a mod for an existing game and have it achieve popularity.
The next generation wafer fab lines will cost ~$10B. All of which has to be paid off out of the sales of RAM chips. Since memory is a commodity part, buyers will always go to the cheapest source, so whoever is willing to accept the lowest margins wins. Unless everyone agrees to a minimum price.
This isn't a cost/benefit argument, its a life or death decision to the manufacturers.
Well, if not everyone is buying a new fab, then some memory will be better than others, and therefore fetch a premium price. If they want to just sell the same old stuff, then they don't need a new fab, right?
This bill is just as well thought out. They don't define obscene, and it is impossible to filter out obscene materials.
Actually, it does reference section 43.21 of the Texas penal code, which defines obscenity, but I do agree that even if they have a definition, there's nothing out there that can accurately filter it out.
It is important to protect truckers from adult content. You know how sensitive they can be! The last thing that I would want to see after a long drive, at the end of the day, would be a naked woman doing something sexual. Instead, it would be far better for me to read Slashdot, or something of that nature.
Yes! Won't somebody please think of the truckers?!