BTW, reckless driving and speed are two different things. Speed makes little difference if you don't drive intelligently or are distracted and unfocused.
Bingo!
You can drive like an idiot without even approaching the speed limit. A lot of accidents could be avoided if only one party was paying attention. Sure, there is generally someone who is responsible, but it's been my experience that driving defensively and assuming that everyone is out to get you goes a long way. Don't just go speeding through green lights, pay attention to the traffic that's supposed to be stopped. Watch cars up ahead that are waiting to turn out, because it could be right in front of you. Don't drive in clusters, whether right beside, behind, or in front of others. People can do a lot to limit their exposure to accidents, that's to be sure.
Those people make anything dangerous, not just cycling. I stopped driving my MGB through town precisely because of oblivious drivers in needlessly large trucks and SUVs.
It is true, and the exact reason that I do largely use cash. My paycheck itself is direct deposited however, so I have to have the debit card to at least make withdraws. Besides, sometimes it is more convenient.
Anything that can be seen from a vehicle in a public road must not be that private to begin with, right? I have no issues with StreetView. My road is too obscure to be mapped by their vans (now), and the evergreen trees are way too dense along the road to even see my house at the top of the hill. You can see the gate across my driveway of course, but there isn't even an address posted.;)
Just wait until all of Nirvana's songs are filtered out as well... they had naked babies on their album covers, after all. Pirating pedophiles, the lot of you!
Yeah, and those Gutenberg messages are already too long and intrusive. I've edited it out of every book I've downloaded from them, simply because it takes about ten page turns on my Nook to get to the beginning of the book itself. Don't get me wrong, Gutenberg is a great service and I'm more than happy to do a little of my own editing in return for free goods. I would not put up with that after paying an already inflated eBook price from Amazon though.
I had bought a CD at Wal-Mart a long, long time ago. Turns out that it was censored, despite no forewarning on the packaging or anything. I never bought another CD from Wal-Mart.
My fifteen year old games, like Quake, seem to be doing fine despite numerous upgrades. Some of them take a little tinkering, but most run through pre-existing compatibility layers.
Steam is annoying regardless of your internet connection. I've been kept from playing more games simply because of Steam's servers being down or busy than anything else. It's usually fixed by the next day, but I'm often at work by then and can't play any longer.
The only thing of value that Steam adds is a unified friends list. The sales are nice, but honestly, games are already overpriced and I shouldn't be paying the same for a download as I would for a boxed, physical copy anyway.
Downloading the titles takes way more time than installing them via disc though.
It is nice to have a downloadable copy of your games, in case your cat pisses of your discs. My concern is just how longterm the downloads are. I just reinstalled and played through Quake the other day, making use of the updated textures and fanmade models. Are my Steam games going to be available in another twenty years? They may, but I have a hard time putting absolute faith in that.
My bank switched their debit cards over to ones with "PayWave". It's an RFID chip that allows me to just magically wave my card around in the air and pay for stuff at the checkout line. I immediately bought an RFID blocking wallet. I'm a lot more concerned about being tracked by the stores and the bank, being marketed to by telescreens on the sidewalk, etc. than I am about cyber-thieves.
I think that Portal 2 will do just fine. It's unfortunate, but Deus Ex 2 was a terrible game. The third installment has a lot to prove, and so far it doesn't look like it will. It still suffers heavily from console-itis.
I remember when Blizzard was a friendly, likable company... then Battle.net 2 and all of its DRM came around. It seems that people cut Valve a lot of slack for introducing the annoyance that is Steam.
I'm not sure that HL2 Episode 3 will be worth the wait at this point. Valve could have simply made Half-Life 3 in the amount of time they've taken. I thought the idea behind episodic content was for more frequent releases?
Why so much hatred for the rural folks on Slashdot?
Because Slashdot is mostly made up of city dwelling yuppies? They're the sort of people that will curl up into a ball on the floor and die if the electricity ever goes out.
I don't know what Bioware's up to, but I think Steam is different... since you're buying the game from them and getting it download-only, setting up an account is less invasive, since you had to do it to make the purchase to begin with.
Yeah. Imagine my surprise when I bought Half-life 2 down at the local Wal-Mart on a whim, only to discover that I couldn't play it because 56K was the only available internet at the time. Steam is no less shitty than Games for Windows.
Games for Windows Live isn't that bad. So long as they're not trying to charge for online play again, it's not really any more noticeable than Steam. Besides, an RTS and a Flight Simulator are games that simply cannot be done correctly on a console.
They also mention Fable 3, but I don't recall ever getting Fable 2 for the PC?
Modern doctors aren't more than a few steps out of that mentality. The only real difference between the horror shows of yesterday and modern practices is that everything is white and appears clean. Oh, and patients are dangerously put under for just about anything, instead of strapped down and left to scream and suffer.
Modern medicine? Hardly. They've just cleaned up their marketing a bit.
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BTW, reckless driving and speed are two different things. Speed makes little difference if you don't drive intelligently or are distracted and unfocused.
Bingo!
You can drive like an idiot without even approaching the speed limit. A lot of accidents could be avoided if only one party was paying attention. Sure, there is generally someone who is responsible, but it's been my experience that driving defensively and assuming that everyone is out to get you goes a long way. Don't just go speeding through green lights, pay attention to the traffic that's supposed to be stopped. Watch cars up ahead that are waiting to turn out, because it could be right in front of you. Don't drive in clusters, whether right beside, behind, or in front of others. People can do a lot to limit their exposure to accidents, that's to be sure.
AnyDVD only updates about once per month as far as I've noticed. That's mainly to break the disc encryption though, not to necessarily skip the ads.
Mac fanboys paying a premium for inferior products? Go figure!
Those people make anything dangerous, not just cycling. I stopped driving my MGB through town precisely because of oblivious drivers in needlessly large trucks and SUVs.
It is true, and the exact reason that I do largely use cash. My paycheck itself is direct deposited however, so I have to have the debit card to at least make withdraws. Besides, sometimes it is more convenient.
Anything that can be seen from a vehicle in a public road must not be that private to begin with, right? I have no issues with StreetView. My road is too obscure to be mapped by their vans (now), and the evergreen trees are way too dense along the road to even see my house at the top of the hill. You can see the gate across my driveway of course, but there isn't even an address posted. ;)
Just wait until all of Nirvana's songs are filtered out as well... they had naked babies on their album covers, after all. Pirating pedophiles, the lot of you!
Yeah, and those Gutenberg messages are already too long and intrusive. I've edited it out of every book I've downloaded from them, simply because it takes about ten page turns on my Nook to get to the beginning of the book itself. Don't get me wrong, Gutenberg is a great service and I'm more than happy to do a little of my own editing in return for free goods. I would not put up with that after paying an already inflated eBook price from Amazon though.
Sorry, but as an author, I wish that my work was well-known enough to be pirated and read.
I had bought a CD at Wal-Mart a long, long time ago. Turns out that it was censored, despite no forewarning on the packaging or anything. I never bought another CD from Wal-Mart.
None. AnyDVD takes care of that for me.
Seriously? eBook are already the same price, if not more, than the physical paperback. Lower the price, leave out the advertising!
My fifteen year old games, like Quake, seem to be doing fine despite numerous upgrades. Some of them take a little tinkering, but most run through pre-existing compatibility layers.
Steam is annoying regardless of your internet connection. I've been kept from playing more games simply because of Steam's servers being down or busy than anything else. It's usually fixed by the next day, but I'm often at work by then and can't play any longer.
The only thing of value that Steam adds is a unified friends list. The sales are nice, but honestly, games are already overpriced and I shouldn't be paying the same for a download as I would for a boxed, physical copy anyway.
Downloading the titles takes way more time than installing them via disc though.
It is nice to have a downloadable copy of your games, in case your cat pisses of your discs. My concern is just how longterm the downloads are. I just reinstalled and played through Quake the other day, making use of the updated textures and fanmade models. Are my Steam games going to be available in another twenty years? They may, but I have a hard time putting absolute faith in that.
My bank switched their debit cards over to ones with "PayWave". It's an RFID chip that allows me to just magically wave my card around in the air and pay for stuff at the checkout line. I immediately bought an RFID blocking wallet. I'm a lot more concerned about being tracked by the stores and the bank, being marketed to by telescreens on the sidewalk, etc. than I am about cyber-thieves.
I don't understand... is he saying that forced abortions are a bad thing?
I think that Portal 2 will do just fine. It's unfortunate, but Deus Ex 2 was a terrible game. The third installment has a lot to prove, and so far it doesn't look like it will. It still suffers heavily from console-itis.
I remember when Blizzard was a friendly, likable company... then Battle.net 2 and all of its DRM came around. It seems that people cut Valve a lot of slack for introducing the annoyance that is Steam.
I'm not sure that HL2 Episode 3 will be worth the wait at this point. Valve could have simply made Half-Life 3 in the amount of time they've taken. I thought the idea behind episodic content was for more frequent releases?
Why so much hatred for the rural folks on Slashdot?
Because Slashdot is mostly made up of city dwelling yuppies? They're the sort of people that will curl up into a ball on the floor and die if the electricity ever goes out.
I don't know what Bioware's up to, but I think Steam is different... since you're buying the game from them and getting it download-only, setting up an account is less invasive, since you had to do it to make the purchase to begin with.
Yeah. Imagine my surprise when I bought Half-life 2 down at the local Wal-Mart on a whim, only to discover that I couldn't play it because 56K was the only available internet at the time. Steam is no less shitty than Games for Windows.
Games for Windows Live isn't that bad. So long as they're not trying to charge for online play again, it's not really any more noticeable than Steam. Besides, an RTS and a Flight Simulator are games that simply cannot be done correctly on a console.
They also mention Fable 3, but I don't recall ever getting Fable 2 for the PC?
So now McAfee is going to suck even more?
Yes.
Modern doctors aren't more than a few steps out of that mentality. The only real difference between the horror shows of yesterday and modern practices is that everything is white and appears clean. Oh, and patients are dangerously put under for just about anything, instead of strapped down and left to scream and suffer.
Modern medicine? Hardly. They've just cleaned up their marketing a bit.