Depends. Bill is dead, after all, so it could mean the original group from L4D1 in a new setting. Or not. Hell, I'm so deep in corpses in Borderlands 2 right now I really can't remember what the beloved yet aged Half-Life series played like so even if it's that - right now? Meh.
Reading through the comments I used your links to compare sites but couldn't see anything odd - I could see the notice at the bottom of the UK site when bringing the browser to fullscreen. THEN I turned off NoScript.
Aah. Right. Any hint of the declaration and link got shoved off the bottom as the iMingy ad expanded to fill the client area.
The HTML source makes interesting reading too, mainly for the position of the declaration and link - at the bottom of the footer instead of being within the main body. No hint of contempt, is there? Not just to the court but to everybody - probably including the iFaithfull.
There is an alternative. If the asshat thinks it is funny to lase the cockpit of an aircraft full of people, wonder how they'd like having one passed across their eyes. I know what it feels like - I've done it under controlled conditions (almost flat batteries in a 5mW visible red pointer, edged slowly toward closed eye) and it was the most painful thing I've ever done.
I never looked up how the mechanism of optic pain works (I don't think I would enjoy the read) but as a punishment, a quick flick across the retinas would provide an object lesson never forgotten. Especially as a second offence would be a longer exposure, and if the person was stupid enough to make it a third...
Alternatively, just shoot the prick so it can't happen again, after all, it isn't just those on the plane - how about the poor bastards on the ground the plane may end up hitting. That racks up quite a score and all because some dickhead might think it funny to flash an aircraft with a laser.
Don't get me started on dropping stuff off overheads though - that counts as an instant requirement to remove the person from the gene pool in my book. I swear, as each generation comes along the participants get stupider & stupider, common sense dies a little and more pointless laws are drafted around the world which simply get ignored.
While I think that both sides in this debate/war are behaving like asshats, I do believe that you are tarring a whole nation with a rather broad brush here. The fact that a certain number of stupid people from either side wish to keep on killing doesn't justify the current Israeli policy (quietly supported by the US) of starving the population out of existence. And if you're looking for citations & quotes, fuck off, I really cannot be bothered today.
Christ man, get that patented quick before some asshat comes along and tells everybody that the newly invented iSomething has it and it is a direct sign from iGod who now sits in iHeaven giving iPolicy.
I too thought Groklaw was on a wind-down and also missed further news of a handover. Lack of this simple information isn't usually the case for such an uneducated and denigrating outburst.
Aah... Posting AC. One understands now. Someone seems to have missed their Ritalin today and fancied stirring the hive a little? Never mind, I'm just nipping out to shoot some people - more fun than screaming abuse at them:)
Multitasking on the ST/STe was a bit of a dead duck, didn't really come in until the TT was brought out and then it came with MinT instead (a recursive acronym, "MinT is not TOS"). Apparently it was fairly good but by then I had a PC, Atari was going to the dogs and I didn't really care anymore.
Having clicked my way through a lot of what's on that site and reading a few linked articles, I can only imagine that Mr Nobel has stopped spinning in his grave and has probably now exploded. Obama gets a Peace Prize when entering office - before he gets anything achieved - and then does or is party to all that (and perhaps a lot more as yet undocumented) and at the end of his term... what? World presidency as a leaving present for having made Amerika such a great place, a nation to be proud of? Africa is currently off the charts in the "throw out the scumbag leaderership" ratings and in the USA and here in the UK... fuck all.
Aw, c'mon, by that time I doubt the horse is thinking anything at all - if he's like most horny heterosexual human males (and I'm not explaining that to any basement dwellers either!)
Yup, Ringworld it was. "Sunflowers" were slow moving but, like zombies, relentless in their onward march. The reason they crisped anything moving is that organic ashes made good plant food and generally there was enough live stuff in the plants' path to make for a good nutrition source by the time they got there. Nice system, nasty if you were in that path - but at least it would have been fairly quick. There was more about them in a followup novel "Ringworld Engineers". Awesome reading and a fair bet that HALO came from that concept.
I was never much of a Sinclair fan. I remember the original ads for the ZX80 (with 'go faster stripes) and waited. I saw the ZX81 (with the dodgy 16k RAM pack) and played around with one belonging to a friend for a while. And waited. At various times I had loan of a Spectrum 48k, VIC20, Dragon 32 and Osbourne 1 (among others) for a while. I waited. Ended up spending a whole 40UKP on an Atari 400 with membrane keyboard and loved it. I still have the keyboard somewhere at least.
Ego asided, it looks to me like each cable published thus far has been redacted where a name appears other than those of the sender or a publicly known figure. Several have XXXXXXXXXXXX in odd places, even in Subjects. That's why there's the threat that if he goes down the whole lot will be released "as is".
Or, perhaps, an alternate storyline where you would do your utmost to stop the massacre from going ahead or at least minimise innocent casualties instead of joining in (some people just enjoy killing, don't care who or what or why), walking through without firing (as you can do) or simply skipping (less for more). It might change the outcome of the game if you got an alternate option or two, but life isn't particularly linear and these games are trending towards a real-life model. The only thing is that IW probably wouldn't have considered anything additional for the game unless it was something to make it shorter and extract more cash from the player.
What's the point of being one of the so-called good guys when you can chew your way through unarmed men, women & children - without consequence? "But it's only a game" is the standard response. Lemme ask you this... What would happen if a game was released from somewhere not too happy with the West that involved killing a large number of civilians in a realistic manner in, oh, say New York? That would garner calls for the big retail banhammer worldwide, if not stir up enough to get the troops out for a little visit.
If an alternate path was provided, I might have considered buying it, but the lack of that option (after all the other crap) was enough to make me think my interests would be better server by waiting for BC2. On the strength of the look of that, I bought BF2 - and wonder why I bothered with COD5 at all.
(And I'm glad someone knows the phrase is eat before have.)
You may have missed the point on that one. First you get a game where you are given a moral choice to make - I've already made my position clear on that. Then you find that due to the choice made, a game which has already been noted by many as being quite short in the single player mode gets shorter after PC players have clearly been ripped off by inflated pricing, removal of features, etc, etc.
So, it's not a case of complaining in both cases, it's a clear case of adding insult to injury, followed by a badly considered AC post. Glad it's not Monday. I don't like Mondays.
Which is another bone of contention - pay more money for less game to start with and I can skip a part of the game, therefore making it shorter? Pass, I'd rather go play Solitaire. I know a couple of people on consoles (who laughed at PC gamers' apparently pointless whining) who bought MW2 and wished they hadn't.
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Depends. Bill is dead, after all, so it could mean the original group from L4D1 in a new setting. Or not. Hell, I'm so deep in corpses in Borderlands 2 right now I really can't remember what the beloved yet aged Half-Life series played like so even if it's that - right now? Meh.
Reading through the comments I used your links to compare sites but couldn't see anything odd - I could see the notice at the bottom of the UK site when bringing the browser to fullscreen. THEN I turned off NoScript.
Aah. Right. Any hint of the declaration and link got shoved off the bottom as the iMingy ad expanded to fill the client area.
The HTML source makes interesting reading too, mainly for the position of the declaration and link - at the bottom of the footer instead of being within the main body. No hint of contempt, is there? Not just to the court but to everybody - probably including the iFaithfull.
Fuck me, but what an idea. Where do I sign up and how long is the waiting list already?
However, if there is ever the need for a 4th "talking to", then I would suggest this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1TmeBd9338
There is an alternative. If the asshat thinks it is funny to lase the cockpit of an aircraft full of people, wonder how they'd like having one passed across their eyes. I know what it feels like - I've done it under controlled conditions (almost flat batteries in a 5mW visible red pointer, edged slowly toward closed eye) and it was the most painful thing I've ever done.
I never looked up how the mechanism of optic pain works (I don't think I would enjoy the read) but as a punishment, a quick flick across the retinas would provide an object lesson never forgotten. Especially as a second offence would be a longer exposure, and if the person was stupid enough to make it a third ...
Alternatively, just shoot the prick so it can't happen again, after all, it isn't just those on the plane - how about the poor bastards on the ground the plane may end up hitting. That racks up quite a score and all because some dickhead might think it funny to flash an aircraft with a laser.
Don't get me started on dropping stuff off overheads though - that counts as an instant requirement to remove the person from the gene pool in my book. I swear, as each generation comes along the participants get stupider & stupider, common sense dies a little and more pointless laws are drafted around the world which simply get ignored.
Psst. Guess what? I know of a certain Lensman who would take offense to that statement. And Rudyard Kipling isn't amused with you either :)
While I think that both sides in this debate/war are behaving like asshats, I do believe that you are tarring a whole nation with a rather broad brush here. The fact that a certain number of stupid people from either side wish to keep on killing doesn't justify the current Israeli policy (quietly supported by the US) of starving the population out of existence. And if you're looking for citations & quotes, fuck off, I really cannot be bothered today.
Christ man, get that patented quick before some asshat comes along and tells everybody that the newly invented iSomething has it and it is a direct sign from iGod who now sits in iHeaven giving iPolicy.
But why should you worry - as you're going to be the last man on earth anyway (or first of the new, depends on your viewpoint :)
Prostitution worked for me.
I don't think you understand. When you pay people to have sex with you, you aren't the prostitute.
I don't think you understand. The original statement was 'I would have whored myself' this implies recieving the money.
I don't think you understand. You're posting on Slashdot. By default, even as the prostitute, you would have to pay someone to have sex with you.
Oh yeah... Woosh! :)
I too thought Groklaw was on a wind-down and also missed further news of a handover. Lack of this simple information isn't usually the case for such an uneducated and denigrating outburst.
Aah... Posting AC. One understands now. Someone seems to have missed their Ritalin today and fancied stirring the hive a little? Never mind, I'm just nipping out to shoot some people - more fun than screaming abuse at them :)
At least we still have Groklaw...
Kerrrissst! Do you mind? I was eating, you inconsiderate sod!
Multitasking on the ST/STe was a bit of a dead duck, didn't really come in until the TT was brought out and then it came with MinT instead (a recursive acronym, "MinT is not TOS"). Apparently it was fairly good but by then I had a PC, Atari was going to the dogs and I didn't really care anymore.
Are you talking Windows in general or when going from diehard XP User to Win7?
Go on, let it all out, say what you mean there... Oh.
Having clicked my way through a lot of what's on that site and reading a few linked articles, I can only imagine that Mr Nobel has stopped spinning in his grave and has probably now exploded. Obama gets a Peace Prize when entering office - before he gets anything achieved - and then does or is party to all that (and perhaps a lot more as yet undocumented) and at the end of his term... what? World presidency as a leaving present for having made Amerika such a great place, a nation to be proud of? Africa is currently off the charts in the "throw out the scumbag leaderership" ratings and in the USA and here in the UK... fuck all.
Aw, c'mon, by that time I doubt the horse is thinking anything at all - if he's like most horny heterosexual human males (and I'm not explaining that to any basement dwellers either!)
Yup, Ringworld it was. "Sunflowers" were slow moving but, like zombies, relentless in their onward march. The reason they crisped anything moving is that organic ashes made good plant food and generally there was enough live stuff in the plants' path to make for a good nutrition source by the time they got there. Nice system, nasty if you were in that path - but at least it would have been fairly quick. There was more about them in a followup novel "Ringworld Engineers". Awesome reading and a fair bet that HALO came from that concept.
Nah, think I'll pass on that one and wait for the SE version.
I was never much of a Sinclair fan. I remember the original ads for the ZX80 (with 'go faster stripes) and waited. I saw the ZX81 (with the dodgy 16k RAM pack) and played around with one belonging to a friend for a while. And waited. At various times I had loan of a Spectrum 48k, VIC20, Dragon 32 and Osbourne 1 (among others) for a while. I waited. Ended up spending a whole 40UKP on an Atari 400 with membrane keyboard and loved it. I still have the keyboard somewhere at least.
Ego asided, it looks to me like each cable published thus far has been redacted where a name appears other than those of the sender or a publicly known figure. Several have XXXXXXXXXXXX in odd places, even in Subjects. That's why there's the threat that if he goes down the whole lot will be released "as is".
Okay Tom, you can take a break now.
What's the point of being one of the so-called good guys when you can chew your way through unarmed men, women & children - without consequence? "But it's only a game" is the standard response. Lemme ask you this... What would happen if a game was released from somewhere not too happy with the West that involved killing a large number of civilians in a realistic manner in, oh, say New York? That would garner calls for the big retail banhammer worldwide, if not stir up enough to get the troops out for a little visit.
If an alternate path was provided, I might have considered buying it, but the lack of that option (after all the other crap) was enough to make me think my interests would be better server by waiting for BC2. On the strength of the look of that, I bought BF2 - and wonder why I bothered with COD5 at all.
(And I'm glad someone knows the phrase is eat before have.)
So, it's not a case of complaining in both cases, it's a clear case of adding insult to injury, followed by a badly considered AC post. Glad it's not Monday. I don't like Mondays.
Which is another bone of contention - pay more money for less game to start with and I can skip a part of the game, therefore making it shorter? Pass, I'd rather go play Solitaire. I know a couple of people on consoles (who laughed at PC gamers' apparently pointless whining) who bought MW2 and wished they hadn't.