It may be worth mentioning that I got bored after playing SimAnt for a while:-/ There were no challenges.
This is why I played "The Sims" on the XBox far more than on the PC. The XBox version had a bunch of objectives to fulfill, whereas the PC version was nearly entirely open-ended. Having the objectives there prevents a lot of the "well NOW what?" feeling.
Incidentally, I was addicted to WoW for months until I got that same "well NOW what? I'm really not ACCOMPLISHING anything..." feeling, then quit and haven't been back since.
The difference is that Microsoft releasing Windows would open the system to exploits based on bugs, how the system IS NOT supposed to work. Google releasing PageRank would open the system to exploits based on how the system IS supposed to work.
Windows would be fixable, PageRank would be ruined.
I say this can be a good thing. We'll finally either:
A) Get some decent integrated graphics systems (or see NForce boards take off in popularity) or B) See big computer retailers putting at least adequate graphics cards into their base systems.
This will do wonders for the ability to play games on cheap laptops.
The people with older graphics systems that can't run Vista? Chances are most won't need to upgrade anyway, and XP-compatible consumer software won't be going anywhere for a long time. Sure, they won't be able to run Halo 2 PC, but hell, if they can't meet Vista specs, they sure as hell can't meet the game's specs.
Actually, Blizzard has no problem with gay guilds. They only have a problem with going around in-game advertising it as such, as they view it as causing a disturbance. IIRC, you can even advertise a gay guild on the Blizzard messageboards.
There are companies fighting this, trying to get policies put forth requiring network neutrality. According to the article, both Google and Amazon are against it, along with other special interest groups. I'm willing to bet that Microsoft would oppose it as well, since they're getting more and more into internet applications. Same goes for Apple.
Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T may be powerful, but they're going to have a hell of a fight if they're going up against Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Amazon.
Now this is, of course, assuming your friend wasn't doing something illegal while taking the pictures like tresspassing, which is illegal and would get him in trouble.
No, he was in the street taking pictures through an open gate.
I realize there's a difference between the police doing it and private security force doing it, the bullshit reasoning behind it is the same, though.
Also, fair use says that companies that profit off of other's copyrighted work, and especially companies who diminish the profits of the copyright holders, is unlikely to have a judge rule in their favor.
If you look at Google News, though, you'll see that they don't have any ads in that section - they aren't making any revenue off of it.
Internet Lobbyists Take Aim at Google Search Hitokiri writes "Now that Google is popular, website publishers are starting to take notice. It's important to note that no legal action has taken place yet, but still, there seems to be a battle on the horizon." From the article: "'They're building a new site on the backs of our hard work, without paying for any of the content,' Ali Rahnema, managing director of the association, told Reuters in an interview. 'The site crawlers are taking headlines, photos, sometimes the first three lines of a site -- it's for the courts to decide whether that's a copyright violation or not.'"
It's amazing how ridiculous it seems if you just change a couple words. The solution is the same, though. If you don't want to be crawled by Google, don't let Google crawl you! There's a very simple technical fix to this if you don't want it happening.
Oh, but then your competitors still get free advertising from Google? Shit, better make it legal action, then.
A decline in profit indicates that the company may be near the stagnation point, and the value of those future dividends is called greatly into question.
I can see this in other markets, but with a game company (especially one like Square-Enix, which puts out some of the best-selling games)? You're not going to have a new FF or DQ every year, so there ARE going to be years between the releases that are a little slow. The next year, though, when the huge title gets released, profits will soar again. It's not so much a mark of stagnation so much as just a calm year inbetween big ones.
While most crackers are pretty harmless, saltines are going to give you the most problem. Keep an eye out for Ritz as well, as I've personally had issues with keeping those out of my system.
Is it this or mashing biology, chemistry and physics into a half baked mash called "Science"?
Hasn't this always been the case when teaching to 11-year-olds? In grade school, we never had anything besides "science". It wasn't until jr. high that it got separated a little, and high school when it finally fully separated. (This was in the US, though, it may be different in the UK)
I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that parents can't say "no" to their children nowadays. Parents try too hard to accomodate their children so they can have a "friends" relationship rather than a parent-child one. This ends up creating kids who do whatever they feel like and parents backing them up on it. My mother teaches grade school - she says that parents have actually told her that they don't feel their child should have to do schoolwork at home.
We need a lot less friendship with children and a lot more being responsible.
If it accepts it, you KNOW you're dealing with a fake site. Note that I don't suggest that the site not accepting your password means that it's genuine.
Paypal does have an e-mail address to forward them to, it's just not "abuse". Forward the e-mails to spoof@paypal.com. They actually do take these pretty seriously.
What I like to do until the site gets taken down is to fill out their form with bogus information, then after submitting it, hit the refresh button. It'll ask me if I want to submit the form again, and I'll say "yes". I'll just sit there for a while hitting F5 and enter just to fill their results with bogus crap.
I know a lot of people actually fall for them. I always tell them that the surefire way to tell if it's a spoof is to put a fake username/password in when prompted. Not only do they then get fake information, but if it gets accepted, you know that the site is fake. I've gotten my whole family to start doing this after my sister fell for one.
I purposely sign my cards "Please ask for ID" so that if my wallet gets stolen
Do you ever actually get asked? Furthermore, how often do you actually give your card to someone anymore? Nearly all retail stores have those you-slide-it-yourself card readers.
I saw something about this on the news once - they signed a card like that and ended up going to something like 15 different stores before they were actually asked for ID.
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It may be worth mentioning that I got bored after playing SimAnt for a while :-/ There were no challenges.
This is why I played "The Sims" on the XBox far more than on the PC. The XBox version had a bunch of objectives to fulfill, whereas the PC version was nearly entirely open-ended. Having the objectives there prevents a lot of the "well NOW what?" feeling.
Incidentally, I was addicted to WoW for months until I got that same "well NOW what? I'm really not ACCOMPLISHING anything..." feeling, then quit and haven't been back since.
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The difference is that Microsoft releasing Windows would open the system to exploits based on bugs, how the system IS NOT supposed to work. Google releasing PageRank would open the system to exploits based on how the system IS supposed to work.
Windows would be fixable, PageRank would be ruined.
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I'd assume so. It's trivially easy to turn off XP themes, so I'm sure they'd do the same with Vista.
I say this can be a good thing. We'll finally either:
A) Get some decent integrated graphics systems (or see NForce boards take off in popularity)
or
B) See big computer retailers putting at least adequate graphics cards into their base systems.
This will do wonders for the ability to play games on cheap laptops.
The people with older graphics systems that can't run Vista? Chances are most won't need to upgrade anyway, and XP-compatible consumer software won't be going anywhere for a long time. Sure, they won't be able to run Halo 2 PC, but hell, if they can't meet Vista specs, they sure as hell can't meet the game's specs.
They'll say that providing free access to information is still a noble cause, and that these people knew the risks they were getting themselves into.
Give it 10 years. People who grew up with games are getting older and not letting go of them.
Windows search will go a lot faster if you turn on the indexing service.
Actually, Blizzard has no problem with gay guilds. They only have a problem with going around in-game advertising it as such, as they view it as causing a disturbance. IIRC, you can even advertise a gay guild on the Blizzard messageboards.
There are companies fighting this, trying to get policies put forth requiring network neutrality. According to the article, both Google and Amazon are against it, along with other special interest groups. I'm willing to bet that Microsoft would oppose it as well, since they're getting more and more into internet applications. Same goes for Apple.
Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T may be powerful, but they're going to have a hell of a fight if they're going up against Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Amazon.
Now this is, of course, assuming your friend wasn't doing something illegal while taking the pictures like tresspassing, which is illegal and would get him in trouble.
No, he was in the street taking pictures through an open gate.
I realize there's a difference between the police doing it and private security force doing it, the bullshit reasoning behind it is the same, though.
One of my friends was taking pictures of an industrial facility at night for a photography class - security detained him and destroyed his film.
But we'll all be thankful when terrorism goes away for good, though, right guys?!
Also, fair use says that companies that profit off of other's copyrighted work, and especially companies who diminish the profits of the copyright holders, is unlikely to have a judge rule in their favor.
If you look at Google News, though, you'll see that they don't have any ads in that section - they aren't making any revenue off of it.
Internet Lobbyists Take Aim at Google Search
Hitokiri writes "Now that Google is popular, website publishers are starting to take notice. It's important to note that no legal action has taken place yet, but still, there seems to be a battle on the horizon." From the article: "'They're building a new site on the backs of our hard work, without paying for any of the content,' Ali Rahnema, managing director of the association, told Reuters in an interview. 'The site crawlers are taking headlines, photos, sometimes the first three lines of a site -- it's for the courts to decide whether that's a copyright violation or not.'"
It's amazing how ridiculous it seems if you just change a couple words. The solution is the same, though. If you don't want to be crawled by Google, don't let Google crawl you! There's a very simple technical fix to this if you don't want it happening.
Oh, but then your competitors still get free advertising from Google? Shit, better make it legal action, then.
A decline in profit indicates that the company may be near the stagnation point, and the value of those future dividends is called greatly into question.
I can see this in other markets, but with a game company (especially one like Square-Enix, which puts out some of the best-selling games)? You're not going to have a new FF or DQ every year, so there ARE going to be years between the releases that are a little slow. The next year, though, when the huge title gets released, profits will soar again. It's not so much a mark of stagnation so much as just a calm year inbetween big ones.
While most crackers are pretty harmless, saltines are going to give you the most problem. Keep an eye out for Ritz as well, as I've personally had issues with keeping those out of my system.
At least according to Alexa (which I know can be inaccurate), Imageshack.us is more popular (rank 793 vs 186).
Is it this or mashing biology, chemistry and physics into a half baked mash called "Science"?
Hasn't this always been the case when teaching to 11-year-olds? In grade school, we never had anything besides "science". It wasn't until jr. high that it got separated a little, and high school when it finally fully separated. (This was in the US, though, it may be different in the UK)
I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that parents can't say "no" to their children nowadays. Parents try too hard to accomodate their children so they can have a "friends" relationship rather than a parent-child one. This ends up creating kids who do whatever they feel like and parents backing them up on it. My mother teaches grade school - she says that parents have actually told her that they don't feel their child should have to do schoolwork at home.
We need a lot less friendship with children and a lot more being responsible.
Well, okay, let me clarify that a bit.
If it accepts it, you KNOW you're dealing with a fake site. Note that I don't suggest that the site not accepting your password means that it's genuine.
Paypal does have an e-mail address to forward them to, it's just not "abuse". Forward the e-mails to spoof@paypal.com. They actually do take these pretty seriously.
What I like to do until the site gets taken down is to fill out their form with bogus information, then after submitting it, hit the refresh button. It'll ask me if I want to submit the form again, and I'll say "yes". I'll just sit there for a while hitting F5 and enter just to fill their results with bogus crap.
I know a lot of people actually fall for them. I always tell them that the surefire way to tell if it's a spoof is to put a fake username/password in when prompted. Not only do they then get fake information, but if it gets accepted, you know that the site is fake. I've gotten my whole family to start doing this after my sister fell for one.
I purposely sign my cards "Please ask for ID" so that if my wallet gets stolen
Do you ever actually get asked? Furthermore, how often do you actually give your card to someone anymore? Nearly all retail stores have those you-slide-it-yourself card readers.
I saw something about this on the news once - they signed a card like that and ended up going to something like 15 different stores before they were actually asked for ID.
Also, this is hilarious.
By buying airline tickets, you automatically consent to a possible search of your bag, therefore it is technically lawful.
I suppose it would be better off read in a redneck voice saying "them there BOOKS ain't fer mah children!"
Books are a good comparison actually -- where's the ESRB ratings on my books? I want to make sure that book I bought has no profanity in it.
The answer to that is simple. Books are not for children, video games are.