Okay, so what about those of us who don't buy namebrand stuff and don't smoke?
My problem isn't that I try to live beyond my means, but that I end up spending an awful lot on entertainment because my job is unfulfilling. Games cost money. Books cost money (since the library is sorely lacking in the SF department). Playing ice hockey and volleyball costs money. And anytime I come up with some sort of project, like building shelves, say, the tools and the materials cost money.
The days of the fiscally responsible conservative are over. Now we have the anti-tax, anti-government, pro-corporation conservative, and to hell with the economy. It's no coincidence that the US federal government and the BC provincial government have both caused recessions in their respective constituencies; their methods and ideologies are the same and their results are the same.
Children are permanently stoned. Seriously, watch a four year old for a while and then watch someone on ecstacy. The only difference is the size.
So yeah, they're games for kids or stoners, take your pick.
Not only that, but last time it wasn't even close. Popular belief is that sailing is decided by seconds, but the Kiwi's won every race by several minutes, and their lead increased steadily over the course of the race.
However, the contest to represent America should be called the America's Cup. It's the name of the final that needs to be changed.
Maybe you're playing the wrong games. I don't play FPSs, but I've heard that Battlefield 1942 is a lot of fun. I know first hand that Moonbase Commander is fun, and a worthy successor to Scorched Earth.
Basically, the Mac types are pissed off that they have to deal with the same crap everyone else does. Well boo f'ing hoo. Presumably they chose not to use Microsoft's OS for similar reasons, and if they think the fact they're running it on a Mac will somehow make MS apps less Microsofty... what can I say? They're spoiled whiny children.
The new Warez is ISO trading. The program doesn't even need to be cracked, because when someone burns it it's a working duplicate of the original CD. It's not quite the 1337 underground scene that Warez is, it's more like Napster. Anyone can download it, and just about anyone can create it. Check out Sharereactor.com, it's basically just a bunch of links to ISOs.
Which is why I say hooray! As long as the film actually gets made, it will probably be good. Whereas if it was someone like James Cameron or Spielberg it would be far more of a crapshoot.
If you're using Gnutella, you're protected by the fact that nobody can successfully download any of the files you have "shared". This makes the search results more like a web page listing the CD's you own, and thus you aren't actually distributing copywrite material.
Kazaa has no such protection.
Most single-user 2000 machines are also logged on as Administrator, because there are some things you can't do as a different username, even if that user is an administrator (but not Administrator with a capital A).
I second that. When I was first learning MySQL I printed out the whole manual, which took up two binders. And then I mostly used the web version anyway because it's searchable. With PHP I never even bothered with paper because the website was so good. Not just the actual manual, but the comments people leave about the manual entries. Source code snippets, reasoning about why to use different methods, it's all right there and free. The only book I have is the O'Reilley Pocket Reference in case my network connection is down.
The US still needs to learn the lesson that bombs don't win wars. The US has dropped a lot of explosives on a lot of countries, but only when ground troops go in (usually another country) is any sort of objective achieved. However, in the War on Terrorism there aren't any clear objectives, so it all evens out.
Digitally signing an image of a paper form seems incredibly kludgey to me. By the time you've received the fax, signing digitally instead of printing and signing physically may not save you any time at all. Plus, how do you get any actual information out of the document? Do you have to print it?
If you're going digital, go all the way and use an e-forms vendor like PureEdge which can be filled out, digitally signed, verified and archived without ever having a printed copy. Plus it's XML so you can map the data directly into a database. If you're going to digitally sign something, sign the actual document rather than a snapshot of it.
I don't see any reason why the small shops couldn't write a little Windows or Linux server and just put it out there. Hell, they could just document how to write a server for their game, and let the community take care of the rest. There's a massive amount of online gaming that isn't on public servers, doesn't cost the players or the developers anything, and isn't centrally controlled. Sony is designing their system to allow this, MS is not. Sony will win.
MS is buying up companies so their games will only be available on XBox? Well, they're not doing a very good job of it, because so fart there isn't a single decent XBox-only title, or even reports of one (although that may change at E3). All the console makers do this, so why get on MS except to say that they do it poorly?
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Okay, so what about those of us who don't buy namebrand stuff and don't smoke? My problem isn't that I try to live beyond my means, but that I end up spending an awful lot on entertainment because my job is unfulfilling. Games cost money. Books cost money (since the library is sorely lacking in the SF department). Playing ice hockey and volleyball costs money. And anytime I come up with some sort of project, like building shelves, say, the tools and the materials cost money.
You can't "finish" Golden Sun.
The days of the fiscally responsible conservative are over. Now we have the anti-tax, anti-government, pro-corporation conservative, and to hell with the economy. It's no coincidence that the US federal government and the BC provincial government have both caused recessions in their respective constituencies; their methods and ideologies are the same and their results are the same.
Children are permanently stoned. Seriously, watch a four year old for a while and then watch someone on ecstacy. The only difference is the size. So yeah, they're games for kids or stoners, take your pick.
Speedballs and hooker ex-girlfriends?
If you only play one game, you aren't a gamer; you're just somebody suffering from OCD.
Games games games. You wanna play, your choices are Windows or console. Other OSes aren't even a consideration.
Not only that, but last time it wasn't even close. Popular belief is that sailing is decided by seconds, but the Kiwi's won every race by several minutes, and their lead increased steadily over the course of the race.
However, the contest to represent America should be called the America's Cup. It's the name of the final that needs to be changed.
That's a little harsh. How about "shutdown -h 'em if they can't take a joke"?
Yeah, we can just capture the output and reverse engineer every game that comes out.
Maybe you're playing the wrong games. I don't play FPSs, but I've heard that Battlefield 1942 is a lot of fun. I know first hand that Moonbase Commander is fun, and a worthy successor to Scorched Earth.
Basically, the Mac types are pissed off that they have to deal with the same crap everyone else does. Well boo f'ing hoo. Presumably they chose not to use Microsoft's OS for similar reasons, and if they think the fact they're running it on a Mac will somehow make MS apps less Microsofty... what can I say? They're spoiled whiny children.
You can win without designing rides, but who would want to?
The new Warez is ISO trading. The program doesn't even need to be cracked, because when someone burns it it's a working duplicate of the original CD. It's not quite the 1337 underground scene that Warez is, it's more like Napster. Anyone can download it, and just about anyone can create it. Check out Sharereactor.com, it's basically just a bunch of links to ISOs.
Which is why I say hooray! As long as the film actually gets made, it will probably be good. Whereas if it was someone like James Cameron or Spielberg it would be far more of a crapshoot.
If you're using Gnutella, you're protected by the fact that nobody can successfully download any of the files you have "shared". This makes the search results more like a web page listing the CD's you own, and thus you aren't actually distributing copywrite material. Kazaa has no such protection.
It also didn't help that some biodegradable food containers started biodegrading on store shelves.
Most single-user 2000 machines are also logged on as Administrator, because there are some things you can't do as a different username, even if that user is an administrator (but not Administrator with a capital A).
I second that. When I was first learning MySQL I printed out the whole manual, which took up two binders. And then I mostly used the web version anyway because it's searchable. With PHP I never even bothered with paper because the website was so good. Not just the actual manual, but the comments people leave about the manual entries. Source code snippets, reasoning about why to use different methods, it's all right there and free. The only book I have is the O'Reilley Pocket Reference in case my network connection is down.
You can put Vegemite on bacon.
The US still needs to learn the lesson that bombs don't win wars. The US has dropped a lot of explosives on a lot of countries, but only when ground troops go in (usually another country) is any sort of objective achieved. However, in the War on Terrorism there aren't any clear objectives, so it all evens out.
If you're going digital, go all the way and use an e-forms vendor like PureEdge which can be filled out, digitally signed, verified and archived without ever having a printed copy. Plus it's XML so you can map the data directly into a database. If you're going to digitally sign something, sign the actual document rather than a snapshot of it.
I don't see any reason why the small shops couldn't write a little Windows or Linux server and just put it out there. Hell, they could just document how to write a server for their game, and let the community take care of the rest. There's a massive amount of online gaming that isn't on public servers, doesn't cost the players or the developers anything, and isn't centrally controlled. Sony is designing their system to allow this, MS is not. Sony will win.
MS is buying up companies so their games will only be available on XBox? Well, they're not doing a very good job of it, because so fart there isn't a single decent XBox-only title, or even reports of one (although that may change at E3). All the console makers do this, so why get on MS except to say that they do it poorly?
Perhaps a firewall?