I also did play it on-and-off and not non-stop, but it's not only about the difficulty. A difficult, but repetitive game (Demons' Souls, Prince of Persia trilogy) will make you angry and quit the game. In SAngband (NetHack is more random in this aspect) almost every death makes you angry, but at the same time you know exactly what happened wrong and you learn not to do it again. However, instead of backtracking a few steps and trying again, you start over again from zero, in another completely randomly generated world.
I started playing Sangband when I was 15. 7 years later I still did not finish the bloody game:P People who killed Morgoth in MAngband are crazy haxxorz, I can tell you that.
Whatever happened to people selling devices to other people, so they could use them as they see fit?
It stopped being valid when manufacturers discovered they could sell one thing at a loss, but it needs another part to use it, thus generating profit. (Consoles and games, razors and blades)
It's probably easier for us to all learn Morse, and just have a deet da dee deet festival.
While quickly tapping with your thumb could lead to strained muscles, I think it would be the perfect solution for voice input!
No more complex voice recognition algorithms. Just ask the user to say "dee" and "daa" so that the phone knows what's a dot and what's a line and off you go. You'd sound like a total nerd, but I'm sure it would have better accuracy than current voice recognition:P
Okay, I thought "meh, sandbox the system and disable autorun. Nothing can break then." This certainly made me afraid of random USB connectors sticking out of walls:o
Meh. Seems like google does not index anonymous coward entries anyway. It's not a ploy, I'm just a random dude who did his homework (10 minutes effort for me) in order to get some + karma on DarkWarez, but he did not + me, so I sure as hell am not going to let him cheat for free.
We don't let adults have sex with minors. All the same reasons apply to sex with animals.
It's not so much about harm as it is about consent.
It is never about consent. Why?
Animal breeding footage is legal. You can even see it on youtube and it has millions of views. What does that have to do with anything? Most of the footage shows (let's use horse sex in this case) a restrained female (for her own good, yeah!) being bred by a stallion. You cannot be sure she consents. She has her hind legs tied, her tail moved to the side, she can't protest at all. That is to protect the stallion from any harm and also to make it easier because she can't be moody, she's just here to get fucked.
Artificial insemination footage is also legal. A lot of zoophiles can get off to that, and it's still legal porn, despite the females not being able to agree whether they want to be probed and inseminated.
Where do you draw the line on what is natural? I sure as hell am not going to believe crows used to drop walnuts on dirt. Yet, through their 'smarts' they have figured out that dropping walnuts on a street or hard pavement will often break it open. If that is natural behaviour, then whatever we humans come up with is also natural, because we are part of nature.
Fucking a goat is of course the "she did not consent!" argument, but what argument can you possibly have to say the dog does not want to fuck you when it actively humps anything it can grab?
Thank you for reminding me the name of this game. I was searching for it for a long while. I knew it was Shadow something with ninja stars, but I never could find the full name.
Crossing your eyes: Gives headaches. People find it hard to do.
Recently, I've rediscovered the "cross your eyes" double pictures and I wonder: does it really give any kind of 3D impression, or is it just all imagination? I can do quite well at crossing my eyes and getting a sharp image out of two identical side-by-side, and it did feel kind of 3D-ish, but logic tells me if they are both identical, I shouldn't see any 3D at all.
Unfortunately, on the rare occasion that the computer breaks and I'd want to log in on ebay from another computer I am kind of screwed since there is no way I can remember a random hashed password.
Where did this obsession with Widescreen come from anyways?
Producing TVs and computer screens using the same materials is easier than having one line do 16:9 format and the other 16:10
Your reading speed will increase with the wider format, and that trend continues until a single line of text takes up a whopping 80-90 degrees of your horizontal field of vision.
Nope. Unless the text is very neatly organised, more than 5 lines of text with little spacing between them get confusing very fast. Reading a 'block of text' that occupies the entire screen horizontally is quite hard for me since I often need to recheck on which line of the text I am.
I've had a number of new peripherals; which really are commodities these days; that don't provide XP drivers or anything that will run on XP. It's a sad state of affairs, truly.
I have experienced the opposite. My 3-4 year old NoName Chinese "iPond MP4" player which I bought from a friend for $5 had no software included, yet WinXP easily recognised it as an USB drive and I could put music in it.
Unfortunately, after upgrading to Vista I found out that there is no way possible to use it any more. For Vista it was unrecognised hardware and that's it. No drivers to be found as I have no idea what is it called because it is a cheap clone of a cheap clone of an iPod. I even tried using VMware and VirtualBox, but because Vista does not recognise the hardware, it is not shown in the virtual OS of WinXP.
No no. Spam is not what I meant. Twitter is opt-in. You don't like it you don't use it. E-Mails get spammed without asking for it. I'm talking about the equivalent of hosting a blog with nothing but "ABABABABA" for 500 pages. That's not trash since you're hosting it yourself. Or a company does who is agreeing to what you do.
You can't litter on the Internet because every personal computer connected to it can act as a server and thus publish its whole hard drive, adding "trash" as you would say, but that trash is stored on the computer to whom the trash belongs, thus the Internet was expanded by the amount of trash and no capacity which could be used for something else was taken.
From the small to the great the world is online now and even an hour's outage of the internet would be a disaster comparable in economic and social cost to the complete destruction of a small city somewhere in the world.
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I also did play it on-and-off and not non-stop, but it's not only about the difficulty.
A difficult, but repetitive game (Demons' Souls, Prince of Persia trilogy) will make you angry and quit the game. In SAngband (NetHack is more random in this aspect) almost every death makes you angry, but at the same time you know exactly what happened wrong and you learn not to do it again. However, instead of backtracking a few steps and trying again, you start over again from zero, in another completely randomly generated world.
I started playing Sangband when I was 15. 7 years later I still did not finish the bloody game :P
People who killed Morgoth in MAngband are crazy haxxorz, I can tell you that.
You mean, like ... porn?
Find the G-Spot to continue.
Whatever happened to people selling devices to other people, so they could use them as they see fit?
It stopped being valid when manufacturers discovered they could sell one thing at a loss, but it needs another part to use it, thus generating profit. (Consoles and games, razors and blades)
It's probably easier for us to all learn Morse, and just have a deet da dee deet festival.
While quickly tapping with your thumb could lead to strained muscles, I think it would be the perfect solution for voice input!
No more complex voice recognition algorithms. Just ask the user to say "dee" and "daa" so that the phone knows what's a dot and what's a line and off you go. You'd sound like a total nerd, but I'm sure it would have better accuracy than current voice recognition :P
Germany, France, Spain, Italy, and Belgium.
You forgot Poland!
Okay, I thought "meh, sandbox the system and disable autorun. Nothing can break then." This certainly made me afraid of random USB connectors sticking out of walls :o
I'm pretty sure over half of all those people would prefer food and water over Internet access.
Boooooeing.
FTFY.
Meh. Seems like google does not index anonymous coward entries anyway. It's not a ploy, I'm just a random dude who did his homework (10 minutes effort for me) in order to get some + karma on DarkWarez, but he did not + me, so I sure as hell am not going to let him cheat for free.
We don't let adults have sex with minors.
All the same reasons apply to sex with animals.
It's not so much about harm as it is about consent.
It is never about consent. Why?
Animal breeding footage is legal. You can even see it on youtube and it has millions of views. What does that have to do with anything? Most of the footage shows (let's use horse sex in this case) a restrained female (for her own good, yeah!) being bred by a stallion. You cannot be sure she consents. She has her hind legs tied, her tail moved to the side, she can't protest at all. That is to protect the stallion from any harm and also to make it easier because she can't be moody, she's just here to get fucked.
Artificial insemination footage is also legal. A lot of zoophiles can get off to that, and it's still legal porn, despite the females not being able to agree whether they want to be probed and inseminated.
Where do you draw the line on what is natural?
I sure as hell am not going to believe crows used to drop walnuts on dirt. Yet, through their 'smarts' they have figured out that dropping walnuts on a street or hard pavement will often break it open. If that is natural behaviour, then whatever we humans come up with is also natural, because we are part of nature.
Fucking a goat is of course the "she did not consent!" argument, but what argument can you possibly have to say the dog does not want to fuck you when it actively humps anything it can grab?
Thank you for reminding me the name of this game. I was searching for it for a long while. I knew it was Shadow something with ninja stars, but I never could find the full name.
I wish the thief would leave a newspaper-cutout note saying "Back up your data dude!"
Crossing your eyes: Gives headaches. People find it hard to do.
Recently, I've rediscovered the "cross your eyes" double pictures and I wonder: does it really give any kind of 3D impression, or is it just all imagination? I can do quite well at crossing my eyes and getting a sharp image out of two identical side-by-side, and it did feel kind of 3D-ish, but logic tells me if they are both identical, I shouldn't see any 3D at all.
And that is a security risk as well. Trusting an unknown source anyway.
Unfortunately, on the rare occasion that the computer breaks and I'd want to log in on ebay from another computer I am kind of screwed since there is no way I can remember a random hashed password.
Nowhere. But in 90% of cases, there will be little to no space between lines.
Where did this obsession with Widescreen come from anyways?
Producing TVs and computer screens using the same materials is easier than having one line do 16:9 format and the other 16:10
Your reading speed will increase with the wider format, and that trend continues until a single line of text takes up a whopping 80-90 degrees of your horizontal field of vision.
Nope. Unless the text is very neatly organised, more than 5 lines of text with little spacing between them get confusing very fast. Reading a 'block of text' that occupies the entire screen horizontally is quite hard for me since I often need to recheck on which line of the text I am.
How about a message that comes with the monthly bill in snailmail?
Or a simple recorded message on a phone call.
I've had a number of new peripherals; which really are commodities these days; that don't provide XP drivers or anything that will run on XP. It's a sad state of affairs, truly.
I have experienced the opposite. My 3-4 year old NoName Chinese "iPond MP4" player which I bought from a friend for $5 had no software included, yet WinXP easily recognised it as an USB drive and I could put music in it.
Unfortunately, after upgrading to Vista I found out that there is no way possible to use it any more. For Vista it was unrecognised hardware and that's it. No drivers to be found as I have no idea what is it called because it is a cheap clone of a cheap clone of an iPod. I even tried using VMware and VirtualBox, but because Vista does not recognise the hardware, it is not shown in the virtual OS of WinXP.
Since they were invented by Apple, they just work!
No no. Spam is not what I meant. Twitter is opt-in. You don't like it you don't use it. E-Mails get spammed without asking for it. I'm talking about the equivalent of hosting a blog with nothing but "ABABABABA" for 500 pages. That's not trash since you're hosting it yourself. Or a company does who is agreeing to what you do.
You can't litter on the Internet because every personal computer connected to it can act as a server and thus publish its whole hard drive, adding "trash" as you would say, but that trash is stored on the computer to whom the trash belongs, thus the Internet was expanded by the amount of trash and no capacity which could be used for something else was taken.
From the small to the great the world is online now and even an hour's outage of the internet would be a disaster comparable in economic and social cost to the complete destruction of a small city somewhere in the world.
And I would gladly watch it all crash and burn.