At least this game has the "skip scene" option. It was the only thing lacking in Final Fantasy X (I hated this one long cutscene before a battle that I lost about 10 times in a row before I finally beat it). Once you've watched the cutscene in KH2, then any time you have to view the CS again, you CAN skip it.
One of the problems with submitting "fake" username/passwords is that there is the slight possibility that the username actually exists for someone else. Thus, attempts by the phisher to use the password could lock their account. This is not fair to the user at all who gets struck by this since they have no clue why their account was locked.
If you do use the username/password, make the username about 32 random alphanumeric characters. The less likely it is a real username, then the less impact to innocent users because you felt you had to "stick it" to the phishers.
What is this word supposed to be? You might assume it was "researcher" or just "research", however, neither is the anagram of those letters. In fact, there is no one word anagram for "rscheearch". So did I miss something?
I personally have a completely different reason why this genre died.
One of the most important aspects of the games like King's Quest was the user's imagination. Why not type "kick the cat"? It wasn't necessarily the immediate response we enjoyed, it was that the action actually affected the game at a later point in time (remember if you kick the cat, he'll later trip you at the top of the stairs and you die). Sure, it required imagination to come up with some of the statements you had to type, but the programmers showed that they out-thought you most of the time and some of the reactions to your typed statements would make you fall out of your chair laughing. I know I remember doing that several times.
However, imagination is what is becoming a dying art. Why do games have to *look* more and more real? Because if it looks fake, you have to pretend in your mind that you are *in* the game.
People don't want to use their imagination anymore. Just look at the movies and TV. It's so much easier to just be forcefed the stuff instead of picturing it in your mind as you read a book or play a game.
Remember that once we got to King's Quest 5, we were no longer typing phrases in. The game was also looking less cartoony. I personally was disappointed at the new mouse interface because I missed typing in the phrases that got the funny responses.
In my opinion, the genre died because we're getting too lazy to use our own imagination and the market saw this trend and let the games pass away.
The best way to make spammers go out of business is to destroy the ability to purchase the products they advertise. Just how do you do this? The same way we bring down any website that happens to be linked on Slashdot.
Yeah,/. the websites where you order the product and then no one can order from their site. Eventually, the customer who sells the product goes out of business or they no longer use spam. Maybe name the website "spamdot.com".
Kinda reminds me of the situation we've been experiencing with a Collection agency. They seem to think that my wife is the person they're looking for (although the middle initial is different as well as the SSN). They were collecting on a Sears account. I contacted Sears and there is nothing they can do about it because they "sold" that unpaid debt and it is out of their hands.
Although not an exact corollary, it does show how there may be nothing to be gained going after the companies whose products are spotlighted in spam emails as they may not even authorize it.
Maybe if we tell all rednecks that spam killed Dale Earnhardt, they'll go get em!!
I'm sure most of the pr0n/scam companies advertised in the spam have a pretty cavalier attitude toward keeping track of their finances, so it'll be difficult to follow an audit trail to prove guilt.
You've got an excellent point. But didn't other companies go down for not sticking to proper accounting procedure? Sounds like a good candidate for some serious accounting investigations. That could bring them down too.
I find it interesting that they always go for the outlet doing the spamming. Why don't they sue the individuals paying the spammers to send the emails? Instead of trying to kill the spammers, starve them by making companies think twice about using this method.
You'd think that this means of advertising would actually destroy the "goodwill" of the product being advertised. I know I have less respect for companies that use this means.
It is true that some parents are showing they care when they check up on their kids. This gets around those who have children who don't provide any information when asked "what did you do at school today".
However, I've also seen a trend among some parents to gloat to others about their children's grades and achievements. Just like the way most parents live vicariously through their children's sports activities and then brag about that, they drive the children to do things they themselves are not motivated to do. If you're pressured to make the highest grades because "Johnny's parents" are constantly gloating about their child's perfect scores and so on, then you'll lose all motivation because the parents don't *really* care about their children except where it comes to enhancing their status in the parenting circles.
Unfortunately, most parents push the child to do more than they ever would have or could have done themselves because they need to show they are good parents through their child's productivity. It's interesting that parenting success is considered more objectively now than how the child turns out. Some of the "brightest" children in school can turn out to be drug addicts and so on later because of the pressure and need to escape. Some of the lower graded kids can turn out to be the most honest and upright members of our community.
Sorry, I'll get off my soapbox now. Just because the parents use this does not necessarily mean they do it out of love. They may do it out of self-love.
I find it fascinating how many/. viewers complained about this article when it is under the topic of "funny". Check your brain in at the door and let your funny bone have free reign.
As for the review, it also left out the rechargeable batteries being virtually the same with only 5 hours of replay time on the G3 while up to 10 hours on the GBA SP. Hrm.
Does anyone not realize that card catalogs at libraries were a form of linking? References with indexes to various popular magazines were forms of links. They just don't get it.
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At least this game has the "skip scene" option. It was the only thing lacking in Final Fantasy X (I hated this one long cutscene before a battle that I lost about 10 times in a row before I finally beat it). Once you've watched the cutscene in KH2, then any time you have to view the CS again, you CAN skip it.
One of the problems with submitting "fake" username/passwords is that there is the slight possibility that the username actually exists for someone else. Thus, attempts by the phisher to use the password could lock their account. This is not fair to the user at all who gets struck by this since they have no clue why their account was locked.
If you do use the username/password, make the username about 32 random alphanumeric characters. The less likely it is a real username, then the less impact to innocent users because you felt you had to "stick it" to the phishers.
What is this word supposed to be? You might assume it was "researcher" or just "research", however, neither is the anagram of those letters. In fact, there is no one word anagram for "rscheearch". So did I miss something?
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I'm surprised no one mentioned possible use of "streaming video" and "flushing the cache".
Aren't they worried that this game would only be played by men? Women would be at a severe disadvantage on this one.
I personally have a completely different reason why this genre died.
One of the most important aspects of the games like King's Quest was the user's imagination. Why not type "kick the cat"? It wasn't necessarily the immediate response we enjoyed, it was that the action actually affected the game at a later point in time (remember if you kick the cat, he'll later trip you at the top of the stairs and you die). Sure, it required imagination to come up with some of the statements you had to type, but the programmers showed that they out-thought you most of the time and some of the reactions to your typed statements would make you fall out of your chair laughing. I know I remember doing that several times.
However, imagination is what is becoming a dying art. Why do games have to *look* more and more real? Because if it looks fake, you have to pretend in your mind that you are *in* the game.
People don't want to use their imagination anymore. Just look at the movies and TV. It's so much easier to just be forcefed the stuff instead of picturing it in your mind as you read a book or play a game.
Remember that once we got to King's Quest 5, we were no longer typing phrases in. The game was also looking less cartoony. I personally was disappointed at the new mouse interface because I missed typing in the phrases that got the funny responses.
In my opinion, the genre died because we're getting too lazy to use our own imagination and the market saw this trend and let the games pass away.
The best way to make spammers go out of business is to destroy the ability to purchase the products they advertise. Just how do you do this? The same way we bring down any website that happens to be linked on Slashdot.
/. the websites where you order the product and then no one can order from their site. Eventually, the customer who sells the product goes out of business or they no longer use spam. Maybe name the website "spamdot.com".
Yeah,
Kinda reminds me of the situation we've been experiencing with a Collection agency. They seem to think that my wife is the person they're looking for (although the middle initial is different as well as the SSN). They were collecting on a Sears account. I contacted Sears and there is nothing they can do about it because they "sold" that unpaid debt and it is out of their hands.
Although not an exact corollary, it does show how there may be nothing to be gained going after the companies whose products are spotlighted in spam emails as they may not even authorize it.
Maybe if we tell all rednecks that spam killed Dale Earnhardt, they'll go get em!!
I'm sure most of the pr0n/scam companies advertised in the spam have a pretty cavalier attitude toward keeping track of their finances, so it'll be difficult to follow an audit trail to prove guilt.
You've got an excellent point. But didn't other companies go down for not sticking to proper accounting procedure? Sounds like a good candidate for some serious accounting investigations. That could bring them down too.
I find it interesting that they always go for the outlet doing the spamming. Why don't they sue the individuals paying the spammers to send the emails? Instead of trying to kill the spammers, starve them by making companies think twice about using this method.
You'd think that this means of advertising would actually destroy the "goodwill" of the product being advertised. I know I have less respect for companies that use this means.
It is true that some parents are showing they care when they check up on their kids. This gets around those who have children who don't provide any information when asked "what did you do at school today".
However, I've also seen a trend among some parents to gloat to others about their children's grades and achievements. Just like the way most parents live vicariously through their children's sports activities and then brag about that, they drive the children to do things they themselves are not motivated to do. If you're pressured to make the highest grades because "Johnny's parents" are constantly gloating about their child's perfect scores and so on, then you'll lose all motivation because the parents don't *really* care about their children except where it comes to enhancing their status in the parenting circles.
Unfortunately, most parents push the child to do more than they ever would have or could have done themselves because they need to show they are good parents through their child's productivity. It's interesting that parenting success is considered more objectively now than how the child turns out. Some of the "brightest" children in school can turn out to be drug addicts and so on later because of the pressure and need to escape. Some of the lower graded kids can turn out to be the most honest and upright members of our community.
Sorry, I'll get off my soapbox now. Just because the parents use this does not necessarily mean they do it out of love. They may do it out of self-love.
I find it fascinating how many /. viewers complained about this article when it is under the topic of "funny". Check your brain in at the door and let your funny bone have free reign.
As for the review, it also left out the rechargeable batteries being virtually the same with only 5 hours of replay time on the G3 while up to 10 hours on the GBA SP. Hrm.
Does anyone not realize that card catalogs at libraries were a form of linking? References with indexes to various popular magazines were forms of links. They just don't get it.