All the talk from people complaining about the Counter-Strike "community" have obviously had some bad experiences on some badly run servers... usually the big ISP-run servers where there are never any admins present.
On a well-run server populated by competent and friendly players more interested in getting objectives and winning rounds for the team, rather than a personal frag count, can be a hard thing to find.
But if you do Counter-Strike remains one of the most playable online games out there.
It's just a case of the server having the proper rules and those rules being observered by the players and enforced by the admins.
I, for one, am never afraid to wield the banning stick.
"kind of thing that makes it a *criminal offence* to sell a pint of shandy in a pub"
Not true. Urban legend. Myth. FUD. Lie.
The Times reported it when they were being particularly anti-european and it's gained a sort of momentum of it's own. But it's not true and never has been true.
Frodo didn't destroy the ring. He couldn't bring himself to do it. Gollum destroys the ring by accident.
The ring is destroyed, yes. Evil is defeated, good triumphs, etc. But it was not so simple as "Frodo goes to the mountain, throws the ring in the lava, the end."
Well, sometimes "replace the car" is the right and answer and "fix the car with gaffer tape" is the wrong answer.
PCs are not devices designed or built to be used by children. They are complicated and easily broken. Either educate the children to use the PC properly or find an alternative entertainment for them.
I'd pass a law that all PCs should be sold with a label on them that says "this is not a tv. this is not a refridgerator. this is not a toy. this is not a consumer device. this is actually quite complicated"
Options include educating your children in the proper use of a PC, buying a console for the kids to play games on, or, and this is radical thought:
How about going outside and playing with a ball, giving them full administrative rights over the size and shape of the ball and the rules of the game, and the option to include additional sticks.
Normally I'm nice and productive and helpful but just occasionally I feel the need to vent and troll. Today is one of those days.
Of course, the same people (*) who mock the lack of features in notepad also bitch, whine, and shout "monopoly" whenever MS introduce anything fully-featured, such as a web browser, into the operating system.
Remember when playing music, zipping and unzipping files or CD-R support all required third party products? Cry "monopoly" and run to the courts, they're bundled in the OS now!
(*) "The same people" does not specifically refer to this individual poster. Although it might.
That would make sense if.... you only found these notes in *this* piece of music.
However, seeing as all these notes are used in other pieces of music they have no case.
It's not just the constituent parts that matter in a copyright case but how they are put together. In the case of Underworld it is a clear and direct rip-off of World of Darkness - it is literally only the names that have changed.
WoD is itself clearly distinct from other interpretations of the vampire myth when taken *as a whole*. Blade is different, Dracula 2000 is different, Anne Rice is different, Bram Stoker is different, Underworld is identical.
I tried the same excuse when I bit a guy's finger off and jumped to my fiery death in a pit of magma. I'd read about it in a book and it seemed cool.
But seriously folks gun control is this issue here, not video games, or movies, or the sulky, moody, violent, careless, callous and fundamentally stupid nature of teenage boys.
America has a lot of such boys and a lot of guns. Together they'll cause deaths. They'll never be rid of the boys so they'll have to do something about the guns.
If they have to be pried from Charlton Heston's cold dead fingers I say "your proposal is acceptable".
The UK has *not* just passed a new law banning the iTrip specifically or deliberately, as half the posters on slashdot seem to believe.
The distributors of the iTrip, having taken legal advice, have decided that use of the iTrip probably constitutes a breach of an old law about FM broadcasting and have therefore chosen not to distribute it here.
Nothing has actually changed and British police are not about to start hunting down people with suspicious bulges on the top of their iPods.
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All the talk from people complaining about the Counter-Strike "community" have obviously had some bad experiences on some badly run servers... usually the big ISP-run servers where there are never any admins present.
On a well-run server populated by competent and friendly players more interested in getting objectives and winning rounds for the team, rather than a personal frag count, can be a hard thing to find.
But if you do Counter-Strike remains one of the most playable online games out there.
It's just a case of the server having the proper rules and those rules being observered by the players and enforced by the admins.
I, for one, am never afraid to wield the banning stick.
"Big and ugly means manly"
For proof, see Ron Perlman.
They're slowly catching up with the Creative Zen then.
That's "Dark Achon", mate.
Not quite dorky enough.
He was an Olympic champion and held the world long-jump record for something like 25 years too.
Personally, I'm looking forward to the 2005 release of the 100000-DVD-set with all 500TB of extra footage and of making of documentaries.
Damned if you bundle, damned if you don't.
"You are lost in a foreign city, you don't speak the language and you are late for your meeting. What do you do? "
You go into the nearest hotel and ask the nice English-speaking person behind the reception desk.
Even on Mars the hotel receptionists speak perfectly-accented English.
I'd cast Ricky Tomlinson as Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz, and both Johnny Vegas and Peter Kay would make excellent Vogon guards.
These are three fairly well-known comedians in Britain although don't suppose they've crossed the pond yet.
"kind of thing that makes it a *criminal offence* to sell a pint of shandy in a pub"
Not true. Urban legend. Myth. FUD. Lie.
The Times reported it when they were being particularly anti-european and it's gained a sort of momentum of it's own. But it's not true and never has been true.
Please go and read "The Man on Platform 5" by Robert Llewelyn.
It has an excellent passage running through it on how all the different sub-genres of nerds look down on all the others.
I'm sure you'd appreciate it.
> And he did destroy the ring.
Did you watch the movie?
Frodo didn't destroy the ring. He couldn't bring himself to do it. Gollum destroys the ring by accident.
The ring is destroyed, yes. Evil is defeated, good triumphs, etc. But it was not so simple as "Frodo goes to the mountain, throws the ring in the lava, the end."
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And I in no way implied that. Not in the slightest.
In fact, I suggested a console as an alternative.
Well, sometimes "replace the car" is the right and answer and "fix the car with gaffer tape" is the wrong answer.
PCs are not devices designed or built to be used by children. They are complicated and easily broken. Either educate the children to use the PC properly or find an alternative entertainment for them.
I'd pass a law that all PCs should be sold with a label on them that says "this is not a tv. this is not a refridgerator. this is not a toy. this is not a consumer device. this is actually quite complicated"
:
Options include educating your children in the proper use of a PC, buying a console for the kids to play games on, or, and this is radical thought
How about going outside and playing with a ball, giving them full administrative rights over the size and shape of the ball and the rules of the game, and the option to include additional sticks.
Normally I'm nice and productive and helpful but just occasionally I feel the need to vent and troll. Today is one of those days.
From the repost-from-Thursday-dept.
Don't worry, it was only the single biggest-interest Games story in weeks. Noone will have noticed.
I can just imagine that first creative meeting...
"Guys! Guys! I've come up with this great new concept."
"Yeah?"
"I call them 'tits', whaddya think?"
"They could catch on, get really popular. We should patent that idea quick."
Of course, the same people (*) who mock the lack of features in notepad also bitch, whine, and shout "monopoly" whenever MS introduce anything fully-featured, such as a web browser, into the operating system.
Remember when playing music, zipping and unzipping files or CD-R support all required third party products? Cry "monopoly" and run to the courts, they're bundled in the OS now!
(*) "The same people" does not specifically refer to this individual poster. Although it might.
I think that was meant for me.
I wondered why she'd suddenly gone cold on me...
That would make sense if.... you only found these notes in *this* piece of music.
However, seeing as all these notes are used in other pieces of music they have no case.
It's not just the constituent parts that matter in a copyright case but how they are put together. In the case of Underworld it is a clear and direct rip-off of World of Darkness - it is literally only the names that have changed.
WoD is itself clearly distinct from other interpretations of the vampire myth when taken *as a whole*. Blade is different, Dracula 2000 is different, Anne Rice is different, Bram Stoker is different, Underworld is identical.
People love owning shelves full of stuff, shiny CD cases and DVD boxes and books.
The purchased and owned media will not go away in our lifetimes, no matter how many over-enthusiatic reports suggest that they will.
I tried the same excuse when I bit a guy's finger off and jumped to my fiery death in a pit of magma. I'd read about it in a book and it seemed cool.
But seriously folks gun control is this issue here, not video games, or movies, or the sulky, moody, violent, careless, callous and fundamentally stupid nature of teenage boys.
America has a lot of such boys and a lot of guns. Together they'll cause deaths. They'll never be rid of the boys so they'll have to do something about the guns.
If they have to be pried from Charlton Heston's cold dead fingers I say "your proposal is acceptable".
The UK has *not* just passed a new law banning the iTrip specifically or deliberately, as half the posters on slashdot seem to believe.
The distributors of the iTrip, having taken legal advice, have decided that use of the iTrip probably constitutes a breach of an old law about FM broadcasting and have therefore chosen not to distribute it here.
Nothing has actually changed and British police are not about to start hunting down people with suspicious bulges on the top of their iPods.
The BBC does not have a monopoloy on broadcasting in Britain.