You know, just reading those titles makes me want to puke. I have a feeling if I ever tried to read anything of them, I'd end up torching it in the street.
Partisan Political Whores suck. Do not support anything they do, on either side of the aisle.
Yes, because God knows that there is no possible reason a child should be allowed anywhere near a computer game at any time, for any reason.
Jesus, who the hell threw an Insightful on this crap? Yes, troll, he shouldn't let his kids spend 14 hours a day playing Warcraft 3, and I'm quite sure this isn't what's happening. It's quite possible to enjoy a computer game for the entertainment media that it is, as part of a normal life.
If you feel like investing the time, and have another machine that can act as a Domain Server, Group Policies could help a bunch with this. Join the computer to the domain, setup the logins for your kids, and set them up as administrators. You can then configure Group Policies for their logins to strip away their access to anything you don't want them getting into. Pretty much everything from preventing desktop wallpaper changes to preventing them from running Admin Console is available.
See, that's the thing: no way you can convince me a Venom-themed movie needs anything other than Venom. Perhaps this is in the works for the third movie? The trailer showed a brief shot of a military-dressed man with someone. This was how they setup Venom in the SpiderMan cartoon, since they didn't have Secret Wars - some guy (JJ's son I think?) was an astronaut and came back from space with the symbiot in tow. It first found Parker but he eventually rejected it, then it found Eddie. You setup the first part of the movie showing Eddie getting fired because of Peter, he finds the symbiot, learns that Parker is SpiderMan, goes a little bit nuts, Bingo, instant movie. Venom-themed SpiderMan movie has the potential to be truley kick-ass if they do it right.
You're probably right about the various low-tiered characters, but then you don't really need them. By the time you get through Doc Oc, Venom, and another Green Goblin/Hobgoblin movie, your 4 pictures in and the franchise is probably running out of juice anyway. Actually, what might be really cool is to have a SpiderMan/Daredevil crossover movie vs. The Kingpin, since he's a big presence in the Spider books anyway. Lots of good opportunities for Spidey/Daredevil "This is how I handle things" stuff. Too bad Daredevil got screwed up out of the gate and will be lucky to see the light of day again.
God, I hope not. IMHO that whole "two villian" cheese was the worst thing to happen to the Batman films (well, that and giving it to Schumacher I suppose).
Doc Oc's got enough juice to give Spidey a good ride for an entire movie on his own, he doesn't need the Lizard showing up for no damn good reason. This goes for any future Spidey villians down the road too: Venom (obviously), Carnage (you just know they're going to throw him in on the Venom pic), Return of Green Goblin/Hobgoblin (again, can't you just see the whole Osborn family mess in one picture). Hell, you do it right, you could even get whole pictures out of guys like the Shocker or Vulture, but probably no way that happens.
On a side note: damn did that car-chuck scene kick ass.
Seriously, have you seen those "This is where I..." ads for this thing? The game screenshots they show look like total crap. I don't know about you, but if I was a developer, I'd be embarrassed to see my game on national TV looking like it was running on an Atari Lynx.
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Something like this happened to me just about a month ago at a Fairfield in in Dallas TX. We tried turning on the TV when we first got in, and it wasn't working quite right. Fiddled with it for a bit, then ended up turning the TV off and on again.
This time it came up OK, but imagine my amusement when I saw an AMI BIOS screen. You could then turn channels and get your regular TV, but were always able to get back to the BIOS screen by channel cycling through. It was some kind of weird Channel 0 or something. That set-top movie rent box must have been some kind of serious hack-job. I had half a mind to look for a serial port or something and see what I could do, but it was my honeymoon after all; figured I'd get in trouble if I broke out the toolkit;)
That vice presidents in charge of whatever can't speak intelligently unless they're barfing up quotes from their own full-page ads in InformationWeek? Who the hell didn't already know that?
...ever get the feeling that partical physicists are just sharing one big self-delusion?
"Hey Bob, did you hear? Joe discovered a new kind of...uh...Meson!"
"A...Meson? Oh...yeah, Meson, of course. I know what that is."
"Yeah, check out this graph, see that spike right there for 1 billionth-trillionth of a second?"
"Uh...yeah! Yeah, I see it! Right there!"
"No, over there."
"Right! Right over there! Wow, that's great. Well, I'm off to go discover a...uh...new kind of...Foofara?"
"Wow....Foofara huh? Wow...that's awesome...Good Luck!"
Several people have mentioned the lack of Soul Calibur, but Dreamcast is perhaps one of the best figher platforms of all time. Marvel v. Capcom 1 and 2, Capcom v. SNK, several Street Fighter and King of Fighters versions. To say nothing of Dead or Alive 2
Clearly this article was ++ungood, and needed to be edited by one of the historians at the Ministry of Truth...err, Department of Homeland Security. I'm sure that this article will re-appear shortly in it's correct form, proving George Bush Sr. desperately wanted to invade Iraq and capture Sadaam during the first Gulf War, but was thwarted by the evil schemings of Eastasia...err, the Liberals.
Yes, Time can choose to put whatever it wants to up on it site, and pull it down at any time as well. Still, you don't find it more than a little strange that it was this one, particular article that got pulled, while every other article from that back issues (and presumably, articles from issues further back than that) that got pulled?
If they were taking them down for archival because of space limitations or routine maintenance or whatever, fine. But doing this wafts of either governmental or editorial censorship.
Bullshit. Slashdot is bombarding me with ads because I'm a cheap bastard and refuse to pay them for the content they provide me. Belkin's got the money I gave them for their router, they don't need to be sending me ads I don't want to see to make more money.
The Wachowski's (sp I'm sure) have said many times that they always envisioned The Matrix as a trilogy, so it's not like they did a good movie, and then went into hack-mode to capitalize on unexpected success.
I think the biggest problem is the boys got too caught up in their neat little special effect toys.
An systematic study conducted by NEC-Mitsubishi, ATI Technologies...
This is almost as good as one of those "A study conducted by Microsoft and Forrester Research concludes that Windows is Holy and Linux causes lepersy" studies. NEC and ATI think you should buy another monitor and upgrade your video card. Damn, what's next? Shell Oil thinks current fuel efficiency standards are just fine? Logging company thinks spotted owls will adapt to living in underground holes?
The service you are paying for is an education, not unfettered broadband access.
Use the parking example I mentioned above. Say I suddenly decide the campus is my own personal parking lot, and I start dropping my rig anywhere I damn please, like right in front of Stedmen Hall in the middle of the quad. This obviously is a disruption and inconvenience to everyone else, so I get a ticket. But I don't care, I just keep doing it. After about 100 tickets they tow my car, revoke my parking pass, and tell me that I am forbidden to park anywhere on campus from now on. I either have to walk or bum rides. I still get the education service, but because I'm an asshole I have lost my parking privledges.
I will admit that the university smacking down everyone it detects with a file sharing program seems bit harsh, but then they do get a couple warnings before things . And let's be honest and call a spade a spade here: out of all the computers they come across with port 6699 or whatever open, how many do you think are actually using it for legitimate, legal file sharing, or research purposes or whatever. 5%? I'd be shocked if it was that high.
Breathing air from dorms is a privledge, not a right.
It might be, if certain individuals could breath in such a way that it makes breathing for everyone else 70% less effective.
Playing music on your guitar is a privledge, not a right.
Very true. For an example of this, turn your amp up to 11 on a Tuesday night and practice your Jimi Hendrix.
Staying up past 11 PM on a weeknight is a privledge, not a right.
Again, if you staying up past 11 PM somehow forced everyone else to stay up past 11, it might be.
The thing you seem to not grasp is that network access is a shared, limited resource. Yes, the students are indirectly paying for it, but they are indirectly paying for a lot of things, such as parking, furniture in the student lounge, and trees in the campus quad. This does not mean that students can start parking wherever they want, steal couches out of the lounge, or transplant trees as they see fit.
Using the campus network from dorms is a privledge, not a right. UofF has not only the right but the responsibility to ensure that their network resources are protected, not only from without but from within as well.
If students want to file share (legit or otherwise), or game, or whatever, without restrictions, they can drop the cash for DSL or cable.
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You know, just reading those titles makes me want to puke. I have a feeling if I ever tried to read anything of them, I'd end up torching it in the street.
Partisan Political Whores suck. Do not support anything they do, on either side of the aisle.
Yes, because God knows that there is no possible reason a child should be allowed anywhere near a computer game at any time, for any reason.
Jesus, who the hell threw an Insightful on this crap? Yes, troll, he shouldn't let his kids spend 14 hours a day playing Warcraft 3, and I'm quite sure this isn't what's happening. It's quite possible to enjoy a computer game for the entertainment media that it is, as part of a normal life.
If you feel like investing the time, and have another machine that can act as a Domain Server, Group Policies could help a bunch with this. Join the computer to the domain, setup the logins for your kids, and set them up as administrators. You can then configure Group Policies for their logins to strip away their access to anything you don't want them getting into. Pretty much everything from preventing desktop wallpaper changes to preventing them from running Admin Console is available.
See, that's the thing: no way you can convince me a Venom-themed movie needs anything other than Venom. Perhaps this is in the works for the third movie? The trailer showed a brief shot of a military-dressed man with someone. This was how they setup Venom in the SpiderMan cartoon, since they didn't have Secret Wars - some guy (JJ's son I think?) was an astronaut and came back from space with the symbiot in tow. It first found Parker but he eventually rejected it, then it found Eddie. You setup the first part of the movie showing Eddie getting fired because of Peter, he finds the symbiot, learns that Parker is SpiderMan, goes a little bit nuts, Bingo, instant movie. Venom-themed SpiderMan movie has the potential to be truley kick-ass if they do it right.
You're probably right about the various low-tiered characters, but then you don't really need them. By the time you get through Doc Oc, Venom, and another Green Goblin/Hobgoblin movie, your 4 pictures in and the franchise is probably running out of juice anyway. Actually, what might be really cool is to have a SpiderMan/Daredevil crossover movie vs. The Kingpin, since he's a big presence in the Spider books anyway. Lots of good opportunities for Spidey/Daredevil "This is how I handle things" stuff. Too bad Daredevil got screwed up out of the gate and will be lucky to see the light of day again.
God, I hope not. IMHO that whole "two villian" cheese was the worst thing to happen to the Batman films (well, that and giving it to Schumacher I suppose).
Doc Oc's got enough juice to give Spidey a good ride for an entire movie on his own, he doesn't need the Lizard showing up for no damn good reason. This goes for any future Spidey villians down the road too: Venom (obviously), Carnage (you just know they're going to throw him in on the Venom pic), Return of Green Goblin/Hobgoblin (again, can't you just see the whole Osborn family mess in one picture). Hell, you do it right, you could even get whole pictures out of guys like the Shocker or Vulture, but probably no way that happens.
On a side note: damn did that car-chuck scene kick ass.
Warcraft 3 did indeed ship: but note that it made not one but two lists (check out 2001's).
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, we're still waiting to see if Team Fortress 2 will ever see the light of day.
Yeah, everyone knows all the cool kids drink Mr. Pibb.
Seeing that one reminds me of Batman for the NES.
...that don't look like ass?
Seriously, have you seen those "This is where I..." ads for this thing? The game screenshots they show look like total crap. I don't know about you, but if I was a developer, I'd be embarrassed to see my game on national TV looking like it was running on an Atari Lynx.
Something like this happened to me just about a month ago at a Fairfield in in Dallas TX. We tried turning on the TV when we first got in, and it wasn't working quite right. Fiddled with it for a bit, then ended up turning the TV off and on again.
;)
This time it came up OK, but imagine my amusement when I saw an AMI BIOS screen. You could then turn channels and get your regular TV, but were always able to get back to the BIOS screen by channel cycling through. It was some kind of weird Channel 0 or something. That set-top movie rent box must have been some kind of serious hack-job. I had half a mind to look for a serial port or something and see what I could do, but it was my honeymoon after all; figured I'd get in trouble if I broke out the toolkit
That vice presidents in charge of whatever can't speak intelligently unless they're barfing up quotes from their own full-page ads in InformationWeek? Who the hell didn't already know that?
...ever get the feeling that partical physicists are just sharing one big self-delusion?
"Hey Bob, did you hear? Joe discovered a new kind of...uh...Meson!"
"A...Meson? Oh...yeah, Meson, of course. I know what that is."
"Yeah, check out this graph, see that spike right there for 1 billionth-trillionth of a second?"
"Uh...yeah! Yeah, I see it! Right there!"
"No, over there."
"Right! Right over there! Wow, that's great. Well, I'm off to go discover a...uh...new kind of...Foofara?"
"Wow....Foofara huh? Wow...that's awesome...Good Luck!"
Several people have mentioned the lack of Soul Calibur, but Dreamcast is perhaps one of the best figher platforms of all time. Marvel v. Capcom 1 and 2, Capcom v. SNK, several Street Fighter and King of Fighters versions. To say nothing of Dead or Alive 2
Clearly this article was ++ungood, and needed to be edited by one of the historians at the Ministry of Truth...err, Department of Homeland Security. I'm sure that this article will re-appear shortly in it's correct form, proving George Bush Sr. desperately wanted to invade Iraq and capture Sadaam during the first Gulf War, but was thwarted by the evil schemings of Eastasia...err, the Liberals.
Yes, Time can choose to put whatever it wants to up on it site, and pull it down at any time as well. Still, you don't find it more than a little strange that it was this one, particular article that got pulled, while every other article from that back issues (and presumably, articles from issues further back than that) that got pulled?
If they were taking them down for archival because of space limitations or routine maintenance or whatever, fine. But doing this wafts of either governmental or editorial censorship.
There you go, letting facts get in the way of a good flamewar.
IHBT...
Bullshit. Slashdot is bombarding me with ads because I'm a cheap bastard and refuse to pay them for the content they provide me. Belkin's got the money I gave them for their router, they don't need to be sending me ads I don't want to see to make more money.
The Wachowski's (sp I'm sure) have said many times that they always envisioned The Matrix as a trilogy, so it's not like they did a good movie, and then went into hack-mode to capitalize on unexpected success.
I think the biggest problem is the boys got too caught up in their neat little special effect toys.
Yes. We lead the free world in troll-related studies.
Take a look at Lexmark. We've got a couple of them floating around our place, and they seem very reliable, with quality printing.
An systematic study conducted by NEC-Mitsubishi, ATI Technologies...
This is almost as good as one of those "A study conducted by Microsoft and Forrester Research concludes that Windows is Holy and Linux causes lepersy" studies. NEC and ATI think you should buy another monitor and upgrade your video card. Damn, what's next? Shell Oil thinks current fuel efficiency standards are just fine? Logging company thinks spotted owls will adapt to living in underground holes?
I guess that means I'm a whiney, clueless little liberal huh? Are you gonna tell Rush on me?
The service you are paying for is an education, not unfettered broadband access.
Use the parking example I mentioned above. Say I suddenly decide the campus is my own personal parking lot, and I start dropping my rig anywhere I damn please, like right in front of Stedmen Hall in the middle of the quad. This obviously is a disruption and inconvenience to everyone else, so I get a ticket. But I don't care, I just keep doing it. After about 100 tickets they tow my car, revoke my parking pass, and tell me that I am forbidden to park anywhere on campus from now on. I either have to walk or bum rides. I still get the education service, but because I'm an asshole I have lost my parking privledges.
I will admit that the university smacking down everyone it detects with a file sharing program seems bit harsh, but then they do get a couple warnings before things . And let's be honest and call a spade a spade here: out of all the computers they come across with port 6699 or whatever open, how many do you think are actually using it for legitimate, legal file sharing, or research purposes or whatever. 5%? I'd be shocked if it was that high.
Breathing air from dorms is a privledge, not a right.
It might be, if certain individuals could breath in such a way that it makes breathing for everyone else 70% less effective.
Playing music on your guitar is a privledge, not a right.
Very true. For an example of this, turn your amp up to 11 on a Tuesday night and practice your Jimi Hendrix.
Staying up past 11 PM on a weeknight is a privledge, not a right.
Again, if you staying up past 11 PM somehow forced everyone else to stay up past 11, it might be.
The thing you seem to not grasp is that network access is a shared, limited resource. Yes, the students are indirectly paying for it, but they are indirectly paying for a lot of things, such as parking, furniture in the student lounge, and trees in the campus quad. This does not mean that students can start parking wherever they want, steal couches out of the lounge, or transplant trees as they see fit.
Using the campus network from dorms is a privledge, not a right. UofF has not only the right but the responsibility to ensure that their network resources are protected, not only from without but from within as well.
If students want to file share (legit or otherwise), or game, or whatever, without restrictions, they can drop the cash for DSL or cable.