I know what you mean. They also rejected my story about a friend I know, who knows a girl in college, who has a roommate who has a Pakistani boyfriend, who told her not to go near any malls the day before Halloween...I mean Christmas.
Actually, if this happened in America, it would quickly be followed by an announcement from the President and other political leaders that this was for the best, that they are only trying to "protect our children" and make our streets "safe for normal folks" by being "tough on crime".
That announcement would then be followed by an announcement by the CEO of AOL/Time Warner (who was just appointed as head of the newly created "Homeland Entertainment" department) that they would immediately merge with CBS, Fox, and every other media company you can think of, and that every home in America would immediately recieve free cable television and connection to the "New and Improved American Internet" for life. 85% of the sheep..er, people in this country immediately decide it's better to lie down and take it than risk missing the Friends season finally, and the rest of us are left wondering why the fuck we didn't move to Canada when we had the chance.
This was my first thought as well (though not quite the same)...
If you go to some kind of "pay-per-page" system, what's to stop web sites from pulling all kinds of dirty tricks to drive up the page views. Already sites use pop-up windows and other such things. They also have a tendancy to break down their articles into multiple pages, so you have to click through multiple times to drive up their banner-count.
These are just little annoyances if the page content is free, but they become unacceptable if I'm paying.
Strangely enough, I've been able to get Master of Magic working under Win2k by booting into SafeMode and playing it through there. Of course that pretty much eliminates sound from the game, but should work if you need an emergency MOM hit.
I know those early Halo screenshots were impressive, but that's all they were, screenshots. They were probably a very long ways away from the persistant online virtual war we all had dreams of.
Likely Bungie would have had to scale back Halo eventually anyway, even if MS hadn't bought them out, or risk turning the game into another BattleCruiser 3000AD. At this point, though, being under the MS umbrella will probably give Bungie the resources necessary to continue the work Halo originally started out as, if perhaps under a new title/project down the road. I'm sure MS would love to release a game like that through their PC gaming division.
Also I noticed watching some kind of "preview" piece the other day:
- American Maid seems to now be called "Captain Liberty", minus the whole maid theme of course.
- Die Flaturmouse (sp, I'm sure) was called "Batmanuel" or something equally hideous.
Not being able to have Chairface Chippendale, Speak, or (dare I say it) The-Midnight-Bomber-What-Bombs-at-Midnight (yeah baby!) is going to suck as well. Doesn't really make sense to me: you can get permission to use The Tick and Arthur, the two biggest characters, but not all the secondary characters?
alternate answer: You become a non-person, unable to perform simple tasks such as apply for a job, purchase goods, or even recieve unemployment benefits. Forced out of modern society, you hitchhike across the midwest for several months, until you finally settle in southern Wyoming, where you manage to build a crude log cabin, and live off the land. Eventually, your life moves from survival to enjoyment of your new "wilderness" surroundings, and you spend the remainder of your years communing with nature in peace and tranquility.
Nope, almost the opposite in fact. You'll probably still be using Swordsmen and Spearmen, maybe even Warriors, well into A.D.
Tech advances in general seem to come a little slower than in past Civ's, and there's also the issue of resources. A city must have access to things like horses, iron, and such before it can produce certain units. This help's put more advanced units at a premium on the battlefield, and means you'll have to rely on lower units for most of the yeoman work.
I noticed this too, but I'm guessing it's just the differences in the game that we all need to get used to. Civ3 seems to play a lot slower than previous games; takes a lot more time/effort to get cities up and running, make discoveries, etc.
Not that screwing up electronics by taking them apart keeps people from trying to get warranty service mind you. I've had customers tell me that their computer "just fell apart".
They're making 5-10 times more than they would be making anywhere else, and the environment, while difficult, still allows them to make their families prosper so maybe their kids won't have to "struggle" and "work as hard."
Which of course is a little like being given a choice between cutting off two of your fingers or only cutting off one. It doesn't change the fact that the guy handing you the knife is a son-of-a-bitch.
Back when I was a lab procter in college, we had a DOS/3.1 machine up front for inputing student's computer usage stats (and playing Civilization, Railroad Tycoon, and Gorilla.BAS of course). One day, one of the other procters wanted to wipe out a certain directory on C drive for some reason, and used deltree. Of course, running deltree *.* from c:\ probably wasn't the best idea. He wondered why it was taking so long just to delete just one directory, and called me. By the time I got there, it was halfway through c:\windows, so it was basically time for a system reload. While reloading the machine, I was told by my boss to delete deltree.exe (or was it com?) from the machine, to avoid this happening again.
Two weeks later, the machine was hosed again. We asked the same student, and he eventually confessed to using deltree again. Turns out he had noticed the deltree file wasn't there, so using the original DOS 6.2 install disks and the "expand" program, he extracted the file off the disks and back into c:\dos. And then he proceeded to run deltree *.* from c:\ again.
Lovely. The guy was smart enough to extract an individual file from the DOS install disks, yet somehow dumb enough to run deltree *.* from c:\ twice.
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You mean routers won't take PC133? ;)
No truth to the rumor that whole little scene was originally ended with the phrase, "My God Jim, it's full of stars!"
Large companies covering up for stupid mistakes with threats of litigation truly is the comedy of the new century.
I know what you mean. They also rejected my story about a friend I know, who knows a girl in college, who has a roommate who has a Pakistani boyfriend, who told her not to go near any malls the day before Halloween...I mean Christmas.
I knew you were going to say that.
Actually, if this happened in America, it would quickly be followed by an announcement from the President and other political leaders that this was for the best, that they are only trying to "protect our children" and make our streets "safe for normal folks" by being "tough on crime".
That announcement would then be followed by an announcement by the CEO of AOL/Time Warner (who was just appointed as head of the newly created "Homeland Entertainment" department) that they would immediately merge with CBS, Fox, and every other media company you can think of, and that every home in America would immediately recieve free cable television and connection to the "New and Improved American Internet" for life. 85% of the sheep..er, people in this country immediately decide it's better to lie down and take it than risk missing the Friends season finally, and the rest of us are left wondering why the fuck we didn't move to Canada when we had the chance.
This was my first thought as well (though not quite the same)...
If you go to some kind of "pay-per-page" system, what's to stop web sites from pulling all kinds of dirty tricks to drive up the page views. Already sites use pop-up windows and other such things. They also have a tendancy to break down their articles into multiple pages, so you have to click through multiple times to drive up their banner-count.
These are just little annoyances if the page content is free, but they become unacceptable if I'm paying.
Strangely enough, I've been able to get Master of Magic working under Win2k by booting into SafeMode and playing it through there. Of course that pretty much eliminates sound from the game, but should work if you need an emergency MOM hit.
The stock market indicates nothing but the level of paranoia investors are currently at.
Well, that, and the relative strength of the worlds economy at any one time. Percieved reality becomes reality of enough people "percieve" it.
knee-jerk=reactionary. As in, we don't want moderate up posts that are people obviously speaking before thinking.
Maybe Dogbert is the "unseen second character who seems to hold a deep understanding of the universe." Or is that supposed to be Wally.
I know those early Halo screenshots were impressive, but that's all they were, screenshots. They were probably a very long ways away from the persistant online virtual war we all had dreams of.
Likely Bungie would have had to scale back Halo eventually anyway, even if MS hadn't bought them out, or risk turning the game into another BattleCruiser 3000AD. At this point, though, being under the MS umbrella will probably give Bungie the resources necessary to continue the work Halo originally started out as, if perhaps under a new title/project down the road. I'm sure MS would love to release a game like that through their PC gaming division.
Also I noticed watching some kind of "preview" piece the other day:
- American Maid seems to now be called "Captain Liberty", minus the whole maid theme of course.
- Die Flaturmouse (sp, I'm sure) was called "Batmanuel" or something equally hideous.
Not being able to have Chairface Chippendale, Speak, or (dare I say it) The-Midnight-Bomber-What-Bombs-at-Midnight (yeah baby!) is going to suck as well. Doesn't really make sense to me: you can get permission to use The Tick and Arthur, the two biggest characters, but not all the secondary characters?
But of course the best:
This question actually got scored down to -1 and marked as a troll question, but I fished it out of the barrel and restored it...
Translation: The moderators smoke $3 crack.
Don't forget the goattee.
See it rise from the ashes at http://mathworld.wolfram.com."
And see it's fall back to earth 20 seconds after this story is posted, as the Slashdot Effect carves another notch in it's weblog.
alternate answer: You become a non-person, unable to perform simple tasks such as apply for a job, purchase goods, or even recieve unemployment benefits. Forced out of modern society, you hitchhike across the midwest for several months, until you finally settle in southern Wyoming, where you manage to build a crude log cabin, and live off the land. Eventually, your life moves from survival to enjoyment of your new "wilderness" surroundings, and you spend the remainder of your years communing with nature in peace and tranquility.
See, Microsoft did you a favor after all!
It's also illegal to put squirrels down your pants for the purposes of gambling...
Nope, almost the opposite in fact. You'll probably still be using Swordsmen and Spearmen, maybe even Warriors, well into A.D.
Tech advances in general seem to come a little slower than in past Civ's, and there's also the issue of resources. A city must have access to things like horses, iron, and such before it can produce certain units. This help's put more advanced units at a premium on the battlefield, and means you'll have to rely on lower units for most of the yeoman work.
I noticed this too, but I'm guessing it's just the differences in the game that we all need to get used to. Civ3 seems to play a lot slower than previous games; takes a lot more time/effort to get cities up and running, make discoveries, etc.
Not that screwing up electronics by taking them apart keeps people from trying to get warranty service mind you. I've had customers tell me that their computer "just fell apart".
They're making 5-10 times more than they would be making anywhere else, and the environment, while difficult, still allows them to make their families prosper so maybe their kids won't have to "struggle" and "work as hard."
Which of course is a little like being given a choice between cutting off two of your fingers or only cutting off one. It doesn't change the fact that the guy handing you the knife is a son-of-a-bitch.
Yes, but an easy target never ages. Ask Bill Buckner.
Back when I was a lab procter in college, we had a DOS/3.1 machine up front for inputing student's computer usage stats (and playing Civilization, Railroad Tycoon, and Gorilla.BAS of course). One day, one of the other procters wanted to wipe out a certain directory on C drive for some reason, and used deltree. Of course, running deltree *.* from c:\ probably wasn't the best idea. He wondered why it was taking so long just to delete just one directory, and called me. By the time I got there, it was halfway through c:\windows, so it was basically time for a system reload. While reloading the machine, I was told by my boss to delete deltree.exe (or was it com?) from the machine, to avoid this happening again.
Two weeks later, the machine was hosed again. We asked the same student, and he eventually confessed to using deltree again. Turns out he had noticed the deltree file wasn't there, so using the original DOS 6.2 install disks and the "expand" program, he extracted the file off the disks and back into c:\dos. And then he proceeded to run deltree *.* from c:\ again.
Lovely. The guy was smart enough to extract an individual file from the DOS install disks, yet somehow dumb enough to run deltree *.* from c:\ twice.