But I also personally agree with Totenglocke when it comes to a good SP campaign for instance.
On the other (third?) hand what I do find most entertaining and interesting today is the C-c-c-combo. Because today you can have _both_ in a lot of games! I'm ofcourse talking about Co-Op. Playing through a good Co-Op game gives a little bit of both worlds. You can enjoy a good online session with your best mates, and you can enjoy a good campaign. Typical games would be: Splinter cell: conviction. This one has a great SP campaign _and_ a great coop campaign (Not the same story, allthough they are intertwined). Most Tom clancy games (R6 franchise, latest SC and also GR) Operation Flashpoint (oldest best for replayability and huge mod/map community, while the new _sucks_ in that regard).
In fact, Operation Flashpoint: Red River deserves a special mention on how _not_ to build a coop campaign: Unskippable and _long_ transport/cut scenes. No community support. No editor. We've played it for perhaps som 30 hours, and consider ourselfs done. In the end we were all getting aggrevated and irritated so much by the unskippable cut scenes, we lost all interest. Shame:-\
I might be an oldfag, but I seem to remember it was actually games out there you didn't have to be a tweaker to enjoy. CS, CoD and similar are tweakers delights, but once arthritis sets in, it's gonna suck to try to play catch up to the kids born into it.
What I do enjoy though are games like ArmA2, where the theme is much the same, but where one has to use TACTICS and STRATEGIES (look'em up kids, they're real words). I've still to see soldiers in Afghanistan jumping up and down, going from jump to full prone and back again several thousands times during a single mission. neither does aimbots work very well in the field (yet).
So I blame the games and the kids to the same degree. Face it, games aren't tailored to us oldfags anymore.
They (Adobe) defined Norway as a "High cost country", and doubled the prices here compared to say, the US. They charge us $5436 for the CS5 Master Collection. Same pack, same site, US web shop: $2599 Our poor neighbors in Sweden are charged almost $6100
Seems like their trying to take back their entire loss to "piracy" through charging us the double.
With a pricing policy like that, it hardly seems strange that someone would elect _not_ to pay'em.
In Adobes case, there are a lot of potential users that have to start out as pirates to actually learn how to use their software, so at a later stage they could buy it.
The story itself is true enough. What's wrong is that it was Megadeth. It was Creed's "Overcome" the kid played.
This according to the original story and the video interview with the kid: http://www.tv2nyhetene.no/innenriks/walter-13-jaget-ulveflokk-med-heavy-metallaat-3392514.html
Can even see it in the pic of the kid showing his phone with the track he played =) http://pub.tv2.no/multimedia/TV2/archive/00855/Jagde_ulv_med_heavy_855327n.jpg
I'm just surprised they're not tagged and bagged as terrorists, as these crimes in it's worst capacity can 'incite fear and panic in the general populace' or some such. I would've though that in this climate of 'War on *', DHD, CIA, FBI, ATF, DEA or any other TCI (Three Character Initialisms) would hunt you down.
I mean, if you forget to remove your leatherman from your overnight pack, and get stopped in security at any major airport, they're going to be all over you.
But if you try to shoot out the power / net connection for a major metropolitan area, that's just fun and games?
I guess a membership in NRA automatically discounts you as a potential terrorist?
It would probably be cheaper if the US army did so in this case. Allthough, further down the line you'd have a lot of entrepreneuring soldiers wanting to write books. Sure is better than the pension they'd receive.
At least in moderate amounts, of course. Another matter is actually vocally raping the other gamers, but the occational "fuck", "shit", "asshole" etc. should definitively be allowed.
I guess they're just following the Soviet era tried and tested rocket development program. Start by blowing up rockets, and continue until they stop blowing up. Then strap some pilots on top.
Three police officers saw him kill, but didn't do anything because police batons don't stand much of a chance against someone with a firearm.
Anyone else see what's wrong with this picture? For one, why aren't police allowed to carry guns? Or pepper spray? Or tasers? Just so they can say, "Oh LOOK! GUNS ARE UNSTOPPABLE! Therefore, we must make guns illegal, and possession a crime in itself."
It's called escalation, look it up.
The heavier the police arms themselves, the heavier the criminal elements arms themselves. There are of course several types of criminals, but some do expect the police to come after them, and ain't going to go down quietly.
Every 5 to 10 years there's the debate whether to arm the Norwegian police forces, usually after some heavy robbery, a police killing or some such. But what we also see is that the Norwegian police is exceptionally good at conflict handling. Guns are available for police, sealed in the car, but they need the police chiefs approval to arm themselves, and then of course only if the situation demands it.
Sweden, our neighbors, have armed police, and at the same time we see a higher degree of violence in their community. Just yesterday, what is a fairly commonplace situation blew into violence and riots in Rinkeby, (a very problematic area in the capital Stockholm with a high density of immigrants). A group of teens had gathered outside a school party after being denied access, and were starting to make trouble. When the police arrived, they fired a warning shot, and the whole situation erupted into stone throwing and mayhem. Is there any reason the police couldn't approach them respectfully, and unarmed, and asked them to move along. Starting a dialog instead of a fight?
Another example: You've all seen how every meeting of WTO around the world the last 20 years have erupted into violence and riots? Not so in Oslo, Norway, when it was held here in 2005. Why? Because of a completely none confrontational approach from the police. In fact, during the whole demonstration, you couldn't spot _one_ uniformed cop in the streets! Yes, they were ready for the worst, had some 5000 cops on the ready on the outskirts of the city (well hidden from plain sight), but only civilian cops observing in the demonstration. It worked, and it worked well!
Thing is, people wish to be respected. So if you talk to them respectfully, most situations can be stopped before it escalates. If they expect you to approach them with guns drawn in an entirely authoritarian way, not all people are going to accept that, and escalate by arming themselves accordingly.
This is why I believe unarmed police is a must, so that one can keep the situation defused, so to say.
I'd say anything but mail myself though. Atleast until I have an idea how they're hoping to solve the spam problem.
We run our own mail server (privately), so for myself I'm not particularly concerned. But if the solution is built on an outsourced solution, eg. myprinter@print.hp.com, then no thanks.
PS: What's wrong with FTP? The overhead you get by sending document attachments by mail is unnecessary at best.
It's horrible how you have to change carrier to get the devices you want. A really bad , consumer unfriendly system were the carriers can walk all over you.
The shitty thing is that some manufacturers try to import that bullshit system to Europe too (England has had it for long). I won't name names, but _APPLE_ eg. is one of those companies. You had to initially choose binding to one carrier up here in Norway, and a little later, you had the choice between the two biggest carriers.
Most Norwegian prefer the voluntary binding to carriers, but with the option of bying the device without.
As this was some 10-12 years ago at the tech support dept. for a huge ISP in.no, we lacked the tools and policies to lock down the terminals properly. Also, keeping the techies happy meant letting them trash about some on their own machines. Witin limits ofcourse..;)
Playing to much quake while supposed to answer phones could mean having your shell changed from explorer.exe to quake.exe e.g. =)
I remember hearing something along the order of 200 users, 50 computers and 2-3 servers per head in the IT department would be optimal when I worked as a sysadmin 10 years back.
I can tell you this much, administering 250 users, 120 computers and 7 servers is too much for one person atleast, that's from personal experience. =) Mostly Win NT 4.0 back then.
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Agreed, it very much is subjective.
But I also personally agree with Totenglocke when it comes to a good SP campaign for instance.
On the other (third?) hand what I do find most entertaining and interesting today is the C-c-c-combo. Because today you can have _both_ in a lot of games! I'm ofcourse talking about Co-Op. Playing through a good Co-Op game gives a little bit of both worlds. You can enjoy a good online session with your best mates, and you can enjoy a good campaign.
Typical games would be:
Splinter cell: conviction. This one has a great SP campaign _and_ a great coop campaign (Not the same story, allthough they are intertwined).
Most Tom clancy games (R6 franchise, latest SC and also GR)
Operation Flashpoint (oldest best for replayability and huge mod/map community, while the new _sucks_ in that regard).
In fact, Operation Flashpoint: Red River deserves a special mention on how _not_ to build a coop campaign: :-\
Unskippable and _long_ transport/cut scenes.
No community support.
No editor.
We've played it for perhaps som 30 hours, and consider ourselfs done. In the end we were all getting aggrevated and irritated so much by the unskippable cut scenes, we lost all interest. Shame
I might be an oldfag, but I seem to remember it was actually games out there you didn't have to be a tweaker to enjoy. CS, CoD and similar are tweakers delights, but once arthritis sets in, it's gonna suck to try to play catch up to the kids born into it.
What I do enjoy though are games like ArmA2, where the theme is much the same, but where one has to use TACTICS and STRATEGIES (look'em up kids, they're real words). I've still to see soldiers in Afghanistan jumping up and down, going from jump to full prone and back again several thousands times during a single mission. neither does aimbots work very well in the field (yet).
So I blame the games and the kids to the same degree. Face it, games aren't tailored to us oldfags anymore.
You Sir, are in the wrong!
Look to Norway
They (Adobe) defined Norway as a "High cost country", and doubled the prices here compared to say, the US.
They charge us $5436 for the CS5 Master Collection. Same pack, same site, US web shop: $2599
Our poor neighbors in Sweden are charged almost $6100
Seems like their trying to take back their entire loss to "piracy" through charging us the double.
With a pricing policy like that, it hardly seems strange that someone would elect _not_ to pay'em.
In Adobes case, there are a lot of potential users that have to start out as pirates to actually learn how to use their software, so at a later stage they could buy it.
I just want to known one thing: How many football fields or Boeng 747 is that?
In short, and in layman's terms: A lot of art is crap too.
The story itself is true enough. What's wrong is that it was Megadeth.
It was Creed's "Overcome" the kid played.
This according to the original story and the video interview with the kid:
http://www.tv2nyhetene.no/innenriks/walter-13-jaget-ulveflokk-med-heavy-metallaat-3392514.html
Can even see it in the pic of the kid showing his phone with the track he played =)
http://pub.tv2.no/multimedia/TV2/archive/00855/Jagde_ulv_med_heavy_855327n.jpg
The really super secret satellites . . . well, we don't hear anything about them . . . and we shouldn't, either.
My guess is they're hidden stowaways with proper launches. So this 'spy' satellite might have a little brother =)
I thought we all agreed to keep it metric after the last little 'mishap' with the Mars orbiter.
Imperial units are sooo 2 centuries too old!
Maybe you didn't get the memo?
I'm just surprised they're not tagged and bagged as terrorists, as these crimes in it's worst capacity can 'incite fear and panic in the general populace' or some such. I would've though that in this climate of 'War on *', DHD, CIA, FBI, ATF, DEA or any other TCI (Three Character Initialisms) would hunt you down.
I mean, if you forget to remove your leatherman from your overnight pack, and get stopped in security at any major airport, they're going to be all over you.
But if you try to shoot out the power / net connection for a major metropolitan area, that's just fun and games?
I guess a membership in NRA automatically discounts you as a potential terrorist?
In Soviet Russia, the army buys _you_!
It would probably be cheaper if the US army did so in this case. Allthough, further down the line you'd have a lot of entrepreneuring soldiers wanting to write books. Sure is better than the pension they'd receive.
Why the fuck would you ban cursing?
It's what people do. It's how they talk.
At least in moderate amounts, of course. Another matter is actually vocally raping the other gamers, but the occational "fuck", "shit", "asshole" etc. should definitively be allowed.
They could ask him nicely, by not torturing him. Eg. by waterboarding. According to Pentagon it's just a "rough interrogation technique", isn't it?
I guess they're just following the Soviet era tried and tested rocket development program. Start by blowing up rockets, and continue until they stop blowing up. Then strap some pilots on top.
I don't care who they like, as long as they stay away from me!
Alcohol in abundance.
Anyone else see what's wrong with this picture? For one, why aren't police allowed to carry guns? Or pepper spray? Or tasers? Just so they can say, "Oh LOOK! GUNS ARE UNSTOPPABLE! Therefore, we must make guns illegal, and possession a crime in itself."
It's called escalation, look it up.
The heavier the police arms themselves, the heavier the criminal elements arms themselves. There are of course several types of criminals, but some do expect the police to come after them, and ain't going to go down quietly.
Every 5 to 10 years there's the debate whether to arm the Norwegian police forces, usually after some heavy robbery, a police killing or some such. But what we also see is that the Norwegian police is exceptionally good at conflict handling.
Guns are available for police, sealed in the car, but they need the police chiefs approval to arm themselves, and then of course only if the situation demands it.
Sweden, our neighbors, have armed police, and at the same time we see a higher degree of violence in their community. Just yesterday, what is a fairly commonplace situation blew into violence and riots in Rinkeby, (a very problematic area in the capital Stockholm with a high density of immigrants). A group of teens had gathered outside a school party after being denied access, and were starting to make trouble. When the police arrived, they fired a warning shot, and the whole situation erupted into stone throwing and mayhem. Is there any reason the police couldn't approach them respectfully, and unarmed, and asked them to move along. Starting a dialog instead of a fight?
Another example: You've all seen how every meeting of WTO around the world the last 20 years have erupted into violence and riots? Not so in Oslo, Norway, when it was held here in 2005. Why? Because of a completely none confrontational approach from the police. In fact, during the whole demonstration, you couldn't spot _one_ uniformed cop in the streets! Yes, they were ready for the worst, had some 5000 cops on the ready on the outskirts of the city (well hidden from plain sight), but only civilian cops observing in the demonstration. It worked, and it worked well!
Thing is, people wish to be respected. So if you talk to them respectfully, most situations can be stopped before it escalates. If they expect you to approach them with guns drawn in an entirely authoritarian way, not all people are going to accept that, and escalate by arming themselves accordingly.
This is why I believe unarmed police is a must, so that one can keep the situation defused, so to say.
I'd say anything but mail myself though. Atleast until I have an idea how they're hoping to solve the spam problem.
We run our own mail server (privately), so for myself I'm not particularly concerned. But if the solution is built on an outsourced solution, eg. myprinter@print.hp.com, then no thanks.
PS: What's wrong with FTP? The overhead you get by sending document attachments by mail is unnecessary at best.
Would you believe HP haven't considered this already?
To me it looks like a ploy to sell even more overpriced printer ink/toner
It's horrible how you have to change carrier to get the devices you want. A really bad , consumer unfriendly system were the carriers can walk all over you.
The shitty thing is that some manufacturers try to import that bullshit system to Europe too (England has had it for long). I won't name names, but _APPLE_ eg. is one of those companies. You had to initially choose binding to one carrier up here in Norway, and a little later, you had the choice between the two biggest carriers.
Most Norwegian prefer the voluntary binding to carriers, but with the option of bying the device without.
As this was some 10-12 years ago at the tech support dept. for a huge ISP in .no, we lacked the tools and policies to lock down the terminals properly. Also, keeping the techies happy meant letting them trash about some on their own machines. Witin limits ofcourse.. ;)
Playing to much quake while supposed to answer phones could mean having your shell changed from explorer.exe to quake.exe e.g. =)
The simple answer to our user to 'puter ratio is: Tech support dept. with 24/7 manned phones :)
I remember hearing something along the order of 200 users, 50 computers and 2-3 servers per head in the IT department would be optimal when I worked as a sysadmin 10 years back.
I can tell you this much, administering 250 users, 120 computers and 7 servers is too much for one person atleast, that's from personal experience. =) Mostly Win NT 4.0 back then.
Problem is, their stupidity does affect us. How are they to pay for our services if they can't handle the mortage on their loans?
Got it 5 hours ago.