Computer guys (or gals) are the secretaries that hammer their keyboard and print out letters and invoices all day long. They are probably using their computers more that the "computer guys" that try to find the broken cables, and new place for the larger server rack, etc. They just don't know anything about how they work.
Absolutely! Placing blame everywhere else is making your country a joke. The first thing I think of when someone says USA is ridiculous lawsuits. Million dollar lawuits for seeing a nipple on TV, crashing your car or whatever.
Getting an aircondition unit in your head and suing the unit manufacturer, the house owner, the bolt manufacturer, the person that installed the unit ande the owner of the sidewalk you walked on. We're starting to see more of this around the world, too.
this has nothing to do with the game. this is just a sad case about a kid "loosing it" over not getting what he wanted. It could just as easily have been because he was not allowed to eat chocholate or bananas anymore, not being allowed to see his girlfriend or watch Seinfeld.
Cons: -Haven't fixed the glaring file management bugs - it's not possible to do something like, say, delete 150 old Oblivion saves to reclaim disk space while keeping 5 of them without pressing 4 buttons for each individual savegame. Not a problem until you realize they're over a megabyte apiece, and on a 20gb hard disk this adds up fast.
I agree on this one. A posibility to tag files for deleteion and *then* remove them would be nice. Or at least make use of the red and green buttons for No/Yes instead of having to mothe the damn stick up to yes and then press A.
I agree, although I think quite a few of the platform kind of games could do just as well with a custom avatar as with Super Mario, Sonic, Ty the Tasmanian Tiger etc. Not that the games can't benefot from a specially made character, but kids would love having "themselves" running around.
Personally I currently only play games like GoW2, Fallout 3, Rainbow Six series and so on, and my avatar would most definately be out of place in any of those. (Perhaps with the exception of in the brochures, bobbleheads etc in Fallout 3. They are pretty cartoon-like already.)
As long as they don't try and make me run round with my avatar in Gears of War 2 or whatever I'll be happy!
I agree; that would be "The Big Suck", to quote Dizzy. It might be a good laugh for the first few seconds, though. I don't see how my avatar would fit in any of the games I've bought the last year, as they are all rated 18+. I can imagine that my kids would love to have "themselves" running around in *their* games, though.
> I suppose the broadcasters could encode their signal such that it wouldn't play on a TV that didn't cooperate but then they might find themselves frozen out of the market.
I don't think people would be changing their TVs overnight just to get this brilliant feature anyway.;-)
And suing for missing something (*anything*) on TV is just stupid. Almost as stupid as suing for accidentally seeing a Jackson nipple on TV. Besides, anybody stupid enough to buy a TV with this feature deserves to miss any and all safety messages. In fact they should have their birth certificate withdrawn!;-)
This has been possible for a long time already. Just crank up your favourite good ol' P2P software, download whatever movies you want, and you "own" them. (Or more like "pwn" them?) Only difference is that you pay someone money for it, and as stated in numerous postings already, you probably won't be able to play the movie on anything but your "Certified win-box authenticated against a server". Upgrade your computer and you will be "allowed to buy the movie again".
I know Halo 2 has a "handicap" feature. I have used it a bit while playing against my son, and it actually works. I haven't looked into how it works, but it seems to make the rate of fire and reloading slower. At least it gives me enough handicap that I don't win every time. I am not an elite player to start with, so if you are ver much better than your opponent it might not help that much, but give it a try.
I'd love to have a phone like this that I could set up to use a sip server. Then I could use my "Home phone" from any WiFi point. Get enough WiFi points and I could even trash my good ol' cell phone. Well, almost.;-)
I can't open the link! Is it the usual "Keyboard error. Press F1 to continue", or does it have it's own errors? Or could it just be the slashdot effect?
I for one live in a place where hydrogen gas isn't very available, except for the kind that is bonded with oxygen and pours down almost daily. I think there is a dilemma about how to "start the process". Should people start buying hydrogen powered cars and hope there will be gas stations around, or should the stations be built, hoping that people around them will start getting hydrogen cars?
The only way I know how to get pure hydrogen around here right now is to put magnesium into vinegar (or any other acid, but vinegar is easiest to get).
I was not happy with the conditions where I was employed, and threatened to resign if the leaders didn't invoke some measures to make things better. I gave them three days to come up with suggestions to how we could make things improve. Of course nothing happened, so on the morning the fourth day I delivered my written resignation. They were stunned, but tried to call my bluff and did nothing. A week later they were surprised to find out I wasn't bluffing.
Now, eight months later, I still have my administrator accounts, the system passwords and the oportunity to really screw their systems up. But I don't. Why should I? I have a better job, they have to find out how all the systems I made work by themselves, and I can cash in a consultant fee whenever they have to make a phonecall to me for help. I don't snoop around in their internal stuff, there is nothing interesting there. I am a techie, and their internal politics are of no interest to me. All that would happen if I tried somehow to get "revenge" (I think I got plenty revenge when I saw the look on my former bosses face as he realised I was actually leaving.) would be a police inverstigation and possibly criminal charges. And I don't want that. I still like my former co-workers and don't want to hurt them by messing up their job. It's the management that has a problem, but I think they are about to realise that througn other channels now.
Lawsuits like this should be prohibited. They are not just stupid, but also insanely annoying. I am not a fan of MS, but they have their good sides. (I like their Intellimouse and the X-box. I think XP is decent, but I really hated W98.)
The fact that others are using a broken system doesn't give you the right to. If your friend fucks your drunk and passed out classmate, is it ok for you to do it to just because she is allready passed out and violated? No? I didn't think so. People that start lawsuits like this just make the US look stupid. These kind of cases gets a lot of media attention here in Europe, and many europeans think of americans as oportunists just waiting for a chance to suck money out of somebody elses pocket. A free lunch, if you will.
Is every american such an oportunist? Of course not. Most are probably decent people, althoug I guess most american actually DO descend from "oportunists" that traveled across the ocean some decades ago, leaving everything behind to get a chance at something better. So perhaps it's in the genes.
Another thing to concider is who is ultimately paying for these ridiculous suits where someone cashes in $XXX.XXX. The companies spend lots of money on lawyers, and those money have to tome from somewhere. That's right, the consumers - you and me. It's just like with insurance fraud. The rest of us pay the bill for the ones that cash in.
I guess that depends on taste. It will probably look weird when your engine heats up and the hood on your car starts to develop a green spot on it. Or how about that "ass-print" where you sat while bragging to your friends about this fancy new paint job you've got.;-)
However, I see nothing new in cars that change colors by temperature? My kids have had cars that change colors by temperature for a long time. They even have toothbrushes that change colors when the temperature change.
The nick-changing is the one think I hate the most in MSN. Especially the "younger contacts" that one day appears as "Garry", the next day knows about the feature of changing the nick and is known as "....::~~~ GaRrY ~~~::...." or something like that.
OK, the script-kiddie stuff isn't MSNs fault per se, but it is really annoying when people change their names all the time.
Where I live, children are (thank god) still to some extent allowed to injure themselves. A rake is something that can be expected to be found in any garden, and I am free to let it lying around as I wish. If the kids in the neighbourhood stepped on it I would never be sued. However, if I should happen to own a swimmingpool, there are strict and specific regulations about securing it so nobody falls in. I have to have either a fence with a locked gate, at least three feet high, or th epool have to be covered. I don't own a pool, so I don't know the rools about how much weight the lid should be able to carry.
Another example: I own several trees. (apples, plums cherries etc) If the "kids in the hood" should happen to climb one of them to get themselves a treat and happen to fall, I would not be responsible for any damage, ranging from a ripped pair of pants and a bruised ego all the way up to a broken neck or death. The trees are mine, and none of the kids have any business climbing any of them. By default you do such things at your own risk. Everybody knows this, and act accordingly.
I guess it boils down to this: The americans should think a bit about how the rest of the world see them. The cases that makes the newspapers make you all look like greedy gold diggers, and that's the impression many people I have talked to have. Also, we are a people that in a way "look up" to the USA and take after it, kind of like a big brother. I sure as hell don't want it to come to a point where we also sue others for our own mistakes. If I sneak into my neighbours basement to grab a couple of beers and break my leg in his basement stairs in the process I am the one that should be punished for unlawfull entry. He should not be sued for not keeping his stairs in good shape.
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Computer guys (or gals) are the secretaries that hammer their keyboard and print out letters and invoices all day long. They are probably using their computers more that the "computer guys" that try to find the broken cables, and new place for the larger server rack, etc. They just don't know anything about how they work.
So, it looks like it worked, then...
Absolutely! Placing blame everywhere else is making your country a joke. The first thing I think of when someone says USA is ridiculous lawsuits. Million dollar lawuits for seeing a nipple on TV, crashing your car or whatever.
Getting an aircondition unit in your head and suing the unit manufacturer, the house owner, the bolt manufacturer, the person that installed the unit ande the owner of the sidewalk you walked on. We're starting to see more of this around the world, too.
this has nothing to do with the game. this is just a sad case about a kid "loosing it" over not getting what he wanted. It could just as easily have been because he was not allowed to eat chocholate or bananas anymore, not being allowed to see his girlfriend or watch Seinfeld.
Cons:
-Haven't fixed the glaring file management bugs - it's not possible to do something like, say, delete 150 old Oblivion saves to reclaim disk space while keeping 5 of them without pressing 4 buttons for each individual savegame. Not a problem until you realize they're over a megabyte apiece, and on a 20gb hard disk this adds up fast.
I agree on this one. A posibility to tag files for deleteion and *then* remove them would be nice. Or at least make use of the red and green buttons for No/Yes instead of having to mothe the damn stick up to yes and then press A.
I agree, although I think quite a few of the platform kind of games could do just as well with a custom avatar as with Super Mario, Sonic, Ty the Tasmanian Tiger etc. Not that the games can't benefot from a specially made character, but kids would love having "themselves" running around.
Personally I currently only play games like GoW2, Fallout 3, Rainbow Six series and so on, and my avatar would most definately be out of place in any of those. (Perhaps with the exception of in the brochures, bobbleheads etc in Fallout 3. They are pretty cartoon-like already.)
As long as they don't try and make me run round with my avatar in Gears of War 2 or whatever I'll be happy!
I agree; that would be "The Big Suck", to quote Dizzy. It might be a good laugh for the first few seconds, though. I don't see how my avatar would fit in any of the games I've bought the last year, as they are all rated 18+. I can imagine that my kids would love to have "themselves" running around in *their* games, though.
I don't expect anyone sinking so low as to steal a laptop to be (computer-)smart enough to use linux.
Sorry, all you thieves out there, you're all morons, no matter what IQ you have.....
I always figured that crashing on my motorcycle at the age and speed of 106 would be a nice way to go.
> I suppose the broadcasters could encode their signal such that it wouldn't play on a TV that didn't cooperate but then they might find themselves frozen out of the market.
;-)
;-)
I don't think people would be changing their TVs overnight just to get this brilliant feature anyway.
And suing for missing something (*anything*) on TV is just stupid. Almost as stupid as suing for accidentally seeing a Jackson nipple on TV. Besides, anybody stupid enough to buy a TV with this feature deserves to miss any and all safety messages. In fact they should have their birth certificate withdrawn!
This has been possible for a long time already. Just crank up your favourite good ol' P2P software, download whatever movies you want, and you "own" them. (Or more like "pwn" them?) Only difference is that you pay someone money for it, and as stated in numerous postings already, you probably won't be able to play the movie on anything but your "Certified win-box authenticated against a server". Upgrade your computer and you will be "allowed to buy the movie again".
I know Halo 2 has a "handicap" feature. I have used it a bit while playing against my son, and it actually works. I haven't looked into how it works, but it seems to make the rate of fire and reloading slower. At least it gives me enough handicap that I don't win every time. I am not an elite player to start with, so if you are ver much better than your opponent it might not help that much, but give it a try.
I'd love to have a phone like this that I could set up to use a sip server. Then I could use my "Home phone" from any WiFi point. Get enough WiFi points and I could even trash my good ol' cell phone. Well, almost. ;-)
Indeed!
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It should be more interesting, simply because it is slashdot. The number one server killer.
Has anyone tried to enter /.'s IP address and see what the result was?
Google failos to track many of my visitor`? That's great news! That means http://www.calvin-and-hobbes.org/ have even more visitors than I thought! ;-)
I can't open the link! Is it the usual "Keyboard error. Press F1 to continue", or does it have it's own errors? Or could it just be the slashdot effect?
I for one live in a place where hydrogen gas isn't very available, except for the kind that is bonded with oxygen and pours down almost daily. I think there is a dilemma about how to "start the process". Should people start buying hydrogen powered cars and hope there will be gas stations around, or should the stations be built, hoping that people around them will start getting hydrogen cars?
The only way I know how to get pure hydrogen around here right now is to put magnesium into vinegar (or any other acid, but vinegar is easiest to get).
I was not happy with the conditions where I was employed, and threatened to resign if the leaders didn't invoke some measures to make things better. I gave them three days to come up with suggestions to how we could make things improve. Of course nothing happened, so on the morning the fourth day I delivered my written resignation. They were stunned, but tried to call my bluff and did nothing. A week later they were surprised to find out I wasn't bluffing.
Now, eight months later, I still have my administrator accounts, the system passwords and the oportunity to really screw their systems up. But I don't. Why should I? I have a better job, they have to find out how all the systems I made work by themselves, and I can cash in a consultant fee whenever they have to make a phonecall to me for help. I don't snoop around in their internal stuff, there is nothing interesting there. I am a techie, and their internal politics are of no interest to me. All that would happen if I tried somehow to get "revenge" (I think I got plenty revenge when I saw the look on my former bosses face as he realised I was actually leaving.) would be a police inverstigation and possibly criminal charges. And I don't want that. I still like my former co-workers and don't want to hurt them by messing up their job. It's the management that has a problem, but I think they are about to realise that througn other channels now.
Lawsuits like this should be prohibited. They are not just stupid, but also insanely annoying. I am not a fan of MS, but they have their good sides. (I like their Intellimouse and the X-box. I think XP is decent, but I really hated W98.)
The fact that others are using a broken system doesn't give you the right to. If your friend fucks your drunk and passed out classmate, is it ok for you to do it to just because she is allready passed out and violated? No? I didn't think so. People that start lawsuits like this just make the US look stupid. These kind of cases gets a lot of media attention here in Europe, and many europeans think of americans as oportunists just waiting for a chance to suck money out of somebody elses pocket. A free lunch, if you will.
Is every american such an oportunist? Of course not. Most are probably decent people, althoug I guess most american actually DO descend from "oportunists" that traveled across the ocean some decades ago, leaving everything behind to get a chance at something better. So perhaps it's in the genes.
Another thing to concider is who is ultimately paying for these ridiculous suits where someone cashes in $XXX.XXX. The companies spend lots of money on lawyers, and those money have to tome from somewhere. That's right, the consumers - you and me. It's just like with insurance fraud. The rest of us pay the bill for the ones that cash in.
I guess that depends on taste. It will probably look weird when your engine heats up and the hood on your car starts to develop a green spot on it. Or how about that "ass-print" where you sat while bragging to your friends about this fancy new paint job you've got. ;-)
However, I see nothing new in cars that change colors by temperature? My kids have had cars that change colors by temperature for a long time. They even have toothbrushes that change colors when the temperature change.
The nick-changing is the one think I hate the most in MSN. Especially the "younger contacts" that one day appears as "Garry", the next day knows about the feature of changing the nick and is known as "....::~~~ GaRrY ~~~::...." or something like that.
OK, the script-kiddie stuff isn't MSNs fault per se, but it is really annoying when people change their names all the time.
My $.02, anyway.
If Google itself can't search the net and find the components at the lowest prices, then nobody can. ;-)
Where I live, children are (thank god) still to some extent allowed to injure themselves. A rake is something that can be expected to be found in any garden, and I am free to let it lying around as I wish. If the kids in the neighbourhood stepped on it I would never be sued. However, if I should happen to own a swimmingpool, there are strict and specific regulations about securing it so nobody falls in. I have to have either a fence with a locked gate, at least three feet high, or th epool have to be covered. I don't own a pool, so I don't know the rools about how much weight the lid should be able to carry.
Another example: I own several trees. (apples, plums cherries etc) If the "kids in the hood" should happen to climb one of them to get themselves a treat and happen to fall, I would not be responsible for any damage, ranging from a ripped pair of pants and a bruised ego all the way up to a broken neck or death. The trees are mine, and none of the kids have any business climbing any of them. By default you do such things at your own risk. Everybody knows this, and act accordingly.
I guess it boils down to this:
The americans should think a bit about how the rest of the world see them. The cases that makes the newspapers make you all look like greedy gold diggers, and that's the impression many people I have talked to have. Also, we are a people that in a way "look up" to the USA and take after it, kind of like a big brother. I sure as hell don't want it to come to a point where we also sue others for our own mistakes. If I sneak into my neighbours basement to grab a couple of beers and break my leg in his basement stairs in the process I am the one that should be punished for unlawfull entry. He should not be sued for not keeping his stairs in good shape.