"'PC gaming used to take up the entire store,' said Ken Levine, president and creative director for Irrational Games. 'Now PC gaming get's a tiny little shelf. Literally you have a fraction of the shelf space."
Meh, I buy/download every game I can via direct2drive. Hopefully, in the future, there won't even be a tiny little shelf for PC games. And as more consoles go online, in the future game stores themselves might go extinct. And, maybe they'll even drop the prices due to lower cost to distribute... yeah, well, maybe not.
it's like a big shopping mall that has everything we want. Sure, some of the things we want are addictive, but the internet is simply a conduit to those things.
If you're a porn addict, and you can't get your porn online, you'll revert to good, old, sticky-paged hardcopy.
Sony President Defends Rootkit The President of Sony BMG's Global Digital Business, Thomas Hesse, defends Sony's installation of a rootkit by declaring, "Most people, I think, don't even know what a Rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
To date I've probably broken in excess of 10 keyboards and 30 mouse playing games over the years. The very first keyboard was a victim of my rage due to failing repeatedly to ford that damned river!
I've only been working IT for 5 years, have zero college education, and have increased my annual salary by $70K over the last 3.5 years... all because my boss doesn't know or understand what the hell I do. =)
"All we need is a voluntary, free-spirited, open-ended program of procreative racial deconstruction. Everybody just gotta keep fuckin' everybody 'til they're all the same color"
I'm not sure if it means I'm desensitized or not, but I don't really agree with the author of that article.
I'm equally offended if someone tells me to go suck my own dick, or calls me a oreo, spic, nigger, jew, chink, chunk, whatever... I don't see any difference in telling someone to go perform a very difficult physical feat on themselves (I've tried), or insulting them based on what may or may not be their race./shrug
DALLAS, TX - January 2nd, 2001 - In a move that has millions across the Internet community frowning, Despair, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) had awarded them a registered trademark for the 'frowny' emoticon which serves as their logo.
At a press conference, Despair's COO, Dr. E.L.Kersten, announced his intentions to sue "anyone and everyone who uses the so-called 'frowny' emoticon, or our trademarked logo, in their written email correspondence. Ever."
...seeing as SOE perma-banned me and a couple of my friends for trying to sell our Jedi on EBAY back in early 2004.
Now they're providing the means and methods for doing exactly the same thing, and the rat bastards are even making a profit from it!!! Freaking ballwashing hypocrites!
because when the telemarketers called I'd simply say "Hold on just one second... someone's at the door. Then set the phone on the table for 5-10 minutes and eat my dinner. Pick it up and check if they're still there, "Hello, oh, sorry about that, my neighbor Bob was just out front showing me the new cam he bought for his pick-up. Are you into trucks? It's a really fun hob... Oops, hold on a sec, my son just shit his pants and I need to go grab some wipes." Put the phone back down... rinse, repeat.
"Surprisingly enough, daylight-saving time was thought up by Benjamin Franklin, not drunken voters. According to http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/, it seems that one day Benjy got bored and wrote a little something called An Economical Project. It was an essay mostly about "himself, his love of thrift, his scientific papers and his passion for playing chess until the wee hours of the morning then sleeping until midday," and it was meant to be a joke.
However, an Englishman named William Willett (how can you take someone with that name seriously? Come on!) was apparently too dense to realize that Franklin was joking. Therefore, he thought it would be a novel idea to set clocks back for 20 minutes on each Sunday in April, and then turn them back on the Sundays in September. Eventually, daylight-saving time came to be as we now know it."
...but I view this as a good thing. In all situations there has to be a extreme. We need that extreme in place so that everything else can be measured against it. Right now, for the gaming industry (and america in general), the taboo is graphic sex. The problem is that when you remove the extreme, the next thing down the line becomes the new target and new extreme. So, if they ban/outlaw graphic sex in games, then the violence becomes the next thing to go... no more gore mode.
And it also goes in the other direction. Everyone remember back in 2000-2001 when Marilyn Manson was touring in the mid-west and parents were protesting that he was corrupting the children. Then 9/11 hit and suddenly nobody gave a flying fuck about Manson, because his extreme act paled in comparison to the evil of that day.
Maybe someone needs to release a game with a hidden zombie felching mini-game. Then people wouldn't give a flying fsck about the hot coffee mod!
So this morning, after reading this post, I made a bulletin on myspace letting all my "friends" know what had happened as far as the sale of myspace was concerned. During the course of the day several friends reposted it to all of their friends in the form of myspace bulletins. Well, I come home this evening and log... guess what? All of our bulletins have been deleted and there's a nice note from Tom up top stating: "don't worry myspace isn't going to change or shut down, and no one's profiles are going to get deleted. we are not charging and i'm not leaving myspace... things are going good !"
Well isn't that nice. Great way to inspire confidence by censoring/del0rting our posts. =/
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I'd say it's more than just a good looking spam webportal. I'd classify it as the "have all, be all, end all of internet hook-up sites". In summary:
1. Broke up with my g/f of 4 years in Oct 2004 2. Spent a couple months just feeling sorry for myself and not dating at all 3. On the recommendation of a friend I set up a profile on myspace and started making "friends". 4. By mid-January 2005 I'd been on probably 8-10 dates, quite a few of which led to... intimate relations.
"Hacked, hijacked psycho cyborg kills 20 in downtown Seattle Bank."
...and then...
"fortunately the cyborg's pre-existing software was poorly ported to it's new (and far superior) Operating System, causing the cyborg's internal systems to fail after a minor spree of terror. Witness's to the ordeal reported a faint, blue glow in the cyborg's eyes at the time of system failure... Stay tuned, weather at 11"
You said, "Why does this dark matter exist?". The answer is not that the big bang's validity rests on the potential existence of dark matter. Rather, that without dark matter, be it MACHOs or WIMPs or baryonic particles, the universe would not be expanding at its current rate. If all that we see is all there is, then there isn't enough matter in the universe to slow it down to it's current rate of expansion. This the consensus within the field of cosmology today. Tomorrow things cound change, and yes, dark matter could be disproven. But for now all evidence points to its existence... Dark matter is real... just really dark.
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"'PC gaming used to take up the entire store,' said Ken Levine, president and creative director for Irrational Games. 'Now PC gaming get's a tiny little shelf. Literally you have a fraction of the shelf space."
Meh, I buy/download every game I can via direct2drive. Hopefully, in the future, there won't even be a tiny little shelf for PC games. And as more consoles go online, in the future game stores themselves might go extinct. And, maybe they'll even drop the prices due to lower cost to distribute... yeah, well, maybe not.
it's like a big shopping mall that has everything we want. Sure, some of the things we want are addictive, but the internet is simply a conduit to those things.
If you're a porn addict, and you can't get your porn online, you'll revert to good, old, sticky-paged hardcopy.
Sony President Defends Rootkit
The President of Sony BMG's Global Digital Business, Thomas Hesse, defends Sony's installation of a rootkit by declaring, "Most people, I think, don't even know what a Rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
Source
What's next? "Stampede, The Movie"... =(
Someone needs to rm -rf Paul W.S. Anderson and all his game to movie bastardizations...
To date I've probably broken in excess of 10 keyboards and 30 mouse playing games over the years. The very first keyboard was a victim of my rage due to failing repeatedly to ford that damned river!
You'll never see a dime. Way too much prior art here on /.
I've only been working IT for 5 years, have zero college education, and have increased my annual salary by $70K over the last 3.5 years... all because my boss doesn't know or understand what the hell I do. =)
I think warren beaty said it best in bulworth:
"All we need is a voluntary, free-spirited, open-ended program of procreative racial deconstruction. Everybody just gotta keep fuckin' everybody 'til they're all the same color"
Do you run a Linux workstation as your primary machine, or windows? And do you use IE, Firefox, or some other browser?
"FaitH does not support the browser you are using. Please bend over, pull down your knickers, and use IE 5+."
I'm not sure if it means I'm desensitized or not, but I don't really agree with the author of that article.
/shrug
I'm equally offended if someone tells me to go suck my own dick, or calls me a oreo, spic, nigger, jew, chink, chunk, whatever... I don't see any difference in telling someone to go perform a very difficult physical feat on themselves (I've tried), or insulting them based on what may or may not be their race.
At least they're offering programming than is some way/shape/form relates to music, which they really haven't done much of since the early 90's. =O)
Remember this?
DALLAS, TX - January 2nd, 2001 - In a move that has millions across the Internet community frowning, Despair, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) had awarded them a registered trademark for the 'frowny' emoticon which serves as their logo.
At a press conference, Despair's COO, Dr. E.L.Kersten, announced his intentions to sue "anyone and everyone who uses the so-called 'frowny' emoticon, or our trademarked logo, in their written email correspondence. Ever."
Here's the full article.
Just watch... We'll invade China, over-throw their corrupt government, only to find that they don't have any pirated material.
...seeing as SOE perma-banned me and a couple of my friends for trying to sell our Jedi on EBAY back in early 2004.
Now they're providing the means and methods for doing exactly the same thing, and the rat bastards are even making a profit from it!!! Freaking ballwashing hypocrites!
because when the telemarketers called I'd simply say "Hold on just one second... someone's at the door. Then set the phone on the table for 5-10 minutes and eat my dinner. Pick it up and check if they're still there, "Hello, oh, sorry about that, my neighbor Bob was just out front showing me the new cam he bought for his pick-up. Are you into trucks? It's a really fun hob... Oops, hold on a sec, my son just shit his pants and I need to go grab some wipes." Put the phone back down... rinse, repeat.
"Surprisingly enough, daylight-saving time was thought up by Benjamin Franklin, not drunken voters. According to http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/, it seems that one day Benjy got bored and wrote a little something called An Economical Project. It was an essay mostly about "himself, his love of thrift, his scientific papers and his passion for playing chess until the wee hours of the morning then sleeping until midday," and it was meant to be a joke.
However, an Englishman named William Willett (how can you take someone with that name seriously? Come on!) was apparently too dense to realize that Franklin was joking. Therefore, he thought it would be a novel idea to set clocks back for 20 minutes on each Sunday in April, and then turn them back on the Sundays in September. Eventually, daylight-saving time came to be as we now know it."
Taken from here
...but I view this as a good thing. In all situations there has to be a extreme. We need that extreme in place so that everything else can be measured against it. Right now, for the gaming industry (and america in general), the taboo is graphic sex. The problem is that when you remove the extreme, the next thing down the line becomes the new target and new extreme. So, if they ban/outlaw graphic sex in games, then the violence becomes the next thing to go... no more gore mode.
And it also goes in the other direction. Everyone remember back in 2000-2001 when Marilyn Manson was touring in the mid-west and parents were protesting that he was corrupting the children. Then 9/11 hit and suddenly nobody gave a flying fuck about Manson, because his extreme act paled in comparison to the evil of that day.
Maybe someone needs to release a game with a hidden zombie felching mini-game. Then people wouldn't give a flying fsck about the hot coffee mod!
"I have been and always shall be your friend."
So this morning, after reading this post, I made a bulletin on myspace letting all my "friends" know what had happened as far as the sale of myspace was concerned. During the course of the day several friends reposted it to all of their friends in the form of myspace bulletins. Well, I come home this evening and log... guess what? All of our bulletins have been deleted and there's a nice note from Tom up top stating: "don't worry myspace isn't going to change or shut down, and no one's profiles are going to get deleted. we are not charging and i'm not leaving myspace... things are going good !"
Well isn't that nice. Great way to inspire confidence by censoring/del0rting our posts. =/
Is this evidence?
bigger, better, faster... pr0n
I'd say it's more than just a good looking spam webportal. I'd classify it as the "have all, be all, end all of internet hook-up sites". In summary:
1. Broke up with my g/f of 4 years in Oct 2004
2. Spent a couple months just feeling sorry for myself and not dating at all
3. On the recommendation of a friend I set up a profile on myspace and started making "friends".
4. By mid-January 2005 I'd been on probably 8-10 dates, quite a few of which led to... intimate relations.
That's why people are going to the site.
"Hacked, hijacked psycho cyborg kills 20 in downtown Seattle Bank."
...and then...
"fortunately the cyborg's pre-existing software was poorly ported to it's new (and far superior) Operating System, causing the cyborg's internal systems to fail after a minor spree of terror. Witness's to the ordeal reported a faint, blue glow in the cyborg's eyes at the time of system failure... Stay tuned, weather at 11"
You said, "Why does this dark matter exist?". The answer is not that the big bang's validity rests on the potential existence of dark matter. Rather, that without dark matter, be it MACHOs or WIMPs or baryonic particles, the universe would not be expanding at its current rate. If all that we see is all there is, then there isn't enough matter in the universe to slow it down to it's current rate of expansion. This the consensus within the field of cosmology today. Tomorrow things cound change, and yes, dark matter could be disproven. But for now all evidence points to its existence... Dark matter is real... just really dark.