I think the reason people find sports games so fun is because they're the same as other fantasy games, except you know the rules coming in. It's more familiar. If you think about it, the goal is the same, get a lot of points, while preventing your opponent from doing well. Plus, I think a lot of jocks like video games but won't admit to themselves that a nerdy pasttime like playing video games actually is fun. But that's just my observations based on having a roommate who only plays sports games, and won't even play anything else.:)
You know, ten years ago, I would have been shocked. Back then I didn't have much first-hand knowledge of the legal system. Now though, after having been arrested a couple times for minor violations and having had to go through the system, it doesn't surprise me one bit. Cops are more concerned with making their jobs as easy and beneficial for them personally as possible. If they can get a few easy tickets, maybe score a drug/alcohol bust while they're at it, why not? Sure, it's not actually making the streets safer, but it looks good to the chief. Then, they do it to you, you find yourself arrested. The judge has you at a hearing with 30 other people in a two hour block. He's thinking, get them in and out, then I can get out of here. So the prosecutor offers you a plea, plead guilty to a lesser sentence so we don't have to spend the time and money going to trial. You're getting railroaded into a guilty plea, because of course you don't have the money to hire a lawyer and the state says you can't have a public defender because they feel you make too much money. So much for the right to an attorney that the Constitution grants you. So you get sentenced, and that's one more for the state. Makes them look pretty good, none of the 30 people sentenced that day even fought for their rights. Then you leave, and are forced to pay court costs. Nice little business they've got going here. That's basically what happened to me when I was sentenced. It happens every day, there are tons of stories just like this. I'm sure you know first hand, being black. Not to imply you're a criminal, but you realize how the system works just as I do. Justice isn't the main priority here.
What is the point of that? Might as well just roll some dice and play a note based on whatever comes up. What exactly do the ferrets have to do with it, other than making some randomness. Explain the point to it, I don't get it. I could just mash on a keyboard with my eyes closed and come up with the same thing.
Yeah, the biggest issue I have is that there doesn't seem to be any mechanism in place to allow me to verify my key. It may have been stolen, I've had the game since '98, so there certainly is the possibility that someone over the years had swiped it, but really, I shouldn't have to guard the key like a mofo. Over six years, it's certainly possible that someone copied the key off my CD case. Not much I can do about that.
It's LOSE, not LOOSE. What is really tragic is that you spelled loss right, but spelled lose wrong twice. I thought you QA testers were supposed to have an eye for detail? No wonder our games are so buggy these days.
Funny you mention that. I know a drug dealer whose day job is collecting from those vending machines that you see in front of grocery stores. There's no record of how much money goes into those, no records at all. It's perfect.
I can now run Steam in Linux. Too bad I can't run Half-Life in Steam because some dick used a keygen and my legit key came up, and now I can't register my key. This is the exact reason why key verification via server hurts customers far more than it does software pirates. Fuck you Valve, you had better fix this before Half-Life 2 comes out. I'm not buying if Steam is the only way to play.
Fuck 'em. Maybe if they hadn't already lost all credibility with the worst PCs this computer repairman has ever seen, I would consider recommending their products to people. But when they put these tiny, underpowered power supplies in their computers and put 64MB of RAM in their PCs, well, they deserve the bad name. There are better companies to spend money on.
Surely this guy could have avoided all problems in the first place by getting permission.
Yeah, and of course he probably had the half million dollars to clear all those samples. Sampling legally costs too much money. Read "Fair Use" by Negativland, it goes over how much bullshit you have to deal with to actually clear samples. The days of records like "Paul's Boutique" by the Beastie Boys are over. Ever wonder why rap records nowadays have almost no samples? This is why.
A few years ago I went on a rampage of buying all of the movies sampled by Skinny Puppy that I could find.
Rent "The Tenant." They sampled this movie, and it's a great horror film. One of those weird '70s horror flicks that's a marked contrast from today's horror flicks in that it's psychologically scary as opposed to just superficially scary.
What happened to your Shift key? Go back to school and learn a thing or two about capitalization. This is being read by people worldwide- follow the syntax of the English language when you're using it. You don't look cool or indie, you look like a lazy jackass.
I always hear that people can't return software after it has been opened. My local Best Buy and Circuit City are like this. But there's also an EB and a GameStop that do allow you to return stuff. In fact, usually you have to agree to an EULA that specifically gives you the right to return things if you don't agree. Force the issue, this kind of horseshit doesn't occur with lawnmowers! Most things we buy, we can return them if they suck.
Naturally, you wouldn't use this paint on things that it would corrode. I don't think this is something to lose sleep over- the paint would have its recommended uses and warnings on the label of the paint can.
I agree with some of the other posts before me though: is the benefit of reduced nitrous oxide in the air outweighed by the other possible environmental dangers? I hope this goes through a lot of testing by independent groups before it hits the market.
Office space, equipment (except for AV software), benefits would have been paid for whether there were viruses or not- but other than that, you have a point.
Nice troll. Obviously all American cars aren't in the "Worst cars available in the U.S." category- otherwise there wouldn't be anything to compare them to. Read, think, then post.
That wasn't the case with my satellite when I had the Dish network in Vermont. Mostly any time it rained more than just sprinkling, we couldn't watch TV due to the signal not coming through. Satellite internet was that way too, but even on semi-decent days, it was crap. Most days it was no better than a dial-up modem. In fact, I'd prefer a modem because that way you don't have to worry about the connection crapping out in the middle of something important.
Hey, you know, if I wanted to see your signature, I would have enabled signature viewing in my preferences. Screw you, you're now on my foes list. I don't need to see more advertising on Slashdot.
But seriously, [Fast Food Nation] seemed like FUD to me, and yes I did read, most of, it.
Why? What would the author of the book, Eric Schlosser, have to gain by scaring readers of his book? He's already got your money for the book. Usually people spread FUD to gain marketshare from their competitors. As far as I can see, there's no reason to believe that the author's trying to lie to his readers. The beef industry, on the other hand, has many reasons to deceive its customers about the risks of BSE.
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Funniest thing I've read on Slashdot in a while. Nice.
I think the reason people find sports games so fun is because they're the same as other fantasy games, except you know the rules coming in. It's more familiar. If you think about it, the goal is the same, get a lot of points, while preventing your opponent from doing well. Plus, I think a lot of jocks like video games but won't admit to themselves that a nerdy pasttime like playing video games actually is fun. But that's just my observations based on having a roommate who only plays sports games, and won't even play anything else. :)
Ah, that does make more sense. I can sort of visualize what that might sound like. It would probably sound like me noodling around on my guitar. :)
You know, ten years ago, I would have been shocked. Back then I didn't have much first-hand knowledge of the legal system. Now though, after having been arrested a couple times for minor violations and having had to go through the system, it doesn't surprise me one bit. Cops are more concerned with making their jobs as easy and beneficial for them personally as possible. If they can get a few easy tickets, maybe score a drug/alcohol bust while they're at it, why not? Sure, it's not actually making the streets safer, but it looks good to the chief.
Then, they do it to you, you find yourself arrested. The judge has you at a hearing with 30 other people in a two hour block. He's thinking, get them in and out, then I can get out of here. So the prosecutor offers you a plea, plead guilty to a lesser sentence so we don't have to spend the time and money going to trial. You're getting railroaded into a guilty plea, because of course you don't have the money to hire a lawyer and the state says you can't have a public defender because they feel you make too much money. So much for the right to an attorney that the Constitution grants you. So you get sentenced, and that's one more for the state. Makes them look pretty good, none of the 30 people sentenced that day even fought for their rights. Then you leave, and are forced to pay court costs. Nice little business they've got going here.
That's basically what happened to me when I was sentenced. It happens every day, there are tons of stories just like this. I'm sure you know first hand, being black. Not to imply you're a criminal, but you realize how the system works just as I do. Justice isn't the main priority here.
What is the point of that? Might as well just roll some dice and play a note based on whatever comes up. What exactly do the ferrets have to do with it, other than making some randomness. Explain the point to it, I don't get it. I could just mash on a keyboard with my eyes closed and come up with the same thing.
Yeah, the biggest issue I have is that there doesn't seem to be any mechanism in place to allow me to verify my key. It may have been stolen, I've had the game since '98, so there certainly is the possibility that someone over the years had swiped it, but really, I shouldn't have to guard the key like a mofo. Over six years, it's certainly possible that someone copied the key off my CD case. Not much I can do about that.
It's LOSE, not LOOSE. What is really tragic is that you spelled loss right, but spelled lose wrong twice. I thought you QA testers were supposed to have an eye for detail? No wonder our games are so buggy these days.
Funny you mention that. I know a drug dealer whose day job is collecting from those vending machines that you see in front of grocery stores. There's no record of how much money goes into those, no records at all. It's perfect.
I can now run Steam in Linux. Too bad I can't run Half-Life in Steam because some dick used a keygen and my legit key came up, and now I can't register my key. This is the exact reason why key verification via server hurts customers far more than it does software pirates. Fuck you Valve, you had better fix this before Half-Life 2 comes out. I'm not buying if Steam is the only way to play.
Yeah, but it doesn't do any diagnosis, which is what the poster was wondering about. Sure, we can all break computers, but the OP wanted to fix them!
Can I hire you to lug around my monitor? What the hell, man, we're talking two different markets here.
Fuck 'em. Maybe if they hadn't already lost all credibility with the worst PCs this computer repairman has ever seen, I would consider recommending their products to people. But when they put these tiny, underpowered power supplies in their computers and put 64MB of RAM in their PCs, well, they deserve the bad name. There are better companies to spend money on.
Surely this guy could have avoided all problems in the first place by getting permission.
Yeah, and of course he probably had the half million dollars to clear all those samples. Sampling legally costs too much money. Read "Fair Use" by Negativland, it goes over how much bullshit you have to deal with to actually clear samples. The days of records like "Paul's Boutique" by the Beastie Boys are over. Ever wonder why rap records nowadays have almost no samples? This is why.
A few years ago I went on a rampage of buying all of the movies sampled by Skinny Puppy that I could find.
Rent "The Tenant." They sampled this movie, and it's a great horror film. One of those weird '70s horror flicks that's a marked contrast from today's horror flicks in that it's psychologically scary as opposed to just superficially scary.
What happened to your Shift key? Go back to school and learn a thing or two about capitalization. This is being read by people worldwide- follow the syntax of the English language when you're using it. You don't look cool or indie, you look like a lazy jackass.
I always hear that people can't return software after it has been opened. My local Best Buy and Circuit City are like this. But there's also an EB and a GameStop that do allow you to return stuff. In fact, usually you have to agree to an EULA that specifically gives you the right to return things if you don't agree. Force the issue, this kind of horseshit doesn't occur with lawnmowers! Most things we buy, we can return them if they suck.
Naturally, you wouldn't use this paint on things that it would corrode. I don't think this is something to lose sleep over- the paint would have its recommended uses and warnings on the label of the paint can.
I agree with some of the other posts before me though: is the benefit of reduced nitrous oxide in the air outweighed by the other possible environmental dangers? I hope this goes through a lot of testing by independent groups before it hits the market.
What are you waiting for? Break out the slingshot!
Office space, equipment (except for AV software), benefits would have been paid for whether there were viruses or not- but other than that, you have a point.
Man, I feel like an idiot right now. :)
Nice troll.
Obviously all American cars aren't in the "Worst cars available in the U.S." category- otherwise there wouldn't be anything to compare them to. Read, think, then post.
That wasn't the case with my satellite when I had the Dish network in Vermont. Mostly any time it rained more than just sprinkling, we couldn't watch TV due to the signal not coming through. Satellite internet was that way too, but even on semi-decent days, it was crap. Most days it was no better than a dial-up modem. In fact, I'd prefer a modem because that way you don't have to worry about the connection crapping out in the middle of something important.
Hey, you know, if I wanted to see your signature, I would have enabled signature viewing in my preferences. Screw you, you're now on my foes list. I don't need to see more advertising on Slashdot.
The mad cow section isn't advertised as being a section of the book. It's billed as a history of fast food companies.
But seriously, [Fast Food Nation] seemed like FUD to me, and yes I did read, most of, it.
Why? What would the author of the book, Eric Schlosser, have to gain by scaring readers of his book? He's already got your money for the book. Usually people spread FUD to gain marketshare from their competitors. As far as I can see, there's no reason to believe that the author's trying to lie to his readers. The beef industry, on the other hand, has many reasons to deceive its customers about the risks of BSE.