The way to solve this is to replace the ringer in the phone with lights, like they do in on-air booths at radio stations. I can't imagine it'd work with cordless phones, but my cordless lets you shut off the ringer on the handset, so it might work.
My friends and I had a good time playing Postal in college. We'd do deathmatches against one another. You're right though, the single player mode where you just walk around and try to kill a lot of civilians wasn't too fun.
The most fun thing to do was get a few people together playing multiplayer, and press the execute button when your friend saw you and was about to waste you. It got infuriating when you weren't able to get any points because whenever you had a chance, your opponent would commit suicide!
I forgot, I wanted to make one thing clearer. While guns don't cause violence, I think they make it a lot easier mentally to do violent things. I think there's a bit of a disconnect when you use a mechanical object like a gun to shoot someone. You're a little more separated from the act you're doing. When you stab someone or strangle them, you're right there, it's more visceral. Even more separated is the pilot bombing targets in his million-dollar night vision enhanced cockpit.
If someone were pissed off enough to shoot someone, but for some reason they didn't have a gun, they'd just use a knife, or a hammer, or their bare hands.
The person causes the violence. If this were not the case, countries would never be able to maintain a proper military. There are so many guns causing violence, the whole organization would go to shit.
I'm not surprised at all that the orchestras are going bankrupt. If the music's so complicated that people need Cliff Notes to figure out what to listen for during the piece, something's wrong. Either the orchestra sucks and the parts are not standing out on their own, or the sound system sucks and we can't hear what they're doing. I don't think a little PDA guide is the way to go. However, it's a neat idea and would be good for other events, like maybe opera or baseball, like some other posters suggested. Note: I'm not a classical music fan really, I'm not the target audience. But I will say that the concerts I go to are fun enough without an explanation as to what to enjoy. I can figure that out on my own. Even really complicated music that I would go see, like Dillinger Escape Plan, can stand on its own without notes. I guess, in summation, I wouldn't rent these PDAs, but heck, if some people want to, why not.
What the hell is disponibility? I mean, I know that a large vocabulary embiggens the smallest man, so please, illuminate me, what the heck does that mean?
Well, I suppose it's just about plausible that you might want to play one of the vast majority of computer games which are released only for the Windows platform?
That's not WANTING to use Windows, it's HAVING to use it.
I don't see why the MPAA just doesn't make slight, but easily noticeable differences between each screener. Maybe have a numeric code flash quickly onto the screen occasionally. Like what they do if there's a spy but they don't know who, they give out fake information and see which fake info the enemy acts on. If a certain coded screener gets pirated, then the MPAA knows who to send the lawsuit to. I can't see David Letterman actually going and PAYING to see all the crap movies that his guests make!
You forget the part where the kids in the bands get to have a heck of a lot of fun at work, whereas the record exec kids have to do more homework. People seem to forget that a lot of bands play music because it's FUN!
I was thinking the same thing, then I got to thinking, it's not just a lucky coincidence that they can now search for and obtain more drugs than usual. I mean, I've gone on flights and have been searched like a motherfucker. Now I am 24 years old, had long hair at the time, and dressed like a dirtbag from Vermont (boots, flannel, baseball hat). I have no doubt I was searched because people like me often carry drugs. I certainly didn't fit the terrorist profile. And interestingly enough, I only got searched in Vermont, not at JFK Airport. This increased security helps out a lot more people than just the anti-terrorism folks. It helps everyone lock down the passengers.
That's a great plan. I'm going to have to try this next month when I fly. It's a good opportunity because I really have no obligation to get anywhere on time. I can't imagine doing it if you're in a rush, though, that could be a huge timesink.
I was going to quote you part of the article where it said that the kids said they got the idea from GTA, but it looks like the server's getting sorta Slashdotted right now or something. Anyway, the game did influence them, according to the kids themselves.
As has been stated numerous times, THE VICTIMS SUED, NOT THE KIDS' PARENTS. The kids' parents are probably trying to answer these questions right now on their own. Along with another one, "How could we have been such idiots?"
I think the case has to already have been brought for the destruction of the logs to be illegal. So if the ISP was started with quick destruction of logs in mind, it should work. In fact, Easynews is a Usenet ISP which tries to keep as few logs as possible to protect its customers.
What you want to do is put "X-No-Archive: yes" into your headers of the posts you make to newsgroups. This will also prevent Google Groups from archiving your posts.
That guy in the commercial was bringing it on himself. He should have used the Mac's handles, like he was supposed to! They put those handles there for a reason!
I like that you made the distinction between "trained" and "learned." People who learn to use computers can apply the concepts they learn to other OSes. People trained to use their computer seem to only know exactly what they need to know in order to do their job. If a small problem comes up, where they see something that is a little skewed, they're helpless. Not that I'm blaming these people- they're doing OK at their job, so what the hell.
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The way to solve this is to replace the ringer in the phone with lights, like they do in on-air booths at radio stations. I can't imagine it'd work with cordless phones, but my cordless lets you shut off the ringer on the handset, so it might work.
My friends and I had a good time playing Postal in college. We'd do deathmatches against one another. You're right though, the single player mode where you just walk around and try to kill a lot of civilians wasn't too fun.
The most fun thing to do was get a few people together playing multiplayer, and press the execute button when your friend saw you and was about to waste you. It got infuriating when you weren't able to get any points because whenever you had a chance, your opponent would commit suicide!
I forgot, I wanted to make one thing clearer. While guns don't cause violence, I think they make it a lot easier mentally to do violent things. I think there's a bit of a disconnect when you use a mechanical object like a gun to shoot someone. You're a little more separated from the act you're doing. When you stab someone or strangle them, you're right there, it's more visceral. Even more separated is the pilot bombing targets in his million-dollar night vision enhanced cockpit.
If someone were pissed off enough to shoot someone, but for some reason they didn't have a gun, they'd just use a knife, or a hammer, or their bare hands.
The person causes the violence. If this were not the case, countries would never be able to maintain a proper military. There are so many guns causing violence, the whole organization would go to shit.
I'm not surprised at all that the orchestras are going bankrupt. If the music's so complicated that people need Cliff Notes to figure out what to listen for during the piece, something's wrong. Either the orchestra sucks and the parts are not standing out on their own, or the sound system sucks and we can't hear what they're doing. I don't think a little PDA guide is the way to go. However, it's a neat idea and would be good for other events, like maybe opera or baseball, like some other posters suggested.
Note: I'm not a classical music fan really, I'm not the target audience. But I will say that the concerts I go to are fun enough without an explanation as to what to enjoy. I can figure that out on my own. Even really complicated music that I would go see, like Dillinger Escape Plan, can stand on its own without notes. I guess, in summation, I wouldn't rent these PDAs, but heck, if some people want to, why not.
NICE troll!
What the hell is disponibility? I mean, I know that a large vocabulary embiggens the smallest man, so please, illuminate me, what the heck does that mean?
Well, I suppose it's just about plausible that you might want to play one of the vast majority of computer games which are released only for the Windows platform?
That's not WANTING to use Windows, it's HAVING to use it.
Damn, I wish I had some mod points. Microsoft can't buy real cool.
It's not meant to be a competitor to rentals, it's meant to be a competitor to pay-per-view. You don't get all that stuff on pay-per-view either.
I don't see why the MPAA just doesn't make slight, but easily noticeable differences between each screener. Maybe have a numeric code flash quickly onto the screen occasionally. Like what they do if there's a spy but they don't know who, they give out fake information and see which fake info the enemy acts on. If a certain coded screener gets pirated, then the MPAA knows who to send the lawsuit to.
I can't see David Letterman actually going and PAYING to see all the crap movies that his guests make!
You forget the part where the kids in the bands get to have a heck of a lot of fun at work, whereas the record exec kids have to do more homework. People seem to forget that a lot of bands play music because it's FUN!
Says here it's for "other classifications." It looks like it's used for state documents mostly. I don't see any mention of forbidden books.
I was thinking the same thing, then I got to thinking, it's not just a lucky coincidence that they can now search for and obtain more drugs than usual. I mean, I've gone on flights and have been searched like a motherfucker. Now I am 24 years old, had long hair at the time, and dressed like a dirtbag from Vermont (boots, flannel, baseball hat). I have no doubt I was searched because people like me often carry drugs. I certainly didn't fit the terrorist profile. And interestingly enough, I only got searched in Vermont, not at JFK Airport. This increased security helps out a lot more people than just the anti-terrorism folks. It helps everyone lock down the passengers.
That's a great plan. I'm going to have to try this next month when I fly. It's a good opportunity because I really have no obligation to get anywhere on time. I can't imagine doing it if you're in a rush, though, that could be a huge timesink.
I was going to quote you part of the article where it said that the kids said they got the idea from GTA, but it looks like the server's getting sorta Slashdotted right now or something. Anyway, the game did influence them, according to the kids themselves.
As has been stated numerous times, THE VICTIMS SUED, NOT THE KIDS' PARENTS. The kids' parents are probably trying to answer these questions right now on their own. Along with another one, "How could we have been such idiots?"
I think the case has to already have been brought for the destruction of the logs to be illegal. So if the ISP was started with quick destruction of logs in mind, it should work. In fact, Easynews is a Usenet ISP which tries to keep as few logs as possible to protect its customers.
Just use the word FUCK, OK? We all know what you're getting at, you don't need to bother voluntarily censoring yourself.
What you want to do is put "X-No-Archive: yes" into your headers of the posts you make to newsgroups. This will also prevent Google Groups from archiving your posts.
That guy in the commercial was bringing it on himself. He should have used the Mac's handles, like he was supposed to! They put those handles there for a reason!
Using a comment that you yourself posted is really shitty proof.
I like that you made the distinction between "trained" and "learned." People who learn to use computers can apply the concepts they learn to other OSes. People trained to use their computer seem to only know exactly what they need to know in order to do their job. If a small problem comes up, where they see something that is a little skewed, they're helpless. Not that I'm blaming these people- they're doing OK at their job, so what the hell.
Christ, that's funny. And not "Slashdot funny." Real funny.