As my friend Odeen puts it, it's the game of "driving slowly and obeying all traffic laws".
Wonder why he didn't like Hard Truck: 18 Wheels of Steel, which is basically the same thing, then.;-P
Oh, and Mafia loses major points for foreshadowing its ending so heavily you'd have to be not paying attention not to figure out what happens in the last scene.
What [bloggers] need to wise up to is that you should just make yourself a pseudonym, use no personally traceable information, and post your content on a site with an active legal team, like Slashdot's journal system.
For a lot of the people who do this, that would defeat the purpose of the entire thing. Sites that allow you to require passwords or only show your entries to friends are safer, but not completely safe.
Personally, IMAO, blog sites are more trouble than they're worth and are yet another obstacle to direct interpersonal communication.
I've seen relationships end, friendships be ruined, and jobs lost because people who posted didn't think about who could read what they said.
Hell, I'm an example. I posted about how miserable I was (and am) without my ex at my now-closed site. A couple days later, police are at the door ready to bust it down, kill my dog, and race to my room to find me eating chili and watching TV - because someone I barely know whom I wouldn't choose to interact with read the thing and then told them I was contemplating suicide.
Always be careful about what you post on the Net - if it can at all be traced back to you (and most of it can, considering ISP logs of who's on what IP when) then pretend you're shouting it from the rooftops.
Of course. I can't find the cite now, (or the site. Or the site with the cite. Anyway) but ISTR they once said "We sold N CDs, there were X blanks sold, where X > N, that means there were more pirated music discs out there than legitimate ones."
Meanwhile, the software industry claims the same, and they both want surcharges on blank media, which already exist in Canada. An idea just about as stupid as taxing blank paper because someone might Xerox a page from a book onto it.
Oh, I noticed it. Along with Uhura using the anarchic term 'tailpipe'.
Something like that is just a blooper. Can be fixed by a single line change. [And how do you know JUST the Excelsior was doing that sort of thing? Maybe the Enterprise was too, hmm?] The problem I pointed out above goes much deeper.
Ermm... ST6 had a fatal flaw. It was a whodunnit that you knew who'd dun it five minutes after it'd been dun. So to speak.
You also knew almost any major character that we hadn't met before was in on it, they weren't really going to kill Kirk or McCoy off, and the whole thing was a thinly disguised end-of-Cold-War analogy.
I see it the same way I see Star Trek IV: Admiral, there be whales here! Two humpbacks and one Scotsman! It's dumb fun. As opposed to 5 and 3, which were just dumb.
If it's worse than Final Frontier - which, according to official continuity, never happened, it's gotta be pretty bad at that.
Then again, the plot reads like they're merging the "Picard's son" ep of TNG with the plot of Wrath of KHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNN! So it just might be that bad.
> Bush: "Iraq has weapons of mass destruction!" > Sane people: "Proof?"
Bush: Well, we have this spy in this facility who has access to this information...
*gunshots heard from direction of Iraq*
Bush: Well, we have located this site...
*sound of moving vans starting heard*
Bush: Look, I can't tell you because that would endanger our sources! Besides, we sold him some of them.
Skeptics, ostriches, and people who jumped on the peacenik bandwagon: Yeah. Right, whatever. You're lying, you have to be lying, because a man who invaded his next door country and stonewalls the UN at every opportunity is to be trusted over you! You're just continuing Daddy's war!
Bush: But I...
Skeptics, ostriches, and bandwagon riders: No war!No war!No war!No war!
Bush: So go chant at Iraq. Or Osama. Is the chief of police a crimemonger?! Am I at fault, just for pointing this out and suggesting maybe something ought to be done about it?
Skeptics, ostriches, and bandwagon riders: YES!...
At first I thought to post this anonymously, but screw it.
Commiting karmic suicide*, SomeGuyFromCA
(*: by posting an unpopular yet honest opinion on/.)
Skeptics, ostriches, and bandwagon riders: You can't possibly think that way! No right minded individual could possibly think that way, because that upsets my worldview that everyone thinks just like me! You must be a troll!
IMAO, Phantasy Star 1 was the ONLY SMS game worth having... and yes, I had both the real thing and now the emulator.
Ahh, how I wish I could bring myself to play through the series again.
It's not a question of 'bring yourself'! I have to actively resist restarting the quests sometimes. (except for... well, see below)
Ever since Naka ruined it with the horror that is Not-Phantasy Star Online, I can't bear to even think about Algo.
Heh, PS3 almost ruined it for me. THAT is the game I had to force myself to play through. I'm glad it didn't; PS4 was one of the best RPGs of the 16-bit era.
I still want to know where they got the name "Baya Mahlay" for the hill over which Lassic's castle floated. It just sounds so perfect.
for those like me who are into nostalgia. Now, if only EA/Origin would let us work with Wing Commander: Privateer and Microprose with Master of Magic...
the websites let you browse their sites for free, and all they're asking in return is for you to do you part and look at those ads. some may interest you, most do not. in the cast of the latter, just close the pop-up window and go on. is it that big of an inconvenience? is it too much to ask for? i think not.
I don't mind banner ads. I do, however, mind endless popups, flash ads, annoying javascript tricks...
What's next, prove you've bought something from a sponsor to be let in?
> Thank goodness Microsoft is usually smart enough to have a "classic GUI" option.
Eventually, they'll take that option away. I still want to get my hands on whoever designed the XP theme. I mean, bright blue title bars, bright green start button, and a bright red [X]? The hell were they thinking? WERE they thinking?! It's like staring at neon fruit salad. *Ahem*....
> I don't know why they try to increase their "coolness" factor by adding such stupid bells and whistles. Sure they may look kinda neat, but after a while, that gets old.
Heh. Unfortunately, fancy sells; just look at Macs. Anything so gaudy and flashy, tho, is intolerable for long-time use, imo.
Funny thing is. I run Word 97 on my 2x1800XP, and you know what?
The fucking PoS(hit) still has those 2-3 sec pauses all the time. It didn't sped up from a PPro200 even a tiny bit.
If you have to dip into virtual memory, that'll slow any app; it doesn't matter what your processor(s) is/are.
I'd really like to know how the myth of ever-present blue screens keeps getting perpetuated.
Because big OEMs sell you crappy systems.
They want to pump the CPU MHz up to sell the system thanks to the bignumber effect. They want to keep the price low. Hence, a lot of the rest of the system will be crap.
I have run W95, W98, W2K and WXP, often on overclocked systems, and the only bluescreens I have seen are from beta drivers or failing/flaky hardware.
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> If you want everybody in the world to adopt your idea as a standard, you have to give them access to it...
::waits 20 seconds::
Or sell them access to it.
> A star is a ...
...
Huge nuclear reactor?
Must... resist... "in Soviet... Russia"... joke...
Agreed. I'd gladly, say, pay double point costs for computer aiming on one shot. The way it is now is just annoying.
> The driving is VERY realistic in my opinion
;-P
As my friend Odeen puts it, it's the game of "driving slowly and obeying all traffic laws".
Wonder why he didn't like Hard Truck: 18 Wheels of Steel, which is basically the same thing, then.
Oh, and Mafia loses major points for foreshadowing its ending so heavily you'd have to be not paying attention not to figure out what happens in the last scene.
And with Redhat 7.3...
And get Doomsday [sorry, link not handy, google for it] to do it with!
For a lot of the people who do this, that would defeat the purpose of the entire thing. Sites that allow you to require passwords or only show your entries to friends are safer, but not completely safe.
Personally, IMAO, blog sites are more trouble than they're worth and are yet another obstacle to direct interpersonal communication.
I've seen relationships end, friendships be ruined, and jobs lost because people who posted didn't think about who could read what they said.
Hell, I'm an example. I posted about how miserable I was (and am) without my ex at my now-closed site. A couple days later, police are at the door ready to bust it down, kill my dog, and race to my room to find me eating chili and watching TV - because someone I barely know whom I wouldn't choose to interact with read the thing and then told them I was contemplating suicide.
Always be careful about what you post on the Net - if it can at all be traced back to you (and most of it can, considering ISP logs of who's on what IP when) then pretend you're shouting it from the rooftops.
Is there a way to construct a little device you could attach into a phone line that would send a hangup tone to both sides of the connection?
I ask purely in the interest of science, you understand.
This year, go to Hawaii and get lei'd!
I would never trust a firewall that lives on the same machine as the hostile app would be on. Double that for a Windows machine.
Of course. I can't find the cite now, (or the site. Or the site with the cite. Anyway) but ISTR they once said "We sold N CDs, there were X blanks sold, where X > N, that means there were more pirated music discs out there than legitimate ones."
Meanwhile, the software industry claims the same, and they both want surcharges on blank media, which already exist in Canada. An idea just about as stupid as taxing blank paper because someone might Xerox a page from a book onto it.
Oh, I noticed it. Along with Uhura using the anarchic term 'tailpipe'.
Something like that is just a blooper. Can be fixed by a single line change. [And how do you know JUST the Excelsior was doing that sort of thing? Maybe the Enterprise was too, hmm?] The problem I pointed out above goes much deeper.
Man...you're not looking for anything other than brain candy, are you?
No, but sometimes I'm in the mood for it. And a dumb fun movie > dumb movie.
Ermm... ST6 had a fatal flaw. It was a whodunnit that you knew who'd dun it five minutes after it'd been dun. So to speak.
You also knew almost any major character that we hadn't met before was in on it, they weren't really going to kill Kirk or McCoy off, and the whole thing was a thinly disguised end-of-Cold-War analogy.
I see it the same way I see Star Trek IV: Admiral, there be whales here! Two humpbacks and one Scotsman! It's dumb fun. As opposed to 5 and 3, which were just dumb.
If it's worse than Final Frontier - which, according to official continuity, never happened, it's gotta be pretty bad at that.
Then again, the plot reads like they're merging the "Picard's son" ep of TNG with the plot of Wrath of KHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNN! So it just might be that bad.
> Bush: "Iraq has weapons of mass destruction!"
...
/.)
> Sane people: "Proof?"
Bush: Well, we have this spy in this facility who has access to this information...
*gunshots heard from direction of Iraq*
Bush: Well, we have located this site...
*sound of moving vans starting heard*
Bush: Look, I can't tell you because that would endanger our sources! Besides, we sold him some of them.
Skeptics, ostriches, and people who jumped on the peacenik bandwagon: Yeah. Right, whatever. You're lying, you have to be lying, because a man who invaded his next door country and stonewalls the UN at every opportunity is to be trusted over you! You're just continuing Daddy's war!
Bush: But I...
Skeptics, ostriches, and bandwagon riders: No war!No war!No war!No war!
Bush: So go chant at Iraq. Or Osama. Is the chief of police a crimemonger?! Am I at fault, just for pointing this out and suggesting maybe something ought to be done about it?
Skeptics, ostriches, and bandwagon riders: YES!
At first I thought to post this anonymously, but screw it.
Commiting karmic suicide*,
SomeGuyFromCA
(*: by posting an unpopular yet honest opinion on
Skeptics, ostriches, and bandwagon riders: You can't possibly think that way! No right minded individual could possibly think that way, because that upsets my worldview that everyone thinks just like me! You must be a troll!
IMAO, Phantasy Star 1 was the ONLY SMS game worth having... and yes, I had both the real thing and now the emulator.
Ahh, how I wish I could bring myself to play through the series again.
It's not a question of 'bring yourself'! I have to actively resist restarting the quests sometimes. (except for... well, see below)
Ever since Naka ruined it with the horror that is Not-Phantasy Star Online, I can't bear to even think about Algo.
Heh, PS3 almost ruined it for me. THAT is the game I had to force myself to play through. I'm glad it didn't; PS4 was one of the best RPGs of the 16-bit era.
I still want to know where they got the name "Baya Mahlay" for the hill over which Lassic's castle floated. It just sounds so perfect.
Oh, and read this and LYAO.
for those like me who are into nostalgia.
Now, if only EA/Origin would let us work with Wing Commander: Privateer and Microprose with Master of Magic...
wonder what happens if the trees develop intelligence and start walking around like Ents.
might give 'being rooted' a whole new meaning
I don't mind banner ads. I do, however, mind endless popups, flash ads, annoying javascript tricks...
What's next, prove you've bought something from a sponsor to be let in?
> Thank goodness Microsoft is usually smart enough to have a "classic GUI" option.
Eventually, they'll take that option away. I still want to get my hands on whoever designed the XP theme. I mean, bright blue title bars, bright green start button, and a bright red [X]? The hell were they thinking? WERE they thinking?! It's like staring at neon fruit salad. *Ahem*....
> I don't know why they try to increase their "coolness" factor by adding such stupid bells and whistles. Sure they may look kinda neat, but after a while, that gets old.
Heh. Unfortunately, fancy sells; just look at Macs. Anything so gaudy and flashy, tho, is intolerable for long-time use, imo.
If you have to dip into virtual memory, that'll slow any app; it doesn't matter what your processor(s) is/are.
Open up taskman and watch your memory usage.
Because big OEMs sell you crappy systems.
They want to pump the CPU MHz up to sell the system thanks to the bignumber effect. They want to keep the price low. Hence, a lot of the rest of the system will be crap.
I have run W95, W98, W2K and WXP, often on overclocked systems, and the only bluescreens I have seen are from beta drivers or failing/flaky hardware.
> smoking after sex
If you smoke after sex, you did it too fast.
> and by the way, they're not called stewardesses anymore. They're called flight attendants.
"Know what I call them? The lady on the plane!" -- George Carlin