My tire-skin brings all the rovers to the marsyard And they're like, Its worse than yours, Damn right, much worse than yours I can teach you, But I'll eat your sols
I wonder how the system would handle animals on the road. I don't know exactly how many animals I've hit since I've been driving, but I'd bet it's been dozens. 3 deer, all on the highway, some raccoon, some squirrels, some opossum. I was in a situation where I literally had to choose between swerving and wrecking in to the cars beside me on the freeway or hitting the deer. Needless to say, if its an animal, it's game. But, OTOH, computers are faster than humans, and sometimes things happen so fast that you don't get time to think.
In the split second between imminent danger and reaction, the speed of your vehicle, it's trajectory, and where your likely to have impact...these are all things a computer can calculate nearly instantly. I am not saying Yay for driver-less cars, i'm merely saying that If your going to crash, and with so many variables associated with crashes, at least if it's computer controlled, your risk is calculated, instead of solely relying on random reactionary impulses.
There is always that scary feeling like you lost control. Humans like to give control up for mundane and repetitive tasks, However, this is literally putting your life in the hands of a machine.
I'm more in favor of safety warnings that get noticed by the computer and escalated to the driver. For example, if your switching lanes and a car is in your blind spot, and you put your signal on, the computer warns you there is a car there in the blind spot. That's awesome. Or if standards were in place cars would talk to each other in such a way that Jimmy's BMW could bug the shit of of him for being a dick and cutting me off and getting too close while doing it...that's awesome too. Or if i'm getting on the freeway and my Jeep knows that the guy coming down the road is going too fast and chances are high that if I try to merge on, he'll hit me in the rear. Or, (and this one is great) if your trying to get out on a busy road, the system could let you know when it is truly safe to pull out on to the main road, based on the speeds of the oncoming cars.
There are all kinds of things a computer system can do to make us safer drivers, without outright taking full control of the situation.
As a father of a 9 month old. I'm telling you....I would KILL to keep her safe.
I'd be peppering the names of all faculty involved with this on telephone poles, and windshields, start a protest, and round up PLENTY of like minded parents and call for an emergancy PTA meeting stat. I would make it so damn easy for them to be local celebrities that they will most likely quit their jobs or move to another district out of embaressment and ridicule.
Either way, there are plenty of ways to get rid of people like this. Even if it's not a court ordered punishment.
New Copyright Law Proposal: Your copyright of your creations lives as long as you do.
(IE: if you live to be 100 years old then you're copyright(s) last 100 years. If you live to be 20, then your copyrights live to be 20 as well, reguardless of age when copyrighted)
See, now if companies want to protect the longevity of copyrights, they'll have to invest in your well being.
So it's a win-win for everyone. Big Corps. get to milk copyrights, and authors get free healthcare, etc. And the world benfits from the R&D from medical research which goes in to the healthcare of the author.
Maybe they should hang neon-lit signs from the traffic cameras that say: "Smile, you're on camera!" Which, in my opinion would be a good idea.
Have you ever seen those lit-signs on interstates or roads that when you drive by them, they tell you how fast your driving? The one I drive by often on the interstate (which is under endless construction work), just tells you how fast your driving...it's there to help you keep your speed in check and it gives the driver a chance to obey the speed limit.
Now back to those surveillance cameras, I wouldn't mind them at all, so long it had a sign or something that told me they were there. as with your post about the police cars, you're exactly right. It's hard to miss a police car, and at least I know i'm being monitored. However with cameras monitoring you, you *don't* know they are there. Which is deceptive to me. If it isn't fesible to hang signs on the cameras, how about "anyone cought for the first time gets a warning" At least you know where they are by the photo, and i'm sure if people knew they were there, they'd be very careful while driving around them. *shrugs*
What I hate the most is those damn traffic lights that sense how fast you're going as you approch the light. So if your going "too fast" (whatever speed that is) they'll flash from green to yellow and then red quicker then you can blink your eyes.
We have one in an intersection where i pass through coming home from work. On the nights that I work late, the roads are basically empty at that time.
So i'm coming down the road doing about 1-3mph under the speed limit, which is 35mph. I'm ~50 meters or so away from the intersection/light. It's red. Then it changes to green. Now by that time, I'm about 5-8 meters away from the light. Since it just turned green, I didn't slow down much because the light just turned and under normal circumstances I could have gone through the intersection without slowing down.
BUT NO..
Since i was over a certian "speed limit" that was LOWER then the speed limit sign posted on the road, the light darts back to yellow and quickly to red. So being the kind of guy who likes to obey the law, I slide to a stop. Which puts myself in danger of crashing and increases the possibility of hurting myself and others. All because the local law enforcement thought it'd be profitable to trick you in to running a red light and then chase you down to serve you a ticket.
Exactly. Mozilla/Firefox is all about free choice and free/open software, but how am I given a choice when I want to use Mozilla exclusively and I can't because there are a few pages I *have* to use IE for to work properly. I can see your point 100%. This is probably the _one_ reason why people like you and me still use IE at all.
Web developers are given a choice, some code to standards some code for IE. But what about the USERS? If you code exclusively for IE then you take away the choice for the USER to use an alternative broswer exclusively. If you code to standards, (Mozilla/firefox/opera/safari) then you take away my choice to stop using IE for IE spacific webpages.
I don't see the problem in a plugin for IE Compatibility. at least then I can ditch IE all together and get to view the ENTIRE web with my favorite broswer (Mozilla). There would be no reason for me to use IE if this happened.
If alternative broswers take away the need to use IE entirely, then they give themselves the benifit of attracting more people. I think it would be in there best interests to do so.
Agreed. Nintendo had backwards-compatability down to a science with the Gameboy. Got a GBA game, Game Boy Color Game? *ANY* Gameboy game? You can play them on the Gameboy SP. This adds tremendous value to any console, especially at launch time when launch titles may not be all their cracked up to be. You'd think that since Microsoft is pushing to be the first out with a next-gen console, they would add backwards-compatability to the Xbox2. You wouldn't have to start over with all new games, you would just continue to add to your existing library of games you alraedy own. It's a neat idea IMHO.
The only reason to not add backwards-compatability that I can think of is that consumers would be forced to buy games along with their new console. I'd imagine their expecting larget profits at launch time because of this.
The controllers are way too big. While I don't necessarly have big hands, I do have long fingers. I'm so used to smaller controllers. Notabily the NES, SNES, Gameboy, Sega Master System, Genesis, Game Gear, Neo-Geo Pocket, PS1 + PS2, hell even the Dreamcast controller isn't exactly small in size, but it's very contour and easy to hold.
I think the main reason for the architecture switch is to make it harder for people to make homebrew apps. (I'm no programmer but the x86 architecture i'd imagne is more familar to programmers than the PPC) This is speculation on my behalf though.
At any rate, i'm not about to under-estimate Microsoft. God knows they've made a ton of mistakes but somehow come out on top. I know many are waiting for MS to finally get it's rude awaking, but after all....
it's only Version 2.0. the Xbox console line probably won't start to catch on until Version 3.1:)
Whatever happened to "You have the RIGHT to remain silent?" I guess you don't have those rights unless a cop reads them off to you?? I'm pretty sure you don't have to talk to any law enforcement or give them any info at all, all you have to say is something to the effect of "I'd like to talk to my lawyer." But i'm not exactly sure of the latter.
If I have the right to remain silent, then why must I be compelled to give out my identity?
*shurgs* Haven't had enough run-ins with law enforcement to know how the system works.
To the contrary, I've seen PII's run XP fairly decent, so long they have sufficient memory, HDD space, and only the minimum amount of programs running in the systray/background. Surfing the net, email, mp3s, document writing, are all very do-able. It won't be the fastest thing in the world but it would *definately* work.
The conversation wasn't about how much processing power J6P needs to run the latest version of Windows, but how much power he needs to do what he wants"
What if a customer *wants* to run Windows XP? I mean yeah, I get pissy when John Q. N00b wants me to put XP on his PII 300mhz PC, but mainly because I sure as hell wouldn't put XP on a system like that. To them though, it's like getting a new computer without actually buying a new computer. It's the latest new and flashy OS from Microsoft so they want it.
I think the notion of "J6P is doing more with his/her PC nowadays" is fairly accurate. On average, most of our PC Repair/Sales customers do some sort of picture editing, scanning, casual gaming, and surfing the internet + email, and yeah, there was porn there at times too. A few were also in to home movie capping and whatnot as well.
And yeah, I have an Athlon 2500+ with 1GB DDR, 180GB HDD, and WinXP I built a year ago. I mainly use it to write documents, surf the net, play music and watch videos. You may call me a "moron" or say I am wasting my "Ferrari" but understand that I didn't build this PC becuase i wanted to be cool and have a muscle machine to boast about. I think of it as an investment that will last me a while longer than a a low-end system. The power is there if I need it and I find that to be assuring.
I think there are other people who feel this way as well.
It wouldn't be so damn bad if the new chip name had a ring to it.
Take "Athlon" for example: The "Ath" part of the name reminds me of Athens, Greece. You know, home of the Roman empire, which was a powerful force in it's day. The "ion" part of it reminds me of the word "marathon" which says to me it can keep going and going. Kind of a powerful runner if you will...
Now take "Duron", the "Dur" part reminds me of "endurance" whicn means it's not running for speed, it's an endurance runner. The "on" part still reminds me of marathons.
These to me, seem like very fitting names. However, I'm not sure what to think of Sempron. Excluding the obvious porn reference, it does remind me of the Sampo Virus.though.
I hate it when people associate taxpayers + government with customers + business. The two relationships are very different.
There are no laws I know of that tell me I have to pay Company X for products. If I don't want any products from Company X, I won't buy anything from them. I'm not going to be breaking any laws because of it. However, if I don't pay my taxes I'll get hounded to death with the possibly of being tossed in jail.
What a wonderful idea! Would be a great medium to put my hemorrhoid topical cream and glass sandpaper ads on. To think that it was in front of my face..err under my ass the whole time. If you don't like it, wipe and flush.
Ads that actually *work* for you...now that's a concept.
Ah, but see, you "know" about the X-10 Cams. The more annoying the ad the better it is for the person selling the advertised goods. X-10 did a hell of a job getting their name out. Bad publicity is still publicity, and for small outfits selling on the net, vendors would pay a primium to get that kind of brand recognition.
if 1,000 people didn't know about your company and the product your selling, then those 1000 people WILL NOT EVER buy anything from you. Now if 1000 people see your annoying ads, you got 1000 people who know who you are and what you're selling. The chances of getting a sales boost vastly increases once people know that you exist and have something to offer.
Not everyone is as loathing of advertisements. They CAN be a good thing when done right. If we didn't have advertisements how would we hear about new products coming out? How would we know if a product existed if there was no press releases (a form of advertising) or TV/radio/net commercials?
Now don't get me wrong, I hate ads just as badly as most/.'s. All the tools that are available to remove ads and popups *IS* a good thing. There's way too much "noise" on the net as it is. There are a lot of advertisers who are abusing the medium to the point where getting online means gawking at irrelevant ads instead of actually doing something useful.
Right now advertisers have a hell of a stronghold on bogging people's systems down with spyware and ads. However, people *are* getting wise to this and are taking measures to keep things down to a dull roar. Once one side has the power, the other side steals it back for a while...human nature i guess.
It's all about balance. I know it's there, I see it when i swing past.
Well said. A customer came in with a Bagle.T virus two days before a patch could be found anywhere. We googled for it, searched Norton, AVG/Girsoft, McAfee, Trend Micro...no one had the.T variant removal tool or updates for their respected anti-virus software. Needless to say I was pissed. All i've been seeing lately were a few downloader trojans but mostly the bagle virus and it's variants. Since we also run a local dialup ISP alongside computer repair we've not only been seeing our repair-side customers with it, but also the ISP-side customers complain about getting threatning emails with our ISP name on it. That's the nastest virus I've seen for a great while that really caused us aggravation.
I hate being pessimistic, but i mean, Microsoft has a hard enough time trying to patch their software, now they're going to keep after definition updates for an anti-virus software?
There's such a thing as "don't spread yourself too thin" and "don't fix a problem with the cause of another problem"
I really don't hate Microsoft. They have the MONEY and manpower to fix the problems they're having, but what's the hold up? Some guy in his basement can fix a problem in linux code and put his patch up for availability for FREE, and yet it takes months to patch a known problem for MS?
Aren't they supposed to be in color? Or are these just paliminary photos? I was reading space.com, and they said the photo quality would be good enough to toss an image on an imax theater screen.
It's just a game! That NYP article about how these types of games rank up there with child molestation and snuff films is a disillusioned mindset to have. How in the hell can you compare a FANTASY WORLD GAME with *fictional* characters, to the ACTUAL defiling of a child?? Futhermore, a snuff film usually involves the ACTUAL killing of a woman after ACTUAL non-consenual sex. those two comparasons NYP made are not only misinformed to the extreme, but also totally wrong.
A well rounded indivudual with decent morals and values wouldn't think of doing the things potrayed in video games. It's not the publisher's fault that the content of their games could further warp a warped person. No more than you could hold Mead responsible for your child stabbing another child with one of their pencils, or hold Ford responsible because you killed someone with their truck.
I'm sick and tired of parents and lawmakers looking to hollywood and game publishers as the sole excuse for their corrupted children. You want to corrupt a kid? Make then watch C-SPAN or CNN and the news every night. Most of the time it's a free-for-all hoopla on who killed who, which politican screwed over who, or how many times can someone be put in and taken off death row. Among other nasty things that are true and actually happening.
Then people say to me "how can you support the mistreatment of women in a game, but yet you don't support it in real life?" It's easy. One is fake the other is real. If someone made a game that blurted the words "kill whitey" and got points for it, so what? Would i be offended, not really, it's a game. If a person of another racial background was going to mug me, and said he played the "kill whitey" game, right before he capped me, would i be cursing the game maker? Why bother? It's not their fault that this guy who's mugging me is a moron, he's the one who's about to cap me, not the game.
On another related note, why must games like these be hounded for their content? I'm sure there are many like myself who enjoy an escape from relatity once in a while. To be able to come home after dealing with annoying customers and have some shoot'em up fun for a little bit will not hurt anyone. This is pretty close to becoming the thought police. People need escapes to stay sane.
Got the trailer, got the teasers, am i missing something? This is a spoof on star trek obviously, but i didn't laugh.
It doesn't help that the whole trailer isn't in english. So that takes away from the humor for me. That, and the fact that they have really GOOD special effects in the trailer takes away from the humor.
Most spoofs i've seen are cheezy, hilarious knock-offs of the orignials with a heavy dose of humor. hell, make the actors a bit more convincing, and use real black actors, i would have taken this trailer as a trailer for a new star trek series, not a spoof.
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Finally, a chip that's close enough for government work!
My tire-skin brings all the rovers to the marsyard
And they're like,
Its worse than yours,
Damn right, much worse than yours
I can teach you,
But I'll eat your sols
I wonder how the system would handle animals on the road. I don't know exactly how many animals I've hit since I've been driving, but I'd bet it's been dozens. 3 deer, all on the highway, some raccoon, some squirrels, some opossum. I was in a situation where I literally had to choose between swerving and wrecking in to the cars beside me on the freeway or hitting the deer. Needless to say, if its an animal, it's game. But, OTOH, computers are faster than humans, and sometimes things happen so fast that you don't get time to think.
In the split second between imminent danger and reaction, the speed of your vehicle, it's trajectory, and where your likely to have impact...these are all things a computer can calculate nearly instantly. I am not saying Yay for driver-less cars, i'm merely saying that If your going to crash, and with so many variables associated with crashes, at least if it's computer controlled, your risk is calculated, instead of solely relying on random reactionary impulses.
There is always that scary feeling like you lost control. Humans like to give control up for mundane and repetitive tasks, However, this is literally putting your life in the hands of a machine.
I'm more in favor of safety warnings that get noticed by the computer and escalated to the driver. For example, if your switching lanes and a car is in your blind spot, and you put your signal on, the computer warns you there is a car there in the blind spot. That's awesome. Or if standards were in place cars would talk to each other in such a way that Jimmy's BMW could bug the shit of of him for being a dick and cutting me off and getting too close while doing it...that's awesome too.
Or if i'm getting on the freeway and my Jeep knows that the guy coming down the road is going too fast and chances are high that if I try to merge on, he'll hit me in the rear. Or, (and this one is great) if your trying to get out on a busy road, the system could let you know when it is truly safe to pull out on to the main road, based on the speeds of the oncoming cars.
There are all kinds of things a computer system can do to make us safer drivers, without outright taking full control of the situation.
not to nitpick, but the Viking missions were just landers. The first succssful lander+rover was the Mars Pathfinder which arrived on Mars in 1997.
Just sayin.
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As a father of a 9 month old. I'm telling you....I would KILL to keep her safe.
I'd be peppering the names of all faculty involved with this on telephone poles, and windshields, start a protest, and round up PLENTY of like minded parents and call for an emergancy PTA meeting stat. I would make it so damn easy for them to be local celebrities that they will most likely quit their jobs or move to another district out of embaressment and ridicule.
Either way, there are plenty of ways to get rid of people like this. Even if it's not a court ordered punishment.
Yes yes yes, it's
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New Copyright Law Proposal: Your copyright of your creations lives as long as you do.
:)
(IE: if you live to be 100 years old then you're copyright(s) last 100 years. If you live to be 20, then your copyrights live to be 20 as well, reguardless of age when copyrighted)
See, now if companies want to protect the longevity of copyrights, they'll have to invest in your well being.
So it's a win-win for everyone. Big Corps. get to milk copyrights, and authors get free healthcare, etc. And the world benfits from the R&D from medical research which goes in to the healthcare of the author.
Always scheming
Maybe they should hang neon-lit signs from the traffic cameras that say: "Smile, you're on camera!" Which, in my opinion would be a good idea.
Have you ever seen those lit-signs on interstates or roads that when you drive by them, they tell you how fast your driving? The one I drive by often on the interstate (which is under endless construction work), just tells you how fast your driving...it's there to help you keep your speed in check and it gives the driver a chance to obey the speed limit.
Now back to those surveillance cameras, I wouldn't mind them at all, so long it had a sign or something that told me they were there. as with your post about the police cars, you're exactly right. It's hard to miss a police car, and at least I know i'm being monitored. However with cameras monitoring you, you *don't* know they are there. Which is deceptive to me. If it isn't fesible to hang signs on the cameras, how about "anyone cought for the first time gets a warning"
At least you know where they are by the photo, and i'm sure if people knew they were there, they'd be very careful while driving around them. *shrugs*
What I hate the most is those damn traffic lights that sense how fast you're going as you approch the light. So if your going "too fast" (whatever speed that is) they'll flash from green to yellow and then red quicker then you can blink your eyes.
We have one in an intersection where i pass through coming home from work. On the nights that I work late, the roads are basically empty at that time.
So i'm coming down the road doing about 1-3mph under the speed limit, which is 35mph. I'm ~50 meters or so away from the intersection/light. It's red. Then it changes to green. Now by that time, I'm about 5-8 meters away from the light. Since it just turned green, I didn't slow down much because the light just turned and under normal circumstances I could have gone through the intersection without slowing down.
BUT NO..
Since i was over a certian "speed limit" that was LOWER then the speed limit sign posted on the road, the light darts back to yellow and quickly to red. So being the kind of guy who likes to obey the law, I slide to a stop. Which puts myself in danger of crashing and increases the possibility of hurting myself and others. All because the local law enforcement thought it'd be profitable to trick you in to running a red light and then chase you down to serve you a ticket.
Not only that, but it would cost spammers money to send SMS spam. A good idea for other cell providers to use...those bastards deserve to pay.
I'm on AT&T Wireless, I can recieve text messages for free, .10 cents to send 'em.
Never really had a problem with SMS spam, though AT&T likes to be a jerk sometimes and text me with American Idol crap. *gags*
Exactly. Mozilla/Firefox is all about free choice and free/open software, but how am I given a choice when I want to use Mozilla exclusively and I can't because there are a few pages I *have* to use IE for to work properly. I can see your point 100%. This is probably the _one_ reason why people like you and me still use IE at all.
Web developers are given a choice, some code to standards some code for IE. But what about the USERS? If you code exclusively for IE then you take away the choice for the USER to use an alternative broswer exclusively. If you code to standards, (Mozilla/firefox/opera/safari) then you take away my choice to stop using IE for IE spacific webpages.
I don't see the problem in a plugin for IE Compatibility. at least then I can ditch IE all together and get to view the ENTIRE web with my favorite broswer (Mozilla). There would be no reason for me to use IE if this happened.
If alternative broswers take away the need to use IE entirely, then they give themselves the benifit of attracting more people. I think it would be in there best interests to do so.
Agreed. Nintendo had backwards-compatability down to a science with the Gameboy. Got a GBA game, Game Boy Color Game? *ANY* Gameboy game? You can play them on the Gameboy SP. This adds tremendous value to any console, especially at launch time when launch titles may not be all their cracked up to be. You'd think that since Microsoft is pushing to be the first out with a next-gen console, they would add backwards-compatability to the Xbox2. You wouldn't have to start over with all new games, you would just continue to add to your existing library of games you alraedy own. It's a neat idea IMHO.
:)
The only reason to not add backwards-compatability that I can think of is that consumers would be forced to buy games along with their new console. I'd imagine their expecting larget profits at launch time because of this.
The controllers are way too big. While I don't necessarly have big hands, I do have long fingers.
I'm so used to smaller controllers. Notabily the NES, SNES, Gameboy, Sega Master System, Genesis, Game Gear, Neo-Geo Pocket, PS1 + PS2, hell even the Dreamcast controller isn't exactly small in size, but it's very contour and easy to hold.
I think the main reason for the architecture switch is to make it harder for people to make homebrew apps. (I'm no programmer but the x86 architecture i'd imagne is more familar to programmers than the PPC) This is speculation on my behalf though.
At any rate, i'm not about to under-estimate Microsoft. God knows they've made a ton of mistakes but somehow come out on top. I know many are waiting for MS to finally get it's rude awaking, but after all....
it's only Version 2.0. the Xbox console line probably won't start to catch on until Version 3.1
Whatever happened to "You have the RIGHT to remain silent?" I guess you don't have those rights unless a cop reads them off to you?? I'm pretty sure you don't have to talk to any law enforcement or give them any info at all, all you have to say is something to the effect of "I'd like to talk to my lawyer." But i'm not exactly sure of the latter.
If I have the right to remain silent, then why must I be compelled to give out my identity?
*shurgs* Haven't had enough run-ins with law enforcement to know how the system works.
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To the contrary, I've seen PII's run XP fairly decent, so long they have sufficient memory, HDD space, and only the minimum amount of programs running in the systray/background. Surfing the net, email, mp3s, document writing, are all very do-able. It won't be the fastest thing in the world but it would *definately* work.
The conversation wasn't about how much processing power J6P needs to run the latest version of Windows, but how much power he needs to do what he wants"
What if a customer *wants* to run Windows XP? I mean yeah, I get pissy when John Q. N00b wants me to put XP on his PII 300mhz PC, but mainly because I sure as hell wouldn't put XP on a system like that. To them though, it's like getting a new computer without actually buying a new computer. It's the latest new and flashy OS from Microsoft so they want it.
I think the notion of "J6P is doing more with his/her PC nowadays" is fairly accurate. On average, most of our PC Repair/Sales customers do some sort of picture editing, scanning, casual gaming, and surfing the internet + email, and yeah, there was porn there at times too. A few were also in to home movie capping and whatnot as well.
And yeah, I have an Athlon 2500+ with 1GB DDR, 180GB HDD, and WinXP I built a year ago. I mainly use it to write documents, surf the net, play music and watch videos. You may call me a "moron" or say I am wasting my "Ferrari" but understand that I didn't build this PC becuase i wanted to be cool and have a muscle machine to boast about. I think of it as an investment that will last me a while longer than a a low-end system. The power is there if I need it and I find that to be assuring.
I think there are other people who feel this way as well.
It wouldn't be so damn bad if the new chip name had a ring to it.
Take "Athlon" for example: The "Ath" part of the name reminds me of Athens, Greece. You know, home of the Roman empire, which was a powerful force in it's day. The "ion" part of it reminds me of the word "marathon" which says to me it can keep going and going. Kind of a powerful runner if you will...
Now take "Duron", the "Dur" part reminds me of "endurance" whicn means it's not running for speed, it's an endurance runner. The "on" part still reminds me of marathons.
These to me, seem like very fitting names. However, I'm not sure what to think of Sempron. Excluding the obvious porn reference, it does remind me of the Sampo Virus.though.
I hate it when people associate taxpayers + government with customers + business. The two relationships are very different.
There are no laws I know of that tell me I have to pay Company X for products. If I don't want any products from Company X, I won't buy anything from them. I'm not going to be breaking any laws because of it. However, if I don't pay my taxes I'll get hounded to death with the possibly of being tossed in jail.
See the difference?
What a wonderful idea! Would be a great medium to put my hemorrhoid topical cream and glass sandpaper ads on. To think that it was in front of my face..err under my ass the whole time. If you don't like it, wipe and flush.
Ads that actually *work* for you...now that's a concept.
Ah, but see, you "know" about the X-10 Cams. The more annoying the ad the better it is for the person selling the advertised goods. X-10 did a hell of a job getting their name out. Bad publicity is still publicity, and for small outfits selling on the net, vendors would pay a primium to get that kind of brand recognition.
/.'s. All the tools that are available to remove ads and popups *IS* a good thing. There's way too much "noise" on the net as it is. There are a lot of advertisers who are abusing the medium to the point where getting online means gawking at irrelevant ads instead of actually doing something useful.
if 1,000 people didn't know about your company and the product your selling, then those 1000 people WILL NOT EVER buy anything from you. Now if 1000 people see your annoying ads, you got 1000 people who know who you are and what you're selling. The chances of getting a sales boost vastly increases once people know that you exist and have something to offer.
Not everyone is as loathing of advertisements. They CAN be a good thing when done right. If we didn't have advertisements how would we hear about new products coming out? How would we know if a product existed if there was no press releases (a form of advertising) or TV/radio/net commercials?
Now don't get me wrong, I hate ads just as badly as most
Right now advertisers have a hell of a stronghold on bogging people's systems down with spyware and ads. However, people *are* getting wise to this and are taking measures to keep things down to a dull roar. Once one side has the power, the other side steals it back for a while...human nature i guess.
It's all about balance. I know it's there, I see it when i swing past.
Well said. A customer came in with a Bagle.T virus two days before a patch could be found anywhere. We googled for it, searched Norton, AVG/Girsoft, McAfee, Trend Micro...no one had the .T variant removal tool or updates for their respected anti-virus software. Needless to say I was pissed. All i've been seeing lately were a few downloader trojans but mostly the bagle virus and it's variants. Since we also run a local dialup ISP alongside computer repair we've not only been seeing our repair-side customers with it, but also the ISP-side customers complain about getting threatning emails with our ISP name on it. That's the nastest virus I've seen for a great while that really caused us aggravation.
I hate being pessimistic, but i mean, Microsoft has a hard enough time trying to patch their software, now they're going to keep after definition updates for an anti-virus software?
There's such a thing as "don't spread yourself too thin" and "don't fix a problem with the cause of another problem"
I really don't hate Microsoft. They have the MONEY and manpower to fix the problems they're having, but what's the hold up? Some guy in his basement can fix a problem in linux code and put his patch up for availability for FREE, and yet it takes months to patch a known problem for MS?
*shrugs* some things we'll never know.
Aren't they supposed to be in color? Or are these just paliminary photos? I was reading space.com, and they said the photo quality would be good enough to toss an image on an imax theater screen.
Just wondering
It's just a game! That NYP article about how these types of games rank up there with child molestation and snuff films is a disillusioned mindset to have. How in the hell can you compare a FANTASY WORLD GAME with *fictional* characters, to the ACTUAL defiling of a child?? Futhermore, a snuff film usually involves the ACTUAL killing of a woman after ACTUAL non-consenual sex. those two comparasons NYP made are not only misinformed to the extreme, but also totally wrong.
A well rounded indivudual with decent morals and values wouldn't think of doing the things potrayed in video games. It's not the publisher's fault that the content of their games could further warp a warped person. No more than you could hold Mead responsible for your child stabbing another child with one of their pencils, or hold Ford responsible because you killed someone with their truck.
I'm sick and tired of parents and lawmakers looking to hollywood and game publishers as the sole excuse for their corrupted children. You want to corrupt a kid? Make then watch C-SPAN or CNN and the news every night. Most of the time it's a free-for-all hoopla on who killed who, which politican screwed over who, or how many times can someone be put in and taken off death row. Among other nasty things that are true and actually happening.
Then people say to me "how can you support the mistreatment of women in a game, but yet you don't support it in real life?" It's easy. One is fake the other is real. If someone made a game that blurted the words "kill whitey" and got points for it, so what? Would i be offended, not really, it's a game. If a person of another racial background was going to mug me, and said he played the "kill whitey" game, right before he capped me, would i be cursing the game maker? Why bother? It's not their fault that this guy who's mugging me is a moron, he's the one who's about to cap me, not the game.
On another related note, why must games like these be hounded for their content? I'm sure there are many like myself who enjoy an escape from relatity once in a while. To be able to come home after dealing with annoying customers and have some shoot'em up fun for a little bit will not hurt anyone. This is pretty close to becoming the thought police. People need escapes to stay sane.
Got the trailer, got the teasers, am i missing something? This is a spoof on star trek obviously, but i didn't laugh.
:)
It doesn't help that the whole trailer isn't in english. So that takes away from the humor for me. That, and the fact that they have really GOOD special effects in the trailer takes away from the humor.
Most spoofs i've seen are cheezy, hilarious knock-offs of the orignials with a heavy dose of humor. hell, make the actors a bit more convincing, and use real black actors, i would have taken this trailer as a trailer for a new star trek series, not a spoof.
Anyway, analysis complete.