Blah blah blah. Some Programmer forgot to delete some files. Big fucking deal. the seans are not in the game, the game has to be modified. The UNMODIFIED version is rated M, somneone changed it.
I am a web guy, let me put it in prepective. I build a website. I have lots of images of people on the website while I am making it. Marketing then decides they don't want to use prople since there is some diversiciation law that says we have to show a certain number or different ethnic groups ans all be got a asian chicks.
So I rewrite the HTML to link to other images of building, money, cars whatever. BUT I foget the sort thru my images folder and delete the images of people.
Later some hacker (cracker, whatever) gets in and changes the links to these unlinked photos of people and now everyone is mad that it is full of asian chicks.
Why are they getting mad at me? Xause I forgot to delete some orphaned files and some hacker discovered them. The site did not contain the people when Marketing approved it, and it is true of GTA. The unmodified rated M does not have the sex scenes.
$40 is $5 + $35 of avertising fees per magazine. So with no ads, with the same profit level it would need to be $40. Consumer Reports has no ads but there magazine is not $40 but they probally live on a tighter budget and offset it with book sales, etc.
Treu just like blaming drug dealers for drug use, As long as there is a demand they will be people supplying. I think most people who respond to spam is those buying conterfit software or viagra and the sorts. Shady operations, done by dumb fucks that affect us all. Good call.
Some examples. Typically if you pay for something then it is ad free, otherwise the ads pay for it or greatly reduce the cost.
Magazines... are filled with ads yet we still pay for them. I al told magazines would be $40 without the ads so ads are welcome in that enviroment. Plus they are very passive.
TV shows have commercial.... You pay for delivery of the shows via the cable/sat comapny but not for the shows them selves so commercials are ok here.
A side note, years ago I hace a Cable company I went to digital comapny and when I pressed menu, 1/2 of the screen had ads for Pay per view. I thought this was crazy that I paid A LOT for this and half of my usable screen had ads. I dropped them for Satelite. My current cable company (no dish in this apartment) resets to the Pay per view preview channel every time you turn on the digital Cable box. So I went to basic cable and got a TiVo
Tivo... has light ads, in the main menu they have entries to "see this movie trailier" or "check out the new Chevy Truck" I think these are lame since I already pay for TiVo service but they are very passive so I am ok with it.
Games... I pay a lot of money if I buy a game $50 is way too much for a game in my mind but it is what the market will bare. I used to buy more gsames when they were $20 but oh well.
I have noticed static ads like Billboards of NFS Underground 2 in Burn Out 3. These seem fine for me, they add some realism as is very passive. Full blown ads I will not be too happy about. I already paid a shit load for this game and now you want to make more money off of me. Oh and while you screw your programmers too.
Good point but I belive governemnt has no business in private companies. Maybe a little in utiliy monopolies like electricity and gas, and telco/ISP are close to becoming "utilities". But to put what I said in relation to your hospital example. Most hospitals are "for profit" corporations and yes they can pick and choose their patients. They wat to get paid just like anyone else. People have the power, if they don;t like it then they rally up and either change the policies of the local hospital or start their own. Then the other hospital goes out of business becasue they chose not to help certain people.
When I had DSL I had to get a phone line from the local Telco, but never used it. Been cell phone only for several years now. ut I was not going to get the DSL thru them. They charge $50 per month for PPPoE and I could get Static IP for same price from another ISP.
Of course the fact that i could get a different ISP is due to government regulation. but that is becasue they are basically a utility monopoly so the government makes them give me a choice, which is about the only place this kind of regulation is good. But I did not use the phone company's Internet cause it sucked. They lost my business.
Ah I could really give a fuck, everyone wants less government then wants everything regulated. Guess I am just a whinny bitch like most others on/. Please mod this down since I am suck a fucking lamo! I can't spell eihter, nor type but then again I could give a fuck! I still make over $30 an hour reading/. all day.
They squashed netscape because IE 4 was way better then Netscape 4. I was a webmaster at the time these browsers were out and IE always rendered my pages as I wrote them to, Netscape never did. If I say a td width of 50 Netscape would make it 51.
IE 3 sucked NS 3 good
IE 4 excellent NS 4 so so
IE 5 alright NS 6 total crap
IE 6 pretty good NS 7 just a notch above total crap FF 0.x so so
IE 6 stagnet, going downhill fast NS 8 the biggest pile of crap ever FF 1 Excellent, except for the lame webmasters only testing in IE.
Yes IE is on my windows computer, but I never see it, no shortcuts anywhere. I have to type "iexplore" at the command prompt to launch it.
Paint is also on my system but I never use it either. Just because some binaries are on the compter does not mean that is what people are going to use. As more webmasters get on the Firefox bandwagon and make their sites look good in all browsers (like they should) then more people will adopt it.
As everyone knows, SCO is really Caldera, they just took over SCOs name when they bought the rights to UNIX.
It's a bummer, my real first heavy use of Linux was with Caldera. I remember visiting threir booth at a Comdex in the late 90's
What seems weird to me is how such a small startup could buy UNIX, you think someone ike IBM would pay 10 times as much to get a hold of it and lock it away.
In the end I think McBride should be brought up on criminal charges as this was totally a stunt to juck up stock prices.
I predict that after this si all over the rights to UNIX will be bought to someone and then releae free into the world, just like those groups that get together and buy up empty land just to keep it empty. I do not know how long it will take but I will refer back to this when it does.
I hate touch screens becuse it is like hitting a wall all day. Movable keys have a buffer, which is way better for the hands.
Try jumping up and down barefoot on a concrete slap for an hour and see how much your feet hurt, now jump on a bed for an hour, much better. Touch screens will never become mainstream for heavy use as a keyboard.
I never thought of it that way, but you are 100% correct. Of course the problem is their is nothing I can do, since this is jsut the way things work now. There is no switch that says "I will not be doing any credit like things in the next year" anywhere.
I think I misspelled the subject even. I am very technical savvy, but I scraped thru school wiht Ds in English. I just could not get it, still don't now in my 30s. They are so many lame rules and weird spellings. Everything just should be spelled the way it sounds. I do not know any other languages, just a little spanish since I am in Southern California, but from what I am told English makes no sense, the grammar rules, etc.
I do have a high attention to detail, but for a quick IM or e-mail I could care less about grammar or spelling. Did I mention I can't type either... and my Father owned a type writer store, I grew up around type writers. I just plucked this all out. I know where all the keys are so I can pluck out 10-15 words per minute. I program so that does not require typing skills since I am always doing weird characters and such anyways.
'definately' instead of 'definitely' is because of the spell checker. If I sound out "definitely", I mispsell it then the spell checker gets "definately" Many times this has nabbed me and I just recently noticed this.
This has got to be the most lame thing I ever heard. Who is going to memorize Morse code. Why not learn Latin or Klingon and power your cars with steam and coal. I will just use the number pad like the other 99.9999999% of the realistic people in the world.
I would have to agree untill recently. My current computer runs an Athlon 1.4, which when I bought it was AMD's top of the line and only cost $225. Intels top of the line was $800 and this was before all this Extreme Edition, x64 FX bullshit.
Now AMD is just as expensive. And now they have all that 3000xp bullshit. Because of that I planned on getting a P4 for my next computer. $200 is still my price point. But now Intel is pulling even more crap wiht is BMW naming style. 660, etc.
So Actually I am back to wanting AMD mainly because of the onboard memory controller. the speed will be a lot less then a Intel but I beleive AMD has more finesse. They can do more with less.
So back in the day of my AMD 486, K6-II and Early Athlons I was a AMD man due to the lower price. But now since AMD is expensive I will get what ever has the best bang for the buck.
Intel's dual-core CPUs cost twice as much as a single core of the same speed. If AMD can give me a dual core for cheaper then will win my loyality again.
They don't listen so what is the point of writing. Most people who do not know better could care less about something like this. They got there 9-5 job and their 2.5 kids and their beer and nascar and they are just fine. These are the people our senators represent. Also since they hide this under "we are protecting you" by having them keep these records these joe sixpacks believe it.
I am Libertarian so of course I am against this but my democrat/repulican senator could care less what I think.
Schools have no clue. After a day of school after readjusting my mind 6 times a aday I then had several hours of homework. I was already exhausted now I needed to work the rest of the day on homework. I am very itelligent as proved by my big paycheck with no college education and 1.x GPA in highschool. School was just evil to me and I laugh when my kids come home and tell me the school wants something or then have this new rule. I tell them the school is full of shit and the sooner you are out the better off you will be.
Some people just learn in different ways. I learn by examination and tearing apart. That is why I am good in computers and problem solving but bad in everything else. Schools try to teach everyone the same but no one learns the same. So people like me get F and Ds and hated every second of it. Yet my Bosses love me. I know people when have amsster degree and make half what I make.
but that just proves they charge too much for their software. But since these are all guys who own stock I guess that is unrelated to income.
What I don't get is why these people still work. Bill can never "cash out" so he is not really worth that much. If he sold it all the stock would drop big time.
Of course. If I had several million I would not work and live comfortably on some tropical beach for thr rest of my life. Ok I got 10 million, I am out of here, I could give a damn about my company politices or charities. Let me relax the rest of my life drinking in some south pacific beach.
Good point. Rememebr from 5th Element? Multi-Pass. Why one one id, then have atributes for what it is good for. One person can drive and go to other countries. Anohter can drive cars and trucks but not go into other counties. Another could not drive but may pass into other counties. All with the same ID just different attibutes.
I think the Driver's licence thing come from the states reserving that power. Now a days it seems the idea of states is almost non existant. The fed and state have overlapping laws, etc, Of course what is good for texas may not be so good for California. Actuly that is why I hate federal laws.
Their printers are the only printers I will buy. If not only for the way the paper loads, in a tray in front. All other printers suck ass. Otherwise I could give a rat's ass about HP. I know there computers are funky.
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Blah blah blah. Some Programmer forgot to delete some files. Big fucking deal. the seans are not in the game, the game has to be modified. The UNMODIFIED version is rated M, somneone changed it.
I am a web guy, let me put it in prepective. I build a website. I have lots of images of people on the website while I am making it. Marketing then decides they don't want to use prople since there is some diversiciation law that says we have to show a certain number or different ethnic groups ans all be got a asian chicks.
So I rewrite the HTML to link to other images of building, money, cars whatever. BUT I foget the sort thru my images folder and delete the images of people.
Later some hacker (cracker, whatever) gets in and changes the links to these unlinked photos of people and now everyone is mad that it is full of asian chicks.
Why are they getting mad at me? Xause I forgot to delete some orphaned files and some hacker discovered them. The site did not contain the people when Marketing approved it, and it is true of GTA. The unmodified rated M does not have the sex scenes.
DeFrauded my ass!
$40 is $5 + $35 of avertising fees per magazine. So with no ads, with the same profit level it would need to be $40. Consumer Reports has no ads but there magazine is not $40 but they probally live on a tighter budget and offset it with book sales, etc.
Did you know... 47% of stats are made up on the fly.
Treu just like blaming drug dealers for drug use, As long as there is a demand they will be people supplying. I think most people who respond to spam is those buying conterfit software or viagra and the sorts. Shady operations, done by dumb fucks that affect us all. Good call.
Some examples. Typically if you pay for something then it is ad free, otherwise the ads pay for it or greatly reduce the cost.
Magazines... are filled with ads yet we still pay for them. I al told magazines would be $40 without the ads so ads are welcome in that enviroment. Plus they are very passive.
TV shows have commercial.... You pay for delivery of the shows via the cable/sat comapny but not for the shows them selves so commercials are ok here.
A side note, years ago I hace a Cable company I went to digital comapny and when I pressed menu, 1/2 of the screen had ads for Pay per view. I thought this was crazy that I paid A LOT for this and half of my usable screen had ads. I dropped them for Satelite. My current cable company (no dish in this apartment) resets to the Pay per view preview channel every time you turn on the digital Cable box. So I went to basic cable and got a TiVo
Tivo... has light ads, in the main menu they have entries to "see this movie trailier" or "check out the new Chevy Truck" I think these are lame since I already pay for TiVo service but they are very passive so I am ok with it.
Games... I pay a lot of money if I buy a game $50 is way too much for a game in my mind but it is what the market will bare. I used to buy more gsames when they were $20 but oh well.
I have noticed static ads like Billboards of NFS Underground 2 in Burn Out 3. These seem fine for me, they add some realism as is very passive. Full blown ads I will not be too happy about. I already paid a shit load for this game and now you want to make more money off of me. Oh and while you screw your programmers too.
Good point but I belive governemnt has no business in private companies. Maybe a little in utiliy monopolies like electricity and gas, and telco/ISP are close to becoming "utilities". But to put what I said in relation to your hospital example. Most hospitals are "for profit" corporations and yes they can pick and choose their patients. They wat to get paid just like anyone else. People have the power, if they don;t like it then they rally up and either change the policies of the local hospital or start their own. Then the other hospital goes out of business becasue they chose not to help certain people.
/. Please mod this down since I am suck a fucking lamo! I can't spell eihter, nor type but then again I could give a fuck! I still make over $30 an hour reading /. all day.
When I had DSL I had to get a phone line from the local Telco, but never used it. Been cell phone only for several years now. ut I was not going to get the DSL thru them. They charge $50 per month for PPPoE and I could get Static IP for same price from another ISP.
Of course the fact that i could get a different ISP is due to government regulation. but that is becasue they are basically a utility monopoly so the government makes them give me a choice, which is about the only place this kind of regulation is good. But I did not use the phone company's Internet cause it sucked. They lost my business.
Ah I could really give a fuck, everyone wants less government then wants everything regulated. Guess I am just a whinny bitch like most others on
They should do what they want. Thus you can do what you want... leave... It's called a free market for a reason.
They squashed netscape because IE 4 was way better then Netscape 4. I was a webmaster at the time these browsers were out and IE always rendered my pages as I wrote them to, Netscape never did. If I say a td width of 50 Netscape would make it 51.
IE 3 sucked
NS 3 good
IE 4 excellent
NS 4 so so
IE 5 alright
NS 6 total crap
IE 6 pretty good
NS 7 just a notch above total crap
FF 0.x so so
IE 6 stagnet, going downhill fast
NS 8 the biggest pile of crap ever
FF 1 Excellent, except for the lame webmasters only testing in IE.
Yes IE is on my windows computer, but I never see it, no shortcuts anywhere. I have to type "iexplore" at the command prompt to launch it.
Paint is also on my system but I never use it either. Just because some binaries are on the compter does not mean that is what people are going to use. As more webmasters get on the Firefox bandwagon and make their sites look good in all browsers (like they should) then more people will adopt it.
I tell people, sick of spyware? Use Firefox!
I was going to say the same thing. "I hate the word cyber" So instead of starting my own thread I am commneting on this one, saying I concur.
As everyone knows, SCO is really Caldera, they just took over SCOs name when they bought the rights to UNIX.
It's a bummer, my real first heavy use of Linux was with Caldera. I remember visiting threir booth at a Comdex in the late 90's
What seems weird to me is how such a small startup could buy UNIX, you think someone ike IBM would pay 10 times as much to get a hold of it and lock it away.
In the end I think McBride should be brought up on criminal charges as this was totally a stunt to juck up stock prices.
I predict that after this si all over the rights to UNIX will be bought to someone and then releae free into the world, just like those groups that get together and buy up empty land just to keep it empty. I do not know how long it will take but I will refer back to this when it does.
I hate touch screens becuse it is like hitting a wall all day. Movable keys have a buffer, which is way better for the hands.
Try jumping up and down barefoot on a concrete slap for an hour and see how much your feet hurt, now jump on a bed for an hour, much better. Touch screens will never become mainstream for heavy use as a keyboard.
Agreed!
Mod parent up, I ran out of points to use.
I never thought of it that way, but you are 100% correct. Of course the problem is their is nothing I can do, since this is jsut the way things work now. There is no switch that says "I will not be doing any credit like things in the next year" anywhere.
I think I misspelled the subject even. I am very technical savvy, but I scraped thru school wiht Ds in English. I just could not get it, still don't now in my 30s. They are so many lame rules and weird spellings. Everything just should be spelled the way it sounds. I do not know any other languages, just a little spanish since I am in Southern California, but from what I am told English makes no sense, the grammar rules, etc.
I do have a high attention to detail, but for a quick IM or e-mail I could care less about grammar or spelling. Did I mention I can't type either... and my Father owned a type writer store, I grew up around type writers. I just plucked this all out. I know where all the keys are so I can pluck out 10-15 words per minute. I program so that does not require typing skills since I am always doing weird characters and such anyways.
i before e except after c, blah blah
'definately' instead of 'definitely' is because of the spell checker. If I sound out "definitely", I mispsell it then the spell checker gets "definately" Many times this has nabbed me and I just recently noticed this.
This has got to be the most lame thing I ever heard. Who is going to memorize Morse code. Why not learn Latin or Klingon and power your cars with steam and coal. I will just use the number pad like the other 99.9999999% of the realistic people in the world.
Flame away byatches, I could give a fuck!
I would have to agree untill recently. My current computer runs an Athlon 1.4, which when I bought it was AMD's top of the line and only cost $225. Intels top of the line was $800 and this was before all this Extreme Edition, x64 FX bullshit.
Now AMD is just as expensive. And now they have all that 3000xp bullshit. Because of that I planned on getting a P4 for my next computer. $200 is still my price point. But now Intel is pulling even more crap wiht is BMW naming style. 660, etc.
So Actually I am back to wanting AMD mainly because of the onboard memory controller. the speed will be a lot less then a Intel but I beleive AMD has more finesse. They can do more with less.
So back in the day of my AMD 486, K6-II and Early Athlons I was a AMD man due to the lower price. But now since AMD is expensive I will get what ever has the best bang for the buck.
Intel's dual-core CPUs cost twice as much as a single core of the same speed. If AMD can give me a dual core for cheaper then will win my loyality again.
Amazon, buy me out so I can retire a rich man on a tropical island.
Amen brother!!
I am Libertarian so of course I am against this but my democrat/repulican senator could care less what I think.
All over it in 30 seconds. Released code/modchip in several weeks.
Schools have no clue. After a day of school after readjusting my mind 6 times a aday I then had several hours of homework. I was already exhausted now I needed to work the rest of the day on homework. I am very itelligent as proved by my big paycheck with no college education and 1.x GPA in highschool. School was just evil to me and I laugh when my kids come home and tell me the school wants something or then have this new rule. I tell them the school is full of shit and the sooner you are out the better off you will be.
Some people just learn in different ways. I learn by examination and tearing apart. That is why I am good in computers and problem solving but bad in everything else. Schools try to teach everyone the same but no one learns the same. So people like me get F and Ds and hated every second of it. Yet my Bosses love me. I know people when have amsster degree and make half what I make.
but that just proves they charge too much for their software. But since these are all guys who own stock I guess that is unrelated to income.
What I don't get is why these people still work. Bill can never "cash out" so he is not really worth that much. If he sold it all the stock would drop big time.
Of course. If I had several million I would not work and live comfortably on some tropical beach for thr rest of my life. Ok I got 10 million, I am out of here, I could give a damn about my company politices or charities. Let me relax the rest of my life drinking in some south pacific beach.
Good point. Rememebr from 5th Element? Multi-Pass. Why one one id, then have atributes for what it is good for. One person can drive and go to other countries. Anohter can drive cars and trucks but not go into other counties. Another could not drive but may pass into other counties. All with the same ID just different attibutes.
I think the Driver's licence thing come from the states reserving that power. Now a days it seems the idea of states is almost non existant. The fed and state have overlapping laws, etc, Of course what is good for texas may not be so good for California. Actuly that is why I hate federal laws.
Their printers are the only printers I will buy. If not only for the way the paper loads, in a tray in front. All other printers suck ass. Otherwise I could give a rat's ass about HP. I know there computers are funky.