But it would be good advice to not build a city on silt, but it's not like they knew that back when New Orleans was founded.
They did know it. They just viewed it as an SEP and ignored it.
Engineering isn't a new science. Earlier societies such as the Egyptians understood quite well what happens to locations near a mighty force such as a river.
Since when did the first amendment have anything at all to do with what types of products companies are allowed to supply to children?
The proportion of alarmist articles that are getting through lately is completely rediculous. It's an embarrassment. Until lately, I used to promote this site quite a bit.
"Internet Connection Required (Yes, Even for the Single-Player Mode)"
Which part of INTERNET CONNECTION REQUIRED do you not understand?
People should be used to minimum specifications by now. Those that aren't probably won't be able to get more than 10FPS on a good day while playing (for example) Half-Life2 anyway. Next you'll probably rant that Spanish speaking people shopping in the USA are being abused by Valve because of this.
I eagerly anticipated HL2. I was not aware that it required an internet connection to use until I did what any reasonable person does when dishing out that much money for a software product, I spent time reading the box to make sure that I could meet the specifications listed.
It is interesting that the NYT is now dispensing advice on how to fix flood control problems in New Orleans when they have a long record [foxnews.com] of recommending against improvements. They will argue all sides of an issue if it suits their political agenda, but they have no credibility.
From the link:
"Sean Penn To the Rescue" "And finally, upon hearing the plight of New Orleans residents, actor and political activist Sean Penn (search) sprang into action, flying to the beleaguered city to help in the rescue effort. But it was Penn who wound up needing to be rescued after the boat he was piled in sprang a leak just seconds after launching. Penn and his entourage, including a personal photographer, were seen frantically bailing the water out of the shrinking vessel with a plastic cup."
Fox News is great. Sean Penn first acts like Superman and then gets stuck in a "Shrinking Vessel". Or, maybe Sean Penn was actually increasing in size and the Fox reporter got it all wrong?
Because even if you have that off and you connect whilst online and there has been an update IT WILL NO LONGER WORK UNTIL IT HAS UPDATED. It merely will not start downloading automatically.. It still breaks.
Wrong.
What won't work will be a non-updated player trying to connect to updated servers. That's not unusual for network games and if this were a different one you'd have to manually patch the game.
i agree completely. i will NEVER buy anything from valve EVER as long as steam is required. what really pissed me off was the fact that the original HL2 retail box didnt mention an internet connection being a game requirement.
It did.
If you don't believe me, check out the http://steampowered.com/ forums. People that did complain were told to look again at their retail boxes. Guess what they found?
Why did he not just link to the Red Cross in the first place, they would get money faster and more people would trust them rather than an unknown web-master. Oh boo fucking whoo paypal are being careful, lets boycott them!
From the somethingawful.com site:
"9/03/2005 - 2:05 PM - Rich "Lowtax" Kyanka
Some people are emailing me, asking if they can donate to SA to help with our server move and downtime and temporary hosting and stuff. Don't worry about us, we'll be fine. If you really want to make a difference, donate to the SA Red Cross Relief Fund link above. They need it more than we do."
He's not an unknown webmaster. He's just unknown to you. Lowtax has been a webmaster since he ran planetquake.com. People who would be donating wouldn't be stumbling upon a satire site to do so. It would be those who Lowtax encouraged that would be donating or other regulars of that site & forums.
Lowtax has had a HUGE following for the last ~7 years and couldn't cut and run without people recognizing him on the street and beating the crap out of him over and over again.
Those who don't aren't familiar with him would be stupid to donate there, I'll give you that. But, for the hundreds of thousands of people who regularly visit his site, giving AT HIS SITE is not only understandable but also shows how legitimate his community is.
It gives a community great pride to actually see how much is being contributed and how much a difference that particular community can make.
Yea the benefits are usually nonexistant and the job certainly isn't any dream vacation, but I certainly made more than $5/hr.
Location Location Location.
It's fine that you made quite a bit of money. But, then again, it matters how much spare money people have in the area you work at, the type of restaurant (classy?), and the local view on what tip percentages should be.
Have you looked at magazines targeted to women or ads targeted to women? The thin, attractive, large brested women in them do not appear to be driving them away.
Actually, although the ads show that sort of thing because it feeds into fear of inadequacy (sales!), the magazines targeted at them usually show small breasted women.
It's one thing to sell a product by showing that it will enhance a woman. It's quite another to get her to willingly purchase monthly a magazine that constantly shows that she's less than other women.
For example, look at the popular womens magazines in a grocery checkout sometime. You'll rarely see a large breasted female on the cover because it's purchase turn-off.
He put content on the WWW. Fuddruckers LINKED to it. They did not do anything wrong! That is the way the internet works. You put things on the internet, people find them and link to them. Just because a company did it they need to reimburse someone,when sites like slashdot and fark link to tons of sites, should they be paying bandwidth to every site they link?
Not to mention, at the linked site it says "EDIT: Apparently the slaughterhouse sites are getting hammered... they might take a while to load."
Does this mean that he's stealing bandwidth from slaughterhouse sites by not even bothering to host the pictures himself?
That's what I think. After all, he says that those sites are getting hammered now with the valid assumption that it's because of him.
Um, no - "fall into the public domain" (emphasis mine) almost always refers to a work whose copyright expires (as opposed to being placed into te public domain by its creator)
What is the incentive for people to give away things when the trend is to become wealthy as quickly as possible?
It isn't a trend. It's not like people in let's say, Greek or Roman times weren't interested in grabbing up as many resources for themselves as they could.
You're forgetting some basic economics: 6.5M pounds doesn't just disappear. It goes to paying the workers who installed the system, the engineers who designed the system, the truck drivers that delivered the system, the factory workers who made the cameras, etc.
True, it doesn't disappear. Most of it went to France.
Time limits are what parents do to kids to make them get outside and do other things so they don't fail school and get fat.
Exactly, parents - kids. You do see the big picture even though you don't think you do.
Try doing that with adults and for bonus points add a 'this hurts us more than it does you' message for them and see how they react to being treated like children.
They'll rebel against a Government authority limiting their access.
It's like trying to stop people from developing an addiction to a drug by only allowing them to use the drug for 2 hours at a time. And yes, it's a fair comparison. I've seen many an Everquest player do things that usually only seriously drug addicted people do. (grossly distorting the amount of time playing the game, loss of jobs because of lack of sleep or refusal to stop playing, paranoia that people are trying to interfere with their 'precious', losing their children in custody battles because of the game, theft to make up for money spent on computer equipment/monthly fees, etc...)
Time limits won't do what they are intended to do. In fact, it will often have the opposite effect because the person is left wanting at the end of each session instead of naturally getting bored or making the conscious decision that it's time to do something productive like mowing the lawn.
The forbidden fruit of playing longer than X hours will tempt a lot of people especially children to work around it...even if they wouldn't have wanted to play that long anyway. It's rebellion against authority. They'll rent multiple accounts if all else fails.
It's up to family & friends to intervene when someone has this large of a problem. Time limits won't do anything at all except make people Feel Good[TM] about what they've (allegedly) done to stop gaming addiction.
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But it would be good advice to not build a city on silt, but it's not like they knew that back when New Orleans was founded.
They did know it. They just viewed it as an SEP and ignored it.
Engineering isn't a new science. Earlier societies such as the Egyptians understood quite well what happens to locations near a mighty force such as a river.
Since when did the first amendment have anything at all to do with what types of products companies are allowed to supply to children?
The proportion of alarmist articles that are getting through lately is completely rediculous. It's an embarrassment. Until lately, I used to promote this site quite a bit.
Please, for the love of god, stop this nonsense.
Which one?
This one we're reading now News Corp buys IGN for $650Mor this one IGN Purchased By News Corp posted 6 hours earlier?
"Internet Connection Required"
Rather than the much more descriptive:
"Internet Connection Required (Yes, Even for the Single-Player Mode)"
Which part of INTERNET CONNECTION REQUIRED do you not understand? People should be used to minimum specifications by now. Those that aren't probably won't be able to get more than 10FPS on a good day while playing (for example) Half-Life2 anyway. Next you'll probably rant that Spanish speaking people shopping in the USA are being abused by Valve because of this.
I eagerly anticipated HL2. I was not aware that it required an internet connection to use until I did what any reasonable person does when dishing out that much money for a software product, I spent time reading the box to make sure that I could meet the specifications listed.
It is interesting that the NYT is now dispensing advice on how to fix flood control problems in New Orleans when they have a long record [foxnews.com] of recommending against improvements. They will argue all sides of an issue if it suits their political agenda, but they have no credibility.
From the link:
"Sean Penn To the Rescue" "And finally, upon hearing the plight of New Orleans residents, actor and political activist Sean Penn (search) sprang into action, flying to the beleaguered city to help in the rescue effort. But it was Penn who wound up needing to be rescued after the boat he was piled in sprang a leak just seconds after launching. Penn and his entourage, including a personal photographer, were seen frantically bailing the water out of the shrinking vessel with a plastic cup."
Fox News is great. Sean Penn first acts like Superman and then gets stuck in a "Shrinking Vessel". Or, maybe Sean Penn was actually increasing in size and the Fox reporter got it all wrong?
With Unreal 3 and Havok already on XBOX360 and PS3, I would be worried about trying to sell Source too.
They won't be worried. Evidentally, Source snuck 'we use the Havok engine' past you.
Because even if you have that off and you connect whilst online and there has been an update IT WILL NO LONGER WORK UNTIL IT HAS UPDATED. It merely will not start downloading automatically.. It still breaks.
Wrong.
What won't work will be a non-updated player trying to connect to updated servers. That's not unusual for network games and if this were a different one you'd have to manually patch the game.
What happens if you want to play it 15 years later?
I can still play Ultima Underworld (the original). Will you be able to say the same about HL2?
Yes, of course.
Or, haven't you noticed that there are no-cd/no-'net cracks widely available for every game that's ever been made?
It's gotten to the point where I disconnect from the internet every time I want to start Half-Life2 just to avoid having to download updates.
That's a huge waste of time. Why not just turn off the automatic updates in the Steam settings?
DO NOT AUTOMATICALLY UPDATE THIS GAME {-- it's not hard to miss and RTFMing is not required
i agree completely. i will NEVER buy anything from valve EVER as long as steam is required. what really pissed me off was the fact that the original HL2 retail box didnt mention an internet connection being a game requirement.
It did. If you don't believe me, check out the http://steampowered.com/ forums. People that did complain were told to look again at their retail boxes. Guess what they found?
Why did he not just link to the Red Cross in the first place, they would get money faster and more people would trust them rather than an unknown web-master. Oh boo fucking whoo paypal are being careful, lets boycott them!
From the somethingawful.com site:
"9/03/2005 - 2:05 PM - Rich "Lowtax" Kyanka
Some people are emailing me, asking if they can donate to SA to help with our server move and downtime and temporary hosting and stuff. Don't worry about us, we'll be fine. If you really want to make a difference, donate to the SA Red Cross Relief Fund link above. They need it more than we do."
He's not an unknown webmaster. He's just unknown to you. Lowtax has been a webmaster since he ran planetquake.com. People who would be donating wouldn't be stumbling upon a satire site to do so. It would be those who Lowtax encouraged that would be donating or other regulars of that site & forums.
Lowtax has had a HUGE following for the last ~7 years and couldn't cut and run without people recognizing him on the street and beating the crap out of him over and over again.
Those who don't aren't familiar with him would be stupid to donate there, I'll give you that. But, for the hundreds of thousands of people who regularly visit his site, giving AT HIS SITE is not only understandable but also shows how legitimate his community is.
It gives a community great pride to actually see how much is being contributed and how much a difference that particular community can make.
Yea the benefits are usually nonexistant and the job certainly isn't any dream vacation, but I certainly made more than $5/hr.
Location Location Location.
It's fine that you made quite a bit of money. But, then again, it matters how much spare money people have in the area you work at, the type of restaurant (classy?), and the local view on what tip percentages should be.
No. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_application
yeah, but with in an hour of the original post there were 3 posts from people who appeared to beleive it.
Not only did they not apply critical thinking, they missed this big clue in the small slashdot article.
FYI; it's The Onion, so yes, it's a joke.
" The problem is, someone who doesn't know what the Onion is will beleive this."
YM, "someone who believes anything they read even if it's on the internet", HTH.
Have you looked at magazines targeted to women or ads targeted to women? The thin, attractive, large brested women in them do not appear to be driving them away.
Actually, although the ads show that sort of thing because it feeds into fear of inadequacy (sales!), the magazines targeted at them usually show small breasted women.
It's one thing to sell a product by showing that it will enhance a woman. It's quite another to get her to willingly purchase monthly a magazine that constantly shows that she's less than other women.
For example, look at the popular womens magazines in a grocery checkout sometime. You'll rarely see a large breasted female on the cover because it's purchase turn-off.
He put content on the WWW. Fuddruckers LINKED to it. They did not do anything wrong! That is the way the internet works. You put things on the internet, people find them and link to them. Just because a company did it they need to reimburse someone ,when sites like slashdot and fark link to tons of sites, should they be paying bandwidth to every site they link?
Not to mention, at the linked site it says "EDIT: Apparently the slaughterhouse sites are getting hammered... they might take a while to load."
Does this mean that he's stealing bandwidth from slaughterhouse sites by not even bothering to host the pictures himself?
That's what I think. After all, he says that those sites are getting hammered now with the valid assumption that it's because of him.
Pot, kettle, blacker.
"Its title "Nerds://A Musical Software Satire" suggests that its in the same genre as Martyn Burke's 1999 movie Pirates in Silicon Valley."
Are you sure that you mean the "crappy, inaccurate, made for TV genre" that Pirates OF Silicon Valley belongs to?
Um, no - "fall into the public domain" (emphasis mine) almost always refers to a work whose copyright expires (as opposed to being placed into te public domain by its creator)
Then again, there is something called 'context'.
What is the incentive for people to give away things when the trend is to become wealthy as quickly as possible?
It isn't a trend. It's not like people in let's say, Greek or Roman times weren't interested in grabbing up as many resources for themselves as they could.
I grant the following sentence to the public domain.
This sentence is now in the public domain because of the previous sentence.
You placed it, it didn't fall into public domain. It wouldn't fall into it for at least a century.
Actually, it did fall into the public domain as soon as it was posted.
But, that's only because he said "I'm going to release this post into the public domain right now".
Otherwise, you would be absolutely correct.
You're forgetting some basic economics: 6.5M pounds doesn't just disappear. It goes to paying the workers who installed the system, the engineers who designed the system, the truck drivers that delivered the system, the factory workers who made the cameras, etc.
True, it doesn't disappear. Most of it went to France.
Time limits are what parents do to kids to make them get outside and do other things so they don't fail school and get fat.
Exactly, parents - kids. You do see the big picture even though you don't think you do.
Try doing that with adults and for bonus points add a 'this hurts us more than it does you' message for them and see how they react to being treated like children.
They'll rebel against a Government authority limiting their access.
It's like trying to stop people from developing an addiction to a drug by only allowing them to use the drug for 2 hours at a time. And yes, it's a fair comparison. I've seen many an Everquest player do things that usually only seriously drug addicted people do. (grossly distorting the amount of time playing the game, loss of jobs because of lack of sleep or refusal to stop playing, paranoia that people are trying to interfere with their 'precious', losing their children in custody battles because of the game, theft to make up for money spent on computer equipment/monthly fees, etc...)
Time limits won't do what they are intended to do. In fact, it will often have the opposite effect because the person is left wanting at the end of each session instead of naturally getting bored or making the conscious decision that it's time to do something productive like mowing the lawn.
The forbidden fruit of playing longer than X hours will tempt a lot of people especially children to work around it...even if they wouldn't have wanted to play that long anyway. It's rebellion against authority. They'll rent multiple accounts if all else fails.
It's up to family & friends to intervene when someone has this large of a problem. Time limits won't do anything at all except make people Feel Good[TM] about what they've (allegedly) done to stop gaming addiction.