Metal Gear Solid 2 - Has its ups and downs, but pretty cool
Reviews have been good on the following:
SSX Tricky
Tony Hawks Pro Skater 3
Ico
Devil May Cry
PC Wise the only thing that I have played civilization 3, and its good, but might not be for everyone.
I'm also probably going to pick up the often discussed Return to Castle Wolfenstein.
In a related note, does anyone know of any good party style games for the PS2? I really enjoyed Smash Brothers on the N64, but don't want to pick up a new system just for the 1 game, so I was hoping that there was a similar, multiplayer, simple PS2 game out there my girlfriend might be able to play.
As much as I'd like to see more games ported to linux, so that I might be able to give up my MS habit completely, you have to agree that economically it just doesn't make sense.
Having multiple target platforms is a serious headache, and Linux just isn't a big enough market. Most linux users are used to getting their software for free anyway, and probably have the technical savvy to score free versions of any software released. While I'm sure that there are plenty of honest people out there, the fact is that there are very few people who are going to pay for linux games.
Also considering the generally degraded performance of games under linux and the continued acceptance of DirectX as the standard for graphics, all make Linux development difficult.
I read recently that id doesn't want to release their next product under linux (historically they have been pretty good about that stuff) because its a support nightmare, and just really doesn't bring in that much revenue.
I think in order to start getting more native Linux games, Linux needs to prove itself as a consumer OS first. Once Linux starts to satisfy peoples needs easily (thats so important) then i think more people will start moving over, and once they do, then the linux games will start rolling in.
Its not that I am Anti M$, but that they cant compete on the open market with their product... so they bundle it up with the OS...
MS isn't competing at all. Its adding value to its product. I use winamp over media player, but I love built in zip support that Plus! for Win98 had. Winzip is more powerful... sure. But its not free (nagware), and you have to open a seperate program to use it. Compressed folders are a snap with the MS version.
IE kicks the crap out of Nutscrape. Also, if Netscape (AOL now by the way... evil) had its way, you'd be paying $30 for your browser. MS made a better product, and gave it to you for free.
As for defrag, i use it because its free. I don't want to pay an extra $50 to norton. I'd rather have it included, and so does the average joe.
I know everyone here wants all software to be free as in beer, but I think we all know deep down that things don't work that way. If MS didn't have all of these things build into windows, not only would you have to pay for windows, but you'd probably have to shell out an extra $100-200 to pay for critical software... (media player, browser, system utilities) etc. We might have slightly better software as a result, but how much better does defrag need to be?
If MS sold their OS without SW installed, so you could buy it like a car... base unit, with options... everyone here would bitch that MS was trying to rake you over to coals with all of the bundled options.
Do you guys want MS to take out Paint, Calc, Notepad, to open up the market to competition? There are better products on the market, if you want ot pay for them, and some people do. But if you bought WindowsBM and all you could do was run applications with it (ie shipped with a clean slate), you'd be pretty pissed.
Seriously folks... calm down about the bundling. Sure, a few companies are probably out of business, or never started, but free software (the stuff you guys like) can still compete, but for the average user, what MS does really does help out. Grandma isn't going to figure out how to download and configure winzip, or winamp. Media player is the right thing for her. 90% of the people out there use their computers in this capacity. The rest of us can download and install whatever we please.
Napster died. KaZaA replaced it. KaZaA will die, something else will replace it for a few months (at least). Hopefully this will go on for another couple of years.
The problem is the general trend. Each lawsuit that the RIAA wins strengthens their future lawsuits because they now have case history. I don't know if you read the articles, but when they pointed out the legal misdoings of KaZaA, the legal arguments they cited were all taken from the Napster case.
When KazaA is taken down, there will be even more legal precedence to take these networks down. Strictly speaking, the ability to share files is not and should not be illegal. The users who share copyrighted files are the ones breaking the law.
Rather than trying to screw us out of our fair use rights (backups, ripping, etc), the RIAA and related companies should work on hitting the individual users guilty of infringment. Once a bunch of people get fined for stealing, it won't be so prevalent.
Instead, they are trying to take out the technology that makes stealing possible. This may work in the long run, but does nothing to help the end user. If you think all of your customers are theives, then you should probably be in another business.
"There are a lot of (angry) chief information officers out there," says Steven Steinbrecher, CIO for California's Contra Costa County. His 3-year costs will jump to $651 per desktop from $335.
Aren't these costs fairly insignifcant with respect to the costs of actually having the employees? $600 over the course of 3 years isn't much at all, when compared to a minimum wage salary.
Also, I suspect in their outrage, these CIOs are intentionally choosing their worst case scenario to make the situation look worse than it is.
I'm not supporting microsoft here, but it would be nice if you didn't have to consider what OS version / Browser / Linux Distro / Toaster Specification the user had when developing software.
Ellison is Oracle. They are pushing a national ID card. Thats evil too, but not mentioned in the scope of this article.
As for this hailstorm stuff... i really think you guys are overreacting. Right now there are lots of people who have your user information. This is only one more, and hopefully only has one fail point.
Right now, you have all of your information replicated all over the place, meaning that you trust that many people with your data. All you need is one of them not patching an exploit, and bam, your data is gone. Why have multiple points of potential failure when you can just have one?
Since you can control how much info you give them, (MS Passport only requires email address) and now they are saying that there will be many different people who store it, so you don't even have to give it to MS.
Sun is just a poor MS wannabee. They see that MS has got something that will make the AVERAGE (don't forget how important this is) users experience more convienient, and thus pleasurable, and they want in on it.
Why would you put the images on ebay? There are plenty of forums that aren't as public, and don't require as much information to register, and best of all, don't cost money.
There is absolutely no relationship between there being no stenographic images on Ebay, and the use of stenography by Bin Laden or other terrorist groups.
Seriously, think about where you would put your images? I would say porno boards would be the best place, possibly newsgroups. Tons of people look at porn, so the traffic wouldn't seem strange, and theres so much out there, you wouldn't even know where to look if you were looking for said stenographic images.
As for distributed clients... I'd love to see a distributed client that started searching all the pr0n sites out there, checking them for secret messages. Could you see that popping up as your screen saver?
Come on guys, you've all seen Star Trek. Do you think the Enterprises computer system is much different? You don't see anyone in there with a PC.
These guys were really looking forward to the future. And I don't think the standard MS bashing applies. Not everyone who works in Redmond behaves like MS's business unit.
I'm sure for the most part, the coders are great people. Its the business men upstairs who we should really have beef with.
Seriously folks, can't you see that indicriminate MS hatred is d no different from other forms of bigotry like racism and homophobia? MS does put out some quality products. I'm told their games group is very good (Age of Empires) and their input devices are top notch.
Captain_Frisk... wishing everyone would think before flaming.
IIS does have a smaller market share in terms of commercial websites out there. However, there are lots of clowns at home on DSL or cable who are running win2k.
Many people run IIS without knowing it, so i think there are much more vulnerable machines out there than just the webservers.
Granted, IIS probably does have more exploits, but the real problem is that windows users usually aren't on top of patching them up. There are plenty of exploits out there that exploit linux, but there aren't as many issues because admins patch regularly, and the smaller market share.
Flame if you will, but all these worms are going to only get worse since Microsoft will never fix the problem without making sure people have to pay a monthly subscription for their OS
Taco,
I generally look forward to your little comments appended to user submissions. However this is out of line. MS, regardless of how many people hate them, has released a patch for this. Its the users who have the problem. Not that MS is blameless, but calm down before you flame.
I know I'm going to get flamed for this, but Linux has its own security holes too, with plenty of script kiddies out there attempting to exploit them and root your system. The only difference is that the average sysadmin stays on top of things like this.
If 90% of users ran Linux, worms would be written to hit them, and the MS proponents over at seecolon.org would be laughing it up, whining about how Linus doesn't do enough QA, even though its the users fault.
As for shutting down broadband users who have the worm, this is pretty much the only thing you can do. You can't block outgoing traffic to port 80, or they would never be able to download any patches. They should turn them on for a temporary basis after they complain, say for 1 day, and give them the appropriate information to clean their system and install defenses. These guys are on broadband, so they can easily download any patch.
Anyway, thats enough ranting for me. Just remember, while MS is not blameless, think before you start flaming them.
If the same information is stored in several different servers, doesn't that just provide more points of failure?
It seems to me that either everyone should either keep their information independently (the current system), which results in data replication, not to mention countless points of failure...
or...
Have one person keep this information... but it seems like that isn't such a popular thing here.
, "Now the death toll is high enough that we'll be able to do what we've always wanted to do."
You make it sound like they are out to get us. Do you really believe that they are doing this so that they can rat you out to your wife if you cheat on her, or to prevent you from having an anti government conference call?
I have at least some trust that the current motivation for these things is not to fuck over the average joe, but to protect us. When did we all become so cynical?
Given that the human face recognition performed by the check-in agents did not keep the hijackers out, there is no reason to think that computer face recognition would help.
This is the only real argument that Stallman puts forth save, "I don't want big brother is watching me!!!"
Does anyone else see this as ridiculous. The whole purpose of putting computerized facial recognition in place is because humans aren't perfect. Neither are computers for that matter, but humans are much more flawed. What are you going to do, make all of the Security Guards memorize faces of all suspected terrorists? I wouldn't trust myself to pick out one, why should I trust a $6 rent-a-cop?
You could use this to identify "possible" suspects, and then rather than just gang probe them, place an armed air marshall on board, like they have in Israel. The air marshall can supervise the flight, and has one leg up on the competition, should anything happen, because he/she is prepared.
Don't get me wrong. I don't want everyone tracking all of my personal travel, but if you're travelling, that information is already in a database, the airline you're flying with, who I'm sure has no beef sharing this information with the goverment. What possible civil liberty encroachment is there?
There was a game I played as a kid on my macintosh. It had the same general idea, and i've been looking for something to replace it. Theres a new game called RoboForge out, but it costs money, and doesn't look all that interesting.
Thank You!
I know this is an unpopular opinion, but I fail to see how breaking Microsoft up helps consumers, or more / less importantly, how it will help our falling economy.
If you split microsoft into Windows / Apps or something like this, then you have 2 monopolies. If you go with a top down split, then you get the same thing that exists with Linux user interfaces, or that still exists with web browsers. You have KDE, GNOME and countless others, making it a bitch for developers, and for users to get used to. In some situations, you really want everything to be the same way.
Also, because Passport's trying to incorporate a lot of information in one place that used to be distrubuted in many different places, if some one hacks into Passport, there goes all your privacy
Many people have mentioned this as their opposition to Passport. There is a flip side to this coin. With identical information (CC #, address, etc) stored in 4 different accounts, hackers have 4 chances to get that information, rather than just 1. If the one is done correctly, than it does make sense.
I seriously hope that this was a parody of a flamebait post. Just in case, The Lord of the Rings is an old work. It is most certainly not a novelisation.
No offense guys, but Borders is a corporation. They can do whatever they want with their store, just like I can do whatever I want in my home (as long as its legal).
Are you guys against the store having security tapes as well? Someone could watch your every move, and know which isles you favor, and figure out what books you like, and when you check out, they could take your name down, contact your ISP, and have them put some smart tags on HTML sent to you, advertising more books. Then they could sell the database and....
Come on guys. If you're not in the database of known shoplifters, this isn't an invasion of privacy at all. If you did shoplift, then that was just pretty stupid.
I swear, one of these days I'm going to come here and find everyone whining about the government not making it illegal to look at someone on the street.
When you leave the privacy of your home, you enter the public world, where all the other functions have access to your methods and data. Calm down. Its always been this way, and it always will. If you don't like it, then stay home.
I know everyone is all upset about this one, but whats the big deal? The cameras are already there. The store has a right to know whats going on inside their store, watching for shoplifters etc.
Then have they said what they plan to do with this information? If they're going to kick you out of the store because you match the profile, then this is unreasonable, and we should be making noise about it.
However, if this is just a tool for the security guards watching the cameras to be able to focus on person A, who is more likely to be a shoplifter, then what is the problem with it?
Also, this isn't a public work, like the Tampa police departments deploying in public area. Borders is a private institution, and if they want to take steps to ensure that their property is properly accounted for, then I salute them.
Captain_Frisk
P.S. While I expect to be modded down for this, I refuse to post anonymously. What these guys are doing is not wrong, and I'm going to hide to protect my precious karma points.
What a shame it is that the big corporations have to market to the lowest common denominator. I too own the DVD of Princess Mononoke, and I love it. I think it really stinks that instead of getting quality movies released, Disney puts out crap like Atlantis, Spy Kids or most recently the Princess Diaries, because they know that people will pay for them.
I read an article over at c|net yesterday discussing the idea of "critic proof" movies (they related it to Windows XP), movies that are commercially successful even though the critics hate them, like Tomb Raider, and most action movies. I dislike that they are willing to release movies like this. It seems like nearly everything released recently falls under this category. I haven't been to the movie theater in months.
Slashdot Mirror
- Grand Theft Auto 3 - Amazing
- Metal Gear Solid 2 - Has its ups and downs, but pretty cool
Reviews have been good on the following:PC Wise the only thing that I have played civilization 3, and its good, but might not be for everyone.
I'm also probably going to pick up the often discussed Return to Castle Wolfenstein.
In a related note, does anyone know of any good party style games for the PS2? I really enjoyed Smash Brothers on the N64, but don't want to pick up a new system just for the 1 game, so I was hoping that there was a similar, multiplayer, simple PS2 game out there my girlfriend might be able to play.
Thanks,
Captain_Frisk
Were any of these movies worth watching? TNG was amazing, but so far the movies have been pretty sad.
I would love to meet the guy who thought this up.
Would "warez" sites start mirroring pay sites?
Having multiple target platforms is a serious headache, and Linux just isn't a big enough market. Most linux users are used to getting their software for free anyway, and probably have the technical savvy to score free versions of any software released. While I'm sure that there are plenty of honest people out there, the fact is that there are very few people who are going to pay for linux games.
Also considering the generally degraded performance of games under linux and the continued acceptance of DirectX as the standard for graphics, all make Linux development difficult.
I read recently that id doesn't want to release their next product under linux (historically they have been pretty good about that stuff) because its a support nightmare, and just really doesn't bring in that much revenue.
I think in order to start getting more native Linux games, Linux needs to prove itself as a consumer OS first. Once Linux starts to satisfy peoples needs easily (thats so important) then i think more people will start moving over, and once they do, then the linux games will start rolling in.
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This is a college course. It is assumed that all students taking the class will know C.
MS isn't competing at all. Its adding value to its product. I use winamp over media player, but I love built in zip support that Plus! for Win98 had. Winzip is more powerful... sure. But its not free (nagware), and you have to open a seperate program to use it. Compressed folders are a snap with the MS version.
IE kicks the crap out of Nutscrape. Also, if Netscape (AOL now by the way ... evil) had its way, you'd be paying $30 for your browser. MS made a better product, and gave it to you for free.
As for defrag, i use it because its free. I don't want to pay an extra $50 to norton. I'd rather have it included, and so does the average joe.
I know everyone here wants all software to be free as in beer, but I think we all know deep down that things don't work that way. If MS didn't have all of these things build into windows, not only would you have to pay for windows, but you'd probably have to shell out an extra $100-200 to pay for critical software... (media player, browser, system utilities) etc. We might have slightly better software as a result, but how much better does defrag need to be?
If MS sold their OS without SW installed, so you could buy it like a car... base unit, with options... everyone here would bitch that MS was trying to rake you over to coals with all of the bundled options.
Do you guys want MS to take out Paint, Calc, Notepad, to open up the market to competition? There are better products on the market, if you want ot pay for them, and some people do. But if you bought WindowsBM and all you could do was run applications with it (ie shipped with a clean slate), you'd be pretty pissed.
Seriously folks... calm down about the bundling. Sure, a few companies are probably out of business, or never started, but free software (the stuff you guys like) can still compete, but for the average user, what MS does really does help out. Grandma isn't going to figure out how to download and configure winzip, or winamp. Media player is the right thing for her. 90% of the people out there use their computers in this capacity. The rest of us can download and install whatever we please.
Captain_Frisk
The problem is the general trend. Each lawsuit that the RIAA wins strengthens their future lawsuits because they now have case history. I don't know if you read the articles, but when they pointed out the legal misdoings of KaZaA, the legal arguments they cited were all taken from the Napster case.
When KazaA is taken down, there will be even more legal precedence to take these networks down. Strictly speaking, the ability to share files is not and should not be illegal. The users who share copyrighted files are the ones breaking the law.
Rather than trying to screw us out of our fair use rights (backups, ripping, etc), the RIAA and related companies should work on hitting the individual users guilty of infringment. Once a bunch of people get fined for stealing, it won't be so prevalent.
Instead, they are trying to take out the technology that makes stealing possible. This may work in the long run, but does nothing to help the end user. If you think all of your customers are theives, then you should probably be in another business.
Captain_Frisk
"There are a lot of (angry) chief information officers out there," says Steven Steinbrecher, CIO for California's Contra Costa County. His 3-year costs will jump to $651 per desktop from $335.
Aren't these costs fairly insignifcant with respect to the costs of actually having the employees? $600 over the course of 3 years isn't much at all, when compared to a minimum wage salary.
Also, I suspect in their outrage, these CIOs are intentionally choosing their worst case scenario to make the situation look worse than it is.
I'm not supporting microsoft here, but it would be nice if you didn't have to consider what OS version / Browser / Linux Distro / Toaster Specification the user had when developing software.
Captain_Frisk
Ellison is Oracle. They are pushing a national ID card. Thats evil too, but not mentioned in the scope of this article.
As for this hailstorm stuff... i really think you guys are overreacting. Right now there are lots of people who have your user information. This is only one more, and hopefully only has one fail point.
Right now, you have all of your information replicated all over the place, meaning that you trust that many people with your data. All you need is one of them not patching an exploit, and bam, your data is gone. Why have multiple points of potential failure when you can just have one?
Since you can control how much info you give them, (MS Passport only requires email address) and now they are saying that there will be many different people who store it, so you don't even have to give it to MS.
Sun is just a poor MS wannabee. They see that MS has got something that will make the AVERAGE (don't forget how important this is) users experience more convienient, and thus pleasurable, and they want in on it.
Captain_Frisk
Why would you put the images on ebay? There are plenty of forums that aren't as public, and don't require as much information to register, and best of all, don't cost money.
There is absolutely no relationship between there being no stenographic images on Ebay, and the use of stenography by Bin Laden or other terrorist groups.
Seriously, think about where you would put your images? I would say porno boards would be the best place, possibly newsgroups. Tons of people look at porn, so the traffic wouldn't seem strange, and theres so much out there, you wouldn't even know where to look if you were looking for said stenographic images.
As for distributed clients... I'd love to see a distributed client that started searching all the pr0n sites out there, checking them for secret messages. Could you see that popping up as your screen saver?
Its just not going to happen.
Captain_Frisk
Come on guys, you've all seen Star Trek. Do you think the Enterprises computer system is much different? You don't see anyone in there with a PC.
These guys were really looking forward to the future. And I don't think the standard MS bashing applies. Not everyone who works in Redmond behaves like MS's business unit.
I'm sure for the most part, the coders are great people. Its the business men upstairs who we should really have beef with.
Seriously folks, can't you see that indicriminate MS hatred is d no different from other forms of bigotry like racism and homophobia? MS does put out some quality products. I'm told their games group is very good (Age of Empires) and their input devices are top notch.
Captain_Frisk... wishing everyone would think before flaming.
IIS does have a smaller market share in terms of commercial websites out there. However, there are lots of clowns at home on DSL or cable who are running win2k.
Many people run IIS without knowing it, so i think there are much more vulnerable machines out there than just the webservers.
Granted, IIS probably does have more exploits, but the real problem is that windows users usually aren't on top of patching them up. There are plenty of exploits out there that exploit linux, but there aren't as many issues because admins patch regularly, and the smaller market share.
Captain_Frisk
Flame if you will, but all these worms are going to only get worse since Microsoft will never fix the problem without making sure people have to pay a monthly subscription for their OS
Taco,
I generally look forward to your little comments appended to user submissions. However this is out of line. MS, regardless of how many people hate them, has released a patch for this. Its the users who have the problem. Not that MS is blameless, but calm down before you flame.
I know I'm going to get flamed for this, but Linux has its own security holes too, with plenty of script kiddies out there attempting to exploit them and root your system. The only difference is that the average sysadmin stays on top of things like this.
If 90% of users ran Linux, worms would be written to hit them, and the MS proponents over at seecolon.org would be laughing it up, whining about how Linus doesn't do enough QA, even though its the users fault.
As for shutting down broadband users who have the worm, this is pretty much the only thing you can do. You can't block outgoing traffic to port 80, or they would never be able to download any patches. They should turn them on for a temporary basis after they complain, say for 1 day, and give them the appropriate information to clean their system and install defenses. These guys are on broadband, so they can easily download any patch.
Anyway, thats enough ranting for me. Just remember, while MS is not blameless, think before you start flaming them.
Captain_Frisk
If the same information is stored in several different servers, doesn't that just provide more points of failure?
It seems to me that either everyone should either keep their information independently (the current system), which results in data replication, not to mention countless points of failure...
or...
Have one person keep this information... but it seems like that isn't such a popular thing here.
Captain_Frisk
, "Now the death toll is high enough that we'll be able to do what we've always wanted to do."
You make it sound like they are out to get us. Do you really believe that they are doing this so that they can rat you out to your wife if you cheat on her, or to prevent you from having an anti government conference call?
I have at least some trust that the current motivation for these things is not to fuck over the average joe, but to protect us. When did we all become so cynical?
Captain_Frisk
Given that the human face recognition performed by the check-in agents did not keep the hijackers out, there is no reason to think that computer face recognition would help.
This is the only real argument that Stallman puts forth save, "I don't want big brother is watching me!!!"
Does anyone else see this as ridiculous. The whole purpose of putting computerized facial recognition in place is because humans aren't perfect. Neither are computers for that matter, but humans are much more flawed. What are you going to do, make all of the Security Guards memorize faces of all suspected terrorists? I wouldn't trust myself to pick out one, why should I trust a $6 rent-a-cop?
You could use this to identify "possible" suspects, and then rather than just gang probe them, place an armed air marshall on board, like they have in Israel. The air marshall can supervise the flight, and has one leg up on the competition, should anything happen, because he/she is prepared.
Don't get me wrong. I don't want everyone tracking all of my personal travel, but if you're travelling, that information is already in a database, the airline you're flying with, who I'm sure has no beef sharing this information with the goverment. What possible civil liberty encroachment is there?
Seriously folks. You guys need to calm down.
Captain_Frisk
There was a game I played as a kid on my macintosh. It had the same general idea, and i've been looking for something to replace it. Theres a new game called RoboForge out, but it costs money, and doesn't look all that interesting. Thank You!
I know this is an unpopular opinion, but I fail to see how breaking Microsoft up helps consumers, or more / less importantly, how it will help our falling economy.
If you split microsoft into Windows / Apps or something like this, then you have 2 monopolies. If you go with a top down split, then you get the same thing that exists with Linux user interfaces, or that still exists with web browsers. You have KDE, GNOME and countless others, making it a bitch for developers, and for users to get used to. In some situations, you really want everything to be the same way.
Captain_Frisk
Also, because Passport's trying to incorporate a lot of information in one place that used to be distrubuted in many different places, if some one hacks into Passport, there goes all your privacy
Many people have mentioned this as their opposition to Passport. There is a flip side to this coin. With identical information (CC #, address, etc) stored in 4 different accounts, hackers have 4 chances to get that information, rather than just 1. If the one is done correctly, than it does make sense.
Captain_Frisk
I seriously hope that this was a parody of a flamebait post. Just in case, The Lord of the Rings is an old work. It is most certainly not a novelisation.
No offense guys, but Borders is a corporation. They can do whatever they want with their store, just like I can do whatever I want in my home (as long as its legal).
....
Are you guys against the store having security tapes as well? Someone could watch your every move, and know which isles you favor, and figure out what books you like, and when you check out, they could take your name down, contact your ISP, and have them put some smart tags on HTML sent to you, advertising more books. Then they could sell the database and
Come on guys. If you're not in the database of known shoplifters, this isn't an invasion of privacy at all. If you did shoplift, then that was just pretty stupid.
I swear, one of these days I'm going to come here and find everyone whining about the government not making it illegal to look at someone on the street.
When you leave the privacy of your home, you enter the public world, where all the other functions have access to your methods and data. Calm down. Its always been this way, and it always will. If you don't like it, then stay home.
Captain_Frisk
Mod me down for opposing the hive mind.
I know everyone is all upset about this one, but whats the big deal? The cameras are already there. The store has a right to know whats going on inside their store, watching for shoplifters etc.
Then have they said what they plan to do with this information? If they're going to kick you out of the store because you match the profile, then this is unreasonable, and we should be making noise about it.
However, if this is just a tool for the security guards watching the cameras to be able to focus on person A, who is more likely to be a shoplifter, then what is the problem with it?
Also, this isn't a public work, like the Tampa police departments deploying in public area. Borders is a private institution, and if they want to take steps to ensure that their property is properly accounted for, then I salute them.
Captain_Frisk
P.S. While I expect to be modded down for this, I refuse to post anonymously. What these guys are doing is not wrong, and I'm going to hide to protect my precious karma points.
What a shame it is that the big corporations have to market to the lowest common denominator. I too own the DVD of Princess Mononoke, and I love it. I think it really stinks that instead of getting quality movies released, Disney puts out crap like Atlantis, Spy Kids or most recently the Princess Diaries, because they know that people will pay for them.
I read an article over at c|net yesterday discussing the idea of "critic proof" movies (they related it to Windows XP), movies that are commercially successful even though the critics hate them, like Tomb Raider, and most action movies. I dislike that they are willing to release movies like this. It seems like nearly everything released recently falls under this category. I haven't been to the movie theater in months.
Captain_Frisk