There are now 10 branches of McDonalds in Prague and one strategically placed on every major road going into the city. There are plans for 40 KFC outlets in the Czech Republic by the end of the year and Coca Cola and Pepsi signs are everywhere. It is impossible to evade their presence.
Would they be put there if the first 4 locations failed? No. McDonalds is not the whole problem, although I will admit it is mostly to blame. But you have to remember that the only reason McDoanlds continues to grow is because of consumers. If people don't buy McDonalds food, there would be no McDonalds. But people like the convenience, the low price and the fact that they know what they are getting. They know exactly what is on a hamburger, what the chicken nuggets will taste like and what kind of sauce they can get.
This is the same thing as a picture I saw of the WTO protests. When you protest in Nikes and Gap clothes, or when you protest McDonalds by only eating there once a week, the problem isn't going to go away. By boycotting a product, you can affect the corporation. But since most people don't care, this is very unlikely to happen..
Pay for a connection? My ISP pays me thousands a month for my connection! Of course they make me sit in front of it from 8-5pm M-F whether I am playing or not!:P
They should pay me money to do this. After extensive research and many self-tests, I have found that web surfers at pr0n sites hardly ever use the keyboard and mouse at the same time. I still don't understand why.
But as is shown in the article a while back about the people driving around the Silicon Valley, hanging out in a parking lot is alot easier and anyone with the right equipment and a little skill can do it.
By making something just a little more difficult do to, you can eliminate alot of the newbies that would try it and succeed. A script kiddie would sit in a parking lot for 10 minutes and try to sniff keyboard traffic (funny thought), but probably wouldn't break into an office.
Exactly! This just proves that in today's society where violence is bad and conflicts must be solved peacefully, people, especially younger people need to get their aggressions out somewhere. We have to remember that we are just animals and need to get violent occasionally. With nothing to fight about in this mostly peaceful world, we need these escape routes to be able to release our violent tendancies on other gamers. We keep demanding better graphics so it looks more realistic and we get more satisfaction out of max gibs.
In other news, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Smith of Slashville discovered that they could actually do the same job as filtering software by spending some time with their children each day.
"It was amazing," Mr. Smith stated, "I could actually sit down with my son and daughter and surf the web TOGETHER. I mean, who would of thought of that!"
Yeah, who would of thunk it! By the time a child is in high school, filtering software is useless, they already know about pr0n and when they are younger, parents can exert more control over what they view on the Internet. This is just another example of the government trying to be a parent because a small minority of parents can't do it themselves and their children end up in the park with a dirty ole man. I know I'll never forgive my parents for that one!:P
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Please do not use/. for your anonymous glory hole. You can make a user account and post intelligent comments. Please read the newbie help for more informaiton.
But Anti-cheat tools will just lead to a total lockdown of servers. The more tools you put up trying to catch cheaters, the more of a challenge it is to cheat.
The fact is that people will always want to cheat. Don't let a small number of punk cheaters make everyone paranoid and put all kinds of stupid filters and anti-cheat hacks on them.
There will always be servers where people don't cheat. Find those and frag away and stop getting pissed and yelling, "Oh bullhell gazongers!"
It is a game. It is not reality. Get over it or get better. The people I know that cheat still suck. Plus, not everyone will go buy these things. Don't get mad at the company, they are just filling a niche of people dying to be good and be able to say "w00t! I killed you!" Or just change servers!
The ratio of people using this card versus the number of servers is very tiny. I don't like cheaters, but I'll just practice more because when you 0wn a cheater and they whine, you get that warm fuzzy in your tummy.:)
Now that's a funny comment! Actually though, Tourette's Syndrome is not funny. The definition from the Webster's dictionary says: : a rare disease characterized by involuntary tics and by uncontrollable verbalization involving especially echolalia and the use of obscene language
Ask your teacher about it or wait a few years because I'm sure they teach this stuff in high school health class. You can learn alot more about it then.
But basically, my comment was about how instead of blurting out wacky comments and curse words, common in Tourette's, the author instead pinched off a comment without really thinking about it. Instead of verbal it was typed.
And what is with the pot references, I don't even get most of those comments! What is 4:20? Is that a time, like 4:20am?
Please do not use Slashdot as your anonymous glory hole. You can easily create a user account here, you can read the help for more information. Posting anonymously detracts from your credibility, although maybe that is your purpose.
And how do you get maps with no walls out of: All maps in all games will just have to be designed with nothing but see-through walls.
I feel sorry for Sony and Nintendo. When Microsoft wants to throw some of the vast riches it has at a project, it can usually convince most of the commoners that a MS product is what the consumer wants. Give deep rebates to drive off competition and then raise prices and do what you want when you have a big consumer base.
Of course it might also drive competition and make other companies come out with better products... Or it could make them go out of business.
Please refer to the first attempt at a flame by that other user for style. Your flame really needs some work, no topic, no witty sayings, nothing. Besides, you replied stating that this comment was all about sarcasm, but you missed mine.;) Would that make you then, what you would label, a dipshit?
Can we get back on topic please? My earlier statement stands, guns for everyone, poverty for everyone, does not solve problems. And neither does foul language.
This is very true. Most people that cheat do it because they are not very good. So even if you have bad players cheating, they still aren't that good. Although when you get good players cheating, that's a pain.
You know you can just edit that text file with the scores in it and make it whatever you want. Although putting the time at about 12 seconds for the hardest level will make people a little suspicious.
The comment stated that all games should allow cheating so that cheaters can't cheat... Hmm... I guess I am confused. That sound like a no-thought comment to me. Solve crime by giving everyone crack and guns? Solve poverty by making everyone poor? Are those solutions?
And I must congratulate you on your flame, you have excellent form, the jest at html, the enclosing of the flame in tags to signify you are a true geek and the Mr. T reference. All that adds up to a great flame but let us try and stick to the topic.
So you agree strangers are bad, but you remember how much it sucked when others didn't like you coz you were a stranger? Does this make sense to you? You are only carrying on this nasty tradition...
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There are now 10 branches of McDonalds in Prague and one strategically placed on every major road going into the city. There are plans for 40 KFC outlets in the Czech Republic by the end of the year and Coca Cola and Pepsi signs are everywhere. It is impossible to evade their presence.
Would they be put there if the first 4 locations failed? No. McDonalds is not the whole problem, although I will admit it is mostly to blame. But you have to remember that the only reason McDoanlds continues to grow is because of consumers. If people don't buy McDonalds food, there would be no McDonalds. But people like the convenience, the low price and the fact that they know what they are getting. They know exactly what is on a hamburger, what the chicken nuggets will taste like and what kind of sauce they can get.
This is the same thing as a picture I saw of the WTO protests. When you protest in Nikes and Gap clothes, or when you protest McDonalds by only eating there once a week, the problem isn't going to go away. By boycotting a product, you can affect the corporation. But since most people don't care, this is very unlikely to happen..
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Surprisingly, there was no followup story to the first about Towel Day, I hope that hoopy CmdrTaco knows where his towel is today! I sure do! :P
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By making keyboard sniffing (a funny thought in itself) a little harder, you could eliminate most of the people that would try it in the first place.
I don't agree with Security by Obscurity anyway, but this is giving too much information to people that think it would be cool to try.
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By making something just a little more difficult do to, you can eliminate alot of the newbies that would try it and succeed. A script kiddie would sit in a parking lot for 10 minutes and try to sniff keyboard traffic (funny thought), but probably wouldn't break into an office.
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Now that's secure. But the worst part is is that his password is 'password' anyway! Double stupidity! :)
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Exactly! This just proves that in today's society where violence is bad and conflicts must be solved peacefully, people, especially younger people need to get their aggressions out somewhere. We have to remember that we are just animals and need to get violent occasionally. With nothing to fight about in this mostly peaceful world, we need these escape routes to be able to release our violent tendancies on other gamers. We keep demanding better graphics so it looks more realistic and we get more satisfaction out of max gibs.
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"It was amazing," Mr. Smith stated, "I could actually sit down with my son and daughter and surf the web TOGETHER. I mean, who would of thought of that!"
Yeah, who would of thunk it! By the time a child is in high school, filtering software is useless, they already know about pr0n and when they are younger, parents can exert more control over what they view on the Internet. This is just another example of the government trying to be a parent because a small minority of parents can't do it themselves and their children end up in the park with a dirty ole man. I know I'll never forgive my parents for that one! :P
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The fact is that people will always want to cheat. Don't let a small number of punk cheaters make everyone paranoid and put all kinds of stupid filters and anti-cheat hacks on them.
There will always be servers where people don't cheat. Find those and frag away and stop getting pissed and yelling, "Oh bullhell gazongers!"
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The ratio of people using this card versus the number of servers is very tiny. I don't like cheaters, but I'll just practice more because when you 0wn a cheater and they whine, you get that warm fuzzy in your tummy. :)
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Ask your teacher about it or wait a few years because I'm sure they teach this stuff in high school health class. You can learn alot more about it then.
But basically, my comment was about how instead of blurting out wacky comments and curse words, common in Tourette's, the author instead pinched off a comment without really thinking about it. Instead of verbal it was typed.
And what is with the pot references, I don't even get most of those comments! What is 4:20? Is that a time, like 4:20am?
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And how do you get maps with no walls out of: All maps in all games will just have to be designed with nothing but see-through walls.
See-through walls != no walls
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Cowards: Give everyone anonymity
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Of course it might also drive competition and make other companies come out with better products... Or it could make them go out of business.
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Can we get back on topic please? My earlier statement stands, guns for everyone, poverty for everyone, does not solve problems. And neither does foul language.
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And I must congratulate you on your flame, you have excellent form, the jest at html, the enclosing of the flame in tags to signify you are a true geek and the Mr. T reference. All that adds up to a great flame but let us try and stick to the topic.
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