I think it's a "pink == gay" mentality, which is kind of silly, because I think it's supposed to look like about young girls, with the ponies and AOL speak too. "aol" instead of "gay" would've been a funnier tag to me, if we have to generalize.
I'm happier with this style. At least I know the story isn't fake, like last year when you had basically a dozen fakes. It became boring fast, even if they were supposed to be "subtle" and "funny". Now all I have to be bothered by is the color scheme and titles, not anything else, like the stories. At least not so far. I'm much happier with that.
LOL, oops, how much a missing comma can mess up a statement!
The proper punctuation should be: I often get 2-3 Mbps even when I'm communicating across the Atlantic and moreso when I'm not, *COMMA*, on my 100 Mbps line.
ArsTechnica has a story about AT&T COO Randall Stephenson telling folks that there is 'no discernable difference' between AT&T's 1.5 Mbps service and Comcast's 6 Mbps, because the backbone is slowing everything down.
I often get 2-3 Mbps even when I'm communicating across the Atlantic, and moreso when I'm not on my 100 Mbps line. 3 Mbps is twice as fast as 1.5 Mbps alone. 'Nuff said about that statement.
And I hear GeForce FX series support is bad, ultra-low quality, etc... So 6000/7000 series, ATI 9500 or up to run, but my 9800 Pro was low quality, so be prepared.
Tell me about it! The entire Geforce FX series is a series beyond crappiness, besides possibly the most high end cards. I'm a former user of a FX 5600, and in Guild Wars it gave me ~10-15 fps in 1280x1024 in cities. Upgrade to a midrange 6600GT and it more than doubled. Maybe it's pure technology evolution, but for both cards being budget at their times, I still thought that big of a jump of about + ~150% was unusual. So if a 6600GT struggles a bit in Oblivion even at mid settings, I imagine a mid-range FX performs about half as well as that.;-)
To me, it feels too much like a well made, but single-player MMORPG. I think a good MMORPG rich in things to do and with a large gaming population is more appealing to me. These often have a disadvantage in storyline though, but actually an upper hand in immersion. Immersion on a different scale than what you get from experiencing a story; immersion through socializing with other actual people playing the game, laughing with you on TeamSpeak and talking about what they did today while we're relaxing in a mission outpost.
I also often feel like I'm wasting huge amounts of time playing games like these, with nothing good coming from it. One may say that a hardcore gamer is wasting "his" ( because women never play games right?;) ) life regardless game played because after all you aren't on a pub trying to get dates, which is of course what life must really be about, but I have lost count of how many likeminded people I've met in all ages and both genders while playing online multiplayer games with social factors besides the escape from reality with the epic quests.
I didn't feel like this before when I was younger, maybe because massive online games weren't even an option back then. But now I feel I wish to do something more with my interest than dig myself into a world resulting on a savegame on my computer.:-/
Nothing about Oblivion per se though; I'm sure it's a great game for its genre as a single player RPG. And maybe I just feel like this because I suck a bit at socializing in real life, and don't want to make it even worse by shielding myself from others when I'm on the computer as well.
Yeah, and it doesn't get any better that the competing format is the same, as for the main AACS protection. Additionally, Blu-rays will have a disc identification layer to trace mass production piracy.
When I'll get any of these next generation formats, it will be once burners have arrived, and for data storage. I'll likely still go for it when the price and availability matures, because the storage amount is quite attractive.
I agree. If the statistics would be split for 9-12 year olds and 13-18 year olds and about half of all 13-18 year olds had seen porn, I imagine there would be no news there at least in my society since the past 10-15 years or so.
Also, depending on how you raise your children otherwise, I have this theory that porn may not impact their view on sexuality much at all. I mean, if kids at an early stage understand what porn is, as opposed to NOT telling them by hiding it and making it taboo to talk about, I think they'll have a much easier time to deal with it as well. If they understand only the people with a certain physique become porn stars, that it's about fantasies and not reality, etc, I doubt parents even *need* to care that much they never get hold of it, much less need any laws like this.
I like many of ask.com's features and how it makes certain search results very accessible to the user. Search for e.g. Linus Torvalds to see what I mean. BUT... What I'd like to see is these features implemented in another layout. That's still Ask.com's shortcoming. They cleaned up the front page, but the result page also matters a lot, and there they still have those annoying ads in the way.
saying that seeing a movie in the theater is a 'fuller, more entertaining experience' and that the time window between movie and DVD releases should even be extended.
If movies provide a "fuller, more entertaining experience", why do they feel threatened by earlier DVD releases, possibly even overlapping the movie?
The funny thing is that I think that grammar error (that's serious too; it's not exactly just missing an apostrophe) suddenly became relatively common during a few years. Along with "I should of thought of that...", "I would of done that if I knew...", and so on. I can't even understand how people can make these mistakes in the first place, and then these are often Americans and I'm a Swede!:-S
But ironically, the real content pirates who make millions of bootleg movies have no intention of ever taking advantage of the so called "analog hole" because that is the slowest and lowest quality method of stealing content.
Yeah, I hear you only get shit out of it. *rimshot* Hmm, that gave a disturbing mental image of "content extraction".:-S
The author is likely to lose not based off technical grounds, but rather from a lack of resources.
Or invalidated fair use rights due to profiting off their copyrighted material. Look at the complete case before going with traditional Slashdot pessimism.;-)
Basically, if Blizzard became aware of this guy using the World of Warcraft trademark for personal profit (which he clearly did), then they are obligated by law to try to make him stop, or they lose their trademark.
No, no... This is closer to the truth:
Basically, if Blizzard became aware of this guy using the copyrighted content of World of Warcraft (screenshots) for personal profit (which he clearly did), then they have legal support to make him stop.
This is about his claims of "fair use" when he's clearly profiting, and that usually invalidates fair use rights. Trademarks? Books and guides use trademarks all the time, and that's thankfully not a problem as long as it's clear who owns it.
I think it can be generally agreed on that writing about WoW on its own isn't an infrigement; books do this all day, and then also makes it clear who owns the trademark, like this one did, and everyone is happy. But... These guides also had screenshots, which he said would fall under fair use, however, these books are also sold for profit, which means he's profiting in part from Blizzard's material.
For fair use to be most clearly applicable, the content need to not impact the copyright owner, the material isn't sold, and isn't used to profit from it. But these things aren't fulfilled here, which puts him in a grey area, and I can understand why greddy Blizzard lawyers make a fuss of this when they can.
If it parsed the story tag "dupe" (which actually are in DIV's using the CSS class "tags", so they should be identifiable), and could associate these tags with their detailed story (DIV's with CSS class "details"), these DIV's can then be hidden by applying the appropriate collapsing "display:none" style, and if you've got this far, possibly also add a link to expand these collapsed stories if you're still interested.
That's what Windows XP 64 lacks most anyway. Good drivers.
If you mean some other sort of slowness, it would help if you were more specific.
It's mind boggling to me how you can be modded insightful by saing "This OS is slow for me", without even knowing what the heck the user is trying to do or what hardware the system uses.
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I think it's a "pink == gay" mentality, which is kind of silly, because I think it's supposed to look like about young girls, with the ponies and AOL speak too. "aol" instead of "gay" would've been a funnier tag to me, if we have to generalize.
OMG, SLAHSODT HAXED ME!! the reply link to my intanral webserv!!~
OMG WTF!!! I HATE TIS FUKED APAHCE!! ><
I'm happier with this style. At least I know the story isn't fake, like last year when you had basically a dozen fakes. It became boring fast, even if they were supposed to be "subtle" and "funny". Now all I have to be bothered by is the color scheme and titles, not anything else, like the stories. At least not so far. I'm much happier with that.
Nice to see the lameness filter is still normal.
Next time they may install an AOLifier filter to all Slash posts though. Beware!
LOL, oops, how much a missing comma can mess up a statement!
The proper punctuation should be:
I often get 2-3 Mbps even when I'm communicating across the Atlantic and moreso when I'm not, *COMMA*, on my 100 Mbps line.
ArsTechnica has a story about AT&T COO Randall Stephenson telling folks that there is 'no discernable difference' between AT&T's 1.5 Mbps service and Comcast's 6 Mbps, because the backbone is slowing everything down.
I often get 2-3 Mbps even when I'm communicating across the Atlantic, and moreso when I'm not on my 100 Mbps line. 3 Mbps is twice as fast as 1.5 Mbps alone. 'Nuff said about that statement.
And I hear GeForce FX series support is bad, ultra-low quality, etc... So 6000/7000 series, ATI 9500 or up to run, but my 9800 Pro was low quality, so be prepared.
;-)
Tell me about it! The entire Geforce FX series is a series beyond crappiness, besides possibly the most high end cards. I'm a former user of a FX 5600, and in Guild Wars it gave me ~10-15 fps in 1280x1024 in cities. Upgrade to a midrange 6600GT and it more than doubled. Maybe it's pure technology evolution, but for both cards being budget at their times, I still thought that big of a jump of about + ~150% was unusual. So if a 6600GT struggles a bit in Oblivion even at mid settings, I imagine a mid-range FX performs about half as well as that.
To me, it feels too much like a well made, but single-player MMORPG. I think a good MMORPG rich in things to do and with a large gaming population is more appealing to me. These often have a disadvantage in storyline though, but actually an upper hand in immersion. Immersion on a different scale than what you get from experiencing a story; immersion through socializing with other actual people playing the game, laughing with you on TeamSpeak and talking about what they did today while we're relaxing in a mission outpost.
;) ) life regardless game played because after all you aren't on a pub trying to get dates, which is of course what life must really be about, but I have lost count of how many likeminded people I've met in all ages and both genders while playing online multiplayer games with social factors besides the escape from reality with the epic quests.
:-/
I also often feel like I'm wasting huge amounts of time playing games like these, with nothing good coming from it. One may say that a hardcore gamer is wasting "his" ( because women never play games right?
I didn't feel like this before when I was younger, maybe because massive online games weren't even an option back then. But now I feel I wish to do something more with my interest than dig myself into a world resulting on a savegame on my computer.
Nothing about Oblivion per se though; I'm sure it's a great game for its genre as a single player RPG. And maybe I just feel like this because I suck a bit at socializing in real life, and don't want to make it even worse by shielding myself from others when I'm on the computer as well.
Yeah, and it doesn't get any better that the competing format is the same, as for the main AACS protection. Additionally, Blu-rays will have a disc identification layer to trace mass production piracy.
When I'll get any of these next generation formats, it will be once burners have arrived, and for data storage. I'll likely still go for it when the price and availability matures, because the storage amount is quite attractive.
I agree. If the statistics would be split for 9-12 year olds and 13-18 year olds and about half of all 13-18 year olds had seen porn, I imagine there would be no news there at least in my society since the past 10-15 years or so.
Also, depending on how you raise your children otherwise, I have this theory that porn may not impact their view on sexuality much at all. I mean, if kids at an early stage understand what porn is, as opposed to NOT telling them by hiding it and making it taboo to talk about, I think they'll have a much easier time to deal with it as well. If they understand only the people with a certain physique become porn stars, that it's about fantasies and not reality, etc, I doubt parents even *need* to care that much they never get hold of it, much less need any laws like this.
Exactly when is it a good defense? When you know the kid you're messing with doesn't have a knife in his pocket? And how do you know that?
She called me back and left a detailed voicemail explaining the rest of my options for getting a better video card or replacement. WOW!
WOW! I mean... A woman called you??
OMG, I need to start using Apple!
I like many of ask.com's features and how it makes certain search results very accessible to the user. Search for e.g. Linus Torvalds to see what I mean. BUT... What I'd like to see is these features implemented in another layout. That's still Ask.com's shortcoming. They cleaned up the front page, but the result page also matters a lot, and there they still have those annoying ads in the way.
saying that seeing a movie in the theater is a 'fuller, more entertaining experience' and that the time window between movie and DVD releases should even be extended.
If movies provide a "fuller, more entertaining experience", why do they feel threatened by earlier DVD releases, possibly even overlapping the movie?
And here I'm still trying to figure out why this is 1) piracy and why this 2) would be evil...
:-/
Since you obviously know, I wouldn't mind at least some elaboration.
The funny thing is that I think that grammar error (that's serious too; it's not exactly just missing an apostrophe) suddenly became relatively common during a few years. Along with "I should of thought of that...", "I would of done that if I knew...", and so on. I can't even understand how people can make these mistakes in the first place, and then these are often Americans and I'm a Swede! :-S
I'm using a standard mail client to read my Gmail through its POP3 support.
It's free and I'm not even tied to a specific mail client, unlike this solution.
And my mail client happen to support multiple accounts too.
Heck, even Microsoft's own Outlook and Outlook Express supports reading Hotmail.
I think I'm missing something here, or Microsoft is reinventing the wheel... again?
But ironically, the real content pirates who make millions of bootleg movies have no intention of ever taking advantage of the so called "analog hole" because that is the slowest and lowest quality method of stealing content.
:-S
Yeah, I hear you only get shit out of it. *rimshot*
Hmm, that gave a disturbing mental image of "content extraction".
The author is likely to lose not based off technical grounds, but rather from a lack of resources.
;-)
Or invalidated fair use rights due to profiting off their copyrighted material.
Look at the complete case before going with traditional Slashdot pessimism.
Basically, if Blizzard became aware of this guy using the World of Warcraft trademark for personal profit (which he clearly did), then they are obligated by law to try to make him stop, or they lose their trademark.
No, no... This is closer to the truth:
Basically, if Blizzard became aware of this guy using the copyrighted content of World of Warcraft (screenshots) for personal profit (which he clearly did), then they have legal support to make him stop.
This is about his claims of "fair use" when he's clearly profiting, and that usually invalidates fair use rights. Trademarks? Books and guides use trademarks all the time, and that's thankfully not a problem as long as it's clear who owns it.
I think it can be generally agreed on that writing about WoW on its own isn't an infrigement; books do this all day, and then also makes it clear who owns the trademark, like this one did, and everyone is happy. But... These guides also had screenshots, which he said would fall under fair use, however, these books are also sold for profit, which means he's profiting in part from Blizzard's material.
For fair use to be most clearly applicable, the content need to not impact the copyright owner, the material isn't sold, and isn't used to profit from it. But these things aren't fulfilled here, which puts him in a grey area, and I can understand why greddy Blizzard lawyers make a fuss of this when they can.
If it parsed the story tag "dupe" (which actually are in DIV's using the CSS class "tags", so they should be identifiable), and could associate these tags with their detailed story (DIV's with CSS class "details"), these DIV's can then be hidden by applying the appropriate collapsing "display:none" style, and if you've got this far, possibly also add a link to expand these collapsed stories if you're still interested.
Is there anyone who can really say that there is really that much more to be done in terms of physics and movement?
;-)
Record a digital video from outdoors and compare to quality computer game graphics.
You mean drivers?
That's what Windows XP 64 lacks most anyway. Good drivers.
If you mean some other sort of slowness, it would help if you were more specific.
It's mind boggling to me how you can be modded insightful by saing "This OS is slow for me", without even knowing what the heck the user is trying to do or what hardware the system uses.