But every couple shots it would be so obvious that the child on the broom was animated that I kept having the illusion spoiled. I kept thinking I was watching a Playstation 2 cut sequence instead of a feature film.
*cough* Pod Racing *cough*. Those sequences in SW:E1:TPM looked so cartoony and game-like that it couldn't have been an accident. I wonder if there's something of the same going on in HP:TPS (The Philospher's Stone, damn it). "Don't make it look too good, it'll just make the game spins off look like a pile of pants, and that's where the big bucks are."
Now I can't go to Australia, or I'll be arrested... for using the subject line "Holy fuck".
Before you accuse me of crying wolf, I'd better point out that "Holy fuck" is dangerous not because of the "fuck", but because of the "Holy". "Religious issues" are one of the criteria that the NSW Office of Film and Literature Classification uses to decide what is "adult content".
This is a Bill aimed not just at porn, but at any discussion of adult matters in any forum, even one which tries to exclude children. Here's a non-exhaustive list. I've highlighted one word which I find particularly interesting:
"verbal references to and depictions associated with issues such as suicide, crime, corruption, marital problems, emotional trauma, drug and alcohol dependency, death and serious illness, racism, religious issues".
There's a pretty piece of legislation. Post an article suggesting that the legislators are corrupt, and get locked up purely on that basis. Unthinkable? Time will tell.
What do you mean "he hauls it down there"? If he sent it (as you said), then how did it get back to him? I assume the recipient rejected it, but how did your protagonist get it back, and why did he then have to further "haul it down" to UPS to claim on the insurance?
For the benefit of the archives, a last post from the article submitter:
I found a solution. The solution came in the form of a very nice man that I met on another discussion forum who, free and gratis, removed the password after I posted the drive to him. He also managed to tell me that what the password had been set to, and what kind of laptop the drive was in when it was locked.
How did he do it? He won't say. I think that he works for a shop that does this commercially, so I'll respect that and not mention his name or the shop that I think he works for. All I can say is that from our conversations, I suspect that with access to a custom drive controller, this is a thirty second operation, but that it does absolutely require modified hardware, and that there is, and never will be a software solution.
Thanks to all who contributed, and good luck with your own hacking and hardware reuse.;-)
Mr. Lucas will have the innovative and cunning idea of creating prequels.
The really clever bit is the way he avoided carefully making any reference to anything that happens in the prequels when he made 4-6, so that the prequels appear to be non-canon and irrelevant at best, contradictory at worst. That was some forethought, George!
I'm taking bets that Jar Jar turns out to be Boba Fett. Then the rape of my childhood memories will be complete.
It has a plot? Well, thats one improvement over The Phantom Menace then...
Shhh, don't tell anyone I told you so, but the twist is that Anakin and Amidala turn out to be brother and sister. I know it's been done, but George felt he hadn't explored the full Greek Tragedy aspects of it in 4-6. And besides, it explains a lot about Luke's strangely batrachian features and his own penchant for sister-groping.
Tell that to Wall Street; the Dow Jones dropped 200 points when the news broke. Makes you wonder if their machines are connected to siesmic sensors.:-(
If Alan Cox is allowed to use Linux as his own political soapbox, then Linux itself is history. Where the hell is Linus?
Linus is in the USA, and so will have to be very, very careful what he says and does for the forseeable future.
You want to bet that Microsoft wouldn't pull an Adobe and have their Enforcement Division (aka the US legislature) lock up Linus if they thought the benefits would outweigh the costs? It's unthinkable, you say? Why is it unthinkable? All Microsoft would have to do would be to fulfill their patriotic duty to report an un-American protection control bypass in the Linux kernel, then Uncle Sam will do the dirty work for them.
What's the cost to Microsoft of doing that? Bad publicity for them, and good publicity for Linux. What's the benefit? Tie up Linus in court action for years. Have his passport removed. Restrict his ability to travel. As best, have him jailed on remand. The damage that would do to the Linux kernel would be real and immediate. GNU/Linux needs to take desktops from Microsoft now, before.NET gains mindshare, and any kernel splits, delays or even more FUD would give.NET a free run.
Do you really think there isn't a cadre of Microsoft execs and lawyers discussing this right now? Not in terms of right and wrong, just in terms of damage and payoff.
OK, I give. What's the bit that's worrying Alan? Nothing (immediately) leapt out, poked me in the eye, and said "This is information that enables someone to bypass the technical protection on a copyrighted work."
for all the illegal drugs today just a law was passed
Oh, that was easy. Cocaine was banned because of all the coked up niggers raping white women.
This was the honest-to-god media propagated justification for banning cocaine. Opium and heroin went because of all the Chinese doping up and raping white women.
If you find it hard to believe that Joe Voter bought these lurid "exposes", consider the media portrayal of the Taliban right now, and how quick we are to believe any story that gives us someone identifiably different to hate and fear, and how easily we pass laws on the back of that fear.
And how many of us, in this, ahem, more enlightened age, even bother to question that portrayal, or look for the other side of the story?
To the... person... who modded this down as a troll: thanks for making my point about idiots censoring everything that they find too uncomfortable to discuss rationally.
"Finally, we have a combat title that actually gives us a taste of what the real thing might be like"
The reviewer needs to go and play Hidden and Dangerous. You crawl on your belly for 20 minutes, then get shot once by a sniper that you can't even see, and just curl up and die. Or, better yet, read "Dulce Et Decorum Est"
Also, both reviews seem to imply that you'll simply zip straight through the single player version, but the multiplayer has enough variety to keep you playing. Hmmm, seeing as how your only option (at launch) is a LAN party, you'd better hope all your friends buy Xboxen as well.
I'll definitely be waiting until after Christmas to decide on an Xbox purchase, and I strongly suggest that everyone else considers making the decision to do likewise rather than playing the "how much is the hype affecting me today" game.;-)
Don't speculate that this is faked up, or a bought review, or that it rocks, or sucks, or is the best thing since sliced Tomato Demon.
Just wait. Wait until you've played it in a store, or your excited friend plays it, or a plethora of reviews from many independent sources are available.
Anything other reaction is just buying the hype, either Microsoft's bought hype or that of the anti-Microsoft crusaders.
Make the decision now to wait until after this Christmas to buy an Xbox. It'll still be there, and it's still be as good or as bad as it is on the day it ships.
"pedal the SimCycle to guide your first person shooter, racecar or fighter thereby upping the stakes for skill and coordination"
Uh, so, this is good because it makes it harder to play games? What's the connection between pedalling and rocket jumping? I don't suppose it makes much difference how fast you're pedalling, and I'd be highly dubious about how fast this thing will respond compared to pressing a key, so it makes about as much sense as moving forwards by slapping your head, or yodelling.
I'm actually rather taken by this, but it's a wierd way of advertising it. Instead of bundling a gamepad with it, why not bundle some software, basically a cheap landscape engine, so you can go for a cycle in the park, or the mountains, or in some wierd post-apocalyptic nightmare world populated by the undead and... oh, wait... OK, maybe they have got it right.;-)
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Why is it that you say WinXP "stole" from KDE, but KDE should "copy" from GNOME and XP? Curious choice of language. What did KDE lose when WinXP adopted the KDE taskbar grouping?
Oops, I'm trolling, right? Ah, the hell with it, it's only karma. Mod me, I am still full of love for KDE.;-p
Privately developed, now used by Cosmonauts as well, plus it was instrumental in getting Armstrong and Aldrin off of the moon when a switch snapped on the lander. Apparently.;-)
my wife and I use it to connect to each of our corporate intra-nets using VPN
Gaaaa! Stop it! Stop talking sense!
Here's my employer's take on VPN: we're happy to sell our customers broadband solutions (we make VOIP PBX switches), and we're happy to use VPN gateways to connect offices. However, we won't let employees use the VPN gateways because, uh, umm, it's not secure enough. Or too expensive. Or something.
I kid you not. What is considered secure enough is unencrypted 56.6kb diallup access via a third party telco-lo (with the packets winging merrily over the telco ATM backbone). And it's too expensive for them to add a line to a config file, but they'll happily pay $1500 a year to put in a leased ISDN line at employee's homes if they ask, rather than let employees use their own personal, free-to-the-company broadband connections.
I'm just waiting for my employer to wake up and smell the broadband revolution. We're apparently happy to tell our customers to do as we say, not as we do. With that kind of attitude, no wonder broadband usage isn't exactly rocketing.
To take a less emotive (and less badly informed) example, the age of consent in Japan is 14. Let's say Yahoo! Japan splashes some raunchy pictures of a 14 year old Japanese celebrity that push but don't break the boundaries of Japanese law.
Explain why it would be right for a US judge to tell Yahoo! Japan to remove the images, simply because they might be viewed by US viewers.
For bonus marks, go on to explain why this wouldn't make it right for (e.g.) an Afghan court to tell Yahoo! US to remove pictures of Hilary Clinton, because she's not wearing a veil.
Here's the thing. The onus is on the government of the country of the viewer/purchaser to police their own citizen's actions. Trying to cut the "evil" off at its source is simply abrogating responsibility and exporting morality.
France can tell her own citizens not to buy Nazi items, just as they can tell them not to use Anglicised words (and they do). They can tell any Yahoo! outfit operating in France to stop selling anything they like. But they have no more right to tell the US arm of Yahoo! to stop selling anything than the Taliban has to tell France to stop allowing women to go around unveilled just because Afhgan nationals might find pictures of them online.
See how easy it is to use overblown, over emotive arguments to make any point? Won't someone think of the children! will get you modded up for making a point that anybody can understand, but if you make decisions based on the worst that might happen somewhere, then you'll end up living in a pretty stale little global village.
I see *no* niceness whatsoever when it comes to spreading nazi shit around any piece of the globe.
OK, let's try it another way. Let's make it anathama to glorify the Nazi's in any way. But all of their symbolism and dogma was aimed at glorifying themselves. So we can't show the symbolisms, or discuss the dogma at all, right? In fact, to ensure that no young minds are corrupted, we have to edit them out of history. That's the only way to stop "spreading nazi shit", right?
How do you avoid repeating the mistakes of the past if you make it impossible to find out what the past was?
Sure, make your counter argument, but you need to explain how newsreel footage of swastika emblazoned flag is less corrupting than the flag itself.
An employee that retains copyright on the source code, if you bother to check. Yes, it's abhorent what's happened to him, but let's not weaken the argument that the DMCA is wrong for everyone by suggesting that it's only wrong for Dmitry because he's Joe Developer.
Nice idea, but you'd forcibly have to remove.com (and maybe even.org) to make it work equitably, other wise apple.comp and apple.music would still fight over apple.com. So, ideas for where we find the money to compensate businesses who have just re-painted their fleet of trucks and paid for a advertising campaign based on their.com name?
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*cough* Pod Racing *cough*. Those sequences in SW:E1:TPM looked so cartoony and game-like that it couldn't have been an accident. I wonder if there's something of the same going on in HP:TPS (The Philospher's Stone, damn it). "Don't make it look too good, it'll just make the game spins off look like a pile of pants, and that's where the big bucks are."
Now I can't go to Australia, or I'll be arrested... for using the subject line "Holy fuck".
Before you accuse me of crying wolf, I'd better point out that "Holy fuck" is dangerous not because of the "fuck", but because of the "Holy". "Religious issues" are one of the criteria that the NSW Office of Film and Literature Classification uses to decide what is "adult content".
This is a Bill aimed not just at porn, but at any discussion of adult matters in any forum, even one which tries to exclude children. Here's a non-exhaustive list. I've highlighted one word which I find particularly interesting:
There's a pretty piece of legislation. Post an article suggesting that the legislators are corrupt, and get locked up purely on that basis. Unthinkable? Time will tell.
What the...?
I had that memory nicely suppressed until you brought it up! You bastard!
What do you mean "he hauls it down there"? If he sent it (as you said), then how did it get back to him? I assume the recipient rejected it, but how did your protagonist get it back, and why did he then have to further "haul it down" to UPS to claim on the insurance?
It's a neat story, but it needs fleshing out. ;-)
For the benefit of the archives, a last post from the article submitter:
I found a solution. The solution came in the form of a very nice man that I met on another discussion forum who, free and gratis, removed the password after I posted the drive to him. He also managed to tell me that what the password had been set to, and what kind of laptop the drive was in when it was locked.
How did he do it? He won't say. I think that he works for a shop that does this commercially, so I'll respect that and not mention his name or the shop that I think he works for. All I can say is that from our conversations, I suspect that with access to a custom drive controller, this is a thirty second operation, but that it does absolutely require modified hardware, and that there is, and never will be a software solution.
Thanks to all who contributed, and good luck with your own hacking and hardware reuse. ;-)
The really clever bit is the way he avoided carefully making any reference to anything that happens in the prequels when he made 4-6, so that the prequels appear to be non-canon and irrelevant at best, contradictory at worst. That was some forethought, George!
I'm taking bets that Jar Jar turns out to be Boba Fett. Then the rape of my childhood memories will be complete.
Shhh, don't tell anyone I told you so, but the twist is that Anakin and Amidala turn out to be brother and sister. I know it's been done, but George felt he hadn't explored the full Greek Tragedy aspects of it in 4-6. And besides, it explains a lot about Luke's strangely batrachian features and his own penchant for sister-groping.
I'd pull you up for being sexist, but then I took a look at the copy:
Ahh. To quote the great philosopher Harold Enfield: "Women! Know your limits!" ;-)
Moderators, this is now misinformative, later reports are that this was a fully fuelled outbound flight.
Tell that to Wall Street; the Dow Jones dropped 200 points when the news broke. Makes you wonder if their machines are connected to siesmic sensors. :-(
Linus is in the USA, and so will have to be very, very careful what he says and does for the forseeable future.
You want to bet that Microsoft wouldn't pull an Adobe and have their Enforcement Division (aka the US legislature) lock up Linus if they thought the benefits would outweigh the costs? It's unthinkable, you say? Why is it unthinkable? All Microsoft would have to do would be to fulfill their patriotic duty to report an un-American protection control bypass in the Linux kernel, then Uncle Sam will do the dirty work for them.
What's the cost to Microsoft of doing that? Bad publicity for them, and good publicity for Linux. What's the benefit? Tie up Linus in court action for years. Have his passport removed. Restrict his ability to travel. As best, have him jailed on remand. The damage that would do to the Linux kernel would be real and immediate. GNU/Linux needs to take desktops from Microsoft now, before .NET gains mindshare, and any kernel splits, delays or even more FUD would give .NET a free run.
Do you really think there isn't a cadre of Microsoft execs and lawyers discussing this right now? Not in terms of right and wrong, just in terms of damage and payoff.
OK, I give. What's the bit that's worrying Alan? Nothing (immediately) leapt out, poked me in the eye, and said "This is information that enables someone to bypass the technical protection on a copyrighted work."
Oh, that was easy. Cocaine was banned because of all the coked up niggers raping white women.
This was the honest-to-god media propagated justification for banning cocaine. Opium and heroin went because of all the Chinese doping up and raping white women.
If you find it hard to believe that Joe Voter bought these lurid "exposes", consider the media portrayal of the Taliban right now, and how quick we are to believe any story that gives us someone identifiably different to hate and fear, and how easily we pass laws on the back of that fear.
And how many of us, in this, ahem, more enlightened age, even bother to question that portrayal, or look for the other side of the story?
And again! Brilliant!
Informed debate; wouldn't that be nice?
To the... person... who modded this down as a troll: thanks for making my point about idiots censoring everything that they find too uncomfortable to discuss rationally.
Cheers, nice review. But...
The reviewer needs to go and play Hidden and Dangerous. You crawl on your belly for 20 minutes, then get shot once by a sniper that you can't even see, and just curl up and die. Or, better yet, read "Dulce Et Decorum Est"
Also, both reviews seem to imply that you'll simply zip straight through the single player version, but the multiplayer has enough variety to keep you playing. Hmmm, seeing as how your only option (at launch) is a LAN party, you'd better hope all your friends buy Xboxen as well.
I'll definitely be waiting until after Christmas to decide on an Xbox purchase, and I strongly suggest that everyone else considers making the decision to do likewise rather than playing the "how much is the hype affecting me today" game. ;-)
Stop. Wait. Pause for breath.
Don't speculate that this is faked up, or a bought review, or that it rocks, or sucks, or is the best thing since sliced Tomato Demon.
Just wait. Wait until you've played it in a store, or your excited friend plays it, or a plethora of reviews from many independent sources are available.
Anything other reaction is just buying the hype, either Microsoft's bought hype or that of the anti-Microsoft crusaders.
Make the decision now to wait until after this Christmas to buy an Xbox. It'll still be there, and it's still be as good or as bad as it is on the day it ships.
Uh, so, this is good because it makes it harder to play games? What's the connection between pedalling and rocket jumping? I don't suppose it makes much difference how fast you're pedalling, and I'd be highly dubious about how fast this thing will respond compared to pressing a key, so it makes about as much sense as moving forwards by slapping your head, or yodelling.
I'm actually rather taken by this, but it's a wierd way of advertising it. Instead of bundling a gamepad with it, why not bundle some software, basically a cheap landscape engine, so you can go for a cycle in the park, or the mountains, or in some wierd post-apocalyptic nightmare world populated by the undead and... oh, wait... OK, maybe they have got it right. ;-)
Why is it that you say WinXP "stole" from KDE, but KDE should "copy" from GNOME and XP? Curious choice of language. What did KDE lose when WinXP adopted the KDE taskbar grouping?
Oops, I'm trolling, right? Ah, the hell with it, it's only karma. Mod me, I am still full of love for KDE. ;-p
Privately developed, now used by Cosmonauts as well, plus it was instrumental in getting Armstrong and Aldrin off of the moon when a switch snapped on the lander. Apparently. ;-)
Gaaaa! Stop it! Stop talking sense!
Here's my employer's take on VPN: we're happy to sell our customers broadband solutions (we make VOIP PBX switches), and we're happy to use VPN gateways to connect offices. However, we won't let employees use the VPN gateways because, uh, umm, it's not secure enough. Or too expensive. Or something.
I kid you not. What is considered secure enough is unencrypted 56.6kb diallup access via a third party telco-lo (with the packets winging merrily over the telco ATM backbone). And it's too expensive for them to add a line to a config file, but they'll happily pay $1500 a year to put in a leased ISDN line at employee's homes if they ask, rather than let employees use their own personal, free-to-the-company broadband connections.
I'm just waiting for my employer to wake up and smell the broadband revolution. We're apparently happy to tell our customers to do as we say, not as we do. With that kind of attitude, no wonder broadband usage isn't exactly rocketing.
To take a less emotive (and less badly informed) example, the age of consent in Japan is 14. Let's say Yahoo! Japan splashes some raunchy pictures of a 14 year old Japanese celebrity that push but don't break the boundaries of Japanese law.
Explain why it would be right for a US judge to tell Yahoo! Japan to remove the images, simply because they might be viewed by US viewers.
For bonus marks, go on to explain why this wouldn't make it right for (e.g.) an Afghan court to tell Yahoo! US to remove pictures of Hilary Clinton, because she's not wearing a veil.
Here's the thing. The onus is on the government of the country of the viewer/purchaser to police their own citizen's actions. Trying to cut the "evil" off at its source is simply abrogating responsibility and exporting morality.
France can tell her own citizens not to buy Nazi items, just as they can tell them not to use Anglicised words (and they do). They can tell any Yahoo! outfit operating in France to stop selling anything they like. But they have no more right to tell the US arm of Yahoo! to stop selling anything than the Taliban has to tell France to stop allowing women to go around unveilled just because Afhgan nationals might find pictures of them online.
See how easy it is to use overblown, over emotive arguments to make any point? Won't someone think of the children! will get you modded up for making a point that anybody can understand, but if you make decisions based on the worst that might happen somewhere, then you'll end up living in a pretty stale little global village.
OK, let's try it another way. Let's make it anathama to glorify the Nazi's in any way. But all of their symbolism and dogma was aimed at glorifying themselves. So we can't show the symbolisms, or discuss the dogma at all, right? In fact, to ensure that no young minds are corrupted, we have to edit them out of history. That's the only way to stop "spreading nazi shit", right?
How do you avoid repeating the mistakes of the past if you make it impossible to find out what the past was?
Sure, make your counter argument, but you need to explain how newsreel footage of swastika emblazoned flag is less corrupting than the flag itself.
An employee that retains copyright on the source code, if you bother to check. Yes, it's abhorent what's happened to him, but let's not weaken the argument that the DMCA is wrong for everyone by suggesting that it's only wrong for Dmitry because he's Joe Developer.
Nice idea, but you'd forcibly have to remove .com (and maybe even .org) to make it work equitably, other wise apple.comp and apple.music would still fight over apple.com. So, ideas for where we find the money to compensate businesses who have just re-painted their fleet of trucks and paid for a advertising campaign based on their .com name?