We learn to put on the club out of habit so that when we do go to Walmart our car is left alone. Sometimes it's a good idea not to interrupt automatic processes with rational thought... believe it or not.
My Mom gave me pot in the 70's. Nothing bad happened.
I gave pot to my son in the 00's. He turned it down. I said to him: YOU UNGRATEFUL CHILD. I USED TO WALK FIVE MILES IN THE SNOW TO GET A QUARTER OUNCE.
Frankly, I find refusing pot to be indefensible. But since I love my son I'll put up with it.
Honestly, I _have_ found a number of answers on ExE, it's just stupid that you have to scroll down. eHow is just an armpit - most every time I visit - say - looking for XP fix info - I end up at a page that explains how to find Control Panels in the Start menu.
Dear Google: the more ads a page hosts, the less chance that page has usable info. You have met the enemy and he is you!
I played FE on my PC not six months ago and loved it. Did not know about Dark Castle, Heh heh heh. Thanks.
I agree AAoW and even, yes, AAoWaSea, were amazingly well balanced games that had great replayability. Why Evryware doesn't re-release it is beyond me. http://www.evryware.com/index.html
Y'know I'd buy one if Apple resurrected some old Mac games:
The Ancient Art of War Armor Alley Balance of Power The Fools Errand Cap'n Magneto Continuum Core War Dark Castle Dungeon of Doom and Orlando Poon's Toxic Ravine Clean-Up and Rescue Service
"Small voluntary civilian gatherings started on 15 April around Monument to the People's Heroes in the middle of the Tiananmen Square in the form of mourning for Hu Yaobang."
"The movement lasted seven weeks after Hu's death on 15 April. In early June, the People's Liberation Army moved into the streets of Beijing with troops and tanks and cleared the square with live fire."
Sometimes brutal crackdowns take a while to get organized.
Agreed. Take Quakers, please! They has profound civility. But this humility is a double-edged sword... Bombard your average Quaker with gamma rays and you get... something... dangerous...
I agree. Learning from the harsh realities keeps us more or less on the ethical path. All the warm & fuzzy feelings you need these days can come from a pill, which wears off. Blind idealism lasts a lifetime (or more!).
After Tron: Legacy I told my son Clu's face was very Oblivionesque. I can't decide if they didn't spend enough money/time working on it or they were simply screwed by being up against the uncanny valley.
I, too, laugh at people who give up control of their data so easily, especially those who trust "computers" and "disks". Dell and Verbatim will never be able to hold my data hostage because I engrave all my data on gold foil.
"EA is not willing to put the money into making worth while 20 hour game much less a good 50-60 hour single player game (it hurts their profit margin)."
This is why Bioware under EA's thumb makes NO SENSE at all. I guess Bioware is crazy too because they want to be the next MMO gods. It's a shame because Bioware's given me excellent long-duration single-player fun over the last 10 years.
"It is data about your actions... But it isn't your data. It belongs to the credit card company."
I think you are exactly correct! However, I must inject some common sense here: if the Feds are using a variety of data sources to track ME specifically, then the issue is sneaking into 4th amendment territory. For example, a reasonable person would object if a policeman followed them all day long noting what purchases they made. This is the virtual equivalent. Yes? No? Maybe?
Hear, Here! I'm fully on board with companies employing people to make considered, rational judgement about player-created content. Stephen Toulouse demonstrated in his post:
1) Consideration: He and his team are aware of the history of the swastika. 2) Reasonableness: What the average user of their services would associate with the symbol.
This is sanity, not oppression. Toulouse should be commended for his straightforward explanation.
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We learn to put on the club out of habit so that when we do go to Walmart our car is left alone. Sometimes it's a good idea not to interrupt automatic processes with rational thought... believe it or not.
Always wanted to go to Arcosanti...
Sex. Sure, you and your SO may be so good at sex it only lasts a few seconds, but you'd never admit it in public.
Embarrassingly Parallel Processing is the same way.
One of the things I've deeply enjoyed about /. was NO TOP TEN LISTS. True this is an arty outside of /. but still...
Sheer lunacy!
My Mom gave me pot in the 70's. Nothing bad happened.
I gave pot to my son in the 00's. He turned it down. I said to him: YOU UNGRATEFUL CHILD. I USED TO WALK FIVE MILES IN THE SNOW TO GET A QUARTER OUNCE.
Frankly, I find refusing pot to be indefensible. But since I love my son I'll put up with it.
Wear rose colored glasses much?
I remember those days too and you failed to mention most houses back then were only 512 x 384, black & white, and 1200 baud.
Jes' sayin'...
Honestly, I _have_ found a number of answers on ExE, it's just stupid that you have to scroll down. eHow is just an armpit - most every time I visit - say - looking for XP fix info - I end up at a page that explains how to find Control Panels in the Start menu.
Dear Google: the more ads a page hosts, the less chance that page has usable info. You have met the enemy and he is you!
I played FE on my PC not six months ago and loved it. Did not know about Dark Castle, Heh heh heh. Thanks.
I agree AAoW and even, yes, AAoWaSea, were amazingly well balanced games that had great replayability. Why Evryware doesn't re-release it is beyond me. http://www.evryware.com/index.html
Y'know I'd buy one if Apple resurrected some old Mac games:
The Ancient Art of War
Armor Alley
Balance of Power
The Fools Errand
Cap'n Magneto
Continuum
Core War
Dark Castle
Dungeon of Doom
and
Orlando Poon's Toxic Ravine Clean-Up and Rescue Service
Shoot me, I'm old.
Cursing at your computer is stupid; it's an inanimate object. I save the nasty stuff for the cats.
*author! author!*
If Bing was to have a kick-ass search engine all they need to do:
1) Run a somewhat competent spider.
2) Rank pages with more Google ads lower.
Just pointing out...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989
"Small voluntary civilian gatherings started on 15 April around Monument to the People's Heroes in the middle of the Tiananmen Square in the form of mourning for Hu Yaobang."
"The movement lasted seven weeks after Hu's death on 15 April. In early June, the People's Liberation Army moved into the streets of Beijing with troops and tanks and cleared the square with live fire."
Sometimes brutal crackdowns take a while to get organized.
In the future every game will be MMO - even the single player ones.
Pssst. "aside" means "without", not "extra helping". ;)
Pass it on.
Agreed. Take Quakers, please! They has profound civility. But this humility is a double-edged sword... Bombard your average Quaker with gamma rays and you get... something... dangerous...
Smedley Darlington Butler smash!
Just don't ask him about convection changes in the earth's core; he'll freak out.
I agree. Learning from the harsh realities keeps us more or less on the ethical path. All the warm & fuzzy feelings you need these days can come from a pill, which wears off. Blind idealism lasts a lifetime (or more!).
I don't know, "wield" has such a heavy sound, man.
After Tron: Legacy I told my son Clu's face was very Oblivionesque. I can't decide if they didn't spend enough money/time working on it or they were simply screwed by being up against the uncanny valley.
After my GF played Minecraft for 40+ hours I bought the alpha for her. So I can't even calculate the non-risk involved here!
I'm surprised EA hasn't bought Minecraft. This is exactly the kind of good game they like to screw up.
I, too, laugh at people who give up control of their data so easily, especially those who trust "computers" and "disks". Dell and Verbatim will never be able to hold my data hostage because I engrave all my data on gold foil.
Very, very tiny gold foil.
On my teeth.
"EA is not willing to put the money into making worth while 20 hour game much less a good 50-60 hour single player game (it hurts their profit margin)."
This is why Bioware under EA's thumb makes NO SENSE at all. I guess Bioware is crazy too because they want to be the next MMO gods. It's a shame because Bioware's given me excellent long-duration single-player fun over the last 10 years.
"It is data about your actions... But it isn't your data. It belongs to the credit card company."
I think you are exactly correct! However, I must inject some common sense here: if the Feds are using a variety of data sources to track ME specifically, then the issue is sneaking into 4th amendment territory. For example, a reasonable person would object if a policeman followed them all day long noting what purchases they made. This is the virtual equivalent. Yes? No? Maybe?
Hear, Here! I'm fully on board with companies employing people to make considered, rational judgement about player-created content. Stephen Toulouse demonstrated in his post:
1) Consideration: He and his team are aware of the history of the swastika.
2) Reasonableness: What the average user of their services would associate with the symbol.
This is sanity, not oppression. Toulouse should be commended for his straightforward explanation.
Better than being unemployed and asking, "Brother, can you spare an IPv4 address?"