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The www.msn.com web server is Microsoft property. If they want to charge users of 3rd party browsers to access it, it's their prerogative.
If they can control access, good for them. But if it's accessible from the web, and there's a third party client that's capable of accessing it, then Microsoft is unreasonable to expect that access will be limited to official clients.
The way to test your "video games reinforce the neuron paths" hypothesis is to take two groups of children to a firing range. One group should be hardcore fps players, the other, ideally, should not play video games or interact with guns at all. If such an experiment showed that playing Quake increased your ability to use a firearm, I'd be more likely to agree with you. As it is, sounds like idle conjecture to me, because AFAIK, playing Quake is nothing like shooting a gun.
Last I heard, virtually every MMORPG had a thriving black market for auctions of characters, items, and whatever else required effort to produce in-game.
Well said. Gamespy has been an active force in pushing PC gaming away from grassroots, towards a centralized, top down, passive entertainment medium. To all of you enjoy gaming, seeking out alternatives to gamespy hosted sites is well worth the effort.
Concentrate on making a superior product and let word-of-mouth provide what they're paying so much money for? It's not as though gamers aren't fixated on their hardware performance already...
For those who have somehow managed to avoid these fools, Vegans are a group of new-age diet gurus who tell everyone who will listen that they are evil for eating meat. While there are many reasons to reduce the amount of meat in your diet, morality is not among them. Also, most "vegans" kill animals passively too. The real vegans who actually believe their own hype all grow their own food and are all rail-thin from malnourishment. If you meet a vibrant, glowing person who tries to sell you on a vegan diet, they're killing animals somewhere.
I agree completely. Animals are just like black people. It is a little known fact that shaving cream was invented by wolves. I, for one, would like to be the first to welcome our new canine brethren and invite them over for a healthy vegan dinner.
I believe the thread you are responding to meant that there is no justification for war, because it is invariably worse than the problem it seeks to solve.
Regarding your question in the first paragraph: The only lasting methods of social change are nonviolent, so the answer is through nonviolent methods. You might find George Orwell's Reflections On Gandhi relevant. Gandhi's comment regarding the Jews in Nazi Germany is distasteful and unpleasant, but most likely true. The last two sentences of your post are arguing from an emotional point of view, and I can only hope that should such a tragedy befall me, I will remain rational enough to practice what I preach.
In America*, there is no WAY we would sit back and watch the slaughter of half-a-dozen million of our citizens
You're right. That's why the Native Americans were denied citizenship until we could finish massacring them.
The vietnam war is special because the baby boomers opposed it. Since American society bows to them on every other issue, why should this one be any different?
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Ports of the doom engine to win32 (and other architectures) can be found at www.newdoom.com. I recommend ZDOOM, it keeps the flavor of the original doom (i.e. uses sprites instead of 3d models), but adds TCP/IP play, high resolution output, and a veritable cornucopia of other features.
I don't believe the Doom 3 engine is capable of some of the things that the Quake 2 engine is, such as 32 player deathmatch. But hey, if they do it, I'll sure as hell buy it, as long as it is kept network compatible with the old clients (Hard to do, but not impossible, methinks.)
Wow, so females play games too, huh? And this is new and exciting, because... they're female? As I recall, there was a similar article here a while back; it too took great pains to point out the chromosome difference, and also presented a poorly written analysis of "females in gaming", full of opinions and generalizations masquerading as a culture study. Both of the articles have such a phoney ring to them that I can't help but wonder what motivates them. Ideas, anyone?
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relax I'm not talking about a dress code here. I think your comment is self-contradictory. But relax, I'm not responding to your comment.
Doom 3 was very similar to HL1 in premise to start with More like, "Half-Life's premise was basically Doom 1 in a science lab instead of space to start with."
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The above post was about Miranda IM, and should've been previewed. Here is the real link. We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread.
Just got today, it supports virtually every IM protocol (Including the "big three") through plugins, and it's open source. On top of that, it is easily customizable, simple to set up, and looks better than the official clients. The fact that it connects to MSN, AIM, et al. makes a nice, smooth transition to Jabber, too. :D
Let's do a search and replace:
The www.msn.com web server is Microsoft property. If they want to charge users of 3rd party browsers to access it, it's their prerogative.
If they can control access, good for them. But if it's accessible from the web, and there's a third party client that's capable of accessing it, then Microsoft is unreasonable to expect that access will be limited to official clients.
I doubt that MSN messenger's ease of install will be beaten- it's preinstalled by default in Windows XP home.
The way to test your "video games reinforce the neuron paths" hypothesis is to take two groups of children to a firing range. One group should be hardcore fps players, the other, ideally, should not play video games or interact with guns at all. If such an experiment showed that playing Quake increased your ability to use a firearm, I'd be more likely to agree with you. As it is, sounds like idle conjecture to me, because AFAIK, playing Quake is nothing like shooting a gun.
Last I heard, virtually every MMORPG had a thriving black market for auctions of characters, items, and whatever else required effort to produce in-game.
Here you go, then.
...unless it doesn't.
Upcoming plans call for the Bittorrent protocol to support multiple trackers per torrent, adding further redundancy.
Well said. Gamespy has been an active force in pushing PC gaming away from grassroots, towards a centralized, top down, passive entertainment medium. To all of you enjoy gaming, seeking out alternatives to gamespy hosted sites is well worth the effort.
Concentrate on making a superior product and let word-of-mouth provide what they're paying so much money for? It's not as though gamers aren't fixated on their hardware performance already...
I like my coffee like I like my sabbath: Black.
For those who have somehow managed to avoid these fools, Vegans are a group of new-age diet gurus who tell everyone who will listen that they are evil for eating meat. While there are many reasons to reduce the amount of meat in your diet, morality is not among them. Also, most "vegans" kill animals passively too. The real vegans who actually believe their own hype all grow their own food and are all rail-thin from malnourishment. If you meet a vibrant, glowing person who tries to sell you on a vegan diet, they're killing animals somewhere.
I agree completely. Animals are just like black people. It is a little known fact that shaving cream was invented by wolves. I, for one, would like to be the first to welcome our new canine brethren and invite them over for a healthy vegan dinner.
Keep paying full price for video games. I will wait until a million of you do so, and then pick it up once it hits the bestseller list. ;)
Yeah, because there's a ton of programs that call home for linux.
I believe the thread you are responding to meant that there is no justification for war, because it is invariably worse than the problem it seeks to solve.
Regarding your question in the first paragraph: The only lasting methods of social change are nonviolent, so the answer is through nonviolent methods. You might find George Orwell's Reflections On Gandhi relevant. Gandhi's comment regarding the Jews in Nazi Germany is distasteful and unpleasant, but most likely true. The last two sentences of your post are arguing from an emotional point of view, and I can only hope that should such a tragedy befall me, I will remain rational enough to practice what I preach.
In America*, there is no WAY we would sit back and watch the slaughter of half-a-dozen million of our citizens
You're right. That's why the Native Americans were denied citizenship until we could finish massacring them.
The vietnam war is special because the baby boomers opposed it. Since American society bows to them on every other issue, why should this one be any different?
Ports of the doom engine to win32 (and other architectures) can be found at www.newdoom.com. I recommend ZDOOM, it keeps the flavor of the original doom (i.e. uses sprites instead of 3d models), but adds TCP/IP play, high resolution output, and a veritable cornucopia of other features.
Try fifteen weeks in the Sahara desert.
I don't believe the Doom 3 engine is capable of some of the things that the Quake 2 engine is, such as 32 player deathmatch. But hey, if they do it, I'll sure as hell buy it, as long as it is kept network compatible with the old clients (Hard to do, but not impossible, methinks.)
Wow, so females play games too, huh? And this is new and exciting, because... they're female? As I recall, there was a similar article here a while back; it too took great pains to point out the chromosome difference, and also presented a poorly written analysis of "females in gaming", full of opinions and generalizations masquerading as a culture study. Both of the articles have such a phoney ring to them that I can't help but wonder what motivates them. Ideas, anyone?
Employees should wear...
relax I'm not talking about a dress code here.
I think your comment is self-contradictory. But relax, I'm not responding to your comment.
Doom 3 was very similar to HL1 in premise to start with
More like, "Half-Life's premise was basically Doom 1 in a science lab instead of space to start with."