Well, see, Harry has this ring^H^H^H^H diary that contains the life essence of Saur*cough*, I mean, Voldemort that he (Harry) has to destroy, but first they (the hobbi^H^H er, kids) have to find the entrance to Mord*scribble scribble* the Chamber of Secrets that's in one of the two Towers at Middle School or something...
This sort of thing is precisely why I will never run XP on any of my own computers. If I have to run a Windows program, it will be on Windows 2000. When new software stops supporting that platform I hope to have already switched everything over to either my Mac or Linux boxen.
I use minidiscs to record audio for low budget films. The initial reason as to why I went MD was that I thought I'd be able to transfer the audio over to my computer digitally.
I still have to record via analog thanks to these fuckwit decisions. I'm a content creator, you bastards! And no, I'm not going to plunk down the cash for the absurdly expensive MD recorders that have a digital out. I can't afford it. Less money for Sony, more frustration for me.
After working for a few big companies I discovered that they are all run by monkies on crack. Depressing, really...
I take it you are not a violent person now; that's great. But how do you know you wouldn't be even less violent if you had never played them?
Because I'm not violent at all in Real Life, so I couldn't possibly get any less violent.:)
Are my sample points too small? Yes, they are! I'm just trying to make a small, individual point, not one big sweeping statistically-useful point. I'm a slashdotter, fer crying out loud!
Note: All the violent kids who made my life miserable in high school didn't play violent video games at all. Computers were far to geeky for their tastes.
My point is that the cause behind violent people is far more complex than is presented in bills such as this one (a view that you kinda seem to agree with). The focus is on the wrong issues. Children don't need protection from video games. From what I've seen, children need better protection from their bigoted, closed-minded, double-standard-upholding parents.
(I grew up in a religious town. On average, the more religious the parents, the more messed up their kids were. Should we have a bill preventing kids from having contact with religious parents until they're 18?)
Am I a concise debater? Nope. Do I always make deep insightful points in my posts? Never said I did. Am I totally scatterbrained? Mad? Stark raving? Possib...ooo! Shiny!
Well, I suppose I could join the army and kill some 'o them homo-sapiens, but with my WC3 training I'd probably just get put in tactical.
"Sir! The enemy has been spotted over yonder sand dune!"
*rubs hands together* "Perfect! Okay, everyone gather 'round the archmage! We're gonna teleport into their midst and take out their production lines! You, Private Bulletfodder! Call the CO and..."
"Sir! What the fsck is an archmage, Sir!?"
"Um... hm. Do we have any steam tanks?"
"Sir, we have a few hundred regular tanks, Sir!"
"Damn! What about elven healers? We need those or the assult will fail!"
"Sir, what the fsck, Sir!"
"Kodo beasts?"
"No, Sir!"
"Griffens? Archers? Ancients? Death Knights?"
"No!"
"At least a few Dark Templars, right?"
"No, and you're confused, Sir!"
"Um. Okay... we retreat! Get the zepplins!"
"... Sir... zepplins??"
"You know, from those goblin folk!"
"Sir, the CO recommends we shoot you through the head with extreme prejudise... pregudiss... predj... with extreme evilness!"
*bang!*
*thud!* *bleeeeeeed...*
"I'm slain! Oh, it's a far better thing I do for my people than I could ever country for... I mean... to put food on my family... or... *gasp*... to be or not to am! With... with carrots! Carrots and lima beans!"
Yeah! I grew up on those old Sierra games! My first computer was a PCjr so I got to see and hear the original King's Quest in all its low-res 16-color three-channel-sound glory.
Heck, I haven't purchased a single thing from Amazon since the 1-click patent hit. (I used to get both books and DVDs from them so they did lose a customer.)
Well then, I invite you to take my place at work for a day (tech support for an ISP) so you get to talk to all the customers who are pissed off because the mail server crashed due to its entire hard drive getting filled up with spam.
And I have never had trouble with the IBM Deskstar drives in my file server (been running for 3 years now). Maybe I got lucky and was shipped drives from a good batch...
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Ans(2): None, that's a hardware problem.
Well, see, Harry has this ring^H^H^H^H diary that contains the life essence of Saur*cough*, I mean, Voldemort that he (Harry) has to destroy, but first they (the hobbi^H^H er, kids) have to find the entrance to Mord*scribble scribble* the Chamber of Secrets that's in one of the two Towers at Middle School or something...
Get an axe!
Oh, wait... wrong series...
That's too bad, as the action sequences were far better in EP2. The dialog still sucked Jar-Jar droppings, though...
This sort of thing is precisely why I will never run XP on any of my own computers. If I have to run a Windows program, it will be on Windows 2000. When new software stops supporting that platform I hope to have already switched everything over to either my Mac or Linux boxen.
I use minidiscs to record audio for low budget films. The initial reason as to why I went MD was that I thought I'd be able to transfer the audio over to my computer digitally.
I still have to record via analog thanks to these fuckwit decisions. I'm a content creator, you bastards! And no, I'm not going to plunk down the cash for the absurdly expensive MD recorders that have a digital out. I can't afford it. Less money for Sony, more frustration for me.
After working for a few big companies I discovered that they are all run by monkies on crack. Depressing, really...
I take it you are not a violent person now; that's great. But how do you know you wouldn't be even less violent if you had never played them?
:)
Because I'm not violent at all in Real Life, so I couldn't possibly get any less violent.
Are my sample points too small? Yes, they are! I'm just trying to make a small, individual point, not one big sweeping statistically-useful point. I'm a slashdotter, fer crying out loud!
Note: All the violent kids who made my life miserable in high school didn't play violent video games at all. Computers were far to geeky for their tastes.
My point is that the cause behind violent people is far more complex than is presented in bills such as this one (a view that you kinda seem to agree with). The focus is on the wrong issues. Children don't need protection from video games. From what I've seen, children need better protection from their bigoted, closed-minded, double-standard-upholding parents.
(I grew up in a religious town. On average, the more religious the parents, the more messed up their kids were. Should we have a bill preventing kids from having contact with religious parents until they're 18?)
Am I a concise debater? Nope.
Do I always make deep insightful points in my posts? Never said I did.
Am I totally scatterbrained? Mad? Stark raving? Possib...ooo! Shiny!
Well, I suppose I could join the army and kill some 'o them homo-sapiens, but with my WC3 training I'd probably just get put in tactical.
"Sir! The enemy has been spotted over yonder sand dune!"
*rubs hands together* "Perfect! Okay, everyone gather 'round the archmage! We're gonna teleport into their midst and take out their production lines! You, Private Bulletfodder! Call the CO and..."
"Sir! What the fsck is an archmage, Sir!?"
"Um... hm. Do we have any steam tanks?"
"Sir, we have a few hundred regular tanks, Sir!"
"Damn! What about elven healers? We need those or the assult will fail!"
"Sir, what the fsck, Sir!"
"Kodo beasts?"
"No, Sir!"
"Griffens? Archers? Ancients? Death Knights?"
"No!"
"At least a few Dark Templars, right?"
"No, and you're confused, Sir!"
"Um. Okay... we retreat! Get the zepplins!"
"... Sir... zepplins??"
"You know, from those goblin folk!"
"Sir, the CO recommends we shoot you through the head with extreme prejudise... pregudiss... predj... with extreme evilness!"
*bang!* *thud!* *bleeeeeeed...*
"I'm slain! Oh, it's a far better thing I do for my people than I could ever country for... I mean... to put food on my family... or... *gasp*... to be or not to am! With... with carrots! Carrots and lima beans!"
*bang!*
"Ow!" *dies*
And they'll have some decent tactical training, too!
Lessee... Combat, Duke Nukem, Wolfenstein 3D, Duke Nukem 3D, Doom, Quake, Unreal, Unreal Tournament, Warcraft II, Starcraft, Warcraft III...
*looks around*
Nope, haven't killed any people yet.
err ... do you really need that much CPU power for a webserver ?
:)
If you're running IIS, absolutely. (I work at an ISP so this isn't just idle speculation.
I read several L'Engle books as a kid.
*looks around*
Nope, I'm still an atheist. Of course, they don't call me Mr. Oblivious fer nothin'...
I just may have to go read 'em again.
Yup. Upgraded to a whopping 256K on that sucker! (Actually, this required two of those add-ons. I had the widest PCjr in town!)
Yeah! I grew up on those old Sierra games! My first computer was a PCjr so I got to see and hear the original King's Quest in all its low-res 16-color three-channel-sound glory.
Any bets as to how long before their database becomes a part of the Total Information Awareness network?
Heck, I haven't purchased a single thing from Amazon since the 1-click patent hit. (I used to get both books and DVDs from them so they did lose a customer.)
Well then, I invite you to take my place at work for a day (tech support for an ISP) so you get to talk to all the customers who are pissed off because the mail server crashed due to its entire hard drive getting filled up with spam.
And I have never had trouble with the IBM Deskstar drives in my file server (been running for 3 years now). Maybe I got lucky and was shipped drives from a good batch...
And you're forgetting about us independant filmmakers. I wanna have my horribly low-budget films on DVD, darnit! And fast!
Or more reasons to use public key encryption...
The Missoula, MT one got canceled because only 1 persons RSVP'd. And that was me.
According to Apple's web page, the upgrade price only applies to those who bought a new mac on July 17th or later.
That effectively makes my Mac OS 10 upgrage coupons worthless.
Those bastards. I can't afford the $129 price tag for 10.2!
Ditto that! I ordered the book as soon as I saw there was a link to it.
Yeah, everyone knows that pure research is totally useless... :)