They don't 'disappear' at all, they're just not tracked once they leave the screen.
Right. So, a car goes around the corner. You follow. It's not there. Alternately, you see a nice car that you want to steal, and take a shortcut to cut it off. It never shows up. I call those cases disappearing. It doesn't ruin the game, but it'd be nice if Rockstar could fix it. If the PS2 isn't capable of keeping track of offscreen vehicles, they could at least add it in for the PC and Xbox versions.
Out of curiosity:
Do you think it's wrong for (prepubescent) children to explore each other's bodies of their own accord? (i.e., no adult telling them to)
If you answered yes, I'd like to hear that logic. If you answered no, then there's one example for you of a case where child sexual activity isn't harmful. I'm not condoning abuse, molestation, or any kind of adult-child relationship, but I do think that all people are sexual beings to some degree, including children. It's possible for kids to have certain kinds of healthy sexual exploration without getting screwed up. Now, that doesn't necessarily justify videotaping it, but I disagree with your premise that any sexual activity is harmful by definition.
Child pornography is the sexual exploitation of children for private pleasure or commercial gain. It is not by any stretch of the imagination a victimless crime.
Production of child porn is obviously not a victimless crime, but possession is. Unless you paid for it (funding more production), the mere possession of child porn does nothing to harm children, assuming you don't actually go molest them yourself.
It does not provide automatic driver support for every wireless device. The Playstation 2 has a USB port on it, but that doesn't mean it can read images off my USB camera or print to my USB printer.
But the technology is there. PS2 Linux can presumably use that port however you want (I assume, I've never used it). All it takes is software to support it. Universal wireless Internet gaming is so cool that Nintendo would be stupid not to support it, as long as they've already got the hardware in place.
Oh, please. Stop it with the fucking political correctness.
Murder is worse than rape, right? Yet no one cares when we use murder as a metaphor - "the Yankees just murdered the Red Sox", for example. Why should we treat rape any differently?
Depends on the 14-year-old. I played GTA at that age, and it had no (noticable) effect on me. Some 14-year-olds may be inspired to go on shooting sprees. It's a judgement call for the parents. Unfortunately, parents whose kids might go on a GTA-inspired shooting spree are probably the same parents who aren't going to enforce rules about the games their kids play.
As a current high school sophomore, I can say that I've used graph paper (although nto extensively) in every class from prealgebra through precalculus. I've never seen computers used to teach math, although graphing calculators are enormously popular.
I bought a Radeon 9700 PRO almost 2 years ago. It's still running fine in UT2004 at 1600x1200 with all settings maxed. It will run Doom 3 and HL2 fine, and probably every new game in the next couple years (albeit maybe not at max settings).
If you buy a $40 card to play today's game, of course it'll have trouble with tomorrow's. If you invest in a decent card, it'll last you at least as long as cards ever have.
No. MS will continue to default to WMA, and Apple will continue nudging everyone towards AAC. Both OS providers have their own pet formats. I don't see SuperMP3 gaining much ground.
The great-grandparent poster wasn't ripping at 128kbps, he was ripping at 320kbps. That's almost FLAC size, which is why the grandparent suggested FLAC.
The problem with CinePaint is that it's pretty much a complete fork, and hasn't tracked any changes to the GIMP since 1.2 or so - CinePaint still uses GTK1 and the old, clumsy, nondockable interface.
MS Office is no longer a moving target. MS has to maintain backwards compatibility, so they can't change their format. If the OO importer can replicate Office 97, it will be able to open just about everything for the forseeable future.
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Right. So, a car goes around the corner. You follow. It's not there. Alternately, you see a nice car that you want to steal, and take a shortcut to cut it off. It never shows up. I call those cases disappearing. It doesn't ruin the game, but it'd be nice if Rockstar could fix it. If the PS2 isn't capable of keeping track of offscreen vehicles, they could at least add it in for the PC and Xbox versions.
typo != retard
Unless you download it directly from them, they have no way to know whether or not anyone's looking at their pics.
Do you think it's wrong for (prepubescent) children to explore each other's bodies of their own accord? (i.e., no adult telling them to)
If you answered yes, I'd like to hear that logic. If you answered no, then there's one example for you of a case where child sexual activity isn't harmful. I'm not condoning abuse, molestation, or any kind of adult-child relationship, but I do think that all people are sexual beings to some degree, including children. It's possible for kids to have certain kinds of healthy sexual exploration without getting screwed up. Now, that doesn't necessarily justify videotaping it, but I disagree with your premise that any sexual activity is harmful by definition.
Production of child porn is obviously not a victimless crime, but possession is. Unless you paid for it (funding more production), the mere possession of child porn does nothing to harm children, assuming you don't actually go molest them yourself.
I believe the GBA actually has a real Z80 built in alongside the ARM7 to run GBC and GB games.
The GC costs $99. It's not a "pro" model. In fact, "pro" gaming is pretty much an oxymoron, except on PC.
But the technology is there. PS2 Linux can presumably use that port however you want (I assume, I've never used it). All it takes is software to support it. Universal wireless Internet gaming is so cool that Nintendo would be stupid not to support it, as long as they've already got the hardware in place.
By '1.93' he meant '1.92'. Or 'latest'.
comgress.org will give you contact infoformation for your elected officials, given a zip code.
Murder is worse than rape, right? Yet no one cares when we use murder as a metaphor - "the Yankees just murdered the Red Sox", for example. Why should we treat rape any differently?
They already have prepaid certificates and allowances, which fufill much the same purpose.
Don't forget F-Zero and Super Smash Bros. Melee
Has any /. reader not heard about this? Several times?
Depends on the 14-year-old. I played GTA at that age, and it had no (noticable) effect on me. Some 14-year-olds may be inspired to go on shooting sprees. It's a judgement call for the parents. Unfortunately, parents whose kids might go on a GTA-inspired shooting spree are probably the same parents who aren't going to enforce rules about the games their kids play.
As a current high school sophomore, I can say that I've used graph paper (although nto extensively) in every class from prealgebra through precalculus. I've never seen computers used to teach math, although graphing calculators are enormously popular.
You mean other than Mozilla and everything else usuing the Gecko engine?
If you buy a $40 card to play today's game, of course it'll have trouble with tomorrow's. If you invest in a decent card, it'll last you at least as long as cards ever have.
Of course it can. It's Turing complete, isn't it?
No. MS will continue to default to WMA, and Apple will continue nudging everyone towards AAC. Both OS providers have their own pet formats. I don't see SuperMP3 gaining much ground.
The great-grandparent poster wasn't ripping at 128kbps, he was ripping at 320kbps. That's almost FLAC size, which is why the grandparent suggested FLAC.
No. They run Linux, with their own proprietary software over it.
The problem with CinePaint is that it's pretty much a complete fork, and hasn't tracked any changes to the GIMP since 1.2 or so - CinePaint still uses GTK1 and the old, clumsy, nondockable interface.
MS Office is no longer a moving target. MS has to maintain backwards compatibility, so they can't change their format. If the OO importer can replicate Office 97, it will be able to open just about everything for the forseeable future.
Funny, I always thought the point of a free download was that you didn't have to pay for it.