-Come out with a decent game (Half-Life), and then do nothing. The price of the game drops to the usual discount prices and all of a sudden, counter-strike becomes popular. What does valve do? Jack the price back up to $40! Where it still sits, 6 years later! And they've done pretty much nothing in the meantime except sit back and grow fat off CS's popularity.
Oh my god!! A company that charges what the market will bear! How can they do such a thing?
That's not even true either. I bought the HL platinum pack HL + CS + OpFor + Blue Shift + TFC for $25
Sorry if I sound ignorant or anything. It would be because I never use eBay myself. How come he can't just call the police on this guy. He payed money for a item he didn't recieve. That is fraud in my book. Atleast he can take the guy to small claims court or something. Can some more experienced eBayer tell me what is tying this guy's hands??
What happens when the newest worm automatically dials 911. The system would be absolutely swamped, cops would be running around because when someone dials 911 and hangs up they still have to call, many people that actually had an emergency would never get through. It would be a serious disaster.
I think the poster was a little confused about that. I remember seeing an article in the NY Times a couple months ago (I tried searching but couldn't find it) about how in the south some christian radio owners are taking advantage of a law that gives high power broadcast station precedence over low power signal relay stations. Many places get NPR only because it is retransmitted through a relay station. The article talked about how this man was on a mission to get rid of NPR and did it by starting radio stations that broadcasted with higher power and therefore got NPR's frequencies. It had nothing to do with ClearChannel.
High schools used to ban cell phones because the only people that had them at school were drug dealers. That is no longer the case and most high schools allow you to have cell phones as long as they don't ring in class. You can even call people while in the halls or at lunch. I'm quite sure some people were actually able to be rescued out of Columbine High during the shooting because they called the police on cell phones.
Some people are on call 24 hours a day. It it absurd to think they shouldn't do anything but sit in their car waiting for a call. Doctors can have a life too.
I downloaded the demo and decided that I would not buy DX:IW after playing it for five minutes. Now you can flame me and say I haven't played the full game and that I'm just one of those people that thinks its fun to bitch about video games, but think for a second. It was a demonstration of the game, and unless they decided to put the worst level in the game in the demo, which would be quite stupid, I can judge if I will like the game or not by playing that level.
Pre-release alphas and betas are different, but the only things you can't really judge from a demo are plot features. You can judge if you will like the gameplay/graphics/etc. I thought graphics looked sub-par, I thought the menu's and iventory system were rediculous, and I definitely experienced the lack of localized damage when I shot people in the head many times and they didn't die. Do you really think that so many people bitching about the lack of localized damage are wrong?
Finally, for those that say you should give it a chance. Hell no! That game would cost me fifty dollars. If I could rent it and try it on console maybe I'd do it, but as a PC gamer I don't have that option and fifty dollars is just way too much for a trial of something which had a demo that suggested I wouldn't like it.
I was just inspecting my IDE cables and I noticed that the connector denoted master is a light gray, while the slave connector is black. It seems that the people who designed this standard were part of a conspiracy to bring black slavery in the United States. I should have seen it all along.
Some people do consider intellectual aspects of a film fun, others do not. One person may find Citizen Kane an excellent movie with a great story and other may not be so interested in it. This is the same reason why one person might think trudging through the Myst universe for hours is fun, and another might only want to play a fast paced fps like counter-strike. The point is a game has to be fun for a person to play, but different people have different definitions of fun, and therefore another person's review of a game is worthless to you.
I don't know much about challenge/response type filtering, but I am curious. What happens when one person using challenge/response emails someone else using it? What about mailing lists you want to be on?
I saw Geer talking on TechTV yesterday and he totally came across as an overzealous MS basher. I admit I haven't read the report, but in his little blurb he just kept talking about how nobody should ever use the most popular OS out there, and how bad MS is. It was like he thought he was posting on/. and forgot that he had published a report and was being featured on TV.
Trusted is not the way to go, anonymous is. Why would I only want to be able to get files from friends. I can just get them to burn me a cd if I really want something. How would I get something new and different if its just all the stuff that my friends have. The point of p2p was to be able to get a ton of stuff from mainstream to obscure. What would be a better solution is one that is completely anonymous and encrypted so that it doesn't matter if the RIAA cop downloaded your stuff, he still doesn't know who the hell you are.
Why don't they just bundle, or optionally bundle, a NAT router like the SMC Barricade series, with their modem. They could make some money off it because they could use the buzz word firewall and tout its security. Then this would give the ability to anyone that knew what they were doing to open up the ports of their choice, but the clueless would never even find the option to do so. Perhaps this could even be a built in feature of the modem itself.
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Oh my god!! A company that charges what the market will bear! How can they do such a thing?
That's not even true either. I bought the HL platinum pack HL + CS + OpFor + Blue Shift + TFC for $25
I'll see you in the dark!
No, you won't
At my high school swim meets we use flat pads on the wall. They never get triggered by waves, so they must be a lot less sensitive.
Are you implying that you actually saw Gigli???
In some back-holes of Earth, that's not legally possible.
Like Missouri?
Sorry if I sound ignorant or anything. It would be because I never use eBay myself. How come he can't just call the police on this guy. He payed money for a item he didn't recieve. That is fraud in my book. Atleast he can take the guy to small claims court or something. Can some more experienced eBayer tell me what is tying this guy's hands??
Does that clip of the intro soundtrack sound like TOOL/Perfect Circle to anyone else. I thought Trent Reznor did the soundtrack.
What happens when the newest worm automatically dials 911. The system would be absolutely swamped, cops would be running around because when someone dials 911 and hangs up they still have to call, many people that actually had an emergency would never get through. It would be a serious disaster.
I think the poster was a little confused about that. I remember seeing an article in the NY Times a couple months ago (I tried searching but couldn't find it) about how in the south some christian radio owners are taking advantage of a law that gives high power broadcast station precedence over low power signal relay stations. Many places get NPR only because it is retransmitted through a relay station. The article talked about how this man was on a mission to get rid of NPR and did it by starting radio stations that broadcasted with higher power and therefore got NPR's frequencies. It had nothing to do with ClearChannel.
High schools used to ban cell phones because the only people that had them at school were drug dealers. That is no longer the case and most high schools allow you to have cell phones as long as they don't ring in class. You can even call people while in the halls or at lunch. I'm quite sure some people were actually able to be rescued out of Columbine High during the shooting because they called the police on cell phones.
Some people are on call 24 hours a day. It it absurd to think they shouldn't do anything but sit in their car waiting for a call. Doctors can have a life too.
Downloading non-RIAA files.
Then you don't get sued...
People survived before medicine too, that doesn't mean its unnecessary.
I downloaded the demo and decided that I would not buy DX:IW after playing it for five minutes. Now you can flame me and say I haven't played the full game and that I'm just one of those people that thinks its fun to bitch about video games, but think for a second. It was a demonstration of the game, and unless they decided to put the worst level in the game in the demo, which would be quite stupid, I can judge if I will like the game or not by playing that level.
Pre-release alphas and betas are different, but the only things you can't really judge from a demo are plot features. You can judge if you will like the gameplay/graphics/etc. I thought graphics looked sub-par, I thought the menu's and iventory system were rediculous, and I definitely experienced the lack of localized damage when I shot people in the head many times and they didn't die. Do you really think that so many people bitching about the lack of localized damage are wrong?
Finally, for those that say you should give it a chance. Hell no! That game would cost me fifty dollars. If I could rent it and try it on console maybe I'd do it, but as a PC gamer I don't have that option and fifty dollars is just way too much for a trial of something which had a demo that suggested I wouldn't like it.
I was just inspecting my IDE cables and I noticed that the connector denoted master is a light gray, while the slave connector is black. It seems that the people who designed this standard were part of a conspiracy to bring black slavery in the United States. I should have seen it all along.
Are you sure? If they keypad keys were numbers by default and numlock didn't exist couldn't movement in Civ just be mapped to numpad2, numpad 4, etc?
Its the mail server not the mail sender that gets put on the ip list. People are not their own mail server when they use hotmail.
Some people do consider intellectual aspects of a film fun, others do not. One person may find Citizen Kane an excellent movie with a great story and other may not be so interested in it. This is the same reason why one person might think trudging through the Myst universe for hours is fun, and another might only want to play a fast paced fps like counter-strike. The point is a game has to be fun for a person to play, but different people have different definitions of fun, and therefore another person's review of a game is worthless to you.
I don't know much about challenge/response type filtering, but I am curious. What happens when one person using challenge/response emails someone else using it? What about mailing lists you want to be on?
I saw Geer talking on TechTV yesterday and he totally came across as an overzealous MS basher. I admit I haven't read the report, but in his little blurb he just kept talking about how nobody should ever use the most popular OS out there, and how bad MS is. It was like he thought he was posting on /. and forgot that he had published a report and was being featured on TV.
Explain how Ram is sold in Gigabytes and is measured in a base 2 system. I have never seen Ram sold in Gibibytes in my life.
Trusted is not the way to go, anonymous is. Why would I only want to be able to get files from friends. I can just get them to burn me a cd if I really want something. How would I get something new and different if its just all the stuff that my friends have. The point of p2p was to be able to get a ton of stuff from mainstream to obscure. What would be a better solution is one that is completely anonymous and encrypted so that it doesn't matter if the RIAA cop downloaded your stuff, he still doesn't know who the hell you are.
Why don't they just bundle, or optionally bundle, a NAT router like the SMC Barricade series, with their modem. They could make some money off it because they could use the buzz word firewall and tout its security. Then this would give the ability to anyone that knew what they were doing to open up the ports of their choice, but the clueless would never even find the option to do so. Perhaps this could even be a built in feature of the modem itself.
No, PanIP