Well, fortunately we have the concept of de minimis, which means the court does not get involved in trivial things. Everyone is free to file counter-notices, though people rarely do (perhaps because the content typically is, in fact, infringing?) Knowing and exercising your rights is part of the responsibility of living in a free society. Too many people put the onus on the government to be their guardian angel, but courts exist as a last resort, not the first line of defense. The expectation that your actions be free of scrutiny or conflict is an unreasonable one, particularly when those actions are intended for public viewing.
Maybe I'm thinking of throwing bodies and then pulling them back before they hit the other enemies. I'll admit my memory is not the best, but I do remember thinking the gravity gun made things too easy, and just seemed like a gimmick. Powerful weapons are usually balanced with negative consequences.. shotguns are only effective at short range, rocket launchers and your BFG type weapons have the potential to kill you at close range, etc. There wasn't really any reason not to repeatedly throw furniture down a hallway until everyone was dead. It was entertaining, yes, but not something I want to see proliferate to every other game. I think BioShock's concept of telekinesis was good -- catching grenades and such -- but in practice the other abilities just seem more effective. Granted, I haven't finished it yet though. Got just past the part where I received the telekinesis ability on the 360, then I decided I wanted to use a mouse, so I downloaded it from Steam and now I'm waiting for my new vid card to arrive.
Interesting idea. Here's my shopping list: 1 PSP, 1 Padded Toilet Seat, and 1 Reclining Toilet. And I'll start working on the following line: "For the love of Christ, I'm trying to take a crap here. I'll be done when I'm done!"
As the sibling poster observed, MMORPGs are not casual games. Secondly, when's the last time you saw someone over 10 actually standing up to play the Wii? I've done it, sure, but most people eventually end up playing (or trying to play) while seated. Most people that I've seen don't even (try to) do the "forms" in Wario. My point is, the interaction will generally degrade to the least amount of effort necessary, at which point people will be annoyed that they need to wave their arms when a simple button press would've sufficed.
I respect your opinion though, and agree to disagree, etc., etc..
I think you're highly underestimating the number of us lazy fscks who would avoid hours of physical activity at any cost. But seriously, I play games to relax and unwind, not as exercise, and there's no way I would play that sort of game. Hacking and slashing? Waving your arms to cast a spell? Count me out.
I'm more in the camp of the poster above, who noted that WoW was just in the right place at the right time. (MM)ORPGs had been growing exponentially in popularity since the days of Kesmai and AO (if not earlier), and they just happened to hit critical mass around the time WoW was launched. New gamers couldn't really get into any of the established competitors at the time and, coincidentally, the established game players (particularly in the behemoth that was EQ) were getting burned out and looking for something new. WoW didn't really bring anything new to the table, other than perhaps the Warcraft name recognition. The offline XP bonus may have contributed somewhat to the success of WoW, but I sincerely doubt that most of the new vict.. er, new gamers took much advantage of it (other than during sleep/work), or that it contributed in any meaningful way to keeping up with their "more dedicated" friends. New gamers have few, if any, existing friends in-game anyway, and I suspect that most people mainly become friends with others who happen to level at the same rate, regardless of what that rate might be.
You're one lucky sonofabitch. Any time I even move near the console, my wife shoots me the look of death. As if I could even use the thing. The last time I turned it on, she chopped off my hands at the wrist.
Yeah, I think the plasmids were poorly implemented, but I honestly didn't want to see the gravity gun again. That thing just felt like a cheat code. You could just repeatedly click to pick up bad guys and throw them into walls and each other until they were all dead. It made any indoor level a breeze. The only caveat was that if you got too enthusiastic and clicked too fast, you could "rescue" your victim before he actually hit anything.
How is that ridiculous? Let's say the music in question happened to signal space monsters to attack the Earth after it was broadcast? Wouldn't the RIAA in many ways be liable for any potential damages by said space monsters? I don't think it's a stretch to say that the effects of completely irrelevant happenstance should be pinned squarely on the RIAA. To put it simply, if Canada won't take the blame, the RIAA must. And Canada won't. I asked.
Sure, or I could just run a VM, but why bother? There's still all the other applications I mentioned, and in the end, I'm no more Windows agnostic than I was to begin with, and I take a performance hit to boot.
"50 percent of our ability to track, understand and know about these terrorists, what they're doing to train, what they're doing to recruit and what they're doing to try to get into this country.'"
That's funny.. I was pretty sure we used spies to find out what people are doing outside of the country, and I wasn't aware that a warrant was required for spying. And honestly, I think NBC could do a better job at domestic surveillance.
Car pulls up to the house. Man steps out of the car. The camera crew can be heard gasping, "Oh my God, he brought his son."
The decoy greets the man warmly at the door. "I'm just going to go slip into something more bulletproof. Be right back!"
Really, you actually saw it? Has anyone ever actually seen this? I mean, I've heard the story repeatedly, but has anyone actually tailed another car to see them go miles out of their way to go to a cheaper station, and then turn around and go back miles in the other direction? I mean really verified that the driver was going out of his way? And since you say "people," you've done this more than once?
I wouldn't switch at this point. While I understand what you're saying, Windows serves my needs better than any OS I've tried recently. uTorrent is my preferred client, I like the Adobe CSx suites, I actually like Office, I enjoy playing games, video production, and music production, and no other OS meets all of those criteria as well as Windows. If I did web apps and backend services, or even if I was a typical web, e-mail, and term paper type of guy, I'd probably pick Linux. If I was exclusively the creative type, I might choose OSX. As it stands however, the software community has made Windows the OS of choice. If and when that changes, I would probably change as well. So in contrast to your argument, I choose Windows because software is a tool, and Windows simply has the tools I want.
You're right, it's not rocket science. All you need is a low-pass filter on the EKG leads, and 99% of your RF interference is gone. Well I'll be damned.. someone already thought of it.
The problem is that most password policies require certain things, like X uppercase, X lowercase, X numeric, and X special characters. That seems more secure, but it's an inherent weakness. In practical terms, however, it IS more secure than some user choosing "password" or "qwerty".
More importantly, just like the bathroom, you generally need physical access to the machine (short of some remote exploit, trojan, rootkit, etc., in which case your password is irrelevant anyway). It's a well known axiom that if an attacker has physical access to a machine, all bets are off.
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I know the FCC is God-like, but I'm pretty sure the moon is outside of their jurisdiction.
Well, fortunately we have the concept of de minimis, which means the court does not get involved in trivial things. Everyone is free to file counter-notices, though people rarely do (perhaps because the content typically is, in fact, infringing?) Knowing and exercising your rights is part of the responsibility of living in a free society. Too many people put the onus on the government to be their guardian angel, but courts exist as a last resort, not the first line of defense. The expectation that your actions be free of scrutiny or conflict is an unreasonable one, particularly when those actions are intended for public viewing.
Maybe I'm thinking of throwing bodies and then pulling them back before they hit the other enemies. I'll admit my memory is not the best, but I do remember thinking the gravity gun made things too easy, and just seemed like a gimmick. Powerful weapons are usually balanced with negative consequences.. shotguns are only effective at short range, rocket launchers and your BFG type weapons have the potential to kill you at close range, etc. There wasn't really any reason not to repeatedly throw furniture down a hallway until everyone was dead. It was entertaining, yes, but not something I want to see proliferate to every other game. I think BioShock's concept of telekinesis was good -- catching grenades and such -- but in practice the other abilities just seem more effective. Granted, I haven't finished it yet though. Got just past the part where I received the telekinesis ability on the 360, then I decided I wanted to use a mouse, so I downloaded it from Steam and now I'm waiting for my new vid card to arrive.
Interesting idea. Here's my shopping list: 1 PSP, 1 Padded Toilet Seat, and 1 Reclining Toilet. And I'll start working on the following line: "For the love of Christ, I'm trying to take a crap here. I'll be done when I'm done!"
As the sibling poster observed, MMORPGs are not casual games. Secondly, when's the last time you saw someone over 10 actually standing up to play the Wii? I've done it, sure, but most people eventually end up playing (or trying to play) while seated. Most people that I've seen don't even (try to) do the "forms" in Wario. My point is, the interaction will generally degrade to the least amount of effort necessary, at which point people will be annoyed that they need to wave their arms when a simple button press would've sufficed.
I respect your opinion though, and agree to disagree, etc., etc..
Oops, my mistake.. I believed Digg without checking my facts. I should be shot.
Actually, that was made in the 90s.
BTW, also I half expected the chick to yell T-BONE PERRRRKINS!
My mind agrees with Henry Jenkins, but my heart agrees with Leroy Jenkins.
I think you're highly underestimating the number of us lazy fscks who would avoid hours of physical activity at any cost. But seriously, I play games to relax and unwind, not as exercise, and there's no way I would play that sort of game. Hacking and slashing? Waving your arms to cast a spell? Count me out.
I'm more in the camp of the poster above, who noted that WoW was just in the right place at the right time. (MM)ORPGs had been growing exponentially in popularity since the days of Kesmai and AO (if not earlier), and they just happened to hit critical mass around the time WoW was launched. New gamers couldn't really get into any of the established competitors at the time and, coincidentally, the established game players (particularly in the behemoth that was EQ) were getting burned out and looking for something new. WoW didn't really bring anything new to the table, other than perhaps the Warcraft name recognition. The offline XP bonus may have contributed somewhat to the success of WoW, but I sincerely doubt that most of the new vict.. er, new gamers took much advantage of it (other than during sleep/work), or that it contributed in any meaningful way to keeping up with their "more dedicated" friends. New gamers have few, if any, existing friends in-game anyway, and I suspect that most people mainly become friends with others who happen to level at the same rate, regardless of what that rate might be.
You're one lucky sonofabitch. Any time I even move near the console, my wife shoots me the look of death. As if I could even use the thing. The last time I turned it on, she chopped off my hands at the wrist.
Yeah, I think the plasmids were poorly implemented, but I honestly didn't want to see the gravity gun again. That thing just felt like a cheat code. You could just repeatedly click to pick up bad guys and throw them into walls and each other until they were all dead. It made any indoor level a breeze. The only caveat was that if you got too enthusiastic and clicked too fast, you could "rescue" your victim before he actually hit anything.
Clearly you're forgetting that computers never make mistakes!!
How is that ridiculous? Let's say the music in question happened to signal space monsters to attack the Earth after it was broadcast? Wouldn't the RIAA in many ways be liable for any potential damages by said space monsters? I don't think it's a stretch to say that the effects of completely irrelevant happenstance should be pinned squarely on the RIAA. To put it simply, if Canada won't take the blame, the RIAA must. And Canada won't. I asked.
Sure, or I could just run a VM, but why bother? There's still all the other applications I mentioned, and in the end, I'm no more Windows agnostic than I was to begin with, and I take a performance hit to boot.
Let us know in 3 days when the transfer completes.
I thought the default wife ringtone was the Imperial March.
"50 percent of our ability to track, understand and know about these terrorists, what they're doing to train, what they're doing to recruit and what they're doing to try to get into this country.'"
That's funny.. I was pretty sure we used spies to find out what people are doing outside of the country, and I wasn't aware that a warrant was required for spying. And honestly, I think NBC could do a better job at domestic surveillance.
Car pulls up to the house. Man steps out of the car. The camera crew can be heard gasping, "Oh my God, he brought his son."
The decoy greets the man warmly at the door. "I'm just going to go slip into something more bulletproof. Be right back!"
In walks Chris Hansen... Hilarity ensues.
Really, you actually saw it? Has anyone ever actually seen this? I mean, I've heard the story repeatedly, but has anyone actually tailed another car to see them go miles out of their way to go to a cheaper station, and then turn around and go back miles in the other direction? I mean really verified that the driver was going out of his way? And since you say "people," you've done this more than once?
I'm just saying...
I wouldn't switch at this point. While I understand what you're saying, Windows serves my needs better than any OS I've tried recently. uTorrent is my preferred client, I like the Adobe CSx suites, I actually like Office, I enjoy playing games, video production, and music production, and no other OS meets all of those criteria as well as Windows. If I did web apps and backend services, or even if I was a typical web, e-mail, and term paper type of guy, I'd probably pick Linux. If I was exclusively the creative type, I might choose OSX. As it stands however, the software community has made Windows the OS of choice. If and when that changes, I would probably change as well. So in contrast to your argument, I choose Windows because software is a tool, and Windows simply has the tools I want.
Soft and gently, apparently. Like date rape.
You're right, it's not rocket science. All you need is a low-pass filter on the EKG leads, and 99% of your RF interference is gone. Well I'll be damned.. someone already thought of it.
The problem is that most password policies require certain things, like X uppercase, X lowercase, X numeric, and X special characters. That seems more secure, but it's an inherent weakness. In practical terms, however, it IS more secure than some user choosing "password" or "qwerty".
More importantly, just like the bathroom, you generally need physical access to the machine (short of some remote exploit, trojan, rootkit, etc., in which case your password is irrelevant anyway). It's a well known axiom that if an attacker has physical access to a machine, all bets are off.
To be fair, most people wouldn't recognize an ad if it popped up and told them they had a slow internet connection in a colorful flashing marquee.