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I was just thinking about playing Ghost Recon on our LAN back in the day before I read your post. It was great, but there was one guy who always picked the SAW and cried when he got sniped. To be honest, it is sort of like rock-paper-scissors, except snipers usually beat medium and heavy weapons if they're worth their salt. But in my opinion, adjusting to and taking advantage of any aspect of a game is part of what makes it fun.
Didn't read the license agreement? Sorry, but that's not Blizzard's problem. It would be nice if Blizzard had made it more obvious that they would be doing this.
It's funny how a comment like that gets modded up in this discussion, but they get modded down during any MS/Adobe/MessengerPlus++/Kazaa article. (Of course that's just a coincidence and it's not that people have double standards at all, it's just completely different people posting/modding today. I know, I know.)
The real problem is that people care too much about what other people are doing. This isn't the Olympics, or Las Vegas. There's no prize involved here. You don't stand to lose a mortgage payment. If you enjoy "killing" 100 bees so you level and get more HPs to kill 150 wasps, so you can level and get enough HPs to kill 200 monkeys, ad nauseum, then by all means.. What difference does it make if someone else uses a script to harvest spider monkey fur? If you enjoy doing it manually, then enjoy doing it manually.
That said, people should not have to waive their expectation of privacy for any reason other than public safety, and even then only in limited circumstances. "If you don't like it, don't play," is a cop-out.
The only difference between this particular piece of spyware and any other is that people are currently enjoying the effect, or the perception of an effect, with no thought as to the long-term effects, the broader perspective, or the precedent it establishes.
As I stated above, the problem isn't when one plumber does it, the problem is that all plumbers are going to start doing it because one plumber not only got away with it, but enjoyed amazing success in the process. When all companies are writing these clauses into their EULA's, then the only choice is whether or not to hire a plumber.
That's assuming that such EULA's are legal to begin with.. I don't think that's yet been established.
Blizzard is not trying to hide anything, and never was.
You're right. And it could be argued that this is like entering a club/bar: Submit to a pat-down and walk through a metal detector, or go somewhere else. Of course, going somewhere else doesn't help because they do it everywhere, but that's another matter.
And this will become ubiquitous, at least among multiplayer games -- which is most games currently sold. so the problem is that we then have 50 or 100 companies running around with unrestricted access to some percentage of home computers -- 50% let's say; could be more, could be less -- with nothing but the honor system to make sure they're using the information they collect in the manner they say they are. Seems like a pretty big gamble to ensure "an enjoyable gaming environment."
But, you know.. have fun cutting off your noses while yelling, "I'll show you, face!"
Best ever? Do you even read this site? Every other joke is "Slashdot is the best birth control/STD protection/population control/adult entertianment job security ever devised." It's kind of sad really.. like the fat kid who would pull up his shirt and shake his belly so he could rationalize that people are actually laughing with him instead of at him.
Interesting pics. Somehow color seems to transform photographs from abstract to concrete. For me anyway. Just as true with photos from millions of miles away as those from a hundred years in the past.
Jesus Christ, he was making a joke about the timeframe of certain technology inventions.. He never said the CRT was invented in the 90s. Go back to your hole.
But it's a shame that something like this has happened. That's why I always label my boxes, to prevent just this sort of thing. Hopefully they have enough food and water to survive until they're located.
Some people mod funny comments Interesting or Informative so the poster actually gains karma, as opposed to a Funny mod which only gives the post a higher score.
About using windmills.... has there been any discussion about the effects of actual widespread wind farms on the environment? Does it make a difference, extracting energy from the wind, in the natural course of events, or it it too small for us to care? n general, we actually are too small, but weather is a complex system that could have some weak spots, I believe.
Why, because we're "slowing down the wind?" That's nonsense. The air currents, most of which occur far above the surface, wouldn't be any more affected by windmills than they are by cities or, say, a continent covered by those tall wooden things.. trees, I think they're called.
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Slacker or Sick
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v 1: bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations; "We cannot regulate the way people dress"; "This town likes to regulate" [syn: regulate, regularize, regularise, order] [ant: deregulate] 2: direct or strongly influence the behavior of; "His belief in God governs his conduct" 3: exercise authority over; as of nations; "Who is governing the country now?" [syn: rule]
v. ruled, ruling, rules v. tr. 1. To exercise control, dominion, or direction over; govern. 2. To dominate by powerful influence. 3. To decide or declare authoritatively or judicially; decree. See Synonyms at decide. 4. a. To mark with straight parallel lines.
b. To mark (a straight line), as with a ruler.
Ah, I see. I hate governments that want to mark with straight parallel lines too.
All joking aside, assuming that you were trying to say that our government wants absolute control rather than limited powers, that's inherent in any government because it's inherent in people, and governments are run by people. That's why the framers of the Constitution tried to limit and balance that power with term limits, 3 branches of government, and public accountability.
So in fact, openness doesn't "only work in a government that wants limited controls", it creates and sustains such limitations.
I don't know if he'll keep up with it, but from reading his initial post, it seems clear that he's not employing ghostbloggers.
"Ok, now what I need you fellas to do is to create an interweb diary sight that makes me look like I give a rats ass about the common voter. Make it all touchy-feely so it seems like I'm havin' a one on one dialog with the readers. Go ahead and sign my name, and state some crap like 'I'm new to this technology thing, but I'll try to keep this updated.' Come back in six months and lemme know how it's going. Now get outta here!"
Television manufacturers are betting that consumers will easily sacrifice some quality in favor of having a big screen (for watching dvd, watching sports, etc)
The problem is that when you increase size AND decrease quality, the flaws become even more evident.
Variable resolution (multisync) was invented, or at least started becoming widely available, in the 90s. Also, we're talking about monitors, not TVs. It wasn't until the late 80s that PCs really started moving toward color displays instead of monochrome. But then you'd remember that if a) you were old enough, or b) young enough that Alzheimers hadn't set in.
Re:"Ma Bell" should be called "Big Brother" instea
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Fortunately, triangulation isn't terribly accurate in any urban environment, with signals reflecting off of all the surfaces in the concrete jungle. Unfortunately, if you ever call 911 and can't tell them your address, you might get to spend your last few moments watching paramedics rush into the building across the street.
The reception has at least as much to do with the coverage of, and line-of-sight to, cell towers as it does with the phone itself. There's 2 sides to the transceiver story, and one end can only do so much. Improvements in the past 10 years haven't so much been in the area of antennae design, but simply increasing the number of towers. All a phone can do is amplify the signal it receives, and transmit a more powerful signal. The only thing digital modulation of the signals does is make a drop out pure silence instead of static.
I think they opted not to use a vibrator because they didn't want anything to get rattled loose, or break, and they opted against a fan because either the atmosphere is too thin, or the fan would weigh too much, or both.
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I was just thinking about playing Ghost Recon on our LAN back in the day before I read your post. It was great, but there was one guy who always picked the SAW and cried when he got sniped. To be honest, it is sort of like rock-paper-scissors, except snipers usually beat medium and heavy weapons if they're worth their salt. But in my opinion, adjusting to and taking advantage of any aspect of a game is part of what makes it fun.
Panen et circinses meo amico.. Bread and circus.
Didn't read the license agreement? Sorry, but that's not Blizzard's problem. It would be nice if Blizzard had made it more obvious that they would be doing this.
It's funny how a comment like that gets modded up in this discussion, but they get modded down during any MS/Adobe/MessengerPlus++/Kazaa article. (Of course that's just a coincidence and it's not that people have double standards at all, it's just completely different people posting/modding today. I know, I know.)
The real problem is that people care too much about what other people are doing. This isn't the Olympics, or Las Vegas. There's no prize involved here. You don't stand to lose a mortgage payment. If you enjoy "killing" 100 bees so you level and get more HPs to kill 150 wasps, so you can level and get enough HPs to kill 200 monkeys, ad nauseum, then by all means.. What difference does it make if someone else uses a script to harvest spider monkey fur? If you enjoy doing it manually, then enjoy doing it manually.
That said, people should not have to waive their expectation of privacy for any reason other than public safety, and even then only in limited circumstances. "If you don't like it, don't play," is a cop-out.
The only difference between this particular piece of spyware and any other is that people are currently enjoying the effect, or the perception of an effect, with no thought as to the long-term effects, the broader perspective, or the precedent it establishes.
As I stated above, the problem isn't when one plumber does it, the problem is that all plumbers are going to start doing it because one plumber not only got away with it, but enjoyed amazing success in the process. When all companies are writing these clauses into their EULA's, then the only choice is whether or not to hire a plumber.
That's assuming that such EULA's are legal to begin with.. I don't think that's yet been established.
Blizzard is not trying to hide anything, and never was.
You're right. And it could be argued that this is like entering a club/bar: Submit to a pat-down and walk through a metal detector, or go somewhere else. Of course, going somewhere else doesn't help because they do it everywhere, but that's another matter.
And this will become ubiquitous, at least among multiplayer games -- which is most games currently sold. so the problem is that we then have 50 or 100 companies running around with unrestricted access to some percentage of home computers -- 50% let's say; could be more, could be less -- with nothing but the honor system to make sure they're using the information they collect in the manner they say they are. Seems like a pretty big gamble to ensure "an enjoyable gaming environment."
But, you know.. have fun cutting off your noses while yelling, "I'll show you, face!"
More like a $6,600 orange versus as $1,000 orange, and the expensive orange tends to give people a headache to boot.
Best ever? Do you even read this site? Every other joke is "Slashdot is the best birth control/STD protection/population control/adult entertianment job security ever devised." It's kind of sad really.. like the fat kid who would pull up his shirt and shake his belly so he could rationalize that people are actually laughing with him instead of at him.
Also has the potential for once of a decent laptop screen.
Yeah, if you don't mind a laptop with a 4" thick screen.
I would definately consider replacing a CRT with one, but I'd have trouble picking out a winner between the two.
Professional CRT - $1000
SpectraView 2180WG-LED with terrible response time - $6600
Yeah, I'm having trouble picking a winner too.
But, uh, how do you know where to put the lights?
Interesting pics. Somehow color seems to transform photographs from abstract to concrete. For me anyway. Just as true with photos from millions of miles away as those from a hundred years in the past.
Jesus Christ, he was making a joke about the timeframe of certain technology inventions.. He never said the CRT was invented in the 90s. Go back to your hole.
But it's a shame that something like this has happened. That's why I always label my boxes, to prevent just this sort of thing. Hopefully they have enough food and water to survive until they're located.
Some people mod funny comments Interesting or Informative so the poster actually gains karma, as opposed to a Funny mod which only gives the post a higher score.
About using windmills.... has there been any discussion about the effects of actual widespread wind farms on the environment? Does it make a difference, extracting energy from the wind, in the natural course of events, or it it too small for us to care? n general, we actually are too small, but weather is a complex system that could have some weak spots, I believe.
Why, because we're "slowing down the wind?" That's nonsense. The air currents, most of which occur far above the surface, wouldn't be any more affected by windmills than they are by cities or, say, a continent covered by those tall wooden things.. trees, I think they're called.
They're called Blackberries.
What?
govern
v 1: bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations; "We cannot regulate the way people dress"; "This town likes to regulate" [syn: regulate, regularize, regularise, order] [ant: deregulate] 2: direct or strongly influence the behavior of; "His belief in God governs his conduct" 3: exercise authority over; as of nations; "Who is governing the country now?" [syn: rule]
v. ruled, ruling, rules
v. tr.
1. To exercise control, dominion, or direction over; govern.
2. To dominate by powerful influence.
3. To decide or declare authoritatively or judicially; decree. See Synonyms at decide.
4. a. To mark with straight parallel lines.
b. To mark (a straight line), as with a ruler.
Ah, I see. I hate governments that want to mark with straight parallel lines too.
All joking aside, assuming that you were trying to say that our government wants absolute control rather than limited powers, that's inherent in any government because it's inherent in people, and governments are run by people. That's why the framers of the Constitution tried to limit and balance that power with term limits, 3 branches of government, and public accountability.
So in fact, openness doesn't "only work in a government that wants limited controls", it creates and sustains such limitations.
I don't know if he'll keep up with it, but from reading his initial post, it seems clear that he's not employing ghostbloggers.
"Ok, now what I need you fellas to do is to create an interweb diary sight that makes me look like I give a rats ass about the common voter. Make it all touchy-feely so it seems like I'm havin' a one on one dialog with the readers. Go ahead and sign my name, and state some crap like 'I'm new to this technology thing, but I'll try to keep this updated.' Come back in six months and lemme know how it's going. Now get outta here!"
Television manufacturers are betting that consumers will easily sacrifice some quality in favor of having a big screen (for watching dvd, watching sports, etc)
The problem is that when you increase size AND decrease quality, the flaws become even more evident.
Variable resolution (multisync) was invented, or at least started becoming widely available, in the 90s. Also, we're talking about monitors, not TVs. It wasn't until the late 80s that PCs really started moving toward color displays instead of monochrome. But then you'd remember that if a) you were old enough, or b) young enough that Alzheimers hadn't set in.
Fortunately, triangulation isn't terribly accurate in any urban environment, with signals reflecting off of all the surfaces in the concrete jungle. Unfortunately, if you ever call 911 and can't tell them your address, you might get to spend your last few moments watching paramedics rush into the building across the street.
The reception has at least as much to do with the coverage of, and line-of-sight to, cell towers as it does with the phone itself. There's 2 sides to the transceiver story, and one end can only do so much. Improvements in the past 10 years haven't so much been in the area of antennae design, but simply increasing the number of towers. All a phone can do is amplify the signal it receives, and transmit a more powerful signal. The only thing digital modulation of the signals does is make a drop out pure silence instead of static.
Any links to true-color images? I thought they were all Photoshopped...
I think they opted not to use a vibrator because they didn't want anything to get rattled loose, or break, and they opted against a fan because either the atmosphere is too thin, or the fan would weigh too much, or both.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
I prefer the "a" in Voyager.