On the other hand, just because someone is shining a laser in the sky doesn't mean that they were aiming at the plane. Point at a white dot that you assume is a star, then you realize it's moving. Oops. You're now guilty of a federal crime.
That's true. Except the dude then painted a helicopter flying over his house. That's not an accident. He was out playing with his shiny new toy.
I dont think anyone could accurately hit a moving plane at 35000 feet with a laser and get a pilot in the eye, but if the plane was on final approach and going 150-200mph your chances of hitting the cockpit is a lot better. Either way, the chance is so remote that I think it's ridiculous to try.
Oh really? While I think the patriot act is horrible, I think you're way off base.
If someone is deliberatly trying to blind a pilot to crash a plane (granted it's far fetched) I really don't think it's any different than shooting a gun or a missile at a plane which I would agree is an act of terrorism. Just because the chance of success is miniscule doesn't change the intent.
For me, cameras on the phone are a PITA. I can't carry it into most customer sites since cameras are prohibited
I had the same problem. I never even thought about it until I went to a government facility and they said "No cameras". I left my phone in the car the rest of the week.
I could care less about having a camera, but I do want bluetooth.
I personally can't wait for the day (coming soon according to a recent article that says troop planes are now taking ground fire)that the resistance drops a troop carrier and kills 250 US troops at a crack. Beirut, anyone?
You're a wonderful person to wish for 250 people to die... Just a credit to humanity.
"distracted if there is some sort of emergency" I'm not sure I buy that. Any emergency serious enough to require your attention (read: situation where there's anything you can do about it) is likely going to make you forget about using your cell
Well you'd think so... I was walking in Washington DC a few years ago and some woman ran a red light and hit a car. Wouldn't you know she *never* put her cell phone down and just kept yapping to her friend?
Needless to say, I will be buying a pair of noise cancelling headphones for flights now.
Most companies don't ask for a writing sample. In fact it would be insulting to ask for one once you get past a certain level. All that aside, I used to work at a fortune 500 company and I've seen emails that make the "examples" in that article look like great literary works. I'm not perfect, but I usually try to spell properly and use grammar and punctuation. It really *does* make a difference.
Trouble is, many family members do not want to pay you to clean megs of spyware off their computer and straighten out lord knows what goofy symptoms it has. They want you to do it for free.
Ahh the joys of family. Does your mom charge you for Thanksgiving dinner? No, of course not. So we all get to "fix" our families pc's for free because it's what we do.
It's sad but true. There haven't always been antitheft devices in cd's and dvd's. There are now. Why? Because stores were losing money to theft.
If you don't want to have to have a cd in the drive buy HL2 via steam... Simple enough. The game had already been preloaded so it took me less time to activate it that way than it would to drive to best buy.
I can only speak from experience, but as an op in the efnet #doom3 channel we had a *constant* stream of people begging for cracks and asking how to play online when they didn't own the game. I can only assume it's the same for HL2.
I bought Half Life through steam and was pleasantly surprised by how smoothly it went. I was expecting a nightmarish problem judging by Valve's earlier problems with network security.
However, regarding activation. Maybe if so many people in the "community" weren't so busy pirating the games Valve wouldn't need to go through these hoops.
What I'm more concerned about overall is, what happens when people have their steam accounts stolen? How is Valve going to deal with that. I could probably use Visa to get my $59 back, but what a tremendous pain in the ass.
You do realize that to be a "Nielson" household you have to volunteer. It's one thing to volunteer to have your browsing habits monitored, and something else to have crap like gator shoved onto your pc because you don't know any better.
I'm not trying to be mean, nor is this intended as a flame, but a strong conternder against what? If you don't game a lot that PC is fine (I have a dual p3-700 with a gf2 gts that I use every day), but it's going to struggle to play most current games, let alone next gen ones.
I don't really equate Doom3 to Quake3 as much as the jump from doom2 to quake1 when you had to have a pentium to run the game.
but I know tons of gamers who were really lookin forward to playing this that are just bummed that they either gotta miss out completely or drop the cash for a new card.
And the hardware specs have been known for how long? I've known for 18 months I was going to have to upgrade for doom.
This is a good point. For the tech savvy user firefox is an easy choice, and easy to update. However, for the majority of people, who still don't update windows, how can they be expected to know to update firefox manually. Let alone know where to find it.
I guess I should have put tags in my post. I know when it happened chronologically, I was just commenting that having huge DM games aren't necessarily fun, yet the industry is stuck on more people.
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Now that makes sense. I was lookign at the list and wondering what they were thinking.
Does Boogie Nights count as pseudo-pr0n? The first hour or so had a fair amount of T&A.
Even worse, Boogie Nights is #28 and ranked HIGHER than good movies like Shawshank Redemption.
On the other hand, just because someone is shining a laser in the sky doesn't mean that they were aiming at the plane. Point at a white dot that you assume is a star, then you realize it's moving. Oops. You're now guilty of a federal crime.
That's true. Except the dude then painted a helicopter flying over his house. That's not an accident. He was out playing with his shiny new toy.
I dont think anyone could accurately hit a moving plane at 35000 feet with a laser and get a pilot in the eye, but if the plane was on final approach and going 150-200mph your chances of hitting the cockpit is a lot better. Either way, the chance is so remote that I think it's ridiculous to try.
Oh really? While I think the patriot act is horrible, I think you're way off base.
If someone is deliberatly trying to blind a pilot to crash a plane (granted it's far fetched) I really don't think it's any different than shooting a gun or a missile at a plane which I would agree is an act of terrorism. Just because the chance of success is miniscule doesn't change the intent.
For me, cameras on the phone are a PITA. I can't carry it into most customer sites since cameras are prohibited
I had the same problem. I never even thought about it until I went to a government facility and they said "No cameras". I left my phone in the car the rest of the week.
I could care less about having a camera, but I do want bluetooth.
I personally can't wait for the day (coming soon according to a recent article that says troop planes are now taking ground fire)that the resistance drops a troop carrier and kills 250 US troops at a crack. Beirut, anyone?
You're a wonderful person to wish for 250 people to die... Just a credit to humanity.
"distracted if there is some sort of emergency" I'm not sure I buy that. Any emergency serious enough to require your attention (read: situation where there's anything you can do about it) is likely going to make you forget about using your cell
Well you'd think so... I was walking in Washington DC a few years ago and some woman ran a red light and hit a car. Wouldn't you know she *never* put her cell phone down and just kept yapping to her friend?
Needless to say, I will be buying a pair of noise cancelling headphones for flights now.
Most companies don't ask for a writing sample. In fact it would be insulting to ask for one once you get past a certain level. All that aside, I used to work at a fortune 500 company and I've seen emails that make the "examples" in that article look like great literary works. I'm not perfect, but I usually try to spell properly and use grammar and punctuation. It really *does* make a difference.
Trouble is, many family members do not want to pay you to clean megs of spyware off their computer and straighten out lord knows what goofy symptoms it has. They want you to do it for free.
Ahh the joys of family. Does your mom charge you for Thanksgiving dinner? No, of course not. So we all get to "fix" our families pc's for free because it's what we do.
Why doesn't that surprise me... I never bothered to look. Silly valve, at least they could have use something simple like a md5 hash.
It's sad but true. There haven't always been antitheft devices in cd's and dvd's. There are now. Why? Because stores were losing money to theft.
If you don't want to have to have a cd in the drive buy HL2 via steam... Simple enough. The game had already been preloaded so it took me less time to activate it that way than it would to drive to best buy.
I can only speak from experience, but as an op in the efnet #doom3 channel we had a *constant* stream of people begging for cracks and asking how to play online when they didn't own the game. I can only assume it's the same for HL2.
I bought Half Life through steam and was pleasantly surprised by how smoothly it went. I was expecting a nightmarish problem judging by Valve's earlier problems with network security.
However, regarding activation. Maybe if so many people in the "community" weren't so busy pirating the games Valve wouldn't need to go through these hoops.
What I'm more concerned about overall is, what happens when people have their steam accounts stolen? How is Valve going to deal with that. I could probably use Visa to get my $59 back, but what a tremendous pain in the ass.
Ok, maybe volunteer isn't. But you ACTIVELY consented. Spyware doesn't go by active consent which is the difference.
You do realize that to be a "Nielson" household you have to volunteer. It's one thing to volunteer to have your browsing habits monitored, and something else to have crap like gator shoved onto your pc because you don't know any better.
I'm not trying to be mean, nor is this intended as a flame, but a strong conternder against what? If you don't game a lot that PC is fine (I have a dual p3-700 with a gf2 gts that I use every day), but it's going to struggle to play most current games, let alone next gen ones.
I don't really equate Doom3 to Quake3 as much as the jump from doom2 to quake1 when you had to have a pentium to run the game.
but I know tons of gamers who were really lookin forward to playing this that are just bummed that they either gotta miss out completely or drop the cash for a new card.
And the hardware specs have been known for how long? I've known for 18 months I was going to have to upgrade for doom.
I got a 9800 pro for $189 2 weeks ago. Your 9600 hasn't been "top notch" for some time now. I seriously doubt it runs Far Cry at maxxed graphics.
It's the same thing when quake came out. Everyone complained about it not running on 486's.
This is a good point. For the tech savvy user firefox is an easy choice, and easy to update. However, for the majority of people, who still don't update windows, how can they be expected to know to update firefox manually. Let alone know where to find it.
I guess I should have put tags in my post. I know when it happened chronologically, I was just commenting that having huge DM games aren't necessarily fun, yet the industry is stuck on more people.
When did deathmatch come to mean tons of people?
It's working for me. The only calls we get that we don't deserve anymore are wrong numbers, or for the people that had my phone number before me.
I'm *very* happy with the results. Now if only the gov't could do the same with spam email...
I wonder when they'll ever figure out that suing your consumers is not an effective business model?
When people stop settling out of court.
Thats not true. There is a WineX ebuild in portage. You have to subscribe to transgaming and download the binary from them.
"emerge -s transgaming"