My in-laws just bought a windows machine, and I refuse to answer questions about XP issues. I know I'll get modded down for saying this, but:
This is the exact reason why I hate Mac users (specifically Mac zealots). It's your fucking pompous, egocentric attitude that would keeping me from ever buying a Mac. I would want someone to shoot me if I was ever caught saying such rediculous bullshit that you just said. Listen, Macs are all great, user-friendly, and definately have advantages over windows machines, but it's not night and day. XP is now a pretty solid operating system and it's really not much different in terms of the user experience. What if one of your family members needed to use an application that is only available to an Windows OS, would you still be a dick to them?
My Mom uses a Mac and asks me questions all the time. I might not be as quick when it comes to fixing the problem due to my lack of experience, but at least I try. I don't belittle her by telling her to get a PC so I could help her better.
Stop being such assholes, and maybe I might end up agreeing with you people one day.
Yeah, I've got scammed out of a 2800 dollar laptop once. Granted I was foolish and gullible, eBay and PayPal were only able to get $175 back, my bank however will probably be able to get Visa to issue a chargeback. It makes me sick that I see nearly the EXACT same auctions up for sale, and I see people bidding for it. I really wish I could say something to the people who are bidding on the auction, but now I can't.
It's not all peachie for the sellers either. Since there's been so much fraud from their end, eBay and Paypal are quick to take money away from them if they can't proove that the item was delivered. Buyers take advantage of this and set up disputes and claims even though they recieved the item as advertised. eBay and Paypal don't really care too much because as long as their making money, the few percent of people getting scammed doesn't really make difference.
It's really sad that so many people have to make money by hurting others. I think that's the root of the problem. Even if eBay takes the necessary action, there will be will other new ways to scam people.
They all contain cheats that unlock everything in the game. GameFaqs has all the unlocking content cheats for Gran Turismo and probably any other game that has unlockable content. So really all games come with all the content, if you really want them to.
The problem with WoW is there are no cheat codes (well techinically speaking).
I mean, are they safe guarding against this also? Because, in the end, what's wrong with selling people your time or services to them? Once they complete the service, you pay them. I don't know how they could find some way around this or tell which auctions for services need to be revoked. There's nothing wrong with people selling their time for games like WoW. At least, there's nothing legally wrong. However, in terms of the WoW EULA, the trading of characters and gold out of game is not allowed. eBay probably feels this is unethical, and the fact that they are allowing and making it easier for people to circumvent Blizzard's contracts is borderline illegal. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if they made this decision because Blizzard is threatening them with legal pressure.
IIRC, almost every WoW character being sold on eBay had the same disclaimer stating something on the lines of "By looking at this webpage you are agreeing that you aren't a Blizzard employee. The sale of this auction doesn't involve any possesions, instead you are paying for my services and time that I put into this character."
That's probably why eBay made the decision to delist all virtual goods, because people were always finding ways to circumvent their rules by changing the wording. Now they won't be able to do that.
Honestly, who will spend $50 on a game and $1,000 for gold and stats? I don't play any of these stupid games...I loved that WoW southpark episode. People who would rather spend $1000 dollars to get access to a part of a game that normally require thousands of hours of grinding.
The seller must be the owner of the underlying intellectual property, or authorized to distribute it by the intellectual property owner. For games such as World of Wacraft which explicity say in the EULA that all characters etc. are property of Blizzard and that the selling of these items break the terms of the license, I can see why you would want to delist them.
What about games that do allow or will allow buying of virtual property? It seems to me that eBay would be shooting themselves in the foot by blindly delisting all virtual items.
On a different topic, now where will I shop for a level 70 blood elf paladin?
Calling these people stuipd only makes you look like an arrogant asshole. If there weren't specific directions telling to make sure the sponge is wet, then yes we would be assholes. However, the article provided instructions to do it safely.
They aren't stupid for not knowing how a microwave works, they are stupid for not following directions and listening to precautions.
all i'm saying is that the nirvana of the perfect nonlethal crowd control/ imlpement of war is not very easy to obtain. I don't think anyone is saying that this weapon is the perfect nonlethal weapon. But if you got insurgents firing at you from a crowd mixed with innocent people, I'm sure using this weapon would be better than unloading machine gun fire into that crowd.
I think the more effective, nonlethal tools we have in our arsenal the better. Yeah, innocents might still get injured or killed, but the alternatives aren't any better.
Yeah because if we stay in there for another decade, lose another few thousand U.S. troops, and kill another hundred thousand Iraqi's, then Iraq will magically transform into a democratic nation with peaceful people.
Did you even study Vietnam? You can't force people like the ones who live in Iraq to be peaceful, lest you become another Saddam Hussain.
The new race, the Drenai, are literally a spacefaring race whose homeworld was blown up. The Draenei aren't litterally a spacefaring race at all. Yes they can travel to many worlds, but their ships don't travel in space. They travel through some sort of temporal dimension. I do agree that there are sci-fi elements involved in the lore of Warcraft.
Well the guy said they were hiring RTS developers too. I'm thinking it's going to be a Starcraft MMO-RTS. Try googling Shattered Galaxies if you're wondering what a MMO/RTS is like. I actaully don't think this is a horrible idea. If they just made a Starcraft 2, it simply won't be good as the first Stacraft for two reasons:
A. Starcraft was an amazingly great and fun game, and it would be hard for the developers to improve on such a success B. Many the people and talent who worked on Starcraft no longer work for Blizzard.
I'm a little worried about them being innovative though. I think one of the key reasons for Blizzard's success is that they take/copy/steal/borrow innovative features from other games and they refine them and improve them. If you look at any of Blizzard's games hardly any of the features the games have are features that never been seen before.
but given the choice of being fat and happy or thin and unhappy Actaully, exercise is known increase your mood and energy. When you exercise endorphins are released and they act similar to drugs like morphine. Excersising also is known to make people sleep better, which makes their day go by much more smoothly. Personally, I get in a really grumpy, irratable mood when I don't exercise.
Why do you hate exercising? Is it too painful? Exersising doesn't have to be painful. There must be something that you enjoy doing that involves a little bit of excerising. Start out with an activity that doesn't require strenuous exercise, and then increase the intensity as you get in better shape. I think if you actaully tried exercising a little, you would start enjoying it.
Whether you're fat or thin is not important as much as how you feel and how healthy you are. You should take your health seriously, because some health issues that result from obesity can feel alot more painful than any excersise.
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"Hopefully these lawsuits can spur MySpace into action and prevent this from happening to another child somewhere," he said. Hopefully these lawsuits can spur Myspace to make a disclamer stating:
"If you are retarded enough to meet up and give your personal information to a stranger, then please don't use this website."
A. Bars are required by law to cut people off who've had too much to drink. B. Even with this responsibility, bars still let people drive home drunk, and there are still drunk driving deaths C. Myspace isn't required by law to prevent children from contacting predators D. Even if Myspace was forced to prevent predators from contacting girls, the predators will find a new medium to find them.
If we put the responsibility on MySpace, it's a win for parents who don't want to be parents. They will start thinking that if something bad happens to their children, they can always blame something else.
Yeah, really the parents should be sueing themselves for being bad parents.
If you are a parent, and your child gets abused by some predator through a social networking website, you are a bad parent. If you are unaware about the dangers of MySpace to your kids, you need to get out from under that rock, and start taking responsiblity to keep track of what your kids are doing.
These lawsuits piss me off. I can't believe some parents just think the internet is some utopian place completely disonnected from the real world, filled with funny videos and websites to order their hardware from. There are bad people on the internet just like there are bad people in real life. You should be taking the same percautions for a kid who's sitting in front of a monitor, as a kid who's walking out the door of your house. I'm not even a fucking parent and I know this.
Nintendo should make a second generation Wii that's packed with all the multiple core processors and powerful graphics cards, as well as the cool features of the original Wii. They could call it Wii++.
I was told from slashdot that it was crammed fill with charts and graphs. I'd need to go back and count, but like 5-10 charts isn't crammed full to me. It seemed like that he just focused on pictures of ice melting. Um, I need more.
What more do you need? You saw the chart that showed the direct relation between temperature and CO2 levels over hundreds of thousands of years, and you saw the chart the shows that in the past century that C02 levels are raising much higher than what any natural cycle has produced. If you can't put those two charts together and come up with a conclusion, then I don't think anything will convince you at this point.
You really think Al Gore made the movie solely for his own intentional goals? You think if W lost the election, he would be making documentaries with the intention of trying to improve/save the world?
Yeah, I hope this is the last time slashdot posts any articles from this "Pocket Gamer" website. The reviews totally suck ass. If you read the review, they are very unclear about WHY the game sucks. The reviews are all pretty mangled and unorganized. I could write better essays when I was in highschool.
Hell yeah on Decent. It was like on FPS on steroids. You had engines that could move you in all 6 directions. The game forced you to be a ninja in a ship with all the different crazy weapons coming at you.
I actually liked Warcraft II and Starcraft better then WC III. To be fair, only played through the single player once a while back on WC III so I'll probably give it another chance. I mean yeah WC III has way better graphics and alot more features, but Starcraft was just plain fucking fun.
I seriously will celebrate the day they announce Starcraft 2. I somehow doubt that it will top Starcraft, being that alot of the designers of that game left blizzard. But I really got into the story and I would like to see a continuation of it.
Hey, maybe it gets better, but I doubt they would suddenly changed the idiotic physics model in the middle of the game, or suddenly hired competent writers.
What space-sim doesn't have an idiotic or inaccurate physics model? If the physics model is accurate, the combat would actually be pretty annoying and boring. Having no max speed in space means players will go to fast and over shoot things, take 3 minutes to slow down again, and then make another pass at insane speeds. If you played Ace of Angels, you would know what I'm talking.
Seriously, what space sim besides the one I mentioned has a signficantly different physics model from freespace?
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This is the exact reason why I hate Mac users (specifically Mac zealots). It's your fucking pompous, egocentric attitude that would keeping me from ever buying a Mac. I would want someone to shoot me if I was ever caught saying such rediculous bullshit that you just said. Listen, Macs are all great, user-friendly, and definately have advantages over windows machines, but it's not night and day. XP is now a pretty solid operating system and it's really not much different in terms of the user experience. What if one of your family members needed to use an application that is only available to an Windows OS, would you still be a dick to them?
My Mom uses a Mac and asks me questions all the time. I might not be as quick when it comes to fixing the problem due to my lack of experience, but at least I try. I don't belittle her by telling her to get a PC so I could help her better.
Stop being such assholes, and maybe I might end up agreeing with you people one day.
Yeah, I've got scammed out of a 2800 dollar laptop once. Granted I was foolish and gullible, eBay and PayPal were only able to get $175 back, my bank however will probably be able to get Visa to issue a chargeback. It makes me sick that I see nearly the EXACT same auctions up for sale, and I see people bidding for it. I really wish I could say something to the people who are bidding on the auction, but now I can't.
It's not all peachie for the sellers either. Since there's been so much fraud from their end, eBay and Paypal are quick to take money away from them if they can't proove that the item was delivered. Buyers take advantage of this and set up disputes and claims even though they recieved the item as advertised. eBay and Paypal don't really care too much because as long as their making money, the few percent of people getting scammed doesn't really make difference.
It's really sad that so many people have to make money by hurting others. I think that's the root of the problem. Even if eBay takes the necessary action, there will be will other new ways to scam people.
Here are the cheat codes for guitar hero.
Here are the cheat codes for guitar hero II.
They all contain cheats that unlock everything in the game. GameFaqs has all the unlocking content cheats for Gran Turismo and probably any other game that has unlockable content. So really all games come with all the content, if you really want them to.
The problem with WoW is there are no cheat codes (well techinically speaking).
IIRC, almost every WoW character being sold on eBay had the same disclaimer stating something on the lines of "By looking at this webpage you are agreeing that you aren't a Blizzard employee. The sale of this auction doesn't involve any possesions, instead you are paying for my services and time that I put into this character."
That's probably why eBay made the decision to delist all virtual goods, because people were always finding ways to circumvent their rules by changing the wording. Now they won't be able to do that.
What about games that do allow or will allow buying of virtual property? It seems to me that eBay would be shooting themselves in the foot by blindly delisting all virtual items.
On a different topic, now where will I shop for a level 70 blood elf paladin?
They aren't stupid for not knowing how a microwave works, they are stupid for not following directions and listening to precautions.
I think the more effective, nonlethal tools we have in our arsenal the better. Yeah, innocents might still get injured or killed, but the alternatives aren't any better.
Yeah because if we stay in there for another decade, lose another few thousand U.S. troops, and kill another hundred thousand Iraqi's, then Iraq will magically transform into a democratic nation with peaceful people.
Did you even study Vietnam? You can't force people like the ones who live in Iraq to be peaceful, lest you become another Saddam Hussain.
So now your SO is a Mac right? Her box might be a little more pale but she definately has a more friendly interface to her insides.
Well the guy said they were hiring RTS developers too. I'm thinking it's going to be a Starcraft MMO-RTS. Try googling Shattered Galaxies if you're wondering what a MMO/RTS is like. I actaully don't think this is a horrible idea. If they just made a Starcraft 2, it simply won't be good as the first Stacraft for two reasons:
A. Starcraft was an amazingly great and fun game, and it would be hard for the developers to improve on such a success
B. Many the people and talent who worked on Starcraft no longer work for Blizzard.
I'm a little worried about them being innovative though. I think one of the key reasons for Blizzard's success is that they take/copy/steal/borrow innovative features from other games and they refine them and improve them. If you look at any of Blizzard's games hardly any of the features the games have are features that never been seen before.
Why do you hate exercising? Is it too painful? Exersising doesn't have to be painful. There must be something that you enjoy doing that involves a little bit of excerising. Start out with an activity that doesn't require strenuous exercise, and then increase the intensity as you get in better shape. I think if you actaully tried exercising a little, you would start enjoying it.
Whether you're fat or thin is not important as much as how you feel and how healthy you are. You should take your health seriously, because some health issues that result from obesity can feel alot more painful than any excersise.
"If you are retarded enough to meet up and give your personal information to a stranger, then please don't use this website."
A. Bars are required by law to cut people off who've had too much to drink.
B. Even with this responsibility, bars still let people drive home drunk, and there are still drunk driving deaths
C. Myspace isn't required by law to prevent children from contacting predators
D. Even if Myspace was forced to prevent predators from contacting girls, the predators will find a new medium to find them.
If we put the responsibility on MySpace, it's a win for parents who don't want to be parents. They will start thinking that if something bad happens to their children, they can always blame something else.
Yeah, really the parents should be sueing themselves for being bad parents.
If you are a parent, and your child gets abused by some predator through a social networking website, you are a bad parent. If you are unaware about the dangers of MySpace to your kids, you need to get out from under that rock, and start taking responsiblity to keep track of what your kids are doing.
These lawsuits piss me off. I can't believe some parents just think the internet is some utopian place completely disonnected from the real world, filled with funny videos and websites to order their hardware from. There are bad people on the internet just like there are bad people in real life. You should be taking the same percautions for a kid who's sitting in front of a monitor, as a kid who's walking out the door of your house. I'm not even a fucking parent and I know this.
Nintendo should make a second generation Wii that's packed with all the multiple core processors and powerful graphics cards, as well as the cool features of the original Wii. They could call it Wii++.
I was told from slashdot that it was crammed fill with charts and graphs. I'd need to go back and count, but like 5-10 charts isn't crammed full to me. It seemed like that he just focused on pictures of ice melting. Um, I need more.
What more do you need? You saw the chart that showed the direct relation between temperature and CO2 levels over hundreds of thousands of years, and you saw the chart the shows that in the past century that C02 levels are raising much higher than what any natural cycle has produced. If you can't put those two charts together and come up with a conclusion, then I don't think anything will convince you at this point.
You really think Al Gore made the movie solely for his own intentional goals? You think if W lost the election, he would be making documentaries with the intention of trying to improve/save the world?
No, you have to be eating Lifesavers as well.
Yeah, I hope this is the last time slashdot posts any articles from this "Pocket Gamer" website. The reviews totally suck ass. If you read the review, they are very unclear about WHY the game sucks. The reviews are all pretty mangled and unorganized. I could write better essays when I was in highschool.
Hell yeah on Decent. It was like on FPS on steroids. You had engines that could move you in all 6 directions. The game forced you to be a ninja in a ship with all the different crazy weapons coming at you.
I actually liked Warcraft II and Starcraft better then WC III. To be fair, only played through the single player once a while back on WC III so I'll probably give it another chance. I mean yeah WC III has way better graphics and alot more features, but Starcraft was just plain fucking fun.
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I seriously will celebrate the day they announce Starcraft 2. I somehow doubt that it will top Starcraft, being that alot of the designers of that game left blizzard. But I really got into the story and I would like to see a continuation of it.
Hey, maybe it gets better, but I doubt they would suddenly changed the idiotic physics model in the middle of the game, or suddenly hired competent writers.
What space-sim doesn't have an idiotic or inaccurate physics model? If the physics model is accurate, the combat would actually be pretty annoying and boring. Having no max speed in space means players will go to fast and over shoot things, take 3 minutes to slow down again, and then make another pass at insane speeds. If you played Ace of Angels, you would know what I'm talking.
Seriously, what space sim besides the one I mentioned has a signficantly different physics model from freespace?