A few years ago I was an ensign on the flag ship. Some git caught a cold due to a defective T-cell, and the dimwit doctor cured it by creating a virus that flipped one of his genetic switches. Well that virus got out and mutated us all. I heard the XO was mutated into a caveman or something. We were turning into all kinds of animals. I had the misfortune of turning into an African Sparrow down in engineering. Everybody thought they were funny by quoting Monty Python at me. Assholes.
"Though it would be very expensive, you could take a two- or three-bedroom house, insulate it with aerogel, and you could heat the house with a candle. But eventually the house would become too hot."
Great. I'll need to get an outdoor case mod for my dual Athlon.
Every generation that goes by is going to find this controversial issue harder and harder to swallow. "I grew up playing all kinds of games, myself and everybody I know came out fine. What a moron."
Want to know what bothers me most? I don't think these guys genuinely believe in what they're spouting off. I really think their agenda is to villify gaming because it's a blurry issue to a good chunk of the voting public. Afterall, little Johnny couldn't possibly be a bad kid, it's got to be those gosh dern video games he's playin.
I hope you all who are against this are smart enough to not vote for Joe Liberman for President. Do a Google search for him and Mortal Kombat. You'll see what I mean.
"The rocket is the sniper's bane. Any serious sniper will soon have half the opposing team on his ass lobbing dozens of rockets at him."
Whenever I played Quake 3, everybody thought the proper protocol when dealing with a sniper was to bitch. In all the games I've ever played, I have never ever seen anybody say "Hey man, you're kicking my butt to the point that I'm not really having any fun. Could you please lighten it a bit?"
The fact of the matter is that there are people who will become insanely good at whatever weapon they have. You can tweak reload times etc, but the real solution here is to encourge having fun.
In short, it's more of a societal issue than a gameplay issue.
They preemptively and voluntarily responded to a problem before it became one. It sure beats DMCA'esque over-regulation. I can't believe Slashdot is taking the view that these companies are being villified over it.
"Cut it with the ridiculous notion that just because MS makes a *conscious decision* to sell these units at an *initial* loss, owners are not able to modify a piece of hardware that they purchased. Microsoft can sell the Xbox for whatever they want - that has ZERO effect on what I can do with it once I purchase it."
If I were you, I'd reexamine that attitude for this battle. You're making Microsoft a big fan of the DMCA.
I'm sorry I don't know much about the server end, I figure lots of other people can answer that question. I just know how I'd go about it once the server is up and running.
I was quite active on Austnet. They had NickOp which was used for registerring a nickname and for logging in. They had Chanop which was for maintaining channels etc. They had noteop for sending messages. So, to answer your question, I'd either use Austnet, or build a private IRC server with similar funcationality. Then, create a channel via chanop, and set access to every registerred person so that Chanop ops them. Why do this? Well, you have 120 seconds to enter your password when you use a registerred nick. Chanop will not op you until you are logged in. So if somebody comes on using a nick they shouldn't, they won't be opped. When they have the @ next to their name, they've logged in, and you know who you're talking to.
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"Swallow you smeghead. African Swallow."
Why the hell didn't they teach us that at the Academy?
A few years ago I was an ensign on the flag ship. Some git caught a cold due to a defective T-cell, and the dimwit doctor cured it by creating a virus that flipped one of his genetic switches. Well that virus got out and mutated us all. I heard the XO was mutated into a caveman or something. We were turning into all kinds of animals. I had the misfortune of turning into an African Sparrow down in engineering. Everybody thought they were funny by quoting Monty Python at me. Assholes.
"Though it would be very expensive, you could take a two- or three-bedroom house, insulate it with aerogel, and you could heat the house with a candle. But eventually the house would become too hot."
Great. I'll need to get an outdoor case mod for my dual Athlon.
"I work for a discount retailer and the nintendo representative said May as a projected release date."
Unless this thing plays existing GC or GBA games, don't count on that.
"Can you really focus on two screens at once? I can't."
Do you get a lot of speeding tickets?
"As much as I applaud Nintendo for being innovative and taking a risk, I can't help but feel that this move will alienate 3rd party developers. "
It'll alienate the ones that aren't serious about making good games. Not so horrible in a saturated market.
"Of course, it'll use twice as many batteries, but I doubt marketing will insist on that feature... "
Gee, 15 hours of battery life down to 7.5. Well damn that's just unplayable.
Every generation that goes by is going to find this controversial issue harder and harder to swallow. "I grew up playing all kinds of games, myself and everybody I know came out fine. What a moron."
Want to know what bothers me most? I don't think these guys genuinely believe in what they're spouting off. I really think their agenda is to villify gaming because it's a blurry issue to a good chunk of the voting public. Afterall, little Johnny couldn't possibly be a bad kid, it's got to be those gosh dern video games he's playin.
I hope you all who are against this are smart enough to not vote for Joe Liberman for President. Do a Google search for him and Mortal Kombat. You'll see what I mean.
Mod me off-topic if ya like, just remember that so long as the joke is modded up, people will keep trying to earn a +3 Funny.
"I for one welcome our new outerspace mouse overlords!"
Who's the git that keeps modding this joke up?
"...is it whack, or is it whack?"
I only want to hear one more whack.
"The rocket is the sniper's bane. Any serious sniper will soon have half the opposing team on his ass lobbing dozens of rockets at him."
Whenever I played Quake 3, everybody thought the proper protocol when dealing with a sniper was to bitch. In all the games I've ever played, I have never ever seen anybody say "Hey man, you're kicking my butt to the point that I'm not really having any fun. Could you please lighten it a bit?"
The fact of the matter is that there are people who will become insanely good at whatever weapon they have. You can tweak reload times etc, but the real solution here is to encourge having fun.
In short, it's more of a societal issue than a gameplay issue.
"Think my Windows box will be upset when it knows how much I hate it?"
Posting anti-Windows comments is a sure-fire way to get a story posted, isn't it?
"You're wrong because other places can take to unrealistic extremes."
They preemptively and voluntarily responded to a problem before it became one. It sure beats DMCA'esque over-regulation. I can't believe Slashdot is taking the view that these companies are being villified over it.
"Cut it with the ridiculous notion that just because MS makes a *conscious decision* to sell these units at an *initial* loss, owners are not able to modify a piece of hardware that they purchased. Microsoft can sell the Xbox for whatever they want - that has ZERO effect on what I can do with it once I purchase it."
If I were you, I'd reexamine that attitude for this battle. You're making Microsoft a big fan of the DMCA.
"I don't get it. If Prez Bush doesn't have WMD, then what do we have in all those silos in Montana?"
We'll find out when the Vulcans enter our system.
"'Scuse me? Show me where modding an Xbox/PS2 has affected any revenue stream."
Since XBOX's are sold at a loss and Slashdot won't stop glamourizing it.
"Perhaps, simply, because then you can use the hardware you bought to do the things you want?"
Besides, it's a lot more interesting when you can piss off Microsoft in the process.
"Janeway was the best captain by FAR."
Them's fightin words.
"yeah, i love that. like, where in blazes do people expect complaints to be *on* topic??"
Complaints about a moderation are nothing but on topic.
I'm sorry I don't know much about the server end, I figure lots of other people can answer that question. I just know how I'd go about it once the server is up and running.
I was quite active on Austnet. They had NickOp which was used for registerring a nickname and for
logging in. They had Chanop which was for maintaining channels etc. They had noteop for sending messages. So, to answer your question, I'd either use Austnet, or build a private IRC server with similar funcationality. Then, create a channel via chanop, and set access to every registerred person so that Chanop ops them. Why do this? Well, you have 120 seconds to enter your password when you use a registerred nick. Chanop will not op you until you are logged in. So if somebody comes on using a nick they shouldn't, they won't be opped. When they have the @ next to their name, they've logged in, and you know who you're talking to.
"Keep telling your colleagues about all the problems you wish to tell them about. Then keep very quiet in the meeting, they'll come out. ;-)"
He's right. Once I farted in a meeting, but didn't say "Smell that?" Everybody suspected the guy next to me.
... don't go over anybody's helmet.
"Meaning you can move your users that much closer to an MS free existence without losing much compatibility."
Besides a KDE'esque theme, what would this actually buy you?