"To me it sounds like this has got to be against the law," Levinson said. "To tell people to kill a particular group of people? That has to violate some law."
Well, if a game were to attempt to motivate people to commit genocide, then yes, I'd agree, it probably violates some law. The problem is, even out of context, "kill the Haitians" doesn't imply killing a group of people from a particular community. It implies killing specific people, i.e. a gang. Since the Haitians that the line referred to was in reference to that gang, it's even harder to bend the facts in order to support the idea that Vice City is anti-Haitian.
Frankly, this whole fiasco is doing more to make people dislike the Haitian Community than anything Vice City did. Nobody likes misunderstanding to be used for frivilous lawsuits and the like.
"Did they have sound in space as the ships flew by? That has always been one of my major pet peeves."
Eh not really. I think there might have been a real subtle "Just so you dont think your TV is muted" sound, but it wasn't like the roar of an engine like in the original series. You could hear the cylons activating their remote computer jammer thing, tho.
I can't say I understand why this is a 'pet peeve'. They're trying to tell a story here, not make you think you're watching a battle from outside a ship. The nice thing about sound is it gives another identifying characteristic of an element in the scene. I'll never forget the sound a Borg ship makes, or the screech of a photon torpedo from star trek. It'd be a pet peeve of mine to not be able to hear the ships, and I had a little bit of a problem with that while watching BSG. I mean I wasn't banging my fist over it, but I remember missing it.
I'll never understand why this bugs some people but incidental music is okay.
"The hardest pill for me to swallow were the gender changes of Starbuck and Boomer. But I actually found myself liking the new Starbuck, although the Boomer role could have been a bit stronger."
When I first heard about the gender change, I was thinking this series was sinking. After watching it now, I'm glad they approached it the way they did. Frankly, I would have been more offended if they had tried to recreate those two like they were in the series. I just don't think it would have worked. Who would replace Dirk Benedict? By making Starbuck a woman (I don't remember Boomer very clearly so I cannot comment on him) they are forcing that character (and Apollo) down another path free of "well Dirk Benedict would have done it this way" arguments.
They intentionally stayed away from trying to copy the original series. It's good that they did because you can enjoy both. It's sort of like comparing tea and coffee. There's no need to drink one but not the other.
The simple approach is to disallow those types of URLs until somebody specifically turns them on.
You can probably tell that I'm a little irked by this. My gf has a friend that nearly got suckered by the "you need to re-enter your paypal password" scam in email. She told her friend to look at the link and make sure it says "paypal.com" at the beginning. This is a fairly common piece of advice, I've heard it many times before from many places. Unfortunately, this little 'feature' defeats that handy dandy piece of advice. You or I might be able to spot a phony address, but there are many many many people out there who have no clue about how it all works.
Anything the browser does that gets in the way and says "you know, you really may not be aware of what this URL does..." is helpful. Personally, I wish anomolies like this would show up in a different color. HTTP would be one color like blue (whereas FTP might be green or red), if there's an @ symbol, make everything behind it bold. Take the domain name and highlight it somehow, either by color or by italics, or something like that. Yet another solution would be to do like Slashdot does, put the domain name by a link. Etc.
Sorry I got huffy earlier. Not having the greatest day.:)
"The 2D quality between the two is just shocking. Where the Matrox is nice, crisp, extremely easy to read at 1280x1024, the GeForce2 is kind of blurry, not as well defined, and the colors aren't as vibrant."
Geforce 2 cards were known for having cheap-o filters that weakened the analog signal to the monitor. It has nothing to do with 2d vs 3d quality, you bought a card with cheap parts in it. (I did too, that's why I know this.)
Recent Geforce Cards are a lot better. I have dual monitors running at 1600 by 1200, quite clear and readable.
"Umm.. You do realize that the being able to have text before the domain name is actually part of the http standard? That is part before the @ is the username/password."
Yes. It's still an exploit. At least Opera throws up a warning.
"No, no, you're missing the point. Yes, that URL you mentioned will take you to slashdot and not zdnet, fine. But you'll see it in the location bar and know it's a fake."
"You'll know it's fake, therefore it's not a problem." It's still an exploit in Mozilla.
"You're telling me, buddy. Unfortunately Microsoft is not aware that this occurs at all, ever. This is a good example of how unaware they are in general. Meanwhile..."
Meanwhile, Mozilla FireBird.7 is vulnerable as well.
"Again the only responsible thing to do is to advocate Mozilla for financial transactions."
Have you tried this exploit in Mozilla? It isn't fixed at all if the domain name that shows up in the beginning of the URL != the domain name you land on.
Man, some of you Mozilla zealots are so interested in giving Microsoft a black eye that you're stupid to the fact that Mozilla has problems too. It's a big race to prove it's not a problem. "Oh yeah, it still shows the domain it landed on later in the address, so it's not a problem!"
" How it is that any informed, intelligent person still uses that POS software is beyond me."
Because that POS hasn't been caught up with in terms of page compatibility yet. Both Opera and Mozilla are near that point, but they haven't reached it yet. Still haven't been able to delete that little e icon off of my Quicklaunc bar yet.
I think your perception of IE is a little cartoony.
"Yes... because as we all know Microsoft or Apple are completly "accountable" for any errors or damage there OS causes..."
That isn't what that phrase means. Apple and Microsoft, thanks to money, have a fire lit under them to keep the software up to date. The Linux/OSS Community fixes things 'for fun'. It's the "when they get bored" bit that makes the demand for accountability go up. No money changing hands = no percieved incentive to fix the latest greatest bug.
"The patent (I presume) is on this method, where a browser control is pointed at a DLL rather than a web server speaking HTTP. This is completely different than skinning, as it is a way of running a dynamic, HTML-based application locally without a web server."
Reminds me of how Windows Update knows what you have installed so it can package up the new things you need. I guess the idea that Microsoft developed a new service and patented a key component of it is too hard to believe next to an accusation that they stole it from the Open Source Community.
"If you think that's good, just wait until next week, when the Vice President of RBC will reveal that he's the father of Darl Mcbride, shortly after slicing his hand off."
"Does it help or hinder your viewing experience when some butt-munching ape of a human being logs on to/. and announces to the world that Trinity dies?"
It helped me, I knew I had 15 minutes to go to the bathroom.
"I only watch movies at the 2nd run theatre. It saves money, and it's easier to justify spending $3 to watch matrix 3 than spending $8."
I ended up watching Revoltions shortly after it came out because Slashdot wouldn't stop covering it. Even if I avoided the article, they still let spoilers slip here and there . It wasn't just Slashdot, either. Everybody wanted to babble about it. I wanted to get it over with before I knew everything about it before seeing it.
"Apparantly it is still over a year away, I bet a lot of these leaked rumours etc. will turn out to be quite wrong by the time the actual film comes around. Maybe a bit of Hollywood spin to get people talking?"
Lucas keeps fiddling with movies up until the day they print. It'll undoubtedly change.
Slashdot Mirror
... but the important news is that back home there's a computer running Linux! Wooo go Linux!
"To me it sounds like this has got to be against the law," Levinson said. "To tell people to kill a particular group of people? That has to violate some law."
Well, if a game were to attempt to motivate people to commit genocide, then yes, I'd agree, it probably violates some law. The problem is, even out of context, "kill the Haitians" doesn't imply killing a group of people from a particular community. It implies killing specific people, i.e. a gang. Since the Haitians that the line referred to was in reference to that gang, it's even harder to bend the facts in order to support the idea that Vice City is anti-Haitian.
Frankly, this whole fiasco is doing more to make people dislike the Haitian Community than anything Vice City did. Nobody likes misunderstanding to be used for frivilous lawsuits and the like.
I misunderstood the nature of the defect. Sorry. Low sleep day. :/
"right click on it and go delete to remove it from your quicklaunch bar"
Can't. Still need it.
"Did they have sound in space as the ships flew by? That has always been one of my major pet peeves."
Eh not really. I think there might have been a real subtle "Just so you dont think your TV is muted" sound, but it wasn't like the roar of an engine like in the original series. You could hear the cylons activating their remote computer jammer thing, tho.
I can't say I understand why this is a 'pet peeve'. They're trying to tell a story here, not make you think you're watching a battle from outside a ship. The nice thing about sound is it gives another identifying characteristic of an element in the scene. I'll never forget the sound a Borg ship makes, or the screech of a photon torpedo from star trek. It'd be a pet peeve of mine to not be able to hear the ships, and I had a little bit of a problem with that while watching BSG. I mean I wasn't banging my fist over it, but I remember missing it.
I'll never understand why this bugs some people but incidental music is okay.
"The hardest pill for me to swallow were the
gender changes of Starbuck and Boomer. But I actually found myself liking
the new Starbuck, although the Boomer role could have been a bit stronger."
When I first heard about the gender change, I was thinking this series was sinking. After watching it now, I'm glad they approached it the way they did. Frankly, I would have been more offended if they had tried to recreate those two like they were in the series. I just don't think it would have worked. Who would replace Dirk Benedict? By making Starbuck a woman (I don't remember Boomer very clearly so I cannot comment on him) they are forcing that character (and Apollo) down another path free of "well Dirk Benedict would have done it this way" arguments.
They intentionally stayed away from trying to copy the original series. It's good that they did because you can enjoy both. It's sort of like comparing tea and coffee. There's no need to drink one but not the other.
The simple approach is to disallow those types of URLs until somebody specifically turns them on.
:)
You can probably tell that I'm a little irked by this. My gf has a friend that nearly got suckered by the "you need to re-enter your paypal password" scam in email. She told her friend to look at the link and make sure it says "paypal.com" at the beginning. This is a fairly common piece of advice, I've heard it many times before from many places. Unfortunately, this little 'feature' defeats that handy dandy piece of advice. You or I might be able to spot a phony address, but there are many many many people out there who have no clue about how it all works.
Anything the browser does that gets in the way and says "you know, you really may not be aware of what this URL does..." is helpful. Personally, I wish anomolies like this would show up in a different color. HTTP would be one color like blue (whereas FTP might be green or red), if there's an @ symbol, make everything behind it bold. Take the domain name and highlight it somehow, either by color or by italics, or something like that. Yet another solution would be to do like Slashdot does, put the domain name by a link. Etc.
Sorry I got huffy earlier. Not having the greatest day.
"The 2D quality between the two is just shocking. Where the Matrox is nice, crisp, extremely easy to read at 1280x1024, the GeForce2 is kind of blurry, not as well defined, and the colors aren't as vibrant."
Geforce 2 cards were known for having cheap-o filters that weakened the analog signal to the monitor. It has nothing to do with 2d vs 3d quality, you bought a card with cheap parts in it. (I did too, that's why I know this.)
Recent Geforce Cards are a lot better. I have dual monitors running at 1600 by 1200, quite clear and readable.
"Umm.. You do realize that the being able to have text before the domain name is actually part of the http standard? That is part before the @ is the username/password."
Yes. It's still an exploit. At least Opera throws up a warning.
"No, no, you're missing the point. Yes, that URL you mentioned will take you to slashdot and not zdnet, fine. But you'll see it in the location bar and know it's a fake."
"You'll know it's fake, therefore it's not a problem." It's still an exploit in Mozilla.
Tried it in Opera, this is the link it shows:
i ty/ex01/vun2.htm"
.07. It showed this link:
u rity/ex01/vun2.htm
"http://www.microsoft.com@zapthedingbat.com/secur
It did give me a security warning, though. "Are you sure you want to go to an address with a username in it?"
Tried it in Mozilla Firebird
http://www.microsoft.com%01@zapthedingbat.com/sec
There was no warning like in Opera.
This isn't a 'new IE bug', it's a 'new bug that every browser is affected by'.
"You're telling me, buddy. Unfortunately Microsoft is not aware that this occurs at all, ever. This is a good example of how unaware they are in general. Meanwhile..."
.7 is vulnerable as well.
Meanwhile, Mozilla FireBird
"Again the only responsible thing to do is to advocate Mozilla for financial transactions."
Have you tried this exploit in Mozilla? It isn't fixed at all if the domain name that shows up in the beginning of the URL != the domain name you land on.
Man, some of you Mozilla zealots are so interested in giving Microsoft a black eye that you're stupid to the fact that Mozilla has problems too. It's a big race to prove it's not a problem. "Oh yeah, it still shows the domain it landed on later in the address, so it's not a problem!"
" How it is that any informed, intelligent person still uses that POS software is beyond me."
Because that POS hasn't been caught up with in terms of page compatibility yet. Both Opera and Mozilla are near that point, but they haven't reached it yet. Still haven't been able to delete that little e icon off of my Quicklaunc bar yet.
I think your perception of IE is a little cartoony.
"Yes ... because as we all know Microsoft or Apple are completly "accountable" for any errors or damage there OS causes..."
That isn't what that phrase means. Apple and Microsoft, thanks to money, have a fire lit under them to keep the software up to date. The Linux/OSS Community fixes things 'for fun'. It's the "when they get bored" bit that makes the demand for accountability go up. No money changing hands = no percieved incentive to fix the latest greatest bug.
"The patent (I presume) is on this method, where a browser control is pointed at a DLL rather than a web server speaking HTTP. This is completely different than skinning, as it is a way of running a dynamic, HTML-based application locally without a web server."
Reminds me of how Windows Update knows what you have installed so it can package up the new things you need. I guess the idea that Microsoft developed a new service and patented a key component of it is too hard to believe next to an accusation that they stole it from the Open Source Community.
Miss Piggy refused to comment, she had a frog in her throat.
"Immediatly have the image of a large green frog floating around in the weightlessness?"
I did but oddly enough, he still had wires attached to his hands.
ATA?
"Ditto, I'm thinking, "What did, did Dr. Evil kidnap him and he wants us to give into his demands or the muppet gets shot out an airlock!?!?!"
Do you know what happens to a frog when it's exposed to the cold vaccuum of outer space? The same thing that happens to everything else.
*Straight face.*
"If you think that's good, just wait until next week, when the Vice President of RBC will reveal that he's the father of Darl Mcbride, shortly after slicing his hand off."
I hear Darl's sister is kinda cute.
"Does it help or hinder your viewing experience when some butt-munching ape of a human being logs on to /. and announces to the world that Trinity dies?"
It helped me, I knew I had 15 minutes to go to the bathroom.
"I only watch movies at the 2nd run theatre. It saves money, and it's easier to justify spending $3 to watch matrix 3 than spending $8."
I ended up watching Revoltions shortly after it came out because Slashdot wouldn't stop covering it. Even if I avoided the article, they still let spoilers slip here and there . It wasn't just Slashdot, either. Everybody wanted to babble about it. I wanted to get it over with before I knew everything about it before seeing it.
"Apparantly it is still over a year away, I bet a lot of these leaked rumours etc. will turn out to be quite wrong by the time the actual film comes around. Maybe a bit of Hollywood spin to get people talking?"
Lucas keeps fiddling with movies up until the day they print. It'll undoubtedly change.
Man... Atari popped into mind when ya said that.
Apology accepted. Have a nice night. :)