"...Some of those cases involved students using school computers to search for pornography. Students have also been caught snooping on inappropriate sites late at night by bumming wireless Internet connections off neighbors..."
Postpubescent males like to look at images of nude girls! No one is shocked except naive parents and school officials. Civilization doesn't collapse after all.
I wonder if people who have maxed out for a while should be offered a chance to be integrated into the game. Imgaine if Blizzard offered players who were lvl60 for a while a chance to become part of a quest. For instance they could become a guardian of an area, get a unqiue artifact, and basically have to defend an area against raiders. They could control monsters, etc but would be limited to staying in the quest area. They would be "legendary". If the player got sick of this the character would be given some AI and made a perm part of the game framework and the player would have to play another character.
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Not a bad idea. Make a fundementalist Islamic version written in Dari, Pashto, and Arabic and you could keep Al-Queda out of trouble for years.
A good case config helps. I have a Lian-Li PC-60 that puts the drive cage immediately behind the front air vent which is filtered. My 250GB Hitachi drives have been happy ever since.
"I took a shower and when I got out, I sat at my machine (still wet) "
"in my life, I've also had an 8-port switch blow (with smoke and a flash), several powerstrips pop and melt, a powerbrick for my powerbook turn to putty, and a floppy drive spray fire."
Maybe you should dry off before handling sensitive electronics.
Data like MP3s and video isn't going to change after it is first created so I'd store it to a medium like DVD or CD for archival purposes. I'd be more inclined to use a Maxtor-like system for my OS partition (driver and registry updates), work data, website workspace, etc. Those files use far less space than my relatively static MP3 collection and are compressable.
I've found Canon to be the best $/page of the printers out there and they are as good as HPs. The fact that they split the colors into seperate carts unlike HP which puts them into one means that you don't throw out colors with plenty of ink left. Unfortunately Canon now puts chips on their new lines of ink carts (i.e. my Pixma 830 uses CLI carts) so they can DMCA themselves into a chokehold on the Canon ink market. Thanks guys!
My usual need for strategy help is for decision points in RPGs where I can't go back. For instance, finding out if I had multiclassed a char as A before B instead of B before A would have been 10 times better, or going left before going right made the encounter much easier, or asking an NPC for X pisses them off permanently, etc. I also like to read online help for areas in RPGs where I wouldn't be able to return after leaving so I like to see if I missed anything (after searching on my own of course).
My experience with text adventures back in the 80's was usually along these lines:
>Put key in lock
I see no "lock" >Unlock lock
I see no "lock" >Open door
You cannot open that >Fuck this game!
I do not understand "fuck"...a few days later after getting help
>Put key in keyhole
You put the key in the keyhole > Turn the key
You unlock the door
There are so many review sites, test sites, and forums where people try different hardware configs and post their experiences that unless you are interested in some truly obscure hardware you can usually find out if someone has had compatability problems. I researched my parts that way before buying. I also avoided the usual first generation hardware issues (and prices) by staying away from the bleeding edge. Thank god for Google!
The guy who builds his own car has spent years learning his skills. He most likely makes a living doing something close to their hobby. If I wanted a hot-rod I'd either be looking at waiting 10+ years while I learned how and spent lots of $ on trial-and-error work or I could save up for a few years (assuming I'm rich) and just buy it from someone else who knows how to do it. Unless you are building a kit car, doing custom work isn't something you can jump into and even kits require a very good understanding of how cars work.
99% of the people who build their own systems do it primarily because they enjoy it. The time spent on hobbies can't be assigned a value because profit isn't the point. The time I spent building my system was time I didn't spend watching TV or working on my old dog of a PC.
Now if you want to talk about whether I saved any money based on the cost of buying parts vs a premade system then that is a different matter. I don't think I saved much but I was able to buy exactly the parts I wanted. My price to performance ratio is probably also higher than most premade systems.
The mid to upper-middle class guys I know who would know enough about computers to care about what was in an Alienware PC in the first place usually are techie enough to want to build thier own systems. I spent a good chunk of change researching and buying just behind the bleeding edge components to make a machine that should be my pride and joy for a good number of years. I even made sure it looked good (classic black and simple). To use your car analogy I'd be a car enthousiast who make his own custom hot-rod car instead of buying one off the lot.
I disagree with your claim that it is "...it too is a short step from shoplifting with a knife or a gun...At the point where they have no moral compunction with DoS'ing for no-profit, they'll make the switch.". Motives for shoplifting are to profit with the least amount of risk. It is generally not done with a sense of desperation. Armed robbery has different things driving it beyond just profit, such as desperation, contempt, and anger. To say that it is a natural and likely progression is as unrealistic as saying the pot smoker will automatically go on to use heroin.
People may increase the scale of their crime (embezzling more and more) but you are wrong to say that they will progress to a different type of crime (from embezzling to armed robbery).
Making the penalties clear and the benefits of keeping your nose clean will keep the majority of the curious and reasonable away from crime. The ones who think they are special and will never get caught or the nihilists who just don't care will never be scared by the penalties. They don't think it'll ever happen to them anyway.
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So by your logic methamphetamine should be 100% legal since people will see how bad it is and not use it. But people can do that now and they still use it, right? So how will making illegal stock activity legal convince people not to join in? If people don't know enough not to believe crapola on a message board now how is making it legal going to change things? Also, how is making something illegal "validating" those who choose to break the law? If I see someone trying to sell me stolen goods it doesn't validate theft in my eyes.
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Now think about it, these are the same people who figure the road to wealth is scratch tickets and sitting in front of a slot machine all day. Are you surprised that they would gamble on an email out of nowhere on something they no nothing about?
I wouldn't act on it unless it came from my old inside contact at Enron. Shhhhhh!
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"...Some of those cases involved students using school computers to search for pornography. Students have also been caught snooping on inappropriate sites late at night by bumming wireless Internet connections off neighbors..."
Postpubescent males like to look at images of nude girls! No one is shocked except naive parents and school officials. Civilization doesn't collapse after all.
Actually that is a form of birth control.
According to Ms Magazine, nothing breaks the ice for a woman at work like wearing a halter top, an ass tat, and short-shorts.
Being surrounded at the table by a bunch of staring guys on the verge of drooling might be a problem.
"There are ATTRACTIVE women who play the game."
Or at least that is what the guys playing those characters tell you.
I wonder if people who have maxed out for a while should be offered a chance to be integrated into the game. Imgaine if Blizzard offered players who were lvl60 for a while a chance to become part of a quest. For instance they could become a guardian of an area, get a unqiue artifact, and basically have to defend an area against raiders. They could control monsters, etc but would be limited to staying in the quest area. They would be "legendary". If the player got sick of this the character would be given some AI and made a perm part of the game framework and the player would have to play another character.
Not a bad idea. Make a fundementalist Islamic version written in Dari, Pashto, and Arabic and you could keep Al-Queda out of trouble for years.
To be honest it looks like a glorified version of Missle Defense.
A good case config helps. I have a Lian-Li PC-60 that puts the drive cage immediately behind the front air vent which is filtered. My 250GB Hitachi drives have been happy ever since.
All I have to say is GEEEEZ! Thanks for the closeups!
"I took a shower and when I got out, I sat at my machine (still wet) "
"in my life, I've also had an 8-port switch blow (with smoke and a flash), several powerstrips pop and melt, a powerbrick for my powerbook turn to putty, and a floppy drive spray fire."
Maybe you should dry off before handling sensitive electronics.
Data like MP3s and video isn't going to change after it is first created so I'd store it to a medium like DVD or CD for archival purposes. I'd be more inclined to use a Maxtor-like system for my OS partition (driver and registry updates), work data, website workspace, etc. Those files use far less space than my relatively static MP3 collection and are compressable.
I've found Canon to be the best $/page of the printers out there and they are as good as HPs. The fact that they split the colors into seperate carts unlike HP which puts them into one means that you don't throw out colors with plenty of ink left. Unfortunately Canon now puts chips on their new lines of ink carts (i.e. my Pixma 830 uses CLI carts) so they can DMCA themselves into a chokehold on the Canon ink market. Thanks guys!
My usual need for strategy help is for decision points in RPGs where I can't go back. For instance, finding out if I had multiclassed a char as A before B instead of B before A would have been 10 times better, or going left before going right made the encounter much easier, or asking an NPC for X pisses them off permanently, etc. I also like to read online help for areas in RPGs where I wouldn't be able to return after leaving so I like to see if I missed anything (after searching on my own of course).
My experience with text adventures back in the 80's was usually along these lines:
...a few days later after getting help
>Put key in lock
I see no "lock"
>Unlock lock
I see no "lock"
>Open door
You cannot open that
>Fuck this game!
I do not understand "fuck"
>Put key in keyhole
You put the key in the keyhole
> Turn the key
You unlock the door
Until he gets modded as a troll
There are so many review sites, test sites, and forums where people try different hardware configs and post their experiences that unless you are interested in some truly obscure hardware you can usually find out if someone has had compatability problems. I researched my parts that way before buying. I also avoided the usual first generation hardware issues (and prices) by staying away from the bleeding edge. Thank god for Google!
The guy who builds his own car has spent years learning his skills. He most likely makes a living doing something close to their hobby. If I wanted a hot-rod I'd either be looking at waiting 10+ years while I learned how and spent lots of $ on trial-and-error work or I could save up for a few years (assuming I'm rich) and just buy it from someone else who knows how to do it. Unless you are building a kit car, doing custom work isn't something you can jump into and even kits require a very good understanding of how cars work.
99% of the people who build their own systems do it primarily because they enjoy it. The time spent on hobbies can't be assigned a value because profit isn't the point. The time I spent building my system was time I didn't spend watching TV or working on my old dog of a PC.
Now if you want to talk about whether I saved any money based on the cost of buying parts vs a premade system then that is a different matter. I don't think I saved much but I was able to buy exactly the parts I wanted. My price to performance ratio is probably also higher than most premade systems.
The mid to upper-middle class guys I know who would know enough about computers to care about what was in an Alienware PC in the first place usually are techie enough to want to build thier own systems. I spent a good chunk of change researching and buying just behind the bleeding edge components to make a machine that should be my pride and joy for a good number of years. I even made sure it looked good (classic black and simple). To use your car analogy I'd be a car enthousiast who make his own custom hot-rod car instead of buying one off the lot.
I disagree with your claim that it is "...it too is a short step from shoplifting with a knife or a gun...At the point where they have no moral compunction with DoS'ing for no-profit, they'll make the switch.". Motives for shoplifting are to profit with the least amount of risk. It is generally not done with a sense of desperation. Armed robbery has different things driving it beyond just profit, such as desperation, contempt, and anger. To say that it is a natural and likely progression is as unrealistic as saying the pot smoker will automatically go on to use heroin.
People may increase the scale of their crime (embezzling more and more) but you are wrong to say that they will progress to a different type of crime (from embezzling to armed robbery).
Making the penalties clear and the benefits of keeping your nose clean will keep the majority of the curious and reasonable away from crime. The ones who think they are special and will never get caught or the nihilists who just don't care will never be scared by the penalties. They don't think it'll ever happen to them anyway.
So by your logic methamphetamine should be 100% legal since people will see how bad it is and not use it. But people can do that now and they still use it, right? So how will making illegal stock activity legal convince people not to join in? If people don't know enough not to believe crapola on a message board now how is making it legal going to change things? Also, how is making something illegal "validating" those who choose to break the law? If I see someone trying to sell me stolen goods it doesn't validate theft in my eyes.
Now think about it, these are the same people who figure the road to wealth is scratch tickets and sitting in front of a slot machine all day. Are you surprised that they would gamble on an email out of nowhere on something they no nothing about?
I wouldn't act on it unless it came from my old inside contact at Enron. Shhhhhh!
XFGW refinances mortgages and makes penis enlargement pills and V1agra doesn't it?
"Personally I'd love to see us progress to the point where it was possible to grow just the meat itself without the animal."
Ummmmm! Novartis and Wyeth Corp make the BEST steaks!