Those big, complex games may have limited appeal, but thank god someone publishes them, or else I'd never have gotten to play Kingmaker, Republic of Rome, or Machiavelli. Now those are great gamee.
What you saying makes perfect, logical sense, of course. But I can think of at least one circumstance in which the law (US law, anyway) would probably not honor that distinction. If you were to select as your avatar an adult male (or female, for that matter) and then proceeded to molest or rape (if such is possible in SL) someone whose avatar happened to resemble a young child, you would technically be in violation of the laws governing pedophilia. The law does not care if actual children were harmed, or were even involved. Merely the suggestion of pedophilia is enough. Although, IANAL, you understand. But this is why even art, digital or otherwise, which depicts acts of pedophilia is illegal.
So, if that case can be argued, seems like someone could try and make the argument for the use of violence and the destruction of virtual property in SL. They may might not win, though.
I grant you that some of the inherently Apple hardware will not operate correctly, if at all. But what do you want for nothing? I only boot into Windows to play games, so I don't need any of the specialized hardware to work in windows. For that, the $30 is probably worth it, I suppose.
The difference between 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, etc, is the same as the difference between OS 6, OS 7, OS 8, and OS 9. The only reason they are numbered as point releases is so that Apple doesn't have to give up the X logo. Think of 10.5 as Mac OS 16, if that helps.
Except, of course, that you don't need Boot Camp at all. An intel Mac wil already boot and install from a Windows XP disc without Bootcamp. The only thing Boot Camp is useful for is partitioning a drive without formatting it first and for burning a disc with the necessary drivers. The drivers can be found elsewhere, and the partitioning can be done with other software.
You're right about season one, although the small number is due to it being introduced late in the season. Seasons 2 and 3, however, each contain only 20 episodes. That seems to be SciFi Channel's preferred number. Stargate SG-1 went from 22 eps per season on Showtime to 20 on SciFi. I can remember when a full season of Star Trek was 26 episodes. Those were the days.
Maybe they'll finally let the people of earth in on the whole Stargate thing. How the cat hasn't gotten out of the bag by this point is completely beyond my willingingness to suspend my disbelief.
If you think that the Lord of the Rings movies were botched, then I suspect you won't like anything that carries the Star Trek moniker anymore. I don't know what you're expecting, but It might not be entirely realistic.
Got to agree with this. I thought First Contact was the best of all the movies. I think it did to the Borg exactly what it needed to. I don't even really understand what you mean when you say it cheapened them. How? By giving them a queen? Makes sense to me, really. Most hive-minded species have one. Does it give them a weakness? Clearly. But then, as the previous posted pointed out, an enemy without a weakness is a pretty boring thing, in the end. First Contact made the Borg far more interesting, in my mind.
Of course, I also liked Nemesis, so think what you will.
No. No. No. Oblivion, and all of the Elder Scrolls games, are absolutely RPGs. The perspective of the game does not define its genre; it's how the game is played that does. I can play Morrowind entirely from a third person perspective, if I want to. Does that make it a platformer? I've not played Oblivion, but IO can say that morrowind has far more in common with Fallout, Baldur's Gate, and Ultima that it does with Doom, Quake, or Far Cry.
Deus Ex was played from the first-person, but it was also not entirely a shooter. It was a FPS/RPG hybrid because it involved, just as the Elder Scrolls games do, character development and actual choices as to how to focus that development. A good way to help understand the distinction is that FPS games base character reaction time very much on player reaction time, whereas RPGs usually base character reaction time (among other things) on various recorded stats, which the player can influence. The player, however, usually has little direct control. I can click the mouse as fast as I want in Morrowind, but I'm still limited by the my stats and my choice of weapon. I'm sure you can find some exceptions to this rule but, as a whole, it stands.
Yes, you can burn them to as many CDs as you want. The only restriction is that you can only burn each playlist 10 times, then you have to change it. So you move a track around, or you just delete the playlist and rebuild it. So what. That's not much of a restriction. It's only in place to stop people from automatically mass producing CDs from playlists.
I don't even know what you're talking about with that second paragraph. Once the songs are on CD, no DRM. No magic there.
I really like the way it's done in Connecticut. After-sale rebates are illegal there, and all rebates are applied instantly to the in-store price. So a $150 hard drive with a $50 mail-in rebate costs you. . . $50, right there in the store. Amazing.
Except that, judging by the coverage that the Bush administration has been getting from the press the last few years, I'd say that media=liberal is no longer true, if it ever was.
My girlfriend's (no kidding) father does the same thing. He bought an enormous plasma TV - the thing must have cost 12 grand - and thinks he's watching the greatest thing in the world. All he's really doing, however, is stretching an SD image to fit a wide screen. He even watches DVD's that way. Every time I use it, I try to set the screen so movies actually look the way they're supposed to, but he flips out. It looks terrible but you can't tell him that. He's the kind of guy who absolutely cannot be corrected in his own home, no matter how wrong he is. I've tried explaining it to him, but he just gets angry and I end up getting yelled at by my girlfriend for getting him all upset. Sheesh.
This guy is the very definition of more money than sense. Decent guy, though. But knows nothing about tech.
I have the OSX widget version of PearLyrics and find it quite useful. I think this whole thing stinks. If anyone would like a copy of the widget, I'm making it available here. They can sue me if they want. I got nothing they can take.
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Those big, complex games may have limited appeal, but thank god someone publishes them, or else I'd never have gotten to play Kingmaker, Republic of Rome, or Machiavelli. Now those are great gamee.
Taken to court, eh? And how did that one turn out?
What you saying makes perfect, logical sense, of course. But I can think of at least one circumstance in which the law (US law, anyway) would probably not honor that distinction. If you were to select as your avatar an adult male (or female, for that matter) and then proceeded to molest or rape (if such is possible in SL) someone whose avatar happened to resemble a young child, you would technically be in violation of the laws governing pedophilia. The law does not care if actual children were harmed, or were even involved. Merely the suggestion of pedophilia is enough. Although, IANAL, you understand. But this is why even art, digital or otherwise, which depicts acts of pedophilia is illegal.
So, if that case can be argued, seems like someone could try and make the argument for the use of violence and the destruction of virtual property in SL. They may might not win, though.
Touche, but you know what I meant. We all know how totally and completely hip the letter X is. Thus, anything with an X in its name is also hip.
Also totally and completely hip is the lowercase i.
I grant you that some of the inherently Apple hardware will not operate correctly, if at all. But what do you want for nothing? I only boot into Windows to play games, so I don't need any of the specialized hardware to work in windows. For that, the $30 is probably worth it, I suppose.
I mean OS 15, of course.
The difference between 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, etc, is the same as the difference between OS 6, OS 7, OS 8, and OS 9. The only reason they are numbered as point releases is so that Apple doesn't have to give up the X logo. Think of 10.5 as Mac OS 16, if that helps.
Except, of course, that you don't need Boot Camp at all. An intel Mac wil already boot and install from a Windows XP disc without Bootcamp. The only thing Boot Camp is useful for is partitioning a drive without formatting it first and for burning a disc with the necessary drivers. The drivers can be found elsewhere, and the partitioning can be done with other software.
You're right about season one, although the small number is due to it being introduced late in the season. Seasons 2 and 3, however, each contain only 20 episodes. That seems to be SciFi Channel's preferred number. Stargate SG-1 went from 22 eps per season on Showtime to 20 on SciFi. I can remember when a full season of Star Trek was 26 episodes. Those were the days.
Hey, we got Starcraft just last week. That's pretty fun.
Maybe they'll finally let the people of earth in on the whole Stargate thing. How the cat hasn't gotten out of the bag by this point is completely beyond my willingingness to suspend my disbelief.
Oops. Make that "Acquisition." Do a search.
I've recently discovered the program Aquisition. Once I got used to it, I dumped LimeWire and never looked back.
If you think that the Lord of the Rings movies were botched, then I suspect you won't like anything that carries the Star Trek moniker anymore. I don't know what you're expecting, but It might not be entirely realistic.
Got to agree with this. I thought First Contact was the best of all the movies. I think it did to the Borg exactly what it needed to. I don't even really understand what you mean when you say it cheapened them. How? By giving them a queen? Makes sense to me, really. Most hive-minded species have one. Does it give them a weakness? Clearly. But then, as the previous posted pointed out, an enemy without a weakness is a pretty boring thing, in the end. First Contact made the Borg far more interesting, in my mind.
Of course, I also liked Nemesis, so think what you will.
Yeah. If I'm not mistaken, he was tortured by Jon Irenicus.
"Ahh, the Child of Picard has awoken."
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No. No. No. Oblivion, and all of the Elder Scrolls games, are absolutely RPGs. The perspective of the game does not define its genre; it's how the game is played that does. I can play Morrowind entirely from a third person perspective, if I want to. Does that make it a platformer? I've not played Oblivion, but IO can say that morrowind has far more in common with Fallout, Baldur's Gate, and Ultima that it does with Doom, Quake, or Far Cry.
Deus Ex was played from the first-person, but it was also not entirely a shooter. It was a FPS/RPG hybrid because it involved, just as the Elder Scrolls games do, character development and actual choices as to how to focus that development. A good way to help understand the distinction is that FPS games base character reaction time very much on player reaction time, whereas RPGs usually base character reaction time (among other things) on various recorded stats, which the player can influence. The player, however, usually has little direct control. I can click the mouse as fast as I want in Morrowind, but I'm still limited by the my stats and my choice of weapon. I'm sure you can find some exceptions to this rule but, as a whole, it stands.
How do you figure that?
Yes, you can burn them to as many CDs as you want. The only restriction is that you can only burn each playlist 10 times, then you have to change it. So you move a track around, or you just delete the playlist and rebuild it. So what. That's not much of a restriction. It's only in place to stop people from automatically mass producing CDs from playlists.
I don't even know what you're talking about with that second paragraph. Once the songs are on CD, no DRM. No magic there.
Yep. Ooops. Typing too fast. You know what I mean.
I really like the way it's done in Connecticut. After-sale rebates are illegal there, and all rebates are applied instantly to the in-store price. So a $150 hard drive with a $50 mail-in rebate costs you. . . $50, right there in the store. Amazing.
Except that, judging by the coverage that the Bush administration has been getting from the press the last few years, I'd say that media=liberal is no longer true, if it ever was.
He was referring to the 20" iMac.
My girlfriend's (no kidding) father does the same thing. He bought an enormous plasma TV - the thing must have cost 12 grand - and thinks he's watching the greatest thing in the world. All he's really doing, however, is stretching an SD image to fit a wide screen. He even watches DVD's that way. Every time I use it, I try to set the screen so movies actually look the way they're supposed to, but he flips out. It looks terrible but you can't tell him that. He's the kind of guy who absolutely cannot be corrected in his own home, no matter how wrong he is. I've tried explaining it to him, but he just gets angry and I end up getting yelled at by my girlfriend for getting him all upset. Sheesh.
This guy is the very definition of more money than sense. Decent guy, though. But knows nothing about tech.
I have the OSX widget version of PearLyrics and find it quite useful. I think this whole thing stinks. If anyone would like a copy of the widget, I'm making it available here. They can sue me if they want. I got nothing they can take.