It's a general comment that older gamers generally have less time. Infact in general older people have less time than younger people. You can be a fucking retard about it or you can just ignore it. Clearly you've opted for the retard route.
Yep, this post is exactly, precisely why I don't play Modern Warfare - absoloutely on the money why. If you want to play games with these people, feel free to.
On that note, I had my best BF3 session this evening yet - all 4 guys in the squad completely supported each other, not 2, not 3 - the full damn squad for a change and it worked out exceptionally well, we dominated, supported each other, had significantly more fun. Great stuff.
I'd class myself a fan of both and I'd say Mass Effect 1 and 2 definitely would appeal to fans of both, without question. Exceptionally good storyline and universe. Infact having finished Mass Effect recently, considering it's universe hasn't been tainted with edits and prequels, I'd go as far as to say, the lore / universe is superior to Star Wars.
Since a lot of people are responding to me, any BF3 gamers, please check the below out.
http://tinyurl.com/42mjw4c (sorry slashdot refused to accept the URL based on the lameness filter, regardless it is legit)
That is a legitimate link ran by DICE / EA - despite the dodgy URL it's their feedback forum, I suggest EVERYONE bump / respond to that post and ensure dice is aware that we NEED squad based chat "as default" which will vastly improve the teamplay of the game, causing people to stick together, it's how it should've been as default.
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I don't know if Battlefield 3 got itself a post at/. but I thought I might chime in here. Both of these games aren't what the older (I'd assume slashdot?) crowd are looking for when it comes to single player, there's vastly better experiences to be had with far better told engrossing stories. (Mass Effect for example is perfect for Star Wars and Star Trek nerds, myself included - I didn't realise just how good this was until re-playing it this year, it's REALLY damned good)
Now, as for multiplayer - if we even have time (not many of us I'd expect) Modern Warfare is generally targeted more at the console crowd, it focuses on "lone wolf" style gameplay where one guy can dominate and well you're likely to be called all kinds of names playing it, beggining with "F" or "N" BF3 however is team and squad focused and a real joy to play even if you don't hit the top of the ladder, infact I'd say satisfying is the word. You might also be called "N" or "F" but generally the crowd is at least a little bit older and the teamplay is very rewarding, it promotes it.
Both are timesink games. I'm not traditionally one for playing MP games at all, however I caved in on BF3 for the social aspect with friends and I must say, I'm very very impressed. Really quite a good game online. 64 players on a decent PC is an absoloute site to behold, it really is. Note: I make this recommendation as a 33 y/o gamer who doesn't have the time he used to, so it's surprising I'm even fitting in time for the game at all - really good stuff.
This post should be moderated up and people should do some reading on the gold standard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard The fact is many currencies are simply paper numbers with no true value. Inflation has been haywire ever since the gold standard went away.
I'm over simplifying but for the most part it's true. Banks also can basically 'make' money out of thin air, it's pretty nuts.
I recently grabbed a touchpad instinctively after seeing the CM7 video on youtube, not thinking clearly (and having too much damn money, not enough patience) I'd forgotten about Gingerbread entirely, does anyone know googles plans for GB and Ice Cream sandwich? I'd really like to see the touchpad working well with an OS designed for a tablet.
This company needs to be knocked off their perch. ESPECIALLY as Australian people have a penchant for strongly following the rules of tall poppy syndrome. Anecdotal comment: Out of the 50 staff I work with in my team in the office, we have had the following phone purchases in the past 12 months
Also of note, 2 of those Android purchases were directly moving FROM iphones to Android. If I increase that threshold to 18 months*, I can add another iphone 4. The sentiment in the office and amongst all the nerds I know except 2 die hards is that "Apple is evil" and generally to be avoided. It's basically 'not cool' to own an iphone at the moment, at least with the people I speak with. (If you can't tell, I'm one of the converts)
I have in the past 12 months though, recommended an iphone for someone surprisingly. A girl who had an iphone 3gs she dropped it and shattered it, she's not tech savvy and already has an iphone with itunes backup, it would be silly to push my 'Android agenda' on the girl when clearly an iphone would suit here. Flame comment begin: and to be genuinely honest, I see the iphone as the 'dumbest' of the smartphones, it's perfect for people like her because it's like the old Nokia 6110 of smartphones, simple and basic. You can't do much but you can't break much either. (Yes I genuinely believe that and I owned 3 of the things)
* and the guy who got his iphone 18 months ago is envious of everyones Galaxy S2, he's switching to Android at the end of his 24 month contract.
Christ you deniers freak me out. It's simple mathematics. The stuff is finite, we've been tapping it for years, it's beginning to reduce in discoveries and production, in the very least - less is being found. It doesn't 'magically grow back' - logically we should be preparing for the possibility that we simply have none.
Same with the 'keep breeding' crowd. Finite sized rock with finite resources, oxygen, water, food capable land, wood, oil, minerals, hell even finite real estate for solar panels.
Simple logic dictates we must be sensible about this. Infact DECENT logic actually implies we should abso-damn-loutely be self sufficient, capable of living indefinitely, assuming the sun doesn't die out (soon) - however it will (eventually)
Humanity is reducing the quantity of fish, wood and minerals from the planet, we simply can't live how we live now, it's simple mathematics and logic. It makes utterly no sense to be anything BUT self sufficient for the long haul.
Wow, moderated down from 5 to 3! There must be a lot of "security experts" using slashdot now, what a shame. - So where shall the actually technically informed people go now, since the commoners are coming here?
âoeAny modern drive will most likely be a hopeless task, what with ultra-high densities and use of perpendicular recording I donâ(TM)t see how MFM would even get a usable image, and then the use of EPRML will mean that even if you could magically transfer some sort of image into a file, the ability to decode that to recover the original data would be quite challenging.â) (Article itself) http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html
You've never built a spare PC? Don't need a new drive for the PS2 / Xbox 1 / PS3? You don't have 20$ for an external caddy to hold the drive?
Ditch drives under 160gb, it's not worth it, as I clearly stated - however things over that are likely fine. Oh and brand new disks die too, that's what backups are for.
Most PC's have 6 SATA ports, so that's 6 disks at a time. Fine scrap the IDE ones (then again, a large enough one is probably rare and worth something to a PS2 or Xbox 1 collector)
As I made CLEAR IN MY POST, anything over 160gb is retarded. I'm sick of people who can't read clearly.
I can't stand "security" people in business in general with this impulsive urge to physically destroy hard drives because of the data they stored. Go do some googling, a simple ONE PASS of 0's on the disk WILL make the data absoloutely, without question unrecoverable, anyone who tells you otherwise is in to voodoo and black magic or trying to make some profit.
A huge amount of these "security professionals" insist on trashing perfectly good hardware for no apparent reason, it's a complete was of good resources. The amount of perfectly good disks I've seen killed is astounding and not always old clunkers either, some relatively decent sized, high performing disks to boot.
DBAN doesn't take forever either, hook them up to a spare PC and fire it off, change the disks every couple of hours, infact if I recall DBAN supports multiple drives at the same time. Sure if you have a 40gb IDE or something, just drill a hole in it - but if you're trashing anything over 160gb you're starting to ruin perfectly good hardware, for the sake of being pedantic and frankly stupid - stop and just don't do it. This goes for anyone else suggesting the same thing, go and do some reading before believing any of this "must be 12pass write" rubbish to a disk. FWIW A good 0 write to a disk doesn't normally take more than a few hours.
Shity name but it's a good app, works well, good controls - plays all I throw at it Good lord am I happy I ditched the iphone, SO happy. I can play 350mb (cough) files directly on my Android, no conversion, no damned sync with a cable - just pop them on the phone and play. Fan tastic - just how it should be too, I can't stand limiting technology.
Oh yes I can put it on there wirelessly too, via SMB - just use "Samba File Sharing" (Red S icon for the package) - it works perfectly - drag and drop to a mapped drive in my POCKET â(TM)¥ Android
Athsmatic here in Australia - and AGREED! They did this to us nearly 10 years ago and the difference is noticable. A friend brought one back from Greece still with CFC in it 5 years ago and I still remember getting a hit from it, it's SO MUCH BETTER. The non CFC variant is simply not as good - no it's not a placebo, it's been 10 damn years.
Keep that in mind guys, it's not open for everyone yet - nor is it even closed for random invites. - So don't bother losing your marbles or logging in to bnet / email to check.
Don't have an ETA when but obviously soon, my wild guess - maybe another 3 to 7 days.
So I grew up with Star Wars and was always a fan but not nutcase level, I loved it but maybe a 6 or 7 out of 10 on the crazy scale. No toys, no conventions, no cosplay but I always enjoyed the movies, until of course the prequels sullied my memories and the new edits tarnished the old ones.
I heard many many people recommending the Plinkett reviews of Star Wars Episode 1->3 and hyping them as amazing. However I'm one of those guys who generally ignores or disagrees with too much hype so I'd never watched them. I was wrong. They are completely enteraining, intelligent, insightful, weird (just wait!) and also genuinely sad at points as his editing and choice of music really makes you look back nostalgically at your childhood when Star Wars was still innocent, unbutchered fun.
Anyhow, you have to watch Plinketts reviews of all 3 new movies and NEVER watch the new movies again, or Plinketts review for that matter. I went from 7 years of having given up on Star Wars to finally pining to watch them again, untarnished. For lack of a better analogy, I felt like I'd forgiven an ex after a bitter breakup, it was quite relieving.
Then,........... I obtained "Harmys" release of Star Wars, it's a 720p version of the original with the majority of the bad stuff ripped out. A few sections are touched up but they are genuinely not bad ones. - Google for Harmy Star Wars - 8gb, worth it completely. Initially while watching it, as someone who gets invested in the universe of a series, I found myself thinking 'back' to the new movies at points, pondering who did what or why. I fortunately forced myself to stop doing that after about 30 minutes and just enjoyed the movie. (Han Shot first!)
As long as I make a point of NEVER watching EP 1/2/3 again, nor Plinketts reviews, the bad stuff will slowly fall out of my memory, leaving only the original.
I really, really recommend Harmys release of Star Wars, the audio and video for 99% of the movie is amazingly good.
Unsure why this is also marked down this week, what's going on?
I don't want to have to make a new account, I simply want some of the facebook privacy features (amazingly) which google isn't offering.
I DON'T want to be found by my email address if I so choose. I DO want to sign in with my normal google account. I DON'T want to display my real name to some people. I DON'T want to display my "internet alias's" to others I DO want to lock my profile down to unknowns (or parts of it) To replace / add to twitter, I DO want to make some parts public, under perhaps my alias assigned to the account? I DON'T want my youtube / other google services displaying my real name and or linking back to my G+ account
They have potential to beat twitter and facebook here and I'm thinking they are squandering it.
So the third post asking "WTF is inferno" is a troll, clearly there's either 2 other trolls asking the same question,... or I dunno maybe we actually haven't heard of this obscure thing. Which I might add is so ugly, it quite seriously looks like the first OS written for a phone or something, it's so plain, boring and seemingly awkward to use.
So, I ask again - what am I (or rather, several of us) supposed to be excited about here? and would someone please fix the moderation.
What is inferno? I just looked at the video and same as others here, it's errr terribly small, clunky and I don't see any significant features there which would even make me consider using it?
It looks vastly worse than any of the other Android 'skins' deployed by carriers over the top to crum things up?
Can someone please explain, I honestly thought this was a joke?
I thought I was the naive guy who didn't know and didn't want to say anything. What the hell does bake off mean? I know he explained it but that's not good enough, who the hell calls it a bakeoff?
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It's a general comment that older gamers generally have less time. Infact in general older people have less time than younger people. You can be a fucking retard about it or you can just ignore it. Clearly you've opted for the retard route.
Yep, this post is exactly, precisely why I don't play Modern Warfare - absoloutely on the money why. If you want to play games with these people, feel free to.
On that note, I had my best BF3 session this evening yet - all 4 guys in the squad completely supported each other, not 2, not 3 - the full damn squad for a change and it worked out exceptionally well, we dominated, supported each other, had significantly more fun. Great stuff.
I'd class myself a fan of both and I'd say Mass Effect 1 and 2 definitely would appeal to fans of both, without question. Exceptionally good storyline and universe. Infact having finished Mass Effect recently, considering it's universe hasn't been tainted with edits and prequels, I'd go as far as to say, the lore / universe is superior to Star Wars.
Just fucking great - try it if you haven't.
Since a lot of people are responding to me, any BF3 gamers, please check the below out.
http://tinyurl.com/42mjw4c
(sorry slashdot refused to accept the URL based on the lameness filter, regardless it is legit)
That is a legitimate link ran by DICE / EA - despite the dodgy URL it's their feedback forum, I suggest EVERYONE bump / respond to that post and ensure dice is aware that we NEED squad based chat "as default" which will vastly improve the teamplay of the game, causing people to stick together, it's how it should've been as default.
I don't know if Battlefield 3 got itself a post at /. but I thought I might chime in here.
Both of these games aren't what the older (I'd assume slashdot?) crowd are looking for when it comes to single player, there's vastly better experiences to be had with far better told engrossing stories. (Mass Effect for example is perfect for Star Wars and Star Trek nerds, myself included - I didn't realise just how good this was until re-playing it this year, it's REALLY damned good)
Now, as for multiplayer - if we even have time (not many of us I'd expect) Modern Warfare is generally targeted more at the console crowd, it focuses on "lone wolf" style gameplay where one guy can dominate and well you're likely to be called all kinds of names playing it, beggining with "F" or "N"
BF3 however is team and squad focused and a real joy to play even if you don't hit the top of the ladder, infact I'd say satisfying is the word. You might also be called "N" or "F" but generally the crowd is at least a little bit older and the teamplay is very rewarding, it promotes it.
Both are timesink games. I'm not traditionally one for playing MP games at all, however I caved in on BF3 for the social aspect with friends and I must say, I'm very very impressed. Really quite a good game online. 64 players on a decent PC is an absoloute site to behold, it really is.
Note: I make this recommendation as a 33 y/o gamer who doesn't have the time he used to, so it's surprising I'm even fitting in time for the game at all - really good stuff.
This post should be moderated up and people should do some reading on the gold standard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard
The fact is many currencies are simply paper numbers with no true value. Inflation has been haywire ever since the gold standard went away.
I'm over simplifying but for the most part it's true. Banks also can basically 'make' money out of thin air, it's pretty nuts.
I recently grabbed a touchpad instinctively after seeing the CM7 video on youtube, not thinking clearly (and having too much damn money, not enough patience)
I'd forgotten about Gingerbread entirely, does anyone know googles plans for GB and Ice Cream sandwich? I'd really like to see the touchpad working well with an OS designed for a tablet.
Anyone got any theories or information?
I guess being litigious fuckstains now translates to "driving a market segment" good to know, thanks.
This company needs to be knocked off their perch. ESPECIALLY as Australian people have a penchant for strongly following the rules of tall poppy syndrome.
Anecdotal comment: Out of the 50 staff I work with in my team in the office, we have had the following phone purchases in the past 12 months
1x iphone 4
5x galaxy S2
1x galaxy 1 series
3x HTC Android phones
2x Acer Android phones (surprisingly good, Liquid Metal phone - 120$ AUD outright!)
1xAsus Transformer
0xipads
Also of note, 2 of those Android purchases were directly moving FROM iphones to Android. If I increase that threshold to 18 months*, I can add another iphone 4.
The sentiment in the office and amongst all the nerds I know except 2 die hards is that "Apple is evil" and generally to be avoided. It's basically 'not cool' to own an iphone at the moment, at least with the people I speak with. (If you can't tell, I'm one of the converts)
I have in the past 12 months though, recommended an iphone for someone surprisingly. A girl who had an iphone 3gs she dropped it and shattered it, she's not tech savvy and already has an iphone with itunes backup, it would be silly to push my 'Android agenda' on the girl when clearly an iphone would suit here.
Flame comment begin: and to be genuinely honest, I see the iphone as the 'dumbest' of the smartphones, it's perfect for people like her because it's like the old Nokia 6110 of smartphones, simple and basic. You can't do much but you can't break much either. (Yes I genuinely believe that and I owned 3 of the things)
* and the guy who got his iphone 18 months ago is envious of everyones Galaxy S2, he's switching to Android at the end of his 24 month contract.
Christ you deniers freak me out. It's simple mathematics. The stuff is finite, we've been tapping it for years, it's beginning to reduce in discoveries and production, in the very least - less is being found. It doesn't 'magically grow back' - logically we should be preparing for the possibility that we simply have none.
Same with the 'keep breeding' crowd. Finite sized rock with finite resources, oxygen, water, food capable land, wood, oil, minerals, hell even finite real estate for solar panels.
Simple logic dictates we must be sensible about this. Infact DECENT logic actually implies we should abso-damn-loutely be self sufficient, capable of living indefinitely, assuming the sun doesn't die out (soon) - however it will (eventually)
Humanity is reducing the quantity of fish, wood and minerals from the planet, we simply can't live how we live now, it's simple mathematics and logic. It makes utterly no sense to be anything BUT self sufficient for the long haul.
Yes it has, stop posting.
Wow, moderated down from 5 to 3! There must be a lot of "security experts" using slashdot now, what a shame. - So where shall the actually technically informed people go now, since the commoners are coming here?
http://hostjury.com/blog/view/195/the-great-zero-challenge-remains-unaccepted
http://www.anti-forensics.com/disk-wiping-one-pass-is-enough-part-2-this-time-with-screenshots
(Key quotes: Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory by Peter Gutmann (35 pass wipe originated from Mr. Gutmann)
âoeAny modern drive will most likely be a hopeless task, what with ultra-high densities and use of perpendicular recording I donâ(TM)t see how MFM would even get a usable image, and then the use of EPRML will mean that even if you could magically transfer some sort of image into a file, the ability to decode that to recover the original data would be quite challenging.â)
(Article itself) http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html
You've never built a spare PC?
Don't need a new drive for the PS2 / Xbox 1 / PS3?
You don't have 20$ for an external caddy to hold the drive?
Ditch drives under 160gb, it's not worth it, as I clearly stated - however things over that are likely fine. Oh and brand new disks die too, that's what backups are for.
Most PC's have 6 SATA ports, so that's 6 disks at a time. Fine scrap the IDE ones (then again, a large enough one is probably rare and worth something to a PS2 or Xbox 1 collector)
As I made CLEAR IN MY POST, anything over 160gb is retarded.
I'm sick of people who can't read clearly.
I'm sorry, I didn't see him specify 20 gig hard disks, where did he state that?
I can't stand "security" people in business in general with this impulsive urge to physically destroy hard drives because of the data they stored.
Go do some googling, a simple ONE PASS of 0's on the disk WILL make the data absoloutely, without question unrecoverable, anyone who tells you otherwise is in to voodoo and black magic or trying to make some profit.
A huge amount of these "security professionals" insist on trashing perfectly good hardware for no apparent reason, it's a complete was of good resources.
The amount of perfectly good disks I've seen killed is astounding and not always old clunkers either, some relatively decent sized, high performing disks to boot.
DBAN doesn't take forever either, hook them up to a spare PC and fire it off, change the disks every couple of hours, infact if I recall DBAN supports multiple drives at the same time.
Sure if you have a 40gb IDE or something, just drill a hole in it - but if you're trashing anything over 160gb you're starting to ruin perfectly good hardware, for the sake of being pedantic and frankly stupid - stop and just don't do it.
This goes for anyone else suggesting the same thing, go and do some reading before believing any of this "must be 12pass write" rubbish to a disk.
FWIW A good 0 write to a disk doesn't normally take more than a few hours.
Shity name but it's a good app, works well, good controls - plays all I throw at it
Good lord am I happy I ditched the iphone, SO happy. I can play 350mb (cough) files directly on my Android, no conversion, no damned sync with a cable - just pop them on the phone and play. Fan tastic - just how it should be too, I can't stand limiting technology.
Oh yes I can put it on there wirelessly too, via SMB - just use "Samba File Sharing" (Red S icon for the package) - it works perfectly - drag and drop to a mapped drive in my POCKET
â(TM)¥ Android
Athsmatic here in Australia - and AGREED! They did this to us nearly 10 years ago and the difference is noticable.
A friend brought one back from Greece still with CFC in it 5 years ago and I still remember getting a hit from it, it's SO MUCH BETTER. The non CFC variant is simply not as good - no it's not a placebo, it's been 10 damn years.
Keep that in mind guys, it's not open for everyone yet - nor is it even closed for random invites. - So don't bother losing your marbles or logging in to bnet / email to check.
Don't have an ETA when but obviously soon, my wild guess - maybe another 3 to 7 days.
Hi All,
So I grew up with Star Wars and was always a fan but not nutcase level, I loved it but maybe a 6 or 7 out of 10 on the crazy scale.
No toys, no conventions, no cosplay but I always enjoyed the movies, until of course the prequels sullied my memories and the new edits tarnished the old ones.
I heard many many people recommending the Plinkett reviews of Star Wars Episode 1->3 and hyping them as amazing. However I'm one of those guys who generally ignores or disagrees with too much hype so I'd never watched them. I was wrong. They are completely enteraining, intelligent, insightful, weird (just wait!) and also genuinely sad at points as his editing and choice of music really makes you look back nostalgically at your childhood when Star Wars was still innocent, unbutchered fun.
Anyhow, you have to watch Plinketts reviews of all 3 new movies and NEVER watch the new movies again, or Plinketts review for that matter.
I went from 7 years of having given up on Star Wars to finally pining to watch them again, untarnished. For lack of a better analogy, I felt like I'd forgiven an ex after a bitter breakup, it was quite relieving.
Then,........... I obtained "Harmys" release of Star Wars, it's a 720p version of the original with the majority of the bad stuff ripped out. A few sections are touched up but they are genuinely not bad ones. - Google for Harmy Star Wars - 8gb, worth it completely.
Initially while watching it, as someone who gets invested in the universe of a series, I found myself thinking 'back' to the new movies at points, pondering who did what or why. I fortunately forced myself to stop doing that after about 30 minutes and just enjoyed the movie. (Han Shot first!)
As long as I make a point of NEVER watching EP 1/2/3 again, nor Plinketts reviews, the bad stuff will slowly fall out of my memory, leaving only the original.
I really, really recommend Harmys release of Star Wars, the audio and video for 99% of the movie is amazingly good.
Unsure why this is also marked down this week, what's going on?
I don't want to have to make a new account, I simply want some of the facebook privacy features (amazingly) which google isn't offering.
I DON'T want to be found by my email address if I so choose.
I DO want to sign in with my normal google account.
I DON'T want to display my real name to some people.
I DON'T want to display my "internet alias's" to others
I DO want to lock my profile down to unknowns (or parts of it)
To replace / add to twitter, I DO want to make some parts public, under perhaps my alias assigned to the account?
I DON'T want my youtube / other google services displaying my real name and or linking back to my G+ account
They have potential to beat twitter and facebook here and I'm thinking they are squandering it.
So the third post asking "WTF is inferno" is a troll, clearly there's either 2 other trolls asking the same question,... or I dunno maybe we actually haven't heard of this obscure thing.
Which I might add is so ugly, it quite seriously looks like the first OS written for a phone or something, it's so plain, boring and seemingly awkward to use.
So, I ask again - what am I (or rather, several of us) supposed to be excited about here? and would someone please fix the moderation.
What is inferno? I just looked at the video and same as others here, it's errr terribly small, clunky and I don't see any significant features there which would even make me consider using it?
It looks vastly worse than any of the other Android 'skins' deployed by carriers over the top to crum things up?
Can someone please explain, I honestly thought this was a joke?
I thought I was the naive guy who didn't know and didn't want to say anything.
What the hell does bake off mean? I know he explained it but that's not good enough, who the hell calls it a bakeoff?