The article mentions a mother fearing that her sons will become socially isolated if they play video games, I think this is totally wrong. I just graduated high school and the majority of the guys all had atleast one gaming system and played them regularly. Those who didn't play video games were normally the kids that were in either the church group, or the alcoholic jocks.
It's great that video games improve your visual skills, but if you shelter your children then they'll never learn.
Another thing, I don't think there should be any laws deciding what I can and can not buy in terms of video games. On more than one occasion my mother has went out and bought the game for me because I wasn't allowed to. If you don't want your kids playing a game, then it should be your respondsibility to make sure they don't, not the governments/corperations. I feel the same way about movies, I was able to buy rated R tickets when I was 14 but for the last two years I couldn't. Thank you very much Tipper Gore.
Uplink did have a cli. You needed to use it to execute the virus and retro-virus. It's been awhile since I've played the game so I can't quite remember how to get to it though.
Why do i view Intel as Microsoft and AMD like Open Source?
AMD has been the underdog since they started making proccessors, their chips slowly got better until they rivaled Intel's chips. Now AMD's chips are better than Intel's. Kinda like OpenSource. Linux slowly started from the bottom of the ladder, rising up through the years and now whole countries are using it because it's superior.
AMD is also easier to tweak/overclock and you can tweak any OpenSource program.
Three Rings for the Microsoft-Developers under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-VPs in their halls of stone,
Nine for IIS System Administrators doomed to die,
One for Steve Ballmer on his dark throne
In the land of Redmond where shadows lie.
One Application to rule them all, One Palladium to authenticate them,
On Application to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Redmond where Shadows lie.
That's a little wrong. Used AC power to electricute animals and on the first electric chair. The reason was that Edison the creator of DC, wanted to show how harmfull his competetor's (Westinghouse) AC power was.
Edison thought that once people saw how dangerous it was, they'd use his DC power. AC eventually won out because it was able to be sent down powerlines.
Anyone remember this? It was supposed to be an add-on to the Nintendo 64. I seem to remember hearing once that Sony and Panosonic were competing over the licence to produce it and when Nintendo dropped the project they both went on to develop their own seperate systems.
Of course, this just might be my overactive imagination telling me things again.
The X-Men, oddly, gave her the least trouble. They are mutants, she declared, who "use their extraordinary and unnatural... powers on the side of good or evil."
Yes, but aren't all humans mutants? (I guess it all depends on which theory you believe: evolution or creation.) Humans use their powers for good and evil.
But she described in her ruling how she subjected many of the figures to "comprehensive examinations." At times, that included "the need to remove the clothes of the figure."
Doesn't this sentance make you think the whole article is fake?
The bedroom's for sleeping and for fucking and quiet discussions with a loved one. It's not somewhere to have a TV or a telephone or even a laptop or PDA.
I think you forgot what site you were posting on. Sleep? Psssh...
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I think we also need "...wtf?" as a mod rating. :)
How do you rate the article as troll?
It's kinda ongoing, but I nominated SCO. :)
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The article mentions a mother fearing that her sons will become socially isolated if they play video games, I think this is totally wrong. I just graduated high school and the majority of the guys all had atleast one gaming system and played them regularly. Those who didn't play video games were normally the kids that were in either the church group, or the alcoholic jocks.
It's great that video games improve your visual skills, but if you shelter your children then they'll never learn.
Another thing, I don't think there should be any laws deciding what I can and can not buy in terms of video games. On more than one occasion my mother has went out and bought the game for me because I wasn't allowed to. If you don't want your kids playing a game, then it should be your respondsibility to make sure they don't, not the governments/corperations. I feel the same way about movies, I was able to buy rated R tickets when I was 14 but for the last two years I couldn't. Thank you very much Tipper Gore.
is it me or did anyone else wanna mod this as funny?
Already /.'ed, but I found some other versions of this story.
Hard drive makers' stories start unravelling
Seagate, Maxtor, Hitachi say there's no hard drive recalls
Seagate denies Taiwan hard drive recall claims
Uplink did have a cli. You needed to use it to execute the virus and retro-virus. It's been awhile since I've played the game so I can't quite remember how to get to it though.
Here's the google partner link for those of you to lazy to register.
Personally, if I found something as severe as child porn I'd definitly report him to the police. If I lose my job then I sue.
There should be a law againist punishing whisle blowers.
I think they have the date wrong, it should be may 8th 2000.
Cool! I'm going to put my Bob Dylan collection on it.
Happy Jesus on a stick day!
Homer: mmmmmmm......artificial hippocampuses
Why do i view Intel as Microsoft and AMD like Open Source?
AMD has been the underdog since they started making proccessors, their chips slowly got better until they rivaled Intel's chips. Now AMD's chips are better than Intel's. Kinda like OpenSource. Linux slowly started from the bottom of the ladder, rising up through the years and now whole countries are using it because it's superior.
AMD is also easier to tweak/overclock and you can tweak any OpenSource program.
Why do the stories that remind me I'm a total loser always show up on friday night?
Dude it's...
Three Rings for the Microsoft-Developers under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-VPs in their halls of stone,
Nine for IIS System Administrators doomed to die,
One for Steve Ballmer on his dark throne
In the land of Redmond where shadows lie.
One Application to rule them all, One Palladium to authenticate them,
On Application to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Redmond where Shadows lie.
That's a little wrong. Used AC power to electricute animals and on the first electric chair. The reason was that Edison the creator of DC, wanted to show how harmfull his competetor's (Westinghouse) AC power was.
Edison thought that once people saw how dangerous it was, they'd use his DC power. AC eventually won out because it was able to be sent down powerlines.
No, not a bra-size.
Anyone remember this? It was supposed to be an add-on to the Nintendo 64. I seem to remember hearing once that Sony and Panosonic were competing over the licence to produce it and when Nintendo dropped the project they both went on to develop their own seperate systems.
Of course, this just might be my overactive imagination telling me things again.
Yeah....but how many laptops did he steal from Bruce Perens?
The X-Men, oddly, gave her the least trouble. They are mutants, she declared, who "use their extraordinary and unnatural ... powers on the side of good or evil."
Yes, but aren't all humans mutants? (I guess it all depends on which theory you believe: evolution or creation.) Humans use their powers for good and evil.
But she described in her ruling how she subjected many of the figures to "comprehensive examinations." At times, that included "the need to remove the clothes of the figure."
Doesn't this sentance make you think the whole article is fake?
The bedroom's for sleeping and for fucking and quiet discussions with a loved one. It's not somewhere to have a TV or a telephone or even a laptop or PDA.
I think you forgot what site you were posting on. Sleep? Psssh...
Any chance this brother was really an annoyed neighbor who knew the true power of the nerd? :)
Here's one.
Azerbaijan = 86,600 sq km.
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86600000000mm/(7*3.14159)mm
3937951346.74752957215022602294652*190,000,000,00
So small that 748,210,755,882,030,618,708 could cover Azerbaijan!
This is good news in my opinion, more PS2 and Gamecube fans.
However, if they do this, what's stopping them from saying "Ban open-source or you lose Windows?"