Even in Half-Life, where there's no respawning per se, everyone gets a new life at the beginning of the next round.
I think you meant Counter-Strike here, unless HL deathmatch has radically changed since the last time I played it. Which, admittedly, was a long time ago, as I've successively become hooked on a line of HL mods, including TFC, CS, and most recently Day of Defeat. Oh, and by the way, Day of Defeat (a *kickass* WWII mod) has an interesting way to handle the "coming back to life" thing: when you die, there is a short time limit before everyone who is dead "respawns" as the next wave of reinforcements. So, technically you're not the same person throughout the game, just series of nameless grunts rushing towards their doom =)
Um didn't that (SPOILER ALERT) kinda happen in the Matrix Reloaded, too? I mean not exactly what you're talking about but kinda similar with Agent Smith taking over that guys body and going out into the real worl-- except that it isn't the real world... or something. Ow, my head is starting to hurt again... =)
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I remember listening to that song thinking "Those lyrics don't make any sense, but maybe I'm hearing it wrong."
Now I know I was right. They don't make any sense.
Kickass riff though.
Mods, the above is not entirely off-topic, just mostly.
In case you didn't RFTA, the craft was an unmanned, remotely controlled plane. The article blurb didn't make this clear. So don't worry, everybody, nobody got hurt. (Except for maybe a few egos =)
I just finished playing an excellent game of Day of Defeat, and I can say that hardcore, intensive games aren't going away any time soon, and certainly not for me (I need my daily Nazi-killing fix =).
But for many other people, I can see how these casual games would be so appealing. Many are simple, easy to grasp concepts*, like Tetris or card games the users already know. I knew a girl who was incredibly hooked on Snake. Or Nibbles, whatever its called. Anyway, I'm rambling, so umm... err... GRENADE! Run! =)
* not that Nazi-killing is all that confusing of concept either
And considering that many of us are reading this at work (as I am), and that probably quite of few of them use win2k and require you use it (as mine does), I'd say their is *alot* of/.'ers that this will directly affect in the near future.
At first I was* pleased to hear about this, for it would mean not having to download Java just to run all those neat Java applets all over the web. Then I thought of ways this sort of thinking ("include this because lot's of people use it") could be applied in ways I would not like...
* I almost just wrote "At first I was afraid, I was petrified..." No shit. That's scary.
Dude, you just proved my point. If "85%" (gotta love/. statistic-making) of all copyrights are owned by corporations, who owns the other 15%? Some of it by "little people"*. Why screw them over with $10,000 for their copyright extensions just to hurt the big companies. I'm not saying that situation is correct or good in anyway, but there has to be better solutions to bring down the big companies' excessive copyright holding with out taking down the little guy's rightful copyright holding.
*Not necessarily midgets and dwarves, although they own copyrights too.:)
SCUMMVM in the palm of your hand with mp3-encoded talkie versions of Fate of Atlantis or Day of the Tentacle
Stop right there. You got me, I'm buying one.
I can't wait to see the looks on the train I'll get when I load up DotT and out booms the megalomanical voice of Purple Tentacle: "Nonsense! I feel great! Stronger! Smarter! More aggressive. I feel like I could... like I could... TAKE ON THE WORLD!!"
You bring up a good point about the linux install... the article blurb made it seem that the PDA comes w/ Linux pre-installed, but the first page of the article seems to say it comes w/ a Windows CD. I can't seem to see the second page of the article, it appears to be/.'ed. Anyone else know how it turned out?
As was already discussed in the previous/. discussion, and is stated in the law, the company could not extend their copyrights "into eternaty", they could only do it to when copyrights expire currently, which I believe is like 75 or 80s after publication, or maybe the author's death. Sorry, look at some other posts.
And as for the $1, thats so people who own their OWN copyrights, the 'little people', and who feel it's important to them to keep their works under copyright but just might not have $10,000 lying around. Doing what you suggest would essentially make it so only big companies could hold copyrights, which really isn't what we want.
And if you say that people who don't have much money 50 years after the publication of their work, maybe you don't know their situation. Maybe their work isn't a big seller, but maybe its a steady one, that brings in a small paycheck each month that helps the author get by (there are books like that). Or maybe the author wrote a book about being on the Titanic, and this law had been in effect a couple of years ago, and the 50 years was about to be up when the author finds out that the James Cameron movie is about to be released and he/she will be able to make alot of money off it.
I sorry about being a bit rambling with that last paragraph, I'm not sure how important it really was to include.
Exactly... as was said in the previous/. post, this is so that large companies don't just hold onto copyrights that they have no intention of doing anything with (publishing) "just in case". This will help open up that vast back catalog of great, but non-comercially-viable music/books/etc. that many major companies have lying around,
Yeah I think it would be better if it were sometime around 20 years (maybe that magical 14 that people always talk about) and starting with a long time before needing to pay the fee (10-12 years), and as time goes on, the gap between fees shrinks. Might I even call it... progressive? =)
Again, agree with the pop band argument. I just feel that to often/.'ers just bring up the two examples of the 'big, talentless, overproduced pop band' and the 'scruffy, brilliant, in-the-garage indie band' when there are plenty of bands in the middle.
To return more to your point, I like punk music. I have to say, that (I'm going to annoy some people with this, I'm sure) punk music really isn't that hard to play. I realy can't tell to much difference between the most of the big punk bands (there are few exeptions) and the thousands of local bands near me -- and I don't consider this a bad thing, as that means more easy chord music for me to listen to. I think this is a good example of your point that "The music is no different than what's happening in every town in the US. (with exceptions of course)"
However, I also like Linkin Park. I'm sure there are plenty of people on this forum who will be happy to tell me how much LP "sUx0rz", but I just want to say that if LP did not have a big record label behind them and all that money they made off their first album, their most recent album ("Meteora") probably would not have the kind of polish and lush production values that I've found I like so much. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they still could have made that music on a shoestring budget. If that was true, that actually would be pretty cool (I could be a musikshian! sweet!)
Well, here come the "popular music suks" flames...
While I agree with you somewhat, I have one thing to say: sometimes music produced in garages sucks.
Yeah I know you didn't necessarily mean literally. And yes, there is too much overproduced music nowadays.
But sometimes I like to listen to music produced in top-notch studios with top-notch, expensive equipment. And that takes money, which not all artist have, and which (more importantly) no artists will get even when they become popular because there are no record companies to sink large amounts of money into them.
They weren't blown up. They were eaten by Saddamn and his Republican Guards, silly! They also were attacked with shoes. And I think they never existed, too. Something like that.
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Mmmm... extreme violence. If the review hadn't already sold me, this comment certainly would have! =)
Even in Half-Life, where there's no respawning per se, everyone gets a new life at the beginning of the next round.
I think you meant Counter-Strike here, unless HL deathmatch has radically changed since the last time I played it. Which, admittedly, was a long time ago, as I've successively become hooked on a line of HL mods, including TFC, CS, and most recently Day of Defeat. Oh, and by the way, Day of Defeat (a *kickass* WWII mod) has an interesting way to handle the "coming back to life" thing: when you die, there is a short time limit before everyone who is dead "respawns" as the next wave of reinforcements. So, technically you're not the same person throughout the game, just series of nameless grunts rushing towards their doom =)
Otherwise, you're spot on.
Um didn't that (SPOILER ALERT) kinda happen in the Matrix Reloaded, too? I mean not exactly what you're talking about but kinda similar with Agent Smith taking over that guys body and going out into the real worl-- except that it isn't the real world... or something. Ow, my head is starting to hurt again... =)
I remember listening to that song thinking "Those lyrics don't make any sense, but maybe I'm hearing it wrong."
Now I know I was right. They don't make any sense.
Kickass riff though.
Mods, the above is not entirely off-topic, just mostly.
Yeah, even the current poll has this joke.
That's not always the result of a mistake...
You would think we would have learned with the Hindenberg ("Oh god! The humanity!")
where it rains 360 days a year...
;)
Anybody here from the NY/NJ/CT area? Reminds you of the past spring, huh?
Although I agree with the poster, I wish I could have job setbacks in a location like that.
In case you didn't RFTA, the craft was an unmanned, remotely controlled plane. The article blurb didn't make this clear. So don't worry, everybody, nobody got hurt. (Except for maybe a few egos =)
I just finished playing an excellent game of Day of Defeat, and I can say that hardcore, intensive games aren't going away any time soon, and certainly not for me (I need my daily Nazi-killing fix =).
But for many other people, I can see how these casual games would be so appealing. Many are simple, easy to grasp concepts*, like Tetris or card games the users already know. I knew a girl who was incredibly hooked on Snake. Or Nibbles, whatever its called. Anyway, I'm rambling, so umm... err... GRENADE! Run! =)
* not that Nazi-killing is all that confusing of concept either
And considering that many of us are reading this at work (as I am), and that probably quite of few of them use win2k and require you use it (as mine does), I'd say their is *alot* of /.'ers that this will directly affect in the near future.
At first I was* pleased to hear about this, for it would mean not having to download Java just to run all those neat Java applets all over the web. Then I thought of ways this sort of thinking ("include this because lot's of people use it") could be applied in ways I would not like...
* I almost just wrote "At first I was afraid, I was petrified..." No shit. That's scary.
Dude, you just proved my point. If "85%" (gotta love /. statistic-making) of all copyrights are owned by corporations, who owns the other 15%? Some of it by "little people"*. Why screw them over with $10,000 for their copyright extensions just to hurt the big companies. I'm not saying that situation is correct or good in anyway, but there has to be better solutions to bring down the big companies' excessive copyright holding with out taking down the little guy's rightful copyright holding.
:)
*Not necessarily midgets and dwarves, although they own copyrights too.
SCUMMVM in the palm of your hand with mp3-encoded talkie versions of Fate of Atlantis or Day of the Tentacle
Stop right there. You got me, I'm buying one.
I can't wait to see the looks on the train I'll get when I load up DotT and out booms the megalomanical voice of Purple Tentacle: "Nonsense! I feel great! Stronger! Smarter! More aggressive. I feel like I could... like I could... TAKE ON THE WORLD!!"
Damn those were good.
Oh, alright, thanks. Didn't see that in the review, probably on the page that got slashdotted. Or if I had a Zaurus I would know, I guess. =)
You bring up a good point about the linux install... the article blurb made it seem that the PDA comes w/ Linux pre-installed, but the first page of the article seems to say it comes w/ a Windows CD. I can't seem to see the second page of the article, it appears to be /.'ed. Anyone else know how it turned out?
As was already discussed in the previous /. discussion, and is stated in the law, the company could not extend their copyrights "into eternaty", they could only do it to when copyrights expire currently, which I believe is like 75 or 80s after publication, or maybe the author's death. Sorry, look at some other posts.
And as for the $1, thats so people who own their OWN copyrights, the 'little people', and who feel it's important to them to keep their works under copyright but just might not have $10,000 lying around. Doing what you suggest would essentially make it so only big companies could hold copyrights, which really isn't what we want.
And if you say that people who don't have much money 50 years after the publication of their work, maybe you don't know their situation. Maybe their work isn't a big seller, but maybe its a steady one, that brings in a small paycheck each month that helps the author get by (there are books like that). Or maybe the author wrote a book about being on the Titanic, and this law had been in effect a couple of years ago, and the 50 years was about to be up when the author finds out that the James Cameron movie is about to be released and he/she will be able to make alot of money off it.
I sorry about being a bit rambling with that last paragraph, I'm not sure how important it really was to include.
Exactly... as was said in the previous /. post, this is so that large companies don't just hold onto copyrights that they have no intention of doing anything with (publishing) "just in case". This will help open up that vast back catalog of great, but non-comercially-viable music/books/etc. that many major companies have lying around,
Yeah I think it would be better if it were sometime around 20 years (maybe that magical 14 that people always talk about) and starting with a long time before needing to pay the fee (10-12 years), and as time goes on, the gap between fees shrinks. Might I even call it ... progressive? =)
Again, agree with the pop band argument. I just feel that to often /.'ers just bring up the two examples of the 'big, talentless, overproduced pop band' and the 'scruffy, brilliant, in-the-garage indie band' when there are plenty of bands in the middle.
To return more to your point, I like punk music. I have to say, that (I'm going to annoy some people with this, I'm sure) punk music really isn't that hard to play. I realy can't tell to much difference between the most of the big punk bands (there are few exeptions) and the thousands of local bands near me -- and I don't consider this a bad thing, as that means more easy chord music for me to listen to. I think this is a good example of your point that "The music is no different than what's happening in every town in the US. (with exceptions of course)"
However, I also like Linkin Park. I'm sure there are plenty of people on this forum who will be happy to tell me how much LP "sUx0rz", but I just want to say that if LP did not have a big record label behind them and all that money they made off their first album, their most recent album ("Meteora") probably would not have the kind of polish and lush production values that I've found I like so much. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they still could have made that music on a shoestring budget. If that was true, that actually would be pretty cool (I could be a musikshian! sweet!)
Well, here come the "popular music suks" flames...
While I agree with you somewhat, I have one thing to say: sometimes music produced in garages sucks.
Yeah I know you didn't necessarily mean literally. And yes, there is too much overproduced music nowadays.
But sometimes I like to listen to music produced in top-notch studios with top-notch, expensive equipment. And that takes money, which not all artist have, and which (more importantly) no artists will get even when they become popular because there are no record companies to sink large amounts of money into them.
Two Chinamen? That's pretty impressive!
They weren't blown up. They were eaten by Saddamn and his Republican Guards, silly! They also were attacked with shoes. And I think they never existed, too. Something like that.
Nice troll. I especially liked the "gay sex and open-source software" bit, it put a nice bigoted spin on the whole thing.
I believe that Hotmail is very often target for brute force attacks/dictionary attacks.