"3 Billion human lives ended on August 29th 1997. The survivors of the nuclear fire called the war Judgement Day. They lived only to face a new nightmare. The war against the machines."
Ok, I'll walk up to someone and shoot them in the chest with my beretta. Multiple times (there's 11 in clip, 1 in chamber,.40) too. As they lay gasping their last I tell them "Welp, you shoulda worn kevlar today."
AAHHHH THE POLICE ARE TRYING TO SUPPRESS MY FREE SPEECH!!
You, sir, are a moron. I'd mod your ass down if you were up on my meta-list. The virus writers were deliberately planning on causing harm/aggravation/corporate damages (if a bunch of your workstations suddenly start crashing at startup, you lose money in productivity, and paying the poor IT bastard to work overtime fixing the little mess) by releasing those viruses. They may have wanted to be seen as being all "Robin Hood" about MS but in the end, they were about causing damage. It is justified to punish malicious coders. Imagine the 'net if these criminals were allowed to proliferate their actions. We wouldn't have ANY games. Period. Nor would we have P2P. Or IRC. For security, yeah. If these assburgers wanted to actually HELP the tech society, they should have released software patches to close security holes, not exploit them.
Just throw humans on there. I mean, all these rovers and probes, they could turn to research to enable humans to travel to mars, i.e. supplies storage/possible cold(cryo) sleep/faster propulsion, etc; There are enabling technologies out there and with physics horizons being redefined every day, there's no reason to say "Look. We've got pictures, we've got soil tests, we've got maps, we have a whole lot of stuff, but let's get on with it and focus on putting humans on Mars." Apparently it has some sort of thin atmosphere, it just needs to be temerature regulated. Well, with some sort of habitat that can withstand the Martian weather and control internal climate, there's no limit to the utility of it. It could be the first base humanity establishes on another planet.
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This year it was an orange; we aren't allowed to use Ziplines or anything that physically contacts the transport device while in the water. Remote control? Yes. Ziplines? No. The real crux of the issue is to try to get as close to your projected time as possible, so simply making the fastest won't work, (you have to know it's the fastest)
The potato cannon was across the RWC pool. Couple of years back they used something like a E model rocket to launch a tater across the pool lengthwise. Unfortunately, a reporter was covering this story and decided to stand directly across from said spud rocket. Well, the spud "fragmented" upon launch and the camera and reporter were served mash potatoes, airmail style.
Us Engineers are always launching things, last spring it was marshmallows in a housing development to the southern sector of campus (for the most part main campus is shaped circular.) and there were all sorts of weird inventions, air cannons made from beer kegs, slingshots attached to 2x4's, 14-ft long plunger-type air cannons (think old-school popgun) etc.
Always a fun thing to attend, even for non-engineers.
Planned Parenthood for not stepping in, there were undoubtedly warning signs (like the parents wanting a label on the bottom of soda bottles stating -OPEN OTHER END-)
Charles Darwin (his estate) for not living long enough to personally talk to these parents and convince them to put a deer slug through their skulls
The parents themselves for not noting that their kids had been playing a Mature rated game while they were under 17.
If I had my way, there would be no lawsuit. At the first motion to bring such action, the parents should be investigated and the kids be placed in state custody, preferably in a JDC.
Why so hard?
I was raised in a single parent home and I have played every form of violent, bloody, rip-your-opponent's-whatever-off game relesed since I was, oh, say, 7 years old.
I'm 19 and now studying Journalism at UCF.
Never got around to killing anyone "just like in GTA!!" since it's easy to point out that plasma blasters and one-man-portable railguns (that fire every 2 seconds) do not exist IN REAL LIFE.
Leereyno:
I have a dose of vitriol to counter your little spat:
The right wing of this country has moved the focus of elections from issues and platforms to money and media coverage. They present any plans for war as plans for "liberation" and think everyone who disagrees has a mental deficiency. Conservatives believe that anyone with a shred of Liberal thought in them is an outright Socialist and they will stop at nothing to sway public opinion in that direction, yet the Conservatives themselves are the quick ones to take away basic rights of privacy, through a thinly veiled attempt to prey on the fear of everyday people.
Socialism, yet with its drawbacks, is a shining bastion of Democracy compared to Fascism.
Answer it like it's a secret agent
"Thank you for your quick response 004, MI6 will be pleased by your efforts for Queen and Country. Your first objective is to contact your liaison, tomorrow night, 1930 GMT, at [insert place here, make it some place weird like Jakarta, Indonesia.] You will receive your instructions there." *hang up*
There was a tech expo here at UCF yesterday and of course, Apple had a few of those nifty G5 computers out in a booth. Guess what was about 30 feet to the left? A G5 running a custom LFS installation, courtesy of a Comp Sci enthusiast club. The Apple people weren't angry in the least. They actually liked the idea, and probably enjoyed the acknowledgement that people knew, at long last, that you didn't have to run the Mac OS on their (relatively recent) computers, thanks to a few geeks here at UCF.
I don't know what the MS booth folks thought of it... they weren't getting much attention with them pushing OfficeXP/XP Home with their booth and all.... don't they know we all have Pro Corp?
On a side note, if anyone can direct me to some resources on a guess as to how powerful the top-end G5 (8 GB DDR400, dual 2GHz CPU/1GHz FSB and all...) is in terms of a gaming application, I would be grateful. I could imagine it would just be a matter of Wine through Linux, but I honestly don't know. Again, that would be helpful.
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"3 Billion human lives ended on August 29th 1997. The survivors of the nuclear fire called the war Judgement Day. They lived only to face a new nightmare. The war against the machines."
Ok, I'll walk up to someone and shoot them in the chest with my beretta. Multiple times (there's 11 in clip, 1 in chamber, .40) too. As they lay gasping their last I tell them "Welp, you shoulda worn kevlar today."
AAHHHH THE POLICE ARE TRYING TO SUPPRESS MY FREE SPEECH!!
You, sir, are a moron. I'd mod your ass down if you were up on my meta-list. The virus writers were deliberately planning on causing harm/aggravation/corporate damages (if a bunch of your workstations suddenly start crashing at startup, you lose money in productivity, and paying the poor IT bastard to work overtime fixing the little mess) by releasing those viruses. They may have wanted to be seen as being all "Robin Hood" about MS but in the end, they were about causing damage. It is justified to punish malicious coders. Imagine the 'net if these criminals were allowed to proliferate their actions. We wouldn't have ANY games. Period. Nor would we have P2P. Or IRC. For security, yeah. If these assburgers wanted to actually HELP the tech society, they should have released software patches to close security holes, not exploit them.
Just throw humans on there. I mean, all these rovers and probes, they could turn to research to enable humans to travel to mars, i.e. supplies storage/possible cold(cryo) sleep/faster propulsion, etc; There are enabling technologies out there and with physics horizons being redefined every day, there's no reason to say "Look. We've got pictures, we've got soil tests, we've got maps, we have a whole lot of stuff, but let's get on with it and focus on putting humans on Mars." Apparently it has some sort of thin atmosphere, it just needs to be temerature regulated. Well, with some sort of habitat that can withstand the Martian weather and control internal climate, there's no limit to the utility of it. It could be the first base humanity establishes on another planet.
This year it was an orange; we aren't allowed to use Ziplines or anything that physically contacts the transport device while in the water. Remote control? Yes. Ziplines? No. The real crux of the issue is to try to get as close to your projected time as possible, so simply making the fastest won't work, (you have to know it's the fastest)
The potato cannon was across the RWC pool. Couple of years back they used something like a E model rocket to launch a tater across the pool lengthwise. Unfortunately, a reporter was covering this story and decided to stand directly across from said spud rocket. Well, the spud "fragmented" upon launch and the camera and reporter were served mash potatoes, airmail style.
Us Engineers are always launching things, last spring it was marshmallows in a housing development to the southern sector of campus (for the most part main campus is shaped circular.) and there were all sorts of weird inventions, air cannons made from beer kegs, slingshots attached to 2x4's, 14-ft long plunger-type air cannons (think old-school popgun) etc. Always a fun thing to attend, even for non-engineers.
Acid, you go to UCF?
Planned Parenthood for not stepping in, there were undoubtedly warning signs (like the parents wanting a label on the bottom of soda bottles stating -OPEN OTHER END-)
Charles Darwin (his estate) for not living long enough to personally talk to these parents and convince them to put a deer slug through their skulls
The parents themselves for not noting that their kids had been playing a Mature rated game while they were under 17.
If I had my way, there would be no lawsuit. At the first motion to bring such action, the parents should be investigated and the kids be placed in state custody, preferably in a JDC.
Why so hard?
I was raised in a single parent home and I have played every form of violent, bloody, rip-your-opponent's-whatever-off game relesed since I was, oh, say, 7 years old.
I'm 19 and now studying Journalism at UCF.
Never got around to killing anyone "just like in GTA!!" since it's easy to point out that plasma blasters and one-man-portable railguns (that fire every 2 seconds) do not exist IN REAL LIFE.
Leereyno: I have a dose of vitriol to counter your little spat:
The right wing of this country has moved the focus of elections from issues and platforms to money and media coverage. They present any plans for war as plans for "liberation" and think everyone who disagrees has a mental deficiency. Conservatives believe that anyone with a shred of Liberal thought in them is an outright Socialist and they will stop at nothing to sway public opinion in that direction, yet the Conservatives themselves are the quick ones to take away basic rights of privacy, through a thinly veiled attempt to prey on the fear of everyday people.
Socialism, yet with its drawbacks, is a shining bastion of Democracy compared to Fascism.
Leave it to a friggin' Conservative... unfknblvbl
Answer it like it's a secret agent "Thank you for your quick response 004, MI6 will be pleased by your efforts for Queen and Country. Your first objective is to contact your liaison, tomorrow night, 1930 GMT, at [insert place here, make it some place weird like Jakarta, Indonesia.] You will receive your instructions there." *hang up*
There was a tech expo here at UCF yesterday and of course, Apple had a few of those nifty G5 computers out in a booth. Guess what was about 30 feet to the left? A G5 running a custom LFS installation, courtesy of a Comp Sci enthusiast club. The Apple people weren't angry in the least. They actually liked the idea, and probably enjoyed the acknowledgement that people knew, at long last, that you didn't have to run the Mac OS on their (relatively recent) computers, thanks to a few geeks here at UCF. I don't know what the MS booth folks thought of it... they weren't getting much attention with them pushing OfficeXP/XP Home with their booth and all.... don't they know we all have Pro Corp? On a side note, if anyone can direct me to some resources on a guess as to how powerful the top-end G5 (8 GB DDR400, dual 2GHz CPU/1GHz FSB and all...) is in terms of a gaming application, I would be grateful. I could imagine it would just be a matter of Wine through Linux, but I honestly don't know. Again, that would be helpful.