A SENATOR, someone who is DEFINATLY NOT a terrorist, as they are an ELECTED official, was put on the NO-FLY list, a list designed to keep TERRORISTS OFF of airplains, was put ONTO the no-fly list, by "Accident".
...
Yea, an "accident". I'd like to know what's going on there.
I, for one, would rather see the day where the RIAA/MPAA are long gone and some such business model exists that removes publishers from the content distrobution system completly since they are primarily the problem. It'd be really neat if you could buy music in high quality files for $.10 a pop or buy access to internet radio streams for like $10 a month. Sure, there'll still be piracy, but at least the artists will be getting a good deal of money for their music, and you can include extra's on a website or something.
Yes, it is far more complicated, and you make some good points. However, I'd like to make one of my own. We can argue back and forth about WMD that and supposed facts given by organizations, but I prefer to look at those organizations actions.
I see 3 things that are happening right now; the US government is taking away our rights and activly oppressing the first amendment. If you want proof, go onto suprnova.org and type "protest" into the search engine and take a look at how the cops treat protesters.
Secondly, I see corporate and foreign interests being serviced before american citizens interests. We've seen the deregulation of business law in the past 40 or so years, although some would say past 200 but our economic system has evolved a bit IMO. This is mostly being facilitated by trading favors and getting friends of friends into power who'll get bills passed. We can see the effect all over; public schools are closing, advertising on cop cars, the whole 9 yards.
Finally, we're seeing a concentration of media, meaning, the government and corporations has access to a massive way to control the flow of information to people, and has used that control in the past. As the bible says, ye who keeps information from you sees himself as your master in his heart.
Now, frankly, I see no justification for police to be terrifying protesters and I see no justification for artisans and common people to be put under scrutiny because they might be "with the enemy" because they express some unpopular idea. You can interperete that any you want to but logically there's no reason people should want to trust their government after they pull this kind of crap.
That is why you see protesters in the streets protesting Iraq and they stupidly assume everything the government does is indeed bad. I find it hard myself to believe that this government is capable of doing anything but protecting corporate and foreign interests and in some fucked up round-about way, american interests, but that's just me.
The difference is that Linux people can make a logical arguement, Microsoft salesmen can only make up big lies and format them so stupid people who've been conditoned through schools accept it. Yea, there's grey area but still, the sides are polarised that way. How many studies have we seen that involved microsoft paying some 3rd party for research, er, advertising? I don't recall any of those being made for linux.
And I wouldn't call MS a "compeditor", more of just another annoying corporation we make fun of because they make it so easy; the slashdot people are most decidedly anti-big evil corporate entity; there's a long line of love-hate relationships between slashdot people and big evil corporate entities.
The real programmers couldn't give a rats ass what microsoft thinks about their work becuase they aren't trying to sell a product, they're building something for fun and giving it away. Slashdot people are usually pretty savvy as far as technology goes and thus understand how it is to be persecuted for doing what you love a lot more than with a big corporation that's losing business to some rabblerousers perfectly legal and constructive fun.
As far as Borg Bill or the Dirty windows go, there needs to be better icons. Replace the dirty windows with a BSOD screen on a can of beer, preferably the newest for the OS, and replace Borg bill with a super mario-bros esque version of him stomping on fat stubby formed african children...er...gomba's and punting around those lovable slow ass wingless corporate ceo's with the assramming expression on their faces as they get punted...er...turtle people.
Lets just take a set of events here, just to show you how corrupt the entire system is.
I invest $100,000 (a paltry sum of my 30 million) into you to start up a business for 49% of the company stock. You begin making some product, and it takes off. Within a year, the company is worth 2 million, and I own $990,000 of that. In 4 years, I have done no work accept invest some money, and now the company has grown to 2 billion a year, and I own $999,000,000 of that. Now, if the company only had to pay back, at maximum, 10 times the investment, the company would be doing fine and the workers would be making probably double what they were making.
Because I invested $100,000, I made 10,000 time more back and I did absolutely nothing, while someone else did something. You could say that's smart investing, but that's $990,000,000 that doesn't go toward a families mouth but towards my sorry ass. Additionally, in order to increase the value of my stock, the company is required to by law to pretty much do as I say.
Say I sell my stock, the company takes a huge dive, a few thousand are layed off, and I reinvest. I reinvest so well, that within 10 years I'v made over $100 billion. I now own some small percentage of the US economy and I have more power than most small 3rd world governments. Companies still scramble to make their stocks look nice.
This is what's called usury, and this is why the Bible said it was bad. You are using other people to make money instead of doing the work yourself, and when taken on a grand scale, it's used to instiage the most henious inhuman crimes.
I believe the goal here is to show bosses that giving the fruits of their workforces labors to the workforce and not to investors or themselves is the key to success. Infact, it is the key to making a capitalistic society go round. Unfortunatly, a corporation exists for the enrichment of investors, workers be damned unless they own voting stock. The workers revolt by working based on their pay; if they're paid minimum wage to stock shelves, they work slow and slack off. If they're paid $8 or $10 to stock shelves, then they work hard.
It's one thing to want to wiretap people and activly defend large corporations copyrights, it's a completly different thing to shut down news sites because you don't want information being disseminated to the public. Now they are really turning into goddamn nazi's.
This is why you use a 3 foot stick at a low angle (IE, stand by the alarm, about 3 feet to the side) and when someone you don't like comes walking past, pull and enjoy.
But the content's got to be worth it;). We've got this new tech that can copy things all over and circulate ideas like wildfire, yet money always gets in the way because writers have got to eat.
I think they'd make more money by providing the books for the cost of download ($2 or $3 a e-book) and then offering exclusive paperbacks/hardbacks to people who want them at $20 or $30 a pop, or they can offer books that'll last forever for mroe. After a year, they begin throwing books up free to download with advertisements in the front and back for paperbacks. The good books will gross a lot of sales for paperbacks, as the demand for them is still there. If I had the money I'd certainly buy or print a number of books I have, and a few (scabbed wings of abadon, www.rantradio.ca for that one) I *REALLY* want a paperback of, not only because the book is so damn kewl, but so I can loan it to friends.
An electronic medium can is only as good as it's medium, but a good book can last years. Frankly, without DRM authors will be doomed, and with DRM people will be doomed since multinationals will seek to lisence everything. I can't really see any middleground right now. People really can't make money selling intangible objects like data because once data is created it can be copied at nearly no cost. They can make money at selling tangible objects, like paperbacks, however.
And I was making a joke that the guys who wrote the book are morons for making a relitivally simple idea and writing a 3 paragraphs on it.
Don't drink coffie. It's a bad solution for not having energy. Read this
http://www.ideatown.com/ntxa/index.html
I had really bad aggression problems until I started staying off that stuff. Eat fruit salad for breakfast after a good nights rest and if you really need it, take an energy drink instead of coffie since it's more powerful and they usually use a combo cocktail of herbs to get you going instead of just caffine and sugar.
Wow, people around here seem to be blaming him for the entire blaster epidemic. Out of the millions of machines his only infected something like 8000 or so, mainly because he didn't make the virus copy over others...
But schools are desperatly in need of more funding these days, what with all the government drawbacks and whatnot. What a better way to make some money so we can educate those critters than to cater to the corporate culture?
I'll come out and say it, just from reading that paragraph I can tell this book is a big read for idiots who can't/don't understand the IT culture. About 99% of the IT culture can be inferred from reading, writing, and talking with people who are in the culture, and when people don't make the effort to understand that culture by at least trying to grasp some of the simpler consepts, they make themselves out to be a village idiot.
Really, I think that most of this book stems from bosses not understanding how the culture of IT people differs from that of the rest of the work force or corporate culture. It's nice that they don't want to offend IT people, as most people go out of their way to do so, but frankly, I think that most bosses don't understand precisely how their buisinesses work anymore and when their technicians know more about it than they do, they get insecure and feel inferior to the technicians who have to know how all parts of the business work or else they can't do their jobs. This is amplified, of course, when bosses come to rely on their IT staff for many of their decisions. When the bosses make decisions nowadays, they often have to do so taking advice from IT people, and if they don't fallow what the IT people say, who are often right, then their business often takes a big punishment. They desperatly want to be on par but don't understand how to becuase they come from a culture, the corporate culture, which disables them from doing so.
If bosses really want to understand the IT Culture, they should start by asking questions to their IT staff and taking notes, not by reading books who take something that can be inferred in about 10 seconds by a regular IT person and turning it into an incorrect 3 paragraph essay. If normal people really want to get on the good side of the culture, they should start with the words "thank you" and end with an apology for being dumb if they keep on having to ask stupid or similar questions over and over.
Magic is also what hackers refer to when they don't want you to know how they do something, just like ordinary tricksters.
Guy1: Hey, Jacktl, how'd you get the admin cg on my server?!
JackTl: Majik
Guy1: Arr, I don't like that.
Me: We should enjoy jacks capacity for mischief and making pretty things on other people's server.
JackTL: Yeah
Guy1: Put the CG away or I'll kick you.
Jack: Ok....[jack now goes limp for about 5 minutes]
*all of a sudden, about 20 small tanks decend upon guy1 with pull lasers and targeting lasers. He gets carried off while being pointed at. Guy1 then tries to ban jacktl, and instead bans and kicks himself becuase he reversed the GUID's*
Me: How?
JackTL: Majik
Unfortunatly, I think the guy who wrote that book has had the wool pulled over his head "magically", to put it in the proper terminoliogy.
We don't trust the government or corporations becuase they have gone from "protecting our rights" mode to "enslave the entire population" mode. How can we trust them when they're using the technology to enslave people instead of relieving us of work so we have more time to do other things?
Why would I need a 2 meg l3 cache on a gaming processor that only increases performance by 1-5%? Combine that with extrordinary cost, cooling measures, the size of the proc itself, and power consumption and failure to sell is predictable.
Hey, whoa, this guy is a flamebait generator, it is best to ignore him, accept for giving him some books and info, and letting him go on his path of destruction until he finally wears himself out. You've got better things to do with your life then write essays that will be ignored.
Since you seem like the kind of guy who likes to abandon all logic and reason to defend their point, I reccomend you read Lawrence Lessings Book; Free Culture before catapulting more flamebait in anyone elses general direction.
http://www.free-culture.cc/freeculture.pdf
Frankly, you should go out and read some books, I'll even give you a list. There's no excuse but ignorance for not reading them and twiddling your fingers again.
http://www.gangsofamerica.com/read.html
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm
As for books you have to pay for:
ISBN 0966410076 And The Media Monopoly, by Ben Bagdikian.
Teaching people to sling mud and call others names solves nothing accept teaching them to ignore the other sides' point of view; useful, if you want to control their actions for your own interest.
Unfortunatly, that's the view of a business man and not a real news studio. Real journalists have a real big boner for educating the public about the world around them. A business man running a news studio just wants a story, and wants to maximise profit. It is their content, and they are free to do what they want with it, but if they want to invade my privacy that's where I drop the line. I have noticed 1 or 2 of the news sites I visit turn over to BS marketing, and frankly, as long as they accept my BS form filling, I'm a happy camper.
Besides, why the heck would I want to listen to their news, which since it is profit driven doesn't matter to me a whole lot, when I can go for alternative news that gives me useful information?
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http://www.rantradio.com/talk-schedule.php
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If you've got dialup, listen on 24k, if you've got dsl, listen on 64. It's actually not a bad program.
I don't believe most people want to walk away from their computers looking for something to smash, nor do they want to suffer prolonged health effects due to it.
It's basically a glorified version of half-life and relies far too heavily on good looks, shadows to give the monsters a fighting chance, and a storyline )which, gasp, leads you through hallway after hallway...) to deliver anything. Frankly, between the subtle heartbeats (and I mean, you've got to listen for them to even notice them, they only appear leading upto things), backround noise, and other utter bullshit they threw in from psychology research to set a "scene", I turned it off, deleted the iso's and threw out the disks. Whenever I get afraid, I overpower it with hate and this has progressed to such a point that when I get an adrenaline rush from fear, I immediatly bypass the "OMG something's here, EEK, shoot it!" to terminator mode; acquire target, take in strategic positioning, calculate chance of survival, and then attack/flee. This is what happens to all FPS players given enough time playing.
After about 6 hours of playing I was ready to smash something good as my blood at that point was pure adrenaline; needless to say, I was really REALLY agitated. Thank god I didn't pay out the ass for those 6 shitty hours of playtime, hence the reason I pirate before I buy. This game is not for your seasoned FPS player but more for the average guy who doesn't spend a lot of time playing games who likes to get freaked out at stuff and then shoot it.
Movie-like mental state changing special effects do NOT belong in videogames; whereas a movie is 2 or 3 hours, a game is 40 or 50, and if you ask any psychiatrist, it isn't healthy to give someone that much of a dose, especially if they're going to play it 500 or 1000 hours. You turn into me.
Frankly, I really was hoping they'd be able to throw in some decent gameplay and actually add something to the FPS market besides an engine that can deliver pretty graphics and a mix n' match version of doom and then mask that with pretty graphics and mind altering "scene" setting sounds. I'll hope that they'll salvage the multiplayer so modders can do their thing and make some really kickass mods. It'd be really kewl to see natural selection on this engine, or when HL2 comes out on that one, since it'd compliment it so nicely. Then again, I won't have to deal with steam if I'm on doom3.
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A SENATOR, someone who is DEFINATLY NOT a terrorist, as they are an ELECTED official, was put on the NO-FLY list, a list designed to keep TERRORISTS OFF of airplains, was put ONTO the no-fly list, by "Accident".
...
Yea, an "accident". I'd like to know what's going on there.
I, for one, would rather see the day where the RIAA/MPAA are long gone and some such business model exists that removes publishers from the content distrobution system completly since they are primarily the problem. It'd be really neat if you could buy music in high quality files for $.10 a pop or buy access to internet radio streams for like $10 a month. Sure, there'll still be piracy, but at least the artists will be getting a good deal of money for their music, and you can include extra's on a website or something.
Yes, it is far more complicated, and you make some good points. However, I'd like to make one of my own. We can argue back and forth about WMD that and supposed facts given by organizations, but I prefer to look at those organizations actions.
I see 3 things that are happening right now; the US government is taking away our rights and activly oppressing the first amendment. If you want proof, go onto suprnova.org and type "protest" into the search engine and take a look at how the cops treat protesters.
Secondly, I see corporate and foreign interests being serviced before american citizens interests. We've seen the deregulation of business law in the past 40 or so years, although some would say past 200 but our economic system has evolved a bit IMO. This is mostly being facilitated by trading favors and getting friends of friends into power who'll get bills passed. We can see the effect all over; public schools are closing, advertising on cop cars, the whole 9 yards.
Finally, we're seeing a concentration of media, meaning, the government and corporations has access to a massive way to control the flow of information to people, and has used that control in the past. As the bible says, ye who keeps information from you sees himself as your master in his heart.
Now, frankly, I see no justification for police to be terrifying protesters and I see no justification for artisans and common people to be put under scrutiny because they might be "with the enemy" because they express some unpopular idea. You can interperete that any you want to but logically there's no reason people should want to trust their government after they pull this kind of crap.
That is why you see protesters in the streets protesting Iraq and they stupidly assume everything the government does is indeed bad. I find it hard myself to believe that this government is capable of doing anything but protecting corporate and foreign interests and in some fucked up round-about way, american interests, but that's just me.
The difference is that Linux people can make a logical arguement, Microsoft salesmen can only make up big lies and format them so stupid people who've been conditoned through schools accept it. Yea, there's grey area but still, the sides are polarised that way. How many studies have we seen that involved microsoft paying some 3rd party for research, er, advertising? I don't recall any of those being made for linux.
And I wouldn't call MS a "compeditor", more of just another annoying corporation we make fun of because they make it so easy; the slashdot people are most decidedly anti-big evil corporate entity; there's a long line of love-hate relationships between slashdot people and big evil corporate entities.
The real programmers couldn't give a rats ass what microsoft thinks about their work becuase they aren't trying to sell a product, they're building something for fun and giving it away. Slashdot people are usually pretty savvy as far as technology goes and thus understand how it is to be persecuted for doing what you love a lot more than with a big corporation that's losing business to some rabblerousers perfectly legal and constructive fun.
As far as Borg Bill or the Dirty windows go, there needs to be better icons. Replace the dirty windows with a BSOD screen on a can of beer, preferably the newest for the OS, and replace Borg bill with a super mario-bros esque version of him stomping on fat stubby formed african children...er...gomba's and punting around those lovable slow ass wingless corporate ceo's with the assramming expression on their faces as they get punted...er...turtle people.
Lets just take a set of events here, just to show you how corrupt the entire system is.
I invest $100,000 (a paltry sum of my 30 million) into you to start up a business for 49% of the company stock. You begin making some product, and it takes off. Within a year, the company is worth 2 million, and I own $990,000 of that. In 4 years, I have done no work accept invest some money, and now the company has grown to 2 billion a year, and I own $999,000,000 of that. Now, if the company only had to pay back, at maximum, 10 times the investment, the company would be doing fine and the workers would be making probably double what they were making.
Because I invested $100,000, I made 10,000 time more back and I did absolutely nothing, while someone else did something. You could say that's smart investing, but that's $990,000,000 that doesn't go toward a families mouth but towards my sorry ass. Additionally, in order to increase the value of my stock, the company is required to by law to pretty much do as I say.
Say I sell my stock, the company takes a huge dive, a few thousand are layed off, and I reinvest. I reinvest so well, that within 10 years I'v made over $100 billion. I now own some small percentage of the US economy and I have more power than most small 3rd world governments. Companies still scramble to make their stocks look nice.
This is what's called usury, and this is why the Bible said it was bad. You are using other people to make money instead of doing the work yourself, and when taken on a grand scale, it's used to instiage the most henious inhuman crimes.
I believe the goal here is to show bosses that giving the fruits of their workforces labors to the workforce and not to investors or themselves is the key to success. Infact, it is the key to making a capitalistic society go round. Unfortunatly, a corporation exists for the enrichment of investors, workers be damned unless they own voting stock. The workers revolt by working based on their pay; if they're paid minimum wage to stock shelves, they work slow and slack off. If they're paid $8 or $10 to stock shelves, then they work hard.
placing tariffs on online newspapers
It's one thing to want to wiretap people and activly defend large corporations copyrights, it's a completly different thing to shut down news sites because you don't want information being disseminated to the public. Now they are really turning into goddamn nazi's.
This is why you use a 3 foot stick at a low angle (IE, stand by the alarm, about 3 feet to the side) and when someone you don't like comes walking past, pull and enjoy.
But the content's got to be worth it ;). We've got this new tech that can copy things all over and circulate ideas like wildfire, yet money always gets in the way because writers have got to eat.
I think they'd make more money by providing the books for the cost of download ($2 or $3 a e-book) and then offering exclusive paperbacks/hardbacks to people who want them at $20 or $30 a pop, or they can offer books that'll last forever for mroe. After a year, they begin throwing books up free to download with advertisements in the front and back for paperbacks. The good books will gross a lot of sales for paperbacks, as the demand for them is still there. If I had the money I'd certainly buy or print a number of books I have, and a few (scabbed wings of abadon, www.rantradio.ca for that one) I *REALLY* want a paperback of, not only because the book is so damn kewl, but so I can loan it to friends.
An electronic medium can is only as good as it's medium, but a good book can last years. Frankly, without DRM authors will be doomed, and with DRM people will be doomed since multinationals will seek to lisence everything. I can't really see any middleground right now. People really can't make money selling intangible objects like data because once data is created it can be copied at nearly no cost. They can make money at selling tangible objects, like paperbacks, however.
And I was making a joke that the guys who wrote the book are morons for making a relitivally simple idea and writing a 3 paragraphs on it.
Don't drink coffie. It's a bad solution for not having energy. Read this
http://www.ideatown.com/ntxa/index.html
I had really bad aggression problems until I started staying off that stuff. Eat fruit salad for breakfast after a good nights rest and if you really need it, take an energy drink instead of coffie since it's more powerful and they usually use a combo cocktail of herbs to get you going instead of just caffine and sugar.
Wow, people around here seem to be blaming him for the entire blaster epidemic. Out of the millions of machines his only infected something like 8000 or so, mainly because he didn't make the virus copy over others...
so what the heck were you saying then?
But schools are desperatly in need of more funding these days, what with all the government drawbacks and whatnot. What a better way to make some money so we can educate those critters than to cater to the corporate culture?
I'll come out and say it, just from reading that paragraph I can tell this book is a big read for idiots who can't/don't understand the IT culture. About 99% of the IT culture can be inferred from reading, writing, and talking with people who are in the culture, and when people don't make the effort to understand that culture by at least trying to grasp some of the simpler consepts, they make themselves out to be a village idiot.
Really, I think that most of this book stems from bosses not understanding how the culture of IT people differs from that of the rest of the work force or corporate culture. It's nice that they don't want to offend IT people, as most people go out of their way to do so, but frankly, I think that most bosses don't understand precisely how their buisinesses work anymore and when their technicians know more about it than they do, they get insecure and feel inferior to the technicians who have to know how all parts of the business work or else they can't do their jobs. This is amplified, of course, when bosses come to rely on their IT staff for many of their decisions. When the bosses make decisions nowadays, they often have to do so taking advice from IT people, and if they don't fallow what the IT people say, who are often right, then their business often takes a big punishment. They desperatly want to be on par but don't understand how to becuase they come from a culture, the corporate culture, which disables them from doing so.
If bosses really want to understand the IT Culture, they should start by asking questions to their IT staff and taking notes, not by reading books who take something that can be inferred in about 10 seconds by a regular IT person and turning it into an incorrect 3 paragraph essay. If normal people really want to get on the good side of the culture, they should start with the words "thank you" and end with an apology for being dumb if they keep on having to ask stupid or similar questions over and over.
Magic is also what hackers refer to when they don't want you to know how they do something, just like ordinary tricksters.
Guy1: Hey, Jacktl, how'd you get the admin cg on my server?!
JackTl: Majik
Guy1: Arr, I don't like that.
Me: We should enjoy jacks capacity for mischief and making pretty things on other people's server.
JackTL: Yeah
Guy1: Put the CG away or I'll kick you.
Jack: Ok....[jack now goes limp for about 5 minutes]
*all of a sudden, about 20 small tanks decend upon guy1 with pull lasers and targeting lasers. He gets carried off while being pointed at. Guy1 then tries to ban jacktl, and instead bans and kicks himself becuase he reversed the GUID's*
Me: How?
JackTL: Majik
Unfortunatly, I think the guy who wrote that book has had the wool pulled over his head "magically", to put it in the proper terminoliogy.
"The reason isn't [insert arguement here], it's [insert the same arguement here]" is not a logical arguement.
We don't trust the government or corporations becuase they have gone from "protecting our rights" mode to "enslave the entire population" mode. How can we trust them when they're using the technology to enslave people instead of relieving us of work so we have more time to do other things?
Why would I need a 2 meg l3 cache on a gaming processor that only increases performance by 1-5%? Combine that with extrordinary cost, cooling measures, the size of the proc itself, and power consumption and failure to sell is predictable.
Hey, whoa, this guy is a flamebait generator, it is best to ignore him, accept for giving him some books and info, and letting him go on his path of destruction until he finally wears himself out. You've got better things to do with your life then write essays that will be ignored.
Spoken like a true tool.
Since you seem like the kind of guy who likes to abandon all logic and reason to defend their point, I reccomend you read Lawrence Lessings Book; Free Culture before catapulting more flamebait in anyone elses general direction.
http://www.free-culture.cc/freeculture.pdf
Frankly, you should go out and read some books, I'll even give you a list. There's no excuse but ignorance for not reading them and twiddling your fingers again.
http://www.gangsofamerica.com/read.html
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm
As for books you have to pay for: ISBN 0966410076 And The Media Monopoly, by Ben Bagdikian.
Teaching people to sling mud and call others names solves nothing accept teaching them to ignore the other sides' point of view; useful, if you want to control their actions for your own interest.
Is it also SI to spell measurement "measurmerunt" or do we have to be picky about what measurement we use? ;)
Unfortunatly, that's the view of a business man and not a real news studio. Real journalists have a real big boner for educating the public about the world around them. A business man running a news studio just wants a story, and wants to maximise profit. It is their content, and they are free to do what they want with it, but if they want to invade my privacy that's where I drop the line. I have noticed 1 or 2 of the news sites I visit turn over to BS marketing, and frankly, as long as they accept my BS form filling, I'm a happy camper.
Besides, why the heck would I want to listen to their news, which since it is profit driven doesn't matter to me a whole lot, when I can go for alternative news that gives me useful information?
[shameless plug]
http://www.rantradio.com/talk-schedule.php
http://www.fsrn.org/
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If you've got dialup, listen on 24k, if you've got dsl, listen on 64. It's actually not a bad program.
I don't believe most people want to walk away from their computers looking for something to smash, nor do they want to suffer prolonged health effects due to it.
It's basically a glorified version of half-life and relies far too heavily on good looks, shadows to give the monsters a fighting chance, and a storyline )which, gasp, leads you through hallway after hallway...) to deliver anything. Frankly, between the subtle heartbeats (and I mean, you've got to listen for them to even notice them, they only appear leading upto things), backround noise, and other utter bullshit they threw in from psychology research to set a "scene", I turned it off, deleted the iso's and threw out the disks. Whenever I get afraid, I overpower it with hate and this has progressed to such a point that when I get an adrenaline rush from fear, I immediatly bypass the "OMG something's here, EEK, shoot it!" to terminator mode; acquire target, take in strategic positioning, calculate chance of survival, and then attack/flee. This is what happens to all FPS players given enough time playing.
After about 6 hours of playing I was ready to smash something good as my blood at that point was pure adrenaline; needless to say, I was really REALLY agitated. Thank god I didn't pay out the ass for those 6 shitty hours of playtime, hence the reason I pirate before I buy. This game is not for your seasoned FPS player but more for the average guy who doesn't spend a lot of time playing games who likes to get freaked out at stuff and then shoot it.
Movie-like mental state changing special effects do NOT belong in videogames; whereas a movie is 2 or 3 hours, a game is 40 or 50, and if you ask any psychiatrist, it isn't healthy to give someone that much of a dose, especially if they're going to play it 500 or 1000 hours. You turn into me.
Frankly, I really was hoping they'd be able to throw in some decent gameplay and actually add something to the FPS market besides an engine that can deliver pretty graphics and a mix n' match version of doom and then mask that with pretty graphics and mind altering "scene" setting sounds. I'll hope that they'll salvage the multiplayer so modders can do their thing and make some really kickass mods. It'd be really kewl to see natural selection on this engine, or when HL2 comes out on that one, since it'd compliment it so nicely. Then again, I won't have to deal with steam if I'm on doom3.
A good hacker becomes god.