Ummmmm...Sh*t in their mailbox. Preferrably actually physically *take a steaming dump* in the mailbox of their business.
Or picket their event for sending unsolicited E-mail. Contact supporters of the new law being considered for the UK and see if they'll join you at the event. Invite the media.
Or, show up for the event...and bring every rowdy, unkempt, ill-tempered punk you can find and tell them these guys promised free booze and food...
Or burn the place down when everyone's inside for the event. Sure, we'll get a few innocents, but this is WAR! And we're not gonna lose!
(I think my second option is best, though I like them all really.)
That was awesome!! On another note, soon I am to mark the deaths of both MTV X and MUCH Music here in Cox-land. The 2 decent music video stations in existence (and Kudos Kanada for MUCH) and they drop MUCH for nothing and MTV X for MTV JAMS (it up their ass side-ways). I got nothing against rap and hip-hop, but I stopped watching MTV 1&2 cause that's all they played (that and Fake World and Road Rash).
So let's all give a great big FRAG YOU to the good folks at (e)M(p)TV and the RIAA!
Oh please! Are we forgetting the teen-craze Dance-Dance Revolution? No public has taste...except when cooked at 350 degrees for 8 minutes per pound and garnished with relish;)
Their database. They are keeping track of search queries and using that info to create the autocomplete strings. So that makes it COMPLETELY MANIPULATABLE!!! If you can get enough people to put in a specific query enough times over a couple of days, you should be able to lock in whatever you want. Just gonna take a LARGE group of people with skills since you'll have to get rid of ALL cookies as well as use a lot of different proxies to log unique page hits and queries from different IP's and computers. Probly work best if you can get groups and proxies on the coasts first since that's where a lot of trends and runs come from. At least this is what I gathered from the patent text. It'll at least give them a headache for a little while.....have fun kids and play nice!
I think its mostly due to the fact that an average season of anime series are 36 episodes long instead of 13 like american cartoons. Since you have 3 times as many episodes to work with and your viewers will be seeing them much closer together, you have time to draw out battles or explore character histories without viewers forgetting what happened last episode. I do agree that in shows like DBZ and Yu-yu its can bog things down a little, but these shows were designed to be seen 3 times a week not 5, and thus it can be annoying. Oh, and for mister MENSA, fork out the cash for cable and try watching a little discovery before you say there's nothing on....JEFF CORWIN RULES!;)
I understand peoples arguements about commercialization, fandom, group think, etc. and I do agree with some of it. I never wanted to see Pokemon, Yu-gi-oh, Card Captor Sakura, or a host of other children's anime imported because I KNEW it would be dumbed down and thoroughly demolished.
Most Anime is slaughtered in translation or editing for American television. For no reason other than some corporate gimps think american audiences are still composed primarily of prudes and religious fanatics. But look at daytime and primetime television and the same stuff is on there. Why? Because Anime is cartoons and cartoons are for kids! I say BS, but that's cause I am sick of turning to any given Major Network channel at random and seeing nothing but unhealthy relationships. I hate Friends. To me Rachel, Ross, and Monica exemplify the worst traits of personal relationships. I won't say this doesn't exist in Anime, but is nowhere near as prevalent. Most TV shows run by NBC, CBS, ABC, and Fox have at least 1 character in them equivalent to 1 of those I mentioned. So honestly, I do prefer cartoons to network TV. At least cartoons are entertaining. BTW, the Anime Channel is strictly a VOD (video-on-demand) service channel. They have a line-up of shows and movies that you order and can watch for a certain period of time with all the bells and whistles of a VCR or Tivo unit. You won't have to pay for the channel unless you order a show or you have Comcast (sorry, couldn't resist the dig) Anyways, I gotta run. I got laundry to do before Trigun comes on tonight!
Man, things have gone to hell since then. In the last few years, I have heard nothing but complaints. People having to have orders reshipped 5 times because they aren't getting the correct order (vastly wrong not just switching 2 numbers on an order form wrong). Not getting everything they ordered. Very high shipping and handling charges cause they use FedUp exclusively instead of the cheaper and more efficient USPS (who don't charge extra for residential delivery. Go figure!) Very long shipping times. On and on it goes. The quality of the figs has gone up but they use this as part of their justification for high prices. "Plastics cost a horrible amount due to artists, developement, research, scultpors and the VERY high price of cutting metal casts to produce them". And yet Testors, Tamiya, and many other model companies put out 2-5 times more plastic models per year than GW currently has in production! and they sell them retail for half the price and all the quality and somehow don't go bankrupt. Friggin gits. I will not stop buying GW miniatures from my local retailer as they have done nothing wrong. I will start looking at other games my retailer have though and if the rules work....most of them aren't picky about me using proxy figures. All GW will get from me will be 52% of retail which is what they currently charge retailers.
Semi-OT, but to comment:How does smoking pot fund terorism? Some may call it a meaningless distinction, but the very act of Smoking does not do a damn thing for terrorism except to keep a few weak-willed individuals out of our military.
In this same vein, P2P sharing does not make a lick of money for terrorism. Inversly, it does indeed help to weaken the US ecomony and economies worldwide as massive (and you know what I mean) free distribution of a for-sale product causes a chain off loss that goes from your community straight up the Federal government level. I know that a lot of good people recently have been losing jobs to corporations moving some of their operations to other countries (I am one), but this is the sign of a weakness of economy and the governments failure to act on it.
Now I could go on about war being good for the economy, but that is a short-sighted solution to a long-term problem with Capitolism. I feel instead that the gov't should have its hands in technology a little more than it does now as well as looking at keeping jobs in America and controlling the corporations instead of being controlled by them. Or I fear the next election may have us choosing between Corporation X's Candidate vs. Corporation Y's Candidate for President.
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There are minimal benefits (none come immediately to mind) but the fact is they would land you in a world of litigation. Who wants to be sued by everyone who couldn't get thru to emergency services on their cell phone for the entire period they owned a cell jammer. Cause they would, and the shitty court system here in America would find in their favor cause you couldn't prove you never used it. And that's after you've been found guilty of negligent manslaughter in those same cases for the same reason. IANAL, but this is what i would imagine happening. If the feds didn't decide to take you away as a terrorist, cause only terrorists would want to use jamming technology (for those of you who can't see it, that was sarcasm in that last line)
At the bottom of the phrack article a respondent says that this could, with modifications be used in a CDMA jamming device. Kinda kewl to take with ya to the movie theatre....wait, don't i remember something from about a year ago with a guy having a cell jammer he took to the movies and got busted by the feds for (or was it a story? Marijuana is bad for short-term what again?) Not to mention fun in traffic. (turn it off and drive dickhead!)
I do know that sanctions are a very serious move. And yes, they do still sell units. According to them though, not as many. I'll come back to this in a minute. If I make a copy of a copyrighted item and give it to my friend, mostly no one will complain. 5 friends, no complaint. 100 friends, if someone notices, then its trouble. Now, they can't prove yet (i think) how many times a work is transferred, so they can't call it piracy (not to mention, P2P doesn't generate cash for supplied media either). So whats left is to use the civil courts (an authority) to take action. Yes, it takes money and time, but so does every other option. As for the actual impact of illegal copying Vs. units sold, actual numbers of units sold can only be accurately tracked to the retailers and it up to them to report how many units actually sold on the shelf and for what price. So exact numbers will always be off and skewable by oth parties. But i think these guys have the right idea http://www.baen.com/library/ about the power of copying/lending.
Well, most ISP's require you to forward the email with headers to them as proof. And, SPAM is itself a violation of TOS while breaking a law requires more proof and usually the authorities are involved. If the studios want action on this, they really should pursue it through proper legal channels. I am pretty sure they can report these wrongdoings to the proper authorities. If the authorities fail to do anything about it then the country can be sanctioned (shipping wise, not the CIA type). Months of no cop movies to inspire them may help motivate some action on infringement and help ring countries into line. The biggest problem I see is getting America to do this itself as Holywood (as they spell it) is based here and depends on americans for much of their money and our legal system is sitting on its hands on this issue. But that's another topic for another time. I do think the studios have a right to defend their rights, I just think they are going about it the wrong way....
Well, they got the idea from the BSA (BullSh*t Alliance?;) A private group of companies comes by and says your liscenses are invalid cause you don't keep reciepts for 5 years and you have buy new ones NOW or pay a bunch of fines and have your computers stolen..err, seized. Its a bunch of SHIT! The only ones who can enforce the law ARE THE EMPLOYEES OF THE EXECUTIVE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT!!! Not corporations, not corporations formed by a group of corporations, not even the individuals within a corporation. And we certainly cannot keep up this idiotic idea of enforcing our laws on non-US citiens IN THEIR OWN COUNTRIES! Any ISP (even American) can ignore this because these people don't even understand the basics of the Internet let alone business! They supply NOTHING to the ISP and yet believe they have some power over them that can compel an ISP to dump PAYING customers. Now, here's a dangerous idea: If you want ISP's to block certain ports (and keep blocking new ones with every new P2P client release) then PAY THEM TO DO SO! If the MPAA and RIAA really wanted to shut this whole media share thing down flat, they'd break open their wallets! Hell, it won't cost half what you'd think it should. Just the chance to have loads of free advertising could convince a lot of networks (especially the broadband groups) to start port blocking. Of course, there are always ways around blocks....just use ones they don't dare block like FTP, TFTP, or rig to sit on port 80 (block HTML please;) and intecept data. I hate these guys, I really do.
I have been too. I have also been in college (which he is now according to the article) He spent 18 months churning out code AND keeping up with his classes? And don't say he was doing this for credit in some of them cause he said it was secret and if you wanna grade, you gotta show something to them for it. Also, the article mentions so little and all of it so vague. All media players? He spent part of his time scouring the web for developer kits? And the animated web assisant that will read webpages aloud? How many lines of code is that including the speech library? And lastly, a stab my Irish brothers. Sure, ANY browser seems faster when your not drunk.;)
Wasn't alot of this the same shit that was said when friggin VCR's came out?!? Why is this news now when it wasn't then? They even used the same phrases like "perfect copy" and "movie swapping" and they were barely given an ear by congress. I know alot of people will actually say the words, "but more people have computers", which is a total crock of bullshit. More people have VCR's than computers although the numbers are getting close. But that's not the point. How many of us have borrowed a show from a friend and copied it TO KEEP? Probly everyone, but think about it, how many times have you done it and then how many times have you said f*ck it and recorded the latest ep of something for friends? Its the same with computers. Yeah, a portion are going to burn CD's like mad, but most people d/l, watch then delete so they have space for more. Even with new compression techniques, all they mean is that I get better quality and larger screen size (i hate DBZ the size of a playing card, stupid RealPlayer). If they think they got a legitimate bitch on over this, wait til the next thing comes along! Your gonna see fireworks then!
Yeah, I'm fat enough as it is. What I and Americans in general need is *MORE* excercise, not LESS!! I live in Oklahoma City which a fairly sprawled out city (3rd largest in area in US, but way down on population) and a meesly little 15 miles per charge won't even get me to work! But on a bike (soon as i find one for "big guys") i can go as far as i need to without stopping to recharge (faster too!). This thing was all hype from the go and is destined to die. Anybody wanna buy some pet rocks? No? How about an amphibious car? Swampland in Arizona? Oh well.....
MMORPG....significant point-RPG. Read the DMG for D&D sometime....it (and most other paper RPG's) state that a)its a game and b) just like in real life there is NO END, only a point in which you stop participating (kinda like death). EverCrack is true to the RPG ideal in that you CANNOT WIN EVERYTHING!! There is no end because life goes on with or without you. The point of the game is to have fun and adventure. If its not fun anymore then DON'T PLAY ANYMORE! I do see legitimate gripes in this article and from people here, but it does no good to simply bitch and continue playing. If they really are doing these things and this stuff is logged, think about getting together and filing a class-action against Sony. Or just move to a different game! I know if I don't like GM, i go to another, and if I don't like a system i can't modify to my saatisfaction, I STOP PLAYING THAT SYSTEM! (system=game) I never played EQ for the simple fact i thought the graphics blew, i tried Ultima Online too, and their graphics sucked and the game didn't get you involved quickly enough or give enough direction to be useful (Final fantasy may be scripted, but graphics rock and i can find guides for the quests) Anyways, final thought, Sony is giving lip service to what everyone used to call a great game. I say screw 'em. And if you don't like a game, move to the next.
broken home syndrome. Has anyone else noticed that EVERY disney movie the central character comes from a broken home? I haven't found one that doesn't. Even the latest offering, Treasure Planet, is another broken home. Family values my ass!
Well, it only makes sense. The Cable Co downloads their programming and decides where to put commecial breaks (timewise (and edit wise too if they want)) well ahead of air-time, and it makes profitable sense to run commercials synchronously across channels so you can sell spots on popular shows for more cause people stopped changing channels after they realised that all that's on is commercials! ALL YOUR MIND ARE BELONG TO US! (and soon your money too!)
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The O*bitz ads are Flash. ( and i call the O*bitz in the hope i find them in those pages soon...)
The heck with ignoring them! Most companies pay to advertise and that payment is oft-times based on CLICK-THRU!! They put on the blindfold and walked right up to the wall, i say we PULL THE TRIGGER! Everytime you find one of the mouse-pop URL, give it to all your friends and spend a couple of minutes just reloading and mousing over and closing after 30 seconds. O*bitz and anyone else foolish enough to do this will soon be BANKRUPT! BWAHAHAHAHA!!!
Ran into one of these the other day (will try to find again and post URL). It at least stated what would happen when i moused over it. Popped up again when I went to close the danged thing too!
Marketing:Invading your personal space every chance we get!
Hey, i was wonderin about that too! I sent one in on this and was actually pretty pissed to see it up this morning in someone elses name. Maybe if the submissions process was explained to us we would understand. Or maybe its why "slashdotted" has more than one meaning......
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Ummmmm...Sh*t in their mailbox. Preferrably actually physically *take a steaming dump* in the mailbox of their business. Or picket their event for sending unsolicited E-mail. Contact supporters of the new law being considered for the UK and see if they'll join you at the event. Invite the media. Or, show up for the event...and bring every rowdy, unkempt, ill-tempered punk you can find and tell them these guys promised free booze and food... Or burn the place down when everyone's inside for the event. Sure, we'll get a few innocents, but this is WAR! And we're not gonna lose! (I think my second option is best, though I like them all really.)
That was awesome!! On another note, soon I am to mark the deaths of both MTV X and MUCH Music here in Cox-land. The 2 decent music video stations in existence (and Kudos Kanada for MUCH) and they drop MUCH for nothing and MTV X for MTV JAMS (it up their ass side-ways). I got nothing against rap and hip-hop, but I stopped watching MTV 1&2 cause that's all they played (that and Fake World and Road Rash). So let's all give a great big FRAG YOU to the good folks at (e)M(p)TV and the RIAA!
Oh please! Are we forgetting the teen-craze Dance-Dance Revolution? No public has taste...except when cooked at 350 degrees for 8 minutes per pound and garnished with relish ;)
Their database. They are keeping track of search queries and using that info to create the autocomplete strings. So that makes it COMPLETELY MANIPULATABLE!!! If you can get enough people to put in a specific query enough times over a couple of days, you should be able to lock in whatever you want. Just gonna take a LARGE group of people with skills since you'll have to get rid of ALL cookies as well as use a lot of different proxies to log unique page hits and queries from different IP's and computers. Probly work best if you can get groups and proxies on the coasts first since that's where a lot of trends and runs come from. At least this is what I gathered from the patent text. It'll at least give them a headache for a little while.....have fun kids and play nice!
I think its mostly due to the fact that an average season of anime series are 36 episodes long instead of 13 like american cartoons. Since you have 3 times as many episodes to work with and your viewers will be seeing them much closer together, you have time to draw out battles or explore character histories without viewers forgetting what happened last episode. I do agree that in shows like DBZ and Yu-yu its can bog things down a little, but these shows were designed to be seen 3 times a week not 5, and thus it can be annoying. Oh, and for mister MENSA, fork out the cash for cable and try watching a little discovery before you say there's nothing on....JEFF CORWIN RULES! ;)
I understand peoples arguements about commercialization, fandom, group think, etc. and I do agree with some of it. I never wanted to see Pokemon, Yu-gi-oh, Card Captor Sakura, or a host of other children's anime imported because I KNEW it would be dumbed down and thoroughly demolished. Most Anime is slaughtered in translation or editing for American television. For no reason other than some corporate gimps think american audiences are still composed primarily of prudes and religious fanatics. But look at daytime and primetime television and the same stuff is on there. Why? Because Anime is cartoons and cartoons are for kids! I say BS, but that's cause I am sick of turning to any given Major Network channel at random and seeing nothing but unhealthy relationships. I hate Friends. To me Rachel, Ross, and Monica exemplify the worst traits of personal relationships. I won't say this doesn't exist in Anime, but is nowhere near as prevalent. Most TV shows run by NBC, CBS, ABC, and Fox have at least 1 character in them equivalent to 1 of those I mentioned. So honestly, I do prefer cartoons to network TV. At least cartoons are entertaining. BTW, the Anime Channel is strictly a VOD (video-on-demand) service channel. They have a line-up of shows and movies that you order and can watch for a certain period of time with all the bells and whistles of a VCR or Tivo unit. You won't have to pay for the channel unless you order a show or you have Comcast (sorry, couldn't resist the dig) Anyways, I gotta run. I got laundry to do before Trigun comes on tonight!
Man, things have gone to hell since then. In the last few years, I have heard nothing but complaints. People having to have orders reshipped 5 times because they aren't getting the correct order (vastly wrong not just switching 2 numbers on an order form wrong). Not getting everything they ordered. Very high shipping and handling charges cause they use FedUp exclusively instead of the cheaper and more efficient USPS (who don't charge extra for residential delivery. Go figure!) Very long shipping times. On and on it goes. The quality of the figs has gone up but they use this as part of their justification for high prices. "Plastics cost a horrible amount due to artists, developement, research, scultpors and the VERY high price of cutting metal casts to produce them". And yet Testors, Tamiya, and many other model companies put out 2-5 times more plastic models per year than GW currently has in production! and they sell them retail for half the price and all the quality and somehow don't go bankrupt. Friggin gits. I will not stop buying GW miniatures from my local retailer as they have done nothing wrong. I will start looking at other games my retailer have though and if the rules work....most of them aren't picky about me using proxy figures. All GW will get from me will be 52% of retail which is what they currently charge retailers.
Semi-OT, but to comment:How does smoking pot fund terorism? Some may call it a meaningless distinction, but the very act of Smoking does not do a damn thing for terrorism except to keep a few weak-willed individuals out of our military.
In this same vein, P2P sharing does not make a lick of money for terrorism. Inversly, it does indeed help to weaken the US ecomony and economies worldwide as massive (and you know what I mean) free distribution of a for-sale product causes a chain off loss that goes from your community straight up the Federal government level. I know that a lot of good people recently have been losing jobs to corporations moving some of their operations to other countries (I am one), but this is the sign of a weakness of economy and the governments failure to act on it.
Now I could go on about war being good for the economy, but that is a short-sighted solution to a long-term problem with Capitolism. I feel instead that the gov't should have its hands in technology a little more than it does now as well as looking at keeping jobs in America and controlling the corporations instead of being controlled by them. Or I fear the next election may have us choosing between Corporation X's Candidate vs. Corporation Y's Candidate for President.
There are minimal benefits (none come immediately to mind) but the fact is they would land you in a world of litigation. Who wants to be sued by everyone who couldn't get thru to emergency services on their cell phone for the entire period they owned a cell jammer. Cause they would, and the shitty court system here in America would find in their favor cause you couldn't prove you never used it. And that's after you've been found guilty of negligent manslaughter in those same cases for the same reason. IANAL, but this is what i would imagine happening. If the feds didn't decide to take you away as a terrorist, cause only terrorists would want to use jamming technology (for those of you who can't see it, that was sarcasm in that last line)
At the bottom of the phrack article a respondent says that this could, with modifications be used in a CDMA jamming device. Kinda kewl to take with ya to the movie theatre....wait, don't i remember something from about a year ago with a guy having a cell jammer he took to the movies and got busted by the feds for (or was it a story? Marijuana is bad for short-term what again?) Not to mention fun in traffic. (turn it off and drive dickhead!)
I do know that sanctions are a very serious move. And yes, they do still sell units. According to them though, not as many. I'll come back to this in a minute. If I make a copy of a copyrighted item and give it to my friend, mostly no one will complain. 5 friends, no complaint. 100 friends, if someone notices, then its trouble. Now, they can't prove yet (i think) how many times a work is transferred, so they can't call it piracy (not to mention, P2P doesn't generate cash for supplied media either). So whats left is to use the civil courts (an authority) to take action. Yes, it takes money and time, but so does every other option. As for the actual impact of illegal copying Vs. units sold, actual numbers of units sold can only be accurately tracked to the retailers and it up to them to report how many units actually sold on the shelf and for what price. So exact numbers will always be off and skewable by oth parties. But i think these guys have the right idea http://www.baen.com/library/ about the power of copying/lending.
Well, most ISP's require you to forward the email with headers to them as proof. And, SPAM is itself a violation of TOS while breaking a law requires more proof and usually the authorities are involved. If the studios want action on this, they really should pursue it through proper legal channels. I am pretty sure they can report these wrongdoings to the proper authorities. If the authorities fail to do anything about it then the country can be sanctioned (shipping wise, not the CIA type). Months of no cop movies to inspire them may help motivate some action on infringement and help ring countries into line. The biggest problem I see is getting America to do this itself as Holywood (as they spell it) is based here and depends on americans for much of their money and our legal system is sitting on its hands on this issue. But that's another topic for another time. I do think the studios have a right to defend their rights, I just think they are going about it the wrong way....
Well, they got the idea from the BSA (BullSh*t Alliance?;) A private group of companies comes by and says your liscenses are invalid cause you don't keep reciepts for 5 years and you have buy new ones NOW or pay a bunch of fines and have your computers stolen..err, seized. Its a bunch of SHIT! The only ones who can enforce the law ARE THE EMPLOYEES OF THE EXECUTIVE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT!!! Not corporations, not corporations formed by a group of corporations, not even the individuals within a corporation. And we certainly cannot keep up this idiotic idea of enforcing our laws on non-US citiens IN THEIR OWN COUNTRIES! Any ISP (even American) can ignore this because these people don't even understand the basics of the Internet let alone business! They supply NOTHING to the ISP and yet believe they have some power over them that can compel an ISP to dump PAYING customers. Now, here's a dangerous idea: If you want ISP's to block certain ports (and keep blocking new ones with every new P2P client release) then PAY THEM TO DO SO! If the MPAA and RIAA really wanted to shut this whole media share thing down flat, they'd break open their wallets! Hell, it won't cost half what you'd think it should. Just the chance to have loads of free advertising could convince a lot of networks (especially the broadband groups) to start port blocking. Of course, there are always ways around blocks....just use ones they don't dare block like FTP, TFTP, or rig to sit on port 80 (block HTML please;) and intecept data. I hate these guys, I really do.
I have been too. I have also been in college (which he is now according to the article) He spent 18 months churning out code AND keeping up with his classes? And don't say he was doing this for credit in some of them cause he said it was secret and if you wanna grade, you gotta show something to them for it. Also, the article mentions so little and all of it so vague. All media players? He spent part of his time scouring the web for developer kits? And the animated web assisant that will read webpages aloud? How many lines of code is that including the speech library? And lastly, a stab my Irish brothers. Sure, ANY browser seems faster when your not drunk. ;)
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Wasn't alot of this the same shit that was said when friggin VCR's came out?!? Why is this news now when it wasn't then? They even used the same phrases like "perfect copy" and "movie swapping" and they were barely given an ear by congress. I know alot of people will actually say the words, "but more people have computers", which is a total crock of bullshit. More people have VCR's than computers although the numbers are getting close. But that's not the point. How many of us have borrowed a show from a friend and copied it TO KEEP? Probly everyone, but think about it, how many times have you done it and then how many times have you said f*ck it and recorded the latest ep of something for friends? Its the same with computers. Yeah, a portion are going to burn CD's like mad, but most people d/l, watch then delete so they have space for more. Even with new compression techniques, all they mean is that I get better quality and larger screen size (i hate DBZ the size of a playing card, stupid RealPlayer). If they think they got a legitimate bitch on over this, wait til the next thing comes along! Your gonna see fireworks then!
Yeah, I'm fat enough as it is. What I and Americans in general need is *MORE* excercise, not LESS!! I live in Oklahoma City which a fairly sprawled out city (3rd largest in area in US, but way down on population) and a meesly little 15 miles per charge won't even get me to work! But on a bike (soon as i find one for "big guys") i can go as far as i need to without stopping to recharge (faster too!). This thing was all hype from the go and is destined to die. Anybody wanna buy some pet rocks? No? How about an amphibious car? Swampland in Arizona? Oh well.....
MMORPG....significant point-RPG. Read the DMG for D&D sometime....it (and most other paper RPG's) state that a)its a game and b) just like in real life there is NO END, only a point in which you stop participating (kinda like death). EverCrack is true to the RPG ideal in that you CANNOT WIN EVERYTHING!! There is no end because life goes on with or without you. The point of the game is to have fun and adventure. If its not fun anymore then DON'T PLAY ANYMORE! I do see legitimate gripes in this article and from people here, but it does no good to simply bitch and continue playing. If they really are doing these things and this stuff is logged, think about getting together and filing a class-action against Sony. Or just move to a different game! I know if I don't like GM, i go to another, and if I don't like a system i can't modify to my saatisfaction, I STOP PLAYING THAT SYSTEM! (system=game) I never played EQ for the simple fact i thought the graphics blew, i tried Ultima Online too, and their graphics sucked and the game didn't get you involved quickly enough or give enough direction to be useful (Final fantasy may be scripted, but graphics rock and i can find guides for the quests) Anyways, final thought, Sony is giving lip service to what everyone used to call a great game. I say screw 'em. And if you don't like a game, move to the next.
broken home syndrome. Has anyone else noticed that EVERY disney movie the central character comes from a broken home? I haven't found one that doesn't. Even the latest offering, Treasure Planet, is another broken home. Family values my ass!
Well, it only makes sense. The Cable Co downloads their programming and decides where to put commecial breaks (timewise (and edit wise too if they want)) well ahead of air-time, and it makes profitable sense to run commercials synchronously across channels so you can sell spots on popular shows for more cause people stopped changing channels after they realised that all that's on is commercials! ALL YOUR MIND ARE BELONG TO US! (and soon your money too!)
The O*bitz ads are Flash. ( and i call the O*bitz in the hope i find them in those pages soon...)
The heck with ignoring them! Most companies pay to advertise and that payment is oft-times based on CLICK-THRU!! They put on the blindfold and walked right up to the wall, i say we PULL THE TRIGGER! Everytime you find one of the mouse-pop URL, give it to all your friends and spend a couple of minutes just reloading and mousing over and closing after 30 seconds. O*bitz and anyone else foolish enough to do this will soon be BANKRUPT! BWAHAHAHAHA!!!
Ran into one of these the other day (will try to find again and post URL). It at least stated what would happen when i moused over it. Popped up again when I went to close the danged thing too!
Marketing:Invading your personal space every chance we get!
Hey, i was wonderin about that too! I sent one in on this and was actually pretty pissed to see it up this morning in someone elses name. Maybe if the submissions process was explained to us we would understand. Or maybe its why "slashdotted" has more than one meaning......