I think the parent may have been referring to making something like "Aimbot" part of the game, thus along an On / Off switch. That could be part of the criteria for a game server, and you wouldn't have to say "No Cheaters".
He's right... It's useless to try to understand, since kidz will be kidz. It says something about their level of maturity.
If you honestly get thrills from laughing at someone you fragged using a `bot or a flat-out cheat, you have greater issues (self-esteem, learning how to interact with people, trying to talk to girls) that should be examined.
A "Cheaters Welcome" server would be the perfect answer FOR THOSE OF US WHO HATE CHEATERS. The Cheaters themselves would *never* be caught in a room where they could be fragged-at-will and (*gasp*) laughed at by some OTHER wet-end who has managed to get his skin the same color as his mother's wallpaper. If they played basketball, it would be in a wheelchair league. If they golfed, their score would all be 18 (all Holes-in-One! I 0wnz ur g01fc0vr2e).
The best revenge is to let them have their "triumph" and go make love to your wife/girlfriend. You'll have forgotten all about them by the time they cry themselves to their lonely, lonely sleep. (sound familiar, cheaters???)
It's better for There if the money never comes out. Ever. Why would they help facilitate the removal of capital from their virtual world??? The only way will be if they make a ridiculous profit from converting. I imagine that profit-margin will be high enough to encourage you to leave the $$$ in There.
I enjoyed it for about an hour, but my wife went nuts for it. She played it solid for about 2 weeks and then dropped it out of the blue.
It's very engrossing when you're plugged in, and there is a very real urge to spend "just a few" real dollars to get some ThereBucks to buy the cool stuff. Once you exit, though, it fades quickly and you're left wondering why anyone would spend real money for virtual property.
I advise people to sign up and try it! It's unique and technically impressive. If only There had come out when I was 15, I can imagine I would have quickly become addicted.
I fried my Dad's new Athlon 1.333Ghz TBird by accidentally leaving the CPU fan's wires lodged between the heatsinc and a capacitor(isn't that what those little metal cylinders on the mobo are called???)... It melted through the plastic in about.2 seconds and sent 1,000,000 volts through the chip. I've got that chip in MY desk as reminders of 1) pay attention and 2) static isn't your only enemy.
I don't know if they'll alienate their customer-base or sell more chips than ever as THG, anandtech and everybody else experiment and eventually post the hack!
What will it be this time? #2 pencil and black sharpie have been done... Isopropyl Alcohol??? White Out! No... I bet it's something abstract like Silly Putty...;)
Oh well, I've been AMD since the K5 was the cheaper Intel alternative... Vote with your wallets!
Coming from someone who has family affected by Schizophrenia, it can be very frustrating when 99.99% of the population is grossly misinformed, often to the point of perceived enlightenment. People will argue with me over Schizophrenia vs. MPD and it only serves to expose their ignorance.
It doesn't help when movies like "A Beautiful Mind" come along and make even more inaccurate portrayals of this disease. Now everyone with $7.50 and 2 free hours thinks they are an expert on Schizophrenia... It gets to the point where you tire of correcting everyone. When a room full of people accept a set of ideas, even when completely wrong, you eventually start to just go along to save your own sanity...
Example 2 (less exhausting): I own 2 Italian Greyhounds that are a bit larger than most IGs. People (strangers) will approach me, point at my dogs and say "Whippets!" After several "They're not Whippets, they're Italian Greyhounds. No, Greyhounds. Trust me, they're Greyhounds" conversations, I simply say "Yeah" and walk away. It's easier...
If nothing else, it FEELS good to say "I've got a 64-bit processor in my desktop" and AMD (and anybody else) is gonna use that to its fullest marketing potential.
I'm comfortable saying that 75-85% of the people who are buying desktops in BB/CUSA wouldn't know if they bought a 16-bit or a 32-bit system. But if you can park it next to a 64-bit system and say "64 is TWICE as big as 32", people are gonna want it.
*snicker*
It's funny because you're right and still it won't matter... Mainstream is as mainstream does, and Apple/MAC ain't mainstream.
F-it or fight it, it's all the same...
We were conditioned to expect a helmet with 360-degrees of graphics that would allow us to turn our heads and see what's on the left and right/up and down. We also half-expected some sort of skin-tight suit (complete with electrodes) that would allow us to see our "virtual arms" and "virtual everything-elses" moving in real-time. Sure, it looked like "Money for Nothing", but we wanted our MTV!!!
Instead, we have FPS and 3rd person games with much better graphics, reactions/interfaces, but no peripheral. It won't be long until we can all afford 3 monitors and a multi-display adapter to push it more towards that VR feel, but I think we can file the helmet-with-skintight-bodysuit with our flying cars and day-trips to the moon. . .
You're ham-stringing yourself with unrealistic restrictions in your arguement. Are you implying that in the 10 year (assuming I've not touched it) life-span of a CD-R, I would never once notice that it needed to be copied over to one of my new HDs (since we know they fail every 14 months or so on average, or at least mine and my friends' do) and burned on the newest media (that I can afford)?
I call shenanigans... My MP3s have seen 3 different HDs (+1 RAID setup) and survived 2 "mass migrations" involving CD-burning. Imagine what good care I'll take of my converted family vids...
Don't apologize! "One-handed surf-sessions" and "flaccid little moment of poseur fame" are neo-classics that I can't to plagiarize (unabashedly)
Props!
I could easily have purchased a 4-player tournament edition Cyberball machine if I had put as many quarters into a jar as I did into that machine. There were intense competitions, both 1-on-1 and 2-on-2, that often came down to the wire.
We had to make rules, tho, to insure the losing team wouldn't use a credit to upgrade to a Titanium Runningback or Receiver in between "periods" (there were 6 quarters in Cyberball)
Yes, but those of us still interested in this approach are free to avoid the blogs and walkthroughs... I'm a little old-school, so I avoid walkthroughs until I just can't figure it or get myself worked up...;)
*MY HEART*
Why would they need a backdoor when you willingly give away the farm when you click OK during the EULA phase of install? MS backdoor = front door in broad daylight
I understood it to mean that they will ONLY have USB 2.0 and no longer 1.1
This should not be a problem as you can plug a 1.1 device into a USB 2.0 slot and just get slower speed. Then again, I could be wrong... It struck me as odd too, and this is the best I could come up with...
I've found several mobos on ebay (both new and refurbs/used) that support PC100/PC133 or both DDR and SDRAM. It's not fast or easy, but they are cheap (thanks to DDR being the $#!+ and all)
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MS Lawyer - Your Honor, I'd like to bring to your attention Exhibit A (Win NT EULA).
Judge - Case dismissed... Plaintiff, you may cover the court's costs.
*DINGDINGDING*
Allow the multitude of acquiescing peers to acknowledge your linguistic acumen.
Oh, I almost forgot... ;)
I think the parent may have been referring to making something like "Aimbot" part of the game, thus along an On / Off switch. That could be part of the criteria for a game server, and you wouldn't have to say "No Cheaters".
If you honestly get thrills from laughing at someone you fragged using a `bot or a flat-out cheat, you have greater issues (self-esteem, learning how to interact with people, trying to talk to girls) that should be examined.
A "Cheaters Welcome" server would be the perfect answer FOR THOSE OF US WHO HATE CHEATERS. The Cheaters themselves would *never* be caught in a room where they could be fragged-at-will and (*gasp*) laughed at by some OTHER wet-end who has managed to get his skin the same color as his mother's wallpaper. If they played basketball, it would be in a wheelchair league. If they golfed, their score would all be 18 (all Holes-in-One! I 0wnz ur g01fc0vr2e).
The best revenge is to let them have their "triumph" and go make love to your wife/girlfriend. You'll have forgotten all about them by the time they cry themselves to their lonely, lonely sleep. (sound familiar, cheaters???)
It's better for There if the money never comes out. Ever. Why would they help facilitate the removal of capital from their virtual world??? The only way will be if they make a ridiculous profit from converting. I imagine that profit-margin will be high enough to encourage you to leave the $$$ in There.
It's very engrossing when you're plugged in, and there is a very real urge to spend "just a few" real dollars to get some ThereBucks to buy the cool stuff. Once you exit, though, it fades quickly and you're left wondering why anyone would spend real money for virtual property.
I advise people to sign up and try it! It's unique and technically impressive. If only There had come out when I was 15, I can imagine I would have quickly become addicted.
a well-written troll... SOMEBODY went to high school! ;)
I fried my Dad's new Athlon 1.333Ghz TBird by accidentally leaving the CPU fan's wires lodged between the heatsinc and a capacitor(isn't that what those little metal cylinders on the mobo are called???)... It melted through the plastic in about .2 seconds and sent 1,000,000 volts through the chip. I've got that chip in MY desk as reminders of 1) pay attention and 2) static isn't your only enemy.
What will it be this time? #2 pencil and black sharpie have been done... Isopropyl Alcohol??? White Out! No... I bet it's something abstract like Silly Putty... ;)
Oh well, I've been AMD since the K5 was the cheaper Intel alternative... Vote with your wallets!
It doesn't help when movies like "A Beautiful Mind" come along and make even more inaccurate portrayals of this disease. Now everyone with $7.50 and 2 free hours thinks they are an expert on Schizophrenia... It gets to the point where you tire of correcting everyone. When a room full of people accept a set of ideas, even when completely wrong, you eventually start to just go along to save your own sanity...
Example 2 (less exhausting): I own 2 Italian Greyhounds that are a bit larger than most IGs. People (strangers) will approach me, point at my dogs and say "Whippets!" After several "They're not Whippets, they're Italian Greyhounds. No, Greyhounds. Trust me, they're Greyhounds" conversations, I simply say "Yeah" and walk away. It's easier...
If nothing else, it FEELS good to say "I've got a 64-bit processor in my desktop" and AMD (and anybody else) is gonna use that to its fullest marketing potential.
I'm comfortable saying that 75-85% of the people who are buying desktops in BB/CUSA wouldn't know if they bought a 16-bit or a 32-bit system. But if you can park it next to a 64-bit system and say "64 is TWICE as big as 32", people are gonna want it.
"Buy two! I'm not sharing with Kaitlyn!"
*snicker* It's funny because you're right and still it won't matter... Mainstream is as mainstream does, and Apple/MAC ain't mainstream. F-it or fight it, it's all the same...
Instead, we have FPS and 3rd person games with much better graphics, reactions/interfaces, but no peripheral. It won't be long until we can all afford 3 monitors and a multi-display adapter to push it more towards that VR feel, but I think we can file the helmet-with-skintight-bodysuit with our flying cars and day-trips to the moon. . .
I call shenanigans... My MP3s have seen 3 different HDs (+1 RAID setup) and survived 2 "mass migrations" involving CD-burning. Imagine what good care I'll take of my converted family vids...
Don't apologize! "One-handed surf-sessions" and "flaccid little moment of poseur fame" are neo-classics that I can't to plagiarize (unabashedly) Props!
I agree whole-hear.... uhhh, what were we talking about??? Hey, check it out! FUNYUNS!!!
Please tell me you are joking... I think he was employing a little thing known as *sarcasm* to those of us that breath through our noses.
We had to make rules, tho, to insure the losing team wouldn't use a credit to upgrade to a Titanium Runningback or Receiver in between "periods" (there were 6 quarters in Cyberball)
You just made my day!
"Bearded Dragon" = Northern Lights Kind-Bud "Can't get enough of that funky stuff"
Yes, but those of us still interested in this approach are free to avoid the blogs and walkthroughs... I'm a little old-school, so I avoid walkthroughs until I just can't figure it or get myself worked up... ;)
*MY HEART*
That's like taking sand to the beach! Water to the ocean! Money to Washington!
Why would they need a backdoor when you willingly give away the farm when you click OK during the EULA phase of install? MS backdoor = front door in broad daylight
I understood it to mean that they will ONLY have USB 2.0 and no longer 1.1 This should not be a problem as you can plug a 1.1 device into a USB 2.0 slot and just get slower speed. Then again, I could be wrong... It struck me as odd too, and this is the best I could come up with...
I've found several mobos on ebay (both new and refurbs/used) that support PC100/PC133 or both DDR and SDRAM. It's not fast or easy, but they are cheap (thanks to DDR being the $#!+ and all)