Mine never lectured on subject matter; he instead decided it was better to use the time as a forum for his political views. I disagreed with him often and whenever I cornered him on his faulty politics (quite often), he'd change the subject. He got an intellectual ass kicking and my parents had their money wasted since I learned nothing about English since he didn't lecture on topic.
It sounds to me like the stuff you're monitoring is pretty important, so you need to make sure your surveillance is good. I'd go with hiring a consultant to deal with that so that even if it does screw up, he'll be accountable instead of you.
Do they really need to make a new distribution just for a desktop? I don't understand why it can't just be a piece of software that works across many distributions and OS's like KDE or Gnome.
Not only that, but hackers pushed them? Yeah, right. Like a bunch of scientists were scared that their credibility would be ruined by a bunch of wannabe-scientist computer thugs.
Sure, most of that is boring standard MTV fare. However, some of the songs on the Tony Hawk games are incredibly obscure, although the latest version doesn't include anything that's all that hard to find. Go looking at any top 40 and see if Dead Boys or the Germs ever had a single hit song.
How about you could buy 4 games a year if you bought $20 used copies? They're just as good and cost less and you can usually find anything you want used at local game shops with the right amount of time.
I know his claims are probably untrue about The Sims 2, but I'd just like to take this moment to say that I really like nudity and gratuitous violence and I don't even look at the ratings aside from the occasional curiosity.
Once again, guess whose job it really is to keep some of my favorite games away from the kids? It's the job of the parents. Before I had my driver's license (4 years ago), I was limited in what games I could buy because my parents would always be nearby and strictly limited what I was allowed to get. I didn't like it, but I'd never fault them for it. As soon as I got my driver's license, I could get whatever I wanted.
The idea I'd really like to put across here is that no matter what you do to a game, if you have a car and can go places on your own, you can buy almost whatever you want. No store policies or lawsuits or censorship will ever (and should never) prevent the market from bringing customers what they want; it's always gonna be up to parents to have an effective hand in what their kids are exposed to.
Very true; government expansion is way out of control. They're coming for guns, computers, and anything else that transfers power to the hands of the people rather than the government. They're coming for porn and video games, too, but I'm not sure why.
You're forgetting that the FCC by definition doesn't deal with important stuff. They regulate communications services and the airwaves. Doing much more is going to be out of their league.
No, I don't know how the games industry works, but I do recognize patterns. That's 3 games published recently by EA that by all other measures are excellent games, but came with awful flaws. Consider EA's the hand of doom.
Ahhh, EA...how that company releases so many top-notch games but manages to make them all somehow less than they should be blows my mind.
I loved Need for Speed Underground on my Gamecube...except when it locked up. I loved Battlefield 1942...except for the problems too numerous to list here which mostly got fixed eventually. I'm currently loving TimeSplitters: Future Perfect on my Gamecube except for its lockups.
Who the hell besides EA releases a console game that isn't totall stable?!?!
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They'll ask for a credit card number. They promise they won't charge anything to it!
Actually, if an engineer makes a faulty product it's usually Ford recalling it. :-)
This troll has had such a mistake for such a long time. It should be 1%.
Yes, I guess all of the previous consoles with gyroscopic controllers have failed, huh?
The resulting space-time vortex of suck will be worthy of its own episode of Star Trek.
Mine never lectured on subject matter; he instead decided it was better to use the time as a forum for his political views. I disagreed with him often and whenever I cornered him on his faulty politics (quite often), he'd change the subject. He got an intellectual ass kicking and my parents had their money wasted since I learned nothing about English since he didn't lecture on topic.
If I tell you negative information, you'll know less. Sounds like what happened in that mind numbing English class I had to take last semester.
It sounds to me like the stuff you're monitoring is pretty important, so you need to make sure your surveillance is good. I'd go with hiring a consultant to deal with that so that even if it does screw up, he'll be accountable instead of you.
Do they really need to make a new distribution just for a desktop? I don't understand why it can't just be a piece of software that works across many distributions and OS's like KDE or Gnome.
They'll probably give up their lunch money and run away crying!
Not only that, but hackers pushed them? Yeah, right. Like a bunch of scientists were scared that their credibility would be ruined by a bunch of wannabe-scientist computer thugs.
So much bitching from so few people who get paid so much to do no work! Quit complaining and get a real job!
Sure, most of that is boring standard MTV fare. However, some of the songs on the Tony Hawk games are incredibly obscure, although the latest version doesn't include anything that's all that hard to find. Go looking at any top 40 and see if Dead Boys or the Germs ever had a single hit song.
How about you could buy 4 games a year if you bought $20 used copies? They're just as good and cost less and you can usually find anything you want used at local game shops with the right amount of time.
Setting all of the age limits to the same age would solve many a problem, wouldn't it?
I know his claims are probably untrue about The Sims 2, but I'd just like to take this moment to say that I really like nudity and gratuitous violence and I don't even look at the ratings aside from the occasional curiosity.
Once again, guess whose job it really is to keep some of my favorite games away from the kids? It's the job of the parents.
Before I had my driver's license (4 years ago), I was limited in what games I could buy because my parents would always be nearby and strictly limited what I was allowed to get. I didn't like it, but I'd never fault them for it. As soon as I got my driver's license, I could get whatever I wanted.
The idea I'd really like to put across here is that no matter what you do to a game, if you have a car and can go places on your own, you can buy almost whatever you want.
No store policies or lawsuits or censorship will ever (and should never) prevent the market from bringing customers what they want; it's always gonna be up to parents to have an effective hand in what their kids are exposed to.
I'm pretty sure the daisy-chain thing works for any USB 2.0 port up to 256 devices.
Also, any Linux compatible USB printer should work since it runs Linux and has a USB port.
Very true; government expansion is way out of control. They're coming for guns, computers, and anything else that transfers power to the hands of the people rather than the government. They're coming for porn and video games, too, but I'm not sure why.
You're forgetting that the FCC by definition doesn't deal with important stuff. They regulate communications services and the airwaves. Doing much more is going to be out of their league.
Yeah, same here. The second thing is that the topic of his editorial is either really dumb, he hates it, or both.
He's much more than just a bombastic flamer with no grasp of the happenings of the computing world.
He also has the same last name of that guy that made that keyboard layout!
No, I don't know how the games industry works, but I do recognize patterns. That's 3 games published recently by EA that by all other measures are excellent games, but came with awful flaws. Consider EA's the hand of doom.
Ahhh, EA...how that company releases so many top-notch games but manages to make them all somehow less than they should be blows my mind.
I loved Need for Speed Underground on my Gamecube...except when it locked up.
I loved Battlefield 1942...except for the problems too numerous to list here which mostly got fixed eventually.
I'm currently loving TimeSplitters: Future Perfect on my Gamecube except for its lockups.
Who the hell besides EA releases a console game that isn't totall stable?!?!
Like anyone could even know that, Napoleon!
That's no other version. That's BOOMSTICK EDITION!