Because its fun.
I played CS:S for a week and although it looks awesome, it just didnt compare to Planetside.
So 2 weeks after spending AU$110 on my HL2:Coll.Ed I was bored with it.
So I resubscribed to Planetside.
You guys are missing the point.
Since Planetside is persistent what you do is you go out and you find a group of like-minded guys that know how to get things done. Its pretty easy to distinguish the wheat from the chaff.
You then team up with these guys (up to 30 in a platoon) and amazingly you have all the coordination and support you could possibly need. Load them all up in a couple of air transports and kick some ass!
In a 16 player server a couple of lamers make a difference. In Planetside you dont even notice them.
As an Australian I totally agree.
If these religios people want ISPs to be censored, they sould fund their own ISP and all sign up to it and filter all they want. Quite simple really.
It is understood that the US ??AA orgs have a patent on your copyright laws. The Aus ??AA orgs have had to obtain a license for these laws, which have been paid for by our government, sugar farmers and our troop commitment in Iraq.
It also allows non-Linux junkies to ease themselves into the Linux world by learning piece by piece. I personaly have no confidence with myself using Linux, but dont mind trying things like Open Office, Firebird, Apache etc to get familiar with Linux apps without having to commit myself to learning the whole thing at once.
What a crap movie. So cheesy. The most obvious plot with extremely weak acting and directing. I am so angry at wasting my money on that movie. I paid for 3 of us to go watch it and it stunk.
I use Firebird and never installed the Flash plugin. I can still visit all of the sites that I visit without Flash ads/sigs etc slowing me down and initiating my epileptic fits.
Does this mean that the American legislative way will soon arrive here in New Zealand ? I hope not - but it's interesting to see that Australia seems to be using the USA as a role model recently.
And alot of us are getting pissed off at America and our own government because of it. Our elections are soon, I think we might be seeing a change in government.
Culture and Art is an important part of human history, and is a mechanism for how we define ourselves as individuals and as a race in general. Music has always been free, performances have not.
Now that we can reproduce recorded music at no cost, it now can be re-classified again as art instead of a business. Artists can now be truly called artists again. They throw their title around as if they are truly inspired and want to produce something for people to really enjoy and perhaps even accept into their culture. However we all know that they just wanna get paid and get da hundred dollar bills yall.
Distributing music instantly, freely and across the globe will help to achieve the goal of the true artists out there. True artists want to reach their audiences and inspire them. Give them something to enjoy. Bards charged for their performances, or were sponsored through the government, and future musical artists can be paid the same way. Noone will be able to make millions of dolars from singing one song and profiting by selling it at ridiculous prices all over the world. The playing field will be much more even.
Like it or not, the new revolution is here. Music can now be placed back high on the shelf as an art and not an industry.
I dont like Telstra as much as the next guy... but it could have been anyone with a simple bot to harvest Telstra Bigpond email addresses and then spamming. Maybe they have a grievance against the company (most people do) which is why its users were targeted.. or maybe it was because Bigpond users are traditionally the stupidest (no knowledge on broadband, computers, security etc) that they were targeted... and perhaps spam mailers targeted Bigpond users because they obviously will buy anything no matter how reprehensible the product/pricing and treatment of customers.
Yes, Australia used to have unlimited broadband... until Telstra decided to introduce 3GB caps (uploads and downloads included) effective immediately.
And to all those people that were on existing 12 month contracts? Tough luck, you had the option to either pay your contract out or sit on the service and do exciting broadband things like check your email and/or slashdot. Going over you limit incurred huge costs (some people accidentally ran into the 1000's of dollars in 1 month).
They have held Australia back in this area, but alternatives have since appeared through local peering and Comindico http://www.comindico.com.au/ (which offer unlimited and respectable pricing, even if it is at a lil less performance).
nah.. they should throw out the whole kilogram concept and weigh everything according to a "library of congress".
eg. that woman weighes 2.36 libraries of congress.
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Because its fun. I played CS:S for a week and although it looks awesome, it just didnt compare to Planetside. So 2 weeks after spending AU$110 on my HL2:Coll.Ed I was bored with it. So I resubscribed to Planetside.
You guys are missing the point. Since Planetside is persistent what you do is you go out and you find a group of like-minded guys that know how to get things done. Its pretty easy to distinguish the wheat from the chaff. You then team up with these guys (up to 30 in a platoon) and amazingly you have all the coordination and support you could possibly need. Load them all up in a couple of air transports and kick some ass! In a 16 player server a couple of lamers make a difference. In Planetside you dont even notice them.
So delicious its all been eaten up already :/
I downloaded it .. how bad do I feel!
As an Australian I totally agree. If these religios people want ISPs to be censored, they sould fund their own ISP and all sign up to it and filter all they want. Quite simple really.
I saw John Q. You are lieing.
I know theres a joke about Soviet Russia in there somewhere.....
We can't :/
It is understood that the US ??AA orgs have a patent on your copyright laws. The Aus ??AA orgs have had to obtain a license for these laws, which have been paid for by our government, sugar farmers and our troop commitment in Iraq.
But thanks for the offer.
You should try using a real OS, try Windows XP. *ducks*
It also allows non-Linux junkies to ease themselves into the Linux world by learning piece by piece. I personaly have no confidence with myself using Linux, but dont mind trying things like Open Office, Firebird, Apache etc to get familiar with Linux apps without having to commit myself to learning the whole thing at once.
What a crap movie. So cheesy. The most obvious plot with extremely weak acting and directing. I am so angry at wasting my money on that movie. I paid for 3 of us to go watch it and it stunk.
I use Firebird and never installed the Flash plugin. I can still visit all of the sites that I visit without Flash ads/sigs etc slowing me down and initiating my epileptic fits.
Culture and Art is an important part of human history, and is a mechanism for how we define ourselves as individuals and as a race in general. Music has always been free, performances have not. Now that we can reproduce recorded music at no cost, it now can be re-classified again as art instead of a business. Artists can now be truly called artists again. They throw their title around as if they are truly inspired and want to produce something for people to really enjoy and perhaps even accept into their culture. However we all know that they just wanna get paid and get da hundred dollar bills yall. Distributing music instantly, freely and across the globe will help to achieve the goal of the true artists out there. True artists want to reach their audiences and inspire them. Give them something to enjoy. Bards charged for their performances, or were sponsored through the government, and future musical artists can be paid the same way. Noone will be able to make millions of dolars from singing one song and profiting by selling it at ridiculous prices all over the world. The playing field will be much more even. Like it or not, the new revolution is here. Music can now be placed back high on the shelf as an art and not an industry.
and the RIAA know this.
hmmm, I was thinking more like a lower quality / bit rate version that was smaller in size.
I dont like Telstra as much as the next guy ... but it could have been anyone with a simple bot to harvest Telstra Bigpond email addresses and then spamming. Maybe they have a grievance against the company (most people do) which is why its users were targeted .. or maybe it was because Bigpond users are traditionally the stupidest (no knowledge on broadband, computers, security etc) that they were targeted ... and perhaps spam mailers targeted Bigpond users because they obviously will buy anything no matter how reprehensible the product/pricing and treatment of customers.
I beg to differ my friend. http://www.itnews.com.au/story.cfm?ID=6841 http://whirlpool.net.au/article.cfm/304 http://whirlpool.net.au/article.cfm/300
Yes, Australia used to have unlimited broadband ... until Telstra decided to introduce 3GB caps (uploads and downloads included) effective immediately.
And to all those people that were on existing 12 month contracts? Tough luck, you had the option to either pay your contract out or sit on the service and do exciting broadband things like check your email and/or slashdot. Going over you limit incurred huge costs (some people accidentally ran into the 1000's of dollars in 1 month). They have held Australia back in this area, but alternatives have since appeared through local peering and Comindico http://www.comindico.com.au/ (which offer unlimited and respectable pricing, even if it is at a lil less performance).
Nope, you missed it .. you are still worthless.
One question though .... whats a Dreamcast?
nah .. they should throw out the whole kilogram concept and weigh everything according to a "library of congress".
eg. that woman weighes 2.36 libraries of congress.