You know what else is regulated? My right to privacy, as outlined and implied in the Constitution. If, by exercising my freedoms as an individual, I am not impeding on the inalienable rights of my peers, I should not be subject to such fascist laws and practices. By driving, I am putting others in danger. That is understandable. Liquor? Cigarettes? Fuck 'em. I don't need the government telling me what I can and can't do with my body, and if they are going to try to, I'm going to push back just as hard, especially when they want to do such things as monitor it.
Do you regularly bend over and take it up the pooper like that without voicing dissent?
Does anybody know how you can demagnetize or otherwise render your swipe strip on your license as useless? They can just look at my ID as far as I am concerned, and when I go to stores to buy a pack of smokes or something, I specifically ask them not to swipe my ID. However, I would like to not have to do that anymore.
For those that say that we shouldn't worry about things like the swipe boxes from collecting data, only verifying it - what about when these boxes access a state database? Surely the state database has logs so that they can say "oh yeah, John Doe just purchased some stuff at this liquor store, or just bought smokes at this gas station". I have a right to privacy, and I don't want logs and records of everything I purchase for the convenience of somebody else to use against me at some point.
According to reviews, games like Tony Hawk 8 and Ridge Racer *should* have been delayed, because of framerate issues and bugs in general.
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Was talking about the lack of/distance between save points, not enemy spawning.
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I'm sure that I suck at the game, and you are indeed probably more patient than I am (I seem to wander around endlessly before figuring things out in that game - maybe I'm just not in the right "mindset" for the game), but I'm not the only one that has been frustrated with the amount of save points in Metroid Prime: http://www.google.com/search?q=metroid+prime+save+ points
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I think the article has much of this spot-on, especially regarding interactive cut-scenes. I have thought for a while that cut-scenes should be more interactive, ala Jade Empire. However, this is a primary theme of Jade Empire. Games need not be so focused on this aspect, but it certainly does not have to be as linear as it is today. Inability to skip past these (or worse - having to wait for them to load even if you *can* skip past them!) is completely unacceptable.
While I am not a huge fan of "spawn points", I definitely see why they may be somewhat necessary. However, in many of these games, they are WAY too few and far between (looking at you, Metroid Prime), to the point where if you die, you end up having to replay 20 minutes to get back to the point you were at before. Other games, however, like Resident Evil IV for the GameCube, has save points/spawn points every few minutes, or after ever action sequence. This is much better.
I would still prefer to be able to save at any time that I like, but if not, please, for the love of god, don't make the "difficulty" in the game be in that you have to get through 20 minutes of gameplay otherwise you have to do it all over again. That's no longer fun, and the biggest reason why I never completed Metroid Prime.
All that said, some of the points brought up in TFA are just complaining for the sake of complaining. Complaints about being able to perform grotesque actions on your opponent in the middle of a fight is very game-specific and limited, and not any sort of common flaw. Add to that the complaint about "pits and spikes", which were largely a result of the limitations of 2D sidescroller gameplay and platformers (in a way, it's almost part of the definition of the genre, at least in the 2D realm). It doesn't make the game not-fun anymore, unless there is a need for utterly perfect execution for you to be able to complete the game.
Ahh... I guess it doesn't bother me that much. Anytime you're dealing with time travel and all that kind of stuff you're going to be able to find some plot holes that don't exactly work, and sure, that one was probably avoidable, but I don't think it's nearly as major as you've let it become in your head. He does speak *some* Engrish, too, but not much. "HERRO NEW YORK!", you know? =X
It isn't a flaw, brotha. They address the issue in the latest episode, but they haven't figured out "why" yet. The writing on this show is very good, and from what I have seen so far, very solid. They are not going to make such an "obvious" mistake. In case you didn't notice, Hiro LOOKED very different in that dialog, as well as how he spoke.
This has got to be a joke. WMP11 is almost a blatant 1:1 copy of iTunes - except with more usability features. First, it will monitor your music folders for changes (which iTunes will not do, you have to go through all that "consolidate library" crap), you can't one-off play music in iTunes (it automatically adds music to your library whether you want it to or not), you can't navigate back and forward in the interface with your x-left and x-right mouse clicks like in WMP11, and the general interface is set up almost identical to iTunes. I don't know what the hell you downloaded, but it wasn't WMP11.
I *do* have a few complaints about WMP11 (namely, no "minimize to tray" support out of the box), but usability is *NOT* one of them. I get the feeling you are trolling, and little else, but it certainly would not appear that you have even executed up WMP11.
Mod the parent down, and somebody with some presence in the MythTV dev crew bring this idea to their attention. The last thing we want is the content providers "catching on" to such a great idea.
It may or may not be very effective for sporting events, though....
Might also be interesting to try to flag entry/exit frames from known commercials (with a checksum or fingerprint sort of thing) into a shared database, then just look up the frames. If your show has 2.5 minutes with matches every 30 seconds, that's a commercial break. People can do a P2P vote with their FF button to contribute. Just a thought.
That may work better once all sources have gone digital, but with analog cable, or OTA reception right now, a huge chunk of it is still analog, which means that different encoders would process the data differently. I would think that this would make it much more difficult to effectively checksum or fingerprint an ad. Great idea, don't get me wrong, but I wonder that it would be really difficult to actually do with analog content.
Guess what Sony could have done? They could have stopped selling PSP's et al to Lik Sang for them to be able to export. At the rate Lik Sang sold products, it's not like they just stopped by the local Japanese version of Best Buy and purchased thousands of them to export - they had to get them from a major distributor - probably Sony themselves.
Over 50% of the prison population in the US is non-violent drug-related offenses. To be clear, I don't really consider those people to be real criminals.
Does FasTrak allow you to use the system anonymously? In other words, can you credit your account without having to associate your transponder or whatever with your identity?
BALONEY. I have been dealing with Hotmail and Symantec for the last 3 weeks because Hotmail users are not receiving the confirmation emails from my site http://lyrictalk.net (not even in their junk mail folders). Hotmail says it is Symantec blocking the IP that my mail is coming from. I am currently using a shared host. WTF am *I* supposed to do in cases like this? This is a false positive, whether or not you want to believe they are a problem. Everywhere I turn I get the runaround, whether it is my web host, Hotmail, or Symantec. If my users can't even get their confirmation emails in their junk mail folders, it affects me and the viability of my site.
Exactly, it is only $5/month more if you are already paying up the wazoo for cable. I want to be able to get my basic cable package in HD for only $5/month more. They don't let me do this.
Just because a sender doesn't follow up doesn't mean that you weren't sent the mail, and doesn't mean that it was spam. I operate a couple domains and found out that my hotmail users were not getting their emails because the server I was operating on had its IP placed on a black list. There are a lot of possibilities, but just because you say that you have never had any problems receiving legitimate emails doesn't mean that you never actually have. It is very conceivable that you would never find out about it.
Except that a huge, HUGE portion of the web sites on the internet are with shared hosts, who's reverse DNS doesn't point back at their domain name. That is not fair to all the "small fish" out there that still want their emails to get through to their customers.
I have an HDTV, but no HD programming. Why? Because it is too expensive (imagine that). I'll get HD the day I can get my basic cable, without a cable box, in HD, for only marginally higher cost. As it turns out, instead of paying $12/month for cable, I would have to jump up to something like $60/month to get any HD. Not acceptable for me.
Regarding your complaint about having to type in keys and stuff, which would be "difficult", there is no reason at all why it would have to be. Softare could (and should) be developed that you could hook up the Zune to your system for the first time, and it would configure the player to use the same wireless settings as you have on your Windows installation or whatever.
I definitely think that synching should be wireless-compatible. Big mistake on their part. I hate wires. HATE HATE HATE wires.
I don't. Sony is evil, and they have screwed over customers countless times in recent years. They are not the same Sony that dominated the industry with a customer-focused model 20 years ago. I hope the company suffers a quick, yet painful death.
-_- Sorry, but I'm a little bitter at them right now.
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You know what else is regulated? My right to privacy, as outlined and implied in the Constitution. If, by exercising my freedoms as an individual, I am not impeding on the inalienable rights of my peers, I should not be subject to such fascist laws and practices. By driving, I am putting others in danger. That is understandable. Liquor? Cigarettes? Fuck 'em. I don't need the government telling me what I can and can't do with my body, and if they are going to try to, I'm going to push back just as hard, especially when they want to do such things as monitor it.
Do you regularly bend over and take it up the pooper like that without voicing dissent?
Does anybody know how you can demagnetize or otherwise render your swipe strip on your license as useless? They can just look at my ID as far as I am concerned, and when I go to stores to buy a pack of smokes or something, I specifically ask them not to swipe my ID. However, I would like to not have to do that anymore.
For those that say that we shouldn't worry about things like the swipe boxes from collecting data, only verifying it - what about when these boxes access a state database? Surely the state database has logs so that they can say "oh yeah, John Doe just purchased some stuff at this liquor store, or just bought smokes at this gas station". I have a right to privacy, and I don't want logs and records of everything I purchase for the convenience of somebody else to use against me at some point.
According to reviews, games like Tony Hawk 8 and Ridge Racer *should* have been delayed, because of framerate issues and bugs in general.
Was talking about the lack of/distance between save points, not enemy spawning.
I'm sure that I suck at the game, and you are indeed probably more patient than I am (I seem to wander around endlessly before figuring things out in that game - maybe I'm just not in the right "mindset" for the game), but I'm not the only one that has been frustrated with the amount of save points in Metroid Prime: http://www.google.com/search?q=metroid+prime+save+ points
I think the article has much of this spot-on, especially regarding interactive cut-scenes. I have thought for a while that cut-scenes should be more interactive, ala Jade Empire. However, this is a primary theme of Jade Empire. Games need not be so focused on this aspect, but it certainly does not have to be as linear as it is today. Inability to skip past these (or worse - having to wait for them to load even if you *can* skip past them!) is completely unacceptable.
While I am not a huge fan of "spawn points", I definitely see why they may be somewhat necessary. However, in many of these games, they are WAY too few and far between (looking at you, Metroid Prime), to the point where if you die, you end up having to replay 20 minutes to get back to the point you were at before. Other games, however, like Resident Evil IV for the GameCube, has save points/spawn points every few minutes, or after ever action sequence. This is much better.
I would still prefer to be able to save at any time that I like, but if not, please, for the love of god, don't make the "difficulty" in the game be in that you have to get through 20 minutes of gameplay otherwise you have to do it all over again. That's no longer fun, and the biggest reason why I never completed Metroid Prime.
All that said, some of the points brought up in TFA are just complaining for the sake of complaining. Complaints about being able to perform grotesque actions on your opponent in the middle of a fight is very game-specific and limited, and not any sort of common flaw. Add to that the complaint about "pits and spikes", which were largely a result of the limitations of 2D sidescroller gameplay and platformers (in a way, it's almost part of the definition of the genre, at least in the 2D realm). It doesn't make the game not-fun anymore, unless there is a need for utterly perfect execution for you to be able to complete the game.
Ahh... I guess it doesn't bother me that much. Anytime you're dealing with time travel and all that kind of stuff you're going to be able to find some plot holes that don't exactly work, and sure, that one was probably avoidable, but I don't think it's nearly as major as you've let it become in your head. He does speak *some* Engrish, too, but not much. "HERRO NEW YORK!", you know? =X
(Gawds, I'm so going to Hell....)
It isn't a flaw, brotha. They address the issue in the latest episode, but they haven't figured out "why" yet. The writing on this show is very good, and from what I have seen so far, very solid. They are not going to make such an "obvious" mistake. In case you didn't notice, Hiro LOOKED very different in that dialog, as well as how he spoke.
This has got to be a joke. WMP11 is almost a blatant 1:1 copy of iTunes - except with more usability features. First, it will monitor your music folders for changes (which iTunes will not do, you have to go through all that "consolidate library" crap), you can't one-off play music in iTunes (it automatically adds music to your library whether you want it to or not), you can't navigate back and forward in the interface with your x-left and x-right mouse clicks like in WMP11, and the general interface is set up almost identical to iTunes. I don't know what the hell you downloaded, but it wasn't WMP11.
I *do* have a few complaints about WMP11 (namely, no "minimize to tray" support out of the box), but usability is *NOT* one of them. I get the feeling you are trolling, and little else, but it certainly would not appear that you have even executed up WMP11.
Mod the parent down, and somebody with some presence in the MythTV dev crew bring this idea to their attention. The last thing we want is the content providers "catching on" to such a great idea.
It may or may not be very effective for sporting events, though....
That may work better once all sources have gone digital, but with analog cable, or OTA reception right now, a huge chunk of it is still analog, which means that different encoders would process the data differently. I would think that this would make it much more difficult to effectively checksum or fingerprint an ad. Great idea, don't get me wrong, but I wonder that it would be really difficult to actually do with analog content.
Guess what Sony could have done? They could have stopped selling PSP's et al to Lik Sang for them to be able to export. At the rate Lik Sang sold products, it's not like they just stopped by the local Japanese version of Best Buy and purchased thousands of them to export - they had to get them from a major distributor - probably Sony themselves.
Over 50% of the prison population in the US is non-violent drug-related offenses. To be clear, I don't really consider those people to be real criminals.
Does FasTrak allow you to use the system anonymously? In other words, can you credit your account without having to associate your transponder or whatever with your identity?
BALONEY. I have been dealing with Hotmail and Symantec for the last 3 weeks because Hotmail users are not receiving the confirmation emails from my site http://lyrictalk.net (not even in their junk mail folders). Hotmail says it is Symantec blocking the IP that my mail is coming from. I am currently using a shared host. WTF am *I* supposed to do in cases like this? This is a false positive, whether or not you want to believe they are a problem. Everywhere I turn I get the runaround, whether it is my web host, Hotmail, or Symantec. If my users can't even get their confirmation emails in their junk mail folders, it affects me and the viability of my site.
Exactly, it is only $5/month more if you are already paying up the wazoo for cable. I want to be able to get my basic cable package in HD for only $5/month more. They don't let me do this.
Just because a sender doesn't follow up doesn't mean that you weren't sent the mail, and doesn't mean that it was spam. I operate a couple domains and found out that my hotmail users were not getting their emails because the server I was operating on had its IP placed on a black list. There are a lot of possibilities, but just because you say that you have never had any problems receiving legitimate emails doesn't mean that you never actually have. It is very conceivable that you would never find out about it.
Except that a huge, HUGE portion of the web sites on the internet are with shared hosts, who's reverse DNS doesn't point back at their domain name. That is not fair to all the "small fish" out there that still want their emails to get through to their customers.
I have an HDTV, but no HD programming. Why? Because it is too expensive (imagine that). I'll get HD the day I can get my basic cable, without a cable box, in HD, for only marginally higher cost. As it turns out, instead of paying $12/month for cable, I would have to jump up to something like $60/month to get any HD. Not acceptable for me.
Holy god damned fucking shit, the mug shot on that page nearly put me in tears.
Regarding your complaint about having to type in keys and stuff, which would be "difficult", there is no reason at all why it would have to be. Softare could (and should) be developed that you could hook up the Zune to your system for the first time, and it would configure the player to use the same wireless settings as you have on your Windows installation or whatever.
I definitely think that synching should be wireless-compatible. Big mistake on their part. I hate wires. HATE HATE HATE wires.
-_- Sorry, but I'm a little bitter at them right now.
That's awesome! I don't suppose you'd be able to get a picture of this? Please?
You ever think that that's because Microsoft doesn't sell XBoxen anymore? Sony still sells PS2's.