Okay, half a terabyte? Hardly worth lifting a finger for. I have more than 2.5 terabytes almost entirely of porn. And not only that, but it's all stored on 20 IDE drives of various sizes, in external USB cases, plugged into three 7-port D-Link USB hubs, plugged into a PC.
That's a lot of storage.
That's balls-to-the-wall.
I'll take a picture of all the drives stacked up on one another on the desk (5 rows, 4 drives tall).
I guess I just don't remember enough about FireFly to think of it as anything particularly interesting. And I would suspect that if it was really a groundbreaking and wonderful series, it would be something I would have remembered something about. Which I don't. So that sort of tells me all I need to know right there.
Granted, I hated Buffy until it had been off the air for a couple years and I actually sat down and watched a few episodes... next thing I know, I'd watched the entire series in one week (thanks BitTorrent!). AND LOVED IT.
I shouldn't have loved it. I knew I shouldn't have loved it. But the characters were compelling (for the most part) and it while it could be seen as cheesey, campy and hackish - it wasn't. It was enjoyable on the same level that any other good story with great characters would be enjoyable. I was thoroughly impressed.
So while I submit that Firefly could be such a show, it made no impression on me. I will give the movie a chance, certainly. But I am not expecting much at all. And really, I'd rather see more Farscape. Or even Dr. Who.:)
I'm a big fan of science fiction, but FireFly (from what I can even remember of the two episodes that I think were on) was just another average science fiction show. It had a bit of "Brisco County Junior" flavor to it, but it took place in space. The End.
Just not that original or outstanding, if you ask me. Time for something new and interesting and innovative.
And as others have said, while quality voice acting is nice, I don't care about NAME BRAND voice acting. There are plenty of amateurs out there who are far more talented than any top hollywood talent and I'd be just as happy with them doing the voice work in a game I play as I would if it were some crappy starlet.
If the SBL can shot down an entire group of blocks because of one spammer on one IP, then someone should be able to shut down an entire ISP (say, AOL, Earthlink, etc) if they have just one spam-sending zombie. Period.
I mean, what's good for one group is good for the other, right?
That most people don't commit crimes after watching violent television or movies or videogames isn't "anecdotal". It's fact. Look at the sales numbers for violent media and entertainment compared to the number of them that commit any crime of any sort ever - much less any sort of violent one - much less after being involved with the violent entertainment. Much less having anything to do even minutely related to it.
Because children are not full citizens until they're adults. They don't have the right to vote, work, marry, drive, sign a mortgage, sue someone in court, drink, smoke, etc.
Children have some basic rights, but they are still essentially the property of their parents until they're either adults or emancipated.
Yes, order POLICE-FORCE today from your local videogame retailer and you too can be a civic-minded hero!
And by the way:
"This is what your kids will be digesting if you buy this," Grace said as game footage was shown. "One law officer after the next gunned down in the line of duty."
Kids will only be digesting it if adults buy it for them. Presumably most kids too young to be (theoretically) impressionable enough to go out and kill cops becuase they played a videogame about it don't have the $70 for an Xbox game.
"Here's a philanthropist and a powerful man, the richest man in the world, and yet he's making available to children around the world on Xbox a cop-killing game."
How much of the game centers around killing cops? For all we know, killing cops is just a small incidental portion of the game that they're focusing on because they're sick fucking perverts trying to exploit the public by making it an issue. And how is it a cop-killing game? I assure you, the cops in the game are not real. They are rendered animations displayed on the television. Kind of like a cartoon. No real cops are harmed.
Well, if you want those kids to be susceptible to your recruiters in a couple of years, you better start breaking down their inhibitions now so they'll be blood thirsty killing machines when you want them to be.
I find "family films" that use "poo poo" jokes, getting hit in the nut humor and other juvenile crap to be far more offensive and questionable than a little flesh or even a bit of violence. And there's a LOT of inuendo in a lot of "childrens" movies these days (take Grinch for example).
Using ages is pointless. In fact, having a rating system at all is ridiculous.
Just list, briefly, what is in the game and in what context. Let me decide if my kid (at whatever age) is ready for that material. I don't need to be told what is appropriate for the "average" 15 year old. Just tell me if it has sex or drugs or violence or crude language or nudity or anything else and then to what degree. Is it mild? Suggested? Comical? Gratuitous?
This would be far more useful.
Then again, I think my kid would be far more damaged by having a knife pulled on him in school or having classmates doing drugs around him. It's not what in the videogames that concerns me, but what he would have to face in real life. If parents only knew what their kids were dealing with these days, they would understand just how ridiculous and silly it is to be concerned with a god damn *videogame*.
Oh man. You don't wanna know. I still wish I didn't know. I'll just say that it didn't involve jesus and it wasn't hands or wrists being nailed, although a plant of wood was involved...
Exactly. That most parents ignore the ratings doesn't correlate to most parents divorcing themselves from being involved in choosing what their children play. Believe it or not, a little violence or even a little sex is not going to fuck a kid up and most parents know this.
I watched Nightmare on Elmstreet and other films when I was about four years old. I saw hardcore porn when I was six to eight in magazines. And I've been checking out some pretty hardcore stuff online since about 1989. Some of it disturbingly perverse and wrong (you know, the kind of stuff friends trick you into clicking on without telling you that scat, horses or hammers and nails are involved).
Guess what? I've never committed a violent crime. I've never held up a convenience store. I've never abused a woman or mistreated a woman. I'm a completely normal person earning a great living in a respectable career with no more or worse personal issues than your average fellow.
Kids are more robust and versatile than people give them credit for. Your kid will not become braindead and stupid by listening to differing opinions and he won't become a rapist because he saw a boob or saw someone having sex and he sure won't become a murderer because he saw violence on television or a videogame or read about it in a book.
Unless my kids were fucking idiots, I would assume that they have the mental faculties to discern fantasy from reality and let them enjoy their videogames. It's no big deal.
Opera is adware. It is software that is supported by means of advertising within the product. It may not be "gator" adware, but the entire application itself is adware. Just as a product which is completely free is freeware and a product which is free to demo, but costs to keep is shareware.
For more on this, please see Opera's website where it says OPERA IS ADWARE 52 words into the document.
Why aren't there any articles about how "we need more blacks in the videogame industry"? I'm sure that the number of black people in the industry is less than 50% of the total. Clearly, we need to rectify this injustice.
Seriously.. I mean... come on. Enough with this whiney stories already. Am I supposed to believe that the only thing holding us back from better videogames is a lack of women developing them? Christ, most girls I know don't even PLAY videogames unless you count chatting on AIM and flashing your boobs on your webcam.
Microsoft mostly just wants to get every email server that isn't run by a corporation off the internet. Small guys and hobbiests and community groups can go fuck themselves or pay some sort of licensing fee. Yay.
I like the concept, but the problem I have with Camino is that it doesn't use Firefox extensions and there is no advertisement blocker. Browsing the web without an ad blocker is like a chick having sex with a large rottweiler without putting booties over his claws first. Sure - you can do it - but it's going to hurt like hell.
I haven't used Opera in a few years and I'm almost tempted to give it a try now that I'm on OSX. Firefox really does seem so slow, but I don't think I can live without my extensions. I don't need FoxCast anymore, since I can just use a Dashboard Widget (shut up!). But I definitely want my Sage RSS reader, flexible miniT tabbing, GreaseMonkey, Platypus, usign ALT+C to turn cookies on or off for a site, del.icio.us plugins and so on and on.
There's also native (Cocoa) client called Bits on Wheels which is a very decent and functional client, with a fun little "3D Swarm" to show your transfers in an animated graphical format in real time (both sending and recieving). Sure, that's pretty useless - but when you're waiting for that important file, it keeps you occupied watching the little blocks of data whizzing around.:D
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Who marked this "Funny"?
I'm serious. And it shoudl be "Informative", you insensitive clods!
Okay, half a terabyte? Hardly worth lifting a finger for. I have more than 2.5 terabytes almost entirely of porn. And not only that, but it's all stored on 20 IDE drives of various sizes, in external USB cases, plugged into three 7-port D-Link USB hubs, plugged into a PC.
That's a lot of storage.
That's balls-to-the-wall.
I'll take a picture of all the drives stacked up on one another on the desk (5 rows, 4 drives tall).
I take my porn seriously.
I guess I just don't remember enough about FireFly to think of it as anything particularly interesting. And I would suspect that if it was really a groundbreaking and wonderful series, it would be something I would have remembered something about. Which I don't. So that sort of tells me all I need to know right there.
:)
Granted, I hated Buffy until it had been off the air for a couple years and I actually sat down and watched a few episodes... next thing I know, I'd watched the entire series in one week (thanks BitTorrent!). AND LOVED IT.
I shouldn't have loved it. I knew I shouldn't have loved it. But the characters were compelling (for the most part) and it while it could be seen as cheesey, campy and hackish - it wasn't. It was enjoyable on the same level that any other good story with great characters would be enjoyable. I was thoroughly impressed.
So while I submit that Firefly could be such a show, it made no impression on me. I will give the movie a chance, certainly. But I am not expecting much at all. And really, I'd rather see more Farscape. Or even Dr. Who.
I'm a big fan of science fiction, but FireFly (from what I can even remember of the two episodes that I think were on) was just another average science fiction show. It had a bit of "Brisco County Junior" flavor to it, but it took place in space. The End.
Just not that original or outstanding, if you ask me. Time for something new and interesting and innovative.
Couldn't agree more.
And as others have said, while quality voice acting is nice, I don't care about NAME BRAND voice acting. There are plenty of amateurs out there who are far more talented than any top hollywood talent and I'd be just as happy with them doing the voice work in a game I play as I would if it were some crappy starlet.
I don't want to talk to a bunch of 12 year old Taurens with retainer-lisps and girl-pitched voices.
The article is stupid.
"Low hanging moon explained".
There's no explanation. There are just a couple of theories here and there and nothing more. How the hell is that an *explanation*?
Like anyone ever paid attention to "hall passes".
I'm sorry, but the day I need permission to take a piss or a shit is the day I fucking shoot myself in the head.
Okay, I just saw it for the first time. A few thoughts.
1) This is a big deal? This is just like 10,000 other group parties in the game. or any other game for that matter.
2) Nobody actually sits there and talks and talks and talks about strategy. Just dumb.
3) Teamspeak ruins good games.
4) This piece of crap made it to G4 and Slashdot in the same week? Is this because Americans are stupid or has everyone just devolved recently?
Am I the only person around here who is saying "huh?".
If the SBL can shot down an entire group of blocks because of one spammer on one IP, then someone should be able to shut down an entire ISP (say, AOL, Earthlink, etc) if they have just one spam-sending zombie. Period.
I mean, what's good for one group is good for the other, right?
That most people don't commit crimes after watching violent television or movies or videogames isn't "anecdotal". It's fact. Look at the sales numbers for violent media and entertainment compared to the number of them that commit any crime of any sort ever - much less any sort of violent one - much less after being involved with the violent entertainment. Much less having anything to do even minutely related to it.
Because children are not full citizens until they're adults. They don't have the right to vote, work, marry, drive, sign a mortgage, sue someone in court, drink, smoke, etc.
Children have some basic rights, but they are still essentially the property of their parents until they're either adults or emancipated.
Who needs a murder-simulator when you can join the police force and experience the real thing?
+ Shoot a young unarmed black man to death with 41 shots!
+ Kill a young woman by shooting a "non-lethal" pepper-spray projectile into her eyeball!
+ Needlessly taser young children, women and elderly people with 50,000 volts as you see fit!
+ Beat up, shove to the ground, handcuff and arrest blind elderly women in their own home!
Yes, order POLICE-FORCE today from your local videogame retailer and you too can be a civic-minded hero!
And by the way:
"This is what your kids will be digesting if you buy this," Grace said as game footage was shown. "One law officer after the next gunned down in the line of duty."
Kids will only be digesting it if adults buy it for them. Presumably most kids too young to be (theoretically) impressionable enough to go out and kill cops becuase they played a videogame about it don't have the $70 for an Xbox game.
"Here's a philanthropist and a powerful man, the richest man in the world, and yet he's making available to children around the world on Xbox a cop-killing game."
How much of the game centers around killing cops? For all we know, killing cops is just a small incidental portion of the game that they're focusing on because they're sick fucking perverts trying to exploit the public by making it an issue. And how is it a cop-killing game? I assure you, the cops in the game are not real. They are rendered animations displayed on the television. Kind of like a cartoon. No real cops are harmed.
Well, if you want those kids to be susceptible to your recruiters in a couple of years, you better start breaking down their inhibitions now so they'll be blood thirsty killing machines when you want them to be.
I find "family films" that use "poo poo" jokes, getting hit in the nut humor and other juvenile crap to be far more offensive and questionable than a little flesh or even a bit of violence. And there's a LOT of inuendo in a lot of "childrens" movies these days (take Grinch for example).
Using ages is pointless. In fact, having a rating system at all is ridiculous.
Just list, briefly, what is in the game and in what context. Let me decide if my kid (at whatever age) is ready for that material. I don't need to be told what is appropriate for the "average" 15 year old. Just tell me if it has sex or drugs or violence or crude language or nudity or anything else and then to what degree. Is it mild? Suggested? Comical? Gratuitous?
This would be far more useful.
Then again, I think my kid would be far more damaged by having a knife pulled on him in school or having classmates doing drugs around him. It's not what in the videogames that concerns me, but what he would have to face in real life. If parents only knew what their kids were dealing with these days, they would understand just how ridiculous and silly it is to be concerned with a god damn *videogame*.
Oh man. You don't wanna know. I still wish I didn't know. I'll just say that it didn't involve jesus and it wasn't hands or wrists being nailed, although a plant of wood was involved...
Exactly. That most parents ignore the ratings doesn't correlate to most parents divorcing themselves from being involved in choosing what their children play. Believe it or not, a little violence or even a little sex is not going to fuck a kid up and most parents know this.
I watched Nightmare on Elmstreet and other films when I was about four years old. I saw hardcore porn when I was six to eight in magazines. And I've been checking out some pretty hardcore stuff online since about 1989. Some of it disturbingly perverse and wrong (you know, the kind of stuff friends trick you into clicking on without telling you that scat, horses or hammers and nails are involved).
Guess what? I've never committed a violent crime. I've never held up a convenience store. I've never abused a woman or mistreated a woman. I'm a completely normal person earning a great living in a respectable career with no more or worse personal issues than your average fellow.
Kids are more robust and versatile than people give them credit for. Your kid will not become braindead and stupid by listening to differing opinions and he won't become a rapist because he saw a boob or saw someone having sex and he sure won't become a murderer because he saw violence on television or a videogame or read about it in a book.
Unless my kids were fucking idiots, I would assume that they have the mental faculties to discern fantasy from reality and let them enjoy their videogames. It's no big deal.
Opera is adware. It is software that is supported by means of advertising within the product. It may not be "gator" adware, but the entire application itself is adware. Just as a product which is completely free is freeware and a product which is free to demo, but costs to keep is shareware.
For more on this, please see Opera's website where it says OPERA IS ADWARE 52 words into the document.
Why aren't there any articles about how "we need more blacks in the videogame industry"? I'm sure that the number of black people in the industry is less than 50% of the total. Clearly, we need to rectify this injustice.
Seriously.. I mean... come on. Enough with this whiney stories already. Am I supposed to believe that the only thing holding us back from better videogames is a lack of women developing them? Christ, most girls I know don't even PLAY videogames unless you count chatting on AIM and flashing your boobs on your webcam.
Microsoft mostly just wants to get every email server that isn't run by a corporation off the internet. Small guys and hobbiests and community groups can go fuck themselves or pay some sort of licensing fee. Yay.
I like the concept, but the problem I have with Camino is that it doesn't use Firefox extensions and there is no advertisement blocker. Browsing the web without an ad blocker is like a chick having sex with a large rottweiler without putting booties over his claws first. Sure - you can do it - but it's going to hurt like hell.
I haven't used Opera in a few years and I'm almost tempted to give it a try now that I'm on OSX. Firefox really does seem so slow, but I don't think I can live without my extensions. I don't need FoxCast anymore, since I can just use a Dashboard Widget (shut up!). But I definitely want my Sage RSS reader, flexible miniT tabbing, GreaseMonkey, Platypus, usign ALT+C to turn cookies on or off for a site, del.icio.us plugins and so on and on.
Adware is adware.
No - he's Our Frank.
There's also native (Cocoa) client called Bits on Wheels which is a very decent and functional client, with a fun little "3D Swarm" to show your transfers in an animated graphical format in real time (both sending and recieving). Sure, that's pretty useless - but when you're waiting for that important file, it keeps you occupied watching the little blocks of data whizzing around. :D