The more interesting part of the article is near the end on the 2nd page: Retro Review: Bionic Commando about a game that kind of reminds me of Turrican but older.
I keep stacks of cd's next to my never-been-opened box of cd cases near my never-been-used cd rack. I give my cartridges and consoles away in a "borrow" sense, then never ask for them back. I obtain the ROMS if I feel like it and they're available. I stopped buying consoles playstation era. I do relate to his cord problems, but with the computer instead.
If you need this guy's tips for acceptable solutions to a surplus of games then you're helpless. He had few and obvious tips. He goes on about how if you go through your games and throw out the bad ones this really reduces total. DUH. -_- I mean, c'mon?
Most of us I'm sure just play it by ear and rarely stress about our "game storage problem". >_
AND the Linux Zealots wonder why their OS can't be user friendly.. Someone comes up with an idea to make the shell harder to screw up for a beginner scripter and all the penguins lose it.
But being a 21 year old, far enough off from Mr. Wrong's age to matter, but close enough to have a bit of logic under my belt....along with the fact I'm been working at an established tech firm for over 2 years now being employed at multitude of jobs previously right after a spat of university college... I think he IS wrong.
Games nearly have the same quality as movies now. Imagine when they will...
It's obvious games are going to reach FF: Spirits Within proportions soon. If not PS3 gen, then "PS4" gen. Perhaps the next if we're caught up in another war -_-
I think you might need to buy a few new games. Even patched-but-buggy games like Spellforce are fun because it has the most "atmospheric" graphics of an RTS game that I've seen to date along with all the nifty features I like.
I don't like THINKING of playing the games -- DON'T GET CAUGHT UP IN IT. It's easy to feel guilty playing games as an adult, especially with relationships. Games are one of the few things that can force me to "uh-huh" my significant other of 3+ years, reacting to her, but not really listening. Just be aware of how much you play and limit, splurging every now and then when the games and your STRESS level require.
I appreciate your story's contribution, but taking in consideration all of these factors I'm happy to report it's just that you're near the adam of eden gen for video games (YOU SAID you started on Pong as a kid) so, yes, you feel a bit more guilt from your older peers. Doesn't change the fact you're an ass monkey and gaming has tiers of popularity within the generations -- each one pushing the envelope in their new way.
That very exchange is like striking a match. Eventually one will light and a friendship is born. I've had friends on the net who's very indifferent disposition was our common bond. If you just gathered information and never wanted to share that's one thing, but the giving back part implies there's value to the reader otherwise you wouldn't have wasted your time. Unless you're an asshole about the giving. Then you're just implying you think you're superior and you're looking for someone to suck you off hypertextually.
Netcraft has developed a service to help banks and other financial
organizations identify sites which may be trying to construct frauds, identity
theft and phishing attacks by pretending to be the bank, or are implying that
the site has a relationship with the bank when in fact there is none.
Here's the competition (From Google):
About Comodo:
Comodo is the leading WebTrust-compliant enterprise solutions provider for
E-commerce Security Solutions. Firmly established in the market, Comodo markets
a range of innovative products and services developed by its dedicated research
lab delivering software, hardware, secure messaging and certificate-based
security.
Comodo offers its SEEOS(TM) Secure Enterprise Extensible Operating System for
integrated network security, together with secure Linux applications delivered
via its Trustix(TM) brand, SIDEN(TM) next generation ASIC, Instant SSL Certificates
for securing web servers and patented web site verification and identity
solutions. For product information please contact US +1 800 772 5185 or Europe
+44 (0) 161 874 7070 or visit the Comodo Home Page at www.comodogroup.com.
About Betrusted:
Betrusted is the premier global provider of security and trust services to the
world's leading organizations and government agencies. Through its managed
security services, Betrusted offers clients a comprehensive package of leading
security products coupled with unrivalled expertise to help reduce costs,
increase revenues and comply with government and industry regulations. For more
information, please visit our website at www.betrusted.com . Betrusted is owned
by One Equity Partners, Bank One's private equity group.
It wouldn't make any difference anyway. The cheaters would just create 6 bots instead of one to account for the 6 skill brackets.
The whole beauty of online gaming is it's chaos. No blood, no foul. Just like life.
Besides, a game is meant to be competitive. Cheaters have to do just as much work programming those bots as it takes to get good at the game. Not to mention they're caught, and kicked, often making the point moot.
That doesn't solve Fong's unfortunate side effect, but it does make for some interesting online experiences.
The things that happen through these machines are only an extension of our intentions. Tell me you've never heard of people sent to die in the deathchamber that were found to be innocent later?
Well, Mechwarrior on a smaller scale I would say. Biped is bad for stability when the unit is huge and you have relatively little control. If a human's brain is controlling the legs and the unit is 2 stories or less in height I would see it as more valuable than a tank. A tank loses a tread and it has to be replaced before the tank can move anywhere but in circles. People one foot hop all the time when they stub their toes... -_^
The key to this being the 'but not all versions' part of "..while IBM must also give AIX (but not all versions)". It's actually not that devastating from SCO's perspective because there is no need for them to drive this home by doing the extra research on the extraneous versions of AIX. The reason being, if they have proof of the infringements (as they have claimed to, obviously) more than likely they'll have the code, too. The fact they have to provide the infringements by a certain date is the only really devastating part because it spells their certain doom. The end of this publicity when the courts adjourn is as a certain doom regardless of whether or not they lose.
Being someone who got into a pencil pushing desk job without a college degree I must point out that college isn't a requirement to get there despite popular belief. So, in turn, "wondering what the fuck the point of waking up tomorrow is..." is also universal and not a product of people wasting their time going to college when they shouldn't and ending up in jobs they dislike... But I digress.
Actually, it could mean that all the geeks on slashdot are happy with their jobs because they have so little work they have time to read Slashdot all day;)
Seeing as file sharing allows millions to avoid paying for commercial music, software, movies, etc. I would say that this is more of an economic issue than social or political.
Uh, yeah.. No, about half our customers' problems at our Support firm are over Norton Utilities or SystemWorks, or some other Symantec product breaking and screwing up the OS. Happens daily. They don't learn anything, but how to manually uninstall a Norton Product.
I agree with i)ave. I am a technician for a Tech Support firm with a diagnosis program and just like other diagnosis programs, ours does not delve deep into hardware specific queries -- it goes by what Windows sees. There are several valid reasons for this. To catalog all of the custom driver interfaces that are needed when testing out the different types of hardware out there would be an immense undertaking. Another reason being Window's device interface is more than suitable to go by. Don't recode the wheel!
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lmfao. sry, I know you couldn't resist..
The more interesting part of the article is near the end on the 2nd page: Retro Review: Bionic Commando about a game that kind of reminds me of Turrican but older. I keep stacks of cd's next to my never-been-opened box of cd cases near my never-been-used cd rack. I give my cartridges and consoles away in a "borrow" sense, then never ask for them back. I obtain the ROMS if I feel like it and they're available. I stopped buying consoles playstation era. I do relate to his cord problems, but with the computer instead. If you need this guy's tips for acceptable solutions to a surplus of games then you're helpless. He had few and obvious tips. He goes on about how if you go through your games and throw out the bad ones this really reduces total. DUH. -_- I mean, c'mon? Most of us I'm sure just play it by ear and rarely stress about our "game storage problem". >_
Curious, do you do code Linux, or Windows?
free Linux apps are better than commercial Linux apps showing that the Linux architecture is flawed by it's very nature.
..?
It's hard to say: Are the free programmers gifted coders, or are the commercial coders just REALLY bad
AND the Linux Zealots wonder why their OS can't be user friendly.. Someone comes up with an idea to make the shell harder to screw up for a beginner scripter and all the penguins lose it.
Sad, really.
But being a 21 year old, far enough off from Mr. Wrong's age to matter, but close enough to have a bit of logic under my belt....along with the fact I'm been working at an established tech firm for over 2 years now being employed at multitude of jobs previously right after a spat of university college... I think he IS wrong.
Games nearly have the same quality as movies now. Imagine when they will...
It's obvious games are going to reach FF: Spirits Within proportions soon. If not PS3 gen, then "PS4" gen. Perhaps the next if we're caught up in another war -_-
I think you might need to buy a few new games. Even patched-but-buggy games like Spellforce are fun because it has the most "atmospheric" graphics of an RTS game that I've seen to date along with all the nifty features I like.
I don't like THINKING of playing the games -- DON'T GET CAUGHT UP IN IT. It's easy to feel guilty playing games as an adult, especially with relationships. Games are one of the few things that can force me to "uh-huh" my significant other of 3+ years, reacting to her, but not really listening. Just be aware of how much you play and limit, splurging every now and then when the games and your STRESS level require.
I appreciate your story's contribution, but taking in consideration all of these factors I'm happy to report it's just that you're near the adam of eden gen for video games (YOU SAID you started on Pong as a kid) so, yes, you feel a bit more guilt from your older peers. Doesn't change the fact you're an ass monkey and gaming has tiers of popularity within the generations -- each one pushing the envelope in their new way.
BTW, very funny article.
Most of the versions account for all of the technology implementations. Then there's fixing the possible problems caused by this large mass, too.
That very exchange is like striking a match. Eventually one will light and a friendship is born. I've had friends on the net who's very indifferent disposition was our common bond. If you just gathered information and never wanted to share that's one thing, but the giving back part implies there's value to the reader otherwise you wouldn't have wasted your time. Unless you're an asshole about the giving. Then you're just implying you think you're superior and you're looking for someone to suck you off hypertextually.
Whoa! Bookmark/Favorite!
Awesome man, if it wasn't so late after this story was posted I would ask someone to mod up.
Flamebait +1
For fun.
Here's the kicker (From Article):
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Netcraft has developed a service to help banks and other financial organizations identify sites which may be trying to construct frauds, identity theft and phishing attacks by pretending to be the bank, or are implying that the site has a relationship with the bank when in fact there is none.
Here's the competition (From Google):
About Comodo:
Comodo is the leading WebTrust-compliant enterprise solutions provider for E-commerce Security Solutions. Firmly established in the market, Comodo markets a range of innovative products and services developed by its dedicated research lab delivering software, hardware, secure messaging and certificate-based security.
Comodo offers its SEEOS(TM) Secure Enterprise Extensible Operating System for integrated network security, together with secure Linux applications delivered via its Trustix(TM) brand, SIDEN(TM) next generation ASIC, Instant SSL Certificates for securing web servers and patented web site verification and identity solutions. For product information please contact US +1 800 772 5185 or Europe +44 (0) 161 874 7070 or visit the Comodo Home Page at www.comodogroup.com
About Betrusted:
Betrusted is the premier global provider of security and trust services to the world's leading organizations and government agencies. Through its managed security services, Betrusted offers clients a comprehensive package of leading security products coupled with unrivalled expertise to help reduce costs, increase revenues and comply with government and industry regulations. For more information, please visit our website at www.betrusted.com . Betrusted is owned by One Equity Partners, Bank One's private equity group.
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It wouldn't make any difference anyway. The cheaters would just create 6 bots instead of one to account for the 6 skill brackets.
The whole beauty of online gaming is it's chaos. No blood, no foul. Just like life.
Besides, a game is meant to be competitive. Cheaters have to do just as much work programming those bots as it takes to get good at the game. Not to mention they're caught, and kicked, often making the point moot.
That doesn't solve Fong's unfortunate side effect, but it does make for some interesting online experiences.
The things that happen through these machines are only an extension of our intentions. Tell me you've never heard of people sent to die in the deathchamber that were found to be innocent later?
I don't think he sounded obnoxious, just left himself open for some jabs that Slashdotters couldn't resist.
Well, Mechwarrior on a smaller scale I would say. Biped is bad for stability when the unit is huge and you have relatively little control. If a human's brain is controlling the legs and the unit is 2 stories or less in height I would see it as more valuable than a tank. A tank loses a tread and it has to be replaced before the tank can move anywhere but in circles. People one foot hop all the time when they stub their toes... -_^
Try Firefox. If it's still not quick then get a faster computer cause you're on a 486.
Oh Please. Screwed? - we'd just change the code..
That's probably the worst ruling we could hope to expect.
The key to this being the 'but not all versions' part of "..while IBM must also give AIX (but not all versions)". It's actually not that devastating from SCO's perspective because there is no need for them to drive this home by doing the extra research on the extraneous versions of AIX. The reason being, if they have proof of the infringements (as they have claimed to, obviously) more than likely they'll have the code, too. The fact they have to provide the infringements by a certain date is the only really devastating part because it spells their certain doom. The end of this publicity when the courts adjourn is as a certain doom regardless of whether or not they lose.
Interesting. Should be a seperate story, actually :D. Someone submit it, I'm input only right now..
Meta moderators fix this injustice! I say mod Funny!
Being someone who got into a pencil pushing desk job without a college degree I must point out that college isn't a requirement to get there despite popular belief. So, in turn, "wondering what the fuck the point of waking up tomorrow is..." is also universal and not a product of people wasting their time going to college when they shouldn't and ending up in jobs they dislike... But I digress.
au contraire..
;)
Actually, it could mean that all the geeks on slashdot are happy with their jobs because they have so little work they have time to read Slashdot all day
Seeing as file sharing allows millions to avoid paying for commercial music, software, movies, etc. I would say that this is more of an economic issue than social or political.
I want to see it in action dangit! :D
Uh, yeah.. No, about half our customers' problems at our Support firm are over Norton Utilities or SystemWorks, or some other Symantec product breaking and screwing up the OS. Happens daily. They don't learn anything, but how to manually uninstall a Norton Product.
I agree with i)ave. I am a technician for a Tech Support firm with a diagnosis program and just like other diagnosis programs, ours does not delve deep into hardware specific queries -- it goes by what Windows sees. There are several valid reasons for this. To catalog all of the custom driver interfaces that are needed when testing out the different types of hardware out there would be an immense undertaking. Another reason being Window's device interface is more than suitable to go by. Don't recode the wheel!