(I am going to assume that your expletive-laden speech against these "cartoons" is simply an extension of the character conveyed within your post and therefore not declare you a troll.)
I agree that these symbols of traditional gaming are not thug and therefore unappealing to the modern mainstream gamer. Nor should any attempt be made to connect the two, as they are flat-out incompatable.
Hey, the people have spoken, and they want (virtual) blood to be spilt.
As far as the games go, the Sonic franchise is in a lull. They do lack gameplay.
However, the following of Sonic is still very strong. On the cartoon front, the anime Sonic X is very recent. The English dub sucks, because it, once again, turns a fairly good youthful action series into American mush.
But whatever. Look around, and you will find that quite a community exists. (Google is surprisingly unhelpful, BTW.)
I forsee something like quantum computing becoming commonplace and making our existing encryption methods quite obscure and easy to crack.
and yet
[Y]ou are, however, forgetting the fact that Quantum Computers first need to be as widespread as regular ones for such a balance to exist.
I can see now that you're targeting the intermediary period. Yeah, it looks like there's an opening there. I guess we'll have to see what kind of actual yields such technology produces. (What are we at right now? 5 qubits? 7 qubits?) There is ample time to figure out what to do, unless quantum computing takes---well, a quantum leap.
Perhaps we should talk about the niche that games built on character have found.
Yes, the growing-up on the part of the gaming population has driven mascots away from the mainstream. However, due to the Internet, sizable followings have arisen. Fans who seek story just as much as, if not more than, gameplay can gather in online communities. It doesn't hurt that games started leaving the realm of pure gameplay and started becoming more complex forms of entertainment, driven probably by the advances in technology.
I realize that the above paragraph doesn't make much sense. Just take my word on this: the mascots are not going away. It's up to the gamer population to seek them again, but we fan(boy)s will make sure that they'll be around.
You're forgetting that quantum computing will also make the primes used to encrypt data absolutely enormous, thus defeating any advantage that code breakers would receive. Unless I'm overlooking some special property of quantum computing.
you can install it on my computer by any means most of which will never display this EULA.
Not that you even know you're agreeing to anything in the first place, but if you aren't given the ability to read over a contract before agreeing to it, is it even valid?
Alphabetic systems (Latin- and Greek- based, for instance) are much more legible with spaces as a result.
As an aside to this:
Romans read slowly as a historical fact, and furthermore always phonated when reading, to the extent of having to read in private rooms. They were apparently incapable of not reading out loud, and this certainly slowed their reading rates considerably. It is doubtful whether an educated Roman would read more than ten or fifteen pages in an hour, which compares oddly with the fifty pages hourly rate which a college student needs just to keep up with class assignments....
And I get modded down by some idiot. I mean, if I'm wrong about this, somebody tell me, throw me a frickin' bone here, instead of dropping a -1, Overrated on me.
Distance Firefox from this monstrosity. AOL, who owns the Netscape brand name, forked the codebase and made separate changes to create some bastard version for them to sell. If asked why they can do this, say that the license permits them to do this. Make sure that clearly Mozilla had nothing to do with any of this ActiveX or IE crap, or the shitty interface, etc...
Well, looking at the linked topic, I see that the writer argues that Valve has broken the terms of its EULA for the original Half-Life by converting it to use Steam. I'll bet that there's a clause in that EULA that gives Valve permission to modify the agreement whenever they want to.
Furthermore, the writer talks of Valve not being liable for any hack of Steam that may infect anyone's computer. It hasn't dawned on the writer that it is standard practice to disclaim all liability.
I agree with the parent, and I wish people would actually read these fscking things every once in a while, just to see what they're submitting to.
This ought to teach them a lesson... for about a month tops.
Note to parent: If you've opened the game, you ain't getting your money back.
Really, the only three things holding me back are a lack of time, a lack of money, and liability issues should one of them catch fire and burn someone's house down or something.
I can't help you with the first two; but as for the third, well, that's what they make lawyers for.
After one finds the time and the venture capital, a good lawyer usually is the next smart move, though I'd think one should be more worried about the entertainment industry than about catastrophic product failure.
I toyed with this idea (government should subsidize Open Source as a public service) months ago; and even though I then decided that it was impractical, seeing these suggestions makes me change my mind.
Slashdot Mirror
1. Someone complains about Outlook Express on USENET or in a forum.
2. ???
3. Profit!---er... Download!
(I am going to assume that your expletive-laden speech against these "cartoons" is simply an extension of the character conveyed within your post and therefore not declare you a troll.)
I agree that these symbols of traditional gaming are not thug and therefore unappealing to the modern mainstream gamer. Nor should any attempt be made to connect the two, as they are flat-out incompatable.
Hey, the people have spoken, and they want (virtual) blood to be spilt.
You didn't look at the rest of that expression:
make Xen a household name in the open-source community.
It was a poor choice of words; they really mean to say that Xen may become a thoroughly discussed issue in the OSS community.
As far as the games go, the Sonic franchise is in a lull. They do lack gameplay.
However, the following of Sonic is still very strong. On the cartoon front, the anime Sonic X is very recent. The English dub sucks, because it, once again, turns a fairly good youthful action series into American mush.
But whatever. Look around, and you will find that quite a community exists. (Google is surprisingly unhelpful, BTW.)
That's just retroism in action.
Sacrifice that laptop to the gods by installing programs like flabbergasted.
I may know precisely jack about little children (other than once being one), but I do know that laptop LCD screens are rather vulnerable.
Well then you're contradicting yourself.
I forsee something like quantum computing becoming commonplace and making our existing encryption methods quite obscure and easy to crack.
and yet
[Y]ou are, however, forgetting the fact that Quantum Computers first need to be as widespread as regular ones for such a balance to exist.
I can see now that you're targeting the intermediary period. Yeah, it looks like there's an opening there. I guess we'll have to see what kind of actual yields such technology produces. (What are we at right now? 5 qubits? 7 qubits?) There is ample time to figure out what to do, unless quantum computing takes---well, a quantum leap.
Perhaps we should talk about the niche that games built on character have found.
Yes, the growing-up on the part of the gaming population has driven mascots away from the mainstream. However, due to the Internet, sizable followings have arisen. Fans who seek story just as much as, if not more than, gameplay can gather in online communities. It doesn't hurt that games started leaving the realm of pure gameplay and started becoming more complex forms of entertainment, driven probably by the advances in technology.
I realize that the above paragraph doesn't make much sense. Just take my word on this: the mascots are not going away. It's up to the gamer population to seek them again, but we fan(boy)s will make sure that they'll be around.
You're forgetting that quantum computing will also make the primes used to encrypt data absolutely enormous, thus defeating any advantage that code breakers would receive. Unless I'm overlooking some special property of quantum computing.
I'm just seeing if there are n+1 ways this is unenforceable.
you can install it on my computer by any means most of which will never display this EULA.
Not that you even know you're agreeing to anything in the first place, but if you aren't given the ability to read over a contract before agreeing to it, is it even valid?
5 pt. badges for everybody!
Worms reference! Score!
from the any-game-with-mechanical-squirrels-has-to-be-good dept.
Um... yeah... OK...
[off-color troll, whose text contains no fewer than two dollar signs, wherein there exists the notion that said corporation creates a vacuum]
As an aside to this:-- http://www.orbilat.com/Languages/Latin/Alternativ
That's not a cliche, that's usually a courtesy image provided by someone more talented than the rest of us.
Yeah, and I said (in the thread about this) that they could submit a request per the DMCA to have Google remove said images from the index/cache. IIRC, this is factual (maybe not right, but factual).
And I get modded down by some idiot. I mean, if I'm wrong about this, somebody tell me, throw me a frickin' bone here, instead of dropping a -1, Overrated on me.
Haven't those sometimes been more destructive than the worm that uses the hole the first one is trying to patch in the first place?
Distance Firefox from this monstrosity. AOL, who owns the Netscape brand name, forked the codebase and made separate changes to create some bastard version for them to sell. If asked why they can do this, say that the license permits them to do this. Make sure that clearly Mozilla had nothing to do with any of this ActiveX or IE crap, or the shitty interface, etc...
Somebody tell the weasel to start limbering up...
Well, looking at the linked topic, I see that the writer argues that Valve has broken the terms of its EULA for the original Half-Life by converting it to use Steam. I'll bet that there's a clause in that EULA that gives Valve permission to modify the agreement whenever they want to.
Furthermore, the writer talks of Valve not being liable for any hack of Steam that may infect anyone's computer. It hasn't dawned on the writer that it is standard practice to disclaim all liability.
I agree with the parent, and I wish people would actually read these fscking things every once in a while, just to see what they're submitting to.
This ought to teach them a lesson... for about a month tops.
Note to parent: If you've opened the game, you ain't getting your money back.
(i need sleep)
Really, the only three things holding me back are a lack of time, a lack of money, and liability issues should one of them catch fire and burn someone's house down or something.
I can't help you with the first two; but as for the third, well, that's what they make lawyers for.
After one finds the time and the venture capital, a good lawyer usually is the next smart move, though I'd think one should be more worried about the entertainment industry than about catastrophic product failure.
I toyed with this idea (government should subsidize Open Source as a public service) months ago; and even though I then decided that it was impractical, seeing these suggestions makes me change my mind.
When did this happen?
IMO you have the causation in reverse.