Cultures do develope differently, I won't argue with that. But we are talking about a very specific game. Cultures don't evolve differently where gamers of different cultures magically gain the ability to snipe better in Counter-Strike, or work as a team better. This is just my opinion, but I don't think culture has anything to do with how you play video games. You learn how to play video games from scratch, not from culture.
This is nice and all but I would much rather see a device (like your cellphone, pda, or gameboy) take advantage of the piezoelectric effect so the batteries charge when you use the device.
Somehow I don't think that the location of a human being on the Earth inherently determines their specialty in Counter-Strike. Infact it's a ridiculous concept that suggests humans of a different nationality are fundmanetally different than that of another nationality.
The author needs to think about the generalizations he's making and realize that they're just that, generalizations.
It's the wave of the future man! Get in on the ground floor or get sued! Making stuff is so old fashioned, make millions of dollars with the tried and true "sue everyone" business. Call 555-9123 to get your free information pack today!
Why aren't there any reports stating that football/soccer/[insert sport here] gives players violent tendencies? Comparitively how many time have you seen a news bit on how a sports player was arrested for killing/raping/etc... and how many times a gamer did the same? Infact, how many times have you heard a news bit that anyone has committed a violent act? Are we to believe that life itself makes you violent?
Try Starsiege: Tribes. It's an old game but people still play it. It's actually a pretty easy game to pick up, but damn hard to master. You will lose the first couple games, but thats going to happen in any FPS you pick up. Tribes takes advantage of the third dimension (jet pack) so it teaches you to lead properly and it gives you a good feel for hitting someone with a projectile. Once you get good at Tribes you're almost garunteed to be good at another FPS.
I can only speak from personal experience, but I have never had a problem with Satellite. I have had DirectTV for around 5 or so years now and the only time I have either lost the signal or recieved too many artifacts in the picture for coherent viewing are in major storms. The kind of storms where you turn off your TV to be safe. I've also had a problem when there was about 3ft of snow on the dish from a recent snow storm. Depending on where you put the dish, I've found out that shoes + broom = fix.
Wouldn't this be considered false advertising though? I mean if you say unlimited you can't just go back on it because it isn't economically feasible. If a company told me I had unlimited bandwidth and then sent me a letter that I exceeded my bandwidth limitation I would be pretty irate. I would be especially pissed because not only are they employing false advertising, but even their own AUP that they refer to makes no mention of a bandwidth limitation.
You gatta throw a smilie or something in there to indicate it. I wasn't sure whether it was a joke or being real. Oh well, karma is over rated. *runs from mods*
People hate intrusive pop-ups/unders, not ads. For instance, I don't mind/.'s ad at the top at all. But if I'm bombarded with pop-up after pop-up after pop-under after pop-under I get extremely pissy. Furthermore I will never buy a product from any company that supports and/or uses pop-ups/unders.
I don't even mind TV commercials, but if they started poping up during a TV show I'm sure I would throw the TV out the bloody window.
As much as I disagree with the idea of a genetically altered pet I see no harm in them if you want one. I doubt the gene transplant would start a plague. But then again I'm not an expert in the field. Maybe a few experiments are in order to do determine whether the fish can carry any potential health risks. As long as the fish isn't in any pain and nobody is in danger there shouldn't be a problem.
I wasn't aware there was anything wrong with P2P networks. They aren't illegal and it's an efficient data distribution system that takes loads off of servers. I think the true intent of "synching law, technology, and ethics" is to gain control. They will be able to monitor you more easily and control what is served.
ITB: Security starts with the developer. What do you think that developers can do to harden their apps and how is Microsoft helping with tools? BG: You don't need perfect code to avoid security problems. There are things we're doing that are making code closer to perfect, in terms of tools and security audits and things like that. But there are two other techniques: one is called firewalling and the other is called keeping the software up to date. None of these problems (viruses and worms) happened to people who did either one of those things.
So why are we grading Microsoft on security when it is apparently the consumers responsibility. I'm not saying I disagree with taking responsibility as a consumer, but I don't think Microsoft is adequetly doing their job.
Does anybody remember the article where old Microsoft basically said it was the end consumers responsibility to keep things secure and not the developers? I'll have to find the article, but it's only a couple months old or so. I think the "report card" should be re-evaluated knowing that Microsoft really doesn't care about security like they claim to.
Personally I prefer Bungie's "It's done when it's done" attitude. Unlike other developers *cough* ValvE *cough* who lay down a firm release date and completely blow it, many times. So many companies do this and it's rather bothersome. Give me fair warning that the game just went gold and I'll buy it, but don't jerk me around with numerous delays breaking numerous "concrete" release dates.
2. The term "gamer" is around because it's easy to use. It's dumb to refer to a group of people as "Those people who play video games". Much easier to say "The gamers".
I disagree with both The Ombudsman and Curmudgeon. I'm not going to sit idly by and ignor negative media articles on video games (no matter how incorrect they are). We as gamers might know that the article is wrong, but the rest of the public doesn't. They'll eat this stuff up and support restrictions, censorship, and bans on video games. Furthermore I'm not going to 'start talking realistically about degrees of harm, freedoms, and responsibility' of video games. Video game producers have the right to produce a game with any content the please and I have the right (as an adult) to buy that video game and enjoy it.
If video games were such a bad thing then how is it that there aren't millions upon millions of shootings and homocides by gamers? There are only those very few that, in my opinion, already had some screws loose. Not to mention a lot of these video game related crimes are commited by minors. Let's not blame the parents or the store that sold them the game or anything, that would be *logical*.
And for a humorous closing note, "Computer games don't affect kids- I mean, if PacMan had affected us then we'd all be running around in darkened rooms eating magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
I agree to a very minute extent. Musicians contribute very little usefulness to society.
I think musicians/actors/athletes are extremely over paid. And for musicians a lot of the profit goes to their damn record labels! So musicians get overpaid, but the record label makes even more than they do! Entertainement should be very cheap. There are people out there that actually contribute to society that deserve this money more.
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... that title has enough acronyms. Perhaps it should be "RMS & FSF Directors TMW FSF Members".
Cultures do develope differently, I won't argue with that. But we are talking about a very specific game. Cultures don't evolve differently where gamers of different cultures magically gain the ability to snipe better in Counter-Strike, or work as a team better. This is just my opinion, but I don't think culture has anything to do with how you play video games. You learn how to play video games from scratch, not from culture.
This is nice and all but I would much rather see a device (like your cellphone, pda, or gameboy) take advantage of the piezoelectric effect so the batteries charge when you use the device.
Somehow I don't think that the location of a human being on the Earth inherently determines their specialty in Counter-Strike. Infact it's a ridiculous concept that suggests humans of a different nationality are fundmanetally different than that of another nationality.
The author needs to think about the generalizations he's making and realize that they're just that, generalizations.
$18,000 and the robot doesn't even have a flame thrower. Aren't dragons supposed to breath fire? I mean come on!
There are many regular lemmings lurking about.
Really? I kind of thought they all committed suicide =).
It's the wave of the future man! Get in on the ground floor or get sued! Making stuff is so old fashioned, make millions of dollars with the tried and true "sue everyone" business. Call 555-9123 to get your free information pack today!
Why aren't there any reports stating that football/soccer/[insert sport here] gives players violent tendencies? Comparitively how many time have you seen a news bit on how a sports player was arrested for killing/raping/etc... and how many times a gamer did the same? Infact, how many times have you heard a news bit that anyone has committed a violent act? Are we to believe that life itself makes you violent?
Just wait until they make an addon that allows you to taste e-mails. Now would you rather smell penis enlargement or taste it?
Thats what I thought.
Try Starsiege: Tribes. It's an old game but people still play it. It's actually a pretty easy game to pick up, but damn hard to master. You will lose the first couple games, but thats going to happen in any FPS you pick up. Tribes takes advantage of the third dimension (jet pack) so it teaches you to lead properly and it gives you a good feel for hitting someone with a projectile. Once you get good at Tribes you're almost garunteed to be good at another FPS.
I can only speak from personal experience, but I have never had a problem with Satellite. I have had DirectTV for around 5 or so years now and the only time I have either lost the signal or recieved too many artifacts in the picture for coherent viewing are in major storms. The kind of storms where you turn off your TV to be safe. I've also had a problem when there was about 3ft of snow on the dish from a recent snow storm. Depending on where you put the dish, I've found out that shoes + broom = fix.
Wouldn't this be considered false advertising though? I mean if you say unlimited you can't just go back on it because it isn't economically feasible. If a company told me I had unlimited bandwidth and then sent me a letter that I exceeded my bandwidth limitation I would be pretty irate. I would be especially pissed because not only are they employing false advertising, but even their own AUP that they refer to makes no mention of a bandwidth limitation.
You gatta throw a smilie or something in there to indicate it. I wasn't sure whether it was a joke or being real. Oh well, karma is over rated. *runs from mods*
I sincerely hope you are being sarcastic.
/.'s ad at the top at all. But if I'm bombarded with pop-up after pop-up after pop-under after pop-under I get extremely pissy. Furthermore I will never buy a product from any company that supports and/or uses pop-ups/unders.
People hate intrusive pop-ups/unders, not ads. For instance, I don't mind
I don't even mind TV commercials, but if they started poping up during a TV show I'm sure I would throw the TV out the bloody window.
As much as I disagree with the idea of a genetically altered pet I see no harm in them if you want one. I doubt the gene transplant would start a plague. But then again I'm not an expert in the field.
Maybe a few experiments are in order to do determine whether the fish can carry any potential health risks. As long as the fish isn't in any pain and nobody is in danger there shouldn't be a problem.
I wasn't aware there was anything wrong with P2P networks. They aren't illegal and it's an efficient data distribution system that takes loads off of servers.
I think the true intent of "synching law, technology, and ethics" is to gain control. They will be able to monitor you more easily and control what is served.
So why are we grading Microsoft on security when it is apparently the consumers responsibility. I'm not saying I disagree with taking responsibility as a consumer, but I don't think Microsoft is adequetly doing their job.
Does anybody remember the article where old Microsoft basically said it was the end consumers responsibility to keep things secure and not the developers? I'll have to find the article, but it's only a couple months old or so. I think the "report card" should be re-evaluated knowing that Microsoft really doesn't care about security like they claim to.
Personally I prefer Bungie's "It's done when it's done" attitude. Unlike other developers *cough* ValvE *cough* who lay down a firm release date and completely blow it, many times. So many companies do this and it's rather bothersome. Give me fair warning that the game just went gold and I'll buy it, but don't jerk me around with numerous delays breaking numerous "concrete" release dates.
2. The term "gamer" is around because it's easy to use. It's dumb to refer to a group of people as "Those people who play video games". Much easier to say "The gamers".
I disagree with both The Ombudsman and Curmudgeon. I'm not going to sit idly by and ignor negative media articles on video games (no matter how incorrect they are). We as gamers might know that the article is wrong, but the rest of the public doesn't. They'll eat this stuff up and support restrictions, censorship, and bans on video games. Furthermore I'm not going to 'start talking realistically about degrees of harm, freedoms, and responsibility' of video games. Video game producers have the right to produce a game with any content the please and I have the right (as an adult) to buy that video game and enjoy it. If video games were such a bad thing then how is it that there aren't millions upon millions of shootings and homocides by gamers? There are only those very few that, in my opinion, already had some screws loose. Not to mention a lot of these video game related crimes are commited by minors. Let's not blame the parents or the store that sold them the game or anything, that would be *logical*. And for a humorous closing note, "Computer games don't affect kids- I mean, if PacMan had affected us then we'd all be running around in darkened rooms eating magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
Everyone needs something to blame for their own shortcomings.
Because that's the subject we're on. Last time I checked this wasn't about accumulating wealth in the stock market. Call me crazy.
I agree to a very minute extent. Musicians contribute very little usefulness to society. I think musicians/actors/athletes are extremely over paid. And for musicians a lot of the profit goes to their damn record labels! So musicians get overpaid, but the record label makes even more than they do! Entertainement should be very cheap. There are people out there that actually contribute to society that deserve this money more.
I wish I had the a time machine so I could prevent the RIAA from ever comming into existence.