/shrug.
i dont see a problem with their logic, nor their approach, as using something like "100 times the national median" would definitely put that into the range of a (small) commercial internet account if you ask me. i'd like to see this comcast Acceptable Use Policy they refer to though.. if they're overly sneaky about such regulations they're just asking for shit like this to happen.
me: [reading site] oh cool, ping pong balls. shitloads of em. shitloads of anything is good. clickety. oooh lotsa videos. hrm. "The files are mostly a few MB in size." cool. interesting.. uhh sure bottom camera. clickety.. save as.. program files, fine. clickety.. 33 FUCKING MEGABYTES??
these motherfuckers got balls of steel, i say, serving 102 avi's at like 25 megs a pop. i would think doing something like that willingly implies confidence in one's ability to handle large amounts of bandwidth.
agreed. unauthorized program execution and the like is simply turning people off from the whole idea, making them suspect the need for such covert measures. whether the goings-on are used for good purposes or bad ones really is not so much an issue, as far as i'm concerned. those are all relative terms.
i'm a huge fan of the work bioware does - especially the baldur's gate series - since imho they pretty much revived a dying genre. baldur's gate 1 was a nostalgia trip for me to the days of the bard's tale and ultimas and ultima underworlds and all the classic epic RPGs. sure there were a few gems here and there throughout the years, like eye of the beholder, the fallouts, planescape torment, system shock 1&2, but i don't think the RPG genre was as popular as it is these days. i'm not one to point fingers or anything but bioware gets a pointing from me for putting out quality, timeless games that made people look twice.
From the article: "[Asian Elephant Research and Conservation Centre (AERCC) Director R Sukumar said] elephants were sensitive to smells, and the ketones were effective in driving away other bulls during the mating season.."
stinky pharamones released by big fat stinky guys during mating season would drive me away too. but hey, i guess you might come across the gay elephant who likes that sort of thing..
dont ask me why i know this but that little pixelized naked woman they have pictured on that atari 2600 DNF link you posted is from a game called Beat 'Em and Eat 'Em. i hope this means the design team is putting in similar fantastic gameplay ideas into DNF.
QRIO has its own emotions -- and expresses them in a variety of ways, such as through its movements, actions, sounds or colors. Sometimes, since it has its own emotions, it might not do something you ask it to do. It's all part of the mystery of QRIO.
i dunno about you guys but i get the feeling QRIO's gettin pissed off about all these rumours regarding his sexual orientation.
what valuable knowledge did i come away with after watching my ex play the sims for 4 months? basically, it goes a little something like this:
you get to play dolls with a dollhouse you build, one that you pay for by going to dollwork, given you have the appropriate dollstats to do said dollwork, and you do this while having to interact with random strangers from godknowswhere, usa, who are also building dollhouses in other dollneighbourhoods and having dollfamilies of their own.
to me it just seems that now that the sims has been out for a while, more people (and new people) are getting somewhat more inventive as to what activities they choose to pursue in the hopes of being different, conformist, more annoying, nicer, more perverted, or ___fill_in_the_blank___ that gives em their kicks. not that much different than other entertainment media, imho. the content provider for this soap opera, however, is the game's subscriber base.
Saddam has not been captured. He did not bury himself in a cellar. The infidels are committing suicide at the gates of the great fortress in which he resides. No worries.
At any rate, the combat is the main attraction. The game runs smoothly from an isometric perspective, and you can readily switch between several weapons in real time, such as between the pistol and the iron gloves you start out with. Ranged weapons obviously have an advantage in some respects, but have limited ammo. Random critical hits are possible, sending their victims flying backwards....
quite honestly i think that first sentence sums it up for me: get rid of all the things that made the first 2 fallouts classics, throw in some twitching action and hope the fuckin thing sells.
I don't know about you, but it was Wolfenstein 3D (still one of the handful of shareware titles I have actually purchased) that changed my world far more than Doom.
wolfenstein was a classic, most definitely. i remember playing it for the first time and being amazed at the uber 3D-ness. doom, however, i remember more fondly just because it was the first game i could play against my buddies. IMO, unequaled deathmatching goodness - the first game to bring that concept to the masses.
It's rare you see a title where everyone has an equal opportunity to get shot in the face.
how true. not since Carmageddon have i been so tickled by the so-indiscriminantly-violent-i-cant-help-but-laugh thing. i mean, seriously, had Rockstar put in Polish dudes into gta instead of Haitians or god knows who else, i would have bought this game even sooner. i would not have been offended in the least, Polish heritage and all.
by adopting a kid and feedin him/her/it nonstop Elmer Fudd cartoons instead of video games or other forms of entertainment i can end up having a bunny-hating shotgun-wielding kid of my very own.. hopefully with a similar speech impediment.
great theory.
Slashdot Mirror
/shrug.
i dont see a problem with their logic, nor their approach, as using something like "100 times the national median" would definitely put that into the range of a (small) commercial internet account if you ask me. i'd like to see this comcast Acceptable Use Policy they refer to though.. if they're overly sneaky about such regulations they're just asking for shit like this to happen.
me: [reading site] oh cool, ping pong balls. shitloads of em. shitloads of anything is good. clickety. oooh lotsa videos. hrm. "The files are mostly a few MB in size." cool. interesting.. uhh sure bottom camera. clickety.. save as.. program files, fine. clickety.. 33 FUCKING MEGABYTES??
these motherfuckers got balls of steel, i say, serving 102 avi's at like 25 megs a pop. i would think doing something like that willingly implies confidence in one's ability to handle large amounts of bandwidth.
..staaay forevah!
impossible mission. i. want. more.
whats the big deal with mmo games and the like? don't you people enjoy quality single player games anymore?
agreed. unauthorized program execution and the like is simply turning people off from the whole idea, making them suspect the need for such covert measures. whether the goings-on are used for good purposes or bad ones really is not so much an issue, as far as i'm concerned. those are all relative terms.
i'm a huge fan of the work bioware does - especially the baldur's gate series - since imho they pretty much revived a dying genre. baldur's gate 1 was a nostalgia trip for me to the days of the bard's tale and ultimas and ultima underworlds and all the classic epic RPGs. sure there were a few gems here and there throughout the years, like eye of the beholder, the fallouts, planescape torment, system shock 1&2, but i don't think the RPG genre was as popular as it is these days. i'm not one to point fingers or anything but bioware gets a pointing from me for putting out quality, timeless games that made people look twice.
From the article: "[Asian Elephant Research and Conservation Centre (AERCC) Director R Sukumar said] elephants were sensitive to smells, and the ketones were effective in driving away other bulls during the mating season.."
stinky pharamones released by big fat stinky guys during mating season would drive me away too. but hey, i guess you might come across the gay elephant who likes that sort of thing..
i for one welcome our new eNetiConAppliance overlords.
I'd like to point out that no vault is safe from having its water purification chip break down.
even so, though.. after i managed to get it to connect to *something*, a search for 'mp3' returned a whopping 26 results.
in the 'connections' tab, add in monolith.2y.net .. should see a couple of nodes being added soon afterwards.
dont ask me why i know this but that little pixelized naked woman they have pictured on that atari 2600 DNF link you posted is from a game called Beat 'Em and Eat 'Em. i hope this means the design team is putting in similar fantastic gameplay ideas into DNF.
i cringe at the bandwidth demands a slashdotting can bring with it. here's google's cache of the page.
QRIO has its own emotions -- and expresses them in a variety of ways, such as through its movements, actions, sounds or colors. Sometimes, since it has its own emotions, it might not do something you ask it to do. It's all part of the mystery of QRIO.
i dunno about you guys but i get the feeling QRIO's gettin pissed off about all these rumours regarding his sexual orientation.
What is the obsession with getting robots to look and do things like humans?
It's a small step towards having your own personal Lieutenant Commander Data.
what valuable knowledge did i come away with after watching my ex play the sims for 4 months? basically, it goes a little something like this:
you get to play dolls with a dollhouse you build, one that you pay for by going to dollwork, given you have the appropriate dollstats to do said dollwork, and you do this while having to interact with random strangers from godknowswhere, usa, who are also building dollhouses in other dollneighbourhoods and having dollfamilies of their own.
to me it just seems that now that the sims has been out for a while, more people (and new people) are getting somewhat more inventive as to what activities they choose to pursue in the hopes of being different, conformist, more annoying, nicer, more perverted, or ___fill_in_the_blank___ that gives em their kicks. not that much different than other entertainment media, imho. the content provider for this soap opera, however, is the game's subscriber base.
Saddam has not been captured. He did not bury himself in a cellar. The infidels are committing suicide at the gates of the great fortress in which he resides. No worries.
from the gamespot preview:
At any rate, the combat is the main attraction. The game runs smoothly from an isometric perspective, and you can readily switch between several weapons in real time, such as between the pistol and the iron gloves you start out with. Ranged weapons obviously have an advantage in some respects, but have limited ammo. Random critical hits are possible, sending their victims flying backwards....
quite honestly i think that first sentence sums it up for me: get rid of all the things that made the first 2 fallouts classics, throw in some twitching action and hope the fuckin thing sells.
I don't know about you, but it was Wolfenstein 3D (still one of the handful of shareware titles I have actually purchased) that changed my world far more than Doom.
wolfenstein was a classic, most definitely. i remember playing it for the first time and being amazed at the uber 3D-ness. doom, however, i remember more fondly just because it was the first game i could play against my buddies. IMO, unequaled deathmatching goodness - the first game to bring that concept to the masses.
It's rare you see a title where everyone has an equal opportunity to get shot in the face.
how true. not since Carmageddon have i been so tickled by the so-indiscriminantly-violent-i-cant-help-but-laugh thing. i mean, seriously, had Rockstar put in Polish dudes into gta instead of Haitians or god knows who else, i would have bought this game even sooner. i would not have been offended in the least, Polish heritage and all.
i stumbled onto this a while ago after hearing somewhere about Van Buren. :(
when Mr. Sawyer left Black Isle, i had a feelin sumthin shitty was abrew
by adopting a kid and feedin him/her/it nonstop Elmer Fudd cartoons instead of video games or other forms of entertainment i can end up having a bunny-hating shotgun-wielding kid of my very own.. hopefully with a similar speech impediment.
great theory.
The Core and Real Science should never ever appear within the same train of thought. Not only was it a horrendous movie, but the physics they used to explain it was complete garbage.
RTFA
Does anyone else [see] a face (upside down) on that picture?
didnt we just go over this?