Man I really shouldnt be responding to people who call multiple home pc's a "LAB" but here we are.
"In a couple of years IPv6 will be main-stream because of MS, and we all know the benefits from using the upgraded protocol."
Rofl.. yes we all know the benefits! But you know what? I am an idiot. Can you please list one benefit that isn't solved by natting?
"-I think it's cool that when you browse the network people can see a picture of the person instead of the Computer Icon."
When im browsing the network of COMPUTERS I would rather see data reflecting the COMPUTER. Who the hell cares about the people (even if they do exsist - most servers don't have anyone sitting behind them). Id rather if they had different icons for something useful like servers and workstations.
"I also do photography, and you use to be able to open an image file on an OSX machine and XP and it would look better on the OSX box. Not with vista."
How the heck could a picture look different on a different.. ah wait I know! Right click on the desktop and go to properties. Find the settings tab and go to SCREEN RESOLUTION. Simply turn the screen resolution up, and your pictures will look better!
If you cant even set the screen resolution properly, I dont think I am going to read anymore. Clearly your knowledge about operating systems completely owns mine.
Though the advice from our 13 year old son was probably the best: "why aren't you using gmail?"
Not that I am saying that we shouldnt trust 13 year olds with our security, but do you really want google having searchable access to all your email as well as all the other data they have? Especially since they are probably a CIA front?
Oh come of it. Whats with all this nintento apologizing? Every cracked strap I've seen on the internet has been frayed and broken in half. If they made them out of that "snakey metal" like expensive camera laynards this kind of thing probably wouldn't happen.
Its 100% nintendo's fault. Would you say that people who got in accidents, and had their seatbelts snap and fail, were at fault because they got in an accident in the first place? The laynard sole use, as I understand it not personally owning a wii, is to make sure the controller does NOT fly out of your hand. If it fails at that, then what is the other purpose of it? So that you can hang it bling styles off your wrist when you go to the mall?
I believe it was a colbert guest that said (paraphrasing) "A rising tide is such a beautiful medaphor, but no one really thinks it through. When the tide rises on your shores, what happens to the other side of the ocean? The tide falls."
"If none of the pages you view were free, you'd soon stop using the internet "
Nahh I dont buy that. I have no responsibility or obligation to keep some persons blog alive. The law of the internet is if someone provides something and charges for it, eventually someone will come along and offer the same services for free.
Example: craigslist.
Advertising is garbage for the mind. Maybe if all these little bloggers stopped having the dream that their stupid lives and meaningless babble should make them some money, just because they spend time on it, then ads would go away. Is anyone paying me to post this comment here? Do I expected to be paid - or even be modded up? NO. Why am I posting it? Because I get something out of it. Why do good artists make music? Becuase THEY get something out of it.
Advertising has a net drag on society as a whole because it makes people think that they need things to be complete and happy. This kind of attitude festers endless consumerism and mental problems on societies inhabitants. You wouldn't need anti depressants if people weren't constantly being told how much fucking better they could be, if only they baught the new and improved rod of foobaring. Advertising causes therapy. Its psychological manipulation used in the most evil ways. Bill Hicks (RIP) knew exactly what was going on with this.
Another comment from a great post from the past sums it up more than I could:
"I believe that there are simply too many mouths to feed and not enough real jobs to fill them. Its getting to the point that I feel like I'm being accosted by a begger everywhere I go, but the people begging are typically people that have more money than I do. Salesmen lying to me and badgering me all the time. Telemarketers. SPAM. Billboards. Ads are _everywhere_."
"Oh, and no, I don't know what to do about it either--but dismissing evil behavior offhand is not even a possibility"
Come on man its such a non issue. Everybody knows the game is fixed, the poor get poor, the rich get rich, thats how it goes: And everybody knows
So its not really a newsworthy item, hardly comparable to even the most basic war crimes in iraq or ww2. Let me put it this way, I care just about as much about some multi billionaire ceo downloading songs as I do about any other person downloading songs. I dont care. It doesnt hurt anyone or matter in any way except by people that make a scene - which is what this article is doing.
Im thinking automatic rifles that burn your skin as they amplify heat from submicrowave radiation arent going to be to useful as they fall to the ground at your feet. Its a nobel sentiment, but the government has a much greater amount of weapons than you do. The only hope is that if their was a revolution, some army personelle would break away with the revolutionaries and you would have access to the same amounts of high tech weapons that the government had.
"They profit in only one way: people like and buy their games."
This is only because they buy a franchise (C&C, battlefield, uo, simcity) and thusly buy every fan that that game has had. Those people go out and buy the new sequels that EA has put out, and if they are like me, find them all to be shit and sware off the companeis future releases. I am sure some people pay but thats just because they dont know any better and even if something better does come along, EA buys the company and runs it into the ground. It's similar to windows. It works, but its far from ideal and people buy it because there isn't another viable option in whatever genre the game is in (not to mention they have exclusive licensing for whole generes such as american footbal and hockey).
EA is a cancer at worst and an exericse in mediocrity at best. That some people perfer mediocre games to no games isn't much of a surprise but it doesnt mean that just because their games are popular that they are also well designed.
Everyone who doesn't have a negative opinion of EA doesnt know jack about games. They buy other companies, then throw out half cocked sequals that suck balls. They can't even get a good 2d UI right! Two examples. First, BF2. BF1942 was probably the best game released when it came out. It had everything, huge maps, all sorts of vehicles, it was revolutionary. Then out came the free Desert Combat mod, which improved it even further. Than DUM DUM DUM.. ea baught dice. The next game, much promise, was BF2. I baught this game from a store for about $60. It was shite. The ingame server browser didnt work, there were loads of unskippable cutscenes at the begining, and the forced GaySpy integration took forever to get working right. They even made you pay for more "advanced" weaponry, so if you wanted to be as good as otherpeople you had to pay again. Then, if you actually made it into the game, the maps were smaller than bf1942, more buggy, and the graphics didnt even scale properly. This past fall they released a new expansion intitled bf2142. They didnt even bother to fix all the problems in bf2, and I am willing to bet that bf2142 is just bf2 with some new shit tacked on.
Another example is C&C generals. Command and Conquer was one of the oldest and best RTS games out there. Red Alert was crazy intelligent and well rounded. Then you got generals. That buggy piece of shit, with the crappiest (still years after release) netcode and a myrad of design changes and bugs. They totally broke the whole c&c franchise by developing a whole new story for the universe. That game should not even be called c&c. Here is an excerpt from the wikipedia entry:
"There is also a glitch/cheat in the online play called the "SCUD bug" which allows the player of the GLA army to automatically reload their SCUD launcher shortly after it is fired. Many fans demanded Electronic Arts to fix this glitch so that online players wouldn't be given the opportunity to cheat so easily. But EA didn't respond to this call."
I mean how fucking apathetic do you have to be to not even bother fixing MAJOR exploits in the game?
EA is simply the worst about not fixing bugs. It seems as if they have a memory of 1 year. If a game is passed one year release, its time to either a) tack on an expansion b) make a sequel or c) bargain bin it and stop all development.
Like I am having trouble believing that you are not some sort of shill for EA. They ruined so many good games. UO is another one, where they decided just realeasing new art every year or so and charging an extra $59.99 for it was a valid way to "improve" the game. Simcity too. The graphics on simcity 4000 are SO BUGGY, that I had to hunt around and try multiple point realeases of nvidia video drivers before I wouldnt get crazy random graphics corruption happening in that game. They had some good ideas with the whole multiple cities on a continent theme, but If I cant see it because of graphics bugs then wtf good is it?? This is also on multiple machines with both ATI and NVIDIA cards. You can get it running if you find the exact magic combination of drivers and details/resolutions but come on! EA is a huge company! Maybe thats why they make such shit now, too much beurocracy, not enough risk taking.
I just remembered one last thing I absolutely hate about ea's business practices. Every time I logged into BF2, I would get an ad for some other stupid EA game or bf2 pay for mod. Showing ads to me in a game that I have PURCHASED is crossing the line.
Now thats 4 games, and I didnt actually play the games you mentioned. Seems like alot of people (usually on consoles so what do they know?) forgive them for various UI bugs that I would consider unacceptable in a gold game. I don't play sports games but I have heard them roundly condemed by everyone who does. Fuck EA. They took their slogan too literally and "challenged" good gameplay, exsisting franchises and good quality code. From what I have read about the practices at that company re developers, I am not surprised in the slightest that they produce the most buggy unplayable games I have ever tried to play.
"I want my car to snap pix of all the things that come close to it, including cars and people. All the time - while I'm driving, while I'm parked"
I'd pay money to have that installed in my car. NO ONE ever thinks that they are at fault in an accident. I think you hit on a really good idea there man, you should develop that into a commercial product.
"Lose Weight and Feel Great with Isagenix [isagenix.com]"
Ah looks like you are a spammer too. I assume by your "sniff for drugs" line, you are just trying to destroy the competition? I mean who needs real drugs when you can give them overpriced placebos in shake form!
The only way to lose weight is to EXERCISE and eat properly. Some overpriced spaceage shakes are at best a dirty hack, and at worst dangerous to your health. Aparently, they also brainwash you to believe in the poice state! Who knew?
"but I don't tend to send a lot of those other signals. "
Like being brown for instance?
News flash: White people get treated nice by homeland security. Hardly worth the anecdote. Submission to authority no doubt spoke in your favour as well. Did you out any neighbours as suspected terrorists? I bet they appreciated the help.
They will backport dx10 to xp 2k. They HAVE to. Thats where the lions share of the market is and there is no way they would screw every single game company out there. Vista wont have any sort of good installed numbers for at least 3 years.
"(You still can't even use WPA type wireless encryption in Win2K without 3rd. party software add-ons.)"
Although I do agree with you, that being the only real reason to upgrade off of 2k, you "forgot" to mention that every single wireless card comes with some sort of "3rd party" software suite. I haven't seen one, even the cheap $20 ones, that don't have some sort of software bundled.
"That's what happens when you do it right. Annoys everybody."
At least you know you're secure. I'd rather annoy everyone in the world than to have the lingering thought two weeks later: Just what were those people doing up on that pole?
When you say "we" you mean AMERICA and possibly the UK only right?
Because I for one sure as holy hell said that they were going in there for nothing but oil before it started. I would never buy a threat that I couldn't see and one that was totally and completely not feasible. The country had sanctions for years, the weapons inspectors said they had no bombs, the UN said they had no bombs and any chemical weapons that were left over from the first gulf war (that were not destroyed) would have expired. Plenty of THE WORLD knew this. Face it, you were ignorant, made your decisions out of nationalism and fear and did not stop to think for one second about the realities of going to WAR with another country.
Most of the world thought that YOU shouldn't have gone in the first place. Remember? You called us all cowards who weren't up for a fight.
"I like that principle, but what do you do when you can'T fix what you broke?"
Well from what I've seen, it looks like you suffer and then die.
Maybe next time america won't be so hasty to take other peoples land. The best you can hope for here is a long bloody lesson in not randomly fucking people. Responsibility isn't always a pretty thing to learn.
Spot on. They should also bring back the draft so that every one of these "war doesnt affect me" americans can get their noses right smack in it. That will teach them not to listen to the rest of the world. I hope the iraq war goes on another 20 years. They obviously didn't learn to mind their own business by vietnam, so maybe 20 years of dying in a foreign land will wise them up. You don't just march into other countries willy nilly, or if you do, you can pay with the blood of your children, possibly your childrens children.
Growing into a responsible country is a bitch eh america? Maybe this is why european nations think twice before invading other peoples lands.
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Well she clearly is a VERY bad driver then. Few near misses and the kids might get the idea that its not such a good idea driving with mom.
Rofl.. yes we all know the benefits! But you know what? I am an idiot. Can you please list one benefit that isn't solved by natting?
When im browsing the network of COMPUTERS I would rather see data reflecting the COMPUTER. Who the hell cares about the people (even if they do exsist - most servers don't have anyone sitting behind them). Id rather if they had different icons for something useful like servers and workstations.
How the heck could a picture look different on a different.. ah wait I know! Right click on the desktop and go to properties. Find the settings tab and go to SCREEN RESOLUTION. Simply turn the screen resolution up, and your pictures will look better!
If you cant even set the screen resolution properly, I dont think I am going to read anymore. Clearly your knowledge about operating systems completely owns mine.
Not that I am saying that we shouldnt trust 13 year olds with our security, but do you really want google having searchable access to all your email as well as all the other data they have? Especially since they are probably a CIA front?
Oh come of it. Whats with all this nintento apologizing? Every cracked strap I've seen on the internet has been frayed and broken in half. If they made them out of that "snakey metal" like expensive camera laynards this kind of thing probably wouldn't happen.
Its 100% nintendo's fault. Would you say that people who got in accidents, and had their seatbelts snap and fail, were at fault because they got in an accident in the first place? The laynard sole use, as I understand it not personally owning a wii, is to make sure the controller does NOT fly out of your hand. If it fails at that, then what is the other purpose of it? So that you can hang it bling styles off your wrist when you go to the mall?
$10?? Off to the dollar store for the unbranded chinese cable that was cut from the same roll.
Youre not familar with the concept of a REVIEW are you?
I believe it was a colbert guest that said (paraphrasing) "A rising tide is such a beautiful medaphor, but no one really thinks it through. When the tide rises on your shores, what happens to the other side of the ocean? The tide falls."
Nahh I dont buy that. I have no responsibility or obligation to keep some persons blog alive. The law of the internet is if someone provides something and charges for it, eventually someone will come along and offer the same services for free.
Example: craigslist.
Advertising is garbage for the mind. Maybe if all these little bloggers stopped having the dream that their stupid lives and meaningless babble should make them some money, just because they spend time on it, then ads would go away. Is anyone paying me to post this comment here? Do I expected to be paid - or even be modded up? NO. Why am I posting it? Because I get something out of it. Why do good artists make music? Becuase THEY get something out of it.
Advertising has a net drag on society as a whole because it makes people think that they need things to be complete and happy. This kind of attitude festers endless consumerism and mental problems on societies inhabitants. You wouldn't need anti depressants if people weren't constantly being told how much fucking better they could be, if only they baught the new and improved rod of foobaring.
Advertising causes therapy. Its psychological manipulation used in the most evil ways. Bill Hicks (RIP) knew exactly what was going on with this.
Another comment from a great post from the past sums it up more than I could:
I would assume the devices track and/or have the ability to be aimed.
Come on man its such a non issue. Everybody knows the game is fixed, the poor get poor, the rich get rich, thats how it goes: And everybody knows
So its not really a newsworthy item, hardly comparable to even the most basic war crimes in iraq or ww2. Let me put it this way, I care just about as much about some multi billionaire ceo downloading songs as I do about any other person downloading songs. I dont care. It doesnt hurt anyone or matter in any way except by people that make a scene - which is what this article is doing.
Im thinking automatic rifles that burn your skin as they amplify heat from submicrowave radiation arent going to be to useful as they fall to the ground at your feet. Its a nobel sentiment, but the government has a much greater amount of weapons than you do. The only hope is that if their was a revolution, some army personelle would break away with the revolutionaries and you would have access to the same amounts of high tech weapons that the government had.
Then later:
Do you know anyone that can run half a kilometre in 5 seconds?
Light of god ftw..
This is only because they buy a franchise (C&C, battlefield, uo, simcity) and thusly buy every fan that that game has had. Those people go out and buy the new sequels that EA has put out, and if they are like me, find them all to be shit and sware off the companeis future releases. I am sure some people pay but thats just because they dont know any better and even if something better does come along, EA buys the company and runs it into the ground. It's similar to windows. It works, but its far from ideal and people buy it because there isn't another viable option in whatever genre the game is in (not to mention they have exclusive licensing for whole generes such as american footbal and hockey).
EA is a cancer at worst and an exericse in mediocrity at best. That some people perfer mediocre games to no games isn't much of a surprise but it doesnt mean that just because their games are popular that they are also well designed.
Another example is C&C generals. Command and Conquer was one of the oldest and best RTS games out there. Red Alert was crazy intelligent and well rounded. Then you got generals. That buggy piece of shit, with the crappiest (still years after release) netcode and a myrad of design changes and bugs. They totally broke the whole c&c franchise by developing a whole new story for the universe. That game should not even be called c&c. Here is an excerpt from the wikipedia entry:
I mean how fucking apathetic do you have to be to not even bother fixing MAJOR exploits in the game?
EA is simply the worst about not fixing bugs. It seems as if they have a memory of 1 year. If a game is passed one year release, its time to either a) tack on an expansion b) make a sequel or c) bargain bin it and stop all development.
Like I am having trouble believing that you are not some sort of shill for EA. They ruined so many good games. UO is another one, where they decided just realeasing new art every year or so and charging an extra $59.99 for it was a valid way to "improve" the game. Simcity too. The graphics on simcity 4000 are SO BUGGY, that I had to hunt around and try multiple point realeases of nvidia video drivers before I wouldnt get crazy random graphics corruption happening in that game. They had some good ideas with the whole multiple cities on a continent theme, but If I cant see it because of graphics bugs then wtf good is it?? This is also on multiple machines with both ATI and NVIDIA cards. You can get it running if you find the exact magic combination of drivers and details/resolutions but come on! EA is a huge company! Maybe thats why they make such shit now, too much beurocracy, not enough risk taking.
I just remembered one last thing I absolutely hate about ea's business practices. Every time I logged into BF2, I would get an ad for some other stupid EA game or bf2 pay for mod. Showing ads to me in a game that I have PURCHASED is crossing the line.
Now thats 4 games, and I didnt actually play the games you mentioned. Seems like alot of people (usually on consoles so what do they know?) forgive them for various UI bugs that I would consider unacceptable in a gold game. I don't play sports games but I have heard them roundly condemed by everyone who does. Fuck EA. They took their slogan too literally and "challenged" good gameplay, exsisting franchises and good quality code. From what I have read about the practices at that company re developers, I am not surprised in the slightest that they produce the most buggy unplayable games I have ever tried to play.
I'd pay money to have that installed in my car. NO ONE ever thinks that they are at fault in an accident. I think you hit on a really good idea there man, you should develop that into a commercial product.
Ah looks like you are a spammer too. I assume by your "sniff for drugs" line, you are just trying to destroy the competition? I mean who needs real drugs when you can give them overpriced placebos in shake form!
The only way to lose weight is to EXERCISE and eat properly. Some overpriced spaceage shakes are at best a dirty hack, and at worst dangerous to your health. Aparently, they also brainwash you to believe in the poice state! Who knew?
I never saw the link between depression and altruism. wow.
Makes sense why I highly value honour now.
Exactly. Mod parent up. All you need is a good pair of scissors. If I could figure out how to input a tag to stories this one would get 'nonissue' .
Like being brown for instance?
News flash: White people get treated nice by homeland security. Hardly worth the anecdote. Submission to authority no doubt spoke in your favour as well. Did you out any neighbours as suspected terrorists? I bet they appreciated the help.
They will backport dx10 to xp 2k. They HAVE to. Thats where the lions share of the market is and there is no way they would screw every single game company out there. Vista wont have any sort of good installed numbers for at least 3 years.
Although I do agree with you, that being the only real reason to upgrade off of 2k, you "forgot" to mention that every single wireless card comes with some sort of "3rd party" software suite. I haven't seen one, even the cheap $20 ones, that don't have some sort of software bundled.
At least you know you're secure. I'd rather annoy everyone in the world than to have the lingering thought two weeks later: Just what were those people doing up on that pole?
When you say "we" you mean AMERICA and possibly the UK only right?
Because I for one sure as holy hell said that they were going in there for nothing but oil before it started. I would never buy a threat that I couldn't see and one that was totally and completely not feasible. The country had sanctions for years, the weapons inspectors said they had no bombs, the UN said they had no bombs and any chemical weapons that were left over from the first gulf war (that were not destroyed) would have expired. Plenty of THE WORLD knew this. Face it, you were ignorant, made your decisions out of nationalism and fear and did not stop to think for one second about the realities of going to WAR with another country.
Most of the world thought that YOU shouldn't have gone in the first place. Remember? You called us all cowards who weren't up for a fight.
Well from what I've seen, it looks like you suffer and then die.
Maybe next time america won't be so hasty to take other peoples land. The best you can hope for here is a long bloody lesson in not randomly fucking people. Responsibility isn't always a pretty thing to learn.
Spot on. They should also bring back the draft so that every one of these "war doesnt affect me" americans can get their noses right smack in it. That will teach them not to listen to the rest of the world. I hope the iraq war goes on another 20 years. They obviously didn't learn to mind their own business by vietnam, so maybe 20 years of dying in a foreign land will wise them up. You don't just march into other countries willy nilly, or if you do, you can pay with the blood of your children, possibly your childrens children.
Growing into a responsible country is a bitch eh america? Maybe this is why european nations think twice before invading other peoples lands.