...but I would LOVE for the FBI to be able to track down assholes that I report to them for harrassing me... and have them give me their address.
I posted on my LiveJournal about my beloved car that I wrecked, (black ice is eeeeeeevil) with pictures, and some asshole had the gall to post:
"(Anonymous)
2005-12-22 10:49 pm UTC (from 65.145.232.121)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!
I wish there was a barfing with laughter emoticon."
Best I could get was:
0-1pool232-121.nas116.newark2.nj.us.da.qwest.net
Last I checked, that doesn't include his street address.
Actually, considering that his address might actually be IN Newark, New Jersey, maybe I'd better have the feds do the arresting.:(
What about a car with a LCD screen that was hooked up to a camera behind the car? And instead of using the steering wheel, you control the car with a PS2 controller? How cool would that be? You'd be able to change the view to see behind the car and everything!
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From all the previews I've read, there will not be any choice of atheism/agnosticism for a religion in Civ IV. If all the religions are being made equal, with equal benefits for each, why are you singling this one out? It would make perfect sense to "discover" atheism right along with Marxism/Communism, as those governments are officially atheist. Personally, I was pretty upset to find out that my own personal faith was not going to be included in the sequel to one of my favorite game series, a game that will be sucking up a lot of my time in the future. Is it actually in there and we simply haven't heard of it? Or is it deliberately not being included?
I don't think it's about a social contract, what it comes down to is that I will NEVER buy something simply because I saw it in an ad. I don't buy things based on ads, I buy things when someone cool says it's cool (Penny Arcade is a good example.)
I can't remember ever buying something because of an advertisment. Even a TV commercial.
(The exception, I think, is the Saturday/Sunday newspaper ads from CompUSA and Best Buy and Circuit City, but that's only because I'm already looking for something and they just happen to have it on sale)
Since I'm NEVER going to buy something based on an online advertisment... aren't I saving the advertisers bandwidth from not downloading their ad? More to the point, aren't Adblock users as a whole saving advertisers a quantifiable amount of bandwidth (money) by not downloading ads for things they aren't going to buy?
I love Firefox, I try and get it passed on to all my non-geek friends, but the only ones who pick it up really are the geeks. I'm sure that if I used Linux, I'd love it, because there would be a billion things to tinker with, and that's one of the things I love about computers. But my non-geek friends would all be like... whaaaat? Root? Huh? I forcibly install Firefox on their computers, and a month later I see them using IE again.
It's all about familiarity. If someone's been using Microsoft for years, they are simply not going to switch unless the alternative is easy to find, easy to try, and easy to master. Which means Microsoft is going to have to install Linux with Windows XP and have people pick. And when they choose XP, they have to say, "You should really try this other thing." Hell, I don't even know where to download a Linux distro, and I read slashdot on a daily basis. I don't even know which distro is the best, the one I should use. I do know that I'm using XP, and while it may suck, it does play Counterstrike and Vice City and FFXI and all the other things I want to play.
It's never going to happen. The only way you can get it to the mainstream is keep pounding away at the places where non-IT people work with computers. If enough people use Linux there, soon some of them will start to bring it home. Those people are your target market.
This was mentioned on http://www.planetgamecube.com/ before/. got a hold of it and killed the website, so I checked it out, and in the forums the developer stated that the demo IS the final version, there will not be a complete remake. He also said that he will not be showing it to SquareEnix, but hopefully an executive or someone there picks up these guys to do the whole thing, there's gotta be a ton of money in selling the full version of this.
*Extended Universe Spoiler*
Might be because they killed off Chewie in one of the books... the bastards. I stopped reading EU books after I read that one.
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...but I would LOVE for the FBI to be able to track down assholes that I report to them for harrassing me... and have them give me their address. I posted on my LiveJournal about my beloved car that I wrecked, (black ice is eeeeeeevil) with pictures, and some asshole had the gall to post: "(Anonymous) 2005-12-22 10:49 pm UTC (from 65.145.232.121) HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!! I wish there was a barfing with laughter emoticon." Best I could get was: 0-1pool232-121.nas116.newark2.nj.us.da.qwest.net Last I checked, that doesn't include his street address. Actually, considering that his address might actually be IN Newark, New Jersey, maybe I'd better have the feds do the arresting. :(
What about a car with a LCD screen that was hooked up to a camera behind the car? And instead of using the steering wheel, you control the car with a PS2 controller? How cool would that be? You'd be able to change the view to see behind the car and everything!
From all the previews I've read, there will not be any choice of atheism/agnosticism for a religion in Civ IV. If all the religions are being made equal, with equal benefits for each, why are you singling this one out? It would make perfect sense to "discover" atheism right along with Marxism/Communism, as those governments are officially atheist. Personally, I was pretty upset to find out that my own personal faith was not going to be included in the sequel to one of my favorite game series, a game that will be sucking up a lot of my time in the future. Is it actually in there and we simply haven't heard of it? Or is it deliberately not being included?
I don't think it's about a social contract, what it comes down to is that I will NEVER buy something simply because I saw it in an ad. I don't buy things based on ads, I buy things when someone cool says it's cool (Penny Arcade is a good example.) I can't remember ever buying something because of an advertisment. Even a TV commercial. (The exception, I think, is the Saturday/Sunday newspaper ads from CompUSA and Best Buy and Circuit City, but that's only because I'm already looking for something and they just happen to have it on sale) Since I'm NEVER going to buy something based on an online advertisment... aren't I saving the advertisers bandwidth from not downloading their ad? More to the point, aren't Adblock users as a whole saving advertisers a quantifiable amount of bandwidth (money) by not downloading ads for things they aren't going to buy?
Games.
I love Firefox, I try and get it passed on to all my non-geek friends, but the only ones who pick it up really are the geeks. I'm sure that if I used Linux, I'd love it, because there would be a billion things to tinker with, and that's one of the things I love about computers. But my non-geek friends would all be like... whaaaat? Root? Huh? I forcibly install Firefox on their computers, and a month later I see them using IE again.
It's all about familiarity. If someone's been using Microsoft for years, they are simply not going to switch unless the alternative is easy to find, easy to try, and easy to master. Which means Microsoft is going to have to install Linux with Windows XP and have people pick. And when they choose XP, they have to say, "You should really try this other thing." Hell, I don't even know where to download a Linux distro, and I read slashdot on a daily basis. I don't even know which distro is the best, the one I should use. I do know that I'm using XP, and while it may suck, it does play Counterstrike and Vice City and FFXI and all the other things I want to play.
It's never going to happen. The only way you can get it to the mainstream is keep pounding away at the places where non-IT people work with computers. If enough people use Linux there, soon some of them will start to bring it home. Those people are your target market.
This was mentioned on http://www.planetgamecube.com/ before /. got a hold of it and killed the website, so I checked it out, and in the forums the developer stated that the demo IS the final version, there will not be a complete remake. He also said that he will not be showing it to SquareEnix, but hopefully an executive or someone there picks up these guys to do the whole thing, there's gotta be a ton of money in selling the full version of this.
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*Extended Universe Spoiler* Might be because they killed off Chewie in one of the books... the bastards. I stopped reading EU books after I read that one.