While I tend to agree with that viewpoint, I should point out that adoption is an option. Sure, still the pain of birthing the child, but the innocent child gets to grow up somewhere rather than get aborted.
But as a guy, it's not my choice in any event.
It might be a distribution thing. Here in Dekalb, home of Northern Illinois University, the WalMart supercenter often has 2-4 behind the glass. Even the ludicrously small best buy has had them in stock on occasions i've been by.
With so many college students here I would have thought the opposite, that it would be even harder to find here.
I had a problem slightly like this. No hardware failure but similar rebuff from the vendor (Acer.)
Laptop I got is a fairly low end system, came with 512MB ram, AMD Mobile Sempron 3500+ (read: slow)
with Vista Basic.
There was no way I was going to use Vista, much less on that kind of hardware; so I dumped it for XP (at first.) I downloaded all the fancy Acer software for power management and such; installed it, and it would not work properly. Their power savings program's options were all greyed out, nothing selectable.
Upon inquiry, they said since I wasn't running vista, they couldn't help me. Not even some advice or anything; despite their website having the software for both windows flavors. Not even basic support for their own software, simply because I wasn't running Vista on the machine.
It was pretty lame, so I just canned that shit and threw on fedora. Couple driver hiccups aside and things are fine now.
But pretty gay of Acer to not even support their own software on OS's they wrote it for because it isn't what came with the hardware.
I agree; I installed ubuntu on my aforementioned laptop prior to ending up with fedora 7. Ubuntu auto detected everything on the laptop appropriately, even the usual problem ones; sound, wifi, card reader.
I was pleasantly surprised by ubuntu's hardware detection. I just really really didn't like having to sudo everything, otherwise I'd probably be using it.
It even prompted me to get and install the binary radeon drivers, which was shocking.
I remember feeling that way around when the internet was gaining traction. It was so hard to find a linux compatible modem in stores since almost everything at the time was a winmodem piece of trash that let windows control everything and had almost no on board processing.
I couldn't believe how many hardware vendors wouldn't be bothered to make standalone modems, instead opting for the cheaper windows only idea.
Though with my current laptop I got lucky, had an atheros chipset that was supported by madwifi. Took some tooling around to get WPA-PSK to work; but it's ok now.
On the DVD commentary, Matt Stone and Trey Parker said that when their scenes came back with notes to tone down, they'd make it worse and send it back to them, rinse, repeat until they accepted the original or near to it.
However, there is an edit to the film that they mention on the commentary somewhere, the cock saddam pulls out. Initially one of the pair wanted it to be their own, but were told no and used one probably cut from a porno or stock or something.
Pretty damn close to no edits though, and an admirable method of getting their ideas into the film without the MPAA filter.
I was employed at a Sam's Club for over a year during college as a cashier, and I made $9.55 starting wage, with a 40 cent raise after 3 months, and an extra dollar an hour on holidays and sundays. Compared to other, similar jobs I'd held prior to that, it was a large step up with little to no extra responsibilities. I'd still be working there now if I didn't hate working with retail customers and it wasn't a 30 mile drive from where I'm living.
They payed suprisingly good wages there, much better than the 6.75 I started at at Farm & Fleet, with no extra holiday or sunday pay. Though in Farm & Fleets defense, I did get $2. in raises in the first year, and I barely have to deal with customers.
No employee discount at either place though:/ Just free club membership at sam's club.
SecuROM behaved this way well before sony acquired it. It also tends to dislike users using daemontools, poweriso, alcohol... anything that allows you to mount cd images in virtual drives, or is able to emulate subchannel data, SecuROM, etc.
Lots of games' boxes have a message to that effect: like this software contains copy protection that is incompatible with certain hardware and/or software. Splinter Cell for example.
And that's why they invented gamecopyworld, nocd.exes, fixed isos, and the like.
It's like the 3rd time I've seen this exact post here:/ Almost every topic ends up with one of these copy/pasted troll stories. Another irritating one is about some guy getting his intestines sucked out by a pool suction vent.
Only slightly more annoying to skip past than the usual 'milfy bewbs' myspace link (due to length) but much, much, stupider.
Sadly; other than a couple sigs; only your post mentions dupe.
Other article here: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/27/051823 6&threshold=-1
And I could swear I had read about it here even earlier than last week.
In the editors' defense, at least the dupe was not by the same editor.
MS does it in China; yet here in the western world, the software companies use piracy as an excuse to need to raise prices. (To recoup alleged losses from e-shrink)
The scuffle began the week of July 9 when 20-year-old Garland, Texas-based developer 3D Realms, best known for the "Wolfenstein 3D" and "Duke Nukem" series, In what reality did 3DRealms develop Wolfenstein 3D instead of id software?
I always think its funny how whenever the V-Chip is mentioned, anti-censorship people scream bloody murder. The fact is; the V-chip; as parent stated; is an entirely opt in technology. It is not on by default, and I know zero people who even know how to enable it on their TV sets. Very few know it even exists, outside of the people I've had discussions about it with.
As long as some censorship enabling tech remains nothing more than a tool for parents to use if they want to, it doesn't bother me. As for slippery slope doomsday crap, I'll wait until I meet someone who actually used V-Chip technology voluntarily before I even consider worrying about it becoming a threat.
Next week on Fox 11, a story on the torrent downloading terrorist threat to the Universe; threatening to "SuprNova" vans at sports stadiums in solar systems across the Universe.
Agreed; one would think they could increase their margin if the laptop came with no software or OS installed, as they would not have to provide support for any software installed, nor pay licensing for software installed.
It could be like an OEM version of a laptop. Unless M$ is paying them to preload windows, it should be profitable. They'd just have to solve the problem of selling it only to people who know full well what they're getting into, tech support wise (i.e. none available to them, regardless of what OS they install).
I don't have a 360, and modded my xbox the day I got it just to play nes/snes/genesis/atari games on it; but I went through 3 PS2s before the slim ones came out due to the laser. First one stopped reading discs and gave me errors, 2nd one couldn't read any of the blue discs (Like Virtua Fighter 4). Third one also developed disc read errors.
Slim one so far has worked fine; though I only play GH on it with the rest just stuck in the ps3.
But anyway; point is, not only Xbox360 proponents had problems with PS2. There's reasons besides hardware costs and form factor for the 15 (16?) revisions of PS2 hardware out there.
I part time in a small service shop and I really hate those damn Dodges with the wheel well batteries > Some cars even have them under the back seat. Awful, awful design choices. Some things on cars that they have to know people will have to change prior to the demise of the car should be placed in easier to reach places. Talking batteries, external lights, air filters, oil filters, etc.
My ford contour to change the oil filter I have to take off the passenger front wheel (no rack at home; working on the ground.)
It really sucks.
Scar not the last word.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6276682.s tm
FTA:
"When asked about whether "scar" was the last word in the book as had been reported, she said: "Scar? It was so for ages, and now it's not. Scar is quite near the end, but it's not the last word.""
Wal*Mart, Sam's Club, Best Buy etc, also don't neccessarily refuse to sell NC-17 movies. I bought Showgirls at a Wal*Mart about 7 years ago. (I was 17 hah!) So even comparing AO to NC-17 doesn't seem right, unless they've since stopped selling even NC-17.
The trailer they are trying to get canned is http://www.gametrailers.com/player/17392.html Its named a gameplay montage rather than a trailer. It shows several methods of killing, from neck breaks, decaps, shooting, and cutting with a weird 3 bladed weapon that apparently can also catch fire and build up a lot of static.
I can see their objection to it being used as a trailer, but as far as being game content isn't all that much more graphic than a lot of other games.
With a USB adapter, like the one redoctane themselves sell for PS2 controller to USB, you can use the GH I & II controllers with fretsonfire. And it can rip the GH I songs (maybe GHII) right off the ps2 disc. On top of that, you can create your own songs using whatever mp3s you have and laying down the button sequences and combos on a scale looking thing. Its kind of hard at first though.
Gameplay is somewhat difficult though, fretsonfire is much less forgiving in terms of timing and ho/po.
Slashdot Mirror
While I tend to agree with that viewpoint, I should point out that adoption is an option. Sure, still the pain of birthing the child, but the innocent child gets to grow up somewhere rather than get aborted. But as a guy, it's not my choice in any event.
It might be a distribution thing. Here in Dekalb, home of Northern Illinois University, the WalMart supercenter often has 2-4 behind the glass. Even the ludicrously small best buy has had them in stock on occasions i've been by. With so many college students here I would have thought the opposite, that it would be even harder to find here.
I had a problem slightly like this. No hardware failure but similar rebuff from the vendor (Acer.) Laptop I got is a fairly low end system, came with 512MB ram, AMD Mobile Sempron 3500+ (read: slow) with Vista Basic. There was no way I was going to use Vista, much less on that kind of hardware; so I dumped it for XP (at first.) I downloaded all the fancy Acer software for power management and such; installed it, and it would not work properly. Their power savings program's options were all greyed out, nothing selectable. Upon inquiry, they said since I wasn't running vista, they couldn't help me. Not even some advice or anything; despite their website having the software for both windows flavors. Not even basic support for their own software, simply because I wasn't running Vista on the machine. It was pretty lame, so I just canned that shit and threw on fedora. Couple driver hiccups aside and things are fine now. But pretty gay of Acer to not even support their own software on OS's they wrote it for because it isn't what came with the hardware.
I agree; I installed ubuntu on my aforementioned laptop prior to ending up with fedora 7. Ubuntu auto detected everything on the laptop appropriately, even the usual problem ones; sound, wifi, card reader. I was pleasantly surprised by ubuntu's hardware detection. I just really really didn't like having to sudo everything, otherwise I'd probably be using it. It even prompted me to get and install the binary radeon drivers, which was shocking.
I remember feeling that way around when the internet was gaining traction. It was so hard to find a linux compatible modem in stores since almost everything at the time was a winmodem piece of trash that let windows control everything and had almost no on board processing. I couldn't believe how many hardware vendors wouldn't be bothered to make standalone modems, instead opting for the cheaper windows only idea. Though with my current laptop I got lucky, had an atheros chipset that was supported by madwifi. Took some tooling around to get WPA-PSK to work; but it's ok now.
On the DVD commentary, Matt Stone and Trey Parker said that when their scenes came back with notes to tone down, they'd make it worse and send it back to them, rinse, repeat until they accepted the original or near to it. However, there is an edit to the film that they mention on the commentary somewhere, the cock saddam pulls out. Initially one of the pair wanted it to be their own, but were told no and used one probably cut from a porno or stock or something. Pretty damn close to no edits though, and an admirable method of getting their ideas into the film without the MPAA filter.
I was employed at a Sam's Club for over a year during college as a cashier, and I made $9.55 starting wage, with a 40 cent raise after 3 months, and an extra dollar an hour on holidays and sundays. Compared to other, similar jobs I'd held prior to that, it was a large step up with little to no extra responsibilities. I'd still be working there now if I didn't hate working with retail customers and it wasn't a 30 mile drive from where I'm living.
:/ Just free club membership at sam's club.
They payed suprisingly good wages there, much better than the 6.75 I started at at Farm & Fleet, with no extra holiday or sunday pay. Though in Farm & Fleets defense, I did get $2. in raises in the first year, and I barely have to deal with customers.
No employee discount at either place though
SecuROM behaved this way well before sony acquired it. It also tends to dislike users using daemontools, poweriso, alcohol... anything that allows you to mount cd images in virtual drives, or is able to emulate subchannel data, SecuROM, etc. Lots of games' boxes have a message to that effect: like this software contains copy protection that is incompatible with certain hardware and/or software. Splinter Cell for example. And that's why they invented gamecopyworld, nocd .exes, fixed isos, and the like.
It's like the 3rd time I've seen this exact post here :/ Almost every topic ends up with one of these copy/pasted troll stories. Another irritating one is about some guy getting his intestines sucked out by a pool suction vent.
Only slightly more annoying to skip past than the usual 'milfy bewbs' myspace link (due to length) but much, much, stupider.
You mean computers aren't the people who do my math computations for me anymore?
Sadly; other than a couple sigs; only your post mentions dupe.3 6&threshold=-1
Other article here: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/27/05182
And I could swear I had read about it here even earlier than last week. In the editors' defense, at least the dupe was not by the same editor.
MS does it in China; yet here in the western world, the software companies use piracy as an excuse to need to raise prices. (To recoup alleged losses from e-shrink)
I always think its funny how whenever the V-Chip is mentioned, anti-censorship people scream bloody murder. The fact is; the V-chip; as parent stated; is an entirely opt in technology. It is not on by default, and I know zero people who even know how to enable it on their TV sets. Very few know it even exists, outside of the people I've had discussions about it with. As long as some censorship enabling tech remains nothing more than a tool for parents to use if they want to, it doesn't bother me. As for slippery slope doomsday crap, I'll wait until I meet someone who actually used V-Chip technology voluntarily before I even consider worrying about it becoming a threat.
Next week on Fox 11, a story on the torrent downloading terrorist threat to the Universe; threatening to "SuprNova" vans at sports stadiums in solar systems across the Universe.
Agreed; one would think they could increase their margin if the laptop came with no software or OS installed, as they would not have to provide support for any software installed, nor pay licensing for software installed. It could be like an OEM version of a laptop. Unless M$ is paying them to preload windows, it should be profitable. They'd just have to solve the problem of selling it only to people who know full well what they're getting into, tech support wise (i.e. none available to them, regardless of what OS they install).
What was it, 10 lines of code in the app dvdjon or whoever wrote to strip out the weak ass m4a drm from itunes tracks?
I don't have a 360, and modded my xbox the day I got it just to play nes/snes/genesis/atari games on it; but I went through 3 PS2s before the slim ones came out due to the laser. First one stopped reading discs and gave me errors, 2nd one couldn't read any of the blue discs (Like Virtua Fighter 4). Third one also developed disc read errors. Slim one so far has worked fine; though I only play GH on it with the rest just stuck in the ps3. But anyway; point is, not only Xbox360 proponents had problems with PS2. There's reasons besides hardware costs and form factor for the 15 (16?) revisions of PS2 hardware out there.
I part time in a small service shop and I really hate those damn Dodges with the wheel well batteries > Some cars even have them under the back seat. Awful, awful design choices. Some things on cars that they have to know people will have to change prior to the demise of the car should be placed in easier to reach places. Talking batteries, external lights, air filters, oil filters, etc. My ford contour to change the oil filter I have to take off the passenger front wheel (no rack at home; working on the ground.) It really sucks.
Super Mario World had playing the same levels over and over in order to get all 96 stars.
Hah I was going to link this too. Not so much playing the game, but just reading about it and watching videos was worth signing up to gamespot.
Scar not the last word. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6276682.s tm
FTA:
"When asked about whether "scar" was the last word in the book as had been reported, she said: "Scar? It was so for ages, and now it's not. Scar is quite near the end, but it's not the last word.""
Wal*Mart, Sam's Club, Best Buy etc, also don't neccessarily refuse to sell NC-17 movies. I bought Showgirls at a Wal*Mart about 7 years ago. (I was 17 hah!) So even comparing AO to NC-17 doesn't seem right, unless they've since stopped selling even NC-17.
The trailer they are trying to get canned is http://www.gametrailers.com/player/17392.html
Its named a gameplay montage rather than a trailer. It shows several methods of killing, from neck breaks, decaps, shooting, and cutting with a weird 3 bladed weapon that apparently can also catch fire and build up a lot of static.
I can see their objection to it being used as a trailer, but as far as being game content isn't all that much more graphic than a lot of other games.
With a USB adapter, like the one redoctane themselves sell for PS2 controller to USB, you can use the GH I & II controllers with fretsonfire. And it can rip the GH I songs (maybe GHII) right off the ps2 disc. On top of that, you can create your own songs using whatever mp3s you have and laying down the button sequences and combos on a scale looking thing. Its kind of hard at first though. Gameplay is somewhat difficult though, fretsonfire is much less forgiving in terms of timing and ho/po.