True story. A few months ago, a friend was hiking with his two sons and some other 12-14yr old Boy Scouts. A good little zapper nailed a tree about 60 feet in front of them on the trail. The boys were spread out, and the ones with my friend did the right thing and immediately hit the ground. There were two boys walking further ahead (and closer to the blast) who did not. They saw the flash and heard the earsplitting boom and turned tail and ran backwards for about 300 yards screaming their heads off like little girls.
For pre-early teenage boys, this was mortifying. Their compadres got a good hoot out of that.
Maybe they are hacking it to make the game fun?
Otherwise, I am impressed that a team of 8 year old girls had the know-how to hack their toys.
/sarcasm
Why not do both? At least for me, it is quite a bit easier to jump into a game of UT for 10 minutes or so before work or organize a COD game with some friends at 2 AM. Paintball generally requires more planning. They are different, its like comparing Pepsi to beer.
You know, you are absolutely right. When the next chimaera from Redmond is released with the WMP10 music store, it is going to get some serious use out of the average PC user. These technophobes are going to use the obviously inferior MS service just because it is already there and they are afraid of being sued by using anything else (even if they pay for it!).
A testament to that is looking at your less savvy friends'/family members'/co-workers' computers and staring at IE. Even if you tell them of alternatives, they are terrified to install it. One even asked me if Firefox was legal to use, because it wasn't Microsoft!
An excellent example of this would be in gaming. Most engines use the +mouse1 and -mouse1 (or equivalent) commands to control fire, which is why we have automatic weapons in games.
Very true, it's use of Gnutella is pretty lame. However, this is easily my favorite ed2k program and I adore the bittorrent throttling settings (I had a linksys card that overheated using BT once!)
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True story. A few months ago, a friend was hiking with his two sons and some other 12-14yr old Boy Scouts. A good little zapper nailed a tree about 60 feet in front of them on the trail. The boys were spread out, and the ones with my friend did the right thing and immediately hit the ground. There were two boys walking further ahead (and closer to the blast) who did not. They saw the flash and heard the earsplitting boom and turned tail and ran backwards for about 300 yards screaming their heads off like little girls.
For pre-early teenage boys, this was mortifying. Their compadres got a good hoot out of that.
Chewie! Put all power to forward deflectors.
But sir, the odds of surviving a direct assault against an RPG are-
SHUT UP
Never tell me the odds!
That's alot of killing.
Yeah, that's the equivalent to a kick me sign on his back.
Actually, closer to the sign Bruce Willis wore briefly in Harlem in Die Hard 3...
At least he didn't code it into his spiffy new Nokia phone and has to wave his arm for the next 8 hours to display our messages.
Your server has no chance to survive make your time. Ha ha ha ha ha...
iTunes in communist China...
They must be renaming it ourTunes.
Dr. Phil went to Oxford? I wanna be Miss America!
Maybe they are hacking it to make the game fun?
/sarcasm
Otherwise, I am impressed that a team of 8 year old girls had the know-how to hack their toys.
Grow some and login.
Now I can waste my real life money to play Barbies online! Sounds like the Sims Online to me....
Why play a FPS game, when you can play Paintball?
Why not do both? At least for me, it is quite a bit easier to jump into a game of UT for 10 minutes or so before work or organize a COD game with some friends at 2 AM. Paintball generally requires more planning. They are different, its like comparing Pepsi to beer.
The K-lite codec pack includes this by default. The K-lite video/audio codec pack is the most complete and painless of all packages I've seen.
Do you bychance own a Volkswagen or Apple products? I mean, my first observation was that it's slow....
Would you prefer "Xtreme" or "Type-R"?
Right, because I'd feel awful taking Microsoft's bandwidth!
I once used the Winamp video playback a year or so ago, and was very unimpressed with it. Has it gotten better?
You know, you are absolutely right. When the next chimaera from Redmond is released with the WMP10 music store, it is going to get some serious use out of the average PC user. These technophobes are going to use the obviously inferior MS service just because it is already there and they are afraid of being sued by using anything else (even if they pay for it!).
A testament to that is looking at your less savvy friends'/family members'/co-workers' computers and staring at IE. Even if you tell them of alternatives, they are terrified to install it. One even asked me if Firefox was legal to use, because it wasn't Microsoft!
You have a long way to go folks.
I am meaning it in the sense of "in the order given". I do not think YOU know what it means.
that the technical beta release does not have the stability of released Microsoft software...
That could swing either way. But I think they mean it in the bad way. Shame, I got excited for a minute.
Quit being a fancypants and use your finger!
An excellent example of this would be in gaming. Most engines use the +mouse1 and -mouse1 (or equivalent) commands to control fire, which is why we have automatic weapons in games.
eMule support?
You don't get busted for downloads, you get busted for uploads. The program has an option to turn off all uploads (even of partial files.)
Very useful for me, as in the last year I recieved two "friendly letters" from the BSA and MPAA respectively.
Very true, it's use of Gnutella is pretty lame. However, this is easily my favorite ed2k program and I adore the bittorrent throttling settings (I had a linksys card that overheated using BT once!)