We are driven by the chemicals our brain produces, they give us pleasure and relieve us of pain.. in some cases people who play games get quite the rush from gaming, much like a hit of heroin/crack. this is what is addictive.. the chemical reaction the brain produces.. for some it is eating, some it is skydiving, others it is sex.. and of course there are drugs which force the brain to produce these chemicals.
Being able to moderate the desire for these chemical "highs" is what is needed no matter what you use to stimulate them.
My personal networked Samsung laser printer has been telling me I need to change the toner cartridge for about the last 200 pages i have printed.. it started printing light on one side so I shook the cartridge and it's back to printing again.
I know it is (NOW) close to being out, but that flashing red light has been going for a few months now.
"How can we have a list of legal and illegal drugs, when both have similar lists of positive and negative results?"
I wonder if it has anything to do with not being able to patent a naturally occurring substance e.g. aspirin. It's ok to take marinol but don't smoke pot!
It took us a few tries to get one, about a month after the intial launch we picked up 2, one for us and one to sell on Ebay, hehe just kidding (I hate those jerks) the second one was for my brother who lives in southern cal. towards the end of our search stores wouldn't even tell us if they had any, i guess the number of people calling was crazy by then.
I have a Wii with several downloaded virtual games and retail titles included and 4 Wiimotes with nunchucks. I'm thinking poopsicle for a first name. when can we make the trade?
also start>run type msconfig and hit enter, on the services and/or the start up tab uncheck the entries, this will disable them.
Although when i do this with Quicktime it re-enables this service and startup item (qttask.exe) if i ever use quicktime (the program). I'm pretty sure it is the same with itunes.
Nope, it also doesn't bother me that I have to cook pork thoroughly or look both ways before I cross the street. I guess you like a false sense of security.
Do you also tell people not to buy door locks but cement all holes in their walls because someone might break in and steal stuff?
I don't think it is a more dangerous platform, i don't have problems with it, you're the one who can't use windows because it's scary. Just because you say something is a fact doesn't make it so, but it might make you feel better about which platform you vehemently defend.
I often see people saying "you can just encode it into MP3 but with a loss of quality", like it says ITFA, but can't you just decode the AAC file and then recode it back without any loss but stripping the user info from the songs?
"When you control the pipe you should be able to get profit from your investment.'"
If you substitute pipe with oil, trains, telecom infrastructure, drug patents, wood pulp, it makes a lot of sense because we have never needed government intervention on those fronts.
I know they have limited resources, but network play is not something so out of the realm of ordinary that it would take massive development time, all it would be is some listen/client hookups as this doesn't need to be server controlled and we are trusting the clients.
I don't understand why it is so threatening to you to have oblivion support multiplayer, it's a great single player game that would be that much better playing with friends, i'm not saying EVERY game, some would suck to be sure, but oblivion doesn't suffer for that.. i'm all for a compromise of single player games being purely single until after release and patching having an add-on to support mutiplayer.. like they did with GTA3
"So either Mac users are just naturally endowed with great computer savvy or Windows really is a more dangerous platform and requires that you take special steps to stay safe."
Which is obvious with the recent MOAB...
Mac OS has flaws, so does unix, every piece of manmade software is vulnerable but i would say Windows is a target due to the high market share as virus writers are not the fame seekers of old but rather looking to create botnets.. hard to do with ~8% of the market.
"I liked Oblivion, but I hate online games. I can't be the only one. I like having a sandbox to play in that has no connection to anyone else."
I agree with this sentiment as well but the major disappointment i have with games like Oblivion is I would like SOME multiplayer, like over a lan, or over TCP/IP with a remote friend... in cases like these I don't have to worry about cheaters or behaviour because i know who i'm playing with...
NWN was fun because you could play both single and multiplayer and I really miss that in games like obliv/morrowind.
"As I said previously, I'm not a regular user of Windows, so it is kind of moot."
Then why are you complaining about it so LOUDLY?!? I would have thought that with as much to say against it you would have been familiar with it...
"It isn't hard, per se. It is just annoying."
Well actually, it isn't either, but i guess you wouldn't know since you "rarely" use it.
"Maybe. But I'd rather move out of a dangerous neighborhood that be "careful" my whole life. But I suppose if that dangerous neighborhood is what you call home, then you do what you have to do. *shrug*"
You can also cross any street without looking, or eat candy you find on the floor, or eat fish from China, but i guess what you are saying is that you prefer an OS that holds your hand? Or just more windows bashing because it makes you feel superior?
"I spend a lot more time than I'd prefer cleaning up after viruses/spyware on other people's computers, so perhaps I am a little biased."
You think? Like i said, I do IT for a living and 90% of the time it is because of the user that these problems arise.. i'm sure being a parent of a 3yr old is hard work too... (comparing careless users with 3yr olds, not windows users in general, fyi)
"WITHOUT the hoops you need to jump through to keep it clean."
Why is it so hard to keep your windows box clean? I run XP semi updated (every so often i check for updates, not regularly) and don't have "MASSIVE" problems that i hear people like you complaining about all the time...
Maybe it is because i am careful? I use firefox (because i prefer it over IE), I scan anything i download or get emailed with online scanners and i use a lot of game/program cracks, i don't scour the net for pron, and i have my boxes (4 of them, all windows, none with these "problems") behind a hardware firewall. I don't even have antivirus installed on my systems, meh...
Once in a great while one of them will get some spyware because of what my kids have done and i can clean it up, but for the most part i'm not rootkitted, full of spayware/viruses, crashing, etc...
Maybe you should be looking at your own actions when using windows instead of complaining about it being such a problem?
(side note) I work in IT personally, and pretty much 90% of the problems that are software are due to user misconduct/error... Windows has come along way since 95...
"Sometimes you just have to make an example of someone"
I agree, and since you made a post that encourages uneven punishments you will now be sent to a Siberian re-education camp.. i know it is harsh and sucks to be you but you shouldn't have done it in the first place.
At least you can feel secure that the 20th person who does this will be let off with a warning as you were the prime example and everyone will have by then "got it".
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We are driven by the chemicals our brain produces, they give us pleasure and relieve us of pain.. in some cases people who play games get quite the rush from gaming, much like a hit of heroin/crack. this is what is addictive.. the chemical reaction the brain produces.. for some it is eating, some it is skydiving, others it is sex.. and of course there are drugs which force the brain to produce these chemicals.
Being able to moderate the desire for these chemical "highs" is what is needed no matter what you use to stimulate them.
Easy right?
My personal networked Samsung laser printer has been telling me I need to change the toner cartridge for about the last 200 pages i have printed.. it started printing light on one side so I shook the cartridge and it's back to printing again.
I know it is (NOW) close to being out, but that flashing red light has been going for a few months now.
Has anyone on slashdot not seen Clerks?
"How can we have a list of legal and illegal drugs, when both have similar lists of positive and negative results?"
I wonder if it has anything to do with not being able to patent a naturally occurring substance e.g. aspirin. It's ok to take marinol but don't smoke pot!
You forgot "I paid for this and now I have to watch advertisements in games and every time I launch steam, etc, blah blah".
I know, you would think a Lord would know this.. tsk tsk. What was the reason for the colonies again?
Nice,
It took us a few tries to get one, about a month after the intial launch we picked up 2, one for us and one to sell on Ebay, hehe just kidding (I hate those jerks) the second one was for my brother who lives in southern cal. towards the end of our search stores wouldn't even tell us if they had any, i guess the number of people calling was crazy by then.
The gravel is actually pretty cheap, but the shipping is how they get ya...
I have a Wii with several downloaded virtual games and retail titles included and 4 Wiimotes with nunchucks. I'm thinking poopsicle for a first name. when can we make the trade?
I'll come back for the soul.
also start>run type msconfig and hit enter, on the services and/or the start up tab uncheck the entries, this will disable them.
Although when i do this with Quicktime it re-enables this service and startup item (qttask.exe) if i ever use quicktime (the program). I'm pretty sure it is the same with itunes.
Very frustrating.
in the meantime can XP get a switch so I can specify which core will handle my app when i first start it?
I claim prior art:
http://slashdot.org/~Some_Llama/journal/139426
"WTF!? That doesn't bother you?"
Nope, it also doesn't bother me that I have to cook pork thoroughly or look both ways before I cross the street. I guess you like a false sense of security.
Do you also tell people not to buy door locks but cement all holes in their walls because someone might break in and steal stuff?
I don't think it is a more dangerous platform, i don't have problems with it, you're the one who can't use windows because it's scary. Just because you say something is a fact doesn't make it so, but it might make you feel better about which platform you vehemently defend.
I thought iTunes provided lossless file formats? ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec)?
s sion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossless_data_compre
I often see people saying "you can just encode it into MP3 but with a loss of quality", like it says ITFA, but can't you just decode the AAC file and then recode it back without any loss but stripping the user info from the songs?
Like zipping files?
"When you control the pipe you should be able to get profit from your investment.'"
If you substitute pipe with oil, trains, telecom infrastructure, drug patents, wood pulp, it makes a lot of sense because we have never needed government intervention on those fronts.
I know they have limited resources, but network play is not something so out of the realm of ordinary that it would take massive development time, all it would be is some listen/client hookups as this doesn't need to be server controlled and we are trusting the clients.
I don't understand why it is so threatening to you to have oblivion support multiplayer, it's a great single player game that would be that much better playing with friends, i'm not saying EVERY game, some would suck to be sure, but oblivion doesn't suffer for that.. i'm all for a compromise of single player games being purely single until after release and patching having an add-on to support mutiplayer.. like they did with GTA3
"So either Mac users are just naturally endowed with great computer savvy or Windows really is a more dangerous platform and requires that you take special steps to stay safe."
Which is obvious with the recent MOAB...
Mac OS has flaws, so does unix, every piece of manmade software is vulnerable but i would say Windows is a target due to the high market share as virus writers are not the fame seekers of old but rather looking to create botnets.. hard to do with ~8% of the market.
"I liked Oblivion, but I hate online games. I can't be the only one. I like having a sandbox to play in that has no connection to anyone else."
I agree with this sentiment as well but the major disappointment i have with games like Oblivion is I would like SOME multiplayer, like over a lan, or over TCP/IP with a remote friend... in cases like these I don't have to worry about cheaters or behaviour because i know who i'm playing with...
NWN was fun because you could play both single and multiplayer and I really miss that in games like obliv/morrowind.
"As I said previously, I'm not a regular user of Windows, so it is kind of moot."
Then why are you complaining about it so LOUDLY?!? I would have thought that with as much to say against it you would have been familiar with it...
"It isn't hard, per se. It is just annoying."
Well actually, it isn't either, but i guess you wouldn't know since you "rarely" use it.
"Maybe. But I'd rather move out of a dangerous neighborhood that be "careful" my whole life. But I suppose if that dangerous neighborhood is what you call home, then you do what you have to do. *shrug*"
You can also cross any street without looking, or eat candy you find on the floor, or eat fish from China, but i guess what you are saying is that you prefer an OS that holds your hand? Or just more windows bashing because it makes you feel superior?
"I spend a lot more time than I'd prefer cleaning up after viruses/spyware on other people's computers, so perhaps I am a little biased."
You think? Like i said, I do IT for a living and 90% of the time it is because of the user that these problems arise.. i'm sure being a parent of a 3yr old is hard work too... (comparing careless users with 3yr olds, not windows users in general, fyi)
"WITHOUT the hoops you need to jump through to keep it clean."
Why is it so hard to keep your windows box clean? I run XP semi updated (every so often i check for updates, not regularly) and don't have "MASSIVE" problems that i hear people like you complaining about all the time...
Maybe it is because i am careful? I use firefox (because i prefer it over IE), I scan anything i download or get emailed with online scanners and i use a lot of game/program cracks, i don't scour the net for pron, and i have my boxes (4 of them, all windows, none with these "problems") behind a hardware firewall. I don't even have antivirus installed on my systems, meh...
Once in a great while one of them will get some spyware because of what my kids have done and i can clean it up, but for the most part i'm not rootkitted, full of spayware/viruses, crashing, etc...
Maybe you should be looking at your own actions when using windows instead of complaining about it being such a problem?
(side note) I work in IT personally, and pretty much 90% of the problems that are software are due to user misconduct/error... Windows has come along way since 95...
"Not only do these criminals get amnesty, but they get a Zune Visa, or Z-Visa as some call it."
:(
Well this is just double speak, because even though they are calling it an amnesty they are still punished by having to use a zune.
Clippy? (i.e. paperclip?)
"40 days is not excessive at all."
Are we talking a year round school or one with summers off?
20% of the school year is definitely excessive in the case of the latter.
"Sometimes you just have to make an example of someone"
I agree, and since you made a post that encourages uneven punishments you will now be sent to a Siberian re-education camp.. i know it is harsh and sucks to be you but you shouldn't have done it in the first place.
At least you can feel secure that the 20th person who does this will be let off with a warning as you were the prime example and everyone will have by then "got it".