Like the time I saved a file as the character "/" because i was furiously trying to save a file through vi (game server map config file for a lan currently in process) before a map changed, when i realised i had saved the file as / i also saved it again as the map file name the server uses (esc w filename).
So i get back to the prompt and being obessive compulsive as I am i wanted to delete the erroneously named file.
#>rm -rf /
Yes, I typed that in... when i saw the scrolling text i realized my mistake but it was too late *cry*.
Funny thing is the game server (BF2) kept running because everything was in memory, until the map change that is...
"Something to mention the next time some bozo points to the human eye as proof that we were "designed"."
OR maybe we were not meant to have those abilities. I wouldn't trade my capacity for thought and imagination for awesome eyes... bigger penis maybe, but better eyes, come on...
Maybe the Nope comment is directed towards drug use being the symtom of a problem rather than the problem itself.
As someone who is using drugs at such a young age might be doing so to "help" or "deal" with larger issues or problems than using a chemical substance.
Of course there are also kids who try drugs because they are curious and might not have any other problems in their life, but for any reason it comes back to the level of interaction between a parent and child, not because "drugs are bad mmmkay".
"because those are the people that focus on moving up the pay scale rather than doing their jobs. They are also very hard to spot, because an experienced sociopath learns the behaviors that will get it what it wants"
Damn, then my wife should be a CEO by now 'cause she is one crazy bitch....
"(Seriously. Talking about spelling causes your post to magically degrade.)"
Let's make a new theory (like Godwin's), as soon as comments on spelling are introducded, the qualitey of the posterers spellang exponentaly decreasas or is gauranteed to hav a mispellang.
Unfortunately the way corporate law works, none of the executives would go to prision, a corporation is an entity(person) in the eyes of the law and of course it is impossible to put a corporation in jail.
Although i think the law should be amended so that executives are prosecuted on behalf of the corporation (conspiracy anyone?).
If you are thinking in the case of Enron how the executives WERE prosecuted, this was because they were prosecuted for their own actions (selling stock in a way that broke trading laws) but not for their actions on behalf of the corporation.
"DVDs vs VHS is no contest because you don't have to rewind DVDs"
Reminds me of when I was explaining the advantages to using DVDs over VHS tapes to my mother.
I actually said "you can stop the movie and even turn off the DVD player and when you turn it back on it remembers where you were and can start the movie again from that point!"
"but it was probably the only map that actually got me confused enough to get a bit lost.'
I agree, i think it's something about every square inch looks exactly like every other square inch I just traveled for the past 5 miles that seems to confuse my sense of direction.
I always wondered if this has any relation to theology where it is thought in certain religons that there are 2 sides, good and evil, which is typically represented as light and dark.
Similarly there are a lot of examples of this in science specifically in physics where there are 2 distinct opposing sides of a given theory. (atoms, magnetisim, matter, etc)
I wonder if (assuming theologians are right about the existence of good vs evil) this has any correlation to spirits that might exist where dark matter might represent evil energy and good represents good energy.
I often think about this when looking in the night sky and wondering to myself if the stars and the dark areas surrounding them are somekind of physical representation of the forces of good and evil, as (for one example) the christian bible does reference a relation to the stars in the sky to evil and good spirits/forces.
I myself do believe that spirits exist but that we currently are unable to use science to detect them, not that it is impossible to do so but it would be the same thing as a world full of dogs wondering about the existence of a widely held belief about "colors".
"And Jesus would have a lot to say about American megachurches, too."
Which he did, "the path to destruction is wide and many will pass through it's gates, but the path to salvation is small and few will enter" (paraphrasing a bit).
Mother and child have separate, isolated blood systems during pregnancy."
I always thought they shared blood, one of my friends had the problem where the body sees the baby as a foriegn object and tries to kill it, she had to take immune suppresors to reduce this effect in order to bring the baby to term... how would this be a problem if they had seperate blood systems?
Also what DO they share then through the umbilical cord? I know they share nutrients, but I also thought some of the mother's immunities where passed this way?
Dogma aside, the bible itself has many instances showing that Drugs and Alcohol were made available for man use to alleviate pain and sorrow.
I think the desire to regulate the use of drugs, and morality in general,that is shown by those who practice the christian faith stems from a jealousy of not being able to indulge in previous desires and thusly wanting others to have to follow the same rules...
"Actually, I wouldn't mind it if the person is on death row with appeals exhausted. The person on death row killed one (or more!) people to get there.... save a lot of other lives."
Unless, of course, that person happens to be innocent...
"a tremendous step forward in terms of giving advertisers what they want"
Yes, giving advertisers what THEY want, access to a specific demographic, not what that specific demographic might actually want, that's not very relevant to this dicussion.
"But what does it mean for advertisers? And how will players react? We sat down with Terri Perkins, Product Manager for Funcom, and Nicholas Longano, President of New Media at Massive, to find out."
Hold onto your hat, here comes the marketing SPINNNNN!
"the response to these ads has been very positive, according to Perkins and Longano"
And any evidence contrary to this bullet point will be beaten down with a flurry of marketing lingo and product material re-inforcing the "truth".
"This is the beginning of a new revolution in in game advertising and it will be fascinating to watch how it evolves and what creative things we can bring to the table."
I stay awake all night thinking how much fricken money we are gonna make off of this biznatch!!
"We're always looking at new inventory elements, new ideas that will help advertisers push their ads further and also for gamers as well," said Longano."
I had to throw that part in about gamers lest my true form, coporate marketing money whore, be known.
"Take for example, a barrel you can smash it and and get gold. It's part of the interactive experience that makes a game."
Now imagine a gamers soul who delights in pursuing activities in his favorite game world, you can smash it with ads and get gold.
"We don't leave anything to risk or chance, we test with groups to see how they react. It's your choice; you determine whether or not you're going to click on it."
Choice is defined as in how you can interact with our ads, not whether they will be there or not.
"This makes it extremely appealing to advertisers and certainly allows the players to benefit by allowing us to offset high development costs to bring them ongoing new content.""
Don't worry!! You'll still be paying for that new Ad filled content just like always, and we won't "shock you" with lower prices.
""This was only revealed in the last several days, but I understand from Massive Incorporated that there is a high level of interest from the same range of top advertisers as we have for the traditional dynamic ads (beverage companies, movies, software companies, food chains, cell phone providers etc)," said Perkins. "Both the dynamic ads and the 'video' ads have been received very well by advertisers and it is a challenge to keep up with the increasing demand. This has been a wonderful win-win situation for all sides, but most importantly for the players.""
EVERYONE has been creaming themselves to get these ads into games, we can't wait till the money starts rolling in!!! oh yah, um, gamers too (note to self, say players or gamers every so often)
"We're always looking to evolve the way ads are used," said Longano.
Like possibly shooting ad slogans instead of bullets, or coke vs pepsi laser battles!!! Battle Hummers!!
" Hopefully the dollars will go back to the developers so they can continue to make good games," he concluded."
Yah hopefully, we'll try and throw the developers some cash here and there since we will be rolling in it, because ads make good games so why shouldn't they be rewarded a little?
I mean why should they have to rely on gameplay and artistic vision to earn money for their games when they can make it all up on clickthroughs.
Heck with all of this extra content they could even charge more per sale!
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Like the time I saved a file as the character "/" because i was furiously trying to save a file through vi (game server map config file for a lan currently in process) before a map changed, when i realised i had saved the file as / i also saved it again as the map file name the server uses (esc w filename).
So i get back to the prompt and being obessive compulsive as I am i wanted to delete the erroneously named file.
#>rm -rf /
Yes, I typed that in... when i saw the scrolling text i realized my mistake but it was too late *cry*.
Funny thing is the game server (BF2) kept running because everything was in memory, until the map change that is...
"Something to mention the next time some bozo points to the human eye as proof that we were "designed"."
OR maybe we were not meant to have those abilities. I wouldn't trade my capacity for thought and imagination for awesome eyes... bigger penis maybe, but better eyes, come on...
Because then you'd have a vegtable with the ability to morph in order to survive.
Imagine growing tomatoes that turn into radishes! (eww radishes)
Maybe the Nope comment is directed towards drug use being the symtom of a problem rather than the problem itself.
As someone who is using drugs at such a young age might be doing so to "help" or "deal" with larger issues or problems than using a chemical substance.
Of course there are also kids who try drugs because they are curious and might not have any other problems in their life, but for any reason it comes back to the level of interaction between a parent and child, not because "drugs are bad mmmkay".
We need a name and place of work please.
I make about 50k a year and don't steal anything...
"because those are the people that focus on moving up the pay scale rather than doing their jobs. They are also very hard to spot, because an experienced sociopath learns the behaviors that will get it what it wants"
Damn, then my wife should be a CEO by now 'cause she is one crazy bitch....
Maybe you are thinking of M.E.A.T, Mankind for Ethical Animal Treatment. They got a Lion to eat tofu!
Theyare close to 5 months late on this announcement.
Although i Love their comics, i wonder how this could possibly evolve into a fun game?
RTS? RPG? or....
MMORPG? FU&K YAH!
"(Seriously. Talking about spelling causes your post to magically degrade.)"
Let's make a new theory (like Godwin's), as soon as comments on spelling are introducded, the qualitey of the posterers spellang exponentaly decreasas or is gauranteed to hav a mispellang.
We caen cal ti JeffK's Lawe.
Unfortunately the way corporate law works, none of the executives would go to prision, a corporation is an entity(person) in the eyes of the law and of course it is impossible to put a corporation in jail.
Although i think the law should be amended so that executives are prosecuted on behalf of the corporation (conspiracy anyone?).
If you are thinking in the case of Enron how the executives WERE prosecuted, this was because they were prosecuted for their own actions (selling stock in a way that broke trading laws) but not for their actions on behalf of the corporation.
"DVDs vs VHS is no contest because you don't have to rewind DVDs"
Reminds me of when I was explaining the advantages to using DVDs over VHS tapes to my mother.
I actually said "you can stop the movie and even turn off the DVD player and when you turn it back on it remembers where you were and can start the movie again from that point!"
My mom replied, yah VHS tapes can do that also.\
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Console wars just hurt the console community, let's fight about something worth while!!!1
:(
PC vs Console!
Doh, once again you guys beat me to it
They had this in quakeworld Team fortress too, so even older than n64.
"but it was probably the only map that actually got me confused enough to get a bit lost.'
I agree, i think it's something about every square inch looks exactly like every other square inch I just traveled for the past 5 miles that seems to confuse my sense of direction.
the difference between anti matter and dark matter? Are they one in the same or do they differ in someway?
I always wondered if this has any relation to theology where it is thought in certain religons that there are 2 sides, good and evil, which is typically represented as light and dark.
Similarly there are a lot of examples of this in science specifically in physics where there are 2 distinct opposing sides of a given theory. (atoms, magnetisim, matter, etc)
I wonder if (assuming theologians are right about the existence of good vs evil) this has any correlation to spirits that might exist where dark matter might represent evil energy and good represents good energy.
I often think about this when looking in the night sky and wondering to myself if the stars and the dark areas surrounding them are somekind of physical representation of the forces of good and evil, as (for one example) the christian bible does reference a relation to the stars in the sky to evil and good spirits/forces.
I myself do believe that spirits exist but that we currently are unable to use science to detect them, not that it is impossible to do so but it would be the same thing as a world full of dogs wondering about the existence of a widely held belief about "colors".
"And Jesus would have a lot to say about American megachurches, too."
Which he did, "the path to destruction is wide and many will pass through it's gates, but the path to salvation is small and few will enter" (paraphrasing a bit).
Mother and child have separate, isolated blood systems during pregnancy."
I always thought they shared blood, one of my friends had the problem where the body sees the baby as a foriegn object and tries to kill it, she had to take immune suppresors to reduce this effect in order to bring the baby to term... how would this be a problem if they had seperate blood systems?
Also what DO they share then through the umbilical cord? I know they share nutrients, but I also thought some of the mother's immunities where passed this way?
Dogma aside, the bible itself has many instances showing that Drugs and Alcohol were made available for man use to alleviate pain and sorrow.
I think the desire to regulate the use of drugs, and morality in general,that is shown by those who practice the christian faith stems from a jealousy of not being able to indulge in previous desires and thusly wanting others to have to follow the same rules...
"You do the best you can."
But since innocent people DO get executed I think it is best not to subject these people to testing when they have few rights as it is...
That's just adding insult to injury i'd think...
"Actually, I wouldn't mind it if the person is on death row with appeals exhausted. The person on death row killed one (or more!) people to get there.... save a lot of other lives."
Unless, of course, that person happens to be innocent...
"65% of the population will believe any quote as long as the name that accompanies it is held in high regard." -Albert Einstein
"a tremendous step forward in terms of giving advertisers what they want"
Yes, giving advertisers what THEY want, access to a specific demographic, not what that specific demographic might actually want, that's not very relevant to this dicussion.
"But what does it mean for advertisers? And how will players react? We sat down with Terri Perkins, Product Manager for Funcom, and Nicholas Longano, President of New Media at Massive, to find out."
Hold onto your hat, here comes the marketing SPINNNNN!
"the response to these ads has been very positive, according to Perkins and Longano"
And any evidence contrary to this bullet point will be beaten down with a flurry of marketing lingo and product material re-inforcing the "truth".
"This is the beginning of a new revolution in in game advertising and it will be fascinating to watch how it evolves and what creative things we can bring to the table."
I stay awake all night thinking how much fricken money we are gonna make off of this biznatch!!
"We're always looking at new inventory elements, new ideas that will help advertisers push their ads further and also for gamers as well," said Longano."
I had to throw that part in about gamers lest my true form, coporate marketing money whore, be known.
"Take for example, a barrel you can smash it and and get gold. It's part of the interactive experience that makes a game."
Now imagine a gamers soul who delights in pursuing activities in his favorite game world, you can smash it with ads and get gold.
"We don't leave anything to risk or chance, we test with groups to see how they react. It's your choice; you determine whether or not you're going to click on it."
Choice is defined as in how you can interact with our ads, not whether they will be there or not.
"This makes it extremely appealing to advertisers and certainly allows the players to benefit by allowing us to offset high development costs to bring them ongoing new content.""
Don't worry!! You'll still be paying for that new Ad filled content just like always, and we won't "shock you" with lower prices.
""This was only revealed in the last several days, but I understand from Massive Incorporated that there is a high level of interest from the same range of top advertisers as we have for the traditional dynamic ads (beverage companies, movies, software companies, food chains, cell phone providers etc)," said Perkins. "Both the dynamic ads and the 'video' ads have been received very well by advertisers and it is a challenge to keep up with the increasing demand. This has been a wonderful win-win situation for all sides, but most importantly for the players.""
EVERYONE has been creaming themselves to get these ads into games, we can't wait till the money starts rolling in!!! oh yah, um, gamers too (note to self, say players or gamers every so often)
"We're always looking to evolve the way ads are used," said Longano.
Like possibly shooting ad slogans instead of bullets, or coke vs pepsi laser battles!!! Battle Hummers!!
" Hopefully the dollars will go back to the developers so they can continue to make good games," he concluded."
Yah hopefully, we'll try and throw the developers some cash here and there since we will be rolling in it, because ads make good games so why shouldn't they be rewarded a little?
I mean why should they have to rely on gameplay and artistic vision to earn money for their games when they can make it all up on clickthroughs.
Heck with all of this extra content they could even charge more per sale!
"Preservative laden toxified bread that no organism in its right mind would eat will last on the counter equally long."
Hmmm, there are some blueish-green organisims that seem to LOVE the bread I leave on my counter...