"You think killing prostitutes are bad? Wait until you see soldiers team-killing each other in CounterStrike."
No that is perfectly acceptable because it is "war/Anti terrorist". Like Americas Army... don't hear much about that game when the politicians start decrying video games do ya?
"Results: Set A children angered more easily and were more prone to hitting each other in play. Set B children were more patient, hit each other less, and had calmer attitudes."
Makes sense, my daughter often punches her brother in the arm after he kills her for the 5th in CS with the awp on our LAN.
Did the study show any correlation between games and outburts of profantiy? (like AWP WHORE!!)
Tell me about it, I have comcast and I pay about 60 bucks a month for "expanded" basic, which is basically what you get unless you want local channels only. This is without any "special" channels like HBO/Showtime, etc...
I'd rather have a choice in cable offerings or a choice in payment plans (like.50 cents per channel, etc..)
I think that marketers are just so blind to what they are doing they don't even realize how truely bleak the picture they have painted is with this commercial.
It made me turn off my TV when I first saw it, and made me feel really sad for the little child at the end when the old man sits besides him.
hmm, just the other day I opened 16 1600x1200 photos and watched taskmanager as it was opening them, it ate up about 500MB of ram, but that is still a good delta before hitting the 1gb mem I have, plus if you have 2 Gb then your good to go...
My main point is that you don't really _need_ to have a swap file anymore with ram prices at what they are... unless you are doing heavy, heavy memory intensive tasks, but if you are you would want more memory rather than swap anyway since memory is sooo much faster...
Remember that Swap was first used because RAM was SOOO expensive, it just made sense at a cost per MB to use hard disk space when low on ram.. nowadays it really doesn't make sense anymore...
"If you can reduce the amount of this wear on your OS and data drives by placing swap and temp on a physically seperate drive, you may prevent major data loss."
OR if you buy a gig of ram or more you won't even need a swap partition.
I have 1 gig in my current rig and completely turned off the swap partition, in the last year of usage with heavy multitasking i haven't even needed it.
With Ram prices as low as they are currently your just better off going with 1-2 gigs of ram rather than waste disk space or buying a second disk...
"more programs? so what? you only need one good one. how about better programs? ah, you lose..."
How short sided of you, in reality, more programs = more decisions and more personal preference.
I would rather go to a store and be able to choose from 5 products than go to a store and see one product for each function.
You think that the only program you get to use is "the good one"? How Naive...
Actually my link is to a clan website that is for my friends and I, it also lists game servers that I run on Linux.. gamesi might add that were not even available for Macs until recently (if at all).
I do, photoshop, audio conversion and editing, website creation, and programming.
All of these functions have more programs available for PCs than macs.. I don't mind you guys modding me down as a troll because I wasn't trolling and what I said was true.. not my fault if you guys can't face reality.
(My mother and a few of my friends own macs so I know first hand their frustrations, but yet they are still mac loyalists which I don't understand).
"Yah my Mac might be under powered compared to a PC, and yes it does cost 2x as much as a PC, and yes the software available for the Mac is severely lacking compared to a PC, but at least I don't have to worry about Viruses!!"
Now they can't even say that? sorry couldn't resist:P
If you get subpoenaed just submit to the judge that yes you did download but you own a license for every song you downloaded so you didn't break the law.
Then find out what songs they list in their brief against you and go buy it in legit form, like singles, cd, etc...
That way when you have to prove that you have the license for the copyright you will have it and save yourself about $735 per song (since the minimum is a $750 fine per song copyright violation).
Seems a lot beter than giving the bloodsucking RIAA lawyers your money plus tying up their time in court making it futile to continue on suing people en-mass because of the cost of litigation (if everyone who was subpoenaed did this).
"If there is any good news in the story it is that the 35% figure represents a substantial reduction from the 71% who fell for the ruse in 2001."
Could this be from employee turnover? Since they did this same exact thing in 2001 I would think it would be hard to get people who went through this before to fall for it again...
"So, yes.. I guess something has to replace the natural predators of deer and elk - wolves and mountain lions - that have been hunted to near extinction"
So you are saying that people "hunted" mountain lions and wolves for sustenance? Or just for fun?
Maybe it was for self preservation and the protection of children and infants.
Would you rather we didn't kill any animals and just let wild beasts carry away our children or kill us in the streets? Actually I bet you would...
BTW south park hates everyone equally, even radical peta AC posters
http://www.spscriptorium.com/Season8/E808script. ht m
"Does it still need to connect to the phone lines these days? You'd think Comcast, with their digital service, could stop having to tie up the phone at strange hours of the night."
When I found that my comcast box had a phone line plugged into it, I just disconnected it and never looked back... I believe it is only used to order PPV movies (from what they told me) but I don't trust them anyways.. im paying for cable TV and that should have nothing to do with my phone service...
yah let me check tonight and i'll report back, i also thought that CS:S didn't require the CD to play since it was a "mod" but you are prolly right on both accounts..;)
"But just FYI, the CD-check has been removed from HL2 (or at least CSS) a month or two back - I agree it was annoying."
Are you sure about this? I haven't seen anything in Valve's updates list regarding Cd checking... tbh I haven't played hl2 single in a few months tho... i guess i'll have to check that tonight;)
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"My brother would never let his daughter play a game like Grand Theft Auto."
I let my 9 year old daughter play it, guess what she did?
She drove around in the taxi giving people rides or the fire truck/ambulence helping people...
When she watched me play it she kept telling me "No don't shoot the people!!! Don't drive on the sidewalk!!! You're not supposed to be the bad guy!!"
Maybe this can be taken as one of the "its a tool and depends on how you use it" arguements?
Not everything is inherently bad or evil...
"You think killing prostitutes are bad? Wait until you see soldiers team-killing each other in CounterStrike."
No that is perfectly acceptable because it is "war/Anti terrorist". Like Americas Army... don't hear much about that game when the politicians start decrying video games do ya?
"Results: Set A children angered more easily and were more prone to hitting each other in play. Set B children were more patient, hit each other less, and had calmer attitudes."
Makes sense, my daughter often punches her brother in the arm after he kills her for the 5th in CS with the awp on our LAN.
Did the study show any correlation between games and outburts of profantiy? (like AWP WHORE!!)
Tell me about it, I have comcast and I pay about 60 bucks a month for "expanded" basic, which is basically what you get unless you want local channels only. This is without any "special" channels like HBO/Showtime, etc...
.50 cents per channel, etc..)
I'd rather have a choice in cable offerings or a choice in payment plans (like
You must be a P2P music stealing pirate, arrrgh!
I got the yoda joke, I was correcting my parent... thx for being condescending tho...
"Game over man, Game Over!!"
No that was Bill Paxton as Pvt. Hudson in Aliens.
I think that marketers are just so blind to what they are doing they don't even realize how truely bleak the picture they have painted is with this commercial.
It made me turn off my TV when I first saw it, and made me feel really sad for the little child at the end when the old man sits besides him.
I forgot to mention that with 64 bit cpus you aren't at the 4GB of ram barrier anymore either ;)
hmm, just the other day I opened 16 1600x1200 photos and watched taskmanager as it was opening them, it ate up about 500MB of ram, but that is still a good delta before hitting the 1gb mem I have, plus if you have 2 Gb then your good to go...
My main point is that you don't really _need_ to have a swap file anymore with ram prices at what they are... unless you are doing heavy, heavy memory intensive tasks, but if you are you would want more memory rather than swap anyway since memory is sooo much faster...
Remember that Swap was first used because RAM was SOOO expensive, it just made sense at a cost per MB to use hard disk space when low on ram.. nowadays it really doesn't make sense anymore...
"If you can reduce the amount of this wear on your OS and data drives by placing swap and temp on a physically seperate drive, you may prevent major data loss."
OR if you buy a gig of ram or more you won't even need a swap partition.
I have 1 gig in my current rig and completely turned off the swap partition, in the last year of usage with heavy multitasking i haven't even needed it.
With Ram prices as low as they are currently your just better off going with 1-2 gigs of ram rather than waste disk space or buying a second disk...
"more programs? so what? you only need one good one. how about better programs? ah, you lose..."
How short sided of you, in reality, more programs = more decisions and more personal preference.
I would rather go to a store and be able to choose from 5 products than go to a store and see one product for each function.
You think that the only program you get to use is "the good one"? How Naive...
Actually my link is to a clan website that is for my friends and I, it also lists game servers that I run on Linux.. gamesi might add that were not even available for Macs until recently (if at all).
I do, photoshop, audio conversion and editing, website creation, and programming.
All of these functions have more programs available for PCs than macs.. I don't mind you guys modding me down as a troll because I wasn't trolling and what I said was true.. not my fault if you guys can't face reality.
(My mother and a few of my friends own macs so I know first hand their frustrations, but yet they are still mac loyalists which I don't understand).
It used to be that you could say:
:P
"Yah my Mac might be under powered compared to a PC, and yes it does cost 2x as much as a PC, and yes the software available for the Mac is severely lacking compared to a PC, but at least I don't have to worry about Viruses!!"
Now they can't even say that? sorry couldn't resist
"Hell, the only thing the Republicans would have going for them is a certain senator from Arizona.... "
Don't for get Caleefourkneeahhhh
He will terminate all the democrats!!! oh noes1!
While reading TFA, I had a thought.
If you get subpoenaed just submit to the judge that yes you did download but you own a license for every song you downloaded so you didn't break the law.
Then find out what songs they list in their brief against you and go buy it in legit form, like singles, cd, etc...
That way when you have to prove that you have the license for the copyright you will have it and save yourself about $735 per song (since the minimum is a $750 fine per song copyright violation).
Seems a lot beter than giving the bloodsucking RIAA lawyers your money plus tying up their time in court making it futile to continue on suing people en-mass because of the cost of litigation (if everyone who was subpoenaed did this).
only for about a mile or so...
"If there is any good news in the story it is that the 35% figure represents a substantial reduction from the 71% who fell for the ruse in 2001."
Could this be from employee turnover? Since they did this same exact thing in 2001 I would think it would be hard to get people who went through this before to fall for it again...
35% = new employees?
"So, yes.. I guess something has to replace the natural predators of deer and elk - wolves and mountain lions - that have been hunted to near extinction"
. ht m
So you are saying that people "hunted" mountain lions and wolves for sustenance? Or just for fun?
Maybe it was for self preservation and the protection of children and infants.
Would you rather we didn't kill any animals and just let wild beasts carry away our children or kill us in the streets? Actually I bet you would...
BTW south park hates everyone equally, even radical peta AC posters
http://www.spscriptorium.com/Season8/E808script
"Rationalize all you want, you're still a fucking murdering bastard."
Just for that i'm going to go kill 3 animals.
It's ok because you hurt my feelings and this is a way to get back at you.
"Does it still need to connect to the phone lines these days? You'd think Comcast, with their digital service, could stop having to tie up the phone at strange hours of the night."
When I found that my comcast box had a phone line plugged into it, I just disconnected it and never looked back... I believe it is only used to order PPV movies (from what they told me) but I don't trust them anyways.. im paying for cable TV and that should have nothing to do with my phone service...
yah let me check tonight and i'll report back, i also thought that CS:S didn't require the CD to play since it was a "mod" but you are prolly right on both accounts.. ;)
"But just FYI, the CD-check has been removed from HL2 (or at least CSS) a month or two back - I agree it was annoying."
;)
Are you sure about this? I haven't seen anything in Valve's updates list regarding Cd checking... tbh I haven't played hl2 single in a few months tho... i guess i'll have to check that tonight
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Not to mention now the DOJ is apparently policing themselves, and their report states "nope no abuses going on here, thanks for asking..."
Thousands of cases and not even one overstep of the law or abuse?
Yah right, humans are too infallible for this to be true if not just a mistake by one employee...