I've started to think there's something to Alter Slash and those people. Even if there's nothing wrong with the answer, but someone doesn't like it, they'll mod it down.
Uh huh. I don't want to hassle with running my games thru an emulator (Before you give me WINE, I don't care). I'm not a Quake-esque or UT fan. I play HL and mods and real-time strategy (Rise of Nations, mostly.)
Um. If you say so, chief. I'd still go buy Windows, because I like it. I'm a gamer and it does what I need and want. It's not a huge hassle to go download a security update when they come out, and don't go all high and mighty and act like Firefox or Linux has never had bugs, including security ones.
No duh pre-installing Windows on computers is a huge advantage, but it's not like the vendors don't have a choice.
This is the man from the story, the one that get the local admin password:-)
But he makes a good point. The only reason we used the system admin password was because we either had to or it made life easier. "Why can't I save my project to the C drive of this computer that I use everyday?" The school network file server, that held all the student accounts, had something like a 200 gig hard-drive. 200 gigs for a network of something like 1100 people. The damn computers themselves had 60 gig hard-drives. It was a joke.
I used to screw around with my band teacher all the time by putting VB Script stuff into his startup folder. I do it in high school, bam. I'm not allowed on any computers and I got a 5-day suspension. They wanted to actually charge me for the time (THREE HOURS) that the school network was down because they couldn't find a friggin VB script in one of the comp's startup folders.
Ex-freaking-actly. You know why students create links to the C drive? Because you hide the drive from view! At my school, I was taking comp sci, doing my own stuff and began making an MP3 player, so I obviously needed to have a couple MP3s on my account.
First off, the school only gives you a friggin quota of like 5 MB on your network account, so I had to use the C drive. Eventually, they upped the quota for comp sci students so I moved my stuff to my network folder. A week later, my entire account is wiped and I'm told that I "am not allowed to download MP3s in school and doing so could result in a suspension." Well, fucking excuse me! I brought MP3s and.mods in from home that were either in the public domain or I recorded myself. Took a fucking week to get my account restored and it wasn't even a recent save. I just gave up working on programming stuff at school because it just wasn't worth it for this amount of hassle. I almost failed comp sci because of this.
Oh, and it wasn't because I'm a bad coder. I scored a 5 on the AP Comp Sci test (last year it was still in C++).
Well, second to last for seniors and everyone else had a few more weeks. A week before, I had done my usual stuff at lunch, going to the library and looking thru the school's computers to see if I could find anything interesting, and boy, did I ever.
I found payroll data on *every* employee of the school district, which, in itself, was a major screw up on the school's part. It wasn't hard to find this, either. I just went thru the list of computers in the school district's domain and checked what was public in interestingly-named computers. However, I found something much cooler later on... the school's web server.
Not only did I find evidence of the web server being hacked (anti-Israel propoganda, various racist images), but I also found that the school's website's files were unprotected! Idiots. So I altered the announcements and put "Hi, from DJ Hirko" at the bottom, along with a picture of Nitz from Undergrads. I didn't get in trouble for it, not sure why.
And just to make this even longer, let me regale you with the story of THE LOCAL ADMINISTRATOR PASSWORD (DUN DUN DUN). A friend of a friend had brute forced the local admin password, and since all the machines are the same ghosted image, he had the local admin password for every computer in the school. It slowly spread and eventually someone got caught using it. He ratted and it got back to my friend of a friend and they threatened him with expulsion and jail time. They eventually settled for a 5 day suspension, but it was still bullshit.
Come graduation day, one of my friends brought bright green neon letters that spelled out the local admin password. He smuggled the letters inside the graduation and we taped them to our hats. We held our heads so that everyone behind us, including all the parents and media, could easily see what was on our hats. We also got a picture of us (with the letters on our hats) in the paper, but they didn't know what it was.
So, Nashua School District, one word for you, upandn101.
How about you don't be such a dumbass? It would make it a crime to give violent games to children. What are you, a fucking moron? There are no provisions for parents, idiot.
I graduated last year and in 10th grade we had both "Citizenship and Government" and another history class. Of course, half a quarter (about 22 days) isn't nearly enough to cover everything.
Which is still wrong! A parent doesn't have the right to choose what they're children should or should not be playing?!
Sure, the lax enforcement of the Mature games being sold to under-age kids should definitly be fixed, but taking away the right of a parent to say their 15 year old is mature enough to play Halo or GTA? That's wrong.
My last year of high-school I had to test of computers class (because for whatever idiotic reason, scoring perfect on the AP Comp Sci exam isn't enough in itself to test out of "Advanced Computer Applications", the official name of our basic computer class) and there was one question on it where we had to write an essay on the RIAA's lawsuits against file sharers. I wrote how it is disgusting and nearly or wholly unconstitutional that the RIAA is strong-arming everyone into settling instead of fighting against the tactics, not necessarily the charge.
The teacher said no one else had done an essay like that and most had said they're afraid of the RIAA suing them. She agreed with what I said, but she was young (~25). Good looking too, if I wasn't in school I prolly would have asked her out:-)
Not exactly. Considering that you already need to be 18+ to buy a M rated game, it is to removed those games from the public eye in store shelves. No more buying Halo at Best Buy or Wal Mart.
The only reason I'm feeding the troll is because some idiot modded him insightful.
Hey, asshole, what the world thinks of gamers DOES matter. The article's author was not "whining," but pointing out a lot of common gripes that gamers have with some of these idiots. If Illinois successfully bans violent games from stores, it fucking matters you twit. They're trying to do that because they see gamers as violent, socially inept, serial killers-to-be. If that passes, other states will do it and after violent video games are banned, what about those video games bashing the government? Surely those are evil too!
So, in conclusion, stop being an asshole, and think about what you say before you say it.
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What the fuck is that supposed to me? I mean, really.
I did SQA for a year and am a game programmer (I use VC++ and, mostly, DirectX, FMod and/or BASS).
I've started to think there's something to Alter Slash and those people. Even if there's nothing wrong with the answer, but someone doesn't like it, they'll mod it down.
Why would I dual-boot? I don't want to use Linux. I've never had a major problem with Windows.
Uh huh. I don't want to hassle with running my games thru an emulator (Before you give me WINE, I don't care). I'm not a Quake-esque or UT fan. I play HL and mods and real-time strategy (Rise of Nations, mostly.)
Oh, and World of Warcraft.
Um. If you say so, chief. I'd still go buy Windows, because I like it. I'm a gamer and it does what I need and want. It's not a huge hassle to go download a security update when they come out, and don't go all high and mighty and act like Firefox or Linux has never had bugs, including security ones.
No duh pre-installing Windows on computers is a huge advantage, but it's not like the vendors don't have a choice.
And that whole Microsoft DirectX thing, too.
I'm a gamer.
The only tent I'll be pitching this weekend is... oh, you get the point! Awwwwright.
It's not so much that I want to kill Lois... it's just that... I don't want her to be alive anymore.
Wow. You win. First post, video game masturbation, feminine panty shots. When I grow up, I wanna be evil mousse.
This poor child has to face both stereotypes.
I agree. Just saying, is all.
This is the man from the story, the one that get the local admin password :-)
But he makes a good point. The only reason we used the system admin password was because we either had to or it made life easier. "Why can't I save my project to the C drive of this computer that I use everyday?" The school network file server, that held all the student accounts, had something like a 200 gig hard-drive. 200 gigs for a network of something like 1100 people. The damn computers themselves had 60 gig hard-drives. It was a joke.
I used to screw around with my band teacher all the time by putting VB Script stuff into his startup folder. I do it in high school, bam. I'm not allowed on any computers and I got a 5-day suspension. They wanted to actually charge me for the time (THREE HOURS) that the school network was down because they couldn't find a friggin VB script in one of the comp's startup folders.
And Geoff has your masking tape.
Whatever. It's all Greek to me.
Ex-freaking-actly. You know why students create links to the C drive? Because you hide the drive from view! At my school, I was taking comp sci, doing my own stuff and began making an MP3 player, so I obviously needed to have a couple MP3s on my account.
.mods in from home that were either in the public domain or I recorded myself. Took a fucking week to get my account restored and it wasn't even a recent save. I just gave up working on programming stuff at school because it just wasn't worth it for this amount of hassle. I almost failed comp sci because of this.
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First off, the school only gives you a friggin quota of like 5 MB on your network account, so I had to use the C drive. Eventually, they upped the quota for comp sci students so I moved my stuff to my network folder. A week later, my entire account is wiped and I'm told that I "am not allowed to download MP3s in school and doing so could result in a suspension." Well, fucking excuse me! I brought MP3s and
Oh, and it wasn't because I'm a bad coder. I scored a 5 on the AP Comp Sci test (last year it was still in C++).
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Well, second to last for seniors and everyone else had a few more weeks. A week before, I had done my usual stuff at lunch, going to the library and looking thru the school's computers to see if I could find anything interesting, and boy, did I ever.
I found payroll data on *every* employee of the school district, which, in itself, was a major screw up on the school's part. It wasn't hard to find this, either. I just went thru the list of computers in the school district's domain and checked what was public in interestingly-named computers. However, I found something much cooler later on... the school's web server.
Not only did I find evidence of the web server being hacked (anti-Israel propoganda, various racist images), but I also found that the school's website's files were unprotected! Idiots. So I altered the announcements and put "Hi, from DJ Hirko" at the bottom, along with a picture of Nitz from Undergrads. I didn't get in trouble for it, not sure why.
And just to make this even longer, let me regale you with the story of THE LOCAL ADMINISTRATOR PASSWORD (DUN DUN DUN). A friend of a friend had brute forced the local admin password, and since all the machines are the same ghosted image, he had the local admin password for every computer in the school. It slowly spread and eventually someone got caught using it. He ratted and it got back to my friend of a friend and they threatened him with expulsion and jail time. They eventually settled for a 5 day suspension, but it was still bullshit.
Come graduation day, one of my friends brought bright green neon letters that spelled out the local admin password. He smuggled the letters inside the graduation and we taped them to our hats. We held our heads so that everyone behind us, including all the parents and media, could easily see what was on our hats. We also got a picture of us (with the letters on our hats) in the paper, but they didn't know what it was.
So, Nashua School District, one word for you, upandn101.
How about you don't be such a dumbass? It would make it a crime to give violent games to children. What are you, a fucking moron? There are no provisions for parents, idiot.
I graduated last year and in 10th grade we had both "Citizenship and Government" and another history class. Of course, half a quarter (about 22 days) isn't nearly enough to cover everything.
Which is still wrong! A parent doesn't have the right to choose what they're children should or should not be playing?!
Sure, the lax enforcement of the Mature games being sold to under-age kids should definitly be fixed, but taking away the right of a parent to say their 15 year old is mature enough to play Halo or GTA? That's wrong.
My last year of high-school I had to test of computers class (because for whatever idiotic reason, scoring perfect on the AP Comp Sci exam isn't enough in itself to test out of "Advanced Computer Applications", the official name of our basic computer class) and there was one question on it where we had to write an essay on the RIAA's lawsuits against file sharers. I wrote how it is disgusting and nearly or wholly unconstitutional that the RIAA is strong-arming everyone into settling instead of fighting against the tactics, not necessarily the charge.
:-)
The teacher said no one else had done an essay like that and most had said they're afraid of the RIAA suing them. She agreed with what I said, but she was young (~25). Good looking too, if I wasn't in school I prolly would have asked her out
Not exactly. Considering that you already need to be 18+ to buy a M rated game, it is to removed those games from the public eye in store shelves. No more buying Halo at Best Buy or Wal Mart.
The only reason I'm feeding the troll is because some idiot modded him insightful. Hey, asshole, what the world thinks of gamers DOES matter. The article's author was not "whining," but pointing out a lot of common gripes that gamers have with some of these idiots. If Illinois successfully bans violent games from stores, it fucking matters you twit. They're trying to do that because they see gamers as violent, socially inept, serial killers-to-be. If that passes, other states will do it and after violent video games are banned, what about those video games bashing the government? Surely those are evil too!
So, in conclusion, stop being an asshole, and think about what you say before you say it.
Dick.
Did you even BOTHER to read the site? 2-4 players, one controlling the baddies, the rest are marines.
Why settle for the lesser of two evils? Vote Cthulu in 2008.