Yeah that's what I was thinking... Directly linking video files in articles etc.
I don't see what the difference is about Penny Arcade. I'm kind of guessing/. wants to support them to due the whole charity thing. Just seems odd when surely sites regarding equally respectable things have been/.ed in the past...
Dude, are you Have Blue from Hotline and the good old days of Marathon and so on??
Dunno if you'd remember me, I always used the name Necromancer and/or "Necromancer [necro.ath.cx]"... used to hang out on that bungie.org hotline server and stuff...
Any cyberpunk/sci-fi fans play this? I'm curious to hear how the game fits into that genre and if it's got any cool cyberpunk-style elements. It seems like it from the screenshots but then it almost looks like some kind of MMORPG with the combat stuff I saw...
I've always wanted an MMO cyberpunk game, where you can chill in dark bars illuminated by bright purple neon lights, and of course be reminded not to 'off' possible enemies, by the presence of well-armed hired security guys complete with artificially enhanced strength and so on. You know, straight out of Neuromancer..;)
Does the game appeal to anyone in this sense, the whole gloomy futuristic science-fiction style?
Yeah I actually got one of 'em a night or two ago, advertising replica watches of common expensive brands. Small world it seems. Or maybe just broad reach of spammers. It's just that the address that got spammed only gets one or two spam emails a day, despite the fact that it's "info [at] mydomain"...
I've always completely disregarded benchmarks, etc. other than those I've run myself.
It's kind of like Microsoft's BS-filled "Linux TCO vs. Windows TCO" ads here on slashdot. Sure, maybe Windows Server 2k3 is cheaper to operate than linux (What a bloody joke) in Microsoft's excessively convoluted idea of how servers/whatever might be run, but chances are extremely high that Microsoft has no damned clue about how my servers are run, what content they serve, etc. etc., not to mention the fact that there's rarely a way for individuals to verify the accuracy of the benchmarks in the first place.
Like the article already expresses, benchmarks and "tests" essentially always treat the competing products very differently, placing their own product(s) in far more favorable environments to skew results to their advantage. It's plainly obvious, and personally I would be amazed to have anyone disagree with what I'm saying.
As a fairly well educated and "aware consumer" (or something), I can assure you I don't really care what your company tries to tell me, I'll go by my friends' experiences with the company's products, and entirely ignore any sort of "factual studies" (which are 99% of the time done by some company that is paid to do them).
Of course I unfortunately speak for a rather small percentage of consumers, as far as I can tell. It's pretty depressing actually.
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It's a little different from "J. Random Yahoo" when it's someone you see every day or very often (such as a classmate in school, or a family member).
Why do I care what other people think? Because they're just that: other people. People with feelings and thoughts similar to my own. People who are part of my community, my culture, and the same world in which I live.
Disregarding what other people say only increases the excessively apparent amount of disenfranchisement and alienation people experience in regards to the people around them. Acting like other peoples' opinions are completely meaningless is a selfish, childish position to hold and the fact that you hold it with such strength makes it fairly ironic that you try to criticize me, calling me "sad" or "pathetic".
Most of us learn around the age of two or three to respect the thoughts/feelings of others. Looks like you didn't though. Here's some advice: don't take your cynical antisocial angst out upon the people around you. If you don't care about what anyone else thinks, they won't care about what you think, either. And don't even suggest that you don't care about that. You depend on other people just as much as anyone else.
Everything someone says is merely a "word". It's the idea behind the words that bothers people... If someone makes fun of me, obviously I don't care about the word either. What bothers me is the idea the person is expessing, for instance if they're implying I'm a less "valid" person than he/she or someone else is... It's the whole feeling of someone else indicating to you that they feel you are "below" them in some manner, and the feeling that someone else is hostile towards you when you don't feel you deserve it.
"Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me" is probably the most misguided defensive statement I've ever heard, seeing as how it's an outright lie, as evidenced by the extremely noticable reactions essentially all people have to insults/taunting etc.
Okay, I'm about to quote an email my boss received from a client, the owner of a local youth sports association. We're a digital sports photography business.
"Hi _ and _...
A couple of things for you
1. When _ was up here taking photos one of the teams talked to him about getting a new
sponsor. We now have teh sponsor in place so I'm wondering about having the sponsor name
imposed on the photo. The team was a midget tesm (ages 15-17) in red jerseys. Marty
[lastname] is the coach.
The new sponsor is [COMPANY NAME]
2. Any idea when our photos will arrive??
Thanks - [Person]"
(Underscores and so on inserted in place of names on purpose. I also properly recreated the arbitrarily placed carriage returns)...
Don't even get me started on reading peoples' pathetic writing and "typos". We get kids who are supposedly four inches tall, or born in 1887, or weigh 80kg (that's 176 pounds, pretty hefty for a 6 year old kid). Needless to say we leave a lot of fields blank on our "trader cards".
Even worse, the boss is pretty bad himself. He once left a pretty unfriendly note to one of us for making some kind of error. The very first thing it said was "JUST A F _ _ _ _ ING QUESTION.", italicized and everything. Notice how he put four underscores after the F, as though you're supposed to put four letters between "F" and "ING". So what is it, "FFUCKING" or "FUUCKING", or what? We may never know...
Dude, my grandpa just turned 82 and still prunes the hedges in his "home away from home" property, cuts the lawn, drives his car, waters his plants, knows how to use a VCR *and* a cell phone (hell I'm 20 and I'm using his old one!!), and even somehow always knows more than me in any given situation (heheh)...
Saying "even a grandfather could use it", people would just be like "uhh... I sure hope so"... seeing as I know very very few older men who wouldn't be able to figure out just about any relatively user-friendly device like an iPod...
Also, implying that they should say "even a grandfather could use it" is just as sexist as what was already written. How would that be any better? You're being entirely hypocritical...
Like the topic says: Canadians vote by writing an "X" in a box on a piece of paper next to a party's name and sticking the piece of paper in a cardboard box.
All I have to ask America is: what's the fucking problem?
Why is electronic voting neccesary? That's a rhetorical question - it's NOT neccesary. I'm more wondering why people tolerate whatever the morons in power dictate. Wake up, you're getting fucked with.
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/ - Visit the site.. it's dedicated to revealing any truth behind possible (woops I mean 99% likely) election fraud.
"Black Box Voting has launched a fraud audit into Florida."
"Black Box Voting is also launching a fraud audit in Ohio."
"Black Box Voting is implementing fraud diagnostics on the state of New Mexico. Information we recently received is indicative of widespread vote manipulation."
"Black Box Voting is requesting legal assistance for a specific county in Georgia. Indications of corrupt voting processes, with possible criminal actions by local officials."
"Multiple irregularities. Need people to take affidavits from election workers, statewide."
Just view the page, and read it. Yup, democracy is still strong in the U.S....
I know about those.. such as Marius and whatnot... but the fact that there's no longer the official game server to play on really bugs me. Myth was one of the very very few games I actually bought, and I played it so damn much. It's still one of my favorite games ever. The Myth TFL bungie.net server was only running for a couple of years (2 or 3 'IIRC') before it crashed...
I mean, since you have to add customized game files to get onto the game servers (plus they don't have identical bungie.net functionality), people who put in their CD to play after having not played for a long time will simply be unable to get onto bungie.net, and give up there... which sucks.:(
Peoples' CD keys being stolen by people using CD-key generators was/is a very big problem in counterstrike...
If someone was online with a certain cd key, you wouldn't be able to join up using the same one.
If some kid generated a CD key that happened to be the same as yours (which supposedly happened quite a lot, I used to read about people on forums - in fact simply visit the Valve forums!), you wouldn't be able to play while that person was playing.
Thus far far more than 0% of Half Life players were/are using pirated copies..
You could play online on Bungie.net, and it was damn fun!
But guess what? the Myth:TFL bungie.net server died in some big crash. They didn't replace it (they essentially said they didn't feel like it). So now you can't play the game online anymore!
Of course it says right on the box you can play online on bungie.net
So, for some reason it's okay for me to not get the functionality I paid for? I really question the legality of that, and the moral 'okay-ness' of it at the very least...
Sure the game is old, but I've still wanted to play it numerous times (along with a bunch of friends) back on good ol' bungie.net in a big 16 player game or whatever, but no.... *sigh*
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I wouldn't risk it - it might be illegal to do so! ;)
Do WHAT with a football?!?
Yeah that's what I was thinking... Directly linking video files in articles etc.
/. wants to support them to due the whole charity thing. Just seems odd when surely sites regarding equally respectable things have been /.ed in the past...
I don't see what the difference is about Penny Arcade. I'm kind of guessing
Hey it's "welcome", not "greet", you insensitive clod!
Dude, are you Have Blue from Hotline and the good old days of Marathon and so on??
Dunno if you'd remember me, I always used the name Necromancer and/or "Necromancer [necro.ath.cx]"... used to hang out on that bungie.org hotline server and stuff...
Yeah my first reaction was "what the fuck?"...
Any cyberpunk/sci-fi fans play this? I'm curious to hear how the game fits into that genre and if it's got any cool cyberpunk-style elements. It seems like it from the screenshots but then it almost looks like some kind of MMORPG with the combat stuff I saw...
;)
I've always wanted an MMO cyberpunk game, where you can chill in dark bars illuminated by bright purple neon lights, and of course be reminded not to 'off' possible enemies, by the presence of well-armed hired security guys complete with artificially enhanced strength and so on. You know, straight out of Neuromancer..
Does the game appeal to anyone in this sense, the whole gloomy futuristic science-fiction style?
Yeah I actually got one of 'em a night or two ago, advertising replica watches of common expensive brands. Small world it seems. Or maybe just broad reach of spammers. It's just that the address that got spammed only gets one or two spam emails a day, despite the fact that it's "info [at] mydomain"...
The least the poster could do is make "PSP" a link to the product's official site for people who don't know every single Acronym Of The Week(tm)...
http://www.allofmp3.com/
"Racist thoughts and feelings deserve no respect."
The thing is, those thoughts need to be acknowledged and understood, and [you/whoever] don't seem to be grasping that important fact.
I've always completely disregarded benchmarks, etc. other than those I've run myself.
It's kind of like Microsoft's BS-filled "Linux TCO vs. Windows TCO" ads here on slashdot. Sure, maybe Windows Server 2k3 is cheaper to operate than linux (What a bloody joke) in Microsoft's excessively convoluted idea of how servers/whatever might be run, but chances are extremely high that Microsoft has no damned clue about how my servers are run, what content they serve, etc. etc., not to mention the fact that there's rarely a way for individuals to verify the accuracy of the benchmarks in the first place.
Like the article already expresses, benchmarks and "tests" essentially always treat the competing products very differently, placing their own product(s) in far more favorable environments to skew results to their advantage. It's plainly obvious, and personally I would be amazed to have anyone disagree with what I'm saying.
As a fairly well educated and "aware consumer" (or something), I can assure you I don't really care what your company tries to tell me, I'll go by my friends' experiences with the company's products, and entirely ignore any sort of "factual studies" (which are 99% of the time done by some company that is paid to do them).
Of course I unfortunately speak for a rather small percentage of consumers, as far as I can tell. It's pretty depressing actually.
It's a little different from "J. Random Yahoo" when it's someone you see every day or very often (such as a classmate in school, or a family member).
Why do I care what other people think? Because they're just that: other people. People with feelings and thoughts similar to my own. People who are part of my community, my culture, and the same world in which I live.
Disregarding what other people say only increases the excessively apparent amount of disenfranchisement and alienation people experience in regards to the people around them. Acting like other peoples' opinions are completely meaningless is a selfish, childish position to hold and the fact that you hold it with such strength makes it fairly ironic that you try to criticize me, calling me "sad" or "pathetic".
Most of us learn around the age of two or three to respect the thoughts/feelings of others. Looks like you didn't though. Here's some advice: don't take your cynical antisocial angst out upon the people around you. If you don't care about what anyone else thinks, they won't care about what you think, either. And don't even suggest that you don't care about that. You depend on other people just as much as anyone else.
Everything someone says is merely a "word". It's the idea behind the words that bothers people... If someone makes fun of me, obviously I don't care about the word either. What bothers me is the idea the person is expessing, for instance if they're implying I'm a less "valid" person than he/she or someone else is... It's the whole feeling of someone else indicating to you that they feel you are "below" them in some manner, and the feeling that someone else is hostile towards you when you don't feel you deserve it.
"Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me" is probably the most misguided defensive statement I've ever heard, seeing as how it's an outright lie, as evidenced by the extremely noticable reactions essentially all people have to insults/taunting etc.
Okay, I'm about to quote an email my boss received from a client, the owner of a local youth sports association. We're a digital sports photography business.
"Hi _ and _...
A couple of things for you
1. When _ was up here taking photos one of the teams talked to him
about
getting a new
sponsor. We now have teh sponsor in place so I'm wondering about
having
the sponsor name
imposed on the photo. The team was a midget tesm (ages 15-17) in
red
jerseys. Marty
[lastname] is the coach.
The new sponsor is [COMPANY NAME]
2. Any idea when our photos will arrive??
Thanks - [Person]"
(Underscores and so on inserted in place of names on purpose. I also properly recreated the arbitrarily placed carriage returns)...
Don't even get me started on reading peoples' pathetic writing and "typos". We get kids who are supposedly four inches tall, or born in 1887, or weigh 80kg (that's 176 pounds, pretty hefty for a 6 year old kid). Needless to say we leave a lot of fields blank on our "trader cards".
Even worse, the boss is pretty bad himself. He once left a pretty unfriendly note to one of us for making some kind of error. The very first thing it said was "JUST A F _ _ _ _ ING QUESTION.", italicized and everything. Notice how he put four underscores after the F, as though you're supposed to put four letters between "F" and "ING". So what is it, "FFUCKING" or "FUUCKING", or what? We may never know...
lachlan:abc@123.123.123.123
It's only sexist if it's generalizing about females in any way shape or form
If it's generalizing about males, or stereotyping even, well... it's only fair, you know... (sarcasm)
I mean, as we all very well know, women are more equal than men.
Dude, my grandpa just turned 82 and still prunes the hedges in his "home away from home" property, cuts the lawn, drives his car, waters his plants, knows how to use a VCR *and* a cell phone (hell I'm 20 and I'm using his old one!!), and even somehow always knows more than me in any given situation (heheh)...
Saying "even a grandfather could use it", people would just be like "uhh... I sure hope so"... seeing as I know very very few older men who wouldn't be able to figure out just about any relatively user-friendly device like an iPod...
Also, implying that they should say "even a grandfather could use it" is just as sexist as what was already written. How would that be any better? You're being entirely hypocritical...
Uh dude, we DO get election results the same night... and there's never been any ballot counting issues that I can recall whatsoever...
Like the topic says: Canadians vote by writing an "X" in a box on a piece of paper next to a party's name and sticking the piece of paper in a cardboard box.
...
All I have to ask America is: what's the fucking problem?
Why is electronic voting neccesary? That's a rhetorical question - it's NOT neccesary. I'm more wondering why people tolerate whatever the morons in power dictate. Wake up, you're getting fucked with.
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/ - Visit the site.. it's dedicated to revealing any truth behind possible (woops I mean 99% likely) election fraud.
"Black Box Voting has launched a fraud audit into Florida."
"Black Box Voting is also launching a fraud audit in Ohio."
"Black Box Voting is implementing fraud diagnostics on the state of New Mexico. Information we recently received is indicative of widespread vote manipulation."
"Black Box Voting is requesting legal assistance for a specific county in Georgia. Indications of corrupt voting processes, with possible criminal actions by local officials."
"Multiple irregularities. Need people to take affidavits from election workers, statewide."
Just view the page, and read it. Yup, democracy is still strong in the U.S.
But hey, don't take my word for it that fraud occured in the US... http://www.votewatch.us/ee/view_observations Just listen to what these thousands of others have to say about their voting experiences... There are some more fun stories here as well: http://www.michaelmoore.com/electionwatch/
I know about those.. such as Marius and whatnot... but the fact that there's no longer the official game server to play on really bugs me. Myth was one of the very very few games I actually bought, and I played it so damn much. It's still one of my favorite games ever. The Myth TFL bungie.net server was only running for a couple of years (2 or 3 'IIRC') before it crashed...
:(
I mean, since you have to add customized game files to get onto the game servers (plus they don't have identical bungie.net functionality), people who put in their CD to play after having not played for a long time will simply be unable to get onto bungie.net, and give up there... which sucks.
Oh well...
Exactly, it's care-free attitudes like that that make it so those in "power" can take away citizens' rights small steps at a time.
My vote says: "Stop using excessive 'copyright protection' that substantially inconveniences legitimate users and favors software pirates!" ...
Peoples' CD keys being stolen by people using CD-key generators was/is a very big problem in counterstrike...
If someone was online with a certain cd key, you wouldn't be able to join up using the same one.
If some kid generated a CD key that happened to be the same as yours (which supposedly happened quite a lot, I used to read about people on forums - in fact simply visit the Valve forums!), you wouldn't be able to play while that person was playing.
Thus far far more than 0% of Half Life players were/are using pirated copies..
This makes me think of Myth - The Fallen Lords
You could play online on Bungie.net, and it was damn fun!
But guess what? the Myth:TFL bungie.net server died in some big crash. They didn't replace it (they essentially said they didn't feel like it). So now you can't play the game online anymore!
Of course it says right on the box you can play online on bungie.net
So, for some reason it's okay for me to not get the functionality I paid for? I really question the legality of that, and the moral 'okay-ness' of it at the very least...
Sure the game is old, but I've still wanted to play it numerous times (along with a bunch of friends) back on good ol' bungie.net in a big 16 player game or whatever, but no.... *sigh*