Dark age of Camelot was incredible. I haven't been in it for over a year though, and can't say if it's fallen apart or is still as good as it used to be.
Personally, I'm waiting for World of Warcraft before I try another MMO..
I hated SWG, so that really turned me off of the whole idea... And I played City of Heroes for a month or two and got a bit bored..
"Cellphone jamming in a theater is the equivalent of a no-parking zone."
My town has no parking zones, but they don't tell me that I can't use my car. Saing that I can't talk on my phone inside the theater is like having a no parking zone.. and I'm fine with that, I can walk outside to answer a call, and others should be required to as well. However completely banning them is like making your city a "no driving city."
So fine, if some city wants to do something like ban cars and only allow horses or foot traffic, then I think the city's businesses would lose a ton of income, the majority of people would move somewhere where people weren't trying to take away their rights, and the place would turn into a virtual ghost town.
If some theater bans people from attending simply because they have a phone, I would expect (and hope) the same thing would happen... I can guarantee I wouldn't be going to the theater, even if I wasn't planning on carrying my phone that time...just because of the principle of the matter.
So since there's a lot of unsafe drivers out there, should be ban cars? I mean, these people aren't like me.
I still do use the same arguement with my guns.. I'm very educated and safe with them. You can even take that arguement further... Ban me from owning guns, and then the only people who will have them are people who are willing to break the law.
We just can't start punish people who do things the right way for the actions of people who don't. Nobodoy would be able to legally do or own anything anymore.
If we have to treat those people like children, then fine, ban THAT PERSON from carrying a phone into the theater...just don't punish me for something I didn't do.
I didn't say I *couldn't* get by without my phone... My point is that I don't like having rights taken away from me because of someone else's actions. Especially when there is a valid and logical reason to have it in the first place.
The more I think about this, the more I get pissed...
Could you please explain to me exactly how me walking out of the theater and answering my phone "INTRUDES ON YOUR RIGHTS"?
If walking out to the lobby in the middle of a movie intrudes on your rights, then every person who has ever had to use the restroom in the history of movie theaters has intruded on people's rights.
And don't start with any shit about talking during a movie or phones ringing during a movie, because you can't hear my phone ring, and I don't talk in the theater.
If you can give me a good arguement against it, I'll send my phone to you and let you smash it with a hammer... Till then, I'll continue to bring it with me to the movie, and you will NEVER know that I even have it with me.
So you're telling me that a phone vibrating in the middle of a pivotal scene is something that's going to disturb you? You obviously can't hear it, so you must be able to feel it through your seat.
I'd consider that REALLY GODDAMN OVERLY TOUCHY! And absolutely amazing at the same time.
I could care less about a boil! I want to know if my child is being rushed to the hospital and possibly going to fucking die! Unless you're the superman that can feel a little phoen vibrating from another seat, You're not even going to know my phone is ringing, unless you follow me out to the lobby and see me answer it!
If wanting to know if my kid has a serious problem, immediately! (AND I MEAN FUCKING SERIOUS! LIFE THREATENING, NOT A BOIL, NOT A STUBBED TOE, DON'T PUT WORDS INTO MY MOUTH.)
If you have a kid, and don't care to know if he/she is about to die, or is in serious pain, until you're done with whatever it is that's so much more important then I would say it is you who has the problem, not me.
Who said anything about stubbed toes? Not me. Actually I'd be pissed if someone called me to report something trivial like a stubbed toe.
But if they rushed the kid to the hospital for some life-threatening injury, as I've said to others... you might be cold enough to not care, but I want to know.
If that means you have to deal with my phone vibrating in the theater, then tough. Me knowing if there's a problem is more important than you *maybe* hearing a slight vibration coming from my phone.
Because there has to be more to life than just raising kinds for the next 18 years. That's why.
But it should would be nice to know if my kid was dying now wouldn't it?
You obviously differ on that opinion, but I feel that the risk of my kid getting seriously injured or dying while I'm away for 2 hours is small, HOWEVER, if it happens, I sure as hell want to know about it.
I can't speak for the asshat that you apparently personally know, but asshats like me leave their phone on vibrate AT ALL TIMES, just so I don't accidentally annoy some overly touchy person like yourself.
Oh, before you call me any names too, I always exit the room before carrying on a converstaion.
As for what people with emergencies did before cellphones? They took longer to address the problem. Just like people took longer before the landline phone, and even longer with pony express.
I don't understand - what difference does it makes if you know "right away" or 89 minutes later?
She's already called 911, for Christ.
Fine, you might not care if you child is dying for 89 minutes (why not just make it a day, or a week? Where's the cutoff limit where it is acceptable to you to not know something that you should know.
Me, I'd like to know right away. It might not make a difference in whether he lives or dies, but as a parent, I'd just like to know if there's a problem as soon as possible.
Or go to the theater with the babysitter and leave your wife at home to take care of the kids (now that's thinking!).
Yes, because as we all know, once you have kids, you should never be allowed to do anything alone with your spouse for the next 18 years! And the lil' woman's job is to stay home barefoot caring for the children.
From my perspective, I don't care who needs to get or make a call and why - I think the price of the ticket I pay should warrant proper viewing and listening environment.
My phone vibrating and me walking out to the lobby to answer it shouldn't ruin your night any worse than me getting up to go to the restroom.. till they start shutting down the snack bar and restrooms while the movie is running, that arguement doesn't hold any weight with me.
People who cannot avoid disturbing other people should avoid going to theaters or shouldn't be allowed into theaters (or their cell phones should be jammed)
I'll agree that if you can't avoid disturbing other you shouldn't go... but as for jamming, that's just not a good thing because it punishes everyone, not just the people causing the problem. That's like saying that since some people can't drive safely, nobody should be allowed on the road.
I shouldn't even dignify an anonymous coward who can't write his first sentence without saying "how the fuck" would you do something or another with a response... but for some reason I feel compelled to.
You might not care to know if your kids are hurt or dying for 90 minutes (Hell, why not wait till the next day, or week, there's nothing you can do anyway.) But I sure as hell would want to know IMMEDIATELY! If you're in the same theater as me, and my cell phone vibrates GOOD GOD NO! NOT A VIBRATING PHONE!!! then I'll personally make an apology to you after my crisis is over.
Let's just disconnect home phones too.. I mean, we could set up a telegraph system to let people know when there's a problem right?
So let's see if I understand what you're saying.
The babysitter is home with the kids, I'm at the movie with my wife on a long-due night to ourselves, but I'd like to know if there's an emergency.
One of the kids gets hurt, babysitter has to call 911, and then somehow let me know. You say the babysitter should have enough sense to walk out of the theater and call me...
To do that he/she would have to first get to the theater, walk in, then walk out, then make the call, which still won't get to me because everythign is jammed.
Besides, if the babysitter took the time to get to the theater (assuming they have means to get there), she wouldn't have to make a call in the first place.
I'm not sure I like your line of reasoning here.
But if this thing isn't forced by law to be in every tv, and I have a choice between a Sony tv that supports the flag, and another brand that doesn't, guess which brand I'm going to buy.
Just because you give fragile stuff to your kids before they're ready to take care of it doesn't mean people should let you break the law. And before you say "sure, but it's cheaper to make pirated copies", it'd be cheaper to steal replacement eggs too.
Ummmm....fine, except he's NOT BREAKING THE LAW!!! He said he bought the CD, and made a backup for his own use. It's not a pirated copy if he bought it and he's using the backup for his own personal use.
Why the paranoia anyway? The worst that is going to happen is someone hacks your WEP and steals your bandwidth, since your PC itself should be secure, in addition to your wireless connection right?
What if you have glass doors? The cop can see the drugs, but they're behind closed doors. Are you protected?
Infared cameras can see through things like wood doors, and you're the source of infared energy and sending it outside.
Sonic would (should?) be different, in that case, they're sending a signal *into* your home, in the form of a sound wave, I think they should have a warrant to do that for sure.
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Personally, I'm waiting for World of Warcraft before I try another MMO..
I hated SWG, so that really turned me off of the whole idea... And I played City of Heroes for a month or two and got a bit bored..
Have you ever tried a *good* one? (Not SWG)
I'm doubtful that they could do much of anything to help that game...
My town has no parking zones, but they don't tell me that I can't use my car. Saing that I can't talk on my phone inside the theater is like having a no parking zone.. and I'm fine with that, I can walk outside to answer a call, and others should be required to as well. However completely banning them is like making your city a "no driving city."
So fine, if some city wants to do something like ban cars and only allow horses or foot traffic, then I think the city's businesses would lose a ton of income, the majority of people would move somewhere where people weren't trying to take away their rights, and the place would turn into a virtual ghost town.
If some theater bans people from attending simply because they have a phone, I would expect (and hope) the same thing would happen... I can guarantee I wouldn't be going to the theater, even if I wasn't planning on carrying my phone that time...just because of the principle of the matter.
I still do use the same arguement with my guns.. I'm very educated and safe with them. You can even take that arguement further... Ban me from owning guns, and then the only people who will have them are people who are willing to break the law.
We just can't start punish people who do things the right way for the actions of people who don't. Nobodoy would be able to legally do or own anything anymore.
If we have to treat those people like children, then fine, ban THAT PERSON from carrying a phone into the theater...just don't punish me for something I didn't do.
I didn't say I *couldn't* get by without my phone... My point is that I don't like having rights taken away from me because of someone else's actions. Especially when there is a valid and logical reason to have it in the first place.
Could you please explain to me exactly how me walking out of the theater and answering my phone "INTRUDES ON YOUR RIGHTS"?
If walking out to the lobby in the middle of a movie intrudes on your rights, then every person who has ever had to use the restroom in the history of movie theaters has intruded on people's rights.
And don't start with any shit about talking during a movie or phones ringing during a movie, because you can't hear my phone ring, and I don't talk in the theater.
If you can give me a good arguement against it, I'll send my phone to you and let you smash it with a hammer... Till then, I'll continue to bring it with me to the movie, and you will NEVER know that I even have it with me.
So you're telling me that a phone vibrating in the middle of a pivotal scene is something that's going to disturb you? You obviously can't hear it, so you must be able to feel it through your seat. I'd consider that REALLY GODDAMN OVERLY TOUCHY! And absolutely amazing at the same time. I could care less about a boil! I want to know if my child is being rushed to the hospital and possibly going to fucking die! Unless you're the superman that can feel a little phoen vibrating from another seat, You're not even going to know my phone is ringing, unless you follow me out to the lobby and see me answer it! If wanting to know if my kid has a serious problem, immediately! (AND I MEAN FUCKING SERIOUS! LIFE THREATENING, NOT A BOIL, NOT A STUBBED TOE, DON'T PUT WORDS INTO MY MOUTH.) If you have a kid, and don't care to know if he/she is about to die, or is in serious pain, until you're done with whatever it is that's so much more important then I would say it is you who has the problem, not me.
But if they rushed the kid to the hospital for some life-threatening injury, as I've said to others... you might be cold enough to not care, but I want to know.
If that means you have to deal with my phone vibrating in the theater, then tough. Me knowing if there's a problem is more important than you *maybe* hearing a slight vibration coming from my phone.
Because there has to be more to life than just raising kinds for the next 18 years. That's why. But it should would be nice to know if my kid was dying now wouldn't it? You obviously differ on that opinion, but I feel that the risk of my kid getting seriously injured or dying while I'm away for 2 hours is small, HOWEVER, if it happens, I sure as hell want to know about it.
It's older... VX10. Just was mentioning it to clear up that motorola apparently doesn't have a lock on the vibrating phone feature.
Oh, before you call me any names too, I always exit the room before carrying on a converstaion.
As for what people with emergencies did before cellphones? They took longer to address the problem. Just like people took longer before the landline phone, and even longer with pony express.
BAN ALL TECHNOLOGY!
Fine, you might not care if you child is dying for 89 minutes (why not just make it a day, or a week? Where's the cutoff limit where it is acceptable to you to not know something that you should know.
Me, I'd like to know right away. It might not make a difference in whether he lives or dies, but as a parent, I'd just like to know if there's a problem as soon as possible.
Or go to the theater with the babysitter and leave your wife at home to take care of the kids (now that's thinking!).
Yes, because as we all know, once you have kids, you should never be allowed to do anything alone with your spouse for the next 18 years! And the lil' woman's job is to stay home barefoot caring for the children.
From my perspective, I don't care who needs to get or make a call and why - I think the price of the ticket I pay should warrant proper viewing and listening environment.
My phone vibrating and me walking out to the lobby to answer it shouldn't ruin your night any worse than me getting up to go to the restroom.. till they start shutting down the snack bar and restrooms while the movie is running, that arguement doesn't hold any weight with me.
People who cannot avoid disturbing other people should avoid going to theaters or shouldn't be allowed into theaters (or their cell phones should be jammed)
I'll agree that if you can't avoid disturbing other you shouldn't go... but as for jamming, that's just not a good thing because it punishes everyone, not just the people causing the problem. That's like saying that since some people can't drive safely, nobody should be allowed on the road.
I shouldn't even dignify an anonymous coward who can't write his first sentence without saying "how the fuck" would you do something or another with a response... but for some reason I feel compelled to. You might not care to know if your kids are hurt or dying for 90 minutes (Hell, why not wait till the next day, or week, there's nothing you can do anyway.) But I sure as hell would want to know IMMEDIATELY! If you're in the same theater as me, and my cell phone vibrates GOOD GOD NO! NOT A VIBRATING PHONE!!! then I'll personally make an apology to you after my crisis is over. Let's just disconnect home phones too.. I mean, we could set up a telegraph system to let people know when there's a problem right?
My LG has it....
So let's see if I understand what you're saying. The babysitter is home with the kids, I'm at the movie with my wife on a long-due night to ourselves, but I'd like to know if there's an emergency. One of the kids gets hurt, babysitter has to call 911, and then somehow let me know. You say the babysitter should have enough sense to walk out of the theater and call me... To do that he/she would have to first get to the theater, walk in, then walk out, then make the call, which still won't get to me because everythign is jammed. Besides, if the babysitter took the time to get to the theater (assuming they have means to get there), she wouldn't have to make a call in the first place. I'm not sure I like your line of reasoning here.
But if this thing isn't forced by law to be in every tv, and I have a choice between a Sony tv that supports the flag, and another brand that doesn't, guess which brand I'm going to buy.
I would think that a cop wouldn't care if your brake lights came or not when his radar said you were speeding...
I just don't think it would sound quite right if it translated to "There are 1 kinds of people".. I guess I'm funny that way.
Could you please state the obvious reason? I always thought 10 was binary for "2", therefore the statement reads "There are two kinds of people...."
Ummmm....fine, except he's NOT BREAKING THE LAW!!! He said he bought the CD, and made a backup for his own use. It's not a pirated copy if he bought it and he's using the backup for his own personal use.
And what state they're in at the time...
_More_ games with interoperability? Are there games that have it already? I'd love to put some smack down on some console players
Why the worry? Has anybody ever sent something out for a gold release and then delayed the release date?
Why the paranoia anyway? The worst that is going to happen is someone hacks your WEP and steals your bandwidth, since your PC itself should be secure, in addition to your wireless connection right?
Right???
What if you have glass doors? The cop can see the drugs, but they're behind closed doors. Are you protected? Infared cameras can see through things like wood doors, and you're the source of infared energy and sending it outside. Sonic would (should?) be different, in that case, they're sending a signal *into* your home, in the form of a sound wave, I think they should have a warrant to do that for sure.