Exactly how do you act around people then? Lighten the fuck up, dude. We have one guy at our office that brings his pug into work every day, and everyone loves him. He's like a little person only not as obnoxious. Several other people also bring dogs in on occassion, and no one minds. Only two of them have to be confined near the owner aside from potty breaks, but most of them just wander freely and look to be petted or find a nice place to take a nap. Look at it this way: a dog or a cat isn't ever going to decide to walk into the office with a semi-automatic and start killing people.
Then again, maybe the person that wants general lighting just can't stand having his eyes strained any more than necessary considering he's halfway to being legally blind already. Maybe the intense lighting from ONLY the monitor gives the person headaches. And maybe fingerprints on the monitor pisses him off just as much as the so-called "dark person".
But you're just trying to make this a race thing aren't you!?!?:P
Somewhere in my CD collection is a VNV Nation (I'm pretty sure it's VNV Nation... could be some other german electro-industrial type act tho) CD with this Cactus thing on it. Can't say I had any problem ripping the CD using Cdex. This could be off-topic, but I'm just sayin... they can call it copy protection if they want but if it don't work... More on topic: they're taking away my fair use rights -- screw that.
So, what you're saying is a developer under a hard deadline to complete a game and basically has to rush the thing out sucks, while a game that is made without such time constraints doesn't, right?
Somehow I don't think whether it's using a movie liscence or not matters there. It's just an issue of if the developer can take the time to give the game the polish it needs.
Maybe it was just me, but I actually liked Enter the Matrix. It was a short game and not particularly challenging, but it was fun, it had stuff from the actors and plenty of quality cutscenes without being intrusive about it. I guess it depends on your definition of "suck" -- if the majority has to like it, then I'm sure lots of games that are good suck, regardless of the movie license stuff.
End rambling.
Wow, sucks for you. I had to send in my PS2 about... wow, over a year ago now. I had had it for JUST over the 1-year manufacturing warranty, but I called them up and the guy I talked to... well, I didn't have a receipt and I said it was about a year ago, he was cool with it and I shipped the thing off and they sent it back to me pretty fast, repairs and return shipping covered. I haven't had any problems with it since then.
So I've had it for about 2.5 years now without any major issues (when I sent it in it was basically because the disc reader was sort of messed up from dirt and what not but I wasn't about to open it up myself).
Anyway, I'm rambling but my point is these things are pretty sturdy and I don't think you can explain a solid 3 weeks of increased sales by a sudden surge of busted PS2 consoles.
No shit. A blog with all of FOUR posts. I fail to see how this is news. We just filled in number 2:
1. Make nonsenseical blog post.
2. Submit Slashdot Story
3. Profit!
Doesn't Microsoft also claim that their software shouldn't be used in mission-critical systems? Wouldn't you think that government systems quality (usually) as mission-critical?
Hooray for hypocracy.
I don't know about the rest of the UK, but in at least London the major mode of transportation is the tube (subway). So maybe it will change that you not only have to punch your ticket, but you have to swipe your ID card or passport so they know exactly where and when you boarded or left a station.
Will it actually work out that way? Who knows, but it's a scary thought.
"We've thrown it out of second- and third-story windows," said Capt. Dave Moreau, project officer for Dragon Runner at the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory in Quantico, Va. "We've thrown it off the back of a moving vehicle at 45 miles an hour."
If they can make the robot out of this stuff, why not make the whole Marine out of it?
Yea, it's the same principle as Amway/Quixtar (NBC's Dateline did a report on them not too long ago). People who think they can make money easy can just be obsessed freaks about it. Kind of scary how cult-ish it seems.
Questions of privacy also had to be addressed because the chips will use radio frequency identification technology to transmit data. Without protection, the technology theoretically might allow people--identity thieves, for example, or intelligence agents other than immigration officials--to electronically and surreptitiously determine the identity of a passport holder.
I hope that these passports will come with some kind of jacket of material that can stop the radio transmissions or whatever -- sorry, I'm not much of a geek to know the intricate details of that kind of thing. I really don't think that such protection should be limited to those "in the know" about such things -- all American citizens traveling abroad should be given an information packet about the dangers of leaving that sort of data exposed to anyone and everyone in the country you're visiting.
I'll take a wild guess that you didn't RTFA. Anyone can create the semacode thing that the phones read in. So, theoretically, you could put in the URL of a website like verizonwirelesseatspoop.com, make a semacode for it, then plaster that image all over the outside of your local Verizon Wireless outlet.
Or you could put the URL for your blog in and plaster stuff outside your aparment, or whatever. Want to sell stuff? When you tack your ad on the corkboard at your local grocery store, you can include one of these semacode things on your print out to direct people to your website (or eBay page, whatever).
And that's just off the top of my head. I'm sure there's plenty of much more interesting things that could be done.
a poll showing that the majority of Americans trust those machines.
I'm sure most of those Americans also think that computers work on magic and don't even begin to comprehend how things work under the hood. Same way most people are with cars, etc.
You can spin all these storylines as having some sort of political basis, but really, don't most game designers just pull this stuff out of their ass? Even if it turns out to be a decent storyline, I find it very difficult to imagine someone sitting down and trying to figure out how they can convey the message that "big corporations are evil" or whatever else. The only thing they're trying to do is come up with something that will hopefully be entertaining enough to sell enough game copies so they can get paid.
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You say I can get a car wash and buy Linux-based software at the same time! Now will those car wash babes be geeks too?!? I think my car's dirty...
Dude, CTHD is Chinese. Get your countries right before you write them off.
Exactly how do you act around people then? Lighten the fuck up, dude. We have one guy at our office that brings his pug into work every day, and everyone loves him. He's like a little person only not as obnoxious. Several other people also bring dogs in on occassion, and no one minds. Only two of them have to be confined near the owner aside from potty breaks, but most of them just wander freely and look to be petted or find a nice place to take a nap. Look at it this way: a dog or a cat isn't ever going to decide to walk into the office with a semi-automatic and start killing people.
Light Person Symptoms:
:P
Then again, maybe the person that wants general lighting just can't stand having his eyes strained any more than necessary considering he's halfway to being legally blind already. Maybe the intense lighting from ONLY the monitor gives the person headaches. And maybe fingerprints on the monitor pisses him off just as much as the so-called "dark person".
But you're just trying to make this a race thing aren't you!?!?
The cancelling of UO2, Hero's Journey, and MEO
www.play.net/hj -- I'm just sayin'.
Cactus... Germany... hmm.
Somewhere in my CD collection is a VNV Nation (I'm pretty sure it's VNV Nation... could be some other german electro-industrial type act tho) CD with this Cactus thing on it. Can't say I had any problem ripping the CD using Cdex. This could be off-topic, but I'm just sayin... they can call it copy protection if they want but if it don't work... More on topic: they're taking away my fair use rights -- screw that.
Email me if you want a gmail invite, cuz yahoo mail sucks. ;)
So, what you're saying is a developer under a hard deadline to complete a game and basically has to rush the thing out sucks, while a game that is made without such time constraints doesn't, right?
Somehow I don't think whether it's using a movie liscence or not matters there. It's just an issue of if the developer can take the time to give the game the polish it needs.
Maybe it was just me, but I actually liked Enter the Matrix. It was a short game and not particularly challenging, but it was fun, it had stuff from the actors and plenty of quality cutscenes without being intrusive about it. I guess it depends on your definition of "suck" -- if the majority has to like it, then I'm sure lots of games that are good suck, regardless of the movie license stuff. End rambling.
Wow, sucks for you. I had to send in my PS2 about... wow, over a year ago now. I had had it for JUST over the 1-year manufacturing warranty, but I called them up and the guy I talked to... well, I didn't have a receipt and I said it was about a year ago, he was cool with it and I shipped the thing off and they sent it back to me pretty fast, repairs and return shipping covered. I haven't had any problems with it since then.
So I've had it for about 2.5 years now without any major issues (when I sent it in it was basically because the disc reader was sort of messed up from dirt and what not but I wasn't about to open it up myself).
Anyway, I'm rambling but my point is these things are pretty sturdy and I don't think you can explain a solid 3 weeks of increased sales by a sudden surge of busted PS2 consoles.
No shit. A blog with all of FOUR posts. I fail to see how this is news. We just filled in number 2:
1. Make nonsenseical blog post.
2. Submit Slashdot Story
3. Profit!
Doesn't Microsoft also claim that their software shouldn't be used in mission-critical systems? Wouldn't you think that government systems quality (usually) as mission-critical?
Hooray for hypocracy.
I don't know about the rest of the UK, but in at least London the major mode of transportation is the tube (subway). So maybe it will change that you not only have to punch your ticket, but you have to swipe your ID card or passport so they know exactly where and when you boarded or left a station.
Will it actually work out that way? Who knows, but it's a scary thought.
"We've thrown it out of second- and third-story windows," said Capt. Dave Moreau, project officer for Dragon Runner at the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory in Quantico, Va. "We've thrown it off the back of a moving vehicle at 45 miles an hour."
If they can make the robot out of this stuff, why not make the whole Marine out of it?
Hmm.
Are you the Joe Sixpack everyone always talks about?
How about the feds crack down on the companies that make this terrible software in the first place?
Yea, it's the same principle as Amway/Quixtar (NBC's Dateline did a report on them not too long ago). People who think they can make money easy can just be obsessed freaks about it. Kind of scary how cult-ish it seems.
Questions of privacy also had to be addressed because the chips will use radio frequency identification technology to transmit data. Without protection, the technology theoretically might allow people--identity thieves, for example, or intelligence agents other than immigration officials--to electronically and surreptitiously determine the identity of a passport holder.
I hope that these passports will come with some kind of jacket of material that can stop the radio transmissions or whatever -- sorry, I'm not much of a geek to know the intricate details of that kind of thing. I really don't think that such protection should be limited to those "in the know" about such things -- all American citizens traveling abroad should be given an information packet about the dangers of leaving that sort of data exposed to anyone and everyone in the country you're visiting.
I'll take a wild guess that you didn't RTFA. Anyone can create the semacode thing that the phones read in. So, theoretically, you could put in the URL of a website like verizonwirelesseatspoop.com, make a semacode for it, then plaster that image all over the outside of your local Verizon Wireless outlet. Or you could put the URL for your blog in and plaster stuff outside your aparment, or whatever. Want to sell stuff? When you tack your ad on the corkboard at your local grocery store, you can include one of these semacode things on your print out to direct people to your website (or eBay page, whatever). And that's just off the top of my head. I'm sure there's plenty of much more interesting things that could be done.
a poll showing that the majority of Americans trust those machines.
I'm sure most of those Americans also think that computers work on magic and don't even begin to comprehend how things work under the hood. Same way most people are with cars, etc.
welcome our new wimpy overlords.
Er?
I'm sure the parade floats didn't go in water and weren't entirely human propelled. Get over yourself.
You can spin all these storylines as having some sort of political basis, but really, don't most game designers just pull this stuff out of their ass? Even if it turns out to be a decent storyline, I find it very difficult to imagine someone sitting down and trying to figure out how they can convey the message that "big corporations are evil" or whatever else. The only thing they're trying to do is come up with something that will hopefully be entertaining enough to sell enough game copies so they can get paid.
Too bad for the US. I can't be the only one that feels that, come November, we will have a president that once again did not get a majority vote.