That hacker who went in look for UFOs doesn't seem so crazy now does he? If they're hiding whole planets surely a few space ships/bases/fleets would be simple.
Microsoft have the money to sit on the courtcase for years and years. Most people (and companies) can't aford to have a decade long legal battle without going bankrupt, so they stay out of Microsoft's yard. It's like saying "Tresspassers will be shot", it's very unlikely they will be shot, but do you risk your neck for it?
The sun majorly outsells it and guides the average "white van drivers" opinion more then anything else in history. It's porn and news (with a racist-pro Britian-anti Europe biast) in 1.
Microsoft doesn't need to go open source. It needs to play by the damn rules. If we have industry standards for 99% of the market then 1% of the market (who happens to have the whole pie except for crumbs) ignores them, then we end up with a pointless industry working against each other.
Get MS to play by the rules set out by the other people and we'll have a better industry for all. Maybe it won't be perfect and it sure won't solve every problem, but everyones problems will be more inline rather than the "Linux VS Mac VS Windows" bullshit we have going on in it now.
Please STFU. Pokemon RPGs are a lot more indepth then people give them credit for. Each pokemon stats wise have hundreds of varients and tactics, far more then the latest FF menu slogging interactive movie.
When you can tell me what EV, IVs and base stats are relating to pokemon and I might listen to you're opinion. Untill then you're taking cheap shots at a fantastic RPG series which happens to be easy enough to pick up and play it's marketed to kids.
Theres a lot of open source games, get them into one of them then get some guys to add some new content and such.
You then explain how OSS works and if any of them make any content (maybe even some new clothes in a game or whatever). Explain how they are now "part of the system" and they should spread stuff on and such, so then everyone benefits and gets a better game because everyone shares.
Is this another case of "Some one else did it so we'll do a poor wannabe and attract Joe Nobody"? No wonder Vista is so delayed, they keep making side projects which just can't compete with Google.
Give up, fix the OS then MAYBE we'll want to use your stuff not just mock you childishly.
Two of which are documentry series names on British TV.. wouldn't that be a giggle, seeing MS trying to sue the BBC for something already named 20 years ago.
For the last 15 years theres nothing I wanted more. After hearing all the crap which goes around I decided I'd be better off becoming a tech support guy instead. Start a local based company, goto peoples houses, fixs basic crap, rake in the money, don't lose my wife and kids because I work too much if I ever get either.
May not be my dream but at least I don't end up as some slave who has to sleep in an office chair for 2 hours a day.
There's no such thing as a bubble, just a time to invest and a time to get out. If you follow the fads you'll sooner or later miss the train and end up with nothing, in the current culture people always rush to get money, so everyone rushs and the prices go sky high. 6 months later everyone goes "oh time to take the money and put it in the next one". It goes on and on untill some huge event which kills all the sheeps money in 1 big go.
Stay away from fads and trends and a "bubble" will never effect you, follow them and you risk losing it all for short term gains if you're lucky.
The Amiga always seemed to he the rich mans Commadore 64. I have no idea why but them little disks always seemed to be in the hands of rich kids where as us "normal" kids had tapes.
Then again maybe that's just how I bitterly remember it because everyone with an Amiga had Lemmings and all I had was Flimbo's quest. Although it was quite impressive when it stopped working after an entire year of 12+ hours use a day..:)
So they add a new label and it's done with. It's the same game it was last week, the same game it was last month and the same game it'll be tomorrow.
GTA:SA will sell no matter the age rating, anyone who wanted it already had it or knows where to get it. It's like closing the stable door once the horse has bolted.
The "it's for the children" groups will see this as a victory. The game industry will shrug and go "oh well" and the gamers will go "STFU and get over it, it's a game".
That's how life works. Give it a month and they'll find another way to attack GTA, do very little (oh they changed a letter and added another to the rating GASP! Think of the ink it'll use!), rinse and repeat.
Maybe we should start pointing out how GTA:SA is infact a POSITIVE story about a guy trying to get out the ghetto and deal with corrupt officials with too much power.
yea, I find that funny myself. So many people think the house of lords is a joke but they are the last line of defence against a truely idiotic government.
We used to be able to point and go "look at them silly yanks, isn't it funny" now we're in the same position with insane laws being pushed at us for no reason at all.
Only difference here is they admit it'll cost us £100 (per card ffs), even though we all know they'll do nothing.
If ID cards come into the country then I'll refuse to carry one and won't pay (if it's taxed then theres not much I can do about that). I'll carry my driving licence and my old college ID (both have pictures of me), but nothing more.
These things are as insecure as any other card and can/will be cloned and faked over and over. If I refuse to carry one and am in need of some emergency medical attenction (for example) I highlight doubt the NHS will refuse to fix me up if I don't have it on me. I can see on the other hand it being a lot of hassle to go see a doctor but I'm willing to make allownaces for what I see as idiotic government trying to force something they'll find profitable on us.
I live in the UK and we're getting the same things happening to us as the US is getting, doesn't it just make you want to walk up to Bush/Blaire and go
"Oi idiot, Terrorism is already illegal, you can make all the laws you like, but you're not going to stop some nutter slapping bombs to his chest and blowing himself and anyone else near up".
Most suicide bombers are prepared to die, if they kill 1 or 100 guys. They'll blow themselvs up at the slightest chance of them being caught, so why the hell do they think this does anything but endanger police and security officers?
So if Rockstar is responsible for content they removed which got revealed later (If you can't access it legally it's been removed from the game pretty much), why arn't they recalling all Disney DVDs like the adventurers which contain 1 cel which is pornogrphic.
Surely if they're going to flip out about a game made for mature people (18+ in the UK) seeing some woman on a poster with her tits out is MUCH worse because it's labeled PG. Little kids will never notice it just as most people would never have known of the mod if all this press didn't come out about it.
I finished GTA:SA last night and all I can think is "So the corrupt politicans want to hide the story of a corrupt cop getting his ass handed to him" when it comes to all this pointless censorship.
Most idiots don't have a clue but claim they do. That's why so many people get hurt or ruin things doing DIY. Where as the true experts who do know what they are doing get so sick of the idiots they end up not caring for what they know about.
So sure Mrs. Smith might claim she knows how something works, but I claim to know how a clock works yet have no clue beyond "cogs and stuff" (to put it as simple as possible).
To claim knowledge does not mean you have it. It means you claimed it.
Sci fi has been stale for a long time. We're looking for the next big fix to kick it off. In the past we had "flying cars and silver panties for clothes in the year 2000". Now all we have is special effects and soaps in space.
When the next big thing comes along we'll see sci fi pick up, but untill then people will keep trying and failing to make anything but Star trek Mark 12 or the latest "lets hop planets" type fodder.
Is it just me or does anyone else find games fun because all you need is your thumbs?
I have bad legs (was born with a club foot etc. and had a lot of surgery to fix it, but still not perfect) and find things like this and DDR more painful then fun.
So for some people who can enjoy them, WTF is the fun in stamping on pads or riding trains?
and this is why people wonder why I get upset when they go "huh, what's a firewall?"
I've got so sick of people going "but my computer doesn't work any more, help me fix it", I've started to outright ignore/block/plot to murder anyone who refuses to run Zonealarm and adware/spybot.
It's just a shame we make so much money from this so we'd be better off not fixing it.
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That hacker who went in look for UFOs doesn't seem so crazy now does he? If they're hiding whole planets surely a few space ships/bases/fleets would be simple.
Microsoft have the money to sit on the courtcase for years and years. Most people (and companies) can't aford to have a decade long legal battle without going bankrupt, so they stay out of Microsoft's yard. It's like saying "Tresspassers will be shot", it's very unlikely they will be shot, but do you risk your neck for it?
The sun majorly outsells it and guides the average "white van drivers" opinion more then anything else in history. It's porn and news (with a racist-pro Britian-anti Europe biast) in 1.
Microsoft doesn't need to go open source. It needs to play by the damn rules. If we have industry standards for 99% of the market then 1% of the market (who happens to have the whole pie except for crumbs) ignores them, then we end up with a pointless industry working against each other.
Get MS to play by the rules set out by the other people and we'll have a better industry for all. Maybe it won't be perfect and it sure won't solve every problem, but everyones problems will be more inline rather than the "Linux VS Mac VS Windows" bullshit we have going on in it now.
Time to release more Pokemon games, stat!
Please STFU. Pokemon RPGs are a lot more indepth then people give them credit for. Each pokemon stats wise have hundreds of varients and tactics, far more then the latest FF menu slogging interactive movie.
When you can tell me what EV, IVs and base stats are relating to pokemon and I might listen to you're opinion. Untill then you're taking cheap shots at a fantastic RPG series which happens to be easy enough to pick up and play it's marketed to kids.
Theres a lot of open source games, get them into one of them then get some guys to add some new content and such.
You then explain how OSS works and if any of them make any content (maybe even some new clothes in a game or whatever). Explain how they are now "part of the system" and they should spread stuff on and such, so then everyone benefits and gets a better game because everyone shares.
Is this another case of "Some one else did it so we'll do a poor wannabe and attract Joe Nobody"? No wonder Vista is so delayed, they keep making side projects which just can't compete with Google.
Give up, fix the OS then MAYBE we'll want to use your stuff not just mock you childishly.
Instead of...
1. Find trademark word.
2. ???
3. Name product after it.
4. Sue their ass!
5. Profit!!!
Not like MS hasn't done this before right?
Two of which are documentry series names on British TV.. wouldn't that be a giggle, seeing MS trying to sue the BBC for something already named 20 years ago.
Indie companies work more as "if you know us, we'll let you in" and bigger companies are closer to EA then Indie.
EA is just doing what every major company wants to do. They got the boot in first and others will follow suit untill it's the norm.
Exactly the same here.
For the last 15 years theres nothing I wanted more. After hearing all the crap which goes around I decided I'd be better off becoming a tech support guy instead. Start a local based company, goto peoples houses, fixs basic crap, rake in the money, don't lose my wife and kids because I work too much if I ever get either.
May not be my dream but at least I don't end up as some slave who has to sleep in an office chair for 2 hours a day.
There's no such thing as a bubble, just a time to invest and a time to get out. If you follow the fads you'll sooner or later miss the train and end up with nothing, in the current culture people always rush to get money, so everyone rushs and the prices go sky high. 6 months later everyone goes "oh time to take the money and put it in the next one". It goes on and on untill some huge event which kills all the sheeps money in 1 big go.
Stay away from fads and trends and a "bubble" will never effect you, follow them and you risk losing it all for short term gains if you're lucky.
The Amiga always seemed to he the rich mans Commadore 64. I have no idea why but them little disks always seemed to be in the hands of rich kids where as us "normal" kids had tapes.
:)
Then again maybe that's just how I bitterly remember it because everyone with an Amiga had Lemmings and all I had was Flimbo's quest. Although it was quite impressive when it stopped working after an entire year of 12+ hours use a day..
So they add a new label and it's done with. It's the same game it was last week, the same game it was last month and the same game it'll be tomorrow.
GTA:SA will sell no matter the age rating, anyone who wanted it already had it or knows where to get it. It's like closing the stable door once the horse has bolted.
The "it's for the children" groups will see this as a victory. The game industry will shrug and go "oh well" and the gamers will go "STFU and get over it, it's a game".
That's how life works. Give it a month and they'll find another way to attack GTA, do very little (oh they changed a letter and added another to the rating GASP! Think of the ink it'll use!), rinse and repeat.
Maybe we should start pointing out how GTA:SA is infact a POSITIVE story about a guy trying to get out the ghetto and deal with corrupt officials with too much power.
yea, I find that funny myself. So many people think the house of lords is a joke but they are the last line of defence against a truely idiotic government.
We used to be able to point and go "look at them silly yanks, isn't it funny" now we're in the same position with insane laws being pushed at us for no reason at all.
Only difference here is they admit it'll cost us £100 (per card ffs), even though we all know they'll do nothing.
If ID cards come into the country then I'll refuse to carry one and won't pay (if it's taxed then theres not much I can do about that). I'll carry my driving licence and my old college ID (both have pictures of me), but nothing more.
These things are as insecure as any other card and can/will be cloned and faked over and over. If I refuse to carry one and am in need of some emergency medical attenction (for example) I highlight doubt the NHS will refuse to fix me up if I don't have it on me. I can see on the other hand it being a lot of hassle to go see a doctor but I'm willing to make allownaces for what I see as idiotic government trying to force something they'll find profitable on us.
I live in the UK and we're getting the same things happening to us as the US is getting, doesn't it just make you want to walk up to Bush/Blaire and go
"Oi idiot, Terrorism is already illegal, you can make all the laws you like, but you're not going to stop some nutter slapping bombs to his chest and blowing himself and anyone else near up".
Most suicide bombers are prepared to die, if they kill 1 or 100 guys. They'll blow themselvs up at the slightest chance of them being caught, so why the hell do they think this does anything but endanger police and security officers?
But you forget. For every 1 of you theres 50 guys who are the opposit.
Could anyone tell me if Guild wars is playable on 56k please?
Thanks.
Thanks Valve you JUST lost a sale. If you'd not pulled something this fucking retarded I would of bought the HL2 expansion, now I won't.
:)
Thanks you saved me money
So if Rockstar is responsible for content they removed which got revealed later (If you can't access it legally it's been removed from the game pretty much), why arn't they recalling all Disney DVDs like the adventurers which contain 1 cel which is pornogrphic.
Surely if they're going to flip out about a game made for mature people (18+ in the UK) seeing some woman on a poster with her tits out is MUCH worse because it's labeled PG. Little kids will never notice it just as most people would never have known of the mod if all this press didn't come out about it.
I finished GTA:SA last night and all I can think is "So the corrupt politicans want to hide the story of a corrupt cop getting his ass handed to him" when it comes to all this pointless censorship.
Most idiots don't have a clue but claim they do. That's why so many people get hurt or ruin things doing DIY. Where as the true experts who do know what they are doing get so sick of the idiots they end up not caring for what they know about.
So sure Mrs. Smith might claim she knows how something works, but I claim to know how a clock works yet have no clue beyond "cogs and stuff" (to put it as simple as possible).
To claim knowledge does not mean you have it. It means you claimed it.
I followed all of the new Doctor who and I'm looking to get the novels soon.
It was nice and some decent sci fi but it didn't explore other worlds enough IMO. But it's something to work from.
But then look at the rest of the stuff BBC are making and you'll see theres a lot of crap to balance it.
1 good series (well very old series retooled) doesn't save a genre.
Sci fi has been stale for a long time. We're looking for the next big fix to kick it off. In the past we had "flying cars and silver panties for clothes in the year 2000". Now all we have is special effects and soaps in space.
When the next big thing comes along we'll see sci fi pick up, but untill then people will keep trying and failing to make anything but Star trek Mark 12 or the latest "lets hop planets" type fodder.
Is it just me or does anyone else find games fun because all you need is your thumbs?
I have bad legs (was born with a club foot etc. and had a lot of surgery to fix it, but still not perfect) and find things like this and DDR more painful then fun.
So for some people who can enjoy them, WTF is the fun in stamping on pads or riding trains?
and this is why people wonder why I get upset when they go "huh, what's a firewall?"
I've got so sick of people going "but my computer doesn't work any more, help me fix it", I've started to outright ignore/block/plot to murder anyone who refuses to run Zonealarm and adware/spybot.
It's just a shame we make so much money from this so we'd be better off not fixing it.