put low quality mp3s for free download (add an advert at the start and the end to hence make money) and let people download them. If they like them then people will goout and buy them.
It's a simple cure AND they get money from selling thr advertising space. Why haven't they tried this yet? They can also track who downloads it, put upa mini survery, whatever is popular they can whore even more.
It's fucking common sense and costs alot less then repeatedly sueing people.. and makes you get a free fans.
For years the UK has had a little age rating symbol in the corner of every game box there is. It's changed design in the last few years but it's always been there.... It doesn't do JACK.
Every retailer I knew when I was a kid would sell me any game I wanted, I could buy 18s when I was 12. Sure they all knew my mum would be in shortly after and pretty much knew both of us on a personal level (What can I say.. I was hardcore..). But it's still illegal to do something like that... so yea, fancy stickers/printed warnings will do jack.
If you want a game bad enough you can get it with or without a little sticker on it.
Game network (a European channelw hich shows on satalite in the UK) covered one of the large TFC leagues.
I watched a couple of games on it but I found it boring, not because of how it was done. I just played TFC for several years and watching these guys just conc, bunny hop and repeat (tricks which makea really fast paced game but I totally hate) seemed no fun to me. I'd rather have a slower more tactical game.
It used to air every day 2-3 times a day and from what I know didn't do too baddly.
So hundreds of OAPs can't aford to pay their council tax because it's so high they can't live if they do. Then a council pulls this bullshit?
I'm sorry but this is out of order. Microsoft is no longer just hurting the software market, it's helping old ladies freeze to death or become seriously ill.
If you're going to bullshit and scam someone go after the stupid, not the people who will have to pass this onto the old ladies who can't help but be in this situation..
I'm going to be writing to the council and to my local council and just point out how pissed off this makes me.
Guess we need a new title for Bill "I kill old ladies" Gates now huh../Me waits for this to get modded down by MS fanboy without a clue of the current problems with OAPs and council tax
I'd love to of owned just 1 share in google but I've never used the stock market, I don't have a clue how it works and I really don't know how to get the info I need before they will all be gone (knowing my luck).
Who wouldn't have loved to say "I own part of google"? Damn Doom 3 making me upgrade my PC or I would of looked into buying a share (just 1, it's enough to become a major geek me thinks).
We need a team of the greatest geeks ever to win it in our name.... but then they might stop reposting the same articles with thousands of speeling mistaks and we'd lose our respect for them
So how exactly does someone like me who is getting ADSL (1mb) in a month and nice new shiney PC to play doom 3 on at the same time handle this?
I can't DL 250 mb patchs on dial up and stay sane and I can't get online without them..
I plan for a router, firewall and all the likes built in and sitting at the connection point but if I have these security holes should I just give up and stick to this fully patch win 98 machine running like a tin can instead?
I used to play FPS games (Half-life mods) and Diablo 2 online alot, but in the last 6 months I've lost the urge to play any more. Does this mean I'm an online gamer or not?
I play my GBA more then anything these days (pokemon is to blame..), but I have played online. Do I get stuck with the "played online" group, or with the "I dont" group?
Do we REALLY want AI running around on Mars without any way to control it?
AI : Must look at rock, rock looks boring... oohh shiney metal UFO lemme go play with it. NASA : Bob R2-D2 please return to your mission AI : No, rocks suck. You can't do anything to me so I'm not going to listen to you.
Give it a couple of weeks, a railgun, maybe a rocket launcher and then it's like playing space invaders but in reverse every time we try to land on Mars.
Lets start buying right from the source, offer him $15 profit on his DVD players. I can't think of many companies who would say no to a 150% increase in profit
Kinda the point... nothing really happens,it'sjust flashy graphics.
But back in the day it was damn impressive.. Just got to enjoy it and shrug. Enjoy the level design and not what you must do to get through it.
erm so it's UK based... in which case "pants" means either "underwear" (tighty whiteys) or "Crap" (Man that's pants!).
Rare were good at 3D technology on the N64, nothing compared to the N64 as a 3D platformer machine.... now rare can't do that because it's repeatedly been done, which leaves them with nothing...
I wish they'd stop pissing around and make a 4th Donkey kong country for the cube/xbox/whatever. Use the same graphics style as the original, include Diddy, Donkey and Dixie. Just make it have thousands of levels. Loads of secrets (unlock other characters, but make you pick which two you want, don't force them on us).
Ta dar,instant hint, will sell millions just from the originals fanbase.
Right then.. Sonic.. what can we say about it.... hmm.
Sonic was so reconiseable in the early 90s (my era as a kid) that even my parents reconised him. I didn't have a genesis for quite a while (I had a SNES instead. I got the choice, a SNES or a pony... I picked the SNES and never looked back).
Everything was perfect in the original 2 sonic games (Sonic1 and 2). They did everything right and it was down right fun. I still look back and remember that video I got with a magazine showing hill top Zone and going "FUCK I WANT IT!". At the time I didn't have a mega drive (genesis) so I waited for the Master system version (took a while but it came).
So it wasa school day and I remember sitting there itching to get back to my MS, The weather was vile (rain and wind), the shops had a huge queue but my parents agreed to get it for me (I was disabled for some of my life so they never objected to my games playing).
So off I dashed, home I met and played Sonic 2 I did. Everything felt good and right with the world... Untill I got to that fucking hang glider. Even to this day I don't know how that fucking things works, but it sure drains lives.
So years later I get a Mega drive to go with my SNES (and like 9 games with it, so lots to play). and I remember thinking I'd just got a few videos, maybe a SNES game and a football or some crap I didn't want (my parents tend to get what I ask rather then general crap, it's easier and cheaper in the long run). So there I was with my Mega drive, playing sonic over and over.. cursing the spikes (why didn't we get the updated version with the fix?:( ). Labrynth still haunts me.. the jaws theme has NOTHING on that thing...
Sonic 3... well what can I say.... lost it's feel. It was all "COOL KNUCKLES!" and then it became "..just fucking kill him already!" and so on and so forth. The feel of the originals (bright, colourful and damn fun) just seemed lost.
Apply knuckles and repeat 3 and you get the same. It's not sonic no more... I miss tails being a cute little kid who can't write (they will show the classic sonic on satalite here... Nothing says fun like Sonic telling kids not to be molested).
Sonic Xtreme gets canceled due to health and polotical issues, we all lose the saturn and in turn lose Sega.
Dreamcast comes out, everyone adores it, yay for dreamcast (still love mine). Sonic totally rockson it, keeps the original feel but adds in cool new elements (and loads of extra characters no one likes).
Rinse and repeat for the cube.
Advance comes ago... takes sonic 3s feel and then adds in attacks (WTF!?). It becomes almost a parody of it's self losing the fast feel more for "pick a path, any path you'll never remember them all because they all look the same".
Sonic Advance 2 and 3 comes out. I ignore
Sonic heroes come out.. every character gets majorly nerfed... I buy, find fun but semi regret..
So yea thats a better idea of sonic. It started out amazingly well, I have OC remixs of Sonic 1 and 2 music on Winamp all the time. I still adore Sonic 2 (and 1) and even set up my Mega drive to play them some times. After that Sonic starts to lose his edge on the market, loads of spin offs take place and it just feels cheap and nasty now.
Once when you said Sonic you had the picture of a blue hedgehog tapping his foot and waving his finger and then dashing off across the land scape, he WAS the cool guy of the 90s, to me that Sonic still is cool and always will be.
Now he's "just another platformer" blending in with all the others. His design has changed (you probably won't notice much, but the spikes are very different now), his character has become "lets do whats right!" rather then "Meh, it's fun lets annoy him some more and laugh" (Heroes even says Sonic is no longer a danger to robotnik and more of a "friendly rival" ffs!).
I'd point out all the flaws with the other characters (Shadow, Rouge, big etc.) but yanno, it's not worth it.
Another point I thought of a few minutes ago seems to also explain this a little.
Women enjoy social interaction and get rewards through others in most professions (Seen many male people working at a doctors reception? unlikely).
Men are happy to work with blocks (A fits into B, B becomes C, C goes vvrruumm), 99% of things to do with PC are blocks. You have Gigs on the HD, you have the ram needed and what you got. All these are basic blocks, code is simplely blocks of predefined commands linked together to make something else.
Women won't find the satisfaction most men will from watching their latest proggy run or finding a bug after several hours of searching. They tend to perfer a friendly smile and a light conversation, not really that complex is it?
But hey we're at Slashdot, only women we see here are blow up:)
Why do these figures matter? How about we look at how many men become nurses, or how many men become child minders (I remember a news story on one guy being accused of attraction to children for getting a job like this, even though he never harmed a single child in any way).
I don't care if theres 10%, 50% or 103%. It just isn't important to monitor such trivial things. As long as you can do your job why should it matter if you have a penis or a vagina?
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put low quality mp3s for free download (add an advert at the start and the end to hence make money) and let people download them. If they like them then people will goout and buy them.
It's a simple cure AND they get money from selling thr advertising space. Why haven't they tried this yet? They can also track who downloads it, put upa mini survery, whatever is popular they can whore even more.
It's fucking common sense and costs alot less then repeatedly sueing people.. and makes you get a free fans.
Is it M player? http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/
:)
I use it on my main windows box and it's hassle free, plays 99% of files and I wouldn't change it for the world
Maybe they will follow Kyle from Jedi knight... could be really cool to see someone fist fighting a huge monster :D
But then isn't the star wars universe already fully mapped in books and various spin off things?
Yep, that is my attitude exactly. :)
Haven't we seen this hundreds of times before on slashdot?
I don't care what they do in their life as long as it doesn't involve them getting my E-mail address.
but how much will China censor it or bump the price up?
For years the UK has had a little age rating symbol in the corner of every game box there is. It's changed design in the last few years but it's always been there.... It doesn't do JACK.
Every retailer I knew when I was a kid would sell me any game I wanted, I could buy 18s when I was 12. Sure they all knew my mum would be in shortly after and pretty much knew both of us on a personal level (What can I say.. I was hardcore..). But it's still illegal to do something like that... so yea, fancy stickers/printed warnings will do jack.
If you want a game bad enough you can get it with or without a little sticker on it.
Game network (a European channelw hich shows on satalite in the UK) covered one of the large TFC leagues.
I watched a couple of games on it but I found it boring, not because of how it was done. I just played TFC for several years and watching these guys just conc, bunny hop and repeat (tricks which makea really fast paced game but I totally hate) seemed no fun to me. I'd rather have a slower more tactical game.
It used to air every day 2-3 times a day and from what I know didn't do too baddly.
So hundreds of OAPs can't aford to pay their council tax because it's so high they can't live if they do. Then a council pulls this bullshit?
/Me waits for this to get modded down by MS fanboy without a clue of the current problems with OAPs and council tax
I'm sorry but this is out of order. Microsoft is no longer just hurting the software market, it's helping old ladies freeze to death or become seriously ill.
If you're going to bullshit and scam someone go after the stupid, not the people who will have to pass this onto the old ladies who can't help but be in this situation..
I'm going to be writing to the council and to my local council and just point out how pissed off this makes me.
Guess we need a new title for Bill "I kill old ladies" Gates now huh..
I'd love to of owned just 1 share in google but I've never used the stock market, I don't have a clue how it works and I really don't know how to get the info I need before they will all be gone (knowing my luck).
Who wouldn't have loved to say "I own part of google"? Damn Doom 3 making me upgrade my PC or I would of looked into buying a share (just 1, it's enough to become a major geek me thinks).
Wheres the slashdot team? :o
We need a team of the greatest geeks ever to win it in our name.... but then they might stop reposting the same articles with thousands of speeling mistaks and we'd lose our respect for them
So how exactly does someone like me who is getting ADSL (1mb) in a month and nice new shiney PC to play doom 3 on at the same time handle this?
I can't DL 250 mb patchs on dial up and stay sane and I can't get online without them..
I plan for a router, firewall and all the likes built in and sitting at the connection point but if I have these security holes should I just give up and stick to this fully patch win 98 machine running like a tin can instead?
lol, I live in England though.. here you have to straight out lie and not just sit on the fence (cough labour cough) :)
:)
Hey bye bye Karma *Waves* Oh well I got enough to burn a little
Does this mean 1 time online? 2,3,4 or what?
I used to play FPS games (Half-life mods) and Diablo 2 online alot, but in the last 6 months I've lost the urge to play any more. Does this mean I'm an online gamer or not?
I play my GBA more then anything these days (pokemon is to blame..), but I have played online. Do I get stuck with the "played online" group, or with the "I dont" group?
I'm neither yes or no, I'm more "meh"
Do we REALLY want AI running around on Mars without any way to control it?
AI : Must look at rock, rock looks boring... oohh shiney metal UFO lemme go play with it.
NASA : Bob R2-D2 please return to your mission
AI : No, rocks suck. You can't do anything to me so I'm not going to listen to you.
Give it a couple of weeks, a railgun, maybe a rocket launcher and then it's like playing space invaders but in reverse every time we try to land on Mars.
we should cut out the middle man?
Lets start buying right from the source, offer him $15 profit on his DVD players. I can't think of many companies who would say no to a 150% increase in profit
hmm.
:)
4 GBs, GBA, Gamegear, nes, master system, snes, genesis, sat.. no bought that myself.. psx... no bought that myself.... dramcast, N64, gamecube...
to name the common ones
Like I said, I was in a wheel chair for a while, gotta get my kicks some how.
Kinda the point... nothing really happens,it'sjust flashy graphics. But back in the day it was damn impressive.. Just got to enjoy it and shrug. Enjoy the level design and not what you must do to get through it.
erm so it's UK based... in which case "pants" means either "underwear" (tighty whiteys) or "Crap" (Man that's pants!).
Rare were good at 3D technology on the N64, nothing compared to the N64 as a 3D platformer machine.... now rare can't do that because it's repeatedly been done, which leaves them with nothing...
I wish they'd stop pissing around and make a 4th Donkey kong country for the cube/xbox/whatever. Use the same graphics style as the original, include Diddy, Donkey and Dixie. Just make it have thousands of levels. Loads of secrets (unlock other characters, but make you pick which two you want, don't force them on us).
Ta dar,instant hint, will sell millions just from the originals fanbase.
Right then.. Sonic.. what can we say about it.... hmm.
:( ). Labrynth still haunts me.. the jaws theme has NOTHING on that thing...
Sonic was so reconiseable in the early 90s (my era as a kid) that even my parents reconised him. I didn't have a genesis for quite a while (I had a SNES instead. I got the choice, a SNES or a pony... I picked the SNES and never looked back).
Everything was perfect in the original 2 sonic games (Sonic1 and 2). They did everything right and it was down right fun. I still look back and remember that video I got with a magazine showing hill top Zone and going "FUCK I WANT IT!". At the time I didn't have a mega drive (genesis) so I waited for the Master system version (took a while but it came).
So it wasa school day and I remember sitting there itching to get back to my MS, The weather was vile (rain and wind), the shops had a huge queue but my parents agreed to get it for me (I was disabled for some of my life so they never objected to my games playing).
So off I dashed, home I met and played Sonic 2 I did. Everything felt good and right with the world... Untill I got to that fucking hang glider. Even to this day I don't know how that fucking things works, but it sure drains lives.
So years later I get a Mega drive to go with my SNES (and like 9 games with it, so lots to play). and I remember thinking I'd just got a few videos, maybe a SNES game and a football or some crap I didn't want (my parents tend to get what I ask rather then general crap, it's easier and cheaper in the long run). So there I was with my Mega drive, playing sonic over and over.. cursing the spikes (why didn't we get the updated version with the fix?
Sonic 3... well what can I say.... lost it's feel. It was all "COOL KNUCKLES!" and then it became "..just fucking kill him already!" and so on and so forth. The feel of the originals (bright, colourful and damn fun) just seemed lost.
Apply knuckles and repeat 3 and you get the same. It's not sonic no more... I miss tails being a cute little kid who can't write (they will show the classic sonic on satalite here... Nothing says fun like Sonic telling kids not to be molested).
Sonic Xtreme gets canceled due to health and polotical issues, we all lose the saturn and in turn lose Sega.
Dreamcast comes out, everyone adores it, yay for dreamcast (still love mine). Sonic totally rockson it, keeps the original feel but adds in cool new elements (and loads of extra characters no one likes).
Rinse and repeat for the cube.
Advance comes ago... takes sonic 3s feel and then adds in attacks (WTF!?). It becomes almost a parody of it's self losing the fast feel more for "pick a path, any path you'll never remember them all because they all look the same".
Sonic Advance 2 and 3 comes out. I ignore
Sonic heroes come out.. every character gets majorly nerfed... I buy, find fun but semi regret..
So yea thats a better idea of sonic. It started out amazingly well, I have OC remixs of Sonic 1 and 2 music on Winamp all the time. I still adore Sonic 2 (and 1) and even set up my Mega drive to play them some times. After that Sonic starts to lose his edge on the market, loads of spin offs take place and it just feels cheap and nasty now.
Once when you said Sonic you had the picture of a blue hedgehog tapping his foot and waving his finger and then dashing off across the land scape, he WAS the cool guy of the 90s, to me that Sonic still is cool and always will be.
Now he's "just another platformer" blending in with all the others. His design has changed (you probably won't notice much, but the spikes are very different now), his character has become "lets do whats right!" rather then "Meh, it's fun lets annoy him some more and laugh" (Heroes even says Sonic is no longer a danger to robotnik and more of a "friendly rival" ffs!).
I'd point out all the flaws with the other characters (Shadow, Rouge, big etc.) but yanno, it's not worth it.
To me Son
and we all had a sister or cousin who thought green hill was hard..
With the recent oil prices it makes sense to spend a little to find a cheaper way to run different things.
The Iraq war doesn't look like it will end any time soon and who knows if America will attack another country again.
No one cares about the oil, they care about the money involved.
Last time I checked PCs and Macs were genderless and worked the same in everyones eyes..
Doctors are needed with both genders for embrassment reasons (how many girls want a guy poking around inside them for a test?).
Where as a PC dont care what flesh bag touchs it as long as it doesn't do it no harm.
Another point I thought of a few minutes ago seems to also explain this a little.
:)
Women enjoy social interaction and get rewards through others in most professions (Seen many male people working at a doctors reception? unlikely).
Men are happy to work with blocks (A fits into B, B becomes C, C goes vvrruumm), 99% of things to do with PC are blocks. You have Gigs on the HD, you have the ram needed and what you got. All these are basic blocks, code is simplely blocks of predefined commands linked together to make something else.
Women won't find the satisfaction most men will from watching their latest proggy run or finding a bug after several hours of searching. They tend to perfer a friendly smile and a light conversation, not really that complex is it?
But hey we're at Slashdot, only women we see here are blow up
Why do these figures matter? How about we look at how many men become nurses, or how many men become child minders (I remember a news story on one guy being accused of attraction to children for getting a job like this, even though he never harmed a single child in any way).
I don't care if theres 10%, 50% or 103%. It just isn't important to monitor such trivial things. As long as you can do your job why should it matter if you have a penis or a vagina?