Good horror movies have the full range- Bears and Lightning are joined by scary things like Shame, Shit, Disease, Getting Old, Falling in Love, Going Crazy, Telling Lies, Betrayal, Weird People, and Does God Exist? among others.
And who says videogames don't have that? In Silent Hill 1, due to bad decisions in the game, I had to kill Cybil (a cop in the game who helped you go through a lot of stuff) because she went zombie.
As I approached and she tried to give me a last shot, I had to give her the final blow. Later this followed a scene where Charles was depressed (or was it my imagination / distorted memory? Even better) because he had killed her. Congratulations! You're now a murderer.
In SH3, Heather has a dicussion with this guy in glasses, where he hints at the possibility that heather might not be killing monsters, but other human beings.
Videogames can force you to do evil things JUST FOR THE SAKE OF CONTINUING THE GAME. Personally, I don't like those kind of decisions in the games, but the point is that videogames can do everything movies do to mess with your head. If they don't, it's because of stupid corporate decisions and that old "but that doesn't sell" crap.
I'd have to vote for the moment when the green alien dude (whom you've mistaken for a fellow astronaut in need of rescue from a forbidding otherworldly fractal-scape) pops up in front of your damn windshield and starts banging his way into your spaceship
That reminds me of this other survival horror game in the 80's. Project Firestart. Has anyone here played it?
I've also played the Alien Doom mod, and i loved it. Altho i also felt the same fear by playing the Aliens game in the C64, stage 2. You know you had to go through an alien area, that aliens come out of everywhere and you can't run away. And still, you have to go there.
One of the things that make survival horror games so attracting is that you can die in many horrendous ways. I still remember Harry Mason of SH1 getting caught and eaten by that tentacle thing in the kitchen. Or how Heather's body was dragged by Vatiel after being killed.
Another thing is the first-person perspective, and the fear you experience from having "lived" similar situations in the past. You hear some dogs howling, you can't see barely anything, while your radio keeps playing that static louder and louder.
You just can't make these things happen in a movie. You don't know how the character is going to get killed, because you can't replay. You don't face the consequences of making a decision (left or right?), and are only limited to being a mere witness of the events. In a movie you can't feel the fear of getting killed after realizing you're out of healing items.
Videogames are simply the best of the "worst" that has happened in the horror genre.
To summarize, I'd like to quote the motto for the Silent Hill 3 propaganda: "Everything you never wanted to see."
You fail to see the point in here. Microsoft has become a living entity. It's not Gates, nor Ballmer. It's Microsoft itself, along with its shareholders and leaders. Its corporate structure has been adapted to become a monopoly, and to step on everything to fulfill its goals. Anyone disagreeing with it is rejected, and seen as a pathogen agent to keep the system running.
Microsoft has become a cancer for the free world, and it must die.
This reminds me of a political joke I heard somewhere. I've adapted it to programming.
God was in a good mood and decided to give virtues to people. One day he decided to give all the programmers in the world three virtues:
They would be smart, well-intentioned, and work for Microsoft. But an angel told him: Hey, wait a minute, aren't they too many virtues? "You're right", said God. "They'll have these virtues but a person can only have two of these virtues at the same time".
Since then, programmers in the world were divided in the three following groups:
Programmers who were smart and well-intentioned, couldn't work for Microsoft. Programmers who were smart and worked for Microsoft, couldn't be well-intentioned. Programmers who were well-intentioned and worked for Microsoft, couldn't be smart.
it was an IMPOSED, HARDCODED limit WITHOUT ASKING the user. They could just add a registry entry of "maximum network packets per millisecond when playing multimedia files" or something.
Microsoft has a long history of hardcoding stuff without thinking of power users. Remember the 10-limit for open TCP connections per program? They did this because viruses and malware open many TCP connections. "Hey, what about P2P?" "What's P2P?".
Here's a thought that has been "bugging" me (lol) for a while.
If the US had allowed encryption to be freely used on the net (PGP, https, etc), all of us would be using https to read our e-mail, post on forums, etc.
And encryption would be taken for granted. If a company neglected to use encryption in phones, it would come to the news and this would be called "The bug-gate".
But thanks to homeland security (and US trading laws), people have been slowly forced into using insecure channels for everything. Isn't this ironic?
Let students bring protest cards saying "NO TO THE MAFIAA", "Don't take away my rights", "DMCA is EVIL", "09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0" and so on:)
1. A few days *before* his visit, open a debate in your classroom about filesharing, DMCA, DRM, piracy and the music and film industries' business models. Make your students do a research paper on it for homework (the homework will be BEFORE the class debate), and give the homework a +1 point over the final exam.
Perhaps you can research a little and give some pointers (links) that they can use for the research i.e. hackers' rants, slashdot posts, the 09 F9 scandal, and so on.
2. Invite the students to ask any questions they had when the MPAA Senior comes. (I'm sure that after being educated with the debate, they'll ask questions on playing movies on Linux machines, DMCA, the broken DRM security model and so on).
3. Buy some popcorn and enjoy the fun. Trust me, It will get more embarrassing than Bill Gates' BSOD on the Win98 presentation.;-)
Oh, that's right. one of the worst factories ever with regard to the environment; an Integrated Circuit Fab. I like it when hippies talk about how perfect solar is. Let's not forget that we need nasty chemicals like Arsenic to make solar cells.
So, it sounds like a rootkit as described by wikipedia.
Not for long! *rushes to edit wikipedia*
"A rootkit is a set of software tools intended to conceal running processes, files or system data from the operating system, except when it's with Sony products"
There! Now by definition, sony's isn't a rootkit anymore!:D
(Legal Disclaimer: This was actually a joke, I didn't vandalize wikipedia or the like. <-- you can't never be too sure these days)
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Good horror movies have the full range- Bears and Lightning are joined by scary things like Shame, Shit, Disease, Getting Old, Falling in Love, Going Crazy, Telling Lies, Betrayal, Weird People, and Does God Exist? among others.
And who says videogames don't have that? In Silent Hill 1, due to bad decisions in the game, I had to kill Cybil (a cop in the game who helped you go through a lot of stuff) because she went zombie.
As I approached and she tried to give me a last shot, I had to give her the final blow. Later this followed a scene where Charles was depressed (or was it my imagination / distorted memory? Even better) because he had killed her. Congratulations! You're now a murderer.
In SH3, Heather has a dicussion with this guy in glasses, where he hints at the possibility that heather might not be killing monsters, but other human beings.
Videogames can force you to do evil things JUST FOR THE SAKE OF CONTINUING THE GAME. Personally, I don't like those kind of decisions in the games, but the point is that videogames can do everything movies do to mess with your head. If they don't, it's because of stupid corporate decisions and that old "but that doesn't sell" crap.
I'd have to vote for the moment when the green alien dude (whom you've mistaken for a fellow astronaut in need of rescue from a forbidding otherworldly fractal-scape) pops up in front of your damn windshield and starts banging his way into your spaceship
That reminds me of this other survival horror game in the 80's. Project Firestart. Has anyone here played it?
Where as in a game you take control and must continue the fear to continue the plot.
BTW, Have you guys thought that making a Silent Hill series (a-la "24" or "Lost") would be a hit?
Oh look, someone has dropped his iPhone in this box! And they left a note with a name and phone number!
(Some time later)...
"Do you have the info?"
"The info is right here in this envelope, it will cost you $150."
On the envelope:
(There's a key for a locker, and a paper.
On the paper:
"Your unlocked iPhone is in locker #4335 on building XYZ, the combination for the lock is 45-34-27-2."
(Later, on the building:
"Hey, look, the iPhone i had accidentally lost! How kind of them!"
(Is this actually legal, or is there a law against it?)
(ok who was the idiot who modded it funny?)
I've also played the Alien Doom mod, and i loved it. Altho i also felt the same fear by playing the Aliens game in the C64, stage 2. You know you had to go through an alien area, that aliens come out of everywhere and you can't run away. And still, you have to go there.
One of the things that make survival horror games so attracting is that you can die in many horrendous ways. I still remember Harry Mason of SH1 getting caught and eaten by that tentacle thing in the kitchen. Or how Heather's body was dragged by Vatiel after being killed.
Another thing is the first-person perspective, and the fear you experience from having "lived" similar situations in the past. You hear some dogs howling, you can't see barely anything, while your radio keeps playing that static louder and louder.
You just can't make these things happen in a movie. You don't know how the character is going to get killed, because you can't replay. You don't face the consequences of making a decision (left or right?), and are only limited to being a mere witness of the events. In a movie you can't feel the fear of getting killed after realizing you're out of healing items.
Videogames are simply the best of the "worst" that has happened in the horror genre.
To summarize, I'd like to quote the motto for the Silent Hill 3 propaganda: "Everything you never wanted to see."
Steal what you can, "retired" Mr. Gates.
You fail to see the point in here. Microsoft has become a living entity. It's not Gates, nor Ballmer. It's Microsoft itself, along with its shareholders and leaders. Its corporate structure has been adapted to become a monopoly, and to step on everything to fulfill its goals. Anyone disagreeing with it is rejected, and seen as a pathogen agent to keep the system running.
Microsoft has become a cancer for the free world, and it must die.
This reminds me of a political joke I heard somewhere. I've adapted it to programming.
God was in a good mood and decided to give virtues to people. One day he decided to give all the programmers in the world three virtues:
They would be smart, well-intentioned, and work for Microsoft. But an angel told him: Hey, wait a minute, aren't they too many virtues?
"You're right", said God. "They'll have these virtues but a person can only have two of these virtues at the same time".
Since then, programmers in the world were divided in the three following groups:
Programmers who were smart and well-intentioned, couldn't work for Microsoft.
Programmers who were smart and worked for Microsoft, couldn't be well-intentioned.
Programmers who were well-intentioned and worked for Microsoft, couldn't be smart.
is not that Microsoft bought all those votes - but that the ISO let them. And that we can't do anything about it. Or can we? I'd love to know how.
it was an IMPOSED, HARDCODED limit WITHOUT ASKING the user. They could just add a registry entry of "maximum network packets per millisecond when playing multimedia files" or something.
Microsoft has a long history of hardcoding stuff without thinking of power users. Remember the 10-limit for open TCP connections per program? They did this because viruses and malware open many TCP connections. "Hey, what about P2P?" "What's P2P?".
Here's a thought that has been "bugging" me (lol) for a while.
If the US had allowed encryption to be freely used on the net (PGP, https, etc), all of us would be using https to read our e-mail, post on forums, etc.
And encryption would be taken for granted. If a company neglected to use encryption in phones, it would come to the news and this would be called "The bug-gate".
But thanks to homeland security (and US trading laws), people have been slowly forced into using insecure channels for everything.
Isn't this ironic?
Let students bring protest cards saying "NO TO THE MAFIAA", "Don't take away my rights", "DMCA is EVIL", "09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0" and so on :)
1. A few days *before* his visit, open a debate in your classroom about filesharing, DMCA, DRM, piracy and the music and film industries' business models. Make your students do a research paper on it for homework (the homework will be BEFORE the class debate), and give the homework a +1 point over the final exam.
;-)
Perhaps you can research a little and give some pointers (links) that they can use for the research i.e. hackers' rants, slashdot posts, the 09 F9 scandal, and so on.
2. Invite the students to ask any questions they had when the MPAA Senior comes.
(I'm sure that after being educated with the debate, they'll ask questions on playing movies on Linux machines, DMCA, the broken DRM security model and so on).
3. Buy some popcorn and enjoy the fun. Trust me, It will get more embarrassing than Bill Gates' BSOD on the Win98 presentation.
Oh, that's right. one of the worst factories ever with regard to the environment; an Integrated Circuit Fab. I like it when hippies talk about how perfect solar is. Let's not forget that we need nasty chemicals like Arsenic to make solar cells.
*ahem ahem*
Berkeley Scientists Synthesize Cheap, Easy-to-Make Ultra-thin Photovoltaic Films
40% efficient solar cells to be used for solar electricity
Titania nanotubes could boost solar cell efficiency
Pink solar cells provide green power on the cheap
Carbon nanotubes could help make nanoparticle-based solar cells more efficient and practical.
Quantum Dots Enables New Advances in Solar Cell Industry
Green and cheap enough for ya?
Is Microsoft obliged to provide new technology for old versions of Windows, free of cost?
... and this is why the OS manufacturer shouldn't be the same company that makes the multimedia API's.
Computer gaming sucks
:)
Except for emulation
Just use a web anonymizer for the search.
Just remember your IP is recorded :P
So, it sounds like a rootkit as described by wikipedia.
:D
Not for long! *rushes to edit wikipedia*
"A rootkit is a set of software tools intended to conceal running processes, files or system data from the operating system, except when it's with Sony products"
There! Now by definition, sony's isn't a rootkit anymore!
(Legal Disclaimer: This was actually a joke, I didn't vandalize wikipedia or the like. <-- you can't never be too sure these days)
WGA *IS* the problem.
Someone managed to record the monkeys and upload the footage. Here's the url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj25gRwsZmE
PGP.
From TFA:
Blech. X-(
Gee, this thing has got "prior art" written all over its face.
The shell is a working Bourne shell
I knew it! Jason Bourne was involved in this!