At the time, I didn't really have any kind of scoreboard going in regard to which one I disliked more. All I knew was:
I disliked both of them
Living in Texas, Bush was likely to win no matter how I voted
There was a candidate that I preferred
Voting for someone else would rank me among the "Other" group, but would still be a statement to the two major parties saying "I don't like the choices you're giving me"
So, rather than picking what I perceived as the lesser of two evils (which I honestly could not decide at the time), I picked who I would prefer to be President, based on my personal beliefs. I didn't follow the election results in Texas, but if the "Other" margin was just enough to give Bush the lead over Kerry (I doubt it), and give Bush the lead in electoral votes (I doubt that even more) feel free to dislike me. As it is, I feel better voting for the guy I liked rather than trying to figure out which of the two major candidates was the guy I disliked the least.
The biggest problem I have with people who dislike third-party voters is they seem to think I would vote for their candidate if all I had was a choice between the two candidates. That's not necessarily the case. If I had been faced with that decision in 2004 I would have passed on both Turd Sandwich and Giant Douche and not voted at all. Then I'd be lambasted for that.:p
Your parents told you that since you didn't vote for Bush, you elected Kerry? They really need to pay more attention to the news.
During the time leading up to the election they told me that if I didn't vote for Bush I was essentially going to be voting for Kerry, and if he won, it was going to be my fault.
Actually I will blame you. If you didn't vote for Kerry, you basically elected Bush.
I have a friend that says the same thing to me all the time. Like I'm somehow the reason Kerry didn't win. Funny, at the time of the election my parents told me the same thing, only with the names reversed.
I didn't like either of them. That's why I voted third-party. Otherwise, I wouldn't have voted at all.
Between a Fascist and a Communist I picked neither, and apparently that makes me the bad guy? I may never get my ideal candidate into office, but at least I voted my conscience. Maybe if other people did the same thing there'd be some change in the government.
You might look into CookieSafe, or a similar extension. True, FF needs a better way to handle it by default, but that's what extensions are for, I guess.
Whenever I start a new FF profile CookieSafe is one of the first extensions I install next to NoScript and Adblock Plus.
First thing the article summary (DNRTFA) made me think of was one of the coolest unlockables for SF3: Third Strike for Dreamcast. In the Extra Options menu you could actually make it so you couldn't see your life bar (it was either greyed out or completely removed, I forget which). That made for some pretty interesting fights, because it was hard to tell (unless it was one-sided) who was winning at any given point in time until the round suddenly ended.
I'm not sure I've ever seen that option in any other fighting game I've ever played. I wish that was a standard option in most games, though. I loved it.
As far as FPS games go, I tend to forget to pick up health packs if I don't have a flashing health percentage somewhere on the screen. They'd have to at least indicate that you were hurting somehow.
So (assuming you're female, judging from comment) hypothetically you have sex and get pregnant. It's a product of your egg and his sperm. You don't want it, you abort it.
Does this mean he has absolutely no say in the matter because it's your body? Even though genetically half of the thing growing inside you is his, 100% of the decision is yours?
I'm pro-choice, but in a situation like that, if I were the father, I'd want to have at least some input, even if you had the final say on the matter.
Granted, what I'm talking about has little to do with laws on the matter, but still.
I remember using Kopete for a brief time when I was having network problems (wound up using a LiveCD while my router was dead because I was paranoid about connecting to my cable modem with Windows) and liking it.
I'm not sure why I switched back to Gaim (probably just that I was more used to it), but one feature I really liked about Kopete that Gaim didn't have was the option to color-code your buddy lists based on the account they were linked to. It's really helpful when you have multiple accounts on the same protocol and you have redundant entries across several lists (I'm not always logged in on every one of my names at the same time, so if I want to talk to a friend, sometimes I need to have them entered in multiple times).
Not sure if anybody else uses it, but I'd really like to see that in Gaim, possibly with a transparent png for a protocol icon with a variable color background (Yahoo smiley face in green, AIM running man in red, etc.).
One really big complaint about Gaim (offtopic for this part of the thread, I know) is editing my buddy list often causes some weird glitches. I was cleaning up one list the other day and people I'd deleted started showing up under other headings and stuff. Probably an issue with client-side lists vs. server-side lists, but still annoying. The buddy list oddity gets even worse when I log into AIM once in a blue moon to use direct connect (can't wait for 2.0).
Did anybody else have to get the full 6 MB version? I seem to have this problem with every computer I run XP Pro on.
XP Pro, SP2, NTFS drive, I can't update or reinstall any program that's been run in that Windows session. Gaim, Winamp, Firefox, and several other programs (hell, it was one of the reasons I quit WoW - in WoW's case I had to boot into safe mode to update the program). I have to reboot or rename the main executable file (the one being overwritten) to get the install to work.
Luckily, for some reason FF didn't do that this time, but for all the 1.0.x updates I had to do this, and for all the beta releases the small patch always failed, defaulting to the larger patch.
It's frustrating as hell, and when I mention it to tech-savvy friends or on message boards, nobody has any idea, and it looks like it's a problem only I have - even though it's a problem I can replicate on my desktop, my laptop, and my work computer.
Does anybody else ever have this problem? Is it Windows File Protection, or what?
I was about to say the same thing when I saw your comment.
Really, the best of both worlds is to offer a way to pick the best option that works for you, and offer rewards or challenges based on which scenario you pick. I think Fallout does this a lot. Want to try your hand at stealth? Great, you get 200 more rupees at the end. Feel more hack and slashy? Okay, but you have to fight an extra-hard guy at the end.
I'm all for adding 'variety' to games, but when you throw a major genre-curveball, it's nicest to make the scene optional, like the fetch quests in Zelda that require split-second timing just to wind up with the best sword in the game or an extra heart container. It's fun when you finally accomplish the goals in these through determination. It's frustrating as hell when it's required and doesn't seem to do anything gameplay or plot-wise besides show that the developer is a sadistic bastard.
I suck at stealth, I hate having to use stealth, and I especially hate it when the mission resets because somebody saw me out of the corner of their eye. When the guy is alerted, let me go on my murderous rampage and move on, m'kay?
Does Konqueror render KDE completely useless if it's comprtomised? Does it crash the entire GUI if there's a problem viewing a web page?
I just spent about an hour and a half this morning on a coworker's computer because some piece of spyware or a virus broke Win2K. IE won't open, Explorer.exe locks up, can't get into the Control Panel, can barely use the Start Button. After finally getting Spybot to run and a manual scan on Symantec started, I cleared off the programs that were presumably the problem, with no change in the broken Explorer. As a quick-fix until our 'official' IT guy comes in, I installed Firefox and it worked for what he needed.
Long story, sorry, but my question is, does this ever happen for people using Konq on KDE? Or is it merely a matter of closing Konq and reloading it?
A few people would argue with you that homebrew/DRM-less games are what killed the Dreamcast. Not the primary reason, but one of several. I do agree, though. I like being able to do what I want with a machine I buy, especially without having to void the warranty by installing aftermarket mod chips and stuff (worst 30 bucks I ever spent on my now-dying PS2 - I don't even play copied games).
That's one thing that bugs me. I went from Knoppix in April or so (long story; my router was broken and I didn't want to run my Win2K machine on a naked cable connection) to a point where I decided I wanted a HD install.
Everywhere I looked I saw Mepis recommended. Installed Mepis, *loved* it until I found out I couldn't get KDE 3.4 without some tricky repository stuff. Tried that, worked okay, but I realised this would happen again next time KDE updated... so I installed Kubuntu.
Now Kubuntu's version of FF 1.0.4 is incompatible with update.mozilla.org, and a few random apt packages and other programs seem to show a Gnome bias, and Debian packages are spotty at best on Ubuntu. Both seem to have their packages they're behind on.
Is there some distro out there as easy to upgrade as Debian/Ubuntu but actually has updated stuff all around with no shady repository adding?
Yeah, I mean, if they didn't put an installer on the game disc, imagine the hundreds of people returning to the store saying their game won't work. At the very least they need a way to put an icon on the desktop.
Of interest is the one by PresidentEvil, who was apparently the guy who wrote the Official Strategy Guide for 1, the leftover materials making up the bulk of his online Plot Guide for 1 (with actual emails and discussions with the developers).
With 2's Plot Guide, there was less input from Konami, so it's almost all him.
And like someone else said, in some cases even the developers aren't sure about some aspects of the story.
My personal theory is the town is like a Purgatory/Hell on Earth, and there's no clear definition between reality and Hell/fantasy. Silent Hill is where you go when your subconcious feels overwhelmingly guilty about something bad you've done... and you either have the Truth shoved in your face when you're in deep denial, or you just sort of lie in despair. Either way you languish in your own personal Hell.:)
Not the very first ones, where you just have to step toward and away from the wall to draw them out. I mean the ones from 3 on, that drop on you, and the ones in Ocarina that crawl after you like spiders.
I scream like a little girl. Every goddamned time.
I second the Celes thing. To me, it was worse than Aeris (but then, I liked Tifa anyway. Then, for the boobs, now for the fact that she's a Betty to Aeris' Veronica).
Yasunori Mitsuda's overworld music in Chrono Cross made my eyes water one late night playing it just from the sheer emotion behind the strings. As long as he's not doing battle music the man is a god.
Though another favorite is the joys of screwing around in GTA. Nothing more cathartic than throwing grenades at strangers in the subway.:D
I agree, though. Luna and Royale look godawful. I'd love to see them recruit a better artist for some themes later on. Maybe they can make a cool Sci-Fi theme that looks like the one in Minority Report (just saw it this weekend, otherwise I'd think of a better movie/interface design).
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At the time, I didn't really have any kind of scoreboard going in regard to which one I disliked more. All I knew was:
So, rather than picking what I perceived as the lesser of two evils (which I honestly could not decide at the time), I picked who I would prefer to be President, based on my personal beliefs. I didn't follow the election results in Texas, but if the "Other" margin was just enough to give Bush the lead over Kerry (I doubt it), and give Bush the lead in electoral votes (I doubt that even more) feel free to dislike me. As it is, I feel better voting for the guy I liked rather than trying to figure out which of the two major candidates was the guy I disliked the least.
The biggest problem I have with people who dislike third-party voters is they seem to think I would vote for their candidate if all I had was a choice between the two candidates. That's not necessarily the case. If I had been faced with that decision in 2004 I would have passed on both Turd Sandwich and Giant Douche and not voted at all. Then I'd be lambasted for that. :p
During the time leading up to the election they told me that if I didn't vote for Bush I was essentially going to be voting for Kerry, and if he won, it was going to be my fault.
You know what I meant. :p
I have a friend that says the same thing to me all the time. Like I'm somehow the reason Kerry didn't win. Funny, at the time of the election my parents told me the same thing, only with the names reversed.
I didn't like either of them. That's why I voted third-party. Otherwise, I wouldn't have voted at all.
Between a Fascist and a Communist I picked neither, and apparently that makes me the bad guy? I may never get my ideal candidate into office, but at least I voted my conscience. Maybe if other people did the same thing there'd be some change in the government.
You might look into CookieSafe, or a similar extension. True, FF needs a better way to handle it by default, but that's what extensions are for, I guess.
Whenever I start a new FF profile CookieSafe is one of the first extensions I install next to NoScript and Adblock Plus.
First thing the article summary (DNRTFA) made me think of was one of the coolest unlockables for SF3: Third Strike for Dreamcast. In the Extra Options menu you could actually make it so you couldn't see your life bar (it was either greyed out or completely removed, I forget which). That made for some pretty interesting fights, because it was hard to tell (unless it was one-sided) who was winning at any given point in time until the round suddenly ended.
I'm not sure I've ever seen that option in any other fighting game I've ever played. I wish that was a standard option in most games, though. I loved it.
As far as FPS games go, I tend to forget to pick up health packs if I don't have a flashing health percentage somewhere on the screen. They'd have to at least indicate that you were hurting somehow.
So (assuming you're female, judging from comment) hypothetically you have sex and get pregnant. It's a product of your egg and his sperm. You don't want it, you abort it.
Does this mean he has absolutely no say in the matter because it's your body? Even though genetically half of the thing growing inside you is his, 100% of the decision is yours?
I'm pro-choice, but in a situation like that, if I were the father, I'd want to have at least some input, even if you had the final say on the matter.
Granted, what I'm talking about has little to do with laws on the matter, but still.
I remember using Kopete for a brief time when I was having network problems (wound up using a LiveCD while my router was dead because I was paranoid about connecting to my cable modem with Windows) and liking it.
I'm not sure why I switched back to Gaim (probably just that I was more used to it), but one feature I really liked about Kopete that Gaim didn't have was the option to color-code your buddy lists based on the account they were linked to. It's really helpful when you have multiple accounts on the same protocol and you have redundant entries across several lists (I'm not always logged in on every one of my names at the same time, so if I want to talk to a friend, sometimes I need to have them entered in multiple times).
Not sure if anybody else uses it, but I'd really like to see that in Gaim, possibly with a transparent png for a protocol icon with a variable color background (Yahoo smiley face in green, AIM running man in red, etc.).
One really big complaint about Gaim (offtopic for this part of the thread, I know) is editing my buddy list often causes some weird glitches. I was cleaning up one list the other day and people I'd deleted started showing up under other headings and stuff. Probably an issue with client-side lists vs. server-side lists, but still annoying. The buddy list oddity gets even worse when I log into AIM once in a blue moon to use direct connect (can't wait for 2.0).
Did anybody else have to get the full 6 MB version? I seem to have this problem with every computer I run XP Pro on.
XP Pro, SP2, NTFS drive, I can't update or reinstall any program that's been run in that Windows session. Gaim, Winamp, Firefox, and several other programs (hell, it was one of the reasons I quit WoW - in WoW's case I had to boot into safe mode to update the program). I have to reboot or rename the main executable file (the one being overwritten) to get the install to work.
Luckily, for some reason FF didn't do that this time, but for all the 1.0.x updates I had to do this, and for all the beta releases the small patch always failed, defaulting to the larger patch.
It's frustrating as hell, and when I mention it to tech-savvy friends or on message boards, nobody has any idea, and it looks like it's a problem only I have - even though it's a problem I can replicate on my desktop, my laptop, and my work computer.
Does anybody else ever have this problem? Is it Windows File Protection, or what?
Did they take the title from a different article and put it on this one?
Actually, the guy that wrote it is on Fark, and mentioned in the thread that someone else wrote the title(I forget who).
I was about to say the same thing when I saw your comment.
Really, the best of both worlds is to offer a way to pick the best option that works for you, and offer rewards or challenges based on which scenario you pick. I think Fallout does this a lot. Want to try your hand at stealth? Great, you get 200 more rupees at the end. Feel more hack and slashy? Okay, but you have to fight an extra-hard guy at the end.
I'm all for adding 'variety' to games, but when you throw a major genre-curveball, it's nicest to make the scene optional, like the fetch quests in Zelda that require split-second timing just to wind up with the best sword in the game or an extra heart container. It's fun when you finally accomplish the goals in these through determination. It's frustrating as hell when it's required and doesn't seem to do anything gameplay or plot-wise besides show that the developer is a sadistic bastard.
I suck at stealth, I hate having to use stealth, and I especially hate it when the mission resets because somebody saw me out of the corner of their eye. When the guy is alerted, let me go on my murderous rampage and move on, m'kay?
When asked how long this ruling will be in effect, the Court simply replied: "Til Gabriel blows his horn."
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Legitimate question, not trying to troll here...
Does Konqueror render KDE completely useless if it's comprtomised? Does it crash the entire GUI if there's a problem viewing a web page?
I just spent about an hour and a half this morning on a coworker's computer because some piece of spyware or a virus broke Win2K. IE won't open, Explorer.exe locks up, can't get into the Control Panel, can barely use the Start Button. After finally getting Spybot to run and a manual scan on Symantec started, I cleared off the programs that were presumably the problem, with no change in the broken Explorer. As a quick-fix until our 'official' IT guy comes in, I installed Firefox and it worked for what he needed.
Long story, sorry, but my question is, does this ever happen for people using Konq on KDE? Or is it merely a matter of closing Konq and reloading it?
NoScript helps a lot. And gmail is set to "Allow" by default. I use it and Permit Cookies.
A few people would argue with you that homebrew/DRM-less games are what killed the Dreamcast. Not the primary reason, but one of several. I do agree, though. I like being able to do what I want with a machine I buy, especially without having to void the warranty by installing aftermarket mod chips and stuff (worst 30 bucks I ever spent on my now-dying PS2 - I don't even play copied games).
How is it "Emulation for All" if it's only one version of the firmware that was previously unhacked?
"Emulation for some, free plastic flags for everybody!"
Anybody else think Kutaragi is like the Kim Jong-Il of the console gaming world?
I mean, now that Yamauchi is gone...
That's one thing that bugs me. I went from Knoppix in April or so (long story; my router was broken and I didn't want to run my Win2K machine on a naked cable connection) to a point where I decided I wanted a HD install.
Everywhere I looked I saw Mepis recommended. Installed Mepis, *loved* it until I found out I couldn't get KDE 3.4 without some tricky repository stuff. Tried that, worked okay, but I realised this would happen again next time KDE updated... so I installed Kubuntu.
Now Kubuntu's version of FF 1.0.4 is incompatible with update.mozilla.org, and a few random apt packages and other programs seem to show a Gnome bias, and Debian packages are spotty at best on Ubuntu. Both seem to have their packages they're behind on.
Is there some distro out there as easy to upgrade as Debian/Ubuntu but actually has updated stuff all around with no shady repository adding?
Beware of the Leopard. :)
Yeah, I mean, if they didn't put an installer on the game disc, imagine the hundreds of people returning to the store saying their game won't work. At the very least they need a way to put an icon on the desktop.
I read that as...
When your brain makes that drastic a word change based on '-ed' you're either on Slashdot or missing a lot of caffeine.
Or both...
Several plot Analyses exist for 2.
:)
Of interest is the one by PresidentEvil, who was apparently the guy who wrote the Official Strategy Guide for 1, the leftover materials making up the bulk of his online Plot Guide for 1 (with actual emails and discussions with the developers).
With 2's Plot Guide, there was less input from Konami, so it's almost all him.
And like someone else said, in some cases even the developers aren't sure about some aspects of the story.
My personal theory is the town is like a Purgatory/Hell on Earth, and there's no clear definition between reality and Hell/fantasy. Silent Hill is where you go when your subconcious feels overwhelmingly guilty about something bad you've done... and you either have the Truth shoved in your face when you're in deep denial, or you just sort of lie in despair. Either way you languish in your own personal Hell.
For me, it's wallmasters from Zelda.
Not the very first ones, where you just have to step toward and away from the wall to draw them out. I mean the ones from 3 on, that drop on you, and the ones in Ocarina that crawl after you like spiders.
I scream like a little girl. Every goddamned time.
I second the Celes thing. To me, it was worse than Aeris (but then, I liked Tifa anyway. Then, for the boobs, now for the fact that she's a Betty to Aeris' Veronica).
:D
Yasunori Mitsuda's overworld music in Chrono Cross made my eyes water one late night playing it just from the sheer emotion behind the strings. As long as he's not doing battle music the man is a god.
Though another favorite is the joys of screwing around in GTA. Nothing more cathartic than throwing grenades at strangers in the subway.
A patched uxtheme.dll and about 2 or 3 minutes at DeviantArt will clear that right up.
I agree, though. Luna and Royale look godawful. I'd love to see them recruit a better artist for some themes later on. Maybe they can make a cool Sci-Fi theme that looks like the one in Minority Report (just saw it this weekend, otherwise I'd think of a better movie/interface design).
'decent pron'?
;)
Isn't that an oxymoron?