that full-sized bus with only room for a driver as the rest of the thing is filled with a rocket engine....as soon as you can afford that bad-boy, it was no longer a race: it was an annhilation!
something so huge and heavy shouldn't be allowed to travel so fast, but there you go. =)
man that game was fun!
I guess I am skeptical that Verrent (SOE, whoever they are now) just simpley wouldn't make a game about combat.
I probably shouldn't touch on this one too much as the NDA is still in effect for a bit longer...but I'll tell you this: you can become extremely successful, respected and well-known across your galaxy WITHOUT engaging in any combat....ever (if you choose).
just wait and see.....the people planning on "power-gaming" in SWG are in for a change of world-view, and I'll be enjoying every minute of it. And from what it sounds like in your post, you will too. =)
ha ha. you have no idea how funny that sounds...just wait till you see for yourself...
If you don't get in early with MMORPGs you might as well not play. Otherwise by the time you actually get in the economy is ruined and all the uber folks are camping a level 20 mob with their level 50 character cause they can sell for cash.
as someone who IS in the beta, let me tell you:
the economy will be just fine.
maybe you have read this in other previews or whatever, but I'll say it anyway. This game is NOT be about "Phat Lewtz", and for that I already love it.
I'm still suprised it's not delayed again (there are still some bugs that need attention), but even with the few bugs this game is AMAZING.
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* Movies based on video games will suck.
* Movies based on Saturday Night Live characters or skits will suck.
* Remakes of classic movies will suck, but lots of people will go to see them anyway because they don't remember the originals.
* Sequels to movies where a majority of the original characters do not return will suck.
* If these characters are not played by the original actors, the movie will suck.
you forgot movies based on comic books or any televisoin series with very few exceptions (coughStarTrekcough)....much in the same way that any television series based on a movie will suck
other than that, you are 100 percent correct
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SBC used to be like this too with their DSL service. A few years back I was talking to a representative from them on my former college's campus about getting service to my apartment and made an offhand comment about setting up a router and such and he told me about it. He told me that "officially" I was not allowed to, but as long as I kept it to myself it would be fine. Eventually that part of the TOS was removed, AFAIK. I think the cable companies probably take the same stance and will eventually "grow up".
the whole converstion with the SBC rep. was pretty funny though.
me: yeah, ill probably set up a couple of machines and let my roommate use it too. Do you guys provide routers?
him: WOAH! I did NOT just hear that! You're just going to hook it up to your ONE machine and that's all, right?
me: um...no....I said I was going to-
him: No! you said you were just going to hook it up to your ONE machine and that is all, right?::mischevious wink::
me: ah, yes! thats what I said. Silly me. So its 300kbps, right?
him: yes, just sign right here.....
Hey, Nike had to give LaBraun a 90 MILLION dollar shoe contract....that money had to come from somewhere, right?
Isn't that sickeningly fantastic! Let's produce our shoes in 3rd world countries so we can throw more money than god at some high-school hoops player because he MIGHT be the next great thing in basketball!
And lets not forget that the average CEO makes around 200 times more than the average salary at their own company.
Doesn't it feel good to know that a select few in this country are fucking you over so that thay can have another TV in their H2 Hummers? Hell, lets give them another tax cut!
this is an honest question and not a troll. I actually want to know this:
do they still have the wording in their windows license agreement along the lines of "we can update your computer at will without your knowledge"? At work, we are waiting for that to be relaxed before we go ahead and push service pack 3 out to all 3000 of our desktops. Anyone know if there has been any changes to it?
my playstation 2 is still broken. sony manufactured them with shitty quality lasers to save costs and gaurantee that people will need to either shell out almost as much to repair them as it would cost to replace them....
now if you still need me to spell it out, it's entirely possible that some propiatary software is flawed intentionally for job security...imagine the hit that tech support would take if software suddenly worked all the time!
But no new playstation for me! I refuse to fuel this evil business model that sony has deplayed. And I've got graduation money sitting in the bank just waiting to be spent......what? Soul Calibur 2 will be out soon? Aw, god DAMMIT!
I think a professional site could do a bit better than that. As some of you may have discovered after downloading a hundred megabyte file.
I think an informed/.'er would've noticed the filenames were the same...
true, unless an informed/.'er changed the original filename to something readable!
They make more billions on blank media tariffs, lawsuits, etcetera, than they will ever see if they actually have to sell a product online, in a manner that suits the users. They will in fact keep trying to make these ventures fail, JUST so that they can complain that piracy is rampant, which verifies (in the eyes of the courts) that their only course of action is to sue!
hey. its what makes them the most money, right? fuck music, we're gonna be filthy rich! We could make mere millions in profits from online sales, or we can make untold TRILLIONS per-user(!) when we don't offer said service and they circumvent us! sure, we will be destroying financial lives across the globe, but hey, we can all forget about that when we're all retired and living in the tropics in a few months!
Hrm...next you'll be telling me that murderers are getting lighter sentences than those violating the DMCA.
which would you rather recieve as a punishment? a decade in jail (or even less) or be fucked for the rest of your life paying down a 10 billion dollar fine to the RIAA?
i dont know if you meant that as a joke....so if you did, nevermind... =)
i'm suprised that neither of you mentioned cell phones going off.....and people actually answering and talking on them without leaving the theater!
few weeks ago when i went to see daredevil, this asshole got 3 phone calls during the movie and had a 5 minute or more conversation each time. i dont know if the management ignored complaints or if anyone even went out to complain. it's kind of like when some piece of shit runs in and turns on the lights in the middle of the movie and runs out laughing. it annoys everyone to no end, but then nobody will get up to turn them back off...
I am so glad that pirates out there can capture this experience! why should i have to pay for a quiet, uninterrupted movie when i can get the "real" thing for free? =)
If your higly paid R&D staff isn't as productive as possible because some IT sloth doesn't think you should need some tool or capability, your company runs the risk of falling behind...
lets just say that we're not going to be losing any market share because our scientists (still) can't fill out lab results in the bathroom, cafeteria, parking lot, etc...
And if you have users who travel with laptops, you should be providing them with VPN clients or something equivalent anyway
VPN is currently limited to our outside sales team, and from what I hear, implementing it is a total bitch with the way our network is set up (im still a lowly new guy fresh out of college, so i dont get to do most of the big-boy stuff yet). But yes, VPN is also a solution to the security thing, but it's not something that we can implement at a reasonable cost compared to the usefulness it would provide to the company (key phrase: cost compared to usefulness)
The company I work for actually has competent (read: not clueless) people in charge when it comes to our network and company security.
sure, we get dozens of calls per day from users wanting to know when we are going to start going wireless (same people who want to know where their flat-screen lcd monitors are). The problem is that we would have to to implement more firewalls not only at each and every access point, but also at each of the computers that would access them. Since we have chemists, physicists (sic?), and biologists working here with very sensitive data on their computers as well as our servers, we cannot allow casual access to their machines as well as the centralized data on our servers.
basically, we would have to treat a wireless network within our company like the internet...which would come out to be freakishly more expensive (and slower) than the gigabit network we already have in place.
until a wireless standard arrives with encryption "out of the box", we aren't going to touch wireless. And I'll bet that more companies out there have the same thoughts about this.
okay, so the gun ownership portion of the movie is biased (whats wrong with that?). you missed my point. while the article you pointed me to attempts to discredit the movie based on "questionable editing" intended to decieve the public (i thought it was obvious) on mr. heston's speeches, I am talking about the media frenzy in scaring the shit out of us for ratings. that, i feel, is the very root of the gun "problem" (i dont think gun ownership is a problem...its the people who are paranoid enough to use them that is causing this mess). the point moore presents on the fear-spreading tactics of this country is what i was speaking of, and i think it is very well presented in the movie. as for the gun control issue, moore does seem to contradict himself in the movie a few times...enough to the point where im not exactly sure where he stands on the point. why he would make the point that canada has so many guns without as many shootings, and then go to k-mart and demand they stop selling ammo, is beyond me.
Dismissing [terrorism] out of hand as "FUD" is foolish.
Hard to enjoy those essential liberties when you're dead.
dead? dead?!!?? do you know how many more attacks on the scope of the WTC have to happen before we're all dead?? nearly 100,000! do you really think terrorism is a threat to your life? it's a minor risk, much like commuting every morning, taking a shower, and just plain going outside when the sun is out (or during a thunderstorm, even)!
the people in this country are brought-up on paranoia! go see bowling for columbine if you havent already. mr. moore addresses the problem in a much better fashion that i am capable of.
If you're listening to bands outside of all this, it doesn't effect you anyway
oh but i think it does! do you think think the RIAA sits around daily logs of filesharing going on and decides what, in all of the transfers, is their property? yeah right! if they see any mp3s moving on the network they automatically assume the trader is a dirtly little theif. and ill not even start with the fact that i can name my mp3 files whatever the hell i want....
my point is, tracking down people on the assumption (not the fact) that they are theives is just plain wrong and should be stopped. fortunately, if things continue as they are it will stop on it's own when the labels begin to fold.
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that full-sized bus with only room for a driver as the rest of the thing is filled with a rocket engine....as soon as you can afford that bad-boy, it was no longer a race: it was an annhilation!
something so huge and heavy shouldn't be allowed to travel so fast, but there you go. =)
man that game was fun!
I guess I am skeptical that Verrent (SOE, whoever they are now) just simpley wouldn't make a game about combat.
I probably shouldn't touch on this one too much as the NDA is still in effect for a bit longer...but I'll tell you this: you can become extremely successful, respected and well-known across your galaxy WITHOUT engaging in any combat....ever (if you choose).
just wait and see.....the people planning on "power-gaming" in SWG are in for a change of world-view, and I'll be enjoying every minute of it. And from what it sounds like in your post, you will too. =)
I'm not in the beta, but have played EQ.
ha ha. you have no idea how funny that sounds...just wait till you see for yourself...
If you don't get in early with MMORPGs you might as well not play. Otherwise by the time you actually get in the economy is ruined and all the uber folks are camping a level 20 mob with their level 50 character cause they can sell for cash.
as someone who IS in the beta, let me tell you:
the economy will be just fine.
maybe you have read this in other previews or whatever, but I'll say it anyway. This game is NOT be about "Phat Lewtz", and for that I already love it.
I'm still suprised it's not delayed again (there are still some bugs that need attention), but even with the few bugs this game is AMAZING.
* Movies based on video games will suck.
* Movies based on Saturday Night Live characters or skits will suck.
* Remakes of classic movies will suck, but lots of people will go to see them anyway because they don't remember the originals.
* Sequels to movies where a majority of the original characters do not return will suck.
* If these characters are not played by the original actors, the movie will suck.
you forgot movies based on comic books or any televisoin series with very few exceptions (coughStarTrekcough)....much in the same way that any television series based on a movie will suck
other than that, you are 100 percent correct
SBC used to be like this too with their DSL service. A few years back I was talking to a representative from them on my former college's campus about getting service to my apartment and made an offhand comment about setting up a router and such and he told me about it. He told me that "officially" I was not allowed to, but as long as I kept it to myself it would be fine. Eventually that part of the TOS was removed, AFAIK. I think the cable companies probably take the same stance and will eventually "grow up".
::mischevious wink::
the whole converstion with the SBC rep. was pretty funny though.
me: yeah, ill probably set up a couple of machines and let my roommate use it too. Do you guys provide routers?
him: WOAH! I did NOT just hear that! You're just going to hook it up to your ONE machine and that's all, right?
me: um...no....I said I was going to-
him: No! you said you were just going to hook it up to your ONE machine and that is all, right?
me: ah, yes! thats what I said. Silly me. So its 300kbps, right?
him: yes, just sign right here.....
Hey, Nike had to give LaBraun a 90 MILLION dollar shoe contract....that money had to come from somewhere, right?
Isn't that sickeningly fantastic! Let's produce our shoes in 3rd world countries so we can throw more money than god at some high-school hoops player because he MIGHT be the next great thing in basketball!
And lets not forget that the average CEO makes around 200 times more than the average salary at their own company.
Doesn't it feel good to know that a select few in this country are fucking you over so that thay can have another TV in their H2 Hummers? Hell, lets give them another tax cut!
I am Spartic^H^H^H^H^H^H^H the UNIX System V IP owner!
this is an honest question and not a troll. I actually want to know this:
do they still have the wording in their windows license agreement along the lines of "we can update your computer at will without your knowledge"? At work, we are waiting for that to be relaxed before we go ahead and push service pack 3 out to all 3000 of our desktops. Anyone know if there has been any changes to it?
my playstation 2 is still broken. sony manufactured them with shitty quality lasers to save costs and gaurantee that people will need to either shell out almost as much to repair them as it would cost to replace them.... ...what? Soul Calibur 2 will be out soon? Aw, god DAMMIT!
now if you still need me to spell it out, it's entirely possible that some propiatary software is flawed intentionally for job security...imagine the hit that tech support would take if software suddenly worked all the time!
But no new playstation for me! I refuse to fuel this evil business model that sony has deplayed. And I've got graduation money sitting in the bank just waiting to be spent...
heh, nice sig.
you know what, stuart? i like you! you're not like the other people, here at the trailer park.
I think a professional site could do a bit better than that. As some of you may have discovered after downloading a hundred megabyte file. I think an informed /.'er would've noticed the filenames were the same...
/.'er changed the original filename to something readable!
true, unless an informed
We already know that Bill Gates is Darth Vader and Microsoft is the Empire
uh...he's more like the emperor. we need a lawyer for vader IMO.
They make more billions on blank media tariffs, lawsuits, etcetera, than they will ever see if they actually have to sell a product online, in a manner that suits the users. They will in fact keep trying to make these ventures fail, JUST so that they can complain that piracy is rampant, which verifies (in the eyes of the courts) that their only course of action is to sue!
hey. its what makes them the most money, right? fuck music, we're gonna be filthy rich! We could make mere millions in profits from online sales, or we can make untold TRILLIONS per-user(!) when we don't offer said service and they circumvent us! sure, we will be destroying financial lives across the globe, but hey, we can all forget about that when we're all retired and living in the tropics in a few months!
Hrm...next you'll be telling me that murderers are getting lighter sentences than those violating the DMCA.
which would you rather recieve as a punishment? a decade in jail (or even less) or be fucked for the rest of your life paying down a 10 billion dollar fine to the RIAA?
i dont know if you meant that as a joke....so if you did, nevermind... =)
i'm suprised that neither of you mentioned cell phones going off.....and people actually answering and talking on them without leaving the theater!
few weeks ago when i went to see daredevil, this asshole got 3 phone calls during the movie and had a 5 minute or more conversation each time. i dont know if the management ignored complaints or if anyone even went out to complain. it's kind of like when some piece of shit runs in and turns on the lights in the middle of the movie and runs out laughing. it annoys everyone to no end, but then nobody will get up to turn them back off...
I am so glad that pirates out there can capture this experience! why should i have to pay for a quiet, uninterrupted movie when i can get the "real" thing for free? =)
If your higly paid R&D staff isn't as productive as possible because some IT sloth doesn't think you should need some tool or capability, your company runs the risk of falling behind...
lets just say that we're not going to be losing any market share because our scientists (still) can't fill out lab results in the bathroom, cafeteria, parking lot, etc...
And if you have users who travel with laptops, you should be providing them with VPN clients or something equivalent anyway
VPN is currently limited to our outside sales team, and from what I hear, implementing it is a total bitch with the way our network is set up (im still a lowly new guy fresh out of college, so i dont get to do most of the big-boy stuff yet). But yes, VPN is also a solution to the security thing, but it's not something that we can implement at a reasonable cost compared to the usefulness it would provide to the company (key phrase: cost compared to usefulness)
The company I work for actually has competent (read: not clueless) people in charge when it comes to our network and company security.
sure, we get dozens of calls per day from users wanting to know when we are going to start going wireless (same people who want to know where their flat-screen lcd monitors are). The problem is that we would have to to implement more firewalls not only at each and every access point, but also at each of the computers that would access them. Since we have chemists, physicists (sic?), and biologists working here with very sensitive data on their computers as well as our servers, we cannot allow casual access to their machines as well as the centralized data on our servers.
basically, we would have to treat a wireless network within our company like the internet...which would come out to be freakishly more expensive (and slower) than the gigabit network we already have in place.
until a wireless standard arrives with encryption "out of the box", we aren't going to touch wireless. And I'll bet that more companies out there have the same thoughts about this.
90 minutes of cassette tape for one kilobyte of data
good christ! what, did it record the voice of someone saying "one...zero....zero....one...one...one..." or what?
okay, so the gun ownership portion of the movie is biased (whats wrong with that?). you missed my point. while the article you pointed me to attempts to discredit the movie based on "questionable editing" intended to decieve the public (i thought it was obvious) on mr. heston's speeches, I am talking about the media frenzy in scaring the shit out of us for ratings. that, i feel, is the very root of the gun "problem" (i dont think gun ownership is a problem...its the people who are paranoid enough to use them that is causing this mess). the point moore presents on the fear-spreading tactics of this country is what i was speaking of, and i think it is very well presented in the movie. as for the gun control issue, moore does seem to contradict himself in the movie a few times...enough to the point where im not exactly sure where he stands on the point. why he would make the point that canada has so many guns without as many shootings, and then go to k-mart and demand they stop selling ammo, is beyond me.
Dismissing [terrorism] out of hand as "FUD" is foolish. Hard to enjoy those essential liberties when you're dead.
dead? dead?!!?? do you know how many more attacks on the scope of the WTC have to happen before we're all dead?? nearly 100,000! do you really think terrorism is a threat to your life? it's a minor risk, much like commuting every morning, taking a shower, and just plain going outside when the sun is out (or during a thunderstorm, even)!
the people in this country are brought-up on paranoia! go see bowling for columbine if you havent already. mr. moore addresses the problem in a much better fashion that i am capable of.
If you're listening to bands outside of all this, it doesn't effect you anyway
oh but i think it does! do you think think the RIAA sits around daily logs of filesharing going on and decides what, in all of the transfers, is their property? yeah right! if they see any mp3s moving on the network they automatically assume the trader is a dirtly little theif. and ill not even start with the fact that i can name my mp3 files whatever the hell i want....
my point is, tracking down people on the assumption (not the fact) that they are theives is just plain wrong and should be stopped. fortunately, if things continue as they are it will stop on it's own when the labels begin to fold.
why not listen to the radio, MTV, or the short samples available on Amazon.com
because i'm not interested in who corporate america wants me to like/listen-to/buy. money/power to buy airtime does NOT constitute talent!
in other news:
hercules severs another hydra head, 3 replace it. film at 11.