I work at a small, private Presbyterian college, and they use an internet filter here which blocks many webpages. When it first got installed, biology students were out of luck if they wanted to do internet research on campus. However, when something legitimate that's being blocked but shouldn't be is brought to the attention of the administration, it gets unblocked. So it's not really a big deal and hasn't caused too many headaches except when it was first installed.
Additionally, bandwidth is a huge issue here as well. At the beginning of the year there was a mere 128kbps of download bandwidth (not sure about upload) available to students. After some small outcry it was increased to 256kbps. For my school this is more an issue of cost rather than stinginess. As it is, our pipes are full. We're working on increasing the bandwidth but it takes time and money. However, if I was a student I'd probably be upset at the amount of bandwidth currently allowed to me. After all, they do live here on campus, and I would expect most any living space I might occupy in this country to have a decent internet connection (1 mbps or more) available to me. I know the portion of their tuition that covers internet access is probably worth a lot more than 256kbps.
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A good book doesn't cost $50 new, either. *
*Obvious exceptions include rare editions, encyclopedias, etc.
I guess part of the fun of irritating those people is how uptight they got over it. It's just a game, and moreover it was being played on one of thousands of public servers they could choose to play at. If they really wanted to protest what I was doing, they'd just leave. But they didn't, they stuck around and proceeded to yell at me. I suppose it's the typical kind of jolly internet nerds get from messing with people who can't do anything to them since it's just on the internet. If someone was doing the same thing to me, I would just leave and go to another server or do something else.
In any event, that isn't the kind of cheating that's the real problem. That kind of cheating is more of a prank than anything else. It's the ones that cheat and try to use it to build some kind of perceived genuine success that are far more insidious.
I used to cheat a bit back in the days of CS, when it was still in one of the betas and there was an exploit that allowed you to switch teams in the middle of a round without any visible indicator of the change, so you would be playing along with your teammates, hit your custom-bound key, and instantly you'd be able to start blasting their brains out.
This infuriated them to no end and usually it got to the point where your whole team would surround you and start shooting you at the beginning of the round...except at that point you'd be invulnerable because you were still on their team. This continued until the other team showed up and your team was forced to turn around to fight them...at which point you hit the button again and began shooting them in the back. This was an unbelievably hilarious process, made more so when you did it with a friend.
I never cheated in a serious game, however. It was only for fun on pub servers in the interest of irritating total strangers. The various wallhacks available for CS back in the day were a ton of fun, too.
I can only speak for myself but I think most people interested enough in playing these old games are also technically savvy enough to be able to download the ROM's from the internet on their own and play them. With minimal fuss, you can find torrents with the full libraries for the SNES, NES, Genesis, N64, etc. and emulators are even easier to find. I bought two PS2-style USB controllers for my PC ($20 each), and I plug them into the PC and just output that to my TV which sits right next to the computer. Easy gaming. I can say that it's allowed me to play through a lot of classic games I didn't get to play the first time around, like The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past. Well, it's back to Chrono Trigger for me!
Actually, online play is not that hard to do...I recently successfully played Turtles IV: Turtles In Time with a friend 30 miles away using the Super Nintendo emulator ZSNES. It worked like a charm. If Nintendo is really smart, they've licensed an existing emulator like that and built off their well-tested codebase.
I can get a PS2 game for $5 (Gran Turismo 3). Why would I pay that much for a game that's 20 years old? I don't have to mention the fact that I already have roms for every Nintendo system up to the Gamecube which I can output to play on my 30" tv doesn't help any.
IIRC correctly, cs_dock, which was a great map, was removed. This was one that I'd been playing as long as I had been playing the game (since beta 2.1). I could be wrong about that particular one getting removed at that particular time, but I know they took it out at some point and I was a sad panda over it.
You know what, I actually agree...I was a very active CS player from beta 2.1 up to a ways past version 1.0, and I honestly thought the game changed significantly for the worse during the transition from 7.1 to 1.0. Something about the aiming was just...different, and I was never as good of a player as I was in the betas. I actually verified this once by demanding we play a LAN game of 7.1, and when we did I was significantly more accurate and successful in play.
Well, just imagine a scenario where Cameron was directing a whole future war movie with the intensity of say, Aliens. That's definitely something that could work, though it's very unlikely that James Cameron himself would actually direct. But if they could get that feel I think it could work. And definitely, Arnold should NOT come back. I think it would be the best thing for the series if they distanced themselves from their star and focused more on story.
No, technically it's still just one book published as three. Let's get our terminology straight here. The "books" used to divide The Lord of The Rings are not at all the same as the term used to describe the books of, say, the Harry Potter series, which were meant to be published separately and to stand alone. Again, they're more like chapters, and were never meant to be read separately or taken out of the context of the overall novel.
I'm of the opinion that T4 is a good idea no matter what you think of T3, since the only direction they have to go in with this is to show the future war, something most Terminator fans have always been interested in seeing. I think if they made a big war movie out of T4, and it didn't feature Arnold, it could be great. Just have it be about Nick Stahl fighting the machines.
First of all, technically there was only one LOTR book, which was split into three separate books for publishing purposes. The subdivision of "books" inside the novel denoted a separation that was more akin to chapters than actual whole books. Second of all, Jackson isn't doing anything on this project yet, so why are you blaming him? Lastly, Jackson made three GREAT films out of the single-book LOTR. I will applaud any effort he makes, if indeed he does make one, at making The Hobbit into a film or films.
Everyone's complaining about the movie download prices, but to me those don't even matter because DVD's are a clear advantage over similarly priced downloaded films. The only way this service might be useful to me is in the rental department. Since I don't feel the urge to rent often enough to maintain a Netflix subscription (something I would feel obligated to keep up with and get my money out of), an instant rental download for around $0.99 or $1.99 sounds quite appealing to me. Unfortunately this Amazon service has its rental price set at $3.99 and won't be getting any sales from me. I'm fairly mystified by the pricing for these services since the cost of providing bandwidth to the customers seems like it should be far lower than the costs of supporting an entire supply and shipping chain.
This is the same specious argument I see used to justify charging $150+ for 26 twenty--five-minute episodes of anime. Just because something was far more expensive in the past, doesn't automatically make any price lower than that a fair price. If WoW was $100/month it would be cheaper than a lot of those games from the early 90's but it still wouldn't be fairly priced.
To people who find themselves performing the inexplicable act of buying new titles every month I present...the used games market. If you haven't played it, it's new to you. Have at it, boys and girls!
Judging by that rationale, MMO's are still a giant ripoff compared to something like Counter-Strike: Source for which you pay a one-time fee to play for hours every day. I played the original Counter-Strike for several hours a day for two years straight and all I paid for was the original Half-Life game (around $30 in 1999). The same amount of playing time in WoW would've cost me $360. Not so cheap now, is it?
...or they choose an alternate method that provides a large volume of content at a low price, such as Yahoo Music. I'm waiting for a service to come along like this for TV shows, and then I won't even bother torrenting them any more.
If you actually read TFA you'll see the low-powered bomb was as intended as a test, and he planned to use bombs 10x as powerful as that for a major terrorist attack on 11 airliners over the Pacific ocean. Sound familiar?
Stop paying the $0.99 for tracks on iTunes and what do you get? Nothing. If the goal is to continue listening to lots of new music all the time and not to buy a tiny amount of music you can keep forever, subscription services are perfect. Frankly, iTunes offers basically no utility for me as I subscribe to Yahoo Music which lets me listen to any music I want anytime, and if I want to own something forever I just order the CD (which is non-DRMed and lossless to boot, not to mention liner notes and cover art).
Also, I'm almost never interested in buying just one or two tracks from an album. People who can't find more than one or two tracks on an album from an artist they like are listening to the wrong artists. Great musicians make great albums.
I've never really understood this justification for spending so much money on a single game. Nobody has to pay $50 for a game unless you absolutely have it right when it comes out. If you wait a year or so, games will drop to $20 or less. Just get on a cycle where you're getting everything when it's cheap, and you're golden. Used games are even better.
HD-DVD's lower capacity doesn't really hurt it when it comes to movies, since only the movies are going to be stored in HD, and just about any movie will fit just as well on an HD-DVD as it well on Blu-Ray. The extras should fit too since they're not HD (or at least aren't right now, I don't see a ton of demand for HD extra features) and take up little space. And for TV episodes they can just use an extra disc for the HD-DVD version, which won't raise the cost since HD-DVD's are cheaper to produce than BD's. The only place BD's higher capacity will make a difference is in the PC data backup area.
Actually the APA examples only list words ending with s which are also plural, in which case of course they would use the lone apostrophe at the end. There's nothing in the APA guidelines to counteract the known standard that you add an apostrophe and an s after a singular possessive noun.
Actually, wouldn't that be "It belongs to the Jobses."? Kind of like the old saying, "Keeping up with the Joneses." And then if you were to say that in a different way, I think you could say "It's the Jobses'." This whole thing reminds me of Homer Simpson's difficulties referring to the Flanders family. "Flanderseseses"
I finally got to play this game recently, through an emulated version for Sega CD, and I must say...it does look cool and all, but if I didn't have the ability to save my state whenever I wanted, I'd never play it. The number of times I'd have to start over would drive me nuts.
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I work at a small, private Presbyterian college, and they use an internet filter here which blocks many webpages. When it first got installed, biology students were out of luck if they wanted to do internet research on campus. However, when something legitimate that's being blocked but shouldn't be is brought to the attention of the administration, it gets unblocked. So it's not really a big deal and hasn't caused too many headaches except when it was first installed.
Additionally, bandwidth is a huge issue here as well. At the beginning of the year there was a mere 128kbps of download bandwidth (not sure about upload) available to students. After some small outcry it was increased to 256kbps. For my school this is more an issue of cost rather than stinginess. As it is, our pipes are full. We're working on increasing the bandwidth but it takes time and money. However, if I was a student I'd probably be upset at the amount of bandwidth currently allowed to me. After all, they do live here on campus, and I would expect most any living space I might occupy in this country to have a decent internet connection (1 mbps or more) available to me. I know the portion of their tuition that covers internet access is probably worth a lot more than 256kbps.
A good book doesn't cost $50 new, either. *
*Obvious exceptions include rare editions, encyclopedias, etc.
I guess part of the fun of irritating those people is how uptight they got over it. It's just a game, and moreover it was being played on one of thousands of public servers they could choose to play at. If they really wanted to protest what I was doing, they'd just leave. But they didn't, they stuck around and proceeded to yell at me. I suppose it's the typical kind of jolly internet nerds get from messing with people who can't do anything to them since it's just on the internet. If someone was doing the same thing to me, I would just leave and go to another server or do something else.
In any event, that isn't the kind of cheating that's the real problem. That kind of cheating is more of a prank than anything else. It's the ones that cheat and try to use it to build some kind of perceived genuine success that are far more insidious.
I used to cheat a bit back in the days of CS, when it was still in one of the betas and there was an exploit that allowed you to switch teams in the middle of a round without any visible indicator of the change, so you would be playing along with your teammates, hit your custom-bound key, and instantly you'd be able to start blasting their brains out. This infuriated them to no end and usually it got to the point where your whole team would surround you and start shooting you at the beginning of the round...except at that point you'd be invulnerable because you were still on their team. This continued until the other team showed up and your team was forced to turn around to fight them...at which point you hit the button again and began shooting them in the back. This was an unbelievably hilarious process, made more so when you did it with a friend. I never cheated in a serious game, however. It was only for fun on pub servers in the interest of irritating total strangers. The various wallhacks available for CS back in the day were a ton of fun, too.
I can only speak for myself but I think most people interested enough in playing these old games are also technically savvy enough to be able to download the ROM's from the internet on their own and play them. With minimal fuss, you can find torrents with the full libraries for the SNES, NES, Genesis, N64, etc. and emulators are even easier to find. I bought two PS2-style USB controllers for my PC ($20 each), and I plug them into the PC and just output that to my TV which sits right next to the computer. Easy gaming. I can say that it's allowed me to play through a lot of classic games I didn't get to play the first time around, like The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past. Well, it's back to Chrono Trigger for me!
Actually, online play is not that hard to do...I recently successfully played Turtles IV: Turtles In Time with a friend 30 miles away using the Super Nintendo emulator ZSNES. It worked like a charm. If Nintendo is really smart, they've licensed an existing emulator like that and built off their well-tested codebase.
I can get a PS2 game for $5 (Gran Turismo 3). Why would I pay that much for a game that's 20 years old? I don't have to mention the fact that I already have roms for every Nintendo system up to the Gamecube which I can output to play on my 30" tv doesn't help any.
IIRC correctly, cs_dock, which was a great map, was removed. This was one that I'd been playing as long as I had been playing the game (since beta 2.1). I could be wrong about that particular one getting removed at that particular time, but I know they took it out at some point and I was a sad panda over it.
You know what, I actually agree...I was a very active CS player from beta 2.1 up to a ways past version 1.0, and I honestly thought the game changed significantly for the worse during the transition from 7.1 to 1.0. Something about the aiming was just...different, and I was never as good of a player as I was in the betas. I actually verified this once by demanding we play a LAN game of 7.1, and when we did I was significantly more accurate and successful in play.
Well, just imagine a scenario where Cameron was directing a whole future war movie with the intensity of say, Aliens. That's definitely something that could work, though it's very unlikely that James Cameron himself would actually direct. But if they could get that feel I think it could work. And definitely, Arnold should NOT come back. I think it would be the best thing for the series if they distanced themselves from their star and focused more on story.
No, technically it's still just one book published as three. Let's get our terminology straight here. The "books" used to divide The Lord of The Rings are not at all the same as the term used to describe the books of, say, the Harry Potter series, which were meant to be published separately and to stand alone. Again, they're more like chapters, and were never meant to be read separately or taken out of the context of the overall novel.
I'm of the opinion that T4 is a good idea no matter what you think of T3, since the only direction they have to go in with this is to show the future war, something most Terminator fans have always been interested in seeing. I think if they made a big war movie out of T4, and it didn't feature Arnold, it could be great. Just have it be about Nick Stahl fighting the machines.
First of all, technically there was only one LOTR book, which was split into three separate books for publishing purposes. The subdivision of "books" inside the novel denoted a separation that was more akin to chapters than actual whole books. Second of all, Jackson isn't doing anything on this project yet, so why are you blaming him? Lastly, Jackson made three GREAT films out of the single-book LOTR. I will applaud any effort he makes, if indeed he does make one, at making The Hobbit into a film or films.
Everyone's complaining about the movie download prices, but to me those don't even matter because DVD's are a clear advantage over similarly priced downloaded films. The only way this service might be useful to me is in the rental department. Since I don't feel the urge to rent often enough to maintain a Netflix subscription (something I would feel obligated to keep up with and get my money out of), an instant rental download for around $0.99 or $1.99 sounds quite appealing to me. Unfortunately this Amazon service has its rental price set at $3.99 and won't be getting any sales from me. I'm fairly mystified by the pricing for these services since the cost of providing bandwidth to the customers seems like it should be far lower than the costs of supporting an entire supply and shipping chain.
This is the same specious argument I see used to justify charging $150+ for 26 twenty--five-minute episodes of anime. Just because something was far more expensive in the past, doesn't automatically make any price lower than that a fair price. If WoW was $100/month it would be cheaper than a lot of those games from the early 90's but it still wouldn't be fairly priced.
To people who find themselves performing the inexplicable act of buying new titles every month I present...the used games market. If you haven't played it, it's new to you. Have at it, boys and girls!
Judging by that rationale, MMO's are still a giant ripoff compared to something like Counter-Strike: Source for which you pay a one-time fee to play for hours every day. I played the original Counter-Strike for several hours a day for two years straight and all I paid for was the original Half-Life game (around $30 in 1999). The same amount of playing time in WoW would've cost me $360. Not so cheap now, is it?
...or they choose an alternate method that provides a large volume of content at a low price, such as Yahoo Music. I'm waiting for a service to come along like this for TV shows, and then I won't even bother torrenting them any more.
If you actually read TFA you'll see the low-powered bomb was as intended as a test, and he planned to use bombs 10x as powerful as that for a major terrorist attack on 11 airliners over the Pacific ocean. Sound familiar?
Stop paying the $0.99 for tracks on iTunes and what do you get? Nothing. If the goal is to continue listening to lots of new music all the time and not to buy a tiny amount of music you can keep forever, subscription services are perfect. Frankly, iTunes offers basically no utility for me as I subscribe to Yahoo Music which lets me listen to any music I want anytime, and if I want to own something forever I just order the CD (which is non-DRMed and lossless to boot, not to mention liner notes and cover art).
Also, I'm almost never interested in buying just one or two tracks from an album. People who can't find more than one or two tracks on an album from an artist they like are listening to the wrong artists. Great musicians make great albums.
I've never really understood this justification for spending so much money on a single game. Nobody has to pay $50 for a game unless you absolutely have it right when it comes out. If you wait a year or so, games will drop to $20 or less. Just get on a cycle where you're getting everything when it's cheap, and you're golden. Used games are even better.
HD-DVD's lower capacity doesn't really hurt it when it comes to movies, since only the movies are going to be stored in HD, and just about any movie will fit just as well on an HD-DVD as it well on Blu-Ray. The extras should fit too since they're not HD (or at least aren't right now, I don't see a ton of demand for HD extra features) and take up little space. And for TV episodes they can just use an extra disc for the HD-DVD version, which won't raise the cost since HD-DVD's are cheaper to produce than BD's. The only place BD's higher capacity will make a difference is in the PC data backup area.
Actually the APA examples only list words ending with s which are also plural, in which case of course they would use the lone apostrophe at the end. There's nothing in the APA guidelines to counteract the known standard that you add an apostrophe and an s after a singular possessive noun.
Actually, wouldn't that be "It belongs to the Jobses."? Kind of like the old saying, "Keeping up with the Joneses." And then if you were to say that in a different way, I think you could say "It's the Jobses'." This whole thing reminds me of Homer Simpson's difficulties referring to the Flanders family. "Flanderseseses"
I finally got to play this game recently, through an emulated version for Sega CD, and I must say...it does look cool and all, but if I didn't have the ability to save my state whenever I wanted, I'd never play it. The number of times I'd have to start over would drive me nuts.