Spin: arrrr, pirates of the south west
Spin: thar be large pipes o'bandwith near ye'ol univarsety.
Pirate: yearg, ye may be an ta somethan thar.
Spin: what say ye we pull yonder USB hard disk longside yonder NMSU puter and begin tha lutin and plunderin.
Pirate: yearg. The master done gaved me a testin machine with a grand ol CDR.
Pirate: Avast!
Pirate: MP3s off the starboard bow!
Spin: stere clear of ye porn pop ups rollin in from tha east.
Pirate: I have mah trusty Opera browsa to help me fend em off.
Spin: encrypt the data holds, batton down thar security patches, argh thar be spyware abound.
I cant think of a more appropriate thread to post this quote. Avast!;-)
I think this it is quite true that DRM doesnt have anything to do with it. Coincidentally yesterday I was talking to a (female(yes, really)) friend about iTunes and she told me that she only uses it to either rip the music she's bought on CD to her iPod or the tunes she's downloaded from P2P. As a typical teenage student(the vast majority of iPod owners presumably), i dont think she has much of a concept of what DRM even is; much less does she care about it. On buying songs from iTunes: "whats the point, if i just want one song i'll get it off Kazaa"
Another point people often mention is the convenience of the iTunes service, but in reality it's no more convenient buying a song off iTunes than it is to fire up your favourite file sharing program and get a nice mp3 of the song you want in minutes.
Funny? Yeah. But only because of the HL2 reference. Replace 'a gravity gun' with 'any firearm available in LA' and the joke becomes reality. If criminals in LA are willing to shoot people with their guns, surely these new UAVs are just target practice to them. I can see this becoming quite a costly project..
In an interview, Alyssa Milano was heard to say "I support Net Neutrality because alliteration is cool. And without it, we'd have to pay extra to host the E-Book of Shadows!"
Call me ignorant, but realistically, what is Alyssa Milano going to know about Net Neutrality and what it means to the average person? They could have chosen somebody who might have a chance of knowing what its on about to advertise their campaign to the masses..
"Ettus paints a picture of radio bringing about a many-to-many revolution, like blogging, but for a wider segment of the world. "It enables everybody to be a broadcaster," he says."
I think i prefer Orwell's future! Imagine turning your USRP enabled TV on and catching this:
"And Now, Coming To You Live From Sophie's Bedroom, Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit's: FEED THE CAT!!
Tomorrow, Tune In For EmoJake's Visual Guide: Getting the Most Attention from Cutting Yourself with the Least Amount of Pain!"
I think it depends on what sort of game you're playing. For example, Project Zero(or Fatal Frame, for those outside the UK) was one of the scariest game experiences I've ever had. Something tells me playing it with Britney Spears on in the background instead of the game's own atmospheric scores would have greatly reduced the fear factor of the game. It's the same with FPSs, I always play better with the in-game music because my own music tends to just distract me from the atmosphere of the game.
With sports and racing games, on the other hand, I agree that the music makes no difference since it's mostly just soundtracks full of bad Indy tunes that just get on my nerves, and dont really add to the gaming experience.
Actually yes I think that's an entirely accurate statement; I have experienced such things myself - when I am talking to someone online or posting in forums or whatever, I don't tend to think about what age the person might be, I just subconsciously assume that they are the same age as me. Judging by your Slashdot ID you're older than me but since all I see is words it doesnt really have any effect on how I would respond. I'm sure I'm not the only person to act like this, which is where the accuracy of the statement lies. From my experience, talking online to someone who is 50 is not much different at all from talking to someone who is 14.
I think this eliminates the social restrictions, as it is very easy to pretend you're something you're not over the internet, and it's a hell of a lot easier to say certain things; the notion cybersex is a good example, as well as IRC flamewars. (You could very easily say to a kick-boxing champion "Your mother is a whore!" over the 'net, because there's virtually no chance he'll be able to do anything about it, whereas in real life you'd get your ass kicked.)
Another thing with online hookup environments is the obvious factor of the long distances between the two participants - It's always safer if you're closer to home, as the danger of predation runs rife when girls go off to some far away city that they're unfamiliar with to meet someone.
I've always disliked the idea of 'meeting your ideal partner' over the internet, you can never know what you're really getting yourself into until you meet the person in real life, it's way too easy for the other person to create a personality that may be 'ideal' to you, but then falls apart in the real world. Eh, I may have gone off on a bit of a tangent there, but nevermind:-)
I think it is quite a simple concept, although extremely difficult (now that i have tried) to explain.
The 15 year old male friends will have more 15 year old female friends, and will have more of a chance with them; and also wont have much means to cause the 17 year old female any harm - the chance of a 15 year old being a sexual predator is very low, even though 15 year old males will sleep with anything..
The 17 year old male friends who want to sleep with her are more often than not also socially/sexually active and will have other friends their own age, as well as sharing friends with the girl, so the chance of them wanting to cause the 17 year old girl harm is also quite low, and even if he does, the other friends will be easily able to make sure nothing will come of it.
The 50 year old male who is supposedly friends with the girl, however, will have a job, his own place, money, possibly his own children, and therefore probably something mentally wrong with him if he wants to sleep with her - I believe this is why there will be more chance of a 50 year old being a sexual predator than a teenager, the guy wont share friends with the girl, and has much more means to cause her harm, as well as to entice her into whatever he wants. On top of this, the girl may feel embarrassed about a 'relationship' with such an older man, so may not disclose what's going on to her friends/family, leaving her in greater danger. Also, and this is just my opinion, but i think it's unnatural for a middle-aged adult to be attracted to a teenager in any way.
To help clarify whether this post is BS or not, I'm an 18 year old male who hopes to raise a family in later life, who cannot really imagine what it is like for a father to have a daughter in her late teens, but i know i'm going to be damn protective of mine when the time comes.
Another shooter on the 360?! I never saw that one coming.. Between upcoming games this and GoW and Halo 3, I cant imagine how the 360 isnt selling better than any console before it! I mean, the range of games is so diverse!
Seriously, i thought microsoft were trying to make the Xbox 360 seem less 'hardcore', when are the games for the casual gamers going to show up?
Oh dear Lord. We've got at least another 5 years of this. I think Nintendo's real plan was to have the slashbots make so many lame "Wii" jokes that we're driven to buy one just to get away from slashdot!
I'll still be calling it the Revolution, or Rev, for short. Do they expect "Wii" to catch on in the West? OK, i'll give them credit for something more innovative than a just a number, but does "Wii" actually mean something really clever in japanese and we're all just missing the point?
>>I only watch a film once, so why pay more for a DVD than it costs to watch in the theater?
Because of the bonus features, of course!
Who doesnt want to see mind numbingly repetitive out-takes and deleted scenes that no one wants to see? what about the countless hours of commentry by random nobodies.. "oh yeah this is the bit where i was in the back doing nothing important and i dropped my pen, so if you turn up the volume REALLY LOUD you can just about hear it hit the floor!"
Hell, i'd pay twice what you pay in the theatre for that..!
Hey, don't forget Perfect Dark! It took everything that made Goldeneye the best FPS of its time, and improved on it vastly; Counter-Operative mode, anyone? (why the hell was that mode not copied by every FPS developers on the planet?! HOURS of replayable fun!) and the plethora of types of multiplayer simulants was excellent! AND i think it's still the only FPS where you could choose where each weapon appeared on each map. Fantastic! Ahhh, those were the days:-(
I agree, Halo 2's online play was amazing fun, although i do prefer Halo 1 System Link games to halo 2 ones, there's just something extra special about the first..
Slashdot Mirror
Time for the hungarians to wear their Tinfoil scarves!
Harrrr, the pirates be rapin' an pillagin /. for the mod points!
(And I thought it was only on April Fool's Day posts like these could be modded +5 insightful!)
#9081 +(5165)- [X]
;-)
Spin: arrrr, pirates of the south west
Spin: thar be large pipes o'bandwith near ye'ol univarsety.
Pirate: yearg, ye may be an ta somethan thar.
Spin: what say ye we pull yonder USB hard disk longside yonder NMSU puter and begin tha lutin and plunderin.
Pirate: yearg. The master done gaved me a testin machine with a grand ol CDR.
Pirate: Avast!
Pirate: MP3s off the starboard bow!
Spin: stere clear of ye porn pop ups rollin in from tha east.
Pirate: I have mah trusty Opera browsa to help me fend em off.
Spin: encrypt the data holds, batton down thar security patches, argh thar be spyware abound.
I cant think of a more appropriate thread to post this quote. Avast!
I think this it is quite true that DRM doesnt have anything to do with it. Coincidentally yesterday I was talking to a (female(yes, really)) friend about iTunes and she told me that she only uses it to either rip the music she's bought on CD to her iPod or the tunes she's downloaded from P2P. As a typical teenage student(the vast majority of iPod owners presumably), i dont think she has much of a concept of what DRM even is; much less does she care about it. On buying songs from iTunes: "whats the point, if i just want one song i'll get it off Kazaa"
Another point people often mention is the convenience of the iTunes service, but in reality it's no more convenient buying a song off iTunes than it is to fire up your favourite file sharing program and get a nice mp3 of the song you want in minutes.
I once browsed the Slashdot of yore,
The comments insightful and more;
But now all they be,
Are links to goatse;
And n00bs pwning j00 with dual c0re!
I'm so sorry.
Funny? Yeah. But only because of the HL2 reference. Replace 'a gravity gun' with 'any firearm available in LA' and the joke becomes reality. If criminals in LA are willing to shoot people with their guns, surely these new UAVs are just target practice to them. I can see this becoming quite a costly project..
Bastard Operator from Asia?
Call me ignorant, but realistically, what is Alyssa Milano going to know about Net Neutrality and what it means to the average person? They could have chosen somebody who might have a chance of knowing what its on about to advertise their campaign to the masses..
"Ettus paints a picture of radio bringing about a many-to-many revolution, like blogging, but for a wider segment of the world. "It enables everybody to be a broadcaster," he says."
I think i prefer Orwell's future! Imagine turning your USRP enabled TV on and catching this:
"And Now, Coming To You Live From Sophie's Bedroom, Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit's: FEED THE CAT!!
Tomorrow, Tune In For EmoJake's Visual Guide: Getting the Most Attention from Cutting Yourself with the Least Amount of Pain!"
Try telling that to Sony..
With sports and racing games, on the other hand, I agree that the music makes no difference since it's mostly just soundtracks full of bad Indy tunes that just get on my nerves, and dont really add to the gaming experience.
I think this eliminates the social restrictions, as it is very easy to pretend you're something you're not over the internet, and it's a hell of a lot easier to say certain things; the notion cybersex is a good example, as well as IRC flamewars. (You could very easily say to a kick-boxing champion "Your mother is a whore!" over the 'net, because there's virtually no chance he'll be able to do anything about it, whereas in real life you'd get your ass kicked.)
Another thing with online hookup environments is the obvious factor of the long distances between the two participants - It's always safer if you're closer to home, as the danger of predation runs rife when girls go off to some far away city that they're unfamiliar with to meet someone.
I've always disliked the idea of 'meeting your ideal partner' over the internet, you can never know what you're really getting yourself into until you meet the person in real life, it's way too easy for the other person to create a personality that may be 'ideal' to you, but then falls apart in the real world. Eh, I may have gone off on a bit of a tangent there, but nevermind :-)
OK, that flash has been overused recently, but Hero vs Hero? I couldnt resist!
You are very much not alone.
The 15 year old male friends will have more 15 year old female friends, and will have more of a chance with them; and also wont have much means to cause the 17 year old female any harm - the chance of a 15 year old being a sexual predator is very low, even though 15 year old males will sleep with anything..
The 17 year old male friends who want to sleep with her are more often than not also socially/sexually active and will have other friends their own age, as well as sharing friends with the girl, so the chance of them wanting to cause the 17 year old girl harm is also quite low, and even if he does, the other friends will be easily able to make sure nothing will come of it.
The 50 year old male who is supposedly friends with the girl, however, will have a job, his own place, money, possibly his own children, and therefore probably something mentally wrong with him if he wants to sleep with her - I believe this is why there will be more chance of a 50 year old being a sexual predator than a teenager, the guy wont share friends with the girl, and has much more means to cause her harm, as well as to entice her into whatever he wants. On top of this, the girl may feel embarrassed about a 'relationship' with such an older man, so may not disclose what's going on to her friends/family, leaving her in greater danger. Also, and this is just my opinion, but i think it's unnatural for a middle-aged adult to be attracted to a teenager in any way.
To help clarify whether this post is BS or not, I'm an 18 year old male who hopes to raise a family in later life, who cannot really imagine what it is like for a father to have a daughter in her late teens, but i know i'm going to be damn protective of mine when the time comes.
Seriously, i thought microsoft were trying to make the Xbox 360 seem less 'hardcore', when are the games for the casual gamers going to show up?
Oh dear Lord. We've got at least another 5 years of this. I think Nintendo's real plan was to have the slashbots make so many lame "Wii" jokes that we're driven to buy one just to get away from slashdot!
Wii, je sais!
I'll still be calling it the Revolution, or Rev, for short. Do they expect "Wii" to catch on in the West? OK, i'll give them credit for something more innovative than a just a number, but does "Wii" actually mean something really clever in japanese and we're all just missing the point?
I hear it's going to be called the iPodx10^-8
Because of the bonus features, of course!
Who doesnt want to see mind numbingly repetitive out-takes and deleted scenes that no one wants to see? what about the countless hours of commentry by random nobodies.. "oh yeah this is the bit where i was in the back doing nothing important and i dropped my pen, so if you turn up the volume REALLY LOUD you can just about hear it hit the floor!"
Hell, i'd pay twice what you pay in the theatre for that..!
haha, no, seriously.. i'm joking
..*ducks*
Piracy on the rise in 15 states and the District of Columbia
I agree, Halo 2's online play was amazing fun, although i do prefer Halo 1 System Link games to halo 2 ones, there's just something extra special about the first..
Or you can surf your porn and hear anyone coming near your office.
The moans usually give it away first...
Yes, because all my colleagues moan when they get near my office..