No, if I get passed by a Corvette that is anything newer than a mid-60's model, I point and laugh.
Corvettes are really not as well made as their price point suggests. In fact, most people do not buy a Corvette because they have actively researched the performance of the vehicle- they buy them for the prestige of the name.
I'm not saying the guy in the Honda is any better, if anything they both deserve a bit of scorn.
The consumer gets raped when you look at the price of a Corvette vs. what you get for it, though, so they deserve to be laughed at. Repeatedly.
You can download all the service packs you want, but you can't run them on a blacklisted serial. This would allow the 50 billion people using the RHQQ2 key a method of getting a key that will allow them to get SP1 & 2.
Blizzard's foray into BT-based patching would have been a great idea if they weren't so moronic about their update _software_.
It is a nice way to get the patch, though, especially once I figured out that you can get the patch off someone else's machine. Now, we have the ports opened up on the router to get full speed off the torrent _and_ the roommates don't fight over who gets it first.
You know, I recently opened up a second hotmail account for use with MSN messenger (stupid friends won't give it up, and I had forgotten my old account/password) and I didn't get any spam until the moment I used that address to validate an account on a free site.
Moral? hotmail/yahoo/whatever internet mail is not always a spam target. Usually, you have to do something to attract a little attention to it.
Wrong logic, there, buddy. Freedom of speech does include freedom from speech- you have the right to say what you want, just as I have the right to walk away from you. You said so yourself- "nobody can harass you or disturb the peace or prevent you from walking past... they can express their message".
Yes, freedom of speech allows them to express their message. Just as freedom of religion allows them to worship as they see fit. Freedom of religion also allows me to "walk past" your religion, and his, and hers, to find my own, which may include a lack of one.
Most (and this is a generalization) people who get up in arms about seperation of church and state do so because the US government is a little bit lax in keeping that seperation. There is ntohing wrong with a student saying a personal prayer in school- that does not violate the seperation of church and state. However, a teacher having a class prayer does- they are a state agent, and they are forcing students to observe rites of worship.
"One nation, under God" is potentially the biggest violation in the seperation of church and state, and yet that violation has been brought up, and cast down. The only one that comes close are "In God We Trust" on the currency, which also has not been removed.
Environmentalists, PETA, relativists, diversity advocates- belief systems, perhaps. Are they registered as a church? Are they taxed as such? Do they have a method of worship? They are considered secular because they really don't have anything to do with the human soul, with matters of faith. They are concerned with secular things.
I don't seem to recall there being a law anywhere requiring that anyone in the US follow any religion, and the Bill of Rights does include "Freedom of religion".
Now, if they can't force you to follow a particular religion, and there is no law requiring you to worship a religion, that seems to be something left for a person to decide which, if any, religion they're going to follow, doesn't it?
I really have no care for historical precedent in matters of the faith. Faith is just that- faith. Any government mandate that forces faith cheapens and demeans the whole concept of belief.
Maybe the people who are anti-atheist should think about what would happen if all of those people were to suddenly join their church in body, but not in mind. All of these people, some of them right next to you, mouthing the words but not believing in any of them. Looking at you and thinking how silly this seems to them. Wondering if that woman in the 3rd row of pews is single.
Personally, I'd like to see a law that makes it illegal for adult context to appear on a URL unless is has a special extension, something like ".xxx".
While I understand your initial thought process, think that through for a bit longer. A law. Whose law? The US? China's? India's? Russia's? France's?
The Internet is not a US-based "organization", it is a world-wide network of computers that permeates our society. Unless you propose completely destroying the entire infrastructure, and replace it with something that only allows you to view information from inside your own respective country, this kind of thing is impossible.
There is a new.xxx domain, and it is designed for "adult content" but there is no enforcement mechanism for the 'net, and there shouldn't be. You want to stop your kids from seeing the stuff? Watch them surf! Be a parent! Be pro-active! Wives who don't want their husbands looking at porn? You know, there are most likely some issues there that need to be addressed as well, and from a rational adult level, not by blocking the site. Not to mention the fact that anyone who knows how to use google could probably find a how-to that disabled that nifty feature.
Haven't heard of these pants?
You haven't heard of the Docker's Stain Resistant pants by now? The ones coated in teflon? Had some nice ads on TV- say, a year ago?
How on earth will Coldplay ever bring in that kind of revenue?
Seriously, I mean, the amount of money they pay talent scouts- and the average rate of release of new bands on a national label (at least here in the states) would put about 50 people out there looking, and their salaries are exorbant, I'm sure.
Yeah, I've had a couple ideas for the story arcs of some RTSs, and I have the coding knowledge to at least make a decent effort at some form of game enginge, but I can't draw for crap. Finding someone who can and is willing to copyleft their work is worse than the needle/haystack bit.
I didn't ask how to make a free MMOG, I asked what an alternative to MMOGs would be. The home systems weren't "free" arcade games, they were an alternative to the whole paradigm of the arcade. What would do that to MMOGs?
I don't think you understood my question. I didn't ask for free MMOGs, I asked for a free alternative TO MMOGs.
Those aren't really alternatives, those are MMOGs. That's my point. Arcade games got replaced when a massive paradigm shift moved the audience back into their homes. I was asking what would be an alternative to a shift in online gaming with or against others.
What, exactly, would a free alternative to an MMOG be? I mean, unless people are running their own servers to host - and then they pay out the kazoo for bandwidth.
I'm just curious here, to see where you think it will go. The arcade to home was a logical step, but the whole idea behind MMOG is that you're connected to the millions of gamers on the 'net. How do you replace that with an "alternative"?
What on earth are you people talking about? I've rented from BB (only the brick and mortar version, in case there's a difference) for about 8 years now, and I've never had a DVD I rented from them be "edited". Even the anime is uncut. As I tend to buy DVDs that I like (usually from Best Buy or another retailer), I would assume I'd have noticed one of these "edits" by now.
Can you give an example, at least?
Maybe I'm in the minority, but I never liked Zaphod in the books. The first time I read them, I kept hoping for some horrible accident that would leave him mute and paralyzed, so that the only jokes I had to deal with concerning him were ones made at his expense. I always wrote Zaphod off as an evil that I had to put up with to enjoy the rest of the books.
Mos Def did a good job of matching the Ford in my mind. I saw the BBC series a couple weeks before the movie, but by that point, Ford had an image in my mind, and the BBC series seemed to lack that. I always thought that the only reason Ford didn't seem alien to Arthur was the fact that Arthur is not the quickest on the uptake. And yeah, he was a coward. Lost and confused brought that about, but cowardice is cowardice.
Marvin will always be, hands down, the best character of the series, and the guy who did his voice did an incredible job. Can't say I liked the new model of him, though. The BBC seemed more appropriate.
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No, if I get passed by a Corvette that is anything newer than a mid-60's model, I point and laugh.
Corvettes are really not as well made as their price point suggests. In fact, most people do not buy a Corvette because they have actively researched the performance of the vehicle- they buy them for the prestige of the name.
I'm not saying the guy in the Honda is any better, if anything they both deserve a bit of scorn.
The consumer gets raped when you look at the price of a Corvette vs. what you get for it, though, so they deserve to be laughed at. Repeatedly.
Personally, I would recommend a blunt, rusty, grapefruit spoon or a rusty olive fork over just an everyday spoon. More fun that way.
Thanks for the correction then. I had always understood that it was a WGA serial they used for the SP validation.
You can download all the service packs you want, but you can't run them on a blacklisted serial. This would allow the 50 billion people using the RHQQ2 key a method of getting a key that will allow them to get SP1 & 2.
Blizzard's foray into BT-based patching would have been a great idea if they weren't so moronic about their update _software_.
It is a nice way to get the patch, though, especially once I figured out that you can get the patch off someone else's machine. Now, we have the ports opened up on the router to get full speed off the torrent _and_ the roommates don't fight over who gets it first.
You know, I recently opened up a second hotmail account for use with MSN messenger (stupid friends won't give it up, and I had forgotten my old account/password) and I didn't get any spam until the moment I used that address to validate an account on a free site. Moral? hotmail/yahoo/whatever internet mail is not always a spam target. Usually, you have to do something to attract a little attention to it.
Wrong logic, there, buddy. Freedom of speech does include freedom from speech- you have the right to say what you want, just as I have the right to walk away from you. You said so yourself- "nobody can harass you or disturb the peace or prevent you from walking past ... they can express their message".
Yes, freedom of speech allows them to express their message. Just as freedom of religion allows them to worship as they see fit. Freedom of religion also allows me to "walk past" your religion, and his, and hers, to find my own, which may include a lack of one.
Most (and this is a generalization) people who get up in arms about seperation of church and state do so because the US government is a little bit lax in keeping that seperation. There is ntohing wrong with a student saying a personal prayer in school- that does not violate the seperation of church and state. However, a teacher having a class prayer does- they are a state agent, and they are forcing students to observe rites of worship.
"One nation, under God" is potentially the biggest violation in the seperation of church and state, and yet that violation has been brought up, and cast down. The only one that comes close are "In God We Trust" on the currency, which also has not been removed.
Environmentalists, PETA, relativists, diversity advocates- belief systems, perhaps. Are they registered as a church? Are they taxed as such? Do they have a method of worship? They are considered secular because they really don't have anything to do with the human soul, with matters of faith. They are concerned with secular things.
I don't seem to recall there being a law anywhere requiring that anyone in the US follow any religion, and the Bill of Rights does include "Freedom of religion".
Now, if they can't force you to follow a particular religion, and there is no law requiring you to worship a religion, that seems to be something left for a person to decide which, if any, religion they're going to follow, doesn't it?
I really have no care for historical precedent in matters of the faith. Faith is just that- faith. Any government mandate that forces faith cheapens and demeans the whole concept of belief.
Maybe the people who are anti-atheist should think about what would happen if all of those people were to suddenly join their church in body, but not in mind. All of these people, some of them right next to you, mouthing the words but not believing in any of them. Looking at you and thinking how silly this seems to them. Wondering if that woman in the 3rd row of pews is single.
The Internet is not a US-based "organization", it is a world-wide network of computers that permeates our society. Unless you propose completely destroying the entire infrastructure, and replace it with something that only allows you to view information from inside your own respective country, this kind of thing is impossible.
There is a new .xxx domain, and it is designed for "adult content" but there is no enforcement mechanism for the 'net, and there shouldn't be. You want to stop your kids from seeing the stuff? Watch them surf! Be a parent! Be pro-active! Wives who don't want their husbands looking at porn? You know, there are most likely some issues there that need to be addressed as well, and from a rational adult level, not by blocking the site. Not to mention the fact that anyone who knows how to use google could probably find a how-to that disabled that nifty feature.
Haven't heard of these pants? You haven't heard of the Docker's Stain Resistant pants by now? The ones coated in teflon? Had some nice ads on TV- say, a year ago?
What luck-- Facism you can vote for.
How on earth will Coldplay ever bring in that kind of revenue?
Seriously, I mean, the amount of money they pay talent scouts- and the average rate of release of new bands on a national label (at least here in the states) would put about 50 people out there looking, and their salaries are exorbant, I'm sure.
The math there doesn't add up.
And the ones that aren't blogs, are listings of the chip for sale on the same page as DRM is mentioned.
Sometimes, google is not your friend, especially when you don't add any advanced criteria to the search, or bother looking into your search results.
I dunno, I prefer to call them "Shovels".
Yeah, I've had a couple ideas for the story arcs of some RTSs, and I have the coding knowledge to at least make a decent effort at some form of game enginge, but I can't draw for crap. Finding someone who can and is willing to copyleft their work is worse than the needle/haystack bit.
I didn't ask how to make a free MMOG, I asked what an alternative to MMOGs would be. The home systems weren't "free" arcade games, they were an alternative to the whole paradigm of the arcade. What would do that to MMOGs?
I don't think you understood my question. I didn't ask for free MMOGs, I asked for a free alternative TO MMOGs.
Those aren't really alternatives, those are MMOGs. That's my point. Arcade games got replaced when a massive paradigm shift moved the audience back into their homes. I was asking what would be an alternative to a shift in online gaming with or against others.
What, exactly, would a free alternative to an MMOG be? I mean, unless people are running their own servers to host - and then they pay out the kazoo for bandwidth.
I'm just curious here, to see where you think it will go. The arcade to home was a logical step, but the whole idea behind MMOG is that you're connected to the millions of gamers on the 'net. How do you replace that with an "alternative"?
They did carry the "unrated" version of things as well as the rated ones.
What on earth are you people talking about? I've rented from BB (only the brick and mortar version, in case there's a difference) for about 8 years now, and I've never had a DVD I rented from them be "edited". Even the anime is uncut. As I tend to buy DVDs that I like (usually from Best Buy or another retailer), I would assume I'd have noticed one of these "edits" by now. Can you give an example, at least?
Nonsense! He wouldn't be on /. if he was a cute girl!
...and this is wrong...how?
That will be all.
There is also Found On Road Dead.
Maybe I'm in the minority, but I never liked Zaphod in the books. The first time I read them, I kept hoping for some horrible accident that would leave him mute and paralyzed, so that the only jokes I had to deal with concerning him were ones made at his expense. I always wrote Zaphod off as an evil that I had to put up with to enjoy the rest of the books. Mos Def did a good job of matching the Ford in my mind. I saw the BBC series a couple weeks before the movie, but by that point, Ford had an image in my mind, and the BBC series seemed to lack that. I always thought that the only reason Ford didn't seem alien to Arthur was the fact that Arthur is not the quickest on the uptake. And yeah, he was a coward. Lost and confused brought that about, but cowardice is cowardice. Marvin will always be, hands down, the best character of the series, and the guy who did his voice did an incredible job. Can't say I liked the new model of him, though. The BBC seemed more appropriate.