They spend arm and leg on these games when you can get plenty of fun games for the PC at at fraction of the price. I could never understand how any one can spend almost $70 on a xbox game when you get the same quality of games for like $20 for the PC. I'm not saying PC games are all that price. I think when Doom3 came out for PC it was selling at Best Buy for like $50 something. I could be wrong and just my observation but I noticed the prices of PC games drop a lot faster within a few weeks then console games.
I also have a hard time understanding how any one actually pays for xboxlive. I've allways enjoyed using GameSpy Arcade for free and it works with all the PC games I have like SOF and SOF2. GameSpy also have some "tunnel" software that lets you hook your xbox to their servers for free.
The Holodeck was introduced in The Next Generation. So Kirk had to battle with real Klingons and boink his female crew members for fun.
Then women rights happened in the 60's and they had to give the next generation a holodeck to do the same shit. That way boinking holodeck women wouldn't be considered sexist and the feminist would stop bitching.
Consider when the two shows where aired and think about it.
"Other OSS projects do not have good security, sometimes not even as good as Microsoft and co."
The neat thing about OSS is if you don't like the way a OSS Project handles security you can always help them do it better. Just see if Microsoft tries letting you mess with their code and not get sued.
"Consider this: I have downloaded patches for more security flaws in Firefox than for IE in recent weeks. Moreover, the IE patches were offered to me via automatic updates within minutes of being available on Windows Update, while the Firefox patches did not show up as automatic updates for several days after they were available from the project web site in some cases. They even had a whole version missed out of the automatic updates, because somehow a release was made that contained serious bugs of its own, and had to be withdrawn."
The reason you may download more patches for some OSS software has nothing to do with how many bugs may be in the software. It only shows that OSS is willing to say out loud when they fuck up and patch the holes as soon as humanly possible. Where as in closed source land they come out with patches a hell of a lot latter and prefer to sweep every thing under the carpet when it comes to bugs.
Closed source and open source have the same kinds of problems when it comes to bugs. The only difference is how each handles it.
[Have you ever laid out in the sun? It's relaxing and pleasant.]
I live just north of Austin Texas and I've been getting 100 something weather. I don't know about every one else but I don't find it that relaxing.
[There's a very good reason that lots of cultures worshipped the sun, and it's not just agricultural.]
You're right it's not, it's because they thought the sun was some god, for the same reason the Greeks named the planets and other varies things in the sky after their gods.
[People with lots of toxins in their system is probably what you're talking about.]
Last time I checked, the best way to clear out tokens is to drink lots of water every day and stay off the soda and other junk food.
...not hackers. Hackers are the one's who built the systems. It was crackers (probably teenage punk wanabe hackers in their mom's basement) but none the less crackers.
self centered model to me. First rule to remember is that time is relative. If you goto your past that past is now your present. Past, present and future are nothing but words to describe one's point of view of time. Which I like to call "Temporal Relativity". Now that we got that out of the way.
If you where to go back in time and your time pod lands on your grand father he would be dead. Now you ask how are you born. Simple, parallel universes.
Let's start over, it's 2005 and you never traveled through time yet. In your 1950 your future self never traveled to the past. That is set and can't be changed. Now you get in a time pod and travel to 1950. By making that choice you simply made a new future for your self even though you're in 1950. Simply put, you traveled to a parallel universe where you did travel to 1950.
Now by accidently killing your grandfather in that universe all you've done is prevent your double from being born. If you where to travel to the 2005 you would exist in a 2005 where you don't exist.
For every possible choice exist a universe where you made that choice.
If you counter in parallel universe's with time travel you can remove the grand father paradox.
Only humanity would be so arrogant to believe we can screw up the universe with such an idea as the grand father paradox.
I don't know what Bonzi Buddy is but as for Weatherbug you can use Kontact to see your weather. Actually I think it's called Kweather or some thing, I forgot what package it's in, but it integrates with Kontact.
If you consider all the packages you get with say SUSE there should be at least most programs to satisfy most home users that they don't need those programs you mentioned.
Although marketshare does affect which target gets targeted the most by viruses and other shitware, it's not the rule. Some OS's are more secure then others out of the box.
I would say the security of any one system is based on more then one factor, mostly being the OS, the shithead between the "chair and key board" and where that OS stands on the market.
There are probably other factors, point is the market alone doesn't determan the exploits of a system.
There are more games out there for the PC than both you and I can count. Just because you happen to have games that had no problem crossing over to XP proves nothing but the fact that you had games that still work.
And I happen to had a good percentage of games that didn't.
All this proves is we like differant games and that you're luckier than I was.
Some games I had where so old that they where designed for DOS. Like the first Tomb Raider for example. The game runs in DOS mode using DOS drivers for the sound and video. It wasn't until Tomb Raider 2 that they started making them for Windows 95.
I also had this Star Trek BORG game that was an interactive movie that wouldn't work past Windows 98.
So some of us older folks shouldn't have to update are games or software just to say we have the latest shit.
We all ready have machines to grade test. I forgot what you call them but you fill in the dots with a pencil and the teacher uses a machine to grade it.
Other than that any thing more complicated then multiple choice or True or false requires the intellect and judgment of a human mind that no program will ever be able to do.
Which is M$ plans. The Xbox is suppose to be mostly PC yet instead of them selling parts to upgrade say RAM, new hard drive, DVD ROM or even a new mother board they come out with whole new version/system that's close to the same as the old one.
So at the end customers end up paying butt loads of money for what is nothing more than a few minor upgrades but packaged with a whole new version number. Just like their operating systems.
Then again I can't really single M$ out for this when the majority of closed course company's do the same thing.
It's not that I don't like playing games on the computer. I just find it annoying that after upgrading from Windows 98 to Windows XP that half of my games no longer worked. Than after upgrading to SP2 that the other half don't work as well.
Not to mention that other older programs like a geneology program my dad liked to use which now it doesn't work in XP.
Not all of us have the latest hardware to play the latest games on. I still have a 600 Celeron with 256 MB of ram. I don't have the money to be spending on a gig of ram just so I can run my games and my operating system at the same time.
I don't know about you but I get tired of upgrading half my software when ever Microsoft comes out with a new SP. Not to mention having to buy newer games. I still like my older games.
I got tired of it and started playing on my brother's Xbox.
Most the games at the store that are made for Windows are (mostly) also made for Mac. Besdies, computers are meant for work. You want to play games than I'd suggest a PS2.
People will go to Canada with no passports then try to go home and can't.
So what will more likely happen is Canada will get pissed with all these Americans stuck in their country that they will just start requiring Americans to come in with passports if they want to go home.
Any country Americans visit will probably do the same thing.
"MS Europe" I almost threw up my hot coco when I read that.
"No one walks away from 25 billion in profit a year to avoid being fined 1.4 billion. No one with any brains creates a giant new market for their competition."
I guess you can add those with values and integrity to your list of no-bodies.
But than again if Microsoft or any other corrupt body gave me money that I could literly retire on I'd start my own business in the opensource market, donate to Libertarian groups such as CATO and donate to OpenSource projects.
There's probably more but I can't think of any right now.
Point is, any closed source company gives me money, they're only fu**ing them selves over.
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This person deserves Score:5, mode them up.
They spend arm and leg on these games when you can get plenty of fun games for the PC at at fraction of the price. I could never understand how any one can spend almost $70 on a xbox game when you get the same quality of games for like $20 for the PC. I'm not saying PC games are all that price. I think when Doom3 came out for PC it was selling at Best Buy for like $50 something. I could be wrong and just my observation but I noticed the prices of PC games drop a lot faster within a few weeks then console games.
I also have a hard time understanding how any one actually pays for xboxlive. I've allways enjoyed using GameSpy Arcade for free and it works with all the PC games I have like SOF and SOF2. GameSpy also have some "tunnel" software that lets you hook your xbox to their servers for free.
...run Linux?
I dread to think what would happen if it ran Windows.
I'd get charged every time I pass through just to rent the door.
Or it gets infected with a worm an slams shut on my penis when I get up in the middle of the night to take a piss.
The Holodeck was introduced in The Next Generation. So Kirk had to battle with real Klingons and boink his female crew members for fun.
Then women rights happened in the 60's and they had to give the next generation a holodeck to do the same shit. That way boinking holodeck women wouldn't be considered sexist and the feminist would stop bitching.
Consider when the two shows where aired and think about it.
Mod me down but it's true.
"Other OSS projects do not have good security, sometimes not even as good as Microsoft and co."
The neat thing about OSS is if you don't like the way a OSS Project handles security you can always help them do it better. Just see if Microsoft tries letting you mess with their code and not get sued.
"Consider this: I have downloaded patches for more security flaws in Firefox than for IE in recent weeks. Moreover, the IE patches were offered to me via automatic updates within minutes of being available on Windows Update, while the Firefox patches did not show up as automatic updates for several days after they were available from the project web site in some cases. They even had a whole version missed out of the automatic updates, because somehow a release was made that contained serious bugs of its own, and had to be withdrawn."
The reason you may download more patches for some OSS software has nothing to do with how many bugs may be in the software. It only shows that OSS is willing to say out loud when they fuck up and patch the holes as soon as humanly possible. Where as in closed source land they come out with patches a hell of a lot latter and prefer to sweep every thing under the carpet when it comes to bugs.
Closed source and open source have the same kinds of problems when it comes to bugs. The only difference is how each handles it.
[Have you ever laid out in the sun? It's relaxing and pleasant.]
I live just north of Austin Texas and I've been getting 100 something weather. I don't know about every one else but I don't find it that relaxing.
[There's a very good reason that lots of cultures worshipped the sun, and it's not just agricultural.]
You're right it's not, it's because they thought the sun was some god, for the same reason the Greeks named the planets and other varies things in the sky after their gods.
[People with lots of toxins in their system is probably what you're talking about.]
Last time I checked, the best way to clear out tokens is to drink lots of water every day and stay off the soda and other junk food.
...not hackers. Hackers are the one's who built the systems. It was crackers (probably teenage punk wanabe hackers in their mom's basement) but none the less crackers.
self centered model to me. First rule to remember is that time is relative. If you goto your past that past is now your present. Past, present and future are nothing but words to describe one's point of view of time. Which I like to call "Temporal Relativity". Now that we got that out of the way.
If you where to go back in time and your time pod lands on your grand father he would be dead. Now you ask how are you born. Simple, parallel universes.
Let's start over, it's 2005 and you never traveled through time yet. In your 1950 your future self never traveled to the past. That is set and can't be changed. Now you get in a time pod and travel to 1950. By making that choice you simply made a new future for your self even though you're in 1950. Simply put, you traveled to a parallel universe where you did travel to 1950.
Now by accidently killing your grandfather in that universe all you've done is prevent your double from being born. If you where to travel to the 2005 you would exist in a 2005 where you don't exist.
For every possible choice exist a universe where you made that choice.
If you counter in parallel universe's with time travel you can remove the grand father paradox.
Only humanity would be so arrogant to believe we can screw up the universe with such an idea as the grand father paradox.
I don't know what Bonzi Buddy is but as for Weatherbug you can use Kontact to see your weather. Actually I think it's called Kweather or some thing, I forgot what package it's in, but it integrates with Kontact.
If you consider all the packages you get with say SUSE there should be at least most programs to satisfy most home users that they don't need those programs you mentioned.
Mangez mon âne vous baiseur détestant français de mère.
...now the new excuse out of getting a ticket will be "these aren't the droids you're looking for".
Although marketshare does affect which target gets targeted the most by viruses and other shitware, it's not the rule. Some OS's are more secure then others out of the box.
I would say the security of any one system is based on more then one factor, mostly being the OS, the shithead between the "chair and key board" and where that OS stands on the market.
There are probably other factors, point is the market alone doesn't determan the exploits of a system.
... gets infected it puts a whole new meaning to "ops I did it again".
There are more games out there for the PC than both you and I can count. Just because you happen to have games that had no problem crossing over to XP proves nothing but the fact that you had games that still work.
And I happen to had a good percentage of games that didn't.
All this proves is we like differant games and that you're luckier than I was.
Some games I had where so old that they where designed for DOS. Like the first Tomb Raider for example. The game runs in DOS mode using DOS drivers for the sound and video. It wasn't until Tomb Raider 2 that they started making them for Windows 95.
I also had this Star Trek BORG game that was an interactive movie that wouldn't work past Windows 98.
So some of us older folks shouldn't have to update are games or software just to say we have the latest shit.
You do remember DOS do you not?;)
I typed my name in Google one afternoon out of boredom and I actually found reference on some website with a email address I had back in 97.
It also found links to my SETI@HOME profile and links to sites with post from the KDE newsletter when I was getting help with some thing.
So seriously, be careful what you put in blogs. If there where a all knowing god in cyberspace, google would be it.
We all ready have machines to grade test. I forgot what you call them but you fill in the dots with a pencil and the teacher uses a machine to grade it.
Other than that any thing more complicated then multiple choice or True or false requires the intellect and judgment of a human mind that no program will ever be able to do.
http://216.234.165.87/sts-114.htm
Which is M$ plans. The Xbox is suppose to be mostly PC yet instead of them selling parts to upgrade say RAM, new hard drive, DVD ROM or even a new mother board they come out with whole new version/system that's close to the same as the old one.
So at the end customers end up paying butt loads of money for what is nothing more than a few minor upgrades but packaged with a whole new version number. Just like their operating systems.
Then again I can't really single M$ out for this when the majority of closed course company's do the same thing.
It's not that I don't like playing games on the computer. I just find it annoying that after upgrading from Windows 98 to Windows XP that half of my games no longer worked. Than after upgrading to SP2 that the other half don't work as well.
Not to mention that other older programs like a geneology program my dad liked to use which now it doesn't work in XP.
Not all of us have the latest hardware to play the latest games on. I still have a 600 Celeron with 256 MB of ram. I don't have the money to be spending on a gig of ram just so I can run my games and my operating system at the same time.
I don't know about you but I get tired of upgrading half my software when ever Microsoft comes out with a new SP. Not to mention having to buy newer games. I still like my older games.
I got tired of it and started playing on my brother's Xbox.
Most the games at the store that are made for Windows are (mostly) also made for Mac. Besdies, computers are meant for work. You want to play games than I'd suggest a PS2.
we're all using Linux.
I don't mean this to be funny, but I'd be interested to see what happens if a real shark tries to mate with the robot shark.
Does the real shark attack the fake shark or does it just leave it alone.
Than again the real sharks's friends will probably start making fun of the real shark for fu**ing a robot.
I'd hate be the tech who has to clean that sh*t out of the robot shark's ass.
they will not have to worry about redundant articles submitted to slashdot.
Or is this a case of dajavoo (or how ever you spell it).
People will go to Canada with no passports then try to go home and can't.
So what will more likely happen is Canada will get pissed with all these Americans stuck in their country that they will just start requiring Americans to come in with passports if they want to go home.
Any country Americans visit will probably do the same thing.
"MS Europe"
I almost threw up my hot coco when I read that.
"No one walks away from 25 billion in profit a year to avoid being fined 1.4 billion. No one with any brains creates a giant new market for their competition."
I guess you can add those with values and integrity to your list of no-bodies.
But than again if Microsoft or any other corrupt body gave me money that I could literly retire on I'd start my own business in the opensource market, donate to Libertarian groups such as CATO and donate to OpenSource projects.
There's probably more but I can't think of any right now.
Point is, any closed source company gives me money, they're only fu**ing them selves over.