So... is this game rated for "All Ages" then? If so, then I can see the looming backlash after the first, "You're cabbie gets into a drunken bar fight and is arrested. Go directly to jail. Do not pass go, do not collect $200."
Good to know that there are others out there with same mentality. Thanks for that friend!
I'm having a situation with a band named Tristania (gothic/metal/opera mixture, kinda). I got a copy of the CD 'World of Glass' from a friend after he found it in a used music store, and I loved it. No one in my area sells any of that bands disks, so I'm probably going to order it form the distributor.
Getting to the point, I have heard good things on the ol' internet about the album from the same band, 'Beyond the Veil'. I'm thinking that as long as I'm paying shiping, why not grab that one to. But, I also have been burned by artists having a bad album (to me) in their diskography. Downloading a few songs would quell my worries (providing they end up being good songs). Going to the band's web site (here if interested, http://www.tristania.com/) yeilds getting small (50 seconds max) pieces of the songs (there is also a video but its kind of large for a 56k user). Not enough for me to make any real judgement. I'd be happy with probably three or so half-tracks. I could go elseware for a few songs, but the music industry has got me scared shitless to even try with their attitude. With my luck, I'd probably be the one in a million guy they catch in the act.
The music industry may end up losing a sale in this, and as blincon also has noticed this, I'd guess they have probably lost a few thousand.
I have to add, however, that I have noticed that the attitude of many of our fellow/.'ers (no tats, brandings, piercings, or long hair) seems to be what the people who run computer shops in my little town have addopted.
Looking back five years ago (seven tops!) all the computer repair stores were basically the same as far as personnel goes. You have an 50+ year old guy, with long, grey hair, a Harley Davidson T-shirt, and usually a few tats, who owned the place and a few young guys with medium length hair and black, faded Metalica T-shirts. The owners were the types of guys who had probably been working on computers for 20-30 years and knew to keep a pile of the out-dated 5.25 drives in the back for thoes with the dying 386's who were suddenly stuck with a dead drive.
The old owners are dead or retired now and the new owners (the young guys from the past, maybe?) have a compleatly different mentality. They seem more interested in selling you a new PC, or brand new and expensive parts, than reparing or selling the parts to repair an older one. This is evident just by the parts they keep in stock! Now they all keep up the apperence of a law firm as well. You get shot down fast if you go looking for a job with hair longer than four inches.
When and why the mentality took such a drastic change is just beyond me. I liked it better when the attitude was to help out a fellow computer user rather than act like a car salesman, dressing to impress when no one is and not even teaching the new hires what a 5.25 drive is so they can tell me they don't have any. If anyone can come up with an answer as to why things changed, well then your a lot more perceptive than me.
Sorry about coming into this way late, but I have a preminition that scares me.
When installing a new HP printer I got (HP 5700 series), I ran into some problems when I tried to install the drivers/software for the thing in Win98. HP required that I have IE6 to install the thing (bullshit, I know). Well, I installed IE6 and it went fine, but what if I didn't have access to IE6 in 98?
Will I be prevented from installing software and drivers for products in the future because MS is deciding to buttf*ck me for not going to their "latest and greatest" system?
Personally, I find the mindset of "I'm pissed because you destroyed my holy place" as opposed to "I'm pissed because you just wiped out X number of living space, X number of water sources, X number of food sources, and X number of pleasing artwork, architechure, etc., and We won't be able to use it again for X number of years" scary as HELL!
..... but thats just me.
(Also note that art and such is at the end of the list. Thank you. And what the hell is "captcha things"?)
"The NIF laser "is essential to assessing the potential performance of nuclear weapons," says Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman. He says the experiments will help determine the effects of aging on warheads and help assure they will work as expected, should they be needed."
Ok. So maybe a few don't work. It really won't matter at that point. As for indiviual performance, so what if the crater is 100 meters less than it should be. This must be one of thoes guys that can say "Surgical Nuclear Strick" with a straight face.
Ignoring the general hatred that seems to be around for Roland Piquepaille (DISCLAIMER: I have no opinion on the guy), is this something people would use?
Maybe I'm missing something, but in the time it takes to ask the question and get an answer through your cell phone, I would think that you could find a computer and Google the inquirey. What could you possibly ask of a cell phone encyclopedia that you couldn't find on the internet?
Anyone see a list/limitation on materials that one may be supplied with?
Seriously, anything that can get one free and legal access to some C4..... who cares about winning at that point?
"WOW, did you see that moon rock blow!? The pieces are a quarter-inch into the plexiglass! Well, I guess that didn't work. But maybe we should try it again. Got to have more than one trial. Hey, can we get some more moon rock and C4 over here! Ours blew up! Did it on pupose? I resent that. Do you want to explain to your boss why you are standing in the way of scientific progress? No. Then get the explosives! Can't a guy blow up moon rock without being questioned anymore? Shees."
Why is it that the software, movie, and music industries never think "Hey, maybe if we lowered the price to something a little more reasonable, the sales will increase and the pirating will decrease."
Maybe my statistics and economics teachers were just full of crap, eh?
....there will be no way for anyone to pirate the DVDs, right?
So then the price of DVDs should drop to $5-$10 a pop, RIGHT MPAA?
YOUR NOT LOSING YOUR MONEY ANYMORE RIGHT? SO THE PRICE WILL BE REASONABLE, RIGHT YOU PRICKS?
I appologize in advance.
Before this gets modded down into oblivion for being offtopic, can anyone tell me what the differences are between BitTorrent and BitTornado?
I keep seeing that BitTornado and offshot clients like ABC are an improvement on BitTorrent. Is this true, and if so, are the benifits worth it (such as is there an increased performance)? Also, does this new implimentation of the 'trackerless' BitTorrent obsolete BitTornado anyway?
Again, sorry about being offtopic, but I just can't seem to find a decent answer to my question anywhere else. So I grovel before my fellow/.-ians, and ask for their wisdom.
The point is that we are talking about k-12 here. There is no real reason why these students need to be locked into Microsoft at this point, as most schools (well, I am in America though) are only really teaching the concepts of what a presenter, spreadsheet, database, and word processor can do. Surly that can be taught on a software suite that doesn't cost $300.00 or so. Multiply three hundred by the number of computers in your local school system, and ask yourself 'Why?'. You can keep MS as the 'standard' OS, just shit-can Office. Just because we were taught one way, doesn't mean that the current students need to be taught the same. A perfect example is the Dvorak keyboards. Anyone who types with one (I haven't learned yet) will most likly tell you that it is superior to QWERTY style that has been taught since the typwriter. Logically, QWERTY should have been phased out by now for the current graduating classes. A typist doesn't look at the keyboard anyway. The same principal applies as long as you arn't trying to do Phd Chemisty or something really technical with Excell. I know this would apply to my High School anyway (graduating, yes!).
What is this 'Episode III' you speak of. I know of IV, V, & VI, but not of a I, II, or a III. Thats my story and I'm sticking to it (or else I might have to burn the VHS Trilogy I have, no SP editions).
I'm not so sure it will be as bad as you describe it. Even if the targeting of malware becomes more balanced between IE and Firefox, just going by Microsoft's security patch record, Firefox should end up the on top in this category with faster response to threats. Time will tell, I guess.
I concure. But, when you think about it, has anyone ever read a book and then seen a movie adaptation that they didn't have some problem with? No matter if its good or not, chances are that you will find some problem with the movie. Just my experience anyway.
In case you check this again, I would like to clarify that I do run linux on a quadboot system and am really quite pleased with it.I was just wondering about the hardware accel. Going through the work of installing the drivers for a few games that I may or may not care for seemed a little silly when there are other things to experiment with, thats all. Anyway thank you very much for the info.
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So... is this game rated for "All Ages" then? If so, then I can see the looming backlash after the first, "You're cabbie gets into a drunken bar fight and is arrested. Go directly to jail. Do not pass go, do not collect $200."
Exactly!
Good to know that there are others out there with same mentality. Thanks for that friend!
I'm having a situation with a band named Tristania (gothic/metal/opera mixture, kinda). I got a copy of the CD 'World of Glass' from a friend after he found it in a used music store, and I loved it. No one in my area sells any of that bands disks, so I'm probably going to order it form the distributor.
Getting to the point, I have heard good things on the ol' internet about the album from the same band, 'Beyond the Veil'. I'm thinking that as long as I'm paying shiping, why not grab that one to. But, I also have been burned by artists having a bad album (to me) in their diskography. Downloading a few songs would quell my worries (providing they end up being good songs). Going to the band's web site (here if interested, http://www.tristania.com/) yeilds getting small (50 seconds max) pieces of the songs (there is also a video but its kind of large for a 56k user). Not enough for me to make any real judgement. I'd be happy with probably three or so half-tracks. I could go elseware for a few songs, but the music industry has got me scared shitless to even try with their attitude. With my luck, I'd probably be the one in a million guy they catch in the act.
The music industry may end up losing a sale in this, and as blincon also has noticed this, I'd guess they have probably lost a few thousand.
Well said.
And, if he did them himself, it would be a good (or bad, depending on how they looked) advertisment of the steadiness of his hand.
I agree with you as well on this topic.
/.'ers (no tats, brandings, piercings, or long hair) seems to be what the people who run computer shops in my little town have addopted.
I have to add, however, that I have noticed that the attitude of many of our fellow
Looking back five years ago (seven tops!) all the computer repair stores were basically the same as far as personnel goes. You have an 50+ year old guy, with long, grey hair, a Harley Davidson T-shirt, and usually a few tats, who owned the place and a few young guys with medium length hair and black, faded Metalica T-shirts. The owners were the types of guys who had probably been working on computers for 20-30 years and knew to keep a pile of the out-dated 5.25 drives in the back for thoes with the dying 386's who were suddenly stuck with a dead drive.
The old owners are dead or retired now and the new owners (the young guys from the past, maybe?) have a compleatly different mentality. They seem more interested in selling you a new PC, or brand new and expensive parts, than reparing or selling the parts to repair an older one. This is evident just by the parts they keep in stock! Now they all keep up the apperence of a law firm as well. You get shot down fast if you go looking for a job with hair longer than four inches.
When and why the mentality took such a drastic change is just beyond me. I liked it better when the attitude was to help out a fellow computer user rather than act like a car salesman, dressing to impress when no one is and not even teaching the new hires what a 5.25 drive is so they can tell me they don't have any. If anyone can come up with an answer as to why things changed, well then your a lot more perceptive than me.
Doesn't anyone believe in Cthulhu anymore?
We're all happy for you.....
Moving on.
Wait, maybe it was IE5.....
Doesn't matter. Point still stands.
Sorry about coming into this way late, but I have a preminition that scares me.
When installing a new HP printer I got (HP 5700 series), I ran into some problems when I tried to install the drivers/software for the thing in Win98. HP required that I have IE6 to install the thing (bullshit, I know). Well, I installed IE6 and it went fine, but what if I didn't have access to IE6 in 98?
Will I be prevented from installing software and drivers for products in the future because MS is deciding to buttf*ck me for not going to their "latest and greatest" system?
I wasn't aware that the internet was confined to New Zeland and The British Isles.
Personally, I find the mindset of "I'm pissed because you destroyed my holy place" as opposed to "I'm pissed because you just wiped out X number of living space, X number of water sources, X number of food sources, and X number of pleasing artwork, architechure, etc., and We won't be able to use it again for X number of years" scary as HELL!
..... but thats just me.
(Also note that art and such is at the end of the list. Thank you. And what the hell is "captcha things"?)
"The NIF laser "is essential to assessing the potential performance of nuclear weapons," says Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman. He says the experiments will help determine the effects of aging on warheads and help assure they will work as expected, should they be needed."
Ok. So maybe a few don't work. It really won't matter at that point. As for indiviual performance, so what if the crater is 100 meters less than it should be. This must be one of thoes guys that can say "Surgical Nuclear Strick" with a straight face.
Ignoring the general hatred that seems to be around for Roland Piquepaille (DISCLAIMER: I have no opinion on the guy), is this something people would use?
Maybe I'm missing something, but in the time it takes to ask the question and get an answer through your cell phone, I would think that you could find a computer and Google the inquirey. What could you possibly ask of a cell phone encyclopedia that you couldn't find on the internet?
Wait! I don't think I want an answer to that.
I don't think NASA will want to wait untill fate deals its cruel hand and ED strikes you.
Anyone see a list/limitation on materials that one may be supplied with?
Seriously, anything that can get one free and legal access to some C4..... who cares about winning at that point?
"WOW, did you see that moon rock blow!? The pieces are a quarter-inch into the plexiglass! Well, I guess that didn't work. But maybe we should try it again. Got to have more than one trial. Hey, can we get some more moon rock and C4 over here! Ours blew up! Did it on pupose? I resent that. Do you want to explain to your boss why you are standing in the way of scientific progress? No. Then get the explosives! Can't a guy blow up moon rock without being questioned anymore? Shees."
Why is it that the software, movie, and music industries never think "Hey, maybe if we lowered the price to something a little more reasonable, the sales will increase and the pirating will decrease."
Maybe my statistics and economics teachers were just full of crap, eh?
....there will be no way for anyone to pirate the DVDs, right?
So then the price of DVDs should drop to $5-$10 a pop, RIGHT MPAA?
YOUR NOT LOSING YOUR MONEY ANYMORE RIGHT? SO THE PRICE WILL BE REASONABLE, RIGHT YOU PRICKS?
Where's the Tylenol?
And will we in the U.S. be allowed to download it if we want?
Hrmm...
Soon.... very soon, our dreams will become reality. Let the tapeing of the fists begin!
http://blog.syslinx.org/?m=200502
I appologize in advance. /.-ians, and ask for their wisdom.
Before this gets modded down into oblivion for being offtopic, can anyone tell me what the differences are between BitTorrent and BitTornado?
I keep seeing that BitTornado and offshot clients like ABC are an improvement on BitTorrent. Is this true, and if so, are the benifits worth it (such as is there an increased performance)? Also, does this new implimentation of the 'trackerless' BitTorrent obsolete BitTornado anyway?
Again, sorry about being offtopic, but I just can't seem to find a decent answer to my question anywhere else. So I grovel before my fellow
The point is that we are talking about k-12 here. There is no real reason why these students need to be locked into Microsoft at this point, as most schools (well, I am in America though) are only really teaching the concepts of what a presenter, spreadsheet, database, and word processor can do. Surly that can be taught on a software suite that doesn't cost $300.00 or so. Multiply three hundred by the number of computers in your local school system, and ask yourself 'Why?'. You can keep MS as the 'standard' OS, just shit-can Office. Just because we were taught one way, doesn't mean that the current students need to be taught the same. A perfect example is the Dvorak keyboards. Anyone who types with one (I haven't learned yet) will most likly tell you that it is superior to QWERTY style that has been taught since the typwriter. Logically, QWERTY should have been phased out by now for the current graduating classes. A typist doesn't look at the keyboard anyway. The same principal applies as long as you arn't trying to do Phd Chemisty or something really technical with Excell. I know this would apply to my High School anyway (graduating, yes!).
As well as scanning one's own ass.
What is this 'Episode III' you speak of. I know of IV, V, & VI, but not of a I, II, or a III. Thats my story and I'm sticking to it (or else I might have to burn the VHS Trilogy I have, no SP editions).
I'm not so sure it will be as bad as you describe it. Even if the targeting of malware becomes more balanced between IE and Firefox, just going by Microsoft's security patch record, Firefox should end up the on top in this category with faster response to threats. Time will tell, I guess.
I concure. But, when you think about it, has anyone ever read a book and then seen a movie adaptation that they didn't have some problem with? No matter if its good or not, chances are that you will find some problem with the movie. Just my experience anyway.
In case you check this again, I would like to clarify that I do run linux on a quadboot system and am really quite pleased with it.I was just wondering about the hardware accel. Going through the work of installing the drivers for a few games that I may or may not care for seemed a little silly when there are other things to experiment with, thats all. Anyway thank you very much for the info.