Rejoice now, but Jack will be proven not only right, but perfectly sane with the upcoming release of Rockstar Games' "Grand Theft Auto: Saddam & Gomorrah".
Ads in any medium seem invasive and damage the flow the product is attempting to generate. I prefer not to watch movies on television as commercials break this flow and take you out of the moment. If I'm reading a magazine, or a comic book, I do not want to flip the page on a story and be hit with a full page ad for the fact that it disrupts the experience. As for internet related ads, they are often designed to be "smack-dab-in-the-middle" of wherever the visitor is being sent, or in a location that will garner the most attention possible. The only real exception to this is any television product which is designed and arranged for scheduled interruptions. And even then I channel surf.
Though, for the most part, I block, ignore, reject and downright disavow most ads I encounter only because they are telling me that I need their product, when it would be far more effective (and subsequently, respectable) to show me the product and let me decide whether or not it is right for me.
RIAA to iTMS: Give us more money!
iTMS to RIAA: No.
RIAA to Microsoft: You'll give us more money?
Microsoft to RIAA: No.
RIAA to XM: Gimme your wallet!
Microsoft copied so much from Mac OS, why can't Apple do a little copying back?
I can totally relate to this guy. Apple should start using some of Microsoft's ideas, like binding the browser on a molecular level to the OS itself! I upgraded my iBook to 10.3 and it put in Internet Explorer, which I don't prefer to use. I was able to delete it by dragging it to my trash can! No BSOD, no registry conflicts, no "flagrant system errors", nothing!
If you answered, the parent, did the parent bother researching the game, understanding the reasoning and similar instances that had brought about the ESRB system, or did they just decide to give Li'l Billy whatever he wanted to stop complaining.
If the game was sold to the child directly, then investigate the business that sold mature-rated game to the child to begin with.
SCO accuses IBM lawyers of corrupting Judge:
IBM: This isn't the code you're looking for.
Judge: This isn't the code I'm looking for...
IBM: We can go about our business.
Judge: You can go about your business...
IBM: McBride's got the body of a baltic hooker in his trunk...
Did he stick tape over the Windows key during installation?
Or did he perhaps hold down the shift key.
I share your amusement. Though I am by no means capable enough to perform such a task myself (those shift keys are tricky) it seems that a Microsoft program being cracked or broken or worked-around or otherwise finagled is not necessarily a breakthrough. I suppose the most news-worthy aspect of this particular crack was in response of someone sinking what Microsoft was apparently toting around as the Titanic.
Interesting, yes. Front page? Maybe not other to rub it in Microsoft's face. This isn't the Special Olympics people. Not everyone gets a medal and a hug.:)
Correct me if I'm wrong. You don't simply "offer" a shared file on a P2P network, do you? As far as I can tell, yes, you tag a number of files for availability, but you don't flaunt them until someone has actually queried for that file, or something similar.
Case in point, Windows Update. That is an instance where something is blindly offered to you, but on a P2P network, you are not bombarded with the latest episode of the Simpsons until you actively request it.
And then, there has to be proven intent. If I had never adjusted the default settings on say, Acquistion, and composed music through GarageBand that I wanted to share through a P2P network, and by chance someone downloaded my entire U2 collection simply because those files were lall ocated in the same directory, does that result in charges against me including but not limited to negligence, conspiring, or even on the downloader's part, solicitation?
SCO's more persistent that Inigo Montoya. "My name is SCO. You killed my start-up. Prepare to... I'm sorry, I forgot my sword.. could you lend me yours so that I may disembowel you?"
Seriously, this is like dangling at carrot in front of a mule to get it to walk. And I, as a mule, am coming to the realization that I'm not getting that carrot any time soon.
"SCO's losing money? Wow!" Yeah, well, this story ain't exactly Citizen Kane, people. Most of us have read ahead. The only way the company is going to survive is they read ahead as well... and if life is a "choose your own adventure" book.
Turn to page 39: Your company is bankrupt.
Turn to page 78:...Vampire Pirates!
While I do feel the FF line is over-saturated, now branching off into cellphone games that really don't interest me, I don't think it's time to just put it away and forget about it.
Granted, I wasn't a fan of every installment (I hated the system on VIII, though the cinematics kept me going as long as I did.) I always found the storylines intriguing, not to mention the settings and art. Even if I didn't like the game, I put up with it as much as I could just to further the plot or immerse myself in new environments.
FFX-2 was more of an expansion pack than a sequel, and FFXI, while entertaining, was, for the casual gamer, boring and frustrating.
If FFXII can be as well-thought out and written as FFVII, then it does not necessarily mean that the series should end, just that there should be a significant amount of thought and creativity put into future volumes. No more -2 sequels, no more rehashing storylines. Make it interesting, make it beautiful, make it fun, and the fans will make it a hit.
How are we supposed to believe that Lucas will work on another trilogy when he hasn't even finished his work on the original set. Two years from now, we'll have Star Wars Episodes IV, V & VI, Ultimate Collection, Remastered Edition, Look, A New Wookie Edition and then... Star Wars Classic, because Coca Cola new what they were doing all along.
And then he's got to go back through Eps I, II & III. I hear the first change is replacing Jake Lloyd with an animatronic something-or-other.
I thought the reason Voyager sucked was because the ship looked like a garden trowel.
What Enterprise really needed was a villain with a big plastic chest!
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Rejoice now, but Jack will be proven not only right, but perfectly sane with the upcoming release of Rockstar Games' "Grand Theft Auto: Saddam & Gomorrah".
Ads in any medium seem invasive and damage the flow the product is attempting to generate. I prefer not to watch movies on television as commercials break this flow and take you out of the moment. If I'm reading a magazine, or a comic book, I do not want to flip the page on a story and be hit with a full page ad for the fact that it disrupts the experience. As for internet related ads, they are often designed to be "smack-dab-in-the-middle" of wherever the visitor is being sent, or in a location that will garner the most attention possible. The only real exception to this is any television product which is designed and arranged for scheduled interruptions. And even then I channel surf.
Though, for the most part, I block, ignore, reject and downright disavow most ads I encounter only because they are telling me that I need their product, when it would be far more effective (and subsequently, respectable) to show me the product and let me decide whether or not it is right for me.
RIAA to iTMS: Give us more money!
iTMS to RIAA: No.
RIAA to Microsoft: You'll give us more money?
Microsoft to RIAA: No.
RIAA to XM: Gimme your wallet!
Ah, yes. Operation: Another F'N Coaster.
I don't know what's worse, the fact that someone made that joke, or that I was about to do the same.
I can totally relate to this guy. Apple should start using some of Microsoft's ideas, like binding the browser on a molecular level to the OS itself! I upgraded my iBook to 10.3 and it put in Internet Explorer, which I don't prefer to use. I was able to delete it by dragging it to my trash can! No BSOD, no registry conflicts, no "flagrant system errors", nothing!
If you answered, the parent, did the parent bother researching the game, understanding the reasoning and similar instances that had brought about the ESRB system, or did they just decide to give Li'l Billy whatever he wanted to stop complaining.
If the game was sold to the child directly, then investigate the business that sold mature-rated game to the child to begin with.
If none-of-the-above, rant hysterically.
SCO accuses IBM lawyers of corrupting Judge: IBM: This isn't the code you're looking for. Judge: This isn't the code I'm looking for... IBM: We can go about our business. Judge: You can go about your business... IBM: McBride's got the body of a baltic hooker in his trunk...
See, the iMacs were way ahead of their time!
Either way was functionally in the mystery that is my mind. I didn't know if tote (as in a tote-bag) was an actual verb or not.
The retailers place purchase orders. Ten million confirmed purchase orders does not necessarily mean ten million units will be sold to a consumer.
And if they define it as ten million units sold to a consumer... I might not hold my breath on that one.
I share your amusement. Though I am by no means capable enough to perform such a task myself (those shift keys are tricky) it seems that a Microsoft program being cracked or broken or worked-around or otherwise finagled is not necessarily a breakthrough. I suppose the most news-worthy aspect of this particular crack was in response of someone sinking what Microsoft was apparently toting around as the Titanic.
Interesting, yes. Front page? Maybe not other to rub it in Microsoft's face. This isn't the Special Olympics people. Not everyone gets a medal and a hug. :)
"...Why didn't I take the blue pill?"
Yes. That's why Scion is not making BMW take the proverbial dump in it's shorts.
Wonderful. How long until no proven violation is required?
Case in point, Windows Update. That is an instance where something is blindly offered to you, but on a P2P network, you are not bombarded with the latest episode of the Simpsons until you actively request it.
And then, there has to be proven intent. If I had never adjusted the default settings on say, Acquistion, and composed music through GarageBand that I wanted to share through a P2P network, and by chance someone downloaded my entire U2 collection simply because those files were lall ocated in the same directory, does that result in charges against me including but not limited to negligence, conspiring, or even on the downloader's part, solicitation?
Seriously, this is like dangling at carrot in front of a mule to get it to walk. And I, as a mule, am coming to the realization that I'm not getting that carrot any time soon.
"SCO's losing money? Wow!" Yeah, well, this story ain't exactly Citizen Kane, people. Most of us have read ahead. The only way the company is going to survive is they read ahead as well... and if life is a "choose your own adventure" book.
Turn to page 39: Your company is bankrupt. ...Vampire Pirates!
Turn to page 78:
Especially since Microsoft takes more and more steps to make it less and less of "your" computer each and every day.
Now, if it was renamed to "My computer... no, seriously, I'm taking this one, too - Bill G.", then that might warrant a public outcry.
Think I'm joking? Wait till Windows "W.O.P.R.". Take the humans out of the loop entirely.
Well, didn't I just step in a pile of Chocobo sh*t? :) Told you, I'm not a big time FF player.
While I do feel the FF line is over-saturated, now branching off into cellphone games that really don't interest me, I don't think it's time to just put it away and forget about it. Granted, I wasn't a fan of every installment (I hated the system on VIII, though the cinematics kept me going as long as I did.) I always found the storylines intriguing, not to mention the settings and art. Even if I didn't like the game, I put up with it as much as I could just to further the plot or immerse myself in new environments. FFX-2 was more of an expansion pack than a sequel, and FFXI, while entertaining, was, for the casual gamer, boring and frustrating. If FFXII can be as well-thought out and written as FFVII, then it does not necessarily mean that the series should end, just that there should be a significant amount of thought and creativity put into future volumes. No more -2 sequels, no more rehashing storylines. Make it interesting, make it beautiful, make it fun, and the fans will make it a hit.
And then he's got to go back through Eps I, II & III. I hear the first change is replacing Jake Lloyd with an animatronic something-or-other.
Yeah, two years from now I'm gonna run out and drop $300 on an brand new iTumor.
In a related story, environmental scientist Johan Gundersnout has confirmed the extinction of the code monkey.
I thought the reason Voyager sucked was because the ship looked like a garden trowel. What Enterprise really needed was a villain with a big plastic chest!