Just think: our favorite pop hits might be available 200 years from now, too.
Except that most of today's music will not stand the test of time.
The classical music that is still around today is the best of the best, just as only the best of the best of today's music will still be listened to 200 years from now.
I like your ideology, but I don't think it's realistic.
Most parents will just buy what their kids tell them to buy. When I worked at Target I tried everything I could to convert all potential Xbox or PS2 buyers to buy a gamecube. Especially those with little kids (hey I'm an anti-microsoft nintendo fanboy - what do you expect?). I succeeded maybe two or three times. I failed dozens of times, despite the $50 price difference.
I would also warn parents that they probably shouldn't be buying Grand Theft Auto (and other M games) for their six year old. I succeeded maybe ten times, and failed dozens of times.
Sure this may be anecdotal and may not take into account free downloadable games (which others have pointed out may not actually be true), but it does help illustrate the point that parents will buy what their kids tell them to buy.
That's interesting. When I emailed them to suggest that they bump google up to the top of a search for "www" they told me they don't edit results by hand.
Just in case you're wondering: I made that suggestion because of firefox's feature that does an I'm Feeling Lucky search if the url you typed can't be found. So, if you accidentally type www/something.net you'll get the first result for "www" which happened at the time to be Microsoft - now it's Yahoo.
You missed out big time by not playing Ocarina of Time. If you ever get the chance you should play it; it's simply amazing.
It's not like I'm going to play it all in one sitting
And you call yourself a gamer???:P
Wind Waker was well worth the week of work and school that I missed:)
Anyways, this next Zelda is sure to kick ass. I can't wait! (Although I'd rather wait than play a bug-ridden, half-finished game -- thankfully the Zelda team understands that).
What would be the problem with using one really strong password everywhere?
Just think about that for a minute... (I'll wait)
If you use the same password everywhere and just one of those places gets compromised then somebody could have access to every password-protected piece of information that you value.
Yeah, that's pretty lame if you ask me. I thought SC and SC2 were the best fighting games ever and I'm sure SC3 will kick ass too, but it won't be worth buying a PS2 over.
The only game I'd consider buying a system for is Perfect Dark 0, but that doesn't look like it'll be out until X-Box 2, so I'm glad I never bought an X-Box.
Well, I guess I'd buy a system for any Zelda game, but I'm pretty much a Nintendo fanboy, so I'd be buying the system anyways.
I wonder if Namco thinks they will make more profit by releasing it on only one system. Sure the development time would be reduced some, and they'll probably get some perks from sony, but it seems like they'll be missing out on a large portion of sales.
I wouldn't be surprised if a GC and X-Box version end up coming out several months after the PS2 version though. It's happened before in the video game industry.
Any operating system that allows code that the user introduces to the system to run with privelages of the user is vulernable to virus attacks. I mean to say, I can write a binary for a Linux box that wipes every file the user running it has access to.
Well, in Windows malicious code can be embedded in things that have no business having executable code, such as a word file.
And even straight exe files are executable simply because of there name.
That being said, I'm sure you could convince some users to: chmod+x funny-pictures &&./funny-pictures
But, that still wouldn't trap as many users as double-clicking "funny-pictures.doc".
Hopefully when this comes out more servers will turn friendly fire on. I doubt it though, unless they made that the default, as I can never find any UT2004 servers with FF.
FF forces better tactics than simply aiming towards groups of people and spraying.
I'll still probably get it and play it a little either way, but I would be extremely happy if FF was turned on by default.
As others mentioned mech-type vehicles would be pretty cool too.
I don't run Firefox because I find it inferior to IE in rendering pages as they were intended (yes, we live in an IE world, deal with it).
Interesting, and actually a valid point even though, in theory web standards should trump IE standards.
But personally, I run firefox with adblock because it doesn't render pages as they were intended. It renders only the content I am interested in seeing.
If any other browser had an adblock-like feature, I'd consider using it, although I run Linux, so IE wouldn't be an option for me anyways.
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Thanks for the tip. Why on earth isn't this enabled by default (or even an option in about:config by default)?
So HFS+ can only support file sizes up to 8 exabytes. What a worthless filesystem.
People keep bringing that example up, but there is no such company as "Apple".
There is an "Apple Computer", and there is an "Apple Records" both of which are trademarkable terms.
Perhaps my understanding is flawed. I thought you could trademark the term "Apple Computer" or "Apple Records", but not the term "Apple".
Ok, so perhaps "prior art" isn't the correct term, but the concept remains the same.
You (in all reasonable theory) cannot trademark a term that is already in use.
Talk about prior art. The word has existed since 1250.
Just think: our favorite pop hits might be available 200 years from now, too.
Except that most of today's music will not stand the test of time.
The classical music that is still around today is the best of the best, just as only the best of the best of today's music will still be listened to 200 years from now.
That still seems very inefficient. A die or a chemical disolver or fire would be much more efficient IMHO.
That would be innefficient. The shreds aren't small enough to quickly disolve.
"Informative"
That's even funnier than the joke itself.
I like your ideology, but I don't think it's realistic.
Most parents will just buy what their kids tell them to buy. When I worked at Target I tried everything I could to convert all potential Xbox or PS2 buyers to buy a gamecube. Especially those with little kids (hey I'm an anti-microsoft nintendo fanboy - what do you expect?). I succeeded maybe two or three times. I failed dozens of times, despite the $50 price difference.
I would also warn parents that they probably shouldn't be buying Grand Theft Auto (and other M games) for their six year old. I succeeded maybe ten times, and failed dozens of times.
Sure this may be anecdotal and may not take into account free downloadable games (which others have pointed out may not actually be true), but it does help illustrate the point that parents will buy what their kids tell them to buy.
That's interesting. When I emailed them to suggest that they bump google up to the top of a search for "www" they told me they don't edit results by hand.
Just in case you're wondering: I made that suggestion because of firefox's feature that does an I'm Feeling Lucky search if the url you typed can't be found. So, if you accidentally type www/something.net you'll get the first result for "www" which happened at the time to be Microsoft - now it's Yahoo.
You missed out big time by not playing Ocarina of Time. If you ever get the chance you should play it; it's simply amazing.
:P
:)
It's not like I'm going to play it all in one sitting
And you call yourself a gamer???
Wind Waker was well worth the week of work and school that I missed
Anyways, this next Zelda is sure to kick ass. I can't wait! (Although I'd rather wait than play a bug-ridden, half-finished game -- thankfully the Zelda team understands that).
What would be the problem with using one really strong password everywhere?
Just think about that for a minute... (I'll wait)
If you use the same password everywhere and just one of those places gets compromised then somebody could have access to every password-protected piece of information that you value.
Of course they're just simulations.
How else does one expect to get a job as a tetris engineer without first practicing in the simulator?
Fork it and switch the desktop to KDE yourself.
Or even easier, just install KDE along side Gnome. You could even uninstall Gnome if you want to.
Who are you quoting? And if you can name a source for your "statistic" who funded the poll and for what purpose?
What statistic? He didn't even give a percentage. He only said it was shocking.
Well if that's the case I wonder what browser they are using exactly... IE must have been thrown out long ago.
No, because those same managers know that MS is focusing on security now.
And offtopic:
That whole thing's your name, huh?
No offense to the Soul Calib fans, but this series is as unoriginal as any other fighting game in the market now.
Yes, because 8-way run and parry just doesn't set it apart from the others.
Oh and what is with this ps2 exclusive deal?
Yeah, that's pretty lame if you ask me. I thought SC and SC2 were the best fighting games ever and I'm sure SC3 will kick ass too, but it won't be worth buying a PS2 over.
The only game I'd consider buying a system for is Perfect Dark 0, but that doesn't look like it'll be out until X-Box 2, so I'm glad I never bought an X-Box.
Well, I guess I'd buy a system for any Zelda game, but I'm pretty much a Nintendo fanboy, so I'd be buying the system anyways.
I wonder if Namco thinks they will make more profit by releasing it on only one system. Sure the development time would be reduced some, and they'll probably get some perks from sony, but it seems like they'll be missing out on a large portion of sales.
I wouldn't be surprised if a GC and X-Box version end up coming out several months after the PS2 version though. It's happened before in the video game industry.
Any operating system that allows code that the user introduces to the system to run with privelages of the user is vulernable to virus attacks. I mean to say, I can write a binary for a Linux box that wipes every file the user running it has access to.
./funny-pictures
Well, in Windows malicious code can be embedded in things that have no business having executable code, such as a word file.
And even straight exe files are executable simply because of there name.
That being said, I'm sure you could convince some users to:
chmod+x funny-pictures &&
But, that still wouldn't trap as many users as double-clicking "funny-pictures.doc".
Hopefully when this comes out more servers will turn friendly fire on. I doubt it though, unless they made that the default, as I can never find any UT2004 servers with FF.
FF forces better tactics than simply aiming towards groups of people and spraying.
I'll still probably get it and play it a little either way, but I would be extremely happy if FF was turned on by default.
As others mentioned mech-type vehicles would be pretty cool too.
I don't run Firefox because I find it inferior to IE in rendering pages as they were intended (yes, we live in an IE world, deal with it).
Interesting, and actually a valid point even though, in theory web standards should trump IE standards.
But personally, I run firefox with adblock because it doesn't render pages as they were intended. It renders only the content I am interested in seeing.
If any other browser had an adblock-like feature, I'd consider using it, although I run Linux, so IE wouldn't be an option for me anyways.
Excellent instructions on how not to burn a bridge. I'm sure the submiter will appreciate them.
Well at first I was going to post a list or two of different distrubutions, and then I read this:
I don't have the time to spare to test these out
So then I was going to recommend a distro or two that's stable, easy to install/maintain
But then I read this:
and closely tracks RHEL3.0
So now I'm going to recommend Fedora.