I was thinking more along the lines of a replacement for Kevlar vests... Just how bulletproof is this???
Diamonds are hard, yes, but still prone to shattering. The facets on a diamond are cut, remember, by controlled fragmenting.
My guess would be that such a vest would not only be deliriously expensive, but would probably protect you from a single shot, thus shattering and embedding several razor sharp diamond shards in your torso. Youch!
Sure you say, it's not bomb-grade material, but it's still radioactive. It can be used to poison and irradiate any number of people in the wrong hands
Oh, puuuulease! If it's simple radioactivity or poison you want, there are a billion easier ways to get them then by going onto a secure, public, invitation-only online auction. There are hundreds of radioactive isotopes of various elements that are a whole lot easier to get than uranium. And poison? Just visit any toxic dump site.
One day we may discover that this film is, in fact, the cinematic Dark Tower, the enigmatic structure which binds countless parallel universes together. Until that day comes, I guarantee that a rarely touched copy of Captain Ron will remain undisturbed on your local video store shelf, slowly gathering dark, obscure forces to its beck and call... watching... waiting...
Anyone who's a fan of Stephen King will love this reference to his Gunslinger series. I know it made my day.
If innovation is key, as GameCenter suggests, then all genres of PC game are dying, including Action and First-Person Shooter. Diablo II is certainly nothing new... even the original Diablo had little innovation. Quake 3 is the least innovative game that Id has ever released. Yet few people would actually come out and say that Action or FPS genres are dying out.
Personally, I don't think innovation is nearly as important as having good, solid gameplay... and keeping out the bugs doesn't hurt. This is mainly what has been killing genres: developers who are too interested in flash than making a game that plays well. Even if it's something we've seen before, if it's well done then people will play it.
Counter-Strike is a team game. It's not a co-op game. Co-op, as incorporated into Doom, Quake, and (blech) Quake2 involves multiple players completing the single-player aspect of a game. CS, CTF, and Team DM are not co-op.
Now, if you'd bothered to read the post you replied to, chances are you would have seen this:
Now, 19.8% of the 116,200 that he counts as having paid have actually just promised to pay, but haven't actually paid. 80.2% of them paid via credit card. That means that at least 61.3% of downloads have been paid for, which is more than twice Jamie's most optimistic estimate.
We're supposed to hate Magento, but there isn't anything particularly hateful about him. He's trying to save his species from what he believes from personal experience is a possible Holocaust-style extinction. He might get carried away by his fervor, but he's admirable in many ways, and even the silver-tongued Xavier doesn't make much of a case for his stubborn defense of the human race.
Actually, I never got the impression that we're supposed to hate Magneto, either in the comic or the movie. (Mind you, I got into the series in about 1990 and haven't read it for a couple years now.) I've always felt he was presented as a sort of tragic figure, who has an admirable goal (mutants being able to live in peace) but is going about it in a horribly wrong way. He wants to sacrifice an innocent mutant in his quest to protect mutants and then doesn't care that his machine will result in the deaths of millions. Maybe not to be hated, but definitely the villain.
First, there was Castle Wolfenstein, an old top-down room-by-room graphical game I used to play on my old Atari 8-bit. You are a prisoner armed with a knife who just escaped from your cell. The goal is to escape.
Then came Return to Wolfenstein which was basically the same game, except the story is that you snuck into the castle and you have to get deep into the base and plant a bomb to kill Hitler.
Would you care to explain how those were "made real-time"?
Besides the fact that the games you describe aren't multiplayer, they're just not that interesting to look at. And this is coming from a guy who just spent a month playing Moria from work at slow times. So it's not that I don't like the old games, but they're really not in the same league.
Truth is, most keys aren't very secure, even double-sided ones (unless they're asymmetrical). The standard Schlage or Kwickset 5-pin lock has about 100,000 possible combinations (when there are 10 pin lengths)... but it's not unsual for two locks with similar but different pin configurations to be accessable by the same key. Once I grabbed a key at random from the garbage key bin, and imagine my surprise when it opened not only my apartment, but also my parents' home. Though the two locks were different, they were only off by a couple of pins which varied in length by 1 (up or down).
...is that you can make up any shit you want. People never seem to ask themselves "Does this analogy make sense?"
Nike left no loaded gun lying around. It wasn't their lack of security, it was Network Solutions. Even if Smith is right and Nike chose the lowest security model, so what? NSI is the ones who were offering it, right? Smith is basically saying that the low security model is itself criminal because it's too easy to break. And yet, it was Smith's system that was hacked, in order to introduce the Nike DNS info on his box. Who's security is actually at fault?
You want an accurate analogy? Okay, here it is: I buy a car. Some guy goes to the manufacturer of my car, tells them that it's his and he needs another copy of my car key. The manufacturer just fucking gives it to him, he steals my car and drives it into some guy's store, smashing it and causing a lot of damage. The store owner sues me because I didn't buy the super deluxe model of the car that comes with a code-activated alarm system. Well, shit, what was I thinking?
I ask you: which analogy is more accurate? Who is really at fault?
...is that you can make up any shit you want and people never seem to ask themselves "Does this analogy make sense?"
Nike left no loaded gun lying around. It wasn't their lack of security, it was Network Solutions. Even if Smith is right and Nike chose the lowest security model, so what? NSI is the ones who were offering it, right? Smith is basically saying that the low security model is itself criminal because it's too easy to break. And yet, it was Smith's system that was hacked, in order to introduce the Nike DNS info on his box. Who's security is actually at fault?
You want an accurate analogy? Okay, here it is: I buy a car. Some guy goes to the manufacturer of my car, tells them that it's his and he needs another copy of my car key. The manufacturer just fucking gives it to him, he steals my car and drives it into some guy's store, smashing it and causing a lot of damage. The store owner sues me because I didn't buy the super deluxe model of the car that comes with a code-activated alarm system. Well, shit, what was I thinking?
I ask you: which analogy is more accurate? Who is really at fault?
My personal favorite tactic is when they send you spam and forge your email address as the sender. Like, I wouldn't remember that I didn't send the damn thing to myself? Who do they really think they're fooling? Of course, nowadays they just seem to send it from "(random letters)@(random letters).com".
A couple of weeks ago, MTV ran a special on the Ten Spot entitled "Napster: Grand Theft Audio" (ironic eh? using a play on the title of a popular COMPUTER game as an expose on their smear job of computer geeks).
Uh, not quite. It's a play on the criminal felony charge of "Grand Theft Auto", which was obviously borrowed by whatever computer game you're referring to.
I loved the single all-in-one movie Fist of the North Star. It's a classic. But I can't find it anywhere, only the series. How exactly do they differ? Is one better than the other?
You are talking about a contract. By entering into a contract, I can forfeit some of my rights as a condition in order to get something I want..
Now what contract have any of us entered into with Apogee that stipulates we must give up our right to free speech in order to make use of their trademarks under constitutionally protected fair use? None at all. Their whole website "license" is nonsense and doesn't bind me beyond the rules laid down in federal copyright and trademark law. What they're attempting is far worse than click-through licenses... this is an attempt at a riduculous "by reading this" contract that is about as enforceable as the following:
By reading this post, you agree to compensate the author $5,000 each day for the rest of your life.
The point, for those of you who haven't realized it, is not for airplane travel, but making the CPU easier to transport to and from LAN parties. LouZiffer and a bunch of us run a North Carolina LAN party, so having a portable system becomes a real advantage. No need to worry about getting a hand cart or dolly when you can just pop out the handle and glide the sucker around with its own wheels.
An alternative is always PC Tote, but then that requires all the lifting and the carrying and the kicking and the screaming.
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Come on, guys, you guys can't recognize a troll this obvious? I'm very disappointed in you!
Let's talk turkey...
- I was thinking more along the lines of a replacement for Kevlar vests... Just how bulletproof is this???
Diamonds are hard, yes, but still prone to shattering. The facets on a diamond are cut, remember, by controlled fragmenting.My guess would be that such a vest would not only be deliriously expensive, but would probably protect you from a single shot, thus shattering and embedding several razor sharp diamond shards in your torso. Youch!
But who in their right mind uses EMACS?
- Sure you say, it's not bomb-grade material, but it's still radioactive. It can be used to poison and irradiate any number of people in the wrong hands
Oh, puuuulease! If it's simple radioactivity or poison you want, there are a billion easier ways to get them then by going onto a secure, public, invitation-only online auction. There are hundreds of radioactive isotopes of various elements that are a whole lot easier to get than uranium. And poison? Just visit any toxic dump site.No, Chicken Little, the sky is not falling.
- One day we may discover that this film is, in fact, the cinematic Dark Tower, the enigmatic structure which binds countless parallel universes together. Until that day comes, I guarantee that a rarely touched copy of Captain Ron will remain undisturbed on your local video store shelf, slowly gathering dark, obscure forces to its beck and call... watching... waiting...
Anyone who's a fan of Stephen King will love this reference to his Gunslinger series. I know it made my day.If innovation is key, as GameCenter suggests, then all genres of PC game are dying, including Action and First-Person Shooter. Diablo II is certainly nothing new... even the original Diablo had little innovation. Quake 3 is the least innovative game that Id has ever released. Yet few people would actually come out and say that Action or FPS genres are dying out. Personally, I don't think innovation is nearly as important as having good, solid gameplay... and keeping out the bugs doesn't hurt. This is mainly what has been killing genres: developers who are too interested in flash than making a game that plays well. Even if it's something we've seen before, if it's well done then people will play it.
Counter-Strike is a team game. It's not a co-op game. Co-op, as incorporated into Doom, Quake, and (blech) Quake2 involves multiple players completing the single-player aspect of a game. CS, CTF, and Team DM are not co-op.
- We're supposed to hate Magento, but there isn't anything particularly hateful about him. He's trying to save his species from what he believes from personal experience is a possible Holocaust-style extinction. He might get carried away by his fervor, but he's admirable in many ways, and even the silver-tongued Xavier doesn't make much of a case for his stubborn defense of the human race.
Actually, I never got the impression that we're supposed to hate Magneto, either in the comic or the movie. (Mind you, I got into the series in about 1990 and haven't read it for a couple years now.) I've always felt he was presented as a sort of tragic figure, who has an admirable goal (mutants being able to live in peace) but is going about it in a horribly wrong way. He wants to sacrifice an innocent mutant in his quest to protect mutants and then doesn't care that his machine will result in the deaths of millions. Maybe not to be hated, but definitely the villain.Finally... motion blur!!!!
Then came Return to Wolfenstein which was basically the same game, except the story is that you snuck into the castle and you have to get deep into the base and plant a bomb to kill Hitler.
Besides the fact that the games you describe aren't multiplayer, they're just not that interesting to look at. And this is coming from a guy who just spent a month playing Moria from work at slow times. So it's not that I don't like the old games, but they're really not in the same league.
That poor, bloody goat.
- How about birth control methods, very significant to the birth of children, very profitable for corperations.
Huh, they must put it in the water where you live. Around here, taking birth control is a choice left up to individuals.Truth is, most keys aren't very secure, even double-sided ones (unless they're asymmetrical). The standard Schlage or Kwickset 5-pin lock has about 100,000 possible combinations (when there are 10 pin lengths)... but it's not unsual for two locks with similar but different pin configurations to be accessable by the same key. Once I grabbed a key at random from the garbage key bin, and imagine my surprise when it opened not only my apartment, but also my parents' home. Though the two locks were different, they were only off by a couple of pins which varied in length by 1 (up or down).
Nike left no loaded gun lying around. It wasn't their lack of security, it was Network Solutions. Even if Smith is right and Nike chose the lowest security model, so what? NSI is the ones who were offering it, right? Smith is basically saying that the low security model is itself criminal because it's too easy to break. And yet, it was Smith's system that was hacked, in order to introduce the Nike DNS info on his box. Who's security is actually at fault?
You want an accurate analogy? Okay, here it is: I buy a car. Some guy goes to the manufacturer of my car, tells them that it's his and he needs another copy of my car key. The manufacturer just fucking gives it to him, he steals my car and drives it into some guy's store, smashing it and causing a lot of damage. The store owner sues me because I didn't buy the super deluxe model of the car that comes with a code-activated alarm system. Well, shit, what was I thinking?
I ask you: which analogy is more accurate? Who is really at fault?
Nike left no loaded gun lying around. It wasn't their lack of security, it was Network Solutions. Even if Smith is right and Nike chose the lowest security model, so what? NSI is the ones who were offering it, right? Smith is basically saying that the low security model is itself criminal because it's too easy to break. And yet, it was Smith's system that was hacked, in order to introduce the Nike DNS info on his box. Who's security is actually at fault?
You want an accurate analogy? Okay, here it is: I buy a car. Some guy goes to the manufacturer of my car, tells them that it's his and he needs another copy of my car key. The manufacturer just fucking gives it to him, he steals my car and drives it into some guy's store, smashing it and causing a lot of damage. The store owner sues me because I didn't buy the super deluxe model of the car that comes with a code-activated alarm system. Well, shit, what was I thinking?
I ask you: which analogy is more accurate? Who is really at fault?
My personal favorite tactic is when they send you spam and forge your email address as the sender. Like, I wouldn't remember that I didn't send the damn thing to myself? Who do they really think they're fooling? Of course, nowadays they just seem to send it from "(random letters)@(random letters).com".
- A couple of weeks ago, MTV ran a special on the Ten Spot entitled "Napster: Grand Theft Audio" (ironic eh? using a play on the title of a popular COMPUTER game as an expose on their smear job of computer geeks).
Uh, not quite. It's a play on the criminal felony charge of "Grand Theft Auto", which was obviously borrowed by whatever computer game you're referring to.I loved the single all-in-one movie Fist of the North Star. It's a classic. But I can't find it anywhere, only the series. How exactly do they differ? Is one better than the other?
- In the Evil Dead movie, Ash's line was "Who wants some." See the difference?
In Army of Darkness, Ash responds to "I'll swallow your soul!" with the remark "Come get some."Sorry to disappoint you.
Now what contract have any of us entered into with Apogee that stipulates we must give up our right to free speech in order to make use of their trademarks under constitutionally protected fair use? None at all. Their whole website "license" is nonsense and doesn't bind me beyond the rules laid down in federal copyright and trademark law. What they're attempting is far worse than click-through licenses... this is an attempt at a riduculous "by reading this" contract that is about as enforceable as the following:
By reading this post, you agree to compensate the author $5,000 each day for the rest of your life.
Now pay up.
An alternative is always PC Tote, but then that requires all the lifting and the carrying and the kicking and the screaming.
Nobody liked it. Daikatana bashing has become almost as fashionable as Battlefield: Earth bashing.