It becomes debatable whether "Facebook" can be classified as something productive, however... but I would agree with you. I cannot see how sitting, staring at a blank computer monitor is a good control. Perhaps browsing normal websites not pertaining to oneself, or reading email, would be a better control. You know. NORMAL activities.
He's pointing out how people misuse the phrase. I've seen people write out "for all intensive purposes" when people mean "for all intents and purposes". It's what happens when folks hear something, don't quite comprehend it, then decide they've got to use it, too.
When a rather large provider like this is shut down, I'm sure many nerds care, as they might actually be using their services. I don't, and I find this whole thing interesting, at the very least.
You have some kind of case against them, it looks like. Bad experience? Did they touch your dolly someplace bad? Chill out. You don't like it, move on.
Do you seriously think this, or are you just trolling for a reaction on the internet? Do you truly believe the government must GRANT you the right to move around freely, for you to own it?
Would you much prefer to have to ask a government official for permission to move from one state to the next? Would you like to present your papers, prove your "NEED" to be there? Because that's where we're moving. And now they want to place these scanning systems in train and metro stations.
Is this so hard to understand that our rights, YES, rights, have been eroded to this degree? That because of simplistic views such as the one you present right there, we're wildly throwing away what was beautiful and wonderful in this country, and what at one time made it unique?
It's simply very sad how poorly educated we are about what a "right" is these days.
So, in other words, you support the police state, and don't mind having your rights trampled.
We have a right, as a supposedly free society, to travel and do what we please as long as it does not harm others. Or we used to. This is America, the 'Land of the Free'. This is the place that was supposed to do away with the despotism, with the forced torture of innocence, and all that.
Guess what? You're one of the people who seem to be in support of all that is going wrong in this country, the decline of the personal and societal freedom that has been happening for decades. Why? What does it get you? You're not any safer than you were pre-2001. Nothing's changed to make things better. We're not less likely to have terrorist attacks.
However, we're MUCH less likely to go about our lives without being molested or in some way violated by some quasi-state official. Why? Because it suits some greedy politicians and empowers government more. Welcome to the future of checkpoints that keep us from travelling easily, that make our lives more expensive, and return VERY LITTLE to nothing to us. When its made illegal to go from state to state without crossing through border checks, when you have to present your papers to travel, remember these times, my friend, and remember how you supported them.
Ok, I agree. I was about to disagree, then I realized they said this thing went 90k FEET up. Ye gods. Only 27.4km? 100km is considered space by most space agencies, though NASA considers anyone who goes above 80km to be an astronaut (thus some Blackbird pilots are actually Astronauts). Why do these articles keep, with such huge inaccuracies, keep getting posted?
Okay, so I'll agree with you on that point, definitely. I'm not saying good graphics make a game bad. I'm saying graphics aren't the ONLY selling point to a game, and this shows itself in reality. A *good* game is a good game, and what we all consider good varies based on our own personal needs. Graphics are merely one factor, and sometimes they even get in the way of a good game.
(If you feel you can't make that awesome game idea of yours because you can't do good enough graphics? Yeah. That's getting in the way.)
Actually, reality seems to state otherwise, time and again, when people make statements like this.
While it is not a requirement to pay for a game such as, for example, Dwarf Fortress, it seems that people will quite gladly donate enough money to keep it going, and allow the developer of said game to live entirely off of those donations. In effect, they are paying for that game. Some of them are even paying more for that game than they would be for any other game except for an MMO.
There is also the fact that people will pay for games with "less than brilliant graphics", since people pay for games like World of Goo to name one example. By far, it did not have state of the art graphics.
The world of who is out there willing to pay for what is far more grey than black and white. People look for different things when they decide to spend money on a game. The hardcore, "OMG, must haz rendered pores!" gamers are only a small segment of the market. Game studios seem to enjoy forgetting that fact.
Well, no. You've some options. Hangars in NPC space stations are 100% secure. No other player can break into your hangar or use it in any way. Corp hangars (shared hangars that various corp(guild) members can use are secure to that corp. But make sure you trust your corpies with similar access as you.
When it comes to moving your goods, either you can be smart about it, and move a few items at a time, or you can hire someone else to move them for you, and have them give you collateral while they've got your stuff.
This guy's mistake was moving too many valuable items at once, in a system *known* for things like this happening. That character alone is 8 months old. He should've known better, frankly. If not? Well, hard lessons learned are learned the best. It's a shame none of those PLEX's dropped.
How many of them just walk off with your isk, laughing that you paid them? How good are the pilots you sent after others? What would you do with your ISK, other than that? Not a player? Your brand new character can do very little. Buy one? Well, could spend a few billion isk on a character that has some uber ships... But you'll not know how to use them, so... can't say I'd be overly worried about it. And the people who purchased your PLEX's would thank you for the game time. *shrug*
I've played via Plex's for some time... Finally stopped when I got tired of spending all my hard earned isk on game time.
I find this somewhat amusing. I recently upgraded my GPU from the onboard piece of crap I had. My is a 2.0Ghz AMD, single core. I've played Fallout 3 and Bioshock on it. It's amazing how much the vidcard matters but the CPU less so these days. The Anchorage DLC gave me a hard time in places, bogging down a bit. After I got through it, Fallout 3's been fine. I'm beginning to suspect they require these amazing CPU specs merely to keep people upgrading.
Bioshock says it wants a 2.4 Ghz single core, and it runs on my system beautifully.
Without 3d acceleration? I do not think it's possible to find such a machine anymore, frankly. Every modern onboard video has a 3d graphics chip these days, and even the newer laptops have pretty amazing 3d capabilities, compared to ones from a few years ago. Unaccelerated 3d is a thing of the past, unless you're blatantly not installing your (video card's/motherboard)'s drivers.
Wulfe
Only because we agree it is. Art is what we say it is, we, the collective mind of our culture. If we say that rocks embedded in walls is art, then they are. If we say video games are a form of art, they are. There is no universal rule as to what is or is not art. There may be works in the past that help us define what we feel art is, building on the perceptions of our forefathers... But when presented with a new media (such as recorded music, which isn't very different from live music), or photography, which is merely a way for someone to show you his perception of something, perhaps through his own mind's eye... but with the touch of stark reality. Is it art? Someone's snapping a picture of something.
Are movies and video games inherently art? Only if we agree, as a culture, that they are. For whatever reason, old-school Ebert has decided, and has decided not to be swayed, that video games CAN NOT be art, for whatever reason... perhaps because he doesn't like them, doesn't want to play them, or because one frightened him as a child, for all I know. It doesn't matter. If the rest of our culture says 'Uhh, you're an idiot, this is art'... then it is.
I'm not Minwee, but I discovered The Tick long before they aired the show. Best. Villains. Ever. Besides, who can not love a nigh invulnerable super hero that... well, let's face it, isn't really sure he's in the same headspace with himself half the time?
Starflight was an incredible game, one of the first games I truly remember, and I still revisit it now and again when I get the urge for that old, full flavored gaming feel... I play Eve Online now, and it scratches the itch, but not quite in the same way. X2 and X3 are close, too, but... they almost try too hard, in some ways.
The Wing Commander franchise was incredible as well. Wonderful arcade feel to it, though I always wish they left it more open. Privateer had it right there.
I'm sorry, but anonymity is not the only reason these people are fuckwads. I am as polite and sensible as I can be online. Sure, I blow my stack sometimes, but everyone does, whether or not they're protected from being identified. These people are jerks because they feel entitled to be jerks. I'd bet most of them are jerks outside of an anonymous setting as well. It doesn't turn us all into jerk, so that cannot be the reason.
Upbringing? The fact that our societies today allow us to act as if we're children, infact, moreover they compel us to act like children as long as possible.. and many, many other reasons, are likely contributors to the amount of jerks you find on forums and on MMO's.
The only thing anonymity does is keep them from getting their nose broken in RL, which would happen much more often if people could see who they are. I know that it's one of the contributors, but it has to be more, or we'd all be frothing at one another on every forum there is, even when a bit of disagreement happened.
Rion Wulfe
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THAT would be realistic!
It becomes debatable whether "Facebook" can be classified as something productive, however... but I would agree with you. I cannot see how sitting, staring at a blank computer monitor is a good control. Perhaps browsing normal websites not pertaining to oneself, or reading email, would be a better control. You know. NORMAL activities.
He's pointing out how people misuse the phrase. I've seen people write out "for all intensive purposes" when people mean "for all intents and purposes". It's what happens when folks hear something, don't quite comprehend it, then decide they've got to use it, too.
Definitely. That's.. one epic jeans story. Truly epic and amazing. This needs to be archived somewhere. Thank you, Cajun Hell.
I, for one, welcome our new giant consumable insect overlords!
Thank you Skippus, for stating so clearly what I'd intended to.
Funny. News for Nerds.
When a rather large provider like this is shut down, I'm sure many nerds care, as they might actually be using their services. I don't, and I find this whole thing interesting, at the very least.
You have some kind of case against them, it looks like. Bad experience? Did they touch your dolly someplace bad? Chill out. You don't like it, move on.
Do you seriously think this, or are you just trolling for a reaction on the internet? Do you truly believe the government must GRANT you the right to move around freely, for you to own it?
Would you much prefer to have to ask a government official for permission to move from one state to the next? Would you like to present your papers, prove your "NEED" to be there? Because that's where we're moving. And now they want to place these scanning systems in train and metro stations.
Is this so hard to understand that our rights, YES, rights, have been eroded to this degree? That because of simplistic views such as the one you present right there, we're wildly throwing away what was beautiful and wonderful in this country, and what at one time made it unique?
It's simply very sad how poorly educated we are about what a "right" is these days.
So, in other words, you support the police state, and don't mind having your rights trampled.
We have a right, as a supposedly free society, to travel and do what we please as long as it does not harm others. Or we used to. This is America, the 'Land of the Free'. This is the place that was supposed to do away with the despotism, with the forced torture of innocence, and all that.
Guess what? You're one of the people who seem to be in support of all that is going wrong in this country, the decline of the personal and societal freedom that has been happening for decades. Why? What does it get you? You're not any safer than you were pre-2001. Nothing's changed to make things better. We're not less likely to have terrorist attacks.
However, we're MUCH less likely to go about our lives without being molested or in some way violated by some quasi-state official. Why? Because it suits some greedy politicians and empowers government more. Welcome to the future of checkpoints that keep us from travelling easily, that make our lives more expensive, and return VERY LITTLE to nothing to us. When its made illegal to go from state to state without crossing through border checks, when you have to present your papers to travel, remember these times, my friend, and remember how you supported them.
Ok, I agree. I was about to disagree, then I realized they said this thing went 90k FEET up. Ye gods. Only 27.4km? 100km is considered space by most space agencies, though NASA considers anyone who goes above 80km to be an astronaut (thus some Blackbird pilots are actually Astronauts). Why do these articles keep, with such huge inaccuracies, keep getting posted?
As the wikipedians say, Citation needed.
We have always been at war with Middleastasia. We will always be at war with Middleastasia.
Okay, so I'll agree with you on that point, definitely. I'm not saying good graphics make a game bad. I'm saying graphics aren't the ONLY selling point to a game, and this shows itself in reality. A *good* game is a good game, and what we all consider good varies based on our own personal needs. Graphics are merely one factor, and sometimes they even get in the way of a good game.
(If you feel you can't make that awesome game idea of yours because you can't do good enough graphics? Yeah. That's getting in the way.)
Actually, reality seems to state otherwise, time and again, when people make statements like this.
While it is not a requirement to pay for a game such as, for example, Dwarf Fortress, it seems that people will quite gladly donate enough money to keep it going, and allow the developer of said game to live entirely off of those donations. In effect, they are paying for that game. Some of them are even paying more for that game than they would be for any other game except for an MMO.
There is also the fact that people will pay for games with "less than brilliant graphics", since people pay for games like World of Goo to name one example. By far, it did not have state of the art graphics.
The world of who is out there willing to pay for what is far more grey than black and white. People look for different things when they decide to spend money on a game. The hardcore, "OMG, must haz rendered pores!" gamers are only a small segment of the market. Game studios seem to enjoy forgetting that fact.
Well, no. You've some options. Hangars in NPC space stations are 100% secure. No other player can break into your hangar or use it in any way. Corp hangars (shared hangars that various corp(guild) members can use are secure to that corp. But make sure you trust your corpies with similar access as you.
When it comes to moving your goods, either you can be smart about it, and move a few items at a time, or you can hire someone else to move them for you, and have them give you collateral while they've got your stuff.
This guy's mistake was moving too many valuable items at once, in a system *known* for things like this happening. That character alone is 8 months old. He should've known better, frankly. If not? Well, hard lessons learned are learned the best. It's a shame none of those PLEX's dropped.
How many of them just walk off with your isk, laughing that you paid them? How good are the pilots you sent after others? What would you do with your ISK, other than that? Not a player? Your brand new character can do very little. Buy one? Well, could spend a few billion isk on a character that has some uber ships... But you'll not know how to use them, so... can't say I'd be overly worried about it. And the people who purchased your PLEX's would thank you for the game time. *shrug*
I've played via Plex's for some time... Finally stopped when I got tired of spending all my hard earned isk on game time.
I find this somewhat amusing. I recently upgraded my GPU from the onboard piece of crap I had. My is a 2.0Ghz AMD, single core. I've played Fallout 3 and Bioshock on it. It's amazing how much the vidcard matters but the CPU less so these days. The Anchorage DLC gave me a hard time in places, bogging down a bit. After I got through it, Fallout 3's been fine. I'm beginning to suspect they require these amazing CPU specs merely to keep people upgrading. Bioshock says it wants a 2.4 Ghz single core, and it runs on my system beautifully.
Without 3d acceleration? I do not think it's possible to find such a machine anymore, frankly. Every modern onboard video has a 3d graphics chip these days, and even the newer laptops have pretty amazing 3d capabilities, compared to ones from a few years ago. Unaccelerated 3d is a thing of the past, unless you're blatantly not installing your (video card's/motherboard)'s drivers. Wulfe
Agreed. This should be titled 'Someone goes to court and wins', rather than 'how to..' anything.
Only because we agree it is. Art is what we say it is, we, the collective mind of our culture. If we say that rocks embedded in walls is art, then they are. If we say video games are a form of art, they are. There is no universal rule as to what is or is not art. There may be works in the past that help us define what we feel art is, building on the perceptions of our forefathers... But when presented with a new media (such as recorded music, which isn't very different from live music), or photography, which is merely a way for someone to show you his perception of something, perhaps through his own mind's eye... but with the touch of stark reality. Is it art? Someone's snapping a picture of something.
Are movies and video games inherently art? Only if we agree, as a culture, that they are. For whatever reason, old-school Ebert has decided, and has decided not to be swayed, that video games CAN NOT be art, for whatever reason... perhaps because he doesn't like them, doesn't want to play them, or because one frightened him as a child, for all I know. It doesn't matter. If the rest of our culture says 'Uhh, you're an idiot, this is art'... then it is.
/rant
Oh, I see. You work for Hulu, huh?
This. This is exactly what I'd envisioned when e-readers and digital books were ever discussed.
I'm not Minwee, but I discovered The Tick long before they aired the show. Best. Villains. Ever. Besides, who can not love a nigh invulnerable super hero that... well, let's face it, isn't really sure he's in the same headspace with himself half the time?
Wulfe
I heartily agree with you, Shivetya.
Starflight was an incredible game, one of the first games I truly remember, and I still revisit it now and again when I get the urge for that old, full flavored gaming feel... I play Eve Online now, and it scratches the itch, but not quite in the same way. X2 and X3 are close, too, but... they almost try too hard, in some ways.
The Wing Commander franchise was incredible as well. Wonderful arcade feel to it, though I always wish they left it more open. Privateer had it right there.
I'm sorry, but anonymity is not the only reason these people are fuckwads. I am as polite and sensible as I can be online. Sure, I blow my stack sometimes, but everyone does, whether or not they're protected from being identified. These people are jerks because they feel entitled to be jerks. I'd bet most of them are jerks outside of an anonymous setting as well. It doesn't turn us all into jerk, so that cannot be the reason. Upbringing? The fact that our societies today allow us to act as if we're children, infact, moreover they compel us to act like children as long as possible.. and many, many other reasons, are likely contributors to the amount of jerks you find on forums and on MMO's. The only thing anonymity does is keep them from getting their nose broken in RL, which would happen much more often if people could see who they are. I know that it's one of the contributors, but it has to be more, or we'd all be frothing at one another on every forum there is, even when a bit of disagreement happened. Rion Wulfe