You could use that to scam free prescription drugs, such as methadone, by re-writing it/stealing a junkie's card. Though you can do that with the present system anyway...
Suburban Mother 1: "Oh, I shop at Tesco all the time. The prices are so low, and it's on the way to Timmy's school so you can't beat it for convenience." Suburban Mother 2: "Oh dear, you mustn't shop there!" SM1: "Why not, Phyllis?" SM2: "It's not ISO 9001 certified!" SM1: *GASP OF HORROR!*
# Not to produce further press releases under any circumstances. # Volunteer to promote its anti-fun and anti-freedom agenda in organic food markets only. # Let those people affected by your activities apply to have the ten minutes of their lives fully refunded. # Not to do a national awareness campaign to propagandise about possible effects, but to jointly fund with a game publisher an unbiased study based on the scientific method to attempt to find any actual effects. # Create a fund for victims of pressure groups. # Make a national apology for misleading and lying to children, parents, and legislators and causing share prices to plummet. # Give a written response in the New York and Los Angeles Times within five business days of receipt of these demands.
-------Original list for comparison:
Peaceoholics List of Demands for Rock Star Games
# Not to release Bully under any circumstances # Volunteer to sell its violent and sexually explicit games in adult video stores only. # Let parents return Grand Theft Auto for a full refund until they do a national awareness campaign to educate parents of content and possible effects. # Create a fund for victims of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and car-jackings, etc. # Make a national apology for misleading and lying to children, parents, and legislators about their intentions and causing insurance premiums to sky rocket. # Give a written response within five business days of receipt of these demands
The bigger problem is the damaged fertility - especially when you consider that any astronaut who goes to Mars would be quite a babe magnet when he got back...
Oh, that's different. Of course you shouldn't trust them. But having a copy of Windows around for the rare things it does better, and for (probable) interoperability with 90% of the world's desktops is worth dealing with the devil for: if your situation and software requirements are such that it's not, you should be thankful for being in that minority.
Plus, I thought of a couple more: Powerpoint is a lot snappier on old laptops than OpenOffice, and for good 3D performance on an ATI card you need Windows. Maybe you've never had to give a presentation - if so that's another thing you should count yourself lucky for.
So you can: play the many games that only work on Windows use software which only runs on Windows (VirtualDub, for instance) port your software to another platform (unless you're doing something very specialised and server-based, I bet Windows has at least a few occasional users - it seems to sneak in via laptops for instance) use the fancier features of MSN messenger (GAIM doesn't support everything it can do, AFAIK) use badly designed websites that only work in IE (yes, you should avoid these sites if you can)
Microsoft also make excellent input peripherals and a respectable games console (which you could also turn into a cheap linux based media centre).
I'm not sure that the emulator is necessarily legal without buying a NES (if it emulates some patented functionality, or if the EUCD (=DMCA) could somehow apply), or if emus are indeed legal full stop.
There was a recent court case here (UK) where PS2 modchips were declared illegal, so stuff like emus is likely to end up the same way... it's only the lack of appropriate test cases at this point, if I understand the situation correctly.
Yes, the law is stupid. But people who are take it seriously aren't likely to touch a downloaded ROM.
Me, I only got FF1 for GBA after downloading it, playing it in virtual boy advance and deciding it was worth paying for:)
This is a pretty interesting insight into the different attitudes of the U.S. and Britain, as reflected in our different grammars. Over here, we recognise that an organisation is made up of people, and as such when that organisation acts we think of the people that make it up and pluralise the name. "NASA are" is shorthand for "the members of NASA are". Whereas in the U.S. the concept of a corporation as a legal entity with comparable status to a person is apparently so ingrained that you accord them that privilege in your grammar! It makes me wonder how you perceive the employees - perhaps as mere tools operated by the corporation.
Sequels are largely good in gaming because they're rarely worse than the original (unlike films), and the stories are secondary to games so you can't really spoil them. They're often just a bunch of new levels, and it's pretty obvious that 60 levels of Serious Sam is better than 30. RPGs with a real story are a potential exception, but I understand that the FF games aren't usually direct sequels to each other in story terms, so you can't really complain there.
Game remakes suck, but they're still better than movie remakes because whilst anyone can just buy any old movie and play it with no problem, I can't play FF1 without buying a NES - which means introducing yet another wire tangle and dealing with old and potentially flaky hardware. So I got the FF1 GBA remake, and liked it.
Put CD in drive, run installer, hit next a few times, watch a progress bar.
Installing commercial software on Linux:
Put CD in drive, run installer, hit next a few times, watch a progress bar.
The UT2004 and Doom 3 installers were pretty much identical under Windows and Linux. The only flaw was the Doom 3 installer putting the icon in the wrong place on the KDE start menu. The problem you are describing does not exist. The problem is concinving software designers to release Linux versions.
P.S. Shareware often sucks. The biggest difference in usability between an OSS system and one with a large shareware component is not having to deal with all those "BUY ME" dialog boxes that make you wait 10 seconds before you can continue.
I wasn't suggesting users compile anything, that's the maintainer's job (though for small apps you could hide it behind an "installing" progress bar easily enough). The user just downloads whichever version is compiled for their OS.
But I'm mostly familiar with python and pyqt, which is portable with basically zero effort so long as you avoid doing anything obviously OS-specific. That's what I'm comparing widgets too without seeing the advantage - you get all the GUI stuff if you just use the libraries. (yeah, yeah getting qt on windows is a bit of a pain till qt4 is out.)
"It's a platform-independent application framework, just like Java-on-the-browser was supposed to be, but this iteration is free from the one-size-fits-all constraints that browser-based development imposed (plus, widgets don't have to be stateless). In fact, this has all the earmarks of a disruptive technology, with the added advantage that it's based on well-deployed standard technologies.. i.e.: stuff Microsoft can't mess with as easily as Java."
Sure, but how is that different to any other application? The only difference I can see is that porting is a little easier on supported platforms (harder off them?), and you don't have to get the users to install python or compile a binary yourself for each platform - neither of which is all that tricky, really.
The DS version just launched in Japan, though no confirmed release date for the UK. Still, at least that means you can import it without having to use a now-illegal modchip.
As for the PS2 version(s), I can only wonder at what the hell Sony/Namco is doing - they apparently don't want to sell us games? I could understand if there was a lot of translation involved, but from what I know of this game that sounds unlikely.
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You could use that to scam free prescription drugs, such as methadone, by re-writing it/stealing a junkie's card. Though you can do that with the present system anyway...
Suburban Mother 1: "Oh, I shop at Tesco all the time. The prices are so low, and it's on the way to Timmy's school so you can't beat it for convenience."
Suburban Mother 2: "Oh dear, you mustn't shop there!"
SM1: "Why not, Phyllis?"
SM2: "It's not ISO 9001 certified!"
SM1: *GASP OF HORROR!*
Because, if it's an Xbox, it could get you banned from Xbox Live.
Good idea! I sent this:
My List of Demands for Peaceaholics
# Not to produce further press releases under any circumstances.
# Volunteer to promote its anti-fun and anti-freedom agenda in organic food markets only.
# Let those people affected by your activities apply to have the ten minutes of their lives fully refunded.
# Not to do a national awareness campaign to propagandise about possible effects, but to jointly fund with a game publisher an unbiased study based on the scientific method to attempt to find any actual effects.
# Create a fund for victims of pressure groups.
# Make a national apology for misleading and lying to children, parents, and legislators and causing share prices to plummet.
# Give a written response in the New York and Los Angeles Times within five business days of receipt of these demands.
-------Original list for comparison:
Peaceoholics List of Demands for Rock Star Games
# Not to release Bully under any circumstances
# Volunteer to sell its violent and sexually explicit games in adult video stores only.
# Let parents return Grand Theft Auto for a full refund until they do a national awareness campaign to educate parents of content and possible effects.
# Create a fund for victims of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and car-jackings, etc.
# Make a national apology for misleading and lying to children, parents, and legislators about their intentions and causing insurance premiums to sky rocket.
# Give a written response within five business days of receipt of these demands
"Buy American" - maybe they're referring to the continent rather than the country?
:)
More likely they just forgot the punctuation. It's supposed to say "Buy, American!" - a friendly message from your corporate overlords
The bigger problem is the damaged fertility - especially when you consider that any astronaut who goes to Mars would be quite a babe magnet when he got back...
Amen.
This list has a lot of great games missing*, but TA is probably top of my WTF-they-left-it-out list.
*Worms, UT2004 & 99, Rez, AvP2, Lemmings, Bust-a-move, Ikaruga, DDR, Quake 3, Elite, Pikmin, Tekken 3, GTA 1, Serious Sam, Wip3out, Nethack, Super Monkey Ball 2... OK I'll stop now.
Oh, that's different. Of course you shouldn't trust them. But having a copy of Windows around for the rare things it does better, and for (probable) interoperability with 90% of the world's desktops is worth dealing with the devil for: if your situation and software requirements are such that it's not, you should be thankful for being in that minority.
Plus, I thought of a couple more: Powerpoint is a lot snappier on old laptops than OpenOffice, and for good 3D performance on an ATI card you need Windows. Maybe you've never had to give a presentation - if so that's another thing you should count yourself lucky for.
So you can:
play the many games that only work on Windows
use software which only runs on Windows (VirtualDub, for instance)
port your software to another platform (unless you're doing something very specialised and server-based, I bet Windows has at least a few occasional users - it seems to sneak in via laptops for instance)
use the fancier features of MSN messenger (GAIM doesn't support everything it can do, AFAIK)
use badly designed websites that only work in IE (yes, you should avoid these sites if you can)
Microsoft also make excellent input peripherals and a respectable games console (which you could also turn into a cheap linux based media centre).
I'm not sure that the emulator is necessarily legal without buying a NES (if it emulates some patented functionality, or if the EUCD (=DMCA) could somehow apply), or if emus are indeed legal full stop.
:)
There was a recent court case here (UK) where PS2 modchips were declared illegal, so stuff like emus is likely to end up the same way... it's only the lack of appropriate test cases at this point, if I understand the situation correctly.
Yes, the law is stupid. But people who are take it seriously aren't likely to touch a downloaded ROM.
Me, I only got FF1 for GBA after downloading it, playing it in virtual boy advance and deciding it was worth paying for
This is a pretty interesting insight into the different attitudes of the U.S. and Britain, as reflected in our different grammars. Over here, we recognise that an organisation is made up of people, and as such when that organisation acts we think of the people that make it up and pluralise the name. "NASA are" is shorthand for "the members of NASA are".
Whereas in the U.S. the concept of a corporation as a legal entity with comparable status to a person is apparently so ingrained that you accord them that privilege in your grammar! It makes me wonder how you perceive the employees - perhaps as mere tools operated by the corporation.
Sequels are largely good in gaming because they're rarely worse than the original (unlike films), and the stories are secondary to games so you can't really spoil them. They're often just a bunch of new levels, and it's pretty obvious that 60 levels of Serious Sam is better than 30. RPGs with a real story are a potential exception, but I understand that the FF games aren't usually direct sequels to each other in story terms, so you can't really complain there.
Game remakes suck, but they're still better than movie remakes because whilst anyone can just buy any old movie and play it with no problem, I can't play FF1 without buying a NES - which means introducing yet another wire tangle and dealing with old and potentially flaky hardware. So I got the FF1 GBA remake, and liked it.
In short - not as bad as Hollywood.
(in emacs, on a .py)
edit -> select all
python -> comment out region
Voila!
Seriously, Pikmin is an awesome game. The presentation is a bit kiddie, but it's original, complex and a lot of fun. A sort of RTS-Puzzle game.
You can always hide the box and play it when no-one else is around if the bright colours embarass you.
Installing commercial software on Windows:
Put CD in drive, run installer, hit next a few times, watch a progress bar.
Installing commercial software on Linux:
Put CD in drive, run installer, hit next a few times, watch a progress bar.
The UT2004 and Doom 3 installers were pretty much identical under Windows and Linux. The only flaw was the Doom 3 installer putting the icon in the wrong place on the KDE start menu. The problem you are describing does not exist. The problem is concinving software designers to release Linux versions.
P.S. Shareware often sucks. The biggest difference in usability between an OSS system and one with a large shareware component is not having to deal with all those "BUY ME" dialog boxes that make you wait 10 seconds before you can continue.
"...possibly even a risk of life."
I'd have said risk of death, but I guess we have different priorities.
Or just print anything you want to be anonymized on a yellow background... unless it's smart enough to use a different colour?
Killer 7?
Recent, fairly big release (would be bigger if people were willing to buy non-sequels), very original. Answers all your complaints.
Yes.
I wasn't suggesting users compile anything, that's the maintainer's job (though for small apps you could hide it behind an "installing" progress bar easily enough). The user just downloads whichever version is compiled for their OS.
But I'm mostly familiar with python and pyqt, which is portable with basically zero effort so long as you avoid doing anything obviously OS-specific. That's what I'm comparing widgets too without seeing the advantage - you get all the GUI stuff if you just use the libraries. (yeah, yeah getting qt on windows is a bit of a pain till qt4 is out.)
"It's a platform-independent application framework, just like Java-on-the-browser was supposed to be, but this iteration is free from the one-size-fits-all constraints that browser-based development imposed (plus, widgets don't have to be stateless). In fact, this has all the earmarks of a disruptive technology, with the added advantage that it's based on well-deployed standard technologies.. i.e.: stuff Microsoft can't mess with as easily as Java."
Sure, but how is that different to any other application? The only difference I can see is that porting is a little easier on supported platforms (harder off them?), and you don't have to get the users to install python or compile a binary yourself for each platform - neither of which is all that tricky, really.
Mirror
The DS version just launched in Japan, though no confirmed release date for the UK. Still, at least that means you can import it without having to use a now-illegal modchip.
As for the PS2 version(s), I can only wonder at what the hell Sony/Namco is doing - they apparently don't want to sell us games? I could understand if there was a lot of translation involved, but from what I know of this game that sounds unlikely.
Buy a small island (possibly with some libertarian buddies) off some third-world nation, establish it as a country and live there. No taxes.
It's an Xbox game (very soon):
M odern-Combat/
http://games.teamxbox.com/xbox/944/Battlefield-2-