So what happens if said predecessor gets hit by a bus, has a heart attack or a stroke and can no longer tell you the passwords? Or, worst case scenario, the whole IT team gets taken out in a road accident on the way to a team building session for example? I've read a few "deserves to be fired" comments on/. and usually tend to agree (or occasionally get embarrassed because I think hmm, that's me!), but in this case you are being a fool.
Of course, if you are dead then you won't care if they have the passwords, but some of us actually like our places of work and even our colleagues, and want our place of employment to be able to chug along even in our absence.
See DOS attacks, pretty much every army in existence, terrorists, blackmailers, etc.
Aren't those all methods of achieving personal gain? Unless your army is out doing relief work or you are doing DOS attacks against spammers only without expecting payment..
I wasn't saying you should, it does sound a bit gross. Was just pointing out that I don't even usually notice that kind of stuff in games after I actually start playing and stop admiring the shiny new graphics.
If you consider designing it to enjoy the task we set for it to be a more insidious slavery, consider the base programming that causes us to prefer a diet that is unhealthy when not in a survival situation, or the internal modelling that shifts between self-preservation and self-sacrifice for the most irrational reasons. Is that not a form of enslavement we have yet to throw off?
The point would be that the desire to store body fat and to protect your family/clan are down to natural selection rather than a conscious process, so you can't use it as an excuse - unless you believe in some creator or guide for evolution, but even then it's a poor excuse when trying to justify your own actions.
Sounds more like you are trying to ban enjoyment than addiction. People could become addicted to any rewarding behaviour. It is primarily up to the individual to not take that behaviour too far, you can't keep blaming the government or other external factors for everything. They can play a part but if they really did step in you'd realise you didn't want them to after all. Imagine all alcoholics were forcibly restrained from drinking rather than being given a chance to get their shit together themselves. The minute they are no longer being monitored/restrained they will be right back at it, unless they have made their own decision to stop.
I have had periods of my life where I played a lot of computer games - very likely at a level that could be classified as addiction (used to stay up til 6am every night playing Counter-Strike, and later on it was MUDing). Guess what, I am still happy that I played those games, the reason I did it was because I was getting enjoyment out of it. Yes it did detract from other aspects of life at times, but I'd prefer to make my own choices than be forced to stop or limit activities I do in my own free time.
Tomorrow: Ironically it turns out there really are secret IR cameras installed in these facilities which caught him in the mischievous act of labelling. Hmm.
To me the interest here is not in the fuel at all - we can already make electric vehicles and have plenty of renewable energy sources. I have always been more concerned about the plastics situation - just look at how much of the stuff around you right now is made from plastics! So it's nice that they have figured out a way of producing the raw materials they need from renewable resources (waiting a few million years for more oil may be a renewable solution of sorts, but it's not the one I'd personally prefer).
I didn't point out that my friends who notice stuff going on in the background struggle to play Guitar Hero on even medium mode, that was kind of integral to my thinking on the matter - but once you start to learn the songs off by heart or otherwise get really good at whatever game you're playing, you can probably go back to admiring the graphics.. it all depends on what type of game you're playing too.
If you've ever played Guitar Hero or Rock Band on Expert difficulty (especially on the drums, 99% of the guitar tracks are too easy for me these days but there are still a couple of drum tracks I've yet to complete on Expert on GH World Tour), or WipEout at the higher difficulty levels, then you'd understand the level of intensity that I enjoy my games to be at:P I don't see any point in admiring the backgrounds when I should be looking ahead for the notes that are coming along or judging when to turn to hit an apex properly at 300mph etc. There are games where I've enjoyed the scenery a lot, I mentioned GTA IV already, and Uncharted and Heavenly Sword likewise had some beautiful moments, but I was just saying that for a lot of games I stop noticing the flowery extras fairly quickly and just concentrate on the actual gameplay (maybe with the odd moment where I'll shoot some glass or whatever just to watch the pretty effects/phsyics).
But then again, maybe you could just call me unobservant *shrug* while I am capable of talking to people admiring pretty graphics while playing rock band or dodging between traffic in GTA, it definitely causes me to start missing notes or bashing into street-lights and cars.
In that scenario the artist won't make any money from fans like me who often prefer the clean, well-produced recorded versions to the live versions - although it depends on the band really. Some are great live, most are.. meh. Plus when I have to resort to getting music from P2P networks I have no guarantee that it will be at a decent quality. I've had to torrent the Bleach soundtrack and a couple of Android Lust albums as I can't find them easily on CD or MP3 download here in the UK (okay so one of the Android lust albums was available from a 3rd party seller on amazon, but at about 9 times the cost of buying any other normal album), and they're both only 128kbps MP3s.
If you're properly focused on a game you don't really notice the extras. For example when playing guitar hero my friends occasionally point out something that's happening with the band in the background (even when they're playing), but I don't notice anything but the notes (even when I'm not playing). Those that focus on stuff like blood flying around probably aren't actually focused on beating the game. Still, it's better to have some gore than none at all otherwise how will you know that you've scored a hit? Likewise for realistic graphics, it does add to the immersion to have realistic lighting even if you're not paying much attention to it, and sometimes it is nice just to kick back and admire the scenery (the sunrise and sunsets in GTA IV were pretty awesome).
There were a lot of those, but the person that introduced me to the game is a year older than me (which would have made her around 23 at the time), and I made a couple of friends that were over 18:P One of those girls actually had her whole family in her clan, including something like 50-60 year old aunts and uncles type thing, heh.
Completely agree, it's the reason I don't really go in for RPGs as a rule, certainly not if you have to pay for them anyway. To get anywhere you need to spend a lot of time just questing or training up your character to keep up with the Joneses so to speak. I have enjoyed MUDing from time to time, because of good theme choices and the people that I'm playing with, but the gameplay itself usually is quite repetitive. MUDs could do with throwing out the rulebook too, most of the basics of stuff like combat seem to be exactly the same no matter where you go.
You don't need to go into the registry, it's a setting in System properties (right click on my computer then properties, or control panel then system), then the Remote tab. There's a tickbox there that probably does the same thing as your registry setting, but it also allows you to specify which users are allowed access.
As x2A says though, it will indeed kick off the local user.
Sci-fi stories don't all take part in the same Universe, and there are only 2 properly hard women in TTSCC (not including Cameron). Though I noticed the guy who invented Ghost in the Shell does seem to like his female protagonists (Dominion Tank Police, Appleseed, and probably more I don't know about), and he doesn't do much to make them unique from show to show..
Same here for most roads, but I think there have only been a couple of times when I was going over 110mph on a road with no barriers, and that was only when I had good visibility. One of those times the only other things on the road for miles were sheep (which admittedly could kill me if I hit them at speed, so I slowed right down for corners and blind summits)
I wouldn't tell you to drive slowly behind them at all, it is a pain in the ass, but if they are poor enough to brake that much on each corner then it isn't usually that difficult to pass them either (these days I have a lot faster car than I did when I first started driving though otherwise I would find it more of a pain). I suppose you do get the odd person with too much money who can't drive but has a car with a decent engine..
I would say yes you can blame someone for planning a journey and expecting to do the speed limit the whole way - because people who slow down too much on corners are very common, and roadworks or accidents can cause heavy traffic almost anywhere. If you do have somewhere very important to be you should leave spare time. Yes, I break the speed limit to make sure I get places on time sometimes if I have been delayed by very heavy traffic, but I know that excuse would have no standing in court.
I know that driving fast doesn't mean driving unsafely - I often break the speed limit too (outside of city limits, I no longer break it in populated areas like I used to as a teenager) - but there are very few reasons for breaking the speed limit that would excuse you from the legal consequences of being caught doing so.
Not for a while.. they'd have to have a very serious car to have a chance of pulling off something like that by the time I've started overtaking. A driver that is that aware of their surroundings and is driving that fast a car usually would be going fast enough that I wouldn't feel the need to overtake anyhow (though admittedly I sometimes forget that I'm happy sitting behind them and overtake when a good opportunity presents itself, out of habit).
It's pretty hard to get splatted against a rig on the other side of the road when there's a bloody great metal barrier between you and opposing traffic and you have a minimum of 2 lanes on your own side for ease of overtaking.. that's what a motorway is.. equivalent of the freeway. Yes, overtaking when you can't see what is coming is the height of idiocy (I passed my 'advanced driving' test a couple of months before being done for speeding btw)
But if they're driving relatively slowly then you still should be able to pass them quickly at the speed limit. If they truly are driving very erratically then you don't want to be going too fast anyway as you could spook them, or if they do manage to drive into you then the accident will be all the more severe..
If you want to break the speed limit excessively to pass someone safely (which suggests they're going very close to the speed limit already, or there is otherwise very little time in which to pass), then I humbly suggest that you in fact are the main safety threat in that situation.
Note that I am not averse to a bit of high speed shenanigans on a nice empty road (I was in fact banned from driving 3 months last year for speeding on a deserted motorway late at night), but from a legal perspective those reasons have no standing at all. You are not allowed to break the law even in a medical emergency or when someone is "chasing you" - those situations are exactly what the emergency services are for. If you want to take the law into your own hands in those situations (as most people would), that's up to you. I can't imagine that it happens very often that someone decides to risk smashing up their car just so that they can catch up with you and beat you up or kill you anyway - and if it is quite a likely situation for you to be in, I think you should be looking to change something other than the speed limits.
Exactly, so you don't place any value on your time in that case. You could of course just charge a flat rate for fixing the machine as best you can. If I were going to charge I think I'd probably charge a flat fee for the first hour or two and then add stuff on for each hour after that (though not many problems would take that long to sort out..)
That's a shame, it's a great service. I can understand them not wanting to provide free next day delivery to the whole of the states or [insert other large country here] though.
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So what happens if said predecessor gets hit by a bus, has a heart attack or a stroke and can no longer tell you the passwords? Or, worst case scenario, the whole IT team gets taken out in a road accident on the way to a team building session for example? I've read a few "deserves to be fired" comments on /. and usually tend to agree (or occasionally get embarrassed because I think hmm, that's me!), but in this case you are being a fool.
Of course, if you are dead then you won't care if they have the passwords, but some of us actually like our places of work and even our colleagues, and want our place of employment to be able to chug along even in our absence.
See DOS attacks, pretty much every army in existence, terrorists, blackmailers, etc.
Aren't those all methods of achieving personal gain? Unless your army is out doing relief work or you are doing DOS attacks against spammers only without expecting payment..
I wasn't saying you should, it does sound a bit gross. Was just pointing out that I don't even usually notice that kind of stuff in games after I actually start playing and stop admiring the shiny new graphics.
If you consider designing it to enjoy the task we set for it to be a more insidious slavery, consider the base programming that causes us to prefer a diet that is unhealthy when not in a survival situation, or the internal modelling that shifts between self-preservation and self-sacrifice for the most irrational reasons. Is that not a form of enslavement we have yet to throw off?
The point would be that the desire to store body fat and to protect your family/clan are down to natural selection rather than a conscious process, so you can't use it as an excuse - unless you believe in some creator or guide for evolution, but even then it's a poor excuse when trying to justify your own actions.
Sounds more like you are trying to ban enjoyment than addiction. People could become addicted to any rewarding behaviour. It is primarily up to the individual to not take that behaviour too far, you can't keep blaming the government or other external factors for everything. They can play a part but if they really did step in you'd realise you didn't want them to after all. Imagine all alcoholics were forcibly restrained from drinking rather than being given a chance to get their shit together themselves. The minute they are no longer being monitored/restrained they will be right back at it, unless they have made their own decision to stop.
I have had periods of my life where I played a lot of computer games - very likely at a level that could be classified as addiction (used to stay up til 6am every night playing Counter-Strike, and later on it was MUDing). Guess what, I am still happy that I played those games, the reason I did it was because I was getting enjoyment out of it. Yes it did detract from other aspects of life at times, but I'd prefer to make my own choices than be forced to stop or limit activities I do in my own free time.
Tomorrow: Ironically it turns out there really are secret IR cameras installed in these facilities which caught him in the mischievous act of labelling. Hmm.
To me the interest here is not in the fuel at all - we can already make electric vehicles and have plenty of renewable energy sources. I have always been more concerned about the plastics situation - just look at how much of the stuff around you right now is made from plastics! So it's nice that they have figured out a way of producing the raw materials they need from renewable resources (waiting a few million years for more oil may be a renewable solution of sorts, but it's not the one I'd personally prefer).
I didn't point out that my friends who notice stuff going on in the background struggle to play Guitar Hero on even medium mode, that was kind of integral to my thinking on the matter - but once you start to learn the songs off by heart or otherwise get really good at whatever game you're playing, you can probably go back to admiring the graphics.. it all depends on what type of game you're playing too.
If you've ever played Guitar Hero or Rock Band on Expert difficulty (especially on the drums, 99% of the guitar tracks are too easy for me these days but there are still a couple of drum tracks I've yet to complete on Expert on GH World Tour), or WipEout at the higher difficulty levels, then you'd understand the level of intensity that I enjoy my games to be at :P I don't see any point in admiring the backgrounds when I should be looking ahead for the notes that are coming along or judging when to turn to hit an apex properly at 300mph etc. There are games where I've enjoyed the scenery a lot, I mentioned GTA IV already, and Uncharted and Heavenly Sword likewise had some beautiful moments, but I was just saying that for a lot of games I stop noticing the flowery extras fairly quickly and just concentrate on the actual gameplay (maybe with the odd moment where I'll shoot some glass or whatever just to watch the pretty effects/phsyics).
But then again, maybe you could just call me unobservant *shrug* while I am capable of talking to people admiring pretty graphics while playing rock band or dodging between traffic in GTA, it definitely causes me to start missing notes or bashing into street-lights and cars.
In that scenario the artist won't make any money from fans like me who often prefer the clean, well-produced recorded versions to the live versions - although it depends on the band really. Some are great live, most are.. meh. Plus when I have to resort to getting music from P2P networks I have no guarantee that it will be at a decent quality. I've had to torrent the Bleach soundtrack and a couple of Android Lust albums as I can't find them easily on CD or MP3 download here in the UK (okay so one of the Android lust albums was available from a 3rd party seller on amazon, but at about 9 times the cost of buying any other normal album), and they're both only 128kbps MP3s.
You mean bras are illegal in private domiciles? I want to know why this law is not being enforced properly!
If you're properly focused on a game you don't really notice the extras. For example when playing guitar hero my friends occasionally point out something that's happening with the band in the background (even when they're playing), but I don't notice anything but the notes (even when I'm not playing). Those that focus on stuff like blood flying around probably aren't actually focused on beating the game. Still, it's better to have some gore than none at all otherwise how will you know that you've scored a hit? Likewise for realistic graphics, it does add to the immersion to have realistic lighting even if you're not paying much attention to it, and sometimes it is nice just to kick back and admire the scenery (the sunrise and sunsets in GTA IV were pretty awesome).
There were a lot of those, but the person that introduced me to the game is a year older than me (which would have made her around 23 at the time), and I made a couple of friends that were over 18 :P One of those girls actually had her whole family in her clan, including something like 50-60 year old aunts and uncles type thing, heh.
Completely agree, it's the reason I don't really go in for RPGs as a rule, certainly not if you have to pay for them anyway. To get anywhere you need to spend a lot of time just questing or training up your character to keep up with the Joneses so to speak. I have enjoyed MUDing from time to time, because of good theme choices and the people that I'm playing with, but the gameplay itself usually is quite repetitive. MUDs could do with throwing out the rulebook too, most of the basics of stuff like combat seem to be exactly the same no matter where you go.
Maplestory has plenty of real girls too, it's a lot more cutesy and attractive than most (all?) MMOs
You don't need to go into the registry, it's a setting in System properties (right click on my computer then properties, or control panel then system), then the Remote tab. There's a tickbox there that probably does the same thing as your registry setting, but it also allows you to specify which users are allowed access.
As x2A says though, it will indeed kick off the local user.
Sci-fi stories don't all take part in the same Universe, and there are only 2 properly hard women in TTSCC (not including Cameron). Though I noticed the guy who invented Ghost in the Shell does seem to like his female protagonists (Dominion Tank Police, Appleseed, and probably more I don't know about), and he doesn't do much to make them unique from show to show..
Same here for most roads, but I think there have only been a couple of times when I was going over 110mph on a road with no barriers, and that was only when I had good visibility. One of those times the only other things on the road for miles were sheep (which admittedly could kill me if I hit them at speed, so I slowed right down for corners and blind summits)
I wouldn't tell you to drive slowly behind them at all, it is a pain in the ass, but if they are poor enough to brake that much on each corner then it isn't usually that difficult to pass them either (these days I have a lot faster car than I did when I first started driving though otherwise I would find it more of a pain). I suppose you do get the odd person with too much money who can't drive but has a car with a decent engine..
I would say yes you can blame someone for planning a journey and expecting to do the speed limit the whole way - because people who slow down too much on corners are very common, and roadworks or accidents can cause heavy traffic almost anywhere. If you do have somewhere very important to be you should leave spare time. Yes, I break the speed limit to make sure I get places on time sometimes if I have been delayed by very heavy traffic, but I know that excuse would have no standing in court.
I know that driving fast doesn't mean driving unsafely - I often break the speed limit too (outside of city limits, I no longer break it in populated areas like I used to as a teenager) - but there are very few reasons for breaking the speed limit that would excuse you from the legal consequences of being caught doing so.
Not for a while.. they'd have to have a very serious car to have a chance of pulling off something like that by the time I've started overtaking. A driver that is that aware of their surroundings and is driving that fast a car usually would be going fast enough that I wouldn't feel the need to overtake anyhow (though admittedly I sometimes forget that I'm happy sitting behind them and overtake when a good opportunity presents itself, out of habit).
It's pretty hard to get splatted against a rig on the other side of the road when there's a bloody great metal barrier between you and opposing traffic and you have a minimum of 2 lanes on your own side for ease of overtaking.. that's what a motorway is.. equivalent of the freeway. Yes, overtaking when you can't see what is coming is the height of idiocy (I passed my 'advanced driving' test a couple of months before being done for speeding btw)
But if they're driving relatively slowly then you still should be able to pass them quickly at the speed limit. If they truly are driving very erratically then you don't want to be going too fast anyway as you could spook them, or if they do manage to drive into you then the accident will be all the more severe..
If you want to break the speed limit excessively to pass someone safely (which suggests they're going very close to the speed limit already, or there is otherwise very little time in which to pass), then I humbly suggest that you in fact are the main safety threat in that situation.
Note that I am not averse to a bit of high speed shenanigans on a nice empty road (I was in fact banned from driving 3 months last year for speeding on a deserted motorway late at night), but from a legal perspective those reasons have no standing at all. You are not allowed to break the law even in a medical emergency or when someone is "chasing you" - those situations are exactly what the emergency services are for. If you want to take the law into your own hands in those situations (as most people would), that's up to you. I can't imagine that it happens very often that someone decides to risk smashing up their car just so that they can catch up with you and beat you up or kill you anyway - and if it is quite a likely situation for you to be in, I think you should be looking to change something other than the speed limits.
Exactly, so you don't place any value on your time in that case. You could of course just charge a flat rate for fixing the machine as best you can. If I were going to charge I think I'd probably charge a flat fee for the first hour or two and then add stuff on for each hour after that (though not many problems would take that long to sort out..)
That's a shame, it's a great service. I can understand them not wanting to provide free next day delivery to the whole of the states or [insert other large country here] though.