Does not necessarily need to be bad guy roles. Just minor roles custom made for casual gamers. Better AI, more depth to a story, different perspectives of the same game. Lots to like there. Good idea, man.
I work in television and multimedia. You won't believe the amount of resources we have to purchase and/or build out to keep content in digital form. And I'm talking standard definition television. HDTV is a frickin' nightmare I hope to never deal with. Storage solutions for us are moving towards petabytes.
It won't take an Intel/Microsoft monopoly to drive hardware sales. Believe me.
Think about this, students that does extremely well in academics (minus sports) might be more willing to accept an analytical position in the military. And be made an infantryman straight away. Like they're looking for an analyst. That's what contractors are for.
I'll find someone who'll fucking gouge me monthly before I submit to micropayments. Too much accounting from too many different places for this catch on. Unless, of course, you don't balance your checkbook each month. In which case, I encourage you to click your way to Chapter 11.
You would double the water in your possession or add to the amount of water you added to the instant water the amount of instant water you had to begin with.
Maybe, but after playing a few MMOGs, I'm looking to fall back to the less stressful world of single-player games. You remember? With AI and some plot instead of some 16-year old kid calling you a "fucking noob" because you didn't execute a manuever like you had been playing 23 hours each day for the last two years?
It took me a long time, but I'm coming to grips that games are becoming too much like reality. Honestly, when I get home, I don't want to interact with anybody. I want to disconnect, and these MMOGs aren't helping me.
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perhaps WiFi might be able to fill this void someday
Since the FCC has seen fit to inhibit the adoption of low powered FM for us commoners, perhaps WiFi might be able to fill this void someday. Range is a problem now, but it's a big step towards cutting out the middlemen which is what radio and RIAA are all about.
I am compelled to help you, by explaining my position.
So often, I read, see, or hear this line of thinking that Bush and his administration, namely Attorney General Ashcroft, are dictators, fascists, or the second coming of Nazism.
My problem with this is that labels are not enough. These are serious remarks. Serious enough to give a kuro5hin poster some quality time with Secret Service agents. The point: if you're going to call someone a Nazi or dictator or what have you, you had better be prepared to go all the way. Produce a swastika armband with GWB initials on it. Write an annotated essay that leaves no doubt to your bold, if not irrational conjectures.
This is why you and I do something else for a living. We know shit as it relates to politics. Say it with me. IANAP. I Am Not A Politician. If Bush were a dictator, there'd be a hellstorm from conservatives as well as liberals, or there'd be no hellstorm at all. I see from your post and mine, that this is not the case, Bush is not outlining his plans for the Fourth Reich, and the sun will rise tomorrow. Please get a grip and stop intellectualizing our scheduled re-education and the reincarnation of George Orwell. Stop.
Yes, but the comments in question were conditional on the day we become a dictatorship
I'm so sorry I expended my mod points earlier in the day. What a bunch of flamebait bullshit this line of crap is. "Dictatorship?" Get fucking real. Let me ask this in non-partisan terms:
If the fiasco that was the 2000 presidential election went in Gore's favor, would you care to label his administration a dictatorship?
Has martial law been declared?
Are SS agents en route to your residence right now to conduct a little Q&A over this post?
Snap the fuck out of it. While I completely disagree with this appraisal of the Bush administration, I can (barely) live with you posting it. Just don't such nonsense to go unanswered and undebunked by me.
This is one reason why I love America's Army. The second reason is because I don't have to pay a monthly fee.
Okay, so my tax dollars go towards this, but at least I can say they're well spent tax dollars. In fact, I hereby declare that all of my tax dollars go towards development and maintenence of AA:Ops. Fuck interstates, education, the FCC, and any Senator that gave herself a raise. My dough is going exclusively to AA:Ops.
Admit it. You are a web developer who leans on cookies to get the job done. Shame on you!;)
Remember the audience you're speaking to. This is a demanding crowd here. We are the types to complain when someone tries to set a cookie in our browser when all we want to do is read an article. I've never understood this. I too am a cookie conspiracy theorist and deny cookies to the end of days.
I admit there are times though when cookies are useful (e.g. e-commerce, user preferences, etc.), so I'll allow cookies where they are warranted. In Firebird or Mozilla, that means dancing through a couple of menus to sway these settings. I'd love a little switch say on the status bar that quickly allows me to toggle between a "read-only" mode where no cookies or tracking can take place and a less strict browsing mode that allows cookies, etc. I know I can be tracked by IP address, but goddamn cookies all the same.
I mean 95% of the time I just want to read some nouns and verbs and to hell with everything else.
Anyone who golfs knows what kind of punch an electric golf cart has from a stand still shouldn't be surprised by this. Nothing beats waiting for your playing partner to get one foot in the cart and then flooring it. He gets bended backwards over the seat like a pretzel. Pisses at your and struggling with a sore back, he shanks it the rest of the round. Fun with inertia!
You had a good post going until this last sentence. Age of the glorification of greed? I suppose the years, months, and days before the fall of the Bastille were just pleasant compared to today's inequities. People traded ox carts (SUVs today if you factor in inflation) for tulips in the 16th century Netherlands. How is today different from any other day, good or bad?
The problem isn't these myopic fools spouting off some nonsense. These people will be there five thousand years from now saying the same shit that Irving Fisher said before the Great Crash of 1929. "Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau."
The problem is that some corporations are too large as to act immune to the markets they exist in. Verisign, being one of a growing number of monopolies, can call a press conference together tomorrow to announce the world is indeed flat, and there's little anybody can do to affect them where it matters: their bottom line. Sigh. But this doesn't herald the glorification of greed.
Having to deal with all flavors of streaming media in my job, no player impresses me more than Mplayer. Is there any media format that Mplayer will not play? It is exactly what I want and nothing else from a media player.
That said, I'm just impressed with this short list. All of these are good options. This really shows how far Linux on the desktop has come. So much so I'm running Linux on my work-issued laptop in a Windows environment now. Many thanks to all the developers who have made this possible.
The dispute, which was leaked to an Internet message board, offers a rare peek into the dark side of the free software movement--a view that contrasts with the movement's usual public image of happy software proles linking arms and singing the "Internationale" while freely sharing the fruits of their code-writing labor.
I busted out in laughter at this paragraph which followed a paragraph explaining how Cisco and the FSF were resolving the issue amicably. WTF, Forbes? Here's another way of looking at this: Cisco either didn't do it's homework on this router and now has to pay the consequences, or Cisco did it's homework and thanks to some stand-up folks at the FSF has to pay the consequences. If you're in the technology sector, and you're dealing with software, you ought to know what the GPL is about, period. Not just from a negative standpoint but how it can have a positive impact.
I know this Bradley Kuhn fella. He was a board member of the Cincinnati Linux Users Group. Very energetic, passionate, knowledgeable dude. Some would say a zealot, but he's just the kind of guy you want to give the GPL some "teeth."
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Until you do it for a living.
Does not necessarily need to be bad guy roles. Just minor roles custom made for casual gamers. Better AI, more depth to a story, different perspectives of the same game. Lots to like there. Good idea, man.
I'm not buying it. Those are the fabled little people of the Mekong River. That fish is only twelve inches in length.
I work in television and multimedia. You won't believe the amount of resources we have to purchase and/or build out to keep content in digital form. And I'm talking standard definition television. HDTV is a frickin' nightmare I hope to never deal with. Storage solutions for us are moving towards petabytes.
It won't take an Intel/Microsoft monopoly to drive hardware sales. Believe me.
Think about this, students that does extremely well in academics (minus sports) might be more willing to accept an analytical position in the military.
And be made an infantryman straight away. Like they're looking for an analyst. That's what contractors are for.
No.
I'll find someone who'll fucking gouge me monthly before I submit to micropayments. Too much accounting from too many different places for this catch on. Unless, of course, you don't balance your checkbook each month. In which case, I encourage you to click your way to Chapter 11.
Seems to work for every friggin' Marvel character.
You would double the water in your possession or add to the amount of water you added to the instant water the amount of instant water you had to begin with.
Really, I don't see the problem here.
If you don't have a sense of humor, don't moderate.
It took me a long time, but I'm coming to grips that games are becoming too much like reality. Honestly, when I get home, I don't want to interact with anybody. I want to disconnect, and these MMOGs aren't helping me.
perhaps WiFi might be able to fill this void someday
Not now at 1000 ft, but some derivative some day.
Great. Everybody submit your SAT, ACT, GRE, and/or LSAT scores to /. so we can review your credibility when you post.
Good to see some rational thinking on /. Thank you for sharing.
Since the FCC has seen fit to inhibit the adoption of low powered FM for us commoners, perhaps WiFi might be able to fill this void someday. Range is a problem now, but it's a big step towards cutting out the middlemen which is what radio and RIAA are all about.
So often, I read, see, or hear this line of thinking that Bush and his administration, namely Attorney General Ashcroft, are dictators, fascists, or the second coming of Nazism.
My problem with this is that labels are not enough. These are serious remarks. Serious enough to give a kuro5hin poster some quality time with Secret Service agents. The point: if you're going to call someone a Nazi or dictator or what have you, you had better be prepared to go all the way. Produce a swastika armband with GWB initials on it. Write an annotated essay that leaves no doubt to your bold, if not irrational conjectures.
This is why you and I do something else for a living. We know shit as it relates to politics. Say it with me. IANAP. I Am Not A Politician. If Bush were a dictator, there'd be a hellstorm from conservatives as well as liberals, or there'd be no hellstorm at all. I see from your post and mine, that this is not the case, Bush is not outlining his plans for the Fourth Reich, and the sun will rise tomorrow. Please get a grip and stop intellectualizing our scheduled re-education and the reincarnation of George Orwell. Stop.
I'm so sorry I expended my mod points earlier in the day. What a bunch of flamebait bullshit this line of crap is. "Dictatorship?" Get fucking real. Let me ask this in non-partisan terms:
If the fiasco that was the 2000 presidential election went in Gore's favor, would you care to label his administration a dictatorship?
Has martial law been declared?
Are SS agents en route to your residence right now to conduct a little Q&A over this post?
Snap the fuck out of it. While I completely disagree with this appraisal of the Bush administration, I can (barely) live with you posting it. Just don't such nonsense to go unanswered and undebunked by me.
Okay, so my tax dollars go towards this, but at least I can say they're well spent tax dollars. In fact, I hereby declare that all of my tax dollars go towards development and maintenence of AA:Ops. Fuck interstates, education, the FCC, and any Senator that gave herself a raise. My dough is going exclusively to AA:Ops.
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And finally, in your face with BIG RED COLA! Mwahahaha!
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Remember the audience you're speaking to. This is a demanding crowd here. We are the types to complain when someone tries to set a cookie in our browser when all we want to do is read an article. I've never understood this. I too am a cookie conspiracy theorist and deny cookies to the end of days.
I admit there are times though when cookies are useful (e.g. e-commerce, user preferences, etc.), so I'll allow cookies where they are warranted. In Firebird or Mozilla, that means dancing through a couple of menus to sway these settings. I'd love a little switch say on the status bar that quickly allows me to toggle between a "read-only" mode where no cookies or tracking can take place and a less strict browsing mode that allows cookies, etc. I know I can be tracked by IP address, but goddamn cookies all the same.
I mean 95% of the time I just want to read some nouns and verbs and to hell with everything else.
Can't have people returning dead batteries on their dime.
Anyone who golfs knows what kind of punch an electric golf cart has from a stand still shouldn't be surprised by this. Nothing beats waiting for your playing partner to get one foot in the cart and then flooring it. He gets bended backwards over the seat like a pretzel. Pisses at your and struggling with a sore back, he shanks it the rest of the round. Fun with inertia!
You had a good post going until this last sentence. Age of the glorification of greed? I suppose the years, months, and days before the fall of the Bastille were just pleasant compared to today's inequities. People traded ox carts (SUVs today if you factor in inflation) for tulips in the 16th century Netherlands. How is today different from any other day, good or bad?
The problem isn't these myopic fools spouting off some nonsense. These people will be there five thousand years from now saying the same shit that Irving Fisher said before the Great Crash of 1929. "Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau."
The problem is that some corporations are too large as to act immune to the markets they exist in. Verisign, being one of a growing number of monopolies, can call a press conference together tomorrow to announce the world is indeed flat, and there's little anybody can do to affect them where it matters: their bottom line. Sigh. But this doesn't herald the glorification of greed.
That said, I'm just impressed with this short list. All of these are good options. This really shows how far Linux on the desktop has come. So much so I'm running Linux on my work-issued laptop in a Windows environment now. Many thanks to all the developers who have made this possible.
Yeah, but it's how you use the toothpick.
I busted out in laughter at this paragraph which followed a paragraph explaining how Cisco and the FSF were resolving the issue amicably. WTF, Forbes? Here's another way of looking at this: Cisco either didn't do it's homework on this router and now has to pay the consequences, or Cisco did it's homework and thanks to some stand-up folks at the FSF has to pay the consequences. If you're in the technology sector, and you're dealing with software, you ought to know what the GPL is about, period. Not just from a negative standpoint but how it can have a positive impact.
I know this Bradley Kuhn fella. He was a board member of the Cincinnati Linux Users Group. Very energetic, passionate, knowledgeable dude. Some would say a zealot, but he's just the kind of guy you want to give the GPL some "teeth."