These days I buy only a few games and to try and spend my money on something I will enjoy, what choice do I have? I can either look at all the pictures or I can read what someone says when they have actually played through the game. It isn't just the final score that I look for, there are certain things I dont want in a game (such as loads and loads of unforgiving stealth in an FPS) and I use reviews to try and see if those elements are present, if they are I wont bother wasting my money. Most reviews I have seen will also talk about the hardware requirements. A game that requires massive power (while the official claims are for a mediocre system) is also out. Yes, just like movie reviews they are someone elses subjective view, but to get your own view you would have to watch every movie made or judge them by the trailer. Both of which are far worse (in my eyes) than seeing the opinion of a reviewer that generally agrees with you and has themselves seen almost every movie ever made.
Having said that, reviews are less useful than demonstration versions, which I wish game makers would use more.
Re your sig: Everyone in Britain (and France, too) learns to drive in a manual car. Actually not everyone learns to drive in a manual transmission car in the UK, you do have the option of learning in an automatic only car and taking your test using an automatic, BUT the license granted is an automatic transmission only license and does not allow one to drive a manual transmission, so very few people take a test that limits what cars they can legally drive.
However, I am not sure where the dividing line is for the new wave of semi-automatic transmissions.
Out of curiosity, when does this patent expire?
Patents are good for 20 years. So how long do the patents of all of these various mp3 technologies have left?
I don't think that these kids should be treated like they're addicted to drugs. I agree, they should be treated as if they are addicted to books, newspapers, radio and television. I would consider 15 hours a day of the above, normal. Far more normal than living in a prison and being prevented from seeing or talking to your friends.
Then you can be sure there are one hundred doing it for ill.
But similar to what posters earlier have pointed out - How can we solely trust a trojan writer? How do we know that the hacker didn't simply set people up? Once he had taken control of their computers he could have planted the files himself. Not to mention the fact that he must have broken into a great many innocent people's computers and read their emails. I wonder if they will be so happy of the methods that this superhero used.
If he knew the places pedophiles frequent, why didn't he just forward that info to the authorities, he can't claim that they weren't putting enough effort into fighting child pornography.
And here is a sometime beeb personality with his own Youtube presence, some of his clips are taken from BBC shows he was in (like Time Trumpet) http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=AdamBuxton
See what happens when you don't have advertisers and shareholders to answer to?
The BBC do have 'shareholders' kind of, the BBC Trust http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/ and to a certain extent the government, who are in charge of the charter renewal (and how much money the beeb gets). Also don't forget that the Daily Mail think they should be shareholders. In my view we should do the opposite of whatever they want.
As usual, Windows enables far too many services by default.
This is my number one Windows gripe. It not only reduces security (there's more vunerabilities running) but takes up resources and generally gets in the way.
Microsoft can't fix the users, there will always be the crowd blindly clicking OK or tuning off the firewall because their game's troubleshooting tells them to. But reducing the number of services and installed programs running, can reduce the number of vunerabilities present and active by default. How long did it take for them to give the option of actually turning off Messenger, despite no one ever using it. The deault install should be the minimum needed to access the net and use office. If we are all used to prompts and downloading programs a wait of a few seconds to install a progam from a file in the Windows install folder, to run something new, shouldn't be too much of a problem. Especially if we have the option of actually uninstalling IE7 completely.
And on another note, I have watched this Vista launch and still I wonder. - Why should I get it? I see alot of hype but not a single reason to upgrade.
She then proceeded to tell us to be sure we didn't push 4 of the buttons on the main screen or else the screen at your seat would crash and they would be unable to fix it in flight.
"I bet the Swedish people are going to love to find out that the US government and a US lobbying group now have a hand in training their police personnel. So much for the notion of national sovereignty."
I hope the Swedish will love it just as much as the Iraqi people do.
You go into a store and purchase two DVDs, you go through the till and you pay full price for both DVDs, the reciept states as such. You then leave the store, go home, watch the DVDs and then notice that the same shop had a "2 for 1" discount on those two DVDs. I would guess that when you return for the one DVD discount, they would reply that you can only query the charges before leaving the store, not after (just like the sign in the store says).
All of that seems fair, so why should the shop be allowed to 'correct' the agreed deal after everything has taken place, but the consumer is not allowed to 'correct' the deal.
Re:Ethics Rules and Devil's Advocate
on
SCO Vs. Groklaw
·
· Score: 1
Additionally there are ethical guidelines with real force that prohibit attorneys from using lies in the course of their representation.
Are you sure you want to be playing with a lightsaber on your wii?
What if someone comes in, records it, then posts it on the internet...boy will you look stupid A video isn't required to make me look stupid.
Damn you Lucasarts, Star Wars is the perfect game for the Wii, everyone wants to wield their lightsaber, why are you porting this to the DS (albeit through 3-party) rather than the Wii?
On the plus side, it is refreshing to be the bad guys. Just let us Wii owners (there are alot of us, possibly more than you thought would be)
The problem I found is that you can't turn on offline mode, unless you are online. So if you try to connect and Steam can't get hold of the server, then you can't say "just let me use Steam offline". You have to wait until Steam does find the server, at which point you don't need offline mode!
The thing is, if she says the operation was 'botched' and the surgeon did everything correctly, then isn't that libel? If she uses images after someone else has performed surgery, then again that seems libelous. Whether these happened or not I don't know, it doesn't really matter.
She has every right to tell people about her story, but that doesn't mean she has the right to give false accounts that unfairly harms someone's reputation.
I guess all the court has to decide is whether the 'botched' statements,the photographs, etc were fair or false.
Offtopic I know, but kudos to you, I lost 23kg (or ~3.5 stone [or 49 pounds]) over the space of around 2 years, down from 93kg. Even if getting down to 230 doesn't happen as fast as you like, don't lose hope. It really is worth getting in shape, especially I would imagine for a father.
Well I had sex with your wife last night. I'm guessing telling you after you had just found out your father died would be a bad time to spread that information;) I dont know, it sounds like the perfect time to bury some bad news.
On the other hand, that would go some way towards proving his point about violence in video games causing voilence in real life. NO, as people KEEP having to point out, it proves that video games (art) imitates life.
When will society learn, that correlation (or similarity) does not equal causality. Were drive-bys and joyriding around before or after gangster rap and GTA?
Thousands of employees have been laid off, yet somehow the recording companies are making big profits? (In fact 2004 was a record year for BMI, dont know about '05 or '06) If the RIAA cared so much about those employees then why didn't it use some of its profits to not lay them off? Methinks greed not profit to blame.
That's exactly what I mean, it's the people who don't care that Sony should be owning up to. They might begin to care if they realise how far this can go.
Slashdot Mirror
Well played Sir.
These days I buy only a few games and to try and spend my money on something I will enjoy, what choice do I have? I can either look at all the pictures or I can read what someone says when they have actually played through the game. It isn't just the final score that I look for, there are certain things I dont want in a game (such as loads and loads of unforgiving stealth in an FPS) and I use reviews to try and see if those elements are present, if they are I wont bother wasting my money. Most reviews I have seen will also talk about the hardware requirements. A game that requires massive power (while the official claims are for a mediocre system) is also out.
Yes, just like movie reviews they are someone elses subjective view, but to get your own view you would have to watch every movie made or judge them by the trailer. Both of which are far worse (in my eyes) than seeing the opinion of a reviewer that generally agrees with you and has themselves seen almost every movie ever made.
Having said that, reviews are less useful than demonstration versions, which I wish game makers would use more.
Here spins the Wheel Of Reincarnation http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/W/wheel-of-re incarnation.html watch how everything comes back and then goes away again and then comes back . . .
However, I am not sure where the dividing line is for the new wave of semi-automatic transmissions.
I would consider 15 hours a day of the above, normal. Far more normal than living in a prison and being prevented from seeing or talking to your friends.
Then you can be sure there are one hundred doing it for ill.
But similar to what posters earlier have pointed out - How can we solely trust a trojan writer? How do we know that the hacker didn't simply set people up? Once he had taken control of their computers he could have planted the files himself.
Not to mention the fact that he must have broken into a great many innocent people's computers and read their emails. I wonder if they will be so happy of the methods that this superhero used.
If he knew the places pedophiles frequent, why didn't he just forward that info to the authorities, he can't claim that they weren't putting enough effort into fighting child pornography.
The BBC do have 'shareholders' kind of, the BBC Trust http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/ and to a certain extent the government, who are in charge of the charter renewal (and how much money the beeb gets). Also don't forget that the Daily Mail think they should be shareholders. In my view we should do the opposite of whatever they want.
Microsoft can't fix the users, there will always be the crowd blindly clicking OK or tuning off the firewall because their game's troubleshooting tells them to.
But reducing the number of services and installed programs running, can reduce the number of vunerabilities present and active by default. How long did it take for them to give the option of actually turning off Messenger, despite no one ever using it. The deault install should be the minimum needed to access the net and use office. If we are all used to prompts and downloading programs a wait of a few seconds to install a progam from a file in the Windows install folder, to run something new, shouldn't be too much of a problem.
Especially if we have the option of actually uninstalling IE7 completely.
And on another note, I have watched this Vista launch and still I wonder. -
Why should I get it? I see alot of hype but not a single reason to upgrade.
Yeah, the frequency is the flaw in his comment about bees in the centre of the Earth. You lack humour comprehension.
Also consider the opposite -
You go into a store and purchase two DVDs, you go through the till and you pay full price for both DVDs, the reciept states as such. You then leave the store, go home, watch the DVDs and then notice that the same shop had a "2 for 1" discount on those two DVDs.
I would guess that when you return for the one DVD discount, they would reply that you can only query the charges before leaving the store, not after (just like the sign in the store says).
All of that seems fair, so why should the shop be allowed to 'correct' the agreed deal after everything has taken place, but the consumer is not allowed to 'correct' the deal.
What if someone comes in, records it, then posts it on the internet...boy will you look stupid A video isn't required to make me look stupid.
Damn you Lucasarts, Star Wars is the perfect game for the Wii, everyone wants to wield their lightsaber, why are you porting this to the DS (albeit through 3-party) rather than the Wii?
On the plus side, it is refreshing to be the bad guys. Just let us Wii owners (there are alot of us, possibly more than you thought would be)
The problem I found is that you can't turn on offline mode, unless you are online. So if you try to connect and Steam can't get hold of the server, then you can't say "just let me use Steam offline". You have to wait until Steam does find the server, at which point you don't need offline mode!
Only if you update. I am not using WM11, I have no need.
I would have said that 'botched' implies that the surgeon had not done everything properly.
The thing is, if she says the operation was 'botched' and the surgeon did everything correctly, then isn't that libel? If she uses images after someone else has performed surgery, then again that seems libelous. Whether these happened or not I don't know, it doesn't really matter.
She has every right to tell people about her story, but that doesn't mean she has the right to give false accounts that unfairly harms someone's reputation.
I guess all the court has to decide is whether the 'botched' statements,the photographs, etc were fair or false.
Offtopic I know, but kudos to you, I lost 23kg (or ~3.5 stone [or 49 pounds]) over the space of around 2 years, down from 93kg. Even if getting down to 230 doesn't happen as fast as you like, don't lose hope. It really is worth getting in shape, especially I would imagine for a father.
When will society learn, that correlation (or similarity) does not equal causality.
Were drive-bys and joyriding around before or after gangster rap and GTA?
Thousands of employees have been laid off, yet somehow the recording companies are making big profits? (In fact 2004 was a record year for BMI, dont know about '05 or '06) If the RIAA cared so much about those employees then why didn't it use some of its profits to not lay them off? Methinks greed not profit to blame.
That's exactly what I mean, it's the people who don't care that Sony should be owning up to.
They might begin to care if they realise how far this can go.