I'm only going to quote this short excerpt from the article about the modified license and just how confused I am by it:
"the program and its derivative work will neither be modified or executed to harm any human being nor through inaction permit any human being to be harmed." (paragraph #3)
Now just HOW the hell does this make sense? I well enough understand the part about it not being allowed to be used to hurt/+ kill other people, etc - but doesn't the "inaction" part go against that?
Now for some hypothetical situations:
#1: say some branch of the military could somehow (make something up, damnit) save lives with this software? So by disallowing the military to use it, those people are now going to die.
#2: One of the warmongering Mid-East, Asian, or African countries that would LOVE nothing more than to set off a nuke on a Western nation uses this software to create the geometry for their warhead (you think they're going to give a shit?), and whatever unlucky country is their target (be it the US, UK, or the country as big as your 6'x6' "backyard" condominium patio) could have to processing power to run whatever software needed to find where this nuke is being made and send Rambo in, saving thousands if not millions of lives from a populated city, even if at the cost of 30 or 50 scientists, guards, etc - but now because they can't use this beowulf clustering software, everybody effected by the bomb gets turned to ash, skin falls of, etc, and nobody can live inside ground zero because of fallout.
OK, enough totally bullshit situations, but do you see just how little sense this makes to me? Maybe (alright, more than just maybe) I'm over-thinking and over-exagerating a lot here, but this ideal of theirs seems impossible. Great, now I'm gonna sit up thinking about it all night and wake up dead in the morning with an aneurism...
I'll try to keep this from being flamebait, and this might or might not be specifically your thoughts on the matter, but I'm sure somewhere on Slashdot, some part of this applies to somebody - so, here goes nothing...
I'm not exactly a warmonger, but I'm not a blind pacifist either - if you want to call a terrorist blowing up an ice cream shop or public bus a "civilian" only because he isn't a member of a regular army, does it really mean he's a civilian/non-combatant when he just killed or at the very least, injured everybody on the bus?.
...we could BUY the west bank, Gaza, and the Golan Heights...
Just because you buy a dog, whats to keep if from running away? Not to say people in the middle east have the intelligence of animals, but that the way countries like Palistine and Iran hate the US and other Western nations, it would not just probably, but positively make international relations worse. Would they accept the land as a "gift"? I truly doubt it. Reason #1: would you want pity from the country you've hated since the day you were born? Reason #2: are you really gonna tell me the US govt' wouldn't have more strings attached than a master puppeteer? (which of course none of which Palestine or the rest of the Mid-East would like)
I'll stop ranting now so I don't piss off all of Slashdot
The parent post might well be flamebait, and this one (my response) might be just as much, but I think the parent needs an answer...
Sorry if you thought I was picking a fight, but I do believe my post gave a "to each their own" message that I prefer hardware in a PC while others prefer the software that comes with Macs - and that since I dont care about the software since I would never use it, there's no reason for me to buy it...
So, get a high end workstation...
That was my point and the point of a lot of other people - you dont buy a Mac for the hardware. Which is why for anything that I would consider decent hardware I would have to pay out the ass for - if there's cheaper hardware at the same performance level and reliability, I'll go with the cheaper one. And so, since Mac hardware is more expensive and the OS meant to run on it isn't as compatible as could be with the games I want, I'll stick with PCs
I think you also completely ignored the part where I said
However, I gotta say, the only thing that has me thinking of switching to Mac is when I took a look at Vista about a month ago - theres no other way to describe it other than I hated pretty much everything about it (I'm sacrificing how much of my CPU or GPU for those half assed transparent windows??? I think not...)
You claim that Apple haters can't come up with or ignore facts
It's funny, because the Mac fanbois at least hate Windows because it sucks and they can give reasons. Apple haters just seem to hate Apple and the logic is missing.
when you yourself can't seem to show me any facts. I know the answers should be obvious (malware, viruses, shitty default UI, etc, etc) but what about the faults in Mac such as the sheer amount of software incompatible, just how open to attacks is OSX? Security through obscurity is not something I favor (wasn't there a Slashdot article a while back about how Mac succumbed to one of the oldest tricks in the book - a Unix executable with the extension.jpg added?), what if I get tired of "Brushed Metal" or the other few themes it supports? At least with Windows I can install Stardock Window Blinds and use an extensive library of user created skins (and the ones the company themselves makes - hell, theres even an OSX skin).
I should probably stop now before I say something I really shouldn't and end up with nothing but pure flamebait (that is, if I haven't already)...
what, to keep content/history specific ads from being shown? honestly, it aint worth the trouble if thats your only reason.
the reason people are worried here is because they are paranoid about things like using Google to search for places to illegally obtain software, where to meet up with facist neo-nazis and communists, and randomly going on killing sprees and blowing stuff up - will result in Google telling the FBI or homeland security and getting sent to prison.
basically, people worried about deleting their cookies because of this crap are paranoid. cmon, do you honestly think you are that much of a threat to the govt that they would sift through Google's search logs? even in the news, the people that blow crap up with info they got offa the net - the authorities only find that crap out after they committ the crime and go through their computer. so what makes people think they'll find out (or give a rats ass) that you use Google to look at porn???
I disagree - I, for example, value the hardware customization you can get with a PC (not just a Dell - or rather anything but Dell), while you seem to value the software suites Apple bundles with their Mac systems. It's all a matter of personal preference - again, since I don't give a crap about having iMovie and the rest of the iLife junk (it's junk to me anyway) adding to the cost of a machine, so it would simply seem like overpriced hardware.
So for me, I consider my HP Pavillion a1129n ($7xx when I bought it, now about 12xx or 13xx): Athlon 64b 3400, 512ram (+1 gig), the Geforce 7900gt I dropped in, 200gig default HDD (+300gig secondary I dropped in) - is far better than any of the entry level Mac desktops (not the Mini) would compare to at the same price. And another thing - since I value hardware so much, you can probably see that I'm a gamer. So I'm actually happier with WinXP than I would be with OSX since just about every game I have or could want from over the past 8 years or so (hell, even the ones I run away from) require XP. How many apps and games are compatible with Mac compared to XP?
However, I gotta say, the only thing that has me thinking of switching to Mac is when I took a look at Vista about a month ago - theres no other way to describe it other than I hated pretty much everything about it (I'm sacrificing how much of my CPU or GPU for those half assed transparent windows??? I think not...)
I'm not exactly the guy to watch many movies in the first place, let alone HD movies, so honestly - even if BD-ROM flops as a medium/+format for movies, will I care that much? what I want out of it is more kick ass RPG's from Squaresoft (I still consider them Squaresoft, not Squenix) FPS, and the Ace Combat series from Namco with super-photorealistic graphics
The only reason I could really care for BDROM succeeding as a movie medium is it would make it more widely accepted for gaming...
my guess is that like other people, they will use the publicity from this to make loads of profit on goods that they sell
most likely, they haven't been selling too many portable media players, a lot of which because people dont realize that they can rip dvd's to them - how much you wanna bet thats because the MPAA is trying to keep that in the dark? once this goes to court and is on 5 different news channels all week long and comes into the light (as CC wants) people will be more aware of portable media players and CC hopes, go buy one from them = PROFIT!
of course games can make you cry (not just the gameplay, the movies and fmv's too) - though it's like any movie or book, if you didn't cry during the most emotional part of the most emotional movie you've ever seen, you probably wont cry during the emotional parts of games
SPOILER(S) WARNING: if you havent yet played final fantasy 7, 8, or 10 and plan to do so eventually, you might not wanna read the rest... (just so people dont get pissed at me for spoiling it for em)
final fantasy 7: still to this day I haven't yet defeated Emerald or Ruby WEAPON(s) (then again, I it's gotta have been at least 2 or 3 years since i played it last)
final fantasy 8: when Squall and Rinoa get to the cockpit of the Ragnarok, and she wants him to hold her in the little time they have left together before they make ground-fall, since the Esthar govt will imprison her for her unwanted newly aquired witch powers
final fantasy 10: in the Al Bhed desert base when Rikku reveals to the clueless Tidus that if Yuna gets the Final Summoning and defeats Sin, the summoning will kill her too, and he says (something like) "Damnit - I kept telling her 'You can beat Sin Yuna! We'll get the Final summoning and kill it!' - I was such an idiot! I kept telling her that, and didn't even know she would die!"
not to mention when the party is on the cliff edge peak of Mt Gagazete to Zanarkand and Yuna drops her recording sphere of her last goodbyes for the rest to find after the final summoning would have killed her, and Tidus picks it up and watchs it
oh, and did I mention when Tidus and Yuna have to part in the end on the deck of the airship when he begins to fade away and hugs her while fading away
what about the very last endgame movie when Yuna is out on the dock in Luca before her speech still whistling because Tidus told her if she whistled he would come for her...
personally, the number of emotional scenes in ff10 alone is more than any recent Hollywood boxoffice movie or recent "emotional drama intensive" tv series that non-gamers will most likely never see the likes of on tv or movies...
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personally, I liked the coop mode of BF1942 with Desert Combat mod on - I spent a great many months completely ignoring the rest of the game in favor of servers with about 5 or 10 humans on one side, blowing the crap outta bots (even if the bots were some of the dumbest you'd ever seen, it was still fun). Nothing could beat joining such a server running Berlin (I think), join the Iraqi side, and lay down in the middle of the street and pound the crap outta bots with a pkm...
am I the only one thinking that tfa here meant to say "take a shuttle to the ISS, THEN Orion to the moon"? because, correct me if I'm wrong, but if this Orion is following the old Project Orion, and is going to use some manner of recoil from repeated series of nuclear explosions (on any scale) - wouldn't that be kinda helluva bad for the atmosphere if such an Orion lifter took off from earth itself (as in on the ground)?
I dunno, maybe it wouldnt have as bad a long term effect as I'm thinking, even with super small detonations, but I wonder...
in advance - sorry old-school astonauts... but honestly, the craft used back then was about as reliable as if it really had been held together by duct tape (the cheap kind, not the new improved, bonded via artificial diamond/carbon thread stuff) - so getting an entirely new craft designed and built would force an update from shitty heat shield tiles that fall off, and computers that cost more to get old parts for than to use new ones.
basically - it needs to be developed further (from the pos shuttles) to make it cheap enough for people to be able to afford a business ticket to the moon and back once or twice a month (well, the 150k a year paycheck-business people), and safe enough that you could launch a minimum of one to two moon-shuttles a day and not even one have problems or get a hole punched in the hull in 5 or 10 years
and the reason for it being developed to the point of commercial use is that you could make far more money shuttling people back and forth across the solar system (well, the moon for starters) than you could than investing in the fields you mentioned which already believe it or not get plenty of investing from corporations and government run universities and labs
computing: well, look how well computing is doing now, supercomputing or household are both great;
neuroscience is part of the medical/pharmaceutical field - look how much money gets put into things like viagra and cholesterol medicine - and what was that reconstructed rat brain in a petri dish they taught to at least keep a simulated plane in level flight?;
fusion: what the hell is the name of that fusion/laser lab in california and those super-collider's? (honestly I dont know - but how much funding do you think those get?)
while that is true, isn't a good part of that due to (as far's I know) the ISS still being in the range of Earth's magnetosphere - blocking a good part of the radiation it would be exposed to otherwise?
EXACTLY - it's a nice concept, but thats about it... it could never realistically be used for driving around on the highway or in crowded streets.
Since this concept car is useless, I'd like to bring up another fuel efficient concept car - the Volkswagen 1 liter car
from the wikipedia page:
The VW 1-litre car is a two-person concept car designed to travel 100 km using just 1 litre of fuel (equivalent to 235 miles per US gallon or 282 mpg Imperial). To achieve such economy, it is made from lightweight materials; the body is streamlined; and the engine and transmission are designed and tuned for economy.
For aerodynamics, the car seats two in tandem, rather than side-by-side. There are no rear view mirrors and it instead uses cameras and electronic displays. The rear wheels are close together to allow a streamlined body. The drag coefficient (Cd) is 0.16, compared to 0.30 for typical cars.
if that is the case, how much you wanna bet a crapload of those 1399 domains are for Linux or other F/OSS projects - which we all know M$ has long since declared to be "a spreading virus" (something of the sort)
because if they souped up the form for people to submit stuff to have a spell and grammar checker, people would complain it takes anywhere from a half second on their dsl or cable modem to 2 seconds longer on dialup - and if it wasnt that, they'd complain about whatever script for it not working in Safari, Opera, etc, for that matter, it'd probably be an IE only compatible script, and not at all standards compliant...
so instead of telling people that like his stuff to buy the cd instead of individual mp3's from digital music stores - why the hell ain't he and other artist's complaining to their record companies to stop tryin to screw em over (the artist's) - or some people might say even better still would be to just tell their record companies where they can shove it...
it seems you've found out it was the transmitter/receiver, but another question about the mouse - actually more about how your dad uses the mouse - is he one of those guys that thinks he has to hold the thing in a damned death grip and wonders why his hand gets sweaty and the plastic body of the mouse is cracked in half cuz of all the pressure he puts on it just holding it?
I think those 700 subscriptions must be (I hope no real person is dumb enough - unfortunately they are) M$ employees given subscriptions instead of health-care benefits...
anybody else here see this as TakeTwo spitting in the face of 3DRealms' face? kinda like "We all know you guys won't be able to finish DNF, so you won't even get chump-change from us..."
except that except for higher end body armor, even medium grade brand new "Spectra" (supposedly better than kevlar) body armor will at largest caliber stop a.44 magnum and 12 gauge (cant remember if it includes 00 buck or not, doubt it though). so basically all those guys with AKs, M16s/M4s, etc, and large caliber handguns (no I'm not talking about.50AE IMI Desert Eagle, I mean something (lesser known, albeit) that would use.454,.460,.470,.475,.480, and.500 s&w - thats just for handguns) are oughta go right through that body armor...
obviously you've never played a "realism" mod for any game where they insist on removing crosshairs and making you use ironsights for any hope of your shots hitting something that'll matter (somebody, cept theyr pixels n polygons)
seriously though, what do you think a guy like me would find so hard about pulling a handgun up, aiming down the sights, and squeezing without flinching (set your aim off) - or holding a rifle square in your shoulder, aiming down the sights, holding his breath, and squeezing again without flinching?
why do people act like its so damned hard to shoot a gun - its not... now shooting with a person in front of the barrel and living with it - thats a different story - you could go to a shooting range all the time, be an olympic class marksman, and it'd still drive you to a mental ward...
"This is my rifle (points to firearm), this is my gun (points to crotch); this is for shooting (points to firearm), this is for fun (points to crotch)" - hows that for using "gun" and still getting pictures not relevant to the/. article?
when the words "DRM" and "Good" ended up next to each other - even if its just the article tagging...
well, maybe in something describing ibm's "dream drm" project, but its still drm, and being open source doesnt mean a damn if none of the companies adopt it because it doesnt do what they want and restrict people to their service...
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I'm only going to quote this short excerpt from the article about the modified license and just how confused I am by it:
Now just HOW the hell does this make sense? I well enough understand the part about it not being allowed to be used to hurt /+ kill other people, etc - but doesn't the "inaction" part go against that?
Now for some hypothetical situations:
OK, enough totally bullshit situations, but do you see just how little sense this makes to me? Maybe (alright, more than just maybe) I'm over-thinking and over-exagerating a lot here, but this ideal of theirs seems impossible. Great, now I'm gonna sit up thinking about it all night and wake up dead in the morning with an aneurism...
I'll try to keep this from being flamebait, and this might or might not be specifically your thoughts on the matter, but I'm sure somewhere on Slashdot, some part of this applies to somebody - so, here goes nothing...
I'm not exactly a warmonger, but I'm not a blind pacifist either - if you want to call a terrorist blowing up an ice cream shop or public bus a "civilian" only because he isn't a member of a regular army, does it really mean he's a civilian/non-combatant when he just killed or at the very least, injured everybody on the bus?.
Just because you buy a dog, whats to keep if from running away? Not to say people in the middle east have the intelligence of animals, but that the way countries like Palistine and Iran hate the US and other Western nations, it would not just probably, but positively make international relations worse. Would they accept the land as a "gift"? I truly doubt it. Reason #1: would you want pity from the country you've hated since the day you were born? Reason #2: are you really gonna tell me the US govt' wouldn't have more strings attached than a master puppeteer? (which of course none of which Palestine or the rest of the Mid-East would like)
I'll stop ranting now so I don't piss off all of Slashdot
The parent post might well be flamebait, and this one (my response) might be just as much, but I think the parent needs an answer...
Sorry if you thought I was picking a fight, but I do believe my post gave a "to each their own" message that I prefer hardware in a PC while others prefer the software that comes with Macs - and that since I dont care about the software since I would never use it, there's no reason for me to buy it...
That was my point and the point of a lot of other people - you dont buy a Mac for the hardware. Which is why for anything that I would consider decent hardware I would have to pay out the ass for - if there's cheaper hardware at the same performance level and reliability, I'll go with the cheaper one. And so, since Mac hardware is more expensive and the OS meant to run on it isn't as compatible as could be with the games I want, I'll stick with PCs
I think you also completely ignored the part where I said
You claim that Apple haters can't come up with or ignore facts
when you yourself can't seem to show me any facts. I know the answers should be obvious (malware, viruses, shitty default UI, etc, etc) but what about the faults in Mac such as the sheer amount of software incompatible, just how open to attacks is OSX? Security through obscurity is not something I favor (wasn't there a Slashdot article a while back about how Mac succumbed to one of the oldest tricks in the book - a Unix executable with the extension .jpg added?), what if I get tired of "Brushed Metal" or the other few themes it supports? At least with Windows I can install Stardock Window Blinds and use an extensive library of user created skins (and the ones the company themselves makes - hell, theres even an OSX skin).
I should probably stop now before I say something I really shouldn't and end up with nothing but pure flamebait (that is, if I haven't already)...
what, to keep content/history specific ads from being shown? honestly, it aint worth the trouble if thats your only reason.
the reason people are worried here is because they are paranoid about things like using Google to search for places to illegally obtain software, where to meet up with facist neo-nazis and communists, and randomly going on killing sprees and blowing stuff up - will result in Google telling the FBI or homeland security and getting sent to prison.
basically, people worried about deleting their cookies because of this crap are paranoid. cmon, do you honestly think you are that much of a threat to the govt that they would sift through Google's search logs? even in the news, the people that blow crap up with info they got offa the net - the authorities only find that crap out after they committ the crime and go through their computer. so what makes people think they'll find out (or give a rats ass) that you use Google to look at porn???
I disagree - I, for example, value the hardware customization you can get with a PC (not just a Dell - or rather anything but Dell), while you seem to value the software suites Apple bundles with their Mac systems. It's all a matter of personal preference - again, since I don't give a crap about having iMovie and the rest of the iLife junk (it's junk to me anyway) adding to the cost of a machine, so it would simply seem like overpriced hardware.
So for me, I consider my HP Pavillion a1129n ($7xx when I bought it, now about 12xx or 13xx): Athlon 64b 3400, 512ram (+1 gig), the Geforce 7900gt I dropped in, 200gig default HDD (+300gig secondary I dropped in) - is far better than any of the entry level Mac desktops (not the Mini) would compare to at the same price. And another thing - since I value hardware so much, you can probably see that I'm a gamer. So I'm actually happier with WinXP than I would be with OSX since just about every game I have or could want from over the past 8 years or so (hell, even the ones I run away from) require XP. How many apps and games are compatible with Mac compared to XP?
However, I gotta say, the only thing that has me thinking of switching to Mac is when I took a look at Vista about a month ago - theres no other way to describe it other than I hated pretty much everything about it (I'm sacrificing how much of my CPU or GPU for those half assed transparent windows??? I think not...)
I'm not exactly the guy to watch many movies in the first place, let alone HD movies, so honestly - even if BD-ROM flops as a medium/+format for movies, will I care that much? what I want out of it is more kick ass RPG's from Squaresoft (I still consider them Squaresoft, not Squenix) FPS, and the Ace Combat series from Namco with super-photorealistic graphics
The only reason I could really care for BDROM succeeding as a movie medium is it would make it more widely accepted for gaming...
my guess is that like other people, they will use the publicity from this to make loads of profit on goods that they sell
most likely, they haven't been selling too many portable media players, a lot of which because people dont realize that they can rip dvd's to them - how much you wanna bet thats because the MPAA is trying to keep that in the dark? once this goes to court and is on 5 different news channels all week long and comes into the light (as CC wants) people will be more aware of portable media players and CC hopes, go buy one from them = PROFIT!
of course games can make you cry (not just the gameplay, the movies and fmv's too) - though it's like any movie or book, if you didn't cry during the most emotional part of the most emotional movie you've ever seen, you probably wont cry during the emotional parts of games
SPOILER(S) WARNING: if you havent yet played final fantasy 7, 8, or 10 and plan to do so eventually, you might not wanna read the rest... (just so people dont get pissed at me for spoiling it for em)
final fantasy 7: still to this day I haven't yet defeated Emerald or Ruby WEAPON(s) (then again, I it's gotta have been at least 2 or 3 years since i played it last)
final fantasy 8: when Squall and Rinoa get to the cockpit of the Ragnarok, and she wants him to hold her in the little time they have left together before they make ground-fall, since the Esthar govt will imprison her for her unwanted newly aquired witch powers
final fantasy 10: in the Al Bhed desert base when Rikku reveals to the clueless Tidus that if Yuna gets the Final Summoning and defeats Sin, the summoning will kill her too, and he says (something like) "Damnit - I kept telling her 'You can beat Sin Yuna! We'll get the Final summoning and kill it!' - I was such an idiot! I kept telling her that, and didn't even know she would die!"
not to mention when the party is on the cliff edge peak of Mt Gagazete to Zanarkand and Yuna drops her recording sphere of her last goodbyes for the rest to find after the final summoning would have killed her, and Tidus picks it up and watchs it
oh, and did I mention when Tidus and Yuna have to part in the end on the deck of the airship when he begins to fade away and hugs her while fading away
what about the very last endgame movie when Yuna is out on the dock in Luca before her speech still whistling because Tidus told her if she whistled he would come for her...
personally, the number of emotional scenes in ff10 alone is more than any recent Hollywood boxoffice movie or recent "emotional drama intensive" tv series that non-gamers will most likely never see the likes of on tv or movies...
personally, I liked the coop mode of BF1942 with Desert Combat mod on - I spent a great many months completely ignoring the rest of the game in favor of servers with about 5 or 10 humans on one side, blowing the crap outta bots (even if the bots were some of the dumbest you'd ever seen, it was still fun). Nothing could beat joining such a server running Berlin (I think), join the Iraqi side, and lay down in the middle of the street and pound the crap outta bots with a pkm...
I dunno, maybe it wouldnt have as bad a long term effect as I'm thinking, even with super small detonations, but I wonder...
basically - it needs to be developed further (from the pos shuttles) to make it cheap enough for people to be able to afford a business ticket to the moon and back once or twice a month (well, the 150k a year paycheck-business people), and safe enough that you could launch a minimum of one to two moon-shuttles a day and not even one have problems or get a hole punched in the hull in 5 or 10 years
and the reason for it being developed to the point of commercial use is that you could make far more money shuttling people back and forth across the solar system (well, the moon for starters) than you could than investing in the fields you mentioned which already believe it or not get plenty of investing from corporations and government run universities and labs
computing: well, look how well computing is doing now, supercomputing or household are both great;
neuroscience is part of the medical/pharmaceutical field - look how much money gets put into things like viagra and cholesterol medicine - and what was that reconstructed rat brain in a petri dish they taught to at least keep a simulated plane in level flight?;
fusion: what the hell is the name of that fusion/laser lab in california and those super-collider's? (honestly I dont know - but how much funding do you think those get?)
while that is true, isn't a good part of that due to (as far's I know) the ISS still being in the range of Earth's magnetosphere - blocking a good part of the radiation it would be exposed to otherwise?
Since this concept car is useless, I'd like to bring up another fuel efficient concept car - the Volkswagen 1 liter car
from the wikipedia page:
if that is the case, how much you wanna bet a crapload of those 1399 domains are for Linux or other F/OSS projects - which we all know M$ has long since declared to be "a spreading virus" (something of the sort)
because if they souped up the form for people to submit stuff to have a spell and grammar checker, people would complain it takes anywhere from a half second on their dsl or cable modem to 2 seconds longer on dialup - and if it wasnt that, they'd complain about whatever script for it not working in Safari, Opera, etc, for that matter, it'd probably be an IE only compatible script, and not at all standards compliant...
so instead of telling people that like his stuff to buy the cd instead of individual mp3's from digital music stores - why the hell ain't he and other artist's complaining to their record companies to stop tryin to screw em over (the artist's) - or some people might say even better still would be to just tell their record companies where they can shove it...
it seems you've found out it was the transmitter/receiver, but another question about the mouse - actually more about how your dad uses the mouse - is he one of those guys that thinks he has to hold the thing in a damned death grip and wonders why his hand gets sweaty and the plastic body of the mouse is cracked in half cuz of all the pressure he puts on it just holding it?
I think those 700 subscriptions must be (I hope no real person is dumb enough - unfortunately they are) M$ employees given subscriptions instead of health-care benefits...
anybody else here see this as TakeTwo spitting in the face of 3DRealms' face? kinda like "We all know you guys won't be able to finish DNF, so you won't even get chump-change from us..."
except that except for higher end body armor, even medium grade brand new "Spectra" (supposedly better than kevlar) body armor will at largest caliber stop a .44 magnum and 12 gauge (cant remember if it includes 00 buck or not, doubt it though). so basically all those guys with AKs, M16s/M4s, etc, and large caliber handguns (no I'm not talking about .50AE IMI Desert Eagle, I mean something (lesser known, albeit) that would use .454, .460, .470, .475, .480, and .500 s&w - thats just for handguns) are oughta go right through that body armor...
obviously you've never played a "realism" mod for any game where they insist on removing crosshairs and making you use ironsights for any hope of your shots hitting something that'll matter (somebody, cept theyr pixels n polygons)
seriously though, what do you think a guy like me would find so hard about pulling a handgun up, aiming down the sights, and squeezing without flinching (set your aim off) - or holding a rifle square in your shoulder, aiming down the sights, holding his breath, and squeezing again without flinching?
why do people act like its so damned hard to shoot a gun - its not... now shooting with a person in front of the barrel and living with it - thats a different story - you could go to a shooting range all the time, be an olympic class marksman, and it'd still drive you to a mental ward...
"This is my rifle (points to firearm), this is my gun (points to crotch); this is for shooting (points to firearm), this is for fun (points to crotch)" - hows that for using "gun" and still getting pictures not relevant to the /. article?
well, maybe in something describing ibm's "dream drm" project, but its still drm, and being open source doesnt mean a damn if none of the companies adopt it because it doesnt do what they want and restrict people to their service...
"The quality of the product isn't nearly as important as the quality of the product's marketing"...
actually, wouldnt it be better if they did? then we wouldnt have to watch the shitty movie...