One of my fellow IT drones bought a Zune, after laughing off my reasons why NOT to buy one. But then, he also chose to upgrade to Vista 'just cuz'... after I again tried explaining the problems with Vista.
After playing around with it a bit... it plays music and the screen is good for showing off pics of the kids. If you don't care about "squirting" and other (broken) features, you could do worse. But then, I paid $120 for a 20GB Creative Jukebox Zen NX in December 2003, and I'll use it until it won't play music any more.
1.Welcome chair-throwing overlord.
2."Developers, developers, developers, developers..."
3.In Soviet Russia, chair throws overlord.
4.In Korea, only old people welcome overlords.
5.But does the overlord run Linux?
6.Imagine a beowolf cluster of overlords!
7......?
8.Profit!
You can also be ordered to slowly peel the skin of of living babies. That would be an illegal order, which U.S. soldiers are not legally required to follow. The caveat is that disobeying it is 'at your own risk', so a superior who's crazy enough to order you to do that would probably summarily exexcute you or something.
From talking to my friends and coworkers (a mix of nerds and not), none of them have ever heard of DRM, and when I explain it to them, they simply don't care. They have no concept of their "MP3s" bought from iTunes possibly not working in the future, having to "deauthorize" an old computer, or eventually trying to move their music from an old iPod to a new (non-Apple) music-player. They will simply see one version of a song on iTunes is $1.29, and the other is $.99; they go with the cheaper one.
Also, those same people don't notice a difference between MP3s and CDs.
It's a sad state of affairs when people choose ignorance and lack of foresight, but it certainly puts things in perspective. As wrong as it feels to type this, us anti-DRM activists can't rely on support from the general populace, at least until popular media tells them why they should care. (But then, that would require objective journalism.)
Wow, reading the other replies to this makes me not feel evil for laughing at this. Especially how it's the soldier that explodes, and not his gear. For some reason it seems Monty Python-esque.
After reading the above-linked article, I believe there are some discrepancies that need to be brought to your attention. I have extensively played Grand Theft Auto 1, 2, 3, Vice City, and San Andreas, yet I have never encountered any opportunities to sell pornography to children, nor is there is no way to advance in the game through killing police officers or prostitutes.
In every game in the Grand Theft Auto series, killing a prostitute within view of a police officer will cause him to try to subdue and arrest you. If you kill a police officer, more will come in squad-cars, attempting to stop you. If you continue to kill officers, SWAT teams will attempt to subdue you. Eventually, the National Guard will arrive to subdue you. When your character is subdued by law enforcement, he returns to the game outside of a hospital, without weapons and with a hefty monetary fine. Similar to real life, attacking police officers has consequences, none of which are good, and in the end, you can't win.
I am not a lawyer, nor am I making any sort of threat of legal action (I am in no way connected to Take-Two Interactive Software), but making false, harmful claims about a game's content sounds like libel to me. As I can not trust the New York Daily News to provide accurate, unbiased information, I will never purchase an issue, and advise my friends and family likewise.
If I am wrong about selling pornography to children, please tell me in which games, and in what location it is found. I would like to verify the content, and if it is present, I will gladly inform everyone who will listen.
To close on a slight tangent, Liberty City is modeled after New York City. On November 15, 2005 the video game True Crime: New York City http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/adventure/truecrime2/i ndex.html?q=True%20Crime was released. Surely you can guess where this game takes place. Yet, there was no public outcry regarding True Crime: New York City's setting.
Well, if it is running on the simulators, the simulated humans might be given access to it, and thus being able to script their own lifes!
Well, maybe I should try if those scripts already work on our world!:-)
It took me a moment to realize that you didn't type "cunnilingus". That class would've been much more interesting than calculus. Except to the average Slashdotter... unless they were somehow combined. *contemplates*
Where have all the Wii-motes gone? Iraq. In the PX on our base, we had at least a dozen... but they don't carry Wiis, nor Wii games. They'll sit out on the shelf for a few months, and when not one has sold, they'll get packed right back up. The same idiotic stocking practice also causes us to have plenty of DS games, but no DS systems available. Yet, a popular Xbox 360 or PS2 game will be gone within a few hours, never to be stocked again.
I'm not angry at Nintendo, but a company that does not pay attention to its clientele, AAFES. Right before Christmas our PX had baby strollers in stock! In a combat zone! When I've asked about who determines what is stocked, the employees all claim that they have no say in what they receive.
Well said; when I was little, my dad -drilled- into me such concepts as "don't talk to strangers", "trust police officers", "look both ways before crossing the street", etc. At the time I thought it was unnecessary, but as I got older, they were able to trust my judgment. I never even had a curfew.
If a parent can't teach their children safe behavior, should they really be a parent?
We do? Maybe the special ops guys get fun stuff like that, but us regular Joes aren't issued fancy shrimp-bandaids. It's hard enough for some folks to remember how to properly apply a field dressing.
The only shrimp I've seen are in the chow-halls.
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One of my fellow IT drones bought a Zune, after laughing off my reasons why NOT to buy one. But then, he also chose to upgrade to Vista 'just cuz'... after I again tried explaining the problems with Vista.
After playing around with it a bit... it plays music and the screen is good for showing off pics of the kids. If you don't care about "squirting" and other (broken) features, you could do worse. But then, I paid $120 for a 20GB Creative Jukebox Zen NX in December 2003, and I'll use it until it won't play music any more.
1.Welcome chair-throwing overlord.
2."Developers, developers, developers, developers..."
3.In Soviet Russia, chair throws overlord.
4.In Korea, only old people welcome overlords.
5.But does the overlord run Linux?
6.Imagine a beowolf cluster of overlords!
7......?
8.Profit!
I am an overlord, you insensitive clod!
Did I forget any?
And yet, http://www.espn.com/ always works on NIPR.
That would be an illegal order, which U.S. soldiers are not legally required to follow. The caveat is that disobeying it is 'at your own risk', so a superior who's crazy enough to order you to do that would probably summarily exexcute you or something.
From talking to my friends and coworkers (a mix of nerds and not), none of them have ever heard of DRM, and when I explain it to them, they simply don't care. They have no concept of their "MP3s" bought from iTunes possibly not working in the future, having to "deauthorize" an old computer, or eventually trying to move their music from an old iPod to a new (non-Apple) music-player. They will simply see one version of a song on iTunes is $1.29, and the other is $.99; they go with the cheaper one.
Also, those same people don't notice a difference between MP3s and CDs.
It's a sad state of affairs when people choose ignorance and lack of foresight, but it certainly puts things in perspective. As wrong as it feels to type this, us anti-DRM activists can't rely on support from the general populace, at least until popular media tells them why they should care. (But then, that would require objective journalism.)
I swear upon His noodly appendage that I believe in a Supreme Being.
Ramen.
Wow, reading the other replies to this makes me not feel evil for laughing at this. Especially how it's the soldier that explodes, and not his gear. For some reason it seems Monty Python-esque.
I remember 12-hour days...
For my 15-hour shifts, I prefer Civilization IV or Slashdot.
Don't forget the side missions of making burgers at Dick's Drive-In, or jacking the TOE-truck!
Dear Ivan Pereira, Michael Saul, Alison Gendar,
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i ndex.html?q=True%20Crime was released. Surely you can guess where this game takes place. Yet, there was no public outcry regarding True Crime: New York City's setting.
"In previous incarnations [of the Grand Theft Auto series], players advanced through the game by killing cops, selling pornography to children and killing prostitutes." http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/2007/03/
After reading the above-linked article, I believe there are some discrepancies that need to be brought to your attention. I have extensively played Grand Theft Auto 1, 2, 3, Vice City, and San Andreas, yet I have never encountered any opportunities to sell pornography to children, nor is there is no way to advance in the game through killing police officers or prostitutes.
In every game in the Grand Theft Auto series, killing a prostitute within view of a police officer will cause him to try to subdue and arrest you. If you kill a police officer, more will come in squad-cars, attempting to stop you. If you continue to kill officers, SWAT teams will attempt to subdue you. Eventually, the National Guard will arrive to subdue you. When your character is subdued by law enforcement, he returns to the game outside of a hospital, without weapons and with a hefty monetary fine. Similar to real life, attacking police officers has consequences, none of which are good, and in the end, you can't win.
I am not a lawyer, nor am I making any sort of threat of legal action (I am in no way connected to Take-Two Interactive Software), but making false, harmful claims about a game's content sounds like libel to me. As I can not trust the New York Daily News to provide accurate, unbiased information, I will never purchase an issue, and advise my friends and family likewise.
If I am wrong about selling pornography to children, please tell me in which games, and in what location it is found. I would like to verify the content, and if it is present, I will gladly inform everyone who will listen.
To close on a slight tangent, Liberty City is modeled after New York City. On November 15, 2005 the video game True Crime: New York City http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/adventure/truecrime2/
Like it or not, video games have become an art form, just like movies. When such movies as "Escape from New York" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082340/ are allowed to exist, the average age of video game players is 33 http://www.theesa.com/facts/top_10_facts.php , and games have ratings with more depth than movies http://www.esrb.org/ratings/ratings_guide.jsp , why are games held to a different standard?
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I kept waiting for the punchline involving the Bavarian Illuminati, but it never came.
In Soviet Russia, program buys you!
How the HELL did this get modded "insightful"???
Sometime back around 1998-9, my mom initially thought Hotmail was a porn site.
It took me a moment to realize that you didn't type "cunnilingus". That class would've been much more interesting than calculus. Except to the average Slashdotter... unless they were somehow combined. *contemplates*
And yet, you still can't bring onboard the bottle of Evian that you've been sipping out of while waiting to go through security.
Where have all the Wii-motes gone? Iraq. In the PX on our base, we had at least a dozen... but they don't carry Wiis, nor Wii games. They'll sit out on the shelf for a few months, and when not one has sold, they'll get packed right back up. The same idiotic stocking practice also causes us to have plenty of DS games, but no DS systems available. Yet, a popular Xbox 360 or PS2 game will be gone within a few hours, never to be stocked again.
I'm not angry at Nintendo, but a company that does not pay attention to its clientele, AAFES. Right before Christmas our PX had baby strollers in stock! In a combat zone! When I've asked about who determines what is stocked, the employees all claim that they have no say in what they receive.
*whew* I'm done venting...
Well said; when I was little, my dad -drilled- into me such concepts as "don't talk to strangers", "trust police officers", "look both ways before crossing the street", etc. At the time I thought it was unnecessary, but as I got older, they were able to trust my judgment. I never even had a curfew.
If a parent can't teach their children safe behavior, should they really be a parent?
There already is a cooling unit being tested for body armor; it's less than 5 pounds, and can run for approximately 8 hours on a rechargeable battery.
...the tag squirts off its collected data. Aquatic mammals use Zunes?Microsoft has filed for a patent on the letter R. Said a MS spokesperson, "there are no preexisting patents on the concept of R".
Probably not the knitting ladies. But then, those knitting needles -are- pointy, and who would suspect a sweet 'lil old lady?
Did anyone else read that as "the masturbation angel"? (I need some coffee...)
We do? Maybe the special ops guys get fun stuff like that, but us regular Joes aren't issued fancy shrimp-bandaids. It's hard enough for some folks to remember how to properly apply a field dressing. The only shrimp I've seen are in the chow-halls.