oh yes, I always read instructions you need to hunt for and nobody should ever expect things which are garanteed to break your installation to be mentioned in the installation instructions which come with the thing you actually download.
Actually, the problem is you upgraded instead of uninstalled followed by re-installing. See, no where on the page or the installer does it inform you that doing such will in no way do anything close to resembling working. Way to blow it, mozilla
maybe you dont understand this part, but: with better graphics options, the game looks better. I knew it would look like crap on the system I had, so I got a system that not only wouldnt make it look like crap, but wouldnt make whatever game I buy six months from now look like crap, either. If you want to waste money by buying new components all the time just to get games to run at all, that's your own fault. I'm a once-every-few-years buyer, though, and the release of Half Life 2 seems like a very good point at which to buy a high-end system that wont need an upgrade for a while.
I mean, you do realize that people who spent $2000 to play Half Life 2 are planning on using those systems for something else too, right?
In responce to your comic about duck cocks, I sent you an e-mail linking to several sites about duck cocks (which clearly illustrated the answer to the orange-or-not question) Ever since, any e-mails I have sent to an @penny-arcade.com address have bounced!
So my question is: if you didnt want people sending you various duck-cock related sites, why did you start asking questions about duck-cocks? It just seems like an information request to me, when someone asks a question..
the G-Man is Gordon's FATHER! And Barney gets frozen in carbonite! And the physics engine is so good, you'll assume that the whole game is just another boring FPS with lots of scripted events.
How many features could you possibly want which would make it more complicated than the proccess of writing that message and clicking "submit"? It's a list of bookmarks and would possibly have an "import" and "export" button for as many as two whole browsers. If you started writing when you read the subject, you'd probably be done by now.
"two wrongs don't make a right" probably requires that at least one of those wrongs be defined as wrong in a universe which isnt completely fucking insane. A customer sees a game he wants, so he purchases it. That is RIGHT. A customer sees that he can't play the game he just spent money on, so he finds a way to play that thing which he currently owns. That is RIGHT.
Bypassing broken copy protection is always okay and can never be unethical. Any protection system which does not let you play even though you spent money on a real copy is broken.
and by "security holes" I mean "more ways of letting one program communicate with another program", or more specifically, "less ways of letting one program communicate with another program, but more often"
Isnt it obvious that this is how business relationships are formed? I keep getting these e-mails from people I dont know asking to form business partnerships. I mean, I'm not really financially available to do such things, but it seems to be acceptable, at least in Nigeria...
A system with actual buttons isnt exactly less likely to have height calibration problems. See ATMs or those newfangled electronic ticket machines movie theaters have nowadays.
that is why you would rig a machine in a primarily republican area to vote all republican. By observing voter turnout statistics you could easily determine exactly which machine you would need to attack in order to produce the same result as if you modified each machine to offset its votes by one. Expend some minimal effort.
(Note that I'm only saying "republican" because everyone who votes is "democratic". Holy fuck party names suck)
If a single machine were to change all the votes cast there, it would still be just as small a change as changing one vote at every machine, and would have just as much effect (and be a lot easier to pull off)
Does he actually want to defeat Bush, or does he know that Bush's approval ratings go up whenever he(Bin Ladin) makes a threat, and so he actually wants Bush elected? OR does he know we know he knows, and he actually want Kerry elected?
Or.. wait a second.. does he know we know he knows we know he knows, and he actually wants Bush elected? DIABOLICAL!
yeah, you know, that and it's a highly toxic nanomaterial. But yeah, definatly lightning should always be right up their on your list of concerns whenever you leave the house. Oh right, and being a one-atom-thick sheet of ordered carbon atoms, you may violate a local ordinance or two. (stick to multiple layers of unordered carbon when in public, pls)
Please remember: "Stupid Joke" and "Troll" are not the same thing. stick to "overrated" when moderating.
Are they legally required to continue providing any on-demand programming they ever release, forever, even after my subscription ends, since I may have "time shifted" some video otherwise? I mean hey, if I get a free unlimited library of movies, even one that I can only watch each item once from, I'm fine with that. That's exactly what they're saying they'll do, right?
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oh yes, I always read instructions you need to hunt for and nobody should ever expect things which are garanteed to break your installation to be mentioned in the installation instructions which come with the thing you actually download.
You lose.
that was easy.
Actually, the problem is you upgraded instead of uninstalled followed by re-installing. See, no where on the page or the installer does it inform you that doing such will in no way do anything close to resembling working. Way to blow it, mozilla
maybe you dont understand this part, but: with better graphics options, the game looks better.
I knew it would look like crap on the system I had, so I got a system that not only wouldnt make it look like crap, but wouldnt make whatever game I buy six months from now look like crap, either. If you want to waste money by buying new components all the time just to get games to run at all, that's your own fault. I'm a once-every-few-years buyer, though, and the release of Half Life 2 seems like a very good point at which to buy a high-end system that wont need an upgrade for a while.
I mean, you do realize that people who spent $2000 to play Half Life 2 are planning on using those systems for something else too, right?
it probably involves moving boxes a small number of boxes around a large floor so that you dont step on the floor itself.
how can he be such a hypocrite?! National ID cards will track all your purchases and sell your information to third parties without your consent!
In responce to your comic about duck cocks, I sent you an e-mail linking to several sites about duck cocks (which clearly illustrated the answer to the orange-or-not question)
Ever since, any e-mails I have sent to an @penny-arcade.com address have bounced!
So my question is: if you didnt want people sending you various duck-cock related sites, why did you start asking questions about duck-cocks? It just seems like an information request to me, when someone asks a question..
no, but the firmament is just beyond the moon, which I dont think we'll be positioning any weapons behind.
the G-Man is Gordon's FATHER! And Barney gets frozen in carbonite! And the physics engine is so good, you'll assume that the whole game is just another boring FPS with lots of scripted events.
How many features could you possibly want which would make it more complicated than the proccess of writing that message and clicking "submit"? It's a list of bookmarks and would possibly have an "import" and "export" button for as many as two whole browsers. If you started writing when you read the subject, you'd probably be done by now.
"two wrongs don't make a right" probably requires that at least one of those wrongs be defined as wrong in a universe which isnt completely fucking insane.
A customer sees a game he wants, so he purchases it. That is RIGHT.
A customer sees that he can't play the game he just spent money on, so he finds a way to play that thing which he currently owns. That is RIGHT.
Bypassing broken copy protection is always okay and can never be unethical. Any protection system which does not let you play even though you spent money on a real copy is broken.
Everyone is running around to all their local EBs, of course
and by "security holes" I mean "more ways of letting one program communicate with another program", or more specifically, "less ways of letting one program communicate with another program, but more often"
it took less than ten seconds with google to find that your argument was logically flawed.
without the east coast?
What happened to "Dont be evil"?
Isnt it obvious that this is how business relationships are formed? I keep getting these e-mails from people I dont know asking to form business partnerships. I mean, I'm not really financially available to do such things, but it seems to be acceptable, at least in Nigeria...
A system with actual buttons isnt exactly less likely to have height calibration problems. See ATMs or those newfangled electronic ticket machines movie theaters have nowadays.
that is why you would rig a machine in a primarily republican area to vote all republican. By observing voter turnout statistics you could easily determine exactly which machine you would need to attack in order to produce the same result as if you modified each machine to offset its votes by one. Expend some minimal effort.
(Note that I'm only saying "republican" because everyone who votes is "democratic". Holy fuck party names suck)
If a single machine were to change all the votes cast there, it would still be just as small a change as changing one vote at every machine, and would have just as much effect (and be a lot easier to pull off)
Uhm.. I was going for "Funny", not "Insightful"...
Does he actually want to defeat Bush, or does he know that Bush's approval ratings go up whenever he(Bin Ladin) makes a threat, and so he actually wants Bush elected?
OR does he know we know he knows, and he actually want Kerry elected?
Or.. wait a second.. does he know we know he knows we know he knows, and he actually wants Bush elected? DIABOLICAL!
in 2012.
yeah, you know, that and it's a highly toxic nanomaterial. But yeah, definatly lightning should always be right up their on your list of concerns whenever you leave the house. Oh right, and being a one-atom-thick sheet of ordered carbon atoms, you may violate a local ordinance or two. (stick to multiple layers of unordered carbon when in public, pls)
Please remember: "Stupid Joke" and "Troll" are not the same thing. stick to "overrated" when moderating.
Are they legally required to continue providing any on-demand programming they ever release, forever, even after my subscription ends, since I may have "time shifted" some video otherwise? I mean hey, if I get a free unlimited library of movies, even one that I can only watch each item once from, I'm fine with that. That's exactly what they're saying they'll do, right?
"Haven't you noticed that actual harddrives are far cheaper per GB than any WORM device will ever be ?"
Wow, it's almost as if you read what I wrote and understood it just enough to paraphrase it.