I "watched" the ad. That is, I tried to. Mozilla didn't like it. Not that it would have mattered anyway, I'd tabbed to other work to let the ad run it's 10 second course.
Or you could look at it as a warning to other drivers, much like "STUDENT DRIVER TRAINING" that says basically, "hey this car is driven by a moron, expect it to act in stupid/dangerous/unreasonable ways while on the road."
Other countries have you have special plates for the first year or two when you start driving.
It's been monthly episodic for what, 4 years and a bit now? $13 to play (finally up from $10) and that includes monthly updates -- there was one expansion pack that offered a lot of goodies but you didn't/need/ it, and now that it's hard to find in stores is being given away free to all players.
AC2 has done the same thing, tho a lot less successfully. Too dumbed down.
That doesn't really solve the problem, it only puts a band-aid over it. It may even make it worse -- the "you don't need to worry about it" mentality -- oh don't worry.net takes care of security for you.
Not strictly true by any means. I'm salried but I can have activities outside my work if I want. There is reporting to do, but they don't claim to own anything I do. They just want documentation so if it becomes an issue they have documentation and can apply the boot.
It is worth noting I work for a large state-run university.
Download the MP demo and go to town. You'll take a while to learn not to shoot friendlies (ff=on) but it's pretty easy to pickup. Stick to the axis first, then go allies later once you understand it.
I'd start as a lt so you can drop ammo. You'll use a lot till ya get better. Medic is good cause you have more health and thus in an even fight with a non-medic will usually win. Eng are almost useless for axis, and newb soldiers usually get kicked due to friendly-fire damage.
I've had good luck with ndiswrapper myself. There is some quirkyness to it, like it really hates suspends and sometimes doesn't like scanning for APs... but mostly it works.
In the US, you yield to the right. That means the person entering the roundabout would have right of way. From what my parents said, you yield to the right in England as well (I wasn't driving in 4th/5th grade), so you yield to the person in the roundabout.
I'm sure you can quickly see how this wouldn't work in the slightest. It could in theory work, that's after all how our highways work. But you'll note that there you're going about 40 and hopeing the guy doing 90 doesn't creme you. Traffic on roundabouts aren't doing 90.
It annoys me too, but unfortunatly americans are too impatient for it to work.
Of course, people put pictures up on the net. Combine that with things like the wayback project, and it may be longer lasting than you'd expect. It's also much easier to do a wider distribution. CDrs are cheap these days, DVDrs are getting that way. Send the kids a photo album culled from all your digital pictures. Now you have multiple copies of it running around. Less likely to all be lost due to fire, flood, vandalism, etc.
Besides, it's not like my homedir has had issues existing, all the way back from a SCSI-I disk on an Atari Falcon up to it's current Raid-1 SATA drives on my PC. Storage capacity keeps going up, when you get a new drive you just dump all your old stuff onto it. Look it's dvd's-great-grandson. I still have DVD readers around... and a great-grandson holds 100x as much as a dvd... where are those dvds, burn em all to grandson and they're now safe for another 10-20 years.
So, I'm lost and looking for somewhere to get directions. I walk up to your front door and knock. You left it unlocked, and when it swings open as I hit it I go, "hey that ain't good." Now I'm a criminal for your negligence, just for knocking?
Heck, who knows, maybe best buy got blaster or some other worm that leaves an open root backdoor sitting around and their infected computer was probing him.
You're right, the dude in question is guilty. He's trying extortion. However, just because I noticed a vulnerability on your computer doesn't mean I'm a criminal.
The article author obviously played any other first-gen games either, like AC. Content and story are key to AC, with monthly updates moving it along for three years now, with only one expansion that even today is optional. Their story is sometimes over the top but hey, it's more interesting than mob iteration #528374.
He also misses one key point. Irrelevant at the moment due to the RPG world being swung away from it. EQ (and most other MMOs, including at the very least DAoC, EB, AC2, HZ, and AO) is class-based. It will never have the character-build flexibility of AC. I've never seen anyone manage a class-based combined with skill-based system.
Given D&D is class based they're probably fine for now. If D&D and paper RPGs ever change to skill based, Sony is going to be in a heap of trouble.
Turbine... and a comment about fans. They've been doing it for quite a while, I groaned at first but it was actually kinda funny. You know, turbine... fans... turbine... yeah.
Re:and if you do...
on
PC Annoyances
·
· Score: 2, Funny
Not being able to run the latest email virus is an annoyance?
Slashdot Mirror
It's a good plan.
I've gone as far as trying to educate my parents on it. So far, it's worked.
I "watched" the ad. That is, I tried to. Mozilla didn't like it. Not that it would have mattered anyway, I'd tabbed to other work to let the ad run it's 10 second course.
Or you could look at it as a warning to other drivers, much like "STUDENT DRIVER TRAINING" that says basically, "hey this car is driven by a moron, expect it to act in stupid/dangerous/unreasonable ways while on the road."
Other countries have you have special plates for the first year or two when you start driving.
It's been monthly episodic for what, 4 years and a bit now? $13 to play (finally up from $10) and that includes monthly updates -- there was one expansion pack that offered a lot of goodies but you didn't /need/ it, and now that it's hard to find in stores is being given away free to all players.
AC2 has done the same thing, tho a lot less successfully. Too dumbed down.
That doesn't really solve the problem, it only puts a band-aid over it. It may even make it worse -- the "you don't need to worry about it" mentality -- oh don't worry .net takes care of security for you.
Yeah, right.
Not strictly true by any means. I'm salried but I can have activities outside my work if I want. There is reporting to do, but they don't claim to own anything I do. They just want documentation so if it becomes an issue they have documentation and can apply the boot.
It is worth noting I work for a large state-run university.
Download the MP demo and go to town. You'll take a while to learn not to shoot friendlies (ff=on) but it's pretty easy to pickup. Stick to the axis first, then go allies later once you understand it.
I'd start as a lt so you can drop ammo. You'll use a lot till ya get better. Medic is good cause you have more health and thus in an even fight with a non-medic will usually win. Eng are almost useless for axis, and newb soldiers usually get kicked due to friendly-fire damage.
Tempest 2k was a fine remake, for the few who've played it.
Superzapper recharge!
I've had good luck with ndiswrapper myself. There is some quirkyness to it, like it really hates suspends and sometimes doesn't like scanning for APs... but mostly it works.
Having lived in England for 2 years...
In the US, you yield to the right. That means the person entering the roundabout would have right of way. From what my parents said, you yield to the right in England as well (I wasn't driving in 4th/5th grade), so you yield to the person in the roundabout.
I'm sure you can quickly see how this wouldn't work in the slightest. It could in theory work, that's after all how our highways work. But you'll note that there you're going about 40 and hopeing the guy doing 90 doesn't creme you. Traffic on roundabouts aren't doing 90.
It annoys me too, but unfortunatly americans are too impatient for it to work.
Sure, we'll just need all that oil you have to process into rocket fuel first...
-- SARCASM. Sorta.
Of course, people put pictures up on the net. Combine that with things like the wayback project, and it may be longer lasting than you'd expect. It's also much easier to do a wider distribution. CDrs are cheap these days, DVDrs are getting that way. Send the kids a photo album culled from all your digital pictures. Now you have multiple copies of it running around. Less likely to all be lost due to fire, flood, vandalism, etc.
Besides, it's not like my homedir has had issues existing, all the way back from a SCSI-I disk on an Atari Falcon up to it's current Raid-1 SATA drives on my PC. Storage capacity keeps going up, when you get a new drive you just dump all your old stuff onto it. Look it's dvd's-great-grandson. I still have DVD readers around... and a great-grandson holds 100x as much as a dvd... where are those dvds, burn em all to grandson and they're now safe for another 10-20 years.
That's why half the playstations I know of are modded, right?
Dead on, but becoming even more so due to the prevelance of ultra-portable laptops. I don't like having to connect my external cd drive to play games.
What, you think mars might be red because when we were nearer the planet your eyes told you that it was red?
You must be wrong. I mean, I read it on the web!
So, I'm lost and looking for somewhere to get directions. I walk up to your front door and knock. You left it unlocked, and when it swings open as I hit it I go, "hey that ain't good." Now I'm a criminal for your negligence, just for knocking?
Heck, who knows, maybe best buy got blaster or some other worm that leaves an open root backdoor sitting around and their infected computer was probing him.
You're right, the dude in question is guilty. He's trying extortion. However, just because I noticed a vulnerability on your computer doesn't mean I'm a criminal.
You mean MacroHard, which is what MicroSoft lets happen in all of it's MMO offerings?
Not that I'm bitter.
Hint: they want people to switch /to/ their OS.
The suckers already locked in they don't need to bother with.
One does. Not one of the big boys, but hey, they aren't evil.
http://www.magnatune.com
A diamond is forever...
Unless it's man-made. Oh wait.
Personally I get near an intersection with a lot of pedestrians and summon tanks to fall from the sky.
You aren't telling me you haven't mastered it yet, rigth? The FBI's been doing an excellent cover-up job for me.
Figure it's all going through a 150kb uplink and you're worried about the wireless bandwidth?
The article author obviously played any other first-gen games either, like AC. Content and story are key to AC, with monthly updates moving it along for three years now, with only one expansion that even today is optional. Their story is sometimes over the top but hey, it's more interesting than mob iteration #528374.
He also misses one key point. Irrelevant at the moment due to the RPG world being swung away from it. EQ (and most other MMOs, including at the very least DAoC, EB, AC2, HZ, and AO) is class-based. It will never have the character-build flexibility of AC. I've never seen anyone manage a class-based combined with skill-based system.
Given D&D is class based they're probably fine for now. If D&D and paper RPGs ever change to skill based, Sony is going to be in a heap of trouble.
Turbine... and a comment about fans. They've been doing it for quite a while, I groaned at first but it was actually kinda funny. You know, turbine... fans... turbine... yeah.
Not being able to run the latest email virus is an annoyance?
I need a life more like yours.