Uh guys, you mention Braid all the time and it's time-reversal schtick... What about Prince of Persia: the Sands of Time? It's not as prevalent in the game but it was released many years beforehand.
./'s reaction has 'kneejerk' all over it. Fox News kneejerk.
Games have had in-game advertisements for YEARS and nothing bad has ever come from it. Some as blatant as in WipEout HD. Some games even paid the companies to advertise in the games - Guitar Hero and Rock Band jog your memory a bit?
Hell, if anything WipEout is a fantastic example. Ever since the first one came out on the PSX it was inundated with in-game advertisements for stuff like Red Bull and other Psygnosis games. This was before the internet was put on console games, now it's no different (only now the advertisements can change - OH NO THE WORLD'S GONNA END WE GOTTA PROTEST SONY BOYCOTT BOYCOTT BOYCOTT).
I've yet to see a router - enterprise, consumer or otherwise - that does enable that out-of-box and frankly it would be STUPID as SHIT to do that. But it does have it's uses.
My Tomato'd WRT54GL originally had outside web access via SSL as my roomie didn't have a laptop and he wanted to do work over at his girlfriend's place often. The ports were already ready to go for SSH and whatnot, just he left his Mac to go to sleep after 30 minutes or some such nonsense. He'd log in to the router, WOL, wait a minute, then he'd be ready to go. While we don't get metered for power usage (on-campus apartments, WOO!) it saved some power.
After he got his MBP and scrapped the iMac he never had a use for remote access but I never bothered to turn it off. Now that I found out about this worm I turned it off fast as Hell.
If anybody else knows your password it's your own damn fault, not Skype's.
I'm not defending Skype (even though I use it, albeit rarely) but seriously you've got to find another reason to bash Skype besides a very common security problem that affects just about everything else on the planet.
"and I use the internet ceaselessly in class- as an immediate, on-the-spot information resource for discussion and in-depth reference on a specific topic."
You sir are a rarity.
Maybe because I'm just a lowly 3rd-year undergrad but the internet is just about NEVER used as an "immediate, on-the-spot information resource for discussion and in-depth reference on a specific topic" in class. 99% of the time it's kids playing flash games and they're usually in the back right next to each other. I don't mind that but it gets irritating when he's sitting in the middle or in the front - it's very distracting to see moving pictures right smack in your line of sight of either the board or the professor.
Now there is the rare occasion where you see the kid or two that's Googling what's going on in class or looking up in Wiki, but I haven't seen an occasion of that in a long-ass time.
...For the ceramite-plated, servo-assisted power armor that requires to be wired directly to your nervous system to function. Cuz this thing just don't cut it.
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Uh guys, you mention Braid all the time and it's time-reversal schtick... What about Prince of Persia: the Sands of Time? It's not as prevalent in the game but it was released many years beforehand.
Just putting that out there.
It's a fucking circus sideshow in the tags for this article.
./'s reaction has 'kneejerk' all over it. Fox News kneejerk.
Games have had in-game advertisements for YEARS and nothing bad has ever come from it. Some as blatant as in WipEout HD. Some games even paid the companies to advertise in the games - Guitar Hero and Rock Band jog your memory a bit?
Hell, if anything WipEout is a fantastic example. Ever since the first one came out on the PSX it was inundated with in-game advertisements for stuff like Red Bull and other Psygnosis games. This was before the internet was put on console games, now it's no different (only now the advertisements can change - OH NO THE WORLD'S GONNA END WE GOTTA PROTEST SONY BOYCOTT BOYCOTT BOYCOTT).
Calm the fuck down everyone.
...But we don't want to spend too much money.
*cut to Clippy with a trash-can leg, plunger arm, blank DVD for an eye and a colander for a skull*
(apologies to Seth MacFarlane)
What is this, some kind of joke?
Death Tools kill, not stink.
I've yet to see a router - enterprise, consumer or otherwise - that does enable that out-of-box and frankly it would be STUPID as SHIT to do that. But it does have it's uses.
My Tomato'd WRT54GL originally had outside web access via SSL as my roomie didn't have a laptop and he wanted to do work over at his girlfriend's place often. The ports were already ready to go for SSH and whatnot, just he left his Mac to go to sleep after 30 minutes or some such nonsense. He'd log in to the router, WOL, wait a minute, then he'd be ready to go. While we don't get metered for power usage (on-campus apartments, WOO!) it saved some power.
After he got his MBP and scrapped the iMac he never had a use for remote access but I never bothered to turn it off. Now that I found out about this worm I turned it off fast as Hell.
*sunglasses*
YEEEAAAAAAHHHHHH
Who else thought we were talking about THE BAND Tool?
Wait, I'm confused. Wasn't Tron 2.0 considered the sequel to the first movie?
If anybody else knows your password it's your own damn fault, not Skype's.
I'm not defending Skype (even though I use it, albeit rarely) but seriously you've got to find another reason to bash Skype besides a very common security problem that affects just about everything else on the planet.
Trump Ubuntu in their weird names, call it Lemmy instead.
You might at least get a good look at Debian from people other than us just on the name alone.
"and I use the internet ceaselessly in class- as an immediate, on-the-spot information resource for discussion and in-depth reference on a specific topic."
You sir are a rarity.
Maybe because I'm just a lowly 3rd-year undergrad but the internet is just about NEVER used as an "immediate, on-the-spot information resource for discussion and in-depth reference on a specific topic" in class. 99% of the time it's kids playing flash games and they're usually in the back right next to each other. I don't mind that but it gets irritating when he's sitting in the middle or in the front - it's very distracting to see moving pictures right smack in your line of sight of either the board or the professor.
Now there is the rare occasion where you see the kid or two that's Googling what's going on in class or looking up in Wiki, but I haven't seen an occasion of that in a long-ass time.
...What?
That's it? If you were elected as president, you'd do two interns at the same time?
Oh wait durr, 10.5 is the last Intel/PPC.
That 3-year-old PowerBook won't have such magnificent future-proofing once x86-only 10.5 rolls out.
Don't know if you have any interest in getting Leopard for it though. Just saying.
No, that's Digg.
You could just get a Mac.
Oh wait.
...For the ceramite-plated, servo-assisted power armor that requires to be wired directly to your nervous system to function. Cuz this thing just don't cut it.
My head is sweating REALLY HARD right now
DIABEETUS
Then we could solve our population problem: Cannibalism!
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Did somebody say DIABEETUS?
[/WilfordBrimley]
There are no girls on the internet.