In the USA those games would be rated AO -Adults Only and they would never get approval from Sony, Microsoft, or Nintendo to be on their consoles and no mainstream retailer would carry them. So those games would only be available online or from niche retailers.
I would guess that it isn't that CNET, ZDNet, and The Reg only care about JS but that the press release Opera sent out bragged about JS and they just cut and pasted from it.
Unless they have figured out how to go faster than the speed of light this simply can't work for action games. Their only hope can be to get bought by a cable company that would offer casual games or non-action games.
Let's say that we make airline flights 100% terrorist proof. Then what? Simple, the terrorists move on to bombing other things. Can you imaging the panic that would happen if they bombed a large high school graduation? There are a nearly infinite number of potential targets for terrorists and it is impossible to secure them all.
A longtime Higley Unified School District information technology director has lost his job and is under police investigation for taking computers home, downloading pornography and installing computer software throughout the district that searches for extraterrestrial intelligence.
I use google to search for lesson plan ideas all the time. There are plenty of them for free out there. Sure they may be of dubious quality but I wouldn't ever use them without changing them to my own needs anyway. I'm skeptical that this is anything more than a newspaper fluff piece.
You are correct. I mis-remembered what buying points in the store with real money is for (since I've never done it).
I have seen people in-game doing the math as to whether or not it was cheaper to subscribe or just buy stuff.
I'm not a real MMO player so I have no intention of spending real money on anything though so the game works for me. If they hadn't gone free to play I would still be playing TF2 all the time instead of DDO.
There's nothing like that in DDO. The store has some stat boosts and potions, most of which you could get from vendors in-game with the "fake" money you earn on quests. You can also use real money to buy in-game money. I would imagine the biggest thing though is buying quests. However, you don't really even need to do that since you get "points" for advancing through the game. I've earned enough points to buy 2 quest packs without spending a penny of real money. I would estimate around 2/3 of the game content is free with 1/3 of it for sale but there's still enough free material where you wouldn't need to buy anything if you didn't want to.
Any time I see an article citing Robert Thompson I become biased against it. That guy is number one in the lazy journalist's address book. He's quoted in multiple articles every week and yet never seems to say anything. Do a search for him on google news on any random day and you will find tons of fluff pieces quoting him. I don't know how the guy finds any time to do any academic work.
I don't know if we have an equivalent in the USA. However, the Florida legal system did declare at one point that Thompson couldn't send them any more motions without another (well, since he's disbarred I guess "a") lawyer signing it. Of course that hasn't stopped Thompson from continuing to send them motions.
It could be that this "lawsuit" is another one of those things Thompson is required to have a lawyer cosign and so this might be ignored.
I didn't see anything in the article about when Netflix may implement the new algorithms? I've rated a ton of stuff on Netflix and seem to have totally confused the current system because I rarely get any recommendations and when I do they are totally off. For example I rated a Japanese horror film highly and Netflix then suggested 3 european romantic films (one comedy and two dramas).
HD doesn't mean anything. It is the new "ultra" or "super." I was in a public restroom a few months ago and noticed that the latch on the door stall was labeled as being an "Acme HD" door latch. (It wasn't actually "acme." I just can't remember the actual name.) If a door latch manufacture feels like calling its door latch "HD" will be a good marketing move then surely "HD" is meaningless. (although of course the latch maker might claim that "HD" stands for "heavy duty" in this context)
I've got an old brown zune and there's been an ad before the start of the games ever since they introduced them. The article doesn't make it clear if the ads on the zunehd are videos or if they are static images like on my old zune. The games on my old zune have been "brought to me by Lips" ever since the first time I played one of the games. That the "ad" hasn't changed in more than a year tells me that they aren't having much luck in selling these ads.
The problem isn't that most print news isn't being paid for. The problem is that most of it isn't worth paying for. My college offers the NYTimes and USAToday for free and it is rare that a story in either of them is interesting enough to make me read past the headline or the first paragraph. There's maybe one article a day I'm interested in. Sorry, at that rate of return on time invested I don't see much point in buying newspapers.
I don't read him as saying, "any book that can be found in the holdings of a major research library is only of interest to scholars." at all. Rather, I read him as sayin that the systems that libraries use to organize books be they Dewey Decimal, Library of Congress, or some other system were created to help organize books for users to use them. The BISAC classifications were developed to help companies sell books. Why use that rather than what the libraries -- the source of these books -- uses?
no, they are trying to avoid the escalator, aspirin, and trampoline problem. all of those were once brand names but now have been officially genericized so that any company can use them
I've been a grad student for a number of years and I've never heard of publishing company sponsored events. I'm in the humanities though in a field where anthologies or single author books are most often used and not textbooks though.
That might be. The closest recycling drop-off point to where I live happens to be in the local UAW's parking lot and they have a sign saying "no non-union made vehicles" and I had to stop and think about whether or not my vehicle was union made or not (my old one I just junked was but my new one isn't. I guess I need to find a new place to drop off my recycling...).
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In the USA those games would be rated AO -Adults Only and they would never get approval from Sony, Microsoft, or Nintendo to be on their consoles and no mainstream retailer would carry them. So those games would only be available online or from niche retailers.
I would guess that it isn't that CNET, ZDNet, and The Reg only care about JS but that the press release Opera sent out bragged about JS and they just cut and pasted from it.
nice work if you can get it...
HP got rid of a lot of that when they spun off Agilent. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agilent
Unless they have figured out how to go faster than the speed of light this simply can't work for action games. Their only hope can be to get bought by a cable company that would offer casual games or non-action games.
Let's say that we make airline flights 100% terrorist proof. Then what? Simple, the terrorists move on to bombing other things. Can you imaging the panic that would happen if they bombed a large high school graduation? There are a nearly infinite number of potential targets for terrorists and it is impossible to secure them all.
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/147847
I use google to search for lesson plan ideas all the time. There are plenty of them for free out there. Sure they may be of dubious quality but I wouldn't ever use them without changing them to my own needs anyway. I'm skeptical that this is anything more than a newspaper fluff piece.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000426311 Not much there but there is an official mention of it unlike the article slashdot links to
Then you are trespassing and they call the cops who take you away.
You are correct. I mis-remembered what buying points in the store with real money is for (since I've never done it). I have seen people in-game doing the math as to whether or not it was cheaper to subscribe or just buy stuff. I'm not a real MMO player so I have no intention of spending real money on anything though so the game works for me. If they hadn't gone free to play I would still be playing TF2 all the time instead of DDO.
There's nothing like that in DDO. The store has some stat boosts and potions, most of which you could get from vendors in-game with the "fake" money you earn on quests. You can also use real money to buy in-game money. I would imagine the biggest thing though is buying quests. However, you don't really even need to do that since you get "points" for advancing through the game. I've earned enough points to buy 2 quest packs without spending a penny of real money. I would estimate around 2/3 of the game content is free with 1/3 of it for sale but there's still enough free material where you wouldn't need to buy anything if you didn't want to.
Any time I see an article citing Robert Thompson I become biased against it. That guy is number one in the lazy journalist's address book. He's quoted in multiple articles every week and yet never seems to say anything. Do a search for him on google news on any random day and you will find tons of fluff pieces quoting him. I don't know how the guy finds any time to do any academic work.
I don't know if we have an equivalent in the USA. However, the Florida legal system did declare at one point that Thompson couldn't send them any more motions without another (well, since he's disbarred I guess "a") lawyer signing it. Of course that hasn't stopped Thompson from continuing to send them motions. It could be that this "lawsuit" is another one of those things Thompson is required to have a lawyer cosign and so this might be ignored.
I didn't see anything in the article about when Netflix may implement the new algorithms? I've rated a ton of stuff on Netflix and seem to have totally confused the current system because I rarely get any recommendations and when I do they are totally off. For example I rated a Japanese horror film highly and Netflix then suggested 3 european romantic films (one comedy and two dramas).
HD doesn't mean anything. It is the new "ultra" or "super." I was in a public restroom a few months ago and noticed that the latch on the door stall was labeled as being an "Acme HD" door latch. (It wasn't actually "acme." I just can't remember the actual name.) If a door latch manufacture feels like calling its door latch "HD" will be a good marketing move then surely "HD" is meaningless. (although of course the latch maker might claim that "HD" stands for "heavy duty" in this context)
I've got an old brown zune and there's been an ad before the start of the games ever since they introduced them. The article doesn't make it clear if the ads on the zunehd are videos or if they are static images like on my old zune. The games on my old zune have been "brought to me by Lips" ever since the first time I played one of the games. That the "ad" hasn't changed in more than a year tells me that they aren't having much luck in selling these ads.
The problem isn't that most print news isn't being paid for. The problem is that most of it isn't worth paying for. My college offers the NYTimes and USAToday for free and it is rare that a story in either of them is interesting enough to make me read past the headline or the first paragraph. There's maybe one article a day I'm interested in. Sorry, at that rate of return on time invested I don't see much point in buying newspapers.
I don't read him as saying, "any book that can be found in the holdings of a major research library is only of interest to scholars." at all. Rather, I read him as sayin that the systems that libraries use to organize books be they Dewey Decimal, Library of Congress, or some other system were created to help organize books for users to use them. The BISAC classifications were developed to help companies sell books. Why use that rather than what the libraries -- the source of these books -- uses?
and modern English is a corruption of Middle English and Middle English was a corruption of Old English and so on and so on...
no, they are trying to avoid the escalator, aspirin, and trampoline problem. all of those were once brand names but now have been officially genericized so that any company can use them
I love how the original poster ends with
The Zenimax deal really has killed id software.
This news needs to be blogged and passed around like wildfire. id software is dead, long live id software!
Yes, it is Zenimax that killed the linux port, not any of the reason that he lists or anything...
http://www.ajpm-online.net/webfiles/images/journals/amepre/AMEPRE_2561.pdf
I've been a grad student for a number of years and I've never heard of publishing company sponsored events. I'm in the humanities though in a field where anthologies or single author books are most often used and not textbooks though.
That might be. The closest recycling drop-off point to where I live happens to be in the local UAW's parking lot and they have a sign saying "no non-union made vehicles" and I had to stop and think about whether or not my vehicle was union made or not (my old one I just junked was but my new one isn't. I guess I need to find a new place to drop off my recycling...).