And how about those of us that live in any part of the country that doesn't make up the southeast, southwest and northwest? Not everyone can move near to where they work many for reasons like cost of living near the office or there not being housing near work. Your "solution" works great for the small group of people who can do that but the rest of us need a real solution.
In Memoriam: Gary Gygax
Blizzard Entertainment would like to dedicate the patch in memory of Gary Gygax. His work on D&D was an inspiration to us in many ways and helped spark our passion for creating games of our own. As avid D&D players and fellow game developers, we were all saddened by the news of his passing; we feel we've lost a true adventuring companion. Thanks for everything and farewell, Gary. You will be missed.
http://www.dslreports.com/gmaps/fios
Now look at Denver(or Salt Lake City for that matter) on the map. Tell me what the likelihood of getting from Podunk Nebraska Or Tucson Arizona to Denver in the next 3-5 years? Verizon is probably looking at the 3 million people in the metro area as not worth the investment.
This article needs a getoffmylawn tag. I know that this is hard for a lot of vets to understand but things change. The mentality of "they're just trying to make more money off of me" is accurate but that is the nature of business.
If you want to turn a blind eye to the myriad flaws in the 3.X series feel free, but don't try to bring the rest of us down with you. This will probably be marked for trolling but the truth is the people who are complaining about 4.0 haven't played it yet and have only seen a sample of what it will have to offer and already are complaining. Change is often hard to accept, fortunately if they don't like it they still have their beloved 3.X(or AD&D even...). I just don't see the need to try to ruin it for the rest of us who actually are excited for/curious about it.
The question is, will piracy eventually kill the music industry as we know it today? I think it probably will, because honestly, nobody wants to pay to listen to Brittney Spears, they just want to listen to it because MTV made it look cool.
The music companies are damned if they do and damned if they don't, in my opinion, because people are going to pirate anyway, with or without DRM. Even with the draconian powers the DMCA and like-minded laws give them, it's not feasible to sue every pirate, even if they can convince the FBI to go after the pirates for them.
It won't kill the music industry. It will kill the mega corps currently in control of music and talent. Of course that isn't to say that Amazon or Apple won't pick up where Sony BMG and Universal left off. Right now people pay for entire CDs when they may only like 3 or 4 songs. What's much more likely to happen with people being able to pick the tracks they like from individual producers is the producers will see what is actually selling well and make more quality music or make fewer songs. Either way it's a win for consumers(and the producers who decide to capitalize on that model). Music has been around for most of recorded history, it's not just going to vanish, and I doubt people are just going to flat stop paying for it.
I think I have figured out Microsoft's master strategy. They put out Vista as a giant advertisement to hype their new OS. You might ask "Well doesn't that seem like an awful waste of resources?" and I'd respond "No, actually it's brilliant." The same way we're at the point now that we'll take anybody as long as Bush is gone, after people's experiences with Vista they'll try anything(even Linux in some cases, shocking I know).
A 13 year old boy and a man in a large suit of armor have been seen strolling around different parts of the country riding trains and causing general mayhem and seeking the Philosopher's Stone.
Just because it's easy to shut everything down doesn't mean you'd solve anything. As the other poster suggested they could just take it to facebook, or perhaps you'd see another underground(at least initially) website spring up in it's place. All stuff like this does is teach kids how to be smarter about hiding their activities.
That's like asking for a sleeping drug that isn't habit forming(or "addictive"). It's not possible. Sleep drugs become habit forming because they work. It's not a physical addiction necessarily. What makes that feeling of joy so powerful is the fact that it's balanced out by the rest of the range of emotions. Eventually you end up a braindead happy zombie because all you care about is how good you feel.
Bad logic isn't cool. What's the flat amount that everyone can afford to pay/is willing to pay? If you set the price low the big radio stations end up making out big in profit, to the detrement of the major labels. If you set it too high you kill pretty much all small town radio and most internet radio. Another point of bad logic here is that radio should be paying to advertise for the labels.
The.00000001% of the worlds population that owns game companies does care. They're the ones who decide what new games to devlop for the masses. To me this number means expect plenty of WoW clones over the next ten years.
That theory hasn't held true yet... maybe that's because the attention to detail put into sci fi style mmos just hasn't reached the level of World of Warcraft or LotRO. Of course even a strong Sci Fi mmo like EVE Online isn't nearly as popular as WoW or LotRO. Ths may be due to the fact that a large portion of time in EVE is spent flying from point A to point B and not actually doing stuff. We could even toss FFXI into the mix as a game that is stupidly long and difficult and still much more popular than any Sci Fi mmo out right now. I have hopes for Tabula Rasa and The Agency but if history is any indicator it doesn't look good.
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In my experience Windows never runs too fast, so it shouldn't be very difficult to catch up to it to make the swap on the move.
It wouldn't be stamina. It would be your fortitude save. Your stamina is actually your constitution.
And it took me to a list of stories tagged with "media." Slashdot has turned into a joke of an info site.
And how about those of us that live in any part of the country that doesn't make up the southeast, southwest and northwest? Not everyone can move near to where they work many for reasons like cost of living near the office or there not being housing near work. Your "solution" works great for the small group of people who can do that but the rest of us need a real solution.
In Memoriam: Gary Gygax Blizzard Entertainment would like to dedicate the patch in memory of Gary Gygax. His work on D&D was an inspiration to us in many ways and helped spark our passion for creating games of our own. As avid D&D players and fellow game developers, we were all saddened by the news of his passing; we feel we've lost a true adventuring companion. Thanks for everything and farewell, Gary. You will be missed.
...it's a spac- Wait. It actually IS a moon. Go figure.
It's also more expensive per song than regular iTunes.
http://www.dslreports.com/gmaps/fios Now look at Denver(or Salt Lake City for that matter) on the map. Tell me what the likelihood of getting from Podunk Nebraska Or Tucson Arizona to Denver in the next 3-5 years? Verizon is probably looking at the 3 million people in the metro area as not worth the investment.
DRM free ftw!
This article needs a getoffmylawn tag. I know that this is hard for a lot of vets to understand but things change. The mentality of "they're just trying to make more money off of me" is accurate but that is the nature of business. If you want to turn a blind eye to the myriad flaws in the 3.X series feel free, but don't try to bring the rest of us down with you. This will probably be marked for trolling but the truth is the people who are complaining about 4.0 haven't played it yet and have only seen a sample of what it will have to offer and already are complaining. Change is often hard to accept, fortunately if they don't like it they still have their beloved 3.X(or AD&D even...). I just don't see the need to try to ruin it for the rest of us who actually are excited for/curious about it.
It looks like in an effort to undercut such an attempt someone cut a bunch of lines near egypt. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080130/ap_on_hi_te/mideast_internet_outages
Just don't eat it.
It's definitely one way to make a statement on someone with a published work...
I think I have figured out Microsoft's master strategy. They put out Vista as a giant advertisement to hype their new OS. You might ask "Well doesn't that seem like an awful waste of resources?" and I'd respond "No, actually it's brilliant." The same way we're at the point now that we'll take anybody as long as Bush is gone, after people's experiences with Vista they'll try anything(even Linux in some cases, shocking I know).
A 13 year old boy and a man in a large suit of armor have been seen strolling around different parts of the country riding trains and causing general mayhem and seeking the Philosopher's Stone.
Just because it's easy to shut everything down doesn't mean you'd solve anything. As the other poster suggested they could just take it to facebook, or perhaps you'd see another underground(at least initially) website spring up in it's place. All stuff like this does is teach kids how to be smarter about hiding their activities.
Sex toys?
They're also basketball teams... if you're into that sort of thing.
That's like asking for a sleeping drug that isn't habit forming(or "addictive"). It's not possible. Sleep drugs become habit forming because they work. It's not a physical addiction necessarily. What makes that feeling of joy so powerful is the fact that it's balanced out by the rest of the range of emotions. Eventually you end up a braindead happy zombie because all you care about is how good you feel.
Bad logic isn't cool. What's the flat amount that everyone can afford to pay/is willing to pay? If you set the price low the big radio stations end up making out big in profit, to the detrement of the major labels. If you set it too high you kill pretty much all small town radio and most internet radio. Another point of bad logic here is that radio should be paying to advertise for the labels.
It actually could evolve into a whole new metaphor if it does comes out and actually manages to be worse than Daikatana.
Is there something I should know about the gaming scene in Canada?
The .00000001% of the worlds population that owns game companies does care. They're the ones who decide what new games to devlop for the masses. To me this number means expect plenty of WoW clones over the next ten years.
That theory hasn't held true yet... maybe that's because the attention to detail put into sci fi style mmos just hasn't reached the level of World of Warcraft or LotRO. Of course even a strong Sci Fi mmo like EVE Online isn't nearly as popular as WoW or LotRO. Ths may be due to the fact that a large portion of time in EVE is spent flying from point A to point B and not actually doing stuff. We could even toss FFXI into the mix as a game that is stupidly long and difficult and still much more popular than any Sci Fi mmo out right now. I have hopes for Tabula Rasa and The Agency but if history is any indicator it doesn't look good.