Since Microsoft insists on charging for any updates...
No they don't, actually. Still Alive was a free download for Rock Band. Similarly, there's been free DLC for Guitar Hero 3. MS probably encourages charging for updates, but they certainly don't require it.
Oh, I can agree that my buttons are chock full of stuff. I have like 5 spaces free across all my bars. I use far fewer skills than I have dragged out, however. Sure, my action bars look impressive, but I use very few of those buttons on any regular basis.
I'll agree that SimCity is great, and that Spore is intriguing... I'm just saying that I refuse to get hyped up about a game just because it has Will Wright's name on it, cause he's had some real duds too.
I'll yarr-harr Spore to see if it's any good, and if it is, I'll buy it. I'm not closed-minded, just cautious.
You do realize that this is almost certainly due to the fact that IE 8 is (supposedly, I haven't tested it) in standards-compliance mode by default, and Myspace hasn't bothered to update their site yet, right? I've had problems on many sites, but as soon as I put the browser in compatibility mode, they all work fine.
Not that this is the way it should be--this is exactly what those of us with level heads tried to point out all those months ago when standards zealots got up in arms over the behavior at the time (compatibility by default, standards if requested). We said this would happen, but no, the standards zealots were too damned short-sighted and idealistic to see the practical ramifications of their idea, and Microsoft was retarded enough to listen to them... so now many sites that aren't updated will be broken by default in IE8. We (those who are pragmatic, not pie-in-the-sky idealistic) called it, but no one listened to us. Sad.
Depends on what you're doing. In PvE, mages use 1 button 90% of the time, another button 5% of the time, and 5 other buttons 5% of the time. PvE mage is fun as hell (I main a mage), but is not a complex activity at all. In PvP, it's more complex, though.
There are a lot of things you simply cannot do adequately in 10 hours a week, actually. Raiding. PvP. High-level instances. Crafting. All of these become exercises in futility when you're playing less than 20 hours a week in WoW
You don't play the same WoW I do. I do raiding and high-level instances all the time, and my guild raids for 9 hours a week (not all of which are you required to show up for... attendance is purely optional). We do fairly well, having made some progress into Hyjal and Black Temple, most recently. I don't PvP, but there absolutely is no time requirement in PvP--while that may have applied to the old honor system, neither the new honor system, nor arenas, are time-consuming.
Crafting is the biggest joke in what you list. Crafting is purely up to you as far as how much time you spend on it... you WILL get to the same place as the guy who plays all day, it'll just take you 6 months instead of 1 month for him. Saying you have to spend 20 hours a week on WoW crafting is laughable, and makes me wonder if you've even played the game, because it has never been a time-intensive activity. Even if you are speaking from experience with WoW, the fact that you consider the crafting system time-intensive clearly demonstrates that the problem squarely lay with you, and not the game.
Simple fact of the matter is that people who spend all day playing WoW do so because they just plain want to, not because it's impossible to get ahead otherwise. It's very easy to get ahead in WoW with a minor commitment to it.
First of all, I don't use Firefox. Necessarily, that means I'm talking about the IE bar here, not Firefox's. Second, IE has no way to turn it off as far as I know (and I've looked). Third, unless the Firefox devs have changed it, many people have pointed out over and over that there is no way to really turn it off, you can just sort of hack around it, which doesn't have quite the effect they want.
But c'mon, it's made by the same guy who made those other titles (or at least signed off on them) Will Wright.
That, by itself, means nothing. SimLife I haven't heard of, so I can't really judge it. But although I love SimCity, I think The Sims is pure shit, and is the worst idea for a non-game I've ever seen (seriously... if I want to live real life, I'll do it, not play a game about it). Surely I can't be the only one for whom Will Wright's name carries very little weight, just because his stuff is so hit-and-miss as to whether it'll be great or terrible.
Actually, it has its own version of that damnable bar, and I fucking hate it. Hopefully Microsoft will show more sense than Mozilla, and give the user an option to disable the damn thing.
No, they're being raised fine. Some people who think that violent retribution with a baseball bat is the answer, however... I can safely say that they weren't raised right.
I have no problem with behaving in a civil manner. I find it ridiculous that anyone would just pile up a collection of dog poop on their porch, let alone let the dog poop in the neighbor's yard! However, I'll be damned if I will ever live in a home where someone is dictating to me some petty standards for what I have to have my home like. It's my fucking business, and I will do exactly what I want with my own private home.
I dunno what you're talking about. Last I checked, IE was still faster than Firefox, which, as of version 2, was still shamefully slow. If there's a difference in rendering between the two, IE will be the better renderer, because that site is probably tailored only to IE and nothing else.
For the normal user, who just wants to browse their internets and not worry about standards dogma, IE is the superior browser.
Yes, it is. Not only is it naive, it's hopelessly paranoid. Worse still, it stifles discussion, much in the same way calling someone who disagrees with you a troll does. The poster is most likely a random person posting their honest opinion, who was afraid that the corrupt moderators/. has would abuse their power because they didn't like what he was saying (thankfully, he was wrong... we must have the decent moderators on tonight). Sweet Jesus, some people must have an "omg astroturf!!!" macro, because they're ready with their bullshit cries the instant someone defends a product/company they don't like.
No. Any frustration means that the designers have failed. You shouldn't have things handed to you on a silver platter, but that's not frustration. Frustration is "OH MY FUCKING GOD THIS GUY IS SO GODDAMN CHEAP WHY CAN'T I BEAT HIM I'VE TRIED HIM 50 TIMES!!!!". The instant a player experiences frustration like that, the designers have failed.
Unless, of course, your fans are masochists, in which case give them what they want, but don't expect anyone else to ever like it.
The difference between religion and those things is that religion is not demonstrably false. Some religions' teachings may be (evolution vs creation), but religion itself is not. So, not only do people have no business lashing out against religion because it's immature, they have no business doing so because it isn't demonstrably false.
And I don't think it's at all unrealistic to expect religion to get treated with a modicum of respect. I disagree with a great many things that people I know have said, but I don't start tearing into them at every opportunity for it. I expect mature, civil behavior. This isn't a very high expectation, to be honest, and the fact that some very vocal members of this community can't live up to it says a lot about them.
...when the hell did I ever say I wanted McCain? I don't want either. Once you get down to the level of badness these two idiots are at, any additional badness is trivial, and both are exactly equal in terms of how much we can afford to have them in office. If a president doesn't respect the law, it doesn't matter in the least what his foreign policies, or anything else, are.
Just because he doesn't do every last thing you want, you're going to let the wolves eat us all?
Uh, no. Because he did an absolutely mission-critical, gamebreaking thing wrong I'm not going to vote for either, because the wolves will eat us either way. If you seriously think that Obama will not feed us to the wolves, you've been duped by the nice speeches. He believes that it's ok for the president to let you break the law... that's not a man we can afford to have as our president, even if he gets every other issue right.
I intend to vote third-party. I fail to see how any rational persion could not do so, given how hostile both major candidates are going to be to our rights, and how protective of corporations' rights they will be.
Are you surprised that a site dedicated to technology and science is hostile to religious beliefs?
Actually, yeah. I like technology and science as much as anyone else here, but I'm not hostile to religious beliefs. I just disagree and leave it at that.
There are plenty of well-reasoned comments to go along with the more immature ones.
They exist, but are in the minority. That's what I'm mourning.
From what I understand, it takes relatively little effort to port from the 360 to the PC. So, it really boils down to: "small" chance of making money > zero chance of making money.
And plenty of developers are still making games for the PC. The market isn't going to die just because some doom and gloom prophets say so, they've been saying that for a while now.
I honestly don't know how anyone could think he's realistically innocent. He pointed them to his wife's body, confessed, not to mention the fact that there was already enough evidence to convict him at the trial. Sure, it's not a mathematical certainty, but justice never is.
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Since Microsoft insists on charging for any updates...
No they don't, actually. Still Alive was a free download for Rock Band. Similarly, there's been free DLC for Guitar Hero 3. MS probably encourages charging for updates, but they certainly don't require it.
But, if the perfect DRM existed that (again, magically!) only stopped piracy with no side effects, would anyone care?
No.
Could you justify it on moral grounds?
I don't think anyone tries to do so now, they're just pissed that stuff doesn't work like it should.
it could be argued that developers should work on perfecting DRM. Making it infallible stops piracy...
If that were possible, yes, that's true. The problem is that I don't believe it's possible to do. I hope I'm proven wrong one day, but I doubt it.
Would "no DRM" offer any benefits to the consumer over the "perfect DRM"?
No.
And would it offer any benefits to game developers?
Very much so. But, again, this is something which almost certainly will never exist, so developers shouldn't be concerned with trying to find it.
Oh, I can agree that my buttons are chock full of stuff. I have like 5 spaces free across all my bars. I use far fewer skills than I have dragged out, however. Sure, my action bars look impressive, but I use very few of those buttons on any regular basis.
I'll agree that SimCity is great, and that Spore is intriguing... I'm just saying that I refuse to get hyped up about a game just because it has Will Wright's name on it, cause he's had some real duds too.
I'll yarr-harr Spore to see if it's any good, and if it is, I'll buy it. I'm not closed-minded, just cautious.
You do realize that this is almost certainly due to the fact that IE 8 is (supposedly, I haven't tested it) in standards-compliance mode by default, and Myspace hasn't bothered to update their site yet, right? I've had problems on many sites, but as soon as I put the browser in compatibility mode, they all work fine.
Not that this is the way it should be--this is exactly what those of us with level heads tried to point out all those months ago when standards zealots got up in arms over the behavior at the time (compatibility by default, standards if requested). We said this would happen, but no, the standards zealots were too damned short-sighted and idealistic to see the practical ramifications of their idea, and Microsoft was retarded enough to listen to them... so now many sites that aren't updated will be broken by default in IE8. We (those who are pragmatic, not pie-in-the-sky idealistic) called it, but no one listened to us. Sad.
Depends on what you're doing. In PvE, mages use 1 button 90% of the time, another button 5% of the time, and 5 other buttons 5% of the time. PvE mage is fun as hell (I main a mage), but is not a complex activity at all. In PvP, it's more complex, though.
There are a lot of things you simply cannot do adequately in 10 hours a week, actually. Raiding. PvP. High-level instances. Crafting. All of these become exercises in futility when you're playing less than 20 hours a week in WoW
You don't play the same WoW I do. I do raiding and high-level instances all the time, and my guild raids for 9 hours a week (not all of which are you required to show up for... attendance is purely optional). We do fairly well, having made some progress into Hyjal and Black Temple, most recently. I don't PvP, but there absolutely is no time requirement in PvP--while that may have applied to the old honor system, neither the new honor system, nor arenas, are time-consuming.
Crafting is the biggest joke in what you list. Crafting is purely up to you as far as how much time you spend on it... you WILL get to the same place as the guy who plays all day, it'll just take you 6 months instead of 1 month for him. Saying you have to spend 20 hours a week on WoW crafting is laughable, and makes me wonder if you've even played the game, because it has never been a time-intensive activity. Even if you are speaking from experience with WoW, the fact that you consider the crafting system time-intensive clearly demonstrates that the problem squarely lay with you, and not the game.
Simple fact of the matter is that people who spend all day playing WoW do so because they just plain want to, not because it's impossible to get ahead otherwise. It's very easy to get ahead in WoW with a minor commitment to it.
First of all, I don't use Firefox. Necessarily, that means I'm talking about the IE bar here, not Firefox's. Second, IE has no way to turn it off as far as I know (and I've looked). Third, unless the Firefox devs have changed it, many people have pointed out over and over that there is no way to really turn it off, you can just sort of hack around it, which doesn't have quite the effect they want.
But c'mon, it's made by the same guy who made those other titles (or at least signed off on them) Will Wright.
That, by itself, means nothing. SimLife I haven't heard of, so I can't really judge it. But although I love SimCity, I think The Sims is pure shit, and is the worst idea for a non-game I've ever seen (seriously... if I want to live real life, I'll do it, not play a game about it). Surely I can't be the only one for whom Will Wright's name carries very little weight, just because his stuff is so hit-and-miss as to whether it'll be great or terrible.
Actually, it has its own version of that damnable bar, and I fucking hate it. Hopefully Microsoft will show more sense than Mozilla, and give the user an option to disable the damn thing.
The problem here is that cancer or not he should have faced retribution from society.
I completely agree, but I don't think taking matters into your own hands is the answer.
No, they're being raised fine. Some people who think that violent retribution with a baseball bat is the answer, however... I can safely say that they weren't raised right.
I have no problem with behaving in a civil manner. I find it ridiculous that anyone would just pile up a collection of dog poop on their porch, let alone let the dog poop in the neighbor's yard! However, I'll be damned if I will ever live in a home where someone is dictating to me some petty standards for what I have to have my home like. It's my fucking business, and I will do exactly what I want with my own private home.
I dunno what you're talking about. Last I checked, IE was still faster than Firefox, which, as of version 2, was still shamefully slow. If there's a difference in rendering between the two, IE will be the better renderer, because that site is probably tailored only to IE and nothing else.
For the normal user, who just wants to browse their internets and not worry about standards dogma, IE is the superior browser.
Yes, it is. Not only is it naive, it's hopelessly paranoid. Worse still, it stifles discussion, much in the same way calling someone who disagrees with you a troll does. The poster is most likely a random person posting their honest opinion, who was afraid that the corrupt moderators /. has would abuse their power because they didn't like what he was saying (thankfully, he was wrong... we must have the decent moderators on tonight). Sweet Jesus, some people must have an "omg astroturf!!!" macro, because they're ready with their bullshit cries the instant someone defends a product/company they don't like.
No. Any frustration means that the designers have failed. You shouldn't have things handed to you on a silver platter, but that's not frustration. Frustration is "OH MY FUCKING GOD THIS GUY IS SO GODDAMN CHEAP WHY CAN'T I BEAT HIM I'VE TRIED HIM 50 TIMES!!!!". The instant a player experiences frustration like that, the designers have failed.
Unless, of course, your fans are masochists, in which case give them what they want, but don't expect anyone else to ever like it.
The difference between religion and those things is that religion is not demonstrably false. Some religions' teachings may be (evolution vs creation), but religion itself is not. So, not only do people have no business lashing out against religion because it's immature, they have no business doing so because it isn't demonstrably false.
And I don't think it's at all unrealistic to expect religion to get treated with a modicum of respect. I disagree with a great many things that people I know have said, but I don't start tearing into them at every opportunity for it. I expect mature, civil behavior. This isn't a very high expectation, to be honest, and the fact that some very vocal members of this community can't live up to it says a lot about them.
Uh... the Supreme Court ruled that detainees in Guantanamo Bay have the right of habeas corpus. Remember?
...when the hell did I ever say I wanted McCain? I don't want either. Once you get down to the level of badness these two idiots are at, any additional badness is trivial, and both are exactly equal in terms of how much we can afford to have them in office. If a president doesn't respect the law, it doesn't matter in the least what his foreign policies, or anything else, are.
Just because he doesn't do every last thing you want, you're going to let the wolves eat us all?
Uh, no. Because he did an absolutely mission-critical, gamebreaking thing wrong I'm not going to vote for either, because the wolves will eat us either way. If you seriously think that Obama will not feed us to the wolves, you've been duped by the nice speeches. He believes that it's ok for the president to let you break the law... that's not a man we can afford to have as our president, even if he gets every other issue right.
I intend to vote third-party. I fail to see how any rational persion could not do so, given how hostile both major candidates are going to be to our rights, and how protective of corporations' rights they will be.
Are you surprised that a site dedicated to technology and science is hostile to religious beliefs?
Actually, yeah. I like technology and science as much as anyone else here, but I'm not hostile to religious beliefs. I just disagree and leave it at that.
There are plenty of well-reasoned comments to go along with the more immature ones.
They exist, but are in the minority. That's what I'm mourning.
From what I understand, it takes relatively little effort to port from the 360 to the PC. So, it really boils down to: "small" chance of making money > zero chance of making money.
And plenty of developers are still making games for the PC. The market isn't going to die just because some doom and gloom prophets say so, they've been saying that for a while now.
I honestly don't know how anyone could think he's realistically innocent. He pointed them to his wife's body, confessed, not to mention the fact that there was already enough evidence to convict him at the trial. Sure, it's not a mathematical certainty, but justice never is.
Which words exactly?
Those.