Hopefully at around that point, enough people will be tired of WoW that entire guilds will be looking for a new game to play, and new games will have a much better chance of getting a solid foothold.
Right in time for the release of the much anticipated Galaxy of Starcraft MMO.
The reason so few people are commenting on this is that I, like many others are in a complete state of disbelief and shock at the lunacy of such a suggestion. The fact that it is easier to buy a gun than a second hand CD is completely bewildering.
... Oppression of an idea, thought or belief is the best way to get the news spread (see religion). It is the overcommercialisation of an idea which causes it to fade from popularity (see modern day rock music).
The best thing that the music industry, or indeed the movie industry could do to stamp out piracy is to ignore it and release a superior product (I am more than willing to pay for a high quality product, provided I can do with it whatever I wish). Currently DRMed digital music and video is an inferior product at a higher price than what "the pirates" are producing, which is why the MAFIAA continue to lose market share to the Coallition of Regular Annonymous Pirates (CRAP).
...I had my very own elusive alarm clock. It resided at the opposite end of the room I was sleeping in. I turned it up really loud so when it went off BOOM I was awake and I had to get up to turn that damned thing off. It was the most effective alarm I've ever used.
Maybe I should profit from this by selling instructions online...
Seriously though, alarm clocks these days have a snooze button for a reason - most people want to use it. I wouldn't buy one without it.
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Once is all that the US government may need to win a war.
Actually there is a far better technology out there which does what you talk about.
Lloyd Energy have developed a solar system which stores thermal power in the form of heat in huge blocks of graphite. You can then get that heat out and convert it to energy. This has two uses - taking power at off peak rates and storing it, selling it back to the market when the spot price of electricity is high, and the other is to focus a series of mirrors on the graphite so that it heats up, storing the energy for use whenever you wish.
The issue with this system is that it's slightly more expensive, but it can be used profitably by selling back to the grid at peak times (when power sometimes costs up to $10 000/MWh in Australia).
"Best known for blockbuster hits including World of Warcraft® and the Warcraft®, StarCraft®, and Diablo® series"
Since when is Starcraft a series? I thought that you needed multiple games for that to count.
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Micro$oft, instead of addressing what the consumer wants are using their monopolistic position in the industry to try and create another monopoly. By providing DRM for "premium content", they are essentially changing the game so that they have control over what users may or may not view, therefore controlling the PC as a distribution channel for such content. Their goal is to have the ability to control hardware manufacturers and content providers, which is what the DRM does.
Another conspiracy theory is that they are doing this because of the DoD's involvement with Vista. Theoretically, the US could ask M$ to disable all PC's with a certain IP range, and whoever was in that range would be powerless to stop them, giving the US governement even more power to cripple the economy and infrastructure of enemy nations. It's just that by tying it up under the DRM label, it's disguised from Joe User (hiding one evil with another, more controversial evil).
That is the exact issue that I have with this whole mess.
This evidence, because it was gained illegally, should be dismissed. I'm not saying that child porn watchers should go unpunished, because I believe they should be punished to the full extent of the law. What I'm saying is that the right to privacy means that this guy should be arrested for violating that right many many times, viewing legal, but potentially sensitive information that the owners did not wish to share with a hacker.
Vigelanteism is only ok when it is aimed at governmental bodies for reasons of revolution. Any other efforts should be made only with legal authority.
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You have a snack machine. At my work it's fingernails or starve.
Thanks, now I don't have to bother typing this myself.
The reason so few people are commenting on this is that I, like many others are in a complete state of disbelief and shock at the lunacy of such a suggestion. The fact that it is easier to buy a gun than a second hand CD is completely bewildering.
...stuff might improve when the head of the MPAA died. Not even one week later and we are having numbers censored.
... Oppression of an idea, thought or belief is the best way to get the news spread (see religion). It is the overcommercialisation of an idea which causes it to fade from popularity (see modern day rock music). The best thing that the music industry, or indeed the movie industry could do to stamp out piracy is to ignore it and release a superior product (I am more than willing to pay for a high quality product, provided I can do with it whatever I wish). Currently DRMed digital music and video is an inferior product at a higher price than what "the pirates" are producing, which is why the MAFIAA continue to lose market share to the Coallition of Regular Annonymous Pirates (CRAP).
...I had my very own elusive alarm clock. It resided at the opposite end of the room I was sleeping in. I turned it up really loud so when it went off BOOM I was awake and I had to get up to turn that damned thing off. It was the most effective alarm I've ever used.
Maybe I should profit from this by selling instructions online...
Seriously though, alarm clocks these days have a snooze button for a reason - most people want to use it. I wouldn't buy one without it.
Once is all that the US government may need to win a war.
Actually there is a far better technology out there which does what you talk about.
Lloyd Energy have developed a solar system which stores thermal power in the form of heat in huge blocks of graphite. You can then get that heat out and convert it to energy. This has two uses - taking power at off peak rates and storing it, selling it back to the market when the spot price of electricity is high, and the other is to focus a series of mirrors on the graphite so that it heats up, storing the energy for use whenever you wish.
The issue with this system is that it's slightly more expensive, but it can be used profitably by selling back to the grid at peak times (when power sometimes costs up to $10 000/MWh in Australia).
"Best known for blockbuster hits including World of Warcraft® and the Warcraft®, StarCraft®, and Diablo® series" Since when is Starcraft a series? I thought that you needed multiple games for that to count.
Micro$oft, instead of addressing what the consumer wants are using their monopolistic position in the industry to try and create another monopoly. By providing DRM for "premium content", they are essentially changing the game so that they have control over what users may or may not view, therefore controlling the PC as a distribution channel for such content. Their goal is to have the ability to control hardware manufacturers and content providers, which is what the DRM does.
Another conspiracy theory is that they are doing this because of the DoD's involvement with Vista. Theoretically, the US could ask M$ to disable all PC's with a certain IP range, and whoever was in that range would be powerless to stop them, giving the US governement even more power to cripple the economy and infrastructure of enemy nations. It's just that by tying it up under the DRM label, it's disguised from Joe User (hiding one evil with another, more controversial evil).
They already send each other cake on their birthdays....
That is the exact issue that I have with this whole mess. This evidence, because it was gained illegally, should be dismissed. I'm not saying that child porn watchers should go unpunished, because I believe they should be punished to the full extent of the law. What I'm saying is that the right to privacy means that this guy should be arrested for violating that right many many times, viewing legal, but potentially sensitive information that the owners did not wish to share with a hacker. Vigelanteism is only ok when it is aimed at governmental bodies for reasons of revolution. Any other efforts should be made only with legal authority.
Woops wrong discussion.
Which one of these has Spice?
Which one of these two has Spice?