I doubt an advanced player would have much trouble against someone who just repeatedly did the same moves/combos. My experience with SCII is that *everything* has a counter. If an experienced player keeps doing the same moves against a new player, the new player will learn to counter those terribly fast (assuming that they're actually trying). End of story.
Yeah, these mario cards are great. But they were released last year. Mario e-cards series 3 and 4 were delayed twice, and are now listed as TBD. I'm not holding my breath for them. AFAIK, the only e-cards that have been released this year are pokemon e-trading cards. I doubt we'll see anything other than pokemon from now on for the ereader.
I've been hoping for this ever since I saw a Gameboy-game shaped box for Final Fantasy Origins. Then I noticed that it said Playstation on it and not Gameboy. It was just a ploy to lead me astray.
Now, finally, my hopes will be realized. I can't wait.
I play Mechwarrior pretty often. I do have a pretty large collection, but that's mostly because I buy a booster anytime I play the game at a game store (which for awhile, was often 2 - 3 times a weekend). I don't play quite as much anymore, but I still play 2 - 3 tournaments a month, plus a casual game with friends here and there.
I collect pieces solely based on playability. One of the problems plaguing all collectible games is that most figures introduced in expansions simply are not that competitive. I think much of that is just do to the nature of this type of game, but if some company can improve this somehow, I think I'd be pretty quick to hop on board. I'm sitting on a large number of not-very-good pieces that, quite frankly, no one wants.
All that being said, as a game, MW is a great one. It's much cheaper to play competitively than Magic: The Gathering (a typical competitive MtG deck costs $150 - $500). You'd be hard pressed to put together a competitive MW army which costs $150. The rules and pieces are fairly well balanced, and my friends and I continue to find new and interesting strategies. Competition is really what I enjoy about this game, which is why I'm heading to Origins for Nationals in June =]
Did you read the book? Did you watch the movie? The movie was nothing but a strawman attack on the book. Even if you disagree with the book, the movie is not a good satire of it.
While you're right about that clause, that clause does not apply to end users. End users do not have to agree to the GPL to use GPL'd software. It is a distribution license, not a EULA. An end user would not be restricted from suing anyone by any clause in the GPL, because, quite simply, the end user never agreed to the GPL in the first place.
For the last freaking time, the GPL is *not* a EULA. It is a distribution license. Anyone relying on the GPL for end user disclaimers is quite mistaken.
You can believe in licenses without believing in EULAs. The GPL is not a EULA. It is a distribution license. For a contract to be legally enforceable, there has to be an exchange of value. For the GPL, the GPL grants you the right to distribute the software, and in exchange, you agree to offer the source as well.
There is no such exchange of value in a EULA, unless you truly believe that you don't have the right to use software which you legally own.
Can't speak for the other consoles (as I don't own them), but this could be modeled easily to the gamecube controller. You would just use the c-stick to block. Methinks that similar mappings would work well for most games.
We shouldn't call it spyware. Instead, we'll call it malware. Right up there with viruses, worms, and trojan horses. Only difference is that gator isn't self-propagating. Hehe, gator messes up your computer more than most viruses.
Last time I played freecraft, it played almost exactly like WCII. And the graphics were extremely similar. I seem to even remember an option to use WCII's graphics if you had the cd. The game was a complete clone of WCII.
If you remake someone's game under a slightly different name, you shoudn't be too surpised when they complain. Frankly, I'm surprised Blizzard didn't complain earlier. I just wish people would spend time making *original* open source games rather than cloning commercial games.
A very related problem is that reviewers are often reviewing beta versions of games. Review copies will be sent out before a game goes gold, so that reviews can be published before a game comes out. The problem with this is that most reviewers will assume that any bugs in the game will be worked out before the game goes gold. They have no way to know if a problem won't be fixed, and they'll look awfully stupid if they complain about a problem that is fixed.
It's hard to come up with a solution to this problem. Mine is to just not buy a game the day it comes out but wait at least a week or two until I hear from all the suckers who buy it on the first day.
I made this mistake on Heroes of Might & Magic IV. Over a year has passed, and many patches have come out, but the game still crashes on me everytime I play. At most I can play for an hour or two before it crashes. I searched around for reviews after I discovered this, and no one mentioned anything.
The problem this has is that people don't want to pay to send email. I think the solution to this may be for each account to get so many free emails a day. For example, you can send ten free emails a day, but after that you pay 10c each. No spammer would get an account at such an ISP.
Another solution may be to have a ten cent "deposit" every time you send an email. If it's legit, you get it back. If the end user rejects it, you lose your ten cents.
The problem with the first approach is that it wouldn't work unless every ISP did it. It would make more sense to charge at the incoming mail server.
First of all, prison is a pretty lousy deterrant. When people commit crimes (in cyberspace, or otherwise), they don't think they'll be caught, so they don't think about the consequences. Murder is typically punished with long sentences, but that doesn't seem to stop people...
Next, keeping a network computer secure is not just for your own protection. It's also to protect all the other netizens who your computer might be used against if it is compromised. It sucks that people think they can just crack into people's computers if they feel the need, but in reality, most of the people that do this aren't being caught, so the crime continues. Good computer security is currently our best defense.
Finally, I don't know of too many who worship Kevin Mitnick. Pretty much everyone (including Mitnick) condemns his actions before he finally got caught. What we don't like is how he was treated afterwards. Our justice system isn't supposed to keep someone in jail without a trial, nor even a bail hearing for several years. Many people found it disconcerting that this was happening.
I can't believe you're modded to 5, while showing an almost complete ignorance of how the internet actually works.
ICANN only does domain names. IP addresses are handled by IANA. I've heard exactly zero complaints about IANA.
The only reason ICANN is in charge is because they run the 13 root DNS servers, which everyone has their dns servers set to look at. All we would have to do to get rid of ICANN is convince virtually everyone to look at a different set of root servers. Much harder than it sounds, but possible (though improbable).
As for why dns is not handled by the PTO, with how badly they handle patents, I'm glad they don't have anything to do with DNS.
How is giving the decryption key out authentication? Wouldn't authentication be achieved by signing some sort of challenge with the decryption (aka private) key? It's utterly stupid to give the private key out...
What do you mean by there not being a difference between a public and private key? The difference is in their use. You don't sign something with a public key, nor do you encrypt something with the private key. I don't understand what you mean.
With palladium, your computer won't have to be online all the time. It's just that applications will have to authenticate themselves with the actual palladium chip before they can be run. Which means the public key will be stored in the palladium chip.
And we will be able to get at the public key. But that won't do us a shred of good. It's the private key we want. The two are distinct, and one cannot be derived from the other. Learn about public/private key crypto before you disagree with me...
I am afraid I have to disagree with you. The palladium chip will not work in the same way as css. For one thing, it will be integrated with the processor (why do you think AMD is signed on?). Css was cracked because the designers used public/private key crypto, then made the private key public and the public key private. Crypto doesn't work that way.
The palladium chip, on the other hand, will only have the public key stored on it. The private key will be safely locked away, outside our grasp. Cracking properly generated (and large enough) private keys is basically impossible.
Don't count on cracking whatever drm/copy protection such companies as Microsoft can push on us. It won't work forever. Eventually, they will figure out something that will work.
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I doubt an advanced player would have much trouble against someone who just repeatedly did the same moves/combos. My experience with SCII is that *everything* has a counter. If an experienced player keeps doing the same moves against a new player, the new player will learn to counter those terribly fast (assuming that they're actually trying). End of story.
Can't wait to play Total Carnage. Unlike it's predecessor, Smash TV, the super nes port was really terrible (unplayable, imo).
Yeah, these mario cards are great. But they were released last year. Mario e-cards series 3 and 4 were delayed twice, and are now listed as TBD. I'm not holding my breath for them. AFAIK, the only e-cards that have been released this year are pokemon e-trading cards. I doubt we'll see anything other than pokemon from now on for the ereader.
I've been hoping for this ever since I saw a Gameboy-game shaped box for Final Fantasy Origins. Then I noticed that it said Playstation on it and not Gameboy. It was just a ploy to lead me astray.
Now, finally, my hopes will be realized. I can't wait.
I play Mechwarrior pretty often. I do have a pretty large collection, but that's mostly because I buy a booster anytime I play the game at a game store (which for awhile, was often 2 - 3 times a weekend). I don't play quite as much anymore, but I still play 2 - 3 tournaments a month, plus a casual game with friends here and there.
I collect pieces solely based on playability. One of the problems plaguing all collectible games is that most figures introduced in expansions simply are not that competitive. I think much of that is just do to the nature of this type of game, but if some company can improve this somehow, I think I'd be pretty quick to hop on board. I'm sitting on a large number of not-very-good pieces that, quite frankly, no one wants.
All that being said, as a game, MW is a great one. It's much cheaper to play competitively than Magic: The Gathering (a typical competitive MtG deck costs $150 - $500). You'd be hard pressed to put together a competitive MW army which costs $150. The rules and pieces are fairly well balanced, and my friends and I continue to find new and interesting strategies. Competition is really what I enjoy about this game, which is why I'm heading to Origins for Nationals in June =]
Did you read the book? Did you watch the movie? The movie was nothing but a strawman attack on the book. Even if you disagree with the book, the movie is not a good satire of it.
Even worse, it wasn't even a good movie.
While you're right about that clause, that clause does not apply to end users. End users do not have to agree to the GPL to use GPL'd software. It is a distribution license, not a EULA. An end user would not be restricted from suing anyone by any clause in the GPL, because, quite simply, the end user never agreed to the GPL in the first place.
For the last freaking time, the GPL is *not* a EULA. It is a distribution license. Anyone relying on the GPL for end user disclaimers is quite mistaken.
Copyright has never been a constitutional right. Copyright is not a constitutional right. Hopefully, copyright will never be a constitutional right.
And we who are US citizens should be pressuring our government to not pressure other governments to implement this crap.
There is no such exchange of value in a EULA, unless you truly believe that you don't have the right to use software which you legally own.
Can't speak for the other consoles (as I don't own them), but this could be modeled easily to the gamecube controller. You would just use the c-stick to block. Methinks that similar mappings would work well for most games.
We shouldn't call it spyware. Instead, we'll call it malware. Right up there with viruses, worms, and trojan horses. Only difference is that gator isn't self-propagating. Hehe, gator messes up your computer more than most viruses.
If you remake someone's game under a slightly different name, you shoudn't be too surpised when they complain. Frankly, I'm surprised Blizzard didn't complain earlier. I just wish people would spend time making *original* open source games rather than cloning commercial games.
Now the computer security community gets to have a big debate over whether this was ethical or not...
As it stands, I am not going back just for this patch. I've kind of realized how stupid the game is in the period of time since I quit...
It's hard to come up with a solution to this problem. Mine is to just not buy a game the day it comes out but wait at least a week or two until I hear from all the suckers who buy it on the first day.
I made this mistake on Heroes of Might & Magic IV. Over a year has passed, and many patches have come out, but the game still crashes on me everytime I play. At most I can play for an hour or two before it crashes. I searched around for reviews after I discovered this, and no one mentioned anything.
Another solution may be to have a ten cent "deposit" every time you send an email. If it's legit, you get it back. If the end user rejects it, you lose your ten cents.
The problem with the first approach is that it wouldn't work unless every ISP did it. It would make more sense to charge at the incoming mail server.
I'm not even sure where to start.
First of all, prison is a pretty lousy deterrant. When people commit crimes (in cyberspace, or otherwise), they don't think they'll be caught, so they don't think about the consequences. Murder is typically punished with long sentences, but that doesn't seem to stop people...
Next, keeping a network computer secure is not just for your own protection. It's also to protect all the other netizens who your computer might be used against if it is compromised. It sucks that people think they can just crack into people's computers if they feel the need, but in reality, most of the people that do this aren't being caught, so the crime continues. Good computer security is currently our best defense.
Finally, I don't know of too many who worship Kevin Mitnick. Pretty much everyone (including Mitnick) condemns his actions before he finally got caught. What we don't like is how he was treated afterwards. Our justice system isn't supposed to keep someone in jail without a trial, nor even a bail hearing for several years. Many people found it disconcerting that this was happening.
you're going to get burned.
I can't believe you're modded to 5, while showing an almost complete ignorance of how the internet actually works.
ICANN only does domain names. IP addresses are handled by IANA. I've heard exactly zero complaints about IANA.
The only reason ICANN is in charge is because they run the 13 root DNS servers, which everyone has their dns servers set to look at. All we would have to do to get rid of ICANN is convince virtually everyone to look at a different set of root servers. Much harder than it sounds, but possible (though improbable).
As for why dns is not handled by the PTO, with how badly they handle patents, I'm glad they don't have anything to do with DNS.
How is giving the decryption key out authentication? Wouldn't authentication be achieved by signing some sort of challenge with the decryption (aka private) key? It's utterly stupid to give the private key out...
What do you mean by there not being a difference between a public and private key? The difference is in their use. You don't sign something with a public key, nor do you encrypt something with the private key. I don't understand what you mean.
With palladium, your computer won't have to be online all the time. It's just that applications will have to authenticate themselves with the actual palladium chip before they can be run. Which means the public key will be stored in the palladium chip.
And we will be able to get at the public key. But that won't do us a shred of good. It's the private key we want. The two are distinct, and one cannot be derived from the other. Learn about public/private key crypto before you disagree with me...
I am afraid I have to disagree with you. The palladium chip will not work in the same way as css. For one thing, it will be integrated with the processor (why do you think AMD is signed on?). Css was cracked because the designers used public/private key crypto, then made the private key public and the public key private. Crypto doesn't work that way.
The palladium chip, on the other hand, will only have the public key stored on it. The private key will be safely locked away, outside our grasp. Cracking properly generated (and large enough) private keys is basically impossible.
Don't count on cracking whatever drm/copy protection such companies as Microsoft can push on us. It won't work forever. Eventually, they will figure out something that will work.
Do not underestimate the power of the dark side of the source.
If a day comes when no non-palladium mobos are available, the emperor will have already won.