If I hear a game doesn't let players save whenever and wherever they want to, I simply refuse to buy it, period.
The player should be able to save their progress wherever they're at, and the game itself should be difficult/easy/well designed enough to make that issue irrelevant.
Or, at least, players should have a choice of which way they want to go. Take Wizardry 8, for instance. They have a regular mode which lets you save your games, and then they also have the "iron man" mode which is more restrictive. Why can't players have a choice?
And I've never heard of cheating being defined as restarting from one's last save game when approaching a big boss.
"Otoh, IT anti-outsourcing people don't explain how starting a trade war in an area where we are a net *exporter* will help us. The fact remains that while the US imports more goods than it exports, we export more services than we import." With outsourcing, we're exporting jobs and importing even more goods.
A trade war would bring those jobs back home. Since we're not exporting anything to those countries that is profitable to us, what do we have to lose?
(BTW moderators, I'm not flamebaiting here.. I'm not actually *advocating* war here..)
"Yep. Its called local unskilled and semi-skilled labor. Don't feel like going to college? Welcome to your new job. Don't feel like working hard, hiya. Don't want to compete? Hows it going." - A lot of hard working, hard studying, high grade earning college graduates are now among the unemployed. Including molecular biologists that are part of the backbone of America's techological future.
I don't consider it flamebait. I strongly disagree with the post, but I feel it should be discussed.
Instead of requesting that it be modding it down I'll take the honorable route and address the point that was made...
First of all, a lot of email users still pay for their online time. Other users have bandwidth limits on their accounts - this includes quite a few cable modem users. One is paying by the minute to read email (or do anything else), and the other (a larger group) risks overrunning their bandwidth quota and incurring bandwidth hog charges. Spamming is not unlike telemarketers calling people's cell phones, in both of those cases.
Second of all, spammers use huge amounts of ISP bandwidth, which costs the ISP but is not reimbursed by the spammer. This is not unlike stealing free TV ad time.
Spamming is also not unlike someone intruding on your property and harassing you with Herbalife products.. often despite a standing request that they not appear on one's property. Email is very much digital private property.
How can this be very useful? The C64 has about 32K of useable RAM and about an 800K floppy... am I missing something, have they come up with larger mass storage systems for the C64 or something?
(This isn't intended as a troll or flamebait... it's a genuine question....)
One part of the equation that was left out: "Import of Indian goods/services by the US: $???"
"More than 69 percent of workers losing jobs to imports were reemployed. Among those reemployed the mean wage capture was 96.2 percent. Since the wage loss for every dollar spent offshore is 72 cents, these levels of reemployment and recapture translate into an additional 45 to 47 cents of value recapture for the economy, even taking into account the typical period of unemployment bfore a worker is reemployed." - that is BS. I contend that 96.2 percent is more like 40-70%. I'd like to see where those numbers came from.
"Many who decry outsourcing to less developed countries are, in reality, concerned with the threat to their levels of consumption, much of which they can really do without."
Cutting back on "superfluous consumption" results in less profit for those companies that sell goods. This results in more layoffs and closures of companies.
Cutting the wages of Americans will have a disastrous effect on businesses in the US
Also consider that Americans buy from abroad far more than people abroad buy from America, hence the trade deficit.
So, not only does Americans "adjusting to a lower lifestyle" mean disaster for American retailers, but also companies abroad.
If pieces of this stuff lands in my greatx5 grand daughter's yard and it gives my greatx6 grandkid leukemia, who are they gonna sue? The Soviet Union's been Chapter 11 liquidated for over a decade by now.
Being one of the early birth places of the industrial revolution is not the best thing in the world, as its infrastructure has been set in stone for decades (for phone service) or centuries (for other things). Now that the old infrastructure is burned out, it leaves room for super modern technology to be put in its place.
The very sad part is that change only comes on the heels of disaster. Perhaps the people in that area will get wireless service until this is resolved?
I'm sure there are places in America that are equally vulnerable, too.
I don't care about my karma... I want to protest the negative moderation done to tealover's post. It was truthful and insightful. Jeez... where's my mod points:(
I didn't say lack of modding abilities killed the XBox or PS2. I said PC users will never convert to them without it.
The existence of tons of mods for PC games is proof that modding is extremely popular and is a highly desired part of gaming.
The thing that makes DRM a major issue is that PC users do a lot of fair use stuff (as well as piracy) with their videos and music. This is utterly impossible on a console. This is important because console makers are trying to own the living room via convergence, and their anti fair-use policies WRT media is a major hindrance to their quest for world e-domination.
1) Fanatical DRM that predates even TCPA. They have always had copy restrictions for games (like the PC) but now they come with restrictions against fair use of the media that they play, too. They have far more powerful restrictions than PCs do.
2) Lack of modding abilities. Console games can't be modded. There'd never be any Counterstrike or Capture the Flag if the consoles had exclusive domain over games. Even now, users cannot mod console games that have identical releases on PCs which are modded (see: Morrowind, NWN).
If DRM conquers the PC market, however, consoles may rise up and totally own all their base in gaming and media.
If you want quality, reputable marketing, you don't ask people to do it for free. You need paid, trained professionals who respect the law and who know good advertising etiquette (such that it is).
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JC Denton, slap summadat Deus Ex (Machina) on us, quick! :)
this is typically a job for real-time OSes like QNX or, at the very least, BSD.
(Dear mods.. this isn't intended as flame-bait.)
but if those Zelda screenshots are live in-game shots then I might have to declare that resistance is futile..!
They can have their economic development and safety nets.
Just not at the expense of economic development in America.
I'm all for India and China developing their own industries and serving themselves.
This post about diamonds put you on my friends list today.
If I hear a game doesn't let players save whenever and wherever they want to, I simply refuse to buy it, period.
The player should be able to save their progress wherever they're at, and the game itself should be difficult/easy/well designed enough to make that issue irrelevant.
Or, at least, players should have a choice of which way they want to go. Take Wizardry 8, for instance. They have a regular mode which lets you save your games, and then they also have the "iron man" mode which is more restrictive. Why can't players have a choice?
And I've never heard of cheating being defined as restarting from one's last save game when approaching a big boss.
"Otoh, IT anti-outsourcing people don't explain how starting a trade war in an area where we are a net *exporter* will help us. The fact remains that while the US imports more goods than it exports, we export more services than we import."
With outsourcing, we're exporting jobs and importing even more goods.
A trade war would bring those jobs back home. Since we're not exporting anything to those countries that is profitable to us, what do we have to lose?
(BTW moderators, I'm not flamebaiting here.. I'm not actually *advocating* war here..)
"Yep. Its called local unskilled and semi-skilled labor. Don't feel like going to college? Welcome to your new job. Don't feel like working hard, hiya. Don't want to compete? Hows it going." - A lot of hard working, hard studying, high grade earning college graduates are now among the unemployed. Including molecular biologists that are part of the backbone of America's techological future.
Insightful, informative, underrated!
I don't consider it flamebait. I strongly disagree with the post, but I feel it should be discussed.
Instead of requesting that it be modding it down I'll take the honorable route and address the point that was made...
First of all, a lot of email users still pay for their online time. Other users have bandwidth limits on their accounts - this includes quite a few cable modem users. One is paying by the minute to read email (or do anything else), and the other (a larger group) risks overrunning their bandwidth quota and incurring bandwidth hog charges. Spamming is not unlike telemarketers calling people's cell phones, in both of those cases.
Second of all, spammers use huge amounts of ISP bandwidth, which costs the ISP but is not reimbursed by the spammer. This is not unlike stealing free TV ad time.
Spamming is also not unlike someone intruding on your property and harassing you with Herbalife products.. often despite a standing request that they not appear on one's property. Email is very much digital private property.
On those three points, I feel your POV is wrong.
How will we be able to patch it?
But if the contractors are too scared of being sued to implement open source solutions, what good is that?
Why do I get the feeling that Linux is Bugs Bunny and SCO is Elmer FUD?
It used a single sided 3.5" floppy exactly like the double sided ones we have for PCs now.
Was I the ONLY kid on the block who had one of those drives?
Back in the old days I bragged about having a combined storage of 1.5 megabytes online! lol. Man, now I have 2 terabytes on 2 networked PCs...
How can this be very useful? The C64 has about 32K of useable RAM and about an 800K floppy... am I missing something, have they come up with larger mass storage systems for the C64 or something?
(This isn't intended as a troll or flamebait... it's a genuine question....)
when Americans cheer foreign nations' efforts to free themselves from America's quest for digital hegemony.
One part of the equation that was left out:
"Import of Indian goods/services by the US: $???"
"More than 69 percent of workers losing jobs to imports were reemployed. Among those reemployed the mean wage capture was 96.2 percent. Since the wage loss for every dollar spent offshore is 72 cents, these levels of reemployment and recapture translate into an additional 45 to 47 cents of value recapture for the economy, even taking into account the typical period of unemployment bfore a worker is reemployed." - that is BS. I contend that 96.2 percent is more like 40-70%. I'd like to see where those numbers came from.
"Many who decry outsourcing to less developed countries are, in reality, concerned with the threat to their levels of consumption, much of which they can really do without."
Cutting back on "superfluous consumption" results in less profit for those companies that sell goods.
This results in more layoffs and closures of companies.
Cutting the wages of Americans will have a disastrous effect on businesses in the US
Also consider that Americans buy from abroad far more than people abroad buy from America, hence the trade deficit.
So, not only does Americans "adjusting to a lower lifestyle" mean disaster for American retailers, but also companies abroad.
Think about that...
Evolution is the result of nature inflicting random mutations in the gene pool.
If pieces of this stuff lands in my greatx5 grand daughter's yard and it gives my greatx6 grandkid leukemia, who are they gonna sue? The Soviet Union's been Chapter 11 liquidated for over a decade by now.
Being one of the early birth places of the industrial revolution is not the best thing in the world, as its infrastructure has been set in stone for decades (for phone service) or centuries (for other things). Now that the old infrastructure is burned out, it leaves room for super modern technology to be put in its place.
The very sad part is that change only comes on the heels of disaster. Perhaps the people in that area will get wireless service until this is resolved?
I'm sure there are places in America that are equally vulnerable, too.
I don't care about my karma... I want to protest the negative moderation done to tealover's post. It was truthful and insightful. Jeez... where's my mod points :(
I didn't say lack of modding abilities killed the XBox or PS2. I said PC users will never convert to them without it.
The existence of tons of mods for PC games is proof that modding is extremely popular and is a highly desired part of gaming.
The thing that makes DRM a major issue is that PC users do a lot of fair use stuff (as well as piracy) with their videos and music. This is utterly impossible on a console. This is important because console makers are trying to own the living room via convergence, and their anti fair-use policies WRT media is a major hindrance to their quest for world e-domination.
1) Fanatical DRM that predates even TCPA.
They have always had copy restrictions for games (like the PC) but now they come with restrictions against fair use of the media that they play, too. They have far more powerful restrictions than PCs do.
2) Lack of modding abilities.
Console games can't be modded. There'd never be any Counterstrike or Capture the Flag if the consoles had exclusive domain over games. Even now, users cannot mod console games that have identical releases on PCs which are modded (see: Morrowind, NWN).
If DRM conquers the PC market, however, consoles may rise up and totally own all their base in gaming and media.
If you want quality, reputable marketing, you don't ask people to do it for free. You need paid, trained professionals who respect the law and who know good advertising etiquette (such that it is).
The statistics about malpractice deaths were published by the AMA in 1997.
What's up with you crazy mods??