But as it is, the gear treadmill has made PVP sorta silly (rogue in 1v1 = free win).
The only thing that 1v1 encounters show is that PvP is not balanced around 1v1 combat. Some classes -will- be inherently better than others in dueling scenarios.
You do realize that is a bubble waiting to burst. What exactly does Apple do that justifies that cap? They make nothing, everything is made by contract houses in China.
Doesn't that apply to just about every non-service-based corporation in the US?
They probably would have had they known about it or how known how popular the trilogy would become. However, Jackson very astutely filmed all three films simultaneously over a period of 8 years before the first film was even released. So by the time the Unions knew that some crazy little project in New Zealand was going to become the biggest and highest grossing trilogy of all time, most of the shots, minus editing and special effects, where probably already in the can. In other words, by the time they knew it was too late to object.
Mmmm, I'm not sure, that 'crazy little project' was given $300 million upfront funding. Someone watches and pays attention when that sort of money is thrown around.:-)
We already have a reasonably good Hobbit movie. Sure, it's animated, but it will do.
I'll admit, while it's 'meh' compared to the book, they did a reasonable job with the constraints they were given (can't be longer than 75 minutes, etc).
Fun fact: The animation studio later did Nausicaa with Miyazaki and formed Studio Ghibli under his direction. Some of the directing animators of the Hobbit went on to be producers on Nausicaa and Totoro.
However, the union members are not required to work there if they'd rather not be associated with an open shop. The union is not required to accept members who will not abide by the union rules.
If they want to produce a Hobbit movie using no union members at all, they are legally free to do so.
In other words, the Unions are turning the screws on their members in the same way that the late 19th century bosses they were create to fight would have. Hooray!
However the Director's Guild doesn't allow that. All films have one and only one director. There can be assistants, but only one director.
Eh? There are some pretty big exceptions to that, at least. For instance almost every Disney animated theatrical release for the last thirty years has had two co-equal directors (not a director and a co-director).
And whichever one is the software cannot be used because the EULA hasn't been agreed to.
So what happens if I use it *without* agreeing to the EULA? Say I load up the installer in a debugger, click "I disagree" and make the software continue installing anyway. What if I make the EULA display something different (you know, just like a *real* contract, where you can strike sections out or amend it before you sign) and agree to that?
I believe that would be like whiting out sections of the contract after it was signed and carefully inserting your own text in the handwriting of the other party. IE, no way would that pass legal muster.
Until it's your father telling you this during the ambulance ride to the hospital... Interesting, perhaps, but not *twitter* interesting.
I don't know, if I cared enough about someone to follow them on Twitter, "I'm dying" would be one of the very few Tweets I would actually care about and find worthwhile.
The first one took so long because those who have the skill to do these hacks are not people looking to rip off games. They are people who are driven to take their hardware and do interesting stuff with it. Those people for the most part were satisfied because Sony allowed the "Other OS" option. Other consoles did not. they were hacked, the PS3 was not.
Mmmm, I disagree.
Many of us who installed the Other OS option were pretty disappointed with the results -- we thought it would turn the PS3 into a decent computer. In particular, I thought it would be sweet to install, say, an NES emulator or something like that for retro gaming. Unfortunately, when you finally get Yellowdog Linux installed and booted, you find that the environment is sharply restricted -- for example the hypervisor locks out almost all of the graphics capabilities of the PS3, probably so that you can't run games, legit or not.
You heard lots of stories years ago about scientists running simulations and such on the PS3, but yeah.. that was about the only task that Other OS was suitable for. I can't imagine that hackers thinking they could play around inside a next-gen console would be "satisfied" with what they got from Sony. I've never heard of a single person who was. It turns the PS3 into a mostly-headless computer that cost about the same amount of money.
The reason to ditch DRM is every copy of software they sell requires a staff of people to keep unlocking and troubleshooting it after the purchase. Instead of a one-time sale, now they can watch the individual profits of their games slowly get eaten away over the years. They're also increasing the value of piracy but not effectively stopping it. Go look up what happened to Spore just before it launched.
Actually one of the benefits (for them) with DRM is that as long as consumers are willing to play along(*), content producers can often sell the same content twice. DVD went bad? It's not like you had a working backup copy (except for DRM crackers). Bought that DRMed music at (insert now-defunct online service here -- in my partner's case, it was Yahoo)? Now you can buy it again at iTunes! (or pirate it)
And now, DRM-less content has more value to the consumer than the same content with DRM, so you can charge a premium. Buy the same thing un-DRMed as you would DRMed, for just 20c/song more! And so on, and so on.
(*) "As long as consumers are willing to play along" is an important point. Enough pushback there changed the music industry. I haven't seen yet the real outrage over region encoding for movies, uncopyable movies, requirements to block the skipping of content, like ads, on a DVD, etc.
Japan attacked us in the Pacific! Let's land in France.
That's what being "Allies" is all about, both on our side and the Axis side. Japan attacked and declared war, Hitler did too, though he thought the Japanese were making a big mistake.
Our PRIMARY export right now is "entertainment". The word is placed in quotations, because it is hardly entertaining to anyone with a lick of sense. Only the brainwashed, ignorant masses can actually PAY for the drivel pumped out from Hollywood and the music industries. I might consider paying them to STOP PRODUCING!
Ah, another snob with poor taste who believes everything everyone else likes is crap, that he's somehow the enlightened one, and wishes with every fiber of his being that everyone else would just WAKE UP.
The best counter-protest signs I'd seen were from the attendees of Comic-Con this year when the Westboro Baptist Church (The "God Hates Fags" guys) protested the event:
Jon Stewart does a much better parody of Beck anyway, with his leaping around and nonsensical chalkboards and crazy pauses where he acts like he's going to cry.
It's true, he does a better Glen Beck parody, but it becomes tiresome and not funny after about 30 seconds. The point just gets hammered into the ground.
I think Glenn Beck is a hyper-active ex junkie who is in it to make a ton of money while spewing insanity.
In some of his more lucid moments, he's admitted he's an entertainer first and shouldn't be taken seriously. Then he does things like this. I think he's more shrewd than many in the middle will give him credit for and he just can't be trusted to say what he really feels.
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Flying: an ability to avoid what little chance there was for spontaneus world PvP. Hoorayy.. :(
Oh, you mean ganking.
We call it, "free HKs from AFK people."
The only thing that 1v1 encounters show is that PvP is not balanced around 1v1 combat. Some classes -will- be inherently better than others in dueling scenarios.
Damn! Really sticking your neck out there, aren't you?
Doesn't that apply to just about every non-service-based corporation in the US?
(Damn you, pulseaudio!)
Just about anyone who has used a Linux distribution that has included Pulseaudio has shouted the same. >_>
Disagreeing with the Apple user experience is "trolling" now?
I'd be more worried about being the next Zimbabwe than the next Weimer. :-)
Did they object during the first 3 films?
They probably would have had they known about it or how known how popular the trilogy would become. However, Jackson very astutely filmed all three films simultaneously over a period of 8 years before the first film was even released. So by the time the Unions knew that some crazy little project in New Zealand was going to become the biggest and highest grossing trilogy of all time, most of the shots, minus editing and special effects, where probably already in the can. In other words, by the time they knew it was too late to object.
Mmmm, I'm not sure, that 'crazy little project' was given $300 million upfront funding. Someone watches and pays attention when that sort of money is thrown around. :-)
We already have a reasonably good Hobbit movie. Sure, it's animated, but it will do.
I'll admit, while it's 'meh' compared to the book, they did a reasonable job with the constraints they were given (can't be longer than 75 minutes, etc).
Fun fact: The animation studio later did Nausicaa with Miyazaki and formed Studio Ghibli under his direction. Some of the directing animators of the Hobbit went on to be producers on Nausicaa and Totoro.
However, the union members are not required to work there if they'd rather not be associated with an open shop. The union is not required to accept members who will not abide by the union rules.
If they want to produce a Hobbit movie using no union members at all, they are legally free to do so.
In other words, the Unions are turning the screws on their members in the same way that the late 19th century bosses they were create to fight would have. Hooray!
Only if you agree with the direction your union is taking.
Don't join a union with policies you don't like.
Haha, you make it sound like there is a choice.
However the Director's Guild doesn't allow that. All films have one and only one director. There can be assistants, but only one director.
Eh? There are some pretty big exceptions to that, at least. For instance almost every Disney animated theatrical release for the last thirty years has had two co-equal directors (not a director and a co-director).
And whichever one is the software cannot be used because the EULA hasn't been agreed to.
So what happens if I use it *without* agreeing to the EULA? Say I load up the installer in a debugger, click "I disagree" and make the software continue installing anyway. What if I make the EULA display something different (you know, just like a *real* contract, where you can strike sections out or amend it before you sign) and agree to that?
I believe that would be like whiting out sections of the contract after it was signed and carefully inserting your own text in the handwriting of the other party. IE, no way would that pass legal muster.
Until it's your father telling you this during the ambulance ride to the hospital... Interesting, perhaps, but not *twitter* interesting.
I don't know, if I cared enough about someone to follow them on Twitter, "I'm dying" would be one of the very few Tweets I would actually care about and find worthwhile.
The first one took so long because those who have the skill to do these hacks are not people looking to rip off games. They are people who are driven to take their hardware and do interesting stuff with it. Those people for the most part were satisfied because Sony allowed the "Other OS" option. Other consoles did not. they were hacked, the PS3 was not.
Mmmm, I disagree.
Many of us who installed the Other OS option were pretty disappointed with the results -- we thought it would turn the PS3 into a decent computer. In particular, I thought it would be sweet to install, say, an NES emulator or something like that for retro gaming. Unfortunately, when you finally get Yellowdog Linux installed and booted, you find that the environment is sharply restricted -- for example the hypervisor locks out almost all of the graphics capabilities of the PS3, probably so that you can't run games, legit or not.
You heard lots of stories years ago about scientists running simulations and such on the PS3, but yeah.. that was about the only task that Other OS was suitable for. I can't imagine that hackers thinking they could play around inside a next-gen console would be "satisfied" with what they got from Sony. I've never heard of a single person who was. It turns the PS3 into a mostly-headless computer that cost about the same amount of money.
Are you blaming piracy? If so, what's your justification for thinking that's the primary reason?
I doubt piracy is at the top of the list. Hacking games comes pretty close though, at least for online games.
PC Hardware expense, and the general mishmash of shitty ways to host games/connect to the network/etc would be pretty high up as well.
The reason to ditch DRM is every copy of software they sell requires a staff of people to keep unlocking and troubleshooting it after the purchase. Instead of a one-time sale, now they can watch the individual profits of their games slowly get eaten away over the years. They're also increasing the value of piracy but not effectively stopping it. Go look up what happened to Spore just before it launched.
Actually one of the benefits (for them) with DRM is that as long as consumers are willing to play along(*), content producers can often sell the same content twice. DVD went bad? It's not like you had a working backup copy (except for DRM crackers). Bought that DRMed music at (insert now-defunct online service here -- in my partner's case, it was Yahoo)? Now you can buy it again at iTunes! (or pirate it)
And now, DRM-less content has more value to the consumer than the same content with DRM, so you can charge a premium. Buy the same thing un-DRMed as you would DRMed, for just 20c/song more! And so on, and so on.
(*) "As long as consumers are willing to play along" is an important point. Enough pushback there changed the music industry. I haven't seen yet the real outrage over region encoding for movies, uncopyable movies, requirements to block the skipping of content, like ads, on a DVD, etc.
Japan attacked us in the Pacific! Let's land in France.
That's what being "Allies" is all about, both on our side and the Axis side. Japan attacked and declared war, Hitler did too, though he thought the Japanese were making a big mistake.
Our PRIMARY export right now is "entertainment". The word is placed in quotations, because it is hardly entertaining to anyone with a lick of sense. Only the brainwashed, ignorant masses can actually PAY for the drivel pumped out from Hollywood and the music industries. I might consider paying them to STOP PRODUCING!
Ah, another snob with poor taste who believes everything everyone else likes is crap, that he's somehow the enlightened one, and wishes with every fiber of his being that everyone else would just WAKE UP.
you should care: if Glen Beck and the Tea Partiers gain control, the Internet is doomed. Headed for North Korean-esque thought control
The left has historically (at least in the last 30 years) been a lot more in line with that tactic than the right has!
The best counter-protest signs I'd seen were from the attendees of Comic-Con this year when the Westboro Baptist Church (The "God Hates Fags" guys) protested the event:
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/07/22/super-heroes-vs-the-westboro-baptist-church/
Jon Stewart does a much better parody of Beck anyway, with his leaping around and nonsensical chalkboards and crazy pauses where he acts like he's going to cry.
It's true, he does a better Glen Beck parody, but it becomes tiresome and not funny after about 30 seconds. The point just gets hammered into the ground.
My God, it's windy in here.
I think Glenn Beck is a hyper-active ex junkie who is in it to make a ton of money while spewing insanity.
In some of his more lucid moments, he's admitted he's an entertainer first and shouldn't be taken seriously. Then he does things like this.
I think he's more shrewd than many in the middle will give him credit for and he just can't be trusted to say what he really feels.
So you'd throw the parents in jail and put the kids in foster care? How exactly would that help anything?
I think his point was probably that the parents deserve to be in jail, but that would make the children even worse off.