Based on actually reading the article it appears in (heresy around these parts I know, but it was linked earlier) I believe that picture specifically refers to case of a corporate election, where one's voting power is determined by how many shares in the company they own.
Quoting: "OBC also features a near fully destructible environment; the Flame Thrower can set bad guys, scenery and the level itself on fire, which could make movement extremely hazardous for the player, especially as the fire randomly spreads. The Grenade launcher meanwhile can destroy any wall (with some hard coded exceptions)."
Which sounds just like what we have here. Except this game was released in 1994... "Next Gen" huh?
So by that logic all people who play violent video games must automatically think that its ok to kill people in real life because we do in the game?
99.9% of people who play these games know they shouldn't kill other people and etc, but do so in the game because there are no consequences. Should we take away all violent video games just because of a 0.1% that might go on a school shooting spree?
I think it is... one touch login for all your games was one of the major selling features. Whereas your plan would require an unweildly amount of logins.
I think I'll pass on memorising 40 different logins and which games corrosponds to each.
Also.. how does that work with friends? Do you get each and every one of your friends to add all 40 of your accounts? And vice versa?
In a retail used market, the publisher gains nothing, but pays nothing extra ("lost sales" nonwithstanding) Whereas with Steam, Valve still has to foot a bandwidth bill.
If Valve took a small commission it might be workable, but I doubt it being seen any time soon - since the disadvantages of used games (potential damage, seller far away, postage, less choice?) evaporate as the entire thing is a download service. So the basically aid the sale of the exact same product as theirs, except they get less money.
This entire thing was discussed endlessly on the Steam Forums, and I think the answer was a resounding no.
But I think thats the entire point. It is a game, and if you can make/play a recreation of another game in it, that might (in the eyes of executives or whathaveyou) to lessen your desire to actually buy that game. Instant lawsuit.
You sir, have made me wish I still had mods points.
Goes without saying, mod parent up!
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This is why slashdot needs a -1 Time Cube moderation option.
Do you have any idea how much energy it takes to get those protons to near light speed? Think how much it'll take to get anything macroscopic moving at such speeds. Coupled with the fact a proton on its own is electrically charged while most atoms are electrically neutral - so using super conducting magnets won't work which is what the LHC makes a lot of use of.
Yes, but the Second World War greatly accelerated the development of jet aircraft. The World Wide Web is descended from APRANET which was a military network designed by the American Goverment to resist a nuclear war. And Florence Nightengale developed most of the theory while out in the Crimean war and her experiances there led her to conduct further research.
It doesn't matter that you're car breaks down every other day making you late for work constantly, at least it doesn't explode in a monsterous fireball killing your children.
I believe he was refering to the use of radium paint of clock dails and such for its luminous properties before the dangers of radioactivity were understood.
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Good thing it mentioned the anecdote about the eldery woman twice, otherwise I might have forgotten it. Clearly no one is proof reading these...
Its posts like this that are why we need a "-1 Timecube" moderation option.
Had I not spent my mod points earlier this very day, it would be insightful for you.
Based on actually reading the article it appears in (heresy around these parts I know, but it was linked earlier) I believe that picture specifically refers to case of a corporate election, where one's voting power is determined by how many shares in the company they own.
It is posts like this that make me wish I had mod points. +insightful to you sir!
Also, reading the sales brief for a previous game (also named Bodycount, funnily enough) one notices a few.. marked similarities:
http://www.mobygames.com/game/operation-body-count
Quoting:
"OBC also features a near fully destructible environment; the Flame Thrower can set bad guys, scenery and the level itself on fire, which could make movement extremely hazardous for the player, especially as the fire randomly spreads. The Grenade launcher meanwhile can destroy any wall (with some hard coded exceptions)."
Which sounds just like what we have here. Except this game was released in 1994...
"Next Gen" huh?
I think its "bailout" at the business management screen, all lower case.
So the obvious way to maintain such secrecy is have it posted to slashdot.
Brilliant...
So by that logic all people who play violent video games must automatically think that its ok to kill people in real life because we do in the game?
99.9% of people who play these games know they shouldn't kill other people and etc, but do so in the game because there are no consequences. Should we take away all violent video games just because of a 0.1% that might go on a school shooting spree?
It does in the short term, but printing money in this manner is a very slipperly slope to deep government debt and inflation.
The source engine was, and still is, built with the capacity to perform file streaming of this sort. Its just never been implemented.
Because all pubishments for cheating infringement are handled completely via steam's account system - aka VAC bans.
I think it is... one touch login for all your games was one of the major selling features. Whereas your plan would require an unweildly amount of logins.
I think I'll pass on memorising 40 different logins and which games corrosponds to each.
Also.. how does that work with friends? Do you get each and every one of your friends to add all 40 of your accounts? And vice versa?
Unworkable.
In a retail used market, the publisher gains nothing, but pays nothing extra ("lost sales" nonwithstanding)
Whereas with Steam, Valve still has to foot a bandwidth bill.
If Valve took a small commission it might be workable, but I doubt it being seen any time soon - since the disadvantages of used games (potential damage, seller far away, postage, less choice?) evaporate as the entire thing is a download service. So the basically aid the sale of the exact same product as theirs, except they get less money.
This entire thing was discussed endlessly on the Steam Forums, and I think the answer was a resounding no.
+1 Insightful
An inconvenient truth as they say.
As much as I'd love to believe you, I'm gonna need a citation.
But I think thats the entire point. It is a game, and if you can make/play a recreation of another game in it, that might (in the eyes of executives or whathaveyou) to lessen your desire to actually buy that game. Instant lawsuit.
True as that may be, I've yet to be assaulted by a giant weather ballon as I exit a tube station.
You sir, have made me wish I still had mods points.
Goes without saying, mod parent up!
This is why slashdot needs a -1 Time Cube moderation option.
Do you have any idea how much energy it takes to get those protons to near light speed? Think how much it'll take to get anything macroscopic moving at such speeds. Coupled with the fact a proton on its own is electrically charged while most atoms are electrically neutral - so using super conducting magnets won't work which is what the LHC makes a lot of use of.
Yes, but the Second World War greatly accelerated the development of jet aircraft.
The World Wide Web is descended from APRANET which was a military network designed by the American Goverment to resist a nuclear war.
And Florence Nightengale developed most of the theory while out in the Crimean war and her experiances there led her to conduct further research.
Complete hogwash you say?
It doesn't matter that you're car breaks down every other day making you late for work constantly, at least it doesn't explode in a monsterous fireball killing your children.
Lets put activation switches in all Vista machines, turn them all off, and hold the world's data for ransome of one hundred billion dollars!!!11
Wait a minute...
But where would you put the lunchbox while playing on your DS?
In a backpack of course...
I believe he was refering to the use of radium paint of clock dails and such for its luminous properties before the dangers of radioactivity were understood.
So yeah, insightful is about right.