Would that be the same Singapore that has caning punishments, no freedom of assembly and draconian anti-littering laws? Aren't libertarians supposed to be socially liberal?
I'm all for sidestepping the rules and sticking it to the man when it's practically harmless, but this is a weapon that kills at long range and at high frequency we're talking about here.
I don't, but I don't see how those are similar at all. To give a virtual player a virtual item, some bits are moved around to indicate that the player has one of the items in their inventory, or has access to certain content. There's no scarcity of the item, practically no resources were needed to replicate it, no effort was needed apart from the creation of the original item, which for most DLC items is negligible. It's very much like bribing a DM to let you magically own an item in a long-running DnD game.
If you can convince me that stocks or bonds are like paying for DLC items then I will be sure to never invest.
I have way more expensive hobbies than DLC'd video games, but I don't pay money for people to put virtual items in my virtual backpack by flipping some bits on a server.
Take, for instance, today's reports [theverge.com] from The Verge on EA's Real Racing 3. In this game, you pay Real Money to repair damage to your car, and you pay More Real Money to make those repairs take less time.
Shit, why not just actually go and race a real car? The graphics, sound and force-feedback are all vastly better.
Anyone dumb enough to play Real Racing 3 totally deserves it.
I was half-joking to point out the futility of a handful of nerds boycotting a system that hordes of less intelligent gamers are all too eager to spend tons of money on.
What if the drone were controlled through a very long wire?* Then there would be a physical connection between a person's hand and the gun barrel just like a regular firearm.
*Actual control method used for some early RC planes and present-day guided missiles.
Most coding the commercial world wants is boring. Your home projects may be fun but most of the work out there is not. It doesn't pay that well now and it sure as hell won't pay better if a bunch of kids are tricked into pursuing it, further increasing the labor surplus in a professions you could teach yourself with nothing but a computer and an Internet connection.
Came here to say this. Am I interested in gigabit Internet at $2k/mo or whatever the looney price is? No. Would I be interested in it at a reasonable price? Hell yes.
But because I don't currently buy it apparently I'm not interested. In other news gearheads are apparently not interested in owning supercars, and very few men are interested in dating supermodels.
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True it could have been a runaway AR.Drone. Those are about 2ft wide, the bodies have bright colors on them but they're black with the body removed.
Maybe Parrot will start taking the the runaway problems more seriously if that's the case.
There wouldn't be much time, but you could. Sportbike riders see signs at top speed after all. Watch some Ghostrider vids if you're not convinced.
Now that you mention it, it probably was a quadcopter...it would be extremely unusual and silly for such a small RC to have 4 props otherwise.
It sure is.
Close Source Applications.
They're not stupid like Microsoft is, they know that closed source and multi-arch don't work together.
A 12000lb car? An H2 weighs about 8klbs, your average sedan is about 3klbs. 12klbs is almost the weight of a semi truck.
Would that be the same Singapore that has caning punishments, no freedom of assembly and draconian anti-littering laws? Aren't libertarians supposed to be socially liberal?
Worse yet they can be resold on the used market, directly cannibalizing new sales!
23 year old car FTMFW!
Relevant:
http://hooniverse.com/2012/09/24/truth-in-advertising-hazard-fraught-tools/
I'm all for sidestepping the rules and sticking it to the man when it's practically harmless, but this is a weapon that kills at long range and at high frequency we're talking about here.
I agree, I have no problem with microtransactions strictly for "appearance" items, unfortunately it's a very rare situation where that's the case.
I see microtransactions as a subset of DLC. A microtransaction is just DLC that's an especially bad deal.
I don't, but I don't see how those are similar at all. To give a virtual player a virtual item, some bits are moved around to indicate that the player has one of the items in their inventory, or has access to certain content. There's no scarcity of the item, practically no resources were needed to replicate it, no effort was needed apart from the creation of the original item, which for most DLC items is negligible. It's very much like bribing a DM to let you magically own an item in a long-running DnD game.
If you can convince me that stocks or bonds are like paying for DLC items then I will be sure to never invest.
Can't argue with that!
I have way more expensive hobbies than DLC'd video games, but I don't pay money for people to put virtual items in my virtual backpack by flipping some bits on a server.
Hell yeah, I'll take Boxed Expansion Hell in exchange for DRM Hell and DLC Hell in a second.
Take, for instance, today's reports [theverge.com] from The Verge on EA's Real Racing 3. In this game, you pay Real Money to repair damage to your car, and you pay More Real Money to make those repairs take less time.
Shit, why not just actually go and race a real car? The graphics, sound and force-feedback are all vastly better.
Anyone dumb enough to play Real Racing 3 totally deserves it.
I was half-joking to point out the futility of a handful of nerds boycotting a system that hordes of less intelligent gamers are all too eager to spend tons of money on.
I've been boycotting all the games with DRM and DLC for over a decade and it hasn't done shit.
Also it's really too bad that there was nothing between the DLC Hell of the early 2010s and the Change-Muncher Hell of the 1980s...
What if the drone were controlled through a very long wire?* Then there would be a physical connection between a person's hand and the gun barrel just like a regular firearm.
*Actual control method used for some early RC planes and present-day guided missiles.
I have a a friend who fell for it too - I came close to falling for it myself.
He has his own graphic design business now but he's still paying off the student debt and credit card debt he rung up.
Most coding the commercial world wants is boring. Your home projects may be fun but most of the work out there is not. It doesn't pay that well now and it sure as hell won't pay better if a bunch of kids are tricked into pursuing it, further increasing the labor surplus in a professions you could teach yourself with nothing but a computer and an Internet connection.
Came here to say this. Am I interested in gigabit Internet at $2k/mo or whatever the looney price is? No. Would I be interested in it at a reasonable price? Hell yes.
But because I don't currently buy it apparently I'm not interested. In other news gearheads are apparently not interested in owning supercars, and very few men are interested in dating supermodels.
An N900 will actually extend your e-peen!