.onion is the most resilient but probably the least convenient. If it's for l33t haxx0r stuff then have at it - in fact I'd recommend hosting the site through an.onion and using a "mainstream" domain as a proxy to it (like your own personal tor2web) if you're worried about it being taken down, in any case, and it gives you a ready-made emergency failover solution.
The.cn domains actually seem to be pretty resilient, I think that was Wikileaks' only domain that was never taken offline.
I'm pretty sure there is some kind of cartel-like arrangement going on already. Look at how the telcos all do things that screw the customer at the same time: jack up SMS rates, impose data limits, block tethering, all conveniently happened around the same time on all carriers.
And tell OPEC or DeBeers their cartel doesn't work. Remember to yell, it's hard to hear when you're swimming in a pool of cash.
Yeah, looks awesome, but it's even more of a bling-toy than the average chopper.
Horrific riding position, little to no suspension travel, and if it has a decent-performing electric powertrain, it'll cost a fortune.
Here's how I would have done it:
1. Make it more practical. Try to massage the seating position into a more regular sportbike style. Yes it won't be 100% accurate but who needs that. You can put surprisingly wide wheels on a sportbike before the handling starts to really suffer.
2. Put a 600cc engine on it with a noisy-ass supercharger. Maybe make it gear-driven for more gear whine. It will sound sufficiently alien that people who hear it will think "WTF is that?" and it will have WAY more than enough power to haul around any extra weight.
3. At the rear, have a vertical stack of powerful LEDs, and add a sprinkler system in the back that releases a heavy, vertical line-shaped mist. This way you can hit a button to lay down a "light trail":D A laser projection system like those fancy bike safety things could be used to lay down a line on the ground behind the bike too.
If you can get into industry conferences you'll hear them do exactly this. An AT&T exec was famously heard to say something along the lines of "we're locking down the Internet and setting up toll booths" at such a thing. That was in the mid-2000s.
That doesn't affect the fact that the sales tax is inherently regressive or that the poor man will have to pay a much larger share of his income on just the basic necessities. This is the main problem.
The rich man could survive on the same things a middle-class person does quite comfortably. Whatever he buys beyond that is a completely optional luxury, and it's up to him whether he's going to save/reinvest most of his money or live like MC Hammer.
In fact, you can complete the game without shooting a single bullet, and that doesn't even increase the difficulty all that much.
Oh some parts are A LOT harder. The fight going down the plaza stairs and the two final fight scenes (elevator lobby and server room) are REALLY freakin' hard without shooting.
The hardest part of all to do without a gun is actually the PK warehouse, right after the elevator falls. Just getting onto the raised walkways without being shot to death on the way and killing the guy shooting you point-blank in the face is possibly the hardest part of getting through the game without shooting.
Maybe you can have two playable characters: The Mainstream News Journalist and The Underground News Journalist, and they have different storylines that intertwine at some points. It would add to the replay value.
If I was writing this game, I'd make it an open-worldish game like the STALKER series, and then reward the player for putting together a variety of footage.
The question is how do you reward a photographer player? Better armor? Better equipment? A UAV-cam? Keeping the game from becoming boring might be a challenge.
I'd have a product on the market if not for a bunch of sci-fi patents on a device that only became remotely possible due to advancements in battery tech in the late 2000s. As recently as the '90s the idea would have been laughable, and there are patents on all the concepts involved going back to the '70s. I really just wanted to build one for my own personal use and sell a few hand-built units to cover the development costs (and maybe go further if there's enough demand), but I'd risk getting my ass sued off.
Not that I'd want to abolish the patent system entirely, but certainly make it much lighter and more stringent than the current abomination.
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Today's gas prices are lowest in history of USA. You can buy a gallon of gas for 10 cents.
Of-course you need a dime that was minted prior to 1965 and had silver in it.
Wouldn't help, you'd still be on the 3rd biggest price spike in the last half-century:
http://www.fintrend.com/inflation/inflation_rate/Historical_Oil_Prices_Chart.asp
It'll end up on TPB in either case, so why not sell it in a way that can beat TPB on convenience? Otherwise TPB will have the superior product.
Or host on an .onion site and use the domain as a proxy. Boom, untraceable hosting.
There was a big change. The moment Obama was elected he changed from a liberal to a neoconservative.
"What a TWIST!" - M. Night Shyamalan
Yeah it doesn't seem that he ever said that (although it's easy to believe he did, considering the other things that came out of his mouth):
http://factcheck.org/2007/12/bush-the-constitution-a-goddamned-piece-of-paper/
.onion is the most resilient but probably the least convenient. If it's for l33t haxx0r stuff then have at it - in fact I'd recommend hosting the site through an .onion and using a "mainstream" domain as a proxy to it (like your own personal tor2web) if you're worried about it being taken down, in any case, and it gives you a ready-made emergency failover solution.
The .cn domains actually seem to be pretty resilient, I think that was Wikileaks' only domain that was never taken offline.
Yeah that's where all the costs come in. Sure you could have decent performance for cheap, if you just want to sprint down your street a few times :-P
Now that reminds me of the game Cyberbykes. '80s-tastic!
That thing always makes me think someone at Dodge was a Final Fantasy fan...
Fast electric bikes aren't cheap...the price would easily go into the 6-digit zone.
I'm pretty sure there is some kind of cartel-like arrangement going on already. Look at how the telcos all do things that screw the customer at the same time: jack up SMS rates, impose data limits, block tethering, all conveniently happened around the same time on all carriers.
And tell OPEC or DeBeers their cartel doesn't work. Remember to yell, it's hard to hear when you're swimming in a pool of cash.
Yeah, looks awesome, but it's even more of a bling-toy than the average chopper.
Horrific riding position, little to no suspension travel, and if it has a decent-performing electric powertrain, it'll cost a fortune.
Here's how I would have done it:
1. Make it more practical. Try to massage the seating position into a more regular sportbike style. Yes it won't be 100% accurate but who needs that. You can put surprisingly wide wheels on a sportbike before the handling starts to really suffer.
2. Put a 600cc engine on it with a noisy-ass supercharger. Maybe make it gear-driven for more gear whine. It will sound sufficiently alien that people who hear it will think "WTF is that?" and it will have WAY more than enough power to haul around any extra weight.
3. At the rear, have a vertical stack of powerful LEDs, and add a sprinkler system in the back that releases a heavy, vertical line-shaped mist. This way you can hit a button to lay down a "light trail" :D A laser projection system like those fancy bike safety things could be used to lay down a line on the ground behind the bike too.
4. Get appropriately lit riding gear B-)
Dodge my wall!
Whoa, mod parent Interesting.
If you can get into industry conferences you'll hear them do exactly this. An AT&T exec was famously heard to say something along the lines of "we're locking down the Internet and setting up toll booths" at such a thing. That was in the mid-2000s.
That doesn't affect the fact that the sales tax is inherently regressive or that the poor man will have to pay a much larger share of his income on just the basic necessities. This is the main problem.
The rich man could survive on the same things a middle-class person does quite comfortably. Whatever he buys beyond that is a completely optional luxury, and it's up to him whether he's going to save/reinvest most of his money or live like MC Hammer.
We're ready for less competition! Bring it on!
Or, you know, just sell on one of the DRM-free places like GoG or Direct2Drive.
In fact, you can complete the game without shooting a single bullet, and that doesn't even increase the difficulty all that much.
Oh some parts are A LOT harder. The fight going down the plaza stairs and the two final fight scenes (elevator lobby and server room) are REALLY freakin' hard without shooting.
The hardest part of all to do without a gun is actually the PK warehouse, right after the elevator falls. Just getting onto the raised walkways without being shot to death on the way and killing the guy shooting you point-blank in the face is possibly the hardest part of getting through the game without shooting.
Maybe you can have two playable characters: The Mainstream News Journalist and The Underground News Journalist, and they have different storylines that intertwine at some points. It would add to the replay value.
I was wondering the same thing. What's the use of this SUA thingy?
If I was writing this game, I'd make it an open-worldish game like the STALKER series, and then reward the player for putting together a variety of footage.
The question is how do you reward a photographer player? Better armor? Better equipment? A UAV-cam? Keeping the game from becoming boring might be a challenge.
You can buy that game DRM-free from the developer IIRC (site's blocked at work).
I can't feel bad for the idiots who lock themselves in. It's not like it's any secret or that they didn't have a choice.
I'd have a product on the market if not for a bunch of sci-fi patents on a device that only became remotely possible due to advancements in battery tech in the late 2000s. As recently as the '90s the idea would have been laughable, and there are patents on all the concepts involved going back to the '70s. I really just wanted to build one for my own personal use and sell a few hand-built units to cover the development costs (and maybe go further if there's enough demand), but I'd risk getting my ass sued off.
Not that I'd want to abolish the patent system entirely, but certainly make it much lighter and more stringent than the current abomination.