There are free online servers for WoW, from what I hear. I'd be surprised if there weren't for any of the other online-only games.
Expansions and updates are also easily cracked.
The only (non moral) reason to pay for the online experience is if your friends refuse to use pirated versions. No use playing the game to spend more time with your friends, if you can never get to their (legit) server.
They lose money from all the law suits. I'm not talking about future sales from pissed off customers. They've actually said they are taking a loss to "stop piracy" (read: scare the shit out of you, so you buy their crap)
This is genius, now they'll make free money from every internet connection while saving money by not having to pay all those legal fees. The funny thing is, they could still release every thing with DRM. Then they can just sue you for breaking the DRM (they'd have about the same amount of evidence as their current trials, a few of which they've won).
On top of that, there will be idiots that pay the fee and still buy the real CDs - because it is what they've always done.
I see this as their new business model. They may not make mega-millions with a flat tax like this, but they will always have the bare minimum to survive.
Basically the same amount our northern neighbors pay (as taxes) to keep their MAFIAA on a leash? Maybe we should just copy their entire section of IP laws.
I'm a Independent with a Democrat lean on most issues.
That being said, I would switch to Republican, if they went back to their '96 party platform (and, never reelected a "republican" who voiced agreement with their 2000 and 2004 platform)
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Especially when you get into telekinesis, which requires WAY more energy than the human body can produce!
[citation needed]
A mother can produce enough force to lift the back end of a car off her kid. Why would you assume that by gaining the magical power of TK, I would somehow only be able to produce less force?
" Far from restoring crucial sand banks and other areas, the flows could destroy habitat, [Grand Canyon National Park Supt. Steve Martin] said. One flood was not enough, Martin said Monday. Holding off follow-up flows for months would leave endangered humpback chub fish, sandbars used by river rafting trips, and archaeological treasures at river's edge diminished "almost to the point of no return," he said."
Those habitats survived thousands of years of flooding before we created the dam, what makes him think a single flood would destroy it? And, why does he say both that the flood will destroy the habitat and that without the flood the habitat will be destroyed? Superintendent, yes. Elegant speaker/thinker and specialist, I think not.
which is a scientific fact because of mutations we observe in species
Add 'creating new' after 'in' and you are completely correct, within that sentence. As soon as you have a single population that diverges into two distinct non-interbreeding populations you have two species.
For Science's sake, we've created animals that are farther apart than lions and tigers, which can rarely have offspring with each other that are still able to breed.
I would come up with an analogy pertaining to how stupid it is to believe in micro- but not macro-evolution *(which is just micro evolution over a greater scale), but my mind can not seem to think of anything quite that idiotic.
I shutter to think of what this will do to my psyche, but I'm going to suggest you follow the methods of the Scientologists and look up the definitions of each individual word you write before you post about evolution, to clear up any possible misunderstandings on your part.
If you don't see a Linux driver for anything, don't complain - code. It isn't hard to learn, or to implement. Then, once you're finished you have a working device and you can be the hero of a small subset of the OSS community.
...or, have you forgotten that the entire reason OSS is supposed to be much better than closed source is that everyone/anyone can (and should) improve it?
My friend did his thesis on using (basically) this system to help invalids participate in the world, about 10 years ago. According to him, at first everyone can raise or lower all their brain waves at once, and within a month can raise or lower a specific wave. At first for it to be accurate, you need to have the system read muscle movement for facial tics, but gradually you can phase out this input as the patient becomes more adept at controlling his mental state. The hardest part of writing his thesis was getting time with the equipment.
Forget about games, this being mass-produced is a great step towards turning the handicapped into the handicapable .
Also, look for the New Agers gobbling this stuff up for their meditation ceremonies.
He says the Demo is available for download now - it only has one type of game play, and will only work for 3 levels (75 matches) - and requires an unlocked iPhone (obviously, since the SDK isn't out yet).
If this was a free/OSS game for Android, then 99.9% of the people on/. would be drooling. Don't hate it just because it is part of Apple and their cripleware.
It's nerd worthy, if for no other reason than it will be sucking thousands/millions of man-hours of productivity out of techies in the near future. It is also looking to be the first independent game to make mega-dollars through the iPhone's SDK.
He is a regular joe, not some corporate goon. It has been 25+ years since you could spend a week power-coding a game, and sell it to a popular console. It was definitely nerdy when kids did it for the Atari, why not for the iPhone?
That being said, since there is no patient granted yet, I think someone should go about creating an OSS version.
And progress is good, no?
Not according to the Telecoms. Apparently we're perfect just as we are, and have no need of your "progress" and infrastructure repairs/replacements.
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There are free online servers for WoW, from what I hear. I'd be surprised if there weren't for any of the other online-only games.
Expansions and updates are also easily cracked.
The only (non moral) reason to pay for the online experience is if your friends refuse to use pirated versions. No use playing the game to spend more time with your friends, if you can never get to their (legit) server.
...suggesting that even the defendant acknowledged them as such."When you fish with a net, you sometimes are going to catch a few dolphin."
-Amy Weiss
To me, it sure makes it sound like they acknowledge it.
They lose money from all the law suits. I'm not talking about future sales from pissed off customers. They've actually said they are taking a loss to "stop piracy" (read: scare the shit out of you, so you buy their crap)
This is genius, now they'll make free money from every internet connection while saving money by not having to pay all those legal fees. The funny thing is, they could still release every thing with DRM. Then they can just sue you for breaking the DRM (they'd have about the same amount of evidence as their current trials, a few of which they've won).
On top of that, there will be idiots that pay the fee and still buy the real CDs - because it is what they've always done.
I see this as their new business model. They may not make mega-millions with a flat tax like this, but they will always have the bare minimum to survive.
Basically the same amount our northern neighbors pay (as taxes) to keep their MAFIAA on a leash? Maybe we should just copy their entire section of IP laws.
I'm a Independent with a Democrat lean on most issues.
That being said, I would switch to Republican, if they went back to their '96 party platform (and, never reelected a "republican" who voiced agreement with their 2000 and 2004 platform)
Especially when you get into telekinesis, which requires WAY more energy than the human body can produce!
[citation needed]
A mother can produce enough force to lift the back end of a car off her kid. Why would you assume that by gaining the magical power of TK, I would somehow only be able to produce less force?
You could say the same thing if you constantly had a low level of, say... caffeine in your body. *Caffeine is very normal in my bodily functions.
Lots of people found out exactly this in the sixties.
...or, maybe it wasn't the music, but the copious amount of hallucinogens that were taking them to higher dimensions.
Yes.
No.
Those habitats survived thousands of years of flooding before we created the dam, what makes him think a single flood would destroy it? And, why does he say both that the flood will destroy the habitat and that without the flood the habitat will be destroyed? Superintendent, yes. Elegant speaker/thinker and specialist, I think not.
Add 'creating new' after 'in' and you are completely correct, within that sentence. As soon as you have a single population that diverges into two distinct non-interbreeding populations you have two species.
For Science's sake, we've created animals that are farther apart than lions and tigers, which can rarely have offspring with each other that are still able to breed.
I would come up with an analogy pertaining to how stupid it is to believe in micro- but not macro-evolution *(which is just micro evolution over a greater scale), but my mind can not seem to think of anything quite that idiotic.
I shutter to think of what this will do to my psyche, but I'm going to suggest you follow the methods of the Scientologists and look up the definitions of each individual word you write before you post about evolution, to clear up any possible misunderstandings on your part.
What is the average air speed VeloCity of an unladen geek?
That, or a Pirated copy of Windows. These are students, and therefore dirt poor
If you don't see a Linux driver for anything, don't complain - code. It isn't hard to learn, or to implement. Then, once you're finished you have a working device and you can be the hero of a small subset of the OSS community.
...or, have you forgotten that the entire reason OSS is supposed to be much better than closed source is that everyone/anyone can (and should) improve it?
My friend did his thesis on using (basically) this system to help invalids participate in the world, about 10 years ago. According to him, at first everyone can raise or lower all their brain waves at once, and within a month can raise or lower a specific wave. At first for it to be accurate, you need to have the system read muscle movement for facial tics, but gradually you can phase out this input as the patient becomes more adept at controlling his mental state. The hardest part of writing his thesis was getting time with the equipment.
Forget about games, this being mass-produced is a great step towards turning the handicapped into the handicapable .
Also, look for the New Agers gobbling this stuff up for their meditation ceremonies.
He says the Demo is available for download now - it only has one type of game play, and will only work for 3 levels (75 matches) - and requires an unlocked iPhone (obviously, since the SDK isn't out yet).
If this was a free/OSS game for Android, then 99.9% of the people on /. would be drooling. Don't hate it just because it is part of Apple and their cripleware.
It's nerd worthy, if for no other reason than it will be sucking thousands/millions of man-hours of productivity out of techies in the near future. It is also looking to be the first independent game to make mega-dollars through the iPhone's SDK.
He is a regular joe, not some corporate goon. It has been 25+ years since you could spend a week power-coding a game, and sell it to a popular console. It was definitely nerdy when kids did it for the Atari, why not for the iPhone?
That being said, since there is no patient granted yet, I think someone should go about creating an OSS version.
All Publicity Is Good Publicity, I hope he uses his five minutes of fame to make a quick buck.
I'm stealing this for my own uses. Should I attribute it to you, or did you get it from elsewhere?
Well, we can only hope that Comcast gets the same outcome as your ex-mayor. :)
the upside is, profits keep happening every year!
...or option 3, they can charge based off of usage (hopefully with a peek/off-peek difference for pricing)
...or option 4, they can reinvest their massive profits into bulking up their infrastructure so they don't have to worry about volume.
Not according to the Telecoms. Apparently we're perfect just as we are, and have no need of your "progress" and infrastructure repairs/replacements.