I don't understand why I'm not seeing the same slew of posts deriding Chrome's version numbering scheme that I see whenever there is a Firefox article.
Because Chrome started with the inflated numbering scheme and stuck with it. Firefox had a sane and useful numbering scheme and abandoned it.
It does, but it's not just online matchmaking stuff, it's all of playstation plus. Which so far has included a pretty nice selection of free games, as well as discounts on other games. They're even going to have one of their launch titles, Driveclub, be one of the free games. Plus, there's mirroring of your saves online, and a boatload of other pretty nifty features.
It costs about the same as a new game for a full year, and they give out multiple full size games a year, plus a couple dozen smaller ones. I know my membership has paid for itself several times over.
All I seem to find on this PS4 DRM, is vague hints that it is better... Where are the specifics? Xbox said it will need to phone home every 24 hours, Sony? Who knows. How hard is it to give us details that we can come after them when the whole hype of DRM is over?
And $100 cheaper? How much will the Eye cost if one wants it?
To me it seems they have the same exact price point and NO details on how their DRM will work, none.
In this age of information, it ticks me off when they purposefully withhold this kind of stuff.
brilliant business people are the opposite of productive.
That's an ignorent statement.
The whole point of being a brilliant business person is to let others produce for you while taking full credit/full benefit from it while exerting the least amount of time making that happen.
And i'm fairly sure it's ignorant.
I don't know, "ignorent" could be a new word. Given the context, it could mean something that causes one to choose to ignore something. In this case your statement irritated him enough that he chooses to ignore you in the future.
I think that being awarded legal costs should be more common, but only up to the amount that the loser spent. So if side A has a fairly average costing lawyer and loses to the ultra high priced legal team of side B, then side A still only has to pay as much to side B as he paid for side A. So basically, at worst, the loser would have to double his legal costs.
I routinely used a JavaME email app on my "dumb"-phone...kept my net usage to a few MBs per month and was only paying $30/month with T-mobile prepaid (please, please don't let ATT buy them!)...JavaME FTW!
The ATT deal fell through, so no more worrying about a buyout from that direction.
all of the mentioned games can be installed and played without touching steam. And being mmo's they are updated as needed anyways. What do Steam bring to this?
Steam brings additional awareness to these games. The biggest problem these games have is a limited player base due to fewer people being aware of them. Also, Steam brings the Steam Wallet. This allows for you to have microtransactions handled by a single, relatively well trusted company, rather than having to trust your credit card info to multiple smaller ones.
Resistance 1 had the arsenal on back model and the third one will as well. They decided to play follow the leader with the second one and made it the "realistic" type. The fans did not agree. So you've got at least one game to look forward to with that particular old-school model.
Like Metroid or Super Metroid, there's only one path to solve the puzzle.
I'm going to have to disagree on the only one path to solve a puzzle in Super Metroid. Just watch any speed run video of that game and you'll understand, but one alternate path that I found was on the way to get your first pack of power bombs. The typical method is to go down into Norfair and get the ice beam, but you can get them well before then. Just super missile the otherwise indestructible enemies and wall jump up that tunnel. It's a lot harder, but saves a good chunk of backtracking.
I believe it's more sending a copy of the data, and only letting users modify that copy as opposed to the stored data. So yeah, missed the point a bit. This makes it so users can only wreck the copy that they have, rather than the database.
I think the best way to do it would be to split it up over two. Have the first page be short, mostly just the introduction, with everything else being on the second. That way, they still get a bit of click-through, their servers don't get hammered as badly by people who only read the first page, we get an article that doesn't span a dozen pages, and everybody gets a free unicorn... I think that sentence got away from me there at the end. You get the point.
The PSP is $120 used and $170 new, and it can connect to the PSN store. It can handle SNES and earlier games through emulation (assuming a certain willingness and capability to install custom firmware), and can also handle PS1 games, not to mention all of the platform specific games out for it. Not exactly in the $50-$100 range, I know, but it's also not in the $200-$400 range.
Just to keep you aware of what's already out there that might match what you'd like.
With MAD, it's more like the rapist has already let you know that he's going to kill you when he's done raping you, so you go ahead and blow the belt. Also, a huge explosive belt would tend to ward off all but the most crazed rapists, which is also in keeping with MAD.
What multiplayer console game does this? I play a LOT of games, and I've never encountered this problem with any of them. If it's a downloaded game, then yes, it is tied to your system. But every console game that I've ever purchased a disc for has been able to be resold. The only exceptions are things like pre-order bonuses that can't be transferred once linked to your account. But those are usually just extra skins for something or another and don't actually add any gameplay elements. You can still very much play all of the multiplayer and single player modes with ease.
Most modern keypad locks like what you're thinking of actually randomize the layout of the keypad. So looking for the more worn keys is an exercise in futility.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_teleportation I'm not a physicist, but from what I could gather from the wiki page, when you make the change, Bob's qubit could become 1 of 4 different states. Alice needs to send (through a classical channel) information to Bob saying what changes need to be made to his in order to get the desired outcome. If somebody is eavesdropping, all that they get are the changes, not the starting state or the final state. Thus ends today's lecture on quantum communications.
You can't covict me of tresspassing when I wandered into Company X's board room -- people come and go from that room all the time!
Blizzard's argument is more along the lines of you invited the board to meet in your living room, and now they're upset that you are walking in and out of it.
It's a bad analogy that could use some work, but it's serviceable for this argument.
IANAL, but I believe that they would only be able to if that particular method is laid out in the contract with the band. Otherwise, the bands could sue them for breaking the contract AND copyright infringement.
There's a game called Ragnarok Battle Offline. If you google for it you can find it and the translation patch. It's a REALLY good side scrolling beat-em-up with RPG elements. It supports up to 3 people on one computer. Multiple classes (Swordsman, Archer, Thief, Merchant, Magician, and Acolyte) that all play very differently from each other. Your choice of playing as a male or a female even changes the character's combat style. All in all, it's a heck of a lot of fun.
I'd argue that the use of profanity is the less damaging choice. People would become inured to the harsher language and would then be forced to pay closer attention to the meaning behind the words, rather than taking things at face value. Of course, you'd get a lot of people using it for shock value at first, but I believe over time, it would probably have a positive effect.
For the uninitiated, I will attempt an explanation of D&D. You and a number of your friends all get together, one of you comes up with an idea for a story, and everybody else plays a character in that story. The actions of the characters in the story are moderated by the person who is telling it (the dungeon master), the choices of the friends acting in it, and the whims of random chance(dice rolls). The reason geeks are so fascinated by it, is it's a chance to hang out with friends, it's a way to be creative and tell a story, it's a chance to let your imagination go wild.
In theory, it's interactive story telling with dice rolls. In practice, it's an opportunity for a bunch of friends to get together, and have some fun while exercising their imaginations just a bit. If you've never tried it, I suggest you go to a local hobby shop, and find out if they host any games. You might like it, you might not. But it is the only way to truly understand what D&D is.
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I don't understand why I'm not seeing the same slew of posts deriding Chrome's version numbering scheme that I see whenever there is a Firefox article.
Because Chrome started with the inflated numbering scheme and stuck with it. Firefox had a sane and useful numbering scheme and abandoned it.
It does, but it's not just online matchmaking stuff, it's all of playstation plus. Which so far has included a pretty nice selection of free games, as well as discounts on other games. They're even going to have one of their launch titles, Driveclub, be one of the free games. Plus, there's mirroring of your saves online, and a boatload of other pretty nifty features. It costs about the same as a new game for a full year, and they give out multiple full size games a year, plus a couple dozen smaller ones. I know my membership has paid for itself several times over.
All I seem to find on this PS4 DRM, is vague hints that it is better... Where are the specifics? Xbox said it will need to phone home every 24 hours, Sony? Who knows. How hard is it to give us details that we can come after them when the whole hype of DRM is over?
And $100 cheaper? How much will the Eye cost if one wants it?
To me it seems they have the same exact price point and NO details on how their DRM will work, none.
In this age of information, it ticks me off when they purposefully withhold this kind of stuff.
Explicitly stated no connection is required, $60 for the Eye, and as far as used games goes... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWSIFh8ICaA
brilliant business people are the opposite of productive.
That's an ignorent statement.
The whole point of being a brilliant business person is to let others produce for you while taking full credit/full benefit from it while exerting the least amount of time making that happen.
And i'm fairly sure it's ignorant.
I don't know, "ignorent" could be a new word. Given the context, it could mean something that causes one to choose to ignore something. In this case your statement irritated him enough that he chooses to ignore you in the future.
I think that being awarded legal costs should be more common, but only up to the amount that the loser spent. So if side A has a fairly average costing lawyer and loses to the ultra high priced legal team of side B, then side A still only has to pay as much to side B as he paid for side A. So basically, at worst, the loser would have to double his legal costs.
I routinely used a JavaME email app on my "dumb"-phone...kept my net usage to a few MBs per month and was only paying $30/month with T-mobile prepaid (please, please don't let ATT buy them!)...JavaME FTW!
The ATT deal fell through, so no more worrying about a buyout from that direction.
all of the mentioned games can be installed and played without touching steam. And being mmo's they are updated as needed anyways. What do Steam bring to this?
Steam brings additional awareness to these games. The biggest problem these games have is a limited player base due to fewer people being aware of them. Also, Steam brings the Steam Wallet. This allows for you to have microtransactions handled by a single, relatively well trusted company, rather than having to trust your credit card info to multiple smaller ones.
Resistance 1 had the arsenal on back model and the third one will as well. They decided to play follow the leader with the second one and made it the "realistic" type. The fans did not agree. So you've got at least one game to look forward to with that particular old-school model.
Like Metroid or Super Metroid, there's only one path to solve the puzzle.
I'm going to have to disagree on the only one path to solve a puzzle in Super Metroid. Just watch any speed run video of that game and you'll understand, but one alternate path that I found was on the way to get your first pack of power bombs. The typical method is to go down into Norfair and get the ice beam, but you can get them well before then. Just super missile the otherwise indestructible enemies and wall jump up that tunnel. It's a lot harder, but saves a good chunk of backtracking.
I'm not a lawyer either, but you're right. He hasn't violated copyright law. He has violated the DMCA's anti-circumvention clause though.
I believe it's more sending a copy of the data, and only letting users modify that copy as opposed to the stored data. So yeah, missed the point a bit. This makes it so users can only wreck the copy that they have, rather than the database.
I think the best way to do it would be to split it up over two. Have the first page be short, mostly just the introduction, with everything else being on the second. That way, they still get a bit of click-through, their servers don't get hammered as badly by people who only read the first page, we get an article that doesn't span a dozen pages, and everybody gets a free unicorn... I think that sentence got away from me there at the end. You get the point.
The PSP is $120 used and $170 new, and it can connect to the PSN store. It can handle SNES and earlier games through emulation (assuming a certain willingness and capability to install custom firmware), and can also handle PS1 games, not to mention all of the platform specific games out for it. Not exactly in the $50-$100 range, I know, but it's also not in the $200-$400 range. Just to keep you aware of what's already out there that might match what you'd like.
With MAD, it's more like the rapist has already let you know that he's going to kill you when he's done raping you, so you go ahead and blow the belt. Also, a huge explosive belt would tend to ward off all but the most crazed rapists, which is also in keeping with MAD.
I know it's not the ever popular xkcd, but this comic is just too appropriate here. http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20081109
What multiplayer console game does this? I play a LOT of games, and I've never encountered this problem with any of them. If it's a downloaded game, then yes, it is tied to your system. But every console game that I've ever purchased a disc for has been able to be resold. The only exceptions are things like pre-order bonuses that can't be transferred once linked to your account. But those are usually just extra skins for something or another and don't actually add any gameplay elements. You can still very much play all of the multiplayer and single player modes with ease.
http://craphound.com/overclocked/Cory_Doctorow_-_Overclocked_-_I_Row-Boat.html Sorry about that. The extra slash at the end killed it.
I Row-Boat, possibly the story in question. It's a fairly entertaining read. http://craphound.com/overclocked/Cory_Doctorow_-_Overclocked_-_I_Row-Boat.html/
Most modern keypad locks like what you're thinking of actually randomize the layout of the keypad. So looking for the more worn keys is an exercise in futility.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_teleportation I'm not a physicist, but from what I could gather from the wiki page, when you make the change, Bob's qubit could become 1 of 4 different states. Alice needs to send (through a classical channel) information to Bob saying what changes need to be made to his in order to get the desired outcome. If somebody is eavesdropping, all that they get are the changes, not the starting state or the final state. Thus ends today's lecture on quantum communications.
You can't covict me of tresspassing when I wandered into Company X's board room -- people come and go from that room all the time!
Blizzard's argument is more along the lines of you invited the board to meet in your living room, and now they're upset that you are walking in and out of it.
It's a bad analogy that could use some work, but it's serviceable for this argument.
IANAL, but I believe that they would only be able to if that particular method is laid out in the contract with the band. Otherwise, the bands could sue them for breaking the contract AND copyright infringement.
There's a game called Ragnarok Battle Offline. If you google for it you can find it and the translation patch. It's a REALLY good side scrolling beat-em-up with RPG elements. It supports up to 3 people on one computer. Multiple classes (Swordsman, Archer, Thief, Merchant, Magician, and Acolyte) that all play very differently from each other. Your choice of playing as a male or a female even changes the character's combat style. All in all, it's a heck of a lot of fun.
I'd argue that the use of profanity is the less damaging choice. People would become inured to the harsher language and would then be forced to pay closer attention to the meaning behind the words, rather than taking things at face value. Of course, you'd get a lot of people using it for shock value at first, but I believe over time, it would probably have a positive effect.
For the uninitiated, I will attempt an explanation of D&D. You and a number of your friends all get together, one of you comes up with an idea for a story, and everybody else plays a character in that story. The actions of the characters in the story are moderated by the person who is telling it (the dungeon master), the choices of the friends acting in it, and the whims of random chance(dice rolls). The reason geeks are so fascinated by it, is it's a chance to hang out with friends, it's a way to be creative and tell a story, it's a chance to let your imagination go wild. In theory, it's interactive story telling with dice rolls. In practice, it's an opportunity for a bunch of friends to get together, and have some fun while exercising their imaginations just a bit. If you've never tried it, I suggest you go to a local hobby shop, and find out if they host any games. You might like it, you might not. But it is the only way to truly understand what D&D is.