Wrong analogy. During the US Civil War, often if a rich person was drafted into the army, they would pay someone to serve in their place. If you're buying gold from a gold farmer, you're paying someone else to play the MMORPG in your place.
I don't play MMORPG's, but I presume that this is because playing a low-level RPG character in these games is boring and that it gets more interesting as the character advances. Rather than try to restrict gold-farming, it seems to me that the problem could be solved with good game design. Make the game more interesting for beginning players. Perhaps partition (perhaps different servers / different 'worlds') beginner players and intermediate / advanced players.
I don't want Sony to win a format war cause that's one of the signs of the Apocalypse! Now if Microsoft starts selling Linux and Disney starts supporting DRM-free media distribution, we're all DOOMED!!
A lot of US companies are outsourcing software development to China. Hardware vendors are moving the bulk of their manufacturing to China. At the same time, the US military is relying more and more on off the shelf software and hardware. Seems to me that there's ample opportunity for mischief (hidden trojans, etc.). Curious, that no one seems to be concerned about this.
I'd rather see the AG's go after Microsoft for their anti-Linux patent FUD. The DOJ is completely asleep at the wheel (or bought off) on this issue. Maybe the EU will do something about it.
Hezbollah fired a bunch of low tech rockets at Israel
Yeah, over four thousand of them at Israeli cities. Hezbollah fired them from positions in civilian areas or sometimes even built-in to civilian homes. And a large percentage were heavy duty rockets they'd obtained from Iran.
Microsoft should create a new line of games for kids. I suggest starting with Super Mario Monopoly. You play an Italian plumber who's running a very very large software company. Your opponent Bowser runs a search engine company. You play by taking money from consumers, collecting other small companies, and throwing chairs at your opponents. Fun for the whole family!
Kind of makes business sense for a marketing office. NY is a center for old media and SF for new. On the other hand, maybe Reggie is getting tired of the rain and wants to live in NY or SF.
I cannot imagine Nintendo dropping the price on the Wii while supply / demand are so out of balance. If you're a manufacturer, and you can sell every single unit of a product you make, and you still have an order backlog, that's not a lot of motivation to drop price. On the other hand, if your product is sitting on the shelf and being outsold five to one by the competition in your home market *cough* Sony *cough*, you might consider dropping your price.
DRM is going to KILL legal downloads of commercial video. Talk to people who've purchased and downloaded movies on-line. Or read reviews of legal download services. Certainly, there are satisfied customers. But all too often you'll read or hear about people who've paid money, spent the time downloading the video, and it won't play. Or it won't transfer to the Ipod (or other portable device). Because of faulty DRM. Legal commercial video download services are just getting started and they can't afford to alienate the early adopters. But because of flawed DRM (redundant), that's exactly what's happening.
Exception in thread "Surf" java.lang.NullPointerException at Slashdot.Post(Slashdot.java:1061) at Slashdot.Read(Slashdot.java:75) at MyBrain.main(MyBrain.java:4038)
I have several Firefox T-shirts (yeah, I know, I'm a geek). About half the time, when I walk into a store, an employee or another customer will see the shirt and make a positive comment about Firefox. So, anecdotally, there's a positive perception of the Firefox brand out there. I remember a time when Mosaic and then Netscape WERE synonymous with the Web. I suspect that time is long gone.
(It would be an interesting experiment walking around with an IE shirt. But I'm not brave enough to do it).
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The second cave painting was quickly followed by the invention of the "cease and desist" club.
Wrong analogy. During the US Civil War, often if a rich person was drafted into the army, they would pay someone to serve in their place. If you're buying gold from a gold farmer, you're paying someone else to play the MMORPG in your place.
I don't play MMORPG's, but I presume that this is because playing a low-level RPG character in these games is boring and that it gets more interesting as the character advances. Rather than try to restrict gold-farming, it seems to me that the problem could be solved with good game design. Make the game more interesting for beginning players. Perhaps partition (perhaps different servers / different 'worlds') beginner players and intermediate / advanced players.
I don't want Sony to win a format war cause that's one of the signs of the Apocalypse! Now if Microsoft starts selling Linux and Disney starts supporting DRM-free media distribution, we're all DOOMED!!
A lot of US companies are outsourcing software development to China. Hardware vendors are moving the bulk of their manufacturing to China. At the same time, the US military is relying more and more on off the shelf software and hardware. Seems to me that there's ample opportunity for mischief (hidden trojans, etc.). Curious, that no one seems to be concerned about this.
(Courtesy of South Park) "Gentlemen, we are dealing with someone here who ... has absolutely no life".
Well, you'd also need to disenfranchise the dead in Chicago.
Hey, computer models are always 100% accurate. Just ask Al Gore.
"It would not be difficult ..."
Another Kubrick fan.
I'd rather see the AG's go after Microsoft for their anti-Linux patent FUD. The DOJ is completely asleep at the wheel (or bought off) on this issue. Maybe the EU will do something about it.
Hezbollah fired a bunch of low tech rockets at Israel
Yeah, over four thousand of them at Israeli cities. Hezbollah fired them from positions in civilian areas or sometimes even built-in to civilian homes. And a large percentage were heavy duty rockets they'd obtained from Iran.
Wow, they have replicated the experience of iTunes on Windows!
but did Yahoo! actually do anything legally wrong?
Nope, just morally reprehensible.
Apple learned from its mistakes and tried again
Same with Microsoft, except it usually takes them three tries.
Microsoft should create a new line of games for kids. I suggest starting with Super Mario Monopoly. You play an Italian plumber who's running a very very large software company. Your opponent Bowser runs a search engine company. You play by taking money from consumers, collecting other small companies, and throwing chairs at your opponents. Fun for the whole family!
a great place for the Millenium Falcon to hide from the Imperial Fleet.
What about the effect on bees and British children!! We're all doomed!!!
Or make it look like a wheeled upside down trashcan with a gun ... and have it yell "Exterminate!".
Kind of makes business sense for a marketing office. NY is a center for old media and SF for new. On the other hand, maybe Reggie is getting tired of the rain and wants to live in NY or SF.
I cannot imagine Nintendo dropping the price on the Wii while supply / demand are so out of balance. If you're a manufacturer, and you can sell every single unit of a product you make, and you still have an order backlog, that's not a lot of motivation to drop price. On the other hand, if your product is sitting on the shelf and being outsold five to one by the competition in your home market *cough* Sony *cough*, you might consider dropping your price.
DRM is going to KILL legal downloads of commercial video. Talk to people who've purchased and downloaded movies on-line. Or read reviews of legal download services. Certainly, there are satisfied customers. But all too often you'll read or hear about people who've paid money, spent the time downloading the video, and it won't play. Or it won't transfer to the Ipod (or other portable device). Because of faulty DRM. Legal commercial video download services are just getting started and they can't afford to alienate the early adopters. But because of flawed DRM (redundant), that's exactly what's happening.
The Senate has banned laptops in the Senate chambers. Yeah, these are the people I want to get tech advice from.
Personally, I think that ...
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at Slashdot.Post(Slashdot.java:1061)
at Slashdot.Read(Slashdot.java:75)
at MyBrain.main(MyBrain.java:4038)
Don't even need software to do it, just a backhoe.
Let's hope Congress doesn't mandate this snake oil for any Universities 'receiving Federal funds'.
I have several Firefox T-shirts (yeah, I know, I'm a geek). About half the time, when I walk into a store, an employee or another customer will see the shirt and make a positive comment about Firefox. So, anecdotally, there's a positive perception of the Firefox brand out there. I remember a time when Mosaic and then Netscape WERE synonymous with the Web. I suspect that time is long gone.
(It would be an interesting experiment walking around with an IE shirt. But I'm not brave enough to do it).