"while so many violent crimes in the US result in much more lenient sentences..."
.... Are you crazy?
"the theater is really private property."
This has nothing to do with private property. This is a question of Copyright. They had permission to be on the property.
Amen. I'm so tired of people screaming "think of the children!" and ignoring the data right infront of them.
If second-hand smoke was killing children by the masses, then my god, that would be terrible. But its just not, so lets all calm down.
This really has nothing to do with the article though. Should be a simple question of whether or not the apple warranty mentioned smoking. Everything after that is incidental.
The lack of uncanny valley is due to the fact that they filmed it in live action as well as cg and blended that together, so the things like people's faces that are very hard to pull off will still look extremely realistic. That said, some of the characters faces were cg, especially the aliens, and they still looked pretty believable.
The fact that blizzard's games (other than wow) use p2p after matchmaking has been established on the server does not change my point whatsoever, unless the p2p is going to utilize the local connection. Is it going to be that smart? Currently neither WC3 or SC1 allows LAN over b.net, so I guess we can't be certain yet.
True, but even if its p2p, that doesn't mean it'll automatically connect p2p over the LAN, it may still dial all the way out to the net and then back into your LAN.
This is what is killing the games industry. As long as I go home with the video game box that looked really cool, they don't care if it sucks by the time I get to level 10, I've already purchased it. Similarly, this really sucks for alot of us who enjoy SC at LAN parties, but as long as we all buy the game anyways (and we will) then they get their way.
Thats not a bonus, thats the main idea. Fighting piracy / copying. Its ridiculous and its the opposite of what will make people love the game. They need to remember why they enabled spawn copies in SC, because then more people will play and enjoy and want to buy the game.
They keep saying that they are offering something better. No amount of fancy battle.net matchmaking features is going to get over the technical limitation of requiring every machine on a LAN to constantly communicate back and forth across the same shared pipe to blizzard's servers. This is what they do not seem to understand. That, or more likely, they understand it just fine and don't care, and are more driven by sales and fighting piracy than making their customers happy. When will gaming companies learn? Do not worry about your non-customers, worry about the people who fund your paycheck!
Highly doubtful. The whole idea is they are trying to ensure everybody buys the game. They're trying to fight people who pirate the game, and then use Hamachi to establish a LAN network over the internet, and play without having to validate their cd-key against the b.net servers.
Valve, on the other hand, makes us all connect to the steam servers for validation, but then allows people to set up a dedicated server to play on. Starcraft 2 is almost assuredly going to have the same peer-to-peer model of multiplayer as wc2 and sc and wc3, so a dedi server isn't really helpful. What we need is a way to authenticate against b.net and then change to LAN play, similar to how valve has "offline mode" where you have to validate your singleplayer game but are then allowed to play offline for awhile, or just LAN play in the first place.
I disagree. Its both business and personal. You have to succeed, but as Google (at least originally) noted, you have to do it while 'not being evil'. Ballmer and co. are hurting the industry.
MS' treatment of open-source, calling it a virus, massively downplaying it, then stealing it and slapping their own licence on top of it, well, thats rape in my book.
Is the problem really that is a ROM hack? I think the problem is more that its using the CT characters and images and names. There were several other CT projects that used ENTIRELY their own codebase, but were still sent cease and dissist letters by Squeenix.
Square, you aren't going to do anything with the CT IP, and nobody really cares about it anymore. The least you could do is let us fans make it popular again, its free advertising! I want to play these games so bad, I'm the biggest CT fan. But No.
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did you read the part of my post where I talked about how it wouldn't ever really be released as NC-17? Seems like you only read the first couple sentences or something.
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So all art in the world needs to be censored and all individuals rights to view films need be restricted to "protect" a few?
I am done with this way of thinking. You have kids? Be their parent. Stop trying to get the MPAA and the film makers and the cinemas to do it for you.
Don't get me wrong, I just saw Watchmen and it was indeed mature, sex and violence were everywhere.
Honestly? You want it given an NC-17 rating? It would be just like when grand theft auto was changed to an "adult only" rating because people complained it pushed the bounds of an M rating. But nobody stocks A rated games because we have a ridiculous double standard, so it just got dropped and a new M rated version got made. The same thing would have to happen to Watchmen, the NC-17 version wouldn't be shown anywhere, the movie would be edited down to an R version, and we would all have to suffer with less than the original artistic vision because you're scared about your kids seeing it.
MOST Americans are over the age of 18. Let us enjoy our violence and tits, please!
True, but the whole point is that right now, in the real world, linux doesn't need AV and windows does, so if you're looking at what to put on your lappy, that factors into the equation.
Possibly in the future (oh man wouldn't it be beautiful?) Linux will see larger market share and will be targeted by viruses more, but this isn't a study of how many dell laptops will be sold in the future.
God is actually powered by Irony. And heaven is a place only for those who don't believe in it.
(okay, that genius idea was totally Dresden Codak's, credit where credit is due.)
The thing is, the judge totally shot down their 'intent to distribute' arguments, so I don't know what they think they're gonna accomplish the second time around that they didn't the first time.
What lawyer, where, thinks its a good idea to sue some lady for $222,000 for $23 worth of illegal filesharing?
Its bad enough the RIAA tried it in the first place, but the court shot them down, and they're still at it? You'd think anybody with half a conscience would move on at this point.
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"while so many violent crimes in the US result in much more lenient sentences..."
.... Are you crazy?
"the theater is really private property."
This has nothing to do with private property. This is a question of Copyright. They had permission to be on the property.
Amen. I'm so tired of people screaming "think of the children!" and ignoring the data right infront of them. If second-hand smoke was killing children by the masses, then my god, that would be terrible. But its just not, so lets all calm down. This really has nothing to do with the article though. Should be a simple question of whether or not the apple warranty mentioned smoking. Everything after that is incidental.
Pirates of dark water, hell yes. Where did THAT show go?
The lack of uncanny valley is due to the fact that they filmed it in live action as well as cg and blended that together, so the things like people's faces that are very hard to pull off will still look extremely realistic. That said, some of the characters faces were cg, especially the aliens, and they still looked pretty believable.
The fact that blizzard's games (other than wow) use p2p after matchmaking has been established on the server does not change my point whatsoever, unless the p2p is going to utilize the local connection. Is it going to be that smart? Currently neither WC3 or SC1 allows LAN over b.net, so I guess we can't be certain yet.
Obviously they care about customer satisfaction some. Its a question of priorities though.
True, but even if its p2p, that doesn't mean it'll automatically connect p2p over the LAN, it may still dial all the way out to the net and then back into your LAN.
This is what is killing the games industry. As long as I go home with the video game box that looked really cool, they don't care if it sucks by the time I get to level 10, I've already purchased it. Similarly, this really sucks for alot of us who enjoy SC at LAN parties, but as long as we all buy the game anyways (and we will) then they get their way.
Thats not a bonus, thats the main idea. Fighting piracy / copying. Its ridiculous and its the opposite of what will make people love the game. They need to remember why they enabled spawn copies in SC, because then more people will play and enjoy and want to buy the game.
I would really hope, but I'm not willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. I'm thinking they're gonna just ship it and say "have fun on b.net!"
They keep saying that they are offering something better. No amount of fancy battle.net matchmaking features is going to get over the technical limitation of requiring every machine on a LAN to constantly communicate back and forth across the same shared pipe to blizzard's servers. This is what they do not seem to understand. That, or more likely, they understand it just fine and don't care, and are more driven by sales and fighting piracy than making their customers happy. When will gaming companies learn? Do not worry about your non-customers, worry about the people who fund your paycheck!
Highly doubtful. The whole idea is they are trying to ensure everybody buys the game. They're trying to fight people who pirate the game, and then use Hamachi to establish a LAN network over the internet, and play without having to validate their cd-key against the b.net servers.
Valve, on the other hand, makes us all connect to the steam servers for validation, but then allows people to set up a dedicated server to play on. Starcraft 2 is almost assuredly going to have the same peer-to-peer model of multiplayer as wc2 and sc and wc3, so a dedi server isn't really helpful. What we need is a way to authenticate against b.net and then change to LAN play, similar to how valve has "offline mode" where you have to validate your singleplayer game but are then allowed to play offline for awhile, or just LAN play in the first place.
fair enough.
I disagree. Its both business and personal. You have to succeed, but as Google (at least originally) noted, you have to do it while 'not being evil'. Ballmer and co. are hurting the industry.
MS' treatment of open-source, calling it a virus, massively downplaying it, then stealing it and slapping their own licence on top of it, well, thats rape in my book.
Is the problem really that is a ROM hack? I think the problem is more that its using the CT characters and images and names. There were several other CT projects that used ENTIRELY their own codebase, but were still sent cease and dissist letters by Squeenix.
Square, you aren't going to do anything with the CT IP, and nobody really cares about it anymore. The least you could do is let us fans make it popular again, its free advertising! I want to play these games so bad, I'm the biggest CT fan. But No.
did you read the part of my post where I talked about how it wouldn't ever really be released as NC-17? Seems like you only read the first couple sentences or something.
So all art in the world needs to be censored and all individuals rights to view films need be restricted to "protect" a few?
I am done with this way of thinking. You have kids? Be their parent. Stop trying to get the MPAA and the film makers and the cinemas to do it for you.
Don't get me wrong, I just saw Watchmen and it was indeed mature, sex and violence were everywhere.
Honestly? You want it given an NC-17 rating? It would be just like when grand theft auto was changed to an "adult only" rating because people complained it pushed the bounds of an M rating. But nobody stocks A rated games because we have a ridiculous double standard, so it just got dropped and a new M rated version got made. The same thing would have to happen to Watchmen, the NC-17 version wouldn't be shown anywhere, the movie would be edited down to an R version, and we would all have to suffer with less than the original artistic vision because you're scared about your kids seeing it.
MOST Americans are over the age of 18. Let us enjoy our violence and tits, please!
True, but the whole point is that right now, in the real world, linux doesn't need AV and windows does, so if you're looking at what to put on your lappy, that factors into the equation.
Possibly in the future (oh man wouldn't it be beautiful?) Linux will see larger market share and will be targeted by viruses more, but this isn't a study of how many dell laptops will be sold in the future.
yeah, because 'real' numbers are more substantial than 'imaginary' ones, lol.
Besides, unless the complex number is of the form 0+x(i), they've all got a real component.
God is actually powered by Irony. And heaven is a place only for those who don't believe in it.
(okay, that genius idea was totally Dresden Codak's, credit where credit is due.)
Why so serious?
I will repeat this again, for the slow among you.
No need to be condescending, sir.
The thing is, the judge totally shot down their 'intent to distribute' arguments, so I don't know what they think they're gonna accomplish the second time around that they didn't the first time.
You took the words right out of my mouth.
What lawyer, where, thinks its a good idea to sue some lady for $222,000 for $23 worth of illegal filesharing? Its bad enough the RIAA tried it in the first place, but the court shot them down, and they're still at it? You'd think anybody with half a conscience would move on at this point.