To put it simply - people who make a huge game to be entertaining (like Dragon Age) tend to be succesful, while people who make huge games out of some ego trip (like *ugh* Daikatana) will hit a brick wall going 100 mph.
It seems that the biggest enemy of the RIAA is not the music downloaders, but their own lawyers who will bankrupt them sooner or later. I say let the lawyers finish the job, as they will bleed the RIAA dry and then leave the sinking ship like the profiteering rats they are.
"Dear music lawyers. Following on your request that we should pay for illegal music downloads we allow to pass through, here is a detailed list of how much we allowed, which you will notice is empty. We 'allow' none to pass as we do not condone this practice, please find enclosed a fine payment cheque of zero dollars and zero cents. Love, the IPS."
Last week, Blizzard thought they could just disregard another PR fiasco with their RealID forums policy and hoped customers would just forget about the issue and just accept it as is.
Has anyone ever used it and engaged in an interesting conversation with a person who became a regular point of contact? Or is it all just penises and overweight bald guys?
Your state government is about to restrict access to the rest of the world through a firewall. And by firewall, I mean a giant moat filled with burning gasoline. 'cause it's the only way you'll keep out the rest of the world!
With a standard mouse, I can shift my arm and move my hand freely without disturbing the mouse if I choose not to move it. With this system, the slightest twitch might be misinterpreted as a mouse command.
[Remember, your Nanny loves you and only wants what's best for YOU].
The last cyber-nanny who wanted What's Best For Me was working for SHODAN, and tried to rip me apart with lasers for trying to hurt the egg pods of The Many. Hilarity ensued.
By claiming every education organisation should have an incompetent person at their employ, perhaps Zenna Atkins is seeking to justify her own chairman position?
I used to think they were a good measure to allow for a reasonable compromise between game companies and retailers without getting stringent political involvement. Now I say just let the government tear them a new one.
This is the false debate much pushed by those in control of the old bussiness model (of course): they talk about art when they want to say "my industry as I knew it" much as an ice seller talking about how those new devices, the refrigerators, are going to make a disaster and then no one will be able to have freshed foods at home (because ice sellers are going to be out of bussiness).
Just you wait until music industry collapses when music-halls go out of business after those talking grammophones make singers obsolete!!!
And my personal vigilance starts by not posting my real name on a forum where 11 million people have daily access, a good number of them morons and whackos known to lose it when someone expresses an opinion differing from them on the matter of which class rocks arathi basin more.
How about the fear of posting a normal message in the forum and having a deranged user track down your name and address, show up at your doorstep and punch you in the face FOR REAL?
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To put it simply - people who make a huge game to be entertaining (like Dragon Age) tend to be succesful, while people who make huge games out of some ego trip (like *ugh* Daikatana) will hit a brick wall going 100 mph.
I'll start worrying if Milo goes Dorian Gray on me and starts growing old and decrepit while I stay young and fresh.
It seems that the biggest enemy of the RIAA is not the music downloaders, but their own lawyers who will bankrupt them sooner or later. I say let the lawyers finish the job, as they will bleed the RIAA dry and then leave the sinking ship like the profiteering rats they are.
"Dear music lawyers. Following on your request that we should pay for illegal music downloads we allow to pass through, here is a detailed list of how much we allowed, which you will notice is empty. We 'allow' none to pass as we do not condone this practice, please find enclosed a fine payment cheque of zero dollars and zero cents. Love, the IPS."
We'll soon have ONE MORE wireless signal to keep track of, when all those we already have work so well together!
... another brick in the firewall.
Last week, Blizzard thought they could just disregard another PR fiasco with their RealID forums policy and hoped customers would just forget about the issue and just accept it as is.
How'd that work out for them?
Has anyone ever used it and engaged in an interesting conversation with a person who became a regular point of contact? Or is it all just penises and overweight bald guys?
Who says it can't be both?
Your state government is about to restrict access to the rest of the world through a firewall. And by firewall, I mean a giant moat filled with burning gasoline. 'cause it's the only way you'll keep out the rest of the world!
... is whoever actively worked to make Justin Bieber a star.
With a standard mouse, I can shift my arm and move my hand freely without disturbing the mouse if I choose not to move it. With this system, the slightest twitch might be misinterpreted as a mouse command.
Still busy coughing back up my own glasses.
It will be a grim day for killbots when they do.
... when ED-209 orders you to drop your gun, make sure it doesn't land on something soft that cushions the sound, mmmmmkay?
[Remember, your Nanny loves you and only wants what's best for YOU].
The last cyber-nanny who wanted What's Best For Me was working for SHODAN, and tried to rip me apart with lasers for trying to hurt the egg pods of The Many. Hilarity ensued.
What's the first thing that you learn at ANY corporation when you start using company email? You never, EVER hit "reply all"!!!
By claiming every education organisation should have an incompetent person at their employ, perhaps Zenna Atkins is seeking to justify her own chairman position?
I used to think they were a good measure to allow for a reasonable compromise between game companies and retailers without getting stringent political involvement. Now I say just let the government tear them a new one.
This is the false debate much pushed by those in control of the old bussiness model (of course): they talk about art when they want to say "my industry as I knew it" much as an ice seller talking about how those new devices, the refrigerators, are going to make a disaster and then no one will be able to have freshed foods at home (because ice sellers are going to be out of bussiness).
Just you wait until music industry collapses when music-halls go out of business after those talking grammophones make singers obsolete!!!
And my personal vigilance starts by not posting my real name on a forum where 11 million people have daily access, a good number of them morons and whackos known to lose it when someone expresses an opinion differing from them on the matter of which class rocks arathi basin more.
Watch it.
How about the fear of posting a normal message in the forum and having a deranged user track down your name and address, show up at your doorstep and punch you in the face FOR REAL?
I've been referring this week to this whole RealID forum names as the "diet coke of mmorpgs".
Never underestimate the power of nerdrage. We may be an army of cats, but stirr us up sufficiently and we become a pride of lions.
The producers of Forrest Gump used the same math to claim a loss on that one too.