Sure, that'll work for characters that are saved on the server, but PSO character files are saved locally, so you can use your character in single-player mode. Not sure how you'd do it while still allowing single-player play.
Why on earth would I want to go to a crowded theater full of screaming fans on the first day, when I can wait a bit and see it in quiet and soak up the atmosphere?
How would you stop it though? If I play the single-player version of PSO, and hack myself a +99 whatever, how would it detect the cheat when I brought it online? This isn't a rhetorical question, by the way, I'm actually curious as to the best way to prevent this.
I'm not sure of the legality of it, but if it was I'm not sure I'd be on game shark's side over this. I don't really care about people hacking single-player games (don't really see the POINT myself), but the game shark pretty much ruined Phantasy Star Online. I probably would have bought the sequel if the rampant cheating hadn't forced me off, and I'm sure I'm not alone. It represents money that Sega could have gotten if the game shark people had left the game alone.
Never really was convinced by this. Look at google, they do the same thing, has anyone ever complained to them? Best thing would be to try it, and if people start getting litigious, take it down. What's the harm?
IMO, it's closer to the former; there may be plenty of independent studios and labels producing excellent music but something is preventing them from getting wider exposure. It isn't lack of quality, so is it unfair competition from the bignames?
Well, let's be honest; there is a tremendous amount of really bad music in the independent music scene. The vast majority of independent bands aren't signed not because the music companies "don't get it" or "can't appreciate great music", but because they aren't that good.
As for competition, yes, that's why most bands don't get any exposure. But it's not because the record industries are preventing it somehow. How many people do you know in a band? How many want to do it for a living? Now multiply that by a hundred thousand, and that's how many bands there are fighting to be heard in this country. Even the smallest record store will have thousands of different musicians across a broad variety of genres; the market is just oversaturated to an extent that doesn't exist in any other industry.
The airline industry is run just incredibly poorly. Look at how they react when a new carrier tries to move into a new route; they lower their prices to force the competition out of business, taking a big loss, then raise them once the comptetion leaves. Doesn't matter if they lose a tremendous amount of money doing so, they think it's worth it. They care nothing about customer service, they are frantically and constantly changing prices to what they think they can get customers to pay, they will spend money on totally useless things (no, I don't need peanuts, and unless the flight is more than 5 hours, I don't need a meal either), then cut costs by squeezing as many seats as they can into their planes. They alienate customers, go into debt to force competition out, and then complain that their industry needs help? They can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.
The problem is with the conservatives back in the White House, the sort of behind-the-scenes arch-libertarians that organized Reagan's deregulation/dismantling of the economy are back in positions of power. And they didn't really learn anything from their bad decisions in the 80's.
Knowing the way marketers think they'll phrase it so you're not sure if you're buying it or not. "Would you not like to not pass on not buying this product?" "Uhh....yes?" "Congratulations! You have just purchased this boxed edition of every episode of the 1974-1975 season of Early Morning Farm News"
You mean you can't compress a megabyte file to one byte by pkzipping, the pkzipping the zip file, then pkzipping that file, etc.? Damn, there goes my Nobel, really thought I had a made a breakthrough with that algorithm.
A typical strategy is to first get you to reply. Once you do that they already have you; they'll sell your name to other spammers. Then they continue from there. I just loaded up my hotmail account, which I don't care too much about getting junk mail on, and opened a random mail:
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Now just the address itself has the word optin twice. If I look it up on whois it's registered to a P.O. box in LA. If I was in Washington, and got this after asking to be removed from their list, what could I do? The expense and trouble of tracking the owner down would probably cancel any monetary damage I might sue for. Even if I did track them down, they could just say that page on the server is run by someone else, who registered anonymously (of course, I'm assuming this is a scam; maybe they can really give me a fixed return of 36% on my investment, and they wouldn't really take my $10,000 and disappear, but the chances of that happening are somewhat nonexistent). To track most of these guys down would require a lot more than a case in small-claims court. And all they need is one person to fall for it, and they've made money.
Probably won't be that easy to collect, especially if they didn't even show up in court. I'm just not sure the idea of driving the industry out of business is feasible; the vast majority of spam mail I get doesn't have a valid e-mail address. In fact, the vast majority of spam I get isn't really advertising. Most of it are just grifters trolling for victims, figuring if they send a million messages out, and get 3 marks, they'll make a profit.
I can think of a handful of people who have been that important in computer science. And none of them post on slashdot. And none of them are involved with Linux.
Since as long as I can remember. I have friends who never played games who saved a bundle on Cyrix chips with weak FPUs... and others who had to avoid those like the plague.
They bought the chips separately? Then they're not Joe Publics. I'm referring to the vast majority of computer owners, who only think about clock speed when they're buying a new computer every four years.
I think AMD's marketing here is shamefully deceptive, but they really did need to do something, and Apple's "public education" attempts about the growing irrelevance of MHz didn't seem to work very well.
It didn't help matters that Apple computers aren't really that fast; don't get me wrong, I own a mac and I love it, but the PPC just doesn't outclass x86s like Apple claims, at least in real-world applications.
Slashdot Mirror
Probably thinking of Botticelli's Birth of Venus; there's a copy here.
Sure, that'll work for characters that are saved on the server, but PSO character files are saved locally, so you can use your character in single-player mode. Not sure how you'd do it while still allowing single-player play.
Why on earth would I want to go to a crowded theater full of screaming fans on the first day, when I can wait a bit and see it in quiet and soak up the atmosphere?
Hahaha...come on, why hasn't anyone modded this up yet?
Can we really trust someone who values ethics more than sex? I think not, my friends, I think not.
How would you stop it though? If I play the single-player version of PSO, and hack myself a +99 whatever, how would it detect the cheat when I brought it online? This isn't a rhetorical question, by the way, I'm actually curious as to the best way to prevent this.
I'm not sure of the legality of it, but if it was I'm not sure I'd be on game shark's side over this. I don't really care about people hacking single-player games (don't really see the POINT myself), but the game shark pretty much ruined Phantasy Star Online. I probably would have bought the sequel if the rampant cheating hadn't forced me off, and I'm sure I'm not alone. It represents money that Sega could have gotten if the game shark people had left the game alone.
Don't get offended over all this; this endless wrangling over licenses just isn't worth that kind of emotional investment.
Finally, the grammar nazi will have a place away from Slashdot to correct grammatical mistakes!!
Today is a day of celebration!!
One should never use two punctuation marks in a row; it's just bad grammar.
Never really was convinced by this. Look at google, they do the same thing, has anyone ever complained to them? Best thing would be to try it, and if people start getting litigious, take it down. What's the harm?
MUME was one of the best MUDs I ever played. Not sure of address, but you can do a search for it.
Actually, you seem to be the mentally deficient one. There is no need for a freaking server room in a HOUSE. There is no need to centralize ANYTHING.
Why not just spread everything around? That way heat won't build up in a single room.
IMO, it's closer to the former; there may be plenty of independent studios and labels producing excellent music but something is preventing them from getting wider exposure. It isn't lack of quality, so is it unfair competition from the bignames?
Well, let's be honest; there is a tremendous amount of really bad music in the independent music scene. The vast majority of independent bands aren't signed not because the music companies "don't get it" or "can't appreciate great music", but because they aren't that good.
As for competition, yes, that's why most bands don't get any exposure. But it's not because the record industries are preventing it somehow. How many people do you know in a band? How many want to do it for a living? Now multiply that by a hundred thousand, and that's how many bands there are fighting to be heard in this country. Even the smallest record store will have thousands of different musicians across a broad variety of genres; the market is just oversaturated to an extent that doesn't exist in any other industry.
The airline industry is run just incredibly poorly. Look at how they react when a new carrier tries to move into a new route; they lower their prices to force the competition out of business, taking a big loss, then raise them once the comptetion leaves. Doesn't matter if they lose a tremendous amount of money doing so, they think it's worth it. They care nothing about customer service, they are frantically and constantly changing prices to what they think they can get customers to pay, they will spend money on totally useless things (no, I don't need peanuts, and unless the flight is more than 5 hours, I don't need a meal either), then cut costs by squeezing as many seats as they can into their planes. They alienate customers, go into debt to force competition out, and then complain that their industry needs help? They can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.
Ummm, this is slashdot.
Ever wondered what happens if you cross a Christmas tree with a Linux server?
No.
The problem is with the conservatives back in the White House, the sort of behind-the-scenes arch-libertarians that organized Reagan's deregulation/dismantling of the economy are back in positions of power. And they didn't really learn anything from their bad decisions in the 80's.
Knowing the way marketers think they'll phrase it so you're not sure if you're buying it or not. "Would you not like to not pass on not buying this product?" "Uhh....yes?" "Congratulations! You have just purchased this boxed edition of every episode of the 1974-1975 season of Early Morning Farm News"
You mean you can't compress a megabyte file to one byte by pkzipping, the pkzipping the zip file, then pkzipping that file, etc.? Damn, there goes my Nobel, really thought I had a made a breakthrough with that algorithm.
Now just the address itself has the word optin twice. If I look it up on whois it's registered to a P.O. box in LA. If I was in Washington, and got this after asking to be removed from their list, what could I do? The expense and trouble of tracking the owner down would probably cancel any monetary damage I might sue for. Even if I did track them down, they could just say that page on the server is run by someone else, who registered anonymously (of course, I'm assuming this is a scam; maybe they can really give me a fixed return of 36% on my investment, and they wouldn't really take my $10,000 and disappear, but the chances of that happening are somewhat nonexistent). To track most of these guys down would require a lot more than a case in small-claims court. And all they need is one person to fall for it, and they've made money.
Probably won't be that easy to collect, especially if they didn't even show up in court. I'm just not sure the idea of driving the industry out of business is feasible; the vast majority of spam mail I get doesn't have a valid e-mail address. In fact, the vast majority of spam I get isn't really advertising. Most of it are just grifters trolling for victims, figuring if they send a million messages out, and get 3 marks, they'll make a profit.
Find me a sparc 5 that has no GNU software.
I can think of a handful of people who have been that important in computer science. And none of them post on slashdot. And none of them are involved with Linux.
Since as long as I can remember. I have friends who never played games who saved a bundle on Cyrix chips with weak FPUs... and others who had to avoid those like the plague.
They bought the chips separately? Then they're not Joe Publics. I'm referring to the vast majority of computer owners, who only think about clock speed when they're buying a new computer every four years.
I think AMD's marketing here is shamefully deceptive, but they really did need to do something, and Apple's "public education" attempts about the growing irrelevance of MHz didn't seem to work very well.
It didn't help matters that Apple computers aren't really that fast; don't get me wrong, I own a mac and I love it, but the PPC just doesn't outclass x86s like Apple claims, at least in real-world applications.