This would have been a good April Fools story in 1999, when it was feasible. These days, big companies don't waste their money buying useless websites anymore.
Deputize trustworthy members of the player base and pass laws against venison trading (punishable with prison terms for the character etc) by anyone except the king's men?
Oh, you mean like Guides, Counselors, or Advisors? Are you willing to deal with the flack when one of them either makes a wrong decision, or turns rogue and starts abusing their powers?
There's no such thing as a totally trustworthy player. All of the major online games have had to deal with people who had gotten fairly deep into their volunteer systems only to turn around and massively abuse the privelages and abilities given to them.
Relying on them as your only method of keeping the game clean is folly; and worse, makes you liable for whatever they do. It's a much safer decision to put that power to function as a representative of the game world (and thus, the company behind it) in the hands of someone who is being paid and is legally responsible for their actions.
I think that as we become more and more online, games will be the first to switch from a product like it is today to a totally service based system. You may goto a store and buy a cd that starts you off, but eventutally the game will be totatlly downloaded off the internet.
As a former Associate Producer for an MMORPG, I've had my hands slightly into the marketing and financials of these types of games and I can tell you two things:
First, the serious players already treat their game as a service instead of a product. Witness Premium Subscriptions, which are justified as a direct copy of the Premium Service Plans you can get from more traditionally service-oriented companies.
Second, box sales aren't going away any time soon. The profit from retail on a new MMORPG is too big of a carrot to ignore. It provides a little bit of financial help for what is already a very very financially risky business (the game industry in general, and it's many times worse when you factor in the added costs of developing and launching an MMO title). A couple companies have tried allowing downloads already, but that was mainly out of desperation.
For instance, the Church of Scientology is not the subject of jokes on The Daily Show. And The Daily Show does not put beloved children's characters into adult situations. You get the idea. Also, when working off a sound bite, no matter how mean the man-on-the-street sounds, we can't follow him up by saying something like, "This man then left to check on the body in his trunk."
One of these things is not like the other ones....
We don't write laws so that software developers can make money. We only write laws for the public good.
I dare say that a strong economy is more important to the public good than your desire to use the latest version of Photoshop without having to pay for it.
In NO linux distro is any browser so tied into the core OS that it is "impossible" to remove it. Why? Because that (web browsing, etc) is NOT a function of the core OS. Applications that run through the OS do that.
It's absolutely possible to remove IE from Windows. That's not what Microsoft was saying. Microsoft was saying that its impossible to remove IE and retain complete compatibility with everything because IE was designed to be modular, and many applications have come to take for granted the fact that pieces of it are there.
As for the Open Source equivalent of this, what exactly is the Mozilla project shaping up to be? A base of common libraries built around Internet/Web protocols....
Are you going to start throwing fits when you can't run ActiveState's Komodo IDE without having a Mozilla engine installed? How about all the other promised applications being targetted for Mozilla?
Customers "willingly" drive farther to shop at Wal-Mart, but usually based on the price of gas (6 cents per mile) rather than the full amortized price of automobile operation, which according to AAA is 51 cents per mile.
I don't know about you, but the Wal-Marts in my town are right alongside the other retail chains. I don't have to drive farther, so those extremely long stretches of logic you used to pin theft on Wal-mart don't even apply.
Wal-Mart doesn't drive stores out of business, ratehr, it's the consumers who chose Wal-Mart over their local stores that cause small stores to close. It's a matter of choice, and many people chose to vote with their pocket book. Wal-MArt often is no cheaper than other chains - in fact, their policy is to price at the competitor's prices and make a greater margin due to lower costs. If a competitor wants a price war, they'll fight back and win, but they typically don't start one.
So if this isn't bad, why do we hate Microsoft again?
...magazines have been publishing "reviews" of games they've never really seen, and development teams have been faking up screenshots for games that aren't quite soup yet. I know I've fabricated up quite a few screenshots for articles for early reviews of our games in the big three mags.
Well, disregarding the fact that it's only a few seconds and they will be unrecognizable. It's a poor move to date a movie with a current fad in pop culture. In ten years people will hear this and think who? A tv show can generally get away with it because of the format, tv shows are contemporary by nature whereas a movie that locks itself into something like this is doomed.
On the other hand, SpiceWorld is just as good today as it was the day it came out.
The punchline is left as an exercise for the reader.
what's the attraction of putting so much free effort into a system that is barely out of vaporware and tied to MS when there are existing software systems that do the same things, and have been doing them reliably for years on multiple platforms?
Because with Microsoft's marketing muscle behind.NET, it will be a phenomenal success. Microsoft's rarely failed delivering on something they've been this committed to. If Linux developers don't keep up, they'll be caught with their pants down and it'll give Microsoft a great opportunity to chip away at Unix as the dominant server OS.
WINE potentially can help Microsoft programs run on many platforms without the need for extensive porting. It's a win for Microsoft isn't it?
No, it's not a win for Microsoft. It undermines Windows (which they own, sell, and make money on, by the way) as the dominant operating system, which hurts Microsoft financially (less people need to buy Windows), and strategically (since they're not in control of the dominant OS anymore, they're less influential on the market).
Microsoft wouldn't start helping WINE any sooner than General Motors would start giving their car designs to Ford.
TAG? Ugh... 517 had a couple TAG boards, but by and large it was owned by Renegade and its various cousins. The few larger, multiline boards generally ran Synchronet or Major BBS.
What are the privacy implications of this? I mean, it's beyond question that the benefits of such powerful tracking benefit children the world over, but are we one step away from this technology being used on us?
Will some day Big Brother turn to the "NORAD Tracks Chester K" website to find out where I am? I shiver at the thought. We need to write our Senators and Representatives and alert them to this horrible encroachment on our privacy -- this powerful tracking techonology must be shackled to prevent illicit use by the government.
Fnord. Merry Christmas!
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Windows is for people who can't wipe their own asses. You expect someone who can not change their homepage to implement a firewall?
The only difference between the AWE64 and AWE32 and the SB16 was channels and processing power. The SBLive! added EAX, soundfonts, and dolby digital stuff.
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Edison is protected.
This would have been a good April Fools story in 1999, when it was feasible. These days, big companies don't waste their money buying useless websites anymore.
And in other news, business as usual continued yet again today. Analysts continue to be shocked.
Marketing information just isn't as valuable when everyone and their dog.com already has it.
Would I be correct that any homework that a student would want to publish after being exposed to the MS source code would be a violation of DMCA?
No.
But don't let a little thing like the truth stand in your way. Linux advocacy needs more FUD.
Deputize trustworthy members of the player base and pass laws against venison trading (punishable with prison terms for the character etc) by anyone except the king's men?
Oh, you mean like Guides, Counselors, or Advisors? Are you willing to deal with the flack when one of them either makes a wrong decision, or turns rogue and starts abusing their powers?
There's no such thing as a totally trustworthy player. All of the major online games have had to deal with people who had gotten fairly deep into their volunteer systems only to turn around and massively abuse the privelages and abilities given to them.
Relying on them as your only method of keeping the game clean is folly; and worse, makes you liable for whatever they do. It's a much safer decision to put that power to function as a representative of the game world (and thus, the company behind it) in the hands of someone who is being paid and is legally responsible for their actions.
I think that as we become more and more online, games will be the first to switch from a product like it is today to a totally service based system. You may goto a store and buy a cd that starts you off, but eventutally the game will be totatlly downloaded off the internet.
As a former Associate Producer for an MMORPG, I've had my hands slightly into the marketing and financials of these types of games and I can tell you two things:
First, the serious players already treat their game as a service instead of a product. Witness Premium Subscriptions, which are justified as a direct copy of the Premium Service Plans you can get from more traditionally service-oriented companies.
Second, box sales aren't going away any time soon. The profit from retail on a new MMORPG is too big of a carrot to ignore. It provides a little bit of financial help for what is already a very very financially risky business (the game industry in general, and it's many times worse when you factor in the added costs of developing and launching an MMO title). A couple companies have tried allowing downloads already, but that was mainly out of desperation.
For instance, the Church of Scientology is not the subject of jokes on The Daily Show. And The Daily Show does not put beloved children's characters into adult situations. You get the idea. Also, when working off a sound bite, no matter how mean the man-on-the-street sounds, we can't follow him up by saying something like, "This man then left to check on the body in his trunk."
One of these things is not like the other ones....
We don't write laws so that software developers can make money. We only write laws for the public good.
I dare say that a strong economy is more important to the public good than your desire to use the latest version of Photoshop without having to pay for it.
If they want to profit from the protection of their IP by law+police, they should also be willing to accept the limitations set forth by law.
You mean Copyright Law?
That sounds exactly what an American AC in Paris was trying to say.
In NO linux distro is any browser so tied into the core OS that it is "impossible" to remove it. Why? Because that (web browsing, etc) is NOT a function of the core OS. Applications that run through the OS do that.
It's absolutely possible to remove IE from Windows. That's not what Microsoft was saying. Microsoft was saying that its impossible to remove IE and retain complete compatibility with everything because IE was designed to be modular, and many applications have come to take for granted the fact that pieces of it are there.
As for the Open Source equivalent of this, what exactly is the Mozilla project shaping up to be? A base of common libraries built around Internet/Web protocols....
Are you going to start throwing fits when you can't run ActiveState's Komodo IDE without having a Mozilla engine installed? How about all the other promised applications being targetted for Mozilla?
Customers "willingly" drive farther to shop at Wal-Mart, but usually based on the price of gas (6 cents per mile) rather than the full amortized price of automobile operation, which according to AAA is 51 cents per mile.
I don't know about you, but the Wal-Marts in my town are right alongside the other retail chains. I don't have to drive farther, so those extremely long stretches of logic you used to pin theft on Wal-mart don't even apply.
Wal-Mart doesn't drive stores out of business, ratehr, it's the consumers who chose Wal-Mart over their local stores that cause small stores to close. It's a matter of choice, and many people chose to vote with their pocket book. Wal-MArt often is no cheaper than other chains - in fact, their policy is to price at the competitor's prices and make a greater margin due to lower costs. If a competitor wants a price war, they'll fight back and win, but they typically don't start one.
So if this isn't bad, why do we hate Microsoft again?
...magazines have been publishing "reviews" of games they've never really seen, and development teams have been faking up screenshots for games that aren't quite soup yet. I know I've fabricated up quite a few screenshots for articles for early reviews of our games in the big three mags.
... and superb games such as Dark Ages of Camelot and Everquest ...
Never trust a gaming article that misspells the name of Dark Age of Camelot.
me too
Well, disregarding the fact that it's only a few seconds and they will be unrecognizable. It's a poor move to date a movie with a current fad in pop culture. In ten years people will hear this and think who? A tv show can generally get away with it because of the format, tv shows are contemporary by nature whereas a movie that locks itself into something like this is doomed.
On the other hand, SpiceWorld is just as good today as it was the day it came out.
The punchline is left as an exercise for the reader.
what's the attraction of putting so much free effort into a system that is barely out of vaporware and tied to MS when there are existing software systems that do the same things, and have been doing them reliably for years on multiple platforms?
.NET, it will be a phenomenal success. Microsoft's rarely failed delivering on something they've been this committed to. If Linux developers don't keep up, they'll be caught with their pants down and it'll give Microsoft a great opportunity to chip away at Unix as the dominant server OS.
Because with Microsoft's marketing muscle behind
WINE potentially can help Microsoft programs run on many platforms without the need for extensive porting. It's a win for Microsoft isn't it?
No, it's not a win for Microsoft. It undermines Windows (which they own, sell, and make money on, by the way) as the dominant operating system, which hurts Microsoft financially (less people need to buy Windows), and strategically (since they're not in control of the dominant OS anymore, they're less influential on the market).
Microsoft wouldn't start helping WINE any sooner than General Motors would start giving their car designs to Ford.
because TAG-clones ruled 313 ... :)
TAG? Ugh... 517 had a couple TAG boards, but by and large it was owned by Renegade and its various cousins. The few larger, multiline boards generally ran Synchronet or Major BBS.
What are the privacy implications of this? I mean, it's beyond question that the benefits of such powerful tracking benefit children the world over, but are we one step away from this technology being used on us?
Will some day Big Brother turn to the "NORAD Tracks Chester K" website to find out where I am? I shiver at the thought. We need to write our Senators and Representatives and alert them to this horrible encroachment on our privacy -- this powerful tracking techonology must be shackled to prevent illicit use by the government.
Fnord. Merry Christmas!
Windows is for people who can't wipe their own asses. You expect someone who can not change their homepage to implement a firewall?
Good thing it's enabled by default, huh?
The only difference between the AWE64 and AWE32 and the SB16 was channels and processing power. The SBLive! added EAX, soundfonts, and dolby digital stuff.
The AWE32 had Soundfont support.
If you didn't like Return to Castle Wolfenstein
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pshhh... like that could happen...
And this is bad, because...?
Technology has progressed beyond Plain Text.