So go buy one! They're probably going to stop shipping them over here, not just ditch the ones already on the shelves.
And yeah, like the other guy said, eBay.:P
Me, I'm holding out til the price drops a bit - so hopefully, if they concentrate their efforts on one model, that model's price will drop simply due to the economic efficiency of dealing with one model over two.
Well there's a way to get around this, if Blizzard were so inclined.
It would involve an added security feature. When an account is created, present the user with a pile of unique graphics (could even be spell/item/etc icons from the game). Make the user pick, say, three out of the pile.
When the user logs in later, present the user with several of these graphics, with ONE of'em being one of their choices from the get to. User clicks on the right graphic, they log in.
It's pretty much purely a visual thing - no keylogger would be able to sniff this out.
If the user forgets his graphic key choices, just have an email reminder process set up.
Anyone else notice those new boxes in the top left of stories... and the bottom link spells out "slash dot tit!" if you put some spaces in? Would that therefore be represented as/.(*)?:P
Where in Cringely's article - the only source linked for this story - is there any mention of a "YouTube veto"? Or is the poster simply speculating wildly?
...back when I was tinkering with an MMOG design (yeah, like half the world out there, I know).
The idea was, whenever a player reached a certain repeatable milestone - X hours played or whatever - they would get a chance to "jump into" a boss-level mob out in the world somewhere. So when a party of players encountered that boss mob, it would be another player controlling it and not just an AI. The critter-playing player wouldn't be given any indications as to who the players were - depending on the intelligence level of the mob in question, the critter player would just see X number of pieces of meat walking around, or perhaps basic shapes (say a mob can pick out a magic using enemy vs. a melee-oriented enemy), that sort of thing, to help prevent griefing of certain other players.
The critter-playing mob would have a certain amount of time they could control boss mobs - say a few hours, total - and could use their time as they saw fit, piecemeal or all at once. I figure I would have also built in some sort of alert system - i.e. when a player had some critter time available, they could turn these alerts on - so that when normal players were getting close to a boss mob encounter, alerts would go out to the players with critter time letting them know, so if one wanted to hop in, it wouldn't be too much of a wait until the party arrived and the fun began, and they would get the most out of their critter time.
...or does this fellow complaining about BitTorrent users eating up bandwidth preventing him from eating up that same bandwidth playing WoW just seem... kinda... ironic?:/
...is that the rules have no real *teeth*. No company running a game is going to set up self-governing abilities that will have worthwhile punishments for violators - that could lead to the violating player *cancelling his subscription*.
Until game companies are willing to put their money where their mouths are, self-governing in games will always be ineffectual.
After staring at computer screens for about 25 years now (since I was 15 and had a TRS-80! har), I went from perfect vision to being somewhat nearsighted - my point-of-focus moved from wherever it was to where my computer screen sat.
I recently got contacts for the first time, for other reasons - but the only times I wear them is when I'm *not* working. My eyes are pretty much perfectly adjusted for staring at computer screens now, and nothing else.:P
Anyhow, I've got the Acuvue lenses from Johnson & Johnson, and so far, so good.
Yep, one of the few. I used to run an SB-related site back in the day, and finagled my way into the beta as well. I seem to recall that the lead designer was a big Mac guy, and basically made developing a Mac version concurrent with the PC version a condition for him to take the job.
...was with a pal back around 1990 - "The Christian Crusade to Stamp Out Science Fiction". My pal and I wrote up this completely ridiculous loaded flyer - how SF was ruining our children's lives, causing teenage pregnancies and bad grades, and instructing people to get together with community and church leaders and "stamp out science fiction!" We put a bogus name on it with a real P.O. box, and dropped them off at a couple of SF cons in the southeast.
We got tons of letters from all over the country over the next few months, and a couple from the UK even. Most all of them were in support - "A friend of mine is into science fiction and I worry about him" and in that vein.
The following year we put out the "it was all a hoax" flyer, explaining that it was all BS and what we'd learned ("people are sheep"). That caused a whole new influx of letters, most of which basically said "I knew it was fake to start with, you bastards!".
Slashdot Mirror
That DailyKos page links to the BoingBoing page, same as the /. story. :P
:/
Besides, its individual users who submit stories with their own writeups. If you want to bash on someone for plagarizing, bash the submitter.
So go buy one! They're probably going to stop shipping them over here, not just ditch the ones already on the shelves.
:P
And yeah, like the other guy said, eBay.
Me, I'm holding out til the price drops a bit - so hopefully, if they concentrate their efforts on one model, that model's price will drop simply due to the economic efficiency of dealing with one model over two.
Err, "get-GO" not "get to". :P
Well there's a way to get around this, if Blizzard were so inclined.
It would involve an added security feature. When an account is created, present the user with a pile of unique graphics (could even be spell/item/etc icons from the game). Make the user pick, say, three out of the pile.
When the user logs in later, present the user with several of these graphics, with ONE of'em being one of their choices from the get to. User clicks on the right graphic, they log in.
It's pretty much purely a visual thing - no keylogger would be able to sniff this out.
If the user forgets his graphic key choices, just have an email reminder process set up.
Anyone else notice those new boxes in the top left of stories... and the bottom link spells out "slash dot tit!" if you put some spaces in? Would that therefore be represented as /.(*)? :P
...but I'm eagerly awaiting "Grand Theft Auto: Terre Haute, IN". It'll be hours and hours of dull fun! :P
That bit in the subject line - ????
Where in Cringely's article - the only source linked for this story - is there any mention of a "YouTube veto"? Or is the poster simply speculating wildly?
...back when I was tinkering with an MMOG design (yeah, like half the world out there, I know).
The idea was, whenever a player reached a certain repeatable milestone - X hours played or whatever - they would get a chance to "jump into" a boss-level mob out in the world somewhere. So when a party of players encountered that boss mob, it would be another player controlling it and not just an AI. The critter-playing player wouldn't be given any indications as to who the players were - depending on the intelligence level of the mob in question, the critter player would just see X number of pieces of meat walking around, or perhaps basic shapes (say a mob can pick out a magic using enemy vs. a melee-oriented enemy), that sort of thing, to help prevent griefing of certain other players.
The critter-playing mob would have a certain amount of time they could control boss mobs - say a few hours, total - and could use their time as they saw fit, piecemeal or all at once. I figure I would have also built in some sort of alert system - i.e. when a player had some critter time available, they could turn these alerts on - so that when normal players were getting close to a boss mob encounter, alerts would go out to the players with critter time letting them know, so if one wanted to hop in, it wouldn't be too much of a wait until the party arrived and the fun began, and they would get the most out of their critter time.
...those folks can write off their WoW account fees, and depreciation on their computers, etc. as "expenses"?
But it won't happen again until January 2024.
:D
Ehhh! Wrong.
05/13/2011.
...or does this fellow complaining about BitTorrent users eating up bandwidth preventing him from eating up that same bandwidth playing WoW just seem... kinda... ironic? :/
...of Waffle House waitresses, everywhere.
Heh, I thought about you guys after I posted that note. Your player-originated laws were the only exception I could think of.
Ah, but AA is free, is it not? No risk of paying customers walking away when they get tired of getting tossed in the virtual pokey.
...is that the rules have no real *teeth*. No company running a game is going to set up self-governing abilities that will have worthwhile punishments for violators - that could lead to the violating player *cancelling his subscription*.
Until game companies are willing to put their money where their mouths are, self-governing in games will always be ineffectual.
Just in time for my Alzheimer's-suffering father to have kicked.
:(
Yay.
Two lawyers enter!
One lawyer leaves!
MASTER BLASTER RULES BARTERTOWN!!!
*cough*
Har. I'd give you a mod point if I had any today. :D
After staring at computer screens for about 25 years now (since I was 15 and had a TRS-80! har), I went from perfect vision to being somewhat nearsighted - my point-of-focus moved from wherever it was to where my computer screen sat.
:P
I recently got contacts for the first time, for other reasons - but the only times I wear them is when I'm *not* working. My eyes are pretty much perfectly adjusted for staring at computer screens now, and nothing else.
Anyhow, I've got the Acuvue lenses from Johnson & Johnson, and so far, so good.
Ah, the typical all-devs-must-focus-on-one-thing-at-a-time mentality.
The misguided assumption that because one group is doing one thing (and publically), that another group isn't doing other work.
(Massive-Multiplayer Transmitted Disease)
With virtual hookers, at least it's only your *computer* that'll get a virus...
Don't forget "Kobal" to "Kobol"... plus he can't spell Moore's name right. :P
Yep, one of the few. I used to run an SB-related site back in the day, and finagled my way into the beta as well. I seem to recall that the lead designer was a big Mac guy, and basically made developing a Mac version concurrent with the PC version a condition for him to take the job.
All the text in the /. story in italics is what the submitter wrote. Editors sometimes add text to that in normal text.
For example, it was the story submitter who goofed on the "Richard Branson's SpaceShipOne" bit - it should have been a reference to Virgin Galactic.
And like another fellow said, the terrorism reference was in the linked article.
...was with a pal back around 1990 - "The Christian Crusade to Stamp Out Science Fiction". My pal and I wrote up this completely ridiculous loaded flyer - how SF was ruining our children's lives, causing teenage pregnancies and bad grades, and instructing people to get together with community and church leaders and "stamp out science fiction!" We put a bogus name on it with a real P.O. box, and dropped them off at a couple of SF cons in the southeast.
:)
We got tons of letters from all over the country over the next few months, and a couple from the UK even. Most all of them were in support - "A friend of mine is into science fiction and I worry about him" and in that vein.
The following year we put out the "it was all a hoax" flyer, explaining that it was all BS and what we'd learned ("people are sheep"). That caused a whole new influx of letters, most of which basically said "I knew it was fake to start with, you bastards!".
Good times.