Oblivion is a PC game. I know some people play the stripped console versions, but WHY?
GoW is a shooter. Sorry. I mean, Gears of Fucking War is a fucking shooter. Fuck. I can fucking see why it fucking wouldn't fucking appeal fucking to every fucking gamer. Even though it's very fucking mature.
Bioshock is pretty interesting looking, but it is still an analog stick shooter; it's either the SecuROM PC version or none for me. Never heard of Forza, no clue about DOA.
I maintained my own patches to Wine to let me have more function keys in WoW. I maintain addons for WoW, too. I still have my Sega CD. I stil have my 3DO, too. I regularly beat RPGs under a strict "no characters die ever" policy because I think it's more challenging. I play Angband, and have submitted patches to it (which were accepted!). I've learned new programming languages to work on games, and I've written games for competitions.
People who play FPS games, and nothing else, dismiss my gaming tastes as "casual". WTF?
Imagine if you had someone who reads nothing but romance novels. Dismisses sci-fi as geeky, literature as dull, mysteries as pointless and irritating, technology books as uninteresting, humor books as too silly, biographies as pointless, newspapers as too short, and so on. Just reads romance novels.
According to the PS360 marketing engine, he's a hardcore reader. No, that's softcore.
They've already ramped production up quite a bit. I think they're leery of spending a lot of money ramping up production only to finally saturate demand, and then have nothing to show for that money... Or, worse (from their perspective), ramp up production and end up with quality control issues.
I think at this point it's fairly clear that 1.5M/month is not enough.
Yeah, I'm sorta the same way. I mean, I will get machines just to play games -- see also "consoles". But really, I wasn't about to start supporting artists on Windows machines, so I just picked something that could work on a Mac so I wouldn't have to.
I was trying to figure out your comment, until someone else made it clearer.
You misread me. I didn't say it didn't run; I just observed that only one of my immediate group of people was even TRYING to run on a Mac.
"got WoW to actually play it on a Mac" is not the same as "got WoW to run on a Mac". The first is a statement of intent, the second one of technical compatibility.
He considers a narrowly-defined, coercive, form of freedom important. I am not sure he has chosen the best variety to push, but his militant unwillingness to discuss the issue is frustrating.
Although I think he did finally, once, admit that the BSD license actually gave users more freedom in their use of a particular hunk of code.
How many paying users are you willing to inconvenience, and how severely? How much do you want to discourage pirates?
Here is the blunt reality: Whatever you think you are doing to pirates will happen to legitimate, paid, users. It will. You cannot prevent this. No amount of trying to avoid it will make it not happen. It won't happen to every user, but it will happen to some.
So, first off: Pick something that will not piss people off too much when it happens to them.
I recommend polite nagware. A key component of your strategy should be letting users get the functionality they paid for until you have time to fix the problem with your copy protection; nagware resolves this.
You cannot prevent people from copying software if they really want to; what you can do is encourage them not to want to. Treating your customers like thieves won't work; treating your pirates like customers might.
Actually, spouse doesn't necessarily imply only-one. It usually does, but not always. I have more than one roommate; I don't have to specify. Similarly, I have more than one friend (and yet I post to slashdot, go figure), but I'll say something like "my friend told me that..."
So there isn't even a strict implication there.
(And to the person shocked by the spouse/roommate thing: We have two roommates. It's cost-effective.)
That's a side-effect right now. When we had a small government, and it was growing, wanting to grow it more was "liberal", and wanting to shrink it back was "conservative".
Right now, the "conservative" Bush Jr. is spending dollars like they're going out of style (which they may be). The "war on drugs", a huge government program, has been pushed by "conservatives".
The terms don't have that specific meaning; they sort of correlated for a while, now not so much.
Well, it's not that I want them to ask. I just want to see what they do. If they ask, I want to know why.
I haven't been able to figure out why people care. It never occurred to me to care whether people I knew online were male or female; the number of people whose sex or gender I've cared about in my life is solidly under a dozen. If I'm not planning to have sex with them, why should I care?
(Disclaimer: Yes, I have an actual diagnosis of autism from a real doctor. I suspect this may be one of those things.)
What I've found is that, in general, it turns out that mostly people are trying to apply stereotypes, and they apply the stereotypes that fit their expectations. If you tell them someone's female, they imagine that person as mapping onto their stereotype of females; same for male. Since I don't particularly wish to be judged by such stereotypes, and my spouse doesn't either, I avoid the words. If you ever end up in bed with me, I'll happily answer relevant questions at that time.:)
Yes, but what's interesting is that people seem to feel it's important to find out which term applies. People sometimes get downright obsessive; I've had forum staff demand that I tell them which specific word applies.
It's not that I think people mind the experiment; just that they seem to be very uncomfortable not knowing. There was research done in which people were asked to hold a baby with a name like "Pat" or "Sam". Many of them looked in the diapers rather than stumble over pronouns...
It's sort of a social experiment. It is fascinating how many people become upset if they can't tell, despite the very low probability that it will ever become any of their business.
Does it matter? Ever? Are you going to be providing either of us with medical care? Do you plan to have sex with one or more of us? If not, how can it possibly matter?
And yet, people always ask. I find this fascinating, so I keep doing it.
Yeah, I've been quite happy with it; I actually got a macbook pro recently, and it's replaced my Windows box for WoW.
But the reason we got WoW, and not one of the others, was that my spouse had an iBook. So, we both got WoW, then I got a second account, and our roommate got one, and a friend got one... All because we wanted an MMO that my spouse could play too.
In the short term, in America, "right-wing" and "conservative" overlap.
In general, conservatism is an attempt to preserve existing state, liberalism an attempt to change it, or at least an openness to change. That people who are open to change are open to change is not a surprising result.
I think it'll work well for them. I know at least 4-6 people who have WoW only because it has a Mac port, even though only one of them got WoW to actually play it on a Mac.
Novelty value is the value-of-newness. Something that you learn quickly has very little novelty value.
While the term "novelty" could in theory be used to refer to anything new, in practice, the word has overwhelmingly strong connotations of having nothing to contribute BUT that it is new. Something which actually turns out to be useful is not a novelty, even when it's new.
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I can't imagine how it'd be playable without a mouse. I guess I'm just not much for analog sticks...
Oblivion is a PC game. I know some people play the stripped console versions, but WHY?
GoW is a shooter. Sorry. I mean, Gears of Fucking War is a fucking shooter. Fuck. I can fucking see why it fucking wouldn't fucking appeal fucking to every fucking gamer. Even though it's very fucking mature.
Bioshock is pretty interesting looking, but it is still an analog stick shooter; it's either the SecuROM PC version or none for me. Never heard of Forza, no clue about DOA.
I think I share your view.
I maintained my own patches to Wine to let me have more function keys in WoW. I maintain addons for WoW, too. I still have my Sega CD. I stil have my 3DO, too. I regularly beat RPGs under a strict "no characters die ever" policy because I think it's more challenging. I play Angband, and have submitted patches to it (which were accepted!). I've learned new programming languages to work on games, and I've written games for competitions.
People who play FPS games, and nothing else, dismiss my gaming tastes as "casual". WTF?
Imagine if you had someone who reads nothing but romance novels. Dismisses sci-fi as geeky, literature as dull, mysteries as pointless and irritating, technology books as uninteresting, humor books as too silly, biographies as pointless, newspapers as too short, and so on. Just reads romance novels.
According to the PS360 marketing engine, he's a hardcore reader. No, that's softcore.
I had no problem at all with the camera in TP -- quite a difference from the previous ones.
Ahh, but if you've played Cube zeldas, and you've played Wii twilight princess... The ability to actually AIM makes a huge difference.
They've already ramped production up quite a bit. I think they're leery of spending a lot of money ramping up production only to finally saturate demand, and then have nothing to show for that money... Or, worse (from their perspective), ramp up production and end up with quality control issues.
I think at this point it's fairly clear that 1.5M/month is not enough.
TWO years? No.
I've been saying it since E3 2006.
Yeah, I'm sorta the same way. I mean, I will get machines just to play games -- see also "consoles". But really, I wasn't about to start supporting artists on Windows machines, so I just picked something that could work on a Mac so I wouldn't have to.
Oh, come on. It was inevitable.
I was trying to figure out your comment, until someone else made it clearer.
You misread me. I didn't say it didn't run; I just observed that only one of my immediate group of people was even TRYING to run on a Mac.
"got WoW to actually play it on a Mac" is not the same as "got WoW to run on a Mac". The first is a statement of intent, the second one of technical compatibility.
I think you misread my post.
I didn't say that only one person was able to make WoW run. I said that only one person got WoW with intent to run it on a Mac.
The rest of us were Windows and Linux users -- who wanted to play online with the Mac user.
He considers a narrowly-defined, coercive, form of freedom important. I am not sure he has chosen the best variety to push, but his militant unwillingness to discuss the issue is frustrating.
Although I think he did finally, once, admit that the BSD license actually gave users more freedom in their use of a particular hunk of code.
Define your terms. Put numbers on them.
How many paying users are you willing to inconvenience, and how severely? How much do you want to discourage pirates?
Here is the blunt reality: Whatever you think you are doing to pirates will happen to legitimate, paid, users. It will. You cannot prevent this. No amount of trying to avoid it will make it not happen. It won't happen to every user, but it will happen to some.
So, first off: Pick something that will not piss people off too much when it happens to them.
I recommend polite nagware. A key component of your strategy should be letting users get the functionality they paid for until you have time to fix the problem with your copy protection; nagware resolves this.
You cannot prevent people from copying software if they really want to; what you can do is encourage them not to want to. Treating your customers like thieves won't work; treating your pirates like customers might.
Agreed. I actually switched from Windows to Wine because, except for some sound quirks, it ran dramatically better on the same hardware.
Actually, spouse doesn't necessarily imply only-one. It usually does, but not always. I have more than one roommate; I don't have to specify. Similarly, I have more than one friend (and yet I post to slashdot, go figure), but I'll say something like "my friend told me that..."
So there isn't even a strict implication there.
(And to the person shocked by the spouse/roommate thing: We have two roommates. It's cost-effective.)
That's a side-effect right now. When we had a small government, and it was growing, wanting to grow it more was "liberal", and wanting to shrink it back was "conservative".
Right now, the "conservative" Bush Jr. is spending dollars like they're going out of style (which they may be). The "war on drugs", a huge government program, has been pushed by "conservatives".
The terms don't have that specific meaning; they sort of correlated for a while, now not so much.
It's not really very far out of my way. "spouse" is no longer or more complicated than "wife" or "husband".
Wouldn't the "smooth" flow imply "preconceived notions" which might well be wrong? Perhaps it's better for thoughts to flow a tad more roughly...
Well, it's not that I want them to ask. I just want to see what they do. If they ask, I want to know why.
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I haven't been able to figure out why people care. It never occurred to me to care whether people I knew online were male or female; the number of people whose sex or gender I've cared about in my life is solidly under a dozen. If I'm not planning to have sex with them, why should I care?
(Disclaimer: Yes, I have an actual diagnosis of autism from a real doctor. I suspect this may be one of those things.)
What I've found is that, in general, it turns out that mostly people are trying to apply stereotypes, and they apply the stereotypes that fit their expectations. If you tell them someone's female, they imagine that person as mapping onto their stereotype of females; same for male. Since I don't particularly wish to be judged by such stereotypes, and my spouse doesn't either, I avoid the words. If you ever end up in bed with me, I'll happily answer relevant questions at that time.
We can move on when he stops sucking time and development effort away from tasks other than sucking Microsoft's greasy cock.
Yes, but what's interesting is that people seem to feel it's important to find out which term applies. People sometimes get downright obsessive; I've had forum staff demand that I tell them which specific word applies.
It's not that I think people mind the experiment; just that they seem to be very uncomfortable not knowing. There was research done in which people were asked to hold a baby with a name like "Pat" or "Sam". Many of them looked in the diapers rather than stumble over pronouns...
It's sort of a social experiment. It is fascinating how many people become upset if they can't tell, despite the very low probability that it will ever become any of their business.
Does it matter? Ever? Are you going to be providing either of us with medical care? Do you plan to have sex with one or more of us? If not, how can it possibly matter?
And yet, people always ask. I find this fascinating, so I keep doing it.
Yeah, I've been quite happy with it; I actually got a macbook pro recently, and it's replaced my Windows box for WoW.
But the reason we got WoW, and not one of the others, was that my spouse had an iBook. So, we both got WoW, then I got a second account, and our roommate got one, and a friend got one... All because we wanted an MMO that my spouse could play too.
In the short term, in America, "right-wing" and "conservative" overlap.
In general, conservatism is an attempt to preserve existing state, liberalism an attempt to change it, or at least an openness to change. That people who are open to change are open to change is not a surprising result.
I think it'll work well for them. I know at least 4-6 people who have WoW only because it has a Mac port, even though only one of them got WoW to actually play it on a Mac.
Novelty value is the value-of-newness. Something that you learn quickly has very little novelty value.
While the term "novelty" could in theory be used to refer to anything new, in practice, the word has overwhelmingly strong connotations of having nothing to contribute BUT that it is new. Something which actually turns out to be useful is not a novelty, even when it's new.