Then mount the gun near the bumper with a camera and wire it up to it pops out and retracts as needed. In the car there's a screen that combined with image analysis identifies the nearby cars. All the driver has to do is glance down and select which car to fire at and the system does the rest.
Keep in mind that economic growth does not automatically equal lower and middle class growth. It is possible for economic growth to benefit the rich while harming the middle and lower classes. IE, the new wealth goes to the rich, and the not-rich either stay the same, or lose wealth.
The scrips looks for behavior over a week or two, not a day or two, mules won't get flagged because they give AND take.
Disproportionately cheap can be a low threshold, and more importantly, the script looks for actions over a week or two. Repeatedly giving away large sums of gil because real money was involved, will get flagged. Repeatedly giving large sums of gil for cheap items, will get flagged.
All human beings need sleep. Bots are against the TOS. Characters that aren't standing around doing nothing for at least a little while each day or two are being played by several Chinese farmers.
Admins can look over the statistics before deciding to ban the account instead of the script doing it automatically. The point is the script flags accounts to save admins time. I don't play FFXI, but my ideas are for all MMOs and can be adapted.
If developers want to leave a system in that is more fun for most players, but succeptable to abuse, that's their call.
Again, think creatively. If the mules are giving AND receiving, they won't get flagged. If the script looks for patterns over a week or two instead of a day or two, there will be fewer false positives. The scripts don't necessarily auto-ban accounts, but flag them for investigation. A human then looks at the account's usage patterns and statistics and makes a judgement call.
Why would the threshold to prove a guild is legitimate be just one representative? If other players are reporting that so-and-so is a farmer, and several complaints come from the same guild, that's going to cast suspicion and make it easier to know who to investigate.
For the guy who slept 8 hours, the point is that for 8 hours his character ought to doing nothing, since running a bot is against the TOS. The script looks for characters that are inhumanly always active and flags them.
Think creatively. If scripts can identify 90% of the farmers, then the remaining 10% can be investigated by admins who won't be overwhelmed trying to police 100% of the farmers. Once the admins get the upper hand, it no longer becomes worth it to the farmers and IGE, since high-level characters who do the farming are time-consuming to make.
Example of a script, automatically look for characters raking in huge amounts of loot/cash. Then automatically narrow those down to the ones who are inexplicably giving away most of it for no aparent reason, or if they're getting something in return, the item(s) are disproportionately cheap for the value of the exchange. That catches the farmers, and the store-front characters who stand in town spamming the channels. To avoid snaring people who are farming to help their legitimate guilds, make a whitelist of guilds. If a player is often giving away money or loot to someone(s) outside the guild over the course of days or weeks, that gets flagged as suspicious too.
Finally, look for suspicious usage patterns. Regular people can't play for 24 hours a day. Flag those, and also those who play an account more than 12. Automatically compile a list of who these accounts are grouping with. If the farmers have power leveling teams set up, this will flag the teams. Ban those accounts, and the farmers will have to find regular players to group with. The regulars will level the farmers more slowly so it costs more to raise the characters.
I assume some of the MMO's already do this sort of thing or will be soon enough.
If that works for you, lucky you. I have so many tracks needing genre info that sorting by genre isn't really useful yet, but someday it will be as I slowly make my way through them.
When I'm done though I won't always want Johnny Cash lumped in with Guns & Roses, so I've got lots more genres separating Classic Rock, Rock, and Alternative. For when I want calmer sounds there's Slow Rock for Stone Temple Pilots' Creep. Also got a catch-call genre of Smooth for Sting, Norah Jones, and stuff I'd like to differentiate from Rock or Pop.
All right, well back to your original post, do you think it would be millions of Britons, or only some number of thousands? That is, how commonplace have you found this opinion to be among others?
I asked for an opinion. That's why I said "how certain" instead of "how can you know." My point can still be valid statistically.
Maybe DocSavage has actual reasons, like all the pirated games got ratings below a certain threshold and Doc wouldn't pay for future games with those low ratings even if he was getting bored of the better ones.
Are your eyes abnormal? Do you live in a cave? Have you not noticed that plenty of stores now use flourescents that work just fine and produce pleasing light?
Most everybody buys cars. Most women do not buy videogames. The industry wants that to change. To do so will involve changing the image of the industry, and making games that women want to play. Women do watch movies despite the sex Hollywood uses for marketing "guy movies." So the video game answer could simply be making games for women. However, E3 is a showcase for the whole industry. Hollywood doesn't mix race queens into it's marketing of chick flicks just because there's a guy movie coming out along side it.
What for? Consider the heat build up. There's already ARM processors in cell phones. They still have to leave room for the battery. I don't need a computer the size of a cigarette pack if it's going to remain wired to my desk.
Is that when games with lots of hi-res textures for the 256MB+ of RAM to get up to 8.5GB, some content will have to be compressed or left out. It'll be a limiting factor on how pretty the games can get. Most people will never notice, but the developers will know how much extra variety of graphics was left out for space reasons.
The administration wants to look good, and wants people to be scared. If it had concrete evidence of breaking up a terrorist attack, it would have crowed about it, even if it took a year or two to make the statement while leads were followed to other people and countries.
nintendo acknowledged it was a mistake to bring the game cube out so late. they said they wouldn't make the same mistake with the Revolution. So expect them to strongly consider moving up their timetable if Sony does.
Big yawn over here. A $200 card will still run todays and tomorrow's games just fine, just not at 1600x1200 with 4x anti-aliasing and 16x anistropic filtering.
Look into WWII Online. Create an account and go fight for the axis or allies in Europe on foot, in a tank, or in the air. Folks looking for a fast-paced Quake or Counterstrike experience with lots of action resetting every five minutes should look elsewhere. Wasn't that other kind of game supposed to be Planetside?
It's unfortunate you didn't time your computer purchase better. You could've bought a DDR mobo with an Athlon in 2002 and later upgraded the mobo and chip while reusing the RAM. Your power supply would've worked fine with it too. It wasn't until the last year or so mobo's with Power Supply 2.0 power connectors came out. The ATX case lasted from what, about 1997 until 2004/5? That's plenty of time. The power connector standard that was recently replaced lasted for 5 years. AGP lasted for 5 years. My friends and I have upgraded lots of components in the past decade without having to completely rebuild systems.
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Let me guess, you live on the west coast? You're behind the times though. Pacbell merged around three years ago with SBC, which is now AT&T again.
I was talking about well-to-do civilians
Then mount the gun near the bumper with a camera and wire it up to it pops out and retracts as needed. In the car there's a screen that combined with image analysis identifies the nearby cars. All the driver has to do is glance down and select which car to fire at and the system does the rest.
Keep in mind that economic growth does not automatically equal lower and middle class growth. It is possible for economic growth to benefit the rich while harming the middle and lower classes. IE, the new wealth goes to the rich, and the not-rich either stay the same, or lose wealth.
The scrips looks for behavior over a week or two, not a day or two, mules won't get flagged because they give AND take.
Disproportionately cheap can be a low threshold, and more importantly, the script looks for actions over a week or two. Repeatedly giving away large sums of gil because real money was involved, will get flagged. Repeatedly giving large sums of gil for cheap items, will get flagged.
All human beings need sleep. Bots are against the TOS. Characters that aren't standing around doing nothing for at least a little while each day or two are being played by several Chinese farmers.
Admins can look over the statistics before deciding to ban the account instead of the script doing it automatically. The point is the script flags accounts to save admins time. I don't play FFXI, but my ideas are for all MMOs and can be adapted.
If developers want to leave a system in that is more fun for most players, but succeptable to abuse, that's their call.
Again, think creatively. If the mules are giving AND receiving, they won't get flagged. If the script looks for patterns over a week or two instead of a day or two, there will be fewer false positives. The scripts don't necessarily auto-ban accounts, but flag them for investigation. A human then looks at the account's usage patterns and statistics and makes a judgement call.
Why would the threshold to prove a guild is legitimate be just one representative? If other players are reporting that so-and-so is a farmer, and several complaints come from the same guild, that's going to cast suspicion and make it easier to know who to investigate.
For the guy who slept 8 hours, the point is that for 8 hours his character ought to doing nothing, since running a bot is against the TOS. The script looks for characters that are inhumanly always active and flags them.
Think creatively. If scripts can identify 90% of the farmers, then the remaining 10% can be investigated by admins who won't be overwhelmed trying to police 100% of the farmers. Once the admins get the upper hand, it no longer becomes worth it to the farmers and IGE, since high-level characters who do the farming are time-consuming to make.
Example of a script, automatically look for characters raking in huge amounts of loot/cash. Then automatically narrow those down to the ones who are inexplicably giving away most of it for no aparent reason, or if they're getting something in return, the item(s) are disproportionately cheap for the value of the exchange. That catches the farmers, and the store-front characters who stand in town spamming the channels. To avoid snaring people who are farming to help their legitimate guilds, make a whitelist of guilds. If a player is often giving away money or loot to someone(s) outside the guild over the course of days or weeks, that gets flagged as suspicious too.
Finally, look for suspicious usage patterns. Regular people can't play for 24 hours a day. Flag those, and also those who play an account more than 12. Automatically compile a list of who these accounts are grouping with. If the farmers have power leveling teams set up, this will flag the teams. Ban those accounts, and the farmers will have to find regular players to group with. The regulars will level the farmers more slowly so it costs more to raise the characters.
I assume some of the MMO's already do this sort of thing or will be soon enough.
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If that works for you, lucky you. I have so many tracks needing genre info that sorting by genre isn't really useful yet, but someday it will be as I slowly make my way through them.
When I'm done though I won't always want Johnny Cash lumped in with Guns & Roses, so I've got lots more genres separating Classic Rock, Rock, and Alternative. For when I want calmer sounds there's Slow Rock for Stone Temple Pilots' Creep. Also got a catch-call genre of Smooth for Sting, Norah Jones, and stuff I'd like to differentiate from Rock or Pop.
All right, well back to your original post, do you think it would be millions of Britons, or only some number of thousands? That is, how commonplace have you found this opinion to be among others?
I asked for an opinion. That's why I said "how certain" instead of "how can you know." My point can still be valid statistically.
Maybe DocSavage has actual reasons, like all the pirated games got ratings below a certain threshold and Doc wouldn't pay for future games with those low ratings even if he was getting bored of the better ones.
Back to your statement, how is it not valid?
Are your eyes abnormal? Do you live in a cave? Have you not noticed that plenty of stores now use flourescents that work just fine and produce pleasing light?
most of hollywood's productions are not art either.
I thought most everybody knew this.
If it wasn't possible for you to pirate games, how certain are you that you wouldn't spend about $450/yr on games, and $50/yr less on something else?
They could go into porno and beautify the industry. There are some ugly women in porn who wouldn't be missed.
Most everybody buys cars. Most women do not buy videogames. The industry wants that to change. To do so will involve changing the image of the industry, and making games that women want to play. Women do watch movies despite the sex Hollywood uses for marketing "guy movies." So the video game answer could simply be making games for women. However, E3 is a showcase for the whole industry. Hollywood doesn't mix race queens into it's marketing of chick flicks just because there's a guy movie coming out along side it.
You mean there aren't enough impressive games to check out to take up their time?
What for? Consider the heat build up. There's already ARM processors in cell phones. They still have to leave room for the battery. I don't need a computer the size of a cigarette pack if it's going to remain wired to my desk.
Is that when games with lots of hi-res textures for the 256MB+ of RAM to get up to 8.5GB, some content will have to be compressed or left out. It'll be a limiting factor on how pretty the games can get. Most people will never notice, but the developers will know how much extra variety of graphics was left out for space reasons.
The administration wants to look good, and wants people to be scared. If it had concrete evidence of breaking up a terrorist attack, it would have crowed about it, even if it took a year or two to make the statement while leads were followed to other people and countries.
nintendo acknowledged it was a mistake to bring the game cube out so late. they said they wouldn't make the same mistake with the Revolution. So expect them to strongly consider moving up their timetable if Sony does.
Big yawn over here. A $200 card will still run todays and tomorrow's games just fine, just not at 1600x1200 with 4x anti-aliasing and 16x anistropic filtering.
Look into WWII Online. Create an account and go fight for the axis or allies in Europe on foot, in a tank, or in the air. Folks looking for a fast-paced Quake or Counterstrike experience with lots of action resetting every five minutes should look elsewhere. Wasn't that other kind of game supposed to be Planetside?
It's unfortunate you didn't time your computer purchase better. You could've bought a DDR mobo with an Athlon in 2002 and later upgraded the mobo and chip while reusing the RAM. Your power supply would've worked fine with it too. It wasn't until the last year or so mobo's with Power Supply 2.0 power connectors came out. The ATX case lasted from what, about 1997 until 2004/5? That's plenty of time. The power connector standard that was recently replaced lasted for 5 years. AGP lasted for 5 years. My friends and I have upgraded lots of components in the past decade without having to completely rebuild systems.
Office? You mean StarOffice? That's free. You don't have to pay MS for it. After all, you're content to use something non-MS for Linux.
I'll also point out that it's pretty foolish to buy a Ti4400 when 6200's are available for $60 or 70.