I think you need to rewatch the ending. He was shown wearing a pressure suit and moving in containers of O2 needed to survive the 3 day journey... Not sure how that counts as unprotected...
Because the game industry is mostly a closed industry. If you work in the game industry now, chances are great that your next job will also be in the game industry. This promotes clustering of studios. If you're going to strike out on your own, you strike out where your last position was leading to more studios in the same region. Likewise, before you move for a position you look to see what other studios are there in case it doesn't work out. For the most part you're looking at one of maybe 6 places: Seattle, San Francisco (and down into San Jose), Orange County/LA, San Diego, Austin, Maryland. Are there other studios around? Yes, but pretty much just 1-2 in the entire town. Look at Las Vegas that had Westwood, and when they closed some Westwood people founded Petroglyph, but it's still the only studio in town. Phoenix has Cheyenne Mountain Games and nothing else, Houston has Timegate, and nothing else. Etc...
Depends on what you mean by the last few years. Going from 2000, the year that SSX came out, the original IP that has been published by EA has been: Alice, Kessen, Nox, X Squad, Black & White, Cel Damage, Undying, Majestic, Motor City Online, Sub Command, Earth and Beyond, Freedom Force, Freekstyle, Pirates: The Legend of Black Kat, Ghosthunter, Loaded, Armies of Exigo, The Urbz, and Knights of Honor. That doesn't count licensed IP that was unique for the same time period. (Harry Potter, Batman, Battle for Middle Earth etc...)
From the article Companies from across IT face criminal sanctions, including prison time for employees, if their networks, software programs or online services are ever used to carry illegally copied material such as music or film, according to a draft law from the European Commission supported Tuesday by a committee of the European Parliament.
So arrange for someone to pirate a home-made song of yours on a Sony Laptop, and then try to get Sir Howard in jail? I LOVE IT!
That's why the price of 1000 gold has gone from $18 to $314 on my server right? Almost a 20x increase in price because Blizzard hasn't put much effort into stopping the farmers. If you track the price per gold over time you can see the price doubling with each set of changes blizzard has done. I'd think about dropping $20 on gold, it's less then a bargain game and will last me longer, there's no way in hell I'd drop the cost of a new console on gold however.
And then you log out, never to play that character again.
Now the placement of that NPC that the world designer spent time on was wasted, the dialog written for it by the quest designer will never be seen by another person. Was there another reason to go into the cave? World art time wasted. Now multiply this by enough quests needed to keep every person playing active at all times and also to enable all the twinks who start a quest but never finish it or people who quit the game to have THEIR quests and still all be unique. Dynamic generation of quests tend to be MORE of the: Kill X of Y where X is a list of 1000 items and Y is a list of 1000 creatures then non dynamic quests ever can be.
Also usually in each of the MMOs there is one quest line that can only be done once. Release the sleeper, open the gates of Ahn'Qiraj etc...
The voice of the game companies that are willing to pay for the ESRB to pay testers to play their games is not being stifled in any way through legislature.
Now all the ESRB needs to do is say that raitings will cost $1,000,000 per title. Still think Congress isn't restricting the freedom of speech? How about due to congressional pressure they refuse to look at Ultra-Combine-Masscre XVII. Are their freedom of speech being restricted yet?
I disagree there. Most people wants to find a local maxima of ease to power. They'd like to be powerful, but not if it's too difficult.
Ask pretty much any high end PvPer as to what's the most powerful classes in the game for PvP. Pretty much most will agree it's either a Shadow Priest, or a Warlock. Yet those two classes are the least common in the entire game. (When adjusted for side specific classes such as Shaman which numerically is the least represented.) Meanwhile people flock to rogues because they are strong and easy as all hell to raise.
I think a better example using your ATM motif would be what if you took your ATM card and changed the mag-strip to give it a new account number and due to an oversight in the system it allowed you to take money out anyway. Should you be able to sue the bank when they freeze your account? Or should you be going to jail for fraud?
There's probably roughly 1.5MM customers on the United States services (The last press release I saw said they had surpassed 1MM US a majority of their customers are out side the US market.) If you can provide a better count of US customers please do so and I'd be happy to be wrong. Of that 1.5MM customers, there are 138 US servers. Or about 11000 accounts per server. Traditional wisdom holds that 12.5% on average of your customer base will be online at any time. (Same numbers ISPs use to oversell lines.) This would lead to 1300 concurrent connections per server. Assume that we're off by a factor of two with these numbers, that would still be 2600 a far cry from maxing at 10k.
While I understand the sentiment, did you expect something else? Even NWN was supposed to support Windows, MacOS and Linux equally (and wasn't BeOS in there too?) but when it came out the reality was somewhat... different. Even now, Linux is supported by NWN, but there's some issues, like no Bink video (of course, that's not really Bioware's fault, but either way, it's a limitation if you're actually playing the standard game.)
Actually that is Bioware's fault, from the rad game tools website:
The Bink SDK supports the Nintendo DS, the Xbox 360 and the Xbox consoles (using pixel shaders!), the Sony PlayStation 2 console, all versions of 32-bit Windows, the Xbox console, the Nintendo GameCube console, MacOS, MacOS X and GNU/Linux. It supports pixel shaders, DirectDraw, DIBSections, DirectSound, waveOut, Sound Manager, NGC AX, NGC MusyX, SDL_mixer, and the Miles Sound System.
I'm assuming that they didn't want to spend $6,000 to license the Bink Player on Linux or negotiate for a cross-platform SKU wide license...
You can do loops on the SPE it's just that the lack of branch prediction and it's dual pipeline nature means that you're better off unrolling them for speed.
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I think you need to rewatch the ending. He was shown wearing a pressure suit and moving in containers of O2 needed to survive the 3 day journey... Not sure how that counts as unprotected...
Because the game industry is mostly a closed industry. If you work in the game industry now, chances are great that your next job will also be in the game industry. This promotes clustering of studios. If you're going to strike out on your own, you strike out where your last position was leading to more studios in the same region. Likewise, before you move for a position you look to see what other studios are there in case it doesn't work out. For the most part you're looking at one of maybe 6 places: Seattle, San Francisco (and down into San Jose), Orange County/LA, San Diego, Austin, Maryland. Are there other studios around? Yes, but pretty much just 1-2 in the entire town. Look at Las Vegas that had Westwood, and when they closed some Westwood people founded Petroglyph, but it's still the only studio in town. Phoenix has Cheyenne Mountain Games and nothing else, Houston has Timegate, and nothing else. Etc...
Can you point out the law that makes it unlawful to accept returned software? Is it state or federal? Or are you outside the US?
Depends on what you mean by the last few years. Going from 2000, the year that SSX came out, the original IP that has been published by EA has been:
Alice, Kessen, Nox, X Squad, Black & White, Cel Damage, Undying, Majestic, Motor City Online, Sub Command, Earth and Beyond, Freedom Force, Freekstyle, Pirates: The Legend of Black Kat, Ghosthunter, Loaded, Armies of Exigo, The Urbz, and Knights of Honor. That doesn't count licensed IP that was unique for the same time period. (Harry Potter, Batman, Battle for Middle Earth etc...)
How creative? I just spent about 15 minutes with google and didn't see what you were referring to.
Actually isn't it stealing?
They make a copy of it for themselves. Then they wipe the drive and reinstall the OS as part of their 'fix'.
You are denied it and they have it, how is that not stealing?
I'm shocked to see so many Starfire references in one place. Glad to see I'm not the only one that still loves it.
What do you know that the FBI doesn't? According to them http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/05cius/offenses/clearances/ index.html#figure the clearance rate for Murder across the entire country is 62.1%.
Why did you choose Seattle as the comparison spot instead of Redmond itself?m ?c1=Redmond&s1=WA&c2=San+Francisco&s2=CA shows quite a bit of a difference than your Seattle link.
http://oaklandca.areaconnect.com/crime/compare.ht
The article is in CIO magazine, none of the downsides you mention is of a concern for a CIO. A Product manager? Maybe, even then probably not.
From the article Companies from across IT face criminal sanctions, including prison time for employees, if their networks, software programs or online services are ever used to carry illegally copied material such as music or film, according to a draft law from the European Commission supported Tuesday by a committee of the European Parliament.
So arrange for someone to pirate a home-made song of yours on a Sony Laptop, and then try to get Sir Howard in jail? I LOVE IT!
That's why the price of 1000 gold has gone from $18 to $314 on my server right? Almost a 20x increase in price because Blizzard hasn't put much effort into stopping the farmers. If you track the price per gold over time you can see the price doubling with each set of changes blizzard has done. I'd think about dropping $20 on gold, it's less then a bargain game and will last me longer, there's no way in hell I'd drop the cost of a new console on gold however.
From the article... 'that says teachers who want to show the movie must ensure that a "credible, legitimate opposing view will be presented,"'
Talking about a pocket banning... Is there such a thing as a credible, legitimate opposing view that has been peer reviewed in a scientific journal?
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But if there were no Intellectual Property Laws regarding the codec, they wouldn't need to pay a licensing fee, they could just use it. Correct?
And then you log out, never to play that character again.
Now the placement of that NPC that the world designer spent time on was wasted, the dialog written for it by the quest designer will never be seen by another person. Was there another reason to go into the cave? World art time wasted. Now multiply this by enough quests needed to keep every person playing active at all times and also to enable all the twinks who start a quest but never finish it or people who quit the game to have THEIR quests and still all be unique. Dynamic generation of quests tend to be MORE of the: Kill X of Y where X is a list of 1000 items and Y is a list of 1000 creatures then non dynamic quests ever can be.
Also usually in each of the MMOs there is one quest line that can only be done once. Release the sleeper, open the gates of Ahn'Qiraj etc...
Not quite correct.
The voice of the game companies that are willing to pay for the ESRB to pay testers to play their games is not being stifled in any way through legislature.
Now all the ESRB needs to do is say that raitings will cost $1,000,000 per title. Still think Congress isn't restricting the freedom of speech? How about due to congressional pressure they refuse to look at Ultra-Combine-Masscre XVII. Are their freedom of speech being restricted yet?
I disagree there. Most people wants to find a local maxima of ease to power. They'd like to be powerful, but not if it's too difficult.
Ask pretty much any high end PvPer as to what's the most powerful classes in the game for PvP. Pretty much most will agree it's either a Shadow Priest, or a Warlock. Yet those two classes are the least common in the entire game. (When adjusted for side specific classes such as Shaman which numerically is the least represented.) Meanwhile people flock to rogues because they are strong and easy as all hell to raise.
I like to think that if they had WoW back then, that Apollo mission never would have happened.
Until the first person counters the threat of criminal traspass with that of false imprisonment.
Indeed, because everyone knows you only kill Diablo once!
I think a better example using your ATM motif would be what if you took your ATM card and changed the mag-strip to give it a new account number and due to an oversight in the system it allowed you to take money out anyway. Should you be able to sue the bank when they freeze your account? Or should you be going to jail for fraud?
That's Healer/Crowd Control/Tanker!
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Which is what I first thought it would be about on reading the article
There's probably roughly 1.5MM customers on the United States services (The last press release I saw said they had surpassed 1MM US a majority of their customers are out side the US market.) If you can provide a better count of US customers please do so and I'd be happy to be wrong. Of that 1.5MM customers, there are 138 US servers. Or about 11000 accounts per server. Traditional wisdom holds that 12.5% on average of your customer base will be online at any time. (Same numbers ISPs use to oversell lines.) This would lead to 1300 concurrent connections per server. Assume that we're off by a factor of two with these numbers, that would still be 2600 a far cry from maxing at 10k.
Actually that is Bioware's fault, from the rad game tools website:
The Bink SDK supports the Nintendo DS, the Xbox 360 and the Xbox consoles (using pixel shaders!), the Sony PlayStation 2 console, all versions of 32-bit Windows, the Xbox console, the Nintendo GameCube console, MacOS, MacOS X and GNU/Linux. It supports pixel shaders, DirectDraw, DIBSections, DirectSound, waveOut, Sound Manager, NGC AX, NGC MusyX, SDL_mixer, and the Miles Sound System.
I'm assuming that they didn't want to spend $6,000 to license the Bink Player on Linux or negotiate for a cross-platform SKU wide license...
You can do loops on the SPE it's just that the lack of branch prediction and it's dual pipeline nature means that you're better off unrolling them for speed.