I never bought the first game, due to the draconian DRM. By the time it was eased, there were so many other great games on my list to purchase and play that I never got back around to Bioshock. The end result: They lost my business.
As someone with a background in AI and HCI, I completely agree. Unfortunately, we still have a long way to go, and I think that Google is jumping the gun on this. It should prove to be quite humorous, even as first steps go.
Maybe my experience is atypical, but Google doesn't seem to translate pages very well. I can only imagine how bad it will be having a phone do this. "Did that guy's phone just call me what I think it did?"
I'm mostly annoyed with the smoke belching drivers. At least I don't have to worry about smokers on subway platforms anymore, but I still get naseous when the smell of someone holding a cigarette out of their window starts wafting in through my heater/AC.
Then again, if the cigarette smoke is coming into my car, maybe I should worry about their exhaust too...
I'm sure that most countries, at least most relatively developed ones (and I consider India as such), already have their own group investigating climate change. Besides, I don't see any mention from the article that India is actually "ditching" the UN group. It's just establishing its own group, rather than relying 100% on the UN group to base their national policies and laws upon.
You're right, but at least today you can buy a DK game, cabinet and all, and play exactly the same game as you could 30+ years ago. You can't do that with games that require access to a server that is owned and controlled by a company who chooses to shut them down.
The statement was that it is better for the community, not for an individual member of the community. This could mean a lot of things. It could mean that the servers that were running these older games will get replaced, and their racks used for new games. This might hurt 1,000 players, but benefit 10,000 at the same time. The community as a whole would benefit from this. It could also mean that MS believes these people who continue to play older games will spend more time playing newer games, and thus strengthen a weaker community, much like MMO's sometimes merge servers.
As an avid gamer, I hate the way modern games are moving away from the old model of pay once, play forever, and moving toward licensing. It may not be called licensing by the producers, but that's exactly what it is. How many of us still enjoy a nostalgic game of Donkey Kong, or Super Mario Bros.? I'm sure there is still a group of gamers out there who enjoy a multiplayer game of Quake or Command and Conquer.
Ten years from now, a few friends would like to play a game of Halo 2, but they won't be able to. Just last year, I sank a good 30 hours into the original Sid Mier's(sp?) Colonization, like I have been doing since 1996. I don't know the details about Xbox Live, or Halo 2, but if the game requires a centralized Live server for multiplayer functionality, then it simply won't work. In effect, you are only licensing a portion of the game for a certain period of time. Sure, you can code your own server from scratch, like the Star Wars Galaxies fans have done, but that still eliminates 90% of the fans who will one day want to replay the game that they loved.
My wife got scammed 4 1/2 years ago when shopping at Joann.com, which is the web store for Jo-Ann fabrics and crafts, a major national chain. At the end of her purchase, she was offered a $10 coupon, and only had to give her email address. She gave the address of an account she uses for things that might generate a lot of spam. She never received the email containing any coupon information, but Webloyalty started charging our CC $10/month. After the second month, we caught on, and contacted them about it.
Long story, made short, even though there was nothing informing her about this, the simple act of providing an email address (any, even a bogus one) was interpreted as permission for Joann.com to give our CC info to Webloyalty. They refused to give our money back, and Joann.com only responded by saying "enjoy your coupon," which she never did receive. She doesn't shop there anymore, and neither does the majority of her circle of friends.
At least we only had $20 stolen from us. It could have been worse.
Except that the movie wan't really Dune. I would compare the book-movie relationship to the Lord of the Rings book saga - Star Wars movie saga relationship. Imagine making the movie Star Wars, but calling it Lord of the Rings, using the name Frodo for Luke, Samwise for R2, Gollum for Yoda, Gandalf for Obi-Wan, Aragorn for Han, Legolas for Leia, Gimli for Chewbacca, a Nazgul for Vader, Sauron for Palpatine... you get the idea. The 1984 Dune movie isn't really Dune, anymore than Avatar is. I'm sure that some would disagree, but that's just my opinion.
Just because someone came up with a brilliant idea for making the machine work does not make them a hero. What DOES make someone a hero is their willingness to risk their very life for something greater than themself. I'll probably get modded down for quoting the Bible on/., but, "No one has greater love than this, that someone would lay down his life for his friends." (John 15:13, HCSB).
Sure, there is something to be said for living a life of sacrifice, giving up something valuable every day for many years, but there is nothing greater than to die for someone else. That's the lesson of Apollo 1, Challenger, and Columbia. Those men and women were not only willing to die for the advancement of knowledge in our culture, they actually DID die.
Every mission is a selfless death for those astronauts. That they are able to receive their lives back, after they touch down, is a return of the gift they gave to us.
Except when you are sitting on the toilet for 5 minutes, and want to play a quick little game to help take your mind off the digusting biological processes going on around you. Sure, there are other options, but not for true gamers. We game every chance we get.
Having not played the game, I wonder if it was spelled 'sudo' or pronounced. The word 'psuedo', which means "very similar, but not quite the same" is pronounced the same as 'sudo'. They are both pronounced 'sue-doe' (that's 'sue' as in patent infringement, and 'doe' as in female deer).
If it's not spelled out on the screen, then a psuedo-command would make as much sense, if not more.
Why, you didn't cause it. Or did you? Are you a corporate lobbyist or RIAA exec or something? You shouldn't be ashemed of something you have no control over.
There are several things that make me proud to be an American. One is our humanitarian efforts. Sure, we could and should be doing a lot more, but we still do a lot. Another is our contributions toward scientific advancement. When we start cutting back on these things, my pride in my citizenship shrinks. Perhaps the word "ashamed" wasn't accurate, but I have less to feel proud of.
I believe he was a true Republican, until the whole UN / Iraq debacle. He went to bat for Bush Jr.'s administration, and in the end was made to look like a fool. IMO, he was so hurt by this that he decided to support Obama.
If Colin Powell wanted it, he could have ran against Clinton in 1996 as a Republican, and in my opinion, would have won. The Republican party would have accepted him, but he just didn't want it.
The vast majority of things the government spends money on, I would never be willing to contribute toward, if given the choice. Military, medicare, an social security? No way. Police, roads, NASA and a return to the moon? Absolutely. Now they decide that it's not worth it to spend money on extraterrestrial projects? It makes me ashamed to be an American.
I worked for HP for a couple of years, and when I found out in 2008 that nobody was going to get a raise, I started looking for another job. Then in 2009 they cut salaries by 5% and I decided to make it known to my manager that I wanted to relocate within the company to the other side of the country (US). What I didn't tell him was that I was receiving calls from recruiters.
Then in May, I was told that "my position was being eliminated as part of a workforce reduction plan." I'm so glad the VP who told me this let me go home early. I doubt I could have lasted another 5 minutes without dancing. The severance package was worth 2 months of pay, at the rate I was getting before the 5% cut. A few months later, I had another job. It pays over 25% more than what I was making at HP, and in general, I love what I do here!
Get out now. Nobody should "just be happy to have a job." Yes, you should be grateful to God that you have a job, but don't JUST be happy with that.
Those positions may have been there, but they weren't being filled. Many positions were just placeholders. They got approval to open the position, then the company came on hard times before they filled the position, and once things got bad, the manager didn't want to risk hiring someone only to have to let them go a month later. Many didn't even know if they themselves would have a job next week. Keeping the position open, rather than closing it, allowed the managers to fill that position quickly when things turned around. It would mean less paperwork, and there would be no chance that upper management would turn down the request. At least, that's what all my research, including what hiring managers at various companies have told me personally, indicates.
I worked for two years in a megacorp, and it was a horrible experience. The worst part about it was how upper management treated their employees. Compensation was below market standards. We were compensated less than market standards, yet expected to work longer hours, and be more productive during that time, than other corporations. HR hid all important information behind several layers of red tape.
The actual work was somewhat interesting, but there was no advancement. Sure, there were lots of dog and pony shows, but managers were encouraged to keep their employees in the same position for years, and would give bad internal references to facilitate that. It was considered easier and cheaper to hire externally for one position than hire internally for one and then have to hire again to fill the new vacancy.
The only real benefit to working for a megacorp is the prestige that comes with the name. "I work for XYZ," usually got a few looks of admiration or envy from those who didn't know any better (like friends and family, but not colleagues).
we are expected to have a secure smart grid? How hard is it to give some real powers to the Cybersecurity Czar so he's something more than a scapegoat, and get him to stay put long enough to complete his New Employee Orientation? We can't even do that, yet we're supposed to find a way to secure the smart grid?
Has the current Cybersecurity Czar even made a statement about the recent hacking invasion from the Chinese government?
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What kind of DRM does the PC version have?
I never bought the first game, due to the draconian DRM. By the time it was eased, there were so many other great games on my list to purchase and play that I never got back around to Bioshock. The end result: They lost my business.
As someone with a background in AI and HCI, I completely agree. Unfortunately, we still have a long way to go, and I think that Google is jumping the gun on this. It should prove to be quite humorous, even as first steps go.
Thank you for the insight. I will have to save that site for future use. Google didn't give me that definition with "define: ricer".
Maybe my experience is atypical, but Google doesn't seem to translate pages very well. I can only imagine how bad it will be having a phone do this. "Did that guy's phone just call me what I think it did?"
Ricers? As in: asian-made vehicles? I don't get it.
I'm mostly annoyed with the smoke belching drivers. At least I don't have to worry about smokers on subway platforms anymore, but I still get naseous when the smell of someone holding a cigarette out of their window starts wafting in through my heater/AC.
Then again, if the cigarette smoke is coming into my car, maybe I should worry about their exhaust too...
There are plenty of DOS games that I enjoyed playing, good luck getting them to run now.
Try DOSBox. It emulates DOS just fine for gaming.
I'm sure that most countries, at least most relatively developed ones (and I consider India as such), already have their own group investigating climate change. Besides, I don't see any mention from the article that India is actually "ditching" the UN group. It's just establishing its own group, rather than relying 100% on the UN group to base their national policies and laws upon.
You're right, but at least today you can buy a DK game, cabinet and all, and play exactly the same game as you could 30+ years ago. You can't do that with games that require access to a server that is owned and controlled by a company who chooses to shut them down.
The statement was that it is better for the community, not for an individual member of the community. This could mean a lot of things. It could mean that the servers that were running these older games will get replaced, and their racks used for new games. This might hurt 1,000 players, but benefit 10,000 at the same time. The community as a whole would benefit from this. It could also mean that MS believes these people who continue to play older games will spend more time playing newer games, and thus strengthen a weaker community, much like MMO's sometimes merge servers.
As an avid gamer, I hate the way modern games are moving away from the old model of pay once, play forever, and moving toward licensing. It may not be called licensing by the producers, but that's exactly what it is. How many of us still enjoy a nostalgic game of Donkey Kong, or Super Mario Bros.? I'm sure there is still a group of gamers out there who enjoy a multiplayer game of Quake or Command and Conquer.
Ten years from now, a few friends would like to play a game of Halo 2, but they won't be able to. Just last year, I sank a good 30 hours into the original Sid Mier's(sp?) Colonization, like I have been doing since 1996. I don't know the details about Xbox Live, or Halo 2, but if the game requires a centralized Live server for multiplayer functionality, then it simply won't work. In effect, you are only licensing a portion of the game for a certain period of time. Sure, you can code your own server from scratch, like the Star Wars Galaxies fans have done, but that still eliminates 90% of the fans who will one day want to replay the game that they loved.
My wife got scammed 4 1/2 years ago when shopping at Joann.com, which is the web store for Jo-Ann fabrics and crafts, a major national chain. At the end of her purchase, she was offered a $10 coupon, and only had to give her email address. She gave the address of an account she uses for things that might generate a lot of spam. She never received the email containing any coupon information, but Webloyalty started charging our CC $10/month. After the second month, we caught on, and contacted them about it.
Long story, made short, even though there was nothing informing her about this, the simple act of providing an email address (any, even a bogus one) was interpreted as permission for Joann.com to give our CC info to Webloyalty. They refused to give our money back, and Joann.com only responded by saying "enjoy your coupon," which she never did receive. She doesn't shop there anymore, and neither does the majority of her circle of friends.
At least we only had $20 stolen from us. It could have been worse.
Except that the movie wan't really Dune. I would compare the book-movie relationship to the Lord of the Rings book saga - Star Wars movie saga relationship. Imagine making the movie Star Wars, but calling it Lord of the Rings, using the name Frodo for Luke, Samwise for R2, Gollum for Yoda, Gandalf for Obi-Wan, Aragorn for Han, Legolas for Leia, Gimli for Chewbacca, a Nazgul for Vader, Sauron for Palpatine... you get the idea. The 1984 Dune movie isn't really Dune, anymore than Avatar is. I'm sure that some would disagree, but that's just my opinion.
Just because someone came up with a brilliant idea for making the machine work does not make them a hero. What DOES make someone a hero is their willingness to risk their very life for something greater than themself. I'll probably get modded down for quoting the Bible on /., but, "No one has greater love than this, that someone would lay down his life for his friends." (John 15:13, HCSB).
Sure, there is something to be said for living a life of sacrifice, giving up something valuable every day for many years, but there is nothing greater than to die for someone else. That's the lesson of Apollo 1, Challenger, and Columbia. Those men and women were not only willing to die for the advancement of knowledge in our culture, they actually DID die.
Every mission is a selfless death for those astronauts. That they are able to receive their lives back, after they touch down, is a return of the gift they gave to us.
Except when you are sitting on the toilet for 5 minutes, and want to play a quick little game to help take your mind off the digusting biological processes going on around you. Sure, there are other options, but not for true gamers. We game every chance we get.
Having not played the game, I wonder if it was spelled 'sudo' or pronounced. The word 'psuedo', which means "very similar, but not quite the same" is pronounced the same as 'sudo'. They are both pronounced 'sue-doe' (that's 'sue' as in patent infringement, and 'doe' as in female deer). If it's not spelled out on the screen, then a psuedo-command would make as much sense, if not more.
Why, you didn't cause it. Or did you? Are you a corporate lobbyist or RIAA exec or something? You shouldn't be ashemed of something you have no control over.
There are several things that make me proud to be an American. One is our humanitarian efforts. Sure, we could and should be doing a lot more, but we still do a lot. Another is our contributions toward scientific advancement. When we start cutting back on these things, my pride in my citizenship shrinks. Perhaps the word "ashamed" wasn't accurate, but I have less to feel proud of.
I believe he was a true Republican, until the whole UN / Iraq debacle. He went to bat for Bush Jr.'s administration, and in the end was made to look like a fool. IMO, he was so hurt by this that he decided to support Obama.
If Colin Powell wanted it, he could have ran against Clinton in 1996 as a Republican, and in my opinion, would have won. The Republican party would have accepted him, but he just didn't want it.
The vast majority of things the government spends money on, I would never be willing to contribute toward, if given the choice. Military, medicare, an social security? No way. Police, roads, NASA and a return to the moon? Absolutely. Now they decide that it's not worth it to spend money on extraterrestrial projects? It makes me ashamed to be an American.
Leave now.
I worked for HP for a couple of years, and when I found out in 2008 that nobody was going to get a raise, I started looking for another job. Then in 2009 they cut salaries by 5% and I decided to make it known to my manager that I wanted to relocate within the company to the other side of the country (US). What I didn't tell him was that I was receiving calls from recruiters.
Then in May, I was told that "my position was being eliminated as part of a workforce reduction plan." I'm so glad the VP who told me this let me go home early. I doubt I could have lasted another 5 minutes without dancing. The severance package was worth 2 months of pay, at the rate I was getting before the 5% cut. A few months later, I had another job. It pays over 25% more than what I was making at HP, and in general, I love what I do here!
Get out now. Nobody should "just be happy to have a job." Yes, you should be grateful to God that you have a job, but don't JUST be happy with that.
It was a two word name, but with different initials.
Those positions may have been there, but they weren't being filled. Many positions were just placeholders. They got approval to open the position, then the company came on hard times before they filled the position, and once things got bad, the manager didn't want to risk hiring someone only to have to let them go a month later. Many didn't even know if they themselves would have a job next week. Keeping the position open, rather than closing it, allowed the managers to fill that position quickly when things turned around. It would mean less paperwork, and there would be no chance that upper management would turn down the request. At least, that's what all my research, including what hiring managers at various companies have told me personally, indicates.
I worked for two years in a megacorp, and it was a horrible experience. The worst part about it was how upper management treated their employees. Compensation was below market standards. We were compensated less than market standards, yet expected to work longer hours, and be more productive during that time, than other corporations. HR hid all important information behind several layers of red tape.
The actual work was somewhat interesting, but there was no advancement. Sure, there were lots of dog and pony shows, but managers were encouraged to keep their employees in the same position for years, and would give bad internal references to facilitate that. It was considered easier and cheaper to hire externally for one position than hire internally for one and then have to hire again to fill the new vacancy.
The only real benefit to working for a megacorp is the prestige that comes with the name. "I work for XYZ," usually got a few looks of admiration or envy from those who didn't know any better (like friends and family, but not colleagues).
we are expected to have a secure smart grid? How hard is it to give some real powers to the Cybersecurity Czar so he's something more than a scapegoat, and get him to stay put long enough to complete his New Employee Orientation? We can't even do that, yet we're supposed to find a way to secure the smart grid?
Has the current Cybersecurity Czar even made a statement about the recent hacking invasion from the Chinese government?