While tailored to interactive fiction, the "book" The Craft of the Adventure is a good read for many people wanting to design levels even in modern games. Especially section 3, Bill of players rights, I think is valuable even today.
The Craft of the Adventure can be found on the IF-archive. While there, another good read is the authorship-guide.
A friend of mine once opened the door, where a pair of people held up some brochure about christ this or that. When they saw him (unshaved and with long black hair) they put that away and took out another brochure featuring satan instead.
Whether violent fantasies are cathartic has nothing to do with whether they are risk factors or not (which they are).
So you never thought "I wish he/she was dead" about someone you hated? That makes you a really special person. If, on the other hand, you have had thought so, you too are a risk factor.
Well, much of the USA already is pretty much agressively nationalistic, so one down two to go... And from my point of view you are halfway with the other two.
Actually I see some common points between the roman empire and the US. The most obvious is an upper/ruling class that has distanced itself so far from the rest of the people that it can not see any need beyond their own.
At least the US government is still selected by election and not poisoning. On the other hand, the romans could probably throw a hell of a party.
You made me think about this a little... Almost all scientific breakthroughs in the last century came because of war: The two world wars, the cold war and the space race (technically part of the cold war.) Currently there are really no such war or race going on, at least not until the Asian countries starts to send probes to Mars.
Actually, I say to hell with people on the moon! Instead I think it would be much better to create a manned space station orbiting the moon instead, and use it as a "shipyard" and launch-platform for missions to the asteroid belt, Mars and beyond.
making some bold claims about egyptian security forces which are probably taken out of thin air
Well, one word from FBI to the Egyptian police, and the family will be taken in for questioning. And by questioning I mean full-body-contact questioning.
Well, I'm a composer, and I recognise that I probably won't be making much money off my music during my lifetime. My kids though, may well have the distinction of saying "yeah, that unfunk fellow was my dad" and thus, I'm all for them getting money from my work.
Well, your kids (and grandkids) are lucky bastards, because I know of no other line of work where your kids are getting paid for something you did when you were alive, while the kids are doing nothing themselves to earn it (besides being your kids).
Because in many of the areas they'd service there would NEVER be a profit.
Yes, but in other areas they might have huge profits instead, easily covering the losses in other areas and then some. The best example of this is actually Microsoft, where huge losses in many departments (like the XBox) is covered by huge profits in the OS and Office departments.
My personal opinion is that the courts should treat this like trademarks. Trademarks have to be protected, failure to do so will result in loss of the trademark. They (the record companies) failed to protect their rights against the pirate copying in the 80's and 90's, so while not loosing the right to the actual music they should loose the right to prosecute today because of neglience in the past. IMHO of course.
Ah yes, but the business in question don't sell PC software, they sell hardware. They don't make any money on the software that talks to the device, they make money on the actual device. Besides, if they make a Linux version of the PC software, wouldn't lots of geeks buy the device and recomend it to their (non-linux) friends?
"Parents can't trust a rating system that doesn't even disclose how they come to a particular rating. The MPAA and should end this game of secrecy by immediately unveiling what content has been changed to grant the new rating and what correspondence occurred between the MPAA and to come to this conclusion. Unfortunately, history shows that we must be quite skeptical of these two entities."
Disclaimer: I am not a US citizen, and don't know how MPAA or its rating system works.
Well, the "Single UNIX Specification Version 3" is available to read on the Open Groups website, for free. Registration needed but then if you need to it's easy to download with wget. It contains all of POSIX and more if I'm not misstaken.
Sure, but most desktops don't run more than one or two apps at a time.
Uhm, have you ever opened the task-manager in Windows sometimes? For extra fun, add the Thread Count column. It's no wonder that the relative speed doesn't seem to increase over time, as more and more processes and threads are needed just to get an empty desktop with no user applications running.
It's like a scene in Star Wars, when after the Millennium Falcon escapes and the last Tie fighter explodes, one piece of debris bounces at the bottom. None of my friends had seen it until I showed it to them. Now we see it every time we watch Star Wars again.
One thing I wonder about this is if Goodmail attempt to check where the mail actually originates from, like what country the sender is in. Do they really expect that anyone outside the US is going to pay to send emails to recipients inside the US? Couldn't this be seen as an obstacle to international trade? Can the US be sanctioned because of this?
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While tailored to interactive fiction, the "book" The Craft of the Adventure is a good read for many people wanting to design levels even in modern games. Especially section 3, Bill of players rights, I think is valuable even today.
The Craft of the Adventure can be found on the IF-archive. While there, another good read is the authorship-guide.
A friend of mine once opened the door, where a pair of people held up some brochure about christ this or that. When they saw him (unshaved and with long black hair) they put that away and took out another brochure featuring satan instead.
So you never thought "I wish he/she was dead" about someone you hated? That makes you a really special person. If, on the other hand, you have had thought so, you too are a risk factor.
Well, much of the USA already is pretty much agressively nationalistic, so one down two to go... And from my point of view you are halfway with the other two.
Actually I see some common points between the roman empire and the US. The most obvious is an upper/ruling class that has distanced itself so far from the rest of the people that it can not see any need beyond their own.
At least the US government is still selected by election and not poisoning. On the other hand, the romans could probably throw a hell of a party.
You made me think about this a little... Almost all scientific breakthroughs in the last century came because of war: The two world wars, the cold war and the space race (technically part of the cold war.) Currently there are really no such war or race going on, at least not until the Asian countries starts to send probes to Mars.
Actually, I say to hell with people on the moon! Instead I think it would be much better to create a manned space station orbiting the moon instead, and use it as a "shipyard" and launch-platform for missions to the asteroid belt, Mars and beyond.
Well, one word from FBI to the Egyptian police, and the family will be taken in for questioning. And by questioning I mean full-body-contact questioning.
Well, your kids (and grandkids) are lucky bastards, because I know of no other line of work where your kids are getting paid for something you did when you were alive, while the kids are doing nothing themselves to earn it (besides being your kids).
But if you buy the box, don't you get the CD with that? And if you have the CD, can't you rip it your self in whatever bitrate you want?
Corporations aren't supposed to serve its customers, they are supposed to server its shareholders.
And the corps do it any way it can!
Yes, but in other areas they might have huge profits instead, easily covering the losses in other areas and then some.
The best example of this is actually Microsoft, where huge losses in many departments (like the XBox) is covered by huge profits in the OS and Office departments.
I was thinking more about the comparison with shadows. The DX9 shadow is, IMHO, more natural than the 'crisp' DX10 shadow.
My personal opinion is that the courts should treat this like trademarks. Trademarks have to be protected, failure to do so will result in loss of the trademark. They (the record companies) failed to protect their rights against the pirate copying in the 80's and 90's, so while not loosing the right to the actual music they should loose the right to prosecute today because of neglience in the past.
IMHO of course.
Ah yes, but the business in question don't sell PC software, they sell hardware. They don't make any money on the software that talks to the device, they make money on the actual device.
Besides, if they make a Linux version of the PC software, wouldn't lots of geeks buy the device and recomend it to their (non-linux) friends?
I'll take Samantha Carter over every other geek!
I wonder if this single employee sent the same letter to companies in the other countries where the same thing happened?
"Parents can't trust a rating system that doesn't even disclose how they come to a particular rating. The MPAA and should end this game of secrecy by immediately unveiling what content has been changed to grant the new rating and what correspondence occurred between the MPAA and to come to this conclusion. Unfortunately, history shows that we must be quite skeptical of these two entities."
Disclaimer: I am not a US citizen, and don't know how MPAA or its rating system works.
Or, for that matter, almost any other operating system?
Someone should tell Hari Seldon his work is already done!
Yeah, I kind of forget that... Sorry! :)
The country in question is Sweden, as one one poster already guessed.
The prices in USA really scares me.
I am paying around $30 for 10Mbps, guaranteed, both directions. For around $50 I can get 100Mbps.
Well, the "Single UNIX Specification Version 3" is available to read on the Open Groups website, for free. Registration needed but then if you need to it's easy to download with wget. It contains all of POSIX and more if I'm not misstaken.
Uhm, have you ever opened the task-manager in Windows sometimes? For extra fun, add the Thread Count column.
It's no wonder that the relative speed doesn't seem to increase over time, as more and more processes and threads are needed just to get an empty desktop with no user applications running.
It's like a scene in Star Wars, when after the Millennium Falcon escapes and the last Tie fighter explodes, one piece of debris bounces at the bottom.
None of my friends had seen it until I showed it to them. Now we see it every time we watch Star Wars again.
One thing I wonder about this is if Goodmail attempt to check where the mail actually originates from, like what country the sender is in.
Do they really expect that anyone outside the US is going to pay to send emails to recipients inside the US?
Couldn't this be seen as an obstacle to international trade? Can the US be sanctioned because of this?