Two words: continuing sales. Even if you aren't charging a monthly fee, it is still worth the developers time to fight cheats because people will still buy the game for multiplayer long after interest has waned in single player. Half-Life (and its mods) and Starcraft are perfect examples of this.
While I assume it would be nice for the developer to add things like Anti-Cheat
More like "necessity". This isn't just to make gamers happy, it's in the publishers best interests as well. If it gets around that online cheating is rampant, people will be much, much less likely to buy the game.
In fact, the fans did a total 180 and started supporting the script, proclaiming that change is good and so long as Superman himself stays the same personality-wise, any change WB makes is OK by them. Pretty soon, those opposed to the "re-imagining" were reduced to a much-mocked and derided minority.
I'm skeptical. There are a lot of "Comic Book Guy's" out there that wouldn't turn around and support the studio because Some Dude said to on Some Website.com. However, all the stupid dumb shit they wanted to do to Superman sounds like some of the stupid crap they wanted to do for Batman Begins. Ideas floated around included having Bruce Wayne being a homeless man, the Batmobile being a suped up Oldsmobile, and Alfred was going to be a black mechanic named Big Al.
Some characters are easier to write stories for. It is much easier to write Spider-Man, Wolverine, or Batman stories as those guys have a lot more depth than a Superman or Captain America.
But if you find a good author who loves the character, you can have a great story. Mark Waid wrote a Captain America arc a few years ago where three shape-shifting aliens come to earth to get revenge on Cap for various reasons. They kidnap Cap and put handcuffs on him that were designed for shape-shifters, so he can't Houdini his way out of this one. One impersonates Cap and calls a major news conference while the other two pose as humans out in the audience. The impersonator tells the world that it has been invaded by hostile shape-shifting aliens, and the two out in the audience reveal themselves to be Skrulls. So Captain America has to free himself, and then try to stop the world from tearing itself apart from panic.
And as far as "invulnerability" goes, Superman is not invulnerable. Kryptonite can kill him, lead blocks his sight, he wont kill, some guys are smarter than he is (Luthor, Batman), and enemies can attack his friends. But he has one other vulnerability that doesn't get much press: magic.
I lost interest in Lego before Mindstorms, because all the sets I wanted - like the Model Team line or the high end Technics - cost over $200. They might have more sucess if they had the more popular models in stores and moved the higher end stuff to mail order status to reduce inventory and price. Instead of getting a phancy box with packs of individual parts, you get an instruction book in a plain box with a bunch of parts in zip lock baggies.
Paying the bills does not make you Dictator for Life or exempt you from basic common courtesy. For example, when you knock on someone's door, you wait until they say "come in" before you come in, not if they just say "hello?" or "yes?"
or move out, get a job
I have a full time job and moved out 9 years ago, thank you.
why is your mom still nagging you!?
Who said anything about nagging? That's just her normal conversational style. I'm not just going to hop off the can to open a jar of peanut butter for her when she can wait five minutes.
She understands that when I say I'm busy then I'm busy and should not and cannot be bothered.
My Mom is physically incapable of grasping that concept. To her, "I'm busy, just a minute" means "keep talking to me and interupting whatever I'm doing."
I remember using a kingston 2 button trackball with my centris 650, circa 1993. That would be with some version of System 7 on it.
Do you mean Kensington? I also remember 3rd party multibutton mouse from "back in the day". You had to install drivers for them to work. I think Apple added support for multibutton mice around Mac OS 8.5 or 9.
Lots of things are stupid about dating in this country. Like how guys are expected to do the asking and pay for the dates, despite the fact that women make just as much as men for the same job. There's the red herring that women need to spend more on clothes and makeup, but guys need to have a decent car and a respectable place to live, and those things cost a lot more than clothes.
What's wrong with blogsphere basking in soft money? It's not a push medium.
I covered this already: "Either blogs will become a dumping ground for unlimited soft money, seriously diluting the impact and worth of "real" blogs, or they will become subject to campaign finance regulation."
If blogs become a dumping ground for soft money, you wouldn't be able to read any blog and know wether or not it was real or if the blogger is a paid political shill. You don't have to be as obvious as Matt Drudge; it could more of a "soft push" on policy rather than candidates. Think Pudge without the pathetically blatant double standards.
They have their problems like any other Non-profit
Like not having a lot of money. They might have passed on your case because it was *too* clear cut and they figured an "affordable" attorney would have no problems winning your case. A wild guess, anyway.
It's been an allegation published in Nature during 2004, a journal that's usually more credible than "as single person".
Oh, so instead of it being an allegation by a single person, it's an allegation of a single person that's being published in a magazine. How could I have been so blind?
when a collaborator with his own considerable reputation
The man he's accusing also has a considerable reputation. They might do things differently in South Korea, but I'm going to go by the U.S. legal standard of guilt: innocent until proven guilty. As opposed to the ESPN standard, where an uncredible allegation is treated as a fact with videotaped evidence and Jesus as a witness.
I thought it would have been obvious...way to far. Unlimited economic damages are a complete red herring. Sure, losing my eyesight, an arm or the ability to walk would cost me $X dollars in medical costs and $Y dollars in lost earnings. But how much are those things WORTH to you? I wouldn't sell my vision for a billion dollars.
And punitive damages are meant to, well, punish. While $250,000 might be a lot to you, me, or Mom & Pop dentist, it isn't jack shit to a fortune 500 company. I don't see these "tort reform" people demanding that muggers be sentenced to two days in prison tops, or speeding tickets reduced to 50 cents, and yet that's the equivalent to what they're doing.
And if the reward for breaking the law is greater than the fine, a company will just write the fines off as a business expense. For a perfect example, just look at the size of the fine levied against Microsoft by the EU: 500 million Euros for their monopoly tactics. However, the reward from their monopoly tactics is $10 billion a year in profits. To make Gates and Ballmer really sit up and take notice, you'd need a fine in the $10 to $20 billion range. But they could still write out a check on the spot and still have over half their $50-$60 billion pile.
What really ticks me off is how me make laws shielding corporations from responsibility, while holding individual people to an extremely high level of responsibility for wrongdoing. That we charge children as adults a good 6 years before they can even vote while giving companies a slap on the wrist for killing people is way beyond asinine.
Remember those lists floated around after Columbine, warning parents and teachers what to look out for in potential school shooters? Things like depression, trouble with authority, stops hanging out with friends they had in grade school...things that every fucking teenager goes through at one point or another. This list is just like that.
Many British generals decried the foul tactics of the American Revolutionary army as they used guerilla tactics. Come out and fight us face to face! Line up in bright colors! Don't attack during tea time!
I find it funny that we Americans fall all over ourselves in History class, congradulating ourselves for using guerilla tactics against the Regulars (the colonists were British at the time) and yet call Iraqis terrorists when they do the same thing to our troops. And before some neocon gets his panties in a bunch, I'm specifially talking about the Iraqis that attack our troops, not the ones that bomb civilians in hotels, as that really is terrorism.
Those are all great ways to get cheap frags in a public server with a bunch of n00bs. Try that against a good team or a pro player one on one and you'll get ground into hamburger.
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What if your hypothetical worm was put there deliberatly? This wasn't an accidental flaw, so Sony deserves no warning AND the bad press, imo.
Two words: continuing sales. Even if you aren't charging a monthly fee, it is still worth the developers time to fight cheats because people will still buy the game for multiplayer long after interest has waned in single player. Half-Life (and its mods) and Starcraft are perfect examples of this.
While I assume it would be nice for the developer to add things like Anti-Cheat
More like "necessity". This isn't just to make gamers happy, it's in the publishers best interests as well. If it gets around that online cheating is rampant, people will be much, much less likely to buy the game.
In fact, the fans did a total 180 and started supporting the script, proclaiming that change is good and so long as Superman himself stays the same personality-wise, any change WB makes is OK by them. Pretty soon, those opposed to the "re-imagining" were reduced to a much-mocked and derided minority.
I'm skeptical. There are a lot of "Comic Book Guy's" out there that wouldn't turn around and support the studio because Some Dude said to on Some Website.com. However, all the stupid dumb shit they wanted to do to Superman sounds like some of the stupid crap they wanted to do for Batman Begins. Ideas floated around included having Bruce Wayne being a homeless man, the Batmobile being a suped up Oldsmobile, and Alfred was going to be a black mechanic named Big Al.
Some characters are easier to write stories for. It is much easier to write Spider-Man, Wolverine, or Batman stories as those guys have a lot more depth than a Superman or Captain America.
But if you find a good author who loves the character, you can have a great story. Mark Waid wrote a Captain America arc a few years ago where three shape-shifting aliens come to earth to get revenge on Cap for various reasons. They kidnap Cap and put handcuffs on him that were designed for shape-shifters, so he can't Houdini his way out of this one. One impersonates Cap and calls a major news conference while the other two pose as humans out in the audience. The impersonator tells the world that it has been invaded by hostile shape-shifting aliens, and the two out in the audience reveal themselves to be Skrulls. So Captain America has to free himself, and then try to stop the world from tearing itself apart from panic.
And as far as "invulnerability" goes, Superman is not invulnerable. Kryptonite can kill him, lead blocks his sight, he wont kill, some guys are smarter than he is (Luthor, Batman), and enemies can attack his friends. But he has one other vulnerability that doesn't get much press: magic.
I lost interest in Lego before Mindstorms, because all the sets I wanted - like the Model Team line or the high end Technics - cost over $200. They might have more sucess if they had the more popular models in stores and moved the higher end stuff to mail order status to reduce inventory and price. Instead of getting a phancy box with packs of individual parts, you get an instruction book in a plain box with a bunch of parts in zip lock baggies.
If your parents are paying the bills
They aren't.
you have no rights
Paying the bills does not make you Dictator for Life or exempt you from basic common courtesy. For example, when you knock on someone's door, you wait until they say "come in" before you come in, not if they just say "hello?" or "yes?"
or move out, get a job
I have a full time job and moved out 9 years ago, thank you.
why is your mom still nagging you!?
Who said anything about nagging? That's just her normal conversational style. I'm not just going to hop off the can to open a jar of peanut butter for her when she can wait five minutes.
Probably should have read the article, then.
Doesn't change anything. It's still ridiculous.
Funny that a 100% microsoft network pisses people off, but a 100% apple, music player, music store, music software, everyone loves.
Apple has never been close to being a monopoly. Much less a convicted one. "Funny" how many people ignore that fact when making comparisons.
She understands that when I say I'm busy then I'm busy and should not and cannot be bothered.
My Mom is physically incapable of grasping that concept. To her, "I'm busy, just a minute" means "keep talking to me and interupting whatever I'm doing."
I'm going to start a club to stand against these things, who's with me?
I remember using a kingston 2 button trackball with my centris 650, circa 1993. That would be with some version of System 7 on it.
Do you mean Kensington? I also remember 3rd party multibutton mouse from "back in the day". You had to install drivers for them to work. I think Apple added support for multibutton mice around Mac OS 8.5 or 9.
Besides, without using the hack, I'm pretty sure you would be limited to 1024x768 resolution on the second monitor anyway.
Yup. No hack=mirroring only, so max of 1024x768.
That number is low because of companies, libraries, and universities
Don't forget the government. I would like to see a study of what Mac market share is of the number of personal computers that are actually *personal*.
Lots of things are stupid about dating in this country. Like how guys are expected to do the asking and pay for the dates, despite the fact that women make just as much as men for the same job. There's the red herring that women need to spend more on clothes and makeup, but guys need to have a decent car and a respectable place to live, and those things cost a lot more than clothes.
What's wrong with blogsphere basking in soft money? It's not a push medium.
I covered this already: "Either blogs will become a dumping ground for unlimited soft money, seriously diluting the impact and worth of "real" blogs, or they will become subject to campaign finance regulation."
If blogs become a dumping ground for soft money, you wouldn't be able to read any blog and know wether or not it was real or if the blogger is a paid political shill. You don't have to be as obvious as Matt Drudge; it could more of a "soft push" on policy rather than candidates. Think Pudge without the pathetically blatant double standards.
They have their problems like any other Non-profit
Like not having a lot of money. They might have passed on your case because it was *too* clear cut and they figured an "affordable" attorney would have no problems winning your case. A wild guess, anyway.
It's been an allegation published in Nature during 2004, a journal that's usually more credible than "as single person".
Oh, so instead of it being an allegation by a single person, it's an allegation of a single person that's being published in a magazine. How could I have been so blind?
when a collaborator with his own considerable reputation
The man he's accusing also has a considerable reputation. They might do things differently in South Korea, but I'm going to go by the U.S. legal standard of guilt: innocent until proven guilty. As opposed to the ESPN standard, where an uncredible allegation is treated as a fact with videotaped evidence and Jesus as a witness.
I thought it would have been obvious...way to far. Unlimited economic damages are a complete red herring. Sure, losing my eyesight, an arm or the ability to walk would cost me $X dollars in medical costs and $Y dollars in lost earnings. But how much are those things WORTH to you? I wouldn't sell my vision for a billion dollars.
And punitive damages are meant to, well, punish. While $250,000 might be a lot to you, me, or Mom & Pop dentist, it isn't jack shit to a fortune 500 company. I don't see these "tort reform" people demanding that muggers be sentenced to two days in prison tops, or speeding tickets reduced to 50 cents, and yet that's the equivalent to what they're doing.
And if the reward for breaking the law is greater than the fine, a company will just write the fines off as a business expense. For a perfect example, just look at the size of the fine levied against Microsoft by the EU: 500 million Euros for their monopoly tactics. However, the reward from their monopoly tactics is $10 billion a year in profits. To make Gates and Ballmer really sit up and take notice, you'd need a fine in the $10 to $20 billion range. But they could still write out a check on the spot and still have over half their $50-$60 billion pile.
What really ticks me off is how me make laws shielding corporations from responsibility, while holding individual people to an extremely high level of responsibility for wrongdoing. That we charge children as adults a good 6 years before they can even vote while giving companies a slap on the wrist for killing people is way beyond asinine.
Remember those lists floated around after Columbine, warning parents and teachers what to look out for in potential school shooters? Things like depression, trouble with authority, stops hanging out with friends they had in grade school...things that every fucking teenager goes through at one point or another. This list is just like that.
If he was innocent of this crime, that's all that matters. I noticed you ignored the fact that those earlier charges were dropped.
Yes, but it's also Texas nature to bend over and grab your ankles for big business. LIke your weak regulations and "tort reform".
or GM is cutting 30,000 union jobs that it should have cut 20 years ago
How do you figure.
Many British generals decried the foul tactics of the American Revolutionary army as they used guerilla tactics. Come out and fight us face to face! Line up in bright colors! Don't attack during tea time!
I find it funny that we Americans fall all over ourselves in History class, congradulating ourselves for using guerilla tactics against the Regulars (the colonists were British at the time) and yet call Iraqis terrorists when they do the same thing to our troops. And before some neocon gets his panties in a bunch, I'm specifially talking about the Iraqis that attack our troops, not the ones that bomb civilians in hotels, as that really is terrorism.
Those are all great ways to get cheap frags in a public server with a bunch of n00bs. Try that against a good team or a pro player one on one and you'll get ground into hamburger.