So, if Im reading this right, there's a move, followed by a TV series, followed by a second movie and then a second TV series, which is about the younger Deschain, then a final movie..
So, that means the second TV series is Wizard & Glass (the middle book) . So, the three books before that are covered by a movie, a TV series and another movie, but the final three books (and IIRC probably the biggest of the series) are all covered by only one movie..
Seems like they've got some balancing issues here. Surely it would be better to make W&G the middle movie and have a movie and TV series either side to cover the other books?
I have to admit being somewhat confused here, I've never been to the US, so maybe I'm missing something obvious, but this guy flew from Seattle (in the US) to Las Vegas (in the US), so exactly which border did he cross?
If you had created a table (or other physical item) instead of software, then you would only own it up until the point where you sold it, then it becomes the property of whoever bought it from you. I think the same should apply to software, if somebody buys a copy of your software, then they should own it to and be able to do what they like with it.
The only real difference I can see with software is that you have sold only a copy of what you have created and can then go on to sell as many as you want without running out of your supply.. If a table maker wants to make a living he has to keep making more tables, surely if you want to make a living, you should keep writing more software?
It had nothing to do with DRM. Blizzards network broke under the strain. That's why smart people wait a few days before buying a game that popular.
Actually, smart people don't buy products that require the publishers network to be up in order to play a singleplayer game. Having to wait a few days because of network load is a bit of a slap in the face when we're all subjected to the constant pre-order culture where playing on release day is the most important thing.. Paying for that just sends a message that its okay for publishers to pull that shit.
Although, I guess if nobody bought it, they'd just blame piracy anyway...
They are cutting Corporation Tax, employer contributions to National Insurance and (if I read correctly) new start ups wont have to pay NI on the first ten employees they hire. So rather than provide a boost for that one industry, those breaks are helping out all industries, including the games industry. Makes sense to me.
Even better, you can simulate the gravity by accelerating the telescope towards the object being viewed at a rate of 1g.. This also has the added benefit of being able to get a clearer, more detailed image of the object as time passes due to the effects of being closer to it.
The problem with episodic gaming is that each of those four parts will not be 25% of the price of the whole and you will more than likely end up paying more overall for the whole thing than you would have if it wasnt split into chunks.. Whenever there is an opportunity to increase price via obfuscation, you can be sure it will be taken. As has already happened with DLC.
I find it quite interesting that we in the UK have always received news and opinion from the EU in a very negative light, as if Europe was about to destroy all that the UK stood for and yet as time goes on, it looks more and more as if the EU is the only thing that can save us from our own government..
If we ever get a referendum on this subject, Im definitely going pro Europe.
I can agree with this too, I pay for 20Mb and get very close to that speed.. However I do feel the need to use SSL encryption on my newsgroup downloads tunnelled via VPN to amsterdam. I'm pre-empting the whole DPI testing that they're rolling out.
They may be terrible when it comes to privacy, but I cant fault their bandwidth speeds. Having said that tho, after downloading around 5G+ they do throttle me back to 5Mb for awhile, but I can live with that.
Should we try to change the climate so that we can return N. America back to its natural, under ice state? Should we try to return the Earth to it's glorious molten past? Should we try our best to strip the atmosphere of all oxygen so to usher in the return of Methanite bacteria?
No, because none of those are beneficial to humanity today.
Oh, I dont know, one of them might not be such a bad idea... =P
Sending a Shuttle-sized craft to Alpha Centauri in a matter of years would require roughly the current total energy consumption of humanity.
Just a thought (and Im not a physicist, so have no idea about the numbers involved), but could we not send something much smaller and lighter, say just a few kilos and the size of a laptop, something that could take pictures and be smart enough to search for planets in the Alpha Centauri system and navigate to them.. Even if it takes 20 or 30 years to get there, the data it sent back would surely be invaluable and would take a lot less time than waiting for some kind of wormhole technology to be invented. Does anyone know if this is possible with our current tech or in the near future?
think that MS will have a hard time maintaining market share in the next 30 years on the desktop market. Software is just becoming too much of a commodity. Easily replaced by free alternatives. Obviously the change isn't going to happen overnight, but over the long term, there's no way that MS can keep on charging for upgrades to software when software with the same features can be had for free.
They dont need to compete, they just need to change the document format every so often.. I use OOo at home for the few general office tasks I need, but if I have to send anything out to a third party (submitting a CV/Resume, for example), it has to be in good old fashioned.doc format.. I've yet to meet any business that accepts documents in.ODF format and until that changes Microsoft will always be in front.
<p>If you take issue with home schoolers presenting information from a "religious perspective" then do you also take issue with parents that choose to send their kids to Catholic school?</p></quote>
As someone who was sent to a Catholic school by well meaning, but misguided parents, I'd have to say yes, I definitely take issue with it.. My particular school ranked just below the cantina on Tatooine for scum and villainy. Maybe its just my experience, but I've found that the more pure something claims to be, the reverse in nearly always the case.
Besides, I think that schools should only teach facts, not beliefs.. Beliefs are for parents to impose on their children, not the state. If more schools just stuck to the facts and let children think for themselves, maybe there would be less reason for home schooling..
"You're driving down the interstate and there aren't any cars on a strait away, you can see clearly for several miles and see the median is clear of enforcement officers the entire length of the strait away. You think to yourself, I wonder how fast my car can go. "
Actually, I've been in this exact situation, it was the middle of the night on my way home on a dual carriage way, no traffic around and I went about 10-15 mph over the speed limit and guess what? The speed camera flashed me.. 3 points on my license and a £60 fine, thank you very much, and not a single soul saw it.
If you built an generation ship that could last indefinitely, why bother landing on a planet at all? Everything you need is on the ship. Also, by the time you get to the planet, would your colonists even want to move to a planet? Considering they have spent generations on a ship, it may be that planetary living has become a very alien concept..
Im pretty sure ISP's in Europe do it as well, although not restricted to P2P. I have a 20Mbit "unlimited" connection with Virgin Media, and if I download a large amount of data in one go, say 5GB+, the bandwidth drops to 5Mbit after 4GB's or so, then goes back upto 20MBits after a few hours of not downloading.. Coincidence? I dont think so.
Our Parallel import laws are another thing, this way we can get around these stupid RC classifications as we can order games from the US, UK or Asia (Hong Kong being quite popular) so for PC gamers this isn't so much of an issue, for console gamers you still have to contend with the region locks.
FTR, PS3 games arent region coded (although Bluray movies are), so AU owners can import to their hearts content..
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So, if Im reading this right, there's a move, followed by a TV series, followed by a second movie and then a second TV series, which is about the younger Deschain, then a final movie.. So, that means the second TV series is Wizard & Glass (the middle book) . So, the three books before that are covered by a movie, a TV series and another movie, but the final three books (and IIRC probably the biggest of the series) are all covered by only one movie.. Seems like they've got some balancing issues here. Surely it would be better to make W&G the middle movie and have a movie and TV series either side to cover the other books?
I have to admit being somewhat confused here, I've never been to the US, so maybe I'm missing something obvious, but this guy flew from Seattle (in the US) to Las Vegas (in the US), so exactly which border did he cross?
If you had created a table (or other physical item) instead of software, then you would only own it up until the point where you sold it, then it becomes the property of whoever bought it from you. I think the same should apply to software, if somebody buys a copy of your software, then they should own it to and be able to do what they like with it. The only real difference I can see with software is that you have sold only a copy of what you have created and can then go on to sell as many as you want without running out of your supply.. If a table maker wants to make a living he has to keep making more tables, surely if you want to make a living, you should keep writing more software?
It had nothing to do with DRM. Blizzards network broke under the strain. That's why smart people wait a few days before buying a game that popular.
Actually, smart people don't buy products that require the publishers network to be up in order to play a singleplayer game. Having to wait a few days because of network load is a bit of a slap in the face when we're all subjected to the constant pre-order culture where playing on release day is the most important thing.. Paying for that just sends a message that its okay for publishers to pull that shit. Although, I guess if nobody bought it, they'd just blame piracy anyway...
Doesn't pretty much every government department make a hash of their mission statement?
They are cutting Corporation Tax, employer contributions to National Insurance and (if I read correctly) new start ups wont have to pay NI on the first ten employees they hire. So rather than provide a boost for that one industry, those breaks are helping out all industries, including the games industry. Makes sense to me.
Even better, you can simulate the gravity by accelerating the telescope towards the object being viewed at a rate of 1g.. This also has the added benefit of being able to get a clearer, more detailed image of the object as time passes due to the effects of being closer to it.
It sprang to my mind also.. Also, how cool would an iPad suddenly become if you could roll it up and stick it in you pocket?
Killzone is to PS3, what Halo is to 360.. i.e. the flagship platform-specific FPS.
The problem with episodic gaming is that each of those four parts will not be 25% of the price of the whole and you will more than likely end up paying more overall for the whole thing than you would have if it wasnt split into chunks.. Whenever there is an opportunity to increase price via obfuscation, you can be sure it will be taken. As has already happened with DLC.
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I find it quite interesting that we in the UK have always received news and opinion from the EU in a very negative light, as if Europe was about to destroy all that the UK stood for and yet as time goes on, it looks more and more as if the EU is the only thing that can save us from our own government.. If we ever get a referendum on this subject, Im definitely going pro Europe.
I can agree with this too, I pay for 20Mb and get very close to that speed.. However I do feel the need to use SSL encryption on my newsgroup downloads tunnelled via VPN to amsterdam. I'm pre-empting the whole DPI testing that they're rolling out. They may be terrible when it comes to privacy, but I cant fault their bandwidth speeds. Having said that tho, after downloading around 5G+ they do throttle me back to 5Mb for awhile, but I can live with that.
You forgot "Small breasted women".. Seriously.
Should we try to change the climate so that we can return N. America back to its natural, under ice state? Should we try to return the Earth to it's glorious molten past? Should we try our best to strip the atmosphere of all oxygen so to usher in the return of Methanite bacteria?
No, because none of those are beneficial to humanity today.
Oh, I dont know, one of them might not be such a bad idea... =P
Sending a Shuttle-sized craft to Alpha Centauri in a matter of years would require roughly the current total energy consumption of humanity.
Just a thought (and Im not a physicist, so have no idea about the numbers involved), but could we not send something much smaller and lighter, say just a few kilos and the size of a laptop, something that could take pictures and be smart enough to search for planets in the Alpha Centauri system and navigate to them.. Even if it takes 20 or 30 years to get there, the data it sent back would surely be invaluable and would take a lot less time than waiting for some kind of wormhole technology to be invented. Does anyone know if this is possible with our current tech or in the near future?
think that MS will have a hard time maintaining market share in the next 30 years on the desktop market. Software is just becoming too much of a commodity. Easily replaced by free alternatives. Obviously the change isn't going to happen overnight, but over the long term, there's no way that MS can keep on charging for upgrades to software when software with the same features can be had for free.
They dont need to compete, they just need to change the document format every so often.. I use OOo at home for the few general office tasks I need, but if I have to send anything out to a third party (submitting a CV/Resume, for example), it has to be in good old fashioned .doc format.. I've yet to meet any business that accepts documents in .ODF format and until that changes Microsoft will always be in front.
<p>If you take issue with home schoolers presenting information from a "religious perspective" then do you also take issue with parents that choose to send their kids to Catholic school?</p></quote>
As someone who was sent to a Catholic school by well meaning, but misguided parents, I'd have to say yes, I definitely take issue with it.. My particular school ranked just below the cantina on Tatooine for scum and villainy. Maybe its just my experience, but I've found that the more pure something claims to be, the reverse in nearly always the case.
Besides, I think that schools should only teach facts, not beliefs.. Beliefs are for parents to impose on their children, not the state. If more schools just stuck to the facts and let children think for themselves, maybe there would be less reason for home schooling..
Just a thought, but does China have much in the way of oil..?
Also, are they more or less flammable than gasoline? Being as thats what we're talking about replacing...
"You're driving down the interstate and there aren't any cars on a strait away, you can see clearly for several miles and see the median is clear of enforcement officers the entire length of the strait away. You think to yourself, I wonder how fast my car can go. "
Actually, I've been in this exact situation, it was the middle of the night on my way home on a dual carriage way, no traffic around and I went about 10-15 mph over the speed limit and guess what? The speed camera flashed me.. 3 points on my license and a £60 fine, thank you very much, and not a single soul saw it.
At least one of your examples already exists...
For those that cant follow links to the source, the images/mov and artists impression is here
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2009/pr200923_images.html
If you built an generation ship that could last indefinitely, why bother landing on a planet at all? Everything you need is on the ship. Also, by the time you get to the planet, would your colonists even want to move to a planet? Considering they have spent generations on a ship, it may be that planetary living has become a very alien concept..
Im pretty sure ISP's in Europe do it as well, although not restricted to P2P. I have a 20Mbit "unlimited" connection with Virgin Media, and if I download a large amount of data in one go, say 5GB+, the bandwidth drops to 5Mbit after 4GB's or so, then goes back upto 20MBits after a few hours of not downloading.. Coincidence? I dont think so.
FTR, PS3 games arent region coded (although Bluray movies are), so AU owners can import to their hearts content..