The X-Box exclusive DOA series is *almost* enough on its own to make me want a 360, and hopes for more HALO games also has me rather jazzed over it. My "wait and see" attitude has mostly been based on a fondness for GTA:III & GTA:VC, which were exclusive to the PS2 for about a year.
If Sony does not have the GTA series locked up in their stable, what is there left to wait and see?
To each his own. For me, DOA is fun, but for fighting I prefer Tekken. My roommate prefers all the 2D fighters. I'm looking forward to the new Zelda game. I've played all the GTA games so far, but I'm getting bored with them. I never even finished San Andreas. There's only so much killing people and taking there cars I need to do. I like RPGs, and Fable was one of the few games that tempted me toward the original Xbox.
So I'm not excitied about the PS3. I'm less excited about the 360. I'm somewhat excited by the revolution. I'm perfectly happy with all the great games for PS2, Gamecube, and Xbox so far. The next generation just doesn't matter to me yet. Gameplay is far more important than graphics (I liked Dragon Warrior VII,) and the current consoles are 'good enough' for me. Give me great games, and I'll spend $500+ on a console. Meanwhile, I'll be busy playing all the good games I still haven't had the time to finish.
I'm glad you enjoy GTA and Halo enough to make you want to buy a 360. But just because those are your favorite games doesn't mean that's the end of the console wars for the rest of us. The super great game that I'm looking for is the one that we won't be expected. It won't be a re-make of an existing franchise. It'll be something like Katamari or Shadow of the Colossus that comes out of nowhere and is different. Maybe it'll be on the 360, maybe it'll be Sony's baby. Maybe it'll be for my cell phone. I don't know. But I'll still wait and see. More of the same just isn't worth $500 to me. I know I will own all three eventually. But Nintendo is likely to win this one just because they'll be in the $200-300, which is more reasonable for non-essential purchase like a game console. Especially when I have 6 different ones in my living room already that are still fun.
And then they call and abuse their ISP support personnel for days on end of "I'm not getting any of my damned email!!"
And it's all right there in their 'Deleted Items' folder.:rolleyes:
I'm not in IT anymore, but I sit next to our IT department. They got a call from a panicked user.
User: "All my e-mails are gone!" IT Guy: "Ok, let me look into it. Was this your inbox?" User: "No, I move them to a different folder." IT Guy: "Ok, which folder was it?" User: "Deleted Items."
They seriously didn't realize that a folder called "Deleted Items" would be cleaned up periodically.
Oh no it doesn't, it is a lame plot no matter how much anyone tries to rationalize it.
And here I thought it was lame because of this:
Leia: "Luke, what's wrong?" Luke Skywalker: "Leia, do you remember your mother, your REAL mother?" Leia: "Just a little bit. She died when I was very young." Luke Skywalker: "What do you remember?" Leia: "Just images, really. Feelings." Luke Skywalker: "Tell me." Leia: "She was very beautiful. Kind, but sad. Why are you asking me this?" Luke Skywalker: "I have no memory of my mother. I never knew her."
The precedents set can affect more than game guides.
Except there is no precedent set unless the trial actually concludes. Most often something like this is dropped or settled out of court.
The real question is, can this guy afford to stay in the fight long enough to bring a case to conclusion?
The main reason a big company is willing to sue small ones frequently, is that even if the law doesn't support the big one, they can afford to outlast a small one so the little guy gives up without a fight. It isn't right, but it is the way it often goes.
Seriously, put it to the test. To win all Cory needs to prove is that most people associate the word superhero with characters outside of Marvel and DC. Prove the trademark is truly diluted and therefore must be revoked.
You must have an optimistic view of the way our legal system works.
True, it is likely that if a jury were ever to be given a chance to rule on this, the trademark would be revoked. But legal procceedings can be dragged out for years. Marvel and DC have armies of lawyers, it would take forever to get to the point where a court would actually be ready to make such a decision. And so it would take a lot of money to keep the battle up.
I'm sure whatever money needed could easily be gathered from donations
I'm sure the initial court costs to start such a case could easily be gathered through donations. But enough money to last long enough to actually force a verdict? That could easily be more than even a modest competitor like Dark Horse (I think they are an independent publisher, but I can't say I'm an expert on comic publishers) would go bankrupt if they tried. Which is probably why nobody has challenged it, as it simply isn't worth the fight.
How about you then? If you feel so strongly why don't you sue Marvel/DC over the trademark? Same reason nobody else does. While it bothers you some, is it worth the time and effort required to gather all the donations to 'fight to free superheroes' and spend millions in court fees simply so superhero can become a generic term again? I didn't think so. You'd rather be sarcastic guy that posts on slashdot.
Would it make anyone feel any better if they met at a party? Or a bar? Or on a telephone chat line? Or at work? Or at school? Or on a public street?
Actually, criminals looking for victims on myspace would be morons. If you ask a girl out on myspace, and then she is murdered, the police/fbi could track who it was from the records myspace keep. I doubt most of them are skilled computer hackers. So it might not be safer than meeting a stranger in a bar, at least it's more traceable and more likely for the guy to get caught and not be able to do it again.
Not many people will want to pay for three of four MMORPGs at $15/mo because the fees will simply be too high.
I think you are right, but the direction things are going isn't going to be toward a cheaper price, it'll be getting more with your subscription.
I remember the days when my modem internet access was measured and metered in minutes. Those days sucked. People in general prefer a reasonable rate for unlimited use. Cell phones are moving that direction. My plan has enough minutes it might as well be unlimited access.
However, I do expect things to go the way City of Heroes/City of Villians works. I can play both games for the same monthly fee. I know they are really different twists on the same game, but the other big companies should take a hint from them. It's all about keeping your subscribers happy, and giving them more to do so they keep coming back.
I forsee the smart companies building a collection of games all under one subscription. Sierra tried something like this a long time ago, but it was too early and there wasn't enough to do. Imagine if Blizzard launched World of Starcraft (and you know it is going to happen eventually) and let players subscribe to both games for the same price. Then when you get bored hunting for trinkets in WoW, you can just log off and go play WoS. Then later they expand their line, and you aren't subscribing to one particular game anymore, but the Blizzard Online Universe or whatever.
I am currently working on a project that is built with VS 2003. There are some nice things in the.Net framework, but there were some basic classes I've had to extend myself. So is there someplace with a concise list of useful new features to look at?
Things I'm looking for are say, datagrids for example. Have they finally made a combo box column type? Or a method to color different rows in a datagrid? Or even a good double-click handler for data grids?
I've built some of my own extensions for these, but they sometimes still feel like a hack. Particularly my combo box column, which doesn't quite handle tabs right. Or how if I want to know when the user double clicks on a row, the first click goes to the data grid, and the second goes to the row, so I have to track the clicks and times myself. Which seems silly considering all the other places I don't have to worry about that sort of thing. Similar for clicking on a check box in a row.
Haven't wanted to mess with the beta version, but can anyone who has tell me some good reasons to switch over? It'd have to have some nice features to convince me to migrate the existing product we've got, considering the time it would take to a) convert the project, and b) test to make sure everything still works, c) roll out 2.0 framework to everyone's machine.
Adding a constant to both sides doesn't change anything. Now, if Proc A requires a $250 motherboard, and proc B requires a $150 motherboard, or one of them forces you to buy hideously expensive memory (go Rambus!) then you've got a real difference.
But if both require the same ammount of extra cost to use, then adding that extra cost means nothing.
Ok, I just had to look it up. Here is a list of books for Forgotten Realms:
Champions of Ruin Champions of Valor City of Splendors: Waterdeep City of the Spider Queen Faiths and Pantheons Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting Lords of Darkness Lost Empires of Faerûn Magic of Faerûn Player's Guide to Faerûn Races of Faerûn Serpent Kingdoms Shining South Silver Marches Unapproachable East Underdark
Clearly they need to publish more books. They've really slacked in the Forgotten Realms department.
Refocusing resources into creating entirely new realms (ie. Eberron) instead of updating much-loved and heavily-played pre-existing realms (ie. the Forgotten Realms). (note: I'm not saying Eberron sucks. I'm just saying that FR needs a lot of work before it is updated to d20, still.. and it's been 5 years since 3.0 debuted.)
Ok, I agree that they need to put some more effort into existing worlds. But to say that Forgotten Realms needs a lot of work seems a little strange. There are a ton of Forgotten Realms books so far. What about Planescape? Dark Sun? Even Dragonlance only has one book. They have a bunch of existing franchises that already have a fanbase.
Of course, the only way to send them a message is to not buy the Eberron stuff. Then again, I haven't bought anything from 3.5 yet, and I'm mostly trying to escape from d20 at the moment. But if they put out a good main book for one of the left behind settings, I'd pick it up.
if you can't get a raid party of villians gathered up and have a huge super-battle against a bunch of hero characters ala Horde vs Alliance? that's lame, what's the point of the game then?
Actually, you can. You can build bases, and do base raids. You just have to agree to it. Or you can get your team together and go into the no-man's land, which is going to be a hot zone full of untimely death I bet.
I like the way they are doing it because not only do you have the option of doing PvP, but you don't have to go to a seperate server for it. By having different zones all on the same server, you can do what you want, when you want it.
Maybe the files themselves are hosted on a P2P network and the BBC saves on bandwidth costs by offloading the files onto that network. But it doesn't seem very "P2Pish".
Peer to Peer is a network term, not a social one. It does not mean that the content originates from your "peers" in the since that they are your "Friends and Neighbors", it means that the data is distributed from many places accross the network. It's not a traditional Client/Server model. Everyone is a client, everyone is a server. This is what bittorrent is.
Once it is out on the network, they can stop hosting and the files will still be available if others continue to seed.
A company might announce the possibility of announcing that they might in fact do something in the future. But it won't be something actually major, and might not even be worth mentioning it once they say it. We at/. news are dedicated to tracking this breaking story to let you know if this in fact becomes an item of news.
But search engine indexing, which creates and permanently stores complete copies by its very nature, has survived the courts so far.
Perhaps that is because it is very easy to put a notice on your website telling search engines not to index you. Google and other reputable search engines respect that, and don't.
Of course, most websites are dying to be found easily through google.
If you want a new tab with your home page, then make a new tab, then click "home."
I have never used the File -> New tab method of creating a tab. Either I'm middle-clicking on a link I want to open, middle-clicking on a bookmark, or middle-clicking on the home icon.
True, that means I sometimes load up google when I'm just going to retype the address. However, most of the time if I am opening a new 'blank' tab, it's because I am searching for something anyway.
My only complaint is that when I am on a page, there is no easy way to use the search bar to open the search in a new tab. Unless I missed something.
ICQ went the way of ICQ when ICQ decided to become a big, fat bloated pig that took half a minute to boot.
Most people don't care about that sort of thing. No, the reason AIM and MSN started doing better than ICQ I blame entirely on the stupid ICQ#.
user1> What's your ICQ Number? user2> um... 324353643... 3? user1> That's lame, my AIM name is joe_blow user2> wow, that's easy to remember, let me sign up for AIM
I use trillian, I have all 4. I've noticed different social groups have collected on different networks, but ICQ has declined a lot since my college days when it was all there was.
they can sell admission without giving "the man" a cut of the pie.
While it is true that musicians make more from live performances, "the man" still gets a cut. At least, any signfigant event a large cut goes to TicketMaster. I remember a while back some big name bands tried to do a tour without using ticketmaster, and even they couldn't manage it.
Sure, a small venue can be booked without going through 'the man', but it's hard to avoid if you want to actually make a living through music.
If our firewall could easily block IP addresses, I'd do that too.
What kind of firewall do you have that can't? That seems like kind of basic functionality to me... Not that I remember if my little linksys home router can do it, but if I cared enough I'd buy a real solution. Which seems like you should have if you are running a company network. Even if it's just a cheap linux box setup for DHCP/Firewalling, which I used to do before consumer routers became so cheap.
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The X-Box exclusive DOA series is *almost* enough on its own to make me want a 360, and hopes for more HALO games also has me rather jazzed over it. My "wait and see" attitude has mostly been based on a fondness for GTA:III & GTA:VC, which were exclusive to the PS2 for about a year.
If Sony does not have the GTA series locked up in their stable, what is there left to wait and see?
To each his own. For me, DOA is fun, but for fighting I prefer Tekken. My roommate prefers all the 2D fighters. I'm looking forward to the new Zelda game. I've played all the GTA games so far, but I'm getting bored with them. I never even finished San Andreas. There's only so much killing people and taking there cars I need to do. I like RPGs, and Fable was one of the few games that tempted me toward the original Xbox.
So I'm not excitied about the PS3. I'm less excited about the 360. I'm somewhat excited by the revolution. I'm perfectly happy with all the great games for PS2, Gamecube, and Xbox so far. The next generation just doesn't matter to me yet. Gameplay is far more important than graphics (I liked Dragon Warrior VII,) and the current consoles are 'good enough' for me. Give me great games, and I'll spend $500+ on a console. Meanwhile, I'll be busy playing all the good games I still haven't had the time to finish.
I'm glad you enjoy GTA and Halo enough to make you want to buy a 360. But just because those are your favorite games doesn't mean that's the end of the console wars for the rest of us. The super great game that I'm looking for is the one that we won't be expected. It won't be a re-make of an existing franchise. It'll be something like Katamari or Shadow of the Colossus that comes out of nowhere and is different. Maybe it'll be on the 360, maybe it'll be Sony's baby. Maybe it'll be for my cell phone. I don't know. But I'll still wait and see. More of the same just isn't worth $500 to me. I know I will own all three eventually. But Nintendo is likely to win this one just because they'll be in the $200-300, which is more reasonable for non-essential purchase like a game console. Especially when I have 6 different ones in my living room already that are still fun.
And then they call and abuse their ISP support personnel for days on end of "I'm not getting any of my damned email!!"
:rolleyes:
And it's all right there in their 'Deleted Items' folder.
I'm not in IT anymore, but I sit next to our IT department. They got a call from a panicked user.
User: "All my e-mails are gone!"
IT Guy: "Ok, let me look into it. Was this your inbox?"
User: "No, I move them to a different folder."
IT Guy: "Ok, which folder was it?"
User: "Deleted Items."
They seriously didn't realize that a folder called "Deleted Items" would be cleaned up periodically.
Oh no it doesn't, it is a lame plot no matter how much anyone tries to rationalize it.
And here I thought it was lame because of this:
Leia: "Luke, what's wrong?"
Luke Skywalker: "Leia, do you remember your mother, your REAL mother?"
Leia: "Just a little bit. She died when I was very young."
Luke Skywalker: "What do you remember?"
Leia: "Just images, really. Feelings."
Luke Skywalker: "Tell me."
Leia: "She was very beautiful. Kind, but sad. Why are you asking me this?"
Luke Skywalker: "I have no memory of my mother. I never knew her."
the fellow who figured out that people were dumb enough to pay $1.50 for a bottle of water.
Clearly you've never tasted California tap water.
The precedents set can affect more than game guides.
Except there is no precedent set unless the trial actually concludes. Most often something like this is dropped or settled out of court.
The real question is, can this guy afford to stay in the fight long enough to bring a case to conclusion?
The main reason a big company is willing to sue small ones frequently, is that even if the law doesn't support the big one, they can afford to outlast a small one so the little guy gives up without a fight. It isn't right, but it is the way it often goes.
Seriously, put it to the test. To win all Cory needs to prove is that most people associate the word superhero with characters outside of Marvel and DC. Prove the trademark is truly diluted and therefore must be revoked.
You must have an optimistic view of the way our legal system works.
True, it is likely that if a jury were ever to be given a chance to rule on this, the trademark would be revoked. But legal procceedings can be dragged out for years. Marvel and DC have armies of lawyers, it would take forever to get to the point where a court would actually be ready to make such a decision. And so it would take a lot of money to keep the battle up.
I'm sure whatever money needed could easily be gathered from donations
I'm sure the initial court costs to start such a case could easily be gathered through donations. But enough money to last long enough to actually force a verdict? That could easily be more than even a modest competitor like Dark Horse (I think they are an independent publisher, but I can't say I'm an expert on comic publishers) would go bankrupt if they tried. Which is probably why nobody has challenged it, as it simply isn't worth the fight.
How about you then? If you feel so strongly why don't you sue Marvel/DC over the trademark? Same reason nobody else does. While it bothers you some, is it worth the time and effort required to gather all the donations to 'fight to free superheroes' and spend millions in court fees simply so superhero can become a generic term again? I didn't think so. You'd rather be sarcastic guy that posts on slashdot.
Would it make anyone feel any better if they met at a party? Or a bar? Or on a telephone chat line? Or at work? Or at school? Or on a public street?
Actually, criminals looking for victims on myspace would be morons. If you ask a girl out on myspace, and then she is murdered, the police/fbi could track who it was from the records myspace keep. I doubt most of them are skilled computer hackers. So it might not be safer than meeting a stranger in a bar, at least it's more traceable and more likely for the guy to get caught and not be able to do it again.
you could be the type of braindead morron who thinks that Realistic Breast Physics is the most important thing in gaming.
Wait, I think you got it wrong. Nobody wants Realistic Breast Physics!
Not many people will want to pay for three of four MMORPGs at $15/mo because the fees will simply be too high.
I think you are right, but the direction things are going isn't going to be toward a cheaper price, it'll be getting more with your subscription.
I remember the days when my modem internet access was measured and metered in minutes. Those days sucked. People in general prefer a reasonable rate for unlimited use. Cell phones are moving that direction. My plan has enough minutes it might as well be unlimited access.
However, I do expect things to go the way City of Heroes/City of Villians works. I can play both games for the same monthly fee. I know they are really different twists on the same game, but the other big companies should take a hint from them. It's all about keeping your subscribers happy, and giving them more to do so they keep coming back.
I forsee the smart companies building a collection of games all under one subscription. Sierra tried something like this a long time ago, but it was too early and there wasn't enough to do. Imagine if Blizzard launched World of Starcraft (and you know it is going to happen eventually) and let players subscribe to both games for the same price. Then when you get bored hunting for trinkets in WoW, you can just log off and go play WoS. Then later they expand their line, and you aren't subscribing to one particular game anymore, but the Blizzard Online Universe or whatever.
Just wait, it'll happen.
I am currently working on a project that is built with VS 2003. There are some nice things in the .Net framework, but there were some basic classes I've had to extend myself. So is there someplace with a concise list of useful new features to look at?
Things I'm looking for are say, datagrids for example. Have they finally made a combo box column type? Or a method to color different rows in a datagrid? Or even a good double-click handler for data grids?
I've built some of my own extensions for these, but they sometimes still feel like a hack. Particularly my combo box column, which doesn't quite handle tabs right. Or how if I want to know when the user double clicks on a row, the first click goes to the data grid, and the second goes to the row, so I have to track the clicks and times myself. Which seems silly considering all the other places I don't have to worry about that sort of thing. Similar for clicking on a check box in a row.
Haven't wanted to mess with the beta version, but can anyone who has tell me some good reasons to switch over? It'd have to have some nice features to convince me to migrate the existing product we've got, considering the time it would take to a) convert the project, and b) test to make sure everything still works, c) roll out 2.0 framework to everyone's machine.
I'm sure I'll get modded down for supporting them
This is Slashdot. You would have been modded down for supporting them, but you always get mod points for pointing out that you would be modded down.
Now I'm going to be modded down for not being very funny.
Except if A/P > B/P, then (A+Y)/P > (B+Y)/P.
Adding a constant to both sides doesn't change anything. Now, if Proc A requires a $250 motherboard, and proc B requires a $150 motherboard, or one of them forces you to buy hideously expensive memory (go Rambus!) then you've got a real difference.
But if both require the same ammount of extra cost to use, then adding that extra cost means nothing.
Ok, I just had to look it up. Here is a list of books for Forgotten Realms:
Champions of Ruin
Champions of Valor
City of Splendors: Waterdeep
City of the Spider Queen
Faiths and Pantheons
Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting
Lords of Darkness
Lost Empires of Faerûn
Magic of Faerûn
Player's Guide to Faerûn
Races of Faerûn
Serpent Kingdoms
Shining South
Silver Marches
Unapproachable East
Underdark
Clearly they need to publish more books. They've really slacked in the Forgotten Realms department.
Refocusing resources into creating entirely new realms (ie. Eberron) instead of updating much-loved and heavily-played pre-existing realms (ie. the Forgotten Realms). (note: I'm not saying Eberron sucks. I'm just saying that FR needs a lot of work before it is updated to d20, still.. and it's been 5 years since 3.0 debuted.)
Ok, I agree that they need to put some more effort into existing worlds. But to say that Forgotten Realms needs a lot of work seems a little strange. There are a ton of Forgotten Realms books so far. What about Planescape? Dark Sun? Even Dragonlance only has one book. They have a bunch of existing franchises that already have a fanbase.
Of course, the only way to send them a message is to not buy the Eberron stuff. Then again, I haven't bought anything from 3.5 yet, and I'm mostly trying to escape from d20 at the moment. But if they put out a good main book for one of the left behind settings, I'd pick it up.
if you can't get a raid party of villians gathered up and have a huge super-battle against a bunch of hero characters ala Horde vs Alliance? that's lame, what's the point of the game then?
Actually, you can. You can build bases, and do base raids. You just have to agree to it. Or you can get your team together and go into the no-man's land, which is going to be a hot zone full of untimely death I bet.
I like the way they are doing it because not only do you have the option of doing PvP, but you don't have to go to a seperate server for it. By having different zones all on the same server, you can do what you want, when you want it.
Maybe the files themselves are hosted on a P2P network and the BBC saves on bandwidth costs by offloading the files onto that network. But it doesn't seem very "P2Pish".
Peer to Peer is a network term, not a social one. It does not mean that the content originates from your "peers" in the since that they are your "Friends and Neighbors", it means that the data is distributed from many places accross the network. It's not a traditional Client/Server model. Everyone is a client, everyone is a server. This is what bittorrent is.
Once it is out on the network, they can stop hosting and the files will still be available if others continue to seed.
A company might announce the possibility of announcing that they might in fact do something in the future. But it won't be something actually major, and might not even be worth mentioning it once they say it. We at /. news are dedicated to tracking this breaking story to let you know if this in fact becomes an item of news.
News at 11.
I have to admit, I cried like a bitch when Aeris died in Final Fantasy VII.
When I was getting to know an old girlfriend, she told me the same thing. You know what I said to that? "Aeris dies?"
I never got that far. I got bored after leaving the city. Then again, I'm not that big of a FF fan.
But search engine indexing, which creates and permanently stores complete copies by its very nature, has survived the courts so far.
Perhaps that is because it is very easy to put a notice on your website telling search engines not to index you. Google and other reputable search engines respect that, and don't.
Of course, most websites are dying to be found easily through google.
How many games are there for the dance mat?
A ton, you should try using it for Tekken. Now that's a fighting game.
If you want a new tab with your home page, then make a new tab, then click "home."
I have never used the File -> New tab method of creating a tab. Either I'm middle-clicking on a link I want to open, middle-clicking on a bookmark, or middle-clicking on the home icon.
True, that means I sometimes load up google when I'm just going to retype the address. However, most of the time if I am opening a new 'blank' tab, it's because I am searching for something anyway.
My only complaint is that when I am on a page, there is no easy way to use the search bar to open the search in a new tab. Unless I missed something.
ICQ went the way of ICQ when ICQ decided to become a big, fat bloated pig that took half a minute to boot.
Most people don't care about that sort of thing. No, the reason AIM and MSN started doing better than ICQ I blame entirely on the stupid ICQ#.
user1> What's your ICQ Number?
user2> um... 324353643... 3?
user1> That's lame, my AIM name is joe_blow
user2> wow, that's easy to remember, let me sign up for AIM
I use trillian, I have all 4. I've noticed different social groups have collected on different networks, but ICQ has declined a lot since my college days when it was all there was.
they can sell admission without giving "the man" a cut of the pie.
While it is true that musicians make more from live performances, "the man" still gets a cut. At least, any signfigant event a large cut goes to TicketMaster. I remember a while back some big name bands tried to do a tour without using ticketmaster, and even they couldn't manage it.
Sure, a small venue can be booked without going through 'the man', but it's hard to avoid if you want to actually make a living through music.
I always think of this little red book.
If our firewall could easily block IP addresses, I'd do that too.
What kind of firewall do you have that can't? That seems like kind of basic functionality to me... Not that I remember if my little linksys home router can do it, but if I cared enough I'd buy a real solution. Which seems like you should have if you are running a company network. Even if it's just a cheap linux box setup for DHCP/Firewalling, which I used to do before consumer routers became so cheap.