The F2P debacle is simply the direct result of the entitlement mentality of corporations who feel that any money that is in your pocket that is not destined for their pocket is some sort of existential affront to the corporation's very existence. They HATE the idea that anybody might not be giving them money.
Dude, get over yourself. They just found a way to make money, that's it.
On top of that, I take serious issue with you lumping all games that follow the "Free to Play" model in with the Zynga-style "games". In a market dominated by World of Warcraft, F2P has proven to be the best model to get people to be willing to even give your online game a try, since they're generally not willing to part with any upfront cost. Switching to F2P from a subscription based model significantly increased both the player bases and the profits for several games like DDO and LotRO. The developers got to continue working on what they wanted and some people got to play a game they enjoy and might otherwise never have tried. What the fuck is evil or nefarious about that?
In a little over a week, an anti-corporate movement went from complete obscurity, known only to a very few online activists, to a popular, global movement that even a significant number of self-described Republicans are getting behind.
To be fair here, the much-maligned "Tea Party" movement was very vocally against the cozy relationship between the government and the banks/wall street from the beginning, so the fact that some Republicans are supporting Occupy Wall Street is not surprising.
Wait a minute. WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE DISCUSSING POLITICS IN A VIDEO GAME THREAD FOR!? For the love of God... I hate this place...
You're wrong. Not 100%. You're correct that the F-35 is not the future air superiority solution (NOT that it was ever intended to be, that's the F-22). You're wrong that pushing out more older, cheaper aircraft is the solution.
We don't have to worry about our F-35s being outnumbered 50-to-1 by MiGs.
The MiGs have to worry about being outnumbered 100-to-1 by cheap throwaway drones armed with missiles.
That's the future of air combat. Of all combat, really, at this rate. Why lose millions of dollars of investment on pilot training by getting them killed when you can have people play video games safely thousands of miles away from the explosions.
Why are you against people charging money for value?
And why should a school give me a free degree?
That's all you pay for at a University, anyway, is a piece of paper. If all you want is knowledge, then a University isn't the place for you, and then why do you care?
The guy whose, "head was bashed against a parked car"? He was resisting arrest and his head did NOT hit the car at all - the cop protected his head all the way down, quite professionally in fact.
Resisting arrest? How do you figure? He was grabbed and slammed into the ground for having a camera, which is SOP for most Police Departments it seems nowadays. Where do you see him resisting arrest, much less doing anything worth being arrested for?
The fat girl who was pulled from the crowd and past the barrier - she hit a cop.
Is being shoved by a police officer now considered hitting them? I rewatched that about ten times in HD, full screen, and I don't see her ever striking and officer once.
6:20 Here we have Mr. "They did nothing wrong" (5:58) hitting an officer. Again, morons; you don't get to touch officers, and you certainly don't get to hit them.
This is the one time you might have a point! Except we don't see who threw the first punch, it's off camera. An unlawful arrest is not an arrest, and you CAN defend yourself against one. This has been upheld in most sane jurisdictions. Being a cop does not mean people cannot defend themselves against your illegal actions.
If less people got arrested for carrying cameras, we might actually have video of who started that fight and we'd know for sure. But for some reason the Police weren't interested in any of this being well documented.
Here we have another angle that shows what the "Innocent" camera guy (from the previous video at 3:05) was up to...
You mean getting shoved by cops? If one cop shoves you, another can arrest you for assaulting first said cop? Seriously? How does that make any kind of sense?
But yeah, the guy who deployed it probably needs a bit of re-training.
He's a commander, if he hasn't learned it by now, he needs to be fired. He's also got a Civil Rights case against him for beating protesters back in 2004 that's about to go to trial. Again, if he hasn't learned yet... Why is he still a cop? Much less in a command position!
Or I can keep the application logic on my own damn box and have you access it via a web front end. Single Model and Controller, and maybe just a couple of Views (due to mobile browser limitations).
For the average application and the average user, web-style apps are going to be the only thing that makes sense going forward. Not talking CAD here, but 99% of the other applications people use on a daily basis.
The idea of ever running an actual mail client again, for instance, is a completely alien concept to me.
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Don't ask me. I just know that in the latest Fedora release, even our die-hard Gnome zealots are abandoning Gnome 3 for KDE 4 due to it being unusable and destroying performance.
Serious deja vu for me, considering how angry I was for the first few revisions of KDE 4.
Okay. Now try porting it to iOS. Or ChromeOS. Or WebOS. Or Blackberry.
I'm gonna bet WP7 and Android wouldn't be painless, either. And good luck getting people to install Python on their Windows box before they can even try your app.
Except that its "limited original scope" is the entire point. The Merchant Marine isn't just any old business, it's an auxiliary to the US Military. This is no different than VA benefits being provided to reservists. Yes, I realize that this was established in 1798, but considering the Merchant Marine's existence predates both the Coast Guard and the Navy, that seems only reasonable. It was a matter of national security that we have experienced sailors and well maintained vessels to be called up in a time of war.
So no, I'd still say that the constitutionality of the government forcing you to pay money to a private company is constitutionally on very shaky ground.
The United States Public Health Service came into being in the early twentieth century, I believe. What you're referring to was a loose collection of hospitals on the east coast for merchant marines paid for by taxing merchant marines. It wasn't a mandatory, universal payroll tax. The only people who received its benefits were those who paid into it. This organization eventually DID grow into the Public Health Service (isn't mission creep grand?), but its mission has NEVER been to provide universal health care.
This is also the organization that provided fake medical treatment to black men for forty years (without their knowledge or informed consent) to collect research data on syphilis. Obviously a stellar example of the benefits of government health care.
And yet if I yelled "Stop!" while a Doctor was trying to stop bleeding, and in response another Doctor pepper sprayed me, said Doctor would be in jail.
There is no excuse for any of this behavior, or for any of the arrests that happened. The vast majority of the people arrested seemed to be guilty only of carrying cameras.
Did you even watch any of the videos? Did you even look into this at all? I can't understand how you could have done so and still hold such an opinion.
As far as I can tell, I don't agree with any of these people protesting. I am pretty much convinced their protests are ineffective and a waste of time, and that the individuals involved may, in fact, be wastes of perfectly good protoplasm.
THAT BEING SAID, there is no excuse for the behavior of the NYPD in this incident. The behavior of the NYPD Commanders during this protest has been disgusting, immoral, illegal, and against everything we as a Nation are supposed to stand for. But what is even more disgusting is how the NYPD immediately closed ranks on this matter, excusing their behavior as completely reasonable. What is even MORE disgusting than that, however, is citizens such as yourself who are willing to give the Police a blank check to do whatever they want to people you dislike or don't agree with.
Shame on you. You aren't worthy to lick the boots of those who shed blood to secure the rights you'd see others denied.
Okay, fair enough. I guess it would be correct to say there isn't a industry-wide trend to NEW, larger airframes. The B787 might be bigger than the B767s it's replacing, but it's a radical departure from the original Boeing plan of offering an aircraft larger than the B747 as their next flagship.
Perhaps it would be better if the aviation industry reversed their current trend towards bigger aircraft.
What current trend toward bigger aircraft? The only company building "bigger" aircraft is Airbus, w/ the A380. The Dreamliner seats less people than most of the 767 variants it's replacing.
I did think of it. I even registered a domain (see my URL and e-mail address). Planned on making a screensaver that would randomly generate stuff, and convince people to run it, ala SETI@Home. Then college happened, then graduate school happened, then marriage happened, then baby happened... And then (once again), I read on SlashDot that someone else has done one of my ideas again and made the front page.
But then again, literally as I'm reading this, my daughter is singing the Blue's Clues theme song next to me while my wife and I get ready to queue up for our nightly game of League of Legends... Sitting in the downstairs den/office that's full of years of gamer stuff that all represents the happy memories of those several years of college. That guy can have my monkeys. Good for him. I found something better.:)
I had a Hulu+ subscription. Got one right when they came available. It was pretty bad. They don't force all of their partners to offer Plus content. So, for example, none of the SciFi shows had more than the three most recent episodes available. Which, considering I got the service mainly to allow me to catch up on Stargate: Universe, made it pretty worthless to me. After about a month I realized that everything I was watching was available on the free side anyway, and cancelled it.
Starz makes up a big portion of the GOOD options on netflix.
No they don't. None of their stuff was HD. It all had long-ass, annoying "STARZ IS AWESOMESAUCE!!!1!" intro/outro animations, and I never saw anything on its list I wanted to watch...
You talking about the Bunnies stuff? I tried showing them to my in-laws, got through about the second one, and said "Are these guys fscking stupid?" and went and found them on the web instead...
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Dude, get over yourself. They just found a way to make money, that's it.
On top of that, I take serious issue with you lumping all games that follow the "Free to Play" model in with the Zynga-style "games". In a market dominated by World of Warcraft, F2P has proven to be the best model to get people to be willing to even give your online game a try, since they're generally not willing to part with any upfront cost. Switching to F2P from a subscription based model significantly increased both the player bases and the profits for several games like DDO and LotRO. The developers got to continue working on what they wanted and some people got to play a game they enjoy and might otherwise never have tried.
What the fuck is evil or nefarious about that?
To be fair here, the much-maligned "Tea Party" movement was very vocally against the cozy relationship between the government and the banks/wall street from the beginning, so the fact that some Republicans are supporting Occupy Wall Street is not surprising.
Wait a minute. WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE DISCUSSING POLITICS IN A VIDEO GAME THREAD FOR!? For the love of God... I hate this place...
Speaking as someone in the aviation industry...
You're wrong. Not 100%. You're correct that the F-35 is not the future air superiority solution (NOT that it was ever intended to be, that's the F-22). You're wrong that pushing out more older, cheaper aircraft is the solution.
We don't have to worry about our F-35s being outnumbered 50-to-1 by MiGs.
The MiGs have to worry about being outnumbered 100-to-1 by cheap throwaway drones armed with missiles.
That's the future of air combat. Of all combat, really, at this rate. Why lose millions of dollars of investment on pilot training by getting them killed when you can have people play video games safely thousands of miles away from the explosions.
Why are you against people charging money for value?
And why should a school give me a free degree?
That's all you pay for at a University, anyway, is a piece of paper. If all you want is knowledge, then a University isn't the place for you, and then why do you care?
How is a teacher preventing me from getting access to course materials from 1200 miles away providing me more value exactly?
Actually, that's not exactly true. As per treaty, we one the land there until we abandon it or both governments decide to end the lease.
Here's a second video of that asshat with the pepper spray:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-eTi5-qNgA
On the bright side, the NYPD has finally said they're going to investigate the guy.
Resisting arrest? How do you figure? He was grabbed and slammed into the ground for having a camera, which is SOP for most Police Departments it seems nowadays. Where do you see him resisting arrest, much less doing anything worth being arrested for?
Is being shoved by a police officer now considered hitting them? I rewatched that about ten times in HD, full screen, and I don't see her ever striking and officer once.
This is the one time you might have a point! Except we don't see who threw the first punch, it's off camera. An unlawful arrest is not an arrest, and you CAN defend yourself against one. This has been upheld in most sane jurisdictions. Being a cop does not mean people cannot defend themselves against your illegal actions.
If less people got arrested for carrying cameras, we might actually have video of who started that fight and we'd know for sure. But for some reason the Police weren't interested in any of this being well documented.
You mean getting shoved by cops? If one cop shoves you, another can arrest you for assaulting first said cop? Seriously? How does that make any kind of sense?
He's a commander, if he hasn't learned it by now, he needs to be fired. He's also got a Civil Rights case against him for beating protesters back in 2004 that's about to go to trial. Again, if he hasn't learned yet... Why is he still a cop? Much less in a command position!
Well I never trusted e-mail for anything important, anyway. :)
Or I can keep the application logic on my own damn box and have you access it via a web front end. Single Model and Controller, and maybe just a couple of Views (due to mobile browser limitations).
For the average application and the average user, web-style apps are going to be the only thing that makes sense going forward. Not talking CAD here, but 99% of the other applications people use on a daily basis.
The idea of ever running an actual mail client again, for instance, is a completely alien concept to me.
Don't ask me. I just know that in the latest Fedora release, even our die-hard Gnome zealots are abandoning Gnome 3 for KDE 4 due to it being unusable and destroying performance.
Serious deja vu for me, considering how angry I was for the first few revisions of KDE 4.
Okay. Now try porting it to iOS. Or ChromeOS. Or WebOS. Or Blackberry.
I'm gonna bet WP7 and Android wouldn't be painless, either. And good luck getting people to install Python on their Windows box before they can even try your app.
Except that its "limited original scope" is the entire point. The Merchant Marine isn't just any old business, it's an auxiliary to the US Military. This is no different than VA benefits being provided to reservists. Yes, I realize that this was established in 1798, but considering the Merchant Marine's existence predates both the Coast Guard and the Navy, that seems only reasonable. It was a matter of national security that we have experienced sailors and well maintained vessels to be called up in a time of war.
So no, I'd still say that the constitutionality of the government forcing you to pay money to a private company is constitutionally on very shaky ground.
The United States Public Health Service came into being in the early twentieth century, I believe. What you're referring to was a loose collection of hospitals on the east coast for merchant marines paid for by taxing merchant marines. It wasn't a mandatory, universal payroll tax. The only people who received its benefits were those who paid into it. This organization eventually DID grow into the Public Health Service (isn't mission creep grand?), but its mission has NEVER been to provide universal health care.
This is also the organization that provided fake medical treatment to black men for forty years (without their knowledge or informed consent) to collect research data on syphilis. Obviously a stellar example of the benefits of government health care.
And yet if I yelled "Stop!" while a Doctor was trying to stop bleeding, and in response another Doctor pepper sprayed me, said Doctor would be in jail.
There is no excuse for any of this behavior, or for any of the arrests that happened. The vast majority of the people arrested seemed to be guilty only of carrying cameras.
Did you even watch any of the videos? Did you even look into this at all? I can't understand how you could have done so and still hold such an opinion.
As far as I can tell, I don't agree with any of these people protesting. I am pretty much convinced their protests are ineffective and a waste of time, and that the individuals involved may, in fact, be wastes of perfectly good protoplasm.
THAT BEING SAID, there is no excuse for the behavior of the NYPD in this incident. The behavior of the NYPD Commanders during this protest has been disgusting, immoral, illegal, and against everything we as a Nation are supposed to stand for. But what is even more disgusting is how the NYPD immediately closed ranks on this matter, excusing their behavior as completely reasonable. What is even MORE disgusting than that, however, is citizens such as yourself who are willing to give the Police a blank check to do whatever they want to people you dislike or don't agree with.
Shame on you. You aren't worthy to lick the boots of those who shed blood to secure the rights you'd see others denied.
Okay, fair enough. I guess it would be correct to say there isn't a industry-wide trend to NEW, larger airframes. The B787 might be bigger than the B767s it's replacing, but it's a radical departure from the original Boeing plan of offering an aircraft larger than the B747 as their next flagship.
What current trend toward bigger aircraft? The only company building "bigger" aircraft is Airbus, w/ the A380. The Dreamliner seats less people than most of the 767 variants it's replacing.
Nah, I got into something much more useless than simulating an infinite number of monkeys at typewriters while I was there: Virtual Reality. :(
Oh well, at least it got me a job!
No! I'm saving them for that sour wine I'll never make!
Fair enough. But in my case, I found that gaming with my friends WAS what I wanted to do. :)
I did think of it. I even registered a domain (see my URL and e-mail address). Planned on making a screensaver that would randomly generate stuff, and convince people to run it, ala SETI@Home. Then college happened, then graduate school happened, then marriage happened, then baby happened... And then (once again), I read on SlashDot that someone else has done one of my ideas again and made the front page.
But then again, literally as I'm reading this, my daughter is singing the Blue's Clues theme song next to me while my wife and I get ready to queue up for our nightly game of League of Legends... Sitting in the downstairs den/office that's full of years of gamer stuff that all represents the happy memories of those several years of college. That guy can have my monkeys. Good for him. I found something better. :)
I had a Hulu+ subscription. Got one right when they came available. It was pretty bad. They don't force all of their partners to offer Plus content. So, for example, none of the SciFi shows had more than the three most recent episodes available. Which, considering I got the service mainly to allow me to catch up on Stargate: Universe, made it pretty worthless to me. After about a month I realized that everything I was watching was available on the free side anyway, and cancelled it.
Actually, upgrading the crime to a felony was an Obama administration directive. Guess he's a Republican, now?
No they don't. None of their stuff was HD. It all had long-ass, annoying "STARZ IS AWESOMESAUCE!!!1!" intro/outro animations, and I never saw anything on its list I wanted to watch...
You talking about the Bunnies stuff? I tried showing them to my in-laws, got through about the second one, and said "Are these guys fscking stupid?" and went and found them on the web instead...