EvE is a well established game. In EvE, characters advance by in game time, thus the older a character is, the more powerful it is. So how is it surprising that developers grow close ties with the older, established players? Those are the ones who have been around since the start. On the eve-o forums, one of the high-ups in the best alliance in the game, Band of Brothers, is repeatedly stating that the developers are friends with BoB members.
This is simply to be expected in a game where developers play the game along with players, and further, where the company recruits its GMs from the playerbase.
What I don't understand is why would Apple want the name iPhone. Even if Cisco didn't have a valid claim against them, how on earth would Apple be able to then turn around and defend iPhone as their own trademark?
The key reason Illinois' governor is bad-he's unable to convince his own party (that controls both chambers of the legislature) that he is trustworthy. To get his budget passed, he has been forced to sign "Memorandums of Understanding" so that when he reneges on a promise, the legislators can use the piece of paper to show a promise was in fact made. Again, these people are in his own party. It's just pathetic.
Indeed, I just got back from a trip to London where my parents had bought a 5 megapixel camera. The images looked fine on a computer, but I just had 4x6 prints made, and they look like complete ass. Most people don't even bother getting 5 megapixels, I simply don't understand why digital cameras are so popular when they look bad. I'd rather take twice the photos on an analog and get great photos than have tons of well-framed but fuzzy ones from a digital camera.
I appreciate their usefulness, but what's stopping anyone from going out and picking up old games? Two days ago my roommate bought an atari 2600 and 20 games for 10 bucks. Are people really that lazy that they won't go to a local video game store which sells old games? (of which we have at least two in Champaign). I could understand using roms if you can't get ahold of the cartridge-stuff like Ogre Battle or Chrono Trigger are really, really hard to find. But on the whole, I think getting ROMs is just laziness, and as long as the games are available for purchase if you look hard enough, they shouldn't be downloaded.
Wolf 3d, Doom, Doom II, Duke Nukem, Quake, Quake II, Quake III, Half-life, Unreal Tournament, Return to Wolf, SoF, etc, etc, etc.
These lists can be made for almost any type of game-when something sells (FPS, RTS) people copy it, update it, and so forth. There really hasn't been any innovation in computer games in years, but that doesn't stop new games from being a lot of fun, nor old ones. I just can't stand it when people rant about gameplay being "old." Come up with a new idea yourself, see how easy it is.
Download music for 20-25 cents a track. Consumers would be happy being able to pick out music they like and not have to pay $15 for one track+a lot of garbage. Unfortunately, this will never ever happen. Think of the cable industry-how cool would it be to pay $1 per channel for normal channels? I don't know anyone who watches more than 10 channels, the rest are all wasted on them. But if the cable companies were to use this pricing scheme, they'd go bankrupt quickly. By packaging content as a whole, they are able to subsidize crappier channels, just as the music industry subsidizes crappier tracks/albums.
What's wrong with using regular animals? An AIBO might be effective, but I'm positive that people would respond better to a warm, living, happy animal than to a mechanical toy. Which would you rather have comfort you, a nice cat that could curl up on your lap and purr for hours, or something metal that needs to have its batteries replaced? And if you factor in the cost...I just don't see the point of doing this, unless allergies to pets are a huge issue.
I think one of the problems with linux on the desktop is that people want to see features they know from windows, and don't care about other useful ones. Last week I saw my friend's mom and brother complaining about linux because he hadn't set up anti-aliasing yet, and windows had it. But Windows XP wouldn't work with his cable modem, so it wasn't even worth booting into, but they still ragged on linux. The problem is people don't care about cool things like exporting displays or multiple windows- they've been conditioned to believe the only things that are important are things Microsoft gives them. Up until MS used anti-aliasing, they couldn't care less about it, but now it's the end of the world if it's not there.
One of the best movies to use slow motion effects is Shaolin Soccer. It uses wire effects and slow motion better than any movie I've ever seen outside of Crouching Tiger and the Matrix. The plot didn't do anything for me, but there is _nothing_ cooler than seeing shaloin monks playing soccer. It may sound silly, but it's actually damned cool. It still doesn't have a U.S. release, so you'll either need to order it or grab it off the internet.
The best thing about Captain America: his voice on the Spiderman show was done by none other than David Hayter. If you don't know who David Hayter is, he did the voice of Solid Snake, and wrote X-men, and is basically my god.
Exactly. Everyone here on slashdot screams about freedom, but they never have a fixed idea of what it is. There are two types of freedom-freedom from laws (which is what people here want) and freedom under good laws. Freedom under good laws is what this nation is all about, and this law has a far greater potentional for good than bad. So stop your whining about freedom, since you haven't even figured out what it means.
You say that corporate profits are more important than third world lives-and you are right. If most people (myself included) are told that people died somewhere else, we'd just go "oh, too bad. What's for dinner?" We don't know the ukranians. We don't care about them. But if they're hurting your employer, that has a direct impact on you-the shareholders could get pissed, stock prices drop, your options go to nothing, etc. Face it-there's no point in whining about us not caring about other people. Think Rwanda in the 90s. It's just a fact of nature, and get used to it.
I'm surprised you still have Morpheus allowed, if it's eating that much bandwidth. At the University of Illinois, Morpheus was using 35% of our bandwidth, so the port got blocked. Suck.
Is this basically what the crystal Galadriel gives to Frodo does? Stores light, until it's needed in his "darkest hour?" If it is, it means that those damn elves are still decades ahead of us in technology! We must find them, take their tech, and destroy them!
Before everyone mods this down as a troll or something, hear me out. I've seen tons of DVDs, and have always been excited to see the deleted footage at the end. Inevitably, though, the deleted scenes tend to suck. There's usually a reason that the scenes were cut out, people. Has anyone else seen the Mallrats DVD (Kevin Smith movie)? The deleted scene in the beginning is ~15 minutes of pure hell. Granted, there are some cool deleted scenes that were trimmed to get the running time down, but for the most part, deleted scenes were deleted because they A) Didn't help the plot move forward or B) they just plain suck. I've stopped getting excited about deleted scenes after being let down so many times.
The point of this ship must be that it doesn't show up on radar-but does sonar still work on it, or did the Russians manage to quiet the noise of the ship enough? If they didn't, then they're idiots. Even if this did happen, the ship is still dumb. Unless the ship can somehow cloak itself (impossible) satellites will be able to pick it up. The ship won't be able to move fast enough to avoid detection by satellites, rendering the ship's main function useless.
Here at the University of Illinois, which 2 years ago banned napster, they have decided to throttle the ports that files transfer on (1214). You can search for files, but trying to download from anyone will result in connections slower than 1 KB/s. Does anyone else have any experience with ISPs or universities doing this?
I think they went to the throttling method to make people say "Oh, it's just slow today." This keeps them from looking from alternatives-when napster got blocked, everyone just switched to gnutella.
Colin Winters
I mean, who was supposed to know that Amidala and Anakin fell in love? And that there would be fighting involving lightsabers? Damn it, Lucas, I wanted the plot to be a surprise! The next thing you know, Obi-wan will push Anakin into lava!
Colin Winters
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I'm not too worried about Jackson ruining Tolkien's vision-let's not forget how great of a director Peter Jackson actually is: he was the man who directed Dead Alive. Dead Alive is one of the best movies ever known to man, so it's obvious that Jackson was the right man to helm this project.
Look, Divx isn't that great. I've used it-mpeg2 is far superior. Why is this? Because the size of files isn't important any more. People have 30 gig hard drives, and broadband connections. Who cares if the file size is bigger? Mpeg-2 will play on machines all the way down to my parents' Pentium 120. But for Divx, you need a good computer to play the movies. I can't play them very well on my K6-2 300. It's all well and good that some people's computers are fast enough for Divx, but mpeg-2 is and should be the standard. So stop saying how great Divx is-it's not that great.
Hydrogen power is great for cars. I'm all in favor of it. Assuming that all the engineering aspects are worked out, and the oil companies don't block anything (which is assuming a lot) there is still a problem-supply of hydrogen. You can't just go and pick it up off the street. Electrolysis of water is expensive and time-consuming. One of the solutions to this problem was using natural gas plants to produce hydrogen during the non-peak hours. This was a great idea until natural gas prices skyrocketed. So this probably won't be a viable method. However, some of you may remember a story on slashdot a year ago about how algae can produce hydrogen. I'm placing a lot of hope in this. Maybe, in the not too distant future, people can have little algae ponds outside their houses that will produce hydrogen to fuel their cars. Other than these three methods-algae, power plants, and electrolysis, I don't know of any other ways to really make hydrogen for fuel cells. And none of them is that practical right now. Just something to consider in the hydrogen fuel cell debate.
I'm sorry, but you're completely wrong here. Artists don't start out producing excellent works. They experiment first, learn the tricks of their trade, etc. You can't say that artists should be paid only for what they produce-no one could do this, because it takes years to become good enough to earn a living. And just how are they supposed to earn a living during this period? They can't, by your method. Mozart had to find a patron in order for him to produce his music. So did many other classical composers. Someone, somewhere, has to support the artists when they're starting out-you can't just say that they should create for the joy of it-it's hard to be joyful when you aren't eating. Maybe the best method for arts would be to revive the patronage system-rich millionaires could help sponsor musicians/artists.
By putting linux on it. Hackers aren't going to be buying these systems. Mom and Dad are going to get one for little Johnny. And what happens when little Johnny can't play his games? There's no way this product will sell as an entertainment platform-not with linux instead of Win98, and not with low end hardware, because the latest/greatest games won't work. This is probably just vaporware, and Nokia hopefully won't screw themselves out of a lot of R&D costs by trying to sell this.
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EvE is a well established game. In EvE, characters advance by in game time, thus the older a character is, the more powerful it is. So how is it surprising that developers grow close ties with the older, established players? Those are the ones who have been around since the start. On the eve-o forums, one of the high-ups in the best alliance in the game, Band of Brothers, is repeatedly stating that the developers are friends with BoB members.
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Here's an example: http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u162/grover282
This is simply to be expected in a game where developers play the game along with players, and further, where the company recruits its GMs from the playerbase.
I wonder what the number of the valid Windows copies are that are due to it coming pre-installed from wherever the PC was purchased.
What I don't understand is why would Apple want the name iPhone. Even if Cisco didn't have a valid claim against them, how on earth would Apple be able to then turn around and defend iPhone as their own trademark?
The key reason Illinois' governor is bad-he's unable to convince his own party (that controls both chambers of the legislature) that he is trustworthy. To get his budget passed, he has been forced to sign "Memorandums of Understanding" so that when he reneges on a promise, the legislators can use the piece of paper to show a promise was in fact made. Again, these people are in his own party. It's just pathetic.
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Here's just one story that mentions the MoUs the gov has to sign to convince his own party to trust him:
http://www.thetimesonline.com/articles/2005/06/16
Indeed, I just got back from a trip to London where my parents had bought a 5 megapixel camera. The images looked fine on a computer, but I just had 4x6 prints made, and they look like complete ass. Most people don't even bother getting 5 megapixels, I simply don't understand why digital cameras are so popular when they look bad. I'd rather take twice the photos on an analog and get great photos than have tons of well-framed but fuzzy ones from a digital camera.
I appreciate their usefulness, but what's stopping anyone from going out and picking up old games? Two days ago my roommate bought an atari 2600 and 20 games for 10 bucks. Are people really that lazy that they won't go to a local video game store which sells old games? (of which we have at least two in Champaign). I could understand using roms if you can't get ahold of the cartridge-stuff like Ogre Battle or Chrono Trigger are really, really hard to find. But on the whole, I think getting ROMs is just laziness, and as long as the games are available for purchase if you look hard enough, they shouldn't be downloaded.
Colin Winters
Lets see here ..
Wolf 3d, Doom, Doom II, Duke Nukem, Quake, Quake II, Quake III, Half-life, Unreal Tournament, Return to Wolf, SoF, etc, etc, etc.
These lists can be made for almost any type of game-when something sells (FPS, RTS) people copy it, update it, and so forth. There really hasn't been any innovation in computer games in years, but that doesn't stop new games from being a lot of fun, nor old ones. I just can't stand it when people rant about gameplay being "old." Come up with a new idea yourself, see how easy it is.
Grr.
Colin Winters
Download music for 20-25 cents a track. Consumers would be happy being able to pick out music they like and not have to pay $15 for one track+a lot of garbage. Unfortunately, this will never ever happen. Think of the cable industry-how cool would it be to pay $1 per channel for normal channels? I don't know anyone who watches more than 10 channels, the rest are all wasted on them. But if the cable companies were to use this pricing scheme, they'd go bankrupt quickly. By packaging content as a whole, they are able to subsidize crappier channels, just as the music industry subsidizes crappier tracks/albums.
Colin Winters
What's wrong with using regular animals? An AIBO might be effective, but I'm positive that people would respond better to a warm, living, happy animal than to a mechanical toy. Which would you rather have comfort you, a nice cat that could curl up on your lap and purr for hours, or something metal that needs to have its batteries replaced? And if you factor in the cost...I just don't see the point of doing this, unless allergies to pets are a huge issue.
Colin Winters
I think one of the problems with linux on the desktop is that people want to see features they know from windows, and don't care about other useful ones. Last week I saw my friend's mom and brother complaining about linux because he hadn't set up anti-aliasing yet, and windows had it. But Windows XP wouldn't work with his cable modem, so it wasn't even worth booting into, but they still ragged on linux. The problem is people don't care about cool things like exporting displays or multiple windows- they've been conditioned to believe the only things that are important are things Microsoft gives them. Up until MS used anti-aliasing, they couldn't care less about it, but now it's the end of the world if it's not there.
Colin Winters
One of the best movies to use slow motion effects is Shaolin Soccer. It uses wire effects and slow motion better than any movie I've ever seen outside of Crouching Tiger and the Matrix. The plot didn't do anything for me, but there is _nothing_ cooler than seeing shaloin monks playing soccer. It may sound silly, but it's actually damned cool. It still doesn't have a U.S. release, so you'll either need to order it or grab it off the internet.
Colin Winters
The best thing about Captain America: his voice on the Spiderman show was done by none other than David Hayter. If you don't know who David Hayter is, he did the voice of Solid Snake, and wrote X-men, and is basically my god.
Colin Winters
Exactly. Everyone here on slashdot screams about freedom, but they never have a fixed idea of what it is. There are two types of freedom-freedom from laws (which is what people here want) and freedom under good laws. Freedom under good laws is what this nation is all about, and this law has a far greater potentional for good than bad. So stop your whining about freedom, since you haven't even figured out what it means.
You say that corporate profits are more important than third world lives-and you are right. If most people (myself included) are told that people died somewhere else, we'd just go "oh, too bad. What's for dinner?" We don't know the ukranians. We don't care about them. But if they're hurting your employer, that has a direct impact on you-the shareholders could get pissed, stock prices drop, your options go to nothing, etc. Face it-there's no point in whining about us not caring about other people. Think Rwanda in the 90s. It's just a fact of nature, and get used to it.
Colin Winters
I'm surprised you still have Morpheus allowed, if it's eating that much bandwidth. At the University of Illinois, Morpheus was using 35% of our bandwidth, so the port got blocked. Suck.
Colin Winters
Is this basically what the crystal Galadriel gives to Frodo does? Stores light, until it's needed in his "darkest hour?" If it is, it means that those damn elves are still decades ahead of us in technology! We must find them, take their tech, and destroy them!
Colin Winters
...who thinks Galadriel is hot...
Before everyone mods this down as a troll or something, hear me out. I've seen tons of DVDs, and have always been excited to see the deleted footage at the end. Inevitably, though, the deleted scenes tend to suck. There's usually a reason that the scenes were cut out, people. Has anyone else seen the Mallrats DVD (Kevin Smith movie)? The deleted scene in the beginning is ~15 minutes of pure hell. Granted, there are some cool deleted scenes that were trimmed to get the running time down, but for the most part, deleted scenes were deleted because they A) Didn't help the plot move forward or B) they just plain suck. I've stopped getting excited about deleted scenes after being let down so many times.
Colin Winters
The point of this ship must be that it doesn't show up on radar-but does sonar still work on it, or did the Russians manage to quiet the noise of the ship enough? If they didn't, then they're idiots. Even if this did happen, the ship is still dumb. Unless the ship can somehow cloak itself (impossible) satellites will be able to pick it up. The ship won't be able to move fast enough to avoid detection by satellites, rendering the ship's main function useless.
Colin Winters
I think they went to the throttling method to make people say "Oh, it's just slow today." This keeps them from looking from alternatives-when napster got blocked, everyone just switched to gnutella. Colin Winters
I mean, who was supposed to know that Amidala and Anakin fell in love? And that there would be fighting involving lightsabers? Damn it, Lucas, I wanted the plot to be a surprise! The next thing you know, Obi-wan will push Anakin into lava!
Colin Winters
I'm not too worried about Jackson ruining Tolkien's vision-let's not forget how great of a director Peter Jackson actually is: he was the man who directed Dead Alive. Dead Alive is one of the best movies ever known to man, so it's obvious that Jackson was the right man to helm this project.
Colin Winters
Look, Divx isn't that great. I've used it-mpeg2 is far superior. Why is this? Because the size of files isn't important any more. People have 30 gig hard drives, and broadband connections. Who cares if the file size is bigger? Mpeg-2 will play on machines all the way down to my parents' Pentium 120. But for Divx, you need a good computer to play the movies. I can't play them very well on my K6-2 300. It's all well and good that some people's computers are fast enough for Divx, but mpeg-2 is and should be the standard. So stop saying how great Divx is-it's not that great.
Colin Winters
Hydrogen power is great for cars. I'm all in favor of it. Assuming that all the engineering aspects are worked out, and the oil companies don't block anything (which is assuming a lot) there is still a problem-supply of hydrogen. You can't just go and pick it up off the street. Electrolysis of water is expensive and time-consuming. One of the solutions to this problem was using natural gas plants to produce hydrogen during the non-peak hours. This was a great idea until natural gas prices skyrocketed. So this probably won't be a viable method. However, some of you may remember a story on slashdot a year ago about how algae can produce hydrogen. I'm placing a lot of hope in this. Maybe, in the not too distant future, people can have little algae ponds outside their houses that will produce hydrogen to fuel their cars. Other than these three methods-algae, power plants, and electrolysis, I don't know of any other ways to really make hydrogen for fuel cells. And none of them is that practical right now. Just something to consider in the hydrogen fuel cell debate.
Colin Winters
I'm sorry, but you're completely wrong here. Artists don't start out producing excellent works. They experiment first, learn the tricks of their trade, etc. You can't say that artists should be paid only for what they produce-no one could do this, because it takes years to become good enough to earn a living. And just how are they supposed to earn a living during this period? They can't, by your method. Mozart had to find a patron in order for him to produce his music. So did many other classical composers. Someone, somewhere, has to support the artists when they're starting out-you can't just say that they should create for the joy of it-it's hard to be joyful when you aren't eating. Maybe the best method for arts would be to revive the patronage system-rich millionaires could help sponsor musicians/artists.
Colin Winters
By putting linux on it. Hackers aren't going to be buying these systems. Mom and Dad are going to get one for little Johnny. And what happens when little Johnny can't play his games? There's no way this product will sell as an entertainment platform-not with linux instead of Win98, and not with low end hardware, because the latest/greatest games won't work. This is probably just vaporware, and Nokia hopefully won't screw themselves out of a lot of R&D costs by trying to sell this.
Colin Winters