Actually, for a very long time after it was released Blizzard has been opening more parts of D2 to the modders, and those definitely don't play online(maybe over a lan though). No need for battle.net
Not some, most. The vast and overwhleming majority--so much so in fact, that you are defective if you are not like that.
Got any numbers to back up that claim? For all we know it might be a cultural thing, I for one am convinced that in the US greed is held as far more of a virtue than in a lot of other countries. If I look around me, a lot of folks seem pretty happy with what they have, opting instead to improve their lives in non-financial ways when the opportunity arises.
If Apple puts out a few crappy products, their stock will drop like a rock.
While I do think that Apple is extremely good at giving their target market what it wants(after careful instruction from Apple on why they want it), it seems that Apple doing so well depends in a very large part on mister Jobs, so if anything, I expect the stock to take a nosedive next time there's news, whether it be true or not, that he might be unhealthy/hit by bus/retiring/moving on/whatever.
Considering that said energy source is running out (or pouring into the Gulf of Mexico) and there's extremely clever people working on competing products all over the planet...just how stable is it?
There is an infinite, for all intents and purposes, source of energy conveniently positioned directly overhead(if you're in the right spot, at noon) and we're getting better at tapping it all the time.
The BSD crowd takes pride in the fact that their code is truly free and anyone can do whatever the hell they want with it, including turning a company on the verge of irrelevance into a technological monster.
Hey, if the BSD guys are happy and Apple is happy, who the fuck are we to complain about it?
Agreed. To me it's always looked like Gates had an epic vision for the digital future, and then at one point reality started to sink in with regards to people not having access to the basic stuff like food or shelter.
No matter how much we like to bash him here on/. the guy is doing *something* to improve the lives of other people, people he doesn't know. And he's paying it out of his own pocket, instead of spending his time throwing fundraisers as a thinly disguised excuse for a bunch of well-dressed rich guys to have a fun evening at the expense of whoever is providing the entertainment.
Well... a waste up until the zombie apocalypse actually occurs, of course.
Well, either that, or ending up working in an office environment.
However, was I better prepared to handle this strange dream because of the influence of gaming, or did I dream about zombies in the first place because of games and horror films?
Doesn't really matter in a sense, you're still mentally preparing to gun down unarmed folks just trying to get a bite to eat using a shotgun...I can think of situations where that might come in handy;-)
In the US you pretty much have to have a creditcard to build up credit rating in case you want a mortgage/car loan further down the road. Getting a CC means getting a 32 page legal document detailing every possible way the bank is going to assrape you.
Some products go beyond the free market because you *have* to get them. Food. Shelter. TV/internet. That's where regulation comes in.
The carriers that want to sell me high-speed connections are doing it so they can sell me television, and I've got plenty of television already. When Napster was new, the public position of the cable modem companies was "Content Thieves are EEEVIL", but if you talked to them privately, most of them had enough clue to say "Dude, Napster's the reason people are buying cable modems, we love it!" But these days they don't have anything new and cool to offer, and they're cluelessly talking about bandwidth caps and no-servers-at-home policies to make sure nobody develops anything new or cool.
So what are you doing with your bandwidth that's interesting? I've heard that old people in Korea can use it to look at video from their local grocery store to see what's on sale, but I haven't heard of anything else interesting
As someone who recently got an upgrade from 22/2,5 to 50/5 (ISP's idea, not mine. They need to compete) I grab my shot of the Daily Show from the web, some south park, download fan-made projects at dazzling speeds, get updates for MMO's as well as software that is sold primarliy online like indie titles. I can download a 50 minute show in less time than it takes to pop downstairs to prepare a snack.
3 Mbps? Wow...I can't even remember the last time I had to deal with that kind of speed...and while that might be enough for doing 1 thing at a time...some households have more than 1 person in it, and they all want to use the web in the evenings.
What happened to the hope, change and a new kind of politics?
Well, lessee. The guy that ran based on that slogan is head of the executive branch. So is the guy trying to do the right thing (in our book) that these congressmen are sending letters to.
The folks bitching, moaning and sucking the collective dick of their corporate overlords are in the legislative branch. So unless you expect part of the "hope and change" you're so fond of bashing to be the complete overhaul of your constitution, I don't quite see what you expect the POTUS to do about it?
Of course, there is something *you* could do, which is to look beyond the perfect teeth, the immaculately groomed hair and the little pin with the american flag, and try and find a guy/gal who might be worth voting for based on what he stands for, not on what he looks like. Then again, that would have to be a third party candidate, and those don't stand a chance...so I guess you might as well roll over and present your buttcheeks for another 4 years of congressional PMITA pleasure.
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Even though these are small things, religion causes shops to close on sundays. Religion is given all sorts of exceptions(imagine anyone else wanting to make a ton of noise on a sunday morning). Religion sneaks into laws all the time.
You can be religious as much as you want, but for some reason those who are constantly feel the need to press their superstitions on the rest of us, starting with their children who will then do the same, ad infinitum.
Wow, thank you for those links. Now we non-yanks can justifiably go back to calling the majority of americans idiots, and we'll link to your post to prove it.
Only when those in the media are smart enough to recognize ridicule for what it is. Considering how often Colbert gets taken literally, I wouldn't go for those odds;-)
Bet? I'll do you one better. If the christian God as portrayed with his silly games is indeed the ruler of the hypothetical heaven, I can't imagine what could be worse than having to spend eternity basking in his arrogance.
Seriously, I'll settle for the fire and pitchforks...
(Although the alcohol regulations aren't exactly effective either, with 12-year-olds drinking themselves comatose.)
Hey, shit like that is gonna happen anyway. No reason for the rest of us to suffer for the lack of control of a few retards. And if said retard happens to be 12...where were mom and pop when it came to educating junior about alcohol?
I doubt that's what happened. A far more likely event would be that a co-worker who is also a "friend" saw it, blabbed to Janet in accounting who couldn't help but mention it at the watercooler after which it passed through the janitorial staffmember to the HR guy during a smoke break...and there you go.
Sorry, but when I'm trying to get some work done, the last thing I need is a machine constantly having to swap when I switch between outlook, powerpoint, several excel sheet and all the other stuff that is running in the background.
Seriously, with the prices of ram these days why skimp on it at the expense of the users? Having a sluggish machine will reduce productiveness, cause annoyance and make your users hate you.
Yes, god forbid the nanny states uphold the laws put into place by the democratically elected representatives of the citizens of those states.
We can live without microsoft or google. Can you live without our euro's? Last time I checked your economy was going down the toilet a whole lot quicker than ours...
Hire some NPC workers / pilots / researchers etc and soon enough you will have your own empire.
Fair enough, and that's actually what the next expansion is bringing in to a degree. Then again, if you just want to sit quietly in a corner and mess around with an AI, why not just play something like X3 and avoid the online fees altogether?
When I buy a ship for a 100 million isk, slap another 100 of mods on it and then get it blown up, those 200 are still in the economy, since all that stuff was bought from other players. Only money that moves from a player to the game itself(in the form of NPC's for example) actually leaves the economy. Worse, considering it's possible to insure ships, the economy ends up with more money than it started with.
What gets blown up is stuff, mostly made of minerals and other resources you can build things from.
Then again, according to my statistics my favorite target is still the capsule(escape pod for you non-players) and those do get replaced by NPC's;-)
Just helping the economy along, nothing to see here!
You probably won't find many EVE players demanding the game to be more solo friendly and that everyone should be able to afford the biggest ship after soloing for a month and then be able to do everything in the game. But that is EXACTLY what people demand in every other MMO.
Actually, there are. Tons of them. Entire truckloads get sent to the exit scorned by such epic remarks as "GB2WOW" and "can I have your stuff"
CCP listens to the playerbase, but their vision of the EVE universe as a whole remains unaltered. It is a bleak dangerous place, and merely being in the wrong place at the wrong time will get you killed. If you can't handle that then that's tough luck, off you go. They love it when we blow each other up.
We already have nearly unrestricted player killing and full body(ship) loot. To survive in EVE you need to be smart and devious.
And that's why it is a group, a committee, and not a single member.
Sure, there may be one bleeding heart carebear in there that wants people jailed for committing pixel murder, but right next to him will be a pirate who spends his time shooting folks like aforementioned carebear and who can explain what the consequences are his intended ideas.
Now please excuse me while I find out who this guy you mentioned is while I fit 8 smartbombs to an armageddon...
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Coming back? I saw plenty of 14/15 year olds on the streets this past winter in neon orange/pink/green legwarmers. No sign of bellbottoms yet though.
Actually, for a very long time after it was released Blizzard has been opening more parts of D2 to the modders, and those definitely don't play online(maybe over a lan though). No need for battle.net
Not some, most. The vast and overwhleming majority--so much so in fact, that you are defective if you are not like that.
Got any numbers to back up that claim? For all we know it might be a cultural thing, I for one am convinced that in the US greed is held as far more of a virtue than in a lot of other countries. If I look around me, a lot of folks seem pretty happy with what they have, opting instead to improve their lives in non-financial ways when the opportunity arises.
If Apple puts out a few crappy products, their stock will drop like a rock.
While I do think that Apple is extremely good at giving their target market what it wants(after careful instruction from Apple on why they want it), it seems that Apple doing so well depends in a very large part on mister Jobs, so if anything, I expect the stock to take a nosedive next time there's news, whether it be true or not, that he might be unhealthy/hit by bus/retiring/moving on/whatever.
Considering that said energy source is running out (or pouring into the Gulf of Mexico) and there's extremely clever people working on competing products all over the planet...just how stable is it?
There is an infinite, for all intents and purposes, source of energy conveniently positioned directly overhead(if you're in the right spot, at noon) and we're getting better at tapping it all the time.
The BSD crowd takes pride in the fact that their code is truly free and anyone can do whatever the hell they want with it, including turning a company on the verge of irrelevance into a technological monster.
Hey, if the BSD guys are happy and Apple is happy, who the fuck are we to complain about it?
Agreed. To me it's always looked like Gates had an epic vision for the digital future, and then at one point reality started to sink in with regards to people not having access to the basic stuff like food or shelter.
No matter how much we like to bash him here on /. the guy is doing *something* to improve the lives of other people, people he doesn't know. And he's paying it out of his own pocket, instead of spending his time throwing fundraisers as a thinly disguised excuse for a bunch of well-dressed rich guys to have a fun evening at the expense of whoever is providing the entertainment.
Well... a waste up until the zombie apocalypse actually occurs, of course.
Well, either that, or ending up working in an office environment.
However, was I better prepared to handle this strange dream because of the influence of gaming, or did I dream about zombies in the first place because of games and horror films?
Doesn't really matter in a sense, you're still mentally preparing to gun down unarmed folks just trying to get a bite to eat using a shotgun...I can think of situations where that might come in handy ;-)
In the US you pretty much have to have a creditcard to build up credit rating in case you want a mortgage/car loan further down the road. Getting a CC means getting a 32 page legal document detailing every possible way the bank is going to assrape you.
Some products go beyond the free market because you *have* to get them. Food. Shelter. TV/internet. That's where regulation comes in.
The carriers that want to sell me high-speed connections are doing it so they can sell me television, and I've got plenty of television already. When Napster was new, the public position of the cable modem companies was "Content Thieves are EEEVIL", but if you talked to them privately, most of them had enough clue to say "Dude, Napster's the reason people are buying cable modems, we love it!" But these days they don't have anything new and cool to offer, and they're cluelessly talking about bandwidth caps and no-servers-at-home policies to make sure nobody develops anything new or cool.
So what are you doing with your bandwidth that's interesting? I've heard that old people in Korea can use it to look at video from their local grocery store to see what's on sale, but I haven't heard of anything else interesting
As someone who recently got an upgrade from 22/2,5 to 50/5 (ISP's idea, not mine. They need to compete) I grab my shot of the Daily Show from the web, some south park, download fan-made projects at dazzling speeds, get updates for MMO's as well as software that is sold primarliy online like indie titles. I can download a 50 minute show in less time than it takes to pop downstairs to prepare a snack.
3 Mbps? Wow...I can't even remember the last time I had to deal with that kind of speed...and while that might be enough for doing 1 thing at a time...some households have more than 1 person in it, and they all want to use the web in the evenings.
What happened to the hope, change and a new kind of politics?
Well, lessee. The guy that ran based on that slogan is head of the executive branch. So is the guy trying to do the right thing (in our book) that these congressmen are sending letters to.
The folks bitching, moaning and sucking the collective dick of their corporate overlords are in the legislative branch. So unless you expect part of the "hope and change" you're so fond of bashing to be the complete overhaul of your constitution, I don't quite see what you expect the POTUS to do about it?
Of course, there is something *you* could do, which is to look beyond the perfect teeth, the immaculately groomed hair and the little pin with the american flag, and try and find a guy/gal who might be worth voting for based on what he stands for, not on what he looks like. Then again, that would have to be a third party candidate, and those don't stand a chance...so I guess you might as well roll over and present your buttcheeks for another 4 years of congressional PMITA pleasure.
Even though these are small things, religion causes shops to close on sundays. Religion is given all sorts of exceptions(imagine anyone else wanting to make a ton of noise on a sunday morning). Religion sneaks into laws all the time.
You can be religious as much as you want, but for some reason those who are constantly feel the need to press their superstitions on the rest of us, starting with their children who will then do the same, ad infinitum.
Wow, thank you for those links. Now we non-yanks can justifiably go back to calling the majority of americans idiots, and we'll link to your post to prove it.
Thanks buddy :-)
Only when those in the media are smart enough to recognize ridicule for what it is. Considering how often Colbert gets taken literally, I wouldn't go for those odds ;-)
Bet? I'll do you one better. If the christian God as portrayed with his silly games is indeed the ruler of the hypothetical heaven, I can't imagine what could be worse than having to spend eternity basking in his arrogance.
Seriously, I'll settle for the fire and pitchforks...
(Although the alcohol regulations aren't exactly effective either, with 12-year-olds drinking themselves comatose.)
Hey, shit like that is gonna happen anyway. No reason for the rest of us to suffer for the lack of control of a few retards. And if said retard happens to be 12...where were mom and pop when it came to educating junior about alcohol?
I doubt that's what happened. A far more likely event would be that a co-worker who is also a "friend" saw it, blabbed to Janet in accounting who couldn't help but mention it at the watercooler after which it passed through the janitorial staffmember to the HR guy during a smoke break...and there you go.
Sorry, but when I'm trying to get some work done, the last thing I need is a machine constantly having to swap when I switch between outlook, powerpoint, several excel sheet and all the other stuff that is running in the background.
Seriously, with the prices of ram these days why skimp on it at the expense of the users? Having a sluggish machine will reduce productiveness, cause annoyance and make your users hate you.
Yes, god forbid the nanny states uphold the laws put into place by the democratically elected representatives of the citizens of those states.
We can live without microsoft or google. Can you live without our euro's? Last time I checked your economy was going down the toilet a whole lot quicker than ours...
Which jurisdictions are these? In most jurisdictions, you're well within your rights to film pretty much anything happening in a public place
The same jurisdictions that the article is about, read a significant chunk of western Europe.
Hire some NPC workers / pilots / researchers etc and soon enough you will have your own empire.
Fair enough, and that's actually what the next expansion is bringing in to a degree. Then again, if you just want to sit quietly in a corner and mess around with an AI, why not just play something like X3 and avoid the online fees altogether?
Not quite...
When I buy a ship for a 100 million isk, slap another 100 of mods on it and then get it blown up, those 200 are still in the economy, since all that stuff was bought from other players. Only money that moves from a player to the game itself(in the form of NPC's for example) actually leaves the economy. Worse, considering it's possible to insure ships, the economy ends up with more money than it started with.
What gets blown up is stuff, mostly made of minerals and other resources you can build things from.
Then again, according to my statistics my favorite target is still the capsule(escape pod for you non-players) and those do get replaced by NPC's ;-)
Just helping the economy along, nothing to see here!
You probably won't find many EVE players demanding the game to be more solo friendly and that everyone should be able to afford the biggest ship after soloing for a month and then be able to do everything in the game. But that is EXACTLY what people demand in every other MMO.
Actually, there are. Tons of them. Entire truckloads get sent to the exit scorned by such epic remarks as "GB2WOW" and "can I have your stuff"
CCP listens to the playerbase, but their vision of the EVE universe as a whole remains unaltered. It is a bleak dangerous place, and merely being in the wrong place at the wrong time will get you killed. If you can't handle that then that's tough luck, off you go. They love it when we blow each other up.
We already have nearly unrestricted player killing and full body(ship) loot. To survive in EVE you need to be smart and devious.
And that's why it is a group, a committee, and not a single member.
Sure, there may be one bleeding heart carebear in there that wants people jailed for committing pixel murder, but right next to him will be a pirate who spends his time shooting folks like aforementioned carebear and who can explain what the consequences are his intended ideas.
Now please excuse me while I find out who this guy you mentioned is while I fit 8 smartbombs to an armageddon...
There've been calls to vote for the CSM smack dab in the middle of your login screen for weeks.
If you overlook something that is right in the center of your monitor just what are they supposed to do, send you private messages every 5 minutes? :P