What about lending books to friends? I discover most books I read through having recommendations from friends and borrowing their copy (often lending back one of mine).
Heart's plan isn't going to save anything - barking up the wrong (expensive) tree IMO.
"They could be in our equivalent of 1750 and we'd never hear a peep."
In a universe with an age measured in billions of years, it might be just as likely the separation in advancement of species be measured in millions of years. i.e., "they" could be far, far off being able to communicate, or advanced enough that them buzzing our planet and abducting people to study could be done without causing a massive fuss (outside of what many would think of as crazies talking about a close encounter).
Idle and flawed guessing: We're probably 10-40 light years from a potential 'other' life-supporting planet. Could it be that our first rudimentary transmissions reached such a planet, they sent exploratory vehicles on a research mission, those vehicles arrived and are now returning home before a decision be made (attack, enslave, befriend, hide like a Spathi, etc)?
I guess any sufficiently advanced species would be aware of the issue of distance and perhaps send a sequence of missions, or some official if-then instructions? Or would they take such contact seriously and decide that patience is the best tact?
All up, there are a lot of tracks likely to be tonnes of fun to play for Metallica fans. Really looking forward to this. (Who do I have to bribe to get GH: Pantera, then FNM, etc!?)
Here's what's missing from the key albums:
JUSTICE: Blackened...And Justice For All (Shame. Already released on Rock Band, I think?) Eye of the Beholder Harvester of Sorrow Frayed Ends of Sanity To Live is to Die (wish this was in there instead of Dyers Eve)
BLACK: Holier Than Thou Don't Tread on Me Through the Never Of Wolf and Man The God That Failed My Friend of Misery The Struggle Within
KILL EM ALL: The Four Horsemen (surprised they couldn't get this in there? Issues with Mustaine?) Motorbreath Jump in the Fire Pulling Teeth Phantom Lord Metal Militia
PUPPETS: Leper Messiah Damage Inc
LIGHTNING: Ride the Lightning Trapped Under Ice (already in World Tour) Escape Call of Ktulu (biggest omission IMO)
There are a number of inclusions I don't care for:
All Nightmare Long (already have the Death Magnetic download, why even include it?) Dyers Eve Frantic (never really listened to St Anger much, so don't know it) Fuel (there's better on Load they could've snuck in instead; Bleeding Me or Outlaw Torn maybe) No Leaf Clover (meh)
The non-Metallica tracks look OK, but I would've liked to have seen more than 2-3 from the Garage Inc first disc. Maybe Sabbra Cadabra, Astronomy, Whiskey in the Jar, etc. Why not leave some of those other tracks (e.g., Toxicity) as DLC?
"That was my initial reaction. But at that level of responsibility I much prefer someone being appointed for their competency to manage well rather than their ability to do technical work. I have no idea if Chu is a good manager or not, just saying that the Peter Principle is something to be avoided."
I can appreciate that, but I think there's also an advantage in someone like this being elevated to that position where they may serve as inspiration for others.
Hadn't heard of the Peter Principle before - cheers!
Surely it's difficult to sell something that's twice the price (because of the required peripheral) of other games? I'll complain about $90 games but had no qualms about paying $180 for a game and two dorky plastic guitars. That's pretty impressive.
Could this freedom become a point of difference between providers of tertiary education in the future? e.g., you're choosing to study/research at Provider A or B. A might be closer to home and slightly cheaper, but B isn't going to screw you when it comes to IP and the like.
In some ways, intelligence and our helpless infants have gone hand in hand - in order to accommodate a larger brain capacity, human evolution has meant that our infants have been born earlier (when the skull is smaller). The alternative was a wider pelvis I think which would have worked against the ability to walk/run away from predators.
I want to see the book (and soon to be movie), The Road, made into a game. That'd be survival horror. The main character runs most of the course with no more than a couple of bullets!
"I've talked to some developers who are saying 'If you want to fight the final boss you go online and pay USD 20, but if you bought the retail version you got it for free.'"
Surely they mean they've talked to marketing/admin at a games development company? Which in-the-trenches developer, likely a gamer themselves, would want their games to play out like that?
Make a good game. Sell it. If the replay value is high enough, people will keep it rather than selling or renting it. Same if you provide legitimate, on-going DLC (whether free or paid). Engineer some stupid scenario whereby you drag more money out of people for the hell of it and you'll miss sales.
Robo callers that you can't hang up
Telemarketers that fake CLI
Exemptions from the Do not call list... I knew there was a reason I lived in the UK
Sure, in the UK you don't even need tape in your answering machine. Just phone up the government snoops in the near future and they'll keep a handy archive of all your calls and emails!
The Slashdot hivemind has some favourites - Deus Ex, SS2, Thief 3's particular level, etc. I'm surprised companies don't 're-release' with upgraded visuals (without wrecking what everyone loved about the originals) to capture a fresh audience and any others who want to replay the game but struggle a bit with the retro visuals or interface. Short of seeing it mentioned by older game players, a younger person getting into games now might not encounter a real gem like Deus Ex.
Now, not wrecking it is the key, but surely someone's capable of re-capturing the original charm and vision?
Why is this so often left to fans to try to revive? Surely there's at least some money to be made? It's not as though you'd need to rewrite the Deus Ex story for example so it would have to be a tinier bit cheaper than creating something from scratch - new audio, update the maps a bit, and use a more modern engine.
I'm not sure that those referencing that incident have the religious aspect in mind, but rather the film's general gist of regaining a country from fascists.
Were this happening to the same extent in my country, I'd don the mask when it arrived on my porch.
It's a little depressing that laws being brought in to overzealously protect against (oh noes) terrorism can incite quite measured and intelligent people to reference exactly that in response.
And those people are not going to be reading Slashdot. That's why I'm surprised that the government and ISPs have not cooperated to mount a branded effort to discredit spam (risk of stolen credit card, product not showing up, etc) and educate the masses.
If spam is a burden for ISPs (extra bandwidth, plus complaining users) surely they'd jump on board a campaign if a government or organised group could provide good educational materials.
We watch awkward anti-piracy spiels in cinemas before movies, why couldn't ISPs incorpoate anti-spam messages into their sites, marketing material, bills, etc?
Slashdot Mirror
Is this guy still alive? I swear I read that he died from some sort of toe infection. Or maybe I heard about it. Or smelled about it.
Stephen Conroy has since said that the leaked list is not the actual/current ACMA blacklist.
Either way, the blacklist is a fucking stupid idea and I'm ashamed that any mainstream group are pushing for it.
Also see Girl Talk's Feed the Animals:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_the_Animals
What about lending books to friends? I discover most books I read through having recommendations from friends and borrowing their copy (often lending back one of mine).
Heart's plan isn't going to save anything - barking up the wrong (expensive) tree IMO.
That's up there with Richard Stallman's song:
http://www.gnu.org/music/free-software-song.html
Wish I could rid my memory of him singing "Join us now and share the software; You'll be free, hackers, you'll be free."
"They could be in our equivalent of 1750 and we'd never hear a peep."
In a universe with an age measured in billions of years, it might be just as likely the separation in advancement of species be measured in millions of years. i.e., "they" could be far, far off being able to communicate, or advanced enough that them buzzing our planet and abducting people to study could be done without causing a massive fuss (outside of what many would think of as crazies talking about a close encounter).
Idle and flawed guessing: We're probably 10-40 light years from a potential 'other' life-supporting planet. Could it be that our first rudimentary transmissions reached such a planet, they sent exploratory vehicles on a research mission, those vehicles arrived and are now returning home before a decision be made (attack, enslave, befriend, hide like a Spathi, etc)?
I guess any sufficiently advanced species would be aware of the issue of distance and perhaps send a sequence of missions, or some official if-then instructions? Or would they take such contact seriously and decide that patience is the best tact?
Yeah, because The Simpsons has no worldwide brand strength whatsoever... ;)
It's a simple, cheap stunt that's got his cause heaps of press. Great work by Gates or whoever had the idea.
For future reference, the lyric is "dub", not "doubt".
All up, there are a lot of tracks likely to be tonnes of fun to play for Metallica fans. Really looking forward to this. (Who do I have to bribe to get GH: Pantera, then FNM, etc!?)
Here's what's missing from the key albums:
JUSTICE: ...And Justice For All (Shame. Already released on Rock Band, I think?)
Blackened
Eye of the Beholder
Harvester of Sorrow
Frayed Ends of Sanity
To Live is to Die (wish this was in there instead of Dyers Eve)
BLACK:
Holier Than Thou
Don't Tread on Me
Through the Never
Of Wolf and Man
The God That Failed
My Friend of Misery
The Struggle Within
KILL EM ALL:
The Four Horsemen (surprised they couldn't get this in there? Issues with Mustaine?)
Motorbreath
Jump in the Fire
Pulling Teeth
Phantom Lord
Metal Militia
PUPPETS:
Leper Messiah
Damage Inc
LIGHTNING:
Ride the Lightning
Trapped Under Ice (already in World Tour)
Escape
Call of Ktulu (biggest omission IMO)
There are a number of inclusions I don't care for:
All Nightmare Long (already have the Death Magnetic download, why even include it?)
Dyers Eve
Frantic (never really listened to St Anger much, so don't know it)
Fuel (there's better on Load they could've snuck in instead; Bleeding Me or Outlaw Torn maybe)
No Leaf Clover (meh)
The non-Metallica tracks look OK, but I would've liked to have seen more than 2-3 from the Garage Inc first disc. Maybe Sabbra Cadabra, Astronomy, Whiskey in the Jar, etc. Why not leave some of those other tracks (e.g., Toxicity) as DLC?
"That was my initial reaction. But at that level of responsibility I much prefer someone being appointed for their competency to manage well rather than their ability to do technical work. I have no idea if Chu is a good manager or not, just saying that the Peter Principle is something to be avoided."
I can appreciate that, but I think there's also an advantage in someone like this being elevated to that position where they may serve as inspiration for others.
Hadn't heard of the Peter Principle before - cheers!
Surely it's difficult to sell something that's twice the price (because of the required peripheral) of other games? I'll complain about $90 games but had no qualms about paying $180 for a game and two dorky plastic guitars. That's pretty impressive.
I think $1b is a milestone worth noting.
Could this freedom become a point of difference between providers of tertiary education in the future? e.g., you're choosing to study/research at Provider A or B. A might be closer to home and slightly cheaper, but B isn't going to screw you when it comes to IP and the like.
In some ways, intelligence and our helpless infants have gone hand in hand - in order to accommodate a larger brain capacity, human evolution has meant that our infants have been born earlier (when the skull is smaller). The alternative was a wider pelvis I think which would have worked against the ability to walk/run away from predators.
I want to see the book (and soon to be movie), The Road, made into a game. That'd be survival horror. The main character runs most of the course with no more than a couple of bullets!
Please don't say "[insert animal here]" in a mammoth topic...
Surely there's a difference between some "special downloadable maps" and (as stated in the summary) "the final boss"?
"I've talked to some developers who are saying 'If you want to fight the final boss you go online and pay USD 20, but if you bought the retail version you got it for free.'"
Surely they mean they've talked to marketing/admin at a games development company? Which in-the-trenches developer, likely a gamer themselves, would want their games to play out like that?
Make a good game. Sell it. If the replay value is high enough, people will keep it rather than selling or renting it. Same if you provide legitimate, on-going DLC (whether free or paid). Engineer some stupid scenario whereby you drag more money out of people for the hell of it and you'll miss sales.
Might be wrong, but I think typical projector bulbs are usually replaced after they reach their half-way point. Might've confused someone.
"Like, you know, "all PC gamers are thiefs". Which version of GoW2 was leaked, genius?. 360, you say?. In your face, bitch."
First leaked is a little irrelevant, isn't it? Surely they'd be more concerned about overall numbers?
Sure, in the UK you don't even need tape in your answering machine. Just phone up the government snoops in the near future and they'll keep a handy archive of all your calls and emails!
The Slashdot hivemind has some favourites - Deus Ex, SS2, Thief 3's particular level, etc. I'm surprised companies don't 're-release' with upgraded visuals (without wrecking what everyone loved about the originals) to capture a fresh audience and any others who want to replay the game but struggle a bit with the retro visuals or interface. Short of seeing it mentioned by older game players, a younger person getting into games now might not encounter a real gem like Deus Ex.
Now, not wrecking it is the key, but surely someone's capable of re-capturing the original charm and vision?
Why is this so often left to fans to try to revive? Surely there's at least some money to be made? It's not as though you'd need to rewrite the Deus Ex story for example so it would have to be a tinier bit cheaper than creating something from scratch - new audio, update the maps a bit, and use a more modern engine.
I'm not sure that those referencing that incident have the religious aspect in mind, but rather the film's general gist of regaining a country from fascists.
Were this happening to the same extent in my country, I'd don the mask when it arrived on my porch.
It's a little depressing that laws being brought in to overzealously protect against (oh noes) terrorism can incite quite measured and intelligent people to reference exactly that in response.
And those people are not going to be reading Slashdot. That's why I'm surprised that the government and ISPs have not cooperated to mount a branded effort to discredit spam (risk of stolen credit card, product not showing up, etc) and educate the masses.
If spam is a burden for ISPs (extra bandwidth, plus complaining users) surely they'd jump on board a campaign if a government or organised group could provide good educational materials.
We watch awkward anti-piracy spiels in cinemas before movies, why couldn't ISPs incorpoate anti-spam messages into their sites, marketing material, bills, etc?