So what are you going to do? Do you honestly think people are going to just stop driving cars? Stop using the things that industry produces and has to pollute in order to produce?
I would love to live in this wonder place that you people seem to live in. Where everything just magically happens and there is no by product.
Hold on, wait just a second... I can see.. the future.. people walking and riding bicycles everywhere they go. Wait, no wait just a second, look there is a piece of paper that wasn't created from a tree.. it was created from a piece of matter that was formed from nothing.
Give me a break.. you can talk all of this as much as you would like. But in the end you will drive your gas guzzling car home, check the tree killing mail, and go inside turn your heater on and watch television..
And that being said, I try to find the most energy efficient ways of doing things with the least amount of by product, but I don't worry about every little thing that is told me is going to kill me in the next couple of years.
I don't huddle inside of my room waiting for the terrorist level to go down.. do you? Then why do you worry so much about something that keeps getting thrown up on the news every time you turn around? I've been hearing this crap all my life..
Maybe/. should get a new graphic for these kinda topics.. the graphic could be that guy with crazy hair that is naked except for the two boards held together with rope on the shoulders that has painted on it "The End is Neigh!"
There is always some type of disaster that is "going" to happen. It's all propoganda just to keep everyone frightened into doing whatever it is the flavor of the month wants you to do. Here's an idea, let's just live.. because when the time comes to die, you will.
And quite frankly, when that time comes.. big deal.. death is the completion of life in whatever form it may take.
Stop worrying about every little thing that can kill you and start living..
Something meaningful? Oh you mean like disarming law abiding citizens.. that's right.. that's meaningful.
Do people not realize that criminals will not give a care about what you make the law abiding citizens do?
Why is it people always divert attention with this issue? P2P and guns have nothing in common.. for one thing P2P can't be used to defend your family (unless of course you are downloading legal forms I suppose).
Point being.. don't use guns as your scape goat for everything.
the real problem, when it boils down to it, is that if it is completely done away with then you have a problem with people that have put into it all of their lives expecting it to be there when they need it only to find out now the program is done away with. So what do you do then? Just throw them to the curve? Issue them a refund? Unlikely on the refund.. but what then? People that are paying now are supporting those that paid it way back when. It's dying because there are tons of people drawing it that never put in on it. I say that if you are going to do away with it (which I"m all for because I'm still very young) then you should do it in such a way that the first thing you do is cut out people that have never put in on it or put in very little. Then, hey why don't we take away some government corporate welfare that pays for big businesses to do misc things (millions of tax dollars were spent for McDonalds to advertise their BigMac in England for example). Why not cut that out to pay for individuals.. why? Because big business runs this country.. not the people.
I am going to be building a new PC soon.. but if they are going to be releasing this in the next month or so I might hold off to buy the hard drives hoping for a price drop on the 250GB.
Anyone else think it might cause a significant difference?
My father had subscriptions to Atari magazines that used to come with programs in them and he would sit me down with a magazine and I would type the games straight out of the magazine to play them. It was an Atari 400 with a tape drive on it for storage (remember that loud screaming noise that sounds like it would be on an industrial song track). I was 5 or 6 at the time. Later he would teach me how to change different things and teach me what they meant.
I program for a living now and always let him know that I owe it all to him. Feels good when he comes to me with programming questions now. Kinda brings a little tear to my eye...
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I didn't think we programmers HAD social skills outside of online forum social skills.. *looks around*:-)
Those tests are actually kinda fun though, they make you think, that's something they can't get you to do in college.
Don't you know that you can't show reality to everyone now.. they are all too busy taking medication so that they can filter out true reality.. why give it to them in film?
I feel your pain though.. really I do, I agree.. that's why I watch a lot of Japanese movies:-)
Unfortunately this seems to be a stigma in the film industry today, possibly not that they have ran out of ideas, but it's that when you throw up a name of a classic movie and say that you are going to "re-invision it" then it draws a crowd. Everyone that seen the original wants to see the new one.
It's all about the dollars essentially, and what better way to rack in the crowds but with a film story that has proven itself already. Even if the remake sucks, what do they care, they made money off of it.
I live in North America.. in the southern states in fact.. and I LOVE Catan.. I haven't tried the other games you've mentioned.. but if they are half as fun as Catan I would love to try them. We play mostly Settlers of Catan and Civ where I go to play board games. Another fun one is Zombies, but mostly for it's mindless fun:-)
I will say this much about purchasing the game itself. It costs lots of money to develop these games. Imagine if you only financed a game for a year and had to pay all the developers salary alone.. imagine what that costs that's not counting all the building, machinary, and misc costs not to mention graphics designers, midi and wav composers, etc. Reallly, game development is expensive, it would take a lot longer to comp just the loss of revenue put in (in advance I might add) on $10 a month per player. You also have to consider that that money also goes to pay for the fees that it costs to run the server itself (manpower, maintenance, T1s (or whatever they use), etc).
Really.. this kinda stuff costs money to perform and no one is going to do all of this without pulling down some kinda profit.
What would be good is if they did it on a time based system. For instance if the player died then he would return as a ghost and have to find someone (npc or pc) to resurrect him (much like the old days of ultima online, I haven't played it recently in the past many years so I don't know if it still holds true). Then there would be a time limit to get back to the body, if the user didn't make it back to the body in time he would suffer xp debt and also his body would be lootable. Remember the old days of UO when if you died everything you had on your person was able to be taken? It sucked, but it made the game more interesting.
Also, if there is to be a time limit, it would need to be realistic, not a simple 15 minute timer, maybe an hour or two of real time.
Here's another idea, if there is going to be XP debt, don't make it so horrible! What's the point of spending 2 or 3 hours gaining xp to lose half of it in a second.. that's real discouraging..
Or there could be a happy medium. For instance offer a free two week trial where the software is downloadable and you have to pay say $10 for the two week access. Then if the user likes it they could purchase it, if not they are out the time it took to d/load and the $5.
Am I the only one that sees where this can lead? How long will it take to condition people to use these things before they come mandatory in computers and have to be used.. most especially what if they become mandatory for internet connections.. I'm sure the RIAA and the MPAA would just love that..
This is what happens.. they give you a wolf in sheeps clothing.. and for awhile that wolf stays dorment and you like it and you pet.. it's naughty.. it's a naughty little sheep.. and then all of a sudden.. oh my GOD WE'VE BEEN SUED.. WE'VE BEEN SUED AND THROWN INTO JAIL.. ahem.. maybe not.. but still.. I worry about companies doing things like this.
The only real way this would be useful (from a movie standpoint) would be if they included a series of TV shows or movies. Otherwise until a burner came available it would be useless... Once a burner for end user could be developed then it make sense on the common market.
Wonder how many years we'll have to wait for this one?
Well IMO the only reason that windows computers are hacked so frequently is because the level of brain power is much lower on windows than on Linux.. trust me if windows went away tomorrow you would have linux virus writers out there, but then just maybe we could get quality viruses like in the good ol days.. lol
Goodness.. at first you were making good sense, and you had to ruin it by making a childish statement at the end.
No.. it doesn't happen to me because I'm paranoid as to what is going on and don't install things that I'm not aware of what is going on.. same goes for this.. I don't trust insurance companies and I don't trust insurance agents.. they aren't going to lose money, they have an alternate reason or method that they will profit from this.
First off the only damage that would be hundreds of thousands of dollars would only be the case in hitting a Lambrogini (sorry about spelling) or some other exotic car OR if you ran into a real expensive building.. in either case it wouldn't matter if you had insurance or not because insurance only covers a certain amount.. anything after that you are liable for..
The only reason there is mandatory insurance is.. cha ching.. guess what, most politicians hold stock in insurance companies as well as other big business that gets stock funding from insurance companies..
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So what are you going to do? Do you honestly think people are going to just stop driving cars? Stop using the things that industry produces and has to pollute in order to produce?
I would love to live in this wonder place that you people seem to live in. Where everything just magically happens and there is no by product.
Hold on, wait just a second... I can see.. the future.. people walking and riding bicycles everywhere they go. Wait, no wait just a second, look there is a piece of paper that wasn't created from a tree.. it was created from a piece of matter that was formed from nothing.
Give me a break.. you can talk all of this as much as you would like. But in the end you will drive your gas guzzling car home, check the tree killing mail, and go inside turn your heater on and watch television..
And that being said, I try to find the most energy efficient ways of doing things with the least amount of by product, but I don't worry about every little thing that is told me is going to kill me in the next couple of years.
I don't huddle inside of my room waiting for the terrorist level to go down .. do you? Then why do you worry so much about something that keeps getting thrown up on the news every time you turn around? I've been hearing this crap all my life..
Please don't even talk about pollution if you are from England.. I'm sick of all this anti-american crap..
Maybe /. should get a new graphic for these kinda topics.. the graphic could be that guy with crazy hair that is naked except for the two boards held together with rope on the shoulders that has painted on it "The End is Neigh!"
There is always some type of disaster that is "going" to happen. It's all propoganda just to keep everyone frightened into doing whatever it is the flavor of the month wants you to do. Here's an idea, let's just live .. because when the time comes to die, you will.
.. big deal.. death is the completion of life in whatever form it may take.
And quite frankly, when that time comes
Stop worrying about every little thing that can kill you and start living..
Something meaningful? Oh you mean like disarming law abiding citizens.. that's right.. that's meaningful.
Do people not realize that criminals will not give a care about what you make the law abiding citizens do?
Why is it people always divert attention with this issue? P2P and guns have nothing in common.. for one thing P2P can't be used to defend your family (unless of course you are downloading legal forms I suppose).
Point being.. don't use guns as your scape goat for everything.
the real problem, when it boils down to it, is that if it is completely done away with then you have a problem with people that have put into it all of their lives expecting it to be there when they need it only to find out now the program is done away with. So what do you do then? Just throw them to the curve? Issue them a refund? Unlikely on the refund.. but what then? People that are paying now are supporting those that paid it way back when. It's dying because there are tons of people drawing it that never put in on it. I say that if you are going to do away with it (which I"m all for because I'm still very young) then you should do it in such a way that the first thing you do is cut out people that have never put in on it or put in very little. Then, hey why don't we take away some government corporate welfare that pays for big businesses to do misc things (millions of tax dollars were spent for McDonalds to advertise their BigMac in England for example). Why not cut that out to pay for individuals.. why? Because big business runs this country.. not the people.
LOL yah I would vote for that :-D
I am going to be building a new PC soon.. but if they are going to be releasing this in the next month or so I might hold off to buy the hard drives hoping for a price drop on the 250GB.
Anyone else think it might cause a significant difference?
My father had subscriptions to Atari magazines that used to come with programs in them and he would sit me down with a magazine and I would type the games straight out of the magazine to play them. It was an Atari 400 with a tape drive on it for storage (remember that loud screaming noise that sounds like it would be on an industrial song track). I was 5 or 6 at the time. Later he would teach me how to change different things and teach me what they meant.
I program for a living now and always let him know that I owe it all to him. Feels good when he comes to me with programming questions now. Kinda brings a little tear to my eye...
I didn't think we programmers HAD social skills outside of online forum social skills.. *looks around* :-)
Those tests are actually kinda fun though, they make you think, that's something they can't get you to do in college.
Don't you know that you can't show reality to everyone now.. they are all too busy taking medication so that they can filter out true reality.. why give it to them in film?
:-)
I feel your pain though.. really I do, I agree.. that's why I watch a lot of Japanese movies
Unfortunately this seems to be a stigma in the film industry today, possibly not that they have ran out of ideas, but it's that when you throw up a name of a classic movie and say that you are going to "re-invision it" then it draws a crowd. Everyone that seen the original wants to see the new one.
It's all about the dollars essentially, and what better way to rack in the crowds but with a film story that has proven itself already. Even if the remake sucks, what do they care, they made money off of it.
Sad but true..
Yah.. no doubt.. I was saying that Catan kicks ass and was asking for more good game titles that are fun as that one :-D
I live in North America.. in the southern states in fact .. and I LOVE Catan.. I haven't tried the other games you've mentioned.. but if they are half as fun as Catan I would love to try them. We play mostly Settlers of Catan and Civ where I go to play board games. Another fun one is Zombies, but mostly for it's mindless fun :-)
I will say this much about purchasing the game itself. It costs lots of money to develop these games. Imagine if you only financed a game for a year and had to pay all the developers salary alone.. imagine what that costs that's not counting all the building, machinary, and misc costs not to mention graphics designers, midi and wav composers, etc. Reallly, game development is expensive, it would take a lot longer to comp just the loss of revenue put in (in advance I might add) on $10 a month per player. You also have to consider that that money also goes to pay for the fees that it costs to run the server itself (manpower, maintenance, T1s (or whatever they use), etc).
Really.. this kinda stuff costs money to perform and no one is going to do all of this without pulling down some kinda profit.
What would be good is if they did it on a time based system. For instance if the player died then he would return as a ghost and have to find someone (npc or pc) to resurrect him (much like the old days of ultima online, I haven't played it recently in the past many years so I don't know if it still holds true). Then there would be a time limit to get back to the body, if the user didn't make it back to the body in time he would suffer xp debt and also his body would be lootable. Remember the old days of UO when if you died everything you had on your person was able to be taken? It sucked, but it made the game more interesting.
Also, if there is to be a time limit, it would need to be realistic, not a simple 15 minute timer, maybe an hour or two of real time.
Here's another idea, if there is going to be XP debt, don't make it so horrible! What's the point of spending 2 or 3 hours gaining xp to lose half of it in a second.. that's real discouraging..
Or there could be a happy medium. For instance offer a free two week trial where the software is downloadable and you have to pay say $10 for the two week access. Then if the user likes it they could purchase it, if not they are out the time it took to d/load and the $5.
Am I the only one that sees where this can lead? How long will it take to condition people to use these things before they come mandatory in computers and have to be used.. most especially what if they become mandatory for internet connections.. I'm sure the RIAA and the MPAA would just love that..
.. it's naughty.. it's a naughty little sheep.. and then all of a sudden .. oh my GOD WE'VE BEEN SUED.. WE'VE BEEN SUED AND THROWN INTO JAIL.. ahem.. maybe not.. but still.. I worry about companies doing things like this.
This is what happens.. they give you a wolf in sheeps clothing.. and for awhile that wolf stays dorment and you like it and you pet
The only real way this would be useful (from a movie standpoint) would be if they included a series of TV shows or movies. Otherwise until a burner came available it would be useless... Once a burner for end user could be developed then it make sense on the common market.
Wonder how many years we'll have to wait for this one?
Well IMO the only reason that windows computers are hacked so frequently is because the level of brain power is much lower on windows than on Linux.. trust me if windows went away tomorrow you would have linux virus writers out there, but then just maybe we could get quality viruses like in the good ol days.. lol
LOL.. sorry I deal with computers so much I forget people exist .. LOL.. at any rate it still won't cover that amount either.. hehe
Goodness.. at first you were making good sense, and you had to ruin it by making a childish statement at the end.
No.. it doesn't happen to me because I'm paranoid as to what is going on and don't install things that I'm not aware of what is going on.. same goes for this.. I don't trust insurance companies and I don't trust insurance agents.. they aren't going to lose money, they have an alternate reason or method that they will profit from this.
I felt my pocket book had been abused after seeing Alien Vs Predator...
First off the only damage that would be hundreds of thousands of dollars would only be the case in hitting a Lambrogini (sorry about spelling) or some other exotic car OR if you ran into a real expensive building.. in either case it wouldn't matter if you had insurance or not because insurance only covers a certain amount.. anything after that you are liable for..
The only reason there is mandatory insurance is.. cha ching.. guess what, most politicians hold stock in insurance companies as well as other big business that gets stock funding from insurance companies..