It seems to me that having a 'stadium-worthy' game would really limit your ability to innovate on the sequel without pissing off the entirety of South Korea.
I recall reading that what Koreans wanted most out of Starcraft II was more Starcraft with better graphics.
I think you have a little too much faith in the widespread adoption of a device that is locked in with a particular service provider. I don't recall people needing to sign into contracts to get their iPod. In fact, I wonder how popular it would actually be if they had to have?
I think it depends on how many of the customers are verbally abusing one another.
You own a biker bar and the majority of your patrons curse and verbally abuse one another. A family comes in for lunch after church and complains about your surly patrons, do you:
A) Tell them they're going to have to deal or leave. B) Tell your customers to be nice to the poor family.
that piracy is substantial and deserves attention, if only because society has collectively devleoped a bargain where creators of intellectual property are entitled to reasonable protection of their works
If it's such a problem, then obviously the "society" that collectively developed said protections either
a) no longer desires to extend such protections or b) feels the protections are no longer reasonable.
No you see, you are just reading the words wrong. The bible is completely accurate when you can make the words mean whatever you want. Fricken infidels.
In the past, whenever a people couldn't explain something, be it rain, the harvest, the seasons, they attributed it to a diety. Man, I'm sure glad those days are behind us.
What are you talking about? Advent Children was released on DVD as well. In fact, I just got back from Japan a week ago, and I've got the DVD right here in my hand.
Man! You must have a lot of experience typing with only one hand.
After purchasing a new DVD, how many times to do plan on watching it immediately? Normally once. If I could buy it from home, watch it immediately and then have the copy sent to my house... well I just saved a trip to the store. Instant gratification.
There are a lot of times when I plan on purchasing a movie but haven't yet gotten to the store. Perhaps I want to watch it with a girl I have over or show it to some friends. This would be a great system and just adds an option for me.
In his 1965 study, Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam (pp. 107, 108), historian Gar Alperovitz writes:
Although Japanese peace feelers had been sent out as early as September 1944 (and [China's] Chiang Kai-shek had been approached regarding surrender possibilities in December 1944), the real effort to end the war began in the spring of 1945. This effort stressed the role of the Soviet Union...
In mid-April [1945] the [US] Joint Intelligence Committee reported that Japanese leaders were looking for a way to modify the surrender terms to end the war. The State Department was convinced the Emperor was actively seeking a way to stop the fighting.
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I figured this was pretty common knowledge today. Google will bring up plenty of information on it. Even the history channel has had shows which mention it./shrug
It was known by American decision makers that the Japanese were looking to arrange terms of surrender. I think it's pretty easy to speculate why they would go ahead regardless...
There was a free online game called Get The Picture in which everyone in a room would make up captions for an image and then vote on the funniest/best one. Between rounds they showed little ads. Most people didn't have a problem with this, except the ads got repetitive FAST. Most of the people would end up making jokes and such imitating the ads.
I don't know if it worked tho, since the game isn't around anymore:'(
My cell phone takes 30s grainy videos that I can upload to the web or email, as long as I have service. Seems a little more tetherless than having to find an internet capable box to post from.
The problem is that normally once someone gets a "Sword of Pwning" they are done and move on. When people are farming an item for real world value they usually set up a group of bots to perma-camp the quest/spawn, thereby cockblocking REAL players from obtaining the same.
These groups also tend not to play the game as it was intended and rather seek to exploit the system to reap massive gains. They are quick to exploit scripting/cheating systems to achieve results contrary to what a normal player could achieve. (ie profitable tradeskill combines, fishing in wow)
So the people who use these services tend to be casual people who could care less about their fellow players or (in a more valid case) higher level guilds looking to bolster their numbers on low pop/skill servers Most of these games have built in methods for selling/trading and don't need these "evil corporation" type third-party entities controlling resources and breaking the ingame ruleset.
The problem is, the 9/11 story is hearsay. Just another rumor in the 9/11 mythos. The actual story was vague as to whether it was an airphone or a cell phone that the passangers used. The problem with the airphone theory is that Olson and Felt were said to be calling from the lavatories.
What I've seen re: cell phones on planes... Qualcomm and AA teamed up to do the mini-tower or "pico cell" successfully. This was necessary for cell service. Also there was a test done by some british guys who tested phones at lower altitudes and speeds and had issues which would suggest the necessity of the mini-tower.
Mostly I believe the 9/11 passanger phone call stories are nice urban legends or fabrications. When actually looked at for any factual basis, it's dodgy at best.
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Nice try, fortunately Slashdot has built in protection against scams like that. When you type in your password it automatically stars it out.
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The comet was struck by lightning as it fell to Earth, duh.
I DO work in post production and if you've ever had to manage creatives on Macs you would know that:
1) They would never tolerate not having admin access over their station.
2) They have no hesitation installing updates on their box, we've even had a few trying to put Leopard on early (prior to AJA having drivers).
3) And this will somehow NOT be Apple's fault.
This just in...
Life exists where conditions for life are ideal.
Film at 11.
Whatever you got to tell yourself dude. ;)
It seems to me that having a 'stadium-worthy' game would really limit your ability to innovate on the sequel without pissing off the entirety of South Korea.
I recall reading that what Koreans wanted most out of Starcraft II was more Starcraft with better graphics.
Seriously.
I think you have a little too much faith in the widespread adoption of a device that is locked in with a particular service provider. I don't recall people needing to sign into contracts to get their iPod. In fact, I wonder how popular it would actually be if they had to have?
I think it depends on how many of the customers are verbally abusing one another.
You own a biker bar and the majority of your patrons curse and verbally abuse one another. A family comes in for lunch after church and complains about your surly patrons, do you:
A) Tell them they're going to have to deal or leave.
B) Tell your customers to be nice to the poor family.
Which do you think is better for your business?
If it's such a problem, then obviously the "society" that collectively developed said protections either
a) no longer desires to extend such protections
or b) feels the protections are no longer reasonable.
Hopefully you didn't send him out to a relay box
Walked around the thing at least twice before realizing there wasn't an opening.
No you see, you are just reading the words wrong. The bible is completely accurate when you can make the words mean whatever you want. Fricken infidels.
In the past, whenever a people couldn't explain something, be it rain, the harvest, the seasons, they attributed it to a diety. Man, I'm sure glad those days are behind us.
Oh wait.
What are you talking about? Advent Children was released on DVD as well. In fact, I just got back from Japan a week ago, and I've got the DVD right here in my hand.
Man! You must have a lot of experience typing with only one hand.
After purchasing a new DVD, how many times to do plan on watching it immediately? Normally once. If I could buy it from home, watch it immediately and then have the copy sent to my house... well I just saved a trip to the store. Instant gratification.
There are a lot of times when I plan on purchasing a movie but haven't yet gotten to the store. Perhaps I want to watch it with a girl I have over or show it to some friends. This would be a great system and just adds an option for me.
In his 1965 study, Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam (pp. 107, 108), historian Gar Alperovitz writes:
...
/shrug
Although Japanese peace feelers had been sent out as early as September 1944 (and [China's] Chiang Kai-shek had been approached regarding surrender possibilities in December 1944), the real effort to end the war began in the spring of 1945. This effort stressed the role of the Soviet Union
In mid-April [1945] the [US] Joint Intelligence Committee reported that Japanese leaders were looking for a way to modify the surrender terms to end the war. The State Department was convinced the Emperor was actively seeking a way to stop the fighting.
-
I figured this was pretty common knowledge today. Google will bring up plenty of information on it. Even the history channel has had shows which mention it.
It was known by American decision makers that the Japanese were looking to arrange terms of surrender. I think it's pretty easy to speculate why they would go ahead regardless...
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v16/v16n3p-4_Weber.html
There was a free online game called Get The Picture in which everyone in a room would make up captions for an image and then vote on the funniest/best one. Between rounds they showed little ads. Most people didn't have a problem with this, except the ads got repetitive FAST. Most of the people would end up making jokes and such imitating the ads.
:'(
I don't know if it worked tho, since the game isn't around anymore
My cell phone takes 30s grainy videos that I can upload to the web or email, as long as I have service. Seems a little more tetherless than having to find an internet capable box to post from.
The problem is that normally once someone gets a "Sword of Pwning" they are done and move on. When people are farming an item for real world value they usually set up a group of bots to perma-camp the quest/spawn, thereby cockblocking REAL players from obtaining the same.
These groups also tend not to play the game as it was intended and rather seek to exploit the system to reap massive gains. They are quick to exploit scripting/cheating systems to achieve results contrary to what a normal player could achieve. (ie profitable tradeskill combines, fishing in wow)
So the people who use these services tend to be casual people who could care less about their fellow players or (in a more valid case) higher level guilds looking to bolster their numbers on low pop/skill servers Most of these games have built in methods for selling/trading and don't need these "evil corporation" type third-party entities controlling resources and breaking the ingame ruleset.
The problem is, the 9/11 story is hearsay. Just another rumor in the 9/11 mythos. The actual story was vague as to whether it was an airphone or a cell phone that the passangers used. The problem with the airphone theory is that Olson and Felt were said to be calling from the lavatories.
What I've seen re: cell phones on planes... Qualcomm and AA teamed up to do the mini-tower or "pico cell" successfully. This was necessary for cell service. Also there was a test done by some british guys who tested phones at lower altitudes and speeds and had issues which would suggest the necessity of the mini-tower.
Mostly I believe the 9/11 passanger phone call stories are nice urban legends or fabrications. When actually looked at for any factual basis, it's dodgy at best.
I normally say "sorry but I have a girlfriend".
This worked up until my girlfriend left me... hmm maybe I can now have this work to my advantage? >:)
You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.
-- Albert Einstein
much in the same way that you always find something in the last place you looked.
Just please don't harm the telephone cleaners.
Or imagine that we were on the receiving end of some loony extraterrestrial crusade.
I mean, behold the savage humans with their primative and pagan religions!