Nobody is required to buy a CD, or a movie, or a piece of software, so why shouldn't someone be able to charge whatever they want for it?
Everybody is required to listen and see force fed ads everywhere they go. I'd be perfectly happy not knowing all the great songs and movies I miss. How could I pirate something I don't know about?
Another thing, maybe how layman would think of all this nonsense: they played it on TV or radio and so I've seen or heard it for free. Why should I now pay for it? Because they say so? I could've recorded it then, would they still insist that I can't use the record without paying? For some reason that I don't care about, recording is too complicated these days and I rather use internet to get it if I want to see it again.
Right, because no other vendor has ever been accused of that!
This isn't kindergarten chat, buddy. Didn't your mom tell you that it's no excuse if others are doing the same? That logical fallacy has a name: Appeal to Common Parctice. Don't use it.
A fellow student] said, "If somebody can make a map like that of the whole school, I mean, it does kind of scare me a little bit, and make me wonder, you know, what else they could do."
Natural born victims. Maybe it's their purpose of life, playing the part of scared sheep.
However, Negroponte disclosed that XO's developers have been working with Microsoft Corp. so a version of Windows can run on the machines as well.
Why?
Is this going to go like it goes with GM crops? Is Microsoft the new Monsanto for 3rd world countries? Go ahead, google for gm crops in third world countries.
I'm not familiar enough with WDDM/DX10 to give a well informed explaination on the reason why DX10 requires the various WDDM/kernel improvements.
Here I was thinking you'd say "I can't because it would ruin my case!" instead.
Looking back your comment history it seems you could be motivated enough to dig out the real reasons why it requires them and why there isn't subset of DX10 features made for XP gamers? And why some game companies seem to take irrational risk by not supporting XP. Did they take pribes from MS?
It's a strange problem; generally better hardware is adopted, even before people need what it offers, but better software is resisted for as long as absolutely possible.
That's because it isn't better. For how many times MS has come out marketing their new OS as best ever only to come out few years later saying that next one is even better? Why couldn't they make it perfect in the first place like they once promised when it was new?
Now I think XP is as close to perfect MS is capable of and even though it has its flaws I can live with them because I know there is never going to be flawless version. What's more, it's been declared legal to resell old licenses and so XP has more resell value than any other Windows before it.
Microsoft can go back working on their security initiative or something and make us free security hotfixes for XP from now on.
In that case the tech could not have found it was not their fault. Therefore, ISP pays. Only when proved beyond doubt that it's not the line and it's the computer, only then would customer pay.
Think an ISP: How many people will claim their internet service is down, when they actually screwed up their PCs?
Here's a solution: "We send a tech to check it out. It costs $400 initally plus $200 per hour. If he finds out that the problem is not in our service/equipment, you'll pay it. If he finds out the problem is our fault, then we pay."
What would be the best way to know one's location in space? With an origin, of course. Jump anywhere in the (relative) vicinity of it, scan surroundings for its spectrum to locate it and see what is its orientation.
Whether or not it is artificial, it could still serve as navigational aid. In addition, it has growth rings like trees so you cold tell your distance from it just by counting the rings.
Visual space navigation beacon. Nice.
Or, it's still spherical and only looks like square (from all directions) because light bends from its particles in some unusual way.
Cheer up. It's only the usual post-apocalyptic survival story but with good writing. Anyone could do same without Fallout IP.
See, almost all funny things in Fallout were references to other entertainment: Monty Python, Star Trek, The Godfather, Mike Tyson, Full Metal Jacket, etc. It's the standard for funnay for dummies: quick refrences here and there that need only extensive knowledge of contemporary popular culture but no.. braiinss!
Huh huh huh, I said "braiiinss!" like those zombies in that one movie.
I liked Fallout but nevertheless noticed all the stupid simple references that made me laugh and at the same time hate myself and everybody else who think that kind of funny has future. Because it's true: we are simple, stupid beings. Easily amused.
Um, people don't care about companies that don't comply with laws. They still buy from them. The proof to this is that Microsoft's market share has RISEN during the YEARS that the EU has told MS over and over to comply with the laws.
Because capitalist system allows individuals be selfish and greedy while avoiding peronal consequenses. If EU started threatening the investors, stock holders with personal fines, then something might happen.
Tell me, what good is a 100+ player battle if your smooth gameplay turns into a slideshow? Hell, even 50 player battles lag and aren't smooth in any measurable way.
While their game is attractive hardcore alternative to teenager hell that is WoW, code behind Eve sucks so bad they need to employ T2 Reality Distortion Field to keep straight face when they talk about massive multiplayer battles.
As seen here, people have decided to live with it and instead of whining about slideshows they whine "but they got node crashed and then they were last in the login queue so because they hit logon button too much so they lost the system".
Reality check: slideshows, client/node/server crash and unable to login is not game. It's bullshit and gamers shouldn't tolerate that.
I think it should be put up for a little public debate on whether or not it's absolutely necessary.
And what you think the public is going to know about it? Nothing. All they ever do is believe something's good or bad. They wouldn't even know about any blackholey thingies if it wasn't for science.
Now as scifi authors have popularized black holes, it's suddenly common knowledge that "black hole bad, do not want".
In some evil twisted way I sometimes hope for some experiment end in spectacular and anomalous failure so that all you roadblocks for scientific progress could be right for the first and last time. Just have enough time to yell: "we told you so!" That'd be sweet while it lasted. After which it would just suck.:(
As i understand the explanations about dark matter is that we are in such big blob of dark matter even now, here. Everything you see, touch and know of, is only 4% of what actually surrounds us.
Dark matter is not something that's out there far away in outer space. It's here now colliding you, being in physical contact with you and harming you. Well, as much as it can. Which is not much.
You could manufacture things out of thin air more easily than out of dark matter.
Eve client freezes totally for a while when it is waiting for data from the server. When I warp into some area with lots of other ships, everything stops, when I open character skills screen, everything stops, etc.
If there's one thing that causes mouse rage it's freezing and laggy user interface. There should be absolutely no reason in this day and age to freeze window drawing and other non-related things when waiting for data to draw spaceships.
This thing was ultimately the one that pushed me away from Eve.
Someone please remind me, are we so poor nerds that we absolutely must work and help MS's products look and work better than they actually are? To help the bottom line of this chair throwing asshat?
Why should we help him and his lame attempts to do business? Why should we help anyone, be it relative, neighbor or company, be successful with MS software? Because of money? Are we that poor?
However, I don't think it's a hard and fast rule that such a mechanic is bad. I'm all for creativity and innovation, if done such a way that it doesn't feel like a cheap trick. I was expecting my 2nd (and 3rd) runs through Dead Rising to be boring and monotonous, but it really wasn't.
I agree. Going through same maps isn't bad in itself but what I also meant by reseting was that enemies killed once already are brought back. Spawning enemies out of nothing without good explanation is bad and I don't easily forgive if a game does that.
I think a game is spending its replaying value beforehand when its story forces player to use same maps multiple times. More so if also the monsters are there again.
Like your friend, I'd probably quit it, too. If game is designed to force player restart then the game world should go on and not reset when restarting. Otherwise it feels like a cheap trick to force same content again instead of making effort to create continuous story.
As long as it doesn't create manure, I'm all for it. I hate manure.
So what if it sucks us all, we're going to die anyway. What are you afraid of? At least it'd be much more spectacular than the ordinary death awaiting most of us. I'd choose Death by A Black Hole at level 55 over Ripe Old Age anyday.
Even the store's logo and themes are red, white, and blue while their practices are quite un-American.
Why un-American? Millions of Americans support Wal-Mart's style by shopping there and because those shoppers are the large middle-class group, the stuff most of America is made of, isn't it the best mark of approval of American style business making a company could hope for?
To me, a brand can't get much more American than Wal-Mart. Just because some things suck or seem wrong, doesn't mean they are un-American. Nothing is perfect, not even Wal-Mart/America.
It's ok. Some people read their Weekly Taboo Words lists. They can then rev up to righteous outrage mode whenever one of those no-no words is mentioned. They can't do other than that, only parrot latest memes and feel they belong in some group.
Mob/herd mentality at its finest, I'm so proud of them. They showcase how year 2000 is another 2000 years away from when human mind will be as developed as our current technology. We don't live in trees anymore but we're still half monkeys, pushing patches of fur here and there.
So don't feel bad if some people label your posts flamebait or troll. They're trying their best to be useful parts of their communities, like we all do.
This just means that users'll be calling YOU to make it work and make YOUR life harder.
Not anymore. I tell them to buy a mac or install ubuntu or anything except Vista because I'm not helping with Vista. They can still buy it but I'll let them suffer for it.
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Everybody is required to listen and see force fed ads everywhere they go. I'd be perfectly happy not knowing all the great songs and movies I miss. How could I pirate something I don't know about?
Another thing, maybe how layman would think of all this nonsense: they played it on TV or radio and so I've seen or heard it for free. Why should I now pay for it? Because they say so? I could've recorded it then, would they still insist that I can't use the record without paying? For some reason that I don't care about, recording is too complicated these days and I rather use internet to get it if I want to see it again.
This isn't kindergarten chat, buddy. Didn't your mom tell you that it's no excuse if others are doing the same? That logical fallacy has a name: Appeal to Common Parctice. Don't use it.
Natural born victims. Maybe it's their purpose of life, playing the part of scared sheep.
That's the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the headline.
They are hoping it will be somehow harder to copy 3D movies. It's not. So if that's the motivation behind this push then they can forget it.
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Why?
Is this going to go like it goes with GM crops? Is Microsoft the new Monsanto for 3rd world countries? Go ahead, google for gm crops in third world countries.
Here I was thinking you'd say "I can't because it would ruin my case!" instead.
Looking back your comment history it seems you could be motivated enough to dig out the real reasons why it requires them and why there isn't subset of DX10 features made for XP gamers? And why some game companies seem to take irrational risk by not supporting XP. Did they take pribes from MS?
That's because it isn't better. For how many times MS has come out marketing their new OS as best ever only to come out few years later saying that next one is even better? Why couldn't they make it perfect in the first place like they once promised when it was new?
Now I think XP is as close to perfect MS is capable of and even though it has its flaws I can live with them because I know there is never going to be flawless version. What's more, it's been declared legal to resell old licenses and so XP has more resell value than any other Windows before it.
Microsoft can go back working on their security initiative or something and make us free security hotfixes for XP from now on.
In that case the tech could not have found it was not their fault. Therefore, ISP pays. Only when proved beyond doubt that it's not the line and it's the computer, only then would customer pay.
Here's a solution: "We send a tech to check it out. It costs $400 initally plus $200 per hour. If he finds out that the problem is not in our service/equipment, you'll pay it. If he finds out the problem is our fault, then we pay."
What would be the best way to know one's location in space? With an origin, of course. Jump anywhere in the (relative) vicinity of it, scan surroundings for its spectrum to locate it and see what is its orientation.
Whether or not it is artificial, it could still serve as navigational aid. In addition, it has growth rings like trees so you cold tell your distance from it just by counting the rings.
Visual space navigation beacon. Nice.
Or, it's still spherical and only looks like square (from all directions) because light bends from its particles in some unusual way.
Cheer up. It's only the usual post-apocalyptic survival story but with good writing. Anyone could do same without Fallout IP.
See, almost all funny things in Fallout were references to other entertainment: Monty Python, Star Trek, The Godfather, Mike Tyson, Full Metal Jacket, etc. It's the standard for funnay for dummies: quick refrences here and there that need only extensive knowledge of contemporary popular culture but no.. braiinss!
Huh huh huh, I said "braiiinss!" like those zombies in that one movie.
I liked Fallout but nevertheless noticed all the stupid simple references that made me laugh and at the same time hate myself and everybody else who think that kind of funny has future. Because it's true: we are simple, stupid beings. Easily amused.
Because capitalist system allows individuals be selfish and greedy while avoiding peronal consequenses. If EU started threatening the investors, stock holders with personal fines, then something might happen.
Tell me, what good is a 100+ player battle if your smooth gameplay turns into a slideshow? Hell, even 50 player battles lag and aren't smooth in any measurable way.
While their game is attractive hardcore alternative to teenager hell that is WoW, code behind Eve sucks so bad they need to employ T2 Reality Distortion Field to keep straight face when they talk about massive multiplayer battles.
As seen here, people have decided to live with it and instead of whining about slideshows they whine "but they got node crashed and then they were last in the login queue so because they hit logon button too much so they lost the system".
Reality check: slideshows, client/node/server crash and unable to login is not game. It's bullshit and gamers shouldn't tolerate that.
And what you think the public is going to know about it? Nothing. All they ever do is believe something's good or bad. They wouldn't even know about any blackholey thingies if it wasn't for science.
Now as scifi authors have popularized black holes, it's suddenly common knowledge that "black hole bad, do not want".
In some evil twisted way I sometimes hope for some experiment end in spectacular and anomalous failure so that all you roadblocks for scientific progress could be right for the first and last time. Just have enough time to yell: "we told you so!" That'd be sweet while it lasted. After which it would just suck. :(
As i understand the explanations about dark matter is that we are in such big blob of dark matter even now, here. Everything you see, touch and know of, is only 4% of what actually surrounds us.
Dark matter is not something that's out there far away in outer space. It's here now colliding you, being in physical contact with you and harming you. Well, as much as it can. Which is not much.
You could manufacture things out of thin air more easily than out of dark matter.
Eve client freezes totally for a while when it is waiting for data from the server. When I warp into some area with lots of other ships, everything stops, when I open character skills screen, everything stops, etc.
If there's one thing that causes mouse rage it's freezing and laggy user interface. There should be absolutely no reason in this day and age to freeze window drawing and other non-related things when waiting for data to draw spaceships.
This thing was ultimately the one that pushed me away from Eve.
Someone please remind me, are we so poor nerds that we absolutely must work and help MS's products look and work better than they actually are? To help the bottom line of this chair throwing asshat?
Why should we help him and his lame attempts to do business? Why should we help anyone, be it relative, neighbor or company, be successful with MS software? Because of money? Are we that poor?
I agree. Going through same maps isn't bad in itself but what I also meant by reseting was that enemies killed once already are brought back. Spawning enemies out of nothing without good explanation is bad and I don't easily forgive if a game does that.
I think a game is spending its replaying value beforehand when its story forces player to use same maps multiple times. More so if also the monsters are there again.
Like your friend, I'd probably quit it, too. If game is designed to force player restart then the game world should go on and not reset when restarting. Otherwise it feels like a cheap trick to force same content again instead of making effort to create continuous story.
As long as it doesn't create manure, I'm all for it. I hate manure.
So what if it sucks us all, we're going to die anyway. What are you afraid of? At least it'd be much more spectacular than the ordinary death awaiting most of us. I'd choose Death by A Black Hole at level 55 over Ripe Old Age anyday.
OpenGL: who can, code. Who can't, whine. I've played quite a few OpenGL supporting games and I've nothing to complain about their graphics.
Finally! No more new DirectX versions ever because _this_time_ it's done right. Uh-huh, suure...
Why un-American? Millions of Americans support Wal-Mart's style by shopping there and because those shoppers are the large middle-class group, the stuff most of America is made of, isn't it the best mark of approval of American style business making a company could hope for?
To me, a brand can't get much more American than Wal-Mart. Just because some things suck or seem wrong, doesn't mean they are un-American. Nothing is perfect, not even Wal-Mart/America.
It's ok. Some people read their Weekly Taboo Words lists. They can then rev up to righteous outrage mode whenever one of those no-no words is mentioned. They can't do other than that, only parrot latest memes and feel they belong in some group.
Mob/herd mentality at its finest, I'm so proud of them. They showcase how year 2000 is another 2000 years away from when human mind will be as developed as our current technology. We don't live in trees anymore but we're still half monkeys, pushing patches of fur here and there.
So don't feel bad if some people label your posts flamebait or troll. They're trying their best to be useful parts of their communities, like we all do.
Another banana, anyone?
Not anymore. I tell them to buy a mac or install ubuntu or anything except Vista because I'm not helping with Vista. They can still buy it but I'll let them suffer for it.