America has never been a democracy. It's a representative republic. The founding fathers defined democracy as "mob rule" and the majority were very strongly opposed to a true democracy. Are you from outside the US? Or did you just fail American History 101?
Watch the first couple seasons. They do call people and have people do research (and often times do a lot of math on their own beforehand). The problem is that A) doing match and research is boring for television and B) it pretty much gives away the ending before they've even built anything.
A lot of times they already know for an absolute fact what is going to happen, either because it's blatantly obvious to anyone with a minimal physics background (i.e. they paid attention in high school) or because it actually did happen to a real person with witnesses. But the fun part of the show is them building shit and blowing shit up, and the "reveal" of the result near the end of the segment.
The show is cut the way it is because if it weren't it wouldn't be nearly as interesting or fun. I honestly believe the show would not have been nearly as successful if it was just them doing research and math and the audience knowing the result way ahead of time before they even built anything.
A successful show that gets people INTERESTED in science or at least questioning the world around them is better than a show that has real "hard" science/research/math and gets canceled in one season.
800x600 has been available in Diablo 2 since 1.0. Long before the expansion. Hell, I was playing in 800x600 in the barbarian stress test demo before the game even came out.
It's not "getting away with it". If they didn't patent it, someone else would, and would attempt to get royalties from them. They'd probably win the case in the end due to prior art, but it's easier to simply file the patent and not worry about pay the legal fees to begin with.
I don't believe any of this story. People with no affiliation with hippies wear tie-dye shirts all the time and no one ever pays any attention to it. Even fat middle-class tourists wear tie-dye. It hasn't had any symbolism associated with it since like 1985.
I think you're missing an important gameplay point. You actually have to KILL mobs to obtain health orbs while in combat. A lot of times in Diablo/Diablo 2 on the harder difficulties (and especially hardcore in D2) often times when faces with extremely dangerous packs of enemies or difficult bosses, you'd have to town portal REPEATEDLY to restock on potions, before a single monster had fallen. Admittedly, this was pretty bad game design. It pulled you out of the action and felt "cheesy".
The obvious answer is to tune difficult groups of monsters and bosses with this in mind (or provide alternate sources of healing through things like abilities, life leech items, or secondary mechanics to drop health orbs BEFORE an enemy or set of enemies dies), but it's still a considerably bigger change than simply "unlinking healing items from inventory".
Overall, I do think it's a positive change, I just think you're oversimplifying it.
It's a kid's movie. As in 6-12. They will ask their mom if they can see it because it's Star Wars, and their moms will only read reviews to check if it's too violent or contains swearing. Not to see if it actually has a plot or well written dialog.
They created the no-CD patches to coincide with their "Blizzard Account" system which allows you to buy their games online and then download them. I'm assuming they wanted a consistent platform for all their users, and it doesn't exactly make sense to have someone purchase and download a game and then have to wait for the CD to arrive in the mail just to start it up.
Additionally, if you already own the game, you can enter your CD key on the site to gain the ability to download them directly from Blizzard.
If I could somehow mod your post to +10 and move it to the top of the page directly under the summary, I would, because this is the only post I've seen (so far!) that understands and properly explains what the ruling means.
It doesn't help that the movie is being advertised as "FROM THE DIRECTOR OF PAN'S LABYRINTH" ignoring the fact that he was also the director of Hellboy 1.
Really? Dyslexia is keeping you from hitting shift at the start of each sentence? From using a spell checker, or at least being able to tell homonyms apart?
And dyslexia or not, if you continue to have such poor grammar and spelling and misuse of words, people will continue to ignore you, dismissing you out of hand, and not even see the point you're trying to get across. I never made any statement about whether your points were invalid or not.
They're called enemy combatants because they fail, at a minimum, two requirements of the Geneva convention to have its rules apply to them (and thus be considered PoW's):
- that of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance (there are limited exceptions to this among countries who observe the 1977 Protocol I) - that of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.
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Why do people insist on making electric cars ugly as hell?
America has never been a democracy. It's a representative republic. The founding fathers defined democracy as "mob rule" and the majority were very strongly opposed to a true democracy. Are you from outside the US? Or did you just fail American History 101?
WHOOOSH!
That was the sound of a Vogon constructor fleet flying over your head. And you just missed them.
Just like there's no difference between Sunnis and Shiites from here in the USA, right? So we should just lump them together and treat them the same.
Watch the first couple seasons. They do call people and have people do research (and often times do a lot of math on their own beforehand). The problem is that A) doing match and research is boring for television and B) it pretty much gives away the ending before they've even built anything.
A lot of times they already know for an absolute fact what is going to happen, either because it's blatantly obvious to anyone with a minimal physics background (i.e. they paid attention in high school) or because it actually did happen to a real person with witnesses. But the fun part of the show is them building shit and blowing shit up, and the "reveal" of the result near the end of the segment.
The show is cut the way it is because if it weren't it wouldn't be nearly as interesting or fun. I honestly believe the show would not have been nearly as successful if it was just them doing research and math and the audience knowing the result way ahead of time before they even built anything.
A successful show that gets people INTERESTED in science or at least questioning the world around them is better than a show that has real "hard" science/research/math and gets canceled in one season.
800x600 has been available in Diablo 2 since 1.0. Long before the expansion. Hell, I was playing in 800x600 in the barbarian stress test demo before the game even came out.
It's not "getting away with it". If they didn't patent it, someone else would, and would attempt to get royalties from them. They'd probably win the case in the end due to prior art, but it's easier to simply file the patent and not worry about pay the legal fees to begin with.
I don't believe any of this story. People with no affiliation with hippies wear tie-dye shirts all the time and no one ever pays any attention to it. Even fat middle-class tourists wear tie-dye. It hasn't had any symbolism associated with it since like 1985.
Your post is less funny than its parent post.
I'm glad I'm not in your guild. I would seriously gquit if people did that every week.
I was going to say "more like during class" and then I remembered that there wasn't wireless internet in every class room back then.
So did you just post twice on different accounts, or is this a new slashdot meme? (Look at the post directly above yours.)
I think you're missing an important gameplay point. You actually have to KILL mobs to obtain health orbs while in combat. A lot of times in Diablo/Diablo 2 on the harder difficulties (and especially hardcore in D2) often times when faces with extremely dangerous packs of enemies or difficult bosses, you'd have to town portal REPEATEDLY to restock on potions, before a single monster had fallen. Admittedly, this was pretty bad game design. It pulled you out of the action and felt "cheesy".
The obvious answer is to tune difficult groups of monsters and bosses with this in mind (or provide alternate sources of healing through things like abilities, life leech items, or secondary mechanics to drop health orbs BEFORE an enemy or set of enemies dies), but it's still a considerably bigger change than simply "unlinking healing items from inventory".
Overall, I do think it's a positive change, I just think you're oversimplifying it.
A lot of people even use cracks on games they legitimately purchased just to get rid of that crap.
It's a kid's movie. As in 6-12. They will ask their mom if they can see it because it's Star Wars, and their moms will only read reviews to check if it's too violent or contains swearing. Not to see if it actually has a plot or well written dialog.
They created the no-CD patches to coincide with their "Blizzard Account" system which allows you to buy their games online and then download them. I'm assuming they wanted a consistent platform for all their users, and it doesn't exactly make sense to have someone purchase and download a game and then have to wait for the CD to arrive in the mail just to start it up.
Additionally, if you already own the game, you can enter your CD key on the site to gain the ability to download them directly from Blizzard.
Hrm.... only about 200 total days (4,800 hours) /played in WoW so far. I got some more work to do.
If I could somehow mod your post to +10 and move it to the top of the page directly under the summary, I would, because this is the only post I've seen (so far!) that understands and properly explains what the ruling means.
It doesn't help that the movie is being advertised as "FROM THE DIRECTOR OF PAN'S LABYRINTH" ignoring the fact that he was also the director of Hellboy 1.
Really? Dyslexia is keeping you from hitting shift at the start of each sentence? From using a spell checker, or at least being able to tell homonyms apart?
And dyslexia or not, if you continue to have such poor grammar and spelling and misuse of words, people will continue to ignore you, dismissing you out of hand, and not even see the point you're trying to get across. I never made any statement about whether your points were invalid or not.
If you learned to spell properly people might take you more seriously.
Daikatana HAD multiplayer.
You clearly don't even know what "tier 1" means.
You forgot about the mathematicians before the physicists and the philosophers before that.
They're called enemy combatants because they fail, at a minimum, two requirements of the Geneva convention to have its rules apply to them (and thus be considered PoW's):
- that of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance (there are limited exceptions to this among countries who observe the 1977 Protocol I)
- that of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.