FWIW, I just fired up my PS3 and refused the 2.01 update (I never played the game online anyways) and no advertisements. I know the other site is saying that it may not be tied to the update but unless I start seeing them I'll conclude that it is.
So, that settles that. I'm not buying the DLS or accepting the 2.01 update.
I don't think advertising has any impact on ratings unless the nature of the advertisement is mature content and the game is rated for everyone. I haven't seen the ad yet so we'll have to see.
This is only going to work if the ad server is not on Sony's delivery system.
And here I was planning to buy the DLC this week. I'm seriously reconsidering that idea.:(
I think if we want to protest this, refuse to buy the expansion release. Unfortunately the reality is you'll likely end up in the minority as most of the sheeple out there don't care enough to fight this.
I'll give Microsoft a B for effort. If they were really going to go head to head with Apple on high-class locations they would have put this store in the Biltmore next to Apple's flagship store in Phoenix. By going with Fashion Square mall they're only targeting the clueless upper middle class and rich wannabes. Then again that's probably the crowd buying Zunes anyways. [cough snicker].
Ok, smart ass, if "Piracy is the result of human nature: when faced with the option of getting something for free or paying for it, and in the absence of any significant risks, you don't need complex economic studies to show you that most people will opt for the free route." then why has Stardock been consistently improving sales since the early nineties. They have NEVER used copy protection or DRM. They make solid products that people want to buy and provided added value elements to purchasers.
Nintendo has a solid release formula that they have followed for 30 years. The only variation has been the introduction of the DS as an experimental platform. It ended up being so successful that it really demanded they drop the GBA mid life cycle. I keep a running review of release dates here over on the Game Zero magazine site.
Someone needs a history book me thinks. Wasn't it the total ban of all types of weapons in feudal China/Japan that led to the development of Martial Arts?
I used this once to track down which server room a system was located in and while it's not perfect for all occasions, it might help.
Ok, first if you can get an IP for the device, perform a traceroute from 3 or 4 separate sites. Identify it's Gateway if possible, also if find see if you can determine from the traceroutes if it has a common parent node that it's traffic is going through.
Once you've found the most common system talking to it, go to that system and perform ping tests to other systems where you know their physical location in proximity to the system your at, and are only 1 hop away (if possible). The key here is to make sure that all of your samples share as much of the same route as possible to minimize signal noise in your data set you're going to build.
See if you can develop a correlation between ping times and amount of network cable to your sample set. Compare that data to the ping times on your mystery device and you *potentially* have a physical range now in hand to perform your search.
I'll be the first to admit that this approach has limited success based on how your infrastructure is built, but it might help.
88% though?!? That's staggering, I have a hard time believing that ethics in the IT industry are so poor to validate a number that large? I want to know details about who they surveyed to qualify that number.
I know that the sociopath mentality is the way of the road at the top of some parts of corporate American (especially in the energy industry it would seem), and I wouldn't be surprised to see this number if it related to executives based on the nightly news, but in my IT circles we look on that behavior with scorn rather than having envy to aspire to it. And frankly I just don't see this type of thinking any place within the company I currently work for, top to bottom.
This is really an amazing report. Frankly it makes me fearful at what type of reprise knee jerk reaction management types are going to take based on this story.
While I was crude in my post, I fail to see where I was wrong. I know this flies in the face of everyone who is trying to kiss the ass of the indie scene right now, but I could really give a damn about that.
Braid is a shitty Euro style platform game vis-a-vis late 80's/early 90's (James Pond?!?) using a gimmick done better by someone else. The only thing original about this game is the music, which was pretty good.
Full site block robots.txt files limit the sites use, and it still doesn't account for the huge gap from 1994-1997 when they really kicked into gear their archival efforts.
On another note, if these guys were going to do this project seriously, they would be tracking down Meridian 59 players. That's the first graphical MMO to feature a real time online wedding between two U.S. players from each coast. Meridian 59 always seems to get lost in the mix, and it's a shame because it was pretty cool for the time.
You know Firewire 800 where Windows caps it at 100MB, and if you hack your registry to override it you risk blowing out any FW400 and under devices that you connect to the port...
Or would it be like USB 2.0 that actually only get's about 7-9MB throughput in practice?
Yes, but the IBM project that this is related to is more about Virtual Worlds in general. The SL effort is low-hanging fruit because they already have a sizable commitment to both SL and OpenSim running internally, but the end goal is to develop a protocol for all Virtual Worlds to recognize.
The reality is far from what the submitter is claiming. Open sim has always used the SL client for access, and there are no plans for anytime in the future to allow people to transfer content on/off the SL grid to an Open Sim system.
The IBM test involved a single OpenSim setup where bridge software IBM is working (with Sun) allowed a person to exit SL, and simultaneously login to a OpenSim system. NOTHING was transfered, the avatar shows up in OpenSim in Ruth form.
Linden Labs has clarified that this was a proof of concept test, and that they would like to expand it in the future, but those goals are a good bit off.
What IBM and Sun are working on is a handshake/system protocol for a transient user ID which online systems will recognize and auto negotiate log-in, and if you don't have an account, make you a default account on the new system. eg, you cross over from SL to WOW and if you don't have a WOW account, you start out in a default configuration based on some personality preferences you have preset.
Calm down people, nothing to see here, move along.
Actually I played with all of my toys quite a bit and some of them got destroyed in the process. That's not the point, and as others have already countered... These are not toys. This is an official corporate archive of products.
These are effectively one of a kind items for their intended purpose so you would think that extra care would be taken with them in this context.
The oils on human skin are quite destructive. Case in point, don't wash your hands for part of the day and then pick up any magazine and smudge your thumb across a page with black ink. The soy/vegetable based inks used in most printing will breakdown and smear from the contact. There is no repair for this kind of damage.
What Lego has here is more the exception to the rule.
And on a separate note, am I the only one here horrified to see these people handling these boxes with their bare hands. For crying out loud, I hope they at least made that guy wash his hands first before letting him finger everything up.
13-17 for the teen grid which from what I here is a total wasteland of kids with no money running around griefing each other... atleast that's what my kids tell me about it.
I tried to encourage them to build and their response was "why bother, nobody has money to buy anything."
Anyways, I would think NASA would wants teenagers playing in this MMO.
Extra doh, that was supposed to be Sprite... which makes more since with the beotch. Damn'it! Yet again I've been lulled into lazy type-o's by the spellchecker.
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FWIW, I just fired up my PS3 and refused the 2.01 update (I never played the game online anyways) and no advertisements. I know the other site is saying that it may not be tied to the update but unless I start seeing them I'll conclude that it is.
So, that settles that. I'm not buying the DLS or accepting the 2.01 update.
Yeah, but I believe you have a limited time to request a chargeback don't you?
I don't think advertising has any impact on ratings unless the nature of the advertisement is mature content and the game is rated for everyone. I haven't seen the ad yet so we'll have to see.
This is only going to work if the ad server is not on Sony's delivery system.
And here I was planning to buy the DLC this week. I'm seriously reconsidering that idea. :(
I think if we want to protest this, refuse to buy the expansion release. Unfortunately the reality is you'll likely end up in the minority as most of the sheeple out there don't care enough to fight this.
Troll?!? Seriously? If you lived here you would have marked that comment insightful! Sheesh.
I'll give Microsoft a B for effort. If they were really going to go head to head with Apple on high-class locations they would have put this store in the Biltmore next to Apple's flagship store in Phoenix. By going with Fashion Square mall they're only targeting the clueless upper middle class and rich wannabes. Then again that's probably the crowd buying Zunes anyways. [cough snicker].
That's about as dead simple to use as it gets.
Ok, smart ass, if "Piracy is the result of human nature: when faced with the option of getting something for free or paying for it, and in the absence of any significant risks, you don't need complex economic studies to show you that most people will opt for the free route." then why has Stardock been consistently improving sales since the early nineties. They have NEVER used copy protection or DRM. They make solid products that people want to buy and provided added value elements to purchasers.
Of course, how can this be considered mobile without Palm listed. Pffft!
Nintendo has a solid release formula that they have followed for 30 years. The only variation has been the introduction of the DS as an experimental platform. It ended up being so successful that it really demanded they drop the GBA mid life cycle. I keep a running review of release dates here over on the Game Zero magazine site.
They might not have a penny to them. That has no relation to the award made by the court.
Someone needs a history book me thinks. Wasn't it the total ban of all types of weapons in feudal China/Japan that led to the development of Martial Arts?
God what f'tards.
I used this once to track down which server room a system was located in and while it's not perfect for all occasions, it might help.
Ok, first if you can get an IP for the device, perform a traceroute from 3 or 4 separate sites. Identify it's Gateway if possible, also if find see if you can determine from the traceroutes if it has a common parent node that it's traffic is going through.
Once you've found the most common system talking to it, go to that system and perform ping tests to other systems where you know their physical location in proximity to the system your at, and are only 1 hop away (if possible). The key here is to make sure that all of your samples share as much of the same route as possible to minimize signal noise in your data set you're going to build.
See if you can develop a correlation between ping times and amount of network cable to your sample set. Compare that data to the ping times on your mystery device and you *potentially* have a physical range now in hand to perform your search.
I'll be the first to admit that this approach has limited success based on how your infrastructure is built, but it might help.
88% though?!? That's staggering, I have a hard time believing that ethics in the IT industry are so poor to validate a number that large? I want to know details about who they surveyed to qualify that number.
I know that the sociopath mentality is the way of the road at the top of some parts of corporate American (especially in the energy industry it would seem), and I wouldn't be surprised to see this number if it related to executives based on the nightly news, but in my IT circles we look on that behavior with scorn rather than having envy to aspire to it. And frankly I just don't see this type of thinking any place within the company I currently work for, top to bottom.
This is really an amazing report. Frankly it makes me fearful at what type of reprise knee jerk reaction management types are going to take based on this story.
Sigh...
While I was crude in my post, I fail to see where I was wrong. I know this flies in the face of everyone who is trying to kiss the ass of the indie scene right now, but I could really give a damn about that.
The game is NOT original.
...and it executed it far better IMHO.
Braid is a shitty Euro style platform game vis-a-vis late 80's/early 90's (James Pond?!?) using a gimmick done better by someone else. The only thing original about this game is the music, which was pretty good.
Buzzz... pass.
Full site block robots.txt files limit the sites use, and it still doesn't account for the huge gap from 1994-1997 when they really kicked into gear their archival efforts.
On another note, if these guys were going to do this project seriously, they would be tracking down Meridian 59 players. That's the first graphical MMO to feature a real time online wedding between two U.S. players from each coast. Meridian 59 always seems to get lost in the mix, and it's a shame because it was pretty cool for the time.
You know Firewire 800 where Windows caps it at 100MB, and if you hack your registry to override it you risk blowing out any FW400 and under devices that you connect to the port...
Or would it be like USB 2.0 that actually only get's about 7-9MB throughput in practice?
This should be fun to see.
Yes, but the IBM project that this is related to is more about Virtual Worlds in general. The SL effort is low-hanging fruit because they already have a sizable commitment to both SL and OpenSim running internally, but the end goal is to develop a protocol for all Virtual Worlds to recognize.
Nothing for the common user. I should have been more specific.
The reality is far from what the submitter is claiming. Open sim has always used the SL client for access, and there are no plans for anytime in the future to allow people to transfer content on/off the SL grid to an Open Sim system.
The IBM test involved a single OpenSim setup where bridge software IBM is working (with Sun) allowed a person to exit SL, and simultaneously login to a OpenSim system. NOTHING was transfered, the avatar shows up in OpenSim in Ruth form.
Linden Labs has clarified that this was a proof of concept test, and that they would like to expand it in the future, but those goals are a good bit off.
What IBM and Sun are working on is a handshake/system protocol for a transient user ID which online systems will recognize and auto negotiate log-in, and if you don't have an account, make you a default account on the new system. eg, you cross over from SL to WOW and if you don't have a WOW account, you start out in a default configuration based on some personality preferences you have preset.
Calm down people, nothing to see here, move along.
Actually I played with all of my toys quite a bit and some of them got destroyed in the process. That's not the point, and as others have already countered... These are not toys. This is an official corporate archive of products.
These are effectively one of a kind items for their intended purpose so you would think that extra care would be taken with them in this context.
The oils on human skin are quite destructive. Case in point, don't wash your hands for part of the day and then pick up any magazine and smudge your thumb across a page with black ink. The soy/vegetable based inks used in most printing will breakdown and smear from the contact. There is no repair for this kind of damage.
What Lego has here is more the exception to the rule.
And on a separate note, am I the only one here horrified to see these people handling these boxes with their bare hands. For crying out loud, I hope they at least made that guy wash his hands first before letting him finger everything up.
Sheesh.
18+ for the main grid...
13-17 for the teen grid which from what I here is a total wasteland of kids with no money running around griefing each other... atleast that's what my kids tell me about it.
I tried to encourage them to build and their response was "why bother, nobody has money to buy anything."
Anyways, I would think NASA would wants teenagers playing in this MMO.
Extra doh, that was supposed to be Sprite... which makes more since with the beotch. Damn'it! Yet again I've been lulled into lazy type-o's by the spellchecker.