One of the things that some people have noted, that in a modern city setting having 'real advertisements' will actually improve immersion. As the developers have stated, it is an additional and optional revenue stream that will go to development.
They actually had a recent costume/emote pack for Valentine's Day with wedding themed costumes. I bought it for me and a friend... and found out that all of those purchases later that it advanced the addition of the new Villain Epic Archetype by three or four months.
So I'll be leaving this on and probably actually checking out the advertisements occasionally to help out NCSoft. I like my game being improved even faster.
I think the thing is, if it's their field of expertise, they'd keep their eyes open on what is going on by other people in that field and approach someone far earlier about their concerns.
I would bet this is a case where multiple people were working on a similiar problem with similiar solutions.
In this case, I do not believe the judge should allow for immediate cessation of import and it's definitely over the top ammounts of money. I'm pretty sure Sony hasn't made that much money off of Blue-Ray technology.
But I will admit that I only buy movies at my local grocery store when they hit about $20 (if not less.) Heck, I've got a bunch of movies that I've bought at that price point. But new movies for $40?
You aren't trying to demand worth from your household objects from everyone that even glances at them. I have no problem with taxing Intellectual Properites that people are trying to make a mint out of.
"lifetime income to artists who recorded hits in their late teens or early twenties, he said."????
When does everyone else get to have lifetime income too? And this only includes productions that were recorded way back when. There is nothing stopping said artist from re-recording a newer version of that hit song (best of...) that will have the same copyright protections.
Why do artists and government officials think that Copyright means 'money for forever?'
So they are still there, they just aren't the primary controllers any more. They are a little hard to use in some games, but many games use them to great affect.
Other's use them for crappy camera controls, which is a pain.
I've been following this pretty closely. My Ex and I have been discussing it and we feel that Hillary Clinton is the best choice. Not because she's the most liberal on technology choices, but that she's the best 'leader' for us at this point.
Obama may be inspiring to some people, but several of the steps he's taken and way he's brought up have really worried us.
He was the one that tried to make it a 'racial issue' and then tried to play nice on that. His wife's demand that he only run this once and the fact that he said that he was letting his advisors run things, not telling them what to do was very worrying.
Then there is his voting record where he has been remarkably wishy-washy in the middle or essentially abstaining from many choice.
So that paints me a picture where he's not fully his own man and is letting his political machine be in charge.
Compare that to Hillary, who not only has her own political carreer, but has experience with the Presidential office as the partner of the Bill and Hillary political team. Who failed to get a national health care plan passed a decade ago... when we needed it. And because I believe we are going to need a fairly tough-minded person to make some hard choices... and that is going to be Hillary Clinton.
This must be another one of those ploys to show how 'desperate' the plight of the Recording Industry is, while aiming to just keep the fines at a higher level. More of that 'if you lie louder, more people will believe you no matter how unbelievable it is.'
Idiots. It needs to be going the other way, where you get a $5 ticket per CD that the offender has illegally downloaded if there is no proof of profiting off the sale of that music.
No, this is not a knee-jerk reaction to the silliness of the war on drugs. This is asking "Why the hell are people reducing the effect of all cocaine derived **//medicines//**???" These pain relievers are an important part of many people's lives to mitigate and control pain.
"I'm sorry, Doctor. I've been immunized to that basic pain medication you want to give me."
People are crazy.
Just a bit down on the future, aren't they?
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New York will be under water, owned for foreigners and be infested with alligators with huge advertisements covering entire buildings with lights.
I don't think we can really 'predict' the future, of course. We might have truly artificial intelligence, brain-machine interfaces and very advanced cybernetics along with genetic engineering *really* advancing. Nuclear power is going to be really used and not just feared... and we'll have new problems that we can only dimly see like losses of personal freedoms due to corporate greed, an out of touch government and seemingly out of control costs.
Yes, you can actually require them to *equally* provide access to several browsers or even just a small applet that gives you a choice of different browsers to download.
Isn't that what Europe did with Windows Media Player? I was under the impression that Real Player was also installed.
That just puts off the 'crackdown' a few years while clothing it in respectability. They get this law passed, then they lobby for a new head of the Canadian enforcement division because he's 'not doing his job' and then they try to go after people at their homes to protect their racketeering business scheme.
What use is an electronic 'copy' of a song that you haven't listened to in years? That you haven't even backed up so could go away with your hard drive when (not if!) it fails. According to the *AAs, that file immediately makes you as horrible a criminal as a full illegal recording company selling full fakes.
SWG immediately failed my "Star Wars Geek" criteria when one of the starting classes was medic, something that not *one* of the main characters was within any of the movies. It did not have mainstays of the West End game archetypes like noble.
Then it failed the 'fun combat' system, when the tutorial failed by having the 'combat NPC' have to kill himself, as you couldn't.
Then it utterly failed by having my beginning character run out into the wilderness and thrown my body in front of womprat to be killed easily.
If they had reskinned the animations and attacks with "bow" and "Sword" it would have been a crappy fantasy MMO too.
I can't believe the idiocy. How can anyone in the world tell the difference between just viewing the web page and viewing the 'source' of it? It's derivative in that it requires the browser to read the whole thing, even the parts that are trying to hide. What morons...
Actually, I think save-games need to be carefully considered for the genre and game design.
In NWN2, there is an auto-save ability, but it's dumber than a rock. It has no concept of auto-saving per 'module' which it really should, so that the module-designer can create regular save-points.
Other games ask to save (and allow you to rename when needed, but that can be irritating and immersion breaking. So I don't think there's a be-all end-all solution. You've got to factor what can work with how irritating it can be to the player.
So, using their bad statistics... we would all have been fat hundreds if not thousands of years ago, because our modern diet and sedentary life/work-style has nothing to do with modern obesity.
Though I will admit that exercising works best as a social activity, rather than trying to pit your lone willpower against aches and uncomfortable exercising. Exercising is also pretty boring and doesn't stimulate our minds.
I'd say that's my personal problem with trying to exercise is that I get too easily distracted by things that are interesting.
If you hired a security company to burglar proof your home and were not present for the installation of land mines then you might have a case.
This is not as ludicrous as it seems. If Sony was sold on a 'non-interfering invisible DRM tool that will allow them to protect their IP with no customer hassles' their lawyers could have the DRM company for lunch. Root-kits may not have been mentioned other than as 'technical jargon'.
You know, if there were standardized laws, punishments and a fedarally approved 'police task force' charged with upholding those civil laws, the RIAA and MPAA would be in a lot less trouble.
But standardizing single-use 'civil theft' to something in the range of a traffic ticket would destroy their cash-cow and the fact that people are stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the industry.
Right now the 'fines' are so ludicrous that it isn't funny. It needs to be a fine that people *can* pay that gets money to the IP holders. All it is now is a way to totally destroy someone fiscally with punitive reparations.
This is terribly incorrect. There is quite a bit of 'story' and 'character' in City of Heroes. Quite a bit of it is only in the form of the story arcs that character play through, but there were two books and two comic series.
Statesman is not just Superman with a different outfit. For one thing, he started out a dying, desperate criminal mastermind plundering across post-WWI for magical artifacts to cure him of being exposed to mustard gas in World War I.
Just because you might not be familiar with their IP, doesn't mean there isn't something interesting to use.
The "world" of City of Heroes is very interesting and worth of expanding onto the big-screen, in my opinion.
No, it has the documentation on the limited warranty, IIRC. The EULA (like most software license agreements) is notably only available when you try to set up the software. I do believe it might be available on their web page if you don't have that screen on your page anymore.
Though I doubt the actual first time read EULA text was garbled like that. Text garbling is usually because of viruses in resident memory. And I haven't heard of any manufacturer sending out viruses on their OEM hardware in years.
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One of the things that some people have noted, that in a modern city setting having 'real advertisements' will actually improve immersion. As the developers have stated, it is an additional and optional revenue stream that will go to development.
They actually had a recent costume/emote pack for Valentine's Day with wedding themed costumes. I bought it for me and a friend... and found out that all of those purchases later that it advanced the addition of the new Villain Epic Archetype by three or four months.
So I'll be leaving this on and probably actually checking out the advertisements occasionally to help out NCSoft. I like my game being improved even faster.
I think the thing is, if it's their field of expertise, they'd keep their eyes open on what is going on by other people in that field and approach someone far earlier about their concerns.
I would bet this is a case where multiple people were working on a similiar problem with similiar solutions.
In this case, I do not believe the judge should allow for immediate cessation of import and it's definitely over the top ammounts of money. I'm pretty sure Sony hasn't made that much money off of Blue-Ray technology.
None of the above?
But I will admit that I only buy movies at my local grocery store when they hit about $20 (if not less.) Heck, I've got a bunch of movies that I've bought at that price point. But new movies for $40?
I can wait.
You aren't trying to demand worth from your household objects from everyone that even glances at them. I have no problem with taxing Intellectual Properites that people are trying to make a mint out of.
"lifetime income to artists who recorded hits in their late teens or early twenties, he said."????
When does everyone else get to have lifetime income too? And this only includes productions that were recorded way back when. There is nothing stopping said artist from re-recording a newer version of that hit song (best of...) that will have the same copyright protections.
Why do artists and government officials think that Copyright means 'money for forever?'
So they are still there, they just aren't the primary controllers any more. They are a little hard to use in some games, but many games use them to great affect.
Other's use them for crappy camera controls, which is a pain.
I've been following this pretty closely. My Ex and I have been discussing it and we feel that Hillary Clinton is the best choice. Not because she's the most liberal on technology choices, but that she's the best 'leader' for us at this point.
Obama may be inspiring to some people, but several of the steps he's taken and way he's brought up have really worried us.
He was the one that tried to make it a 'racial issue' and then tried to play nice on that. His wife's demand that he only run this once and the fact that he said that he was letting his advisors run things, not telling them what to do was very worrying.
Then there is his voting record where he has been remarkably wishy-washy in the middle or essentially abstaining from many choice.
So that paints me a picture where he's not fully his own man and is letting his political machine be in charge.
Compare that to Hillary, who not only has her own political carreer, but has experience with the Presidential office as the partner of the Bill and Hillary political team. Who failed to get a national health care plan passed a decade ago... when we needed it. And because I believe we are going to need a fairly tough-minded person to make some hard choices... and that is going to be Hillary Clinton.
This must be another one of those ploys to show how 'desperate' the plight of the Recording Industry is, while aiming to just keep the fines at a higher level. More of that 'if you lie louder, more people will believe you no matter how unbelievable it is.'
Idiots. It needs to be going the other way, where you get a $5 ticket per CD that the offender has illegally downloaded if there is no proof of profiting off the sale of that music.
MACH 8 is, I believe, more than fast enough to shoot down low flying spy satellites.
Looks like we are going to have a battle in space, cluttering up everything.
No, this is not a knee-jerk reaction to the silliness of the war on drugs. This is asking "Why the hell are people reducing the effect of all cocaine derived **//medicines//**???" These pain relievers are an important part of many people's lives to mitigate and control pain.
"I'm sorry, Doctor. I've been immunized to that basic pain medication you want to give me."
People are crazy.
New York will be under water, owned for foreigners and be infested with alligators with huge advertisements covering entire buildings with lights.
I don't think we can really 'predict' the future, of course. We might have truly artificial intelligence, brain-machine interfaces and very advanced cybernetics along with genetic engineering *really* advancing. Nuclear power is going to be really used and not just feared... and we'll have new problems that we can only dimly see like losses of personal freedoms due to corporate greed, an out of touch government and seemingly out of control costs.
Yes, you can actually require them to *equally* provide access to several browsers or even just a small applet that gives you a choice of different browsers to download.
Isn't that what Europe did with Windows Media Player? I was under the impression that Real Player was also installed.
That just puts off the 'crackdown' a few years while clothing it in respectability. They get this law passed, then they lobby for a new head of the Canadian enforcement division because he's 'not doing his job' and then they try to go after people at their homes to protect their racketeering business scheme.
What use is an electronic 'copy' of a song that you haven't listened to in years? That you haven't even backed up so could go away with your hard drive when (not if!) it fails. According to the *AAs, that file immediately makes you as horrible a criminal as a full illegal recording company selling full fakes.
Now "Federal Government requiring NY State to use non-state certified electronic voting machines" would be a lot more accurate.
I actually felt more heroic after the 'great nerf bat' of GDN and ED, but that was because it was no longer a simple curb-stomp-fest.
Heroes are meant to be challenged, not unassailable gods with perfect morals.
SWG immediately failed my "Star Wars Geek" criteria when one of the starting classes was medic, something that not *one* of the main characters was within any of the movies. It did not have mainstays of the West End game archetypes like noble.
Then it failed the 'fun combat' system, when the tutorial failed by having the 'combat NPC' have to kill himself, as you couldn't.
Then it utterly failed by having my beginning character run out into the wilderness and thrown my body in front of womprat to be killed easily.
If they had reskinned the animations and attacks with "bow" and "Sword" it would have been a crappy fantasy MMO too.
I can't believe the idiocy. How can anyone in the world tell the difference between just viewing the web page and viewing the 'source' of it? It's derivative in that it requires the browser to read the whole thing, even the parts that are trying to hide. What morons...
Actually, I think save-games need to be carefully considered for the genre and game design.
In NWN2, there is an auto-save ability, but it's dumber than a rock. It has no concept of auto-saving per 'module' which it really should, so that the module-designer can create regular save-points.
Other games ask to save (and allow you to rename when needed, but that can be irritating and immersion breaking. So I don't think there's a be-all end-all solution. You've got to factor what can work with how irritating it can be to the player.
Heh, I wondered when someone would bring that up.
Yesterday, I bought Spider-Man II and another movie I'd been wanting on DVD... for $5 apiece at my grocery store.
Yet music CDs of popular music even just a few years ago isn't priced as competitively for some reason. And CDs are cheaper to make.
So, using their bad statistics... we would all have been fat hundreds if not thousands of years ago, because our modern diet and sedentary life/work-style has nothing to do with modern obesity.
Though I will admit that exercising works best as a social activity, rather than trying to pit your lone willpower against aches and uncomfortable exercising. Exercising is also pretty boring and doesn't stimulate our minds.
I'd say that's my personal problem with trying to exercise is that I get too easily distracted by things that are interesting.
If you hired a security company to burglar proof your home and were not present for the installation of land mines then you might have a case.
This is not as ludicrous as it seems. If Sony was sold on a 'non-interfering invisible DRM tool that will allow them to protect their IP with no customer hassles' their lawyers could have the DRM company for lunch. Root-kits may not have been mentioned other than as 'technical jargon'.
Interesting anyways.
You know, if there were standardized laws, punishments and a fedarally approved 'police task force' charged with upholding those civil laws, the RIAA and MPAA would be in a lot less trouble.
But standardizing single-use 'civil theft' to something in the range of a traffic ticket would destroy their cash-cow and the fact that people are stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the industry.
Right now the 'fines' are so ludicrous that it isn't funny. It needs to be a fine that people *can* pay that gets money to the IP holders. All it is now is a way to totally destroy someone fiscally with punitive reparations.
These are just optional Rules in the d20 SRD (System Resource Document). I know I read them as optional rules in multiple places.
They consider this the 'dumbed-down' rules, essentially.
And yes, these are freely available for download. You can play with everything but the actual critters for totally free.
This is terribly incorrect. There is quite a bit of 'story' and 'character' in City of Heroes. Quite a bit of it is only in the form of the story arcs that character play through, but there were two books and two comic series.
Statesman is not just Superman with a different outfit. For one thing, he started out a dying, desperate criminal mastermind plundering across post-WWI for magical artifacts to cure him of being exposed to mustard gas in World War I.
Just because you might not be familiar with their IP, doesn't mean there isn't something interesting to use.
The "world" of City of Heroes is very interesting and worth of expanding onto the big-screen, in my opinion.
No, it has the documentation on the limited warranty, IIRC. The EULA (like most software license agreements) is notably only available when you try to set up the software. I do believe it might be available on their web page if you don't have that screen on your page anymore.
Though I doubt the actual first time read EULA text was garbled like that. Text garbling is usually because of viruses in resident memory. And I haven't heard of any manufacturer sending out viruses on their OEM hardware in years.