Re:According to Google News?
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New Mad Max Film
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This should be modded up. This was the first thing I thought about reading this article, there is no Google News in terms of reporting stories. Sure you can mention that they pointed you to the story but saying that something is acording to them is wrong.
It has been said on Slashdot many times that Google should not be held responsible for what it links to (the whole Church of Scientology debate) but it then should also not credit for someone else's reporting. It is only the way it should be that you either always are responsible for links or you never are.
I don't know if anyone else had this problem but I was unable to get to Phoenix.5 using.4. Whenever I clicked the links to the latest Phoenix it sent me to the results of.4 (Oceano) and not.5 (Naples). Incredibly frustrating that they wouldn't let me download the latest Phoenix. I finally simply loaded up Mozilla to get.5 and it worked. Anyone else have the same problem? Anyone know the reason for this problem?
Read the article. From what it said, it appears that those that subscribe to the print version will be given a password so they can read things without having to subscribe to AOL. It just allows AOL users to have something for the extra money they are spending and fixes the money loss that TW Online creates.
Your counter examples are not persuasive. The anti-drug campaigns have been shown to be effective to a degree. As have military recruiting ads. The government is actually at the cutting edge of new advertising with the use of video games. All in all I think the government is doing quite well with advertising.
Microprose no longer exists. It was bought up by Hasbro and then that by Infogrames. They have long since stopped supporting Civ II. After all it came out in 1996. Not many games supported that long after release. Especially since a new sequel, Civ III, just came out last fall.
Usually the Recording Industry doesn't get that much off the concerts. That a lot of times is a deal between the bands and a concert series promoter. So the CDs are it for the RIAA. Which is why the RIAA is so scared - they finally as the middlemen might be cut out of the loop.
Ok I agree with almost everything you said here, except one piece, "It's Ted Turner." Now I am not a fan of CNN (I prefer MSNBC to any of them) but this story was not made because of CNN. It was FOX News. The first few days of the story, CNN and MSNBC didn't even really report it and I appreciated it because while it is a sad story, it is not as important as the ten people that dies in Palestine last night. But it was FOX News running it 24/7 that turned it into a circus. Now they all are carrying it. So like I said, nothing against your points but your fingering the wrong station and the wrong man.
No, actually it is not freaky. Atari has decended down and been purchased, acquired, or something along those lines by Infogrames. Infogrames is a big software player in Europe but has small brand recognition in the States. They figured for marketing that they would be better of using the Atari name and logo in the U.S. where it would be more recognized than Infogrames.
So when Neverwinter Nights was going to be released by Publisher Infogrames, what name did they use? Atari of course. Not freaky. Just a sound business decision for those that have never heard of that particular European company.
For all this argument throughout the page about whether or not oil will run out, that should not be the issue. If we continue our oil dependence, every decade we are going to have to go fight somewhere in the world to protect our oil. First Iraq, then terrorists, next who knows. But the point is, we will have to continue fighting. Reliance on new fuels and fuel efficent products is a step in the right direction away from the policies that put us in direct conflict with terrorists and extremists.
Your right, that mechanics do not go out and throw parties because Craftsmen released a new wrench, but the engineers on the new wrench probably do. Yeah, they don't publish it on the web, but they do go out to the local bar or whatever and celebrate their accomplishment. I am only in college but at my summer internship whenever we finish something big, we take some time off and go out to a bar (they drink, I eat, damn 21 drinking age law). Likewise, finishing finals, I have always gone out with a few friends to celebrate at parties.
So, why does Mozilla deserve a party? Because thousands of people across the globe helped work on the project. There isn't simply just a group of programmers that built it all at some company such as MS (who with a milestone release of IE, I'm sure have a party - hell their marketing department does). Instead everyone that took part wants to party for the work that they helped to contribute. I, myself, have only been using the browser for a few months after switching from Opera. I have not added a piece of code and have contributed no new bugs. So, I will not be celebrating at any of these parties. But, I do understand why those that have contributed would want to party and to them I say congratulations! Thanks for giving us a fantastic browser!
Re:Let me get this...
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Ah see, but the Gaming Industry is different from the Recording and Film Industries in that it grew up with piracy. There has always been computer piracy. Back in the day it was simple to copy floppy disks and all your friends had the game. Game Companies began to come up with ways to combat this from simple methods like "What is the third word in the fourth paragraph on the 25th page" to pinwheels. Eventually many other ways to combat piracy came to be such as the hidden tracks and CD keys. But it has always been a part of the industry and if asked most of the industry will say that it always will be apart of the industry. So the goal is not to stop piracy but to make it hard for the average person and make it more worth their while to simply buy the game legally.
That is a whole different mindset than the Recording and Film industries that take the opinion that all piracy must stop. This is just plain stupid. There never will be a way to stop all piracy. Instead, if you set your prices at a place where it is more cost efficent to buy the movie or CD then spend hours working on it online, then people will buy. But when CDs have reached $16 a pop and DVDs are cheaper to produce than VHS but cost almost $10 as much, yes piracy is going to happen. And in this way it is their own fault. If they simply would realize that some piracy is going to happen and instead focus on making it so that it simply is not a cost efficent way to go, then piracy would go down and they would not be affecting fair use.
CmdrTaco, I know what your saying about annoying popunder advertisements, but this will set a horrible precedent. Websites opening new pages as they load has been around for a while now. Using it for advertising was an obvious and simple idea. How many other things then could be patened? Links?
While, I hate popups and this patent could limit their use, the big picture is that this patent would not be a good thing to hold up.
Yes Hotmail works fine. It is passport that does not. So when you got to your Personal Profile or whatever they call it, you are accessing your Passport data that does not work with Mozilla.
Passport does not work in the non-IE or Netscape environment. I will assume the it is a piece of code they have written to disinclude people based on browser choice since Netscape works and Mozilla does not.
Yeah, the trailer was pretty sweet. Especially since the crowd was so reved up about SW tonight! Showed some action to get attention and then added over some Matrix mystery stuff. It should be an interesting movie.
By the way, SW:AOTC turned out really good. So glad I got tickets to the 12:01 showing. Almost didn't after Episode 1, but Clones was really good. Dialogue still a bit cheesy and there were a few scenes where you were lefting wondering why that happened (Amadalla springing up after being hurt), but the movie itself - excellent.
Ok, I understand that the technology is here and that it is possible. I understand that some people want to know what your working on in your computer or the sites you are visiting for advertising purposes and what not.
What I cannot fathom, is how could anyone purposely write a program to spy into my room, listening to me or watching what I am doing? Doesn't anyone have a conscious anymore? Come on. This is my house, my life, stay the f@#k out!
Downloaded and played it. The game would definitely benefit from either a tutorial or at the very least more active help features at the beginning. The interface is such that you are lost trying to figure things out. I wasted a half hour before realizing that I was getting nothing out of it and was figuring very little out. Seems like a great idea, I just need some sort of documentation to better understand what I am doing right and wrong.
Nice spoilage warning. Of course, the title says it all. In the four coming episodes how bout a simple, "X-Files: Four more to go" or something like that. Even with a spoilage warning, the title gives it a way without reading what you do not want to.
Uh actually, he was right, it is a right-tilted station according to the economy. It is just that the conservative right-wing in the United States is not very conservative when it comes to monetary policy. Supply-side is a liberal idea in terms of macroeconomics, not to mention that it has been Bush II and Reagan to increase spending in the last 40 years more than any other presidents. So much for the people's money.
Millions of people like Google, and will probably pony up $2 each to support it.
The same argument was made for the court fees of Napster. People will pay to defend the system. Well, people didn't pay, the reason they liked it was not only that it was simple but it was free. If Google costs money or losses a court battle, users will just move on.
If you want to know the truth, Sid has had nothing to do with the design of Civ II, SMAC, or Civ III. That's right nothing.
Sure, sure he helped on coming up with ideas and play testing, but he himself did not write a single piece of code. You can't say that he had all that much to do with those games.
Civ II and SMAC (Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri) were designed by Brian Renyolds. In the manual for Civ II, Sid talks about how Brian went to Europe after discussing a sequel and basically wrote the game himself. They made a few changes but the protype that Brian wrote was basically what made the final game. Meanwhile, SMAC had many new innovations and again was designed by Brian not Sid. Colonization, was another TBS game that was under Sid's name that was designed by Brian Renyolds with some work from Sid. But again he wasn't the man doing the work on the game.
During that time period from Civilization I to today, Sid has instead worked on the following game: Covert Action CPU Bach Sid Meier's Gettysburg! (And Antitem!) Sid Meier's SimGolf
Cover Action was an espionage action game that failed according to Sid because it had too many new innovative ideas in it to make it all work. CPU Bach was really a program that created Bach style music with a few parameters that you set. An amazing feet. Gettysburg was an early tatical warfare game in RT. Was given tons of awards and would lead indirectly to the Total War games. SimGolf has yet to come out but it will basically be a Maxis game involving a golf course, nothing original but something he wanted to do.
So there you go. In the last ten years Sid has worked on four projects where he actually designed the game. Of those three were very innovative, two to the point where they had little interest. If that is isn't enough new for you then I don't know what else can satisfy you. Oh and just to let you know, Sid hasn't done Civ3 either. Again it is just a marketing stunt, Sid has been too busy on SimGolf.
Re:A question for those in the know about Civ III
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Look at any screen shot and you will realize you are not right. Yes SMAC had contoured maps, but Civ 3 has returned to flat everything with pictures of hills and mountains. Some have said this is a downgrade but whatever it is, the map is definitely not contored.
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This should be modded up. This was the first thing I thought about reading this article, there is no Google News in terms of reporting stories. Sure you can mention that they pointed you to the story but saying that something is acording to them is wrong.
It has been said on Slashdot many times that Google should not be held responsible for what it links to (the whole Church of Scientology debate) but it then should also not credit for someone else's reporting. It is only the way it should be that you either always are responsible for links or you never are.
I don't know if anyone else had this problem but I was unable to get to Phoenix .5 using .4. Whenever I clicked the links to the latest Phoenix it sent me to the results of .4 (Oceano) and not .5 (Naples). Incredibly frustrating that they wouldn't let me download the latest Phoenix. I finally simply loaded up Mozilla to get .5 and it worked. Anyone else have the same problem? Anyone know the reason for this problem?
From their Terms of Service:
"The Landover Baptist Church is a complete work of fiction. It is a satire/parody."
Of course, as to American Christians, especially Baptists and the entire Religious Right, they are most definitely scary.
Read the article. From what it said, it appears that those that subscribe to the print version will be given a password so they can read things without having to subscribe to AOL. It just allows AOL users to have something for the extra money they are spending and fixes the money loss that TW Online creates.
Your counter examples are not persuasive. The anti-drug campaigns have been shown to be effective to a degree. As have military recruiting ads. The government is actually at the cutting edge of new advertising with the use of video games. All in all I think the government is doing quite well with advertising.
Microprose no longer exists. It was bought up by Hasbro and then that by Infogrames. They have long since stopped supporting Civ II. After all it came out in 1996. Not many games supported that long after release. Especially since a new sequel, Civ III, just came out last fall.
Usually the Recording Industry doesn't get that much off the concerts. That a lot of times is a deal between the bands and a concert series promoter. So the CDs are it for the RIAA. Which is why the RIAA is so scared - they finally as the middlemen might be cut out of the loop.
Ok I agree with almost everything you said here, except one piece, "It's Ted Turner." Now I am not a fan of CNN (I prefer MSNBC to any of them) but this story was not made because of CNN. It was FOX News. The first few days of the story, CNN and MSNBC didn't even really report it and I appreciated it because while it is a sad story, it is not as important as the ten people that dies in Palestine last night. But it was FOX News running it 24/7 that turned it into a circus. Now they all are carrying it. So like I said, nothing against your points but your fingering the wrong station and the wrong man.
Freaky eh?
No, actually it is not freaky. Atari has decended down and been purchased, acquired, or something along those lines by Infogrames. Infogrames is a big software player in Europe but has small brand recognition in the States. They figured for marketing that they would be better of using the Atari name and logo in the U.S. where it would be more recognized than Infogrames.
So when Neverwinter Nights was going to be released by Publisher Infogrames, what name did they use? Atari of course. Not freaky. Just a sound business decision for those that have never heard of that particular European company.
Who decided that? The movie company that is making it?
Sounds a lot like some PR mumbo jumbo to me.
Exactly!
For all this argument throughout the page about whether or not oil will run out, that should not be the issue. If we continue our oil dependence, every decade we are going to have to go fight somewhere in the world to protect our oil. First Iraq, then terrorists, next who knows. But the point is, we will have to continue fighting. Reliance on new fuels and fuel efficent products is a step in the right direction away from the policies that put us in direct conflict with terrorists and extremists.
all Congress-dudes and Pres every 4 years
Last time I checked it was every two years for "Congress-dudes" or as they are more commonly called, Representatives.
I will bite on this one.
Your right, that mechanics do not go out and throw parties because Craftsmen released a new wrench, but the engineers on the new wrench probably do. Yeah, they don't publish it on the web, but they do go out to the local bar or whatever and celebrate their accomplishment. I am only in college but at my summer internship whenever we finish something big, we take some time off and go out to a bar (they drink, I eat, damn 21 drinking age law). Likewise, finishing finals, I have always gone out with a few friends to celebrate at parties.
So, why does Mozilla deserve a party? Because thousands of people across the globe helped work on the project. There isn't simply just a group of programmers that built it all at some company such as MS (who with a milestone release of IE, I'm sure have a party - hell their marketing department does). Instead everyone that took part wants to party for the work that they helped to contribute. I, myself, have only been using the browser for a few months after switching from Opera. I have not added a piece of code and have contributed no new bugs. So, I will not be celebrating at any of these parties. But, I do understand why those that have contributed would want to party and to them I say congratulations! Thanks for giving us a fantastic browser!
Ah see, but the Gaming Industry is different from the Recording and Film Industries in that it grew up with piracy. There has always been computer piracy. Back in the day it was simple to copy floppy disks and all your friends had the game. Game Companies began to come up with ways to combat this from simple methods like "What is the third word in the fourth paragraph on the 25th page" to pinwheels. Eventually many other ways to combat piracy came to be such as the hidden tracks and CD keys. But it has always been a part of the industry and if asked most of the industry will say that it always will be apart of the industry. So the goal is not to stop piracy but to make it hard for the average person and make it more worth their while to simply buy the game legally.
That is a whole different mindset than the Recording and Film industries that take the opinion that all piracy must stop. This is just plain stupid. There never will be a way to stop all piracy. Instead, if you set your prices at a place where it is more cost efficent to buy the movie or CD then spend hours working on it online, then people will buy. But when CDs have reached $16 a pop and DVDs are cheaper to produce than VHS but cost almost $10 as much, yes piracy is going to happen. And in this way it is their own fault. If they simply would realize that some piracy is going to happen and instead focus on making it so that it simply is not a cost efficent way to go, then piracy would go down and they would not be affecting fair use.
Exactly.
CmdrTaco, I know what your saying about annoying popunder advertisements, but this will set a horrible precedent. Websites opening new pages as they load has been around for a while now. Using it for advertising was an obvious and simple idea. How many other things then could be patened? Links?
While, I hate popups and this patent could limit their use, the big picture is that this patent would not be a good thing to hold up.
Yes Hotmail works fine. It is passport that does not. So when you got to your Personal Profile or whatever they call it, you are accessing your Passport data that does not work with Mozilla.
Passport does not work in the non-IE or Netscape environment. I will assume the it is a piece of code they have written to disinclude people based on browser choice since Netscape works and Mozilla does not.
Yeah, the trailer was pretty sweet. Especially since the crowd was so reved up about SW tonight! Showed some action to get attention and then added over some Matrix mystery stuff. It should be an interesting movie.
By the way, SW:AOTC turned out really good. So glad I got tickets to the 12:01 showing. Almost didn't after Episode 1, but Clones was really good. Dialogue still a bit cheesy and there were a few scenes where you were lefting wondering why that happened (Amadalla springing up after being hurt), but the movie itself - excellent.
Ok, I understand that the technology is here and that it is possible. I understand that some people want to know what your working on in your computer or the sites you are visiting for advertising purposes and what not.
What I cannot fathom, is how could anyone purposely write a program to spy into my room, listening to me or watching what I am doing? Doesn't anyone have a conscious anymore? Come on. This is my house, my life, stay the f@#k out!
Downloaded and played it. The game would definitely benefit from either a tutorial or at the very least more active help features at the beginning. The interface is such that you are lost trying to figure things out. I wasted a half hour before realizing that I was getting nothing out of it and was figuring very little out. Seems like a great idea, I just need some sort of documentation to better understand what I am doing right and wrong.
Nice spoilage warning. Of course, the title says it all. In the four coming episodes how bout a simple, "X-Files: Four more to go" or something like that. Even with a spoilage warning, the title gives it a way without reading what you do not want to.
Uh actually, he was right, it is a right-tilted station according to the economy. It is just that the conservative right-wing in the United States is not very conservative when it comes to monetary policy. Supply-side is a liberal idea in terms of macroeconomics, not to mention that it has been Bush II and Reagan to increase spending in the last 40 years more than any other presidents. So much for the people's money.
Millions of people like Google, and will probably pony up $2 each to support it.
The same argument was made for the court fees of Napster. People will pay to defend the system. Well, people didn't pay, the reason they liked it was not only that it was simple but it was free. If Google costs money or losses a court battle, users will just move on.
640x480?
The article says, "The one-inch full color 800 x 600 SVGA viewing screen sits below your eye."
This should have been right on Slashdot.
Sure, sure he helped on coming up with ideas and play testing, but he himself did not write a single piece of code. You can't say that he had all that much to do with those games.
Civ II and SMAC (Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri) were designed by Brian Renyolds. In the manual for Civ II, Sid talks about how Brian went to Europe after discussing a sequel and basically wrote the game himself. They made a few changes but the protype that Brian wrote was basically what made the final game. Meanwhile, SMAC had many new innovations and again was designed by Brian not Sid. Colonization, was another TBS game that was under Sid's name that was designed by Brian Renyolds with some work from Sid. But again he wasn't the man doing the work on the game.
During that time period from Civilization I to today, Sid has instead worked on the following game:
Covert Action
CPU Bach
Sid Meier's Gettysburg! (And Antitem!)
Sid Meier's SimGolf
Cover Action was an espionage action game that failed according to Sid because it had too many new innovative ideas in it to make it all work. CPU Bach was really a program that created Bach style music with a few parameters that you set. An amazing feet. Gettysburg was an early tatical warfare game in RT. Was given tons of awards and would lead indirectly to the Total War games. SimGolf has yet to come out but it will basically be a Maxis game involving a golf course, nothing original but something he wanted to do.
So there you go. In the last ten years Sid has worked on four projects where he actually designed the game. Of those three were very innovative, two to the point where they had little interest. If that is isn't enough new for you then I don't know what else can satisfy you. Oh and just to let you know, Sid hasn't done Civ3 either. Again it is just a marketing stunt, Sid has been too busy on SimGolf.
Look at any screen shot and you will realize you are not right. Yes SMAC had contoured maps, but Civ 3 has returned to flat everything with pictures of hills and mountains. Some have said this is a downgrade but whatever it is, the map is definitely not contored.