I'm not quite sure what you're talking about regarding "failure" City of Heroes and WoW are doing just great, and they eliminate much of the unpleasantness that you're calling for.
I mean for christ's sake. you miss Kill Stealing?
Don't worry, someone will create GrieferQuest soon enough. Problem is, only you and a couple dozen hard core players will buy it.
Everquest only included the elements on your list that it did when it was the only game in town, when people basically had no other choice.
Once serious competition arrived (around the time DaOC was published I believe) They began changing the game to try to stem the tide of people who were leaving because they don't want their supposed entertainment to abuse them
People don't typically pay to be victims. Not for other players, and not for a game.
Another example, UO began changes (Felucca, etc) because as intellectually stimulating as some of the concepts you're describing may be on paper, the vast majority of people will not pay a subscription fee to play a game where Johnny l33tsp33k kills them, loots them, and proceeds to emote/assrape over their corpse for 20 minutes.
So yes, there may be a market for that, but it would be a niche.
Oh I know the failed game you must have been referring to. Was it Shadowbane?
You misunderstand. The VOIP box retains the same area code and number regardless of where it is plugged in. That's one of the benefits. Your phone number follows you, and if you take it on vacation say, your friends and family don't have to pay long distance to call you.
I got no less than 6 warnings throughout my signup process with Vonage regarding the limitations of the 911 service. I have a cell phone that I use as my main line for emergencies anyhow.
This situation was negligance on the woman's part, nothing else. She disregarded the many warnings and incorrectly registered her number. As is so common these days, she has to foist that responsibility on others. Bloodthirsty lawyers and spineless, glorymongering Senators (/spit)are all too eager to help her in this regard.
As I've posted elsewhere, that makes it "no longer a DVD". That will go over even less well than the CDs that broke certain hardware (such as getting stuck in Macs).
While that might work in a limited fashion, it's trivial to rip the cd and re-encode it to whatever region one wants.
I guarantee that I would do that before submitting to this kind of DRM.
They could not enforce the biometric nonsense without BREAKING the DVD format. They would have far less luck convincing people to junk their existing hardware for new restrictive stuff than the DivX idiots at Circuit City did. Making incompatible DVDs will just result in returns and lawsuits.
Those are already watermarked. No reason to add an additional (and expensive) level of encumberance. Also, how exactly would they prevent someone simply playing the disk in a player that has no hardware to "honor" the RF tag restriction? We're not talking a new DVD format here, just a boondoggle tacked to the disk.
Exactly. Sounds like the RF tag thing is just an add-on to existing DVDs. A non-"special" DVD player without the reader isn't going to care about the RF tag and will just play the disk.
Let me guess. Macrovision came up with this? (no I didn't read the FA) Their selling point I'm sure is legislation to force people to throw away their old hardware and buy new players.
backwards compatibility is mainly to get new consoles through the early period where they only have half a dozen to 15 or so games at release. For most people, that could mean only 1 or two games that they really want.
If, for instance, I can still play my Last Gen games on the new console, and can then SELL my old console for a few bucks, I might be more likely to buy the new console right away, rather than waiting a year or so for it to get a solid library of games.
In my case, I'd want the backwards compatibility later so that I don't have to keep all those consoles hooked to my AV switch, but I'm just lazy:P
Agreed. I had used Jpilot for the brief period that I had a Sony Clie, and was quite happy to find that I was able to restore to my Tungsten-E with no change in setup. If anything, USB sync is EASIER than old serial link.
Not sure how this is even an ask slashdot. Took me maybe 5 minutes with Google the first time I set up Jpilot, and I'm using Gentoo.
I'm pretty sure that if I was using one of the commercial distros I wouldn't even have had to search.
Yea, to be honest I don't think it was a bad book at all. Just questioning his motives is all. I really think that "less competition for ME!" has a lot to do with his mindset here.
As a Trek Fan, I'm all for sequels. I just think he's being a bit hypocritical WRT the apparent "franchises are evil" thing.
Guess Iron Man is off my list now, Mr. Card. Didn't really like what you did to the origin anyhow.
Why people think the mere existance of Star Trek somehow stifles thier ability to put other SF out there is beyond me.
As far as going to the pot to many times, I think that was proven with the Enders Game books (re-telling an entire book from a diffent character's perspective? *), so I guess in a way he knows whereof he speaks...
* of course the Card fans out there will deny that being in any way derivitive or limiting or "more of the same" and crow about how "innovative" it was. Meh.
Besides which, it was definitely an advertisement. several competitors are slammed here. I think Cleese is a great talent, but Come On. This is CA he's advertising here. One of the ancient evils of the computer world.
And clue to the editor that posted this: "viral marketing" is intended to not be obvious. You're feeding the marketers. Please stop.
Another major problem with Enterprise on UPN is that on any given Friday (happened with Wednesdays too) during basketball season, 30% or so of the alleged "network affiliates" pre-empt the Network programmign for their local NBA francise. Even here in Orlando, where the majority of the town stopped caring about the "Magic" YEARS ago.
Kind of hard to maintain a decent rating when 1/3 of your market isn't counted on a given week.
So basically EB is expecting customers to do for them what Managers traditionally did in the past. Know their customer base and order accordingly.
Personally, if I dont' get it on release day, so fucking what? I'm not paid by EB, and I"m not going to do their market research for them.
That's what you get when you aspire to hire High School dropouts to manage your stores. (no offense to the parent poster, I'm commenting on the general practices of chains like EB, rather than his specific situation. Guy could have a Harvard Degree for all I know).
And if they only order one copy, they'll get their lunch eaten by Amazon or some other on-line retailer. If I can't lay hands on it when I walk into the store and have to order it anyhow, I'll just order it from someone who will deliver it to my door or office. That DOESN'T mean EBgames Online. If your brick-and-mortar store disappoints me, your online branch won't get my business either.
Oh trust me. If the door troll ever fucks with me, I'll sick my lawyer on him as an individual. I doubt a door greeter at Sams has the resources to defend himself against someone who can afford to hire a real lawyer. I guarantee you Walmart isn't going to jump to his defense either.
guaranteeing they will never get my money again, and I will have to go elsewhere....
I care why?
Sounds like their problem, not mine. I got the $35 subscription fee's worth of my membership on my first visit.
BTW the Unlawful detention issue is seperate from the membership cancelation issue. I'm almost tempted to run the exit next time to see if someone lays a hand on me. They're still not entitled to do that, no matter what the agreement says.
So a Wal-Mart has the right to strip search you upon entry to the store? That's news to me.
Certain rights apply to the govermnent's relationship to you (for instance the first amendment right of free speech) due to the way they are worded. Corporations do not have the right to illegally detain you. That is, if they don't have an act of theft on tape, they'd better not put a hand on you, or their hired cop goes to jail, and they start writing you large checks.
THAT is the way the law works. COrporations don't have the right to hose individuals on the basis that "we aren't the government" on a wholesale basis.
Door moron tasers me, and door moron will be impoverished for the rest of his life (after he gets out of jail). The corporation he works for will be funding my lavish retirement.
Pretty much what you said in your second paragraph.
As to your signature, I've found the opposite to be true. YMMV. I don't like either of the men. Neither have your or my best interest at heart, and neither are to be trusted.
1) It is their store policy, if you do not like it - don't shop there.
When I am employed by the store, I will begin to give a shit about their policies. Until then, they can fuck off. I bought it, it's mine. If they detain me without proof of a crime (since proof would indicate no crime existed) I will sue the living fuck out of both the store, and the idiot who detained me (as an individual) in seperate lawsuits.
I will get recompense from the store, and the mouth breather who detained me will be living in a cardboard box from then forward.
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I'm not quite sure what you're talking about regarding "failure" City of Heroes and WoW are doing just great, and they eliminate much of the unpleasantness that you're calling for.
/assrape over their corpse for 20 minutes.
I mean for christ's sake. you miss Kill Stealing?
Don't worry, someone will create GrieferQuest soon enough. Problem is, only you and a couple dozen hard core players will buy it.
Everquest only included the elements on your list that it did when it was the only game in town, when people basically had no other choice.
Once serious competition arrived (around the time DaOC was published I believe) They began changing the game to try to stem the tide of people who were leaving because they don't want their supposed entertainment to abuse them
People don't typically pay to be victims. Not for other players, and not for a game.
Another example, UO began changes (Felucca, etc) because as intellectually stimulating as some of the concepts you're describing may be on paper, the vast majority of people will not pay a subscription fee to play a game where Johnny l33tsp33k kills them, loots them, and proceeds to emote
So yes, there may be a market for that, but it would be a niche.
Oh I know the failed game you must have been referring to. Was it Shadowbane?
Homer Simpson: See kids, thanks to me, now they have a Warning!
You misunderstand. The VOIP box retains the same area code and number regardless of where it is plugged in. That's one of the benefits. Your phone number follows you, and if you take it on vacation say, your friends and family don't have to pay long distance to call you.
I got no less than 6 warnings throughout my signup process with Vonage regarding the limitations of the 911 service. I have a cell phone that I use as my main line for emergencies anyhow.
This situation was negligance on the woman's part, nothing else. She disregarded the many warnings and incorrectly registered her number. As is so common these days, she has to foist that responsibility on others. Bloodthirsty lawyers and spineless, glorymongering Senators (/spit)are all too eager to help her in this regard.
As I've posted elsewhere, that makes it "no longer a DVD". That will go over even less well than the CDs that broke certain hardware (such as getting stuck in Macs).
While that might work in a limited fashion, it's trivial to rip the cd and re-encode it to whatever region one wants.
I guarantee that I would do that before submitting to this kind of DRM.
They could not enforce the biometric nonsense without BREAKING the DVD format. They would have far less luck convincing people to junk their existing hardware for new restrictive stuff than the DivX idiots at Circuit City did. Making incompatible DVDs will just result in returns and lawsuits.
Those are already watermarked. No reason to add an additional (and expensive) level of encumberance. Also, how exactly would they prevent someone simply playing the disk in a player that has no hardware to "honor" the RF tag restriction? We're not talking a new DVD format here, just a boondoggle tacked to the disk.
Exactly. Sounds like the RF tag thing is just an add-on to existing DVDs. A non-"special" DVD player without the reader isn't going to care about the RF tag and will just play the disk.
Let me guess. Macrovision came up with this? (no I didn't read the FA) Their selling point I'm sure is legislation to force people to throw away their old hardware and buy new players.
Yea that's going to happen.
backwards compatibility is mainly to get new consoles through the early period where they only have half a dozen to 15 or so games at release. For most people, that could mean only 1 or two games that they really want.
:P
If, for instance, I can still play my Last Gen games on the new console, and can then SELL my old console for a few bucks, I might be more likely to buy the new console right away, rather than waiting a year or so for it to get a solid library of games.
In my case, I'd want the backwards compatibility later so that I don't have to keep all those consoles hooked to my AV switch, but I'm just lazy
Agreed. I had used Jpilot for the brief period that I had a Sony Clie, and was quite happy to find that I was able to restore to my Tungsten-E with no change in setup. If anything, USB sync is EASIER than old serial link.
Not sure how this is even an ask slashdot. Took me maybe 5 minutes with Google the first time I set up Jpilot, and I'm using Gentoo.
I'm pretty sure that if I was using one of the commercial distros I wouldn't even have had to search.
worth anything as in re-selling them?
Who cares? you're getting free entertainment. If that's not worth anything to you, then you're beyond help.
The point is to get new people interested in the comic book medium.
And it's not really just American/USian. it's something for anyone that cares to promote it.
Is apparently local to my town and will be at ACME Comics in Longwood, FL tomorrow.
Mr Perez was a huge influence on my drawing style back when I was in highschool in the late 80's, and has always been one of my favorites.
I'll get to meet one of my heros tomorrow.
I can't wait.
Equating the NYT with ethical Journalism.
That's funny. Mod parent up.
Maybe they could shorten the search by just making the Queen look like Roller Girl.
Yea, to be honest I don't think it was a bad book at all. Just questioning his motives is all. I really think that "less competition for ME!" has a lot to do with his mindset here.
As a Trek Fan, I'm all for sequels. I just think he's being a bit hypocritical WRT the apparent "franchises are evil" thing.
Comic Pull List.
Guess Iron Man is off my list now, Mr. Card. Didn't really like what you did to the origin anyhow.
Why people think the mere existance of Star Trek somehow stifles thier ability to put other SF out there is beyond me.
As far as going to the pot to many times, I think that was proven with the Enders Game books (re-telling an entire book from a diffent character's perspective? *), so I guess in a way he knows whereof he speaks...
* of course the Card fans out there will deny that being in any way derivitive or limiting or "more of the same" and crow about how "innovative" it was. Meh.
Besides which, it was definitely an advertisement. several competitors are slammed here. I think Cleese is a great talent, but Come On. This is CA he's advertising here. One of the ancient evils of the computer world.
And clue to the editor that posted this: "viral marketing" is intended to not be obvious. You're feeding the marketers. Please stop.
/ob UO reference
/!ob UO reference
Trammel from day 1?
Another major problem with Enterprise on UPN is that on any given Friday (happened with Wednesdays too) during basketball season, 30% or so of the alleged "network affiliates" pre-empt the Network programmign for their local NBA francise. Even here in Orlando, where the majority of the town stopped caring about the "Magic" YEARS ago.
Kind of hard to maintain a decent rating when 1/3 of your market isn't counted on a given week.
I think Alpha was located in crater Tycho...
So basically EB is expecting customers to do for them what Managers traditionally did in the past. Know their customer base and order accordingly.
Personally, if I dont' get it on release day, so fucking what? I'm not paid by EB, and I"m not going to do their market research for them.
That's what you get when you aspire to hire High School dropouts to manage your stores. (no offense to the parent poster, I'm commenting on the general practices of chains like EB, rather than his specific situation. Guy could have a Harvard Degree for all I know).
And if they only order one copy, they'll get their lunch eaten by Amazon or some other on-line retailer. If I can't lay hands on it when I walk into the store and have to order it anyhow, I'll just order it from someone who will deliver it to my door or office. That DOESN'T mean EBgames Online. If your brick-and-mortar store disappoints me, your online branch won't get my business either.
Oh trust me. If the door troll ever fucks with me, I'll sick my lawyer on him as an individual. I doubt a door greeter at Sams has the resources to defend himself against someone who can afford to hire a real lawyer. I guarantee you Walmart isn't going to jump to his defense either.
I could give a shit about a revoked membership...
OH Noes, they can cancel my membership...
guaranteeing they will never get my money again, and I will have to go elsewhere....
I care why?
Sounds like their problem, not mine. I got the $35 subscription fee's worth of my membership on my first visit.
BTW the Unlawful detention issue is seperate from the membership cancelation issue. I'm almost tempted to run the exit next time to see if someone lays a hand on me. They're still not entitled to do that, no matter what the agreement says.
So a Wal-Mart has the right to strip search you upon entry to the store? That's news to me.
Certain rights apply to the govermnent's relationship to you (for instance the first amendment right of free speech) due to the way they are worded. Corporations do not have the right to illegally detain you. That is, if they don't have an act of theft on tape, they'd better not put a hand on you, or their hired cop goes to jail, and they start writing you large checks.
THAT is the way the law works. COrporations don't have the right to hose individuals on the basis that "we aren't the government" on a wholesale basis.
Door moron tasers me, and door moron will be impoverished for the rest of his life (after he gets out of jail). The corporation he works for will be funding my lavish retirement.
Pretty much what you said in your second paragraph.
As to your signature, I've found the opposite to be true. YMMV. I don't like either of the men. Neither have your or my best interest at heart, and neither are to be trusted.
When I am employed by the store, I will begin to give a shit about their policies. Until then, they can fuck off. I bought it, it's mine. If they detain me without proof of a crime (since proof would indicate no crime existed) I will sue the living fuck out of both the store, and the idiot who detained me (as an individual) in seperate lawsuits.
I will get recompense from the store, and the mouth breather who detained me will be living in a cardboard box from then forward.