So I'm not sure what your comment was referring to.
The FBI also has statistics saying that 3X as many people kill themselves with a gun than kill someone else. There are also significantly more deaths via vehicle than firearms, but your point was homicides and that is mostly (68%) firearms.
This would only be plausable if they charged less than the cost of the DVD they were showing. Since a movie rental is roughly $5, and for that I get to watch it as much as I want, with as many people as I want, in my own home, a shared viewing of a DVD on a large screen should be $2-3/person. At that rate, they pay for the DVD with 10 people and I save a little money over renting it at the cost of having to deal with other people.
Why? Why do they have to cut me off eventually? Throughput (which is what they're talking about here, not bandwidth) is essentially free. It doesn't matter if I download 1 GB, 10GB, or 500GB in a month. It is the bandwidth that costs money.
If I download, constantly, for 28 days, at 512kb/sec, I'll use 1209.6 gigabits of data. That's well over all of their caps, but 512 kbs is a very small amount of bandwidth and a very cheap line.
With their standard cable internet plan, at 6MB/sec, I can download for less than 14 minutes and hit the 5GB cap, 27 minutes for 10 GB, an hour for 20, and 2 hours for 40. That's not including their faster packages.
He did say a lot of things were involved. One of those is inverse mathematics. See, the GH2 guitar actually costs them $-17 to make. So with the money made just by producing the guitar, they can sell the game at a profit.
Science is highly religious. There are priests, holy robes, sacred texts. There are heresys, blasphemers, orthodox, and revolutionaries. There are highly held beliefs in things the "masses" haven't seen or experienced, but still believe.
In order to prevent a repeat of 9/11, we are going to impliment a system, which makes it possible for a terrorist group to remotely hijack a plane, with the on board pilot being completely unable to resume control of the plane?
Wonderful. Hopefully it will be as hackproof as the RFID in a passport.
Unfortunately "good Star Wars game" is much harder than we seem to think. There is a long list of horrible Star Wars games (Obi-wan, Jango Fet, Dark Forces 1, etc), and only a very short list of playable to good games (KOTOR, Dark Forces 2).
That said, if its even remotely good and you get a lightsaber, it will sell.
Most people only have 1 PIN, so their PIN Number would 1. I don't see the risk in that.
If you just meant "Personal Identification Number" and not "Personal Identification Number Number", then I would have expected better to a slashdot poster.
We already have this here. The "Star Wars Kid" has already experienced this and would easily be recognizable by almost any/.er. He had to drop out of school and even got cash from the people who started it.
I totally agree. I read the article and all I could think is, "Obviously they have too much time on their hands." If they have enough staff to teach and still surf the internet for "evidence of illegal or inappropriate" behavior, then they're clearing getting too much money from the taxpayers and need to have their funding cut.
The SLVR v7 does most of those things. It has the mini phone memory (transflash) which can be put into an SD memory adapter or just hooked up to the computer with a USB cable.
It does bluetooth and iTunes.
I doubt you'll find a C/C++ compiler in a mainstream phone. Most phones, including this one, has Java.
Its similar to the RAZR, but has the modular memory and iTunes.
My favorite mistake is when the storm trooper bumps his head going into the room with the droids. Not only is it still in there, but it has a louder clunking sound when he hits.
"I hate sand" has got to be the most awkward lines of dialogue EVER
I beg to differ.
"Two fighters against a Star Destroyer?" has to be the most deadpan line ever delivered, especially considereing he is going to be one of those two fighters against a Star Destroyer.
I'm glad you said that, because never in the article or in any of these comments do they say who NTP is. I still don't know if its Network Time Protocol, or someone else. You'd think a news site would know, both/. and news.com would know better.
Wasn't this the plot to The Net? They put out a virus, sold the tool to prevent it and anything like it, but the tool had a backdoor that let them take over everything.
Well, except for the unrealistic taking over of everything.
After playing a full 700 turn game of MoO3, I would recommend waiting. If you are only going to get one or the other, wait and see what the reviews are for GalCiv.
The AI is just odd. Other races will declare war on you for no reason, then never end it. I can see why, as you go to war, you build hatred and once the hatred is so high, both races demand war. There is just no way to set up a "neutral zone" or do anything to end the war without whiping out the other race entirely.
Give it a month. Either MoO3 will have a service pack, there will be a great fan mod, or GalCiv will rock. All of the configs for MoO3 are in plain text files, so you can modify everything. You can change how fast research comes, to how the ai builds fleets and armies, but it would take hours upon hours to figure them all out. If you're into that, go for it, but so are other people and I'm sure in a month or so, they'll have a "patch" that makes it really worth playing.
As far as the complaints that MoO3 is a 386 game, try playing it on a fast machine ie 1ghz+, then on a slow machine, 400mhz or lower. It slows down a lot. The graphics are plain 2d, but the game does a lot of processing.
I wouldn't say it was a total decrease in market for space-sims, but a lack of quality in them. Wing Commander 3 was great. One of the greatest space sims. It had a pretty good plot, one you could affect at least a little. OK, so there were 1-2 things you could change, but still. The game play was intuitive and the difficulty gradually went up as you went through the game.
What turned me off to it was WC4. It was horrible. It was more a movie than a game, and the game was nearly impossible. A few people tried the game, told all their friends it was horrid and not to even bother, so they didn't.
I think a good example of this is Grand Theft Auto 3. It has a pretty good plot, not fantastic, but it moves well, and only a few of the missions are really difficult. The part of the game that made it so addicting was the open-endedness of it. You can drive around, play taxi drive, become a vigilante, or go crazy and be a serial killer.
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Actually, according to the FBI site, the vast majority of homicides ARE with firearms.
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-8
So I'm not sure what your comment was referring to.
The FBI also has statistics saying that 3X as many people kill themselves with a gun than kill someone else. There are also significantly more deaths via vehicle than firearms, but your point was homicides and that is mostly (68%) firearms.
This would only be plausable if they charged less than the cost of the DVD they were showing. Since a movie rental is roughly $5, and for that I get to watch it as much as I want, with as many people as I want, in my own home, a shared viewing of a DVD on a large screen should be $2-3/person. At that rate, they pay for the DVD with 10 people and I save a little money over renting it at the cost of having to deal with other people.
Why? Why do they have to cut me off eventually? Throughput (which is what they're talking about here, not bandwidth) is essentially free. It doesn't matter if I download 1 GB, 10GB, or 500GB in a month. It is the bandwidth that costs money.
If I download, constantly, for 28 days, at 512kb/sec, I'll use 1209.6 gigabits of data. That's well over all of their caps, but 512 kbs is a very small amount of bandwidth and a very cheap line.
With their standard cable internet plan, at 6MB/sec, I can download for less than 14 minutes and hit the 5GB cap, 27 minutes for 10 GB, an hour for 20, and 2 hours for 40. That's not including their faster packages.
You forgot the link to the OMGPONIES page.
EA Madden, EA Movie Games, EA Hoyle games, The Sims.
He did say a lot of things were involved. One of those is inverse mathematics. See, the GH2 guitar actually costs them $-17 to make. So with the money made just by producing the guitar, they can sell the game at a profit.
This is completely inaccurate.
Science is highly religious. There are priests, holy robes, sacred texts. There are heresys, blasphemers, orthodox, and revolutionaries. There are highly held beliefs in things the "masses" haven't seen or experienced, but still believe.
In order to prevent a repeat of 9/11, we are going to impliment a system, which makes it possible for a terrorist group to remotely hijack a plane, with the on board pilot being completely unable to resume control of the plane?
Wonderful. Hopefully it will be as hackproof as the RFID in a passport.
Unfortunately "good Star Wars game" is much harder than we seem to think. There is a long list of horrible Star Wars games (Obi-wan, Jango Fet, Dark Forces 1, etc), and only a very short list of playable to good games (KOTOR, Dark Forces 2).
That said, if its even remotely good and you get a lightsaber, it will sell.
Most people only have 1 PIN, so their PIN Number would 1. I don't see the risk in that.
If you just meant "Personal Identification Number" and not "Personal Identification Number Number", then I would have expected better to a slashdot poster.
First I find out that I have to use the Wii controller with a Wii game, now I find out places aren't taking pre-orders.
Maybe next we'll hear that the sky is still blue, except when there are clouds.
We already have this here. The "Star Wars Kid" has already experienced this and would easily be recognizable by almost any /.er. He had to drop out of school and even got cash from the people who started it.
I totally agree. I read the article and all I could think is, "Obviously they have too much time on their hands." If they have enough staff to teach and still surf the internet for "evidence of illegal or inappropriate" behavior, then they're clearing getting too much money from the taxpayers and need to have their funding cut.
The SLVR v7 does most of those things. It has the mini phone memory (transflash) which can be put into an SD memory adapter or just hooked up to the computer with a USB cable.
It does bluetooth and iTunes.
I doubt you'll find a C/C++ compiler in a mainstream phone. Most phones, including this one, has Java.
Its similar to the RAZR, but has the modular memory and iTunes.
My favorite mistake is when the storm trooper bumps his head going into the room with the droids. Not only is it still in there, but it has a louder clunking sound when he hits.
I beg to differ.
"Two fighters against a Star Destroyer?" has to be the most deadpan line ever delivered, especially considereing he is going to be one of those two fighters against a Star Destroyer.
I'm glad you said that, because never in the article or in any of these comments do they say who NTP is. I still don't know if its Network Time Protocol, or someone else. You'd think a news site would know, both /. and news.com would know better.
Yes, they did imply in the books that Yoda was a little green pimp. Before he was 900 years old, he was a big ol flirt.
But wait, this is the Jedi universe, which is of course fully consistant in all of the movies, books, comics, etc. Right?
Sure, Canada doesn't have nearly as many murders. Now, let's take into consideration "hunting accidents", then we'll see.
Wasn't this the plot to The Net? They put out a virus, sold the tool to prevent it and anything like it, but the tool had a backdoor that let them take over everything.
Well, except for the unrealistic taking over of everything.
After playing a full 700 turn game of MoO3, I would recommend waiting. If you are only going to get one or the other, wait and see what the reviews are for GalCiv.
The AI is just odd. Other races will declare war on you for no reason, then never end it. I can see why, as you go to war, you build hatred and once the hatred is so high, both races demand war. There is just no way to set up a "neutral zone" or do anything to end the war without whiping out the other race entirely.
Give it a month. Either MoO3 will have a service pack, there will be a great fan mod, or GalCiv will rock. All of the configs for MoO3 are in plain text files, so you can modify everything. You can change how fast research comes, to how the ai builds fleets and armies, but it would take hours upon hours to figure them all out. If you're into that, go for it, but so are other people and I'm sure in a month or so, they'll have a "patch" that makes it really worth playing.
As far as the complaints that MoO3 is a 386 game, try playing it on a fast machine ie 1ghz+, then on a slow machine, 400mhz or lower. It slows down a lot. The graphics are plain 2d, but the game does a lot of processing.
I wouldn't say it was a total decrease in market for space-sims, but a lack of quality in them. Wing Commander 3 was great. One of the greatest space sims. It had a pretty good plot, one you could affect at least a little. OK, so there were 1-2 things you could change, but still. The game play was intuitive and the difficulty gradually went up as you went through the game.
What turned me off to it was WC4. It was horrible. It was more a movie than a game, and the game was nearly impossible. A few people tried the game, told all their friends it was horrid and not to even bother, so they didn't.
I think a good example of this is Grand Theft Auto 3. It has a pretty good plot, not fantastic, but it moves well, and only a few of the missions are really difficult. The part of the game that made it so addicting was the open-endedness of it. You can drive around, play taxi drive, become a vigilante, or go crazy and be a serial killer.
More realisticly, who would get the girl, Kirk or Reiker?