I don't see Moglen sharing his six figure salary. That's gotta be the funniest comment I've ever read. He does more pro bono work than any other lawyer in history.
I think it is pretty obvious what I am saying. You appear to be the only person who doesn't get it or, more likely, is just being a pedantic annoyance.
Maybe I wasn't clear. No-one who decides they don't like a game as a result of playing on a free account is worth listening to. Playing on a free account biases your opinion towards not liking the game.
You may have had valid points, had you not spoken in absolutes. Sounds to me like you're just being pedantic.
thankfully I tried it with a free account And that immediately disqualifies your opinion. No-one who plays a MMO on a free account enjoys it. They will make up any reason to dislike it. It's a self defense mechanism. You don't wanna have to part with money, but you want to play, so you have to rationalise your decision. On the other hand, anyone who buys the game in the shop for $99 or whatever, and has already parted with their money, has a desire to like the game. They will put up with all the unimportant stuff and try to have fun.
That said, I quit The Matrix Online. The writing was just too shit. The "live team" had no idea WTF they were doing. The balance was poor. The skill tree was shallow. All in all, a pretty poor effort.
Sounds to me like they're a bunch of hackers with no PR people and that they know it. I'd much rather that than a bunch of PR people who think they're the shit when all they've got is 30 indians.
Blah, that's a screenshot from a tech demo. The technology being demonstrated is the network engine, not the graphics. Multiverse intends to contract a studio to make the actual game using their middleware.
I'll happily give you guys money just to float in an empty space that will soon be filled with Joss Whedon goodness. Here's a crazy idea, how about getting him to write the story arc?
x86 processors have a local jump instruction that is 4 bytes long. Wow, news to me. Is this just a regular 2 byte branch instruction with two prefixes on it? Or maybe you're thinking of a 5 byte jump instruction.
I can remember that I once remembered it. I can even remember the events that led up to the moment I discovered it, or the thought process I went through to invent it, but I can't remember the actual "chunk" that I erased. Anyways, it works that way for me, I don't know if it would work that way for you. Guess you'll have to try it, if you care.
First off, with a little practice you can will yourself to have Deja Vu. Just think about how you felt the last time you had Deja Vu. Ask yourself if you remember seeing random things, etc. Eventually you mind just snaps into Deja Vu and if you do this often you can do it at will.
Why would you want to? Well, I've noticed this curious little thing; if you try to remember something when you're in the middle of Deja Vu, you won't be able to, forever. It's like you've erased a part of your memory. Why would you ever wanna forget anything? Well, its actually useful. Say you accidently found what your girlfriend is giving you for xmas. She's gone to all this trouble to hide it so it will be a surprise, and now you're going to have to fake it under the tree on xmas day. No problem, just walk away, wait an hour or two, will up some Deja Vu and try to remember what she got you. Quite apart from the fact that you could remember it 5 minutes ago, you can't remember it now, and you won't be able to remember on xmas day either. Sure, you'll be able to remember that you once could remember, but you won't be able to remember anymore.
It's also good for forgetting the password to your encrypted filesystem when the russians grab you. Not, that, you know, I need to do that.
I said the graphics would look dated. I was simply trying to make the point that the developers of Spore need to keep up with state of the art and the technology that is available for graphics. It doesn't matter if their game is truly innovative (which it is) if the graphics look dated. Sucks, but that's the state of the market at the moment. I'm not trying to dodge my original statement, I'm trying to explain that you misunderstood my original statement.
I don't know if you're trolling or if you actually believe this, but it really shows how ignorant you are about Sun and their approach to the market. Sun doesn't knife babies like Microsoft. They actually try to serve customer needs instead of crushing opposition.
s/anarchy/libertarianism/ The function of government is to protect freedom by carrying the burden of force in society. So yes, police, courts, jails, that's about it. Fire fighting can be done privately. National defence is easily acheived by a trained, armed population. Sure, you can't go galavanting off overseas to "look after your interests" but you shouldn't do that anyway.
Well, I don't actually know what the questions were, because the paper is very poorly written, but I can imagine it was something like:
Did you find the viewfinder easy to use? Yes. No. N/A.
The person doing the survey may answer yes or no, ignoring the N/A option, even though there was no viewfinder on the virtual camera. Aha! They must have a false memory of the camera because they expected to see a viewfinder! Wow, how interesting. Or, ya know, they just didn't notice the N/A option because all of the previous questions were straight Yes/No answers.
regardless of the reasons why it exists, it is still immoral. The "principles" behind copyright is basic utilitarianism. Everyone gives up a little freedom so that creators may have a little more control and hopefully this will encourage them to create more works. The greatest good for the greatest number. Well guess what, I don't wanna give up that freedom.. cause if you give an inch, they take a mile. The only way to protect your freedom is to be ever vigilant and proudly say no when you're offered a chance to compromise it.
collect your paycheck and look for your opportunity to increase the little numbers on it.
Or, ya know, join a startup and when the startup gets too big, quit and join another one. You'll have no problems finding challenges (typically impossible ones) being a startup junkie. And hey, if you're lucky, you might even accidently stay at one long enough for your shares to vest and blow it on a nice car.
I told you to fuck off asshole. You can't bully people into talking to you. I tried to be nice. I tried to explain things to you, but you just don't know what you're talking about, now go away.
I have trouble believing that you can follow your own train of thought. I'm really through talking to you. I said this to you before, this is a complicated conversation we're having and there's certain things that we expect participants to at least have a basic grasp of before they try to join. Probably number one on that list would be the syscall API exception to the GPL on the Linux kernel. If you don't even understand that then WTF are you doing here? Go read up on the subject before you open your mouth.
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Who says Microsoft is dying eh? I mean, man, with great ideas like that, how could they ever?
Open, widespread, anonymous communication. What the hell is so hard to understand about that?
I think it is pretty obvious what I am saying. You appear to be the only person who doesn't get it or, more likely, is just being a pedantic annoyance.
Yeah, that's what I figured. I think the StarTrek MMORPG will be the first space game to provide the "living on a starship" experience.
I've never played EVE Online, any good? Is there ship interiors? I keep waiting for a space game with ship interiors.
That said, I quit The Matrix Online. The writing was just too shit. The "live team" had no idea WTF they were doing. The balance was poor. The skill tree was shallow. All in all, a pretty poor effort.
Sounds to me like they're a bunch of hackers with no PR people and that they know it. I'd much rather that than a bunch of PR people who think they're the shit when all they've got is 30 indians.
Blah, that's a screenshot from a tech demo. The technology being demonstrated is the network engine, not the graphics. Multiverse intends to contract a studio to make the actual game using their middleware.
I'll happily give you guys money just to float in an empty space that will soon be filled with Joss Whedon goodness. Here's a crazy idea, how about getting him to write the story arc?
I can remember that I once remembered it. I can even remember the events that led up to the moment I discovered it, or the thought process I went through to invent it, but I can't remember the actual "chunk" that I erased. Anyways, it works that way for me, I don't know if it would work that way for you. Guess you'll have to try it, if you care.
First off, with a little practice you can will yourself to have Deja Vu. Just think about how you felt the last time you had Deja Vu. Ask yourself if you remember seeing random things, etc. Eventually you mind just snaps into Deja Vu and if you do this often you can do it at will.
Why would you want to? Well, I've noticed this curious little thing; if you try to remember something when you're in the middle of Deja Vu, you won't be able to, forever. It's like you've erased a part of your memory. Why would you ever wanna forget anything? Well, its actually useful. Say you accidently found what your girlfriend is giving you for xmas. She's gone to all this trouble to hide it so it will be a surprise, and now you're going to have to fake it under the tree on xmas day. No problem, just walk away, wait an hour or two, will up some Deja Vu and try to remember what she got you. Quite apart from the fact that you could remember it 5 minutes ago, you can't remember it now, and you won't be able to remember on xmas day either. Sure, you'll be able to remember that you once could remember, but you won't be able to remember anymore.
It's also good for forgetting the password to your encrypted filesystem when the russians grab you. Not, that, you know, I need to do that.
I said the graphics would look dated. I was simply trying to make the point that the developers of Spore need to keep up with state of the art and the technology that is available for graphics. It doesn't matter if their game is truly innovative (which it is) if the graphics look dated. Sucks, but that's the state of the market at the moment. I'm not trying to dodge my original statement, I'm trying to explain that you misunderstood my original statement.
I don't know if you're trolling or if you actually believe this, but it really shows how ignorant you are about Sun and their approach to the market. Sun doesn't knife babies like Microsoft. They actually try to serve customer needs instead of crushing opposition.
s/anarchy/libertarianism/ The function of government is to protect freedom by carrying the burden of force in society. So yes, police, courts, jails, that's about it. Fire fighting can be done privately. National defence is easily acheived by a trained, armed population. Sure, you can't go galavanting off overseas to "look after your interests" but you shouldn't do that anyway.
Well, I don't actually know what the questions were, because the paper is very poorly written, but I can imagine it was something like:
Did you find the viewfinder easy to use? Yes. No. N/A.
The person doing the survey may answer yes or no, ignoring the N/A option, even though there was no viewfinder on the virtual camera. Aha! They must have a false memory of the camera because they expected to see a viewfinder! Wow, how interesting. Or, ya know, they just didn't notice the N/A option because all of the previous questions were straight Yes/No answers.
regardless of the reasons why it exists, it is still immoral. The "principles" behind copyright is basic utilitarianism. Everyone gives up a little freedom so that creators may have a little more control and hopefully this will encourage them to create more works. The greatest good for the greatest number. Well guess what, I don't wanna give up that freedom.. cause if you give an inch, they take a mile. The only way to protect your freedom is to be ever vigilant and proudly say no when you're offered a chance to compromise it.
collect your paycheck and look for your opportunity to increase the little numbers on it.
Or, ya know, join a startup and when the startup gets too big, quit and join another one. You'll have no problems finding challenges (typically impossible ones) being a startup junkie. And hey, if you're lucky, you might even accidently stay at one long enough for your shares to vest and blow it on a nice car.
I told you to fuck off asshole. You can't bully people into talking to you. I tried to be nice. I tried to explain things to you, but you just don't know what you're talking about, now go away.
There's nothing fair about the price of music.
fuck, you're an idiot.
I hope you are sterile.
The guy I was replying to was the "flamebait". He specifically says he wants people to flame him. I was doing so.
I have trouble believing that you can follow your own train of thought. I'm really through talking to you. I said this to you before, this is a complicated conversation we're having and there's certain things that we expect participants to at least have a basic grasp of before they try to join. Probably number one on that list would be the syscall API exception to the GPL on the Linux kernel. If you don't even understand that then WTF are you doing here? Go read up on the subject before you open your mouth.