You play $15/month to have access to other players. If you're soloing in a MMORPG you're not only wasting your own time, you're making the game less enjoyable for others. So yeah, don't play.
You're not supposed to compete. You're suppose to role play. Just join a faction/guild and participate. Your teammates really won't mind if you can't do all the things they can do.
Exactly, compare that to renting a DVD or two. Oh, 3 hours entertainment for $15, jesus, what a jip. The problem is that people keep comparing MMORPGs to single player games. Personally I find Halflife 2 a lot more "boring" than The Matrix Online.. but hey, I actually team other with other people and role play.
As such we should abolish voting and replace it with something better. I suggest a lottery, just like we currently do for duty jury which is arguable way more important than legislation passing.
I know this is true, I just love the logic that goes into such an argument: Hmm, what's this interesting and insightful article on Slashdot? Hey, wait a minute, this is just empty drivel written by someone who doesn't even appear to have a highschool level education! I'm gunna click on the post comment button and tell him off! Ohhh, random product on Think Geek that interests me more than giving this random person a piece of my mind, luckily I'm in the mood to impulse shop right now.
Sure, if *everyone* did it that would fix the problem. Unfortunately the "just don't look" technique doesn't work unless everyone stops and there's always one homer in the crowd.
It's Roland Piquepaille, what did you expect, he's a fucktard and the only reason he's on Slashdot so much is that he has a business relationship with them.
STFU, seriously. Amazon claims they were the first website to create this "obvious" idea. They didn't do it the first day they opened. They didn't even do it when they were the only bookstore online. They did it years into the dot com era. You think it is obvious now because you've seen it on Amazon for years.
I'm sorry, but if it was so obvious then why wasn't it on some other site before? It's just silly to say that something is obvious after the fact. The truely innovative thing about Amazon's mechanism for recommending things is that they show you items that people who bought the item you are currently looking at also bought. Again, that's obvious, but no-one else did it before Amazon did and as soon as Amazon starting doing it everyone else starting copying it.
You're preaching to the wrong crowd. This is Slashdot where even the greatest inventions are considered unworthy for patent protection. It upsets the apple cart for programmers to think about patents.
The key word in the term "prior art" is prior. Amazon has claimed that they were the first to implement this system. There is an easy way to prove them wrong.
Wasn't Amazon actually the first to come up with this system? If not, head over to the internet archive and show us the prior art! Everything is obvious once someone has shown it to you.
How about trying some role playing and actually teaming with other players. People who play massively multiplayer games as if they were single player games and then shout from the rooftops that they suck really piss me off. The game isn't designed for single player gameplay.
See, I don't call that a revolution because railroads were built by people with lots and lots of clout. Just take a look at FM radio if you wanna see what happens to revolutionary technology.
Well, that's the problem with revolutions isn't it. If you can predict them, so can the people who have a vested interest in quashing them. Had Microsoft recognised that threat of open source back in '91 they would have crushed it then and there. As such, any well published prediction of revolutionary technology, people or philosophy is likely to be quashed. Therefore the only predictions of the future that can be accurate are the ones that re-enforce the status quo.
Ok, ya know how your president, congressmen, etc, can do things that ensure that their mates or companies they have received contributions from get the contract to supply things to the government? Ya know, like meals for soldiers, or whatever. Well, that never happens in Australia. If a journalist finds a connection between a politician and a company that has been granted a government contract, it's front page news.
When Mac users actually have security issues Symantec will start writing security products for them. You can't expect the AV companies to provide the viruses as well as the AV software. That'd be unethical, or something, and as we know, corporations never do anything unethicial.
Why? They have the same target customers, therefore combining their sales forces alone will guarentee an increase in sales and therefore increase shareholder value. It's a no brainer. The fact that the merger was allowed to go ahead was the only thing in question.
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You play $15/month to have access to other players. If you're soloing in a MMORPG you're not only wasting your own time, you're making the game less enjoyable for others. So yeah, don't play.
You're not supposed to compete. You're suppose to role play. Just join a faction/guild and participate. Your teammates really won't mind if you can't do all the things they can do.
Exactly, compare that to renting a DVD or two. Oh, 3 hours entertainment for $15, jesus, what a jip. The problem is that people keep comparing MMORPGs to single player games. Personally I find Halflife 2 a lot more "boring" than The Matrix Online.. but hey, I actually team other with other people and role play.
As such we should abolish voting and replace it with something better. I suggest a lottery, just like we currently do for duty jury which is arguable way more important than legislation passing.
I think this is the first time I've bitched about him. His previous articles were actually remotely accurate. This write up is just plain stupid.
I know this is true, I just love the logic that goes into such an argument: Hmm, what's this interesting and insightful article on Slashdot? Hey, wait a minute, this is just empty drivel written by someone who doesn't even appear to have a highschool level education! I'm gunna click on the post comment button and tell him off! Ohhh, random product on Think Geek that interests me more than giving this random person a piece of my mind, luckily I'm in the mood to impulse shop right now.
Sure, if *everyone* did it that would fix the problem. Unfortunately the "just don't look" technique doesn't work unless everyone stops and there's always one homer in the crowd.
It's Roland Piquepaille, what did you expect, he's a fucktard and the only reason he's on Slashdot so much is that he has a business relationship with them.
Fuck off.
STFU, seriously. Amazon claims they were the first website to create this "obvious" idea. They didn't do it the first day they opened. They didn't even do it when they were the only bookstore online. They did it years into the dot com era. You think it is obvious now because you've seen it on Amazon for years.
I'm sorry, but if it was so obvious then why wasn't it on some other site before? It's just silly to say that something is obvious after the fact. The truely innovative thing about Amazon's mechanism for recommending things is that they show you items that people who bought the item you are currently looking at also bought. Again, that's obvious, but no-one else did it before Amazon did and as soon as Amazon starting doing it everyone else starting copying it.
You're preaching to the wrong crowd. This is Slashdot where even the greatest inventions are considered unworthy for patent protection. It upsets the apple cart for programmers to think about patents.
The key word in the term "prior art" is prior. Amazon has claimed that they were the first to implement this system. There is an easy way to prove them wrong.
Yeah! And a fax machine is just an envelope that goes through the telephone!
Wasn't Amazon actually the first to come up with this system? If not, head over to the internet archive and show us the prior art! Everything is obvious once someone has shown it to you.
Here I was thinking that gaming was about fantasy and escape from the grind of every day life.
How about trying some role playing and actually teaming with other players. People who play massively multiplayer games as if they were single player games and then shout from the rooftops that they suck really piss me off. The game isn't designed for single player gameplay.
See, I don't call that a revolution because railroads were built by people with lots and lots of clout. Just take a look at FM radio if you wanna see what happens to revolutionary technology.
Well, that's the problem with revolutions isn't it. If you can predict them, so can the people who have a vested interest in quashing them. Had Microsoft recognised that threat of open source back in '91 they would have crushed it then and there. As such, any well published prediction of revolutionary technology, people or philosophy is likely to be quashed. Therefore the only predictions of the future that can be accurate are the ones that re-enforce the status quo.
Call me short sighted, but isn't it at least possible that training soldiers is different to training tic-tac-toe players?
Ok, ya know how your president, congressmen, etc, can do things that ensure that their mates or companies they have received contributions from get the contract to supply things to the government? Ya know, like meals for soldiers, or whatever. Well, that never happens in Australia. If a journalist finds a connection between a politician and a company that has been granted a government contract, it's front page news.
When Mac users actually have security issues Symantec will start writing security products for them. You can't expect the AV companies to provide the viruses as well as the AV software. That'd be unethical, or something, and as we know, corporations never do anything unethicial.
You're a real glass half empty guy aint ya. Maybe the Veritas dudes will take over the development of NAV and the thing will get better :)
Why? They have the same target customers, therefore combining their sales forces alone will guarentee an increase in sales and therefore increase shareholder value. It's a no brainer. The fact that the merger was allowed to go ahead was the only thing in question.
The both sell corporate computer services, that's all the overlap you need to worry about.