Yeah, the marketing really sucked on that. It seemed like a stupid movie, and I decided that I didn't want anything to do with it. But then I heard from a friend that it was a movie I had to see. I think that's why it did so poorly at first but the DVD sales are doing great. Bad marketing, good word of mouth.
Another movie that had bad marketing was Three Kings. It seemed like a gung ho desert storm war movie. But again I was told it wasn't bad. I wouldn't rate it anywhere near Fight Club, but it wasn't as shitty as the marketing made it out to be.
I say, day one, mention that all cheaters will be banned permanantly and immediately, no exceptions, no warnings, NOTHING.
Problem is, the cheaters may be paying customers. Its just bad business to turn away paying customers.
I think the best solution is to segregate the cheaters. Have an alternate universe type game where cheating is allowed. If someone cheats, send him there where he can't bother the legit players.
There are 3 main advantages to this: 1) Legit playes aren't bothered by cheaters 2) Cheaters can have their fun being 3733+ H@x0r5 3) the game developers now only have to be able to detect the cheats, not prevent them altogether. The developers could even make easily detectable cheats widely distributed. Right now by preventing cheats, you are encouraging people to create even better and harder to detect cheats. By allowing cheats in a confined area, the cheats are going to keep working, and the cheaters will be content.
Of course I'm not sure how much the cheaters will like it playing against other cheaters on an even playing field. But to them you say "tough shit, you chose this world when you cheated".
The Iraqi troops are doing their jobs as well. Actually they are defending their homeland while the US/UK military is illegally invading a sovereign nation, so logically the Iraqi troops should get even more of your support. Yes you may disagree with their government but you should support Iraq's troops as they are doing their jobs and defending their people.
Yes this is a troll (well, somewhat), but can anyone find a flaw in my logic?
There are also a lot of parallels between George Bush II of today and of Hitler of the 1930s
Powerful Military: check
Convenient Scapegoat: check
Rules over a xenophobic population: check
Gained power through dubious means: check
Allowed to arbitrarily invade foreign nations: check
Arrests enemies without trial: check
Ignores League of Nations / United Nations: check
And if you want to compare Saddam with anyone you should compare him to Stalin... Hitler had a completely different moustache than Saddam.
Most people beleive so. He has psoted information about the statellite feeds not going down hours before mainstream media said so. He said to have smelled the sandstorm coming before the media reported it. If he's not legit then at the very least he's psychic.
Just read the blog... its much too detailed to be faked... nervousness of Iraqis at the market, what pattern to use when taping up the windows... I'm pretty sure this is authentic. I got it bookmarked and printed out here beside me.
This is a case of one person claiming to speak for every last person "inside Iraq".
Of course someone in Baghdad has no idea how the Iraqi people feel, but you, living thousands of miles away know exactly how he feels. Shut the fuck up, troll
I kinda found the little propaganda segments in Starship Troopers to be really amusing. Now they're just scary, because now when I turn on CNN I see exactly the same kind of thing. The ads for the military are even worse
New Army Recruitment Ad:
Young people all over the globe are joining up to save the future. Everyone is doing their part. Are you? Join the America's Army and and be an Army of One. Service guarantees citizenship.
Anyone else watching the news is thinking about Starship Troopers?
Sell what amounts to a "super demo" for a nominal fee to cover costs, say ten bucks, and get as many copies out there as you could, and then sell extended content for twenty five bucks to those who found the game worth it.
Yeah... I got a great name for this game... DOOM!
How about giving away a singleplayer game and selling subscriptions to the massively multiplayer version? I actually think this is the way most games will be very soon...
Hmmmm... you gotta be careful with the mopping up stuff...
I've had many opponents in Starcraft tell me to surrender "cuz u no ur gonna loose anyway". Only to have me later in the game turn around and destroy them completely. Of course that's starcraft where the kiddies learn how to rush and nothing else... as long as you can last more than 5 minutes they don't know what to do.
The following two books tear down this hero and point out the perils of the hero myth with is so prevelant in our religions and culture.
I didn't bother reading the other books, since I didn't really like the whole Messiah story of the first. I thought everything else was cool though. Now that I know the other books weren't like that, I think I might check out the other books, thanks.
I think you missed the point... When the Microwave links were DESTROYED by bombing, the team representing Iraq was expected to use cell phones instead (which would be intercepted). But after the microwave links were destroyed, they used low tech methods, like motorcycle couriers. The Team representing the US forces lost the wargame, for this and other reasons.
Kinda reminds me of the simpsons episodes where the air force had to intercept the wright brother's plane, but couldn't because it was moving too slow. The US has spent the last half a century preparing for a war against a technologically advanced superpower, they are totally unprepared for fighting against WWI level tech.
Yeah, I'd love to see a movie about the Jem Hadar... IMO the most interesting aliens from all of Star Trek. The real underdogs... genetically engineered soldiers, slaves to the dominion, considered soulless monsters by all the other sentient races. How could you not root for them?
I guess the whole reason I liked DS9 more than the other treks was that it wasn't just good guys and bad guys. There was no technobabble solution to problems... they had to make hard decisions. And that, to me, is the real strength of sci fi... putting people in strange situations and seeing what choices they make. Reversing the polarity on the phase array is NOT a choice.
"I cannot defeat him, I can only kill him, and that doesn't hold my interests"
I find it interesting how many people point to third world nations that have a closed economy, and say "Gee if they'd just open up their trade they'd be a lot better off". Now here we have a country that has opened up and now that they are benefitting you say they're stealing your jobs.
How many people here drive Japanese cars?
A lot of people here are saying the same things auto workers said in the 80's. They're taking our jobs. Its going to destroy the economy.
You know what's going to happen? Cheaper programmers -> lower costs -> more profit -> corporations expand -> more jobs for both Indians and Americans.
In the short term it kinda sucks, but in the long run things will be better for everyone. Of course in the long run we're all dead anyway (sorry Mr. Keynes).
This assumes that corporations aren't corupt colluding bastards, but that really is a separate issue and would be a problem with or without free trade.
the KMail software can handle encrypted e-mail attachments, and the KOrganizer calendar software can communicate with Exchange 2000 servers.
This is huge.
Yeah, really. This will go a long way towards convincing by boss to switch a few workstatioins over to linux. I wanted to put linux on the server (nice dell poweredge system), but since they already spent so much on windows 2000 server + exchange 2000 + office 2000, she didn't want to abandon all that software. Wish I was here before they bought all this.
So, if I put linux on a couple of workstations, people will realise that it isn't so scary, and that will go a long way to getting more people to use it. If all goes well I may be able to convert the entire office to linux (I hope).
Or maybe the virus AI could be ditributed across many systems... virus@home. It would give the virus a lot more processing power which would be necessary for a sufficiently intelligent AI. We already have distributed computing projects, we have p2p networks with no centralised servers, the only piece of the puzzle that's missing is the AI tech, but that's coming. And of course we'd need a genius to bring everything together... this is well beyond the ablities of the script kiddies we have today.
I guess we're opposites, since I always liked to build super spies. Max spying bonus (+20 I think), telepathic (adds spying too), and uncreative. Don't bother with research, just steal all your tech from the Psilons, and frame the other races for it. I'm not sure how well this would work in multi player, but it made for some fun games in single player.
I'm one of those players who took uncreative a lot, since it gave you a lot of points for other things, and it made the game interesting, since it meant you always had to use different tech almost every game.
And of course take the Elerians... that Elerian spy was fsckin hot, man. Another excellent reason for spying...
Couldn't have said it better myself. I love MOO2, but it was sooo incomplete. I remember before the 1.3 patch came out you could build invincible ships. not a hack or a cheat, just a creative ship design.
The Phase cloak made your ship impossible to hit while cloaked. You uncloaked when you fired and you'd recloak if you didn't fire any weapons for an entire turn.
The time warp facilitator gave your ship two turns in combat.
With both the time warp facilitator and phase cloak you could fire (and decloack) on your first turn then do nothing (and recloak) on the second.
The enemy ships could never hit you even though you kept nailing them every turn... Kinda dirty, but technically not a cheat.
Anyways they fixed it so that wouldn't work in 1.3 (while breaking a lot of other things). 1.31 was the last patch, I believe, even though there were still a lot of bugs and a lot of badly needed features (autobuild queue would've been nice).
I don't know if its true or not, but I heard that the whole thing about clicking on a link and getting logged out was due to bandwidth (slashdot getting slashdotted). The pages load up logged out since they are static pages, which are used to keep the database from getting hammered and crashing the servers.
Fredericton would be my guess... look at the first 4 letters of the address. Besides everyone knows all the perverted porn dealers are in Fredericton (all the politicians are there too... coincidence?)
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Another movie that had bad marketing was Three Kings. It seemed like a gung ho desert storm war movie. But again I was told it wasn't bad. I wouldn't rate it anywhere near Fight Club, but it wasn't as shitty as the marketing made it out to be.
Problem is, the cheaters may be paying customers. Its just bad business to turn away paying customers.
I think the best solution is to segregate the cheaters. Have an alternate universe type game where cheating is allowed. If someone cheats, send him there where he can't bother the legit players.
There are 3 main advantages to this: 1) Legit playes aren't bothered by cheaters 2) Cheaters can have their fun being 3733+ H@x0r5 3) the game developers now only have to be able to detect the cheats, not prevent them altogether. The developers could even make easily detectable cheats widely distributed. Right now by preventing cheats, you are encouraging people to create even better and harder to detect cheats. By allowing cheats in a confined area, the cheats are going to keep working, and the cheaters will be content.
Of course I'm not sure how much the cheaters will like it playing against other cheaters on an even playing field. But to them you say "tough shit, you chose this world when you cheated".
Who the hell modded this guy up?
Yes this is a troll (well, somewhat), but can anyone find a flaw in my logic?
Powerful Military: check
Convenient Scapegoat: check
Rules over a xenophobic population: check
Gained power through dubious means: check
Allowed to arbitrarily invade foreign nations: check
Arrests enemies without trial: check
Ignores League of Nations / United Nations: check
And if you want to compare Saddam with anyone you should compare him to Stalin... Hitler had a completely different moustache than Saddam.
You're analogy implies that Kuwait is America's wife. But everyone know that Britain is America's bitch...
Just read the blog... its much too detailed to be faked... nervousness of Iraqis at the market, what pattern to use when taping up the windows... I'm pretty sure this is authentic. I got it bookmarked and printed out here beside me.
Of course someone in Baghdad has no idea how the Iraqi people feel, but you, living thousands of miles away know exactly how he feels. Shut the fuck up, troll
New Army Recruitment Ad:
Young people all over the globe are joining up to save the future.
Everyone is doing their part. Are you?
Join the America's Army and and be an Army of One. Service guarantees citizenship.
Anyone else watching the news is thinking about Starship Troopers?
Yeah... I got a great name for this game... DOOM!
How about giving away a singleplayer game and selling subscriptions to the massively multiplayer version? I actually think this is the way most games will be very soon...
I've had many opponents in Starcraft tell me to surrender "cuz u no ur gonna loose anyway". Only to have me later in the game turn around and destroy them completely. Of course that's starcraft where the kiddies learn how to rush and nothing else... as long as you can last more than 5 minutes they don't know what to do.
ok ok... now i'm completely off topic.
Yeah especially the ones with thier shift keys STUCK DOWN...
Your wife talks about it with all of her johns...
Same could be said about Capitalist America...
I didn't bother reading the other books, since I didn't really like the whole Messiah story of the first. I thought everything else was cool though. Now that I know the other books weren't like that, I think I might check out the other books, thanks.
Kinda reminds me of the simpsons episodes where the air force had to intercept the wright brother's plane, but couldn't because it was moving too slow. The US has spent the last half a century preparing for a war against a technologically advanced superpower, they are totally unprepared for fighting against WWI level tech.
I guess the whole reason I liked DS9 more than the other treks was that it wasn't just good guys and bad guys. There was no technobabble solution to problems... they had to make hard decisions. And that, to me, is the real strength of sci fi... putting people in strange situations and seeing what choices they make. Reversing the polarity on the phase array is NOT a choice.
"I cannot defeat him, I can only kill him, and that doesn't hold my interests"
That is where trek should have gone...
How many people here drive Japanese cars?
A lot of people here are saying the same things auto workers said in the 80's. They're taking our jobs. Its going to destroy the economy.
You know what's going to happen? Cheaper programmers -> lower costs -> more profit -> corporations expand -> more jobs for both Indians and Americans.
In the short term it kinda sucks, but in the long run things will be better for everyone. Of course in the long run we're all dead anyway (sorry Mr. Keynes).
This assumes that corporations aren't corupt colluding bastards, but that really is a separate issue and would be a problem with or without free trade.
Yeah, really. This will go a long way towards convincing by boss to switch a few workstatioins over to linux. I wanted to put linux on the server (nice dell poweredge system), but since they already spent so much on windows 2000 server + exchange 2000 + office 2000, she didn't want to abandon all that software. Wish I was here before they bought all this.
So, if I put linux on a couple of workstations, people will realise that it isn't so scary, and that will go a long way to getting more people to use it. If all goes well I may be able to convert the entire office to linux (I hope).
Or maybe the virus AI could be ditributed across many systems... virus@home. It would give the virus a lot more processing power which would be necessary for a sufficiently intelligent AI. We already have distributed computing projects, we have p2p networks with no centralised servers, the only piece of the puzzle that's missing is the AI tech, but that's coming. And of course we'd need a genius to bring everything together... this is well beyond the ablities of the script kiddies we have today.
I'm one of those players who took uncreative a lot, since it gave you a lot of points for other things, and it made the game interesting, since it meant you always had to use different tech almost every game.
And of course take the Elerians... that Elerian spy was fsckin hot, man. Another excellent reason for spying...
Couldn't have said it better myself. I love MOO2, but it was sooo incomplete. I remember before the 1.3 patch came out you could build invincible ships. not a hack or a cheat, just a creative ship design.
The Phase cloak made your ship impossible to hit while cloaked. You uncloaked when you fired and you'd recloak if you didn't fire any weapons for an entire turn.
The time warp facilitator gave your ship two turns in combat.
With both the time warp facilitator and phase cloak you could fire (and decloack) on your first turn then do nothing (and recloak) on the second. The enemy ships could never hit you even though you kept nailing them every turn... Kinda dirty, but technically not a cheat.
Anyways they fixed it so that wouldn't work in 1.3 (while breaking a lot of other things). 1.31 was the last patch, I believe, even though there were still a lot of bugs and a lot of badly needed features (autobuild queue would've been nice).
Homer: Which phone company?! There are hundreds of them! They all keep changing their names..
Marge: I think it's Quamquack.
Bart: No, I think it's Niagular.
Marge: No, last week they became Verdiquar.
I don't know if its true or not, but I heard that the whole thing about clicking on a link and getting logged out was due to bandwidth (slashdot getting slashdotted). The pages load up logged out since they are static pages, which are used to keep the database from getting hammered and crashing the servers.
Fredericton would be my guess... look at the first 4 letters of the address. Besides everyone knows all the perverted porn dealers are in Fredericton (all the politicians are there too... coincidence?)