He'll never touch US soil until they've gotten everything they need out of him. The "information extraction" will occur in Cuba or another secret prison.
If he doesn't believe in Hell and condemns you to it, is it really an insult? Its like saying "I condemn you to pink fluffy elephant land....for ETERNITY!" or "I'll see you in non-existence!". Does it really matter?
Because it takes longer for the crackers to figure out if they're "done" or not. There have been things like purposeful crash bugs that lead to multiple releases and such of cracked titles. Anything that keeps an uncracked version out of pirates hands theoretically extends sales, as the sales aren't competing with a free version.
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Uh to sell more books. Why bother _buying_ it is the question.
It seems like it would be the opposite, since as a strong male with leadership traits the women would naturally flock to you, whereas a male that needs to seek out lots and lots of mates would typically be one that women wouldn't naturally be drawn to as a "good match". Of course, maybe what we're seeing there is just the natural tendency to say "yes" as a desirable man when lots of women desire it.
Of course, you still have a damn brain, so "my genetics told me too" is never a good excuse.
State the city you were in please, interested to know.
Also I've been to Poland and ate cabbage soup and meat rolls for a week, so I think I've got a pretty good idea of what passes for "good" for you. (Had a "burrito" in Krakow, pretty much the oddest thing I've eaten. Cabbage needs to stay out of a burrito).
They haven't announced a demo yet, but that doesn't mean there won't be one (first one had one). Lots of games have demos, and I can tell you probably one of the main reasons the demo's aren't produced is the cost and time taken to produce them. Putting out a demo is a good deal of work, and often has to occur well before the game is polished and ready to go, meaning that you have to prematurely crunch to get the demo out prior to even getting close to ship. That said, many many many games still have demos. I can browse xbox live right now and download a hundred of them if I want.
I've seen about 8 posts from you in this discussion talking about fixing the system. What system are you talking about? Distribution system? Capitalism? The system where devs get paid by some altruistic fairy godmother to make the games you want to play? I am a game dev and I don't particularly think the system is broken, per se. What I do see is a lot of missed opportunities in the way things are priced and distributed, especially online. When you're talking physical goods you're talking about a minimum price to put something in a box and ship it all over the place, and then there's the first party cuts if its a console product. Digital goods have lower and lower margins all the time (the gigabytes and servers add up after a while, but the margins are smaller). It seems like there needs to be a much bigger variation in pricing. I tend to get a lot of free copies of games so I play a lot without paying in a lot, but there's a lot of times I've got a game where I'm think to myself "no way would I pay $60 for this, but $20 would be a no brainer impulse buy". The other thing is that I can pretty much get any book instantly from Amazon the second its released by paying 10 bucks and putting it on an ereader, yet to get a downloadable copy of a new AAA title on my 360 I have to have it shipped to my house. I can get old titles in an arguably superior and more convenient format by downloading them from Xbox live, but I can't get the new ones. Stupid.
So yeah, I think there needs to be a much better model for distribution and pricing, that "system" seem broken. But if you're suggesting that some how myself and my other deluded brethren in the game industry somehow support ourselves and have families based on magic fairy dust and good will from our fans, then you're just deluding yourself. I don't particularly care that you pirate a game, as more and more titles are just going to shift to online and it won't be possible to do much without some serious effort by cracker teams to reengineer backend online services. I think the guys in this article are deluding themselves in that they're going to feed anyone else but the lawyers involved in the case with the money they recoup from piraters. DRM will continue, pirating will continue, and games will continue to be made, don't listen to any naysayers. But think about throwing us guys in the coal mine a bone every once in a while. Otherwise you're just a selfish prick, no matter how you justify it.
a) he's getting his nerdy phase over with early. Metal detecting probably won't be an issue. b) He'll show up his first day of highschool in a Porsche, I'm sure he'll do fine.
Yeah, it should be pretty quick and easy to get a decent bank replacement system up and running. A few hours may be a bit short, but lets give the coder 2 days assuming he's using rails and a transactionless NoSQL solution to get the job done in time. We may need to test it a bit, so leave time for unit testing. After all, this is people's money, so you can't be too careful.
Not sure, but if you go by the moderation here it we all know that the more you repeat something the funnier it is. There will be a Beowolf cluster of sharks with lasers ruled by an almighty army of ant overlords that we all for one welcome except in soviet russia where they welcome us as we fight off the vicious grammar Nazis. Staring Natalie Portman and Jon Katz. Its gold!
Nope, but I'd still expect the guy with a bunch of heads in a freezer to be prosecuted. Are you saying because this guy broke the law Sarah gets a pass?
But reading a lot of stuff on a smaller screen than that gets a bit tedious. Ok, so mostly I read/. on my Android phone, which has an excellent browser, but its still too small an unwieldy for my taste.
Its true. If you look at every post, there's always some old dude saying "eh, this is just XXXX which YYY did back int the 70s. Big deal!" iPhone? We had an iGrammaPhone did the same shit!
Odds are it doesn't. I find most things are worse than what we already have, and if those bonehead scientists took 5 seconds to ask someone they'd know that. That's my world view of course, as all I know is only going by what I read on/.
The GP post was pretty stupid (those limits would be on the tower/host side of things), but bandwidth isn't free in the cell world. Its the same as everyone trying to use the same wifi hotspot when you're at a conference or something - you are sharing with other people on the network. What _should_ be contractual is the amount of bandwidth you're to expect, and the provider should have to honor that by expanding service in heavy use areas.
Since we're going all the way down the pedantic rabbit hole, how about you explain to me how the above took you out of context, as I did leave the pertinent part of the insult in there. You weren't trying to insult me? Or did you just need to see the whole brilliant thing again?
It was clear enough that the freaking first post made a joke about it. Maybe if you weren't a native Americish speaker I could see that, but last time I checked the UK spoke our language.
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He'll never touch US soil until they've gotten everything they need out of him. The "information extraction" will occur in Cuba or another secret prison.
I don't really understand the social stigma against cloning. Is it some genetic diversity argument?
If he doesn't believe in Hell and condemns you to it, is it really an insult? Its like saying "I condemn you to pink fluffy elephant land....for ETERNITY!" or "I'll see you in non-existence!". Does it really matter?
Because it takes longer for the crackers to figure out if they're "done" or not. There have been things like purposeful crash bugs that lead to multiple releases and such of cracked titles. Anything that keeps an uncracked version out of pirates hands theoretically extends sales, as the sales aren't competing with a free version.
Uh to sell more books. Why bother _buying_ it is the question.
It seems like it would be the opposite, since as a strong male with leadership traits the women would naturally flock to you, whereas a male that needs to seek out lots and lots of mates would typically be one that women wouldn't naturally be drawn to as a "good match". Of course, maybe what we're seeing there is just the natural tendency to say "yes" as a desirable man when lots of women desire it.
Of course, you still have a damn brain, so "my genetics told me too" is never a good excuse.
State the city you were in please, interested to know.
Also I've been to Poland and ate cabbage soup and meat rolls for a week, so I think I've got a pretty good idea of what passes for "good" for you. (Had a "burrito" in Krakow, pretty much the oddest thing I've eaten. Cabbage needs to stay out of a burrito).
Well, maybe he'll get dropped off in one then :)
Saucy Waif Man BOy?
Seriously Wicked Mad Barack Obama?
They haven't announced a demo yet, but that doesn't mean there won't be one (first one had one). Lots of games have demos, and I can tell you probably one of the main reasons the demo's aren't produced is the cost and time taken to produce them. Putting out a demo is a good deal of work, and often has to occur well before the game is polished and ready to go, meaning that you have to prematurely crunch to get the demo out prior to even getting close to ship. That said, many many many games still have demos. I can browse xbox live right now and download a hundred of them if I want.
I've seen about 8 posts from you in this discussion talking about fixing the system. What system are you talking about? Distribution system? Capitalism? The system where devs get paid by some altruistic fairy godmother to make the games you want to play? I am a game dev and I don't particularly think the system is broken, per se. What I do see is a lot of missed opportunities in the way things are priced and distributed, especially online. When you're talking physical goods you're talking about a minimum price to put something in a box and ship it all over the place, and then there's the first party cuts if its a console product. Digital goods have lower and lower margins all the time (the gigabytes and servers add up after a while, but the margins are smaller). It seems like there needs to be a much bigger variation in pricing. I tend to get a lot of free copies of games so I play a lot without paying in a lot, but there's a lot of times I've got a game where I'm think to myself "no way would I pay $60 for this, but $20 would be a no brainer impulse buy". The other thing is that I can pretty much get any book instantly from Amazon the second its released by paying 10 bucks and putting it on an ereader, yet to get a downloadable copy of a new AAA title on my 360 I have to have it shipped to my house. I can get old titles in an arguably superior and more convenient format by downloading them from Xbox live, but I can't get the new ones. Stupid.
So yeah, I think there needs to be a much better model for distribution and pricing, that "system" seem broken. But if you're suggesting that some how myself and my other deluded brethren in the game industry somehow support ourselves and have families based on magic fairy dust and good will from our fans, then you're just deluding yourself. I don't particularly care that you pirate a game, as more and more titles are just going to shift to online and it won't be possible to do much without some serious effort by cracker teams to reengineer backend online services. I think the guys in this article are deluding themselves in that they're going to feed anyone else but the lawyers involved in the case with the money they recoup from piraters. DRM will continue, pirating will continue, and games will continue to be made, don't listen to any naysayers. But think about throwing us guys in the coal mine a bone every once in a while. Otherwise you're just a selfish prick, no matter how you justify it.
a) he's getting his nerdy phase over with early. Metal detecting probably won't be an issue.
b) He'll show up his first day of highschool in a Porsche, I'm sure he'll do fine.
Seriously. 360 is 5 years old, I think we can call it "current gen" now.
Yeah, it should be pretty quick and easy to get a decent bank replacement system up and running. A few hours may be a bit short, but lets give the coder 2 days assuming he's using rails and a transactionless NoSQL solution to get the job done in time. We may need to test it a bit, so leave time for unit testing. After all, this is people's money, so you can't be too careful.
Two words: Dog owner.
Not sure, but if you go by the moderation here it we all know that the more you repeat something the funnier it is. There will be a Beowolf cluster of sharks with lasers ruled by an almighty army of ant overlords that we all for one welcome except in soviet russia where they welcome us as we fight off the vicious grammar Nazis. Staring Natalie Portman and Jon Katz. Its gold!
Nope, but I'd still expect the guy with a bunch of heads in a freezer to be prosecuted. Are you saying because this guy broke the law Sarah gets a pass?
But reading a lot of stuff on a smaller screen than that gets a bit tedious. Ok, so mostly I read /. on my Android phone, which has an excellent browser, but its still too small an unwieldy for my taste.
Of course, nothing ever came of that, did it? Sounds more like "shoot the messenger" to me.
Its true. If you look at every post, there's always some old dude saying "eh, this is just XXXX which YYY did back int the 70s. Big deal!" iPhone? We had an iGrammaPhone did the same shit!
Odds are it doesn't. I find most things are worse than what we already have, and if those bonehead scientists took 5 seconds to ask someone they'd know that. That's my world view of course, as all I know is only going by what I read on /.
The GP post was pretty stupid (those limits would be on the tower/host side of things), but bandwidth isn't free in the cell world. Its the same as everyone trying to use the same wifi hotspot when you're at a conference or something - you are sharing with other people on the network. What _should_ be contractual is the amount of bandwidth you're to expect, and the provider should have to honor that by expanding service in heavy use areas.
Since we're going all the way down the pedantic rabbit hole, how about you explain to me how the above took you out of context, as I did leave the pertinent part of the insult in there. You weren't trying to insult me? Or did you just need to see the whole brilliant thing again?
"As for speaking our language, I'd possibly take issue with. ... I doubt you have the cognitive abilities to even parse English, let alone speak it."
And apparently all the houses across the pond are made of glass.
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1856132&cid=34140192
It was clear enough that the freaking first post made a joke about it. Maybe if you weren't a native Americish speaker I could see that, but last time I checked the UK spoke our language.