I suggest you go to sites who have reviewed SWG post NGE, or better yet come and visit the Official SWG forums. There you will find out how much we "love" the NGE. Sure there are the usual SoE fanboys but I think you will find the comments overwhelingly negative.
What makes you think that messageboards are representative of the majority of players? For all we know, the people complaining on the forums might just be a vocal minority whilst the silent majority just get on with playing the game.
Sixteenth-century english is very different from the contemporary language. What's wrong with translating it?
If you speak English natively, and you need English translating for you, then you really do have problems. English hasn't changed very much since the 16th century, hence why Shakespeare is understandable today.
Of course if you never read anything other than tabloid newspapers or Slashdot and spend the rest of your time watching TV then yeah I suppose it could be hard to follow. But that's not because the language is ancient and archaic, you're just semi-illiterate.
Yes it's a long straight road. There's also a school just on the corner that isn't visible if you don't know the area.
No, there isn't. There's no school, no pedestrians, nothing, it's a dual carriageway.
And cameras don't catch people doing 60, they catch them doing 35. On the other hand there are no speed cameras outside schools, as there's not as much money to be made there.
Then why don't they? Seems like a part of the market they're missing. People don't want to fuck about buying and installing hardware and getting it all to work together.
And I guess you don't understand much about video cards
I don't. Most people don't. I don't know what components or DVI or HDMI or all that shit means. I just want to plug in a box and be done with it. Leave the technical stuff to the geeks.
My point is you can buy a computer with the same if not better hardware specs for the same price as the xbox
Where? Xboxes are pretty cheap. Who is selling a ready-made, off the shelf computer which is as small, easy to use and convient as an Xbox, for the same price as an xbox?
and then you aren't limited to one os
Who gives a shit? I mean, other than hardcore hackers? People who want to watch films and what not don't give a shit about OSes, they probably don't even know what one is, and they don't need to. Come into the real world.
and it offers no price benefit once you realize just what a slow ass p.o.s. the xbox is.
Slow? As in it plays films in slow motion or something? Do games run at half speed?
Doesn't matter if you get people to vote for you. 65% of Britain voted to kick Labour and Blair out, but they're still here with a majority in parliament allowing them to pass anything they want.
In their 8 years in power they've had one bill rejected last week, and that was because of rebel MPs who just wanted to get rid of Blair, rather than because they disagreed with the bill.
The American revolution got rid of the old government and replaced it with one that's even worse, so what benefit would we have to having a revolution?
If anyone in Britain actually gave a shit, and actually thought about what the government was doing rather than reading the opinions from The Sun, it would be easier to vote in a better government than having a revolution.
But when a party can gain absolute power with 35% of the vote, it seems democracy is broken.
If you want to catch speeders, just put them on key accident sites.
That doesn't make money though does it? Most speed cameras are on straight, safe roads with no pedestrians where everyone speeds because the limits are ridiculously low for the conditions.
Speed cameras are revenue generators for the police and nowt else. Saving lives is just the excuse.
I think they're talking about the majority of customers, not the very small but vocal minority who would buy more than one console. At 300-400 a time, most people will buy only one.
There's nothing pussy about not wanting to turn up to work soaked through to the skin, and nothing pussy about wanting to get home and not have to put all my clothes on the radiator for 12 hours every day.
Even if it's only 5 miles, why spend half an hour in the rain when I can spend ten minutes in the car? I actually used to walk before I got the bike, it took over an hour, in the rain. Not exactly what I want after a 12 hour night shift.
Few things can beat the cost efficiency of a bicycle,
If your time is worthless, yes.
And you don't mind turning up to work soaked through to the skin. That's if you get there alive after cycling 20 miles in pitch darkness and fog, with the wind blowing you into the middle of the road and rain going in your eyes so you can't see where you're going, with cars going past at 60mph. I speak from experience here, I don't live in a dry warm climate like everyone on this site who extols the value of cycling.
I don't know what kind of studies you have been reading, but my anecdotal evidence shows that a bus carrying 10 passengers is more resource efficient than 10 cars.
And a bus carrying one person is less efficient than a car carrying one person. One size fits all solutions rarely fit anyone. Especially when you start work at 6am but the buses start at 7am.
Despite living only five miles from work, I would need to take two buses to get there (no bus goes the direct route, they go the long way round), and it would take an hour and a half each way, rather than ten minutes in the car.
Not that it's an issue anyway, as public transport doesn't run at the times I go to work. Hadn't thought about that, had you?
so they can walk (or bike or take the bus) to their work.
Maybe you're some sad masochist who likes walking or cycling to work in the pissing rain for two hours, rather than just sitting in a warm car for twenty minutes.
It's not everyone who lives up the sticks in Hicksville, Alabama.
Of course, the truth comes out, you're some yuppie who lives in a city on a bus route, works somewhere on a bus route, probably a 9-5 office worker so your hours fit in with public transport. More than likely in a dry climate. So being the arrogant yuppie you are, you assume your conditions are identical to everyone else's, and that anyone who doesn't live like you is a 'hick'.
Other than inches in feet, what else in the imperial system uses 12? There are 16 ounces in an inch, three feet in a yard, 8 furlongs in a mile, 14 pounds in a stone, 8 stone in a hundredweight. I'm not seeing many 12s there.
12 is a number that can be divided by 2, 3, 4, and their multiples very easily, and still end up in integer units again without equipment. The decimal metric system gets icky when you try to divide anything by anything except 5 and 2.
You can't divide 12 by 5 and get a whole number either. You can divice by four just as easily in metric as you can in imperial. For example, 8 cm divided by 4 = 2 cm. Whereas 6 inches divided by four goes into decimal places. Luckily most measuring units have decimal places so it's a non issue.
Maybe you live in some world where you often need to work out what a third or a quarter of a foot is without using any measuring instruments that show anything smaller than an inch. Maybe you need a new ruler.
Yeah, because it never rains or anything. You're like those cyclist fanatics who come onto every thread like this telling people to go on the bike.
Here's a bit of information: I've just come back from work on the bike. Five miles, over the hills. Pitch black, absolutely pissing it down. I was soaked through to the skin, even through waterproof clothes everything I was wearing was wet, I may as well have swam home. Luckily I could take everything off and change, imagine if I was going to work?
I'll probably get a cold now. If you can afford a car, get one. Fuck the environment, it's not worth living in misery to stop the earth getting a millionth of a degree warmer.
Playstation 1 (1 star) : The PS1's launch games were either overhyped, completely uninspired, ugly, and/or just plain bad after coming from the SNES/Genesis war.
He's talking about the launch/marketing, not the quality of the actual games. You say they're overhyped, that to everyone else means it was heavily marketed, and it was successful. Sony came from outside the entire market and conquered it overnight. Sounds like a successful launch to me.
No, they think they're entitled to NOT have people pirating their works. They think you can either buy it legally, or do without. I think they're entirely reasonable in expecting that, don't you agree?
Slashdot is always saying that p2p systems are full of people legally sharing files which the artists have allowed them to share, so these stiffer penalties won't apply to them.
The only reason this article would be an issue to Slashdot was if Slashdotters were pirating, so what's the problem?
During the Napster era, Slashdotters were saying that they should go after the pirates and not Napster, as a lot of people were sharing legal files on Napster. Now they're going after the pirates, and Slashdot is still complaining. This is called 'moving the goalposts'.
Lighten the penalties, and maybe people will buy from you!
No, lighten the penalties and MORE people will turn to piracy. Increase the penalties (and the chances of being caught), and more people will turn to legal means.
I have a right to go and download a copy of a song I already own, as backup copies for personal use are fine.
Of course, bittorrent is full of people downloading songs they've already bought, or backup copies, or free songs. It's not like 99.99% of it is piracy.
Anyway, these penalties wouldn't apply to people who aren't violating copyright, so what are you posting for?
Slashdot Mirror
I suggest you go to sites who have reviewed SWG post NGE, or better yet come and visit the Official SWG forums. There you will find out how much we "love" the NGE. Sure there are the usual SoE fanboys but I think you will find the comments overwhelingly negative.
What makes you think that messageboards are representative of the majority of players? For all we know, the people complaining on the forums might just be a vocal minority whilst the silent majority just get on with playing the game.
Sixteenth-century english is very different from the contemporary language. What's wrong with translating it?
If you speak English natively, and you need English translating for you, then you really do have problems. English hasn't changed very much since the 16th century, hence why Shakespeare is understandable today.
Of course if you never read anything other than tabloid newspapers or Slashdot and spend the rest of your time watching TV then yeah I suppose it could be hard to follow. But that's not because the language is ancient and archaic, you're just semi-illiterate.
"Wherefore art thou," may have been the contemporary way of saying "Where are you?"
No, it wasn't.
OK, please explain how I tune my ipod into Radio 5 so I can listen to the news and football?
Yes it's a long straight road. There's also a school just on the corner that isn't visible if you don't know the area.
No, there isn't. There's no school, no pedestrians, nothing, it's a dual carriageway.
And cameras don't catch people doing 60, they catch them doing 35. On the other hand there are no speed cameras outside schools, as there's not as much money to be made there.
Text-based MMORPGS? They're called 'MUDs', and they've been around for decades.
Then why don't they? Seems like a part of the market they're missing. People don't want to fuck about buying and installing hardware and getting it all to work together.
And I guess you don't understand much about video cards
I don't. Most people don't. I don't know what components or DVI or HDMI or all that shit means. I just want to plug in a box and be done with it. Leave the technical stuff to the geeks.
My point is you can buy a computer with the same if not better hardware specs for the same price as the xbox
Where? Xboxes are pretty cheap. Who is selling a ready-made, off the shelf computer which is as small, easy to use and convient as an Xbox, for the same price as an xbox?
and then you aren't limited to one os
Who gives a shit? I mean, other than hardcore hackers? People who want to watch films and what not don't give a shit about OSes, they probably don't even know what one is, and they don't need to. Come into the real world.
and it offers no price benefit once you realize just what a slow ass p.o.s. the xbox is.
Slow? As in it plays films in slow motion or something? Do games run at half speed?
Doesn't matter if you get people to vote for you. 65% of Britain voted to kick Labour and Blair out, but they're still here with a majority in parliament allowing them to pass anything they want.
In their 8 years in power they've had one bill rejected last week, and that was because of rebel MPs who just wanted to get rid of Blair, rather than because they disagreed with the bill.
The American revolution got rid of the old government and replaced it with one that's even worse, so what benefit would we have to having a revolution?
If anyone in Britain actually gave a shit, and actually thought about what the government was doing rather than reading the opinions from The Sun, it would be easier to vote in a better government than having a revolution.
But when a party can gain absolute power with 35% of the vote, it seems democracy is broken.
Bear in mind the only reason it was defeated in Parliament is because people wanted to do over Blair. As soon as he's gone it'll probably pass.
If you want to catch speeders, just put them on key accident sites.
That doesn't make money though does it? Most speed cameras are on straight, safe roads with no pedestrians where everyone speeds because the limits are ridiculously low for the conditions.
Speed cameras are revenue generators for the police and nowt else. Saving lives is just the excuse.
I think they're talking about the majority of customers, not the very small but vocal minority who would buy more than one console. At 300-400 a time, most people will buy only one.
Just a shame that Medievia is run by scumbags.
There's nothing pussy about not wanting to turn up to work soaked through to the skin, and nothing pussy about wanting to get home and not have to put all my clothes on the radiator for 12 hours every day.
Even if it's only 5 miles, why spend half an hour in the rain when I can spend ten minutes in the car? I actually used to walk before I got the bike, it took over an hour, in the rain. Not exactly what I want after a 12 hour night shift.
Few things can beat the cost efficiency of a bicycle,
If your time is worthless, yes.
And you don't mind turning up to work soaked through to the skin. That's if you get there alive after cycling 20 miles in pitch darkness and fog, with the wind blowing you into the middle of the road and rain going in your eyes so you can't see where you're going, with cars going past at 60mph. I speak from experience here, I don't live in a dry warm climate like everyone on this site who extols the value of cycling.
I don't know what kind of studies you have been reading, but my anecdotal evidence shows that a bus carrying 10 passengers is more resource efficient than 10 cars.
And a bus carrying one person is less efficient than a car carrying one person. One size fits all solutions rarely fit anyone. Especially when you start work at 6am but the buses start at 7am.
As far as public transport goes, remember:
No size fits all.
Despite living only five miles from work, I would need to take two buses to get there (no bus goes the direct route, they go the long way round), and it would take an hour and a half each way, rather than ten minutes in the car.
Not that it's an issue anyway, as public transport doesn't run at the times I go to work. Hadn't thought about that, had you?
so they can walk (or bike or take the bus) to their work.
Maybe you're some sad masochist who likes walking or cycling to work in the pissing rain for two hours, rather than just sitting in a warm car for twenty minutes.
It's not everyone who lives up the sticks in Hicksville, Alabama.
Of course, the truth comes out, you're some yuppie who lives in a city on a bus route, works somewhere on a bus route, probably a 9-5 office worker so your hours fit in with public transport. More than likely in a dry climate. So being the arrogant yuppie you are, you assume your conditions are identical to everyone else's, and that anyone who doesn't live like you is a 'hick'.
Other than inches in feet, what else in the imperial system uses 12? There are 16 ounces in an inch, three feet in a yard, 8 furlongs in a mile, 14 pounds in a stone, 8 stone in a hundredweight. I'm not seeing many 12s there.
12 is a number that can be divided by 2, 3, 4, and their multiples very easily, and still end up in integer units again without equipment. The decimal metric system gets icky when you try to divide anything by anything except 5 and 2.
You can't divide 12 by 5 and get a whole number either. You can divice by four just as easily in metric as you can in imperial. For example, 8 cm divided by 4 = 2 cm. Whereas 6 inches divided by four goes into decimal places. Luckily most measuring units have decimal places so it's a non issue.
Maybe you live in some world where you often need to work out what a third or a quarter of a foot is without using any measuring instruments that show anything smaller than an inch. Maybe you need a new ruler.
Yeah, because it never rains or anything. You're like those cyclist fanatics who come onto every thread like this telling people to go on the bike.
Here's a bit of information: I've just come back from work on the bike. Five miles, over the hills. Pitch black, absolutely pissing it down. I was soaked through to the skin, even through waterproof clothes everything I was wearing was wet, I may as well have swam home. Luckily I could take everything off and change, imagine if I was going to work?
I'll probably get a cold now. If you can afford a car, get one. Fuck the environment, it's not worth living in misery to stop the earth getting a millionth of a degree warmer.
If you were up till 4am drinking on your own I don't think too many people would congratulate you for it.
Pubs close at 11pm. You didn't think that through really did you?
Playstation 1 (1 star) : The PS1's launch games were either overhyped, completely uninspired, ugly, and/or just plain bad after coming from the SNES/Genesis war.
He's talking about the launch/marketing, not the quality of the actual games. You say they're overhyped, that to everyone else means it was heavily marketed, and it was successful. Sony came from outside the entire market and conquered it overnight. Sounds like a successful launch to me.
No, they think they're entitled to NOT have people pirating their works. They think you can either buy it legally, or do without. I think they're entirely reasonable in expecting that, don't you agree?
Slashdot is always saying that p2p systems are full of people legally sharing files which the artists have allowed them to share, so these stiffer penalties won't apply to them.
The only reason this article would be an issue to Slashdot was if Slashdotters were pirating, so what's the problem?
During the Napster era, Slashdotters were saying that they should go after the pirates and not Napster, as a lot of people were sharing legal files on Napster. Now they're going after the pirates, and Slashdot is still complaining. This is called 'moving the goalposts'.
Lighten the penalties, and maybe people will buy from you!
No, lighten the penalties and MORE people will turn to piracy. Increase the penalties (and the chances of being caught), and more people will turn to legal means.
I have a right to go and download a copy of a song I already own, as backup copies for personal use are fine.
Of course, bittorrent is full of people downloading songs they've already bought, or backup copies, or free songs. It's not like 99.99% of it is piracy.
Anyway, these penalties wouldn't apply to people who aren't violating copyright, so what are you posting for?
Piracy was never a civil liberty, never will be. Get off your high horses: piracy is illegal and wrong.
Maybe if you worked out how to obey the law, they wouldn't need to increase the severity of the punishment.