too sarcastic sheesh. not like every predicted idea is worth doing or anything. And um, videophones exist - its just a silly idea that not many people really want.
Yes.
"or can you spot certain gamers on sight alone?"
Maybe, but the people I know, who play games, look nothing like any stereotypes.
Obviously everyone is different, trends occur but they are NEVER the RULE.
Since when did RPGs not have manuals?
I mean, any good RPG has at least a little system to drive it. Text Adventure games are quite complex, you can't guess how to play one of them but you can guess how to play point-n-click rpgs.
Okay then let all the players draw the graphics for their own avatars, would you like that?
The difference is that the game designers are the ones creating the graphics, with voice communication the players have complete control.
God knows even simple text chat is screwed up by most hopeless players
GLOBAL - l77tskllz: "Selling +6s ths 4 16gp pvt msg me now"
wow the disbelief is really suspended now.
I didn't know money orders cost money, I thought you were making a $1 order.
The whole credit card system already exists, any new way of doing things would likely cost more, or be insecure, or have millions of other problems because you are trying to bridge the gap of real and virtual with anonymous access at no cost to get your money to someone else and get a product from them to you.
it's new, give them time for that stuff i guess
and bitpass only knows your email and where the money comes from - they don't pass that on to the seller.
just create an email address and use a paypal account. how would you ever be tracked down then?
someone said paying 37c postage for $1 credit was not a good idea for a 25c comic.
This person without credit card seems to have a problem paying anything on top of the written price. A normal person would get $10 credit via mail (40 comics), or more and this place sells minimum of $3 credit anyway. So the point is moot.
trying to buy products online without a credit card should cost you MORE money than without!
I still think it would be hacked, abused and generally have issues. a website is much easier, cheaper and doesn't require 10 megs of bandwidth for every single visitor to download it.
Shockzone software SUCKED.
all those other jukebox game software things are crap too, I had a few trying various "free" games. full of ads, spyware and all the rest. I really hate them now. even WildTangent has gone to crap.
I might try out this bitpass thing just because it is only $3, I do put my money where my mouth is sometimes - I am not the average leecher. I hate ads, they dont work. When people just click them to help the site using them it causes the whole ad system to fail.
Advertiser gives money to site for ad space clicks.
Advertiser gets 100000 clicks and NO SALES.
Advertiser goes away, site runs out of money.
bitpass is anonymous payments as low as 1 cent and its a lot easier than you think
You pay for stuff and the person you paid does not know who the money is coming from. (obviously this is for digital products)
You could probably by one from that american supermarket you mentioned eventually.... once there is a need.
Obviously a phone company can make pre-paid cards because they control the system they are used on - do banks control the internet ? no. Do they control a part of it? their own site - yes. could they do the same thing? yes.
I have mandrake 9 boot loader on my win2k machine.
"The core system file (kernel) used to start this computer is not a Microsoft Windows file. The Service Pack will not be installed. For more information, see Knowledge Base article at http://support.microsoft.com."
Note: it does not say WHICH article.
PS: I hate microsoft.
wow thats awesome!
also need some auto-installer plugin stuff for alpha support maybe too.
as for IE ruining PNG - I agree.
as for the following post that MNG is bloated.. LOL, MNG is amazingly cool man, it does all sorts of awesome stuff that totally blows GIF away, it elevates the image to the level of FLASH. the browsers can do partial support if they wish - so don't comlain.
PNG is way cool - gif will aways suck compared to PNG no matter how free GIF becomes. MNG is like the grail.
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too sarcastic sheesh. not like every predicted idea is worth doing or anything. And um, videophones exist - its just a silly idea that not many people really want.
linux also differs in the fact that it is free and people want access to the non-finished versions source code.
but the elasticity comes from the sticky quality right? is it possible to retain the elastic quality without it being sticky?
who wants sticky clothing? yuk.
"Is this simply lazy/offensive pigeonholing"
Yes. "or can you spot certain gamers on sight alone?"
Maybe, but the people I know, who play games, look nothing like any stereotypes.
Obviously everyone is different, trends occur but they are NEVER the RULE.
Since when did RPGs not have manuals?
I mean, any good RPG has at least a little system to drive it. Text Adventure games are quite complex, you can't guess how to play one of them but you can guess how to play point-n-click rpgs.
I thought auto-updating was enabled by default in WindowsXP.
some people can make music, not everyone gets it from electronic devices.
yu suk, sif u wud B dat dum.
^ is that the kind of sentences you want to read every day?
Maybe you haven't bothered to read the news before commenting.
Okay then let all the players draw the graphics for their own avatars, would you like that? The difference is that the game designers are the ones creating the graphics, with voice communication the players have complete control. God knows even simple text chat is screwed up by most hopeless players
GLOBAL - l77tskllz: "Selling +6s ths 4 16gp pvt msg me now"
wow the disbelief is really suspended now.
We've all seen articles like this before - is it news or advertising?
Alternity forever! wooo!.
I didn't know money orders cost money, I thought you were making a $1 order.
The whole credit card system already exists, any new way of doing things would likely cost more, or be insecure, or have millions of other problems because you are trying to bridge the gap of real and virtual with anonymous access at no cost to get your money to someone else and get a product from them to you.
it's new, give them time for that stuff i guess
and bitpass only knows your email and where the money comes from - they don't pass that on to the seller.
just create an email address and use a paypal account. how would you ever be tracked down then?
someone said paying 37c postage for $1 credit was not a good idea for a 25c comic.
This person without credit card seems to have a problem paying anything on top of the written price. A normal person would get $10 credit via mail (40 comics), or more and this place sells minimum of $3 credit anyway. So the point is moot.
trying to buy products online without a credit card should cost you MORE money than without!
I still think it would be hacked, abused and generally have issues. a website is much easier, cheaper and doesn't require 10 megs of bandwidth for every single visitor to download it. Shockzone software SUCKED.
all those other jukebox game software things are crap too, I had a few trying various "free" games. full of ads, spyware and all the rest.
I really hate them now. even WildTangent has gone to crap.
I might try out this bitpass thing just because it is only $3, I do put my money where my mouth is sometimes - I am not the average leecher. I hate ads, they dont work. When people just click them to help the site using them it causes the whole ad system to fail.
Advertiser gives money to site for ad space clicks.
Advertiser gets 100000 clicks and NO SALES.
Advertiser goes away, site runs out of money.
micropayments aren't trying to force ALL web comics to cost money.
all this "Pay for content" stuff doesn't mean ALL content costs money.
it is MICRO... not pre-paid chunks of cash up front.
I don't want to download software. what if I have an old PC a Mac Linux an Amiga.. etc
sounds bad. i'd rather pay the author direct
you don't have a credit card and you complain about paying 37c to buy any amount credit you want?
didn't read about it did you.
bitpass is anonymous payments as low as 1 cent and its a lot easier than you think
You pay for stuff and the person you paid does not know who the money is coming from. (obviously this is for digital products)
You could probably by one from that american supermarket you mentioned eventually.... once there is a need.
Obviously a phone company can make pre-paid cards because they control the system they are used on - do banks control the internet ? no. Do they control a part of it? their own site - yes. could they do the same thing? yes.
I have mandrake 9 boot loader on my win2k machine.
"The core system file (kernel) used to start this computer is not a Microsoft Windows file. The Service Pack will not be installed. For more information, see Knowledge Base article at http://support.microsoft.com."
Note: it does not say WHICH article.
PS: I hate microsoft.
wow thats awesome! also need some auto-installer plugin stuff for alpha support maybe too.
as for IE ruining PNG - I agree.
as for the following post that MNG is bloated.. LOL, MNG is amazingly cool man, it does all sorts of awesome stuff that totally blows GIF away, it elevates the image to the level of FLASH. the browsers can do partial support if they wish - so don't comlain.
PNG is way cool - gif will aways suck compared to PNG no matter how free GIF becomes. MNG is like the grail.
except this is not a NEWS site is it? its "Stuff that matters" "Nerd Stuff"... go to one of the other 40 000 sites which caters to your needs.