You, like many others, are missing the point. None of the games you've mentioned started out as being playable by some disabled guy and then became unplayable by same disabled guy due to recent rules changes.
SWG started out as being playable, and became unplayable for this particular person due to a huge patch(the NGE).
In other words, this disabled guy went out of his way to select a game he knew he could play, and after selling it to him, SOE changed it so that he couldn't play it. If the bandwidth or latency requirements for the game went up with the NGE, would you defend the right of modem users who had previously been able to play the game to get upset or otherwise take action if the NGE made the game effectively unplayable for them? What if they lived somewhere where good old 56k modem service was the only internet connection available? This is about more than mere disabilities.
1). It should, by default, be recognized that certain audiences can't realistically play ANY game, much less pre-NGE SWG or post-NGE SWG. Point is the original game was playable by the plaintiff, while the post-NGE game is not. Asserting that this is somehow related to blind people's ability to play games(before or after patches) is the only absurd argument here.
2). Since when did SWG ever cater to the bulk of the population? *P
However, the product was sold as something the plaintiff could play. It later changed into something he could not play. This is similar to selling someone a vehicle with a design friendly to those with physical handicaps and later issuing a recall on the car body, refitting it with one that makes the vehicle unusable to disabled drivers.
There's not much in common between a mass-market PC game intended for the general public and a military aircraft intended only for use in combat operations. At least in theory, everyone should be able to play SWG, especially if it didn't call for any particularly intense control schemes when it was originally sold to the plaintiff.
Anyone who has played FFXI before can tell you that being able to make flowerpots REALLY WELL is important. Being able to make 100 different kinds is even better.
There's a reason why a few of these bloggers are the "ones that matter": they had the best and/or most popular blogs and got the most hits. Period. It's the same deal with high-profile tech sites like Tom's Hardware. Getting the hits results in attention from the industry.
In time, any "A-list" blogger who becomes too influenced by industry sources will be discredited and shunned by the community of "proletariants" that made them a success in the first place. Honest, unbiased(or less-biased at least) bloggers will take over. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Is it just me, or is this another case of a bitter main-stream media player taking swings at bloggers?
Not really. Musicians, for example, existed long before any of them could secure the rights to their own music in any real or legal sense. Creative people will wind up creating things because they need to do so as much as they want to do so. It's "in their blood".
"Making everything free" will certainly change how wealthy creative people can be at any given time, and it might chase some opportunists out of creative fields, but those who are bound to create will still create.
I'd love a mouse like this! I'd name him Johan, and let him loose in cages of other mice just to see how long it would be before they all died. Except Johan, of course.
In the end, Johan would only kill me, though. I guess that was part of the plan from the start.
This article should serve as a reminder that public discussion of Slashdot's present and future state is a GOOD THING. I'm sick of seeing people being moderated as Offtopic, Flamebait, or Troll just because they dare to question authority around here. I suspect that it isn't usually the moderators down-modding these posts, either!
In fact, the entire moderation system is constantly undermined by the editors. There's a total lack of trust around here with a bent towards mindless censorship of "offensive" material. Translation: people here have a lousy sense of humor. That whole "excessive bad posting from this IP" thing shouldn't even exist. Mod their comments down and move along! If it isn't spamming(which it frequently is not), let it go!
My IP was banned until recently because I had the gall to post comments in that goatse prank-article(you remember that one?) that were favorable to the pranksters. I thought it was funny, and I said so. It was! I like a good prank, especially when it's not at my expense, and all it was was a picture of distorted human anatomy. Everyone's got one of those . . . things, albeit not such a distended one, so what's the problem? How could anyone even be offended by that?
Someone - likely an editor whose ego was bruised by the prank - decided that all my comments needed to be down-modded, and that my IP should be banned for "excessive bad posting", even though my karma was still at Good despite several successive down-mods from the incident. I don't mind the ban so much, but what I do mind is that Slashdot's editors are obviously unimpressed with their own moderation system that they need to ban people who are willing to accept the consequences of getting modded down. I haven't been to Digg, nor do I feel any complusion to go there. However, if they are not saddled with this stifling moderation system and a pack of editors that want to police users for no good reason, then I'd say Digg has at least one advantage.
Seems like Microsoft has done a wonderful job of convincing customers that buying Vista is pointless. It's bad enough that existing MS operating systems will likely have the same base functionality of Vista with lower hardware requirements(and possibly higher overall performance). Now this?
Agreed. It's also idiotic to mod down posts by ACs that start at 0 anyway, and have no chance of going up. Most first posts start at 0 or -1. Why bother?
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You, like many others, are missing the point. None of the games you've mentioned started out as being playable by some disabled guy and then became unplayable by same disabled guy due to recent rules changes.
SWG started out as being playable, and became unplayable for this particular person due to a huge patch(the NGE).
In other words, this disabled guy went out of his way to select a game he knew he could play, and after selling it to him, SOE changed it so that he couldn't play it. If the bandwidth or latency requirements for the game went up with the NGE, would you defend the right of modem users who had previously been able to play the game to get upset or otherwise take action if the NGE made the game effectively unplayable for them? What if they lived somewhere where good old 56k modem service was the only internet connection available? This is about more than mere disabilities.
1). It should, by default, be recognized that certain audiences can't realistically play ANY game, much less pre-NGE SWG or post-NGE SWG. Point is the original game was playable by the plaintiff, while the post-NGE game is not. Asserting that this is somehow related to blind people's ability to play games(before or after patches) is the only absurd argument here.
2). Since when did SWG ever cater to the bulk of the population? *P
However, the product was sold as something the plaintiff could play. It later changed into something he could not play. This is similar to selling someone a vehicle with a design friendly to those with physical handicaps and later issuing a recall on the car body, refitting it with one that makes the vehicle unusable to disabled drivers.
I think it went straight from CU to NGE, but I could be wrong.
There's not much in common between a mass-market PC game intended for the general public and a military aircraft intended only for use in combat operations. At least in theory, everyone should be able to play SWG, especially if it didn't call for any particularly intense control schemes when it was originally sold to the plaintiff.
I wonder how Fatmouse feels about this? This technology must be kept out of the paws of Baron Von Bloatenkat!
Anyone who has played FFXI before can tell you that being able to make flowerpots REALLY WELL is important. Being able to make 100 different kinds is even better.
Just what we need, tumors with puppet governments.
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It's not a tumor!
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There's a reason why a few of these bloggers are the "ones that matter": they had the best and/or most popular blogs and got the most hits. Period. It's the same deal with high-profile tech sites like Tom's Hardware. Getting the hits results in attention from the industry.
In time, any "A-list" blogger who becomes too influenced by industry sources will be discredited and shunned by the community of "proletariants" that made them a success in the first place. Honest, unbiased(or less-biased at least) bloggers will take over. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Is it just me, or is this another case of a bitter main-stream media player taking swings at bloggers?
Not really. Musicians, for example, existed long before any of them could secure the rights to their own music in any real or legal sense. Creative people will wind up creating things because they need to do so as much as they want to do so. It's "in their blood".
"Making everything free" will certainly change how wealthy creative people can be at any given time, and it might chase some opportunists out of creative fields, but those who are bound to create will still create.
Well . . . Fracno IS dead. Maybe somebody forgot and needed to be reminded? It gets +1 Informative in my book.
And Sony wants the same thing. Does this surprise you?
I'd love a mouse like this! I'd name him Johan, and let him loose in cages of other mice just to see how long it would be before they all died. Except Johan, of course.
In the end, Johan would only kill me, though. I guess that was part of the plan from the start.
This article should serve as a reminder that public discussion of Slashdot's present and future state is a GOOD THING. I'm sick of seeing people being moderated as Offtopic, Flamebait, or Troll just because they dare to question authority around here. I suspect that it isn't usually the moderators down-modding these posts, either!
In fact, the entire moderation system is constantly undermined by the editors. There's a total lack of trust around here with a bent towards mindless censorship of "offensive" material. Translation: people here have a lousy sense of humor. That whole "excessive bad posting from this IP" thing shouldn't even exist. Mod their comments down and move along! If it isn't spamming(which it frequently is not), let it go!
My IP was banned until recently because I had the gall to post comments in that goatse prank-article(you remember that one?) that were favorable to the pranksters. I thought it was funny, and I said so. It was! I like a good prank, especially when it's not at my expense, and all it was was a picture of distorted human anatomy. Everyone's got one of those . . . things, albeit not such a distended one, so what's the problem? How could anyone even be offended by that?
Someone - likely an editor whose ego was bruised by the prank - decided that all my comments needed to be down-modded, and that my IP should be banned for "excessive bad posting", even though my karma was still at Good despite several successive down-mods from the incident. I don't mind the ban so much, but what I do mind is that Slashdot's editors are obviously unimpressed with their own moderation system that they need to ban people who are willing to accept the consequences of getting modded down. I haven't been to Digg, nor do I feel any complusion to go there. However, if they are not saddled with this stifling moderation system and a pack of editors that want to police users for no good reason, then I'd say Digg has at least one advantage.
Bah, I'm laughing so hard that I can't even compose proper sentences.
Dude, shut up. All the people are moaning deserve this sort of exposure. Let it ride, I say!
Citizens demand more goatse links in submissions.
About time they got something right.
Oh, but it's the first thing that wanted to see you in the morning . . .
Stop whining! This is one of /.'s finest moments in history. Enjoy it while it lasts, and pray for more.
Let's hope so!
This is the finest article I've ever read on Slashdot.
Seems like Microsoft has done a wonderful job of convincing customers that buying Vista is pointless. It's bad enough that existing MS operating systems will likely have the same base functionality of Vista with lower hardware requirements(and possibly higher overall performance). Now this?
Agreed. It's also idiotic to mod down posts by ACs that start at 0 anyway, and have no chance of going up. Most first posts start at 0 or -1. Why bother?
IN SOVIET RUSSIA, computers learn the inner workings of YOU!
Violenty.
Can you think of any better reason than that?