"Sure Warcraft has a raid-game end-game to cater to the 'hard core' but most people don't go there, and really, to really suceed in Warcrafts raid game you just have to be -there-, you don't have to be -good-."
This is a stereotype of the older, larger raids (20 and 40 person teams). New raids in WoW are much smaller (10 and 25 person teams) and thus require better players to succeed as a whole.
"The buyer of the above product and transaction #, by acceptance of this receipt of purchase, agrees to the following Terms and Conditions of this Sales Licensing Contract:"
(insert EULA-type contract in the tinest print possible for a commercial retail printer to produce)
It would be trivial to impliment this at every point-of-sale in every major retail outlet. I can't believe the retail and manufacturing industries haven't started this already.
"What of the smaller retail outlets?"
Fear will keep them in line. Fear of corporate lawyers.
Sadly the published RPG is dying an agonizing death. Nobody wants to pay $30-$40 for a hardcover rulebook when they can pay that for a full-function CRPG (computer or console, take your pick). Add to this the unending supply of "optional" supplimental books and the industry just cannot survive the same glut that TSR produced in the 2nd Edition AD&D days. The promise of OpenGaming and d20 can't save an industry that relies on an ever-shrinking market of buyers and an ever-increasing price of entry. Further pressure is being exerted by decreasing literacy among teens, lower interest among young adults, and thus an aging tabletop gaming populace hemmoraging to real-life issues and other problems.
Finally, Wizards has ensured the demise of their original cashcow, Magic: The Gathering, through an unending stream of expansions and rules changes & negations. This is further eroded by the fact that it attempts to be a game and a collectible object: you force consumers to pay repeated costs for the same game, both through randomized packs of cards, and by a continual "revision" of the game. Gamers must continuously pay money to Wizards and retailers in order to remain "tournament legal". Why pay $20-$30 per month to Wizards for a card game, when a kid can pay $15 a month to Blizzard Entertainment and still hang out and be cool with his friends?
Electronic gaming in its various guises isn't just eating its grandfather's lunch, it's putting gramps in the home to die. The sad part about all of this is that companies like Wizards are willingly going.
I'm confused as to why folks think fooling a virus with NTP is any harder than fooling it on the internal clock. It just requires a little more work, but unless the virus was going to check a private, authenticated NTP server it's trivial to rig.
Everything I've ever heard from fans and co-workers has described James "Jimmy" Doohan as a man who was funny, caring, and a great guy to be with. Unlike certain unnamed Trek actors, he was never too big to attend the smallest convention and he was always pleased just to be there for the fans. He will be truly missed.
A different operating system that is NOT Windows...?
How long until Microsoft swoops in with salesmen and faulty TCO numbers to convince this county's school board to go all-MS?
After all, there wouldn't be these problems if the schools were using Windows XP workstations accessing MS-SQL servers running alongside Windows Server 2003 Enterprise IIS webservers. Right?
Because we all know it's cheaper that way, right? Right?
The difference is that technology has lessened the real work necessary to prosper in the modern world. For women, being a housewife used to be a full-time position that required a great deal of work and effort. That is no longer necessary due to new appliances and new methods of packaging & delivery. This is where the 1950's "Stepford wife" arose from, due to a new abundance of free time in the day that women were expected to use to beautify themselves to receive their husbands and guests into the home. It seems like an attractive role now due to the crushing of those expectations and perceptions; modern housewives can choose how they spend their free time now.
Feminism and anti-feminism collide to produce a society that thinks pretty girls who don't know anything are fine as long as they're pushy about what they (think) they want and can get into any job they desire (just make sure to have a lawyer). You get enough female representation to make soccer moms feel like they're being spoken for, but few enough so that male authority remains dominant. Studies like this just continue this double-talk nature of telling the public women are dumb compared to men, but they make up for it with their other "talents".
Am I jaded that I think real feminism is dead? It seems to just be token responses, overhyped overreactions by femi-nazis, and teenage girls who just wanna have lots of sex and look good. Did the 60's and 70's women's lib movement really happen or was that some acid-induced dream?
IANAL, but proving contributory infringement (as well as other illegal acts) has to be harder against a financier than "they gave someone money". If it were that easy half of Wall Street would be in jail and the other half would be facing ruinous civil judgements.
This may make for an nice little lawsuit, but I don't see it happening. The EFF may help contributors make an attack, but SCO is a sinking ship full of rats that have eaten most of the cargo. The only good that could perhaps come would be an injunction on sales of UnixWare, which finishes off SCO's actual revenue. I don't think this could be leveraged to open up UnixWare (the rights are probably going to revert back to Novell anyhow), and if UW is poisoned goods nobody will want it anyway.
Stick a fork in it, there's nothing but steam left.
That makes sense... it was always a major complaint of the BF series that more players didn't make the maps larger or more versatile, just more laggy. Large games would get bogged down in spawn-camping since the number of spawns never changed. I hope this was one of the things changed...?
I'm thinking this is how the retail game will operate. It appears to be built around a client/server mentality... you "log in" to your local game just as you would log into a remote game.
There is no mystical voodoo magic involved with transmitting, receiving, or processing digital television signals. The air around you is already filled with digital TV signals (since 2003 as mandated by Congress and the FCC). The only thing that has not happened is the shutdown of the analog broadcasts.
As for how people without digital TVs will go on living... I imagine most will employ set-top digital-analog converters. The U.S. is not the first to push for all-digital TV and there have been no angry riots yet. Digital, after all, doesn't mean a different picture so much as a crisper, cleaner picture.
Broadcast TV in the U.S. is only required to move to digital, not HDTV. Digital signals can carry both standard and HDTV. The confusion exists only because the proponents of HDTV want the general public confused enough to pay upwards of $800 more for their HDTV sets.
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1,500,000 yen is about equal to $16,000 US.
I'm guessing Gamestop and other used-game retailers will love this.
"Sure Warcraft has a raid-game end-game to cater to the 'hard core' but most people don't go there, and really, to really suceed in Warcrafts raid game you just have to be -there-, you don't have to be -good-."
This is a stereotype of the older, larger raids (20 and 40 person teams). New raids in WoW are much smaller (10 and 25 person teams) and thus require better players to succeed as a whole.
This is known colloquially as the "Streisand Effect".
"The buyer of the above product and transaction #, by acceptance of this receipt of purchase, agrees to the following Terms and Conditions of this Sales Licensing Contract:"
(insert EULA-type contract in the tinest print possible for a commercial retail printer to produce)
It would be trivial to impliment this at every point-of-sale in every major retail outlet. I can't believe the retail and manufacturing industries haven't started this already.
"What of the smaller retail outlets?"
Fear will keep them in line. Fear of corporate lawyers.
And was the person that busted them named "iSpouse"?
Thank you, I'll be here all night.
Sadly the published RPG is dying an agonizing death. Nobody wants to pay $30-$40 for a hardcover rulebook when they can pay that for a full-function CRPG (computer or console, take your pick). Add to this the unending supply of "optional" supplimental books and the industry just cannot survive the same glut that TSR produced in the 2nd Edition AD&D days. The promise of OpenGaming and d20 can't save an industry that relies on an ever-shrinking market of buyers and an ever-increasing price of entry. Further pressure is being exerted by decreasing literacy among teens, lower interest among young adults, and thus an aging tabletop gaming populace hemmoraging to real-life issues and other problems.
Finally, Wizards has ensured the demise of their original cashcow, Magic: The Gathering, through an unending stream of expansions and rules changes & negations. This is further eroded by the fact that it attempts to be a game and a collectible object: you force consumers to pay repeated costs for the same game, both through randomized packs of cards, and by a continual "revision" of the game. Gamers must continuously pay money to Wizards and retailers in order to remain "tournament legal". Why pay $20-$30 per month to Wizards for a card game, when a kid can pay $15 a month to Blizzard Entertainment and still hang out and be cool with his friends?
Electronic gaming in its various guises isn't just eating its grandfather's lunch, it's putting gramps in the home to die. The sad part about all of this is that companies like Wizards are willingly going.
Pax Electronica.
Of course I don't have mod points today. *shakes fist*
Psst, buddy. Over here. City of Heroes/Villains. Have cake and eat it too.
I'm confused as to why folks think fooling a virus with NTP is any harder than fooling it on the internal clock. It just requires a little more work, but unless the virus was going to check a private, authenticated NTP server it's trivial to rig.
Sarcasm is redundant. Yep, this is Slashdot. ;)
Red vs. Blue a big winner, what a shock!
(That was sarcasm for the impaired.)
Everything I've ever heard from fans and co-workers has described James "Jimmy" Doohan as a man who was funny, caring, and a great guy to be with. Unlike certain unnamed Trek actors, he was never too big to attend the smallest convention and he was always pleased just to be there for the fans. He will be truly missed.
A different operating system that is NOT Windows...?
How long until Microsoft swoops in with salesmen and faulty TCO numbers to convince this county's school board to go all-MS?
After all, there wouldn't be these problems if the schools were using Windows XP workstations accessing MS-SQL servers running alongside Windows Server 2003 Enterprise IIS webservers. Right?
Because we all know it's cheaper that way, right? Right?
The difference is that technology has lessened the real work necessary to prosper in the modern world. For women, being a housewife used to be a full-time position that required a great deal of work and effort. That is no longer necessary due to new appliances and new methods of packaging & delivery. This is where the 1950's "Stepford wife" arose from, due to a new abundance of free time in the day that women were expected to use to beautify themselves to receive their husbands and guests into the home. It seems like an attractive role now due to the crushing of those expectations and perceptions; modern housewives can choose how they spend their free time now.
Feminism and anti-feminism collide to produce a society that thinks pretty girls who don't know anything are fine as long as they're pushy about what they (think) they want and can get into any job they desire (just make sure to have a lawyer). You get enough female representation to make soccer moms feel like they're being spoken for, but few enough so that male authority remains dominant. Studies like this just continue this double-talk nature of telling the public women are dumb compared to men, but they make up for it with their other "talents".
Am I jaded that I think real feminism is dead? It seems to just be token responses, overhyped overreactions by femi-nazis, and teenage girls who just wanna have lots of sex and look good. Did the 60's and 70's women's lib movement really happen or was that some acid-induced dream?
I have one answer for your pronouncement: DivX.
Circuit City took a real bath on that one, and Blu-Ray will be the same idea...
IANAL, but proving contributory infringement (as well as other illegal acts) has to be harder against a financier than "they gave someone money". If it were that easy half of Wall Street would be in jail and the other half would be facing ruinous civil judgements.
This may make for an nice little lawsuit, but I don't see it happening. The EFF may help contributors make an attack, but SCO is a sinking ship full of rats that have eaten most of the cargo. The only good that could perhaps come would be an injunction on sales of UnixWare, which finishes off SCO's actual revenue. I don't think this could be leveraged to open up UnixWare (the rights are probably going to revert back to Novell anyhow), and if UW is poisoned goods nobody will want it anyway.
Stick a fork in it, there's nothing but steam left.
(IANAL, but I slept in a Days Inn Express.)
Capcom to Nintendo: "That dog won't hunt."
:(
That about sums up how a lot of 3rd parties feel about Revolution.
Cold hard somethingsomething: The mysterious step before "Profit!"...
That makes sense... it was always a major complaint of the BF series that more players didn't make the maps larger or more versatile, just more laggy. Large games would get bogged down in spawn-camping since the number of spawns never changed. I hope this was one of the things changed...?
I'm thinking this is how the retail game will operate. It appears to be built around a client/server mentality... you "log in" to your local game just as you would log into a remote game.
There is no mystical voodoo magic involved with transmitting, receiving, or processing digital television signals. The air around you is already filled with digital TV signals (since 2003 as mandated by Congress and the FCC). The only thing that has not happened is the shutdown of the analog broadcasts.
As for how people without digital TVs will go on living... I imagine most will employ set-top digital-analog converters. The U.S. is not the first to push for all-digital TV and there have been no angry riots yet. Digital, after all, doesn't mean a different picture so much as a crisper, cleaner picture.
Broadcast TV in the U.S. is only required to move to digital, not HDTV. Digital signals can carry both standard and HDTV. The confusion exists only because the proponents of HDTV want the general public confused enough to pay upwards of $800 more for their HDTV sets.