OOF LIKE ARTICLE! It good accurate. Oog graduate summa cum laude from cave in hills. Oog make Oog parents very proud! Oog father disappointed at first, because he want Oog be rock repairman too. But Oog have special calling. Oog study mainly rocks and mixing thing together at cave, with minor in English lit. Oog get job as game developing with Grond and Thunk Incorporated!
DAVE-based products will be about the size of a credit card and less than half and inch thick, with an operating range of up to 30 feet from the connected phone
Great ideas like this are a HALmark of Seagate's R&D division.
And we put all this stuff together so people could build thin-client applications... Now you hear about AJAX all the time, but this was built in '97,' Bosworth said.
PAX Embiggened For 2007: The Penny Arcade Expo has moved to a new venue and plans to double in size over the 2006 show. The Washington State Convention center is the new home of PAX for the forseeable future, boasting 200,000 square feet of usable space.
This does not mean that they should simply allow anything and everything to be listed with them. I, for one, can personally do without the thousands of bootleg DVDs you'll come across when looking for something legit, for example.
Except that when you buy in-game items, you're not pirating intellectual property, you're paying for the service of someone going through the effort of collecting those items.
It's not illegal. At worst, it goes against the game rules, but, then technically, so would paying a 12-year-old to grind your characters for you while you're at work.
Without even names to describe them, the article talks about projects like Bioware's MMOG, the next original title from id, Tim Schaefer's new game for Vivendi, and whatever the premier title for John Romero's new studio.
I heard John Romero was working on a sequel to his last blockbuster. That's right. Daikatana Forever, starring Samuel L. Jackson as your sidekick Superfly. The whole game takes place on an airliner full of snakes.
Insane? Not really. Ebay is just avoiding what is essentially a grey-market area.
But rather than try and put any effort or brainpower into making it a white-market area, they just throw their hands up and give up.
Ebay's core mission is to be *the* auction site, for whatever "it" is that you're looking for. It's pretty clear that they feel this marketshare is too much "hassle" for them. Which I guess is fine, some startup will eat their lunch in this area, and ebay will have to fork over a couple billion in a few years to buy them out, in order to remain relevant.
I don't play any of these games, but it's pretty clear this is an issue that's not going away. It's only going to get bigger.
The well-known auction site eBay has recently made a policy decision that may throw these assumptions into a different light. Following up on a rumour that's been going around I spoke today with a media representative for the company, who confirmed that eBay is now delisting all auctions for 'virtual artifacts' from the site.
This is insane. There's clearly a market for this activity. And there's clearly a way to handle it legitimately (i.e. IGE). Instead of setting up a parallel site (like eBay motors), they just decide they're not going to handle it at all. Way to serve your investors, ebay.
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OOF LIKE ARTICLE! It good accurate. Oog graduate summa cum laude from cave in hills. Oog make Oog parents very proud! Oog father disappointed at first, because he want Oog be rock repairman too. But Oog have special calling. Oog study mainly rocks and mixing thing together at cave, with minor in English lit. Oog get job as game developing with Grond and Thunk Incorporated!
some of these titles have been vaguely expected since the middle of last year.
How do you "vaguely expect" something? Expectation is a binary state. You're either expecting something, or you're not.
DAVE-based products will be about the size of a credit card and less than half and inch thick, with an operating range of up to 30 feet from the connected phone
Great ideas like this are a HALmark of Seagate's R&D division.
And we put all this stuff together so people could build thin-client applications... Now you hear about AJAX all the time, but this was built in '97,' Bosworth said.
I hear that this guy also invented the internet.
Norwegian space telescopes stun easily...
I'm sure if we went up there we'd find the only reason it remains perched where it is, is because it's been nailed there.
We'll be pining for more of those amazing images until the James Webb launches in 2013.
Will those images be of the fjords?
In the real world, you need data to prove your case.
Tell that to District Attorney Mike Nifong.
[He] blames Slashdot for his grandstanding comment that Wikipedia would bury Encyclopedia Brittanica within five years.
Actually, according to Wikipedia, the number of years in which Wikipedia will bury Encyclopedia Brittanica has tripled in the last six months.
Well, going by what they were charging this guy in Florida, they made at least that much.
As much as I hate Cingular and their pricing plans, I'm not sure I can wait five years for other networks to have that phone..
What, you mean $31,000 a month for Cingular service isn't cheap enough for you?
Space.com is reporting that the aging observatory's primary camera, the ACS, has been in safe mode since the weekend.
No wonder they can't contact it. Safe Mode doesn't support networking by default.
PC Advisor reports that Microsoft is going to start getting tough with certain small business customers.
They're starting with the small ones, because we all know what would happen if they started with the big ones.
It used to be Theater High Altitude Area Defense.
When President Camacho is elected, it will be changed to "Totally Huge Awesome Area Defense".
Brought to you by Carl's Jr.
The THAAD interceptor uses hit-to-kill technology to destroy targets
This is far superior to the "miss-to-kill" technology they were employing in previous models.
British E-Voting Pilots Announced
I was wondering when they'd let Otto do something more than just fly the plane.
"called 'Protected Media Path' (PMP)" I can guess how that's pronounced... Well, it just goes to show, that PMP'ing an operating system ain't easy.
PAX Embiggened For 2007: The Penny Arcade Expo has moved to a new venue and plans to double in size over the 2006 show. The Washington State Convention center is the new home of PAX for the forseeable future, boasting 200,000 square feet of usable space.
That event sounds quite cromulent.
This does not mean that they should simply allow anything and everything to be listed with them. I, for one, can personally do without the thousands of bootleg DVDs you'll come across when looking for something legit, for example.
Except that when you buy in-game items, you're not pirating intellectual property, you're paying for the service of someone going through the effort of collecting those items.
It's not illegal. At worst, it goes against the game rules, but, then technically, so would paying a 12-year-old to grind your characters for you while you're at work.
I'm holding out for Starcraft 2.
They'd make it, but they require more vespene gas.
1984 or not, identity mixer is already disturbing enough as an idea. It suggests it helps to mix identities!
Mixing identities? Nature already provides that functionality. This being slashdot, I'm sure many people may be unaware of that.
Without even names to describe them, the article talks about projects like Bioware's MMOG, the next original title from id, Tim Schaefer's new game for Vivendi, and whatever the premier title for John Romero's new studio.
I heard John Romero was working on a sequel to his last blockbuster. That's right. Daikatana Forever, starring Samuel L. Jackson as your sidekick Superfly. The whole game takes place on an airliner full of snakes.
what, you mean people don't like ms passport?
My name is Werner Brandis. MS is my passport. Verify Me.
Developed by a Zurich-based research lab for the company, Identity Mixer is a novel approach to protecting user identities online.
which novel? I hope not 1984.
Insane? Not really. Ebay is just avoiding what is essentially a grey-market area.
But rather than try and put any effort or brainpower into making it a white-market area, they just throw their hands up and give up.
Ebay's core mission is to be *the* auction site, for whatever "it" is that you're looking for. It's pretty clear that they feel this marketshare is too much "hassle" for them. Which I guess is fine, some startup will eat their lunch in this area, and ebay will have to fork over a couple billion in a few years to buy them out, in order to remain relevant.
I don't play any of these games, but it's pretty clear this is an issue that's not going away. It's only going to get bigger.
The well-known auction site eBay has recently made a policy decision that may throw these assumptions into a different light. Following up on a rumour that's been going around I spoke today with a media representative for the company, who confirmed that eBay is now delisting all auctions for 'virtual artifacts' from the site.
This is insane. There's clearly a market for this activity. And there's clearly a way to handle it legitimately (i.e. IGE). Instead of setting up a parallel site (like eBay motors), they just decide they're not going to handle it at all. Way to serve your investors, ebay.