and Europe is better? How about the anti-immigration movement and the popularity of far right thinking? I would venture to say it is a result of this "community" at a country scale you speak of.
Future planning such as this is socialist thinking, and don't forget that with socialism there are a number of problems.
The question is which problematic political system are you willing to accept?
(BTW, I'm not from the US or Europe, and my country has problems of its own too, but it bothers me that you can be so smug when Europe is in some ways *fucked* up)
Any mailing list that includes products or services for sale is by your definition spam.
But by my definition what you propose is censorship. As hard as it must be for you to believe, some people like to receive email about things they are interested in purchasing, especially hobbyists.
Yes, the distinction of solicited vs unsolicited spam is hard to define and prove, but you just suggested throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
That's probably more to do with the fact that many spammers don't spam "locally" and it is hard to pursue them.
Overall, the real workable solution is a new method of email where a third party can validate identity (kind of like being able to screen calls with caller id). But then you lose anonymity. THat may be the price we have to pay. I imagine that email will one day be superceded by such a system.
It will be enough to go after the big offenders. It will result in the ability to launch class action lawsuits. And that is more than what we have in the US and Canada.
Sort of off-topic - how does radio work up here in Canada? - I know we have our own big media companies (Shaw, Global) but how involved are they with radio? Do we have Clear Channel here?
I listen to the classic rock and college radio stations mostly so I never really paid much attention.
It's kind of wierd how quickly things move - bands I listened to in junior high are on that classic rock station - i'm only 22
I have an AMD 1GHz, 320MB of RAM, and a Radeon 8500 and I can't play it in 1600x1200 at 90Hz. I get less than 20fps at 1024x768:)
Seriously though, there are a lot more controls than you mention - you missed sneak, toggle view, toggle run, the journal, jump, ready magic, ready weapon, rest, menu mode, hand-to-hand (technically a hotkey, but it's not changeable).
Obviously, a lot of this stuff will be handled with a menu, but being able to drag and drop items, right click to bring up the spells and just click one (try cycling if you are a wizard and have like *50*:) - this stuff will be missing from the XBox version and it may hurt for it.
There's a thing to be said about blanket statements like that...
FPS games work best with a keyboard mouse, but how about a fighting game? And then there's other options, like a trackball for marble madness or the many other alternatives mentioned in the comments.
It depends on the game, and it just happens that PC games are developed with the KB and mouse in mind and console games are developed with controllers in mind. When Morrowind comes out for XBOX, it will be interesting to see how much it changes simply to accomodate the controller.
I like to play games, not play with Wine all day trying to get games working:) I mostly use my home PC for gaming so Linux is pretty much useless for my purposes
If I was running a webserver it would be another story...
Seriously, did you even read the article? They didn't say it was totally free - they make money "handling" the cds:
At FightCloud.com, the price is right. Scalfani sells CDs for free. That is, if you don't count the $4.95 "shipping" charge. Of course, that would be a mistake. Buried in the shipping charge is the secret ingredient: a modest profit. Less costs of $2.31, the company nets $2.64 on each "free" disc, half of which goes to the artist. But with only 1,000 or so CDs shipped to date, no one's getting rich. Yet.
I'm a twenty-something programmer/analyst. I have a DSL line. I don't pirate movies or music or pc games or video games. I, like most people, like to pay for things, including the things I could get for free. For better or worse, we are all consumers and just because we can download things for free doesn't mean we do.
Why bother with the copy protection crap? If I want to pirate a game protected by safe disc, I will, and there isn't a damn thing anyone can do about it since I am just one person out of millions.
Why not save the money? Honestly, the only thing I have pirated in the last year was Windows XP - I paid for Windows 98 and I just consider it an upgrade to a working copy. That and paying for it would have meant registering. I may just buy it and stick the shrink wrapped copy on the shelf.
I would rather see the money spent on more content than some stupid scheme to stop me from ripping a cd that doesn't even work. It doesn't stop the poor pirates and it doesn't stop the rich pirates. It doesn't stop me from making legit backups when I want. So why bother?
You can't pause. My GF hated when I used to play DAoC and she'd come into the den to say hi and I would tell her to wait until I could log out.
They require an obscene amount of time investment.
Yup, that's why I keep my addiction to games I can win in a month or so and pause.
Small scale multiplayer RPGs are fun, but MMORPGS just seem to eat time. Even when I played a lot of Quake 2, I could drop out any time and not feel guilty about letting my character lvl fall behind my friends' levels.
Devils advocate - although moving Metroid to FPS is innovative for Metroid, it's hardly innovative. I'm still looking forward to it though - hopefully they pull it off.
You are right - Sega as a publisher has done alright (their HW on the other hand - the gamegear sucked (blurry and ate batteries - hardly a good *portable* system, genesis was rushed, sega cd wasn't exploited, saturn was a bad judgement call - Dreamcast rocked nads but was poorly marketed and the games are very fragile I hear) - I think more of what I meant was that Nintendo may recycle characters, but when they do, the games are still unique.
And I was going to buy Typing of the Dead for my gf to get her practicing:) So I should probably just shut my mouth:) hehe
In any case, it was the whole "finish #2 ahead of X-box thing" comment in the parent that I find the funniest, because I honestly can't think of any XBox games that were that innovative (other than ports/remakes like Jet Set Radio Future or Tony Hawk 3)
For the record, I'm not trolling by ragging on Sega - they just made too many mistakes in the HW arena
I just can't stop. It's not fair. Don't buy it, you will never stop playing.
I never owned an N64 (no RPG's, bought a PSX) and regretted it - I love RPG's but I prefer the PC ones myself. Unfortunately, the console RPG's tend to be of the Fight/Level/Talk/Repeat, although it is nice when somebody introduces some new elements - my favourite console rpgs I played recently were Lufia 2 and Golden Sun (a bit generic and short, but the puzzles were ok, if a bit easy). But now I just play Morrowind.
Damn Morrowind has stolen my life. And I gave up DAoC to get into less addictive games. Oh well.
Now I'm in raving fanboy mode, but didn't Sonic 3 play exactly like Sonic 1? And didn't Mario 3 play quite a lot different than Mario 1? I'd mention Mario 2, but that was originally a completely different game.
I have always found that Nintendo always strove for innovation - although that really bit them in the ass a few times *cough* *VirtuaBoy* *cough*
In any case, what did Sega ever put out that was that original?
Virtua Fighter series... Sonic 1... I can't think of more.
Just because the Nintendo games star the same characters, it doesn't mean they don't innovate - Mario64 was nothing like other platform/adventure games of the time. Pikmin was very unique. Playing Earthbound was rather like an interesting drug trip at times.
I could go on and on (as raving fanboys tend to do - for the record, I have/had a PSX, many PC games, gbc, gba, sega genesis, nintendo, sega master system, atari, etc - so I am more of a video game fanboy - I just really like Nintendo games:)
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and Europe is better? How about the anti-immigration movement and the popularity of far right thinking? I would venture to say it is a result of this "community" at a country scale you speak of.
Future planning such as this is socialist thinking, and don't forget that with socialism there are a number of problems.
The question is which problematic political system are you willing to accept?
(BTW, I'm not from the US or Europe, and my country has problems of its own too, but it bothers me that you can be so smug when Europe is in some ways *fucked* up)
Any mailing list that includes products or services for sale is by your definition spam.
But by my definition what you propose is censorship. As hard as it must be for you to believe, some people like to receive email about things they are interested in purchasing, especially hobbyists.
Yes, the distinction of solicited vs unsolicited spam is hard to define and prove, but you just suggested throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
That's a good idea and it let's anonymous email users stay anonymous.
The only problem I see is EmailSpamID list selling would simply replace email list selling.
That's probably more to do with the fact that many spammers don't spam "locally" and it is hard to pursue them.
Overall, the real workable solution is a new method of email where a third party can validate identity (kind of like being able to screen calls with caller id). But then you lose anonymity. THat may be the price we have to pay. I imagine that email will one day be superceded by such a system.
It will be enough to go after the big offenders. It will result in the ability to launch class action lawsuits. And that is more than what we have in the US and Canada.
Not that I am a lawyer, i'm just saying.
This actually might be worth it in a large city, but I wonder if the costs outweigh the benefits for smaller labels...
:)
Something worth thinking about if any of you slashdot readers own a label
Sort of off-topic - how does radio work up here in Canada? - I know we have our own big media companies (Shaw, Global) but how involved are they with radio? Do we have Clear Channel here?
I listen to the classic rock and college radio stations mostly so I never really paid much attention.
It's kind of wierd how quickly things move - bands I listened to in junior high are on that classic rock station - i'm only 22
Maybe when this comes out (with the Itanium II) I will be able to get more than 5 fps in Morrowind.
How they're going to port that to the XBox is beyond me...
I have an AMD 1GHz, 320MB of RAM, and a Radeon 8500 and I can't play it in 1600x1200 at 90Hz. I get less than 20fps at 1024x768 :)
:) - this stuff will be missing from the XBox version and it may hurt for it.
:)
Seriously though, there are a lot more controls than you mention - you missed sneak, toggle view, toggle run, the journal, jump, ready magic, ready weapon, rest, menu mode, hand-to-hand (technically a hotkey, but it's not changeable).
Obviously, a lot of this stuff will be handled with a menu, but being able to drag and drop items, right click to bring up the spells and just click one (try cycling if you are a wizard and have like *50*
Not that I care, I'm playing on PC
There's a thing to be said about blanket statements like that...
FPS games work best with a keyboard mouse, but how about a fighting game? And then there's other options, like a trackball for marble madness or the many other alternatives mentioned in the comments.
It depends on the game, and it just happens that PC games are developed with the KB and mouse in mind and console games are developed with controllers in mind. When Morrowind comes out for XBOX, it will be interesting to see how much it changes simply to accomodate the controller.
I like to play games, not play with Wine all day trying to get games working :) I mostly use my home PC for gaming so Linux is pretty much useless for my purposes
If I was running a webserver it would be another story...
You say computer, but it should be a computer program. Or you should not list cd and instead list a cd player.
:)
I get the best entertainment value out of sex myself. Contraceptives are cheap and if you live with your partner, you are probably making money
Seriously, did you even read the article? They didn't say it was totally free - they make money "handling" the cds:
At FightCloud.com, the price is right. Scalfani sells CDs for free. That is, if you don't count the $4.95 "shipping" charge. Of course, that would be a mistake. Buried in the shipping charge is the secret ingredient: a modest profit. Less costs of $2.31, the company nets $2.64 on each "free" disc, half of which goes to the artist. But with only 1,000 or so CDs shipped to date, no one's getting rich. Yet.
I'm a twenty-something programmer/analyst. I have a DSL line. I don't pirate movies or music or pc games or video games. I, like most people, like to pay for things, including the things I could get for free. For better or worse, we are all consumers and just because we can download things for free doesn't mean we do.
Why bother with the copy protection crap? If I want to pirate a game protected by safe disc, I will, and there isn't a damn thing anyone can do about it since I am just one person out of millions.
Why not save the money? Honestly, the only thing I have pirated in the last year was Windows XP - I paid for Windows 98 and I just consider it an upgrade to a working copy. That and paying for it would have meant registering. I may just buy it and stick the shrink wrapped copy on the shelf.
I would rather see the money spent on more content than some stupid scheme to stop me from ripping a cd that doesn't even work. It doesn't stop the poor pirates and it doesn't stop the rich pirates. It doesn't stop me from making legit backups when I want. So why bother?
- You can't win. There are no real goals.
- You can't pause. My GF hated when I used to play DAoC and she'd come into the den to say hi and I would tell her to wait until I could log out.
- They require an obscene amount of time investment.
Yup, that's why I keep my addiction to games I can win in a month or so and pause.Small scale multiplayer RPGs are fun, but MMORPGS just seem to eat time. Even when I played a lot of Quake 2, I could drop out any time and not feel guilty about letting my character lvl fall behind my friends' levels.
My God man, you let every slashdot user control the thing? Funny clicking noises and smoke - I can see it now - poor little webcam
At this point I was wishing I had started reading this book at home near my LEGOS.
:)
You mean you don't bring LEGO to work? Just tell the boss it's a new way to do use-cases or something
Is there a cheap way to determine if a wireless network would be feasible in a given environment (ie/ measure possible interference)?
Devils advocate - although moving Metroid to FPS is innovative for Metroid, it's hardly innovative. I'm still looking forward to it though - hopefully they pull it off.
You are right - Sega as a publisher has done alright (their HW on the other hand - the gamegear sucked (blurry and ate batteries - hardly a good *portable* system, genesis was rushed, sega cd wasn't exploited, saturn was a bad judgement call - Dreamcast rocked nads but was poorly marketed and the games are very fragile I hear) - I think more of what I meant was that Nintendo may recycle characters, but when they do, the games are still unique.
:) So I should probably just shut my mouth :) hehe
And I was going to buy Typing of the Dead for my gf to get her practicing
In any case, it was the whole "finish #2 ahead of X-box thing" comment in the parent that I find the funniest, because I honestly can't think of any XBox games that were that innovative (other than ports/remakes like Jet Set Radio Future or Tony Hawk 3)
For the record, I'm not trolling by ragging on Sega - they just made too many mistakes in the HW arena
I replied to the wrong parent.
:)
STUPID STUPID STUPID
I'm killing time at work, can you tell?
And I can't stop.
I just can't stop. It's not fair. Don't buy it, you will never stop playing.
I never owned an N64 (no RPG's, bought a PSX) and regretted it - I love RPG's but I prefer the PC ones myself. Unfortunately, the console RPG's tend to be of the Fight/Level/Talk/Repeat, although it is nice when somebody introduces some new elements - my favourite console rpgs I played recently were Lufia 2 and Golden Sun (a bit generic and short, but the puzzles were ok, if a bit easy). But now I just play Morrowind.
Damn Morrowind has stolen my life. And I gave up DAoC to get into less addictive games. Oh well.
It's called Super Smash Bros Melee ^_^
I thought of eyes, and I thought of how hand-eye coordination has to do with aim, and I thought I better quit thinking
Now I'm in raving fanboy mode, but didn't Sonic 3 play exactly like Sonic 1? And didn't Mario 3 play quite a lot different than Mario 1? I'd mention Mario 2, but that was originally a completely different game.
:)
I have always found that Nintendo always strove for innovation - although that really bit them in the ass a few times *cough* *VirtuaBoy* *cough*
In any case, what did Sega ever put out that was that original?
Virtua Fighter series... Sonic 1... I can't think of more.
Just because the Nintendo games star the same characters, it doesn't mean they don't innovate - Mario64 was nothing like other platform/adventure games of the time. Pikmin was very unique. Playing Earthbound was rather like an interesting drug trip at times.
I could go on and on (as raving fanboys tend to do - for the record, I have/had a PSX, many PC games, gbc, gba, sega genesis, nintendo, sega master system, atari, etc - so I am more of a video game fanboy - I just really like Nintendo games