Q: Do you need to own the expansion to play with friends who have it?
A: There will be many aspects of the expansion that are available to all players. However, in order to experience certain content, such as the Outlands, or be able to play as one of the new races, players will have to purchase the expansion.
The same tool for piracy is for fair use. The problem here is labeling technology as the "bad" thing. The tool isn't a "fair use tool", it's just a tool that may be used as such. So what is there to prove in court? "I swear I was going to only use it for fair use!" Who wouldn't say that?
`(2) No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that--
`(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title;
But the issue is, you must circumvent before you can exercise fair use, and before you can circumvent, you need technologies or tools to do so. Since the creation, utilization, and distribution of these are illegal under the DMCA, you never have the oppertunity to exercise fair use. That clause is a red herring, as it distracts you from the truth, you could never actually exercise that clause. One most people arn't falling for (which is why these discussions happen).
The new WMP reminds me of this new direction companies seem to think people want. That the whole application takes over the computer at the moment, turing it into a Media Center. Has anyone seen the new nero? It's main entry point (still has all the old ones, this is just the one with the icon created) takes over the whole screen, and looks like a media center. FOR FUCKING BURNING CD'S! My god, who kept their job through that brilliant idea? Offtopic maybe, but this is a scary shift in paradigm. I guess efficiency and multitasking don't have a place in tomorrows computing.
Which leads to the same problem of writing to the same folder as the program. Where do you expect it to be installed? In every user's home directory, binary and all? Or is there no mind to multiuser support?
You realize you are the reason people HAVE to run as administrator in windows all the time. You should NEVER write configuration files, or data, or ANYTHING runtime related in the same folder as the program. Windows does have a concept of a home directory, and it SHOULD be used. Thanks for contributing to the problems of windows.
You mean Nipponjin, not "niponese" right? And even there it's not rock solid. In almost all casual situations, it's Nihon, not Nippon. And how many Germans in Germany do you know call it Germany?
While I agree with the second point, the first is just silly. Metal Gear was the precursor to the best known stealth game pretty much ever. You needed a better example;)
If you want to make a stealth game, then make a stealth game. Don't give us guns and bombs and swords and fast cars and explosions and then tell us to be quiet, just for a bit! If we want to sneak around, then we'll play a game that's designed for doing just that. In your game, we shall blow stuff up.
I call BS. First, this kind of narrowminded view of game making is why the industry is so piss poor right now. Variety in gameplay is good thing. Second, even if this was a bad idea, it's a recent trend, not a cliche. Exploding barrels, that's a cliche, or predictible boss fights. I liked a lot of those points, but #5 just didn't check out.
I may only be 19, but I remember getting home from elementry school, dragging the phone cable from the kitchen, and grabbing the latest ComputerEdge's BBS listing and playing LORD(Legend of the Red Dragon) and talking to others via realtime chat (as in, seeing as they type, mistakes and all) on my old 9600baud modem. Not quite as old as the submission's memories, but still fond.
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Q: Do you need to own the expansion to play with friends who have it?
A: There will be many aspects of the expansion that are available to all players. However, in order to experience certain content, such as the Outlands, or be able to play as one of the new races, players will have to purchase the expansion.
RTFA?
The same tool for piracy is for fair use. The problem here is labeling technology as the "bad" thing. The tool isn't a "fair use tool", it's just a tool that may be used as such. So what is there to prove in court? "I swear I was going to only use it for fair use!" Who wouldn't say that?
`(2) No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that--
`(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title;
You believe wrong.
You mean like this?
But the issue is, you must circumvent before you can exercise fair use, and before you can circumvent, you need technologies or tools to do so. Since the creation, utilization, and distribution of these are illegal under the DMCA, you never have the oppertunity to exercise fair use. That clause is a red herring, as it distracts you from the truth, you could never actually exercise that clause. One most people arn't falling for (which is why these discussions happen).
The new WMP reminds me of this new direction companies seem to think people want. That the whole application takes over the computer at the moment, turing it into a Media Center. Has anyone seen the new nero? It's main entry point (still has all the old ones, this is just the one with the icon created) takes over the whole screen, and looks like a media center. FOR FUCKING BURNING CD'S! My god, who kept their job through that brilliant idea? Offtopic maybe, but this is a scary shift in paradigm. I guess efficiency and multitasking don't have a place in tomorrows computing.
Well, unlike the shuffle, there was no warning!
of porting to 64-bit
My bet is it would take little more then a recompile. If anything, a new branch of support is the real issue.
Which leads to the same problem of writing to the same folder as the program. Where do you expect it to be installed? In every user's home directory, binary and all? Or is there no mind to multiuser support?
You realize you are the reason people HAVE to run as administrator in windows all the time. You should NEVER write configuration files, or data, or ANYTHING runtime related in the same folder as the program. Windows does have a concept of a home directory, and it SHOULD be used. Thanks for contributing to the problems of windows.
Oops, messed up the tag at the top, and it ate the quote portion:
I'd certainly be interested in hearing more discussion on the matter, accompanied by examples and references
Preview! Gah.
Hmm... You must be new here.
And the silly from ... dept. is alway so professional?
*tear*
Know this as fact? I suppose everything is relitive. Much like ramen is gourmet compared to nothing at all.
You can, you have to set a compiler flag for old syntax and 1.1
The irony is you still didn't get it right.
What did you expect? A 360?
Haha, goodbye karma.
You mean Nipponjin, not "niponese" right? And even there it's not rock solid. In almost all casual situations, it's Nihon, not Nippon. And how many Germans in Germany do you know call it Germany?
Haha, oops, I don't know how I messed that up. =P
And I HAVE played Wind Waker. And the stealth accounts for what? Maybe 3 minutes of game play? 5 if you really suck?
While I agree with the second point, the first is just silly. Metal Gear was the precursor to the best known stealth game pretty much ever. You needed a better example ;)
#5 Unnecessary stealth
If you want to make a stealth game, then make a stealth game. Don't give us guns and bombs and swords and fast cars and explosions and then tell us to be quiet, just for a bit! If we want to sneak around, then we'll play a game that's designed for doing just that. In your game, we shall blow stuff up.
I call BS. First, this kind of narrowminded view of game making is why the industry is so piss poor right now. Variety in gameplay is good thing. Second, even if this was a bad idea, it's a recent trend, not a cliche. Exploding barrels, that's a cliche, or predictible boss fights. I liked a lot of those points, but #5 just didn't check out.
I may only be 19, but I remember getting home from elementry school, dragging the phone cable from the kitchen, and grabbing the latest ComputerEdge's BBS listing and playing LORD(Legend of the Red Dragon) and talking to others via realtime chat (as in, seeing as they type, mistakes and all) on my old 9600baud modem. Not quite as old as the submission's memories, but still fond.
The series ending? Duh? End of Evangelion plays no part in this.
Too bad it won't be intact at all unless it's in the Adult Swim line up.