"Why shouldn't the companies stop putting copy protection on games? I don't see these "legitimate users" threatening to boycott games with Safedisc on it. How many here have sent written letters through snail mail to their publishers saying they won't buy any more games with Safedisc on it?"
Obviously you've never been on a forum on the release date of any game in the past three years. Neverwinter Nights, Morrowind, GTA, Master of Orion 3, etc. etc. - many, many users were calling for blood because their game didn't work with the particular firmware of their CD-ROM drives.
I don't buy comp games any more, simply because none of the above games worked on my computer when they were released. I've instead gone to the Gamecube, believe it or not, and have enjoyed every second of it. Gaming houses might not have missed my absense, but in turn I certainly haven't missed anything in the last two years or so.
Stardock's system for Galactic Civilizations works out quite well - not only do they only send keys via email (or box, but I've never seen a GalCiv box), but you can only download updates if you're a registered user.
2. The original sin (as in, the first one recorded) occured when Eve lied to the serpent - God told her not to eat from it or they would die, but Eve told the serpent that if they ate it or touched it then they would die.
You're forgetting profs - in Canada at any rate, professors with tenure start off with ~$70,000 CAD, and there's a heck of a lot more professors than administrators. Otherwise I completely agree with you - why pay $1.75 for a 600mL coke when I can go to Walmart and get 2L for $0.94?
The parent said that he thought that Nintendo should build a bigger and better Gameboy. I agreed with Nintendo's suggestion to innovate rather than go bigger and better; I wasn't suggesting that Nintendo do this or that, but that they keep going where they're going.
I don't know - a Metroid game where the map showed up on one of the screens while I manoevered on the other is pretty cool. Mind you, it doesn't take a lot of skill to press the "start" button, but still. I think that Nintendo should be focusing on innovation and new ideas instead of bigger & better (like Sony).
But then you're moving from keyboard to mouse, and by now it would be quicker to pull down the bookmark menu and click on the web page you want. You're gonna need full keyboard functionality for speed, not a mix of keyboard and mouse (in this instance, anyway).
Who would have thought to hold down the right mouse button and click the left to move backwards, and vice versa to move forwards? (Opera, btw) Not in a thousand years would I have come up with this idea, but now that it's here I refuse to browse any other way.
Opera is also lightning fast when I'm running it on my P-M stepped down to 200 MHz. Dunno how fast Firefox would be. Give me mouse gestures or give me death!
My master's thesis deals with the similarities between technology in Gibson's Sprawl trilogy and modern spiritualism/religion - the spiritual ramifications of technological deities (AIs), the acts of hacking commonly associated with shamanism, etc.
I started by bachelor's degree to study books like Neuromancer.
One of the conditions was books that were easily attainable - *one* set of Burroughs' early works is difficult enough to attain, let alone how many this guy needs for his class.
Forget the Stephenson books and go with either Snow Crash (if you're going to stick with Stephenson; MUCH better book than his other works) or something a little more interesting like Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco) or The Club Dumas (Arturu Perez-Reverte) - both belong to a strange genre known as metafiction-noir ("dark" books about books). Stephenson's Baroque Cycle is wordy, clumsy, and too self-aggrandising to enjoy.
Neuromancer by William Gibson. Unleash the inner geek:) Best prose I've ever read, interesting plot, and cornerstone for an entire sub-genre. Of the sixty-odd books I've read in the past two years for various literature classes spanning seven centuries, Neuromancer was the best.
Changed my life, in that it encouraged me to get a university degree in the first place, and continues to encourage me to get my PhD.
Heh, I got you one better. One sociology class of mine had a required text on call at the library called "Sex in the Snow" (actual book, check it out on Amazon). We were forbidden by the prof to ask the librarians, "Do you have Sex in the Snow" or "Can I have Sex in the Snow" or "Can I check out Sex in the Snow" or any such variation. Turned out there was no bloody way of asking for the book without just writing down the call number.
I'm in Canada too, and this is really interesting to me. Are you saying that the CRTC says that cable companies have to sell channels individually with no other purchases? CAN I get one channel for $5 if I wanted to?
...I'll be subscribing to the Law & Order channel, CSI channel, and maybe the Matt Groening channel as well. That's it.
Seriously, how long before channels like "Fox" and "CBS" cease to exist, to be replaced by channels named after entire TV franchises? Hell, TNT *is* the Law & Order channel!
Yeah, but you're already paying $33 a month! I hardly see how this is a good deal. If I were to be offered as many channels as I wanted for, say, $5 a month, then I might get two or three and that would be that - as long as I only had to pay $15 per month, period.
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Obviously you've never been on a forum on the release date of any game in the past three years. Neverwinter Nights, Morrowind, GTA, Master of Orion 3, etc. etc. - many, many users were calling for blood because their game didn't work with the particular firmware of their CD-ROM drives.
I don't buy comp games any more, simply because none of the above games worked on my computer when they were released. I've instead gone to the Gamecube, believe it or not, and have enjoyed every second of it. Gaming houses might not have missed my absense, but in turn I certainly haven't missed anything in the last two years or so.
Stardock's system for Galactic Civilizations works out quite well - not only do they only send keys via email (or box, but I've never seen a GalCiv box), but you can only download updates if you're a registered user.
2. The original sin (as in, the first one recorded) occured when Eve lied to the serpent - God told her not to eat from it or they would die, but Eve told the serpent that if they ate it or touched it then they would die.
You're forgetting profs - in Canada at any rate, professors with tenure start off with ~$70,000 CAD, and there's a heck of a lot more professors than administrators. Otherwise I completely agree with you - why pay $1.75 for a 600mL coke when I can go to Walmart and get 2L for $0.94?
And the difference between retail XP and corporate XP is...
Think Deus Ex (first person RPG, sorta) in a Fallout world. What's not to like?
(Congratulations, and its, not it's)
I don't know - a Metroid game where the map showed up on one of the screens while I manoevered on the other is pretty cool. Mind you, it doesn't take a lot of skill to press the "start" button, but still. I think that Nintendo should be focusing on innovation and new ideas instead of bigger & better (like Sony).
Dum de dum, 20 second rule, la la la
Perhaps if a website has a link named "Next" it would just automatically load it? Sounds like a great idea to me!
But then you're moving from keyboard to mouse, and by now it would be quicker to pull down the bookmark menu and click on the web page you want. You're gonna need full keyboard functionality for speed, not a mix of keyboard and mouse (in this instance, anyway).
Simple ideas are not always discovered so easily.
Opera is also lightning fast when I'm running it on my P-M stepped down to 200 MHz. Dunno how fast Firefox would be. Give me mouse gestures or give me death!
FANTASTIC idea! Include middle button scrolling (when you stop scrolling the line shows up) and we're in business - Opera, are you listening?
Bennie? Don't mod me, I'm curious :)
I started by bachelor's degree to study books like Neuromancer.
One of the conditions was books that were easily attainable - *one* set of Burroughs' early works is difficult enough to attain, let alone how many this guy needs for his class.
Forget the Stephenson books and go with either Snow Crash (if you're going to stick with Stephenson; MUCH better book than his other works) or something a little more interesting like Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco) or The Club Dumas (Arturu Perez-Reverte) - both belong to a strange genre known as metafiction-noir ("dark" books about books). Stephenson's Baroque Cycle is wordy, clumsy, and too self-aggrandising to enjoy.
Changed my life, in that it encouraged me to get a university degree in the first place, and continues to encourage me to get my PhD.
Heh, I got you one better. One sociology class of mine had a required text on call at the library called "Sex in the Snow" (actual book, check it out on Amazon). We were forbidden by the prof to ask the librarians, "Do you have Sex in the Snow" or "Can I have Sex in the Snow" or "Can I check out Sex in the Snow" or any such variation. Turned out there was no bloody way of asking for the book without just writing down the call number.
CHEETO! Haven't seen you in AGES! Where ya been, bro?
I'm in Canada too, and this is really interesting to me. Are you saying that the CRTC says that cable companies have to sell channels individually with no other purchases? CAN I get one channel for $5 if I wanted to?
Seriously, how long before channels like "Fox" and "CBS" cease to exist, to be replaced by channels named after entire TV franchises? Hell, TNT *is* the Law & Order channel!
Yeah, but you're already paying $33 a month! I hardly see how this is a good deal. If I were to be offered as many channels as I wanted for, say, $5 a month, then I might get two or three and that would be that - as long as I only had to pay $15 per month, period.
Oh, one more thing: how's Interplay going to make an online game when they can't even afford to keep their own damn website up?