I'm not sure I'd include all 4 Quake games.. I never really got fully into the storylines or the atmosphere. What made the earlier ones for me was the mods. Action Quake2 was godly.
The game I play religeously is more of a MUD than what is construed as an MMOG/MMORPG, but there's an active, and fairly vocal, playerbase. The GMs/Devs moderate the forums and take in what is said on them, but do not contribute to conversation there. This stops a lot of the "LISTEN TO MEEEEEEEEE!!" posts, and the same could be achieved by having one or two non-staff voulenteer moderators likely picked from the early adopters if you're on a fairly small-scale community game, or part-time customer service reps if it's a Sony game. Said people would forward anything important on to the Devs.
If you're enjoying the game, isn't it worth $10, for -40- hours? What book, offline-computer game, set of DVDs, etc, etc that costs $10 is going to keep you occupied for 40 hours?
If it was 10 hours a month, or 2 hours every weekend, sure $10 is a little much to pay.. $10 for 40 hours seems fair to me.
Except, the guy is actually making money off it. It's likely that some of the smaller buyers are making money too, but they're just not well off enough to splash out on a whole island for themselves. It's proved to be a worthwhile investment, so there's not exactly all that much stupidity involved.
They should allow for it to be blocked more passively, on their side. robots.txt, anyone? If I have a setting in my robots.txt next time they crawl my site that says they can't prefetch, then they shouldn't.
If you're willing to settle for Scorched Tanks instead of Scorched Earth, try WinUAE. You can get the Scorched Tanks disks almost completely legally from the Back2Roots project.
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Wouldn't it bother you knowing that when you walk down the street, anybody walking near you could know how much money you had in your pockets, how many credit cards and which companies they are with, what make of mobile phone you have, what underwear you have on, what personal cd player you are carrying, what type of laptop you have in your case, whether you have a PDA in your bag??
Or that somebody could come upto your home, maybe scan your burglar alarm to find out what type it is and check up on the 'net to see if it can be easily disabled? Somebody could scan through your window (or wall?) and see what type of computer, tv, vcr, dvd player you have? see what type of clothes you have in your cupboards? what dvds/cds in your collections?
Theives are always 5 steps ahead of companies, wherever you look. Who's to say this won't be a theives dream? Am I going to have to be scared to walk to streets with anything costing more than afew dollars in my bag?
I haven't yet tried 0.6 but on my pc 0.5 takes 6 seconds to open for the first time, opera takes 2. Not a massive difference, but it still lives up to the ole 'fastest' claim I recon.
That said, I prefer firebird and will probably be using it solely in future. The main thing that get's on my nerves at the moment is the inability to set 'target=_blank' like links open in a new tab instead of a new window.
Sony Ericsson use it on their recent phones. I have one of them and it is quite nifty, but looking at the size of the disc on the mouse it looks too big.
One of the good things about scroll wheels on mouses (and the things on the sony phones) is that once your finger is on them you don't have to take it off to change direction, if you know what i mean. The disc on that mouse looks pretty huge and would probably be a pain to use.
According to this, there were only 51,000 mp3s on their network. 650,000 is the total amount of files. This amounts to $1.9 million per mp3, not taking into consideration legal songs or duplication of songs.
Single's on Amazon are selling at around $3.50.. Using this and a little math I come out at each mp3 shared on the network finding it's way onto around 550,000 computers that it shouldn't be on. Impressive.
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I'm not sure I'd include all 4 Quake games.. I never really got fully into the storylines or the atmosphere. What made the earlier ones for me was the mods. Action Quake2 was godly.
Champsionship Manager '93 was a revolution.
The game I play religeously is more of a MUD than what is construed as an MMOG/MMORPG, but there's an active, and fairly vocal, playerbase. The GMs/Devs moderate the forums and take in what is said on them, but do not contribute to conversation there. This stops a lot of the "LISTEN TO MEEEEEEEEE!!" posts, and the same could be achieved by having one or two non-staff voulenteer moderators likely picked from the early adopters if you're on a fairly small-scale community game, or part-time customer service reps if it's a Sony game. Said people would forward anything important on to the Devs.
If you're enjoying the game, isn't it worth $10, for -40- hours? What book, offline-computer game, set of DVDs, etc, etc that costs $10 is going to keep you occupied for 40 hours?
If it was 10 hours a month, or 2 hours every weekend, sure $10 is a little much to pay.. $10 for 40 hours seems fair to me.
And if the pictures weren't compressed to garbage, we might actually be able to make out more than their gender!
Except, the guy is actually making money off it. It's likely that some of the smaller buyers are making money too, but they're just not well off enough to splash out on a whole island for themselves. It's proved to be a worthwhile investment, so there's not exactly all that much stupidity involved.
He'd probably be far more comfortable saying "point ohwoahwoahwoahwoahwoahwoahwoahwoahwoah five miles"
Yeah, I mean, after all, this isn't a news site.
They should allow for it to be blocked more passively, on their side. robots.txt, anyone? If I have a setting in my robots.txt next time they crawl my site that says they can't prefetch, then they shouldn't.
Now they just need to make up the setting.
If you're willing to settle for Scorched Tanks instead of Scorched Earth, try WinUAE. You can get the Scorched Tanks disks almost completely legally from the Back2Roots project.
It's a game like The Sims is a game, like Rollercoaster Tycoon is a game, like Solitare is a game, like Medal of Honour is a game.
Oh, no it's Monkey Island, the pirate simulator! Someone call the RIAA!
They will if Mr Berman gets what he wants.
Wouldn't it bother you knowing that when you walk down the street, anybody walking near you could know how much money you had in your pockets, how many credit cards and which companies they are with, what make of mobile phone you have, what underwear you have on, what personal cd player you are carrying, what type of laptop you have in your case, whether you have a PDA in your bag??
Or that somebody could come upto your home, maybe scan your burglar alarm to find out what type it is and check up on the 'net to see if it can be easily disabled? Somebody could scan through your window (or wall?) and see what type of computer, tv, vcr, dvd player you have? see what type of clothes you have in your cupboards? what dvds/cds in your collections?
Theives are always 5 steps ahead of companies, wherever you look. Who's to say this won't be a theives dream? Am I going to have to be scared to walk to streets with anything costing more than afew dollars in my bag?
I haven't yet tried 0.6 but on my pc 0.5 takes 6 seconds to open for the first time, opera takes 2. Not a massive difference, but it still lives up to the ole 'fastest' claim I recon. That said, I prefer firebird and will probably be using it solely in future. The main thing that get's on my nerves at the moment is the inability to set 'target=_blank' like links open in a new tab instead of a new window.
Sony Ericsson use it on their recent phones. I have one of them and it is quite nifty, but looking at the size of the disc on the mouse it looks too big.
One of the good things about scroll wheels on mouses (and the things on the sony phones) is that once your finger is on them you don't have to take it off to change direction, if you know what i mean. The disc on that mouse looks pretty huge and would probably be a pain to use.
Currently, 1337 people have recovered according to that page.
I suspect foul play.
Cache of mtu.flatlan.com
According to this, there were only 51,000 mp3s on their network. 650,000 is the total amount of files. This amounts to $1.9 million per mp3, not taking into consideration legal songs or duplication of songs.
Single's on Amazon are selling at around $3.50.. Using this and a little math I come out at each mp3 shared on the network finding it's way onto around 550,000 computers that it shouldn't be on. Impressive.
I'm a little late on the scene here but here's a couple of rather interesting links to the google cache.
All pages at mtu.flatlan.com
Stats page
Interestingly the stats page shows 650,000 files shared in total. Only 51,000 MP3s.