My favorite example of this is projections in baseball. Usually you can count on someone hitting a couple homers in one of the opening day games and then he's projected to hit 324 during the course of the year;-)
With MMORPG, there is a certain audience that likes the games and will continue to pour money into them. Once that market is saturated, however, the numbers will plateau (same as in every other industry). There are many people, myself included, who don't really care for the genre and will not waste resources (be they time or money) on playing them. I'll bet any of you a shiny nickel that in ten years, the number of people like me (i.e., those who don't play MMORPGs) will still outnumber those who do.
This would be the polar opposite of what happened to the Ten Commandments set which Cecil B. DeMille had intentionally buried- so no one else could use them.
It will be interesting to see whether M$ is the proverbial Early Bird, or Early Worm.
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Possible solutions? How about identity tools such as image recognition, holographic barcodes on the item itself, RFID, etched serial numbers, etc.
Either that or maybe they should train their employees to tell the difference between Rolex and Timex. If they were to try such a scam against employees whoa ctually know their stock, then it wouldn't work. So, maybe more training and less reliance on non-human controls would be better.
One of the differences between gaming and music is that (with the exception of those starting their own bands) music is passive while gaming actually requires your participation. The disadvantage of that is that critics equate playing GTA to doing those things in real life. I'm not entirely convinced that this view is entirely without merit, since I could see how it might numb some barriers against behavior. That being said, such extreme examples, assuming that they do exist, would be few and far between.
The advantage to gaming's participatory nature is that kids and parents can play games together. PLaying games with my stepsons has actually helped to make our bond stronger. It is, after all, something that you can do for either long or short periods of time, is fun, and is shared.
At the end of the day I think that that is gaming's greatest boon.
Simply put, the information that "wants to be free" is general information going from multiple points (say, the Internet) to a single point (say, a/. User). The private information, on the other hand, is the information of a single point (same said/. user) going to multiple points (the BlackHatters). While they are both information, personal information, by definition, is personal; whilst broad information is general.
The biggest cliche, and the one not mentioned, is that health, ammo, and everything else you need are all strewn about waiting for you to pick them up. I can't think of a FPS, or RPG I've played where that has not been the case. So long as a part of gaming requires you to obtain food, then crates will be there to ensure that you have to actually go to the trouble of opening them to get the goodies. Would they be happier with boxes?
As for the exploding fuel cans, 55 gallon drums which splode are just too cool knock;-)
Funnest game I ever played. 'Twas addicted to it back in '96 or so. It would have been nice to see it on the list, but, from the comments I read, no one else seemed to miss it:-(
And my apologies for a harsh reply. Small farmers have my utmost respect. Between the government, coporations, and the fickleness of Mother Nature, I know that theirs is a position which I would not want. I wish your family the best and hope they make it.
So how would this be a limiting factor for a government that still subsidizes tobacco farmers? What if we only sent smokers? TFA article says that 10% would get fatal cancer sometime in their lives. Really, how is this different from those who self select themselves for a much increased risk of cancer through smoking?
Then you, my friend, never had to try and become interested in Wuthering Heights, bane of my High School english class. The only novel I just simply could not bring myself to finish. I made it through House of Seven Gables, but am none the better for it.
Book: "He's dead. Yep, still dead. Hhm, doesn't seem to be moving. Maybe, because, that's right, he's DEAD. Still."
Me: "Get on with it!"
Well if the final goal for your audience is euthanizing them, then may I suggest anything written by one of the Bronte sisters? Nathaniel Hawthorn will get you there, too.
Because fighting over barren sand isn't interesting enough, now we have folks bickering over a barren rock in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. Yeah- go Western Civilization! w00t!
If your copy doesn't show it either, then perhaps either you are wrong, or America doesnt really have a Constutution after all, but instead has a nine-headed Pope!
Welcome to nine-headed Pope land! It is far easier to argue that the 1st Amendment has no limits on it whatsoever than to accept that life is not composed of absolutes. If you believe that any manner of speech is fine, you are more than welcome to your views (and kudos to your tenacity). However, you should also note that the language of the 1st Amendment specifically states that "Congress shall make no law..." That means that it provides protection only from Federal prosecution and meddling. The 1st Amendment only applies to the 50 States because that same nine-headed Pope which you deride applied them to the States. If you want to accept that the nine-headed Pope does not have the power to interpret the Constitution, than you also have to accept that your State is thereby free to restrict your speech in any manner it wishes, without being burdened with Constitutional considerations.
Your choice. Personally, I prefer to accept that our society is far too complicated to limit ourselves to the extremes of interpretation.
Keep in mind that the 1st Amendment is not an absolute protection against saying anything, anytime, anywhere. The classic example is shouting "FIRE!" in a crowded theatre, though I prefer the thinking of someone with a bull horn outside you window at 2 am;-)
In this particular case, and IANAL, they could be seeing whether his actions might be inciteful to others. The reality, however, is that they will quietly look at this and decide that no crime was committed.
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Just one more reason why, no matter how voluminous the Internet becomes, it will never replace sneakernet. Now where'd that floppy get to?
I believe you mean you don't want to inter there...
But, just in case, we will be bringing in DeBeers as a consultant.
Astral Projection.
My favorite example of this is projections in baseball. Usually you can count on someone hitting a couple homers in one of the opening day games and then he's projected to hit 324 during the course of the year;-)
With MMORPG, there is a certain audience that likes the games and will continue to pour money into them. Once that market is saturated, however, the numbers will plateau (same as in every other industry). There are many people, myself included, who don't really care for the genre and will not waste resources (be they time or money) on playing them. I'll bet any of you a shiny nickel that in ten years, the number of people like me (i.e., those who don't play MMORPGs) will still outnumber those who do.
This would be the polar opposite of what happened to the Ten Commandments set which Cecil B. DeMille had intentionally buried- so no one else could use them.
You know its the Neo-Copurnicons like you who are comforting our enemies.
It will be interesting to see whether M$ is the proverbial Early Bird, or Early Worm.
Either that or maybe they should train their employees to tell the difference between Rolex and Timex. If they were to try such a scam against employees whoa ctually know their stock, then it wouldn't work. So, maybe more training and less reliance on non-human controls would be better.
The advantage to gaming's participatory nature is that kids and parents can play games together. PLaying games with my stepsons has actually helped to make our bond stronger. It is, after all, something that you can do for either long or short periods of time, is fun, and is shared.
At the end of the day I think that that is gaming's greatest boon.
Simply put, the information that "wants to be free" is general information going from multiple points (say, the Internet) to a single point (say, a /. User). The private information, on the other hand, is the information of a single point (same said /. user) going to multiple points (the BlackHatters). While they are both information, personal information, by definition, is personal; whilst broad information is general.
And you would be correct;-) Is it good?
As for the exploding fuel cans, 55 gallon drums which splode are just too cool knock;-)
Funnest game I ever played. 'Twas addicted to it back in '96 or so. It would have been nice to see it on the list, but, from the comments I read, no one else seemed to miss it:-(
I wasn't worried until I saw that the press release was put out by the Umbrella Corporation from someplace called Raccoon City.
And my apologies for a harsh reply. Small farmers have my utmost respect. Between the government, coporations, and the fickleness of Mother Nature, I know that theirs is a position which I would not want. I wish your family the best and hope they make it.
Um, yeah. So up until last year the government supported the nations #1 health problem. You're right. That completely destroys the point of my post.
So how would this be a limiting factor for a government that still subsidizes tobacco farmers? What if we only sent smokers? TFA article says that 10% would get fatal cancer sometime in their lives. Really, how is this different from those who self select themselves for a much increased risk of cancer through smoking?
Then you, my friend, never had to try and become interested in Wuthering Heights, bane of my High School english class. The only novel I just simply could not bring myself to finish. I made it through House of Seven Gables, but am none the better for it.
Book: "He's dead. Yep, still dead. Hhm, doesn't seem to be moving. Maybe, because, that's right, he's DEAD. Still."
Me: "Get on with it!"
Well if the final goal for your audience is euthanizing them, then may I suggest anything written by one of the Bronte sisters? Nathaniel Hawthorn will get you there, too.
Because fighting over barren sand isn't interesting enough, now we have folks bickering over a barren rock in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. Yeah- go Western Civilization! w00t!
Welcome to nine-headed Pope land! It is far easier to argue that the 1st Amendment has no limits on it whatsoever than to accept that life is not composed of absolutes. If you believe that any manner of speech is fine, you are more than welcome to your views (and kudos to your tenacity). However, you should also note that the language of the 1st Amendment specifically states that "Congress shall make no law..." That means that it provides protection only from Federal prosecution and meddling. The 1st Amendment only applies to the 50 States because that same nine-headed Pope which you deride applied them to the States. If you want to accept that the nine-headed Pope does not have the power to interpret the Constitution, than you also have to accept that your State is thereby free to restrict your speech in any manner it wishes, without being burdened with Constitutional considerations.
Your choice. Personally, I prefer to accept that our society is far too complicated to limit ourselves to the extremes of interpretation.
In this particular case, and IANAL, they could be seeing whether his actions might be inciteful to others. The reality, however, is that they will quietly look at this and decide that no crime was committed.
Is there nothing it can't do?