Wouldn't a better response to the situation be "People aren't doing a good job with cinematic style games, so I'm going to write good ones?"
It seems kind of non-intuitive to say "You guys suck at this type of game, so I'm going to focus on making the kind of game that you get right."
I just meant to observe that because they have examples of laws that have been both struck down and supported, they're perhaps better prepared to deal with the legal issues.
Jack Thompson may have his head in the wrong place, but he's not as stupid as people make him out to be. While it's a fair bet that the ESA will go after this bill (just like they have in every other state to sign one into law), I wonder if they'll have more of a difficult time with this one. After all, they have one ruling at least to go on (Illinois), one law that's been unchallenged (Maryland), and after the fiasco with his Modest Proposal I doubt Jack would help author something else that was going to be a sure loss.
Well, it helps and it hurts. It depends on what parts of your gameplay are cash-driven.
IF you're the kind of person that raids all the time and has access to loot drops all the time (i.e. if you're a producer in terms of WoW's economy) then you're strictly better off in an inflated economy, because you sell things more often than you buy things.
However, higher auction house prices are aimed at gold farmers (or people who buy the farmed gold), to the point where it gets ridiculous for anyone who's not in that target market to even consider making a purchase on the auction house.
The issue isn't that capital is increased across the board - that would be fantastic, for the reasons you stated. The issue is that capital is increased along a small segment of the market - gold farmers and the people they sell to - which winds up hurting anyone who doesn't buy gold, unless they're big sellers and don't buy often enough to offset that... which last I checked required having 39 other people willing to spend at least two hours of their gametime with you on a regular basis.
It's interesting to note that removing that vast amount of gold will actually help the economy in WoW (I can't testify to FFXI as I don't play it). It's directly analagous to decreasing the money supply in an over-inflated capitalist market - with the added twist that the money being removed is the money that belongs to the percentage of the population that has a vast amount of wealth in excess of the average.
In short, prices drop, and the "poverty line" is lowered drastically.
"Gaim 2.0.0 beta 2 does not include voice or video ("vv") support for any protocols. We've done some work toward vv compatibility for Google Talk, but it isn't ready for the general public yet. It is unlikely this will change for the final release of Gaim 2.0.0, but vv will be a primary focus for the next major release of Gaim after that." (emphasis mine)
As per their news page circa January, 2006 (link)
Seeing as Gaim is in the process of working on what they call their vv module (the v's standing for voice and video), I don't think it was as much of a security-driven choice as it was a time-driven choice. That or they've had a change of heart, whichever you deem more likely;)
There are conversion utilities (Flocker and Flockd) that will convert Firefox extensions for you - I can't say they always work, but it's converted all the extensions I've wanted to try.
It's not as easy as all that. I'd imagine that all sorts of issues get involved, from racial/ethnical issues ("Kill the Haitians!") to obscenity (which, according to the Supreme Court, is not protected by the Freedom of Speech clause). It'll be interesting to see how they play the cards.
(and yes, putting all the legalities aside, I rather agree with you - if the parents don't like it, they should just keep their kids from playing it. Doesn't mean they don't have a case, though.)
Better make sure they do some dihydrogen monoxide scanning too... most places don't even think about checking for that stuff. Do you know how many people die as a result of that stuff each year? It's ridiculous.
Actually, all projectiles follow the same basic formula for motion - gravity and air resistance being constant and easily accounted for. The only reason battleship shells follow a flatter trajectory is that they have a different initial velocity, so they take less time getting to their target. This means that gravity has less time to affect them, so they don't have to aim as high to compensate. As far as only taking a few seconds, given all the information (and knowing the right formula) you can predict the correct path fairly accurately with a TI-83 in that amount of time, provided your hands are moderately fast.
Actually...
Hydrogen is flammable, but it doesn't explode -It's a fuel, not a catalyst, and hence it's just as dangerous for a small, contained amount of Hydrogen gas to be on a plane as it is for you to be on a plane - heck, and you'll burn longer than it will, so you're more of a hazard.
What I'm wondering is why our scientists are looking into bio-terrorism methods? Maybe we're trying to do a "Mutual Assured Destruction" plan with the terrorists....
I don't think that was very much the point... Pioneer 10 was designed to go long-distance - hence the plaque on the front for wherever it happens to crash-land (assuming it's hospitable). It was meant to be a long-term probe, and it's held up (which is remarkable, considering this is the same agency that confused English and Metric units of measurement).
Yeah... except for the small fact that the economy comes to a dead halt until the idiots realize that we're not going to get hit by a giant rock (which, if they believed it in the first place, could be a very, very long time)
Keep in mind, most people claimed that PC's would never happen due to the immense size requirements for Vacuum tubes. Then stuff got smaller and more 'flexible'...
Well, according to the article, the speed of a synchronous processor is limited to the speed that the circuit can handle... so wouldn't an asynchronous processor be limited by the same factors?
Yeah, we're working on tourism stuff too... we're just doing it the 'American way.' We've got the X-award floating around out there. And hey, it's not a government operation, so it may actually get something done, but it's mostly unpublicized.
Having come from a school for those that are (supposedly, anyway) a little brighter than most, I find that comment to be a little unbelievable. Especially seeing as there were about %2 of the school that owned Macintosh's, and every single one of those people were incredibly computer illiterate.
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Wouldn't a better response to the situation be "People aren't doing a good job with cinematic style games, so I'm going to write good ones?" It seems kind of non-intuitive to say "You guys suck at this type of game, so I'm going to focus on making the kind of game that you get right."
I just meant to observe that because they have examples of laws that have been both struck down and supported, they're perhaps better prepared to deal with the legal issues.
Wiretapping != griefing.
G.I.F.T. is probably more accurate.
Jack Thompson may have his head in the wrong place, but he's not as stupid as people make him out to be. While it's a fair bet that the ESA will go after this bill (just like they have in every other state to sign one into law), I wonder if they'll have more of a difficult time with this one. After all, they have one ruling at least to go on (Illinois), one law that's been unchallenged (Maryland), and after the fiasco with his Modest Proposal I doubt Jack would help author something else that was going to be a sure loss.
Just some thoughts.
Well, it helps and it hurts. It depends on what parts of your gameplay are cash-driven. IF you're the kind of person that raids all the time and has access to loot drops all the time (i.e. if you're a producer in terms of WoW's economy) then you're strictly better off in an inflated economy, because you sell things more often than you buy things. However, higher auction house prices are aimed at gold farmers (or people who buy the farmed gold), to the point where it gets ridiculous for anyone who's not in that target market to even consider making a purchase on the auction house. The issue isn't that capital is increased across the board - that would be fantastic, for the reasons you stated. The issue is that capital is increased along a small segment of the market - gold farmers and the people they sell to - which winds up hurting anyone who doesn't buy gold, unless they're big sellers and don't buy often enough to offset that... which last I checked required having 39 other people willing to spend at least two hours of their gametime with you on a regular basis.
It's interesting to note that removing that vast amount of gold will actually help the economy in WoW (I can't testify to FFXI as I don't play it). It's directly analagous to decreasing the money supply in an over-inflated capitalist market - with the added twist that the money being removed is the money that belongs to the percentage of the population that has a vast amount of wealth in excess of the average.
In short, prices drop, and the "poverty line" is lowered drastically.
"Gaim 2.0.0 beta 2 does not include voice or video ("vv") support for any protocols. We've done some work toward vv compatibility for Google Talk, but it isn't ready for the general public yet. It is unlikely this will change for the final release of Gaim 2.0.0, but vv will be a primary focus for the next major release of Gaim after that." (emphasis mine) As per their news page circa January, 2006 (link)
Seeing as Gaim is in the process of working on what they call their vv module (the v's standing for voice and video), I don't think it was as much of a security-driven choice as it was a time-driven choice. That or they've had a change of heart, whichever you deem more likely ;)
There are conversion utilities (Flocker and Flockd) that will convert Firefox extensions for you - I can't say they always work, but it's converted all the extensions I've wanted to try.
It's not as easy as all that. I'd imagine that all sorts of issues get involved, from racial/ethnical issues ("Kill the Haitians!") to obscenity (which, according to the Supreme Court, is not protected by the Freedom of Speech clause).
It'll be interesting to see how they play the cards.
(and yes, putting all the legalities aside, I rather agree with you - if the parents don't like it, they should just keep their kids from playing it. Doesn't mean they don't have a case, though.)
It's bulletproof!
Better make sure they do some dihydrogen monoxide scanning too... most places don't even think about checking for that stuff. Do you know how many people die as a result of that stuff each year? It's ridiculous.
If anyone's interested, there's also an article on this is the November 2002 Popular Science.
Actually, all projectiles follow the same basic formula for motion - gravity and air resistance being constant and easily accounted for. The only reason battleship shells follow a flatter trajectory is that they have a different initial velocity, so they take less time getting to their target. This means that gravity has less time to affect them, so they don't have to aim as high to compensate. As far as only taking a few seconds, given all the information (and knowing the right formula) you can predict the correct path fairly accurately with a TI-83 in that amount of time, provided your hands are moderately fast.
Screw lasers, I want to know how close we are to the phasors. I mean seriously, can you set a laser to stun damage? I think not.
Actually... Hydrogen is flammable, but it doesn't explode -It's a fuel, not a catalyst, and hence it's just as dangerous for a small, contained amount of Hydrogen gas to be on a plane as it is for you to be on a plane - heck, and you'll burn longer than it will, so you're more of a hazard.
What I'm wondering is why our scientists are looking into bio-terrorism methods? Maybe we're trying to do a "Mutual Assured Destruction" plan with the terrorists....
So, we gain cosmic energy and we get colder.... does anyone else sense a violation of thermodynamics here?
I don't think that was very much the point... Pioneer 10 was designed to go long-distance - hence the plaque on the front for wherever it happens to crash-land (assuming it's hospitable). It was meant to be a long-term probe, and it's held up (which is remarkable, considering this is the same agency that confused English and Metric units of measurement).
Yeah... except for the small fact that the economy comes to a dead halt until the idiots realize that we're not going to get hit by a giant rock (which, if they believed it in the first place, could be a very, very long time)
Keep in mind, most people claimed that PC's would never happen due to the immense size requirements for Vacuum tubes. Then stuff got smaller and more 'flexible'...
Well, according to the article, the speed of a synchronous processor is limited to the speed that the circuit can handle... so wouldn't an asynchronous processor be limited by the same factors?
Yeah, we're working on tourism stuff too... we're just doing it the 'American way.' We've got the X-award floating around out there. And hey, it's not a government operation, so it may actually get something done, but it's mostly unpublicized.
Having come from a school for those that are (supposedly, anyway) a little brighter than most, I find that comment to be a little unbelievable. Especially seeing as there were about %2 of the school that owned Macintosh's, and every single one of those people were incredibly computer illiterate.