1) Pick a popular franchise 2) Make a cheap as in shoddy game around it 3) Short term profit 4) Repeat
"Hey, I don't feel like playing my Fighter today... I feel like using my Thief instead... can you guys all ditch your characters and go to this server?"
Yeah, right...
Why does everyone always talk about this "Mule" crap when this subject is brought up? I've been into RPGs off and on since '81, and I can't remember a long running campaign EVER where I just used a single character. Why? I would periodically feel like PLAYING a different ROLE. That is, after all, the entire purpose of a ROLE PLAYING game....
Not that I care... there's hasn't been a quality product from the Star Wars franchise since ROTJ came out, and you'd be a fool to expect it to change now...
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STFU you damned racist.
Attitudes like that get us bombed.
Having travelled the world, I can honestly say that is bullshit, and that generally, when ppl mistake me for an American and I correct them, they apologize... sometimes profusely. Nuff said...
Americans have gotten what they deserve... just wish we could put you all somewhere further away... like the surface of the sun.
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I'm not using RAID, but I've got 5 hard drives in my Lian-Li PC-12s bottom mounted rack + 3 optical drives, and while it's full, it's not difficult to work with.
And I will pay not to have to experience it. But there are no services available that don't require it.
Pay TV has ads. Free TV has ads. The books I buy and the movies I buy and the movies I pay to go see all want to get their hooks in my brain and my families brain. There is no justification for this when I'm paying for the product or service in question.
We need a new rule: ANY service offered with adversizing MUST be also offered in an advert-free version. I'll pay... just get your hooks out of my kids brain.
From my personal experience, Canada, America and Australia don't have metered local calls. That's a pretty big chunk... so unless all the areas of the world I haven't been to are on metered local calls, my most of the world statement should be correct.
This whole study is based on the context of users who pay by the minute for phone calls, and who pay for local calls. If you live in a place where you don't pay by the minute for local calls (like most of the world) the study is completely irrelevant.
Lets see... the internet is the bane of anyone whose business is controlling information.
The major service providers are slowly being aquired by media companies.
The service providers are pursuing a course of action that exposes the fabric of the internet to risk.
Media companies are successfully lobbying to outlaw devices that do not contain DRM technology, and they own the key infrastructure that allows existing devices to operate.
How many more pieces need to fall into place before a convenient "accident" can wipe out the network as we know it, leaving a vast network of fat pipes just waiting to be re-purposed?
A few more laws, a bunch of replacement devices on store shelves, and a few "terrorists" with EMPs and bang, no more internet.
I'd be happy to live in a world where there is no privacy... there's a great many changes that need to be made for it to work, and a great many that would be made if it came about, but it could be an improvement. You don't need to be ashamed when you know everyone elses laundry is dirty too...
However, that having big organizations with shady motives (that includes governments) have this info exclusively is going to lead to the enslavement of humanity to an untouchable totalitarian organization. Not good.
Here's a question I've often wondered about:
What sort of changes would be needed before you'd be happy surrendering your privacy?
The people who know they are in the right but don't fight the big corps are just as responsible for the injustices that eventuate as the big corps are, if not more so. At the end of the day, Wal-Mart didn't take the information down, the admins of the website did.
I'm so sick of hearing ppl say "Oh, but the corps can afford to spend a million dollars on the lawsuit and the little guy can't." That's true, if they only have to do it once to make an example of someone. If they have to spend a million dollars in legal fees over and over and over again, it adds up. If you've incorporated your business like you should have, they can't hurt you very badly anyways, small operator or no... so grab a firm hold of your testicles and your ethics, and bloody fight. You are responsible for the evil you tolerate, make no mistake. I have no sympathy whatsoever for these webmasters... their actions have shown them to be small fry scum bowing to big fish scum.
I'd be a little concerned about buying one of these vehicles unless the manufacturer made a real effort to provide education to the masses about how to service them.
How expensive is service going to be? Can I grab my buddies, tools and a case of beer and nut it out myself? These things are important.
DHTML is particularly relevant, in my experience, with generating dynamic forms.
As an example, I've recently created a page that allows the creation of price structures. Price structures have a start date, an end date (which may be null), 0 or more surcharges (name and $)and 1 or more price breaks (min qty, max qty, unit cost). Also, each price break may have 0 or more surcharges (name and $)
Building this with static HTML and server side scripting could require many trips back and forth to the server... this isn't very good from a users perspective.
Instead, I used dynamic HTML to do it all in one page... the form is created on the fly, and modal dialogs are used when entering data to keep the interface clean. Clicking a button to add a price break opens a modal, fetches the details back from the modal, creates another table row, fills it with text showing what you've added, hidden input fields holding the data, an "add surcharge" button, and a "remove" button that deletes the table row (along with the hidden inputs it contains)
You can easily add, edit and remove as many items from this form as you wish, and once you've tweaked the price structure the way you want it, the server breaks it all down and salts it away in the database.
The whole thing is very usable, reusable, and efficient, and could not have been made without DHTML and JavaScript.
Anyone who develops sites for corporates is going to be using DHTML to make it appealing and easy to use. I develop internet apps for a living, and I use DHTML all over the place in my development. You can make some VERY effective user interfaces with DHTML... I've used it in my sites to create extremely flexible/dynamic forms that pass sophisticated information in a single form that would require 5-6 round trips to the server without it.
You quite obviously have no idea what you're talking about. Perhaps you should stop spewing crap and learn a little about the subject before you mouth off.
I'll buy them... and crack them, and copy them, and leave free copies in strangers mailboxes with a note explaining what I've done and asking them to make copies for their friends.
How do you like them apples, you manipulative bloodsuckers?
That really doesn't impact on me worth a toss. I will NOT contribute to the financial success of Palladium. Considering that there is an easy alternative available, anyone who claims to espouse freedom of information and communication and proceeds to buy one of these processors is the very worst kind of hypocrite.
I won't be buying Palladium. This is what will push me to Apple, and I'd encourage you all to do the same... and send em a letter telling em why.
It's a shame... Intels adoptation of Palladium could have been AMDs biggest opportunity ever. Bad move AMD.
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1) Pick a popular franchise
2) Make a cheap as in shoddy game around it
3) Short term profit
4) Repeat
"Hey, I don't feel like playing my Fighter today... I feel like using my Thief instead... can you guys all ditch your characters and go to this server?"
Yeah, right...
Why does everyone always talk about this "Mule" crap when this subject is brought up? I've been into RPGs off and on since '81, and I can't remember a long running campaign EVER where I just used a single character. Why? I would periodically feel like PLAYING a different ROLE. That is, after all, the entire purpose of a ROLE PLAYING game....
Not that I care... there's hasn't been a quality product from the Star Wars franchise since ROTJ came out, and you'd be a fool to expect it to change now...
STFU you damned racist. Attitudes like that get us bombed.
That may or may not be true, but it doesn't mean that he's obliged to give a shit, you troll. Who're the idiots that modded this up?!?
Can I put some in the back of my head?
Having travelled the world, I can honestly say that is bullshit, and that generally, when ppl mistake me for an American and I correct them, they apologize... sometimes profusely. Nuff said...
Americans have gotten what they deserve... just wish we could put you all somewhere further away... like the surface of the sun.
I'm not using RAID, but I've got 5 hard drives in my Lian-Li PC-12s bottom mounted rack + 3 optical drives, and while it's full, it's not difficult to work with.
Round your cables and get a better case.
And I will pay not to have to experience it. But there are no services available that don't require it.
Pay TV has ads. Free TV has ads. The books I buy and the movies I buy and the movies I pay to go see all want to get their hooks in my brain and my families brain. There is no justification for this when I'm paying for the product or service in question.
We need a new rule: ANY service offered with adversizing MUST be also offered in an advert-free version. I'll pay... just get your hooks out of my kids brain.
A better word would be "amateur" database.
From my personal experience, Canada, America and Australia don't have metered local calls. That's a pretty big chunk... so unless all the areas of the world I haven't been to are on metered local calls, my most of the world statement should be correct.
So... if I start a company, and my company sells nukes to terrorists, there's nothing morally wrong with that, as long as we turn a profit?
You must be American.
This whole study is based on the context of users who pay by the minute for phone calls, and who pay for local calls. If you live in a place where you don't pay by the minute for local calls (like most of the world) the study is completely irrelevant.
In other words, who cares?
Lets see... the internet is the bane of anyone whose business is controlling information.
The major service providers are slowly being aquired by media companies.
The service providers are pursuing a course of action that exposes the fabric of the internet to risk.
Media companies are successfully lobbying to outlaw devices that do not contain DRM technology, and they own the key infrastructure that allows existing devices to operate.
How many more pieces need to fall into place before a convenient "accident" can wipe out the network as we know it, leaving a vast network of fat pipes just waiting to be re-purposed?
A few more laws, a bunch of replacement devices on store shelves, and a few "terrorists" with EMPs and bang, no more internet.
Nah... they wouldn't pull a stunt like that...
I'd be happy to live in a world where there is no privacy... there's a great many changes that need to be made for it to work, and a great many that would be made if it came about, but it could be an improvement. You don't need to be ashamed when you know everyone elses laundry is dirty too... However, that having big organizations with shady motives (that includes governments) have this info exclusively is going to lead to the enslavement of humanity to an untouchable totalitarian organization. Not good. Here's a question I've often wondered about: What sort of changes would be needed before you'd be happy surrendering your privacy?
All the advertisements on Slashdot got sucked into the black hole that is my hosts file... I think you better bust me
If this trend takes off, we're never going to get affordable supercomputers!
The people who know they are in the right but don't fight the big corps are just as responsible for the injustices that eventuate as the big corps are, if not more so. At the end of the day, Wal-Mart didn't take the information down, the admins of the website did.
I'm so sick of hearing ppl say "Oh, but the corps can afford to spend a million dollars on the lawsuit and the little guy can't." That's true, if they only have to do it once to make an example of someone. If they have to spend a million dollars in legal fees over and over and over again, it adds up. If you've incorporated your business like you should have, they can't hurt you very badly anyways, small operator or no... so grab a firm hold of your testicles and your ethics, and bloody fight. You are responsible for the evil you tolerate, make no mistake. I have no sympathy whatsoever for these webmasters... their actions have shown them to be small fry scum bowing to big fish scum.
I'd be a little concerned about buying one of these vehicles unless the manufacturer made a real effort to provide education to the masses about how to service them. How expensive is service going to be? Can I grab my buddies, tools and a case of beer and nut it out myself? These things are important.
No, the war was over when the americans NUKED Hiroshima.
DHTML is particularly relevant, in my experience, with generating dynamic forms.
As an example, I've recently created a page that allows the creation of price structures. Price structures have a start date, an end date (which may be null), 0 or more surcharges (name and $)and 1 or more price breaks (min qty, max qty, unit cost). Also, each price break may have 0 or more surcharges (name and $)
Building this with static HTML and server side scripting could require many trips back and forth to the server... this isn't very good from a users perspective.
Instead, I used dynamic HTML to do it all in one page... the form is created on the fly, and modal dialogs are used when entering data to keep the interface clean. Clicking a button to add a price break opens a modal, fetches the details back from the modal, creates another table row, fills it with text showing what you've added, hidden input fields holding the data, an "add surcharge" button, and a "remove" button that deletes the table row (along with the hidden inputs it contains)
You can easily add, edit and remove as many items from this form as you wish, and once you've tweaked the price structure the way you want it, the server breaks it all down and salts it away in the database.
The whole thing is very usable, reusable, and efficient, and could not have been made without DHTML and JavaScript.
Anyone who develops sites for corporates is going to be using DHTML to make it appealing and easy to use. I develop internet apps for a living, and I use DHTML all over the place in my development. You can make some VERY effective user interfaces with DHTML... I've used it in my sites to create extremely flexible/dynamic forms that pass sophisticated information in a single form that would require 5-6 round trips to the server without it. You quite obviously have no idea what you're talking about. Perhaps you should stop spewing crap and learn a little about the subject before you mouth off.
I'll buy them... and crack them, and copy them, and leave free copies in strangers mailboxes with a note explaining what I've done and asking them to make copies for their friends. How do you like them apples, you manipulative bloodsuckers?
That really doesn't impact on me worth a toss. I will NOT contribute to the financial success of Palladium. Considering that there is an easy alternative available, anyone who claims to espouse freedom of information and communication and proceeds to buy one of these processors is the very worst kind of hypocrite.
I won't be buying Palladium. This is what will push me to Apple, and I'd encourage you all to do the same... and send em a letter telling em why. It's a shame... Intels adoptation of Palladium could have been AMDs biggest opportunity ever. Bad move AMD.
Make a political statement! Boycott our evil twin to the south and buy from the good guys! : )