By banning such symbols, doesn't this give them more power? I mean, a symbol, or a book, or a movie have no power in themselves, only if we fear them do they have power over us. By banning them, the government is telling us to fear them. In the case of the swastika, neo-nazis must feel empowered that their symbol is so feared.
Remember "Day of the Dove" from the original Star Trek series? Until the Klingons and Feds decided not to empower the alien entity with their hatred, they were able to laugh at it and make it go away.
The problem here is that they are worried about what players want... not their players but what will garner them the buggest buck. Face it, they have one of the best licenses in the biz. They were doing good with about 200,000 subscribers. Then here comes World of Warcraft. Even though it is not a major license it does phenomenal, becoming the most played MMO ever (and still is), dwarfing all others.
I know the board of directors of Sony must've been up in arms. "We payed for Star Wars, what went wrong." The whole staff was in danger of losing their jobs. Of course the suits will yell, "make it like Warcraft." Of course having a good license means squat in the world of MMORPGs. Matrix Online only has about 30,000 subscribers.
I played WoW for about 6 months and lost interest. It is very basic. The quests are not all that interesting, and the character classes are not that well done. There is no community like in the old SWG.I wonder sometimes why it does so well for so long. But for every subscriber above SWG that was vote for them to change their game.
So stop blaming Sony Online for the change. Instead blame all the people that like th crap game WoW is. They caused the change.
My mom purchased a Sony HDTV two years ago (I told her to wait because of unresolved issues like these, but did she listen????). It only has HD component ins as HDMI and so on were not even spoken about. I see that Sony is part of the AACS defining group. Well, they advertised that their HDTV was the future of TV (obviously not), and that the component inputs would be capable of accepting HD from future products (that's what the sales guy said). Well, they sold a product that they are now crippling its abilities. Is it possible for early adopters to sue to get compensated for now having to buy a new set just to use HD-DVD or Blu-Ray?
I have been an MS Windows user for years and have alittle experience with GNU/Linux and Mac OS X. After seeing all the cool things stripped out of Vista (especially the new WinFS) what is left is basically Windows XP SP3. Boring.
Frankly, with the new Intel Macs hitting the street during that time, with its ease of use, long track record, etc., that is the system that can win big, and I think that Apple (especially with its monopolistic policies with hardware and software, such as leveraging Final Cut to get Avid/Adobe to give up on Mac and of course iTunes) may just be the next Microsoft.
If end users have a bad experience on non-Apple hardware with an officially endorsed verision, then that colors their perception of OS X as a whole. En users will hear of problems with OS X and judge it wrong. It may not be true, but it does happen.
However, I am not so convinced of the "it just works" motto of Apple. I have a production studio with a P4 based video editing system under Windows XP and a G5 running OS X and ProToolsHD. I have had very little problem in the Windows system, but some nightmares with the Apple system.
Whatever works for you, that's what you use.
I heard that broadcast via the podcast version. He worried about the ability for Apple to keep the OS linked to the hardware. He explained that Apple always has considered itself hardware first, but the possibility in his mind is that the OS will be cracked, it will then be fixed to run on the average Dell and pirated. This would undermine Apple's apprach to the game.
I like Leo a lot. He loves OS X because it is based on OpenBSD. He is a UNIX freak.
As I said, I would have like to have had more variety/class based puzzles but i hadn't got them yet. My interest declined and i quit. Playing KOTOR II now and am very happy. YMMV, but I do not believe I am the only one with this opinion.
I guess I am a casual gamer. I get tired when a game is the samething over and over. i want to move onand experience new things. I loved Half Life, but did not enjoy Halo 2's story. Half Life kept changing... a scene of shooting, a scene of puzzle, a littleinteraction. Halo is the sameeverywhere: shoot, find key. Its like Doom with better graphics.
So my friend talked me into playing WoW. It was very cool for a while, but frankly the quests are all basically the same. Go here, find this, bring it back. It became very monotonous to me, one of the reasons I retired at 30th level.
Here are the two main problems with WoW: Lack of a variety of adventure types (like I said most are mission, find key dressed up), the guild system while social has no bearingon the game except as ways of gettinghelp to advance.
Worse is the character classes. With a group they are essentially used for fighting. A rogue fights different than a warrior, yet it is all about the fight. I would have lovedto see dungeons where you need a rogue to open areas up, a warrior as first line of defense, etc. Ifthe dungeons NEEDED certian classesit would go a long way to party development, much like a DnD adventure works. As it is you just yell "who wants to ______?" and whoever joins its okay. It could be a group all warriors... dont worry, there are no locked doors you need a rogue for.
Don't pass the buck. Yes, Sony's security is lax, but it was warned inthe initial article that this was not a finished update. Anyone who downloaded it got it from another source. I understand the documentation warned it was not finished. It is the end user in this case who had better be on guard.
Sorry, but Sony is not responsible. I know there is a real anti-corporate mentality here on/., but fair is fair.
They DID NOT realease it. Someone stole it and that IS NOT Sony's responsibility.
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Doom was very fun. Used to play it via modem with my firend. Hours of gameplay.
BZFlag has poor gameplay, bad controls and documentation.
I don't mind lesser graphics but this game is NOT FUN.
What is with you all. You are so into OSS you use Malaysia and China as proof that OSS is the way to go?
China, the largest communist country with a record of human rights abuses, is making its own Linux. Do you really want to be mentioned in the same breath as them (of course, the opne source movement and communism share the same ideals).
And Malaysia? Another bastion if human rights violations, where censorship and state-sponsored religion are the rule, not the exception? Nice people to be in bed with.
You all make me sick in how you pick your victoruies. OSS is a good movememnt, but quit aligning yourself with the evil in the world.
The reason it is fair to iscount all the worm/trojan/virus attacks IS because it would be unfair to Windows. See, this test was to defend against attackers who might want the data. Frankly, the type of attacker who this was to test with was someone who cared more about getting into a system... not neccesarilt a windows system... but whatever system it happens to be.
The unfairness is that more people write viruses and such to atatck Windows because they have a grudge. Many are Linux gurus out to prove ho insecure their system is. No other OS gets so much attention from these kinds of virus/worm writers. And everytime one attacks you Linuxs disciples yell "look at how insecure Windows is!" It's not that it is more or less secure, but that these virus/worm writers spend numerous more man-hours coding their "product" for Windows systems.
Actually, Windows does detect open/closure of the CD or DVD drive, at least since Windows 95. Not the floppy, but with bootable CDs and DVDs who the hell cares?
I think the fixes to Empire are all pretty good. best was cleaning up the discoloration of the optical matting (the boxes around ships in space) which was way more apparant in this film.
I liked the Wampa Ice Beast... even more because he was a practical effect not some CGI thing.
The only bad part was the adding of the scream to Luke falling after Vader reveals he's Luke's father. Empire SE has Luke screming like a baby... the classic one he just falls.
For A New Hope I like the new version of the Death Star Attack... much improved. But there is so much to hate: All the added stuff at Mos Eisly, the Greedo scene change, the added Jabba scene that doesn't really work and just repeats the exposition from the Greedo scene. Also, the adding of Biggs at the end... it doesn't work without the missing scenes of Biggs visiting Tatooine (its in the script, novel, comic adaptation and Radio Show).
I'd love to know if someone has the widescreen LaserDisc of the classic PRE-SE trilogy. I'd love to burn them to DVD. Even make a backup for that person.
In the article the autor writes about a way to remedy the situation:The central office would then monitor how frequently a work is used and compensate the creators on that basis. The money would come from a tax on various content-related devices, like DVD burners, blank CD's or digital recorders. I don't burn CDs or DVDs of others work, just my own. Why should I have to pay for other peoples uses by having a tax on my blank media if it is paying for uses I don't partake in? Again, say hello to the Soviet Republic of the Internet.
I can't wait for D&D Online. Long overdue. I love playing computer ROGs based on the d20 system (such as Star Wars:KOTOR and Neverwinter Nights). This should be a good one. One question I have that hasn't been answered: what world is it in. I hope it's Greyhawk or Forgotten Realms. If its some generic new world they made up I will be dissapointed.
You get a lot of entertainment that people spent a lot of money to make and other people worked very hard on for FREE. You can then spend your money on something else. Sounds like a reward.
The quote: "...but if (we) give people what they are asking for in terms of value, they won't go out and steal it. It's called trusting the consumer."
I am in the music and video biz. I know there is piracy and that will never stop. The cat is out of the bag and it is useless to keep trying to retrofit secutrity on a format not designed for it (CD Audio).
The record companies need to give more value by making albums that have 10 good songs and better packaging and bonus material. Take it from the movie industry... people can copy DVDs very easily now. But people will still buy a disc that is in special packaging and priced right. Value of ownership- that is what has been lost on the music consumer.
Agree. Dark City rocks. Very similar to Matrix in development of the main character. Of course, it is the Hero's journey, just like the first Stsr Wars. I do love the noir feel of Dark City.
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By banning such symbols, doesn't this give them more power? I mean, a symbol, or a book, or a movie have no power in themselves, only if we fear them do they have power over us. By banning them, the government is telling us to fear them. In the case of the swastika, neo-nazis must feel empowered that their symbol is so feared. Remember "Day of the Dove" from the original Star Trek series? Until the Klingons and Feds decided not to empower the alien entity with their hatred, they were able to laugh at it and make it go away.
The problem here is that they are worried about what players want... not their players but what will garner them the buggest buck. Face it, they have one of the best licenses in the biz. They were doing good with about 200,000 subscribers. Then here comes World of Warcraft. Even though it is not a major license it does phenomenal, becoming the most played MMO ever (and still is), dwarfing all others. I know the board of directors of Sony must've been up in arms. "We payed for Star Wars, what went wrong." The whole staff was in danger of losing their jobs. Of course the suits will yell, "make it like Warcraft." Of course having a good license means squat in the world of MMORPGs. Matrix Online only has about 30,000 subscribers. I played WoW for about 6 months and lost interest. It is very basic. The quests are not all that interesting, and the character classes are not that well done. There is no community like in the old SWG.I wonder sometimes why it does so well for so long. But for every subscriber above SWG that was vote for them to change their game. So stop blaming Sony Online for the change. Instead blame all the people that like th crap game WoW is. They caused the change.
My mom purchased a Sony HDTV two years ago (I told her to wait because of unresolved issues like these, but did she listen????). It only has HD component ins as HDMI and so on were not even spoken about. I see that Sony is part of the AACS defining group. Well, they advertised that their HDTV was the future of TV (obviously not), and that the component inputs would be capable of accepting HD from future products (that's what the sales guy said). Well, they sold a product that they are now crippling its abilities. Is it possible for early adopters to sue to get compensated for now having to buy a new set just to use HD-DVD or Blu-Ray?
I have been an MS Windows user for years and have alittle experience with GNU/Linux and Mac OS X. After seeing all the cool things stripped out of Vista (especially the new WinFS) what is left is basically Windows XP SP3. Boring.
Frankly, with the new Intel Macs hitting the street during that time, with its ease of use, long track record, etc., that is the system that can win big, and I think that Apple (especially with its monopolistic policies with hardware and software, such as leveraging Final Cut to get Avid/Adobe to give up on Mac and of course iTunes) may just be the next Microsoft.
If end users have a bad experience on non-Apple hardware with an officially endorsed verision, then that colors their perception of OS X as a whole. En users will hear of problems with OS X and judge it wrong. It may not be true, but it does happen. However, I am not so convinced of the "it just works" motto of Apple. I have a production studio with a P4 based video editing system under Windows XP and a G5 running OS X and ProToolsHD. I have had very little problem in the Windows system, but some nightmares with the Apple system. Whatever works for you, that's what you use.
I heard that broadcast via the podcast version. He worried about the ability for Apple to keep the OS linked to the hardware. He explained that Apple always has considered itself hardware first, but the possibility in his mind is that the OS will be cracked, it will then be fixed to run on the average Dell and pirated. This would undermine Apple's apprach to the game. I like Leo a lot. He loves OS X because it is based on OpenBSD. He is a UNIX freak.
As I said, I would have like to have had more variety/class based puzzles but i hadn't got them yet. My interest declined and i quit. Playing KOTOR II now and am very happy. YMMV, but I do not believe I am the only one with this opinion.
I guess I am a casual gamer. I get tired when a game is the samething over and over. i want to move onand experience new things. I loved Half Life, but did not enjoy Halo 2's story. Half Life kept changing... a scene of shooting, a scene of puzzle, a littleinteraction. Halo is the sameeverywhere: shoot, find key. Its like Doom with better graphics.
So my friend talked me into playing WoW. It was very cool for a while, but frankly the quests are all basically the same. Go here, find this, bring it back. It became very monotonous to me, one of the reasons I retired at 30th level.
Here are the two main problems with WoW: Lack of a variety of adventure types (like I said most are mission, find key dressed up), the guild system while social has no bearingon the game except as ways of gettinghelp to advance.
Worse is the character classes. With a group they are essentially used for fighting. A rogue fights different than a warrior, yet it is all about the fight. I would have lovedto see dungeons where you need a rogue to open areas up, a warrior as first line of defense, etc. Ifthe dungeons NEEDED certian classesit would go a long way to party development, much like a DnD adventure works. As it is you just yell "who wants to ______?" and whoever joins its okay. It could be a group all warriors... dont worry, there are no locked doors you need a rogue for.
Don't pass the buck. Yes, Sony's security is lax, but it was warned inthe initial article that this was not a finished update. Anyone who downloaded it got it from another source. I understand the documentation warned it was not finished. It is the end user in this case who had better be on guard. Sorry, but Sony is not responsible. I know there is a real anti-corporate mentality here on /., but fair is fair.
They DID NOT realease it. Someone stole it and that IS NOT Sony's responsibility.
Doom was very fun. Used to play it via modem with my firend. Hours of gameplay. BZFlag has poor gameplay, bad controls and documentation. I don't mind lesser graphics but this game is NOT FUN.
Played BZFlag twice. Done with it. Have played Halo 2 on Live 435 games and counting. Long live Halo 2.
Idownloaded it. It is very bad. Bad gameplay, bad graphics. Bad bad bad.
Why does these open source games seem so out of date. Graphics that are 10 years out of date (not even as good as Doom) based on a 20 year old game.
I'll stick with Xbox games from private companies, because even though it is closed sourced they are at least FUN!
Compu-Communists. Everyone sharing... individual ownrship is bad.
What is with you all. You are so into OSS you use Malaysia and China as proof that OSS is the way to go?
China, the largest communist country with a record of human rights abuses, is making its own Linux. Do you really want to be mentioned in the same breath as them (of course, the opne source movement and communism share the same ideals).
And Malaysia? Another bastion if human rights violations, where censorship and state-sponsored religion are the rule, not the exception? Nice people to be in bed with.
You all make me sick in how you pick your victoruies. OSS is a good movememnt, but quit aligning yourself with the evil in the world.
The reason it is fair to iscount all the worm/trojan/virus attacks IS because it would be unfair to Windows. See, this test was to defend against attackers who might want the data. Frankly, the type of attacker who this was to test with was someone who cared more about getting into a system... not neccesarilt a windows system... but whatever system it happens to be. The unfairness is that more people write viruses and such to atatck Windows because they have a grudge. Many are Linux gurus out to prove ho insecure their system is. No other OS gets so much attention from these kinds of virus/worm writers. And everytime one attacks you Linuxs disciples yell "look at how insecure Windows is!" It's not that it is more or less secure, but that these virus/worm writers spend numerous more man-hours coding their "product" for Windows systems.
DVD Shrink is freeware and can recompress a DVD to one disc, eliminate uneeded extras (menus, alternate languages, etc) in a one step process.
Actually, Windows does detect open/closure of the CD or DVD drive, at least since Windows 95. Not the floppy, but with bootable CDs and DVDs who the hell cares?
Except that the cost of owning all 4 Indiana Jones is about the same as two separate DVDs.
I think the fixes to Empire are all pretty good. best was cleaning up the discoloration of the optical matting (the boxes around ships in space) which was way more apparant in this film. I liked the Wampa Ice Beast... even more because he was a practical effect not some CGI thing. The only bad part was the adding of the scream to Luke falling after Vader reveals he's Luke's father. Empire SE has Luke screming like a baby... the classic one he just falls. For A New Hope I like the new version of the Death Star Attack... much improved. But there is so much to hate: All the added stuff at Mos Eisly, the Greedo scene change, the added Jabba scene that doesn't really work and just repeats the exposition from the Greedo scene. Also, the adding of Biggs at the end... it doesn't work without the missing scenes of Biggs visiting Tatooine (its in the script, novel, comic adaptation and Radio Show). I'd love to know if someone has the widescreen LaserDisc of the classic PRE-SE trilogy. I'd love to burn them to DVD. Even make a backup for that person.
In the article the autor writes about a way to remedy the situation:The central office would then monitor how frequently a work is used and compensate the creators on that basis. The money would come from a tax on various content-related devices, like DVD burners, blank CD's or digital recorders.
I don't burn CDs or DVDs of others work, just my own. Why should I have to pay for other peoples uses by having a tax on my blank media if it is paying for uses I don't partake in? Again, say hello to the Soviet Republic of the Internet.
I can't wait for D&D Online. Long overdue. I love playing computer ROGs based on the d20 system (such as Star Wars:KOTOR and Neverwinter Nights). This should be a good one. One question I have that hasn't been answered: what world is it in. I hope it's Greyhawk or Forgotten Realms. If its some generic new world they made up I will be dissapointed.
You get a lot of entertainment that people spent a lot of money to make and other people worked very hard on for FREE. You can then spend your money on something else. Sounds like a reward.
The quote: "...but if (we) give people what they are asking for in terms of value, they won't go out and steal it. It's called trusting the consumer."
I am in the music and video biz. I know there is piracy and that will never stop. The cat is out of the bag and it is useless to keep trying to retrofit secutrity on a format not designed for it (CD Audio).
The record companies need to give more value by making albums that have 10 good songs and better packaging and bonus material. Take it from the movie industry... people can copy DVDs very easily now. But people will still buy a disc that is in special packaging and priced right. Value of ownership- that is what has been lost on the music consumer.
Agree. Dark City rocks. Very similar to Matrix in development of the main character. Of course, it is the Hero's journey, just like the first Stsr Wars. I do love the noir feel of Dark City.