Interesting? no not so much. I find it completly unsuprising.
Its hard to confirm, for sure, how many people are in a bar at any given time. Not so true for internet radio. Not saying its right, just a great excuse to exstort money from legit business.
I know the feeling, my father was diagnosed with bone marrow cancer in 2003, died after a long fight with it thanksgiving day 2006. I used to follow such research carefully.
Now..only thing I think of is atleast, others wont lose their loved ones. if only it was soon enough for me.
we make it harder for the terrorists to get passports (ha, yeah right) but make it really easy for them to dup them!
That way, we can insist there are no terrorists, only home grown bad guys, and we can spend a few billion more dollars on less lethal weapons, killing our own citizens in the name of the greater good!
ha! so then they claim that they're losing money because we're stealing the entertainment instead.
Not like they need proof. I haven't bought a movie in years, I used to buy them all the time. Im fed up with movies on DVD because of the commercials and trailers that half the time, you cant skip. Im sure im not the only one. If I pirate the damn thing, none of this junk comes with it. I dont even do that anymore as there's nothing out there worth pirating. Few rare exceptions I buy used, so as to not directly support the bastards.
So they are losing money, and blaming the pirates, who im sure are not costing them much of anything. They'll always have an excuse as to why their profits are down. Who gives a crap its still profit though, right?
Seriously, they have vast oil feilds trapped in sand, huge oldgrowth forests, and now tons of methane traped in glacial ice. Our friendly neighbor to the north might want to start reinforcing its boarders. Im not advocating the invasion.
Im simply warning its becoming inevitable, at this rate.
Seriously, such a thing would be pointless. your new character would start with what? beginner equipment? Might work for a mage, but a warrior type is only as good as his weapon in most cases.
Then there's the whole issue that you're not playing the game anymore. I'd be fine with it if you could start a new character at level 10 or so. Before that you cant do anything, but its low enough that even beginner equipment is usable to make a little change, to buy something useable for your level.
I dont think it needs to be even that complicated. I'd want the layouts of the roads accurate for such a thing, but the rest is rather subjective.
Sure, know where the houses are, and roughly how big, but they dont need to be identical. Using data from nice satalite images would be enough. You'd want it to dynamically generate property, people, parked cars, etc. Being close, or even identical, would be great, but its no requirement.
You'd need to run the images through a computer and geographic information to figure out things like hills and such. That would be the big issue. The homes i'd just make randomly generated based on type, Industrial, Residential. Even sub types. You have the Sub-burb homes, the Old South large yard homes, the tightly cramped duplex converted collage layouts, etc. But all that would be easy to randomize, its getting the street layout thats hard. But maps like this make it easier to do.
How long before we get a real time world generated for a game like GTA, that uses maps like this to allow you to literaly travel all around the world?
This sort of stuff is so amazing to me, never before has mankind had the ability to get maps of areas with this much detail in such vast areas. I really wonder what past generations would think.
But, I still want to play GTA and rampage my own neiborhood.:P
after all ya can't take it with you and leaving craploads of cash to your offspring is an almost sure fire way to destroy em. Im perfectly willing to test this theory. I can virtually guarentee a billion dollars wont destroy me. Honest, im willing to prove it. Please?
I really can't understand why MS isn't creating a good Windows manual for its OS products. A neat, home-printable pdf e-book explaining their flagship product afterall.
Wont someone think of the MS Cerified?
If they want to drop the price, knock off this silly blue-ray stuff. Cut the cost of the system in half right there!
On a more realistic note, anything to up their production efficency right now would be a good thing. There's a serious shortage of these systems, dispite the price. Though I seem to recall, it has more to do with blue-ray then the processor, so unsure how this will help anything but their bottom line.
Good point. Single point of failur not only causes your entire system to go down, but stops the several billion processes you're running all at once. How long would it take to get things running again if something simple stopped? How long if its a processor that fries out? An hour? A day? Several days? How much money are you losing when that happends?
Yeah yeah, typical "not in my back yard!" argument!
Look, buddy! SOMEONE has to get sucked into this black hole, why not you? Huh? Are you too good to get pulled into a string of spegetti and your date erradicated from all exsistance? What makes you so important?
My grandfather was abducted by aliens, the least you could do is get devowered by a massive black hole.
Denmark - Earlier today, Way Overpaid Guy announced to the world "WE'VE DONE IT! We pulled a profit!"
Market Analysts projected the market responce months in advance. "I knew it, I knew they'd make money!" remarked Whocares Whoyou'are, "They make money all the time!"
LMC pulled in profits on their profitable Profit Making Thing(tm)2007 in the first quarter of 2007, allowing them to hold market share. "Seriously, we made profit!"
How is this news? They delcare themselves winners? Who gives a crap? Call me when something newsworthy happends.
The fact that developers dont consider allowing such a thing from the beginning, shock me. I suspect these people dont play games like this with the general populus.
I remember when voice was introduced to CS. It took forever to be able to mute specific players in a match. Why, i'll never understand. When I first HEARD they were going to offer it, I remember thinking "oh god..please let there be a mute option."
Still fails to explain how its Google's responsibility to make sure they're not doing something illegal on their website.
Its not their job. They are there to make money, and find the stuff you're searching for. Thats it. They are not morally or legally responsible for what you search for, or how they go about advertizing for something on someone elses website. If the people holding the copywrites are against the site, have them take down the site.
If nothing else google did them a favor, as it made the site so easy to find, it would be easier to track down and get shut down.
Good point. If I was in management at a GameStop, i'd start looking for another Job.
Going to take one punk kid with a bad attitude, to get you fired, because they dont feel like following the rules? If the manager has to stand there and be sure every transaction is done correctly, or THEY are fired, why bother with the kid at the front counter? The dang manager will end up doing all the sales.
Typical corporate mandates that are not considered, before enforced.
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Interesting? no not so much. I find it completly unsuprising.
Its hard to confirm, for sure, how many people are in a bar at any given time. Not so true for internet radio. Not saying its right, just a great excuse to exstort money from legit business.
Go RIAA! Go away, anyway.
I know the feeling, my father was diagnosed with bone marrow cancer in 2003, died after a long fight with it thanksgiving day 2006. I used to follow such research carefully.
Now..only thing I think of is atleast, others wont lose their loved ones. if only it was soon enough for me.
we make it harder for the terrorists to get passports (ha, yeah right) but make it really easy for them to dup them!
That way, we can insist there are no terrorists, only home grown bad guys, and we can spend a few billion more dollars on less lethal weapons, killing our own citizens in the name of the greater good!
????
Profit!
Thats kinda like saying its not illegal to own a WMD untill after you've used it.
While I dont like the DMCA, this argument is rather weak.
ha! so then they claim that they're losing money because we're stealing the entertainment instead.
Not like they need proof. I haven't bought a movie in years, I used to buy them all the time. Im fed up with movies on DVD because of the commercials and trailers that half the time, you cant skip. Im sure im not the only one. If I pirate the damn thing, none of this junk comes with it. I dont even do that anymore as there's nothing out there worth pirating. Few rare exceptions I buy used, so as to not directly support the bastards.
So they are losing money, and blaming the pirates, who im sure are not costing them much of anything. They'll always have an excuse as to why their profits are down. Who gives a crap its still profit though, right?
Redefine the meaning of stop?
How long before the US invades canada?
Seriously, they have vast oil feilds trapped in sand, huge oldgrowth forests, and now tons of methane traped in glacial ice. Our friendly neighbor to the north might want to start reinforcing its boarders. Im not advocating the invasion.
Im simply warning its becoming inevitable, at this rate.
ahh, but did you get a responce from mrs. Marsha Egan within 2 mins?
Inquiring minds want to know!
Or you could simply go find another game.
Seriously, such a thing would be pointless. your new character would start with what? beginner equipment? Might work for a mage, but a warrior type is only as good as his weapon in most cases.
Then there's the whole issue that you're not playing the game anymore. I'd be fine with it if you could start a new character at level 10 or so. Before that you cant do anything, but its low enough that even beginner equipment is usable to make a little change, to buy something useable for your level.
I dont think it needs to be even that complicated. I'd want the layouts of the roads accurate for such a thing, but the rest is rather subjective.
Sure, know where the houses are, and roughly how big, but they dont need to be identical. Using data from nice satalite images would be enough. You'd want it to dynamically generate property, people, parked cars, etc. Being close, or even identical, would be great, but its no requirement.
You'd need to run the images through a computer and geographic information to figure out things like hills and such. That would be the big issue. The homes i'd just make randomly generated based on type, Industrial, Residential. Even sub types. You have the Sub-burb homes, the Old South large yard homes, the tightly cramped duplex converted collage layouts, etc. But all that would be easy to randomize, its getting the street layout thats hard. But maps like this make it easier to do.
How long before we get a real time world generated for a game like GTA, that uses maps like this to allow you to literaly travel all around the world?
:P
This sort of stuff is so amazing to me, never before has mankind had the ability to get maps of areas with this much detail in such vast areas. I really wonder what past generations would think.
But, I still want to play GTA and rampage my own neiborhood.
Wont someone think of the MS Cerified?
If they want to drop the price, knock off this silly blue-ray stuff. Cut the cost of the system in half right there!
On a more realistic note, anything to up their production efficency right now would be a good thing. There's a serious shortage of these systems, dispite the price. Though I seem to recall, it has more to do with blue-ray then the processor, so unsure how this will help anything but their bottom line.
Good point. Single point of failur not only causes your entire system to go down, but stops the several billion processes you're running all at once. How long would it take to get things running again if something simple stopped? How long if its a processor that fries out? An hour? A day? Several days? How much money are you losing when that happends?
How many hours does it take vista to boot on this thing?
Yeah yeah, typical "not in my back yard!" argument!
Look, buddy! SOMEONE has to get sucked into this black hole, why not you? Huh? Are you too good to get pulled into a string of spegetti and your date erradicated from all exsistance? What makes you so important?
My grandfather was abducted by aliens, the least you could do is get devowered by a massive black hole.
"Ride the wave of the future!"
Can I copywrite that?
if this thing has an option to vibrate, instead of ring, they got a winner on their hands! What? Why are you looking at me like that..
Large Mega Corp Declares Themselves Profitable!
Denmark - Earlier today, Way Overpaid Guy announced to the world "WE'VE DONE IT! We pulled a profit!"
Market Analysts projected the market responce months in advance. "I knew it, I knew they'd make money!" remarked Whocares Whoyou'are, "They make money all the time!"
LMC pulled in profits on their profitable Profit Making Thing(tm)2007 in the first quarter of 2007, allowing them to hold market share. "Seriously, we made profit!"
How is this news? They delcare themselves winners? Who gives a crap? Call me when something newsworthy happends.
I've always found the concept of Genetic Patens hilarious. Prior art? ITS MOVING.
I mean, c'mon!
Agreed. Consumers need to be protected, virtually no matter what it is you're buying.
Here in the US of A, many of those protections have been stripped, and you can see what is beginning to happen over here.
The fact that developers dont consider allowing such a thing from the beginning, shock me. I suspect these people dont play games like this with the general populus.
I remember when voice was introduced to CS. It took forever to be able to mute specific players in a match. Why, i'll never understand. When I first HEARD they were going to offer it, I remember thinking "oh god..please let there be a mute option."
Still fails to explain how its Google's responsibility to make sure they're not doing something illegal on their website.
Its not their job. They are there to make money, and find the stuff you're searching for. Thats it. They are not morally or legally responsible for what you search for, or how they go about advertizing for something on someone elses website. If the people holding the copywrites are against the site, have them take down the site.
If nothing else google did them a favor, as it made the site so easy to find, it would be easier to track down and get shut down.
Good point. If I was in management at a GameStop, i'd start looking for another Job.
Going to take one punk kid with a bad attitude, to get you fired, because they dont feel like following the rules? If the manager has to stand there and be sure every transaction is done correctly, or THEY are fired, why bother with the kid at the front counter? The dang manager will end up doing all the sales.
Typical corporate mandates that are not considered, before enforced.