This trend is bad news for (well, almost) all of us. Large media companies are unlikely to take the necessary risks that bring unique and interesting games to fruition. Current large game publishers are already notoriously uninspired, imposing their desires for a better bottom line on the creativity of development houses, and increasing the size of the publisher only makes things worse.
In the future, we'll just keep getting games where the concept is the same old stale crap, just with the graphics updated for the newest hardware and algorithms.
In the U.S., the government provides millions of dollars in aid whenever a hurricane or flood affects part of the country. I'd say it'd make sense to assess how much damage the uncontrolled explosion would cause, evacuate the area, and then detonate the wreck remotely. Any damage caused should then be reimbursed by the government. I suspect that the cleanup costs would rival the cost of repairing the damage anyway.
You mean that it doesn't matter that the appellate court was upholding fully the ruling of the District Court of Central California? I'd think that would have substantial impact regarding whether the appellate court's decision carried a lot of weight.
The fact that the district court's decision was also firmly grounded in legal precedent should make a difference as well.
Defects in the media that software is shipped on is usually the only thing that the warranty explicitly covers. There may even be legal issues that *require* them to offer warranty on the media, at least for a limited time. (IANAL)
Regarding the original article, lupa1420 didn't write that. The Guardian Unlimited wrote it, and lupa1420 just ripped off the entire first paragraph of the article without proper attribution.
That's news to me. Considering that Bush inherited a downturning economy fresh off the dotcom burst, and considering that the economy was further damaged seriously by the terrorist attacks, I think we've recovered pretty well.
As for education, I haven't heard any definitive research that indicates a failure of his education reforms - just anecdotal "evidence" selected by the left in an attempt to discredit the effectiveness of those reforms. To be honest, it's too early to tell one way or another, but the left is all too happy to convince people otherwise.
The Dems just did pretty much the same thing a few weeks ago in Boston. It was called the Democratic National Convention.
Yes, the RNC is a forum similar in quality, but my point is that neither political party is honest in their orchestrations of these events. It's just that the fringe liberal or conservative media want you to *believe* that the party they oppose is evil and the party they support is pristine.
...and they tel lyou a third party vote is wasted? It's actually a pretty big threat.
I wish it were a big threat. But the tactic of the major parties when confronted by a third party that has some momentum is to try to flatten their tires by proclaiming that, for example, "a vote for Nader is a vote for Bush". Instead of trying to engage the people who want to vote for a third-party candidate in order to bring them around, the major parties use scare tactics to bludgeon the vote out of third-party supporters.
As another respondent posted, Sarin is a liquid at room temperature. Its density is a little bit greater than that of water, which is something like 250 gallons per Imperial ton (2000 lbs). Assuming the 740 tons is also Imperial, that's 740*250 = 185000 gallons.
Now, tanker truck capacity: 6000 gallons isreasonable. Using trucks with 6000 gallon capacity would take 31 trucks to move the entire store of Sarin. That already reduces the problem by an order of magnitude below what you came up with. And it probably wasn't necessary to move all of it, certainly not all to the same place. Send them out one at a time, put scaffolding over them to make them look like a different kind of truck, etc.
I don't have a problem paying for my cable, so a card that will accept a cable company provided solution to encryption and access control (e.g., CableCard) is fine with me.
However, I want to make sure when everything goes mandatory digital, that I have a solution in place that allows me to timeshift without loss of quality and without being encumbered by DRM that would prevent me from skipping commercials and such. Not copy, not redistribute, not share - just timeshift. (I already have the MythTV-based PVR, just waiting for a digital cable solution.)
It looks very close to BS to me. It's about one of the ugliest sites (of sites purporting actual practical use) I've ever seen. Hell, they even have a link in a news article on the front page for an Alexa-provided IE toolbar widget (i.e., spyware).
The point of blackouts is to try to get people to buy tickets to see the games in person. Any money milked from people who are still too lazy to go to the stadium is just gravy for the NFL.
Stargate SG-1 just had an episode last Friday ("Avatar") using some in-game footage from an upcoming SG-1 game. It wasn't a particularly effective use of the footage, though - it seemed more like it was wedged in there by marketing than by the writers.
Molyneux and friends are also working on a game called "The Movies" which could ostensibly be used to produce amateur renditions of movies or shows.
And, of course, who can forget the use of the Halo engine in Red vs Blue, the second season of which was just released on a hilarious DVD.
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but anakin returns as he was before he went to the dark side
You know, repentence is good enough for Jesus, so it oughta be good enough for George Lucas.
The vast bulk of people boarding domestic US flights are US citizens or permanent residents. For them, another option is "driving there yourself". As long as you don't break any traffic laws, you won't have to show your ID.
I wouldn't expect creativity from console games. So let's take a look at PC games, 2003:
1. Sims Superstar from EA
2. Sims Deluxe from EA
3. Command & Conquer Generals from EA
4. Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne from VU Games
5. Sims Makin' Magic from EA
6. Sims Unleashed from EA
7. Sim City 4 from EA
8. Call of Duty from Activision
9. Age of Mythology from Microsoft
10. Battlefield 1942 from Microsoft
Unfortunately, the list is cluttered up by expansions to The Sims, making it almost pointless. Anyway, I'll let you draw your own conclusions as to whether this list shows better demand for creative concepts versus console games or not.
We won't have to blow up the moon, because a jump gate accident will shatter it and cause moon debris to rain down on Earth for millions of years to come.
The move to terraformed cities on Mars and various moons of Jupiter and Saturn will soon cause the inevitable resurgence of organized crime, various tribal cultures, and jazz.
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Then trade other goods for the wood you need. Or use your offline to collect wood. Or play around with things that don't require wood as a resource.
Obviously, the game isn't for everyone, but it's more complicated than you try to make it out to be.
This trend is bad news for (well, almost) all of us. Large media companies are unlikely to take the necessary risks that bring unique and interesting games to fruition. Current large game publishers are already notoriously uninspired, imposing their desires for a better bottom line on the creativity of development houses, and increasing the size of the publisher only makes things worse.
In the future, we'll just keep getting games where the concept is the same old stale crap, just with the graphics updated for the newest hardware and algorithms.
In the U.S., the government provides millions of dollars in aid whenever a hurricane or flood affects part of the country. I'd say it'd make sense to assess how much damage the uncontrolled explosion would cause, evacuate the area, and then detonate the wreck remotely. Any damage caused should then be reimbursed by the government. I suspect that the cleanup costs would rival the cost of repairing the damage anyway.
Besides that, most spammers aren't conforming to the requirements of CAN-SPAM anyway.
You mean that it doesn't matter that the appellate court was upholding fully the ruling of the District Court of Central California? I'd think that would have substantial impact regarding whether the appellate court's decision carried a lot of weight.
;)
The fact that the district court's decision was also firmly grounded in legal precedent should make a difference as well.
BTW, IANAL
I wonder if MS would have quite the monopoly it does if Windows had never been pirated by anyone.
If that were true I'd probably be using a pirated copy of MS-DOS 6.2.
Defects in the media that software is shipped on is usually the only thing that the warranty explicitly covers. There may even be legal issues that *require* them to offer warranty on the media, at least for a limited time. (IANAL)
Regarding the original article, lupa1420 didn't write that. The Guardian Unlimited wrote it, and lupa1420 just ripped off the entire first paragraph of the article without proper attribution.
his education and domestic policy are faltering
That's news to me. Considering that Bush inherited a downturning economy fresh off the dotcom burst, and considering that the economy was further damaged seriously by the terrorist attacks, I think we've recovered pretty well.
As for education, I haven't heard any definitive research that indicates a failure of his education reforms - just anecdotal "evidence" selected by the left in an attempt to discredit the effectiveness of those reforms. To be honest, it's too early to tell one way or another, but the left is all too happy to convince people otherwise.
The Dems just did pretty much the same thing a few weeks ago in Boston. It was called the Democratic National Convention.
Yes, the RNC is a forum similar in quality, but my point is that neither political party is honest in their orchestrations of these events. It's just that the fringe liberal or conservative media want you to *believe* that the party they oppose is evil and the party they support is pristine.
...and they tel lyou a third party vote is wasted? It's actually a pretty big threat.
I wish it were a big threat. But the tactic of the major parties when confronted by a third party that has some momentum is to try to flatten their tires by proclaiming that, for example, "a vote for Nader is a vote for Bush". Instead of trying to engage the people who want to vote for a third-party candidate in order to bring them around, the major parties use scare tactics to bludgeon the vote out of third-party supporters.
*cough*bullshit*cough*
As another respondent posted, Sarin is a liquid at room temperature. Its density is a little bit greater than that of water, which is something like 250 gallons per Imperial ton (2000 lbs). Assuming the 740 tons is also Imperial, that's 740*250 = 185000 gallons.
Now, tanker truck capacity: 6000 gallons is reasonable. Using trucks with 6000 gallon capacity would take 31 trucks to move the entire store of Sarin. That already reduces the problem by an order of magnitude below what you came up with. And it probably wasn't necessary to move all of it, certainly not all to the same place. Send them out one at a time, put scaffolding over them to make them look like a different kind of truck, etc.
This is to say nothing of the civil liability a person could incur. The RNC has deep pockets, far deeper than some script kiddie has.
I don't have a problem paying for my cable, so a card that will accept a cable company provided solution to encryption and access control (e.g., CableCard) is fine with me.
However, I want to make sure when everything goes mandatory digital, that I have a solution in place that allows me to timeshift without loss of quality and without being encumbered by DRM that would prevent me from skipping commercials and such. Not copy, not redistribute, not share - just timeshift. (I already have the MythTV-based PVR, just waiting for a digital cable solution.)
It looks very close to BS to me. It's about one of the ugliest sites (of sites purporting actual practical use) I've ever seen. Hell, they even have a link in a news article on the front page for an Alexa-provided IE toolbar widget (i.e., spyware).
The point of blackouts is to try to get people to buy tickets to see the games in person. Any money milked from people who are still too lazy to go to the stadium is just gravy for the NFL.
Stargate SG-1 just had an episode last Friday ("Avatar") using some in-game footage from an upcoming SG-1 game. It wasn't a particularly effective use of the footage, though - it seemed more like it was wedged in there by marketing than by the writers.
Molyneux and friends are also working on a game called "The Movies" which could ostensibly be used to produce amateur renditions of movies or shows.
And, of course, who can forget the use of the Halo engine in Red vs Blue, the second season of which was just released on a hilarious DVD.
but anakin returns as he was before he went to the dark side
You know, repentence is good enough for Jesus, so it oughta be good enough for George Lucas.
The vast bulk of people boarding domestic US flights are US citizens or permanent residents. For them, another option is "driving there yourself". As long as you don't break any traffic laws, you won't have to show your ID.
You know, there's another option everyone has available to them to avoid having to show ID when boarding domestic flights.
Don't fly.
I wouldn't expect creativity from console games. So let's take a look at PC games, 2003:
1. Sims Superstar from EA
2. Sims Deluxe from EA
3. Command & Conquer Generals from EA
4. Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne from VU Games
5. Sims Makin' Magic from EA
6. Sims Unleashed from EA
7. Sim City 4 from EA
8. Call of Duty from Activision
9. Age of Mythology from Microsoft
10. Battlefield 1942 from Microsoft
Unfortunately, the list is cluttered up by expansions to The Sims, making it almost pointless. Anyway, I'll let you draw your own conclusions as to whether this list shows better demand for creative concepts versus console games or not.
Or perhaps.... The Hague, The Netherlands.
We won't have to blow up the moon, because a jump gate accident will shatter it and cause moon debris to rain down on Earth for millions of years to come.
The move to terraformed cities on Mars and various moons of Jupiter and Saturn will soon cause the inevitable resurgence of organized crime, various tribal cultures, and jazz.
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