Then, pray tell, how in the hell would you offer ingame customer support without some kind of 'god flag'? Oh, that's right, nobody's even thought of that. I'm surprised how many non-MMORPG players are posting in this thread, acting like they know that they're talking about... and totally failing to realize that a god flag has been an integral part of games from MUDs to MMORPGs. But whatever.
Those weren't the different incarnation, as I understand it. They were just different reactions Neo could have had to what he was hearing. More of the cause/effect theme =P
You are totally, utterly missing the point. CD sales do NOT equal exposure anymore. This is what P2P does, remember?
As for your other point, about his 'sweeping generalization', congrats: you're either lying or you're in the 0.0001% of the population of the world that actually does what you claim. Let's not be delusional here.
The only information I discovered on that site was that the creators are his "friends". I see nothing that disproves the fact that he could be a material witness.
Not that I'm saying I support this or anything, but it just seems like they're grasping at straws here. I'm pretty sure the government has a good reason for detaining him and didn't just say "hey, look, an arab guy, get him!"
Of course - but it's courtesy to warn someone that they're going to have nearly a million people one link away from their site. Not many of these small sites are able to handle that much traffic, this much is blatently obvious.
I know this is offtopic, but isn't it about time slashdot editors ASK the owners of smaller sites if they can link to them? I really feel for the people that get blindsided like this. At least warn them so they could cap their bandwidth or change their server config or something.
Does it bother you that Haliburton has been contracted by the government in the past on many occasions? What about that most of these contracts were military?
Oh, how I love being the commander in a public game of Natural Selection (linkie linkie). It usually goes something like:
Okay team, build those two infanty portals! Nice, now build this armory! NO, DON'T ALL HUMP IT AT ONCE! THE SKULK RUSH IS COMING! THE SKULK RUSH IS -- OH DEAR GOD, NO! NOOOOOOOOOOO!
On second thought... maybe I don't enjoy it as much as I thought. =P
I hate replying to my own replies, but I forgot to mention this last night.
The ROM issue I mentioned is also a common problem for my music habits. I have some very selective tastes and it'll be a cold day in hell when the retail music chains change their business model and I'm able to find, say, a good selection of Recoil. Currently they have very little of what I'm looking for, if anything. It almost looks like a pity gesture to people like me =P If it wasn't for p2p, I'd be stuck hunting down albums forever. Now I can download the tracks, then find the album at my leisure instead of hoping that this is the week they'll start carrying large quantaties of C17H19NO3.
I don't mean to be offtopic, but the problem with the ROM rule is that, frankly, getting the ROM is usually the only way to get the game =P Sure, maybe you can find some on ebay or in used video game stores, but a lot of these games have been completely abandoned by their origial publishers.
It's people like you who are going to end up splitting the environment into two sets of people. One set, the low-end users are able to buy MP3 albums at a cheap price. The other people, the aristocrats, are going to have to pay gobs of money for the real thing.
So, what... the handful of people that already like to throw tons of money away on their insane quest for better sound will continue to do so? Tell me it's not so! And please tell me you didn't just call yourselves aristocrats =P
The bnetd developers asked Blizzard if they could hook into the official online CD key verification system. Blizzard denied them that.
While it was a bad idea for blizzard to make their authentication system proprietary, it's not really their responsibility to make it ususable for other people. Why would a company trust a third party with their key verifying code? That could open up all kinds of trouble.
While I do think that bnetd is in some ways a good thing, I still believe that Blizzard was in the right. This was the only way they could protect their beta. Though, it's sort of like stuffing the genie back into the bottle after it's been released. Anyway, they had to do something, and they took the (in their eyes) best course of action.
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He meant the GBA SPs. They're the ones with the rechargable batteries, and they're much, much, much smaller.
Who could ever guess that posting a totally off-topic, inflamatory message would get modded down on slashdot, of all places?
Then, pray tell, how in the hell would you offer ingame customer support without some kind of 'god flag'? Oh, that's right, nobody's even thought of that. I'm surprised how many non-MMORPG players are posting in this thread, acting like they know that they're talking about... and totally failing to realize that a god flag has been an integral part of games from MUDs to MMORPGs. But whatever.
I bet Dance Dance Revolution players would be ahead of the curve. Let the flames begin.
Those weren't the different incarnation, as I understand it. They were just different reactions Neo could have had to what he was hearing. More of the cause/effect theme =P
You are totally, utterly missing the point. CD sales do NOT equal exposure anymore. This is what P2P does, remember?
As for your other point, about his 'sweeping generalization', congrats: you're either lying or you're in the 0.0001% of the population of the world that actually does what you claim. Let's not be delusional here.
Yeah, I mean, geez... a $200 piece of shit is just PERFECT for running my sweet new pirated copy of Freelancer!
The only information I discovered on that site was that the creators are his "friends". I see nothing that disproves the fact that he could be a material witness.
Not that I'm saying I support this or anything, but it just seems like they're grasping at straws here. I'm pretty sure the government has a good reason for detaining him and didn't just say "hey, look, an arab guy, get him!"
Or comments that offer nothing to the discussion except a cheap shot with nothing to back it up.
You didn't... you didn't just say...
Oh my god.
Of course - but it's courtesy to warn someone that they're going to have nearly a million people one link away from their site. Not many of these small sites are able to handle that much traffic, this much is blatently obvious.
I know this is offtopic, but isn't it about time slashdot editors ASK the owners of smaller sites if they can link to them? I really feel for the people that get blindsided like this. At least warn them so they could cap their bandwidth or change their server config or something.
And don't forget garage door openers, of all things.
Does it bother you that Haliburton has been contracted by the government in the past on many occasions? What about that most of these contracts were military?
Clinton must have been in on all this! o_0
What makes you think that there aren't already plans for oil production, water treatment, etc?
Yeah, that's what I thought...
Oh, how I love being the commander in a public game of Natural Selection (linkie linkie). It usually goes something like:
Okay team, build those two infanty portals!
Nice, now build this armory!
NO, DON'T ALL HUMP IT AT ONCE! THE SKULK RUSH IS COMING! THE SKULK RUSH IS -- OH DEAR GOD, NO! NOOOOOOOOOOO!
On second thought... maybe I don't enjoy it as much as I thought. =P
I hate replying to my own replies, but I forgot to mention this last night.
The ROM issue I mentioned is also a common problem for my music habits. I have some very selective tastes and it'll be a cold day in hell when the retail music chains change their business model and I'm able to find, say, a good selection of Recoil. Currently they have very little of what I'm looking for, if anything. It almost looks like a pity gesture to people like me =P If it wasn't for p2p, I'd be stuck hunting down albums forever. Now I can download the tracks, then find the album at my leisure instead of hoping that this is the week they'll start carrying large quantaties of C17H19NO3.
I don't mean to be offtopic, but the problem with the ROM rule is that, frankly, getting the ROM is usually the only way to get the game =P Sure, maybe you can find some on ebay or in used video game stores, but a lot of these games have been completely abandoned by their origial publishers.
[insert random post about getting a sense of humor here]
Don't feed the audiophiles, please. They're almost as bad as the car people.
It's people like you who are going to end up splitting the environment into two sets of people. One set, the low-end users are able to buy MP3 albums at a cheap price. The other people, the aristocrats, are going to have to pay gobs of money for the real thing.
So, what... the handful of people that already like to throw tons of money away on their insane quest for better sound will continue to do so? Tell me it's not so! And please tell me you didn't just call yourselves aristocrats =P
Anybody that can keep my Catcher in the Rye fetish safe gets my vote.
The bnetd developers asked Blizzard if they could hook into the official online CD key verification system. Blizzard denied them that.
While it was a bad idea for blizzard to make their authentication system proprietary, it's not really their responsibility to make it ususable for other people. Why would a company trust a third party with their key verifying code? That could open up all kinds of trouble.
While I do think that bnetd is in some ways a good thing, I still believe that Blizzard was in the right. This was the only way they could protect their beta. Though, it's sort of like stuffing the genie back into the bottle after it's been released. Anyway, they had to do something, and they took the (in their eyes) best course of action.
This reminds me of the time a friend of mine had a rather... interesting topic for a biology class.
Hermaphrodism. Oh, that was some fun research.