You don't challenge him on his positions though (and by you, I mean the radio pundits and news anchors). They just call him a flip flopper while ignoring the list that is 4x as long that McCain has flipped on. Yet McCain says he is evolving. It is just hypocritical and annoying. You can spin any news any way you want. You want to spin this one? Well, you are being an idiot. And I am not afraid to call you out on it.
The problem is that Bush/McCain response has no teeth due to the fact that we invaded and occupied a sovereign nation without provocation only a few years ago. I've had enough of these war-mongers in office. We can't afford it and I really hope people wake up come election time.
Argh, no. The whole definition of a flat tax is that everyone would be taxed the same. Yes, I understand that someone who makes more is supposed to pay more under this system, but they are taxed at the same rate. Except the very wealthy all have CPAs that know all the loopholes so that they can write off everything and pay at a lower rate. The poor don't have access to these sorts of things.
Also, 25% to someone who makes 10k a year means that they can't feed their family. 25% to someone who makes billions means...well, practically nothing since they can still afford everything they want.
You really have a disgustingly simplistic view on how this all works. I like to debate open minded people who actually want to learn something. I have a feeling you aren't one of those people though.
I think developers are still learning how to work with the Wii. Let's not forget that almost all of them were caught with their pants down (hell, even Nintendo didn't expect the success that they've enjoyed) when it came to having content ready for the Wii. At the system launch the only third party that had anything that could be considered a worth-while showing was Ubisoft, and most of those games weren't all that great in my opinion.
Once Wii sales took off for the stratosphere, everyone wanted to get in on the action. The only problem is that a lot of teams had no experience working with the new control system, so this presented a learning curve. It would also take over a year in order to put out something fresh, so old games were ported over to the platform to cash in on its new found success.
Now that developers have had time to see how much of a success the Wii has turned out to be along with becoming accustomed to working with the new controller, I think we'll start to see better games trickle out.
Except everyone was saying the same thing right when it came out...give it a year. And then the year after, and still now. It seems the Wii is repeating its Gamecube performance with an important change. Despite selling an overwhelming number of consoles this round, it still suffers from poor third party sales and poor third party quality. It'll be interesting to see if they can keep up their amazing sales. All of my friends with Wii's don't play them anymore (anecdotal evidence, I know). But I expect to see a lot more used Wiis up for grabs soon.
At first, your post made me a little mad since you are implying that the article said something that it didn't. But then I noticed your low UID number and figured you are probably really old by now and didn't get your nap in. It's ok Grampy Tom. We all know Diablo 3 isn't innovating when it drops health orbs!
Don't be stupid. People who tell you how to live come from both sides of the aisles. People like you really piss me off because you are exactly what is wrong with the country. If there is any problem you have to blame it all on the Liberals. Well, quit listening to Limbaugh so much and get your head out of your ass. All you are doing is polarizing more and more so nothing will ever be accomplished in this country.
All you do is breed hatred and stupidity. What is the result? You get these whackjobs that go in to churches with a gun and kill people because everything wrong in the world is because of Liberals. Guess what? The country is screwed up right now because all the politicians have let us down. Our President for fighting illegal wars and destroying the economy and the House and Senate for not having the balls to stop them.
I say this seriously: you have a problem. Just because I am a registered Democrat doesn't mean I hold to all the "Liberal" values. Anyone who totally agrees with any party is flat out scary. We are all people...and the sooner we all realize that and stop applying labels to people, the better off we will all be.
John McCain has been on the Daily show many times. The problem is, he used to be someone who stood up for certain things that broke away from his Republican counterparts. This made him and Stewart get along swimmingly. Now that he has basically flip flopped on everything that made him a decent human being to be completely in line with Bush, you can see the interviews with Stewart have a sad tone to them. As if Stewart lost a best friend to drugs and prostitution. If you really want to see uncomfortable, watch the Daily Show with Dick Cheney's wife. Yikes!
No, no she isn't. Calling someone a faggot is just disgusting. Do you see Stewart or Colbert doing this? If Stewart called Bush a faggot, would I be laughing? Maybe she can be funny sometimes, but the fact is she is an agent of polarization that causes further division and hatred in this country. If you find that funny, then you are the doofus.
Horrible argument. How is having a near instant software check like driving somewhere once a week? All your other argument are similarly stupid since you are comparing something virtual to something that is physical. Car analogies are great to explain something complicated. This isn't complicated and it is pointless to compare. I have played many many PC games and have yet to be bitten by DRM. It has just worked for me. People just want to make excuses and justification for breaking the law and being cheap.
Your problem is you confuse Slashdot with the general population. If I only came here to communicate to other people, I would think no one bought video games anymore because of DRM. Most people don't even know what DRM is. Some people have tried pirating, but it is complicated enough that it isn't worth the hassle for them (no, it isn't hat complicated, but not all of us have degrees related to computers).
Do I think they have worked out the numbers? Hell yes I think they do. A company's number one goal is to make as much profit as possible...if removing DRM would do that, they would do that.
I am sorry, but you are entitled to pay for the work that you do. If other people take that work from you without paying you, then they are breaking the law and are morally in the wrong. Period. If you don't like the DRM, not sure if the game will be good, etc. just don't play the dang game. I don't know why this is such a hard concept.
I really don't care if you pirate the game...just stop acting like you are the one being moral and reasonable. You aren't.
You argument is just stupid. You blame people for pricing their products too high for theft. Find the optimal price point is certainly important, but you have a right to price what you create. I could live in an empty house because the more things I have in my house, the more likely people will break in and steal stuff. But that is not the way to live life. People aren't going to say...well, he had too much nice stuff in his house, he deserved to be wrong. That's stupid and illogical.
Except...not really. A lot of crap that they had we sold to them...so no surprise that they had them. The majority of the intelligence said they didn't have anything...a minority said it had something more sinister. There was a culture in this administration to ignore facts and do whatever the hell they wanted. There really is no justification. And we will be feeling the pain of their stupid arrogance for possibly the rest of our lives.
Then maybe it is the failure of the players to expect a MMO to play like a movie. Look, you have to be realistic. If I am playing a Final Fantasy game, I am not disappointed that it didn't have the ability for me to play it like an FPS. You can't expect and MMO to offer you a movie like experience where you are the hero and unique to everyone else. That is what single player is for. The trap is that people have stupid expectation, not that game makers can't come through with their license.
Right...because the whole world has to be loaded in to RAM. *cough* FFXI isn't small. Yeah, consoles are more limited but WoW would be able to run on them as well as FFXI. Blizzard doesn't make console games though and it is as simple as that as to why WoW isn't there. The main reason MMOs don't go on consoles is because people don't want to type when they are lounging on the couch with a controller. The genre lends itself better to the PC for this reason.
You are right, there is a difference. But if you listen to Chomsky, you realize that the US and Israel have done some similar terrible things (i.e. blowing up a large number of civilians to take a target). Not agreeing with the other person. But we have done some awful awful things that don't get reported (at least well).
You are right. I was taking a more simplistic view of things. I honestly wasn't meaning to troll as I was modded. I suppose it is more complex than I was originally thinking. But at the same time, it seems extremely counter-intuitive to me. How do you prove the brain is infinite and not just really really large? I have never observed infinity, how can I prove it exists? It doesn't seem that infinity exists in nature. We believe the universe is finite, we have a concept of time, which seems to imply that things are finite. Infinity only exists mathematically. So to me, saying the brain is infinite seems impossible. It has to be finite because I don't know of anything that exists that is infinite.
In a way, it makes me think of Zeno's paradox. We keep moving half the distance closer to each other...half half half half half. We will never meet because we can split the distance in between us infinite times. But we all know we will still run in to each other.
I guess what I originally objected to was the idea that anything that whatever is the most complex of the time will be compared to our brain and always come up short. I think we are much more limited (despite being amazing).
I guess my question is...can something with X amount of intelligence create something that is greater than X amount of intelligence?
And in an absolute since, the brain IS finite because it breaks down eventually. So I think you can't say that it is infinite. Is it capable of coming up with infinite amount of ideas? Maybe, but I still don't know how you prove that it is infinity and not just a really large number.
Thiez did a good job explaining it. I wouldn't have been as nice. There is no need to prove something so stupid. Certain things are obvious and if we had to "prove" every stupid statement out there, we would never prove anything that was actually useful.
Not really...if it was just the game play, then the Gamecube would have sold better. The remote is certainly the most compelling part of the Wii. I do agree that I don't see a huge market for this on the PC unless some big name uses it for its games.
That's just not true. There are some people out there that will pirate no matter what. But there are many others out there that don't know what a.rar file is or don't understand the process to use these hacked games. That small barrier is enough to make them buy the game. On top of that, who really trusts the people who pirate the software not to stick malicious code in there?
The sad thing is you have someone doing exactly what people on here say a company should do to avoid piracy. Yet his game gets pirated. And you still have some messed up part of your brain that makes you attack him instead of the people who do not pay him for his work. If you want to actually discuss this subject like a grown up, you have to ditch this mentality that DRM only is bad for the paying customer. It just isn't true. It does reduce the amount a game is pirated. What we have to talk about is how to implement a scheme that inconveniences the user as little as possible and maybe even adds features to the game that are desirable (ala Steam).
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You don't challenge him on his positions though (and by you, I mean the radio pundits and news anchors). They just call him a flip flopper while ignoring the list that is 4x as long that McCain has flipped on. Yet McCain says he is evolving. It is just hypocritical and annoying. You can spin any news any way you want. You want to spin this one? Well, you are being an idiot. And I am not afraid to call you out on it.
Because every politician since the beginning of time has had to change their opinions during a campaign in order to get elected? Moron :/
The problem is that Bush/McCain response has no teeth due to the fact that we invaded and occupied a sovereign nation without provocation only a few years ago. I've had enough of these war-mongers in office. We can't afford it and I really hope people wake up come election time.
Argh, no. The whole definition of a flat tax is that everyone would be taxed the same. Yes, I understand that someone who makes more is supposed to pay more under this system, but they are taxed at the same rate. Except the very wealthy all have CPAs that know all the loopholes so that they can write off everything and pay at a lower rate. The poor don't have access to these sorts of things.
Also, 25% to someone who makes 10k a year means that they can't feed their family. 25% to someone who makes billions means...well, practically nothing since they can still afford everything they want.
You really have a disgustingly simplistic view on how this all works. I like to debate open minded people who actually want to learn something. I have a feeling you aren't one of those people though.
She never did and until I opened the first page of The Lost Blogs the six sundaes in the microwave was the stupidest thing I have ever seen.
Use punctuation or form better sentences. This really hurt to read.
I think developers are still learning how to work with the Wii. Let's not forget that almost all of them were caught with their pants down (hell, even Nintendo didn't expect the success that they've enjoyed) when it came to having content ready for the Wii. At the system launch the only third party that had anything that could be considered a worth-while showing was Ubisoft, and most of those games weren't all that great in my opinion. Once Wii sales took off for the stratosphere, everyone wanted to get in on the action. The only problem is that a lot of teams had no experience working with the new control system, so this presented a learning curve. It would also take over a year in order to put out something fresh, so old games were ported over to the platform to cash in on its new found success. Now that developers have had time to see how much of a success the Wii has turned out to be along with becoming accustomed to working with the new controller, I think we'll start to see better games trickle out.
Except everyone was saying the same thing right when it came out...give it a year. And then the year after, and still now. It seems the Wii is repeating its Gamecube performance with an important change. Despite selling an overwhelming number of consoles this round, it still suffers from poor third party sales and poor third party quality. It'll be interesting to see if they can keep up their amazing sales. All of my friends with Wii's don't play them anymore (anecdotal evidence, I know). But I expect to see a lot more used Wiis up for grabs soon.
At first, your post made me a little mad since you are implying that the article said something that it didn't. But then I noticed your low UID number and figured you are probably really old by now and didn't get your nap in. It's ok Grampy Tom. We all know Diablo 3 isn't innovating when it drops health orbs!
Don't be stupid. People who tell you how to live come from both sides of the aisles. People like you really piss me off because you are exactly what is wrong with the country. If there is any problem you have to blame it all on the Liberals. Well, quit listening to Limbaugh so much and get your head out of your ass. All you are doing is polarizing more and more so nothing will ever be accomplished in this country.
All you do is breed hatred and stupidity. What is the result? You get these whackjobs that go in to churches with a gun and kill people because everything wrong in the world is because of Liberals. Guess what? The country is screwed up right now because all the politicians have let us down. Our President for fighting illegal wars and destroying the economy and the House and Senate for not having the balls to stop them.
I say this seriously: you have a problem. Just because I am a registered Democrat doesn't mean I hold to all the "Liberal" values. Anyone who totally agrees with any party is flat out scary. We are all people...and the sooner we all realize that and stop applying labels to people, the better off we will all be.
John McCain has been on the Daily show many times. The problem is, he used to be someone who stood up for certain things that broke away from his Republican counterparts. This made him and Stewart get along swimmingly. Now that he has basically flip flopped on everything that made him a decent human being to be completely in line with Bush, you can see the interviews with Stewart have a sad tone to them. As if Stewart lost a best friend to drugs and prostitution. If you really want to see uncomfortable, watch the Daily Show with Dick Cheney's wife. Yikes!
No, no she isn't. Calling someone a faggot is just disgusting. Do you see Stewart or Colbert doing this? If Stewart called Bush a faggot, would I be laughing? Maybe she can be funny sometimes, but the fact is she is an agent of polarization that causes further division and hatred in this country. If you find that funny, then you are the doofus.
Horrible argument. How is having a near instant software check like driving somewhere once a week? All your other argument are similarly stupid since you are comparing something virtual to something that is physical. Car analogies are great to explain something complicated. This isn't complicated and it is pointless to compare. I have played many many PC games and have yet to be bitten by DRM. It has just worked for me. People just want to make excuses and justification for breaking the law and being cheap.
Your problem is you confuse Slashdot with the general population. If I only came here to communicate to other people, I would think no one bought video games anymore because of DRM. Most people don't even know what DRM is. Some people have tried pirating, but it is complicated enough that it isn't worth the hassle for them (no, it isn't hat complicated, but not all of us have degrees related to computers).
Do I think they have worked out the numbers? Hell yes I think they do. A company's number one goal is to make as much profit as possible...if removing DRM would do that, they would do that.
I am sorry, but you are entitled to pay for the work that you do. If other people take that work from you without paying you, then they are breaking the law and are morally in the wrong. Period. If you don't like the DRM, not sure if the game will be good, etc. just don't play the dang game. I don't know why this is such a hard concept.
I really don't care if you pirate the game...just stop acting like you are the one being moral and reasonable. You aren't.
You argument is just stupid. You blame people for pricing their products too high for theft. Find the optimal price point is certainly important, but you have a right to price what you create. I could live in an empty house because the more things I have in my house, the more likely people will break in and steal stuff. But that is not the way to live life. People aren't going to say...well, he had too much nice stuff in his house, he deserved to be wrong. That's stupid and illogical.
You are aware why your post is so ironic, right?
Both sides have an argument.
Except...not really. A lot of crap that they had we sold to them...so no surprise that they had them. The majority of the intelligence said they didn't have anything...a minority said it had something more sinister. There was a culture in this administration to ignore facts and do whatever the hell they wanted. There really is no justification. And we will be feeling the pain of their stupid arrogance for possibly the rest of our lives.
Then maybe it is the failure of the players to expect a MMO to play like a movie. Look, you have to be realistic. If I am playing a Final Fantasy game, I am not disappointed that it didn't have the ability for me to play it like an FPS. You can't expect and MMO to offer you a movie like experience where you are the hero and unique to everyone else. That is what single player is for. The trap is that people have stupid expectation, not that game makers can't come through with their license.
Right...because the whole world has to be loaded in to RAM. *cough* FFXI isn't small. Yeah, consoles are more limited but WoW would be able to run on them as well as FFXI. Blizzard doesn't make console games though and it is as simple as that as to why WoW isn't there. The main reason MMOs don't go on consoles is because people don't want to type when they are lounging on the couch with a controller. The genre lends itself better to the PC for this reason.
You are sick. Sorry. Justify it as you will, just sick.
You are right, there is a difference. But if you listen to Chomsky, you realize that the US and Israel have done some similar terrible things (i.e. blowing up a large number of civilians to take a target). Not agreeing with the other person. But we have done some awful awful things that don't get reported (at least well).
You are right. I was taking a more simplistic view of things. I honestly wasn't meaning to troll as I was modded. I suppose it is more complex than I was originally thinking. But at the same time, it seems extremely counter-intuitive to me. How do you prove the brain is infinite and not just really really large? I have never observed infinity, how can I prove it exists? It doesn't seem that infinity exists in nature. We believe the universe is finite, we have a concept of time, which seems to imply that things are finite. Infinity only exists mathematically. So to me, saying the brain is infinite seems impossible. It has to be finite because I don't know of anything that exists that is infinite.
In a way, it makes me think of Zeno's paradox. We keep moving half the distance closer to each other...half half half half half. We will never meet because we can split the distance in between us infinite times. But we all know we will still run in to each other.
I guess what I originally objected to was the idea that anything that whatever is the most complex of the time will be compared to our brain and always come up short. I think we are much more limited (despite being amazing).
I guess my question is...can something with X amount of intelligence create something that is greater than X amount of intelligence?
And in an absolute since, the brain IS finite because it breaks down eventually. So I think you can't say that it is infinite. Is it capable of coming up with infinite amount of ideas? Maybe, but I still don't know how you prove that it is infinity and not just a really large number.
So I have never accomplished anything in my life. It is all because my parents and teachers programmed me to be successful. Give me a break.
Thiez did a good job explaining it. I wouldn't have been as nice. There is no need to prove something so stupid. Certain things are obvious and if we had to "prove" every stupid statement out there, we would never prove anything that was actually useful.
Not really...if it was just the game play, then the Gamecube would have sold better. The remote is certainly the most compelling part of the Wii. I do agree that I don't see a huge market for this on the PC unless some big name uses it for its games.
That's just not true. There are some people out there that will pirate no matter what. But there are many others out there that don't know what a .rar file is or don't understand the process to use these hacked games. That small barrier is enough to make them buy the game. On top of that, who really trusts the people who pirate the software not to stick malicious code in there?
The sad thing is you have someone doing exactly what people on here say a company should do to avoid piracy. Yet his game gets pirated. And you still have some messed up part of your brain that makes you attack him instead of the people who do not pay him for his work. If you want to actually discuss this subject like a grown up, you have to ditch this mentality that DRM only is bad for the paying customer. It just isn't true. It does reduce the amount a game is pirated. What we have to talk about is how to implement a scheme that inconveniences the user as little as possible and maybe even adds features to the game that are desirable (ala Steam).
I think EA being involved just guarantees its doom.
Actually, you are the one who got me to play Eve. Your own poor brother. How could you have done that to me? I am surprised we still talk.