Are you on the dope? The original final fantasy had almost no story. Four heroes show up, fight a bunch of bad guys, and save the world. Wow, brilliant. Super Mario Brothers had an awesome story. Two plumbers fight turtle-like monsters to save a princess. If you want argue old games have more staying power than new ones, that's one thing. But to base it on story?? New games have almost universally more time put into story and more compelling stories.
Your rewording of it still doesn't make your argument good. It would be no less arbitrary to say that the rules of the game are anything that you can do with your computer. Everyone is playing on a computer, right? (or a console) Everyone can go online and find out how to hack the game. So if bugs are within the rules, why does that only include bugs you can exploit from within the client? You can't say it's only cheating if it's within the game, because then setting up mappings for your nostromo that give you an advantage would be cheating.
This thread seems like it is filled to the brim who don't want to admit to themselves that they cheat.
Be able to have its own police force? It is able to have its own police force. Anyone in the country is permitted to make a citizen's arrest.
I never said Nintendo should have it is own set of laws. I'm just saying Nintendo should pay for the enforcement of laws like copyright infringement. I'd add in any non-violent person-to-person law about money.
Stupidest comment ever. If your idea ever actually got implemented, I hope that you would be pickpocketed, burglarized, and had your identity stolen all on the first day of it being implemented. How much do you think charging someone to investigate all those would cost? God forbid someone gets robbed who can afford a private investigator.
What a bunch of poorly thought out bullshit. You're a fucking moron.
Mono helped in my analysis of the communications method (thanks Microsoft -- next time DOCUMENT THE FRIGGIN' LANGUAGE). The result was that my INITIAL test simulating 50 users killed their app. Last I checked they hadn't got it past 200.
Yes, that obviously is a problem with C# and not their code. Shitty code is shitty code in any language. C# is very well documented, by the way. What, if anything is your "analysis of C#" based on? The fact that it's not popular on slashdot, a community which is amazingly biased against anything Microsoft?
I've used C# a lot. I would much rather use C# than Java, C++, C or Perl for just about any application.
See, for someone to make a profit, someone else has to make a loss.. they have to put in more energy than they take out, where the diff, is profit for the ubermann. If not people, then it's natural resources being exploited.
This is a myth perpetuated by people who have no idea what they're talking about. There are any number of ways to make a profit without anyone else being hurt. You can work to add value to something, i.e. turning a bunch of wood into a house. Trading something that has more value to someone else than it does to you. Providing a service to people who can't do it themselves.
Try learning some basic economics before you start saying stupid things like this.
It still has to make enuogh money selling their baseball game to pay for the exclusivity deal. Even if they locked everyone else out of the market that still isn't a done deal. EA might have a point. Will this really let Take Two sell enough additional copies to pay for the licensing agreement? I highly doubt it. Baseball games sell about 25% as many copies as football games.
Yes, it's exactly like that. Unfortunately, that doesn't help your argument, because those immortality rings do have real-world value if someone is willing to buy them. Something has "real-world" monetary value if someone is willing to pay money for it. It really is that simple.
Heh, who's being smug now? There's a big difference between evaluating Linux on the desktop and selling Linux to the average home user. Even most geeks I know still don't give a crap about Linux, let alone the people who aren't computer savvy.
They could also run up to you any number of hazardous chemicals you can find around the house in your face, or hell, just throw a pencil and have it hit in an unlucky way. You can do horrible things to people with just about anything, if you want to be a dick. Should we need a license to buy peanuts because so many people are allergic?
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You don't hear much at all about heavy metal or Dungeons and Dragons anymore, do you? Huh, think that might be why you don't hear about the evils of them anymore?
You've got it mixed up. If Blizzard lost the case, and the items were then sellable, they would have monetary value. If something is illegal to sell, it has no monetary value, so nobody can sue Blizzard for damaging it. Even more, a ruling in Blizzard's favor would probably state that Blizzard owned all of the items. Nobody is going to be able to sue Blizzard for ruining their own stuff through a nerf.
Well, there have been people who have let EQ get in the way of making a living, so it's not an entirely invalid point. Granted, that's a pretty extreme case, but it has happened.
The Gimp has cut into the market for low level image editors? Are you sure you aren't thinking of pirated copies of Photoshop? GCC is good enough as long as you aren't on Windows. OpenOffice is good, but it still hasn't cut deeply into MS Office's market share, and MS Office still does a lot of thing that OpenOffice doesn't and does some other things beter.
Unix shells? Has anyone ever tried to market a Unix shell on its own? Microsoft doesn't subsidize IE. It's included in the operating system, so people certainly pay for it. So apparently, people are paying for one crappy product, and getting another crappy product for free! Those fools. Or maybe both are examples of proprietary examples that are good enough, even though there is a better browser available and an OS some people think are better.
As much as is made of free software, there a lot of areas where free software is not a threat to proprietary software and where there are no signs of that changing. For example, name an open source application cutting into Photoshop's market share. Or who are moving into the anti-virus market? Or commercial quality video editing or sound production? Or Flash and Shockwave?
All free software has to do is to hit that point where it's good enough for the market and it will kill much of the proprietary competition. I don't think that's an effect of an OS or webserver; anything that can collect enough developers to compete in a stable market will eventually become good-enough to starve the proprietary competition.
Do you have any basis for this? Can you name a single market that closed source software has been starved out of? Unless you limit it to Unix only, I'd be willing to bet you can't. In fact, except for a few server applications, I doubt that open source has ten percent of any single market.
Even PovRay and FractInt which aren't open source are only in two very small niche markets.
Hahaha, brilliant. Microsoft isn't doing something because they're afraid of people whining about it on Slashdot. My prediction for next week's news? Bush resigns due to Slashdot user #77572347 saying he stole the 2000 election! Either that, or nobody cares what people on slashdot complain about, except the people complaining on slashdot. Half the time I don't even think they care, as long as they can complain about something.
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Are you on the dope? The original final fantasy had almost no story. Four heroes show up, fight a bunch of bad guys, and save the world. Wow, brilliant. Super Mario Brothers had an awesome story. Two plumbers fight turtle-like monsters to save a princess. If you want argue old games have more staying power than new ones, that's one thing. But to base it on story?? New games have almost universally more time put into story and more compelling stories.
Awesome posting post.
I'm sure these guys sell a lot of counterfeit copies.
This thread seems like it is filled to the brim who don't want to admit to themselves that they cheat.
The first court is in error because....? Because you say so? Well that's a good reason.
There wasn't when it came out, which is when this guy apparently bought it..
Be able to have its own police force? It is able to have its own police force. Anyone in the country is permitted to make a citizen's arrest. I never said Nintendo should have it is own set of laws. I'm just saying Nintendo should pay for the enforcement of laws like copyright infringement. I'd add in any non-violent person-to-person law about money. Stupidest comment ever. If your idea ever actually got implemented, I hope that you would be pickpocketed, burglarized, and had your identity stolen all on the first day of it being implemented. How much do you think charging someone to investigate all those would cost? God forbid someone gets robbed who can afford a private investigator. What a bunch of poorly thought out bullshit. You're a fucking moron.
Are you trying to say that Nintendo should be able to have it's own police force? Or maybe even it's own code of laws?
Yes, that obviously is a problem with C# and not their code. Shitty code is shitty code in any language. C# is very well documented, by the way. What, if anything is your "analysis of C#" based on? The fact that it's not popular on slashdot, a community which is amazingly biased against anything Microsoft?
I've used C# a lot. I would much rather use C# than Java, C++, C or Perl for just about any application.
This is a myth perpetuated by people who have no idea what they're talking about. There are any number of ways to make a profit without anyone else being hurt. You can work to add value to something, i.e. turning a bunch of wood into a house. Trading something that has more value to someone else than it does to you. Providing a service to people who can't do it themselves.
Try learning some basic economics before you start saying stupid things like this.
It still has to make enuogh money selling their baseball game to pay for the exclusivity deal. Even if they locked everyone else out of the market that still isn't a done deal. EA might have a point. Will this really let Take Two sell enough additional copies to pay for the licensing agreement? I highly doubt it. Baseball games sell about 25% as many copies as football games.
Yes, it's exactly like that. Unfortunately, that doesn't help your argument, because those immortality rings do have real-world value if someone is willing to buy them. Something has "real-world" monetary value if someone is willing to pay money for it. It really is that simple.
Heh, who's being smug now? There's a big difference between evaluating Linux on the desktop and selling Linux to the average home user. Even most geeks I know still don't give a crap about Linux, let alone the people who aren't computer savvy.
They could also run up to you any number of hazardous chemicals you can find around the house in your face, or hell, just throw a pencil and have it hit in an unlucky way. You can do horrible things to people with just about anything, if you want to be a dick. Should we need a license to buy peanuts because so many people are allergic?
You don't hear much at all about heavy metal or Dungeons and Dragons anymore, do you? Huh, think that might be why you don't hear about the evils of them anymore?
That's an aweful lot more steps than opening the exported character file in an editor and changing whatever you want.
Selling characters is easier to detect than selling items, though, because someone has to keep paying for the character after it's been bought.
You've got it mixed up. If Blizzard lost the case, and the items were then sellable, they would have monetary value. If something is illegal to sell, it has no monetary value, so nobody can sue Blizzard for damaging it. Even more, a ruling in Blizzard's favor would probably state that Blizzard owned all of the items. Nobody is going to be able to sue Blizzard for ruining their own stuff through a nerf.
Well, there have been people who have let EQ get in the way of making a living, so it's not an entirely invalid point. Granted, that's a pretty extreme case, but it has happened.
If you own a segway you'll probably get so fat that a heart attack will kill you before the terrorists have a chance.
This movie will make at least $5 at the box office. So there's all new Wendy's cash for you.
Unix shells? Has anyone ever tried to market a Unix shell on its own? Microsoft doesn't subsidize IE. It's included in the operating system, so people certainly pay for it. So apparently, people are paying for one crappy product, and getting another crappy product for free! Those fools. Or maybe both are examples of proprietary examples that are good enough, even though there is a better browser available and an OS some people think are better.
As much as is made of free software, there a lot of areas where free software is not a threat to proprietary software and where there are no signs of that changing. For example, name an open source application cutting into Photoshop's market share. Or who are moving into the anti-virus market? Or commercial quality video editing or sound production? Or Flash and Shockwave?
All free software has to do is to hit that point where it's good enough for the market and it will kill much of the proprietary competition. I don't think that's an effect of an OS or webserver; anything that can collect enough developers to compete in a stable market will eventually become good-enough to starve the proprietary competition.
Do you have any basis for this? Can you name a single market that closed source software has been starved out of? Unless you limit it to Unix only, I'd be willing to bet you can't. In fact, except for a few server applications, I doubt that open source has ten percent of any single market.
Even PovRay and FractInt which aren't open source are only in two very small niche markets.
Hahaha, brilliant. Microsoft isn't doing something because they're afraid of people whining about it on Slashdot. My prediction for next week's news? Bush resigns due to Slashdot user #77572347 saying he stole the 2000 election! Either that, or nobody cares what people on slashdot complain about, except the people complaining on slashdot. Half the time I don't even think they care, as long as they can complain about something.
The law is about spam, not brain eating. Mmm... brains.
for pr0n you don't need as many images! You can just have an image of a guy thrusting into a girl once, then scroll back and forth and back and forth.