Family Guy is being broadcasted in Spain too, dubbed: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfQlZXfy1Wo
But yes, the market should open. There's a lot of following of shows through Internet. So much, in fact, that now Flashforward is being broadcasted here one week after USA, quite a feat if you take into account that it's dubbed (lots of dubbing here).
It's not a direct link, but nonetheless you should strive for independence of that functionality. Otherwise you are trying to comply with the letter of the law, but it may not be enough.
Firefox did warn me about the installation on its following restart. I changed an option (to make it ask for permission to execute things) and then I disabled it.
Nonetheless I don't like a bit being forced to shallow this.
But... but... Nov. 11th is a horrible date for outdoor grilling! That would ruin the holiday entirely. I don't think you really grasp what Memorial Day is all about...
Grilling? Veterans? Remind me not to come to any barbecue on this date.
I you followed hard-core CRPG sites (like rpgcodex) you'd have learned about this series of games long ago. They considered them little gems (long time since I last went there).
And I don't think he's crying, he makes a living of it and has been doing so for some years.
That's exactly one of the problems with games nowadays. I want to play an RPG being a middle age man with experience, not a youngster who cannot think or control his hormones.
I want to choose over different moral dilemmas and face the consequences. A game where I could relate to the main character and not wanting to strangle him/her because their inept social or observational skills.
I want a game for adults, not an adult's game (read: boobies).
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The best resource for MMO's is the playerbase. Anyone who can harness that creative energy to create content, beta test new content, grade potential new content and vote to put it into the game world will open a new frontier.
Let the players create simple quests. Say you are a level 60 wizard that has to kill 6000 level 5 boars. Make chunks of 20 to create missions, and pay accordingly (in both XP and gold) and let others do it. Create a "market order" quest, some XP and gold for minerals. And the XP assigned to a quest could be either predefined or the player giving the quest has to lose that XP to give it to the doer.
Anything but just having to do the same for the Nth time in the same way.
When I compiled the first time at work, after university where I always compiled marking the warnings as error), I was flabbergasted by the sheer amount of warnings that were rampant in the code.
Yeah, of course, why not? Except that that needs someone to tell us where are the quadrants.
Give a map (that doesn't need rotation) to someone and tell him to place the quadrants. What would he do? There are several different ways to place them, all of which make sense:
Western Comic: a b c d
Eastern Comic: b a d c
Circunference: b a c d
North-south: a a b c c d d b
and probably some other ways too. Using a known convention is much much easer, and lets us, laymen, figure what they are talking about.
Sir, I do like your idea. AFAIK thing that "fall" into a blak hole have a different rate of time than those outside the event horizon. It may well be that time is "created" by processes like this.
So the universe isn't more lasting than a sparkle, but for us, inside the sparkle, that instant seems an eternity.
The software is such a different beast that cannot be compared to anything else. There are products that are made, sold, perhaps improved a little, and then discontinued. And there are products, sold, improved, improved, maintained, improved, and that after 10 years being used still retain most of its original code and continue being sold, and will probably be sold and used for more than 10 years to come.
Should a 20 years old game of a company that closed 10 years ago public domain? Probably. Should a (software) product discontinued 10 years ago be public domain, with the company making new versions of it (eg. Visual Studio 5.0)? Hard to tell. Should a (software) product that started to sell 20 years ago but still has strong development be put into the public domain? Don't think so. When should the software created for a maintenance plan be liberated? N years after its cancellation? M years after its inception?
Really, software is a hard beast to tame when people try to keep the keys. It'd be easier if it would be all free from the start.
Well, it's not very different from EvE online. Go full Pvp everywhere. Toss an Elysium and some other "secure" areas where you are killed on aggression (you may still get your victim). Too many non-allowed attacks and there's a blood feud on you, everyone can kill you at sight. Set some areas where the Prince and their minions turn a blind eye to, in where you can kill and get killed without a "legal" repercussion.
Then you just need to set a penalty (apart from losing whatever you where carrying) to death and you have a place where newcomers and untrustworthy vamps are looked at thoroughly and where you really have to take care in who you trust. Not very dissimilar from the WoD I knew.
CPP look like the right kind of people to do a game like this, I hope they succeed. It won't (probably) be mainstream, nor "easy" (WoW is easy to get on), but it might get enough people to do well. Heck, I could end there. WoD is not my favorite system, but at least has no levels.
Most people aren't independently wealthy or as obsessed with consumer electronics, and need those three months to work so that they can afford an MP3 player.
And who says I wasn't working during those 3 months? (tip: I was) And obsessed... well, if I was spending more than 200 on an MP3 player I'd better get one that I like, shouldn't I? Why shouldn't you think about it and whether you really want it or not? It's not as it was a first necessity item, you can live without it.
Hey relax, you read too much negatively into people's comments.
You see, people are stupid (while a person can be intelligent) and when they go shopping for something to play music on they don't go looking for an MP3 player, they go looking for an ipod. Also it help that it's one of the prettiest units out there, one cannot deny that its design it's clean and attractive (but you can dislike it too).
So, people who choose a different product than the one you like are stupid?
No. People that get an ipod because that's what they need are ok. People that get an ipod becaue it's the item to buy are drones.
Why didn't more people do like me and buy something similar? Because we don't like to think much, I spent about 3 months deciding on which one to buy.
Maybe they did. you seem rather arrogant to suggest that if they choose an iPod, they weren't thinking about their purchase. I know plenty of people who took more than 3 months to think about their decision, and still chose an iPod as the best player. I guess they are just inferior to you.
Yep, I agree that this sounded arrogant, but I guess that if every one of the people that bought an mp3 player did the same search as your friends and I did, some would change players.
Ogg vorbis and linux connection capabilities considered a plus, gapless playback a necessity.
Those things don't matter that much to most people. Of those items, gapless playback would be the most popular, but of course, the iPod offers gapless playback, so it's not a differentiating feature. Just because you want those things, doesn't mean it matters to others. Especially Linux and Ogg Vorbis. That is an insignificant question to 99% (or more) of the market.
Yep, I was searching the best player FOR ME. If my player of choice is not of the liking of anyone else I couldn't care less about it. And when I was searching for the player the ipod didn't have the gapless playback, so it was no-no. (apply the same to the lists on the go)
Perhaps they are thinking about their needs more than you give them credit for?
Perhaps you read too much into my comment? That a person can be intelligent is a fact, and that people are usually dumb is another. Just look how people react in public. Fire evacuation? Nearly everyone heading to the same exit, moving as a pack. Fads, what is cool this month,... people move as a pack socially too, and as such we tend to get suboptimal solutions. This, of course, doesn't mean that that solution is suboptimal for everyone, but it's probably suboptimal both for some individuals and can be suboptimal for the pack as a whole (while still optimal for some in the pack).
Yeah? Then explain why, out of dozens of manufacturers, not a single one has managed to dent Apple's marketshare.
Because of the hype (heavy marketing and "everyone is buying it so I do too").
You see, people are stupid (while a person can be intelligent) and when they go shopping for something to play music on they don't go looking for an MP3 player, they go looking for an ipod. Also it help that it's one of the prettiest units out there, one cannot deny that its design it's clean and attractive (but you can dislike it too). But feature-wise? It didn't seem the best when I looked for one.
3 or 4 years ago (my memory is that bad) I was looking for an MP3 player, and I looked heavily for what would be the best player for me, with access to computer but no desire to make playlists on it (so playlists on the fly were compulsory). Ogg vorbis and linux connection capabilities considered a plus, gapless playback a necessity. So I turned it down to two: an Iriver (don't remember the model) and Rio Karma (the one I bought). I am still happy of my purchase and have no necessity to buy a different one, it's a great player. Why didn't more people do like me and buy something similar? Because we don't like to think much, I spent about 3 months deciding on which one to buy.
So for the uninformed, purchase-it-on-a-whim, mass of people, that are considered the normal buyer standard, there is only ipod. Marketing and aesthetic design winning the war back in the day, and today? I don't know, if I had to buy one I would have a hard time finding what are the current technical capabilities of the different players.
So, because the "revolutionary" control gets old you go back to play with another non-standard, and older, control in a music game.
Calm down, Yes, there aren't many games worth playing now, and when you play a lot you finish them really fast. The problem is that third party publishes didn't invest in developing for the Wii earlier, so now we have to wait to get more games. I guess we'll have a mediocre first year and a half, before everyone gets their games done.
The control scheme is all but getting old. You could do without moving the hands around, but the way to play Zelda is just great. I couldn't simply go back to play a similar game on a ps2 controller (my other console, and yes technically I could). It just feels right, only with mouse and keyboard I'd get the same degree of control.
Obviously it's not good for all types of games, I believe fighting games would be better with classical controllers. But a control good enough for people from 3 to 300 years old can not get old fast. The controller isn't the problem, the lack of games is (partly).
Exactly. You only have to watch out the games and extra controllers. I found extra controllers one day by sheer luck (with a wiiplay too), but they are hard to see. And the games fly out of the shelves. One day I see Dragon Ball and Marvel's fighting game on a shop and buy Wario Ware on another (there was none on the first), next week these three titles are not on any of those shelves.
About how great is the controller I can only say that my over 80 years old grandfather played a hole in wiisports' golf, that's something I would have never thought I'd see (and he made a birdie!). I'm talking about someone who hasn't had a VCR and the last time he went to the cinema was over 30 years ago. When he was around my age the bus that went from his village to the nearest city operated on wood, and now he has played a video game just waving his hands while holding a stick and pressing a button. I can only marvel at how much can we advance and wonder what will I be able to see when I'm his age.
Girls tend to like singing games more than boys, boys tend to like GH-like games more than girls. So with this you've got a game you can play with a member of the opposite sex. Unless you both like the same instrument, of course, then you'll have to play with your second preference.
And now we only have to mix it also with dancing on a mat while doing moves seen by a cam. Make yourself a Music Idol! (gosh, I've just imagined the steretypical slashdotter doing this, I gotta cleanse my mind)
Games have the price people are willing to pay. Also, if you have to pay more for something you value that thing much more than the one that is cheaper.
Ps2, at least in europe, contends both against Wii and 360/Ps3. It's harcore enough for the harcore crowd, it's not expensive and caters to the casual crowd with party games (singstar, buzz, eye toy, guitar hero,...).
If Sony wants to make the transition to Ps3 too fast it'll start to lose market. Few people are goint to pay 600$ for a gloryfied karaoke machine.
Some weeks ago there was one of such incidents in the middle of the night (GMT-wise, that is their timezone), 2 am or so. The main database expert and a developer connected to help solve the problem. It was an int index that grew over its limit, just like the problem slashdot had some time ago.
The server was down some time, but in about an hour or two it was open again, with some little nuisances (no money transactions shown from february or before).
Yes, the people in charge when the BPO incident happened were a bit on the lenient side, but on the rest of the ocasions I've found that they are right where they need to be.
And now they have entered an agreement with Transgamming to use Cider in order to have working Mac and Linux clients. This while also working for the DX10 client with graphic upgrades.
Right now I find it's one of the best online games in the market. And I love that I'm at work and my character is still learning, not getting behind of the friends that could play 23 hours a day, not getting ahead of those that can play once a week.
Hey, that sounds about right. Now I understand why during the last year I could not remember, without great effort, what had I done the previous days. My spatial memory didn't seem to be affected, but that's probably because I've always been great at that, and not so much at recalling events.
This calms me much, as I was beggining to think that it could be something more agresive.
Slashdot Mirror
If only there was some way to replace the paint colors with colors of our own choosing. If only we possessed that level of technology...
from : http://leasticoulddo.com/comic/20100719
Family Guy is being broadcasted in Spain too, dubbed: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfQlZXfy1Wo
But yes, the market should open. There's a lot of following of shows through Internet. So much, in fact, that now Flashforward is being broadcasted here one week after USA, quite a feat if you take into account that it's dubbed (lots of dubbing here).
http://clisp.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/clisp/clisp/doc/Why-CLISP-is-under-GPL
It's not a direct link, but nonetheless you should strive for independence of that functionality. Otherwise you are trying to comply with the letter of the law, but it may not be enough.
Firefox did warn me about the installation on its following restart. I changed an option (to make it ask for permission to execute things) and then I disabled it.
Nonetheless I don't like a bit being forced to shallow this.
But... but... Nov. 11th is a horrible date for outdoor grilling! That would ruin the holiday entirely. I don't think you really grasp what Memorial Day is all about...
Grilling? Veterans? Remind me not to come to any barbecue on this date.
I you followed hard-core CRPG sites (like rpgcodex) you'd have learned about this series of games long ago. They considered them little gems (long time since I last went there).
And I don't think he's crying, he makes a living of it and has been doing so for some years.
That's exactly one of the problems with games nowadays. I want to play an RPG being a middle age man with experience, not a youngster who cannot think or control his hormones.
I want to choose over different moral dilemmas and face the consequences. A game where I could relate to the main character and not wanting to strangle him/her because their inept social or observational skills.
I want a game for adults, not an adult's game (read: boobies).
The best resource for MMO's is the playerbase. Anyone who can harness that creative energy to create content, beta test new content, grade potential new content and vote to put it into the game world will open a new frontier.
Let the players create simple quests. Say you are a level 60 wizard that has to kill 6000 level 5 boars. Make chunks of 20 to create missions, and pay accordingly (in both XP and gold) and let others do it. Create a "market order" quest, some XP and gold for minerals. And the XP assigned to a quest could be either predefined or the player giving the quest has to lose that XP to give it to the doer.
Anything but just having to do the same for the Nth time in the same way.
FLOSS? Talk about commercial code too.
When I compiled the first time at work, after university where I always compiled marking the warnings as error), I was flabbergasted by the sheer amount of warnings that were rampant in the code.
Yeah, of course, why not? Except that that needs someone to tell us where are the quadrants.
Give a map (that doesn't need rotation) to someone and tell him to place the quadrants. What would he do? There are several different ways to place them, all of which make sense:
Western Comic: a b
c d
Eastern Comic: b a
d c
Circunference: b a
c d
North-south: a a
b c c d
d b
and probably some other ways too. Using a known convention is much much easer, and lets us, laymen, figure what they are talking about.
So, I see that the plan has worked:
http://somethingpositive.net/sp12232007.shtml
(Hopefully this will be the start of a good treatement to all those afflicted by this disease)
Sir, I do like your idea. AFAIK thing that "fall" into a blak hole have a different rate of time than those outside the event horizon. It may well be that time is "created" by processes like this.
So the universe isn't more lasting than a sparkle, but for us, inside the sparkle, that instant seems an eternity.
Either that or I shouldn't think while sleepy.
The software is such a different beast that cannot be compared to anything else. There are products that are made, sold, perhaps improved a little, and then discontinued. And there are products, sold, improved, improved, maintained, improved, and that after 10 years being used still retain most of its original code and continue being sold, and will probably be sold and used for more than 10 years to come.
Should a 20 years old game of a company that closed 10 years ago public domain? Probably.
Should a (software) product discontinued 10 years ago be public domain, with the company making new versions of it (eg. Visual Studio 5.0)? Hard to tell.
Should a (software) product that started to sell 20 years ago but still has strong development be put into the public domain? Don't think so.
When should the software created for a maintenance plan be liberated? N years after its cancellation? M years after its inception?
Really, software is a hard beast to tame when people try to keep the keys. It'd be easier if it would be all free from the start.
Well, it's not very different from EvE online. Go full Pvp everywhere. Toss an Elysium and some other "secure" areas where you are killed on aggression (you may still get your victim). Too many non-allowed attacks and there's a blood feud on you, everyone can kill you at sight. Set some areas where the Prince and their minions turn a blind eye to, in where you can kill and get killed without a "legal" repercussion.
Then you just need to set a penalty (apart from losing whatever you where carrying) to death and you have a place where newcomers and untrustworthy vamps are looked at thoroughly and where you really have to take care in who you trust. Not very dissimilar from the WoD I knew.
CPP look like the right kind of people to do a game like this, I hope they succeed. It won't (probably) be mainstream, nor "easy" (WoW is easy to get on), but it might get enough people to do well. Heck, I could end there. WoD is not my favorite system, but at least has no levels.
(Yeah, I still have some trust in them)
That a person can be intelligent is a fact, and that people are usually dumb is another. Just look how people react in public. Fire evacuation? Nearly everyone heading to the same exit, moving as a pack. Fads, what is cool this month,... people move as a pack socially too, and as such we tend to get suboptimal solutions. This, of course, doesn't mean that that solution is suboptimal for everyone, but it's probably suboptimal both for some individuals and can be suboptimal for the pack as a whole (while still optimal for some in the pack).
Because of the hype (heavy marketing and "everyone is buying it so I do too").
You see, people are stupid (while a person can be intelligent) and when they go shopping for something to play music on they don't go looking for an MP3 player, they go looking for an ipod. Also it help that it's one of the prettiest units out there, one cannot deny that its design it's clean and attractive (but you can dislike it too). But feature-wise? It didn't seem the best when I looked for one.
3 or 4 years ago (my memory is that bad) I was looking for an MP3 player, and I looked heavily for what would be the best player for me, with access to computer but no desire to make playlists on it (so playlists on the fly were compulsory). Ogg vorbis and linux connection capabilities considered a plus, gapless playback a necessity. So I turned it down to two: an Iriver (don't remember the model) and Rio Karma (the one I bought). I am still happy of my purchase and have no necessity to buy a different one, it's a great player. Why didn't more people do like me and buy something similar? Because we don't like to think much, I spent about 3 months deciding on which one to buy.
So for the uninformed, purchase-it-on-a-whim, mass of people, that are considered the normal buyer standard, there is only ipod. Marketing and aesthetic design winning the war back in the day, and today? I don't know, if I had to buy one I would have a hard time finding what are the current technical capabilities of the different players.
So, because the "revolutionary" control gets old you go back to play with another non-standard, and older, control in a music game.
Calm down, Yes, there aren't many games worth playing now, and when you play a lot you finish them really fast. The problem is that third party publishes didn't invest in developing for the Wii earlier, so now we have to wait to get more games. I guess we'll have a mediocre first year and a half, before everyone gets their games done.
The control scheme is all but getting old. You could do without moving the hands around, but the way to play Zelda is just great. I couldn't simply go back to play a similar game on a ps2 controller (my other console, and yes technically I could). It just feels right, only with mouse and keyboard I'd get the same degree of control.
Obviously it's not good for all types of games, I believe fighting games would be better with classical controllers. But a control good enough for people from 3 to 300 years old can not get old fast. The controller isn't the problem, the lack of games is (partly).
Exactly. You only have to watch out the games and extra controllers. I found extra controllers one day by sheer luck (with a wiiplay too), but they are hard to see. And the games fly out of the shelves. One day I see Dragon Ball and Marvel's fighting game on a shop and buy Wario Ware on another (there was none on the first), next week these three titles are not on any of those shelves.
About how great is the controller I can only say that my over 80 years old grandfather played a hole in wiisports' golf, that's something I would have never thought I'd see (and he made a birdie!). I'm talking about someone who hasn't had a VCR and the last time he went to the cinema was over 30 years ago. When he was around my age the bus that went from his village to the nearest city operated on wood, and now he has played a video game just waving his hands while holding a stick and pressing a button. I can only marvel at how much can we advance and wonder what will I be able to see when I'm his age.
Girls tend to like singing games more than boys, boys tend to like GH-like games more than girls. So with this you've got a game you can play with a member of the opposite sex. Unless you both like the same instrument, of course, then you'll have to play with your second preference.
And now we only have to mix it also with dancing on a mat while doing moves seen by a cam. Make yourself a Music Idol! (gosh, I've just imagined the steretypical slashdotter doing this, I gotta cleanse my mind)
Lucky you... In Spain Wii games cost 60
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FNAC.ES prices http://www.fnac.es/dsp/?servlet=advancedSearch.Pr
(I'm too lame now to make the link shorter sorry, too dumb after global corporate meeting)
Games have the price people are willing to pay. Also, if you have to pay more for something you value that thing much more than the one that is cheaper.
Ps2, at least in europe, contends both against Wii and 360/Ps3. It's harcore enough for the harcore crowd, it's not expensive and caters to the casual crowd with party games (singstar, buzz, eye toy, guitar hero,...).
If Sony wants to make the transition to Ps3 too fast it'll start to lose market. Few people are goint to pay 600$ for a gloryfied karaoke machine.
Some weeks ago there was one of such incidents in the middle of the night (GMT-wise, that is their timezone), 2 am or so. The main database expert and a developer connected to help solve the problem. It was an int index that grew over its limit, just like the problem slashdot had some time ago.
The server was down some time, but in about an hour or two it was open again, with some little nuisances (no money transactions shown from february or before).
Yes, the people in charge when the BPO incident happened were a bit on the lenient side, but on the rest of the ocasions I've found that they are right where they need to be.
And now they have entered an agreement with Transgamming to use Cider in order to have working Mac and Linux clients. This while also working for the DX10 client with graphic upgrades.
Right now I find it's one of the best online games in the market. And I love that I'm at work and my character is still learning, not getting behind of the friends that could play 23 hours a day, not getting ahead of those that can play once a week.
Hey, that sounds about right. Now I understand why during the last year I could not remember, without great effort, what had I done the previous days. My spatial memory didn't seem to be affected, but that's probably because I've always been great at that, and not so much at recalling events.
This calms me much, as I was beggining to think that it could be something more agresive.