Aside from the griefers......if the only people you play against are approximately equal in skill level with you, how are any of you going to ever get better?
I've played a lot of online games, and there will ALWAYS be someone better than you out there, often times many people. But whenever you see them do a new trick, or watch their response to something and be amazed at how effective it is, you learn something new that improves your skills.
While it may be annoying sometimes, like when you keep getting plugged by the one guy on the server with 50 kills and 0 deaths; other times you will be delighted as that new trick you learned helps you go from being the guy with 0 kills and 13 deaths, to the guy with 25 kills and 10 deaths.
These numbers don't mean anything in specific, I'm just saying....watching the people who are better than you is an excellent way to rate yourself in a game, and is itself possibly one of the best scoring systems ever devised.
You know......for as much as we all hate spammers......sometimes you just have to give them a LITTLE credit. It's pretty creative how this study was just published, and already they are incorporating it into their "service delivery plan". It's kind of funny how the RIAA won't change its business model over its dead body, and here the spammers are, adapting their business strategy to whatever they can to try to make money. Now granted, its not necessarily a good thing about how they do it....but it's rare to see such innovation in an industry.....if you could even call spamming an industry.
" I don't think we really need to go any farther than Chinese to deduce that people recognize words from their shape more than from individual components of the shape."
Is this really true? I find with many of the kanji that their meaning can be deciphered based on the individual components of the shape. For example, the character for forest looks vaguely like a forest, as does mountain, and star, etc. Perhaps this is what you meant though.
Did anybody else read this and go....."Micro $traps"? I wonder what those would be anyways, perhaps weird little velcro straps to assist the wee-people in their efforts to make me more shoes and chocolate chip cookies, and bring me presents on Christmas.
" But wouldn't it be great to be able to find books based upon some text in the book? But given the sad state of copyright law, that will probably remain science fiction."
Couldn't this be done with something like Project Gutenberg? In fact, couldn't this be done with any copywrited text that has gone into public domain?
So Amazon will sell advertising space on this search engine, that's the whole point of the search engine. But what concerns me is if they will have negative reviews/information regarding placement that advertisers have paid for.
I know if I was paying for ad space on A9 and found a scathing review showing up right under the link to my product, I would be very pissed at Amazon and want them to take it off, because, hey, I'm paying for it. There is none of this with google...well.....except the whole Scientology deal but thats different. How will we know when Amazon isn't just giving a paid placement for the product, but is also giving false info/concealing the truth about a product?
"# Robust tracking and reporting from your custom published game campaign."
Wow, such a wonderful feature, I can't wait to play their games.
Now, as I work in advertising, I can see the value of this to companies, and would certainly be interested from a professional standpoint, but as an end-user, I am disgusted by Wildtangent and their practices and trust them about as far as I can throw them.
I'd love to see a chart marking the date/times of the press releases compared to what the current stock price is and any recent gains/falls of the stock price.
I actually saw one of these people in Uptown in Minneapolis last weekend. I was stopped at a red light with my friends, saw him cross the street, and saw the crowd of coeds on the other corner look at him as he passed, and then burst into hysterical laughter. Yeah....this thing'll make you a total chick magnet.
Anybody see those powersuits and think EXOSQUAD!????? I loved that show, saw every episode...and heard a rumor that they were making a live action movie out of it. Based on what we've seen in this trailer, I think they could make some pretty bitchin e-frames.
God I wish they'd pick up that license.....or if not that....perhaps the Battletech license. That's a license that's just DYING for the uber-hollywood-effects type thing seen in the Matrix. The mechs would look super realistic, and the battle scenes would be insane and I know every geek on the planet would go see it at least once.
I don't know what's more baffling......the fact that he had time to type all this AND still get FP, or the fact that even though it is a troll, it was somewhat interesting to read the post and even gave me a chuckle at how serious it was.
I REALLY wish I was in a school where they had these classes. Kids today don't know how to raise the kind of ruckus necessary to get something like this removed. You get it put into the school paper, you get parents involved, you write press releases to all major papers and local ones. You explain EXACTLY why this kind of corporate agenda has no place in the classroom. Too bad these kids are so young, I think this would be a hilarious thing to have in highschool. I'm sure the teacher would quit by the end of the first week. Anybody know where they intend on doing this?
Anybody notice in the second to last screenshot how it looks like its driving in a pack of regular street cars (granted its on a track)?
I've always wondered if it would be fun to have a game with the open-endedness of Grand Theft Auto, but the graphics of Gran Turismo (in w/e its current version is). And it wouldn't be on a track either.
It would be a regular street, in fact, best would be realistically modelled cities that you could drive around in any number of types of cars. From the car you drive now to an expensive car. And it would have realistic traffic.....but here's the kicker....
You could turn cops on and off. So you could do things you've ALWAYS wanted to do on your daily route to work for example, but never could because of the ramifications. I think it would be extremely popular in the cities that are realistically modelled in the game because it really connects you to the game.
Hmmm, isn't this like the servers on IRC that distro warez and other various assorted files *cough*kiddyporn*cough* (not that i like that stuff, but it tended to be clumped with the other files). They'd all have an agreement in the beginning basically stating you couldn't use their server if you were a cop or an FBI member or something like that.
So let me ask this.....would something like this win in court if the offending material was kiddyporn? Or would that have different laws apply because that would be a felony and copyright infringement is civil?
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" When you start your own company your first desk should be an old door propped up with a couple of old milk crates. You have more important things to spend your money on when you start up."
Right, because when you have potential clients/customers in your office to pitch to them, you don't really want them to be impressed by your company. Granted, this does vary based on the company, but appearances DO mean something when you're starting out.
" The article claims that the arguement was that a national do-not-call list violates free speech. How can a list which is opt-in violate free speech? These telemarketers are perfectly free to say whatever they like - I just dont them to call my house to say it."
More importantly, since when does Free Speech apply to commercial speech? Thats what telemarketing is, its commercial speech. They are a company selling product.
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I've played a lot of online games, and there will ALWAYS be someone better than you out there, often times many people. But whenever you see them do a new trick, or watch their response to something and be amazed at how effective it is, you learn something new that improves your skills.
While it may be annoying sometimes, like when you keep getting plugged by the one guy on the server with 50 kills and 0 deaths; other times you will be delighted as that new trick you learned helps you go from being the guy with 0 kills and 13 deaths, to the guy with 25 kills and 10 deaths.
These numbers don't mean anything in specific, I'm just saying....watching the people who are better than you is an excellent way to rate yourself in a game, and is itself possibly one of the best scoring systems ever devised.
Is this really true? I find with many of the kanji that their meaning can be deciphered based on the individual components of the shape. For example, the character for forest looks vaguely like a forest, as does mountain, and star, etc. Perhaps this is what you meant though.
Jesus, they were carrying students on this thing?!?!?!
Did anybody else read this and go....."Micro $traps"? I wonder what those would be anyways, perhaps weird little velcro straps to assist the wee-people in their efforts to make me more shoes and chocolate chip cookies, and bring me presents on Christmas.
I think you mispelled Verisign.
Couldn't this be done with something like Project Gutenberg? In fact, couldn't this be done with any copywrited text that has gone into public domain?
I know if I was paying for ad space on A9 and found a scathing review showing up right under the link to my product, I would be very pissed at Amazon and want them to take it off, because, hey, I'm paying for it. There is none of this with google...well.....except the whole Scientology deal but thats different. How will we know when Amazon isn't just giving a paid placement for the product, but is also giving false info/concealing the truth about a product?
From their Marketers/Advertisers page:
"# Robust tracking and reporting from your custom published game campaign."
Wow, such a wonderful feature, I can't wait to play their games.
Now, as I work in advertising, I can see the value of this to companies, and would certainly be interested from a professional standpoint, but as an end-user, I am disgusted by Wildtangent and their practices and trust them about as far as I can throw them.
God I wish they'd pick up that license.....or if not that....perhaps the Battletech license. That's a license that's just DYING for the uber-hollywood-effects type thing seen in the Matrix. The mechs would look super realistic, and the battle scenes would be insane and I know every geek on the planet would go see it at least once.
I've always wondered if it would be fun to have a game with the open-endedness of Grand Theft Auto, but the graphics of Gran Turismo (in w/e its current version is). And it wouldn't be on a track either.
It would be a regular street, in fact, best would be realistically modelled cities that you could drive around in any number of types of cars. From the car you drive now to an expensive car. And it would have realistic traffic.....but here's the kicker....
You could turn cops on and off. So you could do things you've ALWAYS wanted to do on your daily route to work for example, but never could because of the ramifications. I think it would be extremely popular in the cities that are realistically modelled in the game because it really connects you to the game.
Cuz it's "Kazaa" and not "Kazza"???
So let me ask this.....would something like this win in court if the offending material was kiddyporn? Or would that have different laws apply because that would be a felony and copyright infringement is civil?
Right, because when you have potential clients/customers in your office to pitch to them, you don't really want them to be impressed by your company. Granted, this does vary based on the company, but appearances DO mean something when you're starting out.
More importantly, since when does Free Speech apply to commercial speech? Thats what telemarketing is, its commercial speech. They are a company selling product.
I'm glad there's some legal action going the other way for once.
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A)Comparing audio codecs
B)Mini Motherboard comes out
C)"Fulfilling the Promise of XML-based Office Suites?"
D)Arctic Shelf breaks in half
Well, there goes my slow news day...all that other stuff and bam! Headline in the Times tomorrow?
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