That would be why I didn't notice: I use a Mac (as well as Gentoo Linux), so there's no installer.
No installer, but if you simply had the default homepage in FF set to the regular mozilla.org Firefox page, it was changed to the new Google Firefox page when 1.0 was 'installed'.
I'm guessing that, if anything else was set for the homepage, it wasn't changed.
... which is exactly what the interviewee said. They aren't "taking away" players from other games. They're drawing new players, or picking up folks who already quit playing other games.
The point he was making is that most of it is crap. And in an MMORPG, you don't have the option of avoiding the crap... it's part of the server!
At least in NWN, you can read reviews and choose not to download the crap, or uninstall the crap once you see how bad it is. With an MMORPG, you don't get that chance. It's simply there and you have to deal with it being there.
I'm wondering if D&D Online might be able to do it. Pull the video game geeks together with the pen-and-paper geeks to make a massive online geek fest.
Perhaps the solution is as simple as some other RPGs use: your experience points are used to purchase new abilities/powers/items/etc.
Using that method, one could still set arbitrary 'levels' for making sure challenges are appropriately powered. However, it allows players to gain abilities at their own leisure, picking up lots of small ones or saving for that expensive one. It rewards those who play a lot with faster 'levelling', and those who play less can gain less expensive abilities as often as they want.
Animal cruelty laws do not apply towards factory farming, if they did, I would be surprised if one factory farm remained open.
Incorrect. There are different laws regulating the treatment of animals in factory farms, including how they are raised and even how they are killed. That does not mean there are no cruelty laws for such.
Now, most areas just plain ignore those laws. However, they are on the books and they are enforced (admittedly not to the extent they would be for cute & fuzzy animals).
I grew up in Appalachia, and I agree that some folks there are almost impossible to understand. Mostly just rural dialects, just like some urban areas have their own dialects.
However, if you really want to hear the English language mangled, come to Hawaii. I dare you to translate pidgin English if you've never heard it before.;)
If you actually want to use the media files you load, you have to use Big Brother Mode, using a special loader app that doubles as a storefront for exactly one store: Apple's own. Your device has to be registered with this app and there are all sorts of arcane rules about how many units of this can be registered with that on which computer and how to properly disable one before you can move to another, etc. Bah!
Incorrect. If you want to buy music through Apple, you have to register. Otherwise, don't. It won't affect your ability to rip, download, play or sync music with your iPod.
Except USB 2.0 doesn't really have the sustained transfer rate to keep up with games. Still, hopefully it's an option, since they neglected to add a Firewire port to the new unit.
Maybe. The question is, does the PStwo have an iLink/Firewire/1394 port? If so, there are plenty of external hard drives on the market that would be quite fast enough for loading games onto.
I have to wonder if Apple was just waiting for this moment. They could make an argument that the original agreement was using a specific definition of the "music business," referring to companies like EMI and Sony. In that case, the business is promoting and funding musicians, producing music itself for sale.
Whereas Apple is simply making products that 1) play music (iPod, iTunes and the Mac itself), 2) can be used for music creation (the Mac itself, Garage Band) and 3) provide music for sale, as if they were a store in the mall (iTunes Music Store). They never actually produce music themselves, or fund musicians directly.
I'd say this is an opportunity to at least trot such a defense out in front of a judge, and get the original agreement turned into something that isn't worth the paper it's printed on.
The Halo is much smaller than a ringworld from the novels, since it orbits around the star as a satellite rather than surrounding the star like a... well, halo.;)
Except there's a huge gap in your reasoning: what if someone donates the book?
Maybe the town/school district doesn't want to spend the money on the book. That's fine, fully understandable. But if someone wants to donate the book, the bans prevent it. They won't even take a free book.
I can understand restricting some books to older students only. But banning a book outright just strikes me as a bad idea.
Two reasons. One, it's illegal to sell Nazi paraphernalia in Germany. So, all the swastikas and references to Nazis have to be stripped out of the game when it sells there. You can learn all about Nazis and such in school, books or museums, but profiting off it is a no-no.
Second, they have strict regulations about violence & gore in video games. Remember the game Myth: the Fallen Lords? Very nice death animations in that game, complete with blood and body parts. In the German version, Bungie had to eliminate those animations. Instead, the bodies disappear in a shower of pretty stars.
Wolfenstein is also a pretty violent & bloody game. Hence the disclaimer on the website.
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But that's exactly why there was such an outcry. It was a completely gratuitous change, not to mention badly edited. (It looked like Han broke his neck to turn his head like that.) Not to mention it makes Greedo into a laughable shot.
The scene then comes across as Han getting his weapon ready, just in case he's attacked, instead of killing Greedo preemptively. It changes the tone of the scene completely.
Is that a horrible thing? No. It's just very jarring to those of us who saw it the original way, and think that this version makes less sense.
Yes, I read his post. No, I didn't want to insult him. But apparently, he wanted the whole thing spelled out from the beginning, instead of considering that maybe it would be answered in the film that's actually about the subject.
Nah, I enjoyed the film. Never saw it in the theater, just bought it for $10 on DVD out of curiosity. Most of it was interesting, but it wasn't until the last 5 minutes that it really grabbed me.
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That woudl be this, I assume. ;)
No installer, but if you simply had the default homepage in FF set to the regular mozilla.org Firefox page, it was changed to the new Google Firefox page when 1.0 was 'installed'.
I'm guessing that, if anything else was set for the homepage, it wasn't changed.
... which is exactly what the interviewee said. They aren't "taking away" players from other games. They're drawing new players, or picking up folks who already quit playing other games.
The point he was making is that most of it is crap. And in an MMORPG, you don't have the option of avoiding the crap... it's part of the server!
At least in NWN, you can read reviews and choose not to download the crap, or uninstall the crap once you see how bad it is. With an MMORPG, you don't get that chance. It's simply there and you have to deal with it being there.
Geeks of the world, unite! :)
Using that method, one could still set arbitrary 'levels' for making sure challenges are appropriately powered. However, it allows players to gain abilities at their own leisure, picking up lots of small ones or saving for that expensive one. It rewards those who play a lot with faster 'levelling', and those who play less can gain less expensive abilities as often as they want.
Animal cruelty laws do not apply towards factory farming, if they did, I would be surprised if one factory farm remained open.
Incorrect. There are different laws regulating the treatment of animals in factory farms, including how they are raised and even how they are killed. That does not mean there are no cruelty laws for such.
Now, most areas just plain ignore those laws. However, they are on the books and they are enforced (admittedly not to the extent they would be for cute & fuzzy animals).
For those of us not up on Linux distros, what makes Gentoo good? And what are its shortcomings?
However, if you really want to hear the English language mangled, come to Hawaii. I dare you to translate pidgin English if you've never heard it before. ;)
Copy & paste of files works just fine in OS X. Cut & paste does not exist, however.
What do you think credit is for.
"A fool and his money are soon parted." - Thomas Tusser.
Many people simply can't manage their money when relying on credit. Some can. Credit is not a magic bank, as some people think.
Incorrect. If you want to buy music through Apple, you have to register. Otherwise, don't. It won't affect your ability to rip, download, play or sync music with your iPod.
You mean my copy of Virex I get with .Mac will actually be useful now? ;)
Except USB 2.0 doesn't really have the sustained transfer rate to keep up with games. Still, hopefully it's an option, since they neglected to add a Firewire port to the new unit.
Maybe. The question is, does the PStwo have an iLink/Firewire/1394 port? If so, there are plenty of external hard drives on the market that would be quite fast enough for loading games onto.
I have to wonder if Apple was just waiting for this moment. They could make an argument that the original agreement was using a specific definition of the "music business," referring to companies like EMI and Sony. In that case, the business is promoting and funding musicians, producing music itself for sale.
Whereas Apple is simply making products that 1) play music (iPod, iTunes and the Mac itself), 2) can be used for music creation (the Mac itself, Garage Band) and 3) provide music for sale, as if they were a store in the mall (iTunes Music Store). They never actually produce music themselves, or fund musicians directly.
I'd say this is an opportunity to at least trot such a defense out in front of a judge, and get the original agreement turned into something that isn't worth the paper it's printed on.
The Halo is much smaller than a ringworld from the novels, since it orbits around the star as a satellite rather than surrounding the star like a... well, halo. ;)
Please, don't remind me. I took German 103 three times before I passed. ;)
Keep in mind that you were reading a translation. Some translations are so concerned about being 'accurate' that they screw up English grammar.
:)
However, I suspect the rambling and incoherence are accurate.
Maybe the town/school district doesn't want to spend the money on the book. That's fine, fully understandable. But if someone wants to donate the book, the bans prevent it. They won't even take a free book.
I can understand restricting some books to older students only. But banning a book outright just strikes me as a bad idea.
My favorite quote about that movie was:
"I can't believe in an alien civilization that would have been blown up the first time someone tried to microwave a burrito."
Second, they have strict regulations about violence & gore in video games. Remember the game Myth: the Fallen Lords? Very nice death animations in that game, complete with blood and body parts. In the German version, Bungie had to eliminate those animations. Instead, the bodies disappear in a shower of pretty stars.
Wolfenstein is also a pretty violent & bloody game. Hence the disclaimer on the website.
The scene then comes across as Han getting his weapon ready, just in case he's attacked, instead of killing Greedo preemptively. It changes the tone of the scene completely.
Is that a horrible thing? No. It's just very jarring to those of us who saw it the original way, and think that this version makes less sense.
This coming from an AC.
Yes, I read his post. No, I didn't want to insult him. But apparently, he wanted the whole thing spelled out from the beginning, instead of considering that maybe it would be answered in the film that's actually about the subject.
Nah, I enjoyed the film. Never saw it in the theater, just bought it for $10 on DVD out of curiosity. Most of it was interesting, but it wasn't until the last 5 minutes that it really grabbed me.
:)
After that, I couldn't sleep.