How about lowering the prices so you are not raping the fans?
Oh, I'm sorry...I missed the part where they forced you to go to the game against your will, and also made you not go to lunch/dinner before/after the game.
So I wouldn't expect them to license the iTunes store to sell the music while at the same time taking them to court challenging their right to sell that same music.
I have no qualms about paying for software. I also have no qualms about financially supporting the FSF. Does that make me AC/DC?;^)
No, but since there were so few responses, this explains, I believe, why they are not pursuing the Linux implementation with vigor. It's a small user base, and a small fraction of those users actually buy software. It's not that you're bad people, it's that the current linux user base in aggregate doesn't pay for much linux software.
I imagine that even here, on/., if I asked the same question about Windows software purchases, many more people would have said "I have"
But neither was the building I was referring to that was bombed...it wasn't a bunker, it was a commercial building with a restaurant.
And regarding the power of the explosive, I can't find any specific references on the specific reaction power of H-6, but it's in the class of RDX, which has ~170% the power of TNT. So that 4x945 lbs H-6 could be equivalent to ~7000lbs TNT.
Since this is relatively fresh in memory, we dropped 4 2,000 lb HE bombs onto a building that Saddam was suspected to be in during the war in Iraq.
It certainly made quite a mess of the building, and produced a sizable hole, but it apparently didn't succeed in killing the bastard. And although I'm sure that Fawkes' bomb would have also made a mess and killed quite a few people who happened to be unlucky enough to be sitting on top of it, I hardly would go so far as to say it would make the entire center of London into a big hole.
Tens of thousands of players is not 'very successful'. In fact, depending on who you talk to, a game that has only tens of thousands of customers may be described as an 'utter failure'.
We would have succeeded in our nefarious plans if it wasn't for you meddling kids! Now that this idiot has revealed our secret plans to oppress the world by spying on your tires and cell phones, we will have to go back to the drawing board.
Perhaps we will finally perfect the underwear cameras this time, but I hope that we get the microchip in nasal spray working, personally. That way we can directly embed the chip in your brains.
Need more storage on a notebook computer? I typically order them for my team with 60gb drives, and if that's not enough, you can get a little Firewire/USB2 drive to add on for a couple hundred bucks.
If what you want is more serious storage, more than you would want to jam into your PC, get a few of these, and you don't need to reconfigure your systems when you upgrade.
As far as gaming and fragility goes, I've got a Dell 8500 with a GF4 4200 2Go, which seems to handle a couple new games I've bought just fine, and my son knocked it to the floor from it's normal perch on the arm of the couch, with no noticable ill result other than mommy and daddy's irritation.
I believe that the essential truth in your post is that *you could build a better tower cheaper*. Most people don't want to/know how to do that. My parents and sister certainly wouldn't...
If you subscribe to one of the mythos that says as long as people speak your name you live, she is more alive than any of us, even if she never existed in the same sense as we do.
My post was a response to the person who replied to you with the "Not everything has to do with Microsoft", not your post. [grin]
It was a bit of a minor joke, since on Slashdot, all that is wrong with the world can be traced back to Microsoft, SCO, the RIAA, the US Government, or a combination of the above, but mostly Microsoft.
Well, given that, I hope that we are significantly more planet-locked than Iraq is landlocked. I suspect that having a small intersection with another planet would be considerably worse than losing the list.
But I would argue that the price is not the problem.
Think sports. To go see a game, people pay $30+ for a couple hours of entertainment. These couple of hours are typically just as enjoyable by the people who go once or twice a year as they are for the people who go all the time. In fact, they are probably more enjoyable for the occasional participant, because it's a special occasion.
I could not imagine playing an MMRPG for a couple hours a week. with that, you just get the drudge, since it takes so long to get to any 'good stuff'.
What you describe wanting is an environment where one can be a 'tourist' in one of these MM Worlds. You fly in with equal or superior skills to the 'locals', can enjoy the best that their culture has to offer, and flit back home to the wife, kids, and job.
So you think that because you pirated the software in the first place, and thus 'kept it alive', that you're now entitled to it, and anybody who suggests otherwise is a 'righteous twit'?
If the MAME developers had the foresight to have gone to Atari with a business plan for selling the archaic ROM images with their emulator, then perhaps they could have benefitted from it.
Perhaps the authors of MAME should charge for their product if they want it to be a business...
I'm no head-shrinker, but it appears to me that playing an MMORPG, at least as it has been defined so far, requires somewhat of an obsessive-compulsive personality. Yes, I've played them...UO, EQ, AC, DaoC...It is simply not a casual experience, and although people who play them appear to get some sort of satisfaction, I wouldn't call them 'entertaining' or 'fun'. They demand dedication and endurance to participate even partially.
Take for example Star Trek, another piece of popular media that has attracted the obsessive (go to a convention to verify my assertion). Star Trek can be enjoyed by a casual participant (My mother), but also has provided a fertile ground for an astonishing array of fan community participation (fan porn stories..both gay and straight, conventions, the klingon alphabet, you name it)
With Star Trek, the difference is that the provided experience is the same for everybody, designed for casual consumption, and people do with it what they will. With MMORPG, the provided experience is targeted at the most dedicated fans, and most sane people simply don't have the level of interest required to keep up with what that requires. I cannot imagine my mother (or myself) watching Star Trek if she had to wear some pointy ears or glue something to her forehead to successfully watch it.
Then report the professors to the university's academic standards board. If the people with the authority to punish wrongdoing tolerate this dishonesty, then *they* are a large part of the problem.
Although I generally agree that at college level, the students are old enough to know right from wrong, they are learning important life lessons while at University, and one of those needs to be "Cheat, and you lose". The others are the answers to the questions "How much can I drink before I fall down?", and "Is that it?"
If bounced emails and 'forged' email addresses are even a part of what they're going to nail this guy for, I hope that the police are never contacted by the person who has the email address foo@foo.com...we're gonna fill the prisons.
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I would think that paying $1500 for a new windows notebook in order to be able to graduate from Law school would be the smallest of your expenses.
It may even be less than the cost of your books for the first year.
I pay $300/month for my car. If I could get it out to the asteroid, I'd gladly pay $20/100 years.
How about lowering the prices so you are not raping the fans?
Oh, I'm sorry...I missed the part where they forced you to go to the game against your will, and also made you not go to lunch/dinner before/after the game.
Repeat after me: "Look at what you made me do!"
Well, Apple Records has sued Apple Computer because of iTunes.
So I wouldn't expect them to license the iTunes store to sell the music while at the same time taking them to court challenging their right to sell that same music.
Welcome to /., where nobody RTFA, including the posters and editors!
They make albums so they can build demand for concerts (the record companies take most of the album profits), and then they make money on concerts.
I have no qualms about paying for software. I also have no qualms about financially supporting the FSF. Does that make me AC/DC? ;^)
/., if I asked the same question about Windows software purchases, many more people would have said "I have"
No, but since there were so few responses, this explains, I believe, why they are not pursuing the Linux implementation with vigor. It's a small user base, and a small fraction of those users actually buy software. It's not that you're bad people, it's that the current linux user base in aggregate doesn't pay for much linux software.
I imagine that even here, on
Everybody who has purchased a commercial software product for Linux, please raise your hand.
But neither was the building I was referring to that was bombed...it wasn't a bunker, it was a commercial building with a restaurant.
And regarding the power of the explosive, I can't find any specific references on the specific reaction power of H-6, but it's in the class of RDX, which has ~170% the power of TNT. So that 4x945 lbs H-6 could be equivalent to ~7000lbs TNT.
Since this is relatively fresh in memory, we dropped 4 2,000 lb HE bombs onto a building that Saddam was suspected to be in during the war in Iraq.
It certainly made quite a mess of the building, and produced a sizable hole, but it apparently didn't succeed in killing the bastard. And although I'm sure that Fawkes' bomb would have also made a mess and killed quite a few people who happened to be unlucky enough to be sitting on top of it, I hardly would go so far as to say it would make the entire center of London into a big hole.
The question was who benefits from perpetuating this system of weak patents, and who has an interest in perpetuating the system?
Despite your response, the answer is Lawyers. The company I work for was involved in a patent suit/countersuit and the legal fees exceeded the awards.
We also pay legal fees for the patent filing costs, but compared to any eventual court costs, they're fairly trivial.
One word: Lawyers
Tens of thousands of players is not 'very successful'. In fact, depending on who you talk to, a game that has only tens of thousands of customers may be described as an 'utter failure'.
We would have succeeded in our nefarious plans if it wasn't for you meddling kids! Now that this idiot has revealed our secret plans to oppress the world by spying on your tires and cell phones, we will have to go back to the drawing board.
Perhaps we will finally perfect the underwear cameras this time, but I hope that we get the microchip in nasal spray working, personally. That way we can directly embed the chip in your brains.
Need more storage on a notebook computer? I typically order them for my team with 60gb drives, and if that's not enough, you can get a little Firewire/USB2 drive to add on for a couple hundred bucks.
If what you want is more serious storage, more than you would want to jam into your PC, get a few of these, and you don't need to reconfigure your systems when you upgrade.
As far as gaming and fragility goes, I've got a Dell 8500 with a GF4 4200 2Go, which seems to handle a couple new games I've bought just fine, and my son knocked it to the floor from it's normal perch on the arm of the couch, with no noticable ill result other than mommy and daddy's irritation.
I believe that the essential truth in your post is that *you could build a better tower cheaper*. Most people don't want to/know how to do that. My parents and sister certainly wouldn't...
Well, but Texas does not allow one to ship alcohol via the post, so those who live there cannot avail themselves of the beer/wine shipment businesses.
So please don't hold Texas up as an example of a state that does not choose to interfere with the commerce of alcohol.
Not to mention that posession of a sex toy is a crime there. (I used to live there, BTW)
Well, in one sense yes, she is alive.
If you subscribe to one of the mythos that says as long as people speak your name you live, she is more alive than any of us, even if she never existed in the same sense as we do.
My post was a response to the person who replied to you with the "Not everything has to do with Microsoft", not your post. [grin]
It was a bit of a minor joke, since on Slashdot, all that is wrong with the world can be traced back to Microsoft, SCO, the RIAA, the US Government, or a combination of the above, but mostly Microsoft.
You're new to slashdot, aren't you?
Well, given that, I hope that we are significantly more planet-locked than Iraq is landlocked. I suspect that having a small intersection with another planet would be considerably worse than losing the list.
But I would argue that the price is not the problem.
Think sports. To go see a game, people pay $30+ for a couple hours of entertainment. These couple of hours are typically just as enjoyable by the people who go once or twice a year as they are for the people who go all the time. In fact, they are probably more enjoyable for the occasional participant, because it's a special occasion.
I could not imagine playing an MMRPG for a couple hours a week. with that, you just get the drudge, since it takes so long to get to any 'good stuff'.
What you describe wanting is an environment where one can be a 'tourist' in one of these MM Worlds. You fly in with equal or superior skills to the 'locals', can enjoy the best that their culture has to offer, and flit back home to the wife, kids, and job.
So you think that because you pirated the software in the first place, and thus 'kept it alive', that you're now entitled to it, and anybody who suggests otherwise is a 'righteous twit'?
If the MAME developers had the foresight to have gone to Atari with a business plan for selling the archaic ROM images with their emulator, then perhaps they could have benefitted from it.
Perhaps the authors of MAME should charge for their product if they want it to be a business...
I think that you're correct that it won't happen.
I'm no head-shrinker, but it appears to me that playing an MMORPG, at least as it has been defined so far, requires somewhat of an obsessive-compulsive personality. Yes, I've played them...UO, EQ, AC, DaoC...It is simply not a casual experience, and although people who play them appear to get some sort of satisfaction, I wouldn't call them 'entertaining' or 'fun'. They demand dedication and endurance to participate even partially.
Take for example Star Trek, another piece of popular media that has attracted the obsessive (go to a convention to verify my assertion). Star Trek can be enjoyed by a casual participant (My mother), but also has provided a fertile ground for an astonishing array of fan community participation (fan porn stories..both gay and straight, conventions, the klingon alphabet, you name it)
With Star Trek, the difference is that the provided experience is the same for everybody, designed for casual consumption, and people do with it what they will. With MMORPG, the provided experience is targeted at the most dedicated fans, and most sane people simply don't have the level of interest required to keep up with what that requires. I cannot imagine my mother (or myself) watching Star Trek if she had to wear some pointy ears or glue something to her forehead to successfully watch it.
Then report the professors to the university's academic standards board. If the people with the authority to punish wrongdoing tolerate this dishonesty, then *they* are a large part of the problem.
Although I generally agree that at college level, the students are old enough to know right from wrong, they are learning important life lessons while at University, and one of those needs to be "Cheat, and you lose". The others are the answers to the questions "How much can I drink before I fall down?", and "Is that it?"
heh...
If bounced emails and 'forged' email addresses are even a part of what they're going to nail this guy for, I hope that the police are never contacted by the person who has the email address foo@foo.com...we're gonna fill the prisons.