There are many forms of blackmail, beside the criminal type. All but saying "pay me or I'm gonna screw your launch by walking out" is a form of blackmail. Not criminal blackmail, but blackmail nonetheless. It is "give me money or suffer consequences". Perhaps "extortion" is a synonym you might find more palatable.
He must do it to make sure his comment is simply skipped over.
I naturally tend to ignore anything with unusual formatting. It's like they're shouting "Look at me! Look at me!". No, shut up.
I'm sorry did you say something? Your exclamation points almost made me skip your post.
I'm assuming Sega will only be responsible for releasing first party Dreamcast titles (Namco previously released the DC version of Soul Calibur to Xbox Live Arcade.) Sega should release DC games with a multiplayer component since most of those titles are offline now. I'm thinking Outtrigger and Alien Front Online - the latter of which came out near the end of the Dreamcast's life cycle. And of course, Phantasy Star Online.
I'm still curious to see how they will display the games in high definition. I guess they'll just make everything widescreen and upscale the 480p image - I highly doubt they'll have the graphics rendered in 720p.
Hopefully they'll rerelease Shenmue. Then, hopefully it will sell really really well. Then, hopefully Sega will see that there's still life in the property and complete Shenmue 3. Then, hopefully they'll get Yu Suzuki to come back to work on it.
And while I'm hoping, I'd like a pony.
I'd also like a pony......the other things would be good too but the pony is more likely to happen.
A device that lets you type up a word document and it prints it out real time. Essentially it prints your keystrokes as soon as you press them. I also foresee it having an extremely long battery life.
...and very poor editing abilities. Also it doesn't make copies for some reason.
Games all have terrible stories and laughable characters. You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear. I know someone will come up with a list of games with supposedly good plots, but bear in mind that as a gamer you're biased towards games, and probably haven't read a lot of good stories so don't have a good perspective. I expect replies to this post telling me about all these JRPGs with amazingly 'deep' storylines and characterisation: save your breath.
I'm not going to waste my time. Your clearly biased towards books and probably haven't bothered to play a lot of good games so you don't have a good perspective.
Fuck the Holy Spirit! And fuck Santa Claus! And the FSM! Fuck them all! There, now I can be sure of going to at least 3 different types of hell, if they exist. Oh, and everyone who reads this is also going to hell, because my god said they were faithless bastards. He's a bit shy though and only talks to me, so I'm the only human ever to actually be going to heaven. Sorry guys!
I agree! Getting punched in the jaw is definitely better than being stabbed in the neck, but they both suck.
I might prefer less restrictive DRM than more restrictive DRM, but ultimately (as your last paragraph states!) it only hurts paying customers. I can't see how you "laud... Blizzard's actions" here.
It's almost as though you like being punched in the face, because hey, at least you're not getting stabbed. Why not neither?
That's what they call a love tap. Don't be such a wuss.
Yes, you will have trouble installing this on the non-existent computers that have no way to connect to the Internet
My girlfriend has no internet access at home. She owns a modern PC.
Blizzard wont be selling a game designed for single-player offline gaming to her, because of an arbitrary and irrelevant constraint mandated by people that quite clearly hate their (potential) customers.
Yet again, the cracked copy (which will become available) will be easier to install and use.
No, getting hold of it with no internet access wouldn't be straightforward, but cracking/sharing games predates the world wide web..
Oh well, I'll loan her my copy of Total Annihilation - it was a better game that Starcraft anyway.
If she has a modern PC and no internet she's in a such a small minority that Blizzard simply doesn't care. Sad but true.
Kiddie porn pictures are not a substitute for "the real thing". If anything, there is considerable evidence that kiddie porn pictures incent the possessor to go and get the real thing.
....and yet everything about most Slashdotters lives (mine included) suggests that regular porn is somehow immune from this rule.
I'm all for reasonable censorship but a bad argument is a bad argument.
"THEY CAME FIRST for the Rapists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Rapist.
THEN THEY CAME for the Murderers,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Murderers.
THEN THEY CAME for the human traffickers,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a human trafficker.
THEN THEY CAME for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up."
Go outside. NOW. You've overdosed on internet. Go outside.
Wear protective eye gear. The light in the big blue room hurts your eyes if your not used to it.
So true. The amount of crying would fill an ocean if MW2 forced players of similar level to play together rather than providing a steady stream of n00bs to the elite players so they can use the Tactical Nuke 3 minutes in on every map.
And after that nuke takes out that one defensive tower you loose the game noob.
You need mutliple nukes to do any real damage now.
I'm fairly certain the reason the multiform taunted the Doctor about it was because the Doctor, or at least the Timelords, are the root of the problem. I'm aware he's supposedly the last Timelord alive, but we've seen how thinking you're the last often turns out... Of course, they could pull the whole alternate reality thing again. The Doctor never was clear about how alternate realities come to be, just that they're meant to be sealed off. I'd say alternate realities are the convenient writers-block fixer: Out of enemies? Bring an ancient and long-since-defeated enemy back from another alternate reality! The damaged Cyberman in the preview says it's at least possible. What I'm most curious about is the English-flag-stamped Dalek; though it's probably just some military immitation, and not a true Dalek...
A rebuilt dalke is my guess. The brtish government finds partially destored Dalek parts form the last encounter and uses the technology to build their own Daleks, programmed for good. The Doctor shows up and warns everyone thatr their dealing with forces they can't possibily control. Annoying government leader assures him everything is under control.....*Oh crap*........We lost control!...... After running through hall ways and reversing the polarity the day is saved but not before the untimely death of the forementioned annoying charatcer. These episodes write themselves.
It's not an endless river.
Yes, yes it is. As far back as I can recall -- and that is a long way -- there has always been piracy. To think or even suggest that you can "dent" or outright stop piracy is just wishful thinking. It always has been.
The method will differ, that's all. Goodbye torrents, hello ?????
The only reason this seems odd is because over the last 10 years, the general public has gotten into piracy in a big way. If that hadn't have happened and it was much more "low key" -- we wouldn't be having this discussion and you, most likely, would not even realize piracy was taking place. Now we have torrents. Before that we had http. Before that we had SFTP. Before that we had FTP. Before that we had Zmodem on BBS's. Before that, we had X/Ymodem. And before that we had sneakernet.
The evolution continues...
The problem is piracy is too easy now. Your average shmuck wasn't pirating on a invite only BBS using kermit. I hope the next evolution puts piracy back into the hands of geeks where it belongs.
Get a dialup connection. I've received 3 notices from my DSL provider, but absolutely nothing from my 56k Dialup provider. For whatever reason dialup bittorrenters seem to be ignored.
And no it isn't that slow. Figure 2 episodes downloaded while you're sleeping, and 2 more while at work == 4 new episodes a day that I can watch when I get home.
.....or I could download all 4 in about 20 minutes while I post on this form with my 5mb connection.
"or you can just choose to not screw up your moral compass with magnets"
No you can't, and by using the word "compass" you even gave yourself a hint as to why you can't.
Hold a magnet to a compass and it stops pointing north. Hold a magnet near the right spot of the brain and it messes with inhibitions. If you want either toi work right DON'T HOLD A MAGNET TO IT! Seems like a choice to me. The study never suggests that the earths magnetic field or any natural source is enough to effect the brain.
Slashdot Mirror
There are many forms of blackmail, beside the criminal type. All but saying "pay me or I'm gonna screw your launch by walking out" is a form of blackmail. Not criminal blackmail, but blackmail nonetheless. It is "give me money or suffer consequences". Perhaps "extortion" is a synonym you might find more palatable.
The X makes it sound cool.
Why do you post in monotype?
He must do it to make sure his comment is simply skipped over. I naturally tend to ignore anything with unusual formatting. It's like they're shouting "Look at me! Look at me!". No, shut up.
I'm sorry did you say something? Your exclamation points almost made me skip your post.
I'm assuming Sega will only be responsible for releasing first party Dreamcast titles (Namco previously released the DC version of Soul Calibur to Xbox Live Arcade.) Sega should release DC games with a multiplayer component since most of those titles are offline now. I'm thinking Outtrigger and Alien Front Online - the latter of which came out near the end of the Dreamcast's life cycle. And of course, Phantasy Star Online. I'm still curious to see how they will display the games in high definition. I guess they'll just make everything widescreen and upscale the 480p image - I highly doubt they'll have the graphics rendered in 720p.
Emulators are already doing this.
Hopefully they'll rerelease Shenmue. Then, hopefully it will sell really really well. Then, hopefully Sega will see that there's still life in the property and complete Shenmue 3. Then, hopefully they'll get Yu Suzuki to come back to work on it.
And while I'm hoping, I'd like a pony.
I'd also like a pony......the other things would be good too but the pony is more likely to happen.
I'll tell you whats next...
A device that lets you type up a word document and it prints it out real time. Essentially it prints your keystrokes as soon as you press them. I also foresee it having an extremely long battery life.
...and very poor editing abilities. Also it doesn't make copies for some reason.
Games all have terrible stories and laughable characters. You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear. I know someone will come up with a list of games with supposedly good plots, but bear in mind that as a gamer you're biased towards games, and probably haven't read a lot of good stories so don't have a good perspective. I expect replies to this post telling me about all these JRPGs with amazingly 'deep' storylines and characterisation: save your breath.
I'm not going to waste my time. Your clearly biased towards books and probably haven't bothered to play a lot of good games so you don't have a good perspective.
Micahel Bay could direct it
Jesus is not the Holy Spirit
QFT
Fuck the Holy Spirit! And fuck Santa Claus! And the FSM! Fuck them all! There, now I can be sure of going to at least 3 different types of hell, if they exist. Oh, and everyone who reads this is also going to hell, because my god said they were faithless bastards. He's a bit shy though and only talks to me, so I'm the only human ever to actually be going to heaven. Sorry guys!
Santa Claus sends unbelievers to hell?
How do you get a kid into coding? Guess.
Take them outside, throw an exception to them and ask them to throw it back?
He has to try and catch it first.
10 PRINT "FUCK" 20 GOTO 10
That's a great way to learn about a text to speach api.
I agree! Getting punched in the jaw is definitely better than being stabbed in the neck, but they both suck. I might prefer less restrictive DRM than more restrictive DRM, but ultimately (as your last paragraph states!) it only hurts paying customers. I can't see how you "laud ... Blizzard's actions" here.
It's almost as though you like being punched in the face, because hey, at least you're not getting stabbed. Why not neither?
That's what they call a love tap. Don't be such a wuss.
There's no need to fuck around with anything - LAN or no LAN, it's TCP/IP either way.
With the last patch it's also UDP.
Yes, you will have trouble installing this on the non-existent computers that have no way to connect to the Internet
My girlfriend has no internet access at home. She owns a modern PC.
Blizzard wont be selling a game designed for single-player offline gaming to her, because of an arbitrary and irrelevant constraint mandated by people that quite clearly hate their (potential) customers.
Yet again, the cracked copy (which will become available) will be easier to install and use.
No, getting hold of it with no internet access wouldn't be straightforward, but cracking/sharing games predates the world wide web..
Oh well, I'll loan her my copy of Total Annihilation - it was a better game that Starcraft anyway.
If she has a modern PC and no internet she's in a such a small minority that Blizzard simply doesn't care. Sad but true.
Kiddie porn pictures are not a substitute for "the real thing". If anything, there is considerable evidence that kiddie porn pictures incent the possessor to go and get the real thing.
....and yet everything about most Slashdotters lives (mine included) suggests that regular porn is somehow immune from this rule.
I'm all for reasonable censorship but a bad argument is a bad argument.
"THEY CAME FIRST for the Rapists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Rapist. THEN THEY CAME for the Murderers, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Murderers. THEN THEY CAME for the human traffickers, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a human trafficker. THEN THEY CAME for me and by that time no one was left to speak up."
Go outside. NOW. You've overdosed on internet. Go outside.
Wear protective eye gear. The light in the big blue room hurts your eyes if your not used to it.
does this version of glibc.x86_64 make my butt look big?-
No but your file system is FAT.
So true. The amount of crying would fill an ocean if MW2 forced players of similar level to play together rather than providing a steady stream of n00bs to the elite players so they can use the Tactical Nuke 3 minutes in on every map.
And after that nuke takes out that one defensive tower you loose the game noob.
You need mutliple nukes to do any real damage now.
God that's scary.
Newly hatched zerglings should not trouble a fully mature high templar.
As of the latest patch they do.
This is EA afterall.
Oh, so you're saying it was malice? (j/k standard disclaimers apply)
It's both. Malicious incompentence, two words that describe much of the industry.
They tend to in the good old US of A. If you don't believe me, take a trip to the Bible belt. I'm surprised they don't have drive through churches.
There's a drive through church in Vegas for people who want to get married without leaving their car.
Reversing polarity?! This is Doctor Who we're talking about, not Star Trek, it'll be done with the sonic screwdriver and a cell phone!
Philstine! Reverseing the polarity is a Dr Who classic.
I'm fairly certain the reason the multiform taunted the Doctor about it was because the Doctor, or at least the Timelords, are the root of the problem. I'm aware he's supposedly the last Timelord alive, but we've seen how thinking you're the last often turns out... Of course, they could pull the whole alternate reality thing again. The Doctor never was clear about how alternate realities come to be, just that they're meant to be sealed off. I'd say alternate realities are the convenient writers-block fixer: Out of enemies? Bring an ancient and long-since-defeated enemy back from another alternate reality! The damaged Cyberman in the preview says it's at least possible. What I'm most curious about is the English-flag-stamped Dalek; though it's probably just some military immitation, and not a true Dalek...
A rebuilt dalke is my guess. The brtish government finds partially destored Dalek parts form the last encounter and uses the technology to build their own Daleks, programmed for good. The Doctor shows up and warns everyone thatr their dealing with forces they can't possibily control. Annoying government leader assures him everything is under control.....*Oh crap*........We lost control!. ..... After running through hall ways and reversing the polarity the day is saved but not before the untimely death of the forementioned annoying charatcer. These episodes write themselves.
It's not an endless river. Yes, yes it is. As far back as I can recall -- and that is a long way -- there has always been piracy. To think or even suggest that you can "dent" or outright stop piracy is just wishful thinking. It always has been. The method will differ, that's all. Goodbye torrents, hello ????? The only reason this seems odd is because over the last 10 years, the general public has gotten into piracy in a big way. If that hadn't have happened and it was much more "low key" -- we wouldn't be having this discussion and you, most likely, would not even realize piracy was taking place. Now we have torrents. Before that we had http. Before that we had SFTP. Before that we had FTP. Before that we had Zmodem on BBS's. Before that, we had X/Ymodem. And before that we had sneakernet. The evolution continues...
The problem is piracy is too easy now. Your average shmuck wasn't pirating on a invite only BBS using kermit. I hope the next evolution puts piracy back into the hands of geeks where it belongs.
Get a dialup connection. I've received 3 notices from my DSL provider, but absolutely nothing from my 56k Dialup provider. For whatever reason dialup bittorrenters seem to be ignored.
And no it isn't that slow. Figure 2 episodes downloaded while you're sleeping, and 2 more while at work == 4 new episodes a day that I can watch when I get home.
.....or I could download all 4 in about 20 minutes while I post on this form with my 5mb connection.
"or you can just choose to not screw up your moral compass with magnets" No you can't, and by using the word "compass" you even gave yourself a hint as to why you can't.
Hold a magnet to a compass and it stops pointing north. Hold a magnet near the right spot of the brain and it messes with inhibitions. If you want either toi work right DON'T HOLD A MAGNET TO IT! Seems like a choice to me. The study never suggests that the earths magnetic field or any natural source is enough to effect the brain.