At $375 an hour, you'd think every videogame out there would have top-notch voice acting. Hell, pay me in pizza and I'll easily match the quality of acting in most games today. ^_^
I play mostly RPGs, so I thought RPGamer.com's coverage of E3 was outstanding for a site that only covers RPGs (though they also covered console news during E3).
1:1 Gamestop to Starbucks Ratio?
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My local mall already has TWO Gamestops and TWO EBs. Either some people are going to be out of jobs, or it's going to be hilarious seeing four Gamestops in one mall.
They don't just "allow" it. They've been doing it forever. It's their main source of advertising revenue. And this article (submitted by the author, no less) is obviously just an attempt to garner some traffic.
AllRPG is a joke of a website. It's a two-bit operation that occasionally pumps out a week-old news piece (usually not about RPGs). It's obvious that this article was submitted by its author just to boost the traffic to their pathetic little site. Congratulations, Slashdot editors, you fell for it.
Oh, and I just got a virus warning when visiting that page. Thanks again, Slashdot.
I live in Maryland, work in Maryland, and I went to college in Maryland. It was while I attended college that I started to use this law to sue unsolicited commercial e-mailers. The basis for my claims were quite simple: The junk e-mailer sent their e-mails to my address which ends in my university's.edu address. Simply visiting that.edu website would be enough to determine that this university is located in Maryland. Virtually all of the people I filed suit against were quick to settle.
However, I was very careful to not take on high-profile companies or do anything that might get me noticed because I knew that something like this might happen and the law would be thrown out. Thank you, person who doesn't even live in Maryland, for ruining it for the rest of us.
Actually, it's not a matter of federal vs. state law in this case. CAN-SPAM specifically allows for state laws that make it illegal to send unsolicited commercial e-mails with forged headers, misleading subject lines, etc. Fortunately, I live in a state with such a law (Maryland), so I am free to sue many spammers as I please. However, if you send a commercial e-mail with a genuine header, relevant subject line, and opt-out address, your actions are legal under CAN-SPAM.
Not all of the state anti-junk-email laws were overridden by CAN-SPAM. Even though CAN-SPAM does say something to that effect, state laws that ban spam using misleading From: addresses and subject lines are still valid. I had used the Maryland law to sue spammers until CAN-SPAM came along. Just recently I discovered that the Maryland law is still valid, and now it's back to suing my inbox!
As for this article, let this be a lesson to you: if you sue Apple over a name, it is you who will end up having to change your name.
Tibco: We want you to change your product's name. And give us $$$.
Apple: How about instead, you change your product's name. Or give us $$$$$$$$$$$$$.
Tibco: We'll change our name. Bye.
It would probably be cheaper to buy enough new ones at one time to replace all of your old ones, even if you don't do the actual replacing for many of them for a while. You can find nice price cuts in bulk, and the bigger the bulk, the bigger the cut. If you replace half now and half later, you'll spend a whole lot more in the long run. Better to get them all now and slowly phase the new ones in over time, even if this process takes a year or more. If all your users will be doing is some casual web browsing and word processing, you probably won't have to worry about the new ones becoming outdated in your storage room. As someone else here mentioned, public library computers can have a longer life than those used for heavier applications.
That's it! I give up! (Though I'm sure it's only a matter of time before they find a way to hijack my computer without me even being connected to the Internet.)
I seriously doubt there are "millions" of spammers.
I never said there were. I said there could be millions of law suits brought against spammers. And "millions" would not be an unreasonable number for that. There were almost half a million do-not-call telemarketer complaints, and I think it's safe to say that junk e-mail outnumbers telemarketer calls.
It's more likely that the number of spammers (just in the U.S.) is in the thousands, but the principle idea of their job is to reach as many people as possible. Thus, there is the potential for those few spammers to be faced with hundreds or thousands of law suits each. Even with fines as little as $100 per e-mail, it'd be enough to bankrupt most of them and discourage others from taking their places.
This is how to fight spam, people. Don't just block it or ignore it. Fight the spammers directly! Take away their livelihood! And we need strong laws and enforcement on the state and federal level to do this. A bounty system would fit perfectly into such a system.
So what happens if your arm gets pinned under a fallen beam in a fiery explosion and your only hope of escape is to use the nearby power saw to amputate your own limb? This happens:
"Yes! I am saved by this power saw that is still miraculously working despite the fiery explosion!"
As someone who has personally sued a spammer, I can attest to the fact that the only way to make spammers stop is to hit them in their pocket books.
We would need an organized way of combining suits against spammers. Otherwise, those millions of individual suits would clog the courts. A bounty system is the perfect solution. People who collect information on their spammers would organize and report that information to a centralized organization which would handle the actual law suits. Then this organization could pick its targets by employing a pseudo-random, RIAA-style method of picking out random spammers with a boatload of complaints. Any money won would be distributed evenly to those who provided reports on the spammer.
There are still some minor timing issues left, but it's certainly playable on my P4 here at work--er, I mean, at home. Yes, home.
The guy who did this (jeff?) seems to want to remain fairly anonymous for some reason. I couldn't find any info on who he really is on his page. It's the same guy who did the Jumpman conversion a while back.
Oh! And he's looking for another project!!! Who are you so I can send you my shelf-full of old DOS games I can't play anymore??? (Though I'm sure none of the disks work anymore.)
Actually, he has a pretty nice tutorial on how to recreate source from bootable games and how to implement speed fixes. It's a pretty nice read.
If I were Japanese, why in the world would I buy an Xbox when the JP-PS2 has more than 10 times as many titles as the JP-Xbox?
In the U.S., a person who can only afford the hardware and games for one or two systems has a more difficult decision to make between the Big Three. While the PS2 does win in sheer size of its game library, the Gamecube and Xbox have better games in certain categories.
In Japan, where Sony and Nintendo have been household names for decades, it'll be much more difficult for an American company with a smaller game library to find a place in the market.
So unless Microsoft makes some shady exclusivity deals with a good number of developers over there, I just don't see Xbox [insert number here] doing well at all in Japan.
When you go buy a car, you expect it to not break.
When you go buy Windows, you know it will break.
Would you go buy a car with breaks you know will fail while you're out driving?
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...unless your child is not named Johnny.
Yes, you have to put in the 26 hex digits, though it also supports 64bit WEP.
At $375 an hour, you'd think every videogame out there would have top-notch voice acting. Hell, pay me in pizza and I'll easily match the quality of acting in most games today. ^_^
I play mostly RPGs, so I thought RPGamer.com's coverage of E3 was outstanding for a site that only covers RPGs (though they also covered console news during E3).
My local mall already has TWO Gamestops and TWO EBs. Either some people are going to be out of jobs, or it's going to be hilarious seeing four Gamestops in one mall.
They don't just "allow" it. They've been doing it forever. It's their main source of advertising revenue. And this article (submitted by the author, no less) is obviously just an attempt to garner some traffic.
Oh, and I just got a virus warning when visiting that page. Thanks again, Slashdot.
That's the longest sententence indeed.
However, I was very careful to not take on high-profile companies or do anything that might get me noticed because I knew that something like this might happen and the law would be thrown out. Thank you, person who doesn't even live in Maryland, for ruining it for the rest of us.
Actually, it's not a matter of federal vs. state law in this case. CAN-SPAM specifically allows for state laws that make it illegal to send unsolicited commercial e-mails with forged headers, misleading subject lines, etc. Fortunately, I live in a state with such a law (Maryland), so I am free to sue many spammers as I please. However, if you send a commercial e-mail with a genuine header, relevant subject line, and opt-out address, your actions are legal under CAN-SPAM.
There isn't even a way to delete emails from your account
Um, yeah, there is. "Delete Forever." Otherwise, all GMail accounts would eventually become full and useless.
Not all of the state anti-junk-email laws were overridden by CAN-SPAM. Even though CAN-SPAM does say something to that effect, state laws that ban spam using misleading From: addresses and subject lines are still valid. I had used the Maryland law to sue spammers until CAN-SPAM came along. Just recently I discovered that the Maryland law is still valid, and now it's back to suing my inbox!
Oops, I misRTFS.
As for this article, let this be a lesson to you: if you sue Apple over a name, it is you who will end up having to change your name.
Tibco: We want you to change your product's name. And give us $$$.
Apple: How about instead, you change your product's name. Or give us $$$$$$$$$$$$$.
Tibco: We'll change our name. Bye.
It would probably be cheaper to buy enough new ones at one time to replace all of your old ones, even if you don't do the actual replacing for many of them for a while. You can find nice price cuts in bulk, and the bigger the bulk, the bigger the cut. If you replace half now and half later, you'll spend a whole lot more in the long run. Better to get them all now and slowly phase the new ones in over time, even if this process takes a year or more. If all your users will be doing is some casual web browsing and word processing, you probably won't have to worry about the new ones becoming outdated in your storage room. As someone else here mentioned, public library computers can have a longer life than those used for heavier applications.
That's it! I give up! (Though I'm sure it's only a matter of time before they find a way to hijack my computer without me even being connected to the Internet.)
I never said there were. I said there could be millions of law suits brought against spammers. And "millions" would not be an unreasonable number for that. There were almost half a million do-not-call telemarketer complaints, and I think it's safe to say that junk e-mail outnumbers telemarketer calls.
It's more likely that the number of spammers (just in the U.S.) is in the thousands, but the principle idea of their job is to reach as many people as possible. Thus, there is the potential for those few spammers to be faced with hundreds or thousands of law suits each. Even with fines as little as $100 per e-mail, it'd be enough to bankrupt most of them and discourage others from taking their places.
This is how to fight spam, people. Don't just block it or ignore it. Fight the spammers directly! Take away their livelihood! And we need strong laws and enforcement on the state and federal level to do this. A bounty system would fit perfectly into such a system.
"Yes! I am saved by this power saw that is still miraculously working despite the fiery explosion!"
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Damn you science!!!"
We would need an organized way of combining suits against spammers. Otherwise, those millions of individual suits would clog the courts. A bounty system is the perfect solution. People who collect information on their spammers would organize and report that information to a centralized organization which would handle the actual law suits. Then this organization could pick its targets by employing a pseudo-random, RIAA-style method of picking out random spammers with a boatload of complaints. Any money won would be distributed evenly to those who provided reports on the spammer.
The guy who did this (jeff?) seems to want to remain fairly anonymous for some reason. I couldn't find any info on who he really is on his page. It's the same guy who did the Jumpman conversion a while back.
Oh! And he's looking for another project!!! Who are you so I can send you my shelf-full of old DOS games I can't play anymore??? (Though I'm sure none of the disks work anymore.)
Actually, he has a pretty nice tutorial on how to recreate source from bootable games and how to implement speed fixes. It's a pretty nice read.
In the U.S., a person who can only afford the hardware and games for one or two systems has a more difficult decision to make between the Big Three. While the PS2 does win in sheer size of its game library, the Gamecube and Xbox have better games in certain categories.
In Japan, where Sony and Nintendo have been household names for decades, it'll be much more difficult for an American company with a smaller game library to find a place in the market.
So unless Microsoft makes some shady exclusivity deals with a good number of developers over there, I just don't see Xbox [insert number here] doing well at all in Japan.
What will happen when low-cost labor in China is combined with Microsoft technologies? That's like throwing gasoline on a man on fire.
When you go buy a car, you expect it to not break. When you go buy Windows, you know it will break. Would you go buy a car with breaks you know will fail while you're out driving?
That was unscripted??? Wow. Just wow.
The NPC's will refuse to take stupid orders
What do you mean you won't walk into that flaming pool of death? I gave you an order!!!
Oh yeah, I know that. I didn't suggest making a do-not-spam list. Just a better do-not-spam law that doesn't legitimize it like CAN-SPAM does.