IT has reached more than rumor stage. Lucasarts put up a page over a week ago hiring a new director of SWG at Lucasarts. And SWG in Japan is run by EA games, not SOE. So someone upstairs has been trying to nudge Sony out of te full picture for some time. Now they are hiring someone to take over the whole project? I bet some of the SOE dev team is already rending their resumes around.
As a veteran SWG player I can say, we are seeing subscriber losses on our server that are staggering. Folks in the JTL beta are leaving, saying it blows goats. Everyone is pissed and angry all of the time at SOE, its CSRs and the Dev team. The dev team seems totally incompetent and often lies to the userbase. Sony is killing SWG, and many players are waiting for EQ2 or WoW to come out before finally moving on.
I recently saw a link to a Lucasarts page hiring a director for SWG, and I am hopeful that any change in leadership and management can save this project from being the biggest MMO disaster ever. Time will tell.
I bought a DJ backpack for transporting vinyl records about 3 years ago in Paris, and I happily adapted it to the best laptop carrying device ever. Lots of pockets, and the laptop just lays in the padded center compartment with my books or other gear when travelling. Get one with good shoulder straps and you will feel and look great in it. It is, of course also good for transporting your laptop and a stack of choice vinyl records, for the laptop DJ on the go.
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I played the 14 day trial of AO and found it to be quite fun. I really hunger for a good Sci-Fi game, but I ended up not staying with it. You will probably have fun if you do the free trial.
I don't see it as a terrible crime to publish the names. It is, however, disrespectful of the delegates rights to support their candidate, and it is a form of intimidation. frankly, I have no problem with panoptic surveillance on a national scale, it's the idiots doing the surveilling I havea problem with.
In my experience, that would be what happens. I presume that the affected servers and indymedia have on or offsite backups of their data, so itwoldn't suprise me if we see the affected sites backonline soon, anyway. The Feds havea nasty habit of holding your computer and all related equipment as "evidence" in a blatant attempt to punish the accused, and hang onto it long after you have been cleared of charges.
I imagine that they would view exiting the United States vertically as leaving the country. Like a ship sailing into international waters. Depending on the launch method, you will most definitely cross several states in order to get to space/orbit, and would be crossing state lines as well.
Regulation will most likely be boilerplate airline industry stuf with some chatter thrown in to cover space specific issues (discarded booster rockets, etc...).
Yeah. Shitty repairs/jury rigging can lead to problems like that. My van is an ex fleet vehicle and has been repaired by GM shops or other like professionals for most of its 20 year life, and it runs great. I do too much long distance travel in it to half ass it's repairs.
My big fear would be being in some keyless "car of the future" car and being put into a situation where there was no means by which I could control the vehicle in an emergency, or those systems were compromised as well.
I'm not buying a LSL game that doesn't have Al Lowes greasy paws all over it. I used to buy Sierra games because they had the best designers, making the best games. Now, they are just milking licenses.
No wonder Paragon City needs so many heroes. Property values there must be terrible, with crime levels like that. I bet the homeowner's organisations are pissed as hell and not taking it anymore.
I have actually ben considering making my SWG guildmates pose for virtual photos and then travelling to to their locations in the real world to get photos of the real folks. A year and a half of MMORPG gaming has raised a number of interesting questions in me regarding the way in which virtual worlds create "behavioral sandboxes" for people. The duality/multiplicity created when someone logs a lot of hours in an MMO is an interesting philosophical and psychological territory. Good to see that people are out there, investigating and exploring that territory.
As much as I did enjoy the visual feel of the original engine, I think that gameplay might better be served by usign a modified version of the NN or BG2 engine. The question is, would the graphic style be totally impacted by the change in scale and the need to create so many new graphics or adapt existing ones to a different engine.
I wish them the best of luck, though. Planescape is one of the best adventure/RPGs in modern times, and the best of the AD&D ones ever. It's a high bar that they are going to be held to when they develop this project.
I drive an '84 GMC Vandura, and am glad and safe, knowing that some computer driven, prone to mysterious fuckups system is not controlling my relationship to my throttle, braking system and gearbox. I think sometimes mechanical solutions are the most reliable and the eaisest to repair.
How about live Robotron 2084 for the real Olympics?
I'd say we've reached the point morally and socially, where it might be a worthwhile and acceptable idea.
He can go 200 times if he likes, at that price. Suckers like lance will make a great money funnel into commercial space development.
I'll wait until there are broompusher jobs in space for slobs like me before I make the big hop to orbit.
I'm talking real rares. Not albums by bands/artists you hear in clubs, on the radio, etc... I'm talking about MP3's of limited pressing vinyl from the 70's and early 80's. A lot of the records I buy were pressed in editions of 1-5 hundred, many of which at this point are not in playable condition and the others are in the hands of collectors like me, or specialty record dealers.
It's faster for me to call up one of my dealers or check E-bay and have it mailed to be than to dig for it via bittorrent or any of the other online options I have available.
I have a real concern that a lot of unarchived material is going to be lost in the next 20 years as we swith to a fully digital, medialess format.
Why do the major American beermakers have to keep America as the laughingstock of international brewing. For christ's sake, their existing products can barely be called beer at this point. More swill for dumbasses, I guess.
Good thing I homebrew.
I wasn't trolling.
Acutally I do a lot of computer work setting up new systems for people with minimal computer skills. I was practically born with a keyboard in my hand, but I work all of the time with people who have no computer skills and have to solve many of their problems. I have actually consulted with offices and advised them to install Macs to make the most of their employees limited skills. I often advise people who are building systems or doing software development to try and serve the stupidest possible user. I am capable of seperating my personal views on computing from real world computing situations. I also think that the "dumb bastards" should be given the best computing experience possible, that they will eventually learn how to use their computer better.
At one of my jobs, I am at a computer 50% of the time and I have to use an eMac. After several days, I noticed that I had shooting pains in my wrist and a constant ache, even when not working. I am at the computer for 8-12 hours at a time at home, and I never have any wrist or hand discomfort. I replaced the mouse at work with a standard 3 button one I found in a drawer and within hours, my pain subsided. Not to mention the performance gains now that I can scroll and have 2 more buttons.
I have found that once someone gets comfortable at their workstation, you show them how to use the right button and the scroll wheel and they always love it. Yes, Macs are good training wheel computers, especially when you expect limited use/productivity from your employees.
Even Apple has come to realise that their mouse scheme is retarded. I recently say an Apple patent for a two button ergonomic mouse with an iPod style button/wheel on it. I believe we will be seeing them next year at the earliest.
And try finding rare 80's industrial music on P2P services. You will never get the whole album, only radio singles. It is easier and faster to buy it on vinyl sometimes.
One of the problems with P2P downloading is that unpopular or rare material can become "unfindable" and possibly disappear entirely from the system.
90% of my music collection is on high value, hard to find, vinyl, for which I pay a premium to aquire.
5% is on CD's from my Pre-Vinyl days
3% is on tape cassettes that I have yet to transfer to another format.
2% of my music is in the Stolen MP3 category, almost exclusively material that is out of print and most likely will be forever.
Have you played any of SOE's online games lately? Sony seems to excel at overpromising and underdelivering, and letting it's customers know that the don't give two shits about their priorities. Star Wars Galaxies is leaking players right now. When EQ2 and WoW come out it's going to be a sieve over there. Folks are already worried about merging servers and whatnot.
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IT has reached more than rumor stage. Lucasarts put up a page over a week ago hiring a new director of SWG at Lucasarts. And SWG in Japan is run by EA games, not SOE. So someone upstairs has been trying to nudge Sony out of te full picture for some time. Now they are hiring someone to take over the whole project? I bet some of the SOE dev team is already rending their resumes around.
As a veteran SWG player I can say, we are seeing subscriber losses on our server that are staggering. Folks in the JTL beta are leaving, saying it blows goats. Everyone is pissed and angry all of the time at SOE, its CSRs and the Dev team. The dev team seems totally incompetent and often lies to the userbase. Sony is killing SWG, and many players are waiting for EQ2 or WoW to come out before finally moving on. I recently saw a link to a Lucasarts page hiring a director for SWG, and I am hopeful that any change in leadership and management can save this project from being the biggest MMO disaster ever. Time will tell.
I bought a DJ backpack for transporting vinyl records about 3 years ago in Paris, and I happily adapted it to the best laptop carrying device ever. Lots of pockets, and the laptop just lays in the padded center compartment with my books or other gear when travelling. Get one with good shoulder straps and you will feel and look great in it. It is, of course also good for transporting your laptop and a stack of choice vinyl records, for the laptop DJ on the go.
I played the 14 day trial of AO and found it to be quite fun. I really hunger for a good Sci-Fi game, but I ended up not staying with it. You will probably have fun if you do the free trial.
One can only hope...
I don't see it as a terrible crime to publish the names. It is, however, disrespectful of the delegates rights to support their candidate, and it is a form of intimidation. frankly, I have no problem with panoptic surveillance on a national scale, it's the idiots doing the surveilling I havea problem with.
In my experience, that would be what happens. I presume that the affected servers and indymedia have on or offsite backups of their data, so itwoldn't suprise me if we see the affected sites backonline soon, anyway. The Feds havea nasty habit of holding your computer and all related equipment as "evidence" in a blatant attempt to punish the accused, and hang onto it long after you have been cleared of charges.
I imagine that they would view exiting the United States vertically as leaving the country. Like a ship sailing into international waters. Depending on the launch method, you will most definitely cross several states in order to get to space/orbit, and would be crossing state lines as well.
Regulation will most likely be boilerplate airline industry stuf with some chatter thrown in to cover space specific issues (discarded booster rockets, etc...).
I too am bummed that the idiots on "Reality TV" aren't being "weeded out of the gene pool" via much harsher penalties or competition.
Inevitably, there will be televised "death contests/matches" sometime in the near future. People will be unable to not watch.
Yeah. Shitty repairs/jury rigging can lead to problems like that. My van is an ex fleet vehicle and has been repaired by GM shops or other like professionals for most of its 20 year life, and it runs great. I do too much long distance travel in it to half ass it's repairs. My big fear would be being in some keyless "car of the future" car and being put into a situation where there was no means by which I could control the vehicle in an emergency, or those systems were compromised as well.
I'm not buying a LSL game that doesn't have Al Lowes greasy paws all over it. I used to buy Sierra games because they had the best designers, making the best games. Now, they are just milking licenses.
No wonder Paragon City needs so many heroes. Property values there must be terrible, with crime levels like that. I bet the homeowner's organisations are pissed as hell and not taking it anymore.
I have actually ben considering making my SWG guildmates pose for virtual photos and then travelling to to their locations in the real world to get photos of the real folks. A year and a half of MMORPG gaming has raised a number of interesting questions in me regarding the way in which virtual worlds create "behavioral sandboxes" for people. The duality/multiplicity created when someone logs a lot of hours in an MMO is an interesting philosophical and psychological territory. Good to see that people are out there, investigating and exploring that territory.
As much as I did enjoy the visual feel of the original engine, I think that gameplay might better be served by usign a modified version of the NN or BG2 engine. The question is, would the graphic style be totally impacted by the change in scale and the need to create so many new graphics or adapt existing ones to a different engine.
I wish them the best of luck, though. Planescape is one of the best adventure/RPGs in modern times, and the best of the AD&D ones ever. It's a high bar that they are going to be held to when they develop this project.
I drive an '84 GMC Vandura, and am glad and safe, knowing that some computer driven, prone to mysterious fuckups system is not controlling my relationship to my throttle, braking system and gearbox. I think sometimes mechanical solutions are the most reliable and the eaisest to repair.
How about live Robotron 2084 for the real Olympics? I'd say we've reached the point morally and socially, where it might be a worthwhile and acceptable idea.
I can beat Sludge Vohaul at Astrochicken, any day of the week.
He can go 200 times if he likes, at that price. Suckers like lance will make a great money funnel into commercial space development. I'll wait until there are broompusher jobs in space for slobs like me before I make the big hop to orbit.
I'm talking real rares. Not albums by bands/artists you hear in clubs, on the radio, etc... I'm talking about MP3's of limited pressing vinyl from the 70's and early 80's. A lot of the records I buy were pressed in editions of 1-5 hundred, many of which at this point are not in playable condition and the others are in the hands of collectors like me, or specialty record dealers. It's faster for me to call up one of my dealers or check E-bay and have it mailed to be than to dig for it via bittorrent or any of the other online options I have available. I have a real concern that a lot of unarchived material is going to be lost in the next 20 years as we swith to a fully digital, medialess format.
Why do the major American beermakers have to keep America as the laughingstock of international brewing. For christ's sake, their existing products can barely be called beer at this point. More swill for dumbasses, I guess. Good thing I homebrew.
I wasn't trolling. Acutally I do a lot of computer work setting up new systems for people with minimal computer skills. I was practically born with a keyboard in my hand, but I work all of the time with people who have no computer skills and have to solve many of their problems. I have actually consulted with offices and advised them to install Macs to make the most of their employees limited skills. I often advise people who are building systems or doing software development to try and serve the stupidest possible user. I am capable of seperating my personal views on computing from real world computing situations. I also think that the "dumb bastards" should be given the best computing experience possible, that they will eventually learn how to use their computer better. At one of my jobs, I am at a computer 50% of the time and I have to use an eMac. After several days, I noticed that I had shooting pains in my wrist and a constant ache, even when not working. I am at the computer for 8-12 hours at a time at home, and I never have any wrist or hand discomfort. I replaced the mouse at work with a standard 3 button one I found in a drawer and within hours, my pain subsided. Not to mention the performance gains now that I can scroll and have 2 more buttons. I have found that once someone gets comfortable at their workstation, you show them how to use the right button and the scroll wheel and they always love it. Yes, Macs are good training wheel computers, especially when you expect limited use/productivity from your employees. Even Apple has come to realise that their mouse scheme is retarded. I recently say an Apple patent for a two button ergonomic mouse with an iPod style button/wheel on it. I believe we will be seeing them next year at the earliest.
And try finding rare 80's industrial music on P2P services. You will never get the whole album, only radio singles. It is easier and faster to buy it on vinyl sometimes. One of the problems with P2P downloading is that unpopular or rare material can become "unfindable" and possibly disappear entirely from the system.
90% of my music collection is on high value, hard to find, vinyl, for which I pay a premium to aquire. 5% is on CD's from my Pre-Vinyl days 3% is on tape cassettes that I have yet to transfer to another format. 2% of my music is in the Stolen MP3 category, almost exclusively material that is out of print and most likely will be forever.
Have you played any of SOE's online games lately? Sony seems to excel at overpromising and underdelivering, and letting it's customers know that the don't give two shits about their priorities. Star Wars Galaxies is leaking players right now. When EQ2 and WoW come out it's going to be a sieve over there. Folks are already worried about merging servers and whatnot.
Jews in Space!