Haven't you been paying attention? $1 million US dollars? That's way too low. In order for them to take you seriously you're going to have to at least ask for 10 million.
The iPod's scroll wheel isn't just about scrolling up and down, it's about all of the other things it ALSO can do. You really do need to use one.
Playlists? I promise, you might HAVE playlists, but they're not like the iTunes playlists. If you don't understand what I mean, you need to get iTunes and create a few smart playlists. Rate your music. Organize it in a way that once you start to see how it applies to the iPod you will suddenly start to realize why iPod lovers love theirs and why they tend to literally give away their old MP3 players.
You seem to be under the impression that just because the "features" in the iPod are present in other players that they are implimented as well.
Use an iPod. Actually go get one, play with iTunes, and see what it's about. No. Seriously. It will change your mind.
Some people point out that in MMORPGs the women are really men. Generally, this is as we all know true.
But one thing I've noticed about "games" like There is that the more active female players generally really are female.
Well, at least they SOUND like women on the microphone anyway. Still, my point is generally that there seems to be a major difference in games like WoW and CoH from games like There and Second Life.
On the other hand, the pretty, skinny, barbi-like avatars of There.Com probably don't resemble the players controlling them.
So be careful if you fall in love with that Beauty Queen in There.Com. At least in WoW if you are in love with a cow they probably really are a cow.:)
I've got a GB, GBC, GBA, two GBA SPs, a DS, and a PSP.
I love the DS which I play all the time. But the PSP is really a very nice machine. I love it. It's so sleek and uh -- portable. It has a few okay games, I guess. I mean it dosen't have anything as good as Mario Kart DS, but it's still really sweet. I mean that screen is just so wide and pretty. And it almost doesn't feel cheap! The battery life doesn't completely suck either, as long as you aren't actually playing any games. That analog controller also almost doesn't suck, and it would be a whole lot cooler if it didn't actually suck as much as it does, but I'm not complaining because the machine has so much cool factor! I mean it's kind of like an iPod, only it's bigger and not quite as cool. It does play MP3s, though. I even bought a 1 gig memory stick so I could store as much music as an iPod shuffle. Not that I use my PSP for music, though. I have an iPod nano. It's also not really all that good as a music palyer, either. And it's kind of big compared to an iPod. At least I can still use it as a portable movie player. Well, I could if I didn't mind spending so much on UMD movies. I'd rather just buy the DVD version though. Needless to say I find it's better to just buy the full DVD and rip the content off and convert it over for use on my PSP. A 1 gig memory stick is more than big enough for a full movie. The only problem is it takes almost an hour sometimes to rip, encode, and transfer. So I don't actually do that very often. Almost never.
I really do like my PSP though. Really. Now back to Mario Kart.:P
Every time I reload Diablo 2 I'm reminded of why I remove it; "oh yes, I'm surrounded by scum".
My solution to this was simple. I only play games with a few people I know IRL or people I know I get along with from online. I create private games in Diablo 2 and I password protect them. Believe me, this makes Diablo 2 a hell of a shitload better.
In WoW, my guild is restricted to people I know IRL, and a few we have encountered online we care to play with. Fnord the rest of them. It's rare we invite someone into the guild, because it's rare we find someone we don't think is an idiotic brat.
Take a US college course online. I work with people bragging about how they're going to have a college degree soon and they know it's utter bullshit. The classes are practically impossible to fail from what I've seen (yet somehow people are failing them anyway).
When some of my friends say they will have "earned" their right to have a better job, I laugh at them. I laugh because they haven't earned anything. I tell them they haven't learned anything. They haven't even been to college. They simply bought a degree online. That is practically all it is. Buying a degree. No longer are you required to actually learn. It's similar to how high school has become daycare. "No need to learn anything in highschool, you can buy your education online later. Hope you can read tho. LMAO LOL!"
(Disclaimer: This specifically refers to the online courses in my area, and may not apply to whatever college you take online classes with.)
It's not the math concepts themselves that introduce the difficulty. It's the inherently abstract symbols and methods on paper we use to represent these concepts that create all the problems.
A 1, 6, and 9 are just meaningless symbols until we introduce meaning to them, then we apply all kinds of symbolic ways of manipulating those symbols with yet even more symbols and it becomes a whole lot more difficult to manage in most people's minds. It's not that they have a problem with the concepts, it's just that particular process itself they have trouble coping with. More often than not, though, I blame the people who are teaching them. Some math teachers are just terrible teachers.
Actually, I made a good number of nice sized checks off of them, and I didn't even have to cheat the system. I found that if just ran it for an hour or two every day I would get my max of 40 hours for the month (which is all they would pay you for) and I preached this to my somewhat large downline (over 1000 members).
I just knew from the onset it was a business model that was going to collapse because I was only doing it for the money. I wasn't paying any attention to the banners and almost never clicked on them. I figured nobody else was either, and in time their advertiser revenue would dry up and they'd fold. They did.
The normal arguement is that it's easy to crack, but at the moment it's not the case. Give it time though, and it will be again. When that time comes, I'll strip/scrub all of my new songs and they'll be free to play wherever I want just like all the stuff that I bought before the newest version of FairPlay broke HYMN.
Keep your eye on HYMN. When an update is released that works, you can bet iTMS users everywhere will have their system busy for several hours.:)
I buy my music. I strip/scrub my music. I burn it to data CD. I listen to it with my truck's in-dash MP3-CD player. I dare someone to try and sue me. >:D
No. Not at all. He probably knows exactly what he's talking about. One of the points he was trying to make is that there IS a place for the casual gamer, but that the market doesn't really cater to this type of person. There is a huge push in the industry to make games so complex they isolate the vast majority of people who would play more games if more games were playable by people other than the hard core.
He's so sure of this (as are other key 3rd party developers) that they (Nintendo) have gambled their entire next generation system on the idea.
The Nitendo DS is selling amazingly well because the touch screen caters to this type of person, and with the Revolution we'll see if Miyamoto once again proves to be the genius that he's often cited as being.
Considering the number of people logged into Mario Kart DS (hardcore and not-so hardcore gamers) and Animal Crossing (definately not the hardcore) it's no wonder the DS is stomping all over the PSP. Sony has literally been fed their own rectum.
There is a market for that gamer that isn't hardcore, and Nintendo wants their money.
Maybe it's just me, but every time I heard that sound it just made me want to cringe.
Actually, I thought it was brilliant for the exact reasons you mentioned.
You see, back in the Win95-ME days when Windows would output a sound on a program error aler, I set this up as the sound my computer would make.
As a result I often WOULD cringe if I ever heard the sound. Not only because I was constantly being reminded of my switch to Intel and Windows (from the Amiga) but also that some software I was running had crashed once again.
For these reasons, the "Intel Inside" chime became a very useful sound to me, though I never really liked hearing it.
I think that post was supposed to be funny. It's kind of like when a couple of muscle cars pull up to a drag strip and a clown pulls up in a little go-cart and waves at the crowd.
I understand your question, but an answer to this isn't easy considering the analogy of the cat itself is somewhat flawed. It is only intended to demonstrate the concept, not actually apply to a "real cat".
The quantum theories seem less applicable at the macroscopic levels, just like many preconceived notions about how objects interact seem less applicable at the quantum level.
I'm going to stick with the 'pirated' explanation on this one.
My common sense feeling is that the games were in fact pirated.
However, I have seen game stores BUY games from idiotic customers for no more than a few dollars per. If the store were to get rid of those games in that fashion, it costs them very little.
Also, if the console included 77 non-commercial games enabled to run on a modded Xbox, then they couldn't by definition BE pirated at all.
Let's imagine the following scenerio. A store has a bunch of Halo and other popular used title disc laying about. They install those, include the disc, and then fill the drive up with some 50 or 60 free bits of software designed to run on whatever flavor of free OS the modded XBox is set up with.
Has any law been broken other than the DMCA? Should this act be illegal?
I'm by no means saying this is actually what happened, but IF THIS EVER DOES HAPPEN, those performing the acts may still be held accountable under the DMCA. That's the only point I'm trying to make.
P.S. Since I'm not keeping current on the state of Linux or Homebrew on the XBox, so what I'm saying not even really be feasible or at least really playable if done.
Disclaimer: The article is pretty scant on details, so if it turns out the 77 "pirated" games were actually purchased at full price and installed on the hard drive, then I'll support the ACME Game Store owners.
By saying 77 "pirated" games, they are implying that the games were not bought, paid for, and original copies were included with the package.
If it turns out that 77 original copies of the 77 included games came as part of the package (used, new, or homebrew) then they are not technically "pirated". It would be nice to know for sure, since we can't exactly trust the media to report this sort of thing accurately*.
*No. We really can't. Most technology news reporters don't know their asshole from a chocolate doughnut.
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Dude, that'll never work.
Haven't you been paying attention? $1 million US dollars? That's way too low. In order for them to take you seriously you're going to have to at least ask for 10 million.
Stick w/ iTunes >6.n if you wanna do this.
:(
Good plan... unless you want to buy new music from the ITMS. Upgrade to iTunes 6+ if you wanna do this.
I'm surprised HYMN has gone this long without cracking iTunes 6, though.
You don't get it because you haven't used it.
The iPod's scroll wheel isn't just about scrolling up and down, it's about all of the other things it ALSO can do. You really do need to use one.
Playlists? I promise, you might HAVE playlists, but they're not like the iTunes playlists. If you don't understand what I mean, you need to get iTunes and create a few smart playlists. Rate your music. Organize it in a way that once you start to see how it applies to the iPod you will suddenly start to realize why iPod lovers love theirs and why they tend to literally give away their old MP3 players.
You seem to be under the impression that just because the "features" in the iPod are present in other players that they are implimented as well.
Use an iPod. Actually go get one, play with iTunes, and see what it's about. No. Seriously. It will change your mind.
Yeah, but it seems he was just taking a bit of anger out on Europe.
Yes, but not consenting could lead to unemployment and that could be viewed as agreement to unfavorable conditions under duress.
Some people point out that in MMORPGs the women are really men. Generally, this is as we all know true.
:)
But one thing I've noticed about "games" like There is that the more active female players generally really are female.
Well, at least they SOUND like women on the microphone anyway. Still, my point is generally that there seems to be a major difference in games like WoW and CoH from games like There and Second Life.
On the other hand, the pretty, skinny, barbi-like avatars of There.Com probably don't resemble the players controlling them.
So be careful if you fall in love with that Beauty Queen in There.Com. At least in WoW if you are in love with a cow they probably really are a cow.
7000 employees!!!
Not anymore. Heh.
I've got a GB, GBC, GBA, two GBA SPs, a DS, and a PSP.
:P
I love the DS which I play all the time. But the PSP is really a very nice machine. I love it. It's so sleek and uh -- portable. It has a few okay games, I guess. I mean it dosen't have anything as good as Mario Kart DS, but it's still really sweet. I mean that screen is just so wide and pretty. And it almost doesn't feel cheap! The battery life doesn't completely suck either, as long as you aren't actually playing any games. That analog controller also almost doesn't suck, and it would be a whole lot cooler if it didn't actually suck as much as it does, but I'm not complaining because the machine has so much cool factor! I mean it's kind of like an iPod, only it's bigger and not quite as cool. It does play MP3s, though. I even bought a 1 gig memory stick so I could store as much music as an iPod shuffle. Not that I use my PSP for music, though. I have an iPod nano. It's also not really all that good as a music palyer, either. And it's kind of big compared to an iPod. At least I can still use it as a portable movie player. Well, I could if I didn't mind spending so much on UMD movies. I'd rather just buy the DVD version though. Needless to say I find it's better to just buy the full DVD and rip the content off and convert it over for use on my PSP. A 1 gig memory stick is more than big enough for a full movie. The only problem is it takes almost an hour sometimes to rip, encode, and transfer. So I don't actually do that very often. Almost never.
I really do like my PSP though. Really. Now back to Mario Kart.
Every time I reload Diablo 2 I'm reminded of why I remove it; "oh yes, I'm surrounded by scum".
My solution to this was simple. I only play games with a few people I know IRL or people I know I get along with from online. I create private games in Diablo 2 and I password protect them. Believe me, this makes Diablo 2 a hell of a shitload better.
In WoW, my guild is restricted to people I know IRL, and a few we have encountered online we care to play with. Fnord the rest of them. It's rare we invite someone into the guild, because it's rare we find someone we don't think is an idiotic brat.
This is perhaps the funniest, on topic, no BS, overall best Yoda-speak post I have ever seen.
Kudos.
it's just going to take three lantern batteries.
Wow. You're really being optimistic.
Take a US college course online. I work with people bragging about how they're going to have a college degree soon and they know it's utter bullshit. The classes are practically impossible to fail from what I've seen (yet somehow people are failing them anyway).
When some of my friends say they will have "earned" their right to have a better job, I laugh at them. I laugh because they haven't earned anything. I tell them they haven't learned anything. They haven't even been to college. They simply bought a degree online. That is practically all it is. Buying a degree. No longer are you required to actually learn. It's similar to how high school has become daycare. "No need to learn anything in highschool, you can buy your education online later. Hope you can read tho. LMAO LOL!"
(Disclaimer: This specifically refers to the online courses in my area, and may not apply to whatever college you take online classes with.)
OMG! U forgot 2 use teh word pwn!
look at how poorly people do at that
It's not the math concepts themselves that introduce the difficulty. It's the inherently abstract symbols and methods on paper we use to represent these concepts that create all the problems.
A 1, 6, and 9 are just meaningless symbols until we introduce meaning to them, then we apply all kinds of symbolic ways of manipulating those symbols with yet even more symbols and it becomes a whole lot more difficult to manage in most people's minds. It's not that they have a problem with the concepts, it's just that particular process itself they have trouble coping with. More often than not, though, I blame the people who are teaching them. Some math teachers are just terrible teachers.
They can, but probably won't.
As many like to point out, Intel often shows a "Not Invented Here" attitude.
It took a while for Intel to adopt copper interconnects, and they did that quietly when they finally caved.
As far as I know, they still aren't using Silicon On Insulator.
Actually, I made a good number of nice sized checks off of them, and I didn't even have to cheat the system. I found that if just ran it for an hour or two every day I would get my max of 40 hours for the month (which is all they would pay you for) and I preached this to my somewhat large downline (over 1000 members).
I just knew from the onset it was a business model that was going to collapse because I was only doing it for the money. I wasn't paying any attention to the banners and almost never clicked on them. I figured nobody else was either, and in time their advertiser revenue would dry up and they'd fold. They did.
Does anybody here remember AllAdvantage.Com? :)
But they have a different definition of 'up.'
:/
Cute, but the Visual Basic programmers around here aren't going to get it.
I've been bitten by the DRM
:)
The normal arguement is that it's easy to crack, but at the moment it's not the case. Give it time though, and it will be again. When that time comes, I'll strip/scrub all of my new songs and they'll be free to play wherever I want just like all the stuff that I bought before the newest version of FairPlay broke HYMN.
Keep your eye on HYMN. When an update is released that works, you can bet iTMS users everywhere will have their system busy for several hours.
I buy my music. I strip/scrub my music. I burn it to data CD. I listen to it with my truck's in-dash MP3-CD player. I dare someone to try and sue me. >:D
But that invalidates his point.
No. Not at all. He probably knows exactly what he's talking about. One of the points he was trying to make is that there IS a place for the casual gamer, but that the market doesn't really cater to this type of person. There is a huge push in the industry to make games so complex they isolate the vast majority of people who would play more games if more games were playable by people other than the hard core.
He's so sure of this (as are other key 3rd party developers) that they (Nintendo) have gambled their entire next generation system on the idea.
The Nitendo DS is selling amazingly well because the touch screen caters to this type of person, and with the Revolution we'll see if Miyamoto once again proves to be the genius that he's often cited as being.
Considering the number of people logged into Mario Kart DS (hardcore and not-so hardcore gamers) and Animal Crossing (definately not the hardcore) it's no wonder the DS is stomping all over the PSP. Sony has literally been fed their own rectum.
There is a market for that gamer that isn't hardcore, and Nintendo wants their money.
Maybe it's just me, but every time I heard that sound it just made me want to cringe.
Actually, I thought it was brilliant for the exact reasons you mentioned.
You see, back in the Win95-ME days when Windows would output a sound on a program error aler, I set this up as the sound my computer would make.
As a result I often WOULD cringe if I ever heard the sound. Not only because I was constantly being reminded of my switch to Intel and Windows (from the Amiga) but also that some software I was running had crashed once again.
For these reasons, the "Intel Inside" chime became a very useful sound to me, though I never really liked hearing it.
I think that post was supposed to be funny. It's kind of like when a couple of muscle cars pull up to a drag strip and a clown pulls up in a little go-cart and waves at the crowd.
I understand your question, but an answer to this isn't easy considering the analogy of the cat itself is somewhat flawed. It is only intended to demonstrate the concept, not actually apply to a "real cat".
The quantum theories seem less applicable at the macroscopic levels, just like many preconceived notions about how objects interact seem less applicable at the quantum level.
At least, this is how I understand it.
I'm going to stick with the 'pirated' explanation on this one.
My common sense feeling is that the games were in fact pirated.
However, I have seen game stores BUY games from idiotic customers for no more than a few dollars per. If the store were to get rid of those games in that fashion, it costs them very little.
Also, if the console included 77 non-commercial games enabled to run on a modded Xbox, then they couldn't by definition BE pirated at all.
Let's imagine the following scenerio. A store has a bunch of Halo and other popular used title disc laying about. They install those, include the disc, and then fill the drive up with some 50 or 60 free bits of software designed to run on whatever flavor of free OS the modded XBox is set up with.
Has any law been broken other than the DMCA? Should this act be illegal?
I'm by no means saying this is actually what happened, but IF THIS EVER DOES HAPPEN, those performing the acts may still be held accountable under the DMCA. That's the only point I'm trying to make.
P.S. Since I'm not keeping current on the state of Linux or Homebrew on the XBox, so what I'm saying not even really be feasible or at least really playable if done.
Disclaimer: The article is pretty scant on details, so if it turns out the 77 "pirated" games were actually purchased at full price and installed on the hard drive, then I'll support the ACME Game Store owners.
By saying 77 "pirated" games, they are implying that the games were not bought, paid for, and original copies were included with the package.
If it turns out that 77 original copies of the 77 included games came as part of the package (used, new, or homebrew) then they are not technically "pirated". It would be nice to know for sure, since we can't exactly trust the media to report this sort of thing accurately*.
*No. We really can't. Most technology news reporters don't know their asshole from a chocolate doughnut.