Are you implying that people only die if orders are not followed ? From my perspective it would be wonderfull if people decided they don't want to play war anymore. At least the kind of corporate driven wars that have been conducted in the last half century.
As a military robot you may not have a 'need to know', but how about as a human being? And in that case, are we talking about 'need to know' or 'want to know' ?
I've been in the beta and there is nowhere near $100.000.000 worth of graphics there. And i haven't seen much marketing going on, unless you consider the beta to be a marketing campaign.
I think they invested most of the money into setting up the server side competitive stuffs.
I don't understand why everyone is worried about the 'creative' industries while there is a much bigger (and imo more sinister) beneficiary of strong IP law, namely the biotech industry. That's right, they need strong IP laws to make sure you don't copy their stuff without paying them. Thank god this industry doesn't do crazy stuff, like patenting human genes. Wait, that's not true: http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100330/full/news.2010.160.html While the patent was rejected in the US, the EU is willing to pay for it.
I've just taken the test and it is clearly trying to measure an ideal. I answered all questions on the 'good' side, to various degrees. My score was 53 in the end, supposedly just a little higher than the college students mean. To make up for the 40% loss in score mentioned in TFA i'd have had to answer almost everything maximally positively. But that would not describe a normal human being anymore.
So this apparent change of heart found in students can easily be explained with a change in self reflection in young people. That, or the PowerPuff Girls were still in power 10 years ago and i have been missing out...
"This is unacceptable. In this day and age and with the use of such complex technology, we should be able to make sure that our financial markets are effectively monitored and investors are protected."... because protectig investors is more important than protecting the economy.
Big Bang theory was formulated to explain the observation that everything we can see is moving apart and seems to originate from the same point in space. Once formulated it predicted new observations that were indeed made. So it is in its own way also a pretty strong theory.
"They're not just wasting money on advertising; it's an investment in their own future. Unless the advertising is being mis-managed, it will result in more profit for the company in the long run than the cost of the advertising. Hence profits for the company is up, and actually costs to puchase the drug can be lowered (not necessarily so for all companies, but at the pharma where I work, this is one of the long term metrics we use for our advertising projects)."
You're mistaken.
For the drug to become cheaper the advertisement campaigns must have succeeded. Which means a lot of that drug must have been sold for the 'expensive' price.
So on average, the very same people that now can ge the drug cheaper have had to pay for it in the past. Not only did they have to pay in tha past for the drug and RnD, they also had to pay for the extensive advertisement. In the end it just means faster profit growths for the pharma's.
Advertisement in general just costs money. Its benifits are that it alows a manufacturer to sell FASTER, also possibly saturizing the market. It's a profit maximizer, not a product cheepener. The cheepening of the product comes AFTER a certain bulk (for a certain profit) of the product has been sold. In general marketing campaigns leave people with less money to spend on things they do need.
the big difference between being hardcore at chess and being hardcore at mmorpg's is that with chess you get better when you train your brain while for mmorpgs you just have to do mindless stuff a lot.
well, , Lineage had the added brutality of uncontrolled PvP (player versus player). this means you, as a newbie lvl.4 mage, regularilly get slaughtered for fun by traveling lvl.85 knights which will then actually start *laughing* at you ingame.
needless to say i did not see the humor in that...
i think you're wrong here, it is perfectly possible to make soloing just as rewarding as grouping.
you have to realize that these games are *designed* to be as slow and tedious as possible, with the goal of keeping people hooked to the monthly payment as long as possible.
one strategy is to have extreme ammounts of chores a player has to do before anything good happens. i'm talking about hours upon hours of leveling or gathering resources. this also saves huge ammounts of content which otherwise would have been explored by the players if they wern't forced to do stupid repetitive stuff.
another trick is requiring grouping. this makes the game less playable for a certain ammount of players which will struggle longer (and therefore possibly pay money for a longer time). if you decide to go along with just any group you will find yourself in conflict of interest and you will have to debate stuff, make appointments which may or may not be lived by by the others.
then you can have ridiculous prices (npc's) for even the most common items.
also the sometimes vast vast worlds between places is a drag to travel., (ooh, look, a tree!).
all these things hinder progress in the game.
and there are more, like random ultra-strong monsters that will kill you and make you go fetch your stuff in the middle of nowhere which will take a good portion of a day (real time). or even better, someone else looting your stuff that you collected over a 6 months period.
compared to 'normal' games these games tend to be very harsh, requiring you to invest huge ammounts of time to get even the smallest bit of sattisfaction. 'normal' games have a much more balanced reward system imo.
REAL LIFE has better odds on having a good time compared to these games. even if you own a tv.
i think it's a stupid idea to pay for a game (and then monthly) and then have to work realy hard to get very little reward just to be able to have a chance of surviving the world for which you have payed to participate in.
i mean, you work all day, then get home and pay the company to work some more! it just doesnt make sense.
imagine you go to disneyland, pay the entrence fee, and then have to work 4 months in a labour camp to be able to walk through the park and visit all the attractions.
"On a side-note, I bet you kids these days wouldn't give such "ancient" looking games a second glance, since they've been suckered into the game media hype machine of "better-looking game = better game". "
I was thinking just the opposite of that. The young generation is still familiar with 8 and 16 bit games only they know them form handhelds and not from consoles. It's the gameboy/pokemon generation. And Nintendo is said to be offering all those older games on their upcomming revolution. So they must think they can sell these games to kids (their major market).
actually, i have made my own dummyhead for binaural recording quite recently. (yes, i'm a sound nerd:) )
and i can testify that it realy realy works! one big problem is reproduction tho. you realy need to listen to it on headphones. but when you do the sound is comparable to a hologram. all directional stuff is right there. and i realy mean there, as in up-down, left-right, front-rear, its all working.
there is some talk i think about reproducing binaural recordings over just two speakers.
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Are you implying that people only die if orders are not followed ?
From my perspective it would be wonderfull if people decided they don't want to play war anymore.
At least the kind of corporate driven wars that have been conducted in the last half century.
As a military robot you may not have a 'need to know', but how about as a human being?
And in that case, are we talking about 'need to know' or 'want to know' ?
I've been in the beta and there is nowhere near $100.000.000 worth of graphics there.
And i haven't seen much marketing going on, unless you consider the beta to be a marketing campaign.
I think they invested most of the money into setting up the server side competitive stuffs.
I think they use UDP...
In fact, he thinks that the chance of anyone wanting to uderstand physics at this level is infinitesimal.
I don't understand why everyone is worried about the 'creative' industries while there is a much bigger (and imo more sinister) beneficiary of strong IP law, namely the biotech industry.
That's right, they need strong IP laws to make sure you don't copy their stuff without paying them.
Thank god this industry doesn't do crazy stuff, like patenting human genes.
Wait, that's not true:
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100330/full/news.2010.160.html
While the patent was rejected in the US, the EU is willing to pay for it.
"It's a shit test, and measures nothing."
I've just taken the test and it is clearly trying to measure an ideal.
I answered all questions on the 'good' side, to various degrees.
My score was 53 in the end, supposedly just a little higher than the college students mean.
To make up for the 40% loss in score mentioned in TFA i'd have had to answer almost everything maximally positively.
But that would not describe a normal human being anymore.
So this apparent change of heart found in students can easily be explained with a change in self reflection in young people.
That, or the PowerPuff Girls were still in power 10 years ago and i have been missing out...
And without resources, workers, producers, consumers, etc. there would be no economy to speak of too.
If there is a lesson to be learend from the recent civil uprising in Greece then it's that there is more to economics than investors.
"This is unacceptable. In this day and age and with the use of such complex technology, we should be able to make sure that our financial markets are effectively monitored and investors are protected." ... because protectig investors is more important than protecting the economy.
So, basicly, all we need is a 486 and a time machine, right?
He is a she...
Big Bang theory was formulated to explain the observation that everything we can see is moving apart and seems to originate from the same point in space.
Once formulated it predicted new observations that were indeed made.
So it is in its own way also a pretty strong theory.
... or upheld.
Ooh yeah?
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no, 3 is an odd number.
25 milion is still even.
"They're not just wasting money on advertising; it's an investment in their own future. Unless the advertising is being mis-managed, it will result in more profit for the company in the long run than the cost of the advertising. Hence profits for the company is up, and actually costs to puchase the drug can be lowered (not necessarily so for all companies, but at the pharma where I work, this is one of the long term metrics we use for our advertising projects)."
You're mistaken.
For the drug to become cheaper the advertisement campaigns must have succeeded.
Which means a lot of that drug must have been sold for the 'expensive' price.
So on average, the very same people that now can ge the drug cheaper have had to pay for it in the past.
Not only did they have to pay in tha past for the drug and RnD, they also had to pay for the extensive advertisement.
In the end it just means faster profit growths for the pharma's.
Advertisement in general just costs money.
Its benifits are that it alows a manufacturer to sell FASTER, also possibly saturizing the market.
It's a profit maximizer, not a product cheepener.
The cheepening of the product comes AFTER a certain bulk (for a certain profit) of the product has been sold.
In general marketing campaigns leave people with less money to spend on things they do need.
What i'd like to know is:
Will you buy a M-rated game for your kid when she/he will be 14?
BAH!,. you win.... :)
its not jsut about the dollar, it's how much game you get for that dollar.
the big difference between being hardcore at chess and being hardcore at mmorpg's is that with chess you get better when you train your brain while for mmorpgs you just have to do mindless stuff a lot.
well, , Lineage had the added brutality of uncontrolled PvP (player versus player).
this means you, as a newbie lvl.4 mage, regularilly get slaughtered for fun by traveling lvl.85 knights which will then actually start *laughing* at you ingame.
needless to say i did not see the humor in that...
i was even thinking that there is absolutely no reason whatsoever why evolution would not use the properties of *quantum mechanics* to its advantage.
since evolution is ONLY about advantage it seems natural to use any existing property of the universe.
i think you're wrong here,
it is perfectly possible to make soloing just as rewarding as grouping.
you have to realize that these games are *designed* to be as slow and tedious as possible, with the goal of keeping people hooked to the monthly payment as long as possible.
one strategy is to have extreme ammounts of chores a player has to do before anything good happens.
i'm talking about hours upon hours of leveling or gathering resources.
this also saves huge ammounts of content which otherwise would have been explored by the players if they wern't forced to do stupid repetitive stuff.
another trick is requiring grouping.
this makes the game less playable for a certain ammount of players which will struggle longer (and therefore possibly pay money for a longer time).
if you decide to go along with just any group you will find yourself in conflict of interest and you will have to debate stuff, make appointments which may or may not be lived by by the others.
then you can have ridiculous prices (npc's) for even the most common items.
also the sometimes vast vast worlds between places is a drag to travel., (ooh, look, a tree!).
all these things hinder progress in the game.
and there are more, like random ultra-strong monsters that will kill you and make you go fetch your stuff in the middle of nowhere which will take a good portion of a day (real time). or even better, someone else looting your stuff that you collected over a 6 months period.
compared to 'normal' games these games tend to be very harsh, requiring you to invest huge ammounts of time to get even the smallest bit of sattisfaction.
'normal' games have a much more balanced reward system imo.
REAL LIFE has better odds on having a good time compared to these games. even if you own a tv.
i think it's a stupid idea to pay for a game (and then monthly) and then have to work realy hard to get very little reward just to be able to have a chance of surviving the world for which you have payed to participate in.
i mean, you work all day, then get home and pay the company to work some more!
it just doesnt make sense.
imagine you go to disneyland, pay the entrence fee, and then have to work 4 months in a labour camp to be able to walk through the park and visit all the attractions.
"On a side-note, I bet you kids these days wouldn't give such "ancient" looking games a second glance, since they've been suckered into the game media hype machine of "better-looking game = better game".
"
I was thinking just the opposite of that.
The young generation is still familiar with 8 and 16 bit games only they know them form handhelds and not from consoles.
It's the gameboy/pokemon generation.
And Nintendo is said to be offering all those older games on their upcomming revolution.
So they must think they can sell these games to kids (their major market).
actually, i have made my own dummyhead for binaural recording quite recently. (yes, i'm a sound nerd :) )
and i can testify that it realy realy works!
one big problem is reproduction tho.
you realy need to listen to it on headphones.
but when you do the sound is comparable to a hologram.
all directional stuff is right there.
and i realy mean there, as in up-down, left-right, front-rear, its all working.
there is some talk i think about reproducing binaural recordings over just two speakers.