Legally, there's nothing different from a homosexual individual than a heterosexual.
Well, besides that whole "being considered a wedded couple under the law" thing. But hey, that only determines things like being covered under your spouse's health insurance, so it's not that important, right?
It's funny, because there are as many people on the right who show hatred for the Democrats (either Clinton, for example) as there are people on the left who show hatred for the Bush administration. It goes along with what I was saying earlier--the reason why the Republicans win elections is because they appear to have a much smaller group of haters than the Democrats do.
By definition, there are more common men than uncommon men. People win elections (well, in theory) by getting more votes than the other guys. Therefore, appealing to the common man is more important than appealing to the uncommon man. Don't shoot the messenger, kiddo.
If they get someone with class and integrity who distances himself from the mudslinging, they're going to lose again. No, they need to have someone who appears to have and do all of those things, like the Republicans do.
That said, Dean is definitely the wrong person for the job. This is going to push moderates even farther away from the party, not bring them in.
Best video-game commercial ever made. The rest of them are pretty good too, but the site's missing one of those "passive-aggressive" 3DO commercials.
BTW, I swear, some people around here wouldn't be satisfied by anything. Give them a million dollars and they would complain that it wasn't all in twenties or something.
These numbers tell you NOTHING about what file sharring does to PC games, where it hits the hardest.
"According to the data compiled by the NPD Group, overall U.S. video game console software sales reached $5.2 billion (160.7 million units), computer games sales were $1.1 billion (45 million units), and a record $1.0 billion (42.3 million units) in portable software sales.... By way of comparison, 2003 figures were: U.S. video game console sales reached $4.9 billion (149 million units), computer games sales were $1.2 billion (52.7 million units), and portable software sales were $903 million (37.4 million units)."
It's still true that the numbers don't tell you what file sharing does to PC games, but only in the sense that you can't tell what profit decreases come from piracy and what comes from other things, such as the traditionally overwhelming popularity of console gaming. Anyway, the decrease in sales from last year to now could easily be caused by fluctuations in the market completely unrelated to piracy. Also, the console and portable markets have grown dramatically in the past year despite the increasing popularity of that type of piracy.
(Irrelevant pet peeve: People calling console games "video games" even though that term covers all forms of gaming involving direct interaction with a virtual visual component, including those of consoles, PCs, and portables. That quote up there doesn't exactly do it, but the term "computer and video games" is used a lot in that article.)
Production was already done by the time we knew of the design flaw.
Not sure how they couldn't have noticed it just by looking at a schematic. It's really obvious. No, I believe that Kusaragi is telling the truth regarding his stubborn insistence on having a control flaw instead of making the PSP a bit bigger.
I didn't write the parent, but it clearly isn't flamebait. It is neither inciteful nor incorrect. In fact, it is completely true and serves as good counterpoint relative to the topic at hand.
Except, of course, for the fact that the DS wasn't designed to have dead pixels, thus making mentioning it completely irrelevant.
I put one last line at the end of my submission, but Zonk took it out:
"One wonders if intermural football has been banned in these schools using the same logic."
You're definitely not the only one who smells hypocrisy here. I think that the supposed difference is that football is "cool" and "popular" and "lucrative for the schools" and Halo 2 isn't.
Rob (Guess which of those three is most important)
Gemstones: Pretty and rare. Computer programs: Depending on the programs, they entertain, inform, add to productivity, or do a combination of the three. Dollar bills: Accepted worldwide as a substitute for the barter system. A dollar translates directly into a certain amount of real-world good or service. MMORPG "property:" The only people who buy this stuff are people who want to skip playing the game. Since the entire point of a game is to play it, this makes buying other people's stuff pointless and without value.
The reason why this is news is because it was made by the developers of Uplink, which, as you should know, is the best independent game ever in the history of ever. Ever.
Where "real world" means "what exists inside the buyer's head"? I'm talking about the real world that objectively exists, and in that world, those rings have no value.
This would still be a good idea for people in this guy's situation, though. The game company could keep the characters for a month or so after deletion, but only restore them if the players can prove that the characters were wrongfully deleted.
Of course, this story doesn't say that his character was deleted, but that his items were. That would probably be a lot harder to restore through those means (and a lot easier to restore by simply playing the game).
Well, if you know the right people you can trade virtual currency for real currency
Only because people are stupid enough to buy it. It's like saying that, simply because some people are gullible enough to buy them, Alex Chiu's Immortality Rings have real-world value.
She wasn't arrested for destroying property; she was arrested for using an online account without the owner's permission. I don't know what the penalty for that is, but I doubt it's the same as the penalty for vandalism or destruction of property.
BTW, unless Lineage is different from most MMORPGs, the character was owned by NCSoft, not the player.
Wouldn't it be easier just to take all of the physical customization crap out and release a utility concerning the parts of the character that are actually important? I bet you could fit that into just a few MBs without even trying.
I do disagree the leak is mostly Sony's fault. The file was only able to be located by people who explicitly searched in non-standard locations as a result of examining how the PSP performs its updates. These people looked specifically for files that would be considered "unreleased".
And how hard would it have been for Sony to put these files in a place that's not accessible to the PSP, or to the general public for that matter?
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Legally, there's nothing different from a homosexual individual than a heterosexual.
Well, besides that whole "being considered a wedded couple under the law" thing. But hey, that only determines things like being covered under your spouse's health insurance, so it's not that important, right?
Rob
It's funny, because there are as many people on the right who show hatred for the Democrats (either Clinton, for example) as there are people on the left who show hatred for the Bush administration. It goes along with what I was saying earlier--the reason why the Republicans win elections is because they appear to have a much smaller group of haters than the Democrats do.
Americans are smarter than you think.
Oh, if only they were.
Rob
By definition, there are more common men than uncommon men. People win elections (well, in theory) by getting more votes than the other guys. Therefore, appealing to the common man is more important than appealing to the uncommon man. Don't shoot the messenger, kiddo.
Rob
If they get someone with class and integrity who distances himself from the mudslinging, they're going to lose again. No, they need to have someone who appears to have and do all of those things, like the Republicans do.
That said, Dean is definitely the wrong person for the job. This is going to push moderates even farther away from the party, not bring them in.
Rob
It's not for fun and entertainment value at all.
Obviously not, otherwise people wouldn't play MMORPGs.
Rob
Check out this poll that GameFAQs is having today.
Rob
If you took out boarding, then you could say the exact same thing about Shogo: Mobile Armor Division.
Damn. I knew Halo 2 was overrated, but... damn.
Rob
I bet the link to BBSpot was there, though.
Rob
You mean these movies are fake?
Rob
Best video-game commercial ever made. The rest of them are pretty good too, but the site's missing one of those "passive-aggressive" 3DO commercials.
BTW, I swear, some people around here wouldn't be satisfied by anything. Give them a million dollars and they would complain that it wasn't all in twenties or something.
Rob
These numbers tell you NOTHING about what file sharring does to PC games, where it hits the hardest.
... By way of comparison, 2003 figures were: U.S. video game console sales reached $4.9 billion (149 million units), computer games sales were $1.2 billion (52.7 million units), and portable software sales were $903 million (37.4 million units)."
"According to the data compiled by the NPD Group, overall U.S. video game console software sales reached $5.2 billion (160.7 million units), computer games sales were $1.1 billion (45 million units), and a record $1.0 billion (42.3 million units) in portable software sales.
It's still true that the numbers don't tell you what file sharing does to PC games, but only in the sense that you can't tell what profit decreases come from piracy and what comes from other things, such as the traditionally overwhelming popularity of console gaming. Anyway, the decrease in sales from last year to now could easily be caused by fluctuations in the market completely unrelated to piracy. Also, the console and portable markets have grown dramatically in the past year despite the increasing popularity of that type of piracy.
(Irrelevant pet peeve: People calling console games "video games" even though that term covers all forms of gaming involving direct interaction with a virtual visual component, including those of consoles, PCs, and portables. That quote up there doesn't exactly do it, but the term "computer and video games" is used a lot in that article.)
Rob
Production was already done by the time we knew of the design flaw.
Not sure how they couldn't have noticed it just by looking at a schematic. It's really obvious. No, I believe that Kusaragi is telling the truth regarding his stubborn insistence on having a control flaw instead of making the PSP a bit bigger.
Rob
I didn't write the parent, but it clearly isn't flamebait. It is neither inciteful nor incorrect. In fact, it is completely true and serves as good counterpoint relative to the topic at hand.
Except, of course, for the fact that the DS wasn't designed to have dead pixels, thus making mentioning it completely irrelevant.
Rob
He's saying that the users will have to get used to it because there's no way to fix it. There's no assigning of blame there.
Rob
I put one last line at the end of my submission, but Zonk took it out:
"One wonders if intermural football has been banned in these schools using the same logic."
You're definitely not the only one who smells hypocrisy here. I think that the supposed difference is that football is "cool" and "popular" and "lucrative for the schools" and Halo 2 isn't.
Rob (Guess which of those three is most important)
Gemstones: Pretty and rare.
Computer programs: Depending on the programs, they entertain, inform, add to productivity, or do a combination of the three.
Dollar bills: Accepted worldwide as a substitute for the barter system. A dollar translates directly into a certain amount of real-world good or service.
MMORPG "property:" The only people who buy this stuff are people who want to skip playing the game. Since the entire point of a game is to play it, this makes buying other people's stuff pointless and without value.
Rob
The reason why this is news is because it was made by the developers of Uplink, which, as you should know, is the best independent game ever in the history of ever. Ever.
Rob
Where "real world" means "what exists inside the buyer's head"? I'm talking about the real world that objectively exists, and in that world, those rings have no value.
Rob
This would still be a good idea for people in this guy's situation, though. The game company could keep the characters for a month or so after deletion, but only restore them if the players can prove that the characters were wrongfully deleted.
Of course, this story doesn't say that his character was deleted, but that his items were. That would probably be a lot harder to restore through those means (and a lot easier to restore by simply playing the game).
Rob
The difference, of course, being that your spice rack isn't installed in Black & Decker headquarters and can be used outside of said headquarters.
Rob
Well, if you know the right people you can trade virtual currency for real currency
Only because people are stupid enough to buy it. It's like saying that, simply because some people are gullible enough to buy them, Alex Chiu's Immortality Rings have real-world value.
Rob
She wasn't arrested for destroying property; she was arrested for using an online account without the owner's permission. I don't know what the penalty for that is, but I doubt it's the same as the penalty for vandalism or destruction of property.
BTW, unless Lineage is different from most MMORPGs, the character was owned by NCSoft, not the player.
Rob
By "easier," I meant "less wasteful of space."
Rob
Wouldn't it be easier just to take all of the physical customization crap out and release a utility concerning the parts of the character that are actually important? I bet you could fit that into just a few MBs without even trying.
Rob
I do disagree the leak is mostly Sony's fault. The file was only able to be located by people who explicitly searched in non-standard locations as a result of examining how the PSP performs its updates. These people looked specifically for files that would be considered "unreleased".
And how hard would it have been for Sony to put these files in a place that's not accessible to the PSP, or to the general public for that matter?
Rob