"While 99% are successfully brainwashed, the wonder about humans is that 1% seem to do what they have to do regardless."
This is why the oracle was introduced, to weed out that 1% that kept rejecting the program so that they might be purged from the system to keep the balance. Then when Zion was destroyed the one would pick 11 people to rebuild and we'd start over again.
"There is no such thing as a "used" game on Steam or other license/DRM management content systems."
Well if you wanted to be able to sell your games that you bought on steam all you would need to do is register one account per game, then sell the account. It IS possible, as well it should be, i wouldn't be surprised to see this type of feature in the future on these new distro platforms.
If I could "unsubscribe" a game from my steam (using your steam example) subscription and then sell it to another steam user for a negotiated price, then receive that price as a credit towards new steam games everyone would win, steam gets the overall money used, someone gets an older game for a lower price and I get to buy that money towards a new game.
Forcing users to buy new everytime seems to only lose money for distibuters/publishers/creators as there seems to be a large segment of gamers who avoid the 60 dollar intial price and wait 6 months for the 40 or lower typical price reduction.
I believe the link is what makes this tired joke work. It gives examples, using google code search, for the russian joke inserted into code by programmers...
Man their right, when you explain a joke it drains all teh funny.
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"Speaking of campers, what's with people who hide under the stairs in FPS and wait for someone to walk around the corner? Are you afraid of real combat?"
I used to hate players like that, but then I realised that is all they know how to do, so they are actually easier to beat than someone who is always changing their position, strategy, etc...
So when i enter a room I throw a frag grenade under the stairs or a rocket that way (ala quake3) or throw a flash bang into the nest then spam as i come up the ramp (ala CS on de_dust).. these players are the most predictable and also the easiest to beat.
They might get me once by surprise, but then I know to watch out for them and send some hot death their way automatically;)
"Yes, with rock-hard vinyl seats, a metal interior, and no seatbelts, driven by an $8/hr drug addict who, for the cost of a cup of coffee, will rocket the bus over the bumpiest part of the railroad tracks."
Well at least you aren't bitter about your childhood.
"We do this at work actually. I keep the board in my cube, and the running score on the whiteboard."
My friend and I used to do this with Chess, board was in one of our cubes and we would make a move whenever.. made for a pretty good end game too as we could take as much time as we wanted to figure out our next move.
We would finish a game about once a week, with the start game going furious during a lunch, middle game slowing down for the next 2 days, and the end game wrapping up by the end of the week.
I could see the argument that the rich and powerful (and those who are attractive have an easier time becoming rich and powerful) will propogate with those who are the same.. but with plastic surgery you are going to end up diluting the gene pool with gene of less attractive people who look attractive because of the work they have done...
Fake Breasts, nose jobs, etc...
Also power is attractive to some women who look for this quality in mates who might not be the most handsome but do have money/power.. Bill Gates is married... see?
One last thing, the definition of "beauty" truely is in the eye of the beholder.. there was a time when morbidly obese women was considered a big turn on.. and when you look at pictures of "hotties" in eras of old they just don't seem to look "attractive" anymore (at least imho) like look at pinup girls of the 40s and 50s, I believe very few of the could stand the test of time and still hit "People's" top 100 list or whatever...
"My fellow/.ers, is this the starting of the end of privacy? Whatever happened too good old gaming."
No this is not the end of privacy, this is the beginning of a revolution where the consumer says F-U to game companies that put ads in games.. you have a voice, use it, don't buy games with in game advertising and they WILL* stop...
(*or start suing gamers saying piracy is reducing their revenue)
An eye for an eye goes back to the old testament, it was God's example of perfect justice.
If someone's eye happens to be gouged out by accident or on purpose, then the person who caused the eye to be gouged must lose an eye.
If your ox fell in a hole dug by another man and died, that other man must pay for the ox or give you one of his.
so on and so forth.. as happens often with the bible, people often confuse what was written with to what the passage pertains.
This was one of a long line of how to treat common problems that arose in daily life, like God's civil/criminal book of court law. For the time I believe it was quite fair.
"Great, now you've reduced the amount of suspects by, I don't know, maybe 70% or more? Suddenly you have enough police to go around twice-and-a-half, and you can go ahead and really crack down on the real criminals,"
and since guns are illegal we should let the cops go in an search houses for guns since only criminals will have them.
Let's also declare a war on guns, history has proven that once we declare war on something, the situation drastically improves.. if it worked for drugs it will work on guns...
Do you think Jack sees the irony in trying to force a company to not release a game called bully by using strong arm tactics (like suing them in court)?
"Set Limewire to not share downloaded files and you're legal."
This is what I do, and setup my friends and family to do, it's leeching but I don't feel bad for doing it.
If I like songs i'll pay for them to own a CD, or visit the artist when they come to town. If I was actually stealing something physically or taking something instead of paying for it (meaning i would have paid for it but stole it instead) then maybe I would feel bad..
I do the same thing for games.. I downloaded COD2 the other day, I liked it.. not 40 bucks liked it but for 30 or less I will buy the game because I liked it that much.
This is a new era, and with digital information being bascially free to copy and produce copies, I feel no remorse sharing this data or "downloading" it as I know it isn't really depriving the company of a sale from me. If I couldn't have downloaded it I certianly wouldn't have bought it.
Those that produce something worth having get my money. For the cost to produce software/digital music I feel things are way over priced as it is right now...
EWJ was one of the few games of the time which didn't take itself too seriously which made for some fun gaming, shooting cows into outer space, using himself as a whip, classical music sound tracks.. awesome game..
Although it was a little difficult in parts, the novelty of the gameworld made up for a lot of that.
You already stipulated that you were. I seriously doubt anyone is debating whether or not privacy is considered a right, espically your statement that it is not "guaranteed" by the constitution.
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"Don't forget the threat of 'yellow cake from Africa'! "
But, but, Sean Hannity told me this turned out to be True?!?
"While 99% are successfully brainwashed, the wonder about humans is that 1% seem to do what they have to do regardless."
This is why the oracle was introduced, to weed out that 1% that kept rejecting the program so that they might be purged from the system to keep the balance. Then when Zion was destroyed the one would pick 11 people to rebuild and we'd start over again.
exactly, how will they "enforce" this EULA when they can't even stop people stealing accounts as it is...
"There is no such thing as a "used" game on Steam or other license/DRM management content systems."
Well if you wanted to be able to sell your games that you bought on steam all you would need to do is register one account per game, then sell the account. It IS possible, as well it should be, i wouldn't be surprised to see this type of feature in the future on these new distro platforms.
If I could "unsubscribe" a game from my steam (using your steam example) subscription and then sell it to another steam user for a negotiated price, then receive that price as a credit towards new steam games everyone would win, steam gets the overall money used, someone gets an older game for a lower price and I get to buy that money towards a new game.
Forcing users to buy new everytime seems to only lose money for distibuters/publishers/creators as there seems to be a large segment of gamers who avoid the 60 dollar intial price and wait 6 months for the 40 or lower typical price reduction.
I believe the link is what makes this tired joke work. It gives examples, using google code search, for the russian joke inserted into code by programmers...
Man their right, when you explain a joke it drains all teh funny.
"Speaking of campers, what's with people who hide under the stairs in FPS and wait for someone to walk around the corner? Are you afraid of real combat?"
;)
I used to hate players like that, but then I realised that is all they know how to do, so they are actually easier to beat than someone who is always changing their position, strategy, etc...
So when i enter a room I throw a frag grenade under the stairs or a rocket that way (ala quake3) or throw a flash bang into the nest then spam as i come up the ramp (ala CS on de_dust).. these players are the most predictable and also the easiest to beat.
They might get me once by surprise, but then I know to watch out for them and send some hot death their way automatically
"But how will you order /. and any number of other blogs to block comments that match a complex and daily changing algorithm?"
-1 Botnet command?
"Yes, with rock-hard vinyl seats, a metal interior, and no seatbelts, driven by an $8/hr drug addict who, for the cost of a cup of coffee, will rocket the bus over the bumpiest part of the railroad tracks."
Well at least you aren't bitter about your childhood.
"We do this at work actually. I keep the board in my cube, and the running score on the whiteboard."
My friend and I used to do this with Chess, board was in one of our cubes and we would make a move whenever.. made for a pretty good end game too as we could take as much time as we wanted to figure out our next move.
We would finish a game about once a week, with the start game going furious during a lunch, middle game slowing down for the next 2 days, and the end game wrapping up by the end of the week.
Plastic surgery?
I could see the argument that the rich and powerful (and those who are attractive have an easier time becoming rich and powerful) will propogate with those who are the same.. but with plastic surgery you are going to end up diluting the gene pool with gene of less attractive people who look attractive because of the work they have done...
Fake Breasts, nose jobs, etc...
Also power is attractive to some women who look for this quality in mates who might not be the most handsome but do have money/power.. Bill Gates is married... see?
One last thing, the definition of "beauty" truely is in the eye of the beholder.. there was a time when morbidly obese women was considered a big turn on.. and when you look at pictures of "hotties" in eras of old they just don't seem to look "attractive" anymore (at least imho) like look at pinup girls of the 40s and 50s, I believe very few of the could stand the test of time and still hit "People's" top 100 list or whatever...
"I'm sorry, but I don't have any faith that most people will refuse to buy a game because it has mandatory spyware. "
You mean like the pressure put on Sony for rootkits? Or the companies that refused to use Starforce because of the community uproar?
Gamers are quite vocal and spend a LOT of money on games and gaming hardware.. I doubt strong public backlash from gamers would be misinterpreted...
"EA better make damn sure their software is bug free and totally unobtrusive."
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHA man that's awesome, you do realize you are talking about EA right? Bug free.. hahahahahaha
"My fellow /.ers, is this the starting of the end of privacy? Whatever happened too good old gaming."
No this is not the end of privacy, this is the beginning of a revolution where the consumer says F-U to game companies that put ads in games.. you have a voice, use it, don't buy games with in game advertising and they WILL* stop...
(*or start suing gamers saying piracy is reducing their revenue)
I believe this software already exists, it's called AOL, comes on a CD.. maybe you've seen it?
An eye for an eye goes back to the old testament, it was God's example of perfect justice.
If someone's eye happens to be gouged out by accident or on purpose, then the person who caused the eye to be gouged must lose an eye.
If your ox fell in a hole dug by another man and died, that other man must pay for the ox or give you one of his.
so on and so forth.. as happens often with the bible, people often confuse what was written with to what the passage pertains.
This was one of a long line of how to treat common problems that arose in daily life, like God's civil/criminal book of court law. For the time I believe it was quite fair.
Read the old testament, interesting stuff.
""an eye for an eye, and the whole world goes blind"?"
This is false, an eye for an eye would leave the whole world with one eye. and i assure you people would be more careful when it came to eye hazards.
"It has nothing to do with crime, and everything to do with there being guns all around them."
I thought it had everything to do with people living in fear.
There are other countries who have just as much gun onwership as america with a far lower crime rate.. why is that?
"Great, now you've reduced the amount of suspects by, I don't know, maybe 70% or more? Suddenly you have enough police to go around twice-and-a-half, and you can go ahead and really crack down on the real criminals,"
and since guns are illegal we should let the cops go in an search houses for guns since only criminals will have them.
Let's also declare a war on guns, history has proven that once we declare war on something, the situation drastically improves.. if it worked for drugs it will work on guns...
Ever watch bowling for columbine? Canada has just as many gun owners per capita but yet a fraction of our violent crime...
Hmm, could it be both?
Do you think Jack sees the irony in trying to force a company to not release a game called bully by using strong arm tactics (like suing them in court)?
Probably not, but i'm loving it...
Then I hope You Tube continues to censor WND, with maybe a side of Fox News.
"Set Limewire to not share downloaded files and you're legal."
This is what I do, and setup my friends and family to do, it's leeching but I don't feel bad for doing it.
If I like songs i'll pay for them to own a CD, or visit the artist when they come to town. If I was actually stealing something physically or taking something instead of paying for it (meaning i would have paid for it but stole it instead) then maybe I would feel bad..
I do the same thing for games.. I downloaded COD2 the other day, I liked it.. not 40 bucks liked it but for 30 or less I will buy the game because I liked it that much.
This is a new era, and with digital information being bascially free to copy and produce copies, I feel no remorse sharing this data or "downloading" it as I know it isn't really depriving the company of a sale from me. If I couldn't have downloaded it I certianly wouldn't have bought it.
Those that produce something worth having get my money. For the cost to produce software/digital music I feel things are way over priced as it is right now...
EWJ was one of the few games of the time which didn't take itself too seriously which made for some fun gaming, shooting cows into outer space, using himself as a whip, classical music sound tracks.. awesome game..
Although it was a little difficult in parts, the novelty of the gameworld made up for a lot of that.
I would say more like public service. Is it still "censorship" when the "information" is a blatant lie?
"if it was a troll"
You already stipulated that you were. I seriously doubt anyone is debating whether or not privacy is considered a right, espically your statement that it is not "guaranteed" by the constitution.