There is still a bias with adolescents toward 'mature' content. I know this is anecdotal but... I'm in a rather large WoW guild, with a pretty wide age spread. (youngest is 14, oldest is in the 50's) Since we're all gamers, consoles come up in conversation quite a bit. Invariably, the younger guys are quick to point out the Wii is for kids, then trumpet the 360/PS3 as 'cooler'. Most of us older guys just like good games.
Adolescents feel like they need to prove their maturity all the time. Mature games/movies/books/etc are just a few ways they can wave the 'adult' flag around.
I can't speak from personal experience with it, but I believe people run it via WINE without trouble. Blizzard has a GL Based Mac version that's officially supported.
Wouldn't having another OS basically virtualize Windows and run applications like it essentially be a form of theft? Not if you're paying for a Windows license.
I mean, if OSX or Lunix or whatever can't put up a viable application interface, why is 'borrowing' Windows' functionality legitimate? OSX has a perfectly viable application interface. It's just that some developers choose not to develop for it. This process simply allows you to run windows within OSX to get those apps working.
This isn't a situation where Apple is saying "Wow, Vista does cool stuff that we want OSX to do." This is 3rd party developers saying "I'd really like to run XYZ windows app on my Mac."
Again, you're not borrowing or stealing anything from Microsoft. You're paying for a copy of the OS and running it. Where you run it is irrelevant.
Corporate adoption of the new OS doesn't get them money directly. However, it gets them significant mindshare with the people working at those corporations. If they use the OS at work, they're far more likely to use the OS at home.
If your level 70 character is seen grinding in the same place for 24 hours straight, it'll most likely get reported and banned. It doesn't matter where he sends off the gains.
Neil Gaiman is probably best known for the critically acclaimed comic series "The Sandman" and has done a slew of other successful comic series and novels.
Yes you're right, an industry that supports slave labor-type conditions is totally cool.
This is not a healthy industry. This isn't a guy making an honest living. These are people who work in a sweatshop for almost no pay at all. I don't blame the employees, and sympathize with them. But the companies and the industry itself is NOT something to be supporting as it simply perpetuates their offensive working conditions.
Yes, it's just a game, but FFS get your priorities straight.
You're forgetting a couple things: One, getting to 70 requires not only the purchase of the account, but also the expansion pack. Approx $90 investment plus monthly fees. Getting to 70 also takes a significant time commitment. Considering the high likelyhood that a farming account will get banned once reported, then it doesn't make much sense to buy two boxes, spend 2 weeks getting the character to 70, just to have it banned after a week or two of 100g/hour output. Most likely they farm with lower level characters that require less time/money investment and are less of a loss when banned.
and if you went out bowling with your friends, and one of them slipped a twenty to the guy at the counter and had all his frames changed to strikes, what would you think of that friend? Or that bowling alley?
Even Blizzard doesn't have non-credit card options but at least it is so big that you can just get its debit cards in stores for cash. Hint to MMO developers, those debit cards are NOT an option if you only sell them in credit card only stores.
You missed my point. The Museum contradicts what is generally considered common scientific knowledge. Mainly because it takes a very literal interpretation of biblical text.
You can take a process like evolution. Science can investigate the process, how it works, determine how current species became what they are. Religion can take those theories, say "Yes, there is a process created by God to bring the world to the state it is in today." This doesn't contradict what science shows us, while still holding to the idea of creation.
Not that I believe in creationism, but I would respect people who believe the above. (Unlike the idea of a 6000 year old Earth that makes no sense and contradicts observable evidence)
Science and Religion don't mix per-se. But they can co-exist happily as long as they stick to what they're good at. Science tries to explain HOW things happen. Religion tries to explain WHY things happen. This museum is an example of religion trying to explain 'how' and failing miserably.
Everything science claims to be true can jive just fine with religion. There is no reason that 'Let there be light' != the big bang.
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Says the Sony fanbitch. However I will at least give you the credit of not posting AC.
There is still a bias with adolescents toward 'mature' content. I know this is anecdotal but... I'm in a rather large WoW guild, with a pretty wide age spread. (youngest is 14, oldest is in the 50's) Since we're all gamers, consoles come up in conversation quite a bit. Invariably, the younger guys are quick to point out the Wii is for kids, then trumpet the 360/PS3 as 'cooler'. Most of us older guys just like good games.
Adolescents feel like they need to prove their maturity all the time. Mature games/movies/books/etc are just a few ways they can wave the 'adult' flag around.
Also, from a Darwinian perspective, it seems strange to emphasize same-species killing over reproduction.
Not really when you consider how many people there are in the world, and we're all competing for limited resources and space.I would add Visual Voicemail to that list. It's one of those things I'm amazed hasn't been done already, to be honest.
Use iPod to push people to iTunes
Use iPhone to push people to iTunes
Make UI of next OS release identical to iTunes
???
Profit!
That link you are using, I don't think it does what you think it does.
I can't speak from personal experience with it, but I believe people run it via WINE without trouble. Blizzard has a GL Based Mac version that's officially supported.
Not if you're paying for a Windows license. I mean, if OSX or Lunix or whatever can't put up a viable application interface, why is 'borrowing' Windows' functionality legitimate? OSX has a perfectly viable application interface. It's just that some developers choose not to develop for it. This process simply allows you to run windows within OSX to get those apps working.
This isn't a situation where Apple is saying "Wow, Vista does cool stuff that we want OSX to do." This is 3rd party developers saying "I'd really like to run XYZ windows app on my Mac."
Again, you're not borrowing or stealing anything from Microsoft. You're paying for a copy of the OS and running it. Where you run it is irrelevant.
Sooo, you need 'database' explained to you, and you read Slashdot?
People also couldn't copy their works en-masse at the time. (If at all!)
Corporate adoption of the new OS doesn't get them money directly. However, it gets them significant mindshare with the people working at those corporations. If they use the OS at work, they're far more likely to use the OS at home.
Men lol, Women :giggle:
If your level 70 character is seen grinding in the same place for 24 hours straight, it'll most likely get reported and banned. It doesn't matter where he sends off the gains.
Neil Gaiman is probably best known for the critically acclaimed comic series "The Sandman" and has done a slew of other successful comic series and novels.
Having your farming characters get repeatedly banned and having to start over kind of caps your potential farming output.
Yes you're right, an industry that supports slave labor-type conditions is totally cool.
This is not a healthy industry. This isn't a guy making an honest living. These are people who work in a sweatshop for almost no pay at all. I don't blame the employees, and sympathize with them. But the companies and the industry itself is NOT something to be supporting as it simply perpetuates their offensive working conditions.
Yes, it's just a game, but FFS get your priorities straight.
You're forgetting a couple things: One, getting to 70 requires not only the purchase of the account, but also the expansion pack. Approx $90 investment plus monthly fees. Getting to 70 also takes a significant time commitment. Considering the high likelyhood that a farming account will get banned once reported, then it doesn't make much sense to buy two boxes, spend 2 weeks getting the character to 70, just to have it banned after a week or two of 100g/hour output. Most likely they farm with lower level characters that require less time/money investment and are less of a loss when banned.
and if you went out bowling with your friends, and one of them slipped a twenty to the guy at the counter and had all his frames changed to strikes, what would you think of that friend? Or that bowling alley?
Not really, because they sign those rights over to the label they work for.
Bush kills a baby whale with his bare hands (and a mulcher) every other Saturday. It's how they keep thw White House lawn so vibrant.
Agreed. I wonder how many people are going to buy this simply for Portal and TF2?
Considering you need an exhaust system for all the hot air? Yeah, most likely.
Even Blizzard doesn't have non-credit card options but at least it is so big that you can just get its debit cards in stores for cash. Hint to MMO developers, those debit cards are NOT an option if you only sell them in credit card only stores.
There are stores that don't take cash?You missed my point. The Museum contradicts what is generally considered common scientific knowledge. Mainly because it takes a very literal interpretation of biblical text.
You can take a process like evolution. Science can investigate the process, how it works, determine how current species became what they are. Religion can take those theories, say "Yes, there is a process created by God to bring the world to the state it is in today." This doesn't contradict what science shows us, while still holding to the idea of creation.
Not that I believe in creationism, but I would respect people who believe the above. (Unlike the idea of a 6000 year old Earth that makes no sense and contradicts observable evidence)
Science and Religion don't mix per-se. But they can co-exist happily as long as they stick to what they're good at. Science tries to explain HOW things happen. Religion tries to explain WHY things happen. This museum is an example of religion trying to explain 'how' and failing miserably.
Everything science claims to be true can jive just fine with religion. There is no reason that 'Let there be light' != the big bang.