People won't be able to play on Battle.net without a key. However, StarCraft II's going to be big enough that someone will come up with a hack to make it possible to play online with pirated copies. It's just a matter of how long it takes.
I suspect it will be at least a little while before one can play a pirated copy of the game online, though, which reduces the value significantly. AFAIK all online play requires going through Blizzard's Battle.net service.
In other news: you can't actually build a hotel with an infinite number of rooms - you'd run out of bricks
Don't let the venture capitalist who's funding me know that. I duped him into paying me an infinite amount of money! He paid me $1000 for the first room, $500 for the second, $250 for the third, etc. I'll be rich! Rich, I tells ya! I've been eying this nice $2000 watch, and I should have enough for it any day now...
There's a very simple way to convert a map from squares to hexes. Just shift every alternating row down half a unit. This is known as offset squares and it's homomorphic to a hexagonal tiling.
It would mean a very slight difference in the shape of things, but overall it would maintain the same gameplay. The only difference from the original, square-based map is that the rows that stay the same would lose their two bottom diagonal connections, and the rows that shift down would lose their two upper diagonal connections... But since a square map has 8 and a hex map has 6, that's inevitable.
I'm with T-Mobile (the Droid's only on Verizon), but I'm pretty sure when I did my research I just looked for android in general, not any specific phones.
It wasn't that long ago, a bit under a month I guess. I probably missed it.
My girlfriend and I recently got new phones, and I wanted to go Android but got an HTC HD2 (running Windows Mobile) with the intention of returning it within the 14 days allowed, because the phone I wanted was coming out a week later...
Anyways, long story short, I stuck with the HD2 in very large part because I was so enamored with Swype, and was distraught that Swype wasn't available for Android.
It's not perfect, of course, but I enjoy it. In particular, it can be a bit fiddly with smaller words (e.g. me, of, to), but once you get a rhythm going it is, dare I say it, actually fun. It's like every text message is a little game.
It's also very intuitive and you pick it up very quickly. If you've got an Android, definitely give this a look.
Well, there's certainly plenty of plausible deniability. The prize was not for the first person to give them proof of the feat, it was for proof of the earliest example the feat.
It's certainly within the realm of possibility that someone might have done it in an hour, or even in 89 minutes, and not turned in the proof until just before the deadline.
Thus, they didn't "really" know who the winner was until the end. In fact, one could argue they'd be remiss to announce the winner early when they set a time span of 2 months for entries.
There was no $1 million prize. Not from the publisher's perspective, at least.
They paid $1 million for marketing. Who they payed the $1 million to was irrelevant. The only difference here is that the money went to some schlub consumer instead of a marketing firm.
Seems fairly disingenuous, but I don't even think I'd go so far as to call it unethical.
...live long and prosper, Lenny. I might not like the show you're famous for, but you've always seemed like a great guy who was happy to indulge all of us geeks, and that's something I can respect.
I use Media Monkey and it does sync the iPod Touch... kind of.
First, it only syncs music, not apps. (duh)
More importantly, though, it seems like the sync is buggy as hell. I don't even try to use my iPod Touch to play music anymore, because it rarely goes more than three or four tracks without locking up and becoming unresponsive for a good minute or so, before finally failing to play the next song and giving up. Basically all I use the iPod Touch for now is as an authenticator for WoW and occasionally to listen to podcasts in the car.
Also worth mentioning that for MM to sync the iPod Touch, you need to have iTunes installed... And a very, very specific version of iTunes at that.
Please tell me there's an actual MP3 of this song. PLEASE! Lie if you have to. I can't go on with life knowing that this song doesn't exist in a full audio version...
I'm not arguing whether it's right or wrong; I simply don't think it should be treated any differently from a normal visual inspection. The only difference is that they're looking at a different spectrum.
My point is either both are right or both are wrong, and it doesn't seem right to me to distinguish.
Consider this: what if, instead of excess heat, marijuana growing operations frequently gave off yellow smoke as a byproduct. This smoke could be observed by the naked eye. Would the police have the authority to observe the smoke without a warrant, and deduce from that what they may?
I don't really see this as being much different. The only difference is that the byproduct is invisible to the naked eye. Thermal imaging violates their privacy no more than a simple visual scan of the property would.
You work at a college and block certain "websites and services?" From the context I'm guessing it's more than simply blocking known phishing sites and the like...
If you are censoring the internet for the students of your college, then frankly I find that abhorrent. It's one thing for a company to filter the internet for their employees at work, but it's completely another to do it to students who-- besides being in an environment which should encourage exploration and allow for the making of mistakes-- may very likely live there and only have access to the internet through the school. As a college IT department, for all internets and purposes you're an ISP and with respect to student internet access you should be held to the same standards of openness and neutrality to which Comcast, Verizon and their likes are.
I don't see how planes would be falling tho, most likely the integer just swaps around back to zero, but it's not like planes have some code like if (date() 1980) crash();
Ha ha. Yeah. That... that would be crazy. Yeah. No one would ever do that.
Now on a totally unrelated note, I have to go make a few calls...
I'm going to assume you don't actually play Magic.
The Power 9 is expensive, this is true, but it's important to note that Wizards of the Coast makes absolutely no money off the secondary market, and have no direct incentive for creating cards highly valued thereupon (though one could certainly argue that they have an indirect incentive in that it reinforces the collectible aspect of the game).
With particular respect to the P9 and older cards, there are two reasons that they won't ever be reprinted. 1: The cards are just completely too powerful and/or 2: Early on, WotC adopted a policy of putting some cards on a 'reserved list,' guaranteeing to collectors that the cards would never be reprinted. They've long since stopped this policy, but are still restricted by their earlier agreement not to reprint those early, popular cards.
WotC makes all its money from selling packs and other products. The fans set the prices on the individual cards.
Actually Black Industries put out Dark Heresy originally, and then shut down the RPGs shortly thereafter which was a major cause of the aforementioned gnashing of teeth, since it seemed like they were shutting down a brand new RPG line that was so popular it had sold out of its initial print run on preorders alone.
Personally, I can't wait to get my copy of the new WHFRP 3rd Edition. Got to play a demo of it last month and it's really cool, the first RPG I've seen that really tries to innovate some genuinely new ideas and mechanics.
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Ah, I'm not familiar with this spawn copy thing... Was that added in a patch, or has it always been an option?
If that's what he was referring to, then I retract my snark.
Wait... are you seriously complaining that it's not fair that some people should have to pay for the game just for the privilege of playing it?
There are certainly valid reasons to be annoyed over the lack of traditional LAN support, but that is not one of them. QQ more, please.
People won't be able to play on Battle.net without a key. However, StarCraft II's going to be big enough that someone will come up with a hack to make it possible to play online with pirated copies. It's just a matter of how long it takes.
I suspect it will be at least a little while before one can play a pirated copy of the game online, though, which reduces the value significantly. AFAIK all online play requires going through Blizzard's Battle.net service.
Uhh... It is lead, and thicker than the conventional aprons. RTFA/WTFV is too much to ask, of course.
In other news: you can't actually build a hotel with an infinite number of rooms - you'd run out of bricks
Don't let the venture capitalist who's funding me know that. I duped him into paying me an infinite amount of money! He paid me $1000 for the first room, $500 for the second, $250 for the third, etc. I'll be rich! Rich, I tells ya! I've been eying this nice $2000 watch, and I should have enough for it any day now...
There's a very simple way to convert a map from squares to hexes. Just shift every alternating row down half a unit. This is known as offset squares and it's homomorphic to a hexagonal tiling.
It would mean a very slight difference in the shape of things, but overall it would maintain the same gameplay. The only difference from the original, square-based map is that the rows that stay the same would lose their two bottom diagonal connections, and the rows that shift down would lose their two upper diagonal connections... But since a square map has 8 and a hex map has 6, that's inevitable.
Really? How recent is that? Interesting.
I'm with T-Mobile (the Droid's only on Verizon), but I'm pretty sure when I did my research I just looked for android in general, not any specific phones.
It wasn't that long ago, a bit under a month I guess. I probably missed it.
C'est la vie.
My girlfriend and I recently got new phones, and I wanted to go Android but got an HTC HD2 (running Windows Mobile) with the intention of returning it within the 14 days allowed, because the phone I wanted was coming out a week later...
Anyways, long story short, I stuck with the HD2 in very large part because I was so enamored with Swype, and was distraught that Swype wasn't available for Android.
It's not perfect, of course, but I enjoy it. In particular, it can be a bit fiddly with smaller words (e.g. me, of, to), but once you get a rhythm going it is, dare I say it, actually fun. It's like every text message is a little game.
It's also very intuitive and you pick it up very quickly. If you've got an Android, definitely give this a look.
Well, there's certainly plenty of plausible deniability. The prize was not for the first person to give them proof of the feat, it was for proof of the earliest example the feat.
It's certainly within the realm of possibility that someone might have done it in an hour, or even in 89 minutes, and not turned in the proof until just before the deadline.
Thus, they didn't "really" know who the winner was until the end. In fact, one could argue they'd be remiss to announce the winner early when they set a time span of 2 months for entries.
There was no $1 million prize. Not from the publisher's perspective, at least.
They paid $1 million for marketing. Who they payed the $1 million to was irrelevant. The only difference here is that the money went to some schlub consumer instead of a marketing firm.
Seems fairly disingenuous, but I don't even think I'd go so far as to call it unethical.
...live long and prosper, Lenny. I might not like the show you're famous for, but you've always seemed like a great guy who was happy to indulge all of us geeks, and that's something I can respect.
I'm going to start using qwyjibo as often as I can...
Why not, it's a perfectly cromulent word.
I've never heard of it. Clearly I need to embiggen my vocabulary.
Indeed. This is officially the first thing that's ever made me want to install Greasemonkey.
I use Media Monkey and it does sync the iPod Touch... kind of.
First, it only syncs music, not apps. (duh)
More importantly, though, it seems like the sync is buggy as hell. I don't even try to use my iPod Touch to play music anymore, because it rarely goes more than three or four tracks without locking up and becoming unresponsive for a good minute or so, before finally failing to play the next song and giving up. Basically all I use the iPod Touch for now is as an authenticator for WoW and occasionally to listen to podcasts in the car.
Also worth mentioning that for MM to sync the iPod Touch, you need to have iTunes installed... And a very, very specific version of iTunes at that.
Please tell me there's an actual MP3 of this song. PLEASE! Lie if you have to. I can't go on with life knowing that this song doesn't exist in a full audio version...
I'm not arguing whether it's right or wrong; I simply don't think it should be treated any differently from a normal visual inspection. The only difference is that they're looking at a different spectrum.
My point is either both are right or both are wrong, and it doesn't seem right to me to distinguish.
Consider this: what if, instead of excess heat, marijuana growing operations frequently gave off yellow smoke as a byproduct. This smoke could be observed by the naked eye. Would the police have the authority to observe the smoke without a warrant, and deduce from that what they may?
I don't really see this as being much different. The only difference is that the byproduct is invisible to the naked eye. Thermal imaging violates their privacy no more than a simple visual scan of the property would.
You work at a college and block certain "websites and services?" From the context I'm guessing it's more than simply blocking known phishing sites and the like...
If you are censoring the internet for the students of your college, then frankly I find that abhorrent. It's one thing for a company to filter the internet for their employees at work, but it's completely another to do it to students who-- besides being in an environment which should encourage exploration and allow for the making of mistakes-- may very likely live there and only have access to the internet through the school. As a college IT department, for all internets and purposes you're an ISP and with respect to student internet access you should be held to the same standards of openness and neutrality to which Comcast, Verizon and their likes are.
I don't see how planes would be falling tho, most likely the integer just swaps around back to zero, but it's not like planes have some code like if (date() 1980) crash();
Ha ha. Yeah. That... that would be crazy. Yeah. No one would ever do that.
Now on a totally unrelated note, I have to go make a few calls...
Mega Man = Capcom
Whoa whoa whoa, hold on. Making actual working products?
Gmail was in beta for 5 years... And Wave's preview is nothing if not buggy.
I'm as huge a fan of the ol' Goog as anyone, but let's not get ahead of ourselves. ;)
I'm going to assume you don't actually play Magic.
The Power 9 is expensive, this is true, but it's important to note that Wizards of the Coast makes absolutely no money off the secondary market, and have no direct incentive for creating cards highly valued thereupon (though one could certainly argue that they have an indirect incentive in that it reinforces the collectible aspect of the game).
With particular respect to the P9 and older cards, there are two reasons that they won't ever be reprinted. 1: The cards are just completely too powerful and/or 2: Early on, WotC adopted a policy of putting some cards on a 'reserved list,' guaranteeing to collectors that the cards would never be reprinted. They've long since stopped this policy, but are still restricted by their earlier agreement not to reprint those early, popular cards.
WotC makes all its money from selling packs and other products. The fans set the prices on the individual cards.
Actually Black Industries put out Dark Heresy originally, and then shut down the RPGs shortly thereafter which was a major cause of the aforementioned gnashing of teeth, since it seemed like they were shutting down a brand new RPG line that was so popular it had sold out of its initial print run on preorders alone.
Personally, I can't wait to get my copy of the new WHFRP 3rd Edition. Got to play a demo of it last month and it's really cool, the first RPG I've seen that really tries to innovate some genuinely new ideas and mechanics.
Didn't know that. I knew of FUDGE, but never looked into it much. Thanks!