Actually profits don't play into it at all. The simply reason for that is that profit doesn't take into account the opportunity cost and time value of capital. He really does have to maximise shareholder value.
The core 2 duo has a much better QPR than any AMD processor out there right now, and I really don't understand what you would use CD-Rs for..maybe you meant CD-RWs instead of HDDs? They are extremely expensive.
Well, maybe the people who died didn't personally deserve it, but the country as a whole most certainly did. The meddling of the US in the politics of other nations, often supporting extremist governments, overthrowing democratically elected ones, and/or selling weapons to terrorists have DIRECTLY resulted in the worldwide hatred of the U.S. and the terrorist attacks.
You see, that's the thing with freedom: you are responsible for the consequences of what choose you do. Previous (and the current) administrations were either too short-sighted, or simply didn't give a fuck. The citizens of the U.S. elected them, and are thus (partly) responsible for - and deserved - what has happened.
Hi, you seem to not have noticed the words "private individuals". Yes, they could release the software via filesharing, but then it would still be free (as in beer, not as in freedom obviously, but it doesn't make any difference..nobody from it except the end user who gets something for nothing). If, on the other hand, you start a business and sell that modified GNU software, which actually is a big deal, it stops being a private matter and you should (and will) be prosecuted for it.
The thing is, some things really don't deserve a real answer. In a perfect world GGP would have been modded to oblivion but unfortunately not many people know economics or follow the global economy on/. Saying that Europe is picking up speed when most major European countries have lowered their GDP growth predictions and are warning for recessions is ignorant at best. Of course if you cared about this, you already knew it, hence I didn't need to argue for it, hence "No."
First, America is going through a recession because of our debt, combined with our realizing that we have overspent. OTH, Europe, japan, canada, etc are all picking up speed while the dollar continues to plummet due to our federal and trade deficits. No.
Your wall of text can be summed up in one sentence: bliz has added reporting facilities. Reporting facilities are NOT design elements, they are simply hastily stitched-on patches that try to hide the inadequacies of the actual design elements. As for the daily quests..they are exactly the same kind of grind the game always has had, except it's slightly more rewarding.
The problem with MMOs is that (unlike ALL other genres of games) they don't require any kind of skill at all. 100% of your progress and standing in the game is determined by the time you spend on it (OK maybe there is 5% skill involved in the arena). Anyway, I'm not just talking about FPSs: puzzle games reward skill in solving puzzles, strategy games reward strategically out thinking your opponents, sports games require a mixture of strategy/"game skill"/etc, adventure games require creativity to find the often obscure solutions to the various problems, platformers require you to time your jumps or whatever..the list goes on.
Aimbots are completely different from farming bots: they "enhance" the aiming skill of the player; that (understandably) makes the game more exciting for them (at least for 10 minutes before they get bored). On the other hand, a farming bot simply removes tedious parts of the game so that the player doesn't have to experience them. While an aiming bot makes the game almost unplayable for the others, that is not so for the farming bot: any area worth farming already has a lot of people there 24/7..adding a bot doesn't really diminish the others returns that much..and what difference does it make if it's a real person or not? It could simply be two friends sharing an account and playing it 24/7.
I'm not a game designer, but as a gamer I consider a game being well designed when it rewards me for skill, being smart, thinking strategically, that kind of thing..WoW has only one route to success, and that is grinding ie spending time. Contrast this to TF2: have crazy FPS aim skills? Play a sniper, and the game rewards you for them. Strategic thinking? Play pyro and make creative use of alternative routes. The list goes on..of course you get better with time, but after the first 10-15 hours with the game, it is not a very big factor as you start running in to diminishing returns.
The problem is not bots, it's crappy game design. Once your paying customers start wanting to pay in order NOT to play your game, you know your designer is a complete retard. Then again, it seems that making games not very fun is a highly successful business model..Who would've guessed?
But that's complete bullshit, Comcast has been granted monopolies in the cable market, so they HAVE meddled with the free market (damn communists!). Government meddling is the reason that this problem even exists.
Spirituality entails not following logic and reason when evaluating claims and propositions. While their domains are indeed nonintersecting, spirituality is NOT compatible with the scientific method, because accepting "spiritual" propositions means ignoring logic, something a true scientist cannot do.
Not all propositions are created equal, thus the burden of proof for any claim lays on the party that makes the claim, and if no such proof is offered, that claim is COMPLETELY inconsequential. Saying that god exists/astrology works/whatever is EXACTLY the same as me saying that the room you're sitting in is filled with invisible undetectable purple raccoons. People who don't understand this are in no position to do any kind of serious scientific work.
Encryption has nothing to do with this. This is about the RIAA monitoring the torrent servers that you're using, noting your IP address and what you're downloading and sending a note to your ISP asking them to tell you to knock it off.
On the third warning, they'll disconnect you. If that's how it's going to happen, what's to stop me (or anyone else) from faking said screenshots with RIAA IPs and making their ISP shut them down?
2. Clearly amoral? I'd like to see you argue for that.
3. No, the enemy is copyright law that is completely fucked up, and corporations that have no clue about what their clients want, instead trying to sue them into buying their product.
4. Corporations are already moving away from DRM, and they are futile and useless anyway since hackers can bypass them at will and normal users are encumbered. DRM decreases the perceived value of a product, and increases the perceived value of the pirated copy, the demand curves are shifted accordingly. It makes you wonder if anyone at the big recording companies has actually studied economics.
5. The pirate bay is not one of the bad guys either. They simply point you to material (in your analogy, it's the torrent client that gives the keys, but it doesn't work anyway, because the bank loses money, while the holder of pirated material doesn't.)
PS: You think people who download never have and never will pay artists for their work? http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2347/125/ A government commissioned study finds that people who download music are more likely to buy it.
PS2: hand in your geek license (or punch your astroturf license) on your way out.
1. Nobody is 'taking' anyone's income.
2. Clearly amoral? I'd like to see you argue for that.
3. No, the enemy is copyright law that is completely fucked up, and corporations that have no clue about what their clients want, instead trying to sue them into buying their product.
4. Corporations are already moving away from DRM, and they are futile and useless anyway since hackers can bypass them at will and normal users are encumbered. DRM decreases the perceived value of a product, and increases the perceived value of the pirated copy, the demand curves are shifted accordingly. It makes you wonder if anyone at the big recording companies has actually studied economics.
5. The pirate bay is not one of the bad guys either. They simply point you to material (in your analogy, it's the torrent client that gives the keys, but it doesn't work anyway, because the bank loses money, while the holder of pirated material doesn't.)
PS: You think people who download never have and never will pay artists for their work? http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2347/125/ A government commissioned study finds that people who download music are more likely to buy it.
PS2: hand in your geek license (or punch your astroturf license) on your way out.
That is quite wrong. Anyone that owns large amounts of shares does not depend on arbitrary feelings such as "gratification", they measure money at net present value, based on their required rate of return. Depending on their required rate, $31 today may or may not be worth more than $X, Y days from now.
Just for the sheer cheek of it all, the Astroturf page gives you cause to ponder at just how amoral businesses can be. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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Actually profits don't play into it at all. The simply reason for that is that profit doesn't take into account the opportunity cost and time value of capital. He really does have to maximise shareholder value.
The core 2 duo has a much better QPR than any AMD processor out there right now, and I really don't understand what you would use CD-Rs for..maybe you meant CD-RWs instead of HDDs? They are extremely expensive.
Well, maybe the people who died didn't personally deserve it, but the country as a whole most certainly did. The meddling of the US in the politics of other nations, often supporting extremist governments, overthrowing democratically elected ones, and/or selling weapons to terrorists have DIRECTLY resulted in the worldwide hatred of the U.S. and the terrorist attacks.
You see, that's the thing with freedom: you are responsible for the consequences of what choose you do. Previous (and the current) administrations were either too short-sighted, or simply didn't give a fuck. The citizens of the U.S. elected them, and are thus (partly) responsible for - and deserved - what has happened.
TPB is not hosted in Sweden, so Swedish law does not apply to their blogging service.
The whole point is that it's so small, hence "ultraportable".
Hi, you seem to not have noticed the words "private individuals". Yes, they could release the software via filesharing, but then it would still be free (as in beer, not as in freedom obviously, but it doesn't make any difference..nobody from it except the end user who gets something for nothing). If, on the other hand, you start a business and sell that modified GNU software, which actually is a big deal, it stops being a private matter and you should (and will) be prosecuted for it.
The thing is, some things really don't deserve a real answer. In a perfect world GGP would have been modded to oblivion but unfortunately not many people know economics or follow the global economy on /. Saying that Europe is picking up speed when most major European countries have lowered their GDP growth predictions and are warning for recessions is ignorant at best. Of course if you cared about this, you already knew it, hence I didn't need to argue for it, hence "No."
From what I could gather from the summary, this sounds like a glorified Monte Carlo simulation, not exactly something newsworthy..
Your wall of text can be summed up in one sentence: bliz has added reporting facilities. Reporting facilities are NOT design elements, they are simply hastily stitched-on patches that try to hide the inadequacies of the actual design elements. As for the daily quests..they are exactly the same kind of grind the game always has had, except it's slightly more rewarding.
The problem with MMOs is that (unlike ALL other genres of games) they don't require any kind of skill at all. 100% of your progress and standing in the game is determined by the time you spend on it (OK maybe there is 5% skill involved in the arena). Anyway, I'm not just talking about FPSs: puzzle games reward skill in solving puzzles, strategy games reward strategically out thinking your opponents, sports games require a mixture of strategy/"game skill"/etc, adventure games require creativity to find the often obscure solutions to the various problems, platformers require you to time your jumps or whatever..the list goes on. Aimbots are completely different from farming bots: they "enhance" the aiming skill of the player; that (understandably) makes the game more exciting for them (at least for 10 minutes before they get bored). On the other hand, a farming bot simply removes tedious parts of the game so that the player doesn't have to experience them. While an aiming bot makes the game almost unplayable for the others, that is not so for the farming bot: any area worth farming already has a lot of people there 24/7..adding a bot doesn't really diminish the others returns that much..and what difference does it make if it's a real person or not? It could simply be two friends sharing an account and playing it 24/7.
I'm not a game designer, but as a gamer I consider a game being well designed when it rewards me for skill, being smart, thinking strategically, that kind of thing..WoW has only one route to success, and that is grinding ie spending time. Contrast this to TF2: have crazy FPS aim skills? Play a sniper, and the game rewards you for them. Strategic thinking? Play pyro and make creative use of alternative routes. The list goes on..of course you get better with time, but after the first 10-15 hours with the game, it is not a very big factor as you start running in to diminishing returns.
The problem is not bots, it's crappy game design. Once your paying customers start wanting to pay in order NOT to play your game, you know your designer is a complete retard. Then again, it seems that making games not very fun is a highly successful business model..Who would've guessed?
Everybody knows the original landings were filmed at a soundstage on Mars.
But that's complete bullshit, Comcast has been granted monopolies in the cable market, so they HAVE meddled with the free market (damn communists!). Government meddling is the reason that this problem even exists.
Spirituality entails not following logic and reason when evaluating claims and propositions. While their domains are indeed nonintersecting, spirituality is NOT compatible with the scientific method, because accepting "spiritual" propositions means ignoring logic, something a true scientist cannot do.
Not all propositions are created equal, thus the burden of proof for any claim lays on the party that makes the claim, and if no such proof is offered, that claim is COMPLETELY inconsequential. Saying that god exists/astrology works/whatever is EXACTLY the same as me saying that the room you're sitting in is filled with invisible undetectable purple raccoons. People who don't understand this are in no position to do any kind of serious scientific work.
On the third warning, they'll disconnect you. If that's how it's going to happen, what's to stop me (or anyone else) from faking said screenshots with RIAA IPs and making their ISP shut them down?
Proper formating:
1. Nobody is 'taking' anyone's income.
2. Clearly amoral? I'd like to see you argue for that.
3. No, the enemy is copyright law that is completely fucked up, and corporations that have no clue about what their clients want, instead trying to sue them into buying their product.
4. Corporations are already moving away from DRM, and they are futile and useless anyway since hackers can bypass them at will and normal users are encumbered. DRM decreases the perceived value of a product, and increases the perceived value of the pirated copy, the demand curves are shifted accordingly. It makes you wonder if anyone at the big recording companies has actually studied economics.
5. The pirate bay is not one of the bad guys either. They simply point you to material (in your analogy, it's the torrent client that gives the keys, but it doesn't work anyway, because the bank loses money, while the holder of pirated material doesn't.)
PS: You think people who download never have and never will pay artists for their work? http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2347/125/ A government commissioned study finds that people who download music are more likely to buy it.
PS2: hand in your geek license (or punch your astroturf license) on your way out.
1. Nobody is 'taking' anyone's income. 2. Clearly amoral? I'd like to see you argue for that. 3. No, the enemy is copyright law that is completely fucked up, and corporations that have no clue about what their clients want, instead trying to sue them into buying their product. 4. Corporations are already moving away from DRM, and they are futile and useless anyway since hackers can bypass them at will and normal users are encumbered. DRM decreases the perceived value of a product, and increases the perceived value of the pirated copy, the demand curves are shifted accordingly. It makes you wonder if anyone at the big recording companies has actually studied economics. 5. The pirate bay is not one of the bad guys either. They simply point you to material (in your analogy, it's the torrent client that gives the keys, but it doesn't work anyway, because the bank loses money, while the holder of pirated material doesn't.) PS: You think people who download never have and never will pay artists for their work? http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2347/125/ A government commissioned study finds that people who download music are more likely to buy it. PS2: hand in your geek license (or punch your astroturf license) on your way out.
That is quite wrong. Anyone that owns large amounts of shares does not depend on arbitrary feelings such as "gratification", they measure money at net present value, based on their required rate of return. Depending on their required rate, $31 today may or may not be worth more than $X, Y days from now.
Lying implies that the one who lies actually knows the truth.
I believe humans and dolphins are the only animals that enjoy sex. So it's not like they're losing out on anything..
Except they have been tested, and work really well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Tiger