Of course we all know overseas spammers wouldn't dare harvest emails from such lists, because the government would arrest them at the airport when they came to visit...
Doing a search on this exact title would have shown that this was repeated just 2 days ago. Good old timothy... why bother searching when you can just wait for him to repost it?
The median age of gamers as a whole is increasing, but that's primarily due to the relatively "recent" movement of computers from expensive mainframes to Walmart desktop PC's, and the introduction of console systems.
On the one hand you've got younger people who want to play games, and on the other hand you've got older people who can afford to buy the hardware but didn't think it was a valid expenditure of money since they did not grow up with it. In the middle you've got people (like me) whose childhood coincided with the advent of gaming systems and who can now afford to buy their own equipment.
This segment of the population is increasing in age, and of course a company should continue to develop for it, but keep in mind also that we'll be dead in a few decades and in order to survive companies must continue to develop interest and loyalty from new gamers - the people Miyamoto is targeting.
In the end you really want to capture both groups - keep the people you have, and win over the next generation of customers. Since Miyamoto is not the only Nintendo developer it doesn't hurt them for him to continue to focus on his chosen audience. In fact, I applaud his decision. Leave the development of more mature games to the others, be they other Nintendo developers or their licensees.
Yes, you're right, all the cost should come out of Napster's pocket... oh wait, that's right, they don't have any money left! But I'm sure Dovebid would be willing to do the right thing and wait for their share of the final settlement.
I have accounts with both Bank of America in California and their recent expansion on the east coast, in Maryland. In my experience they have always supported Netscape/Mozilla, ever since Netscape 4.79 and Mozilla 0.9. I have yet to find a feature that didn't work perfectly in my browser.
I find that a positive sign, since in order to be anti-something you should certainly understand what it is you're being anti about. Clueless bandwagoning just because it's "cool" to be anti-MS is a sign of idiocy in the extreme.
No, entrapment is perfectly legal. An undercover police officer can come up to you, offer you a bag of powdery white substance, and ask "hey man you wanna buy some coke?" and, if you complete the purchase, arrest you on the spot.
What is NOT legal is if he pulls out his gun and FORCES you to buy the bag of powder. Essentially, they can facilitate your doing something illegal that you would have done anyway, but they can't force you to do something illegal.
Well, this is good news; the rewording is a large step in the right direction although they still haven't crossed the finish line yet.
Essentially they have revised the clause everyone was upset over to read "we can force you to stop giving away your mod, but only if we're not selling it too". This addresses the concerns people had with Bioware stealing their customers' mods, while still giving them a legal right to stop the distribution of mods they/someone finds offensive. While cencorship is still implied, it at least removes the possibility that they can unfairly profit off your hard work.
However, they still added the weasel words that would allow them to include your mod in a CD they're selling and not give you credit for it. While it does they they will make every effort to give you credit, it does not say they *have* to; in fact they give themselves permission to forget; so it basically still boilds down to "we'll give you credit if we feel like making the effort".
Oh well, if your mod is that popular, people will most likely have already heard of you and know you made it. I know that I for one now feel no hesitation in designing and distributing my own mods; whether people will want to play them is another matter.;)
Has any thought been given to how difficult it would be for poachers to "hack" this system and use it to track the seals for their own goals, which are usually exactly opposite those of the researchers?
Imagine if the poachers could simply trigger the SMS system and then triangulate on the position of the largest closest herd of seals.
What about the additional network traffic such a system would generate? Now instead of my login attempt and the server doing a local lookup, the server would have to contact yet another server to validate me.
True you could cache the credentials locally, but for how long, and what happens in the event a user changes his information on the master server, or if his account gets revoked?
I'm not saying it's a bad idea, in fact I would love to be able to forget all but one of my login passwords, but I think more thought needs to be put into such an idea.
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Of course we all know overseas spammers wouldn't dare harvest emails from such lists, because the government would arrest them at the airport when they came to visit...
Doing a search on this exact title would have shown that this was repeated just 2 days ago. Good old timothy... why bother searching when you can just wait for him to repost it?
Did anyone else notice the typo in the screenshot showing off Kate (text editor)? Where's bugzilla...
Maybe I'm just an order of magnitude more geeky than you are, but my first thought was exactly what the article turned out to be. =)
no no, it's:
5. Profit!
Sorry, it seemed so blatantly obvious, and I hadn't seen it yet.
...of Christmas trees?
What new variation to the IN SOVIET RUSSIA line is this?
The median age of gamers as a whole is increasing, but that's primarily due to the relatively "recent" movement of computers from expensive mainframes to Walmart desktop PC's, and the introduction of console systems.
On the one hand you've got younger people who want to play games, and on the other hand you've got older people who can afford to buy the hardware but didn't think it was a valid expenditure of money since they did not grow up with it. In the middle you've got people (like me) whose childhood coincided with the advent of gaming systems and who can now afford to buy their own equipment.
This segment of the population is increasing in age, and of course a company should continue to develop for it, but keep in mind also that we'll be dead in a few decades and in order to survive companies must continue to develop interest and loyalty from new gamers - the people Miyamoto is targeting.
In the end you really want to capture both groups - keep the people you have, and win over the next generation of customers. Since Miyamoto is not the only Nintendo developer it doesn't hurt them for him to continue to focus on his chosen audience. In fact, I applaud his decision. Leave the development of more mature games to the others, be they other Nintendo developers or their licensees.
And some who do.
Quick, someone preserve this for posterity... the editor's comment was not only relevant, grammatically correct, and spelled properly, but also funny!
Yes, you're right, all the cost should come out of Napster's pocket... oh wait, that's right, they don't have any money left! But I'm sure Dovebid would be willing to do the right thing and wait for their share of the final settlement.
I was browsing it fine with Mozilla 1.0.1.
It works fine for me... what version of Mozilla are you running? I'm using 1.0.1 (old, I know).
What are cuddlefish, the "safe for children under the age of 5" version of cuttlefish?
I have accounts with both Bank of America in California and their recent expansion on the east coast, in Maryland. In my experience they have always supported Netscape/Mozilla, ever since Netscape 4.79 and Mozilla 0.9. I have yet to find a feature that didn't work perfectly in my browser.
I couldn't decide whether to mod this -1: Troll or +1: Funny, so I'll just back away slowly. =)
I find that a positive sign, since in order to be anti-something you should certainly understand what it is you're being anti about. Clueless bandwagoning just because it's "cool" to be anti-MS is a sign of idiocy in the extreme.
I'll second that, I developed a web interface used to configure my company's product that uses onunload in pretty much the exact same way.
No, entrapment is perfectly legal. An undercover police officer can come up to you, offer you a bag of powdery white substance, and ask "hey man you wanna buy some coke?" and, if you complete the purchase, arrest you on the spot.
What is NOT legal is if he pulls out his gun and FORCES you to buy the bag of powder.
Essentially, they can facilitate your doing something illegal that you would have done anyway, but they can't force you to do something illegal.
We all know the great grammar skills of some of these editors, not to name names...
Well, this is good news; the rewording is a large step in the right direction although they still haven't crossed the finish line yet.
;)
Essentially they have revised the clause everyone was upset over to read "we can force you to stop giving away your mod, but only if we're not selling it too". This addresses the concerns people had with Bioware stealing their customers' mods, while still giving them a legal right to stop the distribution of mods they/someone finds offensive. While cencorship is still implied, it at least removes the possibility that they can unfairly profit off your hard work.
However, they still added the weasel words that would allow them to include your mod in a CD they're selling and not give you credit for it. While it does they they will make every effort to give you credit, it does not say they *have* to; in fact they give themselves permission to forget; so it basically still boilds down to "we'll give you credit if we feel like making the effort".
Oh well, if your mod is that popular, people will most likely have already heard of you and know you made it. I know that I for one now feel no hesitation in designing and distributing my own mods; whether people will want to play them is another matter.
Has any thought been given to how difficult it would be for poachers to "hack" this system and use it to track the seals for their own goals, which are usually exactly opposite those of the researchers?
Imagine if the poachers could simply trigger the SMS system and then triangulate on the position of the largest closest herd of seals.
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totally chinese free software environment
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What about the additional network traffic such a system would generate? Now instead of my login attempt and the server doing a local lookup, the server would have to contact yet another server to validate me.
True you could cache the credentials locally, but for how long, and what happens in the event a user changes his information on the master server, or if his account gets revoked?
I'm not saying it's a bad idea, in fact I would love to be able to forget all but one of my login passwords, but I think more thought needs to be put into such an idea.