Cause & effect. When you pop open the skylights, you end up reducing the effective insulation of the house. This becomes an issue when you're trying to keep heat in during the winter and keep heat out during the summer (and lets that much more solar energy in).
Sorry, no check, insufficiently constructive input.
The Halo franchise definitely has more life to it ~ new places, new warlords, new rings. Forerunner tech. Plenty of options.
Whatever ends up being done, it won't have the same spark that the first Halo did, or the spunk that the second and third did. (even if #3 felt like the team was saying, "Let's get this done so we can do something fun") Bungie's people being at the helm made the series great, much as they did with their other works.
Seriously, how can you forget doing a triple backflip in the Warthog and having the Bob sitting next to the MC yell, "See that thing on the left? It's a brake! USE IT!"
I'm more interested in seeing what Bungie has coming up next than to see what Halo Wars looks like.
The bloatware construes more advertising & product placement (literally, oddly) than a constructive service. This sounds a lot like getting a TiVo or the like in order to scrub commercials out of your favorite shows.
Do that many people really sign up for the full versions of the software that comes on their computers?
The whole bit about "entertaining experience" is the key to a lot of games. There are a LOT of Diablo knock offs on the shelves these days, and enough of them are there because they do the classic dungeon crawl in a sufficiently fun way. Compare Fate (or w/e it is) with Crysis, and you'll see that while Crysis has a lot of shiny tech, there was possibly a bit more thought going into the goals and quests in Fate. Fate sells more consistently accordingly.
Rock Band and Guitar Hero are pretty amusing for whetting musical interest. The local little music store has apparently had problems keeping guitars in stock, starting right around when the fuel prices started to jump in the US. It's much more fun to have an acoustic dread that I can take places, like my friend's birthday party.
There's also some agreement that we need to get someone a drum kit after watching her play full tilt on the Rock Band drums on her first time trying it. She has a little tribal drum, admittedly, but it'd be fun to watch her cut loose with a real kit.
You can't swing that with the plastic toys. They're fun, but it's a game, and you're penalized for being creative, while rewarded for doing what the game tells you to. Real instruments give you much-needed freedom to experiment or cut loose.
I'd hunt down a programmer, or hit the books, put something playable together, TEST IT, and try to pitch it to be published on Steam, XBLA, or the like. There are a couple of un-boxed distribution channels these days, and it couldn't hurt to look into them.
In the meantime... ideas are a dime a dozen, we keep hearing, and it's when everything gets put together and runs that you have a sellable product with value.
Never dealt with VETO. I'd imagine they'd have fewer numbers, but a LOT more T2 cruisers & T2 battlecruisers. It's an apples-to-oranges comparison, though, since BoB is territorial and "holds space", while VETO looks for soft targets to pirate.
'course, much like Burn Eden (who took a spin through the chunk of 0.0 I call home), usually ignore the "good" part and favor "effective" part. If you treat Eve like a war game, it's less an issue of how much "skill" or "class" you exhibit, as who leaves the field with most of their ships and most of the loot. Nobody is opposed to a turkey shoot if it puts meat on the table... except the turkeys.
I don't recognize the character's name, but VETO's been around the block long enough to curb stomp a lot of other corps (guilds). Mean customers that most of the old hats know well enough to take seriously.
This strikes me as the classic fallacy for suing online service providers, to challenge the messenger for the messages that they deliver. Craigslist is about as fast and lose as sites seem to come, and all that's needed is a legitimate email address to post ~ which costs about five cents and ten minutes to set up. The service has absolutely no guarantees of poster accuracy, honesty, or legitimacy ~ honestly, about on par with a web board. Keeping eBay and Amazon on their toes is valid, in my book, solely for the fact that their sites enable transactions, but beyond that, it's buyer beware.
This lawsuit makes about as much sense as bringing the FTC in to a flea market. You can't impose any sorts of regulations without completely warping the existing system, in which case it's no longer a flea market.
I'd like to observe that there IS a show that's fun and entertaining and focuses heavily on gamers and their interests. It's called Penny Arcade Expo and it's in about three weeks. With any luck, it will include 100% less Ewe Boll, and (not saying it isn't already) 100% more awesome.
Richard Stallman is continuing his campaign to open source anything with digital logic. Today web apps, tomorrow home appliances. Tune in at 10 for the local news spot. Film at 11. Ninja attack at 2am during the late night show.
They don't come across as jokes so much as reasons you might want to stay. Hey, your wife/children/studies/job/nutrition are important, but won't you keep your 15/month subscription? It costs less than a fifth of decent rum!
I've signed up twice and turned it off twice. They try to keep it light, but it's no joke, and they're not the only ones who go to strange lengths to try to keep customers on the hook. Hell, cigarettes use nicotine.
I've found that the real humor in quitting WoW is in their 'last gasp' message. I decided that school and money came before a silly game, so hit the unsubscribe reason and picked "I need the time for school". They helpfully displayed a little message that went along the lines of, 'You don't have to go! A lot of other people who pick this reason found that they have lots of friends they want to talk to in WoW!'
Irksome that they do it, but yeah, they just don't want to lose any subscribers.
Slashdot Mirror
Cause & effect. When you pop open the skylights, you end up reducing the effective insulation of the house. This becomes an issue when you're trying to keep heat in during the winter and keep heat out during the summer (and lets that much more solar energy in).
Sorry, no check, insufficiently constructive input.
...can we lump the MediaSentry/SafeNet "investigations" in the numbers for these attacks?
The Halo franchise definitely has more life to it ~ new places, new warlords, new rings. Forerunner tech. Plenty of options.
Whatever ends up being done, it won't have the same spark that the first Halo did, or the spunk that the second and third did. (even if #3 felt like the team was saying, "Let's get this done so we can do something fun") Bungie's people being at the helm made the series great, much as they did with their other works.
Seriously, how can you forget doing a triple backflip in the Warthog and having the Bob sitting next to the MC yell, "See that thing on the left? It's a brake! USE IT!"
I'm more interested in seeing what Bungie has coming up next than to see what Halo Wars looks like.
How did this get modded up past the firehose? Buffy, Firefly, and MMOGs have nothing to do with-
Oh, wait.
The bloatware construes more advertising & product placement (literally, oddly) than a constructive service. This sounds a lot like getting a TiVo or the like in order to scrub commercials out of your favorite shows.
Do that many people really sign up for the full versions of the software that comes on their computers?
...for a suite with a window seat when the arcology launches into space?
-oh wait, this isn't SC2k.
The whole bit about "entertaining experience" is the key to a lot of games. There are a LOT of Diablo knock offs on the shelves these days, and enough of them are there because they do the classic dungeon crawl in a sufficiently fun way. Compare Fate (or w/e it is) with Crysis, and you'll see that while Crysis has a lot of shiny tech, there was possibly a bit more thought going into the goals and quests in Fate. Fate sells more consistently accordingly.
Rock Band and Guitar Hero are pretty amusing for whetting musical interest. The local little music store has apparently had problems keeping guitars in stock, starting right around when the fuel prices started to jump in the US. It's much more fun to have an acoustic dread that I can take places, like my friend's birthday party.
There's also some agreement that we need to get someone a drum kit after watching her play full tilt on the Rock Band drums on her first time trying it. She has a little tribal drum, admittedly, but it'd be fun to watch her cut loose with a real kit.
You can't swing that with the plastic toys. They're fun, but it's a game, and you're penalized for being creative, while rewarded for doing what the game tells you to. Real instruments give you much-needed freedom to experiment or cut loose.
I'd hunt down a programmer, or hit the books, put something playable together, TEST IT, and try to pitch it to be published on Steam, XBLA, or the like. There are a couple of un-boxed distribution channels these days, and it couldn't hurt to look into them.
In the meantime ... ideas are a dime a dozen, we keep hearing, and it's when everything gets put together and runs that you have a sellable product with value.
I expect the scientists will pay more attention than the slashdot editors?
Respectively:
* I've never dealt with VETO. Go find them, or check their KB.
* See #1
* I haven't dealt with AAA in the last 12 months. Go ask AAA.
Never dealt with VETO. I'd imagine they'd have fewer numbers, but a LOT more T2 cruisers & T2 battlecruisers. It's an apples-to-oranges comparison, though, since BoB is territorial and "holds space", while VETO looks for soft targets to pirate.
'course, much like Burn Eden (who took a spin through the chunk of 0.0 I call home), usually ignore the "good" part and favor "effective" part. If you treat Eve like a war game, it's less an issue of how much "skill" or "class" you exhibit, as who leaves the field with most of their ships and most of the loot. Nobody is opposed to a turkey shoot if it puts meat on the table ... except the turkeys.
I don't recognize the character's name, but VETO's been around the block long enough to curb stomp a lot of other corps (guilds). Mean customers that most of the old hats know well enough to take seriously.
This strikes me as the classic fallacy for suing online service providers, to challenge the messenger for the messages that they deliver. Craigslist is about as fast and lose as sites seem to come, and all that's needed is a legitimate email address to post ~ which costs about five cents and ten minutes to set up. The service has absolutely no guarantees of poster accuracy, honesty, or legitimacy ~ honestly, about on par with a web board. Keeping eBay and Amazon on their toes is valid, in my book, solely for the fact that their sites enable transactions, but beyond that, it's buyer beware.
This lawsuit makes about as much sense as bringing the FTC in to a flea market. You can't impose any sorts of regulations without completely warping the existing system, in which case it's no longer a flea market.
You BYOC'ing? (note: every now and then, slashdot needs a "send message" function.)
Hey, can you blame me for wanting PAX a month earlier?
I'd like to observe that there IS a show that's fun and entertaining and focuses heavily on gamers and their interests. It's called Penny Arcade Expo and it's in about three weeks. With any luck, it will include 100% less Ewe Boll, and (not saying it isn't already) 100% more awesome.
Surrre. What were they using it for before they released it?
Richard Stallman is continuing his campaign to open source anything with digital logic. Today web apps, tomorrow home appliances. Tune in at 10 for the local news spot. Film at 11. Ninja attack at 2am during the late night show.
They don't come across as jokes so much as reasons you might want to stay. Hey, your wife/children/studies/job/nutrition are important, but won't you keep your 15/month subscription? It costs less than a fifth of decent rum!
I've signed up twice and turned it off twice. They try to keep it light, but it's no joke, and they're not the only ones who go to strange lengths to try to keep customers on the hook. Hell, cigarettes use nicotine.
"Zee goggles, they do nothing!"
I've found that the real humor in quitting WoW is in their 'last gasp' message. I decided that school and money came before a silly game, so hit the unsubscribe reason and picked "I need the time for school". They helpfully displayed a little message that went along the lines of, 'You don't have to go! A lot of other people who pick this reason found that they have lots of friends they want to talk to in WoW!'
Irksome that they do it, but yeah, they just don't want to lose any subscribers.
Compulsive patch upgrader? How many flavors of Linux are you running at home?
He could try swimming in the B reactor pools, but I think that might end up being a one-way trip. It'd be interesting for the morning paper though!