So your school can either fork out the extra money to buy and support a mass license that you get automatically but they have to keep track of....or they can give you the software for free and only ask that you perform the simple task of activating it.
Not much of an excuse. Is it really that freaking hard to take five minutes?
With the number of people spending their free time gaming on the rise, I cannot believe that ANYONE is surprised that there are companies who are moving to explore this venue for advertising.
Honestly, I'm surprised only by the fact that this hasn't already happened.
I mean, seriously, more people play online multiplayer games than watch prime-time television. You'd have to be nuts to not have expected the advertising industry to want to get their hands on that.
If the ads are in the intro screens of a game, those can just be escaped through or cut off with dev commands, same as we deal with game company splash screens now. If they're in the game on billboards and signs, big deal. We've already got fake ads and crap.
Now if the ads stop gameplay or interfere with gameplay, people will complain, and sales will go down (not to mention the number of people playing, killing the community for that game). I doubt the gaming companies and advertising industry are going to do anything like that.
Either way, we all need to chill out and handle this maturely. Aside from waiting to see what happens, one can always ping their favorite game companies and ask them what they plan to do in regards to this, and at the same time express your opinions (civily). There's no reason to fly off the handle and start advocating software piracy or anything that moronic.
Far more knowledgable and dedicated scientists have had knowledge of time distortion and the data on the tapes, than we. I'm sure they would have put 2 and 2 together long ago on that. (And if not them, one of the amatures following this stuff.)
The 'Dark Energy/Dark-Matter' issue is, I believe, a fruitless claim. It merely arises in this issue because it is a hot topic in the astronomy/physics world today.
More likely these "behaviors" are caused by a faulty unit on the spacecraft that was present in each craft and thus all have experienced similar malfunctions.
Ads are already in games, it's just that most often they are fake and made up (examples: Doom3, HL2, FarCry, etc).
So if the vending machines for "Dr. Breans Water Reserve" get changed to Coca-Cola machines, does it really matter? You usually just ignore them anyway. Before, they were kinda neat, and sometimes funny. Now, it'll just be random junk we ignore as we play.
Of course, this is indicative of an industry that is suffering from a shortage of income (and no, I'm not talking about the big corps). Allowing ads into games to help pay for the costs and increase the quality of the game, may be something to consider after all.
1. If they destroy this machine, someone will have to create a new device to read those tapes accurately, so that they can be transfered to another media.
2. Someone will have to do those transfers, which adds money and time to the project.
So we got a game where you play a guy who speeds around a city running from the police, dealing with drug lords, buying/using guns in gang fights, picking up prostitutes, etc...and it only becomes "for adults only" when boobs get introduced?
Anyone else see a problem here?
And wtf good is a rating called "M: Mature". I mean, good lord...I know 2 year olds with more maturity that some adults. And 17 is mature? Hell, I wouldn't even consider 18 to be mature, or 19, or 20.
But lets get to the root here, folks. We've got an idiotic rating system, run by a load of dorks, fruitcakes, and paranoids, as a fruitless attempt to cover for the fact that there is a massive lack of parenting going on.
How long is it going to take for MS to understand that slandering Linux is not going to get them anywhere? And I'm not being pro or anti anything when I say that.
She's 10, and she's from Pakistan. Irregardless of anything else, she's programming and going for certifications. How come we can't get any bum American 10 year olds to do anything? I tell ya, other countries succeed because their people are willing to work. Instead of saying "Let me show you how your computer works," most Americans just throw their kids a playstation. Progress for mind and country, ha!
Congrats to this little girl. May she one day make her country proud.
If it's not easy to use, I don't want to use it. Why should I put up with a lowsy interface and tedious processes just because some lazy two-bit programmer didn't think it was needed to make his components easy to use?
Cars now have power steering. The car will drive fine without power steering, but power steering makes my life easier, and I want it. If some dealership tried to tell me their cars don't have power steering because it's not important, I'd say "see ya later, no sale."
Alright, I'll concede with you for the most part *sees his 2 cents*.
The only thing I want to say in comment is that Windows' original objected was to get people -away- from the command line. To get them away from the hammer line and allow the users to graphically manipulate their system through icons and GUIs, and it was one of their greatest successes. Once users stopped having to deal with the command line and could instead deal with pictures and forms, things became so much more easier for the average joe to use a computer.
My mother, she just turns the computer on, hits the Outlook email icon, hits 'NEW', types email, clicks 'SEND' and it's over. She's never even SEEN the command line. The only paths she ever has to think about are website addresses. It's perfect.
Okay, so if we agree that the Internet should have some moderation and force to keep it safe/productive/moving/etc, and we don't want the US to have domain over that (which I agree with to a degree)...who should that moderator be? We'd want someone unbiased and universal, and it would have to be someone with the ability to provide not only the logistical manpower and financial backing, but the power to do the footwork (ie - raids/busts/etc).
Although I haven't been a UN supporter for a number of years, I'm having a hard time thinking of another non-government body that can do so. If anyone's got any better ideas, please lay them out.
1. Linux will continue to move slowly, because Linux is still far too foreign to the average computer user.
2. When I'm out poking through BestBuy (or whatever) and I see a new game, the last thing I want to have to deal with is "will this work on my Linux machine?"
3. Most people using Windows have been doing so since Windows came out (or whatever version was out when they came of keyboard-age). Asking people to drop all those years of familiarity and pick up something totally new, is rather like telling someone they can't speak English anymore (assuming they speak English natively, of course).
4. Hanging out with Linux users is like driving a nail into your forehead...over and over and over again. It's just "Windows sucks, blah blah blah" all freaking day long.
5. If the 'Linux daily experience' was half as good as Linux users touted it to be, Linux would not need to continually need to use slander to prove its point.
6. You don't teach old dogs new tricks. It is a LOT harder to convert habitual Windows users, than it is to convert those who have not spent years using Windows. Why doesn't Linux focus more on getting Linux in classrooms and in front of youngsters? It seems wiser to me to convert them while they're young.
7. 90-percent of the people I've known (from forums or in person) who have switched to Linux, did so because they had a MINOR Windows problem that they believed to be a major Windows problem because it was blown out of proportion by the Linux community.
8. If you told my mother (and most of the rest of the world) that to solve their problem they needed to "patch their kernel and possibly check their driver dependencies" they'd go "huh?" and walk away.
9. "Upgrade Windows, Mom." "How do I do that?" "It does it automatically." "Okay."
10. Mention that you're having a problem in Windows, and you'll get a ton of Linux users spouting anti-Windows propaganda...and little else. (Mention a Linux problem, and the penguin KGB supresses it.)
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Hasn't this topic come up several times before? And not just here? This isn't really new news.
And besides, can't say I'll shed many tears for software pirates getting slammed.
So your school can either fork out the extra money to buy and support a mass license that you get automatically but they have to keep track of....or they can give you the software for free and only ask that you perform the simple task of activating it.
Not much of an excuse. Is it really that freaking hard to take five minutes?
The only time piracy is justified is if the game is no longer being sold and can't be found on eBay (or whatever).
With the number of people spending their free time gaming on the rise, I cannot believe that ANYONE is surprised that there are companies who are moving to explore this venue for advertising.
Honestly, I'm surprised only by the fact that this hasn't already happened.
I mean, seriously, more people play online multiplayer games than watch prime-time television. You'd have to be nuts to not have expected the advertising industry to want to get their hands on that.
If the ads are in the intro screens of a game, those can just be escaped through or cut off with dev commands, same as we deal with game company splash screens now. If they're in the game on billboards and signs, big deal. We've already got fake ads and crap.
Now if the ads stop gameplay or interfere with gameplay, people will complain, and sales will go down (not to mention the number of people playing, killing the community for that game). I doubt the gaming companies and advertising industry are going to do anything like that.
Either way, we all need to chill out and handle this maturely. Aside from waiting to see what happens, one can always ping their favorite game companies and ask them what they plan to do in regards to this, and at the same time express your opinions (civily). There's no reason to fly off the handle and start advocating software piracy or anything that moronic.
Don't waste time with expensive court trials and negative propoganda. Just grab 'em and stuff'em in the river.
Nice to see someone has the same level of patience I have for these people.
Far more knowledgable and dedicated scientists have had knowledge of time distortion and the data on the tapes, than we. I'm sure they would have put 2 and 2 together long ago on that. (And if not them, one of the amatures following this stuff.)
The 'Dark Energy/Dark-Matter' issue is, I believe, a fruitless claim. It merely arises in this issue because it is a hot topic in the astronomy/physics world today.
More likely these "behaviors" are caused by a faulty unit on the spacecraft that was present in each craft and thus all have experienced similar malfunctions.
Ads are already in games, it's just that most often they are fake and made up (examples: Doom3, HL2, FarCry, etc).
So if the vending machines for "Dr. Breans Water Reserve" get changed to Coca-Cola machines, does it really matter? You usually just ignore them anyway. Before, they were kinda neat, and sometimes funny. Now, it'll just be random junk we ignore as we play.
Of course, this is indicative of an industry that is suffering from a shortage of income (and no, I'm not talking about the big corps). Allowing ads into games to help pay for the costs and increase the quality of the game, may be something to consider after all.
True, but there are two problems.
1. If they destroy this machine, someone will have to create a new device to read those tapes accurately, so that they can be transfered to another media.
2. Someone will have to do those transfers, which adds money and time to the project.
Agreed.
I'm actually very surprised this topic hasn't been consumed by "Darwin is anti-God" morons.
So we got a game where you play a guy who speeds around a city running from the police, dealing with drug lords, buying/using guns in gang fights, picking up prostitutes, etc...and it only becomes "for adults only" when boobs get introduced?
Anyone else see a problem here?
And wtf good is a rating called "M: Mature". I mean, good lord...I know 2 year olds with more maturity that some adults. And 17 is mature? Hell, I wouldn't even consider 18 to be mature, or 19, or 20.
But lets get to the root here, folks. We've got an idiotic rating system, run by a load of dorks, fruitcakes, and paranoids, as a fruitless attempt to cover for the fact that there is a massive lack of parenting going on.
Treat the problem, not the symptom.
Agreed. Parents are the problem 99-percent of the time.
*kicks feet* Make it go! Make it go! Faster! Faster!
How long is it going to take for MS to understand that slandering Linux is not going to get them anywhere? And I'm not being pro or anti anything when I say that.
500-million...
I had a hand in that. Thanks iTunes!
I wonder where the money goes from purchases to those "smaller" sites?
This wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that more women stay home than men, would it? She's better with the DVR because she's with it all day.
She's 10, and she's from Pakistan. Irregardless of anything else, she's programming and going for certifications. How come we can't get any bum American 10 year olds to do anything? I tell ya, other countries succeed because their people are willing to work. Instead of saying "Let me show you how your computer works," most Americans just throw their kids a playstation. Progress for mind and country, ha!
Congrats to this little girl. May she one day make her country proud.
Because there's a 10-year-old in Pakistan who passed one test?
Agreed.
If the test was exactly the same, but was for Linux, she'd get tons of praise.
Troll.
If it's not easy to use, I don't want to use it. Why should I put up with a lowsy interface and tedious processes just because some lazy two-bit programmer didn't think it was needed to make his components easy to use?
Cars now have power steering. The car will drive fine without power steering, but power steering makes my life easier, and I want it. If some dealership tried to tell me their cars don't have power steering because it's not important, I'd say "see ya later, no sale."
Alright, I'll concede with you for the most part *sees his 2 cents*.
The only thing I want to say in comment is that Windows' original objected was to get people -away- from the command line. To get them away from the hammer line and allow the users to graphically manipulate their system through icons and GUIs, and it was one of their greatest successes. Once users stopped having to deal with the command line and could instead deal with pictures and forms, things became so much more easier for the average joe to use a computer.
My mother, she just turns the computer on, hits the Outlook email icon, hits 'NEW', types email, clicks 'SEND' and it's over. She's never even SEEN the command line. The only paths she ever has to think about are website addresses. It's perfect.
Okay, so if we agree that the Internet should have some moderation and force to keep it safe/productive/moving/etc, and we don't want the US to have domain over that (which I agree with to a degree)...who should that moderator be? We'd want someone unbiased and universal, and it would have to be someone with the ability to provide not only the logistical manpower and financial backing, but the power to do the footwork (ie - raids/busts/etc).
Although I haven't been a UN supporter for a number of years, I'm having a hard time thinking of another non-government body that can do so. If anyone's got any better ideas, please lay them out.
See, Penguin KGB. I lay down some facts, mostly unfavorable to Linux, and get down-modded. LOL. The Linux Nazi Regime.
BTW, AS IF THIS -WHOLE TOPIC- WASN'T FLAME BAIT TO BEGIN WITH PAL!
1. Linux will continue to move slowly, because Linux is still far too foreign to the average computer user.
2. When I'm out poking through BestBuy (or whatever) and I see a new game, the last thing I want to have to deal with is "will this work on my Linux machine?"
3. Most people using Windows have been doing so since Windows came out (or whatever version was out when they came of keyboard-age). Asking people to drop all those years of familiarity and pick up something totally new, is rather like telling someone they can't speak English anymore (assuming they speak English natively, of course).
4. Hanging out with Linux users is like driving a nail into your forehead...over and over and over again. It's just "Windows sucks, blah blah blah" all freaking day long.
5. If the 'Linux daily experience' was half as good as Linux users touted it to be, Linux would not need to continually need to use slander to prove its point.
6. You don't teach old dogs new tricks. It is a LOT harder to convert habitual Windows users, than it is to convert those who have not spent years using Windows. Why doesn't Linux focus more on getting Linux in classrooms and in front of youngsters? It seems wiser to me to convert them while they're young.
7. 90-percent of the people I've known (from forums or in person) who have switched to Linux, did so because they had a MINOR Windows problem that they believed to be a major Windows problem because it was blown out of proportion by the Linux community.
8. If you told my mother (and most of the rest of the world) that to solve their problem they needed to "patch their kernel and possibly check their driver dependencies" they'd go "huh?" and walk away.
9. "Upgrade Windows, Mom."
"How do I do that?"
"It does it automatically."
"Okay."
10. Mention that you're having a problem in Windows, and you'll get a ton of Linux users spouting anti-Windows propaganda...and little else. (Mention a Linux problem, and the penguin KGB supresses it.)
11. Penguins belong behind windows.