Yeah. Only applies to celebrities. And movie theaters. And government installations. And conventions/art shows. And any place you want to keep secure, or where photography is prohibited.
Look, useful things don't pop fully formed into existence, serving their main purpose and their main purpose only. You know what the Internet was for? The military. Stuff expands, okay? You invent something for one reason, and suddenly it's useful for a whole host of things.
That would be SO COOL. If you don't like the anaesthetic stuff, or if Xenon + oxygen is too rich and makes people lightheaded or something, just give 'em small little air canisters. Easier than underwater, but still seperate from what they're swimming in.
There's also tons of movies that feature a normal slow kiss, yet they don't even feature one "fucking head" getting blown off. So I guess we're even.
America might be overly violent and prudes when it comes to sex, but they see Europe as weakling hedonistic-pansies. It goes both ways, man. You can't understand why we fill our kids' heads with violence, yet hide them from sex, but I wouldn't want to live in a country that repressed violence any more than it repressed sex. You see how backwards we Americans are about sex: imagine if we were like that with violence too.
You have to do more than just rail against what America is like right now. The same views you find completely irrational when applied to sex, you think ought to be applied to violence. We're crazy over here in America, yes, but you European chaps are just as weird. Just in the opposite way.
As far as I can tell, every MMO is evolutionary, not revolutionary, except maybe something like Second Life. Even stuff like Planetside sticks you on a sort of levelling treadmill. I took issue not with you calling PotBS evolutionary, but with your comparing it to Puzzle Pirates and then calling it evolutionary, as if PotBS was just taking stuff from PP and adding a bit of new stuff. I agree that PotBS is similar to other MMOs (EVE Online first and foremost) but the only thing it has SPECIFICALLY in common with PP is pirates. Other than that they only resemble each other to the same degree that all MMOs do.
Don't be silly. Lots of MMORPGs claim to be skill based: Guild Wars, Star Wars Galaxies: JTL, Planetside, etc. Sea combat with command strategy? What the heck do you EXPECT a pirate game to feature? Space combat with no command strategy? Is "pirate" suddenly reserved for Puzzle Pirates, and anything with sea combat and "ship damage" (how would combat work without damage?) is a ripoff of PP? A PVP conquerable world is something you find in Planetside, Star Wars: Galaxies, World of Warcraft (they claim), and lots of other MMOs. It's not the property of Puzzle Pirates. Customizable avatars are in every single MMO ever, at all, in the history of the universe.
I can't see how you can call this "evolutionary, not revolutionary" simply because it has pirates and features other MMOs do. Almost every MMO (excluding CoH, The Matrix Online, and Second Life and stuff like that) has the features you're describing along with a setting that is similar to another MMO that is already out. I played PotBS at PAX and it resembled Puzzle Pirates about as much as that BF1942 Pirates mod does.
Here's how I'd address it: the number of viewers we get does not depend on whether or not we wildly extrapolate, and it makes for better TV. Honestly, who cares? We're not curing cancer or something.
I'm not saying the Army hates people, because it doesn't, but they're not doing this because they just love the guys so much they can't stand to see their teeth less than shiny. At the beginning of the Iraq war, huge amounts of soldiers from the Fort Lewis Stryker brigade (I think) couldn't go in because their teeth were so crappy. This isn't a comfort thing, it's a "soldier will not be able to function due to pain/not being able to eat thier MREs" thing. The Army cares about the soldiers, yes, but no way it's going to spend lotsa money just to make them happy. It's all about combat readiness.
I know that it's very specific that cafes are being targeted by the curfew. It ISN'T specific about everyone else though. It's mostly the title that's misleading IMHO.
Yeah well, good luck with that. The entities certainly will go to a special hell, but the people running them will get rich and retire to a private island while we whine about their idiocy and moral ineptitude.
To be fair, Sony Online Entertainment probably has nothing to do with those chaps who shoved a rootkit at us. Sony's a big freaking company man. The programmers are probably on different continents.
That's actually perfectly legitimate, so let's reword it so we get an answer:
Why have you chosen to answer questions here on Slashdot instead of on the Star Wars: Galaxies forums? Many players are already fed up with the lack of communication, especially with these sweeping changes being announced the day after many of us bought Trials of Obi-Wan. Don't you have more of a responsibility to paying customers than you do to promoting the game?
That's a pretty silly question. We all know the answer. Whether or not people are going to like the new changes, you want as many people as possible to have bought Trials of Obi-Wan first. Maximizes your money: the people who don't like the new stuff already payed, and the people who held off but like the new stuff will end up paying too. Don't pretend for a second that SOE doesn't want your money. They want to make good games, sure, but money is important.
Hey, I just bought JTL. I've barely played at all. I had Star Wars: Galaxies for a while before I bought JTL and now I feel pretty much screwed. I could have waited like a month or something and saved my money.
Yes, but the summary also gives the impression that they're limiting time at home too (look at some comments if you don't believe me). It would have been a good idea to put "Malaysia Gaming Centers Face Curfew" instead of "Malaysia Gamers Face Night Curfew" because then people don't just assume that gamers in Malaysia are unable to play at night.
The Slashdot summary gives a false impression. It's only Internet cafes they're cracking down on, not people playing games in their homes. The summary really blows it out of proportion.
Maybe he's playing on the wrong servers or something. I'm a crappy chopper pilot, but nobody ever flies them so I usually hop in them from time to time just so they don't sit there, alone, waiting, unused.
I'm not saying Sony isn't totally willing to pull crazy stuff on us. I just think that a DVD that only works on one player is going to be much harder to sell to the public than a hidden rootkit use for music copywright protection on a limited number of discs that the average person has no hope of understanding. Companies don't think in degrees of badness (IE a rootkit is far worse than draconian DRM) but rather what they can get away with.
And what if you upgrade your DVD drive? Are you screwed?
I'll believe the tech when I see it. I'm not sure Sony has the guts to try something this restrictive.
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Look, useful things don't pop fully formed into existence, serving their main purpose and their main purpose only. You know what the Internet was for? The military. Stuff expands, okay? You invent something for one reason, and suddenly it's useful for a whole host of things.
That would be SO COOL. If you don't like the anaesthetic stuff, or if Xenon + oxygen is too rich and makes people lightheaded or something, just give 'em small little air canisters. Easier than underwater, but still seperate from what they're swimming in.
America might be overly violent and prudes when it comes to sex, but they see Europe as weakling hedonistic-pansies. It goes both ways, man. You can't understand why we fill our kids' heads with violence, yet hide them from sex, but I wouldn't want to live in a country that repressed violence any more than it repressed sex. You see how backwards we Americans are about sex: imagine if we were like that with violence too.
You have to do more than just rail against what America is like right now. The same views you find completely irrational when applied to sex, you think ought to be applied to violence. We're crazy over here in America, yes, but you European chaps are just as weird. Just in the opposite way.
As far as I can tell, every MMO is evolutionary, not revolutionary, except maybe something like Second Life. Even stuff like Planetside sticks you on a sort of levelling treadmill. I took issue not with you calling PotBS evolutionary, but with your comparing it to Puzzle Pirates and then calling it evolutionary, as if PotBS was just taking stuff from PP and adding a bit of new stuff. I agree that PotBS is similar to other MMOs (EVE Online first and foremost) but the only thing it has SPECIFICALLY in common with PP is pirates. Other than that they only resemble each other to the same degree that all MMOs do.
I can't see how you can call this "evolutionary, not revolutionary" simply because it has pirates and features other MMOs do. Almost every MMO (excluding CoH, The Matrix Online, and Second Life and stuff like that) has the features you're describing along with a setting that is similar to another MMO that is already out. I played PotBS at PAX and it resembled Puzzle Pirates about as much as that BF1942 Pirates mod does.
Here's how I'd address it: the number of viewers we get does not depend on whether or not we wildly extrapolate, and it makes for better TV. Honestly, who cares? We're not curing cancer or something.
I haven't run into many hackers. It's mostly the server you play on and whether admins are around.
Yeah, Natural Selection is one of my top 10 games. And it's free. That's just crazy. Very few games have the same mix of teamwork and action.
I'm not saying the Army hates people, because it doesn't, but they're not doing this because they just love the guys so much they can't stand to see their teeth less than shiny. At the beginning of the Iraq war, huge amounts of soldiers from the Fort Lewis Stryker brigade (I think) couldn't go in because their teeth were so crappy. This isn't a comfort thing, it's a "soldier will not be able to function due to pain/not being able to eat thier MREs" thing. The Army cares about the soldiers, yes, but no way it's going to spend lotsa money just to make them happy. It's all about combat readiness.
Valve learned its lesson. They no longer give specific days and they not that all their dates are always subject to change.
I know that it's very specific that cafes are being targeted by the curfew. It ISN'T specific about everyone else though. It's mostly the title that's misleading IMHO.
If you bought the console the day before it went down $100, you're going to be mad. There was a Penny-Arcade comic about that which I cannot find.
They'd enforce it the way Texas enforces its laws against sex toys or whoever has anti-sodomy laws enforces those. That is, I have no idea.
Yeah well, good luck with that. The entities certainly will go to a special hell, but the people running them will get rich and retire to a private island while we whine about their idiocy and moral ineptitude.
It also doesn't have the same abrasive language. You catch more flies with honey than with "fuck." Er, vinegar.
To be fair, Sony Online Entertainment probably has nothing to do with those chaps who shoved a rootkit at us. Sony's a big freaking company man. The programmers are probably on different continents.
That's actually perfectly legitimate, so let's reword it so we get an answer:
Why have you chosen to answer questions here on Slashdot instead of on the Star Wars: Galaxies forums? Many players are already fed up with the lack of communication, especially with these sweeping changes being announced the day after many of us bought Trials of Obi-Wan. Don't you have more of a responsibility to paying customers than you do to promoting the game?
That's a pretty silly question. We all know the answer. Whether or not people are going to like the new changes, you want as many people as possible to have bought Trials of Obi-Wan first. Maximizes your money: the people who don't like the new stuff already payed, and the people who held off but like the new stuff will end up paying too. Don't pretend for a second that SOE doesn't want your money. They want to make good games, sure, but money is important.
Hey, I just bought JTL. I've barely played at all. I had Star Wars: Galaxies for a while before I bought JTL and now I feel pretty much screwed. I could have waited like a month or something and saved my money.
Yes, but the summary also gives the impression that they're limiting time at home too (look at some comments if you don't believe me). It would have been a good idea to put "Malaysia Gaming Centers Face Curfew" instead of "Malaysia Gamers Face Night Curfew" because then people don't just assume that gamers in Malaysia are unable to play at night.
The Slashdot summary gives a false impression. It's only Internet cafes they're cracking down on, not people playing games in their homes. The summary really blows it out of proportion.
Maybe he's playing on the wrong servers or something. I'm a crappy chopper pilot, but nobody ever flies them so I usually hop in them from time to time just so they don't sit there, alone, waiting, unused.
I'm not saying Sony isn't totally willing to pull crazy stuff on us. I just think that a DVD that only works on one player is going to be much harder to sell to the public than a hidden rootkit use for music copywright protection on a limited number of discs that the average person has no hope of understanding. Companies don't think in degrees of badness (IE a rootkit is far worse than draconian DRM) but rather what they can get away with.
Amazon referral link for the lose.
And what if you upgrade your DVD drive? Are you screwed? I'll believe the tech when I see it. I'm not sure Sony has the guts to try something this restrictive.