You sell your steam account (which is against the Steam ToS). Basically, I'd create an account for each game that you purchase and then barter that account away somehow.
You must not be american. In America, you can easily be in 9th grade and test past the required level to graduate high school and then you can take college courses, that is, attend the local university/college paid entirely by your high school. I know many people who didn't show up to the high school building once during their junior/senior years because they were taking their classes from the university for university credits.
3x $140 = $420. I can buy a cheap used laptop, or sometimes with enough rebates, a new one, low model one from a laptop manufacturer. The only people buying a crappy laptop for the price of a better laptop are idealists and when most idealists come to a point where money is involved, they simply opt out.
Since honestly there's most likely not much else that needs to be known about said "children's machine 1" other than it's not happening for a while yet and is going to cost more. But really, where is _my_ children's machine 1? I want one, it seems like it has all the features I need and want -- a screen, a keyboard, and compact enough to take with me anywhere I want without trembling about it breaking and costing me a liver to replace. Isn't the biggest problem with creating said product that it's going to be expensive to manufacture and they don't have the money to get it to all the kids? Well, why not mark it up to $250 and start selling it to consumers? I know I want one.
... see the big draw of mind storms. I'm not saying this as someone who has never played with the kit, I have the original mindstorm RCX or what have you lying around in the basement with several huge tubs of legos. I've played around with it quite a bit, but I just don't see the point in creating little robots that do insignificant things. Color me unimaginative, but I'd rather be making AI for a game than playing with lego robots (actually, I'd rather be coding a virtual lego enviroment:))
Why does branching them out to other markets cause them to lose your business? They still provide the same items at their same great prices. I think you're just bitching about a non-issue, honestly.
well when people talk like this and dont bother using punctuation spacekeys or any of the skills that they have been taught in school its no wonder why webpages turn out like this not to mention those long runon sentences and also all that broken code that are the fist attempt at a webpage by a twelve year old kid who tried to steal someone elses layout and replaced the word with his own then you start to look at all of those dynamically generated webpages and the layouts and the style sheets and its no wonder why the good old br tag never get a work out.
These are official "ranked" maps that count towards you global ranking. The higher your ranking, the more weapons you can access, the higher of prefference you recieve in game when applying for commander. It makes perfect sense for DICE to only let authorized maps count towards this ranking, but you are more than free to play on the thousands of other custom player created maps.
Uh... I ANAL, but I'm pretty sure that you HAVE to file a suit with the court so that they can issue the ISP of those people a subpeona to get their real names. I didn't RTFA, but most likely a nosy journalist was reading whatever suits were filed that day (I'm pretty sure that this is all public disclosed?) and just found this interesting and made it into a story.
Now lets examine FFXI. 1. Click the ffxi button on my hotbar. 2. This actually just opens up pol, so click login. 3. This brings up the password box, but it is already filled in. Click login again. 4. It thinks for 5 or 6 seconds and we get the main screen. Click "Games" 5. Click "FFXI" instead of "Tetra Master" 6. Click Play FFXI on the welcoming menu. 7. Click the "ok, I won't forget to feed myself or use the restroom" button. 8. Click to skip the opening cinema. 9. Click '"play" to get to character selection. 10. Doubleclick your character. 11. Doubleclick your "Handle" (a completely unnecessary creation that is distinct from both your character name AND your login ID). 12. Confirm your choices and hit "OK".
I have no clue what you're talking about.. 1) I double click on POL. Since I'd previously hit remmember password and auto-login, it brings me straight to the main menu. I see that I have no new messages or mail. 2) I click on games. 3) I click on final fantasy. 4) I click play. 5) I click play again at the "don't forget you have a life outside of this game!" screen. Which I feel is nifty and wish that WOW would have a similar one so that may people who now play that game and I used to know would get a hint. 6) Hit "ok" at the accept TOS screen (just to save them their ass) 7) Hit select character. 8) Select a character, and confirm selection. And I'm in. Fast. Painless. No bitching.
The game executable should be just that. THE GAME. It should allow you to play THE GAME. Why should it handle accounts and subscriptions? Use a separate executable, or a website, or anything you want. It doesn't belong in the game, because it's wrong in two ways. First you're reinventing the wheel and then you're attaching it to an unnecessary place.
Uh..... You _DO_ realize you can just install POL and nothing else? For the longest time, I had uninstalled FFXi and just used the messaging/email capabilities of POL (woo.. my own @pol.com address, nifty) to talk with people. You do realize that the japenese version of POL has more than two games, right? POL is a lot like steam and we all know how much people rant against things that are different, eh?
If you've played that game, you'd know that it almost fits into the MMOFPS genre with being able to play on a single map with 64 people. I wouldn't want to play a massive MMOFPS with 2-4000 people though some reasons:
* Latency: Your average FPS game server will kick anyone over 200-300 ms ping because they either have some sort of a script or an active admin. An MMOFPS will be there to make money and I hardly doubt that they will be kicking paying customers off.
* Scope: The problem with MMOs is that events are always taking place wherever you are not. You're gonna need to travel an assload of distance to get wherever the current battles are taking place. What if you die? Where will you spawn? That's a major PITA. Even if they implement "spawn anywhere your team is," it's still rather annoying to find out where you can frag the most which is the beauty of simple server hopping in FPS games.
* Teamwork: Unless you have a dedicated clan, which most people won't have, you will simply be playing with a bunch of idiots who do everything to further their own gaming experience without any regard for the people on their team. An example of this in BF2 when nobody will ever stop to give you a ride, look at your landmines covering the road (and then punish your TK when they ignore the glaring red skulls), and then shoot you when you spawn and run halfway to grabbing the vehicle. Imagine that, but on a massive, thousand player scale. Fun, huh?
So, for my quick fix of shooters, I'll stick to smaller (in comparrison) games and have my fun there:P.
That's not very good though, I don't have a job right now, but I own two domain names (I won't plug them here though..). Thankfully, they only cost me something like $9 for a year and with a friend hosting my sites for me, I can enjoy the benefit of being a penniless bum with a domain name.
Obviously, you don't watch much anime. Look at the fan subs on the internet of the most recently aired anime in japan. Over half of those, I'll go even with 75% of the anime shown in japan well.. sucks. People are going "ZOMG TEH ANIME! MUCH DIFFERENT!" and leave out the fact that most anime produced in Japan is still for kids and thus is pointed at that demographic. Oh sure, there's good stuff, and for the most part, only the top of the crop is ever brought over to the US. After all, what profit is there in bringing something that didn't make much money in japan here?
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You sell your steam account (which is against the Steam ToS). Basically, I'd create an account for each game that you purchase and then barter that account away somehow.
You must not be american. In America, you can easily be in 9th grade and test past the required level to graduate high school and then you can take college courses, that is, attend the local university/college paid entirely by your high school. I know many people who didn't show up to the high school building once during their junior/senior years because they were taking their classes from the university for university credits.
3x $140 = $420. I can buy a cheap used laptop, or sometimes with enough rebates, a new one, low model one from a laptop manufacturer. The only people buying a crappy laptop for the price of a better laptop are idealists and when most idealists come to a point where money is involved, they simply opt out.
Since honestly there's most likely not much else that needs to be known about said "children's machine 1" other than it's not happening for a while yet and is going to cost more. But really, where is _my_ children's machine 1? I want one, it seems like it has all the features I need and want -- a screen, a keyboard, and compact enough to take with me anywhere I want without trembling about it breaking and costing me a liver to replace. Isn't the biggest problem with creating said product that it's going to be expensive to manufacture and they don't have the money to get it to all the kids? Well, why not mark it up to $250 and start selling it to consumers? I know I want one.
... see the big draw of mind storms. I'm not saying this as someone who has never played with the kit, I have the original mindstorm RCX or what have you lying around in the basement with several huge tubs of legos. I've played around with it quite a bit, but I just don't see the point in creating little robots that do insignificant things. Color me unimaginative, but I'd rather be making AI for a game than playing with lego robots (actually, I'd rather be coding a virtual lego enviroment :))
Why does branching them out to other markets cause them to lose your business? They still provide the same items at their same great prices. I think you're just bitching about a non-issue, honestly.
My friend is canadian and he says he makes up 33% of slashdot's international readership. Have you met him?
That's what I was thinking, but they had the A/V cable neatly coiled in front of the TV..
For that very same song? Hmmm, I'm having doubts here.
Did you read the police booking report?
Cosmic genius
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-715315209 8207965240&q=xbox+chocolate+milk
well when people talk like this and dont bother using punctuation spacekeys or any of the skills that they have been taught in school its no wonder why webpages turn out like this not to mention those long runon sentences and also all that broken code that are the fist attempt at a webpage by a twelve year old kid who tried to steal someone elses layout and replaced the word with his own then you start to look at all of those dynamically generated webpages and the layouts and the style sheets and its no wonder why the good old br tag never get a work out.
Komrad speaks truth, the longest I've lived (starting from level 1) is a measly level 4.
These are official "ranked" maps that count towards you global ranking. The higher your ranking, the more weapons you can access, the higher of prefference you recieve in game when applying for commander. It makes perfect sense for DICE to only let authorized maps count towards this ranking, but you are more than free to play on the thousands of other custom player created maps.
Alarmingly enough, when I was graduating from highschool, there were still quite a number of kids who could not solve something as simple as this.
Uh... I ANAL, but I'm pretty sure that you HAVE to file a suit with the court so that they can issue the ISP of those people a subpeona to get their real names. I didn't RTFA, but most likely a nosy journalist was reading whatever suits were filed that day (I'm pretty sure that this is all public disclosed?) and just found this interesting and made it into a story.
Now lets examine FFXI.
1. Click the ffxi button on my hotbar.
2. This actually just opens up pol, so click login.
3. This brings up the password box, but it is already filled in. Click login again.
4. It thinks for 5 or 6 seconds and we get the main screen. Click "Games"
5. Click "FFXI" instead of "Tetra Master"
6. Click Play FFXI on the welcoming menu.
7. Click the "ok, I won't forget to feed myself or use the restroom" button.
8. Click to skip the opening cinema.
9. Click '"play" to get to character selection.
10. Doubleclick your character.
11. Doubleclick your "Handle" (a completely unnecessary creation that is distinct from both your character name AND your login ID).
12. Confirm your choices and hit "OK".
I have no clue what you're talking about..
1) I double click on POL. Since I'd previously hit remmember password and auto-login, it brings me straight to the main menu. I see that I have no new messages or mail.
2) I click on games.
3) I click on final fantasy.
4) I click play.
5) I click play again at the "don't forget you have a life outside of this game!" screen. Which I feel is nifty and wish that WOW would have a similar one so that may people who now play that game and I used to know would get a hint.
6) Hit "ok" at the accept TOS screen (just to save them their ass)
7) Hit select character.
8) Select a character, and confirm selection.
And I'm in. Fast. Painless. No bitching.
The game executable should be just that. THE GAME. It should allow you to play THE GAME. Why should it handle accounts and subscriptions? Use a separate executable, or a website, or anything you want. It doesn't belong in the game, because it's wrong in two ways. First you're reinventing the wheel and then you're attaching it to an unnecessary place. Uh..... You _DO_ realize you can just install POL and nothing else? For the longest time, I had uninstalled FFXi and just used the messaging/email capabilities of POL (woo.. my own @pol.com address, nifty) to talk with people. You do realize that the japenese version of POL has more than two games, right? POL is a lot like steam and we all know how much people rant against things that are different, eh?
If you've played that game, you'd know that it almost fits into the MMOFPS genre with being able to play on a single map with 64 people. I wouldn't want to play a massive MMOFPS with 2-4000 people though some reasons:
:P.
* Latency: Your average FPS game server will kick anyone over 200-300 ms ping because they either have some sort of a script or an active admin. An MMOFPS will be there to make money and I hardly doubt that they will be kicking paying customers off.
* Scope: The problem with MMOs is that events are always taking place wherever you are not. You're gonna need to travel an assload of distance to get wherever the current battles are taking place. What if you die? Where will you spawn? That's a major PITA. Even if they implement "spawn anywhere your team is," it's still rather annoying to find out where you can frag the most which is the beauty of simple server hopping in FPS games.
* Teamwork: Unless you have a dedicated clan, which most people won't have, you will simply be playing with a bunch of idiots who do everything to further their own gaming experience without any regard for the people on their team. An example of this in BF2 when nobody will ever stop to give you a ride, look at your landmines covering the road (and then punish your TK when they ignore the glaring red skulls), and then shoot you when you spawn and run halfway to grabbing the vehicle. Imagine that, but on a massive, thousand player scale. Fun, huh?
So, for my quick fix of shooters, I'll stick to smaller (in comparrison) games and have my fun there
That's not very good though, I don't have a job right now, but I own two domain names (I won't plug them here though..). Thankfully, they only cost me something like $9 for a year and with a friend hosting my sites for me, I can enjoy the benefit of being a penniless bum with a domain name.
Obviously we should give control of the internet over to the UN. They would never abuse or monopolize it.
What do you think the HTML part of XHTML means?
Obviously, you don't watch much anime. Look at the fan subs on the internet of the most recently aired anime in japan. Over half of those, I'll go even with 75% of the anime shown in japan well.. sucks. People are going "ZOMG TEH ANIME! MUCH DIFFERENT!" and leave out the fact that most anime produced in Japan is still for kids and thus is pointed at that demographic. Oh sure, there's good stuff, and for the most part, only the top of the crop is ever brought over to the US. After all, what profit is there in bringing something that didn't make much money in japan here?
But isn't almost every other store a starbucks anyways?