It is hard for me to quantify what would be lost but I can tell you this, I know that the price is too high part of the appeal of the internet for me is being able to expand my perceptions by having disscusions with others of diffrent walks of life.
The large theaters are in higher demand (more flexable show times, stadium seating maybe and it likely is newer) so they charge what ever the like... plus they have to prop up other less successfull members of the chain... aren't these big corporations wonderfull?
I could stand the exspensive conssesions (I don't eat in theaters) and the expensive tickets (I don't go to movies alone or very offten) what gets me is the 30 minutes or mor of comercials before the film (it uses to be local busnesses mostly) now it is all this mass produced corprate crap.
it is unfortunate that it's passing won't wake up anyone at SOE to the fact that they have lost focus... To me the danger is that the EAs SOEs and Vuvendi Universals of the world will smother what is left of creativity or at the vary least use there market share to undermine smaller and more inovative developers while cranking out "sure thing" sequals and sport sims.
While I was finishing school I worked in a Blockbuser Video, we had something like this but it was much longer (possibly a half hour or more) full of adds propoganda and movie trailers. I would hate to be in ear shot for 60 itterations of an 8 minute loop. Stocking staff dosn't make nearly enough for that.
Hum... that would be a bit full circle... I always thought T-Bird and F-Fox where supposed to be stand alone products.
The intigration between the two is actual pretty good as it is... in fact I would say that having one product that does it all may not always be a good thing I don't always want T-Bird to grab my mail just because I want to surf the web for instance.
OK, I guess I should have said Soviet Comunisim... my point still stands though, ATI and nVidia competing is good for the industry just like AMD and Intel.
How hard is it to understand that Fox makes a habit of canceling good shows (or prempting them every week) and holding there rights in limbo and then puting on unwatchable trash.
The return of Famly Guy was a sign, we can vote with our wallets here we don't need to stand for being told what we like anymore.
Yeah tell me about it... and what is worse is when you start a project by comparing it to the iPod before there is even a glimer of information about it.
I think this Microsoft (insert clever code name here) is only going to kill it self.
In the end MS doesn't seem to add anything to the personal entertanment market... what they don't seem to get is that a successful game or media player needs to truely give the user what they want without making them jump through hoops.
Microsoft could make the industry do whatever they want, but they have choosen to make corporations happy and not customers, it's sad really.
I think it is and here is why, that is the state of things in the US right now many households eather have 2 or three consoles attached to one TV or PS2s Xboxes and Gamecubes attached to diffrent TVs. I see no reason for this to change for the new generation because even if the consoles are exspensive there are always going to be diffrent tastes in games among the people in a household.
I didn't say I don't like MMOs, I have played and enjoyed many non fantasy MMOs.
I wasn't trying to belittle anyone, if anything I beleve that many of the people I know who play WoW deserve better value from the game for there investment.
It is telling that you are so quick to take offense, but you do make a point... hours and hours of daily leasure time is wastefull be it an FPS, RTS, MMO, TV or book.
I detest WoW (and yes I have played, admitedly very little) and I am not going to sensor my self because WoW is popular at the moment or pay for a game I don't like just to fit in.
I see... so really all you need to do is secure the scaning computers from the attack just like a traditional virus. It was unclear to me if the tags could talk to each other, I was prety sure they couldn't.
No wonder people get scared... if somone with a good grasp of computer tech can get confused here imagine how your grandparents fell.
It stings to get banned... but realy any MMO is a waste of time, WoW being one of the worst in my opinion.
if this is Blizzards new attitiude towards it's customers, maybe I can get all of my friends to stop playing WoW and spend some time in the real world interacting with people in person.
Mod me a troll if you want it won't change the fact that I am siclk of Fantasy MMOs.
Well there are a couple of advantages that I know of to RFID
1. Inventory, beeing able to know what is in your store and where it is in a retal setting.
2. Convinence, things like being able to park a cart next to a teller and have all the items charged instantly.
3. RFID is already used sucessfuly for tracking pets and could be used to store medical data in people with alergies or other specal medical requirements, along with other personal data if the individual choses.
Let me say I'm scared of some of the potental abuses to, but there are upsides to this.
I agree, conflict is rare in Star Trek (unless they intend to set this game during some kind of war) so shooting back and forth should be only one way to solve a mission... But then again, the game would need to be inclusive to everyone including security.
The trick would be to make a system where all classes are fun, people will fill all of the roles by them selves the Developer's role would be to make it so people don't regret those choices. For example: someone who is attracted to Science Officer should be presented with the kind of game play that that tipe of gamer tends to like.
The hard part is making the content inclusive of all of this game play... no small task.
Honestly I hope Perpetual gets it right, this game has great potential.
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That the game is unfun... mostly becaues it is caught between two (some say 3) diffrent and incompatable designs. Well eather way I'm not coming back.
It is hard for me to quantify what would be lost but I can tell you this, I know that the price is too high part of the appeal of the internet for me is being able to expand my perceptions by having disscusions with others of diffrent walks of life.
That is actualy close to right.
The large theaters are in higher demand (more flexable show times, stadium seating maybe and it likely is newer) so they charge what ever the like... plus they have to prop up other less successfull members of the chain... aren't these big corporations wonderfull?
I could stand the exspensive conssesions (I don't eat in theaters) and the expensive tickets (I don't go to movies alone or very offten) what gets me is the 30 minutes or mor of comercials before the film (it uses to be local busnesses mostly) now it is all this mass produced corprate crap.
it is unfortunate that it's passing won't wake up anyone at SOE to the fact that they have lost focus... To me the danger is that the EAs SOEs and Vuvendi Universals of the world will smother what is left of creativity or at the vary least use there market share to undermine smaller and more inovative developers while cranking out "sure thing" sequals and sport sims.
While I was finishing school I worked in a Blockbuser Video, we had something like this but it was much longer (possibly a half hour or more) full of adds propoganda and movie trailers. I would hate to be in ear shot for 60 itterations of an 8 minute loop. Stocking staff dosn't make nearly enough for that.
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In other news water is wet, fire is hot and rocks are hard. Our sources predict that soon Microoft will trash linux, stay tuned....
Hum... that would be a bit full circle...
I always thought T-Bird and F-Fox where supposed to be stand alone products.
The intigration between the two is actual pretty good as it is... in fact I would say that having one product that does it all may not always be a good thing I don't always want T-Bird to grab my mail just because I want to surf the web for instance.
OK, I guess I should have said Soviet Comunisim... my point still stands though, ATI and nVidia competing is good for the industry just like AMD and Intel.
Compitition is good!
If ATI was out of busness do you think nVidia would ever inovate again?
A monopoly is always bad for the consumer... this is one of the reasons socalism doesn't work.
How hard is it to understand that Fox makes a habit of canceling good shows (or prempting them every week) and holding there rights in limbo and then puting on unwatchable trash.
The return of Famly Guy was a sign, we can vote with our wallets here we don't need to stand for being told what we like anymore.
Yeah tell me about it... and what is worse is when you start a project by comparing it to the iPod before there is even a glimer of information about it.
I think this Microsoft (insert clever code name here) is only going to kill it self.
In the end MS doesn't seem to add anything to the personal entertanment market... what they don't seem to get is that a successful game or media player needs to truely give the user what they want without making them jump through hoops.
Microsoft could make the industry do whatever they want, but they have choosen to make corporations happy and not customers, it's sad really.
I think it is and here is why, that is the state of things in the US right now many households eather have 2 or three consoles attached to one TV or PS2s Xboxes and Gamecubes attached to diffrent TVs. I see no reason for this to change for the new generation because even if the consoles are exspensive there are always going to be diffrent tastes in games among the people in a household.
Q-tips lots of Q-tips...
or fold a paper towel in to quarters around some kind of card and use it to scrape.
I was just kidding... I tend ot call people Capitan "something" when they spout trivia.
Thanks Capitan Wiki!
It may not be a popular answer but some kind of simple Database is likely the way to go.
I didn't say I don't like MMOs, I have played and enjoyed many non fantasy MMOs.
I wasn't trying to belittle anyone, if anything I beleve that many of the people I know who play WoW deserve better value from the game for there investment.
It is telling that you are so quick to take offense, but you do make a point... hours and hours of daily leasure time is wastefull be it an FPS, RTS, MMO, TV or book.
I detest WoW (and yes I have played, admitedly very little) and I am not going to sensor my self because WoW is popular at the moment or pay for a game I don't like just to fit in.
I see... so really all you need to do is secure the scaning computers from the attack just like a traditional virus. It was unclear to me if the tags could talk to each other, I was prety sure they couldn't.
No wonder people get scared... if somone with a good grasp of computer tech can get confused here imagine how your grandparents fell.
It stings to get banned... but realy any MMO is a waste of time, WoW being one of the worst in my opinion.
if this is Blizzards new attitiude towards it's customers, maybe I can get all of my friends to stop playing WoW and spend some time in the real world interacting with people in person.
Mod me a troll if you want it won't change the fact that I am siclk of Fantasy MMOs.
Well there are a couple of advantages that I know of to RFID
1. Inventory, beeing able to know what is in your store and where it is in a retal setting.
2. Convinence, things like being able to park a cart next to a teller and have all the items charged instantly.
3. RFID is already used sucessfuly for tracking pets and could be used to store medical data in people with alergies or other specal medical requirements, along with other personal data if the individual choses.
Let me say I'm scared of some of the potental abuses to, but there are upsides to this.
Realy how is this diffrent from an email virus? it's not like they can reprogram "good" RFID tags into "bad" ones can they?
I agree, conflict is rare in Star Trek (unless they intend to set this game during some kind of war) so shooting back and forth should be only one way to solve a mission... But then again, the game would need to be inclusive to everyone including security.
The trick would be to make a system where all classes are fun, people will fill all of the roles by them selves the Developer's role would be to make it so people don't regret those choices. For example: someone who is attracted to Science Officer should be presented with the kind of game play that that tipe of gamer tends to like.
The hard part is making the content inclusive of all of this game play... no small task.
Honestly I hope Perpetual gets it right, this game has great potential.
Exactly... the game should not be a "tread mill to Capitan" any rank should be fully palyable.
Having said that... knowing gamers many would personaly set there goals to become a Capitan and "win".