The automobiles aren't really killing them. Those flattened possums are just playing dead; I see them get up and walk away all the time... or was that Wiley Coyote? I forget.
You're misunderstanding the story of Onan. Spilling his seed upon the ground was a sin because, as the brother of an infertile man, it was his duty to impregnate his brother's wife. Had nothing to do with wanking off (a subject I won't go into here, because all slashdotters are already intimately familiar with the subject.) Remember, these stories come from a time when a culture's prosperity and even survival were closely tied to it's birth rate, hence the prohibitions against the open practice of homosexuality. Sparta, where homosexual practices were condoned, eventually faltered due to declining population. The Hebrews created a culture wherein popping out offspring was the most important thing women could do, to the point that even today Jewish women that are infertile feel like failures in life.
They're collecting data on the way down though the air. I'm pretty sure you can't transmit through lava anyway; once they hit the surface, they're toast.
People actually said they got "news" from Rush Limbaugh?!? I thought most people only listened to that show for the entertainment value, the same reason they read the National Enquirer.
If I lust in my heart for my wife, is that a sin? If she masturbates me, is that still a sin? What does the bible have to say about phone sex with my wife?
Women are good for a lot more than sex, you know. Wait... what???
And if all you want is sex, crack whores are better than any sex toys. Actually, the sex toys generally smell a lot better and carry fewer diseases. Mmmmm... plastic! But I agree, I can't understand why a real doll would appeal to anyone who is not a necrophiliac... I prefer my women to actually move once in a while.
Sadly, Davros's invasion force was stymied when it came across the first set of stairs, and failed miserably. Meanwhile, my invasion force using the HRP-4 went on to become a huge hit on Broadway!
Can it dance? Is there a reward offered for the first team that successfully programs it to do "The Robot"? Will FOX be putting out a new reality show titled "So You Think Your Robot Can Dance"? Inquiring minds want to know!
It's programmed to detect people trying to upset it's balance, and then kick them in the balls. Hard. Sure, it falls over, but you'll never try that shit again, I guarantee ya!
Which is one of the reasons do many designers prominently display their logos on their product, even though it looks like crap to have fabric printed with a logo all over it. Then if someone copies it, it is a blatant trademark violation.
Don't you think that in the 100 years it takes a copyright to expire, somebody will come up with an effective way to break the DRM? Or is your objection that breaking the DRM after the copyright has expired is still unlawful under the DMCA?
Right. The motion picture industry is now doomed to quickly go bankrupt and shut down, just like the fashion industry, which has no copyright protection whatsoever, did. Oh wait...
My impression of Alice was that it was pretty much only useful for storyboarding. I've gotten a lot of negative feedback when I've suggested it, but my 9-year old actually seemed to like working with it. But what art students really need to learn is how to create a segmented 3D model and wrap textures around it.
Ah, no. Most of the labor cost in modern games is actually for artwork: building 3D models and textures. You need both good code and good art to succeed.
Unless by "assets" you mean "little asses", I don't think SCO has any. Besides which, can't Novell confiscate assets as part of the settlement of it's lawsuit? Seems to me there are a lot of interested parties that would request the judge freeze any sale of assets.
With the exception of DRM-protected software, music, and video that is required to phone home to a server to authorize playback, yes. As an engineer, I've run plenty of applications wherein the largest source of failure was the license server being unavailable. Again, either make me pay for it up front and allow me to do anything I want with it, or give it to me for free and charge me periodic fees for access to the servers required to make it work, but don't make me both pay for it up front AND to make it keep working.
Yet another reason they should give the client software away for free and just charge monthly fees for access to the servers. Of course, if you're foolish enough to spend real world cash to purchase virtual property, you deserve whatever you get when they shut the servers down -- no online world is going to last forever!
$100 million in development costs?!? A business plan that requires more than 130,000 registered users to succeed? They must be doing something wrong. Develop a simple, basic framework and go online with it as soon as possible, add more content later and keep adding on. Let users create their own content. Offer free trials to get people hooked. Granted, your development and support costs are probably going to run you $1 million a year regardless, but it looks to me like their business plan must have been wildly optimistic. Of course, one of the reasons I don't write my own MMO is I can't figure out how anyone can offer a good game at a decent price and still manage to be self-sustaining over several years. But really, if step 1 of your plan is "Spend $50 to $100 million on development", I can't imagine why anybody would sign off on that business plan.
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The automobiles aren't really killing them. Those flattened possums are just playing dead; I see them get up and walk away all the time... or was that Wiley Coyote? I forget.
You're misunderstanding the story of Onan. Spilling his seed upon the ground was a sin because, as the brother of an infertile man, it was his duty to impregnate his brother's wife. Had nothing to do with wanking off (a subject I won't go into here, because all slashdotters are already intimately familiar with the subject.) Remember, these stories come from a time when a culture's prosperity and even survival were closely tied to it's birth rate, hence the prohibitions against the open practice of homosexuality. Sparta, where homosexual practices were condoned, eventually faltered due to declining population. The Hebrews created a culture wherein popping out offspring was the most important thing women could do, to the point that even today Jewish women that are infertile feel like failures in life.
They're collecting data on the way down though the air. I'm pretty sure you can't transmit through lava anyway; once they hit the surface, they're toast.
People actually said they got "news" from Rush Limbaugh?!? I thought most people only listened to that show for the entertainment value, the same reason they read the National Enquirer.
If I lust in my heart for my wife, is that a sin? If she masturbates me, is that still a sin? What does the bible have to say about phone sex with my wife?
I think Alan Parson's "Eye In The Sky" would be more appropriate...
Haven't you noticed that all the strippers already come equipped with a card slot?
Women are good for a lot more than sex, you know. Wait... what???
And if all you want is sex, crack whores are better than any sex toys. Actually, the sex toys generally smell a lot better and carry fewer diseases. Mmmmm... plastic! But I agree, I can't understand why a real doll would appeal to anyone who is not a necrophiliac... I prefer my women to actually move once in a while.
Sadly, Davros's invasion force was stymied when it came across the first set of stairs, and failed miserably. Meanwhile, my invasion force using the HRP-4 went on to become a huge hit on Broadway!
Can it dance? Is there a reward offered for the first team that successfully programs it to do "The Robot"? Will FOX be putting out a new reality show titled "So You Think Your Robot Can Dance"? Inquiring minds want to know!
It's programmed to detect people trying to upset it's balance, and then kick them in the balls. Hard. Sure, it falls over, but you'll never try that shit again, I guarantee ya!
That would make a lousy sexbot. Come on, Japan, we expected much better than that of you! On the plus side, can it scrub toilets?
Which is one of the reasons do many designers prominently display their logos on their product, even though it looks like crap to have fabric printed with a logo all over it. Then if someone copies it, it is a blatant trademark violation.
Don't you think that in the 100 years it takes a copyright to expire, somebody will come up with an effective way to break the DRM? Or is your objection that breaking the DRM after the copyright has expired is still unlawful under the DMCA?
Sure, you can walk with this exoskeleton... but can you boogie???
Right. The motion picture industry is now doomed to quickly go bankrupt and shut down, just like the fashion industry, which has no copyright protection whatsoever, did. Oh wait...
Does this guy really look to you like he prefers pussy?
You are correct, however the 27Mhz R/C frequencies are taken right out of the middle of the Citizen's Band frequencies.
My impression of Alice was that it was pretty much only useful for storyboarding. I've gotten a lot of negative feedback when I've suggested it, but my 9-year old actually seemed to like working with it. But what art students really need to learn is how to create a segmented 3D model and wrap textures around it.
Ah, no. Most of the labor cost in modern games is actually for artwork: building 3D models and textures. You need both good code and good art to succeed.
Unless by "assets" you mean "little asses", I don't think SCO has any. Besides which, can't Novell confiscate assets as part of the settlement of it's lawsuit? Seems to me there are a lot of interested parties that would request the judge freeze any sale of assets.
With the exception of DRM-protected software, music, and video that is required to phone home to a server to authorize playback, yes. As an engineer, I've run plenty of applications wherein the largest source of failure was the license server being unavailable. Again, either make me pay for it up front and allow me to do anything I want with it, or give it to me for free and charge me periodic fees for access to the servers required to make it work, but don't make me both pay for it up front AND to make it keep working.
Yet another reason they should give the client software away for free and just charge monthly fees for access to the servers. Of course, if you're foolish enough to spend real world cash to purchase virtual property, you deserve whatever you get when they shut the servers down -- no online world is going to last forever!
I think you mean $5,000,000 per year, which is much less than the $48 million a year some have suggested they were pulling in.
$100 million in development costs?!? A business plan that requires more than 130,000 registered users to succeed? They must be doing something wrong. Develop a simple, basic framework and go online with it as soon as possible, add more content later and keep adding on. Let users create their own content. Offer free trials to get people hooked. Granted, your development and support costs are probably going to run you $1 million a year regardless, but it looks to me like their business plan must have been wildly optimistic. Of course, one of the reasons I don't write my own MMO is I can't figure out how anyone can offer a good game at a decent price and still manage to be self-sustaining over several years. But really, if step 1 of your plan is "Spend $50 to $100 million on development", I can't imagine why anybody would sign off on that business plan.