Apple could release it under a limited support or use at your own risk type environment. Say what hardware they will support, which would probably be near mirrors of their own hardware, and say anything else isn't supported. I could guarentee that mfg.'s would build to suit, and so would the home user going the custom route.
Don't forget the cardboard wheel that came with Lucas Arts' Indiana Jones and The Fate of Atlantis...
I really do miss some of the old verifications from the floppy days; some were games themselves.
The article says this is a "brave new world" to not need the CD...
How old is this guy? Does he not remember the days before they required the CD to play?
This isn't a brave new world, it's a return to the way things used to be.
Funny, wasn't it Blizzard that started the "Disc Required" movement? I may be wrong, but I think it was Warcraft 2 or Starcraft.
all they do is run a site... if someone gets raped from meeting someone online, does that mean the victim can sue a MySpace or whomever for facilitating the meeting place?
Wasnt't there a link further up that said he had 2% in the national polls and that had in him in a tie for 5th place for the Dems?
2% of American Democrats. If that's just is viewership, a whole lot of people watch his show.
Except for the time travel part, I wonder how far off we are from seeing corporate SWAT teams go in for the kill on people who fux up their products, steal insider info, etc.
Rise of the Megacorps!
amazingly enough, they're still around. And free! Provide your own connection, and use AOL for free.
They finally moved form being a connection provider to a content provider. They still offer dial-up for $10/mo, which isn't bad. Smart move on their part.
That would be a laugh riot.
If we could only get network news to cover Jack's insane suits, then he'd start barking up the only tree that gives him any respect. School Shootings Expert my ass.
They have a contract with Brighthouse, so they won't let Verizon put in the fiber. They guise it under the banner of saying VZ tears up utilities while doing it, but I was working at BHN when they moved to the Carillon center, which was art of the deal with the county.
I'm honestly flabbergasted someone on/. would ask this...
DSL and Cable modems have a tendency to lock up. May it be line noise, overheating due to bad placement, or the connection is up and down so fast it just locks up. Some of these devices have a reset button on them, or even a power button, and sometimes these work just fine, but most of the time you have to pull the power completely, standard time frame is 10 seconds, to reboot the modems.
When I worked on the support end for AOL, I was in a broadband que, and took calls from thee customers exclusively. We had 3 kinds, none of which was better than the other; Cable, DSL, and BYOB (Bring Your Own Broadband). DSL was the worst, not even because of the customer either; we were disallowed to contact the user's phone company to get thigns resolved. We had to place a ticket in with out higher up DSL team, and they'd do it. Added days to support issues.
Except for the sub 10% of AOL users who know what they are doing, most of them will be confused and confounded by just even the idea of OpenID, let alone how to use it.
Trust me, I worked with these people for almost 3 years. You know there's little hope when you tell them to unplug just the power to their DSL modem, and explaining which one the power cable is, but they unplug the phone line anyways.
AOL needs to go down, so their users can learn for themselves.
"Lets ban, in school, what 90% of the tubes are for. And by tubes, I mean phone lines, which these internets are run over! If we don't block these interactive sites, that let you click on things, and view things, then out tubes will be filled! TUBES!"
Someone needs to order him a case of "for Dummies." books.
Meh. Nothing surprising here, it's just lame they have to make it corp. policy.
The EB Games I worked at on and off since '98 (gotta love seasonal jobs for the discount), we had a 3-strike policy. We policed ourselves, since we never wanted to deal with an angry parent. But if someone screwed up, it wasn't pretty. Bathroom duty for a month sucked.
Plus it was fun seeing a 12yr odl try and dupe their parent into buying something like GTAx, and asking the parent "are you aware this is a mature rated game?" 90% of the time, they had no idea and would get pissed at their kid.
Price changes per reseller and per server, and they fluctuate all the time.
One thing you have to remember is Burning Crusade just came out, so the lull in buying gold is over for a short time, as people now was all the new weapons and skills and professions. It will go back down.
And yes, you will see it spike up after Blizzard flushes out a batch of accounts, because thye have to resetup all their accounts and rebuild their farmers, which takes time.
Don't take my first post as standing up for gold farmers, I hate them just as much as everyone else. I was merely stating the fact that Blizzard talks a big talk, but behind the curtain, they're not doing more to stop the farmers.
I've often wondered, with all the effort blizzard puts into stopping gold farmers from selling gold
What effort does Blizzard put into stopping gold farmers? Not nearly as much as they might want you believe. So far, the most they've done is ban accounts. But what does that really mean? All they do is freeze the acct permanently, they don't block the account holder from opening up another 100 or so accounts on a new CC.
I know for a fact that they do not take action aginst the sites that actually sell the gold, only the accounts that farm it. And you know why? They know that gold reselling is a very important secondary market to their game. They know that if they killed it completely, they would lose a portion of their playerbase.
Granted, I love the OLPC idea, but the addiditon of millions of kids to the internet all at once can't be good...
Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies. Rivers and seas boiling.
Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness. Earthquakes, volcanoes...
Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria
As long as it's not a Uwe Boll movie.
Boll is trying to ruin any chance a script based on a game may have in Hollywood. It's been therorised that he's abusing a German tax law, which basicly let shim make the crap he's been shoveling our way, having it bomb, and he still makes a mint due to write-offs.
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Apple could release it under a limited support or use at your own risk type environment. Say what hardware they will support, which would probably be near mirrors of their own hardware, and say anything else isn't supported. I could guarentee that mfg.'s would build to suit, and so would the home user going the custom route.
RIP Mitch Hedberg. His comedy wasn't the most unique, but it was damned funny shit.
Does Chairface Chippendale run NASA now?
Don't forget the cardboard wheel that came with Lucas Arts' Indiana Jones and The Fate of Atlantis... I really do miss some of the old verifications from the floppy days; some were games themselves.
The article says this is a "brave new world" to not need the CD... How old is this guy? Does he not remember the days before they required the CD to play? This isn't a brave new world, it's a return to the way things used to be. Funny, wasn't it Blizzard that started the "Disc Required" movement? I may be wrong, but I think it was Warcraft 2 or Starcraft.
all they do is run a site... if someone gets raped from meeting someone online, does that mean the victim can sue a MySpace or whomever for facilitating the meeting place?
Wasnt't there a link further up that said he had 2% in the national polls and that had in him in a tie for 5th place for the Dems? 2% of American Democrats. If that's just is viewership, a whole lot of people watch his show.
"Have you ever seen what happens to a yeti when 12 containers full of unadulterated gamma rays burst in its stomach?"
Except for the time travel part, I wonder how far off we are from seeing corporate SWAT teams go in for the kill on people who fux up their products, steal insider info, etc. Rise of the Megacorps!
amazingly enough, they're still around. And free! Provide your own connection, and use AOL for free. They finally moved form being a connection provider to a content provider. They still offer dial-up for $10/mo, which isn't bad. Smart move on their part.
That would be a laugh riot. If we could only get network news to cover Jack's insane suits, then he'd start barking up the only tree that gives him any respect. School Shootings Expert my ass.
They have a contract with Brighthouse, so they won't let Verizon put in the fiber. They guise it under the banner of saying VZ tears up utilities while doing it, but I was working at BHN when they moved to the Carillon center, which was art of the deal with the county.
they're not bad, but depending on your neighborhood, you could have anywhere from 50 to 250 modems on one UBR. I'm getting FiOS ASAP. 15/2 is nice.
I'm honestly flabbergasted someone on /. would ask this...
DSL and Cable modems have a tendency to lock up. May it be line noise, overheating due to bad placement, or the connection is up and down so fast it just locks up. Some of these devices have a reset button on them, or even a power button, and sometimes these work just fine, but most of the time you have to pull the power completely, standard time frame is 10 seconds, to reboot the modems.
When I worked on the support end for AOL, I was in a broadband que, and took calls from thee customers exclusively. We had 3 kinds, none of which was better than the other; Cable, DSL, and BYOB (Bring Your Own Broadband). DSL was the worst, not even because of the customer either; we were disallowed to contact the user's phone company to get thigns resolved. We had to place a ticket in with out higher up DSL team, and they'd do it. Added days to support issues.
Can't teach an (A)OLd dog new tricks.
Except for the sub 10% of AOL users who know what they are doing, most of them will be confused and confounded by just even the idea of OpenID, let alone how to use it.
Trust me, I worked with these people for almost 3 years. You know there's little hope when you tell them to unplug just the power to their DSL modem, and explaining which one the power cable is, but they unplug the phone line anyways.
AOL needs to go down, so their users can learn for themselves.
God, all i can say is Tubes.
TUBES!
How could anyone take this guy seriously?
"Lets ban, in school, what 90% of the tubes are for. And by tubes, I mean phone lines, which these internets are run over! If we don't block these interactive sites, that let you click on things, and view things, then out tubes will be filled! TUBES!"
Someone needs to order him a case of "for Dummies." books.
Meh. Nothing surprising here, it's just lame they have to make it corp. policy.
The EB Games I worked at on and off since '98 (gotta love seasonal jobs for the discount), we had a 3-strike policy. We policed ourselves, since we never wanted to deal with an angry parent. But if someone screwed up, it wasn't pretty. Bathroom duty for a month sucked.
Plus it was fun seeing a 12yr odl try and dupe their parent into buying something like GTAx, and asking the parent "are you aware this is a mature rated game?" 90% of the time, they had no idea and would get pissed at their kid.
Ahh, the little joys in life.
Mmmm, railguns.
It sounds like something from a William Gibson novel. Only difference is our government isn't a corporation.
Price changes per reseller and per server, and they fluctuate all the time.
One thing you have to remember is Burning Crusade just came out, so the lull in buying gold is over for a short time, as people now was all the new weapons and skills and professions. It will go back down.
And yes, you will see it spike up after Blizzard flushes out a batch of accounts, because thye have to resetup all their accounts and rebuild their farmers, which takes time.
Don't take my first post as standing up for gold farmers, I hate them just as much as everyone else. I was merely stating the fact that Blizzard talks a big talk, but behind the curtain, they're not doing more to stop the farmers.
I've often wondered, with all the effort blizzard puts into stopping gold farmers from selling gold
What effort does Blizzard put into stopping gold farmers? Not nearly as much as they might want you believe. So far, the most they've done is ban accounts. But what does that really mean? All they do is freeze the acct permanently, they don't block the account holder from opening up another 100 or so accounts on a new CC.
I know for a fact that they do not take action aginst the sites that actually sell the gold, only the accounts that farm it. And you know why? They know that gold reselling is a very important secondary market to their game. They know that if they killed it completely, they would lose a portion of their playerbase.
Sad but true.
Granted, I love the OLPC idea, but the addiditon of millions of kids to the internet all at once can't be good... Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies. Rivers and seas boiling. Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness. Earthquakes, volcanoes... Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave. Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria
where the grizzly bears live with no firearm
I think it is unjust for the Canadian government to ban bears from owning firearms, especialy those who live in the wilderness.
Whoops. Wonder if they used rat stem cells on rats. I would think using any other species' DNA would definitly cause issues.
As long as it's not a Uwe Boll movie. Boll is trying to ruin any chance a script based on a game may have in Hollywood. It's been therorised that he's abusing a German tax law, which basicly let shim make the crap he's been shoveling our way, having it bomb, and he still makes a mint due to write-offs.