2) He is one guy competing again many many 1000's of normal athletes on that distance. The chance that he would still be the best runner with artificial legs, if everyone had them, is very small. Therefor that argument doesn't prove much.
Besides its clear that the legs works differently then human legs. He starts slow and then accelerates to run faster then the others after about 200m. That alone points to the fact that his legs are very different in performance to normal legs.
Consoles and PC target 2 different markets in my opinion. Consoles target casual gamers, while PC targets pro gamers.
On consoles its often single player (or split screen) and just recently you can play online - but you can only communicate with voice. You cannot write long text messages to explain complicated tactics on your clan forum, you cannot send maps with tactical drawings on them to defeat the enemy clan, that your fighting after arranging a match on clanbase.com. You cannot insult them on IRC after the match.
Good luck playing a MMORPG on console or ever beating a FPS player, who aims with his mouse.
Now you are the one totally missing the point. Identification is not tracking.
The problem they are trying to solve is identification: Is the person standing in front of you really the person they say they are. This is useful in many cases, as you already know.
I would like to see Microsoft make some moves like that too.
Then the EU can bring out the big guns:
- Seize all Microsoft property in the EU - Void all Microsoft patents (and copyright and so on) in the EU
Hey basically the EU could make all current and future Microsoft software open source. Who needs a license then?
Moves like these would definitely piss off someone in the USA, but with an economy close to recession its not a good idea to start an economic conflict with the worlds leading economical power, the EU, over a software company.
Which is why it's great that the EU is going to force it upon the content providers. Either they can choose no DRM og they must choose standardized DRM. Its a win-win for the European consumer.
How can you compare what EVE and WoW gets away with, when they differ so much in population numbers? You could probably find more players in WoW who could live with just the PvP system, then there are EVE players in total.
In my opinion EVE gets away with a repetitive environment because people have very little reference to how it actually looks when your traveling through space.
You know its time to change to the metric system when you can read definitions on imperial units from wikipedia like this:
"Because the furlong was "one plough's furrow long" and a furrow was the length a plough team was to be driven without resting, the length of the furlong and the acre vary regionally, nominally due to differing soil types. In England the acre was 4,840 square yards, but in Scotland it was 6,150 square yards and in Ireland 7,840 square yards."
If we keep the imperial system i guess its important to ask what kind of soil the distance is supposed to be? Is it English soil when traveling to the moon? Is the ox well fed? Is it an experienced plough team leading the expedition? Maybe its raining that day and the soil becomes softer?
Come to think of it why should we ever abandon the imperial system!?!
I completely disagree. Aimbots play first person shooters (FPS) far better then most people, but that doenst mean that FPS require no skills or thought.
Name me just 1 popular game, where its impossible to make a bot play it reasonably well!?
One of the reasons Denmark is leading the OECD list this year*, and probably will remain high on the list for many years, is the fact that the power companies have started to roll out fibre to consumers, as they work to bury overhead power lines. We just had a big merger in Denmark, where many of the major power companies turned into one company called DONG Energy, which is going to speed up the process. They estimate 98% of the population will have access to this within 10 years. I very much welcome this development as my 8Mbit/s line isen't cutting it anymore!
It will definetly mean that a wider range of weapons will be used over time, instead of just the M4A1, CV47 and Magnum. This also means new tactics will be developed to suit the new challenges. Thats very positive for a game and its positive for all players who like to face new challenges.
You can always argue wether its a good or bad thing that the provider controls the content and not the customer. One thing that speaks for the provider is the ressources needed to run the servers and scoresystem and so on, which are essential in any competitive game. If you had to support 10 different versions it would require more ressources, so its quite understandable that the provider chooses to only have 1 version running.
Im excited to see how it plays out ingame and i personally think it will give the game a fresh new twist.
The currently cheapest (where you dont need to buy more then 1 line at a time) is metronet, which is
8Mbit/1Mbit for about 50$ 24Mbit/1Mbit for about 70$
But you can only get 12-15Mbit over most copper lines here in Denmark and you have to live close to the central, so the last offer might not be so good. The electrical companies have started placing optical fibers in some areas providing 10-100Mbit down- and upload for reasonable prices, and they expect to cover 98% of the country with this in 10-12 years. This will place the current providers under extreme pressure, seeing as thier market is all tied to copper lines, which will effectively be obsolete by then. The death of landline telephones is predicted to be in 5 years here in Denmark, all replaced by mobile phones.
And since i saw how it went with the French guy trying to claim victory and having people saying the low price in france is due to low income and low living standards i can proactively defend Denmark with a small piece from the cia factbook about Danish economy:
"Because of high GDP per capita, welfare benefits, a low Gini index, and political stability, the Danish people enjoy living standards topped by no other nation."
I understand what the otherside is doing "but what if the gov't names granny apple as a terrorist when she really is a sweet old lady who gives people apples...who can help her if we cant talk about it." Well this is where the gov't is wrong and the journalist should be allowed.
How can you tell if granny is a terrorist or not before it has been settled by a court of law? You magically know the truth?
Yeah the closed source client. The one where the author Ludvig Strigeus now works in association with some anti-p2p company called PeerFactor. Good luck.
Slashdot Mirror
2) He is one guy competing again many many 1000's of normal athletes on that distance. The chance that he would still be the best runner with artificial legs, if everyone had them, is very small. Therefor that argument doesn't prove much.
Besides its clear that the legs works differently then human legs. He starts slow and then accelerates to run faster then the others after about 200m. That alone points to the fact that his legs are very different in performance to normal legs.
and that's World of Warcraft. Your wife will learn to love it like the rest of us already do! Remember to get 2 copies :)
Consoles and PC target 2 different markets in my opinion. Consoles target casual gamers, while PC targets pro gamers.
On consoles its often single player (or split screen) and just recently you can play online - but you can only communicate with voice. You cannot write long text messages to explain complicated tactics on your clan forum, you cannot send maps with tactical drawings on them to defeat the enemy clan, that your fighting after arranging a match on clanbase.com. You cannot insult them on IRC after the match.
Good luck playing a MMORPG on console or ever beating a FPS player, who aims with his mouse.
So you would rather remain in a system where no one can safely determine who you are? Its like preferring ignorance.
Now you are the one totally missing the point. Identification is not tracking.
The problem they are trying to solve is identification: Is the person standing in front of you really the person they say they are. This is useful in many cases, as you already know.
I would like to see Microsoft make some moves like that too.
Then the EU can bring out the big guns:
- Seize all Microsoft property in the EU
- Void all Microsoft patents (and copyright and so on) in the EU
Hey basically the EU could make all current and future Microsoft software open source. Who needs a license then?
Moves like these would definitely piss off someone in the USA, but with an economy close to recession its not a good idea to start an economic conflict with the worlds leading economical power, the EU, over a software company.
Which is why it's great that the EU is going to force it upon the content providers. Either they can choose no DRM og they must choose standardized DRM. Its a win-win for the European consumer.
Would he then
a) get over it?
b) do something harmful?
Good luck giving him access to your IT system.
How can you compare what EVE and WoW gets away with, when they differ so much in population numbers? You could probably find more players in WoW who could live with just the PvP system, then there are EVE players in total.
In my opinion EVE gets away with a repetitive environment because people have very little reference to how it actually looks when your traveling through space.
Because it requires a court order to get access to the data stored by the ISPs. Do you see the difference?
Lets first be clear on what grinding means and how it differs from questing. Grinding is where you kill mobs without having a quest to do it.
Questing is where you kill the same mobs but only because you have a quest to do it. When you have reached the objective you go on to your next quest.
Since you can level from 1-70 by questing in WoW its hard to call it grind focused.
Games like EverQuest are grind focused, because you simply could not level without grinding.
World of Warcraft. Today wins!
You know its time to change to the metric system when you can read definitions on imperial units from wikipedia like this:
"Because the furlong was "one plough's furrow long" and a furrow was the length a plough team was to be driven without resting, the length of the furlong and the acre vary regionally, nominally due to differing soil types. In England the acre was 4,840 square yards, but in Scotland it was 6,150 square yards and in Ireland 7,840 square yards."
If we keep the imperial system i guess its important to ask what kind of soil the distance is supposed to be? Is it English soil when traveling to the moon? Is the ox well fed? Is it an experienced plough team leading the expedition? Maybe its raining that day and the soil becomes softer?
Come to think of it why should we ever abandon the imperial system!?!
And what can you or the rest of the world do about it? Nothing. And thats the point.
I completely disagree. Aimbots play first person shooters (FPS) far better then most people, but that doenst mean that FPS require no skills or thought.
Name me just 1 popular game, where its impossible to make a bot play it reasonably well!?
Yeah lets make the customers pay for Microsofts mistakes...
One of the reasons Denmark is leading the OECD list this year*, and probably will remain high on the list for many years, is the fact that the power companies have started to roll out fibre to consumers, as they work to bury overhead power lines. We just had a big merger in Denmark, where many of the major power companies turned into one company called DONG Energy, which is going to speed up the process. They estimate 98% of the population will have access to this within 10 years. I very much welcome this development as my 8Mbit/s line isen't cutting it anymore!
2 3_37529673_1_1_1_1,00.html
* http://www.oecd.org/document/9/0,2340,en_2649_342
Where can i get this trojan?
And the last few minutes, uupse lated&search=
South Park - World of Warcraft Episode part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8Uu7spdSKQ&mode=r
And for those who haven't seen it...e lated&search=e lated&search=
South Park - World of Warcraft Episode part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQjR9EOwHuw&mode=r
South Park - World of Warcraft Episode part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz5rP4OcHVg&mode=r
It will definetly mean that a wider range of weapons will be used over time, instead of just the M4A1, CV47 and Magnum. This also means new tactics will be developed to suit the new challenges. Thats very positive for a game and its positive for all players who like to face new challenges.
You can always argue wether its a good or bad thing that the provider controls the content and not the customer. One thing that speaks for the provider is the ressources needed to run the servers and scoresystem and so on, which are essential in any competitive game. If you had to support 10 different versions it would require more ressources, so its quite understandable that the provider chooses to only have 1 version running.
Im excited to see how it plays out ingame and i personally think it will give the game a fresh new twist.
The really big players?? Who might that be since its not the European Union?
_ GDP_(nominal)
To help you out here is a list of the worlds largest economies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by
The currently cheapest (where you dont need to buy more then 1 line at a time) is metronet, which is
8Mbit/1Mbit for about 50$
24Mbit/1Mbit for about 70$
But you can only get 12-15Mbit over most copper lines here in Denmark and you have to live close to the central, so the last offer might not be so good. The electrical companies have started placing optical fibers in some areas providing 10-100Mbit down- and upload for reasonable prices, and they expect to cover 98% of the country with this in 10-12 years. This will place the current providers under extreme pressure, seeing as thier market is all tied to copper lines, which will effectively be obsolete by then. The death of landline telephones is predicted to be in 5 years here in Denmark, all replaced by mobile phones.
And since i saw how it went with the French guy trying to claim victory and having people saying the low price in france is due to low income and low living standards i can proactively defend Denmark with a small piece from the cia factbook about Danish economy:
"Because of high GDP per capita, welfare benefits, a low Gini index, and political stability, the Danish people enjoy living standards topped by no other nation."
I understand what the otherside is doing "but what if the gov't names granny apple as a terrorist when she really is a sweet old lady who gives people apples...who can help her if we cant talk about it." Well this is where the gov't is wrong and the journalist should be allowed.
How can you tell if granny is a terrorist or not before it has been settled by a court of law? You magically know the truth?
Yeah the closed source client. The one where the author Ludvig Strigeus now works in association with some anti-p2p company called PeerFactor. Good luck.