Assuming its a multi-thousand dollar product (hell, a several hundred dollar product) a legit copy of XP is rounding error... this makes business sense for niche programs.
I agree, it is pathetic, but voting is a right and a privelege, not a forced requirement. Maybe we are better off that people who don't care aren't throwing ill-advised votes in no particular direction (IE: just adding noise to the system).
Why not have online voting? The federal government could fairly easily create a webserver with logins for 300 million people. Each person would be given a userid and password. This could be sent in the mail or given online after supplying social security number and birthday, etc.
Congratulations. Now your vote is tied to your social security number. The whole point of a ballot box is that the votes are uncorrelated with the voters. The total number of votes == the total number of voters, but we don't know who voted for whom.
As to your other questions? Do you really think stretching out the vote for a week or month will increase accuracy? I have my doubts.
Idiot. You can't steal BSD code. It is free, free'er than GPL. As in you can do whatever you want with it, no holds barred. Microsoft used it in a way acceptable to the BSD group.
you probably haven't played since 2001. Since Luclin and later expansions the graphics are pretty damn good. I prefer them to WoW's cartoonish-feel of an experiance. (I've ground 3-60's, i'm not completely unbiased)
But not an overarching story. A tale of Gods and godesses, of love and betrayal, etc. The article points this out quite clearly and none of the lore I can find on WoW contradicts this. There is "local lore" and some big stories ("the scourge" "the scarlet crusade" etc) but not an overarcing sweep of a story.
Players never face moral quandaries and never get to choose between an upstanding act and an evil one.
Everquest allowed you to do this on a daily basis. EQ2 as well. Vanguard (will be released Q1 2007) will have this element as well.
And on storytelling... yeah. There is no overarching story to WoW. Or at least not a long, drawn-out historical one. Like EQ or EQ2. Not sure about Vanguard. EQ had tomes and books found in libraries, spawn points and dropped off of mobs that painted a clear picture of the historical timeline and the relevance of various events. And there **were** one-time events that occured in-line with the history of the world (for example, the waking of the Sleeper).
And Vanguard is doing away with static spawns. It should be a good thing...
... my wife plays WoW, I play EQ... imagine if you could get both on a Sony Station Pass... we could save money!!!!
If they left the creative talent to the Blizzard team and just have Sony do the admin work (like they do with a lot of projects) it would actually be a good relationship. EQ and EQ2's uptime far exceeds WoW's uptime, even the low pop servers.
I didn't say **I** agreed with what I said, I merely said your eurocentric view did not necessarily jive with corporate shareholders. This thing is a lot bigger than you.
... they just don't have the funds or capabilities of NASA. Yet. They are all backed by "angel investors" from other industries who want to see private companies enter space, hence they started their own companies to try and bring commercial space into fruition:
To you, a Linux hippie. To your average Microsoft shareholder, on the other hand...
Europe does not recognize software patents, and as for copyright: it has a very narrowly defined (and abused) goal in law: to provide incentive.
Microsoft is an American company with (primarily) American shareholders. We see things differently and (in a lot of cases) don't agree with how Europe sees things. This could be a good way to spark change.
...provides neither stick nor fishing line. Seriously. A good almanack could have provided the educational content of the $150 computer for $5 or less.
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No, they sound exactly like most hardcore gamers. But we need to distinguish most hardcore gamers from your run-of-the-mill gamer.
Assuming its a multi-thousand dollar product (hell, a several hundred dollar product) a legit copy of XP is rounding error ... this makes business sense for niche programs.
I agree, it is pathetic, but voting is a right and a privelege, not a forced requirement. Maybe we are better off that people who don't care aren't throwing ill-advised votes in no particular direction (IE: just adding noise to the system).
also happens to be the 6th most dangerous city in the US. Open source adoption leads to crime? Hmmmmm?
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No, not trolling... low funds lead to crime and open source... just kinda funny
Why not have online voting?
The federal government could fairly easily create a webserver with logins for 300 million people. Each person would be given a userid and password. This could be sent in the mail or given online after supplying social security number and birthday, etc.
Congratulations. Now your vote is tied to your social security number. The whole point of a ballot box is that the votes are uncorrelated with the voters. The total number of votes == the total number of voters, but we don't know who voted for whom.
As to your other questions? Do you really think stretching out the vote for a week or month will increase accuracy? I have my doubts.
peanut butter jelly time!!!
ok, now the first 2 work but the third one and on don't work ... they must be having intermittent problems or something
Anyone else notice the only picture thumbnail that worked in the article was the one with RMS?
the IP stack from BSD
Idiot. You can't steal BSD code. It is free, free'er than GPL. As in you can do whatever you want with it, no holds barred. Microsoft used it in a way acceptable to the BSD group.
Everquest is bland and clunky.
you probably haven't played since 2001. Since Luclin and later expansions the graphics are pretty damn good. I prefer them to WoW's cartoonish-feel of an experiance. (I've ground 3-60's, i'm not completely unbiased)
But not an overarching story. A tale of Gods and godesses, of love and betrayal, etc. The article points this out quite clearly and none of the lore I can find on WoW contradicts this. There is "local lore" and some big stories ("the scourge" "the scarlet crusade" etc) but not an overarcing sweep of a story.
One example (fta):
... yeah. There is no overarching story to WoW. Or at least not a long, drawn-out historical one. Like EQ or EQ2. Not sure about Vanguard. EQ had tomes and books found in libraries, spawn points and dropped off of mobs that painted a clear picture of the historical timeline and the relevance of various events. And there **were** one-time events that occured in-line with the history of the world (for example, the waking of the Sleeper).
...
Players never face moral quandaries and never get to choose between an upstanding act and an evil one.
Everquest allowed you to do this on a daily basis. EQ2 as well. Vanguard (will be released Q1 2007) will have this element as well.
And on storytelling
And Vanguard is doing away with static spawns. It should be a good thing
... my wife plays WoW, I play EQ... imagine if you could get both on a Sony Station Pass... we could save money!!!!
If they left the creative talent to the Blizzard team and just have Sony do the admin work (like they do with a lot of projects) it would actually be a good relationship. EQ and EQ2's uptime far exceeds WoW's uptime, even the low pop servers.
I didn't say **I** agreed with what I said, I merely said your eurocentric view did not necessarily jive with corporate shareholders. This thing is a lot bigger than you.
... they just don't have the funds or capabilities of NASA. Yet. They are all backed by "angel investors" from other industries who want to see private companies enter space, hence they started their own companies to try and bring commercial space into fruition:
Armadillo Aerospace (John Carmack)
Blue Origin (Jeff Bezos)
SpaceX (Elon Munsk)
XCOR(various members of RRS and others)
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Icelandic ... I will defend with teeth and claws.
There is no such thing as Intellectual Property.
To you, a Linux hippie. To your average Microsoft shareholder, on the other hand...
Europe does not recognize software patents, and as for copyright: it has a very narrowly defined (and abused) goal in law: to provide incentive.
Microsoft is an American company with (primarily) American shareholders. We see things differently and (in a lot of cases) don't agree with how Europe sees things. This could be a good way to spark change.
It's not different at all, steve!
...provides neither stick nor fishing line. Seriously. A good almanack could have provided the educational content of the $150 computer for $5 or less.
...they won't be held liable for fraudulent chaaaarges!
And the experiance of having to file the forms to cancel their current credit card and get a new one will teach them something about being careful.
... you sold your PS2 and gave blood plasma for the past 6 months to finance your PS3 :)
That's the fifth freedom, freedom from soap and water. Apparently it is implied, he didn't feel the need to write it down.
love the quote in your sig. Sneakers was a great movie.
Since they were both chosen as "types" of a machine ... what does this decision have to say about PC's versus a mac?