The economy is terrible, and some may say "WE'RE SPENDING MONIES ON SPACE TAXIS WTF?!?" But, the fact is, the people need to spend to stimulate the economy. Unfortunately, we need to be a LITTLE less frugal in order to help the economy. If NASA can put the ride prices at, say, $50 - less would be better of course, maybe sell 10 tickets at $20 per ride - then hopefully they could convince Joe the Plumber types to go on a ride to space. That is the price of a local venue show ticket, and apparently live music ticket sales are doing swell. If they can get people to do this, they can help stimulate the economy - but it has to be cheap, accessible, and interesting.
The other factor that would help is advertising: NASA tells you you are helping the economy AND that your money helps fund new research and technology - and really, if they want it to work, they'll HAVE to invest in more efficient ways to get to space, and in theory that tech would trickle down to the general manufacturing industry and help bolster our economy by making cheaper products of higher quality to export.
that this isn't going to lead to much? And isn't it scary how long something like this can go on before anyone realizes "hey, maybe these drugs are actually hurting more people than they help?" The pharm industry has so much backbone that they make worldwide internet access look like a toothpick. And, unfortunately, we get to be the real testing group for new drugs and treatments, since the "tests" published in "journals" said that what we're taking is perfectly fine - if not downright AMAZING!
...however the idea of sensors inside your portable devices detecting what you do with them might raise eyebrows even beyond the tinfoil-hat community.
Allow me to remind you about iPhones and what they do: they make calls, they use GPS, and they can be tracked from a website. Sensors that determine that you dropped your iPhone in water or hot lava are not what you should be worried about...
Apple: "He's at the beach! SAND IN THE IPHONE - WARRANTY VOID!" Me: "Oh snap, he stole my iPhone and took it to the beach - he's gonna void the warranty!"
The augmented reality TOY is a joke. Augmented reality MIGHT be worth something but this game is a pathetic example of it. Come on, we HAVE had laser games for YEARS. Also toys that shoot REAL (foam) rockets. Who is going to bother with a game where a simple cowboy's and indian's game takes this long and costs a fortune? Someone should give these guys a pc or console. Shooters have been done, both in the physical and virtual world and with a LOT more excitement.
I don't think you're excited about it, but I sure am - I mean, this technology has a ways to go, but from the looks I would call it promising. I would love to play scorched earth like this, using AR and my living room to create tanks, simulate the image of the different weapons flying across the room in 3D, seeing furniture get burned and ripped apart, etc. I'm just saying - give me a 6 pack, a couple friends and some AR gaming and we can finally leave Clue behind (finally!)
Not to nitpick - ok, so its nitpicking, but under b), the costs for CD/DVD would be: the cost of the CD/DVD, the cost of the case or sleeve (even sleeves aren't free!), the cost of shipping and the "labor" of opening the iso or adding the files and hitting the Burn button. Over the net, you could theoretically charge at least for the bandwidth used to upload said file to a free project hosting site, plus the time used selecting the file(s) and registering an account with *Forge, etc. Nitpicking, but $7 > $2.
Running the headlines means that Slashdot was reporting it as a "media outlet," and based on/.'s traffic, I would consider it "high-profile." I said nothing about how the general reading population regarded this alleged allergy.
Said "stunt" is effective if it gets publicity - good or bad.
It would appear that the stunt was highly successful, appearing in multiple high-profile media outlets like The Sun, The Telegraph, Fox News and Slashdot
M$ could still have a sour taste in the mouth after the TomTom thing - I mean, they won, but with workarounds it won't matter. Even if something like this didn't hold up well in court, it would still bring plenty of negative press to GPL'd code. Probably not, but you never know.
but it unfortunately doesn't come as a surprise either. Apple is always reluctant, if not downright shady when it comes to defects. "Deny Deny Deny" is the mantra there, and it hasn't helped me one bit. I've had an iBook G4 for a while, and up until a couple months ago it was dead due to loose solder joints on the GPU (caused after about a year or two of normal use). The solution? Purchase a new logic board at around $250-$400, depending on options and seller. A friend happened to be scrapping his old iBook for some of the parts in the display and was kind enough to give me the logic board. Suddenly, I had a Mac, and I loved it. 1 month later? Same problem with the loose GPU solder joints.
This issue has been documented by many an iBook G4 owner, but so far Apple has only been held responsible in Denmark where their version of the BBB did an investigation and found defects in the logic board GPU connections. This is troubling because who knows what other Apple products have had this kind of track record (remember iBook G3 batteries? other iPods pulling this?) and have been kept hush-hush, all at the expense of the customer until enough people get loud enough and then MAYBE they'll do something about it.
Everyone has been talking about man's role being deminished, and that, potentially, women would rule the earth or at least greatly outnumber us - but has anyone stopped to think about the lucrative genetic prostitute racket!??
Okay, so it seems that everyone has taken the headline's "Suprised When Players Hate Him" as fact, but I don't recall seeing that he was surprised, shocked, unnerved, or anything of the sort by their reaction. Not only that, but he wasn't really trolling, he was playing the game - albeit by disregarding "customs" set up by the buddy buddy heroes and villains - as it was intended, but the article doesn't mention whether or not he harassed players. Though, if I were a hero and saw a villain just chilling, chatting it up, I'd probably not waste much time in kicking his/her ass.
So, good job,/., upset your readers by running an inciting headline and then let us tear each other apart because some people just don't RTFA. Yay.
I've played this game since NA release and I've always known there is a monthly fee. I've never felt that it was hidden from me either.
I bought the game after release as well, and then decided to never play it because of the monthly fee (dumb purchase, but I was young and naive and apparently unable to read the box).
I'm not one to want to go to war for ANY reason except defending the people and the place that I love. I understand that there are many things that are corrupt about our government, but that is no reason not to defend the right for people like you to say what you like about the military and the government, because it is your right, and people like OP are willing to die so that American's can have that right. Sure it protects the fat-cats in Washington and the CEOs that raped the economy of the world, but it also protects the other ~98% of the population that is innocent (oddly even with the 98% of the wealth that exists in the former). Go defend the constitution yourself by being politically active to help remove those that are corrupt. No good? Run for office.
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The economy is terrible, and some may say "WE'RE SPENDING MONIES ON SPACE TAXIS WTF?!?" But, the fact is, the people need to spend to stimulate the economy. Unfortunately, we need to be a LITTLE less frugal in order to help the economy. If NASA can put the ride prices at, say, $50 - less would be better of course, maybe sell 10 tickets at $20 per ride - then hopefully they could convince Joe the Plumber types to go on a ride to space. That is the price of a local venue show ticket, and apparently live music ticket sales are doing swell. If they can get people to do this, they can help stimulate the economy - but it has to be cheap, accessible, and interesting.
The other factor that would help is advertising: NASA tells you you are helping the economy AND that your money helps fund new research and technology - and really, if they want it to work, they'll HAVE to invest in more efficient ways to get to space, and in theory that tech would trickle down to the general manufacturing industry and help bolster our economy by making cheaper products of higher quality to export.
"Yemenis Should Be Incested At Websense"
and I was all wtf??? But still, the choice of wording in the headline is AWESOME ;)
that this isn't going to lead to much? And isn't it scary how long something like this can go on before anyone realizes "hey, maybe these drugs are actually hurting more people than they help?" The pharm industry has so much backbone that they make worldwide internet access look like a toothpick. And, unfortunately, we get to be the real testing group for new drugs and treatments, since the "tests" published in "journals" said that what we're taking is perfectly fine - if not downright AMAZING!
Exactly: OH NO - the software I bought for the hardware it isn't supposed to run on doesn't work!
...however the idea of sensors inside your portable devices detecting what you do with them might raise eyebrows even beyond the tinfoil-hat community.
Allow me to remind you about iPhones and what they do: they make calls, they use GPS, and they can be tracked from a website. Sensors that determine that you dropped your iPhone in water or hot lava are not what you should be worried about...
Apple: "He's at the beach! SAND IN THE IPHONE - WARRANTY VOID!"
Me: "Oh snap, he stole my iPhone and took it to the beach - he's gonna void the warranty!"
Oh wait's it doesn't's., my bad's.
The augmented reality TOY is a joke. Augmented reality MIGHT be worth something but this game is a pathetic example of it. Come on, we HAVE had laser games for YEARS. Also toys that shoot REAL (foam) rockets. Who is going to bother with a game where a simple cowboy's and indian's game takes this long and costs a fortune? Someone should give these guys a pc or console. Shooters have been done, both in the physical and virtual world and with a LOT more excitement.
I don't think you're excited about it, but I sure am - I mean, this technology has a ways to go, but from the looks I would call it promising. I would love to play scorched earth like this, using AR and my living room to create tanks, simulate the image of the different weapons flying across the room in 3D, seeing furniture get burned and ripped apart, etc. I'm just saying - give me a 6 pack, a couple friends and some AR gaming and we can finally leave Clue behind (finally!)
Not to nitpick - ok, so its nitpicking, but under b), the costs for CD/DVD would be: the cost of the CD/DVD, the cost of the case or sleeve (even sleeves aren't free!), the cost of shipping and the "labor" of opening the iso or adding the files and hitting the Burn button. Over the net, you could theoretically charge at least for the bandwidth used to upload said file to a free project hosting site, plus the time used selecting the file(s) and registering an account with *Forge, etc. Nitpicking, but $7 > $2.
Furthermore, you can charge for the source if you charge for the binary, you just can't make the source more expensive than the binary.
Running the headlines means that Slashdot was reporting it as a "media outlet," and based on /.'s traffic, I would consider it "high-profile." I said nothing about how the general reading population regarded this alleged allergy.
Said "stunt" is effective if it gets publicity - good or bad.
Fix'd
It is open source, so it can be implemented in any myriad ways, not just in a browser.
Yeah, I remember when proprietary kiln companies got edgy when we GPL'd the sun.
Habit. Sorry, but it doesn't make sense when you do O$$ ;)
Hmm, I stand corrected. Though Troll seems a bit extreme - we don't have a -1 naive?
M$ could still have a sour taste in the mouth after the TomTom thing - I mean, they won, but with workarounds it won't matter. Even if something like this didn't hold up well in court, it would still bring plenty of negative press to GPL'd code. Probably not, but you never know.
but it unfortunately doesn't come as a surprise either. Apple is always reluctant, if not downright shady when it comes to defects. "Deny Deny Deny" is the mantra there, and it hasn't helped me one bit. I've had an iBook G4 for a while, and up until a couple months ago it was dead due to loose solder joints on the GPU (caused after about a year or two of normal use). The solution? Purchase a new logic board at around $250-$400, depending on options and seller. A friend happened to be scrapping his old iBook for some of the parts in the display and was kind enough to give me the logic board. Suddenly, I had a Mac, and I loved it. 1 month later? Same problem with the loose GPU solder joints.
This issue has been documented by many an iBook G4 owner, but so far Apple has only been held responsible in Denmark where their version of the BBB did an investigation and found defects in the logic board GPU connections. This is troubling because who knows what other Apple products have had this kind of track record (remember iBook G3 batteries? other iPods pulling this?) and have been kept hush-hush, all at the expense of the customer until enough people get loud enough and then MAYBE they'll do something about it.
Open page in intranet for...say, capcitor.
Script grabs wikipedia article, strips out header, sidebar, etc and fill in remaining links/images with proper URLs to wikipedia (so they work)
Stores in a database for diff'ing and updating later, dumps remaining content from Wikipedia at the bottom with a good 'ol <hr> and you're off!
Everyone has been talking about man's role being deminished, and that, potentially, women would rule the earth or at least greatly outnumber us - but has anyone stopped to think about the lucrative genetic prostitute racket!??
Okay, so it seems that everyone has taken the headline's "Suprised When Players Hate Him" as fact, but I don't recall seeing that he was surprised, shocked, unnerved, or anything of the sort by their reaction. Not only that, but he wasn't really trolling, he was playing the game - albeit by disregarding "customs" set up by the buddy buddy heroes and villains - as it was intended, but the article doesn't mention whether or not he harassed players. Though, if I were a hero and saw a villain just chilling, chatting it up, I'd probably not waste much time in kicking his/her ass.
/., upset your readers by running an inciting headline and then let us tear each other apart because some people just don't RTFA. Yay.
So, good job,
No, the mess of poorly formatted jumbled code for the program to fix the mess of poorly formatted jumbled code is what makes us unfirable.
I bought the game after release as well, and then decided to never play it because of the monthly fee (dumb purchase, but I was young and naive and apparently unable to read the box).
Check, please!
Mod parent up, funny, geez!
I'm with the Church of Latter Day Megaman.
I'm not one to want to go to war for ANY reason except defending the people and the place that I love. I understand that there are many things that are corrupt about our government, but that is no reason not to defend the right for people like you to say what you like about the military and the government, because it is your right, and people like OP are willing to die so that American's can have that right. Sure it protects the fat-cats in Washington and the CEOs that raped the economy of the world, but it also protects the other ~98% of the population that is innocent (oddly even with the 98% of the wealth that exists in the former). Go defend the constitution yourself by being politically active to help remove those that are corrupt. No good? Run for office.