Speaking of Firefox, when I type in "slashdot" Firefox recognizes that it isn't a URL and takes me to the best guess from google. On all the major sites, it works like a charm. In that sense, we have a functional wrapper around around the concept of dotless domain names.
Agreed. Multiplayer games are a different breed in this regard. Furthermore, some companies price fix their games (Blizzard, for one) and that negates the benefit of this strategy.
'Course, you could always wait a year until after the release date. By then the marketing department is done flooding the market with biased previews and reviews, the price has dropped from ~$60 to ~$30 and the biggest patches the game will receive have been released. With that in mind, is there any reason to buy a game on its release date?
I think that part of it was me not liking the game, but finding myself addicted. I'd heard that interest wanes after reaching 60, so I rushed to reach that goal. At least, that was the idea. Turns out I was just addicted.
I remember when I first started playing World of Warcraft. Everything was brand new and exciting. There was a sense of adventure and exploration that justified the hours I put into that game. Some friends and I even started up our own guild and we had a blast. The game was fun.
Problem was, that sense of novelty eventually wore off. All that was left was repetative questing and grinding for XP to reach the ultimate goal of level 60. After weeks of sleepless nights, I finally made it. I stood on top of the XP mountain and felt accomplished, but it's cold at the top and I wondered what was left for me.
In the following weeks, I got bored enough to walk away from WoW and cancel my subscription. I didn't much want to play when I first started and somewhat hated myself in that long stretch from 30 to 60. So that freedom was relieving.
Now that I'm free, do I really want to start that process over again? Knowing what I know now, why would I subject myself to such a time-sink that ultimately provided me with little entertainment? I think I'm going to steer clear of this expansion. Besides, City of Villains is coming out soon. (I kid, I kid)
But to answer yours, there is nothing wrong having a closed source application accessing an open source application (or vice versa). Futhermore it being open or closed source says nothing about its usefullness.
I never claimed that there's something wrong with a closed source app accessing an open source app, nor did I ever claim anything about the particular app's usefulness. I think you're inferring an attack on closed source apps, when I made none.
"These movies are so expensive, we have to be careful,' he said.'"
He speaks as though movies aren't available online already. I think he needs to come from this perspective to retain the image of being strong and in control. I can understand why, but it'd still be refreshing if he could just say "look, we've lost control of this situation. Here's what we're going to do to get it back."
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While I recognize the fun in hacking something into doing something it wasn't designed to, the Mac Mini has the form factor as well.
That would explain why the product is so scarce in the first month or so. Release a couple thousand, listen to the problems, adjust, release the rest.
Speaking of Firefox, when I type in "slashdot" Firefox recognizes that it isn't a URL and takes me to the best guess from google. On all the major sites, it works like a charm. In that sense, we have a functional wrapper around around the concept of dotless domain names.
80% funny, 20% informative... Informative?
Vested interest.
With Sony's recent behaviour, is it really a company you want to support? Is Microsoft?
Agreed. Multiplayer games are a different breed in this regard. Furthermore, some companies price fix their games (Blizzard, for one) and that negates the benefit of this strategy.
Well, I can't help you with the first one, but I thought that after so many bad releases trust in game developers would be dried up.
'Course, you could always wait a year until after the release date. By then the marketing department is done flooding the market with biased previews and reviews, the price has dropped from ~$60 to ~$30 and the biggest patches the game will receive have been released. With that in mind, is there any reason to buy a game on its release date?
Why don't we just start using 1.44mb encryption keys. We'd finally have a use for all of these floppies.
Soundtrack to Planescape: Torment
Tell me about it. Next thing you know, people will be spreading rumours about some kind of video iPod. Pfft. Lunatics.
I think that part of it was me not liking the game, but finding myself addicted. I'd heard that interest wanes after reaching 60, so I rushed to reach that goal. At least, that was the idea. Turns out I was just addicted.
I remember when I first started playing World of Warcraft. Everything was brand new and exciting. There was a sense of adventure and exploration that justified the hours I put into that game. Some friends and I even started up our own guild and we had a blast. The game was fun. Problem was, that sense of novelty eventually wore off. All that was left was repetative questing and grinding for XP to reach the ultimate goal of level 60. After weeks of sleepless nights, I finally made it. I stood on top of the XP mountain and felt accomplished, but it's cold at the top and I wondered what was left for me. In the following weeks, I got bored enough to walk away from WoW and cancel my subscription. I didn't much want to play when I first started and somewhat hated myself in that long stretch from 30 to 60. So that freedom was relieving. Now that I'm free, do I really want to start that process over again? Knowing what I know now, why would I subject myself to such a time-sink that ultimately provided me with little entertainment? I think I'm going to steer clear of this expansion. Besides, City of Villains is coming out soon. (I kid, I kid)
The Stock Market's been around for how many years now? Pfft. Just wait for the sequel.
Laptops are supposed to be portable.
I don't remember ever agreeing to display ads on my screen.
Really, how often do you know the gender of the person you're playing with or against?
"These movies are so expensive, we have to be careful,' he said.'" He speaks as though movies aren't available online already. I think he needs to come from this perspective to retain the image of being strong and in control. I can understand why, but it'd still be refreshing if he could just say "look, we've lost control of this situation. Here's what we're going to do to get it back."
- Bugzilla is open source
- Deskzilla is not open source
- A Deskzilla license costs $99
- Deskzilla's source code isn't available
What points are you making?True, but their EULA doesn't seem to imply any access to their source code. They'll give out free licenses to open source developers, but their code is still not open.
Note that Deskzilla, unlike Bugzilla, is not open-source.