When you copy and paste, it adds in the protocol. Try reading my original comment. When you use ftp it may even add the prefix, I don't know. I'm happy with ftp on the command line - but then again I'm just a novice user, not someone who gets paid to do network support and programming, definitely not.
How about writing http:/// on a post it note and stick it in the corner just in case you forget? While you're at it, don't forget to stick MPH (or KPH) and the appropriate values on every notch on your speedometer. Probably should label all your clothes too just in case you think your socks are ear warmers.
Sounds like a national celebration, rather than international.
What a joke. Is it legal to shoot someone doing a warrantless search? Methinks it should be. If you're going to have guns floating around, might as well put them to good use.
What's the point in having "http://" before everything? It's implied given that you're using a web browser. Https sites turn green. When you copy the URL it adds the protocol prefix. Seems ideal to me!
Only if the lawyers and judges forget what it was like to be students themselves. Some of them will happily do that, but hopefully some still actually care about good quality education. Educational copies are meant to be fair use under copyright law. This whole thing is bullshit.
First of all, thanks for being a fucking douchebag, AC.
Yep, I must have not finished off the sentence, since "Since it's May, let's not forget it's dark by dinner time" seemed so bizarre to me. I still think it's worded strangely.
It will be the same for any "fanboy". The whole "fanboy" bit should give it away. Most humans will be guilty of this type of irrational thinking in some parts of their life. We're not purely logical beings.
Get prescribed amount of work done, then do whatever you want for the rest of the day. Alternatively, this could eventually lead to all learning being done from home, and telecommuting becoming a more acceptable work plan. I'd be happy with that too:) In fact, telecommuting makes a whole lot of sense for a business..
There is often more than one way to do something in Mirror's Edge too, but yes it does take more skill than Assassin's Creed. I love racing games and challenges, so I enjoyed it.
Alternatively, they could inscribe a unique ID on each disk; they buyback the disk and the used buyer cannot buy any of the items the original buyer got for free; or has to pay a higher price. Since used game buyers wouldn't know if a game was "returned" the value of used games would decrease by they added cost of the extras. By making it harder to find out (such as requiring a valid credit card/paypal account/etc before providing the price hay can make it time consuming to check every game a store buys prior to purchase.
They already do stuff like this - you get a code with your pre-order, or in the game box, then you redeem it on the Xbox/PSN stores. After that the code is presumably useless.
The developers want paid too, but I think it's more the publishers that want to do all this stuff. As a salaried developer (not in games), I think I'd just release my game and try to make it worth the original asking price. For example look at the mobile games market.
If the game only costs £10 to begin with, then a lot more people will buy it before there are any used copies available. Like I said, there will still be some tight asses who will always go for the lowest price point, but I don't think that will be a large percentage of buyers if the base price is sensible.
When you say frustrating, I think you mean "challenging in that I have to actually use skill". I found Mirror's Edge fun, completed it in a couple of days. It's quite short though and doesn't have a whole lot of replay value. I wouldn't call it open world, it's very linear.
I enjoyed the movement in the first assassin's creed, though I haven't played the sequels yet.
I started doing Parkour last year, and when I tried Mirror's Edge again it was a little frustrating that I couldn't do some of the things I'd be able to do in real life, but overall the game works fine..
I agree with you that games need to have replay value, and I enjoy sandbox style games the most, but don't simply complain that you sucked at a game, therefore it's a bad game..
In this age of Call Of Duty 3000, people even sell on games they like and get the sequel.
The obvious solution is to release games at the 'used' price point, then everyone will consider it worth it from the start. There wouldn't be much of a used market if all the guys who wait for sensible prices buy the game as soon as it's released.. you'd still get some supercheap guys who want used copies, but not that many. Especially when physical media dies out! I wonder if people sell Steam accounts..
I didn't read the article, buuuut;) I imagine the tests being like the Who Wants To Be a Millionaire ask the audience deal. When you ask everyone to vote without seeing the opinion of others, you'd be more likely to get the correct answer. Some people know then answer, but others are unsure. If they see the results of those who are just plain wrong before they see the results from those who know the answer, they might be tempted to vote against their initial correct, but unsure, guess.
I'm not so sure that something so subjective and broad as politics can be tested in this manner, because the "right" answer is not clear (I'm sure there are many workable solutions to a lot of social/government issues). This social opinion thing is obviously very important for sporting, political and religious groupthink too though.
Fair enough, I was led to believe otherwise and would just call that an emulator. Doing x86 processor emulation on an ARM based tablet would be a woefully bad idea though.. until they start making 10Ghz tablets perhaps..
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I dunno. In all those zombie and slasher movies, getting into enclosed spaces isn't the best idea.
Don't forget Nightwatch/Daywatch (Russia?) and Dead Snow (Sweden or Norway) ;)
When you copy and paste, it adds in the protocol. Try reading my original comment. When you use ftp it may even add the prefix, I don't know. I'm happy with ftp on the command line - but then again I'm just a novice user, not someone who gets paid to do network support and programming, definitely not.
How about writing http:/// on a post it note and stick it in the corner just in case you forget? While you're at it, don't forget to stick MPH (or KPH) and the appropriate values on every notch on your speedometer. Probably should label all your clothes too just in case you think your socks are ear warmers.
Sounds like a national celebration, rather than international.
What a joke. Is it legal to shoot someone doing a warrantless search? Methinks it should be. If you're going to have guns floating around, might as well put them to good use.
What's the point in having "http://" before everything? It's implied given that you're using a web browser. Https sites turn green. When you copy the URL it adds the protocol prefix. Seems ideal to me!
Only if the lawyers and judges forget what it was like to be students themselves. Some of them will happily do that, but hopefully some still actually care about good quality education. Educational copies are meant to be fair use under copyright law. This whole thing is bullshit.
Maybe if there was an uninterested third party to bribe in advance
FTFY [/cynical]
Who is going to pay that kind of money based on the posted abstract?
Malware authors working for organised crime? :)
First of all, thanks for being a fucking douchebag, AC.
Yep, I must have not finished off the sentence, since "Since it's May, let's not forget it's dark by dinner time" seemed so bizarre to me. I still think it's worded strangely.
It will be the same for any "fanboy". The whole "fanboy" bit should give it away. Most humans will be guilty of this type of irrational thinking in some parts of their life. We're not purely logical beings.
Uh.. religion has been around a lot longer than that..
"To" instead of "too" could have been a simple typo. I know full well the difference between them, but sometimes do it to. o.
Even if he doesn't know the difference, he's done pretty well creating Slashdot and doing it for a living :p
If you gave children the entire day to learn, they would be much better off for it.
There would also be an even higher percentage of fat-asses.
Are you in the Southern Hemisphere? Here in Scotland it's still pretty bright around 10PM :)
Get prescribed amount of work done, then do whatever you want for the rest of the day. Alternatively, this could eventually lead to all learning being done from home, and telecommuting becoming a more acceptable work plan. I'd be happy with that too :) In fact, telecommuting makes a whole lot of sense for a business..
Not much, seeing as you need to be in a "subspace" bubble to travel at warp speed.
There is often more than one way to do something in Mirror's Edge too, but yes it does take more skill than Assassin's Creed. I love racing games and challenges, so I enjoyed it.
Alternatively, they could inscribe a unique ID on each disk; they buyback the disk and the used buyer cannot buy any of the items the original buyer got for free; or has to pay a higher price. Since used game buyers wouldn't know if a game was "returned" the value of used games would decrease by they added cost of the extras. By making it harder to find out (such as requiring a valid credit card/paypal account/etc before providing the price hay can make it time consuming to check every game a store buys prior to purchase.
They already do stuff like this - you get a code with your pre-order, or in the game box, then you redeem it on the Xbox/PSN stores. After that the code is presumably useless.
The developers want paid too, but I think it's more the publishers that want to do all this stuff. As a salaried developer (not in games), I think I'd just release my game and try to make it worth the original asking price. For example look at the mobile games market.
If the game only costs £10 to begin with, then a lot more people will buy it before there are any used copies available. Like I said, there will still be some tight asses who will always go for the lowest price point, but I don't think that will be a large percentage of buyers if the base price is sensible.
When you say frustrating, I think you mean "challenging in that I have to actually use skill". I found Mirror's Edge fun, completed it in a couple of days. It's quite short though and doesn't have a whole lot of replay value. I wouldn't call it open world, it's very linear.
I enjoyed the movement in the first assassin's creed, though I haven't played the sequels yet.
I started doing Parkour last year, and when I tried Mirror's Edge again it was a little frustrating that I couldn't do some of the things I'd be able to do in real life, but overall the game works fine..
I agree with you that games need to have replay value, and I enjoy sandbox style games the most, but don't simply complain that you sucked at a game, therefore it's a bad game..
Dear gods, not the TAILORED ADVERTISEMENTS! Say it ain't so! :(
In this age of Call Of Duty 3000, people even sell on games they like and get the sequel.
The obvious solution is to release games at the 'used' price point, then everyone will consider it worth it from the start. There wouldn't be much of a used market if all the guys who wait for sensible prices buy the game as soon as it's released.. you'd still get some supercheap guys who want used copies, but not that many. Especially when physical media dies out! I wonder if people sell Steam accounts..
I didn't read the article, buuuut ;) I imagine the tests being like the Who Wants To Be a Millionaire ask the audience deal. When you ask everyone to vote without seeing the opinion of others, you'd be more likely to get the correct answer. Some people know then answer, but others are unsure. If they see the results of those who are just plain wrong before they see the results from those who know the answer, they might be tempted to vote against their initial correct, but unsure, guess.
I'm not so sure that something so subjective and broad as politics can be tested in this manner, because the "right" answer is not clear (I'm sure there are many workable solutions to a lot of social/government issues). This social opinion thing is obviously very important for sporting, political and religious groupthink too though.
Fair enough, I was led to believe otherwise and would just call that an emulator. Doing x86 processor emulation on an ARM based tablet would be a woefully bad idea though.. until they start making 10Ghz tablets perhaps..