"What's that?" jokes aside, it'll be interesting to see what specifically is used to offer the "high-adrenaline replacement."
The only thing that really comes to mind would be a team sport, preferably soccer (sorry, the rest of them suck). Actually, that isn't all that bad of an idea - paintball can be a pretty intense sport depending on how you play. Finding a replacement for the RPG types such as myself would be a little more difficult. Short of handing them a parachute and throwing them off a cliff I can't think of anything "high-adrenaline" you could force them to participate in.
Nope, five minutes staring at the Post Comment form and nothing comes to mind. Maybe you could hand them a shovel and tell them every foot they dig can be a minute they can grind (and fail to mention they'll be grinding cornmeal, not xp).
i am kman, thanks for the alternate link - it provided some insight into how this bill is regarded amongs those who might actually have some say in its design.
From the link, 9th paragraph, lines 14-16:
Characterizing streaming as a form of distribution is factually and legally incorrect and can only lead to confusion in an environment where the concept of distribution by means of digital transmission is already the subject of misguided attacks.
It would seem that some interested parties would like to include streaming media in the definition of a physical, reproduceable copy of media. I'm sure most of us are aware, however, that streams are not entirely impervious to recording, but the Copyright Office would seem to know this as well, and they take a much more logical stance (par. 9, 4-8):
A stream does not, however, constitute a "distribution," the object of which is to deliver a usable copy of the work to the recipient; the buffer and other intermediate copies or portions of copies that may temporarily exist on a recipient's computer to facilitate the stream and are for all practical purposes useless (apart from their role in facilitating the single performance) and most likely unknown to the recipient simply do not qualify.
From what I gather, the Copyright Office is of the belief that streaming media over the Internet is the equivalent of yesteryear's radio (I'm dating myself, I know). This, the opinion of the Copyright Office, is just exactly the kind of unbiased view we need. Now while I'm sure they are indeed biased in some form or another (we all are), this Statement that they have issued would seem to take an objective view on this matter.
I seem to recall reading this out of the guncon instruction manual (and forgive me if I paraphrase):
Please don't remove the wire to make this look like a real gun.
Please don't paint this black to make it look like a real gun.
Please don't take this outside your house as it may be mistaken for a real gun.
Please don't point this at people as it my be mistaken for a real gun.
Here's an idea: Let's all go to our local insert video game store here and pick up a copy of Time Crisis 3 for the guncon in the box. If you're cheap you can steal one from the arcade (those are nice and heavy). We'll then march to Washington DC, Louisiana, or wherever the hell good old Jack is at the time and bludgeon him to death with the combined might of our orange plastic pistols.
Better yet, we're all a (mostly) smart bunch. Let's see someone distribute a modified version of Time Crisis that replaces the sissy bad guy with the equally sissy Mr. Thompson.
Offtopic, but I'll take a stab at explaining it anyway.
Even the most dense of employees knows that if the paper says there should be money in the register, there damn well better be money in the register. So, if a customer were to hand the employee a $20 in order to pay for a $19.99 purchase and walk away, what's to say the employee has to ring it up? The $20 can go right into the pocket and no one would be the wiser because as far as the register, the be-all-end-all authority in this matter, is concerned, no transaction took place.
So, if while the customer is rooting around for some money, he/she notices the receipt sign, then they stay firmly rooted in place, silently hoping that the cashier will forget to give them a receipt so they can, in mock anger, demand one and walk away $10 richer. So in an effort not to draw the negative attention of the manager, be responsible for the $10 themselves, etc., the employee is certain that every customer gets a receipt, even if they have to be chased down in the parking lot. It's a kind of psychological deterrent to employee theft, its just a little different because its aimed at the customer.
This doesn't apply to stores such as, say, Wal-Mart. Since your stuff is rung up as you go, honesty is mandatory. Not to mention the open space and constant stream of customers doesn't give you much chance to delete items individually before an official ring-up (deleting the order out of the system is usually impossible, most of the time generates a report consisting of the items deleted, which would be counterproductive for the thief).
While it sounds cool, in most cases that wouldn't actually work unless the kidnappees were hobos.
Let's say person X has been kidnapped and their chip stolen (which means they're dead). The idea I think you had (and forgive me if I misinterpreted you) is a kind of identity switch straight out of Minority Report. This of course doesn't work because if you report them kidnapped, every time that RFID pops up the police (at least on paper) would go after that location / person. If the person isn't the missing person X, you have a guilty party.
Granted, it would still be quite possbile to make use of stolen chips for profit - so long as you were fast in your "extraction" of the chip then you could use it to move all their money over to an offshore account then uncerimoniously dispose of the chip in a sewer drain. The problem with this of course is that the person with the stolen chip talking to bank teller Q would have to either not have a chip himself or be able to locally mask his own. Two RFIDs showing up in/on one person is going to send up a red flag.
So, we have this guy predicting fire and brimstone from angry people familiar with computers. ..
. . . and his name is Scott Borg. ..
Am I the only one that's drawing the parallel?
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"It should also be noted that my technical expertise is such that I command a pay-to-work ratio of infinity."
Try putting that on your resume and I can almost guarantee you'll never be hired. I say almost because it's quite possible some upper management boob somewhere in the world would read that and think "High salary = lots of work! Sort of like me!"
[. ..] improving the game for existing players through robust publish and content offerings in 2006.
Robust is a funny word. It sounds nice, but it doesn't actually mean anything. Slowly destroying most of the professions then removing them altogether in favor of cookie-cutter character clones hardly qualifies as a game "fix." Part of me wishes they'd just let it die already and move on, while another part wants them to hand the game over to a company that knows what they're doing. I mean, let's be honest, how do you screw up a Star Wars MMO? You have to try. And try SOE did. good job, guys.
Segregated Internet is the first step on a slippery slope.
On a side note, its also a step away from the whole idea of a central, unified earth government prevalent in most sci-fi novels and world peace bunny-kissing cults (I'm a fan of the former).
Slashdot Mirror
Note: I do apologize for thinking this was Dotslash.
". . . as long as I walk the party line, ."
./ reader.)
and carry my ID. .
(Shameless repost from another, very enlighted
SWG is actually going back to the sandbox-style play, although not officially - www.swgemu.com
"What's that?" jokes aside, it'll be interesting to see what specifically is used to offer the "high-adrenaline replacement."
The only thing that really comes to mind would be a team sport, preferably soccer (sorry, the rest of them suck). Actually, that isn't all that bad of an idea - paintball can be a pretty intense sport depending on how you play. Finding a replacement for the RPG types such as myself would be a little more difficult. Short of handing them a parachute and throwing them off a cliff I can't think of anything "high-adrenaline" you could force them to participate in.
Nope, five minutes staring at the Post Comment form and nothing comes to mind. Maybe you could hand them a shovel and tell them every foot they dig can be a minute they can grind (and fail to mention they'll be grinding cornmeal, not xp).
From the link, 9th paragraph, lines 14-16:
It would seem that some interested parties would like to include streaming media in the definition of a physical, reproduceable copy of media. I'm sure most of us are aware, however, that streams are not entirely impervious to recording, but the Copyright Office would seem to know this as well, and they take a much more logical stance (par. 9, 4-8):
From what I gather, the Copyright Office is of the belief that streaming media over the Internet is the equivalent of yesteryear's radio (I'm dating myself, I know). This, the opinion of the Copyright Office, is just exactly the kind of unbiased view we need. Now while I'm sure they are indeed biased in some form or another (we all are), this Statement that they have issued would seem to take an objective view on this matter.
Now we can stalk the girlfriends we don't have and spam emergency bands with crap!
In all seriousness, though, this sounds like a lot of fun. The legal uses, I mean.
I seem to recall reading this out of the guncon instruction manual (and forgive me if I paraphrase):
Please don't remove the wire to make this look like a real gun.
Please don't paint this black to make it look like a real gun.
Please don't take this outside your house as it may be mistaken for a real gun.
Please don't point this at people as it my be mistaken for a real gun.
Here's an idea: Let's all go to our local insert video game store here and pick up a copy of Time Crisis 3 for the guncon in the box. If you're cheap you can steal one from the arcade (those are nice and heavy). We'll then march to Washington DC, Louisiana, or wherever the hell good old Jack is at the time and bludgeon him to death with the combined might of our orange plastic pistols.
Better yet, we're all a (mostly) smart bunch. Let's see someone distribute a modified version of Time Crisis that replaces the sissy bad guy with the equally sissy Mr. Thompson.
Offtopic, but I'll take a stab at explaining it anyway.
Even the most dense of employees knows that if the paper says there should be money in the register, there damn well better be money in the register. So, if a customer were to hand the employee a $20 in order to pay for a $19.99 purchase and walk away, what's to say the employee has to ring it up? The $20 can go right into the pocket and no one would be the wiser because as far as the register, the be-all-end-all authority in this matter, is concerned, no transaction took place.
So, if while the customer is rooting around for some money, he/she notices the receipt sign, then they stay firmly rooted in place, silently hoping that the cashier will forget to give them a receipt so they can, in mock anger, demand one and walk away $10 richer. So in an effort not to draw the negative attention of the manager, be responsible for the $10 themselves, etc., the employee is certain that every customer gets a receipt, even if they have to be chased down in the parking lot. It's a kind of psychological deterrent to employee theft, its just a little different because its aimed at the customer.
This doesn't apply to stores such as, say, Wal-Mart. Since your stuff is rung up as you go, honesty is mandatory. Not to mention the open space and constant stream of customers doesn't give you much chance to delete items individually before an official ring-up (deleting the order out of the system is usually impossible, most of the time generates a report consisting of the items deleted, which would be counterproductive for the thief).
While it sounds cool, in most cases that wouldn't actually work unless the kidnappees were hobos.
Let's say person X has been kidnapped and their chip stolen (which means they're dead). The idea I think you had (and forgive me if I misinterpreted you) is a kind of identity switch straight out of Minority Report. This of course doesn't work because if you report them kidnapped, every time that RFID pops up the police (at least on paper) would go after that location / person. If the person isn't the missing person X, you have a guilty party.
Granted, it would still be quite possbile to make use of stolen chips for profit - so long as you were fast in your "extraction" of the chip then you could use it to move all their money over to an offshore account then uncerimoniously dispose of the chip in a sewer drain. The problem with this of course is that the person with the stolen chip talking to bank teller Q would have to either not have a chip himself or be able to locally mask his own. Two RFIDs showing up in/on one person is going to send up a red flag.
So, we have this guy predicting fire and brimstone from angry people familiar with computers. . .
.
. . . and his name is Scott Borg. .
Am I the only one that's drawing the parallel?
"It should also be noted that my technical expertise is such that I command a pay-to-work ratio of infinity."
Try putting that on your resume and I can almost guarantee you'll never be hired. I say almost because it's quite possible some upper management boob somewhere in the world would read that and think "High salary = lots of work! Sort of like me!"
Robust is a funny word. It sounds nice, but it doesn't actually mean anything. Slowly destroying most of the professions then removing them altogether in favor of cookie-cutter character clones hardly qualifies as a game "fix." Part of me wishes they'd just let it die already and move on, while another part wants them to hand the game over to a company that knows what they're doing. I mean, let's be honest, how do you screw up a Star Wars MMO? You have to try. And try SOE did. good job, guys.
Segregated Internet is the first step on a slippery slope. On a side note, its also a step away from the whole idea of a central, unified earth government prevalent in most sci-fi novels and world peace bunny-kissing cults (I'm a fan of the former).