Well there go the sales of "Lego Battles" in China. (OK, I kid when I talk about "actual" software sales in China)
Pretty much any plastic Lego set that has skellies in them as well. Pirates, Castle, Indy, etc.
At least I can take to heart that there will be no more pirated versions of "Clash of the Titans" floating around China.
Heaven forbid China should decide to invade North America on the evening of Oct. 31st. That is when we allow the skeletons, princesses, superheroes, witches and ghosts free to patrol the streets looking for sustenance. They will find you.
I used to be a city lifeguard as a teen, and I understand your comments about prevention. Girls would ask me at parties how many people I had saved (meaning immediately drowning). My answer was always "none". Usually this would get blank-stares as they could not comprehend that if I did my job correctly, I would never face that situation. Prevention was the key.
Luckily we had more than enough female guards (that understood prevention) and weren't ashamed to show off their bodies in bikinis and tank tops (or less!) to make up for the loss of bimbos that couldn't quite get it.
I had a lot of training for emergencies, just like the police do. However prevention is the largest part of the job. As exciting as it may be to ask a policemen you know how many people they have shot, if they say zero, they were likely doing their jobs correctly.
You use that word (mini-game), but I don't think you know what it means.(oblig.quote)
Tell me about your great download service of full-games.
I mean really, please prove in some way that RBW's Sock Puppet is not working mini-games. Short of "low-budget", which it clearly isn't, Molecule have already announced the sequel. Open up your wallets guys.
Oops, I forgot that "shallow game" and "simple game" are subjective comments. As distasteful as it may seem to you, these games make more money and keep getting produced because more people play them than the latest "hardcore" shooter.
A common commute of 20 miles would give you 20 minutes to yourself to do whatever while someone else drove.
It sounds wonderful, and worthy of the mods. The only problem is that it doesn't reflect reality. At some point (the exit) the commuter has to take control of his car again. This system gives the commuter the ability to veg out for 20 minutes, typing replies to/., watching a PBay download, getting some "stimulation" from another passenger or "whatever" as you said, before they have to immediately take control of the car again.
We have trouble enough with cellphone usage in cars today distracting drivers. A situation like you have described is perfect for responsible users. Ask any driver today if they are responsible drivers. I will bet they almost all say they are. Yet we still have so many highway deaths annually.
I leave it to others to decide what this says about the US
Shouldn't this post have been moderated funny/flamebait instead of interesting? Did we get any indication of how this would have been handled differently in the UK? Even the poster had no idea, as he/she certainly can't spell that simple procedure out. He/she leaves it up to you to fill in the blanks by invite.
I am all for rational discourse, but this comment is neither rational nor is it a discourse on the subject. It is certainly not worth being moderated interesting.
HOLY GOD, That was worse than Bill and Jerry and Don't Copy That Floppy combined. Unfortunately, I can't have a nervous break down just yet, I still have to work another 5 hours.
You'll be lucky if you still have a job in 5 hours. Don't Copy That Floppy is a copyrighted work by the Software Publishers Association(1992, see the end-credits), and your mention of it has spiked YouTube viewings of that clearly illegally hosted video. When we take Google down today, you are next for being an accomplice.
Were those errors from CATIA V4 or V5? I teach both and would love to replicate them just to get the screenshot. Any tips on how to get them, beyond the last which sounds like the restart error? That "wordy" one kills me.
Christ, my 9y/old niece split her head open skipping rope once. How does one trip forward over a jump rope?
Her family has decided to pray she one day grows big boobs, or she may never leave home. That our bloodline shares this DNA is soooooo depressing.
Damn. Maybe this is why I keep falling onto your niece when double-dutching with her? Oh well, don't worry. Our respective gene-pools will even themselves out eventually, cousin.
A lot of devices like this have been offered in Asia. Presumably here the seller in the U.S. and seems to be quite ignorant of American laws, as you say, and a humble merchant. So I accidentally slip him a $20 counterfeit for my purchase. Why should I be on the hook for the forged note more than the proprieter for the forged merchandise he has sold?
Having nothing to do professionally with Ubi, (so I may be just guessing here) I'll bet that they were pretty irked too when someone took thier own development and essentially released it free to the world.
In the end, everyone was happy except Michael Collins, who had to wait in orbit while his buddies danced on the moon for the first time. (Although perhaps felt safer being that this was all new stuff.)
Relatively speaking, this would be the safety felt by any of us climbing a shakey 100' ladder at the 99' mark. I think safety was a non-issue at that point.
Actually, CNC lathes do use Linux or even their own proprietary OS. The part itself may have been designed and engineered in one of the many CAD/CAM packages that run on Windows machines. Let us pretend each Windows designers' machine is compromised to hell with viruses: The Win based CAD file still must get translated into instructions that the machine will take. It is just basically a text file of numbers that will cut according to the co-ordinates in that file, based on that particular machine's standards (and there are many). I have yet to hear about viruses that have infected NC machines by the introduction of "artificially" bad NC code. I cannot fathom how it could possibly happen, beyond having a dedicated group of hackers even smaller than the ones that build all those Linux viruses we keep hearing about.;)
" I see no problem with them being anti-piracy, pro-copyright, and pro-using p2p for legal means."
And there should be no reason to assume a problem, had that been what he actually said in TFA:
"It's obvious that peer-to-peer is capable, and in fact may in the future be a significant mode of efficient transport of legitimate content. But today, in terms of that consumption of bandwidth, it's overwhelmingly pirated content. There's probably a percentage of pornography mixed in, but one is not talking about legitimate content." - Rick Cotton, NBC Universal's top lawyer
This kind of statement stinks of "lawyer looking to smear." Break the logic down. Currently any P2P user is a pirate, or a pirate/pornographer, except for the "overwhelming" minority. I may be reading this wrong, but it looks like the only thing that can possibly save P2P from its ghetto is GE/NBC. Once they start distributing with P2P (by borrowing your bandwidth) in the future, the tubes will be safe again. Well done NBC. You kept the homefront safe.
Hell, even if it were in the realms of "artificial demand" and "conspiracy theory", you have to wonder why the geniuses at Sony haven't picked up on the latest business model:
1. Produce a cheap and functional game system.
2. Give it a new and different control system.
3. Produce less systems than the market demands.(conspiracy)
4. Profit$$$!
Ok, so maybe this whole "conspiracy" thing caught them off guard. Sony is a company quick enough to respond to market shifts. They should know how to make money.
This isn't exactly the latest business model, though. My question is: After they saw the DS eat their lunch two years back with this exact situation, why are they or anyone still so surprised that the Wii is "supposedly" doing the same thing today to the PS3? Sony had the time to learn about the differences between the DS and the PSP. They didn't.
The only "conspiracy" I see is that Nintendo didn't follow Sony's and MS's lead intentionally, and I guess Nintendo is now (hah!) paying the price for that decision.
Exactly. There was the same amount (or more) of dreck produced in the 60's, 70's and 80's as there is today. One hit wonder was not a term coined by The Oneders. The Archies (Sugar, Sugar)? Ron Holden and the Thunderbirds? Bob Luman? Rosie and the Originals? The Jarmels?
That's just the beginning of the 60's.
They could, but that wouldn't be profitable. Their lawyers are better off suing anyone remotely involved with S.E.T.I. for trying to intercept digital radio signals.
I'd also like to see what "out of court" settlement they try to make with Kang and Kodos when they land presenting the Voyager recordings.
"If you get bashed for saying "we've won in the past and we'll win again", and get bashed for saying "we've won in the past, but we realize that means we still have to fight", what exactly do you EXPECT them to say?"
"There are a great many Wii's being sold, but until everyone figures out who the hell is buying them, there will be a lull. Are they being bought by Core gamers who also own a XBox 360, or Casual gamers who are only ever going to play Wii Sports? Either of those does not help the Wii in the long term."
I think it is pretty evident by now who is buying the Wii. Core gamers and Casual gamers. You even said so in your first sentence. Zelda and Sports.
As for the "long term", if I were a developer, I would certainly want to spend money to develop a game for the Wii first, and then worry about spending more money on a more developmentally-expensive console to develop for, that offers potentially less return. It is all about installed base. Developers are not starving artists, and they want the best ROI. Risk Management 101.
Also, a "lull" is the last thing the third-parties want after getting burned on the PS3 and PSP. Even those on-board at the Wii launch were overwhelmed at the sales response. Just ask UbiSoft.
Most importantly, what is this "long-term" you speak of when discussing consoles? It is the short-term that decides these matters; People buy the units, publishers make more games. People don't buy the units, publishers don't make games.
"I agree that utopias don't exist in the Universe we inhabit. But I'm not sure I buy the idea that the impossibility of a utopia is a good thing. It sounds a lot like rationalization to me."
Want to hear rationalization?: I honestly believe that X will not happen. Still we should promote X anyway, because I think it good to pretend X may happen for my own good.
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Well there go the sales of "Lego Battles" in China. (OK, I kid when I talk about "actual" software sales in China) Pretty much any plastic Lego set that has skellies in them as well. Pirates, Castle, Indy, etc. At least I can take to heart that there will be no more pirated versions of "Clash of the Titans" floating around China. Heaven forbid China should decide to invade North America on the evening of Oct. 31st. That is when we allow the skeletons, princesses, superheroes, witches and ghosts free to patrol the streets looking for sustenance. They will find you.
I used to be a city lifeguard as a teen, and I understand your comments about prevention. Girls would ask me at parties how many people I had saved (meaning immediately drowning). My answer was always "none". Usually this would get blank-stares as they could not comprehend that if I did my job correctly, I would never face that situation. Prevention was the key. Luckily we had more than enough female guards (that understood prevention) and weren't ashamed to show off their bodies in bikinis and tank tops (or less!) to make up for the loss of bimbos that couldn't quite get it. I had a lot of training for emergencies, just like the police do. However prevention is the largest part of the job. As exciting as it may be to ask a policemen you know how many people they have shot, if they say zero, they were likely doing their jobs correctly.
Since when did violence on TV become a crime? You are not thinking of the children here.
You use that word (mini-game), but I don't think you know what it means.(oblig.quote) Tell me about your great download service of full-games. I mean really, please prove in some way that RBW's Sock Puppet is not working mini-games. Short of "low-budget", which it clearly isn't, Molecule have already announced the sequel. Open up your wallets guys. Oops, I forgot that "shallow game" and "simple game" are subjective comments. As distasteful as it may seem to you, these games make more money and keep getting produced because more people play them than the latest "hardcore" shooter.
A common commute of 20 miles would give you 20 minutes to yourself to do whatever while someone else drove.
It sounds wonderful, and worthy of the mods. The only problem is that it doesn't reflect reality. At some point (the exit) the commuter has to take control of his car again. This system gives the commuter the ability to veg out for 20 minutes, typing replies to /., watching a PBay download, getting some "stimulation" from another passenger or "whatever" as you said, before they have to immediately take control of the car again.
We have trouble enough with cellphone usage in cars today distracting drivers. A situation like you have described is perfect for responsible users. Ask any driver today if they are responsible drivers. I will bet they almost all say they are. Yet we still have so many highway deaths annually.
I leave it to others to decide what this says about the US
Shouldn't this post have been moderated funny/flamebait instead of interesting? Did we get any indication of how this would have been handled differently in the UK? Even the poster had no idea, as he/she certainly can't spell that simple procedure out. He/she leaves it up to you to fill in the blanks by invite. I am all for rational discourse, but this comment is neither rational nor is it a discourse on the subject. It is certainly not worth being moderated interesting.
HOLY GOD, That was worse than Bill and Jerry and Don't Copy That Floppy combined. Unfortunately, I can't have a nervous break down just yet, I still have to work another 5 hours.
You'll be lucky if you still have a job in 5 hours. Don't Copy That Floppy is a copyrighted work by the Software Publishers Association(1992, see the end-credits), and your mention of it has spiked YouTube viewings of that clearly illegally hosted video. When we take Google down today, you are next for being an accomplice.
Sincerely, the SPA
Were those errors from CATIA V4 or V5? I teach both and would love to replicate them just to get the screenshot. Any tips on how to get them, beyond the last which sounds like the restart error? That "wordy" one kills me.
Christ, my 9y/old niece split her head open skipping rope once. How does one trip forward over a jump rope?
Her family has decided to pray she one day grows big boobs, or she may never leave home. That our bloodline shares this DNA is soooooo depressing.
Damn. Maybe this is why I keep falling onto your niece when double-dutching with her? Oh well, don't worry. Our respective gene-pools will even themselves out eventually, cousin.
A lot of devices like this have been offered in Asia. Presumably here the seller in the U.S. and seems to be quite ignorant of American laws, as you say, and a humble merchant. So I accidentally slip him a $20 counterfeit for my purchase. Why should I be on the hook for the forged note more than the proprieter for the forged merchandise he has sold?
Having nothing to do professionally with Ubi, (so I may be just guessing here) I'll bet that they were pretty irked too when someone took thier own development and essentially released it free to the world.
That's his own damn problem, fool, for being a Taurus
Relatively speaking, this would be the safety felt by any of us climbing a shakey 100' ladder at the 99' mark. I think safety was a non-issue at that point.
Actually, CNC lathes do use Linux or even their own proprietary OS. The part itself may have been designed and engineered in one of the many CAD/CAM packages that run on Windows machines. Let us pretend each Windows designers' machine is compromised to hell with viruses: The Win based CAD file still must get translated into instructions that the machine will take. It is just basically a text file of numbers that will cut according to the co-ordinates in that file, based on that particular machine's standards (and there are many). I have yet to hear about viruses that have infected NC machines by the introduction of "artificially" bad NC code. I cannot fathom how it could possibly happen, beyond having a dedicated group of hackers even smaller than the ones that build all those Linux viruses we keep hearing about. ;)
And there should be no reason to assume a problem, had that been what he actually said in TFA:
"It's obvious that peer-to-peer is capable, and in fact may in the future be a significant mode of efficient transport of legitimate content. But today, in terms of that consumption of bandwidth, it's overwhelmingly pirated content. There's probably a percentage of pornography mixed in, but one is not talking about legitimate content." - Rick Cotton, NBC Universal's top lawyer
This kind of statement stinks of "lawyer looking to smear." Break the logic down. Currently any P2P user is a pirate, or a pirate/pornographer, except for the "overwhelming" minority.
I may be reading this wrong, but it looks like the only thing that can possibly save P2P from its ghetto is GE/NBC. Once they start distributing with P2P (by borrowing your bandwidth) in the future, the tubes will be safe again.
Well done NBC. You kept the homefront safe.
Sorry, I had an ST. What were you Amiga folks saying there?
"Also, why should defrag take an admin password to run???"
Because it isn't set up as easy as Linux, where clearly everyone has total disk access.
1. Produce a cheap and functional game system.
2. Give it a new and different control system.
3. Produce less systems than the market demands.(conspiracy)
4. Profit$$$!
Ok, so maybe this whole "conspiracy" thing caught them off guard. Sony is a company quick enough to respond to market shifts. They should know how to make money.
This isn't exactly the latest business model, though. My question is:
After they saw the DS eat their lunch two years back with this exact situation, why are they or anyone still so surprised that the Wii is "supposedly" doing the same thing today to the PS3? Sony had the time to learn about the differences between the DS and the PSP. They didn't.
The only "conspiracy" I see is that Nintendo didn't follow Sony's and MS's lead intentionally, and I guess Nintendo is now (hah!) paying the price for that decision.
Exactly. There was the same amount (or more) of dreck produced in the 60's, 70's and 80's as there is today. One hit wonder was not a term coined by The Oneders. The Archies (Sugar, Sugar)? Ron Holden and the Thunderbirds? Bob Luman? Rosie and the Originals? The Jarmels? That's just the beginning of the 60's.
They could, but that wouldn't be profitable. Their lawyers are better off suing anyone remotely involved with S.E.T.I. for trying to intercept digital radio signals. I'd also like to see what "out of court" settlement they try to make with Kang and Kodos when they land presenting the Voyager recordings.
If Erotic Arts it is, I say bring back M.U.L.E.! I haven't played that one since Tijuana.
"If you get bashed for saying "we've won in the past and we'll win again", and get bashed for saying "we've won in the past, but we realize that means we still have to fight", what exactly do you EXPECT them to say?"
Uncle.
I think it is pretty evident by now who is buying the Wii. Core gamers and Casual gamers. You even said so in your first sentence. Zelda and Sports.
As for the "long term", if I were a developer, I would certainly want to spend money to develop a game for the Wii first, and then worry about spending more money on a more developmentally-expensive console to develop for, that offers potentially less return. It is all about installed base. Developers are not starving artists, and they want the best ROI. Risk Management 101.
Also, a "lull" is the last thing the third-parties want after getting burned on the PS3 and PSP. Even those on-board at the Wii launch were overwhelmed at the sales response. Just ask UbiSoft.
Most importantly, what is this "long-term" you speak of when discussing consoles? It is the short-term that decides these matters; People buy the units, publishers make more games. People don't buy the units, publishers don't make games.
Want to hear rationalization?: I honestly believe that X will not happen. Still we should promote X anyway, because I think it good to pretend X may happen for my own good.
Sound familiar?
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