I've been using GameFly for a couple years now, and I've had 1 lost game and a couple packages I thought were lost. (1 going to them, 1 the box for a game I bought.) In all cases they quickly took care of the problem and always assumed I was a good customer, not someone trying to steal from them. As for the case... it actually came about a week later, with the replacement a couple days behind that. USPS had apparently lost it for a while.
While I don't doubt some people have had problems with GameFly, my experience with them has been stellar.
Isn't this trying to open the path for that? If they can get the API down pat with the plugin, and leave it open enough to replace the plugin with built-in functionality, it'll do exactly what you want, quicker, and with cross-browser compatibility.
Colleges and universities don't just provide information. They provide information in a particularly form, with someone to ask about the information, and test to verify that you know the information. Then, after all that, they provide a certification to prove to potential employers that you know that information.
Yes, you can learn all the same info without them, but you have collect the data yourself from various sources and have the drive to actually learn all of it. You can take all the tests you want, but without an institution to administer the test (to prevent cheating) and certify it (so that it's not just your word that you passed), you just have the information.
Don't get me wrong... I place a lot greater stock in someone's ability and knowledge than I do in an institution. But I also know if an institution's word is a lot easier to trust than an individual's.
All of the information in college/uni classes has been available in book for for as long as they've been using books to teach from. Nothing has -ever- stopped a person from simply buying the books and teaching themselves. iPods have nothing to do with it.
I remember the show from when I was a kid and 'particularly good' didn't really describe it.
'Decent' or 'better than most of the other dreck' yes, but not 'particularly good.'
I'll be going to see the movie with the understanding that other than having sleestacks (spelling?... Do they even call them that in the movie?) and dinosaurs, it's not going to be the same at all.
Anything beyond the moon looks like the same distance to our eyes.
But also, there's only so much distance to work with when creating 3D as well. And worse, in bad 3d, object are flat, but placed at distance.
Star Tours was a fun ride, but it was definitely not a good 3D experience. For a good one, try Spiderman at Islands of Adventure. (I know there's one in Orlando FL, but don't know of others.)
"I still don't understand the fascination with putting electronics in the body (medical reasons notwithstanding). And there is already an issue with people being tracked and watched."
Not everyone is as paranoid about the government spying on them as you. Don't get me wrong, your paranoia helps the rest of us by keeping the government straight... But we don't also need to be paranoid for that to work.
I read this from a developer's perspective and I see something different than most of you: Piracy helped them!
(I can hear the collective 'What!?', so you can save those replies.)
They were only prepared for dismal sales. They said the server initially ran 'less well' with 10s of thousands of people online at once. They sold 18,000 copies. All of those people will want to be online at once at the start, so they weren't even really prepared for the real sales they got.
Then they got 5x that amount because of the piracy. This let them see exactly where the system needed to be improved to handle the load.
They managed this improvement -in a single day-.
In my world, anything that can help me make that kind of improvement is a massive help.
And lastly, I'm a -very- avid gamer and I had never heard of this game. Now it's on Slashdot's front page. You cannot -buy- that kind of advertising.
Last note: Anyone that publishes an online game without a serial code is a fscking moron. Most crackers will not write a keygen for an online game specifically because it costs the developers money when they do so. They only write keygens for offline games.
And 1 more: Note that there are only 6,000 players on the rankings for the tournament. http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/rankings/tournament/8/page/182 Are we really supposed to believe that only 6% of the people playing an online strategy game are interested in its first tournament? Or maybe that 100,000 was pulled out of their ass.
It's not our system that ensures that, it's the attitude of the people that ensures it. The system is quite well set up to handle as many parties as we want. People just only -want- 2.
My pet theory on that is that people want a simple choice, one or the other. When you give them a complex choice, they get frustrated.
You seem to have forgotten that this is a -new- city, not an old one being revamped. This simply means that each house is an additional $15k (average) to buy. It's not like there are current residents being taxed $15k just to continue living there.
The fact that it's expensive is an attraction for the people in this community, not a negative.
BTW, if you'd read the article, you wouldn't have had to guess at the number of residents... You'd know it to be 19,500.
No, but they did spend thousands of hours playing the games and reading books about it so they could beat other people... And that's just about the same thing.
People like to talk about how chess teaches you strategy. How much more does WoW teach you, then? It's quite a bit more complex and you are forced to interact with others and cannot perfectly control their actions. Hell, even Counter Strike has a lot of tactics.
Did anyone really expect them to pick 'Colbert'? I know I didn't. I expected they'd make a joke of it, pretty much like they did.
I did, however, expect them to pick the majority vote one from their own list. I'm really upset with them about this... It shows how detached they are from the public.
I played MMOs like 12-15 years ago. They were as addictive back then as they are today. Eventually, I managed to shake that addiction naturally, and not it has no hold on me.
Don't get me wrong, I -want- to like it... I just can't sit there for hours straight doing the same mindless crap over and over.
Anyone who is in my position and has tried a 'high rate' pirate WoW server can tell you that it's a LOT more fun. (Less addictive, but more fun.)
Eventually, we'll get through the current group of addictees and everyone will be looking for fun instead of addiction. At that point, there's going to be a HUGE market for fun MMOs. In fact, there's probably already a pretty nice market as it is.
And KDE4 may not be 'ready for prime time', but I already like it better than 3.5, so I'm perfectly happy with it. To be clear: I was monstrously disappointed with 4.0, and 4.1 was just acceptable. 4.2 is good enough for me to like the change.
I doubt any single group (unless they are a majority of the customers) will get them to change their minds.
Luckily for us, this snowballs quite readily. Soon, it will spread to other anti-interest groups. They'll start lobbying Amazon to remove more and more content until Amazon can't handle the load of complaints and requests, let alone actually sell any products.
They were a -lot- better off when they were being impartial. (Or at least pretending.)
One of the Japanese people I followed suddenly tweeted a couple lines in English about StalkDaily and I was like 'wtf?' At least now I know it wasn't them.
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I've been using GameFly for a couple years now, and I've had 1 lost game and a couple packages I thought were lost. (1 going to them, 1 the box for a game I bought.) In all cases they quickly took care of the problem and always assumed I was a good customer, not someone trying to steal from them. As for the case... it actually came about a week later, with the replacement a couple days behind that. USPS had apparently lost it for a while.
While I don't doubt some people have had problems with GameFly, my experience with them has been stellar.
Not all of us. Speak for yourself.
Isn't this trying to open the path for that? If they can get the API down pat with the plugin, and leave it open enough to replace the plugin with built-in functionality, it'll do exactly what you want, quicker, and with cross-browser compatibility.
Were they stolen, or did the student consent to this by turning the paper in?
No matter what argument you make, that determination would have to be made on a case-by-case basis.
Colleges and universities don't just provide information. They provide information in a particularly form, with someone to ask about the information, and test to verify that you know the information. Then, after all that, they provide a certification to prove to potential employers that you know that information.
Yes, you can learn all the same info without them, but you have collect the data yourself from various sources and have the drive to actually learn all of it. You can take all the tests you want, but without an institution to administer the test (to prevent cheating) and certify it (so that it's not just your word that you passed), you just have the information.
Don't get me wrong... I place a lot greater stock in someone's ability and knowledge than I do in an institution. But I also know if an institution's word is a lot easier to trust than an individual's.
All of the information in college/uni classes has been available in book for for as long as they've been using books to teach from. Nothing has -ever- stopped a person from simply buying the books and teaching themselves. iPods have nothing to do with it.
Unfortunately, it has nothing to do with experience... You're just prone to motion-sickness.
You might ask a doctor what you can do to combat it.
I imagine most running injuries are caused by accidents, rather than lack of wisdom.
So you had bad shoes, then bought good ones, and then the good ones went bad, and somehow that means that good shoes are better than being barefoot?
Check your data again. It doesn't lead to your conclusion.
I remember the show from when I was a kid and 'particularly good' didn't really describe it.
'Decent' or 'better than most of the other dreck' yes, but not 'particularly good.'
I'll be going to see the movie with the understanding that other than having sleestacks (spelling? ... Do they even call them that in the movie?) and dinosaurs, it's not going to be the same at all.
It's a combination of both.
Anything beyond the moon looks like the same distance to our eyes.
But also, there's only so much distance to work with when creating 3D as well. And worse, in bad 3d, object are flat, but placed at distance.
Star Tours was a fun ride, but it was definitely not a good 3D experience. For a good one, try Spiderman at Islands of Adventure. (I know there's one in Orlando FL, but don't know of others.)
Maybe you should look it up, then, because that's exactly what it means.
http://dictionary.reference.com/dic?q=parity&search=search
2. equivalence; correspondence; similarity; analogy.
"I still don't understand the fascination with putting electronics in the body (medical reasons notwithstanding). And there is already an issue with people being tracked and watched."
Not everyone is as paranoid about the government spying on them as you. Don't get me wrong, your paranoia helps the rest of us by keeping the government straight... But we don't also need to be paranoid for that to work.
I read this from a developer's perspective and I see something different than most of you: Piracy helped them!
(I can hear the collective 'What!?', so you can save those replies.)
They were only prepared for dismal sales. They said the server initially ran 'less well' with 10s of thousands of people online at once. They sold 18,000 copies. All of those people will want to be online at once at the start, so they weren't even really prepared for the real sales they got.
Then they got 5x that amount because of the piracy. This let them see exactly where the system needed to be improved to handle the load.
They managed this improvement -in a single day-.
In my world, anything that can help me make that kind of improvement is a massive help.
And lastly, I'm a -very- avid gamer and I had never heard of this game. Now it's on Slashdot's front page. You cannot -buy- that kind of advertising.
Last note: Anyone that publishes an online game without a serial code is a fscking moron. Most crackers will not write a keygen for an online game specifically because it costs the developers money when they do so. They only write keygens for offline games.
And 1 more: Note that there are only 6,000 players on the rankings for the tournament. http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/rankings/tournament/8/page/182 Are we really supposed to believe that only 6% of the people playing an online strategy game are interested in its first tournament? Or maybe that 100,000 was pulled out of their ass.
It's not our system that ensures that, it's the attitude of the people that ensures it. The system is quite well set up to handle as many parties as we want. People just only -want- 2.
My pet theory on that is that people want a simple choice, one or the other. When you give them a complex choice, they get frustrated.
While I love this decision also, I find it sad that we now applaud people who want to take care of their customers... Didn't that used to be a given?
You seem to have forgotten that this is a -new- city, not an old one being revamped. This simply means that each house is an additional $15k (average) to buy. It's not like there are current residents being taxed $15k just to continue living there.
The fact that it's expensive is an attraction for the people in this community, not a negative.
BTW, if you'd read the article, you wouldn't have had to guess at the number of residents... You'd know it to be 19,500.
No, but they did spend thousands of hours playing the games and reading books about it so they could beat other people... And that's just about the same thing.
People like to talk about how chess teaches you strategy. How much more does WoW teach you, then? It's quite a bit more complex and you are forced to interact with others and cannot perfectly control their actions. Hell, even Counter Strike has a lot of tactics.
Did anyone really expect them to pick 'Colbert'? I know I didn't. I expected they'd make a joke of it, pretty much like they did.
I did, however, expect them to pick the majority vote one from their own list. I'm really upset with them about this... It shows how detached they are from the public.
While I did experiment briefly with Merdian 59, Sierra's The Realm was the one I was addicted to.
I said 12-15 years because I didn't remember the exact date. 13 years is well within that timeframe.
You can keep 'grind' for getting rares without requiring it to level up. In fact, Guild Wars has done just that.
I played MMOs like 12-15 years ago. They were as addictive back then as they are today. Eventually, I managed to shake that addiction naturally, and not it has no hold on me.
Don't get me wrong, I -want- to like it... I just can't sit there for hours straight doing the same mindless crap over and over.
Anyone who is in my position and has tried a 'high rate' pirate WoW server can tell you that it's a LOT more fun. (Less addictive, but more fun.)
Eventually, we'll get through the current group of addictees and everyone will be looking for fun instead of addiction. At that point, there's going to be a HUGE market for fun MMOs. In fact, there's probably already a pretty nice market as it is.
The OP said 'Ubuntu', not 'Kubuntu'.
And KDE4 may not be 'ready for prime time', but I already like it better than 3.5, so I'm perfectly happy with it. To be clear: I was monstrously disappointed with 4.0, and 4.1 was just acceptable. 4.2 is good enough for me to like the change.
Yes, but I didn't visit the site. :) In fact, I almost removed the user from my list over it.
Brilliant name, btw.
I doubt any single group (unless they are a majority of the customers) will get them to change their minds.
Luckily for us, this snowballs quite readily. Soon, it will spread to other anti-interest groups. They'll start lobbying Amazon to remove more and more content until Amazon can't handle the load of complaints and requests, let alone actually sell any products.
They were a -lot- better off when they were being impartial. (Or at least pretending.)
One of the Japanese people I followed suddenly tweeted a couple lines in English about StalkDaily and I was like 'wtf?' At least now I know it wasn't them.