That's a pretty interesting idea actually, like an inter-server balancing, so you could keep servers for people with a low level of skills. Only problem is, how to decide which server to send the good player to? Maybe by running many instances of the same server for different levels of skills..
Wow! Un américain qui arrive à faire une phrase en français sans faute?! J'aurais tout vu;-) (nan sérieux, à part Jodie Foster y'a pas beaucoup d'américains que j'ai vu se débrouiller en français)
"I think it is ok for authors (please let's not call them "creators", they are not gods) to ask for money for copies of their works (please let's not devalue these works by calling them "content"..."
Well, not our fucking problem, that's something between them and whatever media will broadcast their works. And that still doesn't mean we (the viewers) have to pull a dime out of our pockets.
You never heard about something called TV licence ? or TV taxes ? That's what people who live in their own pay to have TV...
Well, in my country (France), the TV tax goes only to public channels like France 2, 3, 4, 5, and the most succesful channels like TF1, M6 or Canal+ (but the latter is a bad example) don't get a dime from this tax.
So yeah, a TV channel you don't give a dime to can survive and become actually huge and rich.
They're essentially claiming that most of their audience don't know that it costs money to produce movies, or music, or software-- that people will come to "expect" such content for free.
It's not because it costs money that you have to pay for it. Do you expect to pay for your Yahoo! Mail account, your Google searches or your MSN conversations? No? It's not brought to you at no cost tho, they have developers to pay, sysadmins, thousands of servers, marketing departments, and much more, but you still don't have to pay a thing.
Why couldn't it be the same for mmmh.. TV shows? Oh wait, that's already the way it's always been on TV! Now why do they want you to pay a couple of dollars on each episode of their show you download on iTunes? Cause they can! Why distribute yourself your content on internet for free with some commercials in the middle to get your money on as you do with TV when you can get the viewers to pay what they normally don't pay for?
Which makes me wonder, what will be the outcome? Will we ultimately all get used to getting stuff for free and go towards a general acceptation of piracy as something morally OK and ultimately bend the law/the IP holders towards accepting it too, will we rather get more and more used to pay for stuff we download or will the situation indefinitely freeze and there will always be people who like to pirate, people who prefer to pay and the IP holders who try to make more people from the first group go into the second by all means?
So, basically, one cannot think up something on his own and is necessarily the follower of someone?
Everyone's a sheep. Modern neuroscience pretty much confirms that most of us run on autopilot most of the time.
Yeah, most of the time, like when I take a crap or that I pick my nose, I'm on autopilot, big whoop. If we're on autopilot most of the time, what do you mean by most of the time (55%? 98%?) and then, what goes on when we're not on "auto-pilot"?
Anyways, all you americans are kind of losing it with evolution and global warming. We, the reasonable people of Europe, are not into stupid retarded debates/clashes like this.
So the whole world could have been just amazed by the new shiny real-time graphics of the game on a 300p or so video at 250 kb/s or so. Not like they needed to put it themselves on YouTube anyways, soon as they would release the video you could be sure that you'd have dozens of fans to try to be the first one to post it on YouTube.
lol. Funny tho how "UFOs" seems to mean to you "alien spaceships" as it really means "thing in the sky that we don't really know what it is". But yeah, I get your point, we would surrender.
I hate to think of pointers as a "representation" of something. (Disclaimer : I'm a C and ARM ASM coder) When I learnt Pascal I thought that to call it a "representation" was utterly confusing. Just call it an address, because that's what a pointer is, it's as simple as that, it's an address, it's so simple.
That's right, mainly with more war-like multiplayer games. Then it becomes obvious that if you get to kill two enemies before you die you're either lucky or good. And then, the less players, the more influence you got. If it's hard for you to do anything on a server with 25 players in, imagine what it's like to be in a battle with thousands of people. Makes a sheep of you, sort of. Fortunately, soldiers are rarely engaged in battles as dangerous as the ones we like to play.
I know a (substantially funnier) variant which goes pretty much like this.
Superman is flying over Metropolis and notices Wonder Woman lying naked on the rooftop of a building. Using his super-speed he fornicates her super-fast for her not to notice and flies away. Right then, Wonder Woman asks "what the hell was that?", to which the Invisible Man replies "No idea, but that did hurt my ass!".
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I'm having trouble understanding how Dark Matter manages to fit into these two new "time related" dimensions...
Well, I am for one having a tough time figuring out how Global Warming fits in with these new time dimensions.
That's a pretty interesting idea actually, like an inter-server balancing, so you could keep servers for people with a low level of skills. Only problem is, how to decide which server to send the good player to? Maybe by running many instances of the same server for different levels of skills..
Wow! Un américain qui arrive à faire une phrase en français sans faute?! J'aurais tout vu ;-) (nan sérieux, à part Jodie Foster y'a pas beaucoup d'américains que j'ai vu se débrouiller en français)
"I think it is ok for authors (please let's not call them "creators", they are not gods) to ask for money for copies of their works (please let's not devalue these works by calling them "content" ..."
Well, not our fucking problem, that's something between them and whatever media will broadcast their works. And that still doesn't mean we (the viewers) have to pull a dime out of our pockets.
You never heard about something called TV licence ? or TV taxes ? That's what people who live in their own pay to have TV ...
Well, in my country (France), the TV tax goes only to public channels like France 2, 3, 4, 5, and the most succesful channels like TF1, M6 or Canal+ (but the latter is a bad example) don't get a dime from this tax.
So yeah, a TV channel you don't give a dime to can survive and become actually huge and rich.
I rather predict that it will be the 17,964,378th comment to not be modded.
He said "artist". How does Tupac fit in there?
Please be modded a troll.
lol, c'est clair, mais moi-même je savais pas que les anglo-saxons disaient aussi ça.
They're essentially claiming that most of their audience don't know that it costs money to produce movies, or music, or software-- that people will come to "expect" such content for free.
It's not because it costs money that you have to pay for it. Do you expect to pay for your Yahoo! Mail account, your Google searches or your MSN conversations? No? It's not brought to you at no cost tho, they have developers to pay, sysadmins, thousands of servers, marketing departments, and much more, but you still don't have to pay a thing.
Why couldn't it be the same for mmmh.. TV shows? Oh wait, that's already the way it's always been on TV! Now why do they want you to pay a couple of dollars on each episode of their show you download on iTunes? Cause they can! Why distribute yourself your content on internet for free with some commercials in the middle to get your money on as you do with TV when you can get the viewers to pay what they normally don't pay for?
Organize yourself: only buy music from the artists themselves!
Great idea! Now would you by any chance know how I can contact Tupac Shakur?
Not to mention how communist and anti-american her anti-freedom comment sounded.
Which makes me wonder, what will be the outcome? Will we ultimately all get used to getting stuff for free and go towards a general acceptation of piracy as something morally OK and ultimately bend the law/the IP holders towards accepting it too, will we rather get more and more used to pay for stuff we download or will the situation indefinitely freeze and there will always be people who like to pirate, people who prefer to pay and the IP holders who try to make more people from the first group go into the second by all means?
Weirdly enough I saw this article in Firehose on Friday (the 30th).
So, basically, one cannot think up something on his own and is necessarily the follower of someone?
Everyone's a sheep. Modern neuroscience pretty much confirms that most of us run on autopilot most of the time.
Yeah, most of the time, like when I take a crap or that I pick my nose, I'm on autopilot, big whoop. If we're on autopilot most of the time, what do you mean by most of the time (55%? 98%?) and then, what goes on when we're not on "auto-pilot"?
Anyways, all you americans are kind of losing it with evolution and global warming. We, the reasonable people of Europe, are not into stupid retarded debates/clashes like this.
Yes / No ~ I am willing to help test Slashdot's New Server Overloading System.
I, for one, welcome our new.. server overload.. erm.. system..
Just posted it on YouTube to begin with.
So the whole world could have been just amazed by the new shiny real-time graphics of the game on a 300p or so video at 250 kb/s or so. Not like they needed to put it themselves on YouTube anyways, soon as they would release the video you could be sure that you'd have dozens of fans to try to be the first one to post it on YouTube.
You mean, even easier than Slackware or even Gentoo?!?
I guess they learnt their lessons from Cartmanland
I agree, I hardly even understood it. Just call it an address and the index an offset to that address, no need for damn biscuit analogies.
lol. Funny tho how "UFOs" seems to mean to you "alien spaceships" as it really means "thing in the sky that we don't really know what it is". But yeah, I get your point, we would surrender.
I hate to think of pointers as a "representation" of something. (Disclaimer : I'm a C and ARM ASM coder) When I learnt Pascal I thought that to call it a "representation" was utterly confusing. Just call it an address, because that's what a pointer is, it's as simple as that, it's an address, it's so simple.
That's right, mainly with more war-like multiplayer games. Then it becomes obvious that if you get to kill two enemies before you die you're either lucky or good. And then, the less players, the more influence you got. If it's hard for you to do anything on a server with 25 players in, imagine what it's like to be in a battle with thousands of people. Makes a sheep of you, sort of. Fortunately, soldiers are rarely engaged in battles as dangerous as the ones we like to play.
Crashing constantly in GTA actually makes me more careful by fear of having as many accidents as in GTA
Actually that means nipple (I'm french)
I know a (substantially funnier) variant which goes pretty much like this.
Superman is flying over Metropolis and notices Wonder Woman lying naked on the rooftop of a building. Using his super-speed he fornicates her super-fast for her not to notice and flies away. Right then, Wonder Woman asks "what the hell was that?", to which the Invisible Man replies "No idea, but that did hurt my ass!".