as for 2, you're describing episodic content. A number of games have done that, to mixed reviews.
I personally abhor the idea of buying games one level at a time and think that model would make games tedious and not worth the effort. Let me drop $50 on the whole thing one time and be done with it.
She can't have been served without the papers actually being given directly to her. A court summons sent by mail or handed to a relative is not guaranteed to reach the person, and the court MUST do due diligence in informing a person that they are being sued.
I'm with the GP, this is typical RIAA nonsense with a cheap emotional twist. I can't wait to see the furor over them suing a quadruple amputee, even those such people are perfectly capable of piracy and the RIAA has no way of knowing their amputee status until they meet in court.
OMG THEY SUED A SICK PERSON! I bet they didn't even know she was sick.
Back in the radio days, it was actually quite common to deliver fiction in a "you're there" format. WotW actually changed all that, what with the mass panic, dozens of suicides, and general craziness that followed it. You'll notice that the format of WotW still isn't followed: they don't do live news coverage of fake events.
There was a bad remake of WotW back in the late eighties or early nineties done in a live news format. There was a near-constant scroll at the bottom reminding viewers this was fiction and not to be alarmed. It ended with the world (presumably) getting destroyed by...umm...meteors.
Do I care about a glass trackpad when I use a bluetooth mouse? Do I have or intend to purchase anything with a displayport interface? Does the case material matter that much? Yes, the keyboard is backlit. No, the screen probably isn't LED, but that is unimportant to me. Magnetic power connector? I care more about what kind of latch they use to secure the laptop when it's closed.
Okay, fine. I'll put it this way: I don't want to pay $400 to have something shiny.
Consoles positively suck at real-time strategy and I sorely miss the mouse in first-person shooters, and Mac support is hit-and-miss in the games market. Thus, switching to Mac means added expense and trouble for gaming. I hope for the sake of competition and innovation that the situation changes.
On the same note, Apple needs to get on the ball with a good solution for enterprise. I'd love to see a viable alternative to Microsoft that I could present to my bosses; unfortunately, there simply isn't one that we've been able to find. 2,000+ Macs still sounds like an utter nightmare to administrate, which is why I've never been able to find a single person who does it.
On a more serious note, I just discovered the fanfilm Of Gods and Men. Probably old news to the die-hard trekkies, but we casual fans don't get the memos.
It can come across as a little preachy to some and not all of the action sequences make complete sense (I think maybe some things exist in the rendered scenes that never made it to exposition), but it's got Chekov, Uhura, Tuvok, and several other faces from the movies and shows. Worth watching during a bout of insomnia.
As a PC fanboy for 20+ years, I have to say...when the games I play work natively on Mac, I'm switching.
Yes, I know I can buy a Mac now, buy Windows, and dual boot. But I don't want to do that, and I don't want to spend $100 on Windows when I just dropped $400 more than I'd pay for a Windows system to begin with.
I've priced it: comparable hardware with OS, the Macbook that meets my specifications is $400 more than the Dell equivalent. I can't justify spending $500 to do exactly what I do now. If I'm going to switch, it's a complete switch or not at all.
It's easy enough to check without looking suspicious. If you have a phone with a camera, just switch on the camera, point it at the screen and see what it looks like, then put it away. If by some freak chance you are seen doing this and they bother to confront you, just tell them the truth: you were curious whether you were right about them being IR LEDs designed to prevent piracy.
Most if not all cameras are vulnerable to being partially blinded by IR LEDs. I wonder if it would be possible for theaters to use these to ruin unauthorized recordings without spoiling the viewing experience, either by emitting from behind the screen or reflecting them off the screen along with the normal image.
Of course enterprising pirates would eventually figure out how to work around this by filtering IR frequencies or whatever they would need to do, but it would stop casual recording and reduce the number of people who are capable of creating pirate copies in theaters, meaning that each arrest has a more significant impact on the scene.
If you want to see the movie for free so bad, just wait for the DVD/Bluray rips to show up a day or two before it's in the store. If you really need to see it opening weekend, it's worth paying to see.
Nevertheless, the browser and media player are directly related to purchasing games. They allow you to browse the catalog and watch previews without depending upon external software that may not render their products properly.
As for the community, it's a great feature for those of us who play socially. The ability to click a menu option and land in the same game as my friends in TF2 makes the Steam community worthwhile. If you don't like it, you don't even have to log in to it, but its impact on your system is minimal and a LOT of people find it most useful.
A download client with a chat function that has voice capabilities, a browser for rendering the catalog, and a media player for game trailers and other videos.
Steam isn't just a download client. It also gives the best (imo) community service to every game sold on it. I'm back playing Titan Quest again because it makes it easy to connect with people I play with regularly without leaving the game.
So if the government can't tell me to stop claiming that you're a child molester, exactly how should it be handled? What's going to stop me from continuing to do it if the powers that be aren't allowed to actually penalize me for saying such things?
I read your post. The whole point of my post is that you're wrong.
As the cliche goes, your right to swing your fist ends at my face. Words can do tangible harm, and any action that can do harm to a person CANNOT be a universal right.
The right of free speech must be complete, absolute, and universal.
Right up until it does harm to another person. And libel/slander do harm.
The mistake this principal made was in using the school's discipline system. That apparently is a violation of her rights. Had he simply sued her and her family and/or pressed charges as he rightfully could have done, no one would be complaining.
In other words: because he tried to go easy on her, hundreds of people are complaining that her rights are being trampled.
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Disclaimer: I'm not an MMO player, because I hate grinding.
The problem of low-level or casual players not being able to attain the really big items can easily be compensated for by creating quests for them that are related to it, quests with their own unique (or semi-unique) rewards.
Games like WoW don't have the right kind of player base to do something like this, but I could envision a game where a half-dozen high-level guilds all fight to collect a set of relics that will . Those guilds could sponsor, hire, or intimidate other, smaller guilds into fighting proxy wars and doing various other things for them. High level players would replace NPCs as questgivers, offering rewards to lower level players for retrieving various items that those players can't use, but will be useful to higher levels.
It would take a lot of work to balance and keep interesting, and it would take a fan base dedicated to playing the game RIGHT, but it would be an awesome game.
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as for 2, you're describing episodic content. A number of games have done that, to mixed reviews.
I personally abhor the idea of buying games one level at a time and think that model would make games tedious and not worth the effort. Let me drop $50 on the whole thing one time and be done with it.
Then we should be rewarding the game distributors who are going green by selling on services like Steam and Impulse.
The $15M meteorite is "but it now", and I seriously doubt he'll find a buyer.
I'd hate to pay the fees on that...
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She can't have been served without the papers actually being given directly to her. A court summons sent by mail or handed to a relative is not guaranteed to reach the person, and the court MUST do due diligence in informing a person that they are being sued.
I'm with the GP, this is typical RIAA nonsense with a cheap emotional twist. I can't wait to see the furor over them suing a quadruple amputee, even those such people are perfectly capable of piracy and the RIAA has no way of knowing their amputee status until they meet in court.
OMG THEY SUED A SICK PERSON! I bet they didn't even know she was sick.
Back in the radio days, it was actually quite common to deliver fiction in a "you're there" format. WotW actually changed all that, what with the mass panic, dozens of suicides, and general craziness that followed it. You'll notice that the format of WotW still isn't followed: they don't do live news coverage of fake events.
There was a bad remake of WotW back in the late eighties or early nineties done in a live news format. There was a near-constant scroll at the bottom reminding viewers this was fiction and not to be alarmed. It ended with the world (presumably) getting destroyed by...umm...meteors.
Do I care about a glass trackpad when I use a bluetooth mouse? Do I have or intend to purchase anything with a displayport interface? Does the case material matter that much? Yes, the keyboard is backlit. No, the screen probably isn't LED, but that is unimportant to me. Magnetic power connector? I care more about what kind of latch they use to secure the laptop when it's closed.
Okay, fine. I'll put it this way: I don't want to pay $400 to have something shiny.
Consoles positively suck at real-time strategy and I sorely miss the mouse in first-person shooters, and Mac support is hit-and-miss in the games market. Thus, switching to Mac means added expense and trouble for gaming. I hope for the sake of competition and innovation that the situation changes.
On the same note, Apple needs to get on the ball with a good solution for enterprise. I'd love to see a viable alternative to Microsoft that I could present to my bosses; unfortunately, there simply isn't one that we've been able to find. 2,000+ Macs still sounds like an utter nightmare to administrate, which is why I've never been able to find a single person who does it.
On a more serious note, I just discovered the fanfilm Of Gods and Men. Probably old news to the die-hard trekkies, but we casual fans don't get the memos.
It can come across as a little preachy to some and not all of the action sequences make complete sense (I think maybe some things exist in the rendered scenes that never made it to exposition), but it's got Chekov, Uhura, Tuvok, and several other faces from the movies and shows. Worth watching during a bout of insomnia.
http://www.startrekofgodsandmen.com/
As a PC fanboy for 20+ years, I have to say...when the games I play work natively on Mac, I'm switching.
Yes, I know I can buy a Mac now, buy Windows, and dual boot. But I don't want to do that, and I don't want to spend $100 on Windows when I just dropped $400 more than I'd pay for a Windows system to begin with.
I've priced it: comparable hardware with OS, the Macbook that meets my specifications is $400 more than the Dell equivalent. I can't justify spending $500 to do exactly what I do now. If I'm going to switch, it's a complete switch or not at all.
It's easy enough to check without looking suspicious. If you have a phone with a camera, just switch on the camera, point it at the screen and see what it looks like, then put it away. If by some freak chance you are seen doing this and they bother to confront you, just tell them the truth: you were curious whether you were right about them being IR LEDs designed to prevent piracy.
Most if not all cameras are vulnerable to being partially blinded by IR LEDs. I wonder if it would be possible for theaters to use these to ruin unauthorized recordings without spoiling the viewing experience, either by emitting from behind the screen or reflecting them off the screen along with the normal image.
Of course enterprising pirates would eventually figure out how to work around this by filtering IR frequencies or whatever they would need to do, but it would stop casual recording and reduce the number of people who are capable of creating pirate copies in theaters, meaning that each arrest has a more significant impact on the scene.
If you want to see the movie for free so bad, just wait for the DVD/Bluray rips to show up a day or two before it's in the store. If you really need to see it opening weekend, it's worth paying to see.
Not all changes are good.
a genus that includes lobsters, beetles and tarantulas
I had no idea they were that closely related.
An HDTV does a lot more than just show video disks and game consoles.
There's this thing called television. Look into it.
Nigeria.
This is hands-down THE most civil and informative conversation in the history of slashdot.
Go back where you came from, we don't want your type here. F---ing intellectuals.
Nevertheless, the browser and media player are directly related to purchasing games. They allow you to browse the catalog and watch previews without depending upon external software that may not render their products properly.
As for the community, it's a great feature for those of us who play socially. The ability to click a menu option and land in the same game as my friends in TF2 makes the Steam community worthwhile. If you don't like it, you don't even have to log in to it, but its impact on your system is minimal and a LOT of people find it most useful.
A download client with a chat function that has voice capabilities, a browser for rendering the catalog, and a media player for game trailers and other videos.
Steam isn't just a download client. It also gives the best (imo) community service to every game sold on it. I'm back playing Titan Quest again because it makes it easy to connect with people I play with regularly without leaving the game.
So if the government can't tell me to stop claiming that you're a child molester, exactly how should it be handled? What's going to stop me from continuing to do it if the powers that be aren't allowed to actually penalize me for saying such things?
I read your post. The whole point of my post is that you're wrong.
As the cliche goes, your right to swing your fist ends at my face. Words can do tangible harm, and any action that can do harm to a person CANNOT be a universal right.
Right up until it does harm to another person. And libel/slander do harm.
The mistake this principal made was in using the school's discipline system. That apparently is a violation of her rights. Had he simply sued her and her family and/or pressed charges as he rightfully could have done, no one would be complaining.
In other words: because he tried to go easy on her, hundreds of people are complaining that her rights are being trampled.
Disclaimer: I'm not an MMO player, because I hate grinding.
The problem of low-level or casual players not being able to attain the really big items can easily be compensated for by creating quests for them that are related to it, quests with their own unique (or semi-unique) rewards.
Games like WoW don't have the right kind of player base to do something like this, but I could envision a game where a half-dozen high-level guilds all fight to collect a set of relics that will . Those guilds could sponsor, hire, or intimidate other, smaller guilds into fighting proxy wars and doing various other things for them. High level players would replace NPCs as questgivers, offering rewards to lower level players for retrieving various items that those players can't use, but will be useful to higher levels.
It would take a lot of work to balance and keep interesting, and it would take a fan base dedicated to playing the game RIGHT, but it would be an awesome game.
Guess they should have made THAT ring out of iridium.
Note he said "blockquote" and not "quote".
Probably not of this age. Ever played a 78? Ever seen a player that would?