If those are the examples you're using to back up your point, then I'm afraid you're not going to convince anyone. And why should consumer rights be subject to the exact same moral conditions as every other facet of society? That doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
It's pretty annoying that whois.sc has turned to crap under this pointless rebranding, because I want to check if discount-licensing.co.uk is still available.
If it is, these guys are clearly aiming for international business, because any British person could tell you that businesses operating inside the uk always go for.co.uk domains.
That being said, there are a few mentions of being in the UK on the first page.
The best part so far has been seeing how they've dealt with the challenge of materialising something as abstract as software licences into a picture for a logo. What the hell is that thing?
The discussion and arguing here are the point of Slashdot. Clearly you've been flamed at some point, or something like that, and you couldn't take the pain it dealt to your ego. Most people here though are grown up enough to work past that and grow from it, instead of becoming bitter and bitching about it. Through the intense discussion here, we all grow. What credentials do you have to criticise the Slashdot formula anyway? Is the fact that you don't like it enough for you to just deem it "bullshit"?
Burning us to dust? You honestly think MySpace is taking away visitors from Slashdot? Real winners stay true to themselves, their demographic, and their strategy despite whatever bandwagon their counterparts are jumping on. This is what Slashdot has done, successfully, for years. Now that bookmarks and tags are popular, established parts of the web, Slashdot is implementing them. This is a much better way to decide what do than "keeping pace" and "watching your opponents on the battlefield", which are sure signs of a company going for a quick buck.
Which brings us to MySpace. Here at Slashdot, there is no kiddie porn. There is next to no spam (a little IT recruitment spam by email here and there). The interface is consistent. Comment posters don't get to foist their musical tastes on me as I read their comments. Myspace, on the other hand, has all these problems. And worse still, in a few years time the cash cow will be dying off, Fox will abandon MySpace, and it'll degenerate into pure spam like most dying sites do. And Slashdot, still alive and well in largely the same form as before, will do a story about it. I will post a link to your comment, it'll be +5 Funny, and we'll all have a nice long laugh at your expense.
Aaaaaargh! UBUNTU?! You could have put a warning somewhere! Now I have to go wash poo out of my eyes!
No, the real reason I'm replying is that you failed to practice good paranoia. I now know an article you've read on wikipedia, something you searched for on Google, some sites you like to visit, what programs you use most often, and even the air temperature at the time you took the screenshot.
People there are so obsessed with beating Slashdot that many actually installed Alexa specifically so that it could track their visits to Digg.
More such results continue on the second search page. Only on page 4 do they start to lose relevance (an interesting correlation with the study that was featured yesterday, n'est ce pas?)
Heh, I love how this comment is considered so controversial that everyone's scared to moderate it for real. Instead it's been metamoderated all the way to 4, and it feels like a trip back in time!
Someone with some balls mod him interesting and have done with it!
Because by "political statement", they mean that from the fact that your actions don't fit in with their conception of the world, they have inferred that you must be trying to foist your views upon them.
The human mind is very good at fooling itself into thinking that it's being clever, when in reality it's just rationalising primitive bullshit. Seemingly perfectly normal people can turn out to be paranoid in their defense of their ideas. Humans suck sometimes, but on the bright side, we're wiping ourselves out.
Man, I wish I could get a bit of peace in my MMORPG. Every time I log in, I go and queue for PvP in Ironforge, and the all negroes refuse to give me their place in line! I wish they could keep their political protest to the real world!
Seriously though, the only rights gays lack are social. The right to kiss in public, for example. Unless you count the right to marry*, or the right to start a family, which is a debate in itself.
Racial inequality has meant things like slavery, and later on, whether one was legally allowed to do certain things. To compare this to the gay cause is an insult to african americans throughout the Americas.
* it's not that gays don't have the right to marry, it's that that's not the purpose of marriage, and thus requires changes to the meaning of marriage itself to truly be accomodated
The point about Google ads on non-Google pages is interesting. Not something most people consider when saying "Then don't use Google, duh!".
Interestingly, the other day someone else was complaining about Google ads being everywhere, and mentioned blocking pagead2.googlesyndication.com. Since I copied his trick, I now get part of the Firefox "can't connect" error page where I would normally have seen ads. An effect of this that I never considered was that Google as a result gets less data about me. If you use Linux, stick this in/etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 pagead2.googlesyndication.com
Hopefully this won't become widespread, because then they'll move googlesyndication under the google.com domain, but until then, we crackpots can feel a little safer.
I'll stand up and say that I momentarily forgot about this. I went into rich-guy mode and just forgot that not everyone lives like me. 99% percent of the time, I would have realised this.
I've been wondering about this. They go to all this trouble to build clever, complex economies. Isn't it possible that they set such high prices for the likes of mounts in order to give gamers a taste of part of the game they might be missing out on?
It's quite common, especially in RPGs, for you to be forced at some point to carry out each action at least once, just to make sure you know it's there.
So maybe they reckon that after 60 levels, players will be sick of the quest->money+experience ladder, and the time spent playing in the economy will be a welcome change?
I've never played a MMORPG for any significant amount of time (this phrase is included for your convenience: feel free to quote it at the end of your post, followed by a cutting blow such as "it shows"). I played Guild Wars (not a real MMORPG) until just after the ice mountains, and I played Vendetta Online until my trial expired and the first payment failed to go through.
Something I forgot in my other post: this isn't something you can go into expecting it to be stable. It's stated in the ToS and a well known fact that gold selling is strictly a no-no. If somebody is retarded enough to try to support their family off something like that... I know it sounds repulsive, but it's evolution at work.
And please, nobody get all righteous in the name of the poor poverty-stricken Chinese clutching at the final straw of gold farming. Anyone who can get access to a WoW subscription and an internet connection is at no risk of starving between jobs.
Which is precisely why this both must and will be fixed on an evolutionary basis. The balance and mechanics issues that promote gold farming need to be addressed as MMORPGS grow.
That way, it won't be a case of someone having the rug pulled out from under them, they'll have time to find a new job as the demand for gold winds down in one game while it dies, and it'll becomes clear that there's no demand in any of the growing new games.
In software terms, this sort of article campaign and the measures taken by the likes of Blizzard are known as solving the wrong problem. Trying to get the users to change their behaviour instead of fixing the glaring software issue that's driving them to do it.
For some reason though, these MMORPG developers seem to see themselves as above this basic design principle.
The question is, why?
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Did you not consider why I might choose this example for my analogy? Pizza boxes come with ads on them. A pizza order leaves your address in a database. They decide what kinds of coupon to give you based on this information, and are happy to sell it on.
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You ignored all of my points completely, so I'm just going to repeat them.
Publicising parts of your schedule is practically the point of this thing.
You've obviously never planned a coup d'etat before.
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This is the wrong way to inform of this. Dupes are tagged as such instead.
If those are the examples you're using to back up your point, then I'm afraid you're not going to convince anyone. And why should consumer rights be subject to the exact same moral conditions as every other facet of society? That doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
If it is, these guys are clearly aiming for international business, because any British person could tell you that businesses operating inside the uk always go for .co.uk domains.
That being said, there are a few mentions of being in the UK on the first page.
The best part so far has been seeing how they've dealt with the challenge of materialising something as abstract as software licences into a picture for a logo. What the hell is that thing?
Burning us to dust? You honestly think MySpace is taking away visitors from Slashdot? Real winners stay true to themselves, their demographic, and their strategy despite whatever bandwagon their counterparts are jumping on. This is what Slashdot has done, successfully, for years. Now that bookmarks and tags are popular, established parts of the web, Slashdot is implementing them. This is a much better way to decide what do than "keeping pace" and "watching your opponents on the battlefield", which are sure signs of a company going for a quick buck.
Which brings us to MySpace. Here at Slashdot, there is no kiddie porn. There is next to no spam (a little IT recruitment spam by email here and there). The interface is consistent. Comment posters don't get to foist their musical tastes on me as I read their comments. Myspace, on the other hand, has all these problems. And worse still, in a few years time the cash cow will be dying off, Fox will abandon MySpace, and it'll degenerate into pure spam like most dying sites do. And Slashdot, still alive and well in largely the same form as before, will do a story about it. I will post a link to your comment, it'll be +5 Funny, and we'll all have a nice long laugh at your expense.
What?! That's the sort of thing that you put in between and
No, the real reason I'm replying is that you failed to practice good paranoia. I now know an article you've read on wikipedia, something you searched for on Google, some sites you like to visit, what programs you use most often, and even the air temperature at the time you took the screenshot.
Not that I'm much better.
You misspelled 'jailbait'.
People there are so obsessed with beating Slashdot that many actually installed Alexa specifically so that it could track their visits to Digg.
More such results continue on the second search page. Only on page 4 do they start to lose relevance (an interesting correlation with the study that was featured yesterday, n'est ce pas?)
Someone with some balls mod him interesting and have done with it!
See also: Slashdot
And still got modded up! HA!
(Not that I'm implying that the alternative of social miscegenation works any better)
The human mind is very good at fooling itself into thinking that it's being clever, when in reality it's just rationalising primitive bullshit. Seemingly perfectly normal people can turn out to be paranoid in their defense of their ideas. Humans suck sometimes, but on the bright side, we're wiping ourselves out.
Racial inequality has meant things like slavery, and later on, whether one was legally allowed to do certain things. To compare this to the gay cause is an insult to african americans throughout the Americas.
* it's not that gays don't have the right to marry, it's that that's not the purpose of marriage, and thus requires changes to the meaning of marriage itself to truly be accomodated
Interestingly, the other day someone else was complaining about Google ads being everywhere, and mentioned blocking pagead2.googlesyndication.com. Since I copied his trick, I now get part of the Firefox "can't connect" error page where I would normally have seen ads. An effect of this that I never considered was that Google as a result gets less data about me. If you use Linux, stick this in /etc/hosts
Hopefully this won't become widespread, because then they'll move googlesyndication under the google.com domain, but until then, we crackpots can feel a little safer.I'll stand up and say that I momentarily forgot about this. I went into rich-guy mode and just forgot that not everyone lives like me. 99% percent of the time, I would have realised this.
lol slash me
It's quite common, especially in RPGs, for you to be forced at some point to carry out each action at least once, just to make sure you know it's there.
So maybe they reckon that after 60 levels, players will be sick of the quest->money+experience ladder, and the time spent playing in the economy will be a welcome change?
I've never played a MMORPG for any significant amount of time (this phrase is included for your convenience: feel free to quote it at the end of your post, followed by a cutting blow such as "it shows"). I played Guild Wars (not a real MMORPG) until just after the ice mountains, and I played Vendetta Online until my trial expired and the first payment failed to go through.
And please, nobody get all righteous in the name of the poor poverty-stricken Chinese clutching at the final straw of gold farming. Anyone who can get access to a WoW subscription and an internet connection is at no risk of starving between jobs.
That way, it won't be a case of someone having the rug pulled out from under them, they'll have time to find a new job as the demand for gold winds down in one game while it dies, and it'll becomes clear that there's no demand in any of the growing new games.
For some reason though, these MMORPG developers seem to see themselves as above this basic design principle.
The question is, why?
Did you not consider why I might choose this example for my analogy? Pizza boxes come with ads on them. A pizza order leaves your address in a database. They decide what kinds of coupon to give you based on this information, and are happy to sell it on.