Similar to that, There are "free" MMOs out there...
Last Chaos - I believe it's made by the people who made "Sword of the New World". It's a free MMO. I didn't play it much but gold selling is the norm and so are micro-transactions who have NPCs setup to pickup your purchases.
Dungeon Runners - Sort of a Diablo-esque MMO. You can play for free but you cannot use pretty much any decent weapon that might drop from a boss or be given by special quests. For that you need to be a member, which will cost you $5 / month. Oh, and you cannot use the stacking health potions either.
Sword of the New World - While not free to play, it's a pretty cheap game. $20 for the game, $9 / month membership. You can purchase things outside the game, money, weapons, spells, and pick them up in game. This Korean game is being sold at Wal-Mart in the U.S. It was also previewed in Game Informer Magazine. I played it, it was pretty cool. Kind of a Guild Wars style game. You get to create a team of up to 3 members. So, you can always have a Healer, Tank, DPS group. Though, since most monsters die in 1 hit, you don't really need the traditional setup
In Korea, micro-transations are the norm. They're starting to make their way into the US market. But I can say, that after having played Tabula Rasa Beta, LOTRO, WOW, Shadowbane (trying it again, since it's ad supported free), Last Chaso, Dungeon Runners, EQ2, EQ, DAoC, CoH, CoV, Guild Wars, Sword of the New World, and I'm waiting for the Unreal Tournament-like MMORPG Fury to open their beta (they're selling beta CD's but their launcher tells you to wait a 'couple of days'... it's been 2 weeks so far), I can say that by far WoW is the most enjoyable by far, and I haven't even played it in probably 6-months.
I'm still looking for something that will be nearly as fun as WoW but not cost as much per month. The sweet spot for me is $10, I was paying this with LOTRO (a pretty good game that was close to WoW quality, but suffered the same as WoW except before you hit the max level) and I think for the AAA MMO, this is a fair price. Having found and played several free MMO's and some good very cheap MMO's, I see there being plenty of room for MMO prices to drop. I can see there being a WoW killer out there that's open source project, free, or very cheap based on ad supported and micro-transactions. I would pay $5 / month for WoW and probably never cancel if they ad supported it by putting some ads when zoning into dungeons/instances and into the game.
Until then, I'm a bit disappointed with the MMO commitment and costs considering what I've found out there. I've just started playing console and single player games again. To get some WoW, I just fire up WarcraftIII.
Oh, one other cool thing about Sword of the New World. EXP from quests came in the form of 'cards' which is an interesting concept as they might have been able to be traded to others (I never tried). It's interesting because it could make it easy for a friend to catch up to you if they joined the game at a later time.
ROFL, and here I thought I was totally out of it. Despite having tried many free and obscure online games, I never heard of Habbo. Though, I didn't bother to click the link and I won't bother given how your post confirms my thoughts.
That's the reason that I don't send in rebates any more unless they are $50 or higher. Seems like 9 times out of 10 I never hear from the company again if the rebate is a smallish amount - now I know why. It truly is brilliant though, how hard would you try to get a small $3.50 rebate back, but it was the reason you picked that product over a competitor. So they win twice, once on getting your business and again when they don't send you the check and you don't really care.
Sorry to hear about your rebate problems. I, nor my father (who's a real rebate and coupon junky), have never had a problem getting ours back, be it $5, $10, or $100. I've recently gotten probably over $400 in rebates the last few months. With new AT&T DSL service, I had to mail back a postcard with a sticker attached. That was $50. Then they gave me another $50 rebate for some reason. And then offered me another $25 rebate. All of which I received. My fiancee just got back a $5 rebate for some pet food or something.
Though, I recall seeing a breakdown of rebate returns based on rebate price and I think anything under $50 was like less than 20% return rate. Even at $100, the return rate was like 50%. I found that pretty amazing and hard to believe. Though, I cannot recall the study. I think it was a rebate firm trying to get some business from a company and tempting them the same way you point out.
Perhaps my memory is fuzzy, but this book doesn't share the same assessment.
"Game Over" is definitely one of my favorite books on Nintendo. Though, it's been like 7 years since I read it, I don't recall what they said about Nintendo and their Monopoly practices. I'll have to see if I can find my copy and look through it again. It's definitely worth a read.
It's possible it's merely a semantic issue or a bad implication on the part of Wikipedia.
I might have the post wrong as I'm referring to the context of "Seal of Quality" had nothing to do with "making a good game" in the sense that that game was enjoyable. If the "Seal of Quality" means that the game worked, as in Quality Control, I think there's something to be said about that, as drcagn (715012) points out.
I believe it was "Game Over" that talked about how making a game on the NES was more or less a license to print money. You produce a game and you where practically guaranteed 'x' number of sales, considering how every rental shop stocked NES games and often multiple copies. Most grocery stores where renting NES games and VHS tapes (something I don't see much anymore), gas stations and convenience stores where stocking NES games for rent. I don't remember the last time I saw a gas station renting games.
That's the "If you Build it" mentality, but it was so long ago, I could be mixing my sources. Which is why I'll have to go back and re-read it. Either way, great book and worth a read. (I recall that it was college reading for some business classes)
think the reason why Nintendo was so harsh to third party developers is because they believed (probably rightly) that too much crap games on a system leads to bad sales.
Anyone who lived through the NES era will know that this is not true. The NES is second only to the PSONE in terms of the "If you build it, they will come" mentality. Suffice it to say it was all about making money. Wikipedia has a some good details you might be interested in reading. The "Nintendo Seal of Quality" didn't mean much about how good a game was (in terms of "fun"). All it meant was that Nintendo was paid their license fee.
Actually, it is (though IANAL). There's already precedence set for this same kind of thing with Best Buy. Store employees do not have the right to physically detain you (blocking in your car), which has been done in the past. There's a website out there with a lot of stories about Best Buy and Circuit City involving this kind of thing.
Was the guy a prick? Sounds like it. But that's not reason to accuse him of stealing or detain him. If there was a cop there, then yes, the cop could detain him by blocking him in. But not the store employees.
Not that I have anything against Metroid...but Halo 3 is breaking records before it is even out.
Indeed. Having owned Metroid Prime, Metroid Prime 2 and now Metroid Prime 3, Halo is in a far different category than Metroid. While Metroid is long running and beloved franchise, Halo is a fever pitched hyper hysteria that can draw people from all over just to play a game tourny. It's more competitive than Metroid, which is far more story driven.
With that said, the 60mins I spent with Metroid Prime 3 (after starting over having missed scanning a spaceship and remember previous versions being completely screwed if you missed some scans, I'm being extra cautious scanning stuff), I'm really liking the story line, but the controls are still growing on me. They definitely tightened up the cross-hair movement compared to Red-Steel, but there's still some sluggish feeling trying to quickly change modes.
If only that were true. Part of the problem is that recently Six Apart like to interpret the TOS in ways that aren't explicitly stated in the TOS.
This isn't about how Six Apart or LJ likes to interpret the TOS. It's about how LJ users want to interpret the TOS. But lets put it a different way...
Premise A) The LJ TOS clearly states you cannot post "objectionable" material? objectionable being defined in the TOS under MEMBER CONDUCT but specifically item 1...
"Upload, post or otherwise transmit any Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive to another's privacy (up to, but not excluding any address, email, phone number, or any other contact information without the written consent of the owner of such information), hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;".
No one has a problem with that, correct? Then lets go on to the next logical point...
Premise B) To put a link on your LJ blog, you have to post it. Correct? Any objections? There shouldn't be. Links cannot magically appear on your LJ blog.
Thus, since a link can be posted, and the contents of said link can be objectionable, it there for can be a TOS violation.
What those who are complaining are trying to argue is this...
That since a link does not literally contain the objectionable content (for example, an image), but is only a connection to said objectionable content, it cannot be objected to and it therefor does not apply to the TOS.
This premise if false. A link, a word, an image is content. ANY content can be objected to. That doesn't mean such an objection is always valid. It just means that someone could object it. LJ, in their clarifications, clearly pointed this policy out. They said: "any child p0rn objections will be followed up on, no matter what." They went on to say: "Only other objections that have been substantiated will be followed up on. Any objection that appears to be baseless will be ignored." (paraphrasing)
What's not to understand? Ironically, the blogger "liz_marcs" makes this comment...
Talk about a complete misunderstanding of how the Internet works.
The internet is nothing BUT links (aka connections) to material that is electronically transfered from one location to another. To go to a website, you have to make a link, a connection, to that website. Pictures on that site need to be linked too, even if they're on the same site, so your browser knows how and where to ask for them. I only bring this up because if you read "liz_marcs" conversation she posted to the LJ rep, it's clear "she" doesn't know how the internet works as she tries to be exclusive to some "links" but not others...
I'm not talking about displaying an objectionable image hosted on, say Photobucket, and linked using the "img" tag. I'm talking about linking to a site or an image using the "a href" tag.
So, it's not ok to link an objectionable image with an "img" tag, but it's ok to link to it with an anchor tag("a href")? An objectionable item is an objectionable item, it doesn't matter how you link it. You're directing (linking/connecting) others to it's access. That's the objection.
Some people cough up money for LJ too.
Good for LJ. Those who pay are a subset of those who have access for free. Everyone gets the "free" services, those who pay get more services. I just used the parent set of "free" people because everyone falls into that category.
While it may not be government censorship, I don't see why we can't publicly decry these actions as idiotic. After all, who will learn from their example if no one makes an example of them?
Anyone can be a flaming hypocritical asshat, but that won't make an example of anyone. It's more or less the same as the WoW forums (as well as EQ forums, DAoC forums and any other main-stream MMO game in it's hayday). All you get is a bunch of idiots yelling "F!U Bliztards! I KNOW GAZ!LL!ON PEOPLE WHO ARE LEAVING BEKAZ OF NEW CANGE"
Just RTF synopsis and some of these/. asshat comments.
Today, LiveJournal management have demonstrated a serious lack of understanding in how the internet works
What an incredibly stupid and sensationalist remark. Yes, lets think. The people who built and manage a fairly popular website (incredibly popular compared to most of the internet sites out there) have no clue how the Internets work. It's just a series of tubes to them. Of course, I'll believe whatever you(the quoter) say and just because you(the quoter) said it! Of course, their reasoning for it is even worse.
declaring that users are responsible for the content of the webpages that they link to in their blog entries
Yes, more sensational bullshit. I didn't see the LJ TOS specifically say that you are responsible for the content of another website. What I did read is as follows..
XIV.JOURNAL CONTENT
You agree to follow the following guidelines for posting Content to your online journal:
All Content posted to LiveJournal in any way, is the responsibility and property of the author. LiveJournal is committed to maintaining the Service in a manner reasonably acceptable to all audiences but is not responsible for the monitoring or filtering of any journal Content. Within the confines of international and local law, LiveJournal will generally not place a limit on the type or appropriateness of user content within journals. Those users posting material not suitable for all audiences must agree that they are fully responsible for all the Content they have posted anywhere on the Service. Should Content be deemed illegal by such law having jurisdiction over the user, you agree that LiveJournal may submit all necessary information to, and cooperate with, the proper authorities;
Should any Content that you have authored be reported to LiveJournal as being offensive or inappropriate, LiveJournal might call upon you to retract, modify, or protect (by means of private and friends only settings) the Content in question within a reasonable amount of time, as determined by the LiveJournal staff. Should you fail to meet such a request from LiveJournal staff, LiveJournal may terminate your account. LiveJournal, however, is under no obligation to restrict or monitor journal Content in any way;
LiveJournal claims no ownership or control over any Content posted by its users. The author retains all patent, trademark, and copyright to all Content posted within available fields, and is responsible for protecting those rights, but is not entitled to the help of the LiveJournal staff in protecting such Content. The user posting any Content represents that it has all rights necessary to post such Content (and for LiveJournal to serve such Content) without violation of any intellectual property or other rights of third parties, or any laws or regulations;
XVI. MEMBER CONDUCT
You understand that all Content, including without limitation, all information, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages, or other materials, whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, are the sole responsibility of the person from which such Content originated.{snip}
Parents can't trust a rating system that doesn't even disclose how they come to a particular rating.
Do parents "trust" the G, PG, PG-13, R, NC-17, NR ratings for movies? And what is there to "trust" about an "M" rated game? That it won't be violent? *yawn* Just politicians trying to win some votes by barking louder than their bite.
For no other reason than getting people to RTFR (RTF-review) because the 2 images alone will probably make whatever liquid substance you're drinking come shooting out your nose. Lets hope it's not scalding hot coffee. This is one link/. readers need to read. =)
Well, I dont' know if "casual gaming" would be the right wording...
It's the right word. Like so many words, it depends on the context it's being used. In the GP's post, it was used in the context of "games" and not a style of play in a MMO "game". Thus it means "Flash" games and not "people who play an MMO game less frequently than others".
So is this the corresponding software support behind YouTube's earlier announcement that they'll be serving H.264?
Speaking of YouTube and H.264, I've been trying to get a grasp on this new Flash movie player thing (ala YouTube) vs. using the old 'plug-in' style of WMA or QuickTime. What's the best format to be using for website video these days? I read that it's H.264 because YouTube is doing it, but I cannot seem to find an explanation for different formats and how they're used on the web. What's the old way of doing it vs the new way?
'Everyone else is making it almost impossible to find a human.'
Oddly, I would normally agree but recently I need support on my Dell XPS system (it's about a year old) after some water damage. I was reluctant to call Dell (as I've had some horrific experiences last time with my laptop) so I tried their online chat while looking up other contact information. the online chat was over 11min wait.
I found the XPS phone number and called it and I got through to a Tech. in less than 30 seconds. He also was clearly American and no distinguishable American accent (at least not to a Midwesterner). Needless to say, It was probably one of the easiest and fastest Tech. support calls I've had. Which is in stark contract to my laptop support I received years ago. I guess the XPS price tag does come with some perks other than a pretty fast computer.
You know, I remember reading the book, but I don't remember the ending. However, I did finish the BBC series on this.
According to the BBC series, Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect where on the 'B' Arc that crashed on earth as well as there already having been 'cavemen' on earth at the time of the crash.
Thus, it's inconclusive that life came from the 'B' Arc. Bath anyone?
100 kilometers = 62.1371192 miles 3.6 kilograms = 7.93664144 pounds Of course, that doesn't help much as I have no real reference of pounds to miles as I'm use to fluid measurements. I suspect that the 3.6kg are similar to 'one gallon' in that they consider how many kg's fill a 'tank' on a similar car with petrol.
Of course, if that's true, then a car with an equivalent "15 gallon tank" will take about 120 lbs of hydrogen fuel to fill. Compared to gasoline, which weights ~6.25lbs per gallon (depending on temperature) will weight in around 93 lbs. for 15 gallons. That is, of course, assuming that 3.6kg take the same percentage of space as 1 gallon of gas in an average car tank.
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Similar to that, There are "free" MMOs out there...
Last Chaos - I believe it's made by the people who made "Sword of the New World". It's a free MMO. I didn't play it much but gold selling is the norm and so are micro-transactions who have NPCs setup to pickup your purchases.
Dungeon Runners - Sort of a Diablo-esque MMO. You can play for free but you cannot use pretty much any decent weapon that might drop from a boss or be given by special quests. For that you need to be a member, which will cost you $5 / month. Oh, and you cannot use the stacking health potions either.
Sword of the New World - While not free to play, it's a pretty cheap game. $20 for the game, $9 / month membership. You can purchase things outside the game, money, weapons, spells, and pick them up in game. This Korean game is being sold at Wal-Mart in the U.S. It was also previewed in Game Informer Magazine. I played it, it was pretty cool. Kind of a Guild Wars style game. You get to create a team of up to 3 members. So, you can always have a Healer, Tank, DPS group. Though, since most monsters die in 1 hit, you don't really need the traditional setup
In Korea, micro-transations are the norm. They're starting to make their way into the US market. But I can say, that after having played Tabula Rasa Beta, LOTRO, WOW, Shadowbane (trying it again, since it's ad supported free), Last Chaso, Dungeon Runners, EQ2, EQ, DAoC, CoH, CoV, Guild Wars, Sword of the New World, and I'm waiting for the Unreal Tournament-like MMORPG Fury to open their beta (they're selling beta CD's but their launcher tells you to wait a 'couple of days'... it's been 2 weeks so far), I can say that by far WoW is the most enjoyable by far, and I haven't even played it in probably 6-months.
I'm still looking for something that will be nearly as fun as WoW but not cost as much per month. The sweet spot for me is $10, I was paying this with LOTRO (a pretty good game that was close to WoW quality, but suffered the same as WoW except before you hit the max level) and I think for the AAA MMO, this is a fair price. Having found and played several free MMO's and some good very cheap MMO's, I see there being plenty of room for MMO prices to drop. I can see there being a WoW killer out there that's open source project, free, or very cheap based on ad supported and micro-transactions. I would pay $5 / month for WoW and probably never cancel if they ad supported it by putting some ads when zoning into dungeons/instances and into the game.
Until then, I'm a bit disappointed with the MMO commitment and costs considering what I've found out there. I've just started playing console and single player games again. To get some WoW, I just fire up WarcraftIII.
Oh, one other cool thing about Sword of the New World. EXP from quests came in the form of 'cards' which is an interesting concept as they might have been able to be traded to others (I never tried). It's interesting because it could make it easy for a friend to catch up to you if they joined the game at a later time.
Cheers,
Fozzy
ROFL, and here I thought I was totally out of it. Despite having tried many free and obscure online games, I never heard of Habbo. Though, I didn't bother to click the link and I won't bother given how your post confirms my thoughts.
cheers,
Fozzy
Sorry to hear about your rebate problems. I, nor my father (who's a real rebate and coupon junky), have never had a problem getting ours back, be it $5, $10, or $100. I've recently gotten probably over $400 in rebates the last few months. With new AT&T DSL service, I had to mail back a postcard with a sticker attached. That was $50. Then they gave me another $50 rebate for some reason. And then offered me another $25 rebate. All of which I received. My fiancee just got back a $5 rebate for some pet food or something.
Though, I recall seeing a breakdown of rebate returns based on rebate price and I think anything under $50 was like less than 20% return rate. Even at $100, the return rate was like 50%. I found that pretty amazing and hard to believe. Though, I cannot recall the study. I think it was a rebate firm trying to get some business from a company and tempting them the same way you point out.
Here's an interesting Wikipedia page.
Cheers,
Fozzy
"Game Over" is definitely one of my favorite books on Nintendo. Though, it's been like 7 years since I read it, I don't recall what they said about Nintendo and their Monopoly practices. I'll have to see if I can find my copy and look through it again. It's definitely worth a read.
I might have the post wrong as I'm referring to the context of "Seal of Quality" had nothing to do with "making a good game" in the sense that that game was enjoyable. If the "Seal of Quality" means that the game worked, as in Quality Control, I think there's something to be said about that, as drcagn (715012) points out.
I believe it was "Game Over" that talked about how making a game on the NES was more or less a license to print money. You produce a game and you where practically guaranteed 'x' number of sales, considering how every rental shop stocked NES games and often multiple copies. Most grocery stores where renting NES games and VHS tapes (something I don't see much anymore), gas stations and convenience stores where stocking NES games for rent. I don't remember the last time I saw a gas station renting games.
That's the "If you Build it" mentality, but it was so long ago, I could be mixing my sources. Which is why I'll have to go back and re-read it. Either way, great book and worth a read. (I recall that it was college reading for some business classes)
Cheers,
Fozzy
Louisiana? I always through something was fishy about them!
Anyone who lived through the NES era will know that this is not true. The NES is second only to the PSONE in terms of the "If you build it, they will come" mentality. Suffice it to say it was all about making money. Wikipedia has a some good details you might be interested in reading. The "Nintendo Seal of Quality" didn't mean much about how good a game was (in terms of "fun"). All it meant was that Nintendo was paid their license fee.
Cheers,
Fozzy
2nd worst, only to WoW (or other popular MMO's in their heyday) forum trolls. =) Did anyone ask them if you could have their stuff?
Cheers,
Fozzy
Actually, it is (though IANAL). There's already precedence set for this same kind of thing with Best Buy. Store employees do not have the right to physically detain you (blocking in your car), which has been done in the past. There's a website out there with a lot of stories about Best Buy and Circuit City involving this kind of thing.
Was the guy a prick? Sounds like it. But that's not reason to accuse him of stealing or detain him. If there was a cop there, then yes, the cop could detain him by blocking him in. But not the store employees.
One of those days. =p
Indeed. Having owned Metroid Prime, Metroid Prime 2 and now Metroid Prime 3, Halo is in a far different category than Metroid. While Metroid is long running and beloved franchise, Halo is a fever pitched hyper hysteria that can draw people from all over just to play a game tourny. It's more competitive than Metroid, which is far more story driven.
With that said, the 60mins I spent with Metroid Prime 3 (after starting over having missed scanning a spaceship and remember previous versions being completely screwed if you missed some scans, I'm being extra cautious scanning stuff), I'm really liking the story line, but the controls are still growing on me. They definitely tightened up the cross-hair movement compared to Red-Steel, but there's still some sluggish feeling trying to quickly change modes.
Cheers,
Fozzy
This isn't about how Six Apart or LJ likes to interpret the TOS. It's about how LJ users want to interpret the TOS. But lets put it a different way...
Premise A) The LJ TOS clearly states you cannot post "objectionable" material? objectionable being defined in the TOS under MEMBER CONDUCT but specifically item 1...
No one has a problem with that, correct? Then lets go on to the next logical point...
Premise B) To put a link on your LJ blog, you have to post it. Correct? Any objections? There shouldn't be. Links cannot magically appear on your LJ blog.
Thus, since a link can be posted, and the contents of said link can be objectionable, it there for can be a TOS violation.
What those who are complaining are trying to argue is this...
This premise if false. A link, a word, an image is content. ANY content can be objected to. That doesn't mean such an objection is always valid. It just means that someone could object it. LJ, in their clarifications, clearly pointed this policy out. They said: " any child p0rn objections will be followed up on, no matter what." They went on to say: "Only other objections that have been substantiated will be followed up on. Any objection that appears to be baseless will be ignored." (paraphrasing)
What's not to understand? Ironically, the blogger "liz_marcs" makes this comment...
The internet is nothing BUT links (aka connections) to material that is electronically transfered from one location to another. To go to a website, you have to make a link, a connection, to that website. Pictures on that site need to be linked too, even if they're on the same site, so your browser knows how and where to ask for them. I only bring this up because if you read "liz_marcs" conversation she posted to the LJ rep, it's clear "she" doesn't know how the internet works as she tries to be exclusive to some "links" but not others...
So, it's not ok to link an objectionable image with an "img" tag, but it's ok to link to it with an anchor tag("a href")? An objectionable item is an objectionable item, it doesn't matter how you link it. You're directing (linking/connecting) others to it's access. That's the objection.
Good for LJ. Those who pay are a subset of those who have access for free. Everyone gets the "free" services, those who pay get more services. I just used the parent set of "free" people because everyone falls into that category.
A lot
Anyone can be a flaming hypocritical asshat, but that won't make an example of anyone. It's more or less the same as the WoW forums (as well as EQ forums, DAoC forums and any other main-stream MMO game in it's hayday). All you get is a bunch of idiots yelling "F!U Bliztards! I KNOW GAZ!LL!ON PEOPLE WHO ARE LEAVING BEKAZ OF NEW CANGE"
Just RTF synopsis and some of these /. asshat comments.
What an incredibly stupid and sensationalist remark. Yes, lets think. The people who built and manage a fairly popular website (incredibly popular compared to most of the internet sites out there) have no clue how the Internets work. It's just a series of tubes to them. Of course, I'll believe whatever you(the quoter) say and just because you(the quoter) said it! Of course, their reasoning for it is even worse.
Yes, more sensational bullshit. I didn't see the LJ TOS specifically say that you are responsible for the content of another website. What I did read is as follows..
Mario?
Do parents "trust" the G, PG, PG-13, R, NC-17, NR ratings for movies? And what is there to "trust" about an "M" rated game? That it won't be violent? *yawn* Just politicians trying to win some votes by barking louder than their bite.
Cheers,
Fozzy
I saw XXXena once. I couldn't figure out why she spelled her name wrong... or why she was blond. She was also a lot "bigger" in person.
That's not fair. Chuck Norris can beat a brick wall at tennis.
For no other reason than getting people to RTFR (RTF-review) because the 2 images alone will probably make whatever liquid substance you're drinking come shooting out your nose. Lets hope it's not scalding hot coffee. This is one link /. readers need to read. =)
Cheers,
Fozzy
It's the right word. Like so many words, it depends on the context it's being used. In the GP's post, it was used in the context of "games" and not a style of play in a MMO "game". Thus it means "Flash" games and not "people who play an MMO game less frequently than others".
Cheers,
Fozzy
Speaking of YouTube and H.264, I've been trying to get a grasp on this new Flash movie player thing (ala YouTube) vs. using the old 'plug-in' style of WMA or QuickTime. What's the best format to be using for website video these days? I read that it's H.264 because YouTube is doing it, but I cannot seem to find an explanation for different formats and how they're used on the web. What's the old way of doing it vs the new way?
Cheers,
Fozzy
I just had to say, that really made me laugh. Maybe it was imagery of it all.
Cheers,
Fozzy
Oddly, I would normally agree but recently I need support on my Dell XPS system (it's about a year old) after some water damage. I was reluctant to call Dell (as I've had some horrific experiences last time with my laptop) so I tried their online chat while looking up other contact information. the online chat was over 11min wait.
I found the XPS phone number and called it and I got through to a Tech. in less than 30 seconds. He also was clearly American and no distinguishable American accent (at least not to a Midwesterner). Needless to say, It was probably one of the easiest and fastest Tech. support calls I've had. Which is in stark contract to my laptop support I received years ago. I guess the XPS price tag does come with some perks other than a pretty fast computer.
Cheers,
Fozzy
What do you get if you multiply six by nine?
Yes, Earth, one of the many planetary eggs fertilized by the big G's... er, comet. It's like pollination on a galactic scale.
Cheers,
Fozzy
You know, I remember reading the book, but I don't remember the ending. However, I did finish the BBC series on this.
According to the BBC series, Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect where on the 'B' Arc that crashed on earth as well as there already having been 'cavemen' on earth at the time of the crash.
Thus, it's inconclusive that life came from the 'B' Arc. Bath anyone?
Last I checked, most American schools teach how to convert. Usually around the same time you start to learn simple algebra equations with fractions.
For the rest of those, they can use Google for km to miles and kilograms to pounds.
100 kilometers = 62.1371192 miles
3.6 kilograms = 7.93664144 pounds
Of course, that doesn't help much as I have no real reference of pounds to miles as I'm use to fluid measurements. I suspect that the 3.6kg are similar to 'one gallon' in that they consider how many kg's fill a 'tank' on a similar car with petrol.
Of course, if that's true, then a car with an equivalent "15 gallon tank" will take about 120 lbs of hydrogen fuel to fill. Compared to gasoline, which weights ~6.25 lbs per gallon (depending on temperature) will weight in around 93 lbs. for 15 gallons. That is, of course, assuming that 3.6kg take the same percentage of space as 1 gallon of gas in an average car tank.
Cheers,
Fozzy