Given a choice between creating an representative cross-section of America and an representative cross-section of their customer base, game makers are likely going to go with the people who are paying them money.
I highly doubt that there is that many hot, underdressed, woman playing their games...
Look guys, all you gotta do is make sure everytime you wanna start your game, you got to call the new customer service number(a 900 number off course) that will give you a 28 number and letter code that you will have to imput with the keys (no stylus gimmick) with an awfully slow cursor and no way to know what numbers/letters you already imputted before so that you just give up trying to start the game and charge you 20 bucks a call.... FREE games! but 20$ calls to try to start their games...
IP2P is used exclusively to STEAL, and then you want to whine and complain when the big bad riaa/mpaa fingers you. Haha, I've got no sympathy for you.
I consider p2p users to be undesireable customers anyways, and so when they get caught and reported to me, I use that opportunity to engage in some education about the teeth in my terms of service.
So lets get it right. The problem is not the big bad isp cutting off it's sweet innocent customers for arbitrary or unreasonable reasons - it is that the wonton theft and trade of copyrighted material has reached such epidemic proportions that it's beginning to cost the ISP's money, and the escelating war between the copyright holders and the thieves (who could very well be grandma who can't find the keyboard anyways) demands a business resolution in order to stem the tide of lost revenue/extra costs associated with the behavior.
So.. let me get it straight: you're cutting people's internet for using a peer to peer program... uploading content that you have no idea what it is to other people using your company's bandwith!
Oh lord! Have mercy! they will finally cut down on the World Of Warcraft players! As every single one of them are using the, oh so dangerous, program made by the DEVIL: Bittorent!
I'd really like to see 11 millions customers being accused of illegally file-sharing on bittorent when they were using it for legal patch downloading of their favorite drug-game, World Of Warcraft
I really can't wait until Blizzard will have to answer to all their clients who get accused of stealing copyrighted materials while officially downloading their patches!
Most likely the custom-made bars are artificially sweetened. Also, sugar isn't as bad as smoking.
How about you try to stop all sources of sugar(all forms of sugar, including it's replacements) for a month, i'm pretty sure you'll be like someone who's trying to quit smoking...
Just like drinking cofee and cigartte smoking, a steady portion of sugra will have just the same effects as smoking everyday for a year... will the study support the resulting eating disorders or rehabilitation at the end of the study?
Really, it doesn't have a reason to go on the moon.... if they would give the mouse for example, i'm sure that little critter would love to be on the moon much more than a rabbit, so that it can eat all the cheeze there is there!
I'm pretty sure it can be done easily, make robotic legs that can run... use less than 60KW.... and put a Roadruner supercomputer in a 19"X19" box that goes as high as it can... and there you go!
We all know that the thing that hogs the most memory in Firefox is all the extensions that people use to immitate other browsers... Who actually uses Firefox without a single extension and brags about how good it is anyway?
I also lost part of a finger, but my personal problem is with the keyboards made out of plastic...
Since it's made in plastic, the normal user uses their flat fingers to type and play
Since i completely lost thf fingertip sensation of my middle finger, the other fingers gotta compensate while typing and playing...
My thumb pushes on the "D" key sideways while playing, therefore it carves the key overitme... also my ring finger sits on the edge od the A key, cutting the edge of the key (now there is actually a hole in it) the left ALT key is carved by my thumb's nail, it's got a pretty deep hole in it, next year there should be a hole in it
If i would have a steel, or any material more friction-resistant, i'm sure i wouldn't have such weird, carved, keys...
They should ban rape games on 12 year old cartoon girls, why don't they try to stop us from showing genitals in porno?
People think their laws are way too lax... when they have laws against showing genitals in any media...
OMG it is illegal to import a game that depicts rape of a 12 years old in the US.... well it is also illegal to import 99% of the porn that can be obtained in US soil in Japan...
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Given a choice between creating an representative cross-section of America and an representative cross-section of their customer base, game makers are likely going to go with the people who are paying them money.
I highly doubt that there is that many hot, underdressed, woman playing their games...
My e-penis might be small, but at least i'm not an idiot trying to buy an xbox account because of it's gamerscore!
Look guys, all you gotta do is make sure everytime you wanna start your game, you got to call the new customer service number(a 900 number off course) that will give you a 28 number and letter code that you will have to imput with the keys (no stylus gimmick) with an awfully slow cursor and no way to know what numbers/letters you already imputted before so that you just give up trying to start the game and charge you 20 bucks a call.... FREE games! but 20$ calls to try to start their games...
Damned, now i'll have to get off your lawn for real!
Folks,
IP2P is used exclusively to STEAL, and then you want to whine and complain when the big bad riaa/mpaa fingers you. Haha, I've got no sympathy for you.
I consider p2p users to be undesireable customers anyways, and so when they get caught and reported to me, I use that opportunity to engage in some education about the teeth in my terms of service.
So lets get it right. The problem is not the big bad isp cutting off it's sweet innocent customers for arbitrary or unreasonable reasons - it is that the wonton theft and trade of copyrighted material has reached such epidemic proportions that it's beginning to cost the ISP's money, and the escelating war between the copyright holders and the thieves (who could very well be grandma who can't find the keyboard anyways) demands a business resolution in order to stem the tide of lost revenue/extra costs associated with the behavior.
So.. let me get it straight: you're cutting people's internet for using a peer to peer program... uploading content that you have no idea what it is to other people using your company's bandwith!
Oh lord! Have mercy! they will finally cut down on the World Of Warcraft players! As every single one of them are using the, oh so dangerous, program made by the DEVIL: Bittorent!
I'd really like to see 11 millions customers being accused of illegally file-sharing on bittorent when they were using it for legal patch downloading of their favorite drug-game, World Of Warcraft
I really can't wait until Blizzard will have to answer to all their clients who get accused of stealing copyrighted materials while officially downloading their patches!
Most likely the custom-made bars are artificially sweetened. Also, sugar isn't as bad as smoking.
How about you try to stop all sources of sugar(all forms of sugar, including it's replacements) for a month, i'm pretty sure you'll be like someone who's trying to quit smoking...
Just like drinking cofee and cigartte smoking, a steady portion of sugra will have just the same effects as smoking everyday for a year... will the study support the resulting eating disorders or rehabilitation at the end of the study?
Stop fapping at /. !
Remember kids, IBM Hardware = Good. IBM Software = Kill it with fire.
Come on! burning software gotta be bad for the environment!
I can stop whenever i want.... just let me post one more time....
The colour and sharpness from an LCD is better too and for $100 AUD it was too good to refuse. :)
you, sir, must be color blind...
Are you insane?
Really, it doesn't have a reason to go on the moon.... if they would give the mouse for example, i'm sure that little critter would love to be on the moon much more than a rabbit, so that it can eat all the cheeze there is there!
get rich or die trying!
Then, should i ask my mom to do the wiring for me? she seems to know a lot more about the bio-rhythms and planetary alignments than me...
I just watched the video, and all i saw was a Quake clone... so they worked so hard to make us play their own version of Quake arena?
We all know that the thing that hogs the most memory in Firefox is all the extensions that people use to immitate other browsers... Who actually uses Firefox without a single extension and brags about how good it is anyway?
Opera Unite is a 40% larger download than Firefox.
and how big is Firefox if you count all the extensions it needs to get as good as Opera?
I'd tell them to go to hell and shove the application where the sun doesn't shine.
My apartment is small enough, i don't need so many applications shoved in here!
thanks for pointing out that article in the NYtimes, it was a great read
Since it's made in plastic, the normal user uses their flat fingers to type and play
Since i completely lost thf fingertip sensation of my middle finger, the other fingers gotta compensate while typing and playing...
My thumb pushes on the "D" key sideways while playing, therefore it carves the key overitme... also my ring finger sits on the edge od the A key, cutting the edge of the key (now there is actually a hole in it) the left ALT key is carved by my thumb's nail, it's got a pretty deep hole in it, next year there should be a hole in it
If i would have a steel, or any material more friction-resistant, i'm sure i wouldn't have such weird, carved, keys...
They should ban rape games on 12 year old cartoon girls, why don't they try to stop us from showing genitals in porno?
People think their laws are way too lax... when they have laws against showing genitals in any media...
OMG it is illegal to import a game that depicts rape of a 12 years old in the US.... well it is also illegal to import 99% of the porn that can be obtained in US soil in Japan...
I bet they would like to take out the "opportunity" to be the only ones working properly on the surface of mars
I believe this "Making a Child" Locating System will be of interest to many Slashdotters.
Yeah a device locating child-making in progress was always one of the things i dreamed of!
I remember the good old days when that was simply called a free demo.
now they are called fee demo