Do you seriously expect facebook to go through the law books on every national and local level and state which laws, where, they are in compliance with, AND keep up-to-date on them?
Why not? Any brick and mortar store would have to if they tried to expand into an area. If companies can't be arsed to look up the laws which apply to their business in a country they support, then they shouldn't be doing business there.
This doesn't do anything unless it is picked up as a major news story. I hate to say it but the whole age of "voting with your wallet" is dead and gone. To any major corporation you aren't even a drop in a bucket, so unless you're going to organize a massive action against them of at least 50,000 people or more, it is basically meaningless. Sure you stuck to your guns and you can sleep at night, but it isn't going to change their behaviour at all.
In Canada you need to start a facebook group get a couple thousand people to join it, mention it to the media and then you'll get results.
when I was a college student I needed the wireless for Fedora to support cisco LEAP. I can't recall what I was using at the time..it was Fedora 4, I think nswrapepr or something. I actually haven't used linux in awhile now as I moved to Korea and anything other than internet explorer is illegal (as I type this on firefox I have a friend watching the door). But long story short I fired off a message saying LEAP authentication was not working, very quickly someone, maybe the maintainer or someone able to change the project files, wrote the leap fix without even having anything to test it on. I updated, set it up, leap worked, we all had a cuddle.
MMOs and RPGs have never been about merit and skill. They've been about who can sit in their chair the longest and press the attack button the longest. the longer you do it, the more powerful your character. Nearly every MMO out there is about grinding. It is the #1 complaint for a reason... Microtransactions don't have anything to do with cheating as long as they are done properly. A lot of western companies haven't figured that out yet, but asian companies have been doing it a long time. Here in Korea every game is run on microtransactions. I don't hear anyone whining about cheating. What I do see is people able to equally enjoy the same games. In Korea the microtransactions run completely on things which don't impact the gameplay, things like:
1 - Cosmetics. Everyone can get a helmet, you want a blue one? Same stats 2 - XP Boosts. This is time management. Not everyone can spend 10 hours a day grinding away. Someone pays a few bucks and they can get the same benefit in 7 hours. This is time compression and unless you get your jollies off being the first guy to level X, it doesn't affect the game in any way. It actually potentially hinders the person who has used time compression because they don't have the same amount of experience in using their character to that level (if the level has any meaning, a FPS has levels, but they don't do anything, so racing through them doesn't do anything) 3 - Money boosts. I don't play MMORPGs in Korea, because my Korean isn't that advanced, but in FPS, this is the same as the XP boosts. I don't eve know if money boosts are included in RPGs here. Does this unbalance the game? not really. in 10 hours without bosts you're level X with Y money, he pays 2 fees, and in 7 hours he's level X with Y money. No real difference 4 - extra character slots 5 - other time compression purchases
there isn't anything that you can buy, that I have seen, that would actually give one character an advantage of another. If you did PVP or anything like that they would all have access to the same gear, just in different colors, the same abilities, HP, money, etc.
So if you think that someone getting a blue hat is cheating vs someone who has a red hat, you've got a pretty twisted definition of cheating. No, there is nothing "cheating" about time compression. If you want to choose to play the game a few extra hours to get the same benefit without paying, you can. if you want to speed it up you can pay for it. The other difference between games in asia with microtransactions is that they're free to download, not like some western companies who try to charge for the game then charge for MTs on top of that.
Not always, as was already pointed out. My point though was the capability of the various sources based on geographical proximity to the event and their publishing method. bloggers who actively write about local things will probably trump the traditional media most times. Someone who blogs about something that is far away from him/her needs to read it somewhere else first.
Cut and paste blog spam needs to be done away with. I'm not sure what the point is.. I think they're just trying to do SEO and generate traffic to their blog to generate ad dollars.
I'm sure all of us have looked at digg once or twice and there are blog posts that get made quite popular there, develop a following and then end up in the paper. In fact anything that originates on the internet is likely to be reported about first in a blog than "traditional media". Many local stories might end up getting reported about first on a blog before "traditional media" if they're not high profile. The news has to get a reporter there first. then film it or write it. A blogger can see it, and do it right away if they have a smartphone or as soon as they get home/to a pc.
Then you never played the gold box series. The reason it worked there was because they were made to be continued by characters. If you didn't have them, you could create them fresh, but they'd start out at a higher level than 1. Curse of the azure bonds would let you import characters from pools of radiance. When you finished pools of radiance you would be around level 5. Any new character created in CAB if you didn't have import characters would be level 5. Baldur's Gate 2 also continued the game at a much higher level.
I ordered a tshirt from the US once. It was for charity. As the shirt came into canada I was charged $2 tax, the government also charged me a $5 fee to charged me the $2 in tax.
If you only speak English, then your options are obviously limited, the English speaking countries are quickly enumerated.
Why? I barely speak any Korean and I've been in Korea for over a year.
He can easily move to somewhere in Asia and teach English if he's got a bachelor's degree and a heartbeat. Japan, Korea, Hong Kong all provide pretty good incomes. With Korea seemingly coming out a little stronger (economically) unless you're well connected with lots of experience. You can get a pretty sweet job in Hong Kong but there is high competition. Depending on your job, what you plan to do, etc, local language isn't always a necessity to living somewhere.
A few years ago I read that you can contact the IRS and ask for a number to use for credit checks if you don't want to give out your SSN. not being american, I don't know if its true or what the process is, just an article I read in passing about identity theft.
I've watched countless battles but I can't muster 1/10th of the enthusiasm some of these announcers seem to have. They're literally losing their mind when all the bots are doing is sitting there bumping in to each other. They desperately need to relax the rules on weapons. I assume this is why we don't see projectiles, explosives, electric shock, etc. As well as form factor. I can't imagine faced with all the flipper bots that someone hasn't just thought "Why don't I turn this guy into some kind of human style shape, or something without a circular base?"
keep the competitors safe in protected booths and let the bots loose with crazy weapons and arenas. It might prove to be actually be interesting.
please explain how? I played for 10 minutes killed everything in the area..can't do anything else until I get a chance to move and hook up to wireless (I have a touch not an iphone) and no one in the chat responds to me. In addition the creator seems to be using a crappy version of google maps which doesn't show streets for Korea (if you go to maps.google.com you can see them, and in fact the included maps app for the touch includes street level maps) so basically I'm staring at a grey circle with no way to do anything.
I've never had so much fun in my life.
oh yeah I can't log in to the forums either even though I created my account over an hour ago.
Go back to school first if you can't figure out how to make $1000. a basic ipod touch and an xbox 360 have similar price points, so really you're only talking the difference in price between a mac and a pc sufficient to code on.. probably not $1000 price difference. If you already have a kick ass PC, then go develop on the 360. If you have neither and really want to develop on the iphone, find the extra few bucks and make it happen.
This is the major problem with it. For anyone who doesn't travel a lot this is actually a pretty stupid idea for a game. At least in a traditional MMORPG if you want to go somewhere you just go there. If you wanted to visit various places in this game you'd have to ROAM in hundreds of countries.
I think with any mobile platform you need to buy the mobile device, as well as have a computer of some kind to code on. You also need to get the SDK, etc. Apple's only restriction is that you develop on a MAC vs a Windows or Linux based machine. Its not a significant restriction and honestly if your business model is so tight you can't afford a mac, you probably aren't that serious about developing on the iphone as a platform.
some may be pirated, if you're a dishonest prick who wants the platform to fail
The PSP has been a known pirate haven for years and has been running on almost nothing but. Most early news reports suggested piracy was what kept the console alive.
Corporal punishment still works.. I moved to South Korea a year ago and they have it in droves. They have something like a 98% attendance and completion rate for young people going to university. But most importantly its apparently taught young people not to randomly go around destroying and stealing stuff. I'm amazed at some of the things they have here that just wouldn't be possible in the west. Like fire extinguishers just sitting around various sites. Not nailed down, not behind glass, not parked behind an attack dog. Just sitting wide out in the open in an area they might be needed. You can walk through a subway station and see 3 or 4 just sitting on a platform. Back in Canada I would expect within a week of putting those out a group of teenagers/young adults would set out to see how many they could use up before the night was out.
I was spanked as a child and after getting a genuine opportunity to compare two worlds where spanking is no longer okay and the other in which it is, I'm all for it.
The non-verifiability of complaints is the same problem that I've posed to hard-core anti-spam advocates who have said that ISPs should have a zero-tolerance policy towards spam and cancel any account that is generating spam complaints. The problem with that is that unless the ISP has logs of all mail sent out by a customer (and if the customer is leasing a dedicated server, this would usually not be the case), the ISP can't tell for sure if a spam complaint is real or not.
If little ol' mrs smith who can barely operate her mouse without coaching is making 200 SMTP connections an hour to send e-mail..its probably spam. Most of the real spam coming from ISPs is from zombies I would gather and not someone spamming a newsletter. ISPs should have zero problem with identifying most users who are spamming (whether they know it or not).
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Why not? Any brick and mortar store would have to if they tried to expand into an area. If companies can't be arsed to look up the laws which apply to their business in a country they support, then they shouldn't be doing business there.
That's a lot of work when someone changes a cubicle.
As long as we've got 9000 articles on pokemon the deletionists have never won.
This doesn't do anything unless it is picked up as a major news story. I hate to say it but the whole age of "voting with your wallet" is dead and gone. To any major corporation you aren't even a drop in a bucket, so unless you're going to organize a massive action against them of at least 50,000 people or more, it is basically meaningless. Sure you stuck to your guns and you can sleep at night, but it isn't going to change their behaviour at all.
In Canada you need to start a facebook group get a couple thousand people to join it, mention it to the media and then you'll get results.
when I was a college student I needed the wireless for Fedora to support cisco LEAP. I can't recall what I was using at the time..it was Fedora 4, I think nswrapepr or something. I actually haven't used linux in awhile now as I moved to Korea and anything other than internet explorer is illegal (as I type this on firefox I have a friend watching the door). But long story short I fired off a message saying LEAP authentication was not working, very quickly someone, maybe the maintainer or someone able to change the project files, wrote the leap fix without even having anything to test it on. I updated, set it up, leap worked, we all had a cuddle.
MMOs and RPGs have never been about merit and skill. They've been about who can sit in their chair the longest and press the attack button the longest.
the longer you do it, the more powerful your character. Nearly every MMO out there is about grinding. It is the #1 complaint for a reason...
Microtransactions don't have anything to do with cheating as long as they are done properly. A lot of western companies haven't figured that out yet, but asian companies have been doing it a long time. Here in Korea every game is run on microtransactions. I don't hear anyone whining about cheating. What I do see is people able to equally enjoy the same games. In Korea the microtransactions run completely on things which don't impact the gameplay, things like:
1 - Cosmetics. Everyone can get a helmet, you want a blue one? Same stats
2 - XP Boosts. This is time management. Not everyone can spend 10 hours a day grinding away. Someone pays a few bucks and they can get the same benefit in 7 hours. This is time compression and unless you get your jollies off being the first guy to level X, it doesn't affect the game in any way. It actually potentially hinders the person who has used time compression because they don't have the same amount of experience in using their character to that level (if the level has any meaning, a FPS has levels, but they don't do anything, so racing through them doesn't do anything)
3 - Money boosts. I don't play MMORPGs in Korea, because my Korean isn't that advanced, but in FPS, this is the same as the XP boosts. I don't eve know if money boosts are included in RPGs here. Does this unbalance the game? not really. in 10 hours without bosts you're level X with Y money, he pays 2 fees, and in 7 hours he's level X with Y money. No real difference
4 - extra character slots
5 - other time compression purchases
there isn't anything that you can buy, that I have seen, that would actually give one character an advantage of another. If you did PVP or anything like that they would all have access to the same gear, just in different colors, the same abilities, HP, money, etc.
So if you think that someone getting a blue hat is cheating vs someone who has a red hat, you've got a pretty twisted definition of cheating. No, there is nothing "cheating" about time compression. If you want to choose to play the game a few extra hours to get the same benefit without paying, you can. if you want to speed it up you can pay for it. The other difference between games in asia with microtransactions is that they're free to download, not like some western companies who try to charge for the game then charge for MTs on top of that.
Not always, as was already pointed out. My point though was the capability of the various sources based on geographical proximity to the event and their publishing method.
bloggers who actively write about local things will probably trump the traditional media most times. Someone who blogs about something that is far away from him/her needs to read it somewhere else first.
Cut and paste blog spam needs to be done away with. I'm not sure what the point is.. I think they're just trying to do SEO and generate traffic to their blog to generate ad dollars.
I'm sure all of us have looked at digg once or twice and there are blog posts that get made quite popular there, develop a following and then end up in the paper.
In fact anything that originates on the internet is likely to be reported about first in a blog than "traditional media".
Many local stories might end up getting reported about first on a blog before "traditional media" if they're not high profile. The news has to get a reporter there first. then film it or write it. A blogger can see it, and do it right away if they have a smartphone or as soon as they get home/to a pc.
That wouldn't be nearly as tabloid and sexy as the current title.
What is this alleged "martial arts weapon" that was supposed to be written about and can we get a link to the article state when it was given to him?
Then you never played the gold box series. The reason it worked there was because they were made to be continued by characters. If you didn't have them, you could create them fresh, but they'd start out at a higher level than 1.
Curse of the azure bonds would let you import characters from pools of radiance. When you finished pools of radiance you would be around level 5. Any new character created in CAB if you didn't have import characters would be level 5. Baldur's Gate 2 also continued the game at a much higher level.
in fact several high profile RPGs did this..
I ordered a tshirt from the US once. It was for charity. As the shirt came into canada I was charged $2 tax, the government also charged me a $5 fee to charged me the $2 in tax.
Why?
I barely speak any Korean and I've been in Korea for over a year.
He can easily move to somewhere in Asia and teach English if he's got a bachelor's degree and a heartbeat.
Japan, Korea, Hong Kong all provide pretty good incomes. With Korea seemingly coming out a little stronger (economically) unless you're well connected with lots of experience. You can get a pretty sweet job in Hong Kong but there is high competition. Depending on your job, what you plan to do, etc, local language isn't always a necessity to living somewhere.
A few years ago I read that you can contact the IRS and ask for a number to use for credit checks if you don't want to give out your SSN.
not being american, I don't know if its true or what the process is, just an article I read in passing about identity theft.
there are many 3.5 USB floppies for sale. 5.25 is where your run into trouble.
I've watched countless battles but I can't muster 1/10th of the enthusiasm some of these announcers seem to have. They're literally losing their mind when all the bots are doing is sitting there bumping in to each other. They desperately need to relax the rules on weapons. I assume this is why we don't see projectiles, explosives, electric shock, etc. As well as form factor. I can't imagine faced with all the flipper bots that someone hasn't just thought "Why don't I turn this guy into some kind of human style shape, or something without a circular base?"
keep the competitors safe in protected booths and let the bots loose with crazy weapons and arenas. It might prove to be actually be interesting.
please explain how? I played for 10 minutes killed everything in the area..can't do anything else until I get a chance to move and hook up to wireless (I have a touch not an iphone) and no one in the chat responds to me. In addition the creator seems to be using a crappy version of google maps which doesn't show streets for Korea (if you go to maps.google.com you can see them, and in fact the included maps app for the touch includes street level maps) so basically I'm staring at a grey circle with no way to do anything.
I've never had so much fun in my life.
oh yeah I can't log in to the forums either even though I created my account over an hour ago.
Go back to school first if you can't figure out how to make $1000.
a basic ipod touch and an xbox 360 have similar price points, so really you're only talking the difference in price between a mac and a pc sufficient to code on.. probably not $1000 price difference. If you already have a kick ass PC, then go develop on the 360. If you have neither and really want to develop on the iphone, find the extra few bucks and make it happen.
This is the major problem with it. For anyone who doesn't travel a lot this is actually a pretty stupid idea for a game. At least in a traditional MMORPG if you want to go somewhere you just go there. If you wanted to visit various places in this game you'd have to ROAM in hundreds of countries.
I think with any mobile platform you need to buy the mobile device, as well as have a computer of some kind to code on. You also need to get the SDK, etc. Apple's only restriction is that you develop on a MAC vs a Windows or Linux based machine. Its not a significant restriction and honestly if your business model is so tight you can't afford a mac, you probably aren't that serious about developing on the iphone as a platform.
a publisher also publishers the game..pays for distribution, packages the game, ships it, etc.
The PSP has been a known pirate haven for years and has been running on almost nothing but. Most early news reports suggested piracy was what kept the console alive.
Corporal punishment still works..
I moved to South Korea a year ago and they have it in droves. They have something like a 98% attendance and completion rate for young people going to university. But most importantly its apparently taught young people not to randomly go around destroying and stealing stuff. I'm amazed at some of the things they have here that just wouldn't be possible in the west. Like fire extinguishers just sitting around various sites. Not nailed down, not behind glass, not parked behind an attack dog. Just sitting wide out in the open in an area they might be needed. You can walk through a subway station and see 3 or 4 just sitting on a platform. Back in Canada I would expect within a week of putting those out a group of teenagers/young adults would set out to see how many they could use up before the night was out.
I was spanked as a child and after getting a genuine opportunity to compare two worlds where spanking is no longer okay and the other in which it is, I'm all for it.
If little ol' mrs smith who can barely operate her mouse without coaching is making 200 SMTP connections an hour to send e-mail..its probably spam. Most of the real spam coming from ISPs is from zombies I would gather and not someone spamming a newsletter. ISPs should have zero problem with identifying most users who are spamming (whether they know it or not).
A unicorn in every stable and a fairy in every pot.
If you're going to make up a document that is never going to happen you might as well go for broke..