They might just want to take less risks and therefore use this more accurate procedure...
Plus, unlike the moon, mars doesn't have a "dark side" that doesn't face us. Plus its significantly larger than the moon. We aren't just looking for "a landing place", but "the best landing place".
I for one welcome our health conscious, stress detecting robotic overlords.
But seriously...Imagine this technology looking at the eyes and other more "careful" stress and tissue damage indicators on a torture device...that way you can adjust the device to get the same amount of "pain" for each user with a single setting (after all, I imagine my threshold for pain is much lower than that of, for example, Chuck Norris in his prime).
Psh. I was hoping we could exchange goods and services with things like youtube external links, myspace mass friend invites and wikipedia article additions...
While I'm at it:
Spacesuits: $1,200 each. Oxygen recharge: $3.22 per gallon. Farting in your space suit while you and your cheap-ass buddy share an airtank; priceless.
There's somethings your national currency can't buy. For everything else, there's QUIDS.
So decreasing the gain of each product sold by 10c doesn't outdo the "damage" by shoplifters? But 5c is ok? Why not raise the price by 5c and decrease the profit by 5c. It may seem foolish, as customers ARE silly enough to shop at a different place because an advertised price is literally 5c higher, but at the same time people like Walmart shouldn't have to worry--they are already pretty much set in the public mind as "CHEAP CRAP" even if they were to raise by 15c.
Although in a few years, their image might change with these new prices...
But in a few years...the chips will be cheap enough that they can go back...
Of course cooperations and the economy never work like this...
NOT a useless piece of garbage like Firefox is with all it's add-ons and skins...
SO if Microsoft decides to keep your junk software off their own I love Internet Explorer even more!
--
But yeah, if you don't want 3rd party apps, don't install them. The N-Gage didn't die because it got flooded with 2nd and 3rd party apps. In fact, the Nintendo DS is more popular then some of its rivals because of how much easier it is to add 3rd party apps to it (such as browsers, etc...) and how it doesn't use a restrictive formatting. By your logic, you'd prefer your DVDs to not have foreign languages, subtitles, creator commentaries, trailers, fansites, forums on said fansites, IMDB entries or wiki articles.
Its a known fact stalkers and rapists choose their victims from the mobs of random images they find on google searches. Its like Perfect Blue, only with "random guy walking down the street" instead of "national superstar pop singer".
I've been waiting YEARS for this technology to advance for architecture modeling. When you want to place a block in JUST the right place and you get it off by a cm...ugh gets so frustrating you just give up with most modeling software and go back to basswood or fix everything in Illustrator.
$240 to sign up with the top 4 sites that sell these things ~$50 for the advertising I was looking at including posters for cons and whatnot $100-$200 per piece of art included in the book. Average of 56 art pieces required for the book I was looking into making (with discounts depending on how many I purchased from the artists in question).
This doesn't include money for webspace, real prints and binds for beta testers, etc...
Considering when I started this project I was just starting my career as an architecture major, I didn't have much money. I couldn't afford to spend ~$2,200 writing and releasing a 128 page book and sadly attempting to sell 40 copies for $8 a piece just to afford to buy some plaster or basswood for my next school project.
I was never getting into it for the money though. I was doing it 1.) to say I've done it and 2.) because I wanted people to enjoy my work. However I stopped working on it a long time ago and just gave it away on forums since 3rd party books have been rendered unplayed by most because partially of the piracy.
I have many friends who own gigs of pirated books. They don't even read them nor do they use any of their material. Unless they purchase them. And I've seen friends purchase books they downloaded before, only to slap themselves afterwards...I want to see people use my books, and people are hesitant to use PDFs they don't pay for. Therefore its impossible to know if people are using my product if they just download some huge collection of PDFs from pirate-bay.
I wanted to send out periodic updates to people who looked through the books with NPC stats, system updates, random adventures and new content as an added bonus...but I can't do that if the bloody
This isn't about wanting hordes of cash. Its about wanting to break even with the cost and be able to say "holy crap, I made at least $1 selling something I loved!"
Not that any of my other hobbies have done anything else but lose me money...
Do not allow these servers to be in contact with any computers on the net. Install updates and software manually. Withdraw information via hardcopies (portable harddrives, flashdrives, etc...) if you need them on computers also connected to the tubes. In the meantime, get your important data off the web.
I'd feel happy if it wasn't that my book writing (hobby) wasn't abandoned because I noticed selling D20 PDFs online is pointless with the mass piracy of PDFs through sites like this.
Exactly. If I was the "company" (you can go as far up or down in the corperate ladder as you want; even say "the shareholders") and found out that someone wasn't doing there job (selling games to customers) and still getting paid by me (the "company"), and using my capitol, they should be laid off.
At the same time the manager probably got his point across. Good for him. He shouldn't get his job back though, even if it was a good point.
D20 modern came out years before World of Warcraft and used a talent tree progression system. If you talking about that.
If your talking about not using XP for item crafting...well a ton of games does that.
And if your talking about...well I can't think of much else really that is comparable.
Blizzard will always be ahead of them? You do know that Dungeons and Dragons came out 30 years before the release of World of Warcraft, right? WoW copied Dungeons and Dragons HP system! Blatant ripp-off! And levelling. And the idea of getting exp from killing things and completing quests. Not to mention the platnuim-gold-silver-copper exchange rate (minus the gold for WoW). The class system too. Talents are basically feats, to be honest (some have prerequisites...wait just like in DnD!). The only major difference between a talent and a feat is that feats use a core level based prerequsite, whereas feats have a prerequisite both level based AND based on the amount of feats gained prior (but not specific feats), much like the martial arts styles of various 3rd party books.
The idea of rangers getting pets was done first in DnD. Oh, and the idea of dark elves. Yeah, they were in Tolkein, but they were short and midgety and more like dwarves even in those books to be honest. Sithulus is based around Dark Sun in more ways then I can count (especially in history/background of the whole magic war, the bugs just make it more obvious). Yeah, part of it is Dune and even Starship Trooper driven too...but Darksun is present if you know what your looking for.
The concept of charging as warriors do so is really a DnD thing too (is really an overrun/bullrush in so many ways). A warlock's shadowball and evocations are based directly on the Richard Wulf 3rd party book (one of the first open liscence e-books, if not one of the first and most popular D20 system books released after the Player's Handbook came out). Weapon proficencies being dependant on class is a DnD innvoation. I'm not sure about skills though...
The list goes on. And as for your precious blizzard--there's a good company. Sure they fired their entire d20 book writing staff, released a new set of books for 3.5 that were identical in every way except with art (naming things like "More..." and "The Expanded...") and the author's names suddenly changed! The list goes on.
Blizzard is good at a lot of things. But not innovation. They are good at bringing together multiple genres of games. Perfecting genres even. They are great at details and have decent storylines...but in the end can you find me one game that's a "WoW clone" that's not an "everquest" clone? Didn't think so.
Great at marketting too. The same people who made fun of me for playing EQ now play WoW more than I ever have.
You fool, this is Slashdot. If you want a topic in an evolution thread to be modded to even a viewable number you must include at least 2 of the following:
-People who believe in evolution also believe the world is 5,000 years old. -Evolutionists refuse to listen to any reason. -Science is about testable theory, not belief. -God and religion are inheritly stupid
To mis-quote (but retain the essence of) one of my favorite films (Waking Life), in response to the countless anti-Republican and the, if my moderation filter was set low enough, also countless anti-Democrat posts above me:
~"Republican...Democrat...They are two sides of the same coins...bidding for control of slavery incorporated. But that's ok, because you know what I believe in? The unfaltering will of the human spirit. We have gotten through many horrible things and will continue to so long as we recognize the truth."
Final point is that in the end the #1 true issue for both Republicans and Democrats this and every year for as long as I've been alive and politically active has always been ensuring that at *least* one of these two parties stays in power. Its a glorious game, and don't get me wrong. I know that each party would kill to see the other side completely wiped out. But they wouldn't risk their very foundation for it. Just as the Eagle may want to exist without Washington always on its ass, if it tries to escape it will find itself a mere imprint on its base that cannot exist without the very coin that it has come to be (half) recognized as.
And frankly no American should be concerned with the primaries or party choices or any such thing. Find a person who wants to do the job. Study that person's political views and past successes and failures in politics and, most importantly, life. Ensure they aren't scum, and on that fateful day...vote.
Don't even look at the checker-box candidates on that
It is your right to vote. Not the right of the parties. And to think that being able to select from the ~%.0000006 of potential candidates is a real vote is absurd.
He was in GERMANY when this happened? I know he's a US citizen, downloading RIAA "protected" songs, and probably in US territory (i.e. bases) when this happened but...come on. The fact he was in Germany should mean SOMETHING to the case.
1.) Gamers have the internet. They don't need to buy cable-TV to watch these events. In the long run, it is not something to invest in.
2.) epic moments are VERY rare in video games (obviously; anyone playing WoW will tell you only once or twice a night will anything note-worthy happen, and even then its not worth mentioning more than once or twice to a friend). The odds of them happening in "professional events" are even more rare. These are the people who don't fuck up. Odds are, you'll see one MINOR thing occur (someone hits "Sinister Strike" instead of "Ghostly Strike", loses their evasion bonus and some energy-per-damage, and then the match), and it'll take the announcer 45 minutes to explain why that was such an error. But in the end, it'll pale in comparison to something some random newb posted on youtube. Because really, the best moments are with those who play the game just to have fun, not play it to have fun winning.
I want to see more computers attempt to crack Go. 16 pieces? 52 cards? Try 361 intersections WITH the ability to play a nearly infinate number of stones (literally infinate if the players get double or triple ko).
I still want a phone where I can connect a standard keyboard to it (minus the Function/ESC grid, the number pad, and the arrow keys imbedded in the QWERTY slots normally taken up with CTRL-WINDWS-ALT and the, at least for me, useless Caps Lock key. Or heck, the CTRL-WINDS-MENUOPTIONS-ALT bar could be replaced with ARROWUP-ARROWDWN-ARROWRIGHT-ARROWLEFT. The keyboard itself takes less space than an 8.5/11 sheet of paper (ignoring width) and can easily attach to a binder or slide into my bag/backpack...
But I'm one of those crazy people who carries a deck of cards, ipod, phone, wallet, keys, notebook, camera, pencil, extra non-notebook paper, a comb, chopsticks, change, a fortune cookie or two and deoderant and/or perfume with me wherever I go...not to mention a good book.
My college isn't much better off. I know from talking to the I&IT people that they have cease-and-desists pre-signed and ready to send out under the RIAA's orders. I also happen to know that no one who works there cares enough to actually use these documents. The worst that ever happens here is our network goes down every 6 months because some idiot leaked the password to the wrong person (mind you the people in charge of shutting it down are probably perfectly aware of it themselves--heck someone accidentally mailed every student on campus asking for the network password 4 months ago) and that person had to comply (i.e. send a cease and desist from atop the dusty pile) or else lose their job.
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Using a video card for porn! Genius! *tips beer*
They might just want to take less risks and therefore use this more accurate procedure...
Plus, unlike the moon, mars doesn't have a "dark side" that doesn't face us. Plus its significantly larger than the moon. We aren't just looking for "a landing place", but "the best landing place".
I for one welcome our health conscious, stress detecting robotic overlords. But seriously...Imagine this technology looking at the eyes and other more "careful" stress and tissue damage indicators on a torture device...that way you can adjust the device to get the same amount of "pain" for each user with a single setting (after all, I imagine my threshold for pain is much lower than that of, for example, Chuck Norris in his prime).
Psh. I was hoping we could exchange goods and services with things like youtube external links, myspace mass friend invites and wikipedia article additions...
While I'm at it:
Spacesuits: $1,200 each.
Oxygen recharge: $3.22 per gallon.
Farting in your space suit while you and your cheap-ass buddy share an airtank; priceless.
There's somethings your national currency can't buy. For everything else, there's QUIDS.
So decreasing the gain of each product sold by 10c doesn't outdo the "damage" by shoplifters? But 5c is ok? Why not raise the price by 5c and decrease the profit by 5c. It may seem foolish, as customers ARE silly enough to shop at a different place because an advertised price is literally 5c higher, but at the same time people like Walmart shouldn't have to worry--they are already pretty much set in the public mind as "CHEAP CRAP" even if they were to raise by 15c.
Although in a few years, their image might change with these new prices...
But in a few years...the chips will be cheap enough that they can go back...
Of course cooperations and the economy never work like this...
NOT a useless piece of garbage like Firefox is with all it's add-ons and skins...
SO if Microsoft decides to keep your junk software off their own I love Internet Explorer even more!
--
But yeah, if you don't want 3rd party apps, don't install them. The N-Gage didn't die because it got flooded with 2nd and 3rd party apps. In fact, the Nintendo DS is more popular then some of its rivals because of how much easier it is to add 3rd party apps to it (such as browsers, etc...) and how it doesn't use a restrictive formatting. By your logic, you'd prefer your DVDs to not have foreign languages, subtitles, creator commentaries, trailers, fansites, forums on said fansites, IMDB entries or wiki articles.
Its a known fact stalkers and rapists choose their victims from the mobs of random images they find on google searches. Its like Perfect Blue, only with "random guy walking down the street" instead of "national superstar pop singer".
I say we shoot first and ask questions later.
Wait...I thought this was an RIAA post...
I've been waiting YEARS for this technology to advance for architecture modeling. When you want to place a block in JUST the right place and you get it off by a cm...ugh gets so frustrating you just give up with most modeling software and go back to basswood or fix everything in Illustrator.
I wonder how accurate this software is...
$240 to sign up with the top 4 sites that sell these things
~$50 for the advertising I was looking at including posters for cons and whatnot
$100-$200 per piece of art included in the book. Average of 56 art pieces required for the book I was looking into making (with discounts depending on how many I purchased from the artists in question).
This doesn't include money for webspace, real prints and binds for beta testers, etc...
Considering when I started this project I was just starting my career as an architecture major, I didn't have much money. I couldn't afford to spend ~$2,200 writing and releasing a 128 page book and sadly attempting to sell 40 copies for $8 a piece just to afford to buy some plaster or basswood for my next school project.
I was never getting into it for the money though. I was doing it 1.) to say I've done it and 2.) because I wanted people to enjoy my work. However I stopped working on it a long time ago and just gave it away on forums since 3rd party books have been rendered unplayed by most because partially of the piracy.
I have many friends who own gigs of pirated books. They don't even read them nor do they use any of their material. Unless they purchase them. And I've seen friends purchase books they downloaded before, only to slap themselves afterwards...I want to see people use my books, and people are hesitant to use PDFs they don't pay for. Therefore its impossible to know if people are using my product if they just download some huge collection of PDFs from pirate-bay.
I wanted to send out periodic updates to people who looked through the books with NPC stats, system updates, random adventures and new content as an added bonus...but I can't do that if the bloody
This isn't about wanting hordes of cash. Its about wanting to break even with the cost and be able to say "holy crap, I made at least $1 selling something I loved!"
Not that any of my other hobbies have done anything else but lose me money...
5 words: Take them off the net.
Do not allow these servers to be in contact with any computers on the net. Install updates and software manually. Withdraw information via hardcopies (portable harddrives, flashdrives, etc...) if you need them on computers also connected to the tubes. In the meantime, get your important data off the web.
I'd feel happy if it wasn't that my book writing (hobby) wasn't abandoned because I noticed selling D20 PDFs online is pointless with the mass piracy of PDFs through sites like this.
Exactly. If I was the "company" (you can go as far up or down in the corperate ladder as you want; even say "the shareholders") and found out that someone wasn't doing there job (selling games to customers) and still getting paid by me (the "company"), and using my capitol, they should be laid off.
At the same time the manager probably got his point across. Good for him. He shouldn't get his job back though, even if it was a good point.
England Prevails!
We get free music and now DOOM AS WELL?! Woah! Shooting up robots to some awesome techno and rock...What's gloomy about that?
D20 modern came out years before World of Warcraft and used a talent tree progression system. If you talking about that.
If your talking about not using XP for item crafting...well a ton of games does that.
And if your talking about...well I can't think of much else really that is comparable.
Blizzard will always be ahead of them? You do know that Dungeons and Dragons came out 30 years before the release of World of Warcraft, right? WoW copied Dungeons and Dragons HP system! Blatant ripp-off! And levelling. And the idea of getting exp from killing things and completing quests. Not to mention the platnuim-gold-silver-copper exchange rate (minus the gold for WoW). The class system too. Talents are basically feats, to be honest (some have prerequisites...wait just like in DnD!). The only major difference between a talent and a feat is that feats use a core level based prerequsite, whereas feats have a prerequisite both level based AND based on the amount of feats gained prior (but not specific feats), much like the martial arts styles of various 3rd party books.
The idea of rangers getting pets was done first in DnD. Oh, and the idea of dark elves. Yeah, they were in Tolkein, but they were short and midgety and more like dwarves even in those books to be honest. Sithulus is based around Dark Sun in more ways then I can count (especially in history/background of the whole magic war, the bugs just make it more obvious). Yeah, part of it is Dune and even Starship Trooper driven too...but Darksun is present if you know what your looking for.
The concept of charging as warriors do so is really a DnD thing too (is really an overrun/bullrush in so many ways). A warlock's shadowball and evocations are based directly on the Richard Wulf 3rd party book (one of the first open liscence e-books, if not one of the first and most popular D20 system books released after the Player's Handbook came out). Weapon proficencies being dependant on class is a DnD innvoation. I'm not sure about skills though...
The list goes on. And as for your precious blizzard--there's a good company. Sure they fired their entire d20 book writing staff, released a new set of books for 3.5 that were identical in every way except with art (naming things like "More..." and "The Expanded...") and the author's names suddenly changed! The list goes on.
Blizzard is good at a lot of things. But not innovation. They are good at bringing together multiple genres of games. Perfecting genres even. They are great at details and have decent storylines...but in the end can you find me one game that's a "WoW clone" that's not an "everquest" clone? Didn't think so.
Great at marketting too. The same people who made fun of me for playing EQ now play WoW more than I ever have.
Mod up.
You fool, this is Slashdot. If you want a topic in an evolution thread to be modded to even a viewable number you must include at least 2 of the following:
-People who believe in evolution also believe the world is 5,000 years old.
-Evolutionists refuse to listen to any reason.
-Science is about testable theory, not belief.
-God and religion are inheritly stupid
I'm being sarcastic, FYI.
To mis-quote (but retain the essence of) one of my favorite films (Waking Life), in response to the countless anti-Republican and the, if my moderation filter was set low enough, also countless anti-Democrat posts above me:
~"Republican...Democrat...They are two sides of the same coins...bidding for control of slavery incorporated. But that's ok, because you know what I believe in? The unfaltering will of the human spirit. We have gotten through many horrible things and will continue to so long as we recognize the truth."
Final point is that in the end the #1 true issue for both Republicans and Democrats this and every year for as long as I've been alive and politically active has always been ensuring that at *least* one of these two parties stays in power. Its a glorious game, and don't get me wrong. I know that each party would kill to see the other side completely wiped out. But they wouldn't risk their very foundation for it. Just as the Eagle may want to exist without Washington always on its ass, if it tries to escape it will find itself a mere imprint on its base that cannot exist without the very coin that it has come to be (half) recognized as.
And frankly no American should be concerned with the primaries or party choices or any such thing. Find a person who wants to do the job. Study that person's political views and past successes and failures in politics and, most importantly, life. Ensure they aren't scum, and on that fateful day...vote.
Don't even look at the checker-box candidates on that
It is your right to vote. Not the right of the parties. And to think that being able to select from the ~%.0000006 of potential candidates is a real vote is absurd.
He was in GERMANY when this happened? I know he's a US citizen, downloading RIAA "protected" songs, and probably in US territory (i.e. bases) when this happened but...come on. The fact he was in Germany should mean SOMETHING to the case.
Yeah, $40 ATMs would be awesome (20-10-5-2-and 3 1s).
Personally I want a brick of $2.00 bills to seed around my town.
No, the biggest problem is two-fold.
1.) Gamers have the internet. They don't need to buy cable-TV to watch these events. In the long run, it is not something to invest in.
2.) epic moments are VERY rare in video games (obviously; anyone playing WoW will tell you only once or twice a night will anything note-worthy happen, and even then its not worth mentioning more than once or twice to a friend). The odds of them happening in "professional events" are even more rare. These are the people who don't fuck up. Odds are, you'll see one MINOR thing occur (someone hits "Sinister Strike" instead of "Ghostly Strike", loses their evasion bonus and some energy-per-damage, and then the match), and it'll take the announcer 45 minutes to explain why that was such an error. But in the end, it'll pale in comparison to something some random newb posted on youtube. Because really, the best moments are with those who play the game just to have fun, not play it to have fun winning.
At least in my experience.
I want to see more computers attempt to crack Go. 16 pieces? 52 cards? Try 361 intersections WITH the ability to play a nearly infinate number of stones (literally infinate if the players get double or triple ko).
I still want a phone where I can connect a standard keyboard to it (minus the Function/ESC grid, the number pad, and the arrow keys imbedded in the QWERTY slots normally taken up with CTRL-WINDWS-ALT and the, at least for me, useless Caps Lock key. Or heck, the CTRL-WINDS-MENUOPTIONS-ALT bar could be replaced with ARROWUP-ARROWDWN-ARROWRIGHT-ARROWLEFT. The keyboard itself takes less space than an 8.5/11 sheet of paper (ignoring width) and can easily attach to a binder or slide into my bag/backpack...
But I'm one of those crazy people who carries a deck of cards, ipod, phone, wallet, keys, notebook, camera, pencil, extra non-notebook paper, a comb, chopsticks, change, a fortune cookie or two and deoderant and/or perfume with me wherever I go...not to mention a good book.
My college isn't much better off. I know from talking to the I&IT people that they have cease-and-desists pre-signed and ready to send out under the RIAA's orders. I also happen to know that no one who works there cares enough to actually use these documents. The worst that ever happens here is our network goes down every 6 months because some idiot leaked the password to the wrong person (mind you the people in charge of shutting it down are probably perfectly aware of it themselves--heck someone accidentally mailed every student on campus asking for the network password 4 months ago) and that person had to comply (i.e. send a cease and desist from atop the dusty pile) or else lose their job.
I wish I could mod this up to 6.
No...up to 11.