Web Logs Finally Meet Sim City

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Web Logs Finally Meet Sim City

Posted by Hemos on Wednesday June 9, 2004 @05:08AM from the building-interactivity dept.

l0rd writes "A good piece on wired says : A few games of Roller Coaster Tycoon don't usually translate into productive work, but for one developer the diversion planted the seed for making website analysis more intuitive. Several years after playing those inspirational games, Robert Savage came up with VisitorVille, a website-traffic analysis package that essentially crosses the DNA of SimCity with that of the traditional chart- and graph-centric tools businesses have long been using. Screenshots included."

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first post? by cayenne8 · 2004-06-09 05:09 · Score: -1, Offtopic

First one?

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Oh man... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-09 05:12 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I love those games. I had the most fun with 2000 and the original (the SNES version). 3000 and 4 just got a bit too complicated, though... too much micromanagement. I'm still waiting for a version where I can actually wander around the city of my choice in 3D... maybe in SimCity 5.
1. Re:Oh man... by Spamlent+Green · 2004-06-09 05:26 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  Didn't they have the spin-off game "The Streets of Sim-City" or something, which I seem to recall from the box was like Death Track, but you used the city map from SimCity...
  
  Anyone ever play this?
2. Re:Oh man... by mrwonton · 2004-06-09 05:43 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  I never played that one, but there was also a sim-copter where you flew around putting out fires and saving injured people. It was the same deal, it used maps from SimCity, and let you fly through them in 3d. It was a pretty cool idea.
  
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SimEarthquake by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-09 05:18 · Score: -1, Offtopic

make me money and click the banner at www.SCKEYS.tk !
corepirate nazi felons finally get blogs? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-09 05:20 · Score: -1, Offtopic
they got this won, anyway? whoever thought up the gnu online dating was probably suffering from a greed/fear/ego based crack in their .asp.

from a post meant to be titled:

light bringers may succeed in rescuing us? (Score:-1, Offtopic)

by Anonymous Coward
on Wednesday June 09, @07:44AM (#9375526)

despite ourselves, & the whoreabull bedevilment set upon us by
unprecedented evile et AL, aka, the corepirate nazi execrable.

all is not lost?

consult with/trust in yOUR creators..... unbreakable since forever.

tell 'em robbIE?

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- glowbull warmongerers doomed to failure by Anonymous Coward (Score:-1) Wednesday June 09, @07:47AM
  
  from a post meant to be titled:
  
  unprecedented evile nearly disempowered, forever?
  (score: mynuts won:-) previously PostBlocked(tm) material reposted)
  
  by a disorganized rag-tag team of a few billion near nobodys, using what was available to them, which was almost nothing?
  
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  The award also brought controversy. Accenture is incorporated in Bermuda, and some critics attacked the idea of awarding a contract so valuable and important to national security to a company with its headquarters outside the United States.
  
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  "If companies truly want to contribute to our nation's security, they can pay their fair share of taxes. If they want a slice of the American pie, they had better help bake it," he said in a statement.
  
  A spokesman for Accenture said that the company paid United States taxes.
  
  Representative Richard E. Neal, a Massachusetts Democrat and a senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee, also questioned the award.
  
  "This decision is outrageous," he said, in a statement. "The Bush administration has awarded the largest homeland security contract in history to a company that has given up its U.S. citizenship and moved to Bermuda. The inconsistency is breathtaking."
  
  the stock markup FraUD/softwar gangster payper liesense hostage grab 'business plan' is looking a little hapless now?
  
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Re:Picture by Rei · 2004-06-09 06:51 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Great... first, I start listening to the soundtrack just a week ago and get addicted to it, and now you're going to make me watch the movie too by tempting me with neat visuals? How mean of you ;)

Ok, my turn. Hey, this is kind of like Donnie Darko, where the customers are like the people at the halloween party, going between different rooms, and the administrators are like Donnie's family, and Grandma Death is suspected hacking activity, and the evil rabbit is... is...

Oh, never mind, I give up.

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