I doubt it. What you really want is funner games. When the computer uses better A.I. most if not all games feel it's unfair. The claim the new consoles will not be good at A.I. are BS. Maybe not as good as some ideal machine but they do have far more power than today's consoles and that power will translate into the opportunity to make better A.I.
2) Give us new genres
First start buying the new genres we've put out. This is not an industry problem it's a market problem. We put tons of new genres and they rarely sell.
3) Don't show renders for ads
Again, market problem. People bought FF7 based on the cutscenes.
4) Adult Games
Agree
5) Girl Games
If there is such a thing. I still mostly think this is a culture problem not a content problem. I'm pretty sick of the complaint about busty not fully clothed women though. It's not like the games are full of whimpy pasty guys either. On the otherhand, if there is such a thing as a "chick game" (like chick flick) I think we are a long way from getting there.
6) Quicksave
To what level? Should you be able to save during a boss fight between each shot? Saves are part of the game design IMO. Would Mario 64 be a better game if you could save anywhere instead of just between levels? Maybe a better solution for Metroid would have been Zelda style saving. You can save anywhere but you get put back at a save point when you restart.
7) Loading
Agree. Except of course there is no correlation between load times and sales. If there was this would become important for developers.
8) Football
Again a market problem. Nothing will change until people stop buying Madden
9) No immersion
Mostly agree. Any level design you press the button to a open a door 1/2 a mile a way is stupid. Finding ammo everywhere. Not being able to swim. etc. At the same time, whenever I bring up these kinds of non-immersion issues with movies I always get told "But there would be no movie without them". So which is it? I'd like to believe a good movie director / screenwriter could write a movie with no stupid inconsistances and I'd like to believe game creators could do the same with games.
10) Arbitrary Barriers
Agreed although same as above. It's not as simple as it sounds.
11) ???
Mostly agree
12) BS Difficulty
Mostly agree except for the racing part.
Racing games are generally incredibly boring without catchup. We've tried it both ways. Players think they don't want catchup but without it you'd never win if you were behind and you'd never interact with anything if you were ahead. In both cases the game becomes incredibly boring.
13) ???
14) No more crates
15) Stop the patents and copycat games
16) Don't release buggy games
Agree
17) Don't put in non-gaming features
Disagree. I love my modded Xbox. I mostly love my PSX. I wish the new consoles took those ideas to the next level.
18) Don't sell us online content
market problem. Don't buy it.
19) No more jumping puzzles in FPSes
Disagree. I like em. In some games they suck. Those are bad games.
20) Vertical consoles only
Disagree. I want FLAT consoles. (ie PS2, PSX) that I can then put more stuff on top of. Putting them vertical only means they are going to fall over and bust IMO.
I did enjoy the article.
> enough to send a warm fuzzy through the hearts of original trilogy fans.
The only thing that would send a warm fuzzy through the heart of this original trilogy fan is a time machine keep Lucus out of it and have someone good acutally have made ep 1-3
I run XP. I've constently got 10 to 15 apps running. Lotus Notes, Maya, Photoshop, 8 to 15 IE windows, Visual Slickedit, 1 or 2 copies of VC++.NET, the help apps, a local attendance app, JWPCE, a or 2 console windows, VNC, cygwin, Rhapsody or WMP or both and I'm sure a few I'm forgetting. I never have any problems. It's been about 2 years now. I've got a Dell
My home machine is also running XP. At home the only different between work is I run Outlook instead of Notes and I don't run Maya or the custom attenance application but I do run MSN Messenger and NetMeeting (to control an older box running 2K remotely).
Oh, and I have mysql and iis running at home for website testing.
My sister on the other hand has problems but then she clicks "yes" to ever "Do you want to install?" request:-(
Yes, Hawaiians, Okinawains, Malaysians, Indonisians and others all generally eat Spam on a regular basis. It's delicious. Here in Japan, while it's not so common, it is available at a fairly popular fast food chain.
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Considering at least here in Japan, all cellphones will all features are available for 1 cent 6 months after they come out, why would you need the choice? You want to pay 1/6 of a penny for a phone with 1/6 the features?
So, if I hire you to mow my lawn for $20 and then don't pay you I am not a thief? I committed no theft?
Let's apply the same logic to computers.
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I want a computer that does only one thing. Let's see, which one thing should that be.
*) Just edit text files
*) Just playback music
*) Just playback video
*) Just browse the web
*) Just edit music
*) Just edit videos
*) Just run a spreadsheet
*) Just view images
*) Just edit images
*) Just burn CDs
*) Just play games
*) Just allow me to program
*) Just run a database
*) Just do my bills
Why the _ would I want a comptuer that does just one thing? I wouldn't and neither do I want my phone to do only one thing, which actually happens to BE a computer far more powerful than my Apple 2 or Commodore 64 or probably even my Fat Mac or 8086 PC.
There's very little reason to believe that phones won't eventually replace computers for the majority of people. They'll figure out how to project a display in mid air or onto some sunglasses you can put on when you want to see a full display and they'll come up with a virutal projected keyboard or other input system.
My definition of growth is the ability to do more things I want to do than I do now. more ability to travel, more time to see my family, more time to try new things. If I had spent my earlier years wisely I'd be in a better position now both finacially, having the money to do those things and in terms of job, being in a position to be able to travel more often on my own terms. Instead I'm a typical wage slave with only 2 weeks of vacation a year. I was a wage slave when I got out of college. In that sense there has been no growth, nothing has changed.
If I had spent that time trying to better myself at worst I'd be in the same position I am today but more likely I'd be in a better position that an I am now.
> Heck I sure as hell wouldn't want to waste my youth as a workaholic just to end up as one of those rich bachelors at 35.
I'm 39 and not rich. I wish I had been a workaholic in my 20s and was rich now. I forgot who posted is undelivered graduation speech about advice to high school graduates but the #1 point of it was looking back what's the #1 piece of advice us older people have for younger people. That advice is, DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME.
I wasted thousands of days of time playing video games, vegging in front of cable TV and generally goofying off while living a relatively comfortable life with a regular job. If I had not wasted that time and used it productively to make some things, start businesses, whatever I'd most likely be independently wealthy by now. Within reason I'd be able do anything I wanted, help anyone I wanted, work on anything I wanted, go anywhere I wanted, etc, etc, etc.
Instead looking back, nothing has really changed, there has been no "real" growth since college. If I was to try now I'd be started with no more than I was started except with less time to recover from failure.
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I find it funny and sad the a bunch of geeks who all think they are smarter than your average non-geek are to stupid to NOT see the train wreck that Episode 3 is guaranteed to be:-(
(1) Wages: Pay nonimmigrants at least the local prevailing wage or the employer's actual wage, whichever is HIGHER, and pay for non-productive time. Offer nonimmigrants benefits on the same basis as U.S. workers.
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Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha....2MBit for your business ha ha ha. You call that "upgrading"? And how much does that 2MBit cost you? Here in Japan, 100MBit is $40 U.S. a month. 24MBit is $20 a month.
(sorry, I'm not ragging on you, I'm ragging on BT. 2MBit is a joke)
They changed the meanings of the ep 4-6. As a kid I grew up thinking if I just believed hard enough I could do anything (ie, use the force, trust your instincts) Episode one destroyed all that. You've got to have royal blood (ie, midichlorians) or you should just pack it in. No inspiration in that message what-so-ever.
Other complaints, in ep 4-6 the characters get through their trials by perseverance. In episode 1 Anakin gets through most things by dumb luck (or fate) either of which is a different messages than ep 4-6.
Unforunately just like T3 changes the message of T2. Ep 1 changes the meanings of Ep 4-6 ruining them forever.
Ep.3 will not be fixing any of this so I'm not going to go see it. FUCK LUCASS!
If PDF is for printing then a USER should NEVER see a PDF. There should basically be almost no PDFs online. The only people that should ever seen PDFs are printing companies.
Unforunately Adobe and gang have convinced too many people that PDF is a good distribution format for reading documentation online supposedly because someone "might" want to print it. I know of no one that prints out entire PDF manuals and yet I know hundreds of people for which PDF manuals and the related readers cause them no end of grief and lost productivity.
I never print. I know of not a single person at the 4000 person company I work at that prints PDF documentation. I'm sure there are some special cases like your engineering drawings but overall PDF should almost never be used IMO.
I hate loading that fucking bloated Acrobat I fucking hate reading a page at a time. I'm on a fucking computer, not a book damit! I hate the fucking page breaks. I hate the fucking page formatting. Because it is attempting to show me a book page instead of realizing there are better ways to read information on a computer I'm forced to either scroll left and right over the page making it fucking cumbersome to read OR I'm force to zoom in so that I can only see the top 1/2 of the page but I can read the text so now I see less info. If they'd just fucking use HTML I'd get so much more done. I fucking hate that even though it claims be a solution to rendering the pages it fucks up all the time. If you can't even get your main objective working then fucking give up.
I get far far more usage from plan HTML files then I get from any PDFs. I wish PDF would DIE! And I don't need a replacement either. We already have the replacement, it's called HTML and it does just fine.
Considering I'm subscribed to Rhapsody (2 yrs so far) and I have about 3600 songs in my favorites list, if we assumed I added songs at the same rate I added them for the last two years ie, 1800 songs a year, then for that $8391.60 I would have listen to 126,000 songs during those 70 years and it would only have cost me $8391.60 I tried to buy each and everyone of them from something like iTMS, at $0.99 a song the cost would be $124,740.00
Most modern editors have quite a few options for formatting so it should easily meet most people's preferences for style. And, the point is, it's not your code your reading, it's someone else's so all you need to do is make it more readable. One of the formats a modern beautifier supports should be close enough to make the code readable to the person trying to read it.
Wrong! By default your contributions to a GPLed project are GPLed and the original author cannot distribute your contributions in a non-GPLed manner.
They way companies get around this is to tell you "If you want your contribution to be part of our distribution you have to assign your rights to us, otherwise start your own fork".
As for a high-profile project that works this way see MySQL
> 5) Should I happen to create something with software I want to sell commercially (let's say a book) I don't want to have to worry about Microsoft coming after me for improper licensing and demanding a chunk of royalties or something equally fun.
Just FYI but Microsoft can't do this. The most they can demand is that you buy legal copy of Word. There is plenty of legal precident.
And the best part is you won't tarish L.A.'s reputation for unprepared students.
They'll try to get a graphic design job and be rejected because they have no Photoshop experience or they'll apply for an office job and be rejected for no MS:Office experience.
Glad to see L.A. schools are as predictable as ever.
> I've never so much as considered attempting to download a movie. The amount of effort that goes into pirating such things when you could just drive to a video store and pay a very reasonable couple of bucks boggles my mind
You must either be a luddite or live in one of those countries like the U.S.A. where they consider broadband to be 0.7 to 3megabits.
Here in Japan where broadband is 12 to 100 megabits downloading movies is trival, fast, and in general easier than going to the video store.
One of my co-workers has 4 terabytes of movies and TV downloaded.
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I doubt it. What you really want is funner games. When the computer uses better A.I. most if not all games feel it's unfair. The claim the new consoles will not be good at A.I. are BS. Maybe not as good as some ideal machine but they do have far more power than today's consoles and that power will translate into the opportunity to make better A.I.
2) Give us new genres
First start buying the new genres we've put out. This is not an industry problem it's a market problem. We put tons of new genres and they rarely sell.
3) Don't show renders for ads
Again, market problem. People bought FF7 based on the cutscenes.
4) Adult Games
Agree
5) Girl Games
If there is such a thing. I still mostly think this is a culture problem not a content problem. I'm pretty sick of the complaint about busty not fully clothed women though. It's not like the games are full of whimpy pasty guys either. On the otherhand, if there is such a thing as a "chick game" (like chick flick) I think we are a long way from getting there.
6) Quicksave
To what level? Should you be able to save during a boss fight between each shot? Saves are part of the game design IMO. Would Mario 64 be a better game if you could save anywhere instead of just between levels? Maybe a better solution for Metroid would have been Zelda style saving. You can save anywhere but you get put back at a save point when you restart.
7) Loading
Agree. Except of course there is no correlation between load times and sales. If there was this would become important for developers.
8) Football
Again a market problem. Nothing will change until people stop buying Madden
9) No immersion
Mostly agree. Any level design you press the button to a open a door 1/2 a mile a way is stupid. Finding ammo everywhere. Not being able to swim. etc. At the same time, whenever I bring up these kinds of non-immersion issues with movies I always get told "But there would be no movie without them". So which is it? I'd like to believe a good movie director / screenwriter could write a movie with no stupid inconsistances and I'd like to believe game creators could do the same with games.
10) Arbitrary Barriers
Agreed although same as above. It's not as simple as it sounds.
11) ???
Mostly agree
12) BS Difficulty
Mostly agree except for the racing part. Racing games are generally incredibly boring without catchup. We've tried it both ways. Players think they don't want catchup but without it you'd never win if you were behind and you'd never interact with anything if you were ahead. In both cases the game becomes incredibly boring.
13) ???
14) No more crates
15) Stop the patents and copycat games
16) Don't release buggy games
Agree
17) Don't put in non-gaming features
Disagree. I love my modded Xbox. I mostly love my PSX. I wish the new consoles took those ideas to the next level.
18) Don't sell us online content
market problem. Don't buy it.
19) No more jumping puzzles in FPSes
Disagree. I like em. In some games they suck. Those are bad games.
20) Vertical consoles only
Disagree. I want FLAT consoles. (ie PS2, PSX) that I can then put more stuff on top of. Putting them vertical only means they are going to fall over and bust IMO. I did enjoy the article.
> enough to send a warm fuzzy through the hearts of original trilogy fans.
The only thing that would send a warm fuzzy through the heart of this original trilogy fan is a time machine keep Lucus out of it and have someone good acutally have made ep 1-3
I run XP. I've constently got 10 to 15 apps running. Lotus Notes, Maya, Photoshop, 8 to 15 IE windows, Visual Slickedit, 1 or 2 copies of VC++.NET, the help apps, a local attendance app, JWPCE, a or 2 console windows, VNC, cygwin, Rhapsody or WMP or both and I'm sure a few I'm forgetting. I never have any problems. It's been about 2 years now. I've got a Dell
:-(
My home machine is also running XP. At home the only different between work is I run Outlook instead of Notes and I don't run Maya or the custom attenance application but I do run MSN Messenger and NetMeeting (to control an older box running 2K remotely).
Oh, and I have mysql and iis running at home for website testing.
My sister on the other hand has problems but then she clicks "yes" to ever "Do you want to install?" request
Yes, Hawaiians, Okinawains, Malaysians, Indonisians and others all generally eat Spam on a regular basis. It's delicious. Here in Japan, while it's not so common, it is available at a fairly popular fast food chain.
Considering at least here in Japan, all cellphones will all features are available for 1 cent 6 months after they come out, why would you need the choice? You want to pay 1/6 of a penny for a phone with 1/6 the features?
> Copyright infringement is not theft
So, if I hire you to mow my lawn for $20 and then don't pay you I am not a thief? I committed no theft?
I want a computer that does only one thing. Let's see, which one thing should that be.
*) Just edit text files
*) Just playback music
*) Just playback video
*) Just browse the web
*) Just edit music
*) Just edit videos
*) Just run a spreadsheet
*) Just view images
*) Just edit images
*) Just burn CDs
*) Just play games
*) Just allow me to program
*) Just run a database
*) Just do my bills
Why the _ would I want a comptuer that does just one thing? I wouldn't and neither do I want my phone to do only one thing, which actually happens to BE a computer far more powerful than my Apple 2 or Commodore 64 or probably even my Fat Mac or 8086 PC.
There's very little reason to believe that phones won't eventually replace computers for the majority of people. They'll figure out how to project a display in mid air or onto some sunglasses you can put on when you want to see a full display and they'll come up with a virutal projected keyboard or other input system.
My definition of growth is the ability to do more things I want to do than I do now. more ability to travel, more time to see my family, more time to try new things. If I had spent my earlier years wisely I'd be in a better position now both finacially, having the money to do those things and in terms of job, being in a position to be able to travel more often on my own terms. Instead I'm a typical wage slave with only 2 weeks of vacation a year. I was a wage slave when I got out of college. In that sense there has been no growth, nothing has changed.
If I had spent that time trying to better myself at worst I'd be in the same position I am today but more likely I'd be in a better position that an I am now.
> Heck I sure as hell wouldn't want to waste my youth as a workaholic just to end up as one of those rich bachelors at 35.
I'm 39 and not rich. I wish I had been a workaholic in my 20s and was rich now. I forgot who posted is undelivered graduation speech about advice to high school graduates but the #1 point of it was looking back what's the #1 piece of advice us older people have for younger people. That advice is, DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME.
I wasted thousands of days of time playing video games, vegging in front of cable TV and generally goofying off while living a relatively comfortable life with a regular job. If I had not wasted that time and used it productively to make some things, start businesses, whatever I'd most likely be independently wealthy by now. Within reason I'd be able do anything I wanted, help anyone I wanted, work on anything I wanted, go anywhere I wanted, etc, etc, etc.
Instead looking back, nothing has really changed, there has been no "real" growth since college. If I was to try now I'd be started with no more than I was started except with less time to recover from failure.
I find it funny and sad the a bunch of geeks who all think they are smarter than your average non-geek are to stupid to NOT see the train wreck that Episode 3 is guaranteed to be :-(
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Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha....2MBit for your business ha ha ha. You call that "upgrading"? And how much does that 2MBit cost you? Here in Japan, 100MBit is $40 U.S. a month. 24MBit is $20 a month.
(sorry, I'm not ragging on you, I'm ragging on BT. 2MBit is a joke)
> What was wrong with the first two prequels?
They changed the meanings of the ep 4-6. As a kid I grew up thinking if I just believed hard enough I could do anything (ie, use the force, trust your instincts) Episode one destroyed all that. You've got to have royal blood (ie, midichlorians) or you should just pack it in. No inspiration in that message what-so-ever.
Other complaints, in ep 4-6 the characters get through their trials by perseverance. In episode 1 Anakin gets through most things by dumb luck (or fate) either of which is a different messages than ep 4-6.
Unforunately just like T3 changes the message of T2. Ep 1 changes the meanings of Ep 4-6 ruining them forever.
Ep.3 will not be fixing any of this so I'm not going to go see it. FUCK LUCASS!
If PDF is for printing then a USER should NEVER see a PDF. There should basically be almost no PDFs online. The only people that should ever seen PDFs are printing companies.
Unforunately Adobe and gang have convinced too many people that PDF is a good distribution format for reading documentation online supposedly because someone "might" want to print it. I know of no one that prints out entire PDF manuals and yet I know hundreds of people for which PDF manuals and the related readers cause them no end of grief and lost productivity.
My point is, who cares if Micrsoft is making a PDF killer. The real story is PDF is pure evil (and QED, so is any clone)
Agreed.
I never print. I know of not a single person at the 4000 person company I work at that prints PDF documentation. I'm sure there are some special cases like your engineering drawings but overall PDF should almost never be used IMO.
sounds like you are using outdated patching software
AAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
I FUCKING HATE PDF!!!
I hate loading that fucking bloated Acrobat
I fucking hate reading a page at a time. I'm on a fucking computer, not a book damit!
I hate the fucking page breaks. I hate the fucking page formatting. Because it is attempting to show me a book page instead of realizing there are better ways to read information on a computer I'm forced to either scroll left and right over the page making it fucking cumbersome to read OR I'm force to zoom in so that I can only see the top 1/2 of the page but I can read the text so now I see less info. If they'd just fucking use HTML I'd get so much more done.
I fucking hate that even though it claims be a solution to rendering the pages it fucks up all the time. If you can't even get your main objective working then fucking give up.
I get far far more usage from plan HTML files then I get from any PDFs. I wish PDF would DIE! And I don't need a replacement either. We already have the replacement, it's called HTML and it does just fine.
As someone already pointed out, your math sucks
(80-10)yrs * 12 months * $9.99 = $8391.60
Considering I'm subscribed to Rhapsody (2 yrs so far) and I have about 3600 songs in my favorites list, if we assumed I added songs at the same rate I added them for the last two years ie, 1800 songs a year, then for that $8391.60 I would have listen to 126,000 songs during those 70 years and it would only have cost me $8391.60 I tried to buy each and everyone of them from something like iTMS, at $0.99 a song the cost would be $124,740.00
Happy Rhapsody user.
Most modern editors have quite a few options for formatting so it should easily meet most people's preferences for style. And, the point is, it's not your code your reading, it's someone else's so all you need to do is make it more readable. One of the formats a modern beautifier supports should be close enough to make the code readable to the person trying to read it.
>I started indenting every line as I walked through a function
Hmmm, most modern programmers would just pick "Tools->Beautify Code" in their modern editor and not care how the other person formatted their code.
Wrong! By default your contributions to a GPLed project are GPLed and the original author cannot distribute your contributions in a non-GPLed manner.
They way companies get around this is to tell you "If you want your contribution to be part of our distribution you have to assign your rights to us, otherwise start your own fork".
As for a high-profile project that works this way see MySQL
> 5) Should I happen to create something with software I want to sell commercially (let's say a book) I don't want to have to worry about Microsoft coming after me for improper licensing and demanding a chunk of royalties or something equally fun.
Just FYI but Microsoft can't do this. The most they can demand is that you buy legal copy of Word. There is plenty of legal precident.
And the best part is you won't tarish L.A.'s reputation for unprepared students.
They'll try to get a graphic design job and be rejected because they have no Photoshop experience or they'll apply for an office job and be rejected for no MS:Office experience.
Glad to see L.A. schools are as predictable as ever.
> I've never so much as considered attempting to download a movie. The amount of effort that goes into pirating such things when you could just drive to a video store and pay a very reasonable couple of bucks boggles my mind
You must either be a luddite or live in one of those countries like the U.S.A. where they consider broadband to be 0.7 to 3megabits.
Here in Japan where broadband is 12 to 100 megabits downloading movies is trival, fast, and in general easier than going to the video store.
One of my co-workers has 4 terabytes of movies and TV downloaded.