Today, ist this article, wailign and bemnoanign the possabiltiy of having to PAy soemthing for web sites, right under the one wailign and bemoaning that ads might get more intrusive.
Make up your minds folks. You aren't a charity and noone is interested in feeding your entertainment habit out of their own pockets.
Get used to it folks. One way or another the bills must be paid. If you don't want to pay for web access and web services in dollarts you need to pay for it in advertising that works.
Banners are majoritively ignored therefor they are worth almost nothing.
You have three choices, be it web sites or CDs:
(1) Pay the artists/creators in money.
(2) Put up with ads intrusive enough to be worth the advertisers financing your recreation.
(3) Lose the IP from society altogether as the creators go broke and go into other lines of
work.
(BTW for those who don't know TANSTAAFL == "There Aint No Such Thing As A Free Lunch")
Oen of the first DVDs I bought ebcause I had heard so muchabout it.
The animation is interesting, but for my tastes they coule have taken out half the gun battles to make room for some moee plot. The thing ends just as its starting to get interesting.
GITS2 soudsn promising, maybe they could actually finish the story they started...
almost 20 years ago I worked for awhiel asa rep for a magnificient word processor. At the time the "standard" was wordstar.
I still remeber the consultnat/sofwtare dealer I called on and showed hoi m the product, and how I could teach anyone to run it in a hour. His comment?
"Why on earth shoudl I sell soemthing easy to use when I get paid $60.00 an hour to teach my customers WordStar???"
He's almost home. The aprt he's m,issing to the puzzle is that a "general purpsoe computer" has to do too many different things to easily do what he's preaching (be totally invisible.)
OTOH appliances, being tailroed to one task, do exactly that. Can nay consuemr name the OS in a Play Station? No. Why not? because its unimprtoant to them oin the same way the part number of the graphics processor inside of the box is. They just put their game in and play.
Similarly a word processing appliance would word process justby turning it on and maybe putting a 'word prcoessor disk' in it.
What has held such appliances back up til now has been the expensive of the screen. You could not afford to offer a device with a large enough, high enough resolution screen to be a serious word processing tool. With the drop in prices of both SVGA monitors and flat screens though this is fast becoming a non-issue. The only remiaining issue is finding a model that encourages developers to write as ful lfeatured apps for such a box as they do now for a PC.
These types of games, obvously, already exist and are very popular. But its not "pay per play" rather its like a magazine subscription, where you pay to keep playign because they keep adding things to the game. When they stop adding things, these games quickly die. (UOL anyone?)
PC gamer did an article on this EA stealth project a few months back.
They have soem kidn of media auhtoring system thatballwos them to easily customize and scale the game utilizing everything from fake web pages to mid-night phone calls.
The WORA thing ha always been a trheat to MS's hegemony.
Having lost the battle to poison java,.NUT and C-Flat are clearly the next shot in the battle. Its no coincidence that MS finally stetled and agreed to stop tryign to poison the well at the same time as they are rolling all this out.
The FASA StarTrek:The RPG is most noteable for ist ship combat system, which was awesome and the only role-play oriented ship combat system I've v\ever seen or played.
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As another Dinosaur (I started with the REAL original 3 little D&D books in app 1976) i have to take issue woith your ending.
There is nothing in the computer are ayet that coems anywhere close to the richness of experience and imaginationwe had playing pen and paper games. Frankly, i have yet to even see a game that can be called a Roleplay game on a comouter. Roleplay requires the interraction of personalities and computers have none.
Don't get me wrong, i enjoy Sims and adventure games (of which CRPGS are really just a resource-management oriented variant) but they aren't RPGs as we know them.
Bioware right now is trying to crteate a real on0line toold for playing true RPGs (D&D specific). We'll see how well it works.
IANAL but...
You don't buy software. You license software, all you own is the media.
Your rights are those that you agreeed to when you agreed to the license contract.
In point of fact, EQ (ratehr annoyingly) shows you the EULA and makes you click to agree everythimre you play. So there really is no excuse for claiming they didnt know and agree to the rules. I don't think this will pass the laugh test in court.
So here is a suggestion for a scientific way to do your study.
(1) Recruit a significantly large body of students with an equal exposure to both video games and the business strategies you want to test comprehension of. The simplest solution is no exposure to either.
(2) Give them all a quiz on the business strategies in question.
(3) Devide them into two groups with abotu the same average original scroes. Have one group play StarCraft for, say, 2 horus a day for a week.
(4) Give a new test to all of them. Look for a significant improvement in the relative score of the group that played vs. the group that didnt.
Whatever you do PLEASE don't do a *bad* study and write an article about it. The world doesn't need one more bad, boiased peice of psuedo-science.
When it is really time to rewrite a product, management will be willing. This is because it will be truly more expensive or impossible to get the functionality requested by management out of the old code base.
Until then, they are correct in their judgement that it doesn't need rewriting. Elegance doesnt pay your salery.
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I love my dose of Slash-irony.
Today, ist this article, wailign and bemnoanign the possabiltiy of having to PAy soemthing for web sites, right under the one wailign and bemoaning that ads might get more intrusive.
Make up your minds folks. You aren't a charity and noone is interested in feeding your entertainment habit out of their own pockets.
Get used to it folks. One way or another the bills must be paid. If you don't want to pay for web access and web services in dollarts you need to pay for it in advertising that works.
Banners are majoritively ignored therefor they are worth almost nothing.
You have three choices, be it web sites or CDs:
(1) Pay the artists/creators in money.
(2) Put up with ads intrusive enough to be worth the advertisers financing your recreation.
(3) Lose the IP from society altogether as the creators go broke and go into other lines of
work.
(BTW for those who don't know TANSTAAFL == "There Aint No Such Thing As A Free Lunch")
Oen of the first DVDs I bought ebcause I had heard so muchabout it.
The animation is interesting, but for my tastes they coule have taken out half the gun battles to make room for some moee plot. The thing ends just as its starting to get interesting.
GITS2 soudsn promising, maybe they could actually finish the story they started...
almost 20 years ago I worked for awhiel asa rep for a magnificient word processor. At the time the "standard" was wordstar.
I still remeber the consultnat/sofwtare dealer I called on and showed hoi m the product, and how I could teach anyone to run it in a hour. His comment?
"Why on earth shoudl I sell soemthing easy to use when I get paid $60.00 an hour to teach my customers WordStar???"
The crash of their neural net based interface :P
He's almost home. The aprt he's m,issing to the puzzle is that a "general purpsoe computer" has to do too many different things to easily do what he's preaching (be totally invisible.)
OTOH appliances, being tailroed to one task, do exactly that. Can nay consuemr name the OS in a Play Station? No. Why not? because its unimprtoant to them oin the same way the part number of the graphics processor inside of the box is. They just put their game in and play.
Similarly a word processing appliance would word process justby turning it on and maybe putting a 'word prcoessor disk' in it.
What has held such appliances back up til now has been the expensive of the screen. You could not afford to offer a device with a large enough, high enough resolution screen to be a serious word processing tool. With the drop in prices of both SVGA monitors and flat screens though this is fast becoming a non-issue. The only remiaining issue is finding a model that encourages developers to write as ful lfeatured apps for such a box as they do now for a PC.
Um.. Like EverQuest???? Phantasy Star Online???
These types of games, obvously, already exist and are very popular. But its not "pay per play" rather its like a magazine subscription, where you pay to keep playign because they keep adding things to the game. When they stop adding things, these games quickly die. (UOL anyone?)
Which makes it bastardized version of a bastardized version of Sun's Jini and "The Dot-Com Home."
Microsoft has had a lot of things to admire them for... but new original ideas has never been one of them.
Kinda justice really since Windows is bastardized version of the Mac Finder which is a bastardized version of the Xerox Star....
PC gamer did an article on this EA stealth project a few months back.
They have soem kidn of media auhtoring system thatballwos them to easily customize and scale the game utilizing everything from fake web pages to mid-night phone calls.
Otehr then that its all pretty hush hush
I s'pose its a total accident that this bears a striking resembalcen to what little is known of EA's project Majestic??
The WORA thing ha always been a trheat to MS's hegemony.
.NUT and C-Flat are clearly the next shot in the battle. Its no coincidence that MS finally stetled and agreed to stop tryign to poison the well at the same time as they are rolling all this out.
Having lost the battle to poison java,
The FASA StarTrek:The RPG is most noteable for ist ship combat system, which was awesome and the only role-play oriented ship combat system I've v\ever seen or played.
Hero was also bought by Cybergames.
As another Dinosaur (I started with the REAL original 3 little D&D books in app 1976) i have to take issue woith your ending.
There is nothing in the computer are ayet that coems anywhere close to the richness of experience and imaginationwe had playing pen and paper games. Frankly, i have yet to even see a game that can be called a Roleplay game on a comouter. Roleplay requires the interraction of personalities and computers have none.
Don't get me wrong, i enjoy Sims and adventure games (of which CRPGS are really just a resource-management oriented variant) but they aren't RPGs as we know them.
Bioware right now is trying to crteate a real on0line toold for playing true RPGs (D&D specific). We'll see how well it works.
IANAL but... You don't buy software. You license software, all you own is the media. Your rights are those that you agreeed to when you agreed to the license contract. In point of fact, EQ (ratehr annoyingly) shows you the EULA and makes you click to agree everythimre you play. So there really is no excuse for claiming they didnt know and agree to the rules. I don't think this will pass the laugh test in court.
So here is a suggestion for a scientific way to do your study.
(1) Recruit a significantly large body of students with an equal exposure to both video games and the business strategies you want to test comprehension of. The simplest solution is no exposure to either.
(2) Give them all a quiz on the business strategies in question.
(3) Devide them into two groups with abotu the same average original scroes. Have one group play StarCraft for, say, 2 horus a day for a week.
(4) Give a new test to all of them. Look for a significant improvement in the relative score of the group that played vs. the group that didnt.
Whatever you do PLEASE don't do a *bad* study and write an article about it. The world doesn't need one more bad, boiased peice of psuedo-science.
Look at the differenes, in any,
If part of your class invovles doing scientific studies then your professor (if he knwos) sahould be teachign you how to do scientific studies.
This apriori poll has no scientific controls. Its results are thus meaningless.
That said, if it gets you a grade, then go for it.
And this is the same Slashdot that thinks Sun is awful for shephearding Java????
Slash-ethics seem highly situational.
Is that Copyright and Partent were both created (and still exist) to CREATE free and open markets.
Anyone who buys this claptrap needs to read a bit of history
When it is really time to rewrite a product, management will be willing. This is because it will be truly more expensive or impossible to get the functionality requested by management out of the old code base.
Until then, they are correct in their judgement that it doesn't need rewriting. Elegance doesnt pay your salery.
I'm sorry but you're wrong.
The only modern platform machine claiming to make a protfit at retail is the upcoming Nintendo box.
Don't believe me, read the trades.
Java Plug-in or Java Web Start
Either solves your IE problem.
Yep.
You clearly understand it.
Its frightening how many people don't. I was going to post to try to educate a few but you';ve posted evrything I was going to try to explain.
This is a good day for Java. Without the threat of the MS fatal-embrace we might even see some loosening of the restrictions.
Wrong.
Sun AND IBM both make excellent Java VMs for Win32.
Java will continue to flourish on Win3 and other platforms. There just wont be the incomapatable, Un-java, MSVM around to confuse people.
This is good news all around for Java.
Install Hotspot (Sun JDK1.3).
http://java.sun.com
(Look in the products index.)
Problem solved.