winamps site still says the current version of winamp3 was posted in august. is that the fixed version this post is referring to or am i missing something?
What Miyamoto sees that the rest of the gaming industry does not see is that it isn't gore that makes a good game. Plenty of games with lots of gore (like American McGee's "ALICE", as mentioned in the article) didn't sell for shit no matter how much blood was slopped on them. The true test of a good game is how FUN it is to play... how LONG you can play it and still be having FUN after you've resolved yourself to sit down and try it out. On the other hand, Miyamoto is missing (or perhaps just refusing to support, on principle) the fact that many of the *consumers* in broader age groups will initially be drawn to gore over gameplay quality simply because that's what they *think* makes a good game. The ultimate trick that Miyamoto needs to discover in order to put his mark on the industry of the next century is a way to *attract* players of all ages *before* having played the game. Most 18+ gamers won't give a second thought about a game that features a race of sentient carrots unless said carrots are eating kittens and burning down villages.
What I personally think Miyamoto needs to find is a way to put deeper levels of *all* emotions (not just disgust) into his work... then people who are too 'grown up' for his whimsical style will be receptive to it again.
well, that's not *quite* true, since shockwave DOES run on linux (and it runs well, although they're only up to version 5) and if you use the crossover plugin, quicktime 6 runs just fine too.
We could make PDA's actually useful if they weren't just "one more thing" to carry around. I think that if there were a way to make direct monetary transactions between PDA's they could become a device that, like a wallet, is considered almost essential to modern civilized living.
I'll tell you exactly how they are loosing money..
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because they have $400,000,000 in debt that they thought would be easy to pay off because the market just seemed to keep going up and up.....
so when it suddenly took a big dump, they were left standing there with a 400 million US$ in high-interest debt.
WOOPS!
that's what you call poor, shortsighted and wreckless management.
those telco bastards are limiting broadband too. the combined computing power of the desktop pc's attached to the internet is of astronomical proportions and the only thing keeping us from being able to collectively tap it is the fact the telco companies can't see past the end of they're noses to reasons why they shouldn't be driving all the dsl providors out of business.
this may just be a naive question from a simple web programmer, but why can't someone just write an 'anti-virus?'... a virus that infects computers the same way the Slapper viruses do, but then patches the security breach instead of exploiting it further?
it looks to me like they're using a trick of electron waveform properties by using the collisions between two opposing wavs to propogate signals faster than the electrons themselves are traveling.
it seems it's actually only a problem with Apache SSL in combination with whatever version of openssl (0.9.6b?).... and according to the netcraft report apache 1.3.26 shouldn't be vulnerable anyway.
... this kindof reminds me of the time that guy strapped a solid fuel booster to his Nova trying to break a landspeed record somewhere out in the desert. he hit a solid rock wall probably mere seconds after realizing no less than three critical errors in his planning:
1) solid fuel boosters can't be stopped; once they're ignited they burn till they're used up.
2) at 400 miles per hour those cliffs way off on the horizon approach much faster than you'd have thought.
3) it doesn't really matter how hard you push in on the brake pedal if the car is being propelled by something they use for jet-assisted takeoff of military cargo planes.
I happen to be a professional web developer and a fanatical linux user. I take pride in the cross-browser and cross-platform compatability of every site i create. The problem is not necessarily always at the development end however. While it's true that there are many web developers out there that don't REALLY know what they're doing (a high percentage of incompetance i've found is fairly common with most technical jobs in big business) alot of the reason why those web developers can't or won't support browsers other than IE is because the people paying to have the sites made don't understand the importance of standards compliance and why they should pay more money for a site that caters to the remaining 5% of the internet that (in they're flawed opinion) still insists on being different to no good purpose and should just wise up and use IE along with all the professionals.
This is a viewpoint i heartly disagree with, however i've found that it tends to be a viewpoint that isn't readily accepted by the bean counters and the marketing managers. After all, they're used to using an operating system that's nowhere near 95% reliable... a 95% compatable website is more than acceptable if it means they don't have to allow "hacker software" onto they're microsoft certified and approved workstations.
ok, it's true. you caught us. we admit it. we've created something awesome, both terrifying and powerful. we've given the power back to the people. we've released information. it's free now, to travel as it will, from point to point, at the mere request of any individual that has the minimum requisite intelligence.
you can say what you like about our motives, but know that we do not regret our actions. be prepared, for many things about the world you know are going to change. the value of information is going to drop radically, for one. we apologize to the companies that have made a business out of (re)distributing information, in any of it's various forms. there is nothing that can be done to reverse the effects technology has had and will continue to have upon society.
you're all simply going to have to find another way to make money. you can either choose to make this search hard on yourselves as well as your customers, or you can learn and adjust to the changes in your environment.
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thanks comcast. you bastards.
damn i miss geos. i still wish it would run on my pc.
mabye the aliens can give me a job...
i thought tivo *DID* report anonymous viewing stats? does anyone know for sure?
winamps site still says the current version of winamp3 was posted in august. is that the fixed version this post is referring to or am i missing something?
What Miyamoto sees that the rest of the gaming industry does not see is that it isn't gore that makes a good game. Plenty of games with lots of gore (like American McGee's "ALICE", as mentioned in the article) didn't sell for shit no matter how much blood was slopped on them. The true test of a good game is how FUN it is to play... how LONG you can play it and still be having FUN after you've resolved yourself to sit down and try it out. On the other hand, Miyamoto is missing (or perhaps just refusing to support, on principle) the fact that many of the *consumers* in broader age groups will initially be drawn to gore over gameplay quality simply because that's what they *think* makes a good game. The ultimate trick that Miyamoto needs to discover in order to put his mark on the industry of the next century is a way to *attract* players of all ages *before* having played the game. Most 18+ gamers won't give a second thought about a game that features a race of sentient carrots unless said carrots are eating kittens and burning down villages.
What I personally think Miyamoto needs to find is a way to put deeper levels of *all* emotions (not just disgust) into his work... then people who are too 'grown up' for his whimsical style will be receptive to it again.
about fucking time.
well, that's not *quite* true, since shockwave DOES run on linux (and it runs well, although they're only up to version 5) and if you use the crossover plugin, quicktime 6 runs just fine too.
Do said trees have radioactive squirrels?
We could make PDA's actually useful if they weren't just "one more thing" to carry around. I think that if there were a way to make direct monetary transactions between PDA's they could become a device that, like a wallet, is considered almost essential to modern civilized living.
because they have $400,000,000 in debt that they thought would be easy to pay off because the market just seemed to keep going up and up .....
so when it suddenly took a big dump, they were left standing there with a 400 million US$ in high-interest debt.
WOOPS!
that's what you call poor, shortsighted and wreckless management.
congradulations Fred. D. Rosen, you're a jackass.
Didn't Circuit City try this once already? Why can't the industry learn from it's own mistakes?
those telco bastards are limiting broadband too. the combined computing power of the desktop pc's attached to the internet is of astronomical proportions and the only thing keeping us from being able to collectively tap it is the fact the telco companies can't see past the end of they're noses to reasons why they shouldn't be driving all the dsl providors out of business.
anti-virus as a cure?
... a virus that infects computers the same way the Slapper viruses do, but then patches the security breach instead of exploiting it further?
this may just be a naive question from a simple web programmer, but why can't someone just write an 'anti-virus?'
frankly i think this is the worst thing UO could possibly have done. i'm cancelling my account right now.
it looks to me like they're using a trick of electron waveform properties by using the collisions between two opposing wavs to propogate signals faster than the electrons themselves are traveling.
it seems it's actually only a problem with Apache SSL in combination with whatever version of openssl (0.9.6b?) .... and according to the netcraft report apache 1.3.26 shouldn't be vulnerable anyway.
does anyone else have some clarificaiton on this?
and that is that personally, i'm disgusted that there's still people in this world that think it's acceptable to kill.
heh. mabye he counted everyone himself. :)
god i love these things.
... this kindof reminds me of the time that guy strapped a solid fuel booster to his Nova trying to break a landspeed record somewhere out in the desert. he hit a solid rock wall probably mere seconds after realizing no less than three critical errors in his planning:
1) solid fuel boosters can't be stopped; once they're ignited they burn till they're used up.
2) at 400 miles per hour those cliffs way off on the horizon approach much faster than you'd have thought.
3) it doesn't really matter how hard you push in on the brake pedal if the car is being propelled by something they use for jet-assisted takeoff of military cargo planes.
I happen to be a professional web developer and a fanatical linux user. I take pride in the cross-browser and cross-platform compatability of every site i create. The problem is not necessarily always at the development end however. While it's true that there are many web developers out there that don't REALLY know what they're doing (a high percentage of incompetance i've found is fairly common with most technical jobs in big business) alot of the reason why those web developers can't or won't support browsers other than IE is because the people paying to have the sites made don't understand the importance of standards compliance and why they should pay more money for a site that caters to the remaining 5% of the internet that (in they're flawed opinion) still insists on being different to no good purpose and should just wise up and use IE along with all the professionals.
This is a viewpoint i heartly disagree with, however i've found that it tends to be a viewpoint that isn't readily accepted by the bean counters and the marketing managers. After all, they're used to using an operating system that's nowhere near 95% reliable... a 95% compatable website is more than acceptable if it means they don't have to allow "hacker software" onto they're microsoft certified and approved workstations.
I hate my job.
Greetings Fellow Humans,
ok, it's true. you caught us. we admit it. we've created something awesome, both terrifying and powerful. we've given the power back to the people. we've released information. it's free now, to travel as it will, from point to point, at the mere request of any individual that has the minimum requisite intelligence.
you can say what you like about our motives, but know that we do not regret our actions. be prepared, for many things about the world you know are going to change. the value of information is going to drop radically, for one. we apologize to the companies that have made a business out of (re)distributing information, in any of it's various forms. there is nothing that can be done to reverse the effects technology has had and will continue to have upon society.
you're all simply going to have to find another way to make money. you can either choose to make this search hard on yourselves as well as your customers, or you can learn and adjust to the changes in your environment.
good luck,
The Technological Elite.
thanks for that commodore 64, mom and dad.
yea, his acceleration sucked balls.
yea, his cornering sucked balls,
but his TOP SPEED... now that was
excellent.
so master the powerslide and master not
hitting any walls.... and you are the
Mario Kart Master!
-- mario kart master
why doesn't someone build one of these for the technologically elite?