Sorry that your perfect world of free content isn't so perfect.
Sorry that you have to deal with companies trying to make money from their products.
Sorry that you have to wait three or four more weeks to fill your head with escapism.
Perhaps the problem isn't the companies, perhaps it's the over-whelming stench of smug that reeks from you pathetic people too entitled to pay for ANYTHING.
Fuck all of you for being tech-savy entitled pricks who think the whole world of escapist media should be delivered into their retinas free of charge and instantaneously.
You deserve the future dystopia you are helping to build.
(I am not a trolling, I pay for all my media, and I don't complain about companies controlling what they want to do with THEIR PRODUCTS THEY FUCKING MADE)
Remember the scene in Bladerunner where Deckard scans a photo and then zooms in to find the ladies tatoo in a reflection from the bathroom mirror? Is detailed zooming like that a product of higher Megapixels? Would monumental increases in megapixel resolution allow for one to find small details in the background of photos that would be impossible to find today. Imagine taking a shot from the twenty-fifth floor of a building on Broadway, and being able to read the label on someones clothing sixty blocks away???
Or, pardon my ignorance, is this simply a factor of the lenses used? My thinking here is that with almost unlimited resolution you could just take distance shots and use the computer to zoom.
History shows us that they WILL INDEED send out blanket "take our stuff off your website NOW or we'll SUE" notices as often and as abundantly as they can.
I'm sure this will have a painful affect on fair use - but the pain will only fuel the coming copyright revolution.
The porn industry has always adapted rapidly and successfully when new consumer technologies emerged that could benefit their business.
If I was a CEO today trying to figure out what the next big "change" will be, I'd keep my eyes on the adult industry and study how they have adapted to the new business environment.
Quick question. Would World of Warcraft have been so successful had its acronym been something like:
DOAC (Doh-Ahk)
SWG (Swig)
AO (Ayy-Ohh)
EQ (Eee-Que)
Instead the acronym is WoW... just WOW... I mean WOW!! People say WOW inside WOW all the time! Its a recursive and reinforcing acronym that keeps you locked into their subscription plan for all eternity!!!1
1. Fight the RIAA, go for the jury trial
2. Hold your ace close and play the first round to lose
3. ???
4. Less PROFIT for the RIAA!
And now we know that #3 is:
Appeal $220k reward on Constitutional grounds! BRILLIANT!
Seriously! There is at least one juror who has already opened his mouth to the press and said something to the effect of "the punishment is so high because we want to send a message that this is a bad thing to do... mmmmKay..." Which...::cough cough:: is against our Constitution in America.
Ahhhh unlike Richard Garriot and his "WE ONLY NEED ONE MORE WEEK TO FIX THIS PUPPY!" delay of Tabula Rasa... or shall I call it "Just Another Doomed MMO In A Post WoW World"
Richard Garriot created a legendary series of games - decades ago. He's not cut out for modern game development in my opinion. For all his proclamations about Tabula Rasa being so different, new, unique, etc. etc... it's absolutely NOT new or unique. It's a sci-fi online shooter with sub-par production values and some gimmicky ideas which don't provide enough fun to warrant a monthly subscription.
Sadly the game COULD have been a refreshing change of course IF it had better production values and more entertaining.... awww hell it's just trash there's no saving it, move along... move along...
Machinima is storytelling. Now what if you could not only break into, but copy and distribute all the props and actors from a Hollywood back lot?
So Steven Spielberg spends a couple dozen million dollars on models and props and sets and backdrops and... makes a movie and cashes in on it.
Bungie designs a three-dimensional virtual world with models and props and sets and backdrops and... turns it into a gameworld and cashes in on it.
If in EITHER of these cases, Random Joe comes in and uses any of these creative resources (the models, sets, props, actors) and makes an entertainment product and sells it... What do you call that?
If it WAS a studio back-lot, it's probably grand theft for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in props.
In a digital world, you're just manipulating and redistributing a data-stream. Sounds fair enough right? Well so long as nobody turns a profit from it...
The artist could argue that all art steals from previous ideas and creations. However you can't actually make a replica of Michael Angelo's "David" and name it Joe Average's "Bob" and sell it or otherwise claim it as your creation... Make a video of the statue, or a photo, paint over it, add a soundtrack, and call it "Mixed-Media" and THEN you can put your name on it.
The SWG character dies first (he forgot to get buffs) from the sonic blast created by the MySpace users background music. The MySpace user does a/dance but at the exact same moment an undead rogue ganks the MySpace user. The rogue's attack comes so fast that it's not even registered by the MySpace users client and their avatar continues to dance for five minutes even though their health is zero. The rogue vanishes and heads over to Toon Town Online.
Photoshop destroys it in so many ways. But mainly in name. One tells me that Im about to edit photos, the other tells me that it's a sorry sack of shit and wants to be crapped on and locked in the dungeon... I'll take any version of PS over that.
Actually no, I did not know the score going in. I was going to work for their Virtual Reality department at the Navy school. Mind you, this is a place that does lots of advanced 3D and VR work, not all directly related to killing people. Much of it is true defensive work.
So yes, I knew that I was working for the government. But when I was instead put on a project that was literally just a piece of propaganda used to attract young Americans into the dangerous post 9/11 wars that had been started. That is when I said "this isn't what I am hear for" and walked out.
I worked for the America's Army team when they were located at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. I wanted to get some more game industry experience on my resume and it was the only local job of its nature. It was a cool bunch of people working on the game, your typical bunch of gamers and artists. The only major difference was that we were all working on a piece of major recruitment propaganda for the Pentagon.
You had these guys in military uniforms talking about how great it was that this game saves them hundreds of millions of dollars in recruitment costs. How it has gotten millions of downloads and been very successful in weeding out people who sign up for service without knowing what they are getting into. Instead you get guys like FPS Doug who might be thinking "hey, war is just like FPS, so why not sign up for the military and get paid to goto college!"
After two weeks I couldn't take it anymore. The job was great, the environment was great, the people were friendly, and the product was encouraging young Americans to sign their lives away and be sent off to Iraq. It bothered me too much so I staged my own little protest, I just walked out of the office and never went back. Not like I was crucial to the team, but I didn't want to have something on my resume which I completely morally objected to.
The thing JC keeps saying about his new gfx tech is that it allows the artists to chance the textures in a given scene or map on a PER PIXEL LEVEL. Literally letting the artists go into the entire map and basically photo-shop every pixel until they get it perfect. The engine also updates everything real time across the entire development platform so if I go in and paint some graffiti on a wall, and the AI programmer goes to that same section of the world on his computer to test some things, he will see the new graffiti just added to that wall.
He also said that even though this gives texture and world artists tons of freedom, that games are still harder and more complex to develop then ever before.
And yes, having the system work this way allows them to port the code and gfx to any console with relative ease.
Just like people thought CAPS-LOCK was cruise control for cool, many people now think it makes you look cool to bash WoW.
Sorry folks but, their subscriber base is still increasing. While it may have burned you or your friends out, it's still an extremely well made, polished, and entertaining piece of software. The only ones who think WoW isn't cool anymore are those who think it's cool to be doing "the hot new thing" versus "the old popular thing".
I call BS on Northrend and the the title though. My money is on Maelstrom and Emerald Dream with Northrend coming in the 3rd or 4th expansion.
This ban only stops ROCKSTAR from making money off Manhunt2. Anyone in the UK who wants to play it will acquire a copy via BitTorrent or a blackmarket vendor selling copies for cheap.
Slashdot Mirror
The people who get free content have to deal with.... wait for it...
BREAKING THE FUCKING LAW
You all reek of smug.
Sorry that your perfect world of free content isn't so perfect.
Sorry that you have to deal with companies trying to make money from their products.
Sorry that you have to wait three or four more weeks to fill your head with escapism.
Perhaps the problem isn't the companies, perhaps it's the over-whelming stench of smug that reeks from you pathetic people too entitled to pay for ANYTHING.
Fuck all of you for being tech-savy entitled pricks who think the whole world of escapist media should be delivered into their retinas free of charge and instantaneously.
You deserve the future dystopia you are helping to build.
(I am not a trolling, I pay for all my media, and I don't complain about companies controlling what they want to do with THEIR PRODUCTS THEY FUCKING MADE)
Remember the scene in Bladerunner where Deckard scans a photo and then zooms in to find the ladies tatoo in a reflection from the bathroom mirror? Is detailed zooming like that a product of higher Megapixels? Would monumental increases in megapixel resolution allow for one to find small details in the background of photos that would be impossible to find today. Imagine taking a shot from the twenty-fifth floor of a building on Broadway, and being able to read the label on someones clothing sixty blocks away???
Or, pardon my ignorance, is this simply a factor of the lenses used? My thinking here is that with almost unlimited resolution you could just take distance shots and use the computer to zoom.
History shows us that they WILL INDEED send out blanket "take our stuff off your website NOW or we'll SUE" notices as often and as abundantly as they can.
I'm sure this will have a painful affect on fair use - but the pain will only fuel the coming copyright revolution.
The porn industry has always adapted rapidly and successfully when new consumer technologies emerged that could benefit their business.
If I was a CEO today trying to figure out what the next big "change" will be, I'd keep my eyes on the adult industry and study how they have adapted to the new business environment.
Fuckin slashdotters... replying with a minor correction and not engaging the original question regarding the WOW acronym.
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Quick question. Would World of Warcraft have been so successful had its acronym been something like:
DOAC (Doh-Ahk)
SWG (Swig)
AO (Ayy-Ohh)
EQ (Eee-Que)
Instead the acronym is WoW... just WOW... I mean WOW!! People say WOW inside WOW all the time! Its a recursive and reinforcing acronym that keeps you locked into their subscription plan for all eternity!!!1
Yeah BUT...
If it was 20 CHILDREN then my god something must be done! WHAT about the children?!?!
1. Fight the RIAA, go for the jury trial
::cough cough:: is against our Constitution in America.
2. Hold your ace close and play the first round to lose
3. ???
4. Less PROFIT for the RIAA!
And now we know that #3 is:
Appeal $220k reward on Constitutional grounds! BRILLIANT!
Seriously! There is at least one juror who has already opened his mouth to the press and said something to the effect of "the punishment is so high because we want to send a message that this is a bad thing to do... mmmmKay..." Which...
I read on a gamer forum that "Wii = teh sex" so... if that is indeed true, I would imagine that demand for Wii will continue to increase...
increase some more...
increase to a very large size...
and then rapidly decrease in size, lose all interest, and begin to feel slightly guilty for playing with the Wii that way.
Ahhhh unlike Richard Garriot and his "WE ONLY NEED ONE MORE WEEK TO FIX THIS PUPPY!" delay of Tabula Rasa... or shall I call it "Just Another Doomed MMO In A Post WoW World"
How long before I can go into a black market clinic and get a DNA swap or rather some DNA camo???
Richard Garriot created a legendary series of games - decades ago. He's not cut out for modern game development in my opinion. For all his proclamations about Tabula Rasa being so different, new, unique, etc. etc... it's absolutely NOT new or unique. It's a sci-fi online shooter with sub-par production values and some gimmicky ideas which don't provide enough fun to warrant a monthly subscription.
Sadly the game COULD have been a refreshing change of course IF it had better production values and more entertaining.... awww hell it's just trash there's no saving it, move along... move along...
Exactly... you call it fair use...
Lawyers for Microsoft say it's infringement...
Machinima is storytelling. Now what if you could not only break into, but copy and distribute all the props and actors from a Hollywood back lot?
So Steven Spielberg spends a couple dozen million dollars on models and props and sets and backdrops and... makes a movie and cashes in on it.
Bungie designs a three-dimensional virtual world with models and props and sets and backdrops and... turns it into a gameworld and cashes in on it.
If in EITHER of these cases, Random Joe comes in and uses any of these creative resources (the models, sets, props, actors) and makes an entertainment product and sells it... What do you call that?
If it WAS a studio back-lot, it's probably grand theft for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in props.
In a digital world, you're just manipulating and redistributing a data-stream. Sounds fair enough right? Well so long as nobody turns a profit from it...
The artist could argue that all art steals from previous ideas and creations. However you can't actually make a replica of Michael Angelo's "David" and name it Joe Average's "Bob" and sell it or otherwise claim it as your creation... Make a video of the statue, or a photo, paint over it, add a soundtrack, and call it "Mixed-Media" and THEN you can put your name on it.
The SWG character dies first (he forgot to get buffs) from the sonic blast created by the MySpace users background music. The MySpace user does a /dance but at the exact same moment an undead rogue ganks the MySpace user. The rogue's attack comes so fast that it's not even registered by the MySpace users client and their avatar continues to dance for five minutes even though their health is zero. The rogue vanishes and heads over to Toon Town Online.
Photoshop destroys it in so many ways. But mainly in name. One tells me that Im about to edit photos, the other tells me that it's a sorry sack of shit and wants to be crapped on and locked in the dungeon... I'll take any version of PS over that.
Please... Slashdot stories are getting worse and worse each day.
Or just change the slogan to:
"News for nerds (and anybody else), Stuff that matters (or doesn't)"
You didn't buy it... You're hardly a consumer. You're just someone who got to enjoy the entertainment for free.
Pay $560 for the system and the game and see if you still like it.
Actually no, I did not know the score going in. I was going to work for their Virtual Reality department at the Navy school. Mind you, this is a place that does lots of advanced 3D and VR work, not all directly related to killing people. Much of it is true defensive work.
So yes, I knew that I was working for the government. But when I was instead put on a project that was literally just a piece of propaganda used to attract young Americans into the dangerous post 9/11 wars that had been started. That is when I said "this isn't what I am hear for" and walked out.
I worked for the America's Army team when they were located at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. I wanted to get some more game industry experience on my resume and it was the only local job of its nature. It was a cool bunch of people working on the game, your typical bunch of gamers and artists. The only major difference was that we were all working on a piece of major recruitment propaganda for the Pentagon.
You had these guys in military uniforms talking about how great it was that this game saves them hundreds of millions of dollars in recruitment costs. How it has gotten millions of downloads and been very successful in weeding out people who sign up for service without knowing what they are getting into. Instead you get guys like FPS Doug who might be thinking "hey, war is just like FPS, so why not sign up for the military and get paid to goto college!"
After two weeks I couldn't take it anymore. The job was great, the environment was great, the people were friendly, and the product was encouraging young Americans to sign their lives away and be sent off to Iraq. It bothered me too much so I staged my own little protest, I just walked out of the office and never went back. Not like I was crucial to the team, but I didn't want to have something on my resume which I completely morally objected to.
The thing JC keeps saying about his new gfx tech is that it allows the artists to chance the textures in a given scene or map on a PER PIXEL LEVEL. Literally letting the artists go into the entire map and basically photo-shop every pixel until they get it perfect. The engine also updates everything real time across the entire development platform so if I go in and paint some graffiti on a wall, and the AI programmer goes to that same section of the world on his computer to test some things, he will see the new graffiti just added to that wall.
He also said that even though this gives texture and world artists tons of freedom, that games are still harder and more complex to develop then ever before.
And yes, having the system work this way allows them to port the code and gfx to any console with relative ease.
Just like people thought CAPS-LOCK was cruise control for cool, many people now think it makes you look cool to bash WoW.
Sorry folks but, their subscriber base is still increasing. While it may have burned you or your friends out, it's still an extremely well made, polished, and entertaining piece of software. The only ones who think WoW isn't cool anymore are those who think it's cool to be doing "the hot new thing" versus "the old popular thing".
I call BS on Northrend and the the title though. My money is on Maelstrom and Emerald Dream with Northrend coming in the 3rd or 4th expansion.
This ban only stops ROCKSTAR from making money off Manhunt2. Anyone in the UK who wants to play it will acquire a copy via BitTorrent or a blackmarket vendor selling copies for cheap.
Funny +5 =D