While I agree with those who believe that MSFT will milk this thing for every penny they can... there's more on the table here. Console MMORPG's are a potentially enormous genre -- both in terms of revenue and in terms of audience.
For years now, MMO's on consoles have seemed like a oddly absent category. Where are they? Why isn't _____ making _____ for the _____?
Sure there was Sega's "sort of" MMO, and a few others -- but they were MMO's for the console, not 'true' MMO's.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that Microsoft, in some respects recognizes the huge-ness of what this title represents. Yeah, okay.. bring on the Vista jokes if you must.. MSFT has whiffed on the "huge expectations front" before, but a failure with XBL (as a platform) with C.O. would have repercussions across dozens of forthcoming MMO titles.
There's more on the table here than just the release date of one title...
I'd be willing to bet that there isn't a single industry left that doesn't rely heavily on the Internet. Shutting down the Internet is the same as shutting down the economy.
I don't know anything about Joomla, but even the simplified version you just wrote sounds needlessly confusing: Articles, sections and categories? Can I have categories that are subsections of other categories?
From my very, very noob perspective: (I am not a Joomla user) this seems like a needlessly rigid way of describing a standard nested hierarchy: Why not call anything that holds anything a "folder", and call all documents of any kind "articles". Then organize your "folders" by numbers or letters describing their place in the hierarchy?
The problem, as any Wired writer should know -- is that information wants to be free.
As the writer himself has observed: Contacting his family or breaking the law are easy ways to retrieve the information.
Those activities may disqualify the offending "player", but they do not disqualify the underlying data -- which wants to be free -- and can easily be passed on to any party in order to claim the prize.
So like most "hacks", social-engineering will trump using the "grid".
And the take-away here is this: There are no rules. There is only data, and it will be free.
The poor writer is going to find much of his personal life violated, I'm afraid. But the blame falls to him. He should have known better.
But I question CCP's premise that "console gamers want FPS games". IMHO, there are far, far too many FPS's available for consoles, and console gamers are desperate for deeper, and more varied games.
I have basically stopped playing my 360 because the games themselves seem so limited in terms of genre and gameplay.
I'd love to see EVE for the 360, or any MMO for that matter. I think the fundamental question that needs to be asked of console-game developers is: Why and who decided that MMO's, as one of the most successful and profitable genres of game for the PC, would not work on the 360? It pains me to see MMO's finally brought to consoles, only to see them reduced to yet another FPS.
Sigh.
I won't be playing this game, not because it's an MMO, but because I can't bear to touch yet another FPS.
Everyone here obviously knows that those enlightened souls who read Slashdot during the work-day are better educated about, y'know... "Stuff that matters".. and will as a result be more successful.
Stocks, Pension plans, Intellectual property rights, Bank accounts -- all of these things are virtual.
We can try to pretend that they represent something tangible -- but that tangible thing is only a piece of paper which in turn, represents the intangible.
When we talk about "virtual property" today, we're talking about something very similar: a right or access to something intangible which you control.
This is a very old concept. Some might say, "yes, but this property has no bearing on the 'real' world". But this is a shortsighted argument, and one that any insightful person can see will become increasingly blurry with time.
The only thing that makes "in game" property different is that the "right" or "access" exists within a framework and/or platform which in turn is the intellectual property of another/larger entity.
But virtual property has always been a "good" idea, and it isn't anything new.
Krugman is no psychic. He didn't exactly see the financial meltdown coming in advance, so hearing him discuss the future has to be taken with a grain of salt.
A 12" netbook is definitely a netbook. Samsung makes some awesome 1280x800 display netbooks with Nano processors that are imho, the best netbooks on the market.
Dell's decision is a little hilarious, in that all they will accomplish is helping their competition.
I'm sure Samsung will welcome all those disappointed Dell shoppers with open arms...
There are hundreds of examples of prior art, but AvantGo in particular, is a company whose entire business was essentially 'podcasting'.
We should all remember that when 'podcasting' became a 'thing', the big criticism of the term was that it pretended to be something new, and credited Apple with something that others had been doing for some time.
The Consumerist reported that Verizon text messaging is marked up by 7314% when compared to the relative cost of other data transfer services. Prices for text messages have also risen from.10 to.15 to.20 in recent years, even as the costs of data throughput have decreased.
The reason for this is simple: Greed and collusion.
Consumer Reports has this to say on the subject:
"As CU has noted, less than four years ago rates to send a text message were 10 cents per text at the nation's four big wireless carriers: AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless. Each company then raised rates to 15 cents, then to 20 cents.
To CU, these text-message rates, along with exclusivity deals for certain cell phones, exemplify the need for âoemore oversightâ into the wireless marketplace, to âoedetermine if government intervention is necessary.â
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Am I the only one who thinks the 360 is one of the few things MSFT has got right in the last few years?
I'm no fan of our evil corporate overlords but hell, I like my 360. Halo rules. Geas of War rules. And XBL is a well done online offering.
What? It should be free? Sigh....
While I agree with those who believe that MSFT will milk this thing for every penny they can... there's more on the table here. Console MMORPG's are a potentially enormous genre -- both in terms of revenue and in terms of audience.
For years now, MMO's on consoles have seemed like a oddly absent category. Where are they? Why isn't _____ making _____ for the _____?
Sure there was Sega's "sort of" MMO, and a few others -- but they were MMO's for the console, not 'true' MMO's.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that Microsoft, in some respects recognizes the huge-ness of what this title represents. Yeah, okay .. bring on the Vista jokes if you must .. MSFT has whiffed on the "huge expectations front" before, but a failure with XBL (as a platform) with C.O. would have repercussions across dozens of forthcoming MMO titles.
There's more on the table here than just the release date of one title...
It's a good thing you don't attach that to everything... oh, wait...
Huh? Why would a body that gives disproportionately overweight representation to despots be a good choice?
I'd be willing to bet that there isn't a single industry left that doesn't rely heavily on the Internet. Shutting down the Internet is the same as shutting down the economy.
The iPhone was a 'fail' for me for several reasons, but most of all:
1) No real keyboard.
(The N900 has a pull out keyboard)
2) No support for Flash
(The N900 has Flash support)
3) No real multitasking
(The N900 has multitasking)
4) Skype
(The N900 has Skype)
Add the fact that this baby runs Linux, and I'm 100% sold. This has huge promise.
I'm serious. I dig it. And I have zero (hardware/electronics) technical capabilities. Anyone want to put a pricetag on a custom built one?
Bids?
I for one don't mind waiting until 2013 to buy the StarCraft BattleChest with all 3 volumes for $49.
But if you think $180 for a video game is okay with you, then go right ahead.. "Moneybags".
I don't know anything about Joomla, but even the simplified version you just wrote sounds needlessly confusing: Articles, sections and categories? Can I have categories that are subsections of other categories?
From my very, very noob perspective: (I am not a Joomla user) this seems like a needlessly rigid way of describing a standard nested hierarchy: Why not call anything that holds anything a "folder", and call all documents of any kind "articles". Then organize your "folders" by numbers or letters describing their place in the hierarchy?
And browse / log in using the VM. Done.
File suit? Oh yeah, that'll cost you less than $1k... : /
The problem, as any Wired writer should know -- is that information wants to be free.
As the writer himself has observed: Contacting his family or breaking the law are easy ways to retrieve the information.
Those activities may disqualify the offending "player", but they do not disqualify the underlying data -- which wants to be free -- and can easily be passed on to any party in order to claim the prize.
So like most "hacks", social-engineering will trump using the "grid".
And the take-away here is this: There are no rules. There is only data, and it will be free.
The poor writer is going to find much of his personal life violated, I'm afraid. But the blame falls to him. He should have known better.
I don't think it's going to suck for fans of FPS.
But I question CCP's premise that "console gamers want FPS games". IMHO, there are far, far too many FPS's available for consoles, and console gamers are desperate for deeper, and more varied games.
I have basically stopped playing my 360 because the games themselves seem so limited in terms of genre and gameplay.
I'd love to see EVE for the 360, or any MMO for that matter. I think the fundamental question that needs to be asked of console-game developers is: Why and who decided that MMO's, as one of the most successful and profitable genres of game for the PC, would not work on the 360? It pains me to see MMO's finally brought to consoles, only to see them reduced to yet another FPS.
Sigh.
I won't be playing this game, not because it's an MMO, but because I can't bear to touch yet another FPS.
No. Stations and Planetary combat sound like very different animals.
I'm no psychic, but I'm going to predict that this works about as well as it did for them...
While this may be a non-issue in terms of returns... I still find it extremely difficult to actually "find" Linux machines on the Dell.com site.
... or I could say f*ck it and read it now.
Everyone here obviously knows that those enlightened souls who read Slashdot during the work-day are better educated about, y'know ... "Stuff that matters".. and will as a result be more successful.
Stocks, Pension plans, Intellectual property rights, Bank accounts -- all of these things are virtual.
We can try to pretend that they represent something tangible -- but that tangible thing is only a piece of paper which in turn, represents the intangible.
When we talk about "virtual property" today, we're talking about something very similar: a right or access to something intangible which you control.
This is a very old concept. Some might say, "yes, but this property has no bearing on the 'real' world". But this is a shortsighted argument, and one that any insightful person can see will become increasingly blurry with time.
The only thing that makes "in game" property different is that the "right" or "access" exists within a framework and/or platform which in turn is the intellectual property of another/larger entity.
But virtual property has always been a "good" idea, and it isn't anything new.
Krugman is no psychic. He didn't exactly see the financial meltdown coming in advance, so hearing him discuss the future has to be taken with a grain of salt.
A 12" netbook is definitely a netbook. Samsung makes some awesome 1280x800 display netbooks with Nano processors that are imho, the best netbooks on the market.
Dell's decision is a little hilarious, in that all they will accomplish is helping their competition.
I'm sure Samsung will welcome all those disappointed Dell shoppers with open arms...
Got a Samsung X360 with 3G RAM / Intel Centrino 2 / Vista ...
I get a black screen that says "Loading..." even after it's finished pageload....
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There are hundreds of examples of prior art, but AvantGo in particular, is a company whose entire business was essentially 'podcasting'.
We should all remember that when 'podcasting' became a 'thing', the big criticism of the term was that it pretended to be something new, and credited Apple with something that others had been doing for some time.
I feel so much better now...
The Consumerist reported that Verizon text messaging is marked up by 7314% when compared to the relative cost of other data transfer services. Prices for text messages have also risen from .10 to .15 to .20 in recent years, even as the costs of data throughput have decreased.
( http://blogs.consumerreports.org/electronics/2009/06/text-messaging-rates-overpriced-att-aprint-verizon-t-mobile.html )
The reason for this is simple: Greed and collusion.
Consumer Reports has this to say on the subject:
"As CU has noted, less than four years ago rates to send a text message were 10 cents per text at the nation's four big wireless carriers: AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless. Each company then raised rates to 15 cents, then to 20 cents.
To CU, these text-message rates, along with exclusivity deals for certain cell phones, exemplify the need for âoemore oversightâ into the wireless marketplace, to âoedetermine if government intervention is necessary.â
... without the wacky Gaia crap... yes.