For what exactly? That our political system is setup in such a way that proposed bills get turfed if they're introduced too close to an election? There've been many good bills that have met the same fate because of elections.
Finally! I can have a legal copy of the Postman Pat theme song! For too long I've lived with a guilty conscience from downloading it illegally off the internet!
I didn't say there was no profit to be had with PC games. That's your strawman. I just said consoles are more attractive to game developers because of the distinct lack of pirating.
And yes there are apparently mod chips for the 360. I haven't met anybody fool enough to actually install one though. Considering the failure rate of the console, if you send a modded console into get fixed, Microsoft will send it right back to you with a voided warranty. God help you if you try to log onto Xbox live with a modded 360. So there *is* piracy on the 360, but you have to be a fairly uncommon smuck to bother with it.
Yes I see your point. It's completely logical to pay to have a game that's no longer making any money ported to another platform where piracy is commonplace.
It's not like game developers are beginning to focus on consoles because of higher sales and no piracy.
If they want to quell gold farming they need to introduce Postal worker as a profession. All mail from that point on is handled by an in-game post office. As an added perk, all Postal workers are always in PVP while making deliveries, and if they're killed while doing their route their mail can be stolen by whoever killed them. That'd add a new fun element to the game at least.
Then when it comes to other players physically transferring farmed gold to one another in game, Blizzard could just make some sort of verification key system. For example if a player wanted to accept a 10 0000g transfer the verification would be they'd have to throw a Kara run and say 'We wiped because I'm a noob'.
It really depends on which scam you fall victim to. Take this case of a hapless drug addict who called the cops after she was sold fake cocaine. They arrested her on drug charges despite the lack of any real cocaine.
I worked with Image metrics on a project last year. The mocap stuff they sent us was nice, but they baked all the animations into the vertexes so we had a hell of a time trying to sync it up with the rest of the character. We finally figured out where they hid all their animation keys. It wasn't on any properly named node either. Only marginally annoying I have to say. They really need to learn their place in the production pipeline. Since I'm probably going to have to be dealing with them again very soon.
Much of the fault lies with gamers for the lack of original games. If people stopped buying all the uninspired carbon copied lousy first person shooters that game companies are destroying the industry with, game companies would have to put their efforts into making original fun games. However, as long as people keep lining up at midnight just to be the first to buy games like Halo 3 it'll never happen.
It should be noted that the production was initially intended for TV. As such TV quality production standards were used. The models tend to be lower quality, and the animation quotas are much tighter. When you animate for TV you have to animate quickly, so quality takes a hit, but it's expected and completely acceptable in that medium. For TV animation a quota can be anywhere from 30 to 60 seconds a week. Whereas if you're working on a movie intended for theatres the animation quota will be around 2 to 4 seconds a week (so you can see where the quality comes from). Everybody went into the project intending it to be put on TV and it was treated that way. And it should also be noted everybody who worked on it were payed for tv work. So the movie being released to theatres was effectively a kick in the teeth to anybody who worked on it.
The movie not doing well is completely George Lucas's fault. He was the jackass who thought it'd be a good idea to put a tv show up in theatres.
I think this might actually be some sort of bizarro prison. You know you get things like 'Arctic Prison Island' or 'Desert Prison Island', this'll be 'Renewable Energy Green Prison Island', from which there is no escape for criminal scum. Because they're justice neutral.
"Perhaps with some hardware acceleration, we'll see some really destructible environments in games."
These days I have very little faith in games. All this physics acceleration is just a gimmick to make money. Game companies aren't into making fun or innovative games anymore, they're all about graphics and gimmicks. So you can blow up walls, big deal. You could do that in Blood, but it didn't require any special hardware to do it. Plus Blood was actually f-u-n.
Let me go out on a limb and take a guess that the demo will consist of a bunch of boxes falling or other things we've already seen in games that seem to work just fine without PhysX chips for some reason. Except they'll note that since it's handled by the PhysX processor to the CPU doesn't take a hit. Then everybody will applaud and cheer, and PC gaming will continue to stagnate.
Alternative treatments like 'toxins cause all illnesses, including the genetic ones, and especially cancer'?. Yeah, let's all jump on that bandwagon.
I went to my doctor today and he wrote me a prescription. I went and paid all of $14 for the medicine (that's the uninsured price). Mind you I live in Canada, so the doctor's visit was free. But honestly, when I watch those drug commercials you have in the States for sinus medication with side effects that include sinus infection and nose bleeds, and on top of that it costs you lots of money to see a doctor in the first place I can honestly understand *why* alt-meds seem so appealing. The sad fact of the matter is the proprietors of alt-meds are worse swindlers than the pharmaceutical companies people like to rail against.
The definition of a reasonable search is somewhat loose. Because of this new bill a bunch of new businesses are popping up who's sole purpose is to keep track of peoples copyrights. That is copyrights people would now have to pay for. Since most artists can create thousands of works in a year registering all those copyrights is impossible. So let's say somebody like yourself decides since they can't draw or have no reasonable talent they need some art. They find an image they like and they do a 'reasonable' search to see if that particular image is registered anywhere they looked. So they go ahead and use it in a big ad campaign. The original artist finds out about it and hauls them into court. It now falls on the artist to prove that the asshole who stole their work knew they were breaking the copyright, as opposed to the old way where the they just had to demonstrate the work was theirs. none of this 'reasonable search' crap. It's supposed to be illegal to remove watermarks from images, but it's easy enough to do, and all somebody has to do is claim the image never had a signature on it in the first place. The whole good faith issue is a nice little loophole. People can say 'Well I searched index abc and I couldn't fiiind them', when that could be an outright lie.
Artists won't be big beneficiaries. For example music will still remain copywritten. Companies like Disney are registering all their copyrights to make sure they don't get orphaned, same goes for the record companies. Personally I prefer the old knee breaking compensation. It prevents no talent little assfucks from stealing works from artists.
I'm sure the bill is good for the software business, but it's bad for the art business. This fellow represents that lot that wants all software to be free or something. That is to say he doesn't represent the multitude of artists who'd be screwed over by the bill.
The EFF doesn't speak for, or represent artists. The FSF has zero to do with art. Since I'm an artist, both those organizations can kiss my ass when it comes to this particular issue. The old saying 'it's not illegal if you don't get caught' is idiotic. If I'm siphoning the gas out of your car and you never catch me I guess it's okay because you never knew. This bill only favors big companies that have the resources to monitor all their copyrights. Plus the people who're most likely to rip off artists are... Big companies, who can afford to employ artists in the first place, but choose to rip them off because of the mentality that artists don't actually need to get paid for what they do.
Funny thing about 'creative capitalism'.. Bill Gates owns one of the larger image banks on the internet right now. Unfortunately the current laws which allow the creative individuals who make money off their artwork on those image banks are costing Mr. Gates a portion of money (what with them owning the rights to their own work). SO he's currently one of the voices trying to get the copyright laws changed so any non-registered creative works become orphaned if their creators don't watch over them like a hawk (the current laws copyright everything by default and you don't have to pay money for it). If the law is changed all the works on those image banks will lose their copyright and Mr. Gates will be able to turn a profit on them, while all the creative people learn a hard lesson in capitalism.
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For what exactly? That our political system is setup in such a way that proposed bills get turfed if they're introduced too close to an election? There've been many good bills that have met the same fate because of elections.
Finally! I can have a legal copy of the Postman Pat theme song! For too long I've lived with a guilty conscience from downloading it illegally off the internet!
I'm not so sure this is a shot at Nintento so much as it is a shot at Sony. Just a guess though.
I didn't say there was no profit to be had with PC games. That's your strawman. I just said consoles are more attractive to game developers because of the distinct lack of pirating.
And yes there are apparently mod chips for the 360. I haven't met anybody fool enough to actually install one though. Considering the failure rate of the console, if you send a modded console into get fixed, Microsoft will send it right back to you with a voided warranty. God help you if you try to log onto Xbox live with a modded 360. So there *is* piracy on the 360, but you have to be a fairly uncommon smuck to bother with it.
Yes I see your point. It's completely logical to pay to have a game that's no longer making any money ported to another platform where piracy is commonplace. It's not like game developers are beginning to focus on consoles because of higher sales and no piracy.
Oh my god they brought back gibbing! I thought it was lost forever! But they brought it back! Oh this is the happiest day of my life!
If they want to quell gold farming they need to introduce Postal worker as a profession. All mail from that point on is handled by an in-game post office. As an added perk, all Postal workers are always in PVP while making deliveries, and if they're killed while doing their route their mail can be stolen by whoever killed them. That'd add a new fun element to the game at least.
Then when it comes to other players physically transferring farmed gold to one another in game, Blizzard could just make some sort of verification key system. For example if a player wanted to accept a 10 0000g transfer the verification would be they'd have to throw a Kara run and say 'We wiped because I'm a noob'.
Problem solved.
The nags can be categorized into three parts
1: A polite reminder
2: Well beyond your threshold of pain
3: Spectacularly fatal
I should point out the term you're looking for is guerrilla, not terrorist. I know it's a popular word these days, but there's a difference.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_warfare
It really depends on which scam you fall victim to.
Take this case of a hapless drug addict who called the cops after she was sold fake cocaine. They arrested her on drug charges despite the lack of any real cocaine.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,293112,00.html
I worked with Image metrics on a project last year. The mocap stuff they sent us was nice, but they baked all the animations into the vertexes so we had a hell of a time trying to sync it up with the rest of the character. We finally figured out where they hid all their animation keys. It wasn't on any properly named node either. Only marginally annoying I have to say. They really need to learn their place in the production pipeline. Since I'm probably going to have to be dealing with them again very soon.
Much of the fault lies with gamers for the lack of original games. If people stopped buying all the uninspired carbon copied lousy first person shooters that game companies are destroying the industry with, game companies would have to put their efforts into making original fun games. However, as long as people keep lining up at midnight just to be the first to buy games like Halo 3 it'll never happen.
It should be noted that the production was initially intended for TV. As such TV quality production standards were used. The models tend to be lower quality, and the animation quotas are much tighter. When you animate for TV you have to animate quickly, so quality takes a hit, but it's expected and completely acceptable in that medium. For TV animation a quota can be anywhere from 30 to 60 seconds a week. Whereas if you're working on a movie intended for theatres the animation quota will be around 2 to 4 seconds a week (so you can see where the quality comes from).
Everybody went into the project intending it to be put on TV and it was treated that way. And it should also be noted everybody who worked on it were payed for tv work. So the movie being released to theatres was effectively a kick in the teeth to anybody who worked on it.
The movie not doing well is completely George Lucas's fault. He was the jackass who thought it'd be a good idea to put a tv show up in theatres.
I think this might actually be some sort of bizarro prison. You know you get things like 'Arctic Prison Island' or 'Desert Prison Island', this'll be 'Renewable Energy Green Prison Island', from which there is no escape for criminal scum. Because they're justice neutral.
I would play this game just to be a jive talking womanizing Vulcan.
"Perhaps with some hardware acceleration, we'll see some really destructible environments in games."
These days I have very little faith in games. All this physics acceleration is just a gimmick to make money. Game companies aren't into making fun or innovative games anymore, they're all about graphics and gimmicks. So you can blow up walls, big deal. You could do that in Blood, but it didn't require any special hardware to do it. Plus Blood was actually f-u-n.
Let me go out on a limb and take a guess that the demo will consist of a bunch of boxes falling or other things we've already seen in games that seem to work just fine without PhysX chips for some reason. Except they'll note that since it's handled by the PhysX processor to the CPU doesn't take a hit. Then everybody will applaud and cheer, and PC gaming will continue to stagnate.
"Now I'm sure that no Slashdot reader will intentionally watch any "sport" that has judges determine the winner"
I dunno. There's talk of finally approving the thong for women's figure skating...
Alternative treatments like 'toxins cause all illnesses, including the genetic ones, and especially cancer'?. Yeah, let's all jump on that bandwagon.
I went to my doctor today and he wrote me a prescription. I went and paid all of $14 for the medicine (that's the uninsured price). Mind you I live in Canada, so the doctor's visit was free. But honestly, when I watch those drug commercials you have in the States for sinus medication with side effects that include sinus infection and nose bleeds, and on top of that it costs you lots of money to see a doctor in the first place I can honestly understand *why* alt-meds seem so appealing. The sad fact of the matter is the proprietors of alt-meds are worse swindlers than the pharmaceutical companies people like to rail against.
http://whatstheharm.net/
Where've you been for the past eight years? *honk* *honk*
The definition of a reasonable search is somewhat loose. Because of this new bill a bunch of new businesses are popping up who's sole purpose is to keep track of peoples copyrights. That is copyrights people would now have to pay for. Since most artists can create thousands of works in a year registering all those copyrights is impossible. So let's say somebody like yourself decides since they can't draw or have no reasonable talent they need some art. They find an image they like and they do a 'reasonable' search to see if that particular image is registered anywhere they looked. So they go ahead and use it in a big ad campaign. The original artist finds out about it and hauls them into court. It now falls on the artist to prove that the asshole who stole their work knew they were breaking the copyright, as opposed to the old way where the they just had to demonstrate the work was theirs. none of this 'reasonable search' crap.
It's supposed to be illegal to remove watermarks from images, but it's easy enough to do, and all somebody has to do is claim the image never had a signature on it in the first place. The whole good faith issue is a nice little loophole. People can say 'Well I searched index abc and I couldn't fiiind them', when that could be an outright lie.
Artists won't be big beneficiaries. For example music will still remain copywritten. Companies like Disney are registering all their copyrights to make sure they don't get orphaned, same goes for the record companies. Personally I prefer the old knee breaking compensation. It prevents no talent little assfucks from stealing works from artists.
I'm sure the bill is good for the software business, but it's bad for the art business. This fellow represents that lot that wants all software to be free or something. That is to say he doesn't represent the multitude of artists who'd be screwed over by the bill.
The EFF doesn't speak for, or represent artists. The FSF has zero to do with art. Since I'm an artist, both those organizations can kiss my ass when it comes to this particular issue.
The old saying 'it's not illegal if you don't get caught' is idiotic. If I'm siphoning the gas out of your car and you never catch me I guess it's okay because you never knew.
This bill only favors big companies that have the resources to monitor all their copyrights. Plus the people who're most likely to rip off artists are... Big companies, who can afford to employ artists in the first place, but choose to rip them off because of the mentality that artists don't actually need to get paid for what they do.
Here's some reading material.
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00185
P.S. Go fuck yourself
I'm a bit of a cynic. I don't see a whole lot of difference.
Funny thing about 'creative capitalism'.. Bill Gates owns one of the larger image banks on the internet right now. Unfortunately the current laws which allow the creative individuals who make money off their artwork on those image banks are costing Mr. Gates a portion of money (what with them owning the rights to their own work). SO he's currently one of the voices trying to get the copyright laws changed so any non-registered creative works become orphaned if their creators don't watch over them like a hawk (the current laws copyright everything by default and you don't have to pay money for it). If the law is changed all the works on those image banks will lose their copyright and Mr. Gates will be able to turn a profit on them, while all the creative people learn a hard lesson in capitalism.