i don't know exactly their financials, but i would harbor to guess that id makes the majority of their money licensing their engines to other developers who actually make 'games' out of them. id hasn't been much of a good game designer since the first doom. since then it has been pretty much more of the same (but with better graphics and sound)...
not being terribly familiar with these tournaments, i'm curious if anyone has done a turing test combined with a championship chess tournament.
i remember a portable chess computer that i had that was vulnerable to certain types of attacks that it wasn't programmed very well to handle and you could almost always beat it using those attacks. of course, it also couldn't learn from its mistakes either so once you were skilled enough to find its weakness it wasn't as much fun to play anymore... i'm curious if a champion chess player could tell if a computer was a computer...
phones and whatnot are nice but 6 would be a lot more interesting if it offers the kind of features beos should afford them... 5 is interesting and a huge jump from 5, but there's so much more potential to be had. i know it takes a while to develop something, but jeeze...
please correct me if i'm wrong but isn't yellow dog supposed to make their distro available for free (or at least the cost of a disc and shipping) as per the gpl?
i've got a friend that has an old imac that he'd like to play around with linux on, but i can't seem to find a good free copy of ppc linux for him...
super pixelated fighter 3, long drawn out rpg XI, beatem-up-shootemup 4, basketball slammer 2005, scary things jump out at you 3: the deadening, fast swurvy car drivin' 5...
same old crap that's released on the ps2 but now its portable and will likely cost twice as much to get 'in the game'! woot!;p
and for those that don't get what he's saying, the articles of impeachment belong to the house. they are the only ones that can seek impeachment, which is highly unlikely when the house is controlled by a republican majority...
here's an interesting new situation... there is a family in sacramento whose home is surrounded by trees and other greenery which is moderately close to their home. they received a letter recently from their insurance company telling them that they were canceling their insurance because the risk was too great due to fire. here's the kicker. they decided this because they used satellite imagery looking at the various properties of their customers homes. here's an article with more info.
love the doom patrol? visit my 'doom patrol extravaganza' on my site. sorry about the plug, but it's something we've worked a lot on (and obviously still has lots of work to go)...
so why not do the same kind of thing that the riaa has done and make lots of bogus files available using the name of various popular movies. even better, put together a bunch of small utitilies that are named generic names (which are also the names of some popular movies too) like 'twisted' and 'grind'...
if these jerks are doing simple keyword matches and sending out formletter threats, make them have to actually do their homework. if they start sending out tons of letters to folks that carry these bogus files on their site, it will weaken their case and make them look foolish...
i suspect that carmack figures id will make their money by licensing the engine to developers that make good games. it has been a long while since id developed a good game, most of their games have been marketing tools for their engine technology, only to allow other companies to do creative things with their engines...
hmmm... you know i am really curious as to the percentage of folks that just borrowed a copy or downloaded a copy of the game off the net instead of waited for the demo to come out. i know very few folks that actually paid for the game, several of whom almost always buy their games (rarely pirating) but with the hype around the game, they wanted it badly but wanted to play it before buying.
seems to me this was a really bad idea for id to wait so long to develop a demo, as their business model was derived from the 'try before you buy' model of shareware that they helped pioneer... i suspect they lost a great many sales to folks that now are unlikely to play good and buy the game after playing a pirated copy (though there will be those few that do).
i've read on various p2p boards that sp2 puts a cap on tcpip connections (something like 10 in and 10 out) and some p2p apps have difficulties getting as fast of xfer speeds with things like bittorrent than they used to before sp2. some folks have created patches like this one that undoes this change, but i have no idea as to the credibility of the patch and whatnot...
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i don't know exactly their financials, but i would harbor to guess that id makes the majority of their money licensing their engines to other developers who actually make 'games' out of them. id hasn't been much of a good game designer since the first doom. since then it has been pretty much more of the same (but with better graphics and sound)...
another interesting tidbit... back in the very beginning of aol, they used pc-geos as their windowing system (on top of dos).
around that same time i remember lots of bbs's using geos too.
in a similar light, there was definitely a difference in the early days of the mac between apple II users and macintosh early adopters...
and if you read about the infighting inside apple, you can see it was fairly divisive...
too bad they couldn't find their way to add a stylish case to the feature list. it really does matter to some folks.
you can tell that engineers were about the only ones that ever touched about half of the media players on the market today...
yep, voigt kampf proves it...
not being terribly familiar with these tournaments, i'm curious if anyone has done a turing test combined with a championship chess tournament.
i remember a portable chess computer that i had that was vulnerable to certain types of attacks that it wasn't programmed very well to handle and you could almost always beat it using those attacks. of course, it also couldn't learn from its mistakes either so once you were skilled enough to find its weakness it wasn't as much fun to play anymore... i'm curious if a champion chess player could tell if a computer was a computer...
one meeeelion dollars?
huge jump from 4 that is... ;p
how about palm finally releasing palm 6?
phones and whatnot are nice but 6 would be a lot more interesting if it offers the kind of features beos should afford them... 5 is interesting and a huge jump from 5, but there's so much more potential to be had. i know it takes a while to develop something, but jeeze...
please correct me if i'm wrong but isn't yellow dog supposed to make their distro available for free (or at least the cost of a disc and shipping) as per the gpl?
i've got a friend that has an old imac that he'd like to play around with linux on, but i can't seem to find a good free copy of ppc linux for him...
super pixelated fighter 3, long drawn out rpg XI, beatem-up-shootemup 4, basketball slammer 2005, scary things jump out at you 3: the deadening, fast swurvy car drivin' 5...
;p
same old crap that's released on the ps2 but now its portable and will likely cost twice as much to get 'in the game'! woot!
now help choose their answers.
and for those that don't get what he's saying, the articles of impeachment belong to the house. they are the only ones that can seek impeachment, which is highly unlikely when the house is controlled by a republican majority...
kingdom of loathing, saviors of rpg gaming!? ;p
here's an interesting new situation... there is a family in sacramento whose home is surrounded by trees and other greenery which is moderately close to their home. they received a letter recently from their insurance company telling them that they were canceling their insurance because the risk was too great due to fire. here's the kicker. they decided this because they used satellite imagery looking at the various properties of their customers homes. here's an article with more info.
well some folks do think money is sexy, yes.
love the doom patrol? visit my 'doom patrol extravaganza' on my site. sorry about the plug, but it's something we've worked a lot on (and obviously still has lots of work to go)...
so why not do the same kind of thing that the riaa has done and make lots of bogus files available using the name of various popular movies. even better, put together a bunch of small utitilies that are named generic names (which are also the names of some popular movies too) like 'twisted' and 'grind'...
if these jerks are doing simple keyword matches and sending out formletter threats, make them have to actually do their homework. if they start sending out tons of letters to folks that carry these bogus files on their site, it will weaken their case and make them look foolish...
i suspect that carmack figures id will make their money by licensing the engine to developers that make good games. it has been a long while since id developed a good game, most of their games have been marketing tools for their engine technology, only to allow other companies to do creative things with their engines...
i dunno if they detect for daemon tools, but it's worth a try (and its free).
hmmm... you know i am really curious as to the percentage of folks that just borrowed a copy or downloaded a copy of the game off the net instead of waited for the demo to come out. i know very few folks that actually paid for the game, several of whom almost always buy their games (rarely pirating) but with the hype around the game, they wanted it badly but wanted to play it before buying.
seems to me this was a really bad idea for id to wait so long to develop a demo, as their business model was derived from the 'try before you buy' model of shareware that they helped pioneer... i suspect they lost a great many sales to folks that now are unlikely to play good and buy the game after playing a pirated copy (though there will be those few that do).
i've read on various p2p boards that sp2 puts a cap on tcpip connections (something like 10 in and 10 out) and some p2p apps have difficulties getting as fast of xfer speeds with things like bittorrent than they used to before sp2. some folks have created patches like this one that undoes this change, but i have no idea as to the credibility of the patch and whatnot...
here's a quick google search...
argh... forgot to preview... ;p
news at 11, diebold builds the savior machine.
news at 11, diebold builds the savior machine.