They also say government's priority should be to publish datasets and the APIs to interact with them, rather than choosing how they're displayed in fancy graphs and charts.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of IT workers suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.
Growing up, I knew several families who restricted their kids from watching The Simpsons. I think those type of standards are sorely lacking thesedays and we should use them as positive examples to reassert control. Now they've got the twitters, these children are beginning to secretly rape themselves.
They don't give geographical information, and therefore, can never be properly served with accurate ads. Those of us international people, waiting for this, are just going to have to hold tight . There isn't any need to lobby anybody, this is all coming, very soon, for everybody.
This is fairly tame. I remember picking up a full aura bass cushion set for about $5 from a retailer, after they tanked. Geographically locating it on the shoulders isn't going to save it from being a bit of novelty nonsense.
I see the figure of 17k as a particularly effective way of rebutting many of the so-called, inflated "lost revenue" figures we read/ hear.
Nothing quite says "you were never getting the money, anyway" better than offering them the chance to pay 2c, and having them pay the absolute minimum.
If you read this report and have trouble / get angry at the 17k, you're missed the point. The point is, some will NEVER pay for it. But hey, many will. They're the ones we're selling to. They're the ones suffering when we remove features / lockdown / DRM our software. I suppose it's easier to be optimistic when you're made 100k in a few days and the only opportunity cost was the realisation that a pirate is infact, a pirate though.
Personally, I wasn't interested in this game (played the demo), but I am interested in donating $2 to see that that the experience of using this model is furthered, so I'll definitely buy it, simply to show support. Much to the contradiction of popular gaming industry opinion, they haven't lost money by me not paying full price, they've gained $2 they would have never seen, otherwise.
If this seriously upset you to the point where you're visualising screaming "FUCK OFF" at Activision people and vandalising their customers computers to err, teach Activision a lesson: Get Counselling. You need it.
I bought a Wii early. I bought 4 controllers. I have never experienced what you're talking about, either. Atleast, never any game other than the wii sports range. Even when I've managed to "scrounge" up three players, they've been non gamers and thus, no challenge - which for most of us would mean, no fun, either.
For me, what you're describing is a group of people akin to the dynamic potrayed in The Big Bang Theory. I'm sure it exists, but it surely is not in the mainstream and owing to the existence of the penis, extremely unlikely to last for very long, if infact you can score such a scenario.
(I mean, I almost went for a wank in the middle of this comment)
If they stop it's still an elephant in the room. Since this is never going to go away, I think I side with the idea of continual misuse of this term, thus encouraging a public view more akin to the boy who cried wolf. Once we get there, we can actually make the black hole that destroys earth, in peace.
Well if he has a socket 775 intel board, he can just put a 462 AMD in it and still have 313 left just in case any pins go down. Interestingly, I run that setup.
I can see your point there, but these optional accessories are largely under the banner of "optional". You cannot claim they are "missing content" with any certainty atall, for if you purchased and experienced the game, unaware of extra content, you would rarely be coming to the conclusion that great chunks of the game were missing.
It is only because in this instance, particularly, the knowledge of such an extra existing seems to bring about the conclusion that you're not getting value for money - in which case I would say to you, how is this difficult from any optional extra released? You don't have to use it to experience the product, it only detracts from your experience in your mind.
If I bought a vibrating dildo, for instance, and at release time there was an optional high power battery pack, should I feel ripped off because I went for the standard vibration level pack? I'm not experiencing the full experience, but because this is in an industry where this type of practice is acceptable, noone blinks an eye.
I would never claim that these companies are not trying to bleed you, I'm only saying that patience is extremely low in games for this practice. Being somewhat of a "bleed" on my employer, as I write code for software, I can see how extra features cost more money, to abitrarily draw a line of value as a consumer is fair, but to claim that the line you're drawing is in any way more than a personal judgement of value is off the mark. We're being bled by every industry. Even in standard software, it is quite common to simply deactivate features and provide higher level versions.
Extra content for games is also often made available for free. I don't see how you can apply all these conditions to other examples cited and not see how they're perfectly related to games. So what if b-sides and remixes work on their own? They are extra content derived at the same time (or after) being distributed under the same banner. Generally on singles (which for the record still exist, as do b-sides). The same contention applies: I own the full album, do I actually own the full experience? Have I got my money's worth? Is there more available? That's what people are complaining about.
But there is DLC for movies and music. B Sides, remixes and new formats for music, extra scenes and behind the scenes footage and new formats for movies.
I do respect that you feel like you haven't got the full game if there is a lot of DLC, though. But really, that game has to please you enough for you to buy the DLC so whilst it is one of the many examples of bleeding a consumer, you atleast have to be fairly happy with the original product before purchasing the accessory.
I think it's pretty funny that whilst many industries are rife with the concept of the "optional accessory", it would seem that if you dare do anything such as this in gaming, you must obey an arbritrary "cooling off period" - or you're basically a satanic nazi rapist pedo money vampire in the eyes of this crowd.
Yeah, I think I was a little aggressive, there, so my apologies, but I do stick with what I'm saying, even for the layman, blaming resolution for clarity is not particularly accurate. That being said, one would only cite resolution for the layman.
. This doesn't take anything away by the beauty of this project, but I think it's important to put sensational measurements such as "800 megapixels" in context.
If you want to put these measurements in context, you consider what is currently occurring in astrophotography, not the extreme resolution that can be achieved by photographing smaller subjects. The resolution is virtually irrelevent, the time taken and the measures with which to achieve it are far more crucial to this.
As you quite clearly have no knowledge of such a subject (referencing you point regarding moving, which is a trivial aspect for any astrophotographer using a tracking mount / autoguider, thesedays), you're not exactly the individual to "put it in context", now are you?
Blurred images can be attributed to a great number of factors that have nothing to do with resolution. For instance, on earth, we view "outside" through rather blurring atmospheric interference. Consequently as magnification increases, so does this effect. This leads to astrophotographers using stacked focus, and cherry picking good frames etc.
Slashdot Mirror
They also say government's priority should be to publish datasets and the APIs to interact with them, rather than choosing how they're displayed in fancy graphs and charts.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of IT workers suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.
If we'd have gone with velcro.
Growing up, I knew several families who restricted their kids from watching The Simpsons. I think those type of standards are sorely lacking thesedays and we should use them as positive examples to reassert control. Now they've got the twitters, these children are beginning to secretly rape themselves.
Your issues seem much more about unreliable and noncompliant devices.
They don't give geographical information, and therefore, can never be properly served with accurate ads. Those of us international people, waiting for this, are just going to have to hold tight . There isn't any need to lobby anybody, this is all coming, very soon, for everybody.
This is fairly tame. I remember picking up a full aura bass cushion set for about $5 from a retailer, after they tanked. Geographically locating it on the shoulders isn't going to save it from being a bit of novelty nonsense.
It's the ship that'll make the kessel run in less than 12 parsecs
I see the figure of 17k as a particularly effective way of rebutting many of the so-called, inflated "lost revenue" figures we read/ hear.
Nothing quite says "you were never getting the money, anyway" better than offering them the chance to pay 2c, and having them pay the absolute minimum.
If you read this report and have trouble / get angry at the 17k, you're missed the point. The point is, some will NEVER pay for it. But hey, many will. They're the ones we're selling to. They're the ones suffering when we remove features / lockdown / DRM our software. I suppose it's easier to be optimistic when you're made 100k in a few days and the only opportunity cost was the realisation that a pirate is infact, a pirate though.
Personally, I wasn't interested in this game (played the demo), but I am interested in donating $2 to see that that the experience of using this model is furthered, so I'll definitely buy it, simply to show support. Much to the contradiction of popular gaming industry opinion, they haven't lost money by me not paying full price, they've gained $2 they would have never seen, otherwise.
If you scroll down to the bottom of this page and reload, you will just how quickly sales are occurring (and this represents only a fraction who take the survey, I believe). http://www.surveymonkey.com/sr.aspx?sm=MZpIFVRQn99e_2fJukiNVWR9Rm3Xg1MSQ85QQk09BNH3s_3d
Why do you think people are searching for very large prime numbers?
The nookie.. obviously.
If this seriously upset you to the point where you're visualising screaming "FUCK OFF" at Activision people and vandalising their customers computers to err, teach Activision a lesson: Get Counselling. You need it.
The buttplug of the future.
Then expect it to get cancelled, pretty soon. ZING
I bought a Wii early. I bought 4 controllers. I have never experienced what you're talking about, either. Atleast, never any game other than the wii sports range. Even when I've managed to "scrounge" up three players, they've been non gamers and thus, no challenge - which for most of us would mean, no fun, either.
For me, what you're describing is a group of people akin to the dynamic potrayed in The Big Bang Theory. I'm sure it exists, but it surely is not in the mainstream and owing to the existence of the penis, extremely unlikely to last for very long, if infact you can score such a scenario.
(I mean, I almost went for a wank in the middle of this comment)
If they stop it's still an elephant in the room. Since this is never going to go away, I think I side with the idea of continual misuse of this term, thus encouraging a public view more akin to the boy who cried wolf. Once we get there, we can actually make the black hole that destroys earth, in peace.
I'll wait for the screener.
Why do they keep trying it? The mind boggles.
Because we only know about the instances in which they were discovered.
Well if he has a socket 775 intel board, he can just put a 462 AMD in it and still have 313 left just in case any pins go down. Interestingly, I run that setup.
I can see your point there, but these optional accessories are largely under the banner of "optional". You cannot claim they are "missing content" with any certainty atall, for if you purchased and experienced the game, unaware of extra content, you would rarely be coming to the conclusion that great chunks of the game were missing.
It is only because in this instance, particularly, the knowledge of such an extra existing seems to bring about the conclusion that you're not getting value for money - in which case I would say to you, how is this difficult from any optional extra released? You don't have to use it to experience the product, it only detracts from your experience in your mind.
If I bought a vibrating dildo, for instance, and at release time there was an optional high power battery pack, should I feel ripped off because I went for the standard vibration level pack? I'm not experiencing the full experience, but because this is in an industry where this type of practice is acceptable, noone blinks an eye.
I would never claim that these companies are not trying to bleed you, I'm only saying that patience is extremely low in games for this practice. Being somewhat of a "bleed" on my employer, as I write code for software, I can see how extra features cost more money, to abitrarily draw a line of value as a consumer is fair, but to claim that the line you're drawing is in any way more than a personal judgement of value is off the mark. We're being bled by every industry. Even in standard software, it is quite common to simply deactivate features and provide higher level versions.
Extra content for games is also often made available for free. I don't see how you can apply all these conditions to other examples cited and not see how they're perfectly related to games. So what if b-sides and remixes work on their own? They are extra content derived at the same time (or after) being distributed under the same banner. Generally on singles (which for the record still exist, as do b-sides). The same contention applies: I own the full album, do I actually own the full experience? Have I got my money's worth? Is there more available? That's what people are complaining about.
But there is DLC for movies and music. B Sides, remixes and new formats for music, extra scenes and behind the scenes footage and new formats for movies.
I do respect that you feel like you haven't got the full game if there is a lot of DLC, though. But really, that game has to please you enough for you to buy the DLC so whilst it is one of the many examples of bleeding a consumer, you atleast have to be fairly happy with the original product before purchasing the accessory.
I think it's pretty funny that whilst many industries are rife with the concept of the "optional accessory", it would seem that if you dare do anything such as this in gaming, you must obey an arbritrary "cooling off period" - or you're basically a satanic nazi rapist pedo money vampire in the eyes of this crowd.
Just another righteous indignation article.
Yeah, I think I was a little aggressive, there, so my apologies, but I do stick with what I'm saying, even for the layman, blaming resolution for clarity is not particularly accurate. That being said, one would only cite resolution for the layman.
Reasonable bandwidth per user + slashdot article = certain carnage.
. This doesn't take anything away by the beauty of this project, but I think it's important to put sensational measurements such as "800 megapixels" in context.
If you want to put these measurements in context, you consider what is currently occurring in astrophotography, not the extreme resolution that can be achieved by photographing smaller subjects. The resolution is virtually irrelevent, the time taken and the measures with which to achieve it are far more crucial to this.
As you quite clearly have no knowledge of such a subject (referencing you point regarding moving, which is a trivial aspect for any astrophotographer using a tracking mount / autoguider, thesedays), you're not exactly the individual to "put it in context", now are you?
Blurred images can be attributed to a great number of factors that have nothing to do with resolution. For instance, on earth, we view "outside" through rather blurring atmospheric interference. Consequently as magnification increases, so does this effect. This leads to astrophotographers using stacked focus, and cherry picking good frames etc.
I'd like to think that most of us are smart enough to not commit such a crime as that.
intelligence != morality