The 360 is weak in Europe so this was probably the most cost effective way to attack MS and make some difference.
Keep in mind MS's lead over Sony isn't *that* big considering the year lead over them. If Sony can start taking even more sales in territories where MS isn't that strong then they're left only have to go after America which will be easier after having the others.
No he's smart because ghost busters was likely shit and he made a guaranteed bit of income out of Europe from Sony before the game has even been sold and in a year or so it can be published on the xbox to make more money.
Considering the NES had no competition, probably not. I don't recall exclusives being an issue until the 16-bit area.
Nintendo only forced companies to buy carts only from them and in certain quantities and they limited how many games a company could publish in hopes to keep the quality high. Which is what lead to Konami creating the Ultra brand.
Unless this award some how gives the inventor testicle cancer, the fall out from the award would be less than the potential financial gain from suing people.
Good to see Trent's music is still "controversial" (thought provoking?) after 15 years.
It's not.
He's a fat ageing washed up prick who gets makes his money making little emo kids think they're anti-establishment by listening to his music and buying all the NIN branded merchandise like the good little consumers they are.
Sure he offends illiterate rednecks in the bible belt but teletubbies do that too in fact just about anyone different to them will offend them.
Size can't have been the thing, the first ipods were bigger than their competitors. As for the interface, well, maybe there are people who really do find that stupid wheel-thing easier to use, but there are dozens of players doing that now. So why is the ipod the one that sells? Fashion, plain and simple.
It's Fashion in the sense that people rather be seen with something that looks nice.
Just like with desktops, early mp3 players had shit design. Some had cheap nasty neon coloured displayed, cases that make it look more utilitarian than fun. So people went with Apple.
Apple is seen as the innovator and the others, who are now ripping off Apple's ideas, are seen as knock-offs. People rather have the original than the imitator and perhaps more importantly, the others won't work with iTunes.
At this point, you're probably right. Which is why I suggested we have to be tested and earn a licence before being able to connect to the internet in another comment.:P
When the file type can determine what will happen when you click on it then yes it should be easily viewable. Plus certain metadata is valuable which is why people sometimes put metadata, like the date, within the file name if they feel it's relevant.
Do we really think that it's going to make a difference to Joe Schmoe? If it has a Word document icon, our hapless friend is going to be duped regardless of whether it ends in ".doc" or ".doc.exe".
You're right but this is because computing has been dumbed down and because file extensions have been turned off by default for so long people don't really pay attention to the name of their files.
In my experience, when you teach someone who things should be done, even if they are a clueless user, they'll take your advice seriously and generally avoid doing what you told them not to do.
This is why MS should have focused more on information people how to use their computer rather than changing the OS to be idiot friendly.
Perhaps there people should have to take a test to earn a computing licence before being able to connect to the internet. At this point I think that's the only thing we could do to undo the mess we have now.
So do I which is why it makes sense to take the bus. The additional travel time is only about 10 to 20 minutes depending on the day. I can do work on the bus and walking to and from the bus on each side of the journey can reduce time on the treadmill. Between these two things this means I can spend more time doing what I want to do after work.
Public transportation doesn't suit everyone but there are a lot of people that don't use it because they think it's automatically going to be more expensive or waste more time.
To be honest, there are a lot of people that can't drive worth a shit either. This is why I wish government would spend more to improve public transportation while making it harder to obtain a driving licence. Driving is not a right and they should do more to ensure you can actually control your 2 tons of steel at 60+ mph. Doing this would clear the roads and benefit everyone and fewer accidents should mean lower insurance costs for those who do drive.
It depends on where you live and if you own a car.
I use public transportation and don't own a car. So i don't have to pay for petrol, the car, insurance, maintenance, MOT/Inspection, etc. So it's most definitely cheaper.
Once you start trying to combine car ownership and public transportation then it's not really going to be cheaper and it would be more about convenience.
Even if I owned a car, I think I would still prefer using public transportation. Driving into Cambridge during rush hour is an absolute nightmare and incredibly boring. Even if I'm still subject to it in on bus (train of course doesn't get stuck in traffic) then at least I'm not behind the wheel. I can sleep or, play video games, program, etc.
Fox News, the Sun, etc. It's quite clear Murduch is into the business of bullshit and not news. I'm not quite sure people will pay for bullshit. Especially when your key market for this bullshit is ignorant Americans/English people. Which means they're likely to be poor and less likely to pay.
Murdoch is a tit and I wish his "news" companies would go out of business. It would help if countries would start to tighten up the rules regarding news broadcasting/publishing.
Treating your employees decently is not what killed 3DR. Let's not pretend that they were some nice group of nice guys that just can't make it in this era.
It was poor management that ruined them. Whether a company treats employees well or not poor management can kill a company.
Channel_F, a previous employee of 3DR, posted some interesting info:
In my best interest, I'm going to be somewhat candid for now. I will, however, elaborate a bit on some things:
The 2001 trailer was 100% scripted cinematic, and not actual gameplay. They built specific demo maps just to record video from to make a trailer. Everything you see in that trailer was phony.
The typical work flow there went something like this:
Designer would be assigned a task (build a new map, rebuild an old map, polish a bit of a map, etc.). Designer would work on said task for two, three weeks, a month, all the while lower management would be looking over it and making sure it was going in a "good general direction." Designer would move on to another task. A month or two later upper management would finally look at the work and say, "It's all wrong, do it again." Rinse, repeat.
Entire maps would be done from the ground up, almost to beta quality, and then thrown out simply because no one would make decisions early on in the process. (Read up on Valve's 'orange box' method of design -- that's how you make games)
Another example of WTF is the fact that there was one part of one map that was being worked on before I started working there. Nineteen months later and the same designer was still working on the same part of that same map... I'm not blaming the designer, it wasn't his fault.
I think the biggest problem that the company had in general is being self-funded. When you're a developer working directly with a publisher and you have milestones to meet it's a whole different ballgame. If you don't meet those milestones, you don't get any money. That right there will keep your project on schedule. If, however, you're funding it yourself, you don't really have anyone to answer to except yourself and you can quickly lose sight of just how much money is going out the door.
They've gone on for ages without actually producing anything. What did they expect? I feel bad for the little guys buy for the guys like George, fuck 'em, and I hope other companies have the sense not to hire the fatso.
I can't vouch for all school systems or even what mine teaches now but we were taught a fairly balanced view on WW2.
A lot of my fellow students still hold US biased views of WW2 but that's not because of what they were taught but because, naturally, people tend to remember the bits they prefer and of course they prefer to hear about their country being the best.
As you mention, people in the UK can often focus more on the bits that they were more involved in. That's just human nature and some people need to take that into consideration before criticising other people's points of view.
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By banning blood in video games, paint balling, etc they're taking the fun out of Germany and turning it into Nazi Germany without using an army.
The 360 is weak in Europe so this was probably the most cost effective way to attack MS and make some difference.
Keep in mind MS's lead over Sony isn't *that* big considering the year lead over them. If Sony can start taking even more sales in territories where MS isn't that strong then they're left only have to go after America which will be easier after having the others.
No he's smart because ghost busters was likely shit and he made a guaranteed bit of income out of Europe from Sony before the game has even been sold and in a year or so it can be published on the xbox to make more money.
Considering the NES had no competition, probably not. I don't recall exclusives being an issue until the 16-bit area.
Nintendo only forced companies to buy carts only from them and in certain quantities and they limited how many games a company could publish in hopes to keep the quality high. Which is what lead to Konami creating the Ultra brand.
Yeah it was likely rushed which is why Halo feels so repetitive.
I personally think there's only one company right now that can win that war, and it's not Sony.
One company has already won it and it's Nintendo.
Unless this award some how gives the inventor testicle cancer, the fall out from the award would be less than the potential financial gain from suing people.
It may not technically be right but as far as I'm concerned it's legit. I paid for a copy of Windows and I'll use it as I see fit.
Good to see Trent's music is still "controversial" (thought provoking?) after 15 years.
It's not.
He's a fat ageing washed up prick who gets makes his money making little emo kids think they're anti-establishment by listening to his music and buying all the NIN branded merchandise like the good little consumers they are.
Sure he offends illiterate rednecks in the bible belt but teletubbies do that too in fact just about anyone different to them will offend them.
Size can't have been the thing, the first ipods were bigger than their competitors. As for the interface, well, maybe there are people who really do find that stupid wheel-thing easier to use, but there are dozens of players doing that now. So why is the ipod the one that sells? Fashion, plain and simple.
It's Fashion in the sense that people rather be seen with something that looks nice.
Just like with desktops, early mp3 players had shit design. Some had cheap nasty neon coloured displayed, cases that make it look more utilitarian than fun. So people went with Apple.
Apple is seen as the innovator and the others, who are now ripping off Apple's ideas, are seen as knock-offs. People rather have the original than the imitator and perhaps more importantly, the others won't work with iTunes.
People only think Macs look nice because PCs have always been so butt fucking ugly.
At this point, you're probably right. Which is why I suggested we have to be tested and earn a licence before being able to connect to the internet in another comment. :P
Then it's a problem with the user, as always, and NOT the operating system.
When the OS was designed so the user doesn't have to think and therefore the user doesn't think, the problem still lies with the OS.
When the file type can determine what will happen when you click on it then yes it should be easily viewable. Plus certain metadata is valuable which is why people sometimes put metadata, like the date, within the file name if they feel it's relevant.
Do we really think that it's going to make a difference to Joe Schmoe? If it has a Word document icon, our hapless friend is going to be duped regardless of whether it ends in ".doc" or ".doc.exe".
You're right but this is because computing has been dumbed down and because file extensions have been turned off by default for so long people don't really pay attention to the name of their files.
In my experience, when you teach someone who things should be done, even if they are a clueless user, they'll take your advice seriously and generally avoid doing what you told them not to do.
This is why MS should have focused more on information people how to use their computer rather than changing the OS to be idiot friendly.
Perhaps there people should have to take a test to earn a computing licence before being able to connect to the internet. At this point I think that's the only thing we could do to undo the mess we have now.
So do I which is why it makes sense to take the bus. The additional travel time is only about 10 to 20 minutes depending on the day. I can do work on the bus and walking to and from the bus on each side of the journey can reduce time on the treadmill. Between these two things this means I can spend more time doing what I want to do after work.
Public transportation doesn't suit everyone but there are a lot of people that don't use it because they think it's automatically going to be more expensive or waste more time.
To be honest, there are a lot of people that can't drive worth a shit either. This is why I wish government would spend more to improve public transportation while making it harder to obtain a driving licence. Driving is not a right and they should do more to ensure you can actually control your 2 tons of steel at 60+ mph. Doing this would clear the roads and benefit everyone and fewer accidents should mean lower insurance costs for those who do drive.
It depends on where you live and if you own a car.
I use public transportation and don't own a car. So i don't have to pay for petrol, the car, insurance, maintenance, MOT/Inspection, etc. So it's most definitely cheaper.
Once you start trying to combine car ownership and public transportation then it's not really going to be cheaper and it would be more about convenience.
Even if I owned a car, I think I would still prefer using public transportation. Driving into Cambridge during rush hour is an absolute nightmare and incredibly boring. Even if I'm still subject to it in on bus (train of course doesn't get stuck in traffic) then at least I'm not behind the wheel. I can sleep or, play video games, program, etc.
The problem with all the Duke games is they were made by anyone and were shit. People didn't want shit 3rd person Duke games. They wanted DNF.
I think it could have went better if they used their other properties to make money and didn't tarnish Duke's image with so many poor games.
Fox News, the Sun, etc. It's quite clear Murduch is into the business of bullshit and not news. I'm not quite sure people will pay for bullshit. Especially when your key market for this bullshit is ignorant Americans/English people. Which means they're likely to be poor and less likely to pay.
Murdoch is a tit and I wish his "news" companies would go out of business. It would help if countries would start to tighten up the rules regarding news broadcasting/publishing.
Treating your employees decently is not what killed 3DR. Let's not pretend that they were some nice group of nice guys that just can't make it in this era.
It was poor management that ruined them. Whether a company treats employees well or not poor management can kill a company.
If you read their site you'll see they seemed to do lots of fun stuff along the years.
Of course they've been having fun. They've been playing around for over a decade.
What'll be interesting is to find out how true this is.
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?story=58519
By: mourningstar Crosspost from SA:
Channel_F, a previous employee of 3DR, posted some interesting info:
In my best interest, I'm going to be somewhat candid for now. I will, however, elaborate a bit on some things:
The 2001 trailer was 100% scripted cinematic, and not actual gameplay. They built specific demo maps just to record video from to make a trailer. Everything you see in that trailer was phony.
The typical work flow there went something like this: Designer would be assigned a task (build a new map, rebuild an old map, polish a bit of a map, etc.). Designer would work on said task for two, three weeks, a month, all the while lower management would be looking over it and making sure it was going in a "good general direction." Designer would move on to another task. A month or two later upper management would finally look at the work and say, "It's all wrong, do it again." Rinse, repeat.
Entire maps would be done from the ground up, almost to beta quality, and then thrown out simply because no one would make decisions early on in the process. (Read up on Valve's 'orange box' method of design -- that's how you make games)
Another example of WTF is the fact that there was one part of one map that was being worked on before I started working there. Nineteen months later and the same designer was still working on the same part of that same map... I'm not blaming the designer, it wasn't his fault.
I think the biggest problem that the company had in general is being self-funded. When you're a developer working directly with a publisher and you have milestones to meet it's a whole different ballgame. If you don't meet those milestones, you don't get any money. That right there will keep your project on schedule. If, however, you're funding it yourself, you don't really have anyone to answer to except yourself and you can quickly lose sight of just how much money is going out the door.
DNF can now stand for Did Not Finish.
They've gone on for ages without actually producing anything. What did they expect? I feel bad for the little guys buy for the guys like George, fuck 'em, and I hope other companies have the sense not to hire the fatso.
I can't vouch for all school systems or even what mine teaches now but we were taught a fairly balanced view on WW2.
A lot of my fellow students still hold US biased views of WW2 but that's not because of what they were taught but because, naturally, people tend to remember the bits they prefer and of course they prefer to hear about their country being the best.
As you mention, people in the UK can often focus more on the bits that they were more involved in. That's just human nature and some people need to take that into consideration before criticising other people's points of view.
I would imagine they're more interested in going after MS and the PC gaming market.
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