Or at least it used to be, perhaps. I wouldn't have thought that I would touch a Microsoft-developed console with a 10-foot pagefile, but the quality of the game development studios who have obviously been shown what they'll be able to work with (plus a dumptruck full of money, I know I know) and have chosen to work on games for the X-BOX which won't even be out for another year or more makes me think I might give this a chance.
On the Dreamcast/Playstation side of the coin - Square has always developed for the PS, and probably always will. I love the Final Fantasy series, so I will most likely buy a PS2. Dreamcast looks pretty, but the best utilization of it's technology seems to have been the Sonic game and the NFL game. I hate the Sonic series and I loath footbally games - and the successful and "good" games that come out on a platform tend to influence the genres/styles of the games that quality designers put out for the same platform in the future.
All that said, I play most of my games on me 'ol Wintel box. Sue me, they're almost always better games, and I get to play with a keyboard and a mouse. Put that in your D-pad and smoke it.
Congratulations for having survived as a writer. I shudder to think of trying to succesfully do that...
I'm wondering something. In ancient Rome and Greece (and I'm sure elsewhere) talented poets/painters/sculptors were supported by wealthy personages - Michaelangelo or whoever would be funded by a local rich guy to do great works of art. Michaelangelo got to eat and invent the helicopter in his spare time, the world got awesome art, and the rich guy got the status of being the progenitor of all this good stuff. Everyone's happy and hundreds of years later we're all still benefiting.
Skip forward to today and we have vaguely comparable examples. Slashdot is a whipass good forum that many geeks frequent. Andover.net supports/. This is a prestige thing for Andover, you gotta think -/. has better hardware and support than in the pre-Andover days and they sure as hell aren't making any money for Andover other than banners. We're all just visitors, not customers keep in mind- we'd all scream bloody murder if we were charged a yearly fee to utilize Slashdot.
What I'm trying to get to is - what if somebody like Bill Gates was funding Croteam or somebody like Jim Clark had said to the guys at Looking Glass "Forget the big publishing company that screwed you, here's ten million bucks, go make System Shock 3"? Bad examples, I know, but back in the day, the patrons of artists were generally pretty crass bourgois businessmen who just wanted the prestige! Who cares? The world got something for free from an asshole with an ego.
We have more millionaires now than at any point in American history - why aren't these bloated rich guys patronizing high profile, high quality content creators? Not trying to get rich off them, just giving them a measly couple of bucks to produce great work. It doesn't seem that complicated to me - please tell me why I'm wrong.
Get a random sampling of marketing people and hold a Geiger counter up to each of their heads. Whoever makes the counter register the highest, find out which cell phone he uses and give the same model to the rest of the marketing guys. Then wait.
I am a longtime user of Micros~1 products who also has a GNU-Linux box that utilizes Gnome 1.0 as a windows manager. I am fully behind the open-source philosophy, but I have a question. Why is the the Gnome/KDE/whatever interface even now still a pure bastardization of the MSWindows and Macintosh interfaces? There are brilliant people inovating in every area of design; why has nobody bothered to figure out a better interface? When we're talking Operating Systems; Yeah! It works better! But on the face of things it still looks like we're a bunch of hotheads reverse engineering the work of the highly-paid graphics people Microsoft was employing in 1995 (not to mention the highly-paid graphics people Apple was paying in 1984). My $.02; moderate this down if I don't know what I'm talking about.
Yes it is I, the nameless Seattle area developer that Paul Allen bamboozled into giving up an ingenious operating system for a paltry $800, only to sell it to IBM as (accursed) MS-DOS! Here today we shall reject the operating systems of the past 20 years, shed the shackles of so-called "Graphical User Interfaces" and reclaim QDOS! Avenge me! Avenge me!
I want to play a Tusken Raider so that I can make that "Oogh! Oogh! Oogh!" battle cry. Or perhaps one of the frogs that Jabba eats. So many possibilities.
Ah hell, who am I kidding. I'll be working for the Empire.
If Iridium does decide to instigate mass-suicide among their satellites, will any of it be visible from Earth? That could be a pretty cool roof-top party...
Um, they are already, and it's just as ridiculous a situation - This seems to be like something a/. reader would make up after having read about the recent stories about the tobacco settlements.
"Oh, so we make a product that you play obsessively and makes your hands bleed/gives you cancer? Well, we as a company can't believe that you were so fucking stupid that you didn't know anything about it so I guess we now have to give you some money... oh wait a minute why don't we give the money to your state to make advertisements that say that we're baaaaad, maybe people will continue to cut their hands on our product and we will keep giving up a piece of our profits to you, Mr. State Government...
Alias | Wavefront makes very nice software... or so I hear. The stuff's like 20k for a fully functional commercial seat - um, I'll stick with LightWave. At 2k for a commercial seat (and how am I 'commercial'? I'm sure as hell not making any money from it yet) it's still expensive, but at least we're not still waiting for 'Sumatra' (COUGH LW6!).
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This is obviously just the Qeng Ho giving us a nudge in the right direction.
Read this guy's comment. Read this guy's sig. Put two and two together. Whatever.
If I start a business where I give stuff away and don't make any money will Netzero sue me too?
...it is quite possible, that for the rest of history, there will always be humans who are not living on earth...
For further proof, Slashdot has kindly presented the story on Nader further down the main page...
Or at least it used to be, perhaps. I wouldn't have thought that I would touch a Microsoft-developed console with a 10-foot pagefile, but the quality of the game development studios who have obviously been shown what they'll be able to work with (plus a dumptruck full of money, I know I know) and have chosen to work on games for the X-BOX which won't even be out for another year or more makes me think I might give this a chance.
On the Dreamcast/Playstation side of the coin - Square has always developed for the PS, and probably always will. I love the Final Fantasy series, so I will most likely buy a PS2. Dreamcast looks pretty, but the best utilization of it's technology seems to have been the Sonic game and the NFL game. I hate the Sonic series and I loath footbally games - and the successful and "good" games that come out on a platform tend to influence the genres/styles of the games that quality designers put out for the same platform in the future.
All that said, I play most of my games on me 'ol Wintel box. Sue me, they're almost always better games, and I get to play with a keyboard and a mouse. Put that in your D-pad and smoke it.
Nanotech is all just fine and dandy until our co-workers get their skull-guns installed...
Matthew McConnaghey, Harvey Keitel and the other heroic American submariners were unavailable.
Circa 1960 - "Cars get us from point A to point B - almost everyone has an automobile who has one - nobody's going to buy a new one!" Whatever.
Amnesiacs probably wouldn't get much better at Deus Ex either, seeing as how you practically have to take a nap WHILE THE LEVELS LOAD!!!
But he's also Super Mario!. Fun for all us fanboys.
George W. wishes he could auction off the last two months on eBay...
I guess this means the DEA will be shutting down Expedia or Travelocity for selling plane tickets to Amsterdam...
Please let this be the last time we have to see the words "crusty" and "crotchless panties" in the same sentence on Slashdot.
When all the mail servers crash at once, this will give a whole new meaning to the phrase "disgruntled postal workers".
"Citrix remote administrator and PCAnywhere - keeping sysadmins stuck on their fat asses since 1989".
Congratulations for having survived as a writer. I shudder to think of trying to succesfully do that...
/. This is a prestige thing for Andover, you gotta think - /. has better hardware and support than in the pre-Andover days and they sure as hell aren't making any money for Andover other than banners. We're all just visitors, not customers keep in mind- we'd all scream bloody murder if we were charged a yearly fee to utilize Slashdot.
I'm wondering something. In ancient Rome and Greece (and I'm sure elsewhere) talented poets/painters/sculptors were supported by wealthy personages - Michaelangelo or whoever would be funded by a local rich guy to do great works of art. Michaelangelo got to eat and invent the helicopter in his spare time, the world got awesome art, and the rich guy got the status of being the progenitor of all this good stuff. Everyone's happy and hundreds of years later we're all still benefiting.
Skip forward to today and we have vaguely comparable examples. Slashdot is a whipass good forum that many geeks frequent. Andover.net supports
What I'm trying to get to is - what if somebody like Bill Gates was funding Croteam or somebody like Jim Clark had said to the guys at Looking Glass "Forget the big publishing company that screwed you, here's ten million bucks, go make System Shock 3"? Bad examples, I know, but back in the day, the patrons of artists were generally pretty crass bourgois businessmen who just wanted the prestige! Who cares? The world got something for free from an asshole with an ego.
We have more millionaires now than at any point in American history - why aren't these bloated rich guys patronizing high profile, high quality content creators? Not trying to get rich off them, just giving them a measly couple of bucks to produce great work. It doesn't seem that complicated to me - please tell me why I'm wrong.
Get a random sampling of marketing people and hold a Geiger counter up to each of their heads. Whoever makes the counter register the highest, find out which cell phone he uses and give the same model to the rest of the marketing guys. Then wait.
I am a longtime user of Micros~1 products who also has a GNU-Linux box that utilizes Gnome 1.0 as a windows manager. I am fully behind the open-source philosophy, but I have a question. Why is the the Gnome/KDE/whatever interface even now still a pure bastardization of the MSWindows and Macintosh interfaces? There are brilliant people inovating in every area of design; why has nobody bothered to figure out a better interface? When we're talking Operating Systems; Yeah! It works better! But on the face of things it still looks like we're a bunch of hotheads reverse engineering the work of the highly-paid graphics people Microsoft was employing in 1995 (not to mention the highly-paid graphics people Apple was paying in 1984).
My $.02; moderate this down if I don't know what I'm talking about.
Yes it is I, the nameless Seattle area developer that Paul Allen bamboozled into giving up an ingenious operating system for a paltry $800, only to sell it to IBM as (accursed) MS-DOS! Here today we shall reject the operating systems of the past 20 years, shed the shackles of so-called "Graphical User Interfaces" and reclaim QDOS! Avenge me! Avenge me!
I want to play a Tusken Raider so that I can make that "Oogh! Oogh! Oogh!" battle cry. Or perhaps one of the frogs that Jabba eats. So many possibilities.
Ah hell, who am I kidding. I'll be working for the Empire.
...Unable to mount volume "3M", couldn't find damn beginning of roll...
If Iridium does decide to instigate mass-suicide among their satellites, will any of it be visible from Earth? That could be a pretty cool roof-top party...
Um, they are already, and it's just as ridiculous a situation - This seems to be like something a /. reader would make up after having read about the recent stories about the tobacco settlements.
"Oh, so we make a product that you play obsessively and makes your hands bleed/gives you cancer? Well, we as a company can't believe that you were so fucking stupid that you didn't know anything about it so I guess we now have to give you some money... oh wait a minute why don't we give the money to your state to make advertisements that say that we're baaaaad, maybe people will continue to cut their hands on our product and we will keep giving up a piece of our profits to you, Mr. State Government...
Alias | Wavefront makes very nice software... or so I hear. The stuff's like 20k for a fully functional commercial seat - um, I'll stick with LightWave. At 2k for a commercial seat (and how am I 'commercial'? I'm sure as hell not making any money from it yet) it's still expensive, but at least we're not still waiting for 'Sumatra' (COUGH LW6!).
Let's be honest now, this is only being moderated up because of how much all we geeks like your sig, Pi-boy...