The problem with EA (for the studios) is that EA screams louder.
What is the first thing you see in a EA game ? That damn EA logo, then for a slip second, you see some random no name company (the studio).
The game publishing industry is trying to mimic the movie publishing industry by doing the classic " presents... a movie"-introduction.
By sad part is. The avarage gamer is a lot less intrested in who made the game, then the avarage movie enthusiast. So they only notice the EA logo and get reminded to turn off all brain activity for 5sec because, well, every one hates waiting for the game to start.
The movie industry can do this because its more or less part of the build up, and for the enthusiast, its just another reminder that this movie is made by the awesome studio, .
Back in the old days. A game would open with the studio logo, and if the publisher is lucky enought, they get there very own screen to present there name, else they would just have to do with a "published by" in the end credits.
HOW the fuck did Captain Obvious get +4 Insightful? Ofcourse we are all going to die sooner or later. There's a differences in seeing death around the corner and hearing mythical stories of an inevitable end.
The article mentioned something about open ended worlds, score grindeing, and top scores. This has nothing to do with an ending. If a game has a story (MMOs excepted), it will most likely have a clear cut end of the story, but if you get a chance to continue after the end is a completely different thing. Its called replay value. Take Fallout 3 as an example, it has a clear cut end, but is has a DLC that unlocks gameplay after your done. This is not to continue the story, but rather give you the opportunity to extend and fill the gaps you miss if you don't do every side quest there is in the game. I would call it a rich story with the unfortunate side effect of having to much detail for the average gamer joe to be playable if mandatory.
That guy is so bias toward maemo its not even funny. He has something against google/android but cant put his finger on it.
This article should be about some random home brew telephone running both OSes, but its not. Its about the currently available android hardware running android against the currently not available maemo hardware running maemo.
First thing, he begins his comparison with the "root or not to root" issue and says that WITH ANDROID you have to root it to get full system access, and not in maemo. Not true. You do not have to root android, you have to root the specific setup of android on .
I guess there will come maemo devices from other manufacturers then nokia, and how can THIS random blogger know THEY wont impose system access crippling.
Other then that, he has a point, but i can't tell if it's true, and if i can trust him.
It's all about keeping the issues list organised and neat. Some of your stuff wasn't related to PA, so he told you were to file them. Some of your stuff was duplicates, so he told you were to discuss that, so he and other people could help you out, and in the long run get a more stable system released. Some of your stuff was already fixed, so he told you that it would most likely get included in an update of the next major version of your distro.
Think about it, he might have a lot of issues he has to keep in organised. Having ONE "issue" with several unrelated problems will make it a hell to try and fix. The inconsistent flow of unrelated comments and discussions would only make it worse.
I don't think there is even one large open source project that excepts multiple problems as one "issue", and would most likely respond in a similar maner. Some project take it even further and replying "File separate issues. Closed."
This is a "problem" with the open source community as whole, and not with Lennart (or any one else) ignoring your reports.
Falun Gang ?! I will NOT RTFA because i want to believe it's about Mattias Fink and how China has uncovered some wierd and twisted Human Rights activity about Swedens arguably only mass-murderer in existence, and of course, how to circumvent The Great Firewall of China.
I can not say its perfect, but it's ok. Minor bugs here and there. I would prefer not to install the beast that is called WINE, to have spotify running. I'd rather listen to Last.FM (prefer last.fm anyways =P).
If Spotify releases a full feature client for linux (at least x86 32bit and 64bit), i might actually start using it again.
I think thats quite true when i think about it. Thank you apple for implicitly giving me an Android based handset. Apple ain't so bad anyways. You just have to look past em and see whats hiding in there shadow.
If you are talking about the myth that DMT is released when you dream, then you are wrong. Its just a myth. But I would still like mythbusters to check it out - just in case.
I would pee in his Cheerios, just for the thrill of hearing him rant about how useless i am and how i do not have a life, and how my shirt makes the act of peeing on his cheerios even worse, and how gay i am to pee in front of him, and.... omg, that would be so cool.
I wonder how he would be if he was drunk and did this.
The 3G net purpose is to offload the GSM net of data traffic (internet to be specific).
IIRC, Japan is the only country were they use the 3G net for telephone traffic (mobile VoIP).
It's this kind of pseudo-interpretation of the law that kills any kind of validity in your arguments about anything related to this matter.
It's not about what there doing, it's about what there NOT doing. One of the reasons they are being prosecuted is the fact that they are NOT filtering out illegal torrents (ohh sorry, the torrent file is legal, but the content it's pointing at is not).
They go as far as giving you tools to make this easier, like categories and stuff. Sure there can be legal movies, games, pc apps, console stuff and so on and so forth. But now we're back at the filtering again, they do NOT filter out the illegal torrents (lets just call em' that).
The fact that they portray the site as a piracy torrent index by, for instance, giving the finger to any one who tries to reason with them, are not helping them.
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The problem with EA (for the studios) is that EA screams louder.
What is the first thing you see in a EA game ? That damn EA logo, then for a slip second, you see some random no name company (the studio).
The game publishing industry is trying to mimic the movie publishing industry by doing the classic " presents... a movie"-introduction.
By sad part is. The avarage gamer is a lot less intrested in who made the game, then the avarage movie enthusiast. So they only notice the EA logo and get reminded to turn off all brain activity for 5sec because, well, every one hates waiting for the game to start.
The movie industry can do this because its more or less part of the build up, and for the enthusiast, its just another reminder that this movie is made by the awesome studio, .
Back in the old days. A game would open with the studio logo, and if the publisher is lucky enought, they get there very own screen to present there name, else they would just have to do with a "published by" in the end credits.
HOW the fuck did Captain Obvious get +4 Insightful?
Ofcourse we are all going to die sooner or later. There's a differences in seeing death around the corner and hearing mythical stories of an inevitable end.
The article mentioned something about open ended worlds, score grindeing, and top scores.
This has nothing to do with an ending. If a game has a story (MMOs excepted), it will most likely have a clear cut end of the story, but if you get a chance to continue after the end is a completely different thing. Its called replay value. Take Fallout 3 as an example, it has a clear cut end, but is has a DLC that unlocks gameplay after your done. This is not to continue the story, but rather give you the opportunity to extend and fill the gaps you miss if you don't do every side quest there is in the game. I would call it a rich story with the unfortunate side effect of having to much detail for the average gamer joe to be playable if mandatory.
Most open ended games are like this.
From T-Mobile's Market to be correct.
"we'll do what we want and carriers can't stop us... at least not on other carriers networks".
Woossshhh
... or it didn't happen !
That guy is so bias toward maemo its not even funny. He has something against google/android but cant put his finger on it.
This article should be about some random home brew telephone running both OSes, but its not. Its about the currently available android hardware running android against the currently not available maemo hardware running maemo.
First thing, he begins his comparison with the "root or not to root" issue and says that WITH ANDROID you have to root it to get full system access, and not in maemo. Not true. You do not have to root android, you have to root the specific setup of android on .
I guess there will come maemo devices from other manufacturers then nokia, and how can THIS random blogger know THEY wont impose system access crippling.
Other then that, he has a point, but i can't tell if it's true, and if i can trust him.
It's all about keeping the issues list organised and neat.
Some of your stuff wasn't related to PA, so he told you were to file them.
Some of your stuff was duplicates, so he told you were to discuss that, so he and other people could help you out, and in the long run get a more stable system released.
Some of your stuff was already fixed, so he told you that it would most likely get included in an update of the next major version of your distro.
Think about it, he might have a lot of issues he has to keep in organised. Having ONE "issue" with several unrelated problems will make it a hell to try and fix. The inconsistent flow of unrelated comments and discussions would only make it worse.
I don't think there is even one large open source project that excepts multiple problems as one "issue", and would most likely respond in a similar maner.
Some project take it even further and replying "File separate issues. Closed."
This is a "problem" with the open source community as whole, and not with Lennart (or any one else) ignoring your reports.
... you're already fished.
Falun Gang ?! I will NOT RTFA because i want to believe it's about Mattias Fink and how China has uncovered some wierd and twisted Human Rights activity about Swedens arguably only mass-murderer in existence, and of course, how to circumvent The Great Firewall of China.
I can not say its perfect, but it's ok. Minor bugs here and there. I would prefer not to install the beast that is called WINE, to have spotify running. I'd rather listen to Last.FM (prefer last.fm anyways =P).
If Spotify releases a full feature client for linux (at least x86 32bit and 64bit), i might actually start using it again.
I think thats quite true when i think about it. Thank you apple for implicitly giving me an Android based handset.
Apple ain't so bad anyways. You just have to look past em and see whats hiding in there shadow.
If you are talking about the myth that DMT is released when you dream, then you are wrong. Its just a myth. But I would still like mythbusters to check it out - just in case.
I would pee in his Cheerios, just for the thrill of hearing him rant about how useless i am and how i do not have a life, and how my shirt makes the act of peeing on his cheerios even worse, and how gay i am to pee in front of him, and.... omg, that would be so cool.
I wonder how he would be if he was drunk and did this.
they don't know anything about the technology.
It's not so much about the technology, it's what you intend to use it for, and that's what TPB failed at.
Nice edit =P
My story in Firehose is quite correct (I'm not perfect but still better)
They stream there music in OGG Vorbis, and no DRM is involved.
The 3G net purpose is to offload the GSM net of data traffic (internet to be specific). IIRC, Japan is the only country were they use the 3G net for telephone traffic (mobile VoIP).
It's this kind of pseudo-interpretation of the law that kills any kind of validity in your arguments about anything related to this matter. It's not about what there doing, it's about what there NOT doing. One of the reasons they are being prosecuted is the fact that they are NOT filtering out illegal torrents (ohh sorry, the torrent file is legal, but the content it's pointing at is not). They go as far as giving you tools to make this easier, like categories and stuff. Sure there can be legal movies, games, pc apps, console stuff and so on and so forth. But now we're back at the filtering again, they do NOT filter out the illegal torrents (lets just call em' that). The fact that they portray the site as a piracy torrent index by, for instance, giving the finger to any one who tries to reason with them, are not helping them.
It's like using an anvil to hammer a picture hanging nail.
I don't get it...
I do both and disagree--they are similar.
Programming in python and ruby, or snowboarding and skiing ?