No, Average Joe understands. I'm getting sick and tired of everyone here on Slashdot acting like it's 1996 and nobody knows what the internet is. Maybe if people here were a bit more realistic and didn't assume the majority of people were like the minority of users (total dullards), we'd be a bit better of. Just because someone doesn't understand the intricacies of IPv6 migration (more accurately, does not care to hear about that from you), doesn't mean they are so uninformed that they are not aware of the software they run. You know, the one called INTERNET EXPLORER where on the title bar it says INTERNET EXPLORER and the shortcut says INTERNET EXPLORER... etc.
Good. As everyone can obviously and plainly see, that is truly an email from Google. Finally, a simple-to-understand solution even Grandma can comprehend.
I'm doing it as a stunt, and I'm not a writer. I liked writing, I just though it would be fun. Who knows if I will actually want to do it in two weeks. We'll see.
Well, it binds it self to a port and points to 127.0.0.1. Wouldn't it be as simple as just changing the hosts file to 1237.0.0.1 is know your IP address?
What if Half Life 2 became available to download in a week's time, before it hit stores? Would Valve still release it ahead of time? Better yet, would people download it from Steam or get it for free anyways?
Furthermore, I just want to take this moment and talk directly to developers and publishers who have worked so hard to get their games out just before this holiday season: Sucks to be you. This year is filled with some immense competition from a lot of sequels, especially in the console arena... Doom 3, Half Life 2, San Andreas, GT4, Halo 2, and I believe the newest Biohazard is coming out, as well as Metal Gear Solid, right?
That being said, I just bought HL2 "Bronze" (I couldn't see myself spending $90.00 just to get a hat and a soundtrack).
What does that tell us about the quality of your products? After all, does not my automobile come with airbags and antilock brakes and skid control and all wheel drive? Under your logic, those features would only work if I paid a monthly premium.
If I can be the DA for a second, this is more like your Chevrolet not coming with an anti-theft alarm system or a subscription to AAA or a similar car club whcih can tow you for free if you break down.
No, Microsoft does not have a responsibility to provide an alarm or free tow trucks. They do, however, need to make sure the car is not easily stealable and that it doesn't break down so much.
First is the saying that if you ask all the economists to lay down on the ground and point towards north you would find a pile of people pointing in all different directions.
The second (more serious) statement is regarding the Hawley-Smoot Act which is Wiki'd to say:
Another factor contributing to the Great Depression was America's position in international trade. Protectionist impulses would drive nations to protect domestic production against competition from foreign imports by erecting high tariff walls. The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act of June 1930 raised U.S. tariffs to unprecedented levels. It practically closed U.S. borders and, with retaliatory tariffs from U.S. trading partners, caused the immediate collapse of the most important export industry, American agriculture. American foreign trade seriously declined, and the volume of world trade steadily decreased. Prior to the Great Depression, a petition signed by over 1000 economists was presented to the U.S. government warning that the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act would bring disastrous economic repercussions, however, this did not stop the act from being signed into law.
This was, to remind everyone, at the beginning of the Great Depression. Protectionism did not help. I don't think we're repeating the same mistake, but pay attention...
Yeah, but that's when it came out. When it was released, it was not for PC, not for Xbox, for PS2. That's when it became popular. The PC version didn't make it popular. The Xbox version certainly didn't make it popular. They added to its popularity, but it was well known by the time it ever came out on PC or Xbox.
I would mod you if I could but this basically solves all the stats problems. I have no doubt that any MMOish sport game will spawn from ideas such as yours.
This is completely correct, of course. And the reason for this is that with all of these devices you need to make them as small as possible. Besides the obvious engineering feat of putting in laptop circuitry, camera circuitry, and electric toothbrush circuitry all inside one cellphome, the fact is, it just doesn't make sense.
This is why, I think, there will never be a wildly popular laptop/pda combo. The PDA is supposed to be small. The laptop is supposed to be large enough to be functional. Then idiots like QOQOQOQQOO (or whatever that's called) make something in between that doesn't really do everything. I'd rather have a kickass music player instead of it having the ability to take crappy pictures as well.
Alright, calm down. You, with the "GTA #1" foam finger, calm it down. Sit down. Shut up. Be quiet.
I'm directly going to be referencing (but not attacking) this post which shows the popular games from 1998.
Alright, let's see Grand Theft Auto is in the top 20! Of course it is. So are other "classics" like... um, Gag! And, uh, Battlezone! Right, Battlezone. That's made a substantial, uh, impact on gaming today.
Like it or not, Grand Theft Auto III was wildly, almost inconcievably popular, and not just amongst us Gamers, but in the general populace. It had incredible impact in the console world, still sold well last year (as an XBox version), and has made it on countless "Best of All Time" / "Most Influential Games" lists. It is similar to Pac-Man, Mario, Doom, etc. in that even non-Gamers are aware of it. Of course GTA was popular, as was GTA2. But that's like saying Unreal is as popular as Unreal Tournament.
So, please, don't overreact. The poster was correct. That doesn't mean GTA wasn't known or popular, but it in NO way compares to what GTAIII is.
Frankly, I don't think I will be playing Halo 2 in French anytime soon. I mean, the real Halo 2 is only a couple of weeks away... Are we so childish that we can't wait 26 days to play a video game? When we've already waited a couple of years?
If the program recognized that another player was not a Southampton entry, it would immediately defect to act as a spoiler for the non-Southampton player. The result is that Southampton had the top three performers -- but also a load of utter failures at the bottom of the table who sacrificed themselves for the good of the team. Another twist to the game was the addition of noise, which allowed some moves to be deliberately misrepresented. In the original game, the two prisoners could not communicate. But Southampton's design lets the prisoners do the equivalent of signaling to each other their intentions by tapping in Morse code on the prison wall. Kendall noted that there was nothing in the competition rules to preclude such a strategy, though he admitted that the ability to submit multiple players means it's difficult to tell whether this strategy would really beat Tit for Tat in the original version. But he believes it would be impossible to prevent collusion between entrants.
Yeah, that's not the Prisoner's Dilemma. Or even the Iterated PD. This whole "signaligng Morse code" on the prison walls is nonsense, because it was not part of the original plan. Just because it's not in the rules doesn't mean you can do it. In Chess there's no rule specifically against me bringing a SuperGrape(TM) onto the board. The SuperGrape(TM) immediately destroys all pawns on a color of my choosing.
No, it doesn't work that way.
While this is an interesting experiment, it's not a true victory.
Come on! Why do they want to release things so early?! There is a difference between pissing people off, and really really pissing people off!
Erm, not quite. They set a date for November 9th based on a conversation much like this in June.
"Well, we can't get it to retailers any later than the second week of November. It may sell-out, there might be shortages, and we want the retailers to be able to sell it at full price for a few weeks before needing to bundle it with a calendar or a CD for Black Friday."
"Well, looks like Nov. 9th is it."
"Can we do that?"
"Well, shipping from the manufacturers will take about a week, so that puts us at Nov. 2. The actual manufacturer will need about 2 weeks to press the games and package them. We'll need two weeks before that to get review copies to the game magazines and finish the instruction manual. So that means we have to go gold no later than October 1st."
"So that gives us about 4 months to test?"
"Yeah... That should be enough right?"
"Sure"
****
Fast forward to a couple months later and Halo is done ahead of this deadline. By this time, everyone knows it comes out November 9th, and they've paid major bucks to buy ads from 10/15 to 12/20. They can still run the ads but they could change the date, should be easy enough.
What's not easy is setting a date that's too early before the game is done. But now it is, so it's OK to wait a couple of weeks.
"Push up" means "make it sooner" -- that is, make it available in stores on October 16th. Sooner. So then you spend $ on Halo 2 instead of getting a friend to burn you a copy that is the French audio rip with UK subtitles.
They don't have time to write it. A friend who went to my colleague's high school wrote one of the recent Bush speechers. He did a bone outline, then it was filled in by the speechwriters. Then Bush or Kerry make sure that it sounds like what they want to say.
I've had Vonage for several months now, and it's saved me a lot of money. I do not recommend it (or any VoIP) for faxes, it just doesn't work very well. Otherwise, any bad outages I always have my cellphone or I email documents to a satellite office and have them fax it.
First off, it is the record label's fault that they are in this current position. They were the ones that were selling CDs with 3 good songs for $19.99, they were the ones pushing crap into radios and record stores, they were the ones that ignored online distribution for years, they were the ones bilking artists. No consumer is thinking "Aww, poor record labels." That's like an attorney pleading for help. Or a spammer. Hello, record companies. You're not liked.
Second, the cost of getting music online is not $0. Besides the obvious cost of bandwidth and disk storage, there's a (really) small chance that you might get sued, and a cost of time that you spend trying to figure out which version of the song you're looking for is good... is it freiburg3.mp3? Or tocotr~1.mp3? Or FREIBURG CONSOLOE TOCOTRONIC.mp3? Then you've got the cost of quality, in that the song you're listening to isn't quite CD quality.
People are only so cot-damned used to paying "$0" because they only had two choices from 1997 onward if they wanted to listen to a song:
Pay $16 for the CD to listen to that song.
Download it.
Get it from a friend.
Wait until radio plays it.
Notice the list. There isn't a "listen to the song online free of charge for X days" option. There isn't a "download the first song off an album for $5.99, then all other songs for $4.00 more anytime thereafter" - there isn't a "get access to all songs by the label for $6/m".
I'm a bit clueless here... What information, besides the names of RNC Delegates, did Indymedia have? What do they do? I'm looking around but I can't find a concise summary. Sorry if I'm lazy.:)
My guess is they meant petabyte, not terabyte. Then, adjusting your assumption to each volume having 150 pages, we've got about 3.9bn images, and about 20.48kb per image. That's still not a whole lot, but enough if you consider that for a lot of works they would simply have files with embedded fonts as opposed to image scanning a black-and-white page.
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No, Average Joe understands. I'm getting sick and tired of everyone here on Slashdot acting like it's 1996 and nobody knows what the internet is. Maybe if people here were a bit more realistic and didn't assume the majority of people were like the minority of users (total dullards), we'd be a bit better of. Just because someone doesn't understand the intricacies of IPv6 migration (more accurately, does not care to hear about that from you), doesn't mean they are so uninformed that they are not aware of the software they run. You know, the one called INTERNET EXPLORER where on the title bar it says INTERNET EXPLORER and the shortcut says INTERNET EXPLORER... etc.
Good. As everyone can obviously and plainly see, that is truly an email from Google. Finally, a simple-to-understand solution even Grandma can comprehend.
I'm doing it as a stunt, and I'm not a writer. I liked writing, I just though it would be fun. Who knows if I will actually want to do it in two weeks. We'll see.
Well, it binds it self to a port and points to 127.0.0.1. Wouldn't it be as simple as just changing the hosts file to 1237.0.0.1 is know your IP address?
In Soviet Yoda, YOU shall win award!
You have to give Lucas some credit. What other filmmaker is so ridiculously lauded based on the strengths of two good movies?
Oh yeah, Quentin Tarantino.
*ducks*
What if Half Life 2 became available to download in a week's time, before it hit stores? Would Valve still release it ahead of time? Better yet, would people download it from Steam or get it for free anyways?
Furthermore, I just want to take this moment and talk directly to developers and publishers who have worked so hard to get their games out just before this holiday season: Sucks to be you. This year is filled with some immense competition from a lot of sequels, especially in the console arena... Doom 3, Half Life 2, San Andreas, GT4, Halo 2, and I believe the newest Biohazard is coming out, as well as Metal Gear Solid, right?
That being said, I just bought HL2 "Bronze" (I couldn't see myself spending $90.00 just to get a hat and a soundtrack).
If I can be the DA for a second, this is more like your Chevrolet not coming with an anti-theft alarm system or a subscription to AAA or a similar car club whcih can tow you for free if you break down.
No, Microsoft does not have a responsibility to provide an alarm or free tow trucks. They do, however, need to make sure the car is not easily stealable and that it doesn't break down so much.
Wait, which keyboard? This one? or this one?
First is the saying that if you ask all the economists to lay down on the ground and point towards north you would find a pile of people pointing in all different directions.
The second (more serious) statement is regarding the Hawley-Smoot Act which is Wiki'd to say:
This was, to remind everyone, at the beginning of the Great Depression. Protectionism did not help. I don't think we're repeating the same mistake, but pay attention...
Yeah, but that's when it came out. When it was released, it was not for PC, not for Xbox, for PS2. That's when it became popular. The PC version didn't make it popular. The Xbox version certainly didn't make it popular. They added to its popularity, but it was well known by the time it ever came out on PC or Xbox.
I would mod you if I could but this basically solves all the stats problems. I have no doubt that any MMOish sport game will spawn from ideas such as yours.
This is completely correct, of course. And the reason for this is that with all of these devices you need to make them as small as possible. Besides the obvious engineering feat of putting in laptop circuitry, camera circuitry, and electric toothbrush circuitry all inside one cellphome, the fact is, it just doesn't make sense.
This is why, I think, there will never be a wildly popular laptop/pda combo. The PDA is supposed to be small. The laptop is supposed to be large enough to be functional. Then idiots like QOQOQOQQOO (or whatever that's called) make something in between that doesn't really do everything. I'd rather have a kickass music player instead of it having the ability to take crappy pictures as well.
Alright, calm down. You, with the "GTA #1" foam finger, calm it down. Sit down. Shut up. Be quiet.
I'm directly going to be referencing (but not attacking) this post which shows the popular games from 1998.
Alright, let's see Grand Theft Auto is in the top 20! Of course it is. So are other "classics" like... um, Gag! And, uh, Battlezone! Right, Battlezone. That's made a substantial, uh, impact on gaming today.
Like it or not, Grand Theft Auto III was wildly, almost inconcievably popular, and not just amongst us Gamers, but in the general populace. It had incredible impact in the console world, still sold well last year (as an XBox version), and has made it on countless "Best of All Time" / "Most Influential Games" lists. It is similar to Pac-Man, Mario, Doom, etc. in that even non-Gamers are aware of it. Of course GTA was popular, as was GTA2. But that's like saying Unreal is as popular as Unreal Tournament.
So, please, don't overreact. The poster was correct. That doesn't mean GTA wasn't known or popular, but it in NO way compares to what GTAIII is.
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Frankly, I don't think I will be playing Halo 2 in French anytime soon. I mean, the real Halo 2 is only a couple of weeks away... Are we so childish that we can't wait 26 days to play a video game? When we've already waited a couple of years?
That, and I don't have a modded Xbox.
Yeah, that's not the Prisoner's Dilemma. Or even the Iterated PD. This whole "signaligng Morse code" on the prison walls is nonsense, because it was not part of the original plan. Just because it's not in the rules doesn't mean you can do it. In Chess there's no rule specifically against me bringing a SuperGrape(TM) onto the board. The SuperGrape(TM) immediately destroys all pawns on a color of my choosing.
No, it doesn't work that way.
While this is an interesting experiment, it's not a true victory.
Maybe the musicians should pay more than $0.17 to the union so they can get a better deal. Geez.
Erm, not quite. They set a date for November 9th based on a conversation much like this in June.
"Well, we can't get it to retailers any later than the second week of November. It may sell-out, there might be shortages, and we want the retailers to be able to sell it at full price for a few weeks before needing to bundle it with a calendar or a CD for Black Friday."
"Well, looks like Nov. 9th is it."
"Can we do that?"
"Well, shipping from the manufacturers will take about a week, so that puts us at Nov. 2. The actual manufacturer will need about 2 weeks to press the games and package them. We'll need two weeks before that to get review copies to the game magazines and finish the instruction manual. So that means we have to go gold no later than October 1st."
"So that gives us about 4 months to test?"
"Yeah... That should be enough right?"
"Sure"
****
Fast forward to a couple months later and Halo is done ahead of this deadline. By this time, everyone knows it comes out November 9th, and they've paid major bucks to buy ads from 10/15 to 12/20. They can still run the ads but they could change the date, should be easy enough.
What's not easy is setting a date that's too early before the game is done. But now it is, so it's OK to wait a couple of weeks.
"Push up" means "make it sooner" -- that is, make it available in stores on October 16th. Sooner. So then you spend $ on Halo 2 instead of getting a friend to burn you a copy that is the French audio rip with UK subtitles.
They don't have time to write it. A friend who went to my colleague's high school wrote one of the recent Bush speechers. He did a bone outline, then it was filled in by the speechwriters. Then Bush or Kerry make sure that it sounds like what they want to say.
I, for one, welcome our new Immortal Golden-Egg-Laying Goose Overlords!
[Cue graphic of giant King Goose chasing small people with suits on]
I've had Vonage for several months now, and it's saved me a lot of money. I do not recommend it (or any VoIP) for faxes, it just doesn't work very well. Otherwise, any bad outages I always have my cellphone or I email documents to a satellite office and have them fax it.
First off, it is the record label's fault that they are in this current position. They were the ones that were selling CDs with 3 good songs for $19.99, they were the ones pushing crap into radios and record stores, they were the ones that ignored online distribution for years, they were the ones bilking artists. No consumer is thinking "Aww, poor record labels." That's like an attorney pleading for help. Or a spammer. Hello, record companies. You're not liked.
Second, the cost of getting music online is not $0. Besides the obvious cost of bandwidth and disk storage, there's a (really) small chance that you might get sued, and a cost of time that you spend trying to figure out which version of the song you're looking for is good... is it freiburg3.mp3? Or tocotr~1.mp3? Or FREIBURG CONSOLOE TOCOTRONIC.mp3? Then you've got the cost of quality, in that the song you're listening to isn't quite CD quality.
People are only so cot-damned used to paying "$0" because they only had two choices from 1997 onward if they wanted to listen to a song:
Notice the list. There isn't a "listen to the song online free of charge for X days" option. There isn't a "download the first song off an album for $5.99, then all other songs for $4.00 more anytime thereafter" - there isn't a "get access to all songs by the label for $6/m".
Advertising.
Because the other two are figments of your fucking imagination!
I'm a bit clueless here... What information, besides the names of RNC Delegates, did Indymedia have? What do they do? I'm looking around but I can't find a concise summary. Sorry if I'm lazy. :)
My guess is they meant petabyte, not terabyte. Then, adjusting your assumption to each volume having 150 pages, we've got about 3.9bn images, and about 20.48kb per image. That's still not a whole lot, but enough if you consider that for a lot of works they would simply have files with embedded fonts as opposed to image scanning a black-and-white page.