does this mean launch in japan? i feel like i read something about how sony is going to try to launch simultaneously here and there. if that's the case this is much bigger news. otherwise, it'll be till fall till the US sees them anyway.
wrote an email to ebert in response to this. in it, i noted that it might be too soon to make any sort of assessment. as a gamer, i certainly believe games have come out that qualify as art. but when ebert compares video games as an ostensibly artistic medium to film and literature and music citing that there are no examples of games that measure up to the classics in those other forms, i think he's being unfair. gaming is still in its infancy. how long was music being created or writing or film before touchstone "art" examples were put forth? it's one thing that ebert claims that there's no art games out now. what's more troubling is that it seems that he doesn't see the potential for it to ever get there.
there's no way - imdb belongs to amazon (take a look at the bottom of the imdb launch page). amazon wants to compete with google. this is google's way of competing back
am i the only one that feels like google is trying to get it's hands in too many pies? wasn't the best part of the search engine that it did one thing simply and well. it seems that apple is being crucified for trying to branch out a bit with the ipod photo and shuffle, yet google gets deified for everything it touches.
If I have to install the newest JVM and go through separate fields for each address parameter (address line 1, city, state) instead of just typing natural language into a single box, it's not worth it.
as we get into video search and the like, aren't searches dependent on the quality of the metadata associated with the item? i just tried video.google.com, and was impressed that typing in "bauer" got me stills from recent episodes of 24. but surely that's based solely on the fact that "bauer" was a tag for the still. at that point, why is new search technology impressive? it's the metadata that makes it possible. am i missing something?
i wonder if this speaks to testing mechanisms. asking rote, fact-based multiple choice/true false questions that can be easily googled might be an issue here. isn't it possible that computer usage might increase very particular bands of knowledge that aren't being tested appropriately?
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Actually, TFA notes that he's using bittorrent for some of this. If that's true, then he IS sharing. At least while he's downloading
you're kidding, right? warren spector creates art. ridley scott used to, but then he started doing gi jane and hannibal. if you're going to compare spector to a filmmaker, it has to be someone who rarely misses. for the sake of argument, i'll throw out wes anderson.
"As for me... if this ever comes to pass you'll still find me on the ground, on the open highway, during what used to be rush hour."
I don't know about that. With the population booming the way it is, clogging up traffic on the ground, flying cars might just be an effort to expand the clog in another dimension. imagine being suck in gridlock on the ground, because you chose to use a ground car, and then looking in the sky and seeing skyscraper tall gridlock among the flying cars.
What you're saying makes sense on one level. but you're defining worth based solely on your own opinion. It doesn't matter whether or not you're willing to pay money for a disc. It only matters if someone else would.
I can see a 5" plasic disc in a case with liner notes and photos having value. The music recorded on that disc, however does not
umm... the disc is just a medium. it wouldn't be worth dick if there were no music on it.
music + blank media = $15 to someone willing to pay it
blank media = $1 give or take
doesn't the difference define the value of the music?
this is sort of non-issue for me. being of indian descent, but born and raised in the US, i spent some time travelling in india as a child, and spent most of that time reading asterix and tintin comics. those comics are both french originally, but published in something like 40 countries each. and they're only now readily available in the states. but i always bought the british localizations that would then be shipped to india. the point is, localization doesn't really hurt anything. if people in india want to read spiderman unaltered, they can import it. this will just expose them to it. how many people here got exposed to anime through the dubbed translations before deciding that they wanted to watch it with subtitles, allowing them to see it the way it was in japan?
just to note, this is a generality (granted a pretty good one), but a generality nonetheless. if you want to talk games based on movie licenses, look at the reviews for everything or nothing, the newest bond game. the return of the king game garnered strong critical praise as well. further, the reviews that i've seen so far for the new chronicles of riddick game (read: EGM) call it one of the best xbox games yet. admittedley, these two games took an existing license and crafted an entirely new story from what was seen in the movies, but still, they're based on licesnses nonetheless.
it's no good. i, like many, was unpleasantly surprised by the seemingly high price point of the ipod mini. and after having read (or at least skimmed) the article at ars, i see their point. however, the fact that it had to be explained to me before i saw apple's logic still indicates that there's a problem afoot. how many people are going to read something like this and have an 'aha' moment saying, "oh, i see - apple is going against the flash based market". not many, i'd wager. most will still focus only on the $50 difference to get the 11 extra gigs of storage.
i think the zodiac has a better shot than the n-gage or phantom, but as far as all three are concerned, where's the orginiality? of course there's going to be games that are available across consoles. But M$ wouldn't have been a major player if it didn't have Halo going out the gate. N-Gage and Tapwave seem content to release handheld versions of last years, and in the case of some N-gage titles, last generation's hits (see tomb raider). At 40 bucks a pop, I'd rather play those games on the consoles I have sitting at home, where I can play the copy I already have or pick up a used one for 10 dollars. I like gaming competition because it ups the quality across the board, and I don't mind supporting my habit with multiple consoles. But what's the point if they all play the same games?
I have an MS in CompSci, and I have a job, but let me say that I'm not real pleased with it. It took a long time to find, I've had to make a lot of sacrifices to pay the rent, and I've got my eyes open for something better. Typically, more people pursue graduate school when the economy blows. That's something to take into account here, because we're in a downturn, but by the time you get the PhD, we might be in an upswing again. The other thing to consider is the kinds of jobs PhD's get. There's always going to be opportunities to teach. There's 3500 colleges in this country, not counting courses you could teach at high schools, online universities... etc. The research is part of the sticky issue. There are PhD research positions out there, but they're hard to find. Most of the folks I know got the PhD and then went on to academia or started a business based on their research. When I was making the decision of whether to pursue the PhD or not, my advisor (who worked in industry with an MS for quite a while before coming back to get the PhD and teaching) told me that relative to the amount of time you invest in getting the PhD versus what you make out of it, you're basically taking a lifetime paycut. That may or may not be true, but I think the thing that will have to govern your decision is how much you want it. If you're doing it with a terminal job in mind, you're probably not going to be happy with the result. If you get the degree because you have a genuine interest in theory, and want to be at the bleeding edge, then the job will create itself as you start a company or work in academia to continually stay at that bleeding edge for the rest of your career.
Yeah it will... because according to the EFF's site, you can type in that user name and then go look at the actual subpoena, which will have the IP address.
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it was launched at the normal price, but sold so poorly, that it was dropped to the $20 range within about 6 weeks.
does this mean launch in japan? i feel like i read something about how sony is going to try to launch simultaneously here and there. if that's the case this is much bigger news. otherwise, it'll be till fall till the US sees them anyway.
i wonder if the overheating issues will be less prevalent in the uk given the necessary voltage differences in the power supply
wrote an email to ebert in response to this. in it, i noted that it might be too soon to make any sort of assessment. as a gamer, i certainly believe games have come out that qualify as art. but when ebert compares video games as an ostensibly artistic medium to film and literature and music citing that there are no examples of games that measure up to the classics in those other forms, i think he's being unfair. gaming is still in its infancy. how long was music being created or writing or film before touchstone "art" examples were put forth? it's one thing that ebert claims that there's no art games out now. what's more troubling is that it seems that he doesn't see the potential for it to ever get there.
if they hadn't, wouldn't you know the guy's name, or have read in interview with him or something?
Couldn't ETS be considered a monopoly? Don't you have to take one of their tests to pursue higher education at many schools?
My girlfriend temped for them one summer and said their campus is ridiculous opulant.
they extended the paint bucket to the 4th dimension?
before we see russian site allofdvd.com spring up?
there's no way - imdb belongs to amazon (take a look at the bottom of the imdb launch page). amazon wants to compete with google. this is google's way of competing back
am i the only one that feels like google is trying to get it's hands in too many pies? wasn't the best part of the search engine that it did one thing simply and well. it seems that apple is being crucified for trying to branch out a bit with the ipod photo and shuffle, yet google gets deified for everything it touches.
If I have to install the newest JVM and go through separate fields for each address parameter (address line 1, city, state) instead of just typing natural language into a single box, it's not worth it.
How can I possibly do that without outing myself or somebody else?
as we get into video search and the like, aren't searches dependent on the quality of the metadata associated with the item? i just tried video.google.com, and was impressed that typing in "bauer" got me stills from recent episodes of 24. but surely that's based solely on the fact that "bauer" was a tag for the still. at that point, why is new search technology impressive? it's the metadata that makes it possible. am i missing something?
i wonder if this speaks to testing mechanisms. asking rote, fact-based multiple choice/true false questions that can be easily googled might be an issue here. isn't it possible that computer usage might increase very particular bands of knowledge that aren't being tested appropriately?
Actually, TFA notes that he's using bittorrent for some of this. If that's true, then he IS sharing. At least while he's downloading
you're kidding, right? warren spector creates art. ridley scott used to, but then he started doing gi jane and hannibal. if you're going to compare spector to a filmmaker, it has to be someone who rarely misses. for the sake of argument, i'll throw out wes anderson.
"As for me
I don't know about that. With the population booming the way it is, clogging up traffic on the ground, flying cars might just be an effort to expand the clog in another dimension. imagine being suck in gridlock on the ground, because you chose to use a ground car, and then looking in the sky and seeing skyscraper tall gridlock among the flying cars.
not unless you google it
What you're saying makes sense on one level. but you're defining worth based solely on your own opinion. It doesn't matter whether or not you're willing to pay money for a disc. It only matters if someone else would.
I can see a 5" plasic disc in a case with liner notes and photos having value. The music recorded on that disc, however does not
umm... the disc is just a medium. it wouldn't be worth dick if there were no music on it.
music + blank media = $15 to someone willing to pay it
blank media = $1 give or take
doesn't the difference define the value of the music?
this is sort of non-issue for me. being of indian descent, but born and raised in the US, i spent some time travelling in india as a child, and spent most of that time reading asterix and tintin comics. those comics are both french originally, but published in something like 40 countries each. and they're only now readily available in the states. but i always bought the british localizations that would then be shipped to india. the point is, localization doesn't really hurt anything. if people in india want to read spiderman unaltered, they can import it. this will just expose them to it. how many people here got exposed to anime through the dubbed translations before deciding that they wanted to watch it with subtitles, allowing them to see it the way it was in japan?
just to note, this is a generality (granted a pretty good one), but a generality nonetheless. if you want to talk games based on movie licenses, look at the reviews for everything or nothing, the newest bond game. the return of the king game garnered strong critical praise as well. further, the reviews that i've seen so far for the new chronicles of riddick game (read: EGM) call it one of the best xbox games yet. admittedley, these two games took an existing license and crafted an entirely new story from what was seen in the movies, but still, they're based on licesnses nonetheless.
it's no good. i, like many, was unpleasantly surprised by the seemingly high price point of the ipod mini. and after having read (or at least skimmed) the article at ars, i see their point. however, the fact that it had to be explained to me before i saw apple's logic still indicates that there's a problem afoot. how many people are going to read something like this and have an 'aha' moment saying, "oh, i see - apple is going against the flash based market". not many, i'd wager. most will still focus only on the $50 difference to get the 11 extra gigs of storage.
i think the zodiac has a better shot than the n-gage or phantom, but as far as all three are concerned, where's the orginiality? of course there's going to be games that are available across consoles. But M$ wouldn't have been a major player if it didn't have Halo going out the gate. N-Gage and Tapwave seem content to release handheld versions of last years, and in the case of some N-gage titles, last generation's hits (see tomb raider). At 40 bucks a pop, I'd rather play those games on the consoles I have sitting at home, where I can play the copy I already have or pick up a used one for 10 dollars. I like gaming competition because it ups the quality across the board, and I don't mind supporting my habit with multiple consoles. But what's the point if they all play the same games?
I have an MS in CompSci, and I have a job, but let me say that I'm not real pleased with it. It took a long time to find, I've had to make a lot of sacrifices to pay the rent, and I've got my eyes open for something better. Typically, more people pursue graduate school when the economy blows. That's something to take into account here, because we're in a downturn, but by the time you get the PhD, we might be in an upswing again. The other thing to consider is the kinds of jobs PhD's get. There's always going to be opportunities to teach. There's 3500 colleges in this country, not counting courses you could teach at high schools, online universities... etc. The research is part of the sticky issue. There are PhD research positions out there, but they're hard to find. Most of the folks I know got the PhD and then went on to academia or started a business based on their research. When I was making the decision of whether to pursue the PhD or not, my advisor (who worked in industry with an MS for quite a while before coming back to get the PhD and teaching) told me that relative to the amount of time you invest in getting the PhD versus what you make out of it, you're basically taking a lifetime paycut. That may or may not be true, but I think the thing that will have to govern your decision is how much you want it. If you're doing it with a terminal job in mind, you're probably not going to be happy with the result. If you get the degree because you have a genuine interest in theory, and want to be at the bleeding edge, then the job will create itself as you start a company or work in academia to continually stay at that bleeding edge for the rest of your career.
Yeah it will... because according to the EFF's site, you can type in that user name and then go look at the actual subpoena, which will have the IP address.