Yeah, and since these artists are legal and financial experts, or already have enough money to hire a reputable attorney and financial manager, it's all their fault that they get taken by record companies, isn't it?
why can't their find of this ancient city stand on its own as exciting and important? why link it to a dubious unprovable myth?
Because if you claim to have discovered the ancient city of Bor-Ing, nobody but a bunch of furry-toothed archeologists give a rats ass. If you claim to have discovered Atlantis, your name gets in papers around the world and if you play your cards right you get some grant money out of the deal.
1. Take one Great Show that will have a built-in initial audience because of who's creating it, and stick it in the Time Slot Of Doom.
2. Watch Great Show continually get pre-empted by NFL football, but do little to nothing to ensure that Great Show can be seen by fans at a regular day and time. Bounce Great Show around in your schedule like a pinball.
3. Totally ignore the creator of Great Show, who's Previous Great Show almost single-handedly saved your network in it's early years.
4. Wonder why Great Show just can't seem to get any ratings. Cancel Great Show because it's cheaper to run Previous Great Show reruns in the Time Slot Of Doom.
The hell with Fox. There was a time that they were a pretty kick ass network, but like every other network they've fallen into the pit of Reality TV. Futurama deserves to be on Cartoon Network.
If you're a descent sysadmin, you're also not going to leave the default password to 'admin' either. Not that this excuses Linksys for an obvious oversight or anything, but for those of us who know what we're doing with our equipment it's not armaggedon or anything.
...you try installing City of Heroes for her instead of Zoo Tycoon, and invite her to play with you and your friends? Don't automatically assume that your SO would not like to play/can't play a game that doesn't involve cute animals or not named Bejeweled.
Tell her that if she's willing, you'd like to turn this into a shared activity with her, and that while you're not looking for an excuse to play video games all day, it might be a good way for you two to spend time together while still doing something that you, and hopefully she, will enjoy. Tell her that if she doesn't like the game, fine, she doesn't have to play and you'll try to keep your playtime reasonable, but it would mean a lot to her if she would give it a shot.
Guys too often look at "shared activies" with women as hanging at Hobby Lobby or getting your nails done or some other ridiculously feminine thing, but it doesn't have to be. I bet you'll be suprised the reaction you get if you just act like you really care about spending time with her.
I've played both ways, and while admitedly the gba-multiplayer is more fun than the single player, I question the wisdom of a game like this dragging it's fans "kicking and screaming" as you put it.
If the gba-multiplayer gameplay is superior people will play it. Cutting off multiplayer to people who don't have a GameBoy (or don't know anyone else who owns GameBoys) was not a good idea, especially on a top-tier title like Final Fantasy.
Read the article. He really does hit it right on the head.
"You know, you'd go to a meeting with a record company and it wouldn't be a guy there who knew that you had written a new song and thought that was cool. It would be a guy who knew that he had moved 40,000 pieces out of Dallas this month, and he had no idea, pieces of what? None."
"Look at it this way. A couple of years ago, somewhere between a fourth and a third of the record business was owned by a whiskey company, who shall remain nameless, but were notably inept at running a record company. And they sold it to a French water company, who shall also remain nameless, but knew even less. Now, those guys haven't a clue! [laughter] They haven't a clue. And they don't care about having a clue. They are trying to run it as if they're selling widgets, plastic-wrapped widgets that they can sell more of. And they want easily definable, easily accessible, easily creatable, controllable product that has a built-in die-out, so that they can create some more."
"It doesn't matter that Britney Spears has nothing to say and is about as deep as a birdbath. It matters that she has cute tits, and that's all that matters."
"Now they're going in the tank, because the world has changed, and they did not change with it. They bit the poison pill, without realizing it, when they went digital. Once a thing is in digital domain, it can be copied as many times as you want. And there is no system that can keep it from being copied. You can devise the most clever one you want, and I will bring some little geek with a pen protector in his pocket into the room and he will fix it in a minute."
Of some of the old classic threads in alt.tv.simpsons, like "Where is Springfield?" and "What's the layout of the Simpson house?"
In those two cases, it turns out that when you take in all the data from all shows, Springfield can literally be nowhere in the US, and the Simpson's house defies the laws of physics. This map is cool and all, but I suspect that a true map of Springfield is impossible to draw. Heck, off the top of my head I can mention the "Meteorite coming to crush Springfield) episode, where it's mentioned that Springfield has only one bridge going out of town.
I wish I had mod points. This sort of thing was mentioned by the instructor at the SANS conference I just attended last week. I think his exact words were something like, "IPS might be nice, but I guarentee there would be ways to game the system".
To me the biggest problem with Snort right now is the lack of a good client. You can install ACID or any other number of log analyzers of course, but why wouldn't the Snort people themselves want to offer a nice client interface of some kind? Not a trivial task I understand, but one, I would think, that is certainly in the realm of possibility for the community. A better way to properly configure/monitor Snort "right out of the box" so to speak, without having to spend time installing configuring ACID or any of the other log analyzers would go a long way to getting Snort used more in coroporations I would bet.
They'll start offering both. Maybe they drop G2 the next time their licensing from Jot comes around, but I can't imagine thats costing them that much money.
In truth there is very little difference between G1 and G2. T's, I's, V's, and making punctuation are the major ones. Long time Palm users had a lot of fun bitching about the change, but realize these are the same people who throw a shit-fit every time the size or shape of the stylus changes by more than a millimeter.
Likely what they're talking about is strong-ish, "looks like this might be something" signals that could not be re-established later on. As I understand it, the Holy Grail in this area is not so much a signal as it is a steady, repeatable signal (think Contact).
Obviously not every teacher/politician feels this way, but it is true that computers are quickly becoming the new "throw money at the problem" solution in primary education in this country. Public education is collapsing before our eyes in most areas, people want answers, and like everything else in this country, those answers have to be fast and easy. It is the one great failing of America today: 9 times out of 10 we are unwilling to work hard or make tough choices if there is a quick and dirty solution to be had. Enter: Computers.
My mother teaches first grade in the small town I grew up in. She has 3 computers in her classroom. Mostly these are used as "rewards" for the kids; get your math problems done and you can go play Number Munchers or whatever. It's not hard to imagine lesser teachers simply using Number Munchers as the math lesson, however.
Really this all goes back to the big issue with public education that everyone likes to talk about, but no one does anything about: paying our teachers more money. My first job out of college I made more money than my mother did after 10 years of teaching. It's almost criminal the amount of money your average public school teacher position makes, and yet for all the talk about how we need to do something about this, nothing ever does get done. Again, quick and dirty solutions. Why bother trying to acurately and fairly determine what to pay good teachers to get them to stay in public education, when you can just write a big fat check to Dell?
Good teachers know how to teach. Even if they don't know how to install Windows or diagnose faulty RAM, they know what place a computer should have in their lessons. Good teachers will not simply turn their students loose on machines, or allow their students to use the computer to take shortcuts in their school work. Pay good teachers what they are worth, and the rest will take care of itself.
What the hell kinds of secrets can a fraternity have? Best cheap beer to get drunk on? How much money it really takes to buy friendship? Best time to slip date-rape drug into your dates drink?
Nice to see that Futurama may have a second chance at getting pre-empted for football every week and shuffled throughout the Fox lineup until Ethan Fucking Edwards couldn't find it.
This is still Fox we're talking about people. If both Futurama and Family Guy do end up coming back, don't expect the second coming or anything. They'll get some hype when they first come back, get thrown into some God awful time slot when American Idol: This Time It's Personal goes on the air, and will be forgotten by 90% of this country inside of 3 weeks.
...with video games becoming a spectator sport, is that so many people so desperately want it to become a spectator sport.
No sport hit the ground running as a viable spectator sport. You think anyone gave a shit back in 1820 when a bunch of nuts went chasing a little white and red-stitched ball all round a grass field? Maybe their families and drinking buddies, but that was about it. It took 50-60 years before even the first signs of professional baseball started to show up in places like New York, Boston and Cincinnati, and even longer than that until you had an MLB that could legitimately be recognized as a national sports league.
How old is multiplayer gaming, at least the kind that we could classify as ever having a chance at becoming a spectator sport? Quake 2 is only about 7 years old. Starcraft was released in 98. I'm sure you can think of other examples that are older, but the point is that competitive gaming is still in it's infancy.
Competitive gaming as a spectator sport will occur naturally. When we can produce fully immersive 3-D virtual worlds that 30,000 people can plug into and view the action simultaneously, then people are going to pay money to watch the worlds best Quake 9 players frag each other. Players will be reproduced in this virtual world exactly, down to the last mole on their cheek. They'll move their avatars not with a keyboard and mouse but with Gundam-style movement suits, which will even perhaps require them to be in top physical shape. Their reaction and hand-eye skills will be world class.
But people can't resist trying to make this happen now, and it's just not going to work when the best you can offer them is essentially watching a TV show of someone playing a video game.
Did someone just graduate from assertiveness training or something? Perhaps next time you ought to actually wait until the product is released until you go throwing a shit-fit about it.
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Yeah, and since these artists are legal and financial experts, or already have enough money to hire a reputable attorney and financial manager, it's all their fault that they get taken by record companies, isn't it?
why can't their find of this ancient city stand on its own as exciting and important? why link it to a dubious unprovable myth?
Because if you claim to have discovered the ancient city of Bor-Ing, nobody but a bunch of furry-toothed archeologists give a rats ass. If you claim to have discovered Atlantis, your name gets in papers around the world and if you play your cards right you get some grant money out of the deal.
Close, but this is more accurate:
1. Take one Great Show that will have a built-in initial audience because of who's creating it, and stick it in the Time Slot Of Doom.
2. Watch Great Show continually get pre-empted by NFL football, but do little to nothing to ensure that Great Show can be seen by fans at a regular day and time. Bounce Great Show around in your schedule like a pinball.
3. Totally ignore the creator of Great Show, who's Previous Great Show almost single-handedly saved your network in it's early years.
4. Wonder why Great Show just can't seem to get any ratings. Cancel Great Show because it's cheaper to run Previous Great Show reruns in the Time Slot Of Doom.
The hell with Fox. There was a time that they were a pretty kick ass network, but like every other network they've fallen into the pit of Reality TV. Futurama deserves to be on Cartoon Network.
If you're a descent sysadmin, you're also not going to leave the default password to 'admin' either. Not that this excuses Linksys for an obvious oversight or anything, but for those of us who know what we're doing with our equipment it's not armaggedon or anything.
...you try installing City of Heroes for her instead of Zoo Tycoon, and invite her to play with you and your friends? Don't automatically assume that your SO would not like to play/can't play a game that doesn't involve cute animals or not named Bejeweled.
Tell her that if she's willing, you'd like to turn this into a shared activity with her, and that while you're not looking for an excuse to play video games all day, it might be a good way for you two to spend time together while still doing something that you, and hopefully she, will enjoy. Tell her that if she doesn't like the game, fine, she doesn't have to play and you'll try to keep your playtime reasonable, but it would mean a lot to her if she would give it a shot.
Guys too often look at "shared activies" with women as hanging at Hobby Lobby or getting your nails done or some other ridiculously feminine thing, but it doesn't have to be. I bet you'll be suprised the reaction you get if you just act like you really care about spending time with her.
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I've played both ways, and while admitedly the gba-multiplayer is more fun than the single player, I question the wisdom of a game like this dragging it's fans "kicking and screaming" as you put it.
If the gba-multiplayer gameplay is superior people will play it. Cutting off multiplayer to people who don't have a GameBoy (or don't know anyone else who owns GameBoys) was not a good idea, especially on a top-tier title like Final Fantasy.
Even so, it would have been nice to at least have the option of playing the game in multiplayer mode sans GBA controller option.
They're not useful now, but in another 200 years when we're all carrying around pocket quantum machines it may be useful.
Read the article. He really does hit it right on the head.
"You know, you'd go to a meeting with a record company and it wouldn't be a guy there who knew that you had written a new song and thought that was cool. It would be a guy who knew that he had moved 40,000 pieces out of Dallas this month, and he had no idea, pieces of what? None."
"Look at it this way. A couple of years ago, somewhere between a fourth and a third of the record business was owned by a whiskey company, who shall remain nameless, but were notably inept at running a record company. And they sold it to a French water company, who shall also remain nameless, but knew even less. Now, those guys haven't a clue! [laughter] They haven't a clue. And they don't care about having a clue. They are trying to run it as if they're selling widgets, plastic-wrapped widgets that they can sell more of. And they want easily definable, easily accessible, easily creatable, controllable product that has a built-in die-out, so that they can create some more."
"It doesn't matter that Britney Spears has nothing to say and is about as deep as a birdbath. It matters that she has cute tits, and that's all that matters."
"Now they're going in the tank, because the world has changed, and they did not change with it. They bit the poison pill, without realizing it, when they went digital. Once a thing is in digital domain, it can be copied as many times as you want. And there is no system that can keep it from being copied. You can devise the most clever one you want, and I will bring some little geek with a pen protector in his pocket into the room and he will fix it in a minute."
-- David Fucking Crosby
Of some of the old classic threads in alt.tv.simpsons, like "Where is Springfield?" and "What's the layout of the Simpson house?"
In those two cases, it turns out that when you take in all the data from all shows, Springfield can literally be nowhere in the US, and the Simpson's house defies the laws of physics. This map is cool and all, but I suspect that a true map of Springfield is impossible to draw. Heck, off the top of my head I can mention the "Meteorite coming to crush Springfield) episode, where it's mentioned that Springfield has only one bridge going out of town.
No, I'm pretty sure that at that speed the space-time continuium breaks down and we get some sort of quantum-hop thing going.
I wish I had mod points. This sort of thing was mentioned by the instructor at the SANS conference I just attended last week. I think his exact words were something like, "IPS might be nice, but I guarentee there would be ways to game the system".
To me the biggest problem with Snort right now is the lack of a good client. You can install ACID or any other number of log analyzers of course, but why wouldn't the Snort people themselves want to offer a nice client interface of some kind? Not a trivial task I understand, but one, I would think, that is certainly in the realm of possibility for the community. A better way to properly configure/monitor Snort "right out of the box" so to speak, without having to spend time installing configuring ACID or any of the other log analyzers would go a long way to getting Snort used more in coroporations I would bet.
It's called hypocrisy.
They'll start offering both. Maybe they drop G2 the next time their licensing from Jot comes around, but I can't imagine thats costing them that much money. In truth there is very little difference between G1 and G2. T's, I's, V's, and making punctuation are the major ones. Long time Palm users had a lot of fun bitching about the change, but realize these are the same people who throw a shit-fit every time the size or shape of the stylus changes by more than a millimeter.
Likely what they're talking about is strong-ish, "looks like this might be something" signals that could not be re-established later on. As I understand it, the Holy Grail in this area is not so much a signal as it is a steady, repeatable signal (think Contact).
Obviously not every teacher/politician feels this way, but it is true that computers are quickly becoming the new "throw money at the problem" solution in primary education in this country. Public education is collapsing before our eyes in most areas, people want answers, and like everything else in this country, those answers have to be fast and easy. It is the one great failing of America today: 9 times out of 10 we are unwilling to work hard or make tough choices if there is a quick and dirty solution to be had. Enter: Computers.
My mother teaches first grade in the small town I grew up in. She has 3 computers in her classroom. Mostly these are used as "rewards" for the kids; get your math problems done and you can go play Number Munchers or whatever. It's not hard to imagine lesser teachers simply using Number Munchers as the math lesson, however.
Really this all goes back to the big issue with public education that everyone likes to talk about, but no one does anything about: paying our teachers more money. My first job out of college I made more money than my mother did after 10 years of teaching. It's almost criminal the amount of money your average public school teacher position makes, and yet for all the talk about how we need to do something about this, nothing ever does get done. Again, quick and dirty solutions. Why bother trying to acurately and fairly determine what to pay good teachers to get them to stay in public education, when you can just write a big fat check to Dell?
Good teachers know how to teach. Even if they don't know how to install Windows or diagnose faulty RAM, they know what place a computer should have in their lessons. Good teachers will not simply turn their students loose on machines, or allow their students to use the computer to take shortcuts in their school work. Pay good teachers what they are worth, and the rest will take care of itself.
Just a nit: Miyamoto is the game guy. He probably has little to anything to do with the development of their hardware platforms.
You, sir, have become my God for today.
What the hell kinds of secrets can a fraternity have? Best cheap beer to get drunk on? How much money it really takes to buy friendship? Best time to slip date-rape drug into your dates drink?
Nice to see that Futurama may have a second chance at getting pre-empted for football every week and shuffled throughout the Fox lineup until Ethan Fucking Edwards couldn't find it.
This is still Fox we're talking about people. If both Futurama and Family Guy do end up coming back, don't expect the second coming or anything. They'll get some hype when they first come back, get thrown into some God awful time slot when American Idol: This Time It's Personal goes on the air, and will be forgotten by 90% of this country inside of 3 weeks.
He probably heard about it from Rush.
...with video games becoming a spectator sport, is that so many people so desperately want it to become a spectator sport.
No sport hit the ground running as a viable spectator sport. You think anyone gave a shit back in 1820 when a bunch of nuts went chasing a little white and red-stitched ball all round a grass field? Maybe their families and drinking buddies, but that was about it. It took 50-60 years before even the first signs of professional baseball started to show up in places like New York, Boston and Cincinnati, and even longer than that until you had an MLB that could legitimately be recognized as a national sports league. How old is multiplayer gaming, at least the kind that we could classify as ever having a chance at becoming a spectator sport? Quake 2 is only about 7 years old. Starcraft was released in 98. I'm sure you can think of other examples that are older, but the point is that competitive gaming is still in it's infancy.
Competitive gaming as a spectator sport will occur naturally. When we can produce fully immersive 3-D virtual worlds that 30,000 people can plug into and view the action simultaneously, then people are going to pay money to watch the worlds best Quake 9 players frag each other. Players will be reproduced in this virtual world exactly, down to the last mole on their cheek. They'll move their avatars not with a keyboard and mouse but with Gundam-style movement suits, which will even perhaps require them to be in top physical shape. Their reaction and hand-eye skills will be world class.
But people can't resist trying to make this happen now, and it's just not going to work when the best you can offer them is essentially watching a TV show of someone playing a video game.
Did someone just graduate from assertiveness training or something? Perhaps next time you ought to actually wait until the product is released until you go throwing a shit-fit about it.
Yeah, um, I'm starting a search engine too. Send me lots of kick-ass hardware for free.