Don't think World of Warcraft when you think 3rd person perspective. It's just 1st person with the camera pulled back a little. Think Robotron 2084. If you feel any detachment from your character, you won't be alive very long. Well, you won't be alive very long anyway, but achieving zen like oneness with your character is quite possible, and necessary to make any sort of real progress.
If anything, it's the games that try to be "real" and "immersive" that fail. An abstract game allows you to forget all that and just get into the zone. Can you imagine playing Ikaruga from a first person perspective? Tetris? When I play an FPS, I never forget that I'm playing an FPS. When I play a good 2D shooter, I forget I exist entirely. That is immersion.
No serious graphic designer can make a living out of such contests, so no serious graphic designer will enter such contest. Therefore any work you get through such a contest will not be that of a serious graphic designer. If you need serious graphic design work, you will not use such a contest. Therefore, these contests can't be taking work away from serious graphic designers.
I heard a story on NPR about these guys last weekend or the one before. They say most of the designs submitted take no more time from a designer than it would take for them to bid on a serious project. If they're making bids for free anyway, there's really not much difference to them.
No. It exposes a huge amount of authors of proprietary code to a copyright infringement lawsuit. How they settle this is up to them, but they can't be forced to open their code. In any case, they'll get off a lot easier than if they had misappropriated proprietary code.
Personally, I've never even gotten as much as a letter in response to my calls. My GF has though, and it was exactly as described. A completely impersonal form letter mindlessly parroting talking points and completely ignoring any specific points she made.
Honestly, do these people believe that anyone will swallow lies like that?
Um yes? Have you not been paying attention? The entire history of politics, during my lifetime at least, has been the people swallowing one ridiculous lie after another. From "trickle down economics" to Obama's "change" rhetoric, they lie and lie and lie and people still believe them.
You should consider low doses of magic mushrooms. Sub-psychoactive doses of psychedelics have been found effective in migranes. Mushroom spores are legal in most places, and they're easy to grow on a small scale, so you don't have to deal with criminals to get it. Good luck.
My bank balance isn't protected by copyright law, but by contract law. If you can get a hold of an integer representing my bank balance, you may do all the math with it you like. If you commit fraud with that information that's a different story.
There's no legal basis for your theory that criminalizing the publication of a file on the internet (I assume that's what you meant since nobody is preventing the publication of anything, if I assume incorrectly please let me know WTF you were thinking) is "silly".
Legal basis, no. Moral basis, yes. They're just integers.
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I hereby propose that we hand over enforcement of our nations drug laws to the heaviest pot smokers we can find.
Back in the day we used to get a lot done on 8mhz and half a meg of RAM with a B&W screen.
Don't think World of Warcraft when you think 3rd person perspective. It's just 1st person with the camera pulled back a little. Think Robotron 2084. If you feel any detachment from your character, you won't be alive very long. Well, you won't be alive very long anyway, but achieving zen like oneness with your character is quite possible, and necessary to make any sort of real progress.
If anything, it's the games that try to be "real" and "immersive" that fail. An abstract game allows you to forget all that and just get into the zone. Can you imagine playing Ikaruga from a first person perspective? Tetris? When I play an FPS, I never forget that I'm playing an FPS. When I play a good 2D shooter, I forget I exist entirely. That is immersion.
Yu got served.
No serious graphic designer can make a living out of such contests, so no serious graphic designer will enter such contest. Therefore any work you get through such a contest will not be that of a serious graphic designer. If you need serious graphic design work, you will not use such a contest. Therefore, these contests can't be taking work away from serious graphic designers.
I heard a story on NPR about these guys last weekend or the one before. They say most of the designs submitted take no more time from a designer than it would take for them to bid on a serious project. If they're making bids for free anyway, there's really not much difference to them.
I said, "They'll get off a lot easier than if they had misappropriated proprietary code."
Not, "They'd have gotten off a lot easier if they had misappropriated proprietary code."
No. It exposes a huge amount of authors of proprietary code to a copyright infringement lawsuit. How they settle this is up to them, but they can't be forced to open their code. In any case, they'll get off a lot easier than if they had misappropriated proprietary code.
I don't really have an issue with MRIs helping guide career descisions.
If anything, it will help dead salmon decide what they do when they get out of school.
Personally, I've never even gotten as much as a letter in response to my calls. My GF has though, and it was exactly as described. A completely impersonal form letter mindlessly parroting talking points and completely ignoring any specific points she made.
Yeah, fat lot of good it does getting a form letter explaining why your Senator doesn't really care what you think.
What is wrong with the way that Internet has been run for the last 20 years? Nothing,
Exactly. For the past 20 years, Net Neutrality has been the default situation. We just want to codify it so it doesn't change.
Honestly, do these people believe that anyone will swallow lies like that?
Um yes? Have you not been paying attention? The entire history of politics, during my lifetime at least, has been the people swallowing one ridiculous lie after another. From "trickle down economics" to Obama's "change" rhetoric, they lie and lie and lie and people still believe them.
You should consider low doses of magic mushrooms. Sub-psychoactive doses of psychedelics have been found effective in migranes. Mushroom spores are legal in most places, and they're easy to grow on a small scale, so you don't have to deal with criminals to get it. Good luck.
Regarding the reload issue
How about we just get rid of reloading entirely? You didn't need to reload in Doom, and it's still the greatest FPS of all time.
There are a lot of professional tools in a gun shop.
To avoid humiliation people are likely to believe that something unpleasant that used a lot of time it must be valuable.
That sounds a lot like parenting.
That's probably exactly what they will do. Just take google's code and change the branding.
If you can passively sniff my brainwaves and turn it into something resembling cognition, more power to you.
My bank balance isn't protected by copyright law, but by contract law. If you can get a hold of an integer representing my bank balance, you may do all the math with it you like. If you commit fraud with that information that's a different story.
There's no legal basis for your theory that criminalizing the publication of a file on the internet (I assume that's what you meant since nobody is preventing the publication of anything, if I assume incorrectly please let me know WTF you were thinking) is "silly".
Legal basis, no. Moral basis, yes. They're just integers.
First we'd need to throw away IP law entirely
As we should.
This is what SELinux is for.
Let's call it what it is. The BP disaster.
If the user's ever satisfied, he'll stop clicking. Keeping satisfaction one click away seems to be Facebook's entire business model.
It's what I did in my office, and now I never get screen glare, as the sun rises and sets to the right of me.
You rotate your desk 180 degrees over the course of the day?
If you have lots of reflections, the screen doesn't look very good.