Because the majority see no point in buying shit for a platform that you're, for all intents and purposes, phasing out. Ok so they're keeping the PSP, but no one sees a point in buying that period.
The games market is in transition, but I wouldn't say it's "weak."
This is some over-paid CPA bitching that people aren't buying their current products while also lining up with cash in hand for their new products. It's the same old shit, "People aren't giving us enough money!"
Goto sf.net and look through projects. See if you might be able to help out in an active project that lies outside your typical knowledge base.
In college you probably learned a lot of the concepts that many projects rely on, but in order to increase your skills you have to branch out from the day to day. If you're using the same languages and spending long stretches working on the same projects (for work or whatever) you're not going to expand your technique very much.
To get stronger you have to build more muscle, building more muscle requires lifting heavier weights.
The mainstream game media is primarily made up of... gamers! They have zero attention span for anything that might show serious journalistic integrity. I'm sure they got distracted by 3 new screenshots of $HIGHLY_ANTICIPATED_SEQUEL
I think what Zonk meant was MS stands to end up having a Live! Marketplace that everyone views as filled with cheats and swindlers if they don't throw the smack down on content providers that cheat and swindle.
If it was a popup ad, then it's too bad it couldn't just block it. If it opened it because you clicked it, there was the option to have links that spawned a new window to open in a tab in version 1.5
The hard to tell what's clickable could easily be avoided by dimming boxes after you make a choice (short of removing them altogether.)
I've always felt, despite the gimmick factor, an LCARS styled interface showed promise of being a fast and efficient way to completing tasks and accessing information.
You would have to move away from showing useless information like they do (hence all the non-clickable buttons).
I would expect the average person would freeze up upon having a gun in their grill. Questioning, at that point, whether or not the shooter is a crack shot is probably not the first thing on their mind.
The shit may hit the ground, assuming it can find a way our their pantsleg.
I thought Arthur Anderson was destroyed because of accounting fraud relating to energy giant Enron imploding. I wouldn't exactly attribute that to people throwing money at.com's without thinking. Enron was just downright fraud.
What's lame is games wouldn't have to be that big if development technology was as quickly outdated as the hardware we use.
If the time and money were spent, you could have reliable, useable procedural techniques to deliver the next 'next gen' games and have them be what, a few hundred megabytes?
Unfortunately developers focus on shoveling rehashed shit out the door to capitalize ASAP. That's what's wrong with the games industry. They spend more money on marketing than R&D. How many times has a game with a fairly large ad campaign eaten more shit than your average household dog?
More specific details were revealed a month ago, but we've known for a long time you'll be able to download games going back to the NES era and they have at least talked about it. Sony hadn't said boo about their service. Unless they have been telling developers behind closed doors, how would you feel about supporting a console that "is suppose to have an online service." but you don't know what you can do to utilize it in your game?
You aren't guaranteed a console "at launch." You'll get a call saying you can pick one up eventually, but yeah, you can "pick one up eventually" at any other retailer too.
uhm... ALL the new consoles are just overpowered sequels to their predecessors. Besides better looking games, what else is new about the X360 or PS3 compared to the Xbox and PS2?
Now, what is new about the Wii compared to the Gamecube? Yeah, see. Gamecube Turbo or not, it's still the only console actually attempting something different. That's the hook people are interested in.
As others have pointed out this was a byproduct of YouTube's ranking system. Like WorldNetDaily hasn't positioned itself as a media source that pushes a particular agenda. If they're concerned with others being bipartisan maybe they should lead the way.
Sounds like this fellow wasn't quite ready to really be married in the first place. Focusing on work, grad studies... wife and kid on the side.
My thought on this is simple. You need to decide for yourself first if you're going to college or just going to "work", get those goals underway/out of the way, then decide if you want a family. Once you have a stable thing going for yourself, only then can you offer stability to anyone you may want to get involved with (and kids too if it goes that far.)
If I were Take Two, my FIRST piece of evidence in defending my wares would be America's Army. "Hey it isn't just us making games that are violent. The very same government asked to pass judgement against us gives this shit away!"
AA is designed to be as accurate as possible with regard to teaching people proper technique for assault, infiltration and causing strategic mayhem. All supported by our tax dollars. If the government is freely supplying this material to people, how the fuck can they ban it? Is this fucking insane or am I missing something?
I knew someone would reply with comments along the lines of "So artists shouldn't be able to charge for their work?"
First off, I didn't say that. I even noted at the bottom that I was refering to the **AA's specifically.
Second, I hope I don't sound like a snob or something. I buy DVD's and have CD's. I'm just saying, my opinion is that, to me, they aren't "artists." They're more akin to a service provider. It's a business.
An artist can charge for their wares, but by working under the banner of a giant corporation with a contract that says "You must produce x amount of work over y period of time." that isn't producing "true art" by my definition. That's no different than doing what a manager tells you to for any other company. That's a job.
Art is more akin to science. It should be created for the pleasure, the interest and the mystique of thinking of new things, ideas, and the interest in sharing them.
Can you charge for it? Sure. If you make something people want to pay for, then by all means.
And the argument that "These people are screwed by **AA's and just trying to survive..." Fuck, I will bet dollars to donuts that most groups you hear on Clear Channel, see on MTV and who are prominently displayed up front at Best Buy just want lots of money. A lot of them even say it outloud. They aren't artists. At least not in my opinion. They entertain for a fee. They sell a service produced to generate the most income. Their decision to get into that line of work, under potentially shitty conditions, is their own choice.
As soon as contract negotiations over royalty payments and distribution expenses come into play, I feel they lose their "artist" status and are "entertainers."
Artists to me are people that attempt to share a unique, creative and inspired vision through sound and vision (or the combination of the two.)
(Yes I realize 'art' is subjective, but I'm talkin strictly to the movie/music type here.)
When it comes to the **AA's and their international counterparts, all we get is rehashed, same old same old in order to service a businesses bottom line.
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So it's like the OP said. If someone says "Whats my shit doing on your internets!" Google removes it. His point is they aren't going to be automatically litigated into oblivion because somone put 2 minutes of an NFL game on GooTube. *That's* the "protection" afforded by Title 2 of DMCA.
The idea is it saves your ass from being drug into court without any notice you're infringing. OTOH, it also doesn't seem like it requires much more than a "TAKE THIS DOWN!" warning which could easily be abused by some.
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Because the majority see no point in buying shit for a platform that you're, for all intents and purposes, phasing out. Ok so they're keeping the PSP, but no one sees a point in buying that period.
The games market is in transition, but I wouldn't say it's "weak."
This is some over-paid CPA bitching that people aren't buying their current products while also lining up with cash in hand for their new products. It's the same old shit, "People aren't giving us enough money!"
Goto sf.net and look through projects. See if you might be able to help out in an active project that lies outside your typical knowledge base.
In college you probably learned a lot of the concepts that many projects rely on, but in order to increase your skills you have to branch out from the day to day. If you're using the same languages and spending long stretches working on the same projects (for work or whatever) you're not going to expand your technique very much.
To get stronger you have to build more muscle, building more muscle requires lifting heavier weights.
The mainstream game media is primarily made up of ... gamers! They have zero attention span for anything that might show serious journalistic integrity. I'm sure they got distracted by 3 new screenshots of $HIGHLY_ANTICIPATED_SEQUEL
I admire you, sir. You have reinvigorated my dream of achieving such indolence by proving it possible.
I think what Zonk meant was MS stands to end up having a Live! Marketplace that everyone views as filled with cheats and swindlers if they don't throw the smack down on content providers that cheat and swindle.
That the unannounced new brand will still be prefixed with "Tom Clancy's..."
IT people typically have the "hero" attitude...
Only because D&D doesen't traditionally let people play the "villains." We come up embracing the lightside.
http://www.mozilla.org/download.html
If it was a popup ad, then it's too bad it couldn't just block it. If it opened it because you clicked it, there was the option to have links that spawned a new window to open in a tab in version 1.5
The hard to tell what's clickable could easily be avoided by dimming boxes after you make a choice (short of removing them altogether.)
I've always felt, despite the gimmick factor, an LCARS styled interface showed promise of being a fast and efficient way to completing tasks and accessing information.
You would have to move away from showing useless information like they do (hence all the non-clickable buttons).
I would expect the average person would freeze up upon having a gun in their grill. Questioning, at that point, whether or not the shooter is a crack shot is probably not the first thing on their mind.
The shit may hit the ground, assuming it can find a way our their pantsleg.
you can even get the suit for less than 10!
I thought Arthur Anderson was destroyed because of accounting fraud relating to energy giant Enron imploding. I wouldn't exactly attribute that to people throwing money at .com's without thinking. Enron was just downright fraud.
What's lame is games wouldn't have to be that big if development technology was as quickly outdated as the hardware we use.
If the time and money were spent, you could have reliable, useable procedural techniques to deliver the next 'next gen' games and have them be what, a few hundred megabytes?
Unfortunately developers focus on shoveling rehashed shit out the door to capitalize ASAP. That's what's wrong with the games industry. They spend more money on marketing than R&D. How many times has a game with a fairly large ad campaign eaten more shit than your average household dog?
More specific details were revealed a month ago, but we've known for a long time you'll be able to download games going back to the NES era and they have at least talked about it. Sony hadn't said boo about their service. Unless they have been telling developers behind closed doors, how would you feel about supporting a console that "is suppose to have an online service." but you don't know what you can do to utilize it in your game?
You might consider waiting for the Core 2 Quad. It seems that a blowtorch could hardly cause that chip to overheat
http://voodoopc.blogspot.com/
Then you just need a couple fans to cool your hard drives
You may want to read that again
http://www.ebgames.com/gs/wii/wiipre_ebgs.asp
"...a reservation deposit does not guarantee receipt of a system available to purchase at launch."
You aren't guaranteed a console "at launch." You'll get a call saying you can pick one up eventually, but yeah, you can "pick one up eventually" at any other retailer too.
uhm... ALL the new consoles are just overpowered sequels to their predecessors. Besides better looking games, what else is new about the X360 or PS3 compared to the Xbox and PS2?
Now, what is new about the Wii compared to the Gamecube? Yeah, see. Gamecube Turbo or not, it's still the only console actually attempting something different. That's the hook people are interested in.
As others have pointed out this was a byproduct of YouTube's ranking system. Like WorldNetDaily hasn't positioned itself as a media source that pushes a particular agenda. If they're concerned with others being bipartisan maybe they should lead the way.
Sounds like this fellow wasn't quite ready to really be married in the first place. Focusing on work, grad studies... wife and kid on the side.
My thought on this is simple. You need to decide for yourself first if you're going to college or just going to "work", get those goals underway/out of the way, then decide if you want a family. Once you have a stable thing going for yourself, only then can you offer stability to anyone you may want to get involved with (and kids too if it goes that far.)
IANAL...
If I were Take Two, my FIRST piece of evidence in defending my wares would be America's Army. "Hey it isn't just us making games that are violent. The very same government asked to pass judgement against us gives this shit away!"
AA is designed to be as accurate as possible with regard to teaching people proper technique for assault, infiltration and causing strategic mayhem. All supported by our tax dollars. If the government is freely supplying this material to people, how the fuck can they ban it? Is this fucking insane or am I missing something?
I knew someone would reply with comments along the lines of "So artists shouldn't be able to charge for their work?"
First off, I didn't say that. I even noted at the bottom that I was refering to the **AA's specifically.
Second, I hope I don't sound like a snob or something. I buy DVD's and have CD's. I'm just saying, my opinion is that, to me, they aren't "artists." They're more akin to a service provider. It's a business.
An artist can charge for their wares, but by working under the banner of a giant corporation with a contract that says "You must produce x amount of work over y period of time." that isn't producing "true art" by my definition. That's no different than doing what a manager tells you to for any other company. That's a job.
Art is more akin to science. It should be created for the pleasure, the interest and the mystique of thinking of new things, ideas, and the interest in sharing them.
Can you charge for it? Sure. If you make something people want to pay for, then by all means.
And the argument that "These people are screwed by **AA's and just trying to survive..." Fuck, I will bet dollars to donuts that most groups you hear on Clear Channel, see on MTV and who are prominently displayed up front at Best Buy just want lots of money. A lot of them even say it outloud. They aren't artists. At least not in my opinion. They entertain for a fee. They sell a service produced to generate the most income. Their decision to get into that line of work, under potentially shitty conditions, is their own choice.
As soon as contract negotiations over royalty payments and distribution expenses come into play, I feel they lose their "artist" status and are "entertainers."
Artists to me are people that attempt to share a unique, creative and inspired vision through sound and vision (or the combination of the two.)
(Yes I realize 'art' is subjective, but I'm talkin strictly to the movie/music type here.)
When it comes to the **AA's and their international counterparts, all we get is rehashed, same old same old in order to service a businesses bottom line.
So it's like the OP said. If someone says "Whats my shit doing on your internets!" Google removes it. His point is they aren't going to be automatically litigated into oblivion because somone put 2 minutes of an NFL game on GooTube. *That's* the "protection" afforded by Title 2 of DMCA.
The idea is it saves your ass from being drug into court without any notice you're infringing. OTOH, it also doesn't seem like it requires much more than a "TAKE THIS DOWN!" warning which could easily be abused by some.