Kevin & Adrian owned over 50% of the company, so yes, the company wanted to do something else
Now that's just quibbling.:) I would think that having almost every employee for it and two owners against it would equate to "wants to, but not allowed to". Regardless, this was a decision made by the majority of id's employee's, not a case of Carmack going on an ego trip and demanding that the company do what *he* wanted to do, followed by maniacal laughter.
That IS puzzling. Usually id has released a technology test to find bugs and see if some aspect of the game needs to be improved, and THEN they release a demo. They've done that since at least Quake 1. The only reason I can think of for them not doing it again is Doom 3 is intended to be a single player game, and they'll go back to standard procedure with Quake 4.
Personally I feel betrayed. Id has a long history of producing games with fun gameplay.
Wonderful! Let us know how it was a disappointment for you. But with a simplistic "Doom sux, Far Cry rox" you came off as a fickle snob of a fanboy who needed to be smacked down.
And unlike the precious iPod, nobody gives a shit. Its like power windows in a car: the first time you see them in real life, they're fascinating. For about 5 seconds until the novelty wears off.
You ever hear of the jack-of-all-trades, master of none principle? The iPod was designed for playing music. Completely. Apple went for the size/capacity sweet spot, with a sweet interface. You start bolting extra (mostly useless) crap on, and you'll increase the size, decrease the usability and give you more parts that can break.
iRiver has the iHP (now called the H series) which is around the same price for the same storage,
True.
has better sound quality
BS. Just what is this based on? Both players support lossless formats.
better battery life than the G4 iPods
Under what conditions? Especially once you start using those extra features that have been bolted on?
LCD remote
The iPod has a remote, although its no longer an included accessory, bastards... And who cares about an LCD? If you absolutely must see what's on the screen, get off your lazy butt and look at it!
recording and optical capabilities
More useless crap for the vast majority of users. If you are one of the very few who can actually make use of those features, then by all means go buy an iRiver. But that doesn't mean that it "beats" the iPod. Not even in the same ballpark.
And if you give either the iRiver or Creative players a few moments of your time you won't have any trouble using them.
Oh, I'm sure we wont. But one of the great things about the iPod interface is not that "you wont have a problem using it", but that its god damn good. Can you say the same thing for the iRiver?
Yes, they killed the iPod where it counts
Ha! In reality, the iPod beats, and will continue to beat the iRiver "where it counts" because the only thing that counts is how good a music player it is. Extra things can be tacked on through software, like contacts, notes and calendars (can the iRiver's do that, eh?) without degrading the player, but as soon as you start bolting stuff on the quality is going to go down or the price is going to go up, or both.
sound quality, battery life and actual audio features
Crap, questionable, and crap.
It also has a radio
The one feature that might actually be useful. But consider for a moment how much radio sucks, and how many people buy portable music players to get *away* from the radio.
USB making it accessible to more machines
Um, the iPod has used USB2 since at least the 3rd gen. I'm surprised you didn't mention the iRiver's Ogg support.:) But I would also point out that the iPod's Firewire interface allows you to use it as a boot volume. Yes, some motherboards are starting to let you boot off of USB, but not nearly as many as Firewire.
My point is that that is just your opinion, dumbass. There are a lot of gamers who are going to like Doom 3 more than Far Cry, but I bet a majority of them wont be total snobs about it.
Maybe you didnt notice...but its a game.
Speak for yourself, dumbass. You're the one who didn't seem to grasp the fact that mindless zombies will act like...mindless zombies. And anyone who bought Doom 3 not expecting to fight some is a dumbass.
Tell me where I even mentioned the word "realism" in my post.
Tell me how that makes any difference. If its such a great game, go back to it and quit being a snob.
However, I did mention the word "fun."
And a lot of FPS fans are going to find Doom 3 plenty of "fun", but I doubt too many of them spent the day of Far Cry's release bitching about how shitty they thought the game was. But then, they aren't trying to compensate for something.
And there are actually some things in FarCry which were done better. For example, the way the hanging tubelights move and their light looks in the smoke.
Whoop de frikkin do. I don't recall Carmack ever saying that the game would be the be-all and end-all of game engines, but there are probably many things that Doom 3 does better than Far Cry. But then, Carmack isn't a pretentious little dick who sees fit to bitch about other people's work despite never having done any of his own.
Enemy in Farcry is definitely smarter than Doom3. In doom, only the soldiers seem to hide or take cover. The others simply rush you. The "scare" factor in Doom is no longer scary, but simply tedious.
Mindless zombies that use tactics would be a bit of a contradiction, no? If they're too easy for you, kick up the difficulty and wait for the harder enemies.
Dollars to doughnuts says that this is all about some over-eager DA grabbing some headlines to help increase his chances of getting (re)elected.
Like the DA in the Kobe case who made an announcement to the press that he would make an announcement to the press the next day, in prime time, on his decision on wether or not to press charges. The only reason not to have announced his decision then and there was so he could get more press. Which is something I'm sure the defense attorneys will use.
90% of what Larry Flynt publishes should have no first amendment protection, for instance.
Why not. I don't see anything in the First Amendment saying that only speech on certain topics is protected.
Where I *do* think we need to make a distinction is personal speech vs commercial speech. Another example of how the courts screwed up when they decided corporate entities have the same rights as citizens.
Weird Al Yankovic gets the copyright holder's permission
Actually that would be their approval as he doesn't need their permission. As others have mentioned, the bar is currently set by the 2 Live Crew case over their parody "Big Harry Woman", which used all of the melody and different words.
If EFF's lawyers are worth even half their salt, this will get laughed out of court very quickly.
Nope. Does any of that change the fact that it was in the article summary? Does that change the fact that the PP was wrong about plagarism? What it does mean is that Hemos needs to work on his article posting.
No, it never was. No single device can use 420 mbs/sec, and with mutiple devices Firewire is going to kill USB 2.0, as Firewire isn't dependant on the CPU or even a computer host. And thats with Firewire 400, 800 is available now.
they don't have to worry about the licensing from Apple
The people who complained about the licensing were just a bunch of whiney bitches, pure and simple. If coughing up a couple of nickels on a hundred dollar+ device breaks your bank, you have more serious problems on hand than paying for Firewire.
Palpetine actually had a covert ops Dark Jedi among him who secured him, did stealth operations, did intelligence ops, and eventually fell in love with Luke: Mara Jade.
While Mara Jade *was* a covert op, the "Emperor's Hand", she wasn't a jedi at the time, not even an apprentice. She did have a lot of latent jedi ability, mainly manifested in her ability to hear the Emperor through the force, no matter where she was in the galaxy.
Besides, I'm there have been dark jedi running around who *weren't* sith.
That sucks about your friend. I would have told the guy to get a copy of the tape (I'm sure they have lots of cameras around the booths) and have it analyzed by somebody who could read lips.
Oh, and I wasn't including French-Canadians in my origional statement about Canandian friendlyness. With them its probably the other way around: never meet one that wasn't wearing crabby pants.
When I met the rude, obnoxious, self-absorbed Canadian, I was FLOORED.
Sure he wasn't from Quebec? I wasn't including French-Canadians in my observation of the widespread friendlyness of Canucks. Becuase I knew one at school, and he was a dick.:-)
Remember that Apple placed an order for a bunch of 60 gig drives a month or so ago. I thought they were going to wait till the Apple expo in Europe, the first week of August, for them to come out with new iPods. That's probably when they'll unveil the 60 gig...makes sense as they don't have a high end (price) iPod right now.
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Kevin & Adrian owned over 50% of the company, so yes, the company wanted to do something else
:) I would think that having almost every employee for it and two owners against it would equate to "wants to, but not allowed to". Regardless, this was a decision made by the majority of id's employee's, not a case of Carmack going on an ego trip and demanding that the company do what *he* wanted to do, followed by maniacal laughter.
Now that's just quibbling.
You have to wonder why Doom 3 didn't.
That IS puzzling. Usually id has released a technology test to find bugs and see if some aspect of the game needs to be improved, and THEN they release a demo. They've done that since at least Quake 1. The only reason I can think of for them not doing it again is Doom 3 is intended to be a single player game, and they'll go back to standard procedure with Quake 4.
Personally I feel betrayed. Id has a long history of producing games with fun gameplay.
Wonderful! Let us know how it was a disappointment for you. But with a simplistic "Doom sux, Far Cry rox" you came off as a fickle snob of a fanboy who needed to be smacked down.
because it's got a webserver inside.
And unlike the precious iPod, nobody gives a shit. Its like power windows in a car: the first time you see them in real life, they're fascinating. For about 5 seconds until the novelty wears off.
But he did say this:
So? Was he wrong?
No, he's just insisted on working on Doom 3 when the company wanted to do something else:
Bzzt. No, most of the company wanted to do Doom 3, but "Kevin and Adrian" did not. They took a vote on it. Look it up.
You ever hear of the jack-of-all-trades, master of none principle? The iPod was designed for playing music. Completely. Apple went for the size/capacity sweet spot, with a sweet interface. You start bolting extra (mostly useless) crap on, and you'll increase the size, decrease the usability and give you more parts that can break.
:) But I would also point out that the iPod's Firewire interface allows you to use it as a boot volume. Yes, some motherboards are starting to let you boot off of USB, but not nearly as many as Firewire.
iRiver has the iHP (now called the H series) which is around the same price for the same storage,
True.
has better sound quality
BS. Just what is this based on? Both players support lossless formats.
better battery life than the G4 iPods
Under what conditions? Especially once you start using those extra features that have been bolted on?
LCD remote
The iPod has a remote, although its no longer an included accessory, bastards... And who cares about an LCD? If you absolutely must see what's on the screen, get off your lazy butt and look at it!
recording and optical capabilities
More useless crap for the vast majority of users. If you are one of the very few who can actually make use of those features, then by all means go buy an iRiver. But that doesn't mean that it "beats" the iPod. Not even in the same ballpark.
And if you give either the iRiver or Creative players a few moments of your time you won't have any trouble using them.
Oh, I'm sure we wont. But one of the great things about the iPod interface is not that "you wont have a problem using it", but that its god damn good. Can you say the same thing for the iRiver?
Yes, they killed the iPod where it counts
Ha! In reality, the iPod beats, and will continue to beat the iRiver "where it counts" because the only thing that counts is how good a music player it is. Extra things can be tacked on through software, like contacts, notes and calendars (can the iRiver's do that, eh?) without degrading the player, but as soon as you start bolting stuff on the quality is going to go down or the price is going to go up, or both.
sound quality, battery life and actual audio features
Crap, questionable, and crap.
It also has a radio
The one feature that might actually be useful. But consider for a moment how much radio sucks, and how many people buy portable music players to get *away* from the radio.
USB making it accessible to more machines
Um, the iPod has used USB2 since at least the 3rd gen. I'm surprised you didn't mention the iRiver's Ogg support.
My point was Farcry is a better buy.
My point is that that is just your opinion, dumbass. There are a lot of gamers who are going to like Doom 3 more than Far Cry, but I bet a majority of them wont be total snobs about it.
Maybe you didnt notice...but its a game.
Speak for yourself, dumbass. You're the one who didn't seem to grasp the fact that mindless zombies will act like...mindless zombies. And anyone who bought Doom 3 not expecting to fight some is a dumbass.
Tell me where I even mentioned the word "realism" in my post.
Tell me how that makes any difference. If its such a great game, go back to it and quit being a snob.
However, I did mention the word "fun."
And a lot of FPS fans are going to find Doom 3 plenty of "fun", but I doubt too many of them spent the day of Far Cry's release bitching about how shitty they thought the game was. But then, they aren't trying to compensate for something.
The law makers can change that...
Thats also wrong. What they *have* done is further criminalize it.
And there are actually some things in FarCry which were done better. For example, the way the hanging tubelights move and their light looks in the smoke.
Whoop de frikkin do. I don't recall Carmack ever saying that the game would be the be-all and end-all of game engines, but there are probably many things that Doom 3 does better than Far Cry. But then, Carmack isn't a pretentious little dick who sees fit to bitch about other people's work despite never having done any of his own.
Enemy in Farcry is definitely smarter than Doom3. In doom, only the soldiers seem to hide or take cover. The others simply rush you. The "scare" factor in Doom is no longer scary, but simply tedious.
Mindless zombies that use tactics would be a bit of a contradiction, no? If they're too easy for you, kick up the difficulty and wait for the harder enemies.
Yes, I'm talking about Far Cry.
If you're such a realism fanboy why don't you stfu and go back to Far Cry and Counter-Strike?
Dollars to doughnuts says that this is all about some over-eager DA grabbing some headlines to help increase his chances of getting (re)elected.
Like the DA in the Kobe case who made an announcement to the press that he would make an announcement to the press the next day, in prime time, on his decision on wether or not to press charges. The only reason not to have announced his decision then and there was so he could get more press. Which is something I'm sure the defense attorneys will use.
"Ride of the Valkyries" worked for my Mom once. Tell your buddy not to stop trying.
90% of what Larry Flynt publishes should have no first amendment protection, for instance.
Why not. I don't see anything in the First Amendment saying that only speech on certain topics is protected.
Where I *do* think we need to make a distinction is personal speech vs commercial speech. Another example of how the courts screwed up when they decided corporate entities have the same rights as citizens.
Weird Al calls the artist, gets permission, and pays royalty checks.
Which is very nice of him, considering he doens't have to do any of that.
Weird Al Yankovic gets the copyright holder's permission
Actually that would be their approval as he doesn't need their permission. As others have mentioned, the bar is currently set by the 2 Live Crew case over their parody "Big Harry Woman", which used all of the melody and different words.
If EFF's lawyers are worth even half their salt, this will get laughed out of court very quickly.
The same goes for you, too.
Nope. Does any of that change the fact that it was in the article summary? Does that change the fact that the PP was wrong about plagarism? What it does mean is that Hemos needs to work on his article posting.
It's faster
No, it never was. No single device can use 420 mbs/sec, and with mutiple devices Firewire is going to kill USB 2.0, as Firewire isn't dependant on the CPU or even a computer host. And thats with Firewire 400, 800 is available now.
they don't have to worry about the licensing from Apple
The people who complained about the licensing were just a bunch of whiney bitches, pure and simple. If coughing up a couple of nickels on a hundred dollar+ device breaks your bank, you have more serious problems on hand than paying for Firewire.
I've had nothing but good expereinces with IBM/Hitachi.
If you're going to bitch at someone, at least try to make sure that you are right.
Palpetine actually had a covert ops Dark Jedi among him who secured him, did stealth operations, did intelligence ops, and eventually fell in love with Luke: Mara Jade.
While Mara Jade *was* a covert op, the "Emperor's Hand", she wasn't a jedi at the time, not even an apprentice. She did have a lot of latent jedi ability, mainly manifested in her ability to hear the Emperor through the force, no matter where she was in the galaxy.
Besides, I'm there have been dark jedi running around who *weren't* sith.
couldn't ever find their base
What are you talking about? He pegged Hoth the instant he saw the photos.
Well, sure, except that Democrats tend to be sissies when facing anyone other than another Democrat. Dukakis is a perfect example of this.
You don't know me very well then ;)
:)
Well, I've never meet you.
That sucks about your friend. I would have told the guy to get a copy of the tape (I'm sure they have lots of cameras around the booths) and have it analyzed by somebody who could read lips.
Oh, and I wasn't including French-Canadians in my origional statement about Canandian friendlyness. With them its probably the other way around: never meet one that wasn't wearing crabby pants.
When I met the rude, obnoxious, self-absorbed Canadian, I was FLOORED.
:-)
Sure he wasn't from Quebec? I wasn't including French-Canadians in my observation of the widespread friendlyness of Canucks. Becuase I knew one at school, and he was a dick.
Remember that Apple placed an order for a bunch of 60 gig drives a month or so ago. I thought they were going to wait till the Apple expo in Europe, the first week of August, for them to come out with new iPods. That's probably when they'll unveil the 60 gig...makes sense as they don't have a high end (price) iPod right now.