As a burgeoning game developer, the main problem I see is marketing. I'd love to have a few thousand people playing my game, showing it to their friends, and hopefully for all of those thousands of free copies, a few dozen or even if I'm lucky, hundreds of their friends might decide to buy it.
If I give it away free on the Android market I have to give it away free to everyone. Hard to make a living that way.
True, but the QR code is just the media format. You still need to standardise the data format.
A QR code can only handle so much information for a given size. While you can squeeze a vcard on a large one, ideally you want a smaller one to take up less space on the card, and to make it easier to read without error. But this involves agreeing to a standard. This is one of those situations where you're lucky enough to have several standards to choose from.
What are Sony trying to find out? Surely the legal question is whether or not Geohot had the right to hack a PS3. This can be established without determining who has seen the video, donated money.
Seems bizarre, and also weird that the judge is letting Sony get away with this. I can only presume that Geohot's lawyers aren't bothering to put up a serious defence because it makes so little difference.
A given torrent file has no purpose except for the distribution of a specific set of large files. If the file cannot be legally distributed, the torrent file has no legal use.
If outlook could only be used for sending death threats, then I suspect Microsoft would be in trouble.
But what difference does it make what Jefferson said?
What do you think?
As far as |I see it, copyright exists for a practical purpose. The Us constitution says it is "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts". The original copyright law - the Statue of Queen Anne described itself as "An Act for the encouragement of learning".
It's not about moral rights, and never has been, although it is true that the media cartels do present it this way. It's a practical measure to encourage the publication of creative works.
It's also a fun little puzzle game. And that's something that requires that spark of inspiration and originality. That's not something you can manufacture. The best puzzle games have always succeeded. Lemmings, Tetris and Minesweeper and Angry Birds were successful because they each had a certain unquantifiable something, but there were a lot of games with as good production values that didn't succeed.
It's not really innovation. It requires stumbling on the right formula. If Rovio manages another game based on this same level of "innovation" I'll reconsider but I suspect their next game will be "angry birds 2".
Yeah, especially the parts where he said he would rather have an Android tablet, that he only ever had one iPod from Apple, and how he runs Linux and runs Windows in a VM.
Well, if I wanted to sell my product to Slashdotters, I'd present it as being for people who run Linux, choose Android, and aren't rabid Apple fans.
If he said "As a mac user and having tried the iPod, I felt I had to try the iPad", he'd have come across as a rabid Apple fanboy.
It's curious that he felt the urge to mention his credentials at all.
The rest of it is written in a style that suggests this is a commercial review with the intent to guide buyers. Mention of the portfolio (and the price) would be valuable information in a magazine review, but seems bizarre in a comment, and the fact that it's entirely positive makes it read very much like a puff piece.
But why would anyone in their basement feel the need to defend a multi-billion dollar corporation for free?
Have you seen how many people proclaim the iPod as the greatest piece of technology ever? Or defending Apples' walled garden approach to their app store? How about all the people who claim Google is better than Bing without even trying Bing? Come to think of it, all the people who insist Coke is better than Pepsi or vice versa.
Why would a Microsoft shill want to promote dead technologies like HD-DVD and Courier (which honestly did look potentially interesting)?
Google will take down links if the content infringes copyright. There's no intent there.
Whether there was intent here I have no idea. Nor do I know if merely linking to infringing websites is a criminal offence, but the mere fact that
Google does something similar does not mean Google is doing exactly the same thing. Intent matters.
And if your game mostly consists of UI then nobody should but it.
Well, I've worked on one game that fits this description, and was quite successful. (Okay - nothing to do with OpenGL. I'm just nitpicking).
Everybody uses their own matrix library now.
Really? A lot of the time you're just drawing objects. When you're doing basic stuff with matrices the fixed function is actually really useful.
But anyway - while buffer objects are great and all for the main game engine, there's something to be said for immediate mode and/or display lists for some of the less performance dependent stuff. It's pretty handy if you're just drawing boxes and things. Sure it's not that hard to do it with VBOs, but my instinct is to just explicitly set a few vertices, and use a display list if that's too slow. Maybe I'm just showing my age.
Everything (except one or two highly unsuccessful players) plays mp3. It's an adequate format. Converting is inconvenient. I'm sure there's a free tool somewhere that will batch convert, and I still consider the hassle to be more significant than the benefit.
I mean feel free to call me lazy, but I'm sure I'm not the laziest person around.
Because people know that's what a search looks like. They have a lot more experience with TV's representation of what a fingerprint search is like than reality so it sticks.
For exactly the same reason, a spaceship makes a whooshing sound when it flies past, and skeleton movements are always jerky, because that's how they they were in Jason And The Argonoauts.
You need to rewrite for a mobile platform anyway. Unless you're using pretty basic functionality in which case you might as well use OpenGL in the first place. Except you don't have display lists or immediate rendering. Or fragment shaders (unless you use 2'0 in which case you don't have a matrix stack).
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As a burgeoning game developer, the main problem I see is marketing. I'd love to have a few thousand people playing my game, showing it to their friends, and hopefully for all of those thousands of free copies, a few dozen or even if I'm lucky, hundreds of their friends might decide to buy it.
If I give it away free on the Android market I have to give it away free to everyone. Hard to make a living that way.
True, but the QR code is just the media format. You still need to standardise the data format.
A QR code can only handle so much information for a given size. While you can squeeze a vcard on a large one, ideally you want a smaller one to take up less space on the card, and to make it easier to read without error. But this involves agreeing to a standard. This is one of those situations where you're lucky enough to have several standards to choose from.
More than this, you can now easily put a 2D barcode on your business card so it can be scanned into a phone quickly and easily.
So are people actually doing this? It makes sense that they should, although it would be more useful if a standard encoding scheme is used.
What are Sony trying to find out? Surely the legal question is whether or not Geohot had the right to hack a PS3. This can be established without determining who has seen the video, donated money.
Seems bizarre, and also weird that the judge is letting Sony get away with this. I can only presume that Geohot's lawyers aren't bothering to put up a serious defence because it makes so little difference.
So, the next question is "why?"
Why not also include WP7? Has it been written off before people even try it?
A given torrent file has no purpose except for the distribution of a specific set of large files. If the file cannot be legally distributed, the torrent file has no legal use.
If outlook could only be used for sending death threats, then I suspect Microsoft would be in trouble.
But what difference does it make what Jefferson said?
What do you think?
As far as |I see it, copyright exists for a practical purpose. The Us constitution says it is "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts". The original copyright law - the Statue of Queen Anne described itself as "An Act for the encouragement of learning".
It's not about moral rights, and never has been, although it is true that the media cartels do present it this way. It's a practical measure to encourage the publication of creative works.
He's aware of this. It's a thought experiment, no more. He even says so.
It's also a fun little puzzle game. And that's something that requires that spark of inspiration and originality. That's not something you can manufacture. The best puzzle games have always succeeded. Lemmings, Tetris and Minesweeper and Angry Birds were successful because they each had a certain unquantifiable something, but there were a lot of games with as good production values that didn't succeed.
It's not really innovation. It requires stumbling on the right formula. If Rovio manages another game based on this same level of "innovation" I'll reconsider but I suspect their next game will be "angry birds 2".
True. Honestly, I have no idea what to make of the guy. The posts just don't quite make sense for a shill, and do seem well argued.
Yeah, especially the parts where he said he would rather have an Android tablet, that he only ever had one iPod from Apple, and how he runs Linux and runs Windows in a VM.
Well, if I wanted to sell my product to Slashdotters, I'd present it as being for people who run Linux, choose Android, and aren't rabid Apple fans.
If he said "As a mac user and having tried the iPod, I felt I had to try the iPad", he'd have come across as a rabid Apple fanboy.
It's curious that he felt the urge to mention his credentials at all.
The rest of it is written in a style that suggests this is a commercial review with the intent to guide buyers. Mention of the portfolio (and the price) would be valuable information in a magazine review, but seems bizarre in a comment, and the fact that it's entirely positive makes it read very much like a puff piece.
But why would anyone in their basement feel the need to defend a multi-billion dollar corporation for free?
Have you seen how many people proclaim the iPod as the greatest piece of technology ever? Or defending Apples' walled garden approach to their app store? How about all the people who claim Google is better than Bing without even trying Bing? Come to think of it, all the people who insist Coke is better than Pepsi or vice versa.
Why would a Microsoft shill want to promote dead technologies like HD-DVD and Courier (which honestly did look potentially interesting)?
Honestly, what difference does it make?
You either agree with what he has to say or you disagree.
Maybe he's just a Microsoft fanboy These people do exist you know.
"The pen is mightier than the sword" happened to it.
Call me what you like to my face. Accuse me of things in public and then you will hurt me, and I will expect it to be righted.
From the Chilling Effect FAQ. "So far, courts have found that deep links to web pages were neither a copyright infringement nor a trespass. "
Chilling Effects is a creation of various legal organisations and the explicitly cite this complaint so I think we can trust their legal opinion.
*Sigh*. This old thing again.
Google will take down links if the content infringes copyright. There's no intent there.
Whether there was intent here I have no idea. Nor do I know if merely linking to infringing websites is a criminal offence, but the mere fact that Google does something similar does not mean Google is doing exactly the same thing. Intent matters.
How do you get music for a portable media player? Surely at least one of your friends has one.
And if your game mostly consists of UI then nobody should but it.
Well, I've worked on one game that fits this description, and was quite successful. (Okay - nothing to do with OpenGL. I'm just nitpicking).
Everybody uses their own matrix library now.
Really? A lot of the time you're just drawing objects. When you're doing basic stuff with matrices the fixed function is actually really useful.
But anyway - while buffer objects are great and all for the main game engine, there's something to be said for immediate mode and/or display lists for some of the less performance dependent stuff. It's pretty handy if you're just drawing boxes and things. Sure it's not that hard to do it with VBOs, but my instinct is to just explicitly set a few vertices, and use a display list if that's too slow. Maybe I'm just showing my age.
Some of us use more than one finger to type, so can come up with a response pretty quickly.
Why would a Microsoft "shill" be wasting his time talking up a dead format?
Everything (except one or two highly unsuccessful players) plays mp3. It's an adequate format. Converting is inconvenient. I'm sure there's a free tool somewhere that will batch convert, and I still consider the hassle to be more significant than the benefit.
I mean feel free to call me lazy, but I'm sure I'm not the laziest person around.
Well, 192.168.x.x is a bit too well known but I'd say you could get away with 172.16.x.x or anything above 240..x.x.x with far fewer complaints.
Because people know that's what a search looks like. They have a lot more experience with TV's representation of what a fingerprint search is like than reality so it sticks.
For exactly the same reason, a spaceship makes a whooshing sound when it flies past, and skeleton movements are always jerky, because that's how they they were in Jason And The Argonoauts.
You need to rewrite for a mobile platform anyway. Unless you're using pretty basic functionality in which case you might as well use OpenGL in the first place. Except you don't have display lists or immediate rendering. Or fragment shaders (unless you use 2'0 in which case you don't have a matrix stack).
Athletic would have seen most of OpenGL 3 in OpenGL 2. Khronos is playing catchup.
To be fair, I haven't seen what's in version 4.