he he... What would we do without the jaded mainstream haters?
What I meant in my previous post was that the mainstream(me) would have no clue this flick existed except for publicly available festivals like these(SxSW).
There's nothing wrong with getting your work distributed. If the director played the game, got into the 'in crowd' or whatever, then more power to him because he sure as hell didn't get his film(about a video game of all things!) into the festival because the content would guarantee a packed house and big sack of money for everyone.
Anyway, I just wanted to post and praise the fellas that put together the SxSW festival and bring neat little known movies like this to the (somewhat) mainstream. I havn't ever had the chance to check out the interactive part of the festival (mostly because this stuff costs an arm and a leg!), anybody see anything cool there?
and..oh yeah..SF rules.
what do you mean M.Bison is Balrog is Vega is M.Bison???
Well, considering that they are disconituing their GF3 line(except the Ti 200), I would go for the GF4 4400 or wait for the GF4 4200 that should be out in about 8 weeks. At $149, the GF4 4200 will definitely be the most bang for buck.
What? Do you live in a cave?
This napster situation isn't just about napster. It also isn't about a few kids stealing stuff through the internet. It's gotten WAY bigger. Hell, my grandma has heard of napster now.
This situation involves the music industry as we know it. It involves every artist that has ever tried to get a record deal. It involves all of the huge mega-corporations that own the rights to all the music that people work so hard to make. It involves fundamental laws of our country and changing them. Hopefully for the better. And most of all it involves power.
Can you imagine what a significant event it would be if the record company's fell and copywrites, by law, would always be owned by the creator? It would open everything up. No more record companies shoving teeny bopper crap down everyones throats. There would be a place for everybody, every type of music. Distributed power. Quality would be rewarded and crap would sink...analogous to how slashdot works.
*pulls head from clouds*
If that not "stuff that matters", I don't know what is.
uh...I didn't pay for windows when I bought my pc.;)
The fact that Microsoft tried to control distribution instead of beat the competition failrly is just downright ethically wrong, but they really didn't do anything illegal.
Microsoft may be on top now, but Linux is growing all the time. IBM is pouring support into Linux and it's eating away at mircrosoft's marketshare. I'm sure it really pisses them off too. (he he) Remember that most families and individuals may have M$ OS's but it's the OEMs that bring in the big bucks. If you look at the situation from a point of view other than an individual consumer, the picture is different. Competition in high-end business solutions and web servers is alive and well. Few companies have the ability or the desire to support the mass of random consumers.
I understand that the point of Dogma2001 is to focus on the creativity and break corporate paradigms, but I dont believe that putting bounds on what you can do will necessarily guarentee creative success. Stale games are stale games. And avoiding stale aspects is always a challenge to a game maker.
Suppose Dogma2001 caught on and a game came out in the order of magnitude as the original Lemmings. It's always a wonderful thing when someone pulls off a creatively successful game, but soon that too will be stale because of endless clones. Now what? I think the real Dogma2001 should be to have a personal goal for creative success no matter what it may be.
This can relate to just about anything you want to succeed at.
I love the Gourds! Good ol Austin,TX guys who can jam like nothing else...too bad the Austin shows are always so packed nowadays.
Funny coincidence, though. The Gourds were actually sued for copywrite infringement for recording "Gin and Juice" without permission. Ok so they aren't the smartest guys, but who would've though it would turn out so good? Anyway, it's just funny that you are now copying a song illegaly on napster that was illegally recorded in the first place. Whew! So much hubub over a couple fun-lovin guys jammin out to a rap song...
It was because it was cheaper to buy the entire company than to have to pay 3dfx a bunch of money because of patent infringement. The fact that they took out a competitor was just icing on the cake. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for a nvidia Voodoo card either, BTW.
They took it down temporarily because of traffic...
Does OpenFX have OpenGL or Direct3D support for the viewports? What file formats does it support? Hopefully it has a better ASCII exporter than MAX...
BTW, 3ds gMAX isn't exactly going to be the independent developers' holy grail. There is still going to be license issues and it is decidely NOT 100% open source. Also you'll only be able to use it with 'kits' released by the various game developers that want you to buy their game. At least it'll help mod makers and quake modelers though. Check it out gMax info here.
Funk_dat
I dont use social security!
I dont use welfare!
I dont use information from the studies on insect sex!
Guess what? You are already paying for TONS of things you dont use. And you are paying the government A LOT of money for them. I wouldn't mind throwing in an extra couple pennies every time I buy some CDs if it would get the RIAA and any other suit wearing music executive to shut the hell up and let me have my music.
Funk_dat
That rapper was Nelly! He rules.
To bad the Rams didn't make it back to The Game, it woulda been an STL party! Plus I'm pretty sure the Rams woulda beat tha pants off either of those teams.
FUNK!
I dont think it's a question of if they 'deserve' the money. What the hell? How can you judge if someone deserves $2 million. It's a conflict over the protection of ideas and hard work. I'm sorry but no matter how you look at it, this emulator is wrong and, in my opinion, a waste of time. Why dont they just create their own ideas and make their own game instead of trying to steal someone elses?
There's an interesting story on wired.com about all this. Talks about the ill-fated percolator. There's a quote from the percolator guys: "There's got to be a way to take care of musicians and their fans." I've heard this before. Like maybe have all music be free for download but you get choaked with ads or you pay monthly or some bullcrap. Sounds like a fine happy little plan but there is one little thing in the way... The billion dollar record companies that would like all this internet hooplah to go away. And last I checked, if you have a billion dollars, you don't loose in court very often. A billion dollars does wonders in influencing folks. So now that napster is smoked (it was just a matter of when), I'll just go back to anonymous ftp sites, on-line friends, and (now)gnutella and the big business can go back to ripping people off and tainting true expression.
Slashdot Mirror
he he...
What would we do without the jaded mainstream haters?
What I meant in my previous post was that the mainstream(me) would have no clue this flick existed except for publicly available festivals like these(SxSW).
There's nothing wrong with getting your work distributed. If the director played the game, got into the 'in crowd' or whatever, then more power to him because he sure as hell didn't get his film(about a video game of all things!) into the festival because the content would guarantee a packed house and big sack of money for everyone.
Woah...lots of hostility in here today..
..oh yeah..SF rules.
Anyway, I just wanted to post and praise the fellas that put together the SxSW festival and bring neat little known movies like this to the (somewhat) mainstream. I havn't ever had the chance to check out the interactive part of the festival (mostly because this stuff costs an arm and a leg!), anybody see anything cool there?
and
what do you mean M.Bison is Balrog is Vega is M.Bison???
I'm not sure I understand your comment...or are you talking about "Arrg" pirates that roam the seven seas with parrots and drink bottles of rum.
Those damn scallywags and their murderous ways most deffinitely DO cause deaths.
I think it's true that is didn't have enough advertising. I loved the show but it hopped around so much I never knew when it was gonna be on.
Anyway, it's TOO LATE. My good friend know some of the animators on that show and they are all already laid off. Futurama: R.I.P.
Check out this article here:
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1577
It's all about the board manufacturers putting crap low-pass filters on the boards. Solution: rip those suckers off!
Well, considering that they are disconituing their GF3 line(except the Ti 200), I would go for the GF4 4400 or wait for the GF4 4200 that should be out in about 8 weeks. At $149, the GF4 4200 will definitely be the most bang for buck.
-Funk
I know poeple who 'share' scanned in comics online. Old cartoons too. Remember Thundarr the Barbarian? ah..old times...
...with Ookla the Mock!
What? Do you live in a cave?
This napster situation isn't just about napster. It also isn't about a few kids stealing stuff through the internet. It's gotten WAY bigger. Hell, my grandma has heard of napster now.
This situation involves the music industry as we know it. It involves every artist that has ever tried to get a record deal. It involves all of the huge mega-corporations that own the rights to all the music that people work so hard to make. It involves fundamental laws of our country and changing them. Hopefully for the better. And most of all it involves power.
Can you imagine what a significant event it would be if the record company's fell and copywrites, by law, would always be owned by the creator? It would open everything up. No more record companies shoving teeny bopper crap down everyones throats. There would be a place for everybody, every type of music. Distributed power. Quality would be rewarded and crap would sink...analogous to how slashdot works.
*pulls head from clouds*
If that not "stuff that matters", I don't know what is.
uh...I didn't pay for windows when I bought my pc. ;)
The fact that Microsoft tried to control distribution instead of beat the competition failrly is just downright ethically wrong, but they really didn't do anything illegal.
Microsoft may be on top now, but Linux is growing all the time. IBM is pouring support into Linux and it's eating away at mircrosoft's marketshare. I'm sure it really pisses them off too. (he he) Remember that most families and individuals may have M$ OS's but it's the OEMs that bring in the big bucks. If you look at the situation from a point of view other than an individual consumer, the picture is different. Competition in high-end business solutions and web servers is alive and well. Few companies have the ability or the desire to support the mass of random consumers.
I understand that the point of Dogma2001 is to focus on the creativity and break corporate paradigms, but I dont believe that putting bounds on what you can do will necessarily guarentee creative success. Stale games are stale games. And avoiding stale aspects is always a challenge to a game maker.
Suppose Dogma2001 caught on and a game came out in the order of magnitude as the original Lemmings. It's always a wonderful thing when someone pulls off a creatively successful game, but soon that too will be stale because of endless clones. Now what? I think the real Dogma2001 should be to have a personal goal for creative success no matter what it may be.
This can relate to just about anything you want to succeed at.
I love the Gourds! Good ol Austin,TX guys who can jam like nothing else...too bad the Austin shows are always so packed nowadays.
Funny coincidence, though. The Gourds were actually sued for copywrite infringement for recording "Gin and Juice" without permission. Ok so they aren't the smartest guys, but who would've though it would turn out so good? Anyway, it's just funny that you are now copying a song illegaly on napster that was illegally recorded in the first place. Whew! So much hubub over a couple fun-lovin guys jammin out to a rap song...
Funk_dat
It was because it was cheaper to buy the entire company than to have to pay 3dfx a bunch of money because of patent infringement. The fact that they took out a competitor was just icing on the cake.
I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for a nvidia Voodoo card either, BTW.
Funk_dat
They took it down temporarily because of traffic...
Does OpenFX have OpenGL or Direct3D support for the viewports? What file formats does it support? Hopefully it has a better ASCII exporter than MAX...
BTW, 3ds gMAX isn't exactly going to be the independent developers' holy grail. There is still going to be license issues and it is decidely NOT 100% open source. Also you'll only be able to use it with 'kits' released by the various game developers that want you to buy their game. At least it'll help mod makers and quake modelers though. Check it out gMax info here.
Funk_dat
That's been my philosphy too, my man.
Britney Spears can stand too lose a few pennies, but I always buy the indie cds to show support.
uh...I don't actually d/l britney songs.
seriously. I don't
Funk_dat
I dont use social security!
I dont use welfare!
I dont use information from the studies on insect sex!
Guess what? You are already paying for TONS of things you dont use. And you are paying the government A LOT of money for them. I wouldn't mind throwing in an extra couple pennies every time I buy some CDs if it would get the RIAA and any other suit wearing music executive to shut the hell up and let me have my music.
Funk_dat
It's OS/2 isn't it? Geesh...maybe you should change to windows. he he
That rapper was Nelly! He rules. To bad the Rams didn't make it back to The Game, it woulda been an STL party! Plus I'm pretty sure the Rams woulda beat tha pants off either of those teams. FUNK!
I dont think it's a question of if they 'deserve' the money. What the hell? How can you judge if someone deserves $2 million. It's a conflict over the protection of ideas and hard work. I'm sorry but no matter how you look at it, this emulator is wrong and, in my opinion, a waste of time. Why dont they just create their own ideas and make their own game instead of trying to steal someone elses?
Maybe if you had a good idea once in your life you could appreciate people trying to protect theirs.
There's an interesting story on wired.com about all this. Talks about the ill-fated percolator. There's a quote from the percolator guys: "There's got to be a way to take care of musicians and their fans." I've heard this before. Like maybe have all music be free for download but you get choaked with ads or you pay monthly or some bullcrap. Sounds like a fine happy little plan but there is one little thing in the way... The billion dollar record companies that would like all this internet hooplah to go away. And last I checked, if you have a billion dollars, you don't loose in court very often. A billion dollars does wonders in influencing folks. So now that napster is smoked (it was just a matter of when), I'll just go back to anonymous ftp sites, on-line friends, and (now)gnutella and the big business can go back to ripping people off and tainting true expression.