The loss of effort spent certainly is a downside. Possibly in future creation based console games creators will at least be able to put their stuff onto a memory stick and share it that way.
I believe the largest contributor was picked up and probably got paid some for retail/steam CS because valve could change the terms the agreement that the mod was made under. I think Gooseman was the only crossover between AQ2 and CS though and really he just gifted gun models to AQ2 and that team went on to do other action mods for free.
Anyone else I can think of(Team Fortress people, Threewave, Splash Damage, mappers/modelers) would not have been paid for their hobby works that got them the job.
When you get in to smaller made from scratch games the success stories can get more interesting because the owner can decide to sell their product at any time. Apparently line rider, N+, and Flow would fall into this category where a free PC flash game was sold on consoles or handhelds. They could actually sit back and collect royalties without more work if they wanted.
In the shooter game market some got good enough resumes to get paying jobs out of their free work. I do not know if anyone has made significant money retroactively for what they did for free.
Someone doing work that is wholly their own can get some success if people will buy it but someone working on LBP or in the mod community has no legal revenue stream from that work.
Both major services in British Columbia Canada are capped. Telus is 40gb/month, Shaw was 30 a few years ago but may have increased. Telus also seems to cap total transfer speed around 250kb/sec, torrents, PS3 updates, itunes, and regular downloads noticeably slow down web page loads.
with firefox(and maybe Chrome?) you can give your bookmarks tags like this so that a few characters in the address bar always go to the specified site.
I used to open a handful of tabs with 2-3 letter acronyms and a ctrl+t in between.
Here in BC we've always had caps. I think they've doubled more recently from 30 to 60gb.
With lots of web usage and many large files I haven't had a problem. If you are on cable and are uploading at max speed 24/7 you'll pass your limit, but otherwise most homes should be fine with the smallest of caps.
People complaining about comcast's 250gb limit must be doing it out of principle because that is an extreme amount to use for non business.
I would actually say that mine(adsl with telus) doesn't offer enough bandwidth to realistically reach the cap. One big download seems to clog the pipes these days.
Surrey Transit is quite bad. It takes about half an hour to get into Vancouver by Skytrain(last year I had a job with an office near the Stadium stop). Unfortunately a bad bus wait to or from the house can double that time.
When I took the bus from my house to Kwantlen's Surrey campus, a commuter college, I was leaving 2 hours before class because if I left an hour early I would get there 10 minutes late. By car it takes 20 minutes tops.
Green-ness is supposed to be getting better with more high rise apartments going up and building up central areas but right now that is all in Whalley which isn't the nicest place to go.
Speaking of this do any wikis have a way to view only certified accurate articles? There is such a variety of information that wikipedia would be a good start if it weren't for more stealthy abuse and inaccuracies. Stephen Colbert can nip African Elephants off an endangered species list and if someone loads a page at that moment they have no idea.
I've caught a really blatant part of an article (that didn't seem to be popular) and it was gone within minutes with no trace. I wonder how often that has happened before while looking for research sources.
I think flash video in webpages and more high def content on the internet are the only things that have required a power increase in the last 7 years aren't they?
I think the moral majority of young people has spoken. Downloading music isn't wrong to them. Music is "free" in many places to begin with. Music off the internet just feels like an extension to that for most people.
In Fallout 1 and 2 you can't control your party even though they are turn based. In fallout tactics you could control the party in real time or turn based.
I agree. I also like to physically own things I pay for. Also having the right of resale. I don't feel very safe about online purchases. I tolerate it for MMOs but I really don't like it for things like steam. I'd rather have a physical product that is mine.
Maybe some companies will get rich by outsourcing libraries of ultra high res background models and textures. Games striving for realism they could take full advantage of some desks, lamps, walls, doors, that they buy from a graphics house much like they get the q4/ut/source engine.
Another possibility is the procedural stuff that wil wright kept talking about in spore. This technology could be used to take simpler textures and make them look good on the fly maybe.
capped playtime might not be very good in an mmo model. It could discourage the player from playing sometimes which could lead to them quiting.
would players be able to switch from one model to another?
I think players would use the accelerated account to level up in less playtime(waste less of your life grinding) then switch to the cheaper model that doesn't have capped playtime and play the "fun parts" of the game. The community might not like this.
The hardcore player might get many of these more expensive accounts instead of many of the traditional type though which would raise the profits.
Everything has it's flaws, a company might decide it works.
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Does Vista run as quickly on it as XP would though? I am asking because I have an aspire one not out of vista hate.
Then the professors own the work of average students!
The loss of effort spent certainly is a downside. Possibly in future creation based console games creators will at least be able to put their stuff onto a memory stick and share it that way.
I believe the largest contributor was picked up and probably got paid some for retail/steam CS because valve could change the terms the agreement that the mod was made under. I think Gooseman was the only crossover between AQ2 and CS though and really he just gifted gun models to AQ2 and that team went on to do other action mods for free.
Anyone else I can think of(Team Fortress people, Threewave, Splash Damage, mappers/modelers) would not have been paid for their hobby works that got them the job.
When you get in to smaller made from scratch games the success stories can get more interesting because the owner can decide to sell their product at any time. Apparently line rider, N+, and Flow would fall into this category where a free PC flash game was sold on consoles or handhelds. They could actually sit back and collect royalties without more work if they wanted.
In the shooter game market some got good enough resumes to get paying jobs out of their free work. I do not know if anyone has made significant money retroactively for what they did for free.
Someone doing work that is wholly their own can get some success if people will buy it but someone working on LBP or in the mod community has no legal revenue stream from that work.
Although, the whole purpose of the safe is to keep post death instructions and messages. Certain the person cares about that.
Both major services in British Columbia Canada are capped. Telus is 40gb/month, Shaw was 30 a few years ago but may have increased. Telus also seems to cap total transfer speed around 250kb/sec, torrents, PS3 updates, itunes, and regular downloads noticeably slow down web page loads.
So does it work horribly on mac or are mac users unable to use something that works on windows and linux?
I would guess that it never went into production. It was fun so it is too bad they still don't put it in the games.
The crossfire has a similar look doesn't it?
"If this is Microsoft's response to the 'I'm a Mac' ads, it should fold up its tent and tell the world to switch to Apple."
No matter how bad their promotion is they still sell a product. Actually, other companies sell their product for them.
with firefox(and maybe Chrome?) you can give your bookmarks tags like this so that a few characters in the address bar always go to the specified site.
I used to open a handful of tabs with 2-3 letter acronyms and a ctrl+t in between.
Here in BC we've always had caps. I think they've doubled more recently from 30 to 60gb.
With lots of web usage and many large files I haven't had a problem. If you are on cable and are uploading at max speed 24/7 you'll pass your limit, but otherwise most homes should be fine with the smallest of caps.
People complaining about comcast's 250gb limit must be doing it out of principle because that is an extreme amount to use for non business.
I would actually say that mine(adsl with telus) doesn't offer enough bandwidth to realistically reach the cap. One big download seems to clog the pipes these days.
Silencing those pesky birds
Yeah it sucks that they couldn't try this in an area that wasn't already a valuable part of the environment.
It's great that they are wanting to make a green city but on top of a wildlife preserve isn't the right place.
Surrey Transit is quite bad. It takes about half an hour to get into Vancouver by Skytrain(last year I had a job with an office near the Stadium stop). Unfortunately a bad bus wait to or from the house can double that time.
When I took the bus from my house to Kwantlen's Surrey campus, a commuter college, I was leaving 2 hours before class because if I left an hour early I would get there 10 minutes late. By car it takes 20 minutes tops.
Green-ness is supposed to be getting better with more high rise apartments going up and building up central areas but right now that is all in Whalley which isn't the nicest place to go.
Speaking of this do any wikis have a way to view only certified accurate articles? There is such a variety of information that wikipedia would be a good start if it weren't for more stealthy abuse and inaccuracies. Stephen Colbert can nip African Elephants off an endangered species list and if someone loads a page at that moment they have no idea.
I've caught a really blatant part of an article (that didn't seem to be popular) and it was gone within minutes with no trace. I wonder how often that has happened before while looking for research sources.
"Def Jam Vendetta single-handedly created a new global market for hip-hop."
Uhh what? I'm not aware of
1) Any increase in hip hop exposure because of the EA games at all
2) A new market brought on by the game
I don't believe the credibility of that statement at all.
I think flash video in webpages and more high def content on the internet are the only things that have required a power increase in the last 7 years aren't they?
I stopped by gamecube games before I passed the cost of the console :(
It was a great mario kart box
I think the moral majority of young people has spoken. Downloading music isn't wrong to them. Music is "free" in many places to begin with. Music off the internet just feels like an extension to that for most people.
In Fallout 1 and 2 you can't control your party even though they are turn based. In fallout tactics you could control the party in real time or turn based.
I agree. I also like to physically own things I pay for. Also having the right of resale. I don't feel very safe about online purchases. I tolerate it for MMOs but I really don't like it for things like steam. I'd rather have a physical product that is mine.
Maybe some companies will get rich by outsourcing libraries of ultra high res background models and textures. Games striving for realism they could take full advantage of some desks, lamps, walls, doors, that they buy from a graphics house much like they get the q4/ut/source engine.
Another possibility is the procedural stuff that wil wright kept talking about in spore. This technology could be used to take simpler textures and make them look good on the fly maybe.
well,
capped playtime might not be very good in an mmo model. It could discourage the player from playing sometimes which could lead to them quiting.
would players be able to switch from one model to another?
I think players would use the accelerated account to level up in less playtime(waste less of your life grinding) then switch to the cheaper model that doesn't have capped playtime and play the "fun parts" of the game. The community might not like this.
The hardcore player might get many of these more expensive accounts instead of many of the traditional type though which would raise the profits.
Everything has it's flaws, a company might decide it works.
The controls aren't as bad as you make them out to be.