You know, Halo 2 sold really well, but, meh, I preferred Halo. The biggest advantage was being able to play online, but my friends who own it quickly tired of playing with random assholes online.
From my perspective, Halo 2 was sold by a massive marketing campaign and the success of Halo. However, it delivered less value than the first game. Especially with the Part1/Part2 campaign split lack of an ending in the orginal game. If Halo 3 hurts the PS3 it will simply be because of the amount of money Microsoft throws behind it. I'm not sure if they can top the launch for Halo 2, though. That was definitely the most expensive game launch in history, what with giving away free copies of the game and system to practically every TV news team in North America.
1) It definitely will not be a pay-per-game subscription I expect you will pay a monthly fee for access to PS-HUB. 2) Most likely the subscription service will have a free level and paid level and there will be restrictions on what you can play at the free level. 3) Most likely the prices will be competitive with the Xbox subscription. 4) Most likely they're developing this specifically to compete with Xbox Live.
Also if you share a residence, you will automatically become "common-law spouses" which means even though you never had a ceremony, you are in fact married. Which means if you don't go through with the ceremony and do live together to save the expense of maintaining two separate residences, you may be liable for back taxes if you continue to file separately. Thus the financial reasons for not getting married may have a caveat "as long as you never get audited".
Don't forget in the 30s it was pinball games that were "corrupting the youth of America". Yes seriously, there was a huge controversy over how pinball games were leader kids into a life of crime. Yes, seriously.
Every decade has it's stupid bogeyman that is "training children to be murderers". Whether it's novels, movies, alchohol, pinball, communists, television, comic books, dungeons and dragons, satanists, heavy metal & rap, or video games.
People never clue into the fact it's the same old crap they're being fed with only the noun changed.
It's still sure death for a console, hence the reason reasonable people consider it to be FUD, probably spread by the great purveyor of fertilizer. You can only pull that type of stunt if you have monopoly control of the market, Sony is in no condition to even think about doing it.
I take a somewhat different view. The students are clearly responsible for their actions if anyone died it would be the students who face primary responsibility for those deaths.
However, I am fully ready to spread a lot of blame around. The IT staff at the hospital and the hospital itself would be facing charges for criminal negligence or something of that sort for the indescribable incompetence involved in leaving the ICU directly connected to the internet.
The adware company may also be guilty of some crime such as inciting criminal behaviour if their terms of service don't clearly bar this type of behaviour from their affilitate program. Why? Because if they didn't ban it, then they fully expect to benefit from the illegal behaviour of participants in their program.
So to sumarise in my opinion, we have a bunch of bumbling idiots who all need a good swift kick in the ass.
"Oh, and there is that little part where even Microsoft thought Sony's DRM on Blue Ray was insanely over restrictive and anti-consumer, leading them to drop support and back HD-DVD exclusively. So Blue Ray supporters can enjoy paying double to buy from a limited selection of movies that only play on your expensive new player when Sony feels like it."
This is not quite true. Microsoft may claim that is the reason they dropped support, but everyone with a clue knows it's because Sony refused to incorporate Microsoft's DRM and menu-scripting systems. Microsoft dropped support because they figured if they did, everyone else would follow them. It doesn't seem to have worked all that well this time around.
That being said, I have a big beef with this article. He's calling for "Games with Soul," eh? Oh yeah? How so? That's a pretty broad statement, there, feller. And whatever Jaffe meant by it, we can't figure out from this article.
It's even simpler than everyone else has said. A game with soul is one where the people making it care about the game beyond the potential cash value to their wallets. It's game with quality. To get quality you have to care about the game you are making, not only that but your boss has to care too. Otherwise you end up with half-finished game that only shows the glimmer of potential.
This is why clones are usually bad, it's not passion for the game that fuels, them it's passion for the money.
1) The U.S. Army is in Iraq to protect the American people. They are there because terrorists attacked Innocent people in the U.S. The soldiers are there in a misguided attempt to protect the people of the United States of America.
2) Why did Terrorists attack the U.S.? Because the U.S. has a history of interfering in the Middle East, of providing funds and equipment to dictators, including Saddam Hussein. They attacked the U.S. in a misguided attempt to defend their friends and loved ones.
That being said, there is definitely a difference in methods. I have no love for terrorists, nor any tolerance either. However, the difference in methods chiefly stems from a lack of organization and funds. You need both to field an army.
I think you only got part of the point. It's not that they are all ticking time bombs. You created an artifical difference between us and them. What's the difference between the U.S. Army and the Terrorists? The U.S. Army has better funding and organization.
Some people will see that as an indictment of the U.S. Army, it's not. It's the simple observation that when you screw with people's lives they get angry, get weapons, and screw you back. That's human nature, we're all capable of violence to protect the ones we love.
It's only racist because you choose to believe it's racist.
So what you are really trying to say is that you want to have a character with the best equipment that money can buy without having to do anything to actually get it?
You don't need the best equipment in the game to play and enjoy it, you just want the best equipment in the game so you can be "better" than other players.
You are correct, he deliberately broke an NDA that his job was dependent on him keeping. He did it in a public forum, and he did it to trash his own company's product in favour of a competitors product. He didn't even have a solid reason for saying it was wrose, just "I've heard it's worse". Sony had to fire him. He's only surpised that he got caught and punished.
Frankly, I doubt many people are going to miss him. If he's an artist and the game he's working on doesn't look good, isn't that his responsibility?
[em]The problem lies in that our system now works nothing like that. Patents are granted simply on the basis of whether the examiner understands the patent, not whether it is truely unique. Companies spend a fortune to write patents in obsfucated and ambiguous manners, making them generally useless for reference and ambiguous enough to apply to anyone who even thinks about being a competitor. It is that perversion which leads:[/em]
Patent examiners should be empowered and directed to reject any patent they can't understand on the basis that it is probably useless.
The root cause of the problem is people. Killing everyone would eliminate racism, but some people thought that solution was a little extreme, though.
In reality, there is no other solution that waiting for racists to die. That means you've got another 40-50 years to go before the last generation where racism was common and acceptable dies out.
Oh and any IT company that only hires "white" people is probably not going to last that long, the smart companies long ago realized that "asians" and "indians" are pretty fly at this computer stuff too. The really smart companies have realized that anyone who knows their stuff is a good investment.
Yes, but too many gold farmers on one server means less profit for all the gold farmers. They tend to spread out to the North American servers because there are fewer gold farmers there, thus making it easier to profit.
I don't group with people who can't type sentences either, but it's not because they might be gold farmers, it's because I doubt they'll be of assistance. I don't like people leaching off me for any reason.
And since science cannot say anything about the existence of these hands, since if they exist they are invisible and therefore cannot be detected experimentally, neither viewpoint has any backing from science. Thank you for demonstrating my point.
I think you missed the point, athiests tend to trust science while fundamentalists do not, thus athiesm is more scientifically friendly than fundamentalism.
Appeal to consequences is a logical fallacy: a viewpoint cannot be proven correct (or even shown to be likely correct) just because the alternative makes the world appear insecure.
Yes, an appeal to consequences is a logical fallacy, however, I am not making one. I am not saying that ID is wrong because the consequences would be undesireable. I am saying that only an willfully ignorant person could seriously make the claim that science doesn't work. The evidence that it does is all around you. The very fact that you can post to slashdot should be proof enough that science works. This evidence, that runs directly contrary to the fundamentalist point of view (that Science should be unreliable because it depends on the will of invisible being(s)), is everywhere. When was the last time you flipped a coin and the result was "hovering in midair with mysterious chicken noises" or any other magical effect which would validate the fundamentalist viewpoint?
The Flying Spaghetti Monster is quite obviously meant as an appeal to ridicule because, after all, it is utterly ridicilous.
It appears you do not understand the application of logical fallacies. For example, the wikipedia definition of Appeal to Ridicule:
Appeal to ridicule is a logical fallacy which presents the opponent's argument in a way that appears ridiculous, often to the extent of creating a straw man of the actual argument
Proponents of the Flying Spaghetti Monster have never claimed that ID proponents believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or that the Flying Spaghetti Monster is a consequence of belief in God (those claims are necessary for it to be an appeal to ridicule). Instead they have said that when a Kansas school board said they would teach all the sides of the debate on evolution, their viewpoint should have been included as well. It is the school board's failure to put any qualitative requirements on what they would teach in a science class, that is being pointed out by these shennanigans.
It is not designed to expose any lies on part of ID proponents (how could it; the statement "living things were designed by an intelligent designer" is simply impossible to disprove - see my comment about "invisible hands" above)
It was not designed to expose ID as a lie, it was designed to expose the lie of the Kansas school board. The board claimed it was impartial and was only seeking to include all viewpoints on the topic. In reality they ignored every other viewpoint in favour of pushing Christian fundamentalism into the school system.
Let me repeat that, Flying Spaghetti Monsterism makes no attempt to prove or disprove ID. It is an example of why untestable and unfalsifiable statements should not be part of a science class. It is also frequently used to show how Christian fundamentalists disguise bad logic and bad policy with an appeal to authority. When the Pastafarians may the same pronouncements or challenges (stripped of the authority of the Church) they look pretty stupid. Of course, that's the point of the fundamentalist appeal to authority, any stupid idea sounds better if you say God backs you.
No, it just that many of the fundamentally religious slashdotters make it so easy to mock them. I mean really, when someone posts in public that everything in the Bible is true, that it's easier to believe that God used quantum folding and cryogenic hybernation to pack all the animals in the world onto Noah's Ark than it is to believe that story is allegorical, what do you expect to happen?
And yes, Athiesm is more scientifically sound than fundamentalist religion. Fundamentalist religion says things happen because invisible hands makes them happen, atheism says invisible hands don't exist. It usually means the atheist believes in basic principles of science, which fundamentalists frequently deny. However, that comparison doesn't always hold true when you compare rational athiests versus rational believers. There is room to believe in the existence of a God without falling into the trap of believing in superstitions and mysticism.
Some people can't see the difference between those points, but it's simple. In the first world view, the hands have a will and can choose whether or not consequences can occur. Thus the world is inherently unreliable and unpredictable, while second believes that events and reactions can be predicted with sufficient understanding.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster isn't a strawman argument and isn't an appeal to ridicule either. They aren't claiming the ID people believe in the Spaghetti Monster. Instead they created an example that shows that the "impartial" people who are supposedly allowing the theologically neutral viewpoint into the classroom are lying and simply looking for a way to force their religion on children. There is exactly as much proof to back up the Flying Sphaghetti monster as there is for Intelligent Design, in other words, none. Both are designed to be impossible to disprove.
Of course, the current battle over Intelligent Design in schools isn't even really over religion, though many of the footsoldiers are lead to believe it is. There are people who are afraid that they (and their successors) will loose their current power if American Children are well educated on scientific topics. They want children to be raised ignorant of scientific knowledge so they will always have a supply of pawns to mobilize against anything they dislike.
It's the new way to win elections, some people are just planning to ensure their group maitains power well down the road.
So the Register article says "You can't trust Wikipedia", but personally, I'd trust Wikipedia before I trusted the Register.
The Register's "journalists" seem to be jealous because Wikipedia's articles are better than the Register's, even though everyone complains about how bad Wikipedia's articles are.
Slashdot Mirror
You know, Halo 2 sold really well, but, meh, I preferred Halo. The biggest advantage was being able to play online, but my friends who own it quickly tired of playing with random assholes online.
From my perspective, Halo 2 was sold by a massive marketing campaign and the success of Halo. However, it delivered less value than the first game. Especially with the Part1/Part2 campaign split lack of an ending in the orginal game. If Halo 3 hurts the PS3 it will simply be because of the amount of money Microsoft throws behind it. I'm not sure if they can top the launch for Halo 2, though. That was definitely the most expensive game launch in history, what with giving away free copies of the game and system to practically every TV news team in North America.
Your assumptions don't make sense, here are mine:
1) It definitely will not be a pay-per-game subscription I expect you will pay a monthly fee for access to PS-HUB.
2) Most likely the subscription service will have a free level and paid level and there will be restrictions on what you can play at the free level.
3) Most likely the prices will be competitive with the Xbox subscription.
4) Most likely they're developing this specifically to compete with Xbox Live.
Also if you share a residence, you will automatically become "common-law spouses" which means even though you never had a ceremony, you are in fact married. Which means if you don't go through with the ceremony and do live together to save the expense of maintaining two separate residences, you may be liable for back taxes if you continue to file separately. Thus the financial reasons for not getting married may have a caveat "as long as you never get audited".
Don't forget in the 30s it was pinball games that were "corrupting the youth of America". Yes seriously, there was a huge controversy over how pinball games were leader kids into a life of crime. Yes, seriously.
Every decade has it's stupid bogeyman that is "training children to be murderers". Whether it's novels, movies, alchohol, pinball, communists, television, comic books, dungeons and dragons, satanists, heavy metal & rap, or video games.
People never clue into the fact it's the same old crap they're being fed with only the noun changed.
It's still sure death for a console, hence the reason reasonable people consider it to be FUD, probably spread by the great purveyor of fertilizer. You can only pull that type of stunt if you have monopoly control of the market, Sony is in no condition to even think about doing it.
I take a somewhat different view. The students are clearly responsible for their actions if anyone died it would be the students who face primary responsibility for those deaths.
However, I am fully ready to spread a lot of blame around. The IT staff at the hospital and the hospital itself would be facing charges for criminal negligence or something of that sort for the indescribable incompetence involved in leaving the ICU directly connected to the internet.
The adware company may also be guilty of some crime such as inciting criminal behaviour if their terms of service don't clearly bar this type of behaviour from their affilitate program. Why? Because if they didn't ban it, then they fully expect to benefit from the illegal behaviour of participants in their program.
So to sumarise in my opinion, we have a bunch of bumbling idiots who all need a good swift kick in the ass.
This is not quite true. Microsoft may claim that is the reason they dropped support, but everyone with a clue knows it's because Sony refused to incorporate Microsoft's DRM and menu-scripting systems. Microsoft dropped support because they figured if they did, everyone else would follow them. It doesn't seem to have worked all that well this time around.
Music CD price have remained high because of RIAA price fixing schemes.
It's even simpler than everyone else has said. A game with soul is one where the people making it care about the game beyond the potential cash value to their wallets. It's game with quality. To get quality you have to care about the game you are making, not only that but your boss has to care too. Otherwise you end up with half-finished game that only shows the glimmer of potential.
This is why clones are usually bad, it's not passion for the game that fuels, them it's passion for the money.
Yeah, Damn those Egyptians! Always attacking my Norse settlements, how dare they?
Who knew the Norse and the Egyptians were natural enemies?
I hoped it would be clear that I'm not looking at the political motivations but rather at the common personal motivations of the foot soldiers.
At the bottom, the people on both sides are fundamentally the same. It's only the politicians who would have you think differently.
Seriously, think about this for a moment:
1) The U.S. Army is in Iraq to protect the American people. They are there because terrorists attacked Innocent people in the U.S. The soldiers are there in a misguided attempt to protect the people of the United States of America.
2) Why did Terrorists attack the U.S.? Because the U.S. has a history of interfering in the Middle East, of providing funds and equipment to dictators, including Saddam Hussein. They attacked the U.S. in a misguided attempt to defend their friends and loved ones.
That being said, there is definitely a difference in methods. I have no love for terrorists, nor any tolerance either. However, the difference in methods chiefly stems from a lack of organization and funds. You need both to field an army.
I think you only got part of the point. It's not that they are all ticking time bombs. You created an artifical difference between us and them. What's the difference between the U.S. Army and the Terrorists? The U.S. Army has better funding and organization.
Some people will see that as an indictment of the U.S. Army, it's not. It's the simple observation that when you screw with people's lives they get angry, get weapons, and screw you back. That's human nature, we're all capable of violence to protect the ones we love.
It's only racist because you choose to believe it's racist.
So what you are really trying to say is that you want to have a character with the best equipment that money can buy without having to do anything to actually get it?
You don't need the best equipment in the game to play and enjoy it, you just want the best equipment in the game so you can be "better" than other players.
You are correct, he deliberately broke an NDA that his job was dependent on him keeping. He did it in a public forum, and he did it to trash his own company's product in favour of a competitors product. He didn't even have a solid reason for saying it was wrose, just "I've heard it's worse". Sony had to fire him. He's only surpised that he got caught and punished.
Frankly, I doubt many people are going to miss him. If he's an artist and the game he's working on doesn't look good, isn't that his responsibility?
The word you are looking for is "Schaudenfreuden".
I suspect this is deliberate FUD. This "revolutionary new internet" story has too many holes in it.
"Evil"
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
[em]The problem lies in that our system now works nothing like that. Patents are granted simply on the basis of whether the examiner understands the patent, not whether it is truely unique. Companies spend a fortune to write patents in obsfucated and ambiguous manners, making them generally useless for reference and ambiguous enough to apply to anyone who even thinks about being a competitor. It is that perversion which leads:[/em]
Patent examiners should be empowered and directed to reject any patent they can't understand on the basis that it is probably useless.
The root cause of the problem is people. Killing everyone would eliminate racism, but some people thought that solution was a little extreme, though.
In reality, there is no other solution that waiting for racists to die. That means you've got another 40-50 years to go before the last generation where racism was common and acceptable dies out.
Oh and any IT company that only hires "white" people is probably not going to last that long, the smart companies long ago realized that "asians" and "indians" are pretty fly at this computer stuff too. The really smart companies have realized that anyone who knows their stuff is a good investment.
Yes, but too many gold farmers on one server means less profit for all the gold farmers. They tend to spread out to the North American servers because there are fewer gold farmers there, thus making it easier to profit.
I don't group with people who can't type sentences either, but it's not because they might be gold farmers, it's because I doubt they'll be of assistance. I don't like people leaching off me for any reason.
I think you missed the point, athiests tend to trust science while fundamentalists do not, thus athiesm is more scientifically friendly than fundamentalism.
Yes, an appeal to consequences is a logical fallacy, however, I am not making one. I am not saying that ID is wrong because the consequences would be undesireable. I am saying that only an willfully ignorant person could seriously make the claim that science doesn't work. The evidence that it does is all around you. The very fact that you can post to slashdot should be proof enough that science works. This evidence, that runs directly contrary to the fundamentalist point of view (that Science should be unreliable because it depends on the will of invisible being(s)), is everywhere. When was the last time you flipped a coin and the result was "hovering in midair with mysterious chicken noises" or any other magical effect which would validate the fundamentalist viewpoint?
The Flying Spaghetti Monster is quite obviously meant as an appeal to ridicule because, after all, it is utterly ridicilous.
It appears you do not understand the application of logical fallacies. For example, the wikipedia definition of Appeal to Ridicule:
Proponents of the Flying Spaghetti Monster have never claimed that ID proponents believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or that the Flying Spaghetti Monster is a consequence of belief in God (those claims are necessary for it to be an appeal to ridicule). Instead they have said that when a Kansas school board said they would teach all the sides of the debate on evolution, their viewpoint should have been included as well. It is the school board's failure to put any qualitative requirements on what they would teach in a science class, that is being pointed out by these shennanigans.
It is not designed to expose any lies on part of ID proponents (how could it; the statement "living things were designed by an intelligent designer" is simply impossible to disprove - see my comment about "invisible hands" above)
It was not designed to expose ID as a lie, it was designed to expose the lie of the Kansas school board. The board claimed it was impartial and was only seeking to include all viewpoints on the topic. In reality they ignored every other viewpoint in favour of pushing Christian fundamentalism into the school system.
Let me repeat that, Flying Spaghetti Monsterism makes no attempt to prove or disprove ID. It is an example of why untestable and unfalsifiable statements should not be part of a science class. It is also frequently used to show how Christian fundamentalists disguise bad logic and bad policy with an appeal to authority. When the Pastafarians may the same pronouncements or challenges (stripped of the authority of the Church) they look pretty stupid. Of course, that's the point of the fundamentalist appeal to authority, any stupid idea sounds better if you say God backs you.
No, it just that many of the fundamentally religious slashdotters make it so easy to mock them. I mean really, when someone posts in public that everything in the Bible is true, that it's easier to believe that God used quantum folding and cryogenic hybernation to pack all the animals in the world onto Noah's Ark than it is to believe that story is allegorical, what do you expect to happen?
And yes, Athiesm is more scientifically sound than fundamentalist religion. Fundamentalist religion says things happen because invisible hands makes them happen, atheism says invisible hands don't exist. It usually means the atheist believes in basic principles of science, which fundamentalists frequently deny. However, that comparison doesn't always hold true when you compare rational athiests versus rational believers. There is room to believe in the existence of a God without falling into the trap of believing in superstitions and mysticism.
Some people can't see the difference between those points, but it's simple. In the first world view, the hands have a will and can choose whether or not consequences can occur. Thus the world is inherently unreliable and unpredictable, while second believes that events and reactions can be predicted with sufficient understanding.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster isn't a strawman argument and isn't an appeal to ridicule either. They aren't claiming the ID people believe in the Spaghetti Monster. Instead they created an example that shows that the "impartial" people who are supposedly allowing the theologically neutral viewpoint into the classroom are lying and simply looking for a way to force their religion on children. There is exactly as much proof to back up the Flying Sphaghetti monster as there is for Intelligent Design, in other words, none. Both are designed to be impossible to disprove.
Of course, the current battle over Intelligent Design in schools isn't even really over religion, though many of the footsoldiers are lead to believe it is. There are people who are afraid that they (and their successors) will loose their current power if American Children are well educated on scientific topics. They want children to be raised ignorant of scientific knowledge so they will always have a supply of pawns to mobilize against anything they dislike.
It's the new way to win elections, some people are just planning to ensure their group maitains power well down the road.
If you have the Hard Drive...
And you download the driver for the game...
And it works in emulation...
There are some very popular Xbox games that don't work on the Xbox 360 (yet).
But yeah, in essence, but the PS2's backwards compatibility is much better than Xbox 360s. We'll have to see how the PS3 will fare.
How about the PS2 which had all of the PS1 games available at launch time, in addition to whatever launch titles they actually had?
So the Register article says "You can't trust Wikipedia", but personally, I'd trust Wikipedia before I trusted the Register.
The Register's "journalists" seem to be jealous because Wikipedia's articles are better than the Register's, even though everyone complains about how bad Wikipedia's articles are.