I liked the bit suggesting that it could unify the people of Earth a little. The more events that draw people together than pit them against each other (e.g., religion, politics, sport) the better, IMO.
You can bet that even if masses of diamonds from some extraterrestrial source flooded the market here, and the usual culprits weren't getting their usual share/control, that they'd bump up the marketing suggesting that those weren't the same, weren't as special, weren't as rare, etc. Witness the diamond testing systems that look for flaws to ascertain whether a gem is artificial. Crazy.
Lying bastards. I have experienced front running and not even in the.com "free tasting" namespace.
Checked a bunch of entirely unrelated domain names. I get a purge list nightly so knew they hadn't been registered for at least a year prior to that. Put them on a shopping list to consider and then went to purchase a few a few days later. 10+ of the best ones had been bought and vaguely monetised, all by the same domainer.
The registrar denies that their online tool was being watched/tracked (even said it was impossible to begin with and then backtracked a little from that). The namespace authority (in this case, auDA) says they've had no complaints about front-running.
Anyone else experienced front-running in the.com.au space?
Agree 100%. Pick a small to medium sized web business and pay to have it done properly with a view to you maintaining it. Do it yourself and it will suck.
I agree. Take a laptop and you have to carry various cables and the like, plus worry about it getting stolen. And good luck getting regular, reliable connections at a remotely affordable price too. Download photos to an iPod/similar and then burn DVDs to post in net cafés. Take notes/blog via a recorder (MD or iPod with mic), in cafes or using paper/pen.
Easier and lighter to carry. Less to worry about.
You have these fanciful plans about working and writing or whatever, but just lighten the burden and you'll have a much better time. Trust me - been there and regretted taking so much stuff.
Allow people to spend the $5 as a form of insurance. If you don't download anything, don't pay it. If you do, and want the peace of mind, spend it. They'd hardly make that much on it, but it'd be much fairer.
Just had to say that I liked how your "I can beat that..." reply comes almost directly after someone said "Let me know when you make a Fleshlight version."
Also, that a torch that can beget a number of other light sources is a great idea... hmmm.
Ridiculous, eh? Still, as we both know, it's bullshit game design and shouldn't be happening at all!
I quite enjoyed Assassin's Creed, but with a few simple changes (skippable cutscenes, being able to move quicker in the lab, more variety in townsfolk comments) it would've been much improved.
From the blood on the wall/floor, I'd say that the sequel is going to be set in Yonaguni (Japan's "Atlantis") which should prove interesting. Might be a little like Tenchu?
On Google, it's true that their search results for accommodation/travel searches are very, very poor and one of the main problems are the bucketloads of travel directories that exist. I don't think their algorithm can combat that without help.
Say, you're a small bed and breakfast somewhere. Once your site is up, you need backlinks to help your positioning. Maybe you can get one from the local travel authority (not always) and a couple from complementary service providers (if you're lucky and they care). After that, it gets very difficult to get a decent ranking for a valid search (e.g., "bed and breakfast in %region%") and you're dominated by a variety of half-arsed directories.
Even searching for an actual hotel name in some areas can give you two full pages of junk before you get to the official site for that hotel.
If necessary, yes. But I doubt this is necessary for Assassin's Creed. Many of the cutscenes exit when finished leaving you in the same world/level as before. And most of them are really quite long, overly wordy and as a subsequent reply suggests, kill replayability.
I recently finished Assassin's Creed. After the last save point, there's an extended conversation (unskippable) and then before you can return to the Animus to muck around, you have to discover something and then go through another cutscene. So, I'd done all that and then watched the resulting credits, and then quit.
The other evening, I went to show a level and gameplay to a friend. Fired it up, it resumed at the last save and then proceeded to play the second-last cutscene, force me to discover the "something" and then sit through another cutscene. And then play the extensive credits which were unskippable. None of that was covering background loading. Pretty annoying.
- Cut scenes that you can't skip (hello Assassin's Creed!)
- Game trailers that are 50% intro material, 30% outro and all of 20% actual game footage
- Proper reviews from people that have played the full game (e.g., Gamespot's review of Assassin's Creed neglects to mention a questionable ending and how annoying it gets to hear "Please sir, can I have some money?" or townspeople being hassled by guards)
Can appreciate your point. So what's the solution to that?
I'm finding it more and more common for regular and remotely reputable businesses to buy lists and send out an announcement - none of them seem to even realise that what they're doing isn't a good thing.
I think there are even marketing laws in Australia that allow you to scrape public email addresses in a number of cases.
"getting people to stop clicking on things indiscriminately"
Would a public education campaign be worth trying? TV ads explaining to people that spam is an on-going problem partly because some people keep rewarding the spammers with sales.
FWIW, I have an iPhone and have used it for the past few weeks. More often than not, it is slower to enter a message and to do so correctly. At least with my old Nokia and predictive text, I could enter a message without looking at the screen and be confident it was all fine - no such luck with the iPhone.
Other than that and a few other minor complaints, it's been decent though.
I actually find GameSpot's reviews and video reviews really useful. They seem to be fairly honest in their judgements and there's enough there for you to compare with other reviews, ignore or take into account the final score, see what works and what doesn't.
Really, scores and the like are such a small part of it all that suggesting everything's broken because of them is a bit of a whinge IMO.
I think you're going easy on the sheeple of the world. Sure, the storytelling helps, but it takes two... No one questions what they're told, read or see. No one looks for a natural explanation before a paranormal one.
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I liked the bit suggesting that it could unify the people of Earth a little. The more events that draw people together than pit them against each other (e.g., religion, politics, sport) the better, IMO.
You can bet that even if masses of diamonds from some extraterrestrial source flooded the market here, and the usual culprits weren't getting their usual share/control, that they'd bump up the marketing suggesting that those weren't the same, weren't as special, weren't as rare, etc. Witness the diamond testing systems that look for flaws to ascertain whether a gem is artificial. Crazy.
Scoopt has been bought by Getty Images.
Anyone noticed News Ltd companies freely using photos of D-List celebrities socialising, snatched from their MySpace property?
Lying bastards. I have experienced front running and not even in the .com "free tasting" namespace.
.com.au space?
Checked a bunch of entirely unrelated domain names. I get a purge list nightly so knew they hadn't been registered for at least a year prior to that. Put them on a shopping list to consider and then went to purchase a few a few days later. 10+ of the best ones had been bought and vaguely monetised, all by the same domainer.
The registrar denies that their online tool was being watched/tracked (even said it was impossible to begin with and then backtracked a little from that). The namespace authority (in this case, auDA) says they've had no complaints about front-running.
Anyone else experienced front-running in the
Agree 100%. Pick a small to medium sized web business and pay to have it done properly with a view to you maintaining it. Do it yourself and it will suck.
I agree. Take a laptop and you have to carry various cables and the like, plus worry about it getting stolen. And good luck getting regular, reliable connections at a remotely affordable price too. Download photos to an iPod/similar and then burn DVDs to post in net cafés. Take notes/blog via a recorder (MD or iPod with mic), in cafes or using paper/pen.
Easier and lighter to carry. Less to worry about.
You have these fanciful plans about working and writing or whatever, but just lighten the burden and you'll have a much better time. Trust me - been there and regretted taking so much stuff.
Allow people to spend the $5 as a form of insurance. If you don't download anything, don't pay it. If you do, and want the peace of mind, spend it. They'd hardly make that much on it, but it'd be much fairer.
Just had to say that I liked how your "I can beat that..." reply comes almost directly after someone said "Let me know when you make a Fleshlight version."
Also, that a torch that can beget a number of other light sources is a great idea... hmmm.
Can't stand when the tech-item-of-the-moment is specifically mentioned to drive a story or headline. So lame.
The sequence that gave us cane toads is probably a better example of "whatcouldpossiblygowrong"!
That said, I really can't stand mosquitoes so I'm happy to support the risk in this instance.
That cause being one of the Decepticons perhaps?
It's a big, pocked rock. Yet there's something about the moment and the plain old images so far that is just so amazingly beautiful.
The Clinton tears made news over here in Australia.
Ridiculous, eh? Still, as we both know, it's bullshit game design and shouldn't be happening at all!
I quite enjoyed Assassin's Creed, but with a few simple changes (skippable cutscenes, being able to move quicker in the lab, more variety in townsfolk comments) it would've been much improved.
From the blood on the wall/floor, I'd say that the sequel is going to be set in Yonaguni (Japan's "Atlantis") which should prove interesting. Might be a little like Tenchu?
On Google, it's true that their search results for accommodation/travel searches are very, very poor and one of the main problems are the bucketloads of travel directories that exist. I don't think their algorithm can combat that without help.
Say, you're a small bed and breakfast somewhere. Once your site is up, you need backlinks to help your positioning. Maybe you can get one from the local travel authority (not always) and a couple from complementary service providers (if you're lucky and they care). After that, it gets very difficult to get a decent ranking for a valid search (e.g., "bed and breakfast in %region%") and you're dominated by a variety of half-arsed directories.
Even searching for an actual hotel name in some areas can give you two full pages of junk before you get to the official site for that hotel.
If necessary, yes. But I doubt this is necessary for Assassin's Creed. Many of the cutscenes exit when finished leaving you in the same world/level as before. And most of them are really quite long, overly wordy and as a subsequent reply suggests, kill replayability.
I recently finished Assassin's Creed. After the last save point, there's an extended conversation (unskippable) and then before you can return to the Animus to muck around, you have to discover something and then go through another cutscene. So, I'd done all that and then watched the resulting credits, and then quit.
The other evening, I went to show a level and gameplay to a friend. Fired it up, it resumed at the last save and then proceeded to play the second-last cutscene, force me to discover the "something" and then sit through another cutscene. And then play the extensive credits which were unskippable. None of that was covering background loading. Pretty annoying.
- Cut scenes that you can't skip (hello Assassin's Creed!)
- Game trailers that are 50% intro material, 30% outro and all of 20% actual game footage
- Proper reviews from people that have played the full game (e.g., Gamespot's review of Assassin's Creed neglects to mention a questionable ending and how annoying it gets to hear "Please sir, can I have some money?" or townspeople being hassled by guards)
Can appreciate your point. So what's the solution to that?
I'm finding it more and more common for regular and remotely reputable businesses to buy lists and send out an announcement - none of them seem to even realise that what they're doing isn't a good thing.
I think there are even marketing laws in Australia that allow you to scrape public email addresses in a number of cases.
FWIW, the Australian equivalent (also without advertising) is Choice Magazine: http://www.choice.com.au/
"getting people to stop clicking on things indiscriminately"
Would a public education campaign be worth trying? TV ads explaining to people that spam is an on-going problem partly because some people keep rewarding the spammers with sales.
FWIW, I have an iPhone and have used it for the past few weeks. More often than not, it is slower to enter a message and to do so correctly. At least with my old Nokia and predictive text, I could enter a message without looking at the screen and be confident it was all fine - no such luck with the iPhone.
Other than that and a few other minor complaints, it's been decent though.
I actually find GameSpot's reviews and video reviews really useful. They seem to be fairly honest in their judgements and there's enough there for you to compare with other reviews, ignore or take into account the final score, see what works and what doesn't.
Really, scores and the like are such a small part of it all that suggesting everything's broken because of them is a bit of a whinge IMO.
I think you're going easy on the sheeple of the world. Sure, the storytelling helps, but it takes two... No one questions what they're told, read or see. No one looks for a natural explanation before a paranormal one.
IMO, that's about people being stupid.
Isn't one of the problems that they don't buy it, they just taste it free for five days?
That rule should be scrapped. If you want a domain, you pay for it up front. If you make a mistake, tough luck - you're out $10 - big deal.