It wasn't a big deal when it was just poor kids in innercity LA, but this is a much, much worse! The recent shootings are happening in *suburbia*, in places that should be held up as lofty examples of safe, quiet oppression, not tumultuous violence...
yeah, it's a lot of hype, but digital music really IS here to stay - who cares what format they bring out? With the stereo hooked up to the computer, we can get access to thousands of hours of music with a couple of clicks.
When cheap mp3 players hold over a gig of music, which won't be long, I'll use one of them instead of my minidisc player. Really, what is all this about mini cds and super-duper cds like it's the freakin FUTURE? When is the industry really going to get it through their heads that all this won't make a bit of difference in five years?
I've gotten a taste of having all my music on one drive, w/out having to swap out and take care of a bunch of plastic disks (I don't care how small they are!!!). It's a simple matter of convinience to me, and I think it soon will be to more people... I don't just get the stuff off napster to preview it for free, I get it so that I don't have to clog my room and the rest of the world w/ more plastic crap, and so that when I moved to boston, I only had to bring a hard drive instead of an entire box of cds. (BTW, I did just make a $100 series of donations on fairtunes recently, the equivelent or the revenue from $3000 worth of cds from the artists' perspective)
I dunno, it all seems bizarre to me... "the next big thing, MINI CDs!!!" honestly...
Since when was information "hate"? Personally, I thought the info that was cut and pasted was quite interesting - I never realized that many of those words weren't in the bible.
BTW, I love the way *you* make up a group, generalize about them, judge them, and say why they do what they do; I think it's kind of cute.
please mod THIS comment up. After cruising through most (but not all, I'll admit) of the threads, I have seen no other post that brings up this point, and it is one of the most relevant to the people on/. I won't repeat the above point, but I do think it's at least + a couple insightful.
Seems obvious that, as they have always done, ID is trying to amplify the amount of cinema and drama in their games by using the same techniques as any good filmmaker.
They are limiting what you can see so that your imagination fills in the rest, or tries to, which is why the original doom was scary.
The emphasis on lighting fx instead of color has been an id trademark since doom, and it seems to me that the graphics look better in doom 3 *because* you can't see everything.
In other words, have a little imagination...
...It could be that people aren't merely tired of the internet - they could just be more informed about what sites they want to go to, wasting less time surfing.
As people use a tool more often, they become more efficient at using it - seems like the article could have mentioned that in its speculation.
Maybe people are sick of buying s***. Or they don't feel like buying it right NOW.
Even most TV ads don't work based upon people going right out and purchasing whatever they just saw. The majority of ads are about brand recognition, labeling, and other psychological warfare. Most car commercials, for instance, are targeted at making the current owners of the vehicle feel happy with their purchase. The advertisers know that people are the ones who best sell cars, when they tell their friends how happy they are with their own.
It seems like online advertising has completely ignored this type of advertising; they then complain because people aren't generally buying something based on an immediate inspiration from some lame banner picture that (increasingly often) misinforms you to get you to click on it.
Personally, I don't want to buy any more crap, so I think it's very rare that someone's going to get me to buy something through clever advertising. The things I want are things I seek out, and I think that's a more common philosophy within the online community than with the average television watcher. I'd like to think that the failure of online ads is somewhat due to the higher discrimination of the net's users.
P.S. - I do think it's unfortunate that there are some rockin' sites that can only make money of advertising. For these sites, I'll usually click through a couple of ads and immediately "back" button, but it'll only be a matter of time before advertisers pick up on that one too.
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yeah, but now it's the *white* kids!!!
It wasn't a big deal when it was just poor kids in innercity LA, but this is a much, much worse! The recent shootings are happening in *suburbia*, in places that should be held up as lofty examples of safe, quiet oppression, not tumultuous violence...
yeah, it's a lot of hype, but digital music really IS here to stay - who cares what format they bring out? With the stereo hooked up to the computer, we can get access to thousands of hours of music with a couple of clicks.
When cheap mp3 players hold over a gig of music, which won't be long, I'll use one of them instead of my minidisc player. Really, what is all this about mini cds and super-duper cds like it's the freakin FUTURE? When is the industry really going to get it through their heads that all this won't make a bit of difference in five years?
I've gotten a taste of having all my music on one drive, w/out having to swap out and take care of a bunch of plastic disks (I don't care how small they are!!!). It's a simple matter of convinience to me, and I think it soon will be to more people... I don't just get the stuff off napster to preview it for free, I get it so that I don't have to clog my room and the rest of the world w/ more plastic crap, and so that when I moved to boston, I only had to bring a hard drive instead of an entire box of cds. (BTW, I did just make a $100 series of donations on fairtunes recently, the equivelent or the revenue from $3000 worth of cds from the artists' perspective)
I dunno, it all seems bizarre to me... "the next big thing, MINI CDs!!!" honestly...
please mod this up...
Since when was information "hate"? Personally, I thought the info that was cut and pasted was quite interesting - I never realized that many of those words weren't in the bible.
BTW, I love the way *you* make up a group, generalize about them, judge them, and say why they do what they do; I think it's kind of cute.
please mod THIS comment up. /. I won't repeat the above point, but I do think it's at least + a couple insightful.
After cruising through most (but not all, I'll admit) of the threads, I have seen no other post that brings up this point, and it is one of the most relevant to the people on
Seems obvious that, as they have always done, ID is trying to amplify the amount of cinema and drama in their games by using the same techniques as any good filmmaker. They are limiting what you can see so that your imagination fills in the rest, or tries to, which is why the original doom was scary. The emphasis on lighting fx instead of color has been an id trademark since doom, and it seems to me that the graphics look better in doom 3 *because* you can't see everything. In other words, have a little imagination...
...It could be that people aren't merely tired of the internet - they could just be more informed about what sites they want to go to, wasting less time surfing. As people use a tool more often, they become more efficient at using it - seems like the article could have mentioned that in its speculation.
Maybe people are sick of buying s***. Or they don't feel like buying it right NOW. Even most TV ads don't work based upon people going right out and purchasing whatever they just saw. The majority of ads are about brand recognition, labeling, and other psychological warfare. Most car commercials, for instance, are targeted at making the current owners of the vehicle feel happy with their purchase. The advertisers know that people are the ones who best sell cars, when they tell their friends how happy they are with their own. It seems like online advertising has completely ignored this type of advertising; they then complain because people aren't generally buying something based on an immediate inspiration from some lame banner picture that (increasingly often) misinforms you to get you to click on it. Personally, I don't want to buy any more crap, so I think it's very rare that someone's going to get me to buy something through clever advertising. The things I want are things I seek out, and I think that's a more common philosophy within the online community than with the average television watcher. I'd like to think that the failure of online ads is somewhat due to the higher discrimination of the net's users. P.S. - I do think it's unfortunate that there are some rockin' sites that can only make money of advertising. For these sites, I'll usually click through a couple of ads and immediately "back" button, but it'll only be a matter of time before advertisers pick up on that one too.