3D Realms have previewed this game many times in the gaming magazines I read (and each preview proceeded an anoucement in the next issue that the game had been restarted with a different game engine).
They may not have spent ten million dollars trying to tell joe public about the game but they certainly have lead the gaming press up the proverbial garden path a few times. Not saying that anyone has lost money apart from the developer and publisher but the development of DNF is definitely unusual.
What, exactly, is the insight? Maybe there should be a "+/-1, TinFoilHat" mod.
I used to mock the whole tin foil hat idea, until I put one on. Once their signals stopped entering my brain I started to see things differently. If you have never actually tried a tin foil hat then you shouldn't laugh.
I'm not sure I would call the Chemical Bothers underground, they are fairly mainstream big beat dance music. And haven't had a record out for ages, so you wouldn't expect MTV to play them anyway.
Seriously, do you believe that all corporations act ethically all the time ?.
I could bring up M$ as an example of the USA's failure to stop companies acting unethically.
Instead I will just point out the fact that a lot of goods sold in the west are made in unethical condtions (clothes made in sweatshops, diamonds mined by children, etc.).
A group of movie studio bosses discussing ideas for new movies...
Studio Boss 1: I got a great idea, think Arnold Swarznegger, whats he known for ?, being a great big serious tall guy with muscles. Think Danny Devito, whats he known for ?, being a funny short fat guy. So imagine Swarznegger and Devito, toegether, as... wait for it.. Twins!
I may be really dense but I don't get it. You can only run IE on windows operating systems so as long as you can update IE using windows update this is going to have almost zero impact on home users.
If they include it with the os you could say that M$ has started charging for IE in the price of the OS . But how is this really different from before ? (seeing as IE can only run on windows).
I call bullshiat, the best version avaliable is centropy, it's definitely a cam, apretty damn good one but still a cam. Unless a dvd screener has surfaced in the last day or so with out me knowing then the article is BS.
How is this different from today? In my area, there are only 3 of about 25 theaters which show "independent" movies, and the MPAA members have their grubby hands into most of those "independent" movies. Not just any members either--the really evil ones (Disney and News Corp) are in control of the vast majority I've looked into. I even went to one thinking some small time company produced it, yet at the opening credits the Fox showed up in the henhouse in big bold letters.
Your absolutely right, the film industry today is currently very similar to the Hollywood Studio system of the 30's, 40's and 50's (here in england there are even some cinema's owned by Warner Bros.). However we do get more independent films in cinemas today compared to 50 or 60 years ago.
I guess the important thing to remember is that there is nothing to stop your local multiplex from showing an independent film. The only requirement is whether the cinema thinks that people will come to see the film and hence make money for the cinema.
Simply put the reason we have so much formulaic Hollywood product in our cinemas is because the general public regularly spends it's money on it.
the movie studios must accept the same terms they offer to the other theatres.
Which is what the studios are trying to do, they want to take a share of the takings of every ticket sold for a film. Stelios wants to pay a fixed sum to have the right to show a film.
In this case I support the studios because the whole share of takings bussiness model means that small cinemas can compete with big cinemas, which under stelios's bussiness model wouldn't neccesarily be true.
If a studio doesn't want to sell it's film to Stelios then it doesn't have to, I see nothing that can possibly alter this fact.
This isn't the same as the last time the studios were taken to court in 1948 (the paramount decrees). Back then studios owned their own cinema chains, you could only see an MGM film at an MGM cinema, this meant that independent films (that didn't have studio backing) would have a very hard time getting shown in cinemas nationwide. The courts decided that studios having control over production, distribution and exhibition was a monopoly and split them up.
I see no parrallels here, the studio's have a product, they want to sell it for a particular price (shares of takings) and Stelios could get films elsewhere if he wanted (they wouldn't be hollywood product tho).
We have always had trouble using power lines for sending and receiving data not beacuse it is impossible but because our current power lines were never designed to carry data.
Imagine a merging of the current ethernet and power line standards, you could potentially solve the last mile problem and and at the same time open up new backbones.
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pinky to mouth, "1 billion dollars"
I though Caldera was somehting to do with Corel ?
Y'know I have had a really hard time following this whole thing, now I find out that AT&T are somehow invloved ?.
Just how many organistations are involved and how ?
Is this list accurate ?
SCO
IBM
Corel
AT&T
Whoever it is that administers Linux and the GPL
I thought... "Dangerous" ...but then thats just me.
Will it make my interweb faster ?
3D Realms have previewed this game many times in the gaming magazines I read (and each preview proceeded an anoucement in the next issue that the game had been restarted with a different game engine).
They may not have spent ten million dollars trying to tell joe public about the game but they certainly have lead the gaming press up the proverbial garden path a few times. Not saying that anyone has lost money apart from the developer and publisher but the development of DNF is definitely unusual.
What, exactly, is the insight? Maybe there should be a "+/-1, TinFoilHat" mod.
I used to mock the whole tin foil hat idea, until I put one on. Once their signals stopped entering my brain I started to see things differently. If you have never actually tried a tin foil hat then you shouldn't laugh.
I'm not sure I would call the Chemical Bothers underground, they are fairly mainstream big beat dance music. And haven't had a record out for ages, so you wouldn't expect MTV to play them anyway.
Wrong you are, understanding of your wrongness you have not. Has you the dark side does.
Wow, Goerge W Bush is posting to slashdot now.
Seriously, do you believe that all corporations act ethically all the time ?.
I could bring up M$ as an example of the USA's failure to stop companies acting unethically.
Instead I will just point out the fact that a lot of goods sold in the west are made in unethical condtions (clothes made in sweatshops, diamonds mined by children, etc.).
I'm not sure if it's worth $20, but it's worth something....
Ignoring ?
A group of movie studio bosses discussing ideas for new movies...
Studio Boss 1: I got a great idea, think Arnold Swarznegger, whats he known for ?, being a great big serious tall guy with muscles. Think Danny Devito, whats he known for ?, being a funny short fat guy. So imagine Swarznegger and Devito, toegether, as... wait for it.. Twins!
Studio Boss 2: Thats so crazy it just might work
too fvcking right they should.
One word...
"Silly"
I may be really dense but I don't get it. You can only run IE on windows operating systems so as long as you can update IE using windows update this is going to have almost zero impact on home users.
If they include it with the os you could say that M$ has started charging for IE in the price of the OS
. But how is this really different from before ? (seeing as IE can only run on windows).
Must admit, I'm a bit confuzzled.
Might Mars Contain Life?
And it might contain lots of red sterile rocks. Either way the excitement will be just too much for many.
ask and you will recieve...
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http://news.gametab.com/files/wolfet.exe.torren
This had the effect of completely stopping piracy of copyright works owned by RIAA member companies.
Excuse me ?...
I call bullshiat, the best version avaliable is centropy, it's definitely a cam, apretty damn good one but still a cam. Unless a dvd screener has surfaced in the last day or so with out me knowing then the article is BS.
How is this different from today? In my area, there are only 3 of about 25 theaters which show "independent" movies, and the MPAA members have their grubby hands into most of those "independent" movies. Not just any members either--the really evil ones (Disney and News Corp) are in control of the vast majority I've looked into. I even went to one thinking some small time company produced it, yet at the opening credits the Fox showed up in the henhouse in big bold letters.
Your absolutely right, the film industry today is currently very similar to the Hollywood Studio system of the 30's, 40's and 50's (here in england there are even some cinema's owned by Warner Bros.). However we do get more independent films in cinemas today compared to 50 or 60 years ago.
I guess the important thing to remember is that there is nothing to stop your local multiplex from showing an independent film. The only requirement is whether the cinema thinks that people will come to see the film and hence make money for the cinema.
Simply put the reason we have so much formulaic Hollywood product in our cinemas is because the general public regularly spends it's money on it.
the movie studios must accept the same terms they offer to the other theatres.
Which is what the studios are trying to do, they want to take a share of the takings of every ticket sold for a film. Stelios wants to pay a fixed sum to have the right to show a film.
In this case I support the studios because the whole share of takings bussiness model means that small cinemas can compete with big cinemas, which under stelios's bussiness model wouldn't neccesarily be true.
If a studio doesn't want to sell it's film to Stelios then it doesn't have to, I see nothing that can possibly alter this fact.
This isn't the same as the last time the studios were taken to court in 1948 (the paramount decrees). Back then studios owned their own cinema chains, you could only see an MGM film at an MGM cinema, this meant that independent films (that didn't have studio backing) would have a very hard time getting shown in cinemas nationwide. The courts decided that studios having control over production, distribution and exhibition was a monopoly and split them up.
I see no parrallels here, the studio's have a product, they want to sell it for a particular price (shares of takings) and Stelios could get films elsewhere if he wanted (they wouldn't be hollywood product tho).
We have always had trouble using power lines for sending and receiving data not beacuse it is impossible but because our current power lines were never designed to carry data.
Imagine a merging of the current ethernet and power line standards, you could potentially solve the last mile problem and and at the same time open up new backbones.
How come Fark gets a mention but not /. ?, haven't we killed enough servers ?.
First piece of spam appears in USENET newsgroups and is quickly removed. "Well, that should be the last of that", say users.
If only, is there anything we could have done to prevent the worlwide spam epidemic ?