Sounds like a false-delimma. You can have set backs and make progress. "Don't be discouraged by the set backs we've encountered, we are making progress" is a perfectly logical phrase.
But as another poster said, he said Iraq and Al-Qaeda, so he could be refering to different things. *shrug*
While AutoDesk might be firmly up MS's asses, keep in mind that one of their child companies, Discreet (who makes 3DS, Fire, Combustion, etc) runs most, if not all, their upper level software on Unix boxes - in many cases exclusively. Due to this I can see AutoDesk leaving Alias alone in respect to platforms.
My experience EXACTLY. Additionally, where Dallas and LA and others were having problems with supply in my metro area, every store I went to (save EB Games) had a huge stock of PSPs. Was pretty funny after hearing people piss and moan about them selling out...
There can be two men working on the same house. Building it, finishing it, all that. One could be considered an artist, the other a worker... why?
I think art has alot to do with how someone approaches something. I'm a graphic designer and a programmer by trade, there are some things I work on that are pure work, other's are art. One is business, the other personal. Mediums do not define art. Approach and reception do.
That being said, I can produce something to me that is "Art" but you find just terrible, or mundane. Then I can produce something that is mundane to me that you will call Art. There's what defines successful art. If I make it as art and you recieve it as art, then it is truely successful as art. This is where code has failed so far, and will likely to fail as art in and of itself. We can produce brilliant solutions to problems with interesting implementations of code, but until there is a wide audience who recieves it as art it will remain just code in most peoples minds.
ah, then say that the patent is a subsidation for the small fry and bar the large company from it. Then just charge about 1K-2K for a patent, make some money, and pull for the little guy to boot.
Very true, though AoE is supposed to be coming out on the Nintendo DS. With it's touch screen it breaks a few of the barriers in the area of control.
Touch screens aside, sometimes I wonder how long it might be until RTS are on Consoles , I mean I would have never thought that FPSs would be all the rage on consoles either... But hey, the kiddies love `em.
Nice, I remember when I worked for an online media company and we did weekly polls... These were very non-scientific of course but it never ceased to amaze me how you could influence the result.
I'm working in academia now and thought that the surveying would be better. Even with Staticians writing surveys to strict guidelines there exists much of the same problems. While much more subtle than the for fun polls at the media company you can see the slight pushes of the survey writer. Though priming like the above isn't present that I've seen.
There's def. no shortage of good fun nintendo games this Generation:
* Pikman * Animal Crossing * Super Monkey Ball (was first a gamecube game) * Mario Tennis * Mario Golf * Mario Cart * Metroid Prime * Zelda: Windwaker * Resident Evil 4 * Viewtiful Joe (Originally a Gamecube Exclusive)
True most of these are new takes on old ideas, but that's really the point of this thread, we're sick of the same take over and over and over again. It's not that we don't like FPS, it's just that they're in a rut, or that we don't like racing games, it's just the last few have been the first one ruined and repackaged.
Nintendo does something that few others do with their sequals, they change the game. Think about Zelda 1, now Zelda 2, then Zelda 3, on and on. Each one changed the formula. Some a little, others alot. Often they even pissed off their fanbase.
Now think about Resident Evil 1-3, kind of the same game. It took them until 4 to say "Hey lets mix it up a bit".
Nintendo doesn't seem milk franchises the way other companies do (Capcom being one of the worst). Sure they whore out mario and friends to every game on the planet but every game is very very different, and most importantly, very fun.
What nintendo is doing that's so great is laying their heads on the chopping block with new concepts (Animal Crossing? Pikman?) instead of beating you to death with the louder flashier corpse of a once successful game design.
Yeah, we're given the option between the two in art school, but everyone goes InDesign due to price, familiarity, and integration... Quark will become the Sun of the Desktop editing world.
I'm unsure of what I said that would be called non-linear editing... If it's the time based design term Non-Linear editing would be a restrictive term as one could do time based design with a linear editor. Or no editor at all really. Non-linear editing is just tool.
If it was the compositing, I was talking more about the 3D compositing and camera abilities of AfterEffects, and just threw Premier in there to maintain the grouping of the parent.;)
If it wasn't even a reply to me I'll just remove my lips from the crack pipe. haha
Also I completely agree with the 5D's... Only I tended to attribute it to more general terms of space with 5D still being interactivity as you're moving through 4D spaces. (though in the case of a web page it could be that the 3rd D and the 4th D are flattened and/or ignored.) Once again, 3D has different connotations so we just call it flattend and move to the 4th D. haha...
More like Honda competing with Mongoose. Honda makes bikes, in a way, but Mongoose doesn't make cars.
Sucky analogy maybe, but the point is, Quark only makes multipage layout programs, who's competition is InDesign... So Quark may be bigger and more settled in to it's part of the market but Adobe now has seemless content creation and layout tools for any medium, and Quark has print layout.
Maybe moot, but AfterEffects (what he meant to say) + Premier can do 3D compositing so the 4D works... Also 3D has different connotations than 4D... I suppose the proper term might have been "Time based design" but now I'm just nit-picking. =P
Except for one problem, Quark is only a content layout/workflow program. I may be be wrong, but as far as I know they have very little (nothing) in the realm of content creation. So there's still competition for InDesign, but Photoshop, Imageready, Illustrator, Flash, Dreamweaver, and Acrobat there's pretty much nothing for a long way... Luckly Adobe still has very stiff competition in the realm of Editing and Compositing.
You should check out patching it. I just got into Civ 3 (finally) this last month or so and run it strictly on XP SP2. Runs like a dream, haven't had a single problem (other than losing alot;) )
http://www.civ3.com/support.cfm
Has all the patches, just be sure to get the right one as they don't do the best job of separating out the expansion pack patches and the original patches...
I feel that your broad generalities are a bit unfair. From what I'm seeing from you and others, there's only a hair difference from the science crowd and the faith crowd at times... Just as there's zelots on the faith side, there are zelots on the science side of things. People with an end in mind doing all they can to make the pieces fit. What you said about how non science people just dismiss things as false, or accuse heathen scientists happens on the other side. When some theory fails or something proves that there may be something larger going on than random events the science side has simply dismissed before it as ramblings of some zelot (despite any pedagree that zelot might hold).
Most right minded people, on both sides, do what you said when something fails; try to resolve the inconsistancies. As they should. In both cases you have people believing something that hasn't been, and may not ever be, proven, but through observation and experience feel strongy is true. The same arguments used above for evolution's lack of direct observation I've heard for faith as well... This leads me to believe the situations are more similar than most make them out to be. We can't see these things, we can just see the results of them, and try to figure out a patern.
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Sounds like a false-delimma. You can have set backs and make progress. "Don't be discouraged by the set backs we've encountered, we are making progress" is a perfectly logical phrase.
But as another poster said, he said Iraq and Al-Qaeda, so he could be refering to different things. *shrug*
This may be an outdated mode of thought, but if anyone can use a seal, doesn't that sort of defeat the purpose of a seal?
While AutoDesk might be firmly up MS's asses, keep in mind that one of their child companies, Discreet (who makes 3DS, Fire, Combustion, etc) runs most, if not all, their upper level software on Unix boxes - in many cases exclusively. Due to this I can see AutoDesk leaving Alias alone in respect to platforms.
Which brings up the question: What must one do to protect it when ran over?
My experience EXACTLY. Additionally, where Dallas and LA and others were having problems with supply in my metro area, every store I went to (save EB Games) had a huge stock of PSPs. Was pretty funny after hearing people piss and moan about them selling out...
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There can be two men working on the same house. Building it, finishing it, all that. One could be considered an artist, the other a worker... why?
I think art has alot to do with how someone approaches something. I'm a graphic designer and a programmer by trade, there are some things I work on that are pure work, other's are art. One is business, the other personal. Mediums do not define art. Approach and reception do.
That being said, I can produce something to me that is "Art" but you find just terrible, or mundane. Then I can produce something that is mundane to me that you will call Art. There's what defines successful art. If I make it as art and you recieve it as art, then it is truely successful as art. This is where code has failed so far, and will likely to fail as art in and of itself. We can produce brilliant solutions to problems with interesting implementations of code, but until there is a wide audience who recieves it as art it will remain just code in most peoples minds.
ah, then say that the patent is a subsidation for the small fry and bar the large company from it. Then just charge about 1K-2K for a patent, make some money, and pull for the little guy to boot.
The smallest political quiz has a terrible slant in the questioning. It scores about everyone as libertarian.
;)
Though I think with your results you probably would be anyway.
I thought we already had that premise in Terminator 3.
Very true, though AoE is supposed to be coming out on the Nintendo DS. With it's touch screen it breaks a few of the barriers in the area of control.
Touch screens aside, sometimes I wonder how long it might be until RTS are on Consoles , I mean I would have never thought that FPSs would be all the rage on consoles either... But hey, the kiddies love `em.
Until it replaces the word book with DCS00001
*grin*
Nice, I remember when I worked for an online media company and we did weekly polls... These were very non-scientific of course but it never ceased to amaze me how you could influence the result.
I'm working in academia now and thought that the surveying would be better. Even with Staticians writing surveys to strict guidelines there exists much of the same problems. While much more subtle than the for fun polls at the media company you can see the slight pushes of the survey writer. Though priming like the above isn't present that I've seen.
Keyword: Attempt.
You're right, but success becomes attempt and for the other hundred people on the plane and N number on the ground, that makes all the difference.
There's def. no shortage of good fun nintendo games this Generation:
* Pikman
* Animal Crossing
* Super Monkey Ball (was first a gamecube game)
* Mario Tennis
* Mario Golf
* Mario Cart
* Metroid Prime
* Zelda: Windwaker
* Resident Evil 4
* Viewtiful Joe (Originally a Gamecube Exclusive)
True most of these are new takes on old ideas, but that's really the point of this thread, we're sick of the same take over and over and over again. It's not that we don't like FPS, it's just that they're in a rut, or that we don't like racing games, it's just the last few have been the first one ruined and repackaged.
Nintendo does something that few others do with their sequals, they change the game. Think about Zelda 1, now Zelda 2, then Zelda 3, on and on. Each one changed the formula. Some a little, others alot. Often they even pissed off their fanbase.
Now think about Resident Evil 1-3, kind of the same game. It took them until 4 to say "Hey lets mix it up a bit".
Nintendo doesn't seem milk franchises the way other companies do (Capcom being one of the worst). Sure they whore out mario and friends to every game on the planet but every game is very very different, and most importantly, very fun.
What nintendo is doing that's so great is laying their heads on the chopping block with new concepts (Animal Crossing? Pikman?) instead of beating you to death with the louder flashier corpse of a once successful game design.
That's USA PATRIOT Act to you... haha...
Yeah, we're given the option between the two in art school, but everyone goes InDesign due to price, familiarity, and integration... Quark will become the Sun of the Desktop editing world.
I'm unsure of what I said that would be called non-linear editing... If it's the time based design term Non-Linear editing would be a restrictive term as one could do time based design with a linear editor. Or no editor at all really. Non-linear editing is just tool.
;)
If it was the compositing, I was talking more about the 3D compositing and camera abilities of AfterEffects, and just threw Premier in there to maintain the grouping of the parent.
If it wasn't even a reply to me I'll just remove my lips from the crack pipe. haha
Also I completely agree with the 5D's... Only I tended to attribute it to more general terms of space with 5D still being interactivity as you're moving through 4D spaces. (though in the case of a web page it could be that the 3rd D and the 4th D are flattened and/or ignored.) Once again, 3D has different connotations so we just call it flattend and move to the 4th D. haha...
right.
LOL, I wish I had points...
Cause that's the same way I feel about GS. I go in and browse and I have three comic guys sizing up my gamer worthiness...
More like Honda competing with Mongoose. Honda makes bikes, in a way, but Mongoose doesn't make cars.
Sucky analogy maybe, but the point is, Quark only makes multipage layout programs, who's competition is InDesign... So Quark may be bigger and more settled in to it's part of the market but Adobe now has seemless content creation and layout tools for any medium, and Quark has print layout.
Maybe moot, but AfterEffects (what he meant to say) + Premier can do 3D compositing so the 4D works... Also 3D has different connotations than 4D... I suppose the proper term might have been "Time based design" but now I'm just nit-picking. =P
Except for one problem, Quark is only a content layout/workflow program. I may be be wrong, but as far as I know they have very little (nothing) in the realm of content creation. So there's still competition for InDesign, but Photoshop, Imageready, Illustrator, Flash, Dreamweaver, and Acrobat there's pretty much nothing for a long way... Luckly Adobe still has very stiff competition in the realm of Editing and Compositing.
Unless they go and buy out discrete...
You should check out patching it. I just got into Civ 3 (finally) this last month or so and run it strictly on XP SP2. Runs like a dream, haven't had a single problem (other than losing alot ;) )
http://www.civ3.com/support.cfm
Has all the patches, just be sure to get the right one as they don't do the best job of separating out the expansion pack patches and the original patches...
Good Luck!
I feel that your broad generalities are a bit unfair. From what I'm seeing from you and others, there's only a hair difference from the science crowd and the faith crowd at times... Just as there's zelots on the faith side, there are zelots on the science side of things. People with an end in mind doing all they can to make the pieces fit. What you said about how non science people just dismiss things as false, or accuse heathen scientists happens on the other side. When some theory fails or something proves that there may be something larger going on than random events the science side has simply dismissed before it as ramblings of some zelot (despite any pedagree that zelot might hold).
Most right minded people, on both sides, do what you said when something fails; try to resolve the inconsistancies. As they should. In both cases you have people believing something that hasn't been, and may not ever be, proven, but through observation and experience feel strongy is true. The same arguments used above for evolution's lack of direct observation I've heard for faith as well... This leads me to believe the situations are more similar than most make them out to be. We can't see these things, we can just see the results of them, and try to figure out a patern.
In that case, 9/10 13yr old boys agree, Sears catalog is porn.