Part of it is that they're not just posting adverts on their own sites, they're also posting ads on services and acting as an ad broker posting ads on other peoples' sites, with a simple, rather unobtrusive, and relevant method to boot. To compare them to past (Web 1.0?) companies, they're not just Yahoo!, they're DoubleClick as well. There are also other sources like licensing their search system to a number of other players (which I suppose makes them a bit "Inktomi" as well).
Even then, I agree that it's a bit odd that they're as high afloat as they are right now, but I think that if things start going sour, they do have respectable and consistently innovative search technologies that they could apply to any number of pay-for products or services (kind of like pre-AOL Netscape did, although not that well, when the browser wars made their flagship browser go freeware-- selling server software and other such things on the reputation of their free products).
The alternative problem, though, would be not taking lunch money, thus not getting beat up, then suing the bully for going hungry anyway, because... well... hypothetically if I would have had money when I was walking by...
Lately, though, I've seen more and more "Unrated versions" of movies out on DVD. I would consider this a rather good demonstration of how private policy can work with everyone-- The theatre organizations and distributors get their guaranteed level of "family-friendly" restraint on their turf, while the studios and movie-makers are taking advantage of the growing prevalence of home-theater to give the original film a proper distribution (backed in part by the theater run as an advertising device).
The baby-gathering game doesn't really have much precedent or comment on reality-- unless there's an associated news-story I'm missing. Gangbanging Retards needs more fleshing-out to become a similar type idea. There's no conflict. VCA, as others have mentioned, has been done. The last two could be made into a similar style of game, I suppose.
All in all, the GPP's "suggestions" give the idea that they either don't understand or don't appreciate the "commentary" angle of SCMRPG, but they did nothing to frame their argument by discounting these legitimate facets of the game (legitimate as perceived and commented-upon by other posters, writers, etc.), instead presenting counterarguments that completely overlook this part, so the comment comes off as underinformed, underexplained, or a troll.
Honestly, I'd like to see it. Kind of a "Sim-Festival" game where you have to hold things together when nearly every decision you can make is a bad one, to a degree.
I would think that the biggest advantage to the console is that you dont* need to scale back to fit lesser machines. A console might only have 512MB, but its guaranteed, and you know (like you mentioned) that you have full reign over it.
* (Lack of proper punctuation brought to you by Firefox grabbing all my apostrophes as "Fast Find" requests.)
The problem is restricting capture to only an analog hole, or at least a significantly degraded "hole". The problem the content-producers have is that capturing full-res HD bitstream is, in essence, copying the disc at its maximum fidelity (although I suppose there would be some recompression lossiness). The ??AA are still trying to return to the "good ol' days", when bootleg dubs had significant quality loss as a natural byproduct. Given that people are content to watch movie-screen recordings and listen to 128kbps MP3s when it comes down to it, one has to wonder (although not much, I suppose) whether the industries have gone too deep in their own crusades to come up for reality.
Trillian, Doom (and a thousand other Shareware titles), MS Outlook (via Express), Winamp (although I don't know if that's "succeeding" or merely "subsidized")
Actually, if you look at the box for Acrobat 8 (USA, YMMV) they list "Secure redaction" as a bullet-point on the back of the box. Apparently they've put in a feature that allows you to select text and actually delete it underneath the redaction bar. Another blow struck in the battle for information transparency via stupidity.
It's just like buying webspace, in a lot of cases. If I buy webspace, I pay for 2 gigs of storage and 10 gigs of transfer. When you buy "server space" in SL, you pay for 150m2 of space and 150 prims (or whatever those limits are). It's a bit of an obfuscation to call it "land costs", but really, what you're buying is server space on a 3D graphically represented server. Now, I'll grant that Linden tends to squeeze the costs rather extremely (land-use tier fees are fierce), but until someone else comes in with something similar, it's the only game in town.
The problem is that any other interactivity solution has to be universally applied, and right now there's a universal solution that's adequate, more adequate than instituting a ground-up rebuild, so anything in the future is going to be tacked-on to that. I suppose the best we can hope for is incremental, inside-to-out cleanup of the language, and, like CSS and "quirks modes" do, old code that breaks is switched to a legacy mode. Still, though, I think it's going to stay JavaScript, at least for the forseeable future. There's just too much inertia.
My problem? I wish some other name than "JavaScript" had come around, so every JS book and every JS idiot didn't need the paragraph about "Javascript is nothing related to Java".
What if the "gentle stop" leaves you on the left side of a blind curve on a multilane city freeway? It sounds like an edge case, but I know of a number of places where you would *not* want to break down-- if you have enough room to get off to the side, you still may end up stranded on the wrong side of an enclosed freeway. Let's see how much mayhem a drunk stumbler can do in the middle of a quickly-moving Interstate.
Now could the economists here (armchair or otherwise) explain to me how this condition doesn't collapse, especially when it's driven in part by the technology industry, which has far fewer reasons to physically locate anywhere in particular? Considering that the rest of the world-- the rest of the country, even-- is paying far less wage for the same amount of living, how does the inflated wage/price leapfrog continue, yet still manage to survive within the greater saner, more reasonably-priced world?
You know... I hate to pick on the guy-- as from what I recall the whole Columbine RPG was really just a little project that ballooned out far beyond its intended effect-- but I guess I have to agree.
I found the first part of the game to be-- I suppose "insightful" or "inventive" is a good word for it. The go-at-your-own pace "exploratory" nature of telling the story seemed to work well, but once the "Massacre" kicked off, it just got tedious to the point that I put the game down. There was no plot advancement, and I wasn't getting anything at all from the grinding "run into... shoot... kill" cycle.
I'll give the idea points for what ground-breaking it did, but it's rather unfortunate that it ended up being such a dull shovel. Unfortunately, now anyone trying to take such an approach in the future has to deal with the fact that the genre's defining moment was, all in all, rather lousy.
Actually, I'm surprised more digital products (movies, music, software) aren't delivered through a two-prong approach, where for an acceptable premium they'll send you the boxed copy and give or rent you a downloadable copy in the meantime. I'd even accept lower quality and more DRM if it was an additional stand-in for a standard-issue disc coming in the mail. I can't even see it adding that much overhead to the process, as long as licensing terms were worked out sanely (I know, I know, I ask too much!)
Has anyone at all ever been prosecuted or sued for making a personal mixtape? Anyone? I'm personally very pro-copyright (as the sig might lead you to believe), but even I draw the line and will stand up for moderation when it comes to things that don't really matter, like low-quantity personal noncommercial mixtapes/discs.
Now, that's a fair gap from what the RIAA's prosecuting for-- wholesale impersonal copying and distribution. There's no creativity, no transformative use, not even a social/personal effort involved in P2P sharing. It's just "I want, I search, I click 'download'".
Check section 6 of the Terms of Service linked at the bottom of the page. My Firefox is going buggy so it is not letting me copy or paste (or use apostrophes), but the TOS for this site has the same sort of terms.
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Part of it is that they're not just posting adverts on their own sites, they're also posting ads on services and acting as an ad broker posting ads on other peoples' sites, with a simple, rather unobtrusive, and relevant method to boot. To compare them to past (Web 1.0?) companies, they're not just Yahoo!, they're DoubleClick as well. There are also other sources like licensing their search system to a number of other players (which I suppose makes them a bit "Inktomi" as well).
Even then, I agree that it's a bit odd that they're as high afloat as they are right now, but I think that if things start going sour, they do have respectable and consistently innovative search technologies that they could apply to any number of pay-for products or services (kind of like pre-AOL Netscape did, although not that well, when the browser wars made their flagship browser go freeware-- selling server software and other such things on the reputation of their free products).
Well, it's not so much "starved" as a diet consisting mainly of cheap high-fructose corn syrup.
The alternative problem, though, would be not taking lunch money, thus not getting beat up, then suing the bully for going hungry anyway, because... well... hypothetically if I would have had money when I was walking by...
Lately, though, I've seen more and more "Unrated versions" of movies out on DVD. I would consider this a rather good demonstration of how private policy can work with everyone-- The theatre organizations and distributors get their guaranteed level of "family-friendly" restraint on their turf, while the studios and movie-makers are taking advantage of the growing prevalence of home-theater to give the original film a proper distribution (backed in part by the theater run as an advertising device).
Yes, Discrimination. Legally so, in some jurisdictions, IIRC.
The baby-gathering game doesn't really have much precedent or comment on reality-- unless there's an associated news-story I'm missing. Gangbanging Retards needs more fleshing-out to become a similar type idea. There's no conflict. VCA, as others have mentioned, has been done. The last two could be made into a similar style of game, I suppose.
All in all, the GPP's "suggestions" give the idea that they either don't understand or don't appreciate the "commentary" angle of SCMRPG, but they did nothing to frame their argument by discounting these legitimate facets of the game (legitimate as perceived and commented-upon by other posters, writers, etc.), instead presenting counterarguments that completely overlook this part, so the comment comes off as underinformed, underexplained, or a troll.
Honestly, I'd like to see it. Kind of a "Sim-Festival" game where you have to hold things together when nearly every decision you can make is a bad one, to a degree.
I would think that the biggest advantage to the console is that you dont* need to scale back to fit lesser machines. A console might only have 512MB, but its guaranteed, and you know (like you mentioned) that you have full reign over it.
* (Lack of proper punctuation brought to you by Firefox grabbing all my apostrophes as "Fast Find" requests.)
RTFA? It can run on chocolate or Play-Doh.
The problem is restricting capture to only an analog hole, or at least a significantly degraded "hole". The problem the content-producers have is that capturing full-res HD bitstream is, in essence, copying the disc at its maximum fidelity (although I suppose there would be some recompression lossiness). The ??AA are still trying to return to the "good ol' days", when bootleg dubs had significant quality loss as a natural byproduct. Given that people are content to watch movie-screen recordings and listen to 128kbps MP3s when it comes down to it, one has to wonder (although not much, I suppose) whether the industries have gone too deep in their own crusades to come up for reality.
Winamp?
Trillian, Doom (and a thousand other Shareware titles), MS Outlook (via Express), Winamp (although I don't know if that's "succeeding" or merely "subsidized")
Actually, if you look at the box for Acrobat 8 (USA, YMMV) they list "Secure redaction" as a bullet-point on the back of the box. Apparently they've put in a feature that allows you to select text and actually delete it underneath the redaction bar. Another blow struck in the battle for information transparency via stupidity.
What's the point? These are no-cost accounts that you just let wither if you don't want them anymore.
It's just like buying webspace, in a lot of cases. If I buy webspace, I pay for 2 gigs of storage and 10 gigs of transfer. When you buy "server space" in SL, you pay for 150m2 of space and 150 prims (or whatever those limits are). It's a bit of an obfuscation to call it "land costs", but really, what you're buying is server space on a 3D graphically represented server. Now, I'll grant that Linden tends to squeeze the costs rather extremely (land-use tier fees are fierce), but until someone else comes in with something similar, it's the only game in town.
The problem is that any other interactivity solution has to be universally applied, and right now there's a universal solution that's adequate, more adequate than instituting a ground-up rebuild, so anything in the future is going to be tacked-on to that. I suppose the best we can hope for is incremental, inside-to-out cleanup of the language, and, like CSS and "quirks modes" do, old code that breaks is switched to a legacy mode. Still, though, I think it's going to stay JavaScript, at least for the forseeable future. There's just too much inertia.
My problem? I wish some other name than "JavaScript" had come around, so every JS book and every JS idiot didn't need the paragraph about "Javascript is nothing related to Java".
What if the "gentle stop" leaves you on the left side of a blind curve on a multilane city freeway? It sounds like an edge case, but I know of a number of places where you would *not* want to break down-- if you have enough room to get off to the side, you still may end up stranded on the wrong side of an enclosed freeway. Let's see how much mayhem a drunk stumbler can do in the middle of a quickly-moving Interstate.
Could you use an inflated air-bag, bulb, or such, or does it have positive detection of whether the air blown in is actually breath?
Now could the economists here (armchair or otherwise) explain to me how this condition doesn't collapse, especially when it's driven in part by the technology industry, which has far fewer reasons to physically locate anywhere in particular? Considering that the rest of the world-- the rest of the country, even-- is paying far less wage for the same amount of living, how does the inflated wage/price leapfrog continue, yet still manage to survive within the greater saner, more reasonably-priced world?
You know... I hate to pick on the guy-- as from what I recall the whole Columbine RPG was really just a little project that ballooned out far beyond its intended effect-- but I guess I have to agree.
I found the first part of the game to be-- I suppose "insightful" or "inventive" is a good word for it. The go-at-your-own pace "exploratory" nature of telling the story seemed to work well, but once the "Massacre" kicked off, it just got tedious to the point that I put the game down. There was no plot advancement, and I wasn't getting anything at all from the grinding "run into... shoot... kill" cycle.
I'll give the idea points for what ground-breaking it did, but it's rather unfortunate that it ended up being such a dull shovel. Unfortunately, now anyone trying to take such an approach in the future has to deal with the fact that the genre's defining moment was, all in all, rather lousy.
Actually, I'm surprised more digital products (movies, music, software) aren't delivered through a two-prong approach, where for an acceptable premium they'll send you the boxed copy and give or rent you a downloadable copy in the meantime. I'd even accept lower quality and more DRM if it was an additional stand-in for a standard-issue disc coming in the mail. I can't even see it adding that much overhead to the process, as long as licensing terms were worked out sanely (I know, I know, I ask too much!)
So, coffeehouse culture is best fostered by a dead-end job and constant looming health and financial risk?
Has anyone at all ever been prosecuted or sued for making a personal mixtape? Anyone? I'm personally very pro-copyright (as the sig might lead you to believe), but even I draw the line and will stand up for moderation when it comes to things that don't really matter, like low-quantity personal noncommercial mixtapes/discs.
Now, that's a fair gap from what the RIAA's prosecuting for-- wholesale impersonal copying and distribution. There's no creativity, no transformative use, not even a social/personal effort involved in P2P sharing. It's just "I want, I search, I click 'download'".
So it'll be "Scratch the copyright lawsuit, bring in the trademark lawsuit" then?
Check section 6 of the Terms of Service linked at the bottom of the page. My Firefox is going buggy so it is not letting me copy or paste (or use apostrophes), but the TOS for this site has the same sort of terms.