This is a way too complicated of a pricing plan for a basic home user.
There are simply way to many rules with this plan as stated. I pay a monthly fee, so I should be able to use any song right? No, I have to pay for each song [after the trial]. So why am I paying a monthly fee? Then I get the song, and realize I can use it but for my computer?
You try selling that to the guy on the street.
That's why the Apple plan works. $.99 a song. We'll give you a discount if you buy a full album (for most CDs). No monthly fee. Burn, iPod, play your songs you got. There are some restrictions, but transparent to the average user. That's easier to sell to the guy on the street.
"What kind of chance does a film-maker have of making a difference in videogames, now films are becoming more game-like and games are becoming more film-like?"
I know this seems like a shameless promotion since it comes out tomorrow, but the answer to that question will be answered with "Enter the Matrix."
This is a very rare project where film directors are in the director's chair for a video game. This is revolutionary mainly because it breaks taboos in Hollywood about video games.
A few weeks ago, Emerson College in Boston held their 'Web Night' panel discussion which included Randy Fenton, the founder of Dare to Play (DtP). DtP is a tool to create a non-liner narrative structure using a hotmail-like account to interact with characters. The intent is for branding for movies where audiences experience a sort of prequel to a movie (as well as some Edutainment applications).
The common problem he has faced is being labeled as a game. For example, DtP was featured under the Sundance Interactive Festival, but only by a hair. The board was at a fight between calling DtP a game or not. Sundance Interactive do not want to incorporate 'games' into the festival, but how can an interactive project not be constructed as a game? Under this logic, titles like 'Myst' or 'The Longest Journey' do not have narrative merit. This is the challenge between the movie and gaming industries.
Hollywood thinks all video games are variations of Pong.
There are a lot of reasons and theories as to why, from union issues to change in audience positioning. But now, special effects work is very similar to video game creation, especially with motion-capture and human scanning practices. The film industry is already making mini-videogames as non-interactive movies for a few years now. Something needs to point out this fact to the industry.
I believe the Wachowski brothers will make that point with The Matrix. The principal photography of the new series of The Matrix was of 3 main units, "Matrix: Revolutions," "Matrix: Reloaded," and "Enter the Matrix." Film people made a video game. The game may or may not be revolutionary for the audience (out side of the plot's involvement with the movie), but it will be for the process of creating a video game.
There is a forth book in the works, but no imformation has been realsed as to a publishing date. I personaly would guess it would co-inside with the release of Uru and/or the Myst mini-series.
Rendezvous doesn't seem to be the Eric version
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"Rendezvous-enabled computers that have Personal Web Sharing turned on appear in the Safari Rendezvous bookmark collection."
Taking a quick look at the Rendezvous bookmarks on Safari, I see a bookmark for each user made on my mac ("User's website") and then the one made by Eric Christopher is still present. Admitabally, it doesn't seem that they used Eric's mod, but I can't be 100% about it.
"2) Link length. 100 m? That's more than anyone needs for, well, anything."
My bet is that FW2 has great benifits with Firewire over IP. Yes, there are really nifty benifits with hardware connections such as hard drives and such, but with 800 speeds that reach 100m can make your LAN really smoke!
This increases my fan boy status to new heights, but that's not the most accurate discription. No hard feelings though!:)
In Myst: Book of Ti'ana, A'Gaeris was the key player in the dystruction of D'ni and only inlisted (and to a point even tricked) Veovis who did help in the biological attack that caused the distruction.
Actually, there are a number of titles before Uru came about:
Parable Mudpie (The most commonly used among the fan-base) Myst Online (The worse by far!)
And a bunch of others I can't think of at the moment. I had written a paper about the issue of titles for Mudpie, but that's on another computer at the moment. But Ubi/Cyan seemed to followed the outlines I stated.;)
Pardon the sorta off-topic post, but this isn't much of a ask slashdot question and fits a bit with this topic:
Are there any KVM switch solutions that incorperate DVI natively?
The only thing that put me off on getting a flat screen (Outside of price) is trying to KVM a Dell Inspiron 8100 portable (VGA only:[ ) and Gigabyte Ethernet class G4 (ADC & VGA). I know I need to get the ADC-to-DVI converter for the G4, and I would be getting the most native DVI visuals from either the G4 and espically the Dell, but if I can edge out something better than VGA on the G4, it's worth the trouble. So, anyone have ideas for sollutions? Thanks in advance for the help!
I thought I'd give a review of the comments from this post:
The common agreement is the the SDK could stand more improvement.
The following are some of the channels that are available. Clicking will add them to your copy of Sherlock or link to the homepage of the channel: Canada 411 Google (not officially from Google) dotmac.info massinova.com Libplussa FedEx Tracker (not officially from FedEx)
I recently transfered in to Emerson College in Boston, doing away with a double major in Design/Technical Theatre & Cable/TV Broadcasting at Western Michigan University. Upon starting at Emerson, I found out about a BFA program where a student can partake in a feature-length project in film, tv/video, radio, and new media. Long story short, I changed majors from a BA in Film to peruse BFA in New Media.
Personally, I think 'New Media' should be renamed 'Interactive Media.' With internet, with video games, it's a form of media that the audience interacts with. With 'New Media,' what happens in 20 or 10 years? Is it still new? And what happens when HTML goes the way of BetaMax? What does knowing HTML do for you then?
I use the class curriculum as a springboard for my own education. The classes provide the foundation, I complete the rest of the picture with my thesis project. What I hope to create is an education where I can understand how an audience interacts with the media I create. Programing languages and media delivery systems will come and go, but what I hope to keep is how best to allow my audience to interact with my artwork. HTML, Flash, Director, et all are tools for a user to interact with content. I'm trying to keep in check that the tools will change and improve, but the fundamentals of audience interaction are still in play.
Well, Apple seems to be weaning away from Motorola and going to IBM for the IBM PowerPC 970 (A nice tech-spec here). Yet it's still a PowerPC architecture.
Something tells me there are more actions at play here than simply changing processor manufactures in this x86 release. What exactly, I don't know. But still, there's something more here than meets the eye.
I believe the root of this question lays in a general education requirements that a number of colleges/universities.
Lets say a university wants to employ a basic computing skills class for the general education requirements. So, you make a CS101 class. But, how do you create a lesson plan for this class? How do you teach word processing on a computer that's inexpensive from installation to support? Not to mention having the attempt for the class material to be applicable in the lives of the student.
As much as I would like to see a more competitive/open environment, the open source products of word processing and operating systems in general are not at that level yet, and certainly not in the past 10+ years. The only real player has been Microsoft with Corel/WordPerfect in a very distant 2nd.
At this point in time it makes economical and educational sense to go with MS products. However, this could change if a number of things happen, which I personally would like to see.
Correct me if I'm wrong or slightly misleading on this, I'm not a law student.
Wasn't it Canada (or at least some provinces) that have a law where if you are going to sew someone, the looser of the suit has to pay legal fees of ALL parties. Where if Mr. N would win the suit, the defendants would have to pay for his [substantially smaller] legal fees, and if Mr. N looses, he has to pay legal fees of the defendants.
Good idea: Striking a business deal to provide your game on a large customer base. [Please note that I say this for games, not utilities or operating systems]
Bad idea: Requiring your game to only be 'optimized' on a specific company's chip-set.
My question is, are they expecting browsers to simply only understand only XHTML 2, or just that the current browsers out there will not be able to read XHTML 2, but future browsers will have be able to read both XHTML 2 and the previous?
If the browsers are allowed cross-compatibility, then I say I like what I see. But if HTML and et all are thrown out the window completely, then I don't think we will ever see XHTML 2 ever put into practice.
This isn't anything new. GM announced this at the North American International Auto Show in January.
Anyways, the idea is for a fuel cell car that can be easily produced and not put UAW workers out of a job. You have one plant making the core part of the car (the bottom part with wheels and all points in-between to make the car move). Other plants build the top part of the car (one makes SUVs another makes luxuary lines...). and plug the top part into the same base.
Now this 'plug-in' idea is not meant for the consumer to detach different car bodies at home, but it makes production cheaper since you're building the same engine.
I for one am glad that there seems to be one new idea coming out of Warren, MI.
Has anyone actually seen the IMAX camera? It's a very large and heavy camera where each roll occupies about 2.5 minutes of film.
I always wondered if there is a digital form of the IMAX camera in development. It certainly would be more manageable than the film version. Reload would be a matter of switching a hard drive, rather than feeding film. The amount of record time would most likely be similar to the film version, but at least the camera would have less downtime to change the hard drive.
And don't get me started on a digital IMAX projector...;)
Then again, I don't claim to know what the other problems there may be with a digital version. I just hope that the idea is at least being worked on.
I have QuickTime 5. Can I run both QuickTime 5 and QuickTime 6 on the same machine? No. QuickTime 6 will replace QuickTime 5 upon installation.
This is not good. At this moment it's not too bad, but when the requirements for QT6 pop up everywhere, I will be in a rock and hard place. FCP will not work unless you have a Pro version. Considering I just got FCP 3 a few months ago, and the rest of the video industry is the same way... people are not going to be happy.
Anyone out there have Final Cut Pro and installed QT6 (without getting a new key)?
I would like to be able to use the free parts of QT6 (Downloading trailers for one), but still be able to use FCP at full QT5Pro strength. If anyone out there has already done this, please post your experience. Thanks in advance!
For anyone who has the DVD of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch", there is a deleted scene where Phyllis Stein (played by Andrea Martin) is showing of her new tooth-phone.
What's funny is what happens when she gets knocked in the head...
I read about the new release at Mac Minute and quickly get to/. to report the news, when the news about the update was just posted. Now's that's instant gratification!
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This is a way too complicated of a pricing plan for a basic home user.
There are simply way to many rules with this plan as stated. I pay a monthly fee, so I should be able to use any song right? No, I have to pay for each song [after the trial]. So why am I paying a monthly fee? Then I get the song, and realize I can use it but for my computer?
You try selling that to the guy on the street.
That's why the Apple plan works. $.99 a song. We'll give you a discount if you buy a full album (for most CDs). No monthly fee. Burn, iPod, play your songs you got. There are some restrictions, but transparent to the average user. That's easier to sell to the guy on the street.
"What kind of chance does a film-maker have of making a difference in videogames, now films are becoming more game-like and games are becoming more film-like?"
I know this seems like a shameless promotion since it comes out tomorrow, but the answer to that question will be answered with "Enter the Matrix."
This is a very rare project where film directors are in the director's chair for a video game. This is revolutionary mainly because it breaks taboos in Hollywood about video games.
A few weeks ago, Emerson College in Boston held their 'Web Night' panel discussion which included Randy Fenton, the founder of Dare to Play (DtP). DtP is a tool to create a non-liner narrative structure using a hotmail-like account to interact with characters. The intent is for branding for movies where audiences experience a sort of prequel to a movie (as well as some Edutainment applications).
The common problem he has faced is being labeled as a game. For example, DtP was featured under the Sundance Interactive Festival, but only by a hair. The board was at a fight between calling DtP a game or not. Sundance Interactive do not want to incorporate 'games' into the festival, but how can an interactive project not be constructed as a game? Under this logic, titles like 'Myst' or 'The Longest Journey' do not have narrative merit. This is the challenge between the movie and gaming industries.
Hollywood thinks all video games are variations of Pong.
There are a lot of reasons and theories as to why, from union issues to change in audience positioning. But now, special effects work is very similar to video game creation, especially with motion-capture and human scanning practices. The film industry is already making mini-videogames as non-interactive movies for a few years now. Something needs to point out this fact to the industry.
I believe the Wachowski brothers will make that point with The Matrix. The principal photography of the new series of The Matrix was of 3 main units, "Matrix: Revolutions," "Matrix: Reloaded," and "Enter the Matrix." Film people made a video game. The game may or may not be revolutionary for the audience (out side of the plot's involvement with the movie), but it will be for the process of creating a video game.
It shall be exciting to see what happens next...
But try to find a cheep NIC card for the fancy stuff! The Dreamcast may be $50, but the NIC card is ~$150 on E-bay!
Actually there are three books released. Book of Atrus, Book of Ti'ana (technically a pre-qual), and Book of D'ni.
There is a forth book in the works, but no imformation has been realsed as to a publishing date. I personaly would guess it would co-inside with the release of Uru and/or the Myst mini-series.
"Rendezvous-enabled computers that have Personal Web Sharing turned on appear in the Safari Rendezvous bookmark collection."
Taking a quick look at the Rendezvous bookmarks on Safari, I see a bookmark for each user made on my mac ("User's website") and then the one made by Eric Christopher is still present. Admitabally, it doesn't seem that they used Eric's mod, but I can't be 100% about it.
"2) Link length. 100 m? That's more than anyone needs for, well, anything."
My bet is that FW2 has great benifits with Firewire over IP. Yes, there are really nifty benifits with hardware connections such as hard drives and such, but with 800 speeds that reach 100m can make your LAN really smoke!
This increases my fan boy status to new heights, but that's not the most accurate discription. No hard feelings though! :)
In Myst: Book of Ti'ana, A'Gaeris was the key player in the dystruction of D'ni and only inlisted (and to a point even tricked) Veovis who did help in the biological attack that caused the distruction.
Actually, there are a number of titles before Uru came about:
;)
Parable
Mudpie (The most commonly used among the fan-base)
Myst Online (The worse by far!)
And a bunch of others I can't think of at the moment. I had written a paper about the issue of titles for Mudpie, but that's on another computer at the moment. But Ubi/Cyan seemed to followed the outlines I stated.
Pardon the sorta off-topic post, but this isn't much of a ask slashdot question and fits a bit with this topic:
:[ ) and Gigabyte Ethernet class G4 (ADC & VGA). I know I need to get the ADC-to-DVI converter for the G4, and I would be getting the most native DVI visuals from either the G4 and espically the Dell, but if I can edge out something better than VGA on the G4, it's worth the trouble. So, anyone have ideas for sollutions? Thanks in advance for the help!
Are there any KVM switch solutions that incorperate DVI natively?
The only thing that put me off on getting a flat screen (Outside of price) is trying to KVM a Dell Inspiron 8100 portable (VGA only
There is one difference with this awards show. It will get more press than the others.
And who said these awards are being rewared by game geeks to begin with?
I thought I'd give a review of the comments from this post:
The common agreement is the the SDK could stand more improvement.
The following are some of the channels that are available. Clicking will add them to your copy of Sherlock or link to the homepage of the channel:
Canada 411
Google (not officially from Google)
dotmac.info
massinova.com
Libplussa
FedEx Tracker (not officially from FedEx)
I recently transfered in to Emerson College in Boston, doing away with a double major in Design/Technical Theatre & Cable/TV Broadcasting at Western Michigan University. Upon starting at Emerson, I found out about a BFA program where a student can partake in a feature-length project in film, tv/video, radio, and new media. Long story short, I changed majors from a BA in Film to peruse BFA in New Media.
Personally, I think 'New Media' should be renamed 'Interactive Media.' With internet, with video games, it's a form of media that the audience interacts with. With 'New Media,' what happens in 20 or 10 years? Is it still new? And what happens when HTML goes the way of BetaMax? What does knowing HTML do for you then?
I use the class curriculum as a springboard for my own education. The classes provide the foundation, I complete the rest of the picture with my thesis project. What I hope to create is an education where I can understand how an audience interacts with the media I create. Programing languages and media delivery systems will come and go, but what I hope to keep is how best to allow my audience to interact with my artwork. HTML, Flash, Director, et all are tools for a user to interact with content. I'm trying to keep in check that the tools will change and improve, but the fundamentals of audience interaction are still in play.
"Where are my flying cars? I was promised flying cars..."
- Avery Brooks (In a IBM commercial)
Well, Apple seems to be weaning away from Motorola and going to IBM for the IBM PowerPC 970 (A nice tech-spec here). Yet it's still a PowerPC architecture.
Something tells me there are more actions at play here than simply changing processor manufactures in this x86 release. What exactly, I don't know. But still, there's something more here than meets the eye.
I believe the root of this question lays in a general education requirements that a number of colleges/universities.
Lets say a university wants to employ a basic computing skills class for the general education requirements. So, you make a CS101 class. But, how do you create a lesson plan for this class? How do you teach word processing on a computer that's inexpensive from installation to support? Not to mention having the attempt for the class material to be applicable in the lives of the student.
As much as I would like to see a more competitive/open environment, the open source products of word processing and operating systems in general are not at that level yet, and certainly not in the past 10+ years. The only real player has been Microsoft with Corel/WordPerfect in a very distant 2nd.
At this point in time it makes economical and educational sense to go with MS products. However, this could change if a number of things happen, which I personally would like to see.
Correct me if I'm wrong or slightly misleading on this, I'm not a law student.
Wasn't it Canada (or at least some provinces) that have a law where if you are going to sew someone, the looser of the suit has to pay legal fees of ALL parties. Where if Mr. N would win the suit, the defendants would have to pay for his [substantially smaller] legal fees, and if Mr. N looses, he has to pay legal fees of the defendants.
Good idea:
Striking a business deal to provide your game on a large customer base.
[Please note that I say this for games, not utilities or operating systems]
Bad idea:
Requiring your game to only be 'optimized' on a specific company's chip-set.
My question is, are they expecting browsers to simply only understand only XHTML 2, or just that the current browsers out there will not be able to read XHTML 2, but future browsers will have be able to read both XHTML 2 and the previous?
If the browsers are allowed cross-compatibility, then I say I like what I see. But if HTML and et all are thrown out the window completely, then I don't think we will ever see XHTML 2 ever put into practice.
This isn't anything new. GM announced this at the North American International Auto Show in January.
Anyways, the idea is for a fuel cell car that can be easily produced and not put UAW workers out of a job. You have one plant making the core part of the car (the bottom part with wheels and all points in-between to make the car move). Other plants build the top part of the car (one makes SUVs another makes luxuary lines...). and plug the top part into the same base.
Now this 'plug-in' idea is not meant for the consumer to detach different car bodies at home, but it makes production cheaper since you're building the same engine.
I for one am glad that there seems to be one new idea coming out of Warren, MI.
To further your good points..
;)
Has anyone actually seen the IMAX camera? It's a very large and heavy camera where each roll occupies about 2.5 minutes of film.
I always wondered if there is a digital form of the IMAX camera in development. It certainly would be more manageable than the film version. Reload would be a matter of switching a hard drive, rather than feeding film. The amount of record time would most likely be similar to the film version, but at least the camera would have less downtime to change the hard drive.
And don't get me started on a digital IMAX projector...
Then again, I don't claim to know what the other problems there may be with a digital version. I just hope that the idea is at least being worked on.
After a bit more research, I think I can respond to my own post on some answers:
As stated in the FAQ that's titled under "QuickTime 6 Public Preview FAQ" at the time of this post:
I have QuickTime 5. Can I run both QuickTime 5 and QuickTime 6 on the same machine?
No. QuickTime 6 will replace QuickTime 5 upon installation.
This is not good. At this moment it's not too bad, but when the requirements for QT6 pop up everywhere, I will be in a rock and hard place. FCP will not work unless you have a Pro version. Considering I just got FCP 3 a few months ago, and the rest of the video industry is the same way... people are not going to be happy.
Anyone out there have Final Cut Pro and installed QT6 (without getting a new key)?
I would like to be able to use the free parts of QT6 (Downloading trailers for one), but still be able to use FCP at full QT5Pro strength. If anyone out there has already done this, please post your experience. Thanks in advance!
For anyone who has the DVD of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch", there is a deleted scene where Phyllis Stein (played by Andrea Martin) is showing of her new tooth-phone.
What's funny is what happens when she gets knocked in the head...
I read about the new release at Mac Minute and quickly get to /. to report the news, when the news about the update was just posted. Now's that's instant gratification!
I just installed it, and using the AIM for OS X was telling a friend about it, when the text I typed in wasn't appearing...
Bound to happen I guess. But niffty idea! Thanks!