"...for all Valve's fancy physics and cunning AI, the eye candy in Doom III is still a cut above."
Yeah! Who needs real life physics and amazing AI when I can have amazing graphics!
I'm looking forward to both games, but as we all know great graphics doesn't make a great game. Good story and good AI are what makes a good game a great one.
What's the story behind Doom? Oh, demons on Mars,....again?
As a/. subscriber I guess I'm proof positive they will pay. Not only do people need to feel that they are actually getting something for the money they're paying, the price also has to be right.
With/. being one of the largest content delivery systems on the net, I'd be curious to find out how much revenue they generate based upon subscribers alone.
Perhaps Taco or one of the other "powers that be" would like to weigh in on this issue?
I'm glad Microsoft took the initiative to actually listen to some of the ideas that are being thrown around. But I still can't understand why there's not going to be CDDB/Gracenote ability via XBox Live.
They offer you the ability to rip tracks for use in some games, but refuse to create a keyboard for the system. Wouldn't the next logical thing to do is use their Live service to pull down CD info from the internet? Maybe they're just trying to get another 40 bucks out of my pocket.
I can't remember the last time that I saw any of them even set foot in a music store. I don't know anyone that has purchased a CD in the past year. I have one friend that is a manager at a Warehouse music, the other worked at Sam Goody's. The Sam Goody's closed down, after 6 years of doing awesome business, three years ago sales slowed to a crawl.
While I can remember the last time I walked into a music store I can't remember when I bought something from one. The problem with the Sam Goody's and the Wherehouse Musics of the world were the outrageous prices they charged. Who wants to pay 20 dollars for a CD when you can buy it for 5 bucks less at Best Buy or maybe even be able to buy it online even cheaper.
I download a good share of music, and have probably bought more CDs because of it. 192 MP3s don't cut it for me, I want the high quality sound MP3s just can't offer. Plus I want the cover art and case. It's all worth it in my opinion, as long as the price is right.
They used to say "home taping" was killing music, now it's meant to be internet downloaders. But the real pirates these days are crime bosses - and the rewards are plentiful.
It's amazing I read this and immediately thought, "Crime Bosses, is this going to be about Record Industry Corporate Executives?"
But in all seriousness this quote is the most telling of all:
According to the RIAA's own figures, over the last two years the US music industry has produced 25% fewer CDs.
The peak of production was in 1999 when 38,900 individual titles were released. But by 2001 this was down to 27,000. Releases grew again in 2002 but were still below the previous high.
Musician George Ziemann says if only 3,000 copies of each of the "missing" CDs were sold, the fall in sales would be wiped out.
For Mark Mulligan, an analyst with Jupiter Research, the music is weathering a hangover after the 80s and 90s boom, when everyone was buying CD versions of their old vinyl records.
"Now the CD replacement cycle has drawn to a close," he says.
Also the global decline in CD sales is taking place against the background of a general economic recession that is depressing sales of almost everything.
When is the RIAA going to address these concerns? How can keep saying it's all file sharing when it's obvious these factors come into play.
when this thing was first announced, there were a lot of naysayers, "Nintendo rules the market, and it's going to be hard to beat them." but these were some of the same comments that were being made in 1995 when the PSX was introduced. the specs on these thing are unbelievable.
the reason Sony does as well as it does in the videogame market is because it tries to find out what it's competitor does well, and improves upon it. I'm not saying this is going to be a GBA killer, (price is going to be a big factor) but it looks as if there is finally going to be a viable GBA competitor. (N-Gage eat your heart-out.)
but as we all know, it all comes down to software. personally, I'd love to be able to play Vice-City whenever and wherever I want.
perhaps the/. paranoia bug has rubbed off me a bit too much, but what are the chances that your "bets" could be used against you in the war on terrorism?
you hit three or four correct terrorist acts and the next thing you know you're in an orange jumpsuit overlooking guantanamo bay.
oh sweet, as demonstrated via the pictures, using VNC from my mobile would allow me to check the status of my KaZaA downloads or check my email for my latest RIAA subpoena!
I will make this prediction: by 2008, every meal in every fast food restaurant will be ordered from a kiosk like this, or from a similar system embedded in each table.
Yeah, I'm going to go with a no on this one. Everyone said the same thing when ATMs came around, "Oh no, they're going to replace actual tellers!" But it didn't, banks still hire quite frequently for bank tellers.
I'm not saying these kiosks aren't going to become more prevalent, but they won't replace actual human contact. Having previously worked in many service related jobs I know that people (especially older adults) will not allow this to occur. We all need to be able to talk to an actual human every once in a while. Computers don't care if you yell. Could you imagine the amount of complaints McDonalds would get?
With this being said, I love automated services such as "Pay-at-the-Pump" and especially self-checkout at the grocery stores. It's not that I'm some hermit who likes no human contact, but who wants to make idle chit-chat with some register jockey?
But wait, I saw Pirates of the Caribbean yesterday and the moral at the end was something like, "Sometimes you need a little piracy in order to do the right thing."
But the MPAA says it's bad. Why must Hollywood send me conflicting messages?
The more interesting fact is the word "courriel" was coined by a professor in Montreal.
If the French are working so hard to keep their language pure, why did they deicde to use a word a French-Speaking Canadian came up with?
Mike
on second thought, pass the lead gloves please.
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All of these samples measure over 40,000 CPM and we'll occasionally have some as high as 300,000 CPM. This is 2 to 15 times the radiation level as our "High Radiation Level" samples. Do Not store these samples on your person, and wash your hands after handling them.
Yeah, if I'm touching uranium that they label as being "Super High Radiation Level" I'm thinking I may want more than a "hand-washing".
Could this include the fact that all video games seem to come out for exactly the same price? (Please don't flame, I don't know if this is SEC jurisdiction. That's why I'm asking).
Actually price fixing would fall under the FTC jurisdiction. SEC wants to see your books and make sure you're not pulling a WorldCom or Enron.
I guess Activision's plan to sue Viacom would look more like this:
Slashdot Mirror
gives the user advice, corrects his errors or saves files
His name is Clippy, and I hate him.
Mike
obviously reviews and the fact that a new 200 million dollar movie opened each weekend had nothing to do with it?
Mike
I'm thinking Microsoft made a mistake, with NVidia they could of renamed the game executables to 3DMark03.exe and gotten just that much more power!
Mike
"...for all Valve's fancy physics and cunning AI, the eye candy in Doom III is still a cut above."
....again?
Yeah! Who needs real life physics and amazing AI when I can have amazing graphics!
I'm looking forward to both games, but as we all know great graphics doesn't make a great game. Good story and good AI are what makes a good game a great one.
What's the story behind Doom? Oh, demons on Mars,
Mike
My dear god, didn't any of these "scientists" ever see Night of the Lepus?!
We're all doomed!!
Mike
and may god help the candidate who does an interview on Slashdot and voluntarily claims to use a Microsoft product....
Mike
Our little departmental server has been slashdotted twice in the last year and survived!
Wait... is this a challenge?
Mike
As a /. subscriber I guess I'm proof positive they will pay. Not only do people need to feel that they are actually getting something for the money they're paying, the price also has to be right.
/. being one of the largest content delivery systems on the net, I'd be curious to find out how much revenue they generate based upon subscribers alone.
With
Perhaps Taco or one of the other "powers that be" would like to weigh in on this issue?
Mike
I'm glad Microsoft took the initiative to actually listen to some of the ideas that are being thrown around. But I still can't understand why there's not going to be CDDB/Gracenote ability via XBox Live.
They offer you the ability to rip tracks for use in some games, but refuse to create a keyboard for the system. Wouldn't the next logical thing to do is use their Live service to pull down CD info from the internet? Maybe they're just trying to get another 40 bucks out of my pocket.
Mike
all of us from slashdot send Charles "Lucky Hammy" Hamster our support.
good luck and godspeed, brave hamster.
Mike
I can't remember the last time that I saw any of them even set foot in a music store. I don't know anyone that has purchased a CD in the past year. I have one friend that is a manager at a Warehouse music, the other worked at Sam Goody's. The Sam Goody's closed down, after 6 years of doing awesome business, three years ago sales slowed to a crawl.
While I can remember the last time I walked into a music store I can't remember when I bought something from one. The problem with the Sam Goody's and the Wherehouse Musics of the world were the outrageous prices they charged. Who wants to pay 20 dollars for a CD when you can buy it for 5 bucks less at Best Buy or maybe even be able to buy it online even cheaper.
I download a good share of music, and have probably bought more CDs because of it. 192 MP3s don't cut it for me, I want the high quality sound MP3s just can't offer. Plus I want the cover art and case. It's all worth it in my opinion, as long as the price is right.
Mike
They used to say "home taping" was killing music, now it's meant to be internet downloaders. But the real pirates these days are crime bosses - and the rewards are plentiful.
It's amazing I read this and immediately thought, "Crime Bosses, is this going to be about Record Industry Corporate Executives?"
But in all seriousness this quote is the most telling of all:
According to the RIAA's own figures, over the last two years the US music industry has produced 25% fewer CDs.
The peak of production was in 1999 when 38,900 individual titles were released. But by 2001 this was down to 27,000. Releases grew again in 2002 but were still below the previous high.
Musician George Ziemann says if only 3,000 copies of each of the "missing" CDs were sold, the fall in sales would be wiped out.
For Mark Mulligan, an analyst with Jupiter Research, the music is weathering a hangover after the 80s and 90s boom, when everyone was buying CD versions of their old vinyl records.
"Now the CD replacement cycle has drawn to a close," he says.
Also the global decline in CD sales is taking place against the background of a general economic recession that is depressing sales of almost everything.
When is the RIAA going to address these concerns? How can keep saying it's all file sharing when it's obvious these factors come into play.
Mike
when this thing was first announced, there were a lot of naysayers, "Nintendo rules the market, and it's going to be hard to beat them." but these were some of the same comments that were being made in 1995 when the PSX was introduced. the specs on these thing are unbelievable.
the reason Sony does as well as it does in the videogame market is because it tries to find out what it's competitor does well, and improves upon it. I'm not saying this is going to be a GBA killer, (price is going to be a big factor) but it looks as if there is finally going to be a viable GBA competitor. (N-Gage eat your heart-out.)
but as we all know, it all comes down to software. personally, I'd love to be able to play Vice-City whenever and wherever I want.
Mike
Now, if only some kind researchers could get us all out of wearing pants at the office, we'd be set!
I'd just like to remind you, you're the one working with CowboyNeal, not us.
Mike
perhaps the /. paranoia bug has rubbed off me a bit too much, but what are the chances that your "bets" could be used against you in the war on terrorism?
you hit three or four correct terrorist acts and the next thing you know you're in an orange jumpsuit overlooking guantanamo bay.
Mike
oh sweet, as demonstrated via the pictures, using VNC from my mobile would allow me to check the status of my KaZaA downloads or check my email for my latest RIAA subpoena!
Mike
I will make this prediction: by 2008, every meal in every fast food restaurant will be ordered from a kiosk like this, or from a similar system embedded in each table.
Yeah, I'm going to go with a no on this one. Everyone said the same thing when ATMs came around, "Oh no, they're going to replace actual tellers!" But it didn't, banks still hire quite frequently for bank tellers.
I'm not saying these kiosks aren't going to become more prevalent, but they won't replace actual human contact. Having previously worked in many service related jobs I know that people (especially older adults) will not allow this to occur. We all need to be able to talk to an actual human every once in a while. Computers don't care if you yell. Could you imagine the amount of complaints McDonalds would get?
With this being said, I love automated services such as "Pay-at-the-Pump" and especially self-checkout at the grocery stores. It's not that I'm some hermit who likes no human contact, but who wants to make idle chit-chat with some register jockey?
Mike
wow, who would of thought the ability to see this work of art is as rare today as when it was first printed.
it's a very breathtaking and wonderful object to view.
Mike
Interesting that the article mentions Dave Matthews and Radiohead since they both have always been in support of file-sharing...
Mike
But wait, I saw Pirates of the Caribbean yesterday and the moral at the end was something like, "Sometimes you need a little piracy in order to do the right thing."
But the MPAA says it's bad. Why must Hollywood send me conflicting messages?
Mike
The more interesting fact is the word "courriel" was coined by a professor in Montreal.
If the French are working so hard to keep their language pure, why did they deicde to use a word a French-Speaking Canadian came up with?
Mike
All of these samples measure over 40,000 CPM and we'll occasionally have some as high as 300,000 CPM.
This is 2 to 15 times the radiation level as our "High Radiation Level" samples.
Do Not store these samples on your person, and wash your hands after handling them.
Yeah, if I'm touching uranium that they label as being "Super High Radiation Level" I'm thinking I may want more than a "hand-washing".
Mike
I, for one, welcome our new tractor overlords.
Mike
Could this include the fact that all video games seem to come out for exactly the same price?
(Please don't flame, I don't know if this is SEC jurisdiction. That's why I'm asking).
Actually price fixing would fall under the FTC jurisdiction. SEC wants to see your books and make sure you're not pulling a WorldCom or Enron.
I guess Activision's plan to sue Viacom would look more like this:
1: Sue Viacom
2: ??????
3: (Hide) Profit!!!
Mike
He said he particularly disliked being forced to specify whether he was offering a "supporting comment" or a "differing opinion" to Bush.
So when those emails come in, I guess they go in either one of two mailboxes. "With us" or "Against Us".
The "Against Us" email automatically get forwarded to Ashcroft.
Mike