I know a gent from Vietnam who runs a small restaurant. Super nice dude. He directly and flatly stated Yelp told him they would make the negative reviews prominent and fake more if he didn't cough up the dough. He could be lying, but what would he gain by telling a random customer?
Someone else pointed out here that EA is currently waiting about two weeks to re-release titles sans-DRM, in light of the fact that the initial high-profit sales window is within said time frame. Considering how bad most sequels are, and in fact how bad many initial titles are, I would offer that buying titles with DRM to encourage sequels is not a convincing argument.
Consider Assassin's Creed. Sure the sequel is all the rage and by all accounts a great game, but AC1 was not at all a great game. Fun for a few minutes, but after the first level it was shampoo, rinse, repeat for the rest of the game. A shiny toy who's mechanics became clear by level 3. It didn't get any harder, in spite of the game SWEARING the guards would become much more difficult. I am glad I waited as long as I did to buy AC1, because had I bought it straight away based on it's mostly glowing reviews I'd have been pissed to waste $50 on a crap game.
We must show game companies that DRM is not the answer.
Sir! You will NOT sully the good name of(...what was it, hang on, let me check...Roger Sessions...)Roger Sessions! He is a respected and noted author and expert on The Internet! He knows exactly how SRS this business can be!
But I certainly agree it does not need "EXTRA BIG ASS FRIES". Enthusiasm and fun != "Tomorrow's Rehabilitation promises to be even more better!" For proof, watch Alain De Cadenet on Victory By Design which has a great level of information and entertainment. And while the cars are loud the sequences of him driving are only interrupted by him speaking on occasion with enthusiasm for the car, giving that feeling of negative space in which you are left to drink in a relative silence and just enjoy what's happening on screen.
The Secret Life of Machines is another great example of how a science and history show can be entertaining without having the endless commentary such as is seen with news casters and sports commentators.
I don't think anyone wants to see NASA TV turn into TLC or G4, but watching an hour of mostly silent footage of satellite maintenance is like having conversation with an Ent. Let's keep in mind that the latest Star Trek was pretty well received, so it is not impossible to add a bunch of explosions and still be relevant and good.
Another thing to keep in mind is that many people simply don't have the time to watch an hour of mostly silent satellite maintenance. It's like the frustration I feel when I talk about music to people who have never been exposed to music outside of corporate owned radio station, MTv, movies and Target. It's incredibly frustrating, and while you might feel like these people have chosen to ignore what else is out there - and to be sure, many folks want the Clear Channels of the world to decide what they listen to - the fact remains that most of these people have jobs and families, and simply cannot spend their time digging for new things to be interested in. And considering the state NASA is in with budgets and such, it might just be useful and profitable to attract people to space programming like back in the 50's and 60's.
One of the posters above read the article rather than Slashdot's headline. She is apparently postulating medieval Italian. Would cryptanalysis reveal that? Because I am otherwise inclined to agree and write her off as another Zecharia Sitchin.
My point is that it's been decades. I can appreciate not releasing data sets for security reasons and wanting to maintain credit and so forth. I think that by this time it's been quite long enough to be keeping them secret.
Politics is a part of the problem indeed. But when they're hiding their data sets, science is a part of the problem as well. I don't doubt that climate change can be human-affected but for fucks sake it's been decades now.
Both sides are entrenched and doing what is probably irreparable damage to this debate with their quaint little antics. Unless they are replaced we'll continue to have to deal with a public that is either educated by CNN or Fox News.
Guard: Okay, sir. Now we will begin to proceed to obtain your IQ and aptitude test.
Joe: What for?
Guard: Okay, sir. This is to figure out what your aptitude's good at, and get you a jail job while you're being a particular individual in jail.
I don't know about you, but I used to love beating my friends at fighting games and FPS's. In fact, there were plenty of occasions we nearly got into fist fights over some cheap move in Tekken or Soul Calibur...
"they have learned from their mistakes, and plan to not repeat them.......Again."
FTFY.
They've said it before, and they might just say it again. This company is near the top of awful companies I've worked for - promoting some terrible people into management, and promoting terrible business practices. I played SWG the night before it came out, and TWO of ten quests worked...Good luck, you'll need it!
I looked up this kind of stuff in Google, and the first link was to Career Builder. I copied down some of the catchall questions for an interview later that day. Granted the job turned out to be kind of tailored to my previous experience, but that experience is more jack of all trades than emphasized which they were okay with. I think it had to do in large part to the fact that I knocked that interview out of the park, and I think that is in part due to the questions I copied down.
I don't really think much of that kind of stuff, but if it works, it works.
Robotron and it's derivatives are amongst the favorite games of me and my friends - in fact, it's probably the game in which I perform best to this day. For whatever reason, we can play Robotron, Smash TV, and Geometry Wars for hours and hours - I think the difficulty despite the largely predictable patterns makes it such an enticing and fun game to play. Figuring out the best techniques and learning to master them, learning to account for the unexpected. Even when you know what needs to happen, it REALLY IS so absurdly frenetic that it is always a challenge to do well....Man I love those games. So much so that in the early 90's I got an arcade port of the Williams Arcade Classics on my PC and played the hell out of it on the keyboard. On a side note, my hard core gaming buddies that like those games also like other manic shooters like DoDonPachi and E.S.P. Ra.De. Dunno if there is a connection, but it would seem to follow.
I will cherish Robotron when my gaming years are well and gone.
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when we can ask Ziggy and The Spiders all about it?
I know a gent from Vietnam who runs a small restaurant. Super nice dude. He directly and flatly stated Yelp told him they would make the negative reviews prominent and fake more if he didn't cough up the dough. He could be lying, but what would he gain by telling a random customer?
Fuck Yelp and it's snobby yuppie fans.
Someone else pointed out here that EA is currently waiting about two weeks to re-release titles sans-DRM, in light of the fact that the initial high-profit sales window is within said time frame. Considering how bad most sequels are, and in fact how bad many initial titles are, I would offer that buying titles with DRM to encourage sequels is not a convincing argument.
Consider Assassin's Creed. Sure the sequel is all the rage and by all accounts a great game, but AC1 was not at all a great game. Fun for a few minutes, but after the first level it was shampoo, rinse, repeat for the rest of the game. A shiny toy who's mechanics became clear by level 3. It didn't get any harder, in spite of the game SWEARING the guards would become much more difficult. I am glad I waited as long as I did to buy AC1, because had I bought it straight away based on it's mostly glowing reviews I'd have been pissed to waste $50 on a crap game.
We must show game companies that DRM is not the answer.
Alright everyone, this Internet thing has officially become Serious Business! Someone tell the Internet Police!
Sir! You will NOT sully the good name of(...what was it, hang on, let me check...Roger Sessions...)Roger Sessions! He is a respected and noted author and expert on The Internet! He knows exactly how SRS this business can be!
But I certainly agree it does not need "EXTRA BIG ASS FRIES". Enthusiasm and fun != "Tomorrow's Rehabilitation promises to be even more better!" For proof, watch Alain De Cadenet on Victory By Design which has a great level of information and entertainment. And while the cars are loud the sequences of him driving are only interrupted by him speaking on occasion with enthusiasm for the car, giving that feeling of negative space in which you are left to drink in a relative silence and just enjoy what's happening on screen.
The Secret Life of Machines is another great example of how a science and history show can be entertaining without having the endless commentary such as is seen with news casters and sports commentators.
I don't think anyone wants to see NASA TV turn into TLC or G4, but watching an hour of mostly silent footage of satellite maintenance is like having conversation with an Ent. Let's keep in mind that the latest Star Trek was pretty well received, so it is not impossible to add a bunch of explosions and still be relevant and good.
Another thing to keep in mind is that many people simply don't have the time to watch an hour of mostly silent satellite maintenance. It's like the frustration I feel when I talk about music to people who have never been exposed to music outside of corporate owned radio station, MTv, movies and Target. It's incredibly frustrating, and while you might feel like these people have chosen to ignore what else is out there - and to be sure, many folks want the Clear Channels of the world to decide what they listen to - the fact remains that most of these people have jobs and families, and simply cannot spend their time digging for new things to be interested in. And considering the state NASA is in with budgets and such, it might just be useful and profitable to attract people to space programming like back in the 50's and 60's.
Is a happy medium too much to ask?
That'd be about as stupid as postulating that it was penned by an 8 year old Leonardo Da Vinci...oh wait.
Hehe +1 to your internets, sir.
One of the posters above read the article rather than Slashdot's headline. She is apparently postulating medieval Italian. Would cryptanalysis reveal that? Because I am otherwise inclined to agree and write her off as another Zecharia Sitchin.
0 + 2 = 1
Is that irony?
My point is that it's been decades. I can appreciate not releasing data sets for security reasons and wanting to maintain credit and so forth. I think that by this time it's been quite long enough to be keeping them secret.
Politics is a part of the problem indeed. But when they're hiding their data sets, science is a part of the problem as well. I don't doubt that climate change can be human-affected but for fucks sake it's been decades now.
Both sides are entrenched and doing what is probably irreparable damage to this debate with their quaint little antics. Unless they are replaced we'll continue to have to deal with a public that is either educated by CNN or Fox News.
Guard: Okay, sir. Now we will begin to proceed to obtain your IQ and aptitude test.
Joe: What for?
Guard: Okay, sir. This is to figure out what your aptitude's good at, and get you a jail job while you're being a particular individual in jail.
I don't know about you, but I used to love beating my friends at fighting games and FPS's. In fact, there were plenty of occasions we nearly got into fist fights over some cheap move in Tekken or Soul Calibur...
is the enemy of quite a lot. Got us all of these wonderful new craptastic "killer apps" companies push these days. Have fun with your Execu-speak.
Whatever you want to call them, missions, doesn't matter. They had them in the beginning.
"they have learned from their mistakes, and plan to not repeat them.......Again."
FTFY.
They've said it before, and they might just say it again. This company is near the top of awful companies I've worked for - promoting some terrible people into management, and promoting terrible business practices. I played SWG the night before it came out, and TWO of ten quests worked...Good luck, you'll need it!
I wish Dell redacted their computers....
California, tell your people to stay away. Stay away now, don't - don't come in here. Whatever you hear, stay away! Bill Gates has the upper hand!
I looked up this kind of stuff in Google, and the first link was to Career Builder. I copied down some of the catchall questions for an interview later that day. Granted the job turned out to be kind of tailored to my previous experience, but that experience is more jack of all trades than emphasized which they were okay with. I think it had to do in large part to the fact that I knocked that interview out of the park, and I think that is in part due to the questions I copied down.
I don't really think much of that kind of stuff, but if it works, it works.
Your assessment is right on the money. Man, I want a stand up version pretty badly, to be honest. I'd even build my own box just for it :D
An entire article and posts about garbage files and not one person mentions Ellingston Mineral and it's Gibson computers....I am dissapoint.
Robotron and it's derivatives are amongst the favorite games of me and my friends - in fact, it's probably the game in which I perform best to this day. For whatever reason, we can play Robotron, Smash TV, and Geometry Wars for hours and hours - I think the difficulty despite the largely predictable patterns makes it such an enticing and fun game to play. Figuring out the best techniques and learning to master them, learning to account for the unexpected. Even when you know what needs to happen, it REALLY IS so absurdly frenetic that it is always a challenge to do well....Man I love those games. So much so that in the early 90's I got an arcade port of the Williams Arcade Classics on my PC and played the hell out of it on the keyboard. On a side note, my hard core gaming buddies that like those games also like other manic shooters like DoDonPachi and E.S.P. Ra.De. Dunno if there is a connection, but it would seem to follow.
I will cherish Robotron when my gaming years are well and gone.
Connections and The Secret Life of Machines. Not the most purely scientific shows, but excellent, fascinating and entertaining to boot.