"15 percent of heavy gamers are 'unlikely' to play a game that utilizes in-game ads, but one-third said they are 'likely' to play games with ads, while 52 percent said it makes no difference. Also among heavy gamers, 17 percent said..."
Headline is inaccurate, the survey exclusively targets fat gamers... which is to say, oh... uh all of them, so nevermind.
Not supporting one theory over another, I have a basic engineering question. Some say that "huge dirt ramps" though a popular guess, is said to be an impossible / unlikely method to build the Great Pyramid at Giza given the amount of dirt needed to support the 10-70 ton blocks that make up the 146.5 metres (481 feet) tall monument. That the amount of dirt needed to support an average block at that height would collapse under it's own weight.
It is said this is a relatively simple problem of physics for engineers... so the question is...any engineering majors out there that can make a few quick calculations followign these ideas of "huge dirt ramps"?
Would really like someone to try some simple equations to shed light on the above. Also further interesting to note that the amount of dirt needed to build such a huge ramp was apparently never found... and the apparent evidence that the Egyptians were actually not very war-like or aggressive casting doubt on the "slaves" aspect of the idea.
Quote: "For example, I would expect to pay $20.00 for the soon to come Perfect Dark Zero maps or new cars for Project Gotham."
So you pay $55-$60 for the original game and you think it is reasonable to pay 33% on top of that for some extra cars? I guess it is true what they say... "a fool and his money are easily parted."
You've also proven it true what Carlin (as in George) said: "Some people are fucking stupid!"
in the motives for this; but simply, this is a major step the government is taking to control the internet; what you see, what you hear, what you think, it's all about who controls the information (Marty!);)
To clarify the confusion; this step is being pushed through to give the government key information that will help them undertand the psychology of the average internet user in effort to make moves towards influencing & controlling the information (like is done in every other popular media form). Unfortuantely, Google alone cannot stop this.
Where we fail is that we think it will be obvious like: Gov. body: "American people, can we take control of the internet to further our own greed?" Of course the American people would reply: American people: "Hell no!"
But don't think for a minute, for a nano-second, that these manuevers will be overtly public & obvious and without spin. No, it will likely take the standard "scare you with something to fear, then offer a vague solution that favors Gov." form that we fall for again and again.
What makes me say this? How do i know?
Because it works and is exactly what i (and any clear thinking person) would do if they had such desire and the resources (our tax dollars at work); which i don't in either case... i tend to more lean towards those crazy "sharing is better than hoarding" & "truth reigns supreme" ideas... But we all know what bullshit those ideas are, right? right?
after over 10 years at big and small dev & publishing houses alike, hits and misses, taking a long time on a game is due more than anything to lack of professionalism, lack of a coherent vision, & lack of understanding of the game and the game's players.
Good games shouldn't take a long time. That isn't to say there is one way to make a game, but "taking a long time" is the suckers route, not to mention the most expensive (and in part why many game dev houses fail after a year or two).
To avoid this, try getting a good designer, one who doesn't just do what they think is "cool" but actually knows how to build in the player's experience. And don't hire people full time if you don't need them full time. Lastly, look into the many reasons "collaboration" exists on each film projects; why film production companies (often a group of friends) are created for 1 project and why that's enough.
Don't give up just yet... there are good things coming. Sure a load of tripe as well (cough cough EA's Black cough) but it just says you might have to search a little to find the goodness.
"The Disclosure Project is a nonprofit research project working to fully disclose the facts about UFOs, extraterrestrial intelligence, and classified advanced energy and propulsion systems. We have over 400 government, military, and intelligence community witnesses testifying to their direct, personal, first hand experience with UFOs, ETs, ET technology, and the cover-up that keeps this information secret."
skeptics especially take a look. it's not all hullabaloo from backyard bumpkins with nothing better to do than make up stories about "men from the sky", rather it is testimony from people who America trusts with its defense, for example the same people who take care of nuclear weapons.
I went as far as buying the DVD and considered it to contain very honest and real testimony.
why not save yourself a bundle and just refill your own cartridges? plenty of sites offer refill kits for all types of printers and the procedure is no more technical than your average 3rd grade arts & crafts class. i say fight those outrageous ink prices instead of just swallowing it.
sure maybe the kits are not for your average grandma but this is slashdot.com, not needlebobbin.com (news for grandmas?)
Fair enough, but since when do countries spend on an internationally relative scale? For example, the US spends more on military and weapons than any other country in the world by several orders of "magnitude" (talking % not actual $).
It isn't an anti-american post (I myself am american) only to express that I tire of this automatic snuffing out of Russia's position & contributions with no eye to our own failings; largely due to the propoganda dispersed to your parents that you grew up on. Look in the thread, it is rife with anti-Russian sentiment ("don't trust them"). These people (and perhaps you) could benefit from doing your homework and looking outside of the US for US "facts". People in glass houses...
FWIW, I doubt one can trust a single source for such figures, much less the CIA world factbook. Despite that, the figures you refer to seem to only focus on certain numbers out of the many. For example, look at US public debt at 65% where as Russia's is 28% (both 2004 estimates). What does this say about our country?
Having pride in our country without knowing how we got to where we are isn't patriotism, it's baseless jingoism; an expression founded in something shall we say "less" than the healthy competitive spirit. Thanks for turning a blind eye to facts, despite the opportunity you've been given.
now, i'm the last person to support the IMF, to say nothing of Russia's choice to pay "them" off rather than focus such monies into social needs, but paying off early a 7 billion USD debt seems like there's some to go around. i agree it is tragic Russia doesn't use the money to take care of its inherit social problems, but perhaps they're modeling themselves after some otherbig country'sspending habits
Quote: its troubling that their space program is comparable to ours in many ways...
yes, god forbid another country do something better than Americans. oh wait... most of the world does many things better than Americans. Unless you count Greed, we are better than everyone at that.
I hate to see more of this tired "we" are good and "they" are not rhetoric. As an American, I have to ask when will the propoganda inflated "red threat" die like racism is supposed to have in our "great" country? Hmm, it sounds like someone else has been sleeping under a rock? =)
these types of clauses are legal, but the company asking you to sign this clause has to pay you equivelant salary for the duration the clause is in effect; essentially pay you for "not working for the other guy". Needless to say, this clause quietly disappeared from most FR work contracts at the same time.
just FYI for the curious on how some countries deal with such clauses...
clicking on the link brought the Anandtech search page and searching for "ps3" brought a comparison look at the 2 consoles but no "anonymous developer says this sucks" content...
If this poll approached anything near reality, I'd eat a shoe. Whole.
See through the lies and what do you have as a result of this bogus poll, US citizens starting to accept government regulation of the Internet... "well i heard about that poll..." and "yes, Microsoft is good with security (thinking to the poll)...."
...that this technology will be buried by the petroleum-powers-that-be* just like every other energy technology that perceivably threatens oil-based energy production.
*oh you know, the same people who forced America to war in Iraq?
In addition to the others, there is one that has yet to be mentioned, and it is the one i think you are referring to. It's got a funny name so perhaps it's hard to remember.
It's called Canoma and is impressive in the hands of those who use it. Same concept as the others; using 2D pictures, identify object points to build a mesh.
From their webpage: "Canoma is Mac/Win software that allows fast creation of photorealistic 3D models from one or more photographs."
Mac/Win only (for now) but it is pretty cool stuff. Check out the quicktimes of the flythroughs!
This sig has been appropriated pending Federal investigation.
working at Microsoft (ugh i know) as a Game Designer in the mid 90's, i had the pleasure of working with Alexey.
at the time, he was a jovial guy, despite the sorted legal histories, with a thick Russian accent and loud, boisterous laugh.
i was tasked with designing a game that would popularize Windows as a gaming platform (a concern at the time, Win95 was just released) and was thinking about different ways to achieve this. i asked myself about why certain other games were hugely popular, and of course Tetris was on the list. i'd deemed the reason to be that in Tetris, the player does something that they do nearly every second of their waking life; recognizing and sorting information.
not long after, a new hire was announced in a separate games division. he was really the only other Game Designer at MS at the time, so naturally i sought a rapport; it was Alexey afterall!. we chatted about various things, men of similar ilk (on paper anyway), when one day, i just flat out asked him...
"Alexey, why do you think Tetris is so popular?"
he thought about it for a moment, me in silent anticipation realizing the absurdity of the situation; i'm once again talking with the designer of arguably the world's most popular game, when he finaly answered in his Russian-lined English accent...
"You know Joe, I think it's because it is...something that people do everyday."
i've been an even bigger fan of Alexey ever since;)
think about it, if it becomes illegal to circumvent DRM, imagine a virus that does just that (circumvent DRM) is created; if the user is ever called on the circumvention, she/he reverts to the "i have a virus" problem.
there will always be ways around this move towards less user freedom that keep users in the clear. that's users, not/. hackers. =)
Doesn't anyone read slashdot before posting? At least half of the 5s and 4s are redundant.
Where are all the replies about loss of freedoms in the name of terrorism, where are all the replies about corporate control over YOUR government such they reach into schools and dorm rooms? The value of scoring 5 and 4 went seriously down with this topic.
One of the reasons i enjoy slash is because i can find alternate viewpoints that are articulate and have merit. For this topic, however, alternate viewpoints are getting modded at 1, like in the 'Companies going bust because of piracy thread' while "Piracy is okay if no one gets hurt" replies are being modded up again and again.
I'm all for free 'as in beer' software; do these guys really need to justify so much the reasons they pirate software?
I honestly hope this topic is a way of cleaning out the available karma of the masses.
The way i see it, any professional not doing live tv is used to a certain amount of procedure in their work. If any of you super-pundits received an unexpected phone call from Bruce "come get some" Campbell in his own voice, I can almost guarantee that your eloquent appraisal of the situation would sound very much like....
"auauauauauauauauahhhhhhhhhhhh"
Cheers to chrisd for at least giving us a whiff of Bruce.
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"15 percent of heavy gamers are 'unlikely' to play a game that utilizes in-game ads, but one-third said they are 'likely' to play games with ads, while 52 percent said it makes no difference. Also among heavy gamers, 17 percent said..."
Headline is inaccurate, the survey exclusively targets fat gamers... which is to say, oh... uh all of them, so nevermind.
"Huge dirt ramps and lots of slave labor."
Not supporting one theory over another, I have a basic engineering question. Some say that "huge dirt ramps" though a popular guess, is said to be an impossible / unlikely method to build the Great Pyramid at Giza given the amount of dirt needed to support the 10-70 ton blocks that make up the 146.5 metres (481 feet) tall monument. That the amount of dirt needed to support an average block at that height would collapse under it's own weight.
It is said this is a relatively simple problem of physics for engineers... so the question is... any engineering majors out there that can make a few quick calculations followign these ideas of "huge dirt ramps"?
Would really like someone to try some simple equations to shed light on the above. Also further interesting to note that the amount of dirt needed to build such a huge ramp was apparently never found... and the apparent evidence that the Egyptians were actually not very war-like or aggressive casting doubt on the "slaves" aspect of the idea.
Quote: "For example, I would expect to pay $20.00 for the soon to come Perfect Dark Zero maps or new cars for Project Gotham."
So you pay $55-$60 for the original game and you think it is reasonable to pay 33% on top of that for some extra cars? I guess it is true what they say... "a fool and his money are easily parted."
You've also proven it true what Carlin (as in George) said:
"Some people are fucking stupid!"
in the motives for this; but simply, this is a major step the government is taking to control the internet; what you see, what you hear, what you think, it's all about who controls the information (Marty!) ;)
To clarify the confusion; this step is being pushed through to give the government key information that will help them undertand the psychology of the average internet user in effort to make moves towards influencing & controlling the information (like is done in every other popular media form). Unfortuantely, Google alone cannot stop this.
Where we fail is that we think it will be obvious like:
Gov. body: "American people, can we take control of the internet to further our own greed?"
Of course the American people would reply:
American people: "Hell no!"
But don't think for a minute, for a nano-second, that these manuevers will be overtly public & obvious and without spin. No, it will likely take the standard "scare you with something to fear, then offer a vague solution that favors Gov." form that we fall for again and again.
What makes me say this? How do i know?
Because it works and is exactly what i (and any clear thinking person) would do if they had such desire and the resources (our tax dollars at work); which i don't in either case... i tend to more lean towards those crazy "sharing is better than hoarding" & "truth reigns supreme" ideas... But we all know what bullshit those ideas are, right? right?
after over 10 years at big and small dev & publishing houses alike, hits and misses, taking a long time on a game is due more than anything to lack of professionalism, lack of a coherent vision, & lack of understanding of the game and the game's players.
Good games shouldn't take a long time. That isn't to say there is one way to make a game, but "taking a long time" is the suckers route, not to mention the most expensive (and in part why many game dev houses fail after a year or two).
To avoid this, try getting a good designer, one who doesn't just do what they think is "cool" but actually knows how to build in the player's experience. And don't hire people full time if you don't need them full time. Lastly, look into the many reasons "collaboration" exists on each film projects; why film production companies (often a group of friends) are created for 1 project and why that's enough.
Don't give up just yet... there are good things coming. Sure a load of tripe as well (cough cough EA's Black cough) but it just says you might have to search a little to find the goodness.
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Start here:
http://media.cube.ign.com/articles/651/651334/vid
Could be fun and they're not even showing any game graphics.
The big N is not the only one, try this:
http://media.ps3.ign.com/media/748/748484/vid_119
Though, we'll see if they deliver.
And from MS, well there is always Live! where you can voice chat with other hardcor... Zzzzzz...
(just kidding)
Point is, there is an upsurge right now on new ideas... just not from MS and unfotunately the same ol' crap gets the most media $$ / attention.
Don't fret and support new game ideas by buying the games you like!
The Internet does not belong to any one nation. We must not let the Internet become the next television.
Reject Internet control everywhere it tries to exist, otherwise they'll win the moment you look the other way.
jokes aside, if you're at all serious about any of the facts that may exist back up the presumptions, check out this;
http://www.disclosureproject.org/
from their site;
"The Disclosure Project is a nonprofit research project working to fully disclose the facts about UFOs, extraterrestrial intelligence, and classified advanced energy and propulsion systems. We have over 400 government, military, and intelligence community witnesses testifying to their direct, personal, first hand experience with UFOs, ETs, ET technology, and the cover-up that keeps this information secret."
skeptics especially take a look. it's not all hullabaloo from backyard bumpkins with nothing better to do than make up stories about "men from the sky", rather it is testimony from people who America trusts with its defense, for example the same people who take care of nuclear weapons.
I went as far as buying the DVD and considered it to contain very honest and real testimony.
"only to die a death on investigation by their pears..."
Dude you are so high, there is like nooo waay my fruit can investigate me, much less carry a license to kill.
why not save yourself a bundle and just refill your own cartridges? plenty of sites offer refill kits for all types of printers and the procedure is no more technical than your average 3rd grade arts & crafts class. i say fight those outrageous ink prices instead of just swallowing it.
sure maybe the kits are not for your average grandma but this is slashdot.com, not needlebobbin.com (news for grandmas?)
They may even get a salary, but this salary more often than not is not enough to live on.
Hey, just like the professionals who make the games!
Fair enough, but since when do countries spend on an internationally relative scale? For example, the US spends more on military and weapons than any other country in the world by several orders of "magnitude" (talking % not actual $).
It isn't an anti-american post (I myself am american) only to express that I tire of this automatic snuffing out of Russia's position & contributions with no eye to our own failings; largely due to the propoganda dispersed to your parents that you grew up on. Look in the thread, it is rife with anti-Russian sentiment ("don't trust them"). These people (and perhaps you) could benefit from doing your homework and looking outside of the US for US "facts". People in glass houses...
FWIW, I doubt one can trust a single source for such figures, much less the CIA world factbook. Despite that, the figures you refer to seem to only focus on certain numbers out of the many. For example, look at US public debt at 65% where as Russia's is 28% (both 2004 estimates). What does this say about our country?
Having pride in our country without knowing how we got to where we are isn't patriotism, it's baseless jingoism; an expression founded in something shall we say "less" than the healthy competitive spirit. Thanks for turning a blind eye to facts, despite the opportunity you've been given.
Quote: Not to slight Russia, but with all of their economic troubles
you mean "troubles" like this,& this?
now, i'm the last person to support the IMF, to say nothing of Russia's choice to pay "them" off rather than focus such monies into social needs, but paying off early a 7 billion USD debt seems like there's some to go around. i agree it is tragic Russia doesn't use the money to take care of its inherit social problems, but perhaps they're modeling themselves after some other big country's spending habits
Quote: its troubling that their space program is comparable to ours in many ways...
yes, god forbid another country do something better than Americans. oh wait... most of the world does many things better than Americans. Unless you count Greed, we are better than everyone at that.
I hate to see more of this tired "we" are good and "they" are not rhetoric. As an American, I have to ask when will the propoganda inflated "red threat" die like racism is supposed to have in our "great" country? Hmm, it sounds like someone else has been sleeping under a rock? =)
these types of clauses are legal, but the company asking you to sign this clause has to pay you equivelant salary for the duration the clause is in effect; essentially pay you for "not working for the other guy". Needless to say, this clause quietly disappeared from most FR work contracts at the same time.
just FYI for the curious on how some countries deal with such clauses...
clicking on the link brought the Anandtech search page and searching for "ps3" brought a comparison look at the 2 consoles but no "anonymous developer says this sucks" content...
am i missing something?
their coffee tastes like mud, now i know why, they are too busy making ridiculous browser patents...
SBC should try for better brewing not browsing!
If this poll approached anything near reality, I'd eat a shoe. Whole.
See through the lies and what do you have as a result of this bogus poll, US citizens starting to accept government regulation of the Internet... "well i heard about that poll..." and "yes, Microsoft is good with security (thinking to the poll)...."
utter trite Fud, this.
...that this technology will be buried by the petroleum-powers-that-be* just like every other energy technology that perceivably threatens oil-based energy production.
*oh you know, the same people who forced America to war in Iraq?
On the PC i've have to say BeOS, easily.
Co-worker re-boots;
Meanwhile all my work is done.
I go out and play!
...for now and the foreseeable future:
Embrace (=copy, as in new technologies)
&
Extend (=introduce proprietary extensions on said copies and thereby lock out any competitors, as in MS Kerbos, Windows, IE, Dos, etc. etc.)
for case studies, review MSFT product history for past, oh 15-25 years. not bashing, just fact.
In addition to the others, there is one that has yet to be mentioned, and it is the one i think you are referring to. It's got a funny name so perhaps it's hard to remember.
It's called Canoma and is impressive in the hands of those who use it. Same concept as the others; using 2D pictures, identify object points to build a mesh.
From their webpage: "Canoma is Mac/Win software that allows fast creation of photorealistic 3D models from one or more photographs."
Mac/Win only (for now) but it is pretty cool stuff. Check out the quicktimes of the flythroughs!
This sig has been appropriated pending Federal investigation.
working at Microsoft (ugh i know) as a Game Designer in the mid 90's, i had the pleasure of working with Alexey.
;)
at the time, he was a jovial guy, despite the sorted legal histories, with a thick Russian accent and loud, boisterous laugh.
i was tasked with designing a game that would popularize Windows as a gaming platform (a concern at the time, Win95 was just released) and was thinking about different ways to achieve this. i asked myself about why certain other games were hugely popular, and of course Tetris was on the list. i'd deemed the reason to be that in Tetris, the player does something that they do nearly every second of their waking life; recognizing and sorting information.
not long after, a new hire was announced in a separate games division. he was really the only other Game Designer at MS at the time, so naturally i sought a rapport; it was Alexey afterall!. we chatted about various things, men of similar ilk (on paper anyway), when one day, i just flat out asked him...
"Alexey, why do you think Tetris is so popular?"
he thought about it for a moment, me in silent anticipation realizing the absurdity of the situation; i'm once again talking with the designer of arguably the world's most popular game, when he finaly answered in his Russian-lined English accent...
"You know Joe, I think it's because it is...something that people do everyday."
i've been an even bigger fan of Alexey ever since
think about it, if it becomes illegal to circumvent DRM, imagine a virus that does just that (circumvent DRM) is created; if the user is ever called on the circumvention, she/he reverts to the "i have a virus" problem.
/. hackers. =)
there will always be ways around this move towards less user freedom that keep users in the clear. that's users, not
j
Doesn't anyone read slashdot before posting? At least half of the 5s and 4s are redundant.
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Where are all the replies about loss of freedoms in the name of terrorism, where are all the replies about corporate control over YOUR government such they reach into schools and dorm rooms? The value of scoring 5 and 4 went seriously down with this topic.
One of the reasons i enjoy slash is because i can find alternate viewpoints that are articulate and have merit. For this topic, however, alternate viewpoints are getting modded at 1, like in the 'Companies going bust because of piracy thread' while "Piracy is okay if no one gets hurt" replies are being modded up again and again.
I'm all for free 'as in beer' software; do these guys really need to justify so much the reasons they pirate software?
I honestly hope this topic is a way of cleaning out the available karma of the masses.
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The way i see it, any professional not doing live tv is used to a certain amount of procedure in their work. If any of you super-pundits received an unexpected phone call from Bruce "come get some" Campbell in his own voice, I can almost guarantee that your eloquent appraisal of the situation would sound very much like....
"auauauauauauauauahhhhhhhhhhhh"
Cheers to chrisd for at least giving us a whiff of Bruce.
j