I want to go a kick some Korean butt!! If I can program these guys for remote control I'm totally going to save thousands of dollars and spend that on programmers to teach this bot Pride Fighting. Oh, they are so going down!!!
This is how you do video games on TV. You follow leagues, you make stars, and you get advertisers to start parting with money to promote events. You want to make money on TV with gaming, this is the way to do it.
This is the exact system that Microsoft wants to use for it's other applications. They want you to buy Word monthly, or yearly. They want you to pay for a service rather than "own" the program. Briliantly they are testing the idea in their lackluster gaming system before moving it over to their applications.
Next you're going to see an application "Office 360" that replaces your computer desktop and only allows you to do your desktop job... one ap at a time.
I once had a friend convince me that there was no way that the system would allow me to run back in my history and execute a command as damaging as:
>rm -rf *
He told me that it would clearly go back and execute the command for rebooting that I had done earlier. The look of horror on his face when it started deleting files was priceless, particularly since I had just cd'd to the root directory.
But all was not lost, as soon as it got to the rm command in the bin directory it stopped. I have since hardlinked rm to 'a' on the root directory.
If you think media don't listen to their audiences desires as is, you're insane. They don't necessarily listen to *your* specific desires; that's not at all the same thing.
They don't. They listen to advertisers desires. It's the advertisers who actually do market research and tell the media what they want.
Basically, there's no good reason for them to do so, so why *would* they cover niche interests?
Niche content would vary by paper. You're right on target when you say that the WSJ isn't going to cover the GR indie rock/music scene. Nor should they, their readers wouldn't be interested. However there are things that the WSJ *isn't* covering that their readers are interested in, and that their editors have miss or ignored. All media is niche media, in that it attempts to cater to it's audience.
The newspapers are too trapped in the old paradigm of finding news and deciding what to write about. Instead they should open up the flood gates and let the readers decide what they want to hear about. While that idea will sound horridly scary to editors who's job it normally is to pick stories, allowing your users the interactive choice will increase readership.
Which would you want? A newspaper that picked stories based on what they thought would get readers, or one that listened to what you actually wanted to read about.
Sure GIMP is not the name that jumps out at you as some kind of visual editor... but the programmer didn't name it for that reason. He named it that either because it was a cool acronym for something that did make sense or he has some special place in his heart for a certain Pulp Fiction scene. (or both)
Either way it would be way easier to deal with if you just allowed me to hover over the damn thing with my mouse and have a handy little meta-data box jump up and say...
"GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring."
1. Observing game servers live with (witty) commentary. 2. League play from top game leagues. The ESPN of gaming. 3. Interviews with Game Developers. Um HELLO. This was a slam dunk. 4. Highlight films from invitational LAN PARTY tournaments. 5. Um... get cuter girls talking about games.
Everytime I load a new distro I get a nice gui and have to figure out how to configure it. Now you tell me there were actually TWO different ones? No way! don't even tell me there's more out there. I might freak out.
Then you either unload it and take the loss(good luck, or you could have done your research/rented first so you would have know before hand. Console game maker have learnt over the years broken games don't sell as well.
And computer game makers have learned that if they continue to evolve a game after launch, it's audience grows. Allow the audience to affect the game, and it fan base grows even faster.
Patronage. Pay for the right to have the game you really want.
Uh... I wouldn't pay for something like that. But then that's why I play console games, I guess. I can buy a nice title, bring it home, and get a good many hours of enjoyment out of it, no updating/upgrading/bug-fixing necessary.
It's a service. As long as game producers continue to think of games as products they will continue to be befuddled by a market that wont pay the rates that they feel they must charge to keep up. Get people involved and paying for your game developement early, and continue having them pay while they play it. It wont take a large amount of money and updates wont feel like wasted time. Bug fixes will be expected and there never will be a "gold" version... you'll just keep making it better.
I say burn all your bridges. I say never look back. If you're leaving a job it's for a good reason and you should be sure to do something that will keep you from ever making that same mistake again.
If your past boss is your future boss, you've done something wrong!
In the corporate world you often get reviewed for your performance. The meetings are uncomfortable affairs where your manager goes down a checklist of things that 'could use improvement'. On Quit Your Job Day, you'll be calling a review meeting of your own. Create a list of things the company needs improvement in. Watch your manager squirm as you point out bad health benefits, impenetrable paperwork, inhuman working environments and other OSHA related problems. At the end of your review look your manager straight in the eye and ask 'What would you do if you were me?', pause and then announce 'I'm afraid I'm going to have to let you go.'
On company letterhead, briefly explain your intention to leave your position in two weeks time. Submit this to your boss with a hearty handshake and express your gratitude for the opportunity to make a difference doing whatever it was you did. If you're lucky you'll be immediately asked to gather your things and shown the door by two large men wearing blue shirts and baseball caps with matching security patches. Don't worry, they aren't cops. If you're unlucky you'll have to leave without your things and they will be shipped to you in a box a week later. This is currently the proper way people leave their employers. Sad really. It could be worse... they could make you work those last two weeks.
Are you suggesting that the American flag is a bad design? Because it has been copied by about 20 countries.
Yes. I am. It's freaking ugly. Do any research on heraldry and you'll see some beautiful flags with very nice designs. The US flag is sadly not one of them.
And just because someone copies you, doesn't mean you have a good idea. If that's your proof then you're on shakey ground.
From strictly a design point of view, the Nazis were amazing. Everything the put out was sharp, crisp and direct marketing of one ideal. Iconically the nazi flag was an amazingly clean design (compare to America's flag that looks like it was made by committee... oh wait, it was.)
I mean they had really cool looking uniforms but there's no connection between their philosophies and what these people seem to want. Look up Fascism people! You virus writers won't actually like it. Honest!
The computer will take over your computer, and then start selling off items in your house that it can see in your webcam on ebay, paid to it's own paypal account. After the money comes in, it will ditch your computer leaving you with a negative score on ebay.
In terminator we gave the computer the ability to control everything, but in the real world they'll just take it for themselves.
Some race horses staying in a stable. One of them starts to boast about his track record. "In the last 15 races, I've won 8 of them!"
Another horse breaks in, "Well in the last 27 races, I've won 19!"
"Oh that's good, but in the last 36 races, I've won 28!", says another, flicking his tail.
At this point, they notice that a greyhound dog has been sitting there listening. "I don't mean to boast," says the greyhound, "but in my last 90 races, I've won 88 of them!"
The horses are clearly amazed. "Wow!" says one, after a hushed silence. "A talking dog."
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I want to go a kick some Korean butt!! If I can program these guys for remote control I'm totally going to save thousands of dollars and spend that on programmers to teach this bot Pride Fighting. Oh, they are so going down!!!
This is how you do video games on TV. You follow leagues, you make stars, and you get advertisers to start parting with money to promote events. You want to make money on TV with gaming, this is the way to do it.
This is the exact system that Microsoft wants to use for it's other applications. They want you to buy Word monthly, or yearly. They want you to pay for a service rather than "own" the program. Briliantly they are testing the idea in their lackluster gaming system before moving it over to their applications.
Next you're going to see an application "Office 360" that replaces your computer desktop and only allows you to do your desktop job... one ap at a time.
Brilliant.
What did you score?
I once had a friend convince me that there was no way that the system would allow me to run back in my history and execute a command as damaging as:
>rm -rf *
He told me that it would clearly go back and execute the command for rebooting that I had done earlier. The look of horror on his face when it started deleting files was priceless, particularly since I had just cd'd to the root directory.
But all was not lost, as soon as it got to the rm command in the bin directory it stopped. I have since hardlinked rm to 'a' on the root directory.
If you think media don't listen to their audiences desires as is, you're insane. They don't necessarily listen to *your* specific desires; that's not at all the same thing.
They don't. They listen to advertisers desires. It's the advertisers who actually do market research and tell the media what they want.
Basically, there's no good reason for them to do so, so why *would* they cover niche interests?
Niche content would vary by paper. You're right on target when you say that the WSJ isn't going to cover the GR indie rock/music scene. Nor should they, their readers wouldn't be interested. However there are things that the WSJ *isn't* covering that their readers are interested in, and that their editors have miss or ignored. All media is niche media, in that it attempts to cater to it's audience.
What's missing here is listening to the audience.
Very nice. Yes, this is important.
What you want to read about?
What I want to read about?
Would be drowned out in a tidal wave of celebrity gossip, if newspapers actually went be what most people wanted.
Hence the Niche part.
The newspapers are too trapped in the old paradigm of finding news and deciding what to write about. Instead they should open up the flood gates and let the readers decide what they want to hear about. While that idea will sound horridly scary to editors who's job it normally is to pick stories, allowing your users the interactive choice will increase readership.
Which would you want? A newspaper that picked stories based on what they thought would get readers, or one that listened to what you actually wanted to read about.
Niche content wins online.
Sure GIMP is not the name that jumps out at you as some kind of visual editor... but the programmer didn't name it for that reason. He named it that either because it was a cool acronym for something that did make sense or he has some special place in his heart for a certain Pulp Fiction scene. (or both)
Either way it would be way easier to deal with if you just allowed me to hover over the damn thing with my mouse and have a handy little meta-data box jump up and say...
"GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring."
1. Observing game servers live with (witty) commentary.
2. League play from top game leagues. The ESPN of gaming.
3. Interviews with Game Developers. Um HELLO. This was a slam dunk.
4. Highlight films from invitational LAN PARTY tournaments.
5. Um... get cuter girls talking about games.
Does this mark the end of the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit?
Anyone with a computer. Think about it.
Who knew?
Everytime I load a new distro I get a nice gui and have to figure out how to configure it. Now you tell me there were actually TWO different ones? No way! don't even tell me there's more out there. I might freak out.
Then you either unload it and take the loss(good luck, or you could have done your research/rented first so you would have know before hand. Console game maker have learnt over the years broken games don't sell as well.
And computer game makers have learned that if they continue to evolve a game after launch, it's audience grows. Allow the audience to affect the game, and it fan base grows even faster.
Patronage. Pay for the right to have the game you really want.
Uh... I wouldn't pay for something like that. But then that's why I play console games, I guess. I can buy a nice title, bring it home, and get a good many hours of enjoyment out of it, no updating/upgrading/bug-fixing necessary.
And if it's broken.... then what do you do?
It's a service. As long as game producers continue to think of games as products they will continue to be befuddled by a market that wont pay the rates that they feel they must charge to keep up. Get people involved and paying for your game developement early, and continue having them pay while they play it. It wont take a large amount of money and updates wont feel like wasted time. Bug fixes will be expected and there never will be a "gold" version... you'll just keep making it better.
Don't ever burn your bridges.
I say burn all your bridges. I say never look back. If you're leaving a job it's for a good reason and you should be sure to do something that will keep you from ever making that same mistake again.
If your past boss is your future boss, you've done something wrong!
Reverse Firing
In the corporate world you often get reviewed for your performance. The meetings are uncomfortable affairs where your manager goes down a checklist of things that 'could use improvement'. On Quit Your Job Day, you'll be calling a review meeting of your own. Create a list of things the company needs improvement in. Watch your manager squirm as you point out bad health benefits, impenetrable paperwork, inhuman working environments and other OSHA related problems. At the end of your review look your manager straight in the eye and ask 'What would you do if you were me?', pause and then announce 'I'm afraid I'm going to have to let you go.'
More ways to quit at:
http://www.quityourjobday.com/
The Proper Termination
On company letterhead, briefly explain your intention to leave your position in two weeks time. Submit this to your boss with a hearty handshake and express your gratitude for the opportunity to make a difference doing whatever it was you did. If you're lucky you'll be immediately asked to gather your things and shown the door by two large men wearing blue shirts and baseball caps with matching security patches. Don't worry, they aren't cops. If you're unlucky you'll have to leave without your things and they will be shipped to you in a box a week later. This is currently the proper way people leave their employers. Sad really. It could be worse... they could make you work those last two weeks.
You can find other ways to quit your job at:
http://www.quityourjobday.com/
Are you suggesting that the American flag is a bad design? Because it has been copied by about 20 countries.
Yes. I am. It's freaking ugly. Do any research on heraldry and you'll see some beautiful flags with very nice designs. The US flag is sadly not one of them.
And just because someone copies you, doesn't mean you have a good idea. If that's your proof then you're on shakey ground.
From strictly a design point of view, the Nazis were amazing. Everything the put out was sharp, crisp and direct marketing of one ideal. Iconically the nazi flag was an amazingly clean design (compare to America's flag that looks like it was made by committee... oh wait, it was.)
I mean they had really cool looking uniforms but there's no connection between their philosophies and what these people seem to want. Look up Fascism people! You virus writers won't actually like it. Honest!
The computer will take over your computer, and then start selling off items in your house that it can see in your webcam on ebay, paid to it's own paypal account. After the money comes in, it will ditch your computer leaving you with a negative score on ebay.
In terminator we gave the computer the ability to control everything, but in the real world they'll just take it for themselves.
Some race horses staying in a stable. One of them starts to boast about his track record. "In the last 15 races, I've won 8 of them!"
Another horse breaks in, "Well in the last 27 races, I've won 19!"
"Oh that's good, but in the last 36 races, I've won 28!", says another, flicking his tail.
At this point, they notice that a greyhound dog has been sitting there listening. "I don't mean to boast," says the greyhound, "but in my last 90 races, I've won 88 of them!"
The horses are clearly amazed. "Wow!" says one, after a hushed silence. "A talking dog."