Look at Las Vegas, going in a (more) family friendly direction proved successful. I can't say I blame them, though I can't also not call them assholes. The scary part is looking back at your own childhood and realizing how much of it has a gold sticker of approval and a trademark attached.
Prepare to be called a worthless nerd who will never know the touch of a woman. Not saying I disagree, it is just the gut response is to yell, loser at the guy who says he wants a HUD on his glasses or projected on this eye.
Personally, I'm expecting do have the luxury of a HUD, with a constant connection and monitoring of my surroundings, when I'm 80. Then who'll be laughing? Sure you'll brag about the touch of a woman, but I'll be able to tell if I just peed in the toilet instead of guessing and hoping that it wasn't the closet.
Thats the rub though. Someone will begin harping about the greatness of their online movie editing service and try to pull their own embrace and extinguish. What you lost your old movies when your drive crashed? That was stupid, you are probably an idiot. You aren't letting your friends edit your videos? You are out of the looop, probably unpopular and unloved. You don't have your videos monitored and watermarked to prove that you videos aren't child pornography (or copyrighted content). You hate children, you probably rape them. This tactic can be applied to any part of the market.
Cloud computing is pushed for a reason and that reason is to get someone to constantly send in a check for something that would have otherwise only paid for once. How this will go after Azure fails, I can't say, but I can I'm just as leery of potential saviors as I am of MS.
"Specifically, the college student is accused of modifying for personal financial gain technology affecting control or access to a copyrighted work, according to an ICE statement."
Specifically, that's not very specific. Was he selling pirated games or modded consoles or possessing and not paying for pirated games or modding consoles? I'm assuming the former, but the article is a tad murky outside of the piracy = evil stance. If it is the former, than yeah, he broke the law and was selling non-taxed counterfeit goods, something that will send you to jail. I may not agree with that sentencing, but you don't screw with Mama Gov't and her bread and butter.
If it is a latter, then this is entirely messed up, though I couldn't imagine a judge sending a 27 year old to prison for 10 years for two counts of stealing a game or ordering a mod chip. You know, cruel and unusual punishment and all. Maybe this will finally shine some light on the nuke-kills-ant mentality of the DMCA, though I seriously doubt that. I'm sure it will probably be used as another 'you act like children, we'll treat you like children' scenario.
That is probably the one aspect that I find annoying about XKCD. Munroe often comes across as the guy who would cock-block you with tears and then laugh to himself, thinking that he had somehow gamed natural selection.
Otherwise, I enjoy the strip. Odds are if I don't find the strip funny, it means that he is referencing something I'm utterly clueless about. So then I get a little joke to help the new factoid stick in my memory. Win-win.
"It has less change of a meltdown, but if that meltdown occurs, and it will, it's no difference from Chernobyl, except this one will be bigger."
I'm guessing that you haven't read up on it or talked to anyone who has worked in the field. Safety is always the primary concern. Even the lowest technicians spend literally thousands of hours studying old accidents and preparing for possible new ones. More recently built reactors are designed specifically to avoid past mistakes that were in retrospect utterly boneheaded, clumsy and even arrogant. Also, those who work in this field know that the consequences of screwing up can cost them their lives and the lives of others and they have no greater incentive to do the right thing.
Not necessarily, the Nintendo, MS and Sony could simply decide to generate a new industry standard that goes out of it's way to screw the consumer. Plenty of industries have been doing this for generations.
Is the problem with any cellphone that allows you to install your own software or are jail broken iPhones the only potential terrorist threat? This could be really dumb for Apple, you know equating their own product to anthrax and missing nukes. It certainly didn't work for BioTerror Coke.
Lithtech has always been on the short end of the popularity stick. You grandmother can name Doom, your mom can mention Counter-Strike and your little brother can mention FarCry. Now ask the same group if they know about Shogo or NOLF.
Also bothering to offer your product for sale is always a plus. How many people pirate a game like System Shock 2 despite the fact that people would actually pay for it on Direct or Steam?
Also a meeting is not a place to set up the time and place for two or more meetings on the same subject. If you have to have a meeting for your next meeting, either get it done or go ahead and cancel the project.
While I find the idea interesting, I can't help but wonder what would this will mean for the gaming community. You know how there are Apple fans who have thousands of dollars invested in Apple's products and then there are Apple fans who have thousands of dollars invested in Apple stock? Two completely different people. The first will argue until they are blue in the face while the latter will call you a child killer and walk out of the warning everyone about the putrid smell coming from the sorry sack of shit sitting in the other room.
Now gamers are passionate and many are overly competitive assholes. Now imagine that their paychecks are tied in to it? It would be like crossing a bomb wielding religious zealot with a day trader.
"Once finished they collect their payment out of escrow"
I thought Newell's idea was that it would ease development costs. With this solution who pays the employees to make the game over say, a 4 year period?
Granted both were overhyped, but it is still comparing apple to oranges. How many people bought Halo 3 for the SP campaign? No matter, how could it have been worse than Manhunt 2 or The Shield: The Game or fuck, what Tomb Raider game came out that year? There is a long way to anus.
It is a good day for all of those Chrome kernel hackers out there who have spent years examining, tinkering with and often cursing the name of the Chrome kernel. But it is OK, deep down they know that the Chrome kernel is one of the greatest of all human achievements. Its OK guys, feel free to take a day off and have a cold one, you deserved it. Yes, the Chrome kernel is something that we will tell our wide-eyed grandchildren about.
Shouldn't you get the death penalty for something like this? Seriously, this malcontent took work from airline repairmen. That is almost like eating babies. I say death to the traitor.
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Look at Las Vegas, going in a (more) family friendly direction proved successful. I can't say I blame them, though I can't also not call them assholes. The scary part is looking back at your own childhood and realizing how much of it has a gold sticker of approval and a trademark attached.
Prepare to be called a worthless nerd who will never know the touch of a woman. Not saying I disagree, it is just the gut response is to yell, loser at the guy who says he wants a HUD on his glasses or projected on this eye.
Personally, I'm expecting do have the luxury of a HUD, with a constant connection and monitoring of my surroundings, when I'm 80. Then who'll be laughing? Sure you'll brag about the touch of a woman, but I'll be able to tell if I just peed in the toilet instead of guessing and hoping that it wasn't the closet.
Thats the rub though. Someone will begin harping about the greatness of their online movie editing service and try to pull their own embrace and extinguish. What you lost your old movies when your drive crashed? That was stupid, you are probably an idiot. You aren't letting your friends edit your videos? You are out of the looop, probably unpopular and unloved. You don't have your videos monitored and watermarked to prove that you videos aren't child pornography (or copyrighted content). You hate children, you probably rape them. This tactic can be applied to any part of the market.
Cloud computing is pushed for a reason and that reason is to get someone to constantly send in a check for something that would have otherwise only paid for once. How this will go after Azure fails, I can't say, but I can I'm just as leery of potential saviors as I am of MS.
Year of the Google Desktop!
Huh, the link keeps going to something about net neutering. Oh well.
"Reportedly it was for not being able to run fast enough."
Isn't that the reason why anyone gets beaten to death?
"Specifically, the college student is accused of modifying for personal financial gain technology affecting control or access to a copyrighted work, according to an ICE statement."
Specifically, that's not very specific. Was he selling pirated games or modded consoles or possessing and not paying for pirated games or modding consoles? I'm assuming the former, but the article is a tad murky outside of the piracy = evil stance. If it is the former, than yeah, he broke the law and was selling non-taxed counterfeit goods, something that will send you to jail. I may not agree with that sentencing, but you don't screw with Mama Gov't and her bread and butter.
If it is a latter, then this is entirely messed up, though I couldn't imagine a judge sending a 27 year old to prison for 10 years for two counts of stealing a game or ordering a mod chip. You know, cruel and unusual punishment and all. Maybe this will finally shine some light on the nuke-kills-ant mentality of the DMCA, though I seriously doubt that. I'm sure it will probably be used as another 'you act like children, we'll treat you like children' scenario.
That is probably the one aspect that I find annoying about XKCD. Munroe often comes across as the guy who would cock-block you with tears and then laugh to himself, thinking that he had somehow gamed natural selection.
Otherwise, I enjoy the strip. Odds are if I don't find the strip funny, it means that he is referencing something I'm utterly clueless about. So then I get a little joke to help the new factoid stick in my memory. Win-win.
Don't hate the player, hate the game.
I can't tell you how much I'd love to see an attempted RIAA bailout.
That they consider not being able to print their own money as unfair. At least it shows it for the sham it is.
"It has less change of a meltdown, but if that meltdown occurs, and it will, it's no difference from Chernobyl, except this one will be bigger."
I'm guessing that you haven't read up on it or talked to anyone who has worked in the field. Safety is always the primary concern. Even the lowest technicians spend literally thousands of hours studying old accidents and preparing for possible new ones. More recently built reactors are designed specifically to avoid past mistakes that were in retrospect utterly boneheaded, clumsy and even arrogant. Also, those who work in this field know that the consequences of screwing up can cost them their lives and the lives of others and they have no greater incentive to do the right thing.
Not necessarily, the Nintendo, MS and Sony could simply decide to generate a new industry standard that goes out of it's way to screw the consumer. Plenty of industries have been doing this for generations.
Is the problem with any cellphone that allows you to install your own software or are jail broken iPhones the only potential terrorist threat? This could be really dumb for Apple, you know equating their own product to anthrax and missing nukes. It certainly didn't work for BioTerror Coke.
Lithtech has always been on the short end of the popularity stick. You grandmother can name Doom, your mom can mention Counter-Strike and your little brother can mention FarCry. Now ask the same group if they know about Shogo or NOLF.
Also bothering to offer your product for sale is always a plus. How many people pirate a game like System Shock 2 despite the fact that people would actually pay for it on Direct or Steam?
Also a meeting is not a place to set up the time and place for two or more meetings on the same subject. If you have to have a meeting for your next meeting, either get it done or go ahead and cancel the project.
So you were taught reading and riding in school? Did the curriculum also cover whittling and butter churning?
While I find the idea interesting, I can't help but wonder what would this will mean for the gaming community. You know how there are Apple fans who have thousands of dollars invested in Apple's products and then there are Apple fans who have thousands of dollars invested in Apple stock? Two completely different people. The first will argue until they are blue in the face while the latter will call you a child killer and walk out of the warning everyone about the putrid smell coming from the sorry sack of shit sitting in the other room.
Now gamers are passionate and many are overly competitive assholes. Now imagine that their paychecks are tied in to it? It would be like crossing a bomb wielding religious zealot with a day trader.
"Once finished they collect their payment out of escrow"
I thought Newell's idea was that it would ease development costs. With this solution who pays the employees to make the game over say, a 4 year period?
Granted both were overhyped, but it is still comparing apple to oranges. How many people bought Halo 3 for the SP campaign? No matter, how could it have been worse than Manhunt 2 or The Shield: The Game or fuck, what Tomb Raider game came out that year? There is a long way to anus.
Can't happen, EA owns SS.
That way you always have to take it back to the dealer for maintenance.
It is a good day for all of those Chrome kernel hackers out there who have spent years examining, tinkering with and often cursing the name of the Chrome kernel. But it is OK, deep down they know that the Chrome kernel is one of the greatest of all human achievements. Its OK guys, feel free to take a day off and have a cold one, you deserved it. Yes, the Chrome kernel is something that we will tell our wide-eyed grandchildren about.
Shouldn't you get the death penalty for something like this? Seriously, this malcontent took work from airline repairmen. That is almost like eating babies. I say death to the traitor.