It's no different than when we bombed a resturaunt because we thought Saddam may be inside, but he wasn't inside, though a bunch of civilians were. How are we any better -- because we're the "good guys"?
It's completely different. Saddam indiscriminately killed civilians with poison gas. That's barbaric. We indiscriminately killed civilians with high explosives. That's fair game.
In fact, you can run the same commercial and put a picture of Tux at the end, with the slogan "Keep uninvited pests away" (or something like that; I'm not a marketing guy) and be quite effective.
so what are you waiting for? Youtube is right there! heh, too funny.
I was planning on writing a snarky comment that the students would be better served studying the religions and philosophies that George Lucas ripped off his pop-culture understanding from but the Idle interface has given me something new to bitch about. How long ago did this thing roll out of their collective asses and why does it still look this awful? They should just heel this turd down the shower drain and be done with it.
Kind of hard to compare. The equivalent of games 20 years ago are the cheapie games you download over the console's net store. Zumies is the kind of thing that will be around for ages.
Something like a Half-Life will maybe end up feeling old, ucky, and unfun to play but it will eventually be superseded by another well-done shooter. Same play mechanics, better graphics, different storyline, you know the drill. The next best racing game? Well, the big one from 1995 will feel skunky by this point in time but the latest one on current gen consoles feels great. The good points will be taken from it and other contemporary games and be reworked into various new racing games and fifteen years down the line we'll look back at 2008 and say "wow, just look at how far we've come."
I agree with what the poster said above, grab the old ROM's and see how poorly the games stack up to your own memories. I love shooters but Doom feels awful and clunky now. I say this as a person who played the shit out of that game and was disdainful towards every shooter that came after it until Half-Life.
Might as well vote to bring back the horse drawn carriage since the price of gas has risen so much lately.
For people who can't afford the gas, that's already happening. In Cuba they're going back to oxen since they don't have the parts for tractors or a steady fuel supply.
1) Google proposes deal with Yahoo. 2) Federal Trade Commission, the government entity charged with regulating business activities vis a vis anti-trust regulations, gives the OK. 3) Google goes through with deal 4) Justice department investigates for anti-trust violations.
Why does this remind me of when the Big Three were getting sued for the type of airbags that the Feds REQUIRED they install, and not having switches to turn them off which they were prohibited from installing by the same regulations?
Oh, I think it sounds more like Google not paying up to the appropriate parties, now here's the threat of something unfortunate happening to their business. Note that Microsoft got off on the anti-trust charges after the bushies came in.
Back in the '80s when things were fresh and new, I remember the eagerness with which I went to Egghead/Babbage's to look at the computer games.
There was so much variety in the games. People were trying all sorts of different things. These games were not hundred-megabyte heavyweight games, they were much lighter--but they were more interesting.
The thing is, games take a metric shit-ton of resources to make these days. The casual game market has shown a handful of super-winners that could be produced by a guerrilla development team. Your Call of Duty games require massive investments of time and capital. Same goes for stuff like Oblivion, Final Fantasy, etc. A triple-A title for the current generation will run you anywhere between $20 and $40 million.
The thing you have to remember about those old games, the graphics were primitive as hell. Sure, they were good for the time because we didn't know any better but I doubt you'd ever be able to go back to that. We've been spoiled by just how good things can look today. Of course, because there's so much effort going into so many areas aside from gameplay, it's easy to overlook that. The older games had nothing to offer but gameplay, they certainly weren't offering much in terms of graphics, soundtrack, etc.
What I do like is that the Xbox Marketplace lets casual games get a foot in the door. There are modernized remakes of the old arcade classics like Pac-Man and Joust. There are simplistic arcade games, there are puzzle games, reissues of old console classics, etc. You would have been hard-pressed to find these shorts of titles in regular stores, nobody would have taken the risk involved with all those physical costs.
The real divide in the future will be that consoles are closed-architecture while PC's are open. Anyone can write a game for the PC, anyone can distribute it, and anyone can play it. The consoles are a closed shop. A PC game might have a crossover and become a console hit but that's only if the console owners decide to let them in the door.
I just saw it for myself today. I was convinced it was an add for the shoe store until the very end when the windows logo flashed...
You think that's bad? I've actually shopped there. Shoe Carnival, complete with circus theme. Normally it's the kind of store I'd protest by not patronizing but I can't really think of any shoe store I'd patronize by choice and there's a really good diner in the same plaza. But they do the whole circus theme and everything.
It's scary when the banality of Seinfeld intersects with my own life.
Microsoft has just obsoleted every single FAIL pic on bchan. No more fat kids, crashed cars, train wrecks, fat chicks falling off of horses, etc. Now when anyone wants to post FAIL, they're going to have to link to screencaps of this episode with a caption saying "Microsoft spent $300 million trying to convince you Vista doesn't suck instead of fixing it."
Put the crappy version up on Youtube. It lets people see what you're about and whether they'd like to have a better version.
Now here's the trick: in the video description area, include a link to a torrent tracker with the higher quality version. Seed it yourself to get the ball rolling, watch it take off from there.
I've seen people who make game videos do that sort of thing, like when it's show-off clips or game music videos and the like.
The advantage of doing it this way is you increase the stumble-on factor by being on Youtube and people can see your video in seconds. Those who care enough to demand the higher-quality version will have the torrent link and be very happy. All around, win-win. Now aside from using a p2p app and thus directly supporting the terrorists, you're all set.
My brother worked for a hotel for a while, and I decided to hang out with him for the day one time. He kept on telling me about all the CP people.
A part of my brain knew it was the Canadian Pacific Railroad people, but the rest of my brain was just laughing.
At a previous company we were doing work for the Sporting Goods Manufacturing Association of America, SGMAA, production staff started referring to them as "smegma." Management did not realize the connotation and started doing so themselves.
I think DVD-A is a better analogy. It was introduced at around the same time as a competing format (SACD) which had better backwards compatibility. It had clear advantages in terms of quality, but not really any compelling features, and it eventually lost out to downloads.
I thought you were making a funny there for a second. There's really a format called DVDA? (double-vaginal, double-anal, term used in the sex industry. I don't know this from personal experience, just from the personal band of the South Park creators.)
Distro is going more and more electronic thanks to the intertubes. There will be a limited demand for physical media for people who are off-grid but it's just not going to be able to keep up with this format wars shit. While I don't like the limited selection, Xbox Live shows the way of the future for media rental. Netflicks has made it work with physical media, they're working hard to crack the electronic distro world. They're going to be on Xbox soon I hear. Physical media is going to be an extremely secondary market, like the way audio cassettes became after CD penetrated everywhere -- CD's took over the slot taken by LP's in the home market, cars and walkmen were still cassette-based, and then gradually CD's took over there and the only people using cassettes simply couldn't afford CD players. As of now, 2008, I don't even know if cassettes are still commercially produced. I know I haven't bought an actual CD in years, hadn't even used the CD player in my car until I got some books on tape for a trip. It has a line-input for mp3 players and I'd been using that for the first year I had the car.
I see there being a continued demand for physical media for bulky distribution (i.e. 100's of GB or TB of info where UPS is faster than FTP) and for archiving. But they're not going to play a major part in the media-consumption lifestyle of people in the future, they just aren't. I'll make a prediction right now: the next-gen consoles will still accept physical media (assuming it's some matter of spinning optical disk) but primary distribution will be via internet and will only become more so over the market lifespan of those consoles.
Seriously, I ain't got time for 'em, does anyone else? Just getting through a great single-player game like Oblivion kicks my ass, let alone this multi-player time-sink crap.
Their exports are pretty skunky, too. Would you care for some lead paint with your toy, junior?
Oh, but there I go being all liberal and gay and shit. Really, we should let the free markets decide what an acceptable level of poisoning should be for our children. "But they're using asbestos as a padding for the cushion in this crib!" The free market decided it was cheaper than foam. I'm sorry, but the market's decision is final, you'll just have to accept that.
Barack doesn't even vet Clinton, thinks the Clinton voters will just fall in line, and out comes Palin. While Palin is a different breed of woman than Clinton, feminism is back on the table.
Huh? Palin is anti-feminist, subscribing to Christian fundamentalist beliefs that severely curtail a woman's right to do a great many things. And Obama didn't vet Clinton because she asked not to be vetted unless she was going to be the veep. Since he didn't want her, he went along with her wishes.
The only similarity between Palin and Clinton is that they both have vaginas. On all of the issues they completely disagree. That would be like saying that if Clinton won the nomination, McCain could take that Alan Keynes guy (black republican stunt candidate) as his veep and it would be exactly the same. No frickin' way. The only similarity between the two is that they're black and male.
I'm not saying that there will be no Clintonistas voting McCain because of Palin, but I don't think that there will be a landslide and I think those that do are being contemptibly silly.
Certainly, most Clinton supporters will vote Obama if they stick to issues, but even Bill Clinton made the "hypothetical" case for John McCain (google "candidate X candidate Y" if you haven't heard it), and if they can identify with Palin, it makes it that much more palatable. What Obama dismissed as being a non-issue lives on and out of his control. (Not to mention the Clintons controlled half the democratic convention that was supposed to be his coronation, but now we are really off topic...)
I think the Palin threat isn't so much from Hillary defectors but Christian fundies energized by the chance to "geat a real Christian in the White House," dismissing that every modern president has provided at least lip-service to Christianity, Carter was openly Christian, Reagan stage-acted the role masterfully while undercutting everything Christ stood for, and Bush laid claim to being a born-again evangelist. Much of the Obama advantage will be sheer conservative fatigue, dependably Republican voters being too disgusted to go out and vote. But if the thought of Palin mobilizes them to get out and vote, that could be a real risk. But Clinton defectors? I don't see that as likely.
Yeah, i liked it more when it was Alpha Squad Seven: Lady Nocturne, a Tech Jansen Adventure.
When ridiculing the stupid, there's a fine line between wit and snark versus being every bit as stupid as the object of ridicule. Given that this has shown up in Idle, I think we all know which side of the line the writer came down on.
I hate being turned into a Microsoft apologist on this one, but give them a break. IE8 is still beta. Comparing release quality software to beta quality software is simply unfair.
Microsoft is a lot like Google in that their software never makes it out of beta; unlike Google, they don't admit it.
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I cannot possibly foresee a way that this could be turned against the public in some horrific Orwellian fashion.
It's no different than when we bombed a resturaunt because we thought Saddam may be inside, but he wasn't inside, though a bunch of civilians were. How are we any better -- because we're the "good guys"?
It's completely different. Saddam indiscriminately killed civilians with poison gas. That's barbaric. We indiscriminately killed civilians with high explosives. That's fair game.
You want to make a black hole to suck up the earth? How about a nice game of chess instead?
In fact, you can run the same commercial and put a picture of Tux at the end, with the slogan "Keep uninvited pests away" (or something like that; I'm not a marketing guy) and be quite effective.
so what are you waiting for? Youtube is right there! heh, too funny.
I was planning on writing a snarky comment that the students would be better served studying the religions and philosophies that George Lucas ripped off his pop-culture understanding from but the Idle interface has given me something new to bitch about. How long ago did this thing roll out of their collective asses and why does it still look this awful? They should just heel this turd down the shower drain and be done with it.
Kind of hard to compare. The equivalent of games 20 years ago are the cheapie games you download over the console's net store. Zumies is the kind of thing that will be around for ages.
Something like a Half-Life will maybe end up feeling old, ucky, and unfun to play but it will eventually be superseded by another well-done shooter. Same play mechanics, better graphics, different storyline, you know the drill. The next best racing game? Well, the big one from 1995 will feel skunky by this point in time but the latest one on current gen consoles feels great. The good points will be taken from it and other contemporary games and be reworked into various new racing games and fifteen years down the line we'll look back at 2008 and say "wow, just look at how far we've come."
I agree with what the poster said above, grab the old ROM's and see how poorly the games stack up to your own memories. I love shooters but Doom feels awful and clunky now. I say this as a person who played the shit out of that game and was disdainful towards every shooter that came after it until Half-Life.
Might as well vote to bring back the horse drawn carriage since the price of gas has risen so much lately.
For people who can't afford the gas, that's already happening. In Cuba they're going back to oxen since they don't have the parts for tractors or a steady fuel supply.
1) Google proposes deal with Yahoo.
2) Federal Trade Commission, the government entity charged with regulating business activities vis a vis anti-trust regulations, gives the OK.
3) Google goes through with deal
4) Justice department investigates for anti-trust violations.
Why does this remind me of when the Big Three were getting sued for the type of airbags that the Feds REQUIRED they install, and not having switches to turn them off which they were prohibited from installing by the same regulations?
Oh, I think it sounds more like Google not paying up to the appropriate parties, now here's the threat of something unfortunate happening to their business. Note that Microsoft got off on the anti-trust charges after the bushies came in.
Back in the '80s when things were fresh and new, I remember the eagerness with which I went to Egghead/Babbage's to look at the computer games.
There was so much variety in the games. People were trying all sorts of different things. These games were not hundred-megabyte heavyweight games, they were much lighter--but they were more interesting.
The thing is, games take a metric shit-ton of resources to make these days. The casual game market has shown a handful of super-winners that could be produced by a guerrilla development team. Your Call of Duty games require massive investments of time and capital. Same goes for stuff like Oblivion, Final Fantasy, etc. A triple-A title for the current generation will run you anywhere between $20 and $40 million.
The thing you have to remember about those old games, the graphics were primitive as hell. Sure, they were good for the time because we didn't know any better but I doubt you'd ever be able to go back to that. We've been spoiled by just how good things can look today. Of course, because there's so much effort going into so many areas aside from gameplay, it's easy to overlook that. The older games had nothing to offer but gameplay, they certainly weren't offering much in terms of graphics, soundtrack, etc.
What I do like is that the Xbox Marketplace lets casual games get a foot in the door. There are modernized remakes of the old arcade classics like Pac-Man and Joust. There are simplistic arcade games, there are puzzle games, reissues of old console classics, etc. You would have been hard-pressed to find these shorts of titles in regular stores, nobody would have taken the risk involved with all those physical costs.
The real divide in the future will be that consoles are closed-architecture while PC's are open. Anyone can write a game for the PC, anyone can distribute it, and anyone can play it. The consoles are a closed shop. A PC game might have a crossover and become a console hit but that's only if the console owners decide to let them in the door.
Which ties in to the churros and also sets itself up to be compared to someone else's "lickable" interface.
Girlfriend 2.0 or is this a new Apple product?
I just saw it for myself today. I was convinced it was an add for the shoe store until the very end when the windows logo flashed...
You think that's bad? I've actually shopped there. Shoe Carnival, complete with circus theme. Normally it's the kind of store I'd protest by not patronizing but I can't really think of any shoe store I'd patronize by choice and there's a really good diner in the same plaza. But they do the whole circus theme and everything.
It's scary when the banality of Seinfeld intersects with my own life.
Microsoft has just obsoleted every single FAIL pic on bchan. No more fat kids, crashed cars, train wrecks, fat chicks falling off of horses, etc. Now when anyone wants to post FAIL, they're going to have to link to screencaps of this episode with a caption saying "Microsoft spent $300 million trying to convince you Vista doesn't suck instead of fixing it."
Put the crappy version up on Youtube. It lets people see what you're about and whether they'd like to have a better version.
Now here's the trick: in the video description area, include a link to a torrent tracker with the higher quality version. Seed it yourself to get the ball rolling, watch it take off from there.
I've seen people who make game videos do that sort of thing, like when it's show-off clips or game music videos and the like.
The advantage of doing it this way is you increase the stumble-on factor by being on Youtube and people can see your video in seconds. Those who care enough to demand the higher-quality version will have the torrent link and be very happy. All around, win-win. Now aside from using a p2p app and thus directly supporting the terrorists, you're all set.
My brother worked for a hotel for a while, and I decided to hang out with him for the day one time. He kept on telling me about all the CP people.
A part of my brain knew it was the Canadian Pacific Railroad people, but the rest of my brain was just laughing.
At a previous company we were doing work for the Sporting Goods Manufacturing Association of America, SGMAA, production staff started referring to them as "smegma." Management did not realize the connotation and started doing so themselves.
Dragonfly fossils with 70 cm wingspans have been found.
Would they require just a higher oxygen content or also a thicker atmosphere to fly?
I think DVD-A is a better analogy. It was introduced at around the same time as a competing format (SACD) which had better backwards compatibility. It had clear advantages in terms of quality, but not really any compelling features, and it eventually lost out to downloads.
I thought you were making a funny there for a second. There's really a format called DVDA? (double-vaginal, double-anal, term used in the sex industry. I don't know this from personal experience, just from the personal band of the South Park creators.)
Too funny.
Distro is going more and more electronic thanks to the intertubes. There will be a limited demand for physical media for people who are off-grid but it's just not going to be able to keep up with this format wars shit. While I don't like the limited selection, Xbox Live shows the way of the future for media rental. Netflicks has made it work with physical media, they're working hard to crack the electronic distro world. They're going to be on Xbox soon I hear. Physical media is going to be an extremely secondary market, like the way audio cassettes became after CD penetrated everywhere -- CD's took over the slot taken by LP's in the home market, cars and walkmen were still cassette-based, and then gradually CD's took over there and the only people using cassettes simply couldn't afford CD players. As of now, 2008, I don't even know if cassettes are still commercially produced. I know I haven't bought an actual CD in years, hadn't even used the CD player in my car until I got some books on tape for a trip. It has a line-input for mp3 players and I'd been using that for the first year I had the car.
I see there being a continued demand for physical media for bulky distribution (i.e. 100's of GB or TB of info where UPS is faster than FTP) and for archiving. But they're not going to play a major part in the media-consumption lifestyle of people in the future, they just aren't. I'll make a prediction right now: the next-gen consoles will still accept physical media (assuming it's some matter of spinning optical disk) but primary distribution will be via internet and will only become more so over the market lifespan of those consoles.
NO MO' MMO's!
Seriously, I ain't got time for 'em, does anyone else? Just getting through a great single-player game like Oblivion kicks my ass, let alone this multi-player time-sink crap.
Eve of Naharon
No, just John McCain's first girlfriend. *rimshot*
Their exports are pretty skunky, too. Would you care for some lead paint with your toy, junior?
Oh, but there I go being all liberal and gay and shit. Really, we should let the free markets decide what an acceptable level of poisoning should be for our children. "But they're using asbestos as a padding for the cushion in this crib!" The free market decided it was cheaper than foam. I'm sorry, but the market's decision is final, you'll just have to accept that.
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Barack doesn't even vet Clinton, thinks the Clinton voters will just fall in line, and out comes Palin. While Palin is a different breed of woman than Clinton, feminism is back on the table.
Huh? Palin is anti-feminist, subscribing to Christian fundamentalist beliefs that severely curtail a woman's right to do a great many things. And Obama didn't vet Clinton because she asked not to be vetted unless she was going to be the veep. Since he didn't want her, he went along with her wishes.
The only similarity between Palin and Clinton is that they both have vaginas. On all of the issues they completely disagree. That would be like saying that if Clinton won the nomination, McCain could take that Alan Keynes guy (black republican stunt candidate) as his veep and it would be exactly the same. No frickin' way. The only similarity between the two is that they're black and male.
I'm not saying that there will be no Clintonistas voting McCain because of Palin, but I don't think that there will be a landslide and I think those that do are being contemptibly silly.
Certainly, most Clinton supporters will vote Obama if they stick to issues, but even Bill Clinton made the "hypothetical" case for John McCain (google "candidate X candidate Y" if you haven't heard it), and if they can identify with Palin, it makes it that much more palatable. What Obama dismissed as being a non-issue lives on and out of his control. (Not to mention the Clintons controlled half the democratic convention that was supposed to be his coronation, but now we are really off topic...)
I think the Palin threat isn't so much from Hillary defectors but Christian fundies energized by the chance to "geat a real Christian in the White House," dismissing that every modern president has provided at least lip-service to Christianity, Carter was openly Christian, Reagan stage-acted the role masterfully while undercutting everything Christ stood for, and Bush laid claim to being a born-again evangelist. Much of the Obama advantage will be sheer conservative fatigue, dependably Republican voters being too disgusted to go out and vote. But if the thought of Palin mobilizes them to get out and vote, that could be a real risk. But Clinton defectors? I don't see that as likely.
Yeah, i liked it more when it was Alpha Squad Seven: Lady Nocturne, a Tech Jansen Adventure.
When ridiculing the stupid, there's a fine line between wit and snark versus being every bit as stupid as the object of ridicule. Given that this has shown up in Idle, I think we all know which side of the line the writer came down on.
Barack Obama got PWNED: McCain/Palin '08!
I know this is slightly OT but how does this follow? How exactly was Obama, as you kids say, 'PWNED'?
I hate being turned into a Microsoft apologist on this one, but give them a break. IE8 is still beta. Comparing release quality software to beta quality software is simply unfair.
Microsoft is a lot like Google in that their software never makes it out of beta; unlike Google, they don't admit it.