Its true. We don't really know how the Death Star works. That's always been my biggest pet peeve with the "Star Wars" movies in that they really played up the "rebel vs. empire" theme (with a real bias towards the rebels IMO) and didn't focus on the technology or culture of that era. It really makes the documentary as a whole seem more like a fictional tale or something. Maybe Ken Burns will revisit that period of the galactic history and we'll get a more neutral viewpoint of the conflict.
Its obvious this virus was intelligently designed! After all, only a marketing department could continue to sell the same product year after year with a few tweaks.
But WHO leaked the sex scandal to the press? And WHO just "introduced" the idea about this new proof discovery being linked to the HP scandal? Its impossible for these events to be completely coincidental I'm onto your game Hudson! You probably work for Dell or Apple or HP's Mars competitor, and for one I refuse to be manipulated!.
Yes, its the link pointed to by the article. Its web based and you can download the game immediately from the site. Unless you're autodownloading the games with an RSS feed from the torrent site its not possible for the pirate version to be more convenient - there's absolutely nothing to install for the demo. People pirate shit because they don't want to pay for it. Denying that is like denying that DRM is convenient or somehow "manages rights".
Its hypothetically possible but probably not true for everyone. If I only had $20 and wanted to play two games that cost , one with no DRM and one without and available from a d/l site, I'd spend the money on the first and get the second one free. So its possible that the money went to some other game with stronger DRM. Possible, but probably not true for everyone. Its also possible that the people would have purchased no games ever, and just pirated whatever because they'd rather spend money on something that actually requires it instead of games, which are "free" and easy to obtain. Again, probably not true for everyone.
The problem with all these things in piracy and DRM and people who sit on both sides of it is that there's no great way to run a controlled experiment and say "Look, 20% sold with DRM, 40% sold without" because you'd need to release the same product at the same time to identical but separate markets, one with DRM, one without. And that's just not happening. So here's reality: people will continue to pirate games, and PC games will continue to be sold as they always have. It was a small niche market before, it can continue to be that in the future. With complete, locked down hardware the console market will continue to be the leader in the big budget single player games, but you can still make enough to get along with 90% pirate rates if you can make a good product and make it cheaply. Despite all the pirates, the market is still there, its just not the market that some want it to be. Continuing to deny reality or find some technical solution where there is none won't change that fact.
Yeah, there was like some survey stuff. I figured that was for metrics but maybe they were evaluating if people were "worthy" for entry into the club? Who knows? It should have just been an add on to google docs or gmail in the first place. Just throw it on there and see if anyone uses it.
Why have a huge announcement and generate the buzz and then not let anyone use it? I signed up the first day after they announced it because I thought it might make a cool tool for my dev team, which tends to be remote most of the time. I didn't hear anything back for a while and then just kind of forgot about it. Part of their user adoption problem might just be the fact they didn't let anyone try it.
You don't need a special connector for that. You can have a "special" plug but use a regular one for everything else. I have a charger which has a normal miniUSB output and an apple output, yet somehow it magically can do both without frying them. Imagine that!
Lets make sure that this discussion focuses on the fact that they presented it in Silverlight and not the open and saintly Flash format. I don't want to veer offtopic here into discussing "gigapixels" and "robotic camera stands". That's not what this site is about.
Apparently you weren't there when they renamed the rovers after the soft-drink advertising fell through. Someone managed to save costs though and only redo the lettering just a little bit.
We actually just buy non touch typists typing tutor or some similar program and make them learn as part of their training. I've seen typists so slow they go look for things to copy and paste because its faster. Guess what kind of bug that leads to? Touch typing improves programming productivity, so its worthwhile asking an interviewee. When I think of all the things I learned in high school...well, that class probably is the one I use the most today. It should probably be mandatory before graduation.
Rightly said Fred! I think/. should just become the new peer review site for all scientific and technical articles. Get it reviewed by someone who read that article about that topic one time, and therefore is well qualified to comment on how your research has been done before, isn't commercially viable, probably is made up, and here's a goatsecs for your trouble. Please note that all articles should include a brief inflammatory summary with factual errors and links to random blogs, as the actual article will not be read.
I worked on this project, and you're right, its 100% the same and is not at all an improvement. I wasn't aware of this "Google Street View" you speak of. Have a link by any chance? I KNEW we should have posted the idea to/. BEFORE doing any work. I told my superiors you guys would probably already know an existing implementation, would have seen this 10 years ago in some other platform in a tangentially arranged mode, would not be impressed by it, and could probably make it in five minutes with perl if you wanted to, which you don't. But did they listen? NO!
I've been a gamer as long as you and I can't say I'm ever for want of something new or interesting to play, FPS or not. Try the indie scene sometime. Try Xbox Arcade, try Steam, try your iPhone. I can't think of a single genre that's not well represented. It may not be a top seller that's on the end of the aisle at best buy, but its out there.
Somehow given your username and general outlook I probably won't use you as a reliable source for FPS reviews. But you're right, there haven't been any advances since doom. Every game with a first person perspective is the same, and definitely involves button mashing and shooting alien hordes non-stop. That's why classic games were better - the variety. There were so many different types of gameplay that 3D perspectives just can't give you! For some reason they were all rose colored, never quite figured that out...
And of course, most people aren't like you, so even with a technical solution you're still left without anyone to play the game. People kept Allegience going through incredibly heroic measures and yet there's still barely anyone playing. You're fighting lack of interest and all the new titles that have come out in the meantime - and often the "new version" of the same game, which all the hardcore players will have rushed out to buy anyways.
Well, does it really hurt to try something new? And I'm sure every once in a while you can get a revival going. Some game boards have those "Lets play...." threads where a few people come together and resurrect some old title. Are you really saying "it won't be playable five years from now, so why bother?"
And Apple is supposed to have to have some super investigation team to go out there and figure out what's wrong with it, and whether anything you did to the phone actually caused the problem? There are all kinds of things software can do to brick a device - there are tons of examples of this. Like the GP said, don't stop me from tinkering on it and I won't call you when I break it.
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That would actually be an improvement.
Its true. We don't really know how the Death Star works. That's always been my biggest pet peeve with the "Star Wars" movies in that they really played up the "rebel vs. empire" theme (with a real bias towards the rebels IMO) and didn't focus on the technology or culture of that era. It really makes the documentary as a whole seem more like a fictional tale or something. Maybe Ken Burns will revisit that period of the galactic history and we'll get a more neutral viewpoint of the conflict.
Its obvious this virus was intelligently designed! After all, only a marketing department could continue to sell the same product year after year with a few tweaks.
We're inside the looking glass people!
But WHO leaked the sex scandal to the press? And WHO just "introduced" the idea about this new proof discovery being linked to the HP scandal? Its impossible for these events to be completely coincidental I'm onto your game Hudson! You probably work for Dell or Apple or HP's Mars competitor, and for one I refuse to be manipulated!.
Doh. "Saying that DRM is convenient"
Yes, its the link pointed to by the article. Its web based and you can download the game immediately from the site. Unless you're autodownloading the games with an RSS feed from the torrent site its not possible for the pirate version to be more convenient - there's absolutely nothing to install for the demo. People pirate shit because they don't want to pay for it. Denying that is like denying that DRM is convenient or somehow "manages rights".
Its hypothetically possible but probably not true for everyone. If I only had $20 and wanted to play two games that cost , one with no DRM and one without and available from a d/l site, I'd spend the money on the first and get the second one free. So its possible that the money went to some other game with stronger DRM. Possible, but probably not true for everyone. Its also possible that the people would have purchased no games ever, and just pirated whatever because they'd rather spend money on something that actually requires it instead of games, which are "free" and easy to obtain. Again, probably not true for everyone.
The problem with all these things in piracy and DRM and people who sit on both sides of it is that there's no great way to run a controlled experiment and say "Look, 20% sold with DRM, 40% sold without" because you'd need to release the same product at the same time to identical but separate markets, one with DRM, one without. And that's just not happening. So here's reality: people will continue to pirate games, and PC games will continue to be sold as they always have. It was a small niche market before, it can continue to be that in the future. With complete, locked down hardware the console market will continue to be the leader in the big budget single player games, but you can still make enough to get along with 90% pirate rates if you can make a good product and make it cheaply. Despite all the pirates, the market is still there, its just not the market that some want it to be. Continuing to deny reality or find some technical solution where there is none won't change that fact.
What about stuck in prison with no way to clean up the evidence?
Waaaaaah. Grrrrrrr. Whhhhhaaahaha. GRRRRR.
References available upon request, of course.
Yeah, there was like some survey stuff. I figured that was for metrics but maybe they were evaluating if people were "worthy" for entry into the club? Who knows? It should have just been an add on to google docs or gmail in the first place. Just throw it on there and see if anyone uses it.
Why have a huge announcement and generate the buzz and then not let anyone use it? I signed up the first day after they announced it because I thought it might make a cool tool for my dev team, which tends to be remote most of the time. I didn't hear anything back for a while and then just kind of forgot about it. Part of their user adoption problem might just be the fact they didn't let anyone try it.
Star wars fans amongst bio-engineers and roboticists? What are the odds!
You don't need a special connector for that. You can have a "special" plug but use a regular one for everything else. I have a charger which has a normal miniUSB output and an apple output, yet somehow it magically can do both without frying them. Imagine that!
Lets make sure that this discussion focuses on the fact that they presented it in Silverlight and not the open and saintly Flash format. I don't want to veer offtopic here into discussing "gigapixels" and "robotic camera stands". That's not what this site is about.
Apparently you weren't there when they renamed the rovers after the soft-drink advertising fell through. Someone managed to save costs though and only redo the lettering just a little bit.
We actually just buy non touch typists typing tutor or some similar program and make them learn as part of their training. I've seen typists so slow they go look for things to copy and paste because its faster. Guess what kind of bug that leads to? Touch typing improves programming productivity, so its worthwhile asking an interviewee. When I think of all the things I learned in high school...well, that class probably is the one I use the most today. It should probably be mandatory before graduation.
Rightly said Fred! I think /. should just become the new peer review site for all scientific and technical articles. Get it reviewed by someone who read that article about that topic one time, and therefore is well qualified to comment on how your research has been done before, isn't commercially viable, probably is made up, and here's a goatsecs for your trouble. Please note that all articles should include a brief inflammatory summary with factual errors and links to random blogs, as the actual article will not be read.
I worked on this project, and you're right, its 100% the same and is not at all an improvement. I wasn't aware of this "Google Street View" you speak of. Have a link by any chance? I KNEW we should have posted the idea to /. BEFORE doing any work. I told my superiors you guys would probably already know an existing implementation, would have seen this 10 years ago in some other platform in a tangentially arranged mode, would not be impressed by it, and could probably make it in five minutes with perl if you wanted to, which you don't. But did they listen? NO!
Examples for your assertion?
I've been a gamer as long as you and I can't say I'm ever for want of something new or interesting to play, FPS or not. Try the indie scene sometime. Try Xbox Arcade, try Steam, try your iPhone. I can't think of a single genre that's not well represented. It may not be a top seller that's on the end of the aisle at best buy, but its out there.
Somehow given your username and general outlook I probably won't use you as a reliable source for FPS reviews. But you're right, there haven't been any advances since doom. Every game with a first person perspective is the same, and definitely involves button mashing and shooting alien hordes non-stop. That's why classic games were better - the variety. There were so many different types of gameplay that 3D perspectives just can't give you! For some reason they were all rose colored, never quite figured that out...
Joe Average not only knows about bittorrent, he uses it a lot more than you do.
And of course, most people aren't like you, so even with a technical solution you're still left without anyone to play the game. People kept Allegience going through incredibly heroic measures and yet there's still barely anyone playing. You're fighting lack of interest and all the new titles that have come out in the meantime - and often the "new version" of the same game, which all the hardcore players will have rushed out to buy anyways.
Well, does it really hurt to try something new? And I'm sure every once in a while you can get a revival going. Some game boards have those "Lets play...." threads where a few people come together and resurrect some old title. Are you really saying "it won't be playable five years from now, so why bother?"
And Apple is supposed to have to have some super investigation team to go out there and figure out what's wrong with it, and whether anything you did to the phone actually caused the problem? There are all kinds of things software can do to brick a device - there are tons of examples of this. Like the GP said, don't stop me from tinkering on it and I won't call you when I break it.