This reminds me of LASSY (Live Action Super Scotland Yard) that they played in Toronto. Though LASSY seems like it would be more fun than just randomly running around streets playing tag
Some ideas are good and are adopted by both, some fall by the wayside. I don't look in my garage at my Ford and my Toyota and freak out; "OMG! Both Vehicles have 4 wheels, 4 doors, and a steering wheel! The Toyota must be copyng the Ford!" It's just natural evolution. That's the best way to do stuff. Cars have been around for over 100 years and are for lack of a better term, a mature product. Personal compuers roughly 30. There's still a lot of great ideas out there that Mac or Windows or KDE or Gnome, or XFCE, etc etc. will come up with that will end up in the other systems.
That's how you build a product. Grab as many good ideas as you can and make them seamlessly work together.
For me the biggest problem was the monthly fee. It was like a clock ticking in the background. Why spend 8 hours playing a massive game of Civ4 when I'm paying WoW money per month, I should spend that time playing it. That for me was the biggest turnoff. It felt like I needed to spend all my time playing it or I was wasting my money. I've never been able to get into one game that hardcore, so I quit, bought a bunch of new games, and had more fun than I ever had playing WoW.
The first game that ever really had me on the edge of my seat was Zork I. I still remember getting lost in the twisty passages (yes they did all look alike) and turning on all the lights in my house, because I didn't want to get eaten by a Grue. Yeah I was 8 but it proves how powerful the imagination is.
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Heh, that's how I supplied myself in college. Found a website where you could request an AOL disk. I put everyone in my dorm in, then sat a box by our mailboxes which said "Don't want your AOL disk, drop it here" As I recall I ended up with over 80, more than my CS needs, I ended up selling them.
Voxels died because they couldn't be 3d accelerated. When every gaming junkie just dropped $450 on the latest graphics card, they wanted to play games that actually used the card they bought.
The problem with the industry (or at least as I experienced) is that most of the stress comes from the looming spectre of "Do what we say or you will be replaced." You make the games you're told to make, and if you don't there's 10,000 other pimple faced kids with a copy of "Making Games for Dummies" ready to take your place for half your salary.
Want to be creative? want to be innovative? Tough. As the story a couple days ago about Wal-Mart pointed out, The stores are looking for publishers who do what they are told.The publishers are looking for studios who do what they are told. Studios are looking for designers who design what they are told, and designers are looking for programming teams that do what they are told.
Everyone who "dreams" of being in the business is just so happy when they get an opportunity that they just get taken advantage of, and become another cog in the corporate machine.
Last night I helped a friend of my Grandfather clean some spyware off his system. Once we finished he pulled out his iPod, showed me his Bose iPod cradle, and asked me to help him figure out this "iTunes thingie" so that he could get new music. I got him set up, and gave him assurances when it came time to put in his credit card, and showed him how to search for Elvis, the Ventures, Dion, and a couple other "oldies."
20 minutes later he had already spent over $100, and was asking me what my favorite bands were. The lesson is, people are lazy. Yeah there are some cheapskates who will jump through hurdles to save a buck, but if you make an integrated system which works well, such as iTunes Music Store --> iTunes --> iPod --> iPod based stereo with remote, people will take the path of least resistance.
As a CS student in the early 90's I found a link to request an AOL 3.5 Disk (This was in the pre-CD days) I then proptly wrote a shell script which requested an AoL disk for each of the 1500 people in my dorm. I set out a box which said "Don't want your AoL disk, Dump it here" and a week later I had over 500 blank disks. I was set for whatever I needed.
That was the problem with the DVD format ANYWAY. They new HDTV was right around the corner, they new that consumers would be forced to switch from analog to HDTV at a certain date.
So what did they do, they created a format (DVD) with pre-planned obsolescense, then filled stores with these soon to be obsolte disks knowing that as soon as enough people got HDTV's they would have to get a High Definition DVD like player and they could sell the EXACT SAME moves over again for increased profit.
Just kind of surprised Seaquest DSV didn't make the list. It had it's flaws, but at a time when every other Sci-Fi show seemed to be about Outer Space, it made exploring the Earth exciting.
In 1980 I got my Atari 800, played star raiders and desided I wanted to program games. Sure, I was only 4 at that time, but it was a dream that stuck with me. I finished all of my High School's computer and programming classes, by the time I was a Sophomore. I spent the rest of high school teaching myself C++ and Assembly.
In college I had a cocky attitude. When I had to write a word processor, my word processor was texture mapped on a spinning cube. I would do other dumb things like that to show off, and spent so much time writing "Fluff" for my programs that I didn't actually finish the assignments.
I ended up flunking out of college, and working at a Babbages. I'd go home from work and spend all night playing in a Quake I Team Fortress Clan. I didn't have "The Skillz" anymore and got tired of getting beaten by 13 Year Olds, so I hacked the quake models and cheated... I shared the cheat with my clanmates, one of whom unbeknownst to me worked for a game development company.
He shared the cheat with his bosses, and I was called for an interview, and eventually had a job. It took me a few years to realize it really wasn't what I wanted to do, but it was a fun ride getting there.
I have one of those weird jobs where the boss doesn't care if we browse a little bit at work, and we don't complain when we spend 100+ hours a week here.
Besides I control the proxy filter. How else would I find out where all the good porn sites are.
This is Microsoft's way of "Inflating" the Linux TCO that they love to complain about. In fact I can see the Redmond Spin Doctors already at work...
Marketing Droid #1: "Lets focus on the fact that Businesses with Linux mail servers get more viruses!"
Marketing Droid #2: "What desktop operating systems do those businesses run?"
Marketing Droid #1: "Oh. Well Businesses with Linux mail servers get more spyware!"
Marketing Droid #2: "Desktop OS?"
Marketing Droid #1: "Well crap, why did we stop selling a Linux Anti-Virus again?
It's not for protecting Linux machines, it is for protecting Windows machines connected to a Linux Machine. Most corporate mail servers do the anti-virus right on the server. The servers are Linux/Unix, but the viruses they are stopping are written for Windows.
The Yahoo service is $5 a month for unlimited songs, but the second you stop paying you loose access to the songs.
Can someone get caught with millions of songs, delete them, and just pay a 1 month ($5) Fine? or does a 15 year old get caught with 1 song have to pay $5 for the rest of his life ($4,200 assuming a 85 year life span)?
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This reminds me of LASSY (Live Action Super Scotland Yard) that they played in Toronto. Though LASSY seems like it would be more fun than just randomly running around streets playing tag
And just think, today the engineers who did the work would be in jail for violating the DMCA. Ahh Progress!
Some ideas are good and are adopted by both, some fall by the wayside. I don't look in my garage at my Ford and my Toyota and freak out; "OMG! Both Vehicles have 4 wheels, 4 doors, and a steering wheel! The Toyota must be copyng the Ford!" It's just natural evolution. That's the best way to do stuff. Cars have been around for over 100 years and are for lack of a better term, a mature product. Personal compuers roughly 30. There's still a lot of great ideas out there that Mac or Windows or KDE or Gnome, or XFCE, etc etc. will come up with that will end up in the other systems.
That's how you build a product. Grab as many good ideas as you can and make them seamlessly work together.
Hercules and Xena MMORPG??
For me the biggest problem was the monthly fee. It was like a clock ticking in the background. Why spend 8 hours playing a massive game of Civ4 when I'm paying WoW money per month, I should spend that time playing it. That for me was the biggest turnoff. It felt like I needed to spend all my time playing it or I was wasting my money. I've never been able to get into one game that hardcore, so I quit, bought a bunch of new games, and had more fun than I ever had playing WoW.
The first game that ever really had me on the edge of my seat was Zork I. I still remember getting lost in the twisty passages (yes they did all look alike) and turning on all the lights in my house, because I didn't want to get eaten by a Grue. Yeah I was 8 but it proves how powerful the imagination is.
Heh, that's how I supplied myself in college. Found a website where you could request an AOL disk. I put everyone in my dorm in, then sat a box by our mailboxes which said "Don't want your AOL disk, drop it here" As I recall I ended up with over 80, more than my CS needs, I ended up selling them.
Like finding The Answer to The Ultimate Question Of Life, the Universe and Everything
Voxels died because they couldn't be 3d accelerated. When every gaming junkie just dropped $450 on the latest graphics card, they wanted to play games that actually used the card they bought.
A shame too, I liked voxels.
Am I the only one who can't stop hearing "We are Knights who say Wii!" over and over in their head?
I guess it's time for my meds again.
The problem with the industry (or at least as I experienced) is that most of the stress comes from the looming spectre of "Do what we say or you will be replaced." You make the games you're told to make, and if you don't there's 10,000 other pimple faced kids with a copy of "Making Games for Dummies" ready to take your place for half your salary. Want to be creative? want to be innovative? Tough. As the story a couple days ago about Wal-Mart pointed out, The stores are looking for publishers who do what they are told.The publishers are looking for studios who do what they are told. Studios are looking for designers who design what they are told, and designers are looking for programming teams that do what they are told. Everyone who "dreams" of being in the business is just so happy when they get an opportunity that they just get taken advantage of, and become another cog in the corporate machine.
20 minutes later he had already spent over $100, and was asking me what my favorite bands were. The lesson is, people are lazy. Yeah there are some cheapskates who will jump through hurdles to save a buck, but if you make an integrated system which works well, such as iTunes Music Store --> iTunes --> iPod --> iPod based stereo with remote, people will take the path of least resistance.
As a CS student in the early 90's I found a link to request an AOL 3.5 Disk (This was in the pre-CD days) I then proptly wrote a shell script which requested an AoL disk for each of the 1500 people in my dorm. I set out a box which said "Don't want your AoL disk, Dump it here" and a week later I had over 500 blank disks. I was set for whatever I needed.
So what did they do, they created a format (DVD) with pre-planned obsolescense, then filled stores with these soon to be obsolte disks knowing that as soon as enough people got HDTV's they would have to get a High Definition DVD like player and they could sell the EXACT SAME moves over again for increased profit.
Just kind of surprised Seaquest DSV didn't make the list. It had it's flaws, but at a time when every other Sci-Fi show seemed to be about Outer Space, it made exploring the Earth exciting.
They've been rehashing all the other trash this year, when will we see "Don't Copy That DVD 2: The Revenge of Don't Copy That Flopy"
In college I had a cocky attitude. When I had to write a word processor, my word processor was texture mapped on a spinning cube. I would do other dumb things like that to show off, and spent so much time writing "Fluff" for my programs that I didn't actually finish the assignments.
I ended up flunking out of college, and working at a Babbages. I'd go home from work and spend all night playing in a Quake I Team Fortress Clan. I didn't have "The Skillz" anymore and got tired of getting beaten by 13 Year Olds, so I hacked the quake models and cheated... I shared the cheat with my clanmates, one of whom unbeknownst to me worked for a game development company.
He shared the cheat with his bosses, and I was called for an interview, and eventually had a job. It took me a few years to realize it really wasn't what I wanted to do, but it was a fun ride getting there.
Remember these important words of wisdom... Don't Copy that Floppy!
Accepting ATI is not an option
Besides I control the proxy filter. How else would I find out where all the good porn sites are.
Marketing Droid #1: "Lets focus on the fact that Businesses with Linux mail servers get more viruses!"
Marketing Droid #2: "What desktop operating systems do those businesses run?"
Marketing Droid #1: "Oh. Well Businesses with Linux mail servers get more spyware!"
Marketing Droid #2: "Desktop OS?"
Marketing Droid #1: "Well crap, why did we stop selling a Linux Anti-Virus again?
It's not for protecting Linux machines, it is for protecting Windows machines connected to a Linux Machine. Most corporate mail servers do the anti-virus right on the server. The servers are Linux/Unix, but the viruses they are stopping are written for Windows.
I'm more of a fan of Bob
Anybody else remember the last software named Bob??
Can someone get caught with millions of songs, delete them, and just pay a 1 month ($5) Fine? or does a 15 year old get caught with 1 song have to pay $5 for the rest of his life ($4,200 assuming a 85 year life span)?
Exactly...