As despicable as scamming is, it certainly doesn't warrant a death penalty. If you think it does, think about what happens when people start applying that logic to smaller and smaller crimes.
What mobo are you using? I have all but given up trying to run nvidia drivers on my Linux box, because X would hard lock after anywhere from an hour to a week. Right now I'm using the opensource, nonaccelerated nv driver..
The real solution? A clean layout that showcases the ad well, delivering your ad to an audience who is actually interested, and not insulting the viewer with cheap tricks like animating nausea-inducing flashing colors. Penny Arcade has done this with its layout, and even with a smaller reader base they outperform ads from sites like IGN. To quote:
Here is another little behind the scenes look at the way advertising works on the internet. Game companies want animation. They want a fucking guy to parachute down from the top of your screen and land on the article you're trying to read. They want you to have to interact with their advertisement just so you can see the content you came for. Everyone who uses the internet knows that this kind of shit is just frustrating. Look at sites like IGN, Gamespot, or Gamespy. You can't read an article there without an animated bug crawling across your screen or some flash ad blaring shitty music. When we decided to do advertising we decided that we wouldn't ever run any kind of animated add. Some companies won't advertise with us because of it. Others, it's like pulling teeth to get a non animated ad out of them. They have this idea in their head that the only way their ads will be effective is if they are annoying as fuck.
Some of them are actually shocked when ads at PA out perform animated versions at other sites like IGN. Here we are just a little comic site and we kick their fucking ass. We tell them that if you don't insult people with shitty flash ads, they are much more likely to actually check out your game. I have never once clicked on a flash ad except to mute it or close it and I have a feeling you guys are pretty much the same. They just can't get it through their heads that people don't like to be annoyed by advertising.
I feel like we have a pretty good relationship you and I. Maybe I'm wrong but I feel like we treat you guys pretty well and I think that's why you treat us so well in return. You click on our ads and buy our stuff at an unbelievable rate. Those new Wang Fu shirts sold out in one fucking day. I mean that is some crazy shit. Tycho and I just want to say thanks. We have the best job in the world and we have it because of you guys. It seems like we should hug or something now.
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To me, at least, it seems like current ad companies are ramming their head against this big wall of how to make effective advertising, and their solution seems to be to just ram their head harder against that same wall.
Who says you have to walk the genre line? Trying to create a game (RPG, in this instance) by just re-hashing everything typical about the genre is sure to get you a boring game. Some of the best games take things from all genres. Deus Ex, for example. Personally, I like to see people design games without trying to fit them into a certain predefined genre... why artificially hold your creativity back?
er.. nothing to apologize for, it was just amusing. It's more that pretty much every other day Slashdot runs a story about a product which reads like an advertisement. They even did a joke about it on April Fools day once.
It's not part of Linux itself. It's part of the shell program you choose. It is perfectly possible to use Linux, and have a shell that does not support tab completions. Also, tab completion is on by default in XP now.
Someone needs to introduce the webmaster of that site to the wonderful concept of TURNING OFF YOUR CAPS LOCK KEY. SO THE WHOLE PAGE DOESN'T LOOK LIKE THIS.
I would be a bit nervous about incremental backups, just because then if some of your earlier backed up discs fail, you are stuck. (but for the record, I use cdrs to back up stuff at work as well). I really think that tape drives are what he wants.. burning 40+ DVDs on a regular basis would become an extremely time consuming part of his job. The 5 grand would be worth it; if nothing else it would pay for itself eventually in the time saved versus backing up with DVDs.
That was me.. I posted it. It was a joke... but apparently not a very good one, because nobody got it.. The irony was that you could run Windows under Linux, but that's not a reason to switch from Windows.. meh, nevermind.
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As despicable as scamming is, it certainly doesn't warrant a death penalty. If you think it does, think about what happens when people start applying that logic to smaller and smaller crimes.
Tried it.. no luck.
What's next? ATI doing Natalie Portman/hot grits drivers?
Ssh.. that's still under NDA!
What mobo are you using? I have all but given up trying to run nvidia drivers on my Linux box, because X would hard lock after anywhere from an hour to a week. Right now I'm using the opensource, nonaccelerated nv driver..
Except that I was using the rant as evidence to support my arguments, not as the main focus of my post.
The real solution? A clean layout that showcases the ad well, delivering your ad to an audience who is actually interested, and not insulting the viewer with cheap tricks like animating nausea-inducing flashing colors. Penny Arcade has done this with its layout, and even with a smaller reader base they outperform ads from sites like IGN. To quote:
Here is another little behind the scenes look at the way advertising works on the internet. Game companies want animation. They want a fucking guy to parachute down from the top of your screen and land on the article you're trying to read. They want you to have to interact with their advertisement just so you can see the content you came for. Everyone who uses the internet knows that this kind of shit is just frustrating. Look at sites like IGN, Gamespot, or Gamespy. You can't read an article there without an animated bug crawling across your screen or some flash ad blaring shitty music. When we decided to do advertising we decided that we wouldn't ever run any kind of animated add. Some companies won't advertise with us because of it. Others, it's like pulling teeth to get a non animated ad out of them. They have this idea in their head that the only way their ads will be effective is if they are annoying as fuck.
Some of them are actually shocked when ads at PA out perform animated versions at other sites like IGN. Here we are just a little comic site and we kick their fucking ass. We tell them that if you don't insult people with shitty flash ads, they are much more likely to actually check out your game. I have never once clicked on a flash ad except to mute it or close it and I have a feeling you guys are pretty much the same. They just can't get it through their heads that people don't like to be annoyed by advertising.
I feel like we have a pretty good relationship you and I. Maybe I'm wrong but I feel like we treat you guys pretty well and I think that's why you treat us so well in return. You click on our ads and buy our stuff at an unbelievable rate. Those new Wang Fu shirts sold out in one fucking day. I mean that is some crazy shit. Tycho and I just want to say thanks. We have the best job in the world and we have it because of you guys. It seems like we should hug or something now.
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To me, at least, it seems like current ad companies are ramming their head against this big wall of how to make effective advertising, and their solution seems to be to just ram their head harder against that same wall.
Apple has done the same with their Macs for a while now. I think if the RIAA had an issue with it, they would have stopped it long before now.
What idiot modded that one "flamebait"?
Oh, I get it. "Flamebait", in this context, is just the closest available approximation to "+1 Truth Hurts".
I'd have to agree..
Who says you have to walk the genre line? Trying to create a game (RPG, in this instance) by just re-hashing everything typical about the genre is sure to get you a boring game. Some of the best games take things from all genres. Deus Ex, for example. Personally, I like to see people design games without trying to fit them into a certain predefined genre... why artificially hold your creativity back?
Yep, they're purchased with real money until someone figures out how to steal them or counterfit them.
Er, ever heard of autopatching?
er.. nothing to apologize for, it was just amusing. It's more that pretty much every other day Slashdot runs a story about a product which reads like an advertisement. They even did a joke about it on April Fools day once.
Adobe's side of the story.
Klerck primary page-widens and crapfloods.
It's not part of Linux itself. It's part of the shell program you choose. It is perfectly possible to use Linux, and have a shell that does not support tab completions. Also, tab completion is on by default in XP now.
Wow, I didn't know Slashdot was in the business of giving away free advertising... Good to know!
You're new here, aren't you?
Someone needs to introduce the webmaster of that site to the wonderful concept of TURNING OFF YOUR CAPS LOCK KEY. SO THE WHOLE PAGE DOESN'T LOOK LIKE THIS.
That's not really part of Linux.. it's part of BASH, or whatever shell you are using.
*laughs* :)
I would be a bit nervous about incremental backups, just because then if some of your earlier backed up discs fail, you are stuck. (but for the record, I use cdrs to back up stuff at work as well). I really think that tape drives are what he wants.. burning 40+ DVDs on a regular basis would become an extremely time consuming part of his job. The 5 grand would be worth it; if nothing else it would pay for itself eventually in the time saved versus backing up with DVDs.
Good point..
Use another backup medium. For example, DVD.
Um..
Data pool: 220gb
DVD: 4.7gb
DVDs needed: 47
That's a shitload of swapping to need to do for regular archival purposes.
Oh well.
That was me.. I posted it. It was a joke... but apparently not a very good one, because nobody got it.. The irony was that you could run Windows under Linux, but that's not a reason to switch from Windows.. meh, nevermind.
Uhhh.. it was a joke, in case you hadn't noticed. GG.
Plus it makes you look cool to your friends when ur flying though the command line:)
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*weeps for humanity*