so this means, if want old fart rock, old cracked-out drug abuse rock, terrible pseudo-tomboy-genderbend-rock/R&B, deceased R&B, and one of the worst sonic abortions ever greated, i have to buy into this scheme.
this is supposed to be a difficult decision?
games on demand...
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didn't sega already do this about a decade ago with the sega channel?
Many of these articles are available online at their website Shift.com
actually, if there's anything you want off their site, you might want to get it sooner rather than later. i wrote one piece online there, and the online editor Mark Moyes recently emailed me the following:
I'm not sure how long the site will remain online after this Friday or in what form, so I encourage you all to print off any pieces you want to keep for your portfolio.
so, what's worse -
3DO's crushingly dull non-interactive FMV, or VB's nauseating color scheme?
freedom in gaming? why not RL?
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'finally gives us, the gamers, full freedom to do whatever we want to do.'
i already have something like that, though i have to walk out my front door to get to it.
seriously though, the fun in games isn't always in the AI quality. especially where they try hewing to established narrative formats with scripted beginnings, middles, and endings (a la the better Lucasarts games), enjoyment isn't based on finding something totally new and sui generis in the universe. just something new to you.
It really is too bad the media doesn't report enough on education from the technical side.
this is mostly because the majority of journalists are people with arts degrees (if any) and are most comfortable with what they know.
i mean, really, how many people decide, after sweating four or five years to get an engineering degree, to become a journalist when better paying and more challenging jobs are available?
end up in a federal "pound me in the ass" prison for quite a long time.
actually, the "pound me in the ass prisons" tend to be the state penitentaries. more violent crimes like murders, rapes, and assaults are governed by state and not federal law. a "minimum security country club" is what people also call club fed, which deals with white collar criminals.
this is how it works in Canada - however, the phrase "right" from
the right to make some personal digital copies of their music in return for allowing recording companies to collect royalties on the blank media used
wouldn't be precisely accurate in how it works up here - it's actually called "fair dealing," and it's only acceptable as a defence in court against charges of copyright infringement, like an insanity plea against murder.
of course, the fact that this levy / tax hasn't been yet extended to hard drives means that any Canadian who has MP3s of commercially released music is breaking the law, regardless of whether they purchased it before in another medium.
1: forces anyone who releases a given product to allow its distribution in a format they might, for whatever reason, deem undesirable.
2: means a regulatory body and not the market set the prices for licensing. what kind of body is going to decide how much one of britney spears' tunes is going to be worth, versus wesley willis' latest release?
Slashdot Mirror
"Spear of Destiny", the spear which stabbed Christ during the Crucifixion was in the works.
wasn't there a wolfenstein game about the same thing?
Santana, Whitney Houston, Pink, TLC and Kenny G
so this means, if want old fart rock, old cracked-out drug abuse rock, terrible pseudo-tomboy-genderbend-rock/R&B, deceased R&B, and one of the worst sonic abortions ever greated, i have to buy into this scheme.
this is supposed to be a difficult decision?
didn't sega already do this about a decade ago with the sega channel?
Many of these articles are available online at their website Shift.com
actually, if there's anything you want off their site, you might want to get it sooner rather than later. i wrote one piece online there, and the online editor Mark Moyes recently emailed me the following:
I'm not sure how long the site will remain online after this Friday or in what form, so I encourage you all to print off any pieces you want to keep for your portfolio.
so get it while it lasts.
so, what's worse -
3DO's crushingly dull non-interactive FMV, or VB's nauseating color scheme?
'finally gives us, the gamers, full freedom to do whatever we want to do.'
i already have something like that, though i have to walk out my front door to get to it.
seriously though, the fun in games isn't always in the AI quality. especially where they try hewing to established narrative formats with scripted beginnings, middles, and endings (a la the better Lucasarts games), enjoyment isn't based on finding something totally new and sui generis in the universe. just something new to you.
this is mostly because the majority of journalists are people with arts degrees (if any) and are most comfortable with what they know.
i mean, really, how many people decide, after sweating four or five years to get an engineering degree, to become a journalist when better paying and more challenging jobs are available?
strange to speak of Pooh and copyright - it's not even, strictly speaking, a Disney invention. he was made by A.A. Milne (after 1920, to boot).
still hasn't stopped Disney from making a hefty profit on it.
actually, the "pound me in the ass prisons" tend to be the state penitentaries. more violent crimes like murders, rapes, and assaults are governed by state and not federal law. a "minimum security country club" is what people also call club fed, which deals with white collar criminals.
the right to make some personal digital copies of their music in return for allowing recording companies to collect royalties on the blank media used
wouldn't be precisely accurate in how it works up here - it's actually called "fair dealing," and it's only acceptable as a defence in court against charges of copyright infringement, like an insanity plea against murder.
of course, the fact that this levy / tax hasn't been yet extended to hard drives means that any Canadian who has MP3s of commercially released music is breaking the law, regardless of whether they purchased it before in another medium.
1: forces anyone who releases a given product to allow its distribution in a format they might, for whatever reason, deem undesirable.
2: means a regulatory body and not the market set the prices for licensing. what kind of body is going to decide how much one of britney spears' tunes is going to be worth, versus wesley willis' latest release?