They seem to think they're still in charge - Apple should show them otherwise. The first record company to pull out of iTunes should be made an example of.
That's a nice revenge fantasy, but it misunderstands who has the power. Jobs cut a deal with the devil. Now he's the recordos' bitch: if they walk, he doesn't have anything to vend. Empty iTMS makes Steve a sad, sad honcho.
The uncertain factor in this problem is the iPod. How well will it do without iTMS? Very well, for awhile, but Jobs knows how fickle and fear-driven a beast is the American consumer (*cough* SUVs *cough*). If told over and over that the music industry is beating a trail from iTMS, Joe Shopper will look at other products.
For the bad guys at the record companies, wrenching control back from Jobs means taking on both iTMS and the iPod. They can desert the store. What can they do to topple iPod, which will more and more come to seem the embodiment of their thwarted desires? Do not underestimate the scum of the earth.
Wait and see all you want. You won't buy one. People just like to bitch about something they can't have or can't afford.
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Viva La Revolucion! Buy a Mac!
The irony obviously eludes you, but sneering at someone's economic condition kind of kicks you out of the Revolutionaries' Club (while counterproductively lending Macs and Mac users a bad reputation of elitism, to boot). The phrase you want is something more like: "Viva La Oligarquía!"
Even if it was stolen from you or lost in a fire, you no longer have legal possession of it. That's not what backups are for, it's what insurance is for. Time to purchase a new copy.
You know, technically you're correct. Such are indeed the wasteful, fascistic absurdities of usage under copyright.
Philosophically, however, in your embrace of the same, you've decided to become a fire hydrant outside the dog park. It's no wonder our overlords can get away with such stupid laws when they have subjects so willing to be hosed down.
Do I want the game to be overrun with ads? No. But that's a balance the developer needs to find.
What sycophantic rubbish.
You may be willing to bow down before business and let it determine your cultural horizons. But the good people of Slashdot are saying, "No, we don't want ads in our games."
They're thinking for themselves. You're following orders.
Thanks for finding yet another way to export more jobs; screw workers; spread corporate values; and tie up IP in copyright.
Knew we could count on you. And you know you can always count on us to ignore your abuse of power. Yes, you do as you please--we'll just wave our little flags and get bent out of shape every time some gay wants to marry or somebody doesn't want their kid turned into a Jesusbot at school.
As Mencken memorably wrote, "Democracy is also a form of worship: it's the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."
I'm a confirmed trackballer, even paying highway robbery on eBay to get remaining stock of the greatest ergonomic input device of the 20th century: the original mechanical MS Intellimouse Trackball. It's so comfortable, I'd marry one if it could cook. I've hooked them up to a dozen different systems using PS/2-USB adapters. Bliss--except for the crappy roll wheels that gum up and lose traction if you so much as look at them. Microsoft had the right form factor, and should have stuck with it when they went to optics; instead they built a huge glowing glob, the Rosie O'Donnell of trackballs. Better bring mountain boots and a hefty bag.
Among all the input devices out there the Apple mouse is probably the second most comfortable I've tried, but the no-button stuff was never going to fly for me. Mighty Mouse, though... Let me at the touch-sensitive surface space on Mighty--the 2d touchpad rendered curvaciously 3d--and we might make beautiful music together.
Blocking browsers--spreading tacks on the virtual road--what is to be gained from this low-level geek terrorism? It's an anti-social stab at trying to educate, and it falls flat on its impotent ass.
This new sleazy buck-a-minute blogging trend, combined with the advancing IPTV rollout by Time Warner, will succeed in finally fulfiling a fervent right wing fantasy for the Internet.
I agree with the article, but would go further: id lost the way after Quake, its final masterpiece.
Quake succeeded because it was a hodgepodge of wild ideas--part Keen, part Doom, part Lovecraft--all undiluted by the bland design-by-committee unanimity that has subsequently marked id (and most industry) product. They went for it, following their passions and a little unsure of the destination.
Legend has it id was in a panic shortly before release when they realized the disparate elements didn't really fit together; and so the slipgate was born, allowing them to Frankenstein the whole thing together.
That happy accident will never happen again. Not at id, or elsewhere. Not in today's mega-budget corporate gaming space where accountants rule. Most games today follow Hollywood's model: carefully warmed baby food, free of impurities.
But it's wrong to speak of Quake as the past. Quake is still very much alive and in fact enjoying a dazzling new second life, thanks not only to Carmack's generosity in GPLing the engine but also to the very talented devotees whose artisty keeps it going.
Trust me on this. If you haven't played The Marcher Fortress, running on a supercharged rebuilt Q1 engine with eerie new enemies, you're in for the best single player FPS treat in years. And it's free.
A nice, protean post from Proteus, but I wish to comment only on these bits:
This is akin to getting the flu frequently, accepting that we all get sick, and paying a doctor for medication for every infection; yet, if one were to simply wear properly-warm clothing, eat balanced meals, and ensure a sufficient supply of Vitamin C, etc., one could reduce their vulnerabilities significantly.
Well said.
Critically, this is a case where the common metaphor of "illness" for computer viruses and other malware is misleading. It's wrong of us to perpetuate this view.
First, the illness metaphor leads people into the reactive "I've got to always pay to fix it" mentality that you describe above. This is far from accidental, being the foundation of the security industry.
Second, illness is inaccurate. Microsoft systems don't become "infected." Their porous, receptive design is akin to that of a sponge. Better that we say a Win XP box with viruses, trojans, adware and spyware is soggy or runny. The idea should be to do away with the healthy vs. sick dichotomy; there is no such thing as a healthy Microsoft operating system, and perpetuating this illusion has been disastrously costly to business, individuals, and government.
Why people continue to accept Windows' problems without much ire is a mystery to me.
That can't be too mysterious in a society where people willingly accept bad politicians, bad air, bad water, bad food, bad cars, bad pay, bad TV, etc.
People generally don't resist; society's message is to capitulate.
Given time and funding, this cockroach joyride could mature into deployable military technology.
Let's hope so. As it grows increasingly hard to trick Americans into volunteering for imperial wars, we're facing a serious manpower shortage.
But perhaps the answer has been staring us in the face, all along, and we've simply been a bit hasty rejecting recruits because we didn't like their antennae or their habit--in the case of these Madagascan hearties--of hissing.
I say: let the Ping Pong Ball Pilots of the Cockroach Brigades steal the world's oil for us!
No, hearsay is unfounded rumor. AnandTech is reporting the criticisms of developers. You've heard of developers, haven't you? Developers, developers, developers, developers, as a certain sweaty dude at Microsoft likes to call them.
You'd do better to reserve your skepticism for all the outlandish claims being made by Sony and Microsoft--then echoed without thought by the sycophantic gaming press, only to be embellished by fanboys. Corporate p.r. is always going to be less trustworthy that the criticisms of those who actually have to make the hardware sing.
Also, as the article stated, the platforms were designed for extensively multi-threaded games, but no one is writing games that way. So... why are they surprised that it's (supposedly) slow? If I put the bread on top of the toaster it takes a lot longer than if I put it in the slots. That doesn't make my toaster slow, though, it makes me an idiot.
Sigh. RTFA, toaster boy. They can't take advantage of the hardware's alleged multithreading capabilities because neither the 360 nor the PS3 hardware is up to the job.
If you disentangle people from the teat of majority culture, interesting possibilities arise.
Podcasting can do that.
In its small way--like blogging and posting--podcasting is helping to unplug people from the central switchboard of corporate media.
No, it's not as if this is the Enlightenment, and you have a lot of Voltaires running about beaming great thoughts into mp3 files, and suddenly we'll throw off the tentacular church and state. Someone blabbing about his day through your expensive tiny white headphones does not a revolution make.
Doesn't matter. American society is like Terry Schiavo: if you want excitement and growth, brother, you've come to the wrong vegetable. That's why anything outside of the grey, soggy, monolithic blob that constitutes our majority media is welcome at this stage--just to show people that they don't need Big Daddy Fox or Mommy MSNBC.
Podcasting removes these baleful arbiters. It shortcircuits the money power's monopoly on the conversation. It says, "Who the fuck needs a doorknob like Brit Hume, anyway?"
The early signs are promising. With each download, podcasting happily extends the trend of declining audiences for corporate media. And that is a Good Thing. The less the great obedient horde lines up for more orders, the better.
Good argument. However, little to nothing in the US justice system can be accomplished without spending a lot of money. Such is justice by and for the rich.
What is needed immediately is for a white hat to endow a fund that would pay the legal bills for patent challenges.
Elsewhere in this thread, a poster proposes using a meta-moderation system to weed out ridiculous patents. It's a sensible idea that, under our anti-meritocratic government, will never see the light of day. But such peer-based moderation, publicly established by an NGO, could be used to inform and direct the Unfair Patents Challenge Fund.
Regarding UI delays: running on a G3 iBook, the only word processor for OS X that has not produced the slightest hesitation in rendering or responsiveness is Mellel. Perhaps not coincidentally, it's also the one with the most intuitive and orderly UI--my word processor of choice.
To be sure, Mellel isn't an office suite so I'm keen to give this NeoOffice/J release a try.
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That's a nice revenge fantasy, but it misunderstands who has the power. Jobs cut a deal with the devil. Now he's the recordos' bitch: if they walk, he doesn't have anything to vend. Empty iTMS makes Steve a sad, sad honcho.
The uncertain factor in this problem is the iPod. How well will it do without iTMS? Very well, for awhile, but Jobs knows how fickle and fear-driven a beast is the American consumer (*cough* SUVs *cough*). If told over and over that the music industry is beating a trail from iTMS, Joe Shopper will look at other products.
For the bad guys at the record companies, wrenching control back from Jobs means taking on both iTMS and the iPod. They can desert the store. What can they do to topple iPod, which will more and more come to seem the embodiment of their thwarted desires? Do not underestimate the scum of the earth.
If the values are shit, you must acquit. ;-)
While the UI is somewhat cluttered, most of its features can be tamed or turned off.
I'm impressed.
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Viva La Revolucion! Buy a Mac!
The irony obviously eludes you, but sneering at someone's economic condition kind of kicks you out of the Revolutionaries' Club (while counterproductively lending Macs and Mac users a bad reputation of elitism, to boot). The phrase you want is something more like: "Viva La Oligarquía!"
You know, technically you're correct. Such are indeed the wasteful, fascistic absurdities of usage under copyright.
Philosophically, however, in your embrace of the same, you've decided to become a fire hydrant outside the dog park. It's no wonder our overlords can get away with such stupid laws when they have subjects so willing to be hosed down.
It's a feature.
It would be another thing if there had been several hundred other football games released already in our history.
But, as you say, they're stuck with just this one. Ready the suicide prevention hotlines: these sad football geeks are coming home.
If you can't beat 'em, license 'em.
What sycophantic rubbish.
You may be willing to bow down before business and let it determine your cultural horizons. But the good people of Slashdot are saying, "No, we don't want ads in our games."
They're thinking for themselves. You're following orders.
Knew we could count on you. And you know you can always count on us to ignore your abuse of power. Yes, you do as you please--we'll just wave our little flags and get bent out of shape every time some gay wants to marry or somebody doesn't want their kid turned into a Jesusbot at school.
As Mencken memorably wrote, "Democracy is also a form of worship: it's the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."
Among all the input devices out there the Apple mouse is probably the second most comfortable I've tried, but the no-button stuff was never going to fly for me. Mighty Mouse, though... Let me at the touch-sensitive surface space on Mighty--the 2d touchpad rendered curvaciously 3d--and we might make beautiful music together.
Yeah, but best of all... Since the announcement, OS X just feels snappier!
Blocking browsers--spreading tacks on the virtual road--what is to be gained from this low-level geek terrorism? It's an anti-social stab at trying to educate, and it falls flat on its impotent ass.
It can at last mutate into television.
And this is a good thing. Many of us keep PCs on hand for professional and gaming reasons. Being able to get rid of my PC?
That's value added, and enough to make me consider one of the new Intel-based machines. You can be damn sure Apple realizes as much.
Quake succeeded because it was a hodgepodge of wild ideas--part Keen, part Doom, part Lovecraft--all undiluted by the bland design-by-committee unanimity that has subsequently marked id (and most industry) product. They went for it, following their passions and a little unsure of the destination.
Legend has it id was in a panic shortly before release when they realized the disparate elements didn't really fit together; and so the slipgate was born, allowing them to Frankenstein the whole thing together.
That happy accident will never happen again. Not at id, or elsewhere. Not in today's mega-budget corporate gaming space where accountants rule. Most games today follow Hollywood's model: carefully warmed baby food, free of impurities.
But it's wrong to speak of Quake as the past. Quake is still very much alive and in fact enjoying a dazzling new second life, thanks not only to Carmack's generosity in GPLing the engine but also to the very talented devotees whose artisty keeps it going.
Trust me on this. If you haven't played The Marcher Fortress, running on a supercharged rebuilt Q1 engine with eerie new enemies, you're in for the best single player FPS treat in years. And it's free.
Forget Doom III. And unless it radically reinvents itself, forget id. Take yourself here, and enjoy the fruits of a classic that refuses to die: http://www.planetquake.com/underworld/quakereviews .html
This is akin to getting the flu frequently, accepting that we all get sick, and paying a doctor for medication for every infection; yet, if one were to simply wear properly-warm clothing, eat balanced meals, and ensure a sufficient supply of Vitamin C, etc., one could reduce their vulnerabilities significantly.
Well said.
Critically, this is a case where the common metaphor of "illness" for computer viruses and other malware is misleading. It's wrong of us to perpetuate this view.
First, the illness metaphor leads people into the reactive "I've got to always pay to fix it" mentality that you describe above. This is far from accidental, being the foundation of the security industry.
Second, illness is inaccurate. Microsoft systems don't become "infected." Their porous, receptive design is akin to that of a sponge. Better that we say a Win XP box with viruses, trojans, adware and spyware is soggy or runny. The idea should be to do away with the healthy vs. sick dichotomy; there is no such thing as a healthy Microsoft operating system, and perpetuating this illusion has been disastrously costly to business, individuals, and government.
Why people continue to accept Windows' problems without much ire is a mystery to me.
That can't be too mysterious in a society where people willingly accept bad politicians, bad air, bad water, bad food, bad cars, bad pay, bad TV, etc.
People generally don't resist; society's message is to capitulate.
Where is your sense of patriotism, Faldore?
Given time and funding, this cockroach joyride could mature into deployable military technology.
Let's hope so. As it grows increasingly hard to trick Americans into volunteering for imperial wars, we're facing a serious manpower shortage.
But perhaps the answer has been staring us in the face, all along, and we've simply been a bit hasty rejecting recruits because we didn't like their antennae or their habit--in the case of these Madagascan hearties--of hissing.
I say: let the Ping Pong Ball Pilots of the Cockroach Brigades steal the world's oil for us!
They're going to be driving our ping pong balls!
Read any good articles in Playboy lately, buddy?
You'd do better to reserve your skepticism for all the outlandish claims being made by Sony and Microsoft--then echoed without thought by the sycophantic gaming press, only to be embellished by fanboys. Corporate p.r. is always going to be less trustworthy that the criticisms of those who actually have to make the hardware sing.
Also, as the article stated, the platforms were designed for extensively multi-threaded games, but no one is writing games that way. So... why are they surprised that it's (supposedly) slow? If I put the bread on top of the toaster it takes a lot longer than if I put it in the slots. That doesn't make my toaster slow, though, it makes me an idiot.
Sigh. RTFA, toaster boy. They can't take advantage of the hardware's alleged multithreading capabilities because neither the 360 nor the PS3 hardware is up to the job.
Podcasting can do that.
In its small way--like blogging and posting--podcasting is helping to unplug people from the central switchboard of corporate media.
No, it's not as if this is the Enlightenment, and you have a lot of Voltaires running about beaming great thoughts into mp3 files, and suddenly we'll throw off the tentacular church and state. Someone blabbing about his day through your expensive tiny white headphones does not a revolution make.
Doesn't matter. American society is like Terry Schiavo: if you want excitement and growth, brother, you've come to the wrong vegetable. That's why anything outside of the grey, soggy, monolithic blob that constitutes our majority media is welcome at this stage--just to show people that they don't need Big Daddy Fox or Mommy MSNBC.
Podcasting removes these baleful arbiters. It shortcircuits the money power's monopoly on the conversation. It says, "Who the fuck needs a doorknob like Brit Hume, anyway?"
The early signs are promising. With each download, podcasting happily extends the trend of declining audiences for corporate media. And that is a Good Thing. The less the great obedient horde lines up for more orders, the better.
What is needed immediately is for a white hat to endow a fund that would pay the legal bills for patent challenges.
Elsewhere in this thread, a poster proposes using a meta-moderation system to weed out ridiculous patents. It's a sensible idea that, under our anti-meritocratic government, will never see the light of day. But such peer-based moderation, publicly established by an NGO, could be used to inform and direct the Unfair Patents Challenge Fund.
Regarding UI delays: running on a G3 iBook, the only word processor for OS X that has not produced the slightest hesitation in rendering or responsiveness is Mellel. Perhaps not coincidentally, it's also the one with the most intuitive and orderly UI--my word processor of choice.
To be sure, Mellel isn't an office suite so I'm keen to give this NeoOffice/J release a try.
Capitalization and commas are being held back for a future build. ;-)