Step 4: They give up, copyright is drastically reformed, and a new economic model emerges
Who wants to put money on subscription based online gaming being the dominant model within 5-10 years ? Dynamic content, evolving technology and story. Tonnes of other stuff. It's gonna be a sea change but it's gonna come.
Either that or developers stop getting ripped of by the publishers and start finding other means of distribution. Who always get the biggest bonuses when the product ships ? Who worked 12 hour days for 6 months to get it shipped. Never the same guys.
And by the way.. anyone who thinks it's a bunch of 14 year old kids cracking games these days is *way* off.
This is exactly right. Games programmers are payed *nothing* in comparison to commercial coder and have to spend ludicrous hours at work every time the next milestone is approaching. I spent 3 years in the industry and quickly got fed up with the feeling that I was basically being taken advantage of because I wanted to write games.
Whatever else is said, there's also a lot of very poor programmers in the games industry. I mean poor as is in the sense of being able to work succesfully on a complex, large scale project as opposed to a technology demo. But I guess that's true of many areas of the industry right now.
They left it standing for a couple of days.. radio went, tires got nicked, seats were stripped, fairings and engine were scavenged and then the whole thing was set alight and sank 'cause the bricks it was jacked up on couldn't spread the weight well enough on that boggy ground..
Someone correct me if I'm wrong but the EHCR has absolutely no power to intervene in a member states criminal process unless a human rights abuse is alleged. At this moment I don't believe they consider the succesful prosecution of a criminal to be an infringement on those rights. They also have no power to alter sentencing.
Stats presented above showed you are 3 three times more likely to get raped in NYC than in London. Where did the ability to dispense lethal force help out there ?
America is just basically a much more brutal and violent society than than the rest of the civilised world.
Gun ownership may be part of this.. it's every man for himself culture is, I suspect, a more significant factor. Access to healthcare and education throughout life removes the desperation that seems to purvey whole sections of American society. The lower socio-economic classes in the States have no real means out of bad situation other than catching a lucky break, years of backbreaking grind to even start to get ahead or picking up a gun and taking by force what they want from people who, to them, seem to have got it for less effort than would be required of them.
They have to play the PR game to bolster public support for their publicly provided revenue.
I mean.. they've got to compete with a public who might rather see their tax dollars spent on cool bombs and stuff with cameras in the nose so they can watch people die on the 6'o'clock than stuff which might actually lead to the discovery of life on other planets.
I'd actually argue that as long as 5-10% of science funding goes towards feeding the public fantastic 'revelations' then the absolute size of the other 90% is far more likely to become and stay large.
Giving the public something to capture their imaginations is a far lesser crime than allowing the majority of science resource in this day and age (admittedly not public money) to be frittered away on 'curing' dandruff, limp hair and stubborn stains.
Centralised, organised world research council. NOW !!
Seems ST fans are split into two camps. Those sexless beasts who think NG and DS9 were anything but boring, blunt edged morality lessons and those of us who preferred the edgier, we're not perfect but we're trying approach of Voyager and Enterprise.
I really think it's time ST was rethought for the 21st century.. give us real, imperfect people and real moral dilemmas.. let's see more of what the universe is really like 'out there' instead of having to watch the dry antics of a bunch of boy scouts and diplomats.
More Janeway, Trip, Archer, T'Pol, Chakotay, Kirk, Bones, Barclay... less Picard, Riker, Guinan.
And without the Nazis we wouldn't have had rocketry..
And without a bunch of hungarian, polish, danish, english, french, german, austrian, swedish, norwegian, dutch, spanish, portugese, greek, russian, italian, chinese, japanese and yes.. even some american.. we wouldn't have had the imagination, skill, talent or money to do anything with it all...
For christs sake stop crying just 'cause someone suggested you might not be winning at something.. it's embarrassing.
Slashdot Mirror
Precisely what everyone's been arguing for in over the last 20 years..
So, like, maybe it's *not* the best way to run an country...
Would be a better way of gaterhing the data..
http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/t_o_b_e/
I'll second that... but it might just be a brit thing..
Hey Mr Pharmacist..
What about running Linux natively as a service on your Window box:
http://www.colinux.org/
Step 4: They give up, copyright is drastically reformed, and a new economic model emerges
Who wants to put money on subscription based online gaming being the dominant model within 5-10 years ? Dynamic content, evolving technology and story. Tonnes of other stuff. It's gonna be a sea change but it's gonna come.
Either that or developers stop getting ripped of by the publishers and start finding other means of distribution. Who always get the biggest bonuses when the product ships ? Who worked 12 hour days for 6 months to get it shipped. Never the same guys.
And by the way.. anyone who thinks it's a bunch of 14 year old kids cracking games these days is *way* off.
An intelligent, mature post on Slashdot ?
Surely some mistake. I don't have mod points at the moment, Sir/Madam, but if I did I'd be attempting to give them all to you.
1 kilo = 2.2 pounds (lb).
Blame the English..
This is exactly right. Games programmers are payed *nothing* in comparison to commercial coder and have to spend ludicrous hours at work every time the next milestone is approaching. I spent 3 years in the industry and quickly got fed up with the feeling that I was basically being taken advantage of because I wanted to write games.
Whatever else is said, there's also a lot of very poor programmers in the games industry. I mean poor as is in the sense of being able to work succesfully on a complex, large scale project as opposed to a technology demo. But I guess that's true of many areas of the industry right now.
They left it standing for a couple of days.. radio went, tires got nicked, seats were stripped, fairings and engine were scavenged and then the whole thing was set alight and sank 'cause the bricks it was jacked up on couldn't spread the weight well enough on that boggy ground..
For a minute I thought it said 'Dark Angel'..
"European courts can overrule UK courts"
Someone correct me if I'm wrong but the EHCR has absolutely no power to intervene in a member states criminal process unless a human rights abuse is alleged. At this moment I don't believe they consider the succesful prosecution of a criminal to be an infringement on those rights. They also have no power to alter sentencing.
But this is absurd...
Stats presented above showed you are 3 three times more likely to get raped in NYC than in London. Where did the ability to dispense lethal force help out there ?
America is just basically a much more brutal and violent society than than the rest of the civilised world.
Gun ownership may be part of this.. it's every man for himself culture is, I suspect, a more significant factor. Access to healthcare and education throughout life removes the desperation that seems to purvey whole sections of American society. The lower socio-economic classes in the States have no real means out of bad situation other than catching a lucky break, years of backbreaking grind to even start to get ahead or picking up a gun and taking by force what they want from people who, to them, seem to have got it for less effort than would be required of them.
They have to play the PR game to bolster public support for their publicly provided revenue.
I mean.. they've got to compete with a public who might rather see their tax dollars spent on cool bombs and stuff with cameras in the nose so they can watch people die on the 6'o'clock than stuff which might actually lead to the discovery of life on other planets.
Why is it bad news for the brits.. it's good news for everyone. Science is not a competitive pursuit.. it's a collaborative one.
I'd actually argue that as long as 5-10% of science funding goes towards feeding the public fantastic 'revelations' then the absolute size of the other 90% is far more likely to become and stay large.
Giving the public something to capture their imaginations is a far lesser crime than allowing the majority of science resource in this day and age (admittedly not public money) to be frittered away on 'curing' dandruff, limp hair and stubborn stains.
Centralised, organised world research council. NOW !!
It was actually the ESA that released this data... and it's actually a very big deal.
.. but that just opinion.
Seems ST fans are split into two camps. Those sexless beasts who think NG and DS9 were anything but boring, blunt edged morality lessons and those of us who preferred the edgier, we're not perfect but we're trying approach of Voyager and Enterprise.
I really think it's time ST was rethought for the 21st century.. give us real, imperfect people and real moral dilemmas.. let's see more of what the universe is really like 'out there' instead of having to watch the dry antics of a bunch of boy scouts and diplomats.
More Janeway, Trip, Archer, T'Pol, Chakotay, Kirk, Bones, Barclay... less Picard, Riker, Guinan.
But what might they acheive if they collaborated ?
And thirdly there's no way the public would get to here their last cries for help...
Incidentally...
Please vote against this sort of thing at every opportunity you get.
> "Theoretically it will not stop until an equilibrium is reached and the U.S. standard of living is equal to the African standard of living."
Or vice versa.. is that so bad... ??
> "editorial policy that rewards knee-jerk jingoism"
The funny thing is don't even think you know what you did there...
Yes it is.. get a life you dick... or are you just complaining in your own linguistically challenged way that he didn't say 'american' overlords ?
And without the Nazis we wouldn't have had rocketry..
And without a bunch of hungarian, polish, danish, english, french, german, austrian, swedish, norwegian, dutch, spanish, portugese, greek, russian, italian, chinese, japanese and yes.. even some american.. we wouldn't have had the imagination, skill, talent or money to do anything with it all...
For christs sake stop crying just 'cause someone suggested you might not be winning at something.. it's embarrassing.
The feeling's reciprocated.. I'm British, European & Commonwealth citizen and my personal feeling is that we can well do without people like you...
What a fucking grouch...