Spectator sports often start as people watching better people to enhance their own skills.
This is huge in Gaming, demo's are available all over the internet.
There are probably enough gamers to have a show and it'll probably start with coverage of the biggest gaming events like WGC etc....
The biggest problem is these tournaments aren't a single sport, to watch for your country you would need to watch Starcraft and Counter-Strike... And that's a pretty broad spectrum.
High end video cards cost 600-700 $'s not because people are willing to pay that but because they can only get a few people to pay these outrageous prices and they give them massive profit margins.
The fact that both manufacturers NVidia and ATI do it is simply an indication that oligopolies still work (like monopolies but with co-operation. YAY!
This is part of the problem of laise fair capitalism, the system requires smart consumers and well they aren't:(
We're seeing marketting budget's skyrocket, we're seeing producers taking most of the profit not the devlopers and we're seeing most of the money being put into games based on what sells not what consumers want.
It's the same problem as the recording industry and we're going to see the same kind of backlash.
With starforce and other protection methods the cats already out of the bag but most consumers aren't playing on hacked SERVERS... yet.
Piracy is easy, but learning is hard. People take a long time to figure out how much money they're spending on music and movies that suck, it only takes one game for them to wonder what 60 chocolate bars tastes like.
There are people who pretend they finish a lot of their games but mostly they don't.
The only people finishing a majority of their games is cash starved addicted 12 year olds.
And they don't even like most of their games, Having owned several modded systems (And a Dreamcast:P) I can tell you it's a nice feeling to be able to play any game whenever you want, and that's something that systems based on free software are going to be able to offer.
Companies should find a way to offer that kind of experience.
Cinematic elements in games including scripted sequences, fmv's, in game cutscenes etc are closely parralled to the beginning of film.
They didn't know how to use the medium so they just taped plays and tried to show them in cinema's.
Game makers are using film in an interactive medium, why?
Video games are currently a mixture between classic skill and strategy games and film.
Sports became platformers, Martial arts became fighting games
Chess became things like Quake and CS (Ask anyone who's getting good)... Film has it's place there too but there are enough classic gameplay elements in other areas of entertainment that it's not necessary.
The problem isn't that the two are being combined but that the genres we have don't reflect the inherent division between passive and active entertainment.
We're going to see genre's emerge that are more tied to the area of the gamers interest and less to classic notions of genre established by film or sports.
The truth is MP3 players are just digital storage with a really really cheap decoder/encoder chip.
Interfaces are going to become more refined and they'll be standardized accross players.
Despite apples attempt to move storage towards smaller size (so they can create a product lifespan for iPods?) the cats out of the bag too many people have 60-100 gig mp3 players.
Their profit margins are going to disapear.
With iTunes they are tied to a group who loves big juicy profit margins and advertising budgets and most importantly screwing the consumer... Apple's mp3 division won't resist for too long.
You aren't dealing with nice little publishers anymore. In a lot of cases you aren't even dealing with nice little development houses.
They'll give you money and when you blow it their lawyers will tie you to a soul sucking franchise (Sports games, driving game sequels, etc [no creativity though they may be fun])... If you think people are playing a game of russian roulette where they are spending big in the hopes of making it big don't play, release smaller budget games... if that doesn't work wait for them to hit the wrong chamber...
Actually, the U.S. made a nuclear hand grenade and a nuclear artillery shell.
They have been test fired. The footage is somewhere on the internet.
I used the footage to make a music video for Underworld's - Dark Train song... it's 9 minutes long but I didn't have to repeat any footage of explosions.
Some of the footage is totally insane people standing less than 1 km from explosions...
And of course you can find the old propaganda that nuclear weapons aren't ultimate weapons....
What this means, you can't kill just your enemies soldiers. However it still remains the ultimate detterent, and if you are striving for peace that's all you need.
What the hell is wrong with people, look at the results not the personal lives of politicians.
Poster and mods make me sick.
Is their sexuality somehow dangerous to the country? Do you feel the need to desperatly elect eunuchs? If so get on that, for everyone else people are people and some of them can do the job, if they do a good job leave them to do it. If they don't replace them, if you live in the U.S. you may need a new system to determine who can do a good job the current one isn't working.
Zoom forward 20 years, a candidate is running for office.
Weblogs start showing pornography that this candidate looked at 3 years ago....
Bonus points if it's a gay/lesbian candidate.
Cue ultra conservitism.
Alternatively we can watch the U.S. trample on it's citizens rights to free information.
The best solution to child pornography is simple, put up a bunch of sites that log ips.
Once you get a certain number of hits from the same I.P. (on diffrent sites?) crack down, then you know it wasn't a misunderstanding and it's not really entrapment or illegal search (monitoring my webhabits).
It seems like the U.S. doesn't have the spine to fight back against their own government over these small issues so eventually it will be impossible for them to fight back at all.
My mother is on the board for the Toronto windmill, we get this stuff as well.
Funny complaints you can look forward to... It's noisy (Standing directly beneath it you can't hear anything)... It kills birds (Maybe 1 bird a year... It's tall)...It's ugly, matter of opinion of course but I take the bus near the windmill every week and usually people say it's nice to have some motion along the skyline.
If your country listens to such complaints then you have a problem, but we have morons saying the same silly things as well.
1. Fuzion Frenzy. 1. Project Gotham Racing. 3. NHL 2k Series 4. Jade Empire 5. Kotor 6. Halo 7. Halo 2 (just to piss you off troll) 8. Rainbow Six 3 9.Splinter Cells And you're right I can't think of any more... oh wait. Doom3, Fable etc. Eat well damn troll!
I have to agree that the PSP is an apt comparison,
1. Difficult to program for. 2. Crippled by long loading times (360 crippled by Heat Brick) 3. Poor games selection. 4. Strange media format. 5. Expensive. 6. Quite traditional in it's approach.
The 360 really strikes me as a loser, but perhaps some of the upcoming games will change that.
However AMD uses a cheaper motherboard system because of competition instead of Intels massively overpriced MOBO chipsets.
Coupled with AMD's cheaper memory (DDR is still cheaper than comparable DDR2 mainly because DDR2 was supposed to be a similar performing but lower priced successor, and because there isn't much call for enthusiast ram for Intel mobos.
If system manufacturers are "willing" to use AMD's cooler then the cost savings will be significant.
One problem is that they have been using the grey market OEM AMD processors, which saved consumers about 5-10% on any AMD processor which could be spent on a custom cooling solution.
AMD should really consider offering an OEM solution even if they are worried about counterfitting, we'd simply appreciate it too much for the cost to be a waste.
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There goes a hospital, now that money can be spent on something useful, like a small island, or a bigger TV...
Or the queen's rolls Royce...
Um paid for education?
Education which tends to spawn people like.... Google executives?
Oh and you know roads and health care....
You really don't have anyone to vote for do you?
Poor American PSP owners :(
Counter-Strike has been around for about 8-9 years with few changes.
Spectator sports often start as people watching better people to enhance their own skills.
This is huge in Gaming, demo's are available all over the internet.
There are probably enough gamers to have a show and it'll probably start with coverage of the biggest gaming events like WGC etc....
The biggest problem is these tournaments aren't a single sport, to watch for your country you would need to watch Starcraft and Counter-Strike... And that's a pretty broad spectrum.
High end video cards cost 600-700 $'s not because people are willing to pay that but because they can only get a few people to pay these outrageous prices and they give them massive profit margins.
:(
The fact that both manufacturers NVidia and ATI do it is simply an indication that oligopolies still work (like monopolies but with co-operation. YAY!
This is part of the problem of laise fair capitalism, the system requires smart consumers and well they aren't
We're seeing marketting budget's skyrocket, we're seeing producers taking most of the profit not the devlopers and we're seeing most of the money being put into games based on what sells not what consumers want.
It's the same problem as the recording industry and we're going to see the same kind of backlash.
With starforce and other protection methods the cats already out of the bag but most consumers aren't playing on hacked SERVERS... yet.
Piracy is easy, but learning is hard. People take a long time to figure out how much money they're spending on music and movies that suck, it only takes one game for them to wonder what 60 chocolate bars tastes like.
Games industry, tread lightly.
You heard me... Tax the icicles.
a computer based education?
Are there 200 games worth trying?
:P) I can tell you it's a nice feeling to be able to play any game whenever you want, and that's something that systems based on free software are going to be able to offer.
There are people who pretend they finish a lot of their games but mostly they don't.
The only people finishing a majority of their games is cash starved addicted 12 year olds.
And they don't even like most of their games, Having owned several modded systems (And a Dreamcast
Companies should find a way to offer that kind of experience.
What does it really cost Microsoft to sell their entire catalogue?
They aren't making ANY money from games they aren't selling.
Realistically for the hard DVD and box it costs them less than a dollar maybe 2 with shipping.
They need to be moving towards a system where gamers buy 200 games for $10 instead of 5-6 for 50.
Too many console gamers have only 4-5 games for their systems, and it's hitting the console makers hard because they lose money on the hardware.
Cinematic elements in games including scripted sequences, fmv's, in game cutscenes etc are closely parralled to the beginning of film.
They didn't know how to use the medium so they just taped plays and tried to show them in cinema's.
Game makers are using film in an interactive medium, why?
Video games are currently a mixture between classic skill and strategy games and film.
Sports became platformers,
Martial arts became fighting games
Chess became things like Quake and CS (Ask anyone who's getting good)...
Film has it's place there too but there are enough classic gameplay elements in other areas of entertainment that it's not necessary.
The problem isn't that the two are being combined but that the genres we have don't reflect the inherent division between passive and active entertainment.
We're going to see genre's emerge that are more tied to the area of the gamers interest and less to classic notions of genre established by film or sports.
The truth is MP3 players are just digital storage with a really really cheap decoder/encoder chip.
Interfaces are going to become more refined and they'll be standardized accross players.
Despite apples attempt to move storage towards smaller size (so they can create a product lifespan for iPods?) the cats out of the bag too many people have 60-100 gig mp3 players.
Their profit margins are going to disapear.
With iTunes they are tied to a group who loves big juicy profit margins and advertising budgets and most importantly screwing the consumer... Apple's mp3 division won't resist for too long.
you earn.
You aren't dealing with nice little publishers anymore. In a lot of cases you aren't even dealing with nice little development houses.
They'll give you money and when you blow it their lawyers will tie you to a soul sucking franchise (Sports games, driving game sequels, etc [no creativity though they may be fun])... If you think people are playing a game of russian roulette where they are spending big in the hopes of making it big don't play, release smaller budget games... if that doesn't work wait for them to hit the wrong chamber...
Then go lick up the tasty tasty publisher blood.
The fact the level has remained the same is a massive victory for the RIAA.
The way file sharing was growing with Napster and Even with Kazaa it's a wonder they didn't go out of business.
Well here's hoping someone compiles ALL free music and formats it well somewhere and they take down the RIAA.
Actually, the U.S. made a nuclear hand grenade and a nuclear artillery shell.
They have been test fired. The footage is somewhere on the internet.
I used the footage to make a music video for Underworld's - Dark Train song... it's 9 minutes long but I didn't have to repeat any footage of explosions.
Some of the footage is totally insane people standing less than 1 km from explosions...
And of course you can find the old propaganda that nuclear weapons aren't ultimate weapons....
What this means, you can't kill just your enemies soldiers. However it still remains the ultimate detterent, and if you are striving for peace that's all you need.
"download a hell of a lot faster then they would on BT"
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA
What the hell is wrong with people, look at the results not the personal lives of politicians.
Poster and mods make me sick.
Is their sexuality somehow dangerous to the country? Do you feel the need to desperatly elect eunuchs? If so get on that, for everyone else people are people and some of them can do the job, if they do a good job leave them to do it. If they don't replace them, if you live in the U.S. you may need a new system to determine who can do a good job the current one isn't working.
Zoom forward 20 years, a candidate is running for office.
Weblogs start showing pornography that this candidate looked at 3 years ago....
Bonus points if it's a gay/lesbian candidate.
Cue ultra conservitism.
Alternatively we can watch the U.S. trample on it's citizens rights to free information.
The best solution to child pornography is simple, put up a bunch of sites that log ips.
Once you get a certain number of hits from the same I.P. (on diffrent sites?) crack down, then you know it wasn't a misunderstanding and it's not really entrapment or illegal search (monitoring my webhabits).
It seems like the U.S. doesn't have the spine to fight back against their own government over these small issues so eventually it will be impossible for them to fight back at all.
You just blew my mind MOD PARENT UP!
My mother is on the board for the Toronto windmill, we get this stuff as well.
Funny complaints you can look forward to... It's noisy (Standing directly beneath it you can't hear anything)... It kills birds (Maybe 1 bird a year... It's tall)...It's ugly, matter of opinion of course but I take the bus near the windmill every week and usually people say it's nice to have some motion along the skyline.
If your country listens to such complaints then you have a problem, but we have morons saying the same silly things as well.
-SRC (some random canadian).
Sure we could do this,
1. Fuzion Frenzy.
1. Project Gotham Racing.
3. NHL 2k Series
4. Jade Empire
5. Kotor
6. Halo
7. Halo 2 (just to piss you off troll)
8. Rainbow Six 3
9.Splinter Cells
And you're right I can't think of any more... oh wait.
Doom3, Fable etc. Eat well damn troll!
I have to agree that the PSP is an apt comparison,
1. Difficult to program for.
2. Crippled by long loading times (360 crippled by Heat Brick)
3. Poor games selection.
4. Strange media format.
5. Expensive.
6. Quite traditional in it's approach.
The 360 really strikes me as a loser, but perhaps some of the upcoming games will change that.
However AMD uses a cheaper motherboard system because of competition instead of Intels massively overpriced MOBO chipsets.
Coupled with AMD's cheaper memory (DDR is still cheaper than comparable DDR2 mainly because DDR2 was supposed to be a similar performing but lower priced successor, and because there isn't much call for enthusiast ram for Intel mobos.
If system manufacturers are "willing" to use AMD's cooler then the cost savings will be significant.
One problem is that they have been using the grey market OEM AMD processors, which saved consumers about 5-10% on any AMD processor which could be spent on a custom cooling solution.
AMD should really consider offering an OEM solution even if they are worried about counterfitting, we'd simply appreciate it too much for the cost to be a waste.
Did the U.S. care about the more than 20 million people who marched world wide against the war in Iraq?
Nope... too bad you lose the "Get out of oppression free" card.
You want iSilo and a palm pilot.
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