While these encompass more than just the actual game itself, they do contribute to the gaming experience...heres a list of starters:
1. In-game ads that detract from gameplay. Acceptable game for placement: Gran Turismo Unacceptable: City of Heroes
2. Microtransactions. Don't nickle and dime us to death and don't scrape content that should have been in there initially *cough*horsearmorlumines*cough*
3. Grind. See WoW, EQ, and BF2142 as perfect examples of why grind sucks.
4. Limited custimization of controls. See the new Zelda on the Wii as a perfect example. I'm left handed...they just totally lost me as a customer.
5. Releasing games that should still be in beta. Too many examples to list, but I should NOT have to pay you for a buggy game.
6. Camera angles. If your game requires such precise cinematography in order to prevent me from dying constantly, make sure it doesn't make me puke, and make sure that it actually enhances the gameplay.
7. Don't charge me $60 for what is essentially a mod of your existing engine. EA, i'm looking squarely at you and BF2142 on this one.
If the screen slipped out of sync, and was thus recording Dem. votes as Rep. votes...wouldn't we be hearing from a lot of Republican voters crying out "I tried to click on the button but it wouldn't do anything"?
I've experienced this synch issue on my palm pilot, and it doesn't just affect ONE button. It affects the entire screen. Granted, its hard to discuss this without having a screenshot of what the voting screen looks like (can someone provide?), but it would seem to me that if the synch was off enough to make the Dem. button click on the Rep. button, then the Rep. button would click somewhere else entirely, which doesn't seem to be the case.
There are differences between the two projects, however. Although Ross plans to incorporate the talents and passions of the free-software community, he's building Parakey around a for-profit business model.
Ah...the classic "Get your product/service made for free and then sell it for profit" business model. Best of luck to people who work for this and don't get compensated for their time and efforts.
Compare that to what you can do with a pen. Forcing precision on the mouse action requires finer movement, greatly increases the likelyhood of unintentionally selecting something, and is generally far more stressful. This is why the users seem to get anxious and want to click. They really want to avoid this horrid new interface that, for some reason, some jackass is trying to force on them.
Funny you should mention a pen. While it uses a pencil, the new Leo Burnett website (they are one of the bigger ad agencies out there) does just this and is extremely difficult to use. What is funny is that they have been praised by many in the industry.
Recently however, Lewis Lazare, the advertising columnist for the Chicago Sun Times, a figure who's opinion is highly respected...BLASTED them out of the water in this scathing piece about their website. Of course, he addresses some other points that I definitely agree on, but the relevance is in his discussion about the interface.
And I'd just like to add....who in the hell gave Leo Burnett the right to resize my browser window? Bastards.
Oh no, not a hell storm of nerds posting anonymous comments on Internet messageboards! Anything but that!
I'm actually referring to the mass media who will be picking this story up, posting it online, and informing the unwashed masses about the situation. The internet is FAR more than anonymous nerds these days, perhaps you'd better re-evaluate your statement.
For his sake I'm glad this is getting so much coverage. Not only will it hopefully make a lot of America realize how dumb our government is, and make them realize that Democrats can be just as authoritarian as Neocons...but most importantly, it makes it near impossible for the Feds to "disappear" him because he has the media spotlight on him and the second he goes missing the entire internet will raise a royal hell storm. And that is a PR shitfest that the GOP definitely does not want to have on their hands, especially around election time.
Of course, at this point...I wonder if they even care that the public would be aware.
Well, look at it like this: because he published this, he is both an enemy combatant and a terrorist. Therefore, he has no habeas corpus protection. Therefore, they can just come around, pick him up, and toss him in some cell somewhere, and never have to tell anyone.
Except now they're in a bit of a pickle. You see, not only was his initial script huge news on the net, but now this congressman has drawn MASSIVE media attention to him. I wonder what those news organizations would do if they found out he got "disappeared". I'm sure the GOP wouldn't like the resulting media backlash.
Bingo. For example...not a single TV personality has embraced the video sharing community in the way Stephen Colbert has. While his show is good enough to stand on its own, I would argue it wouldn't be anywhere NEAR the level it is currently at without YouTube and the like.
Actually, I'd be really curious to see what Colbert's take on this action is.
I actually have a wonderful girlfriend who is as disgusted by the idea of having a real diamond as she is disgusted by the thought that other women would think she'd have a real diamond.
I understand women can be irrational (humans in general can be for that matter), but surely she sees the logical fallacy of her reasoning, and at the very least I hope you do (although I'm sure you're smart enough to never admit it to her!). Not to get into an argument, since I think this is an interesting discussion, but it doesn't seem like she gave my point much thought because rather than actually address my point, she dodges it entirely.
Well, the first couple of batches were fighter jocks, actually, hard men with extensive combat experience; but that didn't preclude them from being geeks/nerds as well.
Bingo. While they may not be COMPUTER nerds, you can be damned sure that fighter jocks are a helluva lot smarter than a large portion of Slashdot. They are all most certainly aviation/military geeks in the utmost sense, and you have to be quite sharp for the government to trust you being solely responsible for a multimillion dollar piece of machinery that can single handedly destroy buildings.
Its sad that this would never come true...but just imagine a world without the RIAA, without DRM and without greedy companies. Imagine a world where we had a player such as the iPod that allowed you to download songs off of the internet for free from P2P servers, and that would allow you to stream or share songs with people near you.
Imagine chatting with someone on the bus or airplane and sharing music with them or listening to the same thing. Imagine plugging in to a small local wireless network comprised of your train car and seeing what interesting music people had that you could add to your collection.
This sort of technology would create a cultural explosion not unlike the original birth of Napster. Suddenly music stops being something people see as existing in the nebulous internet, and starts being something that becomes a unique personal identifier (in the expression sense, not the tin foil hat sense) that is as noticable and almost as visible (thanks to people being connected to their iPods 24/7) as your clothing.
Just out of curiosity, is it illegal for a company to create a music player that just plays MP3s and allows this sort of transfer? If they don't actually sell songs like Apple, is there something in the DMCA or some such law that prevents them from adding this functionality?
Actually yes, I could help but love a woman who got off on the fact that other women were jealous of her because they thought she had a diamond that children died for.
Seriously, you're missing my point...its not about the actual cost of the ring, its the fact that she is being hypocritical by not wanting a real diamond, but simultaneously perpetuating the status-quo and making other women want real diamonds.
I'd be really curious what her response would be if she read my post.
Your information is correct, although it makes me wonder why there hasn't been any torrent sites that specialize in sheet music. Surely there would be a sizeable user base for such a thing.
The same time that the marketing, advertising and media industries sprung into existence. I'm in advertising, and it is a commonly used term to quickly refer to the amount of money someone has spent on a buy (short for a media buy). Bet you didn't know "buy" was a noun either!
In proper english your assumption would be correct, but this is industry jargon so it is the exception.
Women, well at least my wife, don't necessarily want natural diamonds. They want to feel special and see the look of jealousy on the faces of other women. Having said that, there are always the snooty girls who won't wear anything other than a natural diamond. The're usually the ones who will leave you because their new man has a bigger house, better car, and bigger bank ballance than you.
I don't mean this as an attack...but don't you think your wife is being a bit hypocritical? She doesn't want you to buy her a real diamond because she knows where they come from...yet she wants other women to THINK you bought her a diamond paid for in children's blood? That seems a bit fucked up to me personally. Now if the other women all gawked and got jealous and then your wife explained her reason for not wanting a real one, that would be one thing. But it seems to me that by reveling in the jealousy of other women and playing in to it, she is perpetuating the desire for natural blood diamonds.
You shouldn't marry fucking retards who think a 'real diamond' is better.
Correction: You shouldn't marry fucking retards who think a 'real diamond' is better PROVIDED they have been educated about the evils of DeBeers. The vast majority of women don't have a fucking clue that these are blood diamonds, or what a blood diamond even is. All they know is they want a status symbol that proves their man spends the big bucks on them.
So before you propose to her, make sure you teach her about DeBeers, and guage her reaction. If she still wants a real diamond, THEN tell her to go find a guy who supports the suffering of others to provide her with one.
Gnome rogues are an interesting exception. A lot of people roll gnome rogues due to how friggin hard they are to hit in PVP due to their size. They easily get lost in large crowds.
That's the sound of the WoW playerbase not giving a damn and picking whatever race gives them the best bonuses for their class. While I love Kotaku, this honestly strikes me as one of the whiniest posts I've ever read on there. Boo hoo, Blizzard "nerfed" the character model by making it buffer. While I think its high time Blizzard enable characters to alter more of their physical appearance similar to City of Heroes, I have to wonder...is this really worth posting on the front page of Slashdot?
My quibble was more with how you phrased your post, and less about the actual context. If you wanted to give some facts, that is fine, but your statement was not one that proved anything.
Let me ask you something...which do you think makes them more money...
Option A: Require people who want to opt-in to receive the channels to pay the fee.
or...
Option B: Require EVERYBODY to pay the fee, and if they don't watch TV, they have to go through a very inconvenient step and to notify them and are continually hassled. Plus the fact that many people are not educated enough to realize they can opt-out.
Which means it will cost $1000-$2000 just for CPUs and motherboard. AMD's and Intel's quad cores will cost a grand also, which limits all of this to people with more money than sense.
This is called an "early-adopter price". You see, there ARE people with a lot of money...and contrary to your statement, they may, and probably do have plenty of sense, they just have more disposable income than you. They buy these when they first come out, and a year or two down the line when they are buying the next hottest toy on the market, companies will be forced to drop the prices on this bad boy so that the rest of us can afford it.
Don't bitch about the price of this just because you're jealous you can't afford it. Just realize that that is how the market works.
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1. In-game ads that detract from gameplay. Acceptable game for placement: Gran Turismo Unacceptable: City of Heroes
2. Microtransactions. Don't nickle and dime us to death and don't scrape content that should have been in there initially *cough*horsearmorlumines*cough*
3. Grind. See WoW, EQ, and BF2142 as perfect examples of why grind sucks.
4. Limited custimization of controls. See the new Zelda on the Wii as a perfect example. I'm left handed...they just totally lost me as a customer.
5. Releasing games that should still be in beta. Too many examples to list, but I should NOT have to pay you for a buggy game.
6. Camera angles. If your game requires such precise cinematography in order to prevent me from dying constantly, make sure it doesn't make me puke, and make sure that it actually enhances the gameplay.
7. Don't charge me $60 for what is essentially a mod of your existing engine. EA, i'm looking squarely at you and BF2142 on this one.
I've experienced this synch issue on my palm pilot, and it doesn't just affect ONE button. It affects the entire screen. Granted, its hard to discuss this without having a screenshot of what the voting screen looks like (can someone provide?), but it would seem to me that if the synch was off enough to make the Dem. button click on the Rep. button, then the Rep. button would click somewhere else entirely, which doesn't seem to be the case.
Ah...the classic "Get your product/service made for free and then sell it for profit" business model. Best of luck to people who work for this and don't get compensated for their time and efforts.
Funny you should mention a pen. While it uses a pencil, the new Leo Burnett website (they are one of the bigger ad agencies out there) does just this and is extremely difficult to use. What is funny is that they have been praised by many in the industry.
Recently however, Lewis Lazare, the advertising columnist for the Chicago Sun Times, a figure who's opinion is highly respected...BLASTED them out of the water in this scathing piece about their website. Of course, he addresses some other points that I definitely agree on, but the relevance is in his discussion about the interface.
And I'd just like to add....who in the hell gave Leo Burnett the right to resize my browser window? Bastards.
No seriously...if anybody from Alienware is reading this...I WILL GIVE YOU GOOD REVIEWS. I need a laptop BTW.
I'm actually referring to the mass media who will be picking this story up, posting it online, and informing the unwashed masses about the situation. The internet is FAR more than anonymous nerds these days, perhaps you'd better re-evaluate your statement.
Of course, at this point...I wonder if they even care that the public would be aware.
Except now they're in a bit of a pickle. You see, not only was his initial script huge news on the net, but now this congressman has drawn MASSIVE media attention to him. I wonder what those news organizations would do if they found out he got "disappeared". I'm sure the GOP wouldn't like the resulting media backlash.
Actually, I'd be really curious to see what Colbert's take on this action is.
I understand women can be irrational (humans in general can be for that matter), but surely she sees the logical fallacy of her reasoning, and at the very least I hope you do (although I'm sure you're smart enough to never admit it to her!). Not to get into an argument, since I think this is an interesting discussion, but it doesn't seem like she gave my point much thought because rather than actually address my point, she dodges it entirely.
Bingo. While they may not be COMPUTER nerds, you can be damned sure that fighter jocks are a helluva lot smarter than a large portion of Slashdot. They are all most certainly aviation/military geeks in the utmost sense, and you have to be quite sharp for the government to trust you being solely responsible for a multimillion dollar piece of machinery that can single handedly destroy buildings.
Imagine chatting with someone on the bus or airplane and sharing music with them or listening to the same thing. Imagine plugging in to a small local wireless network comprised of your train car and seeing what interesting music people had that you could add to your collection.
This sort of technology would create a cultural explosion not unlike the original birth of Napster. Suddenly music stops being something people see as existing in the nebulous internet, and starts being something that becomes a unique personal identifier (in the expression sense, not the tin foil hat sense) that is as noticable and almost as visible (thanks to people being connected to their iPods 24/7) as your clothing.
Just out of curiosity, is it illegal for a company to create a music player that just plays MP3s and allows this sort of transfer? If they don't actually sell songs like Apple, is there something in the DMCA or some such law that prevents them from adding this functionality?
Seriously, you're missing my point...its not about the actual cost of the ring, its the fact that she is being hypocritical by not wanting a real diamond, but simultaneously perpetuating the status-quo and making other women want real diamonds.
I'd be really curious what her response would be if she read my post.
The same time that the marketing, advertising and media industries sprung into existence. I'm in advertising, and it is a commonly used term to quickly refer to the amount of money someone has spent on a buy (short for a media buy). Bet you didn't know "buy" was a noun either!
In proper english your assumption would be correct, but this is industry jargon so it is the exception.
I don't mean this as an attack...but don't you think your wife is being a bit hypocritical? She doesn't want you to buy her a real diamond because she knows where they come from...yet she wants other women to THINK you bought her a diamond paid for in children's blood? That seems a bit fucked up to me personally. Now if the other women all gawked and got jealous and then your wife explained her reason for not wanting a real one, that would be one thing. But it seems to me that by reveling in the jealousy of other women and playing in to it, she is perpetuating the desire for natural blood diamonds.
Correction: You shouldn't marry fucking retards who think a 'real diamond' is better PROVIDED they have been educated about the evils of DeBeers. The vast majority of women don't have a fucking clue that these are blood diamonds, or what a blood diamond even is. All they know is they want a status symbol that proves their man spends the big bucks on them.
So before you propose to her, make sure you teach her about DeBeers, and guage her reaction. If she still wants a real diamond, THEN tell her to go find a guy who supports the suffering of others to provide her with one.
That's the sound of the WoW playerbase not giving a damn and picking whatever race gives them the best bonuses for their class. While I love Kotaku, this honestly strikes me as one of the whiniest posts I've ever read on there. Boo hoo, Blizzard "nerfed" the character model by making it buffer. While I think its high time Blizzard enable characters to alter more of their physical appearance similar to City of Heroes, I have to wonder...is this really worth posting on the front page of Slashdot?
How did this get modded up at all?! Correlation does not equal causation.
Option A: Require people who want to opt-in to receive the channels to pay the fee.
or...
Option B: Require EVERYBODY to pay the fee, and if they don't watch TV, they have to go through a very inconvenient step and to notify them and are continually hassled. Plus the fact that many people are not educated enough to realize they can opt-out.
This is called an "early-adopter price". You see, there ARE people with a lot of money...and contrary to your statement, they may, and probably do have plenty of sense, they just have more disposable income than you. They buy these when they first come out, and a year or two down the line when they are buying the next hottest toy on the market, companies will be forced to drop the prices on this bad boy so that the rest of us can afford it.
Don't bitch about the price of this just because you're jealous you can't afford it. Just realize that that is how the market works.