Its funny, these days when I think about playing the newer Final Fantasy games, especially FFX, I think of it less as a game, and more as an extremely long interactive movie. I have no doubt I'll be awed by the graphics, but it says something when I find it more enjoyable to download and watch all the CG cutscenes than to play the game.
I've said it once before, and I'll say it again, someone needs to make a web cartoon that details the SCO vs. World battle. Perhaps it could be dramatized to take place outside of a courtroom, and kind of give us visualizations for the various elements of it. I think this would be a laugh.
Perhaps it can be made using clips from Spaceballs. I don't know why, but it seems they would find all the right elements in there.
Does Slashdot pay off certain writers to write up flamebait stories like this? I mean, seriously, I'm not trying to troll, but this is like the most perfect anti-M$ story I have ever seen on Slashdot!
Oh wait, this IS M$ we're talking about, Slashdot doesn't even need to pay off a writer.
Anime fans rejoice! Seriously though, this looks a lot like the bike from Venus Wars. Not that you can tell from the crappy screenshot. But this is awesome. Can't wait till they announce the release of their 40 ft. tall mecha.
' Apple may have had their ads pulled...but look at all the free media advertizing the story generated;-)"
I was waiting for someone to pull the PR aspect of this out of the mix!
Welcome to the age where PR is becoming more credible/cost effective than advertising. It hasn't happened yet, but it will.
I work in the advertising/marketing/PR industry, and I can tell you something that I'm sure many have realized already. Advertising is losing effectiveness (thanks to spam/bannerads/popups) and is losing credibility (that's mostly the work of spam, although Leptoprin ads probably assists it). Trust me, we in the industry know that the more we throw at you, the more you ignore it. We may not ALL be geeks who know whats going on, but quite a few of us are, and we know the solution is to put out BETTER ads, and less of them.
However, there are the dumbasses, such as spammers, who are ruining it for the rest of us by saturating everybody with ads. And for now, its still profitable for them, so they keep doing it.
However, PR is evening the playingfield. PR often goes undetected, whereas advertising has laws making them state it is advertising. Also, PR tends to be a lot cheaper than buying media, and designing/producing the content for it.
Now, obviously there is bad PR, and by bad I don't mean bad publicity (like how almost all publicity is good publicity), but I mean poorly done PR. Like for example, often times I see stories posted on Slashdot that are COMPLETELY obvious PR plants. Take the recent Games section article Prince of Persia was a blatant example of a poorly done press release. You should realize Gamespot is really nothing more than a PR firm with a different company description right? Any way, you could SMELL press release on this article, and THAT is an example of when people notice a press release. Often times, with PR, if its good PR, you don't notice it.
"Now it's 2003 and they are trying to pass off a 263hp rotary without a turbo as being some earth-shaking technological achievement and all the media outlets and car mags are eating it up. "
I'd say the fact that they solved the little "engine-blowing-up-problem" with the rotary is quite an accomplishment. Its the one reason why I'm waiting for the remade RX7 to come out and not getting an old 3rd gen one.
""the average American income could increase from today's ~$35,000/y-person to more than $150,000/y-person."
Now, IANAG (I am not Alan Greenspan) but wouldn't inflation increase and negate much of the benefit of this? I'm not saying we wouldn't see SOME increase in lifestyle, but I have a hard time believing that people who live a lifestyle that $35k affords are suddenly going to be living a lifestyle that $150k affords. Or would the lifestyle's of the people currently at $150 increase proportionately? Seems kind of like the law of diminishing returns because this is solely related to power consumption.
" I wish hollywood would stop using these cheep sales tactics, afew very long stories - eg Lord Of The Rings, series - eg Harry Potter, James Bond justify having more than one film, but often they are just taking the piss knowing that people who liked the first will undoubtedly go see the second and only be dissapointed after they have paid their money."
Don't worry, with the increasing saturation of cell-phones and text messaging in our society, that is bound to stop happening sooner or later.
If this isn't one of the most blatant press releases I've seen on Slashdot, I don't know what is. They should really be marking these things as advertisements.
And this is exactly why it won't work. Content on the internet is even less reliable than content in the real world. You don't know what is going on to determine search results, and you don't know if they could put the one you want as 101 just to make you pay more. This isn't the real world where you can pick a product off the shelf and look at it.
Could this give IBM the leverage to shut down Gator? I'm not saying they would, they'd probably make them pay a license fee. But in a magical world where IBM had our best interests at heart, would this give them the legal power to shut down Gator for patent infringement? (Note: this is ignoring the 1145 other patents of IBM's that Gator infringes on, including using a button to give power to an electronic device, and using a diode to transfer electricity)
Kind of offtopic, but why do you feel it is necessary to have a referral number in your.sig? Are you actually pathetic enough to try to profit off of people clicking on your signature on Slashdot?
"Since that is not enough, you decide to pick on somebody else."
I liken this strategy to when I play Battlefield 1942, and am deep in enemy territory with nothing but an assault rifle, some grenades, my trusty pistol, and a knife. I attack everybody I can, when I run out of ammo for my rifle, I switch to the grenades. When I run out of those, I switch to pistol, and finally my knife, all the time attacking anybody I can see.
By the time I'm done, i've usually managed to take quite a few people down with me.
I don't really know how this applies to SCO, but I'm sure it is relevant in some way:)
I know there are some people out there who when they play computer games, become consumed with them with complete disregard for other more important things. However, the vast majority of the population can handle only playing a game for a little bit and getting the rest of your work done and making sure that the game doesn't interfere with your work or the office life.
Why is it then that the second some PBH sees you playing a game, do they assume you've been playing it nonstop since you got in to work? Even after you explain that you were just taking a 10 minute break?
Please Slashdotters. Should you be in a position to manage people, or should you ever rise to that position, PLEASE for the love of GOD, let people have a little recreation time, if broken up enough throughout the day, not only will it significantly increase productivity, but it will also make your underlings think you're a good boss for allowing it.
Alright, perhaps I was a little too hasty to defend Blizzard and in the process confused making good games with innovation. Do we seriously need three separate posts from three separate people to point out the exact same thing? Sheesh, I got the point already.
Slashdot Mirror
Perhaps it can be made using clips from Spaceballs. I don't know why, but it seems they would find all the right elements in there.
Oh wait, this IS M$ we're talking about, Slashdot doesn't even need to pay off a writer.
No nono! We've covered this a dozen times before. The proper term is copyright infring......oh, wait...
"Can you recommend a program,"
Linux? Ba-dum-dum.....hey, stop throwing cans at me!
I was waiting for someone to pull the PR aspect of this out of the mix!
Welcome to the age where PR is becoming more credible/cost effective than advertising. It hasn't happened yet, but it will.
I work in the advertising/marketing/PR industry, and I can tell you something that I'm sure many have realized already. Advertising is losing effectiveness (thanks to spam/bannerads/popups) and is losing credibility (that's mostly the work of spam, although Leptoprin ads probably assists it). Trust me, we in the industry know that the more we throw at you, the more you ignore it. We may not ALL be geeks who know whats going on, but quite a few of us are, and we know the solution is to put out BETTER ads, and less of them.
However, there are the dumbasses, such as spammers, who are ruining it for the rest of us by saturating everybody with ads. And for now, its still profitable for them, so they keep doing it.
However, PR is evening the playingfield. PR often goes undetected, whereas advertising has laws making them state it is advertising. Also, PR tends to be a lot cheaper than buying media, and designing/producing the content for it.
Now, obviously there is bad PR, and by bad I don't mean bad publicity (like how almost all publicity is good publicity), but I mean poorly done PR. Like for example, often times I see stories posted on Slashdot that are COMPLETELY obvious PR plants. Take the recent Games section article Prince of Persia was a blatant example of a poorly done press release. You should realize Gamespot is really nothing more than a PR firm with a different company description right? Any way, you could SMELL press release on this article, and THAT is an example of when people notice a press release. Often times, with PR, if its good PR, you don't notice it.
I would, cuz that implies that 95%+ of the slashdot crowd read the article.
I'd say the fact that they solved the little "engine-blowing-up-problem" with the rotary is quite an accomplishment. Its the one reason why I'm waiting for the remade RX7 to come out and not getting an old 3rd gen one.
Now, IANAG (I am not Alan Greenspan) but wouldn't inflation increase and negate much of the benefit of this? I'm not saying we wouldn't see SOME increase in lifestyle, but I have a hard time believing that people who live a lifestyle that $35k affords are suddenly going to be living a lifestyle that $150k affords. Or would the lifestyle's of the people currently at $150 increase proportionately? Seems kind of like the law of diminishing returns because this is solely related to power consumption.
Don't worry, with the increasing saturation of cell-phones and text messaging in our society, that is bound to stop happening sooner or later.
From what I can make out from the voices in the crowd in this video, it would appear you're the ONLY one who welcomes them.
I liken this strategy to when I play Battlefield 1942, and am deep in enemy territory with nothing but an assault rifle, some grenades, my trusty pistol, and a knife. I attack everybody I can, when I run out of ammo for my rifle, I switch to the grenades. When I run out of those, I switch to pistol, and finally my knife, all the time attacking anybody I can see.
By the time I'm done, i've usually managed to take quite a few people down with me.
I don't really know how this applies to SCO, but I'm sure it is relevant in some way :)
Why is it then that the second some PBH sees you playing a game, do they assume you've been playing it nonstop since you got in to work? Even after you explain that you were just taking a 10 minute break?
Please Slashdotters. Should you be in a position to manage people, or should you ever rise to that position, PLEASE for the love of GOD, let people have a little recreation time, if broken up enough throughout the day, not only will it significantly increase productivity, but it will also make your underlings think you're a good boss for allowing it.