So is this going to be one of those things that gets renewed temporarily...and then renewed temporarily again and again and again until people give in and just accept it? Cuz it sure seems like it.
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Here's another easter egg...
If the PR person for the game scores 500 more posts on news sites, they get a big bonus!
To whoever handles their marketing, if you're reading this...the sole reason why I will NEVER buy this game and will discourage my friends from getting it is because it has been overhyped and you've attempted to shove it down our throats. Gamers will always reject this kind of marketing crap, and if a game is worthwhile, we will find out about it. The same is VERY true of the opposite. If this movie-based game sucks (and from what I've heard and seen it does) then gamers will also find out about it no matter how many story submissions you get posted on Slashdot.
"But if we need to make a contradictory change, we will. It's more important that it be an excellent movie than that it be an accurate transcription of the book. Don't you agree?
I want a movie people can sit through. Two hours if possible; no more than 2.5 hours. With two hours or less, you can get two showings a night at popular showtimes. That's the studio's goal; and it's mine, too. We're not doing Gandhi, here. It doesn't need to be ponderous. It needs NOT to be. It needs to be so good that people pack the theaters - as many showings as possible . That way I have a chance of getting other movies made, too. The last thing I need is for people to say, "Ender's Game - the movie that's even slower and longer than Heaven's Gate!""
Actually I don't agree...It seems as though he's just treating this movie as an attempt to cash in on his hard work.
He is going to do whatever it takes to keep theaters packed...and that will in and of itself render it a crap movie. Something tells me the creators of Firefly didn't see that as their goal....they saw their goal as being true to their story.
And not only that, but it is very rare for executives of leading companies who are competitors to actually be mad at each other...they compete, that is the nature of the game. But they may very well be friends, and I'd be very surprised if this were the first time all three were in the same room for a social gathering.
Remember, keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
I wasn't slamming him per se. I was raising questions based on his assumed behavior about the nature of integrity as it relates to a website such as Wikipedia. Read one of my other posts in my thread and you'll see how I tie that to the Daily Show and their integrity situation.
This is great except it doesn't scale well. As soon as it gets big, they have to get more experts...and they might have trouble finding experts to do it for free. Then....how do you verify they are experts?
For some reason I don't see this as being NEARLY as large as Wikipedia, especially since it is going up against the existing giant.
But see...product placement on this particular type of show would never work as the advertisers would not want their product to be viewed in ANY negative light...and would want to influence the show to show their product favorably...thus ruining the credibility AND the quality of the show in one fell swoop.
If you think morality has no effect on the internet, I'm sure Google would love to hear you explain how their "Do no evil." credo they live by is meaningless and can't compete in todays internet.
As has been clarified, he did not break any rules, and in fact showed integrity by not hiding the fact that he edited his posts. Thank you for those who corrected my original post. However, for some reason my original point about integrity somewhat reminded me of the situation with the Daily Show...they claim they are NOT a news station, and people should take their reporting with several grains of salt...yet they also have a large percentage of viewers who take their word as truth, disclaimer or not. While they certainly do not "owe" it to their audience to maintain journalistic integrity the way CNN does...I'm sure they realize that a lot of their viewers look to them for the truth of a matter since the viewers place more trust in them than in traditional media news outlets.
Very interesting parallel despite the differences.
And if I'm an ass for not RTFA, then most of Slashdot is full of asses. Fact is, I don't know the rules of Wiki, so I went by the blurb (admittedly not the most accurate source of info in the world).
I think you're blowing miscommunication out of proportion and getting very angry at people (mods) who most likely also had the same confusion about the rules of Wikipedia as I did.
But there's not need to go cursing off myself or them...a simple correction would have sufficed.
Frankly I'm surprised you aren't modded -1 Flamebait.
This is particularly interesting because Wikipedia is in a situation where they don't want to claim any responsibility for integrity, yet at the same time this false sense of integrity is precisely what makes their site so successful.
If I were in his shoes, I'd be asking myself "what does this do to the perceived integrity of my website when I am allowed to subvert the rules simply because I created it?"
The media spins everything...so I can only hope that this FANTASTIC news which is a huge step forward for science (when taking into consideration how far back it fell when all this ID nonsense started) gets picked up by all the major media outlets and spun to be something like:
"Judge rules ID as not being science"
so the idiots in this country to get it through their heads once and for all.
While an endgame would be nice...it doesn't provide fulfillment to the customer who's now left saying: "Hmm...I had to buy a $50 game, then pay monthly fees...and now I will no longer have to pay monthly fees, but I'll be stuck with a useless $50 game."
What sort of refund is intended for the playerbase to recoup the cost of their now useless disc? If they let players run their own servers, thats one thing, but it is fairly ridiculous otherwise, and why I foresee games with subscription models eventually just offering a download option if they are smart.
Grandparent here...thanks for taking the time for writing me such an informative post. You went WAY beyond the simple answer I was expecting.
If you don't mind...I was wondering if you might answer a couple other questions I have about your industry. I wanted to email you personally but your address isn't listed...
I understand these may be fairly in depth questions so please do not feel obligated to answer...
First off...how easy and expensive is it roughly to get into the business and start developing a decently profitable site when you purchase/lease your content from the original producers? Also, how do you go about purchasing this content?
Next off...would you be able to share any numbers in terms of profits/revenue/salaries/bandwidth costs/software costs/content costs? I hear everybody talk about how profitable this industry is, but I've never seen any numbers behind this. I recognize and respect that you have a vested interest in not divulging this information, but anything you could share would be appreciated.
Lastly...as someone who's off and on considered starting a porn site (because lets face it, what guy DIDN'T think he had great ideas for one...), can you recommend any resources on the topic? Also, are there any free online industry journals/publications on the business side of things? Additionally, in terms of effort vs reward, where would you say creating your own site fits in when you purchase your content and rebrand rather than produce original work?
Again, thank you for answering my previous question, and any light you can shed on these additional ones would be most appreciated.
"Don't knock it just because you want to keep up with the Joneses."
Keeping up with the Joneses relates to all forms of materialism, not just housing. And while I read and understand your comment about having to work less but still making more, and that is great...you also seem to focus a lot on how you have more money to spend because of this...so it seems like this move is inspired in part, by your materialism...just seems that yours in particular is not rooted in having a fancy "traditional" house.
This is ISPs looking to get their cut off the unprofitable customers who suck up all the bandwidth using P2P. Their best customers are the ones who pay full price for the fast connection, but only use it for checking email, a few webpages, and maybe a little streaming content. Those customers are subsidizing the P2P users...and now the ISPs think they have their chance at making bank off the P2P users so they're going to grab it as fast as they can.
"maintaining those pay porn sites you all know and love."
Hey, this is completely offtopic I'm sure, but I always wondered, and maybe you can answer what the porn industry's take on pirating of videos from pay porn sites is. I mean, torrent sites like PureTnA and Empornium have practically EVERYTHING for free. Do you guys still rake it in hand over fist, and how do you combat the piracy...or have you noticed that it actually helps business?
No shit, its not every day an actor gets in the headlines because of how big his dick is. As if he didn't have problems getting ladies before. Now he's going to need a chastity belt to keep them off.
I actually see displays splitting down a path in the near future. On one hand we have rollable displays coming out which promise very large screens that can essentially cover entire walls. That will be great for general home computing use.
However, I think that with the new Video iPod, we finally will start seeing some mainstream applications of wearable computing in the form of a sleek Apple styled eyepiece that lets you watch video without looking at the tiny screen, since that is the primary downside of the Video iPod.
And once its an accessory for the iPod, suddenly everybody will be wearing one for general computing use (especially with wireless technology). It happened with blutooth earpieces for cellphones, it will happen with an eyepiece.
Gestures are useful for some computer tasks, and I definitely think there is a place in input devices for them, however you need to realize that the mouse is VERY good at what it does.
It is a comfortable ergonomic device that requires you to spend zero energy when you are not moving it (as opposed to holding your gesture based device still in the air) and requires minimal movement that it can then amplify, expending a minimum of energy for the desired result.
Now, interestingly enough I have a wireless "air-mouse" that I use when I'm in bed and don't want to reach over. You basically hold a button on it when you want it to pick up your cursor movements, but this can get quite confusing because depending on where you leave off, your hand/arm is in a different position, so you will never be as precise with it as you would a traditional mouse.
While I know you meant your post tongue in cheek...what will most likely happen is that the services that CAN provide good performance that does away with these problems will most likely see a large influx of transfers from bloggers...now if only there was an easy way to transfer your blog between services...
Actually, thats a pretty good question...DOES anybody know of a good way to transfer your blog between services? Especially if you want to retain your previous posts and comments?
You know...this really is great, and I don't mean to diminish this news in the least...but how much will this REALLY stop the activities of the more secretive government agencies when they really want to have their way? Sure some things may be hampered for them, but the infrastructure is now in place for them to get the info they want, and I have this feeling that they're not going to let a little legislation get in their way...I mean hell, we didn't let the Geneva Convention stop us from setting up black sites to get information when we really wanted it...what does the Senate matter to these people.
There's a HUGE difference between releasing it to paid fileplanet subscribers first, then everybody, and releasing a HIGHER QUALITY version to fileplanet subscribers and crap to the rest. I'll give you a hint, one of them can be said to be just another step in testing...the other is a pure slap in the face of gamers.
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If the PR person for the game scores 500 more posts on news sites, they get a big bonus!
To whoever handles their marketing, if you're reading this...the sole reason why I will NEVER buy this game and will discourage my friends from getting it is because it has been overhyped and you've attempted to shove it down our throats. Gamers will always reject this kind of marketing crap, and if a game is worthwhile, we will find out about it. The same is VERY true of the opposite. If this movie-based game sucks (and from what I've heard and seen it does) then gamers will also find out about it no matter how many story submissions you get posted on Slashdot.
I want a movie people can sit through. Two hours if possible; no more than 2.5 hours. With two hours or less, you can get two showings a night at popular showtimes. That's the studio's goal; and it's mine, too. We're not doing Gandhi, here. It doesn't need to be ponderous. It needs NOT to be. It needs to be so good that people pack the theaters - as many showings as possible . That way I have a chance of getting other movies made, too. The last thing I need is for people to say, "Ender's Game - the movie that's even slower and longer than Heaven's Gate!""
Actually I don't agree...It seems as though he's just treating this movie as an attempt to cash in on his hard work.
He is going to do whatever it takes to keep theaters packed...and that will in and of itself render it a crap movie. Something tells me the creators of Firefly didn't see that as their goal....they saw their goal as being true to their story.
Remember, keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
For some reason I don't see this as being NEARLY as large as Wikipedia, especially since it is going up against the existing giant.
As has been clarified, he did not break any rules, and in fact showed integrity by not hiding the fact that he edited his posts. Thank you for those who corrected my original post. However, for some reason my original point about integrity somewhat reminded me of the situation with the Daily Show...they claim they are NOT a news station, and people should take their reporting with several grains of salt...yet they also have a large percentage of viewers who take their word as truth, disclaimer or not. While they certainly do not "owe" it to their audience to maintain journalistic integrity the way CNN does...I'm sure they realize that a lot of their viewers look to them for the truth of a matter since the viewers place more trust in them than in traditional media news outlets.
Very interesting parallel despite the differences.
And if I'm an ass for not RTFA, then most of Slashdot is full of asses. Fact is, I don't know the rules of Wiki, so I went by the blurb (admittedly not the most accurate source of info in the world).
I think you're blowing miscommunication out of proportion and getting very angry at people (mods) who most likely also had the same confusion about the rules of Wikipedia as I did.
But there's not need to go cursing off myself or them...a simple correction would have sufficed.
Frankly I'm surprised you aren't modded -1 Flamebait.
If I were in his shoes, I'd be asking myself "what does this do to the perceived integrity of my website when I am allowed to subvert the rules simply because I created it?"
"Judge rules ID as not being science"
so the idiots in this country to get it through their heads once and for all.
What sort of refund is intended for the playerbase to recoup the cost of their now useless disc? If they let players run their own servers, thats one thing, but it is fairly ridiculous otherwise, and why I foresee games with subscription models eventually just offering a download option if they are smart.
(emphasis mine)
Part of me really hopes that was an unintentional typo...and part of me hopes it wasn't...god that's awesomely evil.
If you don't mind...I was wondering if you might answer a couple other questions I have about your industry. I wanted to email you personally but your address isn't listed...
I understand these may be fairly in depth questions so please do not feel obligated to answer...
First off...how easy and expensive is it roughly to get into the business and start developing a decently profitable site when you purchase/lease your content from the original producers? Also, how do you go about purchasing this content?
Next off...would you be able to share any numbers in terms of profits/revenue/salaries/bandwidth costs/software costs/content costs? I hear everybody talk about how profitable this industry is, but I've never seen any numbers behind this. I recognize and respect that you have a vested interest in not divulging this information, but anything you could share would be appreciated.
Lastly...as someone who's off and on considered starting a porn site (because lets face it, what guy DIDN'T think he had great ideas for one...), can you recommend any resources on the topic? Also, are there any free online industry journals/publications on the business side of things? Additionally, in terms of effort vs reward, where would you say creating your own site fits in when you purchase your content and rebrand rather than produce original work?
Again, thank you for answering my previous question, and any light you can shed on these additional ones would be most appreciated.
Keeping up with the Joneses relates to all forms of materialism, not just housing. And while I read and understand your comment about having to work less but still making more, and that is great...you also seem to focus a lot on how you have more money to spend because of this...so it seems like this move is inspired in part, by your materialism...just seems that yours in particular is not rooted in having a fancy "traditional" house.
Deregulation is the only way to combat this.
Hey, this is completely offtopic I'm sure, but I always wondered, and maybe you can answer what the porn industry's take on pirating of videos from pay porn sites is. I mean, torrent sites like PureTnA and Empornium have practically EVERYTHING for free. Do you guys still rake it in hand over fist, and how do you combat the piracy...or have you noticed that it actually helps business?
However, I think that with the new Video iPod, we finally will start seeing some mainstream applications of wearable computing in the form of a sleek Apple styled eyepiece that lets you watch video without looking at the tiny screen, since that is the primary downside of the Video iPod.
And once its an accessory for the iPod, suddenly everybody will be wearing one for general computing use (especially with wireless technology). It happened with blutooth earpieces for cellphones, it will happen with an eyepiece.
It is a comfortable ergonomic device that requires you to spend zero energy when you are not moving it (as opposed to holding your gesture based device still in the air) and requires minimal movement that it can then amplify, expending a minimum of energy for the desired result.
Now, interestingly enough I have a wireless "air-mouse" that I use when I'm in bed and don't want to reach over. You basically hold a button on it when you want it to pick up your cursor movements, but this can get quite confusing because depending on where you leave off, your hand/arm is in a different position, so you will never be as precise with it as you would a traditional mouse.
Actually, thats a pretty good question...DOES anybody know of a good way to transfer your blog between services? Especially if you want to retain your previous posts and comments?