You wouldn't by any chance happen to have any way of contacting Wallace would you? I'm sure many of us here at Slashdot would love the chance to call him or email him to find out about his "amazing" products, or just annoy the hell out of him, take your pick.
Although for the people that DO like to listen to FM radio, it might be interesting if the iPod could rip the streams straight to its HD for you to listen to later.
Anybody remember the days when new content for the game was released for free, and only when there was enough of it to almost qualify as a new game would the expansion packs come out. And those expansion packs actually changed gameplay significantly.
This is just another step forward towards charging people for every single little detail of the game. Thank god mods are still free because I will never pay for something like maps, which anybody can whip up in 5 minutes. And granted, this is on the Xbox, but people should not buy this and show there is not a demand to pay for every damn little detail of a game.
Because you know what comes after that? Subscription. Not just for MMORPGs, but for any game that connects to the net. You want to be able to access their servers to connect with people to play that new FPS, SUBSCRIPTION. You want that new mod which "partnered" (sold out for a few bucks) with the game company? SUBCRIPTION.
I'm well aware that it is a little tricky to track those things. I will be providing whatever data is available to advertisers, and they will need to understand that it is a new medium thats still in the Wild West phase. Some might be interested in doing something a little out there for a small investment, some might not. I'm really not asking for a lot from them so I don't think it will be that big of an issue, plus, if I set up my own tracker, I can track usage very easily.
" At least when you're playing Madden NFL 2004 you know your dad won't yell obscenities at the other team, shit on the ref's car hood after the game...."
He shit on MY car after I beat him at the game. Sore loser.
Yes it is exactly what suprnova is doing. For my senior project I'm creating a show meant to be distributed freely online using P2P methods to see how effective it can be, and suprnova is the first place i'm putting my file.
Wrong again benna. It really says a lot about you being ignorant and close minded.
No matter how you rephrase it, you still convey a message of "its crap because I don't like it". If you think about it peoples tastes dictate the state of our culture, and the majority of people have decided that reality tv is a good thing (for now).
So who is right in this situation? You or the popular vote?
Now, I personally hate reality tv as well, but the difference between you and me is that I don't go around judging people for the shows they watch, I just changed the channel.
You know, honestly I'm not so sure it turns out to be more profitable by suing the sharers.
As someone in marketing/advertising, I can't help but think of the value of the kind of press they get when they sue someone. Of course, its good because it gets their name out, but the negative value of it with their customers more than outweighs the good. In fact, I would venture to say that the negative dollar value of the bad press the RIAA receives costs them more than suing people nets them.
Of course, you also have to factor in the free advertising they get when people download a free sample and later buy the album.
Now, the problem with my logic is that unfortunately I lack dollar values to assign to these intangible things, but I think at this point they are substantial enough to factor into the equation.
Well, you understand if they were to do females accurately, they would have to portray her chest growing as she aged. How would you decide that in the game? How would you avoid pissing off a woman who wanted a bigger/smaller rack? Think of the nagging!!!!!
While you are most certainly a trolling AC, I feel you have a point worth responding to.
As we have created more "internet pollution", we have slowly, but surely, generated methods of sorting through it to find what we want. Hence the evolution of search engines up until Google today, and god knows what tomorrow.
Not only would there be mainstream ways of sorting through this, you can rest assured that since geeks would be pioneering this before average Joe ever did, and that when there was sufficient clutter, geeks would be the first to create an 1337 method of sorting through it that your elitist ass would use.
And I do find it funny how you point out that/. is for the average nerd, with nothing interesting, and you, being an "above average" nerd are still here trolling.
I was thinking the exact same thing except I also wanted to bring up the driving in I Robot.
I've been in love with the omnidirectional ball wheel system ever since I saw it in an anime, and then later read about MIT developing it. Personally, I'd like to see THAT in combination with the smart roads and the automagic cars. Heres why.
If you have smart roads, they handle the primary navigation of the cars. The cars interact with the road and fine tune things based on the cars variables and that of other cars.
HOWEVER. Unless we also build the infrastructure to cover these roads with a tunnel (like in I Robot, although I don't suspect they did this intentionally) you also have to factor in Mother Nature, and as we've been seeing recently, she can be a real bitch. The smart roads and smart cars MAY be able to deal with a bit of weather, like light rain, etc. But in order to truly be safe and have this kind of system run more predictably, we need the omnidirectional wheels that can magnetically grip the road. Ultimate on-demand traction, ultimate directional control.
P.S. If anybody has any good information resources on those spherical wheels I'm talking about, please post some info!
"I wonder how long the other big players will take to realise just how vunerable their tactics (By proxy using the RIAA) have left them to just this sort of move?"
More importantly, I wonder who will be the last company left standing who DOESN'T adopt this. It will be fun watching the executives jump out of their corner office windows.
I think what we're witnessing now is the birth of the do-it-yourself cinema for the average Joe.
All it would really take would be Maxis to team up with some experience machinima teams to guide them and they could create the ultimate home computer tv studio suite.
I realize there's a game coming out called Hollywood or something like that, but I have no idea how open ended it is. Maxis has built an EXTREMELY powerful tool with the Sims, and it really is a shame that they're still selling it as just a game. They could easily take parts of it, add some new things, and reposition it as an entirely new product, even a serious, nongame product.
Anybody know of any open source engines that are similar to the Sims?
Xvid more normal than QuickTime? I'm sorry, what planet are you from? Got news for you chief. Even though this is Slashdot, QT is INFINITELY more popular than Xvid.
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This is just another step forward towards charging people for every single little detail of the game. Thank god mods are still free because I will never pay for something like maps, which anybody can whip up in 5 minutes. And granted, this is on the Xbox, but people should not buy this and show there is not a demand to pay for every damn little detail of a game.
Because you know what comes after that? Subscription. Not just for MMORPGs, but for any game that connects to the net. You want to be able to access their servers to connect with people to play that new FPS, SUBSCRIPTION. You want that new mod which "partnered" (sold out for a few bucks) with the game company? SUBCRIPTION.
He shit on MY car after I beat him at the game. Sore loser.
No matter how you rephrase it, you still convey a message of "its crap because I don't like it". If you think about it peoples tastes dictate the state of our culture, and the majority of people have decided that reality tv is a good thing (for now).
So who is right in this situation? You or the popular vote?
Now, I personally hate reality tv as well, but the difference between you and me is that I don't go around judging people for the shows they watch, I just changed the channel.
Rule #2, innovate the actual searching, not just the organizing.
As someone in marketing/advertising, I can't help but think of the value of the kind of press they get when they sue someone. Of course, its good because it gets their name out, but the negative value of it with their customers more than outweighs the good. In fact, I would venture to say that the negative dollar value of the bad press the RIAA receives costs them more than suing people nets them.
Of course, you also have to factor in the free advertising they get when people download a free sample and later buy the album.
Now, the problem with my logic is that unfortunately I lack dollar values to assign to these intangible things, but I think at this point they are substantial enough to factor into the equation.
As we have created more "internet pollution", we have slowly, but surely, generated methods of sorting through it to find what we want. Hence the evolution of search engines up until Google today, and god knows what tomorrow.
Not only would there be mainstream ways of sorting through this, you can rest assured that since geeks would be pioneering this before average Joe ever did, and that when there was sufficient clutter, geeks would be the first to create an 1337 method of sorting through it that your elitist ass would use.
And I do find it funny how you point out that /. is for the average nerd, with nothing interesting, and you, being an "above average" nerd are still here trolling.
I was thinking the exact same thing except I also wanted to bring up the driving in I Robot.
I've been in love with the omnidirectional ball wheel system ever since I saw it in an anime, and then later read about MIT developing it. Personally, I'd like to see THAT in combination with the smart roads and the automagic cars. Heres why.
If you have smart roads, they handle the primary navigation of the cars. The cars interact with the road and fine tune things based on the cars variables and that of other cars.
HOWEVER. Unless we also build the infrastructure to cover these roads with a tunnel (like in I Robot, although I don't suspect they did this intentionally) you also have to factor in Mother Nature, and as we've been seeing recently, she can be a real bitch. The smart roads and smart cars MAY be able to deal with a bit of weather, like light rain, etc. But in order to truly be safe and have this kind of system run more predictably, we need the omnidirectional wheels that can magnetically grip the road. Ultimate on-demand traction, ultimate directional control.
P.S. If anybody has any good information resources on those spherical wheels I'm talking about, please post some info!
More importantly, I wonder who will be the last company left standing who DOESN'T adopt this. It will be fun watching the executives jump out of their corner office windows.
All it would really take would be Maxis to team up with some experience machinima teams to guide them and they could create the ultimate home computer tv studio suite.
I realize there's a game coming out called Hollywood or something like that, but I have no idea how open ended it is. Maxis has built an EXTREMELY powerful tool with the Sims, and it really is a shame that they're still selling it as just a game. They could easily take parts of it, add some new things, and reposition it as an entirely new product, even a serious, nongame product.
Anybody know of any open source engines that are similar to the Sims?