that last paragraph is hilarious. the Olympic budget has already tripled.
If people want more of us to take up sports, run some ad campaigns, they would be less than 1% of the Olympic cost. Or better still, regulate our food better so we don't all eat junk crap and have an obesity problem that means we all need to take up sports in the first place.
the Olympics is a great way for coca cola to advertise. They don't get that opportunity with stuff like schools and research. yes, its fucking disgraceful, and the Olympics should be cancelled. Let some other gullible country blow its money on a glorified sports day for world leaders.
2D games are often cheaper to make, which means that you can make more niche games that wouldn't be justified with a big team of modellers and artists and a 3D engine. republic: The revolution was a political strategy game (niche) that took about 50 people 5 years to make and cost millions (I worked at Elixir). On the other hand I made Democracy on my own in under a year, purely by doing away with the (largely irrelevant) 3D world and going back to a 2D style of gameplay. This means that Democracy made a profit (and got a sequel) and Elixir went bankrupt.
If people are happier to accept that 2D games can be fun, you would see a lot more low budget, indie developed games for the PC, rather than just triple-A shoddy 3D console ports and yet another WW2 FPS. This can only be a good thing.
"done some valuable work at some point, and then sit around and collect money for the rest of your life."
This always bugs me. It's not like there is a major world problem that people who create something that sells lots then sit on their ass and do no more work. In fact, I'd say the opposite is true. J K Rowling could have quit writing after book 1, but didn't. Most big name pop bands could retire after their first hit album. Spielberg and Lucas could have retired after their first big movies (American graffiti and Jaws).
When people make a lot of money from royalties, they very often will plough that money into doing it again, only bigger and better next time. Lucas spent every penny of his American Graffiti money to make Star Wars. Then he took all the SW money and used it to try and self-fund Empire, and cut out the movie studio.
People often say that those who work for royalties "sit around and collect money when doing nothing" Those same people are the ones taking a daily wage for all those years when those royalty guys worked their asses off for zero salary, to try and get to that point.
If working for royalties is such a meal ticket, why doesn't everyone quit their job and start their own business?
I don't begrudge anyone earning royalties of any sort. if you can live off your royalties, you created one hell of an awesome product and likely made a lot of people very happy.
Nope, it's called backwards compatibility. As a coder, it's a real bitch. Lifes so much easier when you can start from scratch. I'm glad they are delaying it, it seems that browser updates happen way too often as it is. As most people are only using the basic features of their browser, they probably wonder why the hell they need a new version so often
I don't vaguely support the RIAA or MPAA, I think they are ignorant, short-term thinking assholes who deserve nothing but contempt. I just think that advocating slashing the tires of people who work for the RIAA is juvenile, and dangerous and should not be supported by anyone, let alone a lawyer.
wow, you are so delusional you think anyone who disagrees with you must work for a record company. What a prick.
I make a living making original stuff. You make a living from charging people who get caught stealing music to defend their hopeless cause against record companies. I know who I'd rather be.
so you will take to the streets violently because of getting caught stealing music, but won't even raise a finger to solve the problems with health care or the economy?
nice priorities kid.
Interesting to see so many slashdotters advocating violence against corporations.
oh grow up. You advocate vandalising the cars of RIAA employees? Or do you condemn it? I notice that you do not. Please say you do, it will expose you for the rabid foaming fanatic we know you to be.
Don't try and assume everyone agrees with you. personally I consider you to be an ambulance chasing jerk.
Wow. So you disagree with a companies attitude to copyright, so you want to vandalize their employees cars. What next? How about cutting the brake cables? How about sending them letter bombs?
Get a grip. It's attitudes like yours which make everyone who opposes the RIAA look like a criminal jerk. Tbh, faced with people who want to prosecute file-sharers on one side, and lunatics who want to vandalize peoples cars on the other, I'd side with the RIAA, and so would 99% of people.
Only on slashdot is such extremist bullshit modded up. Attitudes like yours are dangerous and shameful.
So you want the production of movies, TV, music and video games to be restructed to the tastes of the super-rich who would be able to fund such things?
How strange.
Amazingly, the free market does an extremely good job of providing what ordinary people want. Not surprisingly, the people whining the loudest about all media being crap are those who pirate everything, and thus are no longer participating in the free market, and thus not encouraging anyone to make anything they actually would like.
when I'm on holiday, I don't appreciate being fingerprinted and photographed by people with guns.
I'd expect it in Libya, but not a 'free' country. I recently went on holiday to new Zealand. On the stopover in the USA I got the fingerprint treatment, and made to feel like a prisoner, despite the fact I didn't even leave the single room in the airport for transit passengers whose plane is refuelling.
That stopover was a wonderful marketing opportunity for the USA to say "Come to the USA! Spend your tourist money here! Enjoy the USA!" Instead, it felt like a prison visit.
When i got to NZ, they didn't fingerprint me or photograph me at all.
Based on this, I'll go on holiday to NZ again to relax, but not to the US. The US just lost my tourism cash. Nice work guys.
what has prosecuting people for copyright infringement got to do with democracy?
have the students been denied the right to vote? If not, what the hell are you doing trying to claim that democracy is under attack because some students get caught doing something they knew was illegal.
When people equate being fined for copyright infringement to an attack on democracy and fascism, I wonder what they would have to say if they had been around during their parents time, when people knew the real meaning of fascism and authoritarianism. get some perspective FFS.
people buy word to write documents. Nobody tells them what documents to write. 99.999999% of mankind has no problems with what they can do with Microsoft word. Only incredibly anal hippies like RMS get their panties in a twist over it.
you clearly don't, but then clearly you don't give a fuck about other people. yay for you. Some people actually give a toss about others, including those that entertain them or make stuff they find helpful. Your attitude means you probably don't know anyone that nice.
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agreed 100%. I wish we had never got this glorified sports day / coca cola marketing conference.
that last paragraph is hilarious. the Olympic budget has already tripled.
If people want more of us to take up sports, run some ad campaigns, they would be less than 1% of the Olympic cost.
Or better still, regulate our food better so we don't all eat junk crap and have an obesity problem that means we all need to take up sports in the first place.
the Olympics is a great way for coca cola to advertise. They don't get that opportunity with stuff like schools and research.
yes, its fucking disgraceful, and the Olympics should be cancelled. Let some other gullible country blow its money on a glorified sports day for world leaders.
how about if my daddy leaves his million pound house to me. I can rent out 4 of the 8 rooms and sit on my ass all my life.
Whats the difference?
2D games are often cheaper to make, which means that you can make more niche games that wouldn't be justified with a big team of modellers and artists and a 3D engine.
republic: The revolution was a political strategy game (niche) that took about 50 people 5 years to make and cost millions (I worked at Elixir). On the other hand I made Democracy on my own in under a year, purely by doing away with the (largely irrelevant) 3D world and going back to a 2D style of gameplay.
This means that Democracy made a profit (and got a sequel) and Elixir went bankrupt.
If people are happier to accept that 2D games can be fun, you would see a lot more low budget, indie developed games for the PC, rather than just triple-A shoddy 3D console ports and yet another WW2 FPS.
This can only be a good thing.
"done some valuable work at some point, and then sit around and collect money for the rest of your life."
This always bugs me. It's not like there is a major world problem that people who create something that sells lots then sit on their ass and do no more work. In fact, I'd say the opposite is true. J K Rowling could have quit writing after book 1, but didn't. Most big name pop bands could retire after their first hit album. Spielberg and Lucas could have retired after their first big movies (American graffiti and Jaws).
When people make a lot of money from royalties, they very often will plough that money into doing it again, only bigger and better next time. Lucas spent every penny of his American Graffiti money to make Star Wars. Then he took all the SW money and used it to try and self-fund Empire, and cut out the movie studio.
People often say that those who work for royalties "sit around and collect money when doing nothing"
Those same people are the ones taking a daily wage for all those years when those royalty guys worked their asses off for zero salary, to try and get to that point.
If working for royalties is such a meal ticket, why doesn't everyone quit their job and start their own business?
I don't begrudge anyone earning royalties of any sort. if you can live off your royalties, you created one hell of an awesome product and likely made a lot of people very happy.
Nope, it's called backwards compatibility. As a coder, it's a real bitch. Lifes so much easier when you can start from scratch.
I'm glad they are delaying it, it seems that browser updates happen way too often as it is. As most people are only using the basic features of their browser, they probably wonder why the hell they need a new version so often
I don't vaguely support the RIAA or MPAA, I think they are ignorant, short-term thinking assholes who deserve nothing but contempt. I just think that advocating slashing the tires of people who work for the RIAA is juvenile, and dangerous and should not be supported by anyone, let alone a lawyer.
you think the RIAA are 'terrorists'?
get a fucking grip.
Go to Israel or Baghdad and live there for 6 months. Then tell me that companies that prosecute bit-torrent users are 'terrorists'.
The mentality here is scary.
when you say participate, you mean steal copyrighted content right?
If not, what is the problem?
wow, you are so delusional you think anyone who disagrees with you must work for a record company.
What a prick.
I make a living making original stuff. You make a living from charging people who get caught stealing music to defend their hopeless cause against record companies.
I know who I'd rather be.
You make Jack Thompson look like a real lawyer.
so you will take to the streets violently because of getting caught stealing music, but won't even raise a finger to solve the problems with health care or the economy?
nice priorities kid.
Interesting to see so many slashdotters advocating violence against corporations.
oh grow up. You advocate vandalising the cars of RIAA employees? Or do you condemn it? I notice that you do not.
Please say you do, it will expose you for the rabid foaming fanatic we know you to be.
Don't try and assume everyone agrees with you. personally I consider you to be an ambulance chasing jerk.
who works for the corporations? space monsters?
oh no, that's right the EVIL CORPORATIONS are the ones that pay everyone at the end of the month...
Wow.
So you disagree with a companies attitude to copyright, so you want to vandalize their employees cars.
What next? How about cutting the brake cables? How about sending them letter bombs?
Get a grip. It's attitudes like yours which make everyone who opposes the RIAA look like a criminal jerk.
Tbh, faced with people who want to prosecute file-sharers on one side, and lunatics who want to vandalize peoples cars on the other, I'd side with the RIAA, and so would 99% of people.
Only on slashdot is such extremist bullshit modded up. Attitudes like yours are dangerous and shameful.
So you want the production of movies, TV, music and video games to be restructed to the tastes of the super-rich who would be able to fund such things?
How strange.
Amazingly, the free market does an extremely good job of providing what ordinary people want. Not surprisingly, the people whining the loudest about all media being crap are those who pirate everything, and thus are no longer participating in the free market, and thus not encouraging anyone to make anything they actually would like.
when I'm on holiday, I don't appreciate being fingerprinted and photographed by people with guns.
I'd expect it in Libya, but not a 'free' country. I recently went on holiday to new Zealand. On the stopover in the USA I got the fingerprint treatment, and made to feel like a prisoner, despite the fact I didn't even leave the single room in the airport for transit passengers whose plane is refuelling.
That stopover was a wonderful marketing opportunity for the USA to say "Come to the USA! Spend your tourist money here! Enjoy the USA!"
Instead, it felt like a prison visit.
When i got to NZ, they didn't fingerprint me or photograph me at all.
Based on this, I'll go on holiday to NZ again to relax, but not to the US. The US just lost my tourism cash. Nice work guys.
what has prosecuting people for copyright infringement got to do with democracy?
have the students been denied the right to vote? If not, what the hell are you doing trying to claim that democracy is under attack because some students get caught doing something they knew was illegal.
When people equate being fined for copyright infringement to an attack on democracy and fascism, I wonder what they would have to say if they had been around during their parents time, when people knew the real meaning of fascism and authoritarianism.
get some perspective FFS.
"indie music is free"
Says who? Do you speak for every non-signed musician on earth?
it seems the students are more interested in swapping music, than learning.
Keep spending your life obsessing over DRM restrictions that will never affect you, and license minutiae that never effect you.
Other people get work done.
couldn't agree more, and only the stallmanesque zealots could see things any other way.
people buy word to write documents.
Nobody tells them what documents to write.
99.999999% of mankind has no problems with what they can do with Microsoft word. Only incredibly anal hippies like RMS get their panties in a twist over it.
you clearly don't, but then clearly you don't give a fuck about other people. yay for you.
Some people actually give a toss about others, including those that entertain them or make stuff they find helpful. Your attitude means you probably don't know anyone that nice.
wtf are the causes?
People buy software to do stuff for them, not further some political bullshit cause.