Man I agree 100% you are ym new hero. This ruling sucks, not least because I use adwords, and I Do Deliberately target my competitors. I make a game that will appeal to Civilisation fans, so if you search for some of the keywords used by those people, you will see my ad. This is commonly known as 'the free market'. If Civ3 is a better game than mine, they will get the sale, if my game rules and theirs sucks (I can dream) then my ad earns me money and the best man has won. This is the whole foundation of the free market. Letting a bunch of overpaid legal jerks push this ruling is one more nail in the coffin of freee competition, and another sign that its the lawyer, not the customer who is king.
Are you saying the US PREVENTS the import of the Smart Car? If that's true, then your country is even more fucked up than I had rpeviously imagined when it comes to fuel efficiency. By the way, a friend of mine has one, they are great, add to the fuel economy the fact that there is ALWAYS a parking space thats free for you, because theres always some gap no other car fits into.
so i presume you would agree that some dork who obviously broke the speed limit who waves his arms around and protests that the MD5 algo can be cracked by l33t hackers is a good justification for tying up all the police and judicial time arguing his case, rather than just paying the fine for breaking the goddamned law, and letting those same law enforcement officials get back to their job?
If this was someone getting a rape case thrown out because of poor encryption, would he be such a champion then? its not like people dont realise there are speed limits. grrrrrrrrrrr
oh yes i agree, but there surely is a point where the fidelity of my eyes wont keep up is there not? I am suggesting that on a normal TV, DVD is already there.
who on planet earth would buy this? I cant even imagine better picture quality than current DVD. why exactly would I want this new format? Im pissed as it is about the unskippable shit in DVDs, if this new format does away with that, great. otherwise, I dont really see the point. There comes a level of quality where my human-basic eyeballs dont regsiter anything better.
Why is this same book being pimped AGAIN on/.? after the first time I persuaded my boss to buy it. Several of us read it and thought:
meh
Im sick of books trying to ram ONE specific method for doing stuff down your throat. I dont need sample code, and I dont need to be told what to call my systems, I need IDEAS. Good AI is absed on good concepts, nothing mroe detailed. I recommend Steve Grands books if you want an AI book that actually makes you think.
not far off. one of the big supermarkets in the UK has faster checkouts with mroe staff on them if you have signed up to pay with your store card doodad that records all your purchases. grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
There are other reasons to be wary of the rise of the big supermarkets. in the UK channel 4 recently had a 2 part expose of supermarket food, and the conditions under which it is produced, together with some alarming statistics at how they have (through all sorts of chemicals in the feed etc) pushed the milk output of cows up and up and up, way beyond what might be considered normal. The cows dont graze normally, they are stood inside all day on concrete floors eating from piles of freshly mown grass. As a result, supermarket milk is now cheaper than bottled water, and the supermarkets keep it that way by turning thumbscrews on the suppliers. With the small stores and cornershops gone, no supplier dares anger the supermarkets or they will go out of business. Supermarkets are massivly convenient, but that convenience comes a a price. The CH4 program did a like for like comparison of prices at a greengrocers and food market, and it turned out to be CHEAPER to buy from the market than from the supermarket.
couldnt agree more. P2P is superb stuff, and has all kinds of legit uses, but to pretend that its not 95% used to download copyrighted music and movies and thus save a few bucks is just denial. There are far too may slashdotters who reply to any article on copyright with "get with the system dude! copyright is over!" usually they seem to be 13 year old kids who dont understand what its like to have your income and career based on developing electronic products. Do people really think that Lord of the Rings deserved to sell just 1 copy, to the p2p hacker who ripped it?
thats what everyone says about their network admin. and also thats what office workers say about the people who wrote Word/Excel. Just because you arent convinced someone worked hard to make something doesnt make you entitled to take it from them for nothing. Unless you really are an anarchist, in which case, Ill have your car thanks.
you are saying people in the movie industry do not work hard? Im not saying Tom Cruise works as hard as a coal miner, but is that true for everyone whose income depends on that industry? the cameramen? lighting guys? set dressers? continuity staff? scriptwriters? set designers? the catering crew? the security guys at the studio? the artists? CG guys? You think everyone who works in entertainment works less than 1% as hard as everyone outside entertainment? Watch the DVD extras from Lord of The Rings, then tell me little effort went into that movie that you saw for $10.
This is the same in other industries, noticeably the computer games industry. I noticed in TFA: "including outright bribes of cash and electronics to radio stations and paying for contest giveaways for listeners" This is the same for many big gaming websites, they are happy to run a competition to win prizes of your game, they require 30 free copies of the game plus payment of X thousand dollars. This isn't even a secret, I've got emails from marketing people outlining the rate card to be featured as a competition rpize. As for downlaod sites and the 'editors pick of the month', these are blatantly up for grabs to the highest bidder. If you have $500k, you can make anything seem like a critically aclaimed hit these days, be it a book, a single or a vidoe game. The mroe people realise that TV, music,Book and game listings are all entirely paid for the better. Thanks god for google, at least they make it obvious what an advert is...
you are my hero. I too despise ads in agmes, and that includes ads from EA to 'challenege everything' every time I play one of their bug ridden monstrosities. I even took out all the logo screens from my own games (im a part time indie developer) because they bug me. Tragically in my day job I am the coder told to put these ad billboards in a triple A game. I told them the say they signed the contract that they now had the board of megacorp inc effectively helping design the game. And its true, features we would like to drop now cant be changed because they have already farmed out the space to advertising billboards. Needless to say, that doesnt make for a better game.
why not remove it? last i heard it was possible to remove art assets from a build. Rockstar wanted this crap to leak out, so they could bypass the ESRB. For that alone, they need a good kicking, or they drag the reputation of the whole industry down.
thats different. the key feature here is that this is official content. This is something that rockstar coded and distributed. its not some twisted fuck trying to vlemish an otherwise ok product, its an integral part of the product itself. That makes a big difference because this way its rockstars fault, and they are the ones who applied for and got the rating. I work for a triple A developer who RIGHT NOW is having trouble getting the suits to agree to allowing modded content in games purely because of this GTA stunt. There is a danger of rockstars immature actions wrecking the whole concept of modding for PC gaming. I hope walmart kicks em in the nuts.
good post, glad to see some sanity on here. The guy was tealing someones intellectual property, or at the very least encouraging it. If he was listing my software I'd hope hed get a severe ass-kicking. As you say, no sympthy here.
Seriously, without the huge surplus lawyer-mountain in the US, crazy shit like this wouldnt be an option. Why fire a perfectly good space probe at a comet when we could propel a bunch of lawyers instead, preferably shackled to their brain-dead clients. I think US judges should be given encouragement to laugh in the faces of morons who bring court cases like this, and to charge them costs big time to put them off pulling such pathetic stunts.
do ANY US channels show it? And what about that footage of Rumsfeld shaking hadns with saddam? as I heard, its only ever been shown on american TV once (on oprahs show??) is that correct? we have seen it several times in the UK.
nothing. Try driving a european car, especially the smart car. The amount of effort people in the US are prepared to go to so they can keep driving hummers and suvs is amazing. Sometimes you will even prefer to fight bloody wars in the middle east, although I'm guessing the families of the 1500 dead marines so far probably wish Bush had just put a few cents on gas prices instead. I guess thats what happens when you let oil companies fund election campaigns.
This is effectively already true, when you read a review of a new computer game or other product, the chances are high that the score and review is heavily tainted by the amount of PR spend at that companies disposal. Rather than spending 30k on banner ads, it makes more sense to fly some 'reviewers' off to a 'preview' of your product which for some reason *must* happen on a beach in the south of france, with free food and champagne. bingo: 90% review score and the poor schmucks reading the website think its ad-free. In the midst of this crap, you can only really believe what friends recommend to you, or purchase stuff on the basis of an in store demo or free trial. Totally rambling rant there, but it needed to be said:D
agreed. It might help cure cancer, but at the same time the gigawatts of power that is being wasted is doing god knows what to the environment (until we have clean renewable energy anyway).
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Man I agree 100% you are ym new hero.
This ruling sucks, not least because I use adwords, and I Do Deliberately target my competitors. I make a game that will appeal to Civilisation fans, so if you search for some of the keywords used by those people, you will see my ad. This is commonly known as 'the free market'. If Civ3 is a better game than mine, they will get the sale, if my game rules and theirs sucks (I can dream) then my ad earns me money and the best man has won. This is the whole foundation of the free market. Letting a bunch of overpaid legal jerks push this ruling is one more nail in the coffin of freee competition, and another sign that its the lawyer, not the customer who is king.
Are you saying the US PREVENTS the import of the Smart Car? If that's true, then your country is even more fucked up than I had rpeviously imagined when it comes to fuel efficiency.
By the way, a friend of mine has one, they are great, add to the fuel economy the fact that there is ALWAYS a parking space thats free for you, because theres always some gap no other car fits into.
so i presume you would agree that some dork who obviously broke the speed limit who waves his arms around and protests that the MD5 algo can be cracked by l33t hackers is a good justification for tying up all the police and judicial time arguing his case, rather than just paying the fine for breaking the goddamned law, and letting those same law enforcement officials get back to their job?
If this was someone getting a rape case thrown out because of poor encryption, would he be such a champion then? its not like people dont realise there are speed limits. grrrrrrrrrrr
oh yes i agree, but there surely is a point where the fidelity of my eyes wont keep up is there not? I am suggesting that on a normal TV, DVD is already there.
who on planet earth would buy this?
I cant even imagine better picture quality than current DVD. why exactly would I want this new format?
Im pissed as it is about the unskippable shit in DVDs, if this new format does away with that, great. otherwise, I dont really see the point.
There comes a level of quality where my human-basic eyeballs dont regsiter anything better.
Why is this same book being pimped AGAIN on /.?
after the first time I persuaded my boss to buy it. Several of us read it and thought:
meh
Im sick of books trying to ram ONE specific method for doing stuff down your throat. I dont need sample code, and I dont need to be told what to call my systems, I need IDEAS. Good AI is absed on good concepts, nothing mroe detailed. I recommend Steve Grands books if you want an AI book that actually makes you think.
not far off. one of the big supermarkets in the UK has faster checkouts with mroe staff on them if you have signed up to pay with your store card doodad that records all your purchases.
grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
There are other reasons to be wary of the rise of the big supermarkets. in the UK channel 4 recently had a 2 part expose of supermarket food, and the conditions under which it is produced, together with some alarming statistics at how they have (through all sorts of chemicals in the feed etc) pushed the milk output of cows up and up and up, way beyond what might be considered normal. The cows dont graze normally, they are stood inside all day on concrete floors eating from piles of freshly mown grass. As a result, supermarket milk is now cheaper than bottled water, and the supermarkets keep it that way by turning thumbscrews on the suppliers. With the small stores and cornershops gone, no supplier dares anger the supermarkets or they will go out of business.
Supermarkets are massivly convenient, but that convenience comes a a price. The CH4 program did a like for like comparison of prices at a greengrocers and food market, and it turned out to be CHEAPER to buy from the market than from the supermarket.
couldnt agree more. P2P is superb stuff, and has all kinds of legit uses, but to pretend that its not 95% used to download copyrighted music and movies and thus save a few bucks is just denial.
There are far too may slashdotters who reply to any article on copyright with "get with the system dude! copyright is over!" usually they seem to be 13 year old kids who dont understand what its like to have your income and career based on developing electronic products.
Do people really think that Lord of the Rings deserved to sell just 1 copy, to the p2p hacker who ripped it?
thats what everyone says about their network admin. and also thats what office workers say about the people who wrote Word/Excel.
Just because you arent convinced someone worked hard to make something doesnt make you entitled to take it from them for nothing. Unless you really are an anarchist, in which case, Ill have your car thanks.
you are saying people in the movie industry do not work hard?
Im not saying Tom Cruise works as hard as a coal miner, but is that true for everyone whose income depends on that industry?
the cameramen? lighting guys? set dressers? continuity staff? scriptwriters? set designers? the catering crew? the security guys at the studio? the artists? CG guys?
You think everyone who works in entertainment works less than 1% as hard as everyone outside entertainment?
Watch the DVD extras from Lord of The Rings, then tell me little effort went into that movie that you saw for $10.
This is the same in other industries, noticeably the computer games industry. I noticed in TFA :
"including outright bribes of cash and electronics to radio stations and paying for contest giveaways for listeners"
This is the same for many big gaming websites, they are happy to run a competition to win prizes of your game, they require 30 free copies of the game plus payment of X thousand dollars. This isn't even a secret, I've got emails from marketing people outlining the rate card to be featured as a competition rpize.
As for downlaod sites and the 'editors pick of the month', these are blatantly up for grabs to the highest bidder. If you have $500k, you can make anything seem like a critically aclaimed hit these days, be it a book, a single or a vidoe game.
The mroe people realise that TV, music,Book and game listings are all entirely paid for the better. Thanks god for google, at least they make it obvious what an advert is...
you are my hero. I too despise ads in agmes, and that includes ads from EA to 'challenege everything' every time I play one of their bug ridden monstrosities. I even took out all the logo screens from my own games (im a part time indie developer) because they bug me.
Tragically in my day job I am the coder told to put these ad billboards in a triple A game. I told them the say they signed the contract that they now had the board of megacorp inc effectively helping design the game. And its true, features we would like to drop now cant be changed because they have already farmed out the space to advertising billboards.
Needless to say, that doesnt make for a better game.
why not remove it? last i heard it was possible to remove art assets from a build. Rockstar wanted this crap to leak out, so they could bypass the ESRB. For that alone, they need a good kicking, or they drag the reputation of the whole industry down.
thats different. the key feature here is that this is official content. This is something that rockstar coded and distributed. its not some twisted fuck trying to vlemish an otherwise ok product, its an integral part of the product itself. That makes a big difference because this way its rockstars fault, and they are the ones who applied for and got the rating.
I work for a triple A developer who RIGHT NOW is having trouble getting the suits to agree to allowing modded content in games purely because of this GTA stunt. There is a danger of rockstars immature actions wrecking the whole concept of modding for PC gaming. I hope walmart kicks em in the nuts.
good post, glad to see some sanity on here. The guy was tealing someones intellectual property, or at the very least encouraging it. If he was listing my software I'd hope hed get a severe ass-kicking. As you say, no sympthy here.
i take it back, apparently you aim to go to law school, enough said.
who on earth RTFA? you must be new here.
someone needs a sense of humour methinks.
Seriously, without the huge surplus lawyer-mountain in the US, crazy shit like this wouldnt be an option. Why fire a perfectly good space probe at a comet when we could propel a bunch of lawyers instead, preferably shackled to their brain-dead clients.
I think US judges should be given encouragement to laugh in the faces of morons who bring court cases like this, and to charge them costs big time to put them off pulling such pathetic stunts.
do ANY US channels show it? And what about that footage of Rumsfeld shaking hadns with saddam? as I heard, its only ever been shown on american TV once (on oprahs show??) is that correct? we have seen it several times in the UK.
and over in the US, you have Fox News, and are not allowed to show the flag draped coffins of your war dead.
hang on, which one has the free press?
nothing. Try driving a european car, especially the smart car. The amount of effort people in the US are prepared to go to so they can keep driving hummers and suvs is amazing. Sometimes you will even prefer to fight bloody wars in the middle east, although I'm guessing the families of the 1500 dead marines so far probably wish Bush had just put a few cents on gas prices instead.
I guess thats what happens when you let oil companies fund election campaigns.
This is effectively already true, when you read a review of a new computer game or other product, the chances are high that the score and review is heavily tainted by the amount of PR spend at that companies disposal. Rather than spending 30k on banner ads, it makes more sense to fly some 'reviewers' off to a 'preview' of your product which for some reason *must* happen on a beach in the south of france, with free food and champagne. bingo: 90% review score and the poor schmucks reading the website think its ad-free. :D
In the midst of this crap, you can only really believe what friends recommend to you, or purchase stuff on the basis of an in store demo or free trial.
Totally rambling rant there, but it needed to be said
agreed. It might help cure cancer, but at the same time the gigawatts of power that is being wasted is doing god knows what to the environment (until we have clean renewable energy anyway).