It's true that SOME names are often mistakenly given value when they are reintroduced (see Napster). But that does not mean that they actually have intrinsic value.
I saw a really short sighted post saying that EA had 'killed' another developer. The 'developer' is an association of people. The people who made the great games come and go from the 'developer.'
Anyway, I too have an HD but the processing power on the PS2 is a big concern.
The game maker has to ask himself how many PS2 players are going to have a big HD TV and broadband and will buy their game. True, there are some, but it is a relativly small number, no?
I think you are making a very big mistake in your reasoning. Just because it is easy for anyone to CREATE CONTENT does mean people WILL PLAY MUDs for that reason. It's a big disconnect.
Besides, even the difference you are pointing to between MUDs and MMORPGs is gone now thanks to Second Life, where you can design pretty much any content you want.
Your error reminds me of a common error in the talk radio business - confusing 'lots of callers' with 'lots of listeners.'
There are a lot of features in games that go unused. This will probably be one of them. The resolution on most of these TVs will be too low to be good enough picture-in-picture and just think of how much it will slow the PS2 down to have to decompress the streams. The processor is already getting maxed out in many of these newer games anyway.
I can't think of a single game existing where this would be remotely useful. Voice? Very useful. Seeing your opponent give you the middle finger after you sniper him? Pointless.
Funny how many games they missed. It was quite rediculous how many they missed. I mean, just among those that made their 'game of the year' for the last couple of years.
Seems hard to determine which one you should vote for? Just gotta look back and choose the one you spent the most time playing and not getting bored. That's really the best single way to determine it. Maybe not if that was the _only_ game you had to play, but if you had alternatives (and reading a book counts), the game you played the most is probably the 'best.'
Pepsi is giving away 100 million songs, so I was thinking that there was a good possibility of people trying to hack it by guessing the codes to get the free song.
I got a winning cap and did some math. Unless the codes are not random, this isn't going to happen.
There are 8 digits in the code, and they appear to use alphas and digits. Presuming they aren't using zero so it's not confused with the letter "O," this means there are 1.0E+35 possibilities. With 100 million winners, that means one in every 1.0E+27 is a winner. Spelt out, that is 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
However, given that it is not random, I guess the odds are much better.
That explains why I couldn't understand you. You don't seem to grasp the concept of causality. Your 'cause' is in the future (the rights to 'reap the rewards'), and the effect is in the present (the creation). Come back after you've been to logic 101 or whatever they call it in your part of the world.
Wow. Reverting to condescention. Just what part of causality don't you understand? It was stated perfectly and clearly the first and second cases - enough so that the comment was modded up to 4 interesting. Could it be you who ishaving the hard time understanding?
And how does doing work and getting paid for it compare to 'welfare' - which is just the opposite- getting paid to do nothing.
Actually, Jackson is as much a writer and producer. But you have a point, and I was expressing my surprise at the parent's surprise at the lack of originality.
You are surprised? He already went all the way back to LotR. He already has a reputation for leeching off other's work (yeah, hit me with that flaimbait, baby!)
But face it - LotR is Tolkien's work. Kong is ancient. Heavenly Creatures was ripped from real life, Meet the Feebles is a satire of the Muppets, Braindead is a remake of his own film Bad Taste. Freighteners was polterguisty. I don't think he's done much new stuff in a while.
Yes, he does a great job bringing other people's ideas to life. But something original from him?
I think they should last for as long as the creator chooses to let them last.
The causal relationship exists because of congress? I guess the sun rises every day because you will it, too, right?
If you work for a living, you prove the causal relationship between creating (working) or whatever it is you aren't doing for free. You provide value to others because they provide it to you.
If you read/. and don't understand what I mean by hardware driven Trusted Computing, then you should go to sleep.
Causal. If you cannot reap the rewards of something, you don't create it. Writing/singing/composing/etc take tremendous time to be done right. Yeah, there are always hobbyists who will do stuff for free but it will always be inferior. With IP the way it is going, Beethovan would be on welfare because the world will have grown comfortable stealing from a blind man.
Originally, Tolstoy and Dickens and others wrote their books for pure enjoyment of the readers. Enlightening minds of their contemporaries was an achievement they valued.
However, if you look at the reviews on Amazon for their books, they are filled with grudging, negative reviews from school children who were compeled to read the books in class.
I'm not saying that this is a bad thing, but I would rather not see this repeat itself with video games. They were designed to make money for developer by giving their customers some enjoyment. By turning it into 'study' the fun will all be sucked out of it. Can you hear it now? Teacher: "Johny! You are three days late in finishing Metriod Prime and the rest of the class has already begun Halo." Johny: "But teacher.... I don't feel like it." Teacher: "Maybe if you put that War and Peace down and focused on the t.v...."
Some see web anonymity as a solution to problems. It is also creating a problem in the case of honest product reviews.
Amazon should seperate their reviews into two groups - one with a proof-positive name and contact info, making the writer liable for slander or lible, and another for 'anonymous cowards.'
If you aren't confident enough to stand behind your words, your words have much less value.
I'm not sure what the eventual mix will be, but it will be one or both of these:
1) All new music will be blatently commercially driven. This is the case in India where copyright is non-existant. No, I'm not talking about a Pepsi can being in the background or sipped by a star, but about a movie being ABOUT Pepsi with dancing, animated Pepsi commercials running across the screen in the midst of the film regardless of their relevance to content.
2) Turing machine-proof Trusted Computing to ensure IP is not violated. The keys are built into the hardware and will be unbreakable. If I am wrong and you do break them, they will be replaced with the next generation of hardware that you cannot break.
It is pretty unfortunate to consider that the cost of protecting intellectual property makes it almost seem like it's not worth doing. I wonder if the world's greatest musician will come along some day and spend his days working at McDonald's and his nights toiling away at his craft and not sharing with anyone because he refuses to work for free for people who do not acknowledge the CAUSAL relationship between creation and intelectual property rights.
I don't understand how Calvin Broadus could be highlighted in the story posted to Slashdot. His role at best was as a minor walk-on.
Michael Ironsides, however, did a tremendous job in Splinter Cell as the main character. In the on-disk bonus, he even did an extensive interview as 'Sam Fischer' and also did a lot of behind the scenes fooling around that was caught on tape. Regardless, that was the one instance in all of the games I played where a real-life professional actor actually made the game better in a way that some walk-on cousin-of-the-producer could not have. He exhibited true talent that contributed a lot to making Splinter Cell an awesome game.
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It's true that SOME names are often mistakenly given value when they are reintroduced (see Napster). But that does not mean that they actually have intrinsic value.
I saw a really short sighted post saying that EA had 'killed' another developer. The 'developer' is an association of people. The people who made the great games come and go from the 'developer.'
Anyway, I too have an HD but the processing power on the PS2 is a big concern.
The game maker has to ask himself how many PS2 players are going to have a big HD TV and broadband and will buy their game. True, there are some, but it is a relativly small number, no?
Besides, even the difference you are pointing to between MUDs and MMORPGs is gone now thanks to Second Life, where you can design pretty much any content you want.
Your error reminds me of a common error in the talk radio business - confusing 'lots of callers' with 'lots of listeners.'
There are a lot of features in games that go unused. This will probably be one of them. The resolution on most of these TVs will be too low to be good enough picture-in-picture and just think of how much it will slow the PS2 down to have to decompress the streams. The processor is already getting maxed out in many of these newer games anyway.
Funny how many games they missed. It was quite rediculous how many they missed. I mean, just among those that made their 'game of the year' for the last couple of years.
Seems hard to determine which one you should vote for? Just gotta look back and choose the one you spent the most time playing and not getting bored. That's really the best single way to determine it. Maybe not if that was the _only_ game you had to play, but if you had alternatives (and reading a book counts), the game you played the most is probably the 'best.'
It is publicly traded. See here!
Just what made you think they weren't?
Anyone else here want to short this publicly traded turkey?
I just got a brand new cellphone with bluetooth thinking I was on the cutting edge. Nokia 3650 is a work of art.
Why not just require these on cars of people with DUI convictions?
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JUST SHUT UP OK! YOU ARENT MY REAL DAD!
doh! - you are right. There are 10 digits!
I got a winning cap and did some math. Unless the codes are not random, this isn't going to happen.
There are 8 digits in the code, and they appear to use alphas and digits. Presuming they aren't using zero so it's not confused with the letter "O," this means there are 1.0E+35 possibilities. With 100 million winners, that means one in every 1.0E+27 is a winner. Spelt out, that is 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
However, given that it is not random, I guess the odds are much better.
Europe (a territory that includes Africa, Australia, and all of Asia except Japan)...
I wonder why that is? Africa may be a pretty small market, but all of Asia other than Japan gets lumped in there too?
Wow. Reverting to condescention. Just what part of causality don't you understand? It was stated perfectly and clearly the first and second cases - enough so that the comment was modded up to 4 interesting. Could it be you who ishaving the hard time understanding?
And how does doing work and getting paid for it compare to 'welfare' - which is just the opposite- getting paid to do nothing.
You are a bitter AC.
Just hope it's better than Godzilla.
But face it - LotR is Tolkien's work. Kong is ancient. Heavenly Creatures was ripped from real life, Meet the Feebles is a satire of the Muppets, Braindead is a remake of his own film Bad Taste. Freighteners was polterguisty. I don't think he's done much new stuff in a while.
Yes, he does a great job bringing other people's ideas to life. But something original from him?
The causal relationship exists because of congress? I guess the sun rises every day because you will it, too, right?
If you work for a living, you prove the causal relationship between creating (working) or whatever it is you aren't doing for free. You provide value to others because they provide it to you.
Causal. If you cannot reap the rewards of something, you don't create it. Writing/singing/composing/etc take tremendous time to be done right. Yeah, there are always hobbyists who will do stuff for free but it will always be inferior. With IP the way it is going, Beethovan would be on welfare because the world will have grown comfortable stealing from a blind man.
However, if you look at the reviews on Amazon for their books, they are filled with grudging, negative reviews from school children who were compeled to read the books in class.
I'm not saying that this is a bad thing, but I would rather not see this repeat itself with video games. They were designed to make money for developer by giving their customers some enjoyment. By turning it into 'study' the fun will all be sucked out of it. Can you hear it now?
Teacher: "Johny! You are three days late in finishing Metriod Prime and the rest of the class has already begun Halo."
Johny: "But teacher.... I don't feel like it."
Teacher: "Maybe if you put that War and Peace down and focused on the t.v...."
Amazon should seperate their reviews into two groups - one with a proof-positive name and contact info, making the writer liable for slander or lible, and another for 'anonymous cowards.'
If you aren't confident enough to stand behind your words, your words have much less value.
1) All new music will be blatently commercially driven. This is the case in India where copyright is non-existant. No, I'm not talking about a Pepsi can being in the background or sipped by a star, but about a movie being ABOUT Pepsi with dancing, animated Pepsi commercials running across the screen in the midst of the film regardless of their relevance to content.
2) Turing machine-proof Trusted Computing to ensure IP is not violated. The keys are built into the hardware and will be unbreakable. If I am wrong and you do break them, they will be replaced with the next generation of hardware that you cannot break.
It is pretty unfortunate to consider that the cost of protecting intellectual property makes it almost seem like it's not worth doing. I wonder if the world's greatest musician will come along some day and spend his days working at McDonald's and his nights toiling away at his craft and not sharing with anyone because he refuses to work for free for people who do not acknowledge the CAUSAL relationship between creation and intelectual property rights.
Michael Ironsides, however, did a tremendous job in Splinter Cell as the main character. In the on-disk bonus, he even did an extensive interview as 'Sam Fischer' and also did a lot of behind the scenes fooling around that was caught on tape. Regardless, that was the one instance in all of the games I played where a real-life professional actor actually made the game better in a way that some walk-on cousin-of-the-producer could not have. He exhibited true talent that contributed a lot to making Splinter Cell an awesome game.