This could be really awesome. I can see this as a great way to bring good strategy games to consoles. It might even be better than a mouse. Supreme Commander with your fingers on a Wii? Nevermind that the Wii would gag on the graphics load, but the gameplay is intriguing.
There used to be about a dozen web sites I visited on a daily basis. Of them, all that remains is Slashdot. Why? Because it hasn't gone off the corporate deep end and become that blurry mess of marketing and content that Rob's talking about in this essay. Now and again I see that deep end getting closer on this site, but it always seems to fall away into the horizon. If it ever does actually go all the way, I'm with you. I'll leave.
"Third parties cannot win" might be a bit too strong. "Third parties have an exponentially more difficult uphill battle" might be more accurate; and it's also enough for US anti-trust laws to apply. If only the law was enforced...
You laugh, but in every long distance phone call I take part in, I make sure to include the words "bomb," "Allah," and "New York." I really, really want to see my NSA/FBI/Homeland Security file, if for no other reason than to read the comments by the poor schlub who has to listen to my stupid phone calls that Echelon flagged all the time.
To get away from Earth. Some say humanity, in its current form, is doomed to destroy itself. Being on another astronomical body would afford some protection from that, should we Earth-bound folks finally kick the bucket.
Some folks also crave being on the frontier, where everything is new. It's risky, but our species has made quite a living off of that particular trait.
I love that page! I gave that site to my boss a couple of years ago when he was building his "I just got a big fat promotion home-theater-audiophile-crap" room. He was so pissed.
I know you guys are joking, but that's actually their ultimate goal. They want every piece of hardware that is capable of playing music to enforce just this kind of crap. They want you to pay per listen, as that's the only way they can see themselves keeping up with the kinds of profits they had in the 90s while everyone was re-buying their tapes and lps as CDs.
It's not about making money. It's about making _as much_ money as they used to.
Yeah, but you're citing CNN as a source. They're the evil liberal pinko commies leading the charge against right-thinking conservative Americans. If you could find a source that's more fair and balanced, like Fox News, then you'd have my attention.(end sarcasm here)
Yes, I really have had a conversation that went just like that.
...you don't understand that developers need money in order to do what they love. Right, they do need money. That's why they SELL GAMES. Now they're trying to sell games AND sell advertising, cashing in twice on the same thing. Their customers pay for the game, they don't want to pay for the game and the commercials. If the games were discounted or free, sure, advertising might work as a business model. So far, it doesn't look like that's where the game publishers that want to use in-game advertising are going. It's been quite blatantly a quick-cash-in move, which we gamers tend to hate, and rightfully so.
In-game advertising will not result in any of the following:
-Cheaper games -Better games -Greater adherence to release schedules
It will result in the following:
-Same prices of games -Same quality of games -Same adherence to release schedules -Annoying in-game advertisments
The games don't run on their new OS, by design. Even if it's something as simple as "check if OSVER=Vista" or what have you, that means the game won't run on anything but Vista. It's not illegal, it's just a load of crap, as those who are working against said crap are proving.
Why are they deploying a draft specification on such a large scale? The article says that they're banking on the draft becoming final, or that it will be a relatively easy flash up to the full 802.11n spec once that's released. Is this realistic? Anybody in-the-know on 802.11n have insight into this?
How, exactly, does one go about "misusing" TV schedule listings? Is this really because Zap2It was making all other forms of TV listings obsolete while not making any money at it? The announcement is quite vague. Does anybody have details on what's going on?
That's right along my first thought after reading the summary. Brutally violent games shouldn't be rated AO? Wha?
I can understand the outrage over an outright ban, but rating a game appropriately, regardless of the consequences to the bottom lines of the companies involved, sounds like a good move to me.
Is the solution some kind of built-in voice modulation, then? Have sound effects that, when layered on top of the audio captured by the microphone, can produce a desired characterization. Have a "font" for "Burly Dwarf" or "Dainty Fairy" and see what happens, give the users a certain amount of freedom with what happens with their voice.
By "Can it service the wife" do you mean "can it perform cunnilingus on a hard wood floor?"
Oh, and as for being on-topic, I don't believe the battery life just yet. I'll wait until real people are using them in real life before I believe a statement like that.
I did the same. I bought 2GB for my server last August. I just purchased an additional 2GB for half what it cost me then. This makes me happy! Now I can run more VMs!:)
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I'm currently considering one of these little boxes for non-NAS backup:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817716028
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817392017
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817716051
Or this puppy, which looks fricken sweet, on-line array expansion, and does NAS as well as direct-connect:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3143432&Sku=D162-1000
Just add hard drives.
(oblig.) I love the Power Glove. It's so bad.
This could be really awesome. I can see this as a great way to bring good strategy games to consoles. It might even be better than a mouse. Supreme Commander with your fingers on a Wii? Nevermind that the Wii would gag on the graphics load, but the gameplay is intriguing.
There used to be about a dozen web sites I visited on a daily basis. Of them, all that remains is Slashdot. Why? Because it hasn't gone off the corporate deep end and become that blurry mess of marketing and content that Rob's talking about in this essay. Now and again I see that deep end getting closer on this site, but it always seems to fall away into the horizon. If it ever does actually go all the way, I'm with you. I'll leave.
I agree.
"Third parties cannot win" might be a bit too strong. "Third parties have an exponentially more difficult uphill battle" might be more accurate; and it's also enough for US anti-trust laws to apply. If only the law was enforced...
You laugh, but in every long distance phone call I take part in, I make sure to include the words "bomb," "Allah," and "New York." I really, really want to see my NSA/FBI/Homeland Security file, if for no other reason than to read the comments by the poor schlub who has to listen to my stupid phone calls that Echelon flagged all the time.
5 + 4 + 8 = 17
17+ 2(8 - 5) = 23
HOLY CRAP!
It's supposed to. It's a lab experiment. It's sterile, bland. Yet at the same time, the look is consistent and interesting.
To get away from Earth. Some say humanity, in its current form, is doomed to destroy itself. Being on another astronomical body would afford some protection from that, should we Earth-bound folks finally kick the bucket.
Some folks also crave being on the frontier, where everything is new. It's risky, but our species has made quite a living off of that particular trait.
I love that page! I gave that site to my boss a couple of years ago when he was building his "I just got a big fat promotion home-theater-audiophile-crap" room. He was so pissed.
I know you guys are joking, but that's actually their ultimate goal. They want every piece of hardware that is capable of playing music to enforce just this kind of crap. They want you to pay per listen, as that's the only way they can see themselves keeping up with the kinds of profits they had in the 90s while everyone was re-buying their tapes and lps as CDs.
It's not about making money. It's about making _as much_ money as they used to.
Far too many references to goatse in just 5 minutes. That tells you something about _this_ universe.
Hah! I was thinking the same thing. Anybody have a source for the dates of the Daily Show's breaks for the last year or so?
Yeah, but you're citing CNN as a source. They're the evil liberal pinko commies leading the charge against right-thinking conservative Americans. If you could find a source that's more fair and balanced, like Fox News, then you'd have my attention.(end sarcasm here)
Yes, I really have had a conversation that went just like that.
...you don't understand that developers need money in order to do what they love. Right, they do need money. That's why they SELL GAMES. Now they're trying to sell games AND sell advertising, cashing in twice on the same thing. Their customers pay for the game, they don't want to pay for the game and the commercials. If the games were discounted or free, sure, advertising might work as a business model. So far, it doesn't look like that's where the game publishers that want to use in-game advertising are going. It's been quite blatantly a quick-cash-in move, which we gamers tend to hate, and rightfully so.In-game advertising will not result in any of the following:
-Cheaper games
-Better games
-Greater adherence to release schedules
It will result in the following:
-Same prices of games
-Same quality of games
-Same adherence to release schedules
-Annoying in-game advertisments
That's all there is to it.
Hear, hear! Engineering companies should be required by law to post failure test video clips on their websites.
You're doing it wrong! You're supposed to be a jerk and say "Murk LOAR!"
The games don't run on their new OS, by design. Even if it's something as simple as "check if OSVER=Vista" or what have you, that means the game won't run on anything but Vista. It's not illegal, it's just a load of crap, as those who are working against said crap are proving.
Why are they deploying a draft specification on such a large scale? The article says that they're banking on the draft becoming final, or that it will be a relatively easy flash up to the full 802.11n spec once that's released. Is this realistic? Anybody in-the-know on 802.11n have insight into this?
How, exactly, does one go about "misusing" TV schedule listings? Is this really because Zap2It was making all other forms of TV listings obsolete while not making any money at it? The announcement is quite vague. Does anybody have details on what's going on?
That's right along my first thought after reading the summary. Brutally violent games shouldn't be rated AO? Wha?
I can understand the outrage over an outright ban, but rating a game appropriately, regardless of the consequences to the bottom lines of the companies involved, sounds like a good move to me.
Is the solution some kind of built-in voice modulation, then? Have sound effects that, when layered on top of the audio captured by the microphone, can produce a desired characterization. Have a "font" for "Burly Dwarf" or "Dainty Fairy" and see what happens, give the users a certain amount of freedom with what happens with their voice.
By "Can it service the wife" do you mean "can it perform cunnilingus on a hard wood floor?"
Oh, and as for being on-topic, I don't believe the battery life just yet. I'll wait until real people are using them in real life before I believe a statement like that.
That, and he wants to fucking bury you. He did it before, and he'll do it again.
Nah, then it would take 4 years but the paperwork would be _REALLY_ colourful!
I did the same. I bought 2GB for my server last August. I just purchased an additional 2GB for half what it cost me then. This makes me happy! Now I can run more VMs! :)