Yeah Pre could go that way too, but it's not yet as ubiquitous, and it remains to be seen if it will ever be.
There's no doubt that there is genuine interest in the iPhone and it's not all marketing, the touch interface is really sweet, however you would expect the novelty factor to wear off after a while. It didn't happen. It seems that even now, every time the tiniest update to iPhone-related stuff is published, it gets front page coverage and ok, that is no accident, iPhone news sell and that's a huge marketing power but it's crazy to see it plastered everywhere like that.
In terms of smartphones the iPhone is not for me (I'm getting a Touch Pro 2 as I'd rather have a real keyboard) but I was kind of semi-interested in a iPod Touch, so I still follow the news.
Am I the only one who's starting to be completely saturated by iPhone stories posted left and right and how it's awesome and shiny and great?
I swear it's like the damn thing is going to save the world. Even for nerds there must be other topics of conversation, right?
...Right?
I think I've reached the point of hype backlash. I might have been somewhat interested in the iPhone at the beginning, but now I'm just tired of seeing it everywhere.
I bow to the Apple marketing team though. They are doing a truly excellent job. Honestly.
I'm as familiar with the case as anyone with Internet and access to news, so my opinion is just thatm, but I think that as far as innoncence goes Thomas is pretty fucked. There are lots of hints that she is actually guilty, and her apparent perjury certainly won't help.
I think the focus here should be for the defence (may actually be, I don't know) that the fees to pay be reduced to an "acceptable" level, meaning not the life-ruining, impossible-to-pay-unless-you-re-gazillionaire fees demanded by the RIAA.
She "stole" 24 songs. Let her pay a fine of a few hundreds bucks and fucking be done with it. Asking for half a million in damages should be laughed at by any sensible court system, and that's the real problem here.
I find that having everything available, and just pruning functions I don't use is much easier than having to chase whatever extension I want until I'm done. As far as I am concerned, Opera's approach is perfect. It's quicker and more efficient.
There are pretty funky places in the Honk Kong level of Deus Ex that you can reach if you enable the fly/ghost mode, I don't remember the exact name. Maybe both. Anyway, you can go to the top of the skyscrappers, and literally behind the scenes (a bit like a hollywood lot) where all the walls are plastered with random textures or ingame (fake) ads.
I vaguely remember someone finding the head of one of the triads on top of one of the buildings, walking around in a loop before his official apparition ingame. He fired up the editor, teleported him, made him 50ft tall and got him to walk around the level Godzilla-style.
Funny stuff.
I remain skeptical. I love Thief and I like Thief 2 very much, and Thief 3 was, well, almost as disappointing as Invisible War. Not as much, as it was more refined, but still way below the first two.
It's a bit like DX. What I heard about DX3 tends to indicate it will be rather different from the original in major areas such as gameplay, in spite of Eidos's claims to the contrary. Of course, we'll just have to wait until the game ships to find out. Now Thief 4? I read about the pre-dev concepts Ion Storm Austin was working on shortly before they went under and it was an interesting take, redoing the original game in a modern setting. Obviously though, given it's only just been officially announced, there's no info yet as to what direction they're going for at Eidos.
As always, we cross fingers and hope they won't fuck it up. If they don't pull a Levine and actually keep their promises on Deus Ex 3, a fourth Thief game will be more than welcome. (No offense to Mr. Levine, but BioShock while fun in its own right was not Shock)
Now the question is under French law can he sue? If he can, the next question is will it make him less employable suing an ex-employer?
He absolutely can sue. There's a special court for employer/employee disagreements called the Prudhommes, and he will probably sue TF1 for wrongful termination.
I don't know much about law myself, but his lawyers should have a field day with this. He would have to screw up the case royally to lose it: It was a private email address and a private communication which his employer should never have heard about, and secondly, it is forbidden by law to fire someone on political grounds in France.
In theory this shouldn't affect his future professionally, however seeing how the world works, I'm not so sure.
What little sympathy I may have had for them is completely gone. It's one thing to disagree with some law, but obscenities and insults are just out of line.
You're right I don't own one. And it's not because I don't want to. I'd love to get an Elite, honestly. I just won't buy one, because I refuse to pay for bad hardware. If I play, I play with friends that own one. Let them pay the price.
The fact is, regardless of the quality of games, you had your console fail 3 times in three years. Consoles are supposed to be like, I don't know, the VCRs of gaming. Easy, no sweat, literally plug and play. Such a failure rate is simply unacceptable, and the behavior of gamers like you is precisely why Microsoft doesn't bother making it right.
Not that they have a spotless track record anyway.
This has got to be the Ford Pinto of consoles. I can't believe people are still spending their hard-earned cash on such a badly designed piece of go-se.
It's one thing to understand your console may be bricked at some point during its lifetime, but when you know it will, and it could very much be when you open the box...
Warranty or not, I don't get it. The whole 360 mess is a shame of epic proportions.
I'd rather they look back at stuff that worked and try to emulate that. Instead of Halo clones, take Thief, Deus Ex, System Shock, study them and try to find the formula. Blend genres. We'll see how DX3 turns out, hopefully they'll get the right clues.
That said, building a brilliant game around one single innovative feature can be done: the concept behind Portal was absurdingly simple and the end result is awesome and more importantly, it's tons of fun.
It sheds a light on the infrastructure at least. Their implementation may not be very bright, but that's quite enlightening nonetheless. Many others would just keep us in the dark.
I don't want to troll, but that's exactly why I chose to buy a PS3 instead of a 360. It cost me more, and the 360 has *plenty* of games I'd like to play, but I just can't justify paying that kind of money for a shoddy brick that could actually be broken before I even plug it in for the first time.
I'm not disappointed by the PS3, I actually have quite a lot of fun with it, but I'd have bought a 360 Elite instead a long time ago if it weren't for the litany of failures reported everyfuckinwhere.
The games are cool, but they managed to ruin this making the hardware a piece of crap. Mod me troll if you like, that's just how it is.
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And as a bonus, the ending video will be entirely redone with mocap CGI ;)
"I spil my trink!"
Pony up the cash or you're toast!
Yeah Pre could go that way too, but it's not yet as ubiquitous, and it remains to be seen if it will ever be.
There's no doubt that there is genuine interest in the iPhone and it's not all marketing, the touch interface is really sweet, however you would expect the novelty factor to wear off after a while. It didn't happen. It seems that even now, every time the tiniest update to iPhone-related stuff is published, it gets front page coverage and ok, that is no accident, iPhone news sell and that's a huge marketing power but it's crazy to see it plastered everywhere like that.
In terms of smartphones the iPhone is not for me (I'm getting a Touch Pro 2 as I'd rather have a real keyboard) but I was kind of semi-interested in a iPod Touch, so I still follow the news.
I swear it's like the damn thing is going to save the world. Even for nerds there must be other topics of conversation, right?
I think I've reached the point of hype backlash. I might have been somewhat interested in the iPhone at the beginning, but now I'm just tired of seeing it everywhere.
I bow to the Apple marketing team though. They are doing a truly excellent job. Honestly.
Am I the only one seeing that she got a tattoo of a 3, made with little stars ?
Oops, it's actually quarter-million, my bad. (Still excessive though so the point still stands)
I think the focus here should be for the defence (may actually be, I don't know) that the fees to pay be reduced to an "acceptable" level, meaning not the life-ruining, impossible-to-pay-unless-you-re-gazillionaire fees demanded by the RIAA.
She "stole" 24 songs. Let her pay a fine of a few hundreds bucks and fucking be done with it. Asking for half a million in damages should be laughed at by any sensible court system, and that's the real problem here.
Plus, people often forget that with the sky falling it's actually cheaper to get there! Win!
Not just that, a GUI interface made in Visual Basic. Now I can get everyone's IP address!
MWAHAHAHAHAHA! >:D
That said, YMMV.
I vaguely remember someone finding the head of one of the triads on top of one of the buildings, walking around in a loop before his official apparition ingame. He fired up the editor, teleported him, made him 50ft tall and got him to walk around the level Godzilla-style. Funny stuff.
"Continued Fantasy" would probably suit the series better. How many finals can you get? ;)
If I had to venture a guess, I'd say the dupes come from the backup repository every few month automatically.
It's a bit like DX. What I heard about DX3 tends to indicate it will be rather different from the original in major areas such as gameplay, in spite of Eidos's claims to the contrary. Of course, we'll just have to wait until the game ships to find out. Now Thief 4? I read about the pre-dev concepts Ion Storm Austin was working on shortly before they went under and it was an interesting take, redoing the original game in a modern setting. Obviously though, given it's only just been officially announced, there's no info yet as to what direction they're going for at Eidos.
As always, we cross fingers and hope they won't fuck it up. If they don't pull a Levine and actually keep their promises on Deus Ex 3, a fourth Thief game will be more than welcome. (No offense to Mr. Levine, but BioShock while fun in its own right was not Shock)
Now the question is under French law can he sue? If he can, the next question is will it make him less employable suing an ex-employer?
He absolutely can sue. There's a special court for employer/employee disagreements called the Prudhommes, and he will probably sue TF1 for wrongful termination.
I don't know much about law myself, but his lawyers should have a field day with this. He would have to screw up the case royally to lose it: It was a private email address and a private communication which his employer should never have heard about, and secondly, it is forbidden by law to fire someone on political grounds in France.
In theory this shouldn't affect his future professionally, however seeing how the world works, I'm not so sure.
Dammit. :D
What little sympathy I may have had for them is completely gone. It's one thing to disagree with some law, but obscenities and insults are just out of line.
Morons.
So, fellow browncoats, we were on the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one though ;)
The fact is, regardless of the quality of games, you had your console fail 3 times in three years. Consoles are supposed to be like, I don't know, the VCRs of gaming. Easy, no sweat, literally plug and play. Such a failure rate is simply unacceptable, and the behavior of gamers like you is precisely why Microsoft doesn't bother making it right.
Not that they have a spotless track record anyway.
It's one thing to understand your console may be bricked at some point during its lifetime, but when you know it will, and it could very much be when you open the box...
Warranty or not, I don't get it. The whole 360 mess is a shame of epic proportions.
That said, building a brilliant game around one single innovative feature can be done: the concept behind Portal was absurdingly simple and the end result is awesome and more importantly, it's tons of fun.
It sheds a light on the infrastructure at least. Their implementation may not be very bright, but that's quite enlightening nonetheless. Many others would just keep us in the dark.
I'm at work, enviro-conscious, and I love my company. So I'll turn my workstation off right n
I'm not disappointed by the PS3, I actually have quite a lot of fun with it, but I'd have bought a 360 Elite instead a long time ago if it weren't for the litany of failures reported everyfuckinwhere.
The games are cool, but they managed to ruin this making the hardware a piece of crap. Mod me troll if you like, that's just how it is.