In my first runthrough of Doom 3 I was rather disappointed. Not only were my memories of the previous games absolutely stellar, but thanks to id's open sourced engines there were graphically superior iterations that played every bit as smoothly as the DOS originals. Beating that is a tall order, even for id.
Inexplicably I got a hankering for Doom 3 again several months later. I installed a mod that gave me all the door codes (you need a pen and paper otherwise) and suddenly I had a really great time! Door codes aside, I think I had pooped on my own party by equating Doom 3 with its predecessors.
I really don't think I am the exception. Canadian law professor Michael Geist did an analysis report on a CRIA (Canadian RIAA) study on which demographics "steal" the most music. It turns out that the worst P2P offenders are also the second largest purchasers! This is hardly proof that P2P and sales are related in any way, which is exactly Geist's point.
Even online music stores are a huge ripoff. I live near 2 amazing used music stores and I've bought more CDs than I ever have in my life. I was in heaven a few months back when one of the stores had a clearance on tons of electronica albums - I bought 35 CDs for $65! And then, while waiting for my girlfriend to finish shopping, I found a few more, and the store owner thanked me again for all my patronage and told me take those CDs for free! What online retailer would ever do that?
And I feel I'm obligated to say that I share (inbound much more than outbound) a lot of music, yet I am pumping a hell of a lot of money into the industry. I purchase many albums I download because I DJ and can't afford crappy bitrates. P2P is the best marketing tool of all time and the RIAA should thank its lucky stars for "pirates".
For one thing, the SNES version was 256 colour and the Genesis one was 16 colour. IIRC SNES had bigger sprites but Genesis was a little quicker and had more animations. Also, the 6-button Genesis controller had that handy 3x3 button configuration while SNES had 2x2 and L and R on the shoulders.
SNES had superior hardware but the two systems were very popular and developers really knew how to squeeze every drop out of them.
If you're talking about assigning your static IP to DMZ then don't expect anti-lag miracles. This just means that you are telling your router not to analyze data that is sent to that IP address. This simply forwards the packets and saves a tiny amount of CPU time. Don't expect to see ping time improvements of more than 4ms, and even that is generous.
I ran a POP3/SMTP server for many years. It was a great experience and I learned volumes. Especially about open relays. One day I investigated why no email was being sent or recieved, and found an 800MB cache file clogging up the works thanks to 40,000 spams being sent from China. That took a little while to mop up.
Spam became such a nuisance that I recently migrated to Google's free Gmail for your domain hosting service. It's webmail and POP3 client complient and the spam filter is a friggin marvel. It intercepts at least 199 of every 200 spams. I highly recommend their service! Free access gets you 25 addresses with 2GB each!
"But I know people who use email accounts as a repository for their online lives."
I guess it was just a simpler time, but somehow I kept a pretty prolific archive for about 7 years in my 2MB Hotmail quota. Microsoft had bought the service not long before they performed a bunch of maintenance, added features, and imposed downtimes every so often. On one occasion they were performing an upgrade but provided limited functionality in the interim. I took the opportunity to do a little housecleaning, deleting unneeded archived email and contacts.
When Hotmail returned to full functionality all my old mail and contacts were gone. Kaput. I emailed their customer service department who replied surprisingly quickly, saying that because I had modified content in my account during maintenance they were not able to recover any of my data. Even my filtering and sorting preferences had been lost.
What else could I do? I shrugged it off and got on with my life. It really sucked losing that nice email from happy hardcore DJ Anabolic Frolic though.
I had my own run-in with a Norton false positive. For some reason, my newly acquired copy of NAV took exception to a file on my desktop called "Norton Antivirus 2003 keygen.exe". IIRC it labelled it as "malware\keygen". I checked the file with several web AV tools and it was clean. What could the problem have been?
A gameshow buzzer sounds like an awesome peripheral to help bring in a new gamer demographic! I imagine the Wiimote could do this with the greatest of ease. But still, is this enough to get an otherwise non-gamer to buy a $250, $399, or $599 system?
I was just about to post "Nobody will buy a console to play Bejewelled" but then I remembered Tetris and the Game Boy. But will this work for TV consoles?
I really enjoyed the photography too, as well as slowly upgrading the camera. It's a beautiful game and the camera was a good excuse to play slowly and enjoy the scenery! I especially liked having to photograph the male and female dragon thingies together in one picture!
Don't do it -- don't give the Federal government ANY chance to regulate or require ANYTHING.
It's not necessary to be proactive about this. It will just happen. Like water, human interest will flow through the path of least resistance. That's why so many people download movies and music - the alternatives are more work and less satisfying. Where there is a crippled internet there will always be 1000 untethered darknets.
Industry, and later government, will adapt or die. For instance, look at your beloved hobby of old - BBSing is still exceptionally popular but it has adapted to modern times by hosting "nodes" on telnet ports instead of phone wires. As a result of this infrastructure keeping up with the times, old school networks like DOVEnet and FIDOnet, as well as interBBS door games like BRE and LORD are still going strong.
The people will act, if not speak, and the world will work its ass off to keep up with them. Music stores now sell blank tapes and CDs. The movie industry is ramping up to distribute its products legally via Bittorrent. TV shows are starting to use integrated advertising to combat Tivo.
Just keep living the good life today and big business will catch up in 5 years. Keep on muddling.
I have nothing insightful to add to this discussion. Just wanted to post an image of this wicked shirt from the recent HOPE conference making fun of Ted Steven's dumbassery:
Nintendo and Quantic Dream need to get together!! The controls in Indigo Prophecy (aka Fahrenheit without boobies) were really revolutionary - analog joysticks were used to open every door, press every button, and flush every toilet. A game with a good story that is interactive to this heightened degree would make a KILLING with hardcore and casual gamers alike. Graphics would almost be irrelevant in this kind of game - it could even work with a text adventure! Alternatively, they could go the Gabriel Knight 2 / Phantasmagoria route and depict real scenes with full motion video!
Yeah, it was my understanding that The Sims, with all its addons, was the top selling game of all time. I'm sure Myst and The 7th Guest and probably a sleeper hit like Bejewelled are all up there as well.
I've watched a bunch of E3 keynotes that I found on Bittorrent and I found them mostly very informative. The Sony talks are by far the most professional as they have a technical slant whereas Nintendo and especially Microsoft are rah-rah sessions by marketing jerks. From what I've read about the "interactive" booth areas of E3 it sounds like it's pretty much a series of standing in long lines, unintentionally rubbing up against stinky fat people, playing alpha versions of immature software, and getting promotional freebies.
It sounds to me like much of E3 is expendable, but do we really expect Crysoft to speak for an hour on a huge stage about their next first person shooter on an island? I guess they'll have to maintain some semblance of the old expo.
Also, in the latest PC Gamer one of the editors, Logan Decker, writes a short column describing the downstairs poor man's booths where he often sees the most outlandish and exciting stuff from designers and manufacturers that can't afford the high profile upstairs freakshow. He saw stuff like H.R. Giger-inspired water cooling kits and German sex games. Will the little guy make it in to a smaller E3?
For: A Joystick Under a Napkin
From: STD
Appeared in: EGM, September 1994
Of course I'm prepared. I covered my joystick with a napkin to protect it from lightning strikes weeks ago. The imagery here doesn't capture the excitement of one-on-one fighting games so much as it looks like someone trying to hide an embarrassing erection at a restaurant.
Slashdot Mirror
In my first runthrough of Doom 3 I was rather disappointed. Not only were my memories of the previous games absolutely stellar, but thanks to id's open sourced engines there were graphically superior iterations that played every bit as smoothly as the DOS originals. Beating that is a tall order, even for id.
Inexplicably I got a hankering for Doom 3 again several months later. I installed a mod that gave me all the door codes (you need a pen and paper otherwise) and suddenly I had a really great time! Door codes aside, I think I had pooped on my own party by equating Doom 3 with its predecessors.
I'm not sure how they do it in the States but in Canada used music stores pay a percentage to CRIA.
I really don't think I am the exception. Canadian law professor Michael Geist did an analysis report on a CRIA (Canadian RIAA) study on which demographics "steal" the most music. It turns out that the worst P2P offenders are also the second largest purchasers! This is hardly proof that P2P and sales are related in any way, which is exactly Geist's point.
Even online music stores are a huge ripoff. I live near 2 amazing used music stores and I've bought more CDs than I ever have in my life. I was in heaven a few months back when one of the stores had a clearance on tons of electronica albums - I bought 35 CDs for $65! And then, while waiting for my girlfriend to finish shopping, I found a few more, and the store owner thanked me again for all my patronage and told me take those CDs for free! What online retailer would ever do that?
And I feel I'm obligated to say that I share (inbound much more than outbound) a lot of music, yet I am pumping a hell of a lot of money into the industry. I purchase many albums I download because I DJ and can't afford crappy bitrates. P2P is the best marketing tool of all time and the RIAA should thank its lucky stars for "pirates".
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/01/07/dvd_jon_is _free_official/
For one thing, the SNES version was 256 colour and the Genesis one was 16 colour. IIRC SNES had bigger sprites but Genesis was a little quicker and had more animations. Also, the 6-button Genesis controller had that handy 3x3 button configuration while SNES had 2x2 and L and R on the shoulders.
SNES had superior hardware but the two systems were very popular and developers really knew how to squeeze every drop out of them.
If you're talking about assigning your static IP to DMZ then don't expect anti-lag miracles. This just means that you are telling your router not to analyze data that is sent to that IP address. This simply forwards the packets and saves a tiny amount of CPU time. Don't expect to see ping time improvements of more than 4ms, and even that is generous.
Unless you're in a union. Then the unemployment benefit is being rehired at the same wage.
I ran a POP3/SMTP server for many years. It was a great experience and I learned volumes. Especially about open relays. One day I investigated why no email was being sent or recieved, and found an 800MB cache file clogging up the works thanks to 40,000 spams being sent from China. That took a little while to mop up.
Spam became such a nuisance that I recently migrated to Google's free Gmail for your domain hosting service. It's webmail and POP3 client complient and the spam filter is a friggin marvel. It intercepts at least 199 of every 200 spams. I highly recommend their service! Free access gets you 25 addresses with 2GB each!
(I'm so nervous seeing that on my screen I'm afraid to hit the "Submit" button)
Don't worry. I think you have to `backquote` it to delete Slashdot.
"But I know people who use email accounts as a repository for their online lives."
I guess it was just a simpler time, but somehow I kept a pretty prolific archive for about 7 years in my 2MB Hotmail quota. Microsoft had bought the service not long before they performed a bunch of maintenance, added features, and imposed downtimes every so often. On one occasion they were performing an upgrade but provided limited functionality in the interim. I took the opportunity to do a little housecleaning, deleting unneeded archived email and contacts.
When Hotmail returned to full functionality all my old mail and contacts were gone. Kaput. I emailed their customer service department who replied surprisingly quickly, saying that because I had modified content in my account during maintenance they were not able to recover any of my data. Even my filtering and sorting preferences had been lost.
What else could I do? I shrugged it off and got on with my life. It really sucked losing that nice email from happy hardcore DJ Anabolic Frolic though.
I had my own run-in with a Norton false positive. For some reason, my newly acquired copy of NAV took exception to a file on my desktop called "Norton Antivirus 2003 keygen.exe". IIRC it labelled it as "malware\keygen". I checked the file with several web AV tools and it was clean. What could the problem have been?
P.s., Avast FTW!
A gameshow buzzer sounds like an awesome peripheral to help bring in a new gamer demographic! I imagine the Wiimote could do this with the greatest of ease. But still, is this enough to get an otherwise non-gamer to buy a $250, $399, or $599 system?
I was just about to post "Nobody will buy a console to play Bejewelled" but then I remembered Tetris and the Game Boy. But will this work for TV consoles?
I really enjoyed the photography too, as well as slowly upgrading the camera. It's a beautiful game and the camera was a good excuse to play slowly and enjoy the scenery! I especially liked having to photograph the male and female dragon thingies together in one picture!
Yade! Yade? Great job Yade!
Where do you live that stores let you return PC games? Jupiter?
"You feel that sting, boy? That's pride fucking with you. Fuck pride. Pride only hurts."
Marcellus Wallace, Pulp Fiction
Don't do it -- don't give the Federal government ANY chance to regulate or require ANYTHING.
It's not necessary to be proactive about this. It will just happen. Like water, human interest will flow through the path of least resistance. That's why so many people download movies and music - the alternatives are more work and less satisfying. Where there is a crippled internet there will always be 1000 untethered darknets.
Industry, and later government, will adapt or die. For instance, look at your beloved hobby of old - BBSing is still exceptionally popular but it has adapted to modern times by hosting "nodes" on telnet ports instead of phone wires. As a result of this infrastructure keeping up with the times, old school networks like DOVEnet and FIDOnet, as well as interBBS door games like BRE and LORD are still going strong.
The people will act, if not speak, and the world will work its ass off to keep up with them. Music stores now sell blank tapes and CDs. The movie industry is ramping up to distribute its products legally via Bittorrent. TV shows are starting to use integrated advertising to combat Tivo.
Just keep living the good life today and big business will catch up in 5 years. Keep on muddling.
I have nothing insightful to add to this discussion. Just wanted to post an image of this wicked shirt from the recent HOPE conference making fun of Ted Steven's dumbassery:
o f_tubes.html
If you really want to know what the internet is, read World of Ends.
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/07/23/best_series_
Nintendo and Quantic Dream need to get together!! The controls in Indigo Prophecy (aka Fahrenheit without boobies) were really revolutionary - analog joysticks were used to open every door, press every button, and flush every toilet. A game with a good story that is interactive to this heightened degree would make a KILLING with hardcore and casual gamers alike. Graphics would almost be irrelevant in this kind of game - it could even work with a text adventure! Alternatively, they could go the Gabriel Knight 2 / Phantasmagoria route and depict real scenes with full motion video!
Mirrordot cache: http://www.mirrordot.com/find-mirror.html?http://n ext-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view &id=3537&Itemid=2
This link works sometimes but not others. I was going to paste the article but there's about 3 sentences X 100 listings so it's not really feasible.
Yeah, it was my understanding that The Sims, with all its addons, was the top selling game of all time. I'm sure Myst and The 7th Guest and probably a sleeper hit like Bejewelled are all up there as well.
I've watched a bunch of E3 keynotes that I found on Bittorrent and I found them mostly very informative. The Sony talks are by far the most professional as they have a technical slant whereas Nintendo and especially Microsoft are rah-rah sessions by marketing jerks. From what I've read about the "interactive" booth areas of E3 it sounds like it's pretty much a series of standing in long lines, unintentionally rubbing up against stinky fat people, playing alpha versions of immature software, and getting promotional freebies.
It sounds to me like much of E3 is expendable, but do we really expect Crysoft to speak for an hour on a huge stage about their next first person shooter on an island? I guess they'll have to maintain some semblance of the old expo.
Also, in the latest PC Gamer one of the editors, Logan Decker, writes a short column describing the downstairs poor man's booths where he often sees the most outlandish and exciting stuff from designers and manufacturers that can't afford the high profile upstairs freakshow. He saw stuff like H.R. Giger-inspired water cooling kits and German sex games. Will the little guy make it in to a smaller E3?
I'm sorry to just post something verbatim from the site but this had me rolling on the floor:
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http://www.1up.com/do/feature?pager.offset=6&cId=
For: A Joystick Under a Napkin
From: STD
Appeared in: EGM, September 1994
Of course I'm prepared. I covered my joystick with a napkin to protect it from lightning strikes weeks ago. The imagery here doesn't capture the excitement of one-on-one fighting games so much as it looks like someone trying to hide an embarrassing erection at a restaurant.