I think the danger lies when company X's IT department sells their old computers on ebay and doesn't protect your info for your medical insurance, 401k, social security number, CC number etc. I think it's more worrysome at the enterprise level rather than the individual level. It's not very pratical to go through all that effort to recover one CC number from somone's computer or their web logs just to see that the spend all day on the Jelly of the Month Club Web Forums. But if you got yourself Visa'a database...$
From my experience it is very unlikey that someone could do a media buy without revealing the client to the publisher. However it is possible to rotate dirrent ads through the buy. Personally I think this boycott is silly. If MS wants to waster thier money to what amounts to the opposite of preaching to the quior then who cares. I highly doubt the linux community is influenced by these ads so why not let the linux websites earn some money from them?
It seems to me the article places the blame mostly on the accesibility device and software manufacturers for overlooking the gamers not gamers overlooking the disabled. This is a fascinating point in my opinion. It also occured to me that the two best bets to bringing games to the disabled are for cookie cutter type pulgins and hardware that fit with existing games as well as the disabled themselves modifying or creating games specifically designed to be accessible. Both of which seem to be taking place. Also, it occured to me when they mentioned making Mario Brothers sound only, certain types of diabilities could lead to wholy different gameplay senarios because of the heightened senses that some people have developed as a result of their disability. Which is something "normal" people (yeah those "quotes" are for you in the red hat, you know who you are) might never get to experience. Or perhaps it could lead to innovation that would bring new gaming types to the masses.
"George has been so into creating parallels with the first three movies."
Which has been one of his biggest problems. I think he spent so much time asking himself if the details of the movie such made sense that he forgot to ask himself "are they any good?" Of course from what I understand he didn't write much of the first three so that might have been one of his problems. That and the cutesy stuff and his "let me explain everything" style. Ok this is a little bit of a rant but I guess It's easy to be disappointed with the high expatations the trilogy left us with.
Maybe the games are for smarter gamers except for that fact that they often fail to allow you do perform the smartest of actions. There have been countless times in say something like splinter cell where I could tell I would be better off crouching under some railing then the path they chose for me only to find an "invisible wall of game design" which for me totally ruins the suspension of disbelief. That said, Ion storm has also lost a lot of cred with me by making DX:IW so linear and so xboxy so I veiw theif with a truckload of skepticism so that might be my bias I don't know:)
"Unlike HTML, there are no common Flash widgets (or at least none that I've seen in various places). "
Flash has had common 'widgets' for the past 3 versions. (they have issues, particularly with implementation but that's another discussion and not a problem limited to flash)
The Washington Post and NY Times often have nice Flash side-bars that can make an electoral map or poll results come alive. But in general, I don't think Flash enhances the web experience.
I don't understand, didn't you just describe how it does enhances experiences? Just because you dont like the way people use a technology doen't mean it's bad. Hell, I've seen some pretty nasty HTML code in my day, doesnt mean the language is bad. I agree Flash has it's place but I think the slashdot crowd has a real knee-jerk reaction to flash because it's used in so many ads, hence the original poster's flash troll was so effective.
I don't see why this post was modded as a troll and this is coming from someone who is far from a sony fanboi (don't even own a Playstation but I do have a GBA).
Sony did what sony does best - it made the PSP look cool. This will help A LOT as I am sure both systems will be able to play games well.
I'll say I have to agree nintendo is making a big mistake with the DS -- it's got cool advanced features but they might be hard to market to kids (bluetooth,wi-fi,dual screen,touchscreen) which is nintendo's traditional market. And it may be losing some of it's best features (compact size, battery life?) I dont really know. All I know is when I first heard of the DS, all I could think was what a silly idea it was and I usually am not the critical of new products. It's all comes down to a big "we'll see". But if i were nintendo I would be shaking in my boots (or muchrooms as the case may be) because the compitition looks to be feirce.
The thing that boggles my mind is that they are taking a (relatively) diverse channel and merging it with one (G4) that has such an even smaller niche audience that it only comprised 1 show in techTV's lineup. The various articles around the web make it seem almost egotistical as if comcast would think their video game channel is on par or even better than techTV. Don't get me wrong I think more gaming shows are a Good Thing(TM), it's just that this seems like bad business to me. Why not try and turn the business around if it's not making money?
"Body Hits" and "Nerd Nation" were pretty good shows -- I never much cared for "Spy School" or "Consipracies" however. If I had my way with their line up (yeah I know your glad i dont)
I would have
-xplay
-nerd nation
-body hits
-screensavers
and I'd lose
-conspiracies
-spy school
-robot wars (that guy is sooooo anoying)
and I could go either way on
-anime
-call for help (why not)
-fresh gear
-tech live
As another poset said UT 2004 has a "broadcast" type function where many people can connect and watch the match without causing much server lag.
Also Painkiller has a "demo" record function is which games can be recorded and played back by otheres who own the game. Very cool stuff. I think maybe it's time to try out some ladders;)
This might save you some money for 2 teenage gamers:)
please note though, I have yet to try it this service so this is not an endorsement... but the idea seems like such a good one (basically netflix for games) I am really just waiting till my next game to sign up.
well you question is not to the heart of what I was saying but if you must no i do have google on most of my computers and even had it on this one but it was an old version of the toolbar that didnt have the blocker and i had other software already doing blocking for me so i was lazy about updating google.:)
Advertisers don't really know about pop up blockers - ad agencies and ad supported websites know but it's in THEIR best interest to serve up as many impressions as they can whether or not people actually buy anything. Some advertisers are wise to the web and would want to look at the correlation between an ad campaign and sales but the vast majority just think of it as magic computer stuff. And very often it's used for whats called a "branding" campaign rather that a "call to action" campaign. And to tell the truth when an advertiser subverts my pop-up blocker (about 1 in 100) I dont rembember that they are evil for very long if I even notice at all much less than "blacklisting" them for life as you would suggest. I would suspect many people have experiences like this as well and thus the branding exercise is a fruitfull one for the advertiser even if they did piss you off in the process.
I may be stereo typing a little hear but I think these reasons give a little insight as to why people do these types of things.
on a better note there are more companies going after targeted and quality impressions like google and looking at the domain you are connecting from (ie are you surfing the web from your office at a fortune 500?) and this is a good thing. but as someone who works for a very large ad supporeted website I can tell you that this isn't what we push because the impression counts are very low when you target that specifically.
I am no chipset expert but I am just now looking into builing my own system for the first time. So in all the research I have been doing in preperation, this chipset has come up A LOT. But the reason it came up was not the firewall or RAID controller -- no, the thing that caused the most anticipation of this chipset was the AGP/PCI lock which now enables Athalon 64 to be overclocked which was supposedly diffucult to do (I gather because you could fry your grappics and sound cards without a lock on them)
I am actually kinda suprised that nobody has mentioned it, including the poster.
But dont forget there are a fair number who download who would have never bought and some who download because there is nowhere to buy what they are looking for. Otherwise I agree whith what you are saying, just don't want those 2 groups left from the discussion.
On first glance I'd have to agree with the AC poster here and I don't know why he was modded as a troll. In fact the parent seems like a troll simply because he gives no detail about this "rip off" of buy.com.
Conlinramsay, if you're not trolling can you humour us with a little more info on this incedent? I am inclined to be skeptical without it.
Another interesting thing to consider -- as a recent snap names customer, (for a domain I feel I have the right to but don't own and dont want to pay ICANN $1000 to arbitrate) this would really negate the value of snapnames. In fact if the ower of the domain I want were to purchase 100 years I would certainly want my money back from snapnames.
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I think the danger lies when company X's IT department sells their old computers on ebay and doesn't protect your info for your medical insurance, 401k, social security number, CC number etc. I think it's more worrysome at the enterprise level rather than the individual level. It's not very pratical to go through all that effort to recover one CC number from somone's computer or their web logs just to see that the spend all day on the Jelly of the Month Club Web Forums. But if you got yourself Visa'a database...$
From my experience it is very unlikey that someone could do a media buy without revealing the client to the publisher. However it is possible to rotate dirrent ads through the buy. Personally I think this boycott is silly. If MS wants to waster thier money to what amounts to the opposite of preaching to the quior then who cares. I highly doubt the linux community is influenced by these ads so why not let the linux websites earn some money from them?
Also, if you act now you can SmartBuy my new AntiSkyFaller for 3 easy paments of just 49.99. That's $20 less than your air filter. Call now.
could linus sue these guys for libel? not that I would advocate that but I was wondering whether there would be legal basis for such a suit.
It seems to me the article places the blame mostly on the accesibility device and software manufacturers for overlooking the gamers not gamers overlooking the disabled. This is a fascinating point in my opinion. It also occured to me that the two best bets to bringing games to the disabled are for cookie cutter type pulgins and hardware that fit with existing games as well as the disabled themselves modifying or creating games specifically designed to be accessible. Both of which seem to be taking place. Also, it occured to me when they mentioned making Mario Brothers sound only, certain types of diabilities could lead to wholy different gameplay senarios because of the heightened senses that some people have developed as a result of their disability. Which is something "normal" people (yeah those "quotes" are for you in the red hat, you know who you are) might never get to experience. Or perhaps it could lead to innovation that would bring new gaming types to the masses.
Which has been one of his biggest problems. I think he spent so much time asking himself if the details of the movie such made sense that he forgot to ask himself "are they any good?" Of course from what I understand he didn't write much of the first three so that might have been one of his problems. That and the cutesy stuff and his "let me explain everything" style. Ok this is a little bit of a rant but I guess It's easy to be disappointed with the high expatations the trilogy left us with.
a post with the title "clever" and the text "very clever" in a story about a "worm's worm" moderated as "redundant".
It's like rain on a rainy day.
Flash has had common 'widgets' for the past 3 versions. (they have issues, particularly with implementation but that's another discussion and not a problem limited to flash)
The Washington Post and NY Times often have nice Flash side-bars that can make an electoral map or poll results come alive. But in general, I don't think Flash enhances the web experience.
I don't understand, didn't you just describe how it does enhances experiences? Just because you dont like the way people use a technology doen't mean it's bad. Hell, I've seen some pretty nasty HTML code in my day, doesnt mean the language is bad. I agree Flash has it's place but I think the slashdot crowd has a real knee-jerk reaction to flash because it's used in so many ads, hence the original poster's flash troll was so effective.
Sony did what sony does best - it made the PSP look cool. This will help A LOT as I am sure both systems will be able to play games well.
I'll say I have to agree nintendo is making a big mistake with the DS -- it's got cool advanced features but they might be hard to market to kids (bluetooth,wi-fi,dual screen,touchscreen) which is nintendo's traditional market. And it may be losing some of it's best features (compact size, battery life?) I dont really know. All I know is when I first heard of the DS, all I could think was what a silly idea it was and I usually am not the critical of new products. It's all comes down to a big "we'll see". But if i were nintendo I would be shaking in my boots (or muchrooms as the case may be) because the compitition looks to be feirce.
The thing that boggles my mind is that they are taking a (relatively) diverse channel and merging it with one (G4) that has such an even smaller niche audience that it only comprised 1 show in techTV's lineup. The various articles around the web make it seem almost egotistical as if comcast would think their video game channel is on par or even better than techTV. Don't get me wrong I think more gaming shows are a Good Thing(TM), it's just that this seems like bad business to me. Why not try and turn the business around if it's not making money?
"Body Hits" and "Nerd Nation" were pretty good shows -- I never much cared for "Spy School" or "Consipracies" however. If I had my way with their line up (yeah I know your glad i dont)
I would have
-xplay
-nerd nation
-body hits
-screensavers
and I'd lose
-conspiracies
-spy school
-robot wars (that guy is sooooo anoying)
and I could go either way on
-anime
-call for help (why not)
-fresh gear
-tech live
Also Painkiller has a "demo" record function is which games can be recorded and played back by otheres who own the game. Very cool stuff. I think maybe it's time to try out some ladders ;)
This might save you some money for 2 teenage gamers :)
please note though, I have yet to try it this service so this is not an endorsement... but the idea seems like such a good one (basically netflix for games) I am really just waiting till my next game to sign up.
well you question is not to the heart of what I was saying but if you must no i do have google on most of my computers and even had it on this one but it was an old version of the toolbar that didnt have the blocker and i had other software already doing blocking for me so i was lazy about updating google. :)
I may be stereo typing a little hear but I think these reasons give a little insight as to why people do these types of things.
on a better note there are more companies going after targeted and quality impressions like google and looking at the domain you are connecting from (ie are you surfing the web from your office at a fortune 500?) and this is a good thing. but as someone who works for a very large ad supporeted website I can tell you that this isn't what we push because the impression counts are very low when you target that specifically.
I am actually kinda suprised that nobody has mentioned it, including the poster.
and while I am at it google news should really be called noogle. thank you and dont forget to try the shrimp
Why not Moogle?
your honour i'd like to plead the fifth :)
Welcome newcomer! There are many wonderful things to discover here at slashdot and may I be the first to wish you well on your exploration.
But dont forget there are a fair number who download who would have never bought and some who download because there is nowhere to buy what they are looking for. Otherwise I agree whith what you are saying, just don't want those 2 groups left from the discussion.
Conlinramsay, if you're not trolling can you humour us with a little more info on this incedent? I am inclined to be skeptical without it.
Another interesting thing to consider -- as a recent snap names customer, (for a domain I feel I have the right to but don't own and dont want to pay ICANN $1000 to arbitrate) this would really negate the value of snapnames. In fact if the ower of the domain I want were to purchase 100 years I would certainly want my money back from snapnames.
(yes it's a joke)