Yes but wouldn't you think the very meaning of the word unlimited means lacking in all limits? not just one specifit type of limit? Seems like if they think that's a legal loophole they are only opening themselves up to class action lawsuits...
unlimited adj.
Having no restrictions or controls: an unlimited travel ticket.
Having or seeming to have no boundaries; infinite: an unlimited horizon.
Without qualification or exception; absolute: unlimited self-confidence.
while you may have been moderated flaimbait (and maybe righlty so I dunno really) you do have a point there. Trying to port games platform to platform with a little work as possible makes for some terrible games. I dont think anyone can argue against that and I think it works both ways. But, I think there are companies out there that can port and they port well. However, Ion Storm is not one of them. But off the top of my head -- rockstar and bioware have seemed to do ok so it's not impossible.
What is really of note here (in my opinion) is that this is a ploy for doubleclick et al. to make more money for themselves but not their advertisers. You would think that delivering ads to people that have installed ad blocking software is a big old "duh that's counterintuitive" But this is because ads are tracked by "impressions" and advertising clients pay a certain about based upon each million of impressions they get which is called a cost per million or CPM.
So in essence, by circumventing ad blocking doubleclick et al are delivering more inventory (in the form of impressions) to their clients for which they get extra money. However, this "inventory" would have a high percentage of users who are only angered by the ads or in otherwords a high percentage of "defective product." This is important because the Media buying agencies understand this point and thus this is why Google and sprinks and overture are gaining significant ground. And it's also why text links and small button size ads actually do better than pop ups at growing clients businesses -- contrary to what the article poster is claiming.
Well there is precedent for Virii being used to combat bacteria and it would seem logical that you could do the same for cancer cells because you could target their specific DNA although I am no doctor (far from it actually).
I dont think you can blame maxis for this. This guy has lost touch with reality to some extent and was trying to force maxis into several roles that they didnt want to (and shouldn't) be in.
But even if Ludlow was censored, is that wrong? Ludlow says so. He just completed reading a biography of Benjamin Franklin, and "the Pennsylvania Colony, at the time, was basically the possession of the Penn family. Franklin had the temerity to say to them, 'It's not your world.' And a question is going to begin to arise in some of these worlds about exactly how arbitrary and capricious game owners can be just because they're maintaining the infrastructure for a virtual community."
This claim is ridiculous -- can he really not tell the difference between a real life colony and a virtual world? The Penn family didn't create the grass people walked on or the air they breathed. Wheras Maxis created everything. I think this shows how he has lost touch. He has taken the game too seriously and feels like he owns part of it. This is a natural recation but it's just not true in the end. It's Maxis's game through and through.
As for the story that they reported to the authorities about hearing a kid mention he beat his sister -- I cant see why that is any of maxis's resposibility. How many people do you think talk in chat rooms an in online games about bad things they have done which may or may not be true. Also, How many people make false reports of such stories? This is role that maxis COULDN'T perform logistically even if it wanted to. And, if it did police the chat with a heavy hand people would be up in arms about it and rightly so.
Also, he was generating a lot of bad publicity ( he was a self-described muck racker) for the game. This happens all the time and lots of people get banned from all sorts games for it and sometimes for even worse reasons like GM's being in a bad mood. It seems that his problem wasn't with the game but rather with the people it attracted. It seems like he had no problem with the game except that it wasn't the happy go lucky world that he imagined. And that's what he complained about. And those are the complaints he went around advertising by putting his site in everything.
Don't get me wrong though, I dont think he is a bad guy and I do think the newbie griefers should be banned too. But I don't this that maxis did the wrong thing either. From their perspective I could see this guy as someone who is really just there to complain about all that is wrong with people. Maybe that doesn't deserve a totall ban, but I think we should imagine what it was that HE was doing wrong before we jump down Maxi's throat with sensationalist stories about evil corporations. In the end it is they who have the chat logs and he only has his word.
>> The essence of this, distinguished from "real" copyright violations, is that you can only give away the original once, and so you cannot mass produce the effect of that lost copyright. Or so my understanding goes...
so if you had kaza running but nobody grabbed the same song from you more than once wouldn't that fit within this qualifier?
interesting...but is there any way to make this work on a per song basis? I mean without the scarieness that is micropayments. Great Idea they've (you've) got there though.
Oh I definitely agree with you. I just think that if there were some data about the two we could really get a good idea of exactly how much of an effect ITMS is having. If we had a graph of ipod sales next to one of ITMS it would open up a whole new way of looking at it.
I suppose this is where I am expected to say something along the lines of, "I thought the recording industry said that this business model wouldn't work, that people won't pay for what they can download for free?" So, there you go.
if you dont have anything to say...don't say it.
if you think the story isn't worth posting...dont' post it
seriously do we really need a story every time ITMS reaches a nice number? 10 million, 20 million, 25 million...
It's popular we get it.
The real question is how is this affecting sales of ipods since it has already been determined that Apple doesn't make much if any money off of ITMS.
Although you are asking an honest question, you use a slippery slope premise. The middle ground is checks and balances which is what we had before. I dont think anyone is saying it will destroy us but rather that it is unethical inappropriate and *potentially* detrimental for these people to have such power hence the need for checks and balances.
What defines abandonware? Seems like there could be problems with that. For instance, in the publishing industry it is possible for a company to sit on a book that has gone stale for decades only to republish it someday when it looks to be profitable again. What's to stop a software company from making the same (possibly illogical?) argument?
I really don't see a problem with AOL closing security holes in windows. And I would suspect that most people would want theses changes. The only thing thats questionable is that they are doing it unbeknownst to their users. But can't you see why AOL newbies would be pretty confused if they were told about this? Granted there is a doulbe standard with how the FBI would treat this but this is hardly something to hold up and say "AOL are evil Haxors"
The pencil tool does work but it does not have the same flexibility as the old line tool. And while the line tool is still there, it has lost it's ability to turn off anti-aliasing.
Not only did they switch keyboard shortcuts but they removed functinality... It's now considerably harder to draw a single pixel line. And I can't imagine what they were thinking when one of their core audiences is pixel pushers. I am honestly so fed up with them it's time to go learn Maya or something.
-just another pixel pusher
MP!=FPS (i know i know semantics:)
still i dont think replay value applies to MP I would be happy to play it once or twice a year to go through it again because the story is what is good about it. It's funny because you knock some games as being more of the same but can't seem to recognise what's different. It almost sounds like you just don't like games.
On the other hand I think that I do agree with you in that there is room for improvement. The game designers i think need to think out of the box more -- that would really take these news ragdoll and realistic physics engines to the next level. They need to incorporate it into the gameplay. For example in Deus Ex the were these carts kind of like airplane food carts that you could push and they would roll quite a bit. Nothing too fancy but when combined with some dynamite on top it made for some really cool new ways to be the baddies.
So in short i know where you are coming from but the submitter basically got it right not revolutionary but evolutionary.
So maybe the physics aren't quite up to what HL2 is supposed to offer, but they sure are neat.
I agree but should we really be comparing the physics to a game yet to be released? Aren't we just comparing to hype then? I know you trying to stave of what seems like the enevitable response from lamers and this really wasn't your point either:) but i just thought it interesting they way you phrased it.
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unlimited adj. Having no restrictions or controls: an unlimited travel ticket. Having or seeming to have no boundaries; infinite: an unlimited horizon. Without qualification or exception; absolute: unlimited self-confidence.
And here I thought they were buying it for Caribbean Stud Poker(19)
So in essence, by circumventing ad blocking doubleclick et al are delivering more inventory (in the form of impressions) to their clients for which they get extra money. However, this "inventory" would have a high percentage of users who are only angered by the ads or in otherwords a high percentage of "defective product." This is important because the Media buying agencies understand this point and thus this is why Google and sprinks and overture are gaining significant ground. And it's also why text links and small button size ads actually do better than pop ups at growing clients businesses -- contrary to what the article poster is claiming.
There is a great Wired article here
it's in true Wired sensationalist form but it's a fun read nonetheless.
But even if Ludlow was censored, is that wrong? Ludlow says so. He just completed reading a biography of Benjamin Franklin, and "the Pennsylvania Colony, at the time, was basically the possession of the Penn family. Franklin had the temerity to say to them, 'It's not your world.' And a question is going to begin to arise in some of these worlds about exactly how arbitrary and capricious game owners can be just because they're maintaining the infrastructure for a virtual community."
This claim is ridiculous -- can he really not tell the difference between a real life colony and a virtual world? The Penn family didn't create the grass people walked on or the air they breathed. Wheras Maxis created everything. I think this shows how he has lost touch. He has taken the game too seriously and feels like he owns part of it. This is a natural recation but it's just not true in the end. It's Maxis's game through and through.
As for the story that they reported to the authorities about hearing a kid mention he beat his sister -- I cant see why that is any of maxis's resposibility. How many people do you think talk in chat rooms an in online games about bad things they have done which may or may not be true. Also, How many people make false reports of such stories? This is role that maxis COULDN'T perform logistically even if it wanted to. And, if it did police the chat with a heavy hand people would be up in arms about it and rightly so.
Also, he was generating a lot of bad publicity ( he was a self-described muck racker) for the game. This happens all the time and lots of people get banned from all sorts games for it and sometimes for even worse reasons like GM's being in a bad mood. It seems that his problem wasn't with the game but rather with the people it attracted. It seems like he had no problem with the game except that it wasn't the happy go lucky world that he imagined. And that's what he complained about. And those are the complaints he went around advertising by putting his site in everything.
Don't get me wrong though, I dont think he is a bad guy and I do think the newbie griefers should be banned too. But I don't this that maxis did the wrong thing either. From their perspective I could see this guy as someone who is really just there to complain about all that is wrong with people. Maybe that doesn't deserve a totall ban, but I think we should imagine what it was that HE was doing wrong before we jump down Maxi's throat with sensationalist stories about evil corporations. In the end it is they who have the chat logs and he only has his word.
so if you had kaza running but nobody grabbed the same song from you more than once wouldn't that fit within this qualifier?
if you dont have anything to say...don't say it.
if you think the story isn't worth posting...dont' post it
seriously do we really need a story every time ITMS reaches a nice number? 10 million, 20 million, 25 million...
It's popular we get it.
The real question is how is this affecting sales of ipods since it has already been determined that Apple doesn't make much if any money off of ITMS.
Right. Because that's SO UNHEARD OF.
this could also lead to increased life span for the books since they wouldn't be exposed to the oils on peoples hands.
There wouldn't be any librarian action figures with hot shushing action!
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http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2003/10/09/hot_
Games do have ESRB which is basically the same as movies -- self regulation... so what are you talking about?
first person shooters! ok say it with me now... first person! :)
The pencil tool does work but it does not have the same flexibility as the old line tool. And while the line tool is still there, it has lost it's ability to turn off anti-aliasing.
Not only did they switch keyboard shortcuts but they removed functinality... It's now considerably harder to draw a single pixel line. And I can't imagine what they were thinking when one of their core audiences is pixel pushers. I am honestly so fed up with them it's time to go learn Maya or something. -just another pixel pusher
"nu-geek case mod Wintendo crowd." haha as opposed to the MTV osbourne crowd?
I know but that's why it's wussy for Rockstar to wimp out on it. Remember there is no such thing as bad publicity.
I agree but should we really be comparing the physics to a game yet to be released? Aren't we just comparing to hype then? I know you trying to stave of what seems like the enevitable response from lamers and this really wasn't your point either :) but i just thought it interesting they way you phrased it.