How do shareware games like Lux (sillysoft.net) get away with selling a game directly based on Risk, and this guy - who isn't making a dime - gets shut down?
Microsoft doesn't get enough credit for innovation, and a distraught Bill Gates cries himself to sleep atop a 400-foot high mound of $100 dollar bills.
If Apple bypassed the labels, they'd only be able to sell new material. Artists contracted with the labels don't own their prior work - the labels do. A musician can't say to Warner, "I'm going to sell my music on iTMS whether you like it or not" because Warner owns the music that has been produced under contract, not said musician. He'd have to go out and produce original tunes to sell - without any contract guarantees.
If you've ever tried to breathe through a garden hose from the bottom of a swimming pool, you'd know what unequalized pressure differences can do to your breathing.
It's settled - I'm hangin' out at YOUR house next summer.
A man urges us to think rationally and not jump to conclusions about Microsoft, and then asserts that Mac OS "cost the moon and the stars along with both your arms and legs." Well, thanks for showing the way to impartiality, Mr. Dubey.
Let's extrapolate his next article: "Bill Gates is not as humorless or power-hungry as everyone says. Plus, Linus Torvalds eats babies."
You're comparing the technological significance of the two-button mouse to the Internet, electricity, and the automobile?
Why stop there? How about all those other milestones in human innovation, such as the USB-powered personal massager? How did we every live without that one?
. . . among the hundreds of science fiction stories that have been written about people having their minds/consciousnesses "uploaded" into a computer, the one where it's described as a "good" thing, a "pleasurable" experience, or an "improvement" on death.
On the other hand, perhaps we just wait for all the filthy rich to go digital, then we pull the plug and divvy up all their stuff.
Bill has this impression that the technological world looks to him for guidance. (Did anyone read "The Road Ahead" without tongue in cheek?)
The problem with the mythical all-in-one device is, if you have one gadget that plays music and makes phone calls and keeps your contacts and plays games and surfs the Web and answers e-mails, and you break it or lose it, then you can't play music OR make phone calls OR check you r contacts OR . . .
I just hope when this obviously Windows-driven product comes out, it at least comes with a lanyard and a nice warranty.
There are advantages to both universalization and specialization.
Oh, I agree. Them Japanese cartoons can't hold a handle to all the great American animated series on TV right now, such as . . . uh, hmm. Give me a minute . . .
They lost me when they eliminated the sidetalking feature. Now I look like everyone else, instead of an obtuse fool with a chunk of plastic stuck against his head. (sob)
He's right. There are still many, many colors of lightsabers that have yet to be explored. (Mauve, for instance.) Or words to which the title "Darth" has not been appended. Plus, there's that Lobot backstory I'm itching to see.
It's one thing to understand the premise of a movie, but another entirely to refuse to buy into it. The key to enjoying fantasy/sci-fi is suspension of disbelief. If you fail to, or refuse to, accept the underlying premise of a story, you will see it as "unrealistic" or "hokey". Imagine watching Star Wars but being unable to accept the whole "Force" concept. Fantasy requires a willingness to constrain your imagination to a specific set of premises. It does not require you to actually place credence in whatever mystical/philosophical/pseudo-spiritual ideas are presented within the story.
That being said, Final Fantasy's primary problems were a mediocre story, flat characters, and an over-emphasis on visual effects. It also had that whole "uncanny valley" thing working against it . ..
Call me crazy, but . . . an iPod goes with you when you leave the car. If it's going to sit plugged into the dash all day, you might as well get a conventional sound system.
Or is 3.6 ounces too much carry around on a belt clip?
Dude, Obi-Wan hits the heavies and kicks out on this awesome cruncher in a cheater five, and the Vader's so amped, he like tries to cut back from a goofy foot, spins out on the crest, and ends up totally eating it. Gnarlatious, man.
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This might make a cool game. Someone get Will Wright on the phone.
That's not hypocrisy. It's call proof-of-concept.
How do shareware games like Lux (sillysoft.net) get away with selling a game directly based on Risk, and this guy - who isn't making a dime - gets shut down?
Because the government belongs to . . . (drumroll please) . . . the citizens of the United States!
He is, however, perfectly and innately qualified to speak about Windows.
Then why waste the energy, if not simply to shit in the proverbial punch bowl? Frankly, Mr. Coward, no one cares what you think.
A broken flip clock is correct once a day. A broken digital clock is never right.
Microsoft doesn't get enough credit for innovation, and a distraught Bill Gates cries himself to sleep atop a 400-foot high mound of $100 dollar bills.
If Apple bypassed the labels, they'd only be able to sell new material. Artists contracted with the labels don't own their prior work - the labels do. A musician can't say to Warner, "I'm going to sell my music on iTMS whether you like it or not" because Warner owns the music that has been produced under contract, not said musician. He'd have to go out and produce original tunes to sell - without any contract guarantees.
It's settled - I'm hangin' out at YOUR house next summer.
Let's extrapolate his next article: "Bill Gates is not as humorless or power-hungry as everyone says. Plus, Linus Torvalds eats babies."
Why stop there? How about all those other milestones in human innovation, such as the USB-powered personal massager? How did we every live without that one?
I hear he can also fold space, but that might just be a rumour started by anti-Spacing Guild propagandists.
On the other hand, perhaps we just wait for all the filthy rich to go digital, then we pull the plug and divvy up all their stuff.
The problem with the mythical all-in-one device is, if you have one gadget that plays music and makes phone calls and keeps your contacts and plays games and surfs the Web and answers e-mails, and you break it or lose it, then you can't play music OR make phone calls OR check you r contacts OR . . .
I just hope when this obviously Windows-driven product comes out, it at least comes with a lanyard and a nice warranty.
There are advantages to both universalization and specialization.
Lucas, ever the thoughful environmentalist, has embraced recycling wholeheartedly.
When does this game come out and what are the system requirements?
Oh, I agree. Them Japanese cartoons can't hold a handle to all the great American animated series on TV right now, such as . . . uh, hmm. Give me a minute . . .
They lost me when they eliminated the sidetalking feature. Now I look like everyone else, instead of an obtuse fool with a chunk of plastic stuck against his head. (sob)
http://technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=52
Somewhere, Frank Herbert is smiling.
He's right. There are still many, many colors of lightsabers that have yet to be explored. (Mauve, for instance.) Or words to which the title "Darth" has not been appended. Plus, there's that Lobot backstory I'm itching to see.
Still playing SMAC, still building custom factions and scenarios, still looking for PBEM players . . .
It's one thing to understand the premise of a movie, but another entirely to refuse to buy into it. The key to enjoying fantasy/sci-fi is suspension of disbelief. If you fail to, or refuse to, accept the underlying premise of a story, you will see it as "unrealistic" or "hokey". Imagine watching Star Wars but being unable to accept the whole "Force" concept. Fantasy requires a willingness to constrain your imagination to a specific set of premises. It does not require you to actually place credence in whatever mystical/philosophical/pseudo-spiritual ideas are presented within the story.
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That being said, Final Fantasy's primary problems were a mediocre story, flat characters, and an over-emphasis on visual effects. It also had that whole "uncanny valley" thing working against it . .
Call me crazy, but . . . an iPod goes with you when you leave the car. If it's going to sit plugged into the dash all day, you might as well get a conventional sound system.
Or is 3.6 ounces too much carry around on a belt clip?