I first saw this on a Sunday afternoon techie program, think about text flying around, blinking or being added dynamically via a wireless lan connection to a page and you've got the idea of it's coolness (even though its only monochrome).
The thing I like about eInk the most is that its fairly high-res (well, it looks sharp to me) and that it does not require back-lighting, it reads like paper under natural light.
Some funny, some CG, a little music... fairly middle of the road if you ask me. Yet this film will make a heap of money, not because it is brilliant (which it, unfortunatly, is not) but because it fits the needs of the demographic it is intended for: Parents who like to watch cartoons.
Disney knows who it's paying demographic is and this film (more than most in the past) seems to show that if you are a boomer or an early X'er with a family your money is safe with MickeySoft. I mean, I kind of noticed this before (Toy Story 2) but it was never this glaringly apparent before, and it scares me.
Granted, most films are not "high art" (or even close to it, usually) but is the easily found "lowest common denominator" fuel going to power the Pixar machine forever?
"Hi we're just calling to let you know, Vinny and 'Low Blow' McGurk are on they're way to break your legs at the corner of 99th St. and 101st Ave, please stand by"
I think they're a little late. They might as well put pressure on those audio cassette manufacturers and those piano roll makers and don't forget those pesky blank wax drum merchants, ooh I know, lets charge anyone with ears a user fee if they happen to listen to ANYTHING!!!
If anyone was actually losing money, I'd care.
--BUT THEY'RE NOT--
*throws hands up in the air, stomps out of universe*
1. "DVDs from the big movie industry players are pure economic poison" While this statement may make perfect sense whilst stoned, I'd still like you to elaborate. Corporate control eh? Whats the difference between copying DVD and VHS? A big sack of nothing!
2. You are too late, Tron was released on DVD back in May 1999 3. Hey, leave the Miniatures Industry Association of America (MIAA) alone, perhaps you meant the MPAA my weed smoking friend.
4. The RIAA and the MPAA have become two acronyms associated with Slashdot banter, if you don't like them, don't support their products. Yes, that means no more TV, Radio or Movies if you can bear it.
5. Heaven forbid that someone out there can make a good sequel, oh, but wait. Most of us cynical bastards have a perfect ideal locked in our brains so anything "the machine" makes is instantly crap. If anything, bad sequels generate wonderful conversation topics.
IMHO gaming of all sorts (but mostly RPGing) is fading back into the darkness of obscurity, it was a good run, the 90s, but many are turning away from pen & paper RPGing. I think it is one of those socialogical things that waxes and wanes from being nerdy to being "fringe" trendy every six years or so.
One positive thing about a tougher gaming market, quality, and not marketing, becomes the driving economic factor...
Or maybe it's just the many, many beers talking...
You just can't make a T.V. series for geeks without doing your homework. The writers just applied the use of Treckbabble to modern technology and I wince every time the characters try to explain something ("My cookies are comprimised..." ugh!).
Ah well... anyone else curious about the new Tick show?
Seriously, I've seen this site grow exponentially since 1998 when I first started reading. What's to stop/. from falling off the face of the Earth like DailyRadar?
It never-EVER made sense to me that there is a difference between Japanese and American console units. I could never see a point to it, who cares if I wan't to buy Japanese software or a Japanese person wants to buy North American software? Are they worried about not being able to satisfy demand? To that I call B.S. If a system does well in Japan and crappy in North America and you have region specific hardware doesen't that mean the company now has North American only units it can't get rid of? Wouldn't it make more sense to standardize the hardware so you could move it to where demand is?
I dunno, I know I don't see the whole picture, if someone out there can rationalize regional hardware for me...
We have a can for our "pop fund" (i.e. we buy the pop with the money we make from selling pop) it contains whatever money was made that day plus the remainder of the float. Last year we started to notice that every morning all the money was gone (sometimes up to $35!) so we decided to take matters into our own hands. We set up 3 security cameras in the ceilings of our kitchen, main entrance and our main work area. We got a duplexer and a crazy little VCR, all neatly tucked away in the ceiling (only took 1 lunch break to wire up).
We set the cameras up and let them rip that night. Enter the "perp", turns out our cleaning staff has it so bad that they were stealing not only our pop fund but they were sifting through our desktops (rifling through one guys CD rack) and generally doing things that breach their contract as cleaning staff! We took the video straight to the building manager and he was not impressed with what he saw. The next day we took down our cameras and duplexer (they were on loan) and we had new cleaning staff the next week.
What kind of world is it where you can't trust your own cleaning staff?
Couldn't the games be condensed down to super fast matches? How about we get two computers playing pong, it would just be one tremendously long round...
Or maybe we will be breeding some kind of super intelligent master race of chess playing AI. Hmmm...
"Don't worry Neo, these guys can only move diagonally"
I suppose you have figures to back that up? But to the point, I believe Sony would have taken major losses on releasing a new system last year, and Sega would have been hit in the stocks because of their dropping out of the console market.
I've seen these statistics before about average gamer age being above 25 (28 to be exact), walk into any gaming store and you will note that while there are a lot of kids poking around, the guys lining up for the till are usually mid-twenties. If Nintendo won't produce games for the demographic age group that buys games then they are out of luck.
"Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the [site] is made."
Seriously though, you either have to get on to subscription based services, donations or merchandising (or any combination of the three) to make money right now as a little guy;-)
I disagree, I think Yamauchi is really saying "we at Nintendo don't want to make the Edsel of next-gen machines, so I'm covering my ass now if we decide to pull the plug at the last minute, which we could afford to do"
The age of the average gamer is now around 25, if you are in your 20's you are the core demographic for computer / console games, Nintendo has failed to grasp this simple truth...
Slashdot Mirror
Personally, I don't like it. Although for the site owners it probably makes cents...
...ugh.
I first saw this on a Sunday afternoon techie program, think about text flying around, blinking or being added dynamically via a wireless lan connection to a page and you've got the idea of it's coolness (even though its only monochrome).
The thing I like about eInk the most is that its fairly high-res (well, it looks sharp to me) and that it does not require back-lighting, it reads like paper under natural light.
http://www.eink.com/
Some funny, some CG, a little music... fairly middle of the road if you ask me. Yet this film will make a heap of money, not because it is brilliant (which it, unfortunatly, is not) but because it fits the needs of the demographic it is intended for: Parents who like to watch cartoons.
Disney knows who it's paying demographic is and this film (more than most in the past) seems to show that if you are a boomer or an early X'er with a family your money is safe with MickeySoft. I mean, I kind of noticed this before (Toy Story 2) but it was never this glaringly apparent before, and it scares me.
Granted, most films are not "high art" (or even close to it, usually) but is the easily found "lowest common denominator" fuel going to power the Pixar machine forever?
Vee Eh Software or Vah Software??? Could we get their CEO to record an MP3 of the correct pronunciation?
Is it just me, or does this box remind anyone else of the computer "Orac" from Blake's 7
;-)
Ok, so it is just me then
It's about time we had a court for those secret Cyber-men!
"Hi we're just calling to let you know, Vinny and 'Low Blow' McGurk are on they're way to break your legs at the corner of 99th St. and 101st Ave, please stand by"
By networking hundreds of old farmers together...
Man, I can tell today is going to be a long one...
I think they're a little late. They might as well put pressure on those audio cassette manufacturers and those piano roll makers and don't forget those pesky blank wax drum merchants, ooh I know, lets charge anyone with ears a user fee if they happen to listen to ANYTHING!!!
If anyone was actually losing money, I'd care.
--BUT THEY'RE NOT--
*throws hands up in the air, stomps out of universe*
Reminds me of...
"Yes, primarily we're looking for someone with 10 to 15 years of Java application development experience."
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2. You are too late, Tron was released on DVD back in May 1999
3. Hey, leave the Miniatures Industry Association of America (MIAA) alone, perhaps you meant the MPAA my weed smoking friend.
4. The RIAA and the MPAA have become two acronyms associated with Slashdot banter, if you don't like them, don't support their products. Yes, that means no more TV, Radio or Movies if you can bear it.
5. Heaven forbid that someone out there can make a good sequel, oh, but wait. Most of us cynical bastards have a perfect ideal locked in our brains so anything "the machine" makes is instantly crap. If anything, bad sequels generate wonderful conversation topics.
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One positive thing about a tougher gaming market, quality, and not marketing, becomes the driving economic factor...
Or maybe it's just the many, many beers talking...
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Nice...
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Ah well... anyone else curious about the new Tick show?
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I dunno, I know I don't see the whole picture, if someone out there can rationalize regional hardware for me...
Ah well...
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"Well, Jim, he has to get to that rocket launcher or he'll be out of the game"
"Thats for sure Bill. This just in, an update on the Asheron's Call battle royale, over 600 players have respawned battling a fierce new enemy"
"And now, a word from our sponsor; Don't forget to make Schwartz weiners part of YOUR online gaming experiance..."
*shudder*
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We set the cameras up and let them rip that night. Enter the "perp", turns out our cleaning staff has it so bad that they were stealing not only our pop fund but they were sifting through our desktops (rifling through one guys CD rack) and generally doing things that breach their contract as cleaning staff! We took the video straight to the building manager and he was not impressed with what he saw. The next day we took down our cameras and duplexer (they were on loan) and we had new cleaning staff the next week.
What kind of world is it where you can't trust your own cleaning staff?
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Or maybe we will be breeding some kind of super intelligent master race of chess playing AI. Hmmm...
"Don't worry Neo, these guys can only move diagonally"
"Whoa..."
Ah well...
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I've seen these statistics before about average gamer age being above 25 (28 to be exact), walk into any gaming store and you will note that while there are a lot of kids poking around, the guys lining up for the till are usually mid-twenties. If Nintendo won't produce games for the demographic age group that buys games then they are out of luck.
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Seriously though, you either have to get on to subscription based services, donations or merchandising (or any combination of the three) to make money right now as a little guy
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