Check with your financial aid office. There are tons of banks to choose from, and hopefully they're not all this incompetent. Just get a loan big enough to pay off your citibank one...Then again, if your info was on those tapes it's already too late.
Hense the term "Once again", meaning more than just this one case;)...when I said worthless, I should have made it more clear... It is fine when used properly, but the average person has been trained by the PR guys to take it as exact truth when it's only as good as its test group.
I know it's just a pipe dream, and that's why my current game production is only focused on PC for the moment... However what do you mean by "source forge class"? There's a wide range of quality there from really crappy to really good.
Now that I think about it....It would have been even cooler if they would have just used an already implemented open source file system and then wrote a driver for the Windows guys...
As much as I'd hate to give yet even more power to the federal gov't, it's just about the only way to make these people do what should be both common sense and courtesy for their customers.
A week hasn't gone by this year that some major data warehouse hasn't been "broken into". When are these people going to start taking our privacy and their security a little more seriously...
I think it's pretty straight forward... AI still sucks and gamers are tired of being told otherwise. The big game developers don't care either since you're just gonna shoot the guy in the head as soon as you see him...
Nintendo never promised to allow downloads for Revolution nor Gamecube games....just N64 and older... The meager 512MB storage space should be a good sign of that.:/
Well, like you said....say there are no development costs? Say the team uses all free/open source software to develop their game with in their spare time... Then say there are only 6 guys who work on it... If their game sells for $30, and we'll say nintendo keeps a dollar out of that leaving them with just $29. That's $24,166.66 for each person if they were to split it evenly. That's a lot more than you would make in a year working at Walmart or McDonalds... Sure, it doesn't sound like much, and you'd probably need more than 6 developers...but if your game was worth half a sh*t, and there was a decent "long tail discovery" program you'd probably sell quite a few more copies than that too... It's more than feasable.
Not if they developed an OS (Linux or BSD based maybe?) that didn't allow anything to be changed by the software that runs it. You don't have to worry about your CD player getting a virus do you? No...that's because the CDs' software is not allowed to alter your OS... The Xbox360 however might be a different story (sorry couldn't help myself! heh)
If Nintendo were to go licence free like the article suggests, then I'm sure they'd have no problem letting your free game be played as long as YOU supply the bandwidth to distribute it...
It would only be as bad as the unregulated movie industry, and there's no quality control there. There's plenty of crappy independent movies, sure...but there's also a lot of good stuff that wouldn't ever get made by the big guys.
The grandparent obviously didn't read the Wired article about "the long tail." Just because a game/movie/album doesn't sell well, doesn't mean they aren't any good, it just means that hardly anyone has heard of them. Sure, alot of the low sellers aren't that great, but some are hidden gems waiting to be discovered. And everyone has a different opinion on what a good game/movie/album is so just because 10 people hate something 1 or 2 people might absolutely love it. Yet, with the current big budget blockbuster model of business you'd never get a chance to find those products.
To speak about independent games now, the article from GCA was nice but a little uninformed... The console guys do get a cut of the profits pie, but they also get an up-front licencing fee as well. If Nintendo were to do away with that licencing fee then maybe some shoe-string-budget games could start to appear on their console. However unless Nintendo required the indy game studios to sell their games through a proprietary virtual market or included some sort of horrendus DRM scheme, they wouldn't be able to really enforce any payments from these guys. I personally would perfer to see consoles become open standardized comodities, like DVD players for example, but I've ranted about that enough for a while I guess...
It would only be worth something if every single manufacturer were polled; even little mom and pop shops, and I seriously doubt they went through all that trouble. Statistics are fine for getting an idea of the way things are, but they should never be held up as undeniable fact.
This is pretty much what I was saying... Most of the time people hold statistics up to be infalible even though the numbers are coming from a small test group. Even in the article I doubt they went to every single home and business in America for their study. Statistics are fine and dandy when used properly, but most people (non-statisticians) take them to be perfect when they're not. Skewed statistics have been a vital part of what's wrong in corporations and our gov't. People who know nothing about statistics taking a look at a small group without consideration of other factors and then make a decision based solely off of it.
You know the old saying: "95% of statistics are just made up on the spot" (then make sure to change that 95 to a different random number each time you use the quote):P
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The pepper pad looks pretty neat, but I guess it's not quite small enough to be considered a PDA....
So they aren't counting the thousands of self built systems out there? Probably didn't count local sellers either... Once again statistics proven worthless.
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Fine...citibank gets the primary blame, how's that?
I for one welcome our new x86 overlords...
Check with your financial aid office. There are tons of banks to choose from, and hopefully they're not all this incompetent. Just get a loan big enough to pay off your citibank one...Then again, if your info was on those tapes it's already too late.
Hense the term "Once again", meaning more than just this one case ;) ...when I said worthless, I should have made it more clear... It is fine when used properly, but the average person has been trained by the PR guys to take it as exact truth when it's only as good as its test group.
I know it's just a pipe dream, and that's why my current game production is only focused on PC for the moment... However what do you mean by "source forge class"? There's a wide range of quality there from really crappy to really good.
Now that I think about it....It would have been even cooler if they would have just used an already implemented open source file system and then wrote a driver for the Windows guys...
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As much as I'd hate to give yet even more power to the federal gov't, it's just about the only way to make these people do what should be both common sense and courtesy for their customers.
Congradulations on making the first "brown" related comment that's actually funny :)
Regardless of who they used, why didn't they have some sort of encryption on the data? I'm not blaming UPS, I'm blaming Citibank...
But without all that data how will the mind police keep us in check one day?
A week hasn't gone by this year that some major data warehouse hasn't been "broken into". When are these people going to start taking our privacy and their security a little more seriously...
It could also be that man's creative impulses have drove us to try to create new lifeforms and the computer is our best attempt yet ;)
I think AI programmers would be better off studying philosophy, psychology and sociology rather than the mechanics of the brain ;)
I think it's pretty straight forward... AI still sucks and gamers are tired of being told otherwise. The big game developers don't care either since you're just gonna shoot the guy in the head as soon as you see him...
Nintendo never promised to allow downloads for Revolution nor Gamecube games....just N64 and older... The meager 512MB storage space should be a good sign of that. :/
Well, like you said....say there are no development costs? Say the team uses all free/open source software to develop their game with in their spare time... Then say there are only 6 guys who work on it... If their game sells for $30, and we'll say nintendo keeps a dollar out of that leaving them with just $29. That's $24,166.66 for each person if they were to split it evenly. That's a lot more than you would make in a year working at Walmart or McDonalds... Sure, it doesn't sound like much, and you'd probably need more than 6 developers...but if your game was worth half a sh*t, and there was a decent "long tail discovery" program you'd probably sell quite a few more copies than that too... It's more than feasable.
Not if they developed an OS (Linux or BSD based maybe?) that didn't allow anything to be changed by the software that runs it. You don't have to worry about your CD player getting a virus do you? No...that's because the CDs' software is not allowed to alter your OS... The Xbox360 however might be a different story (sorry couldn't help myself! heh)
If Nintendo were to go licence free like the article suggests, then I'm sure they'd have no problem letting your free game be played as long as YOU supply the bandwidth to distribute it...
It would only be as bad as the unregulated movie industry, and there's no quality control there. There's plenty of crappy independent movies, sure...but there's also a lot of good stuff that wouldn't ever get made by the big guys.
The grandparent obviously didn't read the Wired article about "the long tail." Just because a game/movie/album doesn't sell well, doesn't mean they aren't any good, it just means that hardly anyone has heard of them. Sure, alot of the low sellers aren't that great, but some are hidden gems waiting to be discovered. And everyone has a different opinion on what a good game/movie/album is so just because 10 people hate something 1 or 2 people might absolutely love it. Yet, with the current big budget blockbuster model of business you'd never get a chance to find those products.
To speak about independent games now, the article from GCA was nice but a little uninformed... The console guys do get a cut of the profits pie, but they also get an up-front licencing fee as well. If Nintendo were to do away with that licencing fee then maybe some shoe-string-budget games could start to appear on their console. However unless Nintendo required the indy game studios to sell their games through a proprietary virtual market or included some sort of horrendus DRM scheme, they wouldn't be able to really enforce any payments from these guys. I personally would perfer to see consoles become open standardized comodities, like DVD players for example, but I've ranted about that enough for a while I guess...
It would only be worth something if every single manufacturer were polled; even little mom and pop shops, and I seriously doubt they went through all that trouble. Statistics are fine for getting an idea of the way things are, but they should never be held up as undeniable fact.
This is pretty much what I was saying... Most of the time people hold statistics up to be infalible even though the numbers are coming from a small test group. Even in the article I doubt they went to every single home and business in America for their study. Statistics are fine and dandy when used properly, but most people (non-statisticians) take them to be perfect when they're not. Skewed statistics have been a vital part of what's wrong in corporations and our gov't. People who know nothing about statistics taking a look at a small group without consideration of other factors and then make a decision based solely off of it.
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You know the old saying: "95% of statistics are just made up on the spot" (then make sure to change that 95 to a different random number each time you use the quote)
The pepper pad looks pretty neat, but I guess it's not quite small enough to be considered a PDA....
So they aren't counting the thousands of self built systems out there? Probably didn't count local sellers either... Once again statistics proven worthless.