The only person being snide in this thread is yourself. I especially liked the quoting latin part. Truly buttickus head uppikus.
However, the point being made concerning the market bearing the price makes perfect sense. Take iTunes, for example. People were perfectly willing to pay 99 cents per song if the delivery mechanism was pleasant, easy, and guaranteed. Any iTunes customer could easily have torrented the discographies of all artists in their library, yet many iTunes customers I know ---chose--- not too. Just because you may sell you mom for a nickel, doesn't mean everyone else would.
And once again, it comes down to convenience. I go buy a DVD(I do have plenty), it costs me 20+ dollars to buy it(the irony being that WalMart tends to sell DVD players that are cheaper then the media). I bring it home and can play it in a limited amount of devices, must store it in a limited amount of ways(many of which, try as I might, will -still- end up with a small hairline scratch somewhere) and deal with the fact that this disc will -still- not play in this supposedly standardized format 100% of the time(you've had it happen I'm sure. You bring you DVD to a friend's house it it refuses to cooperate). Equally, the bloody thing comes out easily more then half a year after the initial airing in limited capacity in certain stores.
Meanwhile, my friend utilizes his torrent software to download a perfectly working copy. It works on his computer/his portable/his iPod/his Divx capable DVD player and is able to be stored on disc, HDD, memcard, streamed via Ethernet, etc...
At this point I begin to doubt my investment. So I attempt to rip my DVD, but wait, the medium was created specifically to prevent me from doing so without quite a bit of fuss....
As for theater piracy, this easily comes about due to poor airing in certain areas, the constant monetary anal rape suffered while at the theaters, the inconvenience of having to get there during you busy schedule or rising fuel costs, etc...
Not to mention they never hire actual projectionists causing your viewing of SpiderMan 3 to sound as if underwater and appear as if myopic.
People gravitate towards convenience, not always price(hence bottled water). To say otherwise shows a blatant disregard for the rules or marketability.
I remember playing an N64 kiosk way back in which Nintendo had a clever way of getting people away from Mario64:
There would be a timer(digital LED) counting down from 5 mins. At the 5 min mark, a device would reset the N64. It wouldn't be that hard to implement on any console(the device probably used an EXT port, but could easily be wired to short out the reset leads on the device should an EXT port not be present).
As Mario64 wasn't a hard game to jump into, 5 mins wasn't too short as to not allow someone to get a good play in.
Freezing consoles would be retarded. So either Sony has hit a new level or stupidity(possible), or this is covering shit up(more possible).
I agree. At least add the "how many people were mobbed, beaten, robbed, shot, ripped off" category, the "didn't prepare one bit for the eventual expected line-up" category, the "most systems acting up on first batch" category and the "public awareness of the new device" category in the metric.
Something tells me that if you can get War of the Worlds free at Project Gutenburg, an old damn language is pretty much past it's legal protections(unless Disney meddles) even were those laws to apply to such a thing(common use, no one person having created the whole thing as new words were invariably added, etc...)
The US pretty much hijacked the term "Americans" and we sorta let them('We don't know that guy' sorta thing). We Canadians are happy being called Canadians and will generally look at you funny if you call us Americans;P
As someone who did a short animation in both standard resolution(720x486) and HD(1024x768) let me tell you that it is a helluva lot more work, requires more hardware and more storage as well as much more detail involved. people paid to get more detail and they expect to see it.
It is for this reason many shows need to hire additional makeup artists and even completely redo sets when HD came around. So yes, a rough looking wall in Standard may just be a photoshop "cloud effect" but in HD, you need the cloud effect, the noise added, some scratches here and there(but well distributed as to not tile funny), etc... Equally, you have to streamline how many of those superlarge textures get fed into VRAM at one time, etc...
It is a huge huge shift from Standard to HD.
Also, devkit costs: The 360's dev costs aren't bad for a console. The Wii is fantastic for a console(2000$ to get started with hardware and all, however I omit manpower in that figure), while the PS3's costs are exorbitant. I remember reading something from Gamasutra a while back about how it would cost you 12 mil just to get STARTED on a competitive PS3 game all things considered. As a reference, Final Fantasy 7 cost 14 mil back in the day and that was considered a supermassive budget.
Add to that that any company with a GC devkit can get started now with just a few addons and you're set.
A vole is a little rodent that lives in the ground. Inq uses it as a cute word to describe microsoft.
Other Inq vocabularies:
Chipzilla = Intel
Chimpzilla = AMD(or I believe it used to)
Everywhere Girl = A model that has appeared in many many online ads playing a student for MS, Apple, Dell, etc...
If you read the site regularly you'll pick up on the jargon real quick. People on Slashdot like to badmouth the site often(yeah, Slashdot it the peak of journalistic integrity after all) because it's not taken as seriously, it's a bit more impulsive and relies heavier on unconfirmed whistle blowers. However, they rarely call a bad one.
It's actually a really good site if you head's not in your ass.
Ahhhhh. Thanks MS, for 'allowing' us to your your 400$ piece of bloatware. Frankly, you want to charge 400$ for anything, I better be able to not only install it as many times as I want on as many different computers(of mine) that I want any time that I want in the way that I want.
It's called a legal transaction. I pay you, you hand over the product to me. You don't get to keep it after that. That's called "fleecing".
I'm pretty much certain that XP is the end of the windows line for me. Ubuntu is looking great and OSX is becoming more widespread anyways.
1) I don't believe any items sold were anything more then loosely based on the property. I may be wrong, but actually reading up on this and RTFA, that appears to be the case.
2) Some of the material created by these fans WERE USED ON THE DVD EXTRAS. In other words, UNIVERSAL ALREADY PROFITED FROM THEM.
3) This did not cause any damages to Universal nor cost them any money. It more then likely did the opposite of just that.
4) How many fucking Elvis plates are painted by Priscilla?
I have yet to see something as powerful as the Photoshop Layer Effects system.
Also, the way it handles masking with those very effects is enormously useful. If GIMP has those same options, not only would I be surprised because it'd be quite a task, but equally amazed as I spent a good while staring at that cryptic interface trying to find something comparable and came out empty.
Ran that one too. Still have it installed actually. Still can't do squat compared to PS. And still doesn't have CMYK(it's proprietary, for better or worse, mostly worse, so they probably will never have it)
For example, I have yet to see something such as the PS layer effects, healing brush, spot healing brush, crazy alpha effects and abilities that doesn't involve flattening your image into a seperate window(script-fu annoys me). Even the vector tools rule once you use vector masks in conjunction with layer effects.
Seriously, get the Adobe Photoshop Classroom in a book. Even an old one. That book alone will show you some of the crazy abilities and fine tuning that went into PS. And you'll realize just how far away GIMP is.
Don't get me wrong, GIMP is awesome for the price.
However, 3DSMax? Blech. Run Maya. Much better. Much much better interface. And has a Linux version too. And currently owned by the same company now.
Yes, it's a pain to get.mb or.ma files to.3ds, but many apps are moving away from 3ds as it's pretty outmoded.
*yes, don't say GIMP. If you say GIMP is as good you know shit about what PS can do, and that may be fine for what you do. But not for many. And yes, I've tried both. GIMP is cool and all, but nothing compared to PS. Its masking capabilities, CMYK support, blending modes, built-in lighting tools, healing brushes, vector tools and just all around interface runs circles around GIMP.
I'm not saying the robot ain't well built, cute or cleverly designed. But he's essentially a muppet. Jim Henson did this a few decades ago.
There isn't anything ground breaking about this short of using LED lighting to make the eyes change color. If anything, Henson actually had lip movement on some of his muppets.
I'm no biologist, but isn't that just 'upping the ante'?
By making a service no current bug can live on, won't it leave a whole new world for tha one bug that happens to mutate in such a way to be tolerant(considering about divisions bacteria make with the percentage of mutation which is only likelier to increase given adverse conditions that may cripple its DNA). A la current anti-bacterial super-bug problem?
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The only person being snide in this thread is yourself. I especially liked the quoting latin part. Truly buttickus head uppikus.
However, the point being made concerning the market bearing the price makes perfect sense. Take iTunes, for example. People were perfectly willing to pay 99 cents per song if the delivery mechanism was pleasant, easy, and guaranteed. Any iTunes customer could easily have torrented the discographies of all artists in their library, yet many iTunes customers I know ---chose--- not too. Just because you may sell you mom for a nickel, doesn't mean everyone else would.
And once again, it comes down to convenience. I go buy a DVD(I do have plenty), it costs me 20+ dollars to buy it(the irony being that WalMart tends to sell DVD players that are cheaper then the media). I bring it home and can play it in a limited amount of devices, must store it in a limited amount of ways(many of which, try as I might, will -still- end up with a small hairline scratch somewhere) and deal with the fact that this disc will -still- not play in this supposedly standardized format 100% of the time(you've had it happen I'm sure. You bring you DVD to a friend's house it it refuses to cooperate). Equally, the bloody thing comes out easily more then half a year after the initial airing in limited capacity in certain stores.
Meanwhile, my friend utilizes his torrent software to download a perfectly working copy. It works on his computer/his portable/his iPod/his Divx capable DVD player and is able to be stored on disc, HDD, memcard, streamed via Ethernet, etc...
At this point I begin to doubt my investment. So I attempt to rip my DVD, but wait, the medium was created specifically to prevent me from doing so without quite a bit of fuss....
As for theater piracy, this easily comes about due to poor airing in certain areas, the constant monetary anal rape suffered while at the theaters, the inconvenience of having to get there during you busy schedule or rising fuel costs, etc...
Not to mention they never hire actual projectionists causing your viewing of SpiderMan 3 to sound as if underwater and appear as if myopic.
People gravitate towards convenience, not always price(hence bottled water). To say otherwise shows a blatant disregard for the rules or marketability.
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It's not even a javascript thing as the form opens using.
I'm thinking the author had another syntax error somewhere else.
I remember playing an N64 kiosk way back in which Nintendo had a clever way of getting people away from Mario64:
There would be a timer(digital LED) counting down from 5 mins. At the 5 min mark, a device would reset the N64. It wouldn't be that hard to implement on any console(the device probably used an EXT port, but could easily be wired to short out the reset leads on the device should an EXT port not be present).
As Mario64 wasn't a hard game to jump into, 5 mins wasn't too short as to not allow someone to get a good play in.
Freezing consoles would be retarded. So either Sony has hit a new level or stupidity(possible), or this is covering shit up(more possible).
Frankly, I've always thought people should be more tolerant of lactose.
I say fuck organized religion in general. But what the hell does any of that have to do with Democracy player?
Seriously, it's like they see the word "Democracy" and think "Here's a place to release a big steaming troll turd."
I agree. At least add the "how many people were mobbed, beaten, robbed, shot, ripped off" category, the "didn't prepare one bit for the eventual expected line-up" category, the "most systems acting up on first batch" category and the "public awareness of the new device" category in the metric.
Something tells me that if you can get War of the Worlds free at Project Gutenburg, an old damn language is pretty much past it's legal protections(unless Disney meddles) even were those laws to apply to such a thing(common use, no one person having created the whole thing as new words were invariably added, etc...)
I wanna be the first to patent the "one click lawsuit". ;)
The US pretty much hijacked the term "Americans" and we sorta let them('We don't know that guy' sorta thing). We Canadians are happy being called Canadians and will generally look at you funny if you call us Americans;P
As someone who did a short animation in both standard resolution(720x486) and HD(1024x768) let me tell you that it is a helluva lot more work, requires more hardware and more storage as well as much more detail involved. people paid to get more detail and they expect to see it.
It is for this reason many shows need to hire additional makeup artists and even completely redo sets when HD came around. So yes, a rough looking wall in Standard may just be a photoshop "cloud effect" but in HD, you need the cloud effect, the noise added, some scratches here and there(but well distributed as to not tile funny), etc... Equally, you have to streamline how many of those superlarge textures get fed into VRAM at one time, etc...
It is a huge huge shift from Standard to HD.
Also, devkit costs: The 360's dev costs aren't bad for a console. The Wii is fantastic for a console(2000$ to get started with hardware and all, however I omit manpower in that figure), while the PS3's costs are exorbitant. I remember reading something from Gamasutra a while back about how it would cost you 12 mil just to get STARTED on a competitive PS3 game all things considered. As a reference, Final Fantasy 7 cost 14 mil back in the day and that was considered a supermassive budget.
Add to that that any company with a GC devkit can get started now with just a few addons and you're set.
Lol. I think their safesearch filter needs tweaking:P
A vole is a little rodent that lives in the ground. Inq uses it as a cute word to describe microsoft.
Other Inq vocabularies:
Chipzilla = Intel
Chimpzilla = AMD(or I believe it used to)
Everywhere Girl = A model that has appeared in many many online ads playing a student for MS, Apple, Dell, etc...
If you read the site regularly you'll pick up on the jargon real quick. People on Slashdot like to badmouth the site often(yeah, Slashdot it the peak of journalistic integrity after all) because it's not taken as seriously, it's a bit more impulsive and relies heavier on unconfirmed whistle blowers. However, they rarely call a bad one.
It's actually a really good site if you head's not in your ass.
Yeah, cuz, it's not like us Canadians can view Youtube or anything...
A little out of the box thinking here:
in the USA: NFL > NHL
in Canada: NHL > NFL
in the world in general: World Cup > NFL
Youtube's availability: WorldWide(with the exception of firewalled nations)
Ahhhhh. Thanks MS, for 'allowing' us to your your 400$ piece of bloatware. Frankly, you want to charge 400$ for anything, I better be able to not only install it as many times as I want on as many different computers(of mine) that I want any time that I want in the way that I want.
It's called a legal transaction. I pay you, you hand over the product to me. You don't get to keep it after that. That's called "fleecing".
I'm pretty much certain that XP is the end of the windows line for me. Ubuntu is looking great and OSX is becoming more widespread anyways.
Firefly == Fox.
Serenity == Universal
They're both asshats, but if you buy the Firefly DVDs, you're paying Fox.
1) I don't believe any items sold were anything more then loosely based on the property. I may be wrong, but actually reading up on this and RTFA, that appears to be the case.
2) Some of the material created by these fans WERE USED ON THE DVD EXTRAS. In other words, UNIVERSAL ALREADY PROFITED FROM THEM.
3) This did not cause any damages to Universal nor cost them any money. It more then likely did the opposite of just that.
4) How many fucking Elvis plates are painted by Priscilla?
Still beats the three seashells.
Wow...I'm usually the last bugger to defend MS, but you can indeed show the menu by right clicking and checking "Menu bar".
Not there by default though.
I must admit, IE7 ain't bad. Still gonna use FF or Flock(for shared bookmarks) for now though.
I have yet to see something as powerful as the Photoshop Layer Effects system.
Also, the way it handles masking with those very effects is enormously useful. If GIMP has those same options, not only would I be surprised because it'd be quite a task, but equally amazed as I spent a good while staring at that cryptic interface trying to find something comparable and came out empty.
Ummm...no.
Ran that one too. Still have it installed actually. Still can't do squat compared to PS. And still doesn't have CMYK(it's proprietary, for better or worse, mostly worse, so they probably will never have it)
For example, I have yet to see something such as the PS layer effects, healing brush, spot healing brush, crazy alpha effects and abilities that doesn't involve flattening your image into a seperate window(script-fu annoys me). Even the vector tools rule once you use vector masks in conjunction with layer effects.
Seriously, get the Adobe Photoshop Classroom in a book. Even an old one. That book alone will show you some of the crazy abilities and fine tuning that went into PS. And you'll realize just how far away GIMP is.
Don't get me wrong, GIMP is awesome for the price.
I agree with Photoshop*
.mb or .ma files to .3ds, but many apps are moving away from 3ds as it's pretty outmoded.
However, 3DSMax? Blech. Run Maya. Much better. Much much better interface. And has a Linux version too. And currently owned by the same company now.
Yes, it's a pain to get
*yes, don't say GIMP. If you say GIMP is as good you know shit about what PS can do, and that may be fine for what you do. But not for many. And yes, I've tried both. GIMP is cool and all, but nothing compared to PS. Its masking capabilities, CMYK support, blending modes, built-in lighting tools, healing brushes, vector tools and just all around interface runs circles around GIMP.
Maybe you shouldn't have asked that as an Anonymous Coward, makes contact difficult.
Oh wait, were you trying to be funny or spiteful?
I'm not saying the robot ain't well built, cute or cleverly designed. But he's essentially a muppet. Jim Henson did this a few decades ago.
There isn't anything ground breaking about this short of using LED lighting to make the eyes change color. If anything, Henson actually had lip movement on some of his muppets.
Man, I must have been reeeeaaaallly tired to type up that last bit...I don't think I've had that many typos and ommited words in a looooong time....
I'm no biologist, but isn't that just 'upping the ante'?
By making a service no current bug can live on, won't it leave a whole new world for tha one bug that happens to mutate in such a way to be tolerant(considering about divisions bacteria make with the percentage of mutation which is only likelier to increase given adverse conditions that may cripple its DNA). A la current anti-bacterial super-bug problem?