The remix album of Oxygene 7-13 - 'Odyssey through O2' has a few vocal snippets (i presume voiced by JMJ) before each grouping of 3-4 tunes, and one of those mentions '..smoking some golden beams...'
I work for the Australian federal government as a Oracle DBA, on about Aus$60k pre-tax. 40 hour weeks and I get paid overtime for coming in to work out side business hours. Also get 4 weeks paid rec leave and 4 weeks sick leave per year.
I know that I could get probably double the pay if I was a contractor or in a private company, but i'd be trading a lot of benefits for that money. But my heart is not in IT, so while I am competent at what I do, I dont shine compared to others in my team, except when doing diagrams of infrastructure/computers systems. I'm trying to figure out how to transition to a career as an artist because I love creating pictures.
The funny/amusing thing is there are many IT jobs going in Australia both at the federal level and state level, plus I've heard that New Zealand HR firms look here to poach skill people to work there.
Whilst the conditions of employment are good where I work, there have been moves/changes being implemented by the current government to reduce employement conditions in trade-offs for increasing pay at similar rates to the national inflation. If we get a change of government with the next impending election things might swing back the other way.
... we were lucky to have used toilet paper to hold over the raised hiroglyphics to take rubbings of with the bloody stumps of our fingers, and we counted ourselves lucky to be edumacated.
and there is a lot of money and many careers that depend on the continuation of that model. Just because some jobs would be lost in the old industry does not mean that more new jobs wont be created.
Lots of people who were involved in the horse drawn carriage industry had to re-tool/re-skill with the introduction of motor cars to society.
Genres don't die, they just are out of the spot light of popular culture. People are going back and investigating games (and gaming systems) that they didnt have as kids, either legitimately by buying/acquiring the original hardware/software or by emulation and/or warezing.
This is partly because of - emulation (ala MAME, MESS, etc) - XBox Live and the Wii offering great classics, - retro gaming sites - people making prettied up versions of classic games (like the great stuff hosted at retrospec) - and most 30 year old males who now have kids want to share some of the good gaming experiences that they had when they were young.
But the single biggest reasons (IMO) is that there are old games that OOOZE playability which people still rave about even now many years since they were released.
When gaming, I preferred the HERO system over GURPS, due to the way that HERO dealt with adding abilities to characters in a more balanced way, and letting the special effects of the the ability be just cosmetic.
But the thing which makes a game is the GM, and how well they can work the group. And a good GM is a rare find. But sadly, MMORGS are killing the tabletop roll playing IMO.
I could make the analogy to the starwars quote of star systems slipping through fingers, but thats been done to death.
The only way they can afford to enforce it is with technology not man-power, which this DRM stuff basically is, and it continues to be circumvented.
I believe the only way to stop piracy would be a change in 2 memes.
The first with the perception of ownership of information as the rewarding of those who create it. My opinion is this may be something that changes on personal level as an individual gets older.
The second with the lack of trusting of others with the intellectual properity you own the rights to.
... most of us aussies continue to time/format shift media, and circumvent copy protection devices schemes that we dont like. Or get a friend/relative to do so if we lack the skills ourselves.
I'd heard that our law enforcement agencies dont have the resources to police petty 'civil' crimes like these often, in preference to higher priority criminal crimes.
Even if there are that many games going to be made, it will only take 6 of them being good ones with marketing to secure the market.
- Racer (say Gran Tourismo or the next Wip3out) - RPG (maybe something by Square/Enix) - FPS (I wonder if QuakeWars will get ported?) - platformer (either cutsey Mario competitor for the kids or God of War / Shadow of the Colossus variant for adults) - party game (guitar hero, songstar or DDR) - rogue (something off the wall different)
But price is the crunching point where the Wii has the advantage over the PS3, due to less complex hardware, and brilliant graphics doesnt make a game good.
I think that illustrates that there are people who will explore any system and figure out a way to 'game' (munchkin?) it to their advantage. So since we people seem to like doing that, maybe what ever system that gets designed should be done by a game maker, with a decent group of test players.
Cause effectively it would just be another e-penii to wave around to show how L337 you are.
Those that have truely good rep dont care about what others think of them, nor how they would be rated in one of these systems.
For music that determines how the game plays, you could say DDR is already like that, but the music is selected and the steps are already been determined. I think the game by codemasters called Dance Factory generates the steps for any music cd that you put in. But a non-dance game seeding the game style from the music has still yet to be done, as far as I know.
This would be great for deviantArt, as one of the problems is mis-categorising their submissions. If a computer was able to help with that would make finding art of specific subjects/styles much easier.
The reason that I've heard about (and am now starting to agree with) is that a shop can only offer a limited number of physical music products on their shelves, whilest an online service can keep increasing the variety of products with much less overhead.
To the end consumer this means that those with varied 'non-popular' music tastes can get what they want from the online provider of music that they cant get from a shop.
The whole concept of selling lots of one album is changing to selling a few of many albums.
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The remix album of Oxygene 7-13 - 'Odyssey through O2' has a few vocal snippets (i presume voiced by JMJ) before each grouping of 3-4 tunes, and one of those mentions '..smoking some golden beams...'
I work for the Australian federal government as a Oracle DBA, on about Aus$60k pre-tax. 40 hour weeks and I get paid overtime for coming in to work out side business hours. Also get 4 weeks paid rec leave and 4 weeks sick leave per year.
I know that I could get probably double the pay if I was a contractor or in a private company, but i'd be trading a lot of benefits for that money. But my heart is not in IT, so while I am competent at what I do, I dont shine compared to others in my team, except when doing diagrams of infrastructure/computers systems. I'm trying to figure out how to transition to a career as an artist because I love creating pictures.
The funny/amusing thing is there are many IT jobs going in Australia both at the federal level and state level, plus I've heard that New Zealand HR firms look here to poach skill people to work there.
Whilst the conditions of employment are good where I work, there have been moves/changes being implemented by the current government to reduce employement conditions in trade-offs for increasing pay at similar rates to the national inflation. If we get a change of government with the next impending election things might swing back the other way.
Then I'd be able to do some funky 3d celtic knots then :)
Guess I'll be waiting a couple of years for the commercial release of it.
While that would be sweet, they will need to have some sort of licenses to use real cars in the game, ala Gran Tourismo and the like.
:)
Would be sweet to have a virtual drive round my own town.
But would it be used by nefarious people to plan getaway's from crimes? Or for the police to practice co-ordinating pursuits?
Interesting times
... we were lucky to have used toilet paper to hold over the raised hiroglyphics to take rubbings of with the bloody stumps of our fingers, and we counted ourselves lucky to be edumacated.
reduce money going into the black market. Thereby taking power away from the criminal organisations.
Oops, my bad I forgot. I blame the purple tentacle for wiping my memory. :)
Genres don't die, they just are out of the spot light of popular culture.
People are going back and investigating games (and gaming systems) that they didnt have as kids, either legitimately by buying/acquiring the original hardware/software or by emulation and/or warezing.
This is partly because of
- emulation (ala MAME, MESS, etc)
- XBox Live and the Wii offering great classics,
- retro gaming sites
- people making prettied up versions of classic games (like the great stuff hosted at retrospec)
- and most 30 year old males who now have kids want to share some of the good gaming experiences that they had when they were young.
But the single biggest reasons (IMO) is that there are old games that OOOZE playability which people still rave about even now many years since they were released.
When gaming, I preferred the HERO system over GURPS, due to the way that HERO dealt with adding abilities to characters in a more balanced way, and letting the special effects of the the ability be just cosmetic.
But the thing which makes a game is the GM, and how well they can work the group. And a good GM is a rare find. But sadly, MMORGS are killing the tabletop roll playing IMO.
... I dont remember eating that... (barf)
With apologies to Pratchet.
I didn't mean to trip you with my tripod :)
I could make the analogy to the starwars quote of star systems slipping through fingers, but thats been done to death.
The only way they can afford to enforce it is with technology not man-power, which this DRM stuff basically is, and it continues to be circumvented.
I believe the only way to stop piracy would be a change in 2 memes.
The first with the perception of ownership of information as the rewarding of those who create it. My opinion is this may be something that changes on personal level as an individual gets older.
The second with the lack of trusting of others with the intellectual properity you own the rights to.
... most of us aussies continue to time/format shift media, and circumvent copy protection devices schemes that we dont like. Or get a friend/relative to do so if we lack the skills ourselves.
I'd heard that our law enforcement agencies dont have the resources to police petty 'civil' crimes like these often, in preference to higher priority criminal crimes.
Cause you've hit the nail on the head.
Obviously some mods are easily offended.
Even if there are that many games going to be made, it will only take 6 of them being good ones with marketing to secure the market.
- Racer (say Gran Tourismo or the next Wip3out)
- RPG (maybe something by Square/Enix)
- FPS (I wonder if QuakeWars will get ported?)
- platformer (either cutsey Mario competitor for the kids or God of War / Shadow of the Colossus variant for adults)
- party game (guitar hero, songstar or DDR)
- rogue (something off the wall different)
But price is the crunching point where the Wii has the advantage over the PS3, due to less complex hardware, and brilliant graphics doesnt make a game good.
Have you heard the techno track on the first Taito arcade compilation for the PS2?
Cause that features the those 4 notes as part of the intro.
Though I thought the soundtrack was rather repetative :)
What happened to the consumer rights for a product being fit for purpose?
Or dont you have that in the USA?
I think that illustrates that there are people who will explore any system and figure out a way to 'game' (munchkin?) it to their advantage.
So since we people seem to like doing that, maybe what ever system that gets designed should be done by a game maker, with a decent group of test players.
Cause effectively it would just be another e-penii to wave around to show how L337 you are.
Those that have truely good rep dont care about what others think of them, nor how they would be rated in one of these systems.
For music that determines how the game plays, you could say DDR is already like that, but the music is selected and the steps are already been determined. I think the game by codemasters called Dance Factory generates the steps for any music cd that you put in. But a non-dance game seeding the game style from the music has still yet to be done, as far as I know.
This would be great for deviantArt, as one of the problems is mis-categorising their submissions. If a computer was able to help with that would make finding art of specific subjects/styles much easier.
Please bring it on!
To the end consumer this means that those with varied 'non-popular' music tastes can get what they want from the online provider of music that they cant get from a shop.
The whole concept of selling lots of one album is changing to selling a few of many albums.
See http://www.thelongtail.com/
do we say 'check mate' ?
and then there will be a box developed by hackers to intercept the signal for the advert and put up something else. Sort of like the advert blocker.
Sigh....
When will they learn.