It helps to read the article. Spark says they use Sparc servers and are down the street from them. I do not doubt however, that they may threaten business or something as a result. Suing your customers (especially via something that won't likely hold water in court) doesn't earn business.
It's not a matter of viral. It's a matter of paying someone to do legwork that can reasonably be done yourself. Make a website, link to it in a million ways/places without it being obtrusive. What do you know, people start getting interest!
From the complaint that's there, it sounds like simply fixing the market (aka enabling) will take care of 90% of the problems. this of course assumes customer firmware can make nice flavors of android for this purpose.
meanwhile, I thought google was making their own chromeOS anyway, which wasn't a smartphone OS (as below).
I don't know E-Ink that well beyond what I used to read of the initial form (OLED), but what I'm thinking is something along the lines of twitter apps or other messaging stuff. Not games. Or are you saying refresh will be too slow for those purposes too?
this is the "whoops" of cloud computing and why it doesn't work for these purposes. Render farms do what they do well, and so does distributed computing. Neither of these are cloud.
Can we please stop the marketing hype for everything cloud?
People use peer pressure to rationalize buying decisions. Lots of times they follow trends, which lead to masses of people buying things such as rachel ray cookware, etc. None of this means the product is good or that said belief is any more legitimate than believing placebos.
Please. Every touchscreen phone has capability for books. The difference here is that for reading you need something bigger. By the time any company "perfects" the tablet, nobody will care.
Also here you have android, so you can probably run the B&N software on your android phone (very likely). Also means you can probably run android apps and run android features, especially over wifi.
Thus, this thing has way more potential than competition's devices. It's not that someone else can't compete better than B&N which is well possible, but that B&N's device easily competes better than the kindle. Raising the bar, really.
Ever heard of peer pressure? It's how people convince themselves to like something they didn't initially or still don't.
Under what circumstance would the average person purchase music which they do like, barring of course the intent to support the artist?
eg.You like listening, why is it worth any amount of curency, whether it's $10 or $1 or 1c? free concerts and music exist all over the place. Example: people sing, hum, classical music, these are pretty basic ideas.
If you wish to debate this, don't give me sweat of the brow arguments as your excuse for why you should pay, as those aren't arguments.
do you really expect any cellphone to have a very good camera? N86 even has a shitty camera. This was the first google result for N86 camera.
N86 is not a good camera, it just adds some megapixels. More megapixels doesn't mean a better camera, it just means a bigger picture. Most android phones are 3-7 megapixels.
Better software, better telephoto capability, these things will add some better quality. Meanwhile, the flash will still be limited, and the fact that you can't have a telescopic zoom like a normal camera (barring a couple phones), means that basically, your phone's pictures are not likely to compare to even an inexpensive camera's photos.
see the replies below, those are exactly the problems. Fast as hell dedicated servers but I can't pick my own. That's a major WTF right there.
This is an issue, as hackers can get on their own dedicated servers and do plenty of abuse - I've seen this happen before. L4D2 is doing the same among other problems, which is why people are pissed. That and that the original game's EOL has basically been decided as "now" - if they had an L4D1 buyer upgrade deal or something, people would have bought into it more. Instead "you paid our development costs, now you pay again".
1:steam policy: no refunds. I bought batman:AA and it *sucked* to me. Nice idea, achievables make it crap for me, my own personal opinion. I decided this within an hour of playtime (download took me 2 hours, fast connection). No refund.
2: steam goes down = services go down = you can't play your games.
this has happened multiple weekends recently, UT3 weekend and TF2 update weekend for easy examples.
Even from Direct2Drive, whom I prefer by a little, you download the actual CD image/executable and back it up, and have a CD key mailed to you. Oh, and you have refunds.
If you're blaming the net effect, maybe you should look at the cause.
This is like saying that music "piracy" is bad, yet the real reason is because consumers aren't getting the crap that they want. Oh wait, lets blame piracy.
buying anything activision/blizzard/eidos/ea is akin to supporting the worst DRM using big name companies that exist. These companies have constantly screwed their customers over "piracy". Even mentioning the term still shows how out of wack they are when they redefined the phrase to fit their own purpose in the first place.
There are lots of good games that don't involve them in this day and age, thankfully.
I pirate, and thankfully it takes minimal effort since our lan events take care of that. Need COD MW2? I'm sure someone's got it on DVD. Who has the crack? etc over there.
this is stupid. Punkbuster is such a piece of crap it doesn't even work on most modern gaming systems which require it. XP was about the last thing to support it.
Piracy is an excuse for "we want to be even lazier and not even put in effort anymore. also, micropayments".
Nobody likes steam, their DRM is marginally better. You know what'd be the best? No DRM! What an idea!It's just they're the only one with a remotely acceptable solution (and not entirely, at that). Everyone else is even worse dinosaurs of a past era.
they're going to try to nickel and dime the gamers for every little addon and component. Want to play? $50. Want to play with actual weapons? Another $5 per weapon. Or some other equally idiotic requirement. Somehow they think micropayments are a good thing and there is lots of proof that it's not.
Thus, these 92 thousand signatures add up to way more over time, you know, like what is probably 1/4 or more of the people that were supposedly going to buy this game (not me, especially not now, not before this either).
uh, dedicated servers means they don't have to use their bandwidth, so I don't get where you're going about that.
Meanwhile, yes, this is when a game decision is so asinine that people have a reason to pirate. Again, brought to you by the same people who killed off LAN from Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2.
"better experience" = we're a bunch of greedy assholes and we want to use the phrase 'better experience' to rationalize our imaginary fight against piracy to shove DRM up your ass and prevent you from playing on the lan.
yeah, I mean I can see some benefits: aka if someone can't see into the car, people won't bust your window to take your gps as has happened to some folks (thankfully not myself - no gps either).
Remember, they're saying 60% is reflected, that doesn't include what is also absorbed in addition, although truthfully I don't know if that actually would make a difference or not.
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it depends on if it's a sheet cake and whether they mean that figuratively or phonetically.
It helps to read the article. Spark says they use Sparc servers and are down the street from them. I do not doubt however, that they may threaten business or something as a result. Suing your customers (especially via something that won't likely hold water in court) doesn't earn business.
guess who won't be buying any more sparc servers?
It's not a matter of viral. It's a matter of paying someone to do legwork that can reasonably be done yourself. Make a website, link to it in a million ways/places without it being obtrusive. What do you know, people start getting interest!
Lets see.
From the complaint that's there, it sounds like simply fixing the market (aka enabling) will take care of 90% of the problems. this of course assumes customer firmware can make nice flavors of android for this purpose.
meanwhile, I thought google was making their own chromeOS anyway, which wasn't a smartphone OS (as below).
If you are relying on a publisher to get the name out, either a:your game sucks, or b: your game sucks.
Plenty of people can get their name out without, a good game will get coverage anyway by worth of mouth.
apparently you missed my sarcasm/joke when I said "welcome to slashdot" to someone who has a 11k UID.
*rewhoosh*
uh, do you not understand the disingenuous statement of misunderstanding what a render farm *is* versus cloud computing?
If you have a render farm, synchronizing GB's back and forth is obviously not an issue already.
People have rented out their computing for many many years, just because it's "cloud" doesn't mean it's new or creative.
*WHOOSH* did you forget your own sarcasm detector?
welcome to slashdot.
I don't know E-Ink that well beyond what I used to read of the initial form (OLED), but what I'm thinking is something along the lines of twitter apps or other messaging stuff. Not games. Or are you saying refresh will be too slow for those purposes too?
this is the "whoops" of cloud computing and why it doesn't work for these purposes. Render farms do what they do well, and so does distributed computing. Neither of these are cloud.
Can we please stop the marketing hype for everything cloud?
People use peer pressure to rationalize buying decisions. Lots of times they follow trends, which lead to masses of people buying things such as rachel ray cookware, etc. None of this means the product is good or that said belief is any more legitimate than believing placebos.
yeah, it's my fault for batman. The lack of refunds online in general is basically asinine, though.
yeah, I admit demo part was my pure stupidity on that one.
Please. Every touchscreen phone has capability for books. The difference here is that for reading you need something bigger. By the time any company "perfects" the tablet, nobody will care.
Also here you have android, so you can probably run the B&N software on your android phone (very likely). Also means you can probably run android apps and run android features, especially over wifi.
Thus, this thing has way more potential than competition's devices. It's not that someone else can't compete better than B&N which is well possible, but that B&N's device easily competes better than the kindle. Raising the bar, really.
Ever heard of peer pressure? It's how people convince themselves to like something they didn't initially or still don't.
Under what circumstance would the average person purchase music which they do like, barring of course the intent to support the artist?
eg.You like listening, why is it worth any amount of curency, whether it's $10 or $1 or 1c? free concerts and music exist all over the place. Example: people sing, hum, classical music, these are pretty basic ideas.
If you wish to debate this, don't give me sweat of the brow arguments as your excuse for why you should pay, as those aren't arguments.
do you really expect any cellphone to have a very good camera? N86 even has a shitty camera. This was the first google result for N86 camera.
N86 is not a good camera, it just adds some megapixels. More megapixels doesn't mean a better camera, it just means a bigger picture. Most android phones are 3-7 megapixels.
Better software, better telephoto capability, these things will add some better quality. Meanwhile, the flash will still be limited, and the fact that you can't have a telescopic zoom like a normal camera (barring a couple phones), means that basically, your phone's pictures are not likely to compare to even an inexpensive camera's photos.
see the replies below, those are exactly the problems. Fast as hell dedicated servers but I can't pick my own. That's a major WTF right there.
This is an issue, as hackers can get on their own dedicated servers and do plenty of abuse - I've seen this happen before. L4D2 is doing the same among other problems, which is why people are pissed. That and that the original game's EOL has basically been decided as "now" - if they had an L4D1 buyer upgrade deal or something, people would have bought into it more. Instead "you paid our development costs, now you pay again".
example steam problems:
1:steam policy: no refunds.
I bought batman:AA and it *sucked* to me. Nice idea, achievables make it crap for me, my own personal opinion. I decided this within an hour of playtime (download took me 2 hours, fast connection). No refund.
2: steam goes down = services go down = you can't play your games.
this has happened multiple weekends recently, UT3 weekend and TF2 update weekend for easy examples.
Even from Direct2Drive, whom I prefer by a little, you download the actual CD image/executable and back it up, and have a CD key mailed to you. Oh, and you have refunds.
If you're blaming the net effect, maybe you should look at the cause.
This is like saying that music "piracy" is bad, yet the real reason is because consumers aren't getting the crap that they want. Oh wait, lets blame piracy.
buying anything activision/blizzard/eidos/ea is akin to supporting the worst DRM using big name companies that exist. These companies have constantly screwed their customers over "piracy". Even mentioning the term still shows how out of wack they are when they redefined the phrase to fit their own purpose in the first place.
There are lots of good games that don't involve them in this day and age, thankfully.
I pirate, and thankfully it takes minimal effort since our lan events take care of that. Need COD MW2? I'm sure someone's got it on DVD. Who has the crack? etc over there.
this is stupid. Punkbuster is such a piece of crap it doesn't even work on most modern gaming systems which require it. XP was about the last thing to support it.
Piracy is an excuse for "we want to be even lazier and not even put in effort anymore. also, micropayments".
Nobody likes steam, their DRM is marginally better. You know what'd be the best? No DRM! What an idea!It's just they're the only one with a remotely acceptable solution (and not entirely, at that). Everyone else is even worse dinosaurs of a past era.
they're going to try to nickel and dime the gamers for every little addon and component. Want to play? $50. Want to play with actual weapons? Another $5 per weapon. Or some other equally idiotic requirement. Somehow they think micropayments are a good thing and there is lots of proof that it's not.
Thus, these 92 thousand signatures add up to way more over time, you know, like what is probably 1/4 or more of the people that were supposedly going to buy this game (not me, especially not now, not before this either).
uh, dedicated servers means they don't have to use their bandwidth, so I don't get where you're going about that.
Meanwhile, yes, this is when a game decision is so asinine that people have a reason to pirate. Again, brought to you by the same people who killed off LAN from Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2.
"better experience" = we're a bunch of greedy assholes and we want to use the phrase 'better experience' to rationalize our imaginary fight against piracy to shove DRM up your ass and prevent you from playing on the lan.
yeah, I mean I can see some benefits: aka if someone can't see into the car, people won't bust your window to take your gps as has happened to some folks (thankfully not myself - no gps either).
Remember, they're saying 60% is reflected, that doesn't include what is also absorbed in addition, although truthfully I don't know if that actually would make a difference or not.