Pre-built licenses are sold at a steep discount, it makes sense you can't take your $50 dell windows license and move it over to a homebuilt. If anything, maybe they should let you pay the other $50 and upgrade to a retail license.
Each voting center probably only takes on about 5-10k voters. Therefore you only need about 20k unique IDs. "You voted for Presidential Option A". Of coures you did... but #2408 in LA did too.
You would need to ensure that people all over the country were receiving unique ids.
This assumes an unlimited number of untapped potential customers. If engadget is reaching 100% of its potential market, and someone else releases a slick new interface which redirects 90% of its traffic, then it only loses. There is no up side for engadget.
Who says Kerry didn't poorly rig the election in his favor? Based on the performance of the Democrats in previous elections, I wouldn't be surprised if they botched that part of their campaign as well.
Not with two pin hole cameras operating in stereo. All you would need would be a mm in diameter aperature recessed inside of a concave depression to cloak it from side visibility.
At least in IT you have the choice. You can advance slower, take on less responsibility and work a 10 hour day to make less money. In film production you either work 16 hour days or you don't work. The End. One of the few other jobs with similar demands would be the medical profession. I agree I don't think the OP can complain about his hours, he had the choice to work less hours, and he didn't. Boo Fucking hoo.
There's also always the option to *not* work in said demanding industry.
I agree there will still be specialization to some degree in application, although I think it's going to become more of a pipeline than a simultaneous process. Think about the current method:
Model a base mesh and unwrap in Max/Maya/XSI/Modo/Silo then detail and paint in Zbrush/Mudbox/Modo/Bodypaint and finally rig/animate/render in Max/Maya/XSI.
I don't think you'll find any of those applications open simultaneously. Some of uses of dual monitors I currently use: Shaders on one monitor/Viewport on the other. Or F-curves on one monitor and viewport on the other, could be done simply using a larger monitor.
Also I thought of an even better way to deal with maximize/minimize. You right click on the desktop and select something like "Define Horizon" or "Define Split" and then it presents a line you can move back and forth across the desktop to define where you want your desktop to split either horizontally or vertically. Once defined you just right click on the desktop and activate a checkbox like "Split Desktop" then whenever you click maximize windows checks to see which side of the line the window is on and maximizes it to that size.
I think this is going to change dramatically in the coming future. First off, all internal applications (Like unwrapping) in a 3d app can be put into an internal "Sub monitor" so those aren't a problem. With Z-Brush and Modo offering such high quality 3d paint tools I think we're going to see painting on the mesh far more common, resulting in more single monitor applications. The current situation of multiple applications being required is slowly disintegrating.
One thing I can never understand is when people ridicule the idea of a larger monitor (I'm not suggesting parent was, just a standard reaction). I always get incredulous stares even with my 23" and exclamations at its size but I always respond: How productive at work would you be with a TV tray table for a desk? Some how people have been convinced that 17" of work space is all you need! Our "work space" is minuscule even with a 23" screen. I would say 23" is a minimum not a maximum.
Unrelated. This is far less of a problem with windows which only requires one click to switch between applications. The one feature where I feel that Mac OSX seriously lags behind windows is the ease of switching back and forth between two applications. Perhaps apple's survey highlights just how inefficient OSX is for a multi window user. And since this is 90% of what my OS does (the other 9% opening applications in the first place) I think they should focus more on their interface than the trying to solve it with a larger screen.
As a user of a large screen I do think Microsoft and Apple need to add a new feature to OSX and Windows. The half Maximize. There should be two extra buttons on the opposite top side: [Maximize Right][Maximize Left]. The two buttons would quickly resize the window to take up half the screen.
I don't even remember any marketing for it. I rented the game when I saw it in Blockbuster because it looked interesting, but I hadn't read a single preview, review or news article.
Or settle and buy a significant percentage of the companies stock. Later the same company will also sue PS3's sad little Live clone, Sony will deny any wrong doing, lose and be required to disable the service... oh wait that was the rumble feature.
No that's not accurate at all, because you'll still be able to playback user created, unlicensed HD content. They're only dictating how you can run *their* code. Effectively Microsoft is developing software for the movie industry, and the movie industry is commenting on how they want their part of the code to operate.
As I understand it my grandma's HD coverage of her trip to Zimbabwe will playback fine inside of Avid.
What's going to replace E3 is PAX for all those companies that still want to exhibit what they're working on in a convention style environment.
The only way a number of smaller companies can get attention from the press is if the ravenous gamer crowd is *looking* for any new piece of information. EA can get the attention of the masses any time they want. Smaller studios need a gimmick to get gamers to look for them even if its on accident. PAX will and already is filling this role. With such a significant amount of game development happening in either LA or Seattle not Australia, I see the Penny Arcade Expo quickly swelling dramatically in size next year to epic proportions. They're already filling the Seattle Convention Center this year.
"Video cards which cost the better part of a grand..."
Speaking for all of those who own video cards which cost more than a grand: it's worth every penny. Just because a game has been optimized to run on hardware available now doesn't mean there aren't 3d and openGL applications out there which are far more taxing than any game available today. Also high resolution mice provide another level of skip prevention, especially on uneven surfaces. Are they worth the cost? Maybe, but that's up to the user.
I also own a $100 component video cable... and yes it did make an appreciable difference over the cable that comes with your average big box DVD player.
I reboot my car several times a day. If I leave it running for 8 hours it has what I believe to be some sort of memory allocation error and crashes. Maybe it has a memory leak somwhere. I must say its expandability is quite limited. I wanted to increase its performance but then found out I didn't have an upgrade path, can't tell you how dissapointed I was. When I found out that it needed a patch, I was a confused by the lack of a USB port, and the $300+ maintanance fee for the man to plug in his cable to check an error message.
P.S. if I had a penny for everytime I had to reboot a mac I'd be a very wealthy man. Something tells me we'll never be free of the "reboot" syndrome. People even reboot, it's theorized that sleep is nothing more than a process that allows 'system' data to be fixed and updated.
I wouldn't pick on english. Any language in use is going to be abused and crafted. That's like saying "Isn't painting stupid, we need clear symbols to represent everything in the world." The moment somebody says "Hey." instead of "Hello James, how are you this morning?" all of the work put into the precise grammer is gone. Your wonderful language would also kill off the job of most authors, poets and editors, people who in my opinion advance and improve the language to which they are patrons every day.
How about this. Try talking using this simple but elegant structure for a week. "[Indirect Object] [verb] [Direct Object]". The indirect object is optional. Machines everywhere will thank you.
I hear a lot of "GO GET HIM!" "YOU GO MAN!" but I haven't seen any evidence that he's innocent. This is like supporting a speeder at a district court "Awsome man! Fight the system!" When they were caught on 4 different radar guns simultaneously.
While we're at it, let's also stop trying to force all these PCs to do so much. All I really need my PC for is word processing, the user interface for getting into the word processor is terrible, the UI cluttered with all these extra programs and settings. Don't even get me started on how much all of these features drive up the hardware costs. What I want is a machine that just puts words onto paper! When will they get this through their heads? [/sarcasm]
Am I the only one who hates carrying 5 computers in my pocket because each one refuses to share its processor cycles with another application?
Is it expensive now? Yes. Will it come down in price? Yes. Can an interface be both flexible and efficient? Yes. Can the current designs be greatly improved? Yes.
Yeah next thing you know the contract is going to say "You owe Microsoft 1 Billllion Dolllars!" look out!
Also keep in mind it's still BETA. Companies cover their asses 3 ways and yesterday in case it messes with someone's computer. If anything I would expect a smaller contract when the final version comes out, not that I care. Let me ask you a simple questions: does it let you browse the internet? Unless the contract says "the user herein agrees not to browse the internet, and is subject to stiff fines if he does" I could care less. What restrictions are you refering to? You may not sell this software on the street?
Because the time it takes to raise and swing a large blunt object usually is >= the time it takes me to run my ass away from said blunt object. Sure it's challenging to dodge a baseball bat or tire iron, but it's significantly easier than dodging a bullet. In the case of knives, even stabbed I could most likely make a hasty retreat since the wound would be superficial.
The best defense against mugging and street crime is posture. If you look alert and paranoid you're much less likely to be attacked.
This is going to sound strange but this isn't about money, it's about artistic integrity, so any profit motives are really irrellevant to the discussion. The guilds have a lot of power and when it comes to something like editing and distributing without consent, you can pretty damn well guarantee the guilds are going to fight it. If you want credit or money or both for your work, join a guild.
The original post was accurate in pointing out the motives. Any product which has been signed by an artist as saying "I approve this message as representative of my beliefs and aesthetics" cannot be altered and distributed. Look at the flip side: one's work could easily be redited into a pornographic film. "Oh but I purchased the DVD, and I know perfectly well that those were body doubles doing the nasty."
You're getting worked up about DRM, when in all honesty you could personally do this for yourself and nobody would be able to complain. Bring profit and organization into the equation and legality always seems to slide.
Sure we could say their net contribution to the planet is positive, but flying around in a large airliner unnecessarily causing damage to everybody in the form of air pollution is definitely going to dent their rating.
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Pre-built licenses are sold at a steep discount, it makes sense you can't take your $50 dell windows license and move it over to a homebuilt. If anything, maybe they should let you pay the other $50 and upgrade to a retail license.
I just thought of a way to exploit it:
Each voting center probably only takes on about 5-10k voters. Therefore you only need about 20k unique IDs. "You voted for Presidential Option A". Of coures you did... but #2408 in LA did too.
You would need to ensure that people all over the country were receiving unique ids.
Yeah but the radio stations pay for every one of their listeners. YouTube doesn't.
But I agree, I wouldn't be surprised if Comedy Central isn't in negotiation with Google to legally begin adding content to YouTube in some manner.
This assumes an unlimited number of untapped potential customers. If engadget is reaching 100% of its potential market, and someone else releases a slick new interface which redirects 90% of its traffic, then it only loses. There is no up side for engadget.
Who says Kerry didn't poorly rig the election in his favor? Based on the performance of the Democrats in previous elections, I wouldn't be surprised if they botched that part of their campaign as well.
Not with two pin hole cameras operating in stereo. All you would need would be a mm in diameter aperature recessed inside of a concave depression to cloak it from side visibility.
At least in IT you have the choice. You can advance slower, take on less responsibility and work a 10 hour day to make less money. In film production you either work 16 hour days or you don't work. The End. One of the few other jobs with similar demands would be the medical profession. I agree I don't think the OP can complain about his hours, he had the choice to work less hours, and he didn't. Boo Fucking hoo.
There's also always the option to *not* work in said demanding industry.
I agree there will still be specialization to some degree in application, although I think it's going to become more of a pipeline than a simultaneous process. Think about the current method:
Model a base mesh and unwrap in Max/Maya/XSI/Modo/Silo then detail and paint in Zbrush/Mudbox/Modo/Bodypaint and finally rig/animate/render in Max/Maya/XSI.
I don't think you'll find any of those applications open simultaneously. Some of uses of dual monitors I currently use: Shaders on one monitor/Viewport on the other. Or F-curves on one monitor and viewport on the other, could be done simply using a larger monitor.
Also I thought of an even better way to deal with maximize/minimize. You right click on the desktop and select something like "Define Horizon" or "Define Split" and then it presents a line you can move back and forth across the desktop to define where you want your desktop to split either horizontally or vertically. Once defined you just right click on the desktop and activate a checkbox like "Split Desktop" then whenever you click maximize windows checks to see which side of the line the window is on and maximizes it to that size.
Great Scott! Thanks that's exactly what I want.
Thanks!
I think this is going to change dramatically in the coming future. First off, all internal applications (Like unwrapping) in a 3d app can be put into an internal "Sub monitor" so those aren't a problem. With Z-Brush and Modo offering such high quality 3d paint tools I think we're going to see painting on the mesh far more common, resulting in more single monitor applications. The current situation of multiple applications being required is slowly disintegrating.
One thing I can never understand is when people ridicule the idea of a larger monitor (I'm not suggesting parent was, just a standard reaction). I always get incredulous stares even with my 23" and exclamations at its size but I always respond: How productive at work would you be with a TV tray table for a desk? Some how people have been convinced that 17" of work space is all you need! Our "work space" is minuscule even with a 23" screen. I would say 23" is a minimum not a maximum.
Unrelated. This is far less of a problem with windows which only requires one click to switch between applications. The one feature where I feel that Mac OSX seriously lags behind windows is the ease of switching back and forth between two applications. Perhaps apple's survey highlights just how inefficient OSX is for a multi window user. And since this is 90% of what my OS does (the other 9% opening applications in the first place) I think they should focus more on their interface than the trying to solve it with a larger screen.
As a user of a large screen I do think Microsoft and Apple need to add a new feature to OSX and Windows. The half Maximize. There should be two extra buttons on the opposite top side: [Maximize Right][Maximize Left]. The two buttons would quickly resize the window to take up half the screen.
I don't even remember any marketing for it. I rented the game when I saw it in Blockbuster because it looked interesting, but I hadn't read a single preview, review or news article.
Or settle and buy a significant percentage of the companies stock. Later the same company will also sue PS3's sad little Live clone, Sony will deny any wrong doing, lose and be required to disable the service... oh wait that was the rumble feature.
No that's not accurate at all, because you'll still be able to playback user created, unlicensed HD content. They're only dictating how you can run *their* code. Effectively Microsoft is developing software for the movie industry, and the movie industry is commenting on how they want their part of the code to operate.
As I understand it my grandma's HD coverage of her trip to Zimbabwe will playback fine inside of Avid.
What's going to replace E3 is PAX for all those companies that still want to exhibit what they're working on in a convention style environment.
The only way a number of smaller companies can get attention from the press is if the ravenous gamer crowd is *looking* for any new piece of information. EA can get the attention of the masses any time they want. Smaller studios need a gimmick to get gamers to look for them even if its on accident. PAX will and already is filling this role. With such a significant amount of game development happening in either LA or Seattle not Australia, I see the Penny Arcade Expo quickly swelling dramatically in size next year to epic proportions. They're already filling the Seattle Convention Center this year.
"Video cards which cost the better part of a grand..."
Speaking for all of those who own video cards which cost more than a grand: it's worth every penny. Just because a game has been optimized to run on hardware available now doesn't mean there aren't 3d and openGL applications out there which are far more taxing than any game available today. Also high resolution mice provide another level of skip prevention, especially on uneven surfaces. Are they worth the cost? Maybe, but that's up to the user.
I also own a $100 component video cable... and yes it did make an appreciable difference over the cable that comes with your average big box DVD player.
I reboot my car several times a day. If I leave it running for 8 hours it has what I believe to be some sort of memory allocation error and crashes. Maybe it has a memory leak somwhere. I must say its expandability is quite limited. I wanted to increase its performance but then found out I didn't have an upgrade path, can't tell you how dissapointed I was. When I found out that it needed a patch, I was a confused by the lack of a USB port, and the $300+ maintanance fee for the man to plug in his cable to check an error message.
P.S. if I had a penny for everytime I had to reboot a mac I'd be a very wealthy man. Something tells me we'll never be free of the "reboot" syndrome. People even reboot, it's theorized that sleep is nothing more than a process that allows 'system' data to be fixed and updated.
And I'm supposed to believe he can find better actors, can direct better and will write a better story than we already have. All for $60,000?
I expect terrible actors, terrible direction and even worse dialogue. All compounded with: bad FX, worse audio and a poor cinematography.
Yeah... this sounds like it's going to save Star Wars.
Holy shit Tom, did some sales guy steal your wife? You must have set the longest running sales bashing marathon I've ever seen online.
I wouldn't pick on english. Any language in use is going to be abused and crafted. That's like saying "Isn't painting stupid, we need clear symbols to represent everything in the world." The moment somebody says "Hey." instead of "Hello James, how are you this morning?" all of the work put into the precise grammer is gone. Your wonderful language would also kill off the job of most authors, poets and editors, people who in my opinion advance and improve the language to which they are patrons every day.
How about this. Try talking using this simple but elegant structure for a week. "[Indirect Object] [verb] [Direct Object]". The indirect object is optional. Machines everywhere will thank you.
I hear a lot of "GO GET HIM!" "YOU GO MAN!" but I haven't seen any evidence that he's innocent. This is like supporting a speeder at a district court "Awsome man! Fight the system!" When they were caught on 4 different radar guns simultaneously.
While we're at it, let's also stop trying to force all these PCs to do so much. All I really need my PC for is word processing, the user interface for getting into the word processor is terrible, the UI cluttered with all these extra programs and settings. Don't even get me started on how much all of these features drive up the hardware costs. What I want is a machine that just puts words onto paper! When will they get this through their heads?
[/sarcasm]
Am I the only one who hates carrying 5 computers in my pocket because each one refuses to share its processor cycles with another application?
Is it expensive now? Yes.
Will it come down in price? Yes.
Can an interface be both flexible and efficient? Yes.
Can the current designs be greatly improved? Yes.
Yeah next thing you know the contract is going to say "You owe Microsoft 1 Billllion Dolllars!" look out!
Also keep in mind it's still BETA. Companies cover their asses 3 ways and yesterday in case it messes with someone's computer. If anything I would expect a smaller contract when the final version comes out, not that I care. Let me ask you a simple questions: does it let you browse the internet? Unless the contract says "the user herein agrees not to browse the internet, and is subject to stiff fines if he does" I could care less. What restrictions are you refering to? You may not sell this software on the street?
Because the time it takes to raise and swing a large blunt object usually is >= the time it takes me to run my ass away from said blunt object. Sure it's challenging to dodge a baseball bat or tire iron, but it's significantly easier than dodging a bullet. In the case of knives, even stabbed I could most likely make a hasty retreat since the wound would be superficial.
The best defense against mugging and street crime is posture. If you look alert and paranoid you're much less likely to be attacked.
This is going to sound strange but this isn't about money, it's about artistic integrity, so any profit motives are really irrellevant to the discussion. The guilds have a lot of power and when it comes to something like editing and distributing without consent, you can pretty damn well guarantee the guilds are going to fight it. If you want credit or money or both for your work, join a guild.
The original post was accurate in pointing out the motives. Any product which has been signed by an artist as saying "I approve this message as representative of my beliefs and aesthetics" cannot be altered and distributed. Look at the flip side: one's work could easily be redited into a pornographic film. "Oh but I purchased the DVD, and I know perfectly well that those were body doubles doing the nasty."
You're getting worked up about DRM, when in all honesty you could personally do this for yourself and nobody would be able to complain. Bring profit and organization into the equation and legality always seems to slide.
Sure we could say their net contribution to the planet is positive, but flying around in a large airliner unnecessarily causing damage to everybody in the form of air pollution is definitely going to dent their rating.