Am I missing something here?
1) Sell all apps as demos.
2) Serve full game content via in-app purchases.
3) ???
4) Profit!
Sorry, I hadn't seen this meme for a while, I was starting to get withdrawal symptoms and accidentally esploded.
I'm disappointed that there's nothing on the SteelSeries 7G in the article. It's a behemoth of a gaming keyboard, so much so that it still opts for a freaking PS/2 connector over USB... but comes with an adaptor anyway, I'm not sure what that's all about.
I've not used a Model M for comparison, but the key feel blows away that of the Saitek Eclipse I normally use (and everything else I've laid hands upon) and I'm pretty sure it would hold up against the M in some sort of keyboard-wielding pseudo sword fight- now that would make some good television... or youtubevision anyway.
Yeah! Damn all those people slowing down *my* internet by using the bandwidth that they paid for! Damn them for cutting into ISPs profit margins. People who expect to get what was advertised to them and what they paid for are nothing but dirty rotten thieves, stealing from the pockets of poor, disadvantaged company directors the world over!
Another giant leap in America's mission to make their way of life extinct by getting so gradually up-tight they finally outlaw sexual intercourse.
It's been said before. But I'll say it again..XXX is EASIER TO BLOCK. Can anyone here say:
*.xxx*
I think so. What about the bush administration? Nope. What they know about computers, computing, domains, the internet could be written on a post-it note with a board marker and would probably read something like: "Teh intarnet is bad!"
Morale of the story? It's about time the masses overthrew the sparse few complete morons in power- come on, we outnumber them a bazillion to one and we're at least twice as smart, if not smarter. Once I'm on the throne as emperor of earth I'll commission domain suffixes left right and centre.
Here are some of my proposed possibilities:.cum.gay.lez.jiz.crap.blog.noob.god
Wise man say: "Today is a good day to be using a Macintosh..."
Enjoy your endless punishment, you crazy Winblows users, god created viruses specifically to torture you! It's written in the Bible somewhere. (Big Idiotic Book of Ludicrous Events)
Who cares... I'm not sure how many people know this but 2012 is over six years from now.
I don't care much about the Olympic games as it is, but the event is six years away- I don't think anyone is going to be watching it in pubs for a while.
I guess this is a perfect time to announce the formation of my my new company: Olympic Summer corporation of Gold Games production Extreme 2012 Ultra!
I saw Engadget as competition to my new GamingGadgets venture until I realised they basically just "report on" articles written by someone else and posted elsewhere.
Internet journalism these days has a bad habit of being links to links to links to original content, the site with the most hits looks like it has the most content, and thus gets the most visitors without doing any real work.
On another note, it's crazy how many of these completely pointless how tos get slashdotted. There's nothing to them, they're not groundbreaking, and they're only minutely interesting.
Of course, this is coming from someone who had a completely pointless Javascript slashdotted,... ahem.
If Sims2 cheated you, then try Singles 2... it might be the single most irritating and retarded giggle-inspiring game ever created... but it's got nudity and sex, which always sells!
Actually, the Zodiac's form factor is unique in the fact it is designed not only for comfortable gaming, but comfortable general-PDA-use. Rotate the console 90 degrees and it fits beautifully in one hand.
The Zodiac is leagues ahead of the PSP, like most PDAs, the trouble is that the market is not quite yet ready for gaming PDAs... although with the steep price of the PSP I'm sure the far more superior PDAs, with their superior features, and far less proprietary technologies are already more appealing to those of us who know about them.
The Zodiac is a great system, they just failed to market it properly, failed to produce it at a price the primary gaming demographic could afford, and, finally, failed to produce any games for it. I have a feeling the Gizmondo will go the same way. It pretty much has already.
Well, I have a 5 button Logitech MX518 and a Saitek Gaming Mouse with 6 buttons, the trouble is neither of them work as well on my bed (and are a little too big) as the sexy white Saitek Notebook mouse I now use with my Mac.
The benefits of binding Expose functions to the extra buttons are clear though, given that navigating to any other window in OSX is a nightmare without Expose and a breeze with.
More like a 21 year old who pulled the freshly-downloaded-from-MSDN beta from the shared software folder at work, installed it, rebooted, and, with the other developers looking on, and fired up what turned out to be the biggest dissapointment in Microsoft releases this year- "Wow. IE6 with tabs. How does it fare in the Acid 2 te... what the FUCK IS THIS AWFUL MESS!?"
Just because you haven't tried the crap-pile for yourself and seen what an abysmal pile-of-trash let down it is, and how effectively it crushes all my dreams of working with SVG and AT LEAST proper CSS2 in the future. Any web developer worth his salt should be raving at this atrocity!
It took them years to come up with this crap pile, when they could have easily just used and improved on the Gecko engine and cut IE back to the pitiful desktop file browser it only just deserves to be.
If you're not going to take my word for it, at least wait until you have bothered to try it for yourself before trying to shoot down my perfectly valid but expressed-as-an-aggrivated-rant comments.
"This is not IE 6 with a few features borrowed from the competition, but rather a clear step in the evolution of user-centric design."
Wow, that's the funniest and most completely bullshit sentence I have read all year. Nobody cares about the "evolution of user-centric design" (what the fuck is that supposed to mean, anyway? It's just 100% PR waffle, straight from the arse of a dihorettic bull), the general public variety of users don't know what they want, don't really care and shouldn't be given any say in the matter anyway.
It's us DEVELOPERS who have to put up with the "nuances" (and that's being polite) of Microsoft's sub standard browser offering. It's our employers who pay us a fortune in man hours so that we can work round these "nuances". And it's our future careers that depend on browse consistency and the full implementation of standards like SVG and CSS3. I am absolutely gutted that Microsoft failed on every level to implement worthwhile technologies and bring their browser up to scratch, they insult us developers by implementing long-overdue PNG transparency which we can't use until everyone has switched away from IE5/6 anyway, and claim to have "improved" their abysmal CSS support.
Who gets the real benefit from the new IE? The people who matter most. The mindless drones who will lap up any offering from MS, or get it installed on their PC automatically whether they like it or not. The people too stupid to have switched to a better browser already. The brain-dead end users have their silly tabs and phishing scam (read: user stupidity) filter, and we get nothing.
Even if this is "just a beta" it demonstrates not days, not months, but YEARS... yes YEARS of freaking work and does not include any significant changes. It doesn't even deserve a new version number. We all know it already, but Windows is a joke, IE is a joke, and Microsoft are a joke who can't be bothered to do anything properly because as long as idiot uneducated users lap up their crappy products they have an enduring monopoly and there is not a damned thing we can do about it.
I say us developers should lobby our employers to sue over lost profits. Microsofts failure to implement standards means we are still unable to deliver cutting edge software to our users, and we still have to put up with IE's goddamned quirks. Microsoft should be sued by every company on earth with its hand in web development and FORCED to bring their crap-pile browser up to scratch and keep it that way instead of pissing away their time making sure the browser interface is just the right degree of "fucking confusing" to send any sane persons hatrid of IE into critical mass.
For lack of a better ending. GRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Well... that was a whole lot of fuss about nothing. I truly don't know what I expected from Microsoft.
Improved CSS support? Yeah. Right.
This is IE6 with tabs and a "phishing filter". Nothing new here. The RSS reader is abysmal, not even comparing to that of Safari 2.0.. not to mention I couldn't find a visible button to access the feeds on a website and had to dig in the tools menu for it.
CSS support has some minor improvements, but nothing groundbreaking. IE7 fails the Acid2 test miserably, which is tough luck because we're probably not going to see IE8 for 5 years now.
Microsoft have the future of SVG and CSS3 in the palms of their hands and they are content to toss it aside so they can implement a couple of silly superficial features to keep the monkey-brained masses happy and try to pass us developers off with "immproved CSS support" and a PNG transparent support which is nice, but frankly I'm having none of it. Microsoft have officially torn the final straw from my clutches and chewed it into a pulp before my very eyes.
As for Windows Vista.. whoopety-fucking-doo..system wide RSS integration and a whole-bunch-of-features-stolen-from-OSX branded with a Microsoft logo to make sure we all know it's high grade proprietary worthless crap that was actually and surprisingly developed by intelligent human beings and not just cobbled together by monkeys who arranged the shredded strands of 500 billion pages of printed source-code by sneezing at them.
And to think... how long has IE7 been in the works before it took them to come out with this shitty beta? In 10 minutes they could have handed the Mozilla group seven figures to use Gecko in their commercial crap-pile which would have made everyone happy. But nooooo, they can't even do the sensible thing.
Oooo, I'm so excited.. about IE7 that is. It basically decides a large part of the future of my web development career and how much cutting edge trickery I get to play with.
Windows Vista is a joke though, it will take more than that to pull me back away from OSX Tiger.
Sly 2 was a fantastic example of a 3D platformer done properly, but I can't help but agree that the majority of games development these days is a mad race to create the best graphics. By going down the cell-shaded route I think Windwaker stepped aside from the graphics race and gave them the time to make a better title instead of ultra-detailed models and scenery.
The best RPGs I have played recently were Golden Sun 1 and Golden Sun 2, the restrictions of the GBA are a blessing and gave us those gorgeous classically styled 2d graphics that anyone who has experienced Chonro Trigger, the old Final Fantasy games, Links Awakening and Seiken Densetsu (Sword of Mana) loves. I sincerely hope that any Golden Sun sequel on the DS stays far, FAR away from 3d graphics.
The trouble with 2d, however, is that it knocks an extra dimension of puzzles out of the mix- 3d has its benefits, but the graphics race is rediculous.
Of course, when you use Ebay you KNOW you're getting a good deal. Even if you pay more!
Used game sales are definately a nasty business. GAME give you £20 at most for your brand-spanking-new awesome title and resell it at a few pounds under the retail price. I got less than £20 for a brand new copy of San Andreas... pfff.
Now, if only we could find a better way to connect the people wanting to sell used games with the people wanting to buy them, one not focussed on making bucket loads of raw profit from people trying to save a few quid.
Hear hear, I have refrained from buying DS games for months, but my holiday to Canada this christmas will see me coming back with armfulls of them!
If piracy has existed since the era of the floppy disk and the games industry still exists with sales of many games running into the millions then what grounds, exactly, do they have to complain on?
The gaming industry is stagnant and will remain so until we see a huge innovation in interactive technologies (virtual reality, anyone) yet we still lap up games and they still make billions. Seriously, where's the flaw in THAT business plan? I think the real problem is they waste too much money making crap all shiny and pretty.
Maybe if they stopped selling the same shit over and over again and put the prices down a bit we would buy the damned things.. but who really wants to pay for Doom "Graphics engine demonstration" 3 and The Sims "Now We're Just Ripping You Off" Latest expansion pack?
You could just take the 10 fans out of your computer required to keep your overblown £400 graphics card from melting, and your equally overblown £300 CPU from bursting into flames.
Alternatively you could just buy a Mac mini. Or perhaps Antecs P180 case (looks like a fridge).
I would say the power supply is the least of my noise problems, considering there are 4 completely redundant case fans and one graphics card cooler in my 1.1ghz/r9700pro linux box that I put there either for show, or just for somewhere to put them out of the way.
If it takes several decades for mankind to come up with a silent power supply then there can't be that many people who give a damn anyway. I mean... seriously... power supply, heat sink, screws... job done.
Tara, would you be interested in doing an interview with a small time web-based gaming publication (GamingHeadlines.co.uk) which will not misquote the bejesus out of you?
Slashdot Mirror
Am I missing something here?
1) Sell all apps as demos.
2) Serve full game content via in-app purchases.
3) ???
4) Profit!
Sorry, I hadn't seen this meme for a while, I was starting to get withdrawal symptoms and accidentally esploded.
I'm disappointed that there's nothing on the SteelSeries 7G in the article. It's a behemoth of a gaming keyboard, so much so that it still opts for a freaking PS/2 connector over USB... but comes with an adaptor anyway, I'm not sure what that's all about. I've not used a Model M for comparison, but the key feel blows away that of the Saitek Eclipse I normally use (and everything else I've laid hands upon) and I'm pretty sure it would hold up against the M in some sort of keyboard-wielding pseudo sword fight- now that would make some good television... or youtubevision anyway.
Yeah! Damn all those people slowing down *my* internet by using the bandwidth that they paid for! Damn them for cutting into ISPs profit margins. People who expect to get what was advertised to them and what they paid for are nothing but dirty rotten thieves, stealing from the pockets of poor, disadvantaged company directors the world over!
Well the african american people around here speak in ebonics and refer to each other as 'niggas', what's your point?
Well I'm all digital already, those pesky wavy analogue signals are probably stuffing up the airwaves and giving me brain tumors!
Another giant leap in America's mission to make their way of life extinct by getting so gradually up-tight they finally outlaw sexual intercourse.
.XXX is EASIER TO BLOCK. Can anyone here say:
.cum .gay .lez .jiz .crap .blog .noob .god
It's been said before. But I'll say it again.
*.xxx*
I think so. What about the bush administration? Nope. What they know about computers, computing, domains, the internet could be written on a post-it note with a board marker and would probably read something like: "Teh intarnet is bad!"
Morale of the story? It's about time the masses overthrew the sparse few complete morons in power- come on, we outnumber them a bazillion to one and we're at least twice as smart, if not smarter. Once I'm on the throne as emperor of earth I'll commission domain suffixes left right and centre.
Here are some of my proposed possibilities:
Wise man say: "Today is a good day to be using a Macintosh..."
Enjoy your endless punishment, you crazy Winblows users, god created viruses specifically to torture you! It's written in the Bible somewhere. (Big Idiotic Book of Ludicrous Events)
Who cares... I'm not sure how many people know this but 2012 is over six years from now.
I don't care much about the Olympic games as it is, but the event is six years away- I don't think anyone is going to be watching it in pubs for a while.
I guess this is a perfect time to announce the formation of my my new company: Olympic Summer corporation of Gold Games production Extreme 2012 Ultra!
I hear you!
I saw Engadget as competition to my new GamingGadgets venture until I realised they basically just "report on" articles written by someone else and posted elsewhere.
Internet journalism these days has a bad habit of being links to links to links to original content, the site with the most hits looks like it has the most content, and thus gets the most visitors without doing any real work.
On another note, it's crazy how many of these completely pointless how tos get slashdotted. There's nothing to them, they're not groundbreaking, and they're only minutely interesting.
Of course, this is coming from someone who had a completely pointless Javascript slashdotted,... ahem.
If Sims2 cheated you, then try Singles 2... it might be the single most irritating and retarded giggle-inspiring game ever created... but it's got nudity and sex, which always sells!
I was going to say- IE7's implementation of RSS is so piss-poor compared to that of Safari that nobody would notice if they did remove it.
Chalk up another pointless patent!
Actually, the Zodiac's form factor is unique in the fact it is designed not only for comfortable gaming, but comfortable general-PDA-use. Rotate the console 90 degrees and it fits beautifully in one hand.
The Zodiac is leagues ahead of the PSP, like most PDAs, the trouble is that the market is not quite yet ready for gaming PDAs... although with the steep price of the PSP I'm sure the far more superior PDAs, with their superior features, and far less proprietary technologies are already more appealing to those of us who know about them.
The Zodiac is a great system, they just failed to market it properly, failed to produce it at a price the primary gaming demographic could afford, and, finally, failed to produce any games for it. I have a feeling the Gizmondo will go the same way. It pretty much has already.
Well, I have a 5 button Logitech MX518 and a Saitek Gaming Mouse with 6 buttons, the trouble is neither of them work as well on my bed (and are a little too big) as the sexy white Saitek Notebook mouse I now use with my Mac. The benefits of binding Expose functions to the extra buttons are clear though, given that navigating to any other window in OSX is a nightmare without Expose and a breeze with.
More like a 21 year old who pulled the freshly-downloaded-from-MSDN beta from the shared software folder at work, installed it, rebooted, and, with the other developers looking on, and fired up what turned out to be the biggest dissapointment in Microsoft releases this year- "Wow. IE6 with tabs. How does it fare in the Acid 2 te... what the FUCK IS THIS AWFUL MESS!?"
Just because you haven't tried the crap-pile for yourself and seen what an abysmal pile-of-trash let down it is, and how effectively it crushes all my dreams of working with SVG and AT LEAST proper CSS2 in the future. Any web developer worth his salt should be raving at this atrocity!
It took them years to come up with this crap pile, when they could have easily just used and improved on the Gecko engine and cut IE back to the pitiful desktop file browser it only just deserves to be.
If you're not going to take my word for it, at least wait until you have bothered to try it for yourself before trying to shoot down my perfectly valid but expressed-as-an-aggrivated-rant comments.
"This is not IE 6 with a few features borrowed from the competition, but rather a clear step in the evolution of user-centric design."
Wow, that's the funniest and most completely bullshit sentence I have read all year. Nobody cares about the "evolution of user-centric design" (what the fuck is that supposed to mean, anyway? It's just 100% PR waffle, straight from the arse of a dihorettic bull), the general public variety of users don't know what they want, don't really care and shouldn't be given any say in the matter anyway.
It's us DEVELOPERS who have to put up with the "nuances" (and that's being polite) of Microsoft's sub standard browser offering. It's our employers who pay us a fortune in man hours so that we can work round these "nuances". And it's our future careers that depend on browse consistency and the full implementation of standards like SVG and CSS3. I am absolutely gutted that Microsoft failed on every level to implement worthwhile technologies and bring their browser up to scratch, they insult us developers by implementing long-overdue PNG transparency which we can't use until everyone has switched away from IE5/6 anyway, and claim to have "improved" their abysmal CSS support.
Who gets the real benefit from the new IE? The people who matter most. The mindless drones who will lap up any offering from MS, or get it installed on their PC automatically whether they like it or not. The people too stupid to have switched to a better browser already. The brain-dead end users have their silly tabs and phishing scam (read: user stupidity) filter, and we get nothing.
Even if this is "just a beta" it demonstrates not days, not months, but YEARS... yes YEARS of freaking work and does not include any significant changes. It doesn't even deserve a new version number. We all know it already, but Windows is a joke, IE is a joke, and Microsoft are a joke who can't be bothered to do anything properly because as long as idiot uneducated users lap up their crappy products they have an enduring monopoly and there is not a damned thing we can do about it.
I say us developers should lobby our employers to sue over lost profits. Microsofts failure to implement standards means we are still unable to deliver cutting edge software to our users, and we still have to put up with IE's goddamned quirks. Microsoft should be sued by every company on earth with its hand in web development and FORCED to bring their crap-pile browser up to scratch and keep it that way instead of pissing away their time making sure the browser interface is just the right degree of "fucking confusing" to send any sane persons hatrid of IE into critical mass.
For lack of a better ending. GRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Solution: Buy a Mac for your dad, sounds like he needs an upgrade.
Well... that was a whole lot of fuss about nothing. I truly don't know what I expected from Microsoft.
..system wide RSS integration and a whole-bunch-of-features-stolen-from-OSX branded with a Microsoft logo to make sure we all know it's high grade proprietary worthless crap that was actually and surprisingly developed by intelligent human beings and not just cobbled together by monkeys who arranged the shredded strands of 500 billion pages of printed source-code by sneezing at them.
Improved CSS support? Yeah. Right.
This is IE6 with tabs and a "phishing filter". Nothing new here. The RSS reader is abysmal, not even comparing to that of Safari 2.0.. not to mention I couldn't find a visible button to access the feeds on a website and had to dig in the tools menu for it.
CSS support has some minor improvements, but nothing groundbreaking. IE7 fails the Acid2 test miserably, which is tough luck because we're probably not going to see IE8 for 5 years now.
Microsoft have the future of SVG and CSS3 in the palms of their hands and they are content to toss it aside so they can implement a couple of silly superficial features to keep the monkey-brained masses happy and try to pass us developers off with "immproved CSS support" and a PNG transparent support which is nice, but frankly I'm having none of it. Microsoft have officially torn the final straw from my clutches and chewed it into a pulp before my very eyes.
As for Windows Vista.. whoopety-fucking-doo
And to think... how long has IE7 been in the works before it took them to come out with this shitty beta? In 10 minutes they could have handed the Mozilla group seven figures to use Gecko in their commercial crap-pile which would have made everyone happy. But nooooo, they can't even do the sensible thing.
Money grubbing idiots.
Oooo, I'm so excited.. about IE7 that is. It basically decides a large part of the future of my web development career and how much cutting edge trickery I get to play with. Windows Vista is a joke though, it will take more than that to pull me back away from OSX Tiger.
All the 6 year olds are too busy playing San Andreas and trying to hide the Hot Coffee from their parents!
Sly 2 was a fantastic example of a 3D platformer done properly, but I can't help but agree that the majority of games development these days is a mad race to create the best graphics. By going down the cell-shaded route I think Windwaker stepped aside from the graphics race and gave them the time to make a better title instead of ultra-detailed models and scenery.
The best RPGs I have played recently were Golden Sun 1 and Golden Sun 2, the restrictions of the GBA are a blessing and gave us those gorgeous classically styled 2d graphics that anyone who has experienced Chonro Trigger, the old Final Fantasy games, Links Awakening and Seiken Densetsu (Sword of Mana) loves. I sincerely hope that any Golden Sun sequel on the DS stays far, FAR away from 3d graphics.
The trouble with 2d, however, is that it knocks an extra dimension of puzzles out of the mix- 3d has its benefits, but the graphics race is rediculous.
Of course, when you use Ebay you KNOW you're getting a good deal. Even if you pay more!
Used game sales are definately a nasty business. GAME give you £20 at most for your brand-spanking-new awesome title and resell it at a few pounds under the retail price. I got less than £20 for a brand new copy of San Andreas... pfff.
Now, if only we could find a better way to connect the people wanting to sell used games with the people wanting to buy them, one not focussed on making bucket loads of raw profit from people trying to save a few quid.
Hear hear, I have refrained from buying DS games for months, but my holiday to Canada this christmas will see me coming back with armfulls of them! If piracy has existed since the era of the floppy disk and the games industry still exists with sales of many games running into the millions then what grounds, exactly, do they have to complain on? The gaming industry is stagnant and will remain so until we see a huge innovation in interactive technologies (virtual reality, anyone) yet we still lap up games and they still make billions. Seriously, where's the flaw in THAT business plan? I think the real problem is they waste too much money making crap all shiny and pretty. Maybe if they stopped selling the same shit over and over again and put the prices down a bit we would buy the damned things.. but who really wants to pay for Doom "Graphics engine demonstration" 3 and The Sims "Now We're Just Ripping You Off" Latest expansion pack?
You could just take the 10 fans out of your computer required to keep your overblown £400 graphics card from melting, and your equally overblown £300 CPU from bursting into flames.
Alternatively you could just buy a Mac mini. Or perhaps Antecs P180 case (looks like a fridge).
I would say the power supply is the least of my noise problems, considering there are 4 completely redundant case fans and one graphics card cooler in my 1.1ghz/r9700pro linux box that I put there either for show, or just for somewhere to put them out of the way.
If it takes several decades for mankind to come up with a silent power supply then there can't be that many people who give a damn anyway. I mean... seriously... power supply, heat sink, screws... job done.
Tara, would you be interested in doing an interview with a small time web-based gaming publication (GamingHeadlines.co.uk) which will not misquote the bejesus out of you?
Yeah, I'm sure every woman wants to see "Mary the high powered business lawyer" as a video game character. How fun would that be!
I thought people played games to escape from their boring, mundane lives, not emulate them.