Obviously most of the revenue would be from concerts, not unlike it is now. Most bands end up owing the record company for the priviledge of having their cds distributed by them, which is why I think most bands would be better off without record contracts.
It can take five years for a band to work their way up from garage band to being noteworthy enough to get a recording contract. This would mean that all of their early works would be unprotected right as they became popular enough to actually make money off them.
You use that word as if it was something artists benefitted from...
Maybe when stuff can be copied more freely, artists will start to make their living out of concerts and merchandise, instead of ethereal bits that have no business being charged for.
you don't care that you have a completely insane attitude to firearms (everybody should have one (which the rest of the world sees as ludicrous))... you'd be throwing down your governement
Won't the weapons come in handy when rebelling? In fact, isn't that the reason the right to bear arms is constitutionally protected, so that the people will be able to overthrow their government?
You don't care about corruption at home (e.g. Florida vote rigging)... and you actually voted in George W. Bush.
If the votes are rigged, then how do you know anyone even voted for him?
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I'd say that mostly depends on the implementation. The Apple/Microsoft approach with flashy desktops isn't necessarily the best approach, but it is an easy way to make it look new. It's also important to note, that GPU acceleration doesn't have to be used on displaying the desktop, other uses could include encoding/decoding video for example.
That a comment lamenting over the state of mankind because of a perceived lack of sense of humor in one individual Slashdot moderator hasn't been modded up as insightful gives me newfound faith in humanity.
Well then say "Press the windows button on the bar that has the clock on it.". And don't tell me about users that know how to disable the clock, they're not average tech support calling users.:)
But my point was that it's silly for the GGP to tell the users to press the start button when it isn't the start button anymore.
How about just "Press the button in the bottom left corner"? IMO it's a good thing that they don't call it start anymore, now it takes less room and people will finally stop with the "Why do you have to press start to shutdown?" whining.
Wright is a game designer, and I'm guessing the game design is pretty much complete. So I don't think we'd get Spore any faster even if he didn't spend an hour speaking at GDC.
Procedurally generating art instead of having artists manually create it costs nothing. In fact, expect this in all future games as the growth of game budgets are becoming impossible to sustain.
This is stupid there is still no solid scientific evidence of this working, besides where would the matter come from that caused the "Big Bang"? This theory is pretty far-fetched and should have been rejected years ago!
It's the best theory we've got. If we demanded 100%-proof from theories before we accept them, we'd still think the world is flat. Since you're so sure this theory is wrong, you must have a much better one, why don't you share it with us?
It'll be interesting to see what license, if any, they're using. I was kinda surprised they didn't get drawn into doing D&D Online, given they've basically made the only D&D games in recent memory that don't suck. If they had, maybe that game wouldn't be getting such dire launch publicity.
I'm guessing they'll use the setting from Dragon Age or Mass Effect. IMO it's a good thing that they're dropping D&D, I mean it's a great RPG and all, but there is only so much you can do within it's limits.
A young hoodlum, say, heaves a brick through the window of a baker's shop. The shopkeeper runs out furious, but the boy is gone. A crowd gathers, and begins to stare with quiet satisfaction at the gaping hole in the window and the shattered glass over the bread and pies. After a while the crowd feels the need for philosophic reflection. And several of its members are almost certain to remind each other or the baker that, after all, the misfortune has its bright side. It will make business for some glazier. As they begin to think of this they elaborate upon it. How much does a new plate glass window cost? Two hundred and fifty dollars? That will be quite a sum. After all, if windows were never broken, what would happen to the glass business? Then, of course, the thing is endless. The glazier will have $250 more to spend with other merchants, and these in turn will have $250 more to spend with still other merchants, and so ad infinitum. The smashed window will go on providing money and employment in ever-widening circles. The logical conclusion from all this would be, if the crowd drew it, that the little hoodlum who threw the brick, far from being a public menace, was a public benefactor.
Now let us take another look. The crowd is at least right in its first conclusion. This little act of vandalism will in the first instance mean more business for some glazier. The glazier will be no more unhappy to learn of the incident than an undertaker to learn of a death. But the shopkeeper will be out $250 that he was planning to spend for a new suit. Because he has had to replace a window, he will have to go without the suit (or some equivalent need or luxury). Instead of having a window and $250 he now has merely a window. Or, as he was planning to buy the suit that very afternoon, instead of having both a window and a suit he must be content with the window and no suit. If we think of him as a part of the community, the community has lost a new suit that might otherwise have come into being, and is just that much poorer.
The glazier's gain of business, in short, is merely the tailor's loss of business. No new "employment" has been added. The people in the crowd were thinking only of two parties to the transaction, the baker and the glazier. They had forgotten the potential third party involved, the tailor. They forgot him precisely because he will not now enter the scene. They will see the new window in the next day or two. They will never see the extra suit, precisely because it will never be made. They see only what is immediately visible to the eye.
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Obviously most of the revenue would be from concerts, not unlike it is now. Most bands end up owing the record company for the priviledge of having their cds distributed by them, which is why I think most bands would be better off without record contracts.
It can take five years for a band to work their way up from garage band to being noteworthy enough to get a recording contract. This would mean that all of their early works would be unprotected right as they became popular enough to actually make money off them.
You use that word as if it was something artists benefitted from...
Maybe when stuff can be copied more freely, artists will start to make their living out of concerts and merchandise, instead of ethereal bits that have no business being charged for.
1. Open up tobacco shop.
2. ???
3. Now all your customers are addicted to cellphone radiation.
4. Profit!
Everyone knows there is no such thing as pink ponies!
ponies are piNK!!1
you don't care that you have a completely insane attitude to firearms (everybody should have one (which the rest of the world sees as ludicrous)) ... you'd be throwing down your governement
... and you actually voted in George W. Bush.
Won't the weapons come in handy when rebelling? In fact, isn't that the reason the right to bear arms is constitutionally protected, so that the people will be able to overthrow their government?
You don't care about corruption at home (e.g. Florida vote rigging)
If the votes are rigged, then how do you know anyone even voted for him?
But you get more space!
I'd say that mostly depends on the implementation. The Apple/Microsoft approach with flashy desktops isn't necessarily the best approach, but it is an easy way to make it look new. It's also important to note, that GPU acceleration doesn't have to be used on displaying the desktop, other uses could include encoding/decoding video for example.
That a comment lamenting over the state of mankind because of a perceived lack of sense of humor in one individual Slashdot moderator hasn't been modded up as insightful gives me newfound faith in humanity.
And 160,000,000,000 micrometers and 160,000,000,000,000 nanometers. What's your point?
Well then say "Press the windows button on the bar that has the clock on it.". And don't tell me about users that know how to disable the clock, they're not average tech support calling users. :)
But my point was that it's silly for the GGP to tell the users to press the start button when it isn't the start button anymore.
How about just "Press the button in the bottom left corner"? IMO it's a good thing that they don't call it start anymore, now it takes less room and people will finally stop with the "Why do you have to press start to shutdown?" whining.
Wright is a game designer, and I'm guessing the game design is pretty much complete. So I don't think we'd get Spore any faster even if he didn't spend an hour speaking at GDC.
Procedurally generating art instead of having artists manually create it costs nothing. In fact, expect this in all future games as the growth of game budgets are becoming impossible to sustain.
Yeah, but does it run Linux?
I agree. I had over 1000 games for my Commodore 64, but I only remember there being a couple of dozen good games.
EXCEPT NWN....
NWN isn't exactly recent either, ~4 years.
The video.
Small.
In fact, forget the series!
And the hookers!
And the joke!
This is stupid there is still no solid scientific evidence of this working, besides where would the matter come from that caused the "Big Bang"? This theory is pretty far-fetched and should have been rejected years ago!
It's the best theory we've got. If we demanded 100%-proof from theories before we accept them, we'd still think the world is flat. Since you're so sure this theory is wrong, you must have a much better one, why don't you share it with us?
Folding@Home.
It'll be interesting to see what license, if any, they're using. I was kinda surprised they didn't get drawn into doing D&D Online, given they've basically made the only D&D games in recent memory that don't suck. If they had, maybe that game wouldn't be getting such dire launch publicity.
I'm guessing they'll use the setting from Dragon Age or Mass Effect. IMO it's a good thing that they're dropping D&D, I mean it's a great RPG and all, but there is only so much you can do within it's limits.
doh doh doh doh doh ouch doh doh doh doh doh off we go from the gene pool ...
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