I, for one do not welcome our new Manglish overlords, and it's not because I don't like manga ( I love it ), it's because I think this excellent idea has been presented in a horrible fashion, especially considering the care that was taken by the artist in the preparation of the drawings.
The least the site could do would be to overlay english text inside the damned speech bubbles, without a rank yellow background and in a more suitable font; I think this is the first time i've ever said it of Teh Sans, but even the normally awful Comic Sans might have been better than whatever they're using (I think it's a Microsoft font, how unusual) This site feels more like viewing a powerpoint presentation or a microsoft help file than flicking through a graphic novel. I hope they've built themselves a proper XML/database based system for presenting this stuff so they can change the style for all comics on the fly = |
Because it's extemely difficult to get 4 GB/s of data down a small cable, and that's just PCI-Express speeds. A graphics card needs direct access to the RAM of a computer in order to do it's job; you can't do it efficiently 2 meters away from the machine without some serious communications, and even if you could get fast enough comms, then a card on the board will still always be faster.
Um, a monitor may last you many years (I've had a nice 19" CRT for 4 years now) but a graphics card technology is made redundant so quickly that you'd be swapping the graphics card in and out of your monitor pretty often. Also, getting graphics information to the monitor would be an expensive pain in the ass, probably requiring a ribbon cable about the width of a PCI-E slot.
Actually the stunt_penguin monicker is very old, private joke that started way before Tux was ever linux's mascot, and refers to a private joke that came about when my (much younger) sister and I were watching 'Batman Returns'. My sister asked what type of penguins those were with the rockets strapped to her back when I replied, deadpan, 'Stunt penguins, silly.' A nick was born, and I guess you had to be there. It's certainly better than posting as a/c.
It's a video. If it didn't require Flash 8, it'd require streaming windows media (horrible), realplayer (oh, the humanity!) or quicktime (actually i wouldn't mind that).
Screw that, what about Schroedinger's encryption, where both the ammo and the target are sealed in a box, and the encryption produces a 50% chance of firing the gun. Then, as long as the box is not opened, the gun has both fired and not fired at the same time, meaning you should go to jail for both murder and attempted murder.
Just so long as we get ammunition neutrality, then the bullet travels just as fast towards all targets, regardless of the intent of the shooter, instead of just plopping out the end of the barrell when your Microsoft(TM) gun is aimed at an MS employee, and launching a high veloceity HE round at Google employees.
The main point of the article was that the identificaion of a game or movie as fitting within a particular genre informs the player and explains in-game/movie actions, such as the example of the lone female character insisting on going alone into those dark woods when 2 of her friends have just been murdered by some knife wielding lunatic, or why infantry in RTS games love standing near explosive barrels and enemies in FPS games generally can't shoot for shit.
The article takes the horror genre and R.Evil 4 as a good example of ways in which identifying with a particular genre informs and explains actions taken on-screen, and really actually saves the storytellers and the viewer some legwork in understanding the character's compulsion to go it alone. In this way, games tend to benefit from this genrefication and this is the point the article indends to make; games need (or benefit greatly from) belonging to a genre.
What idiot posted this to/. and reinterpreted the whole article as being about horror?
A/C, I've made Flash applications that make HTML pages look bloated. Blame retarded designers and clients for oversized Flash. If i made a site with a hundred big JPEG images on the homepage you wouldn't blame HTML or the JPEG format, so get off your ass and email the offending websites and tell them to get off their asses.
Also, what other brilliant solution do you have for delivering multimedia over the web? Javascript? Realplayer? Windows media player? Give me a fuckin' break.
Actually the closest thing to it is Quicktime, but then that requires embedded flash elements for interactivity.
I have to agree, this is a step too far as far as bundling goes- the Shockwave player is supposed to be as small a download as possible in order to lower the barrier to installation. Someone with a DSL connection may not mind the extra few seconds of download time, but someone with a shockwave download they're waiting on so they can use a site on their modem may get pissed off and not view the site at all.
Basically it adds to the payload of the plugin and makes it harder to use shockwave on your website.
Yea, the PSP etc all use MPEG-4, so there's probably a codec licencsing issue there (like there is with the PSP conversion stuff that comes with Nero). It's not unreasonable though, I suppose, given what you get out of it and what they could have asked.
I don'; think that Epsisode 1 is an entirely fair target for the 'Games becoming shorter' point, since it only cost $20 and is intended to be one of several more episodes and which was developed in a couple of months.
Also, they packed it very tighly with action, riaisng the quality bar above that set by HL 2:)
"a high quality product is neither necessary nor sufficient to generate profit."
At least some quality product is, however necessary for the games industry to even exist in ther first place, otherwise people would shy away from buying the gear necessary to get into gaming, or loose interest after they've been stung with a few expensive stinkers.
Also, it's a generally accepted fact in the industry that most games loose money> Those games that are successful in turning the profit are not those that make up the long fecal tail. They're the gems.
"but to the bean counters, expensive frequently purchased trinkets is exactly what should be done.
The bean counters need to worry solely about the quality of the game, and not the overall frequency of purchase for gamers in general. The games industry, like the movie industry has a long tail of shitty, not-worth-the-money games, and a gamer only sees about one or two games a month that is good enough to splash out €60 on and fits their taste in games.. The long tail of poo is not where the games industry makes it's money.
If this number of good games was zero as in your scenario, and the only thing that people were able to purchase were short, shit games that cost €60 and were immediately disposable then people wouldn't bother remaining gamers, they'd switch to movies or music, (and Jack Thomspson would have to get that which he needs so much, a real job).
The bottom line in the games industry is that quality sells and keeps the industry alive- other hangers-on are just there to make up the numbers, through accident or design. It's not like you can even release the games industry equivalent of the Adam Sandler movie (I see he has another steamer out this month) and expect to make a profit- games makers don't have much of the type of unaware-how-shit-this-thing-is audience that movie makers have.
In the TV world, the real sellers are 24, Lost, Sex in the City, The Sopranos, Desperate Housewives, CSI. No TV beancounter would dare say 'hey lets fund another 10 series of family fortune' instead of any of these shows no more than a games industry bencounter would say 'you know what, I think it's time we made another Sonic sequel' because he could be funding another Battlefield 2, World of Warcraft, Oblivion, Ghost Recon:Advanced Warfighter- projects that keep the games industry alive and make it worth it to be a gamer in the way that Lost and 24 makes it worth it to buy a TV and put up with advertising.
I agree, if you had a selection of things that could be done - for example an event such as an exhibition or a festivel could be automatically added to your calendar, a new car commercial could have an email sent to you giving product information and maybe details of a test drive in your area.. a short movie trailer could let you book tickets or see a longer trailer. There are loads of possibilities, none of which the advertisers seem to be aspiring towards...... especially when they start talking about the illegality of not watching ads, and about locking hardware into forcing you to watch advertising.
One teeny step towards this kind of interactivity in the UK and Ireland is how Sky (a digital satellite provider) now allow you to press the green button to set a reminder to watch a particular programme, and occasionally you see a 'press the red button' advert for a big-budget campaign that will give you extended information on a product or service.
To make Jack Thompson really unhappy, someone should make a fighting game where you hold the wii-mote and physically smack Jack Thompson. "See Mr Thompson, video games do cause rea-world violence, now what you gonna do about it?!"
Tell them that Half Life 2 is a safer bet, to tape the halftime show at the superbowl every yea, not to vote Bush and that Enron stocks are a very bad idea. You don't need to tell them about the negligable effects of the Y2k bug, I thought that was pretty funny myself.
I was just wondering what kind of connection speed to the outside world a data center like this would have, and what kind of link that is (fiber, surely?).
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I, for one do not welcome our new Manglish overlords, and it's not because I don't like manga ( I love it ), it's because I think this excellent idea has been presented in a horrible fashion, especially considering the care that was taken by the artist in the preparation of the drawings.
The least the site could do would be to overlay english text inside the damned speech bubbles, without a rank yellow background and in a more suitable font; I think this is the first time i've ever said it of Teh Sans, but even the normally awful Comic Sans might have been better than whatever they're using (I think it's a Microsoft font, how unusual) This site feels more like viewing a powerpoint presentation or a microsoft help file than flicking through a graphic novel. I hope they've built themselves a proper XML/database based system for presenting this stuff so they can change the style for all comics on the fly = |
Because it's extemely difficult to get 4 GB/s of data down a small cable, and that's just PCI-Express speeds. A graphics card needs direct access to the RAM of a computer in order to do it's job; you can't do it efficiently 2 meters away from the machine without some serious communications, and even if you could get fast enough comms, then a card on the board will still always be faster.
Um, a monitor may last you many years (I've had a nice 19" CRT for 4 years now) but a graphics card technology is made redundant so quickly that you'd be swapping the graphics card in and out of your monitor pretty often. Also, getting graphics information to the monitor would be an expensive pain in the ass, probably requiring a ribbon cable about the width of a PCI-E slot.
Actually the stunt_penguin monicker is very old, private joke that started way before Tux was ever linux's mascot, and refers to a private joke that came about when my (much younger) sister and I were watching 'Batman Returns'. My sister asked what type of penguins those were with the rockets strapped to her back when I replied, deadpan, 'Stunt penguins, silly.' A nick was born, and I guess you had to be there. It's certainly better than posting as a/c.
It's a video. If it didn't require Flash 8, it'd require streaming windows media (horrible), realplayer (oh, the humanity!) or quicktime (actually i wouldn't mind that).
Quit complaining, luddite.
Screw that, what about Schroedinger's encryption, where both the ammo and the target are sealed in a box, and the encryption produces a 50% chance of firing the gun. Then, as long as the box is not opened, the gun has both fired and not fired at the same time, meaning you should go to jail for both murder and attempted murder.
There's just no winning with that one.
Just so long as we get ammunition neutrality, then the bullet travels just as fast towards all targets, regardless of the intent of the shooter, instead of just plopping out the end of the barrell when your Microsoft(TM) gun is aimed at an MS employee, and launching a high veloceity HE round at Google employees.
The main point of the article was that the identificaion of a game or movie as fitting within a particular genre informs the player and explains in-game/movie actions, such as the example of the lone female character insisting on going alone into those dark woods when 2 of her friends have just been murdered by some knife wielding lunatic, or why infantry in RTS games love standing near explosive barrels and enemies in FPS games generally can't shoot for shit.
/. and reinterpreted the whole article as being about horror?
The article takes the horror genre and R.Evil 4 as a good example of ways in which identifying with a particular genre informs and explains actions taken on-screen, and really actually saves the storytellers and the viewer some legwork in understanding the character's compulsion to go it alone. In this way, games tend to benefit from this genrefication and this is the point the article indends to make; games need (or benefit greatly from) belonging to a genre.
What idiot posted this to
*punches monkey*
*looks to sky, shaking fist*
Damn you, advertisers; damn you all to hell!
A/C, I've made Flash applications that make HTML pages look bloated. Blame retarded designers and clients for oversized Flash. If i made a site with a hundred big JPEG images on the homepage you wouldn't blame HTML or the JPEG format, so get off your ass and email the offending websites and tell them to get off their asses.
Also, what other brilliant solution do you have for delivering multimedia over the web? Javascript? Realplayer? Windows media player? Give me a fuckin' break.
Actually the closest thing to it is Quicktime, but then that requires embedded flash elements for interactivity.
*sits back and watches his karma funeral pyre*
*sigh*
I have to agree, this is a step too far as far as bundling goes- the Shockwave player is supposed to be as small a download as possible in order to lower the barrier to installation. Someone with a DSL connection may not mind the extra few seconds of download time, but someone with a shockwave download they're waiting on so they can use a site on their modem may get pissed off and not view the site at all.
Basically it adds to the payload of the plugin and makes it harder to use shockwave on your website.
1. I for one welcome our new beowlf cluster of rodent-neuron-based overlords 2. Compare to ghost in the Shell 3. ??? 4. Profit!
Yea, the PSP etc all use MPEG-4, so there's probably a codec licencsing issue there (like there is with the PSP conversion stuff that comes with Nero). It's not unreasonable though, I suppose, given what you get out of it and what they could have asked.
I don'; think that Epsisode 1 is an entirely fair target for the 'Games becoming shorter' point, since it only cost $20 and is intended to be one of several more episodes and which was developed in a couple of months. Also, they packed it very tighly with action, riaisng the quality bar above that set by HL 2 :)
Yea, last time I checked..... I don;t see much of it either...
*pats Philips PVR on head*
Good boy!
"a high quality product is neither necessary nor sufficient to generate profit."
At least some quality product is, however necessary for the games industry to even exist in ther first place, otherwise people would shy away from buying the gear necessary to get into gaming, or loose interest after they've been stung with a few expensive stinkers.
Also, it's a generally accepted fact in the industry that most games loose money> Those games that are successful in turning the profit are not those that make up the long fecal tail. They're the gems.
"but to the bean counters, expensive frequently purchased trinkets is exactly what should be done.
The bean counters need to worry solely about the quality of the game, and not the overall frequency of purchase for gamers in general. The games industry, like the movie industry has a long tail of shitty, not-worth-the-money games, and a gamer only sees about one or two games a month that is good enough to splash out €60 on and fits their taste in games.. The long tail of poo is not where the games industry makes it's money.
If this number of good games was zero as in your scenario, and the only thing that people were able to purchase were short, shit games that cost €60 and were immediately disposable then people wouldn't bother remaining gamers, they'd switch to movies or music, (and Jack Thomspson would have to get that which he needs so much, a real job).
The bottom line in the games industry is that quality sells and keeps the industry alive- other hangers-on are just there to make up the numbers, through accident or design. It's not like you can even release the games industry equivalent of the Adam Sandler movie (I see he has another steamer out this month) and expect to make a profit- games makers don't have much of the type of unaware-how-shit-this-thing-is audience that movie makers have.
In the TV world, the real sellers are 24, Lost, Sex in the City, The Sopranos, Desperate Housewives, CSI. No TV beancounter would dare say 'hey lets fund another 10 series of family fortune' instead of any of these shows no more than a games industry bencounter would say 'you know what, I think it's time we made another Sonic sequel' because he could be funding another Battlefield 2, World of Warcraft, Oblivion, Ghost Recon:Advanced Warfighter- projects that keep the games industry alive and make it worth it to be a gamer in the way that Lost and 24 makes it worth it to buy a TV and put up with advertising.
If you build it (and it's good) they will come.
That video (a CNBC(?) interview that plays back the recording of the conversation) is priceless, beats the article _^^
I agree, if you had a selection of things that could be done - for example an event such as an exhibition or a festivel could be automatically added to your calendar, a new car commercial could have an email sent to you giving product information and maybe details of a test drive in your area.. a short movie trailer could let you book tickets or see a longer trailer. There are loads of possibilities, none of which the advertisers seem to be aspiring towards...... especially when they start talking about the illegality of not watching ads, and about locking hardware into forcing you to watch advertising. One teeny step towards this kind of interactivity in the UK and Ireland is how Sky (a digital satellite provider) now allow you to press the green button to set a reminder to watch a particular programme, and occasionally you see a 'press the red button' advert for a big-budget campaign that will give you extended information on a product or service.
To make Jack Thompson really unhappy, someone should make a fighting game where you hold the wii-mote and physically smack Jack Thompson. "See Mr Thompson, video games do cause rea-world violence, now what you gonna do about it?!"
Nanoelectronics, calibration devices, quantum computation.... and the world's smallest abaci.
Now if we could only try and get people to learn how to use the currently accepted standard we'd be laughing.
*Looks across road to grocery stall selling carrot's and potatoe's*
*Breathes a deep sigh of indignation*
*Resumes work*
Tell them that Half Life 2 is a safer bet, to tape the halftime show at the superbowl every yea, not to vote Bush and that Enron stocks are a very bad idea. You don't need to tell them about the negligable effects of the Y2k bug, I thought that was pretty funny myself.
I was just wondering what kind of connection speed to the outside world a data center like this would have, and what kind of link that is (fiber, surely?).
Oh, man you made me laugh so hard- you made my idea complete _^^