There will always be someone who pirates. But every time a company added one of those features you mentioned, they converted some percentage of pirates to customers. Not everyone has this all or nothing mentality that you see to have.
It's more like you look up the term Friends in the Yellow Pages and see an entry for a phone sex line, so you without having to call them to tell them to stop advertising in the yellow pages, you just tell the yellow pages you don't ever want to see this entry again, for any phrase.
Maybe it's all about context? They weren't critical in the fact that they were stopping the release, but they're critical now that the general release is out, features are done, and this is what needs to be worked on now.
I'm sticking with Drupal 6, modules are what makes Drupal so great and until everything is ported or there's something equivalent available... not bothering.
Excellent post, agree with pretty much everything you say. Getting a PG-13 rating would have meant compromising a lot, and in the end, probably would have meant no Little Sisters, which are the core of the current Rapture ecosystem. If they had the Little Sisters, then to even sniff PG-13 they would have had to have the main character uncompromisingly "good".
I would say the map design was pretty good, and dying wasn't an issue because the level design was implemented in such a way that dying wasn't that much of a punishment. There were only a few very large underground open areas where I was frustrated with the lack of checkpoints.
And like someone else mentioned, the real problem was with the combat. Mirror's Edge was all about getting into the zone and quickly zipping through the level smoothly. That was mostly interrupted whenever a gun-less bad guy showed up, and destroyed whenever you had to shoot back, or at least fight back against gun-toters
On topic of the headline, this is disappointing, to say the least. The industry needs less focus on one genre (such as FPS). Mirror's Edge was a fun platformer from the first-person perspective.
I've got a Sheeva Plug, and as long as this doesn't have the same power supply issues that the Sheeva Plug is notorious for (mine is currently blown and collecting dust), this is probably well worth looking into. Too bad it costs twice as much ($200) than what I paid for my Sheeva Plug a year and a half ago.
Looking forward to getting this update, my beta 7 doesn't see the update available yet.
Only problem I've been having is that it crashes my graphics drivers periodically (Nvidia 189.5 I think). But performance is great and once I got my normal status bar back, I really like Firefox 4. Big fan of Sync too and looking forward to having Firefox 4 available in the Ubuntu repositories.
The original idea of Wikileaks was for whistleblowers to submit their scoops to them. Without the brand, there are no leaks, as whistleblowers don't know how to contact in the first place. Sure, the leak might get out, but Wikileaks provided a well known, secure platform.
These cables also came from somewhere and someone, and they approached Wikileaks with their information. Without Wikileaks, this wouldn't have happened.
I would agree that Wikileaks and Assange inject their bias a little heavier than what I feel appropriate as the leaks really do speak for themselves. They didn't need to call the video Collateral Murder, etc.
Assange has done more good than bad when handling this, and there are really two stories going on. The first being Assange and Wikileaks, the second the actual leaked information. Yes, they're tied together closely but the cables themselves can be read and examined without Wikileaks in mind.
Can other games that use Rage reuse these already downloaded libraries on iOS? Or is the bulk of this size unique textures and assets exclusive to each game?
Agreed, when my friends and I started podcasting with multiple people we found ourselves looking into audio cards at Newegg for the first time in a decade.
I play through games to write about them now. No, I don't get paid to play games, I just do it for fun. I look forward to expressing my thoughts about a game, even if no one reads them.
My biggest problem the last few years is trying to take on too much. Now I limit myself to one game per system at a time, and if possible, one portable game and one console game at a time. It helps me stay focused and actually finish games.
My second biggest problem is knowing when to say I'm done. Too often I'll continue playing a crappy game just so I can beat it and write about how terrible it was. I've started to get out of that habit more, but I put way too much time into Persona 3 before I finally called it quits. And I still chose to tear it apart in writing. Satisfaction.
USB is obnoxious. It's like US power plugs. "oh, I'm going to plug this in, crap doesn't fit, gotta turn it around." How hard would it have been to make USB not rectangular so I don't have a 50/50 chance (and what really seems like a 10% chance) of getting it plugged in right the first time?
When I was in Japan a few times earlier this decade I drank a ton of Coke. I don't know what it was about it but it was super delicious. I'm guessing it was real sugar instead of HFCS. So yeah, I hope they recommend Coke!
The catch in Japan is that it's not socially polite to walk around with drinks, you're encouraged to hang out at the vending machine and finish it off right there. Of course, taboos be damned, we had cheap electronics stores to explore.
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There will always be someone who pirates. But every time a company added one of those features you mentioned, they converted some percentage of pirates to customers. Not everyone has this all or nothing mentality that you see to have.
Yeah, because we couldn't deliver coolant by air if we didn't have a trillion dollar military.
It's more like you look up the term Friends in the Yellow Pages and see an entry for a phone sex line, so you without having to call them to tell them to stop advertising in the yellow pages, you just tell the yellow pages you don't ever want to see this entry again, for any phrase.
Maybe it's all about context? They weren't critical in the fact that they were stopping the release, but they're critical now that the general release is out, features are done, and this is what needs to be worked on now.
I'm sticking with Drupal 6, modules are what makes Drupal so great and until everything is ported or there's something equivalent available... not bothering.
And this might be the longest half of a book ever clocking in at 1008 pages!
I know this is Slashdot but you're complaining about restarting a web browser (that saves your session) every couple of weeks?
And you're complaining about it and then mention it might be an extension, but haven't bothered to test it yourself? This is Slashdot.
Excellent post, agree with pretty much everything you say. Getting a PG-13 rating would have meant compromising a lot, and in the end, probably would have meant no Little Sisters, which are the core of the current Rapture ecosystem. If they had the Little Sisters, then to even sniff PG-13 they would have had to have the main character uncompromisingly "good".
I would say the map design was pretty good, and dying wasn't an issue because the level design was implemented in such a way that dying wasn't that much of a punishment. There were only a few very large underground open areas where I was frustrated with the lack of checkpoints.
And like someone else mentioned, the real problem was with the combat. Mirror's Edge was all about getting into the zone and quickly zipping through the level smoothly. That was mostly interrupted whenever a gun-less bad guy showed up, and destroyed whenever you had to shoot back, or at least fight back against gun-toters
Don't mean to promote my site but I wrote lots of words on Mirror's Edge back in December: http://firsthour.net/full-review/mirrors-edge-greg-noe
On topic of the headline, this is disappointing, to say the least. The industry needs less focus on one genre (such as FPS). Mirror's Edge was a fun platformer from the first-person perspective.
I've got a Sheeva Plug, and as long as this doesn't have the same power supply issues that the Sheeva Plug is notorious for (mine is currently blown and collecting dust), this is probably well worth looking into. Too bad it costs twice as much ($200) than what I paid for my Sheeva Plug a year and a half ago.
Maybe since it only supports downloaded games they'll offer different binaries for this system?
Genius, I didn't realize this.
But if you have the user base to get working results from "1% of Nevada users," why not take advantage of that?
Looking forward to getting this update, my beta 7 doesn't see the update available yet.
Only problem I've been having is that it crashes my graphics drivers periodically (Nvidia 189.5 I think). But performance is great and once I got my normal status bar back, I really like Firefox 4. Big fan of Sync too and looking forward to having Firefox 4 available in the Ubuntu repositories.
My site is at a rather pathetic 91/8/1. Though at least you can filter individual sites and see which pages it thinks are advanced and such.
Open about:config
Set layout.css.visited_links_enabled to false
The original idea of Wikileaks was for whistleblowers to submit their scoops to them. Without the brand, there are no leaks, as whistleblowers don't know how to contact in the first place. Sure, the leak might get out, but Wikileaks provided a well known, secure platform.
These cables also came from somewhere and someone, and they approached Wikileaks with their information. Without Wikileaks, this wouldn't have happened.
I would agree that Wikileaks and Assange inject their bias a little heavier than what I feel appropriate as the leaks really do speak for themselves. They didn't need to call the video Collateral Murder, etc.
Assange has done more good than bad when handling this, and there are really two stories going on. The first being Assange and Wikileaks, the second the actual leaked information. Yes, they're tied together closely but the cables themselves can be read and examined without Wikileaks in mind.
Can other games that use Rage reuse these already downloaded libraries on iOS? Or is the bulk of this size unique textures and assets exclusive to each game?
Agreed, when my friends and I started podcasting with multiple people we found ourselves looking into audio cards at Newegg for the first time in a decade.
I play through games to write about them now. No, I don't get paid to play games, I just do it for fun. I look forward to expressing my thoughts about a game, even if no one reads them.
My biggest problem the last few years is trying to take on too much. Now I limit myself to one game per system at a time, and if possible, one portable game and one console game at a time. It helps me stay focused and actually finish games.
My second biggest problem is knowing when to say I'm done. Too often I'll continue playing a crappy game just so I can beat it and write about how terrible it was. I've started to get out of that habit more, but I put way too much time into Persona 3 before I finally called it quits. And I still chose to tear it apart in writing. Satisfaction.
USB is obnoxious. It's like US power plugs. "oh, I'm going to plug this in, crap doesn't fit, gotta turn it around." How hard would it have been to make USB not rectangular so I don't have a 50/50 chance (and what really seems like a 10% chance) of getting it plugged in right the first time?
It might get 2.6.38, decision to be made around Christmas. I would think this might influence them enough to include it.
When I was in Japan a few times earlier this decade I drank a ton of Coke. I don't know what it was about it but it was super delicious. I'm guessing it was real sugar instead of HFCS. So yeah, I hope they recommend Coke!
The catch in Japan is that it's not socially polite to walk around with drinks, you're encouraged to hang out at the vending machine and finish it off right there. Of course, taboos be damned, we had cheap electronics stores to explore.
Sounds like Rendezvous with Rama.
At least the bad sequels.
I've got it configured to only see 2 and above with karma bonus off.
You're going to Bing... which basically did Google Images 2.0 first?