While I applaud you for 'voting with your wallet' (not enough people do this, I'm afraid) I have to disagree with your view.
Ad revenue has pretty much been proving to be significant for a company. A famous search engine comes to mind. And game production costs ARE rising.
I only object to in-game ads if they are obnoxious and/or annoying. Billboards in a city, or product placement are fine. I'm on the fence about loading screens... I'm afraid they'd abuse that one pretty quickly. (Minimum load-time, etc.)
In the end, it simply matters whether the ad placement was tasteful or not. If not, then I'll be another one 'voting with my wallet.'
I totally agree. I tried to be a CSS-zealot for a while. I even made the mistake of trying to totally avoid tables except for 'tabular data' and I am seriously paying the price for it now in the application I'm working on. It's very tempting to go back and rework it so that I don't have to worry about it any more.
The issue? jQuery. There's a TON of neat things like slide and calendar than simply break my CSS, no matter what I do. If I'd designed more simply, with a well-placed table or 2, then I'd have a great looking interface AND be able to use jQuery's Interface plugins.
Except that if their plan was to profit from his 'fraud', they wouldn't have set him up in the first place. They'd have just 'called his bluff' and let him do it.
Instead, they chose to have him arrested and let the world know about his scheme. We don't know WHY they chose not to prosecute, but I seriously doubt it has anything to do with being evil.
"WN: Do you think your plan will dispel some of the conceptions media execs have about BitTorrent -- that it's just a tool for piracy?
BC: Those preconceptions have already been mostly overcome."
Maybe in his little world, that's true... For the real world, no way. If you say 'bit torrent' to any teenager, they're going to think piracy. There's a few who know that some MMOs use it for updates, and that it could legally be used for data sharing... But hardly any of them USE it for that. (Or know how.)
No, I think to really take off, he'll need to rebrand his stuff. 'Windshare, built on Bit Torrent technology' or something like that. Just calling it Bit Torrent won't fly.
It's not in the hardware. This is just a telephone to mic/speaker adapter that is built into the motherboard. Skype uses a mic/speaker to do its thing, as usual.
Skype probably gave them money to develop it, and then use their name on it. Great advertising, really.
Maybe if you RTFA, you'd understand. Or even the summary.
Stallman didn't actually give us ANY new information about GPL v2/3 compatibility. He only said that some programs could be v2, and some v3, and exist on the same system. He didn't say they could work together (they can), and he CERTAINLY didn't say their code could be compiled together (this is the issue, and I say they can't).
I think you may have missed his real point: It is harder to port to the Wii than other consoles.
1) Yeah, but that means scaling down the graphics/meshes/textures so that it doesn't choke. It may take less power, but if you feed it the same input, it'll still choke.
2) The controller is different, so the control scheme is different. You can THINK of it as a stick+mouse combo, but that does not help the developer at all. Instead of a stick and buttons, or a mouse and buttons, he's got a stick and mouse and buttons. Great. Different is different, no matter how you 'think of it', when it comes to interface programming.
If it's not so unlucky that they refuse to have a 4th floor in a building (as the US doesn't have a 13th floor) then I don't think it's very likely to prevent Sony from calling it the PS4.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=innovat ion
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innovation/nven/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[in-uh-vey-shuhn] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
-noun
1. something new or different introduced: numerous innovations in the high-school curriculum.
2. the act of innovating; introduction of new things or methods.
[Origin: 1540-50;
Nope, nothing about markets. Lots about 'new' and a little about 'different'.
If they can be said to innovate, it's only because of the 'different' bit. They take someone's old idea, that they've already done, and make it desirable for the consumer. Or make the consumer desire it... It's a thin line. Still, introducing it differently is involved either way.
I have to question the gamecube's location... Do you actually expect a lot of GC sales, even though the Wii plays GC games, or do you expect the shortage of PS3's to bring it's number low enough to undersell the GC?
I have to laugh because just yesterday, while I was chatting with the clerk about Wii games at EB, there was a kid asked him about a game... The Godfather. The response was 'It's like GTA. I know you aren't allowed to play that. At least, I don't think so. If you are, I need to have a talk with your mother.' The guy obviously knew the kid (about 8) and his mother. The kid stared in response, and I think he was just about to tell him he IS allowed to play GTA. But then the clerk said 'But it's a much worse game.' and the kid gave up.
Remember the good old days when kids thought they were invincible and the parents spent their time trying to make them understand they weren't? -sigh-
No, I think instead they were trying to reach the idiot parents that they rated 'incomplete' because they won't pay attention to what their children are doing. It's still very unlikely to have any effect, I admit, but I think that was the aim.
Indeed, I -am- comparing Planeshift to the BEST of the works created by paid professionals with no other jobs at the time. And I realize it's a little unfair to say it 'sucks', but my time is limited. I have extra money, and would prefer to spend some of it and enjoy my time more.
If I'd remained jobless a little longer, I would have continued to contribute to another open source game project that, er, "isn't the best at what it does.";)
I'd just like to say that I was going to call your bluff and try different music from those sites and prove that if there was anything good on them, it would be near impossible to find. Unfortunately, the second thing I listened to, I liked.
Still, unless there's a (internet) radio station that plays songs from these groups, how am I supposed to learn about them? If they aren't controlled by the RIAA, they'll never make it to the physical radio stations.
Also, how do I KNOW the money on these sites goes to the artist and site, and not the RIAA?
What do you mean, 'no RIAA argument please'? The RIAA is the one making sure allofmp3 COULDN'T pay the artists. Allofmp3 DID pay the Russian agency in charge of compensating the artists. And that agency DID try to pay them.
I've never even heard of that. Why would I expect a taxi to take a form of currency that I've never even heard of?
I think you've got the cart before the horse, here. He says 'I can't use my credit card in a taxi' and you say 'in the future, you might be able to use some obscure currency'. It's much more likely he'll be able to use his credit card in the taxi that another kind of card.
This is modded 'funny', but instead I would mod it 'horrifying'. This is EXACTLY how the system would be exploited. The only use for this system is to make it so blind people don't need to ask for help to verify the money is legit. This con would then make it so they still need to ask for help. How did anything improve?
Okay, I suppose if they want to count the money in their wallet, and they KNOW it's all legit, this would help. But they each probably already have a system for that, anyhow. Different folds, dog-ears, etc. At the expense of the whole of the United States, we can help them NOT ONE BIT.
I've used spamgourmet for years. I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the negative bits:
Horrid interface. (Luckily, you only have to use it when you need to change things, not add them.) Slow. Sometimes my mail has been delayed for hours for no apparent reason. No safeguard. If it eats some SPAM, it's gone. Forever. No retrieval, even if you catch it within seconds.
I still use it a LOT, but with GMail's spam filter, I just don't worry so much now. I have a 10+ yr old email address that was signed up for everything under the sun back then. I recently moved that domain to GMail's corporate apps and check that address directly. It has passed about 15-20 spam out of around 4500-5000 that have come in. That's a LOT better than Thunderbird has done for me, even after months of tuning.
In short, I use spamgourmet, but not nearly as much as I used to.
You have to admit, that man has some. To cancel such a high-visibility project like this... Wow. Especially while admitted that they were ploys to get elected. Wow. Even while admitting that it was an election-winning campaign, he cuts it.
Not that I necessarily disagree with him. If those schools are worried about their power bills, giving the kids laptops and high speed internet is NOT the solution. Maybe the cuts necessary to pay the power bills could have come from some other crazy scheme, though. I dunno. I haven't seen their budget.
At least he didn't mention starving children, though.
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While I applaud you for 'voting with your wallet' (not enough people do this, I'm afraid) I have to disagree with your view.
Ad revenue has pretty much been proving to be significant for a company. A famous search engine comes to mind. And game production costs ARE rising.
I only object to in-game ads if they are obnoxious and/or annoying. Billboards in a city, or product placement are fine. I'm on the fence about loading screens... I'm afraid they'd abuse that one pretty quickly. (Minimum load-time, etc.)
In the end, it simply matters whether the ad placement was tasteful or not. If not, then I'll be another one 'voting with my wallet.'
I totally agree. I tried to be a CSS-zealot for a while. I even made the mistake of trying to totally avoid tables except for 'tabular data' and I am seriously paying the price for it now in the application I'm working on. It's very tempting to go back and rework it so that I don't have to worry about it any more.
The issue? jQuery. There's a TON of neat things like slide and calendar than simply break my CSS, no matter what I do. If I'd designed more simply, with a well-placed table or 2, then I'd have a great looking interface AND be able to use jQuery's Interface plugins.
Wow, I -am- amazed. From that page:
http://mythic.tv/product_info.php?products_id=44
From KnoppMyth boot to MythTV in just 17 minutes!
Wow! That's only like 15 minutes longer than my HD DVR takes! Amazing!
Except that if their plan was to profit from his 'fraud', they wouldn't have set him up in the first place. They'd have just 'called his bluff' and let him do it.
Instead, they chose to have him arrested and let the world know about his scheme. We don't know WHY they chose not to prosecute, but I seriously doubt it has anything to do with being evil.
I didn't say it was a modem. I said it was a phone to mic/speaker adapter.
I simplified there, as this is also a Skype POTS adapter, allowing it to failover to a landline if you're not on the internet.
Yes, we do. Because marketing execs care, and that's who his pitch was aimed at. Public perception of a business is huge.
"WN: Do you think your plan will dispel some of the conceptions media execs have about BitTorrent -- that it's just a tool for piracy?
BC: Those preconceptions have already been mostly overcome."
Maybe in his little world, that's true... For the real world, no way. If you say 'bit torrent' to any teenager, they're going to think piracy. There's a few who know that some MMOs use it for updates, and that it could legally be used for data sharing... But hardly any of them USE it for that. (Or know how.)
No, I think to really take off, he'll need to rebrand his stuff. 'Windshare, built on Bit Torrent technology' or something like that. Just calling it Bit Torrent won't fly.
You DO realize that post was made by BadAnalogyGuy, right? If you argue, he'll just say it was a Bad Analogy and be done with it. ;)
It's not in the hardware. This is just a telephone to mic/speaker adapter that is built into the motherboard. Skype uses a mic/speaker to do its thing, as usual.
Skype probably gave them money to develop it, and then use their name on it. Great advertising, really.
Maybe if you RTFA, you'd understand. Or even the summary.
Stallman didn't actually give us ANY new information about GPL v2/3 compatibility. He only said that some programs could be v2, and some v3, and exist on the same system. He didn't say they could work together (they can), and he CERTAINLY didn't say their code could be compiled together (this is the issue, and I say they can't).
I think you may have missed his real point: It is harder to port to the Wii than other consoles.
1) Yeah, but that means scaling down the graphics/meshes/textures so that it doesn't choke. It may take less power, but if you feed it the same input, it'll still choke.
2) The controller is different, so the control scheme is different. You can THINK of it as a stick+mouse combo, but that does not help the developer at all. Instead of a stick and buttons, or a mouse and buttons, he's got a stick and mouse and buttons. Great. Different is different, no matter how you 'think of it', when it comes to interface programming.
If it's not so unlucky that they refuse to have a 4th floor in a building (as the US doesn't have a 13th floor) then I don't think it's very likely to prevent Sony from calling it the PS4.
If this eliminates even 1 bad game, I think it will have been worth it. -wipes away a tear-
Seriously. This should be required so that boring, stupid games don't even get published. So they'll KNOW beforehand how horrid their games are.
I dunno, why don't we look it up:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=innovat ion
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.0.1) - Cite This Source
innovation /nven/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[in-uh-vey-shuhn] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
-noun
1. something new or different introduced: numerous innovations in the high-school curriculum.
2. the act of innovating; introduction of new things or methods.
[Origin: 1540-50;
Nope, nothing about markets. Lots about 'new' and a little about 'different'.
If they can be said to innovate, it's only because of the 'different' bit. They take someone's old idea, that they've already done, and make it desirable for the consumer. Or make the consumer desire it... It's a thin line. Still, introducing it differently is involved either way.
I have to question the gamecube's location... Do you actually expect a lot of GC sales, even though the Wii plays GC games, or do you expect the shortage of PS3's to bring it's number low enough to undersell the GC?
I have to laugh because just yesterday, while I was chatting with the clerk about Wii games at EB, there was a kid asked him about a game... The Godfather. The response was 'It's like GTA. I know you aren't allowed to play that. At least, I don't think so. If you are, I need to have a talk with your mother.' The guy obviously knew the kid (about 8) and his mother. The kid stared in response, and I think he was just about to tell him he IS allowed to play GTA. But then the clerk said 'But it's a much worse game.' and the kid gave up.
Remember the good old days when kids thought they were invincible and the parents spent their time trying to make them understand they weren't? -sigh-
No, I think instead they were trying to reach the idiot parents that they rated 'incomplete' because they won't pay attention to what their children are doing. It's still very unlikely to have any effect, I admit, but I think that was the aim.
Indeed, I -am- comparing Planeshift to the BEST of the works created by paid professionals with no other jobs at the time. And I realize it's a little unfair to say it 'sucks', but my time is limited. I have extra money, and would prefer to spend some of it and enjoy my time more.
;)
If I'd remained jobless a little longer, I would have continued to contribute to another open source game project that, er, "isn't the best at what it does."
When you learn to read, come back and let us know. Maybe then we'll take your opinions seriously.
WTF were you thinking? He talks about 'e-card' and using it as an RFID device. That's not currency, that's a payment method, JUST LIKE A CREDIT CARD.
I'd just like to say that I was going to call your bluff and try different music from those sites and prove that if there was anything good on them, it would be near impossible to find. Unfortunately, the second thing I listened to, I liked.
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http://musicishere.com/artists/Dane_Varese_Band/N
Still, unless there's a (internet) radio station that plays songs from these groups, how am I supposed to learn about them? If they aren't controlled by the RIAA, they'll never make it to the physical radio stations.
Also, how do I KNOW the money on these sites goes to the artist and site, and not the RIAA?
What do you mean, 'no RIAA argument please'? The RIAA is the one making sure allofmp3 COULDN'T pay the artists. Allofmp3 DID pay the Russian agency in charge of compensating the artists. And that agency DID try to pay them.
Don't blame Allofmp3 for the RIAA's bullshit.
I've never even heard of that. Why would I expect a taxi to take a form of currency that I've never even heard of?
I think you've got the cart before the horse, here. He says 'I can't use my credit card in a taxi' and you say 'in the future, you might be able to use some obscure currency'. It's much more likely he'll be able to use his credit card in the taxi that another kind of card.
This is modded 'funny', but instead I would mod it 'horrifying'. This is EXACTLY how the system would be exploited. The only use for this system is to make it so blind people don't need to ask for help to verify the money is legit. This con would then make it so they still need to ask for help. How did anything improve?
Okay, I suppose if they want to count the money in their wallet, and they KNOW it's all legit, this would help. But they each probably already have a system for that, anyhow. Different folds, dog-ears, etc. At the expense of the whole of the United States, we can help them NOT ONE BIT.
Sounds great, let's do it.
I've used spamgourmet for years. I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the negative bits:
Horrid interface. (Luckily, you only have to use it when you need to change things, not add them.)
Slow. Sometimes my mail has been delayed for hours for no apparent reason.
No safeguard. If it eats some SPAM, it's gone. Forever. No retrieval, even if you catch it within seconds.
I still use it a LOT, but with GMail's spam filter, I just don't worry so much now. I have a 10+ yr old email address that was signed up for everything under the sun back then. I recently moved that domain to GMail's corporate apps and check that address directly. It has passed about 15-20 spam out of around 4500-5000 that have come in. That's a LOT better than Thunderbird has done for me, even after months of tuning.
In short, I use spamgourmet, but not nearly as much as I used to.
You have to admit, that man has some. To cancel such a high-visibility project like this... Wow. Especially while admitted that they were ploys to get elected. Wow. Even while admitting that it was an election-winning campaign, he cuts it.
Not that I necessarily disagree with him. If those schools are worried about their power bills, giving the kids laptops and high speed internet is NOT the solution. Maybe the cuts necessary to pay the power bills could have come from some other crazy scheme, though. I dunno. I haven't seen their budget.
At least he didn't mention starving children, though.