... to bitch about America over, they will pull something out of their own ass. The last time the British press was polite and respectful towards America was D-Day.
There's a recession on, people. Do you really expect Obama to be handing out diamond necklaces? How's that going to look?
Also, both sides know perfectly well that whatever they give, the other side won't be allowed to keep it as a matter of anti-corruption policy. Every single gift given to an American president goes straight into a vault. So there's no point in giving anything really expensive.
While I might tolerate Vern the American Galoot for many months with him drunkenly abusing me the whole time (in the name of friendship, of course), I sure as hell won't tolerate Vernski the Russian Galoot doing the same thing... friendship or no.
What idiot thought mixing people from different cultures (historically hostile ones, too) and then adding alcohol, for months at a time, was a good idea?
You'll notice the opinion of the female Canadian was not included (typical Slashdot sexism). I bet she wouldn't have touched any of them with a bargepole.
I'm a game design consultant and trainer, both helping out companies with their design issues and bringing junior designers up to speed. I also teach at a large number of universities and write books and columns on the subject. You'll find much more about me here:
Peter had already gone to Lionhead by that time. EA killed DK3 about three months into prototyping, at the same time as they killed the entire Bullfrog brand. They moved the Bullfrog people onto Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter instead. It's hard to argue with that as a business decision.
Still, I was bummed it never saw the light of day.
I guess Libertarians don't believe in dictionaries or spell-checkers. Maybe it's because they think the authors of dictionaries and spell-checkers are always trying to screw you.
Or maybe ignorance is a natural accompaniment to paranoia.
First it was weather stations everywhere, recording the temperature, air pressure, and rainfall; then it was CCTV all over the place; and now they're planning to install recorders to monitor the health of the biosphere. Bastards. Anybody would think that the government wanted to have data upon which to base its decisions.
The Bush administration wouldn't have stood for all this wasteful government spending on the so-called "environment." They called that nonsense "reality-based decision-making" and wanted nothing to do with it. What ever happened to making policy based on gut feelings and the things a bunch of dead Hebrew poets and historians said a couple of thousand years ago?
Oooh... like that huge bottle-green and cream building with all the satellite dishes on top was invisible to the tens of thousands of commuters who pass by it on the railroad every day.
Everybody knows where these things are anyway. The newspapers are just having a slow day, so let's take another whack at technology/Google/the Internet.
The object of cybersecurity is to prevent people from interfering with out computers. The NSA's JOB is to interfere with our computers. They can hardly do both at the same time.
He didn't say what 15-year-old game he was talking about. Fine -- there are emulators on the Wii. It doesn't change the basic point that the game industry's economics and the movie industry's economics are not remotely like each other.
When it takes as much money to make a big game as a big movie, and that game earns for the next 50 years, then they'll start to have something in common.
Your counterexamples are too insignificant to refute the general principle: the economics of games and movies are very different. Repetitive hallways in Halo don't change that basic fact.
Go down to Main Street and ask how many people have heard of George Clooney. Then ask how many people have heard of Carmack. Then go away. Only fanboys and industry veterans have heard of Carmack.
The economics of many things which have similar production models are very different.
Um... did you ever take any classes in logic? This has exactly what to do with my point?
Once again, I suspect I'm dealing with a person who either isn't in the game industry or hasn't been there very long.
Sperm cells and egg cells are demonstrably alive and demonstrably human -- they contain human DNA (although they're short half their chromosomes).
A woman kills a potential future baby with every period. A man kills millions of them with every wet dream, to say nothing of, uh, other activities. In fact, a man kills millions of them even when he DOES make a baby with one of them.
These protesters really are pathetic. How much energy do they put into stopping the mass murder of actual, real, not potential, human beings in Darfur or the Congo, I'd like to know?
You're carefully choosing what appear to be exceptions but aren't on closer examination. You're just being argumentative.
Your buddy's 15-year-old game had to be rewritten for the Wii. The director, actors, editors, etc. have to do NOTHING to take a movie to another medium. Yeah, you can use a emulator -- but how many real people, i.e. Wal-Mart shoppers, use emulators?
When a movie leaves a cinema, then its REAL economic life begins. When a game leaves the shops, it's done. And don't even think of comparing WoW to a movie. Their economics are completely different, as I said. Do you pay to see the same movie monthly (jokes about the Friday the 13th series aside)? No, you don't. Does a movie require a huge live team to be working all the time to be generating new content? No, it doesn't. They are entirely different. Casablanca continues to make money for Warner Brothers without them doing anything at all.
Star power: you're gonna compare Will Wright to Angelina Jolie, are you? If you think that's star power, you're severely deluded. Will Wright will be lucky to earn over his lifetime what Angelina Jolie can earn in a single movie. She's a star. He's a well-respected game designer.
Reusing a game engine and concept doesn't change the fact that every game is a unique piece of software engineering. Does a movie have to be tested for months by dozens of people to make sure it works in the projector? No. Either you don't know anything about software engineering or you're pretending, quite successfully, to be stupid.
40-50 hours of bonus material with a movie? Not in any cinema I've been to. When I buy a game, that's what comes IN the game.
The economics are NOT nearly identical. Not in what people are paid, not in how long they work, not in what gear is required and how it is used, not in how games are sold, not in how they are marketed, not in how they are financed, not in how they are licensed, not in how the accounting is done. Movies routinely cost tens of millions of dollars -- a $25 million movie is a cheap movie. A $25 million game is an expensive game.
You really don't know what the fuck you're talking about. I have a feeling you're not in the game industry at all.
Hollywood can sell the same content six times (cinema, pay-per-view, pay cable, free cable, terrestrial broadcast, DVD -- not to mention airline sales, overseas licensing, etc.). Videogames only run on the machine(s) they're made for.
Movies can continue to be shown for decades. With a tiny number of exceptions, a game is dead meat within a year.
Movies have star power. The general public doesn't care who made the game.
Filmmaking is very nearly turnkey if it doesn't require special effects. Every game is a unique piece of software engineering.
A big film is 3 hours tops. A big game is 40-50 hours. That's a lot more content.
The economics of the two are very different, and the production models can never be the same.
Yeah, but Verhoeven recognized...
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He has no right to stop me advertising my prostitution services, nor any right to stop my clients reading about them, nor any right to stop Craigslist from listing them.
Let him stop Chicago residents from reading Craigslist, if he's so worried.
For the umpteenth time, it's the WORLD WIDE Web. Local yokels don't get to dictate how it gets used.
With my old HMO I was lucky to see her the same WEEK. The last time I asked for a physical in the US I was given an appointment six months in the future.
There's no way MS or Sony would open their consoles to third-party digital stores.
This is the real key. In the end (15-20 years from now) games will be a service, not a product, and they'll all be downloaded, probably on every play. This requires that the download time be less than the time it takes to insert the DVD in the machine and load it up... which will require some serious improvements to broadband.
I live in the UK, where I have no need of a contract with my doctor. I turn up, he treats me, I go away without signing a contract or paying a penny. I can say anything I like about him as long as it's not defamatory.
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There's a recession on, people. Do you really expect Obama to be handing out diamond necklaces? How's that going to look?
Also, both sides know perfectly well that whatever they give, the other side won't be allowed to keep it as a matter of anti-corruption policy. Every single gift given to an American president goes straight into a vault. So there's no point in giving anything really expensive.
Your English is very good.
While I might tolerate Vern the American Galoot for many months with him drunkenly abusing me the whole time (in the name of friendship, of course), I sure as hell won't tolerate Vernski the Russian Galoot doing the same thing... friendship or no.
What idiot thought mixing people from different cultures (historically hostile ones, too) and then adding alcohol, for months at a time, was a good idea?
You'll notice the opinion of the female Canadian was not included (typical Slashdot sexism). I bet she wouldn't have touched any of them with a bargepole.
I'm a game design consultant and trainer, both helping out companies with their design issues and bringing junior designers up to speed. I also teach at a large number of universities and write books and columns on the subject. You'll find much more about me here:
http://www.designersnotebook.com/
Peter had already gone to Lionhead by that time. EA killed DK3 about three months into prototyping, at the same time as they killed the entire Bullfrog brand. They moved the Bullfrog people onto Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter instead. It's hard to argue with that as a business decision.
Still, I was bummed it never saw the light of day.
More details here:
http://pcgtw.retro-net.de/index.php?id=games:keeper3
I guess Libertarians don't believe in dictionaries or spell-checkers. Maybe it's because they think the authors of dictionaries and spell-checkers are always trying to screw you.
Or maybe ignorance is a natural accompaniment to paranoia.
"Sequestered" means you don't read about the case AND you don't TALK about the case. Period.
What a loser.
That's how you get privacy.
BTW, if Booth was a patriot, it only goes to show what's wrong with patriotism.
First it was weather stations everywhere, recording the temperature, air pressure, and rainfall; then it was CCTV all over the place; and now they're planning to install recorders to monitor the health of the biosphere. Bastards. Anybody would think that the government wanted to have data upon which to base its decisions.
The Bush administration wouldn't have stood for all this wasteful government spending on the so-called "environment." They called that nonsense "reality-based decision-making" and wanted nothing to do with it. What ever happened to making policy based on gut feelings and the things a bunch of dead Hebrew poets and historians said a couple of thousand years ago?
Oooh... like that huge bottle-green and cream building with all the satellite dishes on top was invisible to the tens of thousands of commuters who pass by it on the railroad every day.
Everybody knows where these things are anyway. The newspapers are just having a slow day, so let's take another whack at technology/Google/the Internet.
The economics of the two are very similar.
How much does Will Wright get paid? How much does Will Smith get paid?
END OF DISCUSSION.
The object of cybersecurity is to prevent people from interfering with out computers. The NSA's JOB is to interfere with our computers. They can hardly do both at the same time.
He didn't say what 15-year-old game he was talking about. Fine -- there are emulators on the Wii. It doesn't change the basic point that the game industry's economics and the movie industry's economics are not remotely like each other.
When it takes as much money to make a big game as a big movie, and that game earns for the next 50 years, then they'll start to have something in common.
Your counterexamples are too insignificant to refute the general principle: the economics of games and movies are very different. Repetitive hallways in Halo don't change that basic fact.
Go down to Main Street and ask how many people have heard of George Clooney. Then ask how many people have heard of Carmack. Then go away. Only fanboys and industry veterans have heard of Carmack.
The economics of many things which have similar production models are very different.
Um... did you ever take any classes in logic? This has exactly what to do with my point?
Once again, I suspect I'm dealing with a person who either isn't in the game industry or hasn't been there very long.
Sperm cells and egg cells are demonstrably alive and demonstrably human -- they contain human DNA (although they're short half their chromosomes).
A woman kills a potential future baby with every period. A man kills millions of them with every wet dream, to say nothing of, uh, other activities. In fact, a man kills millions of them even when he DOES make a baby with one of them.
These protesters really are pathetic. How much energy do they put into stopping the mass murder of actual, real, not potential, human beings in Darfur or the Congo, I'd like to know?
You're carefully choosing what appear to be exceptions but aren't on closer examination. You're just being argumentative.
Your buddy's 15-year-old game had to be rewritten for the Wii. The director, actors, editors, etc. have to do NOTHING to take a movie to another medium. Yeah, you can use a emulator -- but how many real people, i.e. Wal-Mart shoppers, use emulators?
When a movie leaves a cinema, then its REAL economic life begins. When a game leaves the shops, it's done. And don't even think of comparing WoW to a movie. Their economics are completely different, as I said. Do you pay to see the same movie monthly (jokes about the Friday the 13th series aside)? No, you don't. Does a movie require a huge live team to be working all the time to be generating new content? No, it doesn't. They are entirely different. Casablanca continues to make money for Warner Brothers without them doing anything at all.
Star power: you're gonna compare Will Wright to Angelina Jolie, are you? If you think that's star power, you're severely deluded. Will Wright will be lucky to earn over his lifetime what Angelina Jolie can earn in a single movie. She's a star. He's a well-respected game designer.
Reusing a game engine and concept doesn't change the fact that every game is a unique piece of software engineering. Does a movie have to be tested for months by dozens of people to make sure it works in the projector? No. Either you don't know anything about software engineering or you're pretending, quite successfully, to be stupid.
40-50 hours of bonus material with a movie? Not in any cinema I've been to. When I buy a game, that's what comes IN the game.
The economics are NOT nearly identical. Not in what people are paid, not in how long they work, not in what gear is required and how it is used, not in how games are sold, not in how they are marketed, not in how they are financed, not in how they are licensed, not in how the accounting is done. Movies routinely cost tens of millions of dollars -- a $25 million movie is a cheap movie. A $25 million game is an expensive game.
You really don't know what the fuck you're talking about. I have a feeling you're not in the game industry at all.
Hollywood can sell the same content six times (cinema, pay-per-view, pay cable, free cable, terrestrial broadcast, DVD -- not to mention airline sales, overseas licensing, etc.). Videogames only run on the machine(s) they're made for.
Movies can continue to be shown for decades. With a tiny number of exceptions, a game is dead meat within a year.
Movies have star power. The general public doesn't care who made the game.
Filmmaking is very nearly turnkey if it doesn't require special effects. Every game is a unique piece of software engineering.
A big film is 3 hours tops. A big game is 40-50 hours. That's a lot more content.
The economics of the two are very different, and the production models can never be the same.
... Heinlein's nasty little fascist wet dream for what it was, and played it up so we wouldn't miss it. (Adolescent males with a poor grasp of history might not have caught it in the novel, but Verhoeven is a Dutchman whose country was occupied by those bastards... he KNEW.)
He has no right to stop me advertising my prostitution services, nor any right to stop my clients reading about them, nor any right to stop Craigslist from listing them.
Let him stop Chicago residents from reading Craigslist, if he's so worried.
For the umpteenth time, it's the WORLD WIDE Web. Local yokels don't get to dictate how it gets used.
With my old HMO I was lucky to see her the same WEEK. The last time I asked for a physical in the US I was given an appointment six months in the future.
I checked out my tax situation with KPMG Peat Marwick before I came.
Gasoline is way higher, all of it taxes, but then I drive way less, because another thing the UK has is ubiquitous public transport.
VAT is about 10% higher than California sales tax, but the main effect of this is to prevent me impulse-buying crap I don't need anyway.
There's no way MS or Sony would open their consoles to third-party digital stores.
This is the real key. In the end (15-20 years from now) games will be a service, not a product, and they'll all be downloaded, probably on every play. This requires that the download time be less than the time it takes to insert the DVD in the machine and load it up... which will require some serious improvements to broadband.
... where I live. So the Cook County Sheriff can lump it if he doesn't like it.
I live in the UK, where I have no need of a contract with my doctor. I turn up, he treats me, I go away without signing a contract or paying a penny. I can say anything I like about him as long as it's not defamatory.