Who woulda thunk it... he signs a contract to get a company to publish and distribute his work, and doesn't retain absolute control? If he wanted complete control, he would have self-published.
Shouldn't he still maintain the copyright though? The contract should only affect the print distribution, I would think he should still be able to distribute through other channels how he sees fit, as it's his words, not the publishing company's....I say this having no idea what the boilerplate contract looks like in that industry of course...
Exactly. What is so wrong with the original PSP design that it needs a reworking? From what I've gathered about it, (all hearsay and wiki, mind you) it's an ok piece of hardware. (maybe needs a better screenguard, but feh)
It's public acceptance and the impression of the catalog that's hurting the device. I don't see at all what a redesign would do except make the Sony fanboys double dip.
True... I got a Samsung laser printer on sale from Best Buy...(I needed a printer and I REFUSE to ever get an inkjet again as long as I live). The included cartridge was 500 sheets. The replacement toner cartridge was 2000 sheets, and cost as much as the printer's sale price.
BUT...how long is that 500 cartridge going to last me? I've printed maybe 30 sheets off it so far and I've had it over half a year. At this rate, my starter cartridge will probably die of old age before I run it dry.
I could understand, perhaps, for someone who relies on printouts. In my case, I doubt I'll have any qualms just getting a new printer when the need arises.
Course this doesn't work for businesses, but different markets, different needs.
I'm curious to what dictionary you got your definition of 'innovative' out of...
(innovative = characterized by, tending to, or introducing innovations, yeay for recursive definitions) http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/innovations Main Entry: innovation Pronunciation: "i-n&-'vA-sh&n Function: noun 1 : the introduction of something new 2 : a new idea, method, or device : NOVELTY
Seems to me this controller fits that definition to a T. What I don't find innovative is simply increasing resolution or texture depth or triangles per second. It's not *new* it's just an improvement, like going from a 20" TV to a 32" TV.
It might not be an innovation that works, or appeals to the entire crowd, but you can't have a success without some failures. (Virtual Boy...ugg) Personally, I'm excited by it. I don't need a new console to play games with a control pad; I've got emulators and a Gravis. I don't need spiffy shiny console games, I can get a new system with an X1950 for that.
However, this is a bonifide innovation, and it might actually be fun.
Well, I'm sure there wouldn't be a problem if MS included packages and gave you the option of installing, say, Defender, McAfee, AVG or PC-illin on installation...
The crowd helps make this movie. I caught a Thursday midnight and there was a contagious excitement. I've never had that much fun at a movie premiere. Ever.
The Two Towers? Return of the King? King Kong? Pirates 2? Been to each of those. Sure, it was occassionally crowd pleasing, but most of the time people jsut sat and watched quietly, listening to the dialogue.
SoaP? People were going f-ing ballistic. It was great. Cheers, groans, gasps, more cheers. People shouting "Snakes on a (blank)!!" You can't duplicate that in a home theater environment. Watching this alone just lacks the enthusiasm.
1. Snakes on a Plane $13,806,311 2. Talladega Nights $13,755,387
The kicker is most reports include the Thursday total for SoaP, which was 1.4 Mil. It tends to be the norm that premiere totals get included in the weekend totals despite being a day early. (Weekends are Fri-Sun.)
You can get an SP2 CD from MS through the mail at no charge. (Looks like they have possibly added in S&H, I didn't want to go through the entire procedure, I think even that was free before though. It's been a while).
Well, the red light part was supposed to be a joke (surveying the surveillance is the answer); I'm not very good at those usually. Anyway, enjoy the recorders where they're at for now...
Only terrorists refuse to wear embedded GPS tracking monitors!
Frankly, I'd be worried about a magstripe even. Why not use a 2D barcode, like DataMatrix? It'd speed up the process, not susceptable to interference, corruption or loss, and it's just as secure.
Technology is not a miracle cure, but they keep treating it as such. What'll happen if power goes down to their fancy RFID readers, cause power NEVER goes out at LAX...
It could be a great equalizer for insurance rates. It could even spur better driving in on whole by the general populace (some drivers of course and their negligence is intractable).
On a purely selfish reason, I'd like to agree with you. I've mused many times about getting a camera for my car, like police cars, to catch some of these idiots doing some wonderfully graceful moves. I go 65-70 tops on the freeway, and pretty much everyone passes me... going 80...90...100... dodging, swerving, 4-lane changes at once... And if the boxes radioed back, compared to my pithy 5, I'll be on the low end of the graph and laugh as THEY get slammed with suddenly exponentially larger premiums.
But, as much as I'd like this to work the way I want it to, I've learned that there's no idea so good, so flawless, so deliciously perfect, that can't be twisted, mangled and misinterpreted with a little corporate and government fingering. So rather than a bait and switch, I'll stay against it and just hope that the CHP would get a bigger presence and start ticketing more.
We will offer online-enabled games that the consumers will not have to pay a subscription fee for. It won't have hidden fees or costs.
How much clearer do you need it to be for you to understand?
"We will offer" is not the same as "we will ONLY offer".
Dell offers a 1 year warranty by default, but you can GET an additional 2 years paying them. Companies offer shareware versions of games that include, say, the first few levels but the whole product isn't free.
They are saying they will provide content that you don't have to pay for. That's not saying ALL their content is gratis, that's just saying they're throwing bones, essentially, so that it's not completely a walled garden, but it might have some areas cordoned off.
They are also saying that, if there are charges, they will be up front about them and not tack on unusual things to hike the price up covertly. That's different than saying "It won't have fees or costs."
It's the same premise. We will offer online-enabled games that the consumers will not have to pay a subscription fee for. They'll be able to enjoy that right out of the box. The Wii console is going to be Wi-Fi enabled, so essentially, you'll be able to plug it in and go. It won't have hidden fees or costs.
Note they didn't explicitly say "online play will be free," rather that "some online content will be free."
This still leaves the door to some subscription based services, possibly including 3rd parties. Course, some free content better than no free content.
Just seems that the general view is everything online would be free, I just don't read it like that.
*shrug* Bought HL1 after downloading it, bought HL2 after downloading it. Bought Ep 1 blind. Most of Blizzard's catalog I've got legit CDs for, and I don't do the multiplayer versions that require it either.
However, Doom 3? Pirated it, burned the ISOs (didn't have the HD space to emulate them)...and summarily used them as Airsoft targets 3 hours later (as well as uninstalling and deleting). I'm glad I didn't get that at $60 when it came out, and still glad I haven't gotten it yet at $20; id didn't earn my money for that one.
A good game might get pirated more, however, it's also more likely that it will have more legit copies sold.
...with Hot Coffee, something that's hidden like Aardwolf in Wolf3d.
While this would likely help in theory; the MPAA doesn't give ratings without watching the film, I doubt many people on the ESRB ratings board have much real video game experience. How many of them could master the controls on Halo or Metroid Prime?
Are they expected to just complete it? Or complete it with 100% scores?
Sadly, these people are just in charge of regulating things. They don't have to know anything about it.
From personal experience, often if an image has been shot in a way that's highly abnormal to a way a human would normally perceive the image, it's cited as such.
What's being missed, I think, is intent.
I don't really perceive images as 'true' as relating to fact, but instead representations of a moment in time. Like an America's Most Wanted recreation. What you see in this photo happened, although not necessarily in this tint, lighting or contrast; it's the meaning of the image that is what's important.
We all know Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald didn't live their lives as grayscale recluses, but the incident portrayed still occured.
It's when the moment is mis-represented is when people need to start going up against the wall.
IMO, there's an exponential difference between adjusting brightness, contrast, or other filters that apply to the entire shot. Images themselves are just a lens's interpretation of a scene, just in that people's eyes are just their interpretation. Everyone sees a scene differently, it's not just cameras. Our eyes aren't the same.
I don't think many people would argue against processing for print; it's a necessary evil. (Also acceptable: blurring out someone's FEMA credit card number...)
However, this goes above and beyond simple brightness or contrast for print clarity. This is not just processing, it's editing and manipulation on a level of Zelig or Forrest Gump. A news photo should represent a moment in time and re-creatable if somehow you could relive that exact moment in time.
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Who woulda thunk it... he signs a contract to get a company to publish and distribute his work, and doesn't retain absolute control? If he wanted complete control, he would have self-published.
...I say this having no idea what the boilerplate contract looks like in that industry of course...
Shouldn't he still maintain the copyright though? The contract should only affect the print distribution, I would think he should still be able to distribute through other channels how he sees fit, as it's his words, not the publishing company's.
Exactly. What is so wrong with the original PSP design that it needs a reworking? From what I've gathered about it, (all hearsay and wiki, mind you) it's an ok piece of hardware. (maybe needs a better screenguard, but feh)
It's public acceptance and the impression of the catalog that's hurting the device. I don't see at all what a redesign would do except make the Sony fanboys double dip.
Dormant Gamers have gone into hibernation waiting for the time the galactic economy is capable of sustaining their exhorbant needs.
Until that time, they pass the time playing SimEarth...
The heck is New Mexico doing!? It's been #1 for the past two decades according to that. Los Alamos can't be bringing in THAT much...
True... I got a Samsung laser printer on sale from Best Buy...(I needed a printer and I REFUSE to ever get an inkjet again as long as I live). The included cartridge was 500 sheets. The replacement toner cartridge was 2000 sheets, and cost as much as the printer's sale price.
BUT...how long is that 500 cartridge going to last me? I've printed maybe 30 sheets off it so far and I've had it over half a year. At this rate, my starter cartridge will probably die of old age before I run it dry.
I could understand, perhaps, for someone who relies on printouts. In my case, I doubt I'll have any qualms just getting a new printer when the need arises.
Course this doesn't work for businesses, but different markets, different needs.
The Wii controller just isn't 'innovative'
I'm curious to what dictionary you got your definition of 'innovative' out of...
(innovative = characterized by, tending to, or introducing innovations, yeay for recursive definitions)
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/innovations
Main Entry: innovation
Pronunciation: "i-n&-'vA-sh&n
Function: noun
1 : the introduction of something new
2 : a new idea, method, or device : NOVELTY
Seems to me this controller fits that definition to a T. What I don't find innovative is simply increasing resolution or texture depth or triangles per second. It's not *new* it's just an improvement, like going from a 20" TV to a 32" TV.
It might not be an innovation that works, or appeals to the entire crowd, but you can't have a success without some failures. (Virtual Boy...ugg) Personally, I'm excited by it. I don't need a new console to play games with a control pad; I've got emulators and a Gravis. I don't need spiffy shiny console games, I can get a new system with an X1950 for that.
However, this is a bonifide innovation, and it might actually be fun.
Well, I'm sure there wouldn't be a problem if MS included packages and gave you the option of installing, say, Defender, McAfee, AVG or PC-illin on installation...
But MS would never allow that...
And that's where it all breaks down.
Completely wrong.
The crowd helps make this movie. I caught a Thursday midnight and there was a contagious excitement. I've never had that much fun at a movie premiere. Ever.
The Two Towers? Return of the King? King Kong? Pirates 2? Been to each of those. Sure, it was occassionally crowd pleasing, but most of the time people jsut sat and watched quietly, listening to the dialogue.
SoaP? People were going f-ing ballistic. It was great. Cheers, groans, gasps, more cheers. People shouting "Snakes on a (blank)!!" You can't duplicate that in a home theater environment. Watching this alone just lacks the enthusiasm.
Plus, at boxofficemojo.com
1. Snakes on a Plane $13,806,311
2. Talladega Nights $13,755,387
The kicker is most reports include the Thursday total for SoaP, which was 1.4 Mil. It tends to be the norm that premiere totals get included in the weekend totals despite being a day early. (Weekends are Fri-Sun.)
Snakes still made #1 without Thursday.
You can get an SP2 CD from MS through the mail at no charge. (Looks like they have possibly added in S&H, I didn't want to go through the entire procedure, I think even that was free before though. It's been a while).
Well, the red light part was supposed to be a joke (surveying the surveillance is the answer); I'm not very good at those usually. Anyway, enjoy the recorders where they're at for now...
Only terrorists refuse to wear embedded GPS tracking monitors!
Cause it's technology! It's clearly unbreakable.
Frankly, I'd be worried about a magstripe even. Why not use a 2D barcode, like DataMatrix? It'd speed up the process, not susceptable to interference, corruption or loss, and it's just as secure.
Technology is not a miracle cure, but they keep treating it as such. What'll happen if power goes down to their fancy RFID readers, cause power NEVER goes out at LAX...
FTA: ...they do record things like speed, steering wheel movement, how hard the brakes are being pressed and the actual movement of the car itself.
There's your lateral movement.
And running a red light? That's what the red light cameras are for.
It could be a great equalizer for insurance rates. It could even spur better driving in on whole by the general populace (some drivers of course and their negligence is intractable).
On a purely selfish reason, I'd like to agree with you. I've mused many times about getting a camera for my car, like police cars, to catch some of these idiots doing some wonderfully graceful moves. I go 65-70 tops on the freeway, and pretty much everyone passes me... going 80...90...100... dodging, swerving, 4-lane changes at once... And if the boxes radioed back, compared to my pithy 5, I'll be on the low end of the graph and laugh as THEY get slammed with suddenly exponentially larger premiums.
But, as much as I'd like this to work the way I want it to, I've learned that there's no idea so good, so flawless, so deliciously perfect, that can't be twisted, mangled and misinterpreted with a little corporate and government fingering. So rather than a bait and switch, I'll stay against it and just hope that the CHP would get a bigger presence and start ticketing more.
That's what the Red Light cameras are for, obviously.
Nope. He could be a nutjob. Or a publicity hound. Or he was so obsessed with the case (as reports say) he ended up believing he did it.
I could confess to the killing of Jimmy Hoffa. Doesn't make it true.
This is, of course, assuming there would be sales of the PSP between now and 3 months from now.
We will offer online-enabled games that the consumers will not have to pay a subscription fee for.
It won't have hidden fees or costs.
How much clearer do you need it to be for you to understand?
"We will offer" is not the same as "we will ONLY offer".
Dell offers a 1 year warranty by default, but you can GET an additional 2 years paying them.
Companies offer shareware versions of games that include, say, the first few levels but the whole product isn't free.
They are saying they will provide content that you don't have to pay for. That's not saying ALL their content is gratis, that's just saying they're throwing bones, essentially, so that it's not completely a walled garden, but it might have some areas cordoned off.
They are also saying that, if there are charges, they will be up front about them and not tack on unusual things to hike the price up covertly. That's different than saying "It won't have fees or costs."
It's the same premise. We will offer online-enabled games that the consumers will not have to pay a subscription fee for. They'll be able to enjoy that right out of the box. The Wii console is going to be Wi-Fi enabled, so essentially, you'll be able to plug it in and go. It won't have hidden fees or costs.
Note they didn't explicitly say "online play will be free," rather that "some online content will be free."
This still leaves the door to some subscription based services, possibly including 3rd parties. Course, some free content better than no free content.
Just seems that the general view is everything online would be free, I just don't read it like that.
On a windows system, character map would work wonders for this.
Heck, I've used character map before when my keyboard died and i didn't have an immediate replacement.
Some of us are just paranoid.
*shrug* Bought HL1 after downloading it, bought HL2 after downloading it. Bought Ep 1 blind. Most of Blizzard's catalog I've got legit CDs for, and I don't do the multiplayer versions that require it either.
However, Doom 3? Pirated it, burned the ISOs (didn't have the HD space to emulate them)...and summarily used them as Airsoft targets 3 hours later (as well as uninstalling and deleting). I'm glad I didn't get that at $60 when it came out, and still glad I haven't gotten it yet at $20; id didn't earn my money for that one.
A good game might get pirated more, however, it's also more likely that it will have more legit copies sold.
...with Hot Coffee, something that's hidden like Aardwolf in Wolf3d.
While this would likely help in theory; the MPAA doesn't give ratings without watching the film, I doubt many people on the ESRB ratings board have much real video game experience. How many of them could master the controls on Halo or Metroid Prime?
Are they expected to just complete it? Or complete it with 100% scores?
Sadly, these people are just in charge of regulating things. They don't have to know anything about it.
From personal experience, often if an image has been shot in a way that's highly abnormal to a way a human would normally perceive the image, it's cited as such.
What's being missed, I think, is intent.
I don't really perceive images as 'true' as relating to fact, but instead representations of a moment in time. Like an America's Most Wanted recreation. What you see in this photo happened, although not necessarily in this tint, lighting or contrast; it's the meaning of the image that is what's important.
We all know Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald didn't live their lives as grayscale recluses, but the incident portrayed still occured.
It's when the moment is mis-represented is when people need to start going up against the wall.
IMO, there's an exponential difference between adjusting brightness, contrast, or other filters that apply to the entire shot. Images themselves are just a lens's interpretation of a scene, just in that people's eyes are just their interpretation. Everyone sees a scene differently, it's not just cameras. Our eyes aren't the same.
I don't think many people would argue against processing for print; it's a necessary evil. (Also acceptable: blurring out someone's FEMA credit card number...)
However, this goes above and beyond simple brightness or contrast for print clarity. This is not just processing, it's editing and manipulation on a level of Zelig or Forrest Gump. A news photo should represent a moment in time and re-creatable if somehow you could relive that exact moment in time.