didnt microsoft itself declare that it was intending to keep foss down, in leaked memos, and sometimes in open statements from hapless high level managers, in the last decade ?
last game, you forced the player to continually roleplay as dark side from start of the game until the end, giving only a brief choice at the end.
i didnt buy the game. i dont like games in which i cant choose what i do.
so, before talking about physics engines, havok, this that and button mashing, set your gameplay straight by giving players a choice. choice and variance are what separated knights of the old republic series from almost all similar games and made them standards.
with the enormous hidden 'call back home' shit sp3 and on brings, majority of users and sysadmins will not upgrade to it. they are not stupid.
for any stragglers who would jump in and say 'which' at this point ; i cant summarize 2 years of slashdot article history to you. just do searches. we discussed all of these here before.
since advent of cds and industrialization of gaming, games increasingly became brutal capitalism products, purely made to make the maximum profit over them without paying much attention to the gamers' desires. all games, gaming studios either have gone the way of becoming extremely bloated, little gameplay - max visuals, max gore/extremism range, or gone the way of maximum simplicity, minimum effort way. all are done to target the general populations most exploitable characteristics to just make the box sell. rest is not that important. and the studios who were doing real games have either had to go the same way, or got bought by conglomerates and made to choose the same way.
thus some google influence may be good in this sector. we need more gameplay, more fun, entertainment in games.
because, piracy of any material is directly proportional to its success. and if something is a success, it already makes the money it can make in a market with the current prices and distribution channels.
publishing, distribution companies harm the creative content much more than anything else as of now. they constitute a huge percentage of the end cost that reflects on the customer, and the original creators receive only minor percentages compared to that. in music, its even more horrible - artists receive cents over the cds they sell, and instead are forced to earn money in long concert tours. they incur wear and tear, start behaving extreme, antisocial, or take up drugs to alleviate the stress, and often become unproductive or, even need hospitalization after some point. only, a few artists and bands who were able to negotiate their own terms with the leverage they had early in their career are able to continue in a meaningful fashion. (madonna etc)
the experiments of radiohead, nine inch nails proved that even if you yourself encourage piracy, or even give out your album entirely, saying 'pay however much you want', you can make much more money overnight that you would make by contracting a major label and going on concerts for over a year. when this becomes a commonplace method, bands may not earn as much as the initial experiments. BUT, it is almost certain now that they will make much more money with much less effort, than they would be able to when going out on tours for a major label.
patents being wrong. im watching and wondering, when will everyone without exception (profiteers aside) will realize that concept of 'patents' cannot work.
this last change in the last version that has the flash and other plugins run in a separate plugin container which prevents firefox from crashing when any of these plugins (Especially flash) crashes, has set a lot of things right already. all you need to do now is to refresh the page to get the plugins rolling again.
precisely the articles/views that any given american conglomerate dominant in any given field is publicized in economist exactly at the convenient times. no earlier, no less. american media industry stages an attack against net neutrality ? you will find economist either preceding it with an article or following immediately after it starts. copenhagen talks are coming up in regard to climate ? same. moreover, the views and defenses it reflects also continues in lockstep with whatever that industry is using at any given time - ie, economist does not oppose carbon tax or climate change in ways that are different than the industry it is being a mouthpiece for - it uses the exact chosen argument of that industry at that given time. when the industry drops the 'sun is heating the earth' excuse, economist drops it too. when the industry sees that the 'it is a cycle' approach is not so sound anymore, economist doesnt insist, it updates its approach.
they are doing critical pieces on bp, probably because it is first a british corporation, second, it screwed up SO bad, third, bp going out of scene will make it easier for american oil companies. all is calculated.
So you are taking Economist seriously.
on
Behind Cyberwar FUD
·
· Score: 1, Insightful
i guess you have never read it before. Economist is a private interest mouthpiece that serves whatever their financiers tell them to do, depending on what their backers need as policy at any given period. Judging from the contents of your summary, one can easily say that this time the group they are licking the boots of is RIAA.
stupid personal attack aside, what difference would it make if i was shaking my fist from a basement ? huh ? logic stops at the basement door ? i havent gotten that memo.
they keep screwing up, and they keep pushing out new versions of their shit over and over, with the hopes of not screwing this time. instead of doing a good job when they actually do something. and people have to pay for that shit. endless numbers of developers, webmasters, and even users are paying for their gross incompetence.
someone who was rotten inside, would feel the need to live a pompous life wherever s/he went. no holds barred. even if he is having such calculations, it means that he has at least a sense of logic, measure, modesty whatever you call it.
before shoving in shiny crap. your ie8 causes SO many problems to web developers, webmasters and even their users that it isnt even funny to talk about it anymore.
ie8 still interprets a form tag as an element which should be block, regardless of whatever you try to do with it. it screws up a lot of designs which involve any complex form designs. the ONLY browser doing this is ie8. not even ie6.
do a good job about making a browser work before filling it shit.
when i saw that when cameron moved into number 10, he only had a simple bed, 1-2 ikea brand stools and whatnot. i said to myself, well, someone who is living that simple has to have some good qualities at least.
immediately thereafter he apologized to irish for the bloody sunday. then, he come up proposing that queen's funds should be frozen. (11 mil or so a year). now, his partner clegg comes up with this.
it is sorry time for elite bloodsuckers in britain...
you know, the MAIN business you actually were involved with ? the main business you have been screwing up with, while screwing with a lot of other fields ?
the most known PRIVATE INTEREST group is advising the nation about 'public' policy. public is supposed to take advice from them. like adam getting advice from snake on heaven policies.
scholastic academia was founded in order to teach and do science. not applied practices. applied sciences have become an offshoot of these, but they became increasingly theoretical and abstract. 4-5% is remembered after graduation. and they teach 86% of crap in order to give out the general engineering/applied formation. result ? you learn everything while on the job.
however, had they directly aimed at giving the analytical and practical mindset without giving crapload of theoretical info that will probably not used, the duration of such applied teaching would be much less and its effect much efficient. but then again, how could the colleges would make money...
its even worse in i.t. related fields. when the textbooks get out for something, that something becomes either dormant, unused by that time, or something better comes up.
they need to teach people how to think and how to learn. not anything else.
lets have the idiots who modded the above flamebait explain us what kind of bunch republicans are. and tell me whether there can be any SANE individual among those who follow that bunch :
Slashdot Mirror
didnt microsoft itself declare that it was intending to keep foss down, in leaked memos, and sometimes in open statements from hapless high level managers, in the last decade ?
last game, you forced the player to continually roleplay as dark side from start of the game until the end, giving only a brief choice at the end.
i didnt buy the game. i dont like games in which i cant choose what i do.
so, before talking about physics engines, havok, this that and button mashing, set your gameplay straight by giving players a choice. choice and variance are what separated knights of the old republic series from almost all similar games and made them standards.
with the enormous hidden 'call back home' shit sp3 and on brings, majority of users and sysadmins will not upgrade to it. they are not stupid.
for any stragglers who would jump in and say 'which' at this point ; i cant summarize 2 years of slashdot article history to you. just do searches. we discussed all of these here before.
since advent of cds and industrialization of gaming, games increasingly became brutal capitalism products, purely made to make the maximum profit over them without paying much attention to the gamers' desires. all games, gaming studios either have gone the way of becoming extremely bloated, little gameplay - max visuals, max gore/extremism range, or gone the way of maximum simplicity, minimum effort way. all are done to target the general populations most exploitable characteristics to just make the box sell. rest is not that important. and the studios who were doing real games have either had to go the same way, or got bought by conglomerates and made to choose the same way.
thus some google influence may be good in this sector. we need more gameplay, more fun, entertainment in games.
because, piracy of any material is directly proportional to its success. and if something is a success, it already makes the money it can make in a market with the current prices and distribution channels.
publishing, distribution companies harm the creative content much more than anything else as of now. they constitute a huge percentage of the end cost that reflects on the customer, and the original creators receive only minor percentages compared to that. in music, its even more horrible - artists receive cents over the cds they sell, and instead are forced to earn money in long concert tours. they incur wear and tear, start behaving extreme, antisocial, or take up drugs to alleviate the stress, and often become unproductive or, even need hospitalization after some point. only, a few artists and bands who were able to negotiate their own terms with the leverage they had early in their career are able to continue in a meaningful fashion. (madonna etc)
the experiments of radiohead, nine inch nails proved that even if you yourself encourage piracy, or even give out your album entirely, saying 'pay however much you want', you can make much more money overnight that you would make by contracting a major label and going on concerts for over a year. when this becomes a commonplace method, bands may not earn as much as the initial experiments. BUT, it is almost certain now that they will make much more money with much less effort, than they would be able to when going out on tours for a major label.
software patents are banned in europe. you need a working, unique machine to have a patent. you cant go on patenting base logic level actions.
patents being wrong. im watching and wondering, when will everyone without exception (profiteers aside) will realize that concept of 'patents' cannot work.
this last change in the last version that has the flash and other plugins run in a separate plugin container which prevents firefox from crashing when any of these plugins (Especially flash) crashes, has set a lot of things right already. all you need to do now is to refresh the page to get the plugins rolling again.
uhaha huahahap hahap yeap yeap.
what's the problem with standing a bit to the left of lenin, come again ?
rupert murdoch gets his stomach upset when he sees one ? or, fox news says so ?
that means you havent been following economist.
precisely the articles/views that any given american conglomerate dominant in any given field is publicized in economist exactly at the convenient times. no earlier, no less. american media industry stages an attack against net neutrality ? you will find economist either preceding it with an article or following immediately after it starts. copenhagen talks are coming up in regard to climate ? same. moreover, the views and defenses it reflects also continues in lockstep with whatever that industry is using at any given time - ie, economist does not oppose carbon tax or climate change in ways that are different than the industry it is being a mouthpiece for - it uses the exact chosen argument of that industry at that given time. when the industry drops the 'sun is heating the earth' excuse, economist drops it too. when the industry sees that the 'it is a cycle' approach is not so sound anymore, economist doesnt insist, it updates its approach.
they are doing critical pieces on bp, probably because it is first a british corporation, second, it screwed up SO bad, third, bp going out of scene will make it easier for american oil companies. all is calculated.
i guess you have never read it before. Economist is a private interest mouthpiece that serves whatever their financiers tell them to do, depending on what their backers need as policy at any given period. Judging from the contents of your summary, one can easily say that this time the group they are licking the boots of is RIAA.
even the 'upper class minimalism' of some people is a positive trait compared to the mainstream politics of today.
stupid personal attack aside, what difference would it make if i was shaking my fist from a basement ? huh ? logic stops at the basement door ? i havent gotten that memo.
they keep screwing up, and they keep pushing out new versions of their shit over and over, with the hopes of not screwing this time. instead of doing a good job when they actually do something. and people have to pay for that shit. endless numbers of developers, webmasters, and even users are paying for their gross incompetence.
someone who was rotten inside, would feel the need to live a pompous life wherever s/he went. no holds barred. even if he is having such calculations, it means that he has at least a sense of logic, measure, modesty whatever you call it.
"any pm would have had to apologize after X" - you are either very young, or very naive.
before shoving in shiny crap. your ie8 causes SO many problems to web developers, webmasters and even their users that it isnt even funny to talk about it anymore.
ie8 still interprets a form tag as an element which should be block, regardless of whatever you try to do with it. it screws up a lot of designs which involve any complex form designs. the ONLY browser doing this is ie8. not even ie6.
do a good job about making a browser work before filling it shit.
when i saw that when cameron moved into number 10, he only had a simple bed, 1-2 ikea brand stools and whatnot. i said to myself, well, someone who is living that simple has to have some good qualities at least.
...
immediately thereafter he apologized to irish for the bloody sunday. then, he come up proposing that queen's funds should be frozen. (11 mil or so a year). now, his partner clegg comes up with this.
it is sorry time for elite bloodsuckers in britain
tell us, the internet, what you need.
you know, the MAIN business you actually were involved with ? the main business you have been screwing up with, while screwing with a lot of other fields ?
the most known PRIVATE INTEREST group is advising the nation about 'public' policy. public is supposed to take advice from them. like adam getting advice from snake on heaven policies.
scholastic academia was founded in order to teach and do science. not applied practices. applied sciences have become an offshoot of these, but they became increasingly theoretical and abstract. 4-5% is remembered after graduation. and they teach 86% of crap in order to give out the general engineering/applied formation. result ? you learn everything while on the job.
...
however, had they directly aimed at giving the analytical and practical mindset without giving crapload of theoretical info that will probably not used, the duration of such applied teaching would be much less and its effect much efficient. but then again, how could the colleges would make money
its even worse in i.t. related fields. when the textbooks get out for something, that something becomes either dormant, unused by that time, or something better comes up.
they need to teach people how to think and how to learn. not anything else.
so that we can have some freedom with the devices we BUY. even americans' butts, mind that.
maybe, having enough ethics not to defend overseas corporate rape of american female citizens ?
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-october-14-2009/rape-nuts
lets have the idiots who modded the above flamebait explain us what kind of bunch republicans are. and tell me whether there can be any SANE individual among those who follow that bunch :
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-october-14-2009/rape-nuts