Since u.s. public havent shown much activity in that respect, apparently it is left to eu to do the thing.
I dont get what happened to the ordniary aggressive u.s. citizen who would refrain from nothing to protect his/her rights. Adminstration have been taking away all their rights gradually lately.
Some shit is proposed, and it is 'beautified' with the add on word "anti-terrorism", and its a go go. Noone objects.
PC UT2004
DS MarioKart DS
PSP Lumines
Xbox Halo 2
Cube WarioWare
PS2 Guitar Hero
Xbox 360 Geometry Wars
Well, my understanding of hot titles would be the likes of :
Starcraft
World of Warcraft
Diablo 2
Knights of the old republic 1 & 2
Dune 2
Duke Nukem
Doom
Call of Duty
X Wing Alliance
You must have noted that all of these are TREND SETTING games, games which have defined how their genres are going to be after them.
The titles you name are 'fun' titles, which are rather niche in some point.
But then this question arises : "are the games on consoles hot because they are specifically built for the console, and being a competitor of a narrower platform (narrow as platform variety but with many numbers), so the console players' numbers make them count as 'hot ?"
Ie, they are in a relatively unflexible and closed circle, so the high number of console players make the market count these titles as 'hot', not the titles CAN compete with the ones in the pc market and so legally claim the title.
Because ALL these can be addicted to, and most of these are WAY more fatal than games. Especially smoking. It is a direct HEALTH HAZARD to anyone around, leave aside its being directly SUICIDAL to the smoker.
"Regulate" my fart.
There are around maybe 1 billion gamers worldwide. TEN dies in such a period in such a country, and it does not last long before some fart comes up with the idea of 'regulating' games.
Verily, i suggest that we had some regulation to regulate unnneccessary farts from proposing regulation ideas, first.
It is the way it goes in non it fields - the detergent producers check out each others' prices and set their prices accordingly - you cant get out of the price cycle.
Same goes here. Albeit worse. Once you get on some software, or forced to get on some software title bandwagon, then you have to stick with it, and you do so, and as a result they push their price on you in a wanton fashion.
We have a new type of monopolisation concept here, details not yet discovered to full extent and preventive laws not created.
If you are going to work in a white collar environment, going and coming back to work everyday, - you know, the old style - then go for ms related stuff, and also unix, novell and the like ; the stuff most corporations got when the it was booming and now cant easily move away from.
If you are going to join the big family - ie, telecommute, or work freelance, or work for small companies in telecommute fashion, you know, the stuff most of us do - then go for html, php, mysql, javascript in this order and then get some ajax.
The reason is that, MOSt of the companies that are getting ecommerce sites, portal sites, publishing sites, - ie sites that will help their business - are small, they dont have their it division, it people, and they want the optimal solution. Php/mysql based software delivers them that. for example oscommerce have become a huge script, with its unlimited variations and adaptations. same goes for much other stuff that a small company might want, and in the same time php/mysql is very suitable and easy to develop apps from scratch upon. When done with php, there are easy endless possibilities of interfacing the script with other abundant scripts on the market, doing virtually any and all stuff.
Best way to work such interlinked technologies is to define a 'learning' project, and implement it. This way you will have to learn all stuff related, to the extent that they are useful - no more, no less.
Lets not leave our internet to the filthy bastards :
1 - People/parties, who are seeking ways to make profit on expense of people, freedom in an unjust manner, try to put forth restrictions and laws that are beneficial to their particular interest can not just outright come and declare martial law, feudalism, monopoly and such. They would be fried on spot.
2 - Instead, they find politicians who are willing to deliver what they need.
3 - The politician gets funding and support from the interest party, spends this money (or uses the support) to get publicity for votes, and wins the election.
4 - The politician is in now power. Now it is time to pay back.
5 - As the politician cant just come outright and declare that s/he is going to pay back 'the fellas' for supporting him in a direct fashion, s/he prepares filthy laws, practices that are in fact harmful to the nation than it is beneficial for the interest group.
6 - The law, practice is disguised in other veils that are more welcome and positively looked-upon by the society - variations of security, nationalism, 'betterment' of such 'industry' to provide more jobs and etc.
7 - The law passes and now practiced nationwide. The result, naturally, comes up so that the interest party in step 1 is making more money, and as a result getting more influence.
8 - It so happens that after a time, nothing goes contrary to the interest party's wishes, as they gain exponentially bigger influence in that recursive spiral.
So. WHAT IF, the internet, the people, the 'lore' holding corporations that helped build the internet as we know it, WE came forth and injected ourselves to this equation in step 2 ?
What if, google, microsoft, ebay, paypal, linux crowd, open source crowd, poured money to put forth representatives in the house ?
What if we manage to get enough influence to set things right, in a fashion that they have made the internet possible - freedom, easy accessibility, being open to anyone and everyone, being equal to the extent that nothing have been more equal in world history, and over and above all local, regional interest groups, hamperings and politics ?
A day does not pass without some u.s. politician or lawmaker coming up with an idea that would be a step on the road that will turn u.s. people into slave labor.
it may be. IT/Net crowd should push the law people to see things the right way. Google, microsoft, ibm, and others should spend money to get support in the congress, just like the telcos do. This is the only way.
We will just not use the fucking 'web 2.0' string in any of our conversations and text thats all.
God forbid if i am going to pay any moron royalty for using 7 char length string in my text.
Tell them to shove web 2.0, 2.0 times up their arses.
This is the 3rd case that we heard of such idiotic law proposition in some place in u.s. or in europe.
When will this folly end ? I have typed such comment as before, and i am doing it again before a month passes from the last time i did it.
I repeat - representatives should not be allowed to propose laws for fields they do not know nothing about.
It is DEFINITE that the people in question have no information on how internet functions, even though they might hold doctorate on information technology - because NO ONE can be STUPID enough to propose to BREAK something in order to make it law compatible. Such STUPIDITY disproves any prior education.
Elf- Dwarf - Human alliance, orcs & trolls, the big alliance war is something definitely lotr. Be it so as you say, then again in lotr orcs, trolls and the like are evil.
They are too closed, and rigid organizations. First, internet, IT, are worlds that change quickly, and there is high mobility and freedom, second, any limitation on who can and can not do it work, development, programming etc is hampering to the field in general. The fast paced - high intense growth in both market, technology, innovation, and the reach of all of these has been because the internet/it is in a state like the west in era of gold rush - huge expansion, huge growth, huge reach, hence huge number of available jobs.
If we bring any limitation to it, we will break our own market.
However to tell you the truth, i believe that making the evil and good ambiguous does more harm to a title than it helps it. It takes the thrill and the idea out of the state when the title came up and became a hit.
Slashdot Mirror
And that is the end of that. Keep it comin
Since u.s. public havent shown much activity in that respect, apparently it is left to eu to do the thing.
I dont get what happened to the ordniary aggressive u.s. citizen who would refrain from nothing to protect his/her rights. Adminstration have been taking away all their rights gradually lately.
Some shit is proposed, and it is 'beautified' with the add on word "anti-terrorism", and its a go go. Noone objects.
What is going on ?
Well, for once, you should note that i do not know, or have not heard any of the non-pc titles you list. Same goes for most pc users.
Thus, as we havent heard them, yet alone buying the system after seeing them, it appears that there is a catch here.
PC UT2004 DS MarioKart DS PSP Lumines Xbox Halo 2 Cube WarioWare PS2 Guitar Hero Xbox 360 Geometry Wars
Well, my understanding of hot titles would be the likes of :
Starcraft World of Warcraft Diablo 2 Knights of the old republic 1 & 2 Dune 2 Duke Nukem Doom Call of Duty X Wing Alliance
You must have noted that all of these are TREND SETTING games, games which have defined how their genres are going to be after them.
The titles you name are 'fun' titles, which are rather niche in some point.
But then this question arises : "are the games on consoles hot because they are specifically built for the console, and being a competitor of a narrower platform (narrow as platform variety but with many numbers), so the console players' numbers make them count as 'hot ?"
Ie, they are in a relatively unflexible and closed circle, so the high number of console players make the market count these titles as 'hot', not the titles CAN compete with the ones in the pc market and so legally claim the title.
The difference is that, pc does not have only 'some' of the hottest titles on the market - it has ALL of them, and more.
Because ALL these can be addicted to, and most of these are WAY more fatal than games. Especially smoking. It is a direct HEALTH HAZARD to anyone around, leave aside its being directly SUICIDAL to the smoker.
"Regulate" my fart.
There are around maybe 1 billion gamers worldwide. TEN dies in such a period in such a country, and it does not last long before some fart comes up with the idea of 'regulating' games.
Verily, i suggest that we had some regulation to regulate unnneccessary farts from proposing regulation ideas, first.
Mac was lacking in games.
There are not alternatives to most of the stuff.
It is the way it goes in non it fields - the detergent producers check out each others' prices and set their prices accordingly - you cant get out of the price cycle.
Same goes here. Albeit worse. Once you get on some software, or forced to get on some software title bandwagon, then you have to stick with it, and you do so, and as a result they push their price on you in a wanton fashion.
We have a new type of monopolisation concept here, details not yet discovered to full extent and preventive laws not created.
And corporate style.
If you are going to work in a white collar environment, going and coming back to work everyday, - you know, the old style - then go for ms related stuff, and also unix, novell and the like ; the stuff most corporations got when the it was booming and now cant easily move away from.
If you are going to join the big family - ie, telecommute, or work freelance, or work for small companies in telecommute fashion, you know, the stuff most of us do - then go for html, php, mysql, javascript in this order and then get some ajax.
The reason is that, MOSt of the companies that are getting ecommerce sites, portal sites, publishing sites, - ie sites that will help their business - are small, they dont have their it division, it people, and they want the optimal solution. Php/mysql based software delivers them that. for example oscommerce have become a huge script, with its unlimited variations and adaptations. same goes for much other stuff that a small company might want, and in the same time php/mysql is very suitable and easy to develop apps from scratch upon. When done with php, there are easy endless possibilities of interfacing the script with other abundant scripts on the market, doing virtually any and all stuff.
Best way to work such interlinked technologies is to define a 'learning' project, and implement it. This way you will have to learn all stuff related, to the extent that they are useful - no more, no less.
What losses after selling software at EXTRAVAGANT prices ?
... Consider it a market adjustment by the 'invisible hand' - an adjustment to balance out the ridiculous prices you sell software for.
Do they ALREADY count our money as theirs, and deem it as loss ?
Nay, sire
In the history of this world, there has NEVER been piracy UNLESS commodities' prices were not set in standards of highway robbery.
I aint giving me money to you sir. Not at THESE prices at least.
Lets not leave our internet to the filthy bastards :
1 - People/parties, who are seeking ways to make profit on expense of people, freedom in an unjust manner, try to put forth restrictions and laws that are beneficial to their particular interest can not just outright come and declare martial law, feudalism, monopoly and such. They would be fried on spot.
2 - Instead, they find politicians who are willing to deliver what they need.
3 - The politician gets funding and support from the interest party, spends this money (or uses the support) to get publicity for votes, and wins the election.
4 - The politician is in now power. Now it is time to pay back.
5 - As the politician cant just come outright and declare that s/he is going to pay back 'the fellas' for supporting him in a direct fashion, s/he prepares filthy laws, practices that are in fact harmful to the nation than it is beneficial for the interest group.
6 - The law, practice is disguised in other veils that are more welcome and positively looked-upon by the society - variations of security, nationalism, 'betterment' of such 'industry' to provide more jobs and etc.
7 - The law passes and now practiced nationwide. The result, naturally, comes up so that the interest party in step 1 is making more money, and as a result getting more influence.
8 - It so happens that after a time, nothing goes contrary to the interest party's wishes, as they gain exponentially bigger influence in that recursive spiral.
So. WHAT IF, the internet, the people, the 'lore' holding corporations that helped build the internet as we know it, WE came forth and injected ourselves to this equation in step 2 ?
What if, google, microsoft, ebay, paypal, linux crowd, open source crowd, poured money to put forth representatives in the house ?
What if we manage to get enough influence to set things right, in a fashion that they have made the internet possible - freedom, easy accessibility, being open to anyone and everyone, being equal to the extent that nothing have been more equal in world history, and over and above all local, regional interest groups, hamperings and politics ?
politicians it seems ; Big Brother Syndrome
A day does not pass without some u.s. politician or lawmaker coming up with an idea that would be a step on the road that will turn u.s. people into slave labor.
And next step will be forced labor camps, where MS software is used to monitor the inmates.
it may be. IT/Net crowd should push the law people to see things the right way. Google, microsoft, ibm, and others should spend money to get support in the congress, just like the telcos do. This is the only way.
Yet too little of them proved to be true.
We will just not use the fucking 'web 2.0' string in any of our conversations and text thats all. God forbid if i am going to pay any moron royalty for using 7 char length string in my text. Tell them to shove web 2.0, 2.0 times up their arses.
During the years i have been using these, i have come to believe that you can to almost anything with these, except housework.
This is the 3rd case that we heard of such idiotic law proposition in some place in u.s. or in europe.
When will this folly end ? I have typed such comment as before, and i am doing it again before a month passes from the last time i did it.
I repeat - representatives should not be allowed to propose laws for fields they do not know nothing about.
It is DEFINITE that the people in question have no information on how internet functions, even though they might hold doctorate on information technology - because NO ONE can be STUPID enough to propose to BREAK something in order to make it law compatible. Such STUPIDITY disproves any prior education.
These people, mark that, are stupid. Thats flat.
Do not let stupid people run your country.
Even if it is so ? For windows has been so since 1995.
Elf- Dwarf - Human alliance, orcs & trolls, the big alliance war is something definitely lotr. Be it so as you say, then again in lotr orcs, trolls and the like are evil.
, highly educated and humanist perception on the patent matter, out of angst and frusturation at the behest of the greed going on around the sector :
Fuck patents
They are too closed, and rigid organizations. First, internet, IT, are worlds that change quickly, and there is high mobility and freedom, second, any limitation on who can and can not do it work, development, programming etc is hampering to the field in general. The fast paced - high intense growth in both market, technology, innovation, and the reach of all of these has been because the internet/it is in a state like the west in era of gold rush - huge expansion, huge growth, huge reach, hence huge number of available jobs.
If we bring any limitation to it, we will break our own market.
Oh well, it shows that there are many horde players amongst the moderating crowd at least.
Yes blizzard did that.
However to tell you the truth, i believe that making the evil and good ambiguous does more harm to a title than it helps it. It takes the thrill and the idea out of the state when the title came up and became a hit.