the cover story of the Nat'l Geographic last year sometime disagreed with your assessment, detailing litanies of abuse from the burning of the house of an untouchable who drank from the wrong tap to throwing acid in the face of another for some social tresspass. Unfortunately, the whole article is unavailable online, but here's the teaser: http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0306/featu re1/
However, there IS corruption in the US government.
Sure. I'd never say there wasn't. You simply can't find a government free of corruption. But the guy I replied to made it sound like the US was the A-number-one place to come to if you want a smooth ride for your company, when it in fact is not. Environmental and safety regulations here may not be as strong as Europe, but it orders of magnitude stronger than (almost) anywhere in Asia, Africa or South America, and I only say 'almost' to avoid places like Japan and Singapore.
Well, the Cambodians would have disagreed, but the government they deserved had their skulls neatly stacked in piles. But you know, those babies totally deserved it for not rising up.
"This technology could be used to find missing children, search for lost hikers, or survey a fire zone,"
"... but will in fact be used to further re-enforce the creeping feeling that LA, and indeed America at large, is turning onto a police state where the citizens are under constant surveillance."
but that's not really the game I wanted to play.
self-policing mmogs is ludicrous. It barely works on slashdot and it never worked on counterstrike back when I was playing that. The idea that you'd let players on something like WoW self-police themselves is an invitation to shitfuckery.
The best online communities are moderated very closely, and bans are handed out liberally. Companies should take a good look at that.
Just to be contrary about the whole thing, this is pretty far from any kind of free speech issue. And as for freedoms, since when did we get our knickers in a twist over what minors are allowed to buy? Technically, they're not allowed to buy porn, alcohol or see R-rated movies without their parents either, and you don't hear anyone beefing about that.
I see the whole thing as sort of a stupid nonissue, redeemed only by the unbelieveable shitfuckery of Jack Thompson. It is a constant source of amazement to me that someone hasn't disbarred him yet.
It's pretty easy to say "fuck you" to millions of imaginary dollars.
As long as there exists no unified effort to isolate China, the idea that a company should unilaterally boycott China is a nice thought, but toothless.
Yes, because the nGage did so well. You may be an exception, but most people don't want an all in one uber convergence device.
The nGage was a spectacular failure because it was a piece of crap. You had to take the battery out to change the game cart. People don't mind convergence devices - Treos are selling pretty well from my understanding - they just don't want shitty products. That shouldn't be real surprising. Unfortunately, by their nature, convergence devices are more likely to be shitty products than normal. One day someone will build a good phone/ipod/gameboy and people will buy them by the basketfull.
It's not so much the loss of coastal cities, it's the impact on weather and by extension, our food. A significant, sudden change in weather means famine. It's what happened in Ethiopia. Sure, they were on the edge anyway, but what happens in the US if the midwest corn or wheat crop fails for seven, eight, nine years? It'll get very, very ugly.
But yeah, I'll echo the general sentiment that while I would very much like to be convinced that we're all not going to be under 20 feet of sea water soon, a site with a giant custom-cursor ad that purports to be Canada's number one source of alternative news just isn't gonna be the thing to do it.
My point is that I doubt more than 5-10% of the target market is even aware that it's been in development for 10 years. It doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be good. I mean, I dunno if it'll... you know, turn a profit or whatever, I'm just saying that I don't think the time it's spent in development will really matter when (if) it actually hits the shelves.
If the game is good, no one will care. I'd imagine something like 5-10% of their target market is even aware of the DNF soap opera.
That said, I just do not believe a game that's been in development for ten goddamn years can possibly be any good. Prove me wrong, Broussard, prove me wrong.
actual conversations aren't logged and easily searchable. Also, you can't simply paste a chunk of code into an actual conversation, or transfer long URLs.
I am never let down when I depend on the kneejerk cynicism of the slashdot crowd.
No, it's not some sort of major breakthrough.
And yes, the 'hole' idea is limited to showing things happening on the surface of a sphere. As it turns out though, there's a lot of interesting things that happen on the surface of spheres. Our lives, for instance. Also weather. And geography.
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the cover story of the Nat'l Geographic last year sometime disagreed with your assessment, detailing litanies of abuse from the burning of the house of an untouchable who drank from the wrong tap to throwing acid in the face of another for some social tresspass. Unfortunately, the whole article is unavailable online, but here's the teaser: http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0306/featu re1/
Sure. I'd never say there wasn't. You simply can't find a government free of corruption. But the guy I replied to made it sound like the US was the A-number-one place to come to if you want a smooth ride for your company, when it in fact is not. Environmental and safety regulations here may not be as strong as Europe, but it orders of magnitude stronger than (almost) anywhere in Asia, Africa or South America, and I only say 'almost' to avoid places like Japan and Singapore.
Honestly, people give China all kinds of shit (rightfully so) for human rights violations, but no one raises a peep about the Indian caste system.
If you honestly think the US has a bad case governmental corruption, relative to the rest of the world, you need to leave the US more often.
Well, the Cambodians would have disagreed, but the government they deserved had their skulls neatly stacked in piles. But you know, those babies totally deserved it for not rising up.
The Jews, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and most of Cambodia would like a word with you.
"... but will in fact be used to further re-enforce the creeping feeling that LA, and indeed America at large, is turning onto a police state where the citizens are under constant surveillance."
OMG! The Pakistanis totally would like a word with you! ZOMG!
because it's not immediately obvious that they're numbers instead of abbreviations. GTA4 or Grand Theft Auto, Insane Violence edition?
Bleech. If I get a vote, I vote GTA4. I don't think we need to introduce MORE weird shit into our acronyms.
but that's not really the game I wanted to play. self-policing mmogs is ludicrous. It barely works on slashdot and it never worked on counterstrike back when I was playing that. The idea that you'd let players on something like WoW self-police themselves is an invitation to shitfuckery. The best online communities are moderated very closely, and bans are handed out liberally. Companies should take a good look at that.
Just to be contrary about the whole thing, this is pretty far from any kind of free speech issue. And as for freedoms, since when did we get our knickers in a twist over what minors are allowed to buy? Technically, they're not allowed to buy porn, alcohol or see R-rated movies without their parents either, and you don't hear anyone beefing about that.
I see the whole thing as sort of a stupid nonissue, redeemed only by the unbelieveable shitfuckery of Jack Thompson. It is a constant source of amazement to me that someone hasn't disbarred him yet.
As long as there exists no unified effort to isolate China, the idea that a company should unilaterally boycott China is a nice thought, but toothless.
Better PageRank scores, I'd imagine.
http://google.com/unclesam
There's an Ozymandias pun in here somewhere, I just know it.
The nGage was a spectacular failure because it was a piece of crap. You had to take the battery out to change the game cart. People don't mind convergence devices - Treos are selling pretty well from my understanding - they just don't want shitty products. That shouldn't be real surprising. Unfortunately, by their nature, convergence devices are more likely to be shitty products than normal. One day someone will build a good phone/ipod/gameboy and people will buy them by the basketfull.
It's not so much the loss of coastal cities, it's the impact on weather and by extension, our food. A significant, sudden change in weather means famine. It's what happened in Ethiopia. Sure, they were on the edge anyway, but what happens in the US if the midwest corn or wheat crop fails for seven, eight, nine years? It'll get very, very ugly.
one popup got through for me.
But yeah, I'll echo the general sentiment that while I would very much like to be convinced that we're all not going to be under 20 feet of sea water soon, a site with a giant custom-cursor ad that purports to be Canada's number one source of alternative news just isn't gonna be the thing to do it.
My point is that I doubt more than 5-10% of the target market is even aware that it's been in development for 10 years. It doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be good. I mean, I dunno if it'll ... you know, turn a profit or whatever, I'm just saying that I don't think the time it's spent in development will really matter when (if) it actually hits the shelves.
If the game is good, no one will care. I'd imagine something like 5-10% of their target market is even aware of the DNF soap opera.
That said, I just do not believe a game that's been in development for ten goddamn years can possibly be any good. Prove me wrong, Broussard, prove me wrong.
actual conversations aren't logged and easily searchable. Also, you can't simply paste a chunk of code into an actual conversation, or transfer long URLs.
= Reply&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=nested&pid=15 529472 and you'll find what you need. See ya tomorrow. Yeah, 188393. Right. commentsort equals zero, you got it. Later."
"hey bob, what's up? Oh, right, yeah, just go to http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=188393&op
blogosphere drama, how fascinating.
I am never let down when I depend on the kneejerk cynicism of the slashdot crowd.
No, it's not some sort of major breakthrough.
And yes, the 'hole' idea is limited to showing things happening on the surface of a sphere. As it turns out though, there's a lot of interesting things that happen on the surface of spheres. Our lives, for instance. Also weather. And geography.
the wires would have to go in somewhere, which seems nonoptimal.