There have been reports of U.S. military submitting various terror suspects to "torture" by playing them very loud heavy metal...Other people pay good bucks for that kind of entertainment:D
Seems to me that Ernest Adams' terms of comparison are things that were popular before the dawn of the 21st century. By his definition, "high-brow" means something that came out before the year 1950. Can you blame games for being a young, growing industry? In the 60's, Beatles seemed loud and outrageous. Right now, 45 years later, they seem high-brow. At least to me. So if time is essential for something to become high-brow, I say, give it until 2025 and you'll have your high-brow video games. They'll have museums and libraries dedicated to Super Mario, Tetris and Sid Meier's Civ. And there will be an entire class of stuffy, pretentious elitists that will favour older games over newly developed forms of entertainment.
A Merchant Ivory video game would give the sense of deep satisfaction we feel when we reach the end of a great play or movie or novel, a long-lasting pleasure that the mere memory of the experience evokes years later.
Ideally, a video game should give a special, unique kind of pleasure, otherwise efforts and innovations in this field would be useless and superfluous. And frankly, I can't name one movie that compares with the feeling I get after 9 straight hours of Civ III, where an entire civilization grew, evolved and morphed before my eyes.
As stated on Rutkowska's blog at http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2006/06/int roducing-blue-pill.html "[...]I would like to make it clear, that the Blue Pill technology does not rely on any bug of the underlying operating system. I have implemented a working prototype for Vista x64, but I see no reasons why it should not be possible to port it to other operating systems, like Linux or BSD which can be run on x64 platform.[...]"
I couldn't agree more with the memo barrage idea. They say bad news travel fast, hehe:)
A couple complementary ideas for approaching mgmt.:
1) Give multiple solutions - think of one low-cost alternative, another medium cost/effort one, and a budget hyper-blast based on long-term planning(good profile-builder, too) Then present it as:
- would you like to go with or with ? People like to have options, it makes them feel like they're in control.
2) Speak to them in $$$ - for each solution, table how much money (on average) the company would lose if they DON't go with one of your solutions - due to downtime, catastrophic events, collateral damage, insurance premiums going up, etc.
3) Escalating urgency(AKA fearmongering:) If you come solving a problem that doesn't exist yet, chances are mgmt. won't care. But if you walk in as the saviour who prevented a problem from happening, you might actually get some credit for it. HTH.
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...Michael Jackson owns Yesterday and Paul McCartney owns Tomorrow.
>And Tom Araya owns Every Day.
There have been reports of U.S. military submitting various terror suspects to "torture" by playing them very loud heavy metal...Other people pay good bucks for that kind of entertainment:D
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On a more realistic note, here's a report on the military applications of music in Iraq and elsewhere: http://sptimes.com/2004/11/21/Floridian/Iraq__n__
Seems to me that Ernest Adams' terms of comparison are things that were popular before the dawn of the 21st century. By his definition, "high-brow" means something that came out before the year 1950. Can you blame games for being a young, growing industry? In the 60's, Beatles seemed loud and outrageous. Right now, 45 years later, they seem high-brow. At least to me. So if time is essential for something to become high-brow, I say, give it until 2025 and you'll have your high-brow video games. They'll have museums and libraries dedicated to Super Mario, Tetris and Sid Meier's Civ. And there will be an entire class of stuffy, pretentious elitists that will favour older games over newly developed forms of entertainment.
A Merchant Ivory video game would give the sense of deep satisfaction we feel when we reach the end of a great play or movie or novel, a long-lasting pleasure that the mere memory of the experience evokes years later.
Ideally, a video game should give a special, unique kind of pleasure, otherwise efforts and innovations in this field would be useless and superfluous. And frankly, I can't name one movie that compares with the feeling I get after 9 straight hours of Civ III, where an entire civilization grew, evolved and morphed before my eyes.
As stated on Rutkowska's blog at http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2006/06/int roducing-blue-pill.html
"[...]I would like to make it clear, that the Blue Pill technology does not rely on any bug of the underlying operating system. I have implemented a working prototype for Vista x64, but I see no reasons why it should not be possible to port it to other operating systems, like Linux or BSD which can be run on x64 platform.[...]"
...heaven forbid you carry a cell-phone in the same pocket.
I couldn't agree more with the memo barrage idea. They say bad news travel fast, hehe:) A couple complementary ideas for approaching mgmt.:
:) If you come solving a problem that doesn't exist yet, chances are mgmt. won't care. But if you walk in as the saviour who prevented a problem from happening, you might actually get some credit for it. HTH.
1) Give multiple solutions - think of one low-cost alternative, another medium cost/effort one, and a budget hyper-blast based on long-term planning(good profile-builder, too) Then present it as: - would you like to go with or with ? People like to have options, it makes them feel like they're in control.
2) Speak to them in $$$ - for each solution, table how much money (on average) the company would lose if they DON't go with one of your solutions - due to downtime, catastrophic events, collateral damage, insurance premiums going up, etc.
3) Escalating urgency(AKA fearmongering