Couldn't they just call it a protected conference and get a conference that's private to the unwashed masses and public to objects of types that are friends of W3C? I mean, that's what the keyword is there for.
Fanboy seems to be the calling card of someone with passion behind a product or company. Take away the tech and IT and gizmos and they're just fans. As in sports fans.
Hardcore fans have their team. THEIR team. Armchair coaching while watching the game, collecting memorabilia, indoctorinating others with how awesome his team is and, if they're doing less than awesome, it's because of external influences and not lack of awesomeness.
"Wouldn't a functioning market with good demand mean that we could finally eliminate backwards and counterproductive subsidies and instead let the market best decide how to use the arable land in the U.S. that is either sitting idle or churning out useless crops?"
Shut your mouth!
Sincerely, Associated Farm Industries, Inc. Taking government handouts, resisting fair trade, and throwing away perfectly good crops for 50 years.
Is eBay not a big enough player to require Google advertising?
This got me thinking of advertising in general. Do consumers REALLY need another 5,000 Coke commericals nationwide today, too? Are they afraid that we'll all of a sudden forget they exist? Afraid that people who like Coke would switch to Pepsi thanks to those ads so we'd better innundate them with our ads to keep that from happening?
There are defining sites out there on the internet. You wouldn't google for online auctions unless you're looking for an eBay alternative. You wouldn't goggle for user shared video sites unless you're looking for a YouTube alternative.
The fact that the girls in DOAX2 look so damn good but not being able to "do anything" with them seems like a pure tease to me.
Congratulations! You've learned what some men with strip club addictions have yet to learn.
I think the issue of sex in games in general is going to find it's way into the mainstream eventually. Maybe even within the next 25 years or so. Look at porn. Now just about every company's got at least part of it invested in providing either adult movies in hotel rooms to distribution of adult material to downright promotion. Adult actresses are making the jump over into mainstream films: the stigma is gone.
Then again, the motion picture has been around for, what, 100 years? Video games have only been made viable for the past 40?
"...we think plenty of folks will like a world where Real Money Transfer is workable and unintrusive"
It's well known that real money for game currency helps contribute to mudflation by providing volumes of game capital to players unable to achieve the same. Such dilution of the value of currency on a game thereby impacts every player of that game as costs go up but gained rewards by playing the game does not.
If you envision a world where Real Money Transfer is "unintrusive", how do you compensate for MUDflation? What steps do you intend to take to truly be unintrusive on other players?
"Both sides do it--look at pro-life groups versus pro-choice groups. The conflict is anti-abortion versus pro-abortion, but each side adopted doublespeak to spin their label into a more positive one and distract the issue so that instead of debating abortion, you're debating "choice" or "life," and if you oppose one of those positions then you must clearly be opposed to having choices or saving lives. It's bullshit doublespeak."
Erm, certainly there are better pure-bullshit examples of doublespeak than abortion?
I personally think it's ghastly and a person that would like to think of themselves as a "good person" would never do it. It's in quotes because it encompasses my values and observations and I'm not going to get into all that in what's already off-topic. With that stance, however, one could say I'm anti-abortion. At the same time, though, I do not believe the government should have the right to prohibit it. It's not government's place to legilate people be good. So I'm pro-choice after all.
It's not so much the reporting of news, or even that it won't have whatever feature. It's the elevation of all things iPhone to front-page status. Firehose seems to have been taken over by fanboys and haters in some kind of pissing contest over the iPhone.
And while I can appreciate the inherant comedy of using a firehose for a pissing contest, iPhone hype -- positive or negative -- is bordering on fanaticism.
Besides, Applekid is a clever NPC from the Mother line of games released for Nintendo systems, aka. Earthbound. A franchise of games SO under the radar I WISH it could generate buzz akin to Apple.:(
With all the stories about the iPhone and it's universally uncanny ability to suck/rule (depending on who's talking), I think we can all agree on one thing.
Ah, but then there's Article One, Section 8. Congress has been exploiting this by broadly interpreting "General Welfare", "Interstate Commerce", and "Necessary and Proper" for the past 150 years.
They're sure as hell not going to throw all that extra power away.
Killing a person rarely costs people collectively millions of dollars to manage the digital puke of scamvertising that is spam.
Now, if the was convicted on spamming 1 million or so email addresses, I doubt that caused enough financial damage to warrant 11 years. Clearly an example is being made of him.
Unfortunately for Microsoft, "most profit" means "a profit." It's only been a few months of production where the cost to build a 360 at any trim is less than what they sell it for.
Why would they be so quick to pull the price down and start bleeding again? Especially when sales are still strong.
Perhaps more interesting are the reported defects with the 360. Yes, lots of people have never had a problem. Then again, lots of people report multiple repairs. If Microsoft wasn't spending so much on support and warranty claims perhaps they could lower the price AND keep it profitable.
This time around, Sony got the quality levels right with the PS3. (Disclaimer: it took about a year for my launch PS2 to get that Disc Read Error problem, so, hopefully for Sony there's no mines waiting to be stepped on.)
"Just look at the stability of the latest IIS vs the earlier ones, for example."
Clearly that was stolen from Apache.;)
Look at it this way, when my sister walks into the women's locker room, she's greeted and smiles and can go about her business. When I walk into the women's locker room, it's screams and thrown soap and a visit from the police. Talk about unfair!
Lowest Common Denominator. I'm not saying that LCD is not an option, or that it's impossible. I'm just saying that LCD is generally a bad option and that well-funded games that happen to get ported to multiple platforms usually get polished pretty nicely for each platform above the level of just merely "it'll work for everything."
For me, I'd rather a game go multiplatform sensibly than just pushed out settling on the baseline performance in all areas of each console. If that means we won't see a flagship (non-MMO) Final Fantasy game go multiplatform, perhaps we're better for it?
"When you make a crossplatform game, it is limited by the lowest hardware specs of each console. maybe graphics for one, storage medium for another, and persistent objects for a third."
Now that's just silly. If all they're doing to change from building for Platform A to building for Platform B is changing a command line switch in their compiler then they deserve to be LCD'd.
Good porting means balancing and mitigating the strengths and weaknesses of each platform. If Console A has less graphical power than Console B, then THAT version might get geometrically simpler models or smaller textures or a lower framerate. If Console C has the juice to perform full physics on a moving car while Console D doesn't, your build for Console D will have a simplified physics model.
I mean, PC gaming has had those tweakable settings for over a decade, to compensate for the varied power in each machine. Naturally developers know of this.
Preemptive strike: I know there's no bill right now... if Congress is so upset about not getting what they want out of the Prez, why not just propose a bill and whisk it through the process and force his hand?
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Couldn't they just call it a protected conference and get a conference that's private to the unwashed masses and public to objects of types that are friends of W3C? I mean, that's what the keyword is there for.
Fanboy seems to be the calling card of someone with passion behind a product or company. Take away the tech and IT and gizmos and they're just fans. As in sports fans.
Hardcore fans have their team. THEIR team. Armchair coaching while watching the game, collecting memorabilia, indoctorinating others with how awesome his team is and, if they're doing less than awesome, it's because of external influences and not lack of awesomeness.
Kind of like those "Da Bears" sketches on SNL.
Clearly this demonstrates the longevity of the news cycle. ;)
"Wouldn't a functioning market with good demand mean that we could finally eliminate backwards and counterproductive subsidies and instead let the market best decide how to use the arable land in the U.S. that is either sitting idle or churning out useless crops?"
Shut your mouth!
Sincerely,
Associated Farm Industries, Inc.
Taking government handouts, resisting fair trade, and throwing away perfectly good crops for 50 years.
Anyone know if Japan still has new GBA games coming out? I find it slightly freaky that the PS3 only sold 2K more units than the 80,000 GBAs.
Yes, the Wii is cheaper, and yes it is sucessful, but is it sucessful just because it is cheaper?
Unfortunately, the ellipses in the TFS are also in TFA. I think they might hide a little more than that.
Then again, considering the audience of the article, cost cost cost price price price seem to be the major motivations.
Is eBay not a big enough player to require Google advertising?
:)
This got me thinking of advertising in general. Do consumers REALLY need another 5,000 Coke commericals nationwide today, too? Are they afraid that we'll all of a sudden forget they exist? Afraid that people who like Coke would switch to Pepsi thanks to those ads so we'd better innundate them with our ads to keep that from happening?
There are defining sites out there on the internet. You wouldn't google for online auctions unless you're looking for an eBay alternative. You wouldn't goggle for user shared video sites unless you're looking for a YouTube alternative.
Or, at least I wouldn't.
Gambling addiction is recognized as such instead of just a habit.
The fact that the girls in DOAX2 look so damn good but not being able to "do anything" with them seems like a pure tease to me.
Congratulations! You've learned what some men with strip club addictions have yet to learn.
I think the issue of sex in games in general is going to find it's way into the mainstream eventually. Maybe even within the next 25 years or so. Look at porn. Now just about every company's got at least part of it invested in providing either adult movies in hotel rooms to distribution of adult material to downright promotion. Adult actresses are making the jump over into mainstream films: the stigma is gone.
Then again, the motion picture has been around for, what, 100 years? Video games have only been made viable for the past 40?
"...we think plenty of folks will like a world where Real Money Transfer is workable and unintrusive"
It's well known that real money for game currency helps contribute to mudflation by providing volumes of game capital to players unable to achieve the same. Such dilution of the value of currency on a game thereby impacts every player of that game as costs go up but gained rewards by playing the game does not.
If you envision a world where Real Money Transfer is "unintrusive", how do you compensate for MUDflation? What steps do you intend to take to truly be unintrusive on other players?
Book publishers seem to be kicking themselves for not organizing into crime syndicates like the RIAA and MPAA, otherwise libraries WOULD be illegal.
"Both sides do it--look at pro-life groups versus pro-choice groups. The conflict is anti-abortion versus pro-abortion, but each side adopted doublespeak to spin their label into a more positive one and distract the issue so that instead of debating abortion, you're debating "choice" or "life," and if you oppose one of those positions then you must clearly be opposed to having choices or saving lives. It's bullshit doublespeak."
Erm, certainly there are better pure-bullshit examples of doublespeak than abortion?
I personally think it's ghastly and a person that would like to think of themselves as a "good person" would never do it. It's in quotes because it encompasses my values and observations and I'm not going to get into all that in what's already off-topic. With that stance, however, one could say I'm anti-abortion. At the same time, though, I do not believe the government should have the right to prohibit it. It's not government's place to legilate people be good. So I'm pro-choice after all.
Unless, somehow, they could generate more profit by being the only multinational corporation with a strong stance on censorship.
I think if Yahoo took that stand it'd be a great F.U. to Google. Whether that F.U. can turn into money down the road is anyone's guess.
Would you stop using Google things (maps, gmail, etc) if Yahoo had those tools AND were anti-censorship? It's ok... I don't know if I would either.
It's not so much the reporting of news, or even that it won't have whatever feature. It's the elevation of all things iPhone to front-page status. Firehose seems to have been taken over by fanboys and haters in some kind of pissing contest over the iPhone.
:(
And while I can appreciate the inherant comedy of using a firehose for a pissing contest, iPhone hype -- positive or negative -- is bordering on fanaticism.
Besides, Applekid is a clever NPC from the Mother line of games released for Nintendo systems, aka. Earthbound. A franchise of games SO under the radar I WISH it could generate buzz akin to Apple.
With all the stories about the iPhone and it's universally uncanny ability to suck/rule (depending on who's talking), I think we can all agree on one thing.
It's not out yet.
We *are* using the Firehose responsibly, right?
Ah, but then there's Article One, Section 8. Congress has been exploiting this by broadly interpreting "General Welfare", "Interstate Commerce", and "Necessary and Proper" for the past 150 years.
They're sure as hell not going to throw all that extra power away.
Killing a person rarely costs people collectively millions of dollars to manage the digital puke of scamvertising that is spam.
Now, if the was convicted on spamming 1 million or so email addresses, I doubt that caused enough financial damage to warrant 11 years. Clearly an example is being made of him.
Not that I mind in any way.
Unfortunately for Microsoft, "most profit" means "a profit." It's only been a few months of production where the cost to build a 360 at any trim is less than what they sell it for.
Why would they be so quick to pull the price down and start bleeding again? Especially when sales are still strong.
Perhaps more interesting are the reported defects with the 360. Yes, lots of people have never had a problem. Then again, lots of people report multiple repairs. If Microsoft wasn't spending so much on support and warranty claims perhaps they could lower the price AND keep it profitable.
This time around, Sony got the quality levels right with the PS3. (Disclaimer: it took about a year for my launch PS2 to get that Disc Read Error problem, so, hopefully for Sony there's no mines waiting to be stepped on.)
"Just look at the stability of the latest IIS vs the earlier ones, for example."
;)
Clearly that was stolen from Apache.
Look at it this way, when my sister walks into the women's locker room, she's greeted and smiles and can go about her business. When I walk into the women's locker room, it's screams and thrown soap and a visit from the police. Talk about unfair!
Lowest Common Denominator. I'm not saying that LCD is not an option, or that it's impossible. I'm just saying that LCD is generally a bad option and that well-funded games that happen to get ported to multiple platforms usually get polished pretty nicely for each platform above the level of just merely "it'll work for everything."
For me, I'd rather a game go multiplatform sensibly than just pushed out settling on the baseline performance in all areas of each console. If that means we won't see a flagship (non-MMO) Final Fantasy game go multiplatform, perhaps we're better for it?
It's pretty much on-target within the Apple Product Cycle.
And then you make it impossible to compare scores from the two consoles and impossible to play online between the two consoles.
And if you're locked onto XBox Live, Nintendo WiFi, or whatever Sony's network is called, it's a moot point anyway.
"When you make a crossplatform game, it is limited by the lowest hardware specs of each console. maybe graphics for one, storage medium for another, and persistent objects for a third."
Now that's just silly. If all they're doing to change from building for Platform A to building for Platform B is changing a command line switch in their compiler then they deserve to be LCD'd.
Good porting means balancing and mitigating the strengths and weaknesses of each platform. If Console A has less graphical power than Console B, then THAT version might get geometrically simpler models or smaller textures or a lower framerate. If Console C has the juice to perform full physics on a moving car while Console D doesn't, your build for Console D will have a simplified physics model.
I mean, PC gaming has had those tweakable settings for over a decade, to compensate for the varied power in each machine. Naturally developers know of this.
I wonder if that means the Star League recruited some Russians as well...
Preemptive strike:
I know there's no bill right now... if Congress is so upset about not getting what they want out of the Prez, why not just propose a bill and whisk it through the process and force his hand?