Pics or it didn’t happen! ^^

Oh, and when you find that one girl on Slashdot... she’s gay... I don’t even know what to say to that anymore... ^^

WTF? Have you ever heard of dynamic layouting?

Yes, I can write one UI that scales from 128x128 to 1920*1080 without compromises. And so should you.

My exact thought.

This things needs to be tagged “[weasel words]”.

That’s author’s right.

Copyright is the right to copy. To publish. Given by the author to the publisher. And a relatively recent invention.

Of course they both exist, based on the assumption that an idea is also a physical product. Which obviously is bullshit, and therefore the whole reverse pyramids built on top are bullshit too.

I’m planning on using the following method for future projects:
- Instead of pitching my idea to a publisher, I pitch it to the general public.
- It will include a clear list of requirements, just like with a publisher.
- Now people can, over a system similar to PayPal, pre-order/finance that game. BUT they don’t actually pay anything. We just make a simple contract (no stupid giant list of terms!!) that if I fulfill the requirements, they will pay that amount.
- They can themselves decide, how much they want to pay/invest.
- With that contractual commitment, I can e.g. go to a bank, and lend me the required money. (Which always [including interest] has to be smaller than the actual committed money, for me to make a profit too.)
- The project will go in cycles, like the spiral model. In a prototype-based, test-driven way.
- When all the requirements are fulfilled, I create a new pitch, with perhaps a trailer, and everything.
- Then I listen to the new input of the people, and create a new list of requirements.
- People can then, based on my bigger commitment, also make bigger commitments. (E.g. raise it from $5 to $10.)
- If I can not continue to work on the project, with the money that that gives me, I have to A) make a better pitch, B) commit to bigger goals, C) market it to more people.
- I will always be completely honest and open to my customers. I try to be someone that gets payed because people think I deserve it. Not because of some nasty trickery/fraud/EA.
And now the kicker:
- If the game comes out, those who committed to paying, will actually own the game! Just like a publisher. They are the only ones who are getting a copy.
- They are free to do with it, whatever they like. Full stop. If someone else wants it too, they can themselves decide, if they want to make it a business, and sell it. Or if they want to give it away to good friends. (Who then of course can sell it themselves, if they find someone who buys it.)

I think that model is more fitting to what software actually is: Information, that resulted from a service.
You see, how far away from concepts like “copyright” that is, and how little those concepts are actually needed.

I await you comments on how this whole idea is horrible, idiotic and will never ever work. ;))
(Then I’ll learn from you, if you made constructive critique, and laugh at you, if you didn’t ;)

Aren’t we on the level of 30,000+ dead people by now. I wonder what Bush/Cheney would do to a country that invades another country and kills that many people. And what they would call them...

Oh... wait... :(

That’s the modern terrorist’s strategy: Why work hard to fuck up the enemy, when you can work little, and let them fuck themselves up, better than you ever could.

Sometimes I wonder, if I would have a better life, if I were with them...

They can never take all bloggers off the net.

So the result will only be even more Streisand effect.

I generally agree. But what is that “above that of an animal”. Are you seriously still thinking, that humans aren’t animals?

That doesn’t fit in with the rest of what you’re saying, but rather with the talk of someone who reads the bible a lot, refers to developing nations as “savages” and thinks the sun revolves around the earth, but especially around him. ^^

So I’m assuming a typo. :)

Yeah, because if you can read it on Wikipedia, it must be the truth! :P

This video shows how they looked.

You mean like a primitive caveman-style-fighting everything-fucking bonobo chimpanzee is much better than a real leader with class and culture? ^^

Who enjoys Christmas Carols? The only Christmas Carol I could enjoy would be a hooker with an extra-dirty fantasy. ^^

Oh, and now a quote from the best Christmas movie ever:

“Fuck me Santa! Fuck me Santa! Fuck me Santa! Fuck me Santa!” XD

Uuum, first of all: Why would you not be sure that they really need it? Do you think they sent it up there just for fun??

From what I know, 4K is way too hot / above the wanted temperature. Which is closer to 0.5K (dunno the exact temperature, but it’s a quick search).

Should we send a thank you note to the cheap Chinese (and other) workers in those Gulag-like factories?

P.S.: It’s so stupid. If the products were so expensive, that people there could live at a high standard, then they could buy so much stuff that by selling them that stuff, we could afford those expensive products anyway.
There was an interesting study, that showed that an economy can be in two stable states. The high standard and the low standard (of living) one. And the important part was, that for both states, the economy and businesses ran just as well. There was no difference from their p.o.v.
But prepare yourself, because according to the study, we are headed for the lower stable state, and it’s very hard to get out of there once you’re in it. (Well, technically we are definitely already in it. But it can still get even worse.)
I don’t get why business people don’t get this simple rule: The more you pay your employees, the more they will be able to buy! I guess it’s short-term greed. It takes time for it to come back. Even if it is more profitable in the long run, short term greed seems to win...

*thick American accent* NAIN! VERBOTTEN!

*waits for you to realize I’m not Russian, American, or even really German at all*

JAHAHA! WUUNDABAAAR!!

— Dr. Betruger

P.S.: Yes. Wolfenstein/RTCW is freakin’ hilarious to native German speakers. And ID knows it! :D