Posts by Caspian Prince
11 posts • joined Monday 16th July 2007 14:29 GMT
Doesn't help to have an unusual name...
I was locked out of my Facebook account a year ago - apparently only "real people are allowed to have accounts on Facebook." I pointed out that I'd spent a fair amount of money advertising through them over the previous year and that though I may have a slightly unusual name it was reasonably obvious I was a real person. My account was reinstated a week later without much of an explanation as to why it was flagged in the first place.
Caspian Prince
Yes, really.
Posted in Top Ten Retro PC Games
As someone previously said, those games are just "old"
... these games are retro: www.puppygames.net
Shameless plug! But the register has wasted years of my life so I think they can share the love.
Cas :)
Much nerd rage in here
I thought the days of childish Microsoft bashing were long gone as the nerderati have switched their attentions to the Fourth Reich (Apple)?
What's all this pointless Silverlight bashing from anonymous cowards who've never used it (and who also claim to have never installed Flash. Well I suppose it won't run on your Lynx browser anyway eh?)? It does what it says on the tin, it works, people can use it to make stuff. Go and rant somewhere else!
And to think I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Java developer, too, defending it.
Cheerio ChrisM
Well, a big goodbye to Chris Melissinos from Puppygames, he was one of the few people to believe in a Java games studio and a tremendous help to us over the years. It is a great shame he wasn't really given the resources to achieve his goals at Sun.
Cas :)
Posted in Steve Wozniak, your time is up
Fatso
Indeed he may have done fuck all of note for 20 years but it might be prudent not to take the piss out of how fat he is (and he isn't massively fat anyway). I bet half the Reg readership are in the "overweight" or "obese" BMI categories anyway.
Posted in PC Gamers get Bill of Rights
Re: 2 & 3
Why the hell should it be a *right* to receive *free stuff* for a game you buy?
Tux, for the freetards.
Good news for me though...
because then all my Java games will be a cinch to port to it, especially as they use OpenGL too. Who'd have thought it?
Posted in Paranoid partners to get GPS snooper
Brilliant!
I'll just stick one in me bike then if some toerag tries to half-inch it I'll be able to wait till it's stopped moving and turn up with a van full of very angry bikers and some cricket bats.
Indie gaming's been doing it for years
We've been doing "free demos" with limited content and looking at optimising our conversion rates with clever upsell techniques for years and years now at Puppygames and then this music guy suddenly does exactly the same thing the rest of us have been doing since teh intarnets were invented and he's hailed as a genius?? Gah. Is there something fundamentally wrong with everyone in the music industry?
Posted in The Return of iTuneski
Re: Awesome news!
Steev, it may have escaped your attention but the reason why we use Allofmp3.com is because it gives us what we want, and none of the other online music vendors do. The others:
1. Give us stuff recorded at shitty bitrates in formats we don't want
2. Charge ridiculous money for the music and what's more they price fix it so the Yanks get charged half as much. Internet global economy my arse.
3. Encumber the music in extremely annoying DRM.
4. Don't even have half the music that allofmp3.com has
So perhaps if Napster, iTunes, etc. actually got their act together and *competed* by addressing those four points there wouldn't be problem, hmm?
Paypal and Bittorrent (or various other p2p things), Messenger, Hotmail
...seem mysteriously absent, but are arguably two of the most fundamental factors in the digital economy these days. Paypal makes paying for stuff and receiving payments a little easier, and bittorrent makes not paying for stuff and giving away stuff for free a little easier.
No mention of instant messaging, which has fundamentally changed the way we communicate?
Nor Hotmail?
