The Democratic Party no longer accepts lobbyist contributions. They're still not perfect, but they're miles better than the Republican party in this respect.
The problem is that a lot of people only want privacy for the specific set of actions they take, but not for any others; so they call for invasion into others' internet access and so forth because "I don't have anything to hide!"
They, of course, don't really think about what they do hide in many other aspects. It's pathetic.
But that very concept of being "accessible" by giving the weaker players a higher chance than they "deserve" to win via random events is exactly what I'm talking about! It's a conscious design choice that increases short-term enjoyment of the game but utterly nukes the long-term playability.
Well sure, that's why I said Mario Kart is quite fun in the short-term. Eventually, you're going to get tired of random cruising around and being a mediocre player- there are only 32 tracks after all- and you're either going to make the effort to get really good at the game or you're going to drop it and play something else and only pick the game up ever again when your friends come over and you're partying. If you try to get *really good* at Mario Kart and put in that sort of effort, you're going to get disappointed because even a second or so of improvement is negligible against the power of a blue shell.
That's what I'm referring to when I say long term play. Games that harshly punish the leader lack it by design.
There are certain aspects of a game that are "objective" and some that aren't. Design flaws and low skill ceilings often don't impact the short-term enjoyment of a game, but can make it worthless for long-term play. Mario Kart Wii is a perfect example of this. While skilled players will beat unskilled players nearly every time on Wi-Fi, the item chaos makes high level play worthless on Wi-Fi. (High level play is still quite good on the same console with items set on "strategic" or turned off, of course.) This is a pretty straightforward analysis, and while it's hard to be 100% objective, it's fairly straightforward to say that the game's design minimizes the small skill gaps and thus replay value is minimized due to the fact that getting better and better at the game has diminishing returns. There's just no point in getting that extra hundredth of a second every lap when you lose 3-5 seconds to a blue shell.
The things that can't be quantified are the problem- is FF7's materia system better than FF8's junction system? That's purely personal preference. You can't go "well, this one requires more skill than the other" or "this one has more replayability" or whatever; because they're fairly similar in those respects and you can't really make a distinction between the two.
But anyone can see that Final Fantasy whatever is a better game than Super Barbie Movie License Cash-In 93 on the Game Boy. The huge, huge difference makes it plain.
I would say that it's probably easier to just lump games into "utter trash", "below average", "average", "above average", and "genre-defining"; and maybe have 2 categories- one for firstplay and one for long-term play. Gran Turismo 4, for instance, is genre-defining and has excellent long term playability. Mario Kart Wii is above average when you first play it, but the long term playability is lacking.
You have 1GB of storage with the free account and can use OO.org as a webservice. They also have a "Virtual Desktop" which is a stripped-down KDE environment with OO in Windows thanks to CoLinux.
I tried it out and found the Virtual Desktop fairly impressive- the sort of thing that Joe Schmoe can use well; but unfortunately adding programs to it is a hassle which makes it unsuitable for my (admittedly fairly specific) needs. Their "online desktop" has other apps besides just OO.org- I think it's just the exact same set of applications that are available in the Virtual Desktop. Some of you may be interested in trying it out.
I've had this conversation with a couple friends of mine already. I'm not going to waste my time learning how to program C# when it'll be as useful in 3-5 years as Visual Basic is today- nothing more than a tool used to maintain legacy apps.
There's a difference between a language which is truly obsoleted by other competing languages and a language which is designed to go obsolete for the profit of the creating company.
Compiz treats the "Windows" key as the Super key. I know Emacs tends to just let you use alt as meta; making it pointless to have an actual "meta" key set in the window manager.
It's not an embarrassment for the DoE, it's an embarrassment for the Bush Administration and the Republican party in general- despite driving this country's yearly deficit deeper and deeper and pushing our total debt to record levels, they can't even fund worthwhile projects with it.
Of course, the Republican party's low appraisal of science probably has a lot to do with it- after all, what good is science that might change peoples' minds about something (FLIP FLOP FLIP FLOP) when there's Muslims to kill?
So? Most of the people who play Mario Kart Wii and Super Smash Brothers Brawl do so with the GCN controller, and the Classic controller is an option. I see no reason why they couldn't do that for SFIII.
Even with Wiimote+Nunchuck, that's 4 buttons available (Z/C/A/B) and a joystick and you could use D-pad down as well if you needed to, which matches the SNES on face buttons.
It's not 6, but I'm not sure that matters a whole lot when all the hardcore players would be using the 'cube or CC.
There's even a fighting game stick peripheral which functions like a classic controller.
You mean like this?
lol
I download something from Napster
And the same guy I downloaded it from starts downloading it from me when I'm done
I message him and say "What are you doing? I just got that from you"
"getting my song back fucker"
This is/., so: If I steal your car, it is wrong because you no longer have it. If I press a button and make a copy of your car; you still have it and are in no way harmed.
Anyone who thinks Obama's voting record is more liberal than Russ Feingold (the only Senator to vote against the PATRIOT Act) has an agenda.
Oh, wait.
"Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., was the most liberal senator in 2007, according to National Journal's 27th annual vote ratings. The insurgent presidential candidate shifted further to the left last year in the run-up to the primaries, after ranking as the 16th- and 10th-most-liberal during his first two years in the Senate."
So when he wasn't running for president, they ranked him 10th and 16th; but when he announced his run they ranked him first.
Yeah. I'm sure he really voted that much further to the left than the other Dems and the National Journal isn't just pushing an anti-Obama agenda.
Give me a break. This is/., people are supposed to be smart here.
There's still a few collectible things. Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete and Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete (PSX remakes of an older game) had all kinds of collectibles- especially Eternal Blue.
I'd like a relatively cheap smartphone or mini-laptop (think EEE PC)- under $200 would be great- that can connect to secure wifi or a cell network (with a reasonable plan) that I can use for SSH purposes / internet when not on my computer.
Any suggestions on the hardware side?
(I'm not the OP.)
Strange beliefs, a laundry list of questionable practices, a large following, and tons of money at its disposal?
Man, this reminds me of a conversation I was having about the Catholic Church.
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The Democratic Party no longer accepts lobbyist contributions. They're still not perfect, but they're miles better than the Republican party in this respect.
How about this one then?
http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/
The problem is that a lot of people only want privacy for the specific set of actions they take, but not for any others; so they call for invasion into others' internet access and so forth because "I don't have anything to hide!"
They, of course, don't really think about what they do hide in many other aspects. It's pathetic.
Georgia Tech's College of Computing has XKCD comics plastered all over the walls, especially the glass of the TA Lab.
The program is just an infinite loop that generates interrupts.
The arcade version of Arctic Thunder has an A/C unit that blows cold air in your face, so it's been done before.
But that very concept of being "accessible" by giving the weaker players a higher chance than they "deserve" to win via random events is exactly what I'm talking about! It's a conscious design choice that increases short-term enjoyment of the game but utterly nukes the long-term playability.
Well sure, that's why I said Mario Kart is quite fun in the short-term. Eventually, you're going to get tired of random cruising around and being a mediocre player- there are only 32 tracks after all- and you're either going to make the effort to get really good at the game or you're going to drop it and play something else and only pick the game up ever again when your friends come over and you're partying.
If you try to get *really good* at Mario Kart and put in that sort of effort, you're going to get disappointed because even a second or so of improvement is negligible against the power of a blue shell.
That's what I'm referring to when I say long term play. Games that harshly punish the leader lack it by design.
There are certain aspects of a game that are "objective" and some that aren't. Design flaws and low skill ceilings often don't impact the short-term enjoyment of a game, but can make it worthless for long-term play. Mario Kart Wii is a perfect example of this. While skilled players will beat unskilled players nearly every time on Wi-Fi, the item chaos makes high level play worthless on Wi-Fi. (High level play is still quite good on the same console with items set on "strategic" or turned off, of course.)
This is a pretty straightforward analysis, and while it's hard to be 100% objective, it's fairly straightforward to say that the game's design minimizes the small skill gaps and thus replay value is minimized due to the fact that getting better and better at the game has diminishing returns. There's just no point in getting that extra hundredth of a second every lap when you lose 3-5 seconds to a blue shell.
The things that can't be quantified are the problem- is FF7's materia system better than FF8's junction system? That's purely personal preference. You can't go "well, this one requires more skill than the other" or "this one has more replayability" or whatever; because they're fairly similar in those respects and you can't really make a distinction between the two.
But anyone can see that Final Fantasy whatever is a better game than Super Barbie Movie License Cash-In 93 on the Game Boy. The huge, huge difference makes it plain.
I would say that it's probably easier to just lump games into "utter trash", "below average", "average", "above average", and "genre-defining"; and maybe have 2 categories- one for firstplay and one for long-term play.
Gran Turismo 4, for instance, is genre-defining and has excellent long term playability.
Mario Kart Wii is above average when you first play it, but the long term playability is lacking.
I'm not affiliated with these guys:
http://www.ulteo.com/
You have 1GB of storage with the free account and can use OO.org as a webservice. They also have a "Virtual Desktop" which is a stripped-down KDE environment with OO in Windows thanks to CoLinux.
I tried it out and found the Virtual Desktop fairly impressive- the sort of thing that Joe Schmoe can use well; but unfortunately adding programs to it is a hassle which makes it unsuitable for my (admittedly fairly specific) needs. Their "online desktop" has other apps besides just OO.org- I think it's just the exact same set of applications that are available in the Virtual Desktop.
Some of you may be interested in trying it out.
I've had this conversation with a couple friends of mine already. I'm not going to waste my time learning how to program C# when it'll be as useful in 3-5 years as Visual Basic is today- nothing more than a tool used to maintain legacy apps.
There's a difference between a language which is truly obsoleted by other competing languages and a language which is designed to go obsolete for the profit of the creating company.
Same on the PS2 version of Sands of Time, incidentally.
Religion's never been in video games before? Tell that to Final Fantasy Tactics: Let's Kill Jesus!
Compiz treats the "Windows" key as the Super key. I know Emacs tends to just let you use alt as meta; making it pointless to have an actual "meta" key set in the window manager.
It's not an embarrassment for the DoE, it's an embarrassment for the Bush Administration and the Republican party in general- despite driving this country's yearly deficit deeper and deeper and pushing our total debt to record levels, they can't even fund worthwhile projects with it.
Of course, the Republican party's low appraisal of science probably has a lot to do with it- after all, what good is science that might change peoples' minds about something (FLIP FLOP FLIP FLOP) when there's Muslims to kill?
So? Most of the people who play Mario Kart Wii and Super Smash Brothers Brawl do so with the GCN controller, and the Classic controller is an option. I see no reason why they couldn't do that for SFIII. Even with Wiimote+Nunchuck, that's 4 buttons available (Z/C/A/B) and a joystick and you could use D-pad down as well if you needed to, which matches the SNES on face buttons. It's not 6, but I'm not sure that matters a whole lot when all the hardcore players would be using the 'cube or CC. There's even a fighting game stick peripheral which functions like a classic controller.
You mean like this?
lol
I download something from Napster
And the same guy I downloaded it from starts downloading it from me when I'm done
I message him and say "What are you doing? I just got that from you"
"getting my song back fucker"
This is /., so:
If I steal your car, it is wrong because you no longer have it.
If I press a button and make a copy of your car; you still have it and are in no way harmed.
Anyone who thinks Obama's voting record is more liberal than Russ Feingold (the only Senator to vote against the PATRIOT Act) has an agenda. Oh, wait. "Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., was the most liberal senator in 2007, according to National Journal's 27th annual vote ratings. The insurgent presidential candidate shifted further to the left last year in the run-up to the primaries, after ranking as the 16th- and 10th-most-liberal during his first two years in the Senate." So when he wasn't running for president, they ranked him 10th and 16th; but when he announced his run they ranked him first. Yeah. I'm sure he really voted that much further to the left than the other Dems and the National Journal isn't just pushing an anti-Obama agenda. Give me a break. This is /., people are supposed to be smart here.
There's still a few collectible things. Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete and Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete (PSX remakes of an older game) had all kinds of collectibles- especially Eternal Blue.
I'd like a relatively cheap smartphone or mini-laptop (think EEE PC)- under $200 would be great- that can connect to secure wifi or a cell network (with a reasonable plan) that I can use for SSH purposes / internet when not on my computer. Any suggestions on the hardware side? (I'm not the OP.)
Posting here so I can find the link in my profile when I boot into windows. Please disregard.
I really hope NASA gets as high a quality video as possible of it if/when it happens. Finally, something worth using high-definition for!
But how long would it take for you to *download* WP and PG? Seems like it would be fairly prohibitive.
Strange beliefs, a laundry list of questionable practices, a large following, and tons of money at its disposal? Man, this reminds me of a conversation I was having about the Catholic Church.