We've made it this far without it... So we build the searchy-thingy (I'm sure that's the engineering term) and it tells us maybe we're all going to die, or maybe we should have spent the money on some pizza and beer, because there's just as many doomsday rocks coming tomorrow as there've been since... the last one... 65 million years ago! And if there's a great big, mean-ass rock a-coming, WTF? Do we shoot Bruce Willis into space to blow it up?
I'm really glad, as a Canadian, my government is doing this. I think we've seen in the past all the social, economic and environmental problems that stem from an Olympic host-city not have complete trademark sovereignty. Now all those cheap, knock-off t-shirts and gimmicky souvenirs will associated with large highly commercialized events will be avoided, hence the negative financial impact on the licensed vendors; and the environmental fallout of the landfills of the world when this crap get thrown out two weeks later. I'm already sleeping better.
WTF is wrong with this world? It's like they just sit around the parliaments playing games of oneupmanship to see who can come up with the biggest waste of time, useless-as-shit-in-a-sock things to make law about. Here's a law I propose, NO lobbyist. Ever. Or money in politics. If you serve in the legislature and get money, you get shot. Out of a cannon. Into the Sun. Just a thought.
I attended a lectured about this in first year Physical Anthropology... nearly ten years ago. But then in an evolutionary sense that's a ridiculously small span of time so I guess you could call it new. Kind of like the ice receding back to the poles. Fear not Mr. Heston, the ages won't be trying to take the gun from your "cold, dead hand" for a little while.
"Chris Donahue, manager of Microsoft's Games for Windows group, says the company has tested 1,000 popular games from the past five years. Most work well with Vista, he said, declining to elaborate how many had problems and why."
"I'd be very surprised to see any games that hit the market from this point forward straight out not support Windows Vista," - Chris Donahue.
They thought the games we had to be compatible and expect the games to come to be compatible. If the games they already thought were compatible have proven to be incompatible... what does that mean for the upcoming titles? Maybe they need an Oxford Dictionary, because this is not the first time these folks have dropped the ball on compatibility. Maybe they just don't understand the meaning of the word?
Is this a conspiracy to force all die hard PC gamers to buy Xboxs? FPS or RTS with a controller? I have used the perfect setup (PC keyboard and mouse) why would I want that? Oh because I can't play anything on my PC now because MS can't sort their shit out? Or just Microsoft not really able to figure out what they're doing? Or Both? They don't sell PC, but they do sell Xboxs.
Sandbox games run the risk of lacking too much in structure to be considered games at all. Some will say that's the point-to lack structure-overlooking that others want (maybe need) structure. They want to be told, more or less, what they need to do in order to "win." Winning may be reaching the top level or getting a certain amount of in-game property, or whatever. Point is, if I can do anything I may decide that there nothing to do and leave. Like have 500 channels and saying "There's nothing on."
A game needs structure, rules and goals. Without those it something else, I don't know what. I believe (but don't know) that many gamers would rather play adversarial or co-op than have total freedom to do either or niether or both. Hence Counterstrike, WOW, and all the other big, famous games out there's popularity. Some say it is the want of imagination that limits some from enjoying the sandbox style, but I think time is a consideration too. I may just want to play casualy and not be bothered to learn all the intricit methods of play. That in mind, I still want to feel like I'm getting, if not the most, at least a fair amount of the total game play available. Like I said though, just my thoughts. How do you win the Sims, or Second Life?
OMG companies really care more about themselves than they do about us? They want their rights to surpass ours? Surely it's because fundamentally we are all pirates, hackers and thieves just waiting for a chance to steal, defraud and otherwise screw them over. This should come as a surprise to NO ONE. They behave as though it's us versus them, thereby making it us versus them.
$450 million dollars! I really hope my boss reads this! I can just see his beady little eyes all a-glow at Monday morning's staff meeting. It'll be a green glow alright!
This means that we in the IT department will be given another measure of job security, or fired, because nothing will work and we'll have to buy new equipment to comply with the new standards. You know we will.
The IEEE didn't do this just because it means selling more gear, but I'm sure they weren't really upset at the idea either. Let's not delude ourselves too much about that point, it's not as though the members of the IEEE have nothing to do with the business of selling networking equipment, although I'm sure their first concern was the savings they could pass on to thier customers. They're propably really concerned about the environment too, I guess.
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We've made it this far without it... So we build the searchy-thingy (I'm sure that's the engineering term) and it tells us maybe we're all going to die, or maybe we should have spent the money on some pizza and beer, because there's just as many doomsday rocks coming tomorrow as there've been since... the last one... 65 million years ago! And if there's a great big, mean-ass rock a-coming, WTF? Do we shoot Bruce Willis into space to blow it up?
Actually that's a good idea for movie.
I'm really glad, as a Canadian, my government is doing this. I think we've seen in the past all the social, economic and environmental problems that stem from an Olympic host-city not have complete trademark sovereignty. Now all those cheap, knock-off t-shirts and gimmicky souvenirs will associated with large highly commercialized events will be avoided, hence the negative financial impact on the licensed vendors; and the environmental fallout of the landfills of the world when this crap get thrown out two weeks later. I'm already sleeping better.
WTF is wrong with this world? It's like they just sit around the parliaments playing games of oneupmanship to see who can come up with the biggest waste of time, useless-as-shit-in-a-sock things to make law about. Here's a law I propose, NO lobbyist. Ever. Or money in politics. If you serve in the legislature and get money, you get shot. Out of a cannon. Into the Sun. Just a thought.
I would read the article, but I found the summary too depressing... sigh
This is why I'm agnostic.
"Porn portal?" It's called the eyelid, that's how the porn gets in.
If y'alls wants t' keep out da porno... close yer damned eyes!
I feel really mad about this for some reason...
I attended a lectured about this in first year Physical Anthropology... nearly ten years ago. But then in an evolutionary sense that's a ridiculously small span of time so I guess you could call it new. Kind of like the ice receding back to the poles. Fear not Mr. Heston, the ages won't be trying to take the gun from your "cold, dead hand" for a little while.
"Chris Donahue, manager of Microsoft's Games for Windows group, says the company has tested 1,000 popular games from the past five years. Most work well with Vista, he said, declining to elaborate how many had problems and why."
"I'd be very surprised to see any games that hit the market from this point forward straight out not support Windows Vista," - Chris Donahue.
They thought the games we had to be compatible and expect the games to come to be compatible. If the games they already thought were compatible have proven to be incompatible... what does that mean for the upcoming titles? Maybe they need an Oxford Dictionary, because this is not the first time these folks have dropped the ball on compatibility. Maybe they just don't understand the meaning of the word?
Is this a conspiracy to force all die hard PC gamers to buy Xboxs? FPS or RTS with a controller? I have used the perfect setup (PC keyboard and mouse) why would I want that? Oh because I can't play anything on my PC now because MS can't sort their shit out? Or just Microsoft not really able to figure out what they're doing? Or Both? They don't sell PC, but they do sell Xboxs.
Sandbox games run the risk of lacking too much in structure to be considered games at all. Some will say that's the point-to lack structure-overlooking that others want (maybe need) structure. They want to be told, more or less, what they need to do in order to "win." Winning may be reaching the top level or getting a certain amount of in-game property, or whatever. Point is, if I can do anything I may decide that there nothing to do and leave. Like have 500 channels and saying "There's nothing on."
A game needs structure, rules and goals. Without those it something else, I don't know what. I believe (but don't know) that many gamers would rather play adversarial or co-op than have total freedom to do either or niether or both. Hence Counterstrike, WOW, and all the other big, famous games out there's popularity. Some say it is the want of imagination that limits some from enjoying the sandbox style, but I think time is a consideration too. I may just want to play casualy and not be bothered to learn all the intricit methods of play. That in mind, I still want to feel like I'm getting, if not the most, at least a fair amount of the total game play available. Like I said though, just my thoughts. How do you win the Sims, or Second Life?
OMG companies really care more about themselves than they do about us? They want their rights to surpass ours? Surely it's because fundamentally we are all pirates, hackers and thieves just waiting for a chance to steal, defraud and otherwise screw them over. This should come as a surprise to NO ONE. They behave as though it's us versus them, thereby making it us versus them.
$450 million dollars! I really hope my boss reads this! I can just see his beady little eyes all a-glow at Monday morning's staff meeting. It'll be a green glow alright!
This means that we in the IT department will be given another measure of job security, or fired, because nothing will work and we'll have to buy new equipment to comply with the new standards. You know we will.
The IEEE didn't do this just because it means selling more gear, but I'm sure they weren't really upset at the idea either. Let's not delude ourselves too much about that point, it's not as though the members of the IEEE have nothing to do with the business of selling networking equipment, although I'm sure their first concern was the savings they could pass on to thier customers. They're propably really concerned about the environment too, I guess.
"Hey everybody! I invented a way to get 1TB of crap on a DVD!"
"Awesome! Can we buy it?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"Uh, I just want the publicity, this isn't really a practical invention. Really I was just trying to win a bet."
"Oh."
"I won five bucks though!"