Is it only a question of time before Microsoft starts to compete directly with the likes of Dell and HP? They're closer than you think. They've already got the same level of customer service.
Really, if we had a slightly longer planning horizon than we seem to have, we'd at least be sorting our garbage before burying it, instead of piling it all together. I agree. Maybe we could do it in blue bins that have the materials sorted by type, and they get "recycled" rather than even making it to the landfill.
The only thing happening in Iraq right now is a bunch of citizen wars, caused by the invasion by USA in there. Sorry, but fighting over there has been going on since long before the US was a country. I'm sure having foreign military in the area isn't making them lay down their weapons, but they'd be fighting regardless. Thinking it's caused by the US presence is vain at best.
"I hereby retroactively ban the wheel! Wait. What do you mean that's useless?"
The technology (hardware and software) already exists and is in the hands of a LOT of consumers. It's already been shown that their attempts at DRM are a mere afternoon hobby for hackers. What exactly are they trying to do here other than piss off potential customers?
Living in Canada, I'm fairly certain this is going to do little "good." 95% of the theatres' employees, and more importantly all of the ones taking tickets, are 14-16 year old high school students. They don't want to make their job any harder than it has to be, so they don't want to stop you, they don't want to check your bags/clothes, and they certainly don't want to possibly start a fight/scene with someone for $7 an hour.
Sure it's sad to see our government cave to external pressure, but this is going to just be a token law to keep them happy and enforcement is going to be non-existent.
Go back to Nintendo! I'd be interested to see
1) If the wii had the horsepower for what they want
2) How the Square guys would take advantage of the wii design
I'm not so much surprised that it happened, but surprised that it took as long as it did. Even in North America our media can take left/right wings slants to news from party influence. How much greater is that influence in non-democratic countries? And how much greater is their need to control what they're people see or hear?
In the language of programmers/hackers, impossible translates roughly into, "I double dog dare you with cherries on top!!" It'll be fun to watch anyway.
TFA mostly talks about the ATI/AMD development cycle and how it should/will improve the driver release timing and quality. -Some- mention of that in the post would have been nice, rather than essentially copy/pasting from the first page.
You realize that most MMOGs including WoW, the most successful MMOG ever, has every single thing that you mentioned? Have you ever played a MMOG before?
it actually has a window that says things like "You hit the wolf for two points of damage" While it may not pop up, combat text windows and/or scrolling combat text is pretty much standard. Most MMORPGs are based around rules and random chance (rolls) that deal in numbers. Most MMOG players want to see those numbers.
And then the graphics might be pretty, but there is not physics system, or, believe it or not, collision detection. You can actually walk through people, even when you are fighting them. This is something that is (pun intended), hit or miss. Collision detection in a MMOG can be annoying as hell in high population areas when you want to get somewhere and can't (AC & CoH/CoV). The flip side is that not having it is unrealistic... and then you realize that what you're running through is a 1/2 imp dragon rogue with a purple hat. Realism is relative.
And the tasks suck. Spending half an hour searching for wild flowers is not my idea of fun. Sweet Jesus! Their MMOG has grinding! Just like every other one!
And although the world is big, you can't really explore it - you can't open doors unless they are part of the plot Sounds like trying to enter an instance/dungeon that you aren't attuned to/have the key for in... you guessed it... every other MMOG and well, practically ever other RPG ever made.
you can't smash crates or barrels or whatever to see what is inside them You want every container you see to be breakable? First off, I get it now. You've only ever played Zelda games. Second, do you know how ridiculous that is? Do you want to be able to look behind every single painting? Read every single book? I'm sure they'll hire 1000 more developers and get right on that for you.
you even can't fight the NPCs or animals unless it is part of the plot. and
if you try, for instance, trying to do something like shoot a sheep with your crossbow only to receive an error message This is essentially the same as above. WoW has more of this than most MMOGs I've seen. You can kill rats in the cities, opposing faction NPCs (even quest NPCs). Even they don't have it so that you can attack every single living thing in the game. "I can't attack that" is what my Tauren says.
If you're going to bash a game for not living up to expectations, at least make sure they're realistic expectations first.
That's great, but in that case I don't think that warrants it being an article in the developers section of slashdot. When I come to this section I expect new programming or systems analysis techniques, ground breaking news about various languages or development companies... not programming basics. What's next? An article about using conditional statements?
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STFU and give me your lunch money, or I'm going to say you're stupid on myspace.
I don't see a single comment on if they tried using it to heat up REALLY BIG leftovers.
They're thinking of making a picture based dictionary to cater to this generation too. The sun entry is left blank because it scares them.
Yeah, but Castro is some kind of immortal zombie communist.
They forgot to remind everyone to run with their knives out.
A 300 page book for a target audience of people who "forget" to eat, sleep and/or see to their bodily functions.
-Maybe- if they put it in game, as a quest, with a 1337 epic as a reward. Yeah, that's the ticket.
They should have to put up a spoiler warning.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Anfal_campaign
Very neighborly.
No. Be worried when he -stops- for an extended period of time.
"I hereby retroactively ban the wheel! Wait. What do you mean that's useless?"
The technology (hardware and software) already exists and is in the hands of a LOT of consumers. It's already been shown that their attempts at DRM are a mere afternoon hobby for hackers. What exactly are they trying to do here other than piss off potential customers?
I can already see it coming.
Judge, "The RAM you sent was erased! You're being held in contempt of court! Bailiff, take them away."
Living in Canada, I'm fairly certain this is going to do little "good." 95% of the theatres' employees, and more importantly all of the ones taking tickets, are 14-16 year old high school students. They don't want to make their job any harder than it has to be, so they don't want to stop you, they don't want to check your bags/clothes, and they certainly don't want to possibly start a fight/scene with someone for $7 an hour.
Sure it's sad to see our government cave to external pressure, but this is going to just be a token law to keep them happy and enforcement is going to be non-existent.
Go back to Nintendo! I'd be interested to see
1) If the wii had the horsepower for what they want
2) How the Square guys would take advantage of the wii design
Um... hardware? Are the radioactive wildlife being used as PSUs in Russian computers? If so, I missed that in TFA.
I'm not so much surprised that it happened, but surprised that it took as long as it did. Even in North America our media can take left/right wings slants to news from party influence. How much greater is that influence in non-democratic countries? And how much greater is their need to control what they're people see or hear?
Also on the list: Unbreakable DRM
In the language of programmers/hackers, impossible translates roughly into, "I double dog dare you with cherries on top!!" It'll be fun to watch anyway.
TFA mostly talks about the ATI/AMD development cycle and how it should/will improve the driver release timing and quality. -Some- mention of that in the post would have been nice, rather than essentially copy/pasting from the first page.
So I guess you don't know the difference between MASSIVE MULTIPLAYER ONLINE and SINGLE PLAYER?
Pirates pirate 'Pirates' more than pirates pirate 'Matrix'... discuss.
I think you're reading my mind (see my reply written at the same time)
If you're going to bash a game for not living up to expectations, at least make sure they're realistic expectations first.
That's great, but in that case I don't think that warrants it being an article in the developers section of slashdot. When I come to this section I expect new programming or systems analysis techniques, ground breaking news about various languages or development companies... not programming basics. What's next? An article about using conditional statements?