I hate jumping in shooters. If the game allows you to jump, it needs to limit the height to about 18 inches, and make it impossible to shoot while jumping.
Why do people complain about the realism of details of foliage or water refraction, when they have characters that move like Saturday morning cartoons?
I would also like to see strafing and moving backwards made slow, inaccurate, and prone to tripping.
That's a pretty inept thought to have. Why would a blockbuster game release only to a minor installed base and ignore a huge installed base? It would be like releasing bioshock to linux and not XP.
Microsoft has released Vista only games, "catering to a minor installed base and ignoring a huge installed base." Shadowrun and Halo 2 are examples.
Knowing that, it's perfectly reasonable to have a little doubt about whether any particular new release will work on Windows. Having a "games for Windows" stamp, evidently meaning the Microsoft seal of approval, naturally exacerbates that fear.
I love my wife, and I don't love your wife. You (hopefully) feel just the opposite. Both women may be 'equal' in the abstract, but one is mine and one's not.
Patriotism is due, partly, to the special relationship of a person to their country that they do not share with any other country. That's reasonable, and that subjective tie can be recognized without losing objectivity.
"Equipment powering the internet accounts for 9.4% of electricity demand in the U.S."
That doesn't seem to pass the initial sniff test. I know that on the consumer end, it's nowhere near that amount. And on the business end, at least from what I'm familiar with, the percentage is still lower than that. Sure, various ISPs, Google, and other places may drive it up, but still...
It looks like they are assuming that if a PC is connected to the internet, that all electricity consumed by that pc, monitor, etc., is directly attributable to the internet. Pretty blatantly false, if that's what they're doing. Presumably the group doing this study benefits from exaggerating this statistic in someway.
Although I havn't ever played PS:T, One game (series) that stands out masivly for me in terms of amazing story and charector development is The Longest Journey, and its sequel, Dreamfall. Those were two games that entirely wrapped me up in their plot, setting, and depth.
I would rate PS:T as a better game, but Dreamfall is very impressive. The game elements are pretty minor, but the story and characters are fascinating. The writing and voice acting were notable. Highly recommended.
There are no terrorists. Al Qaeda is and has been working for the CIA and the NSA. And Ron Paul is the only guy on the roster who sees that and is willing to clear it up.
That is not what Ron Paul says. He does not believe there is any conspiracy with the US government behind the terrorist attacks, just that our government's incompetence made it easier for them.
I'm a Paul supporter, also, and I'm sure you're trying to help. But, seriously, support from conspiratorialists helps Ron Paul about as much as support from the Communist party helps David Kucinich.
Really amazing. It sounds like it's being competently handled, which is great. And it's wonderful that it may be successful enough to actually create a scholarship.
Having the press show up certainly helps get buy-in from the sororities, eh?
Not to mention, the idea smells a bit like prostitution, which is generally bad for your self image.
Prostitution in the wider sense (granting attention in return for favors) is practiced by every female in existence, and is socially approved of. So don't think it's some stamp of shame.
My favorite version of 'loser pays' is that the loser is liable for legal fees, up to the lesser of the amounts either party paid.
So, if a big company sues an individual, and wins, the loser is only liable for as much as they themselves spent on the case. I think it would encourage parties in a lawsuit to spend amounts more equitably, unless one side is absolutely convinced they will be successful.
Any good FPS player will tell you that the controls on a PC are superior. The mouse and keyboard player will always beat the equally skilled console player. So why don't Microsoft and Sony release mouse and keyboard controls for their consoles?
I would correct that somewhat: The best controls for a FPS are a high-resolution pointer in one hand, and an array of accessible buttons in the other. It doesn't have to be a mouse/keyboard combo. The Wii comes close, but I'm not convinced the wiimote is precise and fast enough to completely replace a mouse. However, I think something could be built that's much improved over a keyboard.
There seems to be some reluctance by console manufacturers to sell keyboard/mouse combos for consoles; maybe they don't want to open that whole can of worms. But some sort of FPS interface controller could be sold, that had the same functionality but was more focused on console gameplay.
she really did think altruism was evil, even if you were only using your own money.
To a degree. It's important to note that she recognized that sometimes you got delayed value back for certain, seemingly altruistic, actions (in which case it's not really altruism), and also that she felt it was every person's right to be altruistic with their own money if they wanted. She might condemn it, but never try to forcibly or legally deny you that right.
This move only appears to be bad business when looking at the current point in time. The long term affects may be more positive than negative. The obvious benefit is that parents, the ones actually earning the money, will be more likely to shop at this particular store if they like the policy.
As a parent, I would delight in buying my son a $50 gift card at the beginning of the school year that would turn into a valueless piece of plastic if his report card stunk. A lot of parenting is controlled sadism.
I don't remember playing Gears of War, Resistance Fall of Man, Motostorm, or many other 360/PS3 games on previous consoles.
You could have, though... those same games could have been released on the xbox or PS2, identical but for a cut in graphic quality. Different people may have a different opinion about how drastically that would affect the game. I wouldn't mind at all, but perhaps you might find it much less fun. I think, though, that console makers have been catering to you, not to me, until the release of the Wii (and arguably the DS).
"This program may be redistributed on the condition this license is removed."
Is it legal to remove the license and redistribute? I would think so.
Fundamentally, these licenses are both primarily about redistribution. They seem [slightly] contradictory to me, meaning that license A OR B is in effect, not A AND B. It seems like the basic point of disagreement in this thread is over that distinction.
I think that if license 'B' is chosen, license 'A' is never activated, never applied, completely irrelevant. License B says that the source can be redistributed only with conditions of B attached.
I agree with another poster that said this would have been not a problem if the source had been posted twice, once with the BSD license, once with the GPL. But shouldn't a dual license be logically equivalent?
I hope this would never have to go to court, but the legal arguments would be interesting.
This comment is a nice demonstration of how insular some communities can get (in this case, I'm talking about Slashdot).
Most people don't have computers that can play recent games, if they even have a computer at all. And of those that do, a significant portion don't have broadband. And yet, those people may still be friends.
A person too poor to pay less than $100 for a TV is too poor to be wasting money on such foolishness, and is a member of a very small fraction of the general population.
I think you're wrong. There's a significant fraction of the population that doesn't have even $100 to blow on entertainment in a given month. This is the same population that buys used television sets for $15 at Goodwill or yard sales... and put up with the crappy picture because they can't afford a better screen.
And before you say that those people would be better served not watching television, please consider what else they can do for fun. Go to movies? Sports? Eat out? Those cost money*. People can't live a life without some form of entertainment. A $15 television provides mediocre entertainment, but it is there every day over a lifespan of potentially decades. It could be argued that it's money well spent.
*Yeah, they should go to the library, no argument there. But most won't.
A good point I saw elsewhere about this article: Liberals are more likely to be women than conservatives are. Thus, a simple liberal/conservative split would probably introduce a sexual bias into the measurements, and there are major differences between how men and women process information. Was this test controlled for gender?
There are racial and social class drivers of political ideology as well... there's a number of potential problems with this test.
An expert in the Office format recently proved you could modify the xml in the new Office formats but Office would complain and not load it.
Do you have a source? I don't really doubt you, I'm just curious to read about that.
I suppose it could be argued that's a deficiency in the Office implementation of the format, not the format itself. That's a bit of a half-hearted argument, but hey, it's Microsoft.
Seeing this article made me wince, like when I see a skateboarder about to break twelve bones. The coming violence that we're going to see in this thread is giving me sympathy pains. Miguel is going to get savaged here.
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Legally, that's true.
But we are free to make our own judgments. OJ is a murderer, for instance. The legal system doesn't dictate our own thoughts and opinions.
I hate jumping in shooters. If the game allows you to jump, it needs to limit the height to about 18 inches, and make it impossible to shoot while jumping.
Why do people complain about the realism of details of foliage or water refraction, when they have characters that move like Saturday morning cartoons?
I would also like to see strafing and moving backwards made slow, inaccurate, and prone to tripping.
That's a pretty inept thought to have. Why would a blockbuster game release only to a minor installed base and ignore a huge installed base? It would be like releasing bioshock to linux and not XP.
Microsoft has released Vista only games, "catering to a minor installed base and ignoring a huge installed base." Shadowrun and Halo 2 are examples.
Knowing that, it's perfectly reasonable to have a little doubt about whether any particular new release will work on Windows. Having a "games for Windows" stamp, evidently meaning the Microsoft seal of approval, naturally exacerbates that fear.
I love my wife, and I don't love your wife. You (hopefully) feel just the opposite. Both women may be 'equal' in the abstract, but one is mine and one's not.
Patriotism is due, partly, to the special relationship of a person to their country that they do not share with any other country. That's reasonable, and that subjective tie can be recognized without losing objectivity.
"Equipment powering the internet accounts for 9.4% of electricity demand in the U.S."
That doesn't seem to pass the initial sniff test. I know that on the consumer end, it's nowhere near that amount. And on the business end, at least from what I'm familiar with, the percentage is still lower than that. Sure, various ISPs, Google, and other places may drive it up, but still...
It looks like they are assuming that if a PC is connected to the internet, that all electricity consumed by that pc, monitor, etc., is directly attributable to the internet. Pretty blatantly false, if that's what they're doing. Presumably the group doing this study benefits from exaggerating this statistic in someway.
Although I havn't ever played PS:T, One game (series) that stands out masivly for me in terms of amazing story and charector development is The Longest Journey, and its sequel, Dreamfall. Those were two games that entirely wrapped me up in their plot, setting, and depth.
I would rate PS:T as a better game, but Dreamfall is very impressive. The game elements are pretty minor, but the story and characters are fascinating. The writing and voice acting were notable. Highly recommended.
There are no terrorists. Al Qaeda is and has been working for the CIA and the NSA. And Ron Paul is the only guy on the roster who sees that and is willing to clear it up.
That is not what Ron Paul says. He does not believe there is any conspiracy with the US government behind the terrorist attacks, just that our government's incompetence made it easier for them.
I'm a Paul supporter, also, and I'm sure you're trying to help. But, seriously, support from conspiratorialists helps Ron Paul about as much as support from the Communist party helps David Kucinich.
Really amazing. It sounds like it's being competently handled, which is great. And it's wonderful that it may be successful enough to actually create a scholarship.
Having the press show up certainly helps get buy-in from the sororities, eh?
Not to mention, the idea smells a bit like prostitution, which is generally bad for your self image.
Prostitution in the wider sense (granting attention in return for favors) is practiced by every female in existence, and is socially approved of. So don't think it's some stamp of shame.
My favorite version of 'loser pays' is that the loser is liable for legal fees, up to the lesser of the amounts either party paid.
So, if a big company sues an individual, and wins, the loser is only liable for as much as they themselves spent on the case. I think it would encourage parties in a lawsuit to spend amounts more equitably, unless one side is absolutely convinced they will be successful.
Any good FPS player will tell you that the controls on a PC are superior. The mouse and keyboard player will always beat the equally skilled console player. So why don't Microsoft and Sony release mouse and keyboard controls for their consoles?
I would correct that somewhat: The best controls for a FPS are a high-resolution pointer in one hand, and an array of accessible buttons in the other. It doesn't have to be a mouse/keyboard combo. The Wii comes close, but I'm not convinced the wiimote is precise and fast enough to completely replace a mouse. However, I think something could be built that's much improved over a keyboard.
There seems to be some reluctance by console manufacturers to sell keyboard/mouse combos for consoles; maybe they don't want to open that whole can of worms. But some sort of FPS interface controller could be sold, that had the same functionality but was more focused on console gameplay.
I'm a geek that ended up in Analytical Marketing. Lots of math, database stuff, but...
Wow. Female to male ratio is like 5::1. And the quality is high.
If you can find some geek niche in marketing, advertising, or merchandising, jump on it.
she really did think altruism was evil, even if you were only using your own money.
To a degree. It's important to note that she recognized that sometimes you got delayed value back for certain, seemingly altruistic, actions (in which case it's not really altruism), and also that she felt it was every person's right to be altruistic with their own money if they wanted. She might condemn it, but never try to forcibly or legally deny you that right.
I think that counts as a "yes, I have obvious and crippling anger issues."
This move only appears to be bad business when looking at the current point in time. The long term affects may be more positive than negative. The obvious benefit is that parents, the ones actually earning the money, will be more likely to shop at this particular store if they like the policy.
As a parent, I would delight in buying my son a $50 gift card at the beginning of the school year that would turn into a valueless piece of plastic if his report card stunk. A lot of parenting is controlled sadism.
I don't remember playing Gears of War, Resistance Fall of Man, Motostorm, or many other 360/PS3 games on previous consoles.
You could have, though... those same games could have been released on the xbox or PS2, identical but for a cut in graphic quality. Different people may have a different opinion about how drastically that would affect the game. I wouldn't mind at all, but perhaps you might find it much less fun. I think, though, that console makers have been catering to you, not to me, until the release of the Wii (and arguably the DS).
"This program may be redistributed on the condition this license is removed."
Is it legal to remove the license and redistribute? I would think so.
Fundamentally, these licenses are both primarily about redistribution. They seem [slightly] contradictory to me, meaning that license A OR B is in effect, not A AND B. It seems like the basic point of disagreement in this thread is over that distinction.
I think that if license 'B' is chosen, license 'A' is never activated, never applied, completely irrelevant. License B says that the source can be redistributed only with conditions of B attached.
I agree with another poster that said this would have been not a problem if the source had been posted twice, once with the BSD license, once with the GPL. But shouldn't a dual license be logically equivalent?
I hope this would never have to go to court, but the legal arguments would be interesting.
I've never played it, or even heard about it before, but...
Gestures? Funky & silly graphics & spells? A couple years old engine? It sounds like they should reissue it for the Wii asap.
Do your friends not have computers?
This comment is a nice demonstration of how insular some communities can get (in this case, I'm talking about Slashdot).
Most people don't have computers that can play recent games, if they even have a computer at all. And of those that do, a significant portion don't have broadband. And yet, those people may still be friends.
A person too poor to pay less than $100 for a TV is too poor to be wasting money on such foolishness, and is a member of a very small fraction of the general population.
I think you're wrong. There's a significant fraction of the population that doesn't have even $100 to blow on entertainment in a given month. This is the same population that buys used television sets for $15 at Goodwill or yard sales... and put up with the crappy picture because they can't afford a better screen.
And before you say that those people would be better served not watching television, please consider what else they can do for fun. Go to movies? Sports? Eat out? Those cost money*. People can't live a life without some form of entertainment. A $15 television provides mediocre entertainment, but it is there every day over a lifespan of potentially decades. It could be argued that it's money well spent.
*Yeah, they should go to the library, no argument there. But most won't.
"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." - Shepard Book Quoting Malcolm Reynolds
Why do you say Book was quoting Mal? I don't remember that ever being implied.
A good point I saw elsewhere about this article: Liberals are more likely to be women than conservatives are. Thus, a simple liberal/conservative split would probably introduce a sexual bias into the measurements, and there are major differences between how men and women process information. Was this test controlled for gender?
There are racial and social class drivers of political ideology as well... there's a number of potential problems with this test.
An expert in the Office format recently proved you could modify the xml in the new Office formats but Office would complain and not load it.
Do you have a source? I don't really doubt you, I'm just curious to read about that.
I suppose it could be argued that's a deficiency in the Office implementation of the format, not the format itself. That's a bit of a half-hearted argument, but hey, it's Microsoft.
Seeing this article made me wince, like when I see a skateboarder about to break twelve bones. The coming violence that we're going to see in this thread is giving me sympathy pains. Miguel is going to get savaged here.
Watch the language, man. You'll drive away all of Slashdot's advertisers.