I haven't played Revolutions, but voice acted is inherently limiting in some games. Civ has lots of dialog strings that are generated: "Alexander, may I have some silks for your iron and polytheism?" You can't record speech for all possible combinations.
That's one of the reasons that I think ubiquitous voice-acting has been a really bad development for RPGs and simulations. It forces a very finite cap to the diversity of lines. That's fine for a straight-forward FPS or RTS, for instance, but some games have algorithmically-generated, potentially infinite text.
No doubt what happened, similar to our battle plans to invade Canada in case there is a communist revolution up north. There is a huge part of the government security that is simply devoted to planning every and all scenario. We may have no particular intention of destroying Wikileaks, but that doesn't mean the government doesn't have an operation ready to go at a moment's notice JUST IN CASE. It's what our army of analysts do.
The real reason Conservatives are so Gung-Ho about private education is that it short circuits universal accessibility, quality control, and most of all any real public influence on the content of what is taught: the corporate overlords want their serfs to be uneducated and highly propagandized. By the way, you're a serf.
Hm. No, that's wrong. In fact, I doubt that ANY conservative feels that way, and I think you just spout nonsense like this because you immaturely like to feel better than the group you've identified as your 'enemy', and make up any arguments you feel you can get away with.
Seriously, can you point to ANY person that supports private education for the reasons you state? Or do you somehow know what they SECRETLY MEAN despite what they ACTUALLY SAY? Grow a little intellectual honesty.
And like the Talibans in Afghanistan and Pakistan if they ever get the chance they've dictate to others they must live "the Christian way". They would even bring back stoning for adulatory and other sins. Here's one that even says The bible permits slavery.
Is that a hundredth of one percent of American Christians, or a thousandth of one percent of them? I think probably the latter.
It wasn't too bad in this case, because it was just strengthening the point the original poster made... but that 'fixed it for you' meme is often used to completely contradict the original poster:
"Android is a nice phone os"
"Android is a TERRIBLE phone os. FIXED IT FOR YA!!!!"
Crap, that's one of the most irritating things ever, and I often mod it down.
Assuming that a group that you disagree with are all stupid is a likely indicator that an individual is likely an idiot.
A Republican that thinks that all Democrats are stoned out hippies that can't hold a rational thought is a moron. A Democrat who thinks that all Republicans are selfish ultra-capitalist fundamentalists is a moron. For ALL of you: Remember, there are people in the OPPOSING PARTY that are significantly SMARTER than you... REGARDLESS of which party you're in.
Any idiot that paints all conservatives or all liberals as idiots should rightfully be considered an idiot.
If the government is going to force people to get vaccinated (and they do; you can't go to school without it), there is at least some burden on them to pay for the negative effects, no matter how well intentioned.
In a town near me, 1 in 6 kids is skipping vaccination, due to the religious exemption. That's crazy, and I expect a wave of something really nasty to hit the town soon, killing some kids. I wonder if those parents could be sued for the public health risk they're creating?
It's a very liberal college town, by the way (Ashland, Oregon). It's not the crazy fundamentalist Christians doing it; it's the crazy crystal-sniffing hippies.
Shame you're an anonymous coward; I'd like to friend you for that comment. Society is just a shorthand slang for a group of individuals, and it only matters because of those individuals. If it's good for society, it has to be good for the individuals; and if it's not good for the individuals, it's not good for society. Often, people overlook that fundamental.
In America, organizations (such as "Microsoft") are generally considered singular nouns. We write "Microsoft does that" or "Microsoft is this".
In England, they're more commonly thought of as plural. "Microsoft do that", "Microsoft are this". It's not necessarily better or worse, but it can be jarring.
3D requires all of the work of 2D plus quite a lot more.
I don't believe that at all.
Obviously, a good 3d game requires more work than a bad 2d game. But sprite animation is more labor intensive, just like a hand-drawn animated movie is more work than a CGI movie of approximately equal quality.
The most beautiful game of 2009 was a 2d hand-drawn game... Muramasa:The Demon Blade.
More in depth, I'm saying they're measuring something real, but they aren't measuring exactly what they claim. They're measuring how different types of contributors create articles that meet Wikipedia's internal quality standards... not how they actually create quality articles.
Small but potentially important distinction, but yes, I used many words. Sorry about that; on a positive note, I'm sure your ability to handle that will grow over time.
I don't particularly disagree with you, but I see this bit a lot, and it's irritating:
"I hate you because its a sin, and you're weird, and you're different...and I'm kinda attracted to you, which make me question my sexual identity, and it PISSES ME OFF!".
Is tired, old, and ridiculous. Most homophobes aren't fighting secret gay urges, any more than racists secretly love the race they claim to hate.
A similar question can be asked about those people posting critical comments of paypal.
A similar question can be asked about the 98% of slashdot comments that consist of people's opinions who don't have a direct involvement with the subject. Sometimes people simply like to converse about a subject.
I think there may be a possible flaw in using Wikipedia's internal quality rating. It measures adherence to wikipedia standards... but that may not necessarily be the same thing as actual quality.
In that scheme, excellent articles with posters who tend to brush up against some of wikipedia's more picky guidelines, would be rated lower. It's minor, because in general wikipedia's guidelines are there to make better articles, but it sometimes happens.
It's like defining intelligence as the ability to do well on intelligence tests. It's certainly related, and there's not much of a better alternative, but you have to remember you aren't measuring the trait directly.
That's kind of the pkzip/unzip algorithm (or other compression) algorithm, of bundling up the longest/most repeated character streams first... except that the matching is done using an external lookup table, swapping languages when decoding.
Ok, it's not MUCH like that, but it's enough to give me a few ideas. Speech recognition, data compression, and AI have a lot in common; they're all bottlenecked at the same point.
In theory, I wonder if an effective (lossy) text compression could be created that strips individual language syntax out? In effect, it would store 'ideas' (tokens representing the largest linguistic streams representable as a single unit), and a specific language could be selected at decompression time to render into.
I was similarly modded into trolldom a short while ago for having the audacity to point to the fact that there is no direct evidence of evolution (I do, however, believe in evolution, just the same).
You're now causing Jane to question herself. I think people that find you agreeing with them probably do that a lot.
Childs doesn't deserve two years in jail, and further penalties heaped upon him. There is a lot of incompetence mixed with hurt pride among the city staff, which is to be expected from any government body.
But Childs himself behaved terribly as well. None of those passwords were his. None of those systems were his. It doesn't matter if his employers were competent or not; he should have let them have access to their own property. If he thought they were going to ruin things, speak out.
Yeah, because the PS2 was the massive market leader. The PS3 is more like this gen's x-box... relatively powerful, but fighting over 2nd place. It doesn't have nearly the library that the PS2 had, that will keep people playing for a decade or longer.
We're doing better because of health improvement. If not for that, IQ would be dropping by 1 to 2 points per year on an unchanging (not renormalized) scale.
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I haven't played Revolutions, but voice acted is inherently limiting in some games. Civ has lots of dialog strings that are generated: "Alexander, may I have some silks for your iron and polytheism?" You can't record speech for all possible combinations.
That's one of the reasons that I think ubiquitous voice-acting has been a really bad development for RPGs and simulations. It forces a very finite cap to the diversity of lines. That's fine for a straight-forward FPS or RTS, for instance, but some games have algorithmically-generated, potentially infinite text.
Microsoft was never and is not a monopoly.
I tend to agree, but that's a dangerous thing to say around here.
It's true if the audience I'm addressing (slashdot) doesn't contain the smartest person in either party. I'm willing to play those odds.
Insanely, you are moderated troll, instead of the paranoid and overly-excitable GP.
No doubt what happened, similar to our battle plans to invade Canada in case there is a communist revolution up north. There is a huge part of the government security that is simply devoted to planning every and all scenario. We may have no particular intention of destroying Wikileaks, but that doesn't mean the government doesn't have an operation ready to go at a moment's notice JUST IN CASE. It's what our army of analysts do.
The real reason Conservatives are so Gung-Ho about private education is that it short circuits universal accessibility, quality control, and most of all any real public influence on the content of what is taught: the corporate overlords want their serfs to be uneducated and highly propagandized. By the way, you're a serf.
Hm. No, that's wrong. In fact, I doubt that ANY conservative feels that way, and I think you just spout nonsense like this because you immaturely like to feel better than the group you've identified as your 'enemy', and make up any arguments you feel you can get away with.
Seriously, can you point to ANY person that supports private education for the reasons you state? Or do you somehow know what they SECRETLY MEAN despite what they ACTUALLY SAY? Grow a little intellectual honesty.
And like the Talibans in Afghanistan and Pakistan if they ever get the chance they've dictate to others they must live "the Christian way". They would even bring back stoning for adulatory and other sins. Here's one that even says The bible permits slavery.
Is that a hundredth of one percent of American Christians, or a thousandth of one percent of them? I think probably the latter.
It wasn't too bad in this case, because it was just strengthening the point the original poster made... but that 'fixed it for you' meme is often used to completely contradict the original poster:
"Android is a nice phone os"
"Android is a TERRIBLE phone os. FIXED IT FOR YA!!!!"
Crap, that's one of the most irritating things ever, and I often mod it down.
Assuming that a group that you disagree with are all stupid is a likely indicator that an individual is likely an idiot.
A Republican that thinks that all Democrats are stoned out hippies that can't hold a rational thought is a moron. A Democrat who thinks that all Republicans are selfish ultra-capitalist fundamentalists is a moron. For ALL of you: Remember, there are people in the OPPOSING PARTY that are significantly SMARTER than you... REGARDLESS of which party you're in.
Any idiot that paints all conservatives or all liberals as idiots should rightfully be considered an idiot.
If the government is going to force people to get vaccinated (and they do; you can't go to school without it), there is at least some burden on them to pay for the negative effects, no matter how well intentioned.
In a town near me, 1 in 6 kids is skipping vaccination, due to the religious exemption. That's crazy, and I expect a wave of something really nasty to hit the town soon, killing some kids. I wonder if those parents could be sued for the public health risk they're creating?
It's a very liberal college town, by the way (Ashland, Oregon). It's not the crazy fundamentalist Christians doing it; it's the crazy crystal-sniffing hippies.
Shame you're an anonymous coward; I'd like to friend you for that comment. Society is just a shorthand slang for a group of individuals, and it only matters because of those individuals. If it's good for society, it has to be good for the individuals; and if it's not good for the individuals, it's not good for society. Often, people overlook that fundamental.
Or Super Mario Brothers.
He's probably English.
In America, organizations (such as "Microsoft") are generally considered singular nouns. We write "Microsoft does that" or "Microsoft is this".
In England, they're more commonly thought of as plural. "Microsoft do that", "Microsoft are this". It's not necessarily better or worse, but it can be jarring.
3D requires all of the work of 2D plus quite a lot more.
I don't believe that at all.
Obviously, a good 3d game requires more work than a bad 2d game. But sprite animation is more labor intensive, just like a hand-drawn animated movie is more work than a CGI movie of approximately equal quality.
The most beautiful game of 2009 was a 2d hand-drawn game... Muramasa:The Demon Blade.
I think the more likely option is that they'll be taken offline about the time Assassin's Creed 3 is brought to market.
In fairness, surgery is WAY MORE FUCKING IMPORTANT than server management.
People without perspective are a menace.
That would be the shallow takeaway, yes.
More in depth, I'm saying they're measuring something real, but they aren't measuring exactly what they claim. They're measuring how different types of contributors create articles that meet Wikipedia's internal quality standards... not how they actually create quality articles.
Small but potentially important distinction, but yes, I used many words. Sorry about that; on a positive note, I'm sure your ability to handle that will grow over time.
I don't particularly disagree with you, but I see this bit a lot, and it's irritating:
"I hate you because its a sin, and you're weird, and you're different...and I'm kinda attracted to you, which make me question my sexual identity, and it PISSES ME OFF!".
Is tired, old, and ridiculous. Most homophobes aren't fighting secret gay urges, any more than racists secretly love the race they claim to hate.
A similar question can be asked about those people posting critical comments of paypal.
A similar question can be asked about the 98% of slashdot comments that consist of people's opinions who don't have a direct involvement with the subject. Sometimes people simply like to converse about a subject.
I think there may be a possible flaw in using Wikipedia's internal quality rating. It measures adherence to wikipedia standards... but that may not necessarily be the same thing as actual quality.
In that scheme, excellent articles with posters who tend to brush up against some of wikipedia's more picky guidelines, would be rated lower. It's minor, because in general wikipedia's guidelines are there to make better articles, but it sometimes happens.
It's like defining intelligence as the ability to do well on intelligence tests. It's certainly related, and there's not much of a better alternative, but you have to remember you aren't measuring the trait directly.
That's kind of the pkzip/unzip algorithm (or other compression) algorithm, of bundling up the longest/most repeated character streams first... except that the matching is done using an external lookup table, swapping languages when decoding.
Ok, it's not MUCH like that, but it's enough to give me a few ideas. Speech recognition, data compression, and AI have a lot in common; they're all bottlenecked at the same point.
In theory, I wonder if an effective (lossy) text compression could be created that strips individual language syntax out? In effect, it would store 'ideas' (tokens representing the largest linguistic streams representable as a single unit), and a specific language could be selected at decompression time to render into.
I was similarly modded into trolldom a short while ago for having the audacity to point to the fact that there is no direct evidence of evolution (I do, however, believe in evolution, just the same).
You're now causing Jane to question herself. I think people that find you agreeing with them probably do that a lot.
Childs doesn't deserve two years in jail, and further penalties heaped upon him. There is a lot of incompetence mixed with hurt pride among the city staff, which is to be expected from any government body.
But Childs himself behaved terribly as well. None of those passwords were his. None of those systems were his. It doesn't matter if his employers were competent or not; he should have let them have access to their own property. If he thought they were going to ruin things, speak out.
Yeah, because the PS2 was the massive market leader. The PS3 is more like this gen's x-box... relatively powerful, but fighting over 2nd place. It doesn't have nearly the library that the PS2 had, that will keep people playing for a decade or longer.
We're doing better because of health improvement. If not for that, IQ would be dropping by 1 to 2 points per year on an unchanging (not renormalized) scale.
...you think.