I didn't expect him to know the terminology. I was just boggled by the writing.
Well I presume your average/.er's vernacular and phrase turning ability lies closer to the masterdebater end of the spectrum, rather than the cunning linguists range of word-play.
I'd not played a shooter that looks like Doom. I'd not one that presented each of its figures as a stack of pixels rendered at the fever-dream intersection of real and colorful, relevant abstract. Be it dirt, blood, hair or the barrel of a gun, everything I saw was a block. Each block was a tile of a nightmare mosaic.
... the part that immediately follows is interesting though. There are some good bits.
Poetic prose or awkward adjective use, either way that description is characteristic of a non-gamer in my opinion. Perhaps I am a bit jaded, but are the words/phrases "2D sprite", "low-resolution", "models", and "textures" that much in the realm of jargon to be excluded from the current generation of mainstream gamers? Or am I pining for the days of yore?
If he's found guilty, of course. Guys like these must be made examples off, so that it will deter future crimes like these.
I'm glad he's facing good old American justice. We are the best and the most aggressive in putting evildoers and troublemakers in prison, so justice should be well served.
I am sorry, I know you are a red-blooded American and all, but holy shit that is the most nationalist hunk of crap I have seen on here in awhile. Consensual crime? If the judge/jury see it as being *bad* enough, off to the rape cage. Are those people troublemakers or evildoers? That could be argued, moreover, argued against. Prisonplanet is more like it.
On second thought, we are definitely the best and most aggressive at putting socially unacceptable people in prison, and justice is rarely served. FTFY.
Honestly, I agree call bullshit on this one as well. Do a random sampling of 10 people. Ask this "Do you fell alright knowing the government is listening to your phone conversations and has the ability to tap all of your wire-traffic, unwarranted?" I imagine you will get resounding NOs. Then ask 10 other people "Would you sacrifice some digital privacy in light of the terrorist threats after 9-11?" The results will be much different I assume. Now I did not read the full article (or any of it, who has time?), but the former is the fancy rhetoric that gets draconian bills like the Patriot act passed. Its amazing how much people will sign away when it is dressed up in legalese.
To be frank, this fucking garbage is FUD spewing in order to make your average red-blooded obedient worker feel less, well, 'agitated' at the thought of the creeping privacy revocations, in-my-mother-fucking-opinion. Who knows. Perhaps the corporate spynet is reading this right now and I am getting put on a watch list as we speak.
Who am I kidding. Hollywood embellishes what these folks actually can do with technology (with many gaffs along the way). I bet the SSN database is maintained in a damp cubicle by a rank cigarette smoke covered ex-betty boom tapping away on Lotus 1-2-3.
And to play devils advocate, if these statistics are actually legitimate, it confirms one of two things (or both); Americans are fucking morons, or the standard cliche regarding statistics.
Verizon-supplied Actiontec router had the password 'password1.'
Saying that it is purely 'his' could be questioned. It is hardware that they supplied him, and he is operating it on their network. I am not disagreeing completely with the moral stickiness of what they did, but a blanket 'it is illegal' statement would have a tough time in court, considering the weight these telcos have in terms of money and lawyers. Despite good idealistic intentions in defending the posters disdain, unfortunately the real world will have much less pity and sympathy.
You are either trolling, or have short memory, for I am fairly positive that How To Get a Game-Obsessed Teenager Into Coding? falls much closer towards your categorization. At least this question focuses on self-betterment, whereas the previous question is about casually pointing somebody towards an orange, although they currently enjoy apples.
1. You have to get your mind in the 'programming' mindset. Learning programming isn't necessarily purely about being a techie. You need to have solid logic skills. Much of programming is spent just getting logic right. Check out Boolean Logic for an launch point. The knowledge you gain from briefing this area will carryover into many, many programming languages. Programming *is* logic.
2. Learn what you want to program for. Pick a startup project. Is it a website you want to make? HTML & CSS is very different than learning C or C++, likewise, SQL is very different than assembly. Not that certain concepts don't carry over, but much of being a jack of all trades is simply having the ability to have good conditional logic skills, and the ability to Google things quickly and learn to apply them as you go. You don't have to become a master of all languages, or hell, even one language, but if you are truly *interested* (thats the keyword, if your not interested, its just not going to happen), and you have done a little programming in a couple of simple languages, then you will be in a good position to progress to more difficult projects.
3. Learn what you want to program for. Again. Repeated point. There are hundreds of programming languages, platforms, architectures, styles, libraries, etc. Pick something you are interested in, read about it a little bit, and if it looks like the learning curve isn't too ridiculous, start there. Perhaps a simple text based JavaScript browser game. At the end of the day you will know a bit of CSS, HTML, and JavaScript if you put your mind to it. But thats just one example.
4. W3C. This website is a good starting point for all things web.
5. Chrome Experiments If you really like web, check out the future of browser bling. Heavy JavaScript and HTML5
6. Databases. Not the most mentally entertaining, but you will need the knowhow to connect, select, insert, update, and delete data if you are doing anything with data. I am a Microsoft guy, and I can tell you that the Express Editions of Visual Studio are a greating starting point for a newbie, at zero price-point, and bundled with SQL Express, thats a good place to begin.
7. Also, places like CodeProject, StackOverflow, and CodePlex are great tools for questions ranging from the most basic to the most advanced of topics, and downloading sample code and live projects for tinkering around with.
it's a different story for the producers of mainstream games who have no need of exposure whatsoever
I don't think that is entirely true. Why do game producers continue to make titles based off of the same tired-ass hollywood kids movies. How many games have you seen clutter the shelves at Wallmart, "Barbies Adventure in X" or "Comic Book X Action Game" or "SpongeBob's New X". Kids relatives, grandmothers, etc, continue to buy these games because of exposure. So saying mainstream games have no need whatsoever is a bit to closed minded. And if you contest those examples as not being mainstream, then what is mainstream? What the 'pro' gaming community deems quality? Well if thats your argument, then those games need even more exposure to sell, especially if they don't have some cookie-cutter Hollywood blockbuster to pound the IP into the heads of the masses. Mainstream needs exposure.
Remember the original Call of Duty? Fairly low key developer, but it was a bad-ass game, free demos were available online, the game received glowing reviews and gained a fan-base. There were dedicated servers, mods, etc. Then as it went mainstream, my personal opinion is that the quality went down. No dedicated servers. Rehashes of old maps being piece-mealed off ala the Sims series, and other blatant abuses of their mainstream status.
Counter Strike. Started of as a free mod. People loved it. Spread everywhere. Indie-devs were exposed to the mainstream through word of mouth. They didn't need massive advertising campaigns. And look at the games longevity. You don't see ads on television for Counter-Strike, and yet people still play on the dedicated servers. Compare that to Halo 2 for the original Xbox. Massive advertising from a 'mainstream producer'. And what do you get? Kicked off of your gaming experience once the company deems it 'unprofitable'. Sure they have to make money, but I am not arguing for money, but instead the longevity of longstanding, quality content. And generally, it comes from those who are not ruled by greed, control, and margins.
Much like indie music producers, many love to have their music 'pirated' because it means exposure. Like the old shareware days. Remember when Radiohead did that pay-what-you-want scheme? Not a bad idea. The sooner the content producers adapt to the new distribution models, eliminate the middle-men cartels that get all the cuts (old-school mentality), the sooner the gangsters of profit are shown that information generally wants to be 'free', finding a way to make people pay for it through their own generosity and good-will obligation, as to arm-twisting and draconian DRM, the sooner quality information can flourish, the sooner garbage that keeps our current signal-to-noise ratio so low begins to become weeded out.
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe there needs to be a front company to sell the work of somebody else. But I believe this should only be true for circumstances in that the producer(s) can't maintain the quality of their work, nor the channels of distribution in a manner that maintains the quality of the original product. But something that is self-contained awesomeness that has a fairly hands off approach, well, find ways to monetize it other than arm-twisting and litigation. This guy seems to get it.
Entirely flawed thinking that no legal system in the US actually considers.
I understand that, but I can't tell from your tone whether your for or against. Is my thinking flawed from a logical and rational standpoint, or from a think-of-the-x nannyacracy standpoint?
done to your body under your consent are illegal.
Makes no sense. Period. Consensual 'crimes' keep the legal system cluttered with paperwork and pencil pushing, and only cause the behemoth to grow. As the justice departments across the nation swell, actual truthful and honest justice will shrivel away and die.
How long until the Anti-Kevorkians create a media 'outrage'? You should be allowed to do what you want, when you want with your own manifestation and its components. If they allow people to have 'DNR' clauses attached to them in case of traumatic circumstances, or allow people to preemptively opt out of life support (having the plug pulled before they are 'dead'), then this mans behavior should be allowed.
If you havn't seen 7 Pounds, it is a good watch and hits this issue in a different but powerful light.
In the post 9/11 world, the National Security Letter is an indispensable tool and building block of an investigation that contributes significantly to the FBI’s ability to carry out its national security responsibilities by directly supporting the furtherance of the counterterrorism, counterintelligence and intelligence missions.
Don't you just love that "In the post 9/11 world" bit? They use that qualifier for everything that infringes on privacy. Its the "Think of the children" of the Military Industrial Complex. Yes there are bad people. Yes there are folks that want to do bad things. But again, trading privacy, and hence freedom, for security, well you know the rest.
While this is true in some jurisdiction, statements like:
A motion responding to two $10 million lawsuits in Hamilton County chancery court says a camera infraction that carries a $50 civil penalty has a lower standard of constitutional protection than criminal offenses....
...The court filing obtained by the Chattanooga Times Free Press says offenders "are not entitled to a trial by jury, a presumption of innocence or a heightened burden of proof.
are not very reassuring for the future of the proliferation of these devices, and further spin-offs that use the same automate-print-fine process.
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I didn't expect him to know the terminology. I was just boggled by the writing.
Well I presume your average /.er's vernacular and phrase turning ability lies closer to the masterdebater end of the spectrum, rather than the cunning linguists range of word-play.
Some of the writing is godawful:
Poetic prose or awkward adjective use, either way that description is characteristic of a non-gamer in my opinion. Perhaps I am a bit jaded, but are the words/phrases "2D sprite", "low-resolution", "models", and "textures" that much in the realm of jargon to be excluded from the current generation of mainstream gamers? Or am I pining for the days of yore?
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I wonder if they trademarked that number? Epic spammer business name is epic.
If he's found guilty, of course. Guys like these must be made examples off, so that it will deter future crimes like these.
I'm glad he's facing good old American justice. We are the best and the most aggressive in putting evildoers and troublemakers in prison, so justice should be well served.
I am sorry, I know you are a red-blooded American and all, but holy shit that is the most nationalist hunk of crap I have seen on here in awhile. Consensual crime? If the judge/jury see it as being *bad* enough, off to the rape cage. Are those people troublemakers or evildoers? That could be argued, moreover, argued against. Prisonplanet is more like it.
On second thought, we are definitely the best and most aggressive at putting socially unacceptable people in prison, and justice is rarely served. FTFY.
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Visualization and graphic designers seem to maintain Hyperion Entertainment's website as well.
Even some PC games are better face to face.
Real face-to-face counter-striker's would straight up pwn your average Larper. Nubsauces.
No girl would kiss any guy who hangs out in a basement all day.
FTFY. Your mom doesn't count.
Honestly, I agree call bullshit on this one as well. Do a random sampling of 10 people. Ask this "Do you fell alright knowing the government is listening to your phone conversations and has the ability to tap all of your wire-traffic, unwarranted?" I imagine you will get resounding NOs. Then ask 10 other people "Would you sacrifice some digital privacy in light of the terrorist threats after 9-11?" The results will be much different I assume. Now I did not read the full article (or any of it, who has time?), but the former is the fancy rhetoric that gets draconian bills like the Patriot act passed. Its amazing how much people will sign away when it is dressed up in legalese.
To be frank, this fucking garbage is FUD spewing in order to make your average red-blooded obedient worker feel less, well, 'agitated' at the thought of the creeping privacy revocations, in-my-mother-fucking-opinion. Who knows. Perhaps the corporate spynet is reading this right now and I am getting put on a watch list as we speak.
Who am I kidding. Hollywood embellishes what these folks actually can do with technology (with many gaffs along the way). I bet the SSN database is maintained in a damp cubicle by a rank cigarette smoke covered ex-betty boom tapping away on Lotus 1-2-3.
And to play devils advocate, if these statistics are actually legitimate, it confirms one of two things (or both); Americans are fucking morons, or the standard cliche regarding statistics.
3D Realms decided that in order to get DNF completed, they needed 100% X-Fire integration, otherwise DNF would remain DNF, Forever.
Not everybody is a fan.
because some kids had recreated Pac-man from Scratch
Perhaps if this was the sentence the NAMCO lawyer had read, oh wait, things would have gone down the same.
part of their education should include concern for the intellectual property of others.'"
And part of our collective foots should be up NAMCO's ass.
Verizon-supplied Actiontec router had the password 'password1.'
Saying that it is purely 'his' could be questioned. It is hardware that they supplied him, and he is operating it on their network. I am not disagreeing completely with the moral stickiness of what they did, but a blanket 'it is illegal' statement would have a tough time in court, considering the weight these telcos have in terms of money and lawyers. Despite good idealistic intentions in defending the posters disdain, unfortunately the real world will have much less pity and sympathy.
That's nothing.
I know of a membrane that, when certain patterns of light are shined upon it, fluid flows through a connected valve.
It's got a horrible refractory period, though.
That is either incoherent trolling, or an enlightened attempt at humorously illuminating a certain feminine regularity.
End of thread. No further comments are necessary.
Worst. Ask Slashdot. Ever.
You are either trolling, or have short memory, for I am fairly positive that How To Get a Game-Obsessed Teenager Into Coding? falls much closer towards your categorization. At least this question focuses on self-betterment, whereas the previous question is about casually pointing somebody towards an orange, although they currently enjoy apples.
Couple points:
1. You have to get your mind in the 'programming' mindset. Learning programming isn't necessarily purely about being a techie. You need to have solid logic skills. Much of programming is spent just getting logic right. Check out Boolean Logic for an launch point. The knowledge you gain from briefing this area will carryover into many, many programming languages. Programming *is* logic.
2. Learn what you want to program for. Pick a startup project. Is it a website you want to make? HTML & CSS is very different than learning C or C++, likewise, SQL is very different than assembly. Not that certain concepts don't carry over, but much of being a jack of all trades is simply having the ability to have good conditional logic skills, and the ability to Google things quickly and learn to apply them as you go. You don't have to become a master of all languages, or hell, even one language, but if you are truly *interested* (thats the keyword, if your not interested, its just not going to happen), and you have done a little programming in a couple of simple languages, then you will be in a good position to progress to more difficult projects.
3. Learn what you want to program for. Again. Repeated point. There are hundreds of programming languages, platforms, architectures, styles, libraries, etc. Pick something you are interested in, read about it a little bit, and if it looks like the learning curve isn't too ridiculous, start there. Perhaps a simple text based JavaScript browser game. At the end of the day you will know a bit of CSS, HTML, and JavaScript if you put your mind to it. But thats just one example.
4. W3C. This website is a good starting point for all things web.
5. Chrome Experiments If you really like web, check out the future of browser bling. Heavy JavaScript and HTML5
6. Databases. Not the most mentally entertaining, but you will need the knowhow to connect, select, insert, update, and delete data if you are doing anything with data. I am a Microsoft guy, and I can tell you that the Express Editions of Visual Studio are a greating starting point for a newbie, at zero price-point, and bundled with SQL Express, thats a good place to begin.
7. Also, places like CodeProject, StackOverflow, and CodePlex are great tools for questions ranging from the most basic to the most advanced of topics, and downloading sample code and live projects for tinkering around with.
it's a different story for the producers of mainstream games who have no need of exposure whatsoever
I don't think that is entirely true. Why do game producers continue to make titles based off of the same tired-ass hollywood kids movies. How many games have you seen clutter the shelves at Wallmart, "Barbies Adventure in X" or "Comic Book X Action Game" or "SpongeBob's New X". Kids relatives, grandmothers, etc, continue to buy these games because of exposure. So saying mainstream games have no need whatsoever is a bit to closed minded. And if you contest those examples as not being mainstream, then what is mainstream? What the 'pro' gaming community deems quality? Well if thats your argument, then those games need even more exposure to sell, especially if they don't have some cookie-cutter Hollywood blockbuster to pound the IP into the heads of the masses. Mainstream needs exposure.
Remember the original Call of Duty? Fairly low key developer, but it was a bad-ass game, free demos were available online, the game received glowing reviews and gained a fan-base. There were dedicated servers, mods, etc. Then as it went mainstream, my personal opinion is that the quality went down. No dedicated servers. Rehashes of old maps being piece-mealed off ala the Sims series, and other blatant abuses of their mainstream status.
Counter Strike. Started of as a free mod. People loved it. Spread everywhere. Indie-devs were exposed to the mainstream through word of mouth. They didn't need massive advertising campaigns. And look at the games longevity. You don't see ads on television for Counter-Strike, and yet people still play on the dedicated servers. Compare that to Halo 2 for the original Xbox. Massive advertising from a 'mainstream producer'. And what do you get? Kicked off of your gaming experience once the company deems it 'unprofitable'. Sure they have to make money, but I am not arguing for money, but instead the longevity of longstanding, quality content. And generally, it comes from those who are not ruled by greed, control, and margins.
Much like indie music producers, many love to have their music 'pirated' because it means exposure. Like the old shareware days. Remember when Radiohead did that pay-what-you-want scheme? Not a bad idea. The sooner the content producers adapt to the new distribution models, eliminate the middle-men cartels that get all the cuts (old-school mentality), the sooner the gangsters of profit are shown that information generally wants to be 'free', finding a way to make people pay for it through their own generosity and good-will obligation, as to arm-twisting and draconian DRM, the sooner quality information can flourish, the sooner garbage that keeps our current signal-to-noise ratio so low begins to become weeded out.
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe there needs to be a front company to sell the work of somebody else. But I believe this should only be true for circumstances in that the producer(s) can't maintain the quality of their work, nor the channels of distribution in a manner that maintains the quality of the original product. But something that is self-contained awesomeness that has a fairly hands off approach, well, find ways to monetize it other than arm-twisting and litigation. This guy seems to get it.
Entirely flawed thinking that no legal system in the US actually considers.
I understand that, but I can't tell from your tone whether your for or against. Is my thinking flawed from a logical and rational standpoint, or from a think-of-the-x nannyacracy standpoint?
done to your body under your consent are illegal.
Makes no sense. Period. Consensual 'crimes' keep the legal system cluttered with paperwork and pencil pushing, and only cause the behemoth to grow. As the justice departments across the nation swell, actual truthful and honest justice will shrivel away and die.
How long until the Anti-Kevorkians create a media 'outrage'? You should be allowed to do what you want, when you want with your own manifestation and its components. If they allow people to have 'DNR' clauses attached to them in case of traumatic circumstances, or allow people to preemptively opt out of life support (having the plug pulled before they are 'dead'), then this mans behavior should be allowed.
If you havn't seen 7 Pounds, it is a good watch and hits this issue in a different but powerful light.
*NSL* I meant, but eventually the alphabet soup of organizations and what-have-you boggles the mind. NSA, FBI, CJIS, NCIC, DOD, CIA, etc..etc...
In the post 9/11 world, the National Security Letter is an indispensable tool and building block of an investigation that contributes significantly to the FBI’s ability to carry out its national security responsibilities by directly supporting the furtherance of the counterterrorism, counterintelligence and intelligence missions.
Don't you just love that "In the post 9/11 world" bit? They use that qualifier for everything that infringes on privacy. Its the "Think of the children" of the Military Industrial Complex. Yes there are bad people. Yes there are folks that want to do bad things. But again, trading privacy, and hence freedom, for security, well you know the rest.
A motion responding to two $10 million lawsuits in Hamilton County chancery court says a camera infraction that carries a $50 civil penalty has a lower standard of constitutional protection than criminal offenses....
...The court filing obtained by the Chattanooga Times Free Press says offenders "are not entitled to a trial by jury, a presumption of innocence or a heightened burden of proof.
are not very reassuring for the future of the proliferation of these devices, and further spin-offs that use the same automate-print-fine process.
The photograph IS the proof.
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