Well, they generally have something like an idea of what they are doing. At least they are supposed to. They hire people as patent examiners who have degrees in science, like CS, engineering, physics, and experience in manufacturing, and business where it applies. The problem is they have a huge backlog of patents waiting for confirmation; something on the order of 270k expected to increase to 300k next year. It's no wonder that a lot of times things get overlooked by the examiners, not forgetting the oft poorly written and documented patent applications. The patent office is hiring around a thousand new patent examiners every year. Pretty good money too.
All info gotten from an NPR interview with some guy in the administration side of the patent office yesterday on All Things Considered.
You can turn off the piratization filter. It has no filtering, blanking out, and comicifying. Besides, sometimes its fun to try and see if you can come up with dirty words it won't piratify. They get some pretty creative curses in em.
Yeah, but somethings are hard to sell/buy over the AH, like lockpicking services. It'd be nice if the GMs would just chan-ban anyone participating in a wildly off-topic discussion more than say, 3 entrys.
This is one of the reason's I use this nick almost everywhere on the internet (that and the fact it is pretty much guaranteed unique. Nobody else is stupid enough to want it for themselves.) If I say something dumb here on/., as I have been known to, then if someone sees me somewhere else, they might remember that and change their opinion of me. It's for this reason that in the last few months I've canceled as many posts on forums as I've submitted. I think to myself, "Is this comment worthwhile? Am I saying anything that needs saying or hasn't yet been said? If this is misinterpreted I'm going to look like a moron everywhere."
Perhaps what we need is not publicly viewable personal info, but a single internet identity privately linked to your real world one. Bad ratings anywhere are reflected everywhere. If you're a moron, or a hate-monger, or a troll, everyone knows it, and more and more you are ignored/auto-filtered before you even open your mouth. The only way to improve your rating, is to improve your behavior. That or prove to some kind of governing authority that you are the victim of e-slander or something.
Though by that time HDs will be cheaper and much faster (especially if they start to include some of this holo tech) I don't think HDDs can use holographic technology. They're completely different storage mechanisms. HDDs use magnetic encoding, holodiscs write using lasers inside a crystal.
Two the best movie-going experiences I've ever had happened recently. One, was when I went to see 40 Year Old Virgin at the local cruddy theater ( I live in a small town). Part of was that I had gone expecting the movie to bed terrible based on the ads I'd seen and knowing current movie trends. In addition to the fact that it was much better than that, I went with a group of about 10 friends. When we got there, the only other people in the theater were about 15-20 other people I knew. We had a blast. People were respectful, clean, and the only time anyone talked it was for genuinely witty and non-intrusive commentary.
The other was just a couple weeks ago when myself and a group of about 12 went to see Spiderman 3. They had forgotten to turn on the sound during the slideshow, and during the obligatory commercials they still hadn't turned it on. We sat there for at least 5 minutes providing captions and commentary for car ads and anti-drug propaganda and had the whole theater cracking up. Those 5 minutes would have been painful otherwise.
Lets not forget those of us that read faster than we listen. I got so frustrated with the scenes in FFX that wouldn't let me click through the dialogue. They were usually the ones with the worst dialogue/acting too.
And I don't know if you were saying American voice actors are crappy, or just that dubs of Japanese things tend to get actors that are crappy, or in a completely different vein from what the originals were. The dubs of Miyazaki movies tend to be extremely good. Not to mention we have people like Tree macNeil.
Actually, I've always heard Zelda referred to as an adventure game. I am one of the only people I know who argue that it has RPG elements. In fact, I would say it has more by way of Playing a Role, than Secret of Mana, much as I loved that game.
But I for one hope they close it off and leave it decent, rather than trail off creating worse and worse games as they run dry on ideas, taking a once great game and destroying its legacy in the time honored tradition of good video games gone bad. What are you talking about? Something like that could never happen to our beloved franchises like Final Fantasy or The Simpsons...
True, but, how many of those people will gain anything by a revolt. Most of them will be just as poor as they were before. Which is not to say there is nothing they can do, or that they should not do something, but that it is understandable why they would not.
maybe by encounter they meant, be anywhere within gravitational influence of. That opens it up a little bit more. Space is still pretty damn big though. And ever so much of space is 'empty' space.
If what I recall from a skim of the Ars article is right, much of the advantage is on the back-end. They will be having multiple users per line, as always. However, with higher line speeds each user gets more. Or somesuch.
I could not agree with you guys more. I never cared enough for FFVII to even finish the game on any of many attempts to placate my friends by doing so. Another friend who is convinced that FFVII is about the best game ever and I watched AC and we both came away from it with "pretty" being about the positive thing we could say about it. I was almost completely lost having seen only fragmentary bits of the plot past the second disc, and he, who'd beaten several times was none too impressed either.
I wish SquareEnix would sell their artistic services to other studios and leave the movie writing to someone else. They might make some money back off of TSW finally.
In what way does the sound sound like it is from 1996? If I recall, in '96 a lot of stuff was still crappy MIDI and poorly compressed recordings. If actual instruments and recordings of voices that sound like recordings of voices is 1996esque, what do we sound like now? Futuristic robots? Reverberating disembodied voices of transcended beings?
Unless you had an IPv4 address mapped to IPv6 using a method supposed to prevent breakage of existing DNS info etc...
Then all they have to do is modify their scan to simply scan the IPv4 space in IPv6.
If you were paying to the article at all (why would you? this is/. after all) you'd know that they said they were sticking with doing all the cinematics with in the game engine.
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Well, they generally have something like an idea of what they are doing. At least they are supposed to. They hire people as patent examiners who have degrees in science, like CS, engineering, physics, and experience in manufacturing, and business where it applies. The problem is they have a huge backlog of patents waiting for confirmation; something on the order of 270k expected to increase to 300k next year. It's no wonder that a lot of times things get overlooked by the examiners, not forgetting the oft poorly written and documented patent applications. The patent office is hiring around a thousand new patent examiners every year. Pretty good money too. All info gotten from an NPR interview with some guy in the administration side of the patent office yesterday on All Things Considered.
Also, to the best of my knowledge, the only word that it simply does not allow is rape.
You can turn off the piratization filter. It has no filtering, blanking out, and comicifying. Besides, sometimes its fun to try and see if you can come up with dirty words it won't piratify. They get some pretty creative curses in em.
Yeah, but somethings are hard to sell/buy over the AH, like lockpicking services. It'd be nice if the GMs would just chan-ban anyone participating in a wildly off-topic discussion more than say, 3 entrys.
This is one of the reason's I use this nick almost everywhere on the internet (that and the fact it is pretty much guaranteed unique. Nobody else is stupid enough to want it for themselves.) If I say something dumb here on /., as I have been known to, then if someone sees me somewhere else, they might remember that and change their opinion of me. It's for this reason that in the last few months I've canceled as many posts on forums as I've submitted. I think to myself, "Is this comment worthwhile? Am I saying anything that needs saying or hasn't yet been said? If this is misinterpreted I'm going to look like a moron everywhere."
Perhaps what we need is not publicly viewable personal info, but a single internet identity privately linked to your real world one. Bad ratings anywhere are reflected everywhere. If you're a moron, or a hate-monger, or a troll, everyone knows it, and more and more you are ignored/auto-filtered before you even open your mouth. The only way to improve your rating, is to improve your behavior. That or prove to some kind of governing authority that you are the victim of e-slander or something.
If only. I've seen so many atheism vs. Christianity debates over the trade channel. And that goes to all the cities. It's so irritating.
Two the best movie-going experiences I've ever had happened recently. One, was when I went to see 40 Year Old Virgin at the local cruddy theater ( I live in a small town). Part of was that I had gone expecting the movie to bed terrible based on the ads I'd seen and knowing current movie trends. In addition to the fact that it was much better than that, I went with a group of about 10 friends. When we got there, the only other people in the theater were about 15-20 other people I knew. We had a blast. People were respectful, clean, and the only time anyone talked it was for genuinely witty and non-intrusive commentary. The other was just a couple weeks ago when myself and a group of about 12 went to see Spiderman 3. They had forgotten to turn on the sound during the slideshow, and during the obligatory commercials they still hadn't turned it on. We sat there for at least 5 minutes providing captions and commentary for car ads and anti-drug propaganda and had the whole theater cracking up. Those 5 minutes would have been painful otherwise.
Actually, those superscripts didn't work in the article either. Whether they work in /. is beside the point.
That stuff is all pulled directly out of the article and I have no idea what they were trying to say. Its like they forgot words. Twice.
Isn't it odd how sometimes you can preview and still miss really dumb things... It's supposed to be Tress MacNeille
Lets not forget those of us that read faster than we listen. I got so frustrated with the scenes in FFX that wouldn't let me click through the dialogue. They were usually the ones with the worst dialogue/acting too. And I don't know if you were saying American voice actors are crappy, or just that dubs of Japanese things tend to get actors that are crappy, or in a completely different vein from what the originals were. The dubs of Miyazaki movies tend to be extremely good. Not to mention we have people like Tree macNeil.
Actually, I've always heard Zelda referred to as an adventure game. I am one of the only people I know who argue that it has RPG elements. In fact, I would say it has more by way of Playing a Role, than Secret of Mana, much as I loved that game.
That may be one of the coolest stories I've ever heard.
True, but, how many of those people will gain anything by a revolt. Most of them will be just as poor as they were before. Which is not to say there is nothing they can do, or that they should not do something, but that it is understandable why they would not.
maybe by encounter they meant, be anywhere within gravitational influence of. That opens it up a little bit more. Space is still pretty damn big though. And ever so much of space is 'empty' space.
If what I recall from a skim of the Ars article is right, much of the advantage is on the back-end. They will be having multiple users per line, as always. However, with higher line speeds each user gets more. Or somesuch.
Not to mention if you hop a little bit going down the stairs at the theater, the world beneath isn't reloaded and you die.
I could not agree with you guys more. I never cared enough for FFVII to even finish the game on any of many attempts to placate my friends by doing so. Another friend who is convinced that FFVII is about the best game ever and I watched AC and we both came away from it with "pretty" being about the positive thing we could say about it. I was almost completely lost having seen only fragmentary bits of the plot past the second disc, and he, who'd beaten several times was none too impressed either. I wish SquareEnix would sell their artistic services to other studios and leave the movie writing to someone else. They might make some money back off of TSW finally.
In what way does the sound sound like it is from 1996? If I recall, in '96 a lot of stuff was still crappy MIDI and poorly compressed recordings. If actual instruments and recordings of voices that sound like recordings of voices is 1996esque, what do we sound like now? Futuristic robots? Reverberating disembodied voices of transcended beings?
Unless you had an IPv4 address mapped to IPv6 using a method supposed to prevent breakage of existing DNS info etc... Then all they have to do is modify their scan to simply scan the IPv4 space in IPv6.
Too bad for you I trained my pet cat to camp spawn points. So unless you spawn on an elbereth I'm good to go.
If you were paying to the article at all (why would you? this is /. after all) you'd know that they said they were sticking with doing all the cinematics with in the game engine.