Yes, if you wander off first you will die, it sets you up so easier opponents are closer allowing you to ramp up your abilities.
But if you explore, and fight or impress when appropriate, you can eventually level your character off with top scores in fighting and socializing, which is needed to start eliminating the giant creatures that inhabit your world. You can max out in fighting and charming capabilities!
You'll need to get big and be friendly enough to ally yourself with creatures bigger than you, but then you can start to take out the rogue giants!
I'll admit the gameplay is simplistic and repetitive (but not as bad as a WoW grinding session) but its lots of fun, my favorite is to impress two creatures of a small pack, then turn on them and eat them all, its worth it for the look of surprise on their faces when you pounce!
I have to wonder when I read about a reviewer getting to the Space stage in a few hours, and then complaining that theres no depth in the game. It's not a linear story, if you want to rush through a level you can but there ARE other things to do.
I spent all yesterday in Creature level and enjoyed it long beyond my evolution bar reachng its edge. I won merit badges for making 20 species extinct and for getting 5 of my stats up to max level. As a culmination I made allies of some giant chimps and took out a huge squid, it was awesome (1000 DNA points)!
I admit the game is very 1.0, the creature stage isn't Warcraft (yet), it does get repetitive (but not as bad as WoW) but thats nothing an expansion pack can't fix, its fun and cool and something everyone can sit down and enjoy, you don't need to study it endlessly just to get anywhere.
By far the worst thing about it is that I have to boot my MacBook into WinXP to play it. Get on the ball TransGaming, fix Cider!
This argument may be important in a theoretical sense, but not so much a practical one.
I suppose if I had tons of money and needed a state of the art app in record time, I would look for only experienced programmers. But in a competitive environment we need more efficient ways ramping up.
Once you've determined there is no one with your exact qualifications, just make sure you hire smart people who love to code, the experience will come.
In truth you might end up getting some better solutions as you won't have a herd of programmers who all believe the same "givens" about development.
Of course this requires full time employees and a patient approach, since hiring contract workers just means you are paying them to learn and then not reaping the benefits. Many companys don't understand that good code takes time.
As we used to say: "The code can be done well, the code can be done quickly, the code can be done cheaply. Pick any two!"
In all my reading I've never heaard confirmation NBC did turn on the broadcast flag. personally I doubt they did. Tivo implements DRM completely to the letter of the law, they had to to get cablecard certification. I remember years ago a broadcast flag was turned on by mistake, and Tivo wouldn't tape it.
Since this problem seems relegated to only Vista PC's the obvious conclusion is that its a Vista bug.
If NBC had turned on the broadcast flag and Tivo still recorded they would get their cablecard license revoked.
So, thinking about this a bit...the point is you need a password that can't be used later. The digital services are fine, but do we really need more than a 1-5 minute resolution here?
So a clever IT department could make passwords dependant on the time and date. Print out a code sheet, different for each employee, with words substituted for the date and time, a short word for the date and a short word for the ten minute time period you're in, something like that.
This way the password would be useless to a logger, you'd need a code sheet to log in, but it doesn't seem like it would be THAT much trouble (if your info is so important you're this paranoid...)...
I think the Dashboard model is going to be followed here with the iPhone. Just like FrontRow brought on AppleTV, iPhone's been derived from Dashboard.
Downloadable from inside the device from anywhere, initiated via web page if desired, but with signed high quality apps available from Apple for a price.
I doubt Apple will want to get involved with signing free or near free apps from random developers. Seems like a lot of work with some failure inevitable.
Does anyone else think the 'SDK' is just going to be a build option in DashCode?
I can't draw, and I don't want to anyway. I also sincerely doubt I could draw a circle the same way twice.
But I can look at most of my 14000 digital images and tell you where it was taken and when. 4 different pictures of me and the same 2 people and I can tell you where each one was just by the way the people look. I think it would be very tough for a computer to figure that out, much less someone looking over your shoulder. Assuming you had enough images that it couldn't be strictly memorized.
Very interesting, I think showing a picture from a large collection and having me idetify where it was taken would be pretty secure, certainly better than using one password for all of my servers;-).
I truly doubt Universal intends on going a non-DRM route. This among the stupidest record companies out there. And thats saying something. Its either an extortion attempt for higher prices from Apple or they are being offered ALOT of money to go Zune only or some such nonsense.
Sounds most likely to me like they want to raise prices and Apple won't let them UNLESS they drop the DRM, like EMI. Especially with the iPhone success and the upcoming widescreen ipods I can't imagine Apple would ever back down.
I'd also imagine the Universal artists would rebel about not having their music available for the device they'll all be carrying... So I have no doubt this will be resolved with all music intact at least, or even better they can be convinced to go DRM free to get their extra bucks....
Isn't the real problem here that this information IS publicly available? I would never want to prosecute anyone for compiling and disseminating public info. Thats why we're all here, right?
In fact these people are doing us a service by showing us all the holes in the system. At least now this information is available to anyone, including people on the list, and could alert them they might be in danger. Previously this info might only be available to unscrupulous people with the resources to track it down.
I used to think the PS3 would end the format war in Blu Rays favor. But teh consoles were too late, too hard to get and too expensive. Also they have not come up with the 'killer' game or any great movies in HD. I was going to buy a PS3 just for the BluRay player, but at this point a single format player is a liability, taking up a precious video input and only playing half of the movies out there. I won't buy any next gen console until they come with a dual format player. And it'll be a long time before SONY does this, my money is on an xbox addon first...
While waiting for the PS3 I was sure I'd buy one. It's a no-brainer, like a free Blu-Ray player. And with PS3 pushing Blu-Ray it had to be the winner. But that has totally changed now. It seems we'll be stuck with 2 formats forever and like most normal people I'm limited by video inputs on my tv. So I'm not buying a next gen dvd player until they are dual format, my upscaling dvd player works very well, and they are releasing ridiculous movies in Blu-Ray. Ballad of Ricky Bobby? How about something beautiful, that you'd want in a higher quality format like Life Aquatic? It's clear to me now that a single format next-gen dvd player is a liability to my entertainment center. I'll wait for the dual format players and play a nice small cheap stable PS2 in the meantime.
A company like Apple would never fire a dev team because a project turned out badly. Of course bad programmers pop up, but they can be fired at any time. If a whole project goes bad the odds are its a project management failing. Apple would never let good developers go because a project had been mismanaged.
I love the comments like, I love the workflow and look, its just buggy. Well, thats the result of two different teams. The engineers did not design the UI, or the workflow. That was a triumph of designers and UE teams, probably with alot of user testing and interviewing. The bugs are the result of the programming. So as long as the designers and UE team are intact you can look for Aperture to keep pushing the envelope. Just hopefully with a better implementation...
I didn't bother to read the article, did it mention how big a hole in an airplane this fuel cell could make? THey won't let me bring a lighter on board, and that isn't even a realistic threat!
I liked that even "reality shows" were losing audience. I think reality shows are insipid (except foe Elimidate!) and the guys I know would not admit to watching them even if they were.
Maybe the reason that people don't swarm around the tv like they did to watch Seinfeld is that the current crop of "hits" are nothing more than unscripted tantrums by people too stupid and uninteresting to even be my friends, much less be on tv.
Everyone I know watches the Sopranos and then talks about it. Maybe better tv, who knows, perhaps scrtiped by professional writers might do more to turn this trend around than broadband did to cause it.....
Please, Apple realizes they aren't going to get everyone to switch, so why not make money off of the win people who don't.
They probably hope many will use iTunes for Win and the Music store, wonder why they never had anything that good from Microsoft, and be tempted to look into switching for the other great (by that time) iApps, upcoming services, and cool new hardware.
It seems to me that simply giving developers a "better preview" version of 10.3 is not a big enough reason to delay the WWDC. I know in the past they have had no problem handing us unusable prealpha's of OS X and called them Developer Previews.
That would seem to support some kind of announcement that needed to be synchronized with another companies schedule. Moving WWDC has to be quite costly for Apple as well...
For my Panther prediction I look to the biggest hole in OS X, the Carbonized and PowerPlant based Finder. Since there has been little improvement in it I'll assume a rewritten Cocoa based (and hopefully great) Finder is in the works.
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Yes, if you wander off first you will die, it sets you up so easier opponents are closer allowing you to ramp up your abilities.
But if you explore, and fight or impress when appropriate, you can eventually level your character off with top scores in fighting and socializing, which is needed to start eliminating the giant creatures that inhabit your world. You can max out in fighting and charming capabilities!
You'll need to get big and be friendly enough to ally yourself with creatures bigger than you, but then you can start to take out the rogue giants!
I'll admit the gameplay is simplistic and repetitive (but not as bad as a WoW grinding session) but its lots of fun, my favorite is to impress two creatures of a small pack, then turn on them and eat them all, its worth it for the look of surprise on their faces when you pounce!
I have to wonder when I read about a reviewer getting to the Space stage in a few hours, and then complaining that theres no depth in the game.
It's not a linear story, if you want to rush through a level you can but there ARE other things to do.
I spent all yesterday in Creature level and enjoyed it long beyond my evolution bar reachng its edge. I won merit badges for making 20 species extinct and for getting 5 of my stats up to max level. As a culmination I made allies of some giant chimps and took out a huge squid, it was awesome (1000 DNA points)!
I admit the game is very 1.0, the creature stage isn't Warcraft (yet), it does get repetitive (but not as bad as WoW) but thats nothing an expansion pack can't fix, its fun and cool and something everyone can sit down and enjoy, you don't need to study it endlessly just to get anywhere.
By far the worst thing about it is that I have to boot my MacBook into WinXP to play it. Get on the ball TransGaming, fix Cider!
A most effective way to describe science would be as the process in which the smartest people on the planet have been proven wrong.
I see no reason to think thats going to change anytime soon.
This argument may be important in a theoretical sense, but not so much a practical one.
I suppose if I had tons of money and needed a state of the art app in record time, I would look for only experienced programmers. But in a competitive environment we need more efficient ways ramping up.
Once you've determined there is no one with your exact qualifications, just make sure you hire smart people who love to code, the experience will come.
In truth you might end up getting some better solutions as you won't have a herd of programmers who all believe the same "givens" about development.
Of course this requires full time employees and a patient approach, since hiring contract workers just means you are paying them to learn and then not reaping the benefits. Many companys don't understand that good code takes time.
As we used to say: "The code can be done well, the code can be done quickly, the code can be done cheaply. Pick any two!"
In all my reading I've never heaard confirmation NBC did turn on the broadcast flag. personally I doubt they did.
Tivo implements DRM completely to the letter of the law, they had to to get cablecard certification. I remember years ago a broadcast flag was turned on by mistake, and Tivo wouldn't tape it.
Since this problem seems relegated to only Vista PC's the obvious conclusion is that its a Vista bug.
If NBC had turned on the broadcast flag and Tivo still recorded they would get their cablecard license revoked.
sure.. there are lots of ways to accomplish this. I was just thinking of something low tech that would keep me safe over a week vacation or so.
You could make each password one use, but that would be frustrating if IE crashed and you had to wait another 10 minutes to log in...
but I'm assuming my attackers aren't so high tech that they'd be able to do any damage within a ten minute or so time frame.
I'd have to say that if you need more security than this maybe you shouldn't be using a public terminal
So, thinking about this a bit...the point is you need a password that can't be used later. The digital services are fine, but do we really need more than a 1-5 minute resolution here?
So a clever IT department could make passwords dependant on the time and date. Print out a code sheet, different for each employee, with words substituted for the date and time, a short word for the date and a short word for the ten minute time period you're in, something like that.
This way the password would be useless to a logger, you'd need a code sheet to log in, but it doesn't seem like it would be THAT much trouble (if your info is so important you're this paranoid...)...
I call the patent!
I think the Dashboard model is going to be followed here with the iPhone. Just like FrontRow brought on AppleTV, iPhone's been derived from Dashboard.
Downloadable from inside the device from anywhere, initiated via web page if desired, but with signed high quality apps available from Apple for a price.
I doubt Apple will want to get involved with signing free or near free apps from random developers. Seems like a lot of work with some failure inevitable.
Does anyone else think the 'SDK' is just going to be a build option in DashCode?
I can't draw, and I don't want to anyway. I also sincerely doubt I could draw a circle the same way twice.
;-).
But I can look at most of my 14000 digital images and tell you where it was taken and when. 4 different pictures of me and the same 2 people and I can tell you where each one was just by the way the people look. I think it would be very tough for a computer to figure that out, much less someone looking over your shoulder. Assuming you had enough images that it couldn't be strictly memorized.
Very interesting, I think showing a picture from a large collection and having me idetify where it was taken would be pretty secure, certainly better than using one password for all of my servers
I truly doubt Universal intends on going a non-DRM route. This among the stupidest record companies out there. And thats saying something. Its either an extortion attempt for higher prices from Apple or they are being offered ALOT of money to go Zune only or some such nonsense.
Sounds most likely to me like they want to raise prices and Apple won't let them UNLESS they drop the DRM, like EMI. Especially with the iPhone success and the upcoming widescreen ipods I can't imagine Apple would ever back down.
I'd also imagine the Universal artists would rebel about not having their music available for the device they'll all be carrying... So I have no doubt this will be resolved with all music intact at least, or even better they can be convinced to go DRM free to get their extra bucks....
Isn't the real problem here that this information IS publicly available? I would never want to prosecute anyone for compiling and disseminating public info. Thats why we're all here, right?
In fact these people are doing us a service by showing us all the holes in the system. At least now this information is available to anyone, including people on the list, and could alert them they might be in danger. Previously this info might only be available to unscrupulous people with the resources to track it down.
due to the helium leak everyone in the vicinity of the lab will be talking in very humorous high pitched voices for at least a week!
I used to think the PS3 would end the format war in Blu Rays favor. But teh consoles were too late, too hard to get and too expensive. Also they have not come up with the 'killer' game or any great movies in HD.
I was going to buy a PS3 just for the BluRay player, but at this point a single format player is a liability, taking up a precious video input and only playing half of the movies out there. I won't buy any next gen console until they come with a dual format player. And it'll be a long time before SONY does this, my money is on an xbox addon first...
While waiting for the PS3 I was sure I'd buy one. It's a no-brainer, like a free Blu-Ray player. And with PS3 pushing Blu-Ray it had to be the winner.
But that has totally changed now. It seems we'll be stuck with 2 formats forever and like most normal people I'm limited by video inputs on my tv.
So I'm not buying a next gen dvd player until they are dual format, my upscaling dvd player works very well, and they are releasing ridiculous movies in Blu-Ray. Ballad of Ricky Bobby? How about something beautiful, that you'd want in a higher quality format like Life Aquatic?
It's clear to me now that a single format next-gen dvd player is a liability to my entertainment center. I'll wait for the dual format players and play a nice small cheap stable PS2 in the meantime.
A company like Apple would never fire a dev team because a project turned out badly. Of course bad programmers pop up, but they can be fired at any time. If a whole project goes bad the odds are its a project management failing. Apple would never let good developers go because a project had been mismanaged.
I love the comments like, I love the workflow and look, its just buggy. Well, thats the result of two different teams. The engineers did not design the UI, or the workflow. That was a triumph of designers and UE teams, probably with alot of user testing and interviewing. The bugs are the result of the programming. So as long as the designers and UE team are intact you can look for Aperture to keep pushing the envelope. Just hopefully with a better implementation...
I didn't bother to read the article, did it mention how big a hole in an airplane this fuel cell could make? THey won't let me bring a lighter on board, and that isn't even a realistic threat!
I liked that even "reality shows" were losing audience. I think reality shows are insipid (except foe Elimidate!) and the guys I know would not admit to watching them even if they were.
Maybe the reason that people don't swarm around the tv like they did to watch Seinfeld is that the current crop of "hits" are nothing more than unscripted tantrums by people too stupid and uninteresting to even be my friends, much less be on tv.
Everyone I know watches the Sopranos and then talks about it. Maybe better tv, who knows, perhaps scrtiped by professional writers might do more to turn this trend around than broadband did to cause it.....
Please, Apple realizes they aren't going to get everyone to switch, so why not make money off of the win people who don't.
They probably hope many will use iTunes for Win and the Music store, wonder why they never had anything that good from Microsoft, and be tempted to look into switching for the other great (by that time) iApps, upcoming services, and cool new hardware.
It seems to me that simply giving developers a "better preview" version of 10.3 is not a big enough reason to delay the WWDC. I know in the past they have had no problem handing us unusable prealpha's of OS X and called them Developer Previews.
That would seem to support some kind of announcement that needed to be synchronized with another companies schedule. Moving WWDC has to be quite costly for Apple as well...
For my Panther prediction I look to the biggest hole in OS X, the Carbonized and PowerPlant based Finder. Since there has been little improvement in it I'll assume a rewritten Cocoa based (and hopefully great) Finder is in the works.
my 2 cents...