Parent is exactly right. They either have the choice to not work in china or to obey the government. So, we can either do the superficially morally-correct thing, or we can get a foot in the door of the next great superpower that has a longstanding record of human rights abuse, and make sure that foot is the greatest tool for the spreading of information since the printing press.
Please, someone explain why he's marked as a troll when, in reality, he's exactly right.
I don't know about the US, but in Japan their sales are picking up quite quickly. If they were going to suppress the numbers because of low sales, they would have done it a year ago. As it is, it looks more like it was either a legitimately temporary policy that came up for review or else they realize that their sales are going to start surpassing the Wii's within a year or two and they want to be the only ones that know when that happens for sure (and being able to claim it whenever they want to).
Not like these young pups who know that CPU speeds and hard disk space are so large as to be infinite and not worth bothering with. There, fixed that for you.
For the most part this assumption holds true. In the past, the bottleneck was the hardware. Today, most applications are limited by developer time/skill. Not only that, but the market's being flooded with under-qualified programmers with a certificate from a college that doesn't actually teach them anything and the good programmers have to work around that. In many ways, life would be simpler for people like me if we didn't have to worry about making the code easier for half-wits and could focus on tweaking our code with some assembly instead.
Director. You can't compare movies where he was a writer or cowriter to a movie where he was the writer and director.
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I disagree. I feel the last two seasons of Angel were the best. I never watched Buffy, but I feel that Firefly was as close to perfect as a show can be, and Serenity was pretty good for a man who's only ever done TV.
Out of curiosity, what didn't you feel made sense about Serenity's conclusion? I thought it was good.
Not strange at all. The CPU, programming language and every other modern storage device use the binary definition rather than the head-up-the-ass SI definition. This is like you insisting that the term football should properly refer to American Football rather than the European-colloquial usage. 90% of the time anyone hears the term "gigabyte", it's referring to a power of 2.
You seem to be stuck in an overly relative universe, where this one component has every right to redefine a term that every other computer part defines differently. As pointed out above, the CPU, RAM, OS and every programming language with something resembling market share define it the same way, as a power of two. The term has been defined the same way everywhere else, therefore, it's fraud to redefine it for the purposes of marketing.
but at least there are no subscription fees. Until one of your players wants to play a half-dragon prestige-classed psion/warlock with every feat taken out of a different book. Then it gets a little expensive.
When people who aren't admins act like trolls, push their POVs over everyone else, and refuse to even debate the issue with others without engaging in massive revert-wars, they generally get banned Fixed that for you.
So what? Who cares about the primaries in South Carolina? It's like getting to vote on which puppet comes out in the puppet show: you feel somewhat empowered, but in the end there's a greater force you have no power over making the real decisions.
Actually, it's almost certainly the content of his show. His show is about being a personality, about making people love him and everything about him, so that he can poke fun at anyone and everyone. This isn't advertising, it's content, and it's damn good content too.
That's just one of their reasons, and you know what? You're both right. The political system is fucked up beyond all reason. But when it comes down to it, the absolute worst companies I've ever had to deal with were cellphone companies. If you like a cellphone company, it's because you've never had to deal with their customer service, and I believe that to be true in 99% of the cases.
What I've noticed more of is that there's the "Company IT Policy" (tm) and the actual acceptable use policy. On paper you're not allowed to put any personal files on the computer, browse any non-work-related sites, or use a messenger client. In reality, you can bring in your own music or any work-related programs as long as you take the flak for illegal things, browse sites but only for a reasonable amount of time, and the same for messenger.
The only thing I like about Manhunt is that it's really showcasing the difference between a game for kids and a game for adults. Honestly, any adult that lets their child play this deserves to have charges of negligence brought against them. Too many parents bring children into this world without the ability or the desire to do what's necessary to raise them properly, and video games are easy for a bad parent to ignore.
I agree. I think that Rob realizes what some C-level executive might not: this is a community of technically skilled people. Most of the people here are early adopters and have come to slashdot because it's different. If Slashdot becomes a clone of something else, then the people on this site will migrate elsewhere and they'll have to settle with the scraps from Digg's table.
That said, Rob's done a great job, and I'm sure he'll continue to do so. And when the corporate overlords overpower him, I'm sure he'll rise again, more powerful than they could possibly imagine;) Or, at the very least, with another high-traffic site that's profitable, but not as much as it could be if it sold out.
I agree with the sibling post, but above that, originality is absolutely one of the criteria that a game should be judged on. That's one instance of where you should modify a score if you disagree with the reviewer's criteria.
I disagree. For good games, a good review is definitely more than the score, but when I check out a much-hyped game and see a score of 50/100, that's a big deal to me. That means I don't even have to worry about reading the review, and in some cases that's the best review there is. During the era of 3000 RTS games a month, it was nice to be able to sort the good from the bad with a glance. It's also nice to be able to see the high and low points of a series, to be able to see that most people find the mechanics of FFVIII and FFIX lacking so that I know, if i'm going to start the series, start it somewhere else.
As TFA states, the review industry is necessary because of the large amount of games coming out and the large proportion of crap that inhabits it. If something is crap from end to end and at least four different people agree, then there's no need for me to look further.
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Parent is exactly right. They either have the choice to not work in china or to obey the government. So, we can either do the superficially morally-correct thing, or we can get a foot in the door of the next great superpower that has a longstanding record of human rights abuse, and make sure that foot is the greatest tool for the spreading of information since the printing press.
Please, someone explain why he's marked as a troll when, in reality, he's exactly right.
I don't know about the US, but in Japan their sales are picking up quite quickly. If they were going to suppress the numbers because of low sales, they would have done it a year ago. As it is, it looks more like it was either a legitimately temporary policy that came up for review or else they realize that their sales are going to start surpassing the Wii's within a year or two and they want to be the only ones that know when that happens for sure (and being able to claim it whenever they want to).
No offense, but I don't know why repeating 6 cliches right in a row gets you modded insightful. But congratulations ;)
For the most part this assumption holds true. In the past, the bottleneck was the hardware. Today, most applications are limited by developer time/skill. Not only that, but the market's being flooded with under-qualified programmers with a certificate from a college that doesn't actually teach them anything and the good programmers have to work around that. In many ways, life would be simpler for people like me if we didn't have to worry about making the code easier for half-wits and could focus on tweaking our code with some assembly instead.
Director. You can't compare movies where he was a writer or cowriter to a movie where he was the writer and director.
I disagree. I feel the last two seasons of Angel were the best. I never watched Buffy, but I feel that Firefly was as close to perfect as a show can be, and Serenity was pretty good for a man who's only ever done TV.
Out of curiosity, what didn't you feel made sense about Serenity's conclusion? I thought it was good.
But they made Gears of War. Assuming they used the same engine, what's the problem?
Not strange at all. The CPU, programming language and every other modern storage device use the binary definition rather than the head-up-the-ass SI definition. This is like you insisting that the term football should properly refer to American Football rather than the European-colloquial usage. 90% of the time anyone hears the term "gigabyte", it's referring to a power of 2.
You seem to be stuck in an overly relative universe, where this one component has every right to redefine a term that every other computer part defines differently. As pointed out above, the CPU, RAM, OS and every programming language with something resembling market share define it the same way, as a power of two. The term has been defined the same way everywhere else, therefore, it's fraud to redefine it for the purposes of marketing.
So what? Who cares about the primaries in South Carolina? It's like getting to vote on which puppet comes out in the puppet show: you feel somewhat empowered, but in the end there's a greater force you have no power over making the real decisions.
Actually, it's almost certainly the content of his show. His show is about being a personality, about making people love him and everything about him, so that he can poke fun at anyone and everyone. This isn't advertising, it's content, and it's damn good content too.
It's running on top of Ubuntu, so you could easily compile anything you want on it.
Firefox ran better than any other program on my 667 p3 with 128 megabytes of ram.
The song is great, and the feminine tone really helped my GF get into it. Easily the best game of the year imho.
That's just one of their reasons, and you know what? You're both right. The political system is fucked up beyond all reason. But when it comes down to it, the absolute worst companies I've ever had to deal with were cellphone companies. If you like a cellphone company, it's because you've never had to deal with their customer service, and I believe that to be true in 99% of the cases.
Are you publicly traded? I'd like to invest in your game idea.
What I've noticed more of is that there's the "Company IT Policy" (tm) and the actual acceptable use policy. On paper you're not allowed to put any personal files on the computer, browse any non-work-related sites, or use a messenger client. In reality, you can bring in your own music or any work-related programs as long as you take the flak for illegal things, browse sites but only for a reasonable amount of time, and the same for messenger.
Come on, beggars can't be choosers...
If not he could always come up with a domain name that indicates he's taking a step back from slashdot, like maybe dotdotslash...
The only thing I like about Manhunt is that it's really showcasing the difference between a game for kids and a game for adults. Honestly, any adult that lets their child play this deserves to have charges of negligence brought against them. Too many parents bring children into this world without the ability or the desire to do what's necessary to raise them properly, and video games are easy for a bad parent to ignore.
I agree. I think that Rob realizes what some C-level executive might not: this is a community of technically skilled people. Most of the people here are early adopters and have come to slashdot because it's different. If Slashdot becomes a clone of something else, then the people on this site will migrate elsewhere and they'll have to settle with the scraps from Digg's table.
;) Or, at the very least, with another high-traffic site that's profitable, but not as much as it could be if it sold out.
That said, Rob's done a great job, and I'm sure he'll continue to do so. And when the corporate overlords overpower him, I'm sure he'll rise again, more powerful than they could possibly imagine
I agree with the sibling post, but above that, originality is absolutely one of the criteria that a game should be judged on. That's one instance of where you should modify a score if you disagree with the reviewer's criteria.
I disagree. For good games, a good review is definitely more than the score, but when I check out a much-hyped game and see a score of 50/100, that's a big deal to me. That means I don't even have to worry about reading the review, and in some cases that's the best review there is. During the era of 3000 RTS games a month, it was nice to be able to sort the good from the bad with a glance. It's also nice to be able to see the high and low points of a series, to be able to see that most people find the mechanics of FFVIII and FFIX lacking so that I know, if i'm going to start the series, start it somewhere else.
As TFA states, the review industry is necessary because of the large amount of games coming out and the large proportion of crap that inhabits it. If something is crap from end to end and at least four different people agree, then there's no need for me to look further.