I dislike it because women read that shit and then retaliate with the kind of 24/7 male bashing you see day in and day out on TV, newspapers, and in the movies.
It's all about do unto others as you'd have others do unto you and all that.
Wow. Good stuff. The limitations of the game engine definitely limit the depth and breadth of the story itself. It's impossible to do a major Chronicles of Narnia battle in a day and age (thankfully long past) where you have the average computing power of the Commodore VIC-20 (though I'm not thankful the VIC-20 is long past).
I have blueprints for full scale personality matrices that I'd love to patent, but the computing power simply is not there; this is all too evident when too many sims are present at one time in a Sims 2 game. Also, stopping to load levels is a huge ding on suspension of belief. Characters having extensive and complex memories - and the ability to react uniquely based on them - is a big hard drive, cpu and memory hog. I even have pseudo code for responding to "canned" stimuli from the environment. Again, cpu, memory and HD space restrictions, make all this impossible. For now.
But think about this - your iPod has more computing power than the world had a few decades ago. If Moore's law holds up, we'll have more power in our little Vox (you heard it here, it's my name for a future uber iPod!) than we have in today's Cray. Then the real story lines will come out to play.
They've undermined the authority of parents by luring their children into their culture of natural born deviancy (and now complete and utter stagnation), and especially, they've been encouraging kids to be rebellious.
Now that rebellion has returned home.
Hollywood can boo hoo hoo all they want to, but the truth is, you always reap what you sow.
yeah but the point of using 4 cores is to -use- a ton of your favorite apps all at once. one single core can chew up 2 gigs (the ssytem spec inthe article) plus virtual ram, too, or one gig and 2-3 times that in virtual ram. lots of people will find 4 cores to be very freeing and decide to use even more apps at once than what they used to. that 2 gigs of ram will become very crowded. that's why lots of motherboards have a capacity of greater than 2 gigs of ram capacity.
That's what I meant by average... I know cpu's don't "demand" memory, but having enough memory for each CPU is a good idea.
The apps I run at home (video conversion, maybe a VMWare instance) would each use very close to 512mb apiece. I might even run Oblivion in one cpu while turning a DVD converter loose on another process; AFAIK Oblivion will grab whatever it can, so 1gb for that cpu isn't unfeasible.
I can imagine other, more memory intensive apps trying to run in tandem and running into problems if you have under 2gb for four cores, if you're using all four cores to the max.
And when the Democrat President orders the NSA to record a call by Pres Candidate Jeb Bush to a Saudi guy and then puts the phone call out of context in a political ad 5 days before election time, remember..... I warned you.
Saying that the potential for abuse is reason to do without is absurd.
So it's okay if the Government sidesteps the Constitution and monitors American citizens without just cause (as in suspicion that they're actually doing something wrong) because no one is abusing it yet?
The Government is abusing the law right there, because they're monitoring American citizens without even stopping to ask themselves if they're doing something wrong. They're making the blanket assumption that "calling overseas is cause for suspicion of terrorism".
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
does the smaller Government, individual liberty-touting Republican Congress NOT understand?
Calls between foreigners and Americans include Americans and are thus totally covered by the 4th Amendment.
Is it hard to get into the game industry as a writer, or do you have to be a programmer and a writer?
I know mod makers can get in really easy, but we have such an abysmal dearth of well written games that it suggests that good writers (and there are a lot out there) simply can't submit an idea and get a developer audience to chew on it.
Once the writers start getting as much respect as the coders, and actual story lines start weighing in more heavily, we'll see a major shift in the way games are made.
True, but part of my concern was that discerning that it is your own hardware is not always so cut and dry as it sounds in theory. When you get the cops to seize the machine, theoretically speaking, you know for sure.
But the flip side is, the cops are sofa king slow at pursuing these things.
This new service will get people used to the idea that they can go around deleting other people's files without due process.
That'll later come back to bite us on the hiney when the RIAA demands this right - which they've done before.
Due process. Due process. Due process!
It's slow, it's agonizing, but the alternatives are cutting corners to achieve one's own definition of justice. I don't need to go into detail about the dangers of that...
-4, outrageous stereotypes: for instance - geeks are ill-adapted socially, geeks want supermodels, geeks are underpaid (though offshoring has been threatening to make that one true), many men don't want kids (perhaps this is true on alt.support.child-free though)
-1, hypocrisy - posting on slashdot
-3, 3 counts of bigotry, one against geeks, one against people who want kids, one against kids, period.
I already sacrificed karma pissing on the Wii because of its pathetic name, and I'm ragingly pissed off at the 360 for Oblivion charing micropayments for "Horse armor" mods. I own a Ps2, a 360, a Game Cube, and a PC.
I'm just as worried about the micropayment crap on the 360 as I am about the PS3; Bethesda submarined us by throwing out that micropayment stuff long after we gamers rushed out and bought Oblivion. If I'd known this ahead of time I would have never bought the 360 at all. This time, Sony is giving advanced warning. I'm waiting to see what Nintendo ultimately does, but the word "Wii" makes me sick.
So tell me again, oh great insightful speculation boy, which console am I a fanboy of?
As for Sony and their death-by-micropayments strategy. We already know one way how they'll work - case in point: GT4 HD. So feel free to stick your head in the sand and live in denial while the rest of us raise the alarms, and when micropayments are nipped in the bud, feel free to convince yourself that it was all a figment of your imagination and not the power of overwhelming consumer backlash. BTW how does all that sand taste like?
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I dislike it because women read that shit and then retaliate with the kind of 24/7 male bashing you see day in and day out on TV, newspapers, and in the movies.
It's all about do unto others as you'd have others do unto you and all that.
Let's not. Especially not on /.
The making-fun-of-women stunt they pulled on April 1st was an utter disgrace.
"one small step for a man..."
it should have been "one small step for a human... one giant leap for humanity."
People laugh at that now, but maybe in a few centuries people will wonder why this mentality persisted for so long.
Eh, what does that mean?
Wow. Good stuff. The limitations of the game engine definitely limit the depth and breadth of the story itself. It's impossible to do a major Chronicles of Narnia battle in a day and age (thankfully long past) where you have the average computing power of the Commodore VIC-20 (though I'm not thankful the VIC-20 is long past).
I have blueprints for full scale personality matrices that I'd love to patent, but the computing power simply is not there; this is all too evident when too many sims are present at one time in a Sims 2 game. Also, stopping to load levels is a huge ding on suspension of belief. Characters having extensive and complex memories - and the ability to react uniquely based on them - is a big hard drive, cpu and memory hog. I even have pseudo code for responding to "canned" stimuli from the environment. Again, cpu, memory and HD space restrictions, make all this impossible. For now.
But think about this - your iPod has more computing power than the world had a few decades ago. If Moore's law holds up, we'll have more power in our little Vox (you heard it here, it's my name for a future uber iPod!) than we have in today's Cray. Then the real story lines will come out to play.
They've undermined the authority of parents by luring their children into their culture of natural born deviancy (and now complete and utter stagnation), and especially, they've been encouraging kids to be rebellious.
Now that rebellion has returned home.
Hollywood can boo hoo hoo all they want to, but the truth is, you always reap what you sow.
yeah but the point of using 4 cores is to -use- a ton of your favorite apps all at once. one single core can chew up 2 gigs (the ssytem spec inthe article) plus virtual ram, too, or one gig and 2-3 times that in virtual ram.
lots of people will find 4 cores to be very freeing and decide to use even more apps at once than what they used to. that 2 gigs of ram will become very crowded. that's why lots of motherboards have a capacity of greater than 2 gigs of ram capacity.
That's what I meant by average... I know cpu's don't "demand" memory, but having enough memory for each CPU is a good idea.
The apps I run at home (video conversion, maybe a VMWare instance) would each use very close to 512mb apiece. I might even run Oblivion in one cpu while turning a DVD converter loose on another process; AFAIK Oblivion will grab whatever it can, so 1gb for that cpu isn't unfeasible.
I can imagine other, more memory intensive apps trying to run in tandem and running into problems if you have under 2gb for four cores, if you're using all four cores to the max.
I'd hate to use a quad core system on just 2gb RAM - that's an average of 512mb for use per core.
And when the Democrat President orders the NSA to record a call by Pres Candidate Jeb Bush to a Saudi guy and then puts the phone call out of context in a political ad 5 days before election time, remember..... I warned you.
See: Clinton's abuse of the FBI files..........
So it's okay if the Government sidesteps the Constitution and monitors American citizens without just cause (as in suspicion that they're actually doing something wrong) because no one is abusing it yet?
The Government is abusing the law right there, because they're monitoring American citizens without even stopping to ask themselves if they're doing something wrong. They're making the blanket assumption that "calling overseas is cause for suspicion of terrorism".
does the smaller Government, individual liberty-touting Republican Congress NOT understand?
Calls between foreigners and Americans include Americans and are thus totally covered by the 4th Amendment.
What's so hard about that?
Who else comes with a 5 year warranty standard, on almost all drives?
n/t
I'm not pro-ad, but I figure that more hackers will see this and start work on a pre-emptive solution to this potential problem.
Make every page a Flash page with the ad built right into the flash page.
If you can make a dynamic content Flash page, there'd be no escaping it.
Also, cut&paste is impossible, too.
The scientists could be locked up for using this to prove the Earth is greater than 6000 years old.
Non Creationist speak = disagreeing with Bush = enemy combatant
Is it hard to get into the game industry as a writer, or do you have to be a programmer and a writer?
I know mod makers can get in really easy, but we have such an abysmal dearth of well written games that it suggests that good writers (and there are a lot out there) simply can't submit an idea and get a developer audience to chew on it.
Once the writers start getting as much respect as the coders, and actual story lines start weighing in more heavily, we'll see a major shift in the way games are made.
True, but part of my concern was that discerning that it is your own hardware is not always so cut and dry as it sounds in theory. When you get the cops to seize the machine, theoretically speaking, you know for sure.
But the flip side is, the cops are sofa king slow at pursuing these things.
This new service will get people used to the idea that they can go around deleting other people's files without due process.
That'll later come back to bite us on the hiney when the RIAA demands this right - which they've done before.
Due process.
Due process.
Due process!
It's slow, it's agonizing, but the alternatives are cutting corners to achieve one's own definition of justice. I don't need to go into detail about the dangers of that...
Ugly looking women and women with no social skills still have lots of kids.
Lemme guess... it's all about sperm banks, alien abductions and the like?
On the PC, I can get a ton of free mods that make horse armor obsolete. Consoles don't allow you to download and install user-made mods.
-4, outrageous stereotypes: for instance - geeks are ill-adapted socially, geeks want supermodels, geeks are underpaid (though offshoring has been threatening to make that one true), many men don't want kids (perhaps this is true on alt.support.child-free though)
-1, hypocrisy - posting on slashdot
-3, 3 counts of bigotry, one against geeks, one against people who want kids, one against kids, period.
Sony pricing games $10 cheaper shouldn't break their bank, right?
Same logic.
I already sacrificed karma pissing on the Wii because of its pathetic name, and I'm ragingly pissed off at the 360 for Oblivion charing micropayments for "Horse armor" mods. I own a Ps2, a 360, a Game Cube, and a PC.
I'm just as worried about the micropayment crap on the 360 as I am about the PS3; Bethesda submarined us by throwing out that micropayment stuff long after we gamers rushed out and bought Oblivion. If I'd known this ahead of time I would have never bought the 360 at all. This time, Sony is giving advanced warning. I'm waiting to see what Nintendo ultimately does, but the word "Wii" makes me sick.
So tell me again, oh great insightful speculation boy, which console am I a fanboy of?
As for Sony and their death-by-micropayments strategy. We already know one way how they'll work - case in point: GT4 HD. So feel free to stick your head in the sand and live in denial while the rest of us raise the alarms, and when micropayments are nipped in the bud, feel free to convince yourself that it was all a figment of your imagination and not the power of overwhelming consumer backlash. BTW how does all that sand taste like?