"X has no taste" parses syntactically, ergo one can say it. Being right or wrong is another matter.
The real issue is that the GP fell for an obvious troll.
I'm like you. Things go on my comics list (mine's on my flock RSS browser), some have stayed on for years, some stay on for a while - my tastes change, or they change for the worse, or they don't change (ie they reveal themselves to be one-noters).
A polyamorous maths party would consist of an orgy organised so that the precise value of attraction and/or fondness from each attendee towards each of the others are expressed in a comprehensively considered and defined matrix, taking into reciprocity wherever possible.
Interestingly I have the same notion but I was going to argue it by analogy.
Let's posit an early agrarian. He has animals in his flock. Sometimes they breed. Sometimes they are eaten by wolves. He discovers the simple (but absolutely mathematical) notions of more and less through observations of this process. From this (and its effect on his welfare) he invents the exact same concepts as a method of regulating his wellbeing - he creates the notion that if he allows his flock to breed and protects them from predators he and his community will fare better in life.
Let's leap to Fibonacci numbers - invented first as an interesting sequence, then discovered to have many applications in predicting nature.
I'm sorry, I was agreeing with you right up until you said the wii controller was inferior. Being an avid pc gamer and an owner of a wii, I can tell you that I haven't been interested in playing FPS for years because as a genre it's tired. The wii brought me back. The wii controller makes it seamless in a way that the mouse never can - whereas the mouse is making a digital approximation to aiming the wii controller simply is aiming.
You seem to think that the mouse is seamless, but really it's just that we've been using mice for fps since Wolfenstein 3d. We're very practiced with the mouse, but we've no need to be. So, to me you're equating limitations of the current tools of fps with the genre itself.
I agree that at the moment the Wii has rubbish fps games. Red Steel was an insult. When it starts getting fps games written to use it's potential to the fullest (not just playing for gimmicks), it's going to be a pretty strong contender.
My point is, now he's not able to carry out that work at that level. He's done great work, but he ignored the political niceties. Now he's not able to do that work.
I'm not talking about his ability to do great things or otherwise, I'm talking about his ability to function in a political environment. Hotheads get results for a while admittedly, then they annoy too many people and are moved on. What results can he achieve now?
Kochi, an openly undiplomatic official who won admiration for reorganizing the world fight against tuberculosis but was ousted from that job partly because he offended donors like the Rockefeller Foundation
Translation: A guy with a history of shooting his mouth off about big money/big name charitable foundations shot his mouth off about a different big money/big name charitable foundation.
I'm going out on a limb and saying the dude has a chip on his shoulder. He'd like the people who fork over their money to do so and go away. Meanwhile they're in it to put their stamp on things. I'm not saying anybody's right and anybody's wrong. I have no experience on which to base an analysis of the ethics of the superrich. On the other hand I do have plenty of experience on which to base an analysis of the ethics of working in the public sector.
Rule one is don't bite the hand that feeds you. This guy's rabid.
Bit of a non sequitir. Your point lends itself to the conclusion that communication itself is a bad thing; as long as there is some way to exchange information that exchange will be dangerous for entities wanting to control the dissemination of that information.
I disagree. Particularly in Taxi Driver and Fight Club the theme is the masculine use of violence as a response to a complex world. The violence isn't an enhancement, it is the theme. I actually can't believe you're suggesting the fighting part of "Fight Club" is an "enhancement" - "Flower Arranging Club" would be a vastly different movie. Even if the fighting was an enhancement my point is that it's there to make an artistic point; the violence in all these movies (and even in bad action action movies) are present as an outward sign of the internal character struggles you describe.
I also don't know if you can apply your notion of value in games to everybody else's taste. I personally play games for the storyline, visual and sound effects as much the gameplay itself, and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one. I've played games with astoundingly great gameplay and a rotten story and given them up for just that reason. At the opposite end, for example, the GTA series excels neither as a combat game, driving game or anything else but has an utterly engaging storyline, and I take pleasure in seeking 100% completion in every one just because I enjoy exploring the world. Try to assume you're no more representative of the audience than I am and you'll understand why there's a market for the diverse range of games (including ones that you and I would call rubbish) that there is.
You seem to be positing an argument that violence negates art. Not the case. I reference Fight Club, Taxi Driver, Silence of the Lambs and more... all acclaimed movies that use violence/man's inhumanity to man as the central driver for their plots.
Half Life 1 and 2 similarly use pacing of tension and release through violence to create what I would describe as games of high artistic value.
You seem to think that only when games are limited to recreating the storytelling forms already occupied by other art forms that they will work. What you should be complaining about is the bad storytelling in shooters, not that they automatically make for bad stories, because they don't.
Clear difference. You are a private, and therefore unaccountable, citizen. The Executive Branch is a publicly funded, and therefore publically accountable, organisation.
Particularly given the power it wields... setting up a system to avoid that accountability is de facto setting up to subvert democracy. Your example doesn't apply here, unless you are the presiding body of the government of a country.
Quite. I will always remember one student friend denouncing another as a fascist for daring to make the radical remark that if he had a wife and family he would deem it appropriate to pursue a career in order to provide for them.
Said friend now fights to bring about socialist utopia by selling computers at a major retailer. Vive la revolution!
It's not as if there has been no other discussion of the game. I think you have to realise that developer hype exists because it will (along with previews, demos etc.) help the product gain a larger market share on release, and therefore a larger pool to develop the essential word of mouth.
Will Wright developed a genre defining game in the 80s, and another one (whether you or I personally like it) in 2000. It might not stimulate your interest but it will plenty of others. You don't think his career is worthy of hype? How many household-name games have you developed in your life? In essence to answer your question:
Tell me why I should care about WW's "Spore"
I have to say... tell me why Will Wright needs to care about your dollar.
NB not a fanboy here... both Sims and Sim City leave me cold... but as someone who'd at least demo anything put out by Blizzard or Rockstar I can understand who Will Wright devotees would be grooving right along with the hype here.
For that matter for the most part the wiimote-based games/minigames that "require" movement can be controlled using wrist-to-fingers once you have mastered the gestures.
I like how the/. crowd mod someone advocating violence to children as insightful instead of troll.
Some guy pointed at the latest convenient blame magnet, mainly because he couldn't think of a way to suggest pop music creates paedophiles. Let's not degenerate into flared-nostril hysteria.
*sings "You're sixteen, you're impressionable, and you're miiiiiine..."*
I noticed that too... I was looking at the tags to provide an example of what machine-created tagging has to go up against to beat human tagging for a rant up above. I guess I have to thank that idiot for proving my point. Humans do hostile tags, they haven't yet written a subroutine to make a machine act like a jerk.
I really think you're forgetting about the power of booleans over indexed content and the weakness of string searching. Positing a tag-dense web search in which autoindexers crunch tags for every page as one containing an overabundance of hits compared to string searching is arguable, but in fact what tag searching does is provide a far meaningful range of hits. There might or might not be more, but it's better.
We need to couple the proposed "semantic web" with more than the single-box search page or rather, allow users who can't cope with anything beyond single-box and/or learning to use operators to have their good old search google interface as a second option and put the current advanced search on the front end.
Pie in the sky I know, but I like to think that the drive to search simplicity is reflective of the needs of the last generation (scared of information density) and not of the potential of the future ones (growing up searching).
I can handle a search pretty well, and I'd enjoy getting more of a chance to search for meaning not just strings. Think of a search page with a theoretically infinite number of boxes - each box drops down to a specific type of search (tags, headers, content etc.) and operator, each box I can put an importance rating (so pages with matching tags are vital, pages with matching strings rank higher but aren't necessary etc. etc. etc. depending on my needs) and under the bottom box is a spawn new box button. If I don't like my results I customise my search, search-in-results, change my elements.
Professionally I work with custom-indexed databases all the time and it's a pain in the behind to know the amount of information available of the net but be faced time and again with its limitations. Every criticism you make of semantic searching here applies ten times over to string searching. Should the tag creation software be able to match human tagging in accuracy it would easily override it in coverage. As to accuracy, look at the tags assigned here. The article references the OS release of Reuters' Calais, and someone's assigned the tag "vaporware". Given that vaporware is by definition unreleased (and never to be released) software I'd say human tagging is running at 33% failure on this article at least.
My impression is that the OP is trying to link together a few disparate elements and make them equate to the kind of adware that reams your system and uses your mail service to promote viagra to all your buddies.
It's like saying games rooms in Yahoo are the same as WOW because of their common features (multiplayer, social, online). So long as no-one lists the differences the compact list of similarities looks alarming.
Were this article in the mainstream media we would call it yellow journalism for it's use of hyperbole to justify a dubious point.
An article reporting on the impact of these similarities on productivity, privacy etc. would be worthwhile, this is just hysteria.
Surely the right to free speech you posit here includes giving them a right to demand censorship? Note that I'm not saying that they have a right to enforce it... nor that censorship is a good, quite the opposite... but asking for, demanding, screaming for censorship would fall under free speech. I don't think your freedom of speech trumps their freedom of speech; that's just nonsense, even if they are hollering for censorship and you're braying for freedom.
Democracy is about checks and balances. This is why the suggestion of finding a compromise is a reasonable one. I'm actually reeling a bit that there is someone who views it as a game of 500.
Was when I was talking to friend who is a Microsoft employee about considering Vista for the home network I'll be installing when I shift this month. He shook his head in a fiercely negative fashion while his mouth carefully said "I can't make any comment at all on that subject."
Given that they're one of the companies that demand their marketing people describe themselves as "Evangelists" that was a scary indication of a breakdown in religious fervour for the faithful.
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High School nerds called and are guffawing loudly even though this joking has been taken way too far.
Wait, wait, wait, you think God makes products that work? Obviously you've never been in love ....
More to the point, obviously he's never suffered from erectile dysfunction.
"X has no taste" parses syntactically, ergo one can say it. Being right or wrong is another matter.
The real issue is that the GP fell for an obvious troll.
I'm like you. Things go on my comics list (mine's on my flock RSS browser), some have stayed on for years, some stay on for a while - my tastes change, or they change for the worse, or they don't change (ie they reveal themselves to be one-noters).
FWIW my taste differs from yours from your list.
Do you know how nerdy polyamorous people are?
A polyamorous maths party would consist of an orgy organised so that the precise value of attraction and/or fondness from each attendee towards each of the others are expressed in a comprehensively considered and defined matrix, taking into reciprocity wherever possible.
Interestingly I have the same notion but I was going to argue it by analogy.
Let's posit an early agrarian. He has animals in his flock. Sometimes they breed. Sometimes they are eaten by wolves. He discovers the simple (but absolutely mathematical) notions of more and less through observations of this process. From this (and its effect on his welfare) he invents the exact same concepts as a method of regulating his wellbeing - he creates the notion that if he allows his flock to breed and protects them from predators he and his community will fare better in life.
Let's leap to Fibonacci numbers - invented first as an interesting sequence, then discovered to have many applications in predicting nature.
I'm sorry, I was agreeing with you right up until you said the wii controller was inferior. Being an avid pc gamer and an owner of a wii, I can tell you that I haven't been interested in playing FPS for years because as a genre it's tired. The wii brought me back. The wii controller makes it seamless in a way that the mouse never can - whereas the mouse is making a digital approximation to aiming the wii controller simply is aiming.
You seem to think that the mouse is seamless, but really it's just that we've been using mice for fps since Wolfenstein 3d. We're very practiced with the mouse, but we've no need to be. So, to me you're equating limitations of the current tools of fps with the genre itself.
I agree that at the moment the Wii has rubbish fps games. Red Steel was an insult. When it starts getting fps games written to use it's potential to the fullest (not just playing for gimmicks), it's going to be a pretty strong contender.
Oh my lord, I'm a fanboy.
My point is, now he's not able to carry out that work at that level. He's done great work, but he ignored the political niceties. Now he's not able to do that work.
I'm not talking about his ability to do great things or otherwise, I'm talking about his ability to function in a political environment. Hotheads get results for a while admittedly, then they annoy too many people and are moved on. What results can he achieve now?
I'm going out on a limb and saying the dude has a chip on his shoulder. He'd like the people who fork over their money to do so and go away. Meanwhile they're in it to put their stamp on things. I'm not saying anybody's right and anybody's wrong. I have no experience on which to base an analysis of the ethics of the superrich. On the other hand I do have plenty of experience on which to base an analysis of the ethics of working in the public sector.
Rule one is don't bite the hand that feeds you. This guy's rabid.
Bit of a non sequitir. Your point lends itself to the conclusion that communication itself is a bad thing; as long as there is some way to exchange information that exchange will be dangerous for entities wanting to control the dissemination of that information.
Government has nothing to do with it.
I disagree. Particularly in Taxi Driver and Fight Club the theme is the masculine use of violence as a response to a complex world. The violence isn't an enhancement, it is the theme. I actually can't believe you're suggesting the fighting part of "Fight Club" is an "enhancement" - "Flower Arranging Club" would be a vastly different movie. Even if the fighting was an enhancement my point is that it's there to make an artistic point; the violence in all these movies (and even in bad action action movies) are present as an outward sign of the internal character struggles you describe.
I also don't know if you can apply your notion of value in games to everybody else's taste. I personally play games for the storyline, visual and sound effects as much the gameplay itself, and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one. I've played games with astoundingly great gameplay and a rotten story and given them up for just that reason. At the opposite end, for example, the GTA series excels neither as a combat game, driving game or anything else but has an utterly engaging storyline, and I take pleasure in seeking 100% completion in every one just because I enjoy exploring the world. Try to assume you're no more representative of the audience than I am and you'll understand why there's a market for the diverse range of games (including ones that you and I would call rubbish) that there is.
You seem to be positing an argument that violence negates art. Not the case. I reference Fight Club, Taxi Driver, Silence of the Lambs and more... all acclaimed movies that use violence/man's inhumanity to man as the central driver for their plots.
Half Life 1 and 2 similarly use pacing of tension and release through violence to create what I would describe as games of high artistic value.
You seem to think that only when games are limited to recreating the storytelling forms already occupied by other art forms that they will work. What you should be complaining about is the bad storytelling in shooters, not that they automatically make for bad stories, because they don't.
He does a whole spiel about the effort they put in to stop children seeing it.
I'm sorry, requiring people to push an "are you 18 or over" button is not protecting anyone, just protecting the porn sites from liability suits.
Clear difference. You are a private, and therefore unaccountable, citizen. The Executive Branch is a publicly funded, and therefore publically accountable, organisation.
Particularly given the power it wields... setting up a system to avoid that accountability is de facto setting up to subvert democracy. Your example doesn't apply here, unless you are the presiding body of the government of a country.
As a New Zealander I have to point out this is entirely untrue.
Most of the mothers in our country are quantum phsyicists.
Quite. I will always remember one student friend denouncing another as a fascist for daring to make the radical remark that if he had a wife and family he would deem it appropriate to pursue a career in order to provide for them.
Said friend now fights to bring about socialist utopia by selling computers at a major retailer. Vive la revolution!
Will Wright developed a genre defining game in the 80s, and another one (whether you or I personally like it) in 2000. It might not stimulate your interest but it will plenty of others. You don't think his career is worthy of hype? How many household-name games have you developed in your life? In essence to answer your question: I have to say... tell me why Will Wright needs to care about your dollar.
NB not a fanboy here... both Sims and Sim City leave me cold... but as someone who'd at least demo anything put out by Blizzard or Rockstar I can understand who Will Wright devotees would be grooving right along with the hype here.
For that matter for the most part the wiimote-based games/minigames that "require" movement can be controlled using wrist-to-fingers once you have mastered the gestures.
I like how the /. crowd mod someone advocating violence to children as insightful instead of troll.
Some guy pointed at the latest convenient blame magnet, mainly because he couldn't think of a way to suggest pop music creates paedophiles. Let's not degenerate into flared-nostril hysteria.
*sings "You're sixteen, you're impressionable, and you're miiiiiine..."*
I noticed that too... I was looking at the tags to provide an example of what machine-created tagging has to go up against to beat human tagging for a rant up above. I guess I have to thank that idiot for proving my point. Humans do hostile tags, they haven't yet written a subroutine to make a machine act like a jerk.
I really think you're forgetting about the power of booleans over indexed content and the weakness of string searching. Positing a tag-dense web search in which autoindexers crunch tags for every page as one containing an overabundance of hits compared to string searching is arguable, but in fact what tag searching does is provide a far meaningful range of hits. There might or might not be more, but it's better.
We need to couple the proposed "semantic web" with more than the single-box search page or rather, allow users who can't cope with anything beyond single-box and/or learning to use operators to have their good old search google interface as a second option and put the current advanced search on the front end.
Pie in the sky I know, but I like to think that the drive to search simplicity is reflective of the needs of the last generation (scared of information density) and not of the potential of the future ones (growing up searching).
I can handle a search pretty well, and I'd enjoy getting more of a chance to search for meaning not just strings. Think of a search page with a theoretically infinite number of boxes - each box drops down to a specific type of search (tags, headers, content etc.) and operator, each box I can put an importance rating (so pages with matching tags are vital, pages with matching strings rank higher but aren't necessary etc. etc. etc. depending on my needs) and under the bottom box is a spawn new box button. If I don't like my results I customise my search, search-in-results, change my elements.
Professionally I work with custom-indexed databases all the time and it's a pain in the behind to know the amount of information available of the net but be faced time and again with its limitations. Every criticism you make of semantic searching here applies ten times over to string searching. Should the tag creation software be able to match human tagging in accuracy it would easily override it in coverage. As to accuracy, look at the tags assigned here. The article references the OS release of Reuters' Calais, and someone's assigned the tag "vaporware". Given that vaporware is by definition unreleased (and never to be released) software I'd say human tagging is running at 33% failure on this article at least.
My impression is that the OP is trying to link together a few disparate elements and make them equate to the kind of adware that reams your system and uses your mail service to promote viagra to all your buddies.
It's like saying games rooms in Yahoo are the same as WOW because of their common features (multiplayer, social, online). So long as no-one lists the differences the compact list of similarities looks alarming.
Were this article in the mainstream media we would call it yellow journalism for it's use of hyperbole to justify a dubious point.
An article reporting on the impact of these similarities on productivity, privacy etc. would be worthwhile, this is just hysteria.
Sorry to be tedious, but that confirms the price change not the handling of the customers. That's the element for which there is no confirmation.
Given that it was hungry enough to eat a whole other star I'd say it was not only low on Lithium, it was high on weed and seriously munching.
Surely the right to free speech you posit here includes giving them a right to demand censorship? Note that I'm not saying that they have a right to enforce it... nor that censorship is a good, quite the opposite... but asking for, demanding, screaming for censorship would fall under free speech. I don't think your freedom of speech trumps their freedom of speech; that's just nonsense, even if they are hollering for censorship and you're braying for freedom.
Democracy is about checks and balances. This is why the suggestion of finding a compromise is a reasonable one. I'm actually reeling a bit that there is someone who views it as a game of 500.
Was when I was talking to friend who is a Microsoft employee about considering Vista for the home network I'll be installing when I shift this month. He shook his head in a fiercely negative fashion while his mouth carefully said "I can't make any comment at all on that subject."
Given that they're one of the companies that demand their marketing people describe themselves as "Evangelists" that was a scary indication of a breakdown in religious fervour for the faithful.