Nothing in science is "proven". That's pretty much how science continues to work and why it's so god damn cool.
However, just like evolution, it's statistically more likely that a theory with a lot of evidence is going to undergo more gradual changes than complete overhauls. It is extremely extremely extremely unlikely evolutionary theory as it exists now will ever be completely replaced, but the chance is always going to be there.
Call of Duty 4 II: WWII. Keeping the FPS genre fresh. Don't mind Far Cry 2 or Left 4 Dead or anything, here's a innovative new mod for a modern combat game about WWII!
But wait, wouldn't that mean they were relying on others to give a defense or commentary on their own chosen literary field? Maybe they should stop being social parasites, pull themselves up by their bootstraps, and do it themselves!:)
Spoilers: I was quoting National Geographic because it had a concise summary of the article. You can find the fulltext of the two separate studies on Google.
Been reading too many oil company lackeys' "studies", eh? Guess everyone in the field is a gullible fool compared to you, random anonymous Internet poster.
This should be a boon for the warez groups (mostly in the legitimacy department) and will be yet another thing for the anti-DRM guys to latch onto to try to get more of the public on their side. If EA's going to go DRM-crazy let them, it'll only be another step toward (hopefully) the reform of the industry. Disenfranchises legitimate buyers, but EA doesn't really deserve legitimate buyers at this point.
One poster on the SA forums got banned for 37 days from Spore for saying someone's creature was "badass". Want your MP fix? Start downloading Hamachi, gentlemen.
There are people who truly need financial help, specifically the mentally and physically disabled. Anyone who is able-bodied should be looking for a job if they don't currently have one. I'm all for helping these people, but handing out checks isn't the solution. When I stop seeing people driving around in SUVs with chrome rims and talking on the latest expensive mobile phones, but buying groceries with food stamps maybe I'll reconsider welfare.
This is a conservative talking point that's long been refuted.
Attempts at "redistribution" do not address the mythical lazy guy on the street. Those people exist, sure, but they're a relative minority. The endemic problem is much larger in scale - namely the fact that certain people start behind, whether due to their upbringing in a lower class neighborhood/family or lack of education or simple lack of job opportunities in their area. It's the same thing with affirmative action - it's not as if people are running around rejecting African-Americans from higher education willy-nilly, it's an attempt to cushion the overall trend and provide a more level playing field. Conservatives love to point to individuals, both those who haven't done well due to some perceived laziness or something, as well as those who "have the American dream", but it does not address the overall trend.
Obama does not take this on directly because doing so would be an implicit admission that "redistribution of wealth" is a good thing, which the Cold War mentality has taught us Is Inherently Bad despite the fact that associating this scheme with socialism is pretty out-there and equating communism with socialism is about the same.
The police showed up at your door without a warrant and you voluntarily gave them your hard drive. Would help if more Americans exercised their legal rights.
That's a whole lot of hypotheticals. Why would your coders be unresponsive via IM, yet have the patience to download a 200MB client and not fall asleep? Who's assuming that sitting in some pixel room "arouses your social instincts" any more than IM? Your coders also have to have a decent spec machine, find your e-place, and get there quickly enough, which seems simple but with the existing batch is horribly difficult.
I think if I had a team of people across the world and asked them to start up a game client and spend an hour navigating around attempting to familiarize them with the interface and dodging furry dicks, their defect counts would pretty quickly go to 100%.
The concept of "pure" virtual worlds (i.e. not a "game" with a massive community) is pure marketing hype through and through, an accidental but inevitable extension of the success instant messaging has had. The vast majority of people find very little use in the concept and even less in the execution. Part of this is the fact that such applications require someone to relatively social and extroverted (to find value in interaction for interaction's sake), yet also find a need to supplement or replace being social in the real world with doing it online. These subsets don't overlap too much.
The reason this doesn't apply to instant messaging is because instant messaging allows people to do much more: they can add coworkers and friends they know in real life, and be able to imitate existing technologies like the telephone they would already use and supplement them with advantages like a more casual environment allowing briefer conversations (also see SMS), and creating grouped conversations. It's form over function - you don't need a "3D world" to do that. So the problem is twofold. If you create a product that uses a new technology, and doesn't need that technology, it's introducing needless complexity. If you create a product that uses a new technology, but fails to extend current technologies, it's a novelty.
Existing "virtual worlds" have two uses: gambling and sex. SL is barren except for the "clubs", most of the others are too. The only thing keeping the concept afloat is the endless cycle of press articles on about how "innovative" it is. Businesses have no sales in these "worlds" because while advertising is something that people accept on TV, if they don't have to go to a advertising area in the game they won't.
Rich: You have to understand too, that all the players are heroic. When you play as a non-Jedi class, you're playing a heroic version of that class.
So instead of making the Jedi and other players on an equal ground by, say, making the Jedi untrained-in-combat Padawans or something, everyone gets to be their own special snowflake with tens of thousands of legendary bounty hunters running around at once. Brilliant.
The notion of a "water-powered car" is stupid conspiracy theory touted by those who never took a introductory chemistry course because electrolysis consumes energy. It might be novel (which is its only real value) but inside all those cars are batteries which are doing electrolysis and then the resulting mixture is burned, which is vastly less efficient than using that power to drive the car or using hydrogen created by wind or solar.
It's worse because it's lock-in. Stardock phased out stand-alone patching in the middle of Sins' lifespan. Having to use their service to update my game is silly and unnecessary: not only because of the utterly bloated, poorly-coded mess that is Impulse, but that several games, like Red Alert 3, as well as virtually every MMO can just run a small patcher at launch or when you click "Multiplayer", or *shock horror* provide updates standalone.
It's obviously done to attempt to play Steam's game where 99% of the difficulty is getting your client in the door of the consumer and then they can make all sort of reckless impulse (pun unintended) buys. It's also done because it's a sneaky way to get DRM in the door: if you include it on the game disk, my god, stop the presses, but if it's in the patch, you can just write it off as "optional" and everybody loves you. Of course, an unpatched game at launch is about as good as _no_ game. But anyway, the failure for Stardock to frame it in an honest way undercuts their rhetoric. The consumer must understand that Stardock has made several plays that fail to meet the standards of the average anti-DRM crowd (yes! Steam violates most of these too!), and that the ones that were not were done so purely for profit's sake.
I want my game client on a CD, DVD, or untouched download. I want my patches standalone so they can be backed up. I don't want your software to phone home, I want as little outside of the core executable as possible for automatic updates if they're so required. If you want a CD key, fine. But that's enough: the failure of piracy to adequately tackle unlocking of multiplayer content on new releases shows that it's effective at least until someone develops a good enough keygen (way down the line). I'm not super-crazy about lack of DRM but this should be the model Stardock is aspiring to if they are sincere in their efforts. So far I have seen nothing but hand-waving.
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If an AMD box is $200 cheaper than a Intel box you are doing it wrong.
The E5200 is the same price as AMD's best offerings and smokes all of them. The motherboard is the same price, around $80.
Good to know they cease and desisted Halogen and then didn't even work on a PC port!
Hahahaha, no.
Nothing in science is "proven". That's pretty much how science continues to work and why it's so god damn cool.
However, just like evolution, it's statistically more likely that a theory with a lot of evidence is going to undergo more gradual changes than complete overhauls. It is extremely extremely extremely unlikely evolutionary theory as it exists now will ever be completely replaced, but the chance is always going to be there.
Two words. Battlefield Vietnam.
Call of Duty 4 II: WWII. Keeping the FPS genre fresh. Don't mind Far Cry 2 or Left 4 Dead or anything, here's a innovative new mod for a modern combat game about WWII!
This game is going to be a colossal failure.
But wait, wouldn't that mean they were relying on others to give a defense or commentary on their own chosen literary field? Maybe they should stop being social parasites, pull themselves up by their bootstraps, and do it themselves! :)
Bioshock ITSELF was written better than that pap. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
US ARMY - "VIRTUAL ONLINE INTERNET GAME USING ETHERNET CONNECTIONS AND PROGRAMMING" - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LOG
PARMENTOLA0WNZ: heh. are u a robot?
SEPHIROTH112: WHAT THE HELL IS THIS TP ME BACK TO BARRENS YOUR NOT A GM
PARMENTOLA0WNZ: my god, men. weve done it.
LOG ENDS
No bones about it!
Spoilers: I was quoting National Geographic because it had a concise summary of the article. You can find the fulltext of the two separate studies on Google.
This is /., forgive them for not RTFA :p
Been reading too many oil company lackeys' "studies", eh? Guess everyone in the field is a gullible fool compared to you, random anonymous Internet poster.
Sun Not a Global Warming Culprit, Study Says
Solar Variability Unlikely To Have Caused Recent Warming
Don't Blame Sun for Global Warming, Study Says
Solar Activity Not Causing Warming
It's okay! TES: Monopoly has level scaling, so every property costs the same and your money supply is pegged to everyone's else's!
This should be a boon for the warez groups (mostly in the legitimacy department) and will be yet another thing for the anti-DRM guys to latch onto to try to get more of the public on their side. If EA's going to go DRM-crazy let them, it'll only be another step toward (hopefully) the reform of the industry. Disenfranchises legitimate buyers, but EA doesn't really deserve legitimate buyers at this point.
One poster on the SA forums got banned for 37 days from Spore for saying someone's creature was "badass". Want your MP fix? Start downloading Hamachi, gentlemen.
Stop right there, subprime scum!
PAY $200
GO TO JAIL
RESIST ARREST
This is a conservative talking point that's long been refuted.
Attempts at "redistribution" do not address the mythical lazy guy on the street. Those people exist, sure, but they're a relative minority. The endemic problem is much larger in scale - namely the fact that certain people start behind, whether due to their upbringing in a lower class neighborhood/family or lack of education or simple lack of job opportunities in their area. It's the same thing with affirmative action - it's not as if people are running around rejecting African-Americans from higher education willy-nilly, it's an attempt to cushion the overall trend and provide a more level playing field. Conservatives love to point to individuals, both those who haven't done well due to some perceived laziness or something, as well as those who "have the American dream", but it does not address the overall trend.
Obama does not take this on directly because doing so would be an implicit admission that "redistribution of wealth" is a good thing, which the Cold War mentality has taught us Is Inherently Bad despite the fact that associating this scheme with socialism is pretty out-there and equating communism with socialism is about the same.
They might on the successor.
Or...the company could just take the side off and put up an extra picture on NewEgg. Bit less hassle there.
The police showed up at your door without a warrant and you voluntarily gave them your hard drive. Would help if more Americans exercised their legal rights.
That's a whole lot of hypotheticals. Why would your coders be unresponsive via IM, yet have the patience to download a 200MB client and not fall asleep? Who's assuming that sitting in some pixel room "arouses your social instincts" any more than IM? Your coders also have to have a decent spec machine, find your e-place, and get there quickly enough, which seems simple but with the existing batch is horribly difficult.
I think if I had a team of people across the world and asked them to start up a game client and spend an hour navigating around attempting to familiarize them with the interface and dodging furry dicks, their defect counts would pretty quickly go to 100%.
The concept of "pure" virtual worlds (i.e. not a "game" with a massive community) is pure marketing hype through and through, an accidental but inevitable extension of the success instant messaging has had. The vast majority of people find very little use in the concept and even less in the execution. Part of this is the fact that such applications require someone to relatively social and extroverted (to find value in interaction for interaction's sake), yet also find a need to supplement or replace being social in the real world with doing it online. These subsets don't overlap too much.
The reason this doesn't apply to instant messaging is because instant messaging allows people to do much more: they can add coworkers and friends they know in real life, and be able to imitate existing technologies like the telephone they would already use and supplement them with advantages like a more casual environment allowing briefer conversations (also see SMS), and creating grouped conversations. It's form over function - you don't need a "3D world" to do that. So the problem is twofold. If you create a product that uses a new technology, and doesn't need that technology, it's introducing needless complexity. If you create a product that uses a new technology, but fails to extend current technologies, it's a novelty.
Existing "virtual worlds" have two uses: gambling and sex. SL is barren except for the "clubs", most of the others are too. The only thing keeping the concept afloat is the endless cycle of press articles on about how "innovative" it is. Businesses have no sales in these "worlds" because while advertising is something that people accept on TV, if they don't have to go to a advertising area in the game they won't.
So instead of making the Jedi and other players on an equal ground by, say, making the Jedi untrained-in-combat Padawans or something, everyone gets to be their own special snowflake with tens of thousands of legendary bounty hunters running around at once. Brilliant.
The notion of a "water-powered car" is stupid conspiracy theory touted by those who never took a introductory chemistry course because electrolysis consumes energy. It might be novel (which is its only real value) but inside all those cars are batteries which are doing electrolysis and then the resulting mixture is burned, which is vastly less efficient than using that power to drive the car or using hydrogen created by wind or solar.
Hydrogen is not an energy source.
It's worse because it's lock-in. Stardock phased out stand-alone patching in the middle of Sins' lifespan. Having to use their service to update my game is silly and unnecessary: not only because of the utterly bloated, poorly-coded mess that is Impulse, but that several games, like Red Alert 3, as well as virtually every MMO can just run a small patcher at launch or when you click "Multiplayer", or *shock horror* provide updates standalone.
It's obviously done to attempt to play Steam's game where 99% of the difficulty is getting your client in the door of the consumer and then they can make all sort of reckless impulse (pun unintended) buys. It's also done because it's a sneaky way to get DRM in the door: if you include it on the game disk, my god, stop the presses, but if it's in the patch, you can just write it off as "optional" and everybody loves you. Of course, an unpatched game at launch is about as good as _no_ game. But anyway, the failure for Stardock to frame it in an honest way undercuts their rhetoric. The consumer must understand that Stardock has made several plays that fail to meet the standards of the average anti-DRM crowd (yes! Steam violates most of these too!), and that the ones that were not were done so purely for profit's sake.
I want my game client on a CD, DVD, or untouched download. I want my patches standalone so they can be backed up. I don't want your software to phone home, I want as little outside of the core executable as possible for automatic updates if they're so required. If you want a CD key, fine. But that's enough: the failure of piracy to adequately tackle unlocking of multiplayer content on new releases shows that it's effective at least until someone develops a good enough keygen (way down the line). I'm not super-crazy about lack of DRM but this should be the model Stardock is aspiring to if they are sincere in their efforts. So far I have seen nothing but hand-waving.