The AC paradigm was intended to encourage important information from people in sensitive positions. The fact that any Joe Schmoe can use and abuse it is a unfortunate, yet necessary by-product. Unless you are in a sensitive position, no justification for being allowed to post AC means that you ought to. And if you choose to when you don't have to, people may criticize or ridicule you (It's their freedom of speech, too, whether they post AC or not).
True freedom means that you shouldn't need AC. You post AC because you are not free, or because you are afraid of freedom. If you want to be super-free, then You should leave the U.S., since by necessity you must give up certain freedoms to participate in a democracy. Otherwise, you must be willing to concede that willingness to give up certain freedoms =/= you hate freedom. Lately I wonder if people here in Canada are becoming more free and libertarian than people in the US.
Unless maybe I'm just over-thinking the whole thing:-P
This sort of thing made me laugh when playing the new Grand Theft Auto. At various points in the game, your character has access to a television, car radio, and computers with Internet access. There is so much additional content to read and hear, very few players will see it all.
Strictly speaking, it was both. It had conversation based gameplay, and attribute upgrading, but relied heavily on FPS gameplay. It's also got a good story, but for the social/conversation based gameplay aspect, it pretty much requires a decent story.
I agree, and it's also a bit frustrating when fancy graphics actually kind of get in the way of playing the game. Hi-res console games tend to look very poor on older and/or smaller televisions. I guess the assumption is that if you can afford a modern console, you could also afford a big-screen.
The Prettiness factor tends to wear off quickly, anyways. And just because it's very Pretty doesn't mean it's easy to look at, or understand what's happening.
I know that for Rock Band at least, each song is given it's own general difficulty rating as well as a per-instrument difficulty. For example, "Number of the Beast" is supposed to be one of the most difficult guitar pieces, but it's quite reasonable for a drummer on the same level.
That being said, it's still not a difficulty system that works for everyone, it's targeted towards the hardcore players of that particular game.
A Wow Expansion pack makes the slashdot frontpage? Someone (indirectly) complaining gets modded flamebait? Are there really that many WoW players here on slashdot???
See, I would agree with this under most other circumstances... but this is a frickin' university. Which is supposed to be a paradigm of learning. Carleton is supposed to be well-known for it's computer science programs. In fact, it's MY university. It's an embarrassment that this hack, no matter how non-trivial, can't be taken in good humour, or that it's possible at all. Although, if the same people who designed our website (with it's crap-load of out of date class related material and web pages), then I wouldn't be that surprised.
I'll do some investigating myself on campus. In a day or so, I'll post a follow up in my journal here on slashdot, for anyone interested. I had never even heard about this until I read it this morning, here.
For Christ's sake, this isn't news for nerds. This is news for marketing. All that I can gather from this commercial is that Gates' retirement has given him time for his new job; being a celebrity.
I guess you could argue that it's news for marketing nerds, but that's probably the worst kind of nerd, just a couple steps below grammar nazi nerds.
braces himself for the "insensitive clod" comments
Actually, that's an interesting point. Not that you actually need to be running Ubuntu, but if you're running any Linux desktop you should be able to do anything that's reported to be doable in Ubuntu. It might just take a little more elbow-grease.
In fact, it uses wXwidgets for it's GUI, which aims to be cross platform between windows and the *nixes. Really, more of a testament to FLOSS, if not Linux.
Actually the last couple of line of that 'the economist' article seems to imply that they've designed Wuala with ways to discourage illegal or inappropriate content. It doesn't elaborate further, unfortunately.
right on. I set up my buddy with Ubuntu and WoW (plus a few other games including unreal tournament 2k4, alpha centauri, Sauerbraten, and others), and he knows dick all about how linux or wine works. The terminal scares him, and he's unable to do just trivial tasks. But now that he's got his system working, he says he prefers it a lot to windows xp. Judging by posts made on ubuntuforums, this is typical behaviour for the newbies that need to ask a lot of questions about basic things. Ubuntu and other for-everyone* distros mostly broken down the technical barrier, now it just has to break down the moron barrier**. Native clients would help a lot with this.
*I call them "for everyone", because they actually are for everyone, not just newbies. Although, everyone does include newbies, so since that takes more work that's where most of their focus needs to be.
**Yeah, I'm calling my buddy a moron, but he'd probably agree and then laugh anyways.
He might be talking about the updated releases for the LTS versions. 8.04.1 is out now, for example. I'm not sure if the non-LTS versions also do this.
But really, referring to these as separate releases is kind of nit-picking.
Well, it's likely you'll be able to stick games on the SD cards...
Already possible on the wii. Although, you can also simply delete downloaded games, and re-download them later for no additional charge.
Both of these take some tinkering around, and some people might not consider either to be acceptable solutions. It would be very nice to use some sort of PC-based game server, you would be limited only by your PC's harddrive capacity. Although Nintendo would probably want to stay as far away from the PC as possible, for several reasons.
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The AC paradigm was intended to encourage important information from people in sensitive positions. The fact that any Joe Schmoe can use and abuse it is a unfortunate, yet necessary by-product. Unless you are in a sensitive position, no justification for being allowed to post AC means that you ought to. And if you choose to when you don't have to, people may criticize or ridicule you (It's their freedom of speech, too, whether they post AC or not).
True freedom means that you shouldn't need AC. You post AC because you are not free, or because you are afraid of freedom. If you want to be super-free, then You should leave the U.S., since by necessity you must give up certain freedoms to participate in a democracy. Otherwise, you must be willing to concede that willingness to give up certain freedoms =/= you hate freedom. Lately I wonder if people here in Canada are becoming more free and libertarian than people in the US.
Unless maybe I'm just over-thinking the whole thing :-P
Sometimes a cigar-shaped dwarf planet is just a cigar-shaped dwarf planet.
But why do you act so cowardly whenever you're making a post on slashdot?
I kid, I kid.
Story games are good, but sometimes you have to appreciate the games that take a minimalist approach to story-telling.
This sort of thing made me laugh when playing the new Grand Theft Auto. At various points in the game, your character has access to a television, car radio, and computers with Internet access. There is so much additional content to read and hear, very few players will see it all.
Did you forget about Deus Ex?
Deus Ex was an action RPG, not an FPS.
Strictly speaking, it was both. It had conversation based gameplay, and attribute upgrading, but relied heavily on FPS gameplay. It's also got a good story, but for the social/conversation based gameplay aspect, it pretty much requires a decent story.
I agree, and it's also a bit frustrating when fancy graphics actually kind of get in the way of playing the game. Hi-res console games tend to look very poor on older and/or smaller televisions. I guess the assumption is that if you can afford a modern console, you could also afford a big-screen.
The Prettiness factor tends to wear off quickly, anyways. And just because it's very Pretty doesn't mean it's easy to look at, or understand what's happening.
But it won't be free... It's not like AMD is going to publicly disclose what they stole from Intel...
I know that for Rock Band at least, each song is given it's own general difficulty rating as well as a per-instrument difficulty. For example, "Number of the Beast" is supposed to be one of the most difficult guitar pieces, but it's quite reasonable for a drummer on the same level.
That being said, it's still not a difficulty system that works for everyone, it's targeted towards the hardcore players of that particular game.
Condos? Frig that, I just want a place to get away from it all.
A Wow Expansion pack makes the slashdot frontpage? Someone (indirectly) complaining gets modded flamebait? Are there really that many WoW players here on slashdot???
Not just the name, but the existing subscribers too. Or at least, the existing subscribers that don't care about who owns napster.
When you're talking music industry, your primary commodity is not the music, it's the people.
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See, I would agree with this under most other circumstances... but this is a frickin' university. Which is supposed to be a paradigm of learning. Carleton is supposed to be well-known for it's computer science programs. In fact, it's MY university. It's an embarrassment that this hack, no matter how non-trivial, can't be taken in good humour, or that it's possible at all. Although, if the same people who designed our website (with it's crap-load of out of date class related material and web pages), then I wouldn't be that surprised.
I'll do some investigating myself on campus. In a day or so, I'll post a follow up in my journal here on slashdot, for anyone interested. I had never even heard about this until I read it this morning, here.
For Christ's sake, this isn't news for nerds. This is news for marketing. All that I can gather from this commercial is that Gates' retirement has given him time for his new job; being a celebrity.
I guess you could argue that it's news for marketing nerds, but that's probably the worst kind of nerd, just a couple steps below grammar nazi nerds.
braces himself for the "insensitive clod" comments
Actually, that's an interesting point. Not that you actually need to be running Ubuntu, but if you're running any Linux desktop you should be able to do anything that's reported to be doable in Ubuntu. It might just take a little more elbow-grease.
In fact, it uses wXwidgets for it's GUI, which aims to be cross platform between windows and the *nixes. Really, more of a testament to FLOSS, if not Linux.
Actually the last couple of line of that 'the economist' article seems to imply that they've designed Wuala with ways to discourage illegal or inappropriate content. It doesn't elaborate further, unfortunately.
You've obviously not been on the moon before.
wait, what? That sounds like a pretty unjustified assumption. ;-)
right on. I set up my buddy with Ubuntu and WoW (plus a few other games including unreal tournament 2k4, alpha centauri, Sauerbraten, and others), and he knows dick all about how linux or wine works. The terminal scares him, and he's unable to do just trivial tasks. But now that he's got his system working, he says he prefers it a lot to windows xp. Judging by posts made on ubuntuforums, this is typical behaviour for the newbies that need to ask a lot of questions about basic things. Ubuntu and other for-everyone* distros mostly broken down the technical barrier, now it just has to break down the moron barrier**. Native clients would help a lot with this.
*I call them "for everyone", because they actually are for everyone, not just newbies. Although, everyone does include newbies, so since that takes more work that's where most of their focus needs to be.
**Yeah, I'm calling my buddy a moron, but he'd probably agree and then laugh anyways.
Masturbating Monkey? With a special focus on security?
He might be talking about the updated releases for the LTS versions. 8.04.1 is out now, for example. I'm not sure if the non-LTS versions also do this.
But really, referring to these as separate releases is kind of nit-picking.
Well, it's likely you'll be able to stick games on the SD cards...
Already possible on the wii. Although, you can also simply delete downloaded games, and re-download them later for no additional charge.
Both of these take some tinkering around, and some people might not consider either to be acceptable solutions. It would be very nice to use some sort of PC-based game server, you would be limited only by your PC's harddrive capacity. Although Nintendo would probably want to stay as far away from the PC as possible, for several reasons.
mod parent insightful, much better explanation.