If you look here, right in the middle of all that stuff: 4028'32.25, 9329'9.24
you can see that someone has carefully bombed within the white lines while making sure to avoid the dark. Probably the huger line configurations are the same thing on a much greater scale. Kinda pointless, but if you have the money for crazily big target sites you might as well build them.
Does the headline "Gates Fires Air Force Chiefs Over Nuclear Blunders" have anything to do with the headline "Nuclear Warhead Blueprints On Smugglers' Computers" or, on the other hand, is it paranoid for one to read all headlines together?
Look: Microsoft and Yahoo compete for the Icy North.
What does this say?
They've been competing with MS for many years now and they know who their enemy is.
Furthermore:
Yahoo is run by/. type people with/. ideas. I suspect that they simply bought into the Anti-Microsoft trend of anger, fear and loathing that permeates our sector of the internet. I'll bet that Yahoo people can browse/. without exciting too much attention; Microsoft people have to keep a low profile and wear asbestos.
I mean to say... would you like to be bought by Microsoft?
Why not just build a giant supercomputer in Bellview Washington, give everyone a few input devices and a monitor and do away with the whole stupid concept of "personal computers". It would be plenty cheaper and totally end gaming piracy. And modding too probably. But who cares about the modders?
Naturally a few details would have to be worked out, a few technological problems solved, but that is exactly what they are doing right now.
Nobody seems to hate the concept of terrorism as much as the Brits -
I would like to see us have an Osama Bin ladin day where we burn his effigy to fireworks and general celebration - and Guy fawkes never actually carried out the gunpowder plot AND nobody seems to forget the bloody goverment reprisals that have taken place under the guidance of the old Kings and Queens, mostly due to religious differences. here I name but a few:
The rampage of Bloody Bonner during the reign of Queen Mary I
The Bloody Assizes of Judge Jeffreys in the reign of King James II
The repression in Scotland against the highlanders after the first Jacobite rebellions which some historians have called genocide
The Peterloo Massacre in 1819
Have the English forgot all of these thousands of government killings and yet still remember Guy Fawkes who did not manage to kill a single person? If I were British I would be considerably more afraid of my government than any terrorist.
I too hesitate to buy such games even though I have constant internet access.
The reason:
Steam always messes up, tells me I don't have Counterstrike and I have to reboot to get it to work. If something as seemingly well designed as Steam doesn't work very well I suspect EAs version will be a nightmare. Its hard enough for EA to make anything right in my experience and I would be very cautious even if Blizzard did this.
Also it sets a dreadful precedent for games requiring internet.
And finally it wont stop the pirates, probably not even a little bit.
Its worthless in the first place, annoying in the second, broken in the third, and fourthly and lastly its evil.
But Its clear that when Tim Sweeney talks about games and I talk about games we are not talking about the same thing. Unreal sucks; Its not fun; and only the creeps with super expensive systems ever want to play it at lan parties.
Why the hell do EA men and Sweeney make the crapiest games and then complain about the gaming market?
If Unreal is the apogee of games then the computer really is a useless machine - but I'll stick to my Dwarf Fortress and Starcraft, reveling in my self defined glory, disdainful of anything geared to run with dual core machines.
If theft is legalized I don't think it's theft anymore.
If this is your view then I suggest you make the British government give back all the stuff they stole legally. When they give back the massive amount of egyption art and all the rest of the loot they aquired through colonialism you might have a point, but I doubt it.
While were at it why not make the government give back Nevada to the native Americans.
Sometimes It appears what is legally stolen and what is not is a matter of who has the gavel.
Text adventures were always the best of games. I learned most of my twisted vocabulary from playing them at ages 5-7. at the same time MS-DOS gave me a little inside knowledge about the basic workings of a computer that the youth of today is unlikely to learn. we NEED more things involving green text on a black background!
Text adventures are still being made though by a dedicated and increasingly sophisticated group (look for BAFs Archive for instance). MUDS are still being played. Comander Keen is still easy to procure (even easier.) people are even more devious Starcraft players than ever before.
Sure, new games are excessively violent, fairly stupid and, more importantly, boring. Todays games are probably only fit for all of us mind-numbed adults and the really slow children. But! remember:
The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
Will this lead to sill more Google earth placemarks like:
Metitor
11/15/06 09:32 PM The Meterior that killed the dinasurs impacted here. -TreySpooner
37*10'40N 151*06'07W
OR
Bloody town???
09/17/06 03:33 PM But what is this?? It can't be a bad resolution!! and the sand can't be red...or yes??? I don't know God bless the USA & Spain -USfer
This could turn out to be a way to figure out some of the great blockbuster philosophical problems that puzzle and infuriate anybody who has not read Oolon Colluphid.
If the scientists built an entire human brain they will presumably fail to install such things as Free Will - A concept which philosophers still argue is logically possible. Will this prove that Free Will does not exist? Or will it simply be impossible to detect?
For a sort of example of this remember William Gibson's consideration of this in his book "Neuromancer". In that passage the mind of the hacker Case has been trapped inside a massive artificial intelligence where he improbably finds his lost girlfriend and a young boy, the manifestation of the AI known as Neuromancer on a beach.
"And here things could be counted, each one. He knew the number of grains of sand in the construct of the beach (a number coded in a mathematical system that existed nowhere outside the mind that was Neuromancer). He knew the number of yellow food packets in the canisters in the bunker (four hundred and seven). He knew the number of brass teeth in the left half of the open zipper of the salt-crusted leather jacket that Linda Lee wore as she trudged along the sunset beach, swinging a stick of driftwood in her hand (two hundred and two). He banked Kuang above the beach and swung the program in a wide circle, seeing the black shark thing through her eyes, a silent ghost hungry against the banks of lowering cloud. She cringed, dropping her stick, and ran. He knew the rate of her pulse, the length of her stride in measurements that would have satisfied the most exacting standards of geophysics.
"But you do not know her thoughts," the boy said, beside him now in the shark thing's heart. "I do not know her thoughts. You were wrong, Case. To live here is to live. There is no difference." Linda in her panic, plunging blind through the surf. "Stop her," he said, "she'll hurt herself." "I can't stop her," the boy said, his gray eyes mild and beautiful."
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If you look here, right in the middle of all that stuff: 4028'32.25, 9329'9.24 you can see that someone has carefully bombed within the white lines while making sure to avoid the dark. Probably the huger line configurations are the same thing on a much greater scale. Kinda pointless, but if you have the money for crazily big target sites you might as well build them.
Does the headline "Gates Fires Air Force Chiefs Over Nuclear Blunders" have anything to do with the headline "Nuclear Warhead Blueprints On Smugglers' Computers" or, on the other hand, is it paranoid for one to read all headlines together?
Look: Microsoft and Yahoo compete for the Icy North. What does this say? They've been competing with MS for many years now and they know who their enemy is. Furthermore: Yahoo is run by /. type people with /. ideas. I suspect that they simply bought into the Anti-Microsoft trend of anger, fear and loathing that permeates our sector of the internet. I'll bet that Yahoo people can browse /. without exciting too much attention; Microsoft people have to keep a low profile and wear asbestos.
I mean to say... would you like to be bought by Microsoft?
Why not just build a giant supercomputer in Bellview Washington, give everyone a few input devices and a monitor and do away with the whole stupid concept of "personal computers". It would be plenty cheaper and totally end gaming piracy. And modding too probably. But who cares about the modders?
Naturally a few details would have to be worked out, a few technological problems solved, but that is exactly what they are doing right now.
After I posted (too quickly) I immediately saw my error. You are completely correct.
/. I knew that somebody would eventually catch it, so congratulations for being the first!
this being
Nobody seems to hate the concept of terrorism as much as the Brits -
I would like to see us have an Osama Bin ladin day where we burn his effigy to fireworks and general celebration
- and Guy fawkes never actually carried out the gunpowder plot
AND nobody seems to forget the bloody goverment reprisals that have taken place under the guidance of the old Kings and Queens, mostly due to religious differences. here I name but a few:
The rampage of Bloody Bonner during the reign of Queen Mary I
The Bloody Assizes of Judge Jeffreys in the reign of King James II
The repression in Scotland against the highlanders after the first Jacobite rebellions which some historians have called genocide
The Peterloo Massacre in 1819
Have the English forgot all of these thousands of government killings and yet still remember Guy Fawkes who did not manage to kill a single person?
If I were British I would be considerably more afraid of my government than any terrorist.
I too hesitate to buy such games even though I have constant internet access.
The reason:
Steam always messes up, tells me I don't have Counterstrike and I have to reboot to get it to work.
If something as seemingly well designed as Steam doesn't work very well I suspect EAs version will be a nightmare.
Its hard enough for EA to make anything right in my experience and I would be very cautious even if Blizzard did this.
Also it sets a dreadful precedent for games requiring internet.
And finally it wont stop the pirates, probably not even a little bit.
Its worthless in the first place, annoying in the second, broken in the third, and fourthly and lastly its evil.
Shocking.
But Its clear that when Tim Sweeney talks about games and I talk about games we are not talking about the same thing.
Unreal sucks; Its not fun; and only the creeps with super expensive systems ever want to play it at lan parties.
Why the hell do EA men and Sweeney make the crapiest games and then complain about the gaming market?
If Unreal is the apogee of games then the computer really is a useless machine - but I'll stick to my Dwarf Fortress and Starcraft, reveling in my self defined glory, disdainful of anything geared to run with dual core machines.
If theft is legalized I don't think it's theft anymore.
If this is your view then I suggest you make the British government give back all the stuff they stole legally. When they give back the massive amount of egyption art and all the rest of the loot they aquired through colonialism you might have a point, but I doubt it.
While were at it why not make the government give back Nevada to the native Americans.
Sometimes It appears what is legally stolen and what is not is a matter of who has the gavel.
Text adventures were always the best of games. I learned most of my twisted vocabulary from playing them at ages 5-7.
at the same time MS-DOS gave me a little inside knowledge about the basic workings of a computer that the youth of today is unlikely to learn.
we NEED more things involving green text on a black background!
Text adventures are still being made though by a dedicated and increasingly sophisticated group (look for BAFs Archive for instance). MUDS are still being played. Comander Keen is still easy to procure (even easier.) people are even more devious Starcraft players than ever before.
Sure, new games are excessively violent, fairly stupid and, more importantly, boring. Todays games are probably only fit for all of us mind-numbed adults and the really slow children. But! remember:
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
Will this lead to sill more Google earth placemarks like:
Metitor
11/15/06 09:32 PM
The Meterior that killed the dinasurs impacted here.
-TreySpooner
37*10'40N
151*06'07W
OR
Bloody town???
09/17/06 03:33 PM
But what is this?? It can't be a bad resolution!! and the sand can't be red...or yes??? I don't know
God bless the USA & Spain
-USfer
29*14'36N
41*26'46E
This could turn out to be a way to figure out some of the great blockbuster philosophical problems that puzzle and infuriate anybody who has not read Oolon Colluphid.
If the scientists built an entire human brain they will presumably fail to install such things as Free Will - A concept which philosophers still argue is logically possible.
Will this prove that Free Will does not exist?
Or will it simply be impossible to detect?
For a sort of example of this remember William Gibson's consideration of this in his book "Neuromancer".
In that passage the mind of the hacker Case has been trapped inside a massive artificial intelligence where he improbably finds his lost girlfriend and a young boy, the manifestation of the AI known as Neuromancer on a beach.
"And here things could be counted, each one. He knew the
number of grains of sand in the construct of the beach (a number
coded in a mathematical system that existed nowhere outside
the mind that was Neuromancer). He knew the number of
yellow food packets in the canisters in the bunker (four hundred
and seven). He knew the number of brass teeth in the left half
of the open zipper of the salt-crusted leather jacket that Linda
Lee wore as she trudged along the sunset beach, swinging a
stick of driftwood in her hand (two hundred and two).
He banked Kuang above the beach and swung the program
in a wide circle, seeing the black shark thing through her eyes,
a silent ghost hungry against the banks of lowering cloud. She
cringed, dropping her stick, and ran. He knew the rate of her
pulse, the length of her stride in measurements that would have
satisfied the most exacting standards of geophysics.
"But you do not know her thoughts," the boy said, beside
him now in the shark thing's heart. "I do not know her thoughts.
You were wrong, Case. To live here is to live. There is no
difference."
Linda in her panic, plunging blind through the surf.
"Stop her," he said, "she'll hurt herself."
"I can't stop her," the boy said, his gray eyes mild and
beautiful."