Well said. I attempted to make some sort of coherant reply along the same lines but came out looking like I was just another angry reader... Which I suppose I was. But good job, I think your words reflect the feelings of the gaming community at large.
"Personally I think this is lame. If you want to see through walls, fine: It makes playing games lame, but thats your choice. But wow have a lot of people cried over this. As if crying is going to make any of this stop. Oh well, Asus will remove the driver, and anyone who wants it will just keep using it."
Excuse me Mr. Taco, but do you even play games? You think it's lame for the gaming community to stand together as one and say, "No, we will not accept commercial cheating" as lame? Guess what, taco, people, myself included like to play these games! And it's a real pain in the ass when you spend time developing your strategies and honing your senses to hear/feel your opponent coming, and hide around a corner to get him. But then some 12 yuear old kid with asus drivers nilhilates all that and just shoots you, because he knows you are there. Then there is the issue of walls that you can shoot through... where is the skill in that? Where is the fun in that?
And yet, in your ignorance, you call the uproar against this lame. Why don't you research your facts first? Society in general takes cheating in games very seriously, one example is drug testing at the olympics. Granted online games are not the olympics, but it is the same idea on a smaller scale.
And yes it makes playing games lame, but it's not ONE persons choice to make EVERYONE's game lame. Just ONE person cheating in a online game ruins it for everyone.
Bottom line, if you aren't knowledgable enough to comment on something then just don't. It will really aggravate those who DO have an informed opinion.
Oh my god! No one else has mentioned this? Staroffice comes with a complete web editor.. it's called, originally enough, StarOffice Web. All the nice fancy 'click-me' IDE stuff, no one wants to use emacs anymore, sorry.. That's what advancements in technology are for.:) (Ooo... going to be some burns on that one... I'm just kidding, guys).
Anyways, check out StarOffice! It's free, it kicks ass, it runs on Linux just fine! Plus it's only 100megs and includes a write, calculator program, drawing program, presentation program, scheduler, mail, database... the list goes on. Anyways, I used to used frontpage, then dreamweaver.. now I use StarOffice.
Another nice thing about SO Web is that ftp access is integrated.. just click on the FTP site on the left, and drag your local files up from a local explorer to the remote one. Click click click...
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One further point: have a look at some canadaian web site in another language, I just picked the first one I could find, http://www.chinasmile.net/index2.htm Can you read it? I can't. There's no english or french translations. Should the government intervene? Require english and french translation? Why not cree too? How about norwegian, polish, spanish, ect.. as well? Of course not. That'd be stupid. I rest my case.
Just some other quick things I found out: 1. The Site in question is hosted in Herndon, Virginia. 2. The O.L.F. Will not send him an English copy of the document with which they threaten him with fines. 3. He has no staff and no storefront. Can't the Bad French People (sorry, the people who are making life difficult for him are french) just leave him alone? Who is he hurting?
Obviously, by the number of posts I have put up on this matter, I have strong opinions on the subjet. But there is another related matter at hand here, Why is is nessesary to 'protect' a language? If it is healthy and being used by people, it will thrive and survive, without need of government protection. Things like starting to require law to keep the language going seem to indicate that it is in it's death throes. Is this the case of French?
I also speak french, until grade 3 I took nothing but french in school. But that has nothing to do with this, the issue here is that Quebec is forcing people to use a language they don't want to. End of story. How else can you see the situation? If people want to read in french, i have nothing against that, go ahead and read a french web site. If the people who own the web site can't speak french, it is misrepresentative to have a french translation. Forcing a language on someone is just as wrong as outlawing a language.
Am I missing something here? Or is this really what it seems... plain stupid. Living here in Alberta this problem seems far away, but it could impact me at some point. I say, fine, french signs in Quebec, and disallow French in every other province. Oh, what? Doesn't seem fair? Neither is forcing someone to use a language they don't want to. What about those who only know French and want to shop in French? What if the web site is the only of it's kind and they ca't read it? Aww.... too bad. I can't read chinese either if there was a chinese site I couldn't read. This law is not just on web sites either.. all signs in Quebec have to have french on them, and get this; earlier last year businesses were cracked down on for having English on their signs, even with the french traslations. This law is stupid, plain and simple, and it seems everyone, even the Quebecquois, understand this. So why is it still a law, and being enforced???
I saw the film on opening night, and it was different than what I expected. It did have some good points, nice space sequences, and it gave a real feel of being in space. I admit that it had many scientific inconsistencies, but so what? The reviewers are probably the same kind of people who annoy everyone when they are watching some star trek episode going, "that can't be, the enterprise's quatam phase array only has capacitence for 4K kilojules.." or some other shit. Lighten up, I say, and watch the movie. People go to movies to escape real life, and thusly you can forgive 'unreal' things. If you want to escape, go see a movie, if you want real life, sit on your chair and keep playing quake where one man kills armies and armies of trained warriors.
After reading the article, I couldn't help but wonder what type of software they would use to keep the processing happening smoothly. Parallel processing in the large such as this is a whole area of study on it's own, I would assume they would implement some sort of process control software that would model the virtual OS Linda, but I don't see any reference in the article as to how they are handling this.
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Well said. I attempted to make some sort of coherant reply along the same lines but came out looking like I was just another angry reader... Which I suppose I was. But good job, I think your words reflect the feelings of the gaming community at large.
"Personally I think this is lame. If you want to see through walls, fine: It makes playing games lame, but thats your choice. But wow have a lot of people cried over this. As if crying is going to make any of this stop. Oh well, Asus will remove the driver, and anyone who wants it will just keep using it." Excuse me Mr. Taco, but do you even play games? You think it's lame for the gaming community to stand together as one and say, "No, we will not accept commercial cheating" as lame? Guess what, taco, people, myself included like to play these games! And it's a real pain in the ass when you spend time developing your strategies and honing your senses to hear/feel your opponent coming, and hide around a corner to get him. But then some 12 yuear old kid with asus drivers nilhilates all that and just shoots you, because he knows you are there. Then there is the issue of walls that you can shoot through... where is the skill in that? Where is the fun in that? And yet, in your ignorance, you call the uproar against this lame. Why don't you research your facts first? Society in general takes cheating in games very seriously, one example is drug testing at the olympics. Granted online games are not the olympics, but it is the same idea on a smaller scale. And yes it makes playing games lame, but it's not ONE persons choice to make EVERYONE's game lame. Just ONE person cheating in a online game ruins it for everyone. Bottom line, if you aren't knowledgable enough to comment on something then just don't. It will really aggravate those who DO have an informed opinion.
Oh my god! No one else has mentioned this? Staroffice comes with a complete web editor.. it's called, originally enough, StarOffice Web. All the nice fancy 'click-me' IDE stuff, no one wants to use emacs anymore, sorry.. That's what advancements in technology are for. :) (Ooo... going to be some burns on that one... I'm just kidding, guys).
Anyways, check out StarOffice! It's free, it kicks ass, it runs on Linux just fine! Plus it's only 100megs and includes a write, calculator program, drawing program, presentation program, scheduler, mail, database... the list goes on. Anyways, I used to used frontpage, then dreamweaver.. now I use StarOffice.
Another nice thing about SO Web is that ftp access is integrated.. just click on the FTP site on the left, and drag your local files up from a local explorer to the remote one. Click click click...
(Author is in no way affiliated with Sun Microsystems(tm)).
Oh come on, the internet Sex Photos linked on that page is much more entertaining :)
One further point: have a look at some canadaian web site in another language, I just picked the first one I could find, http://www.chinasmile.net/index2.htm Can you read it? I can't. There's no english or french translations. Should the government intervene? Require english and french translation? Why not cree too? How about norwegian, polish, spanish, ect.. as well? Of course not. That'd be stupid. I rest my case.
Just some other quick things I found out: 1. The Site in question is hosted in Herndon, Virginia. 2. The O.L.F. Will not send him an English copy of the document with which they threaten him with fines. 3. He has no staff and no storefront. Can't the Bad French People (sorry, the people who are making life difficult for him are french) just leave him alone? Who is he hurting?
Obviously, by the number of posts I have put up on this matter, I have strong opinions on the subjet. But there is another related matter at hand here, Why is is nessesary to 'protect' a language? If it is healthy and being used by people, it will thrive and survive, without need of government protection. Things like starting to require law to keep the language going seem to indicate that it is in it's death throes. Is this the case of French?
Please do, seeing as how you can't see that this law in inherantly racist itself.
I also speak french, until grade 3 I took nothing but french in school. But that has nothing to do with this, the issue here is that Quebec is forcing people to use a language they don't want to. End of story. How else can you see the situation? If people want to read in french, i have nothing against that, go ahead and read a french web site. If the people who own the web site can't speak french, it is misrepresentative to have a french translation. Forcing a language on someone is just as wrong as outlawing a language.
Am I missing something here? Or is this really what it seems... plain stupid. Living here in Alberta this problem seems far away, but it could impact me at some point. I say, fine, french signs in Quebec, and disallow French in every other province. Oh, what? Doesn't seem fair? Neither is forcing someone to use a language they don't want to. What about those who only know French and want to shop in French? What if the web site is the only of it's kind and they ca't read it? Aww.... too bad. I can't read chinese either if there was a chinese site I couldn't read. This law is not just on web sites either.. all signs in Quebec have to have french on them, and get this; earlier last year businesses were cracked down on for having English on their signs, even with the french traslations. This law is stupid, plain and simple, and it seems everyone, even the Quebecquois, understand this. So why is it still a law, and being enforced???
I saw the film on opening night, and it was different than what I expected. It did have some good points, nice space sequences, and it gave a real feel of being in space. I admit that it had many scientific inconsistencies, but so what? The reviewers are probably the same kind of people who annoy everyone when they are watching some star trek episode going, "that can't be, the enterprise's quatam phase array only has capacitence for 4K kilojules.." or some other shit. Lighten up, I say, and watch the movie. People go to movies to escape real life, and thusly you can forgive 'unreal' things. If you want to escape, go see a movie, if you want real life, sit on your chair and keep playing quake where one man kills armies and armies of trained warriors.
After reading the article, I couldn't help but wonder what type of software they would use to keep the processing happening smoothly. Parallel processing in the large such as this is a whole area of study on it's own, I would assume they would implement some sort of process control software that would model the virtual OS Linda, but I don't see any reference in the article as to how they are handling this.