Unfortunately, this golden era of videogames came to an end with consoles.
When did this golden era end? You imply that this era was happening in 1992, and that it ended sometime later than that. But consoles had already been around for years by 1992. Do you mean that the golden era ended with a later round of console games? If so, what console round caused the end of the golden era? I mean, the Atari 2600 came out in 1977. The NES came out in 1985. The Super Nintendo came out in 1991.
Also, what type of game are you referring to? "Computer" games? Your post implies that a principle point of the golden era was the prevalance of games that you wanted to try out. I believe that the word "wanted" is the key point of that statement. Wanted implies desire that was not satisfied. I conclude that you were reading Computer Game Review and oogling all the games displayed and _wanted_ to play them, but were unable to.
Flash forward a few years when you had more disposable income. You either went back and actually played a lot of those games and discovered they were actually crappy (and many of them were); or you went out and played a lot of the games that were then modern and discovered that many of them were actually crappy (and many of them were) and concluded that something had changed inbetween 1992 and your ability to play any game that interested you.
Now you bitterly rue the days that could have been, dreaming to play: Dune II, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Alone in the Dark, Myst, Simcity, Wing Commander, Wing Commander II, Ultima 7, et. cetera. Truly, if you didn't get the chance to play any of these gems; then you did miss out. But there certainly weren't hundreds of quality games out there.
what percentage of energy is lost in fossil fuel to engine transer
Lots.
what percentage would be lost in fossil fuel to hydrogen to engine transfer?
Much less than lots.
We have power plants that run very, very efficiently (compared to cars). What the GP is proposing is to tap those efficient engines and store the energy in hydrogen that will then be burned in cars.
Essentially going from millions of little and inefficient carbon burners to thousands of large and very efficient carbon burners.
So again, let's just leave it as "If you play a game, you're a gamer." Avoids a lot of such complications.
So if you use a computer, you're a geek? If you drive a car, you're an auto enthusiast? If you walk, you're a fitness buff?
It's a tough line to draw, but surely there is a distinction between people who play the occasional solitare game and people who spend way too much time writing about gaming distinctions on a geek news site.
Then there's block editing (quickly comment out sections of code), recording, complete access to all commands (including navigation) from the homerow of the keyboard, etc.
Saddam is not and was not affected in any way or in any fashion by the USA Patriot Act. Well, I guess he might have been entertained by it. In the same way that watching Coyote (of Roadrunner and Coyote) run off the edge of a cliff and not fall until he realizes what he has done is entertaining.
Saddam did not have terrorist networks operating in the US. Saddam was the defiant leader of a country that was falling to pieces and only bound together by a strong and ruthless government. Saddam was a definate threat to human rights. He was a definate threat to the Kurds and other non-Baathist groups. But he was no threat to the United States.
Now there's a programmer after my own heart. All you naysayers should actually think about this a little. I mean, they're only tracking 30,000 objects! Just build a clean, shiny GUI interface that has buttons for everything that the company wants to do. Those buttons execute well designed CLI calls, parse the output (if needed), and return it to the shiny app. Unless they expect to go from tracking 30,000 objects to several million this system would be perfectly usable, much less buggy, faster, and easier to maintain.
WTF? Surely you concede that patches to critical systems should only be applied by professionals who have analyzed what the patch will change and what needs to be handled. If I was upgrading grep (which hasn't changed its calls in...quite a while) then I could easily see what's being updated/changed and slightly modify how the slick GUI calls it.
Although I have to say that I haven't seen any change in these fundamental GNU CLI apps that hasn't been easily integrated into legacy code. How often do you think sed, or grep, or vi will change their command calls?
Maybe you would have thought that, but I sure wouldn't have. For more realistic rises to power in a similar framework check out the Godfather (the book mostly, the movie if necessary).
So now explain why Jabba was big in Episode I, small in Episode IV, and then big in Episode VI.
Yeah, ok. Why don't you look around and compare the prevalance of game porn to movie porn. No seriously. Go into Best Buy or whatever and see if you can find some softcore movies (or any movie that has a topless woman scene). Now go find the game that has something equally raunchy in the same store. Now try and find one game for each movie and see how many games you can find vs. how many movies.
For the dozens and dozens of movies you'll find, there are three videogame titles I can think of that could (at a stretch) fit the bill: Leisure Suit Larry, Playboy: the game, and The Guy Game. Yeah. Videogames are sure at the cutting edge of hardcore.
No, GP said: "Congratulations, DoA-lady-fanciers! You're pathetic."
So, referring specifically to gamers that play DoA and find the CGI characters enticing and calling them pathetic. While I am impressed with your odd logical jujitsu, I have to say that it is misapplied here.
But anyway, you say: "I think the grandparent's point was that when a movie is made out of a game the general public sees the movie as a reflection on the game. So if the movie is complete and utter tripe, then the general public wonders why "gamers" would even waste their time on something like this."
So if the GP is referring to DoA players as pathetic because they are playing a complete garbage (by that I assume you mean awful, not fun, boring, etc.) game; then how would a bad movie not be accurately reflecting that game?
Disaster? Have cities been leveled by the sheer awfulness of this name? Have populations of screaming masses been filmed fleeing its destruction? Are cancer rates around Nintendo HQ tripling?
What in the world do you mean by "disaster"? Do you really think that the system will tank because of the name "Wii"?
Surely this demonstrates how big of a mistake Nintendo made here by giving their console a stupid name then, if the name is to some degree alienating the exact people Nintendo needs to reach out to most to make this console work.
Nintendo doesn't need to reach out to the game news reading segment of the population. Nintendo is trying to reach out to people who have never played video games before. By my empirical examinations 'Wii' as a product name is a big hit for this group. And you can't beat the tagline: "Wii will change everything."
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Usama doesn't believe in the Islamic religion so much as he exploits belief in the Islamic religion.
(Sorry to post as a reply, but I can't find the frigging "top level reply" link on the article page for some reason...)
It's...where it always is. Did you buy your 4 digit id off eBay?
Also, what type of game are you referring to? "Computer" games? Your post implies that a principle point of the golden era was the prevalance of games that you wanted to try out. I believe that the word "wanted" is the key point of that statement. Wanted implies desire that was not satisfied. I conclude that you were reading Computer Game Review and oogling all the games displayed and _wanted_ to play them, but were unable to.
Flash forward a few years when you had more disposable income. You either went back and actually played a lot of those games and discovered they were actually crappy (and many of them were); or you went out and played a lot of the games that were then modern and discovered that many of them were actually crappy (and many of them were) and concluded that something had changed inbetween 1992 and your ability to play any game that interested you.
Now you bitterly rue the days that could have been, dreaming to play: Dune II, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Alone in the Dark, Myst, Simcity, Wing Commander, Wing Commander II, Ultima 7, et. cetera. Truly, if you didn't get the chance to play any of these gems; then you did miss out. But there certainly weren't hundreds of quality games out there.
We have power plants that run very, very efficiently (compared to cars). What the GP is proposing is to tap those efficient engines and store the energy in hydrogen that will then be burned in cars.
Essentially going from millions of little and inefficient carbon burners to thousands of large and very efficient carbon burners.
Wow. That's the longest rant against game consoles having superior gaming that I've never read.
It's a tough line to draw, but surely there is a distinction between people who play the occasional solitare game and people who spend way too much time writing about gaming distinctions on a geek news site.
Mmm, the tea thermos is a refreshing treat indeed. Your method sounds tasty, I will try it out.
Coffee. Black.
Tea. Black || Green.
Easy, convenient, and zero sugar.
Because you can't do really, really powerful text editing with anything else, except emacs.
Vim Tips.
I do some development from Windows and Linux.
:%s/\r//g :%s/\r/\r/g
You just can't do stuff like:
Delete ^M DOS returns -
Turn ^M into "real" returns -
with Joe.
More VIM tricks.
Then there's block editing (quickly comment out sections of code), recording, complete access to all commands (including navigation) from the homerow of the keyboard, etc.
While you may have gotten that impression, it was wrong. Sorry.
Jabba the Hutt presides over the Boonta Eve Podrace.
Saddam is not and was not affected in any way or in any fashion by the USA Patriot Act. Well, I guess he might have been entertained by it. In the same way that watching Coyote (of Roadrunner and Coyote) run off the edge of a cliff and not fall until he realizes what he has done is entertaining.
Saddam did not have terrorist networks operating in the US. Saddam was the defiant leader of a country that was falling to pieces and only bound together by a strong and ruthless government. Saddam was a definate threat to human rights. He was a definate threat to the Kurds and other non-Baathist groups. But he was no threat to the United States.
Now there's a programmer after my own heart. All you naysayers should actually think about this a little. I mean, they're only tracking 30,000 objects! Just build a clean, shiny GUI interface that has buttons for everything that the company wants to do. Those buttons execute well designed CLI calls, parse the output (if needed), and return it to the shiny app. Unless they expect to go from tracking 30,000 objects to several million this system would be perfectly usable, much less buggy, faster, and easier to maintain.
WTF? Surely you concede that patches to critical systems should only be applied by professionals who have analyzed what the patch will change and what needs to be handled. If I was upgrading grep (which hasn't changed its calls in...quite a while) then I could easily see what's being updated/changed and slightly modify how the slick GUI calls it.
Although I have to say that I haven't seen any change in these fundamental GNU CLI apps that hasn't been easily integrated into legacy code. How often do you think sed, or grep, or vi will change their command calls?
Just because some companies don't spread FUD, doesn't mean that all companies don't spread FUD.
I am American. I like spicy food. !Logic => Americans like spicy food.
Why is it unfortunate? Every word had to be invented at some point.
Maybe you would have thought that, but I sure wouldn't have. For more realistic rises to power in a similar framework check out the Godfather (the book mostly, the movie if necessary).
So now explain why Jabba was big in Episode I, small in Episode IV, and then big in Episode VI.
Indeed, any serious bounty hunter should've said, "Hands on the table, palms down or I shoot."
If your ears are so sensitive to sound quality, you wouldn't be buying 128k AAC files from the iTunes Music Store anyway.
Yeah, ok. Why don't you look around and compare the prevalance of game porn to movie porn. No seriously. Go into Best Buy or whatever and see if you can find some softcore movies (or any movie that has a topless woman scene). Now go find the game that has something equally raunchy in the same store. Now try and find one game for each movie and see how many games you can find vs. how many movies.
For the dozens and dozens of movies you'll find, there are three videogame titles I can think of that could (at a stretch) fit the bill: Leisure Suit Larry, Playboy: the game, and The Guy Game. Yeah. Videogames are sure at the cutting edge of hardcore.
No, GP said: "Congratulations, DoA-lady-fanciers! You're pathetic."
So, referring specifically to gamers that play DoA and find the CGI characters enticing and calling them pathetic. While I am impressed with your odd logical jujitsu, I have to say that it is misapplied here.
But anyway, you say: "I think the grandparent's point was that when a movie is made out of a game the general public sees the movie as a reflection on the game. So if the movie is complete and utter tripe, then the general public wonders why "gamers" would even waste their time on something like this."
So if the GP is referring to DoA players as pathetic because they are playing a complete garbage (by that I assume you mean awful, not fun, boring, etc.) game; then how would a bad movie not be accurately reflecting that game?
Disaster? Have cities been leveled by the sheer awfulness of this name? Have populations of screaming masses been filmed fleeing its destruction? Are cancer rates around Nintendo HQ tripling?
What in the world do you mean by "disaster"? Do you really think that the system will tank because of the name "Wii"?
Surely this demonstrates how big of a mistake Nintendo made here by giving their console a stupid name then, if the name is to some degree alienating the exact people Nintendo needs to reach out to most to make this console work.
Nintendo doesn't need to reach out to the game news reading segment of the population. Nintendo is trying to reach out to people who have never played video games before. By my empirical examinations 'Wii' as a product name is a big hit for this group. And you can't beat the tagline: "Wii will change everything."
Duct tape leaves a sticky residue if applied for an extended period of time. Real geeks stick to gaffer's tape.