I see a lot of comments saying "Cisco's job is to make a profit." Infact, ANY time there's a story about some company doing a TERRIBLE thing, it's always the same answer. "If it makes money it's okay."
Well, that kind of 'anything for a buck' attitude is exactly what gets us the DMCA. It's what gets all DRM bills passed through Congress. It's exactly the opposite of what Free (speech) software is about.
It's okay to make a buck, but you have to make sure you're not causing harm to society in the process.
I think we need a change in corporate responsibility. Don't know how it's going to happen (except for Stakeholder's taking a stand, like in this article) but we need corporations to think of how they can better the world, and NOT just how they can better their profit margin.
He didn't say you SHOULD experiment. He's saying that if you do something wrong as a child, you're still a child and people expect you to make mistakes, so they don't KILL you over your first. As you grow older you need to stop making mistakes. If you don't stop, you'll need to be 'encouraged' more and more, which translates into more severe punishment.
Perhaps he make a poor word choice, but I think it's still obvious that he probably doesn't approve of homosexual acts even if you are just a teen.
Play a game where each person contributes their expertise. Tell a collaborative story, or make a drawing on the white-board.
One person draws something, then each person takes a turn 'fixing it.'
Or, play a mini-game of "Clue." You come up with something like maybe 'Dumbo.' Then you tell one person to draw an elephant while you give everyone else individual clues as to specifics about what you want this elephant to look like.
The Clue people tell the elephant person small changes to make for the elephant to look more like it's supposed to. (You can have the clues be images, to more accurately explain what the clue givers are supposed to describe.)
Okay, so that's nothing like "Clue." The point is, you involve your coworkers in an exercise where they each contribute to help the outcome achieve a more desired shape.
Me - "Look at Gears of War." He - "It's just another Doom." Me - "It's supposed to be about story and 'cover'" He - "Is it a single-player FPS?" Me - "Yes" He - "It's Doom."
It'll take a whole lot to make something other than a Doom clone. When you try, you mostly end up with a 'boring Doom clone.'
None of his examples hindered effective communication in the slightest. Infact it could be said that it 'increased' the effectiveness of the communication. Now we know that the submitter is more concerned with details than with results. We wouldn't have had that information if we hadn't misspelled anything.
His other point about 'appearing less intelligent' has more credibility, but not much. It comes down to knowing your audience and taking the necessary measures.
I think the reason the submitter imagined a connection between 'technical' people and grammatical/spelling shortcomings is because we are in, (and have been in) an area of real-time written communication.
If you're using Email, or worse Instant Messaging, or even worse IRC, or even worse 'talk.' The 'speed' at which you present your ideas means MUCH MUCH more to the effectiveness of the communication than dotting the I's and crossing the T's. And once it's established, it's just a matter of habit.
I wonder if the submitter has compared 'on-the-fly' writings of the 'Slashdot Crowd' vs their more permanent and published writings.
I was waiting for him to get the the PS controllers specifically to see if he said that.
I've not used a controller that was better. It's the symmetry. Sure these other ones might be better for specific games, but you can't make a jumbled mess of buttons and have it work well for 10 years worth of games.
That's why the PS3 controller did funky stuff with the handles, but didn't touch the button layout.
They are really really old, but you shouldn't really let that stop you.
The cool thing about delta force is that there are a million bad guys. You play the scenarios as multiplayer and you can just gun down bad guys as your whole group makes their way across the same map.
In our office, this was good, because it was low key while still somewhat interesting. We tried DM or CTF as well, but it just got too intense..and therefor noisy. (And management put a stop to it.)
Just last week, the Battlefield2 demo was released. All the download locations were smashed for at least 8 hours. If you were connected to one (even one that had a high rate to begin with) the estimated time to completion kept going up, not down.
After about an hour (and my estimate being 3 days) I found the torrent link, and one hour later, I had the 600mb file.
Can someone who actually plays 2 NCSoft games confirm or deny something for me?
It seemed to me in the all the wording and documentation found in PlayNC that their 'default' was something like this.
You buy a game, but you don't subscribe to a game, you subscribe to PlayNC. Then you're allowed to play any game that you've purchased.
That seems really convinient, and it seems strange that they'd do that without charging the same premium that SOE did, but like I said, that's the distinct impression I had from their verbage.
(However, there's not a chance that I'd buy that crap Lineage 2 to ever find out. (And I wouldn't pay $15 for the 'half-MMOG' CoH, even though it's mostly a good game.)
Getting off track, when CoV comes out, what you're allowed to do will be based on whether you've purchased CoH, not whether you have an active subscription...so it seems to fall in line with the same structure.)
The thing about time travel is that by nature, it has to be discovered simultaneously at all points in time. So, if we're not doing time travel right now, we never will. (At least random-access time travel. Someone might come up with a short term 'rewind' ala Superman or "Prince of Persia.")
The reason is...as soon as the first time machine is invented, then everyone from the future will jump back into the past and invent it first.
You'd have to do that in a way that your 'going to be' future self (don't they have those extra verb tenses in HitchHikers Guide?) won't know that you did it.
So, you couldn't just 'TELL' yourself what the good stock prices were, you'd have to set up a trust fund or something.
Or you could tell your 'going to be' best friend, and tell him not to tell you.:)
Tomb Raider is a PC game that was ported to the PlayStation. The PC graphics were much better. I tried to play TombRaider2 on a PlayStation, and I could just barely see what part of the pixelated mess was Lara. (The textures were VERY VERY low res.)
When it came out, the freedom of movement, the detail of animation, and the 3d environments were all amazing technical features. Not to mention it had "realistic" and fresh intellectual property.
"Great Graphics" have dimished returns lately, just like he's saying.
What's 'cool' now is "Great Physics." We have the 'visual' physics, with rag-doll deaths etc. Then we have the gimmick/puzzle physics that you saw in HL2. But at times, there is the essential gameplay type physics.
As graphics level off, the 'cool' games will start bulletting physics as their glitz and glamour..until that becomes an almost perfect simulation as well. I wonder what will be next.
Now, I don't have one, most likely won't get one, but there's something interesting.
On the Zboard for Battlefield 2 on the main panel, there are 25 buttons. If you assume your mouse is a Dpad with 2 buttons. That comes to 31 buttons to control a shooter like BF2.
If you look at the PS2 controller giving each Dpad or thumbstick 4 buttons), there are 22 buttons total.
So, 22 (using everything including start and select) vs 31 (and that's not including the 'extra' buttons on the other panel, let alone they keyboard for typing...etc
Unless the consoles go to a keyboard type controller, they simply don't have enough buttons to accomplish the job. And this is for a SHOOTER. For a more complex simulation type game, you'd be truly hosed.
If all you care about is Graphics, then the consoles look might attractive, (but they don't age well). However, if you look at 'depth of play' the consoles are inherantly crippled.
If the PC stops being a viable gaming platform. I stop being a viable gamer.
You guys are hilarious. Card is mentioned on Slashdot quite often. I would say ALL of this exposure is based on his position as the author of Ender's Game.
Whether he acts like it or not, he's not your "Mommy" telling you what's good or bad. However, everytime Card is mentioned, you can be sure there are many many (highly moderated even...which is even more insane) posts about how "Card is a bad man because he doesn't agree with me."
When someone is speaking in their station as a Sci-Fi author, it doesn't matter what they think of morality in the current day.
If this was a story about an article about homosexuality, then gripe all you want. As it stands, you sound like insecure idiots.
Final Level of Operation Flashpoint (pc)
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· Score: 3, Interesting
OFP is a ColdWar FPS. Renegade Russians take over some islands and threaten to launch a missile. US Forces in the area fly in to clean them out.
The missions take place on 4 large islands. There are no levels. The whole island is accessable at any time, and different missions just happen at different locations on the island.
In the last level, you fly your Cesnaback to the islands 10 years after the events. You get in a civilian car and drive around the island to meet up at a pub with your friends.
As you drive around, you're going through the same battlefields that you fought on. It was the coolest feeling to remember the hard battles fought and the experiences you had.
I'm not a veteran, but I can't help but imagine that they nailed the exact feeling you'd have if you actually did tour your old battlefields.
I'd testify on the witness stand that the whole game was worth playing simply to be able to have that feeling on the last level.
When I bought my house, and I had to sign a million papers, they handed me the first one, and I wrote my signature. The same one I write EVERYTIME, which I figured the whole point of a signature was.
"No, don't sign it like that. See where we typed it beneath the line. Sign it like that."
I always do my full name (since I go by my middle name, but all documentation is with my first name.) They typed First M. Last.
I wrote what they wanted me to, but thought it was pretty pointless as far as a signature goes.
Even worse is when they want you to 'initial changes.' I've been told if you make a mistake on a check and need to change it, just initial the change.
So, my grandma wrote a check to my wife, but she put the wrong name on it. The bank was going to accept it if "my grandma" changed the name and initialed it.
Do you have a signature intialization style?
I don't think Signatures were ever any good...they were just the 'best you could do'.
I think 'thumb prints' would be good. The store doesn't need the print. The bank doesn't even need the print. It's just if there's a challenge to a transaction, or contract, etc, you'd just have to give a new thumbprint to verify.
I thought that was pretty much the joke. That's why he laughed. I never knew if it was shorn cause it sounded like Shawn/Shaun/Sean or if it was Shawn/Shaun/Sean because it souneded like shorn.
I was thinking it was a joke I just didn't get...Like Ford Perfect...I mean Prefect.
Slashdot Mirror
Watch this movie about the new Motral Kombat
http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=7013
To me that seems exactly like the 'next generation' of the side-scrollers like Double Dragon and Bad Dudes.
I see a lot of comments saying "Cisco's job is to make a profit." Infact, ANY time there's a story about some company doing a TERRIBLE thing, it's always the same answer. "If it makes money it's okay."
Well, that kind of 'anything for a buck' attitude is exactly what gets us the DMCA. It's what gets all DRM bills passed through Congress. It's exactly the opposite of what Free (speech) software is about.
It's okay to make a buck, but you have to make sure you're not causing harm to society in the process.
I think we need a change in corporate responsibility. Don't know how it's going to happen (except for Stakeholder's taking a stand, like in this article) but we need corporations to think of how they can better the world, and NOT just how they can better their profit margin.
He didn't say you SHOULD experiment. He's saying that if you do something wrong as a child, you're still a child and people expect you to make mistakes, so they don't KILL you over your first. As you grow older you need to stop making mistakes. If you don't stop, you'll need to be 'encouraged' more and more, which translates into more severe punishment.
Perhaps he make a poor word choice, but I think it's still obvious that he probably doesn't approve of homosexual acts even if you are just a teen.
Play a game where each person contributes their expertise. Tell a collaborative story, or make a drawing on the white-board.
One person draws something, then each person takes a turn 'fixing it.'
Or, play a mini-game of "Clue." You come up with something like maybe 'Dumbo.' Then you tell one person to draw an elephant while you give everyone else individual clues as to specifics about what you want this elephant to look like.
The Clue people tell the elephant person small changes to make for the elephant to look more like it's supposed to. (You can have the clues be images, to more accurately explain what the clue givers are supposed to describe.)
Okay, so that's nothing like "Clue." The point is, you involve your coworkers in an exercise where they each contribute to help the outcome achieve a more desired shape.
If you say it, it will come.
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http://video.craveonline.com/v1/viral/stupid/500-
Aside from the fact that it's ametuerish and a definite 'fan film'.....Isn't that the coolest thing you've ever seen?
(I'm 'blocking-out' the Cheetara scenes.)
As the conversation with my friend went:
Me - "Look at Gears of War."
He - "It's just another Doom."
Me - "It's supposed to be about story and 'cover'"
He - "Is it a single-player FPS?"
Me - "Yes"
He - "It's Doom."
It'll take a whole lot to make something other than a Doom clone. When you try, you mostly end up with a 'boring Doom clone.'
Best of luck.
cook != kook
I could not figure out where the 'chef' came from or what the heck he had to do with the case.
His keywords were "communicating effectively."
None of his examples hindered effective communication in the slightest. Infact it could be said that it 'increased' the effectiveness of the communication. Now we know that the submitter is more concerned with details than with results. We wouldn't have had that information if we hadn't misspelled anything.
His other point about 'appearing less intelligent' has more credibility, but not much. It comes down to knowing your audience and taking the necessary measures.
I think the reason the submitter imagined a connection between 'technical' people and grammatical/spelling shortcomings is because we are in, (and have been in) an area of real-time written communication.
If you're using Email, or worse Instant Messaging, or even worse IRC, or even worse 'talk.' The 'speed' at which you present your ideas means MUCH MUCH more to the effectiveness of the communication than dotting the I's and crossing the T's. And once it's established, it's just a matter of habit.
I wonder if the submitter has compared 'on-the-fly' writings of the 'Slashdot Crowd' vs their more permanent and published writings.
I was waiting for him to get the the PS controllers specifically to see if he said that.
I've not used a controller that was better. It's the symmetry. Sure these other ones might be better for specific games, but you can't make a jumbled mess of buttons and have it work well for 10 years worth of games.
That's why the PS3 controller did funky stuff with the handles, but didn't touch the button layout.
They are really really old, but you shouldn't really let that stop you.
The cool thing about delta force is that there are a million bad guys. You play the scenarios as multiplayer and you can just gun down bad guys as your whole group makes their way across the same map.
In our office, this was good, because it was low key while still somewhat interesting. We tried DM or CTF as well, but it just got too intense..and therefor noisy. (And management put a stop to it.)
Just because you can't, doesn't mean I can't.
Just last week, the Battlefield2 demo was released. All the download locations were smashed for at least 8 hours. If you were connected to one (even one that had a high rate to begin with) the estimated time to completion kept going up, not down.
After about an hour (and my estimate being 3 days) I found the torrent link, and one hour later, I had the 600mb file.
Now THAT's what the torrent is all about.
Can someone who actually plays 2 NCSoft games confirm or deny something for me?
It seemed to me in the all the wording and documentation found in PlayNC that their 'default' was something like this.
You buy a game, but you don't subscribe to a game, you subscribe to PlayNC. Then you're allowed to play any game that you've purchased.
That seems really convinient, and it seems strange that they'd do that without charging the same premium that SOE did, but like I said, that's the distinct impression I had from their verbage.
(However, there's not a chance that I'd buy that crap Lineage 2 to ever find out. (And I wouldn't pay $15 for the 'half-MMOG' CoH, even though it's mostly a good game.)
Getting off track, when CoV comes out, what you're allowed to do will be based on whether you've purchased CoH, not whether you have an active subscription...so it seems to fall in line with the same structure.)
The thing about time travel is that by nature, it has to be discovered simultaneously at all points in time. So, if we're not doing time travel right now, we never will. (At least random-access time travel. Someone might come up with a short term 'rewind' ala Superman or "Prince of Persia.")
The reason is...as soon as the first time machine is invented, then everyone from the future will jump back into the past and invent it first.
You'd have to do that in a way that your 'going to be' future self (don't they have those extra verb tenses in HitchHikers Guide?) won't know that you did it.
:)
So, you couldn't just 'TELL' yourself what the good stock prices were, you'd have to set up a trust fund or something.
Or you could tell your 'going to be' best friend, and tell him not to tell you.
Tomb Raider is a PC game that was ported to the PlayStation. The PC graphics were much better. I tried to play TombRaider2 on a PlayStation, and I could just barely see what part of the pixelated mess was Lara. (The textures were VERY VERY low res.)
When it came out, the freedom of movement, the detail of animation, and the 3d environments were all amazing technical features. Not to mention it had "realistic" and fresh intellectual property.
It was a very good PC game when it came out.
"Great Graphics" have dimished returns lately, just like he's saying.
What's 'cool' now is "Great Physics." We have the 'visual' physics, with rag-doll deaths etc. Then we have the gimmick/puzzle physics that you saw in HL2. But at times, there is the essential gameplay type physics.
As graphics level off, the 'cool' games will start bulletting physics as their glitz and glamour..until that becomes an almost perfect simulation as well. I wonder what will be next.
http://www.play.net/hj/
Yeah...from the title I was guessing that the 3(4) benchmark machines would be:
X86/Linux vs G5/Linux
and
G5/Linux vs G5/MacOS X
But comparing
G5/MacOS X vs X86/Linux just seems kinda weird.
Have you ever looked at a Zboard? http://www.zboard.com/
Now, I don't have one, most likely won't get one, but there's something interesting.
On the Zboard for Battlefield 2 on the main panel, there are 25 buttons. If you assume your mouse is a Dpad with 2 buttons. That comes to 31 buttons to control a shooter like BF2.
If you look at the PS2 controller giving each Dpad or thumbstick 4 buttons), there are 22 buttons total.
So, 22 (using everything including start and select) vs 31 (and that's not including the 'extra' buttons on the other panel, let alone they keyboard for typing...etc
Unless the consoles go to a keyboard type controller, they simply don't have enough buttons to accomplish the job. And this is for a SHOOTER. For a more complex simulation type game, you'd be truly hosed.
If all you care about is Graphics, then the consoles look might attractive, (but they don't age well). However, if you look at 'depth of play' the consoles are inherantly crippled.
If the PC stops being a viable gaming platform. I stop being a viable gamer.
You guys are hilarious. Card is mentioned on Slashdot quite often. I would say ALL of this exposure is based on his position as the author of Ender's Game.
Whether he acts like it or not, he's not your "Mommy" telling you what's good or bad. However, everytime Card is mentioned, you can be sure there are many many (highly moderated even...which is even more insane) posts about how "Card is a bad man because he doesn't agree with me."
When someone is speaking in their station as a Sci-Fi author, it doesn't matter what they think of morality in the current day.
If this was a story about an article about homosexuality, then gripe all you want. As it stands, you sound like insecure idiots.
OFP is a ColdWar FPS. Renegade Russians take over some islands and threaten to launch a missile. US Forces in the area fly in to clean them out.
The missions take place on 4 large islands. There are no levels. The whole island is accessable at any time, and different missions just happen at different locations on the island.
In the last level, you fly your Cesnaback to the islands 10 years after the events. You get in a civilian car and drive around the island to meet up at a pub with your friends.
As you drive around, you're going through the same battlefields that you fought on. It was the coolest feeling to remember the hard battles fought and the experiences you had.
I'm not a veteran, but I can't help but imagine that they nailed the exact feeling you'd have if you actually did tour your old battlefields.
I'd testify on the witness stand that the whole game was worth playing simply to be able to have that feeling on the last level.
I think it's fine for them to cost more than the OS. The OS should be free with the hardware...
But, it's a little extreme when the application costs more than the hardware.
(Like a WoW subscription costing more than the internet connection to play it on.)
540,000 sq ft translates into 2700 city blocks?
That would mean each 'block' is 200 sq ft. Are these lilliputian cities?
Not really specifically about Credit Cards...
When I bought my house, and I had to sign a million papers, they handed me the first one, and I wrote my signature. The same one I write EVERYTIME, which I figured the whole point of a signature was.
"No, don't sign it like that. See where we typed it beneath the line. Sign it like that."
I always do my full name (since I go by my middle name, but all documentation is with my first name.) They typed First M. Last.
I wrote what they wanted me to, but thought it was pretty pointless as far as a signature goes.
Even worse is when they want you to 'initial changes.' I've been told if you make a mistake on a check and need to change it, just initial the change.
So, my grandma wrote a check to my wife, but she put the wrong name on it. The bank was going to accept it if "my grandma" changed the name and initialed it.
Do you have a signature intialization style?
I don't think Signatures were ever any good...they were just the 'best you could do'.
I think 'thumb prints' would be good. The store doesn't need the print. The bank doesn't even need the print. It's just if there's a challenge to a transaction, or contract, etc, you'd just have to give a new thumbprint to verify.
I thought that was pretty much the joke. That's why he laughed. I never knew if it was shorn cause it sounded like Shawn/Shaun/Sean or if it was Shawn/Shaun/Sean because it souneded like shorn.
I was thinking it was a joke I just didn't get...Like Ford Perfect...I mean Prefect.