I remember reading a review (circa 1999) on the still-born B5 rts game. The models in game for the "Angle Fish of death" were about 1000 polygons, while the tv were about 100,000. Looking quickly, it seems that many models for Unreal Tournament today will come in around 3000 polygons. Kind of a scale difference.
Still, a B5 game would rock and look awesome on modern hardware.
1) it is only a free market economy if you ignore all the protections that the copyright cartels get.
2) One can like a free market and not want a free-for-all market. Most would agree some constraints are good. Also know as "Monopolies are bad. Mmmmm,kay?"
3) Your 3 item list would pack a bit more punch if it wasn't repeated so often. It seems to come up anytime someone dares to question of a free-for-all economy.
on a side note, I totally agree with your 3 items and i am going to follow your suggestion. Though i do have one small change: I am a VERY scared person and like to be REALLY safe so I am going to have to change the 5% to a 500% - For The Children mind you, not for myself.
I think it shows a rare kind of wit and wisdom to regularly read penny arcade given how pointless it must be. Without your tireless effort, some of us might end up spending hours enjoy ourselves in ways that are ++ungood.
yes, you maybe immortal, but have you considered WHY? I don't think it is a friendly form of immortality, i think someone just wants to mess with you for a reallllly long time.
as an aside: The current plan (or so we have been told) is that there will be 5 games in this series. With each new game, you would have more of a hands-off approach to the game.
Certainly in BW2 vs BW1, you can let your people run their owns lives more and they get by better and are more effective. I like the notion that by BW 4 or 5, you might be a more invisible hand guiding your people, inspiring them with out directly moving them.....
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Oh, one more comment, someone can probably verify this for me, don't Japanese children usually spend about 12 hours of their day in school 6 days a week? Sure, they're well educated, but at what cost in lost childhood?
If they really can have a positive cash flow by donating money, fantasic!
Sure, it just means the federal goverment gets less money but I am ok with that, even if it is not being spent in the best fashion. The more money moves, the more likely it is to end up in the hands of somebody who really needs it.
because the only time problems are solved is when people are directly looking for them? Please, history is rife with examples of unintened discoveries. PLUS you get the fact that if someone is doing something fun they will be more productive when they AREN'T.
It is about finding a balance, anything else is foolish at best.
The mistake is in assuming that you understand all the applications of a certain technology.
Look, maybe an intelligent door handle IS useless, maybe it's not. If you think you know the answer BEFORE you have built it and tired it out, you wrong. Maybe there is some un-foreseen advantage,maybe while trying to solve one stupid problem that doesn't matter you come across a brilliant solution to an entirely different problem. You don't know until you try.
Or to quote: "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."
Your right, i did miss that point and it is the single thing that makes me feel better about his possible appointment. All that means to me is that if he gets appointed it might not be as bad as it could be.
However, I really don't like the work he is most well known for and I can conceive of anything coming to light that would make me feel at all better about it.
It isn't who he worked for, but the view he has repeatedly taken on certain fundamental laws. He wasn't getting off a defendant, he was telling a client that he could commit murder in a legal way. Thats twisting the law in a nasty, nasty way. I wouldn't want to see him get to make laws.
Oh, and I am sure that this new task force on porn will in no way help sell him to the christian right.
Well, the issue wouldn't have to be if any software can make money after years X but what does the most good for the Rebuplic as a whole in most cases. You can ALWAYS find an example where after X number of years something is still selling alot of copies. The Bible still sells alot of copies. Does that mean that copyright should be over 2000 years?
Original copyright length would be FANTASIC. 14 years is a good amount of time for something to become part of the culture. Hell, even if people just had to file for their copyright that would be an improvement.
It goes without saying that that will not happen. There is going to be some swing to one side or the other, either a completely open system or serious restrictions on all media.
now hold on a second. You are talking trash about zork and articles he puts up. Thinking baout all the good he does. He shows us that any one can be a CEO as long as they have such insightful comments like "Old games are cheap". Zork brings us hope. Be grateful.
See, the way I read your comment is proof that the M2M has no real merit but I think you mean to imply that somehow this great thing is being done and no one is talking about it.
People will say alot of nasty things about the bush white house but no one will EVER say that they don't know how to spin news like a centrifuge. If this has gotten no press it is only because Rove and others have decided not to.
I mean, I think there is a 1 in a million chance that the BBC, CBC, NPR, CNN AND FOX News are all ignoring the SAME important story. Unlikely but it could happen. However I will never believe that Rove would let something wonderful slip by unused for spin especially if it really is doing some good.
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I remember reading a review (circa 1999) on the still-born B5 rts game. The models in game for the "Angle Fish of death" were about 1000 polygons, while the tv were about 100,000. Looking quickly, it seems that many models for Unreal Tournament today will come in around 3000 polygons. Kind of a scale difference.
Still, a B5 game would rock and look awesome on modern hardware.
1) it is only a free market economy if you ignore all the protections that the copyright cartels get.
2) One can like a free market and not want a free-for-all market. Most would agree some constraints are good. Also know as "Monopolies are bad. Mmmmm,kay?"
3) Your 3 item list would pack a bit more punch if it wasn't repeated so often. It seems to come up anytime someone dares to question of a free-for-all economy.
on a side note, I totally agree with your 3 items and i am going to follow your suggestion. Though i do have one small change: I am a VERY scared person and like to be REALLY safe so I am going to have to change the 5% to a 500% - For The Children mind you, not for myself.
I think it shows a rare kind of wit and wisdom to regularly read penny arcade given how pointless it must be. Without your tireless effort, some of us might end up spending hours enjoy ourselves in ways that are ++ungood.
thank you.
yes, you maybe immortal, but have you considered WHY? I don't think it is a friendly form of immortality, i think someone just wants to mess with you for a reallllly long time.
for the reccord, i think you going to hell for that. Just thought i should warn you.
as an aside: The current plan (or so we have been told) is that there will be 5 games in this series. With each new game, you would have more of a hands-off approach to the game.
Certainly in BW2 vs BW1, you can let your people run their owns lives more and they get by better and are more effective. I like the notion that by BW 4 or 5, you might be a more invisible hand guiding your people, inspiring them with out directly moving them.....
Less sex?
Which really,is a problem.
A) just look at their birth rate: 9.47 vs our 14.14 births/1,000 population (2005 est.) (http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geo
B) Sex is fun, people hsould have more of it.
Honestly, japan and the US are soooo different in so many ways that looking at just one thing, or even a dozen, doesn't say much.
Did we ever mention that while we love living here, we love you living there? Thank you world!
If they really can have a positive cash flow by donating money, fantasic!
Sure, it just means the federal goverment gets less money but I am ok with that, even if it is not being spent in the best fashion. The more money moves, the more likely it is to end up in the hands of somebody who really needs it.
i think what distrubs me most, is that I want to mod this insightful....
except not as many wedgies....
And you run into the exact same problem that we are in: you want to make films, that you think, are wrong.
Someone else thinks then seeing sex between 2 men is sick, or a man and 2 women or....or....or....
It is one thing to rate a film (or video game) as adult, childern, whatever. It is another to rate something as forbidden.
because the only time problems are solved is when people are directly looking for them? Please, history is rife with examples of unintened discoveries. PLUS you get the fact that if someone is doing something fun they will be more productive when they AREN'T.
It is about finding a balance, anything else is foolish at best.
The mistake is in assuming that you understand all the applications of a certain technology.
Look, maybe an intelligent door handle IS useless, maybe it's not. If you think you know the answer BEFORE you have built it and tired it out, you wrong. Maybe there is some un-foreseen advantage,maybe while trying to solve one stupid problem that doesn't matter you come across a brilliant solution to an entirely different problem. You don't know until you try.
Or to quote: "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."
you are a bad,bad man.
that we are going to find out that the baby's daddy is really PeopleSoft?
All I know is that when i try and figure out the ration I no longer get a divide by zero error.
did they watch the commercials before hand?
Your right, i did miss that point and it is the single thing that makes me feel better about his possible appointment. All that means to me is that if he gets appointed it might not be as bad as it could be.
However, I really don't like the work he is most well known for and I can conceive of anything coming to light that would make me feel at all better about it.
while i do realize that congress is the one who makes laws, i think it is VERY clear that the SCOTUS can twist laws, for good or ill.
It isn't who he worked for, but the view he has repeatedly taken on certain fundamental laws. He wasn't getting off a defendant, he was telling a client that he could commit murder in a legal way. Thats twisting the law in a nasty, nasty way. I wouldn't want to see him get to make laws.
Oh, and I am sure that this new task force on porn will in no way help sell him to the christian right.
Well, the issue wouldn't have to be if any software can make money after years X but what does the most good for the Rebuplic as a whole in most cases. You can ALWAYS find an example where after X number of years something is still selling alot of copies. The Bible still sells alot of copies. Does that mean that copyright should be over 2000 years?
Original copyright length would be FANTASIC. 14 years is a good amount of time for something to become part of the culture. Hell, even if people just had to file for their copyright that would be an improvement.
It goes without saying that that will not happen. There is going to be some swing to one side or the other, either a completely open system or serious restrictions on all media.
Should be fun finding out.
now hold on a second. You are talking trash about zork and articles he puts up. Thinking baout all the good he does. He shows us that any one can be a CEO as long as they have such insightful comments like "Old games are cheap". Zork brings us hope. Be grateful.
See, the way I read your comment is proof that the M2M has no real merit but I think you mean to imply that somehow this great thing is being done and no one is talking about it.
People will say alot of nasty things about the bush white house but no one will EVER say that they don't know how to spin news like a centrifuge. If this has gotten no press it is only because Rove and others have decided not to.
I mean, I think there is a 1 in a million chance that the BBC, CBC, NPR, CNN AND FOX News are all ignoring the SAME important story. Unlikely but it could happen. However I will never believe that Rove would let something wonderful slip by unused for spin especially if it really is doing some good.
Luddite. :)