What peeves me off is when they get actual good, expensive actors for a dubbing, and still screw it up. For example, see Princess Mononoke - I mean, most of the characters were decent, but Billy Bob Thorton in the place of the bounty-hunting monk was just absurd. It's not like they couldn't have gotten some lesser known actor whose voice wouldn't have seemed totally absurd coming out of such a face.
Well, I doubt that all of those "objects" are actual unique malware programs. Most of the time when such malware scanners pick up on such a plethora, it's either oversensitivity (like malformed cookies) or a few heavily replicated monsters.
Here's my point - given how often people need it, why isn't a good imaging/flashing utility one of the standard accessories? Why can't I just launch "Microsoft Complete System Backup" put in a DVD, and let it rip?
There are numerous smaller backup tools integral to windows (recovery console, files/settings transfer wizard, etc) but to the best of my knowledge, nothing for the wholesale reconstruction of your machine. This, to me, seems to be a problem given how many times I've had to rescue users. The "recovery console" is a joke.
Most users know when they've gotten the machine the way they like it - their email is set up, the vender cruft has been surgically removed, and the patches have been downloaded. At this point, it would make sense to be able to save a copy of the system in case they b0rk it.
The keyword is *regulated* - the ratings of movies, for example, is entirely voluntary.
imho, any legislation that targets the games industry and ignores other forms of media is being made simply because the games industry is a convenient scapegoat. If this legislation were seriously aimed at fixing a problem, it would never specifically mention games, but instead of would focus on a general policy that could be applied across all media - novels, comics, games, movies, TV, etc.
Dunno about AO, but EVE and SWG were both quite famous for being slow, tedious, player-driven-society games. Good for people who want a complicated social structure, bad for people who want to just jump in and have some exciting combat.
Although I hear that the revamped SWG is more of the typical EQ-style dungeon-crawler.
Yep. I know a lot of people who avoid buying macs because "I don't want two desktops, and I still need to run certain apps that I don't know how well they will work on a Mac". Dual-boot will eliminate that worry.
Of course, hopefully a good Cedega-for-Mac solution will eliminate the need for dualboot altogether.
Yes, but my point is that if you only became 50x stronger over the course of the game from the point where you started (and lets say that the aforementioned bandits were met at the 5x mark) then they're not completely ignorable - they're still pathetically weak, but not a total joke - if they came at you in a group of 20, you might have a problem.
Amen. There will always be people who abuse the intended purpose of domain names. How many ".net"s are ISPs? Imho, they should've ditched the whole "categorized TLDs" from the start and stuck to the regional ones... possibly with a generic international ".x" TLD for multinational interests or places where the local TLD is not being used.
Besides, there are other uses for that bandwidth. For example, a friend of mine has experimental "everything over IP" - TV, phone, etc. The TV services aren't going through the larger internet backbone, but are provided directly by his ISP. In that case, a fat pipe, even with a weak backbone, still is very useful.
Ahh, the workarounds of the advancement treadmill. At some point developers need to suck it up and realise that maybe having players cover 5 orders of magnitude of power over the game is a little excessive.
Compare v. World of Darkness - the maximum starting value for an attribute is 5, and the maximum potential value is 10. Players double in strength, so that n00bs are at least on the same scale (if pitifully inadequate) as high-power characters.
Meanwhile, in your average RPG, every 10 levels adds another zero to all your attacks, making low-level characters look like insects compared to high level ones.
That's an unrealistic viewpoint. The fact is that the shareholders run the company. If the CEO is not exploiting opportunities to the fullest, the board will replace him with someone who will. The board is made up of shareholders - big, faceless mutual funds for example.
What this means in the long run is that a publicly traded company will naturally be drawn to maximizing shareholder profits, just as organisms are drawn to reproduce and survive. To expect otherwise is to go against nature.
If you want a publicly run company to be good, you must force it to be good - either by providing incentives to make it good, or consistently enforced deterrents from being bad. Otherwise, an ethical CEO will be replaced by a profitable one. If Wal-mart should be paying for medical insurance, then make a law stating that unskilled-labour businesses like wal-mart should pay for medical insurance Otherwise they won't.
This is why corporate libertarians bewilder me. Deregulation is basically handing the keys to a drunk driver.
Ever tried it? I have - making Python into an embedded game-development language (calling Uscript "scripting" is an understatement of it's integration) for gaming requires tearing it to shreds and rebuilding it practically from scratch - triply so if you're going to be using it to run untrusted user-made code.
Ep III is _not_ "the most SW-type film". Ep III is just more of the same as ep 1 and 2, but then done over-the-top. More chaos, more ships, more explosions. Then make it dark and violent.
The dialogue is still painful. The cameos are still pointless. The action is still flat. But there's so much more going on it manages to be fun anyways.
Heheh, Forever War has a similar "author restores a cut that was a good idea" - second chapter shows the world has turned into something between inner city LA and a third world country warzone - it was rather over-the-top. The original version that the editor had insisted on was a F451-esque brainwashed world. The problem is that he left in dialogue referring back to the F451-world when he restored his original chapter, so there is comments complaining about how brainwashed people were in the 21st century, when the chapter that took place in that time shows a 3rd world hellhole.
Reading that one made me think "sounds like they didn't want CounterStrike at all".
I mean really, there are plenty of games that focus on offense, action, sexy anime-style characters with big boobs and violent fun. Counterstrike isn't one of them. UT would probably be ideal if it wasn't so old (UT2k4 is very FPS-noob-unfriendly though).
Rejoice. UE3 doesn't use Uscript anymore - they made a copy of LabView's "Gee" language called "Kismet" - it's a graphical programming language. You do everything with flow charts. Function calls are little boxes, variables are lines you draw that connect them together. They also have a text language that you can use within it for things that work better as text (like arithmetic).
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And then you get stuck in traffic, customs, and luggage claim for the 5 hours after your flight. We have the real-world version of Niven's "Long Shot" - a vehicle so fast that the setup/takedown time vastly exceeded it's useful travel time, so as such it was generally useless compared to a vehicle that went a tenth as fast.
400 Unit rushes? I think you mispelled Total Annihilation. StarCraft was the pinnacle of the old-style of midscale RTS, whereas WC3 cut the scale down further - but make no mistake, StarCraft was very limited in scale, partly because of the 12 unit limit, but also because of hte excruciating pain of managing spellcasters.
TA is the large scale game. Go play TA spring to see a real monstrous war.
What you missed is _why_ he said it was important to have an oscars - to encourage games that break new ground, that aren't just "the last best thing redone". The fact is that the Oscars serve the movie industry in an important way - they generate buzz for movies that people may not have been interested in, because they don't have wow-bang promos and stuff.
That's the point. If you want games that take the industry in new directions, rather than playing it safe, you need a forum that will generate public interest in those games. He's not saying he wants an Oscars for the sake of fellating the artists, he wants one so that new, challenging game concepts can get the same buzz that new, challenging movies get. So that it's profitable to make the game.
Before you say "but profit is all-important" consider the long view - in the long run, opening new horizons is important to profit - it opens up new markets. The first explorations into the new horizons may not get the attention they deserve without somebody to draw it.
Actually, that's what I was referring to. I was using the thumb disk for M64. And the problem I run into with it is the fact that the area of control migrates too easily - when running long distances you can easily hit the end of the pad - which in racing challenges makes the game insanely frustrating.
Bewilders me too. A program that old and infamously cryptic doing a job that is so (theoretically) simple (it sends mail - whoa) has no excuse to have security flaws this late in the game.
Of course, I'm not an admin, so I am officially talking out of my hiney.
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What peeves me off is when they get actual good, expensive actors for a dubbing, and still screw it up. For example, see Princess Mononoke - I mean, most of the characters were decent, but Billy Bob Thorton in the place of the bounty-hunting monk was just absurd. It's not like they couldn't have gotten some lesser known actor whose voice wouldn't have seemed totally absurd coming out of such a face.
Well, I doubt that all of those "objects" are actual unique malware programs. Most of the time when such malware scanners pick up on such a plethora, it's either oversensitivity (like malformed cookies) or a few heavily replicated monsters.
Here's my point - given how often people need it, why isn't a good imaging/flashing utility one of the standard accessories? Why can't I just launch "Microsoft Complete System Backup" put in a DVD, and let it rip?
There are numerous smaller backup tools integral to windows (recovery console, files/settings transfer wizard, etc) but to the best of my knowledge, nothing for the wholesale reconstruction of your machine. This, to me, seems to be a problem given how many times I've had to rescue users. The "recovery console" is a joke.
Most users know when they've gotten the machine the way they like it - their email is set up, the vender cruft has been surgically removed, and the patches have been downloaded. At this point, it would make sense to be able to save a copy of the system in case they b0rk it.
The keyword is *regulated* - the ratings of movies, for example, is entirely voluntary.
imho, any legislation that targets the games industry and ignores other forms of media is being made simply because the games industry is a convenient scapegoat. If this legislation were seriously aimed at fixing a problem, it would never specifically mention games, but instead of would focus on a general policy that could be applied across all media - novels, comics, games, movies, TV, etc.
Dunno about AO, but EVE and SWG were both quite famous for being slow, tedious, player-driven-society games. Good for people who want a complicated social structure, bad for people who want to just jump in and have some exciting combat.
Although I hear that the revamped SWG is more of the typical EQ-style dungeon-crawler.
That had me laughing my ass off.
Yep. I know a lot of people who avoid buying macs because "I don't want two desktops, and I still need to run certain apps that I don't know how well they will work on a Mac". Dual-boot will eliminate that worry.
Of course, hopefully a good Cedega-for-Mac solution will eliminate the need for dualboot altogether.
Yes, but my point is that if you only became 50x stronger over the course of the game from the point where you started (and lets say that the aforementioned bandits were met at the 5x mark) then they're not completely ignorable - they're still pathetically weak, but not a total joke - if they came at you in a group of 20, you might have a problem.
Amen. There will always be people who abuse the intended purpose of domain names. How many ".net"s are ISPs? Imho, they should've ditched the whole "categorized TLDs" from the start and stuck to the regional ones... possibly with a generic international ".x" TLD for multinational interests or places where the local TLD is not being used.
Besides, there are other uses for that bandwidth. For example, a friend of mine has experimental "everything over IP" - TV, phone, etc. The TV services aren't going through the larger internet backbone, but are provided directly by his ISP. In that case, a fat pipe, even with a weak backbone, still is very useful.
Ahh, the workarounds of the advancement treadmill. At some point developers need to suck it up and realise that maybe having players cover 5 orders of magnitude of power over the game is a little excessive.
Compare v. World of Darkness - the maximum starting value for an attribute is 5, and the maximum potential value is 10. Players double in strength, so that n00bs are at least on the same scale (if pitifully inadequate) as high-power characters.
Meanwhile, in your average RPG, every 10 levels adds another zero to all your attacks, making low-level characters look like insects compared to high level ones.
This is the Tux that exists for Rei Ayanami. /NEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRD!!!!1111
And the only minor downsides are: horrendous waste of materials:
others will do it anyways
energy,
others will do it anyways
natural resources,
others will do it anyways
pollution,
not his problem, and others will do it anyways
slave and child labour abroad,
not his problem, and others will do it anyways
massive trade imbalances,
others will do it anyways
astronomical debt,
not his problem (probably his kids'), and others will do it anyways
erosion of American workplaces and a whole slew of other
not his problem, and others will do it anyways
fun side-effects of American Wal-Mart gluttony. Nothing to worry about. It is well worth that $150 he "saved".
welcome to the prisoners' dilemma at a worldwide scale.
That's an unrealistic viewpoint. The fact is that the shareholders run the company. If the CEO is not exploiting opportunities to the fullest, the board will replace him with someone who will. The board is made up of shareholders - big, faceless mutual funds for example.
What this means in the long run is that a publicly traded company will naturally be drawn to maximizing shareholder profits, just as organisms are drawn to reproduce and survive. To expect otherwise is to go against nature.
If you want a publicly run company to be good, you must force it to be good - either by providing incentives to make it good, or consistently enforced deterrents from being bad. Otherwise, an ethical CEO will be replaced by a profitable one. If Wal-mart should be paying for medical insurance, then make a law stating that unskilled-labour businesses like wal-mart should pay for medical insurance Otherwise they won't.
This is why corporate libertarians bewilder me. Deregulation is basically handing the keys to a drunk driver.
Ever tried it? I have - making Python into an embedded game-development language (calling Uscript "scripting" is an understatement of it's integration) for gaming requires tearing it to shreds and rebuilding it practically from scratch - triply so if you're going to be using it to run untrusted user-made code.
Ep III is _not_ "the most SW-type film". Ep III is just more of the same as ep 1 and 2, but then done over-the-top. More chaos, more ships, more explosions. Then make it dark and violent.
The dialogue is still painful. The cameos are still pointless. The action is still flat. But there's so much more going on it manages to be fun anyways.
Heheh, Forever War has a similar "author restores a cut that was a good idea" - second chapter shows the world has turned into something between inner city LA and a third world country warzone - it was rather over-the-top. The original version that the editor had insisted on was a F451-esque brainwashed world. The problem is that he left in dialogue referring back to the F451-world when he restored his original chapter, so there is comments complaining about how brainwashed people were in the 21st century, when the chapter that took place in that time shows a 3rd world hellhole.
The Ewoks at least had some casualties in their fight - compare v. the Gungans in Ep1.
Reading that one made me think "sounds like they didn't want CounterStrike at all".
I mean really, there are plenty of games that focus on offense, action, sexy anime-style characters with big boobs and violent fun. Counterstrike isn't one of them. UT would probably be ideal if it wasn't so old (UT2k4 is very FPS-noob-unfriendly though).
Rejoice. UE3 doesn't use Uscript anymore - they made a copy of LabView's "Gee" language called "Kismet" - it's a graphical programming language. You do everything with flow charts. Function calls are little boxes, variables are lines you draw that connect them together. They also have a text language that you can use within it for things that work better as text (like arithmetic).
And then you get stuck in traffic, customs, and luggage claim for the 5 hours after your flight. We have the real-world version of Niven's "Long Shot" - a vehicle so fast that the setup/takedown time vastly exceeded it's useful travel time, so as such it was generally useless compared to a vehicle that went a tenth as fast.
400 Unit rushes? I think you mispelled Total Annihilation. StarCraft was the pinnacle of the old-style of midscale RTS, whereas WC3 cut the scale down further - but make no mistake, StarCraft was very limited in scale, partly because of the 12 unit limit, but also because of hte excruciating pain of managing spellcasters.
TA is the large scale game. Go play TA spring to see a real monstrous war.
What you missed is _why_ he said it was important to have an oscars - to encourage games that break new ground, that aren't just "the last best thing redone". The fact is that the Oscars serve the movie industry in an important way - they generate buzz for movies that people may not have been interested in, because they don't have wow-bang promos and stuff.
That's the point. If you want games that take the industry in new directions, rather than playing it safe, you need a forum that will generate public interest in those games. He's not saying he wants an Oscars for the sake of fellating the artists, he wants one so that new, challenging game concepts can get the same buzz that new, challenging movies get. So that it's profitable to make the game.
Before you say "but profit is all-important" consider the long view - in the long run, opening new horizons is important to profit - it opens up new markets. The first explorations into the new horizons may not get the attention they deserve without somebody to draw it.
Actually, that's what I was referring to. I was using the thumb disk for M64. And the problem I run into with it is the fact that the area of control migrates too easily - when running long distances you can easily hit the end of the pad - which in racing challenges makes the game insanely frustrating.
Bewilders me too. A program that old and infamously cryptic doing a job that is so (theoretically) simple (it sends mail - whoa) has no excuse to have security flaws this late in the game.
Of course, I'm not an admin, so I am officially talking out of my hiney.