Well for starters, they can stay in business because Halo was a pretty damn good game, and last I checked, well made video games were exchanged for money.
Bummer man. That's too bad. I'll probably just wait a bit, and when it comes out on my xbox, I imagine it'll just work. And yes, I will buy it for the xbox, as it'll probably be the same price, and I hate to copy things that people have worked so hard on.
Well, I don't think Calgary's actually a really touristy type city anyways. In fact, on the outside, it seems like a terribly boring place, but having watched it grow over the years, it's nice to see things like:
Calgary Stampede (yeh, been around for a while, but still cool to go out to the pub and see thousands of people out having a good time)
Calgary Folk Festival
Calgary Jazz Festival (nothing compared to Montreal's, but whatever)
An International Film Festival
Now a regular stop for the Cirque de Soleil
The Ship and Anchor (have to be here to check it out, cool pub).
etc. etc.
Add into that the fact that I can get a really good apartment right in the heart of downtown for less than 900 CAD$ a month, and it turns out things are pretty good to me. Also, like mentioned in previous post, the mountains nearby can be a big bonus that places like montreal and toronto don't have, if you're into that sort of thing.
Have to pipe in on this one. If you're thinking of going to Montreal, then for sure, go to montreal. But if you're thinking of toronto, there are other places that might be more palatable. Vancouver springs to mind right away, but if you're wanting to live somewhere that's a bit cheaper, I recommend Calgary.
Perhaps I'm biased having lived my whole life here, but Calgary's a growing city, has been growing like mad for years, and will be continuing to do so for a while. There's beautiful mountains nearby, with all the hiking, skiing, climbing, camping, mountain-biking you can imagine, and the climate here ain't so bad. A lot might not like it since it's so dry, but the dry cold isn't so bad in the winter, especially since it's sunny for ten out of twelve months of the year.
That's a bummer man, about your drivers. I'm playing it on my xbox, so I haven't seen any problems with it. But, I've got to say, that I've played planescape:torment, and it was great...KOTOR is in the same category of greatness, but it's not totally apparent until you get 5+ hours into the game. trust me on that one.
I'd like to note, that I don't think I believe in absolute capitalism or anything silly like that. I just believe that standards of living are more or less going up everywhere. Obviously, I've won the metaphysical lottery, with being born and raised in north america. Canada is a pretty nice place to live. Would I be saying the same things if I were to be born in a developing country...who knows.
With a few percent of the population controlling the wealth since capitalism has been around...well, that still seems better to me than a soviet style make-everyone-equal kind of deal, but maybe we jsut haven't figured out a way to do that right yet...and there's the key. Churchill's quote is jsut right...it's the best thing we've got, so might as well roll with it until something better comes along...and you can bet with all the technology in the pipeline, and the new methods of developing it, there is something better coming along...who knows if we'll see it in our lifetimes though...
Ah well, maybe I'm just some sort of loonie futurist thinking person. Who really knows? At least I don't.
Well, I guess I'm not being totally serious, nor totally ironic either. I guess I was just responding to the parents post. If trickle down economics didn't work at all, then living in the US, you would probably have a not-so-great standard of living compared to much of the rest of the world. We both know this isn't the case however, the standard of living in the US is pretty damn good, with big corporations and wealthy fat cats as we call them, being a much larger portion of the economy than elsewhere in the world. Not saying there's causation there, but they do go in hand in hand, IMHO.
As for the last point, I'm not so sure that wealth is becoming more and more concentrated in the hands of a few. In the hands of a few millions sure, but along with that, I thought that people in the year 2004 across the world are generally living with more income than at most other times in the past. Of course, I don't really have statistics for that, but I'm pretty optimistic for the human race...I don't think in the grand scheme of things we're trying to fuck us all over. Of course, I could be wrong.
Yeh, maybe it raises profits, but what happens to those profits? Do they just get sucked out of the economy to disappear, or do they eventually go back in? I think they would go back in eventually, when those rich fat cats pay their gardeners and maids and buy their new cars and all that stuff.
Also, I think the amount of cool shit that can be bought with a dollar or two in the western world is pretty freaking amazing compared with most any time in the history of humans really. You can try and tell me otherwise, but I'd have a hard time believing it wasn't much more than a nostalgia reaction...
There's nothing "pure" what-so-ever about this statement. You may as well be writing about how you learned to appreciate McDonalds.
Appreciating McDonalds product and appreciating McDonalds' business plan are two totally different things. I think you're going to have a tough argument saying that neither McD's or M$ have been successful, when in fact, they have been.
wow, reveal codes...I remember thinking that was so cool back when I was 11 or 12 years old. In fact, I'd almost forgotten about it, but it don't really matter much to me anymore, LaTeX does the trick.
I wonder if they are gonna drop the price once again when halo 2 comes out. That would seem like a pretty reasonable way to move a whole lot of Xboxes, but that's just me. I like halo.
Perhaps it's just me, but my experiences with the unreal tournament games aren't really that much fun. Why? Simply, I think, because they are two fast. A lot of people complained that Halo was too slow, but in my opinion, it works just right, and when I'm playing mutliplayer with my buddies, we are all moving at the same speed. Not being able to turn around in a nanosecond is actually reasonable to me, from a game-playing perspective, as I have to think about where my character is going, and what I'm going to do a bit before I do it, rather than just react.
I should also mention that I don't really care if another game did the vehicles thing before-hand. Good for you for getting into that ahead of some of us, what, like five years ago? Obviously that means any FPS that comes out with vehicles in it is lame. yeh, cool.
That's a good point that I've heard rather often about the controls. My view is that I spend my day working by sitting at a desk. I'd much rather play my games sitting on a couch or a bean-bag when I get home, but that's just me, I'm not a professional player who makes a living on my aim. I haven't played Halo on a PC yet, but the console controls seem pretty damn good to me. Perhaps also I might like having a bit less control over the aim, it makes skill factor into things more. just my 0.02$
But let's be real, here. Last year in the span of six months, Debian, Gentoo, and GNU (twice!) were compromised. Now GNOME.
Compromise is bad for the most part, but I was particularly impressed with the professional conduct of the above parties after their systems had been compromised. It seems like they were very upfront with what had happened, and probably fixed whatever allowed the break-in fairly quickly. If I remember correctly, the debian and gentoo compromises were internal access kinds of breakins, not an excuse, but definitely a lot better then the horrendous amounts of viruses being spread around through outlook.
As for microsoft, it might be possible that they have been compromised before, but due to the financial stakes involved, they were afraid of letting that fact out into the open.
Don't worry though, I get your point about the bias of slashdot. It's kind of frustrating sometimes, but I'm kind of frustrated with the thought of my gnome2.6 being delayed.:)
Well, really, we are dying, and that's what makes it easier for guys like this goofball to publish a silly article. Obviously games aren't as good as they used to be, but really, it's just this guys wish to be a child again kicking...chalk it all up to nostalgia, and the fantastic phenomenon that is human aging.
Yes, I can see your point. Although, since my experience is obviously towards the scientific and engineering kind of field, then that's what I'm speaking towards. However, when we are talking Calculus, a derivative is a derivative, no matter what field you are in, there are only so many different ways to present the multiplication rule (I forget if that's what it's called), and they won't change too much, as it is still the same relatively basic concept.
When you get into higher levels of calculus, then of course the texts will become more specialized, but for the basic stuff, there isn't too much variation. One more thing, if you are teaching a course in Calculus, and let people solve certain problems using a graphing calculator, you aren't really teaching them calculus, are you?
The one thing I like about the Calculus book I bought in my first year of university was that it was useful for at least three or four courses, and it has served as a good reference well into my graduate studies. I payed about 125 (cdn$) for it, and it's definitely been worth it.
The one thing I don't get about courses teaching basic calculus is that the material hasn't really changed much in some 10's to 100's of years, meaning in theory, that any solid calculus book (perhaps by judging reviews on Amazon or whatever), should cover everything that you would need to know for a differential or integral calculus course. The problem is, the teacher sets the book, and that's what everyone buys...simply because that's the way people are.
I like this idea more for the people who are starting out using linux. I've been on it for a while, and have had my share of problems looking for simple answers to simple questions. Something like this will go a long way to providing a solid resource for people new to the OS, which is a very good thing.
Of course, being a Wiki and all, it applies that same supercool open source ethos to the answering of questions. You can put that information about large file sizes up there to help someone out when they need, and if it does go out of date, it's probably easier to update the wiki than to write a new document.
So, to summarize, I think I agree with you...cheers.:)
Yes, spammers spam to make money. But that doesn't make it legal. Robbers rob to make money, but stealing is illegal.
To be philosophical about it, just because it's illegal doesn't make it wrong, it just means you can get punished for it.
However, in a practical sense, spamming and spammers are not an easy thing to track down either. The open nature of the internet means we have to put up with this stuff until someone figures out a technical solution. I think it's pretty much impossible to legislate anything with any kind of impact onto this internet deal. Even if it were possible to legislate terms of internet usage in one country, the thing is so entrenched with global connections that we'd have a hard time stopping people from settuing up shop in some other place.
Gimme an open internet over a heavily regulated one anyday...it's the information super-highway, not the information trolley.
Slashdot Mirror
Well for starters, they can stay in business because Halo was a pretty damn good game, and last I checked, well made video games were exchanged for money.
Bummer man. That's too bad. I'll probably just wait a bit, and when it comes out on my xbox, I imagine it'll just work. And yes, I will buy it for the xbox, as it'll probably be the same price, and I hate to copy things that people have worked so hard on.
Well, I don't think Calgary's actually a really touristy type city anyways. In fact, on the outside, it seems like a terribly boring place, but having watched it grow over the years, it's nice to see things like:
Add into that the fact that I can get a really good apartment right in the heart of downtown for less than 900 CAD$ a month, and it turns out things are pretty good to me. Also, like mentioned in previous post, the mountains nearby can be a big bonus that places like montreal and toronto don't have, if you're into that sort of thing.
Have to pipe in on this one. If you're thinking of going to Montreal, then for sure, go to montreal. But if you're thinking of toronto, there are other places that might be more palatable. Vancouver springs to mind right away, but if you're wanting to live somewhere that's a bit cheaper, I recommend Calgary.
Perhaps I'm biased having lived my whole life here, but Calgary's a growing city, has been growing like mad for years, and will be continuing to do so for a while. There's beautiful mountains nearby, with all the hiking, skiing, climbing, camping, mountain-biking you can imagine, and the climate here ain't so bad. A lot might not like it since it's so dry, but the dry cold isn't so bad in the winter, especially since it's sunny for ten out of twelve months of the year.
There, done...at least one plug for Alberta.
Creepy. That thing looks almost like a metroid.
That's a bummer man, about your drivers. I'm playing it on my xbox, so I haven't seen any problems with it. But, I've got to say, that I've played planescape:torment, and it was great...KOTOR is in the same category of greatness, but it's not totally apparent until you get 5+ hours into the game. trust me on that one.
Thanks for the link. I'll check it out.
I'd like to note, that I don't think I believe in absolute capitalism or anything silly like that. I just believe that standards of living are more or less going up everywhere. Obviously, I've won the metaphysical lottery, with being born and raised in north america. Canada is a pretty nice place to live. Would I be saying the same things if I were to be born in a developing country...who knows.
With a few percent of the population controlling the wealth since capitalism has been around...well, that still seems better to me than a soviet style make-everyone-equal kind of deal, but maybe we jsut haven't figured out a way to do that right yet...and there's the key. Churchill's quote is jsut right...it's the best thing we've got, so might as well roll with it until something better comes along...and you can bet with all the technology in the pipeline, and the new methods of developing it, there is something better coming along...who knows if we'll see it in our lifetimes though...
Ah well, maybe I'm just some sort of loonie futurist thinking person. Who really knows? At least I don't.
Well, I guess I'm not being totally serious, nor totally ironic either. I guess I was just responding to the parents post. If trickle down economics didn't work at all, then living in the US, you would probably have a not-so-great standard of living compared to much of the rest of the world. We both know this isn't the case however, the standard of living in the US is pretty damn good, with big corporations and wealthy fat cats as we call them, being a much larger portion of the economy than elsewhere in the world. Not saying there's causation there, but they do go in hand in hand, IMHO.
As for the last point, I'm not so sure that wealth is becoming more and more concentrated in the hands of a few. In the hands of a few millions sure, but along with that, I thought that people in the year 2004 across the world are generally living with more income than at most other times in the past. Of course, I don't really have statistics for that, but I'm pretty optimistic for the human race...I don't think in the grand scheme of things we're trying to fuck us all over. Of course, I could be wrong.
Yeh, maybe it raises profits, but what happens to those profits? Do they just get sucked out of the economy to disappear, or do they eventually go back in? I think they would go back in eventually, when those rich fat cats pay their gardeners and maids and buy their new cars and all that stuff.
Also, I think the amount of cool shit that can be bought with a dollar or two in the western world is pretty freaking amazing compared with most any time in the history of humans really. You can try and tell me otherwise, but I'd have a hard time believing it wasn't much more than a nostalgia reaction...
There's nothing "pure" what-so-ever about this statement. You may as well be writing about how you learned to appreciate McDonalds.
Appreciating McDonalds product and appreciating McDonalds' business plan are two totally different things. I think you're going to have a tough argument saying that neither McD's or M$ have been successful, when in fact, they have been.
wow, reveal codes...I remember thinking that was so cool back when I was 11 or 12 years old. In fact, I'd almost forgotten about it, but it don't really matter much to me anymore, LaTeX does the trick.
Yeh, global warming sucks...it ended the last ice-age, but it still sucks...
y'know, I've always wondered...where does the "wheel" group name comes from...once again, why not just call it privileged, or something like that...
Teeeeeeeeetttttttttttttsuooooooooooooooooooooo noooooooo!!!!!
I wonder if they are gonna drop the price once again when halo 2 comes out. That would seem like a pretty reasonable way to move a whole lot of Xboxes, but that's just me. I like halo.
Perhaps it's just me, but my experiences with the unreal tournament games aren't really that much fun. Why? Simply, I think, because they are two fast. A lot of people complained that Halo was too slow, but in my opinion, it works just right, and when I'm playing mutliplayer with my buddies, we are all moving at the same speed. Not being able to turn around in a nanosecond is actually reasonable to me, from a game-playing perspective, as I have to think about where my character is going, and what I'm going to do a bit before I do it, rather than just react.
I should also mention that I don't really care if another game did the vehicles thing before-hand. Good for you for getting into that ahead of some of us, what, like five years ago? Obviously that means any FPS that comes out with vehicles in it is lame. yeh, cool.
That's a good point that I've heard rather often about the controls. My view is that I spend my day working by sitting at a desk. I'd much rather play my games sitting on a couch or a bean-bag when I get home, but that's just me, I'm not a professional player who makes a living on my aim. I haven't played Halo on a PC yet, but the console controls seem pretty damn good to me. Perhaps also I might like having a bit less control over the aim, it makes skill factor into things more. just my 0.02$
But let's be real, here. Last year in the span of six months, Debian, Gentoo, and GNU (twice!) were compromised. Now GNOME.
Compromise is bad for the most part, but I was particularly impressed with the professional conduct of the above parties after their systems had been compromised. It seems like they were very upfront with what had happened, and probably fixed whatever allowed the break-in fairly quickly. If I remember correctly, the debian and gentoo compromises were internal access kinds of breakins, not an excuse, but definitely a lot better then the horrendous amounts of viruses being spread around through outlook.
As for microsoft, it might be possible that they have been compromised before, but due to the financial stakes involved, they were afraid of letting that fact out into the open.
Don't worry though, I get your point about the bias of slashdot. It's kind of frustrating sometimes, but I'm kind of frustrated with the thought of my gnome2.6 being delayed. :)
Nietzsche started it: "God is Dead"
Well, really, we are dying, and that's what makes it easier for guys like this goofball to publish a silly article. Obviously games aren't as good as they used to be, but really, it's just this guys wish to be a child again kicking...chalk it all up to nostalgia, and the fantastic phenomenon that is human aging.
Yes, I can see your point. Although, since my experience is obviously towards the scientific and engineering kind of field, then that's what I'm speaking towards. However, when we are talking Calculus, a derivative is a derivative, no matter what field you are in, there are only so many different ways to present the multiplication rule (I forget if that's what it's called), and they won't change too much, as it is still the same relatively basic concept.
When you get into higher levels of calculus, then of course the texts will become more specialized, but for the basic stuff, there isn't too much variation. One more thing, if you are teaching a course in Calculus, and let people solve certain problems using a graphing calculator, you aren't really teaching them calculus, are you?
Hence the 'whatever'.
The one thing I like about the Calculus book I bought in my first year of university was that it was useful for at least three or four courses, and it has served as a good reference well into my graduate studies. I payed about 125 (cdn$) for it, and it's definitely been worth it.
The one thing I don't get about courses teaching basic calculus is that the material hasn't really changed much in some 10's to 100's of years, meaning in theory, that any solid calculus book (perhaps by judging reviews on Amazon or whatever), should cover everything that you would need to know for a differential or integral calculus course. The problem is, the teacher sets the book, and that's what everyone buys...simply because that's the way people are.
I like this idea more for the people who are starting out using linux. I've been on it for a while, and have had my share of problems looking for simple answers to simple questions. Something like this will go a long way to providing a solid resource for people new to the OS, which is a very good thing.
Of course, being a Wiki and all, it applies that same supercool open source ethos to the answering of questions. You can put that information about large file sizes up there to help someone out when they need, and if it does go out of date, it's probably easier to update the wiki than to write a new document.
So, to summarize, I think I agree with you...cheers. :)
Yes, spammers spam to make money. But that doesn't make it legal. Robbers rob to make money, but stealing is illegal.
To be philosophical about it, just because it's illegal doesn't make it wrong, it just means you can get punished for it.
However, in a practical sense, spamming and spammers are not an easy thing to track down either. The open nature of the internet means we have to put up with this stuff until someone figures out a technical solution. I think it's pretty much impossible to legislate anything with any kind of impact onto this internet deal. Even if it were possible to legislate terms of internet usage in one country, the thing is so entrenched with global connections that we'd have a hard time stopping people from settuing up shop in some other place.
Gimme an open internet over a heavily regulated one anyday...it's the information super-highway, not the information trolley.