Why a 30MB attachment limit? They could just say 50TB attachment limit and nothing would really be changed since most mail servers have a 5MB attachment limit, at most. Very few of them have a bigger limit.
So... if I wanted to make an attachment and my mail server didn't allow anything over 5MB (and under 30MB), I'd be screwed, right?
Wait! There's a free webbased email service that offers 1GB of space and has a 30MB attachment limit!!
Welcome to economics 101... encourage everyone to switch to your product...
Its usually because amateur modders just code in stuff without conventions and when they want to, but professional developers need design documentation, requirements documentation, a full testing environment, full planing doc, coding conventions, etc... implementation is a small part of a large project. That's why condition zero took so long to come out.
Damn, why did I have to read ALL THE WAY DOWN to the score:2's to find this? Everything above is the same stuff: Rebooting sucks, back drivers and hardware support. The end. Mod this sucker up! OS independent games? Use an OS independent language to write them!
The fact is that the church simply uses the topic of games to force people to look away from it's real problems.
Troll troll troll (yet I'm biting).
First of all, you speak of Catholics, not Christians when you speak of 'corruption' with the priests and all. Not only that, but they HAVE been speaking against games long before that ever came up.
That being said, I'm a Christian (raised Catholic) that has played video games all my life. Its all about knowing the difference between fantasy and reality. I've played violent video games constantly. When I see a car wreak I don't smile and drive away... I cringe in horror and try to help out. That's cause I can tell the difference between fantasy and reality. Those that can't? Well... violent video games are the least of their problems...
Now, its also something to note that 'religion' isn't the ones really crying out against violent video games... its usually overly strict parents and parents that want their children to see/hear no evil. The problem is the media spin and people shouting out about not knowing one side from the other. For example, the Catholic Church has agreed that Harry Potter is a good book and children can read it. I bet you either don't believe me, or are surprised to hear it. That's cause you talk from a perspective of knowing games, but not really knowing what the religions are doing/saying. Its the same thing with the religions and the parents... they speak knowing the religion, just not the games (or have ever really gotten into it). I try to stay in the middle and tell you both to quit getting your panties in a bunch and pay attention to your kids. If they exhibit violent behavior or an apathy to violence, its not the video games, but a problem with your child (if they didn't have violent video games, it'd be violent movies, or violence on the news, etc...).
I'd go on about how this country is so anal about nudity but fine with violence (except in games), when the rest of the world is the opposite, but I'll contain myself;-)
Its also fun, because you can pop on and play for thirty minutes and quit. If you're friends are hella high level because they play religiously, no sweat... you have the Mentor/Sidekick system. So basically, ANY levels can group together... no more getting left in the dust by your friends who have no lives.
Honestly, if you are dishing out $50 to get this game, then $15 every month, then getting on for 30 minutes isn't worth the cost of the game. That's why MMORPG's will eventually die. They are too expensive and only get played by the fanatical. The casual gamer will buy a game at a one time price, and get a 'solo' game that usually has online capabilities.
I have ADD (not the H, note), and I can say that there are things you CAN focus on, and things you CAN'T.
Anything extremely interesting gets a big focus. I can play starcraft for like 6 hours non-stop, giving it my undivided attention. Reading a book for homework (when I was in school) was when my mind started 'changing channels.'
Is this another ploy from Microsoft to not look like the bad guy, or do you think they are embracing on the Open Source movement?
Oh, you'll have some conspiracy theorist claiming its a money-saving move to make sf pay for all the bandwidth of d/ling the source! So, not only are they the bad guy in this scenario, but they also are using open source to bring open source down!
If MS open sourced all their apps, there would STILL be a large "we hate MS" movement on slashdot... mostly from people that haven't used windows since Windows98.
Hell yeah... first it was Katz with his innane writing and lack of knowledge of technology... now its the gustapo editor. Good to see he's still ruining/. for the rest of us!
What's perturbing me is michael is doing it all. Especially ask/. which is mostly cliff's domain. I suggested an april fools joke to submit to askslash to cliff through email, and he liked it and said he'd post it, but it was rejected this morning. No doubt it was michael... he still hates me since he said I had no life for over 812 comments.
This is quite significant. Its difficult for some major companies to dig themselves out of bankruptcy (see KMart), but for an open source/linux company to do it... it really proves that open source can survive in a capitalist economy.
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do popular Java platform VMs implement the Java 3D API?
Yes, in fact, most J2ME VMs support Java3D (like a good deal of handhelds have Java3D games).
Why a 30MB attachment limit? They could just say 50TB attachment limit and nothing would really be changed since most mail servers have a 5MB attachment limit, at most. Very few of them have a bigger limit.
So... if I wanted to make an attachment and my mail server didn't allow anything over 5MB (and under 30MB), I'd be screwed, right?
Wait! There's a free webbased email service that offers 1GB of space and has a 30MB attachment limit!!
Welcome to economics 101... encourage everyone to switch to your product...
Its usually because amateur modders just code in stuff without conventions and when they want to, but professional developers need design documentation, requirements documentation, a full testing environment, full planing doc, coding conventions, etc... implementation is a small part of a large project. That's why condition zero took so long to come out.
Damn, why did I have to read ALL THE WAY DOWN to the score:2's to find this? Everything above is the same stuff: Rebooting sucks, back drivers and hardware support. The end. Mod this sucker up! OS independent games? Use an OS independent language to write them!
In soviet russia??
:-P
Yeah, yeah, yeah... mod me down
The fact is that the church simply uses the topic of games to force people to look away from it's real problems.
;-)
Troll troll troll (yet I'm biting).
First of all, you speak of Catholics, not Christians when you speak of 'corruption' with the priests and all. Not only that, but they HAVE been speaking against games long before that ever came up.
That being said, I'm a Christian (raised Catholic) that has played video games all my life. Its all about knowing the difference between fantasy and reality. I've played violent video games constantly. When I see a car wreak I don't smile and drive away... I cringe in horror and try to help out. That's cause I can tell the difference between fantasy and reality. Those that can't? Well... violent video games are the least of their problems...
Now, its also something to note that 'religion' isn't the ones really crying out against violent video games... its usually overly strict parents and parents that want their children to see/hear no evil. The problem is the media spin and people shouting out about not knowing one side from the other. For example, the Catholic Church has agreed that Harry Potter is a good book and children can read it. I bet you either don't believe me, or are surprised to hear it. That's cause you talk from a perspective of knowing games, but not really knowing what the religions are doing/saying. Its the same thing with the religions and the parents... they speak knowing the religion, just not the games (or have ever really gotten into it). I try to stay in the middle and tell you both to quit getting your panties in a bunch and pay attention to your kids. If they exhibit violent behavior or an apathy to violence, its not the video games, but a problem with your child (if they didn't have violent video games, it'd be violent movies, or violence on the news, etc...).
I'd go on about how this country is so anal about nudity but fine with violence (except in games), when the rest of the world is the opposite, but I'll contain myself
Good to see someone ELSE is using MS's monopolistic behavior to their advantage.
Its also fun, because you can pop on and play for thirty minutes and quit. If you're friends are hella high level because they play religiously, no sweat... you have the Mentor/Sidekick system. So basically, ANY levels can group together... no more getting left in the dust by your friends who have no lives.
Honestly, if you are dishing out $50 to get this game, then $15 every month, then getting on for 30 minutes isn't worth the cost of the game. That's why MMORPG's will eventually die. They are too expensive and only get played by the fanatical. The casual gamer will buy a game at a one time price, and get a 'solo' game that usually has online capabilities.
If you like the first nintendo version, have you played "Metroid:Zero Mission" for the GBA? Its the first game with redone graphics and such.
Should I be excited that they are making a movie out of my favorite video game franchise...
:-(
Or terrified that they will desecrate it.
After hearing about Starship Troopers 2, I'm taking the latter for now
How about you demand a refund?
Its free and its not mandatory. Quit whining.
I have ADD (not the H, note), and I can say that there are things you CAN focus on, and things you CAN'T.
Anything extremely interesting gets a big focus. I can play starcraft for like 6 hours non-stop, giving it my undivided attention. Reading a book for homework (when I was in school) was when my mind started 'changing channels.'
Is this another ploy from Microsoft to not look like the bad guy, or do you think they are embracing on the Open Source movement?
Oh, you'll have some conspiracy theorist claiming its a money-saving move to make sf pay for all the bandwidth of d/ling the source! So, not only are they the bad guy in this scenario, but they also are using open source to bring open source down!
If MS open sourced all their apps, there would STILL be a large "we hate MS" movement on slashdot... mostly from people that haven't used windows since Windows98.
No fear of outsourcing!!
The poll was submitted by a slashdot user, not made up by an editor.
I'm blaming this on Michael.
/. for the rest of us!
Hell yeah... first it was Katz with his innane writing and lack of knowledge of technology... now its the gustapo editor. Good to see he's still ruining
What's perturbing me is michael is doing it all. Especially ask/. which is mostly cliff's domain. I suggested an april fools joke to submit to askslash to cliff through email, and he liked it and said he'd post it, but it was rejected this morning. No doubt it was michael... he still hates me since he said I had no life for over 812 comments.
umm... its no secret that EVERY april fools day has zero real articles on slashdot. Quit trying to ruin the fun.
Aye, just like Harry S Truman (the S didn't stand for anything).
but we have the right to bare our arms!
Oh! THATS what the second amendment means!
This whole time I thought it meant you can wear short sleeves or tank tops...
Missile Command (Atari) works great and is dirt cheap now-a-days.
You don't want to make subliminal positive motivation CDs... you want to make subliminal CDs convincing hot chicks to sleep with you!
Umm... hey hottie... nice iPod... here, listen to THIS mp3 I have...
probably the winner's version of history,
History is written by the winners.
This is quite significant. Its difficult for some major companies to dig themselves out of bankruptcy (see KMart), but for an open source/linux company to do it... it really proves that open source can survive in a capitalist economy.