I'm totally in agreement with what a "true hard-core gamer" enjoys. Things like NES emulators were made for the "true hardcore gamer," cause you can still have a fun game in just 8-bit graphics!
But, as I've written before, "realism" has to be balanced with "fun." Having complete realism usually takes away from the fun. This is why I think the game will fail...
I thought the fundamental rule of game design is to balance Realism with Fun. Ask any famous game designer about it. Sometimes you gotta reach out away from the real to make the game flow well, or to balance out what you can do.
Lets look at some popular games: CounterStrike: Most people would say this is as "real" as it gets, when you die, your gone. But you can get hit in the leg, stamper for a second, then are back running full speed again. You can get shot in the arm, but still fire back. This game has a lot of realism, but it still balances it out with a 'fun factor.' Age Of Empires: The designers of AoE always talk about how stuff like Catapults had to be changed. Originally, you needed someone to fire and move them, but it lead to too many problems, so they just made them self useable, and movable. Upon doing this, they felt the game flowed better, and the testers had more fun with the game.
I could go on, but I think "true realism" isn't what the gaming community wants. Games are a time when you can do stuff you normally wouldn't do...
First, I originally heard that the only way Epic is tied to this game is by selling the Unreal Engine to the US Military.
Second, the US Army needs to take a lesson from my father, when he taught me this when I was 16. When you budget your money, you get out a piece of paper and make two columns. Mark the first "NEEDS", the other "WANTS."
Where do you think the game will go?
Also, how can they dare compete in an industry where tried-by-fire veteran game designers can fail miserably (ie - Diakatana)??
Mark this one down as the year's dumbest use of money... (Don't get me wrong, I'm a big gamer, I just think the US Military could use the money elsewhere).
Give the techies the linux boxes and the business guys keep windows. Always keep window's boxes, cause customers will always send documents and reports in some microsoft format, so make it available.
Plus, changing business guys over to linux is no easy task.
Don't forget the insurance side of the equation...
What do you think would happen to the insurance if you life-critical programs aren't made by a corporation, but by a team of individuals. Something goes wrong, who do you point your finger at???
Sorry to make this sound "Katz"-ish, but try and follow.
You make an air-traffic control program open source. An airport decides to use it. A quality hacker, yet terrorist, jumps into the project (honestly, how difficult is it to get into an Open Source project? I haven't heard of one needing a background check). His code is quality for a long time and gets put into the program. He becomes a trusted member. He pulls a "DirectTV" hack (pieces of code, in several different packages that work once the package is complete) that causes many deaths.
Yes, this could happen in the software company that creates the software now, but it would be a lot easier for a terrorist to get into an open source project...
Just another example/reason that Open Source isn't the answer for everything (don't get me wrong, I'm an open source advocate myself, I just know some of its limits).
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I thought AOL was the devil like Microsoft?
Next thing we'll hear is that michael uses windows and refuses to change.
To be honest, Katz having AOL doesn't surprise me in the least (the fact that there isn't a post-columbine/post-9/11 tie-in DOES surprise me, though).
Rail on MS for not doing anything with said software
Rail on MS for attempting to patch said software
Rail on MS for being swift quickly releasing a 'cure to the symptom', while the 'cure to the solution' is being worked on
Rail on MS for a product most of them haven't touched since Win98
Bah, I'm clicking "ignore posts from MS" on my preferences. I'm starting to think Taco could get his "cult" to commit mass suicide if he could prove that it'd help them rail on MS...
Not really. Telephone companies call up and say "We have a better deal." It would affect them if they called up and said something like, "You're long distance subscription is up, please renew! I'll need your name, address, and other information..."
There isn't any fraud in long distance companies adds/spam (although its annoying as I'll get...), there is advertising fraud (well, borderline) in what verisign is attempting to do.
actually, he said I needed to get out more and have a life.
Honestly, it bugged me for a little while, but then I realized making it public bugged him more. Not to mention that this is his job, and I'm indirectly his customer. If one of your employees treated a reader/customer in this way (for using your service a lot, and lining you wallet with perverbial cash), how would you feel?
I found it immature and a bad business practice. Maybe they'll handle it better in the future if I keep bringing it up?
I hate the "I agree with this post" posts, but goddamn you hit the nail on the head!!
Especially this one: (3) Take the computer to the living room and out of the kids bedrooms. Keep a watch over what they do.
Yeah, kids like privacy, so don't look over their shoulder. Stay in the room and check on them from time to time. Its all about being an authority figure when they are on the net. Just being within eyeshot is usually enough. Putting a computer in the kids room is telling them they can do whatever they want on the computer. What they SHOULD be thinking is they can do whatever is acceptable in your household on the computer.
In a sea of "I can't believe MS did this!" and "Now people will wake up to the horrors of MS!" I can make some sense on why they did it.
How easy is it for a sys admin to simply format a linux box and throw Win2K on it with a CD he has? Basically, they are making sure campus admins don't say "We have 5,000 computers, but only 1,000 will run Win2K" then they go and install Win2K on all of them.
Just a capitalistic company covering their rears. Sure, to the open source community its an "outrageous greed act," but all it is is economics.
Alan, you are a popular icon within the Linux/Open Source world, but, to be frank, outside that you aren't well known at all. Are you depending on your Linux fame to help you with your political quests, or are you trying to get fame outside the Linux world? Perhaps you are looking for someone outside the Linux world to help you out on the political side?
Being a J2EE consultant, I can concur with firsthand evidence. Companies are contracting out Java help. The first things usually to recover from the recession we got smacked with is internal projects. J2EE is usually the web-based application language used in intranet work (argue this point all you want, but out of an entire company of web-based solutions, Java gets the most internal work, hands down).
Should we, the free software community, take the first step in this effort, and show the world what an easy-to-read license looks like?
Licenses are lengthy, wordy, and hard to read for a reason. They try to ensure that no "loophole" can be made. The simpler you make the license, the more likely lawyers can "see multiple meanings in words", and avoid the license entirely.
IMHO, the free-software licenses SHOULD be wordy, because companies like Microsoft have lawyers constantly looking for a loophole...
Nice demonstration but nothing new or unexpected there, it had been known for more than 200 years
Although I just scanned the article, I didn't see a time limit. At the time, it changed the way we think about physics and is one of major basis of physics.
Sorry, it was my misintrepretation. I thought by "be within the reach of the students" meant the concepts surrounding it not to be too terribly complex.
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It all comes down to one thing: Is the game fun?
I'm totally in agreement with what a "true hard-core gamer" enjoys. Things like NES emulators were made for the "true hardcore gamer," cause you can still have a fun game in just 8-bit graphics!
But, as I've written before, "realism" has to be balanced with "fun." Having complete realism usually takes away from the fun. This is why I think the game will fail...
I thought the fundamental rule of game design is to balance Realism with Fun. Ask any famous game designer about it. Sometimes you gotta reach out away from the real to make the game flow well, or to balance out what you can do.
Lets look at some popular games:
CounterStrike: Most people would say this is as "real" as it gets, when you die, your gone. But you can get hit in the leg, stamper for a second, then are back running full speed again. You can get shot in the arm, but still fire back. This game has a lot of realism, but it still balances it out with a 'fun factor.'
Age Of Empires: The designers of AoE always talk about how stuff like Catapults had to be changed. Originally, you needed someone to fire and move them, but it lead to too many problems, so they just made them self useable, and movable. Upon doing this, they felt the game flowed better, and the testers had more fun with the game.
I could go on, but I think "true realism" isn't what the gaming community wants. Games are a time when you can do stuff you normally wouldn't do...
First, I originally heard that the only way Epic is tied to this game is by selling the Unreal Engine to the US Military.
Second, the US Army needs to take a lesson from my father, when he taught me this when I was 16. When you budget your money, you get out a piece of paper and make two columns. Mark the first "NEEDS", the other "WANTS."
Where do you think the game will go?
Also, how can they dare compete in an industry where tried-by-fire veteran game designers can fail miserably (ie - Diakatana)??
Mark this one down as the year's dumbest use of money... (Don't get me wrong, I'm a big gamer, I just think the US Military could use the money elsewhere).
Give the techies the linux boxes and the business guys keep windows. Always keep window's boxes, cause customers will always send documents and reports in some microsoft format, so make it available.
Plus, changing business guys over to linux is no easy task.
Don't forget the insurance side of the equation...
What do you think would happen to the insurance if you life-critical programs aren't made by a corporation, but by a team of individuals. Something goes wrong, who do you point your finger at???
Sorry to make this sound "Katz"-ish, but try and follow.
You make an air-traffic control program open source. An airport decides to use it. A quality hacker, yet terrorist, jumps into the project (honestly, how difficult is it to get into an Open Source project? I haven't heard of one needing a background check). His code is quality for a long time and gets put into the program. He becomes a trusted member. He pulls a "DirectTV" hack (pieces of code, in several different packages that work once the package is complete) that causes many deaths.
Yes, this could happen in the software company that creates the software now, but it would be a lot easier for a terrorist to get into an open source project...
Just another example/reason that Open Source isn't the answer for everything (don't get me wrong, I'm an open source advocate myself, I just know some of its limits).
I thought AOL was the devil like Microsoft?
Next thing we'll hear is that michael uses windows and refuses to change.
To be honest, Katz having AOL doesn't surprise me in the least (the fact that there isn't a post-columbine/post-9/11 tie-in DOES surprise me, though).
Slashdot opinion:
Bah, I'm clicking "ignore posts from MS" on my preferences. I'm starting to think Taco could get his "cult" to commit mass suicide if he could prove that it'd help them rail on MS...
Not really. Telephone companies call up and say "We have a better deal." It would affect them if they called up and said something like, "You're long distance subscription is up, please renew! I'll need your name, address, and other information..."
There isn't any fraud in long distance companies adds/spam (although its annoying as I'll get...), there is advertising fraud (well, borderline) in what verisign is attempting to do.
If Britian views gaming as an art on a different medium, they need to get into the US Government to give Gaming the same rights as art...
Art is protected by the First Amendment, but Games aren't... Bah!
actually, he said I needed to get out more and have a life.
Honestly, it bugged me for a little while, but then I realized making it public bugged him more. Not to mention that this is his job, and I'm indirectly his customer. If one of your employees treated a reader/customer in this way (for using your service a lot, and lining you wallet with perverbial cash), how would you feel?
I found it immature and a bad business practice. Maybe they'll handle it better in the future if I keep bringing it up?
Actually, I think indians learning english is better than an english speaker learning Hindi.
This is a good time for OSDN to push their "Sourceforge 3.1" software! Unite everyone globally with one piece of software!
Keep click "refresh" on this story (don't forget to use those slashdot subscription pages) and see the advertisement for sourceforge!!!
*ahem*
Quick FYI - Toys 'r' us is giving the consumer back their $100 if they bought an XBox (or PS2) within 30 days of the price drop.
Also, when do you expect Nintendo to drop their prices? If the N-Cube was $100-$150, I'd pick one up in a heartbeat...
I'm really interested in the "Skywalker Family Tree" link. But its broke atm. Please fix. Thanks.
I hate the "I agree with this post" posts, but goddamn you hit the nail on the head!!
Especially this one:
(3) Take the computer to the living room and out of the kids bedrooms. Keep a watch over what they do.
Yeah, kids like privacy, so don't look over their shoulder. Stay in the room and check on them from time to time. Its all about being an authority figure when they are on the net. Just being within eyeshot is usually enough.
Putting a computer in the kids room is telling them they can do whatever they want on the computer. What they SHOULD be thinking is they can do whatever is acceptable in your household on the computer.
In a sea of "I can't believe MS did this!" and "Now people will wake up to the horrors of MS!" I can make some sense on why they did it.
How easy is it for a sys admin to simply format a linux box and throw Win2K on it with a CD he has? Basically, they are making sure campus admins don't say "We have 5,000 computers, but only 1,000 will run Win2K" then they go and install Win2K on all of them.
Just a capitalistic company covering their rears. Sure, to the open source community its an "outrageous greed act," but all it is is economics.
...that games can be as legitimate a story-telling format as any book
How true this is!
Honestly, take a "choose your own adventure" book to the extreme, change the medium, and you have video games.
Another, related question:
Alan, do you know this developer??
Alan, you are a popular icon within the Linux/Open Source world, but, to be frank, outside that you aren't well known at all. Are you depending on your Linux fame to help you with your political quests, or are you trying to get fame outside the Linux world? Perhaps you are looking for someone outside the Linux world to help you out on the political side?
Being a J2EE consultant, I can concur with firsthand evidence. Companies are contracting out Java help. The first things usually to recover from the recession we got smacked with is internal projects. J2EE is usually the web-based application language used in intranet work (argue this point all you want, but out of an entire company of web-based solutions, Java gets the most internal work, hands down).
Should we, the free software community, take the first step in this effort, and show the world what an easy-to-read license looks like?
Licenses are lengthy, wordy, and hard to read for a reason. They try to ensure that no "loophole" can be made. The simpler you make the license, the more likely lawyers can "see multiple meanings in words", and avoid the license entirely.
IMHO, the free-software licenses SHOULD be wordy, because companies like Microsoft have lawyers constantly looking for a loophole...
Nice demonstration but nothing new or unexpected there, it had been known for more than 200 years
Although I just scanned the article, I didn't see a time limit. At the time, it changed the way we think about physics and is one of major basis of physics.
Sorry, it was my misintrepretation. I thought by "be within the reach of the students" meant the concepts surrounding it not to be too terribly complex.
What about Gallileo's hypothesis about the Feather and the Hammer that was proven on the (IIRC) Apollo 14 mission?