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"These games weren't difficult in the "cheap" sense that a lot of today's games are. Land Stalker and Star Tropics both presented the answer to a puzzle, but it really took some brainpower. Recent RPGs (final fantasy, Baldur's Gate, NWN, etc.) just don't give that complexity. THey give you hard enemies that take a high level to beat. Whoop-dee-fucking-doo. I don't want to spend hours leveling up in mind-numbingly simple battles! I WANT TO USE MY BRAIN!"
Ah, how amusing.
You will only find what you are looking for. I'm sorry you feel the only way to win a battle in BG2 is to go out and level such that the fight becomes trivial, as you missed what I believe is the most fun portion of the game.
Figuring out a process and selection of skills/abilities/placements/target selections etc. to win an otherwise almost impossible fight is 99% of the fun of BG2. Ofcourse, after you tackle all the hard fights, you really are way too high for the content you are supposed to be at, which becomes quite easy and boring until you open up the next set of sub-quests and diffulcult fights.
Maybe if you open your mind and challenge yourself you might enjoy these triple-a titles more.
With a quote from an anime series in your sig, its not suprising you are a GC fan. Regardless, Resident Evil isn't going to cause people to go out and buy a GameCube.
GC has yet to have a must-buy 'mature' title, where as PS2 and XBox have a few.
And if I want to play Zelda, I'll play Link to the Past or Ocarina of Time, which in my opinion was the peak of the series. Rehashing IP gets old after awhile.
First of all, I would like to thank you for your responses to these questions.
However I disagree with you about DC not being bought:
- Companies are for profit institutions. - They pay large sums for lobbyists and make large contributions. - Seeing as how they spend money only where they see a return (or potential) on their investment, they must feel that paying your salary as well as the large contributions made to some representatives is cost-effective. - Since corporations quite clearly feel that this money is needed to get their point across, and is well-spent (otherwise it would not be so pervasive as it is today) how is DC *not* 'bought'?
Is it right that corporations can 'buy the ear' of a representative with a lobbyist who is a professional at getting a point across, but constituents must spend large amounts of time writing carefully worded letters which may or may not even see the light of day, let alone be worded in such a way to best persuade their representative?
It simply ran a Windows Share crawler which indexed files people were already sharing over the standard Microsoft networking tools. When you searched, it would provide a link to the file in question with a url pointing to the windows name of the computer and directory the file was last indexed in.
It is very very similar to google and web services. They both index public information, and rely on the technology of the client and server in question to procede further with the connection and transfers.
The reason I think these students were targetted was because they also were sharing, or had on their computers music that (allegedly, this is what I hear) didn't belong to them. So while the lawsuit about the search engine itself is sketchy at best (imo, ianal, etc), if they didn't settle a music piracy suit could probably easily be brought up against them.
I would like to know what exactly he considers an internet download. Because technically, almost everything that flows through the Rx pair on your NIC is a download. So, taxing slashdot index.pl for every view? Or maybe only 'programs', but then are java applets and client side web code considered programs? Or how about online games, would those be taxed per connection, per hour?
I can only see that part failing miserably, or if it doesn't, that man is going to lose his office quickly.
There's no excuse. Just because it is harder to install than a simple windows update package isn't any kind of reason not to update. What are you doing having a SQL server out in the wild unprotected with a *known* exploit?
Not true. While Warcraft 3 uses a peer to peer model with all data merely passing through battle.net between teams (it does some verification too), Diablo 2 was run *entirely* from the servers.
So, while true, WC3 is not much of a server load, and only marginal bandwidth load, Diablo2 is both a large bandwidth load AND a large server load.
My school has very few nimda/irc/ftp problems. Mostly it is because we have a firewall which blocks all incoming traffic but port 80 http, and we have a campus license for anti-virus software.
Maybe instead of spending some money UCSB just wants to take the cheap way out and ban some OS's in an educational institution.
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I'm sorry, but from the movie shown, it looks like a game for children. Between the kiddie effects of the enemies falling, to the facial expressions, I'd be looking for something a little more mature. But, after all, that is my taste. Personally, I have played and beat every Zelda game to date. My favorite has to be OoT, followed by a LttP. Both were excellent games, and I have beaten both multiple times. However, this game just doesn't look like it will do it for me. I don't like the way the series seems to be going, and especially with the other games that GameCube seems to be offering. Count me out of this next round of Zelda games, sadly.
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One good month of advertisements and kids'll be hocking their N64's like there is no tomorrow.
The keyword there is *kids*. If you look at the game break-down for Nintendo, it is looking to be targeting a very young age. (As Nintendo typically has done over the years.) Even Zelda, a series which I have personally loved (Except for #2) has been, imho, sacrificed to appeal to a younger audience. Check out this movie if you don't believe me. Also, here is a link to previews of GameCube games, and XBox Games. Make a decision for yourself about the targetted age group for each console.
(c) the lack of real support from Japanese companies. (Token games, for sure, just to test the waters, but they'll probably pull back real quick when the recession hits full on.)
Simply not true. For example Dead or Alive 3, a Japanese developed game, has been widely hyped as being a system-seller for XBox along with Halo. I currently own DoA2:Hardcore for PS2, and the XBox version has me drooling. There are ofcourse other Japenese developers working on XBox titles, though none quite so well marketed and looking so good as DoA3.
I admit I have already pre-ordered an XBox, being currently very disappointed in the games out for the PS2, and am anxiously looking forward to Halo and DoA3. (Mad Dash looks like fun too) But, this delay certainly is a little disheartening and may somewhat blemish the launch. But hopefully it was all for the best, and it won't be quite so horrendous as the PS2 launch was.
Also, as process size decreases, so does power consumption. So unless you drastically increase the size of the die, you will not have as much heat or need for cooling systems.
Ugh. No one wants TRUFORM type technology.
People like John Carmack have repeatedly spoken out against nurbs and curved surface renderers in graphics cards. While TRUFORM doesn't take a curved surface as input, it still has to approximate and guess what the higher-polycount model would have looked like had it had actually had all the data points.
If the card is capable of rendering lots of triangles (such as a GF3 or GF2) why not just blast all those tri's down the AGP pipe? That's the real question here, because you are decreasing the quality/size of a model for transfer over the AGP bus, and then raising the poly-count again. Is AGP4X that much of a bottleneck?
For example, take a high quality Wav file, convert it to a low quality wav, then interpolate it back to a high quality wav. Play it back, and you will notice a loss in fidelity. The exact same thing will happen with the model no matter how good your interpolation is.
Offhand I'm not sure what orbit the ISS is in, but if it's GeoSynchronous it will always stay in the same place relative to the ground, so a region code respective of that location would make sense and seem legal.
Although if it's not - another funny example of how much the MPAA/RIAA/DMCA sucks.
The guy's not saying Intel sucks, period.
I dunno, the whole "BOYCOT INTEL AND ALL IT'S PRODUCTS" seemed a little biased to me
In my opinion, this guy obviously has no clue about trade offs in chip design, and needs to get off his soapbox and read more before making such moronic articles. Making yourself look stupid is never a good thing. But I guess such a pompous ass as this really thinks that because he can write some assembler and do some timings that he can take on all of Intel's chip designers.
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All slashdot posts assume some level of familiarity with the subject at hand. Just because this happens to fall outside the scope of your knowledge isn't the fault of the submitter.
How is a closed source binary update, AT ALL comparable to a 1 page diff of two source files?
I can patch, rebuild, test, install, and then take down sshd for approximately 5 seconds while it restarts.
Quite the disruption of service.
extradition is out of the question
"These games weren't difficult in the "cheap" sense that a lot of today's games are. Land Stalker and Star Tropics both presented the answer to a puzzle, but it really took some brainpower. Recent RPGs (final fantasy, Baldur's Gate, NWN, etc.) just don't give that complexity. THey give you hard enemies that take a high level to beat. Whoop-dee-fucking-doo. I don't want to spend hours leveling up in mind-numbingly simple battles! I WANT TO USE MY BRAIN!"
Ah, how amusing.
You will only find what you are looking for. I'm sorry you feel the only way to win a battle in BG2 is to go out and level such that the fight becomes trivial, as you missed what I believe is the most fun portion of the game.
Figuring out a process and selection of skills/abilities/placements/target selections etc. to win an otherwise almost impossible fight is 99% of the fun of BG2. Ofcourse, after you tackle all the hard fights, you really are way too high for the content you are supposed to be at, which becomes quite easy and boring until you open up the next set of sub-quests and diffulcult fights.
Maybe if you open your mind and challenge yourself you might enjoy these triple-a titles more.
This was modded up as insightful?
Someone merely spouting off against her campaign as weak, uninteresting and pointless without even providing any basis for such comments?
Personally, its very refreshing to see someone respond candidly about issues, many of which you wouldn't see a politician touch with a 10-foot pole.
Maybe in 8-16 years the above poster will realize that age really doesn't matter at all.
I just installed the patch on a WinXP Home machine. Upon reconnecting to the internet, it got infected again.
The patch, as stated elsewhere, does not work on all machines.
I turned on the firewall hoping that will fix
And down goes SCO!
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=scox
I really hope the SEC gets involved.
If you actually enjoy action games so much, get an xbox?
Halo, Knights of the Old Republic, CS, Doom3, Halo2, Orta, and the list continues.
If you consider these 'excessively violent and pithy' your loss.
With a quote from an anime series in your sig, its not suprising you are a GC fan. Regardless, Resident Evil isn't going to cause people to go out and buy a GameCube.
GC has yet to have a must-buy 'mature' title, where as PS2 and XBox have a few.
And if I want to play Zelda, I'll play Link to the Past or Ocarina of Time, which in my opinion was the peak of the series. Rehashing IP gets old after awhile.
First of all, I would like to thank you for your responses to these questions.
However I disagree with you about DC not being bought:
- Companies are for profit institutions.
- They pay large sums for lobbyists and make large contributions.
- Seeing as how they spend money only where they see a return (or potential) on their investment, they must feel that paying your salary as well as the large contributions made to some representatives is cost-effective.
- Since corporations quite clearly feel that this money is needed to get their point across, and is well-spent (otherwise it would not be so pervasive as it is today) how is DC *not* 'bought'?
Is it right that corporations can 'buy the ear' of a representative with a lobbyist who is a professional at getting a point across, but constituents must spend large amounts of time writing carefully worded letters which may or may not even see the light of day, let alone be worded in such a way to best persuade their representative?
id Software is not a publicly traded company.
It is owned by Adrian Carmack, Kevin Cloud, and John Carmack.
The Top500 server was slowed to a grinding halt of php time-outs by a number of measly desktops.
It simply ran a Windows Share crawler which indexed files people were already sharing over the standard Microsoft networking tools. When you searched, it would provide a link to the file in question with a url pointing to the windows name of the computer and directory the file was last indexed in.
It is very very similar to google and web services. They both index public information, and rely on the technology of the client and server in question to procede further with the connection and transfers.
The reason I think these students were targetted was because they also were sharing, or had on their computers music that (allegedly, this is what I hear) didn't belong to them. So while the lawsuit about the search engine itself is sketchy at best (imo, ianal, etc), if they didn't settle a music piracy suit could probably easily be brought up against them.
I would like to know what exactly he considers an internet download. Because technically, almost everything that flows through the Rx pair on your NIC is a download. So, taxing slashdot index.pl for every view? Or maybe only 'programs', but then are java applets and client side web code considered programs? Or how about online games, would those be taxed per connection, per hour?
I can only see that part failing miserably, or if it doesn't, that man is going to lose his office quickly.
There's no excuse. Just because it is harder to install than a simple windows update package isn't any kind of reason not to update. What are you doing having a SQL server out in the wild unprotected with a *known* exploit?
Also iirc they are much more environmentally friend to produce than CRT's.
Microsoft on that list?
Not true. While Warcraft 3 uses a peer to peer model with all data merely passing through battle.net between teams (it does some verification too), Diablo 2 was run *entirely* from the servers.
So, while true, WC3 is not much of a server load, and only marginal bandwidth load, Diablo2 is both a large bandwidth load AND a large server load.
My school has very few nimda/irc/ftp problems. Mostly it is because we have a firewall which blocks all incoming traffic but port 80 http, and we have a campus license for anti-virus software.
Maybe instead of spending some money UCSB just wants to take the cheap way out and ban some OS's in an educational institution.
I'm sorry, but from the movie shown, it looks like a game for children. Between the kiddie effects of the enemies falling, to the facial expressions, I'd be looking for something a little more mature. But, after all, that is my taste. Personally, I have played and beat every Zelda game to date. My favorite has to be OoT, followed by a LttP. Both were excellent games, and I have beaten both multiple times. However, this game just doesn't look like it will do it for me. I don't like the way the series seems to be going, and especially with the other games that GameCube seems to be offering. Count me out of this next round of Zelda games, sadly.
The keyword there is *kids*. If you look at the game break-down for Nintendo, it is looking to be targeting a very young age. (As Nintendo typically has done over the years.) Even Zelda, a series which I have personally loved (Except for #2) has been, imho, sacrificed to appeal to a younger audience. Check out this movie if you don't believe me. Also, here is a link to previews of GameCube games, and XBox Games. Make a decision for yourself about the targetted age group for each console.
Simply not true. For example Dead or Alive 3, a Japanese developed game, has been widely hyped as being a system-seller for XBox along with Halo. I currently own DoA2:Hardcore for PS2, and the XBox version has me drooling. There are ofcourse other Japenese developers working on XBox titles, though none quite so well marketed and looking so good as DoA3.
I admit I have already pre-ordered an XBox, being currently very disappointed in the games out for the PS2, and am anxiously looking forward to Halo and DoA3. (Mad Dash looks like fun too) But, this delay certainly is a little disheartening and may somewhat blemish the launch. But hopefully it was all for the best, and it won't be quite so horrendous as the PS2 launch was.
Also, as process size decreases, so does power consumption. So unless you drastically increase the size of the die, you will not have as much heat or need for cooling systems.
Ugh. No one wants TRUFORM type technology. People like John Carmack have repeatedly spoken out against nurbs and curved surface renderers in graphics cards. While TRUFORM doesn't take a curved surface as input, it still has to approximate and guess what the higher-polycount model would have looked like had it had actually had all the data points. If the card is capable of rendering lots of triangles (such as a GF3 or GF2) why not just blast all those tri's down the AGP pipe? That's the real question here, because you are decreasing the quality/size of a model for transfer over the AGP bus, and then raising the poly-count again. Is AGP4X that much of a bottleneck? For example, take a high quality Wav file, convert it to a low quality wav, then interpolate it back to a high quality wav. Play it back, and you will notice a loss in fidelity. The exact same thing will happen with the model no matter how good your interpolation is.
Offhand I'm not sure what orbit the ISS is in, but if it's GeoSynchronous it will always stay in the same place relative to the ground, so a region code respective of that location would make sense and seem legal. Although if it's not - another funny example of how much the MPAA/RIAA/DMCA sucks.
The guy's not saying Intel sucks, period.
I dunno, the whole "BOYCOT INTEL AND ALL IT'S PRODUCTS" seemed a little biased to me
In my opinion, this guy obviously has no clue about trade offs in chip design, and needs to get off his soapbox and read more before making such moronic articles. Making yourself look stupid is never a good thing. But I guess such a pompous ass as this really thinks that because he can write some assembler and do some timings that he can take on all of Intel's chip designers.