Yes, I would also like to know! I'd assume that more "IT professionals" (whatever that really means) are considered wealthy by the government, so the last thing they would want would be Gore in office!
I just don't get it. If you're a techie, why don't you realize how much of a whore he is? He's just saying what the "working middle class" wants to hear.
If you make more than $40k a year, I suggest you vote for Bush if no other reason that to protect your own money! If Gore gets in, we'll be a socialist government in 4 years, and your hard-earned money will be going to support those in society who just choose not to work.
Why do you want the government taking MORE of your money?
Think about WHY you continue to play certain games. It's because of the game mechanics and game play, not the pretty polygons. Here at the office, we have 14 game systems, and the most played is the Atari 2600. Nothing gets us riled up better than a few rounds of Activision's BOXING. That game is amazing! The simple game play with rewarding and adrenaline-pumping control is simply superb. If I had to list games that are truly epic and genre defining, they would all be for the Atari or early arcade. These days people think rail-games like "Resident Evil" are good just because the look pretty, but who cares if the game just isn't there?
It's a choice of cinematics over games. Every publishers wants a "story" for some reason now in their games. Nobody cares about making a game. By that I mean a play mechanic that is progressively more difficult built upon a simple theme, like Centipede or Space Invaders.
I'd rather play Laser Blast for hours than stare at the gratuitous use of polygons on today's current "games". There are still some great games these days, though. "Crazy Taxi" on the Dreamcast is wonderful because of the game play, for example. The art _is_ beautiful, but that's not all the game relies on.
Go to a publisher with a great game idea and the first two questions they'll ask are "Where's the story?" and "Where's the girl?".
Character development? He's never heard of it. Even the first MI movie had that going for it. Take out all the slo-mo and the movie would be 15 minutes long, too;).
Seriously, though, if you want to laugh, go see it. It's the most incredibly bad movie I've see this year. So many editing/continuity errors that I stopped counting. This movie was made for a 6th grade level audience because of the overly-cliche and explanatory script and framing. Hey, there's a zoom-up on that cigar cutter! I wonder if it'll play an important part of the next shot?
Hey John: pick a frame rate and go with it!
And never, never destroy a piece of artwork like a new 911 Carrera Cabriolet just for the sake of spending the money! Ouch. That ridiculous scene hurt my eyes moreso than the others.
This is not about censorship, but about the rewriting of history. The Nazis were a part of the world history, so it is better for us to understand what happened than to just pretend it didn't. France should let people buy Nazi items; it will certainly be a constant reminder of their lack of courage as a country to stand up to Hitler.
Stuff like this is getting us closer and closer to the world of "1984". He who controls the past controls the future.
"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
(In other words, the Constitution is supposed to protect rights that the citizens already have, not grant rights to them as the Democrats would have you believe).
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
(Gee, that seems to be all for powerful state governments. Gun control, drug control, whatever, should be in the hands of the STATES! That way, if I don't like the way things are in one state, I can move to another, and not have to move to a different country!).
So, I'm actually interested in trying to use this new 3D game engine, so I figure I'll read the comments for some insight. All I get are pages and pages of trash and cursing.
Is Slashdot dieing a painful death under the weight of all these Anonymous Cowards?
The reason PalmOS beat out WinCE was the fact that Palm was sleek and fast. By adding color, all I can see is an increase in program memory footprint and resource usage.
I like my Palm IIIx just fine. 16 shades of grey works for me. I just hope Palm doesn't go down the road of WinCE by trying to pack everything in when it really isn't all necessary for the purposes of a PDA.
Sure, it's cool. But is it necessary? As a Palm developer, I think it's great to be developing for a slimmed-down platform. It's like the early days of mono displays trying to concentrate on information density and UI design rather than just throwing everything at the user because you can like in today's machines. More doesn't always equal better.
Remember, when color film came out, the quality of motion pictures went down. Think about it. The cinematographers and directors no longer had to worry about creating beautiful scenes with B/W; they could just throw color at the screen and hope that would impress everyone. I hope we don't see the same thing here...
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>> Isn't there somewhere in Revelations...
Actually, it's the book of Revelation. Singular.
"I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red" - Revelation 6:12
"The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord." - Joel 2:31
I went to CMU. Pittsburgh is a GREAT city, but at the time I graduated, all the jobs were down here in D.C.
I do miss Pgh, though. It was great in that college atmosphere. I believe Pgh needs a lot more well-funded and LARGE companies to move in. Sure, there are a lot of small startups, but some tech people actually want stability (not me). Very low cost of living there, too.
I also moved to the D.C. area because I like the fast pace. Sometime Pgh got a little too weird with some of the strange people you find. Still a lot of pickup-driving hicks around there...
But I love the city. No better view than from Mt. Washington at night looking at downtown after a ride up the Incline. Wow! The city has a very rich history, and the architecture around there is amazing.
Oh, man, does that take me back. I actually hosted a BBS for a while, and had the whole TradeWars game up and running on a WWIV BBS system. Now *those* were the good ol' days. There has to be a 'net version of that game around somewhere... Anyone know?
I remember when we used to "mod" the WWIV BBS server and think we were the stuff...
I've been getting the nightly builds for the last week or so, and it looks amazing. The only problem I have with it now is the fact that you can't link mime types to launch applications yet. So, for my streaming MP3 addiction I still have to use Netscape, but for everything else I've been using Mozilla. It's really quite stable and looks SO much better than Netscape. I love the blue/grey theme.
However, if we can get the/. effect going and get people using it, there might be enough public support to at least keep an underground movement using napster. The more people we can get against the RIAA, the better, IMNSHO.
However, what about the browsers that feel they can "win" by adding "new features" that are NOT HTML standards? That's what Netscape did to win over Mosaic, wasn't it? I don't think that was necessarily a good move. In the fight to "win", the browsers will not compete by "being more compliant". I can only see the opposite happening.
P.S. - this was posted through Mozilla. GoMozilla!
If anyone finds this stuff interesting, go out RIGHT NOW and buy "The Code Book" by Singh. It details the complete history of Codes and Ciphers and includes many great examples of how they were used/cracked. Amazing read!
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Yes, I would also like to know! I'd assume that more "IT professionals" (whatever that really means) are considered wealthy by the government, so the last thing they would want would be Gore in office!
I just don't get it. If you're a techie, why don't you realize how much of a whore he is? He's just saying what the "working middle class" wants to hear.
If you make more than $40k a year, I suggest you vote for Bush if no other reason that to protect your own money! If Gore gets in, we'll be a socialist government in 4 years, and your hard-earned money will be going to support those in society who just choose not to work.
Why do you want the government taking MORE of your money?
There's no point in even presenting this "argument", as it only highlights your personal bias and stereotypes.
If the American people vote for Gore, they'll get what they deserve. A stupid, pandering, patronizing president for stupid, helpless people.
It *IS* Carnegie Mellon, after all.
They're known to be somewhat big in the
whole computer science research realm.
I had a T1 right to my dorm room for my
4 years there. Yummy.
-Mike
> What happened to those 80's game designers, anyway?
They were put out of business by today's producers and their need for "story-based" games.
"We don't need gameplay! We have this cool Goth backstory and characters..."
... gameplay.
Think about WHY you continue to play certain games. It's because of the game mechanics and game play, not the pretty polygons. Here at the office, we have 14 game systems, and the most played is the Atari 2600. Nothing gets us riled up better than a few rounds of Activision's BOXING. That game is amazing! The simple game play with rewarding and adrenaline-pumping control is simply superb. If I had to list games that are truly epic and genre defining, they would all be for the Atari or early arcade. These days people think rail-games like "Resident Evil" are good just because the look pretty, but who cares if the game just isn't there?
It's a choice of cinematics over games. Every publishers wants a "story" for some reason now in their games. Nobody cares about making a game. By that I mean a play mechanic that is progressively more difficult built upon a simple theme, like Centipede or Space Invaders.
I'd rather play Laser Blast for hours than stare at the gratuitous use of polygons on today's current "games". There are still some great games these days, though. "Crazy Taxi" on the Dreamcast is wonderful because of the game play, for example. The art _is_ beautiful, but that's not all the game relies on.
Go to a publisher with a great game idea and the first two questions they'll ask are "Where's the story?" and "Where's the girl?".
-Mike
Remeber that the Atari 2600 (VCS) was sold for 18 years. That's the longest-selling system by far (also made Atari $5 billion).
Character development? He's never heard of it.
Even the first MI movie had that going for it.
Take out all the slo-mo and the movie would be 15 minutes long, too
Seriously, though, if you want to laugh, go see it. It's the most incredibly bad movie I've see this year. So many editing/continuity errors that I stopped counting. This movie was made for a 6th grade level audience because of the overly-cliche and explanatory script and framing. Hey, there's a zoom-up on that cigar cutter! I wonder if it'll play an important part of the next shot?
Hey John: pick a frame rate and go with it!
And never, never destroy a piece of artwork like a new 911 Carrera Cabriolet just for the sake of spending the money! Ouch. That ridiculous scene hurt my eyes moreso than the others.
This is not about censorship, but about the rewriting of history. The Nazis were a part of the world history, so it is better for us to understand what happened than to just pretend it didn't. France should let people buy Nazi items; it will certainly be a constant reminder of their lack of courage as a country to stand up to Hitler.
Stuff like this is getting us closer and closer to the world of "1984". He who controls the past controls the future.
Everyone seems to forget these:
"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
(In other words, the Constitution is supposed to protect rights that the citizens already have, not grant rights to them as the Democrats would have you believe).
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
(Gee, that seems to be all for powerful state governments. Gun control, drug control, whatever, should be in the hands of the STATES! That way, if I don't like the way things are in one state, I can move to another, and not have to move to a different country!).
-Mike (proud member of the NRA)
Are they bogus just because they're not in
line with what you believe?
Strange thing about data and "science".
People only tend to use the data they
agree with.
Go back to getting your facts spoon fed to
you from this liberal media, then. At
least that way you won't have to actually
think.
-Mike (proud member of the NRA)
There is a lot of data to prove that letting
citizens own AND CARRY guns actually REDUCES
the crime rate, but you won't see that in
the liberal media.
Florida recently passed a Shall Carry law
similar to here in Virginia. A year later
violent crime was down almost 30%.
Australia a year ago took away all handguns
from the registered owners, and home break-
in occurrences went up 25%.
Stupid liberal agendas...
-Mike (proud member of the NRA)
So, I'm actually interested in trying to use this new 3D game engine, so I figure I'll read the comments for some insight. All I get are pages and pages of trash and cursing.
Is Slashdot dieing a painful death under the weight of all these Anonymous Cowards?
I like my Palm IIIx just fine. 16 shades of grey works for me. I just hope Palm doesn't go down the road of WinCE by trying to pack everything in when it really isn't all necessary for the purposes of a PDA.
Sure, it's cool. But is it necessary? As a Palm developer, I think it's great to be developing for a slimmed-down platform. It's like the early days of mono displays trying to concentrate on information density and UI design rather than just throwing everything at the user because you can like in today's machines. More doesn't always equal better.
Remember, when color film came out, the quality of motion pictures went down. Think about it. The cinematographers and directors no longer had to worry about creating beautiful scenes with B/W; they could just throw color at the screen and hope that would impress everyone. I hope we don't see the same thing here...
>> Isn't there somewhere in Revelations ...
Actually, it's the book of Revelation.
Singular.
"I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There
was a great earthquake. The sun turned black
like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon
turned blood red" - Revelation 6:12
"The sun will be turned to darkness and the
moon to blood before the coming of the great
and dreadful day of the Lord." - Joel 2:31
Huh? I believe nVidia is one of best Opengl/
Linux supporters! I'm running a TNT2 chip with
Linux right now; Quake III is great.
I spoke with a few of the tech reps from nVidia
at SIGGRAPH last year and they were all excited
about the whole SGI/Linux/nVidia package.
They did release Xfree86 mods to support their
TNT chips, no? That doesn't sound like "apathy"
to me!
I went to CMU. Pittsburgh is a GREAT city, but
at the time I graduated, all the jobs were down
here in D.C.
I do miss Pgh, though. It was great in that
college atmosphere. I believe Pgh needs a lot
more well-funded and LARGE companies to move in.
Sure, there are a lot of small startups, but
some tech people actually want stability (not
me). Very low cost of living there, too.
I also moved to the D.C. area because I like the
fast pace. Sometime Pgh got a little too weird
with some of the strange people you find. Still
a lot of pickup-driving hicks around there...
But I love the city. No better view than from
Mt. Washington at night looking at downtown after
a ride up the Incline. Wow! The city has a very
rich history, and the architecture around there
is amazing.
-Mike
> Doesn't take a rocket
> scientist to figure that one out!
...but it does take one to have the device
continue to work and transmit data after such
an impact!
Oh, man, does that take me back. I actually
hosted a BBS for a while, and had the whole
TradeWars game up and running on a WWIV BBS
system. Now *those* were the good ol' days.
There has to be a 'net version of that game
around somewhere... Anyone know?
I remember when we used to "mod" the WWIV
BBS server and think we were the stuff...
> I like the new look. It's clean, nicely
> organized and makes good use of color.
Yeah, but who uses red and orange together like
that? Honestly.... blech!
Yeah, on one of the preview commercials I saw for
the movie there was a plane sliding sideways on
a runway....
I then proceeded to shake my head in disbelief.
At midnight on Dec. 31 all laws of physics will
cease to be, and planes will fall from the sky.
To quote Dr. Evil: "riiiiiiiiiight".
...isn't the stupid movie itself, but the people
who will watch this and believe it. The stupidity
of people never ceases to amaze me.
Just put this movie in the same category where
you'll find Cops or Jerry Springer: shows that
make me feel embarassed to be an American.
I've been getting the nightly builds for the
last week or so, and it looks amazing. The only
problem I have with it now is the fact that you
can't link mime types to launch applications
yet. So, for my streaming MP3 addiction I still
have to use Netscape, but for everything else
I've been using Mozilla. It's really quite
stable and looks SO much better than Netscape.
I love the blue/grey theme.
However, if we can get the /. effect going and
get people using it, there might be enough
public support to at least keep an underground
movement using napster. The more people we
can get against the RIAA, the better, IMNSHO.
P.S. - this was posted through Mozilla. GoMozilla!
If anyone finds this stuff interesting, go out
RIGHT NOW and buy "The Code Book" by Singh. It
details the complete history of Codes and Ciphers
and includes many great examples of how they
were used/cracked. Amazing read!