I don't think two conflicting beliefs can be true, I think that your beliefs are just as wrong as you believe those of others to be.
Every religion thinks that all the others are wrong, and to those of us outside religion, they are all equally wrong. I mean, amongst all possible beliefs, what are the odds of yours happening to be true? I'd rather play the lottery, thanks.
(not because people of other faiths are right: universalism is an absurdity, but because I can respect them as other peoples attempts to pursue God even when they are wrong).
Oh, thank you, thank you so much. Your generosity and openness of mind moves me. It really does. Please continue praying for the poor benighted souls who Are Wrong.
Or, alternatively, FOAD. If there is something more annoying than a fire-and-brimstone Christian is a sweet-talking one. Bleh.
I've never read Nitrozac's stuff, but the problem with User Friendly is that it doesn't poke enough fun at Microsoft for my taste, and when it does, it's not incissive enough.
I'd rather it be one where they have the choice to play as an angel than one where they are limited to playing as some entity who can kill, maim and destroy without reason or consequence.
Yep, in this game they can kill, maim and destroy without reason or consequence, as an angel. Playing an angel makes all the difference in the world, it really does.
On the other hand, yours has just displaced mine...
One logical flaw in Pasquale's Angel...
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And probably the first totally on-topic post so far...:)
If Spain (the bad guys in the book) have been deprived by Florence of the American gold, how do they ever become a superpower capable of posing a threat? That's something I never really bought...
Wow, that must be the weirdest Incoherent Stream of Consciousness/Shameless Plug hybrid I've yet seen on Slashdot... Remember, you have to post first and smoke the weed second.
Besides, how can anybody call themselves a "wotter" when the game doesn't even have a lousy demo out?
I agree that id's main source of income is licensing the engines. I don't really agree with that as being a valid source of income.
Isn't that pretty fucking rich? It's not like John Carmack is pimping 5-year-old sex slaves on the Internet, he's writing code and selling it. We're not even talking about hogging the code to some vital Operating System API, just the code for a game, which only other licensees hang onto.
I think that the fact that many companies have licensed both the Quake and Unreal engines, but nobody seems all to interested in developing actual games around any of the many Open Source engines out there rather speaks for itself on whether engine licensing is a legitimate source of income.
I think that the issues that drive the GPL don't necessarily apply to games. Of course, Open Source is the better method of developing software, but, the moral imperative is relative to the necessity of the software.
Operating Systems must be Open Source, applications ought to be open source, but games are just toys, and frankly, who gives a shit what license they are under, as long as they are fun?
I think it's immensely cool that John Carmack releases the source to his older engines, but I'm incensed when some asshole demands that he release the source to, say, Quake Arena.
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Does it? I'm buying meself a sack of onions and a bunch of Thomas Hardy novels extra quick, then...:)
Can't say I'm much of a Houdini guru, but for what we use them, Houdini rules for some kinds of effects, but you wouldn't want to do character animation on it, or at least I haven't heard of anybody who does. Of course, CA is not the be all and end all of a 3d package.
As far as I know, the Sega Rally developers actually dumped CE, although they are contractually obligated to put "Powered by WindowsCE" on the splash screen.
Nah, English is piss-easy for Spanish speakers too, if they put half a brain cell to work on it.
All it takes is learning a lot of words and working on your pronunciation, but English grammar is absurdly easy compared to that of most Romance languages, and can be learnt in an afternoon.
I'd say French is harder for Spanish speakers than English, precisely because it has a complex Romance grammar, and a fucked up pronunciation to boot.
I'm not sure the internet is going to do Esperanto any favours, considering that anyone who uses the Net in a regular basis is likely to already speak English (which, to all intents and purposes is the Lingua Franca for at least the next century).
I'm all for the idea of composite metalanguages, for computers, but I don't see why anyone should cripple a metalanguage so people can use it too.
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H.G. Wells did that a century ago, minus the Swastika, of course.
Dude, I'd sure hate to be you... Do you go around kicking dogs too?
Yeah, well, that cuts both ways. His opinion (and mine) is that your opinion bites.
I don't think two conflicting beliefs can be true, I think that your beliefs are just as wrong as you believe those of others to be.
Every religion thinks that all the others are wrong, and to those of us outside religion, they are all equally wrong. I mean, amongst all possible beliefs, what are the odds of yours happening to be true? I'd rather play the lottery, thanks.
Oh, thank you, thank you so much. Your generosity and openness of mind moves me. It really does. Please continue praying for the poor benighted souls who Are Wrong.
Or, alternatively, FOAD. If there is something more annoying than a fire-and-brimstone Christian is a sweet-talking one. Bleh.
Well, in order to be recursive, he has to be recursive.
I've never read Nitrozac's stuff, but the problem with User Friendly is that it doesn't poke enough fun at Microsoft for my taste, and when it does, it's not incissive enough.
Oh well.
Yep, in this game they can kill, maim and destroy without reason or consequence, as an angel. Playing an angel makes all the difference in the world, it really does.
It looks like they got a customer. Good for them.
On the other hand, yours has just displaced mine...
And probably the first totally on-topic post so far... :)
If Spain (the bad guys in the book) have been deprived by Florence of the American gold, how do they ever become a superpower capable of posing a threat? That's something I never really bought...
Wow, that must be the weirdest Incoherent Stream of Consciousness/Shameless Plug hybrid I've yet seen on Slashdot... Remember, you have to post first and smoke the weed second.
Besides, how can anybody call themselves a "wotter" when the game doesn't even have a lousy demo out?
Hey, nothing wrong with rational, OK?
That would take some serious arguing...
I agree that id's main source of income is licensing the engines. I don't really agree with that as being a valid source of income.
Isn't that pretty fucking rich? It's not like John Carmack is pimping 5-year-old sex slaves on the Internet, he's writing code and selling it. We're not even talking about hogging the code to some vital Operating System API, just the code for a game, which only other licensees hang onto.
I think that the fact that many companies have licensed both the Quake and Unreal engines, but nobody seems all to interested in developing actual games around any of the many Open Source engines out there rather speaks for itself on whether engine licensing is a legitimate source of income.
I think that the issues that drive the GPL don't necessarily apply to games. Of course, Open Source is the better method of developing software, but, the moral imperative is relative to the necessity of the software.
Operating Systems must be Open Source, applications ought to be open source, but games are just toys, and frankly, who gives a shit what license they are under, as long as they are fun?
I think it's immensely cool that John Carmack releases the source to his older engines, but I'm incensed when some asshole demands that he release the source to, say, Quake Arena.
Does it? I'm buying meself a sack of onions and a bunch of Thomas Hardy novels extra quick, then... :)
Can't say I'm much of a Houdini guru, but for what we use them, Houdini rules for some kinds of effects, but you wouldn't want to do character animation on it, or at least I haven't heard of anybody who does. Of course, CA is not the be all and end all of a 3d package.
The full suite or just the renderer? The news around the renderer came out ages ago, what we need is the interactive tools.
Err, the programmer does indeed return a value, a couple of days later. This value is eventually flushed, one should hope.
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As far as I know, the Sega Rally developers actually dumped CE, although they are contractually obligated to put "Powered by WindowsCE" on the splash screen.
Nah, English is piss-easy for Spanish speakers too, if they put half a brain cell to work on it.
All it takes is learning a lot of words and working on your pronunciation, but English grammar is absurdly easy compared to that of most Romance languages, and can be learnt in an afternoon.
I'd say French is harder for Spanish speakers than English, precisely because it has a complex Romance grammar, and a fucked up pronunciation to boot.
Is that the same tribe whose numbering system consists of "one", "two" and "many"? :)
I'm not sure the internet is going to do Esperanto any favours, considering that anyone who uses the Net in a regular basis is likely to already speak English (which, to all intents and purposes is the Lingua Franca for at least the next century).
I'm all for the idea of composite metalanguages, for computers, but I don't see why anyone should cripple a metalanguage so people can use it too.
It's a young geek thing... :)
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