For me at least "achievements" happen in the real world. If I'm going to expend real levels of effort or practice it's going to be on something that has real world value, not on something that is ultimatly pointless outside it's own artificial existance.
I play games in my downtime and the last thing I want is to end my downtime feeling frustrated. I want to have been entertained not tested.
I bought the double back for the XBox a while ago but got bored of trolling around in a van trying to pick up pornos and failing in GTA 3 so just stopped playing. I was intending to go back to it some time but it sounds like skipping straight to Vice City might be more up my alley.
I'm sure giving up in the first area of the game is "lame" but I just play for amusement. I just want to take part in a story or have some relatively mindless fun.
Real "power users" don't mind installing an extra bit of software to do what they want, their way. They don't mind tweaking a few config settings.
A lot of "power users" these days seem to get all scared and hysterical if the UI isn't set up exactly to their specification by default or there isn't some massive in your face option button to make it so.
Google don't "read" your email.
Your email will be processed by their servers but to the servers don't "know" what they are doing. Whether they are parsing through your email to choose an advert or simply to format it in html the servers don't know or care, they are just mindless computers executing some instructions.
I think a webmail service whose computers don't process your mail will be a rather useless one.
I want words that accurately describe what's happening. They aren't trying to intimidate anyone nor are they making a solemn promise or pledge. They are simply stating what they will do should a certain circumstance arrive.
It certainly is a factor with CRTs. Having taken a monitor from the UK to Australia I've seen it with my own eyes. If I remember correctly it was as if the top right of the screen image had been tugged and drawn the picture as if it were a viscous fluid. It was annoying rather than catastrophic though
However, most modern monitors have enough tweaking buttons that you could probably correct for it easy enough. Older (or maybe cheaper) monitors which aren't as manipulatable will likely give you problems
Surely such back channels already exist. They'd just say you were a 'person of interest' on something vaguely terrorism related if they were interested in bending rules.
This doesn't indicate any new type of collaboration and isn't something they'd need to do to allow them to "track anyone".
They could do that already. This just means they are targetting spammers.
Thus, the ONLY way this new device could be useful to consumers is if they infringe copyrights
Someone doesn't have to be using 100% of the capacity of something for it to be useful for them.
My car isn't 'useless' when I'm the only person in it or the boot is empty. Something is useful for what it is doing. What it could be doing but isn't is irrelevant.
It's certainly better that the device has over-capacity rather than under-capacity especially if increased capacity doesn't shift the price point significantly.
The product will last three years, tops before it dies. Who in the fuck is going to spend $10,000 on music in three fucking years?!?! That's buying 9 songs per day, everyday, for three years!
You don't have to buy music within the three year lifetime of the product. You might already have some. I have just over 4000 tracks I could stick on such a thing now.
The robots are only performing one task, albeit a pretty complex one.
The goalkeeper I think would be the first thing to be "got right". It's not hard to imagine a robot goalkeeper in 2050 being very good indeed at stopping shots.
Open play is a more complex problem but to have a team that beat a human team you wouldn't have to play like a human team nor necessarily be better than them at all aspects of the game. A goal keeper that is very good at saving and making pinpoint "route one" passes and some mobile and non-tiring strikers would get you a hell of a long way towards a win even if it wasn't a pretty one.
46 years is a long long time in technology in any case.
I did hear some weak rationale regarding the no-shirt-removal rule was due to many players wearing controversial messages on their t-shirts underneath and worries that something really bad might be displayed on worldwide broadcast
That doesn't really hold given that you can lift your shirt up as far of your chin, thus showing your chest or t-shirt, as shown on the last page of that PDF file. It only becomes an offense if the shirt covers your head or is removed completely.
They should start looking hard at things that do spoil the game for those watching. A tribunual handing out match bans and fines for "simulation" based on video evidence would be a nice start. Preferably one which convenes within a couple of days of the event and gets it over and done with rather than a lengthy drawn out process.
Most of the members of the "community" seen in that thread seem to be a bunch of shouty whiners. Sadly I expect that for many of them that is their sole "contribution" to Mozilla.
The Mozilla devs did the right thing and asked about having Qute freely licenced 6 months ago.
They were apparently told no and have therefore taken the only reasonable course left to them, sourcing another theme.
The new theme might not be brilliant but it is a work in progress and rather importantly is freely licenced so other people will be able to tweak it over time.
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There were more blokes called "Paul" in my course than women.
My move to IT has at least been an improvement on that.
A world paper shortage.
Entertaining beat-em-up suddenly changes into annoying platformer.
Bollocks to finishing that.
For me at least "achievements" happen in the real world. If I'm going to expend real levels of effort or practice it's going to be on something that has real world value, not on something that is ultimatly pointless outside it's own artificial existance.
I play games in my downtime and the last thing I want is to end my downtime feeling frustrated. I want to have been entertained not tested.
I bought the double back for the XBox a while ago but got bored of trolling around in a van trying to pick up pornos and failing in GTA 3 so just stopped playing. I was intending to go back to it some time but it sounds like skipping straight to Vice City might be more up my alley.
I'm sure giving up in the first area of the game is "lame" but I just play for amusement. I just want to take part in a story or have some relatively mindless fun.
Not the article, the "from the amusing-ideas dept."
I love sarcasm.
Real "power users" don't mind installing an extra bit of software to do what they want, their way. They don't mind tweaking a few config settings.
A lot of "power users" these days seem to get all scared and hysterical if the UI isn't set up exactly to their specification by default or there isn't some massive in your face option button to make it so.
Google don't "read" your email.
Your email will be processed by their servers but to the servers don't "know" what they are doing. Whether they are parsing through your email to choose an advert or simply to format it in html the servers don't know or care, they are just mindless computers executing some instructions.
I think a webmail service whose computers don't process your mail will be a rather useless one.
I want words that accurately describe what's happening. They aren't trying to intimidate anyone nor are they making a solemn promise or pledge.
They are simply stating what they will do should a certain circumstance arrive.
How about a simple "said"?
There is no justification for the emotive terms "threatened" or "vowed".
It certainly is a factor with CRTs. Having taken a monitor from the UK to Australia I've seen it with my own eyes. If I remember correctly it was as if the top right of the screen image had been tugged and drawn the picture as if it were a viscous fluid. It was annoying rather than catastrophic though
However, most modern monitors have enough tweaking buttons that you could probably correct for it easy enough. Older (or maybe cheaper) monitors which aren't as manipulatable will likely give you problems
That's because it's so expensive to get stuff up there. A space elevator would solve that (albeit at great initial expense no doubt ;)
All this announcement establishes is a specific framework for them to do it through in the case of spam.
Surely such back channels already exist. They'd just say you were a 'person of interest' on something vaguely terrorism related if they were interested in bending rules.
This doesn't indicate any new type of collaboration and isn't something they'd need to do to allow them to "track anyone".
They could do that already. This just means they are targetting spammers.
My car isn't 'useless' when I'm the only person in it or the boot is empty.
Something is useful for what it is doing. What it could be doing but isn't is irrelevant.
It's certainly better that the device has over-capacity rather than under-capacity especially if increased capacity doesn't shift the price point significantly. You don't have to buy music within the three year lifetime of the product. You might already have some. I have just over 4000 tracks I could stick on such a thing now.
The robots are only performing one task, albeit a pretty complex one.
The goalkeeper I think would be the first thing to be "got right". It's not hard to imagine a robot goalkeeper in 2050 being very good indeed at stopping shots.
Open play is a more complex problem but to have a team that beat a human team you wouldn't have to play like a human team nor necessarily be better than them at all aspects of the game. A goal keeper that is very good at saving and making pinpoint "route one" passes and some mobile and non-tiring strikers would get you a hell of a long way towards a win even if it wasn't a pretty one.
46 years is a long long time in technology in any case.
It only becomes an offense if the shirt covers your head or is removed completely.
They should start looking hard at things that do spoil the game for those watching. A tribunual handing out match bans and fines for "simulation" based on video evidence would be a nice start. Preferably one which convenes within a couple of days of the event and gets it over and done with rather than a lengthy drawn out process.
"Removing one's shirt after scoring is unnecessary and players should avoid such excessive displays of joy."
Boring fuckers.
At least the 80% value is larger than I'd have guessed.
Most of the members of the "community" seen in that thread seem to be a bunch of shouty whiners.
Sadly I expect that for many of them that is their sole "contribution" to Mozilla.
The Mozilla devs did the right thing and asked about having Qute freely licenced 6 months ago. They were apparently told no and have therefore taken the only reasonable course left to them, sourcing another theme.
The new theme might not be brilliant but it is a work in progress and rather importantly is freely licenced so other people will be able to tweak it over time.