Grit in a real image and fog in a game can become confused if you don't handle it just the right way. You have to worry about which zealots you're offending. Crisp graphics, smoothly rendered edges, and the use of fog/grit for style (not lazy rendering) are all a very delicate balance.
IANAGD (game developer), but I say lay the groundwork, focus on gameplay and come back to throw these details in with some market testing. Time and processor speed permitting.
The article mentions that people compete though. Yeah, you may bond with the guy on your team, but what happens when you develop speedy rivalries with your competitors? How many times have you been accused of doing something "cheap" in an online game?
Or what happens when your team starts losing and it's one guy's fault? Not exactly a teambuilding exercise in that case.
Lenny: We won! And it was all thanks to team work! Karl: Yeah, my teamwork.
Ever read the DC Comic Kingdom Come? Essentially, all the good Superheroes have left the scene or gone a little nutty and the world is overrun with Superheroes without self-restraint or the black and white morals of the Golden Years. They've killed off most, if not all, of those you could easily identify as villains and become what they're supposed to be fighting.
In the book, Superman rounds up a bunch of the old gang and builds a superhero prison to hold the most questionable ones. It's a really good read (and I'm a Marvel guy generally) and I thought of it immediately when I heard there were no villains.
I recently upgraded some servers to Win Server 2003 and it's very quick, but I'm pretty sure it flashes the BSoD every other time I reboot. I'm going to hook it up to a VCR to check it out, because it's too short to notice anything but the color of the screen and writing. It's just eery...
What an hilarious opinion. It brings up the point of who really pays for open source software... The concept behind it being, that everyone pitches in and does their part. The cost of these projects is TIME. People are spending time for minimal or no pay and with major distros, many many many more people put in time than any software company can afford to put out. Here's another cliche for you, "Time is money".
As for security concerns, yeah, malicious parties can view the source. But so can interested parties that are probably smarter than the script kiddies who can discover a bug and hammer away on it.
Yeah, the game was good, it was a good console FPS and constant entertainment and source of trash talk. One of those games that even non-gamers get into, because it was just a lot of fun to totally whoop up on your friends.
BUT... Goldeneye was IMHO one of the worst Bond movies ever made. Don't get me wrong, Pierce is a good Bond, but that movie was horribly thrown together. They would do well to try and get the rights to a classic like Goldfinger, that would make for a good single player story and then they can put the love into the multi.
I read an article on this quite some time ago saying that they were going to pull in a few of the old writers. They also mentioned that the voice actors had been contracted for 3 movies. I thought it was posted on Slashdot, but I can't seem to find it. Either way, here's an interesting page that discusses some of the rumors and has a fairly insightful interview.
Don't know if the AC will check on this later or not, but the point is that you never want a screen reader saying that. You want to have it spit out useful information (ie: Slashdot image in the upper left, "Welcome to Slashdot") or nothing at all.
If you've ever used clear gifs to space out a page just so, you've hit an area where this is important. You don't want the screen reader spitting something out for an image that the sighted can't even see. What would be the point?
In the W3C page, the 8 alt="" are all little triangle icons, that just sort of indent the text. Does a person who is blind need to hear "Triangular Icon" or "image right.gif is here with no alt tag"? I can't really think of a case for it.
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Grit in a real image and fog in a game can become confused if you don't handle it just the right way. You have to worry about which zealots you're offending. Crisp graphics, smoothly rendered edges, and the use of fog/grit for style (not lazy rendering) are all a very delicate balance.
IANAGD (game developer), but I say lay the groundwork, focus on gameplay and come back to throw these details in with some market testing. Time and processor speed permitting.
It's the Earthlings and they've come to give the Martians anal probes! (or whatever organ is worth probing on a martian)
I wasn't trying to sexually harass her, I was just scanning her ports!!
sooo many meanings for that, well two or three at least...
at least it wasn't ethanal
Is the software really the selling point of the iPod?
They appear to be a real company, that's a good start.
Is there a unit for self respect? If so, SCO has spent 86 million dollars and about three times that in Respectrons and is failing miserably.
They're obviously not spending it too wisely.
ArmenTanzarian says that all generalizations made are too broad and that everything that's green tastes like sour apple.
The scientists have asked that you start the coin heads side down.
Network security will now be called "Zone Defense."
What does that make man-to-man? P2P?
The article mentions that people compete though. Yeah, you may bond with the guy on your team, but what happens when you develop speedy rivalries with your competitors? How many times have you been accused of doing something "cheap" in an online game?
Or what happens when your team starts losing and it's one guy's fault? Not exactly a teambuilding exercise in that case.
Lenny: We won! And it was all thanks to team work!
Karl: Yeah, my teamwork.
Initially, the system will be tested on Ford-owned and municipal vehicles.
Later it will be tested in your molars or subcutaneously.
How do synapses encode the need for pr0n or cartoons? That's really the question.
Ever read the DC Comic Kingdom Come? Essentially, all the good Superheroes have left the scene or gone a little nutty and the world is overrun with Superheroes without self-restraint or the black and white morals of the Golden Years. They've killed off most, if not all, of those you could easily identify as villains and become what they're supposed to be fighting.
In the book, Superman rounds up a bunch of the old gang and builds a superhero prison to hold the most questionable ones. It's a really good read (and I'm a Marvel guy generally) and I thought of it immediately when I heard there were no villains.
That's it, you're goin' on the B Ark...
I imagine to actually get pictures from this site, you have to sign some long dealy that probably gives away your soul in the small print.
TotalFarker's give a collective "yeee..." and pull at their shirt collars.
I know, I keep getting this blue screen and rebooting every time I look for it.
Actually, it's during the boot, the screen flashes up and there's no crash or anything input into the event log. The behavior is simply baffling.
The video would just be for entertainment purposes, because other than that screen, the server's fine.
I recently upgraded some servers to Win Server 2003 and it's very quick, but I'm pretty sure it flashes the BSoD every other time I reboot. I'm going to hook it up to a VCR to check it out, because it's too short to notice anything but the color of the screen and writing. It's just eery...
What an hilarious opinion. It brings up the point of who really pays for open source software... The concept behind it being, that everyone pitches in and does their part. The cost of these projects is TIME. People are spending time for minimal or no pay and with major distros, many many many more people put in time than any software company can afford to put out. Here's another cliche for you, "Time is money".
As for security concerns, yeah, malicious parties can view the source. But so can interested parties that are probably smarter than the script kiddies who can discover a bug and hammer away on it.
This article should be modd'ed "Flamebait"
Yeah, the game was good, it was a good console FPS and constant entertainment and source of trash talk. One of those games that even non-gamers get into, because it was just a lot of fun to totally whoop up on your friends.
BUT... Goldeneye was IMHO one of the worst Bond movies ever made. Don't get me wrong, Pierce is a good Bond, but that movie was horribly thrown together. They would do well to try and get the rights to a classic like Goldfinger, that would make for a good single player story and then they can put the love into the multi.
I read an article on this quite some time ago saying that they were going to pull in a few of the old writers. They also mentioned that the voice actors had been contracted for 3 movies. I thought it was posted on Slashdot, but I can't seem to find it. Either way, here's an interesting page that discusses some of the rumors and has a fairly insightful interview.
Don't know if the AC will check on this later or not, but the point is that you never want a screen reader saying that. You want to have it spit out useful information (ie: Slashdot image in the upper left, "Welcome to Slashdot") or nothing at all.
If you've ever used clear gifs to space out a page just so, you've hit an area where this is important. You don't want the screen reader spitting something out for an image that the sighted can't even see. What would be the point?
In the W3C page, the 8 alt="" are all little triangle icons, that just sort of indent the text. Does a person who is blind need to hear "Triangular Icon" or "image right.gif is here with no alt tag"? I can't really think of a case for it.