Jeez, that should have been about the first thing on their minds when designing the new formation shift feature. Can online players do anything to unfairly abuse it? Hmm, oh yeah, a formation shift affects the defensive team's fatigue level without the defensive player being able to do anything about it. Whoops! Maybe even more surprising is that apparently no playtesters even thought to try it. Aren't you supposed to be as evil as possible in kicking the crap out of every aspect of the game before it's released?
I remember games being advertised in terms of size rather than gameplay time... "this game is a whopping 2 megabits!" and then 4, 8, 16, and holy cats, 32 megabits! The numbers just kept getting bigger, yet less impressive. I have a feeling the gameplay time metric will eventually suffer the same fate.
What a shame that something with such a powerful influence for good (as an escape for special characters) could be perverted and made so powerfully evil (as a directory separator under DOS/Windows).
You live in a society where it's acceptable to preach about God, but offensive to question God? I don't think I've ever been there. I live in a society that's pretty much the exact opposite.
Maybe I'm just going to come across as stupid because it's obvious to everyone but me... but why is a crazy seagull holding a fish "a play on the 'OOo' shorthand of OpenOffice.org"? Is this supposed to be the world's most incomprehensible pun, or what?
Yep, currently I'm typing on Gandalf the laptop and dinking around on Pippin the Pocket PC, accessing the Internet through Sauron the wireless access point and Aragorn the firewall, while my wife plays games on Eowyn the PC, my daughter plays games on Gimli the other PC, and Samwise the web server silently does his job in the background. Legolas the old web server lies disemboweled on the floor after an unfortunate shield-sledding accident.
My wife used to work for Intel and they sent her and a bunch of cow-orkers to a class on trademarks. She told me about how you're not supposed to refer to "a Pentium", but it's called "a Pentium processor" or some such because the trademark was not to be used as a noun. Since then I try hard to use my best, trademark-correct language for humor's sake, as in "Could you please hand me a Kleenex(TM)-brand facial tissue?" or "Curse these blasted Band-Aid® brand adhesive bandages that never stick for more than an hour!" It's interesting (and difficult) to try and figure out what these kinds of products are actually called other than Kleenex, Aspirin, Band-Aid, etc.
A guy I work with (let's call him Mike, because that's his name) did this to his own desktop. That's because the IT manager used to go around checking people's workstations to make sure they were locked if the person wasn't there... otherwise, he would send out email to the whole company from their machine saying "Oops, I didn't lock my terminal," etc. So one day the IT manager strolls by Mike's cubicle, sees the machine apparently unlocked with Outlook open and everything. He sits down, tries to start typing an email, and... "Screen is locked, password please!" When he realized what Mike had done, he had to laugh. Got him pretty good.
the next-gen GameCube (which he calls "GCNext or GCN")
Huh? The GameCube is already abbreviated as "GCN". What's with console manufacturers reusing acronyms for their next-gen consoles? Sony also did it with "PSX", which was the abbreviation for the original PlayStation. Weird.
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I don't think you'll probably want to go geocaching there. It's in the Dugway Proving Grounds.
Jeez, that should have been about the first thing on their minds when designing the new formation shift feature. Can online players do anything to unfairly abuse it? Hmm, oh yeah, a formation shift affects the defensive team's fatigue level without the defensive player being able to do anything about it. Whoops! Maybe even more surprising is that apparently no playtesters even thought to try it. Aren't you supposed to be as evil as possible in kicking the crap out of every aspect of the game before it's released?
Oh, we already heard this story... er, wait. I guess that wasn't America Online...
It's pronounced: "Syllable"
And you must be careful not to put the emphasis on the wrong syllable.
And suddenly, RMS disappears in a puff of logic.
I remember games being advertised in terms of size rather than gameplay time... "this game is a whopping 2 megabits!" and then 4, 8, 16, and holy cats, 32 megabits! The numbers just kept getting bigger, yet less impressive. I have a feeling the gameplay time metric will eventually suffer the same fate.
Finally!! An organization with a backbone, a clear vision, and a strong determination to do something about the problem... er, what? The UN? Crap.
It was rkeene517 who said that, not timothy.
What a shame that something with such a powerful influence for good (as an escape for special characters) could be perverted and made so powerfully evil (as a directory separator under DOS/Windows).
Hmm, you're right, $25,000 does seem a little low. Seems like it would have been at least $52,000 or so...
The memory card sizes all seem to be powers of two, minus 5. 64-5 =59. 256-5 = 251. 1024-5 = 1019.
I'll be faxing my concerns and opposition to this bill to Mr. Upton and the Committee several times today.
... in order to prove the point that your concerns are equivalent to junk?
It's from Slashdot comment #9146854.
You live in a society where it's acceptable to preach about God, but offensive to question God? I don't think I've ever been there. I live in a society that's pretty much the exact opposite.
Not to bash any one [scripting] language...
Ha, good one!
Maybe I'm just going to come across as stupid because it's obvious to everyone but me... but why is a crazy seagull holding a fish "a play on the 'OOo' shorthand of OpenOffice.org"? Is this supposed to be the world's most incomprehensible pun, or what?
Yep, currently I'm typing on Gandalf the laptop and dinking around on Pippin the Pocket PC, accessing the Internet through Sauron the wireless access point and Aragorn the firewall, while my wife plays games on Eowyn the PC, my daughter plays games on Gimli the other PC, and Samwise the web server silently does his job in the background. Legolas the old web server lies disemboweled on the floor after an unfortunate shield-sledding accident.
My wife used to work for Intel and they sent her and a bunch of cow-orkers to a class on trademarks. She told me about how you're not supposed to refer to "a Pentium", but it's called "a Pentium processor" or some such because the trademark was not to be used as a noun. Since then I try hard to use my best, trademark-correct language for humor's sake, as in "Could you please hand me a Kleenex(TM)-brand facial tissue?" or "Curse these blasted Band-Aid® brand adhesive bandages that never stick for more than an hour!" It's interesting (and difficult) to try and figure out what these kinds of products are actually called other than Kleenex, Aspirin, Band-Aid, etc.
... "Okay, then you're fired."
This will be a major improvement... most of the studs I meet on the street are idiots.
A guy I work with (let's call him Mike, because that's his name) did this to his own desktop. That's because the IT manager used to go around checking people's workstations to make sure they were locked if the person wasn't there... otherwise, he would send out email to the whole company from their machine saying "Oops, I didn't lock my terminal," etc. So one day the IT manager strolls by Mike's cubicle, sees the machine apparently unlocked with Outlook open and everything. He sits down, tries to start typing an email, and... "Screen is locked, password please!" When he realized what Mike had done, he had to laugh. Got him pretty good.
There is a beautiful, young Russian lady who will love you if you just give her your credit card number. Want me to forward you the email she sent me?
But I think what most slashdoters (Including myself) need is a turn off cumputer week...
Hey, not all of us are pr0n hounds!
That means that possibly as soon as 2006, that stranded Australian pilot can finally get home!
the next-gen GameCube (which he calls "GCNext or GCN")
Huh? The GameCube is already abbreviated as "GCN". What's with console manufacturers reusing acronyms for their next-gen consoles? Sony also did it with "PSX", which was the abbreviation for the original PlayStation. Weird.