True. You can only have five beacons (per planet), and they cannot be labelled. Though they do allow you to return to significant locations, repeatedly. At least, for five signifiant locations on every planet.
I can't remember cartographic tools being advertised for No Man's Sky. I'm glad that, as a child, I was not aware that cartography was an essential process of exploration. Would have been a major blow to my dreams of exploring my neighbourhood.
You should look into building a "Beacon", as part of the base building quest. This gives you the ability to create permanent markers that you can return to. Though you're limited to a maximum of five per planet.
A shill they may be, but at least Rei generally stays on topic. Which makes Rei's posts infinitely more interesting to read.
Try stopping the ad hominem attacks, and have a go at arguing some points that are actually on topic. We, the Slashdot crowd, will appreciate the effort.
I agree it's a grant of money, but it's not free. There is an effective contract made when you make the pledge. If the development is successful, the producer is legally obliged to pony up the rewards, whether they want to or not.
It's a little bit of this, and a little bit of that, but is neither one or the other.
Crowdfunding has the inherent risk of investments, but the rewards of a sale. As far as legal protection is concerned, it seems to be more under contract law than consumer law, at least going by the legal cases I've seen. Consumer law has only come into it if the project turns out to be fraudulent, and even then, no pledges were refunded.
Seems like you need to approach crowdfunding with an investment frame of mind, and only pledge what you're willing to lose.
Stands to reason why fake news spreads faster. It's designed to be more interesting, more controversial, and/or generally more appealing than the actual truth. Truth is often quite boring, after all.
It's like how virtual reality is more entertaining than actual reality.
The bottle was found without any seal, but from what I've read, they believe the seal was cork, and it had long disappeared due to it shrinking and becoming dislodged. The bottle was apparently washed ashore within a year of being thrown into the ocean, and then lay buried in sand, which helped preserve the message inside.
Actually, he's not wrong. Most women do act quite entitled. He just failed to mention that most men also act that way as well.
I call this phenomenon the natural population governor of the developing world. The more materialistic we become, the more choosy we are about our partners, the less we spawn. I've often thought that China didn't need a law for birth restriction. They just had to give them bling.
I was particular in using the phrase "more often". I agree that technically superior doesn't always win out, even with open source. Though I do believe that open source fosters a better environment for good technical solutions. Alas, where there are people, there is politics, and the correct solution can be subjective. That's a dangerous combination, and it affects all software development, open source or otherwise.
You raise a very good point about how meritocracy can be subverted. I guess even the idea of "merit" can be subjective. It could just as much mean how well a person works together with a particular group. Good group dynamics with decent contributors will lead to better software, over a team of very talented individuals that clash.
From what I've seen of Linux development, and open source development in general, it's far more chaotic, argumentative and disjointed than closed source corporate software development.
That is the crux of the issue: "from what I've seen". The problem is that you don't see corporate software development. Who knows what chaos happens behind the veneer of the corporate facade. Not only that, but also take into consideration the influence of politics, marketing, and just plain management incompetence on the development of their software.
The thing about open source is that, for all the arguments and chaos, a technically correct solution more often wins out. This is because it's inherently a meritocracy. I have no confidence that this is the case with corporate software development.
Very much agree with the recommendation for The Dispossessed. Definitely my favourite Le Guin novel. I'd be a bit more specific about the political system for Anarres, though. Better to describe it as "Anarchist Communism", so to avoid confusion with Marxism and Maoism.
If that truly does happen, can you imagine what the headlines the next day would be? Yep, every other city in Europe suddenly announcing a move to Linux.
It certainly lessens the impact of the AC's statement, though. Never mind the hyperbole.
Yep, Hello Games lied about some stuff. At the time, they didn't believe it was a lie. Yet, as development progressed, it became one. This is why one should always wait until a game is released before judging whether to purchase it, and not base their decision on pre-alpha comments. That is why people have to share some blame for their disappointment, instead of painting HG as the bane of humanity. Do I have to mention, again, that I believe HG are also to blame?
Hello Games certainly aren't blameless. I would have thought Sean would have more experience than to talk about features in a game that was pre-Alpha at the time. They should have known better.
Regardless, I enjoyed the game, and humanity survives for another day. I also enjoy reading the hyperbole that detractors espouse.
Huh? Since when did NMS do a Kickstarter, Early Access, and Beta? Also, basic development started 2012, with a small group of four, and they didn't start ramping up development until 2014.
Also, by "promise", do you mean talking about features that are in development? Sean's big mistake was not prefacing all his interviews with "game is still being developed; we don't actually know the final state at release". He unfortunately set expectations (not promises), some of which were not met.
No Man's Sky has become the poster boy for entitled gamers who have no idea that they should wait for reviews, and not base their purchase on comments made during pre-Alpha.
Is it "no" because NMS never needed to redeem itself, except in the eyes of the over-hyped?
I played the original release. It was a fun game, though fairly shallow. I enjoyed my time with it. I'm also enjoying these updates, and revisiting the game when these updates are released. For me, the answer is "no" as well.
Dmesg will show you messages from the kernel. It will not show the STDOUT or STDERR of processes started by init. So unfortunately, not what I'm after.
No file like that on my Debian systems. I checked a CentOS server I have access to, and there is a/var/log/boot.log file, but it is sparsely populated with parts of the boot sequence. It's possible that it may contain stderr messages on boot, so that's something.
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True. You can only have five beacons (per planet), and they cannot be labelled. Though they do allow you to return to significant locations, repeatedly. At least, for five signifiant locations on every planet.
I can't remember cartographic tools being advertised for No Man's Sky. I'm glad that, as a child, I was not aware that cartography was an essential process of exploration. Would have been a major blow to my dreams of exploring my neighbourhood.
You should look into building a "Beacon", as part of the base building quest.
This gives you the ability to create permanent markers that you can return to. Though you're limited to a maximum of five per planet.
Congratulations on proving Linus Torvalds correct.
There is much anger in this one.
No problems. I'll just downvote all comments like yours. The Slashdot crowd doesn't need to put up with that sort of shit.
A shill they may be, but at least Rei generally stays on topic. Which makes Rei's posts infinitely more interesting to read.
Try stopping the ad hominem attacks, and have a go at arguing some points that are actually on topic. We, the Slashdot crowd, will appreciate the effort.
Some people just like to build stuff. There is an inherent satisfaction factor that you cannot buy, in creating something yourself.
Did his post touch a sore topic with you? It rather seems that way.
I always thought of it as a reference to a stoned Natalie Portman. ;)
Then again, I come from a country where grit means small loose rock. Was the joke about how this would cause chafing?
So long Roblimo, and thanks for all the memes.
9% failure rate on Kickstarter projects, according to a study done a few years ago.
I agree it's a grant of money, but it's not free. There is an effective contract made when you make the pledge. If the development is successful, the producer is legally obliged to pony up the rewards, whether they want to or not.
It's a little bit of this, and a little bit of that, but is neither one or the other.
Crowdfunding has the inherent risk of investments, but the rewards of a sale. As far as legal protection is concerned, it seems to be more under contract law than consumer law, at least going by the legal cases I've seen. Consumer law has only come into it if the project turns out to be fraudulent, and even then, no pledges were refunded.
Seems like you need to approach crowdfunding with an investment frame of mind, and only pledge what you're willing to lose.
Stands to reason why fake news spreads faster. It's designed to be more interesting, more controversial, and/or generally more appealing than the actual truth. Truth is often quite boring, after all.
It's like how virtual reality is more entertaining than actual reality.
The bottle was found without any seal, but from what I've read, they believe the seal was cork, and it had long disappeared due to it shrinking and becoming dislodged. The bottle was apparently washed ashore within a year of being thrown into the ocean, and then lay buried in sand, which helped preserve the message inside.
Actually, he's not wrong. Most women do act quite entitled. He just failed to mention that most men also act that way as well.
I call this phenomenon the natural population governor of the developing world. The more materialistic we become, the more choosy we are about our partners, the less we spawn. I've often thought that China didn't need a law for birth restriction. They just had to give them bling.
I was particular in using the phrase "more often". I agree that technically superior doesn't always win out, even with open source. Though I do believe that open source fosters a better environment for good technical solutions. Alas, where there are people, there is politics, and the correct solution can be subjective. That's a dangerous combination, and it affects all software development, open source or otherwise.
You raise a very good point about how meritocracy can be subverted. I guess even the idea of "merit" can be subjective. It could just as much mean how well a person works together with a particular group. Good group dynamics with decent contributors will lead to better software, over a team of very talented individuals that clash.
That is the crux of the issue: "from what I've seen". The problem is that you don't see corporate software development. Who knows what chaos happens behind the veneer of the corporate facade. Not only that, but also take into consideration the influence of politics, marketing, and just plain management incompetence on the development of their software.
The thing about open source is that, for all the arguments and chaos, a technically correct solution more often wins out. This is because it's inherently a meritocracy. I have no confidence that this is the case with corporate software development.
Very much agree with the recommendation for The Dispossessed. Definitely my favourite Le Guin novel. I'd be a bit more specific about the political system for Anarres, though. Better to describe it as "Anarchist Communism", so to avoid confusion with Marxism and Maoism.
If that truly does happen, can you imagine what the headlines the next day would be?
Yep, every other city in Europe suddenly announcing a move to Linux.
So can Linux.
Granted, not as many, but it's amazing how many native Linux games there are now. I think we can thank Steam for that.
It certainly lessens the impact of the AC's statement, though. Never mind the hyperbole.
Yep, Hello Games lied about some stuff. At the time, they didn't believe it was a lie. Yet, as development progressed, it became one. This is why one should always wait until a game is released before judging whether to purchase it, and not base their decision on pre-alpha comments. That is why people have to share some blame for their disappointment, instead of painting HG as the bane of humanity. Do I have to mention, again, that I believe HG are also to blame?
And in the end, I still enjoyed the game. ;)
So says the anonymous coward. :)
Hello Games certainly aren't blameless. I would have thought Sean would have more experience than to talk about features in a game that was pre-Alpha at the time. They should have known better.
Regardless, I enjoyed the game, and humanity survives for another day. I also enjoy reading the hyperbole that detractors espouse.
Huh? Since when did NMS do a Kickstarter, Early Access, and Beta? Also, basic development started 2012, with a small group of four, and they didn't start ramping up development until 2014.
Also, by "promise", do you mean talking about features that are in development? Sean's big mistake was not prefacing all his interviews with "game is still being developed; we don't actually know the final state at release". He unfortunately set expectations (not promises), some of which were not met.
No Man's Sky has become the poster boy for entitled gamers who have no idea that they should wait for reviews, and not base their purchase on comments made during pre-Alpha.
Go and play "The Ur-Quan Masters" (a.k.a Star Control 2). http://sc2.sourceforge.net/ . Go, now!
Or, the high definition remake: https://sourceforge.net/projec... .
Why are you still reading this, and not downloading?!
Is it "no" because NMS never needed to redeem itself, except in the eyes of the over-hyped?
I played the original release. It was a fun game, though fairly shallow. I enjoyed my time with it. I'm also enjoying these updates, and revisiting the game when these updates are released. For me, the answer is "no" as well.
Dmesg will show you messages from the kernel. It will not show the STDOUT or STDERR of processes started by init. So unfortunately, not what I'm after.
No file like that on my Debian systems. I checked a CentOS server I have access to, and there is a /var/log/boot.log file, but it is sparsely populated with parts of the boot sequence. It's possible that it may contain stderr messages on boot, so that's something.