so they're trying to paint linux as an infringement device...
Wait and see, the clampdown on opensource is coming. Think of how much money it's taking from the pockets of corporations, and corporations own the US government.
my god, I didn't believe that until I looked at the site.
I had no idea!
I guess I stand corrected about it being universally reviled. However, McDonalds is the highest-grossing restaurant chain on the planet, and it's sure as hell not the best.
It just goes to show that most here at/. have no concept of reality.
You're smoking crack, fanboy. EP1 was almost universally reviled and generally agreed to be a marketing device to milk the dregs of the series. Sorry to burst your bubble about that.
No kidding. It's people like "Anonymous Coward" who are responsible for the condition of the Star Wars franchise. They're so conditioned by their media worship that they'll buy literally anything that contains the Star Wars rubric. I loved the original series, but JESUS ep1 was a horrible film.
There's nothing wrong with geek toys etc. I just have to laugh when I see people walking around encrusted with the newest pagers, cell phones, I-pods, PDAs, etc etc-- like barnacles on their waistlines-- when IMO they are oftentimes missing out on the things that are truly important in life. And I see it so much.
Seems to me the last good movie in the franchise was Empire Strikes Back. That was in what, 1980? That being the case, why do people still live and die by the series?
This phenomenon is even more extreme than the Trek-worship thing. Trek's overall quality level is far higher than that of Star Wars. And, uhhhh... that's saying something.
Black moving first = black rush, gg white black gets build advantage, n00bs build 9 times faster, more unbalanced + black moves first = gg gg white
Joseki_Noob: R U KOREAN R STH? [DAN]Go_Seigen: ^___^ kekekekeke laaaaaaa~
Had this when I was a child
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When I was a little kid, I had a motorized Pong that my father found at a Salvation Army shop. It was roughly the size and form factor of one of those "streamlined" one-piece VT100s with the integral keyboard. It had little lights representing paddle and ball, in an attempt to try to seem like a "video game," but in fact they were driven by motorized arms-- you could hear them grinding, and the grinding got louder and louder until finally a gear broke or something and it no longer worked.
I wish I hadn't thrown it away, I could probably trade it for a Testarossa now or something.
Gingery lathes are professional quality machine tools you make yourself. Not from parts. You build a furnace out of concrete and sand, you melt the aluminum, you sand-cast the basic parts. Then you use the skeleton of the lathe to machine the rest of the parts out of steel.
There are also people out there who have turned-- no pun intended-- turned gingery lathes into CAM gingery lathes.
BTW if gingery lathes have not been on slashdot before, they certainly deserve to be. More than, say, the Japanese guy who made his own Battle Angel Alita realdoll out of sushi-rice. IMO.
I'll tell you, if this happened to me because of fatfingering the serial number or because of code error or the "little misunderstandings" that sometimes occur between computer and software, I would PRESS CHARGES for malicious destruction of data.
I would also sue the living FUCK out of the person who programmed the software.
My opinion agrees with the general consensus that 1.3 was far better balanced than 1.4. The reinforcement times have been decreased since 1.3, causing a severe rushing problem-- in effect, you have factories pumping out units right inside the enemy base.
So, if the enemy tries to build tech, build listening posts for gathering resources, according to some people even building a power plant (!) he's going to be far behind when you get into his base with, say, three marine squads.
In effect, the reinforcement system amplifies the Law of Diminishing Firepower which states that in a firefight, a momentary advantage to one side increases on a geometric rather than linear progression. If you get behind by a squad, you are not only losing the firepower of that squad but you are losing the reinforcing ability of that squad, meaning that your enemy is not only whittling down your numbers faster, but he himself is increasing in numbers faster than you are.
Perhaps they will balance the problems by the time the gold comes out. I doubt it because there are many, many. I do think the problems are of a nature that will cause the game to get pale at mid- to high levels of play rather than making it not fun from the start; from what I saw of the game it's extremely cool anyway.
Especially if you loved the tabletop wargame. Those were the days...
You should have cameras in your house as well, because you might dial 911 at your house and the dispatcher could look in your house and see what was going on there when calling 911.
Nothing against my German friends out there, it's just that there is this sort of German appreciation for efficiency that's a little unsettling to the rest of us.
Audio has a far lower point of diminishing returns than does, say, graphics.
There's only so much fidelity you need for "Argghhhh" and "Kaboom" and "Zap."
Let's take Doom3 as an example.
Which would you rather have-- Doom3 on a Hammerfall pro audio card with a Voodoo2 or Doom3 on an Nvidia 6800 with a $20 Soundblaster Live?
For me, there's no contest. I do happen to have an Audiophile pro card, but it's because I make music, not because of gaming. For music applications there are SCADS of high-end cards. I just don't think the typical user needs them, unless he's some bling-fanatic who defines himself by how many of the latest, blue-LEDest IPOD-things he has.
Plays like a crappy console port. Maybe it is. The motion is impossible to get used to, slow, non-responsive. The terrain is outdated.
The graphics are interesting, and "filmed" through a grainy lens.
But the combat plays somewhat like a Vietnam-themed Painkiller; enemies pour endlessly out of tunnels until you destroy the tunnel. Your squaddies seemingly never get hit. You can stumble drunkenly (since you can't really run fast or maneuver) through clouds of bullets that should slap you down faster than a fifty cent crackwhore.
For single-player experience, Vietcong KILLS this game. Utterly.
For multi, BFV is king of the genre.
Eidos had better go back to the drawing board with this one. The fact that it has rape isn't going to save it from the bargain bin, then the dustbin of history where it will fester along with "Custer's Revenge" for the Atari.
Feh on this. Certainly glad I didn't pay money for this shitty pig in a poke.
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so they're trying to paint linux as an infringement device...
Wait and see, the clampdown on opensource is coming. Think of how much money it's taking from the pockets of corporations, and corporations own the US government.
You're smoking crack, fanboy. EP1 was almost universally reviled and generally agreed to be a marketing device to milk the dregs of the series. Sorry to burst your bubble about that.
No kidding. It's people like "Anonymous Coward" who are responsible for the condition of the Star Wars franchise. They're so conditioned by their media worship that they'll buy literally anything that contains the Star Wars rubric. I loved the original series, but JESUS ep1 was a horrible film.
There's nothing wrong with geek toys etc. I just have to laugh when I see people walking around encrusted with the newest pagers, cell phones, I-pods, PDAs, etc etc-- like barnacles on their waistlines-- when IMO they are oftentimes missing out on the things that are truly important in life. And I see it so much.
No kidding. I said basically the same thing and they said I was trolling.
How much can they milk a series?
'Course, Starwars Galaxies makes Episode 1 look like great cinema. So I think the whoring of the franchise has only begun.
Sue me, I don't like watching them piss away something I loved when it first came out, and all in the name of selling Jarjar Binks action figures.
:D
Are you saying you LIKED episode 1?
BTW I think "jackass" == anonymous drivebys
I'd like to see many of these things applied to adults.
In a world where billions don't have enough to eat, we are now giving our dogs cell phones.
Truly sick.
Seems to me the last good movie in the franchise was Empire Strikes Back. That was in what, 1980? That being the case, why do people still live and die by the series?
This phenomenon is even more extreme than the Trek-worship thing. Trek's overall quality level is far higher than that of Star Wars. And, uhhhh... that's saying something.
Yoda != Ghandi.
Black moving first = black rush, gg white
black gets build advantage, n00bs build 9 times faster, more unbalanced + black moves first = gg gg white
Joseki_Noob: R U KOREAN R STH?
[DAN]Go_Seigen: ^___^ kekekekeke laaaaaaa~
When I was a little kid, I had a motorized Pong that my father found at a Salvation Army shop. It was roughly the size and form factor of one of those "streamlined" one-piece VT100s with the integral keyboard. It had little lights representing paddle and ball, in an attempt to try to seem like a "video game," but in fact they were driven by motorized arms-- you could hear them grinding, and the grinding got louder and louder until finally a gear broke or something and it no longer worked.
I wish I hadn't thrown it away, I could probably trade it for a Testarossa now or something.
Unrelentless?
You mean he relents?
Or is this like "Disirregardless?"
>need to go get a new locl for my bike.
Time to get some Bic pens.
I already know about the books, and I have all of the ones associated with home machining. I want this awesomeness to be shared with fellow geeks.
O'Reilly-- you must cover the Gingery Lathe!
Gingery lathes are professional quality machine tools you make yourself. Not from parts. You build a furnace out of concrete and sand, you melt the aluminum, you sand-cast the basic parts. Then you use the skeleton of the lathe to machine the rest of the parts out of steel.
There are also people out there who have turned-- no pun intended-- turned gingery lathes into CAM gingery lathes.
BTW if gingery lathes have not been on slashdot before, they certainly deserve to be. More than, say, the Japanese guy who made his own Battle Angel Alita realdoll out of sushi-rice. IMO.
The pen is mightier than the lock.
Once again a low-tech solution for a high-tech problem. Or, uh, vice versa.
God save me from Star Trek and its worshippers.
Star Trek was cool when I watched it with my dad in 1974.
It's not cool now.
Please, please, give me a preference setting so that I can mod "star trek -5000000" so that I never have to see this crap again.
I'll tell you, if this happened to me because of fatfingering the serial number or because of code error or the "little misunderstandings" that sometimes occur between computer and software, I would PRESS CHARGES for malicious destruction of data.
I would also sue the living FUCK out of the person who programmed the software.
Stupid, stupid.
I played the beta extensively from 1.3 to 1.4.
My opinion agrees with the general consensus that 1.3 was far better balanced than 1.4. The reinforcement times have been decreased since 1.3, causing a severe rushing problem-- in effect, you have factories pumping out units right inside the enemy base.
So, if the enemy tries to build tech, build listening posts for gathering resources, according to some people even building a power plant (!) he's going to be far behind when you get into his base with, say, three marine squads.
In effect, the reinforcement system amplifies the Law of Diminishing Firepower which states that in a firefight, a momentary advantage to one side increases on a geometric rather than linear progression. If you get behind by a squad, you are not only losing the firepower of that squad but you are losing the reinforcing ability of that squad, meaning that your enemy is not only whittling down your numbers faster, but he himself is increasing in numbers faster than you are.
Perhaps they will balance the problems by the time the gold comes out. I doubt it because there are many, many. I do think the problems are of a nature that will cause the game to get pale at mid- to high levels of play rather than making it not fun from the start; from what I saw of the game it's extremely cool anyway.
Especially if you loved the tabletop wargame. Those were the days...
You should have cameras in your house as well, because you might dial 911 at your house and the dispatcher could look in your house and see what was going on there when calling 911.
Wouldn't you feel much safer?
yeah but... those people are German.
Nothing against my German friends out there, it's just that there is this sort of German appreciation for efficiency that's a little unsettling to the rest of us.
We have plenty of perspective, like, oh, history from Germany ~1935.
Parent poster must like fascism.
Audio has a far lower point of diminishing returns than does, say, graphics.
There's only so much fidelity you need for "Argghhhh" and "Kaboom" and "Zap."
Let's take Doom3 as an example.
Which would you rather have-- Doom3 on a Hammerfall pro audio card with a Voodoo2 or Doom3 on an Nvidia 6800 with a $20 Soundblaster Live?
For me, there's no contest. I do happen to have an Audiophile pro card, but it's because I make music, not because of gaming. For music applications there are SCADS of high-end cards. I just don't think the typical user needs them, unless he's some bling-fanatic who defines himself by how many of the latest, blue-LEDest IPOD-things he has.
Plays like a crappy console port. Maybe it is. The motion is impossible to get used to, slow, non-responsive. The terrain is outdated.
The graphics are interesting, and "filmed" through a grainy lens.
But the combat plays somewhat like a Vietnam-themed Painkiller; enemies pour endlessly out of tunnels until you destroy the tunnel. Your squaddies seemingly never get hit. You can stumble drunkenly (since you can't really run fast or maneuver) through clouds of bullets that should slap you down faster than a fifty cent crackwhore.
For single-player experience, Vietcong KILLS this game. Utterly.
For multi, BFV is king of the genre.
Eidos had better go back to the drawing board with this one. The fact that it has rape isn't going to save it from the bargain bin, then the dustbin of history where it will fester along with "Custer's Revenge" for the Atari.
Feh on this. Certainly glad I didn't pay money for this shitty pig in a poke.
That depends if they are or are not COMPUTER scientists.