This IP was played out and over cooked with Doom 3. Strip out all the good graphics and what you have left was a rehash of a rehash. Doom 4 will push the rehash to new realms with fancy graphics and game play that is a decade away from good.
HL2 and its follow up episodes are good, satisfyingly and resoundingly good. With the release of the Orange Box, Valve blew the lid off of gaming. HL2 Episode 2 is GOOD. Team Fortress 2 is excellent. Portal is the game that shocked everyone in how excellent a new concept combined with excellent writing produced one of the best games ever.
Sure, one can say that Valve is rehashing old stories like ID is with Doom; but they aren't. HL1+HL2+ Episodes are expanding upon a story line that is a decade old...it is still fresh, and fun. Each new bit builds upon the last bit and extends it.
ID and Carmack are going to foist a re-engined same ole' same ole' upon us, just like they did with Doom 3, just like Epic did with the very badly done UT3.
I said that Doom 3 was the most accurate flashlight simulator to date; and I was right. They have the graphics tech, but no plot, no story and no direction. Worse, they have no passion.
Doom 3 was made by clock punchers.
Portal was made by people that love games, game design and gamers.
Doom 4 will be made by people that love John Carmack.
A lot of things can be replicated on a lathe or whatever. You can replicate its dimensions, but you cannot replicate alloys...get the alloy wrong and the part doesn't work at all. Beyond that, there's the manufacturing technique that needs to be reverse engineered, too. This is not a trivial task. Screw up the process of manufacturing and you've got nothing.
Beyond all those hurdles, you've got to consider the lubricants as well, screw that up and the parts don't work.
Screw up anything in the chain and nothing works.
There's a reason why countries like Iran or whatever aren't flying around in replica F-14's and F-15's. While they may have the dimensions to replicate a part, they don't have the huge amount of engineering required to make that part work, and work reliably.
The engineering know-how that goes into a sophisticated bit of military hardware spans most hardcore sciences spanning many decades of research, know how, genuine talent and knowledge. This cannot be reverse engineered or reproduced on a lathe.
F22 vs F-16/F-15 during a recent US mock air battle: 122 to 0. The pilots said they never even saw the F-22's. 2 Euro Fighters wouldn't stand a chance against a single F-22.
The article itself is a massively wordy orgy of bullshit and bananas, written by a person that's clearly trying way too fucking hard to write. The writer violates a basic concept of writing, and writing well; get your point across with as few words as possible.
Language as art is a wonderful thing; trying to couch it as something that it isn't in a really wordy...wordy...wordy...essay isn't art, and you lose the point of your essay in the process, which is another way of saying you talk too much without saying anything new or interesting or anything of value.
Really, this article applies to writing doctorates (snicker) and people overseeing those efforts. The rest of the world won't care...or worse yet, hope a well written version of the bullshit will appear in Reader's Digest.
The birth of a scientist's minds generally follows set paths. The young scientist's mind is exposed to many deliberate untruths, which are allowed to propagate throughout time based upon the fun factor of such myths.
1. The tooth fairy.
2. The Easter Bunny.
3. Santa Claus.
4. All of modern religion.
Such fun stops at 3, and at 4, many thousands of years worth of wars are fought over essentially the same thing. In light of this, there's an automatic WTF when one claims to be both religious and scientific all at the same time; there's an inherent split of reasoning involved with a person that practices both religion and science. The more reasonable explanation is that any scientist that practices religion automatically has their views, methods and results discolored by that can neither be seen, tested or replicated; and are therefore moot by the principles of science due to their underlying faith in something that cannot be seen, proven, tested or gawped at.
Real scientists are atheists by design, atheists by rote testing, and agnostic in practice....yet ever so much more one of the other.
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I'd be a Pointy Haired Boss and comply with any request for GPL'd code by sending the requester the code...printed on paper. ;)
But will it blend?
Ahh, the mystery of Employee #508.
/.er is going to come forward?
Which
The Bombarang was developed in the 1970's, and while technically a success, development on the project was canceled due to unforeseen consequences.
This IP was played out and over cooked with Doom 3. Strip out all the good graphics and what you have left was a rehash of a rehash. Doom 4 will push the rehash to new realms with fancy graphics and game play that is a decade away from good.
HL2 and its follow up episodes are good, satisfyingly and resoundingly good. With the release of the Orange Box, Valve blew the lid off of gaming. HL2 Episode 2 is GOOD. Team Fortress 2 is excellent. Portal is the game that shocked everyone in how excellent a new concept combined with excellent writing produced one of the best games ever.
Sure, one can say that Valve is rehashing old stories like ID is with Doom; but they aren't. HL1+HL2+ Episodes are expanding upon a story line that is a decade old...it is still fresh, and fun. Each new bit builds upon the last bit and extends it.
ID and Carmack are going to foist a re-engined same ole' same ole' upon us, just like they did with Doom 3, just like Epic did with the very badly done UT3.
I said that Doom 3 was the most accurate flashlight simulator to date; and I was right. They have the graphics tech, but no plot, no story and no direction. Worse, they have no passion.
Doom 3 was made by clock punchers.
Portal was made by people that love games, game design and gamers.
Doom 4 will be made by people that love John Carmack.
Adam, the clear solution is to go back in time and listen to them speak.
Think outside the box!
A lot of things can be replicated on a lathe or whatever. You can replicate its dimensions, but you cannot replicate alloys...get the alloy wrong and the part doesn't work at all. Beyond that, there's the manufacturing technique that needs to be reverse engineered, too. This is not a trivial task. Screw up the process of manufacturing and you've got nothing.
Beyond all those hurdles, you've got to consider the lubricants as well, screw that up and the parts don't work.
Screw up anything in the chain and nothing works.
There's a reason why countries like Iran or whatever aren't flying around in replica F-14's and F-15's. While they may have the dimensions to replicate a part, they don't have the huge amount of engineering required to make that part work, and work reliably.
The engineering know-how that goes into a sophisticated bit of military hardware spans most hardcore sciences spanning many decades of research, know how, genuine talent and knowledge. This cannot be reverse engineered or reproduced on a lathe.
I sprained a mussel when I read "The Shellfish Gene."
In space, no one can hear your ice cream.
The CIA denies reports of water boarding planes.
What next?
Will engineers have to design vehicles with their eyes closed?
What caught my eye was the blurb about high speed Tor...
I thought, OMG! I want, NOW!!
Or an drunk astronaut decides to start mashing buttons just for fun...
C) Or a court order to fork over the password.
I'm still building the DIY Home CPU Kit, and I will tell you that the gates are a #*@% to install.
Just throw it out of the plane before it crashes, no need to worry about fire then.
Flight International is doing a similar thing, but with the Zune, it crashes before the plane does!
The name of the product...
Airpod.
I stopped visiting CompUSA after I went there for a DVI cable, which they had, but for $100, Newegg had the same thing for $12.
Well...a bumblebee traveling at 650 MPH likely isn't one. Shoot it down and see.
F22 vs F-16/F-15 during a recent US mock air battle: 122 to 0. The pilots said they never even saw the F-22's. 2 Euro Fighters wouldn't stand a chance against a single F-22.
I had to look twice to see that Palatine wasn't Palpatine.
The article itself is a massively wordy orgy of bullshit and bananas, written by a person that's clearly trying way too fucking hard to write. The writer violates a basic concept of writing, and writing well; get your point across with as few words as possible.
Language as art is a wonderful thing; trying to couch it as something that it isn't in a really wordy...wordy...wordy...essay isn't art, and you lose the point of your essay in the process, which is another way of saying you talk too much without saying anything new or interesting or anything of value.
Really, this article applies to writing doctorates (snicker) and people overseeing those efforts. The rest of the world won't care...or worse yet, hope a well written version of the bullshit will appear in Reader's Digest.
The birth of a scientist's minds generally follows set paths. The young scientist's mind is exposed to many deliberate untruths, which are allowed to propagate throughout time based upon the fun factor of such myths.
1. The tooth fairy.
2. The Easter Bunny.
3. Santa Claus.
4. All of modern religion.
Such fun stops at 3, and at 4, many thousands of years worth of wars are fought over essentially the same thing. In light of this, there's an automatic WTF when one claims to be both religious and scientific all at the same time; there's an inherent split of reasoning involved with a person that practices both religion and science. The more reasonable explanation is that any scientist that practices religion automatically has their views, methods and results discolored by that can neither be seen, tested or replicated; and are therefore moot by the principles of science due to their underlying faith in something that cannot be seen, proven, tested or gawped at.
Real scientists are atheists by design, atheists by rote testing, and agnostic in practice....yet ever so much more one of the other.
Hey folks,
I was the pilot for this flight, and it was a shakedown flight.
But.
The GV displayed in the flight path is purely coincidental.
Truth is, I was lost.