It speaks volumes of slashdot that this parent got modded to 5, Insightful. It is 100% wrong, as many of the lesser modded children posts can easily explain if you bother to read them.
"A quick google search on the words "referrer spam" confirmed my suspicions, this was indeed a widespread practice, and not new at all. In fact, Wired had an article on the subject dating almost a year back."
Thats not clue enough that maybe your lack of knowing about this isn't newsworthy?
I am having trouble following your argument after I RYFP.
So I am to take away that Yahoo is "actually fostering a good relationship between "competing" clients" because "Cerulean studios actually *sent* the GAIM folk the protocol"?
Last time I checked, Cerulean studios != Yahooo, and Cerulean studios action having nothing to Fin do with Yahoo's stance on third party clients.
How many posts are going to say "OMG we slashdotted google." This clearly is not running on there huge cluster. Its probably just a single server or something. Settle down, pigs are not flying.
People play games for entertainment, not because they are works of art. Game "experts" are not critiquing a game as art, they are making a judgement on the merits of the game as a game.
There are so many quotes in that piece that make me upset.
Lets start with Halo. "Look, I'm glad so many people loved Halo. My beef's not with you." So you are well aware of the overwhelming popularity of the game, yet you think it is "over rated." Apparently you and I differ greatly on our definition of overrated, as well as your role as a game reviewer. I don't give a crap what your personal opinion is of the game. Your job, as a "professional" reviewer, is to evaluate the game and make a judgment about what most gamers will think about the game. They go on to attach the other reviewers for giving Halo high marks. Well guess what, its STILL fucking popular! If its so overrated, then why can used game stores still charge 50 bucks for it? With the numbers it sold in, the used shelves should be filled with the worthless things if the game was so overrated. Get off your high horse and re-read your job description. Its a good game, its extremely popular, and so within the realm of game reviews, is by definition, deserving of high ratings, and certainly not overrated.
Mortal Kombat: "The game was an instant hit... Fans persevered, but its popularity was driven more by infamy than quality. " WTF are you talking about!? Now you are saying it was popular, but for the wrong reasons? People liked it, people played it, people continued to like and play it; where is the problem? Who frickin cares why it was popular... are you honestly going to sit there and type that people dropped countless quarters into Mortal Kombat machines because of "infamy"? Get a clue.
"It really is time that a game protocol is made that is truly able to be used as a cross-platform API. I mean, game developers must surely realise that if they were able to code in one API and have it compile under Windows, Linux, Xbox, PS2, GameCube etc, they would make way more money servicing all the market segments, not just one, and save on development costs to boot!"
And surely you realize that such an abstraction will either require significant architectural concessions from all platforms, or will inevitably lead to slower performance on all platforms. Its called optimization, and it is almost always the enemy of generalization.
"Java is not an optimal text parsing language - first off you have to find a regex engine for it."
Umm.. ok... JDK 1.4. Whats second off?
While I'm not particularly arguing for or against the use of Java, I don't think you make a compelling case.
Also, why not use some of the existing tools? * Eclipse's JET * XDoclet * Velocity Not to mention the numerous other specialized generators, GUI builders, and IDE features.
Slashdot Mirror
serveral times... over and over and over.
Consult google:
google
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=conceptua l%20art
"I suppose its analogue would be mandatory drug tests in sports"
You suppose wrong. The testers cannot make money from the results of a drug test, this is not true for submitting orginal works to "testers".
I thought it was funny too when i mis-read it as "ruining" instead of "running".
It speaks volumes of slashdot that this parent got modded to 5, Insightful. It is 100% wrong, as many of the lesser modded children posts can easily explain if you bother to read them.
"A quick google search on the words "referrer spam" confirmed my suspicions, this was indeed a widespread practice, and not new at all. In fact, Wired had an article on the subject dating almost a year back."
Thats not clue enough that maybe your lack of knowing about this isn't newsworthy?
Thats just stupid talk.
If smith does this everytime, why did the machines let Neo jack in just so Smith could kill him (when they clearly could)?
We already heard that the previous ones were reintegrated into the matrix, and Zion was rebuilt from a selection of One-choosen survivors.
I'll not waste anymore more time debunking a halfassed theory about a halfassed movie.
A full text search of slashdot, so the editors can search for duplicate articles before they post.
Scott
Sir, you and I differ greatly on our definition of "exciting".
"ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONGS TO US!"
Boy, Coke sure is getting wierd with its ad campaigns.
Yes I am think.
I am having trouble following your argument after I RYFP.
So I am to take away that Yahoo is "actually fostering a good relationship between "competing" clients" because "Cerulean studios actually *sent* the GAIM folk the protocol"?
Last time I checked, Cerulean studios != Yahooo, and Cerulean studios action having nothing to Fin do with Yahoo's stance on third party clients.
Scott
as I would title it:
"Turn lots of time, money, resources, into a less useful GBA with a marginally larger screen."
explain why I care to ask a question not of my own design solely for the purpose of posting the answer to my favorite nerd site?
How many posts are going to say "OMG we slashdotted google." This clearly is not running on there huge cluster. Its probably just a single server or something. Settle down, pigs are not flying.
Scott
People play games for entertainment, not because they are works of art. Game "experts" are not critiquing a game as art, they are making a judgement on the merits of the game as a game.
There are so many quotes in that piece that make me upset.
Lets start with Halo.
"Look, I'm glad so many people loved Halo. My beef's not with you."
So you are well aware of the overwhelming popularity of the game, yet you think it is "over rated." Apparently you and I differ greatly on our definition of overrated, as well as your role as a game reviewer. I don't give a crap what your personal opinion is of the game. Your job, as a "professional" reviewer, is to evaluate the game and make a judgment about what most gamers will think about the game. They go on to attach the other reviewers for giving Halo high marks. Well guess what, its STILL fucking popular! If its so overrated, then why can used game stores still charge 50 bucks for it? With the numbers it sold in, the used shelves should be filled with the worthless things if the game was so overrated. Get off your high horse and re-read your job description. Its a good game, its extremely popular, and so within the realm of game reviews, is by definition, deserving of high ratings, and certainly not overrated.
Mortal Kombat:
"The game was an instant hit... Fans persevered, but its popularity was driven more by infamy than quality. "
WTF are you talking about!? Now you are saying it was popular, but for the wrong reasons? People liked it, people played it, people continued to like and play it; where is the problem? Who frickin cares why it was popular... are you honestly going to sit there and type that people dropped countless quarters into Mortal Kombat machines because of "infamy"? Get a clue.
Again, dismount and join society.
Scott
"It really is time that a game protocol is made that is truly able to be used as a cross-platform API. I mean, game developers must surely realise that if they were able to code in one API and have it compile under Windows, Linux, Xbox, PS2, GameCube etc, they would make way more money servicing all the market segments, not just one, and save on development costs to boot!"
And surely you realize that such an abstraction will either require significant architectural concessions from all platforms, or will inevitably lead to slower performance on all platforms. Its called optimization, and it is almost always the enemy of generalization.
"(and I don't download very much)"
:)
Just in case the RIAA happens to monitor slashdot.
Don't mind me, I'm not the P2Per you're looking for.
If that was the case don't you think they would have put: "first case on an actual bug being found"?
but what if the book seller wanted to glue the book to your face, so you could still read it, but it would be harder for you to resell?
He honestly thinks one person did all these, travelling around the world.
Clearly this originated from a small group of people, or one, but now is as much of a copycat effort as crop circles are.
"Java is not an optimal text parsing language - first off you have to find a regex engine for it."
Umm.. ok... JDK 1.4. Whats second off?
While I'm not particularly arguing for or against the use of Java, I don't think you make a compelling case.
Also, why not use some of the existing tools?
* Eclipse's JET
* XDoclet
* Velocity
Not to mention the numerous other specialized generators, GUI builders, and IDE features.
Scott
Either you sit in crazy position when you type, or you have something seriously wrong with your anatomy.
Kudos!
:)
That level of preparation virtually guarantees that you will never have the need to use it.
Scott