Back in the days of Diablo (1), one of the most cheated-in games ever, a few of my close friends from school decided to limit our gameplay amongst ourselves so we wont be affected by the cheating going on in the "real world". We managed to enjoy the game a great deal, none of us cheated. It's based on trust, really. If you can find a few people that you trust and play with them, it increases the enjoyment of the game enormously.
Same goes for first person shooters or any other game. Find yourself a clan with trustworthy members, and play.
Just because everyone else cheats, doesn't mean you have to expose yourself to their damnation.
Because releasing something that was leaked a week ago is a GOOD idea?
The supposed reason it got leaked in the first place is because they delayed it. (At least that was the anonymous leaker's excuse.) So not only would they have to rewrite a massive portion of the game to prevent all sorts of hacks and whatnot, it wasn't complete to start with. I really wouldn't be surprized if it were to be scheduled for 2005.
An interesting note: last year, Tivo said they tracked 10,000 people for the Super Bowl, this year 20,000.
Does this necessarily mean that more people watched the superbowl, or merely the same percentage of people watched, just increase in number of customers?
That's what I thought. But from what I hear, only way you can get just a "plain" cell phone (give or take a few extra features) is to buy a really cheap one. But, if you buy a really cheap one, you get all sorts of problems like bad reception. Now on the other hand, if you buy an uber expensive phone with the camera and the entire package, you also get better reception and all sorts of expensive goodies. It seems hard to just get EXACTLY what you want. Bunch of shit comes with what you want. And without the shit, all you get is shit. Ah, quite a dilemma.
I, too, have experienced the same thing. I've no real knowledge as to why this is, but I would imagine that since the keys are closer together, we place our hands closer together, making them go in a more natural diagonal position (/ \) instead of just being straight (| |) like in normal spaced keyboards. Also, since the screen is attached to the laptop, the back and neck are in a better position which overall relaxes the arm muscles.
Just my random shot at it. Anyways, if it aint broke, don't fix it! I can barely spend a good day's work on my desktop anymore, after using my laptop religiously for almost half a year. Not necessarily due to discomfort in the wrist or anything, but just fatigue in general./me hugs his laptop.
Because sometimes it actually is useful to have a symbol "ID" and another one "id" in the same symbol table.
This kind of made me think of my calculus homework which I should be doing right now. Especially for integration, and such. We've variabled "m" and "M". Sure, in a program, it wouldn't be hard to change them to something else like "bigM" and "littleM", but it would sure make the code a lot simpler to read to just have "m" and "M". This is in a case where you're writing a calculus-related program. Eg. a graphing calculator.
Well when I wrote this, I didn't have pay in mind. I'm generally talking about my personal projects and hobbies, etc.
If you're getting paid, then I would imagine that it would be best to do as your employer told you. If he just wants the bugs fixed, then fix the bugs. If he wants a fresh start, then do a fresh start. Of course, your opinion could make or break the employer's decision, but I think it has to be mutually agreed.
So therefore that's why Blizzard doesn't suffer from the same kind of pressure as other companies that depend on third party publishers/distributers. Blizzard has no one to answer to but themselves, hence the excellent qualtiy.:D
I realize this, but do you know who their distributer is? Because I never heard of any parent company for Blizzard. Do they distribute their own games?
Although I have an unhealthy habit of wanting to start things from scratch, I believe it can be a good thing more often than not.
When you've developed a piece of software, fixed its bugs, and tweaked it, more times than not, those fixes and tweaks are nothing more than workarounds for your currently flawed structure. Usually, you don't realize these flaws until AFTER you've created it.
By starting it from scratch, you can keep your mistakes in mind, and make better and more efficient software.
Sure, there are chances of running into new bugs, but isn't that what the whole learning process is about? The more you learn, the better the software will keep making. You can only go so far, if you need to turn a paper bag full of feces into an operating system. But if you start from scratch, you can create your own digitized significant other. You know, relatively speaking.
That kind of development process is hard to come, and only a very few large developers have the clout to tell the distributor to STFU until the product is done.
Sure, Linux has all sorts of handy command-line autoget stuff. Butt! BUTT!! Windows has clicking!
And what do users want? We want clicking! More clicking! Give us a button to click after we type in 'emerge programname' and windows will totally be in trouble. Ph33r thy buttons!
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Yes, bones tend to be rather flexible at a younger age. I think we all heard of Bonsai Kittens at this point...
;-)
Sooooo, what exactly do women's pelvises have to do with larger brains?
- shazow
Back in the days of Diablo (1), one of the most cheated-in games ever, a few of my close friends from school decided to limit our gameplay amongst ourselves so we wont be affected by the cheating going on in the "real world". We managed to enjoy the game a great deal, none of us cheated. It's based on trust, really. If you can find a few people that you trust and play with them, it increases the enjoyment of the game enormously.
Same goes for first person shooters or any other game. Find yourself a clan with trustworthy members, and play.
Just because everyone else cheats, doesn't mean you have to expose yourself to their damnation.
- shazow
Lin_w_o_d_s? wtf is Linwods?!
Heh.
- shazow
I bought a really nice Vesa local bus video card at the time and today it blows chunks in my 486/66 Mhz system.
The man specifically said yesterday, not a decade ago! Sheesh. =8-]
- shazow
New linux slogan!
"Easy enough for a woman, made for a man."
=8-]
- shazow
Because releasing something that was leaked a week ago is a GOOD idea?
The supposed reason it got leaked in the first place is because they delayed it. (At least that was the anonymous leaker's excuse.) So not only would they have to rewrite a massive portion of the game to prevent all sorts of hacks and whatnot, it wasn't complete to start with. I really wouldn't be surprized if it were to be scheduled for 2005.
- shazow
Does this necessarily mean that more people watched the superbowl, or merely the same percentage of people watched, just increase in number of customers?
- shazow
Pick a game that you two could enjoy. Fire up your favourite voice chat proggie (Ventrilo, TeamSpeak, Roger Wilco, etc.) and frag away.
The game doesn't necessarily need headset support or anything like that. So long as you have a third party proggie to handle the mess.
- shazow
That's what I thought. But from what I hear, only way you can get just a "plain" cell phone (give or take a few extra features) is to buy a really cheap one. But, if you buy a really cheap one, you get all sorts of problems like bad reception. Now on the other hand, if you buy an uber expensive phone with the camera and the entire package, you also get better reception and all sorts of expensive goodies. It seems hard to just get EXACTLY what you want. Bunch of shit comes with what you want. And without the shit, all you get is shit. Ah, quite a dilemma.
Stinky.
- shazow
I, too, have experienced the same thing. I've no real knowledge as to why this is, but I would imagine that since the keys are closer together, we place our hands closer together, making them go in a more natural diagonal position (/ \) instead of just being straight (| |) like in normal spaced keyboards. Also, since the screen is attached to the laptop, the back and neck are in a better position which overall relaxes the arm muscles.
/me hugs his laptop.
Just my random shot at it. Anyways, if it aint broke, don't fix it! I can barely spend a good day's work on my desktop anymore, after using my laptop religiously for almost half a year. Not necessarily due to discomfort in the wrist or anything, but just fatigue in general.
- shazow
This kind of made me think of my calculus homework which I should be doing right now. Especially for integration, and such. We've variabled "m" and "M". Sure, in a program, it wouldn't be hard to change them to something else like "bigM" and "littleM", but it would sure make the code a lot simpler to read to just have "m" and "M". This is in a case where you're writing a calculus-related program. Eg. a graphing calculator.
Just a thought.
- shazow
Heh that's of course assuming you don't get it on your first try. :D
If you do, what do you do with all those parallel universes? Heh.
- shazow
I agree, there's no reason quite like spite! Heh.
I live because I can!
- shazow
Well when I wrote this, I didn't have pay in mind. I'm generally talking about my personal projects and hobbies, etc.
If you're getting paid, then I would imagine that it would be best to do as your employer told you. If he just wants the bugs fixed, then fix the bugs. If he wants a fresh start, then do a fresh start. Of course, your opinion could make or break the employer's decision, but I think it has to be mutually agreed.
- shazow
So therefore that's why Blizzard doesn't suffer from the same kind of pressure as other companies that depend on third party publishers/distributers. Blizzard has no one to answer to but themselves, hence the excellent qualtiy. :D
- shazow
I realize this, but do you know who their distributer is? Because I never heard of any parent company for Blizzard. Do they distribute their own games?
Although I have an unhealthy habit of wanting to start things from scratch, I believe it can be a good thing more often than not.
When you've developed a piece of software, fixed its bugs, and tweaked it, more times than not, those fixes and tweaks are nothing more than workarounds for your currently flawed structure. Usually, you don't realize these flaws until AFTER you've created it.
By starting it from scratch, you can keep your mistakes in mind, and make better and more efficient software.
Sure, there are chances of running into new bugs, but isn't that what the whole learning process is about? The more you learn, the better the software will keep making. You can only go so far, if you need to turn a paper bag full of feces into an operating system. But if you start from scratch, you can create your own digitized significant other. You know, relatively speaking.
- shazow
Hmm, who distributes Blizzard's games?
Shhh, the more bugs the users find, the more bugs the developers have to fix :D
We don't want more work, now do we?
lol
Ignorance is bliss, as they say.
- shazow
Heh they charge a LOT more than 40 cents, my friend. ;)
- shazow
OMGA! They changed the release date, someone call the Anonymous Leaker! lol I kid, I kid.
- shazow
Sure, Linux has all sorts of handy command-line autoget stuff. Butt! BUTT!! Windows has clicking!
And what do users want? We want clicking! More clicking! Give us a button to click after we type in 'emerge programname' and windows will totally be in trouble. Ph33r thy buttons!
- shazow
But but but... If you never install 2.6.1, then 2.6.2 may never come out! The fate of the world depends on you!!
- shazow
"global warming will doom 15 to 37 percent of plants and animals to extinction"
Mwahaha, all of their base are belong to us!
Damn, all those Iraqis shooting at the sky in celebration of Saddam's capture have finally hit something.
- shazow