This is why Scott Miller is making the big dough. You or I would take a game we made and position it for failure, or mediocrity at best. Scott is that one guy in a million who would position his game for success. And he did it right from the start, too.
Just another feather in the cap of the man who keeps Duke Nukem For(When)ever on task and on budget.
You Sir, have just posted the absolute, hands down, no exceptions, *BEST* comment I have ever read on this site. Concise, perfectly executed and exquisitly clever. A joy to behold.
The webmasters can read the local copy of the article, while waiting for their bandwith usage to get below 100%. 'Cause nobody going to be doing any surfing from that connection for the next couple of hours.
"Maybe if you have kids that could barge in on you you shouldn't be having sex in your living room? That would be a much more sensible and much more correct way of stopping it. Not to mention the last time I had sex, I wasn't exactly about to glance at a computer screen in the middle of it."
I am willing to bet the last time you had sex, you were ALREADY looking at a computer screen.
OK, that was uncalled for, and I'm sure you are a nice guy, but the straight line was too much to resist. Hope I didn't hurt your feelings.:)
Cool. And from there we can express the number of teraflops per unit of average college student.
College Student Teraflops = 2 teraflops * 25 (WR students in a Beetle) / 0.0012. Find that info anywhere else on the net, I dare ya!
I'm generally against this type of thing, but any parent who has been enjoying some late afternoon intercourse on the living room floor only to be surprised by their child coming home early from a friends house will see this for the godsend it truly is.
And no, that's not a hypothetical situation above.
Yeah, I got clobbered. First time I have ever made it down to -1. Maybe they thought the fake goatse.cx link was real. Heck, it's not even a link, just bolded type and [ ] brackets.
Looks like "mashie.org" got mashed.
Hey, slashdot has the power to bring even the Y2K bug to it's knees!
Y2K bug - Dead at 56.
Hey mashie.org guy, need some hot grits to go with your melted server?
I think the Y2K bug got stomped.
Wasn't this story posted yesterday? Jeez, Taco, your site SuXX0rs.
Check out the mod this guy made to his case [goatse.cx].
Case mods are stupid, but not as stupid as "Matrix: Revolutions"
This is cool, unless it runs Windoze, Lose-dows, M$, Bill-Gates-Killed-My-Cat-95, etc.
I, for one, welcome our new PC/insect overlords.
The thing I really liked in the books is how subtly most of the characters were treated, and how some things were Black and White. The Ring really was evil and you COULD NOT use it, or even hold on to it with out being corrupted by it. Gandalf wouldn't even touch it for fear of what it would do to him. No moral relativism there. And one of the crowningly brilliant monents of the book was when Saruman and Wormtounge were seen wandering the roads, defeated and powerless, bickering at one another. Hating the sight of each other but unable to find anyone else who would take thier company, and so doomed to a fate of constant irritation and unhappiness.
Ah, how subtle. How perfect a fate for one who had given up his honor for power. How unsurprising that even a good filmmaker couldn't resist the urge to "Oh, let's just kill him and be done. Move on to a fight scene, maybe use some CGI. The audience doesn't need that." They are still great movies, but the brilliance, the subtle gems, those things plain and precious are lost.
Dude, Don't you even know the difference between Saruman and Sauron? I don't think you read the books at all. This is Slashdot, you are expected to know what you are talking about before you post. At least RTFA.
... but Saruman is hardly in the books at all. Of course he is the driving force behind all the antagonists in the story, but he never strides out and speaks, except in the backstory of how the ring was lost. So not having him seen in the movie seems to be very minor. It even may be a Good Thing, keeping the character more as a "Force in the World", and less of a "Guy who just needs his ass whipped by our plucky band of Heroes".
Stories like this make me realize our, as people, prioritites. We *want* to be rational and logical, but we *need* to dream of marvelous things greater than ourselves. While Occams Razor clearly applies, it is much more pleasant to dream.
"Let's face it - none of us like forking over our hard-earned cash every month just to use the phone."
What? Is phone service now a (Insert Deity of Choice) given right? I don't mind paying for a service I use. My basic phone bill is about $20. It's the cheapest bill I pay all month, and I get unlimited local calls. I call that a bargain, although not the best I ever had. Still a good one though.
Vector games are the least satisfing games to play on MAME. Raster games look great on a 19" Wells Gardner 4900 or Electrohome G07 and crappy on your PC monitor, but MAME can fake the scanlines and pixelization to a point where it's OK. But vector games look *TERRIBLE* compared to a real G05 (for Asteroids) or G08 (For Tempest). And to play Star Wars on a med res, 25" Amplifone in the cockpit version is to see the face of God, whilst playing it on MAME with the mouse is to follow Lucifer down to Hell. MAME is a good "gateway" drug though. I started with it, and now I own 7 dedicated full size classic video games.
You just have to own the original boardset, and it doesn't have to work, either. You can get a busted Asteroids board on ebay for $10, and a broken Street Fighter will run you $5. So really, for a small sum, you can download *any* game legally, already.
This is soooo OT is hurts, but no one reads threads this deep anyway:).
In 1838, Missouri Gov. Lilburn Boggs issued an executive order to the state militia that stated "The Mormons must be treated as enemies and must be exterminated or driven from the state, if necessary for the public good. Their outrages are beyond all description. If you can increase your force, you are authorized to do so, to any extent you may think necessary".
"Can the World Afford 500 Million Americans?"
I agree. It's not like Americans produce anything worth having. And to top that, all we do is consume without paying for our goods. The foreign guy who makes our stuff isn't better off for having sold us anything.
And don't even get me started on how America bans all foreign investment. I bet the Japanese would love to be able to own a car company that does business in the US, but they are kept out because, as everyone knows, economics are a zero-sum game. If I get more, it's at someone else's expense. The World as a whole can't afford to let America sneak off with too much of the pie.
It's too bad some rational thinking person, perhaps a Frenchman, could call for the US to resume it's Isolationist Policies, so we could close our borders and stop being such a drain on the countries in the world that actually produce something. Hell, our Immigration Offices are already deserted and our Border Patrol guards have nothing to do. Closing our borders to outsiders would be a symbolic gesture at this point.
Go to Joels article on Guerrilla Hiring and click the link (in the article) that says "unwashed masses". No wait, if you are reading this, you have already been to the site he links to. Yeah, those stupid slashd... Uh, wait a second. Damn!
What utter crap. What utter, relativistic, crap. First, who are you to decide what is within the bounds of reason? How did what you earn per year become the measuring stick? If it's not you, who decided? Does the average or the mean income determine what is "in bounds"? How about the lowest income? What's the rule I should follow here? Second, to apply your thinking, I bet there is some guy in Bangladesh, Liberia or the Sudan who makes less than $100 a year. ShooterNeo, if you have an entry level IT job you make 300 times what this guy does. Mid level IT job at 60K is 600 times more. That sounds WAY out of the bounds of reason to me. There is no way your labor is worth 300 to 600 times that of a farmer in the Sudan. The bounds of reason seem to be a mere 50 times ($5000 a year) his earnings. Tens of thousands is an entirely different matter.
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This is why Scott Miller is making the big dough. You or I would take a game we made and position it for failure, or mediocrity at best. Scott is that one guy in a million who would position his game for success. And he did it right from the start, too.
Just another feather in the cap of the man who keeps Duke Nukem For(When)ever on task and on budget.
You Sir, have just posted the absolute, hands down, no exceptions, *BEST* comment I have ever read on this site.
Concise, perfectly executed and exquisitly clever. A joy to behold.
My hat goes off to you.
The webmasters can read the local copy of the article, while waiting for their bandwith usage to get below 100%. 'Cause nobody going to be doing any surfing from that connection for the next couple of hours.
"Maybe if you have kids that could barge in on you you shouldn't be having sex in your living room? That would be a much more sensible and much more correct way of stopping it. Not to mention the last time I had sex, I wasn't exactly about to glance at a computer screen in the middle of it."
I am willing to bet the last time you had sex, you were ALREADY looking at a computer screen.
OK, that was uncalled for, and I'm sure you are a nice guy, but the straight line was too much to resist. Hope I didn't hurt your feelings.
"I think 1 televion ~= 0.0012 VW Beetle.
Cool. And from there we can express the number of teraflops per unit of average college student.
College Student Teraflops = 2 teraflops * 25 (WR students in a Beetle) / 0.0012.
Find that info anywhere else on the net, I dare ya!
I'm generally against this type of thing, but any parent who has been enjoying some late afternoon intercourse on the living room floor only to be surprised by their child coming home early from a friends house will see this for the godsend it truly is.
And no, that's not a hypothetical situation above.
Best one yet. You get 1 virtual mod point.
Yeah, I got clobbered. First time I have ever made it down to -1. Maybe they thought the fake goatse.cx link was real. Heck, it's not even a link, just bolded type and [ ] brackets.
If they name it "Smith", it will go a long to clearing up my confusion after watching Revolutions.
Looks like "mashie.org" got mashed.
Hey, slashdot has the power to bring even the Y2K bug to it's knees!
Y2K bug - Dead at 56.
Hey mashie.org guy, need some hot grits to go with your melted server?
I think the Y2K bug got stomped.
Wasn't this story posted yesterday? Jeez, Taco, your site SuXX0rs.
Check out the mod this guy made to his case [goatse.cx].
Case mods are stupid, but not as stupid as "Matrix: Revolutions"
This is cool, unless it runs Windoze, Lose-dows, M$, Bill-Gates-Killed-My-Cat-95, etc.
I, for one, welcome our new PC/insect overlords.
The thing I really liked in the books is how subtly most of the characters were treated, and how some things were Black and White. The Ring really was evil and you COULD NOT use it, or even hold on to it with out being corrupted by it. Gandalf wouldn't even touch it for fear of what it would do to him. No moral relativism there. And one of the crowningly brilliant monents of the book was when Saruman and Wormtounge were seen wandering the roads, defeated and powerless, bickering at one another. Hating the sight of each other but unable to find anyone else who would take thier company, and so doomed to a fate of constant irritation and unhappiness.
Ah, how subtle. How perfect a fate for one who had given up his honor for power. How unsurprising that even a good filmmaker couldn't resist the urge to "Oh, let's just kill him and be done. Move on to a fight scene, maybe use some CGI. The audience doesn't need that." They are still great movies, but the brilliance, the subtle gems, those things plain and precious are lost.
Sorry, my bad. Won't happen again.
Dude, Don't you even know the difference between Saruman and Sauron? I don't think you read the books at all. This is Slashdot, you are expected to know what you are talking about before you post. At least RTFA.
... but Saruman is hardly in the books at all. Of course he is the driving force behind all the antagonists in the story, but he never strides out and speaks, except in the backstory of how the ring was lost. So not having him seen in the movie seems to be very minor. It even may be a Good Thing, keeping the character more as a "Force in the World", and less of a "Guy who just needs his ass whipped by our plucky band of Heroes".
Stories like this make me realize our, as people, prioritites.
We *want* to be rational and logical, but we *need* to dream of marvelous things greater than ourselves.
While Occams Razor clearly applies, it is much more pleasant to dream.
"Let's face it - none of us like forking over our hard-earned cash every month just to use the phone."
What? Is phone service now a (Insert Deity of Choice) given right? I don't mind paying for a service I use. My basic phone bill is about $20. It's the cheapest bill I pay all month, and I get unlimited local calls. I call that a bargain, although not the best I ever had. Still a good one though.
"That said, there's no reason to tell your client the whole truth and nothing but the truth."
So, ShadyG, how did you get your nickname?
Vector games are the least satisfing games to play on MAME. Raster games look great on a 19" Wells Gardner 4900 or Electrohome G07 and crappy on your PC monitor, but MAME can fake the scanlines and pixelization to a point where it's OK. But vector games look *TERRIBLE* compared to a real G05 (for Asteroids) or G08 (For Tempest). And to play Star Wars on a med res, 25" Amplifone in the cockpit version is to see the face of God, whilst playing it on MAME with the mouse is to follow Lucifer down to Hell.
MAME is a good "gateway" drug though. I started with it, and now I own 7 dedicated full size classic video games.
You just have to own the original boardset, and it doesn't have to work, either. You can get a busted Asteroids board on ebay for $10, and a broken Street Fighter will run you $5. So really, for a small sum, you can download *any* game legally, already.
This is soooo OT is hurts, but no one reads threads this deep anyway :).
In 1838, Missouri Gov. Lilburn Boggs issued an executive order to the state militia that stated "The Mormons must be treated as enemies and must be exterminated or driven from the state, if necessary for the public good. Their outrages are beyond all description. If you can increase your force, you are authorized to do so, to any extent you may think necessary".
"Can the World Afford 500 Million Americans?"
I agree. It's not like Americans produce anything worth having. And to top that, all we do is consume without paying for our goods. The foreign guy who makes our stuff isn't better off for having sold us anything.
And don't even get me started on how America bans all foreign investment. I bet the Japanese would love to be able to own a car company that does business in the US, but they are kept out because, as everyone knows, economics are a zero-sum game. If I get more, it's at someone else's expense. The World as a whole can't afford to let America sneak off with too much of the pie.
It's too bad some rational thinking person, perhaps a Frenchman, could call for the US to resume it's Isolationist Policies, so we could close our borders and stop being such a drain on the countries in the world that actually produce something. Hell, our Immigration Offices are already deserted and our Border Patrol guards have nothing to do. Closing our borders to outsiders would be a symbolic gesture at this point.
Go to Joels article on Guerrilla Hiring and click the link (in the article) that says "unwashed masses". No wait, if you are reading this, you have already been to the site he links to.
Yeah, those stupid slashd... Uh, wait a second.
Damn!
Why don't we have a "-1, blithering idiot"?
We do. It's a "+5 Insightfull" from other blithering idiots.
What utter crap. What utter, relativistic, crap.
First, who are you to decide what is within the bounds of reason? How did what you earn per year become the measuring stick? If it's not you, who decided? Does the average or the mean income determine what is "in bounds"? How about the lowest income? What's the rule I should follow here?
Second, to apply your thinking, I bet there is some guy in Bangladesh, Liberia or the Sudan who makes less than $100 a year. ShooterNeo, if you have an entry level IT job you make 300 times what this guy does. Mid level IT job at 60K is 600 times more. That sounds WAY out of the bounds of reason to me. There is no way your labor is worth 300 to 600 times that of a farmer in the Sudan. The bounds of reason seem to be a mere 50 times ($5000 a year) his earnings. Tens of thousands is an entirely different matter.
Well, from this line...
"Some of you may remember us for the software iceSculptor, Mohawk and Mentor."
I'd say Troy McClure owns it.