Don't knock Phantom Menace! It had a plot! You see, there was this senate, right? and... umm... They had to enter some pod race to abolish slavery or something... and then Jar Jar comes in... umm... let's see..... alright, nevermind... continue knocking the Phantom Menace.
Well, there is a lot of haptics experimentation going on in the graphics field right now. A company came by my school a few weeks ago and were showing off this pen that can be used to sculpt a 3d piece of clay using haptic feedback. It could revolutionalize the 3d modelling industry.
I like those little logos. I've used them countless times when I try to find the station that some show is playing on but don't know the specific channel number.
I have scoured the internet for weeks looking for the answer to the age old question "What really happened to the Klingons between TOS and TNG which changed their appearance from white looking guys with shoe polish on their face to the full decorated Worf that you see today?" I have finally found the answer all of us seek! Apparently, somewhere between 1950 and 1990, new prostetic latex make-up technology was invented that allowed more complex make-up than a pair of simple "spock ears" to be created. Apparently, this new technology was used to give the Klingons a better look. To tie it all together when Worf went back to the space station which "The Trouble With Tribbles" took place, the writers of DS9 decided to put in a little joke which was very funny at the time. Now, it's seen as some kind of huge conspiracy. Well, I'm here to tell you folks... there's nothing to see here, it's all a bunch of smoke and mirrors and you should think of the racist white Klingons of TOS to just be the Klingons you see today except with more make-up.
I'm sure for the most part, the coders are great people. Its the business men upstairs who we should really have beef with.
As the argument went in Clerks about how independent contractors are still responsible for picking which employer they take a job with ala the independent contractors on the unfinished death star from Jedi, Microsoft coders as well as the marketing droids upstairs are responsible for picking an evil corporation to work for. Therefore, all bashing of anyone in the company is completely permitted since they chose to be there in the first place.
for rampaging killbots to perform surgery on me without the errors that human intervention providers. Who needs a doctor on the other end of the world when the killbots will do it for ya, faster and better!
Why shouldn't they get over it? Slashdot has never been a place for journalistic integrity. Did Rob or Jeff ever consider themselves journalists back in the day when they created a site for Linux news? I don't think so. This site has always been a site created by and for Linux advocates and just general geeks. There's no reason that anyone here should be sulking in the corner because their reporting sucks.
From the article:
So the failure of the Mexican project is as surprising as college kids having unprotected sex in dorm rooms.
Shit! College kids are having unprotected sex in dorm rooms? Where the hell am I when this shit happens... why ain't I part of this group? Ah, fuck it... I'm gonna go recompile the kernel again.
Atlantis was good, though. I can't speak for the other movies you mentioned but how can you judge these recent movies even though you say you "haven't been to the movie theater in months?"
Everyone keeps raving about how amazing Japenese anime is and how great the style is and bla bla bla. Anime sucks, people. The Japanese treat their animators like slaves. I have a Japanese friend who wanted to go into the animation field in Japan but found out that they pay Japanese animators around a dollar per cel. Most of them have to live with their parents because they can't afford an apartment on their own from their salary. And the poor quality of animation shows. There are very few inbetweens, corners are cut in the lip sync, pretty much everything looks cheap. The only thing anime has going for it is the art direction which is sometimes decent.
Of course, this will get moderated down because everyone is obsessed with anime and pretty much everything Japanese right now and nobody wants to acknowledge the fact that Disney, although they have a shitty business plan and could use some original ideas in the story department, is still cranking out the best traditional animation in the world.
how hard would it be to develop some kind of basic programming language for these type of games?
I don't think the problem is with the difficulty of making a small scripting language for the game, the problem would be in balancing issues. The person with the best script would win and it would discourage newbies from even trying to play the game.
Diablo isn't just a multiplayer game, it's single player. Is it that bad to assume that all 200,000 people will not go on to the damn server before beating the original single player game? What's bad is when the makers of World War 2 online released a couple thousand copies of the game the first day and not only couldn't handle the load, but also had thousands of bugs and missing features that were promised on the box. And WW2 Online is a multiplayer only game.
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No, the reason we're bitching is because 500 - 1200 is a lot of fucking money to spend on a shitty console. And ever since the Playstation (maybe an earlier console) came out, they haven't packaged anything with the consoles, and that's how it should be.
Hey, Taco, what about sticking a "N comments served", kinda like McDonald's, on the static front for all the noobies?
I got a better idea! How about a karma increase for the guy with the N millionth post! Sorta like those shopping spree give-a-ways except MUCH MORE VALUABLE!
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But without our condescending attitudes we're nothing! We can't just silently pretend to be better than them!
I said aliased fonts, I don't care what font I'm using, as long as it's anti-aliased... Like windows has had since around win95 and mac has had since forever.
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Don't knock Phantom Menace! It had a plot! You see, there was this senate, right? and... umm... They had to enter some pod race to abolish slavery or something... and then Jar Jar comes in... umm... let's see..... alright, nevermind... continue knocking the Phantom Menace.
Well, there is a lot of haptics experimentation going on in the graphics field right now. A company came by my school a few weeks ago and were showing off this pen that can be used to sculpt a 3d piece of clay using haptic feedback. It could revolutionalize the 3d modelling industry.
It will be a cold day in hell when I start considering Deer Hunter as a piece of art.
I like those little logos. I've used them countless times when I try to find the station that some show is playing on but don't know the specific channel number.
yeah, but without the case, there would only be a couple of other thinkgeek plugs.
Maybe that's why Windows is so popular... it's way ahead of its time.
I have scoured the internet for weeks looking for the answer to the age old question "What really happened to the Klingons between TOS and TNG which changed their appearance from white looking guys with shoe polish on their face to the full decorated Worf that you see today?" I have finally found the answer all of us seek! Apparently, somewhere between 1950 and 1990, new prostetic latex make-up technology was invented that allowed more complex make-up than a pair of simple "spock ears" to be created. Apparently, this new technology was used to give the Klingons a better look. To tie it all together when Worf went back to the space station which "The Trouble With Tribbles" took place, the writers of DS9 decided to put in a little joke which was very funny at the time. Now, it's seen as some kind of huge conspiracy. Well, I'm here to tell you folks... there's nothing to see here, it's all a bunch of smoke and mirrors and you should think of the racist white Klingons of TOS to just be the Klingons you see today except with more make-up.
And, of course, there are some things that plastic just can't buy...
but for everything else... there's Mastercard.
I'm sure for the most part, the coders are great people. Its the business men upstairs who we should really have beef with.
As the argument went in Clerks about how independent contractors are still responsible for picking which employer they take a job with ala the independent contractors on the unfinished death star from Jedi, Microsoft coders as well as the marketing droids upstairs are responsible for picking an evil corporation to work for. Therefore, all bashing of anyone in the company is completely permitted since they chose to be there in the first place.
So as the human torch used to say, "FLAME ON!"
for rampaging killbots to perform surgery on me without the errors that human intervention providers. Who needs a doctor on the other end of the world when the killbots will do it for ya, faster and better!
and it's even better if they don't have to leave their house to do it!
Shit, and they said 65k should be enough for everybody!
So how can I get this ttfs thing running? Anyone have some howtos on where to get it and how to install it?
Why shouldn't they get over it? Slashdot has never been a place for journalistic integrity. Did Rob or Jeff ever consider themselves journalists back in the day when they created a site for Linux news? I don't think so. This site has always been a site created by and for Linux advocates and just general geeks. There's no reason that anyone here should be sulking in the corner because their reporting sucks.
From the article:
So the failure of the Mexican project is as surprising as college kids having unprotected sex in dorm rooms.
Shit! College kids are having unprotected sex in dorm rooms? Where the hell am I when this shit happens... why ain't I part of this group? Ah, fuck it... I'm gonna go recompile the kernel again.
Atlantis was good, though. I can't speak for the other movies you mentioned but how can you judge these recent movies even though you say you "haven't been to the movie theater in months?"
Everyone keeps raving about how amazing Japenese anime is and how great the style is and bla bla bla. Anime sucks, people. The Japanese treat their animators like slaves. I have a Japanese friend who wanted to go into the animation field in Japan but found out that they pay Japanese animators around a dollar per cel. Most of them have to live with their parents because they can't afford an apartment on their own from their salary. And the poor quality of animation shows. There are very few inbetweens, corners are cut in the lip sync, pretty much everything looks cheap. The only thing anime has going for it is the art direction which is sometimes decent.
Of course, this will get moderated down because everyone is obsessed with anime and pretty much everything Japanese right now and nobody wants to acknowledge the fact that Disney, although they have a shitty business plan and could use some original ideas in the story department, is still cranking out the best traditional animation in the world.
Of course you do... chicks with cooties don't go after poor guys.
So please do not attempt to adjust your tv screen, because they control the horizontal and the vertical.
Well that's why it's called Artificial Intelligence.
how hard would it be to develop some kind of basic programming language for these type of games?
I don't think the problem is with the difficulty of making a small scripting language for the game, the problem would be in balancing issues. The person with the best script would win and it would discourage newbies from even trying to play the game.
Diablo isn't just a multiplayer game, it's single player. Is it that bad to assume that all 200,000 people will not go on to the damn server before beating the original single player game? What's bad is when the makers of World War 2 online released a couple thousand copies of the game the first day and not only couldn't handle the load, but also had thousands of bugs and missing features that were promised on the box. And WW2 Online is a multiplayer only game.
No, the reason we're bitching is because 500 - 1200 is a lot of fucking money to spend on a shitty console. And ever since the Playstation (maybe an earlier console) came out, they haven't packaged anything with the consoles, and that's how it should be.
Hey, Taco, what about sticking a "N comments served", kinda like McDonald's, on the static front for all the noobies?
I got a better idea! How about a karma increase for the guy with the N millionth post! Sorta like those shopping spree give-a-ways except MUCH MORE VALUABLE!
But without our condescending attitudes we're nothing! We can't just silently pretend to be better than them!
I said aliased fonts, I don't care what font I'm using, as long as it's anti-aliased... Like windows has had since around win95 and mac has had since forever.