Doom = space marine against aliens = boring, for me.
Quake = space marine against mystical monsters = fun (= "Oh, like that's a competition, you with a machine gun vs. a guy in armor with a sword," said my colleague.)
One game that should have been on the list: Adventure, for the Atari (2600)
The first time I wandered into the lower rooms and a dragon came at me, I almost shit my pants. This was no stupid @ sign coming at me, this was a damned dragon! Ok, so its pixels were the size of (to pick a daily topic) Xenia Seeberg's lips, but that didn't matter.
Doom, for example, was a great game, but it was really just incremental evolution over Wolf 3D, the much bigger game in my opinion.
The next big change was Duke Nukem, then Quake, followed by Half Life in the 3D FPS.
I'm also sad that mods didn't count. In my own list, Quake CTF mod is hands-down the biggest game in history.
I cut my online FPS teeth on Duke Nukem on T.E.N., and then started playing Quake online when I got it. (It was months before I got around to finishing the actual Quake game, Nightmare of course.)
Quake deathmatch was fantastic, but a couple of months later, I downloaded the CTF mod. It was 3.5, I think, the first one to implement the actual flag to carry (rather than keys.)
I still remember A Tale of Two Cities (I think, two castles behind doors and a double-no man's land separated by a tiny little portal.)
I remember playing D, being in one of the no man's lands and seeing a guy on my team running through the dark with the glowing flag waving behind him.
That was one of the epiphanal moments of my life. Coolness and fun factors pegged off scale high.
I realized at that point that all other games throughout human history had been leading up to this point: the online, multiplayer team-based game.
I played the game nonstop from 11 AM (when I installed the patch and started playing) through 11 PM of the next day, a full 36 hours. I was falling asleep at the keyboard and went home, angry that I could not continue playing.
My god, there was nothing like it, before or since.
Quakeworld code and other client-side prediction games ruined it. I cannot stand seeing people warp around, much less myself. Hopefully, omnipresent broadband will cause a return to these days. "Robustness" = "unrealistic" in net play.
> Even though I'm a guy I find Sam (Scott Bakula) sexy.
Then I'm sure you're enwoodened over the new Enterprise series coming up.
I, on the other hand, hated him in Leap, rarely watched the show, and am disappointed he'll be the next Captain. Maybe he can pull a Michael Keaton, we shall see.
> The short lived Space Rangers was infinitely
> better than this drivel
Sorry, Clayton & Co. went the way of the dodo in my mind at the end of the very first episode when, instead of making the stiff, humorous robot part of the crew, they shoved him in a box.
And a two-hundred billion dollar corporation goes *poof*, along with 195 billion dollars worth of stock. Stock owned by voters, or retirement funds (in turn owned by voters.)
Not too many politicians want their head handed to them on a platter. "We're from the government. We're here to help you!" Uh, thanks for the help.
I would expect Kodak to get off their behind and write a proper one-click installer that made sure Kodak's software came up.
From the old article description, it just seemed like Kodak couldn't figure out how to do this, not that Microsoft had actually hard-coded their own stuff into the OS.
Some engineer is not doing their job if they can't handle arbitrary data input to their device.
I'm reminded of the paranoid peoples' fear of special computer programs that, by the way they send electricity through the wires, give you cancer, control your mind, whatever. Lo and behold! A small subset of that was actually true. Computer equipment can be destroyed when fed certain types of data.
Allowing fair use for you (and, let's face it, if all that was happening was what the past few posts have described, the industry would have no problem with it) also, coincidentally, allows massive copyright violations by people giving copies to their friends, acquaintences, or masses of people they don't know over the Internet.
How do you allow you to make a copy for your car without allowing you to make a copy for 10,000 of your closest friends?
"Fair use" for you should indeed take a back seat to promoting arts, science, etc. by securing for the authors exclusive rights blah blah blah.
Slice a single button mouse's button down the middle, that's precious!
It reminds me of these ads you used to see a few years ago in the Sunday comic pack for "satellite dish" TV antennae.
They were a regular TV antenna that you would plug into the back of your TV, complete with antlers, but they bolted on a plastic mini satellite "dish" that did absolutely nothing.
They actually got around fraud by portraying its defects as if they were features.
- Works with normal TV radio waves!
- Does NOT interfere with satellite reception!
- Does NOT require a clear view of the sky!
- Works with your existing TV, no special receiver needed!
A video of a rigged demo? I know of something even better.
We couldn't quite get a system up and running in time, and a Very, and I Mean Very High Up in the customer's fortune 50 worldwide company was literally in the door. We set the demo running, but our demonstrator (technologically savvy engineer, thank god) refused to touch any buttons lest it crash.
Well, the demo was literally, not figuratively, handwaving, "Imagine if you did this, this would happen. Now look over here. Imagine if you did this, then that would happen!"
Fortunately, we were only one of dozens of products our corporation offered.
They wouldn't have launched one. Saddam's goal was to stir up outrage in other middle eastern countries, not to stir up their hatred against himself (much less ensure with 100% mathematical certitude the complete unconditional surrender of Iraq and his execution at a war crimes trial.)
About twelve years ago, my (several jobs ago) boss was demonstrating some software another company had written to a prospective customer. It was a design system for awnings or something, written by an associate of his. While not technically fraudulent (he had permission) it was highly deceptive since we would be writing similar software ourselves from scratch, and would not be supplying a modification of that product, nor would the company that wrote it have anything to do with it.
The software was actually already in use by several companies manufacturing custom awnings.
At one point, the customer asked just that question, if it was in use by any companies.
My boss replied, without missing a beat, "I have no idea." Oops.
I quickly piped up that, yes, it was in use (again, technically true.)
We never did get a contract to do that work, though.
> A parallel to this would be people who drive
> SUVs because they are safer to the people inside
> the SUV, but *way* more dangerous to whoever
> they smash into.
Who they smash into is usually an environmentalist, and the loss of one so deficient in critical thinking ability is no major issue.
> So they're more likely to survive a crash, and
> more likely to kill the other person in a crash.
> That doesnt sound ethical either.
So the ethical person drives around in a ping pong ball? Better yet, drive around in an open frame so you won't be killing anyone save a pedestrian, sacrificing your life so others may live. You may go ahead and evolve your genes and memes out of society if you wish to, I shan't.
No, better that scientists and engineers and business people create cheaper oil, and eventually, cheap replacements for oil (or synthetic gas) so that we may all drive huge, but clean, gas hogs to work by ourselves. And widen those highways while you're at it. We don't pay you to force feely-good austerity down our throats!
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I hope you enjoyed Doom III, AKA Quake II.
Doom = space marine against aliens = boring, for me.
Quake = space marine against mystical monsters = fun (= "Oh, like that's a competition, you with a machine gun vs. a guy in armor with a sword," said my colleague.)
One game that should have been on the list: Adventure, for the Atari (2600)
The first time I wandered into the lower rooms and a dragon came at me, I almost shit my pants. This was no stupid @ sign coming at me, this was a damned dragon! Ok, so its pixels were the size of (to pick a daily topic) Xenia Seeberg's lips, but that didn't matter.
The list shows the age of the majority of voters.
Doom, for example, was a great game, but it was really just incremental evolution over Wolf 3D, the much bigger game in my opinion.
The next big change was Duke Nukem, then Quake, followed by Half Life in the 3D FPS.
I'm also sad that mods didn't count. In my own list, Quake CTF mod is hands-down the biggest game in history.
I cut my online FPS teeth on Duke Nukem on T.E.N., and then started playing Quake online when I got it. (It was months before I got around to finishing the actual Quake game, Nightmare of course.)
Quake deathmatch was fantastic, but a couple of months later, I downloaded the CTF mod. It was 3.5, I think, the first one to implement the actual flag to carry (rather than keys.)
I still remember A Tale of Two Cities (I think, two castles behind doors and a double-no man's land separated by a tiny little portal.)
I remember playing D, being in one of the no man's lands and seeing a guy on my team running through the dark with the glowing flag waving behind him.
That was one of the epiphanal moments of my life. Coolness and fun factors pegged off scale high.
I realized at that point that all other games throughout human history had been leading up to this point: the online, multiplayer team-based game.
I played the game nonstop from 11 AM (when I installed the patch and started playing) through 11 PM of the next day, a full 36 hours. I was falling asleep at the keyboard and went home, angry that I could not continue playing.
My god, there was nothing like it, before or since.
Quakeworld code and other client-side prediction games ruined it. I cannot stand seeing people warp around, much less myself. Hopefully, omnipresent broadband will cause a return to these days. "Robustness" = "unrealistic" in net play.
> Although DS9 is awful!
I don't know. Kira frenching Dax II kind of made the whole exercise worth while.
I prefer to think that, rather than collagen, they're using the more natural ass-fat injections.
Then I can fantasize about kissing their huge lips and ass at the same time.
> Even though I'm a guy I find Sam (Scott Bakula) sexy.
Then I'm sure you're enwoodened over the new Enterprise series coming up.
I, on the other hand, hated him in Leap, rarely watched the show, and am disappointed he'll be the next Captain. Maybe he can pull a Michael Keaton, we shall see.
> The short lived Space Rangers was infinitely
> better than this drivel
Sorry, Clayton & Co. went the way of the dodo in my mind at the end of the very first episode when, instead of making the stiff, humorous robot part of the crew, they shoved him in a box.
No kidding.
The only reason to watch both series is exactly the same thing: enormous, succulent, artificially-plumped lips.
I liked Xenia more with the goofy short red haircut, tho.
My point, that both of you have missed, was the $195 out of $200 billion going *poof*.
$5 billion isn't much to spread around what was once a highly profitable corporation, and won't sit too well with millions of voting investors.
> while increasing the artists' promotion. And
> isn't that the point of copyrights in the first
> place?
No. It is my understanding the purpose of copyrights is to promote works by allowing the producers to gain a livelihood from it.
> 5) Discorporate MSFT
And a two-hundred billion dollar corporation goes *poof*, along with 195 billion dollars worth of stock. Stock owned by voters, or retirement funds (in turn owned by voters.)
Not too many politicians want their head handed to them on a platter. "We're from the government. We're here to help you!" Uh, thanks for the help.
Because knowledge of how to rocket jump or where the best soloing area for a level 23-38 shadow knight troll with rubicite breastplate doesn't count.
Newspapers will never understand this.
They've been comingling news, sports, weather, and horoscopes for a century now, putting mom and pop specialty newspapers out of business.
I want a judgement! Why should they be able to comingle this stuff when clearly it hurts the consumer?
I would expect Kodak to get off their behind and write a proper one-click installer that made sure Kodak's software came up.
From the old article description, it just seemed like Kodak couldn't figure out how to do this, not that Microsoft had actually hard-coded their own stuff into the OS.
> by enlarge
Normally I don't get into grammar and spelling nitpicking, but this one grated me more than a block of mozzarella at a pizza convention.
I think you mean "by and large."
> ...looks like the only real spanking Bill will
...one million dollars!
> get is a fine. Oh no! Not that! Bill could pay
> whatever fine with the change in his pocket.
Dr. Evil: Your fine, Mr. Gates, shall be...
(Da-daaaaa music crescendos)
Dr. Evil:
(puts pinky in mouth)
And what's up with equipment being damaged?
Some engineer is not doing their job if they can't handle arbitrary data input to their device.
I'm reminded of the paranoid peoples' fear of special computer programs that, by the way they send electricity through the wires, give you cancer, control your mind, whatever. Lo and behold! A small subset of that was actually true. Computer equipment can be destroyed when fed certain types of data.
Allowing fair use for you (and, let's face it, if all that was happening was what the past few posts have described, the industry would have no problem with it) also, coincidentally, allows massive copyright violations by people giving copies to their friends, acquaintences, or masses of people they don't know over the Internet.
How do you allow you to make a copy for your car without allowing you to make a copy for 10,000 of your closest friends?
"Fair use" for you should indeed take a back seat to promoting arts, science, etc. by securing for the authors exclusive rights blah blah blah.
Slice a single button mouse's button down the middle, that's precious!
It reminds me of these ads you used to see a few years ago in the Sunday comic pack for "satellite dish" TV antennae.
They were a regular TV antenna that you would plug into the back of your TV, complete with antlers, but they bolted on a plastic mini satellite "dish" that did absolutely nothing.
They actually got around fraud by portraying its defects as if they were features.
- Works with normal TV radio waves!
- Does NOT interfere with satellite reception!
- Does NOT require a clear view of the sky!
- Works with your existing TV, no special receiver needed!
Now those ARE some guys who are going to hell.
This comment needs a JATO pack -- Joke-Assisted Take Off, and badly.
A video of a rigged demo? I know of something even better.
We couldn't quite get a system up and running in time, and a Very, and I Mean Very High Up in the customer's fortune 50 worldwide company was literally in the door. We set the demo running, but our demonstrator (technologically savvy engineer, thank god) refused to touch any buttons lest it crash.
Well, the demo was literally, not figuratively, handwaving, "Imagine if you did this, this would happen. Now look over here. Imagine if you did this, then that would happen!"
Fortunately, we were only one of dozens of products our corporation offered.
They wouldn't have launched one. Saddam's goal was to stir up outrage in other middle eastern countries, not to stir up their hatred against himself (much less ensure with 100% mathematical certitude the complete unconditional surrender of Iraq and his execution at a war crimes trial.)
About twelve years ago, my (several jobs ago) boss was demonstrating some software another company had written to a prospective customer. It was a design system for awnings or something, written by an associate of his. While not technically fraudulent (he had permission) it was highly deceptive since we would be writing similar software ourselves from scratch, and would not be supplying a modification of that product, nor would the company that wrote it have anything to do with it.
The software was actually already in use by several companies manufacturing custom awnings.
At one point, the customer asked just that question, if it was in use by any companies.
My boss replied, without missing a beat, "I have no idea." Oops.
I quickly piped up that, yes, it was in use (again, technically true.)
We never did get a contract to do that work, though.
> A parallel to this would be people who drive
> SUVs because they are safer to the people inside
> the SUV, but *way* more dangerous to whoever
> they smash into.
Who they smash into is usually an environmentalist, and the loss of one so deficient in critical thinking ability is no major issue.
> So they're more likely to survive a crash, and
> more likely to kill the other person in a crash.
> That doesnt sound ethical either.
So the ethical person drives around in a ping pong ball? Better yet, drive around in an open frame so you won't be killing anyone save a pedestrian, sacrificing your life so others may live. You may go ahead and evolve your genes and memes out of society if you wish to, I shan't.
No, better that scientists and engineers and business people create cheaper oil, and eventually, cheap replacements for oil (or synthetic gas) so that we may all drive huge, but clean, gas hogs to work by ourselves. And widen those highways while you're at it. We don't pay you to force feely-good austerity down our throats!
What was the topic about again?
I hire moving people to move my things. They call me "sir".