I think there really could be better space games. Ships fighting each other would be cool, but I'd like to see something along the lines of pirate spaceships warring with each other, where you are part of a crew that can be boarded and stuff by larger vessels/groups. Things involving turning off an enemy's gravity, jumping into lightspeed to escape, using your ship to enter an atmosphere while being boarded...there are a ton of other possibilities. Quests could revolve around protecting merchant vessels for money. Each person in the ship would have a different point of view. Maybe even have FPS for some, etc. Eve Online seems like a good start but the only avatars are spaceships and doesn't involve multiple people.
Make it more RTS-oriented, and you really have something.
For some reason the first thing that came to mind was the movie Hero.
SCENE: Chamber of Bill Gates
Bill Gates: So...how did you defeat, RedHat, YellowDog, and UNIX? For these foes ever elude us.
Nameless: I used a powerful virus.
*candles flicker*
Bill Gates: So...you come for me...for this is a lie. Everyone knows there is no virus which can defeat all these enemies. No OS but Windows allows such possibilities.
But...before you destroy me...understand I was trying to bring all OSes together under one system! That system is Longhorn!
Nameless: Umm. Yeah. Have you ever seen the source for Windows? I mean, just look at SP2 for XP. A code warrior could not possibly wade through such an army of such colossal hackery.
BG: I...I have nothing to say to that. Guards! Bring in Ballmer, skilled in the ways of the Monkey! You will not defeat us!
This is pretty amazing, but a lot of testing still has to be done on animals, and there are still a lot of questions to be asked with regards to this. With animal cloning, the animals did not live as long and had noted medical problems. I wonder if this type of cloning would be subject to similar issues, including autoimmune disorders and/or deterioration of the spinal cord.
Plus let's not forget the religious ramifications of such a discovery. You can bet there will be a lot of pushback on this.
Wow, so the BSA is reporting that piracy will continue to grow. We all know how objective and unbiased a report created by an anti-software piracy group must be.
I completely agree. Despite the tinfoil hat commentary of the poster, I think this would be remarkably good at securing data, and its use in military and industrial applications is actually not a bad idea. Like most security technologies, though, the downside is the human factor. No doubt the technology to strip this sort of scan will be developed, once it is reverse-engineered.
However, to think that the next DVD you buy or that next CD you purchase will require you to input a fingerprint scan is very far fetched. There would be an uproar from consumers.
Something's gotta be in the gaming news cycle, and both products were announced at just about the same time. This is your basic gamer pundit wankfest.
I don't care which platform has better pixeltextureshader crap and which has wifi/bluetooth integrated 10-terabyte storage systems.
It's all about the software. Are the games going to be any good? Are they going to be fun to play? Is Sony going to release games which are mostly based on the same semi-feminine anime-based spikey-haired protagonist model which has been in vogue since FF VII was released? Will it consist of the same rehashed genres and retreads of old games? Let's face it, there hasn't been that much innovation in video games in the past 10 years, aside from the now mega-long video sequences I have to sit through for 20 minutes while the narrative is scrolling across the screen in action genres. The stuff which was released in 1996 is comparable to the stuff being released in 2005. Yes, graphics have improved since the PS1. And there are some innovative games. But let's see, Mario is from the Atari age. I remember playing original Metal Gear on NES. FPS, RPG, fighters, racing games, sports games, stealth games, they're all retreads. Games based on playing cards are now somewhat popular, as if people couldn't sit down and play Magic with each other. I know it's old age talking, but I'm still waiting for something really amazing and enlightening. AI, maybe. New peripherals, maybe. But until I see something spectacular I'll probably opt out of dishing out 300-400 bucks for either one of these babies. Not very many games push the genres they are pigeonholed in. I think the gaming industry is really stagnating. Why not make a good FPS rpg, or a game that puts together action, racing, and stealth?
Much like Hollywood, the game industry has reached that mature phase in the business where mass product sells and indies and innovative genres are pulled off the shelves. Unlike games of old, the large budgets required to pull off a console make unique games more and more rare, which adds to my own trepidation about blowing a load of cash on a new system.
I don't know if that necessarily breaks chess rules, but consider that a game plan vs a computer is much different than that against a human opponent. When you play a computer in chess, you have to adjust to the fact that a good computer already has a huge database of openings. Kasparov probably played strange openings and defenses against his computer opponent. Also, you must consider that a computer is a program, and for the most part (and no not often in chess) it will run the same or a similar way each time. I don't know if it actually happened, but having a human being then adjusting the computer opponent behind the scenes is to me the equivalent of cheating. In other words, by modifying the programming, he wasn't playing a computer; he was playing a human AND a computer. That certainly changes the whole idea of man vs machine - it then becomes man vs man+machine
What do you think a bank is? Banks transfer money constantly. That's their job, among a slew of other things. They also 'store' money but a lot of it is transferring balances from different accounts.
Paypal offers debit cards and other money services, including a basic savings account. They do store money, as much as others would believe they don't. What do you think a paypal balance is?
They are a bank, they should be regulated as such. End of Story.
I completely agree with you. AH as an instance is a great concept and would spread the load evenly. Problem I see is that Blizzard hasn't yet fixed some of the instance problems that exist; some people are reporting bugs from instances like getting 2.5levels of rest XP and it seems to be tied into instances from what I recall. Also as instances are loaded on different servers it could create DB or network problems, depending on how the DB is setup. So instancing an AH may make things worse, but it depends on their network, DB, and code, and I wouldn't be able to make that judgement without having at least a system diagram and probably a PhD in IT.
Soon to be ex-girlfriend? I think you've already made the decision, buddy.
I recommend this: Say 'ok I'll turn off the computer and go out with you.' Then turn off the monitor, and get your coat or whatnot on and head out the door with her. When you get to the door, make sure she's outside, then step back inside quickly, and lock the door. Tell her she can get her shit later.:)
Kind of a small forehead. I'd rather get my logo on a famous celebrity with a big forehead. Like, say, Jennifer Love Hewitt. Guess it would cost more, though you could always just get her really drunk and then write on her forehead with a permanent marker. Well. I couldn't.
Seriously, though, is this the next phase in product advertisement? Sure, it's more noticeable than having a baseball cap with a product on it, but sheesh. I'm having all kinds of nightmares about futuristic product advertising from Minority Report already, that seems much more likely to happen.
I think I'll just chalk it up to someone doing something for his fifteen minutes of fame than any actual change in the landscape of product advertisement.
The price of the Euro plummeted against the dollar as investors received word that a gaming bug plaguing the US Economy will soon be hitting the EU.
No word on how this bug, named "Warcraft," will affect France, a country whose name is synonymous with "surrender." French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac responded to the claims by muttering something about paladins being overpowered.
Amelie's father's gnome was not available for comment.
France: They would run you down with one of those 400lbs minis. Then back up, steal the PDA and mutter something about your heritage why driving away.
I thought they would bump into you [waving white flag] and immediately surrender all their belongings, including any PDAs or eiffel tower keychains they've been trying to get rid of since 1983...THEN mutter something about your heritage while seducing any significant others you might have brought with you.
Thank God that George Lucas rebelled against Hollywood, not only by creating a biting satire of their business (title of Star Wars II anyone?) but by doing what no one in Hollywood has ever done - continue to add more and more to his original movies.
Let's examine, shall we? "Star Wars" obviously refers to movie stars and the battles they fight for supremacy of the movie industry. Obviously the Empire is Hollywood.
Luke Skywalker - George "Luke"-as? He wrote himself into his own film. Also he walks on the sky, ie. he's better than everyone else. Something tells me George never got past this one. Insert cliched Greedo whine.
Han Solo - Solo, as in "primadonna" - movie actors in general. Selfish assholes who would pretend to know what a parsec is.
Princess Leia - Princess "lay ya"? The porn industry.
R2D2 - Robots who make no sense, ie. movie producers.
C3PO - Robots who act all pretentious and annoy the fuck out of you with english accents, ie. movie directors.
Obi Wan Kenobi - Umm, best boy grip?
Darth Vader - wears a big black mask, is evil. This is the producer Lucas couldn't sell his original script to.
I could go on, but you get the point. Does this post have anything to do with cloning animals? Not really. But who cares about cloning animals when you can make up some random shit about Star Wars?
All I can say is the story itself is very poorly written, the slashdot submission equally poorly written, and the story itself not particularly interesting in any way aside from a fairly boring human interest story with absolutely no analysis or conjecture. So disabled people interact using an MMORPG barely anyone plays. Wow.
I invite someone to respond and get modded insightful for explaining why this matters like I'm a 10-yr old.:)
Well first off, I'm mid-40s, so Darkshore frankly is pretty wussy for me. But I've been there and last time my guild visited it was something like Guild: 40, Alliance: 6. Seriously.
Either way, good luck catching me once I go wolf or mount up.
Hard to say how endgame will play out, especially with varying populations between the Horde and Alliance. Currently I play Horde on the Argent Dawn roleplay server, and from the info there there are 3 times as many Alliance members as Horde members. Here's to hoping there's some way server population evens out.
Hey I know the Iraqi Information Minister's second cousin. I mean, he's my second cousin. And he's fucking hilarious. Get it straight, man. Stop spreading disinformation on the Internet, the one place everyone can find tons of true, undisputed facts. The one place on earth (aside from Iraq of course) I am truly at home.
- Iraqi Information Minster
P.S. Iraq rules, long live Saddam! America will never defeat Iraq! Baghdad will never be taken! Death to the Infidels, and...
Slashdot Mirror
I think there really could be better space games. Ships fighting each other would be cool, but I'd like to see something along the lines of pirate spaceships warring with each other, where you are part of a crew that can be boarded and stuff by larger vessels/groups. Things involving turning off an enemy's gravity, jumping into lightspeed to escape, using your ship to enter an atmosphere while being boarded...there are a ton of other possibilities. Quests could revolve around protecting merchant vessels for money. Each person in the ship would have a different point of view. Maybe even have FPS for some, etc. Eve Online seems like a good start but the only avatars are spaceships and doesn't involve multiple people.
Make it more RTS-oriented, and you really have something.
For some reason the first thing that came to mind was the movie Hero.
SCENE: Chamber of Bill Gates
Bill Gates: So...how did you defeat, RedHat, YellowDog, and UNIX? For these foes ever elude us.
Nameless: I used a powerful virus.
*candles flicker*
Bill Gates: So...you come for me...for this is a lie. Everyone knows there is no virus which can defeat all these enemies. No OS but Windows allows such possibilities.
But...before you destroy me...understand I was trying to bring all OSes together under one system! That system is Longhorn!
Nameless: Umm. Yeah. Have you ever seen the source for Windows? I mean, just look at SP2 for XP. A code warrior could not possibly wade through such an army of such colossal hackery.
BG: I...I have nothing to say to that. Guards! Bring in Ballmer, skilled in the ways of the Monkey! You will not defeat us!
This is pretty amazing, but a lot of testing still has to be done on animals, and there are still a lot of questions to be asked with regards to this. With animal cloning, the animals did not live as long and had noted medical problems. I wonder if this type of cloning would be subject to similar issues, including autoimmune disorders and/or deterioration of the spinal cord.
Plus let's not forget the religious ramifications of such a discovery. You can bet there will be a lot of pushback on this.
Wow, so the BSA is reporting that piracy will continue to grow. We all know how objective and unbiased a report created by an anti-software piracy group must be.
I completely agree. Despite the tinfoil hat commentary of the poster, I think this would be remarkably good at securing data, and its use in military and industrial applications is actually not a bad idea. Like most security technologies, though, the downside is the human factor. No doubt the technology to strip this sort of scan will be developed, once it is reverse-engineered.
However, to think that the next DVD you buy or that next CD you purchase will require you to input a fingerprint scan is very far fetched. There would be an uproar from consumers.
Something's gotta be in the gaming news cycle, and both products were announced at just about the same time. This is your basic gamer pundit wankfest.
I don't care which platform has better pixeltextureshader crap and which has wifi/bluetooth integrated 10-terabyte storage systems.
It's all about the software. Are the games going to be any good? Are they going to be fun to play? Is Sony going to release games which are mostly based on the same semi-feminine anime-based spikey-haired protagonist model which has been in vogue since FF VII was released? Will it consist of the same rehashed genres and retreads of old games? Let's face it, there hasn't been that much innovation in video games in the past 10 years, aside from the now mega-long video sequences I have to sit through for 20 minutes while the narrative is scrolling across the screen in action genres. The stuff which was released in 1996 is comparable to the stuff being released in 2005. Yes, graphics have improved since the PS1. And there are some innovative games. But let's see, Mario is from the Atari age. I remember playing original Metal Gear on NES. FPS, RPG, fighters, racing games, sports games, stealth games, they're all retreads. Games based on playing cards are now somewhat popular, as if people couldn't sit down and play Magic with each other.
I know it's old age talking, but I'm still waiting for something really amazing and enlightening. AI, maybe. New peripherals, maybe. But until I see something spectacular I'll probably opt out of dishing out 300-400 bucks for either one of these babies. Not very many games push the genres they are pigeonholed in. I think the gaming industry is really stagnating. Why not make a good FPS rpg, or a game that puts together action, racing, and stealth?
Much like Hollywood, the game industry has reached that mature phase in the business where mass product sells and indies and innovative genres are pulled off the shelves. Unlike games of old, the large budgets required to pull off a console make unique games more and more rare, which adds to my own trepidation about blowing a load of cash on a new system.
Xbox360 vs PS3? Who cares?
That's Monkey Boy. Watch him dance!
Maybe they should go to the President for support. After all, that's what he did.
I don't know if that necessarily breaks chess rules, but consider that a game plan vs a computer is much different than that against a human opponent. When you play a computer in chess, you have to adjust to the fact that a good computer already has a huge database of openings. Kasparov probably played strange openings and defenses against his computer opponent. Also, you must consider that a computer is a program, and for the most part (and no not often in chess) it will run the same or a similar way each time. I don't know if it actually happened, but having a human being then adjusting the computer opponent behind the scenes is to me the equivalent of cheating. In other words, by modifying the programming, he wasn't playing a computer; he was playing a human AND a computer. That certainly changes the whole idea of man vs machine - it then becomes man vs man+machine
Bush already does the monkeyboy dance. It's called 'being president.'
They are a money transfer service
What do you think a bank is? Banks transfer money constantly. That's their job, among a slew of other things. They also 'store' money but a lot of it is transferring balances from different accounts.
Paypal offers debit cards and other money services, including a basic savings account. They do store money, as much as others would believe they don't. What do you think a paypal balance is?
They are a bank, they should be regulated as such. End of Story.
Move out of Jersey. :)
I completely agree with you. AH as an instance is a great concept and would spread the load evenly. Problem I see is that Blizzard hasn't yet fixed some of the instance problems that exist; some people are reporting bugs from instances like getting 2.5levels of rest XP and it seems to be tied into instances from what I recall. Also as instances are loaded on different servers it could create DB or network problems, depending on how the DB is setup. So instancing an AH may make things worse, but it depends on their network, DB, and code, and I wouldn't be able to make that judgement without having at least a system diagram and probably a PhD in IT.
Soon to be ex-girlfriend? I think you've already made the decision, buddy.
:)
I recommend this: Say 'ok I'll turn off the computer and go out with you.' Then turn off the monitor, and get your coat or whatnot on and head out the door with her. When you get to the door, make sure she's outside, then step back inside quickly, and lock the door. Tell her she can get her shit later.
Kind of a small forehead. I'd rather get my logo on a famous celebrity with a big forehead. Like, say, Jennifer Love Hewitt. Guess it would cost more, though you could always just get her really drunk and then write on her forehead with a permanent marker. Well. I couldn't.
Seriously, though, is this the next phase in product advertisement? Sure, it's more noticeable than having a baseball cap with a product on it, but sheesh. I'm having all kinds of nightmares about futuristic product advertising from Minority Report already, that seems much more likely to happen.
I think I'll just chalk it up to someone doing something for his fifteen minutes of fame than any actual change in the landscape of product advertisement.
The price of the Euro plummeted against the dollar as investors received word that a gaming bug plaguing the US Economy will soon be hitting the EU.
No word on how this bug, named "Warcraft," will affect France, a country whose name is synonymous with "surrender." French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac responded to the claims by muttering something about paladins being overpowered.
Amelie's father's gnome was not available for comment.
Not to nitpick about loss of life, but that's only forty 9/11s, not four hundred.
Although I agree, it's an awful loss.
The worst is that a lot of these deaths could have been prevented. But then, no one can predict mother nature.
France: They would run you down with one of those 400lbs minis. Then back up, steal the PDA and mutter something about your heritage why driving away.
I thought they would bump into you [waving white flag] and immediately surrender all their belongings, including any PDAs or eiffel tower keychains they've been trying to get rid of since 1983...THEN mutter something about your heritage while seducing any significant others you might have brought with you.
He said free, not 'Erect,' you insensitive clod.
Thank God that George Lucas rebelled against Hollywood, not only by creating a biting satire of their business (title of Star Wars II anyone?) but by doing what no one in Hollywood has ever done - continue to add more and more to his original movies.
Let's examine, shall we? "Star Wars" obviously refers to movie stars and the battles they fight for supremacy of the movie industry. Obviously the Empire is Hollywood.
Luke Skywalker - George "Luke"-as? He wrote himself into his own film. Also he walks on the sky, ie. he's better than everyone else. Something tells me George never got past this one. Insert cliched Greedo whine.
Han Solo - Solo, as in "primadonna" - movie actors in general. Selfish assholes who would pretend to know what a parsec is.
Princess Leia - Princess "lay ya"? The porn industry.
R2D2 - Robots who make no sense, ie. movie producers.
C3PO - Robots who act all pretentious and annoy the fuck out of you with english accents, ie. movie directors.
Obi Wan Kenobi - Umm, best boy grip?
Darth Vader - wears a big black mask, is evil. This is the producer Lucas couldn't sell his original script to.
I could go on, but you get the point. Does this post have anything to do with cloning animals? Not really. But who cares about cloning animals when you can make up some random shit about Star Wars?
All I can say is the story itself is very poorly written, the slashdot submission equally poorly written, and the story itself not particularly interesting in any way aside from a fairly boring human interest story with absolutely no analysis or conjecture. So disabled people interact using an MMORPG barely anyone plays. Wow.
:)
I invite someone to respond and get modded insightful for explaining why this matters like I'm a 10-yr old.
*crickets chirping*
Well first off, I'm mid-40s, so Darkshore frankly is pretty wussy for me. But I've been there and last time my guild visited it was something like Guild: 40, Alliance: 6. Seriously.
Either way, good luck catching me once I go wolf or mount up.
See you in Battlegrounds.
Hard to say how endgame will play out, especially with varying populations between the Horde and Alliance. Currently I play Horde on the Argent Dawn roleplay server, and from the info there there are 3 times as many Alliance members as Horde members. Here's to hoping there's some way server population evens out.
Doctor: Mayor West, you have Lymphoma.
... Idiotic ... yes.!
Mayor: Oh My.
Doctor: Probably from rolling around in that Toxic
waste. What in God's name were you trying to prove?
Mayor: I was trying to gain super powers.
Doctor: Well that's just silly.
Mayor: Silly yes
Hey I know the Iraqi Information Minister's second cousin. I mean, he's my second cousin. And he's fucking hilarious. Get it straight, man. Stop spreading disinformation on the Internet, the one place everyone can find tons of true, undisputed facts. The one place on earth (aside from Iraq of course) I am truly at home.
- Iraqi Information Minster
P.S. Iraq rules, long live Saddam! America will never defeat Iraq! Baghdad will never be taken! Death to the Infidels, and...
Shit, gotta go.