It's the love of money that's the root of all evil!
I mean, money just sits there, doesn't it. What's evil about that? It just sits there, being green, tempting me, making me want it, making me want to do bad things to get more of it...
OK, OK, money is evil. Even just sitting there, it's being evil, making me evil.
Heisenberg (or was it Pratchett?) was right, the act of observing changes the observer, now I'm evil. Ahhh nuts!
All the id titles I've played have followed a basic plot; find a key, open a door, find the way out, kill some denizens of hell/aliens on the way. In Doom, this was fairly novel. But with Quake I and II this type of plot was surely just a hook into the more important world of deathmatch.
In this context, multi-player gaming is more akin to sporting competition than the traditional videogame ethos of adventures/interactive storytelling ala Zelda or personal skill improvement ala Tetris (both pretty extreme examples of each genre).
My question: Considering the small size of your company - less than 20, compared to the 100+ at Shigeru Miyamoto's* disposal - do you consider your company's business to be building technically advanced gaming engines (graphics/networking), with heavy plot development best left to others. Such as Sierra/Valve using the Q2 engine in half-life or Ion Storm using the Q3 engine in Daikatana?
* S. Miyamoto - Nintendo's goose that laid the golden egg - responsible for both Mario and Zelda.
As a Euro-troll (they're Scandinavian originaly I think). The post went up at 5am, any sensible person's still asleep. Not me tho' I'm far too drunk to go to bed!
Bear with me while I find a suitable quote...Got it! "There are some people who would whistle 'Yankee Doodle' in a crowded bar in Atlanta. Even these would consider it tactless to mention the word 'billygoat' to a troll." -- Terry Pratchet
That makes me contemplate the risks of the further future.
We all want personal teleporters, right? Imagine this, in a car accident you might get a mangled face, but essentially you're still you. In a teleporter accident, you might end up as 'Brundlefly', or worse still, me! (And believe me, it ain't a pretty sight!)
This is from a New Scientist article from May '99. It's a 'SkyCar' developed by Paul Moller, and it's going to be in the air RSN (so they say), and is not manually controlled i.e. requires ATC (not air training corps -- for U.K. readers) above and beyond the current state of the art. This should mean no chance of crashing, (help! it's not running *NIX I hear you shriek...) or shunting your neighbour (not sp, there may be others, but I can spell neighbour (unlike Win 9n UK english edition grumble grumble)). It looks like I won't even need a driving license at this rate - well at least I've got my bike!
The recent newcs intist article where Indian scientists say that mice taking an 100mg per 1kg bodymass dose of caffine 1/2 an hour before radiation exposure survived lethal doses, makes me think that if you're lucky enough to survive the radiation, the caffine will severely upset you or you may just be in the unlucky 50% of LD50.
Interesting that you chose nuts and bolts for your example, IIRC it was Whitworth who made the first manufacturing standard, when he decreed the thread size/pitch and width. Now you could take one manufacturers bolt and use any other manufacturers nut, provided they used Whitworth's standard. Much like open standard software.
The UK government in its infinte wisdom has banned imperial measurements (the US has arsed around with gallons anyhow) on foodstuffs to bring us in line with Europe. At least the pint of beer stays - just the right size.
> When the british came up with it I guess they didn't hire a shrink and figure out what's easier for humans.
It's far easier to mentally work out quotients without a calculator than floating point when doing division.
Fair enough, in all honesty it is a pipe-dream, but if it were to be produced, it would be self replicating and incredibly cheap to implement, especialy if some sort of oceanic hydroponic plantation were set up -- again a *long* way off.
A while ago, when I was a lad, doing 'A' level physics (16 to 17 years old), I did some research into renewable energy sources, to discover that some people consider the holy grail of renewable energy lies in the field of genetic engineering, and since hearing their ideas, I tend to agree. Some may consider it a `Frankenstein science', but just for a moment imagine a world where a photosynthesis reaction provides the decomposition of water to its base elements, hydrogen and oxygen. These may then be re-combined in an exothermal reaction to provide heat. Bearing in mind that it is heat which powers almost all continuous electricity generation to this day -- granted some hydro-electric power (eg. the Dinorwig plant in Wales) provide extra energy to the National Power Grid during eg. the cup final -- whithout which there'd be no WWW, no/. and I'd never have found out that it was researchers not far from home who discoveredcold fusion.
Oh yeah, I mentioned a derivative of fusion energy. Well it's the Sun that fuels the plants that would energise the reaction, and we all learnt in school that the Sun is only the solar system's biggest ever fusion reactor.
Frankly, I'd just go down your local, whether or not it sells Guinness (note spelling, ain't I a pedant?) or not! Not that I'm knocking Guinness, but I find it's the company that makes the pub (alehouse / bar / tavern) a good place to be before contemplating the beverages that they serve, although it doesn't do any harm.
PS. Why the nic? Well, it's the mutts nuts! PPS. Three cheers to CmdrTaco for his sterling work!
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I'll take your 500k demo, and raise you a 63 line game http://ioccc.org/2004/vik1.c.
It's the love of money that's the root of all evil!
I mean, money just sits there, doesn't it. What's evil about that? It just sits there, being green, tempting me, making me want it, making me want to do bad things to get more of it...
OK, OK, money is evil. Even just sitting there, it's being evil, making me evil.
Heisenberg (or was it Pratchett?) was right, the act of observing changes the observer, now I'm evil. Ahhh nuts!
All the id titles I've played have followed a basic plot; find a key, open a door, find the way out, kill some denizens of hell/aliens on the way. In Doom, this was fairly novel. But with Quake I and II this type of plot was surely just a hook into the more important world of deathmatch.
In this context, multi-player gaming is more akin to sporting competition than the traditional videogame ethos of adventures/interactive storytelling ala Zelda or personal skill improvement ala Tetris (both pretty extreme examples of each genre).
My question: Considering the small size of your company - less than 20, compared to the 100+ at Shigeru Miyamoto's* disposal - do you consider your company's business to be building technically advanced gaming engines (graphics/networking), with heavy plot development best left to others. Such as Sierra/Valve using the Q2 engine in half-life or Ion Storm using the Q3 engine in Daikatana?
* S. Miyamoto - Nintendo's goose that laid the golden egg - responsible for both Mario and Zelda.
As a Euro-troll (they're Scandinavian originaly I think). The post went up at 5am, any sensible person's still asleep. Not me tho' I'm far too drunk to go to bed!
Bear with me while I find a suitable quote...Got it! "There are some people who would whistle 'Yankee Doodle' in a crowded bar in Atlanta. Even these would consider it tactless to mention the word 'billygoat' to a troll." -- Terry Pratchet
That makes me contemplate the risks of the further future.
We all want personal teleporters, right? Imagine this, in a car accident you might get a mangled face, but essentially you're still you. In a teleporter accident, you might end up as 'Brundlefly', or worse still, me! (And believe me, it ain't a pretty sight!)
This is from a New Scientist article from May '99. It's a 'SkyCar' developed by Paul Moller, and it's going to be in the air RSN (so they say), and is not manually controlled i.e. requires ATC (not air training corps -- for U.K. readers) above and beyond the current state of the art. This should mean no chance of crashing, (help! it's not running *NIX I hear you shriek...) or shunting your neighbour (not sp, there may be others, but I can spell neighbour (unlike Win 9n UK english edition grumble grumble)). It looks like I won't even need a driving license at this rate - well at least I've got my bike!
I think I'll stick with smileys (the humor pseudotags didn't work).
;)
At the very worst, RMS gets his way in Germany: GNULinux
At the very worst, RMS gets his way in Germany: GNULinux
Turns out, it wasn't the accuracy of the thermometer that was the problem, but his subject had a bout of 'flu.
Farenheit is a decimal scale though, 0degrees for freezing point of sea water (or alchohol?) up to the temperature of a man's armpit at 100degrees.
He was just unlucky I suppose - or lazy more like, he most likely didn't test the scale on anyone else.
The recent newcs intist article where Indian scientists say that mice taking an 100mg per 1kg bodymass dose of caffine 1/2 an hour before radiation exposure survived lethal doses, makes me think that if you're lucky enough to survive the radiation, the caffine will severely upset you or you may just be in the unlucky 50% of LD50.
Bite two ...
Interesting that you chose nuts and bolts for your example, IIRC it was Whitworth who made the first manufacturing standard, when he decreed the thread size/pitch and width. Now you could take one manufacturers bolt and use any other manufacturers nut, provided they used Whitworth's standard. Much like open standard software.
The UK government in its infinte wisdom has banned imperial measurements (the US has arsed around with gallons anyhow) on foodstuffs to bring us in line with Europe. At least the pint of beer stays - just the right size.
> When the british came up with it I guess they didn't hire a shrink and figure out what's easier for humans.
It's far easier to mentally work out quotients without a calculator than floating point when doing division.
"If it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, shoot it!" -- Hugh Laurie
> Rumours has it that they will begin making the Gimp core toolkit independent
It's kind of ironic, when GTK stands for Gimp Tool-Kit. It'd be nice to have the choice.
Fair enough, in all honesty it is a pipe-dream, but if it were to be produced, it would be self replicating and incredibly cheap to implement, especialy if some sort of oceanic hydroponic plantation were set up -- again a *long* way off.
A while ago, when I was a lad, doing 'A' level physics (16 to 17 years old), I did some research into renewable energy sources, to discover that some people consider the holy grail of renewable energy lies in the field of genetic engineering, and since hearing their ideas, I tend to agree. Some may consider it a `Frankenstein science', but just for a moment imagine a world where a photosynthesis reaction provides the decomposition of water to its base elements, hydrogen and oxygen. These may then be re-combined in an exothermal reaction to provide heat. Bearing in mind that it is heat which powers almost all continuous electricity generation to this day -- granted some hydro-electric power (eg. the Dinorwig plant in Wales) provide extra energy to the National Power Grid during eg. the cup final -- whithout which there'd be no WWW, no /. and I'd never have found out that it was researchers not far from home who discovered cold fusion.
Oh yeah, I mentioned a derivative of fusion energy. Well it's the Sun that fuels the plants that would energise the reaction, and we all learnt in school that the Sun is only the solar system's biggest ever fusion reactor.
PS. Why the nick? Well it's the mutt's nuts!
Frankly, I'd just go down your local, whether or not it sells Guinness (note spelling, ain't I a pedant?) or not! Not that I'm knocking Guinness, but I find it's the company that makes the pub (alehouse / bar / tavern) a good place to be before contemplating the beverages that they serve, although it doesn't do any harm.
PS. Why the nic? Well, it's the mutts nuts!
PPS. Three cheers to CmdrTaco for his sterling work!