As a bookseller, I've found many people simply do not realize the wealth of information that is available on this subject. Start with the Books > Subjects > Health, Mind & Body > Self-Help > Time Management and the Books > Subjects > Business & Investing > Business Life > Time Management and then check out the Books > Subjects > Business & Investing > Management & Leadership > Motivational section of Amazon. One book I'd recommend is Getting Things Done by Ed Bliss.
Also, you might want to check out the study guides and test strategies section available at any college or university bookstore.
An much deeper and profoundly thought provoking book that directly deals with focus and will is P.D. Ouespensky's The Fourth Way. Be warned, however, this one is not for the faint-hearted.
In my humble opinion, the shortcoming in this argument is it's Americancentricity. The US is the dominant Internet influence, for now, and yes, even in terms of international governance. However, numerically speaking, this is already a downward trend and one that must continue.
I predict that many corporate and legal structures will flounder and disintegrate on the rocks and shoals of the one world wired community.
but, again, the best teams online are not usually groups of people living in the same area. There are occasions where a small number of them are, or where the core of a team is, but in most cases they're spread across the country, or even over the world. I joined a clan who's server was in San Diego (as was I at the time), and found that many of our members were in the area, but that a great deal of our players were not (and we had a lot of members that didn't play much any more, due to policies allowing pretty much lifetime membership unless you really screwed up, and the fact that the clan started with QuakeDM and officially played TFC at the time). Ten trips is ten trips, but try getting 10 members of a team that's spread across the country together. The most members of the clan I belong to that I've met in one place was a little more than half that, and was still less than the total number of local members.
My point is, if the members of a team were serious, they would be part of a team that could attend tournaments. There may be talented non-professional gamers all over the place, but the elite are those people who are paid to play, which is solely due to their ability to be competative. Games are competition, the best gamers are the most competative, the winners invest in developing skills, which they can afford, since they now have the time. Fatal1ty practices more than eight hours a day. I'd like to see the casual gamers who could be as good as the world's best professionals, but it isn't likely.
Mostly, I'm tired of trying to state my opinion, I don't need to defend it, as it seems self evident to me. So, go ahead, believe whatever you like. I think you're just trying to convince everyone that your favorite flavour is best. Personally, I think if you enjoy team games, as do I, just play them. Don't try so hard to justify them.
Really, online games are impossible to take seriously due to rampant cheating, so the big money will likely be mostly at LANs. The big LAN tournaments so far, have focused on individuals playing head to head. I, and many, many others, find this to be the pinnacle of excitement. If you don't enjoy that, well, that's fine, no problem. That doesn't take away from what it is or those who do. However, serious gamers playing in professional tournaments are playing 1v1, and whereas I think team games will find their own, it hasn't happened yet. Talk all you want, I've seen to light, and I won't go back to the blindness of self-interest. I have my things, but that doesn't result in me discounting others, or for that matter, reality. If you like your thing, great, but the pro game scene is dominated by Q3A, UT2K3 and 1v1 game play. When you can point to any team in any game, who's done better monetarily, even as a team, than any of the top pro 1v1 players, then we'll talk. Until then, I'm out.
PS. Yes, prizes equal skills. The best players win the most money. If you want to see the best FPS gamers and games, check out Quakecon.
a bad evening anyway, but that's over, shit happens;p... and to everbody. Been there, done that, and, no doubt, I'll be back.
What I was trying to point out is that while you may find the top 1v1 players in 1v1 tournaments (although it's more than likely just as limited by location as team tournaments), you won't find the top teams in team tournaments, because of the limitations involved in getting a top team to the event together. The 'serious' gaming community is online, compensating for lag, and is much larger in team-based games than in 1v1 (in part because the overall community in team-based games has been larger since TF eclipsed all other forms of Quake). For all anyone knows, the top DM'ers don't even play DM these days, because it's not what interests them and not what most people are playing anyway.
I concur that LAN team games are harder to organize however, please, consider, if the money was there, physical travel, i.e. in-town LANparties and larger less frequent regional tournaments, would be no more difficult for a team of ten players than it would for any ten individual; players. Ten trips is ten trips.
Nobody knows, just another point.
Which brings me to my main point again. There is money being paid to gamers. The people who can make money are professional or "serious" gamers. When these "serious" gamers play head to head, Quake, or RA/OSP/CPM, is more often than not, the game that's played. This is what I seem to know.
More like I've done both, and find that the only thing even remotely interesting about 1v1 is the hunt, which loses it's interest once you learn the player's patterns. Learning their most basic patterns takes a couple of minutes, especially when you're not trying to learn multiple players' patterns at once.
Yes, but that is only you. I've found what gets the top guys is totally about matching skillz. These players are only interested in one thing. Who is the top dog. There are a lot of people interested in that. Just check out quakecon sometime.
If you're looking for the best hamburger in the world, you obviously wouldn't find it in McDonald's. However, if you had never had a McDonald's hamburger, you would never really know they didn't make the best hamburgers. That wasn't the point, though, because the comparison doesn't fit. When you're trying to find the most talented FPS players you have to look at everyone in all FPS games. Just because Quake 3 attracts the most 1vs1 players at the moment doesn't mean that it has the talent, just that it's where people choose to compete if they play 1vs1 primarily (in fact, a lot of people play 1vs1 TFC, mostly soldiers, and that was where my reference to mulch_dm came from).
My point is, is that if you play on a team, it's not just your skill, it's your teammates and the teamwork. In 1v1, it's simply you and me. Really, for an apt analogy, can you really see team chess? Is doubles in tennis as exciting as singles? Sure, there are great team games and they are very popular, but the best of the best stands alone and takes the gold.
Again, that's because Carmack is known for tweaking the game for the best video cards available at the time of release, and it's reflected in benchmark scores (plus it has a very simple interface for benchmarking). Half-Life was built to run on lower-end computers, so it's usefulness as a benchmark is limited, but it obviously is going to cater to a wider audience (including a number of people that never played Quake). Whether or not a game is used as a benchmark has no bearing on whether or not the most talented players are in that game.
No, Carmack just produces the best results despite the politics, just like Linus. I only referred to the benchmarks in order to support my position that the Quake engine is the standard by which others are compared. I'm not for a minute saying that some don't measure up or that everyone will like the flavour. Just that if it was ice cream, it would be chocolate.
At the risk of arguing with a subscriber, I wasn't talking about popularity amoungst the average players or even the most popular in terms of servers, but rather, which game is played when top FPS's play each other to see who is better.
Consoles are popular too, but hey, everybody knows, consoles are for kids.
I'll say it one more time. Q3A is the preferred platform for 1v1 between the best FPS"s.
Tournaments, esp. professional, are where you'll find the top players, which is, from my perspective, exciting.
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So if popularity is such a great guide, the MacDonalds would be a fine dining establishment. I wasn't talking about the most popular games. I was talking about the most talented players. Sheesh.
Whatever the reasons, they weren't used as common benchmarks but Quake was, and is.
Get over it already. Not everyone has to look at it your way. The peeps I hang with are quite happy with Q3A and, at this point, there's nothing that offers a better 1v1 experience.
Of course, that's my perspective and really, it doesn't depend upon whether it upsets you.
No, I replied carelessly. BTW, my original post was, in no way, intended to troll for a reaction. Quite frankly, I thought it was an interesting or insightful perspective, which is why I posted.
Personally, I am always amazed by those who are disappointed that not everyone agrees with their pet positions. What is even more amazing is how contemptous and dismissive people are of diversity and freedom of speech. Oh well, that's America.
Actually, I'd just like to point out that I knew that, so what was your point? Besides that point, really, if there was no point, why share such pointless?
So, my original point remains. Quake III Arena is the top game used by the top gamers to decide who is "personally better". I'm only speaking about who is the best single person at First Person Shooters. In my humble opinion, that would be Fatal1ty, who grew up a Quaker. Now, there are team games, but the best teams are not made of the best individual players but those who play best as a team. If you're interested in awesome skillz by an individual player, seek out a 1v1 match between two top Q3 or RA players. CS and other games simply don't come close to allowing the same intensity of personal combat. I'm not against team games, but the relay race is not as glamorous as the marathon or dash (period). So, for the pinnacle of mad skillz, I'm sorry, but that still belongs to Id's Quake III Arena and it's mods. We will see if Half-Life, UT or Quake will come out on top next round, but this round's been decided. So sorry, get over it, move along.
PS. I don't remember seeing HL or UT being used as a benchmark standard either for that matter.
My point remains, Where is Half_LifeCon? Did the CPL and the WCG use Half-Life for thier tournaments as often as they used Quake? No, they didn't. I never said Half-Life wasn't a big or popular game, It just wasn't the top dog in the professional 1v1 FPS tournament scene.
In fact to this day, the guys I think are the best FPS's all started with an Id engine and spent a majority of thier time playing some variation of Quake.
Also, please consider that recently even the top UT players got beat by the top Quake III Arena player at the last CPL, and after only sevveral months to switch.
Serious, like in hundreds of thousands of dollars serious. Fatal1ty has made more money playing than most people make working. Is that serious enough for you? Sheesh.
http://www.fatal1ty.com/html/news.php
While it's easy to dismiss, it's difficult to understand.
Agreed, the CPL (Cyber Professional League) is the top dog and Counter-Strike is the most popular "Team" FPS game. However, it's simply not a 1v1 game, nor did it define a genre, it simply fills one niche well. Half-Life is a great game and so is Unreal, they just aren't Quake and it really isn't the game as much as the engine. Carmack is simple the guy who sold out the least and has enough prestige to do it right, rather than being shackled by incompetent greedy corporate parasites. Every engine he's built lays the groundwork for others to follow.
Quakecon just keeps getting better every year. Fatal1ty is the best FPS player and Q3A is his game. Quake III Arena is the standard, get with it eh. By the way, lots of people still play Quake, I guess you just hang with trendies, so how could you know.
Hardly true, Half-Life never attained any status in the serious gaming community. Like whoever heard of HL-Con? Q3A is the standard against which all else is measured. Thanks largely to John Carmack, a real engineer.
Yes, this is the crux of the issue. How to be moral in an immoral society is most difficult. However, no matter how difficult, you cannot become more moral by acting less ethically. If one would hope to find meaning and value, one must be prepared to work against the current. Those who give into the easy way, set down a dark path. For every easy step down the wide way is a harder step later, back up the narrow way.
Don't ever think that something can come from nothing or that resistance doesn't develop strength. Avoid excessive quantity and only seek extreme Quality in all things.
Oh, and read Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and, as well, remember camels and eyes of needles...
Upwards and onwards, thru the fog. Always remember yourself.
Ok, I didn't see this mentioned so I felt I had to... many TechDocDepts use either LaTex / Tex or Adobe FrameMaker. I, personally, have never worked in a full production shop that ever used Word for document production.
It's simple, just repeat after me, Word is not a document processor, it is a word processor. Give Word more than a handful of words and it will choke. Word is for secreteries, really, they just took notepad and "blew'd it up real goood!"
LaTexis preferred if your output is published to paper, FrameMaker if you'll distill to PDF.
In my humble opinion, the real issue here is excessive profits and corporate greed. Every single DRM scheme is nothing more. If these people didn't have such Great Expectations, they wouldn't need these schemes. Look, dood, rather than trying to squeeze every penny from your audience, wouldn't you be more succesful trying to provide them with what they will freely pay for? Personally, I consider anything less than a freely entered into transaction as extortion and theft. Is any wonder that so many see a double standard here, which begs the question as to whether there is any real justice in this land.
If the time and all the money that was spent on such selfish nonsense was directed at creation, we'd all be far, far richer. Besides, people like John Carmack, who actually deserve credit, have had no problems getting rich despite all the so-called "piracy".
You know, I believe that while competition is good, cooperation is the true power behind all worthwhile accomplishments. So I ask, with all due respect, why don't the affluent people try supporting the rest of us? After all, really, we would all do much better, if we played as a team, rather than as a arrogant bunch of prima donnas.
Sorry, but I had to mention those two as they are important milestones in this genre.
Of course, it seemed to me we've trashed this subject to death long ago, and properly so. I saw nothing in 28 Days other than a easy way to pass a couple of hours.
By the way, thanks you to all those who provide and share the media. Truly, you fuel the fires of freedom. Now that I'm no longer forced to pay excessive profits for inferior products, I enjoy movies so much more.
By the way, the IMAX version of The Matrix Reloaded was the revolution, did you miss it?
ps. Dear Mr. Director, we need an IMAX "cut" cause those six story close ups are, like, way to close.
In my view, the Internet is a medium for free expression because, at some levels, it is unfettered by legal or commercial constraints.
Since free expression is seen as an individuals "right", as free* communication is inseparable from the human experience, therefore to deny anyone the ability to openly communicate is self-evidently harmful.
The framers of the American declaration of a human's "rights" enshrined the express right of "freedom" of speech and made it a cornerstone of the structure of governance, for exactly this reason.
Likewise, the architects of the Internet encoded the designs which ensured that users would "freely" be able to commuicate across diverse systems, for the same reason.
It's good to occasionally reflect upon the good things that have, by definition, worked so well. As much as they have well served us all, we often take them for granted. I, for one, can only offer my humble gratitude to those good people who worked so hard to protect other people's "rights".
Personally, I just wish that so many wouldn't just dwell on their "given" rights to the detriment of their "earned" responsibilities.
* as not in beer
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That's just so darn perversely sweet. I mean, I know it's supporting the Windows platform, but on the other hand, I can offer a practical alternative to limited income clients ~students mostly. This also greatly increases the chances of non-technical types adopting an open architecture.
Personally, I really appreciate the depth of features. I'd like to point out that an effective development enviroment is a core necessity. Perhaps not to professionals, but to the non-technical, working with known objects is often as far as they care to go into code. Indeed, VBA provides a very deep toolchest and often serves as the introduction to programming. It's great to see this done so well. Good hack, no doubtaboutit.
On this note, I curious though, what about interoperability? I've seen a lot of effort aimed at the internal functionality, but what about the external? I guess what I'm wondering is can users perform DDE and OLE type transactions?
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As usual, some people just can't seem to get along.;~)
Personally, I think more could be done with this concept. If the center, fastest "strip" was a sit down type one, wouldn't this really be nothing more than a permanently available, perpetual people bus. Think about it, moving McDonalds, talk about fast food!
As well, these conveyers could easily be constructed as subways. I can also see these being used at large exhibitions, galleries, parks and muesums.
Other conveyers of note:
Zizco, world's longest single flight horizontal curve conveyor (15.6 km) www.conveyor-dynamics.com/projects/popup/fs_z isco. htm
Los Pelambres, world's largest downhill conveyor system (3 conveyors, 12.7 km, 1296 m drop, 8700 tph) www.conveyor-dynamics.com/projects/popup/fs_ lospel ambres.htm
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Ever since I bought the first GeForce FX I could get my hands on, I've noticed how much better Quake is without any background noise. If only I could hear my headphones!
Of course, it is going to be a tad difficult to get that Caravan in my office.
Oh, excuse me, I have to go, I think I see my supervisor trying to using that bullhorn again...
Amazing perspective from a first worlder who recieved a "free" ride courtesy of all the third worlders and minimium wagers who do most of the real work. Lets face it, most wealth is not earned but transferred. In these days of massive immorality from the top down, it's hypocritical to denounce the poor while supporting the rich.
It's amazing how someone can subvert markets and democracy and be seen as a good guy, while others who share, are labelled as criminals.
My advice, tend your own garden before complaining about the weeds next door.
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Quality of Competitiveness.
Might I suggest the book, Zen & The Art Of Motorcycles Maintenance, in which the author studies the concept of quality.
As a bookseller, I've found many people simply do not realize the wealth of information that is available on this subject. Start with the Books > Subjects > Health, Mind & Body > Self-Help > Time Management and the Books > Subjects > Business & Investing > Business Life > Time Management and then check out the Books > Subjects > Business & Investing > Management & Leadership > Motivational section of Amazon. One book I'd recommend is Getting Things Done by Ed Bliss.
Also, you might want to check out the study guides and test strategies section available at any college or university bookstore.
An much deeper and profoundly thought provoking book that directly deals with focus and will is P.D. Ouespensky's The Fourth Way. Be warned, however, this one is not for the faint-hearted.
In my humble opinion, the shortcoming in this argument is it's Americancentricity. The US is the dominant Internet influence, for now, and yes, even in terms of international governance. However, numerically speaking, this is already a downward trend and one that must continue.
I predict that many corporate and legal structures will flounder and disintegrate on the rocks and shoals of the one world wired community.
but, again, the best teams online are not usually groups of people living in the same area. There are occasions where a small number of them are, or where the core of a team is, but in most cases they're spread across the country, or even over the world. I joined a clan who's server was in San Diego (as was I at the time), and found that many of our members were in the area, but that a great deal of our players were not (and we had a lot of members that didn't play much any more, due to policies allowing pretty much lifetime membership unless you really screwed up, and the fact that the clan started with QuakeDM and officially played TFC at the time). Ten trips is ten trips, but try getting 10 members of a team that's spread across the country together. The most members of the clan I belong to that I've met in one place was a little more than half that, and was still less than the total number of local members.
My point is, if the members of a team were serious, they would be part of a team that could attend tournaments. There may be talented non-professional gamers all over the place, but the elite are those people who are paid to play, which is solely due to their ability to be competative. Games are competition, the best gamers are the most competative, the winners invest in developing skills, which they can afford, since they now have the time. Fatal1ty practices more than eight hours a day. I'd like to see the casual gamers who could be as good as the world's best professionals, but it isn't likely.
Mostly, I'm tired of trying to state my opinion, I don't need to defend it, as it seems self evident to me. So, go ahead, believe whatever you like. I think you're just trying to convince everyone that your favorite flavour is best. Personally, I think if you enjoy team games, as do I, just play them. Don't try so hard to justify them.
Really, online games are impossible to take seriously due to rampant cheating, so the big money will likely be mostly at LANs. The big LAN tournaments so far, have focused on individuals playing head to head. I, and many, many others, find this to be the pinnacle of excitement. If you don't enjoy that, well, that's fine, no problem. That doesn't take away from what it is or those who do. However, serious gamers playing in professional tournaments are playing 1v1, and whereas I think team games will find their own, it hasn't happened yet. Talk all you want, I've seen to light, and I won't go back to the blindness of self-interest. I have my things, but that doesn't result in me discounting others, or for that matter, reality. If you like your thing, great, but the pro game scene is dominated by Q3A, UT2K3 and 1v1 game play. When you can point to any team in any game, who's done better monetarily, even as a team, than any of the top pro 1v1 players, then we'll talk. Until then, I'm out.
PS. Yes, prizes equal skills. The best players win the most money. If you want to see the best FPS gamers and games, check out Quakecon.
a bad evening anyway, but that's over, shit happens ;p ... and to everbody. Been there, done that, and, no doubt, I'll be back.
What I was trying to point out is that while you may find the top 1v1 players in 1v1 tournaments (although it's more than likely just as limited by location as team tournaments), you won't find the top teams in team tournaments, because of the limitations involved in getting a top team to the event together. The 'serious' gaming community is online, compensating for lag, and is much larger in team-based games than in 1v1 (in part because the overall community in team-based games has been larger since TF eclipsed all other forms of Quake). For all anyone knows, the top DM'ers don't even play DM these days, because it's not what interests them and not what most people are playing anyway.
I concur that LAN team games are harder to organize however, please, consider, if the money was there, physical travel, i.e. in-town LANparties and larger less frequent regional tournaments, would be no more difficult for a team of ten players than it would for any ten individual; players. Ten trips is ten trips.
Nobody knows, just another point.
Which brings me to my main point again. There is money being paid to gamers. The people who can make money are professional or "serious" gamers. When these "serious" gamers play head to head, Quake, or RA/OSP/CPM, is more often than not, the game that's played. This is what I seem to know.
More like I've done both, and find that the only thing even remotely interesting about 1v1 is the hunt, which loses it's interest once you learn the player's patterns. Learning their most basic patterns takes a couple of minutes, especially when you're not trying to learn multiple players' patterns at once.
Yes, but that is only you. I've found what gets the top guys is totally about matching skillz. These players are only interested in one thing. Who is the top dog. There are a lot of people interested in that. Just check out quakecon sometime.
If you're looking for the best hamburger in the world, you obviously wouldn't find it in McDonald's. However, if you had never had a McDonald's hamburger, you would never really know they didn't make the best hamburgers. That wasn't the point, though, because the comparison doesn't fit. When you're trying to find the most talented FPS players you have to look at everyone in all FPS games. Just because Quake 3 attracts the most 1vs1 players at the moment doesn't mean that it has the talent, just that it's where people choose to compete if they play 1vs1 primarily (in fact, a lot of people play 1vs1 TFC, mostly soldiers, and that was where my reference to mulch_dm came from).
My point is, is that if you play on a team, it's not just your skill, it's your teammates and the teamwork. In 1v1, it's simply you and me. Really, for an apt analogy, can you really see team chess? Is doubles in tennis as exciting as singles? Sure, there are great team games and they are very popular, but the best of the best stands alone and takes the gold.
Again, that's because Carmack is known for tweaking the game for the best video cards available at the time of release, and it's reflected in benchmark scores (plus it has a very simple interface for benchmarking). Half-Life was built to run on lower-end computers, so it's usefulness as a benchmark is limited, but it obviously is going to cater to a wider audience (including a number of people that never played Quake). Whether or not a game is used as a benchmark has no bearing on whether or not the most talented players are in that game.
No, Carmack just produces the best results despite the politics, just like Linus. I only referred to the benchmarks in order to support my position that the Quake engine is the standard by which others are compared. I'm not for a minute saying that some don't measure up or that everyone will like the flavour. Just that if it was ice cream, it would be chocolate.
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At the risk of arguing with a subscriber, I wasn't talking about popularity amoungst the average players or even the most popular in terms of servers, but rather, which game is played when top FPS's play each other to see who is better.
Consoles are popular too, but hey, everybody knows, consoles are for kids.
I'll say it one more time. Q3A is the preferred platform for 1v1 between the best FPS"s.
Having a bad day, eh.
Tournaments, esp. professional, are where you'll find the top players, which is, from my perspective, exciting.
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So if popularity is such a great guide, the MacDonalds would be a fine dining establishment. I wasn't talking about the most popular games. I was talking about the most talented players. Sheesh.
Whatever the reasons, they weren't used as common benchmarks but Quake was, and is.
Get over it already. Not everyone has to look at it your way. The peeps I hang with are quite happy with Q3A and, at this point, there's nothing that offers a better 1v1 experience.
Of course, that's my perspective and really, it doesn't depend upon whether it upsets you.
No, I replied carelessly. BTW, my original post was, in no way, intended to troll for a reaction. Quite frankly, I thought it was an interesting or insightful perspective, which is why I posted.
Personally, I am always amazed by those who are disappointed that not everyone agrees with their pet positions. What is even more amazing is how contemptous and dismissive people are of diversity and freedom of speech. Oh well, that's America.
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Actually, I'd just like to point out that I knew that, so what was your point? Besides that point, really, if there was no point, why share such pointless?
So, my original point remains. Quake III Arena is the top game used by the top gamers to decide who is "personally better". I'm only speaking about who is the best single person at First Person Shooters. In my humble opinion, that would be Fatal1ty, who grew up a Quaker. Now, there are team games, but the best teams are not made of the best individual players but those who play best as a team. If you're interested in awesome skillz by an individual player, seek out a 1v1 match between two top Q3 or RA players. CS and other games simply don't come close to allowing the same intensity of personal combat. I'm not against team games, but the relay race is not as glamorous as the marathon or dash (period). So, for the pinnacle of mad skillz, I'm sorry, but that still belongs to Id's Quake III Arena and it's mods. We will see if Half-Life, UT or Quake will come out on top next round, but this round's been decided. So sorry, get over it, move along.
PS. I don't remember seeing HL or UT being used as a benchmark standard either for that matter.
My point remains, Where is Half_LifeCon? Did the CPL and the WCG use Half-Life for thier tournaments as often as they used Quake? No, they didn't. I never said Half-Life wasn't a big or popular game, It just wasn't the top dog in the professional 1v1 FPS tournament scene.
In fact to this day, the guys I think are the best FPS's all started with an Id engine and spent a majority of thier time playing some variation of Quake.
Also, please consider that recently even the top UT players got beat by the top Quake III Arena player at the last CPL, and after only sevveral months to switch.
Serious, like in hundreds of thousands of dollars serious. Fatal1ty has made more money playing than most people make working. Is that serious enough for you? Sheesh.
http://www.fatal1ty.com/html/news.php
While it's easy to dismiss, it's difficult to understand.
Agreed, the CPL (Cyber Professional League) is the top dog and Counter-Strike is the most popular "Team" FPS game. However, it's simply not a 1v1 game, nor did it define a genre, it simply fills one niche well. Half-Life is a great game and so is Unreal, they just aren't Quake and it really isn't the game as much as the engine. Carmack is simple the guy who sold out the least and has enough prestige to do it right, rather than being shackled by incompetent greedy corporate parasites. Every engine he's built lays the groundwork for others to follow.
Whatever dood.
Quakecon just keeps getting better every year. Fatal1ty is the best FPS player and Q3A is his game. Quake III Arena is the standard, get with it eh. By the way, lots of people still play Quake, I guess you just hang with trendies, so how could you know.
A typical dismissive critic.
Hardly true, Half-Life never attained any status in the serious gaming community. Like whoever heard of HL-Con? Q3A is the standard against which all else is measured. Thanks largely to John Carmack, a real engineer.
Yes, this is the crux of the issue. How to be moral in an immoral society is most difficult. However, no matter how difficult, you cannot become more moral by acting less ethically. If one would hope to find meaning and value, one must be prepared to work against the current. Those who give into the easy way, set down a dark path. For every easy step down the wide way is a harder step later, back up the narrow way.
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Don't ever think that something can come from nothing or that resistance doesn't develop strength. Avoid excessive quantity and only seek extreme Quality in all things.
Oh, and read Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and, as well, remember camels and eyes of needles
Upwards and onwards, thru the fog. Always remember yourself.
peace.out.
but seems to be /.'d
Also ODP - Tron
Ok, I didn't see this mentioned so I felt I had to ... many TechDocDepts use either LaTex / Tex or Adobe FrameMaker. I, personally, have never worked in a full production shop that ever used Word for document production.
It's simple, just repeat after me, Word is not a document processor, it is a word processor. Give Word more than a handful of words and it will choke. Word is for secreteries, really, they just took notepad and "blew'd it up real goood!"
LaTexis preferred if your output is published to paper, FrameMaker if you'll distill to PDF.
Anyways, that's my last word.
If the time and all the money that was spent on such selfish nonsense was directed at creation, we'd all be far, far richer. Besides, people like John Carmack, who actually deserve credit, have had no problems getting rich despite all the so-called "piracy".
You know, I believe that while competition is good, cooperation is the true power behind all worthwhile accomplishments. So I ask, with all due respect, why don't the affluent people try supporting the rest of us? After all, really, we would all do much better, if we played as a team, rather than as a arrogant bunch of prima donnas.
Sorry, but I had to mention those two as they are important milestones in this genre.
Of course, it seemed to me we've trashed this subject to death long ago, and properly so. I saw nothing in 28 Days other than a easy way to pass a couple of hours.
By the way, thanks you to all those who provide and share the media. Truly, you fuel the fires of freedom. Now that I'm no longer forced to pay excessive profits for inferior products, I enjoy movies so much more.
By the way, the IMAX version of The Matrix Reloaded was the revolution, did you miss it?
ps. Dear Mr. Director, we need an IMAX "cut" cause those six story close ups are, like, way to close.
In my view, the Internet is a medium for free expression because, at some levels, it is unfettered by legal or commercial constraints.
Since free expression is seen as an individuals "right", as free* communication is inseparable from the human experience, therefore to deny anyone the ability to openly communicate is self-evidently harmful.
The framers of the American declaration of a human's "rights" enshrined the express right of "freedom" of speech and made it a cornerstone of the structure of governance, for exactly this reason.
Likewise, the architects of the Internet encoded the designs which ensured that users would "freely" be able to commuicate across diverse systems, for the same reason.
It's good to occasionally reflect upon the good things that have, by definition, worked so well. As much as they have well served us all, we often take them for granted. I, for one, can only offer my humble gratitude to those good people who worked so hard to protect other people's "rights".
Personally, I just wish that so many wouldn't just dwell on their "given" rights to the detriment of their "earned" responsibilities.
* as not in beer
That's just so darn perversely sweet. I mean, I know it's supporting the Windows platform, but on the other hand, I can offer a practical alternative to limited income clients ~students mostly. This also greatly increases the chances of non-technical types adopting an open architecture.
Personally, I really appreciate the depth of features. I'd like to point out that an effective development enviroment is a core necessity. Perhaps not to professionals, but to the non-technical, working with known objects is often as far as they care to go into code. Indeed, VBA provides a very deep toolchest and often serves as the introduction to programming. It's great to see this done so well. Good hack, no doubtaboutit.
On this note, I curious though, what about interoperability? I've seen a lot of effort aimed at the internal functionality, but what about the external? I guess what I'm wondering is can users perform DDE and OLE type transactions?
http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0, 1299,DRMN_15_2087992,00.html
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As usual, some people just can't seem to get along.
Personally, I think more could be done with this concept. If the center, fastest "strip" was a sit down type one, wouldn't this really be nothing more than a permanently available, perpetual people bus. Think about it, moving McDonalds, talk about fast food!
As well, these conveyers could easily be constructed as subways. I can also see these being used at large exhibitions, galleries, parks and muesums.
Other conveyers of note:
Zizco, world's longest single flight horizontal curve conveyor
(15.6 km)
www.conveyor-dynamics.com/projects/popup/fs_
Los Pelambres, world's largest downhill conveyor system
(3 conveyors, 12.7 km, 1296 m drop, 8700 tph)
www.conveyor-dynamics.com/projects/popup/fs
Ever since I bought the first GeForce FX I could get my hands on, I've noticed how much better Quake is without any background noise. If only I could hear my headphones!
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Of course, it is going to be a tad difficult to get that Caravan in my office.
Oh, excuse me, I have to go, I think I see my supervisor trying to using that bullhorn again
Amazing perspective from a first worlder who recieved a "free" ride courtesy of all the third worlders and minimium wagers who do most of the real work. Lets face it, most wealth is not earned but transferred. In these days of massive immorality from the top down, it's hypocritical to denounce the poor while supporting the rich.
It's amazing how someone can subvert markets and democracy and be seen as a good guy, while others who share, are labelled as criminals.
My advice, tend your own garden before complaining about the weeds next door.