I've just started playing it, and so far I'm very underwhelmed by it all... so far the actual gameplay is boring me, and the graphics aren't thrilling me at all. The skins on the ships in the cutscenes are particularly amaturish looking.
What I would like to know about the graphics though, is it because of my lackluster graphics card? I have a Geforce4MX which I know is starting to get to the point of being old... but...
The thing that gripes me is that other games, such as RTCW or NOLF2 look absolutely fan-f*cking tastic on my PC, and because of the great graphics I'm drawn into the environments more and really enjoy myself. With Unreal II I keep being jolted out of the experience because of the crappy graphical things like average skins, and a real 'fake' feeling to it all.
Yes, yes, it is a rotary wheel thingy... but from the patent itself, you click forward on the disc to scroll one way, and click back on it to go the other way... I once had a 'scroll' mouse that didn't have a scroll wheel, but instead had a rocker button of the same ilk as this is suggesting... it was PAINFUL to use (I don't mean physically), the beauty of the wheel is the ability to get nice, fine scrolling control over it, at whatever speed you want... a quick flick to scroll quickly, or slowly does it while you're reading... when you've just got a button, you loose all speed control, and instead are limited to the same scroll speed all the time... humph.
Also, the concept of rotating the disc around on the mouse sounds like a great way of getting RSI... Just try rotating your finger in such a manner on top of your mouse now... and imagine doing that for any length of time... the forward and backward 'flicking' of a current mousewheel seems a lot more comfortable to me.
Also... why don't you just buy a USB scrollwheel mouse and use it with your Mac, it'll work.
That doesn't give anywhere near the credit that Valve is due to Valve... Half Life was Game of the Year, in its own right!
You may be one of those that is a CS nut, and it really has been an amazing success, but the single player original Half Life made one hell of an impact when it came out, without CS to help it along. It was a hit with the types of gamers that were longing for a really good single player game again, as the industry was so focused on multiplayer.
The fact that you never would have heard of it without CS simply demonstrates that you were ignorant of the best single player game of that year.
One would hope and expect so. The thing that made the first game was the fantastic story line, the incredible scripted sequences, and the feeling of intellegence from the enemy.
When the first one came out, it really blew me away with that mix... will the second one be able to live up to that? The marketplace has moved on, and it's harder to impress gamers than it was then...
I hope they've come up with a brilliant single player game as I'm sick of the focus on multiplayer these days. (Which is one of the reasons I'm so looking forward to Doom3)
I tried... I tried so hard not to comment on this thread, but... arrrrgh!
First up, you haven't demonstrated your research anywhere, even when explicitly asked for it. Which makes me suspect you're bluffing on that front.
Secondly I find it very, very scary that your 15-17 year olds are being shielded from any kind of sexuality (In this case what will most likely be maybe some kissing, and probably just some tight clothing), but you're perfectly happy for them to see violence en mass... oooo kkkk. I really want to see you back up this reasoning with your research, as I sure don't get what you think you're instilling in your children. (Who at their age are very much young adults now).
Also, your last point, of American Society not being afraid or inhibited enough... oh come on... not afraid? Why do you have so many guns? Why, whenever I get in an argument with an American as to why they have a gun do they come out with 'so some sicko doesn't come into my house and rape my 8 year old' line?
People feeling like they have to carry a gun to be safe sure smacks of being afraid to me.
And uninhibited? Oh come on, the only television in the world that I see someone giving the finger being pixelated out is American television... it's a FINGER people! I spent some time living in America, and I got the distinct feeling that you are, by and large, very afraid, and very inhibited. And by the looks of what you're doing to your children, you're continuing this trend.
I'm thinking I want to have an eye, or at least an ear on a microwave while it's cooking... how long is it going to be before someone puts a package dinner, wrapped completely in foil, into the microwave, starts it cooking while they're on the way home, and arrives to smoke billowing out of their kitchen?
You'd want these things to have some pretty good safety mechanisms, otherwise the instances of housefires is just going to skyrocket if these ever become mainstream.
"I've never understood the need to print stuff out" is a very narrow minded thing to say... Sure, in your case, you may have no need to print, but I sure have in the past year... Wedding invitations and then thankyou notes, photos I've taken with my digital camera, information on my yet to be born baby's apparent heart abnormality to take to the specialist as reference when discussing, reviews of various products to be able to take to stores when choosing between various baby items... etc. etc.
To say "I've never understood the need" just means you really don't think much outside your own world.
A quick reply just to say that your last reply was also well thought out and interesting, and you too have given me food for thought... so we are both able to go away and chew on our new cud. (OK, slightly graphic image).:)
Hmmm, so you think that effort should not equal reward? You say that because I am 'comfortable', I should be happy...so by your logic, I should stop trying when I am 'comfortable'? What if I'm a little more driven than that?
Ahhh, but therein lies the rub (Or does it, I've never quite gotten that phrase)... you're suggesting that living comfortably isn't enough? Why? If you have your big tv, have your nice car, have a nice house etc. and can be reasonably sure that you'll have a nice nest egg to retire on, which I'm sure you do... and you're doing all of that with the current tax laws, then what's the problem? What is really the point of amassing vast amounts of cash/assets?
Did I once mention 'poor'...or 'poverty'...no, I said low income earners...there is a big different between a street kid, and a guy that wants to crack a beer when he gets home at 5:00pm while the 'wealthy' he complains about are still working
Ahh, now I'm going to pre-empt your point further down... "automatic assumption in Australia that those on a good wage haven't struggled and worked themselves into the ground to get where they are. " OK, well you've just made the automatic assumption that everyone in the lower income brackets are beer swilling pigs who don't work hard at all... well that's just proved my point about your attitude...
I came from a family where our income would probably be classed as lower-middle class... this was not due to either parent being lazy in the slightest. My father was a teacher of electronics, and continued to watch as the wages and conditions for the teachers worsened while the upper management increased their salaries to enormous amounts. My mother also worked as long as she could as a nurse until she had cancer and was unable to work any more in that profession. On top of this we fostered many children who were going through all sorts of horrible things back home.
Now neither of them could be considered lazy. Neither of them could be considered un-learned, but their situations/careers just didn't bring home lots of money, and so yeah, we did receive some government help here and there. (Although it kept seeming to happen that as our circumstances changed, the government moved the posts for elligibility just a tad so we were almost never getting anything really helpful)
It's just not right to assume that everyone who doesn't make a lot of money does so simply because they're lazy. That's crap. The problem is, if your real calling in life are professions that don't bring in lots of money (like teaching, nursing, publishing etc.), then you're just never going to make the huge dollars like those of us in careers that have a lot of money flowing around (IT, management, finance).
Regurgitated crap...think before spewing something you read off a pamphlet at me.
Hardly... moreso what I've seen happen over and over, I've seen all the shut hospitals, I've watched the price of supermarket items rise and the cost of expensive cars fall... I've WATCHED it happen. Do you have any experiences or actual facts to back up you calling it crap?
That is so cliche..."the wealthy have always been wealthy and the poor have always been poor"...this is exactly what I was commenting on..the automatic assumption in Australia that those on a good wage haven't struggled and worked themselves into the ground to get where they are. Thank you, you just proved my point.
a) I pointed out how you're doing the exact same thing back the other way.
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b) You didn't refute the point... me thinks I'm right.
instead of switching on TV and cracking a beer when they get home...books are free from the local library, and anyone can put in more hours to get that promotion...
OK, well you're continuing your cleched view of the lower class... and you're also suggesting that the way the world should work is to just 'put in more hours'... well screw that. Life isn't all about work. I do work a
"The craft is using an innovative form of propulsion - an ion thruster - that will take it on a 15-month spiral to the Moon."
I don't know what an ion thruster is, but it sure seems slow to me.
Why is this innovative? Why is it so slow? How will this be a good propulsion mechanism if we really need to go faster, faster, faster to get anywhere in any kind of reasonable time?
I don't mean to be trite... but what's the point with this modding of the source? From looking through a number of the versions out there, they all still seem very much behind the current 3D engines... so really, what's the point, and what's the talent in involved in coming up with effects that have been in game engines for years now?
From down here in Australia I certainly hear you and the millions of other Americans who don't agree with Bush... the millions of people who protested around the world against the war, the millions who are just trying to ask "WHY are you really wanting to attack this country?"
And I damn well hear the presidents and prime ministers who effectively said "Eh, they don't know what they're talking about".
Well f*ck you, you damn arrogant politions... I thought the whole point you're trying to push with this 'war on terror' is that DEMOCRACY is the aim, is the wonderful chalice we should all be aspiring to... but it seems in order to enforce that very view across the world, you are going to IGNORE the views of the very people you are supposed to be SERVING! Great demonstration of democracy there!
So, I hear what you're saying, many of us Australians do... so don't take the general USA bashing personally... it's aimed fair and square at your government, not you personally.
(And slightly off topic, I was recently at a concert where Ani Difranco performed, and she very elloquently summed up how herself and so many other Americans feel at this time, with their government doing things that they hate.)
It really looks like a tampon logo, and what the hell are they on about with: "The logo, featuring a striking magenta color and a completely new shape, suggests flight, mobility, and forward movement."
I would have said: "The logo, featuring a colour chosen at random from the MS Word colour picker, and a shape designed by our women's razor departmen, suggests absorbancy, cleanliness and ads featuring men in white jackets."
I see... the games were running too fast, so they submitted the site to slashdot so it would be slowed down to the point where it was just like playing them on the ol' 8086...
Oh yes they are... the most oft mentioned thing I hear in the business world around here is 'Man, if I could just have my Palm pilot and phone in one little thing, that would be heaven', and they're starting to appear... PDA and phones in one, they're just too bulky as yet... and therein lies their problem, people want tiny little phones, but PDAs have to be a little chunky if they're ever to have a screen large enough to read things on and an interface that is easy enough to input text into. (I hate using my telephone pad to put in my appointments)
Now... combine a games console and a phone in one... well... game consoles only need a few buttons, and they don't have to be particularly large to have games that are really fun on them.
Although... 'Red Faction'? 'Tomb Raider'? Oh please... as if they're going to be playable on a screen that size...
Not saying that I do share movies of course... but it's not all that hard to do so, even with the crappy caps in place...
I use Optus Broadband, which while they do have the 3Gig cap, they don't charge you if you exceed it, just throttle your connection back to sub 28.8 speeds for the remainder of the month. As such, it's entirely feasible to download a number of movies a month. (Let's say they're DivX encoded and around 700M each)... you can get 4 movies no probs per month...
Oh, and Optus aren't ridiculous like Telstra... Optus don't count uploads, so you aren't being penalised for others uploading your shared files.
But like I said... not saying that I do of course... not saying that I do...:)
I think you're completely missing the point of colour correction software... surely it's a GOOD thing to be able to know that the image you're seeing on your screen is damn close to the way it's going to look when it's printed... therefore you can, as a human, adjust the picture/photo/whatever to look the way you want it to look when printed. Then when it prints it'll look the same.
You DON'T want your screen to be too dark/bright/showing too much green etc, as you'd then have the issues of making it look just right on your monitor, only to have it print out completely differently on the page... So, even though you may be in printing, and you think that there's no point in having a system by which you know that what you see on the screen is what you'll get once it's printed, it doesn't mean that it's not damn handy to have it as such.
(It's not as if the majority of people have people working on a printing press manually adjusting the colour for them)
So, you're saying he's wrong for taking a pill to combat his depression when you yourself simply take a drug in another form to combat yours... How is that correct? How is correct at all to be taking drugs to combat what is essentially a psycological issue? Isn't the depression brought about due to you being unhappy about things? Isn't it due to the way you think about certain issues in your life, or things that have happened in the past?
Shouldn't a better solution be to actually address the issues by thinking through them, perhaps pinpointing exactly what it is that causes you to always look on the bad side of things, why you focus on the things that have recently gone wrong rather than focussing on all that has gone right, and what you can do to continue things in the right direction?
I'm sick of seeing people be depressed, and then have the solution prescribed to them in the form of a pill that while it stops them being depressed also makes them so very flat... so very... well, just mellow I guess... they're not being helped through their issues, they are just having the held back, pushed back, never confronted, never worked through, never resolved... so rather than ever becomming truly happy they become dependant on the drugs to mellow them out when they fall down again... it's a hideous dependancy which is horrible to watch... Why can't people see that there are better ways to get through these things, ways that can give you a far more fulfilling life than the flat existance that drugs do?
Not an insightful followup post from me, simply one saying that that was a great post, well thought out, nicely worded, and on the money in my opinion. There are too few such posts on Slashdot.
Oh, and I chose public transport for the same reasons... I read more now than I've read in a very long time... it's fantastic.
You last post really highlights to me where the real problem lies, and I came to this thought when answering another post, so I'm including the reply here too. The basic gist is that these fears of a rapist coming into your home, or the armed intruder invading are damn scary... but when was the last time I heard of anything remotely like that here... um.... erm... nope, can't remember. The fact that these things prey so heavily on you mind and obviously so many other American's minds is an indication of the state of the society there more than anything else:
"I think the bigger picture needs to be looked at here... the whole argument of "They have guns, so I damn well will have guns" is a self fulfilling, cyclical attitude that only breeds more and more insecurity... It's not the way to make everyone safe... this 'mutually assured destruction' thing is hardly a way to live life... how can you ever be at peace? How can you ever just relax? When you're locked in your house with the bars on the windows, the turret out the front, and your gun on your lap, ready to go, just in case?
Is it always in the back of your head that you could be shot at any moment? If so I do pity you... I don't mean that in a 'I pity da fool' kind of way, I really do pity anyone who lives their life like that... and I'm glad I'm in a country where I don't really have to.
The few times that I've been in the US I've managed to visit some pretty unpleasant areas of it (And some damn amazingly wonderful ones too), and those times, when I was with friends, and ended up in the wrong part of town, and were sheparded out by the police for they feared for our lives... well darn it, that scared us... there is no-where in Australia like that... NO-WHERE! Sure there are some not so nice places, places where you'd rather not spend your evening, but they sure as hell aren't the sort of places where police say "Don't go down there or you'll be shot"... that's some scary shit.
The whole gun control vs no control thing is becoming a little hazy in my mind, but the thing that remains clear as day is the type of society that breeds the NEED to carry one around to feel any sort of safety... that's a society with some serious damn issues, and suggesting that the entire world is like where you live, because you happen to be afraid is very, very niave... there are a lot of places in this wonderful world where you are able to go through your life without forever fearing for it.
I've read in other posts for this thread that there should be more effort put into welfare, medical treatment, education and the like instead of the hard focus just on guns, and I have to agree... that is the only way the USA is going to bring itself out of its absolute gun crazed state.
And I think that a link to the Bowling for Columbine intro page is needed (Although I'm sure it has been linked to many times before)... just because those figures say SO much... so damn much."
I think the bigger picture needs to be looked at here... the whole argument of "They have guns, so I damn well will have guns" is a self fulfilling, cyclical attitude that only breeds more and more insecurity...
It's not the way to make everyone safe... this 'mutually assured destruction' thing is hardly a way to live life... how can you ever be at peace? How can you ever just relax? When you're locked in your house with the bars on the windows, the turret out the front, and your gun on your lap, ready to go, just in case?
Is it always in the back of your head that you could be shot at any moment? If so I do pity you... I don't mean that in a 'I pity da fool' kind of way, I really do pity anyone who lives their life like that... and I'm glad I'm in a country where I don't really have to.
The few times that I've been in the US I've managed to visit some pretty unpleasant areas of it (And some damn amazingly wonderful ones too), and those times, when I was with friends, and ended up in the wrong part of town, and were sheparded out by the police for they feared for our lives... well darn it, that scared us... there is no-where in Australia like that... NO-WHERE! Sure there are some not so nice places, places where you'd rather not spend your evening, but they sure as hell aren't the sort of places where police say "Don't go down there or you'll be shot"... that's some scary shit.
The whole gun control vs no control thing is becoming a little hazy in my mind, but the thing that remains clear as day is the type of society that breeds the NEED to carry one around to feel any sort of safety... that's a society with some serious damn issues, and suggesting that the entire world is like where you live, because you happen to be afraid is very, very niave... there are a lot of places in this wonderful world where you are able to go through your life without forever fearing for it.
I've read in other posts for this thread that there should be more effort put into welfare, medical treatment, education and the like instead of the hard focus just on guns, and I have to agree... that is the only way the USA is going to bring itself out of its absolute gun crazed state.
And I think that a link to the Bowling for Columbine intro page is needed (Although I'm sure it has been linked to many times before)... just because those figures say SO much... so damn much.
I'll ask again what is it that will stop criminals from repeatedly taking everything you have until you have nothing? Your Insurance???
What about increasing the security of your home? Not to the point of bars on all the windows and the like, but what about locking doors and windows, and perhaps an alarm? Now I've never had the need for such things, never had anything stolen from any of the houses I've lived in... but I have had things stolen from a car, and how did we stop this? The next time we got a car it had a far better security system... with an alarm...
Car with no alarm... broken into twice.
Car with alarm, never been broken into.
There are other ways to stop your house being broken into than using deadly force, and they don't involve you having to risk your life confronting a criminal either.
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I've just started playing it, and so far I'm very underwhelmed by it all... so far the actual gameplay is boring me, and the graphics aren't thrilling me at all. The skins on the ships in the cutscenes are particularly amaturish looking.
What I would like to know about the graphics though, is it because of my lackluster graphics card? I have a Geforce4MX which I know is starting to get to the point of being old... but...
The thing that gripes me is that other games, such as RTCW or NOLF2 look absolutely fan-f*cking tastic on my PC, and because of the great graphics I'm drawn into the environments more and really enjoy myself. With Unreal II I keep being jolted out of the experience because of the crappy graphical things like average skins, and a real 'fake' feeling to it all.
Yes, yes, it is a rotary wheel thingy... but from the patent itself, you click forward on the disc to scroll one way, and click back on it to go the other way... I once had a 'scroll' mouse that didn't have a scroll wheel, but instead had a rocker button of the same ilk as this is suggesting... it was PAINFUL to use (I don't mean physically), the beauty of the wheel is the ability to get nice, fine scrolling control over it, at whatever speed you want... a quick flick to scroll quickly, or slowly does it while you're reading... when you've just got a button, you loose all speed control, and instead are limited to the same scroll speed all the time... humph.
Also, the concept of rotating the disc around on the mouse sounds like a great way of getting RSI... Just try rotating your finger in such a manner on top of your mouse now... and imagine doing that for any length of time... the forward and backward 'flicking' of a current mousewheel seems a lot more comfortable to me.
Also... why don't you just buy a USB scrollwheel mouse and use it with your Mac, it'll work.
That doesn't give anywhere near the credit that Valve is due to Valve... Half Life was Game of the Year, in its own right!
You may be one of those that is a CS nut, and it really has been an amazing success, but the single player original Half Life made one hell of an impact when it came out, without CS to help it along. It was a hit with the types of gamers that were longing for a really good single player game again, as the industry was so focused on multiplayer.
The fact that you never would have heard of it without CS simply demonstrates that you were ignorant of the best single player game of that year.
Oh it is not... I just went there a number of times, it's fine... quit jumping to conclusions, you've probably just got a crap connection.
One would hope and expect so. The thing that made the first game was the fantastic story line, the incredible scripted sequences, and the feeling of intellegence from the enemy.
When the first one came out, it really blew me away with that mix... will the second one be able to live up to that? The marketplace has moved on, and it's harder to impress gamers than it was then...
I hope they've come up with a brilliant single player game as I'm sick of the focus on multiplayer these days. (Which is one of the reasons I'm so looking forward to Doom3)
I tried... I tried so hard not to comment on this thread, but... arrrrgh!
First up, you haven't demonstrated your research anywhere, even when explicitly asked for it. Which makes me suspect you're bluffing on that front.
Secondly I find it very, very scary that your 15-17 year olds are being shielded from any kind of sexuality (In this case what will most likely be maybe some kissing, and probably just some tight clothing), but you're perfectly happy for them to see violence en mass... oooo kkkk. I really want to see you back up this reasoning with your research, as I sure don't get what you think you're instilling in your children. (Who at their age are very much young adults now).
Also, your last point, of American Society not being afraid or inhibited enough... oh come on... not afraid? Why do you have so many guns? Why, whenever I get in an argument with an American as to why they have a gun do they come out with 'so some sicko doesn't come into my house and rape my 8 year old' line?
People feeling like they have to carry a gun to be safe sure smacks of being afraid to me.
And uninhibited? Oh come on, the only television in the world that I see someone giving the finger being pixelated out is American television... it's a FINGER people! I spent some time living in America, and I got the distinct feeling that you are, by and large, very afraid, and very inhibited. And by the looks of what you're doing to your children, you're continuing this trend.
I'm thinking I want to have an eye, or at least an ear on a microwave while it's cooking... how long is it going to be before someone puts a package dinner, wrapped completely in foil, into the microwave, starts it cooking while they're on the way home, and arrives to smoke billowing out of their kitchen?
You'd want these things to have some pretty good safety mechanisms, otherwise the instances of housefires is just going to skyrocket if these ever become mainstream.
"I've never understood the need to print stuff out" is a very narrow minded thing to say... Sure, in your case, you may have no need to print, but I sure have in the past year... Wedding invitations and then thankyou notes, photos I've taken with my digital camera, information on my yet to be born baby's apparent heart abnormality to take to the specialist as reference when discussing, reviews of various products to be able to take to stores when choosing between various baby items... etc. etc.
To say "I've never understood the need" just means you really don't think much outside your own world.
A quick reply just to say that your last reply was also well thought out and interesting, and you too have given me food for thought... so we are both able to go away and chew on our new cud. (OK, slightly graphic image). :)
Hmmm, so you think that effort should not equal reward? You say that because I am 'comfortable', I should be happy...so by your logic, I should stop trying when I am 'comfortable'? What if I'm a little more driven than that?
Ahhh, but therein lies the rub (Or does it, I've never quite gotten that phrase)... you're suggesting that living comfortably isn't enough? Why? If you have your big tv, have your nice car, have a nice house etc. and can be reasonably sure that you'll have a nice nest egg to retire on, which I'm sure you do... and you're doing all of that with the current tax laws, then what's the problem? What is really the point of amassing vast amounts of cash/assets?
Did I once mention 'poor'...or 'poverty'...no, I said low income earners...there is a big different between a street kid, and a guy that wants to crack a beer when he gets home at 5:00pm while the 'wealthy' he complains about are still working
Ahh, now I'm going to pre-empt your point further down... "automatic assumption in Australia that those on a good wage haven't struggled and worked themselves into the ground to get where they are. " OK, well you've just made the automatic assumption that everyone in the lower income brackets are beer swilling pigs who don't work hard at all... well that's just proved my point about your attitude...
I came from a family where our income would probably be classed as lower-middle class... this was not due to either parent being lazy in the slightest. My father was a teacher of electronics, and continued to watch as the wages and conditions for the teachers worsened while the upper management increased their salaries to enormous amounts. My mother also worked as long as she could as a nurse until she had cancer and was unable to work any more in that profession. On top of this we fostered many children who were going through all sorts of horrible things back home.
Now neither of them could be considered lazy. Neither of them could be considered un-learned, but their situations/careers just didn't bring home lots of money, and so yeah, we did receive some government help here and there. (Although it kept seeming to happen that as our circumstances changed, the government moved the posts for elligibility just a tad so we were almost never getting anything really helpful)
It's just not right to assume that everyone who doesn't make a lot of money does so simply because they're lazy. That's crap. The problem is, if your real calling in life are professions that don't bring in lots of money (like teaching, nursing, publishing etc.), then you're just never going to make the huge dollars like those of us in careers that have a lot of money flowing around (IT, management, finance).
Regurgitated crap...think before spewing something you read off a pamphlet at me.
Hardly... moreso what I've seen happen over and over, I've seen all the shut hospitals, I've watched the price of supermarket items rise and the cost of expensive cars fall... I've WATCHED it happen. Do you have any experiences or actual facts to back up you calling it crap?
That is so cliche..."the wealthy have always been wealthy and the poor have always been poor"...this is exactly what I was commenting on..the automatic assumption in Australia that those on a good wage haven't struggled and worked themselves into the ground to get where they are. Thank you, you just proved my point.
a) I pointed out how you're doing the exact same thing back the other way.
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b) You didn't refute the point... me thinks I'm right.
instead of switching on TV and cracking a beer when they get home...books are free from the local library, and anyone can put in more hours to get that promotion...
OK, well you're continuing your cleched view of the lower class... and you're also suggesting that the way the world should work is to just 'put in more hours'... well screw that. Life isn't all about work. I do work a
"The craft is using an innovative form of propulsion - an ion thruster - that will take it on a 15-month spiral to the Moon."
I don't know what an ion thruster is, but it sure seems slow to me.
Why is this innovative? Why is it so slow? How will this be a good propulsion mechanism if we really need to go faster, faster, faster to get anywhere in any kind of reasonable time?
I don't mean to be trite... but what's the point with this modding of the source? From looking through a number of the versions out there, they all still seem very much behind the current 3D engines... so really, what's the point, and what's the talent in involved in coming up with effects that have been in game engines for years now?
I guess I just don't get it?
From down here in Australia I certainly hear you and the millions of other Americans who don't agree with Bush... the millions of people who protested around the world against the war, the millions who are just trying to ask "WHY are you really wanting to attack this country?"
And I damn well hear the presidents and prime ministers who effectively said "Eh, they don't know what they're talking about".
Well f*ck you, you damn arrogant politions... I thought the whole point you're trying to push with this 'war on terror' is that DEMOCRACY is the aim, is the wonderful chalice we should all be aspiring to... but it seems in order to enforce that very view across the world, you are going to IGNORE the views of the very people you are supposed to be SERVING! Great demonstration of democracy there!
So, I hear what you're saying, many of us Australians do... so don't take the general USA bashing personally... it's aimed fair and square at your government, not you personally.
(And slightly off topic, I was recently at a concert where Ani Difranco performed, and she very elloquently summed up how herself and so many other Americans feel at this time, with their government doing things that they hate.)
I would have said: "The logo, featuring a colour chosen at random from the MS Word colour picker, and a shape designed by our women's razor departmen, suggests absorbancy, cleanliness and ads featuring men in white jackets."
I see... the games were running too fast, so they submitted the site to slashdot so it would be slowed down to the point where it was just like playing them on the ol' 8086...
Oh yes they are... the most oft mentioned thing I hear in the business world around here is 'Man, if I could just have my Palm pilot and phone in one little thing, that would be heaven', and they're starting to appear... PDA and phones in one, they're just too bulky as yet... and therein lies their problem, people want tiny little phones, but PDAs have to be a little chunky if they're ever to have a screen large enough to read things on and an interface that is easy enough to input text into. (I hate using my telephone pad to put in my appointments)
Now... combine a games console and a phone in one... well... game consoles only need a few buttons, and they don't have to be particularly large to have games that are really fun on them.
Although... 'Red Faction'? 'Tomb Raider'? Oh please... as if they're going to be playable on a screen that size...
It'll catch on... it'll catch on... simple games, fun games... Puzzle Bobble etc... oh yes indeed.
Not saying that I do share movies of course... but it's not all that hard to do so, even with the crappy caps in place...
:)
I use Optus Broadband, which while they do have the 3Gig cap, they don't charge you if you exceed it, just throttle your connection back to sub 28.8 speeds for the remainder of the month. As such, it's entirely feasible to download a number of movies a month. (Let's say they're DivX encoded and around 700M each)... you can get 4 movies no probs per month...
Oh, and Optus aren't ridiculous like Telstra... Optus don't count uploads, so you aren't being penalised for others uploading your shared files.
But like I said... not saying that I do of course... not saying that I do...
I think you're completely missing the point of colour correction software... surely it's a GOOD thing to be able to know that the image you're seeing on your screen is damn close to the way it's going to look when it's printed... therefore you can, as a human, adjust the picture/photo/whatever to look the way you want it to look when printed. Then when it prints it'll look the same.
You DON'T want your screen to be too dark/bright/showing too much green etc, as you'd then have the issues of making it look just right on your monitor, only to have it print out completely differently on the page... So, even though you may be in printing, and you think that there's no point in having a system by which you know that what you see on the screen is what you'll get once it's printed, it doesn't mean that it's not damn handy to have it as such.
(It's not as if the majority of people have people working on a printing press manually adjusting the colour for them)
Try this one instead.
So, you're saying he's wrong for taking a pill to combat his depression when you yourself simply take a drug in another form to combat yours... How is that correct? How is correct at all to be taking drugs to combat what is essentially a psycological issue? Isn't the depression brought about due to you being unhappy about things? Isn't it due to the way you think about certain issues in your life, or things that have happened in the past?
Shouldn't a better solution be to actually address the issues by thinking through them, perhaps pinpointing exactly what it is that causes you to always look on the bad side of things, why you focus on the things that have recently gone wrong rather than focussing on all that has gone right, and what you can do to continue things in the right direction?
I'm sick of seeing people be depressed, and then have the solution prescribed to them in the form of a pill that while it stops them being depressed also makes them so very flat... so very... well, just mellow I guess... they're not being helped through their issues, they are just having the held back, pushed back, never confronted, never worked through, never resolved... so rather than ever becomming truly happy they become dependant on the drugs to mellow them out when they fall down again... it's a hideous dependancy which is horrible to watch... Why can't people see that there are better ways to get through these things, ways that can give you a far more fulfilling life than the flat existance that drugs do?
Not an insightful followup post from me, simply one saying that that was a great post, well thought out, nicely worded, and on the money in my opinion. There are too few such posts on Slashdot.
Oh, and I chose public transport for the same reasons... I read more now than I've read in a very long time... it's fantastic.
"the servers are only stupid data stores"
So... does that mean they store data and are stupid, or they store data that is stupid?
If it's the latter, I wanna have a look-see, cause I'm always up for a bit of stupid data viewing.
"I think the bigger picture needs to be looked at here... the whole argument of "They have guns, so I damn well will have guns" is a self fulfilling, cyclical attitude that only breeds more and more insecurity... It's not the way to make everyone safe... this 'mutually assured destruction' thing is hardly a way to live life... how can you ever be at peace? How can you ever just relax? When you're locked in your house with the bars on the windows, the turret out the front, and your gun on your lap, ready to go, just in case?
Is it always in the back of your head that you could be shot at any moment? If so I do pity you... I don't mean that in a 'I pity da fool' kind of way, I really do pity anyone who lives their life like that... and I'm glad I'm in a country where I don't really have to.
The few times that I've been in the US I've managed to visit some pretty unpleasant areas of it (And some damn amazingly wonderful ones too), and those times, when I was with friends, and ended up in the wrong part of town, and were sheparded out by the police for they feared for our lives... well darn it, that scared us... there is no-where in Australia like that... NO-WHERE! Sure there are some not so nice places, places where you'd rather not spend your evening, but they sure as hell aren't the sort of places where police say "Don't go down there or you'll be shot"... that's some scary shit.
The whole gun control vs no control thing is becoming a little hazy in my mind, but the thing that remains clear as day is the type of society that breeds the NEED to carry one around to feel any sort of safety... that's a society with some serious damn issues, and suggesting that the entire world is like where you live, because you happen to be afraid is very, very niave... there are a lot of places in this wonderful world where you are able to go through your life without forever fearing for it.
I've read in other posts for this thread that there should be more effort put into welfare, medical treatment, education and the like instead of the hard focus just on guns, and I have to agree... that is the only way the USA is going to bring itself out of its absolute gun crazed state.
And I think that a link to the Bowling for Columbine intro page is needed (Although I'm sure it has been linked to many times before)... just because those figures say SO much... so damn much."
It's not the way to make everyone safe... this 'mutually assured destruction' thing is hardly a way to live life... how can you ever be at peace? How can you ever just relax? When you're locked in your house with the bars on the windows, the turret out the front, and your gun on your lap, ready to go, just in case?
Is it always in the back of your head that you could be shot at any moment? If so I do pity you... I don't mean that in a 'I pity da fool' kind of way, I really do pity anyone who lives their life like that... and I'm glad I'm in a country where I don't really have to.
The few times that I've been in the US I've managed to visit some pretty unpleasant areas of it (And some damn amazingly wonderful ones too), and those times, when I was with friends, and ended up in the wrong part of town, and were sheparded out by the police for they feared for our lives... well darn it, that scared us... there is no-where in Australia like that... NO-WHERE! Sure there are some not so nice places, places where you'd rather not spend your evening, but they sure as hell aren't the sort of places where police say "Don't go down there or you'll be shot"... that's some scary shit.
The whole gun control vs no control thing is becoming a little hazy in my mind, but the thing that remains clear as day is the type of society that breeds the NEED to carry one around to feel any sort of safety... that's a society with some serious damn issues, and suggesting that the entire world is like where you live, because you happen to be afraid is very, very niave... there are a lot of places in this wonderful world where you are able to go through your life without forever fearing for it.
I've read in other posts for this thread that there should be more effort put into welfare, medical treatment, education and the like instead of the hard focus just on guns, and I have to agree... that is the only way the USA is going to bring itself out of its absolute gun crazed state.
And I think that a link to the Bowling for Columbine intro page is needed (Although I'm sure it has been linked to many times before)... just because those figures say SO much... so damn much.
What about increasing the security of your home? Not to the point of bars on all the windows and the like, but what about locking doors and windows, and perhaps an alarm? Now I've never had the need for such things, never had anything stolen from any of the houses I've lived in... but I have had things stolen from a car, and how did we stop this? The next time we got a car it had a far better security system... with an alarm...
Car with no alarm... broken into twice.
Car with alarm, never been broken into.
There are other ways to stop your house being broken into than using deadly force, and they don't involve you having to risk your life confronting a criminal either.