Why use a PC-centered development library like the one for the Xbox, when you can use a set of tools that broadly cover games through to movie production -- tools created by a chip producer (IBM) and for a movie company (Sony)?
because it's looking like it'll require pain staking manual optimization to make ti look good. The PS2 architecture is still competative if your willing to put int he effeort to manage all the proccessors. Having a machine with 4 identical proccessors will be equally complex. Only a few companies bother (hideo and konami in MGS and a handfull of others. Companies liek Bioware have sworn off PS2 developement because it nearly killed their programmers.)
In the US the quality of health care is heavily dependant on the plan you have. Here it's uniformly average with services available to those who wish to pay more (Contrary to the ideals of most canadians such services are available). Emergency help tends to be very good while normal medicine is average.
As for the rudeness of the above lady, it's true stereo types of Americans tend to be unflattering and often untrue. It works both ways, and it's also not to say the stereo type aren't generally true. Canadians tend to be over proud of our achievments, and sensitive about our identity. Americans tend also to be over proud of their achievements and sensitive to critisism.
I've visited the US a lot, and generally everyone is the same as what I find in canada but with a different ethnic mix. White middle class people tend to be friendly, Asians tend to be friendly to me (as I am asian), Hispanics tend to ignore me (here and there), and black people sleep aroudn a lot (I work and hang around with jamaicans).
Theres little to no difference between someone from suburban california and someone from BC, or Someone from the midwest and someone from Alberta.
Even so. all the games I specified suck ona console. Whats CS without mouse and keyboard, or Quake without multi-player or C&c with a controller. Warcraft, any sucks with a console controller.
Smugness isn't a canadian monopoly. Canadian content laws are almost invisible. PC isn't a huge issue either, it's only an issue if you care about what other people think about you and if you do then you'd problbly be PC anyways. Climate might be but no more so then for the interior US, remember 90% of us live withing 100km of the US. Wages are low but cost of living is too. Taxes are high but we get somethign for it.
Smug is also a trait not commonly associated with canadians. I happen to be pretty smug, but thats just because I'm better then you:).
Warcraft 3 isn't on any console. CS is but without mouse and keyboard it isn't the same. Quake 3 is too, same deal. Command and conquer is multiplayer only for the PC.
I assure you our intelligence is better then yours. Thus we don't commit to wars we will have a hard time sustaining and drop bombs on embassies or on our own allies. Our intelligence works just fine. As for the other intelelgence, we score better then you in literacy and most educational benchmarks.
As for the article, someitme it's not so intuitive. for instance, french food is loaded with fat and grease but they don't have as much heart disease and it's not just the wine it's also the portion sizes.
right, next time I hunger for some warcraft wait.. umm counter stike dman no ok how about some command and conquer.. wait.. I know quake.. damn.. yeah console is great for the games I play...
Thats why the next innovation in 3d graphics is the pixel messer upper. It adds dirt to each pixel. juts a smudge. But you can always turn on the mother cleaner upper... it wipes the smudge off wiht a napkin and spit.
Generally people will do a certain set of things. There are always a few outlyers but those are few and far between. A soldier sees his borther and best friend shot in the chest. Well 99% of soldiers who went through boot camp will suck it up. Try to find the shooter and move on, he'll grieve later. some small percentage will react in grief and may 1-do nothing and be confused 2-go phsycho. Knowing these precentages you can predict what will happen. There aren't many options besides those 3. HE won't, for instance. Take off his pants and start molesting the body or Start a picnic with the shooter.
People are generall predictable. Outlyers are rare. Soldiers are conditioned. They are even more predicatable.
I'd argue it's not immature but rather cynical and pragmatic. Immaturity is to expect being on the moral high ground would benefit you if only you knew it, or if you didn't re-enforce it with something else.
India won it's independence not just through ghandi, ghandi was a peacful PR face to put onto the movement and was a sympathetic figure, he helped. But so did the terrorists who bombed the hell out of the railways and the threat of a colonial war.
Isreal wasn't just constructed from guilt, the jewish terrorists all over europe made the point more poignant.
The weakness of western society is that given a sympathetic enough cause, violence and terrorism will sway our politics. Thus we will forever be victims of it. If our media gave short thrift to causes that use violence. Blow up some poeple in a market, fine we'll nerve gas all your people and see if you do that again. Violence works. Why els would tyrants like saddam stay in power so long. So does torture and genocide and a whoel bunch of WRONG things.
I'd go one step further in our lives calculus. I'd argue that one american or european or canadian life is worth at least 5 third world lives. They produce more and contribute more to the totality of humanity. I'd argue one scientist is worth at least a dozen soldiers and the value of a person is dependant on his socio-economic status and the duration of his predicted life span, so a kid born to two brilliant scientist is worth 10000 more then a old beggar in palastine.
To this end, I think killing 25,000 iraqis to revence the killing of 6000 amricans is abotu par for the course.
Whether you follow the geneva concention or not, the enemy won't. The only reason to is that when the enemies actions come to light, you can moan about it to the UN and it has some PR value. Other then that it's pretty usless. In fact the UN is pretty useless, giving petty dictators a international voice. Like having Rwanda on the human right commisions.
It's simplified, but macro makes up the majority of "strategy" in games. The micro is "tactics". Good players master both. Decent players get one or the toehr right. You might say grabbing naother mine is simplified, but it's resource aquisition. Or building 3 barracks instead of one is just a small decision but it affects army tunr over rate and the conversion of resources into soldiers. HEck even choosing a tech path is a notable strategic choice. IT all may be simplfiied btu it has value.
Just a note: People are very very predictable. Weather is more unpredictable then people. It's one of those comforting myths that people hold about themselves. Like we're all individuals, and that you matter, and humans are different from animals, or hundreds of other such notions.
The comparison isn't reasonable. It'd be anolgous only if the cashier ripper product A from your arms and didn't giev it back and gave you a coupon. Their directly interfering with someones ability to market.
He listed the superset (mac-user). don't really have to be part of the subset to do what he said. you can be a plain old mac user and still do stupid things.
What with this starting a sentence out with the word wrong. It reflect badly on theauthor and is being rude without any purpose. The post would say exactly the same thing without it, but with ityou seem like a immature jerk.
hey, I may miss the E once but I hit twice, so the second time I get it. (I type at a sustained 80 words per minute, minus errors it'd be 5 word per minute )
This of course is a matter of opinion and I too own all three. What feels good in your hand may not in others. Your "insistance" that the xbox s-controller is better seems more like fanboyism then my statement that I prefer the dualshock and the gamecube controller. You started of your statement with the word "wrong", which is an indication of your over all maturity.
Radition is dangerous because it severes DNA strands or other protien strands. Normal protien strands that are damaged don't ussually become a problem, they can be fixed. DNA on the other hand is different, many combinations of damage can result in mutations which eventually (in high enough doeses) are lethal (ie you lose the ability to make certain protiens and then you die). 1 gamma ray going through you might cut a thousand strands but 50 lower energy gamma rays will cut mullions of strands. I think thats what he's agetting at. although it doesn't seem liek he had much of a clue on the how lower energy rays can be more damaging.
The dual shock always felt better then even the s controller. The game cube controller had a similiar form to it. The xbox controller were all rather unweildy.
Halo is like golden eye, it's fun with a group but gets stale after a few hours (less if your not into competing or not a good fps player). The single player isn't anythign special, the story isn't either. The multiplayer vs is simple with few modes relative to other games (like selecting slappers only in golden eye). It's true that the best that can be said is that it doesn't suck.
CS is played by more people and is 5 years old. Golden eye is a lot older and has most of the same features and some extras. Quake was more innovative for it's time. Marathon introduced most of the "new" concepts in halo. Half-life had better single player. Unreal tourney and quake 3 had better multiplayer.
Halo doesn't belong in the group of games I just listed it belongs to Turok and unreal (not tourney), good but not spectacular.
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Why use a PC-centered development library like the one for the Xbox, when you can use a set of tools that broadly cover games through to movie production -- tools created by a chip producer (IBM) and for a movie company (Sony)?
because it's looking like it'll require pain staking manual optimization to make ti look good. The PS2 architecture is still competative if your willing to put int he effeort to manage all the proccessors. Having a machine with 4 identical proccessors will be equally complex. Only a few companies bother (hideo and konami in MGS and a handfull of others. Companies liek Bioware have sworn off PS2 developement because it nearly killed their programmers.)
BTW, it's flattering to know my post annoyed you enough for you to flag me as a foe.
You may never read this.
In the US the quality of health care is heavily dependant on the plan you have. Here it's uniformly average with services available to those who wish to pay more (Contrary to the ideals of most canadians such services are available). Emergency help tends to be very good while normal medicine is average.
As for the rudeness of the above lady, it's true stereo types of Americans tend to be unflattering and often untrue. It works both ways, and it's also not to say the stereo type aren't generally true. Canadians tend to be over proud of our achievments, and sensitive about our identity. Americans tend also to be over proud of their achievements and sensitive to critisism.
I've visited the US a lot, and generally everyone is the same as what I find in canada but with a different ethnic mix. White middle class people tend to be friendly, Asians tend to be friendly to me (as I am asian), Hispanics tend to ignore me (here and there), and black people sleep aroudn a lot (I work and hang around with jamaicans).
Theres little to no difference between someone from suburban california and someone from BC, or Someone from the midwest and someone from Alberta.
Even so. all the games I specified suck ona console. Whats CS without mouse and keyboard, or Quake without multi-player or C&c with a controller. Warcraft, any sucks with a console controller.
Smugness isn't a canadian monopoly. Canadian content laws are almost invisible. PC isn't a huge issue either, it's only an issue if you care about what other people think about you and if you do then you'd problbly be PC anyways. Climate might be but no more so then for the interior US, remember 90% of us live withing 100km of the US. Wages are low but cost of living is too. Taxes are high but we get somethign for it.
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Smug is also a trait not commonly associated with canadians. I happen to be pretty smug, but thats just because I'm better then you
Warcraft 3 isn't on any console. CS is but without mouse and keyboard it isn't the same. Quake 3 is too, same deal. Command and conquer is multiplayer only for the PC.
They already pay more for the coffee($5.00 coffee OMFG). Just not to the right people.
$obligatory_canadian_intelligence_insult.
I assure you our intelligence is better then yours. Thus we don't commit to wars we will have a hard time sustaining and drop bombs on embassies or on our own allies. Our intelligence works just fine. As for the other intelelgence, we score better then you in literacy and most educational benchmarks.
As for the article, someitme it's not so intuitive. for instance, french food is loaded with fat and grease but they don't have as much heart disease and it's not just the wine it's also the portion sizes.
right, next time I hunger for some warcraft wait.. umm counter stike dman no ok how about some command and conquer.. wait.. I know quake.. damn..
yeah console is great for the games I play...
Thats why the next innovation in 3d graphics is the pixel messer upper. It adds dirt to each pixel. juts a smudge. But you can always turn on the mother cleaner upper... it wipes the smudge off wiht a napkin and spit.
Generally people will do a certain set of things. There are always a few outlyers but those are few and far between. A soldier sees his borther and best friend shot in the chest. Well 99% of soldiers who went through boot camp will suck it up. Try to find the shooter and move on, he'll grieve later. some small percentage will react in grief and may 1-do nothing and be confused 2-go phsycho. Knowing these precentages you can predict what will happen. There aren't many options besides those 3. HE won't, for instance. Take off his pants and start molesting the body or Start a picnic with the shooter.
People are generall predictable. Outlyers are rare. Soldiers are conditioned. They are even more predicatable.
I'd argue it's not immature but rather cynical and pragmatic. Immaturity is to expect being on the moral high ground would benefit you if only you knew it, or if you didn't re-enforce it with something else.
India won it's independence not just through ghandi, ghandi was a peacful PR face to put onto the movement and was a sympathetic figure, he helped. But so did the terrorists who bombed the hell out of the railways and the threat of a colonial war.
Isreal wasn't just constructed from guilt, the jewish terrorists all over europe made the point more poignant.
The weakness of western society is that given a sympathetic enough cause, violence and terrorism will sway our politics. Thus we will forever be victims of it. If our media gave short thrift to causes that use violence. Blow up some poeple in a market, fine we'll nerve gas all your people and see if you do that again. Violence works. Why els would tyrants like saddam stay in power so long. So does torture and genocide and a whoel bunch of WRONG things.
I'd go one step further in our lives calculus. I'd argue that one american or european or canadian life is worth at least 5 third world lives. They produce more and contribute more to the totality of humanity. I'd argue one scientist is worth at least a dozen soldiers and the value of a person is dependant on his socio-economic status and the duration of his predicted life span, so a kid born to two brilliant scientist is worth 10000 more then a old beggar in palastine.
To this end, I think killing 25,000 iraqis to revence the killing of 6000 amricans is abotu par for the course.
What do you think of this.
Whether you follow the geneva concention or not, the enemy won't. The only reason to is that when the enemies actions come to light, you can moan about it to the UN and it has some PR value. Other then that it's pretty usless. In fact the UN is pretty useless, giving petty dictators a international voice. Like having Rwanda on the human right commisions.
It's simplified, but macro makes up the majority of "strategy" in games. The micro is "tactics". Good players master both. Decent players get one or the toehr right. You might say grabbing naother mine is simplified, but it's resource aquisition. Or building 3 barracks instead of one is just a small decision but it affects army tunr over rate and the conversion of resources into soldiers. HEck even choosing a tech path is a notable strategic choice. IT all may be simplfiied btu it has value.
Just a note: People are very very predictable. Weather is more unpredictable then people. It's one of those comforting myths that people hold about themselves. Like we're all individuals, and that you matter, and humans are different from animals, or hundreds of other such notions.
I'm sure if grandma is close enough to discuss viagra with you, she's likly is on your safe list.
The comparison isn't reasonable. It'd be anolgous only if the cashier ripper product A from your arms and didn't giev it back and gave you a coupon. Their directly interfering with someones ability to market.
He listed the superset (mac-user). don't really have to be part of the subset to do what he said. you can be a plain old mac user and still do stupid things.
What with this starting a sentence out with the word wrong. It reflect badly on theauthor and is being rude without any purpose. The post would say exactly the same thing without it, but with ityou seem like a immature jerk.
hey, I may miss the E once but I hit twice, so the second time I get it. (I type at a sustained 80 words per minute, minus errors it'd be 5 word per minute )
^^
This of course is a matter of opinion and I too own all three. What feels good in your hand may not in others. Your "insistance" that the xbox s-controller is better seems more like fanboyism then my statement that I prefer the dualshock and the gamecube controller. You started of your statement with the word "wrong", which is an indication of your over all maturity.
Radition is dangerous because it severes DNA strands or other protien strands. Normal protien strands that are damaged don't ussually become a problem, they can be fixed. DNA on the other hand is different, many combinations of damage can result in mutations which eventually (in high enough doeses) are lethal (ie you lose the ability to make certain protiens and then you die). 1 gamma ray going through you might cut a thousand strands but 50 lower energy gamma rays will cut mullions of strands. I think thats what he's agetting at. although it doesn't seem liek he had much of a clue on the how lower energy rays can be more damaging.
The dual shock always felt better then even the s controller. The game cube controller had a similiar form to it. The xbox controller were all rather unweildy.
Halo is like golden eye, it's fun with a group but gets stale after a few hours (less if your not into competing or not a good fps player). The single player isn't anythign special, the story isn't either. The multiplayer vs is simple with few modes relative to other games (like selecting slappers only in golden eye). It's true that the best that can be said is that it doesn't suck.
CS is played by more people and is 5 years old.
Golden eye is a lot older and has most of the same features and some extras.
Quake was more innovative for it's time.
Marathon introduced most of the "new" concepts in halo.
Half-life had better single player.
Unreal tourney and quake 3 had better multiplayer.
Halo doesn't belong in the group of games I just listed it belongs to Turok and unreal (not tourney), good but not spectacular.