If this is any kind of success, I'd imagine that many of the major Hollywood producers with their millions will want to start backing MMOG's of their own. Remember, folks, games are still in a very nascent stage; similar to movies in the 50's (as in, 30 years after the start of cinema).
No kidding. Actually this sounds like it'll just drive the divide between net users with good and bad taste even wider apart.
Seriously, how many computer-savvy folk will give a blithering fuck about not being able to send mail to some cheesedick who refuses to switch from AOL to something reasonable?
Actually, if they try this, it'll probably stick for a week, *maybe*, before their servers get slammed with hatemail and boycotts. That, any every businessman who has an AOL account will switch to something else, as I do not believe anyone who's trying to buy/sell/network can afford to miss an important email because of AOL's abject greed.
Cutscenes are another plague of the game industry. There is a very simple rule that game makers need to follow much more often: Never take control away from the player.
People need to do whatever they want in games (or they'd watch a movie), but very few game developers realize that really open games are what sell the most (GTA anyone?).
The best way to do cutscenes I found was in the old "Way of the Samurai" game, where you could just walk away from someone talking to you most of the time, or tell them to shut up... None of this stupidly unproductive dialogue where you just put the controller down for 30 minutes while someone yaps on and on.
Microsoft and its lackeys did tons of lobbying to get this done... just a guess. *Less* technical review for software patents? That's the worst idea I've heard in years. Most patent reviewers for IT patents are already approving the most ridiculous things... (before I get flamed, by all means, put the word "patent" into a search here for/. stories)
You mean nobody's doing their job to prosecute him yet for the illegal wiretaps, let alone all the rampant corruption and cronyism? Fuck this, wake me up when someone does some real good work in DC...
I cannot stress enough how much games need to keep gaining in artistic direction and accessibility. The biggest obstacles are new customers who like the game but find the time daunting and learning the control layout to do something as simple as shoot ridiculous (which Nintendo is of course changing), and the lack of originality.
When games can overcome these obstacles, they will do to movies what movies and television did to books and radio.
Whenever the structure of power and technology changes, there is a brief opening window to actually implement good change. I would advise that people up their efforts of letter writing and such to Capitol Hill, as the newly refashioned, malleable nature of the machine makes it vulnerable to ensuring good.
Great, now we'll be able to see Cthulhu and he'll get all embarassed because he'll be like, in a shower or something when that thing's turned on, and he'll eat the goddamn earth. Can't we be happy with *our* dimension of existence? Wasn't invading Iraq enough?
Uh, yeah, sure. Don't call the insignificant human interest stories spouted and spun by "Stars and Stripes" propoganda, but by all means, ignore that nasty Al-Jazeera that keeps going on about the 30,000 civilian deaths caused by the invasion. Oh wait, we don't have to ignore it, the US bombed one of their stations even after being told it's coordinates so they *wouldn't* bomb it by mistake. Please ignore the mercenary companies like Blackwater running around and shooting whoever they like.
Just look at the new toy that Soldier X bought for Little (newly orphaned) Ahmed.
$20 says the worker is the one that "stole" the tapes. Who randomly walks up to a car and says "Oh look! Patent info! I'll take this home right away and start using my cryptography techniques to unlock it right away!"
Well, you see, while I know that any place has its ne'er-do-wells, particularly in reguards to general common sense, I was hoping that idiocy went hand in hand with violent crime; in a place with less violent crime, one would hope to see a lesser degree of ignorance.
One of my hopeful theories just got shot down in a rolling ball of flame...
I'm horribly confused now. Brits are more into ignorance than us Americans...? When did this happen? Oh, wait, they must assume it's *fashionable* to be idiotic, what with Paris Hilton and the other celebrity abominations against evolution.
And Canada just elected a conservative prime minister? Australia's turning against consumer rights? Where the fuck am I supposed to live?
That's it! I can't take anymore. I'm going to buy an island somewhere in a delightful climate not too far from Japan and name it "Slashdotte-upon-GoodReasonne". You are all invited.
...the President doesn't have authority over federal courts. While I do wish he raised more of a stink about it, he was probably cowed by his advisors or blackmailed or whatever. When the power brokering goes that high, I tend to give up as to the motives involved.
I do not debate the inhumane, imperialistic actions of Japan towards under-developed areas of Asia, however, that has very little to do with their ability to conquer the whole of the United States. I was pointing out that the right has a tendency to lionize the past enemies of the US in order to bring some justification to the war crimes and atrocities committed against their civilian populations by the American government.
That's exactly what war is about; two *military* forces going at each other. Did you fail ethics? I am continually astounded at the utter lack of philosophical foresight into matters of military interaction that has spread as a firestorm of stupidity throughout the American populace. Do you imagine you can intuit all the intricacies of military diplomacy and conventions?
And yes, writing off hundreds of thousands on innocent lives because they were on the "evil side" makes you a horrible person.
While I appreciate the personal attack, you could simply have guessed my age by looking it up on my website posted underneath my slashdot username. I'll get to the personal attack after assessing your understanding of war and its ethics.
It's called honor, look it up. The American military should have simply acted with honor and restricted its attacks to military targets, as I believed I inferred in my previous post. And yes, we should have simply waited a few months to surround the islands of Japan with a massive Allied fleet after wiping out the majority of their armed forces, air bases, and ships, as is fairly standard military strategy. I find it hard to believe that this strategy would've costed more innocent life than firebombing and atomic bombing highly populated cities.
I do feel rather silly arguing with someone that believes we should immediately break all the rules of war whenever the opposing party does. Our ancestors have worked for hundreds of years to build a civilized society, and as soon as someone plays dirty, we're supposed to start up raping, pillaging, murdering, and establishing death camps? No, your comprehension of ethics is simply deplorable.
Now, on to the personal attack. Listen to me very closely. I'm young, but I'd bet my life savings that I've had the everloving shit kicked out of me more times than you've even seen, and done just as much in return. You wanna come over for a beer, see my scars? Be my fucking guest. I didn't live in a shithole apartment complex without heat and hot water and infested with drug dealers and murderers to hear you try and lecture me on how life is. Ever had someone cut you? Put a cigarette out on you? No? Then shut the fuck up.
My good man, I voted for Gore, and reluctantly voted for Kerry; not only that, I am more than slightly pissed off at Nader and everyone who voted for him. I'm also completely aware that the GOP even donated money to Nader's campaign to take more votes away from Gore.
Well, everyone who voted for Nader, in my opinion, has some blame to share in the Iraqi civilian deaths, now numbered at 30,000.
Pardon? The myth that the Japanese could've conquered the United States, is at best, a laughable one. The Japanese attack on American is known as a "naked assault" because they had no chance of winning, at all. After Germany fell, the small, however feirce, Japanese army was *doomed*. Not only that, but the use of massive firebombs on civilian targets was a violation of the Geneva Convention, and is a tactic called, ironically, "Terror-Bombing" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_bombing). Hundreds of thousands died in the fire-bombing on Tokyo and Kobe, not to mention Dresden and Hamburg, all of which were massive civilian populations, not military installations. While the atomic bombing of a civilian target forced the Japanese to surrender early, the ethics of the genocidal slaughtering hundreds of thousands merely to cow the enemy military into submission is simply barbaric, inhuman, and evil.
Do you see a corellation here? The same tactics the US Military used on its targets is now being used against our own populace by a small, militant Islamic faction to get its way. Hell, we even trained them. Maybe that's why we get angry at the goverment for trying to thieve our rights away for trying to fix its own fuckups.
The project ECHELON was a collaboration between the American and British intelligence communties and authorized by the FISA court (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FISA_Court), not by Clinton; ECHELON also began operation well before 1992, when Clinton took office.
Fighting FISA goes hand in hand with Bush Sr. and his young boy.
Which book? "The Total Number of Innocent Deaths Caused by Unethical Wartime Conduct by the United States: From Dresden and Tokyo Fire-Bombs to Carpet Bombing Vietnam to 30,000 Civilian Casualties in the War on Iraq (The Estimate Given by the Bush Administration)?"
Long title, I know, but it's a good read. If you're a sadist.
Slashdot Mirror
TFA.
If this is any kind of success, I'd imagine that many of the major Hollywood producers with their millions will want to start backing MMOG's of their own. Remember, folks, games are still in a very nascent stage; similar to movies in the 50's (as in, 30 years after the start of cinema).
No kidding. Actually this sounds like it'll just drive the divide between net users with good and bad taste even wider apart.
Seriously, how many computer-savvy folk will give a blithering fuck about not being able to send mail to some cheesedick who refuses to switch from AOL to something reasonable?
Actually, if they try this, it'll probably stick for a week, *maybe*, before their servers get slammed with hatemail and boycotts. That, any every businessman who has an AOL account will switch to something else, as I do not believe anyone who's trying to buy/sell/network can afford to miss an important email because of AOL's abject greed.
Cutscenes are another plague of the game industry. There is a very simple rule that game makers need to follow much more often: Never take control away from the player.
People need to do whatever they want in games (or they'd watch a movie), but very few game developers realize that really open games are what sell the most (GTA anyone?).
The best way to do cutscenes I found was in the old "Way of the Samurai" game, where you could just walk away from someone talking to you most of the time, or tell them to shut up... None of this stupidly unproductive dialogue where you just put the controller down for 30 minutes while someone yaps on and on.
Microsoft and its lackeys did tons of lobbying to get this done... just a guess. *Less* technical review for software patents? That's the worst idea I've heard in years. Most patent reviewers for IT patents are already approving the most ridiculous things... (before I get flamed, by all means, put the word "patent" into a search here for /. stories)
You mean nobody's doing their job to prosecute him yet for the illegal wiretaps, let alone all the rampant corruption and cronyism? Fuck this, wake me up when someone does some real good work in DC...
I cannot stress enough how much games need to keep gaining in artistic direction and accessibility. The biggest obstacles are new customers who like the game but find the time daunting and learning the control layout to do something as simple as shoot ridiculous (which Nintendo is of course changing), and the lack of originality.
When games can overcome these obstacles, they will do to movies what movies and television did to books and radio.
Whenever the structure of power and technology changes, there is a brief opening window to actually implement good change. I would advise that people up their efforts of letter writing and such to Capitol Hill, as the newly refashioned, malleable nature of the machine makes it vulnerable to ensuring good.
Great, now we'll be able to see Cthulhu and he'll get all embarassed because he'll be like, in a shower or something when that thing's turned on, and he'll eat the goddamn earth. Can't we be happy with *our* dimension of existence? Wasn't invading Iraq enough?
Uh, yeah, sure. Don't call the insignificant human interest stories spouted and spun by "Stars and Stripes" propoganda, but by all means, ignore that nasty Al-Jazeera that keeps going on about the 30,000 civilian deaths caused by the invasion. Oh wait, we don't have to ignore it, the US bombed one of their stations even after being told it's coordinates so they *wouldn't* bomb it by mistake. Please ignore the mercenary companies like Blackwater running around and shooting whoever they like.
Just look at the new toy that Soldier X bought for Little (newly orphaned) Ahmed.
Forgive my unpatriotic nausea.
$20 says the worker is the one that "stole" the tapes. Who randomly walks up to a car and says "Oh look! Patent info! I'll take this home right away and start using my cryptography techniques to unlock it right away!"
Well, you see, while I know that any place has its ne'er-do-wells, particularly in reguards to general common sense, I was hoping that idiocy went hand in hand with violent crime; in a place with less violent crime, one would hope to see a lesser degree of ignorance.
One of my hopeful theories just got shot down in a rolling ball of flame...
I'm horribly confused now. Brits are more into ignorance than us Americans...? When did this happen? Oh, wait, they must assume it's *fashionable* to be idiotic, what with Paris Hilton and the other celebrity abominations against evolution.
And Canada just elected a conservative prime minister? Australia's turning against consumer rights? Where the fuck am I supposed to live?
That's it! I can't take anymore. I'm going to buy an island somewhere in a delightful climate not too far from Japan and name it "Slashdotte-upon-GoodReasonne". You are all invited.
Ah well. If I had a dime for every genius idea lost onto the pages of slashdot... Wait, no, as long as I'm asking, if I had sex for every...
Seriously though, good for you Fins. Might even join you over there.
...the President doesn't have authority over federal courts. While I do wish he raised more of a stink about it, he was probably cowed by his advisors or blackmailed or whatever. When the power brokering goes that high, I tend to give up as to the motives involved.
I do not debate the inhumane, imperialistic actions of Japan towards under-developed areas of Asia, however, that has very little to do with their ability to conquer the whole of the United States. I was pointing out that the right has a tendency to lionize the past enemies of the US in order to bring some justification to the war crimes and atrocities committed against their civilian populations by the American government.
For the last time, retaliation should only be directed towards military targets. What is so god damn hard to understand about that?
That's exactly what war is about; two *military* forces going at each other. Did you fail ethics? I am continually astounded at the utter lack of philosophical foresight into matters of military interaction that has spread as a firestorm of stupidity throughout the American populace. Do you imagine you can intuit all the intricacies of military diplomacy and conventions?
And yes, writing off hundreds of thousands on innocent lives because they were on the "evil side" makes you a horrible person.
While I appreciate the personal attack, you could simply have guessed my age by looking it up on my website posted underneath my slashdot username. I'll get to the personal attack after assessing your understanding of war and its ethics.
It's called honor, look it up. The American military should have simply acted with honor and restricted its attacks to military targets, as I believed I inferred in my previous post. And yes, we should have simply waited a few months to surround the islands of Japan with a massive Allied fleet after wiping out the majority of their armed forces, air bases, and ships, as is fairly standard military strategy. I find it hard to believe that this strategy would've costed more innocent life than firebombing and atomic bombing highly populated cities.
I do feel rather silly arguing with someone that believes we should immediately break all the rules of war whenever the opposing party does. Our ancestors have worked for hundreds of years to build a civilized society, and as soon as someone plays dirty, we're supposed to start up raping, pillaging, murdering, and establishing death camps? No, your comprehension of ethics is simply deplorable.
Now, on to the personal attack. Listen to me very closely. I'm young, but I'd bet my life savings that I've had the everloving shit kicked out of me more times than you've even seen, and done just as much in return. You wanna come over for a beer, see my scars? Be my fucking guest. I didn't live in a shithole apartment complex without heat and hot water and infested with drug dealers and murderers to hear you try and lecture me on how life is. Ever had someone cut you? Put a cigarette out on you? No? Then shut the fuck up.
You know what the worst thing about all of this is?
It's going to be fucking impossible for me to have phone sex ever again. Especially the kinky kind.
My good man, I voted for Gore, and reluctantly voted for Kerry; not only that, I am more than slightly pissed off at Nader and everyone who voted for him. I'm also completely aware that the GOP even donated money to Nader's campaign to take more votes away from Gore.
Well, everyone who voted for Nader, in my opinion, has some blame to share in the Iraqi civilian deaths, now numbered at 30,000.
Pardon? The myth that the Japanese could've conquered the United States, is at best, a laughable one. The Japanese attack on American is known as a "naked assault" because they had no chance of winning, at all. After Germany fell, the small, however feirce, Japanese army was *doomed*. Not only that, but the use of massive firebombs on civilian targets was a violation of the Geneva Convention, and is a tactic called, ironically, "Terror-Bombing" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_bombing). Hundreds of thousands died in the fire-bombing on Tokyo and Kobe, not to mention Dresden and Hamburg, all of which were massive civilian populations, not military installations. While the atomic bombing of a civilian target forced the Japanese to surrender early, the ethics of the genocidal slaughtering hundreds of thousands merely to cow the enemy military into submission is simply barbaric, inhuman, and evil.
Do you see a corellation here? The same tactics the US Military used on its targets is now being used against our own populace by a small, militant Islamic faction to get its way. Hell, we even trained them. Maybe that's why we get angry at the goverment for trying to thieve our rights away for trying to fix its own fuckups.
The project ECHELON was a collaboration between the American and British intelligence communties and authorized by the FISA court (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FISA_Court), not by Clinton; ECHELON also began operation well before 1992, when Clinton took office.
Fighting FISA goes hand in hand with Bush Sr. and his young boy.
Which book? "The Total Number of Innocent Deaths Caused by Unethical Wartime Conduct by the United States: From Dresden and Tokyo Fire-Bombs to Carpet Bombing Vietnam to 30,000 Civilian Casualties in the War on Iraq (The Estimate Given by the Bush Administration)?"
Long title, I know, but it's a good read. If you're a sadist.
Usually, a person apologizes when they commit an unethical act; that would be considered the good human behavior. Am I wrong?