Is this a joke? Have you never read a history book or watched a movie in your life? You think the wealthy elite, cops, and politicians are corrupt NOW? Go watch Serpico, or basically any gangster movie from 1920-1945. Hell go watch fucking Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Read a fucking book.
And the hilarious part is that in every time, not only is there corruption, but there's some idiot like you claiming that it's "worse now than it's ever been".
I wish I had mod points. When people make exaggerated statements like trying to state that China is more free or equally free to the U.S. or that the U.S. is like Nazi Germany, you only WEAKEN your complaint about the legitimate problems in the U.S.
That oft-pasted receipt is from 2000. TF2 was shown at E3 in 2000 with a predicted launch date of Jan. 2001. You could definitely have gone to Gamestop and pre-ordered both DNF and TF2 on the same day. Just because one of the two games actually got released four years ago doesn't really enter into the fact that if this guy's TF2 pre-order was honored back then, there's no reason to think a DNF pre-order wouldn't be honored now.
Plus a pre-order is just $10 to Gamestop and nothing more. They'd be dicks to try and squabble about the platform when they've already taken your $10 and are obviously trying to be not-dicks to the public by announcing they'll honor the pre-orders to begin with.
I didn't look at the wikipedia page. This is from memory from the parallel programming class I took. Either way the main point is that your analogy was poor.
Your understanding of Amdahl's Law isn't quite correct. I guess if you want to use the street race analogy, it's more like you each have your own lane for part of the race, but for another part of the race you have to go single file into a single lane, and if you're parallel to someone as you approach the choke point you have to arbitrarily let them ahead of you or pass them based on some set of rules that may not necessarily be fair. And the goal isn't to win the race but you're all delivering something and the goal is to move the maximum amount of the goods as fast as possible.
You know what, a street racing analogy doesn't work at all for Amdahl's Law.
I thought I'd heard something about this before on a TV documentary a while ago, but with Mayan ruins. I found a link. Now I'm not saying she didn't pioneer the technique or whatever, since apparently she's been working on stuff like this since at least 2004, but it seems to me like these people should work together (if they're not already).
As long as I'm not sacrificing too much vertical space, I always prefer a widescreen monitor. I wouldn't like a 1366x768 laptop, for example, because you lose too much vertical space, but anything 1080 pixels or taller is an improvement in my book.
Which had NO EFFECT ON GAMEPLAY. Bad "day 1 DLC" (in the eyes of people who whine about that shit, honestly I think it's fine) is DLC that's like a set of 5 multiplayer maps when the game only shipped with 5 to begin with, or a single player mission that gives a bunch of goodies that makes the game easier, or when an NPC runs up to you and asks you to save his family and when you agree a dialog comes up to enter your credit card information to help him. The logical complaint is that these are pieces of gameplay that were built concurrently with the game (meaning resources concurrent with the original production of the game), and were on the original install disc (giving the user the feeling of "having already paid for it"), but which the user is locked out of and unable to access on the game they purchased on release day without shelling out another $5-$10.
However, hats are not gameplay. They're 100% optional cosmetic additions to your in-game avatar which no one will ever see except the one friend you play Portal 2 coop with the one time you play it because it's the type of game it doesn't make a lot of sense to play over and over again (because once you've solved the puzzle the best you can do is solve it faster, which isn't interesting to a lot of players).
There is some merit, in general, to complaints about real "day 1 DLC" as I described earlier, however I don't agree with the argument. There is NO merit to complaining about Portal 2's fucking hats, unless you REALLY LIKE HATS in which case I guess Valve are fucking geniuses that people get so bent out of shape over them that they demand they be free instead of charged for.
The idiots who buy these hats are paying for YOUR free DLC like more single player and coop maps for Portal 2 and the hundreds of free updates including new maps and gametypes and achievements and weapons and gameplay balancing patches you've gotten over the years for TF2. You should be fucking thanking Valve for this type of DLC not getting upset about it.
What are you retarded? You can completely avoid TF2 and Portal 2's hats and trinkets. 100% avoid them. They're entirely optional to the gameplay experience. They're one of the examples of DLC done right: Let the people with more money than sense subsidize the rest of the playerbase, who don't have to pay anything extra ever if they don't want to.
I was in highschool at the time and some girl was trying to get people to sign a petition to prevent the Cassini probe from launching in one of my classes. I told her I wouldn't sign it and when she asked why I basically explained how it was statistically impossible for it to hit the earth during the slingshot maneuver and even if it did, and the containment of the plutonium failed in a worst case scenario, the increased nuclear exposure would be so small as the be statistically insignificant, and since we live in Florida, you'd be more likely to be struck by lightning and killed than to get cancer from the incident had it occurred. She nearly cried.
Super Mario Bros. Wii is what you might call an evolution or perfection of a gametype, rather than a repetition or a derivation. But it really has to be played multiplayer to appreciate it, I think. The Zelda series in particular has gotten pretty derivative since Zelda 64, but I don't think it's fair to paint all their products with that brush.
Kingdom Hearts 1 was released before the merger, and KH2 was released shortly after the merger. Short enough that you could argue the merger had no major impact on its development.
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Does it really matter if they were run over outside or inside the square?
Is this a joke? Have you never read a history book or watched a movie in your life? You think the wealthy elite, cops, and politicians are corrupt NOW? Go watch Serpico, or basically any gangster movie from 1920-1945. Hell go watch fucking Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Read a fucking book.
And the hilarious part is that in every time, not only is there corruption, but there's some idiot like you claiming that it's "worse now than it's ever been".
I wish I had mod points. When people make exaggerated statements like trying to state that China is more free or equally free to the U.S. or that the U.S. is like Nazi Germany, you only WEAKEN your complaint about the legitimate problems in the U.S.
That oft-pasted receipt is from 2000. TF2 was shown at E3 in 2000 with a predicted launch date of Jan. 2001. You could definitely have gone to Gamestop and pre-ordered both DNF and TF2 on the same day. Just because one of the two games actually got released four years ago doesn't really enter into the fact that if this guy's TF2 pre-order was honored back then, there's no reason to think a DNF pre-order wouldn't be honored now.
Plus a pre-order is just $10 to Gamestop and nothing more. They'd be dicks to try and squabble about the platform when they've already taken your $10 and are obviously trying to be not-dicks to the public by announcing they'll honor the pre-orders to begin with.
Yeah but your evidence doesn't support your point. So all you have is an unsubstantiated conjecture (although one that I think is likely correct).
That's basically a Wolf3D engine. That doesn't prove anything.
I didn't look at the wikipedia page. This is from memory from the parallel programming class I took. Either way the main point is that your analogy was poor.
Your understanding of Amdahl's Law isn't quite correct. I guess if you want to use the street race analogy, it's more like you each have your own lane for part of the race, but for another part of the race you have to go single file into a single lane, and if you're parallel to someone as you approach the choke point you have to arbitrarily let them ahead of you or pass them based on some set of rules that may not necessarily be fair. And the goal isn't to win the race but you're all delivering something and the goal is to move the maximum amount of the goods as fast as possible.
You know what, a street racing analogy doesn't work at all for Amdahl's Law.
I thought I'd heard something about this before on a TV documentary a while ago, but with Mayan ruins. I found a link. Now I'm not saying she didn't pioneer the technique or whatever, since apparently she's been working on stuff like this since at least 2004, but it seems to me like these people should work together (if they're not already).
As long as I'm not sacrificing too much vertical space, I always prefer a widescreen monitor. I wouldn't like a 1366x768 laptop, for example, because you lose too much vertical space, but anything 1080 pixels or taller is an improvement in my book.
No one ever gets the Orthodox Easter jokes. :(
Don't accidentally float over the time zone if you're too high up, that'd be a shitty way to die.
Just hope no one tries to use that logic on a meteor impact prediction. :P
It's a joke, son. Lighten up.
Which had NO EFFECT ON GAMEPLAY. Bad "day 1 DLC" (in the eyes of people who whine about that shit, honestly I think it's fine) is DLC that's like a set of 5 multiplayer maps when the game only shipped with 5 to begin with, or a single player mission that gives a bunch of goodies that makes the game easier, or when an NPC runs up to you and asks you to save his family and when you agree a dialog comes up to enter your credit card information to help him. The logical complaint is that these are pieces of gameplay that were built concurrently with the game (meaning resources concurrent with the original production of the game), and were on the original install disc (giving the user the feeling of "having already paid for it"), but which the user is locked out of and unable to access on the game they purchased on release day without shelling out another $5-$10.
However, hats are not gameplay. They're 100% optional cosmetic additions to your in-game avatar which no one will ever see except the one friend you play Portal 2 coop with the one time you play it because it's the type of game it doesn't make a lot of sense to play over and over again (because once you've solved the puzzle the best you can do is solve it faster, which isn't interesting to a lot of players).
There is some merit, in general, to complaints about real "day 1 DLC" as I described earlier, however I don't agree with the argument. There is NO merit to complaining about Portal 2's fucking hats, unless you REALLY LIKE HATS in which case I guess Valve are fucking geniuses that people get so bent out of shape over them that they demand they be free instead of charged for.
The idiots who buy these hats are paying for YOUR free DLC like more single player and coop maps for Portal 2 and the hundreds of free updates including new maps and gametypes and achievements and weapons and gameplay balancing patches you've gotten over the years for TF2. You should be fucking thanking Valve for this type of DLC not getting upset about it.
What are you retarded? You can completely avoid TF2 and Portal 2's hats and trinkets. 100% avoid them. They're entirely optional to the gameplay experience. They're one of the examples of DLC done right: Let the people with more money than sense subsidize the rest of the playerbase, who don't have to pay anything extra ever if they don't want to.
That precedent was set 150 years ago when the U.S. stopped letting states and banks print their own currency.
You mean after it's broken down because it has an 8 day half-life?
I was in highschool at the time and some girl was trying to get people to sign a petition to prevent the Cassini probe from launching in one of my classes. I told her I wouldn't sign it and when she asked why I basically explained how it was statistically impossible for it to hit the earth during the slingshot maneuver and even if it did, and the containment of the plutonium failed in a worst case scenario, the increased nuclear exposure would be so small as the be statistically insignificant, and since we live in Florida, you'd be more likely to be struck by lightning and killed than to get cancer from the incident had it occurred. She nearly cried.
Do you refuse to fly in an airplane due to the risks? Do you think that nobody anywhere should fly in airplanes because of the risk of a crash?
That, or how you normally make it worse.
This.
Nevermind, reloading the page a few times fixed it.
All I see is "Session closed."
Super Mario Bros. Wii is what you might call an evolution or perfection of a gametype, rather than a repetition or a derivation. But it really has to be played multiplayer to appreciate it, I think. The Zelda series in particular has gotten pretty derivative since Zelda 64, but I don't think it's fair to paint all their products with that brush.
Kingdom Hearts 1 was released before the merger, and KH2 was released shortly after the merger. Short enough that you could argue the merger had no major impact on its development.