You're the idiot here. This article is not necessarily posted to show support of the content, but primarily to inform you of its existence and allow a place to discuss it. Even if that discussion is mostly mockery and derision.
Do you also think that when CNN tells you about a suicide bombing that they're tacitly giving support to the suicide bomber's agenda?
When you rely on someone else to completely control your supply chain like the App Store, you're going to be pretty much completely beholden to them. If that's a risk you choose to take, and you fail, it's your fault for relying on that risk.
It has nothing to do with the price of gas. It has to do with electric/hybrid cars not being covered by the gas tax. The government wants to maintain its revenue stream in the face of people turning to cars that use less or no gasoline.
It's similar to the issue with taxing cigarettes. The more you raise the tax, the less people smoke, and the lower your tax revenue from cigarettes becomes. The governments are used to having this revenue and want to find a way to maintain it. So they do things like lowering the cigarette tax slightly, which has the effect of increasing the number of people smoking, which increases total tax revenue, but defeats the entire purpose of the tax as a "sin" tax to discourage/prevent/punish smoking.
That's why people are taking this draft proposal seriously. Because they know the government wants to, and eventually must, replace the gas tax with something that applies equally to gas powered and electric (or whatever else comes down the road, like hydrogen or whatever) cars. If we move away from gasoline they simply do not have any other option if they want to keep their revenue up, but still want to keep the tax "fair" based on actual usage instead of just being a flat tax on owning a vehicle (which would likely be highly unfair on both ends of the spectrum).
They build my bridges, fix my roads, fund companies who provide power and water, make sure that water is clean and drinkable, police the streets, protect the people. Government does some good things. It's mostly local and state government, but it's still government.
Rent to own is the biggest bullshit on earth. I'd rather have no furniture and have to take the bus to the library to use a computer than rent anything from one of those people.
"You see, Killbots have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them, until they reached their limit and shutdown."
I was watching the news last night, and on MSNBC and CNN they just kept showing these huge groups of college kids cheering in the streets, and I realized, these people were like 10 years old when 9/11 occurred. I don't think they really grasp what they were celebrating. And all the jokes about it taking "10 years", ignoring that Osama had been attacking Americans since at least 1993 with the original World Trade Center bombing.
I wasn't necessarily trying to claim Quake was first, just that by no means was UT first (Unreal being the most obvious example to me, considering it was made by the same developer and had extremely similar mod support, i.e. I'm almost certain the original Unreal also supported "mutators").
The first time I read it it seemed like they were giving away the engine source, due to the line "including C++ code access", the emphasis on "complete version of our engine", and the fact that they mention the "sample game code" as a separate bullet point, but the more I read it and think about it the less likely that seems.
I'm starting to think the emphasis was given due to the fact that you can download and use this SDK and engine without purchasing a Crysis 2 license (which is actually very uncommon and a good step on its own), and that's why it only contains "sample Crysis 2 game code". i.e. until the source code was released, you couldn't release a standalone Q3 mod even if you replaced all the assets. The people playing your game also had to have a license to run the quake3.exe binary at that time.
I'm not sure how you define "official mod support", but as I define it, Quake and Unreal both had official mod support. Tools and sources were released by the developer for the express purpose of letting people create mods, and the games had hooks or commands that directly facilitated modding and running mods (and really would have served no other purpose, otherwise).
I would say Doom and Wolf3D did not have official mod support because of the workarounds and nature of the tools required to run mods for those games.
He's just introducing it -- I doubt it'll pass -- but it's basically his job to try and get federal funds to the space coast. Next election he can go "I introduced all these bills trying to get us NASA jobs but those darn democrats wouldn't let me get it done! Just re-elect me and I'll keep trying!"
No one is going to be unable to inhabit earth just because a government runs out of it. Worst comes to worst you can just grow some crops and hunt some small game. You're not going to fall over dead just because you're $10 trillion in debt. Unless someone murders you over it, I guess.
This is local politics. Need to keep the money flowing into NASA to keep the constituency happy, regardless of your party affiliation. Plus NASA's budget vs. the entire budget is close to nothing. Just like that recent budget "cut" the republicans were bragging about was like less than 1% savings on the entire budget. I guess you could say the victory is that it didn't go up, but whatever. Still seems pretty crappy.
You just said you have fun playing. That means they've already succeeded in keeping it competitive at the high level and fun at the low level. That's win/win as far as I'm concerned.
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You're the idiot here. This article is not necessarily posted to show support of the content, but primarily to inform you of its existence and allow a place to discuss it. Even if that discussion is mostly mockery and derision.
Do you also think that when CNN tells you about a suicide bombing that they're tacitly giving support to the suicide bomber's agenda?
Apparently, neither is Apple.
When you rely on someone else to completely control your supply chain like the App Store, you're going to be pretty much completely beholden to them. If that's a risk you choose to take, and you fail, it's your fault for relying on that risk.
It has nothing to do with the price of gas. It has to do with electric/hybrid cars not being covered by the gas tax. The government wants to maintain its revenue stream in the face of people turning to cars that use less or no gasoline.
It's similar to the issue with taxing cigarettes. The more you raise the tax, the less people smoke, and the lower your tax revenue from cigarettes becomes. The governments are used to having this revenue and want to find a way to maintain it. So they do things like lowering the cigarette tax slightly, which has the effect of increasing the number of people smoking, which increases total tax revenue, but defeats the entire purpose of the tax as a "sin" tax to discourage/prevent/punish smoking.
That's why people are taking this draft proposal seriously. Because they know the government wants to, and eventually must, replace the gas tax with something that applies equally to gas powered and electric (or whatever else comes down the road, like hydrogen or whatever) cars. If we move away from gasoline they simply do not have any other option if they want to keep their revenue up, but still want to keep the tax "fair" based on actual usage instead of just being a flat tax on owning a vehicle (which would likely be highly unfair on both ends of the spectrum).
They build my bridges, fix my roads, fund companies who provide power and water, make sure that water is clean and drinkable, police the streets, protect the people. Government does some good things. It's mostly local and state government, but it's still government.
For the same reason that they think they have the right to seize the domains in the first place: they're idiots with power.
Those were my thoughts exactly. Since when was becoming a senator more notable than WALKING ON THE FUCKING MOON?
What's the name of the other guy?
Rent to own is the biggest bullshit on earth. I'd rather have no furniture and have to take the bus to the library to use a computer than rent anything from one of those people.
July 2008... You should really look at the dates on your links.
"You see, Killbots have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them, until they reached their limit and shutdown."
Uh...why is the US army engaged in ground operations near the capital of Pakistan?
In order to kill Osama bin Laden with U.S. personnel.
Exactly. Pakistan was probably happy to oblige in this. It helps focus potential retaliation away from themselves.
I was watching the news last night, and on MSNBC and CNN they just kept showing these huge groups of college kids cheering in the streets, and I realized, these people were like 10 years old when 9/11 occurred. I don't think they really grasp what they were celebrating. And all the jokes about it taking "10 years", ignoring that Osama had been attacking Americans since at least 1993 with the original World Trade Center bombing.
Surreal indeed.
I couldn't remember if that stuff was user-created or released by 3D Realms.
I wasn't necessarily trying to claim Quake was first, just that by no means was UT first (Unreal being the most obvious example to me, considering it was made by the same developer and had extremely similar mod support, i.e. I'm almost certain the original Unreal also supported "mutators").
The first time I read it it seemed like they were giving away the engine source, due to the line "including C++ code access", the emphasis on "complete version of our engine", and the fact that they mention the "sample game code" as a separate bullet point, but the more I read it and think about it the less likely that seems.
I'm starting to think the emphasis was given due to the fact that you can download and use this SDK and engine without purchasing a Crysis 2 license (which is actually very uncommon and a good step on its own), and that's why it only contains "sample Crysis 2 game code". i.e. until the source code was released, you couldn't release a standalone Q3 mod even if you replaced all the assets. The people playing your game also had to have a license to run the quake3.exe binary at that time.
I'm not sure how you define "official mod support", but as I define it, Quake and Unreal both had official mod support. Tools and sources were released by the developer for the express purpose of letting people create mods, and the games had hooks or commands that directly facilitated modding and running mods (and really would have served no other purpose, otherwise).
I would say Doom and Wolf3D did not have official mod support because of the workarounds and nature of the tools required to run mods for those games.
Duke3D is kind of in between.
He's just introducing it -- I doubt it'll pass -- but it's basically his job to try and get federal funds to the space coast. Next election he can go "I introduced all these bills trying to get us NASA jobs but those darn democrats wouldn't let me get it done! Just re-elect me and I'll keep trying!"
No one is going to be unable to inhabit earth just because a government runs out of it. Worst comes to worst you can just grow some crops and hunt some small game. You're not going to fall over dead just because you're $10 trillion in debt. Unless someone murders you over it, I guess.
This is local politics. Need to keep the money flowing into NASA to keep the constituency happy, regardless of your party affiliation. Plus NASA's budget vs. the entire budget is close to nothing. Just like that recent budget "cut" the republicans were bragging about was like less than 1% savings on the entire budget. I guess you could say the victory is that it didn't go up, but whatever. Still seems pretty crappy.
LOL? You do realize money is a pretend construct that we don't need to live.
The sky is blue and water is wet.
You just said you have fun playing. That means they've already succeeded in keeping it competitive at the high level and fun at the low level. That's win/win as far as I'm concerned.
All students in the U.S. are taught metric from the beginning, and all science and physics, and most math classes, use metric pretty much exclusively.
How very... neutral of you.