I can't stand self-righteous people and their inflammatory bullshit.
Funny how you assume I believe that the author of the game shouldn't be allowed to use his right to free-speech to produce his game.
My *opinion* on never producing that game is just that.
For some reason, people have this idea that they have the right to never have their feelings hurt. Well fuck them. If being offended by stuff is the worst thing that ever chappens to you, then you've lived a charmed life.
How you manage to come off sounding so amazingly self-righteous is beyond me. Where did I say I have the right to not be offended, screw that. He can *absolutely* make the game, without worrying about what issues I might have with it, and he shouldn't have to.
*I*, on the other hand, do have a right to voice what I think.
The fact that I have an issue with this videogame, and took a few seconds to post that on Slashdot, doesn't mean my real free time isn't spent worrying about things like the local economy and jobs in my area, perhaps spending some time focusing on grade-schools and budgetary concerns in my district and a host of other more important national and international issues.
My summary, you're right, its a videogame, and I think its in poor taste. That doesn't matter to the author of the game, nor you, and it doesn't need to.
Yes! We can duel fellow employees to work our way up the corporate ladder!
I envision:
The next corporate meeting: A raid group in Scholomance:
Raid: [llamalicious]: Dammit, those damned rogues and shadow priests are getting all the VP positions. Raid: [llamalicious]: What char do I have to spec to get a decent promotion Raid: [omgleetmgr]: stfu n00b or I'll kick you. Raid: [omgleetmgr]: that means fired. Raid: [llamalicious]:... Raid: llamalicious has left the raid party.
This game is *not* built around soloing; in-fact, you will find it impossible to complete most any task solo. Using NPC henchmen to form your party, while available, is simply not enough in most case; you will be forced to select real people to form your groups as the henchmen AI is pretty weak.
Also, since this is not a true MMORPG, every task you perform will be done in an instance with your party. My only major beef with this is that party sizes are limited to 2/4/6/8 depending on the level of the area you are in; making it impossible to have a great LAN going if you have 1 or 2 too many people around. (There's no linking parties together either, so the party-limit is final)
Give it a shot: you'll be out the cost of the game if you don't really like it; but there's no subscription fee on top of it.
Those martians really are an introverted crowd, throwing up a big dust storm to prevent all of us perverted peeping humans from getting a look at their wives' nighties through their windows!
The real question is: Do I care if I'm impeding PC sales?
Failing hardware aside, if what I've got now is already locked down, and the hardware performs perfectly under load, and I have room to add software features to my applications as necessary: Do I care if Dell wants to sell me a new multi-processor Xeon blade? Not really.
Expense without some sort of valid justification is wasted money. Put the dollars somewhere else.
If your old hardware is under-powered, and impeding business progress, of course you'll upgrade. But unless I'm under direct pressure from a vendor, I'm not going to waste money feeding the low-cost hardware boom.
However, if my vendor end-of-lifes a product, states it is no longer supported, warranted and spare parts are no longer going to be produced, or become exceedingly expensive - well, I might just get that new box after all.
For some minor applications, that old Windows 2000 server with 256MB of RAM might be just fine as-is, as long as its not a support liability. (No, having a machine that runs d.net or Seti@Home faster in your server room is probably *not* a real business reason for a faster server).
Linking to an article from over 1 year ago (April 19, 2004) while discussing pricing doesn't make me think the submitter went through any trouble to look up more current information on the Itanium series.
"... the company showed a film demonstrating the decoding process.
In the film, 48 MPEG-2 streams stored on a HDD were read, decoded and projected onto a 1,920 x 1,080 resolution display divided into 8 x 6 cells, each of which showed a different video in each cell. The company expects the technology..."
If you bothered to read the article contents, you'll see that they simply showed a video of the process actually working.
This is a far cry from a live tech demo, but if they can really pull it off, definitely shows the power of a Cell.
Try not to think of cost saving just in terms of the electricity bill direct to the servers.
Think: Reduced thermal load across the lot of them could allow you to reduce A/C costs considerably, both in terms of buying smaller A/C units, and the electricity to run them as well. Think: Space/cost savings, more processing in a smaller space, especially if you're renting cabinets or by the square foot.
If we're talking about server farms full of these, the savings could easily overtake the cost of the machines. (granted, this depends on what kind of processing power you need too)
Perhaps not so great for applications that need super high TPS ratings or massive floating point calcs, although I suppose I'll have reserve judgement on these VIAs until I find some real benchmarks.
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Now *this* comment, posted as AC or not, is an actual rational question that deserves to be discussed in depth.
I can't stand self-righteous people and their inflammatory bullshit.
Funny how you assume I believe that the author of the game shouldn't be allowed to use his right to free-speech to produce his game.
My *opinion* on never producing that game is just that.
For some reason, people have this idea that they have the right to never have their feelings hurt. Well fuck them. If being offended by stuff is the worst thing that ever chappens to you, then you've lived a charmed life.
How you manage to come off sounding so amazingly self-righteous is beyond me. Where did I say I have the right to not be offended, screw that. He can *absolutely* make the game, without worrying about what issues I might have with it, and he shouldn't have to.
*I*, on the other hand, do have a right to voice what I think.
The fact that I have an issue with this videogame, and took a few seconds to post that on Slashdot, doesn't mean my real free time isn't spent worrying about things like the local economy and jobs in my area, perhaps spending some time focusing on grade-schools and budgetary concerns in my district and a host of other more important national and international issues.
My summary, you're right, its a videogame, and I think its in poor taste. That doesn't matter to the author of the game, nor you, and it doesn't need to.
Auuugh, replying to trolls always infuriates me.
But never seems soon enough for a game about Columbine.
How, exactly, is a video game about it going to do anything other than glorify the massacre?
Yes, now shut up I have to get back to Molten Core.
Yes! We can duel fellow employees to work our way up the corporate ladder!
...
I envision:
The next corporate meeting: A raid group in Scholomance:
Raid: [llamalicious]: Dammit, those damned rogues and shadow priests are getting all the VP positions.
Raid: [llamalicious]: What char do I have to spec to get a decent promotion
Raid: [omgleetmgr]: stfu n00b or I'll kick you.
Raid: [omgleetmgr]: that means fired.
Raid: [llamalicious]:
Raid: llamalicious has left the raid party.
Is its first sentient action to rewrite itself in another language?
Site was FARK'd before it could be slashdotted (at least the map images are).
Good luck trying to view anything now.
Ah yes, another victim unable to detect sarcasm in a post.
Interestingly enough, you *don't* appear to be new here.
Is today pro-Microsoft or anti-Microsoft?
I left my cheat-sheet at home...
This game is *not* built around soloing; in-fact, you will find it impossible to complete most any task solo.
Using NPC henchmen to form your party, while available, is simply not enough in most case; you will be forced to select real people to form your groups as the henchmen AI is pretty weak.
Also, since this is not a true MMORPG, every task you perform will be done in an instance with your party. My only major beef with this is that party sizes are limited to 2/4/6/8 depending on the level of the area you are in; making it impossible to have a great LAN going if you have 1 or 2 too many people around. (There's no linking parties together either, so the party-limit is final)
Give it a shot: you'll be out the cost of the game if you don't really like it; but there's no subscription fee on top of it.
... and we're going to rename Slashdot the Lying Bastard.
I can't believe I laughed at your post.
I'm such a nerd.
There you are you little shit.
*Hey Dom!! Grab the bat and some tie-wraps, we got that little rat-bastard now!*
I think the developers of eds are mad at courier
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Those martians really are an introverted crowd, throwing up a big dust storm to prevent all of us perverted peeping humans from getting a look at their wives' nighties through their windows!
Bitchin' fast 3D2000!
Archive.org's cache of Google's Ten-Things list:m /corporate/tenthings.html
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.google.co
A serious geek would know, there is no "other hand".
One hand must remain free at all times, for, uh, personal entertainment.
The real question is: Do I care if I'm impeding PC sales?
Failing hardware aside, if what I've got now is already locked down, and the hardware performs perfectly under load, and I have room to add software features to my applications as necessary: Do I care if Dell wants to sell me a new multi-processor Xeon blade? Not really.
Expense without some sort of valid justification is wasted money. Put the dollars somewhere else.
If your old hardware is under-powered, and impeding business progress, of course you'll upgrade. But unless I'm under direct pressure from a vendor, I'm not going to waste money feeding the low-cost hardware boom.
However, if my vendor end-of-lifes a product, states it is no longer supported, warranted and spare parts are no longer going to be produced, or become exceedingly expensive - well, I might just get that new box after all.
For some minor applications, that old Windows 2000 server with 256MB of RAM might be just fine as-is, as long as its not a support liability. (No, having a machine that runs d.net or Seti@Home faster in your server room is probably *not* a real business reason for a faster server).
Linking to an article from over 1 year ago (April 19, 2004) while discussing pricing doesn't make me think the submitter went through any trouble to look up more current information on the Itanium series.
A quick trip even to Google News
While I understand they were trying to make a point about entry level pricing, lets at least have some current information to work with.
...linking a 6+MB PDF directly. Then posting on the homepage.
:P
Really, have some compassion Slashdot.
"... the company showed a film demonstrating the decoding process.
..."
In the film, 48 MPEG-2 streams stored on a HDD were read, decoded and projected onto a 1,920 x 1,080 resolution display divided into 8 x 6 cells, each of which showed a different video in each cell. The company expects the technology
If you bothered to read the article contents, you'll see that they simply showed a video of the process actually working.
This is a far cry from a live tech demo, but if they can really pull it off, definitely shows the power of a Cell.
They'll probably be asking you if you've seen "Jahn Kahna".
Try not to think of cost saving just in terms of the electricity bill direct to the servers.
Think: Reduced thermal load across the lot of them could allow you to reduce A/C costs considerably, both in terms of buying smaller A/C units, and the electricity to run them as well.
Think: Space/cost savings, more processing in a smaller space, especially if you're renting cabinets or by the square foot.
If we're talking about server farms full of these, the savings could easily overtake the cost of the machines. (granted, this depends on what kind of processing power you need too)
Perhaps not so great for applications that need super high TPS ratings or massive floating point calcs, although I suppose I'll have reserve judgement on these VIAs until I find some real benchmarks.
And then the compiler shared his view of the universe with the programmer, who promptly committed suicide.