It is clear to me that the gaming industry and its reviewers are in bed together; the fact Sierra's Arcanum won an award (pc-gamer) from anyone is incomprehensible.
I am very frustrated with the obviously biased reviews and stuffed ballots out there. Here is a list of games I have played, or tried to play recently, and a simple review. While these are just my opinions, I don't think they are too far off mainstream sensibilities...
1)Arcanum -- good idea, horrible implementation. The screen is zoomed in at low resolution and doesnt scroll. The characters track apparently using bresenham's algorithm, and actually get aliasing in their path when the walk at angles! The graphics are horrible, the gameplay subpar.
2)Pool of Radiance -- Should be called Pool of Doo Doo. Nuff said. Worst game I ever paid for.
3) Wizardry 8 -- 3d version of Pool of Doo Doo.
4) Dark Age of Camelot -- Everquest and just as pointless.
5) Gorasul -- You drink potions from the commode because the German english translation is so poor. Low resolution.
6) Gothic -- A great game with a bit of a learning curve. Panned by american reviewers who it is clear never actually played the game.
7) Baldur's Gate II, et al -- the standard for RPGs today. Can get boring for the less... enthusiastic.
8) Icewind Dale et al--Like Baldurs Gate II (with Heart of Winter), more accessable storyline, but more linear as well.
9) Anarchy Online -- even more boring (and buggy!) than everquest.
10)Harry Potter -- Hey, not bad for a kids game. None to exciting though.
11)Emperor of Dune -- great graphics, interesting RTS. Looses steam over time, largely due to too few too small maps. Fairly slow paced. Great graphics..did I mention that?
12) Black & White -- Best game of the year? What are they smoking? Its nearly unplayable because of the user interface that has you clawing the ground to move. The graphics arent even that good.
People seem to be forgetting that there is a known algorithm for factoring in polynomial time. This is the Shor algorithm for quantum computers. The governent has put billions of dollars in to this research, it would be entirely prudent to assume they have working machines that can crack any key length.
The main bogus part about the claim is that there is no theory to back up the supposed effect. Thus, what we have is an effect; however say that it is anti-gravity is presumptive. There are many things that could cause effects claimed by the so-called evidence, such as a jet stream of particles. Of course, this effect has never been replicated by any reputable scientist, thus we are left with a claim of some effect who's discoverer in the very least jumped to the conclusion of anti-gravity, yet more probably just made it all up.
Hey, back in the day at MS I used Xenix to get to Usenet and other internet resources. I was one of the last to give it up, when they pried it out of my fingers. [wasnt willing to die for that one]
Evolution is not pre-programmed, at least not according to the commonly held theory. The claims at the top of the page would require this to be so and would be a huge leap in evolution theory---a leap down the drainpipe disproving it. Evolution represent adaptation to the environment by individuals based on random mutation, pre-programming would be a sure indicator of a Grand Plan. I suggest the poster misunderstood the article.
It infuriates me to here people say the game is about who can build the biggest army the quickest, at the same time saying they always get trounced. Having been accused of cheating [in other RTSs] so many times it hurts, I want to tell you: better strategy wins the day in RTS. Not twitchy fingers. Not rushing. No fixed approach will work. You always lose you say? Until you always WIN, you have no basis to talk about what is or isnt a good strategy, or to say silly things like RTS is dead.
I just installed their beta; took less than 10 seconds of download to get the steam code. I installed Half-Life and it took 45 seconds to install, and I was in the game.
Seems easy enough to keep your documentation in the same place as your source code. You do have source code managment right? If not, you should start there. [sourcesafe,cvs] Documentation can be written in whatever format you want, but a standard which is compatible with your management systems change log tracker is a good idea.
In Washington State, it is illegal to send spam period. Isnt this the case is California as well? Why don't you post his name/address so a right minded Californian can do something about it?
I always "opt in" on these things with a fake email address. I hope to water down thier lists so they will eventually just give up. If enough people did this, those lists might go away.
Another place where you get this is on product registration. Usually the agreement is in the fine print somewhere on paper so you don't get warned during the registration. Usually something about business partners.
Installing Bearshare also installs two secret spyware apps. One of them does a similar redirection, but is especially evil because it bypasses firewalls like ZoneAlarm. More information about this at cexx.org/newnet.htm and lots of related stuff at the root cexx.org
So people in Russia make money from CP. How are the suggestions made by the parent post going to change that? Take my post in context of the US and recent events: candyman was a file sharing ring, not a CP business. Take my post in the context of the parent post: no amount of economic incentives is going to stop child porn because it is unrelated to the adult sex industry.
The are in other countries which do not have child porn laws or treaties. The US governement does not have authority to shut them down, thus they must block access at the ISP level.
Are you a troll? Pedophiles do not do kiddy porn for profit; they do it for sexual gratification. Nobody in these so-called 'rings' makes money from sharing their files, they simply get more kiddy media by swapping files.
Freenet is almost entirely child pornography with a smidgen of other illegal files. However since freenet uses encryption and distributed data storage, no single computer can [so they say] be proved to contain any particular file. Since a user of freenet is essentially an ISP for freenet, would this law apply to freenet users?
This is a classic way to present data to make a point without being backed up by the data. This is plain and simple dishonest. I suggest you go get a graph of that data that is zero based and see that this is really just a blip.
Why anyone would use SOAP is beyond me. Its a very complicated middle layer of proprietary logic and gobbly-gook code just to turn a message into a function.
I advise not useing it; complications in implementation, bugs, performance, debugging, and security just make it a bad choice.
As an employee at MS at the time, working on DOS and Windows, with many friends on OS/2 I can only say everyone is just wrong. I had written a big article about it, but decided it was too big a pain to set everyone straight; just know this, what you think you know about OS/2 and its relationship to Microsoft are almost certanly wrong.
I know why Boston Market the restaurant chain failed. Analysts made up all sorts of reasons. But I a loyal customer know the truth.
Something so simple too.
They switched cleaning agents. I was a huge Boston Market fan. One day, I go in, and the place reeks like some kind of urine. I go across town to another store, it too reeks of urine.
Not everyone could smell it; my girlfriend did an investigation and found that most people only noticed it once it was pointed out--chicken smells sort of that way too. However, we routinely saw people leave from the smell, muttering under their breath, but not telling the manager. A handful with 'good smellers' couldn't even enter the door.
My girlfriend tracked down the smell to the cleaning agent they used for the floor..and oddly enough, the trays. She tried to tell employees. They would not listen; they couldn't smell anything..they had acclimated.
She told the managers. They humored her. But nothing changed. She went to several outlets across town; same story.
About a year and a half later, Boston market shut down its restaurants ostensibly because 'americans were changing their eating habits'..sails climbed, then fell off because 'americans had changed their eating patterns'
As I said, not everyone noticed the smell; but the subconcious is designed to avoid certain odors such as death and human waste.
I am certain the smelly cleaning agent was their real downfall.
Sure, maybe the flaws you list would have taken them down, but they failed before those problems could be revealed.
Iridiums first line of failure was that they had no infrastructure capable of actually selling the phones! I spent months trying to buy a phone. Only place I found that said they would sell a phone to me was a fly-by-night in Taiwan, but they didnt have a calling plan. I was completely unable to get anyone to nail down how much I had to pay to get service. The closest I could get to price quotes were references in the Wall Street Journal. I wanted to give them my money I really did. There was just plain no way to do it, and no one to talk to about it.
Ever see the Iridium web site? It was bizarre. It actually had a page describing what kind of person might want a Iridium phone; rich Arabian Oil sheiks! They published this fantasy scenario, but no contacts on who actually sold the phones.
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It is clear to me that the gaming industry and its reviewers are in bed together; the fact Sierra's Arcanum won an award (pc-gamer) from anyone is incomprehensible.
I am very frustrated with the obviously biased reviews and stuffed ballots out there. Here is a list of games I have played, or tried to play recently, and a simple review. While these are just my opinions, I don't think they are too far off mainstream sensibilities...
1)Arcanum -- good idea, horrible implementation. The screen is zoomed in at low resolution and doesnt scroll. The characters track apparently using bresenham's algorithm, and actually get aliasing in their path when the walk at angles! The graphics are horrible, the gameplay subpar.
2)Pool of Radiance -- Should be called Pool of Doo Doo. Nuff said. Worst game I ever paid for.
3) Wizardry 8 -- 3d version of Pool of Doo Doo.
4) Dark Age of Camelot -- Everquest and just as pointless.
5) Gorasul -- You drink potions from the commode because the German english translation is so poor. Low resolution.
6) Gothic -- A great game with a bit of a learning curve. Panned by american reviewers who it is clear never actually played the game.
7) Baldur's Gate II, et al -- the standard for RPGs today. Can get boring for the less... enthusiastic.
8) Icewind Dale et al--Like Baldurs Gate II (with Heart of Winter), more accessable storyline, but more linear as well.
9) Anarchy Online -- even more boring (and buggy!) than everquest.
10)Harry Potter -- Hey, not bad for a kids game. None to exciting though.
11)Emperor of Dune -- great graphics, interesting RTS. Looses steam over time, largely due to too few too small maps. Fairly slow paced. Great graphics..did I mention that?
12) Black & White -- Best game of the year? What are they smoking? Its nearly unplayable because of the user interface that has you clawing the ground to move. The graphics arent even that good.
People seem to be forgetting that there is a known algorithm for factoring in polynomial time. This is the Shor algorithm for quantum computers. The governent has put billions of dollars in to this research, it would be entirely prudent to assume they have working machines that can crack any key length.
The main bogus part about the claim is that there is no theory to back up the supposed effect. Thus, what we have is an effect; however say that it is anti-gravity is presumptive. There are many things that could cause effects claimed by the so-called evidence, such as a jet stream of particles. Of course, this effect has never been replicated by any reputable scientist, thus we are left with a claim of some effect who's discoverer in the very least jumped to the conclusion of anti-gravity, yet more probably just made it all up.
Hey, back in the day at MS I used Xenix to get to Usenet and other internet resources. I was one of the last to give it up, when they pried it out of my fingers. [wasnt willing to die for that one]
Evolution is not pre-programmed, at least not according to the commonly held theory. The claims at the top of the page would require this to be so and would be a huge leap in evolution theory---a leap down the drainpipe disproving it. Evolution represent adaptation to the environment by individuals based on random mutation, pre-programming would be a sure indicator of a Grand Plan.
I suggest the poster misunderstood the article.
It infuriates me to here people say the game is about who can build the biggest army the quickest, at the same time saying they always get trounced.
Having been accused of cheating [in other RTSs] so many times it hurts, I want to tell you: better strategy wins the day in RTS. Not twitchy fingers. Not rushing. No fixed approach will work.
You always lose you say? Until you always WIN, you have no basis to talk about what is or isnt a good strategy, or to say silly things like RTS is dead.
I have AT&T broadband. Also, just because Gabe says 4x compression, some types of data, like 3d map data, can compress up to 50:1.
I just installed their beta; took less than 10 seconds of download to get the steam code. I installed Half-Life and it took 45 seconds to install, and I was in the game.
The process is beautifully seamless.
Read it again. You will see he says 1400 a year is what the article states, but that he himself gets 1400 a week. Not a day. Where'd that come from?
Seems easy enough to keep your documentation in the same place as your source code. You do have source code managment right? If not, you should start there. [sourcesafe,cvs]
Documentation can be written in whatever format you want, but a standard which is compatible with your management systems change log tracker is a good idea.
I recently went to a Franciscan church just after mass where they had been burning mass quantities of (apparently) Frankincense and Myrrh.
Whatever it was, I met God that day.
In Washington State, it is illegal to send spam period. Isnt this the case is California as well? Why don't you post his name/address so a right minded Californian can do something about it?
I always "opt in" on these things with a fake email address. I hope to water down thier lists so they will eventually just give up.
If enough people did this, those lists might go away.
Another place where you get this is on product registration. Usually the agreement is in the fine print somewhere on paper so you don't get warned during the registration. Usually something about business partners.
Installing Bearshare also installs two secret spyware apps. One of them does a similar redirection, but is especially evil because it bypasses firewalls like ZoneAlarm. More information about this at cexx.org/newnet.htm and lots of related stuff at the root cexx.org
So people in Russia make money from CP. How are the suggestions made by the parent post going to change that? Take my post in context of the US and recent events: candyman was a file sharing ring, not a CP business. Take my post in the context of the parent post: no amount of economic incentives is going to stop child porn because it is unrelated to the adult sex industry.
The are in other countries which do not have child porn laws or treaties. The US governement does not have authority to shut them down, thus they must block access at the ISP level.
Are you a troll? Pedophiles do not do kiddy porn for profit; they do it for sexual gratification. Nobody in these so-called 'rings' makes money from sharing their files, they simply get more kiddy media by swapping files.
Freenet is almost entirely child pornography with a smidgen of other illegal files. However since freenet uses encryption and distributed data storage, no single computer can [so they say] be proved to contain any particular file.
Since a user of freenet is essentially an ISP for freenet, would this law apply to freenet users?
This is a classic way to present data to make a point without being backed up by the data.
This is plain and simple dishonest.
I suggest you go get a graph of that data that is zero based and see that this is really just a blip.
Why anyone would use SOAP is beyond me. Its a very complicated middle layer of proprietary logic and gobbly-gook code just to turn a message into a function.
I advise not useing it; complications in implementation, bugs, performance, debugging, and security just make it a bad choice.
As an employee at MS at the time, working on DOS and Windows, with many friends on OS/2 I can only say everyone is just wrong. I had written a big article about it, but decided it was too big a pain to set everyone straight; just know this, what you think you know about OS/2 and its relationship to Microsoft are almost certanly wrong.
I know why Boston Market the restaurant chain failed. Analysts made up all sorts of reasons. But I a loyal customer know the truth.
Something so simple too.
They switched cleaning agents. I was a huge Boston Market fan. One day, I go in, and the place reeks like some kind of urine. I go across town to another store, it too reeks of urine.
Not everyone could smell it; my girlfriend did an investigation and found that most people only noticed it once it was pointed out--chicken smells sort of that way too. However, we routinely saw people leave from the smell, muttering under their breath, but not telling the manager. A handful with 'good smellers' couldn't even enter the door.
My girlfriend tracked down the smell to the cleaning agent they used for the floor..and oddly enough, the trays. She tried to tell employees. They would not listen; they couldn't smell anything..they had acclimated.
She told the managers. They humored her. But nothing changed. She went to several outlets across town; same story.
About a year and a half later, Boston market shut down its restaurants ostensibly because 'americans were changing their eating habits'..sails climbed, then fell off because 'americans had changed their eating patterns'
As I said, not everyone noticed the smell; but the subconcious is designed to avoid certain odors such as death and human waste.
I am certain the smelly cleaning agent was their real downfall.
Sure, maybe the flaws you list would have taken them down, but they failed before those problems could be revealed.
Iridiums first line of failure was that they had no infrastructure capable of actually selling the phones! I spent months trying to buy a phone. Only place I found that said they would sell a phone to me was a fly-by-night in Taiwan, but they didnt have a calling plan. I was completely unable to get anyone to nail down how much I had to pay to get service. The closest I could get to price quotes were references in the Wall Street Journal. I wanted to give them my money I really did. There was just plain no way to do it, and no one to talk to about it.
Ever see the Iridium web site? It was bizarre. It actually had a page describing what kind of person might want a Iridium phone; rich Arabian Oil sheiks! They published this fantasy scenario, but no contacts on who actually sold the phones.
What the hell were they thinking?
This is a site for fiction, not virtual psychiatrists. It allows budding writers to practice thier trade.
This site would be great for improving your language and writing skills, as educational as it gets!
Why? Please explain Yancey!