"Instead of having all the goodies that come with repeated play be unlocked through tasks, how about releasing some of those things dependent on how many hours you spend playing a game?"
"...trying to find out what really happened in the past is becoming harder and harder."
Well when you DO get a CLUE come back and then we'll talk, because during World War 2 the United States didn't mass murder a several million of it's own people (Stalin). The United States didn't sentance a few million people to death in concentration camps (Hitler). Yes, the japanese camps were shitty, I'll be the first to agree, but they were TEMPORARY. Nor was their goal to exterminate large portions of the populace or political disidents. If you think otherwise with your "clouded history", you must have missed the last 50 years and the LARGE ASIAN POPULACE thriving in the US.
You are an absolute DUMBASS if you can honestly even attempt to compare the camps of Hitler and Stalin to those of WWII US, or even today.
Cripes that was so damn predictable it was scary...
I guess they're trying to change up the ol' Allies vs. Axis standard by not including an American European force, but really.... Now you can play for one mass murder or the other mass murderer! Whoo hoo! I guess this sorta falls in line with promoting those Anakin Skywalker coloring books... You know, the kid that grows up to be the mass murdering second in command? I just love what we're teaching our kids ^__^
Oh don't worry... I'm right up there with you and that flamethrower for the Segway. Overhyped, Overpriced and over.... Well, over something. This is one of the few cases you ever see me come say anything remotely in favor of it.
"Looks like a bigger creative leap than Segway..."
Let's see here... Auto-balancing two wheeled compact electric vehical or a surfboard with a small motor inside of it. Oh yeah, the creativity is just leaping from this project...
"The asteroid, designated 2003 SQ222, came from inside the Earth's orbit and so was only spotted after it had whizzed by."
Fortunately for us, scientists are more worried about negative press than they are by near miss killer asteroids. Not that they would want to raise awareness and get something done about them. I mean, don't want the world too worried about being wiped out. That's bad publicity.
How hard is it to condense this story down to "Surprise! You have lots of time on your hands!" I know-- Slashdot's next story should be on "The surprise disappointments of being unemployed!" since we're on the Captain Obvious kick...
"I don't like getting trounced by someone who is either flat-out, hands-down better at a game than I am or has simply invested many more hours in getting good at the game than I have."
Oh, so in other words he doesn't like multi-gaming period? Becuase that's what it's all about investing time and becoming better. You got trounced? Get a spine! You either invest that time or you your abilities will always be lesser than the next person you meet! Do you expect to become their equal through osmosis or telepathy??! If there is ANY sort of competition involved in the game, there's no way you can not practice, not invest time and not get trounced. The first two are mutually exclusive with the third in both gaming AND REAL LIFE and it's apparently a lesson this 'reviewer' never learned. In fact, i'd start looking at the publication that employed a writer with that attitude with shades of doubt. Whew, it's a good thing real life matches you with people of equal abilities YOU FREAKIN COMMUNIST!!!!
Ok, so I just had to throw that last part in for fun, but come on. if this man is serious, he's afraid of investing time into games like online tetris because their is the possibility that somebody who has invested more time into the game and honed their reflexes might actually beat him because of it... Ah, Gamespot. it figures.
"This doesn't look good for Linux, in my opinion. Maybe we should all start to think about jumping ship?"
Um, no. Maybe you should think about creating a user friendly product that both novices and experts can use instead of relying on a small segment of the market to support your product. Maybe you should even think about creating a solid core of developers that insures Linux's ability to run common software instead of having to cobble individual drivers together or hope to God somebody has already done it for you.
Of course, if the Linux community isn't willing to conceed those minor details, by all means jump ship.
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Europe was already assimalated by the Euro, so do we really need to give the Borg another crack at it?
"hardly anybody is buying the Xbox in Japan", and the GameCube has a one-and-a-half million console advantage, further bolstered by a recent weekly chart that has the GC selling 16,841 consoles, and Xbox selling just 530 machines.
Well of course nobody is buying the XBox in Japan. There is hardly and 'console' flavored games for it on either side of the ocean. Most are either very PC flavored, 2 year old ports of previously marketed games or are simply too mediocre to be noticed. And don't go off on me with some fanboy rant. I own an Xbox and did Live Beta. I can count the number of truly attention getting games on one hand (maybe two) and the number that actually sell large quantities in Japan is even less.
In all honesty though, I don't think MS cares about that market, or at least only enough to keep disgruntled US/European gamers from burning their headquarters down. I'm more and more of the opinion that they are trying to grow a grass roots domestic gaming culture from the ground up, attempting to accomplish what Japan has had for two decades-- A thriving, rampant gaming industry and consumer lifestyle almost entirely independent of the Japanese market. Kinda goes along with that monopoly thing. I can see the reason for it somewhat. As long as they rely on a japanese market to make them games, they'll be beholden to them in one way or another. By establishing a foundation at home, they can at least battle for their monopoly on an even footing instead of on the enemies home turf.
But without relying on the Japanese market which sells games nearly everybody likes, it's going to be a painfully uphill battle... I don't see them being anything close to a challenge for at least another console, maybe even two more. You think they're bleeding bad now? Wait until MS is facing a brand spankin' new PS3 with a fanbase inherited from two generations of excellent consoles...
Say what you want about Gates and his Billions. Sony is a rock solid company itself with it's own billions, and console hardware experience AND a an established consumer base. If MS doesn't alter their strategy a tad, bleeding moutains of cash will be the only way to the promised land. I know they have it, but against an opponet with equal mountains of cash already making more moutains of cash, it isn't exactly the brightest move...
"...astronomers are horrified by press scares over asteroids
You know, the smartest people are the biggest freakin' idiots sometimes. This is opportunity knocking for one of the least recognized, most inadequately funded areas of astronomy in which the consequences of neglect could prove catastrophic, and these astronomers are horrified that they are recieving so much damn attention, negative or otherwise??? What did I just miss here???
Cripes, this is exactly what you want for this anemic area of research. Tell em: "People, I'm sorry to break it to you, but a giant meteor impacting this planet would blow us all to hell and it just so happens this one is passing close. It could happen again with less desirable results next time. Now about that funding..." Don't shune the spotlight you asses, USE IT.
If it isn't whining about the lack of attention, it's whining about too much attention. Sheesh... no wonder these projects aren't getting anywhere.
And that has to me the most intelligent comment for a solution to this problem instead of whining the on and on about it. If you're going to treat your damn XBox like a PC, put a firewall on the thing like every other PC you'd connect to the internet. Filter what goes in and out.
Bunch of freakin jeeniousious, I swear. I don't have my mod points today, but this man deserves a few more.
If it were any other device i might be concerned, but this much outcry over a console people are modding is ridiculous. What other things would they like MS to inform them about next time a game runs?
"Game 'Grand Theft Metal' wants to enable Direct X9 anti-aliasing routine. Continue with game?"
Again, most people go into buying this thing know that it's internal OS operation is heavily automated and virtually invisible, unlike a computer. Infact, that's one of it's primary selling points. the fact that people who are modding their Xboxes beyond it's original design are actually complaining about it justtorks me to no end. With a computer, I agree. With something designed to be a console? These people need to get a life. Badly.
"According to The Inquirer, Microsoft has used their Xbox Live Vole System to patch any Xboxes that access it....without asking their permission before installing the software. Further, according to The Xbox Linux Project, users who do not have an Xbox Live account may find themselves being patched without permission as well.... I don't know if I feel comfortable with ANYONE installing software on my hardware without asking permission first."
Oh come the FUCK on.
Did you just miss the entire function of a console? It's called plug n' play you whining freaks, designed specifically to make downloads, patching and other OS maintence/updates as transparent as possible while allowing the user to concentrate on gaming , or did you forget that MINOR point in the process of modding the XBox for a function if was never intended to fullfill? Like saaaaay... TURNING IT INTO A PC AND ADDING LINUX TO IT?????
And golly gee whiz, those same Linux Activists are now finding that their console, designed to primarily be a hands off OS device, is downloading patches WITHOUT THEIR PERMISSION!?!?! THE HORROR! Will you people get some perspective, not to mention a freakin' CLUE!??! Of course it's downloading and patching shit without your permission since that was how it was designed in the first place-- A seemless gaming experience, which means not asking you all the annoying details on OS upkeep. IMAGINE THAT.
And for cryin out loud, it's not what you're doing that pisses me off so much, it's the innocent, self-righteous "we've been wronged!" attitude that you take doing it. Give it a rest already. You're modding a device beyond it original purpose and beyond the intentions/plans of the designers. Suck it up already.
Slashdot Mirror
"Instead of having all the goodies that come with repeated play be unlocked through tasks, how about releasing some of those things dependent on how many hours you spend playing a game?"
Whee! Time released gaming! Another slashdot discovery! Gosh, what would we ever do without you people!?
And that's only one. Cripes, it's like we missed the last 5 years of gaming around here or something...
"...trying to find out what really happened in the past is becoming harder and harder."
Well when you DO get a CLUE come back and then we'll talk, because during World War 2 the United States didn't mass murder a several million of it's own people (Stalin). The United States didn't sentance a few million people to death in concentration camps (Hitler). Yes, the japanese camps were shitty, I'll be the first to agree, but they were TEMPORARY. Nor was their goal to exterminate large portions of the populace or political disidents. If you think otherwise with your "clouded history", you must have missed the last 50 years and the LARGE ASIAN POPULACE thriving in the US.
You are an absolute DUMBASS if you can honestly even attempt to compare the camps of Hitler and Stalin to those of WWII US, or even today.
Cripes that was so damn predictable it was scary...
I guess they're trying to change up the ol' Allies vs. Axis standard by not including an American European force, but really.... Now you can play for one mass murder or the other mass murderer! Whoo hoo! I guess this sorta falls in line with promoting those Anakin Skywalker coloring books... You know, the kid that grows up to be the mass murdering second in command? I just love what we're teaching our kids ^__^
"that little game who spawned an entire industry (or two, if we count videogames)"
Videogames? Um, no. Dumbass.
...I, for one will welcome our new Pen Wielding Overlords.
Oh don't worry... I'm right up there with you and that flamethrower for the Segway. Overhyped, Overpriced and over.... Well, over something. This is one of the few cases you ever see me come say anything remotely in favor of it.
"Looks like a bigger creative leap than Segway..."
Let's see here... Auto-balancing two wheeled compact electric vehical or a surfboard with a small motor inside of it. Oh yeah, the creativity is just leaping from this project...
...But you can't install Linux on it. How could it possibly matter? ^_^
Build Your Own Mortar
It's a freakin cylinder with one end closed off!!! How much of a guide do you possibly need!?!?!?
WHY..
IS...
THIS...
NEWS!!?!?
"The asteroid, designated 2003 SQ222, came from inside the Earth's orbit and so was only spotted after it had whizzed by."
Fortunately for us, scientists are more worried about negative press than they are by near miss killer asteroids. Not that they would want to raise awareness and get something done about them. I mean, don't want the world too worried about being wiped out. That's bad publicity.
"Consumer-Paid Computer Recycling..." ...A TAX!!!! Just say it for cryin' out loud.
"The Surprising Benefits of Being Unemployed"
How hard is it to condense this story down to "Surprise! You have lots of time on your hands!" I know-- Slashdot's next story should be on "The surprise disappointments of being unemployed!" since we're on the Captain Obvious kick...
"to build out a new network of miniature (at least in comparison with today's monsters) weather radars"
But can you mod linux onto it? Failing that; In Soviet Russia, the weather radar miniturizes YOU.
"I don't like getting trounced by someone who is either flat-out, hands-down better at a game than I am or has simply invested many more hours in getting good at the game than I have."
Oh, so in other words he doesn't like multi-gaming period? Becuase that's what it's all about investing time and becoming better. You got trounced? Get a spine! You either invest that time or you your abilities will always be lesser than the next person you meet! Do you expect to become their equal through osmosis or telepathy??! If there is ANY sort of competition involved in the game, there's no way you can not practice, not invest time and not get trounced. The first two are mutually exclusive with the third in both gaming AND REAL LIFE and it's apparently a lesson this 'reviewer' never learned. In fact, i'd start looking at the publication that employed a writer with that attitude with shades of doubt. Whew, it's a good thing real life matches you with people of equal abilities YOU FREAKIN COMMUNIST!!!!
Ok, so I just had to throw that last part in for fun, but come on. if this man is serious, he's afraid of investing time into games like online tetris because their is the possibility that somebody who has invested more time into the game and honed their reflexes might actually beat him because of it... Ah, Gamespot. it figures.
Because slashdot feels the need to prove their oldskool worth enough to ignore the other "searchforityourselfyoufreakinidiot" alternatives, I suspect.
"This doesn't look good for Linux, in my opinion. Maybe we should all start to think about jumping ship?"
Um, no. Maybe you should think about creating a user friendly product that both novices and experts can use instead of relying on a small segment of the market to support your product. Maybe you should even think about creating a solid core of developers that insures Linux's ability to run common software instead of having to cobble individual drivers together or hope to God somebody has already done it for you.
Of course, if the Linux community isn't willing to conceed those minor details, by all means jump ship.
Europe was already assimalated by the Euro, so do we really need to give the Borg another crack at it?
"..And powered by Linux to boot. Um, as well."
Hmmm, I guess Linux isn't on the ass end of gaming after all. Just the really weird and obscure end of it...
"hardly anybody is buying the Xbox in Japan", and the GameCube has a one-and-a-half million console advantage, further bolstered by a recent weekly chart that has the GC selling 16,841 consoles, and Xbox selling just 530 machines.
Well of course nobody is buying the XBox in Japan. There is hardly and 'console' flavored games for it on either side of the ocean. Most are either very PC flavored, 2 year old ports of previously marketed games or are simply too mediocre to be noticed. And don't go off on me with some fanboy rant. I own an Xbox and did Live Beta. I can count the number of truly attention getting games on one hand (maybe two) and the number that actually sell large quantities in Japan is even less.
In all honesty though, I don't think MS cares about that market, or at least only enough to keep disgruntled US/European gamers from burning their headquarters down. I'm more and more of the opinion that they are trying to grow a grass roots domestic gaming culture from the ground up, attempting to accomplish what Japan has had for two decades-- A thriving, rampant gaming industry and consumer lifestyle almost entirely independent of the Japanese market. Kinda goes along with that monopoly thing. I can see the reason for it somewhat. As long as they rely on a japanese market to make them games, they'll be beholden to them in one way or another. By establishing a foundation at home, they can at least battle for their monopoly on an even footing instead of on the enemies home turf.
But without relying on the Japanese market which sells games nearly everybody likes, it's going to be a painfully uphill battle... I don't see them being anything close to a challenge for at least another console, maybe even two more. You think they're bleeding bad now? Wait until MS is facing a brand spankin' new PS3 with a fanbase inherited from two generations of excellent consoles...
Say what you want about Gates and his Billions. Sony is a rock solid company itself with it's own billions, and console hardware experience AND a an established consumer base. If MS doesn't alter their strategy a tad, bleeding moutains of cash will be the only way to the promised land. I know they have it, but against an opponet with equal mountains of cash already making more moutains of cash, it isn't exactly the brightest move...
Get your own IMO. This one's mine.
"...astronomers are horrified by press scares over asteroids
You know, the smartest people are the biggest freakin' idiots sometimes. This is opportunity knocking for one of the least recognized, most inadequately funded areas of astronomy in which the consequences of neglect could prove catastrophic, and these astronomers are horrified that they are recieving so much damn attention, negative or otherwise??? What did I just miss here???
Cripes, this is exactly what you want for this anemic area of research. Tell em: "People, I'm sorry to break it to you, but a giant meteor impacting this planet would blow us all to hell and it just so happens this one is passing close. It could happen again with less desirable results next time. Now about that funding..." Don't shune the spotlight you asses, USE IT.
If it isn't whining about the lack of attention, it's whining about too much attention. Sheesh... no wonder these projects aren't getting anywhere.
"Too poor to buy pricey deuterium gas, Craig bought a container of deuterium oxide, or heavy water, for 20 bucks"
Forgive my ignorance, but exactly where does one come across a container of deuterium oxide for $20??? Discount Nuclear Supplies R' Us?
I'm surprised it's holding it's own too, quite frankly. Fluctuating wildly though :D
And that has to me the most intelligent comment for a solution to this problem instead of whining the on and on about it. If you're going to treat your damn XBox like a PC, put a firewall on the thing like every other PC you'd connect to the internet. Filter what goes in and out.
Bunch of freakin jeeniousious, I swear. I don't have my mod points today, but this man deserves a few more.
If it were any other device i might be concerned, but this much outcry over a console people are modding is ridiculous. What other things would they like MS to inform them about next time a game runs?
"Game 'Grand Theft Metal' wants to enable Direct X9 anti-aliasing routine. Continue with game?"
Again, most people go into buying this thing know that it's internal OS operation is heavily automated and virtually invisible, unlike a computer. Infact, that's one of it's primary selling points. the fact that people who are modding their Xboxes beyond it's original design are actually complaining about it justtorks me to no end. With a computer, I agree. With something designed to be a console? These people need to get a life. Badly.
"According to The Inquirer, Microsoft has used their Xbox Live Vole System to patch any Xboxes that access it....without asking their permission before installing the software. Further, according to The Xbox Linux Project, users who do not have an Xbox Live account may find themselves being patched without permission as well.... I don't know if I feel comfortable with ANYONE installing software on my hardware without asking permission first."
Oh come the FUCK on.
Did you just miss the entire function of a console? It's called plug n' play you whining freaks, designed specifically to make downloads, patching and other OS maintence/updates as transparent as possible while allowing the user to concentrate on gaming , or did you forget that MINOR point in the process of modding the XBox for a function if was never intended to fullfill? Like saaaaay... TURNING IT INTO A PC AND ADDING LINUX TO IT?????
And golly gee whiz, those same Linux Activists are now finding that their console, designed to primarily be a hands off OS device, is downloading patches WITHOUT THEIR PERMISSION!?!?! THE HORROR! Will you people get some perspective, not to mention a freakin' CLUE!??! Of course it's downloading and patching shit without your permission since that was how it was designed in the first place-- A seemless gaming experience, which means not asking you all the annoying details on OS upkeep. IMAGINE THAT.
And for cryin out loud, it's not what you're doing that pisses me off so much, it's the innocent, self-righteous "we've been wronged!" attitude that you take doing it. Give it a rest already. You're modding a device beyond it original purpose and beyond the intentions/plans of the designers. Suck it up already.