oOoOoOh a lock? Oh teh noes! I'm sure it kept the students out quite well. Thankfully, I have access to a pair of bolt cutters and some liquid oxygen. Oops! Was that battery storing your CMOS settings?
The average desktop BIOS is not meant to be secure. If I have console access and the ability to reboot, chances are good I have floppy access and probably access to the case as well. And if you can manipulate the motherboard or boot from a floppy, you don't need a BIOS password.
According to one user, electric bikes are popular because they're cheap, and can take you all around town on one charge. Who would have guessed that China would lead the way in green transportation?"
Power from the outlet requires a generator or plant of some kind, as well. If theym like the US, generate much of their electricity from fossil fuels, all they've done is move their pollution problem to a different sector.
By which you must mean, "Shitty american macrobrewery pisswater", because we have a lot of really good micros here. And of course, Canada has no shortage of shitty canadian pisswater, for that matter;)
Actually, one species of dinosaurs could most certainly genocide another. It happens in nature all the time, except since most animals don't consciously intend to do it, it's just called "extinction".
Not sure what you were responding to, but both Padlock and WASTE are mainly secure, enclosed P2P apps. The chat is really an afterthought mainly to facilitate text requests for files and such.
Can't vouch for Padlock, but WASTE really is the shit.
Not true. You should be able to remove them simply by having members of the network remove that users' public key, then make sure all clients are NOT set to auto-accept broadcasted public keys. Admittedly, I've never had a need to do this, but In theory it should work.
After tripping for a week? That's a LOT of acid there. He probably did it in an attempt to end the damn trip.
But seriously, claiming that as proof that acid makes people jump out of windows is like using the monkey-marijuana study (in which monkeys had gas masks strapped to their faces and were forced to breathe only marijauana smoke for hours) as proof that marijauna is bad for you.
"Being able to write a game once, and with little modification have it running on both a PC and a console, is a Good Thing for developers and users. "
My god, martha stewart has found slashdot. and she's an MS fan.
I disagree. I gave LOZ:WW a good try but it just didn't appeal to me. Highly stylized and vibrant, yes. Fun for me, no. I've been beta-testing City of Heroes. That game holds some interest for me.
1. 1. Why does the industry have to crash at all? The movie industry is still around over a century later, dumbass.
Quick, go get your old 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System.
What? You donated it to a homeless shelter ten years ago? And even they don't play it, some guy using it as a little sandwich-holder? I mean, great games continued to come out for the NES right up until it went out of style. Developers could be making games for it today. So why is it extinct?...
It's the same reason. The novelty wore off.
This is inaccurate. Nintendo's ARE still played. There are people who genuinely enjoy older, simpler games. Admittedly, these people probably compose a small percentage of the gaming market, that's really irrelevant because the problem was never that people bought new consoles only because the novelty wore off. The problem was that there was always something newer and better around the corner. For the last twenty years there has consistently been a newer and more advanced game console just over the horizon, and assuming equal quality of titles between the two, who would want to stick with the older, crappier looking games? The driving force for upgrades was simply the availability of better hardware, not that people stopped liking games being made for older systems. It's all relative.
Interesting that he should pick Goldeneye and Red Faction as comparison to prove his point about game innovation plateauing, and it makes we wonder if he actually checked out these games first? Red Faction has a very well-defined gimmick that few other franchises employ, which is the destructible environments. You can literally blast your way through walls, doors, and floors to get to new areas, and not just in the handful of scripted instances that most games give you. To me, the ability to essentially carve the landscape in games is a very innovative technical step and brings us a bit closer to real-world VR emulation. He also used tiny, low-quality shots that mimimize the huge disparity in visual quality between these two games.
3. Again, the novelty of getting to be Luke Skywalker attracted gamers in droves. We were never really able to do that before. The experience of being able to stride down a hallway blowing up monsters with a rail gun was also new to a lot of you. But it comes to the same, doesn't it? The first time you play a level, the monster around the first corner is a surprise. After that, it's homework. It's memorizing, via pure repetition, bad guy placement and ammunition deposits and card keys.
And what is watching a movie the second time around? Does it suddenly dynamically shift? No, just like once you've played a video game, the second time around it is familiar, the same can be said of a movie, but even moreso because you cannot change anything that will occur in that movie. This is not true of video games, where a game creator can allow for any number of dynamic story elements. Take Deus Ex, where by taking the side of the corrupt government, or the rebel terrorists, the player can influence who survives to help him through unravelling the story, what events occur within the story, and maneuver toward an ending dictated by their own personal values and actions. We will see infinitely more complexity on this level, stories that unfold with branches and branches depending on what you select. A movie where you can decide whether to work your way into power in an empire or assist the rebels in overthrowing an empire. Movies, without actually incorporating elements of games, will never be able to fill this niche.
4. That's both the good news and the bad news, though. Where is the industry going to expand to now? The middle-aged don't play games (more on that in a moment). Who's left? The elderly? The unborn? Microsoft and Nintendo both released new machines in 2001 and both failed. The new machines were not quite new (or novel) enough to catch anybody's attention.
First you claim pinball takes far more skill than any fighting game, then you claim that your friend became an expert in what... 20 or 30 games? It takes hundreds of games for most of my friends to become "expert" at a single character in Soul Calibur 2, and we play quite a lot of that game.
Then again, we are competing against each other, not a machine, which means being an "expert" also includes knowing your opponent and predicting their next move.
This is true. However, during development, Q2 was released and Valve was given an infusion of Q2 code. So the HL engine is mostly custom, with a fair amount of Q1 and some Q2 code.
Because clearly, anyone who is against corporate strongarming must be living off mommy and daddy. Guess what, junior? I'm 23, live completely off my own buck and have since I was 17, and I still have the balls to stand against a corporation that abuses capitalism.
So? They are trying to keep people interested, and special effects and exciting narrative help with that. As long as their information remains factually correct, it can only help to broaden their audience.
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oOoOoOh a lock? Oh teh noes!
I'm sure it kept the students out quite well. Thankfully, I have access to a pair of bolt cutters and some liquid oxygen.
Oops! Was that battery storing your CMOS settings?
The average desktop BIOS is not meant to be secure. If I have console access and the ability to reboot, chances are good I have floppy access and probably access to the case as well. And if you can manipulate the motherboard or boot from a floppy, you don't need a BIOS password.
According to one user, electric bikes are popular because they're cheap, and can take you all around town on one charge. Who would have guessed that China would lead the way in green transportation?"
Power from the outlet requires a generator or plant of some kind, as well. If theym like the US, generate much of their electricity from fossil fuels, all they've done is move their pollution problem to a different sector.
By which you must mean, "Shitty american macrobrewery pisswater", because we have a lot of really good micros here. And of course, Canada has no shortage of shitty canadian pisswater, for that matter ;)
Actually, one species of dinosaurs could most certainly genocide another. It happens in nature all the time, except since most animals don't consciously intend to do it, it's just called "extinction".
Not sure what you were responding to, but both Padlock and WASTE are mainly secure, enclosed P2P apps. The chat is really an afterthought mainly to facilitate text requests for files and such.
Can't vouch for Padlock, but WASTE really is the shit.
Mod parent insightful. I love to see crappy analogies crushed.
Not true. You should be able to remove them simply by having members of the network remove that users' public key, then make sure all clients are NOT set to auto-accept broadcasted public keys.
Admittedly, I've never had a need to do this, but In theory it should work.
Actually, I love (no wait, hate) closed-mindedness everywhere, because that's where it exists- every human-populated area of the world.
After tripping for a week? That's a LOT of acid there. He probably did it in an attempt to end the damn trip. But seriously, claiming that as proof that acid makes people jump out of windows is like using the monkey-marijuana study (in which monkeys had gas masks strapped to their faces and were forced to breathe only marijauana smoke for hours) as proof that marijauna is bad for you.
thank god we're stopping all those awful pot-smokers from smoking weed in their own homes. Think of all the evil that could come of that.
"Being able to write a game once, and with little modification have it running on both a PC and a console, is a Good Thing for developers and users. " My god, martha stewart has found slashdot. and she's an MS fan.
And all those pirate fossils. Who would guessed that peglegs and hook hands would make such distinct fossils?
Oh ya, installing cups just to get printing working. What fun.
Actually, IIRC Kirk never said that in ST:TOS. He almost always said something like "Two to beam up".
Yep, and in everday speech CATV may be ethernet cable, don't make it so
I disagree. I gave LOZ:WW a good try but it just didn't appeal to me. Highly stylized and vibrant, yes. Fun for me, no.
I've been beta-testing City of Heroes. That game holds some interest for me.
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1. Why does the industry have to crash at all? The movie industry is still around over a century later, dumbass.
Quick, go get your old 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System.
What? You donated it to a homeless shelter ten years ago? And even they don't play it, some guy using it as a little sandwich-holder? I mean, great games continued to come out for the NES right up until it went out of style. Developers could be making games for it today. So why is it extinct?
It's the same reason. The novelty wore off.
This is inaccurate. Nintendo's ARE still played. There are people who genuinely enjoy older, simpler games. Admittedly, these people probably compose a small percentage of the gaming market, that's really irrelevant because the problem was never that people bought new consoles only because the novelty wore off. The problem was that there was always something newer and better around the corner. For the last twenty years there has consistently been a newer and more advanced game console just over the horizon, and assuming equal quality of titles between the two, who would want to stick with the older, crappier looking games?
The driving force for upgrades was simply the availability of better hardware, not that people stopped liking games being made for older systems. It's all relative.
Interesting that he should pick Goldeneye and Red Faction as comparison to prove his point about game innovation plateauing, and it makes we wonder if he actually checked out these games first?
Red Faction has a very well-defined gimmick that few other franchises employ, which is the destructible environments. You can literally blast your way through walls, doors, and floors to get to new areas, and not just in the handful of scripted instances that most games give you.
To me, the ability to essentially carve the landscape in games is a very innovative technical step and brings us a bit closer to real-world VR emulation.
He also used tiny, low-quality shots that mimimize the huge disparity in visual quality between these two games.
3. Again, the novelty of getting to be Luke Skywalker attracted gamers in droves. We were never really able to do that before. The experience of being able to stride down a hallway blowing up monsters with a rail gun was also new to a lot of you. But it comes to the same, doesn't it? The first time you play a level, the monster around the first corner is a surprise. After that, it's homework. It's memorizing, via pure repetition, bad guy placement and ammunition deposits and card keys.
And what is watching a movie the second time around? Does it suddenly dynamically shift? No, just like once you've played a video game, the second time around it is familiar, the same can be said of a movie, but even moreso because you cannot change anything that will occur in that movie.
This is not true of video games, where a game creator can allow for any number of dynamic story elements. Take Deus Ex, where by taking the side of the corrupt government, or the rebel terrorists, the player can influence who survives to help him through unravelling the story, what events occur within the story, and maneuver toward an ending dictated by their own personal values and actions.
We will see infinitely more complexity on this level, stories that unfold with branches and branches depending on what you select. A movie where you can decide whether to work your way into power in an empire or assist the rebels in overthrowing an empire.
Movies, without actually incorporating elements of games, will never be able to fill this niche.
4.
That's both the good news and the bad news, though. Where is the industry going to expand to now? The middle-aged don't play games (more on that in a moment). Who's left? The elderly? The unborn? Microsoft and Nintendo both released new machines in 2001 and both failed. The new machines were not quite new (or novel) enough to catch anybody's attention.
First you claim pinball takes far more skill than any fighting game, then you claim that your friend became an expert in what... 20 or 30 games?
It takes hundreds of games for most of my friends to become "expert" at a single character in Soul Calibur 2, and we play quite a lot of that game.
Then again, we are competing against each other, not a machine, which means being an "expert" also includes knowing your opponent and predicting their next move.
...will they sell me one without charging me for the MacOS?
This is true. However, during development, Q2 was released and Valve was given an infusion of Q2 code. So the HL engine is mostly custom, with a fair amount of Q1 and some Q2 code.
Ooh, an insult from an AC. How meaningful.
Typical ignorant agism- YOU ARE YOUNG AND THEREFORE YOU ARE WRONG.
Come back when you actually have a point to make, son.
Because clearly, anyone who is against corporate strongarming must be living off mommy and daddy.
Guess what, junior? I'm 23, live completely off my own buck and have since I was 17, and I still have the balls to stand against a corporation that abuses capitalism.
So? They are trying to keep people interested, and special effects and exciting narrative help with that.
As long as their information remains factually correct, it can only help to broaden their audience.