"By a great margin do I prefer PC gaming mainly because of not having a pile of generations of hardware to replace constantly and the ability to download / update games with patches & fixes etc... and adding content"
I bought my Xbox around the same time I bought my PC. The PC cost 3 times as much. I can't play the latest crop of PC games at a decent framerate, however, I can play the above mentioned game. Also, I played the previous title for this game. I was able to download new content and patches for it.
Where's the benefit again, besides having invested the cost of a good graphics card in the console?
I don't think it matters which brand or flavor of OS you're running, or what "crucial" apps you may think you need on this. The fact is that with such a tiny keyboard you aren't going to be doing much command line hackery anyways. This is much more a "use it with the pen" affair than writing perl scripts with your thumbs.
NOW, people, lets try to learn from this and move on! What we need to do is create a position. A position of power. No longer will stories just be immediately posted to the front page by anyone. We'll implement a process where the articles are reviewed for content and duplication before being posted. This mystical figure will have powers we don't, but that's ok because he'll be vigilant in his protection of freedom and seeing the same story twice. And we shall call him THE EDITORATOR!
Sorry good citizen, after reviewing the site contents we have concluded that it is NOT a capatalist website, but seems to be filled with like minded brethren who spout distrust and anger at evil corporations!
Its 100 yards exactly, not including the endzones. Football field = 100 yards. Just keep that for later. Its about the length of that oval thing you had to run around in gym class for the mile run. Thats a track.
And as for the "average" American, I'd say you're wrong. I'd say most Americans at some poitn in their lives have walked near a football field, either for school or the pros. You know, high school, college, etc. Unless you were homeschooled, generally your school had one, and you know its considerably less than a mile. I'd say you're in a small minority. (After all, its football, something important to be informed about, not like politics. Sheesh!:)
Ok, sorry about that. I forgot its Slashdot and you've somehow managed to grow up in a cave (yet learn computers) and miss every single reference to the NFL. How about "3 times the size of the USS enterprise" or "Whats that in Babylon 5s?"
I don't really think pencil-width and quarters fall into the same category as LoCs. Football fields don't either for the American public. It provides an easier to experience metric than 1.1 centimeters and 4.3 ounces. I could conceivably take out 8 quarters and a pencil and get an instant idea of how thick and heavy the iPod is.
The LoC measurement is silly because I have as much reference to what a LoC is in data as I do to what they're comparing it to. They might as well say "Dat der thingamajig is HUUUUUGE!"
Marketing ploy? Advertizing your product by giving it away in order to spread word of mouth.....uhhhhh, DO YA THINK? Of course its a marketing ploy, and a good one if you ask me. (Downloading right now...) Its a company, they want to make money. Don't act surprised.
AFAIK they can't GPL it because of non-free portions of the distro (JVM, Flash).
Remember kids, monopolies aren't illegal! And EA is not a monopoly! Activision, Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Take-Two, Sega, etc. etc. have something to say about that. EA expands by buying companies, this is true. But they aren't forcing the companies to sell. How can EA crush a competitor? What can they really do to someone who has a unique gaming idea and the funding to produce it? Can they get Sony & Microsoft to not publish the game for Xbox & PS2? Trust me, they can't. Can they get Wal-Mart not to stock it? Nope. Where is the stranglehold?
As for content? Tough titties. The NFL is not a government sponsored entity. Its a private organization who has contracted EA to produce video games for it. The same goes for the dozens of movie licenses that EA has done over the years. You didn't see Batman putting out multiple licenses for its movie, did you? Yet where was the outcry there? Because videogame NFL is more popular than videogame Batman? And I suppose the MLB giving Take Two the exclusive license was just fair play? What about FIFA? EA has been the #1 FIFA title for years, and yet there exist several other _thriving_ soccer (football) alternatives.
You'd be extremely hardpressed to come up with one anti-competitive move by EA. I'd love to see what it is.
Hear hear! For what its worth I hate computers, that is, I hate _dealing_ with them so far as hardware and the like is concerned. I don't keep up on hardware and the like, and I actually paid a friend to put my machine together because getting all the parts and such seemed like a hassle. (Hey, he got $100 for something he does as a hobby anyways).
I design a large amount of the software we use at my work, but when something goes wrong on my machine I kick back and call IT. Let them deal with it! I'll take a snack break.:)
There are millions of Tivo users out there. They know how to use a TIVO, they depend on it, they love it. Now they want to move to HD. NOW. These people are early adopters (they probably have a laser disk stuffed in the back closet somewhere). They will buy it and tuck it next to that $4000 stereo. Why? Because they want an HD Tivo with over 100 hours of storage. That's value to them, and if they're not so blessed with time or knowledge to roll their own, I'd say its a lot of value.
Thats what I always thought too, but in actuality he was just inspired by the stick of liquid nitrogen they used to make slugs for the coffee machine. Instead, he used the inspiration to make some kind of gas/solid/liquid blend that improved things an order of magnitude (which is funny because the article also used that.:))
See, this game almost seems interesting. Geez, MMORPGs are really just completely worthless in my point of view. Lets see, I'm going to leave behind my regular life of pointless toil for the sole purpose of acquiring possessions...to...pointlessly toil to acquire virtual possessions? WTF? This is a land where people walk around with big swords and armor and such, with armies and soldiers and trolls, and you're NOT going to have some crime?
If you ask me MMORPGs need a good dose of communism. "Obtain phat loot" is a stupid game design crutch that attracts and appeals to the most obsessive compulsive people out there. There's little actual "role playing" when your spawn camping a dragon to get the magical sword +10 of fire. Why you say? So you can kill the other dragon that gives the +11 sword of fire. Yeeeehaw!
What if I want to role play a thief? Shouldn't my job be stealing shit from people? How about houses and castles? Shouldn't I be able to storm people's houses and take it over? If they want it, they should actually use that +11 sword they worked so hard for and keep it from me.
I've tried them all, from EQ to AC to SWG to WoW. They all kind of play the same. The best time I ever had was in AC on the PKer server. The PK rules were terrible but it almost made it more fun. You could be killed and looted at any time, often loosing your best item. You could be killed in town while talking to an NPC. Therefore you were FORCED to make allegiances, and bond with characters similar to yourself. A trip to town meant scouting the area for bandits first, as often or not higher level people would camp the town and slaughter us newbies without restraint. Later on, I formed a group of my own bandits and we did a similar thing as the post. We threatened people on the highway with a simple choice: gold or death. They were out in the middle of no where with the potential to lose an item, so they usually paid. If we attacked the wrong person, we paid dearly as they came back with a posse and hunted us down. That my friends is role playing. You'd be so lucky to find a game where you actually had to think instead of endlessly questing for the next carrot in front of you.
No, they simply look at the register for when this thing was sold, then check the security cameras. Unless you bought this thing with a mask on, I bet they now have a photograph of you. Tie it to security cameras of where the bill was passed, and you've got a hard case against someone counterfiting.
On the flip side, apply this to someone who leaks secret yet damaging information about whatever government institution in an anonymous letter to the Washington Post. The Post is forced to give up the original (as they are similarly forced to give up sources), and the similar process is repeated, although now you're seen as a national security threat and thrown in whatever gulag seems appropriate. I guess you just need to B&W Xerox whatever damning flyers you want to send out, lest those yellow dots track you down!
There's also the fact that pretty much every single person on Xbox has voice. There's no need for quick chat, so the assertion that it was designed for consoles is completely wrong.
BF2 was never meant to be a console game. It is a 100% PC product. BF2: Modern Combat (Xbox/PC title) is a completely different product. I've played the demo and the two are completely different in terms of units and maps. The similarity is the "house to house" high paced action combat apparently not found on consoles.
Its the exact same quote. It is therefore redundant. Thats the risk your run with posting stupid jokes and cliches. One man's funny is another man's redundant/offtopic/troll. I doubt this will crush the second poster's life. Live, learn, and move on.
Apparently you don't know any sailors. Ever hear the term "swear like a sailor?" While Sci-Fi doesn't want to ruin its chances of advertizing or syndication to broadcast (where they can't say "fuck"), I think its a pretty cool way to keep the language "realistic" (Yes, people swear, OMG! Especially soldiers! Heavens to betsy! We can show people blowing themselves up, but don't say a naughty word!) and pays hommage to the original series.
So true. The most likely case is that it follows the South Park model: a cult internet favorite gets a million bucks or so thrown at it and tossed onto one of the many "broad interest" or "special interest" cable networks that are always in desperate need of new content.
If you're doing this as a hobby, having someone say "we'll pay you to do this full time" sounds like a damn good idea. Of course, then you lose creative control, and risk having the network steal the soul of your show.
You'd be in a better position if you're already making money off the internet show on a subscription or advertizing model, but for the near future I still see people making the switch to TV. As a television producer, you most likely want your work seen by the broadest audience and produced at the highest quality possible. Generally only TV money can make that happen. (For now).
Awesome! You're writing libraries. Cool. What about end user applications? Written in a native format? Your code may be running on an Xbox but I guarantee the guy running it was using a Windows system.
Bottom line: if you're writing an end-user application you need to be working in the native platform you're developing for. (And if you're developing for multiple platforms you need to have all those platforms available).
Someone else was tasked with testing your code, and I'm guessing it wasn't too performance intensive given the fact that it wasn't tuned for any native hardware/OS.
No code is truly portable, any responsible developer will always work on all available platforms. "Build anywhere" How about, "Debug everywhere."
Oh, and sorry I've moved beyond the command line stage. I use an IDE. Am I suddenly a "luser" in your view? Yep, guess I'm just a neophyte fresh out of "Learn C++ in 21 days" with my head up my ass. Yep, that's me;)
He and his ilk do in fact generate jobs and business for the security industry. If there was no one attacking computer systems, those industries would not exist, correct?
I didn't say it kept the economy as a whole going, just that it provides those tasked with protecting computer systems with something to do. The money spent on those tasks are eventually surfaced to everyone else as an increase in costs of goods. If I had said "everyone wins", that would have been the broken window. You can't argue that Norton doesn't benefit from virus writers, hidden costs to the rest of the economy nonwithstanding.
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"By a great margin do I prefer PC gaming mainly because of not having a pile of generations of hardware to replace constantly and the ability to download / update games with patches & fixes etc... and adding content"
I bought my Xbox around the same time I bought my PC. The PC cost 3 times as much. I can't play the latest crop of PC games at a decent framerate, however, I can play the above mentioned game. Also, I played the previous title for this game. I was able to download new content and patches for it.
Where's the benefit again, besides having invested the cost of a good graphics card in the console?
I don't think it matters which brand or flavor of OS you're running, or what "crucial" apps you may think you need on this. The fact is that with such a tiny keyboard you aren't going to be doing much command line hackery anyways. This is much more a "use it with the pen" affair than writing perl scripts with your thumbs.
You're forgiven story submitter.
NOW, people, lets try to learn from this and move on! What we need to do is create a position. A position of power. No longer will stories just be immediately posted to the front page by anyone. We'll implement a process where the articles are reviewed for content and duplication before being posted. This mystical figure will have powers we don't, but that's ok because he'll be vigilant in his protection of freedom and seeing the same story twice. And we shall call him THE EDITORATOR!
Correction!
Sorry good citizen, after reviewing the site contents we have concluded that it is NOT a capatalist website, but seems to be filled with like minded brethren who spout distrust and anger at evil corporations!
Carry on comrade!
Its 100 yards exactly, not including the endzones. Football field = 100 yards. Just keep that for later. Its about the length of that oval thing you had to run around in gym class for the mile run. Thats a track. And as for the "average" American, I'd say you're wrong. I'd say most Americans at some poitn in their lives have walked near a football field, either for school or the pros. You know, high school, college, etc. Unless you were homeschooled, generally your school had one, and you know its considerably less than a mile. I'd say you're in a small minority. (After all, its football, something important to be informed about, not like politics. Sheesh! :)
Ok, sorry about that. I forgot its Slashdot and you've somehow managed to grow up in a cave (yet learn computers) and miss every single reference to the NFL. How about "3 times the size of the USS enterprise" or "Whats that in Babylon 5s?"
I don't really think pencil-width and quarters fall into the same category as LoCs. Football fields don't either for the American public. It provides an easier to experience metric than 1.1 centimeters and 4.3 ounces. I could conceivably take out 8 quarters and a pencil and get an instant idea of how thick and heavy the iPod is.
The LoC measurement is silly because I have as much reference to what a LoC is in data as I do to what they're comparing it to. They might as well say "Dat der thingamajig is HUUUUUGE!"
Marketing ploy? Advertizing your product by giving it away in order to spread word of mouth.....uhhhhh, DO YA THINK? Of course its a marketing ploy, and a good one if you ask me. (Downloading right now...) Its a company, they want to make money. Don't act surprised.
AFAIK they can't GPL it because of non-free portions of the distro (JVM, Flash).
Exactly :) Saying EA has a stranglehold on innovation is like saying Microsoft has a stranglehold on bug-free secure OSs.
Remember kids, monopolies aren't illegal! And EA is not a monopoly! Activision, Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Take-Two, Sega, etc. etc. have something to say about that. EA expands by buying companies, this is true. But they aren't forcing the companies to sell. How can EA crush a competitor? What can they really do to someone who has a unique gaming idea and the funding to produce it? Can they get Sony & Microsoft to not publish the game for Xbox & PS2? Trust me, they can't. Can they get Wal-Mart not to stock it? Nope. Where is the stranglehold?
As for content? Tough titties. The NFL is not a government sponsored entity. Its a private organization who has contracted EA to produce video games for it. The same goes for the dozens of movie licenses that EA has done over the years. You didn't see Batman putting out multiple licenses for its movie, did you? Yet where was the outcry there? Because videogame NFL is more popular than videogame Batman? And I suppose the MLB giving Take Two the exclusive license was just fair play? What about FIFA? EA has been the #1 FIFA title for years, and yet there exist several other _thriving_ soccer (football) alternatives.
You'd be extremely hardpressed to come up with one anti-competitive move by EA. I'd love to see what it is.
Hear hear! For what its worth I hate computers, that is, I hate _dealing_ with them so far as hardware and the like is concerned. I don't keep up on hardware and the like, and I actually paid a friend to put my machine together because getting all the parts and such seemed like a hassle. (Hey, he got $100 for something he does as a hobby anyways).
:)
I design a large amount of the software we use at my work, but when something goes wrong on my machine I kick back and call IT. Let them deal with it! I'll take a snack break.
There are millions of Tivo users out there. They know how to use a TIVO, they depend on it, they love it. Now they want to move to HD. NOW. These people are early adopters (they probably have a laser disk stuffed in the back closet somewhere). They will buy it and tuck it next to that $4000 stereo. Why? Because they want an HD Tivo with over 100 hours of storage. That's value to them, and if they're not so blessed with time or knowledge to roll their own, I'd say its a lot of value.
Thats what I always thought too, but in actuality he was just inspired by the stick of liquid nitrogen they used to make slugs for the coffee machine. Instead, he used the inspiration to make some kind of gas/solid/liquid blend that improved things an order of magnitude (which is funny because the article also used that. :))
See, this game almost seems interesting. Geez, MMORPGs are really just completely worthless in my point of view. Lets see, I'm going to leave behind my regular life of pointless toil for the sole purpose of acquiring possessions...to...pointlessly toil to acquire virtual possessions? WTF? This is a land where people walk around with big swords and armor and such, with armies and soldiers and trolls, and you're NOT going to have some crime?
If you ask me MMORPGs need a good dose of communism. "Obtain phat loot" is a stupid game design crutch that attracts and appeals to the most obsessive compulsive people out there. There's little actual "role playing" when your spawn camping a dragon to get the magical sword +10 of fire. Why you say? So you can kill the other dragon that gives the +11 sword of fire. Yeeeehaw!
What if I want to role play a thief? Shouldn't my job be stealing shit from people? How about houses and castles? Shouldn't I be able to storm people's houses and take it over? If they want it, they should actually use that +11 sword they worked so hard for and keep it from me.
I've tried them all, from EQ to AC to SWG to WoW. They all kind of play the same. The best time I ever had was in AC on the PKer server. The PK rules were terrible but it almost made it more fun. You could be killed and looted at any time, often loosing your best item. You could be killed in town while talking to an NPC. Therefore you were FORCED to make allegiances, and bond with characters similar to yourself. A trip to town meant scouting the area for bandits first, as often or not higher level people would camp the town and slaughter us newbies without restraint. Later on, I formed a group of my own bandits and we did a similar thing as the post. We threatened people on the highway with a simple choice: gold or death. They were out in the middle of no where with the potential to lose an item, so they usually paid. If we attacked the wrong person, we paid dearly as they came back with a posse and hunted us down. That my friends is role playing. You'd be so lucky to find a game where you actually had to think instead of endlessly questing for the next carrot in front of you.
No, they simply look at the register for when this thing was sold, then check the security cameras. Unless you bought this thing with a mask on, I bet they now have a photograph of you. Tie it to security cameras of where the bill was passed, and you've got a hard case against someone counterfiting.
On the flip side, apply this to someone who leaks secret yet damaging information about whatever government institution in an anonymous letter to the Washington Post. The Post is forced to give up the original (as they are similarly forced to give up sources), and the similar process is repeated, although now you're seen as a national security threat and thrown in whatever gulag seems appropriate. I guess you just need to B&W Xerox whatever damning flyers you want to send out, lest those yellow dots track you down!
There's also the fact that pretty much every single person on Xbox has voice. There's no need for quick chat, so the assertion that it was designed for consoles is completely wrong.
BF2 was never meant to be a console game. It is a 100% PC product. BF2: Modern Combat (Xbox/PC title) is a completely different product. I've played the demo and the two are completely different in terms of units and maps. The similarity is the "house to house" high paced action combat apparently not found on consoles.
Its the exact same quote. It is therefore redundant. Thats the risk your run with posting stupid jokes and cliches. One man's funny is another man's redundant/offtopic/troll. I doubt this will crush the second poster's life. Live, learn, and move on.
Apparently you don't know any sailors. Ever hear the term "swear like a sailor?" While Sci-Fi doesn't want to ruin its chances of advertizing or syndication to broadcast (where they can't say "fuck"), I think its a pretty cool way to keep the language "realistic" (Yes, people swear, OMG! Especially soldiers! Heavens to betsy! We can show people blowing themselves up, but don't say a naughty word!) and pays hommage to the original series.
So true. The most likely case is that it follows the South Park model: a cult internet favorite gets a million bucks or so thrown at it and tossed onto one of the many "broad interest" or "special interest" cable networks that are always in desperate need of new content.
If you're doing this as a hobby, having someone say "we'll pay you to do this full time" sounds like a damn good idea. Of course, then you lose creative control, and risk having the network steal the soul of your show.
You'd be in a better position if you're already making money off the internet show on a subscription or advertizing model, but for the near future I still see people making the switch to TV. As a television producer, you most likely want your work seen by the broadest audience and produced at the highest quality possible. Generally only TV money can make that happen. (For now).
Awesome! You're writing libraries. Cool. What about end user applications? Written in a native format? Your code may be running on an Xbox but I guarantee the guy running it was using a Windows system.
;)
Bottom line: if you're writing an end-user application you need to be working in the native platform you're developing for. (And if you're developing for multiple platforms you need to have all those platforms available).
Someone else was tasked with testing your code, and I'm guessing it wasn't too performance intensive given the fact that it wasn't tuned for any native hardware/OS.
No code is truly portable, any responsible developer will always work on all available platforms. "Build anywhere" How about, "Debug everywhere."
Oh, and sorry I've moved beyond the command line stage. I use an IDE. Am I suddenly a "luser" in your view? Yep, guess I'm just a neophyte fresh out of "Learn C++ in 21 days" with my head up my ass. Yep, that's me
Depends on what you're doing. If you're a developer of ANY sort [software or hardware] almost always linux is a better choice.
Unless you're developing Windows software. Or Apple. Or XBox. Or Java and you need to test all platforms.
You probably sat closer than 3 feet to a monitor larger than 12 inches to type that comment.
We don't normally see them working for the DEA afterwards, or getting jobs on Wall Street with their acquired skills.
maybe you dont see them, but some follow exactly that path
I know this and wasn't excluding the possibility.
He and his ilk do in fact generate jobs and business for the security industry. If there was no one attacking computer systems, those industries would not exist, correct? I didn't say it kept the economy as a whole going, just that it provides those tasked with protecting computer systems with something to do. The money spent on those tasks are eventually surfaced to everyone else as an increase in costs of goods. If I had said "everyone wins", that would have been the broken window. You can't argue that Norton doesn't benefit from virus writers, hidden costs to the rest of the economy nonwithstanding.