Back in one of my college anthropology classes, our professor noted sociological studies that showed people's music buying habits dropping significantly at age 25
That's definately true with me. I haven't bought a CD in a long long time (over 5 years). But part of the reason is that I've got 300 cds. I can cycle through my collection and not get bored. Collecting music for the sake of collecting doesn't make sense to me anymore.
If I want to listen to something new, I tune into www.di.fm while at work or something.
I might scan through my wife's collection too... but not too much, our music tastes don't overlap very much.
You know this is so true. It's suprising to see so many people here talk about how they quit "that childish game playing" because they're all grows up.
Spend half your time working, the other half with your wife, and you're going to die at a very young age.
Everyone needs some alone time at least every other day. No wonder the divorce rate is so high, you're smothering each other.
I wouldn't mind picking up UT2k4 or something for a bit, but I know that I don't have time to play more than an hour or two a week. So as soon as I set foot on a server, BLAM, some 14 year old with nothing else to do all day is going to blow me away, and then hurl some kind of unintelligible racial slur at me.
So follow Gabe's advice and play with the bots. I'm having a ton of fun playing UT2k4 Onslaught with a bunch of robots.
Once you mature, then you start having a wife, kids, house, kitchen remodel, quality time with the family, a real job which ends up being more like 60 hours a week, going out to dinner, etc. etc. there just isn't as much time for games.
Get a gamecube, and videogames become "quality time with the family". My wife is addicted to Mario Party 4.
Old arcades. Musty places, the smell of electronics mixed with the high hum of monitors all sprinkled with the 60Hz buzz from the neons lighting the place.
Don't forget the kids who knew all this secret bullshit information that they would share with you. Like "if you unplug the game and plug it back in, it will give you 99 free games" or "there's a switch on the bottom of the pinball machine that will turn off the tilt"
I really, wish that our arcades were half as good as the arcades I saw in Japan.
Go rent Lost in Translation. There's a scene in the movie that shows the insane style of arcade in japan. The crazy bongo games, the guitar playing game, etc.
After seeing and playing this demo, you can really see how havok is having an impact (pun) in games. HL2 is also using havok, very sweet.
Max Payne 2 uses Havok as well (and the upcoming MOH Pacific Assault). In Max Payne 2 is a riot tossing grenades on dead bodies just to see them bounce around the room.
This is true to a point, but Project Gotham 2 on the Xbox has already lasted since November, which in the gaming world is quite a while. I still find many, many players on there.
Maybe that's a long time for console games, but not for PC games. Quake3, RtCW, MOHAA, Diablo2 are all over 3 years old, and still have a large player base. Counterstrike is even older and has a larger number of players online than all of Live.
Personally, if there IS a Pixarland, I'd go in a heartbeat, and I'll bet millions of people would too.
My god, the thought of a themepark run by Steve Jobs is frightening. First it'd cost you several hundred dollars to get in, everything would be stark white with accents of brushed steel and a few aqua bubbles.
There would only be 3 rides, and they'd be the really old ones "ported" from Magic Mountain, and before you entered the park, there'd be a little tutorial demonstrating how powerful and intuitive everything is.
He's mainly a PC online gamer, and it would be cool to have a friends list with him on it, saying what game and what server he's playing on, just like Xbox Live.
Apple hardware doesn't depreciate in value like windows stuff does. Companies could actually sell their old hardware, instead of chucking it in the garbage! However, I doubt most companies, when considering a hardware purchase, consider their next hardware purchase.
That sword cuts both ways. Companies can save a fortune by buying a PC that is a year old.
Voice Support completely changes everything. On PC, it's pretty much optional, but on LIVE, nearly everyone has a communicator (it comes with the kits) and EVERY GAME SUPPORTS IT. The difference in team organization in a first person shooter, for instance, is immediately clear.
Man that's one thing I hate. I don't want to hear a bunch of 12 year olds saying stupid crap like "owned".
And with the limited resources at Microsoft (huge as it is), that have to be divided into all the different parts of all the different software projects, it's really a hard sell to convince someone to look through all the gazillions of lines of code that have "Just Worked" in the past.
So you're saying that the largest software company in the world can't afford to hire a few monkeys to look for buffer overflows full time? It'd cost them a million dollars a year tops.
1. load int from char array 2. check int against sizeof(yourbuffer) 3. reject if greater
AHahahaha, you know you just made the exact mistake MS did. You're using ints, not unsigned ints. Reject if greater does nothing if it's less than 0, which would still cause an overflow.
Oh my god! I read the source! Now I'm tainted! All future code written by me will inadvertantly contain MS's copyrighted and patented signed int overflow techniques!
There's only one such cliche: "We nuke it, and take its treasure!"
Then surely you've noticed some of the other cliches, like giant spiders somehow possess treasure.
Or that the special items bosses have always seem to match your specialty. "Bad Boy Marty is coming to kill me, better go to the store and buy that sweet bow that he wants."
Or that even though this guy his hacking on you with this monster sword, wearing sweet armor, when he dies, the sword and armor disappear, and all he's got left is 50 gp.
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It IS theft. It's theft of intellectual property. There are laws on this.
No there aren't. There are laws on copyright infringement. Show me a copyright law that even contains the word "theft".
Hell, look up theft in the dictionary, merriam-webster defines theft as:
the act of stealing; specifically : the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it
Right there in the definition is the word "deprive".
We can't find "www.sco.com"
Your browser refers to itself as a collective "we"?
Aren't we a pompous browser.
I'm sure it was an interesting intellectual exercise, and that they learnt a lot.
Maybe even when to use learnt versus learned.
Back in one of my college anthropology classes, our professor noted sociological studies that showed people's music buying habits dropping significantly at age 25
That's definately true with me. I haven't bought a CD in a long long time (over 5 years). But part of the reason is that I've got 300 cds. I can cycle through my collection and not get bored. Collecting music for the sake of collecting doesn't make sense to me anymore.
If I want to listen to something new, I tune into www.di.fm while at work or something.
I might scan through my wife's collection too... but not too much, our music tastes don't overlap very much.
But then, I wish getting that playing on the swings could keep me happy for 2 hours.
Woah, I'm almost 30, and playing on the swings would definately keep me happy for 2 hours. I need to go buy a swingset.
You know this is so true. It's suprising to see so many people here talk about how they quit "that childish game playing" because they're all grows up.
Spend half your time working, the other half with your wife, and you're going to die at a very young age.
Everyone needs some alone time at least every other day. No wonder the divorce rate is so high, you're smothering each other.
I wouldn't mind picking up UT2k4 or something for a bit, but I know that I don't have time to play more than an hour or two a week. So as soon as I set foot on a server, BLAM, some 14 year old with nothing else to do all day is going to blow me away, and then hurl some kind of unintelligible racial slur at me.
So follow Gabe's advice and play with the bots. I'm having a ton of fun playing UT2k4 Onslaught with a bunch of robots.
Once you mature, then you start having a wife, kids, house, kitchen remodel, quality time with the family, a real job which ends up being more like 60 hours a week, going out to dinner, etc. etc. there just isn't as much time for games.
Get a gamecube, and videogames become "quality time with the family". My wife is addicted to Mario Party 4.
They should name the OS "FU,MS"
Old arcades. Musty places, the smell of electronics mixed with the high hum of monitors all sprinkled with the 60Hz buzz from the neons lighting the place.
Don't forget the kids who knew all this secret bullshit information that they would share with you. Like "if you unplug the game and plug it back in, it will give you 99 free games" or "there's a switch on the bottom of the pinball machine that will turn off the tilt"
I really, wish that our arcades were half as good as the arcades I saw in Japan.
Go rent Lost in Translation. There's a scene in the movie that shows the insane style of arcade in japan. The crazy bongo games, the guitar playing game, etc.
After seeing and playing this demo, you can really see how havok is having an impact (pun) in games. HL2 is also using havok, very sweet.
Max Payne 2 uses Havok as well (and the upcoming MOH Pacific Assault). In Max Payne 2 is a riot tossing grenades on dead bodies just to see them bounce around the room.
This is true to a point, but Project Gotham 2 on the Xbox has already lasted since November, which in the gaming world is quite a while. I still find many, many players on there.
Maybe that's a long time for console games, but not for PC games. Quake3, RtCW, MOHAA, Diablo2 are all over 3 years old, and still have a large player base. Counterstrike is even older and has a larger number of players online than all of Live.
He wisely doesn't allow his kids to watch TV, or drink sickly sodas, advocating Odwalla's excellent fruit juices instead.
Odwalla's excellent quality control?
Personally, if there IS a Pixarland, I'd go in a heartbeat, and I'll bet millions of people would too.
My god, the thought of a themepark run by Steve Jobs is frightening. First it'd cost you several hundred dollars to get in, everything would be stark white with accents of brushed steel and a few aqua bubbles.
There would only be 3 rides, and they'd be the really old ones "ported" from Magic Mountain, and before you entered the park, there'd be a little tutorial demonstrating how powerful and intuitive everything is.
He's mainly a PC online gamer, and it would be cool to have a friends list with him on it, saying what game and what server he's playing on, just like Xbox Live.
Um, All Seeing Eye anyone?
DoA:XBV
Whoops, there goes your credibility.
Instead, the spoken languages of the future will evolve from programming languages.
I->do(this, already);
I=ahead(the_curve);
Apple hardware doesn't depreciate in value like windows stuff does. Companies could actually sell their old hardware, instead of chucking it in the garbage! However, I doubt most companies, when considering a hardware purchase, consider their next hardware purchase.
That sword cuts both ways. Companies can save a fortune by buying a PC that is a year old.
That's right, they are more expensive if your time has no value.
Your time does have no value. You're sitting here posting on slashdot. Fact is, your time is worth nothing.
Voice Support completely changes everything. On PC, it's pretty much optional, but on LIVE, nearly everyone has a communicator (it comes with the kits) and EVERY GAME SUPPORTS IT. The difference in team organization in a first person shooter, for instance, is immediately clear.
Man that's one thing I hate. I don't want to hear a bunch of 12 year olds saying stupid crap like "owned".
And with the limited resources at Microsoft (huge as it is), that have to be divided into all the different parts of all the different software projects, it's really a hard sell to convince someone to look through all the gazillions of lines of code that have "Just Worked" in the past.
So you're saying that the largest software company in the world can't afford to hire a few monkeys to look for buffer overflows full time? It'd cost them a million dollars a year tops.
Fuck MSFT it's called bounds checking. e.g.
1. load int from char array
2. check int against sizeof(yourbuffer)
3. reject if greater
AHahahaha, you know you just made the exact mistake MS did. You're using ints, not unsigned ints. Reject if greater does nothing if it's less than 0, which would still cause an overflow.
Oh my god! I read the source! Now I'm tainted! All future code written by me will inadvertantly contain MS's copyrighted and patented signed int overflow techniques!
There's only one such cliche: "We nuke it, and take its treasure!"
Then surely you've noticed some of the other cliches, like giant spiders somehow possess treasure.
Or that the special items bosses have always seem to match your specialty. "Bad Boy Marty is coming to kill me, better go to the store and buy that sweet bow that he wants."
Or that even though this guy his hacking on you with this monster sword, wearing sweet armor, when he dies, the sword and armor disappear, and all he's got left is 50 gp.