The funny thing is, that Christianity has been perverted to a big degree, I dont know where those groups derive their believe from, it cannot be in the words written down.
Lets sum those words up, there was a guy 2000 years ago, he went into confrontation against people who had strict religious rules, he sided with hookers poor people etc, and called the rich ones being not his people. He went into opposition against things which would make the life miserable for ordinary people, and he was in his core message not really a very capitalistic guy (some people nowadays probably would call him communistic, I just would say he puts the people in the core of his message not the money) He also was absolutely opposed to any war or violence whatsover even dismissing defense as valid form of violence.
Now lets face it, if a guy with such a message would go out into the crowds nowadays, how long do you think his life expectancy would be. Probably three years as well, the killer, probably some corporate sponsored guy, or a religious zealot, who wants to the defend the words of jesus (and does in fact do totally the opposite). Jesus probably would go in total confrontation with any right wing cristian groups like he did with the jewis zealots in the past, and probably would call them severe names out of anger, he also would go into opposition with lots of governments including our own, and generally our society of self righteousness while we bring lots of misery onto the rest of the planet. I dont think the message he would bring us would be very comforting for us!
Ahem Nintendo never has voice overs which means, the games just have to bundle correct language resources, heck even the alpabets are not too far away, the kyrillic and roman alphabet are basically the same with different letters.
The translation costs are rather minimal for Nintendo games, all they need is one translator per language and one proofreader!
normally is an icon of good journalism, I see a tendency worldwide that scaremongering for the sake of getting more viewers takes more and more over. Call it how you will but Michael Moore basically brought this excellent into perspective in bowling for columbine.
This scaremongering is one of the causes why people are more concerned over a handful of dead people in the western world per year caused by terrorism than thousands and thousands of people dead caused by traffic. I personally think this scaremongering is a misuse of free speach and the problem is, if a system or right is misused too much in it will end up dead...
mario strikers is an exception due to being soccer. fact is we were just getting elebits and there still is no release date for super paper mario. i assume it will be the christmas seller and the other games will be for christmas 2010
Actually every since nintendo introduced the gamepad I had the feeling those beasts were designed for left handed people.
The preciseness and faster reaction usually is in your main hand while plain button hitting should be performed in your secondary hand.
Yet those controllers had the control cross which needed faster reaction and more preciseivness in the left and the dumb button hitting in the right.
For me the Wii is the first console Nindendo ever designed which gives the right handers a fair chance;-)
The rubber on the stick usually survived the mechanics gave in before.
Can anyone remember decathlon, this game while being massive fun, probably was responsible for most dead joysticks in the history of computer games. I bought a competition pro after having gone through 3 atari joysticks, and the comp pro never gave in, I still have it somewhere probably.
I have a wii and the size does matter (sorry for the unintended pun, thank you Nintendo;-)
Actually it does matter to that degree relative to the sensor bar means that on big tvs you get some defocusment, depending on your position in the room. You get used to it rather quickly but the defocusment is there.
The main problem is that you probably can limit the defocusment if you can get the sensor bar as close as possible to the border of the screen which in many case is close to impossible unless you want to glue it to the top or bottom of the tv borders.
I have noticed that often, because I have a rather big tv (37'' Sharp) and often also play at a friends house who still has the analog tube. He can go rather close to the tv until this focus problem is noticable while I have to keep a distance of 3 meters minimum to make it bearable.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competition_Pro this thing was probably one of the most durable controllers ever built and one of the best joysticks at its time.
Btw. I always hated gamepads, I personally think from the precisiveness they were a huge step back, ergonomywise as well (thumb injuries, and cramps) and they basically enforced a left hand reaction scheme to right handers mich are still the majority (thank you Nintendo...)
It is funny that once the sticks were reintroduced again, the pads mostly were redelegated to extendion slow reaction buttons...
Going the pad way was the biggest mistake in gaming history (again thank you Nintendo)
It is worse or better, the radios which have to finance something are on the same 20 records rotation, but in between you sometimes depending on the city and country you can find local independend stations (mostly public radio so paid by the local tv and radio fees, yes we have to pay for it as well)
But you can rely on as soon as a station has hit the boundary of being probably on the edge of being able to finance itself, you will hear from the station owner, that an agency was hired to overhaul the program to make it even more successful and in the end you end up with the same crap 20 rotations station. I dont even bother to turn on the radio anymore except for listening to an independend music station if possible. It does not matter which station you tun on, being it privately financed over ads only or being it a public radio station, you get crapola 20 songs rotation.
It is even worse, in the US you get a mediocre blend of at least rock and jazz etc... over here those stations basically constantly hammer teenie pop down the ears. This is living Britney Spears and local Copies hell (which are as bad normally or even worse)
You can replace country, with the local equivalent (which is often worse) which has nothing to do with the original anymore, just adult contemporary in lederhosen...
This is pretty much all over europe. The reason for this is rather simple, there is probably some kind of hidden payola sort of as ad money behind it.
The main reason which is official is, that there is a handful of worldwide advertisement agencies which basically sells the same crap scheme all over the world to stations. Once you hear that a station has hired an agency to overhaul their airing format, you can be sure that the outcome is replacable top 10 shit, with 8 records in full rotation and around 20 records in low rotation which is supposed to fill the day.
The funny thing is, that the stations pay for each song played, but I wonder how much money is going back to the station for full rotation, record promotions etc.. under the label product placement and advertisement.
There is no hope that a system like that will eliminate radio conglomerates, they already have deals running with the record companies, all which happens is that they renegotiate the deals. The only thing you will see is that the small stations which are still left will switch to independent music (most of them probably already have done so, to finde a nieche market)
Lets get this oath to detail, I once had to face the dilemma, with everything you design it can be used for evil although you do not want it.
I personally kept it to that level, that I do not want it to be used, but I cannot prevent it, I personally never ever would go myself into an area which is on the borders of military, being a pacifist myself, I run into personal issues. Hence I once refused to take a job for a company producing crypto software, although it is a tool, it can be misused and is too close to weaponry for my personal taste.
The main problem still persists you cannot prevent evil, with every line of code you write you do not know it in the long run how it will end up, for the better or the worse. I decided to still opensource my code and hope that it in the long run it does more good than damage. Because I know that if you lock knowledg away it does not help at all, but if you push it out into the wild it might help, at least there is a chance.
Except that AD is a blatant copy and mix of existing technologies
which Microsoft happily stole...
The problem with Microsofts way is that they blatantly copy from left and right
and patent the stuff, for most things they innovate you can find prior art back to the 70s...
SMB was revolutionary due to the fact that it added side scrolling the first vertical jump and run was clearly pitfall. The first Jump and run with a power up system donkey kong (the hammers are power ups) One game I would not call revolutionary although Myiamoto probably really did not know the before hims, is Zelda, there are clearly older games tapping into the first zeldas gameplay mechanics, instantly to my mind comes, Temple of Asphai and the first Atari indiana jones game.
Pitfall instantly comes to my mind, it should have gotten probably equally the regards SMB got, first it was the first side running jump and run, secondly it was the first game doing multi color non flickering sprites on the atari 2600, thirdly it was the most sophisticated game on this system at that time.
Myiamoto deserves a lot of credig for SMB, less for Zelda (which has its roots in Temple of Asphai) and all for Donkey Kong being the first jump and run game.
But the first side running J&R clearly is pitfall. Same goes for the first graphical action rpg which is Temple of Asphai.
David Crane is one of the most important people in the gaming business.
He invented the god simulation and puppet simulation with LCP, the Sims would have been nowhere without him.
He and not Myiamoto invented the jump and run genre with Pitfall, Myiamoto can be credited to the first jump and run game with sidescrolling.
Forget it the thef argument is a lame lie. Prices never go down as long as there is no significant competition.
Face it console games for instance are twice as expensive as their PC counterparts, reason, it is harder to copy them hence less competition. The you cannot games therefore we do not have to recoup our losses argument always is brought on the table by the vendors trying new copy protection methods. I assume it is the same if they can bring thievery down, it wont matter, the only thing I assume is it will even make prices go up!
Yes and no, you forgot one thing. 10 years ago, every one was screwed with applets, but that was 10 years ago, nowadays we have a huge crowd, literally millions of people familiar with java programming who know the ups and downs of the latest jdks, and you have also a crowd of people not familiar with java who seem to be very common over here, crying 10 year old stuff. Java is good enough on the desktop nowadays, the main issue which basically causes problems is that the rollout of the jre is still somewhat problematic. Flash has one advantage there, it is preinstalled with Windows, but you will see flash go down in the long run as well as soon as Microsoft stops bundling new flash versions with Windows, it will go the way of the JRE that way.
Actually some of the speed problems of Netbeans were in the netbeans code base, but JDK 6 made swing really fast, most apps I nowadays start render faster than native apps.
Which is a shame to the toolkit writers because they can rely on the fastest stuff there is.
And yes I love Netbeans too, over the years it has become one of the best IDEs there is.
Actually Swing is pretty good nowadays, it took a long time, but since jdk 4 it is usable jdk 5 was a small improvement and jdk6 made it excellent.
The API from swing always was very good and flexible, it fell short in two areas, until jdk4 it was speed and up until now it is a better set of common controls (they can be added via third party libs though)
I dont like SWT particularily due to its programming model which ignores the gc for component destruction.
From all the UI toolkits I had to use Swing and Qt belonged to the best there were, Cocoa probably can be added as well, but I have yet to use it.
Swing does not really deserve the bad reputation anymore it got 10 years ago rightfully, it is an excellent toolkit.
Actually I am in your boat, I usually use Total Commander, and Konqueror. Both belong still to the best file managers there are.
Total Commander due to its slick but feature rich no eye candy ui, and konqueror to its myriad of features which arent shoved into your eyes.
I could never really get used to PathFinder, and after seeing the Vista Explorer I had a Deja Vu of having seen almost everything from it on a mac, then I remembered the short time I tried to get used to Pathfinder!
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The funny thing is, that Christianity has been perverted to a big degree, I dont know where those groups derive their believe from, it cannot be in the words written down.
Lets sum those words up, there was a guy 2000 years ago, he went into confrontation against people who had strict religious rules, he sided with hookers poor people etc, and called the rich ones being not his people. He went into opposition against things which would make the life miserable for ordinary people, and he was in his core message not really a very capitalistic guy (some people nowadays probably would call him communistic, I just would say he puts the people in the core of his message not the money)
He also was absolutely opposed to any war or violence whatsover even dismissing defense as valid form of violence.
Now lets face it, if a guy with such a message would go out into the crowds nowadays, how long do you think his life expectancy would be. Probably three years as well, the killer, probably some corporate sponsored guy, or a religious zealot, who wants to the defend the words of jesus (and does in fact do totally the opposite). Jesus probably would go in total confrontation with any right wing cristian groups like he did with the jewis zealots in the past, and probably would call them severe names out of anger, he also would go into opposition with lots of governments including our own, and generally our society of self righteousness while we bring lots of misery onto the rest of the planet.
I dont think the message he would bring us would be very comforting for us!
Ahem Nintendo never has voice overs which means, the games just have to bundle correct language resources, heck even the alpabets are not too far away, the kyrillic and roman alphabet are basically the same with different letters. The translation costs are rather minimal for Nintendo games, all they need is one translator per language and one proofreader!
normally is an icon of good journalism, I see a tendency worldwide that scaremongering for the sake of getting more viewers takes more and more over. Call it how you will but Michael Moore basically brought this excellent into perspective in bowling for columbine.
This scaremongering is one of the causes why people are more concerned over a handful of dead people in the western world per year caused by terrorism than thousands and thousands of people dead caused by traffic. I personally think this scaremongering is a misuse of free speach and the problem is, if a system or right is misused too much in it will end up dead...
mario strikers is an exception due to being soccer. fact is we were just getting elebits and there still is no release date for super paper mario. i assume it will be the christmas seller and the other games will be for christmas 2010
Actually every since nintendo introduced the gamepad I had the feeling those beasts were designed for left handed people. The preciseness and faster reaction usually is in your main hand while plain button hitting should be performed in your secondary hand. Yet those controllers had the control cross which needed faster reaction and more preciseivness in the left and the dumb button hitting in the right. For me the Wii is the first console Nindendo ever designed which gives the right handers a fair chance ;-)
The rubber on the stick usually survived the mechanics gave in before. Can anyone remember decathlon, this game while being massive fun, probably was responsible for most dead joysticks in the history of computer games. I bought a competition pro after having gone through 3 atari joysticks, and the comp pro never gave in, I still have it somewhere probably.
I have a wii and the size does matter (sorry for the unintended pun, thank you Nintendo ;-)
Actually it does matter to that degree relative to the sensor bar means that on big tvs you get some defocusment, depending on your position in the room. You get used to it rather quickly but the defocusment is there.
The main problem is that you probably can limit the defocusment if you can get the sensor bar as close as possible to the border of the screen which in many case is close to impossible unless you want to glue it to the top or bottom of the tv borders.
I have noticed that often, because I have a rather big tv (37'' Sharp) and often also play at a friends house who still has the analog tube. He can go rather close to the tv until this focus problem is noticable while I have to keep a distance of 3 meters minimum to make it bearable.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competition_Pro this thing was probably one of the most durable controllers ever built and one of the best joysticks at its time. Btw. I always hated gamepads, I personally think from the precisiveness they were a huge step back, ergonomywise as well (thumb injuries, and cramps) and they basically enforced a left hand reaction scheme to right handers mich are still the majority (thank you Nintendo ...)
It is funny that once the sticks were reintroduced again, the pads mostly were redelegated to extendion slow reaction buttons...
Going the pad way was the biggest mistake in gaming history (again thank you Nintendo)
Problem is the market nowadays is 10 times bigger, and the gamecube outsells the PS3...
It is worse or better, the radios which have to finance something are on the same 20 records rotation, but in between you sometimes depending on the city and country you can find local independend stations (mostly public radio so paid by the local tv and radio fees, yes we have to pay for it as well)
But you can rely on as soon as a station has hit the boundary of being probably on the edge of being able to finance itself, you will hear from the station owner, that an agency was hired to overhaul the program to make it even more successful and in the end you end up with the same crap 20 rotations station. I dont even bother to turn on the radio anymore except for listening to an independend music station if possible. It does not matter which station you tun on, being it privately financed over ads only or being it a public radio station, you get crapola 20 songs rotation.
It is even worse, in the US you get a mediocre blend of at least rock and jazz etc... over here those stations basically constantly hammer teenie pop down the ears. This is living Britney Spears and local Copies hell (which are as bad normally or even worse)
You can replace country, with the local equivalent (which is often worse) which has nothing to do with the original anymore, just adult contemporary in lederhosen...
Welcome to europe the heat of bad taste radio!
This is pretty much all over europe. The reason for this is rather simple, there is probably some kind of hidden payola sort of as ad money behind it.
The main reason which is official is, that there is a handful of worldwide advertisement agencies which basically sells the same crap scheme all over the world to stations. Once you hear that a station has hired an agency to overhaul their airing format, you can be sure that the outcome is replacable top 10 shit, with 8 records in full rotation and around 20 records in low rotation which is supposed to fill the day.
The funny thing is, that the stations pay for each song played, but I wonder how much money is going back to the station for full rotation, record promotions etc.. under the label product placement and advertisement.
There is no hope that a system like that will eliminate radio conglomerates, they already have deals running with the record companies, all which happens is that they renegotiate the deals.
The only thing you will see is that the small stations which are still left will switch to independent music (most of them probably already have done so, to finde a nieche market)
Shit the beans out literally, let them dry in the sun, grind em and make coffee... This gives a hell of a nutty flavor...
Lets get this oath to detail, I once had to face the dilemma, with everything you design it can be used for evil although you do not want it. I personally kept it to that level, that I do not want it to be used, but I cannot prevent it, I personally never ever would go myself into an area which is on the borders of military, being a pacifist myself, I run into personal issues. Hence I once refused to take a job for a company producing crypto software, although it is a tool, it can be misused and is too close to weaponry for my personal taste.
The main problem still persists you cannot prevent evil, with every line of code you write you do not know it in the long run how it will end up, for the better or the worse. I decided to still opensource my code and hope that it in the long run it does more good than damage. Because I know that if you lock knowledg away it does not help at all, but if you push it out into the wild it might help, at least there is a chance.
Except that AD is a blatant copy and mix of existing technologies which Microsoft happily stole... The problem with Microsofts way is that they blatantly copy from left and right and patent the stuff, for most things they innovate you can find prior art back to the 70s...
I would not call Metroid Prime 1 a lousy fps... I am currently playing it and it is very good, not a Deus Ex but close in its league!
SMB was revolutionary due to the fact that it added side scrolling
the first vertical jump and run was clearly pitfall. The first
Jump and run with a power up system donkey kong (the hammers are power ups)
One game I would not call revolutionary although Myiamoto probably really
did not know the before hims, is Zelda, there are clearly older games tapping into
the first zeldas gameplay mechanics, instantly to my mind comes, Temple of Asphai
and the first Atari indiana jones game.
Pitfall instantly comes to my mind, it should have gotten probably equally the regards SMB got, first it was the first side running jump and run, secondly it was the first game doing multi color non flickering sprites on the atari 2600, thirdly it was the most sophisticated game on this system at that time. Myiamoto deserves a lot of credig for SMB, less for Zelda (which has its roots in Temple of Asphai) and all for Donkey Kong being the first jump and run game. But the first side running J&R clearly is pitfall. Same goes for the first graphical action rpg which is Temple of Asphai.
David Crane is one of the most important people in the gaming business. He invented the god simulation and puppet simulation with LCP, the Sims would have been nowhere without him. He and not Myiamoto invented the jump and run genre with Pitfall, Myiamoto can be credited to the first jump and run game with sidescrolling.
Star wars 7, Jar Jar memoires... Star Wars 8, The adventures of Jar Jar
Forget it the thef argument is a lame lie. Prices never go down as long as there is no significant competition.
Face it console games for instance are twice as expensive as their PC counterparts, reason, it is harder to copy them hence less competition. The you cannot games therefore we do not have to recoup our losses argument always is brought on the table by the vendors trying new copy protection methods.
I assume it is the same if they can bring thievery down, it wont matter, the only thing I assume is it will even make prices go up!
Yes and no, you forgot one thing. 10 years ago, every one was screwed with applets, but that was 10 years ago, nowadays we have a huge crowd, literally millions of people familiar with java programming who know the ups and downs of the latest jdks, and you have also a crowd of people not familiar with java who seem to be very common over here, crying 10 year old stuff.
Java is good enough on the desktop nowadays, the main issue which basically causes problems is that the rollout of the jre is still somewhat problematic. Flash has one advantage there, it is preinstalled with Windows, but you will see flash go down in the long run as well as soon as Microsoft stops bundling new flash versions with Windows, it will go the way of the JRE that way.
Actually some of the speed problems of Netbeans were in the netbeans code base, but JDK 6 made swing really fast, most apps I nowadays start render faster than native apps. Which is a shame to the toolkit writers because they can rely on the fastest stuff there is. And yes I love Netbeans too, over the years it has become one of the best IDEs there is.
Actually Swing is pretty good nowadays, it took a long time, but since jdk 4 it is usable jdk 5 was a small improvement and jdk6 made it excellent. The API from swing always was very good and flexible, it fell short in two areas, until jdk4 it was speed and up until now it is a better set of common controls (they can be added via third party libs though) I dont like SWT particularily due to its programming model which ignores the gc for component destruction. From all the UI toolkits I had to use Swing and Qt belonged to the best there were, Cocoa probably can be added as well, but I have yet to use it. Swing does not really deserve the bad reputation anymore it got 10 years ago rightfully, it is an excellent toolkit.
Congrats you just confessed that your reading skills really suck...
Actually I am in your boat, I usually use Total Commander, and Konqueror. Both belong still to the best file managers there are. Total Commander due to its slick but feature rich no eye candy ui, and konqueror to its myriad of features which arent shoved into your eyes. I could never really get used to PathFinder, and after seeing the Vista Explorer I had a Deja Vu of having seen almost everything from it on a mac, then I remembered the short time I tried to get used to Pathfinder!