Well that seems appropriate new project, since Red Faction was one of the worst FPS games I've ever played -- the only notably worse exception being Gore.
In this case it may simply be demand outstripping supply. Computers today are really, really fast. The constant pressure to get the latest and best machine is no longer anywhere near as strong as it used to be, since for almost all applications, computers are "fast enough." (The main industry still pushing the envelope is, of course, the gaming industry.)
For the last few years, Intel and the other chip manufacturers have been starting to falter, probably because people are really coming to realize that they don't need the latest and greatest chip to do what they need to do. So the slump may be simply due to economics rather than hitting some kind of technological plateau.
If the AIs have a commercial form of nuclear fusion, they don't need humans for energy. Period.
Besides, as I said, the premise that the humans are being used as a source of energy indicates a fundamental misunderstanding of the laws of thermodynamics. The energy you get out of a human -- regardless of what you do to him -- is going to be less than the energy you put into him via feeding him and keeping him alive. The concept of keeping a vast array of humans alive for the purposes of energy is utterly ludicrous.
It would have been far more plausible (and, probably, far more effective, since it would add to the creepiness value) if they kept everything the same but the surviving humans really had no idea why the AIs were doing what they were doing -- they're not telling, the humans don't know, and their motives may be so utterly alien that we may never understand.
The rationalization they give is so weak that a high school physics student could easily poke holes in it.
The NASA findings with the Viking missions were that there was no evidence for life on Mars. That doesn't mean that there wasn't any life, it just means they had no evidence for any. Big difference. NASA never stated unequivocally, "There is no life on Mars."
I hope we're not taking the premise of The Matrix too seriously. After all, in the description of the state of the real world Morpheus gives, we're told that the AIs are using humans for energy "with a form of fusion." Psst, if you fusion of any kind, you sure don't need humans to generate energy, since they'll poop out more energy than they provide!
The Matrix is great fun, but taking it as a serious piece of science fiction, and providing further rationalization of the backstory, is like taking cartoons featuring Yosemite Sam as serious Westerns. It's entertaining, but not in that way.
Without falsifiability, what you're talking about not a scientific theory, it's metaphysical speculation. There's nothing wrong with that per se, but it ain't science.
And what's AOL's terms of service for servers hosted from their residential customers? Most broadband ISPs have limits. If they're just enforcing parts of the TOS that were already present when you signed on, you've got nothing to complain about.
So some nobody game reviewer wannabe has admitted to acting unethically and declares that it's the industry standard. Like he'd know. I bet his real name isn't even Obiwan Kenobi!
But there's an additional, ultimate irony about this. They're complaining that Slashdot linked to them without permission, asciipr0n.com has a link to ASCII Art Farts but never asked for permission themselves! Um, a little hypocritical, maybe?
Yep! asciipr0n.com sure showed Slashdot! Now the Slashdot readers will never get to know the true pleasure of boring digitized images of Playboy models circa 1970. What a blow to boredom and lameness everywhere!
If you try to curb pirates by releasing deliberately broken media (broken in a way you hope that most pirates will need and thus be discouraged), then you're going to capture a few legitimate users in your net. And with more and more legitimate businesses and operations switching to all-electronic media, it simply makes sense that more and more non-pirates are going to run afoul of these attempts. It's an inevitable consequence.
If you're going to use spook terminology, use it right. "Disappeared" doesn't mean held without trail. "Disappeared" means murdered and the body disposed of in a way that no one will ever find it. The given headline is extremely misleading and caters to shock value alone.
And does Slashdot's hilarous gag of making it look like they can't manage to keep their stories straight? Whoo hoo, that was a riot. Keep it up!!!!!! (ZZZZZ)
There are certainly some programmers that wouldn't know engineering if it beat them up in an alley. And there are some programmers for which "engineer" is an understatement.
And experienced programmers have no problem with "flow context changes." This psychology of programmers seems to be merely the psychology of inexperienced programmers.
Yeah, for whatever reason, Hudson Hawk got chosen as the critics' whipping boy for that summer. I think there was kind of a nonlinear reaction involved; critics were hearing about other critics' reviews, and so made up their minds before seeing it that it was going to be the movie they could focus all their ire on.
It wasn't a great film, but it was entertaining and (deliberately) silly, and certainly didn't deserve the beating it got in the reviews. I think overall it was a combination of critics looking for a movie every few months that they can really openly rip apart without fear, and the near unclassifiability of the movie (particularly after Die Hard, although "Moonlighting" certainly had its share of wacky farcical episodes). They didn't know what to call what they were watching, so they called it bad.
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Well that seems appropriate new project, since Red Faction was one of the worst FPS games I've ever played -- the only notably worse exception being Gore.
You mean people still listen to that?
In this case it may simply be demand outstripping supply. Computers today are really, really fast. The constant pressure to get the latest and best machine is no longer anywhere near as strong as it used to be, since for almost all applications, computers are "fast enough." (The main industry still pushing the envelope is, of course, the gaming industry.)
For the last few years, Intel and the other chip manufacturers have been starting to falter, probably because people are really coming to realize that they don't need the latest and greatest chip to do what they need to do. So the slump may be simply due to economics rather than hitting some kind of technological plateau.
If the AIs have a commercial form of nuclear fusion, they don't need humans for energy. Period.
Besides, as I said, the premise that the humans are being used as a source of energy indicates a fundamental misunderstanding of the laws of thermodynamics. The energy you get out of a human -- regardless of what you do to him -- is going to be less than the energy you put into him via feeding him and keeping him alive. The concept of keeping a vast array of humans alive for the purposes of energy is utterly ludicrous.
It would have been far more plausible (and, probably, far more effective, since it would add to the creepiness value) if they kept everything the same but the surviving humans really had no idea why the AIs were doing what they were doing -- they're not telling, the humans don't know, and their motives may be so utterly alien that we may never understand.
The rationalization they give is so weak that a high school physics student could easily poke holes in it.
The NASA findings with the Viking missions were that there was no evidence for life on Mars. That doesn't mean that there wasn't any life, it just means they had no evidence for any. Big difference. NASA never stated unequivocally, "There is no life on Mars."
I hope we're not taking the premise of The Matrix too seriously. After all, in the description of the state of the real world Morpheus gives, we're told that the AIs are using humans for energy "with a form of fusion." Psst, if you fusion of any kind, you sure don't need humans to generate energy, since they'll poop out more energy than they provide!
The Matrix is great fun, but taking it as a serious piece of science fiction, and providing further rationalization of the backstory, is like taking cartoons featuring Yosemite Sam as serious Westerns. It's entertaining, but not in that way.
Without falsifiability, what you're talking about not a scientific theory, it's metaphysical speculation. There's nothing wrong with that per se, but it ain't science.
Yes, I know, I was being deliberately difficult. (And yes, Aquanox was awful. Phew, what voice acting.)
And what's AOL's terms of service for servers hosted from their residential customers? Most broadband ISPs have limits. If they're just enforcing parts of the TOS that were already present when you signed on, you've got nothing to complain about.
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So some nobody game reviewer wannabe has admitted to acting unethically and declares that it's the industry standard. Like he'd know. I bet his real name isn't even Obiwan Kenobi!
I'm not sure what the big deal here is, reverse engineering has been copyright infringement even before the DMCA.
Sounds like the big push that Quality Assurance Engineers suddenly embarked on to call themselves Quality Engineers. Like that made any difference.
Let's face it, in the real world, title means very little.
But there's an additional, ultimate irony about this. They're complaining that Slashdot linked to them without permission, asciipr0n.com has a link to ASCII Art Farts but never asked for permission themselves! Um, a little hypocritical, maybe?
Yep! asciipr0n.com sure showed Slashdot! Now the Slashdot readers will never get to know the true pleasure of boring digitized images of Playboy models circa 1970. What a blow to boredom and lameness everywhere!
If you try to curb pirates by releasing deliberately broken media (broken in a way you hope that most pirates will need and thus be discouraged), then you're going to capture a few legitimate users in your net. And with more and more legitimate businesses and operations switching to all-electronic media, it simply makes sense that more and more non-pirates are going to run afoul of these attempts. It's an inevitable consequence.
If you're going to use spook terminology, use it right. "Disappeared" doesn't mean held without trail. "Disappeared" means murdered and the body disposed of in a way that no one will ever find it. The given headline is extremely misleading and caters to shock value alone.
From the headline I thought it was Harlan Ellison who was being quoted ...
And do you respond to spams with mailbombings, too?
And does Slashdot's hilarous gag of making it look like they can't manage to keep their stories straight? Whoo hoo, that was a riot. Keep it up!!!!!! (ZZZZZ)
April Fool's jokes are usually funniest when they're 1. actually funny and 2. don't make the joketeller look foolish.
I just want to know whether there are any odd perfect numbers.
There are certainly some programmers that wouldn't know engineering if it beat them up in an alley. And there are some programmers for which "engineer" is an understatement.
And experienced programmers have no problem with "flow context changes." This psychology of programmers seems to be merely the psychology of inexperienced programmers.
Yeah, for whatever reason, Hudson Hawk got chosen as the critics' whipping boy for that summer. I think there was kind of a nonlinear reaction involved; critics were hearing about other critics' reviews, and so made up their minds before seeing it that it was going to be the movie they could focus all their ire on.
It wasn't a great film, but it was entertaining and (deliberately) silly, and certainly didn't deserve the beating it got in the reviews. I think overall it was a combination of critics looking for a movie every few months that they can really openly rip apart without fear, and the near unclassifiability of the movie (particularly after Die Hard, although "Moonlighting" certainly had its share of wacky farcical episodes). They didn't know what to call what they were watching, so they called it bad.